Bart and Tim Shea call Tim Allen from the American Family Field Parking Lot

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You need Indeed. All right, I don't know why we're doing this, but we are in the... What are we doing? I thought there was a game. Why are we doing this? Tim Shea and I are tailgating.

I'm so nervous. In the American Family Field parking lot for Friday's episode. It's about everybody.

This is the Bart Winkler show. Yeah, so later in the episode, I'm going to talk... I'm going to share a little bit of my conversation with Mike Exicca from CBS Sports. We talk baseball. We talk moves that could happen with trade deadline.

We talk Otani trade possibilities. So we do talk about all that, but Tim Shea and I are at the American Family Field parking lot to talk some brewers, and that's what we're here to do. So Tim, we enter the second half of the season. We leave the half game out of the wild card and a game back in the division. Oh, wild card. See, I'm not even thinking about wild card. Well, I mean, it's another way that you get into the post season.

I guess. Three teams that make it that way. But how do you feel after an interesting first half, a very injury prone first half, and now we get ready for the second?

Well, I guess since I made the proclamation that they're going to make the playoffs and win the division, I guess I still have to go with that, right? Since they're only a game out. It could have been a lot worse. It could have been a lot worse. It could have got swept. It could have lost against the Cubs, but somehow they held their ground in a series that somehow they split, which is crazy. One of the more crazy series of the year.

People said, and they take what two out of three against the reds and open up against the reds. They can make some ground here. Yeah. You got to feel competent, right? Well, are you a little nervous?

No, you got the foot jittering. Well, I do when I tell you, I feel like someone's going to come and come up from behind us. Should I have parked in a different spot? No, this is a perfect spot. Someone's coming up in their trailer.

There's nowhere else to park. Oh, I drove by the Harley Davidson thing. The big stage.

Oh yeah. Foo Fighters and Green Bay. Green Bay. Green Bay? Green Day will be there this weekend. Are you going? No.

My bike's in the shop, so not able to get in. I think the fact that we're taking on the reds is interesting because at the beginning of the year we thought it'd be the Cardinals and Cubs. Oh, they're about to sell. They're going to, I think they're GM. The Cardinals, I don't know. Would you take the Nolan Arenado? The Brewers won't.

No. I mean, Nolan Arenado is like the perfect piece on this team that we could be missing, but I don't want to trade with the Cardinals. I don't want to give guys, I don't want to give like a sale free like to the Cardinals.

Sale free like a, he could like, he's having a down minor league year or whatever. Is anyone off limits? Is he the only one?

Is everyone else? I would put Keston here off limits if I'm trading with the Cardinals. Okay. Because there is a scenario where Keston here is just like the Ben Hendrickson of our times where it was the first time I ever heard Bob Euchre say quadruple a player. Cause he was great in the minors, this pitcher, but every time he went to the pros, uh, he sucked. What about, so, but so Keston here, if he's a brewer for the next 10 years or in the brewer system, he might be a career shocker, a shocker, a sound, but he might come to the brewers, you know, and call ups or whatever. And he might just not have a great career at the pros. If Keston here ever got traded to the Cardinals, he would be the next, like Scott Roland.

Okay. So what about guys like Weimer and Mitchell and rice tray? I don't think any of these guys are untouchable, but they're untouchable for, I don't want to make a trade with the Cardinals. I don't want any of those guys to be on the Cardinals.

Cause Aaron, Aaron Nolan, Aaron, how's it going? Yeah. The Harley things at parking here for like a shuttle. All the parking's over at the air. We googled it, came here, then find a where. So then I called it in the office and he said to go over there. So it's across the bridge. Just go right under the bridge, right under the bridge right there.

And it's on the other side. Yeah. Okay.

We'll come up with RV. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

The RV will fit under that bridge right here. Yeah. It goes that way. Yeah.

Straight off that road. Yeah. Okay. We'll try that. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, the best part is, are you going to cut that or no? She just said no question about what we were doing. No, we're just, we're just two guys in a parking lot sitting in the backseat of my car.

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Need to hire you need indeed. All right, what were we talking about? Yeah, I don't want to trade anyone to the Cardinals. Aaron, Adam and Cardinals and how many more years does he have? I was going to look it up his contract. Oh, I think he signed through like 27 or 29. He wouldn't be a rental, right?

No, so you'd get a long time out of our nato, but I don't want any of these other guys coming up and being Brewer killers that we traded to them. I'm sorry about the text noises. That's my family.

You know, wondering where you are? No, sometimes my family and I'm sure with all families, you don't text for days at a time and then God damn bitch. You text like my microphone so you text like 100 times and your normal normal and Aaron Otto has five more years. Okay, so then then you're gonna have to give them like three of those guys. Is that worth it? No.

You want to trade three of our freshmen for Nolan, our nato? What if they an all star? So Cheerios off the board.

Cheerios Oreo. He's 100% off the board. All right.

I mean, if if you can get here not over five years, maybe I don't know. We didn't get Cheerio for 20. All right. No, he's 100% off the board. Again. He's just a prospect. You know, God knows what's gonna happen when they come up here.

Oh, well, but would you trade Victor Webb and Yama for five years of Grayson Allen? I get it. How are you doing to me?

Call me crazy. Tim's wearing his iron jackets. We're trying to be nicer to the game. So we're supporting their, uh, I'm just wearing it because it's comfortable and Braylon Allen.

I saw Braylon Allen at Summerfest. So how do you feel about the Brewers? What's your, if you had to give them a grade, what kind of grade would you give them in the first half? Well, you know what I give an A plus to THC and CBD and CBN. And my guys at Happy Place hemp, happyplacehemp.com. The promo code is Bart. 25% off every order. They cut prices. What? They cut, they cut their prices.

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I don't know. We're doing a, we're doing a podcast in a parking lot. I know, but this will get you out more.

Now we can start doing bars. It's so low stakes. This is so low stakes, what we're doing and like low reward, but just the mere fact of somebody talking like that lady that came up to talk to us about parking. I can't, I can't tell you how much I hate talking to people in a situation where I'm not the dominant force.

I gotcha. I need to be the reporter. I need to be the, uh, you know, guys, Hawking, Milwaukee pro soccer merch. I need to be the guy hosting a six box podcast. I can't be the guy who like is buying groceries. I can't even do that.

I can't even do that. Uh, what would I give the brewers? Well, I realized, how do you feel going into the second half?

I feel good. I feel like there's going to be a nice pennant race here. Uh, what I was kind of talking about before was that, you know, the reds are not the team that we would have expected. I think the pirates did their pirate thing.

Although they do like, I did talk to a pirate guest for some reason on writer than you once it was a good guest. Um, but I did talk to him and he said they have a plan and they're actually trying to win. Now they got a little better than they thought they would early, but they are, they are signing guys and long-term deals like even Reynolds, who everyone just assumed would be a future Yankee.

Brian Hayes, they signed him, O'Neill Cruz, the young talent O'Neill Cruz signed for like eight bucks a season. And then he gets hurt in game four. Um, so yeah, uh, they're probably done. Cardinals are done. No devil magic this year, especially if they trade guys, although it would be like the Cardinals to trade and then like win with all these randos, uh, Cubs, Cubs don't want to win.

I don't understand it. They're not trying as hard as they should. David Ross is about to be fired.

David Ross stinks. Their management stinks. They've got the third biggest market in the country. They've got their own network.

I mean, they could announce a game right now, two hours from right now and sell out and they don't, they don't spend money. They don't even want to lock up Marcus Stroman. All right.

There's a guy in a like cart that I'm a little concerned about. That's not nothing. It's maintenance.

Maintenance isn't going to bust us up. No, we're good. Um, but the red guy, I think it's really just the Brewers and the reds at this point. I think the reds are going to falter. I think the Brewers might win this division early to mid September. I think we'll have a, a week or two, two weeks to get things in line, I guess your pitching rotation. That's the worst analysis I've ever heard. And, uh, I think they win this division easily still.

So I still gotta go with what I said. So you're, you're banking that the reds, I still have to go with what I said earlier and I think the reds will falter down. You can say they're going to make the playoffs, but to think that at this point, the reds will falter and the Brewers will be good enough to run down.

That's by default. The Brewers are going to run away with this division. Is someone coming up behind us? No, but I feel like I just feel like I don't like this. I know. I feel like a criminal. We should have gone the other way.

You should have gotten the table. So then we could have got, but the whole point is to get the stadium behind us. So that's my thinking. That is, that is where I stand.

I think the reds are going to falter in the second half. They'll come back down to earth, which I'm not even doing a good job of showing the stadium. I mean, you can see, okay. Again, the Dan Cheney YouTube stream of this audio is, uh, me and Tim sitting in a parking lot, all parking, the parking lot. We're sitting in a space that should be used for bars and apartments and housing. That's in the back lots. You don't do that to these beautiful jungle that we call Miller park American family American family field.

No, fuck that. We're on the Dan Cheney insurance stream. This is the Dan Cheney stadium. Dan Cheney.com. He'll help you out. Business, home work. I need someone to do my will.

Oh, I got someone who, uh, a neighbor that used to live across the street. Why are you planning on like, do you feel like you're going to die soon? Uh, no, but I should have a will. Can I get the Bart Winkler show? I would give this to no one. Give gift it to me. I want everything. I want the green screen. I want the living room.

I would burden this to no man. I want the microphone. I want the computer. I want, I want the Bart Winkler show.

I feel like man, the falls, uh, could claim back his green screen and ring light. I want it. The microphone I'll give you. Although I'm going to get a new microphone.

We need headsets. I can't do this at a bar. I can't do this at a bar.

We can't or the smoke shop, the cigar shop. Oh, we were talking brewers. I would grade them a B but what are we grading? We're grading the first half.

We're grading a team that had a bunch of injuries. My expectations are they are, are the brewers where you thought they would be. Yeah.

What are we? Seven games above 500 games above 500 and one game out. Yeah. Half game out of the wildcard.

Yeah. And they've dealt with adversity. They've dealt with injuries. A lot of injuries.

What 52 players used. Corbin burns was terrible, but somehow an all star Brandon Woodruff has pitched 14 innings this year. Did you see what Kyle Loebner was tweeting about?

No. So he said, not that it's anything, but there is a few brewers. Cause the first thing I thought was if Corbin burns is going to be an all star, why not Wade Miley? But there's a few brewers that have like incentives. If they make the all star game, they get more money. Wade Miley is one of them. Freddy Peralta, Jesse Winker. It's not up to the brewer.

So the brewers probably called and said under no situation, make Jesse Winker. So what you're saying is now we have extra money. No, I'm sure they don't budget that shit. Okay.

Any good organization would budget for that, right? Yeah. So do the brewers win the division or make the wildcard? Do the brewers A win the division?

B wildcard. And we know with both those outcomes, they will lose in three or five games, whatever it is. Or C not make the playoffs. Oh, they'll make the playoffs.

Okay. They'll make the playoffs. I feel good about that. You don't think these teams that are kind of floating around 500 or below will make a run here. The one being the Mets, they need to make a big run, but San Diego and all those teams out west. I mean, the west is loaded the east. You got Atlanta, the best team in baseball, the center. Yeah. I mean, I guess the brews really do have a good chance of making it now that I, well, they've got the wildcard run through, not the wildcard way to get in.

They've got Craig council and what's going to be the last few games he ever manages in professional sports. Well then why not go out on top and win the whole damn thing, right? Why?

Why what? Am I such a nervous Betty? I thought my head's on a swivel. You need, you do need a dummy. I got like three. I don't think I have any gummies in the car either.

Shit. I might, I knew in a video for Carl's place where I like hit golf balls in unusual spots. Should I hit a golf ball here? I have my clubs.

Should I just like scorch one into that? There's like construction crews around. So what's new with you? I don't, who cares about the whole lot just working and I don't like that. Our friendships deteriorate. I know she got a new job.

She's disappointed. You know, we're coming up to the one year anniversary, by the way, what I, August 23rd, we're going to the burger game. Have we decided this yet? I know. I know. I know. I think what's most likely is I just tell people let's go to the, you're not buying tickets.

Let's just get, let's just get this out of the way. You're not buying tickets for it. You're just going to tell them when to meet in an area.

You are looking very hard. That could be security. Yeah. There's a situation going on though.

But I could buy, I could buy your ticket. What's going on behind us? He went the other way. What do they think? If they look at us, what do they think we're doing?

I don't know. I'm going to say I'm FaceTiming. We're FaceTiming with our grandma and she wanted to see the stadium because she couldn't get out to a game. There's a giant school bus now approaching. Yeah, we're good. Are there kids on it?

Oh, Jesus Christ. There's a giant school bus with a bunch of kids that's going to park right next to us. I can't, we can't show these kids on camera.

I'd have to have them sign waivers. They went the other way. Security's behind us so we're good. All right.

Oh, okay. I'm not going to rip a golf ball here. That's too much. But I guess this brewery game, are we going to do it? Are we going to just tell people to come meet us and then you say meet in section 234? Yeah, I'm not buying tickets for people. No, no, just tell them to come.

We'll see how many true loyal Bart Winkler fans out there. I was like, I'm saving Metro Market receipts that I win brewer vouchers on and I was going to get a bunch of vouchers. I wish we would have discussed this earlier. I had all those vouchers.

I could have bought tickets. Well, I drive like 50 at Metro like every day. Okay. We're, we're Metro-holics. We're Metro-sexuals. We are, we're sexually attracted to Metro Market employees.

True. What else? I should set you up with Emily.

Emily, the Metro Market. Sure. I don't think you're her type. Okay. Um, yeah. And I realized too the other day and I talked about this, but I'm, it wasn't that I was not excited about the brewers. It's just that I was, are you getting more excited?

Well, I was in a work. I covered, there's a difference between covering a team and then being a fan of a team. Cause I felt like I wasn't a fan cause I didn't know every single roster transaction that was happening.

That wasn't the case. I don't think you need to know. I don't think a lot of people, you know, a lot of people come to games and they're like, who, what did we do? I still don't know what Bryce Perkins looks like. It's Bryce?

I don't know. Someone knows his real name. Is it Blake? Blake Perkins?

Yeah. Bryce Terang, Blake Perkins. Blake Perkins could walk up and say, what are you guys doing here? And be like, sorry, sir.

He'd be like, no, no, I play. I like the, uh, when, uh, who was it? AJ Dylan got tackled for doing a Lambo leap inside his own stadium. Yeah. Something like that. I saw Tyler Barnes. Oh, what did he have to say? He's at Summerfest. Oh yeah. Yeah. Talk to him. No, I just saw him walking by.

He looked pretty grizzled. Tim and I are sitting out front of American family field again for no reason. No, this went from Tim. I want to talk to you about the Brewers to Tim saying, should I go in the parking lot of the stadium to meet carting out two chairs and my podcast equipment where the camera is in the back of my car, which I bought from Sith Lord.

And then I bought out the lease. See, we should do a pregame show. Like come tailgate, do a pregame show, a live pregame show. See, I'm getting all these ideas. We need to get headsets. We need to take the show on the road. It's time for you to get out of the basement.

Yeah. I offered to put a Bart Wingler patch on the Brewers Jersey. What did they say?

They didn't tweet me back. Cause the Yankees have patches now and everyone's going to be pissed about them. I mean, it's great for New York radio.

Wow. All star week, the Yankees bless them by putting patches on the jerseys. How can a team that says you can't have a mustache have patches? First of all, these, these companies that are doing this, the teams are very careful to make it not look stupid.

Like the soccer jerseys in England are never really that offensive. You know, it, they, and this is the capitalism of our times, but they have a way to make it blend in to look like it's part of the Jersey. The, the investment insurance company that does the Yankees, it just looks like it's like a Yankee stadium patch. It looks fine. It's not like, you know, they're wearing NASCAR. It's not like they're dressed up as, uh, Zach Levine doing Mountain Dew commercials.

It's, it just looks like, yeah, it just looks fine. So I'm not anybody that's anti advertising patches. I did offer, I said to the brewers, I'll give you a hundred dollars a day plus how much it costs to patch the Jersey until you find a bigger sponsor. So every day that the brewers don't put a Jersey patch on, they're turning money away. Yeah.

That's very unlikely. They'd happily pay the brewers, but they're turning money away. The Bart Winkler logo should be on the pad. We'll look very slick on that home cream Jersey. Yeah. Well, we came here and have nothing to say.

Yeah. I mean, just waiting for the second half of the season to say, like I said, my prediction and I got to stick with it. Brewers will win the division. Cincinnati will kind of falter here in the second half. Brewers will win it by mid September and get ready for the playoffs where they will probably win maybe a game.

That's I'm really offended that that's your prediction. I'm sorry, but like, I don't care if you're high on the brewers, how can you dismiss the reds? The reds are the hottest thing going outside of the braids. They have a great offense.

I mean, don't get me wrong. They are a good team. They got a great offense, but their pitching is not good. So yeah, don't they have that Weaver guy have like a nine ERA four starts and they want them all or something. Yes.

That's pretty messed up. I think the reds will, you'll see some high scoring games out of them, but there you go. Should we walk around a little bit? You think it's going to come down to the last day of the year? You're saying mid September, the playoffs are over.

Yeah. Not the playoffs are over. It's just that they may, they may have a spot. And I need to look at their schedule and see who they play, but they have some, they have some cupcakes along the way, but I guess when you play the Oakland days and soon to be Vegas days and get swept by them, I can try to talk to McKelvie or Kurt Hogue or Rosie act or, or, or brewers and Meredith's time, but I'm talking to you. He's just flippantly saying the bruise will wrap up the central by mid September by week three of the NFL series.

Badgers will at least have lost a game 41 days. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't think, I don't think there's a hiccup. Jesus. I know. I keep looking over my shoulder. We can't go anywhere.

You're going to be scared. Well, I got, I did not get the express written consent of the brewers or major league baseball or any of the other 29 clubs to do this. That's fine.

You're not broadcasting any highlights. Want me to get a Euchre highlight? No. Should I go in there and buy something? Should we make a phone call? Let's make a phone call to Tony in Texas. No, call Tim Allen. Call Tim and tell him what we're doing.

All right. Tell him we're in American family field parking lot recording a podcast. You have to tell him we're recording the podcast. Is it on speaker?

Yes. Tim Allen. This is Tim Shea with, with, with the, with the Bart Winkler recording his podcast, recording his podcast right now with, with Bart Winkler. Say hello, Bart.

Tim, Tim, we, Tim Shea and I are parked in the American family field parking lot doing a podcast out of the back of my car. I'm just chopping up some vegetables and give me a second. I'll wipe my hands and join you. There we go.

Look at that. Right on, right on cue. Oh, scallions. I love onions. I love onions too, Tim. How are you?

I don't, I don't call you enough. Well, I'm like, we're, we're totally, Bart is totally freaked out right now. He's nervous because he thinks security is going to come and kick us out. I'm like, settle down, dude. We're fine. We're in the parking lot. There's no one here. It's empty.

You'll be, you'll be fine as long as you're not vandalizing it. See, there you go. How was your show with frames? It was okay. It was all right. Yup. Oh, are we, are we on the podcast?

We're recording. Yeah, I can cut it out if you want. No, that's, that's fine. Just, just so I know. Well, that's, that's why I had Tim tell you right away. Yes, I didn't, we didn't want you to say anything that should not be said. Not that, not that you would ever, ever say that, right?

No, not, not at all. So are we doing, are we doing brewers or are we just doing livestock? Yeah, we're just looking, you know, we're talking, we came to the Miller Park, whatever it's called, parking lot to do a brewers episode. Yeah. Getting ready for the second half, getting second half season thoughts. That's right. It's the second half.

Tomorrow's going to be the second half or is it today? No, it's no, no, no, no. Yeah, it is today.

Today as we're recording as we live and breathe. That's right. That's right. So, uh, uh, I, so the apple part, I mean, are they going to take another bite? This is the most bite of the apple team they've ever assembled.

Tim. Oh, I got to talk to you. You know what I found out the other day? I was searching through old tweets trying to find like how much I loved Atlanta Arcea. Now that he's an all-star, which is bullshit because the brewers wasted them. Um, but I always talk about when I called you drunk after the 2018 season and I say, you motherfuckers, you need to understand that this isn't going to be forever. We can't just be bites of the apple. This team should win all in. I found a tweet from the middle of that season where I was like, this team should hold onto their pieces and try to luck into the playoffs.

They should absolutely not go all in. I'm such a poser. Things just change. You just know the emotional roller coaster part. That's I mean, that's, that's what happens.

I'm such a fucking poser. I always have been on the emotional roller coaster. I just, I just, you know, every game, but you know what though? I do get a lot of grief when, when they lose like eight to one or something and I'm like, okay, this shit's going to happen. You know, it's an eight to one loss and you can't win every game. But then, then, then when it's a four, three nail biter, I'm losing one line. Well, yeah, like that's what the Packers, if they're going to lose in the playoffs, I'd rather they get crushed. Yep.

Cause then you, then you have less like what if questions? No, you should probably go into the fan's job and you know, buy a Jami Jones t-shirt Jersey. Oh, I'm sorry. You just got optioned.

How about an Abner ? Yeah, he's up. Do you think, I don't even know, I don't even know Perkins right. I mean, they, they sent you my Jones down. They traded Tyson Miller.

They were DFA. I never even heard of the guy. I saw that. I saw Dodgers trade for Tyson mill. I'm like, who the fuck is that? So my girlfriend who's way into Brewers baseball. She's like, who are these guys? Tyson Miller. And after your rebate, I'm like, well, yeah, they're, they're guys.

Is he going to help them get to the, uh, you know, fulfill the championship season? I think what else do I want to catch you up on in my life? Um, the hotel that Gary Ellerson and I stayed at tried to charge us back for when we stayed there in Canton, really, even though Odyssey paid for it and we have receipts. So I had to change my credit card. You know, sometimes I think credit card companies, they just, they'll just across the board charge everyone like, you know, a fee just to see who bitches.

Yeah. And some people, they don't even check their credit card bill. It's just, they're in credit card. That's what I guess though.

Like that's a move in the hotel business is find people that stayed for work that used incidentals claim that they never had the payment. Even if they make, even if they get one sucker out of it, it was worth it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so I saw Gary and Leroy yesterday, as a matter of fact, Oh, where I had a Crowsies TV show. I was, I was, you know, I had to wait for those guys again. I'm, you know, we're, we're always waiting for those guys or we used to back at, back at Odyssey, but so I'm out now in the waiting room to do the round table and I could hear, you know, you can hear through the walls just a little bit and they're all just yucking it up in there in between sets. They're running like 35 minutes late and they're all just having fun in there. I'm like, come on boys, what the hell? And so when, when, uh, when Leroy and Gary came out, I, I, I give Gary a big old hug and the first thing he does is just, Oh, Timmy, I got to fix your tie.

Oh, I don't whack. You know, the fashion plate that he is, man, he set it up, but it was good seeing those guys. Oh yeah. I got to run into you sometime. I was going to call, I was going to call your show the other day. I was going to call your show the other day cause I wanted to talk to pipe bomb cause cause this show we like Southern charm.

It's a reality show in Bravo. Some of the guys from the show were at the brewery game the other day. Oh wow. Cool. But I thought, I thought I would save my big game.

My first game appearance, if it ever happens for something bigger than no offense, calling pipe bomb. I saw Hunter at summer Fest. We had a nice exchange.

Okay. How about, uh, Evan Heffelfinger, my man has been on. He did my NBA draft show with me. He's a good dude. He's just is.

I like Kevin. I miss all that, you know, that whole run, that, that whole run with, you know, we were together a long time. We are coming up to the year anniversary soon. I know that next month. Wow. When the hammer came down and Bart was on vacation and yeah, I, uh, well it's just the business, but you know, the run that that station had was a pretty good run when you, you know, now you can look back at it a little more objectively and uh, that's too bad. It really is.

That's out of our control though. Who is who and I'm giving you're you're on. So who are the other three guys on the 1250 Mount Rushmore? I would be on. Yup. You'd have to be on. Well, that's cool. Um, I said you Sparky big unit and Gary Sparky definitely would be on. He was, it was at times the life's blood of that of that wheelhouse. Um, so there's, there's two.

Jimmy, what do you say? I mean, how long did you do the morning show? I'm not on there.

Wicked would be on there before me. I don't know. How long did you do it? Six years, six years, maybe seven. How many years? Maybe six. I did it. Well, I was one with Mike and Chuck three with friends to myself.

So six, five, six. Uh, to me, what do you think? Is he on? No, no, there's no way. He doesn't. I mean, he's a unit on before me. Yeah, I guess he had a, he had a long run and like him coming over was a massive deal where I, as I was just like some guy that Chuck fucking knew through mutual friends.

What about migraine back loss? Oh yeah. No. Rami's like the guy that you do the whole Mount Rushmore and you talk about it for 30 minutes.

And then at the end, after you stopped having the conversation, you're like, Oh shit, you know who we forgot about completely fucking Ronnie. Hold on. What?

Here's a wildcard. What about Mike McGibber? That's true. You always filled those Saturdays.

That's that's true. Chuck Freeman frames frames at a good run. Yeah, he did.

What about, what about some old, old guys? Peter Brown, Peter Brown, Jeff is pissed right now that he's not automatically on. Yeah. Sparky.

I think I'm going to have to go with you on, on bill Michaels. Yeah. Oh, then I think I did put Chuck on there because Chuck, so there's one spot left. Oh no, I said Gary.

Yeah. Gary. Gary was there the whole time. Yeah, but Gary was there.

Let Roy work 90 days a year. Yeah, true. And Gary was there almost from the start, right? Yeah. Gary, Gary, bill, you and Steve. Yeah.

You might have to do, go, go with that. I think it's unquestioned. I think you carve out a Bart and put it, you know, put it in the back room. I think, I think, I think the last guy on the Mount Rushmore is bill because his tenure was not as long that you could argue, but I do think like bill did bring more like, I don't know. Well, the thing with bill is that he, I mean, he had, had the name from, from, from CMJ over there for, for years on the nightly show and from elder high school, went to the same high school as Kyle Rudolph. I forget. That's right.

He loves skyline chili. Yup. I would say that when he came over to develop the network, I think you would probably have to, you would probably have to have them on for longevity and you know, they, they built a network and, and that, you know, led to big, bigger things for the station. So I would say I never, I mean, you, you automatically put me in, I don't know, Bart, you know, I'm the nighttime. Yeah, but that post game show, it was there the whole time.

You had to scratch like hell just to even get it on. And it was, I mean, Tim, I don't know, you know, this about radio, but one of the important things about night is that if it's the last thing that they are on and when they turn off the car, it's the first thing that's on when they turn on the car as a former program director, I think, you know, that some consultants told me that that's called dial position. So I got a lot more comfortable. And that is why Mr. Bart Winkler, why I have always maintained a really good camaraderie with our morning show, which, you know, in the last six or seven years, like you said, was you, because I think, you know, drive time morning show as a big audience, and I would want to tap into your, your audience, and then dial position for me at night. It was very reciprocal. Yeah, it was good. Some of the best radio was that hour that you would join Bart. I'm telling you. And those conversations, I think, Bart, over the years, honestly, I think those those conversations settled me down to have a more normal, almost passive conversation, where it's like, I don't have to push and be a broadcaster coming up next.

I'll explain why Richie Sexton is what, you know, whatever. But it was almost just like a conversation on a couch. I liked it. Yeah, well, I am probably the best interviewer that's ever been at 1250. So I'll say, yeah, well, I just I did. I did one big thing. And that was I listened to the answers of my guest.

Well, that is important. It's like, it's like, radio guys are this really weird, strange kind of witch's brew of people. And it's when you ask, I've always said, a radio guy, if you want to know how a radio guy is feeling, just tell him you went to the doctor. So in other words, I would walk up the bar and say, Hey, Bart, I was at the doctor's office. I've been suffering from, okay, then the part would just go on this just tangent. Oh, Tim, I went to the doctor the other day, too, because I have plantar fasciitis. And I'm in a real hard time walking.

My back has been hurt. Again, that opens the door. And I totally agree with you that, you know, it's they don't, when you ask a question, you can, you know, spur other content by actually listening to the answer instead of your wheels and gears are turning, thinking about something else and thinking about your next question. And I've actually had one of our old colleagues and I'm gonna leave them nameless. I remember being on the air with him. And I said, I was in Arizona. And I said, you know, I think it was the vibe. And I said, you know, the vibe in the clubhouse here, it's really competent, fun, and these guys love each other, and you can really kind of feel it.

It's palpable. And I went out and for like a two minute answer. The next question, the dude asked me was, tell me about the vibe down there, the atmosphere.

So how's it going down? Like? Well, I kind of just answered the question. I know I know exactly what you're talking about. Who? Huh?

Who do you think it was? Oh, it's frames. I can't recall because frames would do this thing.

frames will do this thing where he would always ask the question again. He'd be like, he'd be like, so tell me. Tell me about the vibe. Like tell me about the vibe.

And then you tell me and he goes, Oh, you'd be like, Oh, it's great. It's great. Everyone's happy. And you go.

All right. So you're saying everyone's happy. Yes. It's what you're saying is, yeah.

So you're saying everyone's happy? Yeah. I guess I'll on the spot. Think of a new angle to answer this question, but so I really enjoyed, I was in Las Vegas bar and I was at a video poker bar and it was the morning.

So it's a little more casual and just did a shot of tequila customer. And you had put out a video of, I had to laugh and I had to show our old colleague, Austin, Austin, Texas was with me. And I'm like, you got, you got to watch this. And it was you getting turned down for a job at the battery factory.

I said, I can't get a fucking job at batteries. And I am like, I got to watch this again. That was fun. Now radio being what it is. I think you sorely missed on the air somewhere. And we need to, we need to change that Tim Shay. Well, I've got my CBS shifts. I don't know if you know him, but he needs to be a local.

He needs to be local. Yeah. I catch you all the time.

Barton. I think you do a great job. And you know, you're far more well-rounded than I am with sports.

You know, I'm a little more obviously brewers and NFL and then my fluffy lifestyle topics, but, but you get a tick deeper in the NBA. Yeah. But one guy, the, one of the last times I was on a guy goes buy or sell the New York Islanders sign this guy, buy or sell this will give them, make them the front runners for the Stanley cup. I was like, I gotta be honest.

I've never heard that guy's name in my life. So we hear that, but I'm with, I'm with Tim. You're probably at some point going to have to get back on. So whatever you need to do to make that happen, let's do it.

Tim, I miss you. I'm going to promote that you were on. Is that okay? You're not going to get yelled at. Are you?

I don't think so. No, you know, they know where to find me. Everyone knows where to find me. I think because I'm in a, uh, I got a few more people that work out of that building. I want to outreach to get them on the pod, which ones, uh, well, our old friend Billy, I talked to at summer Fest too, for a good 20 minutes, met his kid.

Okay. Billy's doing really well. He's and we all, we all know he was up and comer. Everyone likes to take credit for him.

I think I gave him a lot of opportunities. I'd like to take credit for him. I think he's on my tree. He's on the Winkler tree, right? Yeah. Corvat, Toby.

Look at all these guys thriving after me. Tim Shea. I'm going to have Toby on the show actually, uh, with that national series coming up in a, in a handful of weeks. Uh, Toby's going to join the post game show. I really, I think he is one hell of a broadcast part.

I do. He's done a good job carving out a niche over there for being the nationals guy. Has he? Yeah. Yeah. He, uh, just a good man too. Just a good dude.

I was with him last week when he was here, we went to Carl's place, this golf simulator place. So you caught me, uh, okay. Here's what I have in front of me at the snack bar. I have a Zippy bags, a black bag full of celery. I have a Ziploc bag full of sliced cucumbers. This next bag is our mushrooms. The next bag is a thing of red pepper, sliced up. Yums. And then the last one are these onion scallions.

These you ever have those? Oh yeah. Excellent. So I have the dill veggie dip ready to go and I'm going to, uh, I'm going to make a cage and sausage and have veggies and dip for my lunch today. Oh, I just throw two burritos in the microwave for 90 seconds. I don't know. It's kind of my dinner time, you know, with working at 2 AM.

So I gotta find something. I don't know. So I will say we'll win the division.

If they don't win the division, they'll get one of the wildcards and I believe they'll win their first round. And after that, I don't know. Is council done managing? What's he doing? Shit. I mean, I don't understand why everyone's not concerned about this.

Everyone's just like, La, La, La. Let's go out on Mary. This team has no manager opening day of the 24 championship season.

We don't find that concerning. Come on. I think they know. And internally, I'll tell you right now, who will be the manager, your buddy if council doesn't come back. I think, Nope. Quinton, Barry, Quinton, Barry.

I would go after Steven. I can't get over Quinton, Barry striking out being the last guy at the plate in 2017, when he got called up as a base stealer. And then somehow he was at the fucking plate.

That's like Ryan Healy was bad at cleanup in LA. Yeah. Same shit.

That was COVID here. Yeah. Yeah.

Ryan Healy. Really? Wow. But yeah, I think the pitching's pretty damn good guys.

It is. Even Terron, everyone talks about when he being gone, but look at Miley. He's the best starter right now. Bart, Bart, Bart yelled at me because I said that Cincinnati's going to falter here a little bit down the end. And I said the bruise by September 15th, September 15th.

Okay. Well, I don't, I don't know when, but I would agree with you, Tim, because they're young. Now, if they make moves to get some starting pitchers or a, a stud starting pitcher, I think that changes a little bit, but that offense guys, that offense is too young.

I don't think they've, they've hit a, a little bit of a slump or a skid or a challenge. And that made the timing of that may be good because I just don't see those young kids keeping this up. I don't, well, I'm going to wrap up my podcast. Well, you caught me at a great time and it was great talking to you guys. I miss you. I miss you too, Bart. Love you. All right. He needed an ending.

Well, that was fun back in the basement studio now to record the ending of the show. I will not be tacking on the aforementioned Micah seesaw. God, I don't even know his name. It's either Micah or Matt. Mike, I might've said Matt earlier.

I should just edit it out, but as we know, that's not what I do. Tim, Tim can edit in post. No, I wanted to say a couple of other brewer things here real quick. And I, again, thanks to Tim. That was not our intention with apologies to Tony in Texas, who Tim wanted to call Tim Shea. I thought maybe a good opportunity to talk to Tim Allen.

And I, you know, if anybody's, if anybody's game to just call them up and say, Hey, we're recording you let's talk brewers. I thought it was a good old friend, Tim Allen. So that was fun to talk to to a man, of course.

And nobody kicked us out of the parking lot. And I did get wildly more comfortable once talking to Tim. He's always had that calming presence over me. Tim Shea made me nervous. Tim Allen calmed me. He was the T and THC actually stands for Tim Allen. I don't know if you guys know this, but if you go to Omaha stakes.com and type Bart in the search bar, there's a package of meat you can get for just $99.

Maybe you should check that out. A couple other brewers things. We haven't really talked much about the draft. I got the sheet on the draft and like was looking who they drafted. And you know, we could do some research on like Brock Wilkin and some of these guys, the brewers drafted 21 guys, 16 of them pitchers, three of them shortstop, and two of them, third baseman. I don't know if that was their plan going in, if they were limiting themselves to this or if the best guys available just ended up being these guys, but it certainly does seem like they had a plan. The other thing that I'm noting on this draft list is the brewers drafted one guy that was born prior to 2000 and they drafted one, two, three, four, five, six kids born in 2005. Motherfucking 2005.

What the hell? The brewers schedule for next year came out. Why doesn't baseball announce their schedule like the NFL? Because there's 162 games. I always look wins opening day, Thursday on the road against the Mets, March 28th wins the home opener Tuesday April 2nd. It's got to be the first Tuesday home opener, right?

Or maybe not. Feels different. Then I always look at my birthday in May and they're on the road on my birthday again.

I don't, I really, I got to look it up because I don't feel like they've been, because I, you know, what do you want to do? It's your birthday. I'll go to the game. It's in May.

My birthday's in May. A lot of times they're on the road. There's a three city road trip in there. There's a three city home stare, a three team home stand. But for the most part, it's two series home, two series road, two series home, two series road.

For the most part, that's what it is. That's the other thing I noticed on the schedule. Like May to June Cubs, White Sox home, Phillies, Tigers road, Blue Jays, Reds home, Angels, Padres road, Rangers, Cubs home, Rockies, Dodgers road, Pirates, Nationals home, Twins, Cubs road. It goes like that from like mid-May to mid-August.

So there'll be some sort of like an ebb and flow towards the schedule. Ends September 29th against the Mets, a series at home. And again, they play everybody. The teams that were not here this year in the American League will be here next year in the American League. So Yankees will be here. Rays will be here. Other teams, excuse me, Jesus. Toronto White Sox. That'll be a fun week. They play the Cubs and the White Sox back to back into May. That'll be fun. Memorial Day week.

All right. That is the show. Next week. What are we doing next week? Are we going to have any lives next week? Should I half-ass announce a live show right now? What about... And do I do anything with the Women's World Cup? Is anybody down for an MLS All-Stars versus Arsenal live post-game show on the 19th? No?

One guy I'll have on next week, Jay Sorgi. Well, I really didn't know when he was here, but he was at WTMJ for 20 plus years. He wrote a book called Greater Than the Games, MKE 2028. He didn't just like write a... He wrote a book about what the Olympics would look like in Milwaukee. And he did research and talked to like executives of businesses and people in the Packers front office and all this stuff.

And I got a PDF copy and I was looking at it and everything's scheduled out there. And it's really interesting. So that'll be a different kind of conversation next week, but I think... Well, I've already talked to him.

It's in the can. I think he'll like it. And I wouldn't put it out there if you didn't. Like right now, I was gonna put this Matt Axia interview, Mike, fuck. And it's a good interview.

It's a good knowledgeable interview. But what I'm doing is I'm saving it to possibly use for Monday's show in case I don't come up with a better idea for Monday. Or I may use Jay on Monday. I don't know yet. My parents are in town. Podcast time might be light. Maybe I do something with my dad. Who knows?

A lot of questions. I'm just doing this by the seat of my ass. And I thank you for coming along for the ride. Thanks to the two Tims. Thanks to Miller Park Security for letting us be. Thanks to that lady. Hope she found her place. Ticket to Harley Fest.

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