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"James E. Pepper; New Jokes"

• Matt Sommerfield & Phil Stokes • Season 1 • Episode 54

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Ever wondered why a moose ended up as a mascot instead of a beaver or a blue-footed booby? Join us for a hilariously quirky episode where Matt and Phil dissect the aftermath of a feast involving tater tots, dino nuggets, and a bottle of Old Forester 1924. Amidst the culinary chaos, we stumble into a serendipitous whiskey store experience, celebrate work milestones, and welcome a new whiskey-loving friend from Virginia named Brandon. Our journey is peppered with lively banter as we introduce the James E Pepper barrel-proof whiskey and share laughs over the whimsical quirks of language, pondering the wonders of "osmosis" and the eternal debate of "cups" versus "glasses."

As we toast our upcoming one-year podcast anniversary, we reflect on a recent comedy escapade at the Moose Lodge, questioning the logic behind its animal emblem while reminiscing about our podcast’s comedic roots. Season two promises even more laughter as we embrace the spontaneity of inviting intriguing personalities, including repeat guest Madigan, and crafting new whiskey tales. From microphone battles to jokes refined through whiskey-fueled conversations, our show remains a celebration of camaraderie, humor, and the absurdity of everyday life.

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Speaker 1:

Matt, matt, phil, sorry about what I did before we rolled. If there's a fog, if it looks cloudy in here, it's not because it's cloudy. You know what it is. I had pizza yesterday. Oh, I had it for lunch today too. Also, the tater tots, oh yeah, the tots will do it. You brought me a whole bag of tater tots today. And don't forget about the dino nuggets. And dino nuggets, I mean, I don't know if I should be thankful for the gift or if I should see it as like an act of war or like a trojan horse kind of thing. It's neither. Okay thanks, neither of those last things. It's definitely a gift. Okay, thanks, and apparently it's the gift that keeps on giving. You've totted me a gift. Oh, so sorry, you totted, you totted, you totted it, he totted it.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to whiskey bits with matt and phil, where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives. Speaking of totting, what are we drinking today? Well, phil, I happen to find this, which you knew all about it. Oh, I've, I've known about this one, but I was at I finally, because work's been going good. Great, I finally got some clients. Congratulations, thank you. I'm very happy for you. Well, me too. I'm happy for you too. Yeah, that you're happy for me. You know, it's like a circle of happiness. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like um, it's like a circle of happiness. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like um, it's like saying like, uh, you're my favorite person. Yeah, me too, wait, you're, you're also your favorite person. You're your favorite person this is.

Speaker 1:

But I was at great, I was at benny's benny's and there was a guy. We were standing there. I took you that picture of all those. Yeah, they actually had like some crazy, had some really good stuff there, and Did you want any of those? Yes, just the 1924?, just the old Forrester 1924. They were sitting there on the shelf for $129. That's a lot, I know it's a lot, but it's not a lot when you think about how much it goes for in the secondary market. There won't be a next time, won't be a next time. No, you don't think they would have that there again, bummer, totally, you know. So they had one bottle. Well, they had two.

Speaker 1:

Anyways, I was there and this guy was talking and I was like, oh, and he told him about the show. Um, he's from the virginia dc area, okay, and I said, oh, listen to the show. He wrote it down. But I said, oh, we and he had one of these and there were two in the store. I got one and he got one. Oh, this is his. Oh, it's a customer, yeah, customer of the store that we were chatting. Yeah, okay, his suggestion. I think his name is brandon, okay, yeah, cool, hi, brandon, hopefully you're listening. Yeah, shout out from virginia, from virginia, the dc area. He might actually want to be on the show sometime. Okay, because he does like all these tastings Great. So we'll see. Yeah, no, that's awesome.

Speaker 1:

You remember, a few months ago, we had an episode where you talked about inviting a friend over to your house to spend the night. Yeah, it's like everybody's your friend. This is another example of that. So what we have gone from is you're inviting everybody over to spend the night to hi, we just met. Would you like to be on our show? Well, no, it's together.

Speaker 1:

And that doesn't mean like to all of our previous guests John, jared, matt, brooke, brooke this is not a knock on any of you. We're happy to have guests. It's a knock on John, for sure. It's a little bit of a knock on John. A little bit of a knock on John. Our second guest. John was our second guest. Matt was our first guest. A surprise guest to me, surprise to all of us. Second episode hey, I brought a guest. What we're doing? Guests. We didn't have anything, okay, and now we've gotten to the point where every person that you meet in the whiskey store, in any whiskey store, you're inviting them to the show. Not only that, but they're going to spend the night and then be on the show and then be on the show.

Speaker 1:

Great, this is great. I love it. What do we got? What did I buy? What did you buy? What did I buy? First of all, I got to tell you I love the bottle. I love the presentation. It's a very nice bottle. Look at that cork. You zoomed in on it here. Oh, definitely, I've zoomed in for sure. Very cool little cork there. I almost dropped it. Is it actual cork? I don't know. Or is it like that rubber fake? Yeah, I think it's rubbery, but it looks like a real. I'm not really sure. It doesn't matter, it doesn't really sit in there all that well, but it does make a decent noise.

Speaker 1:

So this is the James E Pepper barrel proof. This comes from Kentucky. Okay, this is from the Old Pepper Distillery in I'm sorry, it's the James E Pepper, not Old Pepper. Right Distillery in lexington, kentucky. I've been there. Are those different. This is very, very fun.

Speaker 1:

No, no, old pepper and pepper. Yeah, camsie pepper, because we've done old pepper. That's the only pepper we've done is old pepper. No, no, well, the old pepper rye. Yes, yeah, yeah, but we did the 1776. Oh, that's, it was a jamesy pepper rye. Yeah, right, but remember, it's mgp, unless it's in the big bottle or this bottle.

Speaker 1:

So they source their stuff from MGP, unless it's their smaller batch stuff. So that's their stuff. So this is their single barrel. What's unique about this one is, I mean, typically a single barrel is going to be well over 100. I'm sorry, when I said single barrel, I meant barrel proof. Barrel proof is going to be well up over 100 proof and we're talking 115, 120, you know something like that. I mean, yeah, big, big numbers there. This one's only 106, so it's a little lower for a barrel proof. Wonder why that is? It's just how they batched it, right, I mean. I mean it does come directly from they don't proof it down, so they didn't add. Oh interesting, they didn't proof it down, they didn't add water to it or anything, because it's barrel proof, but it's a little bit lower than a typical barrel proof. Okay, so I saw this a few years ago, so this came out probably a year and a half ago. Two years ago now, almost, okay, almost two years. Yeah, year and a half ago. Year and a half ago is when this one came out.

Speaker 1:

Saw this one when I was in Kentucky, decided against picking it up at the time, but I was really disappointed that I did that. I passed on it. I should have just grabbed it. You were wanting to grab it. What was it in the store? Because I got this $59.99. $59.99. Yeah, so it fits. 60, 50, 60 and under. Boom, yeah, you take it. There were two there. I was like awesome, so I think it fits within. I think it could fit within our yeah, not regularly available. Not regularly available, no, okay, no, it took me a while Once I saw it in the store that I saw it in in Kentucky.

Speaker 1:

Okay, which was the blind pig? Yeah, in Bardstown, kentucky, which is just, you don't. That's a sad thing to see a blind pig, because you know it is rolling in the mud, but it doesn't know what the mud looks like. That's right. Do you want to know why it's called blind pig for real? No, oh yeah, no, I do. Oh you, blind pig for real? No, oh yeah, no, I do, oh, you do, do I know? In my mind I was like do I know? No, I don't do I want to know. Heck, yes, I think prohibition that's funny now. It's funny right now, that now it makes sense. Wow, that's the blind pig also. If all the police out there you should be offended, yes, all the police out there should be offended. Um, okay, all right, uh, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So after I saw it there, I didn't see it again for quite some time. Oh, by the way, this has been opening up for about maybe 30 minutes now, wow, so I poured it a little early, okay, I know, I don't know if that was a good thing to do, but it's always a good thing. The the longer you can have it sit open, for it's good, yeah, it's good, very sweet. Yep, very sweet, very sweet. I mean, this is a, this is a bourbon, so it's going to be. It's going to be pretty sweet. Okay, it'd be pretty sweet. We don't have any information on the mash bill on this one, so we just know that it comes from the James E Pepper distillery itself.

Speaker 1:

It's interesting. It's like almost like a I don't know, and so much, necessarily floral, but like a fruity like, maybe like the flower of a fruit, okay, like what I would imagine, a cherry flower, which is that even a thing, smelling like I don't know? Do cherries, are they flowers? First, you're the botanist, that's true. Okay, I like the color. Yeah, color's good. Is this a good?

Speaker 1:

Did I do a good pour up to the hip or whatever that is? Yeah, up to the bulge, the hip, is it up to the bulge? I like hip better than bulge is usually lower than the hip. Look, if your bulge is higher than the hip, we got a problem, or you just have a really weird. I'm drinking this now. Okay, it's weird. Anatomy Shut up, okay, okay.

Speaker 1:

See, this is why I was disappointed that I didn't buy it when I first saw it, was disappointed that I didn't buy it when I first saw it. I knew it was going to be good, because so far I haven't had anything that came from the james e pepper distillery that I haven't liked. Might be rivaling right up there rivaling the heaven hill really, just as you've said the offerings that they have just like yeah, oh, I haven't found anything that I am disappointed in. Yeah, and this to me is I'm getting a lot of that fruit, I'm getting a lot of that sweet, but it's that they have Just like yeah, oh, I haven't found anything that I am disappointed in. Yeah, and this to me is I'm getting a lot of that fruit, I'm getting a lot of that sweet, but it's almost like I felt like this change that for the first part of the sip was a type of fruit and then the second part kind of melded into another type and then it has a clean, kind of cooling feeling to it.

Speaker 1:

I was going to ask if crisp green apples was a thing that you can smell or taste in this. Almost like a yes, yeah, because it's not overly powerful with the sweetness of the fruit, but it does have that crisp, cooling type of feel to it. I think, yeah, like green apple for sure. And then what's interesting is it's not like crazy amounts of caramel, so like, for me it there's a bit of a an essence of a caramel apple. In essence, there's an essence, right, essence, of caramel apple.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and I think when you said green apple, the first part that I pulled from that was the candied apple right part. Yeah, yeah, whereas like those, those, those suckers that I love the green apple caramel, apple caramel, apple pie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love those. Yes, they're the best, but just less of the caramel. It's almost as if you got more of the green apple part of it. Yeah, exactly, it's exactly what I was thinking. Am I getting corn husk? Of course you are, of course. Well, it's a bourbon. There's got to be corn in it, at least 51% corn, you're right. So we know there's 51% corn at least. Yeah, yeah, this is really, really tasty. It makes me wonder.

Speaker 1:

So I did do a tour of the James E Pepper. I've talked about it on the show. Was it nice? It was lovely. It was lovely. I loved it. I loved that one podcast. Um, I just did. You're not supposed to be like it's freaking awesome man. No, it was quite lovely. I got another tattoo on my face or neck or something.

Speaker 1:

Okay, look at all this hair. I have all over myself, all right, oh, no, the whiskey burns off the hair. Uh, obviously no, if it's hair on your chest, oh, that's where it all went. That's where it all went, dude. It takes me like an hour to shave. It's like what happened. Did you? Did a yeti explode in here? Yeah, it did. It's called matt shaved his chest. Oh, sorry, go ahead. Are you allowed to tell people you shaved your chest and it was? No, I'm not. That's lovely. I enjoyed it because we were able to to sample directly from the barrel, um, and it was good. And it makes me wonder.

Speaker 1:

Put the dongle in the dongle, yeah, well, you stick the dongle in the bunghole, the daster in the bunghole, with the big syringe. No, it's a straw, oh, you put a straw in a bunghole, yeah, you put a straw in there and cap the top of it. Oh, you thumb the straw that's in a bunghole. Yeah, you put a straw in there and, like, cap the top of it. Oh, you pull it out, the straw that's in the bunghole, exactly, yeah, cap it, drink it, right, good, perfect, precisely, perfectly, normal. Um, in fact, if we make it down to kentucky, if we ever make it to the bourbon journal, like, let's go, I would really like to go there again, yeah, and see what happens. But it makes me wonder because of the timing of things. Oh, if, if we didn't taste some of this Really, yeah, interesting, yeah, because the other stuff that I know comes from there is their single barrel rise and that was not what we tried.

Speaker 1:

So you think you may have tried. I think we may have tried stuff out of these barrels. Oh, interesting, how cool. Yeah, that's a full circle story for you and the whiskey it could be. Wow, it very well should be. I'll just say it is. It's a way cooler story.

Speaker 1:

I'm 100% sure that's from the exact bunghole dongle that you drank from. I don't think that that's true. Darn it, I don't think that that's true. That's really cool. I can't think that that's true. I can't verify that. But you're saying there's a chance, but there's a chance and I'm okay, leaving it right there.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I'm going to take it to the extreme. It's definitely the same barrel that you. I totally agree. Yep, you know what else I agree with what? Look Again.

Speaker 1:

I filled these cups with water. These are our Whiskey Bits cups, thanks. Look again, I filled these cups with water. These are our Whiskey Bits cups. Thanks, amy. They're not cups, they're glasses. These are glasses, these are rocks glasses.

Speaker 1:

And I just noticed there's a bubble. There's a little bubble on the bottom right. I love that. Look at that. What if it were ice. It'd be the world's smallest, warmest ice cube. Very good, very good, that's very good, very good, that's great water.

Speaker 1:

It's reverse osmosis, is it? Or some call ro, because the reverse osmosis I thought osmosis with, was with an a, it was a silent a, okay. So they're like eh, osmosis, osmosis, okay, all right, hot dog, uh, I, you know, I what? I have no idea what I was gonna talk about, but then I was like oh man, like you know, we this started, this podcast started. We're coming up, we're coming up on our one year anniversary here, and this podcast started with some comedy stuff. Like yeah, you know, uh, working on jokes and all this kind of stuff, and I gotta say I've been doing a lot of comedy shows. You really have been lately.

Speaker 1:

A busy little beaver I have I have, speaking of beavers, went to the Moose Lodge. That was one of the shows. Yeah, oh, that sounds great. Actually, one of my jokes that I improvised. Do you want to know what it was? Did I tell you this? You didn't tell me. And would I like to know? Yes, you would, sure. So it was like I was like I'll feed up on you. No, no, no, yes, I would love to know. Matt. I was like. I was like, oh, I got to do something Because moose like.

Speaker 1:

The first thing I thought of was like why the heck moose, like of all the animals in the animal kingdom, why do you call it a moose like? Why did you pick the moose? Was it like some guy's name? And I looked some stuff up but it was like there was I don't know. There was like a town named moose something or whatever, but really in canada. No, well, I don't know. Moose jaw, no, and it wasn't moose jaw either, it was something else. And so I feel like that's a derogatory thing, it's not. Oh, okay, it's well, there's another town in Canada. Go ahead, Moose, something Somebody told me later.

Speaker 1:

I was like I'm too innocent, I didn't know about that, I don't know about this. Should you share it? Nope, anyways, so I'm going to do something just as horrible. So I was like why Moose? And so I looked it up and it said the guy who started in like 1896 or something like that, or 1888, he really liked moose can't say mooses but he really liked the moose. It's meese, right, mooses, meese is something like that.

Speaker 1:

He liked the way that they were protective of their young and they took care of their family, like, yeah, that's every freaking animal in the animal, a lot of animals. I'm like, so that's not a good excuse. Cows, don't do that. If they don't anyways, keep going. Well, I was well, maybe not, but I was like there's got it.

Speaker 1:

I think he chose moose because there's not. There's like lion's club that's taken. Oh true, you can't do that. Um, turtle wax, so you can't do turtle club because it's teenage, mutant, ninja, turtles, turtle wax, car wash wax, anyways. I'm like, so he just chose moose.

Speaker 1:

But like I think he was avoiding some. And then I got, oh, then I got gold, because I walk in and there's a pamphlet and it was a booklet for women of the moose. So I was like, oh, yeah, and I already had in mind what some other animals that he could have named it after, that wouldn't have been a good idea. So, in mind, what some other animals that he could have named it after, that wouldn't have been a good idea. So I go up on stage and I'm like, oh, you know, I'm explaining all this. And I'm like look, um, I think he was just avoiding some other animals that he knew he couldn't get away with naming moose.

Speaker 1:

You're probably pretty much in the clear there's no weird things. Except there is. There's no weird things, uh and uh. But I'm like you're not gonna call it the beaver lodge. You can't have a, can't have a booklet saying women of the beaver. Okay, like no, it was. Who are the women of the beaver? Like, we're not gonna answer that question, sir. Uh, the beaver lodge, or, uh, you know, you can't have the blue-footed booby lodge. You can't be like, come on, kids, we're going to the booby lodge. Like I don't think I'm old enough, dad like.

Speaker 1:

And then this one lady chimes in and she was like. She was like. She was like trying like agreeing with me on the history stuff. I was like you're probably the one that, uh, you would be the one that runs the beaver lodge. But she was like 90 years old. She's like, yeah, I would. I was like, oh, my gosh, oh, it was so fun, that's great, that great.

Speaker 1:

So you did a bunch of research for your improv. Yeah, dude, I've been doing so many shows, that's great. Was this the one that you? Oh, I hear what you just did. That was funny. You did research for your improv. See it just now, hit the synapses in my brain and went, yeah, that was funny, synapses in my brain and went, yeah, that was funny, good job, yeah, it's, it's okay, one of us, if one of us is a comedian, one of us, we don't. One of us, one of us is a comedian, yes, but it's been good. That's, that's great. Yeah, no, no, that's really good. Was this the? Was this the show you told me about, where you you did like, well, over an hour, you absolutely crushed it and there were 25 people. No, that was the last, this last show. Okay, so that.

Speaker 1:

So I've had the, the booking agent, um guy like I was, you know, applying to applying, applying, and then, like I think it's, he get, he has a bunch of comedians that he works with and they say he sends out dates and locations, who wants what? Okay, you say, and he's probably getting, let's say, 50. I don't know sure how many comedians he he books for, but he gets a bunch of people and then he sends those people to the client and the client picks, is my guess, okay. So I was like, huh, what is it like, am I not? You know, I just wasn't getting anything for for months. Then, all of a sudden, like january hits and it's literally like every weekend, like Friday, saturday, friday, saturday, saturday, friday, and then next this week, as we're recording this this week, I have another show this Friday, and so I'm like cool, yeah, awesome, momentum, um. But then, like so, in the midst of that, um, there was one show that I think maybe a comedian dropped out and so I ended up getting. That was the one in Rochelle. Rochelle, yeah, it was at a senior living center and it was awesome. Oh, that one, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was that one. You sang Fly Me to the Moon. I did, I made it a show Because I was like, well, first of all, I'm a little bit of an old soul and then, second of all, is like, these guys are 70s, 80s, 90s some of them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, how coherent are they? It wasn't a nursing home, it was a senior living center, but this is kind of the stage before a nursing home, and so I was like there, what are they used to? Like what kind of entertainment? So I was like johnny carson, um, uh, what's the guy that did the the improv on johnny carson? Um, I don't remember his name. Yeah, jonathan winters, oh, yeah, and then, and then, of course, I love the music from back then.

Speaker 1:

So I was like, I'm gonna do like a variety thing. I'm gonna do like, uh, I'm gonna sing a song, like ben crosby would do or frank sinatra, I'm gonna do improv like old school, like Jonathan Winters, yeah, and then I'll do my set and that'll be thinking I might need a little more to fill some time too. Sure, I didn't. I did probably an hour and 15 minute show and it was great, it's awesome. And I was like, ah, and then I got like another hour show which ended up being an hour and seven minutes.

Speaker 1:

So, anyways, I've got some new stuff. I think I have some new directions, some new jokes, yeah. But I was like, oh, I brought back some old jokes that I used to do and kind of refined them a little bit, and that worked really well. But, yeah, dude, it's kind of cool, it's awesome. So I don't know, I feel like we got to work on some jokes again, but some of the jokes have come from this show. Well, that's why we're doing the show, is that? No, oh, I thought we just needed an excuse to.

Speaker 1:

Well, remember, it was a couple things we wanted to do. We wanted to drink whiskey, right, that was the main thing we wanted to talk about whiskey. I wanted to talk about whiskey. I think that was your main thing originally. No, you wanted to hang out. No, I wanted to hang out. I wanted to potentially get into what it's like to be a comedian. I would love to get into that too. Have we gotten there yet? No, I don't think we have.

Speaker 1:

No, I think the best part about it was that we were hoping to replicate what we did when we first started doing this. We first started writing stuff which was writing and drinking whiskey and laughing and all of that would have been boring for a podcast. Yeah, except that's when we made it. But then we did it, but then we changed it a little bit. We changed it, we've, we've, we've updated it a little bit and, um, you know, we've, we've had some, some small tweaks and changes, small tweaks, small tweaks, and I love that we have a. I love that we have a format, that we're we're doing things that are reproducible week after week, week after week.

Speaker 1:

I'm just going to keep repeating highlight words. Yeah, poem session, I mean guests, guests, a couple guests Like three. Yeah, we've had so much time to book guests. We have booked one, two, three, four. We have done. Four guests, four guests, one a quarter. It's a good goal. No, it's not bad at all, it's achievable, it's great.

Speaker 1:

And we had two episodes with the same guest. That's cheating, but that was fun. So that ended up being. It was a really good one. We got to have madigan back on. Hey, just kidding, I'm joking, of course. Yeah, we should have him back on. Yeah, we should get everybody. That's been oh, should we do like a reunion, but they all have to fit in the same spot.

Speaker 1:

What if we did like? What if we? What if we did like our typical episode, but like just five minutes each and they just come in. They, they just come in, they sit down and share and the rest of them have to stand around this small room watching it all happen? That would be hilarious. What do you think? We've got some other great guests coming up in season two. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Well, this guy from Virginia Can't wait for him to be on the show. Yes, we've got some whiskey makers. Yeah, can't wait for him to be on the show. Yes, we've got some whiskey makers. Yeah, they'll answer my emails. And we've got some traveling we're going to do. Yeah, we might have a scotch night. Oh, we kind of have to, which I'm getting kind of afraid of because I can't stand scotch, but I'm hoping to maybe have something that is going to at least show me. Sorry, I just got mad at my microphone stand because it was in the way of my glass. Yeah, well, it's been, it's kind of been. You've done a lot of stuff over there today with the microphone to make it. It's been squeaking and doing other stuff, yeah. So I'm excited.

Speaker 1:

I'm excited for season two and some of the some of the fun, fun stuff that we've got coming. But do some moving around, yeah, oh yeah, you know, like, yeah, the equipment, yeah, I'd be. Like, also, we're in a different space. Also, I think we should switch sides. Oh, should we? No, oh no, I don't think so.

Speaker 1:

Why did my voice crack when I said that? Because you were really excited about sitting over here, right, what's it like over there? Well, I have a pretty good view of the door and the window, in case you need to escape, I just got a view of it. Oh good, I have a good view. There's a lot of visual stuff happening over there, but it's very good. But I just see the mess that my office is. I honestly like this. We've been doing this long enough and I've been on this side long enough. This is almost feels like like home, like when I'm sleeping in a bed, like I only end up sleeping on the left side of the bed because so this will always be your podcast site.

Speaker 1:

So if you're on a different podcast, if you're a guest on a podcast and they're asking me to sit on that side, I would be like this is weird. This is my rider, that I have to be. I don't know that I could drink with my right hand. Oh, yeah, I have to drink with my right hand. Oh, are you even I didn't even ask how rude After all these episodes.

Speaker 1:

Are you on the left to the viewer? You're on the right, I'm on the left, that's right, that's left, I'm on the left. Yeah, but that's your good side, is it? Yeah, because my face is kind of crooked. My nose is like this is the little. You see it? Do you see the difference? See how I switch Listeners. I'm moving my head left and right. No, left and right, left Directions are hard. It's away and towards for them. Oh, right, right, right. So towards Away and away. Yeah, and towards. Away and away. Yeah, and towards. Anyway, yeah, there is a a little bit of a gosh, a little bit of an angle. I've never noticed it until just now. It does go a little bit to your left, yeah, leans a little, which is, which is, which is strange, because your dom nas is your right now. My dom nas is right, but it's the bigger one. Well, it's, it's the bigger one it's, or more open because it's leaning this way, so it's like it's stretching. Yeah, it's interesting. Bigger one, it's more open Because it's leaning this way, so it's like it's stretching. Yeah, it's interesting. So what is your?

Speaker 1:

Okay, in all honesty, tell me the truth, and you could say no jokes in the last two minutes of our show. What's your favorite joke that you've helped me do, or that we've done, or that just that you've seen? Yeah, and then, what is the one you wished we could work on and figure out? Oh, great question, you only gave me a minute and a half to do this. And to me, the my favorites? The easy, uh, it's easy. For me it's, um, it's the. What do we call it? The work, it's, it's the work joke, uh, yeah. Drug testing, drug testing, yeah, drug testing With the peeing in the cup. Yes, I see you're Jewish, I see you're Jewish, me too, I'm Jewish too, not as Jewish as you.

Speaker 1:

Great, I mean, it's just it's so good, it's and comedian to be able to kind of walk that line, for a clean comedian to be able to walk that line and and be able to feel like, yeah, there's nothing dirty about what I said, but like you kind of, you kind of push the boundary a little bit, which is fun. But like the laugh that that one gets, oh, every time and it's it's almost a slow laugh, like people will be like, but like, usually there's two or three people that really get it, oh yeah, and there's a big laugh there. And like, usually there's two or three people that really get it, oh yeah, and there's a big laugh there. And then, like there's a cut, like it's almost like cascades of laughter, like, okay, it's okay to laugh at that and and it's like, well, oh, I get it because, like, why is that? Oh, that's funny because, and so I love the, I love the, the setup, the back and forth and how that builds and how you can do some more stuff with it. So I think that for me, easily that's my favorite joke, the one I wish we could work on and really nail down as being a funny joke. It just doesn't necessarily fit your whole piece.

Speaker 1:

29 minutes, we got to stop. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. So no, the, that I like the most. You don't have much time. You just wasted coffee.

Speaker 1:

The, the coffee bean, the life of a coffee bean. I really wish we could turn that into something that was a storytelling, like it has to be, a setup. It's a really really great finisher if you can find a way to deliver a punchline at the end of it. That's the hard part is finding just that punchline at the end of it. The difference between coffee drinkers and tea drinkers, I think, is there's more there. There's more there, for sure, than the life of the bean itself. But the life of the bean is so much.

Speaker 1:

We had so much fun just coming up with a story. It just turned out to not be a joke. It so much fun just coming up with a story. It just turned out to not be a joke. It was really more of a funny, funny story, um, but that you know. Goals, yeah, goals, season two goals, let's do it coming up in a year. Cheers, good find here. This is really good, thank you. Good opening, really enjoy it. I mean, I opened it, but yeah, of course you did. Cheers matt, cheers phil, next time on whiskey bits. Well, it's been a year, matt. Uh, what a year it's been. It has been a year of time and it's the sands of time. It's moments like those roll through. Well, cheers to a year, cheers to a year, cheers to a year.

Speaker 1:

I thought what we can do, instead of recording a full episode yeah, oh sweet, let's just go back through the last year. We'll play some clips, we'll show these wonderful people some of our favorite moments from Whiskey Bits 2024. What do you think? I mean, I love the idea, but that's just going to be a lot of work for me. I'm going to have to actually do it, though. Well, unlike my favorite moment, oh, which are all the moments where you said, hey, I'm going to edit this in, and then you don't? There's only one I think I actually did. There's only the one with John that you did. Well, yeah, that's about it. Okay. Well, yeah, that's about it. Okay. Well, then should we stuff like that? Yeah, absolutely Stuff like that and other stuff, but let's start there, okay, hey, thanks for tuning into Whiskey Bits. Please like, share and subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts.

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