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"Elijah Craig BP B524; Mid-Life Crisis"

• Matt Sommerfield & Phil Stokes • Season 1 • Episode 41

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What's the secret to savoring life while sipping on bourbon? Join us as we uncork a bottle of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Bourbon, batch B524, and taste its rich 130 proof history alongside a splash of humor. We'll explore Elijah Craig's legacy, his pioneering spirit with charred barrels, and how this particular whiskey’s oaky complexity mirrors life's intricate flavors. Expect culture-rich banter, with nods to The Office and Stuart Smalley's affirmations, guaranteed to keep spirits high and relatable.

Ever wonder how to steer through life's crises without a map? We share candid reflections on facing midlife and quarter-life crossroads with a mix of gratitude and reality checks. From financial instability to unmet dreams, we unwrap the pressures of societal expectations and the tug-of-war between youthful ambitions and adult responsibilities. With a dash of biblical wisdom, we ponder finding joy amid struggles and explore unconventional paths, like the TikTok hustle, to financial stability.

Life may feel like a series of dramedies, but we're here to remind you of the joy in the journey. We laugh through midlife crises with stories of connection, from talking to pets to debating the merits of canned cranberry sauce. Embrace the humor in life's unpredictability and discover how shared experiences and community support can light the path. Whether it's the pursuit of passion over financial gain or the quirky comforts of holiday traditions, there's always room for a little laughter and introspection.

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Speaker 1:

You gonna drink some coffee Beans.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I've cleansed the nose.

Speaker 1:

Cleansed the nose, it smells like um Coffee, yep coffee beans.

Speaker 2:

I'm excited about this day.

Speaker 1:

Of days.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, just it's another day, I'm alive. The day or the episode, just anything, all the things.

Speaker 1:

All the day, the day, the chair, the lamp, the lamp.

Speaker 2:

No, this is good, I'm excited to be here. Made some chicken for dinner tonight. Okay, that's all.

Speaker 1:

I got.

Speaker 2:

Alright, well roll it. Made some chicken for dinner tonight, okay. Okay, that's all I got, all right, well roll it. Welcome to Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives.

Speaker 1:

Here's what I've got. Okay, I've got the father of bourbon, elijah Craig. Have we done this one? We've not done this one in particular, barrel proof. This is the. This is the. This is batch b. As in bravo 524. Is that a good one?

Speaker 2:

it's uh, we're gonna find out, okay. But I mean, is that like a renowned, like oh, it's b? I think the c, I think the the c batch is this the one? We got that one day when the guy was like hey, I got something for you. No, that was the a batch. I think we have done the C batch. Is this the one? We got that one day when the guy was like hey, I got something for you.

Speaker 1:

No, that was the A batch. I think we have done the A batch this. I believe you picked this one up. Potentially I did.

Speaker 2:

Good job.

Speaker 1:

Oh, epic fail, should have seen it, it could have been you, it could have been me, it doesn't really matter. This is batch five.

Speaker 2:

Could have been somebody.

Speaker 1:

Okay, sorry From Elijah Craig. This is a barrel proof. 130 proof. Get this age statement though. Check this out 11 years two months.

Speaker 2:

Why didn't they just go for the full 12?

Speaker 1:

Because they went for 11 years and two months. Because they were like forget it, we're done. We're done Because if we go the full 12, we may not get as much they're going to lose.

Speaker 1:

We're done if we go the full 12, like we may not get as much they're gonna lose it, so yeah, so that's the um, so that's the non-chill filtered elijah craig barrel proof. Uh, elijah craig, known as the father of bourbon, okay, so why? I feel like we talked about this last time, but he was a, he was a baptist minister oh father, like oh hallelujah Okay, Well, and then also, uh, he's. He's kind of known as being the first person to put their whiskey in charred barrels.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I remember that Interesting From the last time. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Huh, who does it?

Speaker 2:

So 130 proof 130 proof 65% alcohol.

Speaker 1:

Yep'm gonna first say I'm gonna look at the color if you say anything about it being 11 years old, I'll be shocked about the color.

Speaker 2:

It looks like an 11 year old. This looks like. This kind of looks like an 11 yearyear-old bourbon. No, I'd say 11 years, a spitball in here, but two months, give or take. Give or take, give or take. So, it doesn't. Is it dark?

Speaker 1:

I mean, it doesn't seem overly dark, it doesn't seem like it's crazy dark, but it doesn't seem like it's. It seems like it's in the middle. I wouldn't necessarily say that this is one that's been um, that this is like one of the darkest ones we've seen, but well, it's barrel.

Speaker 2:

So here's the interesting thing it's barrel proof, which just means they didn't add extra water right to to whatever it down, dumb it down, what is it called? To prove it down? There it is there, it is right. Uh, they didn't add more water to proof it down, but did they add any water at all?

Speaker 1:

As a part of the distilling process. There's something I mean when it comes out as the ethanol, the white dog, mm-mm.

Speaker 2:

Okay so, but what that means I mean 11 years and two months is a long time. So it's pulled, whatever it's going to pull, from the charcoal From the barrel, yeah, from the barrel, inside of the barrel, and so it's just odd to me that it's not darker. But I guess, like because it's not diluted with water, that would lighten it. Lack less time would would lighten it, right. Adding uh, we already said adding water. Yeah, or time time, we meaning the two voices in my head, what?

Speaker 1:

Okay, I need you to put something there that you were talking to.

Speaker 2:

No, don't do it, Idiot idiot, idiot, idiot To the office. No, it's from the office. Remember, jim, you thought I was doing like really bad self-talk, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Be kind to yourself, matt. Be kind, I'm learning. Should we do the stewart smalley? Oh, what's that you're? You're good enough, you're smart enough and gosh darn it people like people like you people. I usually look in the mirror and say it to yourself. Say it to yourself I'm good enough. Isn't that what? I'm smart enough, gosh, darn it, people like See, we can do that. It does feel good, it feels good. So on the nose I get man like right away.

Speaker 2:

It's just very.

Speaker 1:

A lot of oak Oaky, it's oaky.

Speaker 2:

Should we do the oaky afterbirth again? Joe, I don't think so, oh wow. I mean it is there's a lot of complexity at then there, right, yeah, and at the same time it's it's like a concentrated version, version of, and it's not. It's not a concentrated version of just ethanol, but it's like a concentrated version of that aroma. Yeah, whatever the, whatever the aroma, scent are um sweetness yeah yeah, it's a, it's got. It's hard to like. You don't want to take a big. You don't want to open your mouth. How dare you?

Speaker 1:

what don't talk to me that way when you?

Speaker 2:

breathe. What time is it? I will talk to you 10 o'clock. I'll talk to you the way I want to talk to you, alright, oh it.

Speaker 1:

I'll talk to you the way, I want to talk to you, all right.

Speaker 2:

Oh, it does change it. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what I'm getting. I'm just getting sweetness and you know there's obviously burn there, but it's not just burn, there's, like you said, the complexity. I really want to mouth, feel this.

Speaker 1:

Let's do it Okay.

Speaker 2:

Wow, that is very good. It's just very potent, but I like it. One more it's kind of yeah, oh.

Speaker 1:

Need some water.

Speaker 2:

You know how they say. Like you know, in the wintertime people will drink alcohol to keep them warm. Yeah, and I'm always like this does that?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this warms you from the inside out. It really does.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, a lot. I don't want to say corn husk again Every time.

Speaker 1:

I'm getting a lot of corn husk. No oh. It's like people, people are gonna be like does he just like chew on corn husks or something like that's what you were eating? When you, when I walked in, yeah, just like look at this guy just eating a corn, cutting away on some like a cow corn husk, um a little dry at the end.

Speaker 2:

But is that because of the high alcohol? I don't know, maybe yeah because that just maybe dry stuff out. Sure, just it like takes the moisture out of your face. We're gonna be like shriveled raisins by the time we're done drinking this yeah, just our faces, though.

Speaker 1:

I'd be interested to see and taste what this would be like in a uh, with a little bit of, just a little drop of water, of water, just a little tiny drop of water, you can spit in it. Would that be bad? That would not be good, that would be gross, that would be disgusting.

Speaker 2:

I could spit in this one and then give it to you you can try and let me know, I saw a guy at the gym today spit in the trash. Now I get it.

Speaker 1:

It's the trash Okay.

Speaker 2:

But it's just gross. Come on, I looked away. I was like this is going to gross me out. Anyways, okay, it's very good, very potent. Are you picking up any specific flavored?

Speaker 1:

notes, Not yet. So full disclosure. First drink of the night we go right to 130 proof. There's been no warm-up to this at all. We sniffed the coffee. We're just going right in Going for it. Yeah no, your taste buds are not used to this, yet they're just going right in Going for it. Yeah no, your taste buds are. You know, they're not used to this, yet they're in shock.

Speaker 2:

Right, see, and that's what's interesting is it does start to taste different. I mean, yeah, it's opening up, but then also your palate is getting more used to it, right?

Speaker 1:

Right, once it kind of gets that shock of the alcohol content. Right.

Speaker 2:

Then it should start opening up some more flavors. When they do tastings at distilleries, do they start with lower proof and work their way up, or does it not really matter? I think it depends because we've had lower proofs that taste like higher proofs, and then we've had higher proofs that taste like lower proofs.

Speaker 1:

Um, do you mean like drink like a? Because like the tasteness, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2:

I drink, yeah, like the drink. Like you know, some of the lower ones had had a lot of burn, yeah, and some of the higher ones, like 120 or whatever, were like, oh, like. This isn't as, bernie sanders, as we thought, right right.

Speaker 1:

Um, I don't know that they necessarily start higher or lower or anything like that, but I got something right there. I don't know that they necessarily start higher or lower or anything like that, but I got something right there.

Speaker 2:

I don't know what it was, but it was just like a split second. On that first chew I got like a fruit, some sort of fruit, and I can't figure it out.

Speaker 1:

I'm getting like banana bananas and banana foster. Okay, caramel-y burnt sugar type of thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah I like sugar.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, brown sugar, brown sugar, yeah.

Speaker 2:

What were we talking about?

Speaker 1:

earlier. Oh, before this. Yeah, we were talking about you.

Speaker 2:

No, not that whole. Thing.

Speaker 1:

Shocking right no.

Speaker 2:

What was it? We were like, oh, we should talk about that tonight. You, no, it wasn't me.

Speaker 1:

We were talking about midlife crisis.

Speaker 2:

Midlife crisis, crises, wasn't there something?

Speaker 1:

else Before that, I don't remember. I think we were talking a little bit about going through midlife crisis. We were talking about making money on TikTok.

Speaker 2:

Oh, tiktok, that was it, and then we were, were talking about making money on tiktok.

Speaker 1:

Oh, tiktok, that was yeah and uh. And then we were also talking about um you well, here's the thing.

Speaker 2:

So midlife crises we've kind of talked about like things that we've bought as midlife crises, but haven't we really talked about like cause. I'm not, I hope I'm not midlife, I'm only 39. And even you, you're only what. 42, 45, 45. Yeah, you live to be a hundred. You still got five more years till you're really midlife. If I lived to a hundred, you're going to live to like one, 20.

Speaker 1:

People our age are going to live to like there's no chance there's, there's robots now, if I make it past, like if I make it past my 60s, I'll be shocked 60s tough day for I'm kidding, I'm kidding. See, this is the midlife crisis part. Oh, maybe it's three quarter life oh, I hope not.

Speaker 2:

Maybe it's 90 percent, do you have?

Speaker 1:

it could be tomorrow. Are you having a? Midlife crisis have you had one? I've had one I've had them. I feel like the younger people now younger having them uh, yeah, and and it's um, it's turned into, it's, it's turned into like I've actually heard them called the quarter life crisis. Yeah, we're like right around 25. Because you're like, uh-oh, you're just getting out of college. You're just like kind of finding your way.

Speaker 2:

Some people just get out of the basement.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, some people are still in the basement. That's why they're going through this quarter life crisis and, yeah, it's wild. It's wild, I just feel that, yeah, it's wild.

Speaker 2:

It's wild. I just feel that. I feel that I don't know. I guess I had expectations of where I would want to be, but it goes so fast. And then it's like, oh, I'm 39. And I'm on TikTok, trying to make money off of playing video games, and I'm like I made $2. And it's like, but I think it's like the crisis I'm in right now in all transparency, is like I feel like I'm throwing stuff at the wall, like just I'm trying anything. Something's got to stick because I'm 39. And shouldn't I already be secure, career-wise right? Like shouldn't I already be in a better space? Or is it just? Everyone's life is different and it is what it is and you, your story is not going to be everyone else. But there's people my age and I know it's jealousy. There's people my age that are doing way better successful businesses. Younger and younger some of them, but like a year or two, but a lot of them there's even others that are way younger yeah, but I don't know, so I don't know how to feel about it, man.

Speaker 1:

I think recently I think we were both part of a group that a message came out that said sometimes you just have to look at your life, grieve what you thought it was going to be, and then get up and be thankful for what you have and the life you have. Does it matter? Was it you? No?

Speaker 2:

You're like. So I don't know. Some intelligent person said something really nice. No, but did you hear what I?

Speaker 1:

said, or were you trying to figure?

Speaker 2:

out what I said. No, I don't remember what.

Speaker 1:

So about me? I'm not sure how that relates.

Speaker 2:

I'm not sure how that relates to me. Phil. No, I, yeah, I think, yeah, being grateful.

Speaker 1:

But it's. But I think the point is it's OK to grieve the loss of what you expected you to, where you expected yourself to be at 39 or whatever, however old you are to realize, hey, this isn't, this isn't the life that I thought I was going to have, but this is the life I have and it's okay to grieve that. And it's okay to then just like get over it and move on, dust yourself off, uh, but it's okay to to think through that stuff and own it. It's okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and it's not. It's hard to say. It's more like I'm thinking financially and career. Really, it's not so much family, friends, it's passions. How does what?

Speaker 1:

I just shared not apply. No, it does. That's what I'm saying, right.

Speaker 2:

It's. I'm grateful for those things? Yeah, but I'm, am I grateful? I mean I'm, you know, god's kept me afloat with my work. So I'm grateful for that. But am I grateful that I'm in this specific situation right now of like, feeling like I'm just, you know, paycheck after paycheck and struggle, struggle. No, I'm not grateful for debt. Should I be, I don't know? Doesn't it say something like uh, what is it first, john right?

Speaker 1:

or no, you'd have to, I don't know one of those books.

Speaker 2:

in the biblia it says what In the Bible it says count it all joy.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

What is that, jude John?

Speaker 1:

First John, I don't know it's in there.

Speaker 2:

Hmm, hey theory, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1:

Don't know. However, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2:

I mean, that's certainly one way to look at it. Count the bad stuff yeah, that's certainly one way to look at it.

Speaker 1:

I think the bad stuff, yeah, but, like, what I'm saying is that your current situation, whatever it is, isn't necessarily things that you need to be calling a bad thing.

Speaker 2:

So should I you're? You're a couple of years older than me, as your wife would say. I'm significantly older than you, you're a couple of years old. Should I be worried about my?

Speaker 1:

current state. I'm significantly older than you.

Speaker 2:

You're a couple years older. Should I be worried about my current state where I'm at?

Speaker 1:

I never like the word worry. Well, yeah, but if you're not happy, you should change it, and I think you have all of the ability in the world to change it. Can I borrow $5? No, but you can change it. I can find $5. You can change your situation. It's completely up to you.

Speaker 2:

Be the change you want to be. Wasn't that, obama, be the change or?

Speaker 1:

was that.

Speaker 2:

Biden. I don't know. Somebody said be the change. I have no idea. I think it was Mr Rogers, it could have been it could have been Daniel Tiger, I actually don't know, yeah, dora, the Explorer Dora the Explorer, dora the Explorer, be the change you want to see. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I'm just saying, that's my midlife crisis.

Speaker 2:

That's my quarter life, or third life, or whatever the heck it's going to be.

Speaker 1:

We'll just call it midlife, because you're around 40. Yeah, live 70 that would be no sorry.

Speaker 2:

80, no, I'm gonna live longer than that well, maybe my great aunt, or whatever it was like in her 90s and she ate like big, giant plates of spaghetti every day.

Speaker 1:

Okay, tiny lady okay, a little tiny. Yeah, baby lady. So I mean the average age, like the average life expectancy for a man in is the us is like 86 no, no, so you're close 120.

Speaker 2:

I'm going for a buck and a quarter, so you're like biblical expectations on age. Biblical expectations Well doesn't it say their years will be 120 years. Yeah, so yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, why not? Well, best of luck to you.

Speaker 2:

Just don't get eaten by a bear.

Speaker 1:

That's pretty much my plan if that were the case, what? Um, I think that you shouldn't have anything to worry about, because if you're gonna live to 120, obviously I got a lot of time. You got nothing to worry about.

Speaker 2:

Here two more if I'm living to 120, I'm doing, I'm doing it again twice, right? I at least have one chance to do it again, right? But I think by then I'm going to be like this will be my arm right like bionic you know, I don't mean I hope, I I hope that adamantium becomes a thing, adamant adamantium it is. The metal had another taste and I got that fruitiness or something.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know um, roasted marshmallows, roasted marshmallows. I'm just going with stuff. Yeah, maybe a little bit, no, I, I do, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like after like 30, 20 seconds, yeah, and maybe like almost s'mores without the chocolate like there's a little bit.

Speaker 1:

No, I I do. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, like after like 30, 20 seconds, yeah, and maybe like almost s'mores without the chocolate, like there's a little bit of graham.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yep, yep, yep I get a little bit of that, yeah, yeah. So I you know, I don't know, I don't know what to tell you about your midlife crisis. I could tell you that my midlife crisis, uh, was probably more about. I'll just put it to you this way, put it to me that way. I'm going to put it to you this way. I don't know what it is yet, but put it there, I'm going to say it this way. Okay, the same fears, worries and objections that you had to your current situation. I myself had the same ones.

Speaker 2:

You.

Speaker 1:

Now I'm established in a career that I've been in for 20 plus years and work for a great company with a great team, and very successful, very successful, very successful. Moderately it's very successful. And yet you sit there and wonder is this what it's supposed to be? I don't know. Maybe I want to be done with all of this. Maybe I want to be done with this job, maybe I want to be done with this career, maybe I want to look at something else.

Speaker 2:

I don't know.

Speaker 1:

But I think it's natural to get to a point where you've been doing something for so long that you start looking around to seeing what else is out there. Is there get to a point where you've been doing something for so long that you start looking around to seeing what else is out there. Is there a better way? So I guess the point is that it doesn't matter what stage of life you're in, it doesn't matter, uh, whatever success you've had or you think you have or or haven't had or aspire to want to have, everybody is going through it. Hope to have, everyone has done it and everybody's going, gone through that and it doesn't make you. It doesn't make you special well, no.

Speaker 2:

And then here's the thing no, and it's. It's in some way that's encouraging, uh in other ways.

Speaker 1:

I think I'm gonna have another.

Speaker 2:

No, um, I think I'm going to have another, no Otherwise there's a wall. I'm going to bash my head into it, no, but it's like. I think part of it is like I look at. I've had this thought in my head for years and years.

Speaker 2:

It's like I look at like my parents and been like oh like they've hit this point where, like, they're not living paycheck to paycheck, they're just kind of you know, you know. You're like, oh, you've made it, kind of you're secure or whatever, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll have that someday. But like, the closer and closer I feel like I'm getting to that age. I'm like, ah, I'm not even close to that, but I still have that in the back of my head of like, oh, I'm going to at some point feel like, oh, okay, kind of like chill a little bit here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I don't know, and I guess too, like it's, it's the thing that I'm wanting is just like that deep desire of like our, our human need is relationship with Jesus, obviously, and so. But I think it's like I feel secure in that, but like I also want to like do the things. I feel like I'm good at AKA, like I want to do this, the comedy stuff, or whatever. And just when you're not having success in the things that you're confident in, it starts to make you go, oh well, is this even what I'm supposed to be doing, or what is success?

Speaker 1:

I mean, you've already, you've already equated success to financial yeah, besides finance security, freedom, whatever you want to call it. It's not even that stuff, but it's just that, like you're set, like you don't have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck and that, yeah, that's a big portion of it. What about the impact that you have on people's lives?

Speaker 2:

well, and I think, yeah, and I think you, you know, I am very aware of like, first job is taking care of, like raising my kids to be good people and to love the Lord, and so that is important and, honestly, if that was it like and I did that well, which I feel like I'm doing that well and if that was it like that's a noble life, yeah, so I get that. But also I know that, like God has given me desires and talents and things and I've gone through this process of, oh, giving it up, and then he kind of gives it back, and then you give it up and he gives it back, and I've moved to a place of like not really not trying to hold that. You know you can only be nonchalant about stuff for so long before you actually kind of really start caring about it, but then that care can go towards, you know, trying to control it or trying to put a timeline on it or whatever. I don't know. These are just thoughts I have. Yeah, they're coming out as words.

Speaker 1:

I appreciate it. I don't know if they're making sense. I'm sure the listeners appreciate it too.

Speaker 2:

I think they've tuned out.

Speaker 1:

They were like when does this part get funny?

Speaker 2:

This is the downer of an episode. No, it's real life, though. Like that's the thing is, like you got to have drama with the comedy. Yeah, we call it dramedy and the reality is, but it is impactful when comedians are funny, or when comedians are funny, or when comedians are funny, when comedians are dramatic, like those moments in the office or michael scott, like you're like oh, this is real.

Speaker 2:

You like love those characters and so hopefully people are not right now looking at us and like, wow, we love these bearded men yeah that's the band name I I hope there are men out there listening that are just looking at us and saying I love those bearded men. That's my hope.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Cut print check the gate.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, in a purely platonic way, I mean whatever.

Speaker 2:

The comedian in me says in whatever way somebody loves me, I will.

Speaker 1:

Just give me the affection, please, yeah, just anything, you know what? I mean.

Speaker 2:

No, but it's like I'm just starving for attention, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think it's just yeah, you reevaluate, you know what you're doing and you can get it out of hand. But what's cool about it is that we, you know being in community. I've had this conversation with like so many people lately. I feel like and how, the importance of community and like I don't know how people do this by themselves, like even just simple thing like sipping whiskey, like how do you do that by yourself? Cause you'd be like you get oh, there's nobody here. What are you tasting? Oh no, there's nobody.

Speaker 1:

You end up taking pictures and videos and like sending it to friends and you're like oh, that was fun. But then you're like oh, I don't have any friends, I'm just going to drink another bottle and go to bed.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know Almonds, are you catching any like? There's like a nuttiness.

Speaker 2:

Don't say nuttiness.

Speaker 1:

I'll say whatever I want.

Speaker 2:

I told you that that's true. You don't own me. Final thoughts.

Speaker 1:

See me.

Speaker 2:

Is that a rap song or something? I'm not up to date on pop culture. I think it's.

Speaker 1:

John Cena.

Speaker 2:

Oh, peacemaker, he's a wrestler, yeah, anyway, do you have any final thoughts for the listeners out there via midlife crises for the listeners?

Speaker 1:

out there via midlife crises. Any final thoughts about a midlife crisis If you haven't experienced one, you will what is? Your midlife crisis. If you're going through it right now, so is someone else, so talk about it, tell someone Tell someone. Talk about it.

Speaker 2:

Don't make any rash decisions. No, make as many rash decisions as you want, but just own it as a someone. Tell someone, talk about it, don't make any rash decisions.

Speaker 1:

No, make as many rash decisions as you want, but just own it as a rash decision. Own it as a yeah, I'm doing this to, I'm buying this thing, or I'm making this decision purely out of some need to feel something.

Speaker 2:

See, this is my final thought. You ready for this, did you?

Speaker 1:

finish yours.

Speaker 2:

I know you were just dying to get to yours. No, I just thought of it, literally right now.

Speaker 1:

Did you finish yours? I don't want to cut you off. You already did Okay. No, for real you good, no, no, yeah, just talk to somebody. Talk to people, because there's people going through it, whether that's at your church, people at work, whatever. Don't be afraid to.

Speaker 2:

Or at your cult. Not everybody listens to people at church.

Speaker 1:

Maybe they're at a cult Well, they all, yeah and maybe they don't work.

Speaker 2:

Right, maybe they're in the basement. Maybe it's in your basement, right, tell someone.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, talk to somebody.

Speaker 2:

There's stuffed animals down there. Tell them they care. Yeah, we'll have a lot of cats.

Speaker 1:

You know there's a lot of cats out there. Okay, now we're getting offensive. Okay, these are real people's feelings. Oh, sorry, I forgot. How would you?

Speaker 2:

like if I just told you.

Speaker 1:

You could just go talk to a cat about it. You'll be fine. I'd be like I don't like cats.

Speaker 2:

Why would I tell a cat Now a dog?

Speaker 1:

I would tell a dog.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, this. I think what makes it all the harder is, when people were going through midlife crises, like in the 50s and 60s, they would buy cars. They would you know, well, okay, they would do other things that they shouldn't do, but like buying a car, I can't even do that. So, like what am I going to go get? Like a lollipop. You know what? I'm going to go buy myself a nice hot rod red matchbox car. That'll be my midlife crisis and I will feel good about that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I think that'll that'll do it I think it's all just a coping mechanism anyway it is could be worse.

Speaker 2:

yeah, I could have no hands. I mean I could have no feet, I don't, I could have no feet, I don't. I could have no nose, I wouldn't be able to do.

Speaker 1:

No nose, I could have no face. I'm not sure how we got onto this thing about body parts, not existing. I'm just worried you have hands and feet, so you should probably use them. Okay, yeah, to make money.

Speaker 2:

And stop slacking and going on TikTok.

Speaker 1:

Thanks everybody. I don't think you're a slacker. I think, you work really hard. I think you really just want to find the thing that makes you happy and makes you money, and that is gambling. Good on you everybody.

Speaker 2:

No, that makes you sad.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, and broke, and broke. But best of luck on that one, bro. Well, this was fun. This was fun. I know it wasn't. This was depressing really depressing. This is good thing we're drinking, you're gonna have to put a disclaimer out ahead of this.

Speaker 2:

Let's record the disclaimer now look, we're gonna be doing some drinking, but it's also going to be extremely depressing. Maybe wait till after the episode to drink. How about this? I'm not good at disclaimers, we.

Speaker 1:

Hey, listeners, we discussed we discussed some serious topics on this show, Specifically midlife crisis. I can't take myself seriously. If you're struggling in your life, If you're struggling in the middle of your life, then you've come to the right place. You've come to the right place If you expect this to be funny it probably won't be. But it's real, real human connection. This is what we're all about, yeah Well this is good.

Speaker 2:

I don't think I learned anything but thanks Phil oh to the father of Elijah Craig.

Speaker 1:

Next time on Whiskey Bits.

Speaker 2:

Green beans? Do you do green beans? I don't usually make it. Of course we have the croissant rolls and everybody makes cranberry sauce, but nobody likes it.

Speaker 1:

I think the best cranberry sauce out there is the one that comes in a can that's like got the shape of the can around it?

Speaker 2:

did you just dump this onto a plate?

Speaker 1:

I did, but I cut it in slices sauce out. There is the one that comes in a can.

Speaker 2:

It's like got the shape of the can around it Did you just dump this onto a plate.

Speaker 1:

I did, but I cut it in slices that are too thick.

Speaker 2:

I sliced it too thick, where you missed the hump of the can.

Speaker 1:

You can still see a hump of the can. There's still a couple ridges in there. Yeah, there's a ridge in it.

Speaker 2:

Give me the one with the ridge, please. I yeah, there's a ridge in it. Yeah, I love it. Give me the one with the ridge, please. I don't want the divot. I do not want the divot.

Speaker 1:

I want the ridge. No, divot, give me the ridge. Hey, thanks for sticking around. That's it for this episode of Whiskey Bits, but if you enjoyed yourself, please like, share and subscribe on your favorite platform.

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