Bellied Up - Is Ethan Breaking Up With His Goth Girlfriend? #170

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

In this episode, we catch up with everyone’s favorite — Ethan — for (6:41) a full Bellied Up update. He shares what his current living situation looks like and what he’s been up to for work lately. Then (35:08) we take a call from Griffin, who tells us about his uncle’s house before getting distracted by an unexpected friend. Finally will listen to a voicemail from Raven. Tap here for Prizepicks:https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/belliedupuse promo code: belliedup

okay miles we got time for a bellied update well welcome back everybody to another episode of the bellied up podcast well didn't we do our first caller on this already oh well here we are here we are yeah we're rolling with it yeah is there been a time where trusting me led you astray well there was that one time where you gave me that one little uh tasty treat in that fargo bar I don't think that happened. It did happen. I don't think that happened. It was after my show and I forgot who I was for a little while, Miles.

One time. So I think that I got a pretty good 99%. So just trust me, Charlie. Okay. This is the beginning of a new episode. Yes, it is. We're here at Station number six. Station number six in West Dallas.

And the guy who owns the joint, his name is Miles as well. Miles. Cheers to Miles. Cheers, Miles. No, I don't want to... Miles, come on over here real quick. Yeah, get over here, Miles. Miles, how long you...

You're kind of like the red-haired Miles. That's right. He's spelled an eye, though, so I don't know. Hey, there's no eye and Miles unless you're mild. That's right. We're working through our differences, but... Yeah, well, hey. You guys are drinking the same cocktail there.

So, Miles, have you ever had... quick question in your experience. Yeah, this is confusing for the listener. Yeah. It's like Miles. Yeah. Other miles in your experience. Miles with an eye.

Miles with an eye and your experience owning station number six, this beautiful cocktail bar in West Dallas, Wisconsin. Have you ever had someone bring a spear into the bar? We've had a lizard. We've never had a spear. Oh, you've had a lizard. Well, now's your time for the spear. This is a spear that we were at Will's Northwood.

in Chicago and we had a caller Weston call in from High Falls Forge high falls for in Wisconsin I believe he's up there in Crandon but I could be mistaken could be a different city could be high falls for all I'm aware but he said he'd make us a I'm setting it up miles setting it up I'm laying the when is trusting me ever gone astray Stop biting your nails. Anyway, he made us a spear. So Milesworth and I would, since Miles and I both purchase this jointly, we can't really figure out who gets to unsheathe the spear. Can you unsheat our spear?

Okay. Drum roll, please. Wow. Whoa. Hollow tip spear, baby. Wow. Look at that. Wow, that is a spear, man. Touch a tip, Miles. Touch a tip. Boink. Other Miles, touch a tip. All right. Now, me and Miles with an eye have now touched

the touch tips. That's a sharp tip. Now we've all touched it. That's pretty cool, man. Thanks, Miles. That's a badass spear. Yeah, it is. Well, Miles, we're now co-parents of this spear the brotherhood of the traveling spear yeah so like it all right i get to throw the spear first where are you going to throw it at jake can you go stand over there with the target jake can you put this beer on top of your head yeah actually you know what i got an apple in the truck you put that in your mouth stick it um no yeah it's uh great spear so if you guys are looking for a spear yeah I liked a little mark on there. His logo and everything.

Pretty cool. Yeah. So there we go. There's a bellied update on our spear. It exists. You send it to us, Weston. Nice job on it. And we're going to take care of this guy.

We're going to take good care of it. Yeah, he made a nice sheath for it too. Good leather work on it. He did a nice little fire forge on the wood there, you know, where you burn up the wood a little. Help that seal it. Get a nice seal on there. What is this? pine a little pine handle how about that huh how about that miles i like it a little softwood handle

huh what do you say we go back to your house go in the basement and throw this sucker around hell yeah we'll take it down to the archery range yeah we should do that actually absolutely should that's great all right well folks uh we like to support the local craftsmen out there so make sure you follow at high falls forge on the old instagram he's got some knives and other cool things going on there, too. So shout out to Weston. Great craftsmanship, man. Made in the Midwest.

High Falls Forge. So, Miles, we got another set of callers today and a whole shebang, huh? Yeah, it's going to be a good day, I think. Well, should we take some callers? Let's do it. Guys, Charlie and I have been playing a little bit of prize picks ladies.

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So, guys, whether you're on the couch at the bar or watching with friends, you can turn your sports knowledge into real cash. You can play today. Download prize picks. Today, use code bellied up. Yellow. Ethan, how you doing, dude? I'm doing all right. How about you guys? We're doing great. We're bellied up to the bar. glad to have you back on man we got another bellied update on our hands here well glad to be back thank you for having me thank you for having me how you know let's everybody everybody tunes in they listen to everybody else yeah how are you guys doing how's your guys is week how's your guys's life been any updates in your guys's life damn Ethan man thank you for asking just means a lot

man yeah means a lot mile miles what's going on with you yeah I mean um it's been good mostly you know i yeah i kind of spent the last couple hours just getting bullied by charlie a little bit which doesn't always feel great but you know it's part of the gig you know it's got to put on a brave face ethan do you like n-sync in sync you know born early 2000s oh one i heard my sisters listen to wasn't that wasn't that hit wasn't that hit now got a got a girlfriend dude later later i go down later going down the line you know i love them white boy tunes yeah new kids on the block exactly yeah miles first concert was n sync he was six years old he went with his brother his dad took him reluctantly so but no judgment you go you know first concert for every time you

know my first concert was mushroom head and i got in for free how'd you get him for free then uh so there is this uh barbecue joint that i used to work at for some time the one of the the owner apparently was like making his way down to florida and saw a truck big down on the side of the road turned out to be uh like a mushroom head concert truck and they helped them out and gave him like free food and such uh and then for a for a favor i guess a return favor they played a free concert at his fucking uh sorry part of my language at his uh at his barbecue joint me will only live in about a mile and a half away from the barbecue joint maybe stay up all night because like kept on here and nothing but base

oh you could hear it a mile and a half away huh it was pretty it was pretty loud it was pretty loud but you got him for free how old were you uh he was at his house is what he said i was still a walking little sperm but i'd say about maybe 16 oh i didn't i didn't connect the dots that that was at your house the place was connected to your house okay well i mean it's it's like a whole i mean i used to live in like a small small town so like a mile and a half away was like a walmart and then right next to the Walmart was like a barbecue joint. It's crazy. It's crazy in Kansas.

I think I'm putting the piece puzzle together now. I'm a little, now Miles is bullying me. See? It's a given. Hey, you know what? It's all right.

You know, Miles, he's trimmed down a lot of weight from the, from when you guys first started. And that, you know, it takes a lot of practice. It takes a lot of work.

To trim down that weight? Yeah, exactly. How are you doing, Ethan? What's going on, man? Hey,

you know what? I'm just booze cruising in life right now. Man, shot of whiskey at a time, you know? Are you? You're boozing it. Not too hard, though, are you? Not too hard. No, no, no. Not too hard. Hitting it to that little little pin, you know, the little pinjamin. That's what I'd be

hitting. I mean, I went from a plater working with like acids, like nitric acid, getting nitric acid in my eye to sitting at home and basically being an Indian scam collar all day, but without the scanning. So that's your new, that's your current gig. Is you are a telemarketer? Not, I mean, to a degree, not really. What I used, what I do is, uh, I held like major theaters, uh, in the U.S. So people would call in and be like, oh, my projection, it's not, it's not, it's not working.

I can't play Fantastic Four. And then I tell them to turn it off and turn it back on again, like it's a router and it magically works. So you're an IT guy. Yeah, yeah, to a degree. I am Chinese after all. Yeah. Hey, it's just, you can see, you can use a stereotype all you want. But when you got proof right here, I mean, what do we do?

You know, when China invades, man, I'm going to be on their watch list. But how's the relationship? I don't remember you guys are just, you're still dating. You're not engaged or you got married since the last time. Is you just still dating? Hell no. Three, three years minimum for a marriage. I don't, I don't know.

I, me personally, you know, I really. I really liked the girl when I first got in touch with her. And then, you know, year or two go by, man, this is how marriage must feel. Year or two go by, you know, I still like when we have our, we have our ups and downs. And I'm like, you know what? I think that we're just going on like two separate life paths at this point in time, you know? Oh, no. And I hate to be that bear, you know, I hate to be that person to say that.

Love this person, care for this person as much as they care for me. You know, they're awesome. them. They helped me when I found my dad croaked on the bed. So, I mean, they've been through a lot with me. But I'm like, two, do separate different paths, you know, just convening at different places. All right. We still live together. But I mean, you know, are you breaking up with your girlfriend over this podcast right now? No, no, no. We've had this talk. We've had this talk several times before. But it's, I don't know. It's just, it's just iffy. I don't know. I'm in, fuck. How old am I again, uh, 23 and I'm, I'm so young. You know, I got to get out. I got to do something. I'm

always cooped up in my house all the time. Yeah. Okay. Well, um, you know, you say you're going do different paths. What are the two paths you guys are taking? Which road are you going down and which road is she going down? Um, I mean, I would discuss as much as I can, but I mean, that's kind of like her Diliwatt. That service not us. Uh, but I, I would talk about it. I could, but I can't. Sorry, fellas, no, no drama, no tea. But I'll just say, you know, politically, she's very left-leaning. I'm not that very left-leaning.

I see both sides of the party. But, you know, we just get in a lot of arguments that, hey, you know, I don't necessarily believe this. I believe this. I don't necessarily believe that. I believe that. And, you know, I respect their opinion. They respect my opinion at the end of the day.

but when it keeps affecting the relationship to this degree. Politics, politics, man. They will, you know, it used to be that one could be a lefty, the other could be a righty, and you could still boink, and it's fine, you know, a lot of families. I get that 100% and I agree with that wholeheartedly, but I mean, nuclear family and all that, you know. Yeah, for sure, man, for sure, absolutely.

So that's kind of grinding your gear. it's the it's a politics thing that's kind of sending you guys on two different paths huh then just like constantly crying and it's just i mean i get it i get it right okay cry that's awesome let out your emotions do your thing you know i'll comfort you i'll console you i'll do all this good jazz but if you're just going to crash out over the most like simplistic things and like slam the door like a seven-year-old fuck dude that nothing gets me grind nothing grinds my gears more than that dude just like a simple slam door like hell no

that's the equivalent to knocking up five temperatures on the fucking thermostat it's terrible what are some of the but nine things that the door is being slammed over you think because sometimes those benign things they're it's kind of a proxy war for something bigger you know no I get that it's like

okay well all right granted you know my fault my fault granted 100% really really stoned 2 o'clock in the morning, I got a Mexican fat burrito, something that I lay in my toilet myself. I heat that thing up in the air fryer. I go back down, sit down on my computer. I go ahead and just like iPad kid out and just watch Instagram Reels, Dune Scroll for a good hour or so. Completely forget my burritos in the air fry. Go back and her tacos sitting

out. Granted, she doesn't like having leftover food that's been out for more than an hour. Me personally, if I got a chick-fil-a-s sandwich down on the floor that I bought yesterday, I'm I'm going to eat that. I'm going to slap some chick flay sauce all over that. I'm going to eat that cocksucker. Cold or not, botulism here. I come. But I mean, you know, you left her tacos out on the counter is what happened.

I mean, listen, granted my fault. I understand that. But like, is that really warranted a door slam? Is it? How good were the tacos? Are they pretty good? I mean, a nice, a nice Mexican lady made them out of her food truck while her seven-year-old we kept on like tugging on her shirt so i think it's pretty good as the equivalent of like going

into a chinese restaurant seeing the yellow panels and a kid doing his homework in the corner yeah you know you're getting a good meal if you see that i guess there you go if they don't have a thick thick chinese accent you know it's whitewashed food it's no good Ethan Ethan Okay Okay All right

Wait Let me dial it back now So you left her You left her tacos Out on the kitchen Okay Could the deeper issue Be that you've been spending

More time with Benjamin Than you have them With your girlfriend Maybe I mean I think it I think it definitely lays a part

I think it's definitely A key player But I don't think It's the root cause What's the root cause? Me, just not giving a shit. I mean, sometimes I'm, sometimes I'm like, okay, great, I understand you're sad. I'll help and console you.

That's my thing. That's why I'm here as a partner. That's my job. I got to help you. You know, we help each other out. Oh, it's like constantly, like, day in, day out over small, small stuff. Like, oh, my alarm's going off. Like, oh, I'm just driving down the road and I see a, I see a dead coon on the street.

I'm going to start crying my eyes out. I'm like, hey, you know, life is life. Life is a bitch. And I just keep going. It's just, you know, it just gets so draining at some points where I'm just like, screw it, man. And I'm just going to go back to my computer and just play game. Well, I mean, I feel like a shitty person for doing that.

But, I mean, once you start doing it just so much and so much is so much, you know, it just gets like, you know. Maybe it's, I mean, do you think you can do it for another three years, then. Hell no. Oh, all. All right.

And it might be premature for this question, but what, you know, if you're back on the dating market, what are you looking for in a gal then? Aha. The red flags turn green. I need another bitch to ruin my life.

Yeah, I mean, you did make, you know, this is the bed you made you're you're dating their walking red flag you know I got to I got to lay on it I got to lay on it you know a double-edged sword as they say so what you're saying is you're maybe not going to get back in the dating world you're just going to spend another couple two three four five six years

with this gal until maybe you have a couple two three four five six kids and then you just spend a few couple two three four decades well here's the thing here's the thing about kids right I'm 23 do I want to have kids hell no maybe when I'm like 25 27

sure you know or if I'm really drunk right night you know shit happens but I mean no kids for me

she doesn't want kids she's got a real narrow body real slim body and she doesn't have really wide burning hips so she would always

talk about if I get pregnant I'm gonna fucking die when I push this child out I go that's great to hear that's awesome I want children in the future.

I want some good-looking Asian babies, dude. And then it's, and then it's like, I want children, I'll adopt. And I go, hey. No. What was that? Okay. All right.

Well, so, you know, if you do get back to the dating scene again, you're just looking for different red flags. Like, you tried these red flags out. It turns out that's not your cup of tea. Are you going to try different red flags? flag oh no it's definitely my cup of tea i just don't i think that the person itself i mean just later down the years they're they're growing they're developing into a different person as they are we're both going down two different paths right now uh i think i'm going through my uh actually i don't know

what i'm going through right now you're looking for a conservative doth girl is what you're saying yeah but that's that's rare that's like uh that's like glacial water that's never going to happen you know so i i i mean i got i got to i got to lower my standards a bit see i have i i have Ever has as a half Asian and a half white boy. I mean, all I get on dating apps is fat Mexican girls that love anime and it pisses me on. I love how he's dating this gal and he's on dating apps. Are you, what dating apps are you currently on? I'm not on any because I got caught.

but it was it was mainly like Tinder hinge full nine yards my Christians only Farmers Only.com stuff like that

Now that would be a trip Finding a goth farmer would be quite quite the deal Hey you know I got a lot of acreage that you know that we're working on now I got a whole lake that's dedicated

my last name we got some catfish bass you know all the words you ever see those posts on like online where it's like some 90 year old granny who has like a 12 point buck in the backyard and you try to sweeten her out to get that deed it's like that but opposite so you're looking for an old granny to come shoot a buck in your backyard you ever have a gummer before once you go once you go back that's what I've been told though he personally Ethan, Ethan, Ethan. Let's reel you back in here. I've never heard that before.

Ethan, I So look, it's clear that it's not going to work out with this girl, right? Correct. So is she just a rent payment for you now or what? I mean, I very much care for the person.

I do love them still. I hope to see them grow out to the person that they fully want to be. And, you know, they go down the path that they want to choose and that they're destined to be. I want to help them with that. They've done so much for me in my life. I truly do love them and, you know, cherish them for that. But are they the right person for me?

At the end of the day, I hate to say it, I don't think they are. I think one more year. And then I think that's it. It's not a lease, dude. You can just stop doing it now, you know? I mean, we live in a house together. It's 1,200 a month. what it's 600, 600, easy as my car payments like, what, $293?

Yeah, it's, it's, I mean. It's a financial decision for you. Exactly, exactly. I mean, it sucks as much to say, and I don't want to use them for that. And I'm certainly not using them for that. I very much care for them. They help me and I help them. I take them to work.

I get off at 10. They get off at 10. I go and pick them up. You know, it's, it's not that bad. Um, so you've heard of, uh, you know, stay together for the kids. Yeah. They're staying together for the rent.

Stay together for the rent. 2025, man. You know, you got to do what you got to do. It is what it is, you know? Don't, wait, what's this farm that you have that's in your name, though? That's the one your dad's one, right? Right, right. So when my dad died, we have like 160, 123 acres or something like that.

Okay. Most of it being oil stuff. Because I'm in my whole family, my great, not my great grandfather. My grandfather himself popped a couple wells down on our property, got that black gold. And then we just been building up from there. And we've been sitting on royalty checks. They wanted to coal energy, the people that wanted to buy our, like, land and do the oil, wanted to rent our acreage per acre, $5 per acre.

Tell me that isn't the scummiest thing ever, man, $5 per acre. Yeah, that's wild. That's wild. So is that why you're not making money off that because you rented it out to some oil company to drain the oil? Well, we were given that offer and it was basically a big old dick smack in the face. So we just told them, no, have a nice day. And we just started working on our lake itself. We're working on setting up two tiny homes up on the lake side.

We have like horses, fainting goats, ducks, all the lot. we have we're setting up a trailer park to go in the back where our paintball place used to be and when a lot of people say trailer park they're nice there's a trailer park boy or like you know you passing your sister long it you know it's it's it's not like that you know it's going to be it's going to be a class it's not going to be like yeah it's going to be a classy trailer dude there's a lot of nice trailer perks out there i'll tell you that no it's for there's people that are like their 50s, you know, having their midlife crisis, wanting to get it arguing, go down to a nice lake. You know, that's what it's for. So you're building a resort essentially. Resort minus the

casino. If I could have a casino in there, I'd be playing Baccarat all day. So dude, you're saying you're staying in this relationship for the financial deal, but you're sitting on oil land and trailer park money, man. You know, you don't, right? Like, right? I mean, my sisters are, are the ones that are like, actually living at the old property right now. I was basically casted out and kicked out. And then I decided to move up here. And then they moved in over there. And they're like rebuilding an entire house.

They're redoing like the, they're doing the trailer park. We have a whole LLC. They're doing a lot of stuff down there. And it's a lot of progress. They're eventually, we are going to eventually make the lake down there, kind of public access where people can bring their kids down,

have some nice fishing, drink a few beers. you know have have a good time good old american spirit you know there you go so you're not uh you're not but you're not you don't have like an inheritance there's not liquid cash here yet oh i already spent a good money of that inheritance over at the casino on baccarat man oh man have i made some money no i'm joking i only spent a little bit on that i mean i've we all gone a share uh there is four of us i have three sisters and the only boy uh so we we all split it in four ways we got some jewelry, we got some gold,

we got some stocks, we got some money, so on so forth. So don't you think you have the financial ability to just kind of move on with your life by yourself? To a degree, yes. If I want to be in financial debt all my life, then yeah, 100%. I don't make enough money to hold over a house over my head. I don't have enough money to hold over a rent,

so I have to have a roommate. And I'd rather take a roommate that I'm already acquainted with and already have previous relations with than rather have some like random tweaker come through and steal my shit okay well starting i never thought i'd say this ethan but starting to make some sense um dollars no sense 600 per month there you go um cool well um miles do you have any uh other questions for ethan here no i think uh yeah i mean is uh you're this IT job is that the dream or you got your eye on something else already. I mean, so far, I've just been booze cruising it. I mean, I've been sitting on my,

I wake up at noonish 12.30, 1 o'clock. I clock in. I sit on my ass all day. Benge watch a little bit of Netflix, do some follow-up calls, you know, just multitasking in the background. Really ADHD stim out, like full-on autism stem out. And then, you know, I just help people here and there and take a few phone calls. But really blows about the job is having to do with like eight-year-olds that have no idea what to do with the computer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, it's kind of why you exist as a job, though. Yeah, that's everyone else can kind of figure it out. That's, no, that's true.

You are the Google for people that don't want to Google, you know? There you go. There you go. Even what is a Google? What about your, what about your stand-up career, man? Weren't you going to get out to the clubs? Weren't you going to put up some jokes? Yeah, you know, I've been thinking about that and doing, I'm doing a little bit more research about that. I've been always told to do it. I'm just not a very funny guy. I'm very more of like a

conversational less person myself. So if I do anything, I have to do like a crowd work. But I get up there. Get up and give it a go. Well, it's also like a time thing. You know, I work 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. I got to go pick up a ball and chain from, from the lickistow every, every day. So I mean, it's, I mean, I mean, I don't. I don't. I just don't have the time to do it. Well, there's no time to do it. Okay. All right.

Well, Ethan. I think you, I think you could rearrange a few things and you can find some time to do it. You could get a shift, you know. Or just start up, open up the TikTok app and just start ranting about stuff on TikTok. That's kind of a crowdwork type of thing. Yeah, that's true. You know, I've been thinking about doing that. I'm thinking about doing that upon on Instagram.

Instagram is a lot less uncensored. I can go see like an Indian man cut open like a live wire and get electrocuted. And then the next reel I have like some Ukrainian drone footage. Dude, it's so unhinged. It's so unhinged. I have like fruits, fruit AI eating other fruit and then follow up with like a horse giving birth. Dude, it's completely, it's completely to the walls. It's different.

All right. Well, you found your home then. I think, yeah. You got your first. first bit right there, Ethan, you know? Well, look, you just go, this is my favorite thing about Instagram Reels and then just say exactly what you just said. Exactly. You can get, you can get live cop shootings and then you can follow it up with like some autism awareness program. I don't know.

We got, we got to bring Ethan in for our next bellied up live, I think. Yeah, we do. Yeah, that's, I mean, that show is just all, it's just all crowdwork. Yeah. Yeah. We'll throw them up there before we start and just see how it goes. And then we'll bring them up and interview him to see how its first stand-up set went. Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

We'll see how that goes. We'll see if I shit my pants or if I piss my pants. A number one or a number two situation, you know? Sneezing might be both. Oh, well, Ethan, we appreciate talking to you as always. It's always a fun treat to get to talk to you. I'm glad you're doing good, it seems like. And, yeah, good talking to you, man.

Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Thank you again. Thank you both. Congratulations on the success of the podcast. Congratulations, Miles, on your marriage. It's been gone for about like, what, year, year two now? Congratulations all around. Three years.

Yikes. Congratulations, everybody. To the person who was texting beforehand, sorry, man. I was in the shower. You guys have a wonderful one. It's been a pleasure speaking with you guys. Thanks. Thanks for my congratulations too, Ethan.

You fuck. I appreciate that. Congratulations, Charlie, on a great stand-up career. Hey, that's so true. Congratulations, Charlie, with your standard career, with your tour going on a while ago. Thanks, good. You know, I kept getting Instagram notes saying,

yellow, and then some fish here in there. That was phenomenal. Only reaction I could do to that, by the way. well that's it i hope you guys have a wonderful one uh go bears you bastard sorry i'm from kansas i don't know much have a good time i work you take care man oh always a pleasure yeah what a wild way to live man he's doing it huh yeah a lot of people i think are in that situation you know they're in a relationship of convenience

Indians. Hey, 600 bucks for a, for a house. Not a bad gig in today's economy. You see, you know, it's the roommate, you know. Yeah. Well, should we take another caller, Charlie? Let's do it. Thursday, Charlie Miles belly up at a small town bar and take live callers from all over the world. To kick the night off, please welcome Mr. Charlie Barons. Milwaukee, how are you guys doing? Good to see you guys. Who's got the Brewer's score? Two to one. What? We're down? All right.

We're down, but we're not up. Okay. Yeah, we just followed out. Yelly just followed out. That's all right. That's right. We'll get through it, guys. How are you doing?

I'm doing good. What's your name? Well, you know where you're from? From here in West Dallas? We're not in West Dallas right now, no, we're not. What are you on right now that you don't know where you are? Charlie, it's Halloween time. Halloween, Hallows Eve.

Now that I got a kid, Charlie, now that I got a kid, you know, we've got to go trick-or-treating. Oh. And one thing I learned about trick-or-treating with a kid is you've got to walk around a little tumbler as well. A little tumbler? You know what I'm going to be having in that tumbler of mine while I'm walking around the neighborhood? A little scocha-hooch in there, Miles. Yeah, a little tippy cow. Tip-it-cow.

Tip it on back. Hey, this is your treat. Yep. Did you get that because I trick-or-treat? Tip-cow for the dad, you know. Yeah, but just, you know, it's tough, like, with a tippy, you know, if you did adult trick-or-treating and you were the cool house, just giving away full bottles of tippy cow, you know, and like a king-sized snickers, that'd be the move. Actually, that'd be really good. Yeah.

Cookies and cream bar with a little chocolate shake, tippy cow. Dunkers, baby, dunkers. Could be the move. Could be the move. So, guys, this Halloween, when you're walking around with your kid and you're wondering, how did I end up here, just reach for a glass. glass of tippy cow and makes it all go a little bit smoother. Tip it on back. Moo.

Griffin, you got Miles and Charlie from the Bellied Up podcast. How are you doing today? You got some time to chat? I got some time. How are you fellas doing today? We are good. We are looking forward to riffing with Griffin. That's what I'm talking about.

So we hear that you did a whoopsies and you, you clean. your uncle's house tell us about that all right so we got a little context first he's uh he was a marine corps uh helicopter pilot in vietnam wow and then after uh he got back in vietnam he became an airline pilot and he got this little sliver of land in in northern georgia he named it after himself and uh flash forward 50 years i ran in uh february march the the toilets both toilets front upstairs downstairs the valves broke and flooded the house

while it wasn't home did the valves break or did someone just get Taco Bell? What happened really? No, so it was before pecks became a thing so that great stuff and the valves the gaskets and the valve wore out

so the water started shooting out of the handles okay yep so then what happened all right so pretty much flooded everything. Ruin the kitchen, into the living room, and the basement. And it's a hoarder. So there's just crap everywhere. Lawn mowers, weed whackers, shan saws, brand new tools, all ruined.

Insulation falling from the ceiling. I found, I think, four or five snakeskins, a couple of rats. Just terrible, terrible. So I called my daddy, came down from New York, and we spent about a, about two weeks, throwing everything out. And then kind of find out we got to do the same thing in this other house in Atlanta. No, no flooding, but Amazon packages, junk mail, 50 years of tools and stuff. And is your uncle still with us?

Oh, yes. Yeah, he's still here. He's kicking. He lives full time in Atlanta. So what does he think about you cleaning your cleaning out the place? Well, when I hadn't mentioned it the first time, he was less than willing to park with his things. Yeah, I mean, as most hoarders are, you know. Yeah, so I didn't tell him.

I just did it. And then my father went to visit him and told him. And I'd say it went better than I thought it would. He just went, okay, how much is the dumpster still there? No, the dumpster is not still. He's like, yeah, I mean, there's still hope. Is it a dumpster? Okay, well, which company was still there?

was it? Which dump did it go to? Yeah. Your dad did the right thing. You can't leave a hoarder with a dumpster and that's like leaving an alcoholic with an open booze bottle right by their bet. Exactly. So I try to go about once a month and I pretty much go to, I go to relax, but I end up just cleaning. That is relaxing, right? It is relaxing. I get a, I get a little buzz every time I reorganize a room in my basement, you know? Just get you going. You find Christmas

presents for people down there too. Yeah, that's a good question. You find anything good in there? Oh, dude. Let's see. I forget what they're called, but I've brand new in the box, those little glass or the ceramic coffee containers.

Oh, apparently there's a bear. I work out at an amusement park in the Smoky Mountains, and there's a bear right outside. No, black bear or brown bear? Yeah, black bears. We don't have brown bears. All right. Let's see if we can see him.

Oh, yeah, you're in the smokies. Not to change subjects, but, uh... Okay, well, we can look at that later. No, look at him now. What's that bear doing? Oh, he's right by the train tracks. All right. Well, they say, uh, if it's black, fight back.

All right. Well, yeah, oh, look at that. It's a big one. Let me get a picture. I'll send you a picture when we're done here. There's a bear at the amusement park. Yeah, they get in all the time. You'd be surprised.

In like, what's the protocol? Is it you just let them be? They don't, is there a fence around this amusement park or what are we looking at? Well, so it, the park is pretty much like a job. giant triangle and in the middle is woods where the train tracks and stuff runs through. So we're supposed to call safety and they deal with it. What do you mean deal with it though? They're going to dart them? Great question. I would assume so. People kind of throw a big situation. People might throw a sting if you make it dinner. Yeah, you don't want to do that.

Also, Charlie, he's supposed to call safety, but he's on the phone with us. So the bear's just going to get loose in the amusement park and we're going to have a whole thing on our hands there's someone else here i think she'll do it hopefully glad you're following up on that they're more scared of you than you are of them that's exactly yeah for black bears brown bears oh man they'll get after you hell if you go to the national forest you can hunt them hunt which ones the black bears yeah yeah you can apparently yeah i've never done that but um so now your uncle um he's got this big old thing going and you didn't find anything uh anything weird aside for the snake skin and the rats uh what's what's the wildest thing that he was storing

probably about 15 full bins of MREs you know you didn't throw those out did you those are good forever well I kind of had to that's where the water kind of leaked so I open up a bin and it's just water and then sealed MREs. We joked about opening one, but it was a bit nasty, so we opted not to. Yeah, but isn't it vacuum sealed? Well, the red beans and rice were in like little cardboard boxes, and either. So, would you get past that smell? I couldn't.

If it was a, you know, doomsday scenario, yeah, I would get past the smell. Yeah, you'd eat some shit. You know what? I'll just borrow his credit card and buy some. more. Not, non-doomsday. Dumesday scenario. It's not going to work. I can do that now and that'll happen for doomsday. Smart.

Smart. So, but why did you throw the tools out, dude? A little sewage isn't going to hurt the tools? It was more of the mold. So it was sitting for about eight months before I could before I could get in to really de-clean it and stuff.

And so, that kind of just soaked into plastic and all the packaging. So we kept what was good. Okay, good. And we got rid of a lot of other stuff. The poor thing, the radio arm's saw had to go. No. It had like, yeah, I didn't want to, but the tabletop, I went to go touch it, and it just fell apart.

It's one of those fiber wood tabletops. Yeah, you can replace that, though. Oh, I guess better, Charlie. There was a lot of rust on it. You touched that. The whole thing was imploded on itself. Oh, really? So we opted to go throw that away.

That was a sad day. Yeah. Those radial arm saws are pretty cool, though. I think they are. I think they stopped making those, didn't they? Because they were too dangerous. Yeah, I believe so. That was a saw.

And you got the chop saw now. You got the chop saws now. Good. Yeah, well, didn't those come later? So, yeah, I would kind of replace it. Yeah. Yeah, radio alarm saw wasn't quite as portable as the old chop saw. No.

And quite quite much. louder. Yeah. Yeah. My dad still got one in the basement. They're nice, though, if you can find him. My dad still has his. So we didn't feel so bad because, you know, we're going to put another radio arm saw. Right. So I got a question for you. Your uncle, go for it. Why hasn't he been there in a while? Is he, what's he doing in Atlanta that he, he doesn't make it up there anymore? Oh, he's pushing 85. Okay. And then, uh, there's been some, uh, some, um, some health scare. So he's been taking it easy. And then we got

some great neighbors. The neighbors have been helping me to take care of the property until he can come up and visit. Nice. Well, you're a good nephew, man. I try. Yeah. So, uh, or he's a smart nephew and knows

when old, no, no, no. When an old uncle finally goes. No, no, no. He's got to go to someone. Oh, are you, are you edging for a little inheritance? I am not. I am not. All this time he's putting it is an investment in his future property. Charlie. No, no, no. Griffin, we're sniffing you out from a mile away. Yeah, okay. Let's put it this way. You know, you ever have that one friend who like wrote people the wrong way because of how stubborn he is?

He's sitting right next to me. Yeah. Okay. So I'm one of the few family members who, I don't care. Tell me whatever you want. That's great. I'm going to go say the same thing to you in about 10 minutes. So he can install me, call me. Oh, okay, actually. I used to visit him after work. I work pretty late sometimes.

So I'll say, oh, yeah, I'm going to leave at 7. I don't leave until 10. And I get there at like 1, 2 a.m. Hey, you putts, you're late. Okay? I called you and told you I was going to be late. But that's not what you said originally. Well, so now I just don't tell them at all.

I just tell them on halfway there. it can't be it can't be late i'm already on the way there yeah smart um so you're saying that you're kind of the only one in your family that puts up with his stubbornness and overall crankiness uh yeah more or less i mean not not so much anymore but yes more or less yeah but like what do you expect the guy was in vietnam you know it's i think you'd be stubborn and cranky too if you fought in vietnam i know charlie would yeah sure uh i was entertained for a while because, you know, he hadn't started repeating stories yet. We're past that point. Yeah. What did he do in Vietnam? Did you say again? He was a pilot? He was a

medevac, well, among other things, a medevac helicopter pilot. Oh, wow. In the 60s, 63 to 67. Yeah, so he was probably, I mean, saw some stuff, man. I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did. If he did, he doesn't talk about that stuff. He talks about his friend, Barf. his friend barf what about his friend barf i forget i forget what his name but his last name was barf so and he had like these weird sayings so they called it a barfism oh yeah i thought it was a nickname and i'm like that's just like the most like old-timey nickname ever yeah that's barbara reminds you his space ball doesn't it yeah no that was his last name his last name was barf i think it was jimmy barb or something like that and old jimmy barf

weird say they had these weird sayants they called it a barfism and that uh his favorite one that he yells at me all the time up until uh this coming july up at the the cabin there was one place to sit and that was his chair and uh you know i'm a skinny dude so my ass starts to hurt after about 30 minutes on the floor so as soon as he would get up i'd take the chair apparently his dog does the same thing because she beat me to it a few times but he called it a seat left is a seat left i i don't even know where that came from and that's one one i've heard but he called it a barfism i like a seat left is a seat left hey uh that's that's philosophical yeah is what it is i i guess so i think therefore i am a seat left is a seat

left yeah so now what i did was he had this couch and uh it was an older couch and the the springs literally ripped the two by six support off the fabric so it like kind of crinkled on itself god don't sit in that how uncomfortable that is so i bought him a couch but for about eight months he was convinced that we were going to go get it fixed that was not happening so now i have a place to sit oh good for you yeah you got to trick your hoarder uncle into making his life better really well what i started doing is you know he's not a big fan of gifts so you know i never I bring stuff. He goes, how much do you pay for that? Yeah, you give me receipts. So I tell him I didn't pay for it, which is a half truth. I didn't pay for it. But then he goes, well,

who paid for him? Like, Santa Claus dropped it off, man. He wanted you to have a new couch. You got to lay down somewhere. But I kind of ran out of uses on that. He kind of called on. Yeah. Yeah, you got a unique relationship with your uncle, you know? I think it's hilarious. yeah that's great man yeah you spend as much time with him as you can yeah that's the plan i was gonna go next week but instead i'm taking the puppies to new york visit some family and i'll probably go after when i get back now was your uncle married ever uh yeah he got divorced a couple years ago he was married for i think about 50 years i'm not really sure on that one holy shit i hadn't spoken to him in about 10 years up until i moved down here now and all i'll go ahead yeah i mean what what constitutes getting divorced

after 50 years the spring poking out of the couch might be one of them i'll leave that to your imagination well don't why well that's well because that stuff i'm not previewed to and probably not worth or shouldn't be shared we'll leave it there well sounds like you were privyed to it i i have bits and pieces i don't have the full story well we'll leave it there that's fine hmm does leave you wondering though it doesn't i mean i feel like you just like if you get past like you get past like year 20 yeah probably year 30 i feel like you're like all right it's just not worth it yeah we're just in this you know yeah they they had some they had some tragedies happened to them and they dealt with it differently and uh i see they're all stubborn in their own way and yeah

that's about as much as I know. But anyway... Did she get half the snake skins? Did she get half the snake skin? You know, I don't like snakes. Not at all. But my girlfriend's grandma, but she loves them. I always tell her, the best snake is a dead snake.

That doesn't go over very well. So I was telling her, oh, I found these snake skins. Well, apparently I didn't know this, but apparently you can't tell what kind of snake it was from the skin. So I was screwing with her that I found copperhead skin. She goes, how do you know? You can't tell. well then good thing I threw them out so wait your girlfriend is a snake gal

no no her grandmother grandmother she has property and by the Kentucky border and she has like this semi trailer she keeps stuff in she goes yeah just go and get whatever tools you want but don't touch my snake I'm like yeah no I'm not going in there she's got a snake chuary yeah apparently

it was funny we were pulling insulation down from the ceiling because it got ruined and I saw the snakes again fall I'm like nope so i went upstairs i grabbed the marlin and i kept the marlin by the door and we were we were planning to shoot that thing if it fell out never found it just some skins you can shoot a snake even a snake didn't want to live in the house that was the plan even a snake didn't want to live in that house yeah uh rat's nest snake skins all this stuff you got rats you got snakes it's all clean yeah what i'll do is i'll send you some before and afters when we're done here yeah do it man

what's uh what's barf up to these days uh i i'm sure he's he's uh long uh packed with us i'm not really sure so is so barf still here just in spirit my understanding is he's one of a couple that are still left your uncle yeah my yeah yeah yeah he's my understanding is he's my uncle's one of the few eventually charlie if you live long enough you you turn into like my grandparents And every time I see my grandparents, basically they're just like, well, yeah, so and so died. He was the only one left. So now it's just me. Yeah. He's just like, all my friends are dead and, you know, what am I still doing alive? Well, you know what I got to do next fellow. So my dad, he was here for about five weeks. And he did what he could in the other property.

There's a couple of things left, but the big thing is he got back from Vietnam, he bought himself a 67 Corvette Stingray, and it's been sitting in the garage untouched for about 25 years. No way. And I'm determined to ignore him and get it running. Yeah, dude, you've got to. That's a cool car, man. Yeah, he started fixing it with one of his employees was helping him fix it.

Someone got pissed off at somebody, and it's had the rotors off for about 10. years now. And that's about as much work has been done in the last a couple decades. But he's got a friend that wants to get it running. So I'm going to try to see if we can figure something out. Or I know it's just breaks. And then whatever you need to replace after 30 years of sitting in a garage. So I imagine fluids, gaskets. I imagine there's probably still oil and it's going to have to drain that. Yeah. I'm hoping to get it running and then tell

someone here what's wrong with it so next time someone asks you what's the coolest thing you found in these houses you say that i don't know why yeah that's true but that that wasn't that wasn't in the basement that was in his little detached garage and it got me on a technicality there yeah i'd better say if that was stuck in the fly we would have been fixing that already yeah that's true well that's cool man we that's uh that's fun we appreciate it your uncle seems like a good dude know, R-I-P to barf. Yeah. Yeah.

Tell your uncle he says hi and Miles, raise your glass to barf. After barf finally passed away, they took him out in a barf bag. Oh, hey, there it is. You know, my uncle's a who and a half. I think you'd like him. I believe it. I believe it, man. Well, we appreciate talking to you today, man.

Yes, fellows. Thanks for calling. Oh, Charlie, real fast. Sorry, I don't want to keep you. In April, my girlfriend and I went to see. at the Beezu Theater in Knoxville. Oh, yeah. My God, that was fantastic.

Oh, thanks, dude. A raving review. Wow. Raving review. I was told I shouldn't name names, but on my 21st birthday, we went to Philadelphia to see a rather famous comedian, and let's just say, what a letdown. So it was a nice breath of fresh air. Hey, man.

We were laughing that whole time. Thanks, dude. That's why you go see unfamous comedians. that whole long i got i gotta ask you how the hell could you say that whole monologue for the ADHD with the straight fucking face i couldn't get through without laughing if i were to if i were you well you know i'll tell you this one thing griffin if you say something uh every weekend for enough time you're gonna have that committed to memory so that's just a time yeah time under the dial kind of thing there my guy yeah i can probably do have that but

before I burst out laughing at myself. Well, thanks, dude. Hey, really appreciate your rave review of my live show. And folks, if you want to see it, you go to Charlie Barrens.com right now slash backslash tour. And Miles loves it when I, you know, promote my own stuff here. You know, Miles, if you started doing your own shows, you could do the name drop two along with the other podcast.

No, I got a kid. I can't do comedy shows. Yeah, I don't have a family. where where's that rule written down i don't see that anywhere bring him on the road my miles miles has a lot of great bit great great well it's what you got to do is you got to get him part of the bit have him come out and start roasting people i know well he did that to me actually i and this was miles talking about the kid not mom oh the kid i bring the kid out and just get give him some pointers and just pick someone and say hey go yeah um bringing a kid into showbiz

always turns out good, you know, that's what I think they say. Well, you know, the best part of that is you just got to homeschool him and then their schedule is pretty wide open. Okay. That sounds like a good plan. Not only is he a weird homeschool kid, but now he's been put in front of crowds. I'm sure he'll have no issues later on in life. No. You know, none at all. I do work with a lot of people who are homeschooling. And I think you got the right idea going. You might want to steer clear. Well, Griffin, thank you for calling in, man. And, um,

We'll let you go. We know you got a bear that's probably attacking a little camper right about now. Bear is gone, but I do have to get back to work, fellas. Thank you. All right. I'll give you an update when I go back to Georgia on that Corvette. Please do, man. We'd love to see it.

And then I'll send you some of those pictures of the bear and the before and afters. All right. Oh, before and after of the house, not the bear. No, the bear. That's good. Yeah, no, no, no, before and after. after him eating me. Okay.

I got a great selfie and my stomachs pulled open. All right. Before of the bear and then the after is just him cooking meat on the grill. All right.

Well, we'll see you soon, Griffin. Thanks for calling in, man. Well, that was great. That was great,

Charlie. Another excellent call around the village. I just have a feeling like someday there's going to be a Griffin in your life, Charlie.

Yeah. And you've got so many brothers and sisters. You're wound well you're you're bound to have a nephew named Griffin right probably math adds up yeah and he's going to call into a podcast and be like yeah I got a old uncle he's got a cabin in wisconsin and uh you know he's 85 he's cranky as hell he got divorced he's kind of a hoarder and the pipe broke and I had to go clean it out and I just found a whole load of junk there was this weird

spear in there. I don't know what that was from. Yeah. Where is that spear? Let's go throw that at something. All right, guys. Well, we'll do a voicemail. Oh, you got a whole. We're not done yet, folks. This is from Raven. Raven. That's so Raven. Hey, there, Bellied Up podcast. My name is Raven. I'm from St. Louis, Missouri. Um, well, what I have to get off my chest is, well, uh, I'm not really sure, actually. I didn't, well, hold on. Let me call back.

I just messed this up. Oh, my God. I am embarrassed. That's so Raven. That is so Raven. That pregnant pause, man. It's almost like his wife just walked in the room. Yeah.

I got something I got to get off my chest. And it was like, my wife is acting like a total bitch. She walked in. He's like, ah, yeah. I got to call you back. Going to get beat. Well, thank you, Raven. When you are not under surveillance, you call us back, my guy.

Yeah, and also blink twice if everything's okay. All right. We'll see you guys next time. Come check out station number six, West Dallas. Don't forget to tip your bartender. See you the next one, guys. Bye-bye. Okay, hope you guys have a good one.

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