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Whiskey Bits
"Merica Bourbon Whiskey; Hockey"
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Imagine kicking off 2025 with a bottle of 90-proof "Merica" whiskey in hand and a determination to conquer the new year. That's precisely how we start this episode, as Matt and Phil dive into the hilarity of needing new podcast gear and the Midwest's brutal January chill. With laughter, camaraderie, and a surprisingly sweet bourbon flavor, we navigate through the topic of New Year's resolutions, pondering the eternal question: do we have enough whiskey to sustain our podcasting journey?
Switching gears, we swap our whiskey glasses for hockey sticks and take you into the world of beer league hockey. Picture a league where the players range from their 20s to their 60s, and where camaraderie is more important than competition. Our tales from the Adult Safe Hockey League (ASHL) are filled with humor, from suspensions for fighting to the whimsical idea of a Zamboni bar cart. We even take a lighthearted jab at the quirks of playing with inside-out socks, proving that this scene prioritizes fun over fierce rivalry.
Finally, we journey into the nostalgic experience of attending live hockey games. Nothing compares to the atmosphere of the arena, and we'll share how it contrasts with the challenges of tracking the puck on TV. We explore ticket pricing strategies across sports and the best spots to catch the action without needing a Batman-esque head swivel. The episode wraps up with a humorous take on setting precedents, inviting listeners to engage with our blend of humor and insightful commentary on Whiskey Bits.
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Yeah, we need new stuff. Oh no, this is we need new things. This is getting messed up too, but I feel bad. This stuff is expensive. It's a new year. We need new stuff. We need new stuff. We've got enough whiskey. We need new stuff.
Speaker 1:Our microphones are falling apart. Do we have enough whiskey? Yeah, yours looks like it's undressing what is happening over there. This is why is it getting so stretched out? I'm glad we're talking about this today because we need new stuff. That's true. It's a good timing. It's perfect timing. Perfect timing.
Speaker 1:It's a new year, new year, new year stuff. New year, new stuff is needed, phil. So please drop that cashola. Let's do it Because I ain't got none. Let's do it Boom and do Phil. So please drop that cashola. Let's do it Because I ain't got none. Let's do it Maybe. Let a 50 or a hundo drop out of your pocket and I pick it up. Maybe a couple hundos. Okay, maybe a few hundos. Maybe a G. You got a couple Gs. I got some 10 Gs. Yeah, just give me 100K. I don't want to work this year. Oh my gosh, I don't either.
Speaker 1:Welcome to Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives. Well, happy 2025. Happy 2025. This is the first episode. Did you have a good New Year's? I did yeah, yeah, excellent. I don't want to talk about it, okay, no, but I did have a good new year's day excellent, yeah, it's. Uh, I'm right, you know, it's always one of those things. I'm not a big fan of new year's resolutions, right, we kind of joked about it, I think the last episode, but I I'm like I do want to. Just okay, let's refresh, refresh. Let's start over, yeah, but not start over. But like, okay, let's try it Refresh. Let's start over, yeah, but not start over. But like, okay, let's try it again. There's a nip in the air. There's a nip on the nip. There's a nip in the air. There's a nip on the nip because it's freaking freezing out there. Yeah Right, welcome to January in the Midwest.
Speaker 1:The other thing that we can say welcome to january in the midwest is, with some america, murica is it, you guys, america or murica? It's, it's well, it's murica, it's murica. You can say whatever you want on the front of it, it's murica. Yeah, bourbon whiskey this is america's finest bourbon. It's the finest, made with pure american grains. I feel like.
Speaker 1:You have to say this is 90, though no, it's the finest bourbon of all, the bourbon of all, the yeah, but then you gotta like it's what's it called, murk murk. You gotta say it like george murk. So you know, this is uh, this is one that uh. This comes uh from a hockey buddy who found the. Who found this stuff how fitting because of the topic I was going to bring up later. Okay, no, this is perfect. Oh, my gosh, this is going to be great. You're gonna love it. I can't wait. So he would. He would carry this in in his bag and, like I, you'll notice, our glasses are empty, the glasses, they're empty. Why? Why, because you can't drink murica from a glass. This one is straight bottle and this is how they spread c2, c25. This is a uh, this is uh, a 90 proof whiskey.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't know if I'm smelling you like your musk. How dare you? I'm not saying it's bad, I was about to say that you're, it is sweet, it is a sweet musk. Well, thank you. Or if it's the, the bourbon which is probably. It's cold, it's cold out. Oh, there's a nip in the air. There's also a nip in my car where that's been sitting. I'm so glad you said car, because in my head when people say words it goes slow motion. In my head I do a lot of processing really quickly and I did not think you were going to say there was a nip in your car. That's all I have to say. Okay, this is great.
Speaker 1:I forgot I was drinking. You forgot I was drinking. You forgot you were drinking from the bottle. I forgot I was drinking whiskey and for a reason, some reason, I thought I was drinking pop. Okay, I took way too big of a sip, but it was really good. It just I was like oh well, here, while you, while you kind of you know that's really good, isn't it? Like it's, um, I'm joking about like we will pour this one into the glass so that while you kind of you know, no, that's really good, isn't it? I'm joking about like we will pour this one into the glass so that we can kind of get some. You know, let it open up a little bit. Let it open up.
Speaker 1:It's always fun that the fact that we've I've never poured this into a glass, I really haven't Like all of this, that's gone. It's all been bottle pulls, just chugged it Just because it's Bottle pull, that's what you call it. A bottle pull, yeah, okay, yeah, pull right from the bottle, pull it. Pull it with your face, pull it with your mouth. Phil, that was a big swig, a big swig. Ooh, another shirt, but it tastes so good, right, it does Like.
Speaker 1:For I want to say this thing is like it's less than 30. It's less than 20. It might even be less than 15. That's how cheap this is, and what's odd is Dollars. Yeah, I haven't seen this one on the shelf in a while, unfortunately. I was going to say yeah. So if you do see it, please, please, please, grab it and then mail it to us. This one goes, that would be great, that'd be awesome, produced and bottled by famous brands in Galveston, texas. Oh, okay, so that's why we've got I was about to ask you where it's from Taste the difference in every bottle Aged a minimum of one year.
Speaker 1:One year in new charred oak barrels. Okay, so, yeah, so, starting off again, because bourbon isn't necessarily an amount of time, right, right, there's no minimum. No, the only minimum is the amount of corn, right, because that's why that you were talking about several episodes ago, somebody put it in a new oak burl barrel, burl, burl new oak barrel for like 10 seconds or something like that, just so that they could call it bourbon. Yeah, pbr, pabst Blue Ribbon yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, they aged it for seven seconds and they essentially just poured it through an oak barrel. Yeah, that's dumb, just so they could call it bourbon. But yeah. So this is a fun little one.
Speaker 1:51% corn we were talking about the bourbon stuff. 51% corn. Um, but yeah, so. So this is a fun little. You know little one. I ate 51 corn. I like to.
Speaker 1:Just, we were talking about the bourbon. 51 corn. Um, you know it's, it's distilled in america, america, is it america? Or is it distilled in america? This one's america, america. I mean, come on, pbr pulling poor. I'm sorry I gotta go back to that because I had a joke, but it's still gonna be funny. Let's pretend like we didn't Like. The setup is still there. Like, ah, pbr, no, but seriously, like PBR pouring it through. I don't even know if I want to do the joke now. I think I've just ruined it. Pbr, pouring it through for 7 seconds, that's like. And then calling it bourbon Is like me going to a Tom Cruise movie and calling myself Nicole Kidman, katie holmes, whatever, whoever he's dating now I don't know, those are two people he he was with anyways. So this was made in america.
Speaker 1:What do you think of it? It's really good. Um, I'm goofing around but I need to like think real quick about it. Hold on Now.
Speaker 1:With it being a little cold, I feel like you're going to get some different tastes. I have a hard time smelling things when it's cold Because your nostrils stick together from being frozen. I think it's just because the thing is cold. Oh okay, I was going to say maybe try blowing your nose so that you don't have mucus buildup that freezes. I don't smell it as well because it's cold. It's very ethanol-y to me, like you know the smell, but the taste has a little bit of a sweetness to it.
Speaker 1:I would say you can tell it's probably just a year because it's kind of a light, it's very light. It's kind of a light, it's very light. It's a light, buttery kind of. Yes, it is very much like melted butter, yeah, yeah. Also, it reminds me of the lightness of a corn whiskey, oh for sure. But this you said is 51%. Oh no, I'm just saying it has to be 51% because of the bourbon. Okay, but it could be as much as 99.
Speaker 1:You didn't think the pbr joke was funny. I thought it was funny, it was good. I think I just beat it with the timing, like it just was like the wrong timing, you know. It was like I could have done it right then. But then we were like, oh, let's keep going, you know. And then I just was like, oh wait, let's stop. And you're just like, whoa, okay this year, okay, I'm exhausted already this year, man, I feel like I just worked a lot.
Speaker 1:Just now, it's mostly the talking oh, okay, yeah, so, but good New Year's, good New Year's celebration, yes, yeah, that's awesome. Stayed at home by myself, that's good. Sitting by myself at home, same here, probably, yeah, I don't know, you know, and it's like I think it's I don't mind doing stuff. But then it gets to a point where, like, certainly before we had kids, we were still hanging out. But I think literally the last time I went to a New Year's get together was With us this year, right, yeah. And you're talking about New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve, oh, before this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah. And you're talking about New Year's before New Year's Eve? Yes, before this year. Yeah, yeah, yes, got it. Okay.
Speaker 1:Time is hard when you're older. You know it's like what day is it? It makes sense, but it was before we had kids. Yeah, but the last year was like we had Stella and then never again. Yeah, so, because I just want to go to bed, right, but that's not true, because I stay up super late now, right, that's out of rebellion.
Speaker 1:But then, like so, new Year's Day, what did you do? New Year's Day? Just sat and I just looked in a mirror and just rethought my life. No football, no, college football. I mean, that's like the big, oh, yeah for sure, football. I mean, yeah, yeah, obviously that's what we're gonna do. I mean did. Do you gotta play football? I mean watch football, right, I mean you gotta play football too? I don't, it sounds painful. It is painful, yeah, but you didn't play football. No, do you like this? I, yeah, like I. I do about to get into something. I love it, okay. I mean, is it okay if I love it? I know I love that.
Speaker 1:This is. I mean, this is america. Why do they call it america? I guess I'm wondering that's a good question, like what is the inspiration behind the name besides? Well, this one comes from galveston, texas. So, yeah, my guess is that this is, this is george w bush. Oh, is that where he's from? He's from texas. I don't know anything, I don't know geometry, but this one gets the stamp of approval. Oh, you see, that's why I put it over there. This one gets the stamp of approval. Yeah, double, double stamp, the double stamp. I don't know, oh my gosh, but yeah, this one definitely gets the stamp of approval.
Speaker 1:Where should we put this one? Over the star? But that feels sacrilegious, it does. What about on the neck right there? That looks good. That looks good, doesn't it? Yeah, for sure, I'm gonna work on that, you work on that.
Speaker 1:What do you want to talk about? I'm gonna ask you some questions, can I? I want to me, can I ask you? Like you know, there are big thing here at whiskey bits. Oh, yeah, what's the big thing? Big thing at whiskey bits is we, we sip on everyday whiskeys, I mean, and find the funny, the funny in our everyday lives, in our everyday lives. What, what funny are we finding today? What funny are we finding today? Well, here's what. Yeah, what funny are we finding? Here's the funny we're finding is adult sports. Yeah, adult recreational pickup game, uh, intramurals, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, sports for people like you, people like me, people like our buddy jared. Jared's is, uh, was a baseball player, does a lot of softball.
Speaker 1:You, uh, I don't know, did you play hockey in high school or college? No, you, just you. Well, you didn't go to college. Did I go to college? Did you go to college? You're just really smart and have proven that in America you don't have to to make a ton of money. Stamp of approval. Stamp of approval. That's going to be on there now when we take the picture. That's nice, dude, I love that. Cool, all right, spoiler alert. Spoiler, okay, but you're an avid hockey player.
Speaker 1:Now I feel like winter is this season. We're in dead of winter. I mean, this is hockey season, right, yeah, hockey season starts in september for me. Oh, so that's when they actually like one of the playoffs, like for for us in in rec league, beer league hockey. No, I mean like actual, actual nhl hockey. Yeah, what's the season start and finish? Uh, it starts in september, starts in september, and then, yeah, more like late september, early october. Okay, it starts. Um, that's, that's starts. Get a little chilly. You're like, hey, let's go, let's go out. Yeah, that's when they start.
Speaker 1:The Stanley Cup final is usually June, oh my gosh. But the playoffs will start in April. Hold on, whoa what. Yeah, the playoffs start. There's like two months of playoffs, wow. And the beginning part of June is when they they usually, you know crown the champs. I am so out of the loop on this.
Speaker 1:Now, that's great for nhl, but you play pickup league. What is it called? Rec league pickup games? Um, it's. It's called it's for our friends in canada wishing they would have played hockey, but like didn't, because they're just not as good. Or maybe they were good, but then like they broke their toe or something and they're like I can't play, I don't have any teeth. Uh, yeah, we play in the ashl, the adult safe hockey league. Sorry, yeah, okay, I thought you were like a.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's, uh, it's, it's rec league or or really, beer league is kind of how we refer to it. A lot of the times is it's beer league, rec league, hockey. So it's a bunch of guys that are drinking beer anywhere between, uh, anywhere between 24, 25, up to 50, into their 50s, 60s. I was joking, are you serious? Oh, yeah, a 60 year old out on the ice. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. But basically the beer part is what makes everybody at the same level. Because you get a 24-year-old, maybe it takes him a little more beer, but he's sloshed, slothed, sloshed, yeah right, the first time, but we don't drink a lot. Well, are you checking the poor 60-year-old in the eyes? No, no, no, no, it's going to break a hip, phil, it's safe, it's adult, safe hockey league. So we're not checking, we're not hitting each other. That's lame. I mean, some people get out of hand and they're whacking each other with their sticks or punching. You should whack somebody. I've done it, just out of anger. I've done it.
Speaker 1:Okay, last year you got suspended in your beer hockey league for seven beer hockey, beer league hockey for seven games. Seven, what did you do? Wait, this last year? Yeah, it was four games. How did I not? I got into a fight. How did an actual fist fight? I mean, I didn't punch anybody in the face. Why not? Because somebody else was punching somebody in the face and I just said stop punching my friend in the face with my hand. That's the best, that's awesome, yeah, um, and so I was suspended for four days for four games. Um, you said seven I, I know. No, it was only four, let's stay seven. It sounds worse.
Speaker 1:It ended up being like seven weeks because we had like a bunch of bi-weeks. It was really weird. It felt like forever. It was almost a million years. The other guy's got more. I was the least suspended. I was the least suspended of all of them, but anyway, of all the suspensions, I was the least suspended Because you don't want to be suspended, sorry. I love the president, yeah, the voice and the hair, yeah. No, so it's not that crazy.
Speaker 1:Usually Everybody's got jobs in the morning, so it's usually we're trying to have fun and there's a bar in the arena that we play in. It's on the ice, right Like they have a guy that goes around. Instead of a Zamboni, it's a guy on a bar cart. Yeah, that would actually be a good idea. It would be good, it would be really good Zamboni bar cart. But we don't get Zambonied in between the. I mean, I get Zambonied before the game, a little bit after the game. We get Zambonied after this, yeah, but we drink some Coors Light in the locker room and have some fun. I feel like we both have different definitions of what Zambonied actually is, so we're going to move on from that, but you can take it however you want to say it. Let the listener decide.
Speaker 1:All right, we all know, probably, what Matt meant, but Phil's innocent. I certainly know what I meant. Oh well, I certainly know what I meant I put. I got to just take this moment. I put one of the socks I have inside out and then the other one right side in. So that's how my year started. Well, thanks for taking a moment to check your socks before you put them on. Every one of your sock. Did the roll situation? The sock roll were you? Yeah, roll back, right, I'm still at that point.
Speaker 1:So you wanted to talk about adult hockey? No, I wanted, I legit wanted to talk about hockey. Hockey was my topic. I thought, oh, winter, it's probably just started, which that's totally false. Uh, because I literally know nothing.
Speaker 1: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. Um, that was nice, but it's gone now.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, well, what, why? Why would I watch. I don't know where the puck is. Well, you can see it better with on in hd, that's true now, however. However, however, here we go, there is no doubt in my mind that hockey is a sport best consumed in person.
Speaker 1:Go to a game. Go to a game, experience everything that you want to experience in a hockey game. You can follow the puck, you can learn about the game by watching that. Once you learn about the game and understand how the puck moves, then you can start picking up on where the puck should be when you're watching it on tv. Now let me because I don't even understand the rules and we won't necessarily get into that, we'll do that off camera, camera.
Speaker 1:But like, what I want to know is like the tricks, right, because, like, I remember going to the Chicago Bulls, but I was way up, which is the same place that the Hawks play at Chicago Blackhawks. I was way up there in the upper left corner, like almost I don't know fourth tier, whatever the heck, all the way at the top, the 300 level, that level, and I was like I might as well watch it on TV, because the TV I could actually see. Like I couldn't see what was going on. I was like what is the point of going here besides spending a ton of money and just being in the atmosphere? I would get that so, like, if I'm going to go to, but I feel like basketball tickets probably you have cubs which are way, way expensive, socks not as expensive, but cubs really expensive. And then like maybe the bulls and then the hawks, but like I probably have it wrong, like our hockey tickets but the Bears are. Like football is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Think about the number of games that are played in the stadium. That's true, you know you should spend. Well, baseball should be way cheaper then, because they pay a thousand games, it is. It should be way cheaper than like $130 for a ticket. It isn't I ticket, it isn't. I know it isn't it is.
Speaker 1:If you follow a team that isn't as popular, so to speak, as the Cubs, they can put those ticket prices because people will pay them. Yeah, because it's a historic franchise and everything Whatever. So historic, you know what else is historic? I don't know my toilet upstairs. It's historic, it's probably considered a classic.
Speaker 1:At this point I really need to get a new, one of those New Year's resolution, new Year's get a new toilet, new toilet with a bidet. I mean it's in good shape. I'm too scared, I know you are. So where tickets should be 60, 80, 90 bucks, 90's, pushing it 60, I agree I would pay 60 to go to a hockey game. But where does that put me? It puts you in a spot where you can see the entire ice, you can see the puck, you kind of know where it is, you can follow the game.
Speaker 1:In fact, I would say I would recommend not spending a lot of money and sitting too close, because then you don't get the full experience. You don't get to see the full ice, you only get to see. You want to see the full, yeah, and and I kind of I feel like the center right, like kind of at an angle, I feel like on one of the ends, really is the best. Now, why is that? You can see more of the ice surface from that standpoint, if you think about it, because it's foreshortened and it's yeah, so you're only missing a small, small sliver on one end, which is not, you know, the. The puck goes there a fair bit, but it's not, doesn't stay there a long time and when it is there, you can kind of tell where it is based on where the players are and that's right there.
Speaker 1:But the great part about sitting on the end is that you don't have to turn your head at all to see the game. You can just look forward and you can see everything just by moving your eyes. You don't have to turn your head. So, like Batman Begins, batman, that would have been a good spot for him to sit to look for a perp, because he couldn't turn. He can't turn, yes, so he was exactly right. So, yeah, 300 level. To me it's 300 level. Uh, it doesn't matter which side, really, and because now you can sit, if you can sit in the, yeah, if you can sit in the first five to ten rows, you're in really good shape. So, high up there, you're really good shape in the united center, those are my favorite seats. Yeah, where did we sit when we were at the game? Is that a similar kind of spot? Similar, yeah, similar spot, similar spot?
Speaker 1:I just think because I, you know, I'm used to playing video games, right. So, like I, if I'm playing the basketball game, I do not want to have that angle for the basketball game, but when you play, play a hockey game, that's the angle. That is the angle for the hockey game. That is interesting. Why is that? Why are they not? Because it's the same idea. You have the goal or the hoop. It's the center of the back of the whatever you want to call it. Is it a rink, called a rink? So same place as the basketball hoop would be, except there's room behind it that you can move for. As basketball there's not right, but basketball I like watching side to side. Yeah, right, I'm, and I like to play that way too, but I don't. Why is what the heck? Yeah, I don't know. What is that? I don't know. I personally would like I.
Speaker 1:To me, it seems like it would be a little bit more difficult. It's, it's difficult. It's just about what's easy to watch and what is comfortable. I mean football, if you think like. Football and basketball, I think, are great sports to watch on TV. Yes, they are the most TV friendly. But football, the game, it's the same as hockey. You play it that way. You never play the football game sideways. That'd be weird. How are you going to be able to see their splits and everything I know? So what is it about basketball? I feel like maybe I should be playing basketball the other way. I don't know what I did it all wrong. Phil, maybe you did so, okay, so that you did that I? I don't know. So what?
Speaker 1:What about, like, if your team that you're going for is on the far end, I feel like you're not going to see the attack as much. Well, that's where you can pick. So in hockey there's three periods and they switch ends after each time. You know, when my two girls grow up and Madison's still around, there's going to be three periods here too. Anyways, continue, they're still young. They switch ends, okay, they switch ends, okay, they switch ends.
Speaker 1:And so if you, if you know which end they they shoot at, you can see it twice, as opposed to just right, right, because they switch sides. Because they switch sides oh, I see what you're saying you can kind of look ahead and say, well, which end do they shoot at? Twice, right, and then I'll sit on that end. Now do you want to sit on the? Okay? So if you're, you want to see the end that they're going to your team is going to shoot into. You want to be on the side? Like, well, there's an argument that say, that would say that you want to be on the side that they shoot at twice, right, because then you're going to see more of the offensive. So you want to be behind the goal of the visiting or the the rival visiting team, the rival team, two times rather than just once. Right, so that's one way to look at it. I don't care, you don't care, it doesn't matter to me, I see the same, I see it the same way, okay, uh, and in fact there's a part of me because maybe it's because I play video games, I can see the set up a little bit easier from that end, because I see the entire thing Right, right, right. If I'm sitting behind the same goal as twice instead of once, what's the whole thing with?
Speaker 1:Because I feel like soccer is similar, right, where they have this overtime thing. But you're like, who is stopping the clock? Here it just kind of keeps going. Is that similar in hockey? No, or is it like we play stoppage? It's stop clock, our clock stops, it's just there's no added time, like in soccer. No, that always gets me.
Speaker 1:I'm like, well, who's deciding the referee? The referee me. I'm like, well, who's who's deciding the referee? They're just like. I've had, I've seen enough time to go. You want to tell you about like I actually think the soccer way is really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it counts. It's 90 minutes, right. It's 45 minutes at half, and so it's 90 minutes total, right, but then they go like 96. But if they, what the heck? Well, but the thing is, if you, if you're at 40, if you're at 44 minutes, like usually, usually you kind of look and like, okay, how much time did we stop for injuries? Did we stop for other things? Oh, that's what they're doing. And so then you say, well, it's been about six minutes of stoppage time, and so they add six minutes to the end of the half. Well, why don't they just stop the clock when there's a stoppage time? Because they don't have the guy to click. My kid's basketball team has the guy to click, but he doesn't because he doesn't do anything Exactly. Remember that joke. Yes, I do Hire Jerry, the scoreboard keeper. He'll come out and stop your clock, for you Probably will.
Speaker 1:But it's not as much fun. How much money are people paying? Oh my gosh, it's not as much fun. The? It's not as much fun. Well, the other thing is the doctor. The doctor let's talk about that. The referees get to choose when they want to call it and say, okay, that's enough. Why? Because all right, so there's stoppage time, and then there's like you could have a stoppage time in the stoppage time so you could add more time. But also you don't want to go hardcore and say, okay, we're at 47 minutes, it's over, blow the whistle, it's done. You want to see if there's a play developing, they'll let that play kind of continue on to fruition until it's like, okay, they turned it over or they kicked it out of bounds, okay, that's the end of the half. So they kind of let it go.
Speaker 1:Basketball, where it's like you got buzzer beaters. Yeah, there's no buzzer beaters in soccer. Because it takes you know why? Because it takes five hours to go from one. Yeah, because all the stinking time out to go from one end of the the field to the other. It's like three miles long.
Speaker 1:It is what if? Can you imagine soccer if they cut it in half? Yeah, it would be. Oh my gosh, it would be crazy, it would be insane. Everyone would be dead probably.
Speaker 1:Imagine cutting hockey in half. They would would be like watching figure skating, because they would actually have to do some of those moves. No, you don't. I think that'd be a nice You'd stop and go. So much more, but I think a nice addition would be Less gliding.
Speaker 1:If, in order to score, you have to flip somebody, you have to pas de bourree your partner into the goal, you flip him, you flip him, you flip him real good. Flip him, flip him real good. Yeah, I think that's. Can you name the movie that we just? No, flip him for real, I flip it, flip him for real. Blades of Glory no, oh, no. Usual Suspects have you ever seen the Usual Suspects? Yeah, he's so awesome and I love that guy, but he's still the Toro. He says flip him, flip him real good. He's a crazy actor man, he's really good. Well, this is really good. Yeah, look to 2025 and To 2025. Murica, murica, murica, I'm not going to drink out of that glass. I can't. Oh well, I can't it tastes whiskey bits.
Speaker 1:I want to rename all of the political positions, I agree, and and make up what they do based on the names. Okay, so you, you want to rename them based on what they do? No, no, I want to take the name of what they do and then, instead of allowing them to do the thing that they're supposed to do, like a treasury, like the treasurer is the person who kind of handles the money. You know they're, they're kind of helping with the budget and all that, right, but I like the treasurer is the person who kind of handles the money. You know they're they're kind of helping with the budget and all that. But I like the idea that this person is guarding a treasure. Treasure, so give them the literal right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like what? What exactly are we trolling with these comps? Yeah, and or even look precedent, press precedent. He's setting a precedent, so you've got to set it. Now the vice precedent just squeezes the precedent. He's just squeezing it. He's just there. He's like set it, set the precedent. Hey, thanks for tuning in to Whiskey Bits. Please like, share and subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts.