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🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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For having never taken a Chemistry class, comedian Will Burkart flexes his immense knowledge about the periodic table of elements on this week’s episode of the Cripescast. He and Charlie also discuss the rise of pickleball, Will’s burlesque expertise, and they trash talk Microsoft Office’s assistant Clippy. With videos of his stand up and crowd work taking off on social media, Will is now doing his first headlining tour across the country. Be sure to catch Will at the Milwaukee Improv Thursday, April 13th or at the Comedy Cabin in Janesville on April 14-15. For more information for dates near you, check out thewillburkart.com.
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0:00.0 | Folks, welcome to the Krebscast. I'm your host Charlie Barons. And this is the podcast where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest. And we are brought to you by Charlie. Good soda. |
0:14.0 | Hello, everybody. Hello, hello, welcome. We got another episode of the Krebscast today. I'm talking with Will Berkart. He is a comedian. He is going to be in Milwaukee at the improv on April 13th. And then in Jamesville. |
0:30.0 | On the 14th and the 15th again of April, check out his website, thewillberkart.com. Will and I funny, funny dude. We, you know, we took a while talking about things like water and bottled water and the periodic table of elements and had a lot of ramblings for a couple of two comedians. So I come in. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm going to be honest with you, Colleen. I think we did wormhole a few places. |
1:00.0 | Yeah, you definitely did. Yeah, he definitely did. But that's okay. Because the wormholes inside the wormholes. You know what's in wormholes. Worms. And you know what happens when you got warms. |
1:10.7 | You get you can catch well ice. Okay. So folks, you, I mean, you're in for some special today. I'll tell you that. Have you noticed how there aren't like a lot of worms anymore on the sidewalks. |
1:21.4 | You know, like growing up, like when it would rain. Yeah, worms would just be everywhere. |
1:26.2 | God, I love this conversation because I, my first reaction to that was being like a roll, I roll. |
1:34.8 | And they're like, Colleen, there are a lot of worms on the sidewalks. They're only there. They'll after rains. Yeah. And I been |
1:42.6 | And so I'm like, I'm, I'm at first, I'm like, you just haven't been walking around while it's raining. |
1:49.6 | And then I was thinking, what if there's a worm shortage in the world, you know, |
1:54.9 | I've been thinking about this for the past couple of years because I feel like as a kid, it would rain and you would like, it was there everywhere. |
2:01.4 | Well, it depends where you live, but they're everywhere here when it rains. I'll tell you that yesterday walking into work. |
2:07.0 | I didn't see any. And it was like right after a rainfall. Well, the time of the year depends too. And also, you know, what's fun? You know, they call them night crawlers, right? Yeah. |
2:16.6 | So I'll walk around here and for people don't know, I'm in Milwaukee, but you walk around the neighborhood at night, |
2:23.7 | especially during this time of year in the spring. And you just hear this. |
2:32.8 | This go rustling and you're like, what is that? And then as you get closer to the sound, you realize, oh my gosh, this is these old leaves. |
2:43.4 | And then you pick up the leaves and it's all these night crawlers. |
2:47.0 | Have you really done that? Yeah. |
2:49.2 | I haven't seen a single worm since I've walked. Why you're not looking close enough for the worms. Yeah, I don't think I mean, maybe you're on to something. |
2:58.2 | Now I'm starting to think, oh, jeez, I'm going to Google that. |
3:01.4 | When's the last time you saw a good old fashioned worm? |
3:03.9 | I mean, you know what? I'm just going to I'm going to do what you should have done before bringing this onto the podcast. |
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