Bellied Up - A Very Unfortunate Injury #203

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

We're at Spiritview in Three Lakes, WI. First caller Jackson works at Whole Foods and wants ideas for a band. Then Daria tells us about her secret life and her past life working at a certain bar. Finally we chat who knows all about brains0:00 Intro16:23 Jackson50:59 Daria1:26:42 Sam Go to shadyrays.com and use code belliedup for 50% off 2+ pairs of polarizedsunglasses. #ad

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the bellied up podcast. Me and Chuck are bellied up here at Spirit View Lakeside in Three Lakes, Wisconsin, Chuck. It's a good day to be alive, Miles. Good thing you're not sitting in front of a green screen today. Otherwise, you wouldn't have a torso. That's a nice little sweatsher you got there. Thank you very much. Sharp cheddar.

Is that a sweatshirt with just cheese on it? It's Pine River, baby. Made with aged natural chad since 1963. cold pack cheese food. So there you go. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah. I thought it was a drink at first, but that's cheese.

That's cheese right there, Miles. Yep, not a sponsor. Just what was in clean in the closet or what was in the closet today. So, so Chuck, it took me about eight hours to get here to three lakes a few days ago. Thanks for making the drive. And as I was driving, I had a thought where we're going through really small towns. big towns, small towns, medium towns. And I thought, what,

what happens in a small town to where we're like, hey, that's not a small town anymore? Oh, how do you? What, what, what needs to, what, uh, it's almost like they lose their small town man card, you know, like, like, what are they, what stuff that makes small towns lose their small town card? Ah, gotcha. If you can drive through, if it takes more than one.

breath to drive through the whole town you're you're getting close yeah if you can't it's kind of like going through a tunnel you know you hold your breath if you can get through the whole town in one breath boom small town but it takes two breaths then we got to start having a conversation uh-huh yeah if they turn the dollar general into a walgreens i mean gone that's tough yeah gone is you get apple bees that town is long gone yeah no that's that's uh medium to big town city. That's actually on the fringe of going medium town to big town. You get and you get a cheesecake factory.

Uh-uh. Not even a question. There's a city. You're a metropolis. I think another thing is if you go from being if you have any sort of chain bank show up in your town you're no longer a small town anymore. If it's not run by someone that lives in the town, it's their only job. You're chasing away that small town vibe. Small town card gone.

Yeah, absolutely. If you have two water towers, oof. Yeah. If you have a water tower. Really? No, I'm kidding. It's like one of the basic components of human civilization is water.

Yeah, you kind of need that. But, you know, some use the water tower, but I mean, otherwise you're just doing a well situation there. That's true. You know, so honestly, maybe if you have a water tower,

I don't think there's a water tower. here. Three lakes have a water tower? Yeah, they said yeah. They have a water tower. Water tower wins. But as soon as you get two, whewf. As soon as you have two, yeah, two water, two water tower. That's like a two water tower town. You got two horses or two water towers. Forget it. You know. Another thing is, is if you, oh, shoot, I had it. Where did it call? Where did it go? Where did it go? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If the guy's serving you beers is not also working at the volunteer fire department. Yeah, if you got a fully staff fire department. Yeah.

Small town card gone. Sorry. And it's not bad. It's just different. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah, it's just different. It's just different.

If you got more than one high school football team. Yeah, I mean, you're long gone. You're long gone. Yeah. If you have a high school football team. not a regional you know yeah like the hyphenated

high schools mm-hmm yeah if you have a fogo day chow not a small oh my god if you got a fogo day chow get the fogo out of here

chow out of here yeah um let's see here oh hang on I got a sneeze coming sorry okay Chuck is sneezing two sneezes

you okay bud thank you if nobody says bless you at a bar when you sneeze. What does that mean? I don't know.

You said bless you though, so it worked out here. It was the first ever Charlie sneezes on the belly up podcast? Was that the first ever Charlie sneeze? Yep, I looked it. I looked it up.

Really? Jared, thank you for that. How did you guys like it? We thought maybe you were a robot. You know, that's why you were spewing so much AI slander

to throw everyone off the scent. I thought you were maybe a robot, but now that you've sneezed, I think you might be human. Did you like my sneeze? This is pretty wimpy, honestly. My dad.

You're not a dad yet. So you've acquired the skill of an over, exaggerated sneeze. That's how you know that your kids have, that you got kids. If you can't tell if it's a sneeze or a cough, you know. Yeah.

How you know someone's a dad, if their sneezes are unbelievably loud and obnoxious. Yeah. Also, their coughing is unbelievably loud and obnoxious. And they're, yeah, they're breathing. They're breathing.

My dad does his breathing. things sometimes in church, you know, is when you notice it because everyone's quiet. We were mid-holie, Christmas Eve Mass. And my dad just goes, it echoed throughout the church. It's like contagious that other dads start doing it. And that's how the priest knows to wrap it up. Yeah. Yeah.

It wasn't even on purpose. He wasn't, he just, he just did it. He forgot to breathe for a minute. Yeah. Just realized I need oxygen in this. brain or I'm going to pass out. Midnight Mass. Let's wrap it up, Papa. You know, that's father in Spanish.

Got it. Padre. There you go. But yeah, there's small towns. I mean, if you got more than six gambling machines in any bar, are you just pointing things out and saying them? well this is a small town but yeah this is only has five it's a five gambling machine per bar town yeah yeah um if uh if the uh i mean as soon as you get a stoplight you're screwed if you yeah stoplight you lose that card oh no you can you well yeah yeah stoplight i mean two stoplights some might have one stoplight because you got to remember

if you get more than a blinking stoplight off the main drag yeah yeah you know yeah then then you're you're creeping in if you have two stoplights forget about it you are medium town city right there turn that card in as soon as the small town starts promoting that they're a city on the grow

no longer it's small town yeah I know you want to be a city on the plateau baby that's what you want to be doing just enough people being born to replenish the people dying yeah if you got more people in the town if you got if you got more people in the town than in the graveyard if if when you're talking about how many people you have and you say uh and you have to specify that it's different different times of the year you're still a small town yeah you know like three lakes in the winter the population's this but in the summer you know it gets up to that you're probably a small town on a lake if if you're

dating your cousin and you don't know it you're losing your small town card you should know your cousin yeah you should know that's your cousin but sometimes you could be dating someone and you didn't know you could also be a small town though and and just everyone's your cousin well everyone's your cousin or you didn't know your your your dad had that you know uh neighbor back in the age if you're if you're in high school and you're and you're looking if you're in high school and you're looking for a prom date and you never have to worry if someone's your cousin or not you've lost your your small town we found it there it is we found it yeah if you have to cross a bunch of people off because they're your cousin then that's you know that's you're a small town yeah

if if you got a well-funded library yes yeah yes yeah and I'm talking like you got two desktop computers in there

that's maybe three that weren't donated that weren't donated yeah very specific uh huh yeah yeah I think if you have a if you have a

if you have like a Marriott or a Hilton hotel, you're no longer a small town. If you got a motel, you're, you're chilling. Or if the new Marriott is the talk of the town for a year, then... Are they still a small town? Well, yeah, if they're talking about for a year, you got to be talking about for a year. And you got to be not happy they rolled in. Yeah, so if you do get a Marriott, you need to talk about it for a long time to keep your

small town card. Oh, let me say this. If it's an actual Marriott, you lost it. Or like a country in a sweets. Country by Marriott. If it's a by Marriott, then, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you're definitely in a small town, but Marriott is moving in.

Yeah. No. I think the only hotel that I would say is okay is like a two-story roadway in. Yeah. You're still a small town. You can get by with that hotel. If you're pronouncing the new Marriott as Marriott and not, never mind.

I had it. It was funny, but then it wasn't. Is it married? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I was doing the reverse. Yeah, it doesn't really matter. It wasn't there. I got a little cheese curd brain going.

I went to town on those things. Oh my God. They're good here at Spirit View Lake side. Ladies and gentlemen, sorry, Miles. Cheers. Throw back a cold one. That's what the sign says. if you got a goodwill and no antique store

if you got a good will if you got a good will forget about it yeah no oh if you're if you're if the main grocery store is in a gas station you might have lost your small town card yeah you're venturing into that you are I think the gateway to not a small town anymore is a dollar general a DJ well dollar general represents growth and change Yeah, but a lot of times dollar generals are just they just prey. They're like a little parasite that just sits there.

I understand that. Yeah. But what they do sometimes is they sometimes a dollar general comes in and symbolizes more growth is coming or they're just that little tick sucking the last bit of blood out of a town. That is probably true. Just draining it. You can't build a town around a dollar general. Those are just facts, you know. Yeah, it sucks it out of the mom and pop.

They're like, how can I compete with this? Yeah. Isn't it that Dollar Generals are closing a bunch of stores, Jake? Yeah. Like how many? I don't know. Feels good, right? Got to feel good.

Yeah. Closing up those things. Yeah. And then the other one, the Dollar Tree, you know. It goes from a Dollar General to a Dollar Tree. You better watch. The other day I saw Dollar General. them next to a dollar tree i was like the frick are we even doing here this is a two dollar block yeah and it's

not a dollar you know it's false advertising should we get them on that should we call nicolet we should call nicolay and tell them false advertising on the dollar general action yeah yeah class action lawsuit a call on that we should get all all the small towns in there and uh and lock and load if you got two catholic churches. It actually still could be a small town, but one of the churches is going to be a bar within the next five years. Yeah. There you go.

Yeah. Well, Chuck, should we do some callers? If the priest refuses to do confessions at the bar, you're not longer a small town. Sorry. No. Sorry about it. Yeah. If your mayor becomes a human and not just a dog, no longer a small town.

Sorry. If your bar, if your bar has a uniform that the people, the employees have to wear, you're no longer a small town. If the sign outside the town goes from, if they get rid the unincorporated sign outside the town. I mean, that's like an actual like hard evidence that this is no longer a small town. Yeah, but it's facts. They got incorporated. Yeah, if someone gets into an accident trying to hold their breath as they go through the town. you losing that car

I don't know what that means I think it's a callback from our first one I think I think that if there's a car accident in town and it's not the talk of the town for the next few days you're no longer a small town you know what I mean

yes now like you know if there was maybe a shooting or something um like I think that that being the talk of the town you're definitely not a small city anymore or a small town anymore if there's a shooting that happens and it's not the talk of town for like six months. Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? Yep. 100%. That's got to be like everybody's grandma has to bring that up on the phone call to their grandkids within 15 minutes. And you're also no longer a small town is if Bill is shooting his rifle in his backyard. and someone calls him in. Because you know this,

you know the sound of Bill's rifle. Correct. Yeah, you know the direction it came from, how it bounces off the trees. He's doing it every other day. Yeah. And if you have people calling in that,

then I hate to break it to you. Some out of towners moved in. They did. They're changing the whole vibe. If your hardware store sells patio stones outside the store, mm-mm-mm-mm. Yeah. No.

Hand in that card. Yeah. Yeah. Hate to say. if if if if your uber driver is actually an uber driver and not just a guy who lets everyone know hey if you need a ride give me a call and i'll do it for 20 bucks no longer a small town no if you yeah i remember one time we were like in joyce iowa what now we're like we were joking like there's no way they got uber and they said yes we do have uber but it's just one

guy. So we have one Uber and that is it. And so if like you need a ride, you have to wait for him to finish his other ride in order to get picked up. He's just perfecting the demand. Look at those wall eyes. That's perch. Oh, those are perch? Those are some big perch fillets.

No way. Look at that curl up there. That's like a seven inch perch right there, Miles. I got to eat some food and we should take some collars, Chuck. Let's do it. Jackson. is this is this uh is this what i think it is i'm going to jackson oh my gosh around what's going on

what are you up to today well i uh i just pulled up to work uh usually i'm uh listening to you guys are on my way to work but now i'm talking to you guys before i go in so this is kind of like a full circle moment this is awesome where's work at jackson i uh i work at whole foods all right hey how about it crazy they built a whole business around putting hole in what we eat. Exactly. But they do not sell whole donuts. What the heck?

That's a lot of money for some with a hole in it. Exactly. Do they sell donut holes? No, I work in the produce department and everything. It's pretty fun. It's a lot of heavy lifting, honestly. You got to lift like a bunch of heavy boxes. Yeah, the foods are so whole.

They're heavy. Oh, my gosh, yeah. Well, it's the whole food. What do we not know? about Whole Foods, Jackson. Give us the inside scoop. I think this is probably standard with like most grocery stores, but there's a lot.

And I mean like a lot of food that gets thrown away. Like, serious. Don't they just take it to like a shelter or something? We have soup kitchen. We used to do donations, but now that it's like summertime, the area that we keep our donations at has just gotten like really gross.

So like, you know, if you have a bunch of tomatoes that need to be picked up tomorrow, they're going to be sitting there in like 70 to heat and they're going to be like they're going to be vinegar by that you know the next day can't jeff bezos just get like another freezer don't you think he's got the money to spare i do think he does have the money to spare however charlie if he bought a second cooler for us to put stuff in he wouldn't have enough to buy a second yacht or a third yacht oh yeah yeah you know we we got to consider how the billionaires feel here man that guy that rich bitch needs to get another cooler so people can

get the food, you know what I mean? Don't you think? Exactly. Or you can, you can even give the old meat to the farms, you know, those pigs will eat it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we have like a truck will come by and pick it up every day, but I think most the other departments do donations now, but with produce, since it's such like temperature sensitive stuff, you know, it's like they'd rather just throw it way, which is kind of unfortunate, but I would be lying if I said I didn't, you know, take some strawberries home every now and then. Dude, take it all home, man. Oh, yeah.

You go sell it. Start your own, uh, half foods at the farmer's market. Your little half food stand, you make it killing. I mean, it's still whole foods. Oh, yeah. It's still whole, Chuck. Okay. Well, cut in half then.

I don't know what to tell you. Just trying to make it spoil even faster. That's smart. Ah, I guess you're right. Damn it, Miles. Quit putting facts on top of my hairbrained ideas. Why are they called a hair brain, by the way? Does it mean your hair grew into your brain?

Is that how people go bald? Like their hair just like shrinks back into their head? That's a good question, dude. That is a good question. If so, if that's what's happening to me right now, that's probably... I think it probably goes back into your skull, down your spine, and out your back is I think what's happening to bald folks. And your ears.

Mm-hmm. Oh, true. Are you bald in Jackson? Sadly, I think I'm receding. I think it's more receding than anything. Hey, you know what? That's cool because you could be an injury lawyer. I could.

I could look like Nicolet. I could, uh, oh yeah. Call, uh, what's the number, 1855, Nicolay? There you got it. Nicolay. Now we don't even have to do an ad. And when they ask, then when they ask if the marketing's working, we'll just play this clip right here.

Hell yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Clip it, send it. Where do you want your invoice sent for doing that plant for us? Hmm. Your money is to, let's see.

We'll send it to Whole Foods. You can sort of. There you go. We're all drinking at today. We are at Spirit View, lakeside in three lakes, Wisconsin, which has 20 legs.

Oh, beautiful. Yes. Yes. Yes. Are you getting on that propitia? I am not. I'm actually, I'm doing there's a, I think it's called peptide or something like that. I'm not too sure.

It's just like a little topical thing that I'm putting on my hair every night. It's actually kind of working, honestly, picking it up a little bit. It's not making me grow anything, but it's just, I guess, helping me keep what I have, you know? You got a horseshoe going? A horse shoe, a little bit. Oh, yeah. But I do cover that horseshoe with a cowboy hat every day. There we go.

I'm part of my problem. You just slinging produce with a cowboy hat? Man, I wish. I've been pushing them to get me a cowboy hat with a Whole Foods logo on it. I'd be tipping my hat to everybody. What city are you in? I am in the great city of Chicago, but do not get it twisted. I am no fib.

Okay. What are you? That's what every fib says. Well, I'm a Hoosier. I'm born in Indiana. So it's... Are the bears moving to Indiana? they're going back and forth.

Honestly, I think it's just whatever city is going to give them the most money and whatever stadium they want. Because Indiana was like, hey, we'll give you, you know, we'll build you this stadium for this much. And then somewhere in, I want to say normal Illinois, they were like, hey, we'll give you this much and build you this stadium. It's like way bigger than the one Indiana is going to build you. And then there's like other cities.

They're like, wait, we can do that. So really everything to like major city in Illinois is trying to jump on the bears right now, which I don't know why it's the bears. Yeah. I don't even watch football and I know enough to know that the bears are not really a team that you want to buy. Historically, no. I mean, it's kind of like buying a Titanic, you know. We know how this is going to end.

Like. Yeah, but they still sold all the tickets. They sold it out. That's true. That is true. Yeah. This ship is unsinkable, but it might, but we won't like it. Yeah, but probably not. So what's on your mind today, Jackson, bellion up to the bar? Put your hat on and let us know what's on your mind. Well, I got to take my hat off. I'm sitting at the bar, Charlie. That's just, that's the house rules.

Well, he wanted to wear his hat at the whole food. So I was thinking he's a hat on at the bar kind of guy. We're both wearing hats now, Miles. What? It's not a cowboy hat, though. I know. A cowboy hat is kind of a badass thing to just take off and be like, yeah. Especially if you got like some dust that falls off of it too. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. What do you want to talk about? Well, I was calling you guys. Well, I've called you guys a handful of times, but a handful of different things. Yeah, we remember. One of the most recent things was I have moved to Chicago recently, and I'm 23 years old. and I'm just I'm having trouble making friends as a guy you know what I mean and I feel like as I get older it's only going to get harder to make friends so I feel like now is like a good time in my life

for me to go out make some friends and stuff like that and I guess because like you know when guys become friends they're you know friends for a pretty long time even if you know they do something kind of messed up it's like all right I'll give that some cool off time but I'll see you in like a month or two. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, I think you're up against your, you're kind of an uphill battle wearing a cowboy hat around everywhere in Chicago. That probably doesn't help. I do get some pretty weird looks. I will tell you. I do kind of stand out like a sore thumb with a cowboy hat on. But people do compliment itself. What do you like about the cowboy hat? Let's, let's start with your likes and interest, Jackson. You know, let's figure out who you are.

Well, I like bluegrass music. I play a lot of bluegrass music and my guitar player. Nice. And it's like, you know, I'm from Southern Indiana and everything like that. So it's kind of, it's kind of my roots, I guess. I didn't grow up on a farm. I'm not a cowboy whatsoever. But, you know, my dad and my grandfather are rednecks and stuff like that.

So it's just kind of translated over a little bit. I like the style of the cowboy hat. and it makes me feel like a, like a Western Gunslinger, you know? Yeah. That mixed with like a really dusty guitar riff, I'm like, that's how I want to be portrayed, I guess, you know?

I like someone kicks open saloon doors. That's how I want to. Yeah, you're just, you're just building that identity there. There are any open jam sessions in Chicago you could get to? See, that's what I've been looking for.

I've been like looking around at open mics and stuff like that. I don't know if I'm like good enough. to play like an open mic by myself. I've been to some open mics and I don't think, I think the bar is pretty low. Yeah, you're good enough. You're good enough.

That's for sure. I will say, I have seen some pretty, pretty bad live performances in my day. Well, they got some open jams. Could you sit him on with some fellas and, you know,

play the chords? I have been thinking about doing that. I think really just like my problem is I just need to get up and get out there because I think I overthink things too much. and it just kind of puts a dampener on whatever I'm planning to do. Well, what do you feel like you should be doing that you're not? You said, get up and get out there. Where is out there?

What's out there? The city, Chicago, you know? Because I had a, I had planned to move here for like four years. And I finally got here. And now I'm like, now what? You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

It's like that was the big goal for the longest time. and like working towards it was like, I don't know, I guess I just don't have anything like big to work towards, you know? I want to start a band. I think that would be pretty cool. Yeah, start a band, dude. I would start going to hitting those open mics. That's one track, okay? And they do have open jam sessions.

I would really just seek those out. Another thing, though, I was down there in Chicago. We both were doing a belly to live about maybe this time last year. But I was walking along the lakefront and they had people playing softball. and kickball. I would find yourself a softball league. Get in a more kickball. You know, one of those. Softball league. I do have the, pretty good. Is that for making the band or is that for making friends?

That's just for making friends. Okay. That's just, that's, join the softball league and hold people playing instruments. Well, there might be someone, but you can build a much faster relationship if you're not, you know,

some people that you don't quite fit their musical style. and that's a whole other thing. But, you know, for, for I would say just making friends, beer drinking buddies, you find yourself a softball team and that good camaraderie, got to ass slapping, you know?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You got some spikes? I could get a good pair of spikes. There's a dick's real close by me. We'll go to a play again sports, all right? You don't need to get a good pair. You might not even like it.

And Charlie, we had one of those near where I grew up for the longest time and it just closed down like a year ago. Oh, I know. It kind of hurt the soul a little bit. So it's like, dang. That's where I got all my gear growing up. Fucking Bezos. Bezos, yeah.

Bezos, man, I tell you. The billionaires, man. Reaching his greedy little fist into everything. What kind of ban are you thinking? You want to do a bluegrass band? Have he been throwing around any names? Because we have been known to throw out some good band names here and there. I do yeah you guys are pretty good at starting some good band names I will I will give you guys that for sure

I mean I'll give you anything you guys are great I don't know I play a lot of bluegrass but the thing is I'll go I'm wide on the spectrum of music man because you can walk into my apartment I'll be playing bluegrass one day and then the next day I'll be playing like really like heavy metal kind of stuff so it really ranges in between that of like I don't know I guess I got to find the right people that have that spectrum as well of you know what you're right

keep your mind open you guys can find your own sound somewhere in between I think that's like something I've been struggling with too is finding my own sound because I listen to a lot of music and there's a lot of things that I like that I want to like

recreate yeah not like recreate but you know like you hear band and you're like, damn, I want to sound like that band, or I want to sound like that band. There's too many bands that I want to, like, sound like, and I think it all conglomerates into just something I haven't found yet. You know what I mean? You're like a, you're like, you're like a sponge, man, and you've been sponging your whole life, and now it's time to just ring it out in the sink and smell that sponge. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Smell the sponge. Smell the sponge, man. Yeah. Get all that.

All the, what is it, the past month of dishes out of there? You know, man, you need to just get home tonight, just pick up the old axe and just start playing, you know, man. And just whatever comes out comes out. Oh, yeah. Well, I do that every night. You know, that's like, that's my night of the routine. Come home, crack one open, sit down, crack another one open, keep playing.

You just need to do some DMT, man. And then when he come to just play whatever comes. out of you, man. That's what be your sound. Oh, man. Nah, man. My psychedelic days are over. You're 23. I know, but man, I feel like I'm 45. I tell you what.

So you were doing psychedelics? When was that? I was around like 18, 17, 18. I moved out, you know, moved into a house with a bunch of my buddies. And I'd say it was probably for about it, like a five months, year and a half to a year or so. What's your favorite psychedelic? LSD was very fun LSD was pretty fun

I'll never touch it again though I know that for sure Why I don't think I can handle it If I'm being totally honest Like me who I am now I don't think I can handle it And I know like me back then

's looking at me now Like what you loser You old man you can't handle it No I cannot That's maturity right there Yeah it is I also feel like

I've aged like way more than I should have. I worked at FedEx for six months and I worked overnight and I think that probably added at least 15 years on to my life. I don't know that. But you know what I mean? Yeah. Is that when you start losing hair? Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. I like there's pictures of me before FedEx and pictures of me after FedEx. It's like, holy shit. Aged like a president. Literally.

Yeah. What's the most stressful part about working for FedEx? Oh my gosh. Just being there, man. That was like a, it was a 980,000 square foot building. If you walked in on certain days, there was like a visible fog in the building. Like you couldn't see to the back. If it was 80 degrees outside, it was 110 in the building. Oh, wow. Damp in there, huh?

It was awful. Think about that before you FedEx some cheese, Miles. Yeah. The whole FedEx groceries, please. Yeah. Is this our version of the whistleblower hotline? You're saying that there's bad working conditions at FedEx warehouses? Is this breaking journalism?

I think so. We might be breaking it. Yeah. What's the biggest workplace violation? you saw at FedEx. Let's start another class action lawsuit. Charlie Muckraker Barron's here. Yeah.

We got our lawyer on retainer, dude. You don't have hair either. Do you have any injuries? Would you consider that you, would you say that there's been a, you've been damaged by your hair loss from working at FedEx? Mentally and emotionally, yeah. Okay.

And physically, you know, my back kind of hurts. Okay. Yeah, it sure does. Yeah. Did you file any complaints or keep good journals? I did not I heard you did make journals I heard you did wow

send them to us oh I did yes perfect have Nicolay look over them and we'll have him get after them what's the biggest issue they do at FedEx over there that you take complaint with aside for the hot warehouse

I would say probably not giving you a break or letting you clock out when you're supposed to like I'd clock in at 10 o'clock p.m. And I was supposed to get a break at 4 a.m. And I would not go on that break probably until

5.30 after like clawing at the radio and being like, hey, I need to go downstairs and go on my break like now. And then I'd get a 15 minute break and then I'd come back supposed to clock out at 8 o'clock a.m. and then I'd end up clocking out at like 11.30. And were you stocking or were you driving?

This was in the warehouse. So I was sorting packages. Okay. Was there any use of heavy machinery going on? No use of heavy machinery. I mean, just being around the disorders and stuff like that, it was probably about, I'd say 110, 110, 111 decibels of volume consistently in that building. Really? Would they provide you ear protection? Nope. No. Oh, my God. They would not provide, they would not provide PPE. They would tell you to bring it yourself. Really?

No gloves, nothing. Wow. No vest? Vests if you're going out into the switchery yard, which is where all the trailers are. But that's it. Interesting. Would you say that you've lost hearing working at FedEx? I'd say it's decreased. Absolutely. Mm.

And that's for your future profession, you're losing money because maybe you're not going to hear the music is good. Right. Maybe FedEx made me a little tone deaf. Yeah, maybe you lost your ability to be the next hot band out of Chicago. Exactly. I think you could have been making millions by now. Hey, band name, the Fed Exers. No, that's not good.

How about the, they'll just sue you? How about the ex-Feds? Ah, there you go. Yeah, the X-Feds. That's the name of your band. By the way, we're going to retroactively say allegedly to all that, so Miles and I don't get sued ourselves. Yes, that is all alleged.

no way for us to confirm that. But if you have worked at FedEx and we'd like to join our class action lawsuit, call into the bellyup podcast, Miles and I will only take 10%. And we'll have to cut Russell Nicolet in for a couple bucks on that. Well, we don't pay unless he wins. So we're good. Oh, he's going to win. Oh, yeah.

He'll win. Yeah. Here's the thing. Just to cover ass, we're not going to do a class action lawsuit. No, but maybe we inspire someone. inspire someone. Maybe we inspire someone out there. Yeah. It's true. Hey, if you're thinking, you worked in a FedEx, go find Jackson over at, uh,

this is a great way for him to meet friends. Yeah, I do. Misery loves company. Start a class action lawsuit, man. That's a great way to meet friends. That is a pretty good way to meet friends. I could be like the guy with the clipboard, be like, hey, do you want to like sign? Have you been hurt from, from FedEx? Yes. Yeah.

Dude, you know, found it. We did. And then you could write kind of like a Woody Guthrie folk song about it. And then when you eventually take the stand, you get up there for Dramatics and then sit down, one deep breath and then take your cowboy hat on. Yes, dude. And hold it like this in front of you the whole time. Bring your guitar up there and play that song for them.

But then mess up and be like, see, I can't even do it anymore. Yeah. That actually just messed me up. that bad guys. I'm sorry. Show's over. Thank you for coming. If you can't hear this song, it's because you work at FedEx,

done you wrong. Ah, shit. That's fine. Your P.P. P.P.E. I think it's funny calling it a Peepea. That might be a little childish of me, but I don't care. You are a child. You're 23. Yeah, you're 23.

But a hairless 23-year-old. Damn right. I don't like calling guys hairless for some reason. It just feels wrong. Yeah. Makes me feel like a hairless cat, honestly. Charlie took me. For ride now a mom the pep-tide.

I don't blame him to love an airless cats. My girlfriend's got two hairless cats. They look like a nut sack. This is called a spade of spade here. They look like two walking nutsacks. They look like a cat. They look like one half. They look like nuts.

A cat. up for Halloween is a scrotum. That's what they look like. So don't you gotta like moisturize them and shit and like clean them? Like clean the oil off of them and. Yeah. That's crazy. It's disgusting.

No, it's not disgusting. No, it's not. It's not disgusting. Do you know my bonus points I'm getting from... I was just going to say, if we were to ask this to Chuck five years ago, he'd be like, hairless cats are disgusting. They're not disgusting. Get a dog for crying out loud.

No. And now he's like, oh, they're just beautiful. I just love them. They're beautiful creatures. Sometimes Randa listens to this. So Malfufendetta, they are just the most beautiful, majestic creatures. See how far that gets me. That's enough.

That's enough of that. Anyway, we're talking about your bald ass. So here's the situation, dude. You lost your hair and your hearing, and now you deserve a hearing. And you lost your ability to make money as a famous musician. Yeah. I mean, your name's. Jackson, dude. You are set up for success in the folk bluegrass country.

Yeah, maybe there's five of you. It's going to be the Jackson five. Yeah. Be kind of cool. But he needs friends for that or brother. Working on it. We're doing the, he's doing the glass action lawsuit. We're not. He is. Yeah. That'll be the name of our first album, too. It'll be the class action lawsuit by the ex-fed. Oh, yeah. That actually sounds real. That sounds real. We're building this together right now. now. I'm a Jackson. Do you have your guitar with you? Oh, man, I wish. Do you write songs? Do you sing? I do. I'm actually getting over the barrier of playing and singing at the same time.

So I'm slowly working over that hump and I'm writing more music and like, like, it's, it's happening. You know what I mean? Like, I'm in that progress. Can you give us an a cappella rendition of your favorite song? An aquapella rendition? he's a guitar player he's trying to say he doesn't have a guitar right now you know I'll say

I don't know you guys ever heard of Charlie Crackett Sure yeah give us some little Charlie Crockett let's hear that I don't know What Charlie Crockett do I know I'm a $10 cowboy

That's about all I got No you got a good Pull up the lyrics No you don't need I don't want to hear country voice Jackson I want to hear your voice sing from the soul we're finding your voice now found your friends now we're finding voices I want you to take a deep breath breathe deep deep to where it hurts all right find that blue note and bend it baby give us something talk to us about whatever

I've got a here I got a this is a song about a one of my old friends and how I want to knock his teeth out Good. Let's hear it, Jackson. All right, here, I'll tell you. Get a... Also, we know why he doesn't have friends. There's a piece of you and almost all I'd do. And Lord, I'd hate to admit it's true. You can show your teeth, but also knock them loose, and you can't hide the sun, but just to watch it and move.

It's the silence of all your jesters, bells. And when they sing them songs, they'll be casting spells. When you pull your thoughts from your wishing wells, I hope you dive head first. I hope you sink like hell. yeah jacson holy smokes banging that one out dude what's that song called um i don't know honestly i'm not too sure it might just be called wishing wells wishing wells toothless joe maybe oh how about how about wish him wells you know kind of passive aggressive things yeah you know wish him wells

wish him williams wishing wills oh yeah there we go hell yeah dude That is actually really good, Chuck. I just want you guys to know that in the future, if I make like an album or if, you know, if I have any kind of like music that's put out there, I promise you. I'm not sure when. No, you're saying when, not if.

Oh, when. Oh, yeah. When. Yeah. When I make an album with my band that doesn't exist yet, but it will. On the back of the vinyl or the CD or whatever, I'm going to put, thank you.

to Charlie Miles from the Bellied Up Podcast. Yeah. 1-855 Nicolay Law. Oh, yeah. And I'd like it to say they helped me find my voice. Uh-huh. Absolutely. And the name of the band, the X-Feds, baby.

So I want you guys to know that's the, that's the first time I've ever sung those lyrics for literally anybody. Yes. Let's go. Yes. We're building the brand. The X-Feds by the, the, the X-Fed's first album debut,

class action lawsuit, and their hit single, Wish Him Wells. Take it away, Jackson. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's... We'll work on the stage presence. Yeah, we'll work on that.

Yeah. I mean, in high school, I made music, and I played a couple shows in high school, but I was, it was way different than what it is now, man. It's,

uh, I was trying to be like a, like a rapper and everything. It just, it did not, did not pan out the way they did it. Hey,

you got to, you got to, you got to be bad before you're good. And, I stand by that, honestly. Mm-hmm.

Because I feel like a lot of people are bad before they're good. But it's figuring out, you know, what's you and what ain't you? You know what I mean? Oh, I like,

see, Miles, he's already changing his attitude right now. He's starting to throw in a little ain't here and now. I can hear that Evansville just coming right out of them,

this Southern Indiana boy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. reach out to John Mellencamp, see if he'll produce the first album. Yeah, or maybe just a feature. Yeah, yeah, get a feat. Feet John.

See if he'll bring back the Cougar for you. Oh, that's. John Cougar Mellencamp and Jackson from the band, the X-Feds. God, dang. Oh, man. Well, if y'all ever down in Brown County, Indiana, and you ever stopped by the Red Barn Jamboree, I might be there.

Who knows? You should be there. The Red Barn Jamboree. I like that, man. I like that. Well, in the meantime, find a couple friends playing softball or bowling or dart league.

Get this class action lawsuit going and start, you're our man on the inside over at Whole Foods. So start taking notes because we've got to expand our class action lawsuit business. We're going to take them all down. All right, Jackson? I wouldn't expand to Whole Foods too much,

honestly. I really do like Whole Foods. He's like, I still work there. I like to keep my job. I still work here. But I will say out of all the jobs that I've had, Whole Foods has been the best like as employees. Whole Foods and FedEx.

It's worth it at Whole Foods. It's not worth it at FedEx. I've worked in a lot of kitchens too. I have a lot of restaurant experience, but this isn't a job application. No, that's fine. Hey, we're happy that you're happy with your current job and just start finding some friends,

okay. Absolutely. I'm going to go look into some softball leagues. I'm going to learn how to start a class action lawsuit. Maybe I'll go to law school. Yeah. You don't call Nicolette. Don't go to law school. Just call Russell and, because we got to get our percentage off this. If you can do it on your own, that takes us out of the mix. And then, uh, open jams. Get some open jams and go to some shows, man. There's a lot of good shows around Chicago. So find some shows. Meet some friends there. Absolutely. Well, man, it was, it was, it was more. than a pleasure getting to chat with you guys. Seriously. I listen to you guys every day on my way to work and getting to talk to you guys today was genuinely one of the best. It's good to talk to you

too, Jackson. Really good talk to. Are you late for your shift now? A little bit, but it's all right. It's whatever. Will they understand? Yeah, they'll understand. Honestly, I told them I was talking to the bank, so. Nice. Okay. He's honest, too. We like it. All right. You'd be good there. Jackson. I will. You guys watch out for deer. I got to watch out for fibs out here. Good. Yeah. Change your air filters even though you're in an apartment. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. Wow. If we do this long enough, one person is going to hit. And then that will be the feather in our cap. That will be it. The guys who found the ex-fets. Dude, that mean. Next thing you know, you know. We're like

Simon Snarky-ass. from that one show. And then we'll be able to be like, hey, Chuck and I put our pants on the same way everyone else does. Yeah. One leg at a time. You do it that way? But once our pants are on, we make gold records.

We sure do. Yeah. Someday we'll be able to say that if we just keep doing this by the next big hit. We do platinum records, Miles. Yeah. It's realistic here. All right. Gold.

Yeah, silver albums. That's what we do. But I'm excited about it, Miles. and then once we do, we're going to be known for that. And then we're just going to be the kingmakers. And we're just going to be like finding the idols of America. Next thing you know, Fargo's the Nashville, the North. Wow.

That's bold. Hey, there's cowboy hats in Fargo. There is. We got a boot barn. You got a boot barn there? Wow. That's impressive. We don't have that, Milwaukee.

Oh, we know. Oh, okay. Like, you're going to talk trash about Milwaukee now, my own? Oh, we know that you don't have a boot barn. All right. Guys, early summer at the lake sounds relaxing until you realize nobody's fully in summer mode yet. Docs are going in. Boats are getting adjusted and everything's a little slippery, Chuck.

We were doing that. We attempted to put your dock in the other day. Hey, we almost slipped in. I know. And your dock is a little unstable. Yes, it is. And a little rushed. Just like me.

literally said hold my beer and just rammed your dock into the water and then we said that's not going to work chuck and had to pull it out that's okay pulling out you step onto a doc that's not fully secured boom foot slips you go down harder someone's back in a boat into fast lose control and suddenly it's a collision at the landing well what do you do miles it's supposed to be a chilled day at the lake turns into a real injury quick yeah and actually this is actually i i i mean i need to keep this in mind because this, what we just described is going to happen at your cabin at some point. 100%. You better make sure you secure that dock better than what you got right now.

Yeah, no, I'm going to do my best. Thank you, Miles. Thank you. Because I don't want anyone at my dock to have to call Russell Nicolet. Yeah. No. But if they do. If a day on the water goes sideways, call Nicolay Law, folks. 1855, nickel a mo. Miles, I'm rocking these shady rays right now. I got that JFK specials going and do you I'm telling you this right now the quality on these things is unmatched probably I'm

thinking if I were just put these on blind you know and of course I can see you would wear those if you're blind actually I might yeah kind of the Ray Charles that's exactly the sunglasses you would wear if you're blind but if I was blind just pulled in these they just feel like frigging $200 sunglasses I'm telling you that much but they're not

what are they they're way less than 200 bucks and if you use the code bellied up, you can get to 40% off. Polarized lenses. Polarized. So you can see the fishies, the perchies, the blue gills, the croppies, the northern pipe, the muskies. And actually, the ones you're wearing are a great set of glasses if you are blind too. You can't see those. Yeah, hey, so whatever the case.

We don't discriminate in this podcast. Whatever the face. Shady rays are for people who can see. and who can't see. Shady Raise, baby. Check them on out. You just called Bellied Up at Shadyrays.com. Shaddyraise.com. See you guys soon. Hi, I'm Daria. Darya. This is Miles and Charlie from the Bellied Up podcast. How are you? Darya, how are you? I'm so good. How are you guys doing? Oh, we're so good. Fantastic.

Great. That's awesome to hear. Question for you right off the bat. Go for it. Are you a teacher? You sound like you kind of have a teacher voice. Oh, that's sad. No. No, I'm not a teacher.

Are you a yoga instructor? Is that what I'm giving off? No, I am. Hold on. This is a fun game. Let's guess. Just tell us if we're right or wrong. Yeah, tell us if we're getting warmer.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, so I said teacher, hot or cold. Cold. Yoga teacher? Very cold. Banker. No, it's cold.

Marketing manager. No, I would be terrible at that. Bartender. Used to be, so closer, but not anymore. Sales rep for a cigarette company. Oh my God, how do you know? You, yeah, yeah, Philly, Mori. No, no, no.

So wrong, but, okay. like Disney. Disney character actor. That would be fun too, but no. Ticket broker at a local theater. I love how specific these are getting. No. Well, when we're playing warm,

we're not giving us a lie. I go, water or cold. Sorry. Well, my bad. Still cold. Very cold. Fishing guide. Countant. Cold, cold. God. Well, give us the stripper.

Colder. Okay. All right. I like that one wasn't freezing cold. Well, she's not. This is very cold. Okay. All right.

So a job where you keep your social worker. You put clothes on, more clothes on when you're working there, Chuck. Social worker. Well, we do keep our clothes on in my profession. So that's warmer. But not so. Okay. That's good.

It's good info. Librarian. Cold. This is like the career ladder guy. Have you seen that guy online? He's on the street with a ladder and him and the other person get on a ladder. You get two minutes to try and find out what your job is. That's what we're doing.

Oh, that's cool. Landscaper. I would have cold. Man, I'm going to fall off his ladder. How many? Yeah, I think we're nearing in on two minutes. Realtor. Cold.

Hairdresser. Cold. Nurse. cold stay-at-home mom well she doesn't have kids that's really cold all right we're out of time no no let's just average give us the

give us hints now one thing you do at work one thing I do at work um I what do I do what the fuck what do you mean she doesn't know what she does you work for the government I do.

Government work. I'm just trying to figure out how much. You're a government worker. That's warmer, but still. Paralegal. You work at a daycare of Minnesota. Oh, but warm. We got a warmer.

We got a warmer. What was it warmer? Paralegal. So you're a lawyer? I plead the fast. CIA? Cold warm. Cold warm

A police officer No cold I mean you're in the right field Yeah just tell us At this point Let's leave it there You're in the right field We're in the right field

For police officer Park Ranger No No you guys were In the right field a few guesses ago Oh with the lawyer And the paralegal Yeah

So she works for the FBI Oh Who's to tell She works for the FBI She's a Fed Freaking Fed. Freaking Fed. on the phone.

That's always great. You know, you're like talking to someone who works in the FBI and they're like, yeah, I don't even know what I do every day. Yeah, well, glad we're paying for that. Yeah, it's really glad we're solving shit. Yeah. Figuring stuff out. So what is it?

What's the actual job? What's the actual job? I thought I said I'd plead the fifth. So you actually can't tell us what you do for a living? Maybe it's, I just don't want to tell you. Where do you live? New England. New England.

Yes. Okay. Okay. Well, why don't your belly up to the bar and tell us what you do want to talk about, Darya? Sure. I know. I'm wicked mysterious. Well, let's see.

I don't even know where to begin. I have so many things to tell you guys. And I know I left you an interesting voicemail, but I'll be honest. My ex-fiance got me onto your show. so I hope I get everything correct because you guys are funny, but I'm not as familiar with you guys as he is. Oh, that's fine.

Are you calling up to make them jelly? No, I have bigger fish to thrive than that. Let's talk about those fish, Darya. Yeah. But I think I told you guys about a bar I worked at. Didn't I say bartender? Oh, yeah. She said she used to work at a bar.

Okay, well, what about this bar? Oh, that was back in, a past life when I was a D-Gen and a DJ or a V-GEN. D-Gen, a degenerate. Oh, a D-GEN. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, it was definitely interesting. It was in Northern Maine in unorganized territory.

Unincorporated. On organized territory? Unorganized, yep. So it was me in a tire iron. Nice. And, yeah. And it was definitely, we got a bunch of interesting characters walking through that door. So it was a really fascinating time in my life, so to speak.

That's great. So are you, are you, it was that what you called into? Because I didn't hear the voicemail, to be honest. Jared said the voicemail would be, was it about the bar there? Okay, so it's about the bar. Yeah, let's get into it. Come on. Let's go.

Let's go. What's the name of the bar? Yeah. All right. Now I'm starting to understand why government. work takes so long. It takes too long to get into it. I know. We've been trying to crack this cookie for a long time. I was in this

town that was unorganized and you know, they had a sidewalk on one of the roads and a tire iron. There was also a light pole in that town which I'm just setting. Oh, so you've been you familiar? Yeah. Did you have a subway where they were low on

meatballs? Wait, what about the meatballs? There were meatballs. At the bar or at the subway in town? there was no subway ground there were zero best food restaurants

what about the bar it was okay so oh my gosh you guys called me my house is frustrated you had a few beers and it's hot in here okay miles is frustrated with me

because because I asked a disjointed question which happens from time to time Darya what was the name of the bar let's start there it was called Woody's Woody's already on board

do you? Yeah, it was a good one and it catered to all the locals. But during off season, we would have some dancers, some ladies come in. Whoa. During the month season. Yeah, it was a very classy joint. It was in a barn. Oh, so Woody's was a strip club.

That's why they're named Woodies. That's why they're Woody's. Oh, is Woody's a strip club in Fargo? No. Well, Miles, you can see. why I'm confused now. I didn't know if it was named after Woody the Woodpecker or just the wood or just the pecker. It's named after your pecker is what it's named after.

So you got Woody's there. We have Woody's, yes. And like I said, we had some cool cats come through that door, but it'll stay with me forever with the things I saw. And that's what I want to talk to you about. All right. What did you see at Woody's where they flew in strippers to a barn? Yeah, up in Northern Maine. And so you could tell it was already a really fun place to be.

But it was the night would always start off, you know, pretty tame. It was like running season. All the guys would be so afraid of the dancers. And you'd have, you know, Dusty Springfield's son of a preacher man, kind of playing in the background while the girls were warming up. And next thing you know, it was just like complete debauchery by the end of the night. Guys trying to take their belts off. It was wild.

We had also sorts of folk coming in. We had people trying to leave and dry firing their snowmobiles, so essentially breaking them before leaving because we tried taking their keys away. Next thing you know, they're going down on railroad tracks. They're losing items of clothing and leaving the trail of clothing. You could have sworn they were dead. Then you'd see them drinking Bloody Mary's down at the docks the next morning. So they were fine.

They made it. so you worked out of northern main brothel is what you're saying it's it felt like that sometimes drive firing your snowmobile sounds like something that exclusively happens at a bar and called what he's yeah i also uh there was a guy that would call and he asked if he would he was able to bring his tanks down and i was like i'm not freaking d o t man if somebody has a problem with it i'm not going to help you out but it's a state he's going to take him at least two and a half powers bring his tank's down

yeah like drive his tank to the bar his actual tank yeah and I was like I don't know if there's room in the parking lot like go for it what am I going to do did he do it honestly I don't even recall I'd like to see you stop a guy with a tank from doing that

yeah what was I supposed to do I was really helpless at that point but I mean at least he called an ass that was courteous if I was trying to get a hummer in a tank. It's crazy. Here's a question. I didn't know Maine was wild like that. I feel like I view Maine is kind of a more proper area of the country.

Oh, no. Oh, no. I've never been. We have rednecks up north. Yeah, it's like, it's like the Northwoods up there. Oh, West Virginia vibes at times. West Virginia meets Southern Canada. Yeah. It was a Canadian, basically Canadian West Virginia.

It's the wild, yeah, it's the wild north is what it is. It was the wild north. Yeah, we had a lot of people coming through with whatever they killed that day. And then they would come, have some drinks, watch some lady dancers and hopefully make it home in one piece. Were these lady dancers, they're not there year round. No. And I think I said in my voicemail, there was, it was not uncommon. for me to have one of the dancers shoes being fixed on the bar with a vice and,

you know, just serving drinks and little, I mean, not a little, big, big heels being glued together on my bar top. See, these are fellas who are here to help the dancers, you know? I'd love to hear you explain. Yeah. Yeah, no. Gentlemen. Sometimes you break a heel dancing and these fellas got some.

some, you know, guerril glue in the car and a little vice, you know, or... Not in the car, in the tank. In the tank, yeah. We had the tank. Yeah, we had so... We had everything.

Even it was at your disposal. Everybody was very resourceful. Wow. This is insane. Now, did the gals enjoy working there? Did they make a lot of money? They did. And I think they really enjoyed

that they got to end their night with chicken nuggets. so we had apparently pretty good chicken nuggets and they would always make sure to get those before they had to head back down south. Where would they come from? Down south and southern Maine. Oh, Southern Maine. Got it. Yeah.

Okay. Portland. Yep, exactly. Actually, right there. Sure. I've been to Portland once. Yeah. And then you were the bartender there. Is that where you met your fiancé?

No, no, no. was a lifetime ago. Okay. Well, let's talk about your ex-fiance a little bit. He's listening right now. Well, well, maybe. Anything you want to say to him? No, I think everything was said that needed to be said. Are you back on the market looking for a fella? I mean, I'm young. I'm not dead. well i mean you know so is that a yes or no i'd like to be at some point yeah you're ready to get back out there oh i don't know about that you're still playing the field

you gotta you gotta be smart about this at this point in life are you into maybe trying out the girls at all instead of guys because we have a single gal that's here at this bar right now we've been trying to hook her off with? Yeah, I'm sure she's a lovely lady, but just kidding. Not for me. She's just trying to get a reaction from her, from her mom. It's going to face right now.

She's like, oh, my God. She's like, wait, what did he say? Her mom is here at this bar. Yeah. She's trying to get her married off and have some kids. That's what she's trying to do. So guy brings tank

to the bar. Any firearms go off in this bar? You know what probably. everybody had guns it was northern Maine so everybody would come from either hunting or snowmobiling four wheeling so there was probably plenty of guns in there so you work for the FBI what's the deal with the abscine files yeah give us the deal on yeah look at the bar is that's what they want to hear yeah what's the deal with the Epstein files the people want to know what's going on why can't we get that shit figured out stop asking miles you might start a world war

I don't have that clearance. I wish I did. Oh, so you do work for the FBI. Look at that. Send the files. We turned into it. We busted FedEx on the last call. We are busting out all the petter asses on this one.

Let's go. Let's hear it. This is wild. Yeah, no. Maybe I'm just too sacred. Maybe I shouldn't have called it. And I'm keeping too much from you guys. Yeah, you are keeping too much.

Come on. What's your understanding of what's going on with the Epstein files? with your level of clearance. With my level of clearance? Oh, I'm low man on the totem pole. So I basically just know everybody's coffee orders. You know, I think she knows a little bit more than that. I know, but the person who's the who's getting the coffee actually has the most gossip in the whole thing.

Well, yeah, it's like being a fly on the wall, right? Yeah. So spill the tea, coffee gal. Oh, my gosh. I definitely was not prepared for this. Well, you guys have a number of thought. We got you on. That's we're good investigative journalists, you know.

We don't call them Charlie Muckrake or Barrens for no reason. No, they don't. No. So it sounds like you guys would have more knowledge about this than I would. Well, we want to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Straight from the horse's mouth. Well, I ain't got much. I think everything's been leaked that they have.

I don't think so. I think we got about 600,000 pages of files left. I don't want to be linked to the freaking Epstein file. I mean, that's fair enough. But you work at the FBI, so someone's got to answer to it. Yeah, yeah. And that's not me. That's above my pay grade.

So just like any job, you know, when you, when us civilian Americans think about our government, we'd like to think that there are some smart people working at the FBI. What is your take on that? Do you think we got any smart people there? Or is everyone just flying like to see their pants like the rest of us? No, I bet we have some smart people there. I know some people who are there. She doesn't met any.

I don't want to disappoint. Wow. She didn't deny that one. She for sure works at the FBI. Yeah, we're totally fucked. Yeah, definitely. This is great. So what do you want to say to the NSA because they're listening in on this phone call?

Don't tap into my phone. I have nothing good to offer. You do have good stuff to offer. You worked at Woody's. I did see some stuff. Yes, I did. What's the craziest thing you saw Woody's outside of the tank? Outside of the tank.

I think one of my favorite scenarios was it was this respectable woman sitting on one of the bar stools. And she was pretty hammered. And she ordered some food. She wanted a salt and pepper shaker. So I handed it to her. next thing you know, she can't figure this thing out. She cannot say operate a pepper shaker. And I just didn't know what to do at that point because what do you do?

And so this stand-up guy next to her tries to show her, but they were both wrong. And they ended up getting pepper in both of their faces, falling off the bar stools, getting black guys off of the dancer stage and had to leave early and do the walk of shame the next day to come get their credit. cards and they had black eyes all from just not knowing how to use a pepper shaker really they pepper sprayed themselves with table pepper huh they did and they had um you know at least i know one of those individuals had a prominent role in her community so that must have been fun to explain which community what's the role oh at this point out it was in more southern Maine but i met her daughter not soon or a little bit afterwards.

And I was like, oh, I know your mom. Great person. Real, you know, put together individuals where she's doing well. You know, tell me how she's doing. I know her favorite drink. I hope her eyes healed up since then, but give her my regards. Wow. You've lived so many lives.

I know. I know. And that was just, I was young then. So I was a little baby. Come a long way. Come a long way. still seeking the love though still seeking the love what are we looking for in a guy let's see let me learn from my mistakes how much time do you guys have all right well

let's do your top five mistakes that you've made when dating a guy number one first of all meeting a guy talking to a guy that was my first mistake okay all right never meet a man okay just guys in general mistake mistake number one That was my first mistake. Yeah. What's number two? Oh, well, I guess the mistakes kind of end there once you, once that's the biggest mistake. Because everything else comes with meeting a guy.

What happened to the fiancé? What happened there? Oh, if I had to put something on it, too many differences. Let's put it that way. And I just, I wasn't right for, um, for him or his family. So it was just better to part ways and for me to carry on with my, I don't know, bullshit ways. Interesting.

So you're saying you were the problem and you gave them that it's not you, it's me. Oh, no. I was always the problem, but. Well, what did you do that was problematic? Doesn't seem like you did much problematic here. Oh, I existed. Come on, Darya. I'm hearing a lot of negative self-talk.

Yeah, let's get into this. It's a two-way street. It takes two people to mess up a relationship. And, yeah, we were just far too different. Biggest difference. Biggest difference. Full honesty, differences in religion. What's his?

What's yours? Oh, we're actually part of the same religion. And it's just, I, frankly, I was a spawn of Satan. So it didn't work out. Right. But that doesn't, that doesn't get us any closer to truth. Catholicism. There it is.

I can feel the guilt. Yeah. Bleeding out of you. You never met two Lutherans be like, you know, we had a difference in religion. And so it didn't work out. Yeah. It's only Catholicism. Is you like, uh,

so you're the spawn of Satan because, uh, you don't go to church every Sunday or what? Honestly, I don't know. I tried, but it wasn't enough. You didn't want to get married in the church? No, not really. Okay. And his mom wasn't happy about that. Probably not. Actually, not at all. I can tell you that. Well, what was the sinful thing he took issue with? You know, guys, I don't know, because then why would he I was at that point, right? That's my question. He knew what he was getting himself into. That's my, exactly.

That's my argument. Were you into swinging or something? What are you not telling us? No, I actually live a very boring life. Other than work and my dog, I don't do much. Okay. Well, you're really an open book here, Darya. Yeah, that's great.

Yeah. Hey, what do you do for living? I can't tell you about that. What's going on with your ex-relationship? I can't tell you. tell you about that. Well, I don't want to come off as like the spiteful X because that's not me. You're not spiteful.

We're just talking the truth, you know. What was the big religious difference? What did you do that he didn't like? You can be specific. Okay. Well, I guess it was the fact that I didn't want to go for every single event, like outside of regular Sundays. I was totally down for going every Sunday.

but beyond that it's like the holy days of obligation you didn't go to the you're like Ash Wednesday no way Jose so no go yo I was like I'll go yes it is

yeah what are the holy days of obligation Chuck All Saints Day Immaculate Conception Ash Wednesday All Souls Day All Souls Day

Ash Wednesday the Christmas Day the three kings we did this on the YVR what time all Kings day your muddy ended up for me here Chuck you guys know a lot

Good Friday might be sure good Friday Holy Thursday holy Saturday Yeah there's some of them but anyways So the point So that was it in the relationship you didn't want to go to the is a crazy way to break up no no i'm also i'm pretty uh tattooed up and i know that was probably a big issue oh that you're tatted up which yeah okay well that that's not against the catholic church

you're not jewish the bible it says you shouldn't tattoo your body because it's your it's your body's a temple of the lord it also says if you don't i know i'm with i'm not saying that that's i'm just a new testament or old testament everyone got their interpretation, you know. It doesn't matter. It's not against the Catholic Church to get to. So you're saying that you're pinning the whole thing on religion. It was,

it seemed like a pretty big deal. It came up in every argument. Did anyone ever step out in the relationship? No. All right. Well, this is the most boring breakup ever. Well, actually, it was quite bad for me. I got screwed over.

I had to move out, like, automatically. and I had given up my place to move there. So it kind of shook my world. Yeah. Dang. All right. Well, we're, we're sorry for prodding too much of your ex-relationship. We won't do that anymore.

You said he wanted to bring some energy and I and now, but now we expect that, okay? Let's hear. What do you got for us? Well, I think in the voicemail I left, I want to tell you guys about. the guy that dry fired his snowmobile. It was crazy. We cut him off because he was obviously sneaking drinks outside of what we were given him. And we're like, you're not safe to go anywhere.

So we took his key and he tried calling the cops on us, which like, okay, again, he's going to take like two and a half hours. Classic move. Classic move. Hammered calling the cops telling him they took your keys. More than likely, I think he was from Massachusetts. it. So, oh, Jesus for causing problems. But anyhow, so we took his keys and he was pissed off, so he was going to leave the bar

and stomp off and go wherever because he didn't like what we were doing. But he went to go get ready to get back on his snowmobile, and he was so hammered, he couldn't figure out how to get dressed. And I'm watching this grown man trying to put, like, snowmobiling gloves on his feet rather than his snowmobiling boot. And he's flopping around, making a mess, like falling into our empties. There's glass shattering everywhere.

And it's like, you're not going to help. And he's just combative at this point. And so he made a stick. He looked like a four-year-old dressed himself on his way out the door with his jacket, half unzipped and all this. He gets on his automobile, dry fires it, so probably ruins it. Starts heading down the railroad tracks, and somebody trying to go after him because he's done by.

and it's a bit of winter. It's wicked cold. And you could just see a trail of clothing as he, like, took off. And we followed it for a bit, or like, you know, whatever, man, you're an adult. And, yeah, like I said, I went grocery shopping the next day, ran into some of his buddies. And they told me that he was down at another bar in town. And he was just sitting there, like, half dead on a bench, drinking Bloody Mary's.

and glad he made it, but kind of dumb. So that was an interesting cat that we had come through the door. Oh, hair of the dog. Yeah, sure he was full of regret when he saw a snowmobile the next day. Yeah. It's tough to. How do you think you started doing Bloody Marys? Yeah.

And we've had people who were hammered, decide to get on, like, dirt bikes. start them up they're going to show off we had a guy trying to get some air and he ended up slamming into the side of the trailer oh man

the the Woody stories run deep here oh I didn't even get into the the story where one of the dancers fell on a beer bottle and we didn't know which ones we had to put caution tape on all of them so they put caution tape on all the beer bottles because she slipped on one.

Was she dancing on the bar? No, she was dancing. And apparently she slipped and fell into this person's lap. And in this person's lap was a beer bottle. And it went, yeah, it went up a certain part of her body. With penetration. Are you kidding me? She got.

I was her. She sat on a. a beer bottle? Yeah, it touched your booty. Nothing to see here, just a stripper sitting on a beer bottle, okay? Did it break? That got a, that got a... No, luckily it did not.

That got a big reaction in the bar, by the way. Yeah, these guys are all concerned about this stripper's safety. Oh, no. Yeah, no, apparently she was fine. I mean, we didn't know what to do. So she's fine. She went away with a few hemorrhoids, but other than that, it was fine. She got a glassy at Woody's.

That's insane. Yeah. Budlight was called buttlight. We have a fellow wondering what kind of beer bottle we're talking. We're talking like was the guy doing Edwards 40s hands or no? Oh, gosh. No. Wasn't a can.

It was a can? It wasn't a can. Oh, Mickey's a malt liquor. Good Lord. Let's bring up some beer bottles. What would be the worst one to go up your butt? Let's see here. This one, not so.

I guess, like a Coors Banquet. Coors Banquet, yeah. Unless it's just the tip. Just the tip might be fine. Oh. Yeah, you could. But, you know, that's why we have to go around

putting caution safe on everything. So she fell off the stage into a fellow's beer bottle. And penetration. Did he at least buy her dinner first? I don't know. She came up. me and asked for a rag so I just gave her a rag. Oh, God. Okay. Wow.

Could have gone without that detail. You asked. I guess so. I asked. If I know anything about this bar, that guy, as soon as she got up, he chugged the rest of that beer. Oh, Miles. If I know anything about this clientele at this bar. I mean, if it was a full beer, it could have carbonated up and she could have boofed

a high life. Yeah. I mean, but I'll tell you, she was a champion. She put on a little fishnet onesie, and she finished up the night. Good for her. Fishnet, that'll protect you a little bit. I'll give you a... Yeah, we just have two band-aids from Nassetross for Brown Eye, and she's good.

She boof to High Life. That's why they call it the High Life there, Miles. There you go. It'll get up there, yeah. Oh, my God. There goes my high life sponsorship. you guys will never look at that the same oh man i'm really glad we got off your uh fiance and started talking about the nitty gritty yeah yeah dirty dandy i like that she got back in the game

you know yeah but she looked at me and i was like i'm a wilderness first responder but they did not train me for this well did you have to pull it out i wasn't touching it i threw her ran gave her band-aid and said, do you need ice? Do you need ice? I'll give you eyes. Wait, it was still in? Was she walking around with that thing? I mean, I was busy bartending, so

I didn't pay that much. Was it a bud light and they called it a bud plug? No, it was called butt light the rest of the night. Bud light. Oh, butt light. There we go. Yeah, it was so fun

cleaning up the bar that night with all the caution tape around every neck of every Budlight bottle. Oh, I get it now. That's funny. Man. I think I burned my clothes that night. Did you see her fall or was this just a party trick gone wrong? It was not a party trick. Um, no, but I did see her slip. And so I did kind of watch the whole thing go down in slow motion. Poor girl. I mean, the physics that got a, the physics that got to line up for that to happen.

It's impressive. If this dancer is still out there, I want to let you know that if you are still experiencing injuries from this, you can call 1-855 Nicolet. Nicolet Law. And if anybody out there has gotten a beer bottle stuck up your bum, Nicolay is the guy to call. But also, do we want to, if anyone out there's listening that's happened to,

do we want to talk to him? Yeah, please call us. Yeah, I think we should talk to it. In fact, if the stripper is out there, we would love to hear a firsthand. Also, we're not going to get her calling if we keep calling her stripper. She's a dancer. Sorry.

Exotic dance professional. My bad. Come on, Chuck. A Woody's 1099 recipient. It was wild. It was wild. Some of the girls were bringing their kids in at like 4 p.m. They were going to be dancing at later that night.

And then later that night I saw all. their mom. A beer bottle go up the deal. That's one way to get tipped. Hey. They made good. I think she did well that. I would hope so. All right. Well, Daria. We're glad that we called you back after the technical difficulties because that was quite the story. Yes. Yeah. It got better. It got better. Well, I appreciate you guys hanging in there and dealing with my mysteriousness. But I was trying to play it cool and not be a mean and bad acts because that's not. I know you're worried about that.

You're not. I don't think anyone's singing that. If they are, they can shut the hell up. Yeah, they can shove a beer bottle up their ass. Yeah, shove a butt light right up that ass. Yeah.

All right. Now I've got to go find somebody forklift certified, right? Yeah, you do. She's looking for a fella. Get that forklift. I am. I am. All right.

Well, you'd be good, Daria, all right? Thank you. Really nice talking to you guys. Great talking to you, too. well miles i took a minute to beat around the bush i mean that was an all-time chuck beren's quote hey i i had some rippers in there didn't i miles you know i doof boof in a high life yeah uh don't try it at home kids don't try it at home try it at woodies is this sam this is is this is charlie this is jared this is charlie this is jared oh it's

It's the Jared and Friends show. Yes, it's Jared and Friends. I kind of like that name for the Bellied Up podcast. I mean, we can try and keep doing it that way if you want. Sam, I am interested. Sam, do you have a sore throat? No, I was going to say, is your kid asleep? Is it nap time?

No, this is just my voice. Okay. Why, do you like it? It's nice. Yeah, I just, it's unique. Oh, well, it's unique about it. Do I sound like I smoke? Yeah, do you?

No, never touched a cigarette in my life. You sound sexy, Sam. You just sound a little hoarse. I mean, I know a horse. He knows a horse. Sam, I hear you're a neurosurgeon. No, I am a student going to school to get a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Okay.

And I want everyone to know that Jared did tell us that he's going to school for neuroscience. Just assumed he was going to be a neurosurgeon. where you want my bad that's like saying you know never mind uh sam what school are we at i'm at u w milwaukee oh u w miliwaukee hey the good land just moved here well i guess nine months ago but where'd you move from i was in salt lake city before that and then minnesota is where i grew up okay we're at in minnesota uh egan so just south of twin cities oh yeah oh yeah you know you know it Oh, yeah. Sure. That sounds like a bad, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I know it. So you're a pretty smart fella, huh? No, I just swindled my way in this room with some smart people. Okay. Now, what you know, who you know?

Yeah, exactly, right? So tell us what's the latest and greatest going on with the brain? I mean, we still got them. Yeah. I think Elon wants to hack them a little bit. bit, but we'll see if he succeeds there. Freaking billionaires putting chips in our brains so they can collect all that data stored in some poor farmers fucking land that these guys extorted.

Criminal, dude, if they weren't so rich, they'd be in jail every last one of them. But how do I really feel? You've thought about it more than I have. Maybe you should be doing this. Charlie thinks about it a lot. I think it keeps them up at night. Yeah. It does. It does.

Yeah, it's a huge issue. question for you about the brain. I watched a TikTok the other day about that the smoother your brain is, the dumber you are and the more wrinkles your brain has, the smarter you are because when there's wrinkles in your brain means you got more matter in there and it has nowhere to go. So it's got to wrinkle over each other. Is that true? That's the theory is that, you know, you got to have more wrinkles so you can have more surface area for more gray matter and so that Charlie can spend more time thinking about hacking brains. I'm not thinking about hacking brains.

I'm thinking about why are we doing that, you know? Kind of a, do we really need to? Yeah. No, we don't need to do any of that. For mind control, Miles, mind control. So that would be the one thing they could be really bad, but the one thing that they are at least Trojan horsing with is that they're like helping blind people see.

Yeah. And that's, that's fine. And like helping people who can't walk, be able to walk again. and stuff like that. Then just don't sell their third party data. Right. No, yeah.

I'm with you. But I think there's... You said, why would they be doing this? I gave you at least one reason. True. True. Let me correct the record. That is a very positive end of it.

Is Miles just a bright side kind of guy? Miles is a... He's sort of a guy who just... I'll take whatever argument, Charlie. The opposite of whatever Charles says. Yeah. I feel like I should know that by now a few years of... listening to you to argue. Yeah, we're not arguing. We're just

passionately disagreeing. Sometimes. Usually we agree on this. I mean, I'm just saying to a blanket statement that you don't know why they're doing it. I gave you at least one. No, that's true. I do get that. I do get that. And I think that's a good reason to be clear. I think all the medical advancements, why don't we start with those and just make sure their little science project actually works before they start sucking the rest of our data for no freaking reason. another to sell us stuff we can't afford because a robot just took our jobs.

So who do you think's got a smoother brain? Chuck or I, or yeah, me or Chuck? I shoot. That's a big question. And I don't know if my brain's wrinkled enough to answer it, but I do know that Jared has the most wrinkles out of all of them. Jared's a wrinkly brain.

Jared's wrinkled brain Schumacher over there. Hey, did Jared with all of the wrinkles in his brain? Did he tell you what I started off my my voicemail with? No, tell Oh, I was telling Miles that he should fire a t-shirt guy and hire me instead. Okay. Oh, okay.

We could use an aspiring neuroscientist. I kind of figured if you got a doctor on your staff in a few years, you got some credibility there. T-shirts aren't brain surgery. So I should be all right with it. Wait, are you thinking of being a doctor? Not a not a doctor. He's going to get his doctor-rich. kind of like, you know, like you got like Bushlight and Bush.

Yeah. He's kind of doing the, he's doing the Bush light version of getting, of being a doctor. That's a real good way of putting it. Perfect. A doctorate of philosophy. Which, I mean, that's, that's what you're getting. That's what it is. Oh, God, dude.

That's tough sledding. You're definitely going to need a job in four years. I know. Exactly. That's why I'm starting the networking now. Smart. Yeah. So, yeah. How old are you?

How old do I sound like I am? I mean, you could be anywhere from 23 to 68. Okay. I'll tell you I'm in that range. I'll be 29 next month. Okay. There we go. That's about right.

So what were you doing before that you took to 29 to be going to school for this? Oh, well, excuse me. I don't have to rub it in. I goofed off all through high school, so I didn't get into college immediately. And then I realized that I should probably do something with my life and, you know, do what everyone else says to do. And so I went to college.

But I took some time through community college to get the grades enough so that they'd stop asking for my high school transcript for the universities. So I went to college and then, finished school, got married, had a kid, and then realized I hate business. I was working in the solar industry for a little bit and decided to go back and here I am. Nice. Yeah. So what, like, talk me through what a neuroscientist does.

Okay. Well, let's see. A lot of it's teaching classes and doing research. because usually you're finding them at a university. So, I mean, if universities still exist, my long-term goal is to be a professor. Okay. And so I'll be doing research.

So you're going to, you want to spend your time wrinkling brains? More wrinkling my own forehead and confusion about the wrinkled brains. There you go. What do you want to do research in? I study human memory. So how memory retention. You know that I did for a science fair project did my own study on memory retention?

Really? Yeah. Yeah. I had a list of 20 words and I had people look at them and then had them recite them to me in a certain order and mark down one, all the words that they did remember accurately. And if how close to the right order they got. What did you find, Miles? I found out that time. definitely hurts memory retention.

Oh, okay. So now, if I was even a smarter seventh grader, I would have taken a step further and had a control group just get the list and then do it. And then I would have had something to test it on, like asking them to create an acronym for all the words and see how well they can remember it. Oh, okay. And or you take, you have them apply it each word to their own life. and see how that, how their memory works from that.

That's really inquisitive. I just did step one of that. Okay. Well, you always need to leave room for follow-up studies, so you have to ask for more money to do more research. There you go. There you go. So, yeah, what do you think of my seventh grade science project? I just think that, you know, with that in tow, you could throw that on a CV and apply for my lab next year.

Hey, why don't you just... We're recruiting new grad students. I mean, I already am a scientist. Oh, right. The exercise kind. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. So you get science.

I mean, I get it. Yeah. I know my way around the lab. That's good. I know my way around a hypotheosis. Oh, I know my way. Hypothesis. Well, no, that's how I spell it.

That's how I learned to spell it in eighth grade. Hypothesis. Hypothesis. Hypothesis. Hypo the cis. Yeah. I guess that would work. Hey, I'm teaching some students how to write.

Could you teach them the hypotheesis or whatever you said because they can't seem to get it right all the time. Hypo the cis. Hypo the cysts. And just like that, I put another wrinkle in your brain. There it goes. It's right up front. I can feel it. Bangin, dude.

Well, it works quick. He's like sitting in a hot tub too long, you know? Prudy. What? Yeah, your brain got pruning sitting in the hot tub too long. It'll happen. You're not supposed to put your head out. Charlie, I can tell you're trying to keep up with us scientists here.

I know this is probably a lot. It's probably going right over your smooth brain right now. It's just sliding right off. Slyding right off. So just try and keep up. We don't expect you to, but no, it's, I thank you for your patience. So you want to talk neuroplasticity next because I'm all for that. Well, no.

Whoa, you want to? Yeah, let's talk neuroplasticity. Would you do plasticity or neurogenesis? So it's all about the, what is it? It's the myelin, correct, in the brain synapses, synopses or whatever that helps build new stuff? What would remind me of that again? Well, the connections get strengthened as the myel and increase, the myelinated sheath is increased in capacity. You can more efficiently transfer action potentials from neuron to neuron.

Miles really is a scientist. And the way that you create more myelin, the thicker myelin is by doing new experiences and learning new things, correct? I mean, that certainly seems to help. Wow. So they say like to help prevent like Alzheimer's and dementia, they say to use your brain. But in fact, that might potentially be wrong. And it's actually more you need to learn new things in order to ward it off. Oh, I think just using the brain in general.

is a good step because most people aren't. Yeah, right? Just crossword puzzles. If that helps you sleep at night. Yeah, but you're not learning. You've learned the skill of crosswords. And so once you do that, you're not necessarily thickening your myelin like you want to.

Okay. So fully new. Well, we do new things all the time. Learning to eat with your non-dominant hand. Ah, or bowling left-handed. Bowling left-handed. Those types of things.

going out and learning new things. I think just doing anything it is that makes you have to think is going to be better than not. Well, that's, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah. That's, that's, that's, that's, I wouldn't just tell people they need new skills and that's the way to a long, healthy life. I didn't say that. I said it's a way to make sure that your brain is still active and learning and growing.

Sure, sure. Yeah, I mean, so new skills is basically that. So I've also learned that, uh, the, the neural plagues. Elasticity in children is unbelievable. Oh, it's wild. Well, Miles, you know, you have a kid. Miles, my daughter was born like a month before your kid. And so I feel like we're in the same spot.

You see it every day. My daughter learned out of turn on finding Nemo on her own. Oh, yeah. My kid knows where Papa Troll is on the television. Does he? I hate Paw Patrol. You don't like... Pop Patrol.

Oh, it's so annoying. What do you mean? having, you know, there's a guy who seems like a kid takes in these puppies that aren't even actually dogs. They're just puppies. And they're like the rescue team for a town. That seems like a good plan. But anyways, yeah, I think it's, I think it's a wild thing and how they can bounce back. Oh, it's nuts.

Paw Patrol or the brain? The brain, Paw Patrol, too. The Paw Patrol, they do bounce back. I was going with both. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys don't let anything stand in their way. Who's your favorite Paw Patroler?

The dog. Shoot, I don't even know their names, dude. The blue one? The one that has the fire truck guy. Chase that's on the case, he. Charlie, that is such, that's like saying that the red Power Ranger is your favorite Ranger. What's not. Yeah.

Mine was the green. Mine. My favorite Paw Patroler is Rubble. It's kind of a goofball. He's a bulldog. Is that the one that does like the construction? kind of stuff. Yeah, he pours concrete. So, yeah, that adds up. Were you

the muse for that one? Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to think so. The fire truck one's Marshall. Marshall. Oh, that's my guy. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Marshall. Yeah, it's a okay take. He's always putting out fires. It's fire marshal. Yeah.

Oh, shoot, Jared. That's the wrinkles talking. Yeah. Look at Jared with the big brain. Rinkly brain over there. Yeah, I'm like an old shirt under my car seat. I have so many wrinkles. Look at that, dude. Look at that. One that got worn in the rain and so those wrinkles are real set in.

It's exactly what my brain is. Man, I just feel like every podcast we do, my seat is getting colder and colder and Jared's is just getting hot. It would be the opposite. It's okay. You have a smooth brain. It's fine. But if you're on the chopping block, that means you're in the hot.

seat. Well, he's on fire, though, is what I was saying. You're so, it's so hot that it actually is cold as what you're saying. Yeah, you don't want to be in the cold seat, though, because that's kind of boring. It's okay, Charlie. Jared was kind of cold to me at Bellied Up Live out here. Oh, really? Yeah, I waved at him and he just looked the other way. I said, hey, Jared, and he didn't even bat an eye. Damn. Those in Milwaukee? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. I remember. You were at that shooting, though. I was. I was. I was. that that yeah pretty drugs no i i talked to you guys but i didn't think you could hear me because you said my voice was too soft did we we said that then too sounds like some miles would say

yeah i'm sorry sam oh it's all right i'll get over it sam i am sorry sorry um what are what's your what's your hope though aside for being a professor do you have do you have oh my hope uh To raise a happy family. There you go. Okay. Yeah. Good. I mean, can you ask for more than that?

No. You got, you got just one. There's literally nothing else. I'm going to say that seems to be. But kind of actually, you know. Well, a boat would be nice too. I'd like a puncher. Yeah, he wants a puncher.

Yeah. But I would like a golf cart to ride around at the lake. That'd be kind of nice. I'd like to have a lake with this place on it that I can have a golf cart to ride around for. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Um, but I'll take the way.

But other than that, you don't need anything else. And you could maybe, you know, use an ice castle. Well, you have an idea. An ice castle? Yeah. Ice mahal? Yeah. No, I'm not a big ice fisherman.

No, well, you should. That's a new experience. It would add some wrinkles to your brain. I could add some wrinkles. That's actually true. I'd like a new bike. Oh, you're a big biker, huh? What kind of bike you want?

Oh. foo shish I like mountain biking nice dude something something full squish full suspension you know that's

when I when I hear you when I hear you talk I don't picture you as a mountain biker what do you picture I'm at I view him as like a guy sitting on a Harley that kind of I

I don't look like a mountain biker okay so you are you are you are you're a thick your stocky fella I mean stocky I feel like in Pye short.

Okay, well, you're just, you're a thick guy. You sound like you're 6.3.2.40. Wow. Jared's close. What other guests we got? 6.1.2.30. Okay. Miles. I think you're 511. 255. Okay. So I'm 6.5 to 80.

Oh, wow. Fuck you. You're a tall drink of water. your offense a tackle, weren't you? So tall. What? Oh, geez. You want to hear about the glory days? Yeah, let's hear it.

Open the yearbook, dude. I was all-star, all-time JV. Saturday morning champ. Wow. I got to skip the film, the morning lift. None of that was for me. It was Saturday mornings, 10 a.m., and then straight to the Philly cheese steak spot afterwards.

And we have. had a better record than the varsity guys. No kidding. It's all those full of cheese steaks. Exactly. You got to, you know, you got to fill it out,

make it harder to move you. Yeah, when, yeah, when you said Mountbiker, I was like, okay, there's no way he's a skinny guy.

No, not at all. I don't fit the bill. But it's still fun. You got to be the largest neuroscientists in the lab at all times. That, yeah,

I'm pretty sure that's the case. that's great and the oldest probably right uh no there's a couple people that are senior to me okay nice yeah yeah that's cool any uh anything any advice we can give you on your career how to have one ah well i guess he did call him for a job initially miles what do you think are you guys well that was oh sorry i stopped because i wanted to hear the answer to this question Oh, are you guys hiring over there? You betcha miles. Have you ever watched Drumline?

No. You know? I have. Oh, yeah. Nick Cannon. He's brought it up a few times. Yeah, yeah, I know who that is. You get to, at some point, you get to play for the job on the varsity drumline team.

So basically you and another, whoever's is. So let's say you're a drummer, you and another drummer, you call someone out and you drum against them to try and win their spot and then there's a judge judging who was better in the drum off and you get their spot. So I'm designing a better t-shirt. So you're going to do a drum off with t-shirt guy and that will determine if you're in or out. Oh, shoot. Do you have a mustache? I've got a beard and mustache combo. Okay. Just make it a mustache. I can grow chest hair. Oh, nice, dude. That's got to be a what else do you have that t-shirt guy doesn't have? I like this. I mean, is he going to listen to this?

Or you're just going to tell him. He will never listen to this. You have a brain. I have wrinkles. Rinkles, bellied up podcast is the only place where wrinkles is considered a good thing. No, I don't know. Let's see. I use a gas lawn mower.

He now does two, though, so that's tough. Yeah, but I was using it first. Well, that's true. trend setter. He had the mustache first. Miles. I got a... Is he still growing the rat? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's nice. I have this deep gravelly voice that makes me sound like I've smoked a ton, but I've never

touched a cigarette in my life. Okay. He made, he's touched a cigarette in his life. So I might be more sober. Yeah, but not on purpose ever. It was always an accidental. Well, it was just college, but he's just kind of threw it at him. Yeah. He was laughing and someone threw a cigarette and it landed in his mouth. and then he tripped and fell on the lighter and it lit it and then he had to breathe at some point so he sucked it in and then breathe it out and be careful about those it happens man you can fall on a beer bottle the wrong way too you have experience falling on a beer bottle the

wrong way charlie i know a gal in northern main that had a hoof to high life what yeah yeah true story yeah this'll this will put some wrinkles on your dome i tell you that much i learned some new and I think we all did. Sometimes two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time, and sometimes they can. Or bottle. But, you know, did you like that play on words?

They can. They bottle. Oh, I didn't catch it. Stay with me here, Sam. I'm here. Oh, shoot. I'm trying. No, that's all right.

Well, listen, Sam, the man. It's nice that I got your phone number. I might call you when I'm on a long drive at some point. we can talk neuroplasticity and you know you go for it we didn't even get to neurogenesis so we got plenty of topics dude what's actually very funny is I actually would just call you on a whim at some point so I'm going to get your number from Jared that would be hilarious he'd catch me way off guard but I'm not opposed it's always good to have a resident brain guy on speed dial just ready to go yeah well shoot I've got one question that I got to ask before you're trying to get me off the line

but so I'm not a I'm not a big drinker at all something that I've just stayed away from sure feel like you feel like I'm not the guy for that better for the brain I can tell you that much that you know that's true but Charlie I've got I've got a question about brandy old fashions yeah shoot so the guy that I work for here he came from Texas and he was telling me yesterday

all about whiskey old fashions and I thought that maybe a good gift for, you know, either a splinter time or finishing up this semester would be kind of a kit or some stuff for him to make some brandy old fashions. Oh, yeah. So other than the Barron's brandy, not a sponsor. What the hell goes into one? Sure, absolutely. What do I need to get this guy? Well, you get yourself a tackle box first, okay? One of those, and then put the brandy in the bottom of the tackle box and put. Does there need to be a used tackle box? Like, absolutely, go to Goodwill, get a used tack a box.

Sure, whatever. That just adds to the flavor. Then you want to put the bottle of brandy down there and then a little jar of cherries depending on the size you have left, a bottle of bitters. Okay, from there. What's a bitter? Bitters is a, it's a epitif. It's a tea made with Everclear.

It comes in a small bottle. It tastes bitter. Taste bitter. Very bitter. But that offsets the sugar. By the way, you want some sugar. sugar cubes in there and you want some toothpicks and or nails whatever you got to hold the garnish and then throw yourself in a muddler and um that's pretty much you know uh pretty much it you could also

do a jar of olives i don't know how much room you're going to have in this tackle box jolos okay jolves yeah a little uh and then put yourself a soda in there uh if he's a sweet or sour soda yeah soda like a squirt a jolly good something like that. Oh hey I had a jolly good the other day. Yeah. I mean that'll get you jacked up there man. First timer right there. Yeah, there's a good soda. But I think that'll pretty much do you pretty right. If you want to get fancy, you can put some cocktail napkins in there or something like that. But I put a little umbrella on top. That's not necessary, but a nice thought. You know, you could toss it in there. And now that you bring it up, Chuck would love to send you some brandy.

yeah i would love love to do that since this is the sponsor of the podcast um yeah sponsor you you just you just send us your address and we'll get you bottle of instead of uh instead of instead of an umbrella on uh old-fashioned it's funny if it was like a pontoon cover oh that's kind of nice that's kind of nice yeah well i don't know how you think just like a little pop-up like some fucking wrinkle brain. That's a wrinkle. Oh, wrinkle brain, Jared, coming in hot.

Jared, Jared, be honest with me. Are you wasting your wrinkles over your infection? I think I might be. That's great. I might be.

I don't know. He's slowly plotting something. I'm not sure what, but he gets up at 6 a.m. to go for walks every morning. Holy cow. You didn't sign up for another half marathon, did you?

No, not yet. The weight journey is going pretty bad right now. I think of, oh, no. Well, he came to Wisconsin. That's, uh, you should, well, you go up so you can go down. Are you Wisconsin right now? Yep.

No, he's in Wisconsin. He's not Wisconsin night. We're all in three lakes. Yeah, we're Wisconsin. We're up north right now. I'm going to pretend like I know where that is, but I don't know where anything is here. The spirit view, you look at your hand. Yeah.

You look at your right hand. It's kind of like, uh, just north of the middle finger, middle knuckle. Okay, hold up that finger. Oh, there it is. Yeah, there you got it now. Okay, hi. Right in that neck of the woods, kind of. That's good to know.

That's good to know. Yeah, come on up some time. Oh, I want to make it up there to Dor County. I've heard is the place to go. Oh, it's a place to go for sure. And there's some nice spots there. But anywhere just north is pretty good. So you get in your car and add some wrinkles to your brain.

And watch out for deer on your way, too, because they are out. Oh, I will. Yeah. Oh, that's good. All good. Well, I appreciate it, dude. This is great. And, you know, I know it was probably tough for you for a sec there.

Charlie, just trying to keep up with us. But you hung in there. Oh, it was just hard for me to slow down enough. Wasn't it for you, Miles? Oh, my God. That's so funny. I was literally, you know, on a lawnmower, they have the rabbit and the turtle. I was on full turtle there.

Wait, you got a self-propelled mower? That's some fancy stuff. Yeah, I mean, I got a writer. Oh, geez. Yeah. That's what happens when you're not in college anymore, bud. I'm going to start battling T-shirt guy. That's for sure.

I want to see that battle, too. I want Miles to fly you up. You want T-shirt guy to find a six-five giant fat guy? No, just a giant, a wrinkly brain guy. That's all for. Oh, boy. Well, Sam, it was a pleasure, chit-chat with you, my guy. A real pleasure.

Good chat with y'all. all right you be good now and you hang in there okay you too y'all get some more wrinkles all right thanks sir sams really good later well chucky miles we did it again in the tank of the bank and spank and montpleasure show yes with special guest jared who's going to be taking our job soon all right well guys thanks for tuning into another episode of the bellied up podcast tip your bartender tip your bartender and we'll see the next one All right. Okay, hope you guys have a good one.

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