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He's the absolute best. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.160 I think you guys are gonna love it, enjoy the show. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.319 I don't know what Tom is here. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:54.640 We gotta go there, We gotta go the gontill Tom. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.960 Ladies and gentlemen. It is Packer Week we're coming off 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:04.360 of I don't I get real emotional around big wins, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.080 so I don't want to say the biggest. I'll use 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.920 too many descriptors here, but we're riding high as fans. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.639 We're coming in to a matchup against our biggest rival, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.560 and I get to see one of my oldest friends 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.600 in comedy from the same club as myself. I'm from 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.880 your club. However you want to describe it. It doesn't matter. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:29.200 I'm terrible at intros ladies and gentlemen. Pete Lee, Hello, a. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.560 Hey, Oh my god, it's so good to be here. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.360 It's so good to be here. I remember when you 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.600 first went up at Acme Comedy Club and I got 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.839 to see how funny you were, and you're all tall 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.160 and good looking and confident, and I think my first 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.280 sentence that I uttered about you was like, God, I 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.080 hate this guy. And then like I met you in 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.480 the bar right and I didn't hate you for any 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.480 reason other than like envy, you know, because like nobody's 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.800 that good that first their first time. And then like 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.160 you were tall and good looking and super confident, and 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.280 then you and I hung out in the bar afterwards. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.040 I was like, oh, this is awesome. And I think 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.960 I was doing a show there and you were one 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.240 of the openers. And then I was like, like, all 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.840 week long, I watched like every set that you did, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.120 and I was like, this guy is brilliant. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.639 Here's the thing, Pete, that's the nicest thing anybody said 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.000 on this show to me, ever, And I'm not gonna 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.640 have it, okay, don't you it's Packer week, don't you. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.440 I understand what you're doing. You're the sweetest man alive, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.079 and I know you mean those things, but you you're 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.360 saying them because you're recording this podcast in your car, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.799 and you don't want me to mention it. First of all, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.280 you look great, you sound great. You are recording in 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.640 your car, which feels like the if I had to 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.960 pick a place that a Packer fan would record a 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.800 podcast from, it would be a vehicle. But in in 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.160 true contradictory fashion, it is an electric vehicle. So it's 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.000 a real packer conundrum here. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.760 Yeah, it's it's a real packer conundrum. I will say, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.959 I am so. My wife is doing a zoom call 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.080 right now. Sure, and like many of us, you know, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.640 like when they're on the call in the office that's 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.920 in the living room, you're basically like, I feel like 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.120 I'm one of her co workers. I actually feel like 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.440 I'm a janitor at her work, because like last week, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.840 this lady quit and she my wife was talking to 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.919 her boss and they're like, man, we just didn't see 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.600 Pamela quitting. I'm like, I'm like, I saw it coming. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.119 I'm just mopping in the background. I'm totally the janitor 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.320 at her tech firm. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.480 I feel that way all the time. I especially when 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.800 there's conflict at my wife's work. I like start pacing 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.640 by the door, like trying to whisper things that I 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.520 think she should say in response. I'm the worst. It's 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.280 that's the problem with being a comedian is you are 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.960 in the home, and if the other person works in 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.080 the home, well, guess what you got the worst cubicle 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.080 mate of all time? 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.080 Yeah, because I mean, like I used to work in 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.120 advertising when I lived in Minneapolis, and like like I 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.200 always had that guy that like had less to you 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.920 than I did, you know, Like like I was in 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.360 the Internet department, which was booming, and then there was 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.000 this guy in accounting that would just come down to 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.480 my cubicle and he had all day to talk and 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.200 I just had no time to talk. And now I'm 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.040 him in our house because I have all day. I'm 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.839 a comedian. I'm video editing when I want to, and 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.719 like I'm I do video editing, and I also hired 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.000 an editor, so like my wife knows that I have 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.800 nothing to do, and like, if I am going to 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.480 do any editing, it's by my choice. So like I'm 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.800 always popping in, like, hey, you want to take a break, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.400 you want to go down to the coffee shop and 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.960 grab a donut? You know, Like she's she's doing that 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.159 right now in the house because she's the man of 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.320 the house and I'm relegated to the car well. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.520 And let's not sell yourself short here, Pete. You're not 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.120 just an editor that had to hire another editor. You're 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.520 also the owner of a sports franchise. Because your fan 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.320 base is filled with people who have a piece of 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.440 paper that told them they own their franchise. Congratulations on 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:04.680 your ownership. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:05.279 Oh thank you. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:05.640 Yeah. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.720 The ownership was given to me by probably the worst 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.359 girlfriend that I ever have had in my life. And 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.080 I remember when I got that Christmas present from her. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.440 When I got that Christmas present from her, I was like, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.120 I was like, I think this is gonna be the 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.360 best thing to come out of this miserable relationship. Like 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.159 she wound up cheating on me with a TGI Friday's 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.200 bus boy. But you know what, I'm a Packers owner 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.640 because she got me that for Christmas. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.839 The problem with I think a lot of Viking fans 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.640 love to make fun of the ownership thing. They love 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.720 to poke at it. And I do think that makes 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.920 sense because you guys have a worthless piece of paper. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.040 But at the same time, I think there's an envy 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.040 from other fan bases because if you're honest, you go, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.080 I would absolutely do that if that was my team, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.520 I would one hundred percent that. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.360 I know that it's worthless. But I will say this 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.880 about Packers fans. I know dozens of people that do 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.680 not know that that piece of paper is worthless. They're 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.799 they're like, we go around owners meeting every single year 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:14.920 because they do that. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.680 I'm here to tell Mark Murphy what I think and 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.960 that's my right as someone who owns stock in this company. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.919 Yeah, and like they let us take a vote. Like 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.520 the last time that I went, we we voted to 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.000 let Brett Favre back on the team officially so we 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.320 could put him in the Hall of Fame. And there 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.800 were people at that meeting that were like, all right, well, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.680 let's see, let's see how this vote goes. And I'm like, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.880 how do you think it's gonna go? Man, Like, like 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.480 Brett Farve is, Brett Favre is here, like he should. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.159 He flew in on a private plane. There we're gonna 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:50.680 vote him in. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.080 Can you imagine Brett Favre getting on a plane flying 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.240 to Green Bay under the guys Like, that's got to 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.599 be the most rigged of all time. He's not getting 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.200 on that plane unless Mark Murphy's like, listen here, Brett, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.880 it could be ten thousand to zero. Nay, we're gonna 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.160 flip it. You don't worry. We got you. There's no 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:13.600 way that goes the other way. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.480 Yeah, And when they were like like do you vote, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.960 you know, like all a posed, you know, like and 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.400 then a few people were like and then they're like 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.000 all four and Brett fav literally like like stuck up 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.520 his hands like he was like he was accepting the 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.680 ovation that he was getting. And it was like it 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.400 just was so rigged. But yeah, every year they have 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.520 some sort of a vote where it's like should we 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.880 have caramel corn at the concession stands? And then we 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.720 get to take a vote, and it's like our vote 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.960 really matters. It's so funny. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.560 That is so stupid. It's crazy, and I'm so jealous, 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.520 like and I'm the sort of psycho too that like 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.120 I talk about this a lot on the show. This 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:03.280 organization has made the mistake of granting me access. I 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.000 was just at the Niners game, walking around on the 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.080 field at the same time as all the important people, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.920 and that's an absurd choice on their part. I really 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.760 appreciate it. Let's be very clear about that. But if 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.440 you put me in, do you know how serious I 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.200 would take an ownership meeting? I would be up there, like, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:28.320 let me tell you about this caramel coorn. Okay, Like 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.400 every year that vote is something I'm building up to. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.880 I have a good ability to not let negative results 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.080 from sports ruin my day, but I have no ability 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.479 to not take it, like to become just a lunatic 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:42.320 about everything. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.319 Oh yeah, well, I mean that's why they're called fanatics. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.160 You know, you're literally a fanatic that's been invited into 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.640 the organization. It's yeah, I don't know the NFL is. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.800 I mean, it's a beautiful company. I've worked for him 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.920 a couple of times. I had a pilot for the 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.400 NFL network called After Further You. It was kind of 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.000 like best week ever for sports. What I was doing 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.079 is I was I was on YouTube and I did 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.520 an NFL recap show every single week, and I was 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:13.800 using like unauthorized video and pictures and then I got 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.839 I got an email from the NFL, like from their lawyers, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.400 and then I basically told them, like they were like, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.000 can you take this down? And I was like no. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.200 And this was before like the NFL could just go 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.960 to YouTube and have them take it down. There just 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.000 wasn't a channel for that, you know, back in those days. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.679 And so like I said no to them, and like 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.679 if my clips circulated around the office, because they're like, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.640 can you believe that this jerk like just said no 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.800 to us, We're the NFL. And then enough people saw 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.839 my clips that they're like, maybe we should do something 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.760 with this guy. So the NFL network man reached out 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.760 to me and they were like, hey, do you want 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.199 to do like kind of do your show as a pilot, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.400 but like you got to take your stuff down from YouTube. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.200 And so I made that deal with them, and we 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.360 actually like I would go to the NFL headquarter. It 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.720 was on Park Avenue in New York, and I would 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.240 like we we developed the show, we recorded it and 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.600 it was awesome, and Roger Goodell ultimately didn't end up 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.960 letting it go. Maybe it wasn't very good or I 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.480 don't know what it was but like. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.600 No, I think you should stand firm on that. I 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.000 think I think your message should be that the commissioner 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.440 of the NFL voted no on your pilot. I think 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:24.840 that's a good stance to take. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.079 Yeah, yeah, I think yeah, he voted no. The note 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.600 that we got back was that they didn't want to 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.920 build a brand and then erode it through humor, was 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.199 what what I had the feedback that I got. And 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.880 to be fair to Commissioner Goodell, I don't know if 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.120 he didn't want to wrote it through humor or through 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.160 my humor, he could have just felt like, this is 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.160 not funny, and I don't want this to ruin our 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.040 brand by being not funny. I don't know. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.079 That's the best part. Here's the thing. So I've been 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.920 in whatever whatever, this version of comedy sports thing. I've 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.719 been in it for a number of years now. And 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.240 my favorite thing about it. You would think it would 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.680 be like the access and the creativity and the unique path. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:19.520 It's always the people who don't believe. I like at 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.480 ESPN that when they were like, hey, we're gonna do 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.280 Sports Center but on your phone with a comic, there 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.120 were people in that building. And then Pete what I 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.760 would do is I would show up like prior to 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.240 my show, and ESPN is like a campus. It's this big, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.040 beautiful campus. It reminds you of a college town. And 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.679 they have a cafeteria, they have all the studios, all 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.319 the buildings. So I always worked a night shift, but 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.360 I'd want to get there in time to eat and 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.839 see the people that I liked that work during the 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.920 day because there was a day team and a night team, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.520 and I would always show up in like shorts or 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.080 if I was wearing long paints, it was tights with 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.440 shorts on top of it. And I'd been there like 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.720 two months and I finally had somebody of pretty large 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.120 reputation be like, hey, you should wear some pants, and 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.000 I was like what, and he goes, this is ESPN, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.720 we wear pants around here. And I literally was like, yeah, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.480 but I wear shorts, and I just kept going. So 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.120 I do love I do love being in that realm. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.080 I think if you're in the world where there are 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.240 people who go I don't know if this works, either 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.480 they're going to be wrong or right. But I think 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.800 it's a fun I think it's a fun conflict. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:37.680 Yeah. I love naysayers. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.360 Yeah, Fortunately this team. You know, we don't pull the 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.880 curtain back on this show very often, but this podcast 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.840 is the direct result of the leadership at the Vikings 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:54.400 and their content team being willing to I mean, imagine 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.199 going to an NFL team like I want to get 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.080 Bert Kreischer and Dan Soder and Pete Lee and just 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.760 let's just talk and see what happens. And they were like, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.200 we love it. So that's that's pretty unusual. Man. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.920 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think the Vikings 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.000 I'm a Packerson, but I think the Vikings are a 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.200 pretty cool organization in general. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:14.440 Far less owners. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.600 Yeah, yeah, you guys are not owners, but like watching 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.480 that Quarterback show, just seeing that like like they had 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.400 team psychiatrists or psychologists that like Kirk Cousins would go 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.440 talk to. I don't I mean, I don't think the 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.760 Packers have that. I think they're like go to the bar, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.959 you know, like if you're having trouble, shot a shot 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.280 of Jmo and drink drink a spotted cow. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.800 Can you imagine how Packers fans And I'm going to 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.800 be very stereotypical here and I will own that. So 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.080 hit me with your messages, Packer fans Can you imagine 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.280 if your quarterback was on that Netflix show and they 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.440 watched him go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.120 think psychologists, psychiast. I'm not good on knowing what professions 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.960 are pretty sure psychologist. But if they'd shown a PAS 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.720 quarterback doing that, there'd be guys everywhere like not on 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.160 my watch. Brother, We don't talk about nothing in this state. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:08.720 We bury it. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.000 If Jordan Love went to a psychiatrist every single time 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.720 that he got sacked, they'd be like, yeah, he got 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:21.800 his feelings hurt. They hit Oh they hit him right 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:26.040 in the feelings. Oh yeah, Yeah. There's there's just so 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.760 many and not that there's not Minnesota townies, but like 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:34.160 there's just so many Monday morning, you know, towny quarterbacks 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.280 in Wisconsin, and they all know what they what he 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.520 should do, and they're so funny. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.120 Well that's the unique thing about so we both came 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.480 up at the same club in Minneapolis and then but 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.760 when you start and you're young, you go on the road. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.320 And a big version of going on the road is 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:56.200 traveling around Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa doing one night ER's 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.760 in towns like there's people here, yeah that want this 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.400 you people. You're trying to tell me that people in 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.720 this town are gonna come watch me try to make 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.120 them laugh. And the thing that I learned very early 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:15.800 is there is nothing I am less interested in whilst 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:21.040 doing small town Midwestern gigs than any football conversation. Oh yeah, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.840 that is. Nothing will make you care about football less 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.480 than performing in your rival state and then finding out 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.000 you're from Minnesota. It's awful. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.880 It's really funny how offensive it is to people in Wisconsin. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.080 And like I've always I joke about it on stage, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:42.800 like people are like, oh, you're from Minnesota. Oh oh no, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.760 how could you? And it's like it's it's really kind 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.080 of all the same place. And at some point a 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.920 drunk guy drew lines, you know, like like I I'm 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.480 a bit about how the Lions like like this, like 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.640 the states could be like Minnesota could basically be a rectangle, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.760 but they just drew it all weird. But I mean 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.400 it's pretty much the same place. I think they have 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.560 a lot of the same agricultural interests. They're like, you know, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.400 like I mean, you know there's that bar that's like 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.920 right on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's like 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.479 and it's like painted half Wisconsin colors and half Minnesota colors, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.200 and it's it's like literally the same place. But we've 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.800 created these these divisions through the NFL. And it's not 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.760 that there's there's state rivalries. It's how serious they are 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.320 about it and how they don't even have a perception 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.440 that it's semi ridiculous. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.200 Spoiler alert. We also like and produce a fair amount 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.560 of cheese. Yeah, but I will say I do love it. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:45.880 I I both cannot take it seriously, but I don't 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.200 want to deal with it. When I'm doing a stand 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.080 up show, I don't like if you put me on 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:53.359 stage and you introduce me as from Minnesota in Janesville, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.160 It's it's the worst. Now I've got to convince seventy 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.560 dads that I'm worth listening to for fifty teen minutes 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.640 because they think I might not like their favorite running back. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.440 And I don't have a ton of time for that. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:12.600 But when you go to a like a divisional rivalry tailgate, Oh, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.359 paint that all over my wall so I can stare 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.040 at it forever. Grown men in cheese hats and grown 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:25.800 men in horn hats shouting at each other poorly I'll 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.040 watch that over most other sporting events. It's a really 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:29.879 good time for me. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.800 I had a friend who is a diehard Eagles fan, 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.280 and the Eagles fan who's just used to the link, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.280 you know, used to Phillies fans came to Lambeau with 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.879 me to watch Eagles packers, and it was so funny 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.200 because like the way the way Midwesterners like talk trash 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.280 is just way different than the Eagles fans. So, like 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.000 my Eagles fan friend was walking through with the Eagles 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.479 jersey like I'm gonna get jumped, I'm gonna get beat up. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.480 And they were like, oh, you're. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.520 An Eagles fan, all right, well have a bloody marian. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.480 I'm gonna tell you how bad you are. Uh fly 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.840 Eagles fly. Well, you guys aren't even gonna leave the nest, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.560 That's what I'll tell you. And then they made my 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.639 friend do like three shots with them, and and my 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.760 friend was like they were so nice. They get they 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.080 gave me like three shots. I'm like, yeah, they're poisoning 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.960 you slowly with the poison that they've become accustomed to. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.680 I'm like, don't do so many shots because we still 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.680 have three blocks to go until the stadium and that's 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.640 how they're gonna that's how they're gonna bring you down. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.919 And he's like, they gave me a broughtwurst. I'm like, yeah, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.800 like you're you have diabetes. Now, like we literally that's 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:40.399 how we get you. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.000 We're gonna kill you with with sustenance. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.919 And then the next year, my buddy was like, all right, well, 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.040 I'm gonna get you tickets to the Link. We're gonna 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.080 go out to Philly. And We're driving through the parking 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.080 lot and I have my Aaron Rodgers jersey on and 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.760 people are literally founding on my car because I like, 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.920 I we're in a Packers jersey and they can see 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.640 it in my rental car and I'm like, oh my god, 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.400 I am in danger. And so I just kept driving 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:13.000 slowly until I found these two giant dudes. They looked 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.399 like they were like Packers linemen and now they just 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.119 go to all the games. Like these dudes were huge, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.000 and I parked right next to him and I popped 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.840 up in my trunk and I was like, Hey, I 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.960 have all this food, all this booze, like I'll cook 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.320 for you. I was like, just walk me into the game. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.240 And these guys were like, yeah, we're actually bodyguards, that's 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.320 what we do for a living. And so I gave 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.840 them two hundred dollars and they actually they walked me 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:37.959 and my friend out of the game too, so like 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.720 they're like, here's my cell number. But like I was 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.400 in physical danger in Philly. It's like a way different 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.560 thing East Coast to Midwest. But that's why, like, like 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.480 I've been to Packers Vikings games back when is at 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.359 the Metrodome, and like I've been around Minnesota fans and 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.080 they're the same way where they'll they'll they'll really get 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.960 after you and they'll make fun of you for being 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.359 a Packers fan, but they're like they're not going to 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.320 hurt you. That's the key thing. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.600 I've said this before. I was at the Randy Moss 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.480 Moon game. H I did feel in the third quarter 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.840 because that was a blowout and nobody expected it. And 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.600 I remember cheering after a touchdown at some point in 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.000 the second half and being like, oh, let's put our 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.800 jackets on. Like I felt that because that was the playoffs. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.600 But even then, the worst we got was like some 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.280 bad looks And that's always been my experience on the 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.720 way out to that game. It was my nephew Seth 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.119 and I. I've got a big Hillbilly family. So I 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.639 was nineteen with my nearly adult nephew and he was 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.800 a senior in high school and we were driving out 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.439 to that game, and we stopped at a truck stop 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.679 and I locked my keys in the car, and so 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.520 we were We eventually called someone to come open it 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.360 for us, but for a minute there we were in 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.720 the heart of Wisconsin, at a Wisconsin truck stop on 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.200 the day of a Packer playoff game, trying to break 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.840 wearing Vikings gear, trying to break into my own car 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.400 with a coat hanger, and people were helping us. If 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:18.280