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"Manhattan Cocktail; Happy New Year"

• Matt Sommerfield & Phil Stokes • Season 1 • Episode 47

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Have you ever wondered why rating scales stop at five stars when the universe has no such limits? Join us as we toast the New Year with a Manhattan in hand and a bow tie around the collar, exploring everything from the elegance of classic cocktails to pondering the quirks of rating systems. You'll learn how these drinks might transport you to the grand castles of period dramas, reflecting on the opulent world of Downton Abbey, while we share a humorous take on Wisconsin's unique spin on the Old Fashioned.
 
 Prepare to be entertained with our musings on setting goals for the future, where our aspirations for the podcast collide with the chaotic yet thrilling world of stand-up comedy. We mix a hearty dose of humor with a pinch of reality, as we discuss the importance of balancing dreams with the mundane tasks of everyday life. Inspired by Mike Tyson's wisdom on resilience, we delve into life's unexpected challenges and how to rise above them with a playful nod to Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping."
 
 So, grab a drink, put on a dapper bow tie, and join us for a cocktail of humor, cultural insights, and a toast to new beginnings on this episode of Whiskey Bits.

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Speaker 1:

well, matt phil. Happy new year. Happy new year, that's it. That's it.

Speaker 2:

Happy new year, we did, okay, see you later I feel like I look like, uh, like, a host at chili's.

Speaker 1:

No, no, no okay, yes, yes, of course you are.

Speaker 2:

You look great. Well, I think it's well. I mean, come on, ah, you're like the fashion forward, is that what?

Speaker 1:

it is.

Speaker 2:

I don't know about that. I'm like fashion upside down.

Speaker 1:

This is the first time I've ever worn a bow tie. Really, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I think I've worn it for a wedding and then another wedding. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Okay yeah, Even when I got married the tux, I had a tie. I didn't do the bow tie.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't Did I do it. No, I did a tie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

At your wedding.

Speaker 1:

Well, I figured, you know, since we're doing the New Year's episode, I know 2025. Oh, we just dated it. Well, of course we did. Oh, okay, that's what we're doing here.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to Whiskey B welcome to whiskey bits with matt and phil where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives.

Speaker 1:

So for for tonight, um, we thought we would class up this joint a little bit, yeah uh, by getting dressed up and we're gonna do not joints. Oh okay, no, uh, we're gonna do the old-fashioned nope you're so rewind joints. No, we're not doing joints, we're doing manhattan's. Oh so manhattan, uh.

Speaker 1:

Traditionally classically, however you want to say it, it just sounds fancy well, and it goes into a fancy glass and like it's just, it's very, it's very fancy, nice leg. So I figured we had to, we had to dress up, yeah, dude, all right, so um good idea manhattan is uh typically a rye, typically a rye whiskey. Is it typically a rye?

Speaker 2:

typically a rye whiskey.

Speaker 1:

You can do you can sometimes do a bourbon and then you've got sweet vermouth, a couple dashes of the bitters and you garnish with a cherry.

Speaker 2:

Now sweet vermouth. That's like wine, right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah Well, it's vermouth.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, it's like wine, it's a wine.

Speaker 1:

It's like a liquor though. It's like a wine liquor, like a wine liqueur yeah, wine liquor.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Yeah, liquor yeah yeah, I took a swig of the one I had. It was good, yeah, well, let's take a swig of this now. You don't do tape smelling. I mean it does smell no, you typically just sip on this and drink it like have fun with it I think that's good, yeah, yeah, I think I could just have that every day, like if I had a castle and I had to go through like they did, or was it the women that would go through?

Speaker 1:

We like to go through.

Speaker 2:

Have you ever watched Downton Abbey? No, I feel like we would fit in now.

Speaker 1:

You would be the help One of us you would be the help.

Speaker 2:

Well, because you have a bow tie, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Should I put my other tie back on?

Speaker 2:

No, it looks good, but this is. I feel like they have brandy or they have you know whatever, but like I would have this every night, yeah, it's pretty good. I want to be like a tutor or something. Is that what it is? You'd be a tutor.

Speaker 1:

Like you teach people things. No, like a Tudor, I have no idea. T-u-d-o-r. Okay, you're the British one, I don't. Well, I've never seen the show. My wife's watched it, the tutors. I've never watched it, never watched. Or Downton Abbey.

Speaker 2:

No, I just drooled in my face. It is so good. It is not, as I would say, not as sweet as an old-fashioned.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, for sure Right, there's no sugar in it. Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Now did Manhattan come out before old-fashioned?

Speaker 1:

Gosh, that's a great question. I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know the answer to that. Was it made in Manhattan Sure Starring J-Lo?

Speaker 1:

You know what? This is the least amount of research I've done.

Speaker 2:

It's because it's New Year's. What do you need to do research on?

Speaker 1:

Look. If you want to know, go look it up.

Speaker 2:

The past is in the past.

Speaker 1:

Leave it in the past.

Speaker 2:

I'm not going to worry about this.

Speaker 1:

No, I do feel like we should have educated you listeners on what the I almost call it an old-fashioned game what the Manhattan is. Well, you said what it is. So we live really close to the Wisconsin border, Would you agree? I would agree, yes, Okay, and would you also agree that?

Speaker 2:

sometimes you go. I do feel like I'm in court.

Speaker 1:

Sometimes you do go to Wisconsin and you would like to have a cocktail.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Okay. So what I've learned is when you go to Wisconsin and you want an old fashioned, there are different old fashioned rules in Wisconsin than there are with the traditional old fashioned which we know of as bourbon whiskey, simple syrup bitters garnished with an orange or cherry or a lemon, or all three, whatever.

Speaker 2:

I like the lemon version a lot.

Speaker 1:

If you go into Wisconsin and ask for an old-fashioned, it's really weird. So it's muddled. They use maraschino cherries. They muddle it with the sugar, then they put the brandy in it and then they ask you, would you like it sweet or sour? And if they say, if you say sweet, they put a splash of seven up, and if you say sour, they put a splash of squirt it's not even okay that's how that's how, or? Yeah, that's how they do it.

Speaker 2:

None of that is even close to right an old-fashioned.

Speaker 1:

So when you well, it's their old-fashioned, it's a wisconsin old-fashioned, it's a brandy old-fashioned. Okay, which isn't, which isn't wrong it's a brandy, it it does but I've.

Speaker 1:

I've found that I prefer a traditional, old-fashioned. So I've decided that if I go into Wisconsin and I ask for an old-fashioned and they say would you like it sweet or sour, I say you know what? I'll take a Manhattan what's stirred and served up, which is how we're serving these here. So we stir this in ice, we pour it up. What does that mean? Not over ice, it's not shaken, shaken, not stirred. You remember, oh, james.

Speaker 2:

Bond. We got to do a James Bond one sometime. Well, it's martini, right yeah?

Speaker 1:

So we stir it, stir it, and then we want it up, not on the rocks.

Speaker 2:

Just straight up, in other words no ice, yeah on the rocks. Okay, yeah, oh, I do like it this way more drink, more drink.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there's more drink. There's a little bit more alcohol because there's, you know, the vermouth. That's the alcohol. But yeah, and on the, on the show notes or in the, in the title of the picture, you'll see the ingredients that we used. Uh, you'll see the picture of the. This is made with a written house 100 proof they'll see bottled and bond um the bib. That's.

Speaker 2:

That's what yeah, tell me about the written house. Have we? Uh, we haven't, we haven't tried that one, we haven't. No, that's a that one that is a?

Speaker 1:

uh, it's, so it's a written house. It's 100 proof. Uh, it's bottled and bond, so it's a Rittenhouse. It's a 100 proof. It's bottled and bonded, bottled and bonded yep, and it's a rye. That was a pick from the Antioch Fine Wine and Liquors.

Speaker 2:

Okay, that's a barrel pick. All right, oh nice, oh, so it's like a.

Speaker 1:

It's pretty tasty. Okay yeah, but it was only like 30 bucks.

Speaker 2:

Nice, very accessible, very good, it's so accessible yeah, I feel like you could say it's accessible when we're dressed like this yeah, I would like we could just say that, like you know what going to, june.

Speaker 1:

Are we gonna? Should we only use big words from now?

Speaker 2:

yeah, okay, because we're so fancy yeah, this is the fanciest I've been yeah, I think ever do you know I?

Speaker 1:

the one I'm not even wearing. Maybe, maybe since your wedding. Yeah, or shoes. I don't even have shoes, well, yeah.

Speaker 2:

These socks I'm wearing don't even go up past the ankle. I see that yeah.

Speaker 1:

Should have worn it. I was a little worried about that. Should have worn it. Now we're going to see it.

Speaker 2:

We'll just scoot that down. You know what this is the magic of television. I can add boots.

Speaker 1:

Do you have regular shoes or?

Speaker 2:

socks that go higher.

Speaker 1:

You do anything.

Speaker 2:

It's the magic of television and you're like I could add boots.

Speaker 1:

I can add boots.

Speaker 2:

You should add boots you should maybe add something that's more appropriate for what?

Speaker 1:

you're wearing, but I could add boots. That's the whole point.

Speaker 2:

I could. Yeah, it would take me 10 hours, but I could do it.

Speaker 1:

So it would be really good with a Sazerac rye if you could find one of those. To me, my favorite mixing rye is a brand it's called Old Overholt yeah Rye.

Speaker 2:

We don't have that here, do we?

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

No, but I've seen it yeah.

Speaker 1:

You've seen it, because it's everywhere.

Speaker 2:

It's all over the place.

Speaker 1:

And they have a rye, they have a bottled and bond rye as well, which I really like, and it's like 20 or 30 bucks, oh.

Speaker 2:

I might have to get one. It's very good. Yeah, it's very good. Nice mixing rye. It's a mixing one, so you're not typically drinking it. It's good.

Speaker 1:

It's a bottled and bond. So it's. You know, we talk about the old granddad yeah Right, bottled and Bond as being like oh, this is really good for the price, and it's just really good. And then on top of that it's a good price. Same thing with the Old Hover Hold. I feel it's definitely drinkable, it's not terrible, but that's why you'd say, oh well, it's a good quality whiskey, but I can use it in a mixed drink because it's $20.

Speaker 2:

Right, oh, interesting, so you would put that in here.

Speaker 1:

I would I feel like I'm holding my glass at an angle.

Speaker 2:

I'm like toying with spilling it on your beautiful suit, my beautiful suit, gorgeous suit. I don't wear cologne, so maybe it'll add some yeah, some good aroma to my pant leg so how, um, so how um moving right along. How do?

Speaker 1:

you, how do you, even, how do you come?

Speaker 2:

back from this. Why are you the way that you are?

Speaker 1:

so who? Who do you think you?

Speaker 2:

are what um? What gives you the right?

Speaker 1:

I love it um michael scott. Yeah, thank you wayne gretzky, dash michael scott, that's right you missed 100 of the shots that you don't take wayne gretzky. Michael scott.

Speaker 2:

Michael scott that's the best. It is good.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that is good yes, you're toying, you're toying now, do you eat?

Speaker 2:

do you eat this garnish at the end? Yeah, do you stir with it throughout?

Speaker 1:

I let it. I let it sit there. Um so, the these cherries, these are the luxardo cherries. You've got to have a good quality cherry. Yeah, I think. Anytime you garnish, garnish with it. Um so there's a slight bit of alcohol in there, but as it's, in the cherry itself.

Speaker 1:

Yeah so as it sits in this um it, it sort of takes on a little bit more. So I typically will wait until the very end. Um, if I'm having multiples, I'll wait till I'm done drinking out of this glass before I finish it because I'll just let those right, so like it's not necessary.

Speaker 2:

I mean it does add some because of the syrup on it which sometimes I'll just spoon and eat it. I don't do that. No, that's never the syrup is delicious, it's amazing, it's really good like oh, I need to stir this again. You have to stir it so that it doesn't settle yeah, so I'm gonna.

Speaker 1:

So I I'm going to use this spoon.

Speaker 2:

This spoon here. I might as well dip it in there first. Matt, that's a ladle Shh quiet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I try not to get too much of it into the drink.

Speaker 2:

Because you don't really want that to mix in there I don't the syrup from there.

Speaker 1:

Maybe not, because that's going to make it a little bit too sweet, because that's going to make it a little bit too sweet, right, maybe that's why I like my old fashions that I make just when I'm here, because I'm just like yep and I think, sometimes I'll take the spoon that I used to pull it out and I'll stir it with the spoon. Yeah, especially if you put a little bit less sugar or if you're using maple syrup just to give it. I put full sugar in. Oh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, that, or if you're using maple syrup just to give it full sugar, okay, yeah, well, that's good, I'm like I want it to taste like candy, which?

Speaker 1:

it does.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I feel like we should have an old-fashioned after this it's new year's.

Speaker 1:

It's new year's, we can do as much as we want, because so this is really good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm glad we talked about this ahead of time and decided to manhattan's and thank you for bringing the cool glasses and the sophistication you know you have brought this year. You have brought the sophistication to this show. Because clearly not gonna get that from what you see up here.

Speaker 1:

Well, I think only today have I brought sophistication to the show.

Speaker 2:

No, I mean like in the knowledge right. Like in the knowledge you know. Yeah, because I told you all. To the show. No, I mean like in the knowledge right. Like in the knowledge you know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because I told you all about the history of the Manhattan, right? Yeah, we can dub it in later. You want to dub it in later? We'll use AI, oh perfect, just use AI.

Speaker 2:

We'll see Like cut, you know, and then I'll like put in like AI. You won't do any of that. This is what I would do if I wanted to, and I don't want to. But I would if I could. But I could, I just don't want to.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I would if I wanted to. I would if I wanted to.

Speaker 2:

I just don't want to.

Speaker 1:

It's a lot of work. I just don't want to.

Speaker 2:

But just picture what it could have been.

Speaker 1:

I'm trying. Wow, that's amazing. I'm blown away.

Speaker 2:

I mean 10 stars, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Right, they don't even do that, no ratings.

Speaker 2:

That is the thing. Why let's just aside here why do ratings stop at 5 stars?

Speaker 1:

Like there are more stars, Well, and there's also less stars there is, you could, why not?

Speaker 2:

just 3?

Speaker 1:

Well, like horrible, and then the best I think you have to have. I mean four stars, because there's a, there's like four star generals, um yeah, but michelin restaurants oh sure those four stars aren't, or is there a five star? If there's, I feel like there's only four stars in the michelin.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, but that's like the best restaurant in the world.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it probably serves you like phone and then there's five star hotels, yeah, and then there's five star binders, and that's like the best restaurant in the world, which probably serves you like foam.

Speaker 2:

And then there's five-star hotels, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And then there's five-star binders, that's true.

Speaker 2:

That's true. And in Grand Theft Auto, if you get five stars, then you die or no. It's like the world's after you. Oh, but why not 10? 10's a lot. Why not 100? That's way too much. I'm just saying, like, who decided this? Like, did they ask anybody? Like, hey, we're going to stop at five? Well, I'm a little indecisive, I don't know. I feel like it's a two and a half. Well, then they go oh, two and a half stars. I'm like you can't have a half star, is it's a star that is dead?

Speaker 1:

There is no half star.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean, some full stars are dead, we just don't know it yet Because of astronomy. Wow, we've just gone to some different areas. Yeah, 10 stars is too many.

Speaker 1:

I think you can rate things out of 10.

Speaker 2:

When you say hey, rate me out of 10. What am I? You go, rate me out of 10. What am I? You go, yeah, out of 10. Nobody goes. Hey, rate me out of 5.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no, you're like it's a scale, On a scale of 1 to 2, what would you say? Nobody says that.

Speaker 2:

On a scale of 1 to 5, like hey, man, don't be a moron. Like go up to 10. The scale obviously goes to 10.

Speaker 1:

Wouldn't you say like it's a multiple of 10? I don't know.

Speaker 2:

This just is frustrating Because, like if I said two and a half stars.

Speaker 1:

That would be kind of like saying Five stars, five star, like you're right in the middle. So here's what I'm going to say.

Speaker 2:

This show in reality, you know, maybe we got two and a half stars, but what I'm going to tell people is we've got five stars.

Speaker 1:

Well, no, I would tell them but it's out of three. Yeah, it's a three star rating. Yeah, we can go down to two and a half, but it's a three star. It's a three star rating. How many people have rated?

Speaker 2:

you Two and a half people.

Speaker 1:

No, no, we've got 700 ratings, oh, okay, yeah, um, and we're two and a half stars and I'll be like that's not very good.

Speaker 2:

No, you know what. And like this one goes to 11, right from spinal tap. I have not seen that movie, but I know the reference because you just said it and then I'm like, oh yeah, that's funny. Yeah, I know it now though I could say it does it again, like if you told it again later, I'd be like I get it. You still wouldn't, though, but no, I would not. It's the, the, the bass.

Speaker 1:

No, it's the guitar no, it's the amp, the amp. Yeah, see this. When this is all go to 11, well, why? Why does it go to 11? Yeah well, just why don't you just make them all 10, and the 10s the loudest, but these are all one louder. They all go to 11.

Speaker 2:

I'll go to 11 see, this is what I'm talking about louder see somebody has has already thought of this. Wow, yeah, that is a, it's one louder, crazy, yeah, tangent.

Speaker 1:

And here's my new guitar. Like I haven't taken the tags off of it, don't even, don't even look at it. No, you can't, don't even look at it. We're gonna go over here now. You need to see this movie.

Speaker 2:

I need to watch it. Really good, that's so funny. This is. You know that'll be my New Year's resolution I'll watch Spinal Tap.

Speaker 1:

So okay, In all seriousness, what are you looking forward to? In this coming year, making some money.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Like what am I looking forward? To looking forward to. Uh, in fact, I just did a ton of emails today, uh, to potential guests, so I'm looking forward to like for the show. Okay, I'm looking forward to getting you know some whiskey companies on here, and that'd be great some of those guys for life. I think just more of what I'm trying to do. I'd like to do more shows. I'd like to maybe push that a little bit harder sure the stand-up stuff.

Speaker 2:

I kind of have taken the back a little bit of that. I have a, I have a show coming up, and I just had a show, but I have another one coming up next year and so I think trying to book some of that stuff yeah and then, yeah, trying to get more podcast clients, so it'd be great, um, but yeah, I don't know. Just i'm'm happy about life and where I'm at, I'm grateful, and yeah, I don't know. That's great.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it's like I have goals. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But I don't want to do them. Okay, I'm just kidding. No, I have goals, I'm with you. I just, you know, we'll see what happens. Sure, you know, if I just you know, we'll see what happens. Sure, you know, if I can, if I do one of those, that's going to be amazing. Right, Like, if I, if I can, you know, if I can say, hey, I would like more podcast clients, I would like to see that grow and that's the only thing that happens. Great, or hey, I would like to get more shows and maybe put a little more focus on that. Great. Or I'd great. Or I'd like to book, you know.

Speaker 2:

So, in each of those areas, yeah, like, I would love to see growth I think just general growth, yeah, um, but you know, if it happens in only one, that's fine. If it happens in none, I'll have to be content, but I don't think that's gonna happen. If I'm putting work into stuff, I think I'm gonna see something. So yeah, unless I get hit by a train, then I'm going to see stars.

Speaker 1:

Five stars, Five stars probably.

Speaker 2:

Well, three and a half Three, and a half.

Speaker 1:

That was good. You know, the last several years, I have looked into the year and thought, oh man, this is going to be great, this is going to be so good, and I've decided that this year, for 2025, after the 2022, 23, 24 that I've had, and just all of the stuff, certainly 24,. I'm sort of done predicting what it's going to be.

Speaker 1:

Maybe that's been your problem, it's like hey, Phil, you need to stop trying to predict it, just maybe I need to stop trying to will it into being something and just let it be and be absolutely content with whatever it ends up being yeah, this whole like this is a weird thing to get to, but I think we could make this work for going into the new year okay and a right.

Speaker 2:

Our viewpoint on it, on life, because, being a believer, obviously we're going to take a very different perspective. This idea of manifesting your future, manifesting anything really, uh, to me is just a bunch of bs like in I don't care like it, just it's like oh, I'm gonna just in my thought will something to happen?

Speaker 2:

and it's just the most prideful thing to me and uh, I've never understood how, you know, I think, when you're talking about doing hard work and like doing work to get something, well, sure, you can call that manifesting, you can call it whatever you want, but the reality is is you're doing something to get something, but just sitting around thinking I'm going to just think this into existence is the dumbest thing?

Speaker 1:

Oh sure, of course, it's like.

Speaker 2:

Michael Scott, like if I could just think it just right, if I could just put the think it through no no. I don't think it's anything like that.

Speaker 1:

You've got to do something, but you know it's. There's certainly a saying that I look at here and think you know your habits are what kind of decide your destiny, right, and so you can't change your destiny, but you can change your habits, yeah, and I think that's all good, but I feel very much office space. I feel very much office space. Right now we're like you know what I don't really want to do, that I don't really feel like I want to do that anymore.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to the club, Phil yeah.

Speaker 1:

What about paying bills? Like you know what I thought about it and I'm not sure I want to do that either.

Speaker 2:

You're just not going to do that, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I'm just not going to be great. We're going to do this, we're going to do this, like these are going to be some of the goals that we set out and like again another. Another saying that I love is like everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face Mikeed in the face Mike Tyson, mike Tyson, yeah, which let me just say that fight was ridiculous. Mike Tyson, Phil Stokes.

Speaker 1:

But you know that's the thing is. Everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face. And like you know, I think everybody gets punched in the face, especially boxers.

Speaker 2:

I'm not saying Boxers do for sure, yeah, but especially boxers I'm not saying boxers do for sure, yeah, but I mean even metaphorically getting punched.

Speaker 1:

Oh gotcha, yeah, you know it's, it's everybody. Every everybody goes through that and it is nice to have those plans. But, like, what are you going to do when you get punched?

Speaker 2:

what do you do when you get knocked down and so like?

Speaker 1:

yeah, you're going to get back up again. And then, yeah, get back up again. Oh, oh, you missed it get back up again.

Speaker 2:

I, oh, you missed it.

Speaker 1:

Get back up again, you missed it, I get knocked down, I get knocked down and I get up again.

Speaker 2:

You're never going to keep me down. I was thinking the Trolls version. Yeah, no, that went through my head. That's not the Trolls version. No, I know, but it's a different song.

Speaker 1:

I know you picked the more obscure one which?

Speaker 2:

I can appreciate, yeah, but you know what is it Sublime? No Wham who. I Get Knocked Down.

Speaker 1:

No who is that Tub Thumper? That's Tub Thumper. Oh, tub Thumper, sorry, no, no, that's the name of the song. It's Tub Thumper.

Speaker 2:

Tub Thumper. Yeah, this is the problem that I have with early 2000s 90s music. I can't even that's another episode Is that you get knocked down and I get up again and I'm like never going to keep me down. But then I get knocked down. But then you get up again, I get up again and again. You're never going to keep me down, because I get knocked down and then I get up again.

Speaker 1:

Right, and that's you know. I think if people clicked off it's really kind of funny, but that's sort of my goal, well, and I see that. When I get knocked down, I'm going to get up again.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

Because you're never going to keep me down, right and I, and so that's my goal.

Speaker 2:

Props to those guys. That is that, so your goal is.

Speaker 1:

That might be. My new resolution is keep getting up.

Speaker 2:

Tub thumper.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to be a tub thumper this year.

Speaker 2:

Okay, all right, I like that. We've coined a phrase that somebody else coined.

Speaker 1:

I think I've stumbled on something You've thumped onto it. I got knocked down onto something, but I got back up again.

Speaker 2:

You got right back on.

Speaker 1:

And it's never going to keep me down. It never will keep you down. Get knocked down and I get up again.

Speaker 2:

Our lizards are gonna kill. Our listener is going to kill us. Uh, if we keep.

Speaker 1:

This song is stuck in everybody's heads at this point. But here's and it better be the outro music oh, it should totally be the outro.

Speaker 2:

I will deal with the rights later. Um, I'm all for, and I get like sometimes the whole manifest thing, like people are like, okay, I'm I'm kind of repeating something or I'm like willing it to happen, and it's more of like like some of them do this, like this, like kind of positivity, this self-talk, which I think that that's good.

Speaker 1:

I think there's some, I think, some good things out of that yeah.

Speaker 2:

Like who knows, subconsciously I'm not a doctor, a doctor, but like I'm sure there's some benefits subconsciously where you're feeding good into yourself and I'm all for that I'm not saying that, that's dumb. I just think that this idea, that like just in thought I'm gonna make something happen, like ethereally to me, is like no, you have to actually like, do work and do something and I feel like, sometimes like you know, so for me and I'm saying this from learning this year like if I'm, if I'm not feeling the pain of work, I'm not working.

Speaker 2:

And so I think this year and it's not actually a bad pain, it's, it's when you force yourself to do the work you need to do before you allow yourself to do the play you want to do. And so, like today, for example, I was like I got stuff I got to do. I have to fix the sink, I have to fix.

Speaker 1:

I got to take down the trampoline this close to New Year's yeah.

Speaker 2:

I know, can you believe it, I had to fix the sink right before New Year's. I finally took the trampoline down, oh my gosh, like it's been snowing, I know, and I was like, oh, but I get it, but I got it right.

Speaker 2:

I got the trampoline down and it's like oh, I want to do this, I want to do that, and I was like I got to do these sales calls, I got to do these emails, I got to. So I think, if I can like just every day, kind of try to push myself in that direction one step at a time, yeah, just do good today and then the next day I'll worry about that tomorrow.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's great, so that's great. And then if you do get punched in the face, it's no big deal, right, because it's no big deal right because you just get up again.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean, if I got punched and I like I don't know like got knocked down um just get it back up.

Speaker 1:

I get back up right whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa I get back up again because you're never gonna keep you down right? Yeah, well, happy new year, phil.

Speaker 2:

Well, happy New Year, phil. To 2025. To our whiskey bits, to our whiskey bits and the future of the world. No To 2025. To 2025.

Speaker 1:

It's so good, it's very good. Let me eat the cherries now. Oh, okay, next time on whiskey bits. So you wanted to talk about adult. No, I wanted I legit wanted to talk about hockey. Hockey was my topic. I thought oh winter.

Speaker 2:

It probably just started, which that's totally false, because I literally know nothing. The one experience I have with hockey was the one game I went to with you there. Yeah, that was it, the wolves. Yeah, I actually really liked it. Great, I don't know much about it, right, I think it's very helpful when they had the laser that followed the puck, that was nice, but it's gone now. So I'm like well, why would I watch? I don't know where the puck is Well.

Speaker 1:

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