Bellied Up - Is Wisconsin Too Cocky? #159

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

We're at Snickers Bar and Grill in Chicago. First caller thinks that Minnesota is better at being "Wisconsin" than Wisconsin. Next caller thinks that she should be getting free beer from the bartender. Then we listen to a voicemail of a guy weed wacking.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of the bellied up podcast. We are bellied up here in Chicago behind enemy lines. Ladies and gentlemen, miles convinced me to come down to Chicago, do a little bellied up. We're at Snickers bar and grill off of what street was this? Illinois street, state street on state street were bellied up to the bar and Charlie and I had ourselves a morning this morning did have ourselves morning we were on the news WGN Mia miles you guys can probably Google it see the clip also I just got a good waft of weed I did get a good one yeah someone walked by hitting a pen.

Yeah, it's pen. We do. It's not that I would know. I'm well acquainted. This did not come out of a pipe. I can guarantee you that. Anyways, yeah, we did. First Bellied Up Live was this week. Yeah. Oh, that's right, because we're talking in future tense.

Yeah, actually tomorrow, which I just broke the whole fifth wall of it. Yeah. Tomorrow we're doing bellied up live at Zanies. Yep. And then this comes out after that. So, so it was a great show guys. It was awesome. It was super cool. I was the star. I don't. Yeah, he was. Um, we got him the, uh, pink bananas in the room. And ladies and gents, we're going to do more of these. It was such a success that we're coming to your city. Check your lowest. Let's not put the cart before the horse miles. It's about speaking truth into life. Okay. Speak your self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes. What you say becomes your intention, becomes your truth. The end. Yeah. So in a couple of weeks, episodes, we'll know for sure a little, uh, what the

plan is. Yes, we will. So anyway, we were on the news though. Miles Deuston. Yeah. Really Charlie. So I go, I show up early, way early, way early, you know, classic guy from Fargo worried about the traffic. You know, you leave an hour before you need to, I should have been worried about the traffic and show up in the green room. It's a decent, you know, it's good, but it's a small room. Yeah. And then there's a bathroom and you know, like in the old school buildings, there's like the, there's the door, but then on the bottom there's like the, the, the slots. So it's like actually open. Yeah. You can see the feet. Yeah. You know, if it's

a bathroom door actually wasn't a solid door at the bottom, there was like, you know, open slots and I start gripping the ceramic. Oh, it's a gripper and ripper. And I just start unloading on this toilet. And I'm like, I don't know if you guys have ever tried to, to poop quietly. It never works. No, cause you get that tension and yeah, you know, so then I had probably like three or four courtesy flushes. Cause I didn't know who was going to walk into the green room. Yeah. It turned into the brown room and yeah, luckily no one showed up till a little bit later and yeah., all right, we're ready for you. Where is Charlie? Oh no. And the amount of times I have to answer the question, where is Charlie? Yeah. Without

knowing the answer. Yeah. It's I, and I cover for you. He said, Oh yeah, he's he'll be here any second. Is that what you said? Did you say, yeah, that assholes wait all the time? Well, I did say like, does he usually do this when he comes on here? And she was kind of like, Oh, I don't think so. So she covered for you. Oh, did she? But Charlie showed up right as we're about to go on air. I meant, what did you say to her? Did you say that? I'm a soundcheck guy with stress because he wanted to Mike you up and make sure you're good to go. Was he? Yeah. Did you get over it? That was rude to me. It was weird. Well, here's, here's the deal. Here's the situation. Let me explain my morning before that. Cause I woke up, I checked in late to the hotel. Okay. Uh, I

did valet the car, um, which is like kind of what you have to do in Chicago, right? I was like, I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed.

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I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. on the way in for $75. My car could have slept for free. I could have just parked the car in the parking lot, slept in my car for free.

So I was going through this math, I was upset. Anyways, I go downstairs to get the car because you got a request by the thing. Car's there, nobody else's, no keys, no guy. I'm like, chat, and then I get the text from Miles, I'm here, I'm like, well I'm not, dude. He's not even in his car. No, and I'm like chat and then I get the text from miles. I'm here. I'm like, well, I'm not there's not even in his car No, and I was gonna wait till I was at least 15 minutes out to give him a call which I did But anyways, I'm waiting till I request an uber and then the uber is coming. I'm like, where's this guy?

the guy shows up and then I'm like hey fella, I'm sorry I I I And I'm like, hey, fella, I'm sorry. I need my keys. And he's like, I need the money. And I was like, yeah, I don't have cash. Who only accepts cash for the VIP? I said, can you tell the front desk I'll pay you when I get back? And I'll also leave a tip for you

because I know that, but I have a thing. If he's still there after I go back after this, I hope he's working all day. What I'm going to say to him is, dude, he didn't know my name. So I'm going to say, let's just not tell the front desk. I give you $40 straight cash. That's going to be $20 more than the tip I was going to give you because I know you're working hard for your money.

And then we just don't tell the hotel that you know, you parked the car. If you want, I'll juice it up. So he gave you the car without paying. Yeah. That's how it went. And then after our interview, we went to go get some breakfast and we're leaving the restaurant and Charlie looks at me and goes, do you have my keys? And I said, Charlie, why on earth would I have your keys? At what point would I have pit pocketed you for your

keys? You know, what would do, what would be my angle there to do that? And so he went back in the restaurant looking forward. He came back out. I said, Charlie, did you leave your keys in your car? Sure. Sure enough, he did. Sure. Dead. Unlocked on the streets of Chicago. And then he proceeded to, I told them, I said, Charlie, you know, every single time I meet up with you, I think you can't outdo yourself. And every single time you do, I did not do myself yet. And then he goes, he goes, ah, this never happens. And I said, this only happens. This is standard baseline. Is it though, Miles? A little bit. Well, you forgot to mention that before I figured out I lost my keys.

I know that my buddy, Miles, is a Frenchman. Mon pleasure. We and he likes his baguettes. And so we were right next to an authentic French bakery with four point five review on Yelp and I purchased him a little yummy treat to try. So we're going to do it right here. I got you. Well, it doesn't look super appetizing.

That must have been the one that they like put in the glass to be a display one. It was like the last one left. So you want to try it? It's got raisins. Try it with me. Yeah you want to try it? It's got raisins. Try it with me. Yeah, I'll try it. This is from the for me, the for the for that.

That's pretty good. Charlie, I'm a bread guy. I don't know if you knew that about me, but that's good. Yeah, I think it's good, too. So thanks for the baguette. What was it? Was it actually called? Oh, it's like a raisin cinnamon roll without the cinnamon.

Jamaz. We have you been to Paris? I forget. Never been to Europe. Oh, yeah. You said you're going to go there. I'll go there some point. What town? I'm waiting. I don't know. Lots of them.

I don't. OK. Oh, so you're going to go backpack around Europe. Yeah. You're going to have your baby in the backpack. Yep. Or you can get the folks to watch your baby while you and Anne go gal of an hour and your and we'll let us leave them anywhere. No. Why would happen? It's just like we want. She wants to be the parent that brings their kid along on the experiences. Have you guys never gotten a babysitter? No, we have. OK. But just on vacations.

OK, she wants a baby to be part of it. Yeah. So I'm not against. No, I think it's fun. Chill, dude. Handsome fella. Yeah. I mean, my walk now, Charlie, is he? Mm hmm. And he's really good at shaking his head. No, can't talk yet, but he can sure shake his head. No, dude, I, I, I believe that.

I mean, he is your child and you look at him, dude, that had a hair. He looks like he's got a scholarship to a big 10. Yeah. He's a guy. He looks like he works in finance or he's got a banker cut. That's it. We now have to give him a haircut every four weeks. Really? Yeah. Otherwise he bitches about it being in his eye.

How does he do that? If he can't talk, whining and crying. It's usually how babies do it. Yeah, I could have probably put those pieces of the puzzle together. Well, Charlie, should we take some callers here at Snickers here in Chicago? Let's do a miles. Michael, you got Charlie and miles from the bellied up podcasts. I hear that you think Minnesota, Wisconsin's better than Wisconsin. Is that true? I think, I think there's a strong possibility there. All right, Michael. First of all, a little background on yourself. Where are you from? So I'm from Illinois, which makes me probably a neutral third party to this whole situation because I'm looking at it from an outsider in.

OK, OK. Are you from Chicago, Illinois, or are you just from Flatlander? Okay, okay. Are you from Chicago, Illinois or you just from Flatlander? I'm a Flatlander. I'm Unfortunately just out there a little bit. No, no that I get it So you actually builds your credibility? Yeah, cuz if you were like a hardcore Bears fan or something I would say you may tilt more toward Minnesota cuz you know the Packers Bears rivalry, but I'm getting the sense, we'll just call it your uneven deal.

I look at it more from just, you know, you know, Wisconsin prides itself on the outdoors, the beer drinking. I mean, Minnesota's got more lakes. I think Minnesota's just being humble when it comes to the beer drinking, because I think if you put two of them side by side, it might be an equal, if not more, more competitive than we think.

I think Minnesotans are just out being more out, uh, more Midwestern nice and just being humble about the whole situation. Okay. So what you're saying is Wisconsin nights are loud and proud. I say, I don't want to say they're loud and proud because I mean, let's, let's be real. We're all from the Midwest and North three loud and proud. We're all pretty humble. I just feel that maybe Minnesota just out humbles them a little bit more. They don't have a humble off. We have a humble off between Wisconsin and Minnesota. Also he calls in with a declaration that Minnesota

out Wisconsin's Wisconsin. Then he's like, wow, I wouldn't go that far. He just gently walks it back. Yeah. This is the most Midwest phone call right here with you doing that. I do have to like, oh, go ahead. Well, I got to let you know, I mean, I'm right now traveling the Midwest of Europe. I just got back to Germany from Poland in in the Czech, and I'm telling you, this is this is pretty Midwest out here, too. Yeah, this is pretty Midwest out here too. Yeah, Germany's pretty Midwest. Yeah, it's nothing but beer drinking

and country side out here, I don't know. Beer and brats? Yeah. Beer and brats, yeah. Did you just blow your nose? No. Did you just do your nose? No. Did you just do a line of cocaine? What's going on over there?

No, I'm looking for my passport. If I'm being honest. OK, all right. Well, you probably knows that song and dance all too well. Yeah, I have Charlie is perpetually looking for his passport. Well, not right now. It's expired, actually. Let's dive into this. Let's dive into this. Okay. So you're saying that you think Minnesota drinks more beer than Wisconsin and they have more lakes and they're more outdoorsy. Anything else? A hundred percent. I think that's where it is. I feel like that's it right there.

Yeah. I mean that in a nutshell, thumbs up Wisconsin doesn't not. I don't know. No, it doesn't work. How's I mean, we do have for sure more cows. Okay. America's dairy land. But also, I think we have more lakes. It's just we are not pretentious about it. You know, on the license plate Minnesota says land of 10,000 lakes or whatever the hell it says, you know, do has or whatever the hell it says, you know? Has anyone actually counted though? Yeah, they have.

And guess what? Wisconsin's got 15,000, but we don't need to flaunt it. We don't need to just flaunt crap on our license, except for America's dairy land, but that happens to be factual, okay? So listen, I need to know where you're getting off my guy saying that, you know, Minnesota is kind of out Wisconsin in Wisconsin. Like what have you experienced? When was the last time you were in Wisconsin? When was the last time you were in Minnesota? Or is

this just a general vibe feel from what you're seeing on the internet? So, no, I was in Minnesota earlier this year and that's where kind of, I started the argument here when the coworker that actually lived in Wisconsin and I was like, I was in the state of Minnesota for maybe five minutes, met a handful of people and all they talked about were their deer that they're, you know, that are just walking through their front yard and you know, maybe they're going to harvest it. Maybe they won't. And I think I was handed maybe five different types of deer sticks within five minutes of being there. What city? I mean, it was just Rogers, Minnesota. Oh, yeah. Is that over by

you? Well, no, we got to, you got to go through Rogers from Fargo to Minneapolis. So, okay. How is it like mills Rogers where they got the Cabela's? Oh yeah. They got a Cabela's over there and Rogers. Well, you, you can't compare. Well, you can't compare a Cabela's town in Minnesota to like just any town in Wisconsin too. You know, when was the last time you were in Wisconsin? I'd say probably been a year ago. Okay.

All right. What town? It's been a little while. Probably the Lake Geneva area. Oh, you know, we went to, yeah, we went to the racetrack over there. Great Lakes. OK, all right. Well, I think you got to get a comfortable. So to be honest, like, you know, my wife and I love Wisconsin.

Right. You know, and, you know, to the point, I mean, we love, you know, I mean, typical fit, right. We'll go up north for a weekend drive just to drive and get away from everybody. Right. But I'm telling you, going to Minnesota really surprised me. And it honestly, it made me question it a little bit. Wow. Yeah. I'm not sure how I feel about this. So are you saying, I think what you're saying is Wisconsin's turning into a little bit of, there's too many Chicago wins changing the culture of Wisconsin is what it sounds like Charlie.

It could be, or, or I mean, I don't know. I'm not from Minnesota, but the Minnesota look at the Wisconsin people is like Wisconsin looks at the Illinois. Oh no. And they're just too humble to even talk about it. It's kind of like Minnesota, like Wisconsin for Midwest stuff is kind of like the fancy spread air raid college football offense. And Minnesota is kind of the power T three yards at a cloud of smoke, hand the ball to the ref and run the damn ball in terms of Midwest values is kind of what you're saying. They just nothing flashy about it. They just do their work. They don't, you know, they

don't need any credit. They just do the work where Wisconsin's out there, you know, talking about watching out for deer constantly. Okay. Okay. We have 4,000 types of cheese curds here, you know, come buy all of our cheese. You know, have they become too commercial? Yeah. Are you talking about Wisconsin or just me right now? But I mean, it gives a good perspective as an outsider looking in Wisconsin. That's what it looks like. Right? You know, I don't see any commercials in Illinois about come visit Minnesota unless it'll be a lake or something and that's true you got coal you know you have Culver's you know cheese and you

know the some it's it's looking on the Packers I mean they're just annoying to everybody aren't they no listen. Listen, you bastard. Wisconsin, you're getting commercials for Wisconsin because it's a neighboring town. The state of Wisconsin, their visitor bureau is doing commercials to you because it's cheaper and because we're not doing them the Minnesota because they got a lot of lakes and they're not going to come down here anyway. So that's trying to get you a flatlander up to Wisconsin.

All right. I think I can I think I can pinpoint the time that Wisconsin started to get a little bit full of themselves. And I you guys may know what I'm talking about. It was when the study came out of the drunkest counties in the U.S. and like of the top 10, nine of them were all in Wisconsin. And then you guys started walking around with your chest up, you know, two beers in hand, like, yeah, we're the drunkest state in all the land. And I think that might've been the turning point. And you know what map I'm talking about. You've seen it.

I not only have I seen it, everybody brings it up to me in casual conversation, every chance they can get. I think, and I think if you, you Google it, it's probably going to be the number one hit that you're going to get on Google right now. That's right. Yeah. And I think this is a good moment, you know, uh, to remind Wisconsin Charlie to do your job. You guys aren't going to stay the drunkest city by, you know, getting full resting on our oil. Yes. You guys gotta be out there tailgate and you gotta be out there 9 AM on a Sunday, just hammering beers and cheese. And if you guys get comfortable in all your success of being the

drunkest state in the U S someone's going to dethrone you guys. comfortable in all your success of being the drunkest state in the US, someone's gonna dethrone you guys. And I think this is actually a good moment. And don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on Wisconsin at all. I just thought it was a valid point to bring up. And both states are beautiful. They both have their ups and downs, they're positive. I just think it was just a good debate to have

and I didn't know who else to bring it to than you two guys that could possibly put an end to this. Well, I'm feeling less threatened now. I was feeling threatened before by you and that's where my lashing out came from. Oh, no, don't. So I apologize. No need to feel threatened. This is actually, I mean if you guys could put it to rest, this has been going between

a co-worker and me for probably a few months now we've been debating this. Listen. It's been a challenge. It's hard to get past this to to be honest. Well, listen, I do think Minnesota has a lot of things that could be considered more Wisconsin, okay? But I don't think it's fair to say Minnesota out Wisconsin's Wisconsin. What I do think is you have a troubling sample size for Wisconsin. And I think you gotta go to a bunch of different areas

of Wisconsin to get the full picture. Like it doesn't sound to me like you've been north of eight too much, you know? And I think you gotta get up there to the Eagle River side of life, you know? And- I agree. Yeah, and, cause you don't wanna just be

in the Lake Geneva area making your decisions about Wisconsin. Cause I mean, that's practically, you know. Chicago junior. Well, I definitely was not going to call it that, but you know, there is a big Chicago influence there. So, you know, to really get the purest sample size, that's like if you're trying to find walleyes in the Lake

and you just go up to the reeds and you, you scoop some water out and you, all you guys tadpoles and you're like, ah, there must not be any walleyes in here. You know, no, you were just in tadpole territory. No. And there are still some, you know, people in, uh, Jenny anyway, I'm, I'm over my heels here, but you know, what you're saying here, Charlie is maybe what he's talking about instead of you going, you know, owning up and saying, maybe we could get back to our roots more. You deflected and you kind of gaslighted him into thinking that he was wrong. So I just want to say that. And maybe you just read a self-help book or some shit. And maybe this is a good opportunity for you, Charlie, to go, Hey, let's get back

to what got us the drunkest state. Let's get back to the basics, the fundamentals. You know, you guys are getting, you guys are getting so fancy with all your cheeses and all of your championships that you won 50, 60 years ago. You're getting so fancy. Let's get back to the basic. Let's build a good football team. Let's drink heavily all the time. Let's, let's just eat cheese. We don't need all the fancy jalapeno versions. Let's just get back to fucking cheddar cheese. This is your advice mouse. Let's drink all the time. Well, I don't think that that's there's some other state licking their chops. You guys right now, they're like, they are primed and ready to topple the champ because you guys think that you, you, there's no way

you can lose. Listen, I don't know if you are a Bible guy, Charlie, but have you ever read the story about David and Goliath? Yeah, I've heard of it. Yeah. You got to watch out for the audio. You got to watch out for States like Michigan. They're coming for the throne or Minnesota or Minnesota to bring it all. I, Iowa. Yeah. And there's a sleeper just when everyone thought Goliath couldn't lose. Just when he thought that no one could be drunker than Goliath. Oh, David comes along and puts on a clinic, but 230 racks down down in an evening and still gets to walk home. I hope he's walking home. Maybe, you know, my biggest

comparison was maybe Minnesota and Wisconsin, but you're right. Maybe I was in the mix here. Yeah. I don't think they're at the level yet and they're in, you know, they're in, they're in the minor leagues possibly at this moment, but you never know. Right now that's some fighting words telling the people of Iowa. They're in the minor leagues. I would love to see what I want. Maybe, maybe, you know, wow, they're not even in the big league. You know what he means is they don't have one major league team in the entire state. I mean, how is that possible? How does, well, it's population, right? That's the reason yeah Yeah, more people need to start boinking in Iowa, and then they'll get themselves an NFL team well, I hear where you're coming from I

Don't agree, but it's a lot of good food for thought and I appreciate you bringing it up appreciate the call and You have some fun in Germany. What are you doing tonight? It's a night worse it up. Appreciate the call. And you have some fun in Germany. What are you doing tonight? Tonight we're just kind of hanging out tonight going to the beer garden. Probably gonna have a couple beers and a bratwurst and some chicken wings and then hike up a mountain to get back to where I'm staying. So we'll see how that goes. Good. Don't fall off. I'll try not to. All right. Well, thanks for calling.

And we appreciate you. Yeah, thanks, Jettle. Look out for deer. All right, you too. Stags too over there. I mean, I understand where he's coming from. I just feel like you got to have more evidence to bring that to the table. You know, that's all I'm just saying.

You could use this opportunity to stay sharp, Charlie. Yeah, sharp because where there's one, there's more. There's other people having that thought if he's having that thought. Yeah. And yeah, Minnesota's got a lot of cool spots. No doubt. No doubt. I'm not bragging. I'm definitely more humble about like the boundary waters. I know. Sure. And all that. Yeah. Nice up there.

It is. It's almost too nice. It's almost too nice. They let it they let it speak for themselves. It's almost like a little jury. They don't have to have fancy terms like the Malibu of the Midwest. You know, dude, that's to sell t-shirts. Like, like, I'll give you this. Wisconsin is tackier than Minnesota. Like have you been to the Wisconsin Dells? That's our thing. Yeah. You know, that is true. Yeah. That's always been our thing. Maybe that's the argument I should've

gone with. We're just tackier. Yeah. But tackiness sells is what you're saying. Yeah, that's always been our thing. Maybe that's the argument I should have gone with. We're just tackier. Yeah, but tackiness sells is what you're saying. Well, I mean, it's just part of our culture, you know, to be a little bit tacky. Like, yeah, Mel blew the Midwest. But how else would you know about your boy? I mean, put a Cabela's there. I knew Rogers Cabela's man.

It's great. My my who was it? My sister, she sent me a picture with her kid looking at a fish at Cabela's and she goes the free Midwest Zoo Cabela's. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, the nearest Cabela's to me are in Mitchell, South Dakota and Rogers. Those are the tell you know, you're Midwest, because if you know where the know how all of the closest Cabela's are to you. Yeah. Trying to think of the closest one to me, I'm trying to think of the town.

It's in Slinger, maybe Yeah, some like that. All right, should we take another caller? Let's do it Well miles it's warm outside which means people are out at the lake Firing up the pontoon. I've been doing that now find out I'm out on the boat, out on the pontoon, have you? Pantoon's the problem with pontoon is accidents can happen. You know, that is true. You can go out there and get a little too close to the propeller or try to do a backflip off the bimini or something, you know, crack a bone, scrape a knee, something like that. Get injured real bad, Miles like that. Get injured.

Real bad. Miles? Yes? What do I do? What do I do? Miles, you call Nikolay, all right? That's 1-855-NIKOLAY. You give him a call and you say,

hey, pontoon screwed the pooch. Summer's gone, but my bank account doesn't have to be. And he'll hook it up. He'll go after those insurance companies that are just trying to screw you over. So give Nikolai a call. Hi, Sandra. Is Sandra with an all damn it, Sandra. We got bad intel. All right.

That was on Jared. He told us Sandra. It's Sandra. Sandra, it's Charlie. And, it's me, Charlie, and this is Myles with the Bellied Up Podcast. How are you? It's Myles with a Y. Hey guys. Nice to chit chat with you, Sandra. You too, absolutely.

Thanks for calling. Oh yeah, what's going on today? Oh, today we're working on a bathroom remodel. Oh, new toilet, new bathtub. What are we putting in there? We're putting in a shower, new shower. We're tearing out a closet. Not to not sure what we're doing with the closet yet. We just tore out the closet. We might put some cabinets in there. Not sure yet, but you find any skeletons while you're in there? No skeletons, but actually it was kind of interesting when we took off the, the mirror above the sink, there was some like notes that they took the last time they must've done some work in there.

They, and they, they signed their names and everything who was living there. And just some notes about measurements in the bathroom. So that was kind of cool. Oh, that is pretty cool. Any, uh, confessions of a murder or anything like that? Nope. Didn't find any evidence of that. Well, keep looking, keep digging around. That's fun though. We'll see what we can find. Yeah. So what is, what, what do you, do you work for a remodeling company? It's a Monday morning and you're working on a remodel. What's going on? Well, we just, we actually have a contractor here working on it. We just, uh, for the, we did some of the tear out to kind of save them a little work. Um, so, but we actually have a contractor doing the heavy, heavy lifting.

Got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's what everything out there, just replacing everything. That's a way to do it. Yeah. You do, you do this stuff that, you know, when you go to resell the house, uh, it's not going to screw you over, you know this stuff that, you know, when you go to resell the house, it's not going to screw you over, you know? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's tough to screw out, tearing things out, you know, cause that's the whole point. But once you start putting things back up to quote unquote code, that's when things can get interesting. Well, yeah. Well, Sandra, I know you called in cause you're a, you would like

some free drinks at the bar and you're wondering why you don't get any. Is that correct? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Most bars I go to, you know, it's either a one to one or like every other one, you know, the bartender will buy you one. I mean, even, even there's a one bar we go to, you drink free on your birthday. And there's just this one bar in town by me. They won't buy you a single drink. They don't let their employees buy you a drink. If their employees buy you one, then it comes out of their paycheck. And you're lucky if you get a one free one on your birthday. And I could tell you this,

that's probably the only bar in town that's making money. Oh. Has it been there a while or is it a new bar? Is it a new bar? Is this new bar syndrome? Yeah. It's the newest one in town. Yeah.

Yeah, you can tell. I can tell with the animosity. What's the name of it town. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell. I can tell with the animosity. What's the name of it? Name it and shame it. It's actually a bowling alley. It's a bowling alley? Yeah.

What's it called? Cardinal Lanes? Cardinal Lanes. You're never going to get a free drink at Cardinal Lanes ever again. Not ever again. Ever. She hasn't gotten one. Yeah. It doesn't happen very often anyways. So like I said, maybe on your birthday, you know, are you wanting it too hard? You know, like it's kind of like in the dating scene, if you come on too strong, you scare them

away or you know, if you know, they don't, they don't give anyone a free drink. Why do you keep going there? I don't, I like, I don't any like very rarely do I for that reason. You know, their core business is bowling and so their core business is still alcohol. Yeah. Bowling is just a thing. Bowling is a thing you do anytime there's alcohol involved with an establishment that That is their core business All right, I'll take your word for that. I'll take your word for that Okay, this is all better when you're drunk. Yeah, that is true. That is what what what are the Instances where you think it should be standard practice for a bar to give a free drink? What are the instances? Plain and simple. You buy one or two, they buy you one.

Sandra, what the hell kind of a business do you think these places are? She's a two for one gal. You need to start going to college joints. A good business that is going to get people to come back to your bar. Okay. Okay. Yeah. You're, I mean, this is the, you're in straight dive bar territory is what we're talking about where you become friends with the guy behind the bar or just the bartender. And there's a reason that those bars do not fix up their bathroom. And it's not because the potential to do it wasn't there. It's that money got spent by another people beer.

It's like what Scarface said, you remember that? You don't dip into your own stash or you don't snort your own stash. What did he say, Miles? That's where that comes from. So this, it's just new age owners. They're not aware of the tradition. They're just trying to do this thing that all the kids are saying, turn a profit. Yeah. Who wants to do that?

You know, we got to get into the black, you know, so that we can get into the green. It's like, come on, we want to make a better life for ourselves. We want to be able to retire. So let me tell you, there's, there's one bar in town that he's in his mid fifties and he's retired in the next couple of years. He's he's got his bar up for sale right now. He's he's set. 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, 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, He takes some pretty nice vacations too. Oh yeah. Where is he? Well, okay. But socket his bar, his bar is one that for every two you get, they buy you one. Oh, it's sometimes it's one to one. Wow. So you know what? Yeah. So he's just laundering money. That could be the case too. Bar.

Does he take a lot of trips to the Cayman Islands? Jamaica mostly. Yeah. That's a stopping point. You know, he's not going to tell you the final destination. Yep. Yeah. Does he have a fleet of Cessnas? Not that I know of. You wouldn't you wouldn't know of them either. Is he in the waste management business as well?

No. OK. OK. All right. Well, hey, well, I think you're you're you're absolutely accurate that when you are drinking at a drug front, you should be able to get a one for one situation because they need your cash for reasons other than purchasing beer. I do have some empathy for the new business owner who, you know, isn't going to give you a beer because you bought beers. But I think you can just, you know, with the almighty dollar, I think you can put it where you think it needs to go. And maybe they'll get the lesson. Also, the old guy might just be marketing or framing stuff better, right? Like you're

maybe they don't at the new place, they're giving you 24 ounce beers. Yeah. You know, and they're charging you for it and they're not going to give you a free one at the other place. They're giving you 12 ounce beers and then giving you one for free for the same price. Oh yeah. You do the same amount of beer. Yeah. Do they have more, more expensive beers at the college? You go to the penny taps and the cups are all eight ounces. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of those deals. Is there some fun, funny business? No, it's just standard price for beer. Yeah. Well, there's a couple of them in, in town where I live where that, uh, they'll, they buy your free ones. There's one where you drink free all, all day on your birthday. Yeah. And he's, he's got a pretty good business too.

Yeah. I mean, once a year. Yeah. And they've been, yeah. Well, when you got that many patrons, I mean, and they're all drinking for free on their birthday. That's that. And you got some pretty heavy drinkers.

I mean, well, see, he's making money on all the people you bring to the bar with you. Cause it'd be pretty sad if you're drinking them all. You can drink on your birthday by yourself. It's usually what the, well, well sure. I mean, it can be done. She had dumped it for it. Well, what do you, what, what should the people be doing that? I mean, what you're saying that people should start boycotting these new establishments till they get free stuff or what, you know, what are we supposed to do about this? It's not that new. I mean, he's not that new. I mean, he's been in town a couple, two, three years, but I would say, uh, just, I mean, got to buy your patrons one once in a while.

I, you know, I, I don't disagree with you. I think you're starting to turn me on this. I agree. No, I think that's definitely a thing, but you know, yeah. Do you think there's a thing that you could do to like up your chances at a bar for getting a free drink? Um, I mean, there are things that might've been done when I was in my twenties. Sandra, Sandra, Sandra, what are you talking about? Do tell. I'm now I can't. You're a mom. That's fine. There's a lot of moms. Is the dad maybe a bartender at this bar? You talk about? No, no, no. Well do tell what was going on. Oh, you know, you gotta reveal something once in a while. Okay.

Lombardi dry action. You, you, you showed your pectoral muscles to a bartender for free drinks. Is that what you're telling me? I mean, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Wow. And you get thirsty. No, I get it. I've done the same thing. That would work for Charlie and I. Yeah. Yeah. For the right bartender probably give it a go. You know, or is it like, do we got to be showing some cheek instead? You know, it's some cheek or curd. Well, you're the one that brought this up. You don't get sheepish on us now. You know, it's interesting. It all depends on the bartender. I guess what they want, what their preferences,

cause it's either you're going to get a free drink or you're going to jail. So I think for, for guys, it's a little bit different cause you can get that, you know, people probably like in a funny, you know, she said that's the best way to get a free drink. Yeah. Have you tried that at that bar at the bar? You're saying you don't get free drinks. Have you tried that? No. Well, I don't, I don't get the vibe there to do that. They're got it. Okay. Is that how you got free drinks at the other bars? Well, back in the day, yeah. Back in the day, okay. So you have a long-standing relationship, a history with these bars built on self exposure. Some of them. Not all of them, no.

That's a great name for a bar. Self exposure. Yeah. Yeah. And then that's your whole gimmick. If you self expose, you get a free drink. Sandra, what do you do for a living? I

Work in maintenance at a factory. Okay. All right. So what do you do at the factory? I worked it I do building maintenance like janitorial work like And just fixing like janitorial work like and just fixing toilets changing batteries Perfect your maintenance. Yeah maintenance you work with your hands. I like it. So you fix two toilets your times up You're checking out, but your boss says hey, I know it's your fix to toy

Why don't you fix two more on the house? What would you say to them? If I Don't know I guess I've given my time off the clock before Okay, okay. I thought you're gonna say I'll do it for free beer, but no, I look, I think if you're my boss would probably give me free beer after work. Okay. All right. Well, I, you know, he doesn't, he doesn't find my paycheck. So yeah. Yeah. I got you.

How'd you get into the maintenance gig? I just, the position opened up and I applied for it. Is that your only job you've ever had? Nope. I was a CNA for about nine years and then I worked at the factory I'm at now. I started working in assembly and then I moved into the maintenance spot. You like it? I do. Yeah. That's great. CNA certified nursing assistant. Yeah. Why'd you get out of the CNA position? Um, because I had a young child and, um, people don't take a break from getting sick or getting old so I needed a job where I could have a more set schedule because my husband at the time he was working a lot of weekends and people don't take weekends from getting sick or getting old so I had to get a regular Monday through Friday

so that, cause I just felt like I couldn't expect somebody else to put their life on hold to, to watch my kid on a weekend. If my husband and I both had to work. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. So now you just leave your kid at home and go to the bar. No, he's, no, we go to the bar together now. He's old enough. He's old enough. He can go to the bar by himself. He's getting, he's getting free mountain dews at the bar. No, he's not even getting free beer at the bar because they, he was told no free drinks here because he tried at that bar. Well, how old is he? He's 21.

He's 21. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And he walked up to the bartender after he had, he bought two beers. He walked up to the bartender and he said, I'll take this one for free. And he was told no free beer drinks here. What the fuck are you talking about?

Everyone knows that the more you want free beer, the less free beer you got. Like imagine walk up to a bar and be like, I'll take two beers, one of them for free, please. Yeah. Is that what you're teaching them? That's what you're doing. A good bartender is going to buy you one every once in a while because then they'll get a better tip. Yeah. Every once in a while. Yeah. But not if you expect it. Not if you go up there and demand it like that.

Then they're going to be like, no, because, you know, people are drinking at the bar. You shouldn't have to ask. But you guys are. No. You just said that. You are. No, you just said that. You just said it, Sandra. You said because they don't do it. Hey, that's what's wrong with these kids these days.

They go to the bar and they just expect free beer. Sandra, we got people calling in saying that Minnesota is Wisconsin and harder than Wisconsin. And I think part of it is because of the attitude of the drinkers. And this is the kind of thing we got. We're the drunkest state in the United States. Our bartenders should be giving us free beer all the time. We're getting too much of an ego on us. I told you that, Charlie. You didn't believe me.

Like I'm telling you, we got toon down people are catching on. Okay, so We can't be asking for for free drinks or expecting it We got to go in there and you know earn it bad and I show a tee do something for them, you know, I Mean we can't just to be expecting it because once we expect it, then it's not fun for the bartender to give it. You know, goes with other things too. Yeah, it depends on the bartender. Yeah, it does.

A good bartender will give you a free one every once in a while. That's true. That's true. Just keep standing. See? All right. Well, that's a better question is where, well, that's a better question. Then where did all the good bartenders go? Not at that bar. There

are other bars. You know, it's funny is see, just, you just have such a grudge hold against this one bar. I love it. It's just cause they don't buy free drinks. That would be like a bar, not a charity. Also I'd be like going to the hardware store and like, they're not handing out free snacks, free snacks, snacks. Oh, you know, I buy a thing of peanuts and I don't get a second thing for peanuts free. It's bullshit. I'm not going to like how you're talking about the hardware store for buying snacks. That's what you got. Hey, Charlie, we'd find gives away popcorn. Yeah. That is true. Well, so to bars, they give away bars, give away every Bob corn. I, you know what? It sounds like she thinks you should be given one to one free tickets to your shows to Charlie.

You should be going, Hey, if your wife or husband buys a ticket, you get the second one free and I'll do that. And Sunder, you want to come see a show? Yeah, I do. All right. Wow. What, what are you saying? She has to do to get the free ticket, Charlie at this point, I'll show you my big toe. He is kind of a foot guy. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Where, where did you say you're living again? I live in just about 25 minutes south of Fond du Lac. Oh, okay. All right, we got some coming up in Door County. Is that too far or Whitewater?

Which one's closer? I would probably say it's about in the middle. I mean, in the middle. Yeah, okay. All right, well that helps. Mantuaq, that's probably closer. Yeah. Does that work? Yeah. All right. Well that helps man's walk. That's probably closer. Yeah. Does that work? Yeah. All right. First of all, do you want to go to a show? It doesn't, you know, I don't think she wants to go. Okay. All right. All right. I do. And I'm going to bring my

daughter because she, she met you Charlie. Where'd she meet me? When you, when you threw out the first pitch. Oh, no kidding. You signed her hat. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll give you a four tickets. How does that sound? That sounds awesome. Charlie, you are the best. All right. You betcha. Now I will have to say he's not giving out any free drinks at his shows. Yeah. I'm still want to come. Absolutely. Okay. Cause if you, if I hear that there's some lady out there showing her, her big toe trying to get drinks, I'm not going to be happy. Sandra. I promise this is a family show. Okay family show for free drinks. All right. It says it's

a family show. We don't need any big toes showing up. Oh no. All right. I'll behave myself. Sandra, we're going to talk. We're going to text you for your full name and then we'll put you go to will call and you get them all right okay that's awesome that's awesome thank you so much you betcha well thank you for calling in and yeah good luck getting this free drink at the bar that they don't want to give you any free drinks just keep demanding it I think over time it'll work out for you. Nah, it's all right. Yeah, probably better on the, go to the Bolero.

Maybe they'll give out free drink. Never know. You never do, Sandra. Well, good luck with the renovation, all right? Thank you so much. All right, we'll see you soon now. I'm with her, you know, he going to a bar, you kind of you don't expect it,

but you kind of expect that at some point you're going to get a wooden nickel thrown your way for a future free drink. Right. For sure. I think the other thing is, though, is it also takes a little bit of the thrill out if you're just completely expecting to get that many free drinks. Yeah, I was a little off beyond swither. And I guess I'm not thinking about the, um, sometimes you can forget every free drink you you get. You can forget that, you know, and you can be not appreciative of it at first and then

you get to the point of where you're expecting it. And then that's, it's not fun to give something a gift to someone expecting a gift, you know? That's why Santa Claus is so depressed. Does everyone expects it from him? Is Santa Claus depressed? That's how he got so fat. Yeah, I can concur on that. That'll happen to a guy. That'll happen.

We can probably take that, which is confusing, Charlie, because Santa is also known for being jolly. So that's just marketing by like by the L or what? Yeah. By big, by big claws. Yeah. Whether he's hammered dude is what he is. That's that's Rose Asia or whatever. What did they call it? Rose? What do they call it with the Rose? Rose Rosetta Rosetta. When you get red from during flush. I don't know. Yeah. Never heard that anyways. Well, do we got a collar? Do we got a voicemail? This is real quick. Okay. All right, Charlie. Who's the voicemail from one second here? Oh yeah. I got to find the name. It is from Brett Brett with one T or two T's like two T's. Okay. Double T it's really short.

Hey, ah, right here. Just kind of weed wrapping. You know, nope. Nevermind. No, I don't want to do this. I'm done. Don't call me. I've been there, man. He started the bed and then just immediately canceled. He said, forget about it. You could almost hear the weed wacker start. Well, cause he definitely planned it. You know, he's planned it. And I think he gave it one rip and then it just didn't go or he pressed a button and almost sound like an electric weed wacker. Can we listen to that one more time? Let's listen to what happened. Hey, ah, right here. Just kind of weed wrapping. Nope. Nevermind. No, I don't want to do this. I'm done. Don't call me. I don't want to do this. Don't call me. It definitely did work. It just didn't go and it gave up. Now I would love to know the bet he was going to do.

You know, if I had a weed whacker, I was like, hey, it's me. Just we like. Mm hmm. Thanks. Yeah. I don't know what they would you do with a weed whacker? I don't know. I think that's why it fell flat. Yes. He realized, we'd love to know how many people not even, they don't even get that point. They, they call the number and before they even get a chance to leave voicemail, they're like, no, I'm not doing this. Same my thing. Yeah. I don't know. It's weird. You know, it's weird.

Call in shows. You ever call into a call and show miles. No, I called in when I was a kid. I called into the fishing show, Tom Newbauer. He had a fishing show in Milwaukee and did you get through and me and my brother got through and we were downstairs talking to him about how we were catching bass minnows out in the river. And then my brother hit me and he said, we're not supposed to be in the river. Mom and dad might be listening. And then I changed my story live on air with Tom Newbauer. What was the news story?

The news story was I heard that my friend went down by the river and he was catching bass minnows. Anyway, he wanted to know if these were actually baby bass or a different species of fish because they had the little black line anyways. But yeah, what did Tom New Newberger say? Tom Newbauer, he said that those were I believe he said that those were likely bass, you know, which makes sense because nice river ecosystem gets a good small mouth in there. So, yeah, he said, good eye.

He told me you have a good eye. I said, well, it wasn't me. It was my friends that I know. Good eye to your friend. Yeah. So then I got my ass beat for going down by the river because my parents were listening to where they actually was. No, I'm just kidding. I mean, I've got my ass beat for going down by the river, but not that particular.

Anyways, well, good talk. I think you should start calling into more shows. Yeah. Should we should have a segment on this podcast where we call into Colin shows? That would be a good idea. That'd be a great idea because I'd love to call into a show. I've never done it. I've never had that thrill and I just want to feel also, you know, you got to put yourself in your, in your client's shoes, right? Like you got to be on the other end to truly appreciate what's going on. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Can I call into the Cripes cast at some point?

Yeah. When we're not on hiatus, I took a hiatus from the Cripes cast. And how did that feel? Great. Fucking awesome. Less work necessary. It's just too much. I'm doing too much, man. Yeah. Too much. Got to relax. She's just too much. I'm doing too much, man. Yeah, too much. You got to relax. She's got to relax and enjoy.

You know, that's what we were thinking on this part. Guys were like, God, Charlie just does way too much. Right. You know, we're like, God, he just works way too hard. He's always showing up early, putting in the extra work. OK, now I can tell that we have in his team, you know, help edit everything. And, you know, it's just, it's a lot of work for Charlie to just show up and turn the mic on and go home. Like you should talk about it, miles. I was enjoying my Friday and they're like, we need

questions for WGN. And I looked at the message as like, ah, miles will take care of it. Six hours later, any idea on the questions? I typed out the questions and apparently you couldn't be bothered because you were at the lake. So no, you know what I said? I go, Oh, Charlie's done that before. Just have him do it. I told them, I did it. It took me two seconds. It was a classic. Go ask your mom and then you go ask your mom and she goes, go ask your dad. Or the mom just doesn't doesn't. That basically was. And then I ended up caving. That's right. They didn't ask us anything about it anyway. So correct. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. All right. Well

Is it is that what do you think of the what do you think of the call-in show? Inception where we're live on the show calling into another show. Let's do it Is there a website that tells us like what shows have Collins, you know, I'd like to call into like Yeah, we could role play on it, too. Would that be good or should we just be ourselves? I don't know. Depends on the show. Let's see. Is there is there a call and show we could call in right now? Jared. All right.

Well, is that it, Charlie, for this episode? Oh, I'm Jared's. All right. That'll be it. We'll figure this out. OK, we'll figure this out. All right, folks, thanks for listening to Bellied Up Podcast. We appreciate you. Make sure you tip your bartender.

Love you guys. We'll see you in the next one. Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Oodaloo.