Bellied Up - Grandma Gives The "Worst" Christmas Gifts #195

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

We’re hanging out at The 1029 Bar in Minneapolis! We talk Tiger Woods, chat with some local bar patrons, and take a call from Nate—who is surprisingly passionate about LinkedIn and his grandma’s wild gift-giving habits.Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code belliedup at https:// www.bruntworkwear.com/belliedup #Bruntpod #ad

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast. Chuck, how you doing? Bellied up, bellied up. We're here. Miles on feeling good. We're bellied up here at the 1029 bar here in Minneapolis. So many bras. So many bras.

Also, a lot of police badges or patches on the wall, which is cool. It is a police bar here. It is a police bar. And a lot of bras and police. So just seems like. Like, you know, the only other time those two are combined is. I'm excited to hear this. I would love to hear this.

I was going for like, you know, a cop stripper. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, yeah. Bachelor parties. Bachelor party, yeah. In 2002. In 2002, that was big, you know. Yeah, some of them are pretty big, aren't they, Chuck?

Look at that one over there. I know. Those are some. Over there. Yeah. A black one. Holy smokes. You could use those as a live well.

My God. He could. Those could hold a lot of minnows. I could put my kid in that and we got a makeshift's hammock for them. Oh, that's not a bad idea, dude. It's not a bad idea at all. You should figure that out. Maybe see if you can borrow that for a little bit.

Yeah, I think that that's probably going to go down as a no-go from the bar. Oh, the bar? Yeah. They were going to be like, wow, this creep came in and asked for the biggest bra we have. said it was for his kid. But Chuck, so I was sitting at the bar waiting for you today, as I usually do. You waiting on me? No.

And I was sitting there and I had the thought that like if we didn't have all of this podcast equipment, I was just sitting at this bar by myself. Yeah. What signal does that send of the world? Considering it was 1245. P.m. 1245 and it's like how what are the ways that you can sit at a bar by yourself at 1245 on a Tuesday

and have people not assume that you're a drunk or just a loser? You got to bring a laptop. You got to bring a laptop to the bar. This guy's got it. Check him out. Miles right there. He's got it. And he's got Red Bull there. A loser because he's got the laptop. Yeah. He's got Red Bull 7 right there too. You know there's vodka in that water glass. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Don't want to rat you out. Where are you working on over there?

Just work? Not really work. Just work? That sounds like the answer of a guy who's trying to make it look like he's not a drunk at the bar. I like that. See, that's great. That's great. Laptop at the bar. That's a brilliant idea. Even if you're just there to drink, just have it out. Yeah. Or just have a food menu in front of you where you're just holding it like this consistently. Yeah, just food menu, huge.

Yeah, just have the presence of the food menu. Oh, I'm just stopping him for lunch, you know? I think another thing is you make sure you wear a polo with a beer logo on it. Oh. And then you just look like you're a beer salesman. Beer salesman. You're visiting accounts. This is part of the job.

Which is kind of funny because every beer salesman I've met is a drunk. So it's like, but it's a professional drunk. They do it well. I mean, there's some that have been in the business a long time, and I've seen them in action, and you age out of it, or you just start feeding your beers to the plants. Because when you're going out celebrating with people every single day, the consequences on the liver. This is what my buddy told me. He always has one drink just like there. And he's like, yeah, it's my third one.

Yeah. You know? Always on number three. Yeah. Smart. Very smart. I think another thing is just have your phone up to your ear. Oh, yeah.

You know, so if you're just sitting there at the bar like this, it just kind of looks like either you're on hold for something. Or it's like, oh, well, clearly he knows somebody. So even though they're not here, he's essentially drinking with someone right now. Yeah. Not a complete loser. You know what I mean? Yeah.

And I think beyond that. that, you know, you just look around at various things and just say, okay, can I, do I have a, like a shirt with a cable logo on it? Maybe you're the spectrum guy, you know, do you have, um, you know, a toolbox with you. Maybe you're repairing the gambling machines or something. Yeah, maybe just put a pen in your hat and a towel over your shoulder so you look like you're the bartender who's on his brink. Exactly. Yeah. Now, who are, who are we doing this for, miles? You know, Why do we need to signal that we're not a loser? Yeah, because, well, everyone in the bar is doing the same thing, presumably.

That's true. Yeah. But it was a fun game to play. Here's a question I have for you, Miles. Yeah. Why doesn't Tiger Woods have a driver? We should develop that business at the bar today. We should pitch it directly to Tiger.

Tiger's driver, you know? Yeah, I mean, it's like, I know people who have one. way less money who are way less famous than Tiger that has a driver. Do you think that Tiger? Yeah. Do you think that he's so rich that he doesn't know that Uber exists? Yeah. He just doesn't even have a smartphone.

His assistant's got a smartphone. Yeah. You would, I'm baffled. Oh, if you are Tiger and you, if you're an Uber driver and you pick up Tiger Woods, I mean, you're not paying attention to the road. You're just rearview me. the whole time. Yeah. You know. No, I mean, it's just, there's just no, there's no reason why he doesn't have a driver. Yeah. Who's, who's letting this happen? Miles, if you, the first time you row your car over,

I'm getting you a driver for Christmas. Okay. All right. Thank you. First time. All right, well, let's roll a car on the way home. Jared, what do you think? Well, let's not try to do it because I'm only half serious here. Don't offer that to me. I'll take you up on it. Um, I think, It's also very obvious how Tyre... It's obvious how Tiger Woods became the best golfer in the world. He's got a very intense personality. If he's banging women, he's having sex with all of them. Yeah, right.

If he's doing drugs, he's doing all the hydros. He can get his hands on. He's rolling a car with two hydros in his pocket. Correct. He's not just going to do hydros and just sit on his couch and watch TV. He's a real go-getter that Tiger Woods. Yeah. Yeah.

I can't even imagine the other stuff he's intense about in his personal life. I mean, yeah. I mean, really not having golf could kill him. You know what I mean? Yeah. Golf was keeping him on this, you know, I guess not in the women department, but. Straight and narrow. No, that's kind of what started all this.

And then how physical is golf that you're rocking hydro is like you're Brett Farf, you know? Well, his car accident is what, like, Scruton. Oh, man. A shot with us? Oh, a shot? Oh, my gosh. Wow, that's really kind of you. I suppose that there's no other response other than thank you.

Yeah. What's your name? All right, I'll let you talk. This is the bar where we discovered Far Bar Bar. This is the bar where they discovered. That is Fireball. Oh, yeah. This is the greatest bar.

Yeah? Oh, yeah. We've been coming here for a long time. We're old work friends. We started coming here in 2013. And because we came for the lobster mac and cheese and the lamb sandwich. And literally every Friday for about,

oh shoot, I don't know, three, four years. We pissed off our boss because we would do like two, three-hour lunches here and go back to the office. And did a good job. He was fine with it as long as we invited him with. And so we actually started coming here A couple of friends of ours worked here.

Samantha Edwards. She actually passed away a few years ago. Unexpectedly, but she was one of the best servers here ever. And we ended up coming back for her as well. So it was Fireball, Mac and Cheese, and Samantha Edwards. That's wonderful. How is the company? I'm guessing not around anymore.

Yeah, I'm guessing that you guys don't have a lot of KPIs. Let me do do. We do, yeah. But yeah, the KPIs, no, that company is no longer around. How did that happen? I don't know. Not because of us. We still got our job done.

We left long before that company was gone. But no, we came in. I came in here one day and we were having a rough day. And I was like, you know, Steve, the bartender at the time, I was like, I need a shot. I need something new. I've done every shot possible. What do you got? And he gives me a shot of fireball.

And I was like, man, how did you mix this? He's like, no, no. This is a new drink. and so that's where we discovered. What year was that? 2013. 2013, they've been here. Rippin Fireball is doing lobster.

When you guys were telling the story, it sounded like it was going to end that you guys are now married. So another funny story for a long time because we both are married to different people. Probably the first year, because we came in here every Friday, they assumed we were spouses. And we had to correct them. Yeah, right. Just bar spouses, not real spouses. Bouses. Yeah, and over the years, I guess we just kept coming back. I mean, now we're completely different jobs, raising our kids, married, but we always find our way back here,

even if it's not on a Friday. What a beautiful story. We got bar buddies here. Did you rehearse that? That felt like you said that sounded like you like had that written out and planned. Yeah, you're coming up here with your bar husbands. You know, we've heard about a work husband, but a bar husband's a whole new thing. We're great friends. I mean, we just developed something over the time, and he had kids way before I did, so he was kind of a mentor for me and kind of helping shape me as a mom. And, you know, we're both Christian, so we really enjoy having those conversations here over, you know, like I said, lobster mac and cheese and fireball beer and kind of connect with each other. Are you sure you're not Catholic? Oh, yeah, we are. See, I knew that. I could sniff that one out.

They're drinking fireball on a Tuesday. I know. What do you think they were Luther? During Holy Week. During Holy Week. Yeah. They're not Amish. Nothing wrong with that.

If I can build something like a table like the Amish, I'd be totally down with that. Do you work in public relations, by the way? No, I don't. I work as a recruiter. Okay. Well, real good. Well, I want you to recruit Charlie and I to work for you guys. We want to hear your spiel.

Yeah, let's get it. Charlie and I, we didn't make it in the podcast industry. We're on the job market. We're looking for something. What's your, what's your spiel? Back to the 1029, you're going to hear a lot of stories. What about what's her dude that passed away? Larry.

Larry, he was a bar staple here, man. I don't know if I want to be friends with you guys. There's a lot of everything. How many people are dying in this bar? That's what I'm saying. Well, he was a lot older. He was 98. Did he ever bring a laptop to the bar by a chance?

I don't think so. I don't think you knew what a laptop would. How about a pencil and? paper. I think he just did pull tabs and drink vodka. All right. See, a fellow that age, he doesn't even give a shit

what other people think. I would be honest though, Charlie, in retirement that just sounds like you. Just thanks. That's where I'm headed. I think I might own a bar one day, Miles. You can be here every day. It's a great day drinking bar. That's great. That's what we're picking up on it. Yeah. This is a productive

workday for you guys. Where do you? you recruit for you don't want to say so okay who would you rather have who would you rather recruit me or charlie wow um that's a loaded question i mean i feel like you guys come as a team so i'd probably have to save all right all right all right all right charlie's cheesehead okay well then i got to go with minnesota miles has a lake house in minnesota i live in fargo north dakota yeah right there. No, we could interview as a team, kind of like stepbrothers. Yeah, that could be good.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you bring the persistence and the memory. We have three questions. How much PTO can we get? What's the starting salary? And we already know we can drink on the job. And we already know we can drink on the job.

So that one we don't even need to ask. Podcasts in recruiting. What? You're in podcast. chance recruiting? Oh, my Oh, that's the truth. I can tell. Because he was like, I know who they are. We should go talk to them. Let's bring him shots of fireball. I was like, okay, let's go.

Oh, so you don't know the podcast at all. When I walked in and I saw you sitting here, I was like, I think I know this person. Like, I feel like I know this person, but I wasn't sure. And then he was like, yeah. And then he got me on the bandwagon. I'm like, that's Charlie Miles. He'll let us on if we buy him shots. Right. That's hilarious. Yeah.

We didn't really have a choice. That's what we call the Midwest. One-on-one bribes. Yeah. The military does it. They say, if you can do 10 pull-ups, we'll give you like a free bag with the U.S. Army on it. All right. That's how they get you in there.

That's how they're-they-way drug right there. You guys got to consider a pull-up station. Take a page out of the U.S. Army. I would. Well, you know, there's got to be a strong pipe around here somewhere. go give it a goal. Yeah. That one right there.

This might be an inappropriate question, but are any of these yours up there? Obviously. No, we usually leave by 3 p.m. so we don't have to deal with the shenanigans. Other than the meat raffle on Friday, sometimes we've stayed for that. He's won some meat. He doesn't need any more meat, but he's wants some meat. No further questions.

He's a meat guy. What kind of meat's we talking? He's like one. Low competition. I'm going to be honest. Like if anyone in this bar I'm taking rib advice from, it's going to be you. You look like a rib guy.

You look like a rib guy. Don't take advice from skinny chef, right? Which by the way, Miles, you're losing too much weight, man. I don't like this. That's what I keep telling them. I know. I know. Yeah. Now you're, now you look like you belong in Minneapolis.

So what's funny is so what's funny is you're pressing on all my insecurities now, which is funny because most people get insecure about how fat they are. Me doing what I do, I'm now insecure that I've lost too much weight, which is kind of a reverse insecurity here. I have to admit, I lost a little respect for you. The skinnier you get. Damn.

I don't like it. I love how you just told him your insecurity and he doubled down on it. He was like, absolutely. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. I got a kid now, and I'd like to see him graduate high school, you know? so. That's overrated.

Whatever. You have four. So let's be honest. And he's seen him graduate and he's got a gracey year, one that graduated college. He's got awesome kids, man. And an awesome wife. Well, that's awesome. And we thank you guys for coming over here and just giving us the insight on this bar.

It seems like a great, beautiful, community-oriented, topless bar. And we are. After three. After 3 p.m. that's what she said you can only take your bra off after 3 p.m., huh? Or it's a closing time bar thing? I think it's a closing time thing. How do you not know the bar rule here?

Who's fucking Frank, by the way? She doesn't normally wear bras, so that's the problem. Well, you know, you should listen more to your PR person. That didn't help. My bra is the biggest one up there. Oh, that's yours right there. That was mine. The bro.

The bro. The bro. That's wonderful. that's great well um yeah i'm not even going to follow up with how do you know she hasn't wear a bra all the time you know you just aren't helping your cause all the listeners are thinking that you guys are a couple and then you say something like that 1029 is honestly the best thing in northeast minneapolis no it's the best i've traveled all over the world we've been to this is the best bar in the world right here because she said just in northeast Minneapolis you said word

He's like, we've traveled to Mancato, Rochester. This is the best. Brainer, we've been to Brainer. Any bar in Wisconsin. Better than any bar in Wisconsin shots. Fire, dude. We got meat raffles. We got pole tabs.

The 1029, we got bras on the ceiling. This is the best bar in the world right here. All right. Well, you heard it right here, folks. Get on over to 1029. We're two bras if you come or no bra. Either way, it'll be fun. Love what you're doing, guys.

Thank you. We'll see you guys soon. Watch for deer. I forgot I'm in antibiotics. Also, I'm on antibiotics. Oh, wow. You got one shot of fireball on antibiotics. Sure you get.

Yeah, you can probably have a couple. Actually, for legal reasons, I'm going to backtrack that and say, you're not, you should never drink on antibiotics, period, end of discussion. That's a thing with antibiotics? That's what they said. That's what, freaking, um, well then I have disobeyed that before in my life. I have to, but, you know, as we get older miles. You know, you get the fucking Z pack in you, about day three, you start feeling good.

You head to the bar. Even though you got two days left on it. Come on, Charles. Hey, I'm. How many days into the Z pack are you? Just started. Probably contagious. Don't.

Oh, my God. It's all right. My kids got croop. So, I probably can teach us too. Let's make out later and get a vaccine for the year, shall we? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So. We don't need to make out.

I'll just look up my finger and put in your mouth. You know what I love about our fans, Chuck? They don't give a fuck. They just, they're so comfortable telling you how much they don't respect you to your face. I know. That was wild. That felt good. Miles, you are perfect.

Just the way you are. Okay. Feel the need to say that. Isn't that wild though? Like, Oh, yeah. I started losing weight and I got self-conscious about the fact that I was less fat. That's never happened in the world ever.

Well, listen, Miles, I hear you and I feel you. And if it makes you feel any better, I get people talking shit to my face all the time. What do they say? Like, oh, you're just too cut. No, I was in a... I wish you had less muscles. I was in a fleet farm and this woman was there. And she said hello and wanted a picture.

And after the picture, she looks at the picture. And she goes, you look unwell. And I was like, we're in a fleep farm. The lighting in a fleet farm is not flattering. She was talking about my dark circles. And I was like, and then she said she's a nurse. Is that a clinical thing, the dark circles, or is it just bad lifestyle? You look at, it probably has to do with taking shots on antibiotics.

but if you look at my family, you can see that it runs in the jeans. Yeah. And it's a style choice. Some people message me and they say, hey, I'm painting my under-eyes dark so I can look more like you. Yeah, it's like eye shadow. Yeah, exactly. You got a natural eye shadow. It's like Derek Carr looks like he's always wearing an eyeliner.

You just look like you always have eye shadow on and you just got done crying. Yeah. Right. I do look like I just got done crying. somebody I did a video and somebody said this guy looks like he just got done having a three-way coke bender with a bass and a walleye I've got that hanging on my fridge dude it was so good I don't even know what that means I don't know what it means either but I thought it was brilliant but yeah and then people say I look like I'm crying I don't shed tears for you

when was the last time you shed a tear Chuck oh dude it's been decades, you know. We just push it deep, deep down. It's been decades and you're not even 40. Well, I didn't say it's been, I don't even know what comes after a decade. I've been alive decades, Miles. Do the math.

No, I shed some tears from time to time, you know. No, you don't. It's healthy, Miles. It's healthy for everyone to cry. You guys get out there and when you look in the mirror, just shed a tear. Kind of see a if you can do it. It's tough. I've cried for films before Miles. What's the key to crying on film?

Oh, man. So, like, if you push everything in your life down for years and years and years, you've got an encyclopedia of triggers. You can be like, let's pull up, let's see here. Is 1998 going to do it? No, nothing there. Let's go to the S's here. sisters now

care about them let's go to the first marriage all right that might work that might work the book of crying triggers yeah it's good you know you gotta have those

you gotta think about the sibling that you like the most and then think about them dying you know what would happen if you thought about the sibling that you like the least dying oh I've tried it I'm like well

We could. I'll send flowers. Do you in your mind have a sibling you like the least? Be honest. No, I do. I for sure do. God is watching. Oh, I for sure do.

It just changes all the time. Oh, nice. I mean, it's very transactional my family's relationships. Very transactional. In what sense? In that I like the person the most who did me a favor most recently. Yeah. If everyone had just come to your cabin, everyone loves you.

Or hates you, I guess. No, they, they, yeah, they, I don't know, I'm, I'm sure that I'd have to think about it. You know, a lot of times I just got things breeze right over me. I'm like, all right, well, whatever, you know? But it's like, it's like NFL power rankings they change every single day for no reason. Exactly. It is like NFL power. Thank you, Jared.

That's a wonderful analogy. And you are not too many siblings away from like filling out a whole NFL power rankings. I can for sure do that, dude. We'll see if my mom and dad... Like you have a top 10 power rankings for siblings, and that means you have to leave a couple off. Right. Don't make the top 10.

We have enough for an entire NFL team plus a sub. I mean, that's, you know, because they have to play both sides of the ball, but... Yeah, you could field a football team. We're like a small town football team. You know? Yeah, nine, man, you got a deep bench. You sure do.

Hell yeah. Did you ever play a team in football that like didn't have enough for both sides of the ball? I was mostly like a summer camp. We would like get paired up with like one time, one time we played a Canadian team that for whatever high school Canadian team that was at a camp in Fargo. Yeah. And so we had to play with 12. Oh, really? Yeah. We just didn't really know what to do with an extra guy. Yeah, what they do? Just really free safety? Yeah, yeah. It's just a guy chilling back there. The freest safety. Yeah.

Just the goal line defender. Just in case anyone breaks. We got a free safety, a freer safety and a freest safety. I suppose it would just be blitzing all the time for that free man, you know. Although they have 12 too, so that doesn't necessarily work. Yeah. Well, Miles, anything else on your mind before we take some callers? I do have to mention that this bar has a cash back.

really? Like it's a hardware store? That's amazing. You buy a beer, you scan that QR code, you get two bucks back. That is really wild. If you got $2 back on a bush light, they just would be free. Yeah, it would just be, I don't know. Oh, you got to scan a code.

It's like basically a mail-in rebate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like send us your proof of purchase. What was that? No one, no one would get from me. I mean, oh, like, who's going to do their Home Depot card, like, scanning? Yeah, no one's going to do that. But it looks good for them because they're giving your money back.

Oh, really? Are you the, uh, the beer salesman here? I do. I look right across the street. I always here. Nice. That's a wonderful mustache. My God.

Did you? How long does it take you every morning to, to curl the stash? Oh. What kind of fertilizer have you been using on that? You're wax. That's good. That's really incredible. Wow. The ladies like it? My thigh tickler? You go like this. Thigh tickler. Nobody said if you were blind, you just follow it right in.

Oh my God. Yeah, they're like the little antennas like that an aunt has, you know? Yeah. Can you feel the tips of the mustache? No, okay. No feeling in here. That was a really dumb question, Chuck. no it wasn't because i think when you take it to that level you might be able to feel are you feeling that right now yeah i am feeling it actually so there is what yeah your elbows the weanus yeah there's no feeling in it there's no here let me pinch your wieness i can feel that i can feel that that that hurts yeah i see he he he said it's stop pinching me said it's a joke no actually there's not there's not there's

very few nerve endings in it. That's where the funny bone is. Pinch it. I don't feel that. You don't feel it? No. You don't feel that at all. You felt that. You just wanted to be a big old man. Yeah. Wow. I can't find your way.

It's just so small. Yeah, you can't feel that. Can you? No, not really. Are you really going after it? I was going after it. Cool, man. No, no. How bad. Marley. Good to meet you. Marley, dude. Nice me and you. My mom was a hippie. Does she like to stay? I was going to ask you that, but I was like, that's too obvious, but. Honored your grandpa with it. And your wife? She's a fan.

Oh, no wife. Multiple girlfriends. Good for you, Marley. My God. Do you actually have multiple girlfriends? Come on over. Come on over. Welcome Bellion up to the podcast. Yeah, grab a chair here. You want this chair? Here. Yeah, you sit right here. Sit right here in the middle. Yeah, oh, you don't want a chair?

You want to stand? All right. Marley, apparently a lot of people are touching your wieness. He lives next door to the bar. Allegedly. Allegedly. He says that he has multiple girlfriends. Allegedly.

Okay. And how does that work? Are you, do you, you want a rotation? Are you? Well, it's a block schedule. So, you know, three days one time, three days the other week, you know? Okay. Yeah, kind of like divorce parents.

Right, right, yeah. 50% custody. Do you clear? I like more than the other, but. Okay. Do you clear the roster every week before Christmas and week before Valentine's Day? I got to work overtime on holidays. Oh, yeah.

That's a lot of presents to get. Who's your favorite? it. You can just make up a trick question. Jennifer. Jennifer, nice. What do you like about Jennifer?

What does Jennifer have that Shania doesn't? Tets. Okay. Wow. So which one of these bras is Jennifer's bras on the ceiling? You guys missed the fucking big one over there.

See the big fucking Grande over there? Holy shit. Yeah. That's a water balloon launcher over there. Is that a real bra? I mean, it can't be. The triple z you think or that? That live well could hold a walleye

Miles. Wow. A record walleye. Holy smokes. So that's Jennifer's? That's a musky, bro. That's Jennifer's. I mean, allegedly. All right. Well, that's good. How long you've been coming to this bar? First day, actually. It's your first day here? Fuck. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, okay.

So what do you do? What do you do for a living? I'm a chef. Where at? I work for senior living. care now actually. Take care of old old people. That's awesome. Fish every 28 years. You know how to really work a blender then.

We have a couple blended foods, yeah. Only one though, so. How many of your gals have you picked up at the Senior Living Center? Well, allegedly none yet, but we'll see. Okay. All right. You know. There you go. You know, seniors, I did a comedy show in a Senior Living couple of them, and

you are a hot commodity when you walk in there and you're under 60. Well, obviously, I mean, it's a good place to pick up chicks. Oh, yeah. And wills. Yeah, most of them, most of them are single and they got a will. Actually, there's a couple that lives there, and they be banging this shit still. How do you know that, Marley?

Allegedly, allegedly, I don't, but. Are they coming in telling you about last night's escapades? He dropped a spoon in the ice bucket. They're not like a conjugal visit at a prison, you know? No, no, there's free roaming. It'd be a lot of money to stay in that thing. How much? Allegedly.

So they're like free-range chickens is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. What's the pickup game like? Are they all trying to get... Shuffle board's a big pickup game. Is it? Yeah, they're not doing basketball anymore.

No. Hey, if you can get in there and own a game of shovel board, that's a turn-on. How about Bridge? They're doing some of that? that canasta is a good one okay okay what's the game that you guys play in wisconsin uh she ped yuker youker that's the one i'm thinking of you bridge bridge cribbage yeah after the podcast i'll beat one of you guys ask the cribbage if y'all play oh wow the game right in here do you on right in here grab it here hold up i got two mics one for me and one for marley

Marley and me. Marley and me, there you go. Miles, have you ever played cribbage? I have. All right. Not very good at it. Nice, dude. So did you bring that or is that the bars?

It's nicer boards. We used that one. We used to do cards in there because I count them most of the time. Oh, three way here. Oh, hey, hey, no. What's the wildest shit you've seen at the senior home? I just started it. Nothing too crazy yet.

Where were you working before that? Mr. Paul's Supper Club and Adina It's like a Creole Cajun's Supper Club And then Grandview Lodge up north Oh yeah, I know Grandview Lodge Hell yeah Well that's really great What's your signature dish if you had to

If you had a... It's like the worst question ever It's asked a chef Yeah it's oh hang on I mean just There you go Yeah you just It's like the worst question

Asked chef what's your What's your favorite joke you like to tell? Yeah Or just tell me a joke That's the worst How do you make your favorite dish? It's like, oh, God. With flavor.

Yep. Okay, so, never mind. I'll go fuck myself. It's fine. I'll touch your weanus, though. Thank you very much. Are you touching him? I can't feel that.

I know. It's pretty impressive. What do you do when you're not cooking and not here? I'm sleeping. Okay. Eat, sleep, cook, drink. You're just sure this says eat, sleep, drink. You're doing all the functionality of it.

I like that. That's wonderful. What do you want out of life? That's a trick. That's a good question. What do I want in life? Yeah. To be happy.

To be happy. I'm happy, I guess. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're good. Well, that's good. If you were looking, you obviously haven't found your ideal lady yet. So if you were to do it. Allegedly.

What makes you drop all of your girlfriends and wife a gala? What does she need? $10 million. Okay. Well, nursing homes. Five million. We'll go five. Five.

nursing home is the place to be then yeah you're you're already off to a good step you're you're working at a high paying nurse nursing home are you at the top tier nursing home here in town uh it's pretty nice okay well all right all right a lot of money so how much uh per month they pay a lot i mean i can't divulge that information i signed a no clause oh you signed an nda yeah yeah you ever signed one of those no i'll sign anything you put in front of me so yes i have my boat wow i'll sign your upper butt cheek marl i'll sign your upper butt cheek titty oh yeah i've signed titties before and i'm not talking about women titties only man titties oh yeah yeah sorry ladies yeah strict strict no it's not because i wouldn't it's because i've never been offered that it's only

been guys how about a girl wearing that bra if you would just sign it i mean you need a big marker oh yeah Yeah. Spray paint. No, it's just the longer message you can write. You throw your graffiti tag on that. Yeah. No, that's important. You graffiti something before, haven't you?

No, I'm a clean guy. What have you graffiti, Marley? This bathroom in there. Would you write? Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. What'd you write? RIP to Larry. Larry, this hat right here.

Oh, I thought you were talking about... No, no, Larry used to be a swamper here. It's for Larry. That's Larry's Stormy Cromer. Yeah. Nice. So you honored them in the bathroom, huh? Yeah.

What did you write? that and outside out there. You just wrote RIP Larry? RIP Larry. Oh, yeah. Anthony that died, I read P.R. Anthony in there.

Eric Dunbarer. Also on the front door, there's a Sharpie that says Trey loves Larry. That's funny. That's cool. I thought when you said that you were graffitied the bathroom,

I thought you met the toilet. No, no, no. I didn't poop Costco that thing. Yeah. I thought you were painting a ceramic. Who's fucking Frank? Also, he just, he just named another like

four or five people. that died that come to this bar oh that's true they were talking about different people that died we're at we're not in a bar we're stay here we're in a monso we're young yeah you're at 34 yeah we'll go with that i'm 33 maths are 33 i just turned 33 i'm 38 bird 30 38 I'm 43 believe it or not no you come on now 19 8 too baby damn you look like you're 28 shit. Look at you. Oh, there it is.

There it is. You got a Teddy Swims vibe. Anyone ever told you that? That's tattoos, though. Yeah. Yeah. My boy, Shane. And I don't get paid like them.

Who is Frank? I didn't say you are Teddy Swins and a fire. Frank's, uh, used to work here as a bartender and shit. Okay, cool. He's on his 60th birthday here. So got it.

I thought Frank could pass away. Probably at some point, hopefully. All right. We'll get Frank on this motherfucker. Well, that's great. This is wonderful. Well, you've already done it. Yeah.

No, that's great. This should help. This should help. That's the mute guy. How do you guys feel about Rumpelmans? I'm on antibiotics. I already took a shot. I forgot I was on the antibiotics.

So what's that mean? It means I'm not supposed to drink, according to the pharmacist. What's that high life then? Well, I forget. Highlights are fine. It's a champang. years, you know. Yeah, he didn't say anything about it. No, he, I forgot. He ordered that when he had allegedly forgot. I forgot.

I will pass some coffee cup. That's, no, it's tea. That's how you know. Sorry, it's a teacup. Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Tea and honey, it's supposed to help my throat. So you're like sick. So many jokes. I didn't want to ask, I didn't want to ask about the antibiotics. They didn't know what it was for. strep. You have strep throat? No, I don't have strep throat. I used to.

I don't know what I had. Should you be here right now? No, but we don't have... That's my mic. Yeah. Oh, shit, I'm sorry. Here, I'll trade you. No.

No, I don't have strep. And I'm fine. Plus, you also said you had gangry fever or something like that. No, my kids got croup. What the, what is that? I should have. It's the foot mouth? No, it's upper respiratory infomerate.

perfection. Oh, Kroop. Kroop. URI. Reason why it's, yeah, anyways,

their airway is so small with Krupe, you got to be worried about it closing shut. Oh, shit. Even though it would just be a normal cold

for you and I. Okay, got it. All right. Anyways. Wow. Wish him the best. Well,

Marley, we appreciate it. Thanks, Marley. I appreciate you coming on, man. Watch for Deer in here. Maybe we'll get

a little cribbage game going. We're going to lose. Shortly here. Yeah. Thank you, sir. All right. Take care.

You take a caller? Let's do it. Guys, we are back here with our good buddy, Russell, Nicolet. Hey, Russell, let's say you could change any law, okay? Because, you know, you're an injury attorney. What's the one law that you're just like, ah, why is that have to be a law? You know, maybe it's like getting records or something or, you know, like, I don't know, or like, you know, they always, like, here's one.

why is the person who, you know, Rams here from the behind, why are you on the hook for 10% still? You know? Well, and technically you're not, but that's what the insurance companies try to say. There we go. Let's go. See, this is why we got them on the podcast.

Yeah. So you're not? No, you're not. You're not. Like, the insurance companies try to spread this rumor that basically you being on the road, that you're somewhat percentage at fault. But really, to be at fault, you have to be doing something that is outside the scope of, you know, your normal responsibilities.

And being on the road is not, right? You're on the road doing something normal. But they like to say, hey, Charlie, you know, you got re-ended by that guy. You're at least 10% fault. Like, for what? Like, it would be different if maybe your brake lights were out or something, right? But that's not what they're saying. They're saying you're because you were there.

Yeah, that always sounded like bullshit to me. And you're telling me it's bullshit. Your bullshit detector was right. Wow. But I believed them. And that goes back to that Russell, uh, say, dude we were talking or they uh jerry spence jerry spence i can't i really screwed up the name now dude brussels sage hey that could be a good that you could be like you could be jerry sage's son

yeah well jerry spence to let everyone know it started off with jerry spence who's a previous episode michael jordan of lawy michael jordan of lawyer michael jordan of loring i was calling him jerry sage there. When I brought him up here today, I was trying to go for the joke by calling him the wrong name again. Little callback for you longtime listeners. Ended up using Russell's first name so it made no sense. I think they got it. Well, I just wanted to catch everyone up as to why it was funny. Miles, sometimes I like to explain my own failed jokes. Anyways, I don't know why I brought him out. I got a wrestling name now. Russell Sage is my new wrestling name. If like I ever get in the WWE or something cool. And you just walk out there with two like burning sage.

you know, just like, I think I'm going to say law. That's really intimidating, Charlie. It kind of is, dude, because you're like, what are you? You're about to, get rid of demons. You're getting rid of demons. You're by to enter the demon, you know? I could see it, dude. I can see it.

Yeah, I just might get, I just might get beat up by the actual wrestlers. I see when they see me holding the sage and they're like, you know what? Yeah, I mean, I have a whole, uh, I have a whole WWE personality that I invented called the litigator. I like that. And I just, what was it again, Jared? I end up my finishing move is I knock them out and then they have to sign a document. And it's all case by case, you know, so.

Are you dressing a suit or what are you dressing? Yeah, I think it was. And like my, my weapon of choice is a briefcase, a lead filled. Nice. Makes sense. Nice. Yeah. You can use a gavel too, I suppose.

But that, you know, that's more of a judge. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm just, I'm the litigator. So, yeah. So nothing's scarier. than getting caught up in litigation. You know that. That's true.

It's much scarier and tougher than a guy walking out with two Sane-burning sages. Well, you know, you guys aren't sharing my vision right now. He's not doing like this. He's like, and these are big sage bushels, man. You lights him with a blow torch, all right? So just maybe if I had the eyes like the undertaker or something, like so I look kind of demonic or something.

Did that make it sell it? That would help. Would the litigator be scared? of that or not? Oh no. I mean, the litigator, he's got the long arm in the law. He's not worried about shit. Yeah, he's pretty true. I kind of wish I was a litigator. Like I...

Yeah, I mean, you could be the side... You got your sidekick the same. Tag team, you could be, uh, what is the, uh, the, uh, you could be the scribe. The scribe. The Esquire. Yeah, the litigator and the Esquire. So, Russell, where can the folks

find you? Yeah, Nicolaylaw.com or 1855, N-I-C-O-L-E-T. Perfect. All right, Charlie, we have a new sponsor on this podcast, and that is Shady Rays. I'm excited for these. We got you some sunglasses. I, we actually have no idea what glasses are in these.

So we're going to take them off and put them on. All right. Let's do it. I'm excited. This is what we call sunglasses roulette. Oh, yeah. You got the Blues Brothers ones. Oh, no, dude.

These ones are way too cool. clean. What's wrong with these guys? Send them back. You look good at them back. Out of mine look. You look really good. Those are kind of like the futuristic aviators. You look like you should be flying and Top Gun with a video game controller or something. I love Top Gun. These are a couple of shady rays sunglasses. When I like about these, Charlie. What do you like about, Miles? They don't cost 200 bucks. No, they don't. But they got the same quality as those $200 ones. They feel $200. to me. Oh, these are polarized, dude.

You know, see all the fish on the water there. Yeah, that's great, dude. You always need polarized sun goggles when you're out there fly fishing. That's how you see those salmon just sitting there. Otherwise, they disappear, you know? Podcasting with sunglasses on is kind of a vibe. We might have to do an episode with the shady rays on. You think so?

And I think they look good. Are you like them, Jared? Love him. Who looks hotter in these sunglasses? Yeah, I'd say Charlie. Damn it. Yes, Jared. That's what's up, dude.

Thank you. Is it the style or my face? Is there something I can do about it? I think it's your face. Oh, bummer. I think you look really good in those smiles. Thanks. Thanks, Chuck.

Be careful when you put those on. If you go out with Ann, she's going to be upset by all the ladies coming up. I'm going to bring a stick and fend them off. Bring a stick with you. Yes. Bring your kid. Be like, I'm taking. I'm taken.

So you guys want some good shades like Charlie and I got for, The high quality stuff for not the high quality price. You got to go to Shady Ray's website and use code bellied up. Charlie, I want you to just hold on for a second. Guess how much percent off two or more polarized sunglasses you get with code bellied up? Two. 40 percent off. What?

Really? Use code bellied up for 40 percent off two or more polarized glasses. Then if I can do mad. percent off and on top of that you they feel like $200 glasses and they're already cheaper than that and then you give 40 I mean I can't really do math but if I could at this point it's insane so guys go check out shady rays high quality glasses for a great price plus the buy Charlie looks hot in them thank you buy one get two because that's nice uh because I lose glasses all the time so I'm gonna do that right after this check them out Charlie I see you got your brunt hat on yes I do I got my brunt hat on

I got, oh, you got Brunt on your arm. Look at that. That's nice, hoodie. I just got this one. I actually feel this sucker. Oh, sick. It is so nice. That is nice.

You got an extra one here? You know a sweatshard's nice. I was on a road trip today to get here. And I wore it on the road trip. My comfy cozies. You wore your comfy cozies. I wear those in the car, don't you? Yeah, I like wearing comfy cozies in the car.

That sweatshers so comfortable. Are these your comfy cozy pants? I chose it as my road trip sweatshirt. Wow. No, no kidding. But, you know, it can go right from a road trip to the job side. On the work side. Just nothing.

And I like it because it's like great spring sweatshirt. It's a little bit lighter weight. Yeah. But it's also going to be durable enough to wear on the job site. And it's perfect for a sprinter when you don't really know. I mean, I'm sure you could pull through a cold day with that hoodie on. No problem. But it's like a great, you know, 28 degrees to 58 degrees.

kind of sweatshirt shirt right there. Yeah. You've been using your work boots at the lake cabin, I've heard. I've been using them at the lake. I've been using them in my basement. And, you know, Miles for me, projects take a long time because I have a lot of side quest projects. So I'm bird watching.

Bird watching, yeah. But also you take down one wall and you're like, should I have taken down that wall? Yeah, put it back up. And then you're putting another wall back up. So I'm in the process of building a wall where I just took one down. But it's going to be a better wall. It's going to be a better wall.

And no better way to do it than in your brunt boots. Absolutely. And they're so comfortable. You're being in them all day and you're like other boots, my feet will hurt. Yeah. But you can go right from the basement to birdwatching and boom, boom. I've walked. Without missing a step.

I've walked miles in those birdwatching. I'd love to walk a mile in your boots someday. They might be, uh, Do they fit? Do we have the same size? Probably not, but I'd still like to try it out. Well, you're welcome. Anytime you want to take a step in my shoes, Miles, you just come on over and I'll insert your foot, okay?

Yeah, so guys, if you want to check out Brunt Workwear, they got sweatshirts, they got Workwear pants. We'll talk about on another podcast. They got the boots. Go to Brunt Workwear.com. Use code bellied up for $10 off your order. That's great. That's great.

10 bucks off, guys. We are just printing money for you. Okay, check it on out. Folks, I'm on tour. We'll see you on the road. Okay? Anywhere by miles? Yeah, we just did some shows in Minneapolis,

and then I'm going to other cities like Denver and, you know, it'll be fun. Come on out. Okay, we're doing the East Coast. Go to Charlie Barrens.com. I forget where we're going, but I know Charleston's in there, South Carolina, okay? So, Jake just saw a show. Jake gave it a thumbs up.

It would have been awkward if he didn't. But anyways, all right, that's my shameless plug. See you guys soon. Hello. Hello, is this neat? Did you just fall over? Are you all right? Dude, I, did I fall over?

If I fell over, then, this is not going to go well. Are you in a kitchen or a bathroom or? Dude. Is the echo that bad? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Is it going through the right bike? I hope it is. I don't think it is. Are you at your computer? Are you trying to record this? Oh, absolutely. This is recorded already. Why would I be trying to record it?

I don't know. You said, is it going to the right mic? Oh, from your phone or your iPods. Yeah. AirPods. Yeah. I'm trying not to get like an echo, but I feel that's not going to happen. Oh, you're good.

It's fine. What's cooking, my man, Billy and my mom? Billion up to the bar. Oh, man. Mr. Barron. Is Mr. Maplays who are there? I'm right here. How are we doing, Nate?

Yeah, dude, I barely heard you speak, dude. I'm, oh, man, I'm flabbergasted. I was trying to figure out if you were my wife's cousin whose name is Nate, because you sound just like him and I was kind of tripping a little bit. But, oh, dude, I mean, I don't know what to say that. Maybe I am. I'll contact some family members. We'll see what happens.

But yeah, no, I'm here now. I'm here. So what's going on? Are you at work or what's going on? Oh, dude, I am at my apartment right now. I just got out of class. Well, senior design meetings. But yeah, I'm not skipping out on work like most of your callers.

Thank the Lord. Thank the Lord. So where are you going to school at? I go to Central Michigan. is in central Michigan, believe it or not. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

What's the best part about going to Central Michigan? I don't know. I don't really have an answer for you there. So it's that bad. I'm not like our sports are already good. Are you at Central Michigan because you couldn't get into the other schools or what? I probably wouldn't have gotten into Michigan. But I got accepted for Michigan State.

I like the engineering programs they have here. Okay, so you're going to be an engineer. That's the plan. That's the hope. If they'll take me, if they take me. Actually, no, that reminds me. Charlie, add me back on LinkedIn. Maybe I can get a job off of that.

You didn't accept him on LinkedIn. Add you back on LinkedIn? Yeah, he added you. Add me on LinkedIn, bro. I don't, I don't know that I've been on LinkedIn and. Is LinkedIn like the new, like, Gen Z social? media. Who is LinkedIn?

You and Fernando. I mean, if you're trying to get a job, if you're trying to get a job, I mean, Fernando knows best, you know, you go on LinkedIn. And Charlie, let me just say, your resume is stat and I'd love to connect with you. Am I still? Am I still like public on LinkedIn? I don't know. I don't know.

I know I've like someone messaged me there not a few months ago who I knew. and I tried to get the log in to get back in and it took forever. So I think I gave up on it or maybe I got back on it, but I got to take that thing down. Right now it says your experience is comedian. You've been doing that for eight years and ten months. I don't know how true that is, but, you know, maybe you should work on your stand-up a little more.

Yeah. He's got to beef up his bio is what you're saying? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm just not seeing much in the... You got the key to the city. What city did you get the keys to? Man's walk. You got to put that in your LinkedIn bio.

I should put that in. It's a big key too. So you can get in that. You've thrown out the first pitch at a Brewers game. Put that in your LinkedIn bio. That's true. That's true. You sold out the Wisconsin State Fair.

You got to put that in your LinkedIn bio. I know. Whoa. Well, listen, here's the real question. What's any of that going to do for me, though, Miles? Connect with guys like Nate. Nate, what do you want to connect? on LinkedIn for?

You know, dude, I mean, who knows? You know, 4 GM, they might see that. They might be like, man, we really need this guy. Like, he's connected with Charlie Barron's. This guy knows his stuff. What he wants, Charlie, is he wants to put that on his resume. Currently connected with Charlie Barron's on LinkedIn. If I had any idea, my log in, I would just add you right now.

I don't think I need a laptop in like 30 minutes probably. Charlie, you don't know where your glasses are in the morning. I mean, I don't think you know your password. I don't think you have it anywhere. I had to guess. I'd be resetting that. It's probably been hacked by someone else now. I don't know.

Aren't people using that as a dating app, LinkedIn? If people are, then they're using it for the wrong things. but you know you know charlie get me get me on there you know so i mean you're you're clearly like you're pot committed to lincoln getting a job uh what do you what do you see in on lincoln right now what's what's kind of well i mean i mean just you know people i'm connected to your different companies you know you know what they're with they're posting you know but that's where you can apply jobs you know that's what i've seen that's what i'm seeing but i'm mostly seeing you Charlie's profile, you know.

Screaming out to me. He's screaming out to me. I mean, Miles, I don't know if you got a LinkedIn, but I don't know how much construction it's going to do for you on there. There's white collar, Miles.

There's white collar over here. Yeah. Is there a blue collar LinkedIn out there? Like, is there like an app for blue collar guys to connect professionally? I don't know. I think they call that Angie's list. I think,

I think the last time I was on LinkedIn was when I was like a journalist, kind of journalist, kind of comedian, and I was out of work, I think. How many years does it say it's a comedian, like eight? Eight years, ten months. Does he have any posts on LinkedIn? Oh, man. Oh, hold on. Let me scroll. Let me scroll.

It's going to be real cringy. Whatever is on there is going to be real cringy. I got some featured links. And me award-winning journalist, by the way. Not to brag. I don't see no posts. I don't see no posts. I mean, you know, the profile could be better, but the name, the name is what I'm looking for.

You're just a piece of meat to Nate. I'm just a piece of meat. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I never understood the link to. Clearly, clearly. No, but it's fine. It's fine. I'm going to be honest with you, Nate.

I feel like you shouldn't be an engineer. You just have too much personality to be an engineer. Dude, speaking of the West, so let me get my bushlight since I'm talking to you guys. Nate, are you? There we go. Are you high or anything like that? Oh, absolutely not. No, no, I don't do any of that.

Okay. I drink like crazy, but this is my first beer of the day. Okay. Got it. And how old are you, Nate? Oh, for legal reason. Oh, JK. I'm 22.

I'm 22. Okay. Uh-huh. Big 2-2. Your fake says? Tell my fake says. No, my fake is actually. What's your address?

What year were you born? Yeah. Do you want my social? You're at it? My routing number? I'll get it from your LinkedIn. Oh. No, it's all there.

It's all there. So, uh, what's the dating scene like at Central Michigan? You got a girlfriend? Or boyfriend? No. Looking for the women. But, you know, currently I'm focused on career. I don't know.

The dating senior is just, you don't really... I'm not a fan of most of them around here. I'll be honest. Why, Nate? I'll be a fan. Oh, dude. You know, if you're going to find them, you're going to find them in the bar or the club,

and I don't think that's where I'm going to find my life. Are you not much of a dancer? Oh, dude, my moves are not on par. Let me tell you. Well, start working on those moves, Nate. I got to work on the LinkedIn first. All you got to do is you got to bend your knees and pretend like you're peeing in a walleye hole without your hands.

Where did you learn that move? I thought of it the other day. I guess. No, you just bend your knees like this and then. Okay, yeah, pee around the hole. Yeah, pee around the hole. whole. I like that. Yeah.

There's some great podcasting, by the way. I can't see you just in case you weren't aware. It's not much better if you could because we get the bar in front of us. Yeah. Speaking of which, where are you guys at? We're at 1029 here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Oh, Minneapolis. Oh, you guys are outside of Fargo for once.

That's new. Just such a ricochet shot for no reason. Milwaukee all the time. Yeah, we go. Oh, I mean. Pass? Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. No, no. Nate, I think that you called in with a, there was a reason you called in not to roast my LinkedIn, but.

No, I mean, I was guessing up Jared, by the way, Jared. You should get on the mic, like, you know, pop on it and, you know, whenever you can. Jared's great. Dude, dude, I want Jared on the mic. Let's go. I got Jared on the mic. This is great. Dude, I think Jared needs a face cam like he does on you betcha radio.

That's what he needs. Yeah, I think so. Let's do it. It's a little light enough in here. I probably go. You just use your face cam going. Put a little webcam on your computer. Well, here's your chance, Nate.

What do you want to talk to Jared about? He's got the mic on. What do you want to talk about, Nate? Dude, you know, Jared, my guy, my guy. I mean, first of all, do you have your LinkedIn on hand? I mean, I got to connect with some people. Yeah, you get seven. Yeah, pull up your LinkedIn.

dude i got to find it hold on damn this is this is great you have so much joy in your soul it's it's crazy to remember where it was like being 20 with a fake id dude oh there it is push light it's all right let me read his bio here i don't know if i have one he's a content editor slash podcast producer at you betcha just accurate um his services or video editing, videography, video production, sports photography, stock photography. How much stock photography? I can do it. I've never done it, but I can do it.

You do have the ability. He's a content editor. He was at You Betcha and Bellied Up. He's a videographer at WDAY. He was chief videographer at KX News. And he was a landscaper at Greenscapes. He's got a bachelor's degree. and

that's it and you just went to Bismarck State College didn't do anything there no but he can his activities and societies he was a tour guide and mysticat were you really cast at Bismarck State college wow dude worked on the

75th anniversary documentary of Bismarck State College damn I didn't even know we were in the presence of greatness Jared it's stacked he can shoot the news trim the bushes and give a tour. Jared, how much of that are you doing for you betcha right now? Are they having you go out and trim the bushes on a whim?

No, I'm covering the news a lot less now with you betcha. I'll tell you that much right now. Oh, yeah, I mean, maybe get back out of the local news stations. But honestly, I didn't know that you had the skills in stock photography. So we could get into that game, Jared. I'm always looking for stock images for podrails. so we can just make our own. There's big money in that.

Yeah. Yeah. Not with AI though, so much now. But there was big money in that. There is. There still is for certain kind of bird shots. I kind of, I kind of go down a little bird hole sometimes.

Nate, is his bio good? Do you think Jared's bio is good or no? Dude, Jared's got stacked LinkedIn. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. Okay. Hold on.

I got to read you two months ago, Jared posted on LinkedIn. Whoa. No shot. What he says? No shot. Looking for a new job? No, it says, work, work, work.

That's what he posted. You're working him like a dog, Miles. And two, that's true. And two years ago, he posted last Tuesday of the week, period. No exclamation point. There is a comment. I don't know who it is. A comment says, let's make it count.

Then three years ago, he said last Tuesday of the week, no punctuation. Three years ago, Jared said, business period, no capital. No capital, am I right? Question mark. Three comments. Couldn't have said it better myself. So inspiring and so true. how it's

happening? Five years ago, Jared said, does anyone know how to type fake laughing for posts and try to impress people it seems like a valuable

skill for LinkedIn. I'll like, hold on, I'll upload that one real quick. Thank you. I got you covered. I got you covered. I got you covered.

It looks like if you do connect with Jared on LinkedIn, you're going to get about one piece of content every year. Okay, no, that's perfect. That's perfect. I mean, I think some people post too much, you know? But clearly it's a stacked resume and that's what matters. Yep, quality over quantity. What inspires you to write on LinkedIn? Um, what about work? When you're at work, work, work, work, work, work. When Miles is working in like a dog, hey, go trim the bushes outside.

But I'm not even sure if we have bushes. Not right now, at least. There's no bushes to trim. Kevin's not, that's grown back. Nate. Jared's posting on LinkedIn like I'm on LinkedIn. Yeah. Yeah, he's trying to. He's posting on LinkedIn like his boss is on LinkedIn. A motivational post.

He's trying to tell you something. Yeah, motivational work, work, work, work. Tuesday, last Tuesday of the week. Am I right? Was that a Rihanna lyric you were posting? I think so. Yeah. Yeah.

It was so long ago. Yeah. I just get in the zone and I just start posting. What about last Tuesday of the week? Is that a Jared original or is that something? It was just the last Tuesday of the week. Two years in a row. Two years running.

I mean, where's the last Tuesday in the week this year? Are you doing that? It's coming up. We all find me. What's today? It's going to. Well, we're not going to tell you that. You got to connect with him and then you'll find out when he posted.

Don't want to spoil the good stuff. I signed a connection, by the way. I sent a connection. and so you shouldn't, you know, totally add me back. Let me connect with me when you can. Let's see what it's on his profile. Yeah, let's look at his profile. Is your last name served with the tweet, T?

Yeah, yeah. Nathaniel. You totally find me. Let's go. The full government name. Yeah, let's go. His profile picture, hashtag open to work. Oh, yeah.

For me, as an employer, that's a little try hard, by the way. I'd like you to play a little harder to bring. Oh, okay. My mistake. My mistake. I mean, if you're looking for a design engineer, you know, just hit me up. All right. Let's read us about motivated and committed engineering undergrad with focus on computer-eated design, which is also known as CAD. CAD? Yeah. Looking to use technical expertise and design abilities in a fast-paced team setting to produce innovative solutions. God, that makes me want to snort glass, to be honest with you. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. That's a good thing, right?

How many syllables do you have in those two senses? Yeah. I don't know, more than my name has, right? Yeah, you were a project engineer intern. Nice. You were summer help as well. Nice, dude. Summer help.

Yeah, dude. That one, that one stacked resume. Read that summer help. Get my hands dirty. He built electrical components and on production line according to specifications in CAD. Cat, dude. I don't know what CAD is. He was just a cat intern at one point.

Dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 3D modeling. 3D modeling. Okay, cool. It could 3D model something, you know, if you need it done. All right.

You were volunteered at the Baptist Church, small group leader. You're also a green teams coordinator at CMU. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And you've been endorsed by one person. the last six months. You have one endorsement. Who is it?

Tanner. That's cool. Jared, endorse you. That's my roommate. Jared, give him a minute. Jared, endorse me.

He connected with me. I saw that. Jared, can you write a post on his profile, Jared? I don't know if I can. Okay. I haven't gone this far as LinkedIn.

You know what, Nate? I didn't know that you could endorse someone on LinkedIn. I kind of like that. I should just go start endorsing random people. and then one of them ends up being terrible. Like, it's arrested and I look bad because I endorse. They have to release it like a PR statement.

You're not on it. It's come to my attention that I may or may not have endorsed a certain someone on LinkedIn. Streisland effect. My mistake. Please know that I have rescinded my endorsement for said person. And I don't condone any of their behavior. I like privacy. you at this time for me of my family.

Miles, you don't have a profile, huh? I'm sure. I'm sure I'm sure I'm like a Miles you betcha guy profile. Let's see. Let's see what he's got. See if he's got, look up the mom pleasure first. I probably got Notion Media on there.

I probably got it. I am. Oh, nice. He is on here. Video creator. Video content and marketing specialist. That's a nice pick, dude. When was that updated. Oh, that's, that's nine years ago. Wow, dude.

Nice. You look, you look just like miles today. That was in between Domino Dan eras. I kind of figured. Yeah. Domino's driving in the back. Yeah, what if there's a domino delivery driver walking up? That's where it started.

Looked at you on your phone. Can't be bothered. Can't be bothered for this picture. Yeah. It was a candid, you know. Yeah. I like that. I like going to full candid on it. Any posts? Motion Media. And I went to MSUM, bachelor's degree. I do have one endorsement. Who's that? Look on that.

It should be good. Oh, yeah. Ryan. Ryan. Yeah, Ryan. Not our Ryan, but different Ryan. Yeah. It's probably the same thing. Yep, it is. That's impressive. It's congrats, dude. Hey, if this podcasting thing doesn't work out, Miles, I think you've got a bright future. You should maybe become LinkedIn influencers. Yeah, I want to be a Venmo influencer. You can be a LinkedIn.

I want to. Well, Nathan, did you have any reason to call before we let you go? I mean, well, no, I told me had a whole story lined up. You know, I was gassing up Jared. That's probably half the reason I'm on this pod. I was gassing them up in my voice mail. Okay, so that's a little tidbit for future callers. Do you want to get in the podcast?

You got to butter Jared up a little bit. It always works. I think I buttered him up a little bit, a little bit. But I called him to talk about my grandma. Okay. My grandma. Oh, my gosh. I don't even know where to start.

So hopefully not the end. Well, wrong grandma. So my grandma on my dad's side, she's a character, you know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to figure out how to go about this. We'll start at the beginning of my lifespan with her. Okay, good. All right. So now you've come through the birth canal.

Is she there or is she not there? No, no. I'm not even through the birth canal yet, all right? Not even there yet. Sorry. It's in labor. My mom's in labor. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so just to set the stage, you know, my mom tells my dad, this has been going on for years. My mom tells my dad, do not tell your parents that I am in labor. I do not want them here. So good start, right? Horatious. You know, my dad, being the talk of the person he is,

that's where I get it from. He tells his parents, and she shows up, and she opens his order to saying, knock, knock. My mom immediately said, cut her out of here. This is from them.

I had to, like, find ways to set the stage. This is stories from them. So you're aware. But I have. I have stuff specifically that I've gone through, such as this last Christmas, which I think it's probably what we'll do. That's very clear, Nathan.

That's very clear. But I think you were doing great. Thank you. You just keep talking. We're enjoying it. Thank you. Yeah. Let's gas you up right now.

Gas me up. Yeah. Come on. Add me on LinkedIn. So I'll, I'll, I'll talk. tell you about this last Christmas or Christmas in 2024. Um, she gave some of the wildest gifts I have ever seen like bad, like bad, bad. Some people will say like, oh, you know, oh, that's super cute.

Oh my gosh, your grandparents are so cute. No, it's not. She's not five. Thank you. So I don't know, should I send you guys some of my kids? I send you guys some of the pictures. I have pictures of all of these gifts so that I can like, yeah, just text it to this number.

What start describing them? What, uh, what gifts are we talking? So I'll send you some of the, the wrappings first. Um, because her rapping job is subpar at best. Uh, she's even spelled my name wrong on one of them.

Um, how do you get Nate? How do you get Nate wrong? Oh, no, no. No, no. No, full name. name, Nathaniel. She forgot the L. You can see it on one of the pictures I said. Nathanie? Oh, yeah. Yep. It's exactly how she spelled it. So it's poking out the top. The gift is poking out.

Yeah. No. Yeah. Here's a few more of them. Oh, that's so good, dude. Because you know what's happening? That is leftover paper from the Christmas before and she only had so much. I have so much respect. for your grandma's game. Her rapping game is on point. This is like if you did Christmas with Charlie Barron. Yeah, this is exactly what it looks like. What's in the packaging, Nathanie? Thank you, Chuck.

So I got a few. I said a few of the other things. She sent us Dream Catchers, me and my sister. All right. Cool, we're not really into that. But okay. Okay. the next thing I sent was

Look I'm not doing tarant cards on this podcast I think I think she'd be really into that She sent you stationary No those are just no pads that she's collected over the year Like one I think is from a hotel Oh no this one is St. Jude's Hospital Your grandma is stealing the paper from a hospital Is that a comb?

Warrior Project one Oh, that comes in the mail. Used one. Yeah, look at the Wounded Warrior Project one. You can clearly see that that someone else is because she scribbled out the name at the top. Oh, my God. That's so good.

That is so good. Most of them were also used, like not all the paper was there. Some of them had like three pages left. She's just giving up. Just giving back the junk she has in her like drawers. the one of the three pieces of paper you have, you can see the indents

from what someone wrote the page before to. It's a Christmas list for the kids. Look at that hand sanitizer. That's from 1964. She wrote hand sanitizer on it in case we didn't know. That's good. What is this metal thing?

That's clearly a used beret. Brett, is that what you call it? Yeah. It's clearly, use there's like some gunk on it i thought uh might be a family heirloom though you know that's fine just put some of that hand sanitizer from 1974 on it and that should clean it right up two gloves two gloves it clearly work gloves that she got from like i don't know a rick site well those

those aren't those look new at least from an electrical kit you know that you just like get on a whims She just three gifts that. So, all right, you got these calendars. Was it for the correct year? I'll explain that. Yes, yes. Correct year, because we were giving this in 2024. But there's some explanation to do with that.

So she sent my dad a car calendar every year, whatever. He's like fine with it. He'll just like use it as a cutting board downstairs or something. I don't know. He doesn't really care. But she sent us a little. little, oh my gosh, there was a little notes along with one of them. Saying that this is a one-of-a-kind calendar.

Tim, this is a one-of-a-kind 20-25 calendar. I looked and looked for a calendar with cars. Never found one. So I made this for you. It's the sunrises and sunsets 2025. calendar. It's clearly like a paper calendar. I didn't really think much of it when I was opening it because

me and my sister spent the night opening this and we didn't think much of it and my sister said she said made what if she glued stuff in there. So I opened it. Oh my God. And she glued the cars in there.

She bought a sunset calendar and then cut out pictures of cars and taped them in the sunset set. dude oh she cut that out of a magazine i feel so bad for the walgreens where she got all those pictures from it's expert work is expert work oh god there's a car on the beach there's a car on the honestly this is brilliant dude you're you think of all the thought your grandma put into that i mean look she she did her best just imagine i've seen some bad

old people gifts, this has got to be the worst I've seen. Just imagining her grandma walking into a Walgreens, looking for the car magazine, just starting to cut them out of there and then put it right back down the rack. It's old school Photoshop, which is, yeah, it is. That would be on her LinkedIn bio. Photoshop expert. Analog, analog Photoshop expert.

You know, that is one of a kind. I guarantee you nobody else in the world. made one of those for your dad last Christmas? It is one of one. It is one of one. I'll see if I can get it signed from her. She did sign it? Kind of like a retired jersey.

We'll see. We'll see. I'm going to try and get her to, that would be big. I could tell that for millions. Did she mark any dates on the calendar, things to remember, like her birthday? It's another thing.

So she told us, I think it was on Thanksgiving of that year. She gave us a little, like, printout calendar. She said, I didn't see you guys enough this year. So here's all the dates I want to see you guys next year. She, like, marked everyone's birthdays off. She marked off every single holiday, you know, obviously Mother's Day, Father's Day. She marked out, like, the occasional weekend because she's like, I want to see you guys every weekend.

Yeah. So that was nice. Oh, oh, here's another one. that's my sister I'm sending you another one that's my sister holding a handcrafted shirt for her okay well that's nice

that is cute with the little gems it's falling apart already yeah it's missing some gems I mean you know it's falling apart well it's what the kids like

these days it's vintage yeah no it's vintage yes it's perfect for the goodwill. It is perfect for the goodwill. I think she went to the dumpster out back to goodwill to get most of these.

These are the goodwill. I mean, she didn't want to pay a dime. I don't think she did. And that's the most impressive thing about the whole thing. Wow. God, just think, though, how much more you look forward to Christmas every year, though, knowing you're like, what are we going to unwrap next? Yeah, that's the real present.

That is the present. Yeah. Sometimes you barely even have to unwrap it. Yeah, what, you know, you don't remember what you got from your parents four years ago, but I guarantee you remember what you got from your grandma. You're never going to forget this. I remember this one. No, I see, look, here's the problem, though.

She was uninvited to Christmas this previous year because of her shenanigans on Thanksgiving. What'd you do? My mom said, you're not inviting your mother to my dad. So she was not invited her. What'd she do? Dude, opened the door for my sister did. Open the door.

My grandma ignores her. She sits on the couch and starts reading. She must have had it having a bad day. She sat there. She read the whole time until we went and ate. She, you know, ate her plate, and then she left. Well, she didn't say a single word. She didn't help all my mom.

It's probably because you guys are making fun of her. so much. It probably is. You know, my mom is the main spearhead of the operation. Trust me. You know, I'd include her a lot of the time, but I just don't think she gets it a lot. She'll often take it and kind of like roll with the whole thing. You know, she'll

she'll take over the entire conversation that she's given an ounce of anything, you know, everything's about her all of a sudden, which to each one's on it, it just happens every time. And then she'll give us these gifts to go with it. That's great, dude. That's when you just go pour yourself a drink, ask her a leading question, one that kind of gets on your mom's nerves, and then just watch it like it's a TV show. Yeah. Oh my gosh, dude.

You know, my mom and dad are probably going to listen to this because my mom, my mom probably posted this on Facebook because I accidentally told her about this. So, you know, your mom posted on Facebook that you were going to be on the belly of podcast? She probably did. I wouldn't be surprised. I turned off notifications from her

because every time I looked at her Facebook, I get a little too embarrassed. My mom posts a lot about me on Facebook. Maybe your mom is a lot more like your grandma than she thinks. That's usually the issue. and the thing is, you know, again, it's my dad's mom that we're talking about here, but my mom does share some similarities. Now, my mom's probably going to kill me when she hears this.

Well, get specific then. Well, yeah, this is, no, I know, but this is like, this is, I found podcasting is a great way to get family members to change your behavior. So lay it out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What's your mom do that you hate? Dude, my, oh, my mom, she'll be.

heated over like okay like after the thanksgiving situation like you know we did like a little debrief of course afterwards um and whatnot we kind of did a family game night oh my gosh she was sitting there fuming the whole time and you know we're all having fun playing i think we're playing monopoly and you know, and then my mom just burst out, hey, there's another thing. She starts yapping about like everything she did wrong that day.

And my dude, we're like, all right, thanks for killing the mood. You know what? She just needed, she needs to blow the top off the steam. You know, blow some steam off. What's the, what's the thing? Pop the pot the kettle.

You know, otherwise, otherwise it gets hell. in and what better time to do it than monopoly, you know? What a brutal game. And then you just get a little bit more entertainment. That's when you just stir the pot, you know? And so you're saying

stir the pot, you don't want to cool it down, you want to stir it. Yeah, because they've got to come out, you know, otherwise it sits there and simmers till next Thanksgiving and she doesn't want to invite her. Is that what you do with your 11 siblings? Oh, yeah. I don't know how many you got. I figure out which ones are having a tiff. and I make sure to

just ask one leading question and walk away, you know? I bet that works out really well for you. Do you still leave them on the mantle? No, they're too big for the mantle. What's funny, dude? What's funny is, of all the stuff we've talked about recently,

if I guess my mom brought that up to me too. What'd she bring up? She's like, I can't believe Charlie was just leaving his siblings on the man. She's like, that's crazy. I know, dude. I think about that. I'm like, what was wrong with me?

But, you know, where did I get that idea, right? But also, like, for these kids, they were old enough at that point, you know? And it taught them resilience and public humiliation. It wasn't public humiliation. They were too young to be humiliated. Okay. And I was- I have almost a two-year-old. He gets embarrassed.

So. Did I actually say that on this podcast? What? The mantle? Yeah. Yeah, we broadcasted that to the world. Shit. well that should

think I knew yeah what did you think he was there I wasn't the only one that did that dude that someone must have done that to me hurt people hurt people who did it to me which uncle oh man

damn maybe I'm an asshole I don't I think that's a original experience yeah I asked me really yeah I did not leave my sister on the mantle with you. Well, how much younger is she than you?

Six years. Yeah. You couldn't have reached the mantle when she was mantle sitting time. You know? Look, I'm not going to sit here and defend myself. It wasn't the right thing to do, but I was a minor so I can't

be convicted. So it's okay. Are you saying I should have gotten all of my crimes out of the way while I was still below the age of 18? I mean kind of, yeah. Sort of how the system set up. Yeah, it's not a bad idea. What?

I love if I've been doing that. Tell your sister. Tell your sister before it's too late. I'll have to let her know. She doesn't get too. She doesn't got much time left. Go commit crimes. Go rob a bank and make sure and save me some.

What am I doing? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Well, I think at 17, you can be tried as an adult. So you really want to look at the local restrictions on that kind of thing. my sister's 16 right now so like you know it's perfect she's got some perfect crime she got some time yeah exactly exactly no i i think uh i think she can get something done right now and um and then save me a piece that's all i'm saying okay because lord lord knows i need a need a little extra cheddar cheese

nathan you're your real piece of work in the best way um best way of that term i don't know if i I don't know if I like that anymore I think I'm all of a sudden I don't want you to connect with me on LinkedIn Oh oh shit Nathan I said I might mean that in the best way You're starting to sound a little like your mom and grandma right now Yeah

Fucking oh I haven't crashed out yet Runs in the family I can feel the crash out coming Yeah see this is what I'm talking about Nathan I just stir the pot a little and then watch it Watch it bake I gotta get this freaking an analogy

Nathan, Nathan, I just says, all I said was you're a piece of work. I didn't say a good piece of work or a bad piece of work. You interpreted that. So questions, what does that say about you, you know? You know, it says I'm a bad piece of work, but, you know, it is what it is. We'll live with it. No, you're a good guy, Nathan. In fact, I think Miles is right.

You should go into sales because you're a chatterbox, man. you can you could sell a horse to a Subaru dealer and I think you got a lot of potential either I'm just I think this is a PSA for everyone don't drink and do antibiotics I am doing drinking I am doing drinking I'm just doing a lot of drinking oh no that's me what I know what I'm talking about Charlie Charlie's on antibiotics right now and he had a fireball shot You can't get the saying right. I forgot about the anti-biased. Yes.

You did a fireball shot? Oh my gosh, I'll do one right now with you. I feel like we are. I feel like Nate is a great kid. And we're just like, we're the wrong crowd for him to hang out with. I know.

We're, we're bruised with two more decades of life, Miles. You know, like I feel like his mom's definitely like, don't be hanging out with those kids. Yeah, that guy who calls. you a piece of work.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, she would, she would not like me talking to you guys. She's probably going to be like, who the heck were those guys? That's what she's going to say. You're a great guy, Nathan. Well, we appreciate you calling in today, dude. Dude, I appreciate you guys yapping.

Well, me yapping at you guys, I guess, or accurately. No, we're excited for your career moves and all the connections. you're going to get on LinkedIn after this podcast. Dude, I already got Jared on lock. That's all I needed, I guess. I mean, Charlie, you're coming out of an afterthought now. Thank you, Jared. Thank you.

Just, you know, make sure to, you know, put that yearly post out. Yeah. If you ever need an endorsement, just message me and I'll endorse you. I'll contact you. Yeah, I'll contact you. And, you know, if Bellied up ever needs some 3D modeling done, I got you guys covered. Okay. It's good to have a cad guy in our back pocket.

Chad guy, but you want to be part of some stock photos, Nathan? Oh, dude, I would love to. I would love to. I mean, you should see my poses. I mean, I can't dance. I can pose. Do you have a nice feet? Oh, dude.

Do you want to see them? No, dude. Send those. That is a work phone. Do not send those. Send them. Just look at my mom's Facebook. She's got that on there.

She's got your feet on her Facebook. Why do you think I turned off my notifications to when she boasted about me? You guys are a wild family. All right, Nathanie, thanks for calling in, dude. Tell your grandma and mom, we say hi. Oh, I will certainly tell them. You make sure to change your ear filters and watch for deer now. We will.

Tell your sister, I say peace. Oh, I'll let her not. Let her know. See ya. Well, Charlie, is that another episode of the Belly-up podcast? That's another episode. Nathaniel took us for a ride there, man. We didn't know where we were going, but...

Here we are. That's the beauty of Bellied Up. So, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode. Always remember to tip your bartender. Yes. We'll see you next one. Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now.

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