Mike Schneider: So I'm on my phone. I'm just looking through some things. Two pieces I saw as I was scrolling through. that i want to is that no that's not it where was it one of them was did you draw mister boogen hagen i did you didn't okay i thought that was and i saw one report system ⁓ was with the items under illustrations is that yes i don't see a right away it was but i was telling ⁓ the taylor and his wife ⁓ about it a little bit and we talked about his awesome homecoming date with Katrina that he didn't pay for a ticket and then and then we rearended her car. Yeah, the way to do it. You know, I, I don't even remember that story about the boogs but yeah. Um, no. So that he was in a developmental. I think it's a WWE. Yeah. So he was one of the up and rising stars. Well, don't think he's in it anymore. No, anymore. But I got that info from Mather. He text me one day like, did you fucking realize that Bouganagan is in the WWE? geez. Did he like, did you draw that after? Because you were better friends with him. Yeah, I actually. You guys are pretty close friends or are still? I told him I wanted to mail it to him and he was just like, don't you either see if you can sell it or see if I think he was more like if you can get something from it. Why don't you go for it? Because I don't necessarily keep in touch with him. ⁓ But I'm good friends with, do you remember Jared? Well, maybe not. Who? You're a great above. ⁓ Jared Ellers? ⁓ yeah. Yep. Because I'm still good friends with him. OK. And he's, I mean, we went to, ⁓ so Eric is one of his best friends. OK. Yeah. So we went to, this is when he was in the NXT. he did a wrestling match actually at Turner Hall downtown. That's awesome. And we went to that and it was pretty cool. I mean, even at that point. So like he had a big follow. So I'm not sure how much Mike has shared with you, but he had this insane YouTube following. Oh, he did make he a comment earlier to like a bodybuilder type of even walking around with him at Turner Hall like he had just crowds of people trying to follow him. He always had that personality though. ⁓ my God. Well, I told people his YouTube per- that is him. That is not some online persona. That is- was him being unfiltered. That's- that was him. Yep. Yep. I didn't watch a whole lot of it. I saw one or two clips after Mather texted me it. like, did you- have you seen this? I'm like, no way. It was pretty cool. I watched a little bit and I'm like, ⁓ yeah, that's exactly what I remember from high school. He ended up opening- WrestleMania for the WWE. He opened WrestleMania and that's where he picked up two guys. He had two guys on his back and his knee buckled and he like basically shredded everything in his knee. And that was that. And that was that. Sweet. We should get him on. But he'd be a hell of a podcast. I think he might. Is he coming back? Well, don't. He might. I don't. You don't want to put his shit out there? Well, I feel like it's public. whisper it to me and I'll put my his shit out there. he signed a contract with American Gladiators. wow. Fuck He's going to be beating people up. I feel bad for the people going against I would not. I wouldn't want to go him. Dude, he's just going to tear through the... ⁓ the American Gladiators, like the game show type thing. Sweet. Like a giant Q-tip with little... Because no knows what they're actually called. No clue. It's just giant Q-tip. Yep. And the giant tennis ball launcher that just... But he could be doing that. That'd be awesome. I'll... We'll keep our eyes out for that. And if he does, we might have to get him on. He's He's hell of a... A personality. He is a personality. Couple other questions. Do, so I'm again just scrolling through. Did Bill in conniption, did he reach out to you or did you, he reached out to you for an album cover? It was Michael Brigham. Okay. Is there another band member? vocalist and lead, not, no, Bill's the lead guitarist. I think he's a rhythm guitar. No, cause he does solos and stuff. Anyway, he's the lead singer. Plays an instrument in a band. He plays guitar. ⁓ But yeah, so I had done some work for them, I want to say it was 10, 15 years ago. ⁓ I did an album cover for them. ⁓ And it was when I was fresh out of college. OK. But yeah, he so this is that's a piece I'm talking about, too. ⁓ sure. OK. It was like a complete album design. this dude here, Bill House. Yeah. We went to his he was in our grade, my graduating class. Also one of the most insanely talented guitarist I have ever heard. Dude is also a freak. Yeah. I mean, legitimately, he is an absurd guitar. And even Michael is incredible on guitar and his vocals sound great. But Bill House is he's he's wild. I haven't followed him a whole lot. Have you seen him play? Not live. I've not seen him live. I've seen some clips and stuff on Some of their Facebook or social media stuff, but I haven't seen them live because I think he's even done some stuff ⁓ for Guitar Center ⁓ yeah, where he's had stuff recorded for them, but man he is absurd But yeah, so it was that was kind of a fun project because they reached out to me and they were like hey We want to do or we have this new album coming This always kills me too is when people reach out to you, ⁓ but they need it like this week. You can do it tomorrow. Yeah, basically. ⁓ But they reached out to me and they said, hey, we just want you to do a portrait. ⁓ And I was like, all right, I can do that. ⁓ And they were waiting to do like a photo shoot so I could have some photos to reference for the artwork. ⁓ And then he kind of threw out there like, well, we already kind of have the album cover like that we want. But if, you know, while we're waiting for the photo shoot, if you have anything that you want to sketch up in the meantime, like go for it. ⁓ And that's, that's kind of, I came up with like the cover ⁓ and yeah, I kicked it over to them and then they were like, well, we actually kind of like it. And I felt almost guilty because you know, they already had this guy lined up. ⁓ But I ended up telling him like, all right, well now I've got this idea. If you do this as the cover, you have this portrait artwork, you can do this like something pretty easy for the CD. Like you could make a full like a set. We could do an entire album, not just the cover, but you could do an entire album. And I was like, I think I can do this in a week or two. That's cool. So yeah, it was really nice. Actually, this is it was one of those situations where like the time crunch actually helped because it it almost gave us no like time to overthink things and go back for revision. It was just whatever you come up with, it's going to print. ⁓ And that was actually pretty cool, too. Is that how you would prefer to do it? Not necessarily be like ⁓ Hey, we need this yesterday, but like, actually prefer a landscape. Yeah, if we could make this portrait more of a landscape. Hashtag landscape. I'd be intrigued by that. Hashtag. No, like to have a little bit of a like, hey, we don't have a whole lot of time. Just run with it and we'll go. Yeah, well, yeah, of course. Is that kind of like, do you prefer it that way? Or is it like, well, everything's a little different and it you just approach it however it needs to be approached because like you've mentioned like like artistic freedom in terms of like, oh, I could do this, this or that. Like, do you find yourself when you're given full artistic freedom and be like, hmm, should I do this? Like, do you do ponder more or like, do you just start drawing and see what happens or painting or whatever landscape you're drawing? If I'm If I'm given the freedom to kind of do whatever I want to do, ⁓ like I said earlier, I don't have to be over... I just kind of go... I'll hit a certain point if I am overthinking it. like, just start. I got to start putting something on paper. Just start. And that's actually worked out really well for me so far. Just start doing it. Because if I'm just sitting here thinking about it, I'm not getting anything done. ⁓ So it's at least making some kind of progress. Yeah. But it's so much easier when the client or whoever you're working with gives you more creative freedom, just because if they have their own vision, it's so much harder to like meet that vision. I'm sure that would like that pressure would build up like, ⁓ shit, are they going to like how I'm interpreting what they're telling me? And I guess because most people aren't going to be like, draw something for you. Like, I want something like this, because if they could draw what they wanted, it be. So it's like, hey, I want it a little bit like this. But how you see art, yeah, how you see that eighty thousand dollar blank canvas versus how they see it could be completely different. Right. And I've run into that, too. So usually if I am doing certain paid projects like I'll be sending pictures almost daily. Depending on what the client wants just because I don't want either of us to be surprised with how it's going I don't want to be ⁓ my god. It looks nothing like I'm not paying you. Cheryl this does not look like you at all. I'm so sorry And I do it that I don't have a lazy eye Yeah, I've been kind of stuck with that before we're like Yeah, you just keep trying to meet someone else's vision and it it just ends up me spending all of this time doing all of these revisions and then you're in too deep. Yeah. And yeah. Do you do you ever do like almost like a rough draft? Like do you do some like, all right, this this will work and be like, no, screw that and start over and like the best way to work. OK. So that's fair. Like ⁓ so I was doing a project for this ⁓ interior design company. OK. They wanted a tree. And I said, Lance, fuck you. You said fuck you. said, hell yeah. Tree, sign me up. So you gave him a blank canvas and said, here's your tree. Invision it. I'll take my 85k now. Bye. But I knew the tree I was picturing, probably not the tree that they're picturing. Right. And they wanted this tree to be five feet tall. I mean, this was for like very big house. Oh, sure. So anyway, I ended up doing it was like maybe, I don't know, eight by 10 inches. So really small, but I, I'll do a painting like that. I'll kick it over to them before I actually start spending time on the five foot the full side. yeah. That seems very reasonable. That small piece, like this size, but the smaller piece, like that gives you the full idea of what I'm picturing. It might not be as detailed, it's so much easier to tweak that than it is to almost just blow it up than to just go big right away. mean, that makes a lot of sense. So have you painted anything for anybody famous? You don't have to give names, but I'm just curious. Besides me, your first commissioned full circle moment here. couple. I think. i mean can i name drop we would love you to name or as we have to support as many of the people here at it uh... well arts of the also any dirt on them we would take no i don't know the pool boy and sharel they were doing stuff and that was it i don't know if i have any anything like that uh... but but you know Now everyone's like, shit, don't say my name. Don't say my name. Don't say my name. Yeah. There was a time where I was doing a live painting of Rogues. I'll give you the name first. was Dave Chappelle. Shut your mouth. yeah. That's awesome. It was. And I know he's kind of a controversial figure. Well, it's Dave Chappelle though. Yeah. But he honestly, I don't have any dirt to give on him. He could not have been a nicer person. I think Dave would give you the dirt to everyone. He doesn't care. All the dirt's So how did you get in touch with Dave? Was he just at Rogue? Sorry. We're going to go rapid fire questions here. So you answer mine, then Mike's quick, and then I'll ask another one, and then I'll go to Mike. We'll cut you off and interrupt you some more. So this is back when I was regularly painting at Rogue's. I think I was there every Monday night. and at one point I would occasionally get a text from the owner and he'd be like, ⁓ on a Saturday night or something. He'd be like, ⁓ we had a guy back out. Do you want to come in and paint? And I'll be honest, most of the time I'd be like, I don't know if I want to, but I, will, because I, the exposure is good. The money's good. Like I'll do it. and so. There was one night he reached out to me and said, hey, can you paint tonight? And I think I was at work. ⁓ And I was like, trying to figure out, ⁓ And you said, only if it's a landscape. Can I make this frickin' tree work at Rogues? ⁓ But I was like, all right, I think I can make tonight work. And so I got home from work. I start sketching out on a canvas to bring over to Rogues that night. And I swear, was like 10 minutes before I started because I was living downtown. So it was like 10 minutes before I started walking over there with all my stuff. But the owner reached out to me and he was like, hey, actually Dave Chappelle is coming. Just got word from like his crew or whatever. So he was doing his comeback tour and they were doing a show in Milwaukee and they were going to have their after party at Rogues Gallery. So he was like, so if you wanted to do a painting of Dave Chappelle, maybe get him to sign it. You could get a nice, pretty penny for it. And at that point I was like, that seems... You're like, it's just not this tree I've been dreaming about. I've really been wanting to paint this tree. Draw this rock with a little bit of sunset in the background. I don't know if I want to paint the guy who's going to be there. Like that seems like a weird... Did you start painting and like, shit, is he here yet? Is he here yet? Shit. It actually ended up being a big blunt. In return. That's all he painted. Here you go, Dave. I you. Here you go. Hope you love it too. But yeah, so I kind of got wind beforehand that he was going to be there. And it was kind of funny because I did give a couple of my buddies like a heads up. Hey, I have no connection with the guy, but he's going to be in the bar. if anyone wants to come and see him. So a couple of my buddies came out. And yeah, Dave Chappelle showed up at probably 11, maybe midnight. ⁓ Huge crowd. He had probably 30 people with him. you know, I'm just off live painting in the corner of the bar, but at one point, like him, sorry, I'll try to speed up this His whole like crew moved upstairs. And I think at that point it's probably like one o'clock in the morning at this point. So I'm getting tired. My buddies are like, all right, well, we've seen them from 20 feet away for the last couple hours. Like we're going to probably head out. Yeah. Like, all right, I'll start cleaning up my stuff and I'll probably walk home soon. So I go down, grab some of my brushes and I went to go wash them off. come back and Dave Chappelle and his whole group moved right next to my painting. Now I don't think it was to talk to me or anything like that, but They happen to be very close in proximity to me. And as I was cleaning everything up, Dave Chappelle gave me the little finger wave. know, obviously I see him. Yeah, because if someone like that is in the same room as you, you know where they are at five feet away from me. Yeah, Yeah. And I'm like, ⁓ my god, stop looking this. But he kind of flagged me over to him. So I'm like, Okay. Oh shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. I don't have my blunt. God damn it. I have nothing to offer you. But he was like, how much do you want for the painting? yeah, I thought about this beforehand. Like, okay, like what if he wants to this? possibility. he wants you to see. never crossed my mind. You just shot from the hip. Yeah. So he was like, what do you want for the painting? And you know, I'll be totally honest. I was like, well, everything I do here, I sell for, I don't know, $300. and he was like, you know, cause it's one night of work. It's not anything crazy, but he was like, all right. He reached into his pocket and he literally just gave me a handful of hundred dollar bills. It was probably like maybe two grand. And he was just like, you go. And I'm holding it. Piss pot. ⁓ yeah. Good catch. Piss pot. Cheers that. Cheers that. I was wondering that is an hour and three minutes into this recording. Normally we have about seven of those. Yeah. One time. Count your blessings. We couldn't get through when we record when it's super cold out. We couldn't get through explaining the drink of the show before the next pisser pot came out. Oh boy. This is going be a long We need another beer. That was a story when I was telling you that I called certain people certain things. Yeah, that was that night because all of a sudden we're three bottles of wine in we're like, oh, yeah, this is what's happening. Yep. See it all comes together. So he handed you this wad of cash. So yeah. So he slaps a bunch of hundreds in my hand and he says, so like, this will be a really cool way for me to commemorate my time in Milwaukee. I'd love to buy it off you. And he even said to he was like, make sure you sign it. And I'm like, you know, I'm still trying to process. I'm like, I'm sorry, do you need change? do you need more than one painting? I'm like, would you like a side tree painting to go along with this? have a beautiful land. Hence Japanese maples aren't the best. So yeah, so, So he gives me the money, tells me to sign it. I'm over there and I swear to God, I'm like trying to sign my name and my hand is shaking. I just have nothing but adrenaline pumping through probably a little beer too. Yep. I... It's going to be one of those things that like if that like when his art collection gets auctioned off after he passes away and someone's be like, ⁓ that's a Cole Kleesner. Wait a second. And then it'd be like, no, it's not that that's a forged signature. It's like, no, he's just... His adrenaline was pumping so... He had carpal tunnel. So we're sorry. But it was it was funny because I'm I'm signing my name. and i'm kinda realizing at that moment okay i'm selling this painting to dave chapelle and then i'm like wait does that count i think that's still the same one ⁓ yeah it's pretty long okay i mean well it was my first one it's like forty cheers i'll drink anyways just just to make sure we're covered I think, I don't know if that was a new one or not. It could have been a new one. It was, it was pretty funny because, you know, I'm signing it and I'm starting to realize, well, shit, my friends just left like 15 minutes before this. And I'm like, no one's going to believe this. I'm going to tell my buddies and they're going to be like, dude, we were with you the whole night. That never happened. So I ended up being like, I think I need a photo with him or something. And I know You know, my knowledge behind Dave Chappelle, I'm like, he doesn't do fan favors like that. ⁓ so I even felt guilty asking. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. was the only, I had to shoot my shot. Yeah. So I was like, all right, I've already established a connection with them now. So I went over to him I was like, Hey, I'm sure the answer is no, but is there any way I can get a photo with you? And he was like, well, I tell you what, we're going to be here until probably like 5 a.m. And I'm like, well, shit, the bar closes at two. He's like, I don't give a shit. I will be here until 5 a.m. And he was like, why don't you just grab a seat with us, hang out with us. after bar close, like all the people will exit out of here and we'll get you your photo. So I got to sit down, literally Dave Chappelle here, a buddy of his. I can't remember his name. That's going to me later. But yes, ⁓ we can always edit it in. Just look at the camera and mouth some shit and we'll edit it in at some point. But we were just sitting there drinking beer. that's why I say it's a shame that he's kind of a controversial person, because he could not have been a more genuine like he invited me to sit down and have a beer with him. we drink. That's just I mean, it's like the modern day, like have a meal with me. Right. ⁓ Having a meal with someone like way back in the day was like a sacred thing to have a meal, share a meal with someone. That's like the modern day, especially when someone you know. Dave Chappelle is like the epitome of comedy. Right? Like he's on the peak of Mount Everest of comedy. And maybe he was in his career trajectory was maybe not as high as he once was. But even that is still higher than most comedians will ever be. Right. And knowing he doesn't like to do the fan favors and take pictures and stuff like that. That's almost more like, it's more substantial. Like, ⁓ shit, he doesn't do this. This isn't normal. But like, you're also not just a random fan coming up there. You were at that bar painting or drawing or whatever you're doing for hours. you did something to like almost honor him in a way, right? So like, I could see where he would easily be like, all right, this dude isn't just a. Like, dude's been here for hours painting me. Like, you're not just one dude. You're not some drunk dude coming up and saying, hey, could I get a picture with you? Right? But that's cool that you were able to get that type of like. And at that point when he says, come, come have like sit down, have a beer with us. You're like, I don't need a photo. Like, fuck this. Like, whatever. You may have still gotten one, but at that point, like, And this is something I struggle with, being a father. And you're not a father yet. But I struggle with, my wife is very good at taking pictures of what's happening, what's going on, you know, all that shit. Cute pictures of the kids, of me with the kids and all that stuff. And I so much, I'm like, I just live in the moment. Not like I don't like taking pictures, but like, I just want to enjoy this moment. And right, like I will remember this forever. But trying to like that little bit of balance of like, all right, even if I don't get a picture with him, I know I spent hours sitting next to Dave Chappelle, shooting the shit, drinking beer with him. Like at that point, you're like, well, fuck it. I would be like, I don't care if anyone believes me, because this is a once in a lifetime thing. Like they can believe me or not, fuck them. Yeah. Right. There's a... Definitely a fine line. I think it works out perfectly. Like you said, I'm more that way too. I really don't take photos of my day to day life. Just like you said, certain moments and whatnot, but my wife might be like, oh, I want to look back on this one day. So she's a lot better about that. But I don't know. For that moment in particular, I was like, I gotta have some evidence. Absolutely. I totally get the like, I need to do this or no one's gonna believe me. And you could have just made up the story and I wouldn't know the difference. I believe you though. I, I know when you had, I remembered you had done something that jogs a certain memory that you had done something drawing years ago. The Dave Chappelle, like you said that name and I'm like, ⁓ that sounds familiar. I don't remember any specifics, that's wild. Absolutely wild. Like I said, he could not have been like any... He owed me nothing. You know, I was there kind of working. No, you owed him change. I owed him about $1,800 and change. And a Japanese maple, god damnit. And a Japanese maple. I've got one other kind of... I guess technical question. Sure. I guess. have one more after that. So go ahead. Yeah. This is we got, like I said, we've been, ⁓ been, if, if you looked at our search history and the shit we've been doing the last week or so, we've, ⁓ probably be a little concerned about how obsessed we've been. Colekluesner.com Colekluesner.com. Colekluesner.com. ⁓ So you in your, when you're doing art, if you're just drawing shit to like, draw shit, not necessarily a commissioned piece or anything like that. Or any sort of motivation, just like, I'm going to sit down and do something. Do you as an artist, and this might be different now, this might be a sub part of the question, is it different now than when you were doing it more on the side? right. Do you like, all right, I'm going to perfect my craft. I'm going to learn how to draw this Japanese maple. in Crayola crayons in Tickle Me Pink, Crayola, Tickle Me Pink, in the Smelly Markers, in Pencil, in Charcoal, in Pastel, or like in the greater sense of like I'm gonna see, I'm gonna work on other mediums, or is it more like I wanna perfect these handful of mediums as an artist and get really good or like, cause like I referenced and not that I'm comparing what you do to what we are doing currently. Cause there's no comparison. there's some overlap. No, there's anybody that's freaks here. It's me and Mike. There's a large constituent of our listeners. though Mike yelled that Cole earlier. Yeah, I did. There's a large group of our listeners. and people that follow us that think we are a gay couple. have to refute that. Almost every time. Don't supply me with any context though because I want him to really question when he leaves here what's happening right want you to second guess everything you ever knew. No, but like so we sit and we'll watch an episode back or once we post something be like, ⁓ shit, that. we need to fix this. Are you nitpicking your stuff where you want to refine your one skill, not one skill, you have lots of skills, but you want to refine your charcoal and pastels, right? Sure. Do you want to focus on one or two until you're like, all right, I'm good enough at those? Or do you like, want to see how diverse I can be? And I don't know that there's a right or wrong way. Do you think about that or you just fucking wing it? I mean, I typically... I mean, there are people that will literally grab anything and like, all right, I guess I can start using this to scratch the wall. For some reason, maybe I'm not that deep. I've always known you to be a shallow guy. Yeah, very shallow. The roots of those Japanese maples don't go very deep. No, they really don't. Because most of the time, if it's not a commission, my thought process is like either it's got to be something I'm really into, either it's a musician, maybe a movie, or maybe it's just something I... Is that still the same? Nope, that's another one. can't be the... That's a... I... shit. Cheers. Cheers. I take... I take bigger sips than you guys. But... Um... That's bad, because I can't always... I gotta... I heard a drip and I'm like, ahhhh! I can't... I heard it. With our headphones, I can't hear that as much. Great. Sorry, I have no clue where we were. We were talking about finding you like the media. Do you work on one thing to perfect it or work or try to expand? Yeah, so just or combination like probably. But I mean, honestly, so the way I look at it is I'm usually just either if I'm not doing a commissioned or like it's not a paid project, I just kind of feel like doing stuff. It'll more than likely just be What am I kind of into and what do I think looks cool? Sure. That's fair. mean, materials, I think people get really funky and creative. Some of it can be really cool, but... Some might say freaky. Some might say freaky. But I'm more like, OK, mean, Crayons and I'm just using that as an example. My list of all the... Tickle me pink, macaroni. Tickle me pink Crayons Can that do something different? for me than I can create with paint or colored pencils. Probably not. Maybe it's got a little bit different texture, but I can recreate that with other mediums. But some people, I'm sure, that's their thought process. But I'm not going to perfect anything. Artists have been trying to perfect materials and art. As he says that, I'm going to put his fucking landscape. It's not a perfect landscape. It's not. And I'm to put this up here and you guys can give him shit. Our five listeners will not comment because that doesn't really happen. Nobody. We have an email. No one has ever emailed. Granted, we fucked it up for about three months. We were giving out the wrong email. It took me like two months to realize. we were really a number of numbers and he's like oh shit we are marketing the wrong contact information we were for quite some time so it's actually pretty fun so the last question that i have is do you like sunflower seeds? oh shit like to chew and eat them? do you like them? hell yeah okay so honestly mike has a great deal for us mike why don't you go ahead little bit so i have consumed and bought so many have you ever heard of smackin sunflower seeds? Well now you have I'm gonna I'll I'll order cuz I'm about to put an order in with a bunch of guys at work I have a 10 % off discode Discode discount discount double check ⁓ a discount code. Yeah, that's a new thing. We're gonna start that's gonna be our trademark We are gonna trademark that it's starting now ⁓ No, so there's sunflower they come in a million different flavors churro maple bacon ⁓ cheeseburger ⁓ cheddar jalapeno ⁓ you've got your ranch you've got dill pickle you've got crack black pepper ⁓ they have all these trial flavors to that they do one of my buddies at work got me hooked on them they have way less salt than like david's and bigs with so much more flavor it's way more flavor like it's legit the the cheeseburg one like you can it tastes like a thick homemade beef patty like you it's not just like Mike loves them big patties you what I'm saying? Does that ever kind of you out though? A little bit. I don't I've had cheeseburger flavored chips and I'm like it just it feels wrong. does a little bit but when you're fat like me not trying to knock the flavors. No I get it's the weird the weird texture like when you're eating something that isn't the texture that it should be. kinda mind fucks ya. Like it does for me. That was another pisser pot by the ⁓ yeah. Cheers. Here's a separate one. So are you into sunflower seeds too? Yes he is cause I cornered him in it. So I consumed and bought so much that they gave me my own 10 % discount code. We'll put it right here. ⁓ right on top of one of his landscape pictures because that's the only thing we're put up now because that's all he does or white canvases yeah white canvases, I'm just gonna put a white canvas no so we have that they got all the flavors ⁓ I will get a bag what are you a so my fat ass got on these sunflower seeds because I was craving churros we once had a drunk escapade with me and Taylor as we typically do ⁓ and our wives were out on a kidless night out, so we were having fun. We went and I was like, I need a churro, like now. And my wife was like, let's go to Taco Bell. And I'm like, fuck that shit. Those are Scented Cinni-twists not churros. I need a churro. Hey, don't be bashing the Scented Twists now. I could never find it. That next day is when I ordered my first bag of smackin'. And that's what started it. And now I consume smackin', sunflower seeds, a shit ton, they're good, they got all the flavors. Way less salt. They're delicious. 10 % off. I'm going to send you, would you be a fan of a churro? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's really good. I will, we'll get, I'll get this order that I got kind of half built at work. I'm actually really impressed that you have your own discount code. It, I can assume. Yeah. What is the disc code? Yeah. Sorry. It's not a discount code. It's a disc code. code. Yeah. Get it right. This is old news. Trademarked. No takesies. All right, so we also, I don't know if I, and I'm not going to look it back up now, ⁓ if I sent you this in a text or just thought about sending this unit to you in a text, this is how this goes. It's late on a Friday night. Fuck you both. The beers are kicking in. Did I talk to you when we were talking to set this up about our little segment of Wisconsin? Well, hold on. You didn't give the discode. Oh! Give the goddamn discode first and then we will get into it. discode is www.smackinsunflowerseeds.com/2Dads1Mic. Yes. Oh. Just type that in. We'll put it right here. We'll put it in the comments and all that shit and click on that. It'll take you right. It'll auto. It'll add it to your cart. Yes. Automatically they had 10 % off what your entire purchase They'll send you like you could legit get a five gallon bucket of seeds of all their different flavors. It got special like they they've had Like so many see taco Tuesday you can drown yourself Yeah, a five gallon bucket. Yes, well, if you got a kid in baseball though That's half a season. No way five a fight. It's not their individual bags, it just, they just put it in a five gallon bucket. Oh, okay. That doesn't change anything. It's still a shit ton of seeds. Yeah, yeah. Yep. I don't know. It's a lot of, it's a lot of seeds, but once you consume them, you'll understand why. Someone's got to do the math and figure out how many seeds can fit into a five gallon bucket and then divide that into your mouth by 365. How many seeds are you eating a day? Well, when I'm left to my devices, I'll eat a whole one of those big bags in a day. All right. But I'm also like walking around outside. Like, so I'm a mechanic. I'm on service calls and shit outside all day. So like, I'm not in an office. I'm walking around outside half the time and trying not to. Cheers to another one? God, you can tell the heat kicked on. ⁓ Welcome to the Two Tats, One Mike podcast. My name's Taylor. This is Mike. What's up? And this is Cole. is part two of our episode. And as always, we do start our night off with a drink of the show. Mike, what do we have? Drink of the show, we are still drinking by Warp. ⁓ It's a combo Warpigs and Three Floyds, right? That's what ⁓ I'm putting together. Warpigs Brewing. It ⁓ is ⁓ a geezer, a hazy That's what I feel like right IPA. Yep, you are one of those. It is a citrus and tropical hop varieties are gathered in in Massé to create this delicious War Pigs IPA. It is pretty good. It's, it's, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not an IPA guy. This is, I've been hitting this all night. I'm show. Yeah, you have. It's delicious. I've, I've not enjoyed an IPA this much for a long time. So I appreciate the contribution. Cheers. have a brand new segment called Wisconsin or No where and I give facts or multiple choice questions ⁓ on if something is Wisconsin or No. Thank you. So first question, are we guys ready? What's our setup for this? Is it multiple choice? It's whatever I want it to be. All right, well, fuck you too. What city is the birthplace of the Ice Cream Sunday? Ooh, I've heard this one Milwaukee? Ooh, multiple choice. did this last time. That's right. Oshkosh or two rivers? Rivers. That's what the locals call want to say Milwaukee, but it sounds like it's going to be wrong. Tell me. Let me know. I'm asking. You're wrong. It's two rivers. No, it's pronounced Trivers. Trivers. So the first ice cream sundae was created in Trivers, Wisconsin, back in 1881. How do you track that? That's a great question. Apparently the first hamburger was out somewhere northwest of Madison. I don't know. I don't know how that he wrote down in a notebook somewhere. I created this delicious ice cream concoction with a cherry on the top. He called it an ice cream. I had it on a Sunday. So fuck you all. All right. Ready for this? Yes. All right. I that right from his diary. So this is going to be a two part question. ⁓ OK. Where in Wisconsin? is the toilet paper capital Madison Oshkosh Green Bay or Superior Green Bay, final answer Probably Madison You would be wrong and it is Green Bay I am on fucking fire Kimberly Clark The second part of this question is in Green Bay Where is the bratwurst capital? ⁓ in Wisconsin. Ready for this? we go. Kenosha. Yes. Milwaukee. Nope. Fond du Lac. Nope. Or Sheboygan. Ooh, Sheboygan. Sheboygan or Kenosha? No, pick. You don't get to get two. You get one. No, I'm narrowing it down to Sheboygan or Kenosha. Kenosha has a Brat Stop. Okay, then I shall choose Sheboygan. I can't. You would be correct. There you go. See? You're at your same record as you were for the artist one, which you should have been much better at. insane. The only reason why I got that one right is because of you. I would have said Milwaukee. Because I messed up. Our sole purpose here is to embarrass you. True or false? That's why I came here. Just to get the shit kicked out of gonna go home and paint some landscapes. I called myself out. Fuckin' angrily paint some landscapes, brother. Sorry. Alright, true or false? The Fox River is one of the few rivers in the US that flows north, eventually emptying into Lake Michigan. True or false? Well, I've studied the Fox River extensively. Oh, you have. He has not. No, no. His fine arts degree from the University of Iowa. The one question he always stumbled upon was. And we mostly studied art history, which I said I hate it. Yeah. Is this a true or false? True or false? Sorry, is this the. True or false? The Fox River is one of the few rivers in the US that flows north. Eventually emptying into Lake Michigan. The Fox River of 1897. Yeah, that's when it was declared. That flows right into the, yeah, that goes right in. Yep, I'm with Cole on it. So are we true? True. That's true for sure. You would be correct. Fucking nailed it. Yes, nailed it. I knew it. That the history class of 1897 really paid off for you. Glad I Sorry. I'm glad you took a two for this point in your life only. right. No college course I took taught me about some river in Wisconsin. Sorry. Hey, we're 100 % between the two of us on this. True. We are 100%. What year? What? So multiple choice. What year was the first Ringling Bros circus? that was staged in Baraboo. ⁓ that makes sense. Milwaukee. ⁓ Summerfest, one of the world's largest music festivals. What year? What year? So read that whole question again. I was lost interest way too early. Hold on. I got to read more of this correctly. We'll wait. Let me repeat this question. What year was the first Ringling Bros Circus that was staged in Baraboo, Wisconsin? 1858, 1922, 1856, or 1918? I would have died if you'd have said 1897. I was gonna say, this class would have been great for you. I have no clue. I would say 56 just because I don't I'm going go with 1918. Oh, 18. Let's do it. Mike would be correct at 1856. Oh, fuck you. Well done. I'm so smart. This one's going to fucking blow your minds. This last question. Great, because the last one didn't. Literally, Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sunbury, Wisconsin. That blew my mind. We didn't touch on that very long for the magnitude of that fact. A piece of the Soviet satellite Sputnik crashed in Manitowoc in what year? True or false? 1922, 1954, 1936, or 1962? It's gotta be 62, doesn't it? Or the 54. Explain yourself. ⁓ Did we I'll say when I was a steward when was when was race was going on in the 50s and it was mostly I don't know I think it was it in your class in the 1897 class it definitely was not 1897 no, I'm gonna say false That was, I didn't realize what you did until a couple seconds later. Tell me, I almost corrected you like that wasn't a true. ⁓ I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say false. You, you do you call. don't believe it. What, what year? What year? No year. didn't happen. It was all staged. It's a lie. Yeah. ⁓ What were you gonna say 50 something? 50? I went with the f- well just- if- if all of that was happening in the 60s I wanna- I don't know, if you're going to... I want to look like I'm an expert. Yeah, I'm trying to like... I'm almost talking myself out of my answer, but I'm sticking with the 50. Final answer? Yeah. You are incorrect. It is 1962. God damn I'm good. God damn. You should have listened to me. Yeah, well, I didn't want to choose the same. was like... didn't want to be the same as everyone. Typical artist. I'm gonna do it. We have to pause again because now we have to do the ending to the show All these pauses It's just should we just stare awkwardly? We had anyone come in the live at all no This is what normally happens. I've gotten all of the questions wrong Literally everyone got all the Wisconsin question every single one except for the one that I gave you the answer to ⁓ actually You know what I heard about Mike? There's a new deal going on with some sunflower seeds. Can you discuss it? Is 10 % off? It's 10 % off, I believe so, you're the expert at sunflower seeds now. We briefed you. It's 10%. What did I call it? The last of the discount? Discord. Careful with that. Discord. The Discord. Thank you, Thank you, for being the most reasonable person here. The Discord for smackin' sunflower seeds. I have consumed so many of them that they sent me my own 10 % off code. You're a fucking addict. I'm gonna send Cole a bag of churro flavored ones. They're delicious. That's what got me hooked on it. Well technically last episode you said you would send him churro. So what new flavor are you gonna send him now? Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger in paradise. It's wild. is wild. Oh. I don't know. Either the cheeseburger. It's gonna be surprise. Either cheeseburger or uh. Cheddar jalapeno. you like the... jalapenos, that's Do you like the jalapeno Cheetos? Yes. Alright. And... That's what these taste like. Honestly, I'd be more into that anyway because even like a... Like I said last episode with the... If it's sunflower seeds that are tasting like cheese, it just kinda weirds me out a little bit. it. God damn it, Taylor. What? At least you didn't drop ass. You've been lucky. it's about that's what you can't see it's that's the only thing honestly that's our second shirt the pause and then the dropping malice since it's not great here the whole there was there was one of the sort of listening to the other day i don't know which one it was or he said he stopped i'm talking and he's like all that smells and i would you drop as they're not burped and like that's bad if you complain that your purpose now That's bad. That was bad. That came out in my mouth. Micaela, can you drop me a beer over here? ⁓ yeah. Thank you. So yeah, Sunflower Seeds by Smaccan. Sunflower Seeds by Smaccan. Foggy geezer for ya. They are, they have like half of salt. 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And some would say that they are so good that they make you want to smack your mama. anyways, on that note. Thank you for joining us on the Two Dads, One Mike podcast. My name's Taylor. That's Mike. This is Cole. ColeKleesner.com. ColeKleesner.com. Check it out. Peace.