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Speaker 3 On this episode of the Commercial Break, it's the Barron's old-fashioned brandy.

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Speaker 1 I get brandy.

Speaker 1 How did you land on brandy? I'm going to go to the bottom for brandy. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You guys,

Speaker 1 you guys, Wisconsin drinks more brandy than

Speaker 1 Wisconsin drinks 85% of the United States brandy. No,

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah, because of our brandy old-fashions. Ah, I had no idea.

Speaker 1 I need to try one of these. Yeah, during Prohibition, all we had here was brandy, and Wisconsin could not handle Prohibition.
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Speaker 2 But we're not here today to talk about that, we're here to talk about Charlie Burns.

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Speaker 2 a television journalist who then started his own social media kind of parody channel doing what's called the Manitowic Minute.

Speaker 2 And it's, I don't even know how to explain this. You've got to go check out Charlie's Instagram, which I will put a link in the show notes as I always do.

Speaker 2 I found this guy like maybe right before the pandemic. And because I was born in the Midwest, near Chicago, and he is from Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 There is a certain flavor, a certain dryness, a certain affectation, if you will, to the voice, the comedy, and the mannerisms of someone from the Midwest that can only be recognized by someone else from the Midwest.

Speaker 2 Now, I think everybody will be familiar with kind of that, you know, go bears, Chicago accent, and that kind of affectation, but it's so much more nuanced than that.

Speaker 2 And Charlie gets it right every time. Why? Because he comes from a huge Catholic family that is from the Midwest.
And that is as stereotypical as it comes.

Speaker 2 But we found that Charlie was anything but stereotypical he was nice he was funny and uh he was engaging charlie is one of my favorite episode one of my favorite interviews of 2025 and as we round the corner into 2026 and we do less interviews i sure am glad we got this one in um because he was on my list He was on my list.

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Speaker 2 Charlie's here with us now, Chrissy. One of the surprising things, you know, I've been following you for years on social media, and I am a Midwest boy born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago.

Speaker 2 A lot of your comedy is extraordinarily familiar to me. It feels like these are characters I know, these are accents that I know, these are things that I know.

Speaker 2 It just feels warm and fuzzy in that not warm and fuzzy way, like the Midwest is.

Speaker 2 But one of the things I didn't know about you until very recently was that you, previous to being a comedian and content creator, you were an actual journalist, like a legit journalist?

Speaker 1 I mean, I wouldn't say legit, you know.

Speaker 1 I did journalism. Yeah, I did journalism for a number of years.
I started in college. I was actually working for MTV then with their like choose or lose

Speaker 1 back when MTV did news and

Speaker 1 back when MTV did news videos. videos.

Speaker 2 Back when they were a station? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. And so there was a rep in each state.
I was a Wisconsin rep, and that kind of got me into this journalism world, but it was always like journalism with like a little bit of entertainment.

Speaker 1 Like I worked for a YouTube news channel. I worked for a local TV station,

Speaker 1 which kind of the local TV news was the most traditional news I did. But even that started off as like, let's kind of do this new infotainment type news.

Speaker 1 They tried it for 1.2 months, and then they're like, well,

Speaker 1 let's just go back to what we've all been doing. So that's when I was like, probably the most traditional journalist was at that station.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's an interesting place to start. Chrissy and I actually met working in radio and we

Speaker 2 the emerging technology, the emerging new media technology of radio.

Speaker 2 Right at its last kicks and breaths, Chrissy, Chrissy, when I were a part of it. But it is hard to get the old guard to change their ways.

Speaker 2 Part of the reason why the medium is dying, I think, is because it's hard to get people to change their ways.

Speaker 1 And I would say that you made the right move doing your own thing.

Speaker 2 I have a question that interests me about you. Are you kind of like

Speaker 2 Can you go out in the Midwest anywhere to a bar or something like that without being noted? Like, you must get noticed a lot of places up there.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I get noticed. It kind of like the epicenter, sort of Green Bay, and then it sort of expands.
I get less popular the farther you go from Green Bay, you know.

Speaker 1 But it's,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 I'll get noticed every now and again, but I still

Speaker 1 go out and do things and all of that because everyone, most people are pretty nice about it.

Speaker 1 And they'll just like

Speaker 1 say hi to you or whatever, maybe get a picture picture or something

Speaker 1 and then kind of move on. And

Speaker 1 I think that's important.

Speaker 1 It's it's, you know, when you get like, and you guys probably experienced this too, when you get like a little hit of something that goes off online, people may recognize you and then you get that.

Speaker 1 But what you really don't want is to like put yourself in a

Speaker 1 sort of a

Speaker 1 sort of a bit of a prison, you know, where like I got some friends that really can't go out and it's that's a problem, you know, or if they do go out, they need security.

Speaker 1 And these aren't good friends, but my friends aren't

Speaker 1 this is more like a friend of a friend. I don't want to like casually name drop, I got a friend with security.
I really don't. People you've heard about through the graphics,

Speaker 1 people whose podcasts I've listened to.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I mean, it was so anyway, but I almost feel like the more like I do go out or go to just like the bar or uh the gym or whatever the more people would be used to see me and and really the less they care you know yeah that's kind of the big goal there yeah i hear you you don't want to create your own prison we don't necessarily have that kind of taste i think we've been lucky in that sense i we get recognized a couple of places throughout the years but um you have this kind of identity brand that is it's really spot on did you um you grew up in green bay right in that area no no i grew up in i grew up just just north of you in the suburbs of Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, shit. I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my, my grandparents are from Fond du Lac, so like a lot of stuff, like, and my grandma's still up there. So, you know, I, I shoot a lot of stuff up in Fond du Lac and people recognize that.

Speaker 1 So, yeah. But, um,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 yeah, and then sort of we grew, we would go up north every year, um, you know, to like Eagle River or Mandal Lakes or whatever. Did you ever go up north? I did.

Speaker 2 Yeah. We went up north.
We would go to the dunes of Wisconsin. You know, we did all of that stuff.
My dad liked to be on the lakes

Speaker 2 and not Lake Michigan. So, you know, we would go up north and visit all of those little places, the Indian place, go buy fireworks from the Indians.

Speaker 2 I mean, there was like, you know, like the, on the reservations, you could buy fire. My dad would buy fireworks from some of those guys.
And so we had that kind of traditional Midwest upbringing.

Speaker 2 I mean, we're from Chicago, right? If you ask, I'll say Chicago, but not the city proper. We're like 40 miles outside of the city in this place called Oak Forest.

Speaker 2 So to me, it felt more Midwestern and homey than it did city. But your content, the way

Speaker 2 you just have this way of nailing it, like this way of nailing that flavor of human being that is up there wandering the wild Midwest. And I think that that's it's comforting in a way, actually.

Speaker 2 And that feels to me like identity content, right? Like, oh, I recognize that. I understand that.
That feels, that feels good to me. What, what, at what point did you hit on this?

Speaker 2 Like, did you just start making these reels about things that were familiar to you or videos about things that were familiar to you? And people started connecting, going, oh, yeah, that's that's me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, it all started doing stand-up

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 I was trying to figure out, like, I did not like, I was doing red carpet reporting at this time, which, yeah,

Speaker 1 wow, red carpet reporting. Yeah.
And I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I do not have any.

Speaker 1 I was a terrible red carpet reporter.

Speaker 1 I did.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that about you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I have bad facial recognition mostly because I did absolutely no research before any red carpet because I just couldn't get, I just felt like it was a waste of time. I was bad at it.

Speaker 1 I didn't have a passion for it. So I started doing stand-up at night.
And when you start doing stand-up, you're looking for material about yourself. Like, what are facts about me?

Speaker 1 So I was writing these news facts. And one thing was at a few places I worked, my accent became an issue.

Speaker 1 Like, I was told I couldn't do voiceovers at this place because of my accent.

Speaker 1 I had to get a voice coach. It was a whole thing.
So I just,

Speaker 1 yeah, so I just decided to do this stand-up character who, like, instead of...

Speaker 1 taking everything people say he did wrong and fixing it, like I tried doing in the news and still failed, I just doubled down on it. Yeah, leaned into it.

Speaker 1 And that was the basis for this stand-up character. And that character I could tell did better when I was on stage than anything else.
Yeah. Just because I think it was relatable.

Speaker 1 People either were from the Midwest or knew someone from the Midwest. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so that was the first thing to take off. And then I was like, okay, that worked for 50 people, but

Speaker 1 it would be great if I could do this, you know, so more than 50 people saw it. So that's when I put out the first video.

Speaker 1 That

Speaker 1 took off when a bunch of other videos I put out didn't. So then I knew I was onto something.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's how it works as a digital creator, too.

Speaker 2 As a content creator in general, not just a digital creator, but as a content creator, someone who's creating art or whatever is my opinion, you run through a bunch of ideas before you settle into what is yours, what is uniquely yours,

Speaker 2 and starts,

Speaker 2 the people that the intended audience starts identifying themselves as your people. Like, oh, I get that.
I understand that. And you're right about something is that, you know, yeah, you're...

Speaker 2 A lot of the content that you create or that I've seen is focused around kind of this Midwest accent, this Midwest character, this Midwest mannerisms, but everybody knows what that is.

Speaker 2 If you live in the United States, you know somebody from Chicago, from Green Bay, from, you know, you know these people. You've seen them in movies or you're familiar with them yourselves.

Speaker 2 So when was the first video that you when did you put out that first video? What was that year?

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 so I think actually even before the first man and twok minute that was 2017 in 2016 I put out this video if Jack Dawson was really from Wisconsin where

Speaker 1 I just changed I just changed the voiceover. So everything Jack Dawson said was with a Wisconsin accent.
Right. You know, and that was that took off.

Speaker 1 But then like six months later in 2017, I put out the first Manitowoc minute. So yeah, which is

Speaker 1 hilarious. Oh, thank you.
You're, you're too kind.

Speaker 2 I'm too kind. I'm kind, but not too kind.

Speaker 1 You got to be aware of that. Okay.
Well, you are from Chicago. I am from Chicago.

Speaker 2 And that's the thing I think about Midwesterns that I also think you nail is that, you know, down here in the South, it's all warm and fuzzy. It's yes, ma'am, no, ma'am.
Bless your heart.

Speaker 1 But we'll talk about you behind your back.

Speaker 2 We'll talk about you behind your back, right?

Speaker 2 The drama happens away from you. But in the Midwest, there is this kind of in-your-face honesty that doesn't allow it to be too over the top.
It never feels so warm and fuzzy that it seems insincere.

Speaker 2 But Midwestern people generally are nice. Like, if you ask somebody for help, I think they would, most people would, except for Charlie, would allow, would do it.

Speaker 8 Charlie's got security.

Speaker 1 No, I don't have security. Are you kidding? I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 Don't throw that on me right now.

Speaker 4 Well, you've got a security team when it comes to you're one of 12 kids.

Speaker 1 Holy Holy shit, yeah.

Speaker 2 We read that about you, and I did not know that.

Speaker 1 I was like 12.

Speaker 1 Yep. You are from the Midwest.
Yeah, my parents. And Catholic.
Yep. Yep.
My parents, they really loved each other.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 yeah, so it's fun growing up in a big family.

Speaker 1 Though, like, I really enjoyed that big Midwest family thing. You know, holidays are fun.
Yeah. You learn how to fight, you know, you learn how to steal.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You learn how to take food uh before someone else does i'm still a very fast eater to this day because of that oh yeah me too one of four my mom's one of six i have 29 cousins on one side of the family so i know and we're catholic too so i get that big family feel you guys still get together a lot

Speaker 1 yeah we my mom likes to have everyone over who's in town yeah you know which is a lot of my family we still live in the milwaukee area um

Speaker 4 every sunday pretty much oh wow sunday dinners. That's cool.

Speaker 1 It's really nice. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's nice to get. And people

Speaker 1 actually make it for the most part if they're in town. So it's, it's, yeah, that stuff's fun, you know, and that's something that you kind of take for granted.

Speaker 1 But yeah, not every family can do that. I mean, a lot of families can't stand each other.

Speaker 1 Right, that's true.

Speaker 4 Is there a special dish? Like, I know I'm Italian, and so it's, you know, a big Sunday dinner with, you know, the marinara and the meat sauce and the meatballs and all of that.

Speaker 4 What do you guys, do you guys have any kind of special?

Speaker 1 I want to come to your house. Yeah.
It's so much better than anything we're serving. I know.

Speaker 1 Dry ham and

Speaker 1 dry ham and shitty potatoes.

Speaker 1 My mom is a fantastic cook. Let me say that.
So she, she's, she'll do kind of a little bit of everything.

Speaker 1 But I mean, we don't have, I'm Irish and German and like we don't really take pride in our food.

Speaker 1 I gotcha. Like, uh, well, we know where the beverages are, but it's sort of the food supports the drinking in these two cultures.

Speaker 4 Well, now you've got your own beverages, too, right?

Speaker 1 A beer, and now recently a brandy. Yeah, sure did.
Uh, it's the Baron's old-fashioned brandy, nice little plug.

Speaker 1 Brandy, how did you land on brandy?

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh,

Speaker 1 it's your favorite, yeah.

Speaker 1 You guys,

Speaker 1 you guys, Wisconsin drinks more brandy than

Speaker 1 Wisconsin drinks 85% of the United States brandy. No?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, because of our brandy old fashions.

Speaker 1 Ah, I had no idea.

Speaker 4 I need to try one of these.

Speaker 1 Yeah, during Prohibition, all we had here was brandy, and Wisconsin could not handle Prohibition. Like,

Speaker 1 you know, like

Speaker 1 when they said there's prohibition, Wisconsin was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, so we can drink. We didn't vote on this.
Yeah. We didn't vote on this.
Yeah, and it's too cold not to drink.

Speaker 1 Right. So, so people, someone found a stash of brandy, and then people started making it in the bathtub.

Speaker 1 Bathtub brandy, yeah. Yep, yep.
And so that was our thing. And maybe I got that wrong.
Maybe it was during the war because they were rationing boomers.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Either way,

Speaker 2 brandy was a hit. My grandfather

Speaker 2 had a bar in his basement. We're talking like a Sheers bar in his basement, like a legit bar, and they would throw parties down there.

Speaker 2 And I think this, and I've seen this in a lot of different older houses in Chicago, right? There's an actual bar downstairs where people would throw parties.

Speaker 2 And that survives from the era of prohibition when you would, I don't know, I guess get, buy liquor from run over the border from Canada or Wisconsin, brandy.

Speaker 2 But I do remember my grandfather in this full bar, so many bottles of liquor and all this other stuff, he had quite a few bottles of brandy. That was, that's how I even knew that it was a thing when

Speaker 2 I was a kid. But I never started drinking it in particular.
But how is

Speaker 2 I I love the idea that you can

Speaker 2 go to a beer manufacturer or a liquor manufacturer and team up with them and say, I want my own booze or I want my own beer. What is that process?

Speaker 2 like did you come up with the idea did someone approach you and say hey you could be a good ambassador for a brand let's do this together

Speaker 1 Well, no, in both cases, I was like, oh, this would be, this would be kind of cool. Yeah.
Especially,

Speaker 1 you know, on the beer, honestly, I can't even remember. I can't remember if I was talking.

Speaker 1 No, someone came to his show, came backstage, gave me a beer, said, Do you like that beer? I said, yeah. He said, well, do you want your own beer? I was like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Let's do that.

Speaker 1 But with the brandy, because I had then done the beer and then the beer kind of crashed and burned. It's tough to sell like alcohol and beer.
Of course it is. It's very competitive.

Speaker 1 It's very competitive. Oh, yeah, yeah.
And this was kind of just as the weed seltzers were coming into play.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 so people were like, I'm going to get stoned instead of drunk. And then the actual seltzers were there.
So it was a tough time to sell beer. Chose the wrong time.

Speaker 1 It was like buying a really big house in 2007. Yeah.
Not a good idea. But

Speaker 1 with the brandy, I was like,

Speaker 1 I did a video how to make an old-fashioned during COVID. And,

Speaker 2 you know,

Speaker 1 people really, it got like an insane amount of views

Speaker 1 because people were just stuck in drinking with their alcohol. Oh, right.
Drinking everything we were doing. Drinking, yeah.
Exactly. And nothing to do with the quality of the video.

Speaker 1 But I then saw like how much people love the old fashions.

Speaker 1 And I was thinking, like, oh, this is just something kind of like my my family uh does here and so but then i was like we're all drinking corbell like that's what my grandparents had and um

Speaker 1 and but but it's uh it's a california thing so uh i just wanted to have one that was from wisconsin you know nice and uh yeah so that was kind of a passion project of it all okay it's it's a fun thing so brandy is doing better than the beer like we we the the beer not so much but the brandy doing better than the beer well the brandy's still around yeah yeah

Speaker 1 it's still in circulation.

Speaker 2 Sorry, I didn't mean to bring up a source.

Speaker 1 So it's available everywhere.

Speaker 4 I really want to try some now.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I just want to buy your brandy.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's really nice. It's only available in Wisconsin, so I'll have to send you a bottle.
Ah,

Speaker 1 a little exclusive kind of thing. Also, it's a liquor laws are a pain in the ass.

Speaker 4 Yes, they're different in every state and counties.

Speaker 1 It's just crazy. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And so we just kind of are sticking with Wisconsin because if you want to talk about lax liquor laws, Wisconsin is going to

Speaker 1 play

Speaker 1 easy.

Speaker 2 85% of the brandy

Speaker 2 is consumed or purchased inside of Wisconsin. Go where the market is.
The market is not in Atlanta, Georgia for brandy. It's in Wisconsin.
Except for Chrissy. Now she's the market.

Speaker 1 She's going to be the mission. I'll be the ambassador for

Speaker 1 the murder.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, we'll expand out eventually, but I know where to start. You can be my first brand ambassador down there.
I would love that.

Speaker 2 She's good at that.

Speaker 2 She was a brand ambassador or at the radio station. At the radio station when they rolled out Ying Ling down here in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 That's right. That's right.
No kidding.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Ying Ling knows how to throw a party.

Speaker 1 Let's just put it out.

Speaker 2 Women's got arrested and ended up naked in a hotel room.

Speaker 1 It was a whole thing. Really? I was with her.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What happened there? It was St. Patrick's Day.
St.

Speaker 2 Patrick's Day. They rolled out the beer and they rented and they.
They sponsored a party at a big bar just north of Atlanta, put up a couple tents, freezing cold. They got heaters.

Speaker 2 They had multiple fans. They went all out.
And there was a hotel in the parking lot, you know, like

Speaker 1 next to it.

Speaker 2 And so we rented some rooms. The radio station did.

Speaker 4 We were being safe and smart, but I think that made us go even wilder.

Speaker 1 I think we were lucky we even made it to the hotel on our own feet.

Speaker 2 I think we decided not to drive, but I'm sure walking was a better idea.

Speaker 1 That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 It's really a dangerous thing, yeah, when you got unlimited supply.

Speaker 1 And also, you're supposed to be the life of the party years right yeah exactly well that's like a job that's like it's good to have for like the the uh distributors and like the salespeople for alcohol

Speaker 1 i know a bunch of those guys and some are either like

Speaker 1 full totally burnt out yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 1 or they're the guys who like never actually drink they'll have

Speaker 1 sips and they'll be pouring drinks in the bushes all night yeah they'll keep the beer in hand just for show, but yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 You have to be a pro. Yeah,

Speaker 2 that's a very interesting observation because I worked in the restaurant business for a long time and I did notice that the wine reps, the liquor reps that would come in, there were two types.

Speaker 2 There were the party hounds, right? The people who were drunk, like all the, eternally drunk, just all the time, you know, perpetually drunk, drinking and drunk.

Speaker 2 And then there were people who just would, you know, not even sip the wine that they, that we were tasting. They'd open it for you, but they wouldn't sip it.

Speaker 2 And they're obviously the responsible ones.

Speaker 1 They'll probably have their jobs.

Speaker 1 they probably still have their jobs have their jobs that's right it's it's that's an art form it is though because it's so easy in that business even in in my it doing the um thing like people want to do shots a bunch and i just got to be like no you she

Speaker 1 you see me do shots i'm gonna have a pr nightmare on my hands i just i just you know tell people the uh because that otherwise you're just drinking all the time and then um yeah you become burnt kreiser Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, it's interesting because

Speaker 2 when you get to a certain level of notoriety, then you do have to be careful.

Speaker 2 Because, yeah, sure, you can go out and drink shots all night long, but everyone acts like an idiot sometimes when they're drunk.

Speaker 2 And the people are looking to post, they're looking to catch those moments so that they can have some notoriety themselves or maybe just unintentionally post stuff that obviously is not flattering.

Speaker 2 So I can see why you guard against a little bit, like, you know, taking all the shots or doing all the things that someone brings with you.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like a fine line. You want to party all night long, but you got to be careful that you don't put yourself in a compromising position.

Speaker 2 But I think that's just like good advice for any human.

Speaker 1 It is. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Now that it's 2025 and we all have cameras everywhere.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.
I got it lucky, though, because

Speaker 1 I get like sick if I drink too much. Like I am, I am not.

Speaker 2 Are you throw-up sick?

Speaker 1 Yeah, or just like spinning, you know?

Speaker 1 And I've done that enough in my life to know

Speaker 1 that there is nothing for, like, that's not the way I want to end the night. So, like, I think that's been a blessing.
Just how sick I get.

Speaker 1 I don't know what happens, but I pass a certain threshold and it's like, I gotta, I'm just not gonna do it. You know, I'm not a great Wisconsin knight

Speaker 1 in that regard, but I can only do so much. I really can.

Speaker 2 Do you, do you know that line? Like, do you, now do you understand where that line is? You're like, okay, two drinks, you know, over the course of a couple hours. I'm good.

Speaker 2 Five drinks over the night, and I know I'm going spinning. And I don't like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it depends how long the night is.

Speaker 1 Usually, after an hour or after a certain time, I'm just like, I'm just not doing it. I'm on the decline.
I'm on the decline.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to sober yourself back up so you don't lay in bed spinning all night long.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I have an interesting question. Do you, do

Speaker 2 when you go out on the road, do audiences, like, are the audiences more favorable to your

Speaker 2 material, I guess, in the places that you're identifying with, like in the Midwest?

Speaker 2 Or do you come down to Atlanta and places like Florida and you find that the audiences are just as welcoming, just as understanding? You know,

Speaker 2 they're vibing with what you're throwing out there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that's, I found it to be really interesting because I never really thought I would tour outside of like Wisconsin initially, yeah.

Speaker 1 Um, but then I was googling my name because I'm definitely not a narcissist.

Speaker 1 We've all done it, we've all done it. And the first thing that came up after Charlie Barrens was Nashville.
Well, I was like, what the hell? I didn't.

Speaker 1 So then that I did my first like out of the Midwest kind of show in Nashville, and it did well. And then I think I learned then that Midwest people

Speaker 1 move out of the Midwest, you know, but they still want to be reminded reminded of home. And

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 they use these shows almost as like meetups or something.

Speaker 1 And so there's like a lot of Midwest people that come no matter where I am. And then they drag along their local people who really have no interest in any of this.
But

Speaker 1 I'll change like maybe a setup.

Speaker 1 I'll do local jokes no matter where I am.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 you know, we've done it in London. We've done it in

Speaker 1 Hawaii, and it's been good.

Speaker 1 So, so far, it's been fine. And most of the comedy now, it's like just about the world from a Midwest guy's perspective.
So early on, it was about the Midwest, and now it's a little bit more.

Speaker 2 Now it's perspective-based and less like, you know, actually. Yeah, I get it.
And I also agree with you that people from, there's a line from the show, The West Wing, that I love about Chicago.

Speaker 2 And the guy's talking to the fake president on the fake show about presidents. And he says, you know, it's a funny thing.

Speaker 2 I keep on hearing about how great Chicago is, but none of the people I hear it from seem to live there.

Speaker 1 And it's so true.

Speaker 2 You know, we move down here to Atlanta and I meet so many people that are from Chicago, live in Chicago, you know, but it's, you know, it's a, they're transient places.

Speaker 2 I guess all big cities are transient at this point, but

Speaker 2 it, all those people have now fled all around the country. They've fled the cold weather.
And, you know, that's why the populations are growing down here is because people like warm weather.

Speaker 2 Do you, how do you survive those fucking winters, man? That's the only thing I wouldn't be jealous of anymore.

Speaker 2 Like, I wouldn't, I would love to go live in Chicago, but I wouldn't want to do winters there.

Speaker 1 You know, winter's actually one of my favorite seasons because my favorite ducks come back on the river

Speaker 1 And red-breasted Mergansers, great duck. Great duck to look at.

Speaker 1 Beautiful duck. Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Red-breasted Mergansers, baby. But I honestly, the best time.

Speaker 2 I'm a big like outdoors guy.

Speaker 1 And for me, like the best time to go walk in through the woods is in the winter because everything's so quiet because the snow is like a big sound blanket. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And no one's around, you know, like you, that, like

Speaker 1 um it's kind of creepy but also kind of fun i realize talking like this i'm sounding like a serial killer and i was just gonna say to you i think i saw a scene similar in the ed gein story that i watched recently right

Speaker 1 thank you um i get that comparison a lot ed gein jeffrey dahmer um

Speaker 1 do you guys do the ice fishing i've heard about oh do we do the oh yeah i mean

Speaker 4 why you want to go Well, I've heard enough about it. I used to work for a company and they were based out of Minneapolis.

Speaker 4 And so all that, all those guys up there would, you know, talk about during the winter would be them going out on the ice and you have like a whole little cabin type thing, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Shannon.

Speaker 4 You can set up shop, shop out there for days.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
You can, you can have it out there up until

Speaker 1 mid-March, but I mean, really, depending where you are, you should have it off end of February because the ice, you can't trust it much after that.

Speaker 1 We're definitely getting warmer winters, that's for sure. Like significantly warmer.

Speaker 4 I'm sure you can really tell being up there and seeing the ice and how long it stays around.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I got buddies at ice fishing guides that, you know,

Speaker 1 they'll tell you the ones who've been doing it for 50 years or so that this ice is, it's gone downhill pretty quick.

Speaker 1 But regardless of that, yeah, you bring out your ice shanty and you go out there, you have some beers and you just sit there with your tip up and lock and load baby right

Speaker 2 so interesting i love this tradition yeah i i had a friend that did it once and he just went to a shanty right out out on the ice and he said it was like really nice they had like a pot to cook in there was a little you know they were they were doing a they were doing the whole thing and i said isn't it freezing cold he goes yeah it's not like it's not warm he goes but it's once you put the roof over it and you stay in a in there for an hour or two it gets warmer like it's not the worst thing in the world and i was like catch any fish and he said nope didn't catch a fucking fish

Speaker 2 Yeah, he said it was more about just sitting around, you know, having a day. They brought some guitars and they were playing.

Speaker 1 I said, Probably scared the fish away because you're a terrible guitar player.

Speaker 1 You're an awful musician.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that's the nice thing. I mean, you put a space heater in there and it can get pretty warm.

Speaker 1 In fact, like you'll be taking layers off, you know, so you can get those as warm as you want them, really.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But it doesn't,

Speaker 2 it's a dumb question because I've never been ice fishing.

Speaker 1 Does the space heater melt the ice?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, the thing about hot air is it rises. So you can have a bonfire on the ice if you want.

Speaker 1 And you will melt the ice a little bit, but that's now the question of how much ice are we talking.

Speaker 2 It's a foot of ice, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if it's a foot, you're fine.

Speaker 1 You know, depending on what the weather's been like, if it snowed after the first ice, that's not good because it now insulates a little bit and it makes it soft and it's easier to fall fall through.

Speaker 1 So, you know, these are all the things that go through your mind before you decide whether or not to drive your truck a mile and a half out on the ice.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 2 It's like we live in two different worlds.

Speaker 1 Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Like we worry about pollen and tornadoes and they're worrying about driving their truck

Speaker 2 on the ice. And these, like, even when I grew up in Chicago, we did not go ice fishing.
I, of course, have walked over frozen water before. I've seen lots of snow.

Speaker 2 One of my friends who lives in Chicago currently told me it's the snowiest December in like 80 years or something up in Chicago. He's like, We've had 18 inches of snow already.

Speaker 2 But he also says that it doesn't snow as much. I remember it snowed all the time when I was a kid.
It felt like snow was just a part of the winter.

Speaker 2 But he was sharing with me that over the last couple of years, it really is not part of the winter. It might snow here or there.
Now, I'm sure up where you're at, it snows more often, I would imagine.

Speaker 1 In Milwaukee, no, not as much. It does more often than

Speaker 1 Chicago. But,

Speaker 1 you know, and we did get a, we do have like a very snowy winter this year because of the polar vortex. But, you know, we'll see.
We'll see.

Speaker 1 But yeah, historically, it has gone down a little bit, you know, or quite a bit, I guess. But yeah, I mean, when even in my lifetime, when I was growing up, it was snowing all the time.

Speaker 1 And now, yeah, you get a few days in southeastern Wisconsin

Speaker 1 or a couple, few weeks of snow, just depending on the year. But yeah, you know, that's how it goes.

Speaker 2 I feel like I'm talking to my

Speaker 2 uncle or my cousin. Like, it's just your voice is so familiar.
Your mannerisms are so familiar.

Speaker 1 No, it really is.

Speaker 2 It's kind of a, there's a little homey feel going on.

Speaker 1 We're talking about the weather for the future. We're talking about the weather.

Speaker 2 We're ice fishing.

Speaker 1 You know, it's all

Speaker 1 liquor.

Speaker 1 Checked it all off the list here.

Speaker 2 Tell us about the special, which is why you're here. You're not here to talk about ice fishing.

Speaker 2 You're here to promote your new special, which I understand is is going very well it's on youtube link in the show notes for all the listeners where'd you film it how did it how are you feeling about it thank you i'm feeling great about it you know we put it up on uh youtube um

Speaker 1 that's sort of where i started doing all the things and the last one we put up there and did really well so you know and i got like that the

Speaker 1 just a lot of you know you get you build like a community and um you really just want to uh like embrace that. And I'm glad I did because, you know, people have been really nice.

Speaker 1 You know, you put it on Netflix and they write all these bad reviews about you.

Speaker 1 You put it on YouTube and I can just delete your comments. No,

Speaker 1 I actually haven't deleted any comments yet. I haven't deleted any comments.

Speaker 1 There are a couple mean ones, but that's fine. Most of them are positive.
But no, it's called Neighborly. Had a lot of fun with it.

Speaker 1 We shot it in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is the first stand-up special ever shot in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 Yeah, also the last stand-up special ever shot in Appleton.

Speaker 2 They don't have the infrastructure for it, do they?

Speaker 1 No, honestly, they did such a phenomenal job. The PAC up there, it's a beautiful theater that the Fox Valley and that area of the state that's over by Green Bay.
I mean, that's such a

Speaker 1 such a great audience is over there. A lot of Packers fans.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So anyway, we had a lot of fun doing it.

Speaker 1 Such a blast. Great crew, all that sort of stuff.
And yeah, it's up on YouTube for anyone to, you can do it for free. So that's for all my Midwest cheap people.
I really have a very

Speaker 1 money conscious fan base, let's say.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 I think everybody's money conscious except for the, you know, the billionaires running the country.

Speaker 1 I think all of

Speaker 2 everybody is paying attention. I've got a lot of content creative friends who have subscription-based stuff and people are leaving and they're saying they're sorry.
And it's just the way that it is.

Speaker 2 You know, the economy is cyclical. And so, you know, I'm hoping the depression doesn't come soon.
But you can check it out for free on YouTube right now.

Speaker 2 And make sure you follow him on the social medias because

Speaker 2 you're good for a laugh all the time. Anytime I see one of your videos come up, I'm like, oh, good.

Speaker 2 You honestly, you make me laugh. And you have for a while.
So thank you.

Speaker 1 I appreciate that. You're welcome.
You were starting to sound like my dad there. You're good for a laugh.

Speaker 2 You're good for a laugh.

Speaker 1 Some of the time. Some of the time.

Speaker 2 I don't want to fluff you up too much.

Speaker 2 If you're going to come back, then

Speaker 2 we'll go full cuck if you come back.

Speaker 1 But right now, we're just

Speaker 2 telling your dad, I said,

Speaker 1 I will.

Speaker 2 What number are you in the 12?

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm second oldest.

Speaker 2 You're second oldest. Okay, so that's in 12, that's like being first all.

Speaker 2 There's so many below you that

Speaker 2 what are the age discrepancies? Like, how many years between you and the last one and the youngest one?

Speaker 1 There's 17 years between the oldest and the youngest.

Speaker 1 I can't do the further math on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, it's fine.

Speaker 2 I'm not asking you to, but I just was wondering if you connect with the youngest ones. Uh,

Speaker 2 like when you get that many children in a room, do you connect with the youngest ones as closely as you might connect with the ones that are closer to you in the age?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, the older ones, man, you know, we were diving into mulch piles together um yeah you know trendsetters uh-huh and um

Speaker 1 you know we kind of lived through a lot of

Speaker 1 we lived through more life together um so we there's obviously a connection there with the older ones that you just you can't it's impossible to replicate you know we saw each other um get in deep trouble and all that you know and um so you have a bond there of like any sibling but now with the younger ones um

Speaker 1 they're also they're a different generation there's two generations in a family of 12 and the older ones are better raised, you know, so it's tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 4 I agree. More was paid attention.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I have 12 to 13 children and I'm wondering which ones I can throw out is why I'm asking.

Speaker 1 Are they the young ones?

Speaker 2 No, I don't. No, I'm kidding.
It's a joke.

Speaker 1 I have three. Yeah.
I agree.

Speaker 1 It seems like 12.

Speaker 2 After two, it's just, it's all chaos. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Right? Yeah, that's probably what my parents were thinking, too.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but by the time the youngest one came along, the oldest one was out the door or on the way out the door, right? Yes, yes, it was a rotation going on at least at the very least.

Speaker 2 But I can't even imagine your mom must have gone fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She, I mean, she, she handled it so well, but I mean, there's only so well you can handle 20 kids, you know, and um, but she, she's, she's a saint, she really is.

Speaker 1 She, she did an amazing job, and um, my dad, too, you know, but um, but yeah, we did a lot of stupid things

Speaker 1 and put them through a lot. And, but the younger ones, it's a different existence because, you know, you don't like wake up, come down in the morning at like 7.06 and all the lucky charms are gone.

Speaker 1 You know, these kids had lucky charms. And yes, you know, my brother was one of those psychos that would get down there at 6.45 just so he could start doing spoonful shots of the marshmallows.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But then I just got a bowl of like the unlucky charms and it sucked.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the younger ones, they never had to deal with that sort of stuff.

Speaker 1 But that's okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah, listen. You know,

Speaker 2 everyone has their cross to bear,

Speaker 1 as the Catholics would say.

Speaker 1 Catholic boy by that. Wow.

Speaker 2 What's that?

Speaker 1 I said, you're a Catholic. I can tell by that.

Speaker 2 I'm definitely a Catholic. Well, Reformed Catholic, but that's how

Speaker 2 I grew up Catholic. I went to Catholic school.
You know, I did the whole routine. So

Speaker 1 I've lived enough Catholic lives for all of us together.

Speaker 2 Charlie's new special is available. Like I said, links are in the show notes.
Charlie, a real pleasure.

Speaker 1 I really appreciate you coming on.

Speaker 2 You're welcome back anytime. Are you coming to Atlanta? Is the question we always ask?

Speaker 1 I'll be out there. I'll be out there at some point.
Nothing on the books yet, but we got some stuff close. If you go, my website's charliebarrens.com/slash tour.

Speaker 1 My memory is garbage, so you might have to go there to look and see if I'm around you. But I hope to come to Atlanta.
And if so, I'll bring that bottle of brandy.

Speaker 1 And you guys should come to a show if you want to.

Speaker 1 We would not miss it.

Speaker 2 So let us know.

Speaker 2 Thank you very much, Charlie.

Speaker 1 We really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 And thanks for being here.

Speaker 1 Thanks, guys. Watch for Dear Now, all right?

Speaker 1 Bye-bye. Thanks, Charlie.

Speaker 2 Appreciate it. See you soon.

Speaker 1 Okay. Thank you.

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Speaker 2 Okay, three things that I learned about Charlie during and post the interview.

Speaker 2 2.7 billion views on his collective social media. 2.7 billion with a B.

Speaker 2 That is monstrous.

Speaker 2 By comparison, on our commercial break Instagram, we have 2.7 views.

Speaker 2 So follow us there at the commercial break. We'll tell you when we're going live, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
You can jump in, get involved in the fun.

Speaker 2 That's going to be going on after the first of the year, that first week in January. Really excited to get back to it.
Live here from the studio with you as a part of the show.

Speaker 2 One o'clock, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You never know what you're going to get.
We might do two episodes a day. We don't know.
We don't know. We're going to play it all by ear.

Speaker 2 We're going to see how we're feeling. We're going to hope my old man brain doesn't fall asleep halfway through the first show.
And if that works, then we'll go to the second one. Okay, other thing.

Speaker 2 The only YouTube special ever recorded in Appleton, Wisconsin is Charlie's special, and it's available now on aforementioned YouTube, Neighborly.

Speaker 2 It's out now. One hour, three minutes worth your time.
I know you've got some time off.

Speaker 2 Go watch it. And even if you're not from the Midwest, you're going to get it because he's really fucking funny.

Speaker 2 Okay, and then number three thing that I learned that I'm glad I didn't ask, but if you know who Laura Cleary is, another very popular social media and YouTube creator. There was a little

Speaker 2 hubbalub about the two of them dating there for a while. I almost asked them if it was true, but then Google told me it wasn't.
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Speaker 2 No, Laura, no Charlie, not together. And you'd have to really be down a big rabbit hole to even understand what I'm talking about.
I spent too much fucking time on social media.

Speaker 1 Ah!

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