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CHARLIE BERENS is a comedian, New York Times Best Selling Author, Emmy-winning journalist, musician and creator of the viral sensation, The Manitowoc Minute, a comedic news show about the Midwest which first launched him into notoriety in 2017. Since then, Charlie's been creating Midwest-inspired sketch comedy videos that connect to a worldwide social media audience of over 10 million. This led to his New York Times Best Seller The Midwest Survival Guide being optioned for TV development and 3 sold out nationwide stand-up comedy tours. His latest Good Old Fashioned Tour played 127 shows in 88 cities and was shot as a follow-up special to his 2023 one hour debut, Midwest Goodbye. Charlie hosts the Cripescast podcast and co-hosts the Bellied Up podcast with "Myles The You Betcha Guy". Throughout all his work, Charlie aims to connect with people through comedy and authenticity.

Loga Metz with special guest Calvin Conway! Logan Metz is a musician, educator, and general polymath based in the American midwest. Metz moved to Los Angeles at 18, where he studied screenwriting and philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. After graduating, he worked as a music and English teacher in east LA, while touring and recording with a number of local bands. During this time he developed a creative and academic interest in the process of adapting classic literature into music, a subject which continues to inspire Metz’s work; he wrote plays, essays, poems, soundtracks and children’s albums, and would even go on to publish musical collaborations with Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. In 2015 Metz earned a master’s degree from the University of Chicago — his thesis, a full-length 1960’s rock-opera adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello — and soon after released his first solo album, The Last Remaining Payphone in L.A. In 2018 Metz won a Fulbright scholarship to teach at IE University in Madrid, but turned down the award in favor of re-joining his old college friends’ band, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, as a multi-instrumentalist. Since then he has had the honor of playing with Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Buffett, Eddie Vedder, Warren Haynes, Robby Krieger, John Densmore, Mike McCready, Bob Weir, and in 2023 began playing piano on tour with Willie Nelson himself.