Bellied Up - How to Win a Prank War #210

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

We're at The Sunlite Bar in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. We chat about what would make the coolest Midwest spa. JJ calls in to ask whether $8,000 is too much to spend on an engagement ring (answer is yes). Then Justin, owns a landscaping business in New Jersey, needs advice after his employees keep pulling them pranks. We tell him how to win it. Finally, we eat on one big ass beautiful burger.Go to shadyrays.com and use code belliedup for 50% off 2+ pairs of polarizedsunglasses. #adWanna call in? Leave us a voicemail: 218-303-5095

Well, folks, here we are. Welcome to another episode of the Bellied Up podcast. My name is Charlie Barrens here with my fearless host in crime. Miles, you bet you guy. How are we doing, folks? Miles, we are at sunset. Sunlight bar and grill. Sunlight bar and grill.

What lake is this? Floyd? Is it big or little Floyd? We're right in between big and little Floyd. It's where I like to be, Miles. here in the Detroit Lakes, Minnesota area, Charlie. I'd like to be right between the Floyd. So what's one thing about Sunlight Bar Grill is I did a video here one time.

Yeah. And I found out that they have what they're, what is called the Wild Burger. Oh, wow. Look what's on the Wild Burger right there. Read it off. The Wild Burger cash slash card $30 to $3.1.20. And you will say, wow, that's a lot for a burger. But look what you get on it.

That is a lot for a burger. You get one beef patty, one bison patty, one elk patty. Oh, man, three slices of American cheese, four slices of bacon, one side choice, fries, salad, cods, cheese, potato salad, no meat substitution. What are you going to sub it for? It's all on there. It is. Yeah.

So you get a cow, you get a bison, you get an elk, and you get a pig on that sucker. Miles, that is wild. And so I think we should split one today. I would love to split one with you. My grandparents. I split every meal. Miles and I went out to dinner last night and I got a steak. He got the walleye.

And I suggested we split the meal. I told our waitresses. We had two of them that we would be splitting the meal. We didn't have two waitresses. One was training. One was in training. But yeah, they were all for it. And then when it came time to do splits,

Miles over here pulled back. He didn't offer me. I thought you were joking to be honest. I was serious, but the steak was good. You were doing the bit of like, oh, we could do the Wisconsin surf and turf. Yeah. Steaking walleye. I was doing kind of a bit. That's all right. It was hard to, hard to hear because we were, it was karaoke. And I didn't know that when I brought you there. They had some good pipes though, some good singers. I like it. Um, so, yeah, we're going to try that today, Charlie. We are going to try that. I do, I am excited. How are you feeling? Are you caffeinated up, Miles?

I am caffeinated up, do you? You got a little flirty this morning, didn't you? Currently shooting a YouTube video where I drink a different energy drink every day for 30 days and see which one I like the most. And today I drank an energy drink called flirt with no eye. I drank it too. And, uh, oh, there wasn't an eye in it? No, it was just FLRT, very millennial.

It could also be flirt. Could be flirt. It's when you fart while you're, Flort, you know. Flort? I don't know. Okay. We don't know.

It could be any bowel, any bowel. But yeah, I forgot to, I didn't eat anything this morning and I had to sit down after drinking it. I felt like a total wuss. That's a PSA. Do not flirt on an empty stomach. So you guys got to be on the lookout for that YouTube video coming out. And, but Charlie. Yeah.

we uh what were you doing right before this well i got a wet hat i can tell you that much you're still wearing the wet hat yeah i only brought one hat it's sopping wet yeah it is it is sopping wet but miles and i we were shooting a video your dad when you ding the prop and then so i got in miles had this great idea why don't you get in my my quote was we were trying to figure out how to end the video and i said charlie if you're really committed to the bit uh-huh you'd just get in the lake in your jeans. And I did. Because I am committed to this bit. And so I'm there messing with

the prop and, you know, doing the whole dad thing. And then I see these sunnies come up. Just swimming up over to the sunfish, swimming up to my feet. And they started I've never seen sunfish get that close. Really? Well, I mean, maybe so in the lakes in Wisconsin,

they're not as clear as your lake. So you can't even see them. You can see them. but maybe but they they seem more skittish yeah i've never had uh certainly never had this many sunfish come up and just they were pecking they were attacking my toes i was like am i on there spawning better or something what's going on but no they were playing with me man they were they they started sucking my toes and that was honestly feeling pretty good um and i Charlie said that we need to start a spa and that's the foot spa treatment is just the sunny spa the sunny suck the sunny suck yeah hey we should start that right now we should do it right right next to this spot right next to the sun this is the sun

side what would you what would you make what would be included in a midwestern spa uh that's a great question a mid well first of all we got that we got it we got it we got it with the sunny you got a full of sunnies that suck, suck your toes. Yeah. Toes suck in sunnies, uh, for sure. I'd say a little slice pickles on the eyes. Yeah, I was going to say like, like fried slice fried pickles on your eyes. That's awesome. Yeah. And then, um, for a massage, for a massage, okay, so you, I feel like it's got to be a mechanical massage. Like a, a wheelbarrow, like you lay on the wheel barrel. Yeah, like they do hot rocks and stuff at like fancy spas. Yes. What would be the, you just, you just, you just, it would be the equivalent. You just, you just put, um, uh, of hot rocks.

You just put, um, uh, like hot oil filters, like right off the car. You know, like, you're doing an oil. You, that's it. You drive your car there. They do an oil change. And they take the old filter, which is still hot. and put it on your back. That's great, dude. Yeah. And then for the actual massaging, I don't know,

I don't know where we go with that. You know, what do you think? I mean, maybe just standard. No, no, yeah.

What would be relaxing? You know, like what music, if you're getting a massage, what are they playing in the background? I think they got a little soft polka going in the background. Yeah, or maybe like they're just playing the

the radio announcer recording of like when the Packers won the Super Bowl if you're a Packers fan, you know? Oh, that would be great. If you could go into a spa and have the 97 Super Bowl 31 just just playing down low. And then maybe the masseuse just scratches your back for like 10 minutes. Yeah, it's like not even a massage. It's just like getting your back rubbed.

Sometimes you're like, you come away from a. massage like, holy shit. They're really getting in there. Sometimes you just want like your wife to just scratch your back. That would be nice. Yeah, no, they don't even, we're Midwesterners. We don't even have a masseuse on staff. It's just a room with various types of back scratchers and you just do it yourself. Yeah, that's it. You know, like they got they got hammers on the wall so you can scratch your back with a claw of it. Then they have the ones that like you can buy that are like actual back scratchers. And then there's ones with like a like a wheel on the end.

Have you seen those like a like a notched wheel that you can just rub on your own back? Oh yeah. They just have a plethora of different corners in the room. You know, one's like a metal corner. One's a wood corner. One's sheet rock. One's carpeted. And then you can just go up and scratch your back on the ones that you want.

We don't need a massage. We don't need a masseuse. We can do it ourselves. And there's a sink there that's just dripping. And you're like, I can handle that. You know, it's a lot of easy home, home improvement tasks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like quick wins, you know.

A lot of clogged, a lot of clogged drains, you know. Yeah, like a project is something that would be super like, just a project where you just got to put one screw in. And it's fixed. And there's always someone that comes in that says, I can't figure out what's wrong with it. You know, I got that. I got that. And then you just do the one screw and you're like, there you go. Yeah.

Oh, God, that was nice. So what did you do at the spa today? Well, I scratched my back on the corner of a carpeted wall. Had a couple sunny sucking my toes. I had a couple two tree fried pickles on the eyes. And then I finished the day with a nice relaxing home project. Oh, you know what else? They should have, they should have various things you can pick your teeth with, you know, like toothpicks obviously, but also a nice sharp corner of a cardboard, you know. Or like, a business card. Business card for sure.

That would be a great advertisement for Midwestern guys. Instead of having toothpicks at the bar, you just say, hey, I'll give you a bunch of my business cards for these guys to clean their teeth out with. And then it also has your business on it. And one corner of the business card is just like, has a plastic. It's like reinforced.

It'd be good for like a Midwest dentist. Yeah, I would. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got toothpicks.

You got that. straws. I don't know if you've ever picked your teeth. You flatten out a straw. Sure. You get that nice corner right there, you know, and you got four corners on a straw. A lot of people don't know that.

But when you flatten it out, you got two on one side, two on the other. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Well, all right. You know, I try to...

You can flatten it two ways is what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. But each side now has a corner. Mm-hmm. So not everyone knows. Square straw. Square straw.

Yeah. I think that that would be a great feature of it. It's just like the toothpick station. And you just, you pick your weapon of choice, just like the back rub. Oh, yeah.

That's perfect. And I do feel like, you know, as long as we got sunny sucking on the toes, we should be able, it should be honestly a dock situation because I feel like you should have a pole in the water, you know,

if you can just be pulling out of some pills. Yeah, the whole time you're doing this on a dock. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're fishing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you get your station and like even if you're like in the back rubbing station, you know, you're like you got a little pole. You can put your, you maybe do a bobber out there.

Oh, yeah. Oh. And even if it's inside. And then there's a bell on your thing and you got to run over there. That's even if it's inside, though, watching a bobber go just a bunch of screens of bobber, different bobbers going down. I'd love that. I wish there was a bobber channel out there or you could just watch bobbers go down all day. Dude, that might be our million dollar idea. And it could be, watch your own bobber, you know, but you're watching everyone else's

bobber. The little play on words. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like if it's relaxing, you just have like, uh, you, you know, like when, uh, like a kid, like a kid's fishing set for like really little kids, like my kid has one. It's like a plastic fishing rod. Yeah.

And then there's the fish and they have magnets on them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you, you dump it into a tank and then there's just someone swimming around in there, like, attaching fish to your hook. So you're guaranteed, like, 10 fish, you know? Yeah, it's like, it's like when you go to one of those pheasant hunting clubs and they go, uh, just put out 10 birds for you. And although there, you're not even guaranteed. You can miss all of them. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Yeah. I think another thing, too, is, if you ever been in a sauna that all. also has like the like the like the like the vapor in it that like clears your sinuses out. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But instead of doing the clear your sinuses out, you can go into different steam and sauna rooms that have different sense. So you could do like a campfire smelling. Oh, I don't clear the sinuses up. I want a sauna room that's just a, it's a grill with burgers on it.

But the fire is overheating. So you got to pour your beer on it to sit. simmer it out. You're in a sauna, so you want the heat. You do want, well, I know, but you also like pour the water on the coals to get the steam up there. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But as I say this, we would all die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Well, we'd have, we'd figure it out. Yeah, you get a vent in there. You know, some guy was in there. You have a room where it's just some guy, you're in your robe, and it's really hot in there. And some guy's just cutting wood. So you just get to smell a lumber, fresh cut wood. Then you also have a room with fresh cut grass. Oh,

that's great. And then you also have a room that just smells like gasoline. Just all the best smells. We've listed. We have a Sharpie room. Yeah, paint, freshly painted wall. Rubber cement room. Paint that a room. Yeah. That's great. I mean, that sounds actually like a very relaxing Midwest spa. I don't know about you, Charlie. Yeah, you know what's, what, uh, A little intense, though, was what I was actually doing was, I don't even think we told people, I decided to try to catch a sunny with my hands. And that, I really needed a sauna after that because I was so, we were playing. Me and these sunfish, we were playing.

Like, I tried to catch one and I couldn't. He wiggled out, but then they all came back. They were like, let me have a go at that. Yeah. You know, we're just. Charlie did get a, you got, I tried to coach Charlie on what to do. You know, it's like classic. chirping from the cheap seats.

Charlie didn't love that. Well, I was like, have you done this before Miles? I mean, I've tried, but not like as long as you did. Have you ever called home with your hands? The video that you were doing that for like 13 minutes. I just saw it. In fact, it's still transferring to Tyler. It's been

transferring for like 12 minutes right now. It's going minute by minute. But yeah, you didn't like it when I said, Charlie, you don't want to go where the fish is, you want to go where the fish is going to be. That was so annoying.

He didn't love that. Because Miles will take every situation in your life and make some kind of philosophical. That's a strategy. Ever since Miles had a kiddies become a little Midwest Buddha over here, you know. And also, I hate to say it, he was right. I did change. I did get closer. The problem was, is these fish are so quick, man.

You are playing in their field. They know how quick they can move underwater. I was trying to get the hands closer, closer. I got two between the hands, but they squirmed, man. So I didn't want to tell you this because you were already mad at me with the lead the fish comment. Yeah. But if you actually want to do it, in my opinion, you just put your fingertips at the top of the water because you can move faster in air.

Whereas if you're fully submerged in water, your hand moves too slow and they can feel it. So if you were at the right at the top, they swim up to go nibble on your finger, then you can move faster and grab them off the water. So we could try that later. Yeah, that would be fun. Can we do that tonight? No. I might not catch a fish.

I'm going to catch a fish bear. You ever caught a fish with your bare hands, Miles? Um, no. I caught one in this title pool. I was doing a show out somewhere with title pools. And there was a fish where he was caught the title pool. And I was trying to set them free. You know, because it was getting hot and the, I knew he was low on oxygen.

Yep. So I caught him and I put him in the rest of the drink. Just like me saving those birds in my window well. See, we both have a soul, you know? Who would have thought? Well, Charlie, should we order the Wild Burger and start taking some callers? Let's do it, Miles. Let's do it.

It's JJ. Okay, JJ. Yeah. What are you doing? It sounds like it's raining outside. no it's uh i i i'm driving for you yes now and my truck's just real loud i got oh can you can you hear me yeah you uh you said you're driving for who uPS the amount of male people we've gotten on this podcast yeah you're the third uh male professional to call uh so far sounds like you're driving through a tornado

I mean, I can pull over real fast. No, it's comforting. I mean, you can if you want. Are you on speaker? No, I got you in my AirPods. Okay. All right. Well, we'll just deal with it.

Yeah, we'll deal with it. What's on your mind? Well, I was calling for some advice of seeking the wisdom of the high council. Ah, all right. Here, here. It's a little sore subject for Charlie. but does it have to deal with marriage? Yeah, that's exactly what it has to do with.

Okay. All right. What is he again? Is he Jared or JJ? JJ. J.J. All right, JJ. Let's hear about this Laylay.

Lady, lady. I was just asking if I should propose to my girlfriend. I mean, historically speaking, if you got to call a podcast to figure out if you should propose. You got a lot of Charlie in your future, JJ. I'll tell you that much. Right, right, right. No, no, I tease.

I tease. We're honored that you would call and get our advice on this. Have you asked your father yet? No. Okay. Well, we got it. I mean, would you sit down and ask your father if you think she should get married? I just mean of all the male figures in JJ's life.

I would much rather call it a podcast than ask my. my dad if he thinks I should marry. Did you ever, Miles, did you ever ask your dad if she thought? No. No. Okay. Everyone was also at that point, we had been dating for like five years. I feel like everyone was kind of giving me that like, okay, it's time to do it.

So I didn't really need to ask anyone about it. Yeah. How old are you? 25. 25. What do you think, Charlie? Is that an appropriate age to get married? Well, when does the brain fully develop?

I mean, I think, I think mine, no, I think mine just my, my prefrontal cortex or whatever finally developed like last year. Did it? So he's got some years. That's 32. Well, you know, that's okay. You don't need a fully developed brain to get married. We've seen that before. And we've seen it work successfully.

So how old is she? 24. 24. All right. And I mean, I feel like that's a solid age. How long you guys been dating? Like two years. It's a good amount of time.

A lot's happened in that two years. Tell us about it. So I had, my license got suspended last year for a period of time. And how did that happen? You know, committing crimes. What kind of crimes?

Come on. Speed him. And agrees. amount. Okay. Apparently. How fast were you going? Well, an alleged, 111 in a construction zone. Your brain is not fully developed. I could tell you that right now. No, you should not get married. You should not get married yet. Well, this is a lot of personal growth has happened since then. So like, it was on my, uh, on one of my motorcycles. And I, I've since then, you know, sold it smart.

And I sold my other stuff, you know, my other motorcycle. I had two of them. Okay. Well, that's good. That is a step in the right direction, Charlie. Well, what happened to the motor, what happened? Do you get an accident? No.

No. He got his license removes from speeding. Oh, you were speeding on your motor. You were on your motorcycle going 100, 10 in a construction zone. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Got it.

Got it. Yeah, that is way more stupid than a car. That's up there with one of the dumbest things we've heard on this podcast. That might be. Yeah. All right. All right. He's like, I already heard all this from my family and my girlfriend.

Right. Sorry, you're right. You've done your time. And hey, you know what? Miles, not only has he done his time, he's also proven to the world and at least UPS that he's a responsible driver. How did you swing that? How did you convince them to let you drive a truck? Um, uh, the union.

Oh, okay. Were you doing this before? You were doing it before. Uh, you got the speeding ticket. Yeah. Okay. I've been there for a few years. Okay.

Got it. They're like, all right. Well, um, he's got a governor on his truck all right. ready? Is there a way we can bump it down? Let's maybe not let him go over 40. Okay. What is your girlfriend? Also, that laugh was just a pity laugh. I, but you know what? I like that about him. That shows he's a considerate guy. That's true. I mean, you give your girlfriend some pity laughs there, JJ? No. If it's not funny, I let her now. Okay. Well, he's being nicer to us. I like that. That's a little.

that's getting better it's getting better yeah j j um what does your girlfriend do for a living she's a nurse oh you'll need that you know in case you get that speed demon come creep up on you again it's good to have a nurse especially with an apocalypse glooming right miles you always want to have a medical professional on standby yeah that's exactly what i was thinking yeah um okay cool and do is she expecting it is she waiting for this have you guys had the talk? Yeah, we've already like figured out, you know, like our goals in life and like how we would, you know, move forward with like everything. Okay. Any problems, any infidelities, any wandering eye from you, JJ. No. No. I'm true blue. True blue. Okay. Yeah. All right. The,

I got, I only got two problems with her. Yeah. Great. And these are, this is, this is what I wanted, you know, get out there. Yeah. Is one, the ring she wants is just under eight grand. Ooh. Wow. Better than just over, but. Right.

Yikes. And like we had just went out to Utah on a nice vacation and I was thinking about doing it right there, you know, while we were out, you know, on these like real nice hikes. Uh-huh. But, you know, I had a voice in my head saying, you know, probably not. And it was the voice in my bank account because it's rings like eight grand. Does she know that it costs eight grand or is she just, I love this ring and doesn't, doesn't, never inquired about how much it was.

No, she knows. We went, we went to go look at them together. And then she was like, oh, I really like this one. And it's like $7,800. Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of, that's a lot of money. And does she think that you're, you got money like that? Yeah, I think. And you're a UPS driver?

In the union. Yeah. It is union. You're right. Do you have $8,000 to spend on this ring? I mean, I do, but I don't think it would be like a smart financial decision. Ah, so now we're getting the finances talk, right? Have you done finances talk with her?

yeah we like uh she has some student loan debts and like we worked out like a plan to where like she could like have it paid off within like a couple of months if like you know don't get like coffees like every other day there we go you've been listening to dave ramsie you've been on the dave ramsie plan yeah i knew it to him there he is you got your safety fun you got your you, that's number one, right? You got rid of motorcycles, right? Wait, for step one is getting rid of all your debt and you're in that phase, correct? The what phase?

Getting rid of all your debt. Yeah, well, I've been debt free since January. Let's go. Wow. Dave Ramsey knows what you're doing. Dave Ramsey is somewhere with have a heart on hearing that. So you're, you're debt free and how do you? do you feel about taking on her debt if you were to get married?

It's only like five grand left. Oh. So, I mean, I could just pay it off right now if I want really want to give her an ultimatum. It's either the ring or your student loan debt. Well, I've given her an ultimatum. I'm like, either either I can get the ring or we can get a brand new bed. Uh-huh. And, you know, splurge on it. Yeah. Because, you know, you don't want to chief out on your bed. Oh, you're talking to the guy who loves an expensive bed. Yeah, Miles is all. I got a zero gravity bed like Miles does. It's great, isn't it? It's pretty nice. Well, you got one and why are you trying to get a new one? Well, I mean, she's just like, when we sleep, I have a queen. I'm trying to upgrade to that king. You're trying to get that split

king like I got. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What's the resale value on a zero gravity queen bed? I don't know. Well, you just sell the bed. You don't actually sell that. You keep the zero. I suppose you got to get a wider one. Right.

Oh, yeah, you got to get a whole setup. I don't know. You could get some money for that. Okay. Let's get back. Let's refocus, Chuck. Yeah, sorry. I was thinking.

Here's the question. I'm a little nervous that you think that if you don't buy an 80s. $8,000 ring that she won't want to get married to you or she'll be upset. Well, that's not true. No, she, I don't think she really cares about the ring size or like the expense of it. But you said it kept you from proposing because you're worried that you weren't going to get the ring she wanted. Well, I mean, I'd like to get the ring she would want.

But I mean, that price tag is kind of hefty, you know. Yeah. Yeah. but you have no problem spending it on bed right I guess yeah that's you put that in perspective you drop five grand out of bed yeah not get the $8,000 ring

it's tough it is tough are you renting right now yeah okay it's impossible to buy a house nowadays I know like 500 grand I know I know mm-hmm um all right well listen do you think you should buy the $8,000 ring Chuck first foremost should he spend that much

and two do you think he should okay what's the rock on the ring that she wants what do you mean I mean what is like how big is it and is it a real diamond it's a lab grown diamond oh god how many carrots is that gold dude I honestly forget.

If I had like my Zales account on me, I could like look it off. Salaels. You went to Zales? Yeah. I mean, it was like the first place we went to. Have you shopped around? Do you think you can get a better price? We talk about Zales in this podcast?

Yeah, we did a couple days ago. I got Kelly in the watch from Zales. Zales is a place you go to get a great employee a watch. after they leave you after six years. You know, well, where should I go? No, no, I think it's totally fine. It's just I hadn't heard the name Zales in out of a decade.

I haven't heard the name Zales. Yeah. And then Charlie brought up the other day and I thought it was funny because I haven't heard it so long. And then you brought up Zales. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. Zales is one of the more common jewelry stores around. Is it not?

Maybe we just don't really. I don't even know. Do we have one in Fargo? I don't know. You must have at one point. Maybe 10 years ago you had one? Maybe. Okay.

So I think it's a lab grown dime. Maybe what did she like about this about the ring? Was it the rock? Was it the band? What did you say? I lost your first. What did she like about the ring? I don't know everything.

Really, I guess. I don't know. It's big. All right. Were you listening when she was talking about this ring? kind of. You're the one buying it. You got to know the cut,

the color, the clarity, and the carrot. You know the four Cs of buying a diamond. I don't know. I know it's white gold. I know she likes the shape of it.

Okay. Okay. Well, yeah, hey, let's get some perspective here, Charlie. What matters most right now?

What matters most is, uh, uh, I mean, look, the ring is probably an important thing because she's going to have to look at it every day. and you don't want to get a ring she doesn't like,

because that's a good excuse to take it off. But you also can upgrade a diamond to something bigger later. Yeah, it's a starter ring, right? Engagement ring is what those are called. Yeah, it's an engagement ring. Exactly. Oh, God, we could call it a starter ring. A beginning ring.

Like we could begin to... A commitment ring. I promise ring, yeah. you know so think about that too you know if if you guys are in a better financial situation later you can upgrade the diamond if you want i don't think if you're if you're feeling stressed about the $8,000 price tag i think you don't go for the $8,000 one what's your budget i don't really have i don't know it's supposed to be three years salaries what you're supposed spend on a ring what no it's what it's like a month's guys don't want

Is this a month? That's a bit from the office. Oh, I got you. It's supposed to be, it used to be three months salary, but I don't think it's that anymore. Not in this economy. Did you ever look at the price of gas

and see if she'll go with a cubic zerconium? No one can tell. Can you tell the difference between a CZ and a real diamond miles? I don't know. I doubt it. I think what you should do is see what the price is with a cubic serconium. I don't have to look into that. See if sales got it. I think get her a ring that you feel

comfortable spending on it, you know, and just get the same shape that she was wanting. You can get the same band. And if she really is upset with it, just say, hey, honey, you know, later on down the road, we should see other people. One, we can see other people. And if you don't want to see other people, we could just upgrade it later. And I think that you'll find that she's not that worried about the ring. She's mostly just worried about spending the rest of your life with you. Right. Was this your only problem was the ring?

What was the other problem? Her debt? The other, no. I mean, I don't have, I mean, she's great. I mean, I love her to death. And, like, I know she's got my back no matter what. But the other thing is, like, she just be. you know farting and these are got to be some of the worst smelling farts i've ever you know

have hit my nostrils wow okay okay well you should start with this one i mean i think you don't go through with this this i don't know that's just a bridge too far is that the right saying yeah are Are they loud? No, like they're like silent killing. SBDs. Silent but deadly. Oh, yeah.

And does she acknowledge him or does she pretend like she's not doing it? Oh, no, she acknowledges him. Wow. Has she trapped you in a Dutch oven before? No, but while we're on vacation, she let one ripped. And I was like, hey, man, just keep the covers down, you know, just let it, you know, bake there, like dissipate. And she lifts the covers up and starts like wafed in air towards the day. I kind of like that. And that's the number one way to get it waft in your face and say

don't waft it in your face. Right. Yeah. You know you're asking for it at that point. I mean, honestly, I kind of like, are you doing that around her too? Yeah, it's kind of like a bit we got. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I's got a bit. You got a bit. I mean, you are just experiencing what marriage is like yeah it's kind of nice that she's showing it showing you all the cards before you commit to the pot you know yeah um yeah you think like oh my wife's this cute cute girl and all the stuff and then uh she lets one rip that singes your eyebrows off yeah and you're like oh wow oh wow i didn't know something like that can come from such a pretty pretty woman yeah right but it does

you know? It certainly does. Yikes. See, it happens to everyone. I mean, it's a very human thing. I didn't shave my beard off the other time. And just farted and it just fell off. It just singed your face.

It just singed my face off. Oh, my gosh. I am going to send her this clip. Can we clip this, Jared? No. Is, uh, yeah, that one,

you're definitely, it sounds like you're already over it. Yeah, it's, it's okay. Everyone does it or it doesn't mean that it's not shocking the first time that it happens, you know? The first time that happened, I thought like someone around us like crop dusted us or something. You're like at home, you're like, I think we have a natural gas leak. Do we need to leave the house? Should I call the fire department? Do we need to get out? And then she embarrassingly has to claim it, you know, because you're like ready to like call the 911. Right. I mean,

how bad are we talking though? Like worse than yours? Sometimes. Like I smelled like a like a trucker. Like a 40 year old trucker. Can we go 50? Let's just say 50. 40 is not that old.

Like a 39 year old trucker. Yeah. You mean a young buck. Oh, man. Well, I think that's fine. That's fine. You'll be fine. Yeah.

Definitely, you definitely, though, knowing this, you can definitely go a $4,000 ring for sure. Yeah. And if she complained, just go, well, then you need to stop farting. Yeah. Right. Okay. This is fart tax. Yeah.

It is. Yeah. It is. And, um, Yeah, I mean, I think you can with confidence go $4,000 on it. And definitely cubic zirconium territory, especially if you can't afford it, you know. Yeah, I think you got to figure out what you can afford, get what you can afford. And if she's upset, blame it on the farts.

That's a divorce guy's recommendation. I don't know if you felt this when you're married, Charlie. but I since the wedding we have not really thought about our rings and how much they cost you know what I mean

it's like a very in the moment of the wedding you care about it but long term you just don't think about it anymore you know what I mean by that yeah you know how like if there are these guys who go to think of it like that maybe you'll rent that $8,000 one for like the pictures

and then you know, you return it and then you get that cubic zirconium for the rest of the time and then you say we'll upgrade back to that when I start making some real change here. Because I know that it

like how big the ring is feels like a big day, big thing when you're like in the process of getting married and wedding day and stuff like that. But at the end of the day you don't think about it after that. Correct. And if people,

are concerned or thinking about it, you don't want to hang out with those people anyway. That's exactly it. Yeah. And you say she doesn't really care anyway. So, I think we've settled on this. Figure out your budget for a ring, get something within that budget,

have it looked similar to the style and everything that she wants, and shop around. You can't just go to one. They just go to Zales. Yeah, I mean, the, get up Jared. Yeah. Hit up K and everyone knows that every kiss begins with K.

Dude, hit up a pawn shop, man. They got some great deals at the pawn shop. I think I'm a little bit classier than the pawn shop. Okay. Oh, okay. Hey,

classier than pawn. Dude, think about the, your wife farts like a, like a 40-year-old trucker, 50-year-old trucker. Don't get all fancy on me. From Milwaukee.

From Milwaukee. They'll get all fancy on us. The over, what do you call it when it's not actually that price? The overhead, not overhead. What is it? These things are priced 40, 50% higher than they actually cost. Yeah, start haggling Zales. Yeah, you can talk them down a little bit, you know?

You think? Absolutely. I thought their price size were like setting stone. I don't know. I've never been to Zales. And also nice. Where did you go, Miles? I bought mine online.

Which you should, you should go check that out. They're legit. I did some research on it. They're legit. And I also had the ring appraised after I got it for insurance. Yeah. They appraised it what I bought it for. So the online sales is real.

Okay. Yeah. Shop around. You can get one cheaper and then just, you know, enjoy the gas, baby. you got a you got a life together to just what food really brings out the worst ones I guess like bar food bar food okay well Charlie and I are about to eat a burger with beef bison elk and bacon on it so maybe call back in an hour and I'll let you know if this should happen you should let your girlfriend eat this or not

Yeah, I think just don't buy the $8,000 one go cheaper and then just know that you're not going to think about the ring really at all after the wedding. So just have that in your decision making process. Sounds like you guys are in love and that you should get married. So I wouldn't worry about that. What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you guys in your relationship? Well, when I had my suspended license, you have to work back in the building. So, like, I would work preload, which is like 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. And then I'd have to go back in the evening to work another shift to, like, get my whole eight hours.

And so she would pick me up. well, she would drop me off in the mornings and pick me up and then drop me off in the afternoons and then pick me up. And that was kind of like a real pain in the dick. Yeah. So she had to get up at 2 a.m. with you every night and bring you to work? Yeah. Where do you live? Columbus.

Ohio? Yeah. Okay. Do they have Ubers in Columbus, Ohio? It's a lot of money. The Ubers are so expensive. I, yeah. What about a bike?

Hey, listen to where I'm going. Yeah, dude, could you have bite? I could have, yeah. Okay, what I want you to do then is count up the number of days she drove you to work. And then average that with the average Uber ride to your work, add up that price. And if that price equals $8,000, you better buy her that ring. That seems a little too complicated for me. That's a mental gymnastics right there.

All right. Let me make it. Let me make a bit more. Charlie supports conditional love. Yeah, 100%. Let me, let me do the quick math for you.

How far away do you live from work? 15 minutes. 15 minutes? That's like probably $25 Uber ride, don't you think? I don't know what the prices are. I don't know if they're surging at 3 a.m. Let's just say, it's a suit. Yeah, I probably is.

25 bucks. 25 bucks. How many times did you do that? Four times a day. four times a day. No, twice a day. Yeah, I guess. Oh, she did four times a day.

Yeah, because she would have to drop and pick me up. So I guess that's two. So that's $100 a day. And how long did this last? I guess I would be like 500 bucks a week. Yeah. And it's like a five-day work week. Yeah, so how many weeks?

26. Oh, I'm not good at math. but I think you're buying her that ring. Don't listen to Charlie. Buy that ring. That is. That is some like that is some Charlie Barron's like guilt. People pleasing mental gymnastics right there.

Of course. I've ever seen. People please. This is his spouse, man. There's only one person you got a people please. And would you do the same for her if it was flip flopped? Yeah. Yeah, I would.

It's called Unconduble. love. Okay. And then let's see those unconditions unraveling that ring, dude. I think he, yeah. He would do it for her. Well, pretend like he didn't, or he did, but he just spent that money on a ring. Okay, so we'll see if he would do that for her.

I'm on your wife's side. $8,000 bucks for the ring. Shell it out. Like, if we just stay on these calls long enough, Charlie will just flip-flop. I don't care. New information presents, new facts, presents a new a new stance

new stance your stance is by the $8,000 ring out of guilt at this point out of guilt dude that would have been such a pain you want to talk about pain in the dick okay imagine waking up at 2 a.m.

to drive your speed demon fella and the guy he can bike too you know how much a bike with lights would cost a helmet at that hour because you got to watch out for the other

speed demons on the bro. I don't know. That's a tough one. Yep. $8,000 ring, JJ. Get after it. You don't have to do that, JJ.

Yes, you do, JJ. Yes, you do. Miles, we can agree and disagree on this. You were on my side like two minutes ago. That was before I heard that to, he impacted her sleep. She's a nurse. You know?

Okay. Yeah. I didn't know you were so pro-n-nurse. Well, I didn't know that was a huge stance of yours. I think if someone asked me to wake up at 2 in the morning to drive them to work on a daily basis and then go pick them up again, I'd want some hardware for that, Miles. Conditional love. Oh, yeah, dude. It's all conditional.

Anyways, JJ, we're excited for you, man. It's going to be great. Thanks. it. I know I'd invite you guys, but I know you don't want to go. That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to us. That's like the best thing we could have heard on this call. Yeah, we're there in spirits. We're taking some of Miles's advice he's giving to people.

And we're not really going to have like a wedding. I think we're just going to get a loped and then just like have like a reception and like have like a couple food trucks or something like that. That's perfect. Yeah, that sounds like great advice. Your advice is always good a food truck at a way. Everyone says that about me. That's good. And then you can spend that money on a house or a ring.

Right. I think a house is more valuable by it. Certainly is. All right, JJ. Well, we appreciate it, dude. Good luck on your route today. And just, you know, just go the speed limit. I'll try.

All right, buddy. We'll see you. We'll see you. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah, what? Time is money. Oh, you're doubling down after the call.

Time is my. Think about that. You're the cheapest guy I know and you're telling him to get an $8,000 ring when he already feels like he can't afford it. I don't care, man. Do you know why he has a job? Because his girlfriend took him four times a day. She made that track four times a day.

I mean. My God. And she's got a job, full-time job, caring for patience, whatever. I'm on her side now, Miles. Okay. That's how it goes. So we do another caller? Oh, yeah. Miles, the state fair is one of those places where everything walks about 12 miles and somehow

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Nicolay. Miles, I was looking online at the reviews of Shady Rays. Yeah? Yeah, just for fun. Oh, they had. We probably should have done that before we started doing AdReeds. I mean, what did you find out? They said everyone loves them.

Loves these Shady Rays. And I wasn't surprised, Miles, because every piece of shady rays I put on my face, I've just been amazed by what they do to block the sun, you know? How many do they have some? Five-star reviews on there? Oh, so many thousands of five-star. How many? 2000, three thousand, five-thousand.

What was it? 300,000 miles. 300,000 five-star reviews on the Shady Rays. I'll say you, tell you what, these shady rays, they block the sun, but they don't block the fun, Miles. No. Oh, yeah. These ones I'm wearing right now are my daily drivers. Those are nice, too.

Yeah, those look like Top Gun Sheik, you know? Yeah, I just need a. See a crotch rocket and a, you know, a fighter jet. Yeah. That's all I need. Yeah. And I'm basically top gun. We'll work on that crotch rocket.

Just a couple things and I'm Tom Cruise. Yeah. That's it. Maybe a leather jacket. Yeah. Yeah. So guys, if you want to be just like me who's just like Tom Cruise minus a couple of things, you got to go to shady rays.com.

You get 50% off two or more polarized glasses, just like Charlie and I got on. if you use code bellied up. So use code bellied up at Shady Rays and you'll be looking cool. Justin, how are you? Good. How are you? Real good. Just hopping in the truck here. We're doing some work here.

Some landscaping? I'm trying to get away. Yep, exactly. It's a hot day. I'm calling from New Jersey. Okay. Jersey. Swampy.

Yep. We're in North Jersey. So we're a little bit away from the swamp. We're in the, you ever watch the Sopranos? We're right near the Meadowlands, like those kind of swamps. Oh, nice. Are you by the bottom of the bodies? We are near the bottom big.

Yes, I passed the Bada Bing today, actually. Really? Are you by the cafe with the pig? Yep, yep. We're all in that area. Yep. Let's go. Dude, that's so cool.

Can we come visit? No, it's good stuff. Tony Sopranos my uncle. No kidding. Oh, shit. No, I'm kidding. But it would be cool. It would be cool.

No, but do you know any mafia people out there? Do you cut any of their laws? I go out to dinner. I go out to dinner with one sometimes. Which is name? That I can't say. That's cool, dude. Where do you guys go?

Yes. Do you go to the thing? Really confident, confidential places. No, we, you know, just all local spots. He's a real estate guy and used to be in the mob. Used to, used to fool around. But now he's teaching me a little bit about real estate. So it's all good stuff.

Yeah. Look at you, dude. Look at you. I mean, if you think about it, real estate. How do you just dabble in the mob? Well, listen, he had a, he had a little bit of a different past than where he's at today. He was, he was friends with like Bloomberg in New York. Like, he was like an interesting guy. And then through landscaping, I met him because he owns like 30 properties in our area. And that's how kind of how I think he got his money in order to get these places.

And, and so then he, then we started, you know, started talking. I started asking him a million questions about real estate. And then, you know, just kind of went from there. He took a like India. I guess so. And I think he's trying to, you know, he makes sure to talk in an extra Italian accent when he's around me. So I just try and I actually, all my friends and employees make fun of me

because I think I listen to you guys too much. And when I talk to clients and stuff, I say, hey, how are you? And I think that, you know, it's rubbing off of me a little bit. So I try to not speak in the Italian accent that he does to try to make it known that that's not the route that I'm going. Have you ever told the client to watch out for deer?

I have not, you know what's funny. So I'm a huge outdoorsman, deer hunter, you know, turkey owner, duck hunter, fisherman. And in our area, if you see like, I mean, we're in the city. So, like, I have to drive like a half hour to really see deer. Yeah, so we're not too concerned about that around here. We more have to watch out for dogs and kids and, you know, balls and landscapers running across the road, such as myself. Yeah. Watch out for balls.

Yep, fun stuff. All right. Well, that was. But, yeah, so. I don't know if you got my voicemail, but yeah. So what I wanted to talk about is, so I have a landscaping company here. We have four guys, other than myself. For the sake of today, we'll call them.

So the project crew, we have, you know, we'll say Miles and Jared. And on the long crew, we have Tyler and Ryan. And Tyler and Ryan started a little bit of a, oh, sorry, actually, Miles and Jared started a little bit of a prank war between the two. That sounds like guys. The classic Miles and Jared pranks. Yep, exactly. So it started off and not to offend anybody. It started off of the picture.

You know, we said, or they said, you know, oh, we just got a new marketing girl as a part of the company. You know, you guys, can you guys just send me a selfie of you guys in front of the truck? So they said, so they were like, okay, you know, we'll send a picture. So they send a selfie of them to next to the truck. And then they change it all to, you know, rainbow flags and things of that. nature and little graphics on their forehead. That doesn't sound like us, Jared.

No, no, not you guys. No, that's too over the line. So they did that and then to get them back, they printed out, so we have like, you know, a landscape garage to get the other guys back, they printed out all embarrassing pictures of them, very embarrassing and explicit pictures of them, and posted them all over the garage so that when we walked in the one morning, there was stuff that could not be revealed to the public then when the garage was open. So where are they getting the explicit pictures? Well, chat CBT has has great, great works.

Don't they have some sort of like the penis graphics on on chat. It could be pretty good if you don't say that it's a penis. What do you say? Not that I would not that I would do 80 pranks like that at my own office. No, of course not. Not if like I, you know, I would never want to go check out the weaners of chat GPT. I just am curious what a guy's got a prompt AI to get it to happen. Well, you know, you say, you know, this is my arm.

So you can just, you call it an arm, which, you know, I must have a really, really small arm. But, you know, I say that, you know, this is, this is my arm. Can you put my arm on his forehead? And then his forehead has my quote unquote arm sticking out of it. So that's all, you know, different ways to work around it. And it's not the most detail, but it does get the job done. I'm not sure if it would be bellied up approved to put on the graphic here for the video, but it's pretty funny stuff.

So we had that. And then the next prank that is currently happening tomorrow, and the other two guys don't know about it, is a, so there's like, we have our sprayers in this one box. And when they open the box tomorrow, there's going to be a spray can full of, like, powder, basically, that's just going to pop open and spray them in the face and cover them with pink, basically powder. That's fine.

just absolutely drouch, drench them in it. And yeah, so that'll be something. But the problem here is that they are taking too much time. So if we have a set list of things to get done, there's an hour at least in every day. They were at CBS the other day looking for things during work. Like, I can't have this. I love it.

Don't get me wrong. But we got to get stuff done. So I need some advice on how do I sort of tailor this to keep it fun, to keep it in that way, but sort of make it so that it's still, you know, work is still the main sort of priority. Yeah. Do you have trouble finding help? Like, are these guys lifers and or like do you have a revolving door of employees?

So not really. So, and that is tough. And I know that, you know, we're not, we're not in a hole digging concrete. I'm not in a hole every day. Well, I do have a girlfriend, but I'm not in a concrete hole every day. And so, you know. We, um, so I'm not doing stuff like that. So we have pretty, sorry, uh, we have pretty consistent guys.

They're, uh, they're, they're all, you know, W2s, the four guys other than myself and they're, so they're here every day. And then like today we have two extra guys that are there, that are here. So it is a normal, normal crew. Yeah. So where I was going to go with that is like, we'd, uh, we'd have like a company card when I was working for my dad. And like, you know, sometimes it'd be like two, three, four times a week. We'd take the company card to the gas station and get donuts for everybody. Oh, believe me. They do that more than enough when I check my credit card bill every week.

I'm like, oh, so I didn't know. And talking to my dad later, the reason why he didn't really stop it, he's like, I want you guys to work here. And so if I got to spend an extra like at the time, like $8 on donuts a day to keep you guys happy to keep you wanting to work here, like he's like, that's fine. You know what I mean? is like a give and take of like keeping them happy but also like getting the work done right and that's kind of the the position you're in I yeah and that's very fair and you know I I do come

seeing pretty well today everybody got pizza and drinks and things like that and then you know like yeah they they could always grab if you need water stuff at that 7-11 gatorade whatever take the card and go do that so yeah they you know they they do get that so but you know you're 100% right I mean yeah keeping them happy is the number one thing especially because they're consistent and you know they all are really good guys that I can trust which is the biggest thing because I've had people in the past that you can't really trust and you know there's nothing worse than that yeah so you know I do I do get it from that that perspective so I just want to see like you know like some sort of competition or something to kind of keep them going like who knows like maybe then

whoever gets a better job done with I don't know then did they get the donuts at the end of the week or they get more donuts or yeah the old pizza party at the end of the week I think if you are worried that you're not getting enough work done now and they're getting too focused on it, I don't think you put a cabosh to it. I think what you do is you get really savvy and escalated to the point where someone goes too far and then you get to just shut the whole thing down. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I see we're going with it.

You're really, you're steering. You're to steer them, sailing right into the waves there. Yeah. You know, you can't go sideways. You'll go topsy turbi. Let it get too out of hand to where then even they understand that you had to shut it down. You know what I mean? Yep.

You know, like, yeah, like, you know, firecracker in the gas tank. We'll do it. Yeah. Or just boom. Yeah, just let it, let it go over and explode. I mean, who knows? Maybe if one of these guys gets frigging powder in their eye tomorrow and has to go to the hospital, then that'll be it.

Yeah. Then you're like, boom. And it ran its course. Boom, done. It ran its course. And then they,

then they just get to talk about the memories of the prank war. The memories of the prank war. The memories of the prank war might carry us even further. That might be even better. Yeah. Yeah. And just the, just the thought of it.

Yeah. If someone could get physically hurt pretty bad, that would be good for you. If, well, if, if, if,

if like, if like, maybe someone's like marriage, you know, gets questioned because, because you like brought a stripper to the job site or something. Okay. Okay.

Pop by the Bing. You know. Pop by the Bing, right? Exactly. If someone could do something illegal, maybe spend a couple of nights in jail, that'd be good for you. Well, actually, yeah, we just had a guy walk up to us before. He said, he just got out of jail. Can I get a job?

And I said, oh, no. But yeah, I mean, we could, maybe we could call him back and say, use it as an example. And, and, you know, I'm saying one of your four guys got to go to jail. so then you have an excuse to shut this down. All right. Okay. Another thing you can do is Tom Fulery Friday and just sanction the planning all to Friday. We used to do where we'd have Jersey Friday. So you'd wear like a sports jersey to the job site and work in a sports jersey all day.

We used to also have Hawaiian shirt Friday where everyone. Hawaiian shirt Friday is a great one. Because we normally do for 4th of July, we dress up the trucks. We put flags on every truck. Everybody's dressed. I got, everybody's got American flag pants, American flag shirts, American flag hats. Like, we go ballistic with that. But I kind of like the theme Fridays.

And then every Friday we could create a new theme. Now I can see this getting a little expensive on the company card when you add pizza, donuts and Gatorade and Zins and cigarettes to that. But, you know, but it might be worth it. And listen, that could be a good marketing tactic. People see these guys doing work in Hawaiian shirts. You don't see that often, you know? No.

No. exactly. And I think what you do is, where you can kind of get pranks is like you kind of, you show up with like, you know, if you guys think the weaners are funny, do a Hawaiian shirt with like a weiner theme. You show up in that one day. You know, so then they still scratch the itch of being a goofball, but they're not, they're ordering that on Amazon the night, you know, at night. And then they're showing up to work in it. And that's a show to work on it. next day. Yeah.

Funny. Ha ha. Yep. Like, you know, like, I don't know if you're familiar with the camo that it's got like like ducks or deer in it, but it's still like blend. It looks like camo from afar, but then you really look close. It's got that. So, you know, we can do that.

But, you know, little dicks. Little dicks could also do boobs. Could also do boobs. Could also do boobs on your chest with little dicks around it. Now you're getting creative. I'm seeing a problem at this company. I think it's you. I think you did this to yourself and I don't think you can get new guys.

I think you're always going to be at the company. So you just got to embrace your inner goofball and realize you're just not going to make as much money. And that's okay. But I'm still making something and I still have guys. So that's the number one thing. So that's the number one thing. So without guys. Your nest egg isn't even in this landscape business.

It's your connection to that mob guy who used to work for Blue Bloomberg who's really sad for real estate. Exactly. Because I was supposed to, well, yeah, because I was supposed to look at a house today. Now we're going tomorrow. But, you know, exactly right. He's getting to see to me no money now and all this crazy stuff. So, you know, I think that, I think that's right.

I think a couple nights. Is this guy you've been talking to named Grant Cardone? Very similar to Grant Cardone. But no, it is not. No. I wonder. I wonder what he would think about your situation. If you asked him for it.

advice and not not us. Grant Cardone. Yeah, I think he just, I just have to 10x everything. I just have to 10x the pranks. 10x the pranks. So, so maybe that's what we need to do. Maybe we need to be all pranks. And then 10x the the amount of work your guys are doing as well. So 10x the pranks, 10x the work. And next thing you know, you're rich. Next thing I know, I'm rich, never sleep. And I have unlimited Hawaiian shirts in my draw. I got the prank that might end all pranks. And it's okay. So weapons?

Close. There are these, these beer bottles that you can get like prank beer bottles or, oh, the sugar glass. Yeah, movie film beer bottles. So what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to, you know,

have some drinks with the fellas after a shift. And then you're going to want to have a fight with one of the guys. So you're Jared and Miles, right? that's your team so you get into your miles you get into a fight with jared and jared's in on it okay and you're saying like make it big make it a big thing like he he cheated on um you know his wife with your wife or something really get your acting skills there grab one of the bottles and just smash it over his head and have him pass out now what's going to happen is it's a social experiment, you're going to see how these two employees will react to that. More likely than not

one of them is going to go so over the top with their reaction that it's going to hurt somebody to their core. They're going to be like, I knew you were always a piece of shit. And that's going to be a real reaction. And at this point, you already know that this is going to happen. You're prepared for it. But it's enough of a thing where you can be like, you know what, that was a prank. Let's just stop it all right there. Okay, a little bit too. Yeah, okay, I think that's all of time. He didn't like that idea. He hated that idea.

Yeah, I, you know, I'm not too sure about that one, Charlie. I don't know because I don't think they have much reaction. My issue is that I think that they would just laugh at it. I think if I got hit on the head and went on the ground, it would take about 20 minutes of, or whoever, of them not moving for there to be a reaction, honestly, to tell you the truth. Okay. Because the last time we had a guy bleeding, he cut himself with the saws-all.

and he was bleeding for about 20 minutes sitting by the truck and nobody noticed how bad it was and then we and everybody just kind of like you know, oh you know you're a bitch, you're this, you that. And we turn to the corner back and he has a whole roll of paper towels on the ground full of blood and needed to go to the hospital and get stitches. So that, yeah, so I don't know if they'd react.

That's my only fear with that. But, you know, I could say, you know, oh, you guys are heartless and, you know, I don't know if that don't really mean much, I guess. but I was going to say, you know, you're heartless so you can't do pranks anymore because if you go too far, then somebody will end up dead

from a broken bottle of, you know, here. Something along those lines. I can see it. 10 exit then, dude. 10 exit. I was just going to say, or we just 10 exit. Boom. You know, I'm watching one of them using a pickaxe right now.

You know, I mean, you know, accidents happen. And one guy may just have to get sacrificed for them to learn the lesson. And we may need to bring on maybe the new guy. The real mob mentality. Yeah. Exactly. There you go. That's the Jersey right. They can't do prank wars if they're dead.

That's right. Well, we were also talking, you know, maybe like maybe we can have like little, you know, here's my fears that we're in, you know, very blue New Jersey and very anti-gun New Jersey. But I was going to say, you know, maybe like little airsoft pistols that like when one crew is driving by the next, you know, maybe a like Blake, or something. Yeah, do some drive-bys. That sounds like a good idea. Exactly. You know, something along those lines, you know, right? somebody's backyard. I'm sure they'll love it. No way that'll backfire. Well, Airsoft guns don't traditionally backfire, so they're probably good. That is true. Yeah, that's

true. I was talking to metaphor, but that's fine. Okay. That's fine. The car that he's driving in could backfire, though. So maybe I am the problem. That might be, it might be me. Oh, you're definitely the problem, but that's okay.

That's okay. Well, listen, I like Hawaiian Fridays. I like the I like the theme. So maybe we can change it, you know, it's a, it's a something positive. That could be a marketing tactic, boom. Yeah. As well, you know, so there's where, you know, we're still building the business while having, you know,

fun along those lines. I think I lay it that idea. So if you got any designs, I don't know if, I don't know if you previously had a design of a, of a, you know, penis filled, Hawaiian shirt, but, you know, we're open to suggestions.

I don't have any of those on hand. I'm surprised. I could rifle through my, my, my, my, uh, files and see if I can find it. Yeah, look through. Look through. I don't know if it got lost to the change of the offices or while, but you know, so I want to let you guys know that you're kind of living out my personal nightmare. I think one of the big fears in my life is that I get roped up into a prank war. Really? That's okay. That's a personal. To me, I don't view a prank war as fun. Really?

I thought you were going to say living in New Jersey, but both are hell. Both are hell. I just think a prank war just sounds like a lot of work, a lot of distraction. And it just wouldn't be fun to just constantly be living on the edge of, hey, is something about to derail my whole day? Like, every time I touch a doorknob, is there going to be poop on the backside of it? You know, when I go to my truck, is they're going to, and I grab it, is there going to be fucking K. K.Y on that side of the handle. On edge 24-7, not a fun way to live. And that's like one of my personal nightmares, I think.

Well, this sounds like it's based out of past trauma. Have you been prank before in your life? I mean, I've probably been pranked, but no, I don't know what. Okay. So this is just what you don't like. I just have seen other people getting prank wars and it stresses me out. Yeah. I mean, this stresses me out here because, you know, you got to, he's looking at the bottom

line all day and these guys are looking at dicks on the internet. And, you know, that's not going to cut along. making dicks custom yes creating yes yes a i and dicks exactly yep you know and not not the sporting goods nope the amount is it actually affecting your bottom line or is this one of those scenarios that you you want to almost nip it in the butt before it starts affecting the bottom line a little bit of both um you know i would say there's about you know there's there's let's say four hours a week I think wasted that didn't need to be between the CVS trip, between the AI that I see happening, you know, or like, you know, time sitting on their phones, things like that, you know, but four hours a week for

us is, you know, we're in the spring season here still. So like this is our like busy, busy, busy season. So like July and August slows way down and then in the fall, it kind of rams back up and then winter's nothing. So besides snow, but not not much for you guys. But, you know, for right now, it's the busy time. Move all the pranks to the winter. Yeah. I, I think. it is. I think that's a great idea. Winter pranks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, yeah, you can have more fun in the, in the winter with pranks. And it's a tough time of year. You need to start branding the prank wars. So if July and August are slow, do dog days of summer. Prank wars. That's it. Consolidate your prank wars into a one week

period in the slow times. You know, I think that could be a great, great, great idea. Out of all these idea is this is my favorite. I think I think we have a dedicated prank war the week of July, let's say 10th to the 17th or something. And, you know, and then we have another one, let's say, I don't know, we could do it for like a two-day stint in the fall where it's like open, you know, it's like hunting seasons. It's open season for this week and then it's closed and then it's back open and then it's closed and then it's back open. I think, I think that's a great. And then they could just go ballistic. And then the rest of the time, it's just kind of gives them a conversation piece. They can just be sort of planning. And then it's just nothing but bananas for

that for that time. Yeah. I think that sounds great. I think that would be a great idea. And I mean, and this is for, you know, Jared, Tyler and Ryan, like if, if you ever, you know, if Miles is pissing you off, we know what to do. Even Miles, you just gave away your whole secret. No, that. He did. Yeah. I'm writing down right now. Or maybe I'm playing chess and I say that because I actually have a fetish for prank wars. Okay. And I want you guys to start one. And therefore I said I hate it. Miles would be playing. Because, you know, and it, well, it sounds like you're dying for that AI of the penis, too, from what you were asking. So maybe that's, maybe you are dying for a prank boy.

You get bricked up when you touch a poop, like a poopy door handler. Oh, fuck. Wait, am I being prank? Let's go. Oh, no. Oh, fuck. I was not expecting this. I was not expecting this.

Just don't wear great sweatpants on prank day. That's all. Just make sure, you know. Good gene day. Yeah, some strong genes. Yeah, maybe I've just been craving a good prank and I just haven't, I've got all this pent up pranked energy. You don't know.

That's the thing. I think, I think honestly, Miles just needs to prank one out. I think so. I mean, yeah, there's been weirder stuff.

That's for damn sure. Dude, and that's what you label those weeks as is you call it prank and one out. You guys are just going to prank one out that week. That's good. That's good. I like it. So we have our whiteboard that has our schedule at our at our shop there.

And I think, you know, I'm going to mark off once we get into July. I'll mark off the week. And I'll say this is prank week. And it's nothing but preparation up until then. Or what you do, you don't tell them about prank week. You know, you maybe, here's what you got to do. You, if it gets, if it continues to be out of hand, you shut it down like John Taffer at a shitty bar. Shut it down.

Shut it down. And then they're all kind of maybe morale's down. low. They're like, fucking boss is a dick. I just want to make dicks on chat GPT and you won't let me. You know? And then come July 10th, you pull a prank on all four of them. That's huge. They come to the shop that day. They walk in. They get pranked. And you go, motherfuckers, welcome to prank one out this week. All we're doing is pranks, motherfuckers. and they're like, oh, what?

I thought he was the shitty boss, but he's super chill and cool. And then they don't, and then they don't know when the prank week is happening. And so that you are, it's like your ultimate prank. They don't know when they're going to get a week of prank. So they're living on the edge the whole time. I love it. Which is an ultimate prank. So then I need your help then.

So what's the original prank that I'm going to hit them with to say, welcome to prank week? welcome to prank it out week what do you think Charlie I've never been in a prank war so so do we kind of a well that's not confirmed but so do we do I just put like I don't know

should I put buckets if I'm sitting in the back of the shop right on a lawn chair and I set up buckets of water on top so that when they pull the garage door open boom soaking wet see but then that's a problem because then they're not going to work that all day because they'll be soaking wet down to their own work week it doesn't matter you got a plan that doesn't matter

that's true here's a good here's a good prank this happened to me once when i was working my first job my boss got a um got a squirrel noise maker and he put it in my car he put it in the belt above my driver's seat and for weeks i was hearing this little squirrel sound and i was like the fuck i ignored it like the first few times i even called my dad i said dad i think i got a squirrel living in my car. For weeks I was doing this. It was this old mental battle in my head. Finally, one day I walked into work

and I was like, you guys, I think I got a squirrel in my car. I was late because I was pulling apart my car trying to find the squirrel. And I was looking under the hood, everything. And these guys just died laughing for like

10 minutes. And I think whatever you have to do make it a weeks long thing where they kind where it sort of just trickles to the top because the psychological trauma of that still gets me to this day i i i that one's definitely more of a slow burn prank though yeah it's a slow burn and this we're looking for that might be the number one that might be that is true miles i am looking for explosive but but like that could be my little on the back burner kind of uh you know like so i start the prank war off with the boom. So we need more of like, we need one that's a boom.

I have one actually, by the way. Okay. All right. I think what you need to do. So I don't know what you have in your shop. I mean, you get some new chairs now in the like some rolling office chairs in the, in the break room now. And then when it comes to be prank week, I want you to install a airbag underneath each seat. Oh, wow. Oh, dude. Great. That's the explosion you're looking for.

It really is. That's an instant boom. And I say, yeah, team meeting. Team meeting. Everybody sit down. No, no, no. And then first you make them like, they need a reason to everyone needs to do it at the same time.

So start it off by doing the Pledge of Allegiance. Yeah. Oh, well, before we sit down, we're going to do this new thing called the Pledge of Allegiance. Stay standing. Yeah. Yep.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Or you can do everyone sit down. I mean, that's no, no, I like the Pledge of Allegiance. Listen, America. I love it. Because they're going to be so distracted about the Pledge of Allegiance.

Yeah, they're going to be like, why the hell is saying the Pledge of Allegiance? Yeah. And then I guess, all right, I guess we'll sit down. I don't know what this meeting is about. And then boom. Head goes through the sheet rock. Everybody's going right through the roof. We got legs dangling.

He needs some milk. Yeah. Just done. Yeah. And then you're like, boom, motherfucker. Fuckers, welcome to prank week. Welcome to prank it out. We're going to prank it out week.

Yeah. Prank it out. And then they'd be like, oh, shit. Maybe that squirrel noise in all of our trucks was a prank too. Oh my God. That's all. And then, uh, then, you know, you got to watch. One over the head with a beer bottle.

Boom. Yeah. Love him this beer bottle idea. Yeah. All right. He goes. I got to find a way to incorporate this and I'll send it to you, Charlie. Bricks his neck on the ceiling falls down.

Then you go. over his head and you go, welcome to prank it out week. Or you know a funner prank too is you get the, you get the beer bottles, you show the guys it and say how fun it is. And then you give one of them a real beer bottle. That's a great prank. Lock them out, right there. That's a prank on a prank.

See, you don't need Chad GPT to put dicks on things. You can just, uh, just, uh, you know. Yeah. And then a way to promote your business, you guys do videos. like jackass and you go like, this is prank one out week here at whatever landscaping business. And this one's called the the fake real beer bottle. And then you guys do the bit online and then you can market your business that way. I think that'd be awesome. And then if you're wearing the Hawaiian shirt that has dicks on it, doubly. I mean, listen, if we if we posted a video where

somebody with the meta glasses on takes a beer bottle and smashes it over a guy putting sod down, putting mulch down, doing whatever pavers with a Hawaiian shirt with boobs and dicks on it and smashes it over their head and he gets fake knocked out. There's no way that that's not viral. That might put you guys, that might put you guys out of business. I don't know. That might be viral. I don't know. Yeah. Like I'd say, I'd like to invest in your company, but I don't think I can compete with Grant Cardone. No, no, Grant Cardone's already got it covered. Grant Cardone, Jr., the guy that I go, you know, talk to.

He's the guy. I actually told him about you guys. He was like, he's a little bit older, and he's like, oh, you know, my son listens to podcasts and stuff like that. And I'm like, oh, you know, my great podcast, you know, the bellied up podcast, that you betcha podcast or, you know, I, you know, Crapescast, too, sorry. And, you know, that's a, so along those lines, he was like, all right, I'll give it a listen. I know for a fact he never did, but he might, he might tune in. He might tune in.

We'll see. And if he did tune in, he listened to us on 10x speed. Yes. Oh, of course. Of course. And he, he jotted it all down. He wrote it down as he was doing it. It's exactly right. Got the gist of it. Well, man, I think, I think we did a pretty good job, actually. I think so, too. I'm ready. I'm ready. I just hope that, you know, I know that none of the guys, except for, you know, the one listens. And I'll just make sure that he doesn't listen. And, I'll say, you know, I'll say that I could reveal it later at a later date and, you know, we'll go from there. Or you got your ball and I think we're on the right track. And we can prank the other three guys with that one guy that listens too.

You know, and that could be the best of all. He could be, yep. That could be like my, you know, like everybody needs like in, you know, like if you ever did like, you know, those water gun wars or something like that, everybody needs a little bit of an alliance. Yeah. You know, an alliance with one person in there. So that could be my alliance. Okay.

All right. I like that. All right. Guys, well, I greatly appreciate it. You bet. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, watch out for balls out there.

I'm going to watch out for balls. Going to watch out for landscapers. Going to watch out for kids and dogs. Yep. And I wish I was looking out for deer. But not really. My closest spot that I can deer hunt is about 45 minutes to an hour away. So not great around here.

But we do have them. We do have occasional city deer. We had, you know, one a little bit west of us. But like, you know, 30-minute drive, but still in the city. Video idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. video idea you know what it is no i don't small town deer versus city deer oh yeah i'm gonna i dress up in the deer costume yes dude i'll do anything to get you back in a deer costume i'm that idea might get me back in it let's do it because there's a difference you know it's city deer aren't scared of shit no they're not we can do whatever we want man small town deer are paranoid that someone's gonna shoot them yeah exactly small town we yeah yeah I just got to hope that the deer hunter in the area just don't shoot like you did this year. Miles and then you'll be safe, you know, in case nobody, uh, you know, my scope was fucked.

Oh, my scope was. It's, uh, yeah, oh, yeah, well, it's okay. I missed the same turkey two times two weeks ago. So it's, it's okay. Did you really? God, there's nothing that makes you feel good about missing it. That someone else. Missing it.

Then someone else missing twice. It's almost opening the door and people, you know, thank God you said that. Oh, God. I didn't know. I told all those guys that I didn't see a turkey. I shot twice. Were you bow hunting or gun hunting? No, I bow hunting this year.

I got, I'm a pretty big turkey owner. I was a part of nine being shot this year. I shot six myself and I shot. I shot one with the bow. That was my first. Do you guys have a DNR? Yeah, yeah.

No, we have, you know, we have a decent population actually in the southern section of the state. But I travel a lot. So I hunted New York this year. I hunted Maine and I hunted New Hampshire. Wow. So Jersey was only one. Damn.

But I do a lot of traveling. Business is going well. Holy Spirit. Not a lot of sleeping. That I could tell you. Not a lot of sleeping at all. But energy drinks are my best friend. And, you know, we're getting it done.

But no, it was with the shotgun. It was a perfectly clear shot in a wide open field. And I rushed it and I missed them. And then I was able to turn, like kind of brown this bend and get into the woods and called them right back. And I was just a little bit too nervous. and, you know, sailed it right over his head. It'll happen.

So, you know, I know that from personal experience. That'll happen. Miles has been known to shoot early and miss. I mean, at least you are actually seeing turkeys. Charlie just goes, sits in his blind and takes a nap and doesn't see shit all day. I kicked up two hens on just a random walk. I was like, well, fuck. That's, that's good.

Well, I told you had a toning your backyard. I thought that's what you're saying. Or is that just standard birds? No, no. No, at my cabin, I got a fair amount of turkeys that I see all year round and then not a damn one. There was probably a bunch of them sitting on my turkey stand while Miles was testing out Timo toys. Oh, don't even. You were having a good time.

I mean, with that chainsaw, I was, but I could just feel the turkeys just sitting out there by my decoys. And anyway, I had to go. You see this? I'm always the problem. Well, listen. The Timo Baku, Baku, Baku, that's what, that's what I want to order an X. I see the ad every day. Did you guys test that one out?

We have not. I think if I ordered a T-Mu Bacco, my wife would murder me. Probably. We've ordered some more tools for more videos. And she already was like, what in the hell are we doing, Miles? But they're T-mo, they're cheap, so it doesn't count. It's a write-off.

But I also like, I can't just throw like lithium batteries in the garbage, can I? No. You can burn them like Ryan. That's fine. Just throw them in the back, you know? True. Yeah. I'm making the fire.

All right, dude. I really appreciate it. Yeah. A big fan of the show, you know, like you guys have bellied up specifically when, whenever me and my brother are going, we were waterfow hunters too, whenever we're going, go and we listened to a bellied up podcast one day, had a lights out day. And every time we go, you know, we even listen to old episodes and stuff. And just, you know, it's definitely a weekly thing for us. And, you know, obviously when you guys post it's a weekly thing, I'm a patron. I'm just a huge fan overall.

So I appreciate you guys taking the time. Well, thank you. for listening and giving us your time and appreciate you being a patron. This week, Charlie's on the Patreon, isn't he? Okay. All right. So you have to check it out. All right. Sounds good. Well, I appreciate it, guys. Well, you have a good rest of the podcast. All right. You'll see you soon. I'll watch out for balls. You watch out for deer. All right. All right, Miles, here it is. Our wild burger that gets called. Yeah. Are we going to cut it? or just,

yeah, I was going to cut it in a half. Here, I'll hold it. The bun does not cover it at all. Well, you know, that's okay,

Miles. It's a thick burger. I can't cut with my right hand. Why? Because I'm left-handed. Oh, I know that about you. I just say why.

Well, anyone can cut with their non-favored hand. There you go. There you go. Wow. This half a burger is two burgers. Holy smokes. All right.

First bite. That is... All right. We got beef, bison, elk. Elk. Bacon. Free bison forward.

Oh, yeah. It's good. It's a lot of meat. My taste buds kind of have meat confusion. You ever just get too much meat in your mouth and your brain doesn't know what to do with it? That's why I get the meat sweats.

Yeah. This is the ultimate meat sweats burger. I mean, it's good. Eating a whole one would be a lot. Could use a tomato. There's one right there. Right. So guys, if you are in the sunlight area,

you got to come test out the wild game burger. It's good. I mean, look at that. Look how many patties are on there. honestly Charlie likes it because he's eating the whole thing he's going to have this done before I quit yapping. Oh yeah. So come on into the sunlight. Check out the burger. And is that it, Jaron?

It's another episode of the Bellied Up podcast. You want to touch penises? Tip your bartender. What's wrong with you? You were pointing to your, you're pointing to your dick. And you're going like this. You want to do docking?

Dock your bartender. Don't forget to dock your bartender. Tip your bartender. I'll see the next one. Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Oodaloo.