Bellied Up - If We Had a Bar #199

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

We're at Lyons Pub in Minneapolis, MN, discussing what every bar needs, especially if we owned one. Then, we talk to Joe, the Snowblower King of Appleton. We wrap up the episode by chatting about a guy who has a pig as a house pet and loves amateur bull riding.Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code belliedup at https:// www.bruntworkwear.com/belliedup #Bruntpod #ad

All right, Miles. Hey, folks. Welcome back. Shoot, I got so excited. I wasn't even going to say hello to everyone. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Bellied Up podcast. Miles, I'm thinking we should own a bar.

I think it's time. I think we should make the bellied up bar because, you know. I mean, honestly, Charlie, we should have our own bar. We should have one in Fargo. Yeah. One of Milwaukee. And one of Minneapolis. Because that's either hometowns or halfway between, basically.

Yeah. And then we could just do all of our podcasts at our own bars. Right. But then we also wouldn't get to be able to see all the cool bars, too. It is true. I think we should just stick with two, one in our each hometowns. And then we can continue borrowing, borrowing, not stealing. Market research.

Market research on other bars. And just the coolest things we find, we find our version of that in our bar. Like right there, they've got a plane made out of Coors Glit cans. you know and that's kind of cool um maybe in our bar we could do like a bicycle you know sure and we could do it after that one guy who got all horned up about the people riding bikes in his town that would be funny wouldn't it callers and do our whole bellied up theme around it you know yes yes like we can on the menu we could do like ramen and have it Ethan's ramen Ethan's ramen you know and obviously the bar would be called the the the the it was

would be called the ditch chicken. Yeah. I actually, if I ever did a bar, it would be called the ditch chicken, by the way. It's a great name. He's claiming that right now. So I don't steal it. I claimed it a while ago. Oh, you're lucky. I don't listen. And I think that we want to have a stained glass situation. The question is, oh, we need a stained glass in honor of our tarot card reader. So we need stained glasses of the tear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we would just like, you know, just like we'd have bar dice. We'd have cribbage. Yeah. You know, we have decks of cards. We'd also, you could get a tarol reading at this bar. Oh, yeah, that would be cool. That's better idea. Actual tarot reading cards. Yeah. See, I like that. I start up with an idea. You're like that idea sucks. Let me make it

palatable. That was good. You know, and then we, just like we invented in another bar, having the hardware store connecting. Mm-hmm. You know, we have a hardware, like, you could just pick up we it's basically like you donate things to the section right so if you got some extra screws laying around you go and just put them in the section and so guys that are in need of maybe just a couple of screws they can go to the section be like ah this should work for me oh that's fantastic yeah and then we obviously like we we said this for on the podcast we have a a room where people bring their stuff and guys just all try and fix it together perfect and also for the people just trying to day drink without judgment.

We'll have a closet there with various beer vendor shirts so you can pretend to be a beer vendor. A bunch of broken laptops. So you can just pop that up. And, you know, just. Well, we'll kind of end up looking like a hipster bar with all laptops out. Well, we won't make it just. We'll have no books in there too. We'll diversify it.

We'll have a box of flat pencils, you know, so that you can think that you're, you know, trying to remodel the bar. And we'll cover all your stories. you come to the bar, you write down your story, and we know the story for anyone who comes in there, anyone who calls will have exactly what you need them told. And you know what else we're going to have? What's that?

We're going to have a confessional booth. Yes. Privacy for the confessions is something I've always wanted in bars. You know, usually you're just doing it. You're raw dog in that confession. Sometimes you don't want other people to hear it. It's right. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there be like a section of the bar where you can go sit in it and there's a screen and you can just tell all the stuff to the bartender without having to have that face-to-face. Just like, you know. Yes, yeah. That can be the smoking section since Father Tom still rips those siggies. Yeah. Yeah, we'll do sigs inside.

Yeah, that's cool. It's good to bring that one back. It's not going to be banned in our bar. It just might be a little frowned upon. A little frowned upon, but Father Tommy gets a pass. Yeah. he always always smells and we'll have his favorite cologne there too because he always smells like cologne and cigarettes you know i think that's pretty good you know how your your your

priest smells oh my god dude you're an altar boy for that many years you know that your priest's smell dude they smell like incense incense and peppermints um yeah you know we had that too actually a little incense would be nice for easter week that might that might go into sacrilegious yeah you got to it was just cool with those stop at the confessional here okay that sounds good um let's see here do so how much uh miles and charlie memorabilia will that be at our bar i think it's less miles and charles maybe to start it's miles like just to fill up everything because we can't have any wall showing it's everything's got to be and we need uh um we people can bring stuff in and we'll have a table with screws and a drill because nothing

is going on our wall that's not drilled to the wall. Yeah. Yeah, but I just mean like, you know, maybe we could do like a mural of you and I, like riding a bowl together or something. That would be cool. You know? That would be really cool.

We should have it of us riding the mechanical bowl and because we should definitely have a mechanical bowl and a rodeo clown thing from our rodeo clown. Because you've seen a mechanical bowl at bars, right? You've never seen a mechanical rodeo clown. So you're going to ride one? No, and you're not going to ride it. You're just going to put the bowl.

We're going to give the bowl an extra spring. And there's a rodeo con. You got to dodge a bowl. I mean, you want practice to be a rodeo con? How many more places can you? Hey, I'm on board. Don't get me fired up, dude. You can always tell when I disagree with Charlie,

and he don't like that. He starts getting loud. You know, I'm the second oldest. And you're younger than me, okay? PTSD. Yeah. Oh, we do have to have your high school football picture there. Yeah, well, yeah, stats.

We'll hang my jersey in the rafters. It'll look like an apple bees. It'll basically look like an apple bees for my near my high school in Farrow. And I want seven copies of your high school yearbook so it can be open to all the pages you're mentioned. Yeah, that will be the reading. That'll be our menu. We'll just be my old yearbook. You know, like, Miles is your book.

It'll stay on the front and then the menu will be inside for food. you know how when you go to some places though they have the Bible out on a reading table you know and it's never opened like we'll just have your yearbook always open as well how do you feel about like theme nights like trivia night karaoke night definitely karaoke definitely karaoke because we're going to have to give people uh you know we got to do open mic right open mic would be great um karaoke i love bingo um we'll definitely we'll have to steal a slot machine when i say open mic we mean all open. Like we're not doing,

it's not open mic stand up. This is just an open mic and you can go up there. You and a buddy could just podcast for a while, do you want. Yeah. We can do open podcast night. You get hot five. You and a buddy go up there and that's maybe how we can find our next,

the next talent. That's good. Why is there no open mic podcast podcast? Podcasting. We could start that. An open mic. Yeah, I mean, there's Kill Tony for the stand-up, and that's, that's only, yeah, it's stand-up. So then if you get- We just have an open mic, two open mics.

And then also it's like, oh, I came here by myself, but I'd love to podcast. We can start pairing people up. Maybe you find the next gold. Maybe you next find the next. Yeah. No, I agree. It's not Kill-Toney. It's Live Tommy, you know.

Right? Yeah. Live Tommy. Yeah. And it also could be live, Tommy. or Tommy Live. Tommy live. You know?

Or Charlie live or Miles Live. Bellied up live. Bellied up live. Oh yeah. Dude, at our next bellied up live, we should do an open podcast mic segment. That's a great idea.

And we start a timer. We do like everyone gets like three minutes, them and a buddy or we just start pairing people up and we have them do podcasts and then we rate them afterwards. That's good. I think we'll definitely find out if we need to dedicate a whole. section to this in our bar. Yeah, it's actually a great idea. It's a good way to test it out. We need a, we need a piano there for Billy Deuce because Billy Deuce in the bellied up

lives, he can make songs throughout the night for people he sees coming in. Yeah, honestly, it would be great if the piano's right there when you walk in and then like the way you're greeted in the bar is Billy Deuce does a little roast of you as you walk in that song form. That's real good. Yeah. Yeah, you know, there's that one restaurant. on where they like put the dunce hat on you and they like yeah they dicks i'd like a version of that where everyone's just kind of insulting each other all night in good fun and i think it's kind of if you don't have money uh that's fine you're you're still welcome here you can pay with like either three insults or you can pay with one fishing spot or you can pay with an invite to your

uh uncle's hunting land whether he knows it or not yeah it's a good idea Yeah. Yeah, like if you don't want to pay for any beers at night, you better make sure that you are donating something to the screw and bolt section. Mm-hmm. Or bring something to buy seller trade. Yes. You know. We can have a buy-seller trade section.

That would be, we're going to need a decent amount of square footage. There's a ton of K-mart's that went out of business. And Fargo. You guys got square footage over there. Yeah. Yeah. Imagine you in a bar and old Kmart. You know, that's not bad because then we could put.

all the buy-seller trade stuff up there on the roof when we're not. That might structurally not be a good idea. We have enough square footage in the Kmart. Well, we're going to have a lot of buy-seller trade stuff. I keep pushing this like it's the next big thing. Although that roofs aren't really built for that kind of thing. So never mind. We'll have a yard out back for Joe Blow, the snowblow king of Appleton.

We'll have a spot for some of his snowmobiles when they creep out past the garage behind him. So here's a question for you If we were going to do a little comedy section How many chairs do we need for a good comedy room? Well, you want to get probably, you know, 50. Done. We'll have 50 chairs and that's it. That's good, yeah.

And then pack them in tight. Yeah. You know, you want people uncomfortably close. Want the ceilings low? Yeah, let those laughs reverberate. We have very fragile egos, us comedians. We need laughs always amplified. Trophies.

I would like to bring in some of my old trophies to the bar. I'd like to bring in my Taekwondo second place trophy. That's pretty sick. I would like to. Sparring second place. Your rollerblades, Charlie. I would bring my roller blades in. My roller blade rollerblades, yes.

I'd like to bring in when I was a kid, I was fishing at the musky competition. They have a Mosky Expo and they had a casting contest. And I cast it and I hit the light and I broke it. And the whole bar started clapping. And I was a kid. I thought I was in trouble, you know? And I looked up at my dad and he was laughing too. I was like, thank God.

And then the guy gave me a little, like a little ribbon, you know. So I do casting competitions. Honestly, that would be great. Yeah, like they could do it from a couch. Then we can call it the casting couch. Yes, dude. It could be black just in case. Yeah. Spills happen.

We should really put a lot of fishing poles there so people understand it to play on words and no one's. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, but I do like the idea of doing that. Oh, yeah. Like just the way you got the golf simulator, we should have a casting simulator. Yeah, yeah. Right? Yes, we should. Yeah. And that's a great idea. That's fantastic. And also, you probably don't need as much space as a golf simulator, too. I think you need the same amount of space, possibly more, because there's hooks involved. Well, you don't have to, so, you know, like, did you ever play that video game that was just a handheld thing where you like, you, you, you, you base off a motion, you cast and there's a screen on it.

And then you like, yeah, it's like this long. No. Just do that. I like, you want to get the feel the, just like a wee remote. You want to get the, I think let's just get a little more square foot. We're in a Kmart. We got space. We get a super Kmart.

Yeah, we got space. No, I want a real... I want an aquarium. I want an aquarium. A big one. That would be sick if you belly up to the bar and the whole back wall is just fish swimming around. I think it should be the aquarium room.

And this is the only... We got so many rooms. This is going to be like a maze. They're going to need a map. This is like Mall of America. Bar of America, dude. Boom. That could be our slogan.

Bar of America. Welcome to the ditch chicken. We're the... Bar of America. Yes. That's great. B.O.A. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. And, um, yeah. Oh, and we've got to have, we got to have Keith's book on display. Yeah. We'll put that right next to your yearbook. Your yearbook and Keith's book. Okay. Mm-hmm. So people can read about his time in prison. I'm feeling good about this. Oh, some Barron's old-fashioned brandy. No plug. I intended there. Just you want to have the world's best brandy miles that's it we got to at our bar yep you got to what do you want to

add in there miles drinks wise yeah we just have some bush light we could uh bread flights oh yeah bread flights wait basically are if we got ethan's ramen we're going to have uh you know you've heard of a salad bar we're going to have miles's bread bar oh yeah it's going to be an all you can eat bread buffet and there'll be garlic butter, butter, honey butter. Basically all versions. It's a butter flight right now. So what are you going to do is you're going to go, you're going to go to the bread bar. You can get all, they may have all breads.

We're talking, we're talking bread sticks. We're talking, uh, sourdough bread. We're talking Kings Hawaiian rolls. We're talking, uh, cheddar biscuits, regular biscuits, English muffins. any type of bread will be at the bar and then you can get a butter flight is what i think we need to do a butter flight would be great that would be awesome and we'll uh we'll also have a milking parlor there past the aquarium so we can go bar to table yeah yeah yeah yeah that's true um also what do you think i Jared told me last night at dinner that i should start my own bread bread brand brand brand brand brand brand brand

Yeah, I think you got to learn to say it first. But as soon as you... Well, that's not going to be the name of it. It's not going to be bread brand. I think it should be. Bread brand bread. Have you tried some of that bread, bread, bread, bread? Would you buy my bread online?

Miles, I buy anything you're selling, except all the t-shirts I've just taken for free. Yeah, I buy your bread. Well, what makes this bread good, Miles? You want to pitch me this bread? Well, I haven't made it yet. Well, you obviously have some ideas percolating unless it's too soon. to like literally last night Jared pitched this idea to me so I should do a bread brand Jared did did you cut yourself in on some of that profit you think miles will break you off

we're still in negotiation it's still in the oven okay yeah all right all right some bread does brew um yeast is involved oh I want to roll some pretzels I want to show off my pretzel rolling skills okay we have a pretzel rolling station you got your bread I got the pretzels Charlie would use it watch the never again pretty much he would you know when he's in town he would go and do a do a show you know yeah then not like a comedy show like a bread rolling show but then we would also we would have like you know like uh uh gals can go paint a picture and drink wine yeah he would do like where you go and you watch a tutorial video of charlie barons and drink barons brandy and roll pretzels that would be great that would be great yeah we'll we'll we'll

do it very method. I'll call it Uncle Tarleys. Instead of Auntie Anni's or one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I thought you're going Uncle Buck, Uncle Chuck. But, yeah, Uncle Char. You and I could remake Uncle Buck and you can be, instead of Uncle Buck, you can be Uncle Chuck and we'll remake the movie and that could be playing on the TVs. That's a group. Oh, yeah. And we have to have our full dumb and dumber remake now that our Super Bowl commercial went well.

Yeah. So I'm ready for it, dude. I am ready for this venture. How we're going to pay for it. We're just going to plaster Nicolet Law's face everywhere and he'll pay for it. Yeah, we'll call, we'll make the whole side of it just a billboard. Yeah. We'll sell billboard space. That'll be it. I mean, it's the whole roof. You said the best investment you can do is put a billboard on your roof. Yeah, we'll make it somewhat close to an airport. So it gets those eyeballs. We're a we're a super Kmart. So we got a lot of roof space. Yeah, and we'll start paying the planes to fly over it. You know, we'll start bribing pilots. We should locate next to the airport so we can get the pilots hammered and then send them home with that idea and say, well, they're going to be sober by the time they're

that should be intentionally getting pilots drunk. Well, they can, they're allowed to drink miles. They're a lot. Okay, you're right. So get them just drinking, but we got to find a way to, you know, well, we'll sweet talk them. You're right. pilots should not be drunk, period. And a discussion. You know, much as bar would be a disaster without me. Yeah, you'd have a bunch of drunk pilots

crashing into it and we're done. And then our wall-y. And Charlie's next idea is like, hey, we could get the next generation drinking. We could go to the high school and recruit kids to come drink at our bar. Because that's your next idea? Newspaper had like, belly-up,

bar goes belly up. That was probably what happened. just be a money pit for Charlie and I. Yeah. Sorry, wife and kid, no vacation this year. We got to pay for the debt on the bar. Yeah. Sorry, little buddy.

Your college tuition got pissed away and bellied up bar. We just have a bunch of dead walleye's floating in the tank. We're just throwing them outside for the Eagles. They're like, wow, that's a really weird green glass wall that they have there. What's floating up? All of a sudden, there's just one eyeball that's pressed up against the thing. Holy shit. What is that?

Is that an aquarium? Was. Sure was. Now it's just a breeding ground for red, blue, green algae. Well, Miles, let's see what the fans think. If you guys want to contribute to our bar, send us ideas. And yeah, give us a call some time. We want to hear from you.

And also, we're going to have a, a dock out back, like a loading dock. And if I'm stealing from the ice bar and Yankton, South Dakota, everyone can go smash their glass bottles underneath the deck back there. Oh, that's a great idea. Very fun. It's good to just get that aggression out. It'll be our version of the like racket room or whatever,

where you go smash stuff with bats. That got me on the idea. You like golf, you know, and you also like hunting, you know, and I'm a fan of hunting and sometimes golf when I'm with you and you don't yow me. But I would think that it would be great to have a little golf shotgun range.

You know, you hit the ball, you shoot the ball, you know? That would be fine. 60 degree wedge out there. Yeah. Yeah. Orange balls. That would be the sound.

And yeah, we probably would have to get some some insurance for certain. Yeah. You don't have to worry about that. I'll get all that. If this sounds like something. I don't want to bog down your creativity with the logistics like insurance. Okay.

I'll give you the ideal and then you say, all right, here's what we can afford. Okay. All right. We're looking for sponsors, you guys. We're looking for insurance. We're looking for all of it. Give us a how old. This is Joe.

Is this Miles and Charlie? Yeah, Joe, you got Miles and Charlie here on the belly-ed-up podcast. Hey, Joe. Holy cry. Where are you going with that gun in your? hand that's that's uh jimmy hendricks yeah there you go that's a good one you got to hear every year seasons every deer season is a great one absolutely uh is that your favorite joe song joe um boy i don't know that's a good question i it's a good one i'm trying to think of any other joe songs

cotton eye joe cotton i joe that's a good one that is a good one i don't know that's a good one song as a Joe though. Actually, no. You know, that's not a bad one. You know, that gets the white folk turn, right? Isn't that what they say? Yeah, that is very true. So where are you guys drinking at today?

1029 up here, Minneapolis, my guy, bras on the wall, and Frank is here. What's on your mind? Well, I have snowblower issues. Oh, no. Well, good time to have them. Well, so you are talking to Joe Blow, the snowblower king of Appleton. I don't know if you heard. This is.

This is amazing. Is this Bob Vance from Vance for refrigeration? No, no, no. This is, this is Joe. This is the snowblower king of Appleton. I know exactly who you are. Well, this might be self-proclaimed. I've heard this guy can blow, Miles.

I've heard he can blow with the best of them. All right. So do you sell snowblowers? Yeah, it's kind of a hobby of mine. And so I'm a full-time agriculture mechanic. So just kind of on the side for fun, I started buying and selling snowblowers. So what I started out with one season, probably like 10 snowblowers, probably less than that. I'm now to the point where I've touched over 30 of them this year, buying and selling them out of my garage.

Wow. How much money have you made? Is Uncle Sam listening? No. Okay, all right, because hypothetically, let's say this is less than 10, but better than 7 this year. All right. Dollars, $10. I didn't think you were actually going to answer that question.

I just wanted to ask a rude question and see what Miles would do, but he just stared straight ahead. That's pretty cool, man. That wasn't that rude of a question. That was, oh, getting into the business mechanics. Do you want to expand your blowing business, Joe Blow? Well, so that's kind of what my- How much blowing do you want? to be doing, Joe.

Well, I want to be doing a year round if possible because, like, you know, you kind of got your one season of the year here when there's snow on the ground and then after that, yeah, you're kind of twiddling your thumbs all summer with 20 snowblowers in your backyard like I got right now. Does the snowblower knowledge and skill go to lawnmowers? Do they transfer well? They're both small engines, right? Yeah, I mean, a carburetor is a carburetor.

Once you play with one, you can play with pretty much any of them. Joe, I want that just to be your tagline right there. A carburetor is a carburetor. That's pretty good. I like that. Well, she'd make a t-shirt on that. Yeah, you should. You should.

I should. I should. So you'd think you could transfer into lawnmores a little bit, Joe Ball? Well, so here's the thing is I took. a lawn more hand on trade. Joe Blow to Joe Mo. Joe. Oh, yeah. Just to turn over the billboard.

That's, that's true, but that doesn't fix all the, the 20 snowblowers they have in my backyard over the summer. Sorry, continue. But, okay,

so the reason I don't do lawn mowers, well, number one is the real reason is, you know, I'm a farm mechanic in the summer is, is when, uh, things get a little bit more,

uh, busy at work. Yeah. Uh, but the other more important. important reason is I did take a lawnmower and once I'm trade for a snowblower and I'm sitting there

working in my garage under the lawnmower and I keep getting the smell and I'm thinking God what the heck is this? This kind of stinks. It smells like dog crap and once you know it yeah it's dog crap the whole bottom of the lawnmower. So I'm trying to step in away from the lawnmores

because I don't want to deal with other people's dog crap. The whole under end of the lawnmower. an unbelievable prank by that guy. He's like, all right, he didn't want him. You wouldn't give me any money for this, for this lawnmower. So I'm just going to run over a big pile of dog shit and then bring it to his house. I'm going to mow the dog park just for fun.

Yeah. So yeah. So yeah, that was, that was my one experience with lawnmower so far. So I'm trying to stay away from him if possible. But I mean, you know, ideal is a deal, man. You know, he really can't, you know, if the money, is green you gotta chase it right yeah you got you got to deal with some dogs sometimes um yeah well what's uh what's your plan are you trying to start your own business full time um right now it's not really a

full time gig just because i got a good enough gig at work it's just something that's just fun on the side to do um i mean i i got the dealership background uh working at a an ag dealership so uh it's something where, you know, I don't think I'm going to go full-time, big-time anytime soon, per se. But definitely something where I'm able to take those steel sets that I have from work and seeing, you know, how a dealership runs and apply it to my garage and which kind of sets me apart from other people doing this kind of a gig, I think. Yeah, that's cool. What's the best blower on the market, you think, Joe?

Boy, you know, living in Appleton, being kind of close to brilliant, a guy's got to kind of lean toward the errands, doesn't he? Love the errands. Oh, yeah. Got a, yep, yep. And those are a heavy duty, duty snowblower. Let me tell you. They don't mess around.

No. However, a guy like me where I am able to fix things and, you know, I can put a new gearbox together if need be, I kind of like the MTV line of machines, you know, just Parts are cheap. You can get them off Amazon a lot of times. And yeah, you just, you make do with what you got with those ones. And I kind of like the control setup on them better. But boy, if you're going to be a home operator, you know, using your own equipment, definitely

your errands, your Toros, those bigger names like that. Those are heavy duty machines. How does your wife feel about this new line of work? So that was something where, yeah, it did take up, you know, pretty much. every night of the week you run out to the garage after the family's fed and you spend most of your life out in the garage but she does see the dollars coming in and understands that you know you like I said you know you got to chase the money right yeah I mean like what's quality time with your family worth you found out between seven and ten thousand dollars well the hope is to have something to pass down to the

daughter right when she's old enough to take over the business you know. Oh, yeah. Isn't that the American dream? That's the American dream. Yeah. How old's your daughter? She is just over a year now.

Have you gotten there helping you out with some carburetors? Not quite yet. There has been a few shop days where she kind of sits in a stroller and kind of hangs out, taking a nap or so. Okay. Simbaoos. Yeah, those fumes, let's put them right to sleep. I've heard.

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's good. builds up their community. Yeah. Yeah. If you get used to those carburetor gases when you're a kid, they won't affect you when you get older. It's kind of like,

you know, any sort of community. I like that. Yeah. That's good. Yeah, like we all played in Chuckie Cheeses kids. So now like we were,

COVID wasn't as bad for us. You know, that's true. That's true. Look in pinball machines. Yeah. So is your wife like get these out of my backyard before summer or is she okay with you just keeping them there as well on ornaments?

So right now they're behind the garage. But I keep accumulating them where they're kind of spilling out from behind the garage into where he can sit on the couch and see the lovely collection as it's growing. And she's fine with it as long as it stays behind the garage. Yeah, just put up a fence so she can't see it. Well, that's true. that's true but that you know cuts into the whole uh profit margins here that's yeah that is true a few nice tarps how about that you know i don't know if that's gonna cut it for her either i think

the the snowblower is a little better looking than a tarp flapping in the way you got to start working faster those are your two options well it doesn't matter how quick you you know you work on them to get them going it's about selling them and i mean i could have all i could have all i got all you You got an inventory problem. It's kind of inventory. Well, at least when the summer comes around, I mean, that Blizzard, that Elsa that came through, that was a blessing. Let me tell you what.

How many, pretty much lowers you on load there? That was, there was, I had five machines left that were ready to go winter ready. And, yeah, I got all of them, all of them were sold, which was, which is good. That's sweet. Sounds like you need to hire another mechanic. You probably could have sold another 5-10 there if you had them ready to roll. I probably could have. But boy, you know, you have that dry spell that we had in January, February,

where it was just, it didn't feel like we were going to get much more snow. You start with some motivation to work on snowblowers. Ah, that's the problem right there, Joe Blow. You always got to be ready. What's your billboard game, right? Like my billboard game. Right now, I don't only have any physical things. I do have my marketplace ads and my Craigslist ads.

That's about all that I'm running off and my front yard, which I'm sure my neighbor who had his house for sale, really enjoyed the snowblowers looking for sale sign on them. I'm right next door. Can you put up a billboard? Are you on a corner lot at all? No, I'm not. You think the next move for Joe Blow is to purchase a billboard and put it up in his yard?

Or on his roof. Or on his roof. There's some people have like houses next to a highway and the best investment you can do is just put a billboard on your roof because you can make so much extra money. Just consider it, Joe Blow, okay? I know a thing or two. That's not a bad idea, but between me and 441, there's a pretty good like, uh, a sound wall that I don't think they'd be able to see it. But I like the thinking.

I like the thinking. Yeah, maybe summertime, you know, like it depends. Like, are you willing to take a discount in the summer just to get rid of inventory? Like, everything's got to go. You know, there's, there is that whole philosophy of just keeping inventory moving. And I definitely, you know, if I can keep things moving and still make a little bit on it, yeah, definitely I'm I'm run a bogo sale in the summer and have a plane fly the advertisement around the nearest lake that's smart or you know what you need to do you need to set up uh outside a good ice fishing spot

and catch the folks as they're coming in and off the ice you know that's true shanty to shanty marketing you know instead of door to door yep i like it bring beers and uh flyers and uh really embrace the Joe blow of it. Another thing you could do is figure out how can you repurpose a snowblower for the summer. I mean, yes, that's the key. You could do it to dig up some gardens, you know? Is that a possibility? The rotator-chiller option. Yeah. Well, I was thinking about that. You'd have to do some work to the auger. Right. Well, get rid of that shield. Well, there you go. Take the guards off. Now you're sounding like a farmer, Charlie. Yeah. I think that's your move right now. And, and, you know, I mean, yeah, you just, a lot of people are looking for those

and they're, they're overpriced, you know. That's true. That's true. And if you can buy one machine to do two things. Yes, yes. And just imagine the commercial you can make. I'm trying to. What would that look like? What is the commercial you can make, Chuck? Well, okay. I can say, Hi, I'm Joe blows, the best blow in Appleton. And what I want to do is tell you how you can repurpose your snowblower for the summertime. Got a garden you want to re, you got a garden you want to start, watch this. And then you just slam it on the ground. The shield comes right off and then just start.

You're the sham wow guy of snowblowers and augurs. All right. Just shamwow this situation. See, I found. So are we thinking, so is this going to be radio or this TV? TV. Yeah. TV ad?

Okay. Write the script so it works well on radio too, though. All right. No, don't make it too visual. Right. Yeah. I mean, and then. Smart.

Yeah. Yeah. Which model do you think would work best as an auger? Well, as an auger or is a rototiller? Or is a rototiller? My bad. Rototiller. Probably something that's rusted out because then you don't have to

take so many, uh, uh, uh, shields off because they're all gone. There you go. Yeah. Just embrace that fully. And that opens the inventory you can get. You can find a bunch of, uh, snowblowers that are pretty much done. And you, you know, you can give them a whole new life. Well, and that's true. I get a lot of people actually who message they want to find snowblowers like that. And, uh, they just want the drives. They use them for things like trailer movers they want to build and they want to build a ice fishing hauling here. Oh, yeah.

You hook it up, you put studded tires on it and you hook it up in front of your, your otter sled, and you ride your otter sled out to the ice fishing spot. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, the world is your blower here, Joe. The world. Do we lose them? No, I'm still here, guys.

I'm still here, guys. I'm just trying to think of how I could go. off of that. I couldn't, I couldn't keep up with you to go on the back and forth on the world as your blower. Not quite like a garden dig it kind of a thing. I wasn't, life's a garden dig it. It's like, what? Yeah, that's what you're kind of going off of with the whole life's your blower. And I couldn't think of the dig it part of the blower. And life's your blower. Yeah, life's your blower. Don't you, don't you know her. That's terrible. You know what?

You're going to just start ripping, ripping shots and ripping taglines. Pull that carburetor one we had, a carburetor. Just start doing like three second ads. I'm Joe Blow, the best blow in all of Appleton. Carburetor is a carburetor. And that's it. You think so? Yeah.

Oh, you know, he's the blower king of Appleton. Is that what he said? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Snowblower King of Appleton. Snowblower King of Appleton. Yeah, get a crown.

You'll need that for the billboards. Get a staff, you know. How's that sound, Joe? Are you in on that? That's doable. I mean, we've got to be a little bit carefully here because we're not licensed nor insured and we pass those savings right onto you, the customer. That's it.

That's your commercial right there. I did steal that. I can't. I can't just give that away. I've heard that before. I can't claim that as my own And you're not as businessman. That's who you are.

That's what you're getting when you go with Joe Blow. That is true. Hey, I try to make sure these are good solid machines that I can stand behind. I tell you that when you buy them from me. Joe blows the competition away. There you go. We're just Joe blows. Joe is blowing the competition.

No, that doesn't work. No. That's not where we want to go with that one. Although that's another business entity right there. you see and then I want to set up a different LLC for that one so when I talk to the guys at work about this you know because this guys talking at work about what you're doing on the weekend they always I tell them I'm Joe Blow and they put an S at the end of blow and I tell them that kind of is insinuating the wrong services that I'm providing so we got

be careful about that you got to be careful on Craigslist with that name yeah you get more in the Misconnections. I accidentally posted on misconnections. I'm getting a lot of inquiries. It's kind of wild. Hey, but the whole click thing, isn't that important? Getting part of the whole click. Click through rate.

Click algorithm. Yeah. Yeah, there's something like that. You don't click algorithm on Craigslist. All right. Which, we're on that. We're on the Craigslist. We're on the Facebook at a marketplace.

So. What's been more lucrative for you? Facebook is the one that really, really hit home. which is unfortunate. I'm not a fan of Marketplace, to be honest with you. Because it's a whole algorithm game. Facebook Marketplace looks at you and what you've searched up

and tries to, they think they know what you want to see, and that's what they'll show you. Craigslist, on the other hand, it's just, you know, it's classified. So, like, right now, you and Miles could probably open up Marketplace right now, have the same area and search up the same exact thing, and Facebook will show you two different sets. Like Charlie, your phone will show one thing for ads and then Miles, your phone will show you the other thing because.

Like if Charlie searches Joe Blow, it's me way different than me. Correct. Yeah, you might not see my ads right away because of. I'll see your ads. I don't think Charlie will. Oh, that's, it all depends on your search history. You know, Miles, let me tell you this right now. I think Joe Blow could do it well. imagine a guy looking for a fella and then he's going to need a snowblower.

So eyeballs are eyeballs, all right? Yeah, I agree. I'm bought, you know, anyways. Well, listen, Joe, we are, we kind of didn't give you a lot of great stuff to go off of. I'm going to be honest with you on this. You caught us. But we're not licensed or insured. We are not license.

There's no guarantees in this business. No, absolutely not. No, but we do work with you to make sure that. it if something comes up you know we can we can stand behind it and work with you yeah to make sure it's right hold the flashlight yes yes there you go you'll stand behind and tell them how to fix it all right well joe hey good luck with this business my guy um the snowball game the snowblower king of appleton ladies and gentlemen joe blow yes feel free to look at look me up on Marketplace or Craigslist.

Just search up Joe Blow, man. I usually have most of my ads have that tag on it so you can find them. I'm serious, Joe Blow, if you just say, if a billboard just says Joe Blow, look me up on Craigslist, you are going to sell so much of whatever you want.

That is all you want to do. That's it. That's the best business move you can do. That's not bad. You want to turn that 7 to 10 into $70 to $3 million? buy one billboard you think so that's well you don't maybe you're not right maybe you're not all right joe we have a good one man thank you guys appreciate it keep up the good work

all right you too watch for deer now charlie fishing openers here and one of the it's one of the biggest days of the year everyone's up early loading the boat they're fired up like it's a holiday which it is a holiday. It's not like a holiday. I had a prime rib sandwich coming up a little bit. That was, that was, you had no bodily force. Let me take it from you. No, I got it. But the boat launch is absolute chaos. You know what, show. Yeah. I've seen you back in a boat. It's chaos. I've had some, I've had my share of issues over the years. People back in trailers in like they've never done it before, slipping on wet concrete, rods flying. everywhere. You step out to help hit the slick ramp and we got a little algae on it. You got down hard.

Boom, you're down hard. Someone in, someone rushes it, loses control and crashes into you or another boat. Now you're injured. Next thing you know, now you're injured and dealing with a serious mess. If opening weekend doesn't go with a plan called Nicolet Law,

they'll fight for you, Chuck. They'll fight for your slippery rods miles check them out 1855 nicolay law miles check out these sunnies okay i like that you got you got got the double barrel going your description glasses with the sunnies over top but i was talking to shady rays and you know what they said miles what they say they says to me that hey we can put a prescription in these sunglasses no way yeah yeah and for a fraction of the costs that those you know those those expensive sun goggles companies are. So yeah,

I'm getting a prescription in here. It's going to be slick. And, you know, I'm ready, I'm ready for summer. I'm going to be, hell,

I was ready like this driving up here, but, you know, come summer, come fishing. Oh my gosh. And these are polarized and prescription.

I'm, you know, I'm praying for the wall eyes. Plus you look hot. Thanks. Thanks, thanks, Miles.

Appreciate that because I'm sweating or what? Both. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Yeah. Hopefully your glasses come with one of those little cloth things so you can clean them. I'll clean them.

I'll clean them. Don't you wear my mouse. I'm growing up a little bit. And then you're going to miss the old Charlie. I was wearing my shady rays on vacation. People loved them. Did they? Did, uh,

Anne, was she getting jelly donut or no? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. You had to say,

sorry, ladies. I'm married and got a kid. Sorry, signorita. Married. Yeah. I like that you put that Spanish in there. to El Sol, Miles.

These sunglasses protect you from El Sol. All right. And that's not Seoul, that's sun and Espanol. So there you have it, folks. So, guys, if you want to get yourself some shady rays, all you got to go is go to their website, use code bellied up. You get 40% off.

40% or more polarized glasses. You can't pass up on those kinds of savings. Go check them out. Miles, the other day I was walking. and I looked into the mirror and my shirt said run and I was like, oh, I might be athletic and then I

and I was like, run. Okay. Pretty cool, huh? That was it? That was what you wanted to show me. That was what I wanted to show you. I'll take this off now. It didn't work.

No, it's funny. Run. Yeah, if you're wearing, if you wearing a jacket that's not zipped up, it just look at it. It does look like you are, you're a runner,

you're a marathon guy. Yeah. But with Brunt, you kind of can be an athlete, you know? I mean, you got those non-marking boots right there. You can play basketball with those things. You know, if also, if you have like a backpack strap over here, you just look like a runt. Runt. It's perfect, man.

You can be whatever you want with Brunt. And that's why I'm such a huge fan. That's why. That's why. That's why. I'm excited, Miles. It's about that time. I'm going to go do some clearing on my trail, going to get the chainsaw out.

and you know what I'm bringing with? You know what I'm wearing out there? Let me brunt it up. I'm brunt it up for this adventure. You want to come? I need a spotter. Just because I'm accident prone. No, I know.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll be there. So always good to have a good job, buddy. Can I bring the whole family? Sure. Yeah, you actually can. Bring the whole family. That'd be great.

And both get brunted up and just start moving brush around. It's going to be great, you know. Chopping down trees. Yeah. And then we'll use the, the trees to line the path. I need another guy. I need another brunty guy out there.

You know, so I'm gonna give me a little brunt assistance. It sounds like we're joking, but that actually sounds like a great time. You and I just cut wood and laying a trail. Dude, it's incredible. I'm getting these telephone poles and I just got to cut the ends off.

So it's just the wood, not the treated part. And then we bring them over. And then I got deck boards. It's going to be sick. Oh, you're going to make like a path path. Through this swampy area.

So it can be used all year round. Yeah. Tyler works for me. He's just been, he's got some swamp. He just throws wood pallets down. Wood pallets. To be the cheap way to do it. Shit. That's, I'm definitely, you know, if you go to the back of, and don't ask me how I know this, if you go to the back of certain grocery stores. I just handing them out. You know the right guy. Like when I worked at the bike shop, we would give bike boxes out to people all the time and palettes. Sometimes they can resell them, but sometimes they're like, you know, kind of broke or something. So you can, that's a great idea. That's a great idea. I got to talk to Tyler about that.

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They got sweatshirts. They got it all. How's going there, bud? what's up my guy how are we not too bad what's going on well right now i'm at valley fair doing construction oh like here like in uh shockopee from minnesota all the way oh yeah you're at the valley fair charlie you ever been to the valley fair or no i've been to shockipi yeah we did a show over there in uh like seventh grade at the end of the year yeah our whole class got to take a class trip to Valley Fair for a day.

No, I'm kidding. Dude, four hours each way. Are you serious? Not being serious. You drove four hours, sat there for two and then left for four? Yeah. Wow. That's pretty fun, actually. And as a kid, though, it's like just getting with all your buddies on a road trip. You don't really care. Oh, yeah. Just a little hellraiser's on the bus. Someone brings fishing line in a Polly pocket and just see how far back you can dangle her. Maybe that was just me.

We didn't have video games when I was a child. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I didn't have anything. All right. We'll bring up a stick. So what are you doing at Valley Fair? That's not good if you're fixing stuff at Valley Fair. I am a plumber.

Plumber. Uh-oh. Are there funnel cakes at Valley Fair? A lot of, I kind of wish it were. A lot of footlong corn dogs at there. What plumbing issue are we working on? Right now we are working on a week on the main line

and a bathhouse. Bathhouse, huh? I didn't know they had those at Valley Fair. What kind of a theme park is? Pretty much just a giant bathroom. Okay. Is it a, it's a theme part, Valley Fair, right? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, they got the power tower. They got the wild thing. they got I think they got steel venom there they got every ride

sounds like you can buy it at the adult's toy store on the way to Valley Fair that's true that is true and yeah so I've never been on the power tower

though it's the one where they just literally just dangle your feet you're just in a seat they're just bringing all the way at top you just have to sit there and then suddenly it just drops

Yes, we had the giant drop. And I just hate heights so much. I was like, I just don't need to do that. See, I'm kind of with you. I never really, I think I did the giant drop one time, but I didn't want to do it again because it just wasn't my thing. I was at six flags. Charlie, can you even read all the signs out here? I mean, you do have to wash your glasses occasionally.

Okay. Okay. You want, Logan? You can't see this with your eyes, but you're getting the bird, pal. Boom. I can see that. Oh, I know you can't see it with your own eyes, so that's fine. I like it.

How are they looking today? They're not too bad today. It's mostly just the corners of them, but you don't look out the corners of them. No, I mean, I'm trying. I'm just, I'm just, it's, it's, you know, I, Logan, we, we, we're doing an ad read for shady rays the other day, and he put on a, he put on a brand new pair of sunglasses and it was like, holy shit, these things are clear. That's what he said.

Word for word. What are you getting dirty right away? All right. Here's the problem. Okay. My, my, my hand. get cracked. Okay. So I've been putting on some stuff to moisturize them because they're painful when they crack. And when you do that, you touch your glasses from time to time. So I'm

not dirty. Okay. I'm just trying to be just trying to have less band-aids on my fingers. Okay. Sure, it's just more excuses, not less mandates. Ah, listen to this guy. Listen to this freaking plummet. I like you, Logan. I like them. I like them, too. it's fine i'll say that uh so uh what's on your mind here logan belly on up to the bar with us well i uh pretty young guy i feel like i've experienced quite a bit and uh i figured i'd shoot my shot on the podcast well miles is taken and i he's in a you're in a relationship i'm in a relationship i mean but hey we're not married yet so yeah let's see it all right here we go let's see if any your pickup lines work on us.

Trust me. I already found a woman. I ain't got to do that. Oh, okay. What do you mean shoot your shot? Well, like, let's see. I come from a four-generation plumbing company and, uh, he's seen some shit. Yeah, I've seen some shit.

A plummet joke. Yep. And then I got a pig that lives in the house and, uh, I'm an amateur bull rider. Oh, yes, dude, you're in. I don't care. When can we go on our first date? I'm going to leave this bar right now. If you can, if you can...

Honey, I'm right here. He's not going to be around much longer, dude. You're going to leave me for him. They call that a buckle bunny. A buckle bunny? I don't know if I can handle you like that. Oh, okay. In my business, they call him a chuckle sucker,

but it's a word that rhymes with sucker. That's what they'd say. I'm not, I don't approve of it. Buckle Bunny. Okay. So you're an amateur bow rider, which must be the worst profession to be an amateur in. Oh, it is. So you're literally just destroying your body for no reason whatsoever.

My job is to go out there and make the other guy look good. You know, a fluffer in the porn industry. Yep. And then I listen to your other episode and apparently my sport is a pageantry sport.

So. Oh. That's Charlie's words, not mine. I did not say that. No, that was the caller, I think. The caller might have said. I would not have said that. I know what you guys go through.

We didn't agree with them. I know what you guys go through. Oh, yeah. Also, I got to give props to you for having a fact about your life top the one that you have a pig living in your house. I think that's impressive. Not every guy's got a pig in their house, Miles. Have you ever seen the one gal that does the show pigs? and she's walking and doing the with the little stick?

Uh, no. You haven't seen that? I don't think so. Is your pig a show pig? Oh, no, he's not. He's just, uh, you know those, uh, mini pigs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but, uh, by the way, if you're going to own a mini pig, a mini pig is considered

anything under 300 pounds. So crap yourself. How big is your pig? My pig is probably close to 200. Jesus. All right. So is he sleep in your bed with you? No, he sleeps at the end of the bed on the floor.

You ever let him in your bed? When he was a piglet, I couldn't stop him from jumping up. But then luckily he got too fat. So I was like, good job. How does that work? Do you have to take him on a walk? How many times a day? Like, does he ever, is he a house trained?

Oh, he's house train. He goes right to the door, and then he'll knock on the door when he wants to go outside, go to the bathroom. and then he'll just come back and he'll knock on the door to come back inside. How often do you have to bathe your pig? During the summer all the time because he rolls in everything. Right. And he's sweating like a pig.

Yeah. But that's easy. It just hose him off, right? Pretty much. Yeah. Okay. Then you get the same treatment to dogs do. So what made you want to get into bull riding?

me and my buddy mark we kind of just sat around one day and then we went you know it sounded really fun and he went well my let's just do some bull riding he goes i know a guy and uh let's on the first day i was out of town and he signed me up for me and uh we found out that we were supposed to be a novice ball riding which is four amateurs and we ended up being an open bull riding which is professionals. Oh, my God. So I broke a arena record for further flown. What else do you, Brad?

Luckily nothing else. God, dude. He flew so far, he landed in everyone's laps and that kind of cushioned the blow. How far did you fly? 14 feet. Oh, my God. That's insane. That's insane.

How'd they even let you do this? you you literally don't have to have any experience you can just sign up and sign a waiver and you're good to go the waiver I don't care and you can be in a legit rodeo and do that huh wow all right so how many times have you wrote a bowl so far I think I'm up

I want to say 14 nice and how have you have you gone the distance yet uh longest time was on a bull named black Blackberry. He's in the PBR now, and I got four seconds on him. Holy shit. So you're not very good. No. No, God. But it is, it's hard because I was watching the PBR with that bull and that guy only got two.

So I was like, suck it. That's impressive. Now, this is when he was still a young bowl. Yeah. It's like his ball, the bull's balls hadn't dropped yet. Yeah, he had just, he had just gotten some the day before. He had just gotten, uh, something extracted the day before um so what uh wow no injuries uh i mean i've had a few bruises here and there uh actually the worst injury i had i am uh still recovering from it it happened out of rodeo but it wasn't from bull riding what happened peroni's disease uh no you're at this uh we got a three day rodeo called bull bash and nimrod and you've got to be a nimrod to go there.

And there was a guy running from a cop, and I tackled him, and I tore my ACL. Just trying to do a good deed. Just trying to back the blue and you tear your ACL. Yeah, I did. And then the worst part was trying to do my good deed. All my friends did, why the hell would you do that? He was running away with our drugs, dude.

Oh, yeah, he ran through our camp. He knocked over all of our beers, and I went, screw this guy. And I tackled him. Oh, okay. And then the best part was is that later on in the night, I was laying in the camper, and my buddy came back with the guy because this guy was walking back to his camp, ran into my buddy Mark and said, did you tackle me?

And he goes, no. He goes, you want to help me beat up the guy who did? Sure. And they walked in the camp, and he goes, oh, this is where I got to. tackled. And he goes, what? He goes, yeah, this is this short guy tackled me with like a mustache and a white cowboy hat. He goes, oh, are you talking about Logan? And he goes, yeah. And he goes, I might have to beat you up. And then he left. Well, uh, we thought the, uh, call the, uh, cop that took him away the first time and he took the head. Wait, wait, why would he, why would he have to, I got confused.

do you have to beat who up? So he met this guy and he didn't know that that was the guy that he tackled. Oh, okay. And so then when he got back, they put it together and they were like, oh, shit. Oh. My friend thought he made a new friend. Turns out that that friend was the enemy. Ah, I see.

But the friend of my enemy, what is it? The enemy of my friend is my friend. There it is. So you're just, you should. just stay out of sports. You should take up chess. Well, I never been injured in a sport. I just been injured at the sport, not doing it. Yeah, but the sport is the reason you got injured. You got a taste of that adrenaline, you know? And now it's never going away. You always need to recreate that adrenaline in your life.

Oh, no. It feels like the first time every time. How old are you? But sometimes better. sometimes better sometimes you last four seconds yeah exactly okay do you like that mouse that was a good joke actually all right no how old are you

I am 21 coming up on 22 and you're just too young to be tearing your ACL tackling someone actually they say if you want to be a good role hole rider start at 14 wait what you're considered a scene year in bull riding once you hit 25. Oh, so you're saying you're old.

Yes. Old for a bull rider. All right. I'm old for a bull rider. Where are you hoping to take this bull riding? Until I get eight and then I might just say screw it. So because what I understand, don't they do a draw of which bowl you end up riding. Is that correct? Do they do it in the amateur level?

So really you're just hoping to get really lucky and just get the worst bowl so that you can quit. That's kind of what you're saying? Pretty much. All right. Smart. What's the wildest injury you've seen on that in that rodeo? It was actually at a practice pen. And I mean, there was injuries going left and right,

but it was the rider's fault. There is a certain way to fall, and they weren't falling the right way. How do you fall off a bowl? So the hand that you're tied down on, let's say you tie down your right hand. Yep. You need to fall off on the right side.

Yeah, so you don't put your hand out and like break your arm. Yeah. Okay, so you can kind of drag yourself down a little bit. If you fall off the left side, your hand will get caught up even more, and you're just going to get tossed around with it. Yeah. I see. Ragdoll.

Ragdall. Yeah, you want to be very limp when you hit the ground, right? You want to tense up? Nope. Just like gravity. take you and as soon as you hit the dirt just start running. Oh yeah, because you got an, what about the, would you ever want to be a brodie old clown? I've thought about it.

Well, what do you think about it? It's, uh, you got to be good. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Not just making jokes. You have to, you have to throw yourself at the bowl occasionally. Oh, yeah, that's part of the gig for sure. Yep. one question for you it's a little off topic when you said you were going to shoot your shot

what exactly did you mean by that earlier i'll just see if uh i could just get on the podcast oh i thought you're maybe looking to like you know be a third chair on the podcast no no you know i ain't that talented travel with the crew yeah that's why i was thinking too i wasn't totally sure but well i'll invite you a few rodeos and i'll see where it goes What rodeo? We should do a bellied up live from our rodeo miles. Well, there's Nimrod, Lone Oak, Sandstone, a few others that my head got hit too hard. I was going to remember.

I was going to say, yeah, there's a lot of pauses going on on the other end of this podcast. 22. Any head injuries that you're aware of? Well, the one I can remember is definitely, I'd say about a year ago. Okay. concussion? You got concussed. Is that on a ball?

Or is that just like walking down the street? That was on a bowl this time. I got a horn to the helmet right in the face. Well, if you mess with the bull, you're going to get the horns. Yep. You got a hockey helmet? Oh, yeah. I'm done, but I ain't that dumb.

So you do know that you don't have to ride the bulls, right? but the thing is I want to okay and it's just is it the adrenaline you're after it's just I've always loved the sport and I feel like you can't really love a sport until you do it yeah but like what do you love about it

do you love the adrenaline do you love the pain that you get like you're into that or is it maybe that you're into the glory maybe getting the girls like what is it's definitely the adrenaline sometimes you get the occasional glory

you know it's it's it's interesting walking into arena not knowing anyone in the crowd and then you just starts cheering yeah so it's the rush it's the russ it's the fame it's being the star of the show and and you really were the star of show that day when you flew 14 feet in the air oh yeah it's it's interesting because when you're on the bull you don't hear anything it's it's It's dead silent. And as soon as your hand leaves the bull, and when I started flying through the air, all I heard was,

oh, from the whole crowd. And I went, this is not going to be good. You know, Charlie, I'm starting to think bull riding ain't much different

than doing stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's not. It's a lot. You know, let's say this, there's a less barrier of entry for bull riding than,

like, stand-up, you at least have to write one joke for bull riding. Well, I suppose you've got to get a hockey helmet. But anyone can do it. It's probably just right there. Sometimes they let you a ride hat down, though.

Does that mean no helmet? No helmet, just hat. That's insane. That is nuts. Is this like the hockey thing of where you get more props if you don't wear a helmet, kind of? Oh, for sure. Yeah, the badass guys don't wear.

Am I going to do it? Nah. yeah you know what I mean like it's not much different Charlie sometimes uh sometimes you knock it out of the park you go all eight seconds the crowd goes wild and sometimes you bomb and you go flying 14 feet in the air yeah regardless the crowd's going wild they're well usually they're silent if you bomb but sounds like here they'd be silent if he was dead because he wouldn't hear yeah man I just

it's hard to get into your mind what are you doing were you looking at miles right now is looking at Jared and looking at me what you're making fun of me for I just brought up your stand-up career and you just got nothing out of you

oh yeah folks see me on tour I'll be in charliebarrants.com can you read the jokes after you write them down with the glasses on or you guys you come up for that you know Logan can you read it all

after your next brain injury my guy good god hey i can still read do you wear sounds like i'm poor do you wear a cup do you wear a cup no you can't wear a cup can't wear a cup how about padded ass chaps uh they don't make those either what you do is they uh there's a pad that attaches to your rope so when you land on your rope hopefully it's just a little softer okay all right wow miles would you Did you try bull riding? No. I already banged my head up enough.

I already just, I already exposed my risk to CTE in my life. I'm done doing that, you know? I've already gone through the ringer on that. But glad you asked me a question that I answered and then you started drinking water with no response. I was waiting for you to go. I was waiting for you to go. I was stalling until you're done drinking your water. Well, you stole too long, you got dehydrated.

Yeah. I don't know. I feel like I don't have it in me either. I've done a mechanical bowl. Me too. I can get a mechanical ball on vacation. Do you want to see? Yeah, I do want to see.

Miles wrote a mechanical boat. I always thought that do you ever go ride a mechanical bowl to practice? Oh, we'll get with your kid, Miles. It was crazy. We almost flew off. Oh, my God. Watch how crazy it was. This is in Mexico.

Cambodia. Cambodia. Oh, crazy it is. Yeah. We almost flew off right there. That's nuts. He can really hold on, man.

Damn. What's, Sear plumber? Fourth generation plumber, you said? Yes, sir. What's the business? Give it a shout out.

Creamer mechanical plumbing and heating. Kramer mechanical plumbing and heating. Do you guys maybe do like mechanical work, potentially some heating, some plumbing? And is your guys' last name, Kramer? Yeah. Kramer or Kramer? Kramer with Kramer.

Kramer, okay. All right. How'd you guys come up with the name for the business? Well, my grandpa's last name was Kramer. And then he put mechanical after that. And then that was that. Oh, wow. We found your, we found the picture of your company here.

Yep. Yeah. What do you guys are all standing? What did you spell out? I think that's funny that you guys like clearly spelled out something in this photo. Let's say 50. Did you do a 50 photo? Yeah, for the 50th anniversary.

Nice. I think the drone might have had to go just a skull tire. It just looks like you guys are all just awkwardly standing too far apart from each other. It's funny that you think we got a drone. That's just boom. Yeah. None of them wanted to be in that picture. No,

none of us wanted to be in that picture. Is there like one in your family? Is there like a young, like a nephew or cousin that's running the social media and they made you do that? Oh, no. We had to push and pride just to get a website. whose idea was it to do the 50 picture uh that would probably be my uh uncle steve your uncle steve it's always an uncle steve yeah yep i get that you guys it looks like a zombie apocalypse right there you guys are just staring right to eat brains it's good luck so what no business is going well though oh business

going well it was slow for a while like how long is a while like this year or like the last 10 years about a year I just what was what attributed to the

slow work um just uh um just uh it was just slow especially with uh the tariffs and stuff going on just no one wanted to send out materials

so then we kind of got screwed on that The supply chain issues. Yeah. Yeah, but you're back. You're back. And then everything is just more expensive. Working at Valley Fair.

Riding polls. You dating anyone? Uh, cool. Actually just broke up with someone like a week ago. Single now. Did you break up or did she? She did. Um, bomber, dude.

Sorry. Let's talk about it. What happened? What happened? well she was going through some stuff and then I was going through some stuff with my ACL so neither of us could just be around so now is that so all it took was for you to be immobile for her to be like I say it's worth it pretty much is it because you're you were suddenly having bedroom issues or just like she's like I like going for walks and now we're fucked

I don't know I don't think she just didn't like it I don't know yeah well she you know it's not in sickness and in health

that's for sure you know dodged a bullet there what didn't you like about her what didn't or did didn't didn't let me get over this

concussion think about it uh oh I had to take care of her cat that's pretty much it Okay. There you go. Well, no more catch now.

I mean, you're already taking care of a pig. What is, you know, how much time does you think you have? Oh, yeah. Did she like the pig? Oh, she liked the pig. I mean, all my friends bring, um, they're, uh, they bring girls to my house to use my pig to pick up girls. Oh, wow. So you're not even worried about the next date.

Yeah, you're going to be fine. You got another way in the wings? I start charging my friends. a wingman rent. There you go. Pigman. Pigs, wings, fly. Do you think that you're over her right now?

Are you still broken up about it? Still broken up about it. I'll give it a few months. Did you feel you loved her? Doesn't everybody? Yeah. Yeah, Miles. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. Not always. Well, I suppose. How long were you together? A year. well listen 22 you got a year one under your bout that'll sting for a bit but you know what you'll be back on that bowl soon and you'll get thrown off a few more times um hopefully yep yeah it's the rush maybe you'll find a buckle bunny for your you know next rodeo what they got you can't treat at least the bulls get shots for what they have

okay there we all right just a duh joke Um, it says TD It's spelled as a word. I know. What do you want for me, Miles? You know, you got one guy who's got several concussions on the other end of the phone. You've got three under your belt. I got CTE.

I've got a couple and also just, I'm me. So. And you're on antibiotics. And you're still on antibiotics. I'm on antibiotics. So we're all. We're all just living. We're all just living.

Well, listen, anything else you want to put yourself out there for the next gal? Just give a little bit of what you're looking for. One girl that's smart. And, you know, if I get hurt, doesn't look at me like I'm a vegetable. That's brutal, man. You know what? This was a blessing in disguise. Okay.

You were with the wrong. Dale and and so funny is you tearing your ACL gave her the ick. Pretty much what it was. Oh, yuck, you're in a, you're in an aircast. Does she know that ACLs can heal up or no? Apparently not. But here's the thing, Charlie, are Jared. From what I understand from the internet is once a girl gets the ick, she's got the ick forever.

Yeah. Uh-huh. And the ACL did it. Damn. She's probably looking at her summer and she's like, how are you in that cast for? Six, eight weeks, three months? I was in it for three months. I mean, I just got back to work this week. You know what? You know what did it for? I still have restrictions. You know what it did it for is the little fucking knee scooter that you had to roll around on. That was the heck. Oh, I didn't even get that. You didn't get a knee scooter? No, because I live where there's gravel, so I would get stuck every inch. You got to get the off-roaders, yeah. I had crutches.

Yeah, you need to get the tracks. I wanted one of those, like, old lady scooters. Yeah. We see me rolling. I'll put them nice rims on. All right. Well, this was really great to kind of get into the mind of a bow rider. This was wonderful.

And don't worry about that gal. You deserve better from the get-go, okay? It is what it is. It is what it is. All right, dude. Well, I appreciate it. Have fun in Valley Fair. Hey, your boys have a good one and have fun with the next caller.

All right. Thank you, Logan. Take care, pal. Take care. Oh, Miles, I could sense a heaviness in his heart. Yeah. I mean, that's so funny because there's a guy. online that his page is dedicated to like like because girls will talk they'll do videos about

getting the ick from there from a guy and he's got a running list of all the stuff he can't do and it's like 700 things long and so he's got to add that to list ACL I mean there's on the list it's like eat food because a girl is like oh the way he eats gives me the egg he's I guess I can't eat food around her now it's it's really because I'm having a problem in the world. The ick, yeah. You got to lean into the ick for a little bit, you know. Give it a couple months, see if it still bothers you.

I don't know. Through ickness and health. Yeah, there you go. There, that's great. That's really good. Was that in your vows, Jared? Was it? Nice.

You ever gotten the ick from a gal, Miles? I didn't know. There was a thing till recent. The ick. Um, no. I don't know. that one that sticks out of my mind yeah also mentally

I've only dated my wife so yeah yeah me too um that's my story I'm sticking to it all right well Miles and once in a while we'll tell me when I give her the yick what have you done that give her the yick sometimes how you swim in a swimming pool

you know or like there's one time she still doesn't let me hear the end of it we have like a canopy bed so it's like got like the it's a four post four post bed nice but like with the

around the top you have stars up there no it's not like a princess bed it's like a wood bed get a mirror up there mom but I went to like hang a shirt over it and I did like it was just a little too tall so I did like a little mini jump with it And she said it was the most disgusting thing she's ever seen.

Just, she's like that made you, that's the least attractive you've ever been in your life. Wow. Wow. This little like was, it was just too dainty of a thing. It was just kind of dainty. Okay.

She didn't love it. Bummer, when was this? A few years ago. So she wrote it out. But she still talks about it. I want to see her reenact that the next time we're there. Well, Is that it, Jared?

Well, guys, thanks for tuning into another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast. Remember to tip your bartender and tell your buddy that you love them. Mm-hmm. With a love tap.

Ah, sack that. We'll see you in the next one. Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Tootoo.