Bellied Up - Blackmailing a Buddy #109

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

In this episode, we're at the Cormorant Pub & Boathouse in Pelican Rapids, MN. The first caller is a little nervous about his 5th-year class reunion and also has a wedding coming up. The next caller is a New Jersey 5th-grade teacher who wants his students to be more Midwest nice. The last caller is a Florida man who knows a deep fishing secret about his buddy, we give him some tips on his next move. Get yourself a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hat Check Out Myles' other Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You Betcha Radio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check Out Charlie's other Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cripescast

Welcome back to another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast. Charlie's here with me. Charlie, how you doing? Miles, forget how I'm doing. Happy first baby to you. Happy first baby, daddy. Happy first baby. Something else. I got you a present. Did you? I did.

Me, a present or my kid a present? Well, I got it for your I got it for. You got me a bag. No, it's in here. Oh, was that maybe a large diaper bag? Introduce your baby to the to the world. I forget the middle. Yes. So I had a son.

It's a boy in June. We haven't recorded since I had the world. I forget the middle. Yes. So I had a son. It's a boy in June. We haven't recorded since I had the baby. I hear he's hung like a hamster. His name is August. The doctor called him August after he did his exam. Hey, that's a good one, dude. He's been good. We were in the NICU for a little bit, but now he's chilling.

Everything's cool. Everything's good.. That's scary though. I said on the other podcast we got the people at the NICU are amazing and what they're doing is God's work. So yeah, what do you got here? Wow. Look at this wrap job. It's just tissue paper wrapped around. I meant to stop and get a bag, but I forgot. So, but you had the tissue paper. Yeah, they gave that to me. Okay. You go. Here we go. Look at how cute these are, dude. Right. Okay. They say homebrewed. So they homebrewed. They are a beer mug socks. Yeah. You can see that for the little guy that they're off there. Those are made in someone's house somewhere in a, yeah, you know, that's a shout out to the Minnesota knits shop. Yeah. So you can find them at Minnesota knits shop on Instagram and Facebook.

So these are pretty cool. Yeah, there are there. They she did a great job. The Minnesota knit shop. Now I'm going to tell you my regrets here. First of all, Randa found those. She says you got to do it now. I after ordering them and they took it, I was going to change it to belly or first I was going to do bellied up.

But then I thought, no, I'm not going to do it to belly up cause they're booties. Okay. And I was like, I'm just going to get a home brod cause you made it here, you know, baby. I don't know where your baby would made, but anyways came here. But then I was like, Oh, bootied up, bellied up, bootied up. So anyway, you're going to have another pair of comment, but that's just the first one. Okay. So there you go. I like is that he, they're probably a little too big for him now, but when he wears them, he'll be more active instead of just a potato that he is right now. It's

something for everyone to come over and go, Oh my gosh. Oh, look at those cute things. I guarantee you someone's going to say that. So anyways, um, highly recommend. This is a great gift, Charlie. Thank you very much. Do you want the paper? Should I use this? I think I shouldn't need the tissue paper. You should save that for your next gift. Yeah. You know, it's always nice to include tissue paper with a gift. Also, if you couldn't see and you're just listening, the tissue paper wasn't even fully wrapped around the gifts. It was kind of just a, he just took it and you basically just like put it over top of it and then handed it to him. I was in a rush to get, I was in a rush to get here. Yeah. You know, and here,

Charlie, we're here at the Cormorant pub here in Cormorant, Minnesota. Kind of local stomping grounds for me. They actually have an awesome bar here. So I don't know if you realized it here, Charlie, we are bellied up to a boat. Look at, look at the side and then look at the front of it. So it looks like they took an old boat to Chris craft and turned it into a bar. It's a Chris craft. Yeah. Chris craft.

No kidding. Chris craft applesauce, you know. Oh my gosh. I didn't even see the front of it, dude. It's awesome. This is really a cool. This is so cool. Yeah, so if you guys are in the Corbin area,

you gotta stop at the Corbin pub, they got a nice outdoor space with a bar that used to be a boat. I'm getting ideas coming for what I could do at some point in life when I probably never get a bar. Oh, and then they got pictures of other Chris Crafts. It's a Chris Craft bar, this is great. And then it's a poop deck.

And there's skis, now I'm seeing all these good old things. It all makes sense, I love how it's half inside, half outside. It's great. There's a sign here that says, when everything else fails, Charlie, try doing what the captain suggested. I like that.

That is good. You should get something like that for your office. You know, we, I, I agree. I agree. Actually. I think Jared would agree as well. Um, Charlie, Miles, I'll tell you what, being a dad is. Yeah, sorry. You got me at D how is it being a dad miles so far? Not too bad. Cause he doesn't do a whole lot. You know, I just say I'm cutting you off. All right. Cutest kid. Oh, cutest kid I've seen

in a long time. I'm not even got a double dose of Ann. You know, I was going to say that, you know, but, um, really cute kid. I mean that had a hair too. Yeah. I mean, we need to take him in for his first haircut and he's almost a month old. Oh, are you kidding me? Well, we're not going to, but we could. Oh, you could get a haircut. Yeah. Yeah. He's got great, great head of hair. I'm cute as hell. And, um, yeah, he's just really photogenic kid. You know, I've had a lot of people tell me too. Um, have you seen miles as baby, you know, as like, yeah, I've seen miles as bad. He's so cute. So like several people have told me that. So if he wasn't cute, you think they just wouldn't say anything or you think they would go, God, God, miles

as baby kind of looks like an alien. If you add, they would do that. If you had a very alieny baby, um, I think people wouldn't say that or they would just go, wow, he's so unique. That's a funny bet. Yeah. Kind of like what you say, like POV, uh, it's just a camp POV POV, uh, ugly baby, you know? Oh, wow. You are so unique. You are one of a kind, you know? Yeah, or it's probably, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that goes.

Anyways. No, but it's been good. What's been the best thing? What's been the worst thing? I mean, you just aren't prepared to realize that. I mean, you know going into it that it's gonna be a big day, but you just don't realize that when you have a kid, it's the best day of your life. You know, it's just nothing else matters. You know, it's childbirth is insane. It's

like, you know, it, you think you'd be like, Oh, all of this stuff is either gross or weird. When you're in the moment, you just, you're not thinking about that at all. It's very, it's very interesting. Um. You sometimes just go like, I don't get how the baby was made, right? Like I know how a baby was made, but like that grew inside of you and now you just like he's out and he's a human. The whole thing blows my mind.

It's, I can tell. I can tell you're a changed man, you know? In a lot of ways you're, you're wearing shorter shorts. You got these, these Mexican shoes on. Authentic Mexican Harachis on. I mean, you're wearing Harachis and shorts. Bracing that dad mode. Yeah. You're full dad mode.

Good for you, man. Yeah. I gotta get a weave belt next. Yes. Yes. And start tucking a polo into some plaid shorts. You'll be there man Yeah, absolutely. So what's the what's the worst part about being a dad? Ah, it's just Gigantic poopy diapers Is your son?

Yeah, or he's I said he's got a double dose of am Yeah, that's the one I'm like willing to negotiate with Anne. You know, it's like I'll do these extra things if you change this gigantic poop. Really? No, you're not. You're not big on where it goes like up the back kind of a thing. Yeah, we haven't had a full blowout yet, which I'm happy about.

But sometime soon. Well, that'll come. That'll come. I'll change a diaper if you want. OK, I've done that. You're going to meet him tonight when we hang out. I wish I wish we were going to meet him tomorrow. So you forget I just said that. I can just say tax and and say you called dibs on the next diaper.

Oh, boy. When was the last diaper I changed? Hey, hasn't been that long. I got one. Nieces, nephews. Yeah, don't lie. You never change a diaper because whenever you babysit, your mom just comes over. No, you forget when I was a kid, my parents would leave and I was a babysitter. Oh, I suppose. We're a lot of kids.

Yeah. Second oldest man, I guess. Ten of them under. Although now they all forget that I ever changed their diaper conveniently. A lot of kids. Second oldest man, I guess. 10 of them under. Although now they all forget that I ever changed their diaper, conveniently. So anyways. Should we take some collars? Let's do it, Miles.

Congratulations again to you and Ann and August. Welcome to the Belly Dub podcast. Hello, who are we talking to today? This is Jacob, how are you guys here today? Jacob, we're doing great. Miles is a new daddy. Um, and I'm a new uncle, so we're doing great. Congrats. Oh my thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Well, why don't you belly up to the bar, Jacob? Tell us what's on your mind. So I have a high school reunion this weekend, my first one and how any advice on what to do and how to act and things like that there. Okay. Well, how many years is it? Is it 10 or five?

It's five. Oh my gosh. Does that even count? Yeah, we're doing we're doing a bar crawl, though. Oh, that's kind of fun. How many did you graduate with? About two, two hundred, two hundred fifty. But I think only about one hundred and sixty to one hundred eighty of those are going out on the bar crawl. Wait, how many people are as we peed for this reunion?

I don't think I've ever gone to a high school reunion. I haven't. That's impressive. So far, about 160 are as we beat. Oh, OK. Not counting spouses and things like that. God, it could be almost 300 people ball bar crawling from your high school from five years ago. Nothing. Oh, yeah. In a small town in Indiana. Yeah. Oh, someone's getting pregnant.

Guarantee it. Hey, what is the high school? Shout it out. Oh, it's Greensburg high school. Uh, about the halfway point of Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Greensburg. Oh yeah. Yeah. Greensburg. And what's your mascot? Oh, the pirates. I was going to say the Hornets. Were you reallyburg. And what's your mascot? Oh, the pirates. I was going to say the Hornets. Were you really? Oh, that's close. It's nice at the end. Um, okay, cool. So the pirates, all right. The bar crawl, maybe pirate themed. Cause maybe you should suggest that if it's not. Yeah. You could go as a sexy pirate. My guy. We were going to, we were

going to do a theme and we ended not doing doing one Due to there's a German festival also going on outside of the bars this whole weekend. Oh, this is gonna pretty cool So it's gonna get pregnant. Someone's gonna get arrested Someone's not coming home. All right, so What are you? What are the feelings? Tell us what are you excited? Are you nervous? Are you sad? Are you, you know, thinking about that one Green Day song? And then the down the down the down the down the down the down the down the down Tom Grimsey by the no no.

So trying to get the not saying right now, you have a beautiful voice. So what was that? I've lived outside of the United States for the last three and a half years in Germany. So it's gonna be a very different atmosphere. I haven't really done a bar crawl in the United States yet. So I'm a little nervous. Haven't seen any of these people in over three years.

And now I still don't live in Indiana, but I'm driving back Friday to be able to get there on Saturday. So yeah, it's a nervous is definitely a big, a big one. He's nervous miles. Cause he's in the States. I wasn't even 21. Okay. All right. Are you w what kind of kid were you in high school? Actually first miles, we should guess miles. You guess first. I'm I'm gonna guess I am in the army now if that helps. Okay

So you are an r.o.t.c. Why is r.o.t.c. Yeah, it's either one way or the other He was either smoking cigarettes behind the wood shop or he was an r.o.t.c Eagle scout. Yeah, Which one was it? I was, I was a, the normal jock, I guess is the easiest way to say it, but mixed with like show choir musicals. Oh, complicated range. Yes, he does. You're kind of like on American pie, the lacrosse player, you know, that, that also is the, what's the character's name? Do you remember Jared? Well, you know, I'm talking about, right?

I know you're talking about, I can't think of the name. Yeah, that's you. Oh Lord. I gotta say, um, the, the way you're talking, just the way your voice sounds, I'm picturing you as an attractive guy. Not that I'm miles, not that I'm. I'm saying I'm not coming on to a month. Okay. Like I'm wrong. Did you say an attractive guy? Yeah. What'd you say? It sounded like you said an unattractive guy. Oh no. I said, that's what I thought. He's right. I thought, no, I thought you were, I thought you were laughing because I was hitting on him. I was like, I'm not, I'm not, I thought you said unattractive. You said

an attractive guy. What's his name again? Jacob. Yes, Jacob. Sorry. Yeah, Jacob. I apologize. I meant to say that now, how does it look in the mirror? Am I right? Are you attractive or was I right? When I wrongfully said, you know, how do you look? What are you one through 10? What are you? I feel like I'm a good seven, seven and a half. Nice. There's a, I mean, I do my fair share when I was in, I did my fair share of fun in Europe. So now I'm engaged. So not so much anymore, but that is a great segue question that I'm dying to ask you. How many exes are going to be at this reunion? Oh, my exes. Live in Greensburg.

No, so I have two, three, four. Four exes are going to be there. My fiance is not going to be there though. Book! Charlie, he do be fucking. My own. We should go back to Fargo now. Get on it. Get in that airplane and forget. We'll just drive right from here. We're going to Grinsburg. We got to watch this. Go down. This is going to be great television. Which acts are you most, which acts as your fiance most nervous

for you to bump into? And by bump, I mean bump. Hopefully not bumping into. In her quote, none of, her quote is none of them because she knows that she's number one now. She's very cocky, so. Is she? What is she scale one to 10? But it's, but she deserves it because she doesn't, like these girls don't even hold a candle

to her light. Like it's crazy. Scale one to 10, what is she? deserves it because she doesn't like these girls don't even hold a candle to her light like it's crazy scale one to ten what is she a ten no he's wrong he's wrong you should have said 11 or 12 dude you're already in trouble with her is she German I play I play within the rules you know one through ten yeah I get it I get you're a military guy. I get it. You're better than me. I get it. Question. Where does she live? Oh, my fiance, she lives in New Mexico right now. And then once we get married, she'll move with me over here in Virginia. So, oh, you're in Virginia. Why did I think you were

in Germany? He said he was in Germany. I was in Germany. I just recently got back stateside this year. Now. Okay. Are you a little nervous about me? Not put the X's though. I mean, tell it to me straight. This is a safe space. Is it going to be a little awkward or is that all water under the bridge? I'm definitely a little nervous. I left things in a very bad way. I was, I was that, I was that typical jock in high school that would, you know, leave girls without any explanation. So it's been a minute since I've seen him face to face. Most likely it's grown over

by now, but who knows, you know, so you ghosted some gals. It's only been five years, so there's no way that they're not still angry with you. Yeah, they're definitely still pissed. Definitely it's going to be held against you. They're already talking crap about you. This is going to come out tomorrow and we are going to advertise this episode in Greensburg, Indiana, so as many people can hear it as possible. My question for you with these gals, do you follow them all on Instagram?

No, not anymore. Have you blocked? You gotta separate yourself after you move on, right? Yeah, you do. How many times have you searched their name? Let me see your search history on Instagram. Zero zero. Not a zero for about two years.

I don't know. Did that sound like real zero miles? I don't know. I can't tell. Miles isn't going to question your integrity and I'm, you know what? I'm not either. I'll take that at face value. If I'm your girlfriend, I'm definitely going to check your phone just to make sure. But anyways, so I also, I have a piece of advice for you as more of a, a standard reunion piece of advice. Never been to a reunion, but if I was, this is what I would be thinking about. Okay. If you're going to your high school reunion, you gotta be prepared

for the associative regression. Now, Charlie, I'm wondering what associates have regression right clicks in and that's a big word. So associative regression is when you get in association with people in your past, you regress to how you used to act when you hung out with those people. Ah, I need you to be fully prepared that you are going to act like you are in high school again when you get together with your old high school buddies and ex-girlfriends. So bring a football. Oh, yeah. 100%. And no, the I got to, I got to show these college kids how to drink to, you know, the military, we do it a different way up here. So we gotta, we gotta show these college kids, all these crap boys, how to drink.

Well share with the folks. Why are people in the military better at drinking than the rest of the population? Cause we're always in crappy locations and that's usually the only thing to do. So we get very, very good at it. No matter where it is, we go across pro world or even if we're down in Texas Drinking to pass the time. There's no other there's no other better excuse than to drink to pass the time. Would you agree Charlie? No, I'm just 100% I would agree and I just see it all all of the All of the ingredients are here for a complete disaster.

He's talking, drinking, he's got four or five exes, some that are upset with him, some that are, you know. After this reunion trial, they're gonna have to rename the school mascot from the pirates to the tornadoes because this is gonna be a storm. This is gonna be, you know, disaster. Yeah. Who are you most concerned about seeing?

What's her name? Probably. We'll say, we'll say Abby. Abby. So this is not the real name. The one I was with the longest. Oh, okay. And how did that end?

How did that end? I'm Abby, you're you. I broke up with him when I went into the military. Okay, let's have that conversation. Let's take us back. So you're you. Hey Jacob, how are you? Are we still going to the movie tomorrow night?

No, listen, so I leave for the army in like a week and I kind of don't want any ties So I'm just gonna break it off and I'm gonna go go on and live my life what Like quote-for-quote what I said. Hey Abby, what's going on? I heard you guys are going in the movies tomorrow I you know what I love about you guys is how in love you are if you guys don't make it I don't think anyone can he He just broke up with me. What?

He's dating Uncle Sam now. What? Yeah, I didn't know. What an asshole. I know. I hate him. I'm gonna hook up with him at our five year reunion. You wait and see, I'm gonna ruin his life.

I was gonna say, you should get really mad for the next five years, and then when you show up to the reunion, ruin his life. Hey, Jacob. Nice to see you again. What if Abby got? Smoking hot How does that change the algorithm here Jacob I Would say it does it but

Drinks flow is that what he said? No, I'm just joking. No, I'm just joking. No, I'll, I'll have definitely a lot of good buddies that I'm still friends with from high school that will keep me in line. Cause they may have met before. So Jacob, it should be, it should be all right. You are in the military. You are a man of discipline and honor. And we all know military relationships always work out. And there's always a long

day. There's always a long dating period and you guys are usually engaged for a long period of time. I'm going to guess that you and your current fiance have been dating for less than a year and you're already engaged. Uh, almost dated for about dated for about a year and a half been engaged for two. Now. Oh, okay. So you are, you're breaking the stigma a little bit. When are you, when's the, when's the wedding? And so that's a long engagement. We're looking at August 31st of this year. Of this year. Yes. You're looking at it like you haven't booked it yet. Well,

well there's a lot of, I'll be in Wisconsin in August. So I was trying to plan around some military schools that I'm going to be at in Wisconsin. So I'm trying to figure out what I'm getting back here so I can go there and get us get hitched and everything and get her back here. It's a lot of paperwork in the military to get married. Oh, so you're just doing it. You're a loping. Oh yeah. We're going to lope and then have a big reception in New Mexico and then one in Indiana. Uh, my family and one with her family. Nice. Good for you

guys. Now let's not put the card ahead of the head of the horse here. When is the reunion? This weekend, right? The reunion, the reunion will be that same weekend, Labor Day weekend. Oh, whoa. So you're having the reunion the same weekend you're getting married and you're going to both? Oh yeah.

I'll just take like a good two weeks to leave and then go and get married, have the reunion and then get all of her stuff and come this way. I love always more nervous about that. He is about his, his wedding. Your life is fascinating to you. The more you talk, the more questions I got. If I told my wife that the same weekend we had our wedding, I was going to slip into the, uh, a five year high school reunion with four of my exes there. No, no, the, the, the, the, the five year reunion is this weekend. Oh, yes. Coming Saturday. Oh, got it. Yeah. See, I thought I didn't mishear that. That makes more sense. Reception is what I'm at. My dad. Reception. Let's not put the cart ahead of the horse. We can't even talk wedding until you get

through this reunion. Yeah. That many exes there. Yeah. Especially when you said, you know, you seem a little wishy washy about Abby. So. Oh no, no, no, no. They're just, they actually know each other. So it's not going to be too bad. How do they know each other? They just, they wouldn't, okay.

Hope came back to, which is my fiance. She came back to Indiana to meet my family and everything about a year and a half, two years ago, about right when we got engaged. And they met while we were out one night. So it wasn't too awkward. Like she was one of my closest exes. So they wanted to meet each other

and then they compared notes and then they tag teamed and yelled at me all night. You know can't believe that Wow Disaster yeah That's like a nightmare. Yeah, that is right. Well. I mean I'm gonna be honest with you Jay, but Did you put yourself in that scenario? Did you guys just meet serendipitously or did you like say, hey Abby, I'm gonna be here with my new girlfriend. You wanna? No, very, definitely not on purpose.

Definitely not on purpose. Okay. We were out having a drink and then she saw us there and then came up and introduced herself. Oh, well that's sweet. It wasn't awkward. Well, it was awkward. It wasn't hostile. Okay, it was awkward. It wasn't

Okay, yeah, you'd be the right. Yeah. Yeah, I I don't think you got anything to worry about No, I think you're fine. I think as long as you keep your location on During the reunion, you know, you flip that off and you're what your fiance is like Why is this location off then Then it's a whole game. So you think he's sharing his location with his fiance? Is that a thing people do? Do you do that with Dan? We don't do that. Do you share your location, Jacob, with your gal? I do actually. It's part of like a trust thing that me and her have because I, back when I was in Europe, I would travel a lot. So I would want her to have my location just in case anything happens. And then here now I let her have my location just in case.

So she knows where, if I'm at work or anything like that, cause the job that I have in Virginia, uh, I'm not allowed to be like with my phone a lot. So she knows like roughly what I'm doing that even though I'm not allowed to really tell her what I'm allowed what I'm doing. Well what do you do? You can tell us. Well I mean I can tell you the basics of it. I'm a firefighter in the United States Army that provides technical rescue operations for like the national capital region so my company is called the 9-11 technical rescue operations for like the national capital region. So I'm, my company is called the nine 11 technical rescue company. You got, you got a good mustache. Oh, fantastic. I knew it, dude. Question. You have to, if you're a firefighter, you have a voice of

a guy with a mustache. I just want to tell you that right now. It's good voice. I got a question for you, Jacob. Why do they call it? Why do they call it a fire truck? If all it carries is the hoses. Why is it not called the hose truck? Oh, there is host trucks and there's engines engines or what people usually think are trucks and actual fire trucks are the ones that have like no water on it at all. So that's like the, the everyone Chicago fire has the, uh, the number three trucks. That's that would be a truck. And then the latter would be a truck, but the ones that are like the normal fire trucks is our engines. So it's a little different. A lot of people get it confused,

but I didn't even know the difference until I became a firefighter about four or five years ago. But do any of these trucks carry fire on them? Oh, no, no, no. I feel like you're saying now. Yeah, no, it makes no sense on that side of things. You think they would just be called, I don't know, firefighter carrying machines, I guess. I don't know.

Yeah. Firefighter cavalry carriers. That'd be. Yeah, you got to work on the naming with it. Hey, what does hope do for a living? Yeah, definitely. So she's a sterile. She's in school to be a sterile technician right now. So the people that like clean all the surgical equipment and things like that in the hospital, she's working on that, getting that done when she graduates in August. Sterile technician, never heard of that.

It makes sense. I thought it was like someone gave vasectomies or something. But anyways. Maybe someone who dealt with a lot of P. Oh yeah, cause P is sterile. Yeah. Well, we were both wrong. Yeah.

Well, Jacob, we are excited for you. Even though you're a little nervous, anything we haven't addressed, reasons you're nervous that you haven't brought up here yet. There is one thing that I didn't want to thank you, Charlie, for the, the, the, the, the God to the Midwest book, the audio book. Oh yeah. Midwest survival guide.

So last year I was on a, a, in a school down in Alabama and I drove all the way up to Indiana to see my family and it's about an eight and a half hour drive. Give or take up 65. Yeah. And then also my drive this weekend, this Friday is going to be about an eight and a half hour drive. So every time I'm on a half hour drive, I listen to the God of the Midwest. Yeah. So after that 16 hours in the car, you're about a quarter of the way through. Thank you. It ended up being about nine. The last time I drove with it and I still had a good 20, 30 minutes left of it. So you have an audio book by the way. I do have an audio book. I read it. Yeah, dude, you couldn't pay me

to listen to eight hours of you reading a book. I don't need to pay you. Jacob paid to do it. Thank you, Jacob. And Jacob, I want you to, we're going to reach out to you to get your address. Gonna send you a, and hope a little wedding gift. Okay. Yeah. He's in the gift giving mood. Yeah. So we'll text you for your address here.. Oh, okay. Yeah. He's in the gift giving mood. Yeah, so we'll text you for your address here. If that's okay. Is that okay, Jared? Can we do that?

But thank you for that plug. The Midwest Survival Guide, ladies and gentlemen. You can get it anywhere you get books or audio books in this case. It's a great coffee table book. It is. Miles has a copy. He's read four pages.

I've looked at all the pictures. I've looked at all the pictures. He's looked at all the pictures. There are a lot of pictures. I put those in specifically for you. So, um, well, thank you, Jacob. Um, that it, wait, uh, did we, did we get the nerve? Yeah, we got that. We, we addressed all that. Well, thank you, Jacob, for coming in. Good luck this weekend. And all jokes aside, I hope you and hope have a nice life together. And I got one piece of advice. So at this reunion, when you do run into Abby, you just got to remember the acronym, Abby, anybody but you.

Wow. Wow. Yeah. I just thought of that right now. Wait, that's a song. I just thought of that right now. Yeah. It's a country song. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. It's called Abby. It's just look up Abby and it'll come up. Anybody's one word though. Yeah. yeah it's don't think too deep into it Charles anybody but you that's how it goes Denny is he I don't know I've never heard the song do you know him Travis Denny he was on our podcast one time he He's a good guy. Oh, he's really good at guitar really

He's a lefty too. Just like Jimi Hendrix. Oh, he's fantastic guitar. Yeah. All right, Jacob Well, good luck and congrats on getting married and thanks for calling in today, man Yep, tell the folks I said hi. All right my guy watch for deer now It's something bad is going to happen at this. Dude, thousand percent. Just no way he can come out of this reunion unscathed. No, but I think that's why we have reunions. That's a look.

Kids are getting married younger and younger these days. It seems that's that's not that's actually the opposite of the truth. People are getting married younger and younger these days, it seems. That's not, that's actually the opposite of the truth. People are getting married later and later. Nah, you just heard him dude. If it was 1950, he would have been married at 18. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Well, what you wanna do, Miles,

is make sure the first time you do it, you do it the right way, you know? I'm trying, so far so good. Yeah, you're doing great. You're doing great. Aren't these nice booties that I got you? That was so thoughtful of me. It was. They're cute aren't they? Minnesota Knits shop they did a great job. All right should we take another caller? Yes sir. Guys I'm so excited to talk to you it's Kevin from New Jersey what's going on? Kevin from New Jersey it's going, man. Yeah.

How are you doing? I'm excited to talk to you guys. I've been listening to your podcast for about a year and a half now, and I love every single thing you guys do. So thanks for entertaining me. I appreciate it. Kevin. Absolutely, man.

Love you and love your energy. Yeah, what do you do for a living? Well, I'm a teacher. I work at a camp. I'm involved in my town. But right now, Miles, I have the house to myself. My wife is gone for a little bit. My kids are gone. And do I owe you congratulations yet? Yes, you do. Congratulations, Miles. Welcome to the fatherhood club. Yeah. It feels good to be in the hood. You know, the fatherhood. I appreciate it, man. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. Enjoy it. So you're living the dream right now. Empty house, no wife, no kids. You're, are you, are you drinking a little bit? What, what are you up to on this fine day? No, no,

I'm not. I should be, but I'm not right now. I'm just, I'm just guys. I'm pumped that I'm talking to you. Come on. I mean, okay. So you said you're a teacher. You have to be a phenomenal teacher with this type of energy. I like to think so. So that's, that's why I'm calling because I would love to know how I can bring Midwest nice into my fifth grade classroom. Okay. Well, I think you called the right place. Don't you think Charlie? Yeah, absolutely did. We've got no shortage of Midwest nice tips,

but I think we want to start by getting a lay of the land for your fifth grade class here, Kevin. What is, what are they like now? What are they doing? What's showing you opposite of Midwest Nice in that classroom? So I try to build a family community in my classroom. It works sometimes.

It doesn't work a lot. You got a lot of that, you know, 10, 11 year old, you know, talk talking back to you, not respecting the rules, the authority at times. Other times they do a lot of times they don't. So what I'm doing is I guess not working as well as I wanted to. So I want to get, you know, the input on the on the Midwest nights from two guys from the Midwest who grew up there. Okay. I think I got some stuff for you. Let's hear it, Miles. So first of all, if you're noticing that there's a lot of talking back, the best way to get

someone in a different state of mind is do more apologizing. In the Midwest, we do a lot of apologizing. Correct, Charlie? Will you say sorry all the time anytime you call on a student. I want you to say sorry Billy You're up and then before he answers. Yes, say sorry. The answer is 12. It's like the sorry stick Yes, you can only talk if you're holding the sorry stick the way you hold the sorry stick You can actually make a stick that says sorry fishing rod fishing rod exactly. That holding the sorry stick, the way you hold the sorry stick, you can actually make a stick that says sorry. Fishing rod. Fishing rod, exactly.

That's a sorry stick. We used to play popcorn where you take like a little ball and pass it to someone to read. Yeah. Just reel someone in with the fishing rod and that's how you get them to read next. Oh, that's good. Actually, you can put a stuffed animal of sorts

on the end of the rod. You can cast the rod at them and then they can hold that. And then you guys are sort of and you say, oh, sorry. Yeah, that could work. I was thinking if he called him, he would cast out at him. He's holding the sorry stick. That's the fishing pole. Then there's a stuffed fish on the other side, stuffed walleye, let's say. And then they say and you say, oh, sorry, I hit you with the wall.

And they say, oh, sorry, I'm on your walleye. And then they can talk. There we go. I like that. I can get away with that one. Yeah, I think another good one is you're teaching a lot. A lot of the boys, they they like fishing up in this area. We have some lakes and reservoirs. They like to go fishing.

So I think they respond well to that one. Oh, that's great. That's great. Here we go. Yeah. You're teaching the English portion of the day. Uh, you know, we all know value. Whoa. We all know vowels a certain way, but here in the Midwest, we got a different way for with vowels. Don't do the regular vowels. It should be a E I hope in you. Yeah. You gotta get that. Oh, in there. So you gotta start teaching them that it's not, Oh, it's Oh, it's the school of hope. We have a video out there called the school of hope where miles is actually the teacher and I am his student and you can show that to your classroom. I think they will

they'll learn a lot from that. So that's that's some easy things right there. You know another thing we you got to teach them the Midwest love language and that is you know in the Midwest we have a hard time really being in touch with our feelings and we don't want to keep it that way. So make sure they're building up those barriers between their feelings and their true self. And if they want to express any form of love, it's just acts of service. You'll have the cleanest classroom in that entire school, Kevin. And I think it's going to work out really nicely for you. You know, we want our love to be productive in the Midwest. Well, that's good. I already have one of the cleanest classrooms in my building.

The custodial staff, they love coming in because it's less work for those guys. I love it. You're already on the right track. And Kevin, is it you cleaning that classroom or is it your students? No, I have my students. They have to learn that responsibility. If I clean it up, they're not learning. They're not being taught anything. I love it. I love it. Another thing you could try out is, you know, in the mathematics portion of the day, teach them about statistics, get a whole box of pull tabs and teach them the odds of winning and not winning. And they're gambling and you're teaching them statistics.

And when you say gambling, make sure you call it investing. Yeah, sorry, sorry. I meant investing. Then it's also a great economic lesson. Are there any kid-friendly investing pull tabs that I could invest in? So, you know, we kind of work around some loophole. We should do a board game of just children pull tabs. Absolutely. And the way we do it is we just go buy a bunch of pull tabs, you know, actually we should just, we should just, can we steal them? Is that okay? No, I borrow. I know, no, I know a guy. I got a source for

some poll tabs. Oh, well, you got a whole printing press miles. You can probably just print some. What do you think? I'm I've seen your establishment. You think I'm a New York Times? You think I got a printing press? I don't know what you got in there for paper and cardboard. You can print on a fricking hat. You can't print on a piece of paper. No, I think he can. We'll send you some, Kevin. Hey, that's actually he gave us some to work on. We should we should invent a children's Midwest game centered around bar culture.

Yeah. It's like Monopoly, but I like it. Yeah, that's good. The game of life, and it's just all bar themed. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's what I like about here on. That's good. The game of life and it's just all bar themed. Yeah, yeah. You know, that's what I like about here on the Bellied Up podcast. It just turns into the musky tank every now and again. We just start developing ideas.

We got a whole host of podcasts we gotta dig through for these brilliant ideas. Don't sell yourself short. It's not the musky tank, it's the clear water tank. Oh, there you go. I like that. a clear water tank oh there you go I like that clear water tank oh do you have a fish tank in your classroom speaking of this whole tank situation no I don't but I have an empty one here at my house in the garage okay I think it's time to bring that sucker

in and just put some fish in there because you know, there's going to be time for timeouts. And I think, you know, what what really calms the soul is looking at fish. And that way it's not as much of a punishment, but it's more hey, listen, you're not acting okay right now. I need you to go reflect over by the fish. Although there could be some unintended consequences. If I were in that position, I might act out just so I could spend the rest of

class looking at the fish. Yeah. You gotta, we gotta work on that part then. But I like, I like where that idea is headed. Yeah. I think you can work into lunchtime maybe the 10 minutes before lunch have a meat raffle Yeah, you know just it'll teach him that

Life is all about chance. Yeah, life's all about chance and You know, nothing's better in the world than winning a 16 ounce ribeye. Yeah. And the nice thing about those meat raffles, a lot of times they're actually set up as charity events so they can bring in a little canned soup or whatever, then you can donate it. And then they get tickets to win a bologna sandwich on that day. That will be wonderful. All right. Look at that. Win win.win yeah it's

perfect let's see here oh you can teach no you got that with the thing what what other areas are your students weekend give us an area they're weak or they need some help and I think we can find a Midwest solution. So it was really that math, that language, you know, history, that could use a little help in history. Why not? Yeah. OK. Well, first of all, you're going to need to teach them about the Boston molasses disaster for some reason. That's just skipped over in history books.

The boss will tell us about the Boston disaster miles. It was a Jared like 1912 or something like in the 1910s or 20s in Boston, there was a water tower ask container of molasses and it broke open and it was like one or two million gallons of molasses poured through the cities of Boston at 35 miles an hour and killed a bunch of people molasses can go that fast well if you got a million gallons of it of course it can go that so the phrase slower than molasses it should really be slower than just a little bit of molasses. Correct. 2.3 million gallons. Yeah. 2.3 million gallons. Wow. And then you can teach them about I didn't know about that

one. I got to look that one up. I never knew about that. Yeah. You got to teach them about the boss of molasses disaster and the importance of engineering and structural engineering so that, you know, your thing doesn't break open. And they actually say that, you know, for years after that, all of Bostonians were sticky. Everything was sticky. How does that connect to the Midwest, though, mile? Well, I just we sorry. You're right. It doesn't. I think it's just a good reminder for people that things like the Boston molasses. What do you have a bet with Jared that you could fit Boston molasses

disaster in this podcast? No, I just am a huge advocate for awareness of the Boston molasses. I think there was a side bet going on in this, Kevin, and I'm out of the loop on it. Well, it's a good warning. You know, last thing you'd want to happen is for a big tank of beer to bust open, go 100 miles an hour down the road and kill a bunch of people in Milwaukee. Okay, there. That's the connection. All right. It's a good lesson to learn. If you had that side bet going on, that was not very Midwest.

Nice to see you. See, but we were betting, which is also very Midwest. So you were investing. Yes, I was because I knew I could get investing. So we got you a few tips there, Kevin. Do you feel satisfied with this? Do you have? I do. Is there anything you want to buy sell or trade before we let you go? Well I got two quick things if you got the

time. Yeah please please. One, I've been trying to find TippyCat with my area for a very long time and they just don't have it. Do they ship anywhere? What do you recommend? You know, that's a good question. We're gonna, we'll tell Tippecow that you can't find it in New Jersey. What area are you at? I'm in the Northeast. I'm in Bergen County about, I don't know,

20, 25 miles outside New York City in the Northeast part of the state You would think it might be out there you would think that'd be some typical country out there So will we will ask them otherwise? We're gonna Google it right now and see if you can't if we can't find it while we Google that what's your other question? So it's not a question. I think you guys may be proud of me. I'm not sure maybe someone out there would be proud of me But I had a block party this past weekend and I rented a grill because the grill I had the surface area wasn't You know large enough to cook all the hamburgers meats Whatever we had going on and I had all this leftover

Wood in my garage that's been there for the last 11, 12 years. Well, I actually found use of that wood. I used the wood to block the wheels on the grill so the grill wouldn't slide up and down the street as I was cooking. So I was pretty proud of myself. We are applauding you here. That is, there's nothing that just gets your going. You are a peak male performance right now. I can tell you that much. That is, I mean, that's why we live Charlie. It is moments like this. It's, I'd say it's the little things, but that's not a little thing. That's a big thing right there and you gotta be proud of yourself, Kevin. All right. Yeah. I appreciate that

very much. All right. Hey Kevin, you watch watch for dear. Tell your students we says hi. OK. We'll do. Take care. All right. But by now, why we need more teachers like Kevin? I know. Just just you can just the energy is just that the you can feel that he genuinely loves being a teacher, loves being a teacher. Well, I mean, just listening to him was engaging. If he was in the room, you know, with that, I'd be listening to everything he'd be saying.

I might have to give him a call, see if he can move to this area so he can teach my kid. Yeah, he's got a few years to figure that out. Yeah, we got time to negotiate. Yeah. Well, Charlie, should we take another call? Absolutely. Charlie, today we're another call? Absolutely. Charlie, today

we're talking summer barbecue traditions. Think about ending your classic Wisconsin barbecue with tippy cows, vanilla soft serve. Just think about that. I want you to close your eyes and think about ending your classic Wisconsin barbecue, little vanilla soft serve. Oh, I'm imagining it. And what does it feel and taste like? Feels cold. What's the mouth feel? The mouth is watering, waiting in anticipation for the,

the beautiful first sip of that vanilla soft serve. Would you say, would you say that it's like enjoying that perfect vanilla ice cream after a long day of grilling up brats and sweet corn? I actually you took the words right out of my mouth. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Isn't it? Yeah Yeah, and guys whether you're in Minnesota, Iowa or Indiana or Wisconsin tippy cows vanilla soft serve brings that sweet nostalgic finish to your barbecue. So, Charlie, let's raise a toast to all the people drinking Tippy Cow out there. If you can't tip your cow,

tip on back your glass of Tippy Cow. Cheers, Charlie. Cheers, Mike, that was a good cheers. I really liked the way that glass hit. You know, I tell you this, Miles, nothing beats a summer road trip. Am I right? You're so right.

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You like that. Oh, you got Nathan down here in Florida Nathan how's it in Florida? How's the weather down there? It is about a hundred and two degrees a quarter of my truck right now. Holy smokes How you staying cool? I stay hydrated. Bush light 95% water so that's where I get most of my hydration from. Okay smart man. Smart man. Well in that light why don't you belly up to the bar with us? Tell us how you're getting hydrated. So I got a little dilemma here and it's a moral dilemma. I think I never had the answer, but I wanted to get your input. I can hear the stress in your voice. I know when I, when

I explained it, I think you as a fisherman will understand. Yeah. I was talking to my buddy and he was telling me about the secret spot he found and you know, he cut all these fish and he was going to fish it again. Well, he went there and he cut all these red fish and he sent me some pictures and it's an area that I fish somewhat frequently and I have, was able to depict from some of the background to some of those pictures exactly where his secret spot is that.

Oh, no. Oh, OK. Now is the dilemma. I feel like the right thing to do would be not to get a fish in secret spot. Yes. At the same time, he was careless enough to leave identifying marks in the background of his pictures. Okay. We got a classic moral dilemma, Charlie. Nathan, whose fault is it? Is it his fault? Is it your fault?

You know, and the thing that comes to mind is with great response, with great power comes great responsibility. And right now you hold all the power you do. And Nathan, I think you use that book. There's fish on the line. I tell you that right now. And it's not your fault that he sent you those pictures. And by the way, what constitutes a secret spot?

It's not a secret if you can decipher it from the pictures he sends. Also, it's his fault for being braggadocious sending over the pictures. Do you think he was really saying those pictures over to say, hey, I got a secret spot, check this out, this is cool, maybe I'll take you here sometime. No, he was being braggy. He was sending you fish picks, unsolicited fish

picks. And the fact that you can try it, the worst kind, and the fact that you can triangulate that spot from the from those pictures means that you sir, earned that spot. You go get your fish. Miles your thoughts. My thoughts are let's play the long game here okay what you have right now is not a honey hole what you have is leverage correct correct? You need to, you need to, without explicitly saying it, you need to let him know you know where his spot is and without telling it, without doing it, slightly threaten that you're willing to expose it or go fish that spot. And next thing you

know, you got someone that's going to clean your gutters and run errands for you and all that type of jazz. You have leverage to get your buddy to do what you want by simply having the information. I hadn't considered the blackmail route. Yeah. I mean, you pull it down, you blackmail them. Yeah. Yeah. You just, that was cool. Let's call it a spade a spade here. I mean, that's what we're doing, but I'm not, I'm not above it. If there's any blackmail that's morally okay, it's probably a fishing spot. Would

you agree, Charlie? That I would agree with. I, I'm not opposed to the blackmail route. Um, but I think the question is how How good is your? Here's what you don't want to do Here's what you don't want to do is just go over there without telling him because then you're losing your power I think you need to let him know that you're going there There's nothing he can do about it or you go this blackmail route because you don't want to go behind his back because then he's got more motivation to mess with you and you've got all kinds of things he can mess with in the fishing context. He can go take a file to some of your fishing line and just file it nice and fine, you know, so the second you get a bite on, Oh, there goes your, there goes your lure.

There's a lot you can do to mess with a guy on the boat. You know, I, I, I may have just thought of something. Oh, what'd you think of miles? So here's what you're going to need to do. You're going to find out when he's not at that honey hole, you're going to go there, you're going to catch the biggest fish you've ever caught in your life. You're then going to as fast as you can drive to a different part of the lake. You're going to take the photos with the said fish you caught in his honey hole in a different

location. Send him the same damning pictures that he sent you he's gonna think you found a better honey hole and Then he's gonna go to that honey hole instead of his own and you get to fish at the real one all you want without any Guilt, that's the solution. We found it. I Zigged you zegged but you know together we came to this genius solution. I like to think I was part of coming up with that know, together we came to this genius solution. I like to think I was part of coming up with that. And then when you catch him fishing at your spot, shut him down on the blackmail route. Yeah, you did. Well, I think that's part of the creative process, Nathan. Okay. So brainstorming, we're brain sometimes a brainstorm involves a bit of a hurricane,

you know, so you got gotta tear down to build. You know how that goes? You're in Florida, you get it. So, you know. I do. I think we got a good plan of action for ya. Do you have a nice boat? Okay, all right.

Do you have a boat? I have a boat. I wanna say it's nice. Okay. It floats. Who's got a better boat? Oh, he's he's got the way nicer boat, but I normally catch more fish in him. That's why he's sending all these pictures. OK, you know, it's it's it's coming from an insecure place. I would never I would never go back there without him.

You know, that's that's the law. And if you take it, if you take me, but he didn't take me, he just sent me these pictures. It's coming from an insecure place, Charlie. How did he send the pictures? Did he just drop some photos in the text chain or did it come with just? No, no words, no nothing. Just that is the worst kind of unsolicited fish pick in the world.

What'd you respond? Did you just say nice with two exclamation points? I just I just liked an image. Oh, that's the whole people aren't talking. People aren't talking enough about when they invented the liking of a message. Saved so much time for everyone. Not having to respond to Charlie's messages and just saying you like it is the best thing you don't even like it you just don't respond Miles yeah yeah says you we're both bad

at that are we yeah so I've ever so what what do you think the route you think you're gonna take after all of this? I like throwing him off the scent. Pushing him down a different direction. Meanwhile I'm sitting there, getting a spot, catching all the fish. A little bait and switch scenario. You must become a fisher of men. You must become a fisher of men. I think if I send them some pictures with a couple easily recognizable docks and everything

in the background, I think he'll fall for it. And then you just camp out on the shoreline and wait for him to show up and then you can get mad at him. That's the way to do it. Something's fishy. Something's fishy. Yeah, you can walk mad at him. That's the way to do it. Something's fishy. Something's. Yeah, you can walk out onto the dock, out of the trees and go, well, well, well, this looks a little fishy.

Yeah. Yeah, I like that. I think that's the route I'm going to go. I think that is the best, the best, the best option available. And if it gets, if it gets a little malicious, if you keep sending those unsolicited fish picks, I hate it when people do that. The spot you find, go find a buoy that's marking off a low

lying rock and move the buoy and put the take the fish pick right by the buoy. Have them drop his lower unit in the process that's what I'm talking about you could also just like you know how you get the little bobbers that mark a fishing spot oh yeah put like ten of them in his spot and so then he thinks that people oh that could be it that's not a bad idea, like one of those big orange things with the rope on top. Yeah, perfect.

Little spinner, yeah. Yeah. Yep, we got you locked and loaded here. It sounds like it. Well, we appreciate you calling. I got one more thing. Oh yeah, go ahead. This is just a statement.

So I'm from Florida born and raised, but I have a lot of families throughout the Midwest, which is how I learned about you guys as an active listener ever since. But I've been out there a lot and I'm spoiled and I'll be the first minute down here in Florida with all the seafood and everything, but I'll tell you what, in my opinion,

walleye is about one of the most overrated fish. Oh, Nathan. Well, it was good talking to you. Why do you think the walleye is overrated, Nathan? Do you think it's the taste? They don't put up a great fight. It's not about the fight, Nathan. It's not a fricking bass for God's sakes.

Okay, this is a fish with soul, my guy. It's not all about the jerk on the end of your rod, all right? Sometimes you're not trying to pound, pound, pound that fish. Sometimes you make love to the fish. Yeah, you gotta take it slow pound, pound, pound that fish. Sometimes you make love to the fish. And that's a walleye. You gotta take it slow sometimes, Charlie. Yeah.

Yeah. Sometimes, the thing with the walleye, name any other fish where you're reeling it up and you're like, ah, I think I got a log. And then you're like, oh my God, it's a walleye. I mean, that excitement right there, that's why you go for the walleye, Nathan. It's not. Fair enough. Yeah, that's why you go for the walleye, Nathan. It's not.

Fair enough. Yeah, yeah, so you just, I'm not gonna get mad. I'm gonna breathe. You're from Florida, I gotta give you a pass, okay? Come up here. Come up to Wisconsin, we'll take you walleye fishing. All right, Miles is gonna. I'll come up there,

I'll come up there go wall I fish from you you got to come down here and get Gator hunting with me I want to go get the pythons have you gone Python hunting I'm in North Florida that's down there in South Florida I don't typically mess around the snake well I put you in touch with someone that can do it, but we do the gators. Okay. He knows a guy.

Do you use the bang stick? Oh, I use bang stick, 44 magnum. 44 magnum, have you seen the bang stick? I haven't. Bang stick's like a big stick that goes boom, right? Or bang, rather? Yeah, we're not allowed, in the state of Florida, we're not allowed to use guns to shoot alligators.

Which is very surprising because Florida, but so and it's just a stick. It's very precise, right? It's a one. Yeah, it's a stick and it's got a little steel chamber on the end of it and it's spring loaded. So inside of it, it's got a little firing pin. And so basically when you hit, you hit something with it, that spring compresses, bullet hits the firing pin and then fires. So it's a point blank shot at whatever you hit. Got it.

And you got one shot kind of like a musket. Yeah. I mean, usually, but we usually fight a gator for 30 minutes an hour by the time you get him up to the boat. He's just about done. Sometimes it takes more than one. It's incredible how tough they are. Yeah, they are tough sums of guns. Yeah, you like throw out a big chicken on some hooks or

something. They bite the hook and you bring them out. Big big treble hooks. we snag them. Big treble hooks on a fishing rod. Snag them and then reel them in. Could you spear an alligator? Yes, we used to do that 20 years ago. Now they're gotten pretty smart and educated that it's hard to get that close to them. Okay, good to know.

Yeah, thank you for calling in my guy. Watch out for Gators out there, all right? All right, I appreciate it. You guys watch out for deer up there. All right, appreciate you, Nathan. See ya. All right. That was maybe one of our smarter calls by us.

The strategy that we... We really figured it out. I think I'm hitting the right mode beer wise. Yeah. I think I write a write on call that the sweet spot. So I got to somehow stay here. Yeah. All right. Well, get a water in you. Yeah. You know, like a half a water. Yeah. You're you're kind of, you know, with beers and calls,

it's always walking toward the edge. You know, we we all know those calls where we fell off. Anyway, folks, that's another episode. The Bellied Up podcast. Another cheers to Miles for being a daddy. That's really cool. Thanks, Charles. Here's to you and Ann in August. And we're very excited for you guys.

Well, guys, thanks for tuning in and we will see excited for you guys. Well guys, thanks for tuning in and we will see you in the next one. Love you guys. Tip your bartender. Tip your bartender too, yeah.