S3E1 | Did You Miss Us?

Season 3 of Garage Beers Podcast is finally here, and the guys are back with a bang in the first episode "Did You Miss Us?" Jimmy, Nick, and Travis have a lot to catch up on and share their recent adventures with their listeners. In this episode, they talk about their experience planning Bachelor & Bachelorette parties, attending funerals, and the ultimate dining experience at Old Country Buffet.

As always, the guys bring their unique perspectives and hilarious stories to the table, making this episode a must-listen for anyone looking for a good laugh. While there are no special guests featured in this episode, the chemistry between the hosts is enough to keep you entertained throughout.

Tune in to this exciting first episode of Season 3 of Garage Beers Podcast, and hear Jimmy, Nick, and Travis discuss everything from life's big moments to their favorite all-you-can-eat buffets. Don't forget to subscribe and follow Garage Beers on social media @garagebeerspodcast to stay up-to-date with all the latest episodes and updates.

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Jimmy Naprstek

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Nick Wyllie

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Travis Busch

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Alright welcome back. It is now time for his season 3 episode 1. I know all of you have been waiting Well with that we're back that explains why we're in a new vacation 355 days later We're back. That explains why we're in a new location. 355 days later, Garage Beer is, yes, we definitely Irish goodbye to all of you. And do we feel bad about it? Absolutely fucking not. It's just how will the cookie crumble sometimes. And so here we are, new location, down in downtown Dubuque. And that you heard was our new host that we'll introduce here in a second slamming the toilet seat like a good gentleman puts the seat down when he's done but here we are Garage Beer season 3 episode 1 Nick and Jim are back Cole we sent out to pasture he is now down in Texas maybe we'll get him on the show as a guest one of these seasons or one of these episodes rather but here we are season 3 episode 1 of Garage Beers. Okay but anyway we do have a new host and that is our good buddy Travis here. And you know, we couldn't just throw him straight into a live episode right away. So we had to do a little bit of a test run right before this and he had some observations for us. Yeah, Travis definitely thought he was ready to just go like he was some sort of like podcasting all star, but we learned after our test run last week that that was not the case. Correct. Yeah that's fair. A little heavy breathing which I'm always guilty of but when you have two heavy breathers on the mic then then it becomes an issue. Well Jim you asked when we started this, well here Trav here's a microphone, well you don't need practice on the microphone you you've already obviously been around them enough so I thought in my mind I was gonna be perfect and then I realized that we had levels one, two, and three of breathers here. We got the 180 pound guy level one, the 280 pound guy level two, and the 380 pound guy level three. And that, oh my lord, Jim, put that away. That is how the breathing came out of the microphone. So we're gonna work on it. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't use the plug-in that cuts out the the extra breathing, so I'll make sure to buy that plug-in for this week. That's an actual thing? That's a real thing. Wow. I know. Oh, wow. It probably is. You had me, man. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if AI now can take that. I know it can take fans out. Dude, chat, GPM could definitely, or whatever the fuck that's called. GPT. That's what I said. That could probably do it. I don't, that's not how a GPT works. No chance. I've been messing around with that, and sometimes I'll say something that goes, as an AI model, I can't do that. Yeah, I'm so dumb, I can't even figure out how to ask it appropriate questions. I ask questions, and it's like, dude, that's a Google search. Yeah, you just, it's like you get to talk to it like a person, but what pisses me off is, so I pay for ChatTPT the plus, cause I use it for my company. And today I couldn't get on. It said like, we're overloaded. And I want to be like, well, this is exactly why I pay 20 bucks a month. Wow. So. Big baller, shot, $20 a month, Jim? For ChatTPT plus. You know what would be funny, if we could somehow get it so that it's like hooked up to audio and we can get it as a guest on our podcast. Oh dear Lord. Jim stop breathing so hard. It's like, what do you think about that chat? Gives us a response right away. I don't think that was funny. I'm pretty sure in 2023, it would have more of a natural sounding voice than that too. True, they do lift up over crazy shit. Like there's a Steve Jobs, Joe Rogan podcast that never actually happened. But yeah. Well, I've seen them on TikTok where they like, they did it, the one I just saw was Biden like insulting Trump or something. Oh, that's great. And I was like, okay, well clearly he didn't actually say that. What is TikTok? China. Oh. Nevermind. So last couple of years when we've done the show, we usually come up with like five different topics and as I'm sure you all have noticed when you have five topics you end up talking for like an hour and a half and so this year we're gonna try and condense that a little bit we'll see how it goes a little bit of a shorter list of things to talk about today and we'll see where it takes us so with that we're just gonna jump right in and the topic I want to start off with this week is bachelor parties. So I know we've all been on them and they I've been on some that are very mild and well-behaved and tame and I've been on some that are just like you come out of the weekend like okay how how did and not anyone get arrested how did everyone survive so just wanna let's I want to hear from you guys. What are some of your best bachelor party stories? Keeping it PG-13 as Nick always likes to remind us on the show So and I just want to help us not edit as much if we try to keep it PG-13 That means we have to cut less. Yeah, and my mouth just flows at rated R So I got a dial it back a little bit. Yeah, we're gonna that last week. Fuck you Speaking of which if you're wondering why Jim sounds those nasally it's because he has a tampon in his nose He had a bloody nose five minutes ago And if you're if you haven't met me basically if the wind blows the wrong way my nose starts to bleed Today I sneezed which will make sense. I don't know I was I Was brutal so yes if I do sound a little nasally Somehow it's much worse when you do that. Well yeah, because I'm trying to speak through my nose. Anyway, bachelor parties. Sorry. I've only been on one. You've only been on one bachelor party? Not a lot of friends this guy, Nick. Clearly a loser over here. Just you wait. How is that possible? I probably have at least five to ten coming up. Here's why. Because all my best friends are still not married. They're kind of like you. Exactly. Okay. So, it's, they're coming. I'm just going to be an old man during all of them, which will be tough. It's going to be lit. You're 75 years old and doing your first bachelor party. Exactly. Holy shit. I was not expecting that. I thought you would. Also because like, you, you've spent significant time in multiple locations. Right, right. So like, there's the Michigan people. There's the Decatur, there's the San Diego, and then obviously now Dubuque. Like I figured there would have been at least one bachelor party in each of those locations. Where was the one you did? What did you do? That one was in Michigan. It was just a party bus. But the other, I have been invited to a couple that I didn't go to because it was far away. But like I said, all my best friends are still singles. Well, what kind of an excuse did you give for not going to that? That's a great question. I didn't even give it. I just said you didn't. I just didn't respond. Yeah. Really? If someone invites you to like, I just said, I elusive group of like 10 to 15 people and you just didn't show up. I said, I just said, I can't go. I didn't give a reason. I just said, I can't go. And because they knew I'm in like in Iowa, they don't really expect me to go. So Iowa is like a foreign country. Essentially, yes. It's like a five hour, six hour drive. That's gonna be ridiculous. How can anyone do that? He takes a swig of beer. What a nice friend. Well, just so you know, now I'll know to keep you off my list if I ever get married. So do you have any this summer? No. Oh, I got two. Don't have any. Look, none of my good friends are even close to getting married. So when you finally do go on a bachelor party, are you going to know how to act? No, I've been on one. That's a bachelor party. That was a party bus. That doesn't count. No, that's like a Tuesday night. Well, all right. You guys are clearly veterans. Enlighten me here. Jim, take it away. So first off, it largely depends on who the bachelor is. So like a bachelor party for Travis. Oh Yeah, you you need to just go ahead and post your bail ahead of time before you go into the weekend and Let your significant other know whatever day you say you're coming home. It'll be at least 24 hours after that Yeah, get your 24 hours get your emergency contacts in order, right? Bachelor party for me going to be significantly different if if I'm the one planning it, that's the other thing We don't get to plan it though. But like there's certain times where the best man and the groom like are definitely on the same page with, hey, the groom does not want to go to Vegas, so we're not going to go to Vegas. But to me though, that's like the ultimate time, okay, he doesn't want to go to Vegas, it's his bachelor party, we are going to Vegas. Like I think it's the best man's responsibility to do what the groom doesn't want to do. It's not about him. So the bachelor party is not about the bachelor. I'm taking notes over here. The bachelor party is to celebrate the last time, hopefully, in this guy's life that he's single. So I'm not saying you gotta do, I'm not saying you gotta go do like strippers and like the typical things that men and women think of with bachelor parties, but if he is a reserved person who has 10 friends who are a great time, I think you gotta take him to a Vegas or an Atlantic City or Florida do something cool Like if he's the kind of guy who wants to go play nine holes of golf Maybe they'll grill out hot dogs and then play bags and sit in a hot tub and then they'll go home to their what? That should be the opportunity like okay, we're gonna do casinos We're gonna do like I think you got to have that person have come out of his comfort zone. It's his last time single Any disagreements there? I mean, I'm just taking notes over here. The only thing I would say to that is like, if, if the groom is not a super outgoing, like individual, like throwing him into the wolves into the downtown strip of Vegas is not going to be enjoyable with his 15 best friends. But if it's not something he enjoys doing, like I've got a really good friend who, if we would have done something like that for him, he probably would have left and gone home. Like that's like 100% not his scene. Okay, so maybe not Vegas, but maybe something out of his comfort zone locally. Maybe it's still not what we did. Maybe in that example, it's a party bus. Right, right. So, depending on, I think that's first off, it's like, even if Travis wants to disagree with, which is fine. I think most of the time, maybe not all the time, most of the time it's a combination of like what the groom wants and you know then it's kind of up to, at least in my experience, it's kind of then up to the the best man to kind of organize, plan, and carry it out, etc. So you know I think as like if you're like one of the first in that group that's you know, going through the whole marriage crap. It's going to, it's going to air on the side of being more wild, but it's like this, this sliding scale. So like as you get older, you have more money to do crazier things. That's a good point. But you don't necessarily have the same interest in doing those crazy things. Or energy, like, do you need to be in bed by 8 30 PM? Well, yeah. Right. And so that's fine. Or like, you know, I've heard of some national parties that are like three and four days long it's like how how are you going to basically drink 20 beers a day for four days like retreat unless your name is Travis well like they take like a Memorial Day weekend and they leave on a Wednesday so that you know you get through Monday correct you maximize your time etc. So yeah, so I think for me like it's it's kind of like a you know who's going on it you know a lot of times you'll see like brother of the bride or like even I've seen like father of the bride and that kind of like also dictates like and then you kind of then have like multiple things within the same weekend so like you'll you'll go golfing or you'll do like top golf and then it's just like the dads kind of understand like, all right, nine o'clock rolls around. I'm back. Yeah, we're gonna go do our own thing. You guys go out to the bars. See that makes sense. That is a good dynamic. Cause I was gonna say, I don't know if I'd want to invite my dad on a trip like that. But if you do it like that, then yes, I will. Yeah, that's the way it should be. During the day, it should be fun things you can do, probably drinking if you're into that kind of thing. But at nighttime, you can kind of let the people who want to go back to their respective places, their rooms, whatever, go ahead and do that, but know that all of us in the 20s and 30s are probably gonna want to have a good time. Dude, think about this, and you guys are obviously already going on a lot more than I have, but think about how many just even mutual friends we have that aren't married yet that are probably coming up in the next five years. A lot. So get ready for that. True. Yeah, I've got multiple savings accounts Each month I just throw a little bit in there and that's kind of on a rotation basis No, you did make an important note in there though where it's it's you talked about, you know The different types of planning for that the worst and I'll put this I'll take this to my grave the worst thing you could do as a best man or you know a grooms party is to make the groom plan everything. And I've seen it happen probably half of the bachelor parties I've been on. It's ridiculous. The groom is the one collecting the money for the Airbnb. They're the ones planning what they're gonna do for activities. The groom should go there relatively, knowing what's going on, but relatively like, all right, let's see what we got in store. Again, just to play double-dab, unless you're the groom that is very anal and wants things a very specific way, but I would agree. For the most part, it's, hey, these are some things that I would like to do, and then take it and run with it. That's how it's going to be. Everyone says paintball, and we'll do poker. Paintball would be a good time. Not for the groom. They usually end up getting smoked. Let me ask you this. So flip it, Bachelorette, would you care what your potential wife does? You know my answer, I'm going to say absolutely not. I don't care. I feel like I'm kind of with you on that. My thing is though, people know me, I'm not a big strip club guy, and I know my fiance is not, I'm not really worried like, neither of us are going to have fun if our boys or her girls are like, oh we're getting a stripper, we're both gonna be like, all right, well, you guys have fun, I'll be over here in the corner. So Nick, you were asking, you know, does it matter or do you care what like your future spouse does in a bachelorette party? Like, I think for the most part, you would be hard pressed to find a bachelorette party that it goes crazier or wilder than a bachelor party. Not saying it doesn't happen. Right. But I think for the most part if there's one of the two that are gonna be Crossing the line or crazy. It's gonna be the dude Yeah, most of times the groom the groom and the bride are for the most part on bachelor and bachelorettes They're in their 20s and 30s, right? I mean there are obviously some there are 40s and 50s and even later But it seems like the people who are dumb are the guys in their 20s and 30s, right? And the girls in their 20s and 30s aren't necessarily thinking like, let's get fucked up and let's get stripped. You know, they're like, okay, let's go to like, I don't know, wine tasting during the day. Here's the thing. Okay. You said, you know, it's theoretically the party that their last single at, right? Hopefully. Well, so like maybe that that was the case back in the day when it was like a marriage or bust. Right. But now it's like, you're, you know, you would be cheating if you're doing anything with anybody that even before you got married, it's cheating. 100%. So what we need to do is change that so that it's a bachelor party before you start dating somebody. I'm having a date this girl. So what Nick is trying to say is, hey guys, can you please tell me about this party? It's too late for me. I've never really thought about it like that. But then it's like, how do you even do that? I was like, no, I'm talking to someone, and then next thing I know, oh, this is serious. All right, let's go away for a week at dudes. Yeah, that's how it goes. I don't know if that's going to work. And then it's so easy for the girlfriend, who's not even your girlfriend, to be like, oh, I heard about your trip. We are not dating. What's a bachelor party? We're not getting married. So good luck. Back, you know, we started talking about bachelor parties. Have you ever heard of anyone or I guess if you've ever been on one like a party after like you're a guy you know or your boy or whatever gets divorced? Oh like a divorce party? Yeah. No, that would be a blast. I never have you. I mean I've not like me personally, but I've heard of like You know through We're like hey, I got divorced and then we go out to Colorado for a week And we just yeah, that sounds like a bad party our faces off. I could get behind that How do you tell your spouse that you're going on this party like oh, where you guys going? Oh, yeah? Well, by that point, you probably know who he was married to, and it's like, oh, she cheated on him. He left her. He's going to blow off some steam. Right. And at that point- And you just, you keep talking about him, and so your wife doesn't even think about what you did. Right, right, right, right, right, right. He needs his boys more than ever at that point. Right. You're just guys being dudes. I'm not going to, I would go to all of these so I don't I don't mean I'm not trying to play devil's advocate. Blank party Travis is there. All right last thing on bachelor parties before we move on so and I guess this isn't gonna apply to Nick but chime in if you want have you ever been invited to a bachelor party where like you know the groom but like you were like maybe high school friends and like the rest of the bachelor party is gonna be people you don't know. Do you still go? I've done several of them, but that's my personality. I became lifelong friends with people who, we met the bachelor through totally different walks of life and then we went to the bachelor party, I'm like, I see why you like this guy. And some of those people, they become maybe a Facebook friend, you never see them again, but some of those people we actually make real real good friends with and that's happened to me twice so I I encourage you to still go unless you're not a social butterfly and you're gonna have an awful time but if you if you're open to it send it that that reminds me how the hell do we become friends with you in the first place well I've known Jimmy since since our friend Kevin oh so you guys got met through Kevin. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to talk about that later. Right. He'll come up here in a little bit. But yeah, Kevin introduced Travis and I. And then what I didn't realize at the time though was that Travis and Nuge were good buddies. Oh, I thought you guys were. No. So that's kind of a crazy story too. I mean, we were in the same class, went to different high schools, obviously in the same town. But that was actually one of those things a couple years ago where it was you and Kevin and Nugent Buffalo Wild Wings and I showed up and I'm like oh this kid's pretty cool and then like a month later we spent every single day together for like a week and a half because it was over Christmas break and we had nothing going on we were just getting drunk. Yeah I didn't know that. You said about the illustrious bender that yeah I did that. I was in Florida for Christmas with my family and I'm checking you know Instagram you know pretty much every like other minute minute because That's a topic for another time But basically like I keep seeing like ever it's a new day and Brian's drinking at the bar I mean, he's with the same people every day and I'm always one of them and he's always there and then it was Alyssa and Haley and I think Amber yeah, that's that's how I became good friends with new just I knew all of them. December 2020? Yeah, ish. No. 21 maybe. Was a pandemic going on? I don't know. It was yes, December 2020 going into 21. Okay, so it was like the pandemic was kind of over. Oh, we thought it was over. Right, right, right. But that's that's a confusing word for me. Because 20, before those two started dating, and then we had the New Year's party at my new house But you guys had had your bender Basically, they're leading up to that part. Okay at your party I couldn't even get drunk because it was one of those were if you ever been on a little bit of a bender and then You drink so much and then you can't even feel alcohol anymore You're like I gotta go detox and month and that night someone made jello shots and we put the garbage can in the corner and I remember this because two weeks later my parents came up to see basically this brand new house that I had just bought and moved into and there are spots of red jello on the wall. My dad was like, oh it looks like you guys had a party already. I'm like, oh shh. That's actually one of the roommates he was working on an art project. Yeah, yeah art that's what you can call it. But anyway so. So you guys became friends before Nuge. Yeah, I've known Jim since 2015. So then I don't know when I met you. Well, if you recall, I met you a few times through that friend group of Cole and all them and Kid and all those people. In that friend group, I met you a few times. And at first, I was not a fan of Nick. For reasons we can talk about later. I remember you told me this so that so we just met just because like random group yeah yes yes and then and then like months later I actually was like oh this Nick guy's pretty cool I like him a lot now we're neighbors now we're neighbors so slash my buddies babe yeah okay why do you always go to how is that too far that's too far we're PG-13 on this podcast I think kids in their high middle school say butt buddies. No. Butt hurt. That's a thing. So basically to sum all that up, Nick, you're gonna have to report back when you go on. Yes, my next one. I don't know when this is gonna be. Season four of Garage Beer. I'd love to be on this, probably season five. Dude, yeah. And if the three of us are ever on a bachelor party together, we will record an episode of Garage Beers from the bachelor party. 100%. There's gotta be at least one or two that we would all three be at. I can think of one. With some local friends. Are any of them coming up this year? Probably not, no. No, no, no. Do we have anyone that's engaged in our friend group? Yeah, me. For three years. Thanks for bringing it up. I wasn't going to, you did. So who knows when that's gonna happen, but. Never. If I have a bachelor party, if I ever get married, you guys are invited. No, but we've got some that are like on the brink. But no one like, realistically every engagement is a year. Yeah but that doesn't mean the bachelor party is a year. Right, right. Usually the bachelor party is within like two months of the wedding date. Yeah so it's not gonna happen within a year probably for us. So we don't have, so if you're listening, if you are listening to this podcast and you're having a bachelor party this summer, we will come and record an episode with you or your friend group from your bachelor party. We'll just figure out the financials on how we get there. So I'll buy the beer. You guys can figure it out. Well, yeah, we will bring the booze for the night that we're there, but hit us up. We'd love to come and hang out. Unless you're doing like, unless you're in Michigan, because Lord knows that's too far for Nick. It's eight hours, dude. It is not. It is. Where in Michigan are you going? I'm going all the way to Detroit. That is not easy. So I guess we're going to draw a circle around us, a radius, and it's seven hours. Yeah, if you're within five, I'll give them. Five, yeah, five is reasonable. Lake of the Ozarks is like 6 and 1. I would make that trip. So let's say seven. If you're within seven hours of Dubuque, Iowa, and you're having a bachelor party this summer, and you want the boys from the Garage Rears podcast to come. Should be. I agree. And we will be there. I think for our purposes, just so that Nick feels better about it, we need to say seven is a hard cut off. If it's seven hours, one minute, we're not doing it. Just so that Nick feels better. I didn't feel bad in any way. All right. So next topic for tonight's show, things I'm still mad about. This was something we talked about in our spring training episode last week and we talked about a little bit more in the group chat and so I know Travis has a couple that he was thinking about and so well you kind of passed over a segment there that was gonna lead me into something I'm still mad about from bachelor party. It was on my list. From bachelor party. Oh yes. Some bachelor parties get out of hand. Yeah and like I've been on some where like everyone is pretty wild and you just you hope and pray that no one gets hurt, no one gets arrested, no one pukes. Well you can't always prevent the last one. And then you have some where like there's the one guy that just drinks and drinks and drinks and he's fine and then you have the other one where he drinks and drinks and next thing you know like he doesn't know his left shoe from his right shoe and so then it becomes an issue when you're going out to the bars at nine o'clock in the evening and the individual is so intoxicated that he's making comments towards other people in the line and the bouncer overhears these comments and literally you walk up to him and he just without even like saying like show me your ID He just says yeah, you're not you're not coming in. No It worked out. Did this person take that kindly? Well, he didn't know he didn't know his left shoe from his right shoe Oh, so he just kind of stumbled away. He was so fucked up in his mind. There's 500 people in the bar He's like, oh it must be close. Yeah. Yeah, he literally thought the bar was closed and that's why we weren't going in No, so then I along with one of the other guys was like all right I like we're not just gonna let him walk a mile and a half back to the Airbnb So afterwards taking 45 minutes to walk this bar because we were walking at a Leisurely pace we literally turn around and start walking back in the whole time back. He's like So what bar we going to? Why are we going we should stop and get some drinks if we're going back. No, like there's a reason why we're not with the group anymore because they wouldn't let you in and like I've I've been very drunk on a number of occasions. I've seen them it's been great. And there's a few times. Jones County Fair. I wasn't there for that one. So Jones County Fair and they have it was $5 for a 25 ounce bush light. These are like the silo cans, but you had to buy them in tickets. So I handed the lady a 50. I got 10 tickets, which equals 250 ounces of bush light. Do some quick math. 21 beers. That's a lot of beers. And so I don't even know who was playing that night. I literally couldn't tell you. Maybe Luke Bryan or Kip Moller or somebody? Yeah couldn't tell you no idea all I know is the ground was a little muddy and it was one of those like I remember starting to drink but then I don't remember getting back on the bus oh yeah we took a party bus there yeah I remember being back on the party bus and one of the girls that was on the trip with us was like starting to fall asleep on me I for some reason decided I was gonna drink some Jack Daniels. You did? Yeah. And then it all goes black. We get back to Dubuque. What hour probably? Yeah hour 15. We get back to Dubuque and again I don't remember this. The next thing I remember is waking up and it's 3 30 in the morning and I am face down in this gravel parking lot where we all met up where we all got on the bus and the bus dropped us off. 3 30 in the morning? 3 30 in the morning and there was no one. But that was like four three hours after we had gotten dropped off there. Yes and there is no other humans Physically there and now like it's all kind of starting to come back to me, and I'm thinking to myself Okay It's 3 30 in the morning. No one's here. I don't know like what happened And so I start calling I luckily my phone wasn't dead And I literally start calling anybody who in my mind and this I just think you remember is who do I have in my phone that would be a way up and awake at 3 30 in the morning to come pick me up and I call I think it was like four or five different people and no one either like they either didn't answer or they weren't like they weren't able to come and pick me up so at this point it's now like four probably 4 15 ish and And I'm like, okay, I'm going to sit here in my car another half an hour, try and like, cause I'm still like kind of, it's only been four, four hours. Right. And I drink. 21 beers and some Jack Daniels in you. Yes. I mean like the, it was like literally just like a shot of Jack Daniels. Okay. And that's to put them over the edge. The straw that broke the camel's back. That was the final straw. And so finally it's like 4.30 and I'm like, okay, I can walk, but it's kind of one of those I probably shouldn't drive, but at that point I really didn't have, I mean, I guess- You were out of options. Well, the only other option was like, I guess I've heard you could call the police and say like- Oh, great idea. Ham shit face. Correct. That doesn't sound like a legitimate option. So I get in my car, turn the car on, roll all the windows down. And I'm like, Okay, I've got I think at that time I was living in it was probably four, four or five miles there. And somehow or another, I get myself home. And I come to find out the next day that when the party bus pulled back into the parking lot, Nick, people saw me get off the bus and then the bus like people stayed and then the bus took him downtown. Well one of our buddy's girlfriends who was pregnant at the time and wasn't drinking supposedly saw me and like made a comment about me being in the parking lot and then just decided not to tell anybody and just left me there. What the hell? So in my defense I was one of the people got on the bus my backpack down if I knew you're there Jim At the very minimum. I would have at least laid next to you and kept you warm Cuz that's the kind of friend I am so let me get this straight You stopped at the parking lot to drop people off that were going to potentially leave were sober they can get in their cars and go Home and there were some of those people yeah, and Jim was out of the bus He could have hopped in with you go to take a pee or something like why'd you get off in his pants? So you probably got off and then immediately just the lights went out oh yeah no the lights were off before i got off the bus no i mean like they came back on at a really low dim for you to walk off the bus apparently right turn back out so the moral of the story was in your car when you were from where you woke up yeah maybe you were attempting to walk to your car to sleep i mean i from what i can remember it was like where the front door is. About 20 feet? Yes. Okay, so maybe that is where- Were you in the middle of the parking lot? Yes. Oh my god. I wasn't like laying next to my car. I was like face down in the middle of the parking lot. The way I understood the story was you fell asleep next to your car and I thought, oh maybe he thought he was going to throw up so he got out. That's incredible. No, I remember distinctly waking up and like there was- you know how like when your skin is like damp or whatever, like the rocks will stick to your face yeah I had rocks like a grandma stuck to my face. So the moral of the story is for those of you listening that are going on party buses or drinking excursions have a drinking buddy. Yes. You gotta and even like it's not even that like if you were on a party bus I don't care if it's the person that like you you wish they weren't with you on that group like if you see them pass out in the parking lot, like fucking say something. Wait, was that you? Was a person who was pregnant? Was that you to them? Like, I don't care if he's passed out the parking lot. No idea. I haven't seen her since. I'm sorry I'm laughing, but that is why we don't condone heavy drinking, folks. Drinking is bad for you. Anyone need one? No. Um, yeah, mine is. Anyways, so that, that whole party bus excursion was organized by our friend Kevin. And you know, Kevin, um, loves Bush Light. If technically now that I know the story, if this podcast wouldn't exist without Kevin. True. Right. Yeah, absolutely true. Which is crazy. So, uh, the segment now, that's a great lead in. Kevin organized the party bus. Kevin also is a part of the things I'm still mad at. Oh, God. And it's not him, personally. It's what he did to my favorite restaurant. One day, I work with Kevin, good buddy. One day, being cordial and asking inquisitive questions, as he always does, says, hey, Trav, unprovoked, 8.30 in the morning, what would you say your favorite restaurant in town is? And he was just genuinely wondering. And I said, there's this place called Champs that everyone in Dubuque knows about or knew about, and they have a great menu, great service, place is huge, so it's, you know, you're never packed in there, great beer selection, it's just an all around good place. Anyone can go there and find something that they like and the food's always good. I say champs. No joke, four hours later Kevin sends me breaking news, champs to end all restaurants in the continental United States due to you know poor production. There is one store that makes money which is Dubuque, Iowa and that will also be closed down but the management will stay and open a pizza joint. The B Corp already has 500 pizza restaurants. So yeah, things I'm still mad about is Champs and Kevin Meyers because I think butterfly effect, him asking me and me saying that's my favorite, and this is again my gambling luck, that is what happens. He says, what's your favorite? I tell him that's my favorite. Four hours later they closed. So that's things I'm still mad about. And right now, I've probably been at the place that replaced it maybe once in five years. It's not good. It's okay. But there's no champs. No. Champs was pretty great. Did he have the inside scoop or was that? If he had the inside scoop, I hope to God not because he knew my answer before he asked it. So I was kind of like, why are you asking me? Right. But if he knew. So if we ever bring Kevin on the show, which we should, one of us will ask him and we'll see what he says. Oh, I'll be hot. Because he still brings it So did you still bring it up? Hey, Trav, remember that one time I asked you for your face? And then you said, Champs and Fords, and they closed down? Yeah, I remember, asshole. So, I guess I'll kind of piggyback off of that. So, there used to be this pizza place on the north end of town called Watershed. Great place. And by the looks of it, you would have never guessed that this was a great, that this was anything right so the restaurant itself is behind a gas station and yeah but by the dome there's just a generic sign that said watershed cafe and they had this pizza I don't even remember what it's called but sauce toppings, crust, sauce cheese, crust. Like a lasagna? Well lasagna doesn't have crust. So replace the noodle with crust. I guess I never thought about it like that but basically like this pizza like a large pie was like $35 which today is like a medium Happy Joe's pizza. And so they were open until probably 2016-17 I think the last time I went there was with beef. I took him there before he graduated because he was a student worker of mine and it's one of those like you go in you never think oh this is gonna be the last time that we're eating this and then all of a sudden closed its doors and there's one like if there's one thing Dubuque desperately needs it's good pizza and reliable pizza. Like Marcos is good but they only have one phone line so trying to call in an order on a Friday night, you literally and then not only that but then like the production, the delivery time, we used to joke like when we would order it regularly, you would have to call like three to four hours before you actually wanted it so that it would get there by like 6.30. Yeah, I do remember you telling me that. I think you're actually somehow downselling how much of a place Watershed was that if you weren't from town, you would never go there. I mean, it looked like a dump. It was by the literal dump. Is there? The West End is that, that's a salvage. This is the North End. West End salvage is right there. Oh. It's by the dump, by a gas station where I would never stop at. Yeah. And it's this little place with the terrible sign, terrible exterior, terrible interior, but the pizza was awesome. Well it's not a shocker that it closed then. So I learned the story why it closed. Okay. So do you guys remember when Barrel House first opened? The head chef was a big guy. Mike something. Mike Breeze maybe? I don't know what his name was. Yeah that sounds right. No one knows Jim. Whatever. It was here already when I was here. Yeah so that guy has worked with multiple restaurants in town and then so he got hooked up with who's a tow truck service W starts with up Wenzel's okay Wenzel's towing the guy was like hey I want to branch off start a new business but I don't know anything about restaurants was my guy knows knows restaurants knows how to do it we'll see a watershed he the Wenzel's guy hired him to run Watershed, helped him all out, got him going and then like when it was doing really well for that space, supposedly Mike was like, hey, I want a cut of the profits and the Wenzel's guy was like, well that wasn't a part of our agreement until like after year three or something like that and then so basically Mike was like, all right, well if you're not gonna give me a cut of the profits then I'm walking out. And then why don't you close? Is this a verified, like, is this common knowledge? Or is this- It's a Dubuque story that has probably been told from person to person to person. The telephone effect or- Yeah, so I'm probably like the eighth person in line to have told this. So like, Mike couldn't even be the guy's name for all I know. But basically it was like one guy who was running a day-to-day, wanted more cut of the profit. The guy who owned it said, you know, that wasn't our agreement or whatever. And it was just over. It was literally just like one day it closed. Yeah. Well, how about this? Remember I was with you. So I think I've told you this story before. So we go across the street to this new barbecue restaurant, literally from our house. You've been there? Well, one time with them. And we go there. The brand new one. Like the brand new one. They all get their food. I go to order and she goes, um, we're out of meat. I was like, in their defense, they say like their hours, I think they close at like seven or seven 30 and we walked in at six 45 and like with, with barbecue, like you can, I'm just going to throw some more meat in the fryer. It's like, it takes eight to 12 hours to cook. Yeah that's fair. You think they'd have some meat though, like hey we're out of pork and we're out of ham, we're out of turkey. Literally nothing. Right. I was like is there anything and they're like no. I got some french fries. All right well looks like I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy a nice. Well that was also a night where like we were all together and at like 6 15 we were like oh let's go to this barbecue place. Yeah. They close at 7 we can get in there and like the thought never even crossed my mind of yeah they don't just have you know it's not like a McDonald's they just throw a frozen patty on the grill it's like no if they're out there right right now here's why I'm an idiot and I would have genuinely probably said this with some degree of like I'm serious hey all my friends are eating like maybe I'll go grab a Jack's pizza could you just throw it in the oven for me I could have ran back to the house and had her cook me up something. Charge you whatever you want, I don't care. She did say, well, they'll hook me up fat next time and never showed up again. That's on you. So, also that place started out as a food truck and then because of their popularity they decided to open a restaurant. So I think it just, it kind of takes, I mean I would be honest, it probably takes time to adjust to running a full restaurant versus basically like a catering truck. Oh yeah, and the trucks that meet, they just close up shop and drive on. True. Can't kick you out as customers. I mean, you're there. Yeah. So I guess if you're, what's something that I'm still upset about that's not food related. Ooh, I might have to think about that one a little bit. Nick, do you have anything? No, I thought that was just going to be a Travis segment. Because I'm mad about irrational things. Yeah. Well, just cause I figured you'd come up with something. Oh, I'm usually mad about something that is so stupid, but like people are like, how are you still mad about that four years later? I'm like, still bothers me. No. Right, yeah, exactly. All right, next segment. All right, so moving right along, Nick, who is our social media guru extraordinaire, if you don't follow us on Instagram, go ahead and do that garage, was it garage.beers.podcast? Garagebeers.podcast. Yeah, that one. If you're listening to this podcast and you're not following us on Insta, what a slap in the face. Yeah, that'd be a little odd because I feel like that's how we found most of our followers, actually, or they found us, rather. Right, and Nick's way of doing that is pretty ingenious, and we learned a little bit, had a couple blackouts on our social throughout that because of Nick trying to buy our followers or hack our followers. No, no, I've never once bought followers. These are organic followers. It's from deleting people. It was from unfollowing people that weren't following us back, to be fair. But I just did that too quickly. So Instagram periodically thinks I'm a bot just because of how fast I move. How long were you blocked for, banned from? I think it was only a couple of days at a time. There was one time. One time it was like a week. Early on it was like a week. That happened to my fiancee with hers. I mean, obviously her dog account is crazy. How much would we have to pay her to basically change her whole, like keep her followers, but just basically change her account and branding to GarageBeebers? I know exactly what the number would be because I just did her taxes. We're not doing that. Okay, but usually I put out some sort of question on the day that we're recording and we go over the responses of the followers and then we kind of give our twist on it. Also, we are coming up, we're not that far away from 2000 followers, so. Maybe we can get a shout out from your fiance's Instagram. Do our follower bases overlap at all? Not one fucking bit. Oh, these dog followers, like, what the hell, I don't want to hear about garage beer. We do a collab post she What if we got the the bush light dog beer? Sure to do that and I try to do once with my man, and she's like mmm. That's really sweet, honey But no wow she's like oh, this is a business tour. What about this? I mean you're a professional photographer a little on trade for tat come on Jim Bob. I'm open to it. All right, anyway, I said, what are obligations in life you deem unnecessary? And I'll go over our responses here. Yes, please. All right, so we got a few responses here. One is, we have three of them that are from the same person. They're all pretty funny. One says- Must have been a light day at work. Taxes, which I would say I Think the thing about taxes is I think it's bullshit that the government knows like how much money You need to pay them for the money you earn, but it's up to you to figure that out right somebody right Somebody's got a great somebody's got a great stand-up bit on that where they're like Oh, we know exactly what she was but it's on you Jail Yeah, I think I'm wrong jail. Yeah, like And then listening to garage beers What wait that's an unnecessary obligation I'm a tracker down. She feels obligated to listen to us. Yeah, that's Friend yeah appreciate that so rude and then the same person said liking Jim social media posts. Wow. Wow. Unnecessary? Come on. No one's forcing you to like my stuff. I will. That's because you're a good friend. Yeah, that's right. Beep. Okay, and then the last answer is by a different person. Funerals. If it wasn't a direct family member or if it wasn't an unexpected death, don't go. It's an interesting take. I got nothing to say on that. You know, I actually had someone from a different culture reach out to me a couple weeks ago, because I guess in this, I guess culture is the right word, like they're from a different country. Like when they do a funeral, it literally is like, everything's a celebration of life, and like they bring in a photographer, they bring in a videographer, and they like document the entire thing. Were they hiring you or inviting you? They wanted to hire me. No way. To come and film basically this waking funeral and like I was already obligated because of the weekend. Jim's like how much final expense fund do they have allotted? Well I'm like that's the tough thing because it's like right I mean do I charge them like my normal rate like? Yes. Do you know this person? Loosely. Then yes. You know what's interesting, speaking of funerals, because we were having this conversation and you were saying how you want your funeral done a very specific way, and you want it to be fun and everything. You have it written down? I do, now, after our conversation. And here's the thing, now that you've said that, I've had like two other people specifically tell me the same thing, so maybe this is gonna be a trend going forward with like our generation, where our funerals are gonna be a little bit more fun. Should I go through mine now? Yeah. So it's on the air. Yeah. So I've been saying this for two years. My fiance hates when I say this. She has no choice. It's my final wishes. What I want to do is I've been to way too many funerals. They are all somber, right? Even the ones of the people who don't want them to be somber or still somber. So what I want to do is no line, no nice clothes, no funeral home. What I want to do is, included in my life insurance, I have a special amount set there. What I want everyone to do. How much are we talking, like? A good amount. Like 10 grand? Roughly, more. Okay. More. I'm gonna arrange transportation to and from for every single person who wants to come. It's paid for. Okay? Are we going to Dubuque? Or is this? Oh yeah, yeah. This will be at like, you know, maybe like a brewery or maybe like a park on a nice day or something like that, like overlooking the river or something. Better hope you don't die in like December. Well, we'll figure it out. Anyways, anyways, a translation to and from. You're not allowed to dress nice, your crying is frowned upon. Are Crocs required? Crocs are more than optional. There's somewhere between mandatory and highly encouraged. Okay. I'd buy a pair just for that. I'm just gonna cater in pizza and wings, anything you want to drink, there's bartenders there, do not tip, like it's all taken care of. Just go there and have a party on me the way I would want to be if I was there, because I don't want people going there and being like, he was so, he was the nicest guy. Like, I don't give a shit about any of that. Like, I got my friends, like just go there and have fun and celebrate the way I would want you to if I was there. Here's the problem. All of us, all your friends, for sure would be okay with doing this. My family is him. You're sure about this? I don't, that's not their choice. Well, I know, but your family are gonna be trying to take it over and be like very somber about it. I think. I'm very explicit about that. Okay. They have little to no say. So in this document, do you have like a, you know, how like people name an executor of their estate? Like, do you have someone named? Are you trying to get a cut of this or what? No, no, no, no. That's like in charge of planning this outside of a family member. I don't. I would highly. Yeah, you should. Ooh. Nuge. You have enough friends. Nuge. Yeah. Put Nuge in charge of planning your funeral party. I actually do want security there. If someone shows up in a suit, get out. Someone shows up. What if they, in the moment, rip the sleeves off? They are now the executor and they get to make the future changes to the party of that day. So you want no serious part? No, I don't. I mean, there can be a slideshow of pictures or whatever, but I really don't want people going there being all sad. What about like an open mic? Oh, absolutely there can be an open mic, but no sad bullshit. So borderline like a roast. I would love that. A roast would be great. I would love that. Have karaoke there. Have, you know, like, I want people going there and being like, that was more fun than any wedding I've been to. We'll cut up segments from you on the podcast and act like we're having a live conversation. We'll get done with it like they did with Steve Jobs in general. Well, hopefully this is far enough down the line that we can train an AI model to think and- I mean, as long as I'm thinking this could be three months from now to 20 years in that range. So, I think- But not longer than 20 years. I would think the way I drink that that's going to be a good number, but- Nah, you've been working out. You'll be good. True, true, true, true, true, true. I got Coach Wiley. So speaking of funerals, like, closed casket. That's fun to talk about, let's do that. Closed casket, open casket, cremated. Next segment, please. Why not? All right, why not, why not, why not. I wanna be cremated. Oh yeah, I'm not gonna, oh yeah. It's cheaper too. Well. Like, why am I spending money on a damn... A pot is cheaper than a casket. I don't need a pot. Give me a goddamn double wrap target bag. Stop. Wait, so you want to be cremated. Where do you want your ashes to be though? That's the real question. I'm like, I've thought a lot about, probably more than a person my age normally does think about that. That's anxiety. Right, well, and it kind of changes. Like for a while there, it was like the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota. And then now it's kind of like you go, I don't know, something like, I feel like it's gotta be somewhere that means something, right? It's not just like, oh yeah, just dump me in the ocean. I think dump me in the Mississippi. Yeah? Like wherever that spot was can be where you visit. I don't care if you need to have, some people need to have that spot. Some little kids gonna swim around. I do like having, even if you're like your cremate, like having a spot to go to. Like a tree where you plant it and it becomes a tree. My dad's idea was just wild and he still wants me to do it. He wants me to mix him with some cold patch cement that I can buy for 10 months. This is what he wants. Basically put his ashes into cement, make it into a big block, and take it into the ocean and throw it. And he's like, I saw a History Channel documentary about people doing this and basically it becomes a whole ecosystem in 10 years. So if that's what he wants, I'll do it. That's a weird excuse for me to go to the ocean. Weirdly smart, yeah. Well, he's thought about it. I don't know, man. But he's not Jim's age, he's 76. I think, do people, are open caskets common these days? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless you were, like, you died in some, like, tragic, where your body's like this big. How are we talking about this right now in the pod? We're talking about anything that happened in season 3, ep 1. Yeah, it's alright. We're throwing a curveball to our listeners. With the new host, we're maybe turning in a new direction. So what do you think about depression? What are we doing? Funny you mention that. That was actually one of the things I wanted to talk about tonight. Please stop. Seasonal depression. Oh, seasonal, yeah. I get that. I get that. So, I was thinking about this, because it's been 70s here in Dubuque this week. It's been fucking great. There's everyone's who owns a motorcycle has been out on I've been out riding the last two days. Didn't you do a thousand miles? Two years ago. Two years ago? Oh, but I think you're doing it again. Yeah, I will. Like this year. Yeah Thousand miles in a day. Yeah, but where I'm going with this is like so here in the Midwest like we have It's not even like it's that it's a super long winter. It's like four months. It depends on the year, right? Right. But then like, do people in Arizona have seasonal depression where it's like nice? My sister Natalie says yes. She lives in... Really? Yeah, she lives in El Segundo, which is like Santa Monica, I mean, kind of near LA. And like in the wintertime, it's 62 and she wears a jacket. She's only been there for five years. It still does get darker sooner. Yeah, the day... That doesn't change. Well, for now. What if they change the whole daylight savings time? Yeah, but even then it's still... Even then, the days are still shifty. Yeah. Yeah. But like, she's like, yeah, it's cold, people are grumpy. I'm like, bitch, it's 62 degrees. Like, you're telling me people in Miami are like sad when it's January? I think people in Miami are retired or drug dealers. So I think they're fine. I feel like when I was in San Diego, the weather did not change at all throughout the year. It got a tad colder. I wouldn't know what that's like to live. I don't think there was. I couldn't do it. There wasn't a significant change in mood. There wasn't. Yeah, I think you have to have some seasonality. So on the flip side, though, you notice, I feel like I've noticed it this week, just in the last two to three days, people are in a much better mood now that it's finally nice out again. Not the lady at the roundabout today for me. Well. I got the old bird today and I was just laughing my ass off. She actually gave you the bird. Oh yeah, she was big mad. It was her, if you all, just real quick, my quick tangent about roundabouts. If you've ever been in a roundabout, all you have to do is look to your left. If there's no cars coming from your left, you're good. This lady to the, I just lost my headphone, one second. They can still hear you though. You can still hear me, perfect. The lady to the right of me, uh... Was not looking to her left. Apparently not. She was probably looking both ways, which is, you don't need to do that. Anyways, I go, because there's no cars coming for a good while, like we're talking, I had all the time in the world, I pull out, she pulls out directly in front of me, and then she locks her brakes up and so do I, I'm the nice guy, I didn't T-bone her when I could have. She is like looking directly at me from the side window and I gave her the wave that says hey no big deal and a smile and I even think I said no problem and she looked at me and her face went from like oh what's going on to you son of a bitch and she gave me a glare in a middle finger and sped off and most people would probably be like well that was rude or being upset and I just could not stop laughing. I'm like this lady clearly doesn't know how to do roundabouts. And it's not a woman driver thing. A lot of my friends or men don't know roundabouts. But lady, you're in the wrong. And it made my whole day. I was laughing for, I was out loud laughing my car for five minutes. You know what's scary than that, though, is when you're going in a roundabout on a motorcycle and people don't know how they work. Yeah, that's. Right. So my, my funny interaction with another driver was about a month ago. I was pulling into a 7-Eleven and there's two cars parked there and I'm entering a parking lot. The one car was already backing up. Are you in your motorcycle or your car? No, I'm in the car. Okay. So the one car backs up and the driver of the second car, she's walking back to her vehicle, was not in her vehicle yet so as soon as vehicle a was clear I began moving into their spot well she didn't want to wait and she starts pulling out and I didn't stop and I just pulled right into the spot and I get out and start going inside and I didn't even turn around and I just hear from behind me hey nice fucking job asshole you serious did you just keep walking I just kept walking. Didn't even like turn around and acknowledge her. That's just why I'm such an idiot. But I'm nice to everybody. I'd be like, you like my asshole? Like I have a nice asshole? Jim, all you would have had to do is stop in your tracks, turn around and look her in the eye. She would have been like, sorry. I don't know if she would have. No, I mean, you're out the window. She was that much of a Karen, you think? There was a lot of heat behind that nice fucking job, asshole. Oh my god. Hey, you know what I always say, give the better of the doubt. That lady could have just got fired, found her husband. Was this in the winter? It was like a month ago. Was it cold? It wasn't warm. Seasonal depression? Yeah. I will say, but here's part of it, though. I will say it does seem like you have so many more options to do fun things when the weather's nicer. So it's kind of like, it goes hand in hand. When you get more vitamin D, but also there's more concerts, boating, golfing, hanging out with friends outside. Yeah, we're in Alderaan. Alderaan. But to me though, the reason I always say I love Iowa and I'll never move, even though we have the most extreme swings from the coldest to the warmest, like the temperature swing is 150 degrees, you know? That's the most, like most severe in the country. You know, like even if you're up in Canada like our listeners. Love you very much Even if you're up in Canada, like it goes from like 60 or 70 maybe 80 to like minus 20 We'll go like a hundred and five to minus 20, you know So I think for me the reason that I love Iowa is I appreciate the seasonality so like in the wintertime I'm thinking about winter activities. I'm thinking about you know going snowboarding with friends. I'm thinking about how much I like This is so stupid. But like I like when I'm hot I can go outside for a minute. I like that when I'm meeting up with buddies, I can send beer outside and it gets cold on its own. There are some great things about the cold. I agree. I think three of them are very particular to me, but there are fun things to do, and you can't appreciate how great spring, summer, fall are without a cold winter. You just can't. No, it's true, it's true. When it just got nice out, I like got excited because obviously then you know fun things are coming. You're in a sweatshirt and shorts. Yeah. Oh, it's either, oh yeah, it's fall or oh yeah, it's starting to get warm. And summer obviously is great. We all know that. And like the winter, sometimes it drags on like, okay, I'm ready for this shit to be over. Like when we got nine inches of snow four weeks in a row on the same day. Like, I don't think you can appreciate seasonality without having four real seasons. But do you need to be able to appreciate seasonality? Yes. I think so. See, I'm telling you, if I lived in a place like Charlotte, Texas, Arizona, and like, for me, and this is obviously me specifically, and I can get on my bike and ride 340 days 40 days out of 365, I'd be pretty freaking happy and non-stop. Yeah, I don't know. You should try it out. Not all the time, Jim. You should try it out because- You just ride faster. There's a- No, no, no. I don't mean- when you're off the bike. Yeah, I know. And I know that's a valid point. I'm not trying to argue that, but the fact of the matter is that like for four months out of the year, every time I go in and out of my garage, I have to look at my bike and be like, okay, it's Three more months until I can ride that. Yeah, but you're like me though and Wiley can't relate But no, you're a bit you're a big guy when you know when we you and I there's nothing better than we were hot as Fuck and you open the door in the winter time you get that cold air on you That is so nice. I can't even and here's the thing. I Got nodding for those wondering. I do think that we're all the same. We grew up in the Midwest, so it's in our blood and in our nature to expect the holidays to be cold, right? It just goes hand in hand. And when you're out in a warm climate during the holidays, it kinda sucks, actually. Like, I've experienced it. Oh, you don't say. Yeah, you go- Christmas lights and a palm tree? It doesn't make any sense, yeah. So you get thrown off, you're like, okay, really the only crappy months are January and February. More so February. Because November you get a little bit of decent weather. February's the worst. You get Thanksgiving. It's a short month. December's a lot of fun. You get the holidays. You actually are like, it's a welcome winter. Time off work. And even in the Midwest, people are still in a good mood because of Christmas. Right, right. And it's time off work too. I mean, you get that, you know, maybe you only get a few days off, but like no one's in the office. Yeah, yeah. It's more fun. And then January and February suck. But two months, sorry. I think more so February though, because like January is so right. People got their stupid resolutions that I hate. They go to the gym for two days. It's like, I've been there for two months, okay people, I don't wanna see you in there. So, but you, like you've got people and friends who like live in different climates. And like we were talking about San Diego and like you mentioned your sister, I've got a good buddy that lives in Charlotte that like for them, cold is like 50 degrees. Boo hoo. Right. And so like for you, do you have like conversations or like do you text these people when it's cold as hell here in Iowa and they're like, yeah, it's not nothing like that here. Yeah, they laugh. But uh, but here's the thing. They they laugh because they grew up suffering in the winter in January and February and want to rub it in our faces that we have to suffer through that, versus I don't think it actually matters to them as much as they're trying to make it seem like. You get what I'm saying? I think my aunt is a prime example of that because she moved to Vegas. It's my dad's sister. And she always, not brags, but she's always wrote it on Facebook how nice the weather is. But that's one thing I put as a plus for where we live because she'll post some days like it's 52 in Vegas on March 1st and it's 61 here. Like we appreciate those days so fucking much. You know when it's 61, when it's been 20 the week prior, like that, everyone in the world, everyone in I should say our town, is ear to ear smiling. Right. And here's the thing. Midwest summers are very hard to beat. Because you've got amazing sunsets, you've got lush green everything, you've got humidity, which I like, which you probably don't like. Big guys hate it. I appreciate the humidity. You appreciate the humidity. Yeah, I like it. Do you like sweating when you poop? It doesn't get to that point for me. Bro, you like going to a golf course and the only option for a shitter is out on the course and you're in there and it's 106 feet. No, see that sucks, but I don't know if I've ever had to do that. Golfing when it's super hot out, love it. Have you ever had to go to something and you have to pack two different shirts because you know that you're going to have to change halfway through your day? I've never done that. No. No, just me. Okay. Would you go undershirt and undershirt? Always. Because then I sweat through the undershirt and it keeps the outer shirt looking preventable. That doesn't make any sense. Yes it does. Because what happens when that wet undershirt touches the outer shirt? Then you change the undershirt. So I'm saying like I'll go and I'll pack two undershirts and like one like if I had not this is a t-shirt I'm saying like a polo. Ah. Like when I'm going back to one of the T-shirt are you wearing an undershirt? Well, then you wear a dark shirt so that your sweat doesn't show up as much. How about some Midwest storms too? I love that. Sirens are on and you go outside and see what's going on. Two weeks ago we had those really good lightning storms and I took some sweet pics. That was cool, Jim. I've never done that before. It's a lot harder than you think. He was critiquing his own work and we're all going, wow, that's incredible. He goes, could have used a shorter exposure with a longer lens. We're like, shut up, Jim, they're cool photos. Yeah, those turned out pretty cool. So then the next day I might, because, you know, Facebook listens to everything. I was getting all kinds of like storm and lightning pictures on my Facebook feed, Instagram feed, and then I see that and I'm like, yeah, mine are really not that good. I feel like when I click on something on Facebook, I instantly, like if I'm not interested in it and it's a suggestion, then like, I'm like shit, because now my next, you know, the next five things I'm going to see are going to be that. I had cozy massage chairs, those $5,000 massage chairs. One time I Googled it to look how much they cost for a friend proving a point, and I still get advertisements from two years later. Which, like, if you, being the marketing guy that I am, like, that's a waste of their marketing dollars. And if I'm an advertiser, I want to be able to pinpoint that and be like, okay, I'm not going to, I don't want to continue to serve ads to someone that has only shown interest in this one time. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. You would think they'd be able to know you only looked at it once. That's weird. They should, obviously, if they're listening to your microphone, they should know we're laughing about the price. Like, come on now. Yeah, and speaking of chairs and prices, our friend John bought a, I think it was like a $1,600 office chair that was like $800 off. It better be the X chair. That guy is a sucker for a deal more than I've ever met any in my life. It's 50% off, yeah, it's 50% off all the price. Yeah, exactly. So John was gone for like the last week, he was doing a bunch of client work in Chicago And he came back yesterday and said yeah, you know I Where are where he was staying with his family? He was like a block away from micro center Which is like a tech store sure and he said yeah I went in there enough times over the week that I decided I was just gonna buy a new computer Oh, I know he's in the process of rebuilding a new computer business expense. Yeah, 100% and now he's so is the next year that thing is like a Bentley right and it's got massaging heating cooling everything cool It might so speaking of cooling chairs, and we're going way, but this is how my my dad bought a Ford Edge About a year ago. You're gonna see yes Wow and Ford's are doing that almost on all the new vehicles that is incredible Let's go guys. Do you guys have remote start in your vehicles? No. Okay, well, do you ever in the summer leave your air conditioning cranked all the way up so that when you remote start your car... Mine already does it automatically. Okay, well... Damn. Based on the exterior temperature. Is yours? It does? I set my... well, when my air conditioning in the Jeep doesn't work right now, so when it was working, maybe this is why it doesn't. Speaking of Jim being a terrible car owner... My car's a piece of shit. It hits a bump in the road and you think all four wheels are gonna fall off It's bad. Jim. You're a bad car owner. I am I yeah You know, I like if you have a rock chip on something. It's like whatever it costs to fix I'll do it I think that's why he's a bad car owner Because he's a good bike. He only cares about the bike. Yeah anyways, today's episode is brought to you by our lovely sponsors at Anheuser-Busch, Bush Light, and this week we have the walleye cans. So if you haven't seen those, I know there's four different ones out there. We saw largemouth bass, we now have walleye. Have you ever eaten walleye? Yeah, it's delicious. Oh, it's so good. We're only missing rainbow trout and then the blue marlin. Are we gonna have to go to like Florida to get the blue marlin? No, that's like, I usually turn some cans around on the top to see what they are. You can get them here. I'll get them. Okay, so pretty soon we'll have brought you all four of the collector's edition, and then we're expecting Bush Light Peach, isn't it? This summer. Really? Yeah, no idea yet what that's gonna be like, but trust us. It'll be good. We will do a full review. We don't do the full shitty beer reviews like we used to because we drink way too much crappy beer. Now we just drink what we like, and so when that Peach Bush Light comes out, we'll give it a full review on the show. Yes, sir And so here we are as of right now our last segment on the docket tonight random text conversations, so I know I've done this when for a while there I had a whatsapp and I would randomly get like a weird number and I would just have the most ridiculous conversation because I knew it was fake. But you actually had a bit of a random conversation that I'm not going to say was meaningful, it sounds like, but actually was another person. Well, it seems like it. Did you get a picture? No, I should have. Can you say, hey, we're talking about you on our podcast now. Can you follow us on Instagram and send me a picture? Yeah, might as well. Let me talk about, Travis is in the bathroom right now and I want to wait to read this conversation until he's back, but go ahead and keep talking while I shoot that her, that message. Oh, so you know it's a her? Yeah. Okay. I think so. What's the area code? Actually, oh yeah, it's a her. So the area code is 402, which is Nebraska. Yes. So that's why I responded. So I was like, okay, it could be someone I potentially. Need to talk to. Yeah. I'll just read the conversation. So it just starts out with, hey. And I go, hello. She goes, I E. I go, question mark? She goes, I'm Zoe. Are you David at 49 years old? Yes, I am. I said, no. She goes, oh, sorry. I filled in the wrong number. I was careless. I hope it doesn't bother you. I go, I'm pissed. I go, I'm pissed. She goes, why? I said, because it's been a long day now, and I have to deal with you thinking I'm David at 49 years old. And she goes, although this is just a mistake, have a good day. I'm Japanese and I live in California now. Where are you from? And I said sounds like sounds to me like you're making excuses And she goes you think I'm not sincere then there's no need for us to continue to talk Oh cold-blooded I said, I think that's for the best sad face emoji. That can't be the end. That's the end of it Oh, you made her feel bad Yeah, what else you want me to do just keep this going? Yeah. Well I figured I would read it on the podcast and I don't want to take forever. Maybe you could be Nick 49 years old and say, yeah I was just trying to flirt. Well what did Jim wanted me to say? First recently he said I should tell her. Oh ask her to follow us on Instagram. On Graspier's. Yeah on Graspier's. So I just pulled up one of those random WhatsApp conversations I had and it was like, hey Jimmy nice to see you on WhatsApp. I'm Tiffany. And I said, hi. All I said was hi. And she said, I have to say that you are a very kind and friendly person and sent me a picture right off the bat. Oh yeah. Whoa. Okay. And it says, it's me. Can I have a pic of you? And I said. Don't tell me you sent her one. And I sent her this, cause I was riding my motorcycle. No face, I've got my helmet on. And so then she sent me the emoji, like the crying laughing emoji, and then the peace sign. And she said, by talking with you, I can feel that you are a very gentlemanly person. It makes me feel good. This was all within ten minutes of her first texting me. This is some guy in a goddamn call center waiting to scam somebody guarantee this was a plus eight five two whatsapp number So I don't even know where in this world that's straight from Japan No, that's like Middle East someone's trying to write. He's gonna also say you are very nice I'd like to engage in a relationship and then give me your credit card number or give me a target gift There's a tick-tock of a guy who just fakes an old lady Voice and just continues to mess those people. It's some of the funniest videos. If you haven't seen that, highly recommend. There's also one guy who, on YouTube you can find it, he has a scammer going, the guy's telling him he can target gift cards to settle the money that he owes or whatever. And he's like, yeah, I went to Target and I bought 200 gift bags. I don't know how you want me to send these to you. He's like, not the gif bags, gif cards. No, I got the gif bags. I got a lot of them, though. Yeah, the scammers get so pissed. Like, no, you idiot. Just put in the number. Like, what number? You know what, though? The wrong text or the wrong number text thing did make me think of what my third I'm-still-mad-about-it-is-for-the-future. And it's when my buddy gave me – was supposed to give me the number of his brother We were all we were on a Packer game and we had been doing it a lot and I was like, hey Give me your brother's number. I'm gonna mess them cuz he bailed on us He gave me this isn't a brother's number, but he Says accidentally, but I think intentionally gave me one wrong digit and I was ended up texting this 50 year old lady from a few towns Over now and was not it was bad and I'll talk about all this on another episode. Ah, what a tease. But yeah, that's all I got. I just did text her to follow us on Instagram. So you did not do the same for WhatsApp. I know. Absolutely not. I haven't talked to her in what was that July, but you're generally I'm really not very gentlemanly. I'm a dick. I can tell you're gentlemanly. Then you have a very bad radar. I'm talking with her words. So this is season 3 episode 1. We'll see how this one goes in the edit bay. But I think we are gonna edit. Yeah. Oh thank God. We always need to edit. Yeah, well we did the test run and that didn't work out so this will be good. Don't be spilling our secrets like that. We'll go to the edit bay, I like it. Yeah, we'll go into the edit bay with this one. And so really if there's topics you want us to talk about, shoot us a DM, talk to Nick on Instagram. Otherwise, we may just need to fake it and put words in people's mouths and debate. We would never. We would never. No, because that's fake. Fake news. So what do we have coming up this weekend? Well, so, first of all, we should clarify that we're gonna try to record every Tuesday and episodes will be released every Wednesday. That's a goal. Every Thursday. You wanna go two days? Thursday, yeah, Thursday to be. Release on Thursday. To be safe. But that does give our listeners some consistency because we have, you know, had a tendency to get their hopes high and then kind of just. And then go a year off. Yeah, so. Not a year, it was less than a year. By days. Barely. I'm a little weaker too. Oh yeah, we did talk about this on the test run, but we should bring it up that we're starting the season out later this time than usual. This is usually where we end things right about now, so we're going to try not to do that again. No, I'm here now boys, we're just picking up steam. We got a new host, we'll see if we can keep it on the rails. That's the goal. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. Like, I mean, summer gets here. Things get crazy. I just cracked one. Wiley, let's have one. Tell us about Prime real quick. Real quick, you just said your first name. Maybe our next sponsor, Prime. What do you think? If Prime gets to the point where they sponsor us, we've really made it. It's pretty good. Here's my honest review. So, it tastes a lot like Gatorade. It's just a little bit more flavorful. I don't like red Gatorade. I legitimately only drink the blue Powerade Zero. But I do think though that the reason he thinks it tastes like Gatorade is because it only had one flavor. The red does taste a lot like Gatorade. This red flavor specifically tastes like red Gatorade. The blue prime tastes like hot candy. Have you had the red, white, and blue prime? Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I Will say it's pretty good Looking at the nutrition facts. Give me a port my pizza scale rating on the taste in the sevens Yeah, I give it like a seven seven seven scale if it's above a three point. Oh Yeah, I don't know who I was I was having someone listen to the podcast and we were at the point where we were rating the beer and we were talking about the scale and I was like, yeah, we had some sort of weird scale that we never really kept track of. Nope, it changed every week. It would travel for it. Is that what we said? No, that's how Portnoy defines it. Oh, I think ours was similar. If it was below a 3.0, if we grabbed it out of a cooler at a party, we would put it back. Yeah, which is so rude. Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. We really had some doozies. The hammer. I almost want to bring a couple of those because there's a few in the fridge still and I want to have Travis drink them. I'll have a sip or two. I'm not going to have a whole beer. I mean, what was the worst one was the Scotch Ale. Wasn't that? Yeah, the Scotch Ale was really bad. But that's where some people will be like, that's the best beer I've ever had in my life. That's the thing, that's why having you try it would be funny because we disagreed on some of them. My palate is trash. Bush Light's my favorite beer and a lot of people say that's his. Well, it's his palate too though. What do you think about PBR? It's alright. What about Coors Banquet? It's a nine. You both love Coors Banquet. I think you have the same palate. Yeah. IPA's good. No, I don't drink IPA. What about Hazy's? No. Sour's? No. Yeah, gross. Stout's? No. Me neither. Alright, McDonald's or Wendy's? McDonald's. McDonald's or Burger King? McDonald's. God damn we're fat. And I agree. When you go to high chai, how many trips on the buffet? Well now I'm working out Jim. So I feel bad when I make that second one now. Not because I don't want to have four plates. I mean there was a time in my life where it was three trips. Oh there's been many times in my life I've done that. Growing up I used to do some... This is a Chinese buffet for those that don't know and you can overload each plate. But growing up we used to do like a lot of traveling throughout the Midwest and like meals would almost always be at a buffet. Oh boy. And the buffet is like $18 a person in like 2007. That's ridiculous. Right. So one of the leaders we were with said, hey, if we're going to buffet, everyone has a five plate minimum. Now like salad, a salad would count as one plate. This guy sounds suable. Well, he was a larger individual. And he was thinking about bang for the buck. Right. It was like, hey, if we're going to spend $150 for all of us to eat here, you better get your money's worth. Now imagine me though. I'm a lowly restaurant owner and I'm like, I'm going to do a buffet guys. I think I can make some money on it. And this same fat-ass Boy Scout group shows up every week and hammer's done five plates of pop. I ban y'all asses. Yeah. What are your thoughts so before you and this was when I was in school here it was still in business but it shortly went out in the mall was it Bishops? Dude that honestly crossed my mind is a segment I'm still mad about. Oh, that place closing? Yeah. So tell our fans about Bishops. Dude, I'm going to spend way too long. What are we at on time? I can't. Yeah, what are we at on time? I need about 10 more minutes to finish this thing. Jeez, go. Bishops in the Mall was, I would say, the premier, the penultimate buffet ever. Say that again. Penultimate? Never heard of it. What makes – I just – it's just a good adjective that I have not heard in a while. It was – they had everything, great fried chicken. They had great desserts, great pastries. So how is that different from like an old country buffet? Quiet, quiet, quiet. They had everything hot and ready and it wasn't a buffet. It was – it was – you walked down this line and these people would serve you. So when I get to the fried chicken, I'd say I want two legs and I'd go to the pies and there would be French silk, banana cream, Boston cream. So it was like a college cafeteria. Yeah, except the best version of it. Like all the food was made fresh and delicious. So like every meal had sliced ham, fried chicken. They had various steaks that were buffet quality steaks. But like they had everything there. And I remember going there with the family and there'd be like six of us and be like 42 bucks. Maybe that's why they went out of business. This is 2005. Still that's okay so if that's even remotely close. As I mentioned before my mom was Jehovah's Witness. She was a bargain shopper so we went on family night which was Tuesdays. So I don't think I think normally it was like 10 bucks of a person but so plus until I was like 11 like 8 and under had a special price and I'd walk into 11 years old, she'd be like, he's eight. I'm like, me eight. Okay, so speaking of buffets, and I don't know if it was here in Dubuque, but have you guys heard of Old Country Buffet? Yeah. OCB. I don't know. Never heard the acronym. Okay, so grab your phones and I want you guys to go on Instagram. Go on the band page. I want you to look up Old Country Buffet on Instagram. Is it electric? It is. I think we need to make them an unofficial official sponsor of the pod. Do I reach out? Well, you're going to learn why I'm saying this here in a hot second when you pull them up. Is it OLDE? No, just OLDE. And for those of you who are listening intently at home, grab your phones and go ahead and look this up. Old Country Buffet. How the hell do you spell buffet? I can't even understand it. It's right here bro. Old. Old Country Buffet. How many followers do they have? 297. Okay I didn't, I thought that was fake. What is this shit? So they haven't posted since May 1st. May 1st of 2016. And they have. Oh they had great mac and cheese at Bishops too. I just saw that on here. Oh, what? Okay, what buffet doesn't have great mac and cheese? No, there's a lot, Jim. I'm talking this is high quality, like... But, Jim, don't give me that look. So it's not powdered cheese? I don't give a shit what kind of cheese it is. I'm talking about the taste. Anyways, so I think we need to make Old Country Buffet a sponsor of a segment and just start sending people their way, you know, for our almost 2,000 followers, start following Old Country Buffet and maybe the person starts getting notifications again on their on their phone. Bro, is this real though? Because their website is www.ameliabadigliafamilyfundsuits.com. I think that was like a, look at their post. They were doing like a promo. It seems like maybe this person was Old Country Buffet's marketing person and they're like well we already got 297 followers so let's pivot. Send 97 followers back in 2016 was good. Send them a DM. That's wildly impressive. Two of the four other buffet restaurants. No. I just shot him a DM. Oh my god, he's right. I said do you want to sponsor us? And I shot him a DM. Absolutely. They're not going to respond. It's been seven years. Hey, you never know. Never know. Never know. Shoot your shot, right guys? So I think going forward, things that I'm still mad about is going to be presented by Old Country Buffet. I love it. I love it. So Nick, you'll need to record that segment. Yes. From your Ikea lounge chair over there. And when you post it, tag Old Country Buffet. And I do want to, my next one is going to be the wrong number slash Texas Roadhouse story. Yeah, we're going to have to remember that. Talk about a tease. Dude, it's so bad, but it's so funny. All right, so make sure you come back for season three, episode two, when Tram tells us the story of the wrong number Texas Roadhouse. Yeah, the Texas Roadhouse buns and the wrong number. Well, there we go. And with that, that's season three, episode one of Garage Beers. It's been real. It's been fun. that's season three episode one of Garage Beers. It's been real. It's been fun. It's been real fun.