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This is a live show. If anybody is available to join or wants to join, we'll take questions via Ask Chuck and Winkle or anything. Wednesdays, the old format.

I've already got one from Robert on YouTube, which is the exact thing that we wanted to start with. And that was Will the Brewers Win the World Series. And I'm telling you, I text you Sunday, right? One of those days, yeah.

Yeah. Sunday. I text you Sunday because I was watching the Tommy Pham and Contreras.

Not the play, but the backlash. Or the interviews in the clubhouse. And I just saw Contreras there at his locker, and I just thought, this is it.

I don't know. I had that special feeling that this is it, and there's something that's going to happen. And then I went to go back by my old parade chair site, the exact site that I was on Wisconsin Avenue. And I took a parade chair from... There was one at the office.

It said free. I took it. And I took a parade chair, and I thought it was going to be a chair. So then I opened it up to try to do this thing. And when I opened it up, I realized it wasn't a parade chair at all.

It was some shitty Twizzlers stupid thing. I could make it into a picture here, I think, but it was... The chair was?

Yeah. I thought it was a chair. Well, how can a chair be confused for Twizzlers?

Because the bottom of it looks the same. Okay. I'll show you.

I can show you my screen. That's a big Twizzlers. Well, no, it's a Twizzlers branded chair. This. It's this. Oh, I see. Okay. All right. So it's a beer component thing.

It's a cooler. Yeah, I see. But I only had saw the... You thought it was a chair.

Okay. The legs. So I was going to be like, all right, the brewers are going to make the World Series. Here's my parade chair. And the fact that this physically wasn't a chair because I'd never opened it, I think that was the sign like, okay, the parade chair bit does not need to happen.

Oh, so you're off of it now? I don't have that special feeling that I had on Sunday. You know what's amazing is with all the injuries and all that, when I saw you do that, I was like, man, he knows all these guys are on the... I know you're doing a lot of national stuff, but I know he knows these guys are all on the injured list and we're living on the edge of these guys, but still they're in first place. They got a healthy lead. The people in Chicago are looking over the border and saying, the Wisconsin-Illinois border and saying, what's going on? That team's in first place.

But I don't know. But I've learned my lesson from getting excited during the regular season that you got to play your best baseball in October. You have to understand, I was pretty jacked up off of three close wins against a 15-1 baseball team. Hey, they could have lost all three of those games.

Every win matters. You know, I was so down after the Bucks season and I probably watched the least amount of Bucks basketball this past winter. I was just so disenchanted with watching them.

Of course, I do the Brewers podcast to begin with and I love doing it, but the Brewers getting off that great start was kind of a relief after a few months there of just watching that regular season Bucks and watching some of the way that team played. God, it was a terrible watch. Just unentertaining. This is Ask Chuck and Winkler Anything edition of Into the Winklerverse. We've got Hot Take Jake that wants to chime in via video. What's up, fellas?

Hey, Jake. This just feels right. I mean, it's Wednesday at noon and a random summer day.

Why not? Yeah, we're on a little later than, you know, the early morning shift that we used to have when we were half asleep. Although I did just get up, so. Well, yeah. Well, you were up all night.

Yeah. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I'm even happy to see you, Chuck. We used to battle back in the days early in the morning. So it's good to see a pal. I battle with a lot of people. That's true. It kind of goes with the territory, I suppose. I have a couple of questions. First things first. Explain to me why Bucks fans are like wistful and like so like feeling bad for Jabari Parker because he had a video where he started crying when they asked him how his first year in Europe was.

Am I going crazy here? Because I remember Jabari Parker sucked. He like, OK, great. I feel bad he hurt himself, but that's not why he sucked. He was just an overblown prospect. He was a bust. He admitted that he didn't care about defense.

And we all watched him quit in a playoff game in real time. So like F that guy with a cactus forever. I don't give a shit about him. And my second question is, is it weird that before me and the old lady go at it, I make her put on the music from the Shakeaways? So that's all I got. I'm going to hang up and listen, just like the old days. Love you guys.

Well, we can answer the first one. When Tim Shay comes on, I have this rock music that I play. OK.

It's just the generic from Streamyard. All right. So so nobody's got to pay any royalties? Yeah. But apparently Jake gets charged up and his wife and him wrestle. Some people get turned on by birthday cakes.

He gets turned on by that music. You want to elaborate? So about Jabari Parker, you know, it was like it was 10 years ago this month that the Bucks drafted him in 2014. That was quick. God, I remember being at that Bucks block party. Remember when they did that for three years? Yeah. Yeah. The last block party, didn't they have a block party for Damian Lillard and he stayed there for 30 seconds? Everybody came down.

Damian Lillard, welcome to the block. People were asking like, when's the next Bucks block party? And they kept being like, oh, yeah, well, I don't know yet. Just like people are asking me, when's the next Bart Winkler show, Brewers tailgate?

I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm not sure. Maybe coming up. Well, I'm trying to get people together for Lockdown Brewers a meetup as well. Can we combine that? Wow. That'd be interesting. Combine both of our audiences. Yeah.

Would there be a bar big enough for that? Do you have an answer about Jabari Parker, why Bucks fans are wistful? I think it's because it was a thing that there was so much promise and it didn't work out and you still think about the guy and it'd be great if he could come back.

Can I do one thing first? Yeah. Let me Google, see what the hell wistful means. Vag or regretful longing.

Having or showing feeling of vag or regretful longing. Yeah. Are you wistful? Are you wistful for our show? My wistful. I'm wistful for a lot of things.

I'm not wistful for getting up early in the morning, I'll tell you that. But do I miss being on the air every day? Yeah. I mean, it was a thing. I've done it all my life.

I do the Lockdown Brewers, which I enjoy doing. But I do miss talking to the fans every day, like you and I did. Of course I do. About time I heard me in that answer. Yeah. Well, you know, I know there's at least one radio station you're not going to work on with your latest battle I saw the other day. Yeah.

That was a very me answer. Remember when I told you like, you don't know what I'm trying to do? Remember I told you that a couple of times?

No, I don't remember that. Oh, you'd be like, what are you doing? I go, why?

I go, you don't know what I'm trying to do. What did that involve? I didn't have a plan.

What was it a response to? You're like, why are you acting this way? Why are you being such a dick? Oh, I'm like, I know what I'm doing. You're like, you're like, it doesn't seem like you do.

Whatever. Of course, you did have a plan because what happened to Chuck and Winkler? Yeah, that was the plan.

Oh, God, you know what? Shannon's having a wine party here tomorrow and the people delivering the wine are at the front door. Can I go get it? Hold on one second.

Go get them. When you come back, Tony in Texas will be here. So I'll just BS with him for a minute. Hey, Bart. How's it going, buddy? Hey, this is wine party.

Blue chew, right? We're all aware that that's what's at the door right now. Oh, that's what he's getting delivered. You know, and you know, this is a good time to tell you what else you can get delivered to your house. Happy Place, hemp, happyplacehemp.com.

Tony, you're part of this now. The promo code is Bart, 25% off each and every order for the gummies and the tinctures and the balms and the creams and whatever's going to help you if you've got joints or ailments or all that stuff. You can go to happyplacehemp.com, the THC, the drinks, the seltzers, all that. 25% off every order. It's still going. It's the code that never ends. And you can use it multiple times at happyplacehemp.com. I bring that up, Chuck, because we are very, very, 95% sure that that was code for you got blue chew back at the door.

No, no, no. She's having the neighborhood, you know, the housewives of LaMira having a wine tasting party. It so happens to be at our place Thursday, which I will not be here for.

So they just delivered the wine. Chuck, ironically, you and I both date nurse practitioners named Shannon. Oh, how about the same girl? Is it? No, I'm wondering where she is during the day.

It seems like the bra size might be very similar though. Hey, Chuck, I got a couple of things. I'm going to get in and out here. Yeah. Okay.

Give me a quick State of the Union of the Badger football and basketball program. And two, have you watched an episode of SNL since 91? Yeah, I, I, I saw SNL and it was probably before that 91. We're talking maybe like 81. Oh, we're talking Eddie Murphy, like Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy.

Yeah. It was funny because one night we had SNL on a couple of months ago. It was a random Saturday night.

There was nothing going on. And we had SNL and was just terrible. And that's how we turned on Mr. Rogers neighborhood or what?

Mr. Robinson's neighborhood. It was, so you were watching live SNL and you thought, fuck this. I'm going to go watch. We watched skit from 40 years ago.

That's fine. It holds up. Eddie Murphy. Yeah. Mr. Robinson's neighborhood was on and we've watched some of that.

And some of the Eddie's old buckwheat buckwheat. No, we didn't watch that. No Gumby. Oh, Gumby. Yeah.

Gumby. Yeah. But just watch some of that yet. But so this was probably back in April. I'm not, I'm not happy with the, the status of the Badger program, basketball and football.

I don't know if you know this. I coach will a U ball. I don't think recruiting's that hard, especially at this NIL stuff going on.

Why can't guard do this? Why can't you get that program headed in a better direction? Well, I think it's, it's going to be very tough, especially with NIL. It's it's, if you thought it was tough before Wisconsin's got a great campus tradition, all that it's, it's amazing how you, first of all, the college game is just so out of whack.

I don't even know. There's going to be a final four in a couple of years, the way we're going, the way college sports, you see all these, you see all these veteran coaches getting out of the football and basketball games because well, the packer D coach to a Heffley it's all, it's all out of whack. It's it's all in whack. So I just think the whole system now, you know, I just think with the football program, we expected instant success last year. And, and, you know, that's a work in progress now with guard, he's got to be able to adjust to this NIL into the Badgers, had the money to compete with some of these schools and, and pay that kind of money that other schools there's no salary cap. And it's just going to keep going up and up and up. And unfortunately like the mid majors are going to pay the price, but the Badger basketball, they always seem to be resilient, but I understand your frustrations and football.

I don't know, but I think the whole college sports scheme is, is in trouble right now, unfortunately, because of NIL it's uncontrolled. Well, I appreciate you, Chuck. And Chuck Winkler was always one of my favorite shows listened to on my, my morning commute here in the Dallas Fort Worth market, Chuck. So good to talk to you, buddy. Good to talk to you, Bart.

Bart, love the national show still, man. I listen every night. So I love when you call in, I get like Ram called in last night. I got all fired up.

You can tell when somebody like one. Okay. Oh, he took off. He didn't want to hear it. I was like saying how much I like talking to him. That's funny when I'm driving around, like I'll be, I'll be in FODLAC, Bart Winkler weeknights.

You know, I hear the Green Bay all sports station, Bart Winkler, CBS, well, when it was CBS radio. Here's a question from Jerry. Back in 2017, did you ever think your boy would have a nightly national gig? No, I didn't. He didn't think I'd have a local gig by 2018. No, that, that's not true on that. But I mean, those national gigs, as I told you at the time, I mean, those don't grow on trees.

You know, they don't grow, they don't grow on trees. So no, I didn't, I never knew that was, might've been something you were ever interested in, but I mean, doing a hell of a job on it. I mean, I, I I'll say that. I know people who listen to your show and you know, your takes you're, you're in there fighting for the small market guy, the small market guy. It's a, and, and I'm not like, I've, it's a version of me that has learned lessons over the years. Unfortunately, you learned all those lessons after I left you or after I, yeah, you were my teacher.

You are my teacher. Yeah. Cone roller wants to know how many REO shows you are up to. Oh, you know, I'm going to go to summer fest at the end. I think it's June 28th and see REO. I don't, I don't think I went last year to see them. So I don't even know what the count is, but at the summer fest, June 28th, I'll be there. They're touring with train right now.

And I don't care to see train train train train better be opening for them. Yeah, I would think so. I have a Milwaukee fair related gripe. Okay. The summer fest grounds are an incredible spot in this community, right? Yep.

And I think these other festivals being held there, we went to festa Italiana on Sunday. Yeah. Big letdown.

Why? Because there's nothing going on. Is it just a smaller version of summer fest? I've never been to festa or German fest. We went to Irish fest once and it was like, there was like things like, I don't know. There was a little more things.

Festa Italiana. Yeah. You walk in, it's only to the left. There's two stages. And then there's just like exhibits of like history that you pretend to like and walk through.

Cause there's really nothing else to do. There's like little shops that all sell the same version of the same knockoff thing. Like my kid wanted, he's into sort of the Ninja turtles. And then there was this Donatello Ninja turtle, but then it crossed his waist.

It had a big L on it for Leonardo. It's like such a knockoff piece of shit. And then yeah, 13 bucks. I'm not paying 13 bucks. No, of course not.

Especially what we make. So I just, I don't know. I, we ended up, basically what we ended up doing was paying, paying the money to get the ticket 15 bucks or whatever, to walk in, watch one song, pay for dinner, and then play at the free Summerfest park for an hour and a half.

Yeah. I just think I've never been to any of those festivals, but I've been to Summerfest. And to be honest, Summerfest isn't Summerfest, unless it's 10 days or 11 days, how it used to be. This weekend, it's like, when is Summerfest even starting? It's like, you know, it's every other, it's every weekend coming up in a couple of weeks. To me, Summerfest the beauty of it was the 10, 11 day run they had, you know, a Thursday through a Sunday night. And then they took one day off and then now we're... Yeah, I like that better. Yeah, I like this, the 11 day. Cause it was always around the 4th of July and you took some time off and you had days off and all that. I just liked it better.

But I thought it killed, it killed the momentum. Yeah. And also it's nice to know that, oh, I'll go on this day where it's a little lighter and I can maybe, like, that's why I like going to Brewer day games. Cause it's like the day after opening day is the best game to go to. Isn't it?

No one's there. Isn't it? Yeah.

No, I, I hear that. But Summerfest, it's, I don't know. It's never going to go back. And I think, you know, they changed it when COVID happened and they never changed.

They never flipped back. I don't know. I liked it better the old way. My dad just texts me to say, FYI, Florida high school just passed NIL. Oh no.

I know they were going to do that here and then voted against it. But it's not completely dead. But it will someday.

Yeah, eventually, yeah. And I don't know what that's going to turn into. What, three schools just have like a pod and they... What do these kids think? Like, hey, hey, you know, do you want to be the new spokesman for Tucker's homestyle cheeseburgers?

Here's 50 bucks. Well, I'm worried about some of these schools that have a lot more money. Alumni, parents, and all that are going to buy up the players from the suburb, from the, maybe the smaller communities. I don't want that to happen. We don't want the haves and have nots. We want, you know, if a kid grows up in a certain community, I want him playing in that community. I think that's the beauty of it. We don't want him traveling 30 miles to go play over here because, you know, he's getting a couple of thousand dollars or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't like it.

But whatever, I guess it's a train you can't stop. Kyle's pumped. He says he adores us.

Tom likes to see it. This person is a show where we just tweet that people are pumped, that our faces are next to each other. Okay, anybody calling us, you know, horrible people yet? Tyler says Chuck blocked me on Twitter, so here goes. Was your Corbin Burns tweet on opening day your most embarrassing tweet with regards to people roasting you?

If not, what was? No. Let it play out. Not embarrassing.

It's an opinion. What did you say? I didn't like the trade. And now that Joey Ortiz, you know what, last year, when I said I'd be open to trading Sal Freelich, last year I said, you know, I'd be open to it. Not that I wanted to do it.

I think people today would be more accepting of that than they would have been maybe, you know, a year ago. So let it play out. Embarrassing. Chuck doesn't get embarrassed. Well, not publicly.

Yeah, he could. All right. The Sean O'Connell. Hey, fellas. Why are you standing?

Well, Tony, I missed him. I was trying to get on the call with you guys because he and I had a Twitter dispute over pickleball and I was, I commit to the bit, you know, I don't get embarrassed either. Do you play pickleball?

Grudging. Well, not grudgingly, but I enjoy it. It's not, certainly not who I am, but as far as a fun diversion to get the, you know, the athletic juices flowing as well. You don't really do anything. You're just kind of like. I play one-on-one with the teenager.

So it's actually pretty vigorous. And we talk a lot of, I would, I would rephrase that next time you say that. Yeah. Anyway, but here's the real shirt. Oh, I don't even have one of those yet.

I tossed all my stuff away. That's a very limited edition. It is. Yeah. So if we ever get back, if we ever get asked back by that radio station. Well, it's not one Oh five seven anymore.

Yeah. That's the other part of it. Chuck you'll they'll have to, uh, uh, fire up the FM transmitter as well.

We don't need it. Nobody listened to that. Nobody listened to one Oh five seven anyway.

They all listened to us on 1250 because they couldn't get one Oh five seven anywhere in the three blocks of the radio station. Yeah. Well, that's great.

That's awesome. I'm glad you like it, Chuck. Uh, I have, uh, two things for you guys. Um, and I don't mean to derail your conversation cause it sounded like a scorcher. Um, but, uh, number one, um, now that you don't get embarrassed, that's why I love you pal.

No, no. Um, but, uh, one, now that we're a little over a third of the way into the season for the brewers, um, I think we, we can kind of see what Pat Murphy is as far as a manager is concerned. And, uh, in my opinion is this, um, you know, he grew up in an age where boxing was the biggest sport in the world. He was a boxer himself.

You think Pat Murphy's 97 anyway. Um, so anyway, he, uh, uh, so he spent a time boxing himself and I think a lot of his mentality of win for today. And also you're never in combat sports, gyms, the world over wrestling rooms, boxing gyms, whatever Muay Thai in Phuket, Thailand, you'll encounter the same notion of you're never out of the fight. Just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, and eventually the other, your opponent might just be like at their breaking point.

You just don't know. And persistence just can assure victory. And then always, and also win for today because I mean, you can ask Wade Miley and Brandon Woodruff, uh, uh, you know, tomorrow may never come.

They'll tell you that, uh, you, we just saw last night, Wade Miley with that thing on his elbow. So that is my impression of what we have for Pat Murphy in, in that it is different and, um, uh, it has his own flavor. And that, that is one of the things that we did not get a Craig council carbon copy of. Never thought I heard Pat Murphy in Thailand mentioned in the same, same breath. Sean, we'll, uh, we'll address that in a second. Tim Shay's pissing on my leg and he like has no patience.

Is he telling you it's raining? Tim, what is your problem? I've got a special guest with us today to join us.

Hey, I'm CBS 58 mornings. Okay. What's up?

Yeah, that's right. Bart. It's me. I follow you. I follow you and said, do you want to hop on? And I was like, sure. Why not? Well, I'm sorry.

Normally when I do this, females don't know how to find us. So I'm like, we're all like, we're all like frozen. Her picture froze. Yeah. Well that, that went about as well.

That is the wifi. Yeah. No, we got you. You're still alive.

That will about as well as I thought. You still got us. Tim Shay.

He fucking texting me, screaming at me. Get on, get me on Alex cordetti. Big time name in Milwaukee news.

Can't even come through. There it is. So Tim, Tim is over at CBS 58 still. Yeah.

He's producing for Alex. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right.

No, not true. Tim does help me out though. A lot.

He does. Oh, how is it working with Tim? Cause I hate it. I can be, it can be great as long as he owned gum to work because he asks me for gum, like every single day. So it's getting a little, it's getting a little annoying. You asked her for gum. Yeah. Yeah.

The title of a Joe Walsh album. Got any gum? You guys got any gum? What's it like working with you? Well, I don't really work with Tim. I just make him do what I say that I need from him.

That's what I do. Does that mean that we don't work together? Yeah. Tim's more of like a servant to me.

And then sometimes I'll buy him lunch and feel like that, that that's equal. Is he, are you calling from a warehouse or something or where they are? Yeah.

I think they're at the station. They are? Yeah.

Okay. Tim. Can't hear him.

This is a disaster. Tim, we got to let you go. There we go, Tim. You're on mute.

You are muted. Good to see you, Alex. We got to let you go. So any, by any, any latest battles for you at all?

What you've been doing right now? I'm kind of pissed at Tim Shay. Why? Cause he, cause he butted in on us. Well, you let him in. Well, you said special guests. He didn't tell me who, and then it was Alex and we follow each other on Twitter, but I'd never talked to her before.

Oh, okay. Well, she's apparently a fan. Well, how could she not be?

How could she not be? Yes. Good Lord. You guys have some pride. So yeah. That's three radio stations in town.

They're obviously not fans. Sports radio. No. Do I have any battles going on?

Do you have any battles now? I don't know. This is the kind of self-deprecating humor that a Milwaukee sports radio is missing and longs for. There we go. Anyway, so that was my point on, on Pat Murphy, that he, he, he will much, you know, a win today is as good as two possible aggregated wins future in the future are.

But I got to go back to work soon. So my, my, my parting second part question, whatever topic of discussion is that, and I wrote a note here, so I don't screw it up in case my pugilistic dementia kicks in. Chuck, you very famously said on a morning show in 2019 that you went to a drive-in movie theater and saw a double feature of the comedic classic strange brew followed by a, the musical classic purple rain.

Sure. Now, now, now Bart and Chuck, if there was a sports double feature that would be a classic hallmark moment, rush more type of double feature for sports, whether it's over a weekend or on a single day, what have you, what would that double feature look like? Love you guys. Actually, it was, it was, it was a triple feature. I went to thinking back, it was a triple feature.

It was purple rain, followed by Ghostbusters and strange brew at the 41 twin on 27th street. Oh my goodness. Clutch the pearls. What a sneaky factoid to withhold from me, Chuck.

I mean, that blows my mind. How about that? Thanks fellas. Really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. The Sean O'Connell. Some interesting words he uses, but.

Yeah. If you had to look up wistful, you're going to, you got to like, you got to buy an updated dictionary for Sean. I'm going to, I'm going to back to the Pat Murphy thing for a second. Cause we had talked, I had this conversation with Grant and Paul about how, Oh, and a show announcement.

We'll have a episode with them later this week. Another show announcement. I am getting a new router delivered to my home.

The problem was I had an old AT&T router that does not, I have, I've been, I've been, I've been talking about AT&T fiber. Wait, what the fuck am I saying? What am I saying? I'm getting texts from somebody that's throwing me off.

What the hell was I talking about? I just bought a router too. Oh yeah. I have had the old AT&T, but I've been paying for fiber. I've been paying for a thousand. I've been getting one 50. The only reason this is working right now is because my wife's, she went to the gym and she's not on a conference call or some shit.

So that's just a big, people will be very excited to hear that. So you're, you're phasing out from time to time on your old router? Oh, I try, I try to do it.

I mean, like I'm stunned. I don't have, now I'll probably jinx it, but we, uh, we're trying, we were trying to install a printer the other day in the house and it has to be wireless and it blew out our wireless. So we had a Saturday night. We had to run over to and buy a new router. The router we had was always burned it out. It wasn't working. Just didn't work.

These routers were not made for seven devices at one time. I did not know that. All right. So we were talking about, cause we ended up being very mad counsel left because of where he went. That's obviously why, but it did seem like, and we've been in that clubhouse very often. I haven't been in the Pat Murphy clubhouse, but this is not a team that I've like those council clubhouses. The locker room was just like, it was a weird vibe and I blame him. Well, first of all, you know, I w I wasn't upset that he left that like you, I know you were, I I've, I've seen it.

I've heard it and I, I know I wasn't, but what, what was wrong with the clubhouse that council had? I don't notice any difference between him and Murphy as far as clubhouse atmosphere. Do you think that Willie Adamus and Wilson Contreras would have had the, Oh, William. William Contreras. Yeah. I like that though.

William. I like that. But do you think they would have done it for council? Do you think that they would have like even tried to go and talk to council and say, let me back in the lineup.

And then there's no way council would have budged. Oh, Craig, I see her throw. I walked in the office and Willie says, well, Craig, I see her throwing in that Sunday lineup. Once again, are you putting yourself batting third? Craig seems like we've seen that lineup way too many times.

Here's my problem with it. When they use that Sunday lineup, why do we like rest everybody? How come Contreras and Adamus gotta be, Oh, can't we rest one guy one day and another guy another day? Why is it going to be both guys at the same time?

Are two, the two hottest hitters. But I could see what you're saying. Yeah. Maybe they didn't. Maybe they wouldn't. I don't think they would have. I don't know. Interesting though.

I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm going to rip through some comments. Still time to join in the YouTube. If you want, we'll do this a few more moments.

Austin wants to know question for Barton Chuck. What was the argument like off air when I was accused of sleeping during a playoff game? It was the 9th inning Brewers against the Rockies after the. 2018 yeah Cubs Cardinals and then they played the Rockies and I had gone to the game and I had good seats and I was on TV and then in the 9th inning I was like. But it looked like I'd fallen asleep.

Do you realize that the last time the Brewers have won a playoff series too? Do you realize that I think I did actually fall asleep despite years of saying I didn't? Well, I think you did and you got mad at me and upset. And yeah, we almost got into a fight.

On your end, you're coming after me. I think I did fall asleep. I think I have that picture somewhere. Yeah. Well, but if I did fall asleep, it was like for eight seconds. Well, if you did, he did. Yeah, but it's like seconds.

You know, if you just own it. He did. He did. Yeah, but I I don't know again. You've taught me so much over the years. I don't think I. I don't think you learned anything. You told me one of the first things you said.

You know what? I don't like to listen to anybody you told me. I don't. I still don't. I still don't. I mean, I crushed lockdown Brewers every day you do.

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong there. I had a guy tell me the other day, you know, I was at the Wisconsin Broadcast Association banquet. I won an award for medium market sports cast of the year. Congratulations. Well, I had a guy from a sports radio station, none that you and I never didn't work at, four letter word, who said, who comes up to me after winning the award, says you didn't win it you didn't win it in the, a major market. Look at all you.

Yeah. He, he, he came up to me and says, yeah, but he didn't. He came up to me and Shannon because he's dating Shannon's daughter and says, you didn't win it in a major market.

How many words have you won on top of it? He shits on the small market, medium market. When his company radio station won small market radio station of the year.

So this tool comes up to me and says, this kid's not allowed in our house. I'm on, I'm on other things. I mean, the first impressions, like you want to share a name or you're not going to share a name. I thought maybe the, the radio station again, wasn't 97 three, the game just, I like too many people over there would not do something like that. I know you've had your differences, but I, they wouldn't do it.

Certainly not WSSB. The other one, a kid there, who's a producer crapped on me, winning a sports cast. And it was like game on. It was game on, you know, he's, I told him, he's like, he's got his head on his shoulders yet, but nobody from the station called up to apologize. Maybe they don't even know, but maybe I'm breaking some news, but that tool, he ever does something like that again. Like I said, he's not allowed in my house. I don't care if he's dating his daughter, just, just did a bunch of things that just unprofessional. And I'm like, this guy is they get married.

Shannon feels the same way. I'm sharing a picture of the game, not the game, but the game I was at. I, I fall asleep 10 minutes after this. There you go. So I did, I did not see that picture of you. The other picture I saw is you falling asleep. Yeah.

I couldn't find that picture. And by the way, they'd better not get married. She is way too good for him. Well, that's the thing. These, these people like winning an award, I was Fond du Lac best DJ of the year, according to the Fond du Lac reporter, that means the world to me. I don't care if you're with a small, I'm not going to, you know what, I'm not going to care if you work at a media market, small market, man, if you're in the broadcast business, more power to you, man.

And, and yeah, but it's like, dude, dude, I mean, you went to a big Marcus, you know, this guy's been in the market, big market for 15 seconds, among other things. I mean, don't be belligerent and come up to me and say something like that. Don't be a tool.

Tim Shea's back. Sorry. Sorry about that. Ruined a good moment there.

Where's the following kid ruin art ruin a night and it ruined a bunch of things. Yeah. And, and I'm, and I'm surprised management over there put up with it. If they got word of it and didn't call to apologize the management over there, I'm disappointed in that. To be honest with you, I liked that company.

I don't, I've never worked for that company. Good company. But the kid who, who said this to me is just a unmitigated tool. All right.

Speaking of tools, Tim Shea's back, Tim, a pretty shitty wifi. I know. I'm sorry. That's at work. You know, we're, we're like in a bombshell. So this guy is car now. Wow. So you've been up since like three o'clock in the morning. Chuck, you told me that you like, you know, you know, you liked me in my car.

That's true. I like you two guys together. It's no Chuck and Winkler, but it's not even close. Chuck one said, Chuck one said I could do a show with anybody. I could do a show with a grape. I could do a show with a grape. And I thought, I wonder if I could do that too.

And so I met Tim Shea. Terrible. Alex did say that she wants to come back. She was very nervous. Cause she's like, what are they going to ask me?

I need to know a lot. And like, I'll do a show with Alex. She's on TV and Wisconsin TV. She doesn't have nothing to be nervous on just a bigger platform than we are in right now. She's a pro. She's awesome. Yeah.

He does say thank you. And she will, would like to come back sometime. Well, she was on for 30 seconds. All right. Austin was the one that asked this question.

So Austin's here also. What's going on guys. This is great. Great having a little Chuck and Winkler in the middle of the day.

Let's see what he's got. I like that brewer's hat, man. Can you get that at the ballpark?

No, I ordered this one off their website. I like it with the new script on there like that. I love it. Good stuff.

Appreciate it. So I asked that question because I remember that fight on air. I would like to have known what happened out there, but I also, I went to a Marquette basketball game one time with my girlfriend and her parents. And I just hate Marquette and fell asleep right in like the second, I don't know, is it quarters or halves in basketball, but like 15 minutes into the game, man, I fell right asleep. Well, did I tell, I think I told the show, did I tell you, Chuck, that when I went to that Packers Pittsburgh game this year, I fell asleep in the third quarter? No, in the stands?

Did I even share that here? No. Is it even cold? How do you feel it's cold outside?

I was going to say, Austin, it's freezing. It was a November game. It was fine. It was good temperatures.

We wore sweatshirts. And before the game, obviously, I had been drinking and I got to a point where I said, guys, I said, I reached it. I'm at the perfect level of like drunk. I mean, I am drunk, but I'm also in a really good spot. I just, I finally achieved it. And then in the third quarter, I fell asleep.

Wow. I've never fallen asleep at a sporting event ever. Some of these Packer trips, it's like, it's not so much the game to see how much alcohol you can put in your liver. Well, it's a brutal trip up there and back, especially on the way back from Green Bay.

But Austin, your question. This was in Pittsburgh. I went to Pittsburgh and fell asleep.

Oh, it was in Pittsburgh. Yeah. Okay. All right. Oh, this past year. All right. Yeah.

Did not know that. That argument that we had, I don't know, you tried kicking the door. Which argument was that about? The Colorado game we're talking about the one where it didn't take a picture of you.

You're like, I don't know. There was one argument that led to me kicking a door and that's the one and saying today is going to be the day. That's the one in the morning, whatever the day after the Brewers had beaten Colorado, I think in game one. And then afterwards we cooled off and I went to that Sendex to buy lunch, but you were there. And so we obviously couldn't see you. So I had to wait in the car until you left. What was good is though, I think that I went to Colorado to cover the Rockies.

So I did the show remotely for like the next couple of days after that. And I think the separation, I mean, we were all right. Just a couple of boys having fun.

We never got into a fight. No, but that's what happens when you have two guys that are passionate, not just about the teams they cover, but about the people they are covering them for. Something that is lacking on the battlefields of today. Well, talking about sports. Yeah. Yeah.

Well that's a big one in the first place. Yeah. That is why I do like Chuck. I do like your lockdown Brewers.

I know Bart doesn't have his regular podcast anymore. So I listened to it on delay, but you know, it's the national stuff, but I do like your lockdown. Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you. Good stuff. Thank you. Thanks Austin. Good stuff, man. You'll put an episode a little bit later on tonight, but yeah.

I don't know. I just, I just think sometimes two people, people will ask me, wow, who did you get along better with Winkler or, or wicket? Or who do you like doing the show better with you or wicket?

I like doing the show with both guys. Both guys, I'll say this, both guys put their time into watching and caring about our sports teams. Now today, wicket looks like he's a fan of every sports team he's ever lived in. Oh, has anybody liked Kaitlin Clark more than Mike wicket? Well, you know, he's very sweet as Kaitlin Clark, seven fire emojis. You can bet if it's Kansas city and they're in the super bowl, he's got a chief's Jersey on. If the tigers are the lions, he's got a lion Jersey on.

If the Packers are involved, wicket's got his Packers. But I'd like to, I'd like to, I like Mike. I liked working with him too.

I enjoyed working with Mike. There's a question from Alex says your thoughts on sports betting. And I saw you tweeted something about it, but there were three, there were three stories yesterday, three stories yesterday.

Shohei's translator, guilty. Jontay Porter's buddy picked up at the airport and, and then, Oh, some like a decent pitcher for the A's got suspended. Cause he'd bet a hundred dollars on baseball and some other guy gets kicked out forever. Cause he's betting on his team in parlays.

You know, but nobody gives a dude, but you know, tell me you did not. I predicted this several years ago, but I think, I think, I think the, I think they like Goodell and silver, these guys are like, okay, this is going to be nuts. But as long as the people that do it are really shitty, then we can give them the worst, like fines possible. And then it'll look like we're cleaning things up so we can do both. I like sports betting. Of course.

Bart and I, I think I speak for him. Of course we love it. Sports betting right on. I just thought with the expansion of it, that it's going to open the doors for this stuff. And to be honest, I think this stuff happened a long time before the expansion of legal eye sports. There's some games I look at. I gotta be honest.

I look at it and say with officiating or whatever, and I say, are you kidding me? I mean, come on. So it doesn't surprise me.

And there's more of it out there too. A comment from Adam. Tim, you got, are you, you got anything to say?

No, I don't. I'm going to leave. I just, I could listen to this all day.

Well, download, like and subscribe like everybody else. I guess I'll go like it. Goodbye. All right.

Hook me up with Alex from a podcast perspective. You're married. Yeah.

She's married too. Yeah. All right.

I'll just slide into her deal. Good to see you, Chuck. Good to see you, Tim. We'll see you around.

Austin, anything else? Just when you're talking about the sports betting, I mean, Shohei's getting off pretty much Scott. You think you did any betting, Chuck? Boy, I don't know. I mean, if we're going to, if we're going to ban Pete Rose, aren't we going to do the same with Shohei? I mean, if we're going to ban Pete Rose, aren't we going to do the same with Shohei?

If he actually did, I don't know. It seems like it's being swept into the rug a little bit. Thank you. Right? Right, Austin?

100% because of that contract he just signed and he's a two-way, only two-way player in the whole, probably the whole world that has that kind of talent. There's no way that you don't know that much money goes missing. Exactly.

We're told things in this country that we're supposed to believe in, and we believe it, like this. Well, anyone else? Well, I don't want to go down that road. Let's, yeah, let's not go there, but the trail starts right with Loved?

Olytics. All right, hey guys, I'll let you guys wrap up. All right, good talking to you. Good talking to you. I see your tweets. Thank you.

All right, we'll wrap up in five minutes or so here. I see there's another one here. Adam says, what's good? Chuck was one of the first sports radio hosts I listened to that got me hooked in when I'd see you on 107.5 in Green Bay.

What wisdom did a pre-40-year-old Bart learn from Chuck? You know what I remember you saying quite vividly? What's up? That I sometimes will like reference to myself and nobody knows it, like you have inside jokes, whatever. But you said, I said like, what are you doing?

Or something like that. And you go, I'm just being me. I'm always going to be me. I'm the same son of a bitch I've been. And I'll always be the same son of a bitch today.

I'll be the same guy tomorrow. Yeah. I thought, you know what? Whatever you think of what a Chuck Freeman is, you know what a Chuck Freeman is.

There's no question about what a Chuck Freeman is. So you learned that? Yeah, I learned that from you. Eric says, Eric Fisher. He says, got to make it easier to bet on sports in Wisconsin.

Such a hassle to go to the book. I'm actually thankful of that. I would have lost a lot of money on the Timberwolves. I hedged a little bit. I was going on the Timberwolves for a while.

And then I hedged on them. And I hedged on them the night that Doncic hit the three pointer. So who do you like in the finals?

You got to go to Boston, don't you? Everybody I ask says Mavericks. But I think people want it to be the Mavericks. Boston's going to get game one. I think Dallas takes two. I think they split in Dallas.

I think Boston wins five and six. I want to love Doncic, even though, you know, obviously, we're Bucs fans. But I'm watching his game. But sometimes, man, like the other night, I mean, he threw anything he threw up was going in that first quarter. But there's some days when that guy can't make a clutch free throw. Just bizarre.

But great player. There's another trend that's happening. Not pulling for either team, though. There's a trend in this year's playoffs, though, that when America gets behind you, it's over. America got behind the Knicks. They lost to the Pacers. America got behind the Timberwolves.

They lost to the Mavericks. I think America's getting behind the Mavericks. Or at least like where the smart money's going.

Okay. The underdog here? I like, no, I like Boston. I like Boston. You like Boston, yeah. I think of it now as, Bart, right or wrong, you risk nothing.

You're right, you get a million bucks. I see some people, oh, I'm pulling for Drew Holiday. He's not with the Milwaukee Bucs anymore. So it's not like I go out there and did some great things for the community. That's true. But I mean, that's not going to get me to cheer for the Boston Celtics.

That's for sure. Well, I wish people would know that Drew Holiday's, they need less of him than we needed of him. It's not like it's a transactional play. It's not like, oh, why didn't the, like, we, they needed Dame. You saw it in game one against the Pacers.

They needed, Drew's not putting up 35 a night. By the way, somebody said about my most embarrassing tweet, how about I said, the Pacers are going to win this series with or without Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Pacers were going to win this one anyway. And of course, oh no, even without Giannis Antetokounmpo, people were coming at me and calling me names and all that. Where did you all go, people? I didn't hear you call me that, saying that was an embarrassing tweet. I was writing that. Nobody said anything to me. All you all went away. All you all are coming at me and saying, oh, the Bucs are going to win this series.

Oh, the Bucs are going to win this series, regardless. I'd say my most embarrassing tweet is anything after 10 30 at night on a weekend. What's your latest? If it stays up, my latest, I think I'm trying to be better of that. Yeah. Yeah. All these years later, six months into my national job, I think I'm going to try to clean it up. Your Twitter base is growing. I saw that the other day.

Yeah, I was going to buy a blue checkmark. I was. And then he's giving away all your information to pretty much everybody that wants it. Well, everybody's got a lot of information anyway, right?

Well, everybody's got a lot of information anyway, regardless we wanted her or not. It's funny. I don't know what I'm talking about. I upload my receipts to fucking Amazon.

So they give me nickels back on the every month. Okay. I'm talking about my information. All right.

frames. Good to see you, Seth. Yeah, I got, we got to go.

Did an hour. Got the show coming up tonight. You my show coming up nine o'clock.

Yeah. You got, we got a brewery game at we're taping Wednesday afternoon. So three 10, so I haven't got a win in the series yet.

No, just don't get, I said going in long as you don't get swept. I know that's not a great attitude to take, but you know, the brewers have built up some equity. You just, they just got to stay away from the long losing skids and hang in there, hang in there by that news. I'm kind of cross my fingers on what's going to happen with Robert Gasser. We haven't got the latest news on that just yet.

The second opinion. Yeah, those are always interesting. Yeah, again, it's hard to like look too far into the future, but, but you are feeling that I had the other day. Yeah, it was gone. Oh man, that was so fleeting. Like you meet a girl in the bar and you think that's the girl, your dreams two days later, you realize, no, but by then you've already got her pregnant. So me, no, I have not, I don't want to say it.

I have not a whole, Hey, look at these boys. There we go. God. Yeah. That was Tommy Dreamer. Tommy Dreamer. There we go.

Got any more of these? That's good. On the day and Shane. I would say this is probably 2016. This is 18.

18. Okay. Do you know that solo Soko joined us? Oh, the, do you watch wrestling anymore? No. Oh, I'm a wrestling fan, but I don't watch today's wrestling.

Sorry to say it just doesn't interest me. The big guy that they, uh, I watched shoot interviews. Push. He was with us when he was like a nobody. Was that one of those guys? Dave brought in. Yeah. With Tommy. Okay. I know that.

I remember that was in a Tommy kind of. He was so quiet. Yes. He's not a star.

He's like the main bloodline guy. He is. Yeah.

I know that it was okay. But he was like 18 at the time. Wasn't he 19 really young?

Yeah, he was young. Wow. I just posted this one.

Every time I drive by. Fleet farm. I think of us doing the show here. Brian Anderson.

UI. AJ Ellis randomly came. Who? Oh, AJ Ellis is the former baseball player. Yes.

Yes. We walk up. We walk up because we had Brian Anderson booked in.

We're like. Is that AJ Ellis? Well, here's what it was. BA.

I hooked it up. I said BA. You know, because he was great coming to our. And he's a busy guy coming to all of our.

All of our toy drives. And he was coming in from Heartland. So I said, uh, he said, Oh, can I bring an agent? Yeah, of course.

Of course you can bring him in. So it was nice. What do you, what were you? There when it was UI, Al Snow and Ted Perry, or was that Mike Wicket? Uh, I didn't, I didn't have Al Snow. Okay.

That wasn't with Mike Wicket. Okay. Well, we were able to hook up Eric name with Rome, uh, with Tommy Dreamer.

For what? No name, name wanted to meet Tommy Dreamer. And he said, I said, I'll book you after he, after he's done. Okay. No, I don't, I don't remember.

People are saying that Gasser avoided Tommy John. Yeah. It sounds like there's no structure in that, but is it something worse or better or what? I don't know. I'll listen to lockdown brewers tonight for the latest. Yeah. In the meantime, I do have to wrap this up. Okay. I will, uh, I'll see you soon. Good. Good to see you, my friend.

Let's keep in touch, obviously. Um, I'm sorry. You're not cashing your Tim Wolf's bet was a good bet.

Smart bet. I thought it was going to happen. That's all right. I'm just happy.

I didn't make it because I was going to go down three 50 on it. So Paddle, never get an app Paddle, please. I beg you. Yeah, I don't do that.

Never get an app for them. All right. I'm bar Winkler. See everybody. We're back tomorrow at six on the fan.