Bellied Up - Is The ”Midwest Goodbye” Bad? #32

Episode Date: January 12, 2023

Presented By Fleet Farm In this episode a Minnesotan calls in wondering if the Midwest Goodbye is a bad thing, next caller is curious on how he should deal with snow in his driveway, last caller is a father and is nervous about his teenager learning to drive.

All right, Charlie. We're back here at Steve's. Welcome back to the Billy to podcast presented by fleet farm Fleet farm. We love it folks. Thanks for listening. We really appreciate we couldn't do this without you miles It's another beautiful day in this beautiful dive bar. You know what I like to say Charlie What do you like to say another day? Another beer Another day. Another beer. Another day, another beer. Another day, another beer. Another year, another tier. Another beer, another. That's where this ends.

That's where my point is. Another beer, another beer. Yeah, we should write a poem at some point. We should take team a poem. Great beer signs in this bar. I will say just why I set the scene some amazing neon signs here. And also I love seeing this a urinal trough. Yeah.

Yeah, I walked in and I said, yes, that's what I said to. I don't know why we're not doing troughs anymore. Is it probably because they're super unsanitary? I think it's more people don't, you know, you get up there and you hang it. And I think people are a little shy or these days, you know, you hang it and I think peopl days. You know, it's not l you know, we're locker ro you know, communal showers these days don't know the

communal shower anymore. off of podcasts, but you done it if there wasn't a beautiful dive bar here at I think I'm going to try let me't a trough in this beautiful dive bar here at Steve O's in. I think I'm going to try and convince Ann to let me put a trough in the house somewhere. That would be great. Like because we have to. So at some point we're going to finish off our basement. And I'm thinking because we got a wet bar down there could be good to install a trough

downstairs. Fantastic. I am on board with this. If Ann is on the fence and you're like, all right, let's phone a friend. I'm going to go out on a limb and say she's going to be pretty on the fence. And by on the fence, I mean, it's not happening. But you might you might want to figure this out before the wedding day, you know, just so you there's no surprises, you know, after the fact. Hey, honey, we're happily married. Get back to Fargo after the honeymoon and go, I'm

installing a trough. You guys show up after the honeymoon. There's just a trough on your front door. It's like, that was that. I was like, well, while we were in Hawaii. We got the ring doorbell, you know, that shows the front door and there's this guy carrying this big package. She's like, what is that?

You're going to love it, honey. Yeah, it's like, what is that? You're gonna love it, honey. Yeah, it's like, you know, that might have been, I think it's a prop for a video, right? We're doing a trough video, so. That actually would be a funny sketch, actually. It's just you and I, standing at the trough, and we're just talking back and forth, you know? Yeah.

The whole time is just dick jokes. Hey, um, maybe we do that after this. Two guys had the trough. Two guys won trough. I think we shoot that. We shoot this after. That's the next iteration of this podcast. That's it.

The side podcast. Two guys won trough. Belly up to the trough. We don't. Hang out at the trough. Yeah, that's it. Something like that. Yeah.

But nothing, it reminds you where we came from. You know, yeah, in my mind, peeing in a trough is a lot like just peeing out in the woods as if our as our ancestors did. Yeah. And it really makes you feel primal, in my opinion. It does. It does. You know, it does.

You don't have to aim is good. You don't, you know, how do you think horses feel about that, you know? That'd be like a bunch of horses just pissing in a bubbler, you know? Uh, what's bubbler? Cus bubbler. Like a water. Oh, a water fountain. Yeah, but it's called a bubbler.

Uh, but no, think about that. Horses drink out of a trough, you know, and we're just pissing in it. I know. You know, eat out of it,ough, you know, and we're just pissing in it. I know. Eat out of it, you know? Yeah, there's some saying out there about not pee in where you play or something like that. What is it? Don't ship where you eat, kind of.

Some like that. Don't pee where you play. I like don't pee where you play. Something like that, I don't know. Anyways. But we were gonna talk about something. This is that. I don't know. Um, anyways, but we were going to talk about some. This is what I want to talk about. We were talking about this on the phone the other day and that would be a great idea. This is a fantastic idea. So you know how people

sponsor NASCAR, you know, that's a thing that they do. We were thinking, what if we sponsor the team, but not a NASCAR team? What if we sponsored? No, no, no, that's so mainstream. Way too mainstream. That's way too on the radar to be sponsoring a NASCAR team. Also way too much money. Also very expensive. We were thinking, what's in our budget?

We came up with a couple ideas. Professional bags team was one. Yes. And then, you know why it seems more affordable to me? There's only two guys on each team or gals. Yeah. Right? That's one team. Right? That's the biggest teams that they get. Right. From my understanding. Yep. Can't be that hard. Get them some jerseys. Yeah. Get them some bags. Yeah. Get them some drinks. And maybe that's what it's all about. Maybe a board. Yeah.

It's not like we have to worry about the intricacies of the mechanical devices inside a race car. Oh, I mean, we don't have to worry, hopefully. We don't have to worry about putting anyone's lives in our hands or our pocket books. Miles and I are not in a financial position to sponsor Nas. You know, give him the Nas.

Yeah. Do they do that Nas. I think you can him the Nas. Yeah. Do they do that? I think you can do Noss and NASCAR. Is it Noss? Yeah, I think so. It's not Nas. That's, that's like the rapper I think is. It's Noss.

Okay. Well, nitrous oxide nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide. Yeah. Yeah. We're clearly car guys. Yeah. That's also another reason.

Yeah. So we can another reason. Yeah. So we can, if you got a bag steam out there, reach out to Miles and then no, no, no, no, no, no. I apologize to anyone who thinks that we're gonna sponsor it. You gotta be good. All right. Show us what you got.

You gotta be on the ACL. You gotta be on the American Cornhole League professional tour. We're, hey, We're all bigger going home None of the rinky dink a we play bags once a week type of guy. We're looking for a good team miles We're looking to invest try this is an investment. It is not our children are going to take over this team That's true. That sure will will be will be like or what if we do it like this What if we do it like you? What if we do it like, you know how

the Packers have shareholders? Like, like they're all shareholders. What if we start up a belly-dub shareholders to sponsor? I mean, with all these people, look at all these people in this bar. If we got all of them to chip in, we would have the most dominating cornhole team ever. That is true. Unlimited funds unlimited funds. Everyone just pays 20 bucks. Yeah. Towards the shares. We're going to be flying around our cornhole team on a private jet. Oh my gosh. That's no, no, even miles, even if we could afford a private jet, I think we should just soup up.

Super. A RV. Yeah. For sure. And then a we'll wrap it in our faces. And we're going to make them wear jerseys with our faces. It just says belly up. Yeah. What if it's what if half of it's our face, the pants and then on the back, one, the one guy says Charlie and the other one says miles, like the juicy sweat pants for Victoria. Girls had the writing on the back one the one guy says Charlie and the other one says miles like the juicy sweat pants for Victoria.

So, you know, I mean, those girls had the riding on the bar. And I think the shirts though, the front should just be the front of us at the bar and the back should just be like the back of us. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Dude, I think we're on to something here. What, yeah, we so we roll up the tournaments in a suit to our view with our thing plaster on the side. Yeah, I don't know about you, but I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna be a little bit like an owner like Jerry Jones. I think I'm

gonna be the hot shot. I'm gonna need to do interviews afterwards. I'm me wearing a suit with a Bolo tie and a cowboy hat, I think. Um, I am going to be dialed in during this. I'm going to request box seats, even though they probably don't have them. All I want is just a scissor left to put me up higher to make it look like I'm in a box. It's just literally you want a scissor left sitting in an actual cardboard box.

Box seats. Box seats. There we go. Let's do it. Yeah, we have binoculars, you know, like they do up in the oven. Oh, it's going to be great. I'm excited. Ioculars, you know, like they do up. Oh It's gonna be great. I'm excited. I want to drink which is all of a sudden Like in the middle of the thing and it's beeping to

Let's do it. We only do when the other teams are on you know, so if you are interested in this belly-up Being part of a of a community owned Bags So I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm a million on bags team. Oh, be honest if the packers Started the whole shareholder system now. Yeah, it would be called fraud We might say that. Who do you mean? How can you say that? I am a no. I am.

I am. Here's a share that is absolutely worth nothing. Oh, except it's only worth what people are willing to pay. And I gladly pay. But if the team gets sold to a private owner, you get zero dollars back. Would you read the fine print? That would be fraud. That would be fraud.

What is that? First of all, that would never happen. I'm just saying. Mark my words, the Packers will never be sold to one person. I'm just saying it's not actually a share. It says who, dude. Says the piece of paper that means nothing that you get. Okay, have you read the piece of paper?

And if it means nothing, then why do you believe that? I've read some articles about it. Have you? It's basically worthless. No, it's worth what you're willing to pay for it. No, it's like a piece of art. No, you can't sell that piece of artwork. You can't sell your share to anyone. What's that?

I don't think you can sell your share. Why would I want to sell my share, dude? Are you kidding me? It's one of my most prized possessions. We're going to do the packer row. We got to be careful to not get caught with fraud. That's all I'm saying. Because it flew back in the day, you know, with the mafia

and all that shit you guys had going on. Well, you know, we did it. Al Capone has had many houses in Wisconsin. That was the reason for that. Al Capone's biggest racket was the public shares of the green bay packers. That was it. I don't think Capone had anything to do with that. I don't know anything about Al Capone. So clearly it I don't think Capone uh I don't know anything to do with that

I'll come home so clearly I don't yeah all I know is we just got to be careful not to commit share fraud I don't know what that's called but uh this is yeah I don't know what what let's call the Kickstarter that's what they call it yeah there you go it's not fraud it's a Kickstarter yeah we're to start a go funny. Well, we'll think of this talk about a racket. Go fun me turned into it from people

donating to good causes to people being like, Hey, you know, I'd like I saw this once. Hey, I'm looking to buy a new guitar. I'm going to go fun me. Well, I mean, I think there's enough fine print out there that we can write this to make it so everyone's happy. And I look, I don't want to.

If anyone donates, we give them something. We give them a certificate that tells them they're a shareholder in our bag leak in our big team Yeah, big team big team. Yeah, so there it is if there's a professional cornhole team out there though that would like to sell To us you got a lot of snow. Yeah, and we want to buy it with a coupon also Yeah, we need some sort of you know Well, yeah, we need a two- at least. Yeah, two for one. Yeah.

We both buy you get one of you get. Oh, no, that's not how that. Anyway, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I want to be the hot shot in the corn hole. I want to I want it like where I'm the loud mouth owner. And then you're always having a cover for. Yeah, I like that.

Yeah. So yeah, what Miles meant to say, it's like an improv game. Miles is like, you know, I like there would be a whole thing where miles and cis and we play with weighted bags or something. You know, like, you know, guys, what are you doing? I'd like a shot clock out there. Yeah. Saying shit like that. Yeah, yeah, shot clock. That's the commissioner. I imagine the commissioner of a cornhole league is like his name is Brian or something Oh, yeah, I don't like a Brian's running this show. What kind of operations he running? So what miles means to say is that he doesn't like it as it currently is

But yes, a lot of suggestions he will give you know, that's it I'm just out there with a bucket and a mop. How can you run out of push light at a corn hole event? This is bullshit. I'd be like, it's fine. There's Miller light. There's Linies. We got it. So I think we just found a new dream. I think we did. I think we did. Let us know if you guys let us know if you want to support it. Reach out to us. Let's just get a tester. Well, and maybe what we could do is do that. If you want to share, you could do a shirt. We could do a shirt that says, I'm a shareholder. I'm a shareholder of the belly up cornhole team. Yeah. We send that out with a certificate. Yeah.

We'll make it. We'll be on like a nice glossy piece of card stock, too. Some frameable, some frameable. That will go towards us someday By a cornhole honestly, we we got to make sure in the fine print we put like this It could be now between now in the next 80 years and if it's past 80 years that we're just not gonna buy one Yeah, if this has gone 80 years chances are we're not vampires I'm a shareholder in the belly up core whole team. We probably be safe saying 60 given the amount of five beer we drink. I was trying to do it. I was it was one of those things where clearly I'm going to go before you do and so I wanted to like put all the burden on you. You'll have to figure it out, you know.

That's a nice idea. That's a very charlie problem. Charlie problem future miles problem because I'm going first Well, you never know that's the thing with life is yeah live there. It live in the present don't blink Don't blink all right. All right. We're gonna take some calls and Get after him here. Let's go ahead. Hello. Who do we got on the line? What was your name? Sorry. Paul, is this my old? It is miles. Charlie's here too. How's it going, bud?

How are you? Oh, Charlie's there too. How are you going to do it? Well, we're doing real good. Where are you calling from? What you doing? I'm calling from the great state of Minnesota. I live kind of by St. Cloud. Okay, so you're a little bit west of us right now. We are in crystal Minnesota at stevos, so not too far. Okay, I'll

put the hammer down. I'll be there about an hour. Thank you really are putting the hammer down as that's the case. Yeah, why don't you bury up to the bar with us tell us what's on your mind Well at the moment right now. I'm sitting in traffic on 94 I got plenty of time to talk to you fellas. Okay. Well, what do you got on your mind? Well, I got a you know, I'm pretty sure you probably got this before but the Minnesota night

um and and uh and uh the mid-web goodbye. C'mon. I am probably the worst person. Like, if you think about me, I'm gonna keep you there another hour. Okay, well, let's dive into that. Look, is that a bad thing? No, no, no, no, no, no.

You are doing it right, sir. You're doing it right. But I would like to dive in. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because I know it makes my wife mad when we don't leave somewhere. You know, that's part of it. And that's also, I just got to know that's love doing it. If you love, yeah, I get live to irritate the other ones. So that's what it's all about. I'm conditioning and I'm conditioning her to,

you know, accept the fact that we can't just stop in and say hi. Well, that would be rude. We're saying hi. Yeah, yeah, you got to stay for quite a while. Overstate the welcome. Is she from this area then, too, or is she from outside the Midwest? No, no, she's, she's just one county over, you know, okay. This one county over. They must have had some weird in the water over there that she's not a fan of the Midwest goodbye, you know? No, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Is it the same when you are hosting the party? Do you also, are you one of the guys when someone's like, well, by spools, are you one of the ones giving them a beer trying to make them stay as long as possible? Oh, no, we're keeping them there. If you're going over to keep them in our cans. If you're going over to his house for a party, you might as well pack on night bags because

you're going to be going home in the morning. Yeah, you're bringing yourself up. Yeah, pack the PJs. Now, what's your tactic to keeping them there longer? Pack the PJs. Now what's your tactic to keeping them there longer? Did you hear that? That's kind of did you hear that? So you're saying that if you want to continue the Midwest goodbye, all you got to say is did you hear Dada Dada Dada Foye by anything? Oh, it can be the stupidest thing in the world and they'll say because they want to know it. You know, it's true. I'm already intrigued because it feels like something like what do you got?

Did you hear something? It seems like you did. Yeah, let's infect. Let's let's do a mock here. Let's try it out right now. So Miles and I are trying to get off. I can't wait. Miles and I are trying to get off the phone call. Well, I suppose it's about that time. We got to get going. I suppose. Yeah. Oh, Charlie, did you hear that John down the road? You got a 10 pointer yesterday? No. John got a 10 pointer. Do you got pictures? Yeah. Let me see that pictures. Yeah, he had him on his trail camera for like four days straight and he finally got him. Oh my gosh. Look at that rack. Yeah, pull those photos. Look at the body on them. Wow. The bodies. Yeah. Now, do you get a clean shot on that one? You're old here. You know that. Oh, yeah. Do you get a clean shot?

It was behind a little tree, but he made it. Okay, did he have to track it all? Then after a shot, it was pretty much browning down. No, you guys know John, he's a dead guy. Yeah, I'm done. You know, don't tell John we asked that. Okay. I now feel dumb, asking that. Well, I suppose, you know, it's about that.

What? What was that? Did you hear about the Vikings though? Oh, what about the Vikings? I, you know, I'm a packer. Yeah, I can. That Midwest of I can just keep going. Well, let's keep it going.

You said something about the Vikings. Now I'm intrigued. I was going to leave and now I'm waiting to hear what you have to say. Yeah, what about the Vikings? Yeah, yeah. Fill your whiskey to third full and let's go. Okay, well, we got it. We got a little drink there.

So now tell me as a packer, Sam, what about the Vikings? I don't follow a football. I'm just trying to keep the conversation a lot. Oh, okay. Well, well, all right, so hold on. I had always told me if you can't, if you can't dazzle him with brilliance, you got a baffling with both here.

That's all that's really good. Well, you please say that again for me one more time. Yes. If you can't dazzle him with brilliance, you got a baffling with both here. And that's my new life model. We're gonna put that baby on a shirt. That's on a t-shirt.

Your dad always said that, huh? Yeah, yeah. Good man. Good man. Hey, did you hear about what's going on over in Alexandria? Oh, I heard something, but what did you hear? Yeah, I heard they're having trouble with the snow plows that they might not be able to get out in time this time years. That is unacceptable. Yeah.

That's unacceptable. I mean, this is the city's whole job is to make sure those babies are rocking and rolling. I can't believe it. You know, I got to talk to the folks over at the DPW over there in Alexandria. Japers, Christ. But we know they're doing their working hard to get a. They don't get a space.

I got confidence in the Alexandria DPW girl. Don't don't think for us that can I don't they'll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, well, I suppose. Well, I guess getting back to the original topic. Is it better me to keep it going or should I should I cut it off at a like a time limit? No, you cut it off when you feel like cutting it off. And I can tell you got that gift of the GAV, the brilliance of the BS. I don't think you're going to be cutting it off anytime soon.

So you go as long as you're on desire. No, that's it. Yeah, they can keep slapping their knees and say, well, I got to get going, but I'm going to keep you there. Yeah, you keep going until they got bruises on their knees from slapping it because they're ready to leave. You just keep going. Yeah.

Yeah. But you got to be careful though, because during, here's another thing to keep in mind. What they're probably going to do after about eight slaps of the knees and a welt by better head out, they're going to go a whole crap. I got to use the bathroom. They crap. I gotta use the bathroom. They're gonna go to the bathroom. They're gonna go to the old Irish goodbye and just leave without you even knowing

and you're gonna be sitting there for a half hour waiting for them and they're gonna be like, oh, where Tim go? I think he already ruffed. See, I gotta be careful. Yeah, so I got a little problem with that because usually we hang out in the shop and we don't have bathroom in there. So the bathroom is outside and it's that much closer to the truck then.

You gotta watch out for the fade moves. Yeah, walk outside and just fade away. Watch out for Timmy Tinkles. He'll, you know, do a pump fake. Call an audible. Go to the urinal, take a hard cut to his car and get the hell out of there. So you gotta watch out for it. Yeah, well you got to do then you got to install flood motion detecting flood lights outside. Yeah, so when he goes out there, you can flip him on.

Catch him red handed. Yeah, you can catch him red handed. I'm like, what are you doing out there? You said you were taking a leak. Get back in here. Did you? Yeah? Let him know someone's watch and at all times. Yeah. Yeah. Have a speaker connected to that too. What's that? I guess I never thought of the motion active flood lights. That's a good idea. Yeah. And have yourself a big speaker up there too. Like find an old tornado siren and retroactivity to like your phone so you can talk to them. Tim. Tim. Timmy, Tinkle, where are you going, guy?

Oh, it seems like you're trying to get out of here. I got a couple more things I need you to hear about. Outhouses, that way, fella. Well, I suppose. Oh, thank you. No, you're the best. How's traffic doing by the way? Uh, we're we're back up to 60. So I'm hand free now if any of the law important. Yes, as we swing, yeah, very good. I'd be hands free. There you go.

Well, I suppose. I did you guys hear it now you're a better yeah I don't I mean maybe I should find a different go-to line than did you hear no no no you got it right in fact that's a t-shirt right there too. Did you hear? There you go Can I get the royal fees out of that then yeah, I sure he's a business man Miles will hook you up with that. Yeah. Well, I'm our guys talk to your guys. How's that sound? That sounds wonderful guys Well, I suppose. I appreciate that.

I appreciate you guys taking my golf. Yeah, we appreciate you calling in. We really do. You guys have a wonderful day now. All right, watch out for deer. You too, tell your mom I said hi. All right, hey, do you need directions before you go? Did you hear they got a new app for directions? Did you hear about that?

Do they yeah? Yeah, it's like it's like a fun interactive thing. Is it what's it called? I don't remember off top of my head, but it's like a car with a smiley face on it. Oh, did you hear about that? Did you hear about that? No, you didn't. Well, we just hung up and did the Timmy Fade. Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy Timmy to two experts at it as well. So I think we're in the class of Midwest standoff. We're in a Midwest standoff.

Yeah, I don't know about it. Well, that's three ways though. No, that's a Mexican standoff. Three people. Oh, geez. Well, I spars. Well, on that note, I'm going to go take a leak outside. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Well, I suppose. What do you guys think about? No, we're not following forward this time. We're not following forward. All right. What's for beer now? Yeah, you make me set the hook good on them all. Okay, let them run open the bell.

We'll see you soon. Yeah, I'm going to now? Yeah, you make me set the hook good on them wall. Okay, let them run open the bail. We'll see you soon Yeah, feel drink. Let's go all right that away. See you now. Don't horse. All right, bye-bye Thought that was gonna be the whole podcast. I hope you were caught in the the whole podcast. I think we were caught in the middle west loop. The West world because no one wanted to be the one to give up. Dude, that would be at Midwest world. Yeah, Midwest world. Just caught in the Midwest goodbye. Just, you know, everything every day starts the same. Yeah, saying, well, I suppose, I suppose, Did you hear? Oh, good guy. Good guy. Good guy. Absolutely.

I mean, you know that, you know that guy's experience. You can just tell you. He's old. He's a wily old vet as to think they call it. He's been around the, around the deal. He's seen a couple Midwest goodbyes in his day. He has. Well, I suppose.

I suppose. Time for another another call or you know, hello, who do we got on the line? Hey, this is Josh from Massachusetts. Josh, Josh, Massachusetts. How do you spell Massachusetts? Oh, you know, it's a great question. I think that's a couple more letters. Yeah, that sounds good. So what's on your

mind today, fella? Uh, just getting ready to head out of work and um, think that I try my luck and I'm glad I got you guys. I need some advice here. Um, so my fiance and I recently bought a house and you know in Massachusetts We don't get quite the winters that you guys guess I'd still come from the deal with and I was wondering your thoughts pros and cons on

e- snowblower versus an ATV with a plow Oh Well, you called into the right podcast didn't I have anV. I have a side by side with the plow. Of course you do. Charlie's got a snow blower. I got a snow blower. Yep.

So this is the class of titles here. It is. So Miles, I'll let you go first with your preferences. Now, the beauty of a side by side. Now, I'm not necessarily, you know, ATV is a lot of times a four-wheeler as we would call them. But if you got a side by side with a cab, you could turn on the heat and it gets pretty toasty in there. Sometimes all you need is just a t-shirt while you're moving snow.

So that's the number one pro in my mind when it comes to getting an ATV and a plow. And to piggyback on miles, you know, let's say, you know, you're at a loss for a date with a special someone, you really turn it into an event, you know, you say, Hey, what do you say? We go plow, you know, and she, you know, she's going to be like, What? And then you're going to, you're going to say, come with me. She's going to be like outside. It's freezing you're going to, you're going to say, come with me. She's going to be like outside, it's freezing out and snowing, you be like hang out. I thought you wanted to plow.

Yeah, and then you take her out to the side by side, you open it up, you got some nice wine there, you know, you got a cheese board with cheese curds and everything. You can double it up. You got some nice romantic music going on in there. A new definition of a double date. There it is right there. You're on a date with your snow plow and your old ball and chain. Yeah. Yeah. Just don't call it a ball and chain in a deal unless that's the relationship you have. Do you, and do you call in to where,

yeah, hey, you're the old ball and chain does hand call you the old ball and chain, or does she call you like the concrete tubes or something? I mean, I'm probably she does, but I definitely say it in front of her and she gets a laugh about a quarter of the time. So, yeah, I'd probably get the same reaction. Yeah. Yeah. Once in a while, I can't turn a good mood. You'll think it's funny. Yeah. But most right, right. Exactly. Yeah. My car honey or sweetie, you were supposed to defend the snowblower and you just defended my side. I just thought of it. Cause, you know, but I'll tell you this, I like using a snowblower. And you know, I grew up a shovel guy. Like we had my grandpa's old snow blower and my dad said,

you can only use it if it's over a fist of snow. So we'd bring out one of the younger kids to put their fist in the snow, you know, so we could use it. But we were typically shovel a shovel family growing up. But then I got myself a nice snow blower. And boy, when you get a nice one, it really makes a difference. The thing is, the big trouble spot for me is the end of the driveway. You know, when it gets all like, you got the cars going, you got the street plows, like

really packing in the end of your driveway. And in those moments, I would like a nice side by side. I'm gonna tell you what, you know you're in the Midwest when you got a big hump of snow at the end of your driveway that you gotta just ram over every time you go in your driveway. Yeah. Because it's a build up from the snow plows and all that.

And you just, at some point, it becomes too tall of a task to get rid of it. So all you gotta do is just put her in four wheel and just launch over the end of the driveway snow hump. That snow hump is a two fold though. So when it's there, it's actually a nice speak bump for others driving into your driveway. And there is going to come a time in winter when you need some therapy, you know, and you need some cheap therapy. Therapists are expensive, but you get out there and you crack off a piece of that snow at the snow hump at the bottom of your driveway.

So, oh, and then you get one of them nice metal shovels and just, and then that pulls up another chunk. Oh, you're gonna feel like so much better at the end of the day you are. So I think the answer to your question is, is unfortunately, my God, you're gonna want both. You're gonna want both. I was thinking that's where this was going, yep.

Yeah, so. And I'm not opposed to it. Yeah, I thought we would have differing opinions, Charlie, but it turns out we're more similar. All this time at the same bar, is, you know, we're kind of melting our our our deal here a little bit. You know, the side by side with the plow and the snowblower is just same church different peel. Same church different peel, you know, and get yourself a nice hard metal shovel to a nice one. I love to be a medal. I'll have to invest in your shovel.

Yeah. I'll definitely do that. Charlie, I wanted to just share something with you. I was in the same awful places you when Miles foiled hop them for you. Oh, a couple years ago. Yeah, what happened? Couple of years ago, well when the the first of the new Star Wars came out

So I don't know 2014 15. I'm like that one one for my buddy and I Yep, so my buddy and I are in line Had a convenient store getting ready to go to see the new Star Wars and the guy behind us here's us talking about it And he goes, hold on, hold on, hold on, spoiler alert, everybody, spoiler alert. Okay, now go. Seven years later, I don't know. But so the guy behind us is just like, oh, you guys are going to see the new Star Wars?

You know, it sucks, Han Solo dies. Are you kidding me? Whoa, dude, I haven't seen him. What the hell? I can't low diced. Are you kidding me? Whoa dude, I haven't seen him. What the hell? I can't make this up. Hey, well, you've had enough time at this point. Yeah, that is true.

It was, we were on our way to the theater. And this guy just tells us like the main. At that moment, you wish you had me with this. That moment, you wish you had one of those men in black memory deletors. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know that would have been great. Just snap that gun. Yeah. You're only. Hey guys, I, I, no, no, no. Oh no, after you, I insist. Oh, hey, what a nice guy. I was just going to say I found you guys recently,

and I've listened to all the episodes while I'm working, and my favorite OAR album of all time is also 34th and 8th. Oh, baby. A fellow 34th and 8th. I recently, oh my god, 34th and 8th 34th and I could listen to that on repeat forever I think I found it and I don't know over 10 years ago and I still haven't gotten sick of that out my absolute love. Well and you're in OAR country aren't they from Maryland you're kind of around there. Yeah well yeah yeah I saw them up in

Saratoga about a month or two ago. It was amazing. I'm so jealous. I'm so jealous. Wow, believe it or not, they don't get to Fargo, North Dakota that often. I've only seen him. Oh, no kidding.

You don't say. Yeah, it's only a marathon. You guys are really putting it out there in the universe. I have a feeling they'll be playing the Fargo theater sometime soon just for miles. They're Midwest for next next on the on the docket. Yeah, it's good to meet another or had as I like to call To call us or hats

But you know, I'm more of a rusted root guy myself Hey, you know, they're okay, too. Yeah, you know what? Charlie, it's a revolution. It is it a revolution it is it is I would just like to reach out my hand but anyways we appreciate you calling in this has been great yeah yeah I appreciate you know being able to get on this was awesome you guys again keep me company while I'm at work And I really love the content that you both do individually and together, so I appreciate it. So good luck finding a snowblower and a side by side.

You got an expensive hatcher ahead of you. Yeah, I think this time, a couple of months from now, we'll have both. And I'll make up all of you again with you, all right, guys. Let us know how your double date goes. Yeah. I definitely will keep the update on that. I'm going to get my two more guys. Let us know how your double date goes. Yeah. Definitely well.

Keep the update on that. All right. Well, we'll see you soon. All right, guys. Hey, tell your aunt I say hi, and I'll get her that capital disbacked. You're awesome. Thank you.

Thanks, man. Thanks for calling. Thanks, guys. I'm going to YouTube. Bye bye now. What a guy. What a guy. What a guy. It's not very often you get to meet people

who know 34th and Aselton by OAR, like that's what it's all about. I can tell that guy you excited. All miles, we just got tall boys delivered. Thank you very much, really appreciate you. Yeah. There you go, cheers. Bush. There you go, cheers man. Thank you. Appreciate her. Oh

Well Charlie, should we take another caller? Yeah, I think so Charlie I tell you what is certain to get a little chilly out there chilly Billy Chia You know what my favorite thing to do when it's cold out? Ice fish? No, go to a fleet farm, then ice fishing. Fleet farm? We are cold, so we're going there. Guys, is that time of year again, where we grow tired of winter? You tired of winter?

Tired of winter? No, winter is just popping off. No, we're growing tired of winter. Oh, it says we're getting tired of winter there? We are tired of winter. We are allegedly tired of winter. And you know what, we need to embrace it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Embrace the tiredness of winter here on two stars ahead of this ad read here. Give that. Give that someone special. Give that something special to the one sounded out miles. Sounded out one you neglected over the last eight weeks running around

Putting on lots of miles. Yes. It's time to pamper your auto a little spuff a nautilus spot I didn't know we were going Tell the pamper oh Yeah, so it's time for you to take care of the old automobile who that sucker up and Free farm has everything you need and everything you should think about ahead of time like a new battery Wiper blades Ice scraper everything you're gonna need you name it spoil your baby Take it for a loss

take it for a loss too. And your baby, your automobile is going to love you for it. So make sure you really get in there and get it clean, change the oil, get some new wiper blades, because when what happens in the winter, Charlie, the ice gets on there and the blades get all messed up from trying to, because we know you're just defrosting and trying to get the ice off that way. So, yeah, I'm unthaw on time people forget about the wiper blades

It's true guys for all your wiper blade needs you got to go to fleet Love it when the fish aren't biting in the fish house I like experimenting with my tippy cow mixes making Oreo with vanilla and chocolate a cream sickle I'm gonna do that. That's all right. Yeah, do it right now. A big Oreo guy. So miles is putting an Oreo in a glass right now. I'll take a little Oreo in my glass, miles.

You can also do the cream sickle with the orange cream and the vanilla or the Shamrock and chocolate for a Shamrock shake thing in my Bob. Let's talk about that on the last podcast, wasn't I? That I like Shamrock shakes. You get one right now. You don't got a weight on March. No, you don't.

Don't even shake that Shamrock. Uh, in March, the way they, I forget what I'm saying, but bottom line drink, tippy cow. It's a hell of a product. I go down easy. Goes down easy. Do you pour any in mine or no? I did.

Yes, you did. You did. I'll rip. All right. What do you think, Charlie? Goes down easy. Do you pour any in mind or no? I did Yes, you did never rip all right And what do you think Charlie? I think I ripped her good real good all right You can find tippy cow at any liquor store. Hopefully around you. You can also find them online It's just It's the perfect sweet after dinner drink in my mind. My family do a lot of after dinner drinks and we're switching to Tippy cow. Tippy cow.

It's the tipping point for me on the tipping point. The tipping point. The tipping point. The tipping point to the Tippy cow. So get some and enjoy it. You won't be disappointed. Hello. Who are you?

Hello. Who's this? This is Tanner Anderson. Tanner or Taylor? Tanner. Tanner Anderson. How are you doing, Tanner? Good. How about you guys? We can't complain here. Belly, on up to the bar. Tell us where you're from where you're calling what you want to know from us, huh? Vikings oh Skull you know what Skull stands for so keep on losing Okay, that is the guy who's having a pretty tough year all right all right a skull. You know what skull stands for? So keep on losing. Okay. That's the guy who's having a pretty tough year. All right. All right. All right. You know, we'll see what happens with your Vikings. Okay.

Unless we've already seen that's a philosophical statement right there. Okay. So what's I got a question for you. Yeah, please. I think this goes more towards miles. When you walk into a bar and see pull tabs, how do you know which box to go into? Oh, it's a good question. Well, so is this bar? Because this is a little tip Some bars wait until the end of the night to cross off the ones that have been taken already Some bars don't ever tell you what's been taken already and some do them immediately So the first question is gonna be asking that of hey are these up to date? How many of each ones left? How many 300s are left? How many?

Because sometimes it's they cross them off at the end. Sometimes they cross them off in real time. So that's your first step. Find out is the, how much is in each box still left on the table. And then you're just gonna go off of, you know, risk versus reward, $2 ones are probably gonna give you a bigger reward that cost double the $1 ones. And so you really just, it's a,

it's really a beautiful dance between you and the box and how many numbers are still left and all that. And so that's what advice I would give. It's like counting cards. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, not really at all. To a degree. Yeah, but you don't got to be a genius to figure it out.

You know, like we can figure out a point of box Charlie, but I don't think we can figure out count cards. Uh, you don't, you don't know how to count cards. I'm not good at it. I've read a book lunch. Is that information? There you go. Does that help you out?

Do you already know that information? I just never know because I see people winning. I'm always on not you know, not winning. Well, that's the thing about Poltab investing is it's always going to look like a failure in the middle. You got to keep buying and buying and invest and invest and invest and eventually it'll be a winner. You might not make any money, but at some point, you're're gonna be a winner Hell yeah, at the end thing you just got to have face that the tabs you pull will pull the cash Hmm good saying that's good right. Yeah, thank you appreciate you calling in man. Yeah

Yeah, I got one more. Yeah, I get some advice for you guys yeah I sure what's up I got a I got a teenager that's about to be driving soon oh oh man she is absolutely horrible is she oh no man I get scared for my life Does she get it from her mother or from you? I'm going to go with her mother. OK, as she do. As she do. You know what you were getting into, though, is all I'm saying. What is she? What is she?

What aspect of driving is she the worst at? We'll see if we can give you some tips at the hardest issue she's having right now. Well, the speed limit breaking, stop sign. It's pretty much anything. Well, so here's my next question. And I don't mean to be insensitive, but is she blind? Yeah, I mean, having trouble with stop signs, that's

stop sign speed limits. Yeah, can't see the break. Right. We're we're configurating the issue here. Have you tried getting there some glasses? Just you may want to get it. She does wear glasses. Oh, that sounds like you need to be out the prescription.

There you got it. There you got it. I think that'd be number one. Don't you think, Charlie? I think that's a very good place to start right there. You know, it's winter now. And I do think the number one advice, you know, I was given this advice as a young lad when it comes to how do you drive

when it starts snowing? And what I was told is you want to be able to filet a blue gill in the front seat. You drive slow enough so the person sitting shotgun can filet a blue gill without giving themselves an accidental circumcision. Okay. So, well, you don't have a problem with that. She goes two miles per hour. Well, you know, so we let's that's a building place. We start with that at least she's not a speed demon. It's easier to speed someone up That is a slow. Yeah, yeah, so you gotta work with with what you got and this is a building block You build off that so that's good. That's good

Yeah, I don't think we gave you a whole lot there. Charlie loves talking about circumcision. So I was glad to have that in there. Lousta. Just make sure, make sure you look. You got to make sure she has all the proper things in the car if she's driving in the Midwest. And we want a buckknife in the brought holder. Okay.

In case she hits a deer. Does she know how to clean a deer? Yeah. No. Well, she should know how to clean a deer before she even starts driving. Yeah. You know, they used to teach that in drivers ad and they stopped and a guy started, that's a problem because the biggest tragedy on the roads. Well, one of the biggest tragedies on the roads is people leaving warm deer on the side of the deal.

If they're still steaming, son of a god, there's some good backstrap to left out there. They're absolutely is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So don't start, start with the basics for God's sakes. Okay. And this is coming down to you.

I hate to say it. Yeah. You cannot complain. That is your daughter. Every time you're pointing a finger, there's three more point right back at you. Yeah, this is your daughter. So you teach her what's right. Get her a nice buck knife. You know, get find it, find her a deer and show her how it's done. And make sure she's got ratchet straps. Just to

bring that home to ice scrapers. One for the one for the car. One for the car. The other to scrape the deer off the car, you know. So good point. Yeah. Miles. If you want to, you can make a stop or we keep keep going, and there's endless advice. Yeah. No, that's good. No, I like it. I like it. I got to get her a nice person.

It looks like you know what you got to do to get her to speed up a little bit. Tell her that it's illegal to go under a certain amount, right? So if the speed limits 40, say it's illegal to go less than 30 miles an hour and then she'll believe you then she'll go between that 40 mile an hour range. I definitely have tried that already and it doesn't work. All right. Yeah. Well, start with the stop sign.

Once you get the stop sign going, then increase the speed from there. That's a Jedi level stuff, though. I mean, yeah, trying to figure out a stop sign in the Midwest is. Yeah, how many times what? Let me ask you just avoid get the GPS on the on the screen to go, you know, have it go only stop lights because sounds like it's going to be one before she can handle a stop sign. Yeah, when she gets to a Midwest for a way stop, how many times are you teaching her to wave? How many times have you instructed her to wave to the other person past before she can go?

Oh, yeah, they always wave and always give the two finger pop up. Yeah, you got to do them both. There's a two wave minimum in the Midwest at every four way stop. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Oh, you guys have been a lot of help.

Yeah, well, we get that a lot. Yeah, we do. We really do. We do. So good luck to you and good luck to your daughter. And we're all going to a bunch of. You said we've been a lot of hell, right? That's been a hell.

Yeah, I didn't emphasize the pee at all there. Well, middle apple in both red. Hey, say, did you hear about those self-driving cars? Maybe get her one of those. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I don't know about that. No. Yeah, you got two options. Yeah, either teach you how to drive good or yeah, yeah, buy a car that doesn't for that's true.

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well, it was moving cars. Had my aunts and uncles over at my grandparents' house, and I was moving the cars. So I wanted to get out and left the party early so you had to maneuver stuff. I was maneuvering some cars. That was kind of the first time, you know. Then you get comfortable with that and then you take one, you know, you're kind of valiant for the family and then you take it around the block. You're like, I shouldn't be doing this and you shouldn't, you know.

But it kind of feels good. Kind of feels good. Even if it's winter, you're like roll down the window just to get that fresh air blowing it. I kind of knew I worked at the park and I was the guy driving the golf cart around picking up the trash. You know, so I kind of knew the basics from that, you know. But how about you?

When was the first time you learned how to drive a car? I'm sure it was some, you know, like on a hot and trip or something. Hey, I want to drive that over here and listen to that. So probably in the field somewhere or on a, you know, on the gravel road or something. And then good place to learn. And then, you know, I, my birthday was in March. So in North Dakota, you can get your license at 14 and a half. Oh, so that's way too young. It was like right in the fall. So I was able to learn how to drive

over the summer. Luckily, otherwise, if I learn to drive in the winter, then a couple of fender benders. I'm a little bit of a lead foot. It's, I start to get my foot on that accelerator. I feel like Dominic Taredo in a fast and curious movie. So I live my life a quarter mile at the time. Everyone knows everyone who knows me knows that that I live my life a quarter mile at the time. So man, I didn't know how cool you were till we were having this. It's pretty sick. It's pretty sick. So and before we close out this podcast, because we're gonna close it out here, I wanna remind everyone who's got a truck that's maybe not like a larger truck,

get some sandbags in the bed of that truck, so it's not slipping and sliding around too much. Under for sure. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, if you need salt for the water, softener, just get bi extra now, and you'll use it in there. Keep it in there. And then come the spring, well, just get bi extra now. And you'll use it in there and keep it in there. And then come come the spring.

Well, come summer. That's when you can be safe. Pull it out, put in the basement. Yeah. It's good. Absolutely. Good advice, Miles. Well, and you can get that the flu far by the way farm.

Well, folks, it's been another amazing belly up podcast. Thank you all for listening. We appreciate everyone calling in. We appreciate everyone following. This has been awesome. It's been fun so far and you know, I can't wait to see where it goes. No, I know. I'm all I know is find another bar.

Grab your belly. And belly on up to the bar, baby. There's a bar. We'll belly. There is a bar and you got a belly.. There's a bar. We'll belly it. There is a bar and you got a belly. We're figuring it out. We'll figure it out. All right.

See you guys.