March 11, 2025 • 36 mins
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This episode was originally released on 5/7/2024 with Special Guest John Benedeck.
Imagine clinking glasses with John Benedeck, the maestro behind the organ at Wrigley Field, as we savor the robust flavors of Noah's Mill bourbon. Our latest episode isn't just a symphony of whiskey notes; it's a laughter-laden journey from John's classical piano roots to orchestrating the electric atmosphere at Cubs games. We reminisce about mentors and college days, where music and sports announcing intertwined, and even encounter a superfan's memorabilia that could rival any museum.
Our conversation strikes a chord with anyone who's felt the electrifying connection between performer and audience. Whether you're tickling the ivories or tickling funny bones, it's this dynamic that amplifies the magic of live entertainment. John, Matt and Phil share insights on the spontaneous art of engaging a crowd, whether at a comedy club or amidst the cheers of a ballpark, unravelling how the energy shared in these moments fuels the fire of performance.
Cap off your day with tales that will have you chuckling into your glass as John and the hosts reveal behind-the-scenes quirks and personal anecdotes. It's all about the playful banter, the clever jabs, and the shared love for the spirited blend of music, comedy, and good whiskey. So, tune in, kick back, and let the good times roll with us – and don't forget to hit subscribe for a front-row seat to the fun!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
John is one of the most talented musicians I've
ever met.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Honestly, yeah, honestly.
No, it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You can typically find him playing the piano at
such amazing establishments asthe friendly confines of Wrigley
Field.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ooh, the organ.
It's an organ.
It's an organ, it's an organ.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
He is tapping on the keys of that organ in some
amazing ways Slap at the keys ofthat organ in some amazing ways
Slappity keys.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, where
we talk all things whiskey andall things comedy.
Welcome, john.
Hey, who do we have here today,john?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We have John here.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh it started.
John Benedict, yeah, okay, john, we have a John here.
Oh it started.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
John Benedict.
Yeah, okay, we are honored tobe joined by the very talented
John.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Benedict.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Stop it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thanks, phil, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's really good to have you.
Tonight we are going to bedrinking Noah's Mill.
This is a Will it brand whiskey, will it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Will it taste good, will it?
And I have?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
never had this.
Will it taste?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
good Dad joke.
Yeah, I think you gotta hit thedad joke bottle there.
What if I laugh at a dad joke?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You can laugh at dad jokes yeah, yeah, you just can't
say one.
Cheers boys Cheers.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So this comes recommended from a customer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hold on.
I learned a new way to do it Todo this the nosing.
Keep Hold on.
I learned a new way to do it Todo this the nosing.
Keep your mouth open.
You did learn something new Iwatched.
Neat, you did watch.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Neat the documentary Very, very good.
I knew it Very good.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yep.
So yeah, you open your mouth alittle bit.
All right, you were going totell me the history of it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I don't know much history about it as much as.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You put on your mustache, I asked.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I saw a person wearing a pair of socks that
said ride bikes, drink bourbon,and it made me laugh.
I chuckled.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Like a Schwinn or like a Harley, no, like a
Schwinn.
Schwinn Like a cyclist, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like a cyclist, yeah, and so we started talking about
bourbon and asked the famouslike what's your favorite, what
do you go to?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Noah's Mill, oh, and I'd seen this.
We'd seen this bottle.
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I've seen this bottle all over the place and I've
just never picked it up becauseI didn't know much about it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Or maybe you didn't have hands at that time time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've had hands my entire life.
Oh, as far as you know, this is, this is what I, this is what I
do.
This is what matt, I justinterrupt him with.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I gotta hand it to you, stupid statements that's,
that's gonna take, that's worththere that is worth a day, so
this one comes from some frombardstown, kentucky.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Uh, the willett distett Distillery is who makes
this one Mentioned earlier,before we got started.
This is a high proof.
114 proof, I thought you saidsomewhere.
Yeah, 114.3 bottled by handVersus what.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I was going to say by machine.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
More machine now than that?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't know how they bottle stuff.
Usually, if I bottle something,I pour it in with my hands.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But that makes it better, unless you don't have
hands like Phil didn't used to.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow, this one is really.
Yeah, this is really good.
I really like that on the nose,the nosing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I almost said it tastes good, but I haven't even
tasted it yet.
It tastes good with my nose.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There is a very unique flavor in the nose here
that I'm trying to pick up.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can I just say something?
I feel like eventually we'regoing to need to get some
diversity because we all lookthe same, literally.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, I mean, you look significantly different.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, now, because I cut my hair.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We used to look more alike.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All of us, all the same, we could be brothers, you
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
There's a relationship prior to this
recording.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
By the way, where I know him, so I know, both of
these people I was going to sayI generally know him, but people
have said that you and I wereseparated at birth.
Really.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Probably twins, I'd be talking to my parents.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm like like all right, I mean I I talked to my
mom, she's very adamant that noyeah, I, I talked to my parents
as well and uh, you've nevercome up yeah, well they've never
come up, but like maybe theydon't know.
Yeah maybe they don't know,just say it I.
I think it'd be cool if we juststarted telling people that we
were separated.
(04:27):
Or Am I still in this situation?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Or did I lose out because I cut my hair?
Am I no longer a part of this?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think you have your own brothers so.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Or brother Brothers.
I was right the first time.
Should have said it that wayand left it there.
Anyway, should we drink?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
the whiskey.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Or brother, brothers, brothers.
Okay, I was right the firsttime.
Seven of us told Should havesaid that Should have said it
that way and left it there.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Anyway, should we drink?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
the whiskey yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Not really been talking about.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
There's something good there.
I just I can't place it yet.
Wow, joy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's very earthy For a bourbon yeah you're earthy for
a bourbon sorry I'm so sorry,this is what he does.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It's like that didn't even make sense there's a pete
like a pd in there really I gotI don't know like.
It's like a super sweet scotch,if I had to put it, because
it's not, there's not much syrup, or like a sweetness, the
sweetness hits, it's theremostly in the smell, though yeah
, I got raisin like a sweetraisin yeah, I'm catching some
(05:33):
coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think that might be the and that might be a little
bit of the earthy stuff, but I'mcatching a little bit of coffee
in there.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Somehow we're talking I'm not getting the coffee at
all no, well, I mean, where arewe talking kenya?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
we talk in mexico high elevation high elevation
coffee costa rica easily singleorigin oh yeah yeah, so you're
typically a scotch guy.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How much of a tool do we sound like right now, just
the biggest?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
lots of yeah, all the like a tool belt or a full belt
.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Or a full tool belt, full belt.
We're not just one tool, we'rejust the case.
Yeah, we're like a.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Milwaukee Christmas deal pack.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, so good.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Continue it's so good , I was going to ask John here.
So you're typically intobourbons, or, I'm sorry, scotch.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, I like bourbons , or I'm sorry, scotch well, I
like bourbons, okay, like I likesome scotches, but they tend to
be more expensive okay it'seasier to get a less expensive
good bourbon and a lessexpensive.
Good scotch okay from what I'veseen, that's fair, I'm not much
.
I don't go around looking fordeals, I'll go to like carfield
or binnie's okay, well, there'sfour roses is on sale, there's
(06:42):
one?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
okay, hey, look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So all things whiskey then that's good, let's grab
one that's good.
And buy one.
There it is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Not much for rye Okay .
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Is it for a particular reason that you don't
like the rye?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, it could just be a preconceived notion.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't have as much experience.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Spicy or spicy or well, I like, but I like
scotches, do you like?
Right?
Like loggable and 16.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's like the 90 day, yeah, but do you like rye bread
?
Yeah, the marbled rye withbutter, oh yeah marble rye, yeah
, marbled tobacco, yeah, yeah,marlboro, the marlboro reds
bread love it, you get itbenedict.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Very smoky, very smoky, a little nutty A little
nutty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Toasted right.
Toasted nuttiness.
Toasted nuttiness.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
At the end, kind of the back taste.
I'm getting corn husk.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Almost like roasted corn husk, a little bit like
when you put corn in the cob onthe grill.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The smell of the, the kind of the burning corn husk,
yeah see, I used to think allwhiskeys taste like jet fuel,
like that was like even justlike a year ago, yeah, but like
slowly I grew into just lovingjet fuel.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So now whiskey tastes good, now whiskey yeah, yeah,
so you have enough jet fuel andjet fuel tastes terrible.
Yeah, yeah, and it's way moreexpensive.
Oh, yeah, so much.
Yes, plus the planes need it.
Yeah, well, you gotta protectthe country.
That's not, that's not stoptalk to boeing about that boeing
?
I don't know what the heck wasthat I'm sure I'm trying to get
(08:24):
back to.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Boing.
It's the sound the plane makeswhen it hits the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh my gosh.
Too soon, too late, too late.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
There's been four incidents with the same plane.
Do something about it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do something about it .
Boeing Do something.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do something, I don't know which camera Do something.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
This is weird.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's multiple Look at all of them At the same time
, all of them, and I will cut toall of them that one's the
biggest screen and it's got adecent view.
Yeah, maybe you should not wearshorts.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It was nice out today .
It's going to snow next week,inevitably.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's not nice in here right now.
Yeah, it is.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It musky.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't think I can use the wide shot.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, he's in that shot.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You're in all the shots.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You're in all of them .
I'm going to use AI and put akilt on you.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The back of your head is ridiculous.
I think a kilt would be worse.
I think a kilt would be worseAt least it would be interesting
.
At least we'd have somethinginteresting to look at.
Yeah, so what do you think ofthe Noah's Mill?
I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I like the higher proof burdens.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Did you want to see this?
Is that why you're reaching?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, I'm really getting the corn husk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There is a very, very sweet something on my nose that
I can't quite place.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's sweet at the beginning, it's really really
enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, it's sweet at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I always get a caramel.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like they usually anytime.
I have any bourbon.
It just seems to be this likecandy caramel, that's a thing,
yeah.
But I've gotten licorice andthis may it's like a blend,
because I don't like licorice,but usually if it's just kind of
a hint, like you're smelling italmost, yeah, that could be
that, but I have to think aboutit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, there's just something that kind of cuts
through that sweet there and Ienjoy it, it's fantastic, it
does smell good.
So great suggestion on that one.
This one comes in about $65.
How much About $65 for?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
this one.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's not bad.
That's not bad, that's as much.
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's not bad.
That's as much as a wild turkey.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like a good wild turkey.
It's a rare breed.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, Not an actual turkey people.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
No, those are free if you go to Bull Valley, you're
just a bunch of dead turkeys.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We have a bird theme going on.
I feel like with a lot of ourepisodes.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We like birds.
What can we say?
We like birds, me too.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We're big fans, big fans of birds, big fans of birds
.
Any feathered creature, reallyAny creature, most creatures, we
like them all except deer ratswith hooves they're terrible.
We really don't like geese doyou not like geese?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
they're called Canadian geese.
I always thought Canadians werevery temperamental and sensible
and patient, kind, supposedly,supposedly or supposedly.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't know, I'm actually supposedly there's a d.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We've triggered john.
Again, oh again.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He's gonna play some music.
Do you get it when you gettriggered?
Do you just go right to I'mgonna play some music?
No, I usually just yell like infootloose and they get mad.
They dance, they go to thewarehouse.
Yeah, I'm just gonna dance.
What if that was the way we dideverything in life?
Like, whatever your skill is,when you get angry, you just do
that West Side Story, just youjust do that skill even harder.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We're going to fight in the alley, but we're going to
dance it out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I just go somewhere and I just start telling jokes
like to a brick wall, which isbasically like doing comedy.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean you're in front of a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's pretty much just I've described.
An open mic is what that is,that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's right.
So John is one of the mosttalented musicians I've ever met
.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Honestly, honestly.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No, it's true.
You can typically find himplaying the piano at such
amazing establishments as thefriendly confines of Wrigley
Field.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ooh, it's an organ.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He is tapping on the keys of that organ in some
amazing ways.
So you are a Cubs fan.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You're the Cubs organist.
This is the Cubs organist.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you haven't figured that out, thank you for
explaining that.
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We weren't sure if Well you said piano, so I think
people added it together.
What?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
were you saying, phil , big Cubs fan your whole life.
You guys don't need me for this, do you?
No?
Finish your whiskey, look intothis camera and don't do
anything else for the nextcouple minutes I'm going to talk
to our friend John.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
This is partially his podcast.
He just derails it the wholetime.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The entire time, the whole time.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It is what we do, and speaking of accommodations, if
you guys have two chairs and youexpect we're going to have a
guest thing, okay, do you wantto bring in the roster of chairs
?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I have a lot of them.
It looks like you raided an oldschoolhouse.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Those are the chairs you have Like, here you go.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here's a plank from the Depression.
The problem is and then you siton that and then this is, and I
told him, of all the chairs,this was the most comfortable
chair he has.
That is a child's chair and itwas a joke, it was a joke, it
was a joke, and it's the mostcomfortable chair you offered me
.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I didn't offer you my lap.
That'd be pretty comfortable.
Do you have an?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
HR department in this podcast.
No, it's his wife.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
She doesn't listen.
She already fired me.
Help, help me.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You can thank Madison for finding all these chairs on
the side.
She already fired me.
Help, help me.
There's already been severalwrite-ups.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You can thank Madison for finding all these chairs on
the side of the road.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's right, you're going to be a hashtag.
Dude, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I hope so.
At least there'll be something.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You can cancel before it is.
Were we talking about something.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So you're the Cubs, organist Born we've established.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Now that you are, I guess you play the organ for the
Cubs is this what you decided?
Yeah, great.
So Cubs fan your whole life.
This has to have been thereason you started playing piano
so here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I was a piano player from like six years on.
I was classically trained by awonderful woman named sally
mantillo.
She still is wonderful, verypatient with me.
I learned you in the firstcouple of years that I could
play by ear, like that was mything.
So reading music became secondd secondary second D second D it
became second D.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I don't know what I was going to say.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Supposedly, supposedly became second D.
It became second D.
Yes, no, it's like it was onthe back burner and she's like
classically Juilliard trains.
And she tip.
She had every right to be likeJohn.
No, you're learning the music,learn technique.
But she didn't do that.
She's like I can see this isthe way you want to go, but it's
also important to learn thisstuff.
So we put those two together formy entire time with her and
(15:27):
that's how I grew up, so Iappreciated the Mozart's, the
Beethoven's, the Bach's, allthat stuff and then could also
invent and do fun things with it.
So through that I can kind ofplay stuff that you'd hear on
the radio that wasn'tnecessarily put to music, so pop
music.
There's no really sheet musicfor Lady Gaga, some of it maybe,
(15:49):
but that's not typically howyou learn that song or hear it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Usually you go to a club and bounce around, bounce
around, and then you do thatenough times.
You remember the song?
Exactly yes.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Good point man.
And then you do that enoughtimes.
You remember the song Exactly.
Yes, good point man.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The more you know.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
See if I can superimpose the star.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You got to do it over my yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm totally doing it If you could add it to his hand
so that he drew the star.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It would give me a lot of work.
That's a key frame, that's amotion track.
Yeah, a key frame and a motiontrack it's taking forever to do
this.
I'm tired already.
This is so easy.
You just keep doing it.
Send me the file, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I'll do it five times , because it's the fifth time
I've done it.
I'll do it, I did an array ofthings through college or
through high school and theninto college, and I ended up not
going into music.
That was a thought to go doconservatory or something, but
it was expensive and I wasn't ashard of a worker as I probably
(16:47):
should have been, so I didn'tget any scholarships.
So you know college isexpensive.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I feel you there, brother, I'll drink to that.
This guy didn't even finishhigh school.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Thanks, Matt.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I didn't realize that's where we were headed um.
Great, okay, uh, is this alsojust?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
an audio form?
No, because yeah, the camera.
It's just video no, it's alsoan audio.
Yeah, people right now arelistening on Apple going.
What is happening?
Why is there so much silence?
So yeah for those who are justlistening.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're not doing audio that was Matt insulting his
co-host needlessly for nocontextual reason and I had my
hand pressed on my face likethis and I didn't.
I just didn't know what to say.
I had to remember that therewas eight full seconds of
nothing, and I have to nownarrate the silence.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Because, it's audio.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So that's a good segue because I went into radio
production.
That was my college thing.
Okay, and one of my jobs that Igot there was the public
address announcer for all theseSporting events Basketball,
volleyball, softball, baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And this was in college, just in college, at
Western Illinois.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
For the Knicks, for the baseball games.
Whatever you say, john, I had afoot pedal For my microphone
and I had the keyboard that Iwould have like an organ patch
okay, oh, at in college yeah, atcollege.
So like me and the athleticdirector were like pretty tight
and he said yes to a lot ofstuff that I asked him so I was
(18:29):
just like hey, can I bring a?
Keyboard, is it yeah?
sure 50 people at the games.
Who cares?
And uh, set it up.
It was kind of like.
I have a picture of itsomewhere, but it's like a
one-man band and that's how Igot the rhythm of the game down.
I had no idea where it wouldlead me in anything, so I
graduated, started producingYou're doing freelance
production for podcasts.
People would send me files andI'd make them and send them off.
(18:49):
One of them was a guy in Lakeand the Hills named Stu Stu.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Stu.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
McVicker what?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
a name.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
What a name I know, take a Cubs fan, like your idea
of a Cubs fan, multiply it by1,000, and you still haven't
touched him.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's got millions of dollars of memorabilia in his
basement.
He decked it out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wait, he's in Lake in the Hills.
Yeah, I've seen this basement.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, my friend used to be his neighbor.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, Stu, he's great .
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Not a neighbor anymore, but completely decked
out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I've seen that thing.
It's incredible, it's insane.
He's got Kerry Woods' locker.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He's got a life-size bobblehead of him.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Does Kerry Woods know he may be looking for that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's signedit.
He had people looking for it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He signed it Life-size bobblehead of who no
hearing the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You were listening.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, anthony Rizzo.
Yeah, and he signed that too.
A life-size bobblehead.
Yeah, it's six foot twoFull-size bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That was sent to him by.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tom Ricketts Does it do this when it's bobblehead?
It doesn't do the hips.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, see how your head's not moving.
No, but this is how he bats,because apparently you have to.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, he does the hip thrust, hip thrust the air.
If you watch Rizzo waiting forthe ball, he does that with his
hip thrusting.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's why he gets hit by so many pitches.
It's either hypnotizing orannoying.
If you thrust that much youshould get hit by a pitch.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's all I have to say or have a life-size
bobblehead made of you.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Right, so that was sent, but anyway.
So Stu through this podcastingthing, so I meet him from a
mutual friend because he haswhat he does with this basement,
his man cave.
So he has Cubs players orpersonalities anybody associated
(20:32):
with the Cubs over and hecharges in a mission for people
to come hang out with them andget autographs and hear the
interviews and he gives all themoney away to charity.
I think, he's raved like 900grand out of his basement.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, that's awesome.
I think I met him at an event.
You probably met him.
Yeah, that we were at once.
Yeah, I think he came to yourlast show.
Yeah, he did, he came to yourlast show?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, he was there.
Nice guy, great guy, and amongall of his memorabilia he has an
organ that was at Wrigley inthe 90s that was just collecting
dust.
No one was playing it.
So I said, hey, I'm a pianoplayer, let me give us a try.
(21:14):
At least turn it on and give itsome noise for the events he's
like.
Go for it.
So I did At one of these events.
I think it was Mitch Williams,early 2020.
It was right after Gary Presleyretired.
Someone Gary Press, it was theorganist that replaced Sorry
context.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Thank you, I'm tracking.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Good, I'm following you.
Just pretend that you are.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Just watch me for the chances I'll just catch myself
with the reaction.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
No who retired.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Gary Pressy.
Gary Pressy is the formerorganist that replaced for no
who retired?
Gary Pressey Gary.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Pressey is the former .
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He was the organist for 34 years man okay he was
there a long time.
Never missed a game, not onewow, I think he passed up Cal
Ripken Jr for consecutive gameswhich is crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, should have a bobblehead of him.
Could just be his hands, I canget you one.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No, it's his face.
He's got a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can get you one, alright, you know you could ask
for that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But you want every bobblehead now.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I'll find it somewhere.
It's probably on eBay, I don'tknow.
But so anyway, someone caughtme on tape Playing at one of
these events, Threw my hat inthe ring and the Cubs reached
out to me.
One thing led to another Fivedays before the world shut down
2020, they gave it to me, we'llgive it to this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The world's closing anyways.
What have we got to lose?
Little did they know, the worldopened back up and Mr John
Benedict is the Cubs organist.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Actually, that first year was terrible.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You were all alone, you were playing all alone the
baseball season wasn't terrible,just the year itself was awful.
Yeah.
Really really weird.
What a weird year, but yeah,there was no one in the ballpark
.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It was like the silver lining was that we can
get all the, we can work out allthe kinks and just figure it
out, make some mistakes, but noone was there.
And then by 2021, when somepeople are coming back- we're
good to go.
So well, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And congratulations.
It's really uh, it's a reallycool story.
That's cool man, that's reallyawesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And you like doing was one of them.
Bob Odenkirk yeah, the guy thateveryone tells me.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I look like that was a fun one, Actually more.
Say it again he looks like BobOdenkirk, kork, kork, odenkirk,
odenkirk, odenkirk.
Did you meet?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Jim Gaffigan.
Yeah, oh man, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
How about Dan Eric Royd?
No, I haven't met dan chrischelios, yes, a couple of times
yeah, I saw that one recentlyyeah, so the first time he came
up he had like my entiresomething, and then he's, can I
play?
Something and and he preachesover, the organ is muted because
we're gonna rehearse, so he'sjust playing.
I'm like chris chelios isplaying the organ.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's pretty cool, bill Murray.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
He's been there.
I did not meet him, so me andJosh Langhoff, my counterpart,
we split the season and he wasat that game when Bill Murray I
don't know if he went in,because sometimes they don't
come in to rehearse- If they'vedone it enough or they don't
care, they just go up and singit and leave.
But most of the time they comein and rehearse.
Okay, If they've done it enoughor they don't care, they just
(24:28):
go up and sing it and leave.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But most of the time they come in and rehearse my dad
ran into Harry Carey at aurinal, at a what Urinal.
Oh naturally A urinal or atrough?
Well, at the time it was atrough.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And you knew it was because my dad looked over at
him.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He's like hey you're Harry Caray.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
He's like how Quit looking over here.
Actually not a bad.
I was not expecting that goodof a.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's the only impression I can do.
Apparently, I think we got toadd that one into the show.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You'd kill him Cobbles.
Will You'd kill him Cobbles?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
will.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You'd kill.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah, dropping that one in.
Just throw on the big blackroom glasses.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Is it me doing Will Ferrell doing Harry Carey, or is
it just me doing Harry Carey?
I think it's anybody Does itmatter?
It's such a hyperbole.
I like Will Ferrell's like.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, he just went with the shake, yeah, man?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, he just went with the shake.
Yeah, mad cow disease If themoon were made of cheese?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
would you eat it?
How?
So you answer no questions.
So you answer no questions.
Say yes, oh my gosh, so thetrough thing.
How gosh so, so the troughthing.
Most of like I.
I don't want to say that ourdemographic is mostly going to
be, uh, of a particular gender.
Yeah, but I would imagine thatit is most.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There's no chicks watching this.
What are you talking about?
Madison doesn't even watch it.
I have to like beg her to watchit and literally I kid you not.
Cora, our three-year-old, wasin the car listening to like
most of the episode and at onepoint Cora said today, listening
to our latest one, can youplease turn this off like thanks
, child, you're grounded Iappreciate you speaking but
(26:21):
thanks for the honesty.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So we don't really we don't know what our demographic
we don't test well withthree-year-olds.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's men, it's men.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So we can confirm.
This was a conversation that wehad the other day.
We can confirm that the troughsstill exist at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They pee into troughs at Wrigley Field.
Like cows it's very economical.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Cows don't pee into troughs.
Thoughrigley Field Like cows,it's very economical.
Cows don't pee into troughsthough.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's why where do they come up with this?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They eat Right, so what is the message here that
we're trying to say Convenience?
You know how cows it's notconvenient.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
There's rarely a line .
It's very green of them.
It's rarely a line.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, yeah, because everyone's peeing in their pants
in their seat?
No, in their seat.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, they just walk up there and sit in the trough.
You guys ever do trough slides?
No, so you know, slip andslides, right.
Oh, so you can participate andusually for money or after you
don't really know who you areanymore as you're pointing.
You do a running, start, yeah,crow hop and you do a good old
(27:30):
slide.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That does not sound fun, but it's a unique
experience.
It certainly is unique, that'sfor sure.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That's who you do it for.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Nowhere else in the world.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The stories or the memories.
One of the two.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
If you can remember it.
You won't, you won't.
So you said something aboutcrowd work.
I did.
I was going to.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Well, 40 minutes into the episode, let's get to a
joke.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here.
I am over here.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I'll just shut up and drink my whiskey.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
There's the clap again.
What I was going to ask was andI think you guys can both
relate to this- you don't evenneed me for this episode, do you
?
I'd prefer you just leave.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
You're figuring that out now.
You guys just want my house, myoffice.
It's fine, it's good.
Give me the whoppers, hand methe whoppers.
You want the whoppers?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, just whoppers, we're not listening to you eat
on this podcast again.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, I can't even listen to myself.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It's, it's like pretty terrible, oh yeah I was
going to ask you so in yourperformances.
So obviously, with with doingthe cubs games, you don't have a
ton of interaction with crowds,but you have performed, live
for, for different, at differentvenues, for different things
like, like you mentioned,weddings.
You've done some coffee houses,you've done some dueling pianos
(28:47):
.
Um, talk to me about, like someof the like more interesting
crowds that you've worked withsome of your pet peeves about
what what crowds can be like,some of the things that you say
and I think I think matt willhave a.
You know, have some somethoughts here too, because, like
both of you are, are very muchdependent on how the crowd
(29:09):
reacts to you and responds toyou and let me hear a little bit
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
let me just say this so like I can, before you answer
, like, so I can say that one ofthe things I look forward to,
and actually one of the things Ilove about stand-up, is that
it's live and that you can reactwith the crowd and use the
crowd to kind of feed into yourperformance and play off of them
and all that stuff.
So crowd work, meaning likeimprov-ing a little bit with the
(29:33):
crowd, that's one thing.
But then, just in general, yourperformance and like almost
there's almost two parts to this.
There's like the skill of crowdwork, which there's some people
who are just so good at it LikeMatt Rife is one of the guys
who's really really good at it.
Um, like matt rife is one ofthe guys he's really really good
at it.
Uh, gosh, what the heck?
There's a jeff arturi.
Yes, I was just about to saythat he's really good um,
(29:54):
anyways, there's a lot of comicsthat are really good at the
crowd work and uh.
But then there's theinspirational side of it, which
is like I as a performer getjazzed up and I get energy in
the middle of the show thatalmost helps me continue to do
the show from the crowd response.
So for you, like I mean I'vebeen at you know like, when you
(30:16):
do shows at the coffee house andyou're playing your music, are
you getting that same kind ofreaction at a coffee house
versus, like, doing it at theCubs?
Like, do you hear?
Response how does it go?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
It's very it.
The cubs like do you hear?
Response how does it go?
It's very, it's.
It's very different type ofcrowd interaction because at at
a cubs game, you are more orless in the same position as the
spectators.
The, the spectacle of a ballgame, is the players, right,
okay, that's like the, the matchor the game or whatever you
(30:48):
want to call it.
That's happening is whateveryone's watching.
Everyone is just reacting to it.
I'm reacting to it with, withthe music, everyone else is
reacting to it with their boozeor their cheers or whatever
their golden slides whateverthey're doing there you go,
that's golden.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
That's what you said.
It was right, Trop slide.
Trop slide, but we all knowwhat it really is.
One of its worst.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I don't know which one, but no, but Again.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So I'm just the cheerleader with the music at a
ball game and there is some calland respond type thing where
Like yeah, and you, where I'veseen them, where you've trolled
the other team, which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
There's also a DJ who plays canned music, regular
music for the walk-ups for Cubsplayers, because they choose
their walk-up song.
It's their theme song.
For opposing players, I willplay something that pertains to
their name and I am again, I amnot the innovator in this.
I fully plagiarize.
Nancy Faust was a White Soxorganist for 44 years or
(32:00):
something like that.
And then Matthew Kaminsky, downat the Braves.
He's been doing this exact samething, and multiple organists
do this.
They take a name, like I'd sayit's manny, manny pina.
He was a brewer.
I play pina coladas, if youlike harrison bader, darth bader
something like that, and I'lljust take their song or there's
(32:21):
there, you can go deeper thanthat, I think.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Uh, the best one was what's the best troll you've
done?
I feel like I saw one not toolong ago and I was like, oh, oh,
uh, well, tommy edmund.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He was a cardinal.
This is a favorite, so his lastname's edmund.
Uh, so I'll play wreck of theedmund fitzgerald.
It's super somber, sad song andusually it usually goes over
pretty well, um, I think, do you?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
ever get anyone to get mad at you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Not really, I don't think the players care, they
don't care.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I could play a different song.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Apparently, you guys are against.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Is that how ballplayers sound?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let me tell you what that song was Terrible, terrible
, terrible.
If Charles Barkley were walkingup, what song would you play
Well, some of them, charles,don't.
That's Frank Caliendo doing.
Charles Barkley were walking up.
What song would you play?
Wolf on them, charles doll,that's Frank Caliendo doing.
Charles Barkley.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Is that Kermit the Frog doing?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
it.
If Charles Barkley were walkingup to the plate as an opposing
player, what song would you play?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Who Let the Dogs Out, barkley?
Oh Okay, I was going to go,gnarls, and I thought you'd be
able to go Gnarls, and I thoughtGnarls Barclay looked crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's exactly Okay, we're done.
You know what it reminds me of?
Have you seen that, jimmyFallon?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Barry Gibb yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
With Justin Timberlake.
Yeah, because he goes Andy Gibband Barry Gibb.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Barry Gibb.
This is enthralling stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you're still listening.
They've left.
They've all left.
This is for us now.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Certainly my three-year-old Cora has shut it
down Can we turn on somethingelse.
Well, this was good, this wasfun.
Crowd work, crowd work man.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We only talked about half of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We talked about you, man.
This is good, this is good.
We're going to have to have youback.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Okay, a less grumpy John.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
We'll have you front too.
Hey, I'm only gonna.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I'm sorry we don't want your back, we want your
front.
Yeah, we're getting enough ofyour front.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
From this angle, I'm ventilating thanks for coming in
the space to ventilate.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
It was really good to have you thanks for sharing
your story.
Appreciate and uh and and somewhiskey I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Thanks, phil.
I certainly enjoyed our time,brother.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
This guy's got to go.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Thanks, Phil.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You.
You're welcome, and Matt.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Thanks, Phil.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's fine, you're welcome, john.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I'm going to use AI to cut all of your heads off and
it'll just be.
I'm going gonna put like abarbie doll head on you and
motion track it can you help mewith that if you gotta punctuate
that sentence in some way?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
no, punctuate your face it's gonna puncture you
right in the face.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's the end next time on whiskey bits well, phil,
I have the flannel again.
Welcome back, flannel.
And I have much less hair heidiho flandarino heidi ho
flandarino, you're like the alborland to my tim taylor, aren't
(36:03):
?
I'm wearing the flannel?
I'm more more like the Wilson.
Yeah, you're the Wilson.
Yeah, hide your face I should.
Maybe we get more viewers.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
My mom always said I had a face for radio.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, that's sad.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, it is sad.
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.
John is one of the most talented musicians I've
ever met.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Honestly, yeah, honestly.
No, it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You can typically find him playing the piano at
such amazing establishments asthe friendly confines of Wrigley
Field.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ooh, the organ.
It's an organ.
It's an organ, it's an organ.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
He is tapping on the keys of that organ in some
amazing ways Slap at the keys ofthat organ in some amazing ways
Slappity keys.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, where
we talk all things whiskey andall things comedy.
Welcome, john.
Hey, who do we have here today,john?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We have John here.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh it started.
John Benedict, yeah, okay, john, we have a John here.
Oh it started.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
John Benedict.
Yeah, okay, we are honored tobe joined by the very talented
John.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Benedict.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Stop it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thanks, phil, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's really good to have you.
Tonight we are going to bedrinking Noah's Mill.
This is a Will it brand whiskey, will it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Will it taste good, will it?
And I have?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
never had this.
Will it taste?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
good Dad joke.
Yeah, I think you gotta hit thedad joke bottle there.
What if I laugh at a dad joke?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You can laugh at dad jokes yeah, yeah, you just can't
say one.
Cheers boys Cheers.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So this comes recommended from a customer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hold on.
I learned a new way to do it Todo this the nosing.
Keep Hold on.
I learned a new way to do it Todo this the nosing.
Keep your mouth open.
You did learn something new Iwatched.
Neat, you did watch.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Neat the documentary Very, very good.
I knew it Very good.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yep.
So yeah, you open your mouth alittle bit.
All right, you were going totell me the history of it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I don't know much history about it as much as.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You put on your mustache, I asked.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I saw a person wearing a pair of socks that
said ride bikes, drink bourbon,and it made me laugh.
I chuckled.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Like a Schwinn or like a Harley, no, like a
Schwinn.
Schwinn Like a cyclist, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like a cyclist, yeah, and so we started talking about
bourbon and asked the famouslike what's your favorite, what
do you go to?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Noah's Mill, oh, and I'd seen this.
We'd seen this bottle.
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I've seen this bottle all over the place and I've
just never picked it up becauseI didn't know much about it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Or maybe you didn't have hands at that time time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've had hands my entire life.
Oh, as far as you know, this is, this is what I, this is what I
do.
This is what matt, I justinterrupt him with.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I gotta hand it to you, stupid statements that's,
that's gonna take, that's worththere that is worth a day, so
this one comes from some frombardstown, kentucky.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Uh, the willett distett Distillery is who makes
this one Mentioned earlier,before we got started.
This is a high proof.
114 proof, I thought you saidsomewhere.
Yeah, 114.3 bottled by handVersus what.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I was going to say by machine.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
More machine now than that?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't know how they bottle stuff.
Usually, if I bottle something,I pour it in with my hands.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But that makes it better, unless you don't have
hands like Phil didn't used to.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow, this one is really.
Yeah, this is really good.
I really like that on the nose,the nosing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I almost said it tastes good, but I haven't even
tasted it yet.
It tastes good with my nose.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There is a very unique flavor in the nose here
that I'm trying to pick up.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can I just say something?
I feel like eventually we'regoing to need to get some
diversity because we all lookthe same, literally.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, I mean, you look significantly different.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, now, because I cut my hair.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We used to look more alike.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All of us, all the same, we could be brothers, you
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
There's a relationship prior to this
recording.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
By the way, where I know him, so I know, both of
these people I was going to sayI generally know him, but people
have said that you and I wereseparated at birth.
Really.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Probably twins, I'd be talking to my parents.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm like like all right, I mean I I talked to my
mom, she's very adamant that noyeah, I, I talked to my parents
as well and uh, you've nevercome up yeah, well they've never
come up, but like maybe theydon't know.
Yeah maybe they don't know,just say it I.
I think it'd be cool if we juststarted telling people that we
were separated.
(04:27):
Or Am I still in this situation?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Or did I lose out because I cut my hair?
Am I no longer a part of this?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think you have your own brothers so.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Or brother Brothers.
I was right the first time.
Should have said it that wayand left it there.
Anyway, should we drink?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
the whiskey.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Or brother, brothers, brothers.
Okay, I was right the firsttime.
Seven of us told Should havesaid that Should have said it
that way and left it there.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Anyway, should we drink?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
the whiskey yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Not really been talking about.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
There's something good there.
I just I can't place it yet.
Wow, joy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's very earthy For a bourbon yeah you're earthy for
a bourbon sorry I'm so sorry,this is what he does.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It's like that didn't even make sense there's a pete
like a pd in there really I gotI don't know like.
It's like a super sweet scotch,if I had to put it, because
it's not, there's not much syrup, or like a sweetness, the
sweetness hits, it's theremostly in the smell, though yeah
, I got raisin like a sweetraisin yeah, I'm catching some
(05:33):
coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I think that might be the and that might be a little
bit of the earthy stuff, but I'mcatching a little bit of coffee
in there.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Somehow we're talking I'm not getting the coffee at
all no, well, I mean, where arewe talking kenya?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
we talk in mexico high elevation high elevation
coffee costa rica easily singleorigin oh yeah yeah, so you're
typically a scotch guy.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How much of a tool do we sound like right now, just
the biggest?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
lots of yeah, all the like a tool belt or a full belt
.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Or a full tool belt, full belt.
We're not just one tool, we'rejust the case.
Yeah, we're like a.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Milwaukee Christmas deal pack.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, so good.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Continue it's so good , I was going to ask John here.
So you're typically intobourbons, or, I'm sorry, scotch.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, I like bourbons , or I'm sorry, scotch well, I
like bourbons, okay, like I likesome scotches, but they tend to
be more expensive okay it'seasier to get a less expensive
good bourbon and a lessexpensive.
Good scotch okay from what I'veseen, that's fair, I'm not much
.
I don't go around looking fordeals, I'll go to like carfield
or binnie's okay, well, there'sfour roses is on sale, there's
(06:42):
one?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
okay, hey, look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So all things whiskey then that's good, let's grab
one that's good.
And buy one.
There it is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Not much for rye Okay .
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Is it for a particular reason that you don't
like the rye?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, it could just be a preconceived notion.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't have as much experience.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Spicy or spicy or well, I like, but I like
scotches, do you like?
Right?
Like loggable and 16.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's like the 90 day, yeah, but do you like rye bread
?
Yeah, the marbled rye withbutter, oh yeah marble rye, yeah
, marbled tobacco, yeah, yeah,marlboro, the marlboro reds
bread love it, you get itbenedict.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Very smoky, very smoky, a little nutty A little
nutty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Toasted right.
Toasted nuttiness.
Toasted nuttiness.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
At the end, kind of the back taste.
I'm getting corn husk.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Almost like roasted corn husk, a little bit like
when you put corn in the cob onthe grill.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The smell of the, the kind of the burning corn husk,
yeah see, I used to think allwhiskeys taste like jet fuel,
like that was like even justlike a year ago, yeah, but like
slowly I grew into just lovingjet fuel.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So now whiskey tastes good, now whiskey yeah, yeah,
so you have enough jet fuel andjet fuel tastes terrible.
Yeah, yeah, and it's way moreexpensive.
Oh, yeah, so much.
Yes, plus the planes need it.
Yeah, well, you gotta protectthe country.
That's not, that's not stoptalk to boeing about that boeing
?
I don't know what the heck wasthat I'm sure I'm trying to get
(08:24):
back to.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Boing.
It's the sound the plane makeswhen it hits the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh my gosh.
Too soon, too late, too late.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
There's been four incidents with the same plane.
Do something about it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do something about it .
Boeing Do something.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do something, I don't know which camera Do something.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
This is weird.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's multiple Look at all of them At the same time
, all of them, and I will cut toall of them that one's the
biggest screen and it's got adecent view.
Yeah, maybe you should not wearshorts.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It was nice out today .
It's going to snow next week,inevitably.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's not nice in here right now.
Yeah, it is.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It musky.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't think I can use the wide shot.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, he's in that shot.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You're in all the shots.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You're in all of them .
I'm going to use AI and put akilt on you.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The back of your head is ridiculous.
I think a kilt would be worse.
I think a kilt would be worseAt least it would be interesting
.
At least we'd have somethinginteresting to look at.
Yeah, so what do you think ofthe Noah's Mill?
I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I like the higher proof burdens.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Did you want to see this?
Is that why you're reaching?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, I'm really getting the corn husk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There is a very, very sweet something on my nose that
I can't quite place.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's sweet at the beginning, it's really really
enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, it's sweet at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I always get a caramel.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like they usually anytime.
I have any bourbon.
It just seems to be this likecandy caramel, that's a thing,
yeah.
But I've gotten licorice andthis may it's like a blend,
because I don't like licorice,but usually if it's just kind of
a hint, like you're smelling italmost, yeah, that could be
that, but I have to think aboutit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, there's just something that kind of cuts
through that sweet there and Ienjoy it, it's fantastic, it
does smell good.
So great suggestion on that one.
This one comes in about $65.
How much About $65 for?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
this one.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's not bad.
That's not bad, that's as much.
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's not bad.
That's as much as a wild turkey.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like a good wild turkey.
It's a rare breed.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, Not an actual turkey people.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
No, those are free if you go to Bull Valley, you're
just a bunch of dead turkeys.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We have a bird theme going on.
I feel like with a lot of ourepisodes.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We like birds.
What can we say?
We like birds, me too.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We're big fans, big fans of birds, big fans of birds
.
Any feathered creature, reallyAny creature, most creatures, we
like them all except deer ratswith hooves they're terrible.
We really don't like geese doyou not like geese?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
they're called Canadian geese.
I always thought Canadians werevery temperamental and sensible
and patient, kind, supposedly,supposedly or supposedly.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't know, I'm actually supposedly there's a d.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We've triggered john.
Again, oh again.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He's gonna play some music.
Do you get it when you gettriggered?
Do you just go right to I'mgonna play some music?
No, I usually just yell like infootloose and they get mad.
They dance, they go to thewarehouse.
Yeah, I'm just gonna dance.
What if that was the way we dideverything in life?
Like, whatever your skill is,when you get angry, you just do
that West Side Story, just youjust do that skill even harder.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We're going to fight in the alley, but we're going to
dance it out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I just go somewhere and I just start telling jokes
like to a brick wall, which isbasically like doing comedy.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean you're in front of a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's pretty much just I've described.
An open mic is what that is,that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's right.
So John is one of the mosttalented musicians I've ever met
.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Honestly, honestly.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No, it's true.
You can typically find himplaying the piano at such
amazing establishments as thefriendly confines of Wrigley
Field.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ooh, it's an organ.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He is tapping on the keys of that organ in some
amazing ways.
So you are a Cubs fan.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You're the Cubs organist.
This is the Cubs organist.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you haven't figured that out, thank you for
explaining that.
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We weren't sure if Well you said piano, so I think
people added it together.
What?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
were you saying, phil , big Cubs fan your whole life.
You guys don't need me for this, do you?
No?
Finish your whiskey, look intothis camera and don't do
anything else for the nextcouple minutes I'm going to talk
to our friend John.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
This is partially his podcast.
He just derails it the wholetime.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The entire time, the whole time.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It is what we do, and speaking of accommodations, if
you guys have two chairs and youexpect we're going to have a
guest thing, okay, do you wantto bring in the roster of chairs
?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I have a lot of them.
It looks like you raided an oldschoolhouse.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Those are the chairs you have Like, here you go.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here's a plank from the Depression.
The problem is and then you siton that and then this is, and I
told him, of all the chairs,this was the most comfortable
chair he has.
That is a child's chair and itwas a joke, it was a joke, it
was a joke, and it's the mostcomfortable chair you offered me
.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I didn't offer you my lap.
That'd be pretty comfortable.
Do you have an?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
HR department in this podcast.
No, it's his wife.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
She doesn't listen.
She already fired me.
Help, help me.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You can thank Madison for finding all these chairs on
the side.
She already fired me.
Help, help me.
There's already been severalwrite-ups.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You can thank Madison for finding all these chairs on
the side of the road.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's right, you're going to be a hashtag.
Dude, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I hope so.
At least there'll be something.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You can cancel before it is.
Were we talking about something.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So you're the Cubs, organist Born we've established.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Now that you are, I guess you play the organ for the
Cubs is this what you decided?
Yeah, great.
So Cubs fan your whole life.
This has to have been thereason you started playing piano
so here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I was a piano player from like six years on.
I was classically trained by awonderful woman named sally
mantillo.
She still is wonderful, verypatient with me.
I learned you in the firstcouple of years that I could
play by ear, like that was mything.
So reading music became secondd secondary second D second D it
became second D.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I don't know what I was going to say.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Supposedly, supposedly became second D.
It became second D.
Yes, no, it's like it was onthe back burner and she's like
classically Juilliard trains.
And she tip.
She had every right to be likeJohn.
No, you're learning the music,learn technique.
But she didn't do that.
She's like I can see this isthe way you want to go, but it's
also important to learn thisstuff.
So we put those two together formy entire time with her and
(15:27):
that's how I grew up, so Iappreciated the Mozart's, the
Beethoven's, the Bach's, allthat stuff and then could also
invent and do fun things with it.
So through that I can kind ofplay stuff that you'd hear on
the radio that wasn'tnecessarily put to music, so pop
music.
There's no really sheet musicfor Lady Gaga, some of it maybe,
(15:49):
but that's not typically howyou learn that song or hear it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Usually you go to a club and bounce around, bounce
around, and then you do thatenough times.
You remember the song?
Exactly yes.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Good point man.
And then you do that enoughtimes.
You remember the song Exactly.
Yes, good point man.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The more you know.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
See if I can superimpose the star.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You got to do it over my yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm totally doing it If you could add it to his hand
so that he drew the star.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It would give me a lot of work.
That's a key frame, that's amotion track.
Yeah, a key frame and a motiontrack it's taking forever to do
this.
I'm tired already.
This is so easy.
You just keep doing it.
Send me the file, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I'll do it five times , because it's the fifth time
I've done it.
I'll do it, I did an array ofthings through college or
through high school and theninto college, and I ended up not
going into music.
That was a thought to go doconservatory or something, but
it was expensive and I wasn't ashard of a worker as I probably
(16:47):
should have been, so I didn'tget any scholarships.
So you know college isexpensive.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I feel you there, brother, I'll drink to that.
This guy didn't even finishhigh school.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Thanks, Matt.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I didn't realize that's where we were headed um.
Great, okay, uh, is this alsojust?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
an audio form?
No, because yeah, the camera.
It's just video no, it's alsoan audio.
Yeah, people right now arelistening on Apple going.
What is happening?
Why is there so much silence?
So yeah for those who are justlistening.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're not doing audio that was Matt insulting his
co-host needlessly for nocontextual reason and I had my
hand pressed on my face likethis and I didn't.
I just didn't know what to say.
I had to remember that therewas eight full seconds of
nothing, and I have to nownarrate the silence.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Because, it's audio.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So that's a good segue because I went into radio
production.
That was my college thing.
Okay, and one of my jobs that Igot there was the public
address announcer for all theseSporting events Basketball,
volleyball, softball, baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And this was in college, just in college, at
Western Illinois.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
For the Knicks, for the baseball games.
Whatever you say, john, I had afoot pedal For my microphone
and I had the keyboard that Iwould have like an organ patch
okay, oh, at in college yeah, atcollege.
So like me and the athleticdirector were like pretty tight
and he said yes to a lot ofstuff that I asked him so I was
(18:29):
just like hey, can I bring a?
Keyboard, is it yeah?
sure 50 people at the games.
Who cares?
And uh, set it up.
It was kind of like.
I have a picture of itsomewhere, but it's like a
one-man band and that's how Igot the rhythm of the game down.
I had no idea where it wouldlead me in anything, so I
graduated, started producingYou're doing freelance
production for podcasts.
People would send me files andI'd make them and send them off.
(18:49):
One of them was a guy in Lakeand the Hills named Stu Stu.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Stu.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
McVicker what?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
a name.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
What a name I know, take a Cubs fan, like your idea
of a Cubs fan, multiply it by1,000, and you still haven't
touched him.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's got millions of dollars of memorabilia in his
basement.
He decked it out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wait, he's in Lake in the Hills.
Yeah, I've seen this basement.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, my friend used to be his neighbor.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, Stu, he's great .
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Not a neighbor anymore, but completely decked
out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I've seen that thing.
It's incredible, it's insane.
He's got Kerry Woods' locker.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He's got a life-size bobblehead of him.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Does Kerry Woods know he may be looking for that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's signedit.
He had people looking for it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He signed it Life-size bobblehead of who no
hearing the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You were listening.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, anthony Rizzo.
Yeah, and he signed that too.
A life-size bobblehead.
Yeah, it's six foot twoFull-size bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That was sent to him by.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tom Ricketts Does it do this when it's bobblehead?
It doesn't do the hips.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, see how your head's not moving.
No, but this is how he bats,because apparently you have to.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, he does the hip thrust, hip thrust the air.
If you watch Rizzo waiting forthe ball, he does that with his
hip thrusting.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's why he gets hit by so many pitches.
It's either hypnotizing orannoying.
If you thrust that much youshould get hit by a pitch.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's all I have to say or have a life-size
bobblehead made of you.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Right, so that was sent, but anyway.
So Stu through this podcastingthing, so I meet him from a
mutual friend because he haswhat he does with this basement,
his man cave.
So he has Cubs players orpersonalities anybody associated
(20:32):
with the Cubs over and hecharges in a mission for people
to come hang out with them andget autographs and hear the
interviews and he gives all themoney away to charity.
I think, he's raved like 900grand out of his basement.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, that's awesome.
I think I met him at an event.
You probably met him.
Yeah, that we were at once.
Yeah, I think he came to yourlast show.
Yeah, he did, he came to yourlast show?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, he was there.
Nice guy, great guy, and amongall of his memorabilia he has an
organ that was at Wrigley inthe 90s that was just collecting
dust.
No one was playing it.
So I said, hey, I'm a pianoplayer, let me give us a try.
(21:14):
At least turn it on and give itsome noise for the events he's
like.
Go for it.
So I did At one of these events.
I think it was Mitch Williams,early 2020.
It was right after Gary Presleyretired.
Someone Gary Press, it was theorganist that replaced Sorry
context.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Thank you, I'm tracking.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Good, I'm following you.
Just pretend that you are.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Just watch me for the chances I'll just catch myself
with the reaction.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
No who retired.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Gary Pressy.
Gary Pressy is the formerorganist that replaced for no
who retired?
Gary Pressey Gary.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Pressey is the former .
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He was the organist for 34 years man okay he was
there a long time.
Never missed a game, not onewow, I think he passed up Cal
Ripken Jr for consecutive gameswhich is crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, should have a bobblehead of him.
Could just be his hands, I canget you one.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No, it's his face.
He's got a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can get you one, alright, you know you could ask
for that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But you want every bobblehead now.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I'll find it somewhere.
It's probably on eBay, I don'tknow.
But so anyway, someone caughtme on tape Playing at one of
these events, Threw my hat inthe ring and the Cubs reached
out to me.
One thing led to another Fivedays before the world shut down
2020, they gave it to me, we'llgive it to this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The world's closing anyways.
What have we got to lose?
Little did they know, the worldopened back up and Mr John
Benedict is the Cubs organist.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Actually, that first year was terrible.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You were all alone, you were playing all alone the
baseball season wasn't terrible,just the year itself was awful.
Yeah.
Really really weird.
What a weird year, but yeah,there was no one in the ballpark
.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It was like the silver lining was that we can
get all the, we can work out allthe kinks and just figure it
out, make some mistakes, but noone was there.
And then by 2021, when somepeople are coming back- we're
good to go.
So well, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And congratulations.
It's really uh, it's a reallycool story.
That's cool man, that's reallyawesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And you like doing was one of them.
Bob Odenkirk yeah, the guy thateveryone tells me.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I look like that was a fun one, Actually more.
Say it again he looks like BobOdenkirk, kork, kork, odenkirk,
odenkirk, odenkirk.
Did you meet?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Jim Gaffigan.
Yeah, oh man, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
How about Dan Eric Royd?
No, I haven't met dan chrischelios, yes, a couple of times
yeah, I saw that one recentlyyeah, so the first time he came
up he had like my entiresomething, and then he's, can I
play?
Something and and he preachesover, the organ is muted because
we're gonna rehearse, so he'sjust playing.
I'm like chris chelios isplaying the organ.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's pretty cool, bill Murray.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
He's been there.
I did not meet him, so me andJosh Langhoff, my counterpart,
we split the season and he wasat that game when Bill Murray I
don't know if he went in,because sometimes they don't
come in to rehearse- If they'vedone it enough or they don't
care, they just go up and singit and leave.
But most of the time they comein and rehearse.
Okay, If they've done it enoughor they don't care, they just
(24:28):
go up and sing it and leave.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But most of the time they come in and rehearse my dad
ran into Harry Carey at aurinal, at a what Urinal.
Oh naturally A urinal or atrough?
Well, at the time it was atrough.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And you knew it was because my dad looked over at
him.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He's like hey you're Harry Caray.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
He's like how Quit looking over here.
Actually not a bad.
I was not expecting that goodof a.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's the only impression I can do.
Apparently, I think we got toadd that one into the show.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You'd kill him Cobbles.
Will You'd kill him Cobbles?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
will.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You'd kill.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah, dropping that one in.
Just throw on the big blackroom glasses.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Is it me doing Will Ferrell doing Harry Carey, or is
it just me doing Harry Carey?
I think it's anybody Does itmatter?
It's such a hyperbole.
I like Will Ferrell's like.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, he just went with the shake, yeah, man?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, he just went with the shake.
Yeah, mad cow disease If themoon were made of cheese?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
would you eat it?
How?
So you answer no questions.
So you answer no questions.
Say yes, oh my gosh, so thetrough thing.
How gosh so, so the troughthing.
Most of like I.
I don't want to say that ourdemographic is mostly going to
be, uh, of a particular gender.
Yeah, but I would imagine thatit is most.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There's no chicks watching this.
What are you talking about?
Madison doesn't even watch it.
I have to like beg her to watchit and literally I kid you not.
Cora, our three-year-old, wasin the car listening to like
most of the episode and at onepoint Cora said today, listening
to our latest one, can youplease turn this off like thanks
, child, you're grounded Iappreciate you speaking but
(26:21):
thanks for the honesty.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So we don't really we don't know what our demographic
we don't test well withthree-year-olds.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's men, it's men.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So we can confirm.
This was a conversation that wehad the other day.
We can confirm that the troughsstill exist at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They pee into troughs at Wrigley Field.
Like cows it's very economical.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Cows don't pee into troughs.
Thoughrigley Field Like cows,it's very economical.
Cows don't pee into troughsthough.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's why where do they come up with this?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They eat Right, so what is the message here that
we're trying to say Convenience?
You know how cows it's notconvenient.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
There's rarely a line .
It's very green of them.
It's rarely a line.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, yeah, because everyone's peeing in their pants
in their seat?
No, in their seat.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, they just walk up there and sit in the trough.
You guys ever do trough slides?
No, so you know, slip andslides, right.
Oh, so you can participate andusually for money or after you
don't really know who you areanymore as you're pointing.
You do a running, start, yeah,crow hop and you do a good old
(27:30):
slide.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That does not sound fun, but it's a unique
experience.
It certainly is unique, that'sfor sure.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That's who you do it for.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Nowhere else in the world.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The stories or the memories.
One of the two.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
If you can remember it.
You won't, you won't.
So you said something aboutcrowd work.
I did.
I was going to.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Well, 40 minutes into the episode, let's get to a
joke.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here.
I am over here.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I'll just shut up and drink my whiskey.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
There's the clap again.
What I was going to ask was andI think you guys can both
relate to this- you don't evenneed me for this episode, do you
?
I'd prefer you just leave.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
You're figuring that out now.
You guys just want my house, myoffice.
It's fine, it's good.
Give me the whoppers, hand methe whoppers.
You want the whoppers?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, just whoppers, we're not listening to you eat
on this podcast again.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, I can't even listen to myself.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It's, it's like pretty terrible, oh yeah I was
going to ask you so in yourperformances.
So obviously, with with doingthe cubs games, you don't have a
ton of interaction with crowds,but you have performed, live
for, for different, at differentvenues, for different things
like, like you mentioned,weddings.
You've done some coffee houses,you've done some dueling pianos
(28:47):
.
Um, talk to me about, like someof the like more interesting
crowds that you've worked withsome of your pet peeves about
what what crowds can be like,some of the things that you say
and I think I think matt willhave a.
You know, have some somethoughts here too, because, like
both of you are, are very muchdependent on how the crowd
(29:09):
reacts to you and responds toyou and let me hear a little bit
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
let me just say this so like I can, before you answer
, like, so I can say that one ofthe things I look forward to,
and actually one of the things Ilove about stand-up, is that
it's live and that you can reactwith the crowd and use the
crowd to kind of feed into yourperformance and play off of them
and all that stuff.
So crowd work, meaning likeimprov-ing a little bit with the
(29:33):
crowd, that's one thing.
But then, just in general, yourperformance and like almost
there's almost two parts to this.
There's like the skill of crowdwork, which there's some people
who are just so good at it LikeMatt Rife is one of the guys
who's really really good at it.
Um, like matt rife is one ofthe guys he's really really good
at it.
Uh, gosh, what the heck?
There's a jeff arturi.
Yes, I was just about to saythat he's really good um,
(29:54):
anyways, there's a lot of comicsthat are really good at the
crowd work and uh.
But then there's theinspirational side of it, which
is like I as a performer getjazzed up and I get energy in
the middle of the show thatalmost helps me continue to do
the show from the crowd response.
So for you, like I mean I'vebeen at you know like, when you
(30:16):
do shows at the coffee house andyou're playing your music, are
you getting that same kind ofreaction at a coffee house
versus, like, doing it at theCubs?
Like, do you hear?
Response how does it go?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
It's very it.
The cubs like do you hear?
Response how does it go?
It's very, it's.
It's very different type ofcrowd interaction because at at
a cubs game, you are more orless in the same position as the
spectators.
The, the spectacle of a ballgame, is the players, right,
okay, that's like the, the matchor the game or whatever you
(30:48):
want to call it.
That's happening is whateveryone's watching.
Everyone is just reacting to it.
I'm reacting to it with, withthe music, everyone else is
reacting to it with their boozeor their cheers or whatever
their golden slides whateverthey're doing there you go,
that's golden.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
That's what you said.
It was right, Trop slide.
Trop slide, but we all knowwhat it really is.
One of its worst.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I don't know which one, but no, but Again.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So I'm just the cheerleader with the music at a
ball game and there is some calland respond type thing where
Like yeah, and you, where I'veseen them, where you've trolled
the other team, which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
There's also a DJ who plays canned music, regular
music for the walk-ups for Cubsplayers, because they choose
their walk-up song.
It's their theme song.
For opposing players, I willplay something that pertains to
their name and I am again, I amnot the innovator in this.
I fully plagiarize.
Nancy Faust was a White Soxorganist for 44 years or
(32:00):
something like that.
And then Matthew Kaminsky, downat the Braves.
He's been doing this exact samething, and multiple organists
do this.
They take a name, like I'd sayit's manny, manny pina.
He was a brewer.
I play pina coladas, if youlike harrison bader, darth bader
something like that, and I'lljust take their song or there's
(32:21):
there, you can go deeper thanthat, I think.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Uh, the best one was what's the best troll you've
done?
I feel like I saw one not toolong ago and I was like, oh, oh,
uh, well, tommy edmund.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He was a cardinal.
This is a favorite, so his lastname's edmund.
Uh, so I'll play wreck of theedmund fitzgerald.
It's super somber, sad song andusually it usually goes over
pretty well, um, I think, do you?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
ever get anyone to get mad at you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Not really, I don't think the players care, they
don't care.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I could play a different song.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Apparently, you guys are against.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Is that how ballplayers sound?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let me tell you what that song was Terrible, terrible
, terrible.
If Charles Barkley were walkingup, what song would you play
Well, some of them, charles,don't.
That's Frank Caliendo doing.
Charles Barkley were walking up.
What song would you play?
Wolf on them, charles doll,that's Frank Caliendo doing.
Charles Barkley.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Is that Kermit the Frog doing?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
it.
If Charles Barkley were walkingup to the plate as an opposing
player, what song would you play?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Who Let the Dogs Out, barkley?
Oh Okay, I was going to go,gnarls, and I thought you'd be
able to go Gnarls, and I thoughtGnarls Barclay looked crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
It's exactly Okay, we're done.
You know what it reminds me of?
Have you seen that, jimmyFallon?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Barry Gibb yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
With Justin Timberlake.
Yeah, because he goes Andy Gibband Barry Gibb.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Barry Gibb.
This is enthralling stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you're still listening.
They've left.
They've all left.
This is for us now.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Certainly my three-year-old Cora has shut it
down Can we turn on somethingelse.
Well, this was good, this wasfun.
Crowd work, crowd work man.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We only talked about half of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
We talked about you, man.
This is good, this is good.
We're going to have to have youback.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Okay, a less grumpy John.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
We'll have you front too.
Hey, I'm only gonna.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I'm sorry we don't want your back, we want your
front.
Yeah, we're getting enough ofyour front.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
From this angle, I'm ventilating thanks for coming in
the space to ventilate.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
It was really good to have you thanks for sharing
your story.
Appreciate and uh and and somewhiskey I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Thanks, phil.
I certainly enjoyed our time,brother.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
This guy's got to go.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Thanks, Phil.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You.
You're welcome, and Matt.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Thanks, Phil.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's fine, you're welcome, john.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I'm going to use AI to cut all of your heads off and
it'll just be.
I'm going gonna put like abarbie doll head on you and
motion track it can you help mewith that if you gotta punctuate
that sentence in some way?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
no, punctuate your face it's gonna puncture you
right in the face.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's the end next time on whiskey bits well, phil,
I have the flannel again.
Welcome back, flannel.
And I have much less hair heidiho flandarino heidi ho
flandarino, you're like the alborland to my tim taylor, aren't
(36:03):
?
I'm wearing the flannel?
I'm more more like the Wilson.
Yeah, you're the Wilson.
Yeah, hide your face I should.
Maybe we get more viewers.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
My mom always said I had a face for radio.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, that's sad.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, it is sad.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
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