Phrases in the Midwest vs. LA
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@samiam4158
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Charlie's comedy is great… or, in Midwest speak, not too bad. Charlie needs to do a Wisconsin vs Minnesota guy video… but, of course, no direct conflict. We are fighting the MN vs WI holy war with passive aggressive comments that no one outside of MN or WI understands. Maybe have the CA girl bring MN and WI together with our mutual love of MN institutions like Target and Toro and WI institutions like Menards and KwikTrip… but then MN guy implies Dairy Queen soft serve is better than Culver's custard and the whole thing falls apart.
@terryhey6730
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I am Midwestern born and bred and I have never heard the phrase "screwed the pooch"….
@denim_ak
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Midwest Dahlmer at it again
@nicoles5569
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I'm from Manitowoc, never heard "screwed the pooch"
@edjackson4076
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Go Bears!!!
@TheFartofGod
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
😂yep, sure ain't no plastic surgery up here in New England. Forgot to load up my ice scraper, just had to clear a foot of the first snow of the year off my car with a pool noodle… no. botox. needed.😂
@frittataficionado
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
The "screwed the pooch: joke is directly lifted from Michael Che.
@jayayyyyy
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
"the what-nots in yer hoo-has"
and I actually laughed out loud!
@betsyharcz7917
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
No Michigan tour dates? We’re the mid-west too!
@MamaMOB
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
You're lucky Jeffrey Dahmer was a good looking guy.
@MamaMOB
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Damn it I just had to do a deep dive on screwed the pooch. Did you know it started off as fuck the dog?
@tylerking4576
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
and dog fucking is bein lazy on purpose
@georgehartler3423
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Charlie, i have been wisconsinized older than you've been breathing.. What the flying hack is about midwest. I was in the foothills of montana.
Even in the mountains and they said we are in the Midwest. All I could think was you fools , go to illinois , iowa.n Or southern Wisconsin? All right comma parts of minnesota. So they said to me, this is going back.Many decades t, we have been to Chicago and it's terrible in the winter., i'm like what the f***
@Dermatillomaniac
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Re: seasons – not to mention that fall/winter/spring are giant hoodie/sweater weather and no one can even see if your body has a shape.
@hopelight444
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I am so sorry you are performing in Minneapolis during the coldest week of the year. Then again it could freakishly warm up just that week. But I doubt it. At least you go straight to San Diego and Las Vegas to warm up again. Good thinking.
@krisdipadua6803
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
You know, I did not start saying ope until I started watching Charlie. What a good Dude. 😁
@Shrider_180
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Don't ya know that theres more to IL than Chicago? Central IL is nice……outside the cities
@sonorahudo
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
He does look like Jeffrey Dahmer.
@apollosaturn5
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
First time I heard "Screw the Pooch" was in the movie The Right Stuff.
@DrScott-i9r
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I've loved his stuff for years. So glad to see Charlie "making it" on the big stage.
@ThadCastled117
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
God I hate when it changes titles and/or thumbnails like its trying to deceive that it's another video. I'm just going to unsub
@davidkuhn3970
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Wait. Screwed the pooch means wasting time or goofing off.
@jffry890
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
"It wouldn't be so bad out if it wasn't for the wind."
Not really a turn of phrase but a common enough saying.
@EsperanzaVenceTAROT
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Get it, Charlie!! you are such a hard worker, look at this tour schedule 👀 the jokes are funny, too! much love 😻🫶🧀🍻
@travisjazzbo3490
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
What a brilliant observation. I often wonder how certain phrases came about, but that one never occurred to me, and it seems like it should have!
@verneblestien315
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Screwed the pooch is also a New England phrase.
@scoobydoo5447
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
“Screwed the pooch”? Ruh-Roh!
@broswater
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
We use "I screwed the pooch" here in Quebec too and even translated it in our very bilingual French way:"J'ai fucké le chien!". It's total, abject failure. 😄
@cloudyview
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Another Midwest phrase that I only recently realized was regional – 'it's a horse a piece'
Used when two given options are roughly equivalent, similar to 'six of one, half dozen of the other'
@K3_The_G
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I think I just saw him on a plane I was cleaning 😭
@melaniedahl1572
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Facial agnosia? Then I better explain. I am Charlize Theron.
@melaniedahl1572
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Now that's what I call compromat
@oracularp
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Come to Michigan! I didn't see any Michigan cities on your list of tour dates, which disappointed my mother and I. We'd love to see you!
@RosieTheGoodShepherd
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
NASA term from the 70s
@Jacob-WD40
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
They did not, in fact, edit out the laughs for that joke.
@larrylaffer3246
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Actually it's mainly because the plastic surgery would constantly snap since the Midwest "Especially The Upper Part" exists in a state where the ol' Mercury sits below 32° for at least 3/4th's of the year.
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