Bellied Up - #1 If You Got A Belly, We Got A Bar

Episode Date: June 8, 2022

Presented By Fleet Farm   In this first episode, Charlie talks to a Chicago Bears fan, we get pool advice from a pool salesman, give out midwest dating advice, and we connect with the youth, by giving snow shoveling advice

All right, welcome to the first ever belly up podcast with yours. Truly miles of you, betcha guy here with Charlie, barons, Charlie. This is really exciting. We are, we are belly up to the bar right now. You know, we've been talking about doing this kind of thing for a while and what better setting for us than our most natural habitat. And that is. Bellied up to the bellied up to the bar. Um, what's funny is thinking about the name of this podcast, bellied up. Yeah. What better name to be bellied up because it also may go belly up as well. It's a fun thing though. When you're starting a new venture like this, that's the exciting thing. That's what gets you up in the morning, you know? It's, you might be belly up or you might go belly up.

Yeah. And either way, it makes sense. Either way, we're happy. Yeah, we called it either way. Yes. So, you know, so yeah. Should we tell them the story of the bar yet? Or should we explain the podcast?

Yeah, so I think, you know, like, how do we get to this point, right? I don't ask it myself that all morning. Okay. We talked about, all right, if we're gonna do a podcast, what should the name be, what should the setting be? And we said, I think you and I in our most pierced form is our guys in a small town bar video.

We did a couple of years ago. We said is us in a in our pierest form. Let's just let's just do that Let's do that and also it would be very easy for us to be in our pierest form. So we're like How can we add? I mean, I'm already like pretty relaxed. Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting there You've had a little bit more of your beer than it is 10 a.m. So But you know, how would that be different than any other sets when the bar opens? Yeah, a lot of these places opens at 7 a.m. In fact, you know get the after church crowd It's right so people go into 630 mass and not stay in the whole time We got a sneak out right after communion. That's how it goes. Well that'd be that that'd be midway through the homily right there, you know, but yeah, sorry,

I'm not sorry, father Tom. Yeah. Father Tom, if you're listening, which I know you're listening to a bar podcast. Oh, a lot of father Tom, so what do I listen to a bar podcast? That is true. That is true. Yeah. But we got, so we also, we built this bar.

We did sitting at well, we built a bar. We built kind of this bar. Yeah. So basically you have to watch the YouTube video. We got a YouTube video about it and started off high spirits. All, you know, excitement really is what it was. And then you can just as the video goes along You can see your spirit diminishing and then it goes from excitement to anger to agitation to hysteria and we almost Lost a friendship didn't we well it was around the third trip to fleet farm that I was really second guessing everything and I think you were second guess All I'll have to say though, is a smooth sailing never made a skillful sailor. That, you know what?

I read that somewhere. I think it read about it in a book. It wasn't even in a book. It was on an inspirational poster. So that's what happened, you know. It tested our relationship, but we made it here today. It did, and we are better off for it. And. We are stronger than this duct tape. I'm holding. Yes. So we built this bar. You got to watch a YouTube video. We said, we got to have our own bar.

If we're going to do this, we can't just roll up on a table or nothing like that. It's got to be a bar. And a bar with plus the belly up podcast wouldn't make much sense if we weren't belly up to the bar. Right. So I mean, naturally, this is how it went. And I'm so happy with the bar that we found. Again, character translation. Yeah, this was from a lot of money. 14, 19, 14. Yeah. Columbus brought it over when he thought he did America. Yeah, another sailing comment there. I think it was destiny. I think this actually was a workbench on the Mayflower. It was. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, I mean, you can see scratches and dense in here. There's a place where there, there was a horse, a petute, I believe is the proper name for it. And it's still kind of there. It's still

a little yellow. A lot of, a lot of hay in his diet. I can tell you that. He was not eating any grass. No, no, just going straight for the hay and maybe a few beers in there too, judging by the, what does the horse say? Hey, there you go. Guy, but we got all the fix here. We even got with some wooden nickels. Yeah. Can hear him clanking. Uh, do it.

You got to do it up by the microphone. Sorry. So they can hear you. Oh, God. Oh, I could fall a sea to that. Bar ASMR. Yeah. Bar ASMR.

Okay. That's kind of fun. So I'm so relaxed now. Bar or some bar. Okay. That's kind of hard. So I'm so relaxed now. But yeah, the, I mean, the origin story is we built this ourselves. We got this off of the May flower. We wanted to be in our peers form. Yep.

Bellied up to the bar. And you know what? We want you to be bellied up to a bar. Listen to this as well. And that's why we've made this a community show. This isn't just about us coming here to talk to you like, you know, a lot of other podcasts. Well, what happens when he sit down at the bar, right?

You shoot the shit. You shoot the shit. You have all the vocals. Everyone's filtering in and out. Everyone's friends. If you're here, you're your friends. If you're here, your family, well, everyone's filtering in and out. Everyone's friends. If you're here, you're friends. If you're here, you're family. Well, that's the Olive Garden.

I augmented it so we look at suit. Yeah. So we're here, your family. Yeah. We don't have breadsticks, but we do have a checks mix. Pubmix. Pubmix. Yeah.

So that's what we want this show to be. We want it to be like Charlie and I, as we always do, got it to the bar at 10 a.m. And we're just having conversations with people who are filtering it and out of the bar. And that's why this show, which we've never done before. No, we haven't.

Podcasts. Should be evident by our intro right now that we haven't. We've never done this before, but we, this half of this podcast is going to be a call in show from listeners. We will tweet out, we'll put on our story, uh, when, what the number is, and what the topic is for the day. And folks can call in. Just call and chitchat. It could be anything from Midwest advice to buy selling trade.

So any, we'll keep coming up with other stuff. We'll keep, we'll keep doing it. And if you have suggestions, connections, one, that would be great. Ooh, I can see that for Valentine's Day. Uh, connections, love connections. And the nice thing is is we are going to grow this podcast with your input. It's a community podcast podcast just like the local watering hole. So if you have suggestions for things that we should put in the background, how

we should decorate our bar all the way up to what should we have the segment be of when you're calling in about, you know, what do you want to call in and talk about? You got some to buy selling trade. We want to hear about that. As long as we are drinking, we'll listen to whatever you have to say. Yeah, yeah. And really, in essence, it makes our job easier because we don't have to put much thought into this. Yeah, that we can just show up

and we don't have to do any work. And that's what we're really trying to do in our careers here is to minimize more beer. More beer less work. Yes, that should be. That should go on a shirt. That's the tagline. More beer. Oh, more sheep. beer less work. Yes, that should be that should go on a shirt. That's a take on more be more cheap more more beer came out less work.

And it could that sounded a little wet more beer less work more beer less work. Now let's like that. All right. So again, we're flying by the seat of our pants right now. We're going to do a live call in show here. So right now we're going to take some collars. We're going by the seat of our pants right now. We're gonna do a live call-in show here. So right now, we're gonna take some collars. We're gonna ask some folks to belly up to the bar with us. I'm excited. I'm very excited. All right, let's take our father Tom, if you're out there, please, please holler in.

Let's take our first caller. Oki docks. Hello, caller? Do we got ya? Hey. Hey. Hi, who do we got here? This is Jackie Jackie. Oh, Jack, Jack, you're a bears fan. You got to be honest.

You got you. Oh, he's going to give Charlie brain aneurysm by just saying that. So thank you for that. How'd you feel about the rogers getting getting signed again? What do you think about that? You know what? I'm not surprised. Okay. I mean, you've a great quarterback. I have to give credit where credit is you. Yeah. So I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we haven't quite made it in the playoffs yet. But I think, you know, when you get that many millions, we're going to go super bowl out of it. I hate to say that to you as a Bears fan, but you didn't call in to talk about sports. Yeah, do you have, you know, it's totally fine. I will say

though, we're not the best team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'll take really obvious for 400. Yeah, I'm with you. I think I think we can all see that. Um, do I heard born and bred through and through, you know, born and raised to hate the packers. Yeah. I'm I'm actually happy with that because without that hatred on the other side, we can't have hatred on our side. And hatred plus hatred is, it's just love at the end of the day. It's funny, you know, then it's funny. Yeah, exactly. Love or hate, it's still an obsession.

You guys are obsessed with each other. Yes, it is. And yes, we are. Yep. All right, Jackie, do you got any questions for us so we can help solve some problems, maybe give some Midwest advice to you? You know what? I'm actually okay. I just wanted to say ask the packers.

Oh, let's go. Check your our first caller on this podcast, the first caller on this podcast. And that's what you called to say, honest to Pete, Jackie, you're, you're on my list right now. She's like, how much does you bet you through and through? But that's okay because we like you, you're funny. And so we take it. Cause like you said, hatred and hatred breathes love. Yes, it does. It is nothing but love. And you know what? Honestly, Jackie, and I do have to say this. And I hope you're really taking

to heart without all your losses. I would have so much less joy in my life. So thank you for taking it on the chin every other Sunday with the bears. And thank you. I do appreciate that. I'll see you soon with my cheesehead, OK? You are welcome. You are very welcome.

I'm glad that I can add to your football enjoyment. Yeah, absolutely. And hey, watch out for deer down there in Chicago. Okay, they are, they get around, okay? We do, we do have them. That is for sure. We do have them. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Well, we appreciate calling in Jackie was fun to hear someone trash the bearer, our packers, other than me. So appreciate it. And thanks for calling in. All right. Well, thanks so much, guys. It was good to talk to you.

Good to talk to you too. Hello. What do we got on the line? This is Dylan from Nebraska. Dylan, what city in Nebraska? Well, I'll tell you what, I actually live in a little town called the Vista outside of Omaha. Oh, sure. Okay. Yeah. All right. What are you up to today? actually living a little town called the Vista outside of Omaha. Oh, sure. OK. Yeah. All right. What are you up to today?

Oh, well, I'm at work. And I was a slow day at work. And I saw you all were taking phone calls. And I'm a huge fan. So I knew I had to call because I got a very big Western piece of advice I need from you all. OK. Before we get into that, yeah.

What is your boss think? Yeah. What is your job? Tell me you're not at 911 operator. I'm gonna say is your boss going to be mad about this calling here? Yeah. What do you do for a living? Well, I'm in sales and I sell

bars and pools and you know, I do some handy work on the side, but no, my box does not care because I make all the sales. It does not matter what you are. So my question is, are the pool sales a little slow in the winter, considering no one's getting put in a pool in half of the year?

You know what? You know, when I first started, I thought that would be the case, but we got a lot of folks and we like to market that, you know, you need to buy it early. So you get the pool. That is smart. They think that's hard. The folks with the money are thinking that. I mean, early. So you get the point. That is smart. The folks with the

money are thinking, I mean, that's why you make the big bucks and not us. That's why you are the sales guy, not us before we. I don't know about that. I'd rather be with you all, but hey, that's just, you are with us right now. You're at the bar. Let me ask you one quick question. Have you ever heard of someone cooking their organs in a hot tub? They're sitting a hot tub, a hundred six degrees. They get their kidneys going a little too much, start failing, have to go to the hospital. Those teenagers, they just don't know when to get out of the hot tub. Yeah, it's, you know, it's like a frog boiling a frog. It's comfortable. It's comfortable in frog's dead. You drop a lobster into the boiling water and then when it comes out, it's comfortable, it's comfortable, and frog's dead. You drop a lobster into the boiling water, and then when it comes out, it's a delicious

treat, and it's not alive anymore. And you don't want to be that delicious treat when you're a human being. Anyway, you're saying that doesn't happen. No, I can say it's never happened, although I do tell people not to let their little kids in there. I mean, maybe it happens to small kids. Like if you're under 18, you maybe want to put a timer on going in and out of the hot tub. You know what? I would say that's a safe bet. Like if you're under 18, you maybe want to put a timer on going in and out of the hot

tub. You know what? I would say that's a safe bet in my opinion. You might as well. You might as well know the time. All right. What's the question? We've taken up too much of your time already.

No, no, you guys are good. Well, I'll tell you what, I'm in the market for a next big purchase. And I don't know if I can get an I-town slash camper a fishing boat or a side by side. Okay. Okay. So I have two of the three personally myself. Do you have a boat, Charles? I have a I have a 1956 Luma craft with a Johnson Jasper on the back. It don't work very good. I got to get out and fix it. But it's not and I do have a snowmobile 1980 Yamaha also don't work too good guy replaces spark plugs. What I will say is that, well, so what I wanted to say is that we're, I

cut you off. Well, that we're, we're definitely qualified to answer this question there because we got all three checked off the box here. What are you looking for? Are you thinking this is a pleasure purpose or a purchase or is this a someone's out of a few beers this morning? You know, we're belly up to the bar. What do you expect? Is it a pleasure purchase? Is it a utility purchase? Is it a family purchase? What what? Talk me through the purchase here. Yeah. So it's just me. I'm kind of the oddball in my family. I'm my family like to do those kinds of things. So it's just me and the old ball and chain. Yeah. There you go. Oh, she does. she know you call her that? She know what you're.

Oh, she does. She's what does she call you the old ball and chain? She calls it her old man. Okay, that's good. A little give and take. That's a tap. Tap between you two. I like it.

So side by side. Now that's that's a nice romantic date. That's a cheap date. Well, so let me talk you through the side by side. Now that's that's a nice romantic date. That's a cheap date. Well, so let me talk you through the side by side. The side by side is, can we use for many different things? It can pull your ice house. We use it the winch on the front to pull the dock and the thing out of the water. It's a very utility vehicle. Now a boat is a lot more of a pleasure vehicle where you're drinking beers, you're catching fish, you're maybe just cruising around the lake trolling a little bit. So I mean, that's going to be a big thing when you're trying to

make this decision. Yeah. And the thing about boats, I will tell you, you got to winterize them. And if you forget, like I did this year, you're in for a heck of a time come to spring. Like did train the bottom unit, the lower you know, I drained the oil out of there. That's, but I did not do the defogging and I didn't put the stabilizer in there. So I got a lot of work cut out for me. So you got to be responsible. Boats like a child. Well, that, I mean, I think we can maybe even rule out a boat in this sense right here.

You buy a boat and let's see, you got a lake cabin, right? You got to buy a dock. You got to buy a lift. You got to buy a trailer. You got to pay to winterize it. You got to pay if you don't have a spot to store it, you got to pay to store it somewhere and there's hidden costs everywhere, everywhere. Where I mean, but I will say this about a side by side, you can't take a side by side out into the

water. So that's something to think about. You can when it's frozen in the winter though, that is true. You can ice fish with it. Another, another, another point about a side by side, if you want to take it long distances you also need to buy a trailer. Now the ice castle that just itself is a trailer so you only have to buy a trailer and that's it. So I'm to think about. That's true and I figured I could you I could double bound you did as a camper in the summer month put an LAC unit in there. Oh sure. I'm gonna take it out in the winter to effort ice fishing too. I get that bang for that bus kind of.

Yeah. And then you got the holes there. And so that's your potty. Yeah. That is a great point. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would work. That would work. I don't know if your, um, your wife is going to be thrilled about that usage, but you know, it, it depends how you configure it. You put it, you get yourself a nice,

a flea farm that got some nice five gallon buckets. And there's actually a potty seed attachment. You can put on the top of that five gallon bucket. And before you know it, you are relieving yourself in the classiest way possible. I tell you what, can you get that a bill fleet farm? Is that available at the old fleet? Oh, sure, sure.

Now you're going to want to cut out the bottom of the bucket. So it just goes down the deal. But you're also going to want to dig a hole there and then bury it. Okay, because we can't just be leaving a human scat out there in the wilderness. You know, you got to leave it better than you found it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just wanted to clarify that. I don't want to be promoting human scat waste in our wilderness. So, so, so it's a sum it up really. My advice is maybe don't go with the boat, maybe go with the other two. And Charlie's advice is don't leave your human scat anywhere.

That's it. Did we help you out today? I don't help you out. You absolutely did. It was a pleasure speaking with you all. No, the pleasure was all ours. Tell your boss that it wasn't your fault, we kept you this long.

Oh, just pretend, if you asked, just pretend that you were on a sales call, you're trying to sell us a hot tub right now. I think I might be fine. So that's what I want to hear. Can you give us your final sales pitch on a hot tub for us right now? We might be in the market.

Well, you know, I'll tell you what, the hot tub we got are built for the mid-wet. So you're never going to freeze over. You're always going to have that here that's ready to go even the coldest North Dakota temperatures and Wisconsin. So we saw a lot of times up north and we like to drive them up there when we can. So I would say, you're definitely here in the market for one, we got the best on the market. You got any with the fountain and the flashing lights and the big speakers? Cool. We got it all there, sir.

Yeah. I'm not buying a hot tub unless it's got all the bells and whistles. I want to look really cool in front of all my friends. Yeah, I want to feel like I'm in a Vegas club when I sit in that hot tub. Do you have the ones where the lights move to the music? Oh, we do actually, we do, we can order the books. Yeah, I love it. You know, you're a yes man.

Anything I say I want, could I get one that is safe for ducks? Ducks like D.C. Hey, where did you take ducks? Ducks, D.C.K.S or Waterfall. I'm trying to attract more teal to my backyard and I would like a landing spot for them. I enjoy watching that. I would say we can accustomed to that. I would say a hot lake in my, on my deck. God. No, just algae and scum like accumulating because you're putting chemical in it. Oh, it's nice.

It's, it's God's hot tub. Now, I want to ask one more question. What do you do with an old hot tub that you can't get rid of? Can you, can you dig a hole in your backyard and put the tub in there and then use it to put, uh, almost do egg, like have a fish in there and then like a coin pond or something. I would repurpose a coin pond. You know, you certainly could. You know, it's my model around here in Nebraska that you can bury in the ground.

You can do about anything with it. So you could put in the ground, make it a, play it upon. I mean, put that on a t-shirt and that little, you know, you called us for advice. I think we just got some great advice out of it. You can bury it. You can do anything with it. Yeah. And that's I, we're going to just leave that one there before we get arrested for that

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Oh, I know. Tales corner. Oh, Tales Corners, yeah. Oh, uh, tail's corner. Oh, tail's corners. Yeah. Yep. I, uh, real good, real good. I used to work at, uh, wheel and sprocket. There's a bike mechanic and they got one in tail's corners.

They still got one over there. Yeah. Yeah, I think so off of green. Yeah, sure. Right over there. Yeah, I used to be a bike mechanic. I can still fix your bike. If you have any bike questions, I used to be a bike mechanic. I can still fix your bike if yeah, I mean bike

Questions I can help you fix one up Good to know good to know that's a no that was a play that was a play. I called for a reason. Yeah, what the hell is this guy talking about? Yeah So what are you up to on the today this weekend? Well my mom and I volunteered at the Lucky Lepur Con 7K for all their asses off. So what's the temperature? What's the temperature down there right

now? Oh, geez. It was like 24. Oh, that's a heat wave up here. Zero degrees. Right. Miles is going to say that sounds like a great time to go get some patio beers or something. Yeah. It's a heat wave down there. Yeah, you know, a little chilly. It's a little young, so.

What were you raising money for? That was for the Mac fund. Oh, real good. That's a great organization. We'll come for you guys getting out there and doing that on your Saturday. Do you have anything we can help you with? Charlie and I are very qualified to give advice.

Very qualified. Yeah, you know, I thought I, I thought I would ask you guys have any advice for dating in the Midwest. Oh, I'm a Charlie has got he's going to probably take the lead for us here. Well, yeah, you know, I'll be quick and then we'll let we'll open up the floor for Charlie. My thing is, you know, you get, you get these apps. You get Tinder, you get Bumble, you get Hinge, you get all those, right? And it's, you meet someone and you know, not who they thought they were and this and that. And it's all kind of shit, right?

The best place to meet someone in the Midwest is just go to a bar. Everyone's having a few beers. Everyone's just a little bit more relaxed. He kind of cut through the awkward tension of a first date, right? Of like, so like you like reading books, you know, like no one wants to deal with that

on a first date. So, right. You just go to deal with that on a first date. So, uh, right. You just just go to a bar, have a few drinks and just let the bar take you from there. Yeah, that's that's a fair point. And if you know, you don't need all the fancy, you get those dark bars, you know, those dark, cheesy corner bars and you can't really tell what they look like. And then that might be every awakening. Sometimes it's better that way. I will say this. What what what came of fella? Are you looking for? Yes. Great question. What kind of a fella? Uh, you know, a real stand up guy. Just someone I can, uh, wash the Packer

Games with and, you know, shoot the breeze. Yeah. I mean, Charlie, you're pretty stand up guy. Wow. Thank you. You also are a Packer fan. You know, we didn't start this podcast for Charlie's dating site. Okay. You know, I will say this though. I will say this. First thing, a bar is great. If you can't do it at the bar, Craigslist misconnections is a fantastic place. To yeah, you, you may not know, you may not know that the love of your life already saw you over at the quick trip, filling gas and, you know, and wanted to come up and say hi, but didn't have the courage. So I would say check Craigslist misconnection. I would say also on that, we're clothing that's easily identifiable. If you show up on Craigslist, right? Like wear a red, right, red stocking cap. So then when you go on there, they're like, oh,

the gal filling up with gas wearing the bright red beaver and stocking cap that you got up. I'm not a walkman. My actual my go to bar a tire. I have I wear a big daddy shirt. Oh, Oh, that's not that's good. That's real good. So that does explain who you're looking for. I mean, I can get a lot of I now know what kind of guy we're looking for, Charlie. That clears it. Yeah, it does. Who is the last fellow you dated? Were you a fan of them or no? Who is the last fellow you dated? Were you a fan of them or no? Yeah, you know, someone who started out as a friend, but ultimately we ended up better as friends.

So. Yeah, that's how that goes sometimes. And so are you currently out there dating or you're on the apps or anything like that? Yeah, what's the current strategy? Yeah, what are we currently working on? No, no, so I'm kind of a tough nut to crack. I have a pretty irrational fear of being like kidnapped or murdered. So I'm, I mean, I don't necessarily think that's a rational fear.

I mean, I don't think I want to be kidnapped or murdered either. You should ignore my advice about Craigslist. Yeah. Craigslist is maybe not for you. Yeah, I know. Uh, so what you're saying is you're not on like dating apps because of that? about Craigslist. Yeah. Craigslist is maybe not for you. Yeah, I know. So what you're saying is you're not on like dating apps because of that. Yeah, I like, I like the old bash of this. I think I might take you guys up on your advice, a hit in the bar scene.

Yeah. So go with some friends and, and guys, uh, the ones that come up to you, uh, they probably got too much, they're probably too full of themselves. But if you go out with a group of ladies, or a group of people, and then just have your groups kind of mingle with another group,

and then it's kind of like how lions hunt, okay? And you're the big lion and you come in, and then you find the little animal. Well, actually fun fact about lions is the lionness actually is the one that does most of the hunting. Well, that's why I was saying the lioness. So be a lion yourself. Yeah. So be the lioness. Here, here I am with the mentality of like, you know, my friends and I are like a pack of hyenas. I guess I just. You're only hyenas if you think you are. Yeah. You know, you are the lioness. And then you go with your lioness and you, you find, you stalk you are. You know, you're the lioness. The lioness.

And then you go with your lioness and you, you find, you stalk your prey, you know, that's a weird thing to say in this situation. Let me take it from you Charlie. Let me, we're going to cut that out. Let me take it from here. One thing that as a guy, one thing that is a very subtle signal to someone out of bar that you're interested is you got to like start shooting a guy you're interested in eyeballs, right? Shoot him like, I was wondering where that sentence was gonna go.

We are so unqualified to be doing any of this. You see a guy from across the bar, give him, bat your eyes at him a little bit. Give him a little bit of longer eye contact than what you normally would with someone else. Let him know that you're interested. Then see what happens from there. That could be a good way to do it. What about shooting finger guns? That's like a good way to do it.

Oh, that'll work. The right guy, that'll work. Only if you do the pu-pew sound effect, if you do it. If you're wearing a big daddy shirt and you're doing finger guns, I mean, I think I'm so like a recipe for success. Right. I mean, that's pretty much, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. What do you think? Finger guns is way better than the ice thing. Go

with that. Yeah. You know, we just came here to pull the answer out of you. We don't have the answers. We just I had it in real. And that's the beauty of this. What do you do for a living by the way? I'm in marketing and communications. Oh, so you post on Instagram. Nice. Oh, it looks Facebook and Instagram actually. Facebook and Instagram. Yeah. Do you enjoy it? I do. Yeah, I do. I work for a nonprofit. So it's helping other people. Oh, that's great. Yeah, I do. I work for a non-profit. So it's helping other people. Oh, that's great. Yeah, cheese. You know, Miles is here trying to be a wiseass, you know, really insulting and she's doing the Lord's work over here. You're going to want to avoid guys like me at the bar, you know. Do you guys are just dicks? Do you work for the Mac fund or which one do you work for? No, I work for the wrong McDonald's house. Oh, nice.

Oh, real good. Yeah, I always give them my change when I'm at Mickey D. We used to collect pop tops for that. Yeah, yeah. Do they still do the pop tops? Yeah, we still do. That's great. We still collect pop tops.

I graduated from pop to beer tops, but yeah. So they're still acceptable, as long as it's aluminum. Yeah, you know, that is there's more aluminum in one pop top than there is in the rest of the can. Did you guys know that? I, that's true. Is that actually true? Yeah, because the pop top is 99% aluminum.

The can is aluminum alloy. Oh, okay. All right. Well, now we're splitting hairs, you know, a little loophole. Yeah. You might want to check that. I heard that once and never even researched this. Oh, okay. All right. Well, now we're splitting hairs, you know, a little loophole. Yeah, you might want to check that. I heard that once and never even researched this. So I saw it on Facebook. I'm pretty sure that I'm pretty sure that's true. Okay. Yeah. We'll go with that. Yeah. If you can work at the Roddle McDonald or go to the Roddle McDonald's

stuff, you got to know stuff about pop tops. That's like the big thing. That's just how it goes. Did we answer your question? We don't work for McDonald's. That's a huge misconception. I don't work for McDonald's. So you can't cut us any deals on big news. What you mean? Do they still do the big man? What's your go to McDonald's order? Yeah, that's a good question. What's my go to McDonald's order? Yeah, this will help you get this someone out there is glistening and it's just to be honest. No, this is a true. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Okay. I get a double quarter of powder with cheese. Yeah. Is that it or do you go with the value meal? Are you getting fries with that? I get a meal. I'll get a fries in a die coke.

Yeah. The DC. The DC hits harder than anything. If you go from McDonald's, I like that. It really does. Yeah. And then my god's bright. It's like takes you into another dimension.

Yeah. Right. I think you got your next date when you get a chance, we find a guy say, Hey, we say we go get a double quarter pounder with a DC. And if he says yes, you know, you found love. I died and that's fantastic. see. And if he says yes, you know, you found love. I think that's fantastic. I really appreciate you guys. You guys have really really paved the way for my success. I'm going to owe it to you.

We're here for you. We really are. And we appreciate you calling you. If you end up do finding love at a bar, you got a DM us. Let us know that you that would let us know the backstory. So we can do maybe a follow up later. I have a feeling like lots of love is in your future. Lots of love and finger guns. Pew, pew, pew, pew. Yeah. Pew, pew, pew. All right. Well, thanks for calling in and hopefully our advice will help a little bit. Gosh, bless you Thanks so much guys, you guys take care. Tell your mom we says hi. Oh, God. My mom is doing what's the name of the whole time. Oh, your mom's there.

Put your mom on the phone. Come on, just real quick. Put her on the phone. Here you go, mom. Hi guys. Hey, what's your name now? Chrissy. Chrissy? Yep. Well, Chrissy, what kind of guy do you think your daughter I'm not sure if you're going to get a couple of questions. Chris.

Chris. Chris. Yeah. Well, Chris, what kind of guy do you think your daughter should be going for? Do you think she should be going for a guy who also gets a double quarter

pounder? Hold on, hold on, hold on. So, sorry, mom. I didn't know you're in the room. I think that you should go to the church and try and meet a guy. We're non-practicing Catholic. As Charlie says, you're born Catholic, raised guilty. Well, Catholic raised guilty.

Yeah, so you know what? I will go light a candle for you at the church, all right? And I'm gonna say a rosary for you. So you get out of purgatory earlier, okay? Because- There's a couple of hellmarried people while you're at it. Yup, hell. There's a couple of angels in heaven. What'd she say?

We've done a family angel's up in heaven. That's it. Okay, so they're doing the work. They're up there saying rosaries. Well, God bless them. Mm-hmm. God bless them. So what kind of a guide do you think uh she should be going for? Basically the time that she she describes to you guys. I mean a big

uh I would say a big teddy bear type of guy. Big teddy bear., that's what our father is. He's a big comfortable guy with me. And we've been at it for 23 years, married, 30 years together. So, oh, congratulations. I mean, she knows, she knows what she's with you, bad. I think marriage is a sham, but that's the kind of Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I feel like we might have to bail out of this conversation. So you two have a nice long talk today. Hey, yeah, you know.

You guys talk about that. And we have caused more problems than we solve today. And yeah, well, you know what? I'll be praying for you. Now, my prayers mind you don't go very far because, you know, I haven't been the most well behaved kid out there. But, you know, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Big Teddy bear coming your way likes a double quarter pounder fries and the DC. It sounds like you're looking for your, your big Mac to your double quarter pounder is what it sounds. The Big Mac's my big daddy.

Yeah, there we go. That's the show episode title right there. All right, well, thanks for calling in. Glad to meet your mom. This was fun. And again, you're going to find love. You're going to find Big Daddy out there. Thanks so much guys.

Really appreciate you. Well, yeah, bye, bye. Cheers. The belly up podcast is presented by Flea Farm and it truly is presented by Flea Farm, the table that we're sitting at the bar that we built. We had to go to Flea Farm about no less than eight times it felt like on the day when we built this. And that's what it's all about. You're doing a DIY project, a home project.

You're going to want to go to Fleet Farm. You don't plan to go that many times, but you forget something and all of a sudden, the old wife is wanting you to do something else. So you're like, oh, actually, I got to run to the Fleet Farm to get something. And next thing you know, on a Saturday, when you're doing a DIY project, you've been to fleet farm about eight times. I know you

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got on the line? Oh, man, you got Steven Steven Steven, where are you from, Steven? Actually, I'm in Japan right now. Oh, cool. What are you doing over in Japan? I'm station. I'm in the Marine Corps station over here in Japan. Well, thank you for all you do for me on the other side of the pond. Hey, appreciate you guys making me laugh every day. We're trying. We're doing our best. So you bet you.

There we go. No, you like that? I like I like how you used your tagline. Don't worry, it's a long call, Steven. You can say, tell your folks, I says, I watch out for deer rope, any of those keeper moving, any of those before the end of the call. Now, this is a Midwest advice show and or segment here, and we're wondering, do you have anything we can help you out with? Yeah, yeah, I've been struggling lately with this, this chance of a big promotion that I could do, you know, it'll give me a big significant raise in the military, not only in money, but also rank and everything like that. But, you know, it would take me away from,

it would right now I'm working, you know, like eight, nine hours a day, but if I get this job and get this promotion, it would probably take me to working like 12, 14 hours a day and feel away from my family a little bit more and this different duty stations that I don't want to do. And, but the money is very significant and also for more in retirement. You know, so I've just been struggling, you know what to do lately with it

So it sounds like you like the money But you're not thrilled with the time the money and the rank but everything else is going against you Yeah, yeah, definitely what would you do with the extra money? Yeah, yeah, definitely. What would you do with the extra money? You know, just invest it, you know, with the girls and everything. I got two daughters. So I was just invested in their college savings and, you know, with some Bitcoin and Ethereum and some Bust for the land.

Okay. Yeah. What's crypto portfolio, I see. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah. So this is a very mid very Midwest of you, very selfless of you. You are doing this for your daughters college. It sounds like. Yeah, I gave my job bill to one of my daughters already. And you know, trying to stay up for the

next one for the other one. Yeah, I mean, that sounds great. I think anytime that I'm in a Yeah, I mean, that sounds great. I think anytime that I'm in a spot where you're at, a between a rock and a hard place, I believe, of advancing in your career, but also having less time with the family. I think the first thing that I always do is, like, what's most important to me is at the time with your family, is at the future of your daughter's life?

Or how heavily do we value the college degree and all of that? But then in another sense, you gotta get the creative juices flowing. Maybe you need to just have a couple of two tree beers, as Charlie would say, and get the creative juices. Maybe a pros and cons list. Oh, yeah, pros and cons list. That's really, and the best place to maybe a pros and cons list. Oh, yeah, pros and cons list.

That's really, and the best place to write a pros and cons list is at the bar. Now we should start by asking, are you a drinker or are you a non-drinker? Some people are not drinking. So probably ask that question before that. And does your base have a bar on it? This is also another question.

Yeah, I'm a drinker. It's right now it's about three o'clock in the morning here. Oh, geez, why are you doing up so late? What's going on? You're already burning in that pool, then. You know, I'm a Marine, so I gotta go get it in. I gotta go to your PT pretty soon. So, Tom, you are currently up for your work day right now.

No, no, it's Sunday. It's Sunday here. Oh, okay. I was like, is that I wake up at 3 a.m. and get after him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, I once, so how long have you been in Japan? Well, see, that's the thing now. I've been here for about eight months.

And both my daughters have health conditions where they couldn't come over here with me. Oh, that's not from my wife. My wife is back in the States right now raising the two girls by herself. And, you know, so I've been over here eight months by myself. I got three more months to go. And if you do get this new job, are you going to have to continue to be physically that far away from them? Yeah, there's not meaning there's there's a potential, you know,

I can come back to Japan and, you know, unfortunately, they can't come over here. So there's another chance and I might have to come over here by myself. Oh, geez. Well, that is a tough one. What is your wife's, you know what? I think that's probably where we should have started with this. What is your wife wanting you to do? Yeah, it's a great question. Oh, yeah. She's like, she's like, don't do it. You know, I've already, she's like, you are comfortable where you're at right now.

We're comfortable. She just finished her nursing school to get her BFN and nursing. And she's like, we're good right now. We're comfortable. You know, the COVID restrictions are loosening up, you know, and we, two girls, they need you more than the job does.

Oh, I think you might have just answered your question right there. Yeah. I don't want to ever tell someone not to go for the next step, but I mean, the way that that came out, it sounds like, it sounds like I think you already kind of know what you need to do. It doesn't always make it the easiest decision, right? But a couple beers at the bar will make it easier to swallow. Well, I do got Monday off, so I might do that today.

Yeah. Well, you you treat yourself, but I mean, what a great position to be in, you know, you're you're offered more and you have the opportunity to take it. Or you have the opportunity to listen to your wife and that might just make everything a lot more enjoyable in the long run. Plus, you never know. Say and know to something is just saying yes to a bunch of other things that could come up. So, you never know what else is gonna come along.

Yeah, I like that right there. It's not a no, it's just a not right now. I read that somewhere once. I think I read that right there. It's not a no. It's just a not right now. I read that somewhere once. I think I read that on a snap. Snap a snap. A so be cap back in the day. Well, uh, well, we appreciate you calling it. This is like some real deep advice. Yeah. I didn't know we were, uh, yeah, I really appreciate it.

I think you can keep it. It's been keeping me up here lately. Yeah. So, yes, I really appreciate it. Yeah, I really appreciate it. Thank you for keeping me up here lately. Yeah, so I know sometimes that, you know, I go against my life and everything and get go against her her advice, you know, but I think this is some solid advice. I'm going to probably listen to this right now. And then would you gentlemen like kind of reaffirming it and, you know, don't let this be the only time a Southern guy listen to some Yankees and everything. Oh, wait, where are you from originally?

I could sense that Southern accent. Where down south are you from? I'm from Georgia. Oh, a part of Georgia. Uh, mid, uh, central Georgia around making Georgia. Oh, yeah. A lot of, a lot of country. So I was written about making.

Yeah. Yeah. One of my, uh, one of my co-workers, he's from Wisconsin. So always fuck with him about it. He's a good guy, isn't he? Oh, yeah. He's a, I, I tell you what, he's selfish, just like your videos. Yeah. He'll bring you cheese curds. He'll give you the cheese curds off his back, you know. He's already, he's already trying to draft me into that. Oh, yeah, they're good. They're good. Yeah, you got to give in. Yeah, the cheese curds are always something you got to

give into. Go heavy on the cold slaw, though. We don't want our Marines plugged up though. Okay, so. Yeah, heavily invested some thumbs as well. Yeah, a lot of rough edge. Yeah. Well, we appreciate calling in all the way from Japan. This has been great. I think you kind of, you know, we're not necessarily giving advice, Charlie, we're more so asking questions to get people to the answer that they already think that they know. It's the so creative method. I think the the happy wife happy life is is probably applies here in this scenario. It sounds like your family really wants to spend some time to you with you and I know you do too.

So I think at least that from where we're sitting here in North Dakota, you know what you're doing now. So yeah. And I also just want to end with, you know, I mean, you've sacrificed so much for the country, you know, with your family already being away from them. So we just want to leave you with a big thank you for everything you do. Exactly. I appreciate it. I really, I really appreciate you guys, you know, watching your, your, I watch all of you Instagram. So watching your Instagram videos is hilarious,

and you know, and it's really good to give it, give me a good laugh every day. I'll keep it to go work with that. We'll keep trying. All right. Tell your shit. Tell your wife and kids. We says, hi, okay. Oh, we'll do. Appreciate it. Yeah, get some sleep, too, by the way. Yeah, that's important. Yeah. Cheers, man. Appreciate it. Real good. Bye. Bye. Hello. Hello. Who do we got on the line?

Pat. Pat, howling the heck are you guys? What's cooking today? Huh? Good. What's cooking today? Yeah, how you doing, Pat? Where are you from? New York. New York. What part of New York are you in?

Montgomery. How's Montgomery these days? Snelly. Is it? Do you like the snow or no? Not anymore, I'm ready for spring. Yeah, I was nice around Christmas, but now you're like, what's melt this stuff?

Yeah, what are you up to on on this weekend? Shavelling, let's know. Okay, how's the back feeling? Not too good actually. I know. Are you shoveling just your walk or are you out there shoveling other folks walks to? Awesome. Other folks do. Do you have a little side business or is this just out of the goodness of your heart trying to get out of purgatory and whatnot? Goodness and my heart.

Goodness of your heart. Hey, something good. Good. You are a real good guy. How old are you? Might I ask? 15. Goodness in my heart. Goodness, your heart. Hey, something good, good guy. Good, good guy. You are a real good guy. How old are you, might I ask? 15. You're 15 years old.

Wow. And you're not charging your manual labor, huh? You could be making quite a bit of money shoveling that wet snow, especially at your age. Yeah, I know. Well, good. It's just a good, good kid. Yeah. Yeah.

What kind of a shovel are you using? One of those plows. Okay. One of the big ones. Or are you? Yeah. And one of the, the, how wide is your plow shovel? Three foot, four foot.

I don't know. Maybe. Probably three feet. Three feet. That is a great. That's all. But when that when that snow is heavy, when that snow is wet, it's heavy. So I'm feeling make sure you're lifting properly from the knees. Yeah. The back. Yeah. Cause you may think all my backs never going to go out, but then you

get to be our age. Where are your elders? We can tell you. I got sciatica issues. I want to be sleeping with a pillow under your feet when you're 35? Well, Jesus, please keep keep lifting with your back. Okay. Just live right now. Oh, we are alive. Yeah, I mean, we are. That's why you want to say something that we can cut out later. What's why were you asking if it's live? Yeah. No, no, I was just, I was, I don't know, one now.

I did your, are your parents thinking that you're shoveling right now, but instead you're on the phone with us, is that why you're making sure that they don't find out or what? No. Okay. How are your folks doing these days?

Good. Yeah. Good. Did you have a question for us? We kind of took you around the deal here, but yeah, you're looking for some advice midwest advice show. So if you have any advice, we can really help here. Do you guys know where a lot of cowboy boots over in the Midwest?

I have some cowboy boots myself. I don't know if Charlie does. You know, I don't own a pair of cowboy boots. I'm kind of a fake cowboy though. I used to work concrete back in the day, but that's as close to a farm as I ever got. So I'm kind of the urban cowboy. I'm a, what one would call a poser in that sense.

They're mostly, I just like the way they look. And it's the, the male high heel really is what it is. Yeah, I used to be a bicycle mechanic, so I wear crocs. Are you looking to get some cowboy boots? Are you looking? We can help you purchase some cowboys. Yeah. What kind of look? Squirt toe, round toe, okay. Do you have a budget in mind? Okay, well, you're going to have to start with that. And first of all, start charge and when you're shoveling these walks, okay? More, more you charge on these shovel, shovel thing, the better boots you can get. Yeah.

What's the going rate? And have you charged for any walk you've shoveled? Have you ever charged for it? Back when I was shoveling walks, it was about 15 bucks a walk. That really? Back when I was doing a job. Did you do a good job? No.

Okay. So, so if you do a good job, you can easily charge like 20, 25 bucks a pop. You do a couple of those. You can get yourself some nice shit kicker, uh, shoot kickers. Yeah. Watch the language. 15 for Craig Sakes. I never heard that.

Shoot kickers. Yeah. Get some shoot kickers. Um, how big are the driveways over where you're shoveling? We should. I do pretty long. I just do the steps like the walkway. Oh, you're just doing the walkway. Well, you know, I think you expand.

I think you got to expand. And then, okay, don't buy the cowboy boots at first. First buy a snowblower with the money from there, then you can charge like a hundred bucks a driveway, and you're going to have a whole like closet full of cowboy boots after that. Yeah, invest in the business initially, and then you're going to be walking around. And then you don't even have to go to college

because you're basically got a job you said. Okay, let's pump the brakes. Maybe it's have to go to college because you're basically got a job. Okay. Okay. Let's pump the brakes. Maybe as folks are go to college. Okay. At least trade school. You know, what do you like doing? Yeah. Aside for shoveling. Are you good? Are you looking at college already? No construction. Okay. Well, all right. What kind of construction? Activating. Oh, okay. That's not bad. That's a smart move, actually.

Get to move levers instead of moving your back. He's shoveled one too many steps, steps to think that he's going to be working concrete or something. He's like, I'm getting a construction job where I can sit down and pull levers all day. I like that. You're a smart guy. I gotta go to church now. What are you doing at church? No, I'll have them leaving a few minutes. Oh, what? Oh, got it. What are you doing over there? You praying or you shuddling their staff. What's that? I'm sitting in my garage right now. No, what are you doing over at church?

Are you going for a service or what kind of church are we talking? Just the four o'clock, man. Oh four o'clock, man. Oh, your cat. It's a practicing Catholic. Now listen to me. You do not leave after you get communion. Okay.

If you got more shoveling to do, you definitely don't want to dip out after communion. No, your folks won't let you do that, would they? You know, what's your favorite church song? I don't know. And I will raise you up on the equals wings. and I did make you to shine like the sun and

oh how do you like that? Do you know that one? No, please don't Well, you sound like you've had enough of us. All right, well, go get your go, comb your air or something for church. And I hope you have a good rest of your day.

And thanks for calling out now. Soon enough, you'll be walking down the aisle to receive communion in those beautiful square toe cowboy boots. And we can't wait to see the day. OK, docks? All right. Thanks. All right, real good.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. 15. He was like immediately annoyed. He was like immediately. I know. He's like, fuck these guys. I'm so glad we took that call. He's like that. Like, go comb your hair for church. He's like, yep. Also, that we both do that song. Yeah, that's that's going on the real and we also didn't know It's amazing

Well, that was it. That our first episode, I'm pretty pleased with it. We talked to a lot of folks. I, uh, I, I appreciate everyone that called in. That was fun. Um, we kind of like just like we ran

out of time. We did kind of wanted to keep going. This was really fun to do. Yeah, but I gotta go do a show and I'm excited for you to come up and do a hot five at the beginning. It's going to be hot too. It It's gonna be hot. I can't wait to hear your set. It's basically a roast of me. I understand that. But be warned. If you do roast me, I got, I got a roast of you coming up. That's fine. So the more you roast me, the more I'm going

to roast you. Yeah. Well, thanks for tuning in, guys. So the first ever episode of the Belly'd up podcast, we as always, we are bellied up to the bar. The bar that we made. Yeah, check out that YouTube video. It's sturdy. Yeah, it's not going anywhere. It might be definitely going somewhere. It might. Let's just not check it to us. Um, uh, follow us on the social media, which we got a belt. We have some sort of Instagram handle, Belly, dope, bitch, something. Yeah, we haven't made it yet. Hopefully it's not already taken.

Yeah, we'll figure it out. All right, we'll figure it out later. Yeah. Great. Belly and up to the bar with you, you guys. Yeah. You got to like a cool sign off for anything that we can do at the end.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If there's a bar and you got a belly, belly up. That's a good one. Uh, if you see a bar and you got a belly, uh, yeah, if you got a belly, we got a bar. Say, uh, belly up to a bar and you got a belly. Say that. If you see a bar and you got a belly, some of us bigger bellies than others, belly on up. Oh, what, let's try this. You got a belly. If you got a belly, we got a bar.

That's even tighter. You got a belly. We got a bar. Belly up to the bar. Don't matter how big your belly is. We do not discriminate against any bellies. We are belly enthusiasts. We are big your belly is. We do not discriminate against any bellies. We are belly enthusiasts. We are all inclusive belly podcasts.

We love all of the bellies and the belly buttons. Okay, what size your belly is? What shape it is? What color it is? You got an inny, you got an outy. We want it here. We want that belly. You got an in-between.

We want that belly up to our bar. Belly up to the bar. We up to the bar, baby. If you can tell, we've had a few drinks over the course of these calls. All right. Cheers. We'll see you in the next episode.

Cheers. Bye-bye. Rose.