Hello! Thanks for being here today. I have a really fun guest. This is just a super fun,

funny episode with comedian Charlie Barons. You have probably seen his videos on Facebook.

He has written a book. He is like a whole comedy tour called the Midwest Survival Guide.

And it is real good. It's real good. So let's dive in. You can hear how good it is.

I'm Sharon Nikman and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

Oh Charlie, so excited to chat with you today. Thanks for doing this.

I'm very excited to chat with you yet. Thanks for having me on.

I'm feeling by. Oh, absolutely. I have laughed at many of your videos as have

millions and millions of Americans. But of course, as a Minnesota, I supremely resonate with the

vast majority of your of your content. I would love to know more about like, well, how did you get

started doing this? How did you decide? You know what I got to do? Is make some videos?

Honestly, the way you just said, it just sounds like butter for my ears, milk and butter, you know.

Well, so how it started is I was in the news business and I was going around the country doing

local news and all that sort of stuff. And then I started doing stand up at night when I moved to

LA and I was doing like red carpet reporting and everything. But throughout my whole news career,

I always had people saying, you got to fix your accent. You know, when I was studying to do it,

my issues and broadcasts class because that, you know, it was thicker. And so I got a voice coach

and all that to change. But I would still say things that were very Wisconsin. Like I said, Texas,

I said, make sure everybody finds a bubbler because it was a very hot day out at which a bubbler in

Wisconsin. That's what you drink water in Texas. Yeah, right. Exactly. But in Texas, a bubbler is a

device you use, you know, to smoke the devil's lettuce. So it's a whole different vibe. So just

because you take yourself out of Wisconsin doesn't mean it leaves you. So anyway, after all these people

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