David Farrier

Great name, right?

Yeah.

Wisconsin consistently ranks among America's drunkest states.

With this comes the Wisconsin Dive Bar.

And I love a dive bar.

A dive bar, unlike any other Wisconsin dive bars, have their own games, special drinks, and memorable bartenders.

They're often situated within the old houses of our European immigrant ancestors and are in residential neighborhoods.

I live in Milwaukee and have eight dive bars within a mile of my house, and we live in a residential neighborhood.

That's an amazing stat.

I like the idea of a house being converted into a bar.

Weirdly, I went to a cafe in LA last week that was in a house that somehow got permission from the other residents to have this bustling cafe in the middle of a residential area.

It's actually really good.

Coltrane ends by saying, outsiders will always be greeted with open arms by the locals.

And I think that's how I would sum up my Wisconsin experience.

It was welcoming.

Those people, that woman I met at the supper club, she was like, how long are you here for?

Oh, you've never been to a college basketball game?

Come with us the next night.

She was amazing.

And she booked us in at this amazing chicken place the next night, went to this college basketball game, found out there was a New Zealander on the team.