Bellied Up - Florida Man Needs Ice Fishing Advice #84

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

Our first caller is a school teacher in New York who is experiencing an uncomfortable situation with her ex. The next caller is a Florida man who is going to brave the cold and go ice fishing; he needs some pointers. The last caller is debating whether or not to coach little league baseball in Indiana. Get yourself a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hat Want us to come to your bar for a Bellied Up episode? Click ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Here⁠ Check Out Myles' other Podcast ⁠You Betcha Radio⁠ Check Out Charlie's other Podcast ⁠Cripescast

Welcome to another episode of the Belly It Up Podcast. Everybody, I'm here with Charlie. Hey, folks, my name is Charlie Barons and I, and the co-host here on the Belly It Up Podcast. It's an honor to be here. We are at Mix Office here in Morehead, Minnesota again. Charlie, there's a lot of writing on the wall. A lot of writings on the wall.

I guess the writings on the wall here. I guess the writing is on the wall. There's writing on the bar top. Miles, remember that one time we were at that one bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, when every dollar had some written on it and we played a game where you had to organically integrate something.

Should we do that again? Should we do it again? Should we do that again? Should we do that again? I think we should do it. I think we should do it. So let me, while you're looking, I'll explain the game to the audience who may not have seen that. So I have to pick something for you. You pick something that you

have to organically weave in. But I pick something for you, though, and you pick one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so basically you pick a word that the other person has to organically integrate into a caller. Can we pick symbols because if we can I want to pick the don't right? No. Oh, this thing. Okay, I got yours. Okay. All right. I got a good one. So basically what did you explain it that we're going to pick a phrase and then we have

to sometime throughout the episode work in to it that phrase. And what happens if we don't, Charlie, is this a bed? Yeah, if you don't, if you don't, you got to pick up the tab. Yeah. Okay. That sounds good. I found yours. My house. I found yours. Okay. What is it, Charlie? You got to come down here and read it. Where? Right here. This one? Nope. It says, cox sandwich. Which could be a chicken sandwich if you think about it. So I don't know why I got to work in cox sandwich. What do I have to work in? You have to work in this right here.

All right. Yamama's Paul's. Ha ha in this right here. All right, Yamama's balls. All right, all right. So I'm doing you mama's balls and I have cocksam. Okay, and we have the whole episode to get these in. Otherwise, someone's picking up the tab. I know a couple of the ones that were actually good and one liners, but it was going to be too easy for you.

I almost went with I have a hard time making friends. Oh, yeah, I almost went with I have a hard time making friends. Oh yeah. I almost went with five bucks as five bucks. Oh that's good. That's a great, that's a hat right there. Yeah, five bucks is five bucks. All right, your mama's balls. Let's do it, let's get into the episode baby.

Hi there, welcome to the Belly to a podcast. Where we chit chat with. Hey, it's Kristen. How are you? Kristen. Kristen, we're doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good.

Thank you. Thank you for asking. Where are you from, Kristen? Where are you calling him from? Well, I'm calling in from Connecticut, actually. Okay. And what I do, what I am from the upper peninsula of Michigan. Well, I got a youper. Hey, happy national Michigan day. Yeah, do you know what's a national Michigan day?

I couldn't know that. All I know is that November 15th is the opening day of the year season. And it's a real big deal where I'm well we're all from I guess right yeah yeah cool clothes and everything and when I move to the east coast everyone looks at me like I was crazy when I told them that and and that I had to take Hunter safety in order to graduate high school they were like what it's important to know how to hold a shotgun. You're right. Well, you're not you're not crazy. They're crazy. Okay. I mean, that's kind of what I like. I've been living on the East Coast, but I'm really a Midwest girl. And you know, people think that like when I bring an appetizer to a party, they're like, what is this? And I'm like, it's you per sushi.

It's like, you know, where you take the ham and then you put the cream cheese in the pickle and then you cut it. Yeah, you per sushi. It's so good. You know what, Kristen? I'm almost, I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know about that. Come on.

I'm not about it either. I mean, I am just, It sounds delicious. I've had it. I've had it. I'm not going to be a big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big Yeah, Keir. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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how in the good gravy do you really break up with someone when you don't want to hurt their feelings and they just Never ever ever want to leave you This is a classic Midwest relationship problem, Kristen. I'm glad you brought it up Yeah, don't are you dating the fella currently? No, and I haven't for a very long time and And like it's no one's really getting the memo because you know everyone where I live on the East Coast or Kutthroat they're like just talking or whatever right but you know when people need something you know like a casserole or you know a ride or anything I'm happy to do it for literally anybody

but you know, I don't hate anybody. I I just you know, they just keep coming back. It's If I don't know if I'm picking up if I'm picking up what you're putting down Christians that you've got this guy that you dated perhaps and this fella you are not interested in but the fella knows he is he is taking advantage of your Midwest niceness and knows that you guys can still be quote unquote friends and he's using this to his advantage to see you but you are over it and when he sees you and you are doing something nice for him, he kind of brings up the romantic feelings again in that interaction. Is this accurate? Yes. Okay. So it's, it, it, yeah.

Give us backstory. Tell us what his name is and where you met him. Kind of paint the picture for us. I had met, I met him. Oh my gosh, three years ago. And I met him on a dating app. Which one? I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a

student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I have basically go back to Michigan. And there I am by good old Lake Superior and he wipes me and I'm like, oh this is great, right? And we start talking and he said, well,

I'm going to go to a Yankee game this weekend. He won a common. I said, well, I'm in this again. And he said, well, I'll buy you a flight. And of course, my grandma, he's like, oh my God, honey, are you going to go to the big city on a date? What if something happens to you? I said, come out. The game is really only 50 minutes for my house. I'm not scared. I'll just take a Uber back home or hang out

with my friend in the city. I don't care. It's not like, you know, for my grandma, it's like big stuff. And so we hit it off. We had a really great time. And then I guess my first red flag was, um, we were walking to Grand Central. And I was holding this hand in the face of life. It stopped holding your hand now because my wife might say it.

And I was like, what? What? What? What? He's like, well, I'm technically married. But I'm going through a divorce. Well, long story short, his divorce has taken him a real long time, like years.

So I kind of like to solve the relationship, started dating other people, which was really, really, really great. And then, you know, he just came out of nowhere, and he loved bombs me again. And he told me that he's divorced, all of these things. And then I broke another man's heart

because I was like, oh, I went back to him, thinking everything was gonna be great and fine. And it turns out it's just the same old stuff. And you know, it's like I love the guy to death like as a human, right? Like as a friend, but like as a boyfriend, no. And so, I don't know, it's just very complicated

because he's like always right there. Yeah. Wherever I go. Okay. So you're wondering how to really just break it off with him. Mm-hmm. Okay, I got one, we can throw out there, we can spit ball a little bit, Charlie,

but I'll throw the first one here. Do you want to role play it? Do you want her to be him or me to be him and you to be her? Yeah, let's do that. All right. Who do you want to be? Him? You want me or her to be here?

Okay. All right. Hi. Hey, how's it going? Oh, I just wanted to tell you I love. I was thinking about today in my journaling, my morning journaling session. And I was just writing, um, I was just trying to write from the heart. And all I was thinking about today in my journaling, my morning journaling session, and I was just writing, I was just trying to write from the heart,

and all I was writing was just imagining waking up, the sun glistening over the Hudson River and just seeing its sparkle in your eyes as they lightly open and you look over at me, and I tell you, I love you, Kristen. Well, thank you for that. You're welcome. That was really, really sweet.

Say, I love the way your butt looks in the beginning. You shouldn't talk like that one. We're in public here because my husband might overhear you. You have a husband. That's perfect, Kristen. I have a wife. Maybe backfire. Don't do that one. I was going to say you just throw back at him, right? In the time, the last three years, you acquired a husband and you throw back in his face a little bit. But you're right. That might not work out, Charlie, because he's already on board with that.

Yeah. I think you could get more direct to the point Kristen here my turn to role play you I'll play Kristen you play the guy. What's up baby cakes? Um, I've got some I want to ask you Yeah, go ahead. I just I love you by the way. That's fine. I'm your hot. Okay. Thank you And you're my favorite person to go to the end stop love bombing me Seriously, stop it if you really loved me Okay, thank you. I'm your my favorite person. You're the stop love bombing me seriously. Stop it If you really loved me answer me this question are you still with your wife? Wow

Technically don't give me your mama's balls. Don't give me that technically Terrible don't talk about my mama's boss. Oh, well don't be married and start talking to me. We're done. Don't talk about my mama's ball. Oh, well, don't be married and start talking to me. We're done. We're done. See? Just throw a little, your mama's balls and then we're off the hook. Christian, what do you think about that?

I think it's a good, I mean, I've utilized this strategy. And you know, I actually want to take his wife apartment shopping. This is like where I'm at. I have a real problem. I'm like, I should help her find an apartment. See, they're, they still are married. They're not divorced. Well, they have been, it's the, it's the weirdest, longest divorce I've ever known in my life.

And I feel real bad for harder. I do. I feel really bad for harder. I do. I feel really bad for her. How many dates have you been on with this guy? I guess. Well, several. Like 100. Like, possibly more.

Yeah. More than 100 dates. Well, Chris, then at this point, you might be a little bit on the complicit side, you know? You've been dancing with the dragon. Every time you're pointing a finger, there's three more pointed right back at you. Yeah. Are you friends? Are you friends with his wife?

No, no, I'm not. Have you met her? I'm not friends with her. Um, not'm not. Have you met her? I'm not friends with her. Um, not, not really. Like I've seen her and I've waved and I smiled and, um, you know, they lived two separate lives and all that. But, you know, I know that. I think she's like nice and stuff.

I mean, not according to him. Yeah, according to other people. Yeah. So I mean, at least though, like, they're both cool with each other dating other people, though, that's an important fact, right? Yeah. I mean, it's the, it's the divorce that never ends like, yeah, they, I mean, it's like three years of free long, like three years long. Do they have kids?

They do. Insta mom. Yeah. Do you like it? That's the biggest prop. I love this, Phil Jen. But, you know, I also, I love everybody's children, really. I'm a teacher.

I would take a mom home with me if I could. Well, don't do that you might have the cops showing up to your house I would recommend not taking everyone's kids home. Christian when was the last time you would say you were exclusive with this fella? Long time ago like months. Month ago are you dating anyone else now? No. No, so you still got some lingering feelings for this guy. I'm starting to get the census isn't just a you're being midwest nice. I think that you kind of...

No, in terms of the actual relationship, that ship has failed. It's very long time ago. I realize that it's like it's failed. It's very long time ago. I realized that it's like it's Sales it's far it's gone. You can't even see it in the sunset. Okay, I mean, I care about and I'll make human levels, right? And so He's just in constant crisis and he utilizes that you know as an opportunity Yeah, to get my attention Mm my attention, like you'll make up to take a merge and see you.

Take a merge and see you. Yeah. Well, I, are you not take a merge and see you? Are you a little co-dependent with the fellow, you think? No. Okay. No, I'm actually the opposite. I'm hyper-dependent.

Okay. So I, I don't, yeah,'m hyper independent. Well Charlie. Well, Charlie, I want you to think in your mind, you got your you got a cornhole partner that you play cornhole with. Good guy, right? And you know, he just is kind of losing his fastball a little bit, maybe not hitting the hole as much as you'd like him to. Mm-hmm. How would you go about breaking up with that cornhole partner and maybe she can use the same tactics?

You know, I would just say, um, how are we supposed to be partners when every tournament you're playing against me, you know? That's actually kind of a good line. There you go. That's really good. How about that? That's some good material. What's the crazy thing he has asked for your help in?

Good. Well, literally, he was like, you see one time he was just like, there's an emergency, there's an emergency. I need you to like do something with my kids. And there was like, what? What's the emergency? What needs to be done? And there was, it was like a fake emergency. And I was like, I? What's the emergency? What needs to be done? And there was, it was like a fake emergency.

And I was like, I don't understand what's happening. What I actually don't understand what you need for me. Or there was another time I was teaching. And I opened the door to my school. And there he was with a white flag, a makeshift white flag with like his big apology in front like my students are like, what's happening? Who is that? And I'm like, I don't know. This is very creepy. Why? You ever seen the show you?

Yeah, this is like you, you ever see that show the stalker? Do you think he's stalk ever see that show? The stalker. Do you think he's stalking you? I don't think so. Do you think he's listening to us right now? Maybe he's got your phone. Well, or kids, not just like one, like 12 of them. I was like, like full blown or kids, like the big one. I was like, ah, what the, and yeah, I mean, there's been, there's been like, you know, he just, he just, you know, I don't know. So I think he's not, I think the problem here is is that you're always leaving the door open,

responding to his messages. I think if there's an emergency, you kind of just need to be okay with the fact that someone else has got to deal with his emergency. Maybe his wife, not your monkey, not your circus. Exactly. And so I would even say that all the time. Well, you guys start living it. Yeah. Practice what you preach a little bit here. So I think you got to block them. And if he sends you stuff in the mail, just send it right back.

Don't accept it. And then over time, I think he'll get the hint. Maybe not because he sounds a little stalker-ish, but that's maybe a first step. And then over time, I think you'll get the hands. Maybe not because he sounds a little stalkerish, but that's maybe a first step. What'd you say, Charlie? I'd say so. Yeah. What does he do for a living, by the way? Yeah. He does. He fell stuff, like corporate boring, boring, boring. All right. I know. I love people are always like, well, who is it? I was like, well, I dated this one guy at work in a junkyard in Michigan.

And it's like, then I dated a guy that comes gas. That's how I met. And he called my guy. In Jersey. And then no, I didn't know in Michigan. Like the guys I dated in Michigan were so different. Like, it's like, I used to be able to work in a junkyard. It was so fun.

I would drive the big semi's and like the big magnet. I'd take a car and you know with a big magnet and put it in a crusher. It was so. Wait, were you working there? Did your boyfriend just let you do that? No, my so one of my old boyfriend's. They owned a junkyard. It was so fun.

It was so I could drive them eyes and stuff. That's go date that guy. I would say I think the real, real solution here, Charlie, you got move back. Move back. They got schools and Michigan. It's national Michigan day. There's no other sign in the universe. You know us, Charlie, we're

into Toro cards now. We're all about we are. We are. The destiny, the, it's written in the cards, as they say, it's in the cards. And I think it's in the cards for you to move back to Michigan. Yeah. Salier place. Move on back. Kristen, we're happy to help you. Thank you. Yeah. I plan on back. Kristen, we're happy to help you. Thank you.

Yeah. I plan on moving back home, actually. Now's the time, baby. I mean, not anytime soon, but no one now's the time. Go back to the junk. I know you can take the girl out of the you, but you can't take the you fun of the girl. I love it.

Put that on a shirt, Charlie. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. All right. Well, we appreciate you calling Charlie. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. All right. Well, we appreciate you calling in. Good luck with your stalker. And we'll see you at Michigan sometime soon. Yeah.

We'll bring that up. You pursue she. You're back, Jack. All right. Real good. Oh, well. OK, thanks, guys. Bye, Kristen.

Great gal. Don't yuck my yum. She, she's great tough situation, man. I know Yeah, you can see why that married fellow really took a a like endure You know, that's great gal. Incredible. Should we take another caller? Let's do it. Welcome to the belly to podcasts who we talking to Hey, what's going on guys? Because I'm going to do a Raymond. Raymond. Yes, how are you guys? Good.

How are you doing, Raymond? You're good. Yeah, we're here. Where you calling in from my guy? I'm calling from Melbourne, Florida. I actually talked to you guys about probably a year and a half ago or so. Oh, yeah. Yeah, what were we talking about?

Last time we were talking about, I was looking for a grill. You guys were giving me a bite of a grill. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Now I recall, good, good to have you back at the bar Raymond. Belly on up and tell us what's on your mind this time. Well, I just wanted to buy the old bowling chain. It's actually doing a year of internship in Austin, New York, close to Lake Ontario. So, since living in Florida, we never actually get close enough

to the point of actually frozen lakes or frozen water. Thank you. So, you know, she's up there for the winter. So, looking for Somah Bay. I want to try ice cream for the first time. So I want to see you guys have some of ice for me. Oh, we've got some advice, man. Excited for you. You got to be stoked because this is a beautiful tradition in the Midwest and in upper points of the East Coast. So yeah, well, Charlie, why don't you start off with what are the

three things every newbie to ice fishing should know about three things are this first and foremost, you got to wear very, very warm clothes. Okay, it's going to get cold out there. You're going to be dealing with the elements and the wind and the nice thing about the big clothes you're going to be wearing a lot of pockets. And in those pockets, you're going to be dealing with the elements and the wind and the nice thing about the big clothes you're going to be wearing, a lot of pockets. And in those pockets, you're going to be putting some beers, some typical, a little something to keep you going, okay, because most of ice fishing is sitting there looking at the ice. And there's nothing that makes a nice whole more interesting than a nice cold one. All right.

So don't go out there empty handed. All right. Okay. Next tip, miles, I'll bring a 30 rack of a bush light. All right. What a mile. Yeah. Yeah.

You better. What's nice is nature is your fridge out there too. You just slap those babies in the snow and their ice cold. Mm hmm. Miles, what's your next piece? I know that I know you guys make the sometimes I make those babies in the snow and their ice cold. Miles, what's your next piece of it? I know that I know you guys make the, sometimes I make those videos of the ice fishing, but I don't think, you know,

so the first time I don't think I want to drive a vehicle in there, so I'm probably just gonna go and, you know, walk a couple, a couple hundred yards from the shore but not support and you know. Okay, so you're gonna go bucket style, you're gonna bring a bucket out there, sit on down and drop your line in. Is that what the plan is? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Look up the ice report too. Now when you're ice fishing on the Great Lakes, you got to remember this that the ice is a little bit different historically than what it has been. There's a lot of wind, there's warmer

water, winter comes later in the year, and there is the chance that your ice sheet will break off. And then you'll go on your no longer ice fishing on some solid ice, you're now in a boat. Okay. So if you can bring yourself a little outboard engine to steer that ice back to solid land, that would be a good thing to do. Yeah, you're no longer ice fishing. Like the global island fishing, you know. Yeah. Like this couple guys last year, where was it Michigan? Yeah. It has broke off and they were out there for a couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah, it happens every year, man, the Bay of Green Bay, you know, so especially your first time out and on the, if you're

on a big body of water, you want to make sure you know the ice report and don't bring anything out there that you're, you're too precious with unless you're bringing an outboard engine, then you drill a hole. If you break off, you stick that outboard on that. And you're pure at it. You're right in. Yeah. It's great. Second advice. Yeah. Um, and then the third miles you want to take. Yeah, I would say you're going to want a really long extension cord. And you're going to want to bring a pizza oven out there with some frozen pizzas, because you're going to get hungry. And you want to have to be walking back and forth

to the truck, just get that extension cord, roll it on out there, cook up some pizzas. You're probably going to have some fellow fisherman that are going to get a waft of that beautiful pizza. Then it's a great way to make new friends while you're out there too. Very good. Just don't drop, don't drop that pizza oven into the water. Otherwise, you're going to kill your new friends. But a lot of fish will come floating to the top. So, you know, whoever survives. It's going to be given take it. Yeah, it is. Yeah. If anything, I just go on Facebook Marketplace and try to find a thousand dollar ice fish and castle. Hopefully with no mold. And, you know, take it out there. Yeah.

Right, Miles? Yeah, that seems like a very specific example. What, uh, did you hear about that? Do you know anyone with a moldy ice castle? Well, I actually just took it to the dump. So RIP, big blue. Wait, so we bought, uh, we bought a thousand dollar old camper that was converted into an ice house.

So literally they just drilled holes in the floor of the camper. Beautiful. It was great. It was painted blue on the outside. And it was awesome because we got it in the winter. We took it out in the winter. We caught some fish, drank a lot, all that. And then we were going to make some improvements to it.

We brought it inside and everything started melting. And we found out that it was just littered with mold in all of a sudden. Yeah, the smell started coming in. And it basically should have been shut down by some sort of toxic waste place. So we had to retire it. No one should be in that thing.

You did the right thing. Now what you can do to avoid that is you can get what they call a tuber. And my buddy Larry Smith, he's a fishing guide on Lake Winnebago. Good guy look him up and look in the go ice fishing and Wisconsin this year. But he's got himself an old, I want to say it's a suburban. And basically what you just do is you drill two holes in the bottom of that similar to your ice castle. And then you can just drive out on the ice, Parker put a little tube extension into the ice and just fish from the back of your automobile.

So long as I hit the gas tank, I think it will be fine. Yeah, you do want to make sure you know where you're drilling. Yeah, don't do that. That'd be bad. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it's honestly, I think a sawsaw job, really.

Well, I don't know what I've never done it. So, I don't know what you would use, but get an old one because it's easier to understand the mechanics and definitely don't do it with an old truck deal. You'll drill right through the battery. Yeah, that will be bad. Yeah.

Also, I mean, you know, since the old bowling chain is up there, I'm going and visiting her from, you know, from Florida last couple of months, I was actually just up there last this past weekend. We can't. We went to see some family and then we back, we got just up there last this past weekend. We came, we went to see some family and then we got back up there on Sunday, the temperature dropped from 50 something on Friday to below 35 Sunday night. So we got out of the car and he was just, he was a shock. And you know, every time I just remember like, is that the that is that a call that gets you to win? Yeah, that's when you can really do that. Well, that's my second advice. If you're going to be sitting on a bucket out there you're not going to be used to that wind out there. So you might want to invest in a pop-up.

Nice pop-up would be good. The other thing with the pop-up is they pop down and that's when you can drag all your stuff on it. Yep. So you put your pocket in. Also I'm not going to let you escape by the fact you said that 35 degrees is cold. Yeah. It's not going to get a lot colder. You're not in Florida anymore, Raymond. It's, uh, we're right right now. It's 43 and I came in in a T-shirt and jeans, so and he was sweating. Oh, God.

Yeah. How you guys think what's going to happen? We're in Minnesota right now, but damn near North Dakota. South. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah. I know I mean, you can remember you when I landed back in Monday, he was 80 degrees out of the airport. Yeah, whatever everybody that came out of that plane for most of the was wearing a big hoodie or a big jacket and jeans. And then you get out of the parking lot and you start to sweat and every time. Yeah. Yeah. I know it compared to where it is. I know the temperature can get a thing a lower, but it's definitely the wind, you know, it's definitely the wind. It's definitely the wind that will get you.

Yeah. One other piece of advice, make sure you don't drop your phone in the hole. That would be tough. You forget it sitting on your lap. I don't know. I remember it's not locked my keys out of the car. So I think I have to have somebody

wait for a triple aid to come and lock my car, right, Charlie? Yeah. Wow. This guy is well at first in our antics. Well first. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

That is. I feel like that was on you. Backshans podcast. So, do you have any questions for us as a first time icefisher. Well, I think it was just, you know, the waiting time, how long, you know, and to what time do you, from what time do you get there and to what time if you don't catch anything, you're like, okay, and maybe time to head back if I'm not catching anything. Well, you're always catching beers. So you can just stay out there until your toes get cold. And by the way, you should bring some hand warmers and stick them in your boots.

And don't tie your boots too tight. You need all the circulation you can get flowing through your feet. A lot of people make the mistake of tying their boots too tight and they can't feel their feet. You got to let some air, you know, let them feet breathe and then put hand warmers on the top of your toes. Also, if you... I don't have a chair in the chair, but yeah, go ahead. Okay, you should get these spikes. There is a spike necklace you can wear. It's got two little hand spikes on them. And if you have fall through the drink, okay?

Don't freak out, breathe. All right, you're gonna be at the point of hypothermia and then pull out those two spikes and just spread them out far as far as your arms can go and just kind of pull yourself up and spread your weight around the ice and kind of roll back on the ice like a big old seal. All right.

Don't laugh at me. You ever fall through the this could save Raymond's life here. I'm laughing because it was a funny example. Yeah. Pretty specific. Well, if you fall through the you got to know that, you know, we just saved it life here on the back.

Make sure the ice is thick enough, too. Well, That's another thing. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to go with ice racing in three inches of ice like they got from Utah last week. Yeah, don't do that. The first time going out in three. Yeah. Give her, give her out. He's six. I was asked here. Six inches. I'd save for you,

just to be safe on that big old body of water. I don't know, man. That's a lot of that's six things to the lab, but I'll wait on it. You were you were you were making the comment about the food. I was asking you, Derek was there because then I'm just going to show up on on crocs or flip flops like you did last year, right? I'm Jared's right. What do you think of that? I've upgraded since. Yeah. I've got probably mistakes. Yeah. Jared just rolled up to ice fishing in flip flops. That's what's that's where they

crock. So they're just shitty boots from Amazon. Yeah. All right, man. Well, this has been great, great talking to you again and good luck ice fishing. That's going to be fun. And make sure you stay warm out there. Yeah. Do it indeed. And we'll talk. I'll go ahead. I did have one more question before you, before I let you guys go. Yeah. When you guys first started the podcast, you guys made a table that, you know, you was always that jump that it took four hours to make the table and then after that I get with a one or two we never saw that table. Yeah, thanks for bringing it up.

We're going to send you some merch and then. We're going to send them the table. We're going to send you the table. No, it's still at my office. It just we pivoted. That's a classic pivot move by us. We figured, why are we making a bar when there's so many great bars around the Midwest

that we can just go in and not have to walk in. I did every time that I did, you know. And you're going to have been trying to work and all that and that's kind of hard to talk. But every time I lift the bar gas and you go throw a high different bars, I'm like, I wonder what happened with a table that took four hours and a couple of caves down to soup farms to build.

Yeah, you're just going to an answer now. So, now for that tomorrow, I'll die, you know, I'll die comfortably knowing that the table is still alive. And, to be honest, it probably was longer than four hours to be. Yeah, that was four hours of filming. Yeah, footage. Yeah, always look at the bottom of a piece of wood you buy. See if they pre-screwed your screw holes.

Oh, that was dumb. Yeah, that was dumb. Oh, okay, good. Can't take us anywhere. Well, thanks for calling in, man. Good talking to you again. Nothing. Thank you guys. Of course. thank you for taking a call. All right. You're right.

And great guy. Real good guy. Second time call or always has great insight, great inquisitive questions. Um, remembers everything. He's a steel trap. He knows I imagine what he's going to go on on the ice for the first time He's gonna do the classic like really softly step. Yeah, that's gonna matter at all. Yeah, it's gonna be I wish I could be there for that It was funny Maybe we can and then the first time the ice cracks around like We're taking a color. Let's do it folks, you know what today is today is national Michigan day. And I'm telling all my Michigan friends out there.

I honor you. I salute you today. I tip my glass of tippy cow. And I say today and today only you are the right flowners of the UP. Wow. That was big of you to say it. It expires at midnight. But until then, tip it on back with a tippy cow. give you to say it expires at midnight, but until then tip it on back with a tippy cow. Oh, nothing like what's breaking bread, nothing like tip in tippy cow with with Franck, you know, I'm extending the plate of cheese curds to Michigan right now. Yeah,

essentially, this is just a glass of cheese curds. I really think about it. Cheese curds in a glass. So cheers Michigan. Cheers Michigan. Cheers to the UP. Cheers to the Upers. Mooh. Tippy cow. Whoa.

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And we're actually expecting our first child. Congratulations. Congratulations, little boy. Nice. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And growing up, I was into sports. Everybody was in the sports. I know you were a football player and everything.

And I'd like to eventually get him into, you know, thinking five years ahead of where we actually are, but getting him into youth sports. And there's always this debate about whether you should be a youth sport parent or you should be a youth sport coach. Okay. How involved you should get into that. Okay. So you're wondering I just didn't know if you all had any. Yeah, go ahead. Well, so you're wondering if you should make the leap and fully commit and be a coach as well. Yeah, so you know, it always kind of goes back and forth. You can see it both ways. And it's, you know, I don't want to do anything that can take it evilly.

I've set the relationship that I have with him and everything. You can kind of go too forward with that type of stuff. I just didn't know if y'all had any thoughts on that. Yeah. So what sport are you thinking this kid's going to play? If I had it my way, I'd probably say baseball. I was a baseball guy growing up, you know, doing the little people. Yeah.

I thought you were maybe going to say wrestling. I'd say, you know, doing the little T ball stuff. Yeah, I thought you were maybe going to say wrestling. I'd say, I don't know about that. It's kind of a cock sandwich of a sport. So yeah, it's well, I'm originally from Kentucky, so maybe we'll do a do basketball too. So it just It just just depends on what he's interested in. Miles, what did you say about wrestling? It's got a cox sandwich of a sport. Yeah, that's such a weird thing to say about wrestling. I just can't feel like you just came out of forcing it a little on that one. Oh, yeah. You know, this guy's got his first, he's

his first baby boy into the world. And I mean, you might as well just said, your mama's balls, you know, a no sense. He has no idea what timeout. Okay. So baseball, um, I mean, baseball's got to be the easiest sport to coach on planet earth. I think that's the thing to

remember here. It's a lot of keep your eye on the ball. And that's it. Depends if they're batting, keep die on the ball. If they're trying to catch a pop fly, keep your eye on the ball. That's it. So I don't know. It doesn't sound too hard. What do you think? I mean, I kind of wonder, like what year do you want to start being a coach? Like, because for the first, like I would say until probably third, fourth grade, you're just babysitting, you know? So like, do you want to sign up to be a babysitter or do you want to sign up to develop some young men's baseball skills? Now, so yeah, that's a good point. Now, I'd, I'd like to kind of get involved

whenever it gets a little more competitive, say, you know, like little league or something. So did you say you played baseball as well? I did. Yeah. I played all the way up to high school and then focused on studies after that. I wasn't, I wasn't good enough. Okay. Do you regret it? Classic. I got cut from the team. wasn't, I wasn't good enough. Okay, do you regret? It's a classic. I got cut from the team. So no, I didn't get caught.

I just decided to focus on studies. Wow, here's exactly, yeah, you know. But here's the real question. Do you have regrets? Are you going to be trying to live out your childhood dreams through your boy? Oh, man. You're getting all psychological now.

Yeah, we got to get to the root of why you may want to be a coach. And we got to get your intentions are peer if they're not, you know, you're going to be creating a whole hell storm for all these kids. So we got to figure it out. You think you got a little bit do you want to live through the kid or no? It's not necessarily anything that I want to see him you know achieve it's just I had such a memory that that I'd like to see him go through something similar you know what I'm saying like it brought me a lot of joy and if it's if it's something that he's interested in, I'd like to see him kind

of have some of the same memories that I had growing up because it was kind of a big part of my childhood. And you know, I met a lot of my friends through baseball. And you know, it's just just kind of a big part of who I was growing up. Yeah, you're saying all the right things here. I think you're great coach material. Now now if you would have said, well, yeah, I want my kid to win. Yeah. And maybe we got to walk it back a little bit. Well, that's when it starts getting crazy. Why don't we role play right now? Why don't we do a little role play? All right. You're the coach. And I'm the kid. We're both the players.

We're both the players. We're both the players. You're the coach. Hey coach, hey coach, you wanna hear a joke? They asked your light on me. All right. Okay. What are you doing? This is a good one. It's a good one. I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna do it. Okay, coach. Coach. Coach. Stop it, dude. Sorry, stop it. So coach. So if you go to Chick-fil-A, what are you eating? If you go to Chick-fil-A, what are you eating?

Isn't it your turn to bat? What the hell are you doing in the dugout? What coach? What are you trying to tell jokes now? Like coach? You're trying to bat and now like coach? You're trying to back get a batten. Let's go. Come on coach. Just answer the coach. You're not making baseball any fun right now. Yeah, just making fun. I'll get the bat. All right. So what what what what do I need? What do I eat a chick boy? I don't know. I'm asking you coach. I got a chicken sandwich. No, you have a coxie, which coach, you're not going to tell my mom.

I said that. Are you? Well, I guess we'll see when she gets here. No, coach, we didn't meet. We saw it on a podcast. Yeah, it was a couple of idiots that were at the bar. I'm sorry coach. Yeah, coach. I'll confess it at church. Please don't tell my mom. Please don't tell my mom coach. Can you promise me you're not gonna tell my mom? I'll hit a home run. All right, you had a home run. Then that's gonna be said. All right. Go ahead and hold run, dude. Okay. Keep your eye on the ball. It's Coach, I have a hard time. I feel like I'm scared of the ball.

What, why are you scared of the ball? Well, because it hurts. It's hard baseball. I mean, that's part of the game. Rub a little dirt on it and move on. Coach, what if I get to these? My mom says that there's a lot of germs in dirt, though. You don't have to listen to that part of it.

Okay, I'll tell my mom that you said I shouldn't have to listen to her. Oh, no, here we go. See, man, this is what you're going to be dealing with if you're going to be coaching kids. I know. That's a good point. I don't know. I don't know.

I feel like I'm not a very confrontational person. So, you know, that's the one thing too that everyone has to deal with on the side is that you have so many parents to get involved. That is a great. All that. You're, you know, that's, that's always seeing that from where I was, you know, I didn't have to see the behind the scenes. First, I was being a kid, but that's the other side of it. To just, you know, would make me nervous about taking that on. You just seem like there's a lot more there than what you want to deal with.

Parents politics is a way. I think they call it. Yeah, there's like always a parent sitting there like thinking he's the coach. There's a parent who's just yelling at the umpire. The parent who's keeping score. How would you deal with a parent who thinks that their son or daughter should be getting more playing time,

but they are their kids sucks. Roll play. Yeah. Roll play coach. You're not putting Billy in. Why not? Why is he sitting on the bench? Well, Billy doesn't deserve the amount of playing time that others have. He puts in the time, but he's just not there compared to other kids on the team. Well, do you think he's going to get there sitting on the bench?

He's got to get some some playing time coach. What? What? I mean, what do you think they're going to win the World Series? And your kid gets a lot of time. Is that preferential treatment? I tell him. Billy continues to put in the time and effort that he needs to, to get to where he needs to be, then he will show, the results will show up with playing time on the field. Tell him that he has been putting in the work. Tell him, tell him, I remind him how much we paid to him. Okay. Okay.

And I pay on the seat on the bench. Honey, I will get there. Coach, why can't he get in the game more, huh? We pay a lot of money for this. We're paying your salary, coach. What salary? Your salary. You're not getting paid. Oh, what are all these dudes going for? Well, it's starting to show that he doesn't get paid because he's not very good at this. I would even pay him a dollar. I will handle this. I will

handle this. I am the man of this house. Okay. Coach, please, can you just put them in for like three minutes? I honestly, I'll pay you $1,000. I'm just trying to get laid. Yeah, I'm just trying to get some. It's been like two years coach. I'm trying to, I'm trying to make another billy, okay? And yeah, this kid spoiled Rod. He's a sport. You can be honest with me. He's a spoil little shit and he's a smart ass and he told you the joke about the cock sandwich, Denny. I knew it. I told you what's bastard. Well, I tell it, how about this? How about this? So how about I put in some extra time with

Billy? I come to pick him up. You know,, on a Saturday and in my boy, we can go out and we can put into the next your time. And that way we can kind of kill two birds with one stone if you know what I'm saying. Wow. That would be really. He's got piano on the weekend. He's got his piano on. He doesn't, who cares about piano? Can't he just stick him in right field? I'll go in the lane. Yeah. Yeah. Can coach, can he stick him in right field? What the hell are you doing, Mike? Yeah. Yeah. Coach, can he just be in right field? No one ever hits the ball out there.

Then the next game they're playing a team called the lefties. They're all left-handed batters. Exactly. They're pulling the hell out of it out there. They're getting part of it. Just getting the peppered in right field. I got a question. When when do you like in high school, are you still wearing a cup? Like I just remembered like what age do you start wearing a cup? Well, no, I was wearing a cup very early on. It was the most uncomfortable thing. Are they has the cup technology gotten better

since I was playing baseball? Oh, I doubt it. The last time I played was 2013. So it's but but then I was I mean, I did play catcher for a while and it was uncomfortable to tell man, it was awful. So I doubt it's got any better. So do like normal baseball players wear cups like to the pros wear cups. I I'm saying the catchers do I don't know about everyone else the kind of when whenever we got to a point they kind of just left it up to how How protected we wanted to be yeah, because I'm looking at these baseball players now, and I'm looking at their junk and I'm not seeing a cup there You know, and I'm always thinking their junk and I'm not seeing a cup there. You know, and

I'm always thinking about because they throw some hard balls, man. And honestly, that was my, that was my problem. I was shortstop. I was always like, I had like this delayed reaction time because I always need to be like, all right, this isn't coming toward my junk. And my, my glove would be over my, my junk because I wasn't wearing a cup because I couldn't do anything. Yeah. You're right. Because it's always jabbing into the sides of your legs and sometimes you get a ball between the cup and your leg and you're squeezing your ball. And next thing you know, you're thinking about your cox sandwich between your legs and

not about the ball coming at you. You know, Miles, the cox sandwich thing is a little soft more. I'm going to tell you that right now. Tell you that right now. Well, man, I think you just got to, I think you got the right attitude for it. I think you can go ahead and give it the green light, be a coach. You seem like you got it together. Yeah, if you could handle us, you know, you can handle a team. Well, that sounds good. I'll have to come some of my buddies and we'll just have to pull

something together here in a few years. I like it. Now I do appreciate it. I just want to say that I really enjoy your all-spot guest to y'all cracking me up all the time. I just recently found you, but you know, you are a great man. I appreciate y'all thinking my call. Well, thank you and Thank you, man.

And congrats to you and your wife, all right? It's very exciting. All right. All right. Watch for fear. Thank you very much, Operation. Which up for fly balls as well. I will.

I will. We'll see you soon now. All right. See you. Bye. That was some our better role playing. That was pretty good. We're kind of good. We're kind of good at your old. I like that Yeah, uh, you're your first coxam which was very forced no Yeah wrestling is a coxam which sport is it?

Jared who wins on the yeah, who's okay? Who's paying the tab for yet who pays better? I follow ups as well. I think miles one. Let's go. Bumps Charlie. You'll take the tab over here. That's just the mom's ball. So I was a little forced to the beginning. Well, it's a really hard one. Hard one. Harder one to get in there. Well, it's all right. That was fun. It was fun. Another beautiful episode of the Belly-Dup Podcast in the bus. And we're going to wrap it up here at the Ole Mix office.

Yeah. Time to go home from work. Time to go home. We put in a hard day at the office here. Well, yeah. Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of Belly-Dup Podcast. Charlie. Watch for deer and tip your bartender. We'll see you in the next one.

Bye-bye. podcast Charlie watch for deer and tip your part then there. See you in the next one. Bye bye.