Bellied Up - Dating Someone 28 Years Older #182

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

We're at Blarney Stone in West Fargo, ND. Myles and Charlie go through a few New Year's Resolutions. And Myles tries to teach Charlie on how to do a loon call. First caller is a volunteer firefighter who is dating a gal that is 28 years older than him. Then a fella needs some tattoo advice.

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the bellied-up podcast. We are bellied up at Blarnie Stone here in Fargo, North Dakota. The Barney, the old Irish pub. Do you know that the Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch, Charlie? They ignore anything you can't drink or punch. Yeah. And the Irish soup of the day is whiskey. I see you're reading the fun little things.

Pubs are the official sunblock of Ireland. That's good. Blarney Stone's a vibe. It's a good Irish food, the old fish and chips. Is this real? Is this real? Yeah. Those are real bricks there, Miles.

That's not going anywhere. We actually had a Christmas party at Blarney Stone one year. Is this the infamous Christmas party where someone peed somewhere? No, that was that different place. Okay. We were much more respectful in the Firestone, yeah. What did you do for your Christmas party this past year? We didn't do one.

Really? No. We'll bring it back. We'll bring it back. I don't know. I had a kid. You got a kid. That's got to be nice, dude.

I want to get a kid just so I can use it for as many things as you use his excuse for. Why have them? Why have them if you can't use them as an excuse? But yeah, it's a great spot. It's actually a great, not only a great spot to drink, but it's a great spot to eat food. They got good food here at the Blarnie Stone. Sure do. But yeah, Charlie, I was excited to start this episode because in between the break, you popped on a vest.

Yeah. And I'm going to be honest, Charlie. I just haven't seen you in very many vests in my life. You don't think I'm a vest guy? No, I didn't say that. And actually, I think that's what we should decide. discuss is are you a vest guy or are you not? Because I would say traditionally if if someone sees one of us in a vest is probably going to be me. Yeah, you're a vest guy. But a notorious

vest guy in my life. Yeah. Um, is this a new thing or do you just wear them when I don't see you uh, or what's going on? Because it's New Year's today is what? January 1st. January 1st. Yeah. I don't know exactly was on New Year's day. Um, is this a new year, new use situation? or what's going on with the vest. Same me, your vest. I just took it off that chair. Oh, so this is Jared's vest. Oh, Jared.

Are you cold, Jared? Okay. Yeah, this is Jared's vest. You know what we love about Jared? Shout out to Jared is he'll give you the vest off his back. Jared will. I mean, I didn't even ask to be, you know, I kind of stole, but he hasn't said nothing yet. Yeah, it's in your vest interest.

Jared, take my seat, dude. I will dial callers. today. No, but that will never get done. Um, yeah, probably won't. This would be the shortest episode. It's not no, Charlie, you're too good to host his show. It's, you know, we just, it's like, pick your

poison. I want you in this chair or that one, I think I'll take this chair. Yeah. Fortunately. Okay, that makes so much more sense. I was like, what is he doing with the vest on? I have a couple, I do have a couple vests. I, I got a hunting vest. Um,

but usually I'm more of a, uh, hoodie guy myself. Yeah, I like a hoodie. When you get back home. Yeah. Once you do your normal hoodie routine, pop a vest on over it. Change your life. Really? Okay. I'll get that I go. What got you into the vest? What got you into it? We actually

did a breakdown of this on, you bet your radio at one point, but it's the perfect, it's the perfect winter thing. First, as soon as it gets cold. Oh, I've seen this. Yeah, you're not a sleeves guy. Yeah, it allows movement, but it also what I like is you can wear a vest in a bar and not get too

hot, but then you don't have to worry about setting your coat down and leaving it. Right, because if someone steals your coat, that's a big problem. Someone steals your vest? It's like, yeah, it didn't have... Well, no, but they're not going to steal it. They have to take it off my back because I'm just not taking it off. Oh, you never... But, okay.

I'm they're going to steal my vest, but I don't take it off. I got it. You just, you're never... Yeah, arms crossed. Good luck getting that vest on you. Yeah. See? Look at. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can't do it. I can't. Not with these karate skills, though. Plus, you want to protect your vitals in the winter. That's true. Vitals warm. Extremities. You know, you could, you could stand to lose a limb or two. My, um, my bow hunting, uh, attire includes best. I want you to know that. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. It allows a little bit more

movement on the arms and a little less noise. Yeah. It's canvas. I actually was grabbed a vest this morning. I forgot. Did you? I bet you regret it right now because it's a little chilly in here right now with these fans going. Yeah. So that brings me to my next question and you don't have to answer it if you feel like we've done it one too many times. Much like I said, I don't want to answer the Christmas question. No, I was going to go lean into the new year, new year. New year.

Do you feel like this is because I feel like sometimes you come to a new year and you're like, I don't think I need a new me. this year pretty fine with it where let's get the temperature in the in the baron's world you feel like you need a new you or are you feeling good to where you're at man i almost want to rewind and figure out what i said last year that i wanted to do i feel i i always like to keep keep it expanding keep doing new me stuff okay so what's on the new me radar for charlie baron's Radar. Well, I, you know, I continue miles. You feel like you got a few projects done and then you just keep creating more projects for yourself. This past year I've created, I've put a lot of

time and doing a lot of projects and I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it. So I want to expand on that a little bit more. So you want to do the same you then. Yeah, I guess after that whole thing. After doing the whole speech. Yeah. Let's keep. doing same me yeah yeah no but me and then and then a little you know yeah so you want to create a lot more projects in 2020 i don't even have to try to create them i just finish a project and then i realize you know i'm filling a void i'm filling a hole so i start a new project that's yep that's how it goes you know that's kind of how it is so uh i was telling you yesterday i got a ceiling i'm gonna uh just go put a drywall cap on it you know uh is that the smartest thing to do i don't know but i haven't had anyone tell me it's

the dumbest thing to do i didn't say it was the dumbest thing to do yeah i mean it's gonna be a bit of pain in the ass but so would be patching it are you gonna get one of those contraptions that you like put those sheet rock on and then it like hoisted up to the ceiling for you i know raw dog brother brother you're getting to yeah yeah i did i did look at those because i was i was looking for how's the uh how's the best way to do this and But that just, I don't think it's... There's not enough square footage to be worth it. It's really not.

Yeah. I mean, this is a quick... Because then I got a store of that somewhere and I also got to clean the garage. Garage has gotten way out of hand. Projects everywhere. Half done. Got a bench that I'm redoing. That's just chilling there, you know?

And... Do you ever feel like... So I feel like everyone at some point is either built a bench or redone a bench in their life. Yeah. Yeah. But after my bench project that I did, I still have to stay in it. Yeah.

Yeah. I still have to stain it. It's fine. I walked away from that project going, I don't think I needed to do a bench project. You don't think you need to do another one? Yeah. I don't think I'm good for life on bench projects.

I felt like that. I feel like you, when you're making a bench or working on a bench, you think you're going to utilize it so much more than you do. Oh, yeah. I mean, you're not really making a bench to use it. You're making a bench to say, you like that bench? I did that.

Still got a stain in it. I guess it is, it's like more of a sculpture, like an art piece than it is a utility. Exactly. I mean, where are you playing to put your bench? Like, when was the last time you set on a bench besides in high school, you're playing sports? Oh, my, at my kitchen table, my family kitchen table, there's a bench because we got a big roster. Yeah. That makes sense.

My family's a bench family, you know? Um, especially as people get, you know, ride and pine. Ride and pine, exactly. Sounds a little dirty, but yeah, ride and pine, baby. Is that, do you make a pine bench? Is your bench pine? That's just a very common phrase in the sports world. Nah.

If you're not good at sports, you ride pine. Right, pine. See, I was never bad at sports. So I, that's what people on the bench talked about, I guess, while I was out there starting. Not a big deal, but, you know, you as a third strength quarterback. in middle school. Yeah, you might, you might have known that term. I played AAU ball, Miles.

And what does that stand for? I don't have no idea. It stands for really good at basketball and grade school. I did ride pine on AAU, actually. 100%. That's like the best of the best play. I was riding aluminum is what I was doing. Your dad was a doctor.

That's why you were on the team. No. Help fund the cool jerseys. No. Travel, yeah. Travel, yeah. You guys had a big van that could pile the whole team in. See, here's the thing about a big family is your dad's not going to sponsor the basketball team, you know?

But I like you to know that I got the Presbyterian people mover was utilized once I got my driver's license that we could take the van out if my parents were like gone. If they were out on a date, we could take the van out without. their knowledge and you can fit a lot more than 15 people in a 15-seater van i'll tell you that right now uh high school what a time to be alive that had to have been pretty fun thank god we're still alive yes yes well you just rolling your buddy's neighborhood just honking the horn and people just come running out and jump in yeah i mean basically you know or you go you go to like a a party and you know there's another party and the party just gets in the van yeah yeah yeah it's pretty awesome i miss that van dude big old dodge with a big ass big ass hanging off the you're an ass man then

you have you know it yeah uh dodge you better dodge his car because you know I'm beyond the wheel um but yeah anyways what were we talking about oh yeah you third string um but you came along way miles you played that arm it got you a starting spot in college this arm oh yeah that's right your left arm yeah yeah um yeah i think yeah i'm feeling good about barons in in 2020 6 yeah i got i got more new year same barons new year same barons um how about you miles are you going to get invested this year invested? Invested see uh i do have a vest i do have a vest I've had, I, I, I, I told you that. I have vests.

Yeah. Quit, quit hearing the best. Yeah, I've got a vest, man. I told you, my bow hunter, my bow hunter, you know, mossy oak, in fact, you know. Yeah. But, uh, how about you? Um, what could change in your life? I've been pretty good this year.

I mean, at the time recording this is not quite New Year's. yet. And the ways of why I bring that up is I still have to solve a Rubik's Q before the end of 2025. How close are you? So when this episode comes out, hopefully I've done that. But it's, it was something I was supposed to accomplish in 2025. I'm hoping by the time this episode, I didn't.

But headway wise, I've done a lot of mentally preparing to mentally prepare for it. So kind of in the pre-mentally preparing stages. But it was because I wanted to just be like a contained thing. Like just put me in a room. Give me a Rubik's cube. I don't want to do any research on how to solve it. I just want to just me and the cube and I don't come out of the room until I solve it. And I think that that's just like feels like feels good.

Okay. I want to do that. And I'm going to do it. We can do that today. We got stuff to do. want I know I can lock you in a room today the stuff can wait okay this is important um how far are you on the rubik's cube what do you mean i mean started i'm mentally preparing for it oh you were serious about that like you haven't even this is well if i'm doing it locking myself a room not

coming out until it's that i'm out of the room so that means i would have already had to have solved it so i see i see what you're saying now yeah sometimes i like to get the explanation twice you're so I really can comprehend it. For those that maybe weren't listening earlier. Yeah. All right guys, time for prize picks. Right now,

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we are in the throws of shoveling season and I'm thinking how have I not bought a snowblower yet it's a really good question thanks for asking miles regardless After completing the back-breaking tasks of clearing the snow off my driveway, I'm ready for a well-deserved break. And lately, that break includes a glass of tippy cow orange cream. Love me some orange cream. Tippie-cow really comes through when I'm got a hankering for something creamy and refreshing. And when I want to pretend, I'm somewhere warm. Without all the shoveling back pain, I make myself a little orange cow loda.

One part, tippy cow, orange cream, one part white rum. three parts pinocalada mix. My neighbor's snowblower suddenly sounds like the Ogen. So go on, have a cow, you guys. This time of year, there's nothing better. Tipping on back with a chippy cow. No. Drink responsibly.

Tippy cow rum cream, copyright 2025, Midwest custom bottling, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, all rights reserve. Wow, is it a new year? New year? There's a new year, baby. Happy New Year, Charlie. 2026. Yeah.

2K26. 2026. 2026, baby. It's a new year, guys, and everyone's got fresh, fresh resolutions, whoa, fresh resolutions. Fresh illusions. Yeah.

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That's true. That's true. 1855, Nicolet. Plug it in right now. And watch out for... Stumps. It stumps. I was listening.

I just wasn't hearing you. Or I was hearing you. I just wasn't listening. So, there you go. Is that what your girlfriend tells you? That seemed like a canned line from, you know? No, it's... Yeah, you hear me, but you aren't listening.

It's from that Simon Garfunkel song. People hearing without listening. People writing songs. that voices never said no one care you've ever noticed that charlie always sings like his mouth is small do i i'm a small mouse singer miles i want you to open that mouth out and show us what it does wow do you parents what that mouth do miles this is a kid show huh and honestly that was the best way I can describe how you sing I was pretty good

yeah I've never even noticed that that's probably why my singing is not that great will come up tomorrow let me try it big and I will raise you up on eagle's wings may I like opening it up

a little bit more yeah that's really good you know what I want to do you know i want to learn miles i want to learn how to do a loon call just like you oh yeah yeah show everyone here i'll hold your mic wow i am i am you I'm turned on. Yeah. And I want you after I was in my house last night. And after I showed him that, this is, this is what it was, him for like the next 20 minutes. Just going. It's true, dude. I thought he was going to pass out. Here, hold on. My miles taught me. So you cup your hands. Like, you, you, you come. People are looking.

stop it before we're looking so you cup your hands like this Jared all right and then you put your top lip on your your thumb your teeth on your nail teeth on teeth teeth on the well just like yeah just in that general area you're not even white no like this like you're like a cheerleader clap let me see where you put let me see you do it again I got to look at this yeah like I'm going to show you something a frog like like i'm showing you a frog your right thumb is way bigger than your left thumb have you ever noticed that oh no it's not it's just the way you're doing it okay like you're showing me a frog show me the frog oh yeah nice okay i get that all right one hand cupped i see i see it's the

cupping okay okay okay okay hold me hold me hold me let me try yeah i mean square up your thumbs there you go yeah you got a hole right there you got a hole right there put your top lip right there and then tilt your hands up like that not your whole head just your hands just your hands

there's a tiny whistle in there you're too tense your knuckles are literally white I want it too bad so relax your hands you're still your lip is not where you need your lip up there there you go

stop stop right there right there and then you got to close these more he's shaking he's shaking oh there's something happening where is what we need to do today yeah we're going to go into a room together

we're going to lock ourselves in I'm going to do a Rubik's Cube and you're going to you're going to do that until you can whistle okay so okay that sounds good all right all right and break ready folks we're going to take some collars and uh be fun it'll be a good good time hi if you record your name and reason for calling I'll see if this person is available hi my name's charlie and I'm here with my friend miles hello and we are calling from the bellied up

podcast um uh and we yeah okay that's it okay thanks charlie please stay on well who's that robot what the hell is going to on? You have an artificially intelligence receptionist on your phone?

All right. Before you guys get too carried away on ripping on my virtual assistant here that answers my phone calls for me, she or he, I don't know, I've never listened to it, has prevented a ton of spam calls. Yeah. Well, yeah. Almost prevented a billion up calls. and also it also pisses off a lot of your friends so yeah i do well my friends are in my

contacts list so they don't they don't get the robot oh yeah so that makes more sense it pisses off you the people that are calling you for a podcast a little bit i'm sure it does so do you get a text message saying like what we just said to you or does your assistant like vibrate or something yeah it'll it'll ring me if a call's coming in and say it's it's screening you guys and then i'll i'll look at the phone and it'll give me like an ai summary it's like it said maybe charlie that's what it said that was it summary of what i said i think your agent sucks that's what i think it's just my are you gone new technology did you just cut out did i did i it's i don't think i did it is just what's really funny about this the worst way to start a call

and bellied up is with ai yeah you just already got you know charlie's teeth on edge you know yeah you guys you guys were prying and prying no your robot was prying about it your robot was prying you know that your robot goes leave your name your number your social security number um a little fun fact about yourself and a detail about your life that no one else knows. And you know that that's what the prompt is, right? You know, you guys, you guys busting me, I should update the prompt. Yeah. Make it more fun at least, you know?

You should, oh, dude, you know what people would like? What's the coolest place you ever visited or? That's lame. You got to go, uh, you got to have them roast you because then that will actually start people off on the right fun. That's good. That's not a bad way. see there's say your name and and roast and roast me yeah that would be although if i know what i've

done to other people is uh you leave a ridiculous name like you you call in and say you're darth vader or uh how many calling you say you're you know you're donald trump or whatever and how many how many of you have these virtual assistance i only know of one is it that hard to just ignore the phone calls like they say potential damn on them, don't they? Yeah, yeah, they do. But this way, I just don't even have to hear it ring. How much you pay a month for this service?

Nothing. I pay nothing, included with your iPhone. I have this ability. Interesting. On the new iOS update, guys. Oh, looks like you got to update our phone. He is fully over this. Yeah, he's pest.

He's pissed. He's like, I came to. belly up to the bar have some drinks with my new buddies and then they're they're razzing me this early on all right well yeah we'll move on you know who trially we'll try and put it aside yeah no i mean we're not going to talk about iphone d2 anymore we are just here for you what do you want to talk about today me oh well um i don't know if you guys listen to my voicemail at all but Our assistant didn't give us the message. Yeah, our virtual assistant didn't pass that along.

Yeah, it doesn't announce that quite to everybody. No, so Jared, so Jared goes through the calls and he likes to keep us a little bit in the dark so it can be a genuine surprise about what you want to talk about. And so then it keeps the authenticity of the call. So we have not heard your voice, ma'all, but we'd love to know what it was about. Yeah, so. Uh, my girlfriend is, is fantastic. We haven't been dating very long yet, but I, I see a lot of potential with this woman. Um, however, she happens to be 28 years older than me.

Whoa. That's fine. Wow. That's fine. It's fine. Wow. Yeah. Hey.

That's quite the gap. I, I will say. And I needed to talk to some professional. on how I should handle it, if I should handle it. You came to the right place. If you want good professional advice, just talk to me a mile. Just two professional guys, you know. We opened this call, really professional.

Yep, we did. You know, we didn't get pissed at you to start. Yeah. We're even keel, level-headed guys. Accommodating, offered you a drink to 28 years older. Very objective. And how we are never letting our emotions get in the way. of good advice um how old are you i am 22 you're 22 okay so let me do some math here 22

50 years old i can help you with the math charlie that's 50 8 9 10 0 put the one up there to 3 4 5 that's 50 years old did you go to her 50 year old birthday party uh no i did not well this is cool man this is cool you know the the um the cougars know how to party tell you that much right now so oh Charlie have you ever heard this saying that you know you you don't have to teach older woman they they teach you things yeah every here people say that uh-huh uh-huh let me tell you about that there's a lot of truth a lot of truth in that saying so you're getting into those what have you been learning? Oh, guys, I couldn't tell you.

Probably over the, over the phone, but why not? Some things, some things. This is an open communication line. Some great, great recipes that you probably wouldn't like me sharing. It's so cryptic. What did she teach you in the sack? Is it a tongue motion? Is it, uh, you know, what is it?

it's it's not like an individual uh action it's it's just a whole the whole shebang orchestra of events or orchestra okay so she's i've never heard of that kink before she's conducting man so you like you're in the bedroom you have a bow tie on nothing else and you're holding a violin and playing it and she's there using her wand And conducting the orchestra, is that what you're saying? This is, I've never heard of this one. I mean, if that's how you guys want to interpret it, I wouldn't say you're too far off. All right.

So let's back it up. You know what this was like, Charlie? This is like being like, all right, I have this brilliant business idea. And then you're like, what is it? It's actually proprietary. But if you invest, then I can show you. it's like what this is right now i want to know what the moves are let's invest a little first let's take it a step back okay all right now um i forgot what is your name again

oh i'm i'm ryan ryan nice to meet you i'm charlie right miles let's start from square this is my buddy miles this my buddy miles starting over right miles also a pleasure it's fine nice to meet you right let me show you know you get to the good stuff you know you got i know we skip the formalities you got a fancy little virtual assistant you got a fancy little virtual and I like that. I like that too. That was a nice touch. You're a 22-year-old with your life together, I can tell.

You've got to be a CEO of something with that virtual assistant. I love it. Now, we hear that you met a new gal. And by new gal, I mean middle-aged gal. And I have a question. Where did you guys mean? We actually, we're on the same fire department. Oh, you guys are both firefighters.

Okay. So she knows how to work a hose is what you're saying. Sorry, sorry, we're being professional. She can work a hose. I've seen her work the hoses. All right. That's cool. Those ladders.

She can throw a ladder up, guys. I'm telling you. Can she? Good. Good. Okay. All right. So you guys are both firefighters or are you the receptionist?

Well, was her question there? Are you both firefighters? Yes. Okay. Cool. And is this a volunteer firefighter? firefighter or is this a paid firefighter yeah we're both volunteer oh okay so we don't have to worry about any chief isn't getting involved being like what are you guys doing shack it up yeah it's like he's just

thankful you're there putting out the fires oh my gosh yeah if they get rid of us over something like that i couldn't i think they'd be shooting themselves hard enough time getting people as it is yeah it is what town are we talking uh it's around stephen's point uh smart by not giving us the actual town because, God forbid. I can give you the town name and it would make note that. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. You know that guy's Stephen, right? Yeah, he's got a point.

He's got a point. Yeah. And that's Steven's point. This is Charlie's point. If you can give me the actual town, give me the actual town. I'd rather not say the town. That's fine. All right.

I advise you against it. We got some sort of professional image to uphold as firefighters. Okay. That's true. That's true. So let's talk about when you first. met each other. Does that extend to volunteers?

I feel like I know some volunteer firemen and I would not label them as professional. Oh, they're professional. No, no, there's definitely a lot of bad ones out there. I will say, but, you know, it's up to us younger generations to keep the professionalism in it. Yeah. Yeah, like dating other volunteer firemen and women. if that happens to happen, you know, it, I mean, it is what it is. So you guys met, tell me the first time you guys laid eyes on each other.

You know, honestly, I can't exactly remember it, but it was definitely at the fire station. Cool. Got it. That's perfect. I think it was just a meeting night. There was a meeting night. That's all it was. So I was in the...

You guys met at the meeting night. It's really nice that our firemen and women are at the meeting talking about putting out fires and instead they're doing googly eyes with each other, you know? We don't know who did who did the googly eyes. Who hit on who first? I don't know. We could call that a draw. You call it a job. So we probably first met each other.

I'll give you a little bit of a reason why. So we probably first met each other at the fire station in May. of this year, maybe April. I can't remember sometime around there. And I'd say that we equally hit on each other about a month and a half ago or so, maybe two months. Okay.

Sometime in September. You know how to tell a story, Ryan. You know how to lay it out of way it out. It's unfolding. It's unfolding. It's unfolding. Dying to know how. how you equally hit on each other.

Like, did you, was it a jinx situation? We're getting there. Let him, we'll let him talk. Yeah, yeah. So, so what happened is, so we're, we're entry level firefighters right now and we're going through fire school together, um, to get our firefighter one training, uh, and be certified as firefighter one. And so we orchestrated in the class a little motorcycle trip amongst us classmates.

my girlfriend Anna and myself and some other classmates from other fire departments we were going on a motorcycle trip before winter and everybody canceled except for me and her and we ended up going on this motorcycle trip up north and did all the nice back roads

throughout all the trees changing colors and whatnot it was very scenic and you know we stop at a bar we have some drinks get some food we drive back and we're gassing up at the gas station and we're we're pretty much home we're in stephen's point now she's like well well now what you know we both didn't want the night to end And so I suggested that we have some wine because I previously mentioned that I, I enjoyed wine. And I, I probed her a little bit to judge her interest, you know, maybe a month prior of this. You probed her?

I'm asking her some kind of like weird questions. Yeah, I was like, hey, you know, I enjoy wine. and you seem like a girl that likes drinking wine. Could you give me some wine suggestions? And she did. And so knowing that she was pretty willing to go and have some wine and it ended up being at my apartment. And, you know, things just kind of snowballed from there.

So, and now here, this is the point of the story where I could probably make up whatever I want because she doesn't remember that night at all. so I'll just say we had a lot of wine because that is true I think we had three bottles of wine that night and then I mean she was she was trying to make some some straightforward moves and being the gentleman that I am I

I put a stop to him because she was extremely drunk good Ryan I liked that stand up guy yeah yeah so I made sure she didn't do anything that she might regret the next day and that's kind of how the night kind of it didn't end there

we still continued the night a little bit longer talking and chatting with each other and then eventually she went home the next day I get this this massive text that like unveils everything um that I was curious about you know if she was she was interested in a relationship like that and sure enough she was so that's that's kind of how that started you guys have any questions about that story

I think it's pretty good I'm just getting the visuals doing the montage of your motorcycle trip. You know, you pulling out the so many cut scenes in this story. Putting your nozzle in her gas tank. Just pop in the bottle,

you know. It wasn't hard to follow. I can tell you that much. Yeah. God, I think I got every detail. Yep. Sure did. Perfect. So Anna is her name.

and she rides a Harley, huh? So, Charlie, I want you to tell that story. That's an Indian. Let's just for the listeners. I write a Honda. Okay. He did that story pretty quick. So for those that maybe missed the story, can you just?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Ryan and Anna went on a motorcycle ride. They went back to his place. They drank three bottles of wine. Ryan's a gentleman. So he said, no, you can't ask a deal. And then she sent a text next morning saying how much you wanted to. There we go.

So, Ryan. Oh, I don't even know why I bothered telling it. No, it was fun. You really painted a great picture. You painted a picture and then we watched it dry. I have never heard that before. Yeah, I planted the grass and you watched it grow. Yes, exactly.

When you started that. story the tree was a little sapling and now it's a it's a redwood there you go oh we love you ryan yeah we're actually happy that you're fine in love yeah um so how's it been going since uh since that wonderful evening yeah it was sometime early september it's it's been going like really really good i couldn't believe how good it's going I'm no relationship expert. I've had a couple of relationships in the past, but this is, you know, sorry to any X is listening out on the show, but I mean, she, she blows them out of the water.

Like, it's not even a competition. Sorry, X's. And he used blows as the preferred verb there. I love the way your brain works, Ryan. I love it. She's told me that before, too. Oh, man. So one of the best things about dating a woman in her 50s.

All right. So, yeah, she, I mean, she has her shit together. She, she's been through life. She knows how life's, life's go. or she knows how life goes and completely independent I can stay completely independent but but just

you know being together it's nicer I don't have to worry about her at all she doesn't have to worry about me at all it's that's pretty sweet that's probably the biggest thing did she have kids she does have kids

so you're insta dad she has three kids wow how old are they um the son is one son is 28 the daughter is uh 23 and she has another son that's 14 have you ever seen the graduate i haven't oh you should watch it have you met her daughter i i will meet her next week are you kidding me dude yes so yeah what's that what's that going to be like you think you think you think they're cool with with you or they like weirded out or what is it next week i'm pretty sure it might be the week after yeah don't matter it's next week yeah it's next week not a big deal um oh for thanks thanksgiving no idea how it's going to go thanksgiving you're spent you met this you started you guys started a relationship a month ago and now you're going to her

Thanksgiving. I am with her children that are older than you. That's correct. Let's go. This is awesome. Can I come? I've already met her 14 year old son because obviously you guys play Fortnite together. No, no. Play Minecraft then. Roblox? No, I don't I don't really play video games and I really don't know what he plays that's okay you ride motorcycle dude you don't need video games and you got a motorcycle i'm already a badass when you got that hog rumbling between your legs there ryan don't shake your head of me miles yeah i don't i don't have a nice v twin but i got a really nice honda gold wing let me tell you that's exactly the motorcycle um all right ryan we're going to role play with you a little bit mostly all right well yeah it's not so much role play we want to know

what what's what's going to be your strategy going to the thanksgiving you know maybe okay so you just come over i haven't thought so far well that's what we're doing right now so you're coming over for thanksgiving what are you bringing and what are you going to do when you greet everybody i'm bringing pumpkin pie smart everyone loves it i make a i make a really good pumpkin pie I had a feeling I've had some competitions at the fire class too we had a pumpkin pie competition

and I won so congratulations Ryan that's fucking that's awesome so pumpkin pie that's what I'm bringing greetings

I'm probably going to walk in and just say you know hey everybody how's it going to anybody who might be listening across the house I'm not going to yell it

but that's smart because like last thing you want to do is be known as the loudmouth first impression yeah so anyone within earshot at a good volume that's exactly right okay do you know what you're walking into ron do you know the intel like does does her older son like you uh do they know about you my intelligence gathering yeah so the older son seems to not care that much the quote I have is

is me is the level of care the daughter seems to be more protective I think she's just worried about my intentions I'm not worried about my intentions because obviously I know my intentions which are what are your intentions with my mother with my mother is what she's going to ask and what are you going to say my my intentions are

to spend a long meaningful time together with i don't know if i should use i if i'm addressing the daughter i feel like i have to say with your mother yeah i wouldn't what else would and just experience life together have you seen a picture of the daughter i know what she looks like yes okay is she is she the younger version of your girlfriend um maybe i haven't seen what my girlfriend looked like at that age but i would i would say it's not too obvious or too close so it wouldn't be like a if the daughter started to come on to you would you be tempted by the fruit of another No, not at all. Okay.

So her daughter is not your type because she does never. I wouldn't think so. Okay. It's way too young. Huh? Way too young. Yeah. Okay.

All right. All right. Well, so you've walked in the door, Ryan, and you said, hey, everybody. How's it going? And plus or minus some decibels on that, not too loud, not too quiet. And they say, hey, Ryan, how's it going? You know, what's the conversation you're going to? strike up after that.

I'm going to say I'm finer than the hair on a frog's ass. Nice. All right. This is going to go awesome. And I'm going to I'm going to go right into small talk because I have no idea what their interests are. So we'll go straight into the weather.

So. Good. Continuing the role play here. I mean, gosh, you guys just, I couldn't believe it. Yesterday I was sitting in my closet all day doing IT work. And I go outside. at the end of the day, and I got two more inches

of snow on the ground when I was driving home. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, that was crazy. So, um, you know, I like how you're talking to them like you are 50. Like, they're the same age as you. You can just talk to them about normal 22 year old stuff.

You know? I, that's, I don't know, whether there's the shit I talk about. I couldn't believe how dense the fog was driving home yesterday. I couldn't see 50 feet in front of my car in some spot. Are you kidding me? 50 foot real good thing you weren't on that Honda, that gold wing. Dude, if Charlie was your future step kid, you guys would get along so good.

So good. I kind of, can I come to Thanksgiving? You know, I don't want to speak for her, but I can probably safely assume that we, we wouldn't be opposed. Okay. Okay. Cool. I first thought he was going to turn you down and then

then I thought, then it was like yes and then no and then yeah. He's just got a way of talking. I can see like... Just on the edge of my seat. You know, Charlie, I honestly think that you would fit in a lot better than I'm about to next week. I'm going to be the icebreaker for you, man.

I'm going to, I'm going to come in and make sure everyone's playing nice. I'm going to take away any awkward. conversations. Let's bring your folks, too. Speaking of your folks, Ryan, yeah, there we go. Do they know about this? Nope. No. How do you think they would react? Well, I think my father would be at first confused, probably would end up in developing disappointment. Although I could say that probably about anything. I tell them, you know, all fathers just seem to be disappointed with what their kids do.

That's what life's about. You continually disappoint your parents tell they die and you die. That's it. That's right. My mother, I actually think, would find it hilarious. I think she truly would.

Okay. She'd be like, Brian, that's awesome. Keep going with it. That's probably what she'll tell me. I like that. What are you, what are they going to do

when they're like, hey, we're cooking turkey and lunches at noon and you're like, oh, actually I'm not going to be there on Thanksgiving. What's your plan? That's how you're going to break it to them? I actually will be

at my normal family Thanksgiving and Anna's Thanksgiving. Anna does hers on Wednesday. Oh, that's great for you. It works out. Great. Are you going to be spending? No, I was, I was thinking

about that. Like, how do I break it to my parents? Do I just say, hey, could I bring my girlfriend over for Thanksgiving? And then she just shows up. Well, yeah. That would be fun for you. But I bring this 50 year old. Yeah. Are you going to invite her to your, yeah, you're getting invited to her Thanksgiving. You've got to reciprocate. Yeah. I think we both mutually agreed that it wouldn't happen this year. Okay. Got it. Got it. Fair enough. Christmas. If this goes good, do you think you can bring her to Christmas? I think we also determined not this year.

Okay. Yeah. Let it play out. Are you going to be spending the night there at Thanksgiving? Yet to be decided. I haven't thought that far. It spends how much wine they drink. It would be with all of her kids because they are staying as well because they live out of town. God, this is so awkward. Dude, that's actually great. You could do a little slumber party and you bring everyone matching jammies

and you guys can all like have movie night at the end of the night. It's not a bad idea, a little slumber party. He just brings a long time for Anna. And here's some jammies for you, sweetheart. So, Ryan, what do you guys I can't I can't

do you what about kids you don't want kids or what elephant in the room um yeah I'm uh so my plan has kind of been for the past

maybe four or five years that I just die alone so past four or five years so since he was 17 years old 17 you've been thinking about dying alone Why is that, Ryan? Oh, I wasn't thinking about it. That's just like, that's what my expectations have been.

Okay. You know, it's, all right. I'm just going to, I'm just going to get some land. I'm going to throw a camper on it. And I'm going to die alone with a dog. That's, that's the life that I envisioned for myself for a few years now. So anything that happens besides that, you know, it's kind of just a bonus. That's right.

That's Peter LaFleur from, uh, from Dodgeball. Oh, yeah. If you, if you don't, if you don't, uh, set goals, then you can't be disappointed. If you have low expectations, you can never be disappointed. Set the bar low, you can walk right over it. That's like my motto of life. You're living it, dude.

So what about her ex-husband? Do we know, how long has that been not a thing? you know the timeline gets a little fuzzy for me oh i think it was did you wreck it was either no no it's been multiple years okay i'm trying to remember how many i can't remember it it was like either might have been four or more than that yeah but they got divorced right yeah okay did he do you know the story there did uh did he maybe leave her for a younger woman I No

I don't know the story Didn't really care Too much Okay Have you seen Okay I just wanted to see Maybe you were

Retailatory Situation there I don't know No again You know If she It's my low Expectations Charlie

If she wants to leave me I guess that's the way it is And I'm gonna keep on living So All right okay does um does your girlfriend know about your hot virtual assistant because that could be a good question could be an issue my my virtual assistant um no the the lady that was it a lady i i've never

called myself you should call yourself at some point see how freaking annoying she is um i doubt she'll be jealous of my virtual assistant although I was thinking about it when she dies because she's 28 years older than me I should make her into like a robot I'm sure the technology will be there then

bring it up on Thanksgiving dude bring it up first conversation with her daughter first conversation with her daughter that wasn't like oh that gave me an idea you said I've been thinking when my girlfriend dies because she's it gave me an idea

idea. Let's back it up a little bit. Let's fix our mistake. What are your intentions with my mom? Well, as soon as she croaks, I'm planning. I'm making her a robot. I'm going to make her into a robot. You know, that way I don't have to be so alone, you know?

Yeah, it's smart. But I guess if I'm alone, I'm alone. It is what it is. Well, you're planning on it. Oh, boy. And well, Ryan, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Well, Ryan, yeah, I don't know what Charlie and I helped you with, but I'm glad we're able to talk it out. I actually think your plan is pretty good for Thanksgiving. I think you got a solid plan. And I think it's pretty good. Yeah, we're excited for you. As long as the pie is good, I think it'll just go seamlessly. I may have to skip out on my girlfriend's Thanksgiving to come to this Thanksgiving. I may have to do that.

you know i could i could propose it again i'm not the one of orchestrating it but maybe we do just a big old combined one you know yeah charlie you think they make it more weird yeah let's let's take your family and his and just do one big thanksgiving that'd be fine why'd you do that that'd be fun that'd be great i think your whole family would go for that i think i mean isn't that what these these these holidays are all about making the the entire or family uncomfortable in new ways every year. Well, it's actually about giving thanks and Jesus. That's what the holiday season is actually all about.

Holidays in general. But. All right, Ryan. Well, have fun at Thanksgiving. It was great talking to you, dude. And, uh, yeah, we're excited for you, you know? Yeah. Love is love.

It don't matter the age. Yes. That's what I was thinking. Yep. Well, good. Good, good. Hopefully she orchestrates some for your Thanksgiving evening, too, to bring it all back home. I'm sure. I'm sure we'll get something out of it. All right, my guy. Will you be good, okay?

All right, yeah, you guys take care. Watch out for the ice out there. It's starting to get cold now. Okay. All right. Make sure you winterize your motorcycle, all right? All right. See you. Oh, I sure will. okay bye bye miles you should we were just dentists on that call pulling teeth oh man no he seems like a great guy great guy uh but yeah i mean even if you are starting to make snarky comments you know that the stories are getting long well you know because that's usually my role was i did i make a snarky comment yeah what's i said you know well not not like mean, mean, but you told them that listening to him was like watching paint driving.

I mean, so like if you're doing it, we know it's bad, like, I mean, it's almost, it's a great cadence, you know, that guy, he should just tell stories and. I'm a little concerned because he seems like he's like a, he doesn't have a sense of urgency. Worried that he's a firefighter, you know, great guy. Could you imagine? I'm sure he'd be a great instadad to those kids. but if he's on call and your house is going down you're not getting any valuables we're going to watch the paint burn yeah yeah

all right Ryan well appreciate you calling you do appreciate that good luck to you and Anna um I would pay so much to be at that Thanksgiving hey Miles and Char this is Nick I'm 32 and I need to help with tattoo idea I want to get chicken wings on my back, like how you would get angel wings. And I just kind of want to know your opinion on that because I really want to do it. Yes, yes, dude. The chicken wings instead of angel wings, is that what he said? As a tramp stamp, please.

Yeah, so like, are we, you think we're talking like Buffalo Wild Wings, wings, like deep-fried chicken wings? I was imagining, like, the spread of a chicken's wings. No, I know. I'm imagining he just tattoos chicken wings with barbecue sauce on them on his back. I'm imagining a decorative spread like for turkey feathers, you know, but I guess you don't really do it with the wings anyways. Yeah, he's probably talking about an actual chicken wing, you know. I'm all for it. I'm all for it. How much money would I have to give you? To do a chicken wing?

To get chicken wings. just like jack tattoo he's thinking about how much money it will wear on my body and his back on your back on my back like is a tramp stamp stamp no like like on your shoulders like it looked like wings a chicken wing is way too easy to look like a wiener though like it's way the question was how much money how much money um i'm not making you do this i would say 50 60 dollars Max. Okay. Really? If I'm being real, Miles. If I'm being real, how much would you have to give for a chicken wing? I mean, mine's a lot. Yeah, it's tough to make that look cool. Like, that's, I'm talking like at least a million bucks. Oh, really? I was thinking like 10,000. It's just on your body forever. Yeah, maybe a million.

It's kind of funny, though. It is funny. You can play it off well. Yeah. And I'm like, getting to the age now where I'm just I'm not popping the top off that much you know that's true in your 20s you got your shirt off all the time you know you're young you're fit now I'm starting to get hairy and saggy where's your hairiest place you'll uh Charlie what's my favorite beer bush oh oh hey get you can get a chicken wing right next to your cock now that'd be good get it chicken cock you get it yeah that's fine yeah and given that 10,000 bucks because who's gonna see it yeah yeah yeah you could drop years for a million to 10,000 you just get a little Brazil get that tatted on there let it let the you know let it throw back no one's gonna know

you made 10 Gs just like that yeah that was not what the original thing was you're saying it like oh you're right you're talking about the back now Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you got to send us a picture of this, dude, because we got to share this. What's his name again? Nick. It sounds like a thing a Nick would do, you know? I like it. I like it, Nick. We approve of this deal. Make it a tramp stamp. Is that it, Jared? Is that all we got? All right, guys. Well, Miles, we had another great episode today. been fun. Another fun day is always good luck with the Rubik's Cube. Okay. And what were you going to do

again? I don't know. Projects. I didn't think of a good one. Oh, your loon call. Yeah. Oh, my loon call. That's right. I'll work on my loon call. You work on your Rubik's Cube and Ryan will work on Anna. Wow. That should be the new sound. We don't have a theme song. We don't have a theme song. we should make that our theme song. Or a transition in between. Yeah, let's make that a transition. That'd be great. All right, guys, remember to tip your bartender.

We'll see you the next one. Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Oudaloo.