Bellied Up - Escaping The Company Picnic #128

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

In this episode, we're at The Garden in Bemidji, MN. The first caller shares about her husband, who has a major golfing habit. The next caller tells us all about the ridiculous antics of his buddy "Brad" in La Crosse, WI. Finally, the last caller wants advice on how to avoid or escape his company picnic. Don't have time to call in? Call our Voicemail line and tell us what's on your mind 👇 218-303-5095 Check out our Clips Page 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@BelliedUpClips?app=desktop Get Yourself a "Road Hunting for Ditch Chickens" hat and other merch here 👇 https://ohhyoubetcha.com/products/ditch-chickens-hat Check out Charlie Berens Special "Midwest Goodbye" 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wEzagimGjc Check out Myles' Podcast "You Betcha Radio" 👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQK1ATqc6L9wz4FAiun8kKw

Welcome back to the belly up podcast. I'm miles. You betcha guy here with Charlie Barron's Charlie. Your hair is looking good today. Thank you, miles. Thank you very much. Yeah. I'm didn't pay you to say that. You said that the last time we were recording and I got to tell you, yeah, I'm not wearing a hat. That's how you can know. I'm feeling confident. My hair. I liked that. Yeah. Charlie, where are we at? Well, miles, we are clearly at the garden grill and pub and I like it mid G Wisconsin or Bimini Minnesota mid G minute. That was a total accident. Sacrilegious. Um, you know, I like about the garden is they didn't go garden bar and grill like everyone else. They went grill and pub. They flipped it. And I liked that they all G GMP rolls off the tongue instead of GP and G. Yeah. G GMP. Yeah. Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about. Here's what I like about it. I like the wooden bar top. Yep. Love a good wood wood bar top. That's great. And beyond that, you got checkered ceiling and checkered floor. Do you know why NASCAR NASCAR baby is the NASCAR bar. So you've got a checkered flag ceiling. Oh, that's a checkered foot. I th you know what? You can also like get big sized checker checker and chess pieces and play on the floor. They could play checkers. Yes. Yeah. Or on the ceiling, which could be called darts, dart checkers. So you get darts that are all the oh, never mind.

Because then you got to pull them down. Yeah. It was a good, some fishing. I started with some fishing line. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could figure it out. But I think like with darts, you don't want like pokey things on the ceiling because that could fall. And then, well, that's part of the thrill of coming to drink at the bar. Then, you know, you never know when you're going to get impaled on the top of your head with a dart. Have you ever gotten a dart stuck

in your head? No. One time when I was a kid, we were throwing it and my brother got one just stuck right there. Like a metal tip. Yeah, I was dangling I don't know how it worked either because must have gotten them just right Something like that. Oh wasn't a dart It was a pencil and I got it thrown in my face and then it was dangling I went and showed my mom my brother got it after that Yeah Anyways, Charlie tattletale Barron's I mean mean, I was like, it looked cool. You know,

it was sticking out of the head, you know? So anyways, um, I, do you ever do the thing in school where you take a mechanical pencil and stick it on your skin and spin it and then someone else flicks it and the lead stays in your arm. No, never do that. No, you haven't lived until you done that. Did you do that? Tyler, you do the lead pencil with the flick and it's did. Do you mind at some point today going to the CBS, getting a mechanical pencil? I'd love to try that today. There's someone out there has done that.

Well, you guys let us know if you've done that call in sometime with a video. I think we should do FaceTime calls at some point. Good. I mean, that would be kind of fun, you know, see what they're doing while they're doing it. Yeah. That could open a can of worms, huge can of worms. It could be like, what kind of here for cans of worms can be like that website roulette. Let's go fishing. You know, let's open a can of worms. Kind of be like that website roulette. Let's go fishing. You know, let's open a can of worms. What we should, should we see if someone would FaceTime today? And then you'd have to record the FaceTime. It's probably a whole thing. Anyways, that's a future. That's a future on the list of stuff we'll do in the future, but let's not work too hard today. Miles Jake's looking at

me like guys, let's not do that. I think it could be a lot more work for him. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, okay. Well, Hey, I wanted to bring up something. We went out to dinner last night at a place and it was my first time ever going there and they don't have them in Wisconsin. What's the name of it again? Is the green mill, the green mill. My first green mill the green mill my first green mill experience Green mill I love how you're bringing this up like this is some like Iconic moment for you when the green mill is just kind of an underwhelming restaurant. Oh Underwhelming, okay. Did you not walk inside the same place? I walked in maybe your experience was different than miles miles

What you felt about the green? place I walked in. Maybe your experience was different than my miles. Miles miles. What you felt about the green. It was like Perkins had a love child with Applebee's while BW three's cucked. I mean, it was, it was a wild experience. Food was phenomenal. If a little salty, but you know what salt is good for your thyroid and cramps as well. You can't be cramping up on a full day of podcasting. No, you can't know. And I'll tell you, I had some wild dreams last night and that's how you can tell you had a good

dinner. Are you sure that had something to do with the smoke reefer? I did not do it male or was it your recreational activities afterwards my recreational green mill No, I did not do that last night. I was too tired. I went and worked out and then I went to bed and wild dreams So thank you to the green mill for those and very friendly staff. There was a gal at the bar This was interesting gal at the bar bought us a beer. Yep. All of us, one beer and the beer that was dropped off. It didn't go all the way to the top. Yeah. It was, you know, like you pour a beer, you should have about an inch ahead on it or whatever. And then when the head goes away, kind of like his beer there, you know, like that's

about how full it should be after some head goes down and all that. It was about halfway full. I felt like, yeah. And you should have a, a, a scotch ahead on it still. If you're getting a fresh, if it's fresh, yes, this felt like not a fresh beer. It felt like the person that sent it over, uh, was drinking that beer and decided they wanted to leave, but didn't want to finish the beer, so they sent it over to us. Which I appreciate. Yeah. You know, and we drank it.

There was no roofland, so anyways. Yeah, maybe that was why you had a crazy dream last night. Oh yeah, now I'm putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Different recreational activities. Well, you win some, you lose some miles. Anyways, I love the green mill. I give it a four point seven stars out of five, which is, yeah, that is where we got at the same place last night. Apparently not. Apparently you had too much Rufelin in your system. Oh, stop it. I thought it was wonderful. Wonderful place. We had a nice conversation. I mean, it's a solid place.

Just solid spot. Yeah. But anyways, a lot more things to see here in Bemidji. I'm going to go over the Paul Bunyan Museum. I think. Yeah. Paul Bunyan land. Correct. Is it Paul Bunyan land? Oh, museum.

Yeah. Brainard is Paul Bunyan land oh museum okay brain art is Paul Bunyan line I apologize yeah it'll be great so that's what I'm gonna do and I like your hat thank you yeah should we take some colors I think we should let's do it yellow this is Madison Madison how are, great, how are you guys? We're doing great, thank you for calling in. Can you belly on up to the bar and let us know what's on your mind?

Sure, so I'm calling in about my husband's golf habit. His habit? You're already off to a bad start with that one. We already, you're setting the table, not his hobby, his habit. You're already off to a bad start with that one. We, we already, you're setting the table, not his hobby, his habit. Yeah. Like he's To the husband, it's a hobby to the wife. It's a habit that he needs to kick. Yeah. Are these golf clubs made of cocaine? What's going on here?

I have no idea. He's trying to get me into it too. Like he bought me a whole set and everything. He's pushing golf on you. He's a golf pusher. Yeah. It's like peer pressure to do drugs, but the drug is going on Saturday morning and getting pissed off with a club in your hand. Hey, hey, just try this iron real quick. Come over, come back over here. Yeah. I want to show you this. Put this in your hands. So he's pushing golf on you. How's he pushing it? Yeah. So he actually just picked it up in January

and was golfing with my dad. And ever since he's nonstop talking about it and like I said, he bought me my own set of clubs and every weekend he's probably going at least like twice to go golf by himself with his family or with like friends. Also that is a patented guy who loves golfing move. Do some stuff to try and make it seem like you want your wife to come along just so that it covers your ass. You know, like I did this, I, you know, get Ann some clubs, you know, like, Hey, you should come with. And then she gets bored after three holes. And then

if you just do that once every couple months, you're like, we're trying, I'm trying to do this with you. Yeah. It becomes her fault. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He keeps saying that it's because now like I just had a baby back in July, it's our second girl. And he's like, Oh, it's a time for us to spend time together without the girls. This guy has got it. He's hitting all the check boxes. That's a great move. Well, I mean, he wants to spend time with you. What can you argue with that? Do you think he legitimately, do you think he legit wants to spend time with you? Or are you thinking that this is going down miles as a deal here? What's your hunch?

Um, I think it's a little bit of both because he re he really does like it. Um, but at the same time, like I don't see him all that often during the week, I'm a stay at home mom. So like I'm home with the kids all day and he's like, Oh, come on, let's go golf. Let's go have like a drink and then, you know, play a few holes and get out of the house and relax, you know? And I'm certain to wonder what's the problem with. Yeah, I have to. Sounds actually pretty nice after a whole day with the kids at home. Yeah, it does. I mean, you guys can get a babysitter. All right. Yeah, we have my mother in law.

Wow. Great. Oh, so he's bringing the babysitter to and getting you the clubs. Oh, no, no, no, no. But yeah, I mean, I guess. Well, what do you what do you like? Oh, yeah, we don no, no. But yeah, I mean, I guess. Well, what, what do you, what, what do you like? Yeah, we don't like golf. I get it if you don't, but just go ahead and just know, I don't know. It's just weird. Cause like, I dunno, I like it, but at the same time I like sitting in the cart more, I guess just like being there, not necessarily playing. I mean, that is a absolute like dream for a guy. Yeah. I mean, then he's not chasing your, I hate to break it to you when you don't

hit it very far. He takes twice as many shots as it does for him to get to the green. It drags on a little bit. So if you just want to ride the cart, he's not going to be mad about that at all. No. Yeah. That's even more idea. So I, let me ask you this. What would you want to do on the weekend? If not play golf? Oh, that's a good question. I don't really think about that. Cause like all my free time is spent with the kids. Well, I feel like maybe your husband's trying to tell you that you deserve a life outside of the kids and he's trying to, if you don't have something you're passionate about, this is what, you know, he's giving you an option.

And Yeah. So you said to call in to complain, but what, you know, what's the real root of this issue? What's the, what's, This is turning into an advice thing, I guess. But what, you know, what's the real root of this issue? What's, what's, what's more? This is turning into an advice thing, I guess. So like, do I try to get into it or do I just like, just hang back?

You know what I mean? Well, why, I mean, do you not want to go? I mean, I do, I do. Don't get me wrong, but I don't want every outing that we have to become a golf thing. Okay. All right. That could be, that could be negotiated. No problem. Yeah. I think you just got to come out strong with one of your hobbies. You know, what do you, what do you want to do? You say you don't know, but think about that. Do you like a

nice night out on the town? Do you like a couple couples massage? You know, let's get into it. You've talked to them about that? I mean the stuff I do is like home stuff. So like I'm really into like sewing and cooking. I guess we could go like do a cooking class or do something like that together. like do a cooking class or do something like that together. Yeah. I think you start, your husband has dug into his hobby and now I think it is your time. You have put in so much work with the kids.

You deserve to dig into your hobby. Get weird with it too, you know? It could be cooking. How weird Charlie is. Oh, I went to a nude painting class the other day and I got to tell you, I'm not, I'm not have bad at drawing the nude body. Okay. So you can go that just explore for God's sake.

So who was the model for this nude random person? This was a legit guy or girl. This was a gal. Okay. Yeah. But you know, it's's not you exaggerate any features in your no take a artistic approach it's really not a sexual thing miles you know I mean you're at your your closed mindedness is telling me

that you know you're gonna make some pecker and titty jokes about this but what I'm telling you miles it, it's the human form, man. You're looking for the lines, you know? Did you do this by yourself? No, I did with Randa. Okay. It was Randa's idea, but you know, yeah, just get wild with it. And did you know I was a model for those at one point when I was broke?

Yeah, you told me about that. Yeah. So anyway. No way. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I can show you some of the art that it was for senior citizens but that's part of the reason you don't major in journalism because you will Need to take off your clothes for money Charlie was the model in that class and He got up on the little platform for everyone to start drawing them and they all had to scoot their

He got up on the little platform for everyone to start drawing them and they all had to scoot their easel closer so they could get a better look. That's a small wiener joke. And Miles, I wasn't fully nude on that. Oh God, I need some binoculars. I need to, I'm going to draw the details on this. I got to scoot closer. Miles, this is a mother of two on the phone calling for actual advice and you're making wiener jokes. I'm

trying to keep us on track. I apologize. So, well, my phone cracked. Oh, sorry. My deal cracked the scotch. But so let me ask you, aside from cooking, should we do a little other exploring? What else do you, what do you like aside for your kids, aside for the cooking and sewing. I honestly, I like running, but that's kind of a solo thing. No, it's not. Have you ever heard of running clubs are super popular right now? You guys go get that runner's high together. Come back, baby. Number three, just like that.

Oh, man like that. Oh man. I used to run a lot before I had the two girls. Okay. What do you, I've done like five half marathon, but I don't know getting back into it. Yeah. Well, why don't you do it with your husband? Get him a pair of running shoes. He got you some clubs. I tried. So I tried to do that a while back and he's faster than me. First of all, he leaves me in the dust. And second, he's just not really into it. Yeah. He's just not. Yes. So at the end of the day, OK, so let's go ahead. Let's say I get into golf. OK, I've booked us a trip for Hilton Head in April. Oh, I get into it.

Like, I don't know, I think it would be fun, but at the same time, I'm like. There's a trade off. There's a certain point that like your hobby starts becoming your habit like we talked about, right? Your hobby becomes your habits. You're worried. You're going to like golf too much. What's so bad? You know, maybe, no, she's more so just complaining that he is, it's taking up

too much of his time. Okay. So this is old as time. Yeah. I mean, this is an eternal struggle between husband and wife guy learns that golf is the greatest sport on planet earth. He makes it his entire personality. His wife hates it and you guys are going to go on like this forever. This is just how life goes. This is how the world is going to live my life. Yeah. Now I see it. Now I see the problem. You want more time with your husband, especially since he's working all week, you're with the kids. You want time with your husband. He wants time with his clubs. Yeah. Yeah. I want to nice outside.

He's outside working on the farm. So like, I will barely see him as it is. Say something to you that I said to the gal that cuts my hair. She was doing this. She was doing this exact same thing to me while I'm getting my hair cut. Did I want to talk about other stuff while I was getting my hair cut? Absolutely. But she starts telling me about how her husband has made golf a habit. And this is almost a carbon copy conversation. And I looked at her through the mirror. Obviously she's cut my hair. Yeah. Classic. And this is almost a carbon copy conversation. And I looked at her through the mirror. Obviously she's cut my hair. Yep. Classic. And I said, why do you want to take away the thing that makes us feel alive? Wow. You said that to her and she said, you sound exactly like my

husband. Good thing she was cutting your hair and not trimming your beard with a straight razor. You know, that would have been bad. Yeah. To the jugular. Oh yeah. You believe you bleed enough. That's a question.

Why do you want them to not do the thing that makes them feel alive? Cause when I'm on the course and I'm breathing the fresh cut grass and I'm swinging with all my might and throw my back out and getting pissed about whiffing and topping it and chunking it, that's when I feel alive. I just got, I didn't think about that. I guess. Well, I just think about the fact that he's gone. Yeah. Something, you know, you know, it's not at home. Let me come to your defense on that. And miles golf, think of all the hobbies out there. Think about the ones that take the longest amount of time. Golf is it like if golf had something like a, like where, if you're like, I'm going out on run and you had that version for golf, that's probably a different story. Charlie, like if there's three whole deal, answer me this question. Is life not about

collecting experiences that make you feel alive? Uh, yeah, I would say so. And if that makes him feel alive, that's what living's all about. Yeah. But his wife is sitting here saying I want me to be the one to make him feel alive. So he doesn't want to spend 10 hours a weekend on the freaking golf course. I don't have an answer for you on that one. I don't know how. But that's the wild thing with golf though. 18 holes. Oh my God. I'm I'm kind of with you on this because I'm done playing golf after three holes. It's fun for three. And then I lose it.

I lose it. But anyways, I think we see the deeper issue here is you and your husband are gonna have to have a little chit chat. Maybe while you're in the golf cart, put them in the right state of mind and then see if you can knock it down. Maybe get them a couple of two, three beers. There you know, see if you can knock them a couple

of two, three beers. There you go. And then get down to it of like, I wish you, you know, whereas as passionate about the time you spend with me as you do with your putter. And I want you to remember that marriage is all about keeping score and having leverage over the other person. So you need to level the playing field and get some leverage back so you can steal an extra night with them doing something else and go paint some nude people. Yeah, that is fun by the way.

Find a way to get the leverage back in your corner. Okay. Do a little negotiating. I guess women are good at that. Yeah, do a little negotiating. He's going three times a week. Negotiate. Maybe you could withhold sex, you know, and say, Hey, I, what we're not doing sex unless you can give me one more night back. And I think his tunes probably going to change a little bit. And the good news is you can find plenty of scorecards at the golfing range. Yeah. You know? Yeah. All right. Well, thanks guys. Yeah. Yeah. Here to help. Well, you have a good day. All right. You too. Thanks

for calling in. We appreciate you. All right. See ya. Bye bye. Who? What makes you feel alive, Charlie? Thanks for asking miles. I'll tell you something that makes me feel alive. I'll tell you something right now. It's not good, Charlie. This isn't good. Why can't just name it right off the top of your head? No, I got a lot that makes me feel like what you told me. I can't talk about birdwatching anymore.

No, you can. That makes you feel alive. You ever? Yeah, it certainly does. And how would you make, how would it feel if your girlfriend told you you can birdwatch as much? I'd be like, uh-uh, uh-uh, or getting on a, getting on a bike, you know, and just going through the woods, you know, with just a, just a small toke of something or a small little bit of the to us. Yeah. You know what

if she told you you couldn't do that as much. I'd be upsetting to you. Wouldn't it. Yeah. No I get it. Here's the thing though. Miles in in her defense golf takes so freaking long dude. Like you can't just like that's my hobby. And the thing is, is like, if you're listening, your guy who golfs a lot, read the room, you gotta, you gotta be paying attention to make sure you're hitting the right quota on the family and the golf thing. I had the tough pill to swallow. You have a kid, you don't get to golf as much. I think that's a thing that does golf kind of a disservice to a degree. Like if you had a thing where you could just go out for an hour, hit three holes and come back, it's

probably much more manageable. But if you're going out, you're spending the money. So you're like, I'm not just going to do three holes. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I mean, as a golfer, would you like something like that? Where you can't in Fargo, there's a three hole loop. Oh, is there? And like, you know, like on a Wednesday morning, right when the course opens up, I'll just go play nine. Yeah. There's ways to do it. Yeah. You can, you can incorporate it in, you know, it's all about moderation, Charlie with your habits. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose that is true. You know, you're into drugs, just do them in moderation. Yeah, I don't do drugs.

Don't give me that look. I'm not going to look. I'm just you were talking, so I was looking at you. I don't like I don't like the insinuation, Miles. That's I'm also we there. There are two main TVs and in bars these days. I get so easily distracted. So we take another call.

Yeah, let's do it before I go off on this like power man or Iron Man suit this guy's wearing. This is Ian. Ian what's good my guy belly up to the bar what's on your mind? Oh well I'm here in La Crosse Wisconsin and last week we just had the Octoberfest. Classic. We just had the, uh, October fast class and, uh, it was a good time, but one of my, uh, one of my buddies, we'll call him, we'll call him Brad. So I don't call him out, had himself a, uh, I would say an interesting time on Saturday, what Brad do well, Brad was pretty liquored up on the line and Kugel's October fest and we were on third

street and he, uh, he decided he really needed to go to the bathroom. Didn't quite feel like finding a, uh, an actual bathroom. And he decided to do the, uh, do the number two behind the bar in between a couple of dumpsters. Really? Really? I thought he was going to say just was urinating in public, but Brad went the full do drop the deuce. So bring it up. He, he dropped the later hose and, and took a number two. So this guy took a dump between the dumpsters. I mean, good spot to do it. Yeah. It's a number two. So this guy took a dump between the dumpsters. I mean, good spot to do it. Yeah, it's a dumpster. Yeah. People doing that. You should not be putting two dumpsters right next to each other on October fest for, you know, it's really not

even a recipe for a disaster. It is absolutely. Now, um, was Was he did he eat something that? Kind of led to this situation or is Brad kind of known for dropping a DZ in Yes, this is signature move cuz some some guys this is their thing they get off on it. It's their kink Well, I don't think Brad's ever done this. He's, you know, he usually does pretty questionable stuff whenever he visits the cross, but never this. And on top of it, to make matters worse, when he dropped said, dude, she also dropped his wallet and left it there. So I didn't know and had to go find it later. Back to the scene of the crime. He literally left evidence and gave them an exact way to find him. Oh man. Not good. Not good at all. Did he, did he find his wallet eventually

or do we need to put out a, a, a wallet alert? Well, we, after he told me, I said he was drunk enough and that I was taking him back to my house so he could sit and think about his decisions he's made and, uh, and why you had to go home, sit about what he did and wipe. And so he gave me get home and that's when he realized he didn't have his wallet anymore. And he started panicking, made me call the Uber and see if it was in the Uber backseat. And then he wound up just high tailing it back to third street, back to where all the festivities were. And he found it. You know what I hope you do with Brad?

If you haven't done this already, I hope you put them on the leash, take them over to the do spot, put his nose in it and tell him no, no, no, no. And then you walk them back home and put them in a cage in the basement. He'll learn his lesson. Well, see, and that's partially why I called it because I'm actually headed up to Brad's house tomorrow to do some hunting on his land. And I just, we haven't seen each other spoken since the, uh, this situation here. I don't know what to say to him.

Oh, it's not about saying anything. This is, we're an action podcast, Charlie. We're all that we're doers here. We're not don'ters. Oh, and you're not going to say a word about the incident. What you're going to do is you're going to go to his hunting shack and you're going to do an upper decker in his toilet. That'll be the ultimate payback. Wow. I, I would say I didn't know you had that in you, but that actually makes a lot of sense. In fact, I'm a little jelly. I didn't think of that one myself. The old upper Decker.

I got to just go surprise them. Now miles for those in the audience, hopefully not kids who don't know what an upper decker is. Can you describe? You just take the lid off the top of the toilet and you, you know, climb a couple steps and let her go and cover back up and on your merry way. And then how do you clean that eventually? That's not your problem, because it's Brad's house. eventually. That's not your problem because it's Brad's house. Yup. That will be payback is best served. Now, if you, if this does happen to you, just grab an ice fish and ladle,

you know, and to get the extra ice out of the hole and you should be able to get it out of there. Spoken like a guy who's had a few upper deckers done to him. All right. Well, do it. Send us a picture. Would you? Don't know. We'll take a picture. We'll take a picture. We appreciate that. And do us a favor. Tell Brad that we say hi and I do got one more question. Oh, you got follow up. You said, you said, you said Brad's been doing some questionable stuff for years. What are some other stuff that he's been doing? Oh, he was up earlier this summer for my birthday or down, I suppose, because he's from the

Northwood and, uh, well, we left him to find love at a hopeless place, I guess, and he did. And when we, uh, uh, not a strip club, just another one of these bars here in La Crosse. And when we found him, uh, he was polka dancing in a completely empty bar and the bouncers were yelling at him to get out of there with this young lady. And she had proclaimed herself to be called sexy Lexi. Sexy Lexi. I like that. Wow. That rhymes. I thought you said he was not talking to her anymore. Yeah. I mean, yeah. You usually don't talk to a sexy lags. He passed. She's a, she's a one night polka dance. You know, it's that's what it's all about. She's, she's used to two step

in alone. Let's put it that way. Um, what else did Brad do? I like Brad. He's kind of sounds like kind of a legend. Brad should call in. I want to hear this from Brad's perspective after the I think you boys would get along with Brad. Yeah. Brad's just been a bit of a wild card through on life. I guess I've known him since our freshman year of college and he's uh, yeah, he just, he gets himself into some situations. I would say, that's all I can really say. And you need a Brad in your friend group because when you mess up, he makes your mess up not look bad at all. You know what I mean? He's the grand equalizer. Let's say you got kicked out of a bar. Well, Brad shit in the alleyway,

you know? So it's like, Oh, that's not so bad. But Brad, that's actually not even the worst part is Brad did something probably just as bad this same weekend. Why? Um, we were all sitting there drinking and I look over and I say, Oh Brad, come here. And he's like, I can't, they just keeps walking away with this lady. Brad was getting a little busy in the bathroom is what the bar manager then told me. Uh, receiving some quality time, I suppose from a lovely lady and the bar manager walked into the bathroom and saw it and kicked them both out. And that was all we can the day before this guy is a real character. Brad can't be trusted to drink alone, like be left to himself when he's visiting lacrosse

lacrosse really brings that out of people. So I didn't know lacrosse was kind of the Midwest Vegas. I didn't realize that's what's happening. Brad stayed there one more day. Really? I go out on a bumpkin or something. Well, that's what I was wondering. You'd be arrested probably. Yeah. Yeah. Or, or he would just like find his way to like, be like, get the keys to the city. I feel like Brad could go either way, you know, either something really bad or like just stumbles into a situation where he's like, I don't know what's happening. Where somehow he's a hero where he takes a dump beyond a dumpster and a criminal's running through and slips on his dump. And all of a sudden kind of a Mario cart banana situation.

They're like, who took this dump? And then they see his wallet. This, this is our hero. He's not the hero we asked for, but the one we got, he's the brown bandit, the brown bandit. And tell Brad the next time he goes to across to stay the hell away from that river. I should. I should. Yeah, it's a dangerous river. And Brad seems like the kind of guy that might want to swim across it. Well, do us a favor. Tell Brad that we says hi.

Put it on top of his hunt and check toilet. Just a little stick it note that says from compliments of miles at the bellied up park. That's the bellied up podcast and tell them to call in here. I want to get, we want to get Brad's take on this. He could be a very normal guy and you could just not only be telling us the craziest things. It's kind of like a, a, at a Helms on the hangover. He's a dentist, total normal guy. But then when he starts drinking, he turns and he's got demons. He's a total wild. Yeah.

I feel like that's Brad. Yeah. Right. I don't think Brad's a bad guy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we appreciate you calling in today. I think, uh, you know, it's nice to know that other people got Brad's in their friend group, you know, it's nice to know that other people got Brad's in their friend group, you know, it's a grand equalizer. So thanks for calling in, man. We appreciate it. Good luck hunting and good luck with the old upper deck situation. Oh, absolutely. Thank you boys. Shoot them straight. My guy. You watch for deer now. All right. You too. Now shoot lower than you think. They crouch. I gotta say, I would like to drink with Brad. It sounds like a good time. I mean, yeah, it's kind of like, so you get a Brad and they're either like a great time or they're like, they hit that peak and you're like,

I can't handle it. Yeah. It's like a sweet spot. Brad, you're thinking, and then he falls off the ledge and you're like, all right, time to get them home. Yeah. That much energy. Don't get them an Uber on your account. That's how your star rating goes down and you're paying 200 bucks for a cleaning. Yeah. And with a Brad, it might not just be the vomit in the backseat. Oh yeah. Yeah. Man to get kicked out of a bar for getting them, you know, whatever he was getting. And then a sloppy toppy. And then I, this next

week just do some and losing your wallet. I mean, I mean, these are clearly college buddies and Brad fell victim of associative regression. I'm a what? Associative regression. What the hell? So when you are associating with people, you regressed to how you used to act when you used to hang out with them. Oh, that's why I'm such a jerk when I'm around my family. Correct. Yeah. Act like you did when you were 12. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I act like a big brother. I like that. That's fun. So I can just blame it on that. Brad's back in freshman year college when he's in lacrosse. Yeah. Sorry, honey. It was associate regression. What do you want me to do? I have a disease on Tik TOK saying they have time blindness. It's like, no, you're

just a piece of shit. It shows up late. That's me. I didn't know I could say time. Yeah. Time blindness. Get a doctor's note and then you'd be late for anything you want. That's hilarious. Well, should we take another one? Let's do it, dude. Let's do it. Charlie miles. Every mid westerner knows him and loves him. Who the shorts guy during winter? Who the shorts guy? Oh, the guy who wears shorts all winter long. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know him and love him.

We all have a shorts guy. Cargo shorts could be negative 10 degrees. Doesn't matter. Just calves out. And his excuses always. I run a little hot. Yeah, you know. Yeah, it's kind of like my uncle. You run a little hot. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's kind of like my

uncle. He just sweats sitting there. Yeah. And, uh, you know, he's got, he's pretty brave going out in the winter without the shorts on. Yeah. You can get frostbite that way. You're going to have that frost Jack Frost, just nipping at your ankles. And I think that, uh, I think we should do a little toast to the shorts guy. Toast to the shorts guy. Midwest winter shorts guy. We salute your bravery. We shoot. We salute your service. And cheers to that.

Tip it on back shorts guy. You're an inspiration to us all. All right, friends. Listen up. Listen right. This snow is falling and the holiday season is in full swingers, but winter comes the chance with winter, excuse me, with the winter comes the chance of slipping and sliding and ripping and riding on the ice and doing the Midwest tango Midwest, Tiddly Tango. You could get a hurt shovel in the driveway. You could get hurt walking up some steps. You could get a hurt shovel in the driveway. You could get hurt

walking up some steps. You could get hurt if there's not enough, uh, um, melt snow melt ice melt on the concrete. And if that happens, Nikolai laws, your guy, all right, they're going to save you the legal addicts. Now you got an injury. Someone's got to pay for that. Okay. And you pay for the insurance for this reason, but the insurance companies are going to be like, nah, screw you. That's where Nikole law comes in. Cause those insurance companies just like spend their money on their stupid commercials. Although I do like the gecko ones. Those are fun.

Anyways, call Nikole law. He'll get you the money you deserve. So those insurance companies put money where they should put it to you, not to their super bowl ads and their golf tournaments and their golf tournaments. Yeah. That's good. And everything else. They're nonprofits. Anyways, guys, give Nikolai a call and watch for deer. Welcome to the belly to podcasts. Who are we talking to? This is a, you better guy. And they keep it going. What was that? Sorry. You cut out. I'm calling from foreign down to back roads. You better guy. And they keep it going. Yeah. Yeah. The keeper going fellow. First time listener, long time caller. How you boys doing? We're doing good. How are you? Oh man, I'm in a pickle. I'm trying to find an excuse to get out of this little company picnic and I only got about 30 minutes.

Okay. All right. Well, where do you work? Uh, and just a little family business that delivers foreign and stuff like that to new bills. But man, I don't care about hanging around with any of them. I just want to get my work done, go home and I don't need a pat on the back and need a few extra dollars. They don't have money to give you more, but they are throwing a pizza party. Is that basically? Well, they think it's fancy cause it's crabs prefer pizza actually. Oh, this is a, this is a, a crab boil picnic. Is that what you're saying? Nobody said, yeah, out at the warehouse. And I'm like, Jesus, it's Friday. I want to go

home and have some beers and get this shit over. No, you need to understand it's all about company culture and it's not about, you know, giving people money so that they can live happily. It's about just throwing a pizza party or a crab boil. And that's just a bandaid that you can slap on culture. Well, I'll tell you what, if I was promised someone, their leg, I'd be happy to go. So you're not, you're not a crab guy. I mean, I like it, but I'm not going to sit there and bust them open. I mean, maybe that's the trick of getting people to stay there.

They chose a food that it just takes so long to eat one damn piece of it. If you were to tell your boss something right now, like, and you couldn't get fired, what would it be? Oh, it probably I ain't a damn mover moving all that shit out of their store up in the Vienna fucking killed me for two weeks, took me off the job. And I mean, they were just trying to throw loose shit of mirrors. They took everything as building lights, mirrors, baths and sinks. Cause they don't even own the place. They're like, you know how much money we put into this? I'm like, why would you do that? You don't own this fucking place. So that was a headache. I'd probably tell them, don't do that shit again.

I feel like you should be running this company. I don't even fully quite get what you guys do, but I feel like I would follow him into war. I feel like miles might get the idea cause he built his house. Did you show up when the foreign guy would deliver in the foreign or when they were installing it. I died. That's a luxury vinyl planks. Oh, I got some LVP. Oh yeah. I'm a millennial. That's all I do. I'm a millennial. I do luxury vinyl plank, white cabinets, white painted brick and white walls. And that's, that's about it. Oh, Jesus. Sounds like an asylum in there.

Do that. Well, you're going to build a house. All your torn money, Charlie. I'm, I'm too busy. I was doing my own plumbing and I flooded my place. So now I'm learning how to be a carpenter to fix my wood floors. That's where my money's going, man. You gotta just get some LVP. I might get some LVP after you see this wood buckle.

Good God. Yeah, wood and water, man. They don't go together, I'll tell you that much. And neither does carpet. No'll tell you that much. So, and needed as carpet. No, yeah, that's even worse. So you're just, you're just getting mistreated here is what it sounds like. You're not getting the money that you do.

Do you want, what do you want? You want more money? You want more credit? What drives you? I'm more money be nice. It's mostly like, leave me the hell alone. If I'm out on deliveries, when I finish them, because I don't, you know, I actually do my work and go home. You know, I don't try to milk it or nothing like that. I just, a few more bucks would be nice and not

doing shit. It's not my job. I'll get a phone call like, hey, we need you to pick up these toilets. I'm like, well, I'm two states away. So I don't know how I'm supposed to do that today. But it's just, it's crazy. They need another truck driver. We got another truck, but the door doesn't work on it. So I guess he'd get that fixed for another driver. There's some problems at this company. I can tell we're just scratching the surface. This company kind of reminds me of my dad's company a little bit, but he ain't ever doing any culture building. He ain't having a pizza party. He do. He'll do a Chris. He does do a Christmas party once a year at the bowling alley. Oh yeah. And then he gives them the way he gets them to show up is that he hands out the bonus checks at the party. Otherwise,

I don't know if they'd show up. That is a good question. Dave's story about a Christmas party. Dave Christmas, but you know, Dave's kind of, he doesn't love social events too much. So he, yeah, he's a, he'll show up. He's kind of like you, honestly. You might be the Dave of your crew. He'll show up. He's kind of like you, honestly. You might be the Dave of your crew. He'll show up. He'll drink some beers and then at home. But one year, I do got a video somewhere, him bowling a strike at the bowling alley. Really? Yeah. And he acted like it was no big deal. Just walked right away. Yep. Like ready to go home. Yeah. Come on. That was a good excuse. What can I tell them? It's about I've been

on the phone with you guys for a while. About 22 minutes until it starts and I'm probably 30 minutes away from it. I stopped at a food line and for about 30 minutes and they asked me why because I got GPS track and I got to take shit or to John was filled. Oh yeah. GPS tracking is tough. That's so you want just an excuse to get out of this party. Is that what you're looking for? Yeah, cuz it sucks where I had to go park the work truck at the warehouse They're having it at and then I got to sneak around the other side to my pickup and then try to drive by them without them Noticing. Okay. I mean No, you got you. So you're at the

place you're supposed to be dropping a deuce, right? No, I actually left there and now I'm just sitting on the side of the road. I don't want to lose cell service. Nope. I'm in the back roads right now. Okay. Stay right there. Stay right there and talk to us. You're good. What you're gonna tell them is that you ate something terrible and it couldn't even wait. You just had to stop by the side of the road and it took you a while to find the right number of leaves to finish your situation up.

Then they're not gonna wanna be anywhere near you. Just use the very simple, I am sick, it might be contagious. You say, I don't know if it's food poisoning or something contagious, but I want you guys to find out. Lock and load. Well, the problem is he's got to go to the warehouse to drop the truck off to get his personal rig. No, I get it. But he's saying he's texting them and they'll see on the GPS that he stopped on the side of the road. So they know that this is an emergency. What else is he doing on the side of the road. So they know that this is an emergency. What else is he doing on the side of the road?

Well, I was saying, just go to the party, do something memorable right away, and then you just Irish goodbye and you get the hell out of there. And then everyone will be talking about something that you did so they all know you were there. But it's good, whatever he does has to be super distracting in the corner so they're all looking at it,

so they don't look at his car driving away Yeah, so you need a diversion The thing I'm thinking is gonna have is gonna be just my luck because they're doing a company picture and I feel like Soon as I pull my pickup truck and I'm heading away. They're gonna take the picture and my trucks gonna be in the background leaving At least you'll make the picture. Stick your head out the window. I mean, bad idea. Mike, see, I was in it.

What are y'all bitching about? Well, hey, all right, before I let you go, because I do have to get down the road, the taking a dump on the side road. Been a good idea, but they can see I'm right next to the school. So they probably like, what the hell were you doing in the school doing that? But I got a buy a sell and trade for Charlie. Yes, please. What do you got? How much would you give me for you bet your canvas? Are you bet you canvas fast? Like the one I got hanging in my basement right now? How about I trade your mind for years? No, you're got plumbing water all over that.

What would I give you? What would I give you? I will give you, you want me to go up? Is it? How much is that? Whatever you're going to say, go up. Wait, hold on Charlie. They're on sale right now. Take that in the effect. How much? 39 99 for a canvas vest. All right. All right. I will give you welcome for the plug. Thank you very much. You want to do, Hey, you want a new job? I mean, you guys have your own truckers delivering stuff. No, but we can figure it out. I like the sound of it. All right. I know why I'm going to give you, I'll give you, I'll give you a free tickets. Where do you live again? Where are you at? I live in Virginia. Oh, how far away is York, Pennsylvania?

I don't have a map. That's too far to go and too many Eagles fans. Yeah, that's true. All right. Well, listen, I will, I'll send you, are you a Packers fan? I like the Packers where the Redskins were doing terrible but now Jay Daniels kind of brought me back.

Are you a fishing fan? Oh, I love fishing. Actually, you know what Charlie? Can I buy your old fashioned online? Cause my mom's looking for a good old fashioned. She can't find nothing she likes. All right, I'll send you some brandy. And I end up drinking it all.

How does that sound? That'd be sweet, I'll pay for it too buddy. No, we're doing a trade. You send me Miles' best. I'm gonna get your address from Jake and then you see that return address. You send me that vest, all right? And I'll put in the vest I have of Miles's

and I'll sign that sucker. All right. Yeah, and I'll put that in a packet. That'd be sweet. Awesome, boy. Fantastic. We'll text you for your address, man. And yeah, thanks for calling in. Good luck with the company. Absolutely. Jesus. I forgot about it for a second. All

right. Love you guys. You guys take it easy. Don't drink too much. All right. Watch for dear you either. Good guy. Great guy. What was his name again? Did he ever tell us the say on there? What he came out firing, dude. He came out firing. He's so on our other podcast. Few episodes ago, you bet your radio found raw podcast and we found her. Oh yeah. I've heard of it. We talked about that. A not so fun job, the camaraderie, morale, job site comedian makes it all worth it. I think he's gotta be the job site comedian. He's gotta be the morale guy. Yeah, it's crazy.

You also think too about building a company and a culture, you know? Because if you're the head of the company, you're probably like, how do I even do this, you know? But how am I supposed to please that guy? And also Jane, you know, the secretary. It turns out if you just pay them more, that's how you do it.

Right? But then aren't there some people that just like, I don't know, I feel like there's so many opinions in a company, you can't really win. You're always gonna have one or the other. Yeah, you don't know, I feel like there's so many opinions in a company, you can't really win. You're always going to have one or the other. Yeah, you don't start a company to be liked by everyone, Charlie. I guess that's the case. Yeah.

I guess that's the case. Anyways, should we do another caller? No, I think that's the end of the episode. Oh, time flies like a banana. Miles, this has been just so much fun. Thank you for making this a very special episode of the Belly It Up podcast. You're welcome, John.

And I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day, Miles. And to all our listeners, I hope you guys stay smooth, stay fun, and keep her moving. And tip your bartender. And tip your bartender. We'll see you guys the next one. Love you guys. Love you guys.