December 31, 2024 • 29 mins
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Have you ever wondered why rating scales stop at five stars when the universe has no such limits? Join us as we toast the New Year with a Manhattan in hand and a bow tie around the collar, exploring everything from the elegance of classic cocktails to pondering the quirks of rating systems. You'll learn how these drinks might transport you to the grand castles of period dramas, reflecting on the opulent world of Downton Abbey, while we share a humorous take on Wisconsin's unique spin on the Old Fashioned.
Prepare to be entertained with our musings on setting goals for the future, where our aspirations for the podcast collide with the chaotic yet thrilling world of stand-up comedy. We mix a hearty dose of humor with a pinch of reality, as we discuss the importance of balancing dreams with the mundane tasks of everyday life. Inspired by Mike Tyson's wisdom on resilience, we delve into life's unexpected challenges and how to rise above them with a playful nod to Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping."
So, grab a drink, put on a dapper bow tie, and join us for a cocktail of humor, cultural insights, and a toast to new beginnings on this episode of Whiskey Bits.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
well, matt phil.
Happy new year.
Happy new year, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Happy new year, we did, okay, see you later I feel
like I look like, uh, like, ahost at chili's.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
No, no, no okay, yes, yes, of course you are.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You look great.
Well, I think it's well.
I mean, come on, ah, you'relike the fashion forward, is
that what?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
it is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't know about that.
I'm like fashion upside down.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is the first time I've ever worn a bow tie.
Really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think I've worn it for a wedding and then another
wedding.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay yeah, Even when I got married the tux, I had a
tie.
I didn't do the bow tie.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't Did I do it.
No, I did a tie.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
At your wedding.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I figured, you know, since we're doing the New
Year's episode, I know 2025.
Oh, we just dated it.
Well, of course we did.
Oh, okay, that's what we'redoing here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Welcome to Whiskey B welcome to whiskey bits with
matt and phil where we sip oneveryday whiskeys and find the
funny in our everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So for for tonight, um, we thought we would class up
this joint a little bit, yeahuh, by getting dressed up and
we're gonna do not joints.
Oh okay, no, uh, we're gonna dothe old-fashioned nope you're
so rewind joints.
No, we're not doing joints,we're doing manhattan's.
(01:33):
Oh so manhattan, uh.
Traditionally classically,however you want to say it, it
just sounds fancy well, and itgoes into a fancy glass and like
it's just, it's very, it's veryfancy, nice leg.
So I figured we had to, we hadto dress up, yeah, dude, all
right, so um good idea manhattanis uh typically a rye,
(01:53):
typically a rye whiskey.
Is it typically a rye?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
typically a rye whiskey.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You can do you can sometimes do a bourbon and then
you've got sweet vermouth, acouple dashes of the bitters and
you garnish with a cherry.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now sweet vermouth.
That's like wine, right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah Well, it's vermouth.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's like wine, it's a wine.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's like a liquor though.
It's like a wine liquor, like awine liqueur yeah, wine liquor.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah.
Yeah, liquor yeah yeah, I tooka swig of the one I had.
It was good, yeah, well, let'stake a swig of this now.
You don't do tape smelling.
I mean it does smell no, youtypically just sip on this and
drink it like have fun with it Ithink that's good, yeah, yeah,
(02:41):
I think I could just have thatevery day, like if I had a
castle and I had to go throughlike they did, or was it the
women that would go through?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We like to go through .
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Have you ever watched Downton Abbey?
No, I feel like we would fit innow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You would be the help One of us you would be the help
.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, because you have a bow tie, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Should I put my other tie back on?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, it looks good, but this is.
I feel like they have brandy orthey have you know whatever,
but like I would have this everynight, yeah, it's pretty good.
I want to be like a tutor orsomething.
Is that what it is?
You'd be a tutor.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like you teach people things.
No, like a Tudor, I have noidea.
T-u-d-o-r.
Okay, you're the British one, Idon't.
Well, I've never seen the show.
My wife's watched it, thetutors.
I've never watched it, neverwatched.
Or Downton Abbey.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, I just drooled in my face.
It is so good.
It is not, as I would say, notas sweet as an old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, for sure Right, there's no sugar in it.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now did Manhattan come out before old-fashioned?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Gosh, that's a great question.
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know the answer
to that.
Was it made in Manhattan SureStarring J-Lo?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know what?
This is the least amount ofresearch I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's because it's New Year's.
What do you need to do researchon?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Look.
If you want to know, go look itup.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The past is in the past.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Leave it in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not going to worry about this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, I do feel like we should have educated you
listeners on what the I almostcall it an old-fashioned game
what the Manhattan is.
Well, you said what it is.
So we live really close to theWisconsin border, Would you
agree?
I would agree, yes, Okay, andwould you also agree that?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
sometimes you go.
I do feel like I'm in court.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Sometimes you do go to Wisconsin and you would like
to have a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay.
So what I've learned is whenyou go to Wisconsin and you want
an old fashioned, there aredifferent old fashioned rules in
Wisconsin than there are withthe traditional old fashioned
which we know of as bourbonwhiskey, simple syrup bitters
(05:09):
garnished with an orange orcherry or a lemon, or all three,
whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I like the lemon version a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If you go into Wisconsin and ask for an
old-fashioned, it's really weird.
So it's muddled.
They use maraschino cherries.
They muddle it with the sugar,then they put the brandy in it
and then they ask you, would youlike it sweet or sour?
And if they say, if you saysweet, they put a splash of
(05:38):
seven up, and if you say sour,they put a splash of squirt it's
not even okay that's how that'show, or?
Yeah, that's how they do it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
None of that is even close to right an old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So when you well, it's their old-fashioned, it's a
wisconsin old-fashioned, it's abrandy old-fashioned.
Okay, which isn't, which isn'twrong it's a brandy, it it does
but I've.
I've found that I prefer atraditional, old-fashioned.
So I've decided that if I gointo Wisconsin and I ask for an
old-fashioned and they say wouldyou like it sweet or sour, I
(06:13):
say you know what?
I'll take a Manhattan what'sstirred and served up, which is
how we're serving these here.
So we stir this in ice, we pourit up.
What does that mean?
Not over ice, it's not shaken,shaken, not stirred.
You remember, oh, james.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Bond.
We got to do a James Bond onesometime.
Well, it's martini, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we stir it, stir it, and then we want it up, not
on the rocks.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just straight up, in other words no ice, yeah on the
rocks.
Okay, yeah, oh, I do like itthis way more drink, more drink.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, there's more drink.
There's a little bit morealcohol because there's, you
know, the vermouth.
That's the alcohol.
But yeah, and on the, on theshow notes or in the, in the
title of the picture, you'll seethe ingredients that we used.
Uh, you'll see the picture ofthe.
This is made with a writtenhouse 100 proof they'll see
bottled and bond um the bib.
(07:13):
That's.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's what yeah, tell me about the written house.
Have we?
Uh, we haven't, we haven'ttried that one, we haven't.
No, that's a that one that is a?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
uh, it's, so it's a written house.
It's 100 proof.
Uh, it's bottled and bond, soit's a Rittenhouse.
It's a 100 proof.
It's bottled and bonded,bottled and bonded yep, and it's
a rye.
That was a pick from theAntioch Fine Wine and Liquors.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, that's a barrel pick.
All right, oh nice, oh, so it'slike a.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's pretty tasty.
Okay yeah, but it was only like30 bucks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Nice, very accessible , very good, it's so accessible
yeah, I feel like you could sayit's accessible when we're
dressed like this yeah, I wouldlike we could just say that,
like you know what going to,june.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Are we gonna?
Should we only use big wordsfrom now?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
yeah, okay, because we're so fancy yeah, this is the
fanciest I've been yeah, Ithink ever do you know I?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
the one I'm not even wearing.
Maybe, maybe since your wedding.
Yeah, or shoes.
I don't even have shoes, well,yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
These socks I'm wearing don't even go up past
the ankle.
I see that yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Should have worn it.
I was a little worried aboutthat.
Should have worn it.
Now we're going to see it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We'll just scoot that down.
You know what this is the magicof television.
I can add boots.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Do you have regular shoes or?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
socks that go higher.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's the magic of television and you're like I
could add boots.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I can add boots.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You should add boots you should maybe add something
that's more appropriate for what?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
you're wearing, but I could add boots.
That's the whole point.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I could.
Yeah, it would take me 10 hours, but I could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So it would be really good with a Sazerac rye if you
could find one of those.
To me, my favorite mixing ryeis a brand it's called Old
Overholt yeah Rye.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We don't have that here, do we?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
No, but I've seen it yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You've seen it, because it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And they have a rye, they have a bottled and bond rye
as well, which I really like,and it's like 20 or 30 bucks, oh
.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I might have to get one.
It's very good.
Yeah, it's very good.
Nice mixing rye.
It's a mixing one, so you'renot typically drinking it.
It's good.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's a bottled and bond.
So it's.
You know, we talk about the oldgranddad yeah Right, bottled
and Bond as being like oh, thisis really good for the price,
and it's just really good.
And then on top of that it's agood price.
Same thing with the Old HoverHold.
I feel it's definitelydrinkable, it's not terrible,
but that's why you'd say, ohwell, it's a good quality
(09:34):
whiskey, but I can use it in amixed drink because it's $20.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Right, oh, interesting, so you would put
that in here.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I would I feel like I'm holding my glass at an angle
.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm like toying with spilling it on your beautiful
suit, my beautiful suit,gorgeous suit.
I don't wear cologne, so maybeit'll add some yeah, some good
aroma to my pant leg so how, um,so how um moving right along.
How do?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
you, how do you, even , how do you come?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
back from this.
Why are you the way that youare?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
so who?
Who do you think you?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
are what um?
What gives you the right?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I love it um michael scott.
Yeah, thank you wayne gretzky,dash michael scott, that's right
you missed 100 of the shotsthat you don't take wayne
gretzky.
Michael scott.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Michael scott that's the best.
It is good.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, that is good yes, you're toying, you're toying
now, do you eat?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
do you eat this garnish at the end?
Yeah, do you stir with itthroughout?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I let it.
I let it sit there.
Um so, the these cherries,these are the luxardo cherries.
You've got to have a goodquality cherry.
Yeah, I think.
Anytime you garnish, garnishwith it.
Um so there's a slight bit ofalcohol in there, but as it's,
in the cherry itself.
Yeah so as it sits in this um it, it sort of takes on a little
(11:12):
bit more.
So I typically will wait untilthe very end.
Um, if I'm having multiples,I'll wait till I'm done drinking
out of this glass before Ifinish it because I'll just let
those right, so like it's notnecessary.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean it does add some because of the syrup on it
which sometimes I'll just spoonand eat it.
I don't do that.
No, that's never the syrup isdelicious, it's amazing, it's
really good like oh, I need tostir this again.
You have to stir it so that itdoesn't settle yeah, so I'm
gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So I I'm going to use this spoon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This spoon here.
I might as well dip it in therefirst.
Matt, that's a ladle Shh quiet.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I try not to get too much of it into the
drink.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Because you don't really want that to mix in there
I don't the syrup from there.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Maybe not, because that's going to make it a little
bit too sweet, because that'sgoing to make it a little bit
too sweet, right, maybe that'swhy I like my old fashions that
I make just when I'm here,because I'm just like yep and I
think, sometimes I'll take thespoon that I used to pull it out
and I'll stir it with the spoon.
Yeah, especially if you put alittle bit less sugar or if
(12:16):
you're using maple syrup just togive it.
I put full sugar in.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, that, or if you're using maple syrup just to
give it full sugar, okay, yeah,well, that's good, I'm like I
want it to taste like candy,which?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
it does.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, I feel like we should have an old-fashioned
after this it's new year's.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's new year's, we can do as much as we want,
because so this is really good.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I'm glad we talked about this ahead of time
and decided to manhattan's andthank you for bringing the cool
glasses and the sophisticationyou know you have brought this
year.
You have brought thesophistication to this show.
Because clearly not gonna getthat from what you see up here.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, I think only today have I brought
sophistication to the show.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, I mean like in the knowledge right.
Like in the knowledge you know.
Yeah, because I told you all.
To the show.
No, I mean like in theknowledge right.
Like in the knowledge you know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, because I told you all about the history of the
Manhattan, right?
Yeah, we can dub it in later.
You want to dub it in later?
We'll use AI, oh perfect, justuse AI.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We'll see Like cut, you know, and then I'll like put
in like AI.
You won't do any of that.
This is what I would do if Iwanted to, and I don't want to.
But I would if I could.
But I could, I just don't wantto.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I would if I wanted to.
I would if I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I just don't want to.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's a lot of work.
I just don't want to.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But just picture what it could have been.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I'm trying.
Wow, that's amazing.
I'm blown away.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean 10 stars, yeah .
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, they don't even do that, no ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That is the thing.
Why let's just aside here whydo ratings stop at 5 stars?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Like there are more stars, Well, and there's also
less stars there is, you could,why not?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
just 3?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, like horrible, and then the best I think you
have to have.
I mean four stars, becausethere's a, there's like four
star generals, um yeah, butmichelin restaurants oh sure
those four stars aren't, or isthere a five star?
If there's, I feel like there'sonly four stars in the michelin
.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I don't know, but that's like the best restaurant
in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it probably serves you like phone and then
there's five star hotels, yeah,and then there's five star
binders, and that's like thebest restaurant in the world,
which probably serves you likefoam.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And then there's five-star hotels, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And then there's five-star binders, that's true.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's true.
And in Grand Theft Auto, if youget five stars, then you die or
no.
It's like the world's after you.
Oh, but why not 10?
10's a lot.
Why not 100?
That's way too much.
I'm just saying, like, whodecided this?
Like, did they ask anybody?
Like, hey, we're going to stopat five?
(14:47):
Well, I'm a little indecisive,I don't know.
I feel like it's a two and ahalf.
Well, then they go oh, two anda half stars.
I'm like you can't have a halfstar, is it's a star that is
dead?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
There is no half star .
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, I mean, some full stars are dead, we just
don't know it yet Because ofastronomy.
Wow, we've just gone to somedifferent areas.
Yeah, 10 stars is too many.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think you can rate things out of 10.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
When you say hey, rate me out of 10.
What am I?
You go, rate me out of 10.
What am I?
You go, yeah, out of 10.
Nobody goes.
Hey, rate me out of 5.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, no, you're like it's a scale, On a scale of 1
to 2, what would you say?
Nobody says that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
On a scale of 1 to 5, like hey, man, don't be a moron
.
Like go up to 10.
The scale obviously goes to 10.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Wouldn't you say like it's a multiple of 10?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
This just is frustrating Because, like if I
said two and a half stars.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That would be kind of like saying Five stars, five
star, like you're right in themiddle.
So here's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
This show in reality, you know, maybe we got two and
a half stars, but what I'm goingto tell people is we've got
five stars.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, no, I would tell them but it's out of three.
Yeah, it's a three star rating.
Yeah, we can go down to two anda half, but it's a three star.
It's a three star rating.
How many people have rated?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
you Two and a half people.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, no, we've got 700 ratings, oh, okay, yeah, um,
and we're two and a half starsand I'll be like that's not very
good.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, you know what.
And like this one goes to 11,right from spinal tap.
I have not seen that movie, butI know the reference because
you just said it and then I'mlike, oh yeah, that's funny.
Yeah, I know it now though Icould say it does it again, like
if you told it again later, I'dbe like I get it.
(16:44):
You still wouldn't, though, butno, I would not.
It's the, the, the bass.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
No, it's the guitar no, it's the amp, the amp.
Yeah, see this.
When this is all go to 11, well, why?
Why does it go to 11?
Yeah well, just why don't youjust make them all 10, and the
10s the loudest, but these areall one louder.
They all go to 11.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'll go to 11 see, this is what I'm talking about
louder see somebody has hasalready thought of this.
Wow, yeah, that is a, it's onelouder, crazy, yeah, tangent.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And here's my new guitar.
Like I haven't taken the tagsoff of it, don't even, don't
even look at it.
No, you can't, don't even lookat it.
We're gonna go over here now.
You need to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I need to watch it.
Really good, that's so funny.
This is.
You know that'll be my NewYear's resolution I'll watch
Spinal Tap.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So okay, In all seriousness, what are you
looking forward to?
In this coming year, makingsome money.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, Like what am I looking forward?
To looking forward to.
Uh, in fact, I just did a tonof emails today, uh, to
potential guests, so I'm lookingforward to like for the show.
Okay, I'm looking forward togetting you know some whiskey
companies on here, and that'd begreat some of those guys for
life.
I think just more of what I'mtrying to do.
(18:06):
I'd like to do more shows.
I'd like to maybe push that alittle bit harder sure the
stand-up stuff.
I kind of have taken the back alittle bit of that.
I have a, I have a show comingup, and I just had a show, but I
have another one coming up nextyear and so I think trying to
book some of that stuff yeah andthen, yeah, trying to get more
podcast clients, so it'd begreat, um, but yeah, I don't
(18:27):
know.
Just i'm'm happy about life andwhere I'm at, I'm grateful, and
yeah, I don't know.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, I think it's like I have goals.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But I don't want to do them.
Okay, I'm just kidding.
No, I have goals, I'm with you.
I just, you know, we'll seewhat happens.
Sure, you know, if I just youknow, we'll see what happens.
Sure, you know, if I can, if Ido one of those, that's going to
be amazing.
Right, Like, if I, if I can,you know, if I can say, hey, I
would like more podcast clients,I would like to see that grow
and that's the only thing thathappens.
(19:02):
Great, or hey, I would like toget more shows and maybe put a
little more focus on that.
Great.
Or I'd great.
Or I'd like to book, you know.
So, in each of those areas, yeah, like, I would love to see
growth I think just generalgrowth, yeah, um, but you know,
if it happens in only one,that's fine.
If it happens in none, I'llhave to be content, but I don't
(19:24):
think that's gonna happen.
If I'm putting work into stuff,I think I'm gonna see something
.
So yeah, unless I get hit by atrain, then I'm going to see
stars.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Five stars, Five stars probably.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, three and a half Three, and a half.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That was good.
You know, the last severalyears, I have looked into the
year and thought, oh man, thisis going to be great, this is
going to be so good, and I'vedecided that this year, for 2025
, after the 2022, 23, 24 thatI've had, and just all of the
(20:03):
stuff, certainly 24,.
I'm sort of done predictingwhat it's going to be.
Maybe that's been your problem,it's like hey, Phil, you need to
stop trying to predict it, justmaybe I need to stop trying to
will it into being something andjust let it be and be
absolutely content with whateverit ends up being yeah, this
(20:24):
whole like this is a weird thingto get to, but I think we could
make this work for going intothe new year okay and a right.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Our viewpoint on it, on life, because, being a
believer, obviously we're goingto take a very different
perspective.
This idea of manifesting yourfuture, manifesting anything
really, uh, to me is just abunch of bs like in I don't care
like it, just it's like oh, I'mgonna just in my thought will
(21:01):
something to happen?
and it's just the most pridefulthing to me and uh, I've never
understood how, you know, Ithink, when you're talking about
doing hard work and like doingwork to get something, well,
sure, you can call thatmanifesting, you can call it
whatever you want, but thereality is is you're doing
(21:22):
something to get something, butjust sitting around thinking I'm
going to just think this intoexistence is the dumbest thing?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh sure, of course, it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Michael Scott, like if I could just think it just
right, if I could just put thethink it through no no.
I don't think it's anythinglike that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You've got to do something, but you know it's.
There's certainly a saying thatI look at here and think you
know your habits are what kindof decide your destiny, right,
and so you can't change yourdestiny, but you can change your
habits, yeah, and I thinkthat's all good, but I feel very
(22:08):
much office space.
I feel very much office space.
Right now we're like you knowwhat I don't really want to do,
that I don't really feel like Iwant to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Welcome to the club, Phil yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What about paying bills?
Like you know what I thoughtabout it and I'm not sure I want
to do that either.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You're just not going to do that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm just not going to be great.
We're going to do this, we'regoing to do this, like these are
going to be some of the goalsthat we set out and like again
another.
Another saying that I love islike everybody has a plan until
you get punched in the faceMikeed in the face Mike Tyson,
mike Tyson, yeah, which let mejust say that fight was
ridiculous.
Mike Tyson, Phil Stokes.
(22:58):
But you know that's the thing is.
Everybody has a plan until youget punched in the face.
And like you know, I thinkeverybody gets punched in the
face, especially boxers.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm not saying Boxers do for sure, yeah, but
especially boxers I'm not sayingboxers do for sure, yeah, but I
mean even metaphoricallygetting punched.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh gotcha, yeah, you know it's, it's everybody.
Every everybody goes throughthat and it is nice to have
those plans.
But, like, what are you goingto do when you get punched?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
what do you do when you get knocked down and so like
?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
yeah, you're going to get back up again.
And then, yeah, get back upagain.
Oh, oh, you missed it get backup again.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I, oh, you missed it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Get back up again, you missed it, I get knocked
down, I get knocked down and Iget up again.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You're never going to keep me down.
I was thinking the Trollsversion.
Yeah, no, that went through myhead.
That's not the Trolls version.
No, I know, but it's adifferent song.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I know you picked the more obscure one which?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I can appreciate, yeah, but you know what is it
Sublime?
No Wham who.
I Get Knocked Down.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No who is that Tub Thumper?
That's Tub Thumper.
Oh, tub Thumper, sorry, no, no,that's the name of the song.
It's Tub Thumper.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Tub Thumper.
Yeah, this is the problem thatI have with early 2000s 90s
music.
I can't even that's anotherepisode Is that you get knocked
down and I get up again and I'mlike never going to keep me down
.
But then I get knocked down.
But then you get up again, Iget up again and again.
You're never going to keep medown, because I get knocked down
(24:24):
and then I get up again.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Right, and that's you know.
I think if people clicked offit's really kind of funny, but
that's sort of my goal, well,and I see that.
When I get knocked down, I'mgoing to get up again.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Because you're never going to keep me down, right and
I, and so that's my goal.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Props to those guys.
That is that, so your goal is.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That might be.
My new resolution is keepgetting up.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Tub thumper.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm going to be a tub thumper this year.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, all right, I like that.
We've coined a phrase thatsomebody else coined.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think I've stumbled on something You've thumped
onto it.
I got knocked down ontosomething, but I got back up
again.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got right back on .
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And it's never going to keep me down.
It never will keep you down.
Get knocked down and I get upagain.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Our lizards are gonna kill.
Our listener is going to killus.
Uh, if we keep.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This song is stuck in everybody's heads at this point
.
But here's and it better be theoutro music oh, it should
totally be the outro.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I will deal with the rights later.
Um, I'm all for, and I get likesometimes the whole manifest
thing, like people are like,okay, I'm I'm kind of repeating
something or I'm like willing itto happen, and it's more of
like like some of them do this,like this, like kind of
positivity, this self-talk,which I think that that's good.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I think there's some, I think, some good things out
of that yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Like who knows, subconsciously I'm not a doctor,
a doctor, but like I'm surethere's some benefits
subconsciously where you'refeeding good into yourself and
I'm all for that I'm not sayingthat, that's dumb.
I just think that this idea,that like just in thought I'm
gonna make something happen,like ethereally to me, is like
no, you have to actually like,do work and do something and I
(26:08):
feel like, sometimes like youknow, so for me and I'm saying
this from learning this yearlike if I'm, if I'm not feeling
the pain of work, I'm notworking.
And so I think this year andit's not actually a bad pain,
it's, it's when you forceyourself to do the work you need
(26:31):
to do before you allow yourselfto do the play you want to do.
And so, like today, for example, I was like I got stuff I got
to do.
I have to fix the sink, I haveto fix.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I got to take down the trampoline this close to New
Year's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I know, can you believe it, I had to fix the
sink right before New Year's.
I finally took the trampolinedown, oh my gosh, like it's been
snowing, I know, and I was like, oh, but I get it, but I got it
right.
I got the trampoline down andit's like oh, I want to do this,
I want to do that, and I waslike I got to do these sales
(27:09):
calls, I got to do these emails,I got to.
So I think, if I can like justevery day, kind of try to push
myself in that direction onestep at a time, yeah, just do
good today and then the next dayI'll worry about that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, that's great, so that's great.
And then if you do get punchedin the face, it's no big deal,
right, because it's no big dealright because you just get up
again.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, I mean, if I got punched and I like I don't
know like got knocked down umjust get it back up.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I get back up right whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa I get
back up again because you'renever gonna keep you down right?
Yeah, well, happy new year,phil.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Well, happy New Year, phil.
To 2025.
To our whiskey bits, to ourwhiskey bits and the future of
the world.
No To 2025.
To 2025.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's so good, it's very good.
Let me eat the cherries now.
Oh, okay, next time on whiskeybits.
So you wanted to talk aboutadult.
No, I wanted I legit wanted totalk about hockey.
Hockey was my topic.
I thought oh winter.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It probably just started, which that's totally
false, because I literally knownothing.
The one experience I have withhockey was the one game I went
to with you there.
Yeah, that was it, the wolves.
Yeah, I actually really likedit.
Great, I don't know much aboutit, right, I think it's very
helpful when they had the laserthat followed the puck, that was
(28:42):
nice, but it's gone now.
So I'm like well, why would Iwatch?
I don't know where the puck isWell.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
you can see it better on NHD now.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
That's it for this episode ofWhiskey Bits, but if you enjoyed
yourself, please like, shareand subscribe on your favorite
platform.
well, matt phil.
Happy new year.
Happy new year, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Happy new year, we did, okay, see you later I feel
like I look like, uh, like, ahost at chili's.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
No, no, no okay, yes, yes, of course you are.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You look great.
Well, I think it's well.
I mean, come on, ah, you'relike the fashion forward, is
that what?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
it is.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't know about that.
I'm like fashion upside down.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is the first time I've ever worn a bow tie.
Really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think I've worn it for a wedding and then another
wedding.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay yeah, Even when I got married the tux, I had a
tie.
I didn't do the bow tie.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't Did I do it.
No, I did a tie.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
At your wedding.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I figured, you know, since we're doing the New
Year's episode, I know 2025.
Oh, we just dated it.
Well, of course we did.
Oh, okay, that's what we'redoing here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Welcome to Whiskey B welcome to whiskey bits with
matt and phil where we sip oneveryday whiskeys and find the
funny in our everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So for for tonight, um, we thought we would class up
this joint a little bit, yeahuh, by getting dressed up and
we're gonna do not joints.
Oh okay, no, uh, we're gonna dothe old-fashioned nope you're
so rewind joints.
No, we're not doing joints,we're doing manhattan's.
(01:33):
Oh so manhattan, uh.
Traditionally classically,however you want to say it, it
just sounds fancy well, and itgoes into a fancy glass and like
it's just, it's very, it's veryfancy, nice leg.
So I figured we had to, we hadto dress up, yeah, dude, all
right, so um good idea manhattanis uh typically a rye,
(01:53):
typically a rye whiskey.
Is it typically a rye?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
typically a rye whiskey.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You can do you can sometimes do a bourbon and then
you've got sweet vermouth, acouple dashes of the bitters and
you garnish with a cherry.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now sweet vermouth.
That's like wine, right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah Well, it's vermouth.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's like wine, it's a wine.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's like a liquor though.
It's like a wine liquor, like awine liqueur yeah, wine liquor.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah.
Yeah, liquor yeah yeah, I tooka swig of the one I had.
It was good, yeah, well, let'stake a swig of this now.
You don't do tape smelling.
I mean it does smell no, youtypically just sip on this and
drink it like have fun with it Ithink that's good, yeah, yeah,
(02:41):
I think I could just have thatevery day, like if I had a
castle and I had to go throughlike they did, or was it the
women that would go through?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We like to go through .
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Have you ever watched Downton Abbey?
No, I feel like we would fit innow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You would be the help One of us you would be the help
.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, because you have a bow tie, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Should I put my other tie back on?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, it looks good, but this is.
I feel like they have brandy orthey have you know whatever,
but like I would have this everynight, yeah, it's pretty good.
I want to be like a tutor orsomething.
Is that what it is?
You'd be a tutor.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like you teach people things.
No, like a Tudor, I have noidea.
T-u-d-o-r.
Okay, you're the British one, Idon't.
Well, I've never seen the show.
My wife's watched it, thetutors.
I've never watched it, neverwatched.
Or Downton Abbey.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, I just drooled in my face.
It is so good.
It is not, as I would say, notas sweet as an old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, for sure Right, there's no sugar in it.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now did Manhattan come out before old-fashioned?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Gosh, that's a great question.
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know the answer
to that.
Was it made in Manhattan SureStarring J-Lo?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know what?
This is the least amount ofresearch I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's because it's New Year's.
What do you need to do researchon?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Look.
If you want to know, go look itup.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The past is in the past.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Leave it in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not going to worry about this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, I do feel like we should have educated you
listeners on what the I almostcall it an old-fashioned game
what the Manhattan is.
Well, you said what it is.
So we live really close to theWisconsin border, Would you
agree?
I would agree, yes, Okay, andwould you also agree that?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
sometimes you go.
I do feel like I'm in court.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Sometimes you do go to Wisconsin and you would like
to have a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay.
So what I've learned is whenyou go to Wisconsin and you want
an old fashioned, there aredifferent old fashioned rules in
Wisconsin than there are withthe traditional old fashioned
which we know of as bourbonwhiskey, simple syrup bitters
(05:09):
garnished with an orange orcherry or a lemon, or all three,
whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I like the lemon version a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If you go into Wisconsin and ask for an
old-fashioned, it's really weird.
So it's muddled.
They use maraschino cherries.
They muddle it with the sugar,then they put the brandy in it
and then they ask you, would youlike it sweet or sour?
And if they say, if you saysweet, they put a splash of
(05:38):
seven up, and if you say sour,they put a splash of squirt it's
not even okay that's how that'show, or?
Yeah, that's how they do it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
None of that is even close to right an old-fashioned.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So when you well, it's their old-fashioned, it's a
wisconsin old-fashioned, it's abrandy old-fashioned.
Okay, which isn't, which isn'twrong it's a brandy, it it does
but I've.
I've found that I prefer atraditional, old-fashioned.
So I've decided that if I gointo Wisconsin and I ask for an
old-fashioned and they say wouldyou like it sweet or sour, I
(06:13):
say you know what?
I'll take a Manhattan what'sstirred and served up, which is
how we're serving these here.
So we stir this in ice, we pourit up.
What does that mean?
Not over ice, it's not shaken,shaken, not stirred.
You remember, oh, james.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Bond.
We got to do a James Bond onesometime.
Well, it's martini, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we stir it, stir it, and then we want it up, not
on the rocks.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just straight up, in other words no ice, yeah on the
rocks.
Okay, yeah, oh, I do like itthis way more drink, more drink.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, there's more drink.
There's a little bit morealcohol because there's, you
know, the vermouth.
That's the alcohol.
But yeah, and on the, on theshow notes or in the, in the
title of the picture, you'll seethe ingredients that we used.
Uh, you'll see the picture ofthe.
This is made with a writtenhouse 100 proof they'll see
bottled and bond um the bib.
(07:13):
That's.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's what yeah, tell me about the written house.
Have we?
Uh, we haven't, we haven'ttried that one, we haven't.
No, that's a that one that is a?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
uh, it's, so it's a written house.
It's 100 proof.
Uh, it's bottled and bond, soit's a Rittenhouse.
It's a 100 proof.
It's bottled and bonded,bottled and bonded yep, and it's
a rye.
That was a pick from theAntioch Fine Wine and Liquors.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, that's a barrel pick.
All right, oh nice, oh, so it'slike a.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's pretty tasty.
Okay yeah, but it was only like30 bucks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Nice, very accessible , very good, it's so accessible
yeah, I feel like you could sayit's accessible when we're
dressed like this yeah, I wouldlike we could just say that,
like you know what going to,june.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Are we gonna?
Should we only use big wordsfrom now?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
yeah, okay, because we're so fancy yeah, this is the
fanciest I've been yeah, Ithink ever do you know I?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
the one I'm not even wearing.
Maybe, maybe since your wedding.
Yeah, or shoes.
I don't even have shoes, well,yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
These socks I'm wearing don't even go up past
the ankle.
I see that yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Should have worn it.
I was a little worried aboutthat.
Should have worn it.
Now we're going to see it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We'll just scoot that down.
You know what this is the magicof television.
I can add boots.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Do you have regular shoes or?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
socks that go higher.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's the magic of television and you're like I
could add boots.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I can add boots.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You should add boots you should maybe add something
that's more appropriate for what?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
you're wearing, but I could add boots.
That's the whole point.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I could.
Yeah, it would take me 10 hours, but I could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So it would be really good with a Sazerac rye if you
could find one of those.
To me, my favorite mixing ryeis a brand it's called Old
Overholt yeah Rye.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We don't have that here, do we?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
No, but I've seen it yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You've seen it, because it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And they have a rye, they have a bottled and bond rye
as well, which I really like,and it's like 20 or 30 bucks, oh
.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I might have to get one.
It's very good.
Yeah, it's very good.
Nice mixing rye.
It's a mixing one, so you'renot typically drinking it.
It's good.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's a bottled and bond.
So it's.
You know, we talk about the oldgranddad yeah Right, bottled
and Bond as being like oh, thisis really good for the price,
and it's just really good.
And then on top of that it's agood price.
Same thing with the Old HoverHold.
I feel it's definitelydrinkable, it's not terrible,
but that's why you'd say, ohwell, it's a good quality
(09:34):
whiskey, but I can use it in amixed drink because it's $20.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Right, oh, interesting, so you would put
that in here.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I would I feel like I'm holding my glass at an angle
.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm like toying with spilling it on your beautiful
suit, my beautiful suit,gorgeous suit.
I don't wear cologne, so maybeit'll add some yeah, some good
aroma to my pant leg so how, um,so how um moving right along.
How do?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
you, how do you, even , how do you come?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
back from this.
Why are you the way that youare?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
so who?
Who do you think you?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
are what um?
What gives you the right?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I love it um michael scott.
Yeah, thank you wayne gretzky,dash michael scott, that's right
you missed 100 of the shotsthat you don't take wayne
gretzky.
Michael scott.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Michael scott that's the best.
It is good.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, that is good yes, you're toying, you're toying
now, do you eat?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
do you eat this garnish at the end?
Yeah, do you stir with itthroughout?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I let it.
I let it sit there.
Um so, the these cherries,these are the luxardo cherries.
You've got to have a goodquality cherry.
Yeah, I think.
Anytime you garnish, garnishwith it.
Um so there's a slight bit ofalcohol in there, but as it's,
in the cherry itself.
Yeah so as it sits in this um it, it sort of takes on a little
(11:12):
bit more.
So I typically will wait untilthe very end.
Um, if I'm having multiples,I'll wait till I'm done drinking
out of this glass before Ifinish it because I'll just let
those right, so like it's notnecessary.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean it does add some because of the syrup on it
which sometimes I'll just spoonand eat it.
I don't do that.
No, that's never the syrup isdelicious, it's amazing, it's
really good like oh, I need tostir this again.
You have to stir it so that itdoesn't settle yeah, so I'm
gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So I I'm going to use this spoon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This spoon here.
I might as well dip it in therefirst.
Matt, that's a ladle Shh quiet.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I try not to get too much of it into the
drink.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Because you don't really want that to mix in there
I don't the syrup from there.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Maybe not, because that's going to make it a little
bit too sweet, because that'sgoing to make it a little bit
too sweet, right, maybe that'swhy I like my old fashions that
I make just when I'm here,because I'm just like yep and I
think, sometimes I'll take thespoon that I used to pull it out
and I'll stir it with the spoon.
Yeah, especially if you put alittle bit less sugar or if
(12:16):
you're using maple syrup just togive it.
I put full sugar in.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, that, or if you're using maple syrup just to
give it full sugar, okay, yeah,well, that's good, I'm like I
want it to taste like candy,which?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
it does.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, I feel like we should have an old-fashioned
after this it's new year's.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's new year's, we can do as much as we want,
because so this is really good.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I'm glad we talked about this ahead of time
and decided to manhattan's andthank you for bringing the cool
glasses and the sophisticationyou know you have brought this
year.
You have brought thesophistication to this show.
Because clearly not gonna getthat from what you see up here.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, I think only today have I brought
sophistication to the show.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, I mean like in the knowledge right.
Like in the knowledge you know.
Yeah, because I told you all.
To the show.
No, I mean like in theknowledge right.
Like in the knowledge you know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, because I told you all about the history of the
Manhattan, right?
Yeah, we can dub it in later.
You want to dub it in later?
We'll use AI, oh perfect, justuse AI.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We'll see Like cut, you know, and then I'll like put
in like AI.
You won't do any of that.
This is what I would do if Iwanted to, and I don't want to.
But I would if I could.
But I could, I just don't wantto.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I would if I wanted to.
I would if I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I just don't want to.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's a lot of work.
I just don't want to.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But just picture what it could have been.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I'm trying.
Wow, that's amazing.
I'm blown away.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean 10 stars, yeah .
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, they don't even do that, no ratings.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That is the thing.
Why let's just aside here whydo ratings stop at 5 stars?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Like there are more stars, Well, and there's also
less stars there is, you could,why not?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
just 3?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, like horrible, and then the best I think you
have to have.
I mean four stars, becausethere's a, there's like four
star generals, um yeah, butmichelin restaurants oh sure
those four stars aren't, or isthere a five star?
If there's, I feel like there'sonly four stars in the michelin
.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I don't know, but that's like the best restaurant
in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it probably serves you like phone and then
there's five star hotels, yeah,and then there's five star
binders, and that's like thebest restaurant in the world,
which probably serves you likefoam.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And then there's five-star hotels, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And then there's five-star binders, that's true.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's true.
And in Grand Theft Auto, if youget five stars, then you die or
no.
It's like the world's after you.
Oh, but why not 10?
10's a lot.
Why not 100?
That's way too much.
I'm just saying, like, whodecided this?
Like, did they ask anybody?
Like, hey, we're going to stopat five?
(14:47):
Well, I'm a little indecisive,I don't know.
I feel like it's a two and ahalf.
Well, then they go oh, two anda half stars.
I'm like you can't have a halfstar, is it's a star that is
dead?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
There is no half star .
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, I mean, some full stars are dead, we just
don't know it yet Because ofastronomy.
Wow, we've just gone to somedifferent areas.
Yeah, 10 stars is too many.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think you can rate things out of 10.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
When you say hey, rate me out of 10.
What am I?
You go, rate me out of 10.
What am I?
You go, yeah, out of 10.
Nobody goes.
Hey, rate me out of 5.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, no, you're like it's a scale, On a scale of 1
to 2, what would you say?
Nobody says that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
On a scale of 1 to 5, like hey, man, don't be a moron
.
Like go up to 10.
The scale obviously goes to 10.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Wouldn't you say like it's a multiple of 10?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
This just is frustrating Because, like if I
said two and a half stars.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That would be kind of like saying Five stars, five
star, like you're right in themiddle.
So here's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
This show in reality, you know, maybe we got two and
a half stars, but what I'm goingto tell people is we've got
five stars.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, no, I would tell them but it's out of three.
Yeah, it's a three star rating.
Yeah, we can go down to two anda half, but it's a three star.
It's a three star rating.
How many people have rated?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
you Two and a half people.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, no, we've got 700 ratings, oh, okay, yeah, um,
and we're two and a half starsand I'll be like that's not very
good.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, you know what.
And like this one goes to 11,right from spinal tap.
I have not seen that movie, butI know the reference because
you just said it and then I'mlike, oh yeah, that's funny.
Yeah, I know it now though Icould say it does it again, like
if you told it again later, I'dbe like I get it.
(16:44):
You still wouldn't, though, butno, I would not.
It's the, the, the bass.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
No, it's the guitar no, it's the amp, the amp.
Yeah, see this.
When this is all go to 11, well, why?
Why does it go to 11?
Yeah well, just why don't youjust make them all 10, and the
10s the loudest, but these areall one louder.
They all go to 11.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'll go to 11 see, this is what I'm talking about
louder see somebody has hasalready thought of this.
Wow, yeah, that is a, it's onelouder, crazy, yeah, tangent.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And here's my new guitar.
Like I haven't taken the tagsoff of it, don't even, don't
even look at it.
No, you can't, don't even lookat it.
We're gonna go over here now.
You need to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I need to watch it.
Really good, that's so funny.
This is.
You know that'll be my NewYear's resolution I'll watch
Spinal Tap.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So okay, In all seriousness, what are you
looking forward to?
In this coming year, makingsome money.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, Like what am I looking forward?
To looking forward to.
Uh, in fact, I just did a tonof emails today, uh, to
potential guests, so I'm lookingforward to like for the show.
Okay, I'm looking forward togetting you know some whiskey
companies on here, and that'd begreat some of those guys for
life.
I think just more of what I'mtrying to do.
(18:06):
I'd like to do more shows.
I'd like to maybe push that alittle bit harder sure the
stand-up stuff.
I kind of have taken the back alittle bit of that.
I have a, I have a show comingup, and I just had a show, but I
have another one coming up nextyear and so I think trying to
book some of that stuff yeah andthen, yeah, trying to get more
podcast clients, so it'd begreat, um, but yeah, I don't
(18:27):
know.
Just i'm'm happy about life andwhere I'm at, I'm grateful, and
yeah, I don't know.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, I think it's like I have goals.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But I don't want to do them.
Okay, I'm just kidding.
No, I have goals, I'm with you.
I just, you know, we'll seewhat happens.
Sure, you know, if I just youknow, we'll see what happens.
Sure, you know, if I can, if Ido one of those, that's going to
be amazing.
Right, Like, if I, if I can,you know, if I can say, hey, I
would like more podcast clients,I would like to see that grow
and that's the only thing thathappens.
(19:02):
Great, or hey, I would like toget more shows and maybe put a
little more focus on that.
Great.
Or I'd great.
Or I'd like to book, you know.
So, in each of those areas, yeah, like, I would love to see
growth I think just generalgrowth, yeah, um, but you know,
if it happens in only one,that's fine.
If it happens in none, I'llhave to be content, but I don't
(19:24):
think that's gonna happen.
If I'm putting work into stuff,I think I'm gonna see something
.
So yeah, unless I get hit by atrain, then I'm going to see
stars.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Five stars, Five stars probably.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, three and a half Three, and a half.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That was good.
You know, the last severalyears, I have looked into the
year and thought, oh man, thisis going to be great, this is
going to be so good, and I'vedecided that this year, for 2025
, after the 2022, 23, 24 thatI've had, and just all of the
(20:03):
stuff, certainly 24,.
I'm sort of done predictingwhat it's going to be.
Maybe that's been your problem,it's like hey, Phil, you need to
stop trying to predict it, justmaybe I need to stop trying to
will it into being something andjust let it be and be
absolutely content with whateverit ends up being yeah, this
(20:24):
whole like this is a weird thingto get to, but I think we could
make this work for going intothe new year okay and a right.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Our viewpoint on it, on life, because, being a
believer, obviously we're goingto take a very different
perspective.
This idea of manifesting yourfuture, manifesting anything
really, uh, to me is just abunch of bs like in I don't care
like it, just it's like oh, I'mgonna just in my thought will
(21:01):
something to happen?
and it's just the most pridefulthing to me and uh, I've never
understood how, you know, Ithink, when you're talking about
doing hard work and like doingwork to get something, well,
sure, you can call thatmanifesting, you can call it
whatever you want, but thereality is is you're doing
(21:22):
something to get something, butjust sitting around thinking I'm
going to just think this intoexistence is the dumbest thing?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh sure, of course, it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Michael Scott, like if I could just think it just
right, if I could just put thethink it through no no.
I don't think it's anythinglike that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You've got to do something, but you know it's.
There's certainly a saying thatI look at here and think you
know your habits are what kindof decide your destiny, right,
and so you can't change yourdestiny, but you can change your
habits, yeah, and I thinkthat's all good, but I feel very
(22:08):
much office space.
I feel very much office space.
Right now we're like you knowwhat I don't really want to do,
that I don't really feel like Iwant to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Welcome to the club, Phil yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What about paying bills?
Like you know what I thoughtabout it and I'm not sure I want
to do that either.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You're just not going to do that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm just not going to be great.
We're going to do this, we'regoing to do this, like these are
going to be some of the goalsthat we set out and like again
another.
Another saying that I love islike everybody has a plan until
you get punched in the faceMikeed in the face Mike Tyson,
mike Tyson, yeah, which let mejust say that fight was
ridiculous.
Mike Tyson, Phil Stokes.
(22:58):
But you know that's the thing is.
Everybody has a plan until youget punched in the face.
And like you know, I thinkeverybody gets punched in the
face, especially boxers.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm not saying Boxers do for sure, yeah, but
especially boxers I'm not sayingboxers do for sure, yeah, but I
mean even metaphoricallygetting punched.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh gotcha, yeah, you know it's, it's everybody.
Every everybody goes throughthat and it is nice to have
those plans.
But, like, what are you goingto do when you get punched?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
what do you do when you get knocked down and so like
?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
yeah, you're going to get back up again.
And then, yeah, get back upagain.
Oh, oh, you missed it get backup again.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I, oh, you missed it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Get back up again, you missed it, I get knocked
down, I get knocked down and Iget up again.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You're never going to keep me down.
I was thinking the Trollsversion.
Yeah, no, that went through myhead.
That's not the Trolls version.
No, I know, but it's adifferent song.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I know you picked the more obscure one which?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I can appreciate, yeah, but you know what is it
Sublime?
No Wham who.
I Get Knocked Down.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No who is that Tub Thumper?
That's Tub Thumper.
Oh, tub Thumper, sorry, no, no,that's the name of the song.
It's Tub Thumper.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Tub Thumper.
Yeah, this is the problem thatI have with early 2000s 90s
music.
I can't even that's anotherepisode Is that you get knocked
down and I get up again and I'mlike never going to keep me down
.
But then I get knocked down.
But then you get up again, Iget up again and again.
You're never going to keep medown, because I get knocked down
(24:24):
and then I get up again.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Right, and that's you know.
I think if people clicked offit's really kind of funny, but
that's sort of my goal, well,and I see that.
When I get knocked down, I'mgoing to get up again.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Because you're never going to keep me down, right and
I, and so that's my goal.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Props to those guys.
That is that, so your goal is.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That might be.
My new resolution is keepgetting up.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Tub thumper.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm going to be a tub thumper this year.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, all right, I like that.
We've coined a phrase thatsomebody else coined.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think I've stumbled on something You've thumped
onto it.
I got knocked down ontosomething, but I got back up
again.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got right back on .
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And it's never going to keep me down.
It never will keep you down.
Get knocked down and I get upagain.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Our lizards are gonna kill.
Our listener is going to killus.
Uh, if we keep.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This song is stuck in everybody's heads at this point
.
But here's and it better be theoutro music oh, it should
totally be the outro.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I will deal with the rights later.
Um, I'm all for, and I get likesometimes the whole manifest
thing, like people are like,okay, I'm I'm kind of repeating
something or I'm like willing itto happen, and it's more of
like like some of them do this,like this, like kind of
positivity, this self-talk,which I think that that's good.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I think there's some, I think, some good things out
of that yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Like who knows, subconsciously I'm not a doctor,
a doctor, but like I'm surethere's some benefits
subconsciously where you'refeeding good into yourself and
I'm all for that I'm not sayingthat, that's dumb.
I just think that this idea,that like just in thought I'm
gonna make something happen,like ethereally to me, is like
no, you have to actually like,do work and do something and I
(26:08):
feel like, sometimes like youknow, so for me and I'm saying
this from learning this yearlike if I'm, if I'm not feeling
the pain of work, I'm notworking.
And so I think this year andit's not actually a bad pain,
it's, it's when you forceyourself to do the work you need
(26:31):
to do before you allow yourselfto do the play you want to do.
And so, like today, for example, I was like I got stuff I got
to do.
I have to fix the sink, I haveto fix.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I got to take down the trampoline this close to New
Year's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I know, can you believe it, I had to fix the
sink right before New Year's.
I finally took the trampolinedown, oh my gosh, like it's been
snowing, I know, and I was like, oh, but I get it, but I got it
right.
I got the trampoline down andit's like oh, I want to do this,
I want to do that, and I waslike I got to do these sales
(27:09):
calls, I got to do these emails,I got to.
So I think, if I can like justevery day, kind of try to push
myself in that direction onestep at a time, yeah, just do
good today and then the next dayI'll worry about that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, that's great, so that's great.
And then if you do get punchedin the face, it's no big deal,
right, because it's no big dealright because you just get up
again.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, I mean, if I got punched and I like I don't
know like got knocked down umjust get it back up.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I get back up right whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa I get
back up again because you'renever gonna keep you down right?
Yeah, well, happy new year,phil.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Well, happy New Year, phil.
To 2025.
To our whiskey bits, to ourwhiskey bits and the future of
the world.
No To 2025.
To 2025.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's so good, it's very good.
Let me eat the cherries now.
Oh, okay, next time on whiskeybits.
So you wanted to talk aboutadult.
No, I wanted I legit wanted totalk about hockey.
Hockey was my topic.
I thought oh winter.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It probably just started, which that's totally
false, because I literally knownothing.
The one experience I have withhockey was the one game I went
to with you there.
Yeah, that was it, the wolves.
Yeah, I actually really likedit.
Great, I don't know much aboutit, right, I think it's very
helpful when they had the laserthat followed the puck, that was
(28:42):
nice, but it's gone now.
So I'm like well, why would Iwatch?
I don't know where the puck isWell.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
you can see it better on NHD now.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
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