Bellied Up - Midwest Basement Bar Essentials #48

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

In this episode, Myles welcomes his grandparents for a chat. The first caller shares about her husband's passion for lawn care, and wants advice on how to handle his obsession. Next, a listener needs recommendations on what he should do with his basement bar. Lastly, a caller from Illinois is moving to Milwaukee asks about the point at which he'll no longer be considered a "F.I.B." (F****** Illinois Bastard).

All right, Charlie. Welcome back to the Belly Up podcast presented by Fleet Farm. Miles, it's so good to be here. It's so good to be here. I'm so excited. We are back back in the saddle again. Yep. Doing the thing, doing the deal. Now Charlie. Hi, Miles. Yes. What do you, I mean, obviously, you talk a lot about Wisconsin. Yeah. It's like, oh, it's Mr. Wisconsin. And he just like, he's such a darling. He's the hottest guy in Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he does the state fairs. Show all that stuff. Yeah. Nobody says that. But what do you think of North Dakota? North Dakota. It's a fantastic place. Fantastic. The winds here are amazing.

Do you have some of the best winds? I mean, yeah. And you see it. In fact, I got such great gas mileage coming in here because I was just blown in. You know, it was like going with the jet street. Yeah, you can time it right. You can get about 70 miles to the gallon on the whatever hog you got. Yeah, I had to go with the win the whole way.

So I went over a few corn fields and, you know, but it was fine. I got here whatever it takes. Yeah. I really, I really do though, like Fargo quite a bit and Castleton. They're wonderful places. And also Western Minnesota underrated place. I would agree. Yeah.

You've been spending, you've spent some time in Lake's country. You've been to like Bemidji stuff like that, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful state parks they have there. Yeah. Wonderful.

I've actually never been. You've never been to Bemidji? Well, no, I've been to Bemidji, but I haven't been to the State Park. Oh, it's wonderful. It's not a State Park guy. I wish I was. Did I tell you on this podcast about my experience at the State Park in Bemidji? I don't know, Jared, did we?

I don't think so. Well, I was out looking at Hiking, which is walking, but on a path. hiking, which is, you know, walking, but on a path. And I found a bird, a bunch of birds, eagles, in fact. And I was like, these are some really nice eagles, not just bald eagles, golden eagles too. And also eagles with hair. And did you get that? That was a bald eagle joke because some of them are bald.

Yeah, I just, I start to glaze over when you start talking birds But I'm trying to stay with you. Okay. Well, this is not just a bird story miles. Okay, keep going. There's hairs There's birds with hair as I was walking on the path. I found a perch. Oh still warm. No way recently dropped by an eagle Covered in snow Still warm. So it ate, that's it. Did you eat it? No, I did think about fling it.

It was a nice size one. It was about about the size of a hand, a little bigger than a hand in fact, about eight inches. About eight inches. So I was thinking it was flammable, you know. Oh, the grandparents. That's your grandparents. That's awesome. Hello, you know, all the grandparents. Your grandparents, that's awesome.

Hello, I'm Charlie. I'm good. How are you doing? So nice to meet you. How'd you doing cards? Okay. You did okay. Are you guys proud of miles?

Who's he? I was wondering the same thing. You asked him a question. You better think about it first, right? Yeah, exactly. Are you guys... So, have you won any money or do you take all your money? We don't play for a lot. Core version stuff.

Okay, I will play. You don't need... I got two jars full. How much do you have in those jars? I had 200. You 200. Yeah. Now where do you take them? Because these days it's hard. So I turned them in one time and then I got 200 again. Yeah, it's been taken up to that. I tried taking back to my bank and they wouldn't do it. It's 93.

Yeah. They went out here. They went out here. They do it. They took the quarters out here at the bank. Don't they? Oh, sure. They have shorter quarters.

They just do something more counter and they call it out. So next time you got to bring your quarters here. I got to bring shorter quarters. She just So next time you gotta bring your quarters here bring my quarters. Do you ever play Sheeps head. Huh? You ever play sheep's head or youker? No, okay cribbage though Peanut call. Yeah, I'm a story by a friend of mine. You teach school here. He had heart-harmorship in the tropical casino. And he played two handed peanut on an airplane playing to Japan with Mario Pusa, the guy that wrote to Godfather. No kidding.

You got to be, this was must have been on a private plane, or were they on a regular plane? Regular plane? Really? He, you know, being in law, this is years ago, lost Vegas, the heavies were big in Las Vegas, but he got along real good with them

and he would fly to Switzerland and take their money over and deposit for them. Oh, you said so. Wow, this sounds illegal. You know, well, maybe not. Everything's going on in the last phase. I know.

That's true. I know. That's why now that that late ther is drying up, they're starting to find the bodies out there. Have you heard that? Yeah, that's pretty crazy. So you guys have any embarrassing stories of miles? Nothing embarrassing. Yeah, see, there we go. I mean the most embarrassing thing is I don't know if I've ever actually beat him at golf, but other than that. Oh yeah, is that true? Well, I used to

play pretty good. The older you get, the better you used to be. I heard you designed the golf course. I built that. You built it. Yeah, I just held a dirt work. I think we were firing up the golf. I built the greens, I built the greens and hauled most of the material for the greens in from my farm. Really?

Yeah. Actually, did you get free golf there for the rest of your life then? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a big deal around here. That's awesome. Nice. Nice. I used to play a lot at Maple River. Do I play? I have played. That's about it though. He just plays. He doesn't play that well. I played with Miles and Miles got upset with me for screwing around on the golf course a little bit. I wasn't responding to these guys. I wasn't responding. And I can see the disappointed looks in both of your faces as I said that.

I was just playing with the flag on the putter on the putting greets. You know, it's a flag. It's fun. just playing with the flag on the hotter on the putting green. You know, it's a flag. It's fun. But anyway, I can see you're very disappointed in me and I apologize for that. I'm working on them still. Yeah, I do a pretty good guy 93. You're 93. Yeah, he's 93. Oh, he smokes. And you're still kicking it in a pinnacle and playing golf. Are you a scratch golfer? Just, it's a little.

Ha ha ha ha. Oh man, I thought I'd, the best tip. You were. Yeah, a long time ago when I was winning turn, you know. I won the club tournament at Mapleton twice. Really? What's the first time that? I'll tell you what, there were a lot of good golfers

on the Maple River. There was always a good one. You know what I mean? That's right. Who was I? Oh yeah. It's on my score. Yeah.

It's on the board there when they get to the top. You know, I'm talking about ages. You know, they built up people's nearly. Oh yeah. Some nice culture. Some board there when they go to. You know, a ton of my age and stuff. People sneakily. Ralph, you're working good. I have to tell him it's just the near one. You know, you just shake your head and you go. You guys have been doing this for 60 some years, right?

This heart and anniversary next summer is 68. 68 years. 68 years. Do you have any advice for miles as he begins his marriage now? You know, I was good. I was thinking of that when I wrote on your card today. I'm a 100. That's what I was going to say. I just got advice that sounds like, you know, getting married and

father says, do you take this lady to be your wedded wife? I was wondering if he's going to say you betcha. Yeah, and you did it again. You just do a lot of headshaking. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, this is this is great. I'm excited for the wedding. Uh, uh, yeah, you'll be there too. I was gonna be good. Look at him. Look at all. Yeah. That's where I get it. Yeah. That's like super important. That's the weather is gonna be good. I hope so because he's now they there down to saying that maybe there'll be some blowing up snow a little bit, but uh, apparently not gonna snow. I don't think so. I don't.

I hope not. I've heard snow on your wedding days. Good luck. Oh, that's possible. I've heard that all these years. But tell this guy he's full of crap without telling him he's full of crap. That's exactly what was.

Well, when you live with someone for 68 years that's full of crap, she's getting good at figuring out what's off. Is that what you said? I can, you know, playing golf. Biggest deal is the people I got to meet. Yeah. Who's your favorite person you got to meet and put you met?

Yeah, one guy. He used to be on Monday night football, Dandy Don Meredith. Oh, and? Yeah, I know the name, yeah. And he told me about a friend of his who won the National Blind Tournament and shot 78. That was a joke. I wasn't a joke there was actually National Blind Tournament and shot 78

Was an adjunct there was actually a national blind tournament. They put him there and tell him You know just hit us. I suppose it must have said he had straight caddy The caddy lined up everywhere. Yeah, that's actually what you need. You wouldn't tell him if he'd give him the club, but he wouldn't tell him if he had to shoot over water or anything like that. I suppose that'd be kind of an advantage sometimes. Sure. You couldn't see what you were doing, so you just did what he told you to do.

And that's possible. So, wow, I gotta see that. I gotta see that. I mean, I'm sure they would have loved to see that as well. And I met William C Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford. What was he like? Nice this man, you're going to meet. Really?

Yeah. He told me, I got to know a little bit. And he was telling me the Mustang was his favorite car. But when I picked him up and got his clubs, he was driving a Porsche. Oh, that'd be like, that's a slammer. That's a trick in a Miller light, you know.

Oh man. Well, we're gonna finish up the pod and I'll come find you guys afterwards and hang out a little bit, that was that sound. So nice to meet you. I'll come talk to you after too. Come bug you. Awesome. Oh, that's great. Miles, you know, I don't even know what I was talking about before your your grandparents came here. I mean, it doesn't matter. It explains a little bit, right? That was that was so much fun.

Yeah, you can really see the first thing my grandpa said he was making fun of me. So I know. Yeah, yeah, now I know why you're such a ballbuster. Yeah, you know, runs in the blood. Oh boy, that's what we get some calls going. Yeah, that was the best intro we've had on the podcast. I think so. Hello, who is this? This is Jocelyn. Hey, Jocelyn, how you doing? Jocsy, can we call you Jocsy? Sure, I mean, I prefer Jocs, but Jocsy. Oh, Jocs. We'll go with Jocs. Sorry, sorry, sorry, Jocs. What's on your mind today? Not like the shark. Okay, sorry. Strike two for my eyes. I just realized why you were doing that, Miles.

You're so clever. Anyway, Josh, what's cooking? I need some advice. Yes. I recently moved in with my boyfriend. Well, now he I'm sorry. Congratulations. You moved in last break., well, now, if you I'm sorry, congratulations. You did last break.

Uh huh. Thank you. We moved in last, moved in together last spring. And I realized something, he's like completely obsessed with mowing the lawn. Oh, wow. I'm not really quite sure how I deal with that. I think that you are set for life.

It sounds like you found the right guy to me. Wow. Now, hang on. I'm a little bit more skeptical. I'm a little bit more skeptical, Justin. Because you live in a apartment, okay, Justin? It's true. But I am curious now.

What kind of obsessed with the lawn? Is what kind of lawn obsession does he have? Is he a guy who's putting the baseball lines on the lawn? Or is he just, he just spent all his money on a new lawn more every season? What are we talking about? Well, so we just got a pushmower and it's just like a little backyard who's just renting right now. Mm-hmm. But, so we're renting. We don't technically really like

own our lawn. And so I told them we are not going to water the lawn. And I have flowers outside. So he's like, oh, you know, a lot of flowers. And he thought I was upstairs doing something. And I look out the window and he's watering the lawn. And like, I don't think we need to be watering the lawn when no one sees it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I, whatever you're saying is like a different language to me because you

water the lawn. You don't water the lawn for everyone else. You water the lawn for you. See, you know, Jocelyn, I'm going to tell you, you are, you and me are on one team here. And then Miles and what's your fiance's name? The name is Mitchell. Miles and Mitchell, the M's are a little long obsessed. Now, I kind of take this viewpoint with lawn. If you look at lawns historically, it's basically we borrowed the idea of lawn, which was a status symbol from the bridge. God, here we go. We borrowed that status. Here we go. I'm sorry, mouse. do we not fight a revolutionary war to what to take their

lawns to have our own lawns? You know, I think I do not have to send over tax money back to cross the way, okay? I I'm more for I cut my lawn like a couple times a year like basically, I don't water it and that keeps it short, which I'm fine with. And so I cut it at not a couple times a year, like basically I don't water it and that keeps it short, which I'm fine with. And so I cut it, not a couple of times a year, I cut it probably twice a month, I'll be honest with you. I'm not exactly the best kept lawn on the block, okay? And I think that's fine, I think that's fine. I got other things to do with my time,

but you know, I don't have to spend the rest of my life with miles and his lawn care techniques. So you do have to spend the rest of your life with this. And how big of a problem is it going to be? Well, for me, it's the big, it's the water, like the watering is what makes it look good. You can do anything else. Whatever it's not going to look as good as if you just water it appropriately. You know what actually looks better than lawn is clover and you never have to water that stuff Just just throw a bunch of clover see down there. Let's go back to to jaws here. Uh-huh

Why don't you like it that he is cares about the lawn so much? What about it irritates you? What about it irritates you? Well, I like that it looks good. Okay, it looks great. It's very lush. It feels good. You know, when you walk on it, it just, I don't know, he just doesn't stop talking about it. What is what? What part of the country you in are you in the Midwest?

Yeah, Wisconsin. Okay. Wisconsin. So what is, does he Wisconsin. So what did he still talk about it in the winter? Yeah, a little bit. I think he's just like super, he's just like super excited for it to be summer again. And the winter is the snow blowing kind of like fixes

that problem because he can, you know, glow the snow with the snowblower. It's kind of like the winter garden. I think this guy just likes being a busy guy. He's a busy bee. He isn't busy. So, okay. Now I'm going to pose a question to you.

Would you rather have him be obsessed with his lawn, which is at home versus being obsessed with something that can't take place at home and he's constantly gone for that. What would you rather have? Okay. Okay. That's that one.

I was left. That's valid. Let's go. I got one for Mitch. I mean, Mitch got one. Let's go. Does he do anything? Like one time.

I. Oh no. Like to do it. Does he do any like one time? I. Oh no, like one time window and he. One time I looked out the window and he was measuring how tall the blade for. I'll tell the plates were. Yeah, from how hot the how low the deck is to the ground. Yeah, like he was measuring like how tall the

grass was to make sure that the duck was cutting at the right light. I think that that's a regular. Obviously, just started laughing. I'm sorry. That's how you're going to have to take this. You're going to have to view you Mitch as your source of

summer entertainment. Yeah, honestly, you started a TikTok page that was like, my husband is crazy about his lawn and just showed all of the ridiculous stuff he does. He actually would blow up. People would love watching that. You make it fun of him. The funny thing is that my parents were visiting one week ago and he wanted to move along. And like my dad is also, he likes to go along as well. Oh, okay. And he's literally watching everything that he was doing

off the window kind of like critiquing a little bit. Oh, oh. A long off. God, this keeps getting better and better. Okay, well, first of all, you just married your dad. You're marrying your dad. No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah.

I think you are. I think you did. That's exciting. I'm excited for your marriage together. You guys are going to, you know, you look, every couple needs something to fight about. And this is not a bad thing. No, you should be fighting about stuff like this, not the other stuff. Yeah.

What is your biggest passion? That's what I was going to say. What's he, if he were to call in and complain about something that you're obsessed with, what would it be? Um, I often hear about how many pillows I have on my couch. Okay. Oh, you're one of those. I mean, that is absolutely infuriating.

I just want to sit on the couch. Oh, you're one of those. I mean, that is absolutely infuriating. I just want to sit on the couch. I don't want to get sweaty from moving all the pillows off of the couch. And then I don't want to get sweaty again, putting all the pillows back on the couch when I'm done. All right, so that's Miles' position.

Joss, why do you feel the need to have so many pillows on the couch? What's behind that? I mean, to me, it just feels inviting. Like, you know, you'll walk into a room and the couch just looks so plush. It has all the pillows and also, I may be say like welcome or like a spring theme pillow or a winter theme pillow. And I'm like, oh, yeah, that looks very nice. I should sit down and and stay for a

while or enjoy enjoy a movie. Do you have any pillows with stripes on them? I do not have any strip pillow. What do you think a striped pillow would maybe be nice at some point? Maybe if it matches the decor. Well, you know what I give me. Hold on. Yeah, I know. I'm not. My grandpa is in a rough to the podcast. Give me an Ireland. No, you're lying.

Three. Hold on, John. That's a good one. I love that. Sorry. Sorry. It was the camera. Sorry, sorry. It was the camera. Sorry.

Just that was my grandpa. That was Miles's grandpa. He just came up to the bar to tell us that. Okay. What I was saying is, is don't you think that he also feels that when you walk up to the house, it's nice to be nice to have an inviting lawn that's plush that maybe makes you feel nice and cozy as you're walking up to the house. Maybe you guys are both after the same thing. Miles.

I guess the worst part is that it looks nice and that the neighbor tells them that it looks nice. So then he keeps doing it so it looks nice. So then he keep doing it so it looks nice. So here's the solution. You invite the neighbors inside the house so they can tell you how nice your pillows look. Cause I think what we have right here is a little bit of complement envy. You're not getting enough compliments on your pillows.

Okay. Are you both? It's not the same kind of compliments. I don't know. Oh, yeah. It's comparable. Oh, see, maybe you need to up your pillow game. Well, what about do they compliment your flowers? Not really because sometimes they don't get watered probably, especially if it's in my responsibility. Oh, it's a's in my responsibility.

Oh, wait, wait. Sometimes they don't make it. He's out there watering the lawn and ignoring your flowers. The ones on the front porch. The back ones, he usually was for me, but sometimes the front porch. Porch flowers get neglected. Well, that sounds like a you problem, not a Mitch problem. I'm just being honest. Oh boy. Well, um, look, you guys, what would Mitch do in a perfect world?

Just ignore the long. Uh, it's possible. It's possible. Well, then he also, I don't, I don't think you can ignore it. But I also want you to consider this. So this is maybe my last little tidbit here to back up my boy Mitch. That's me and Mitch are now buddies. Do you really want him taking that obsessive energy and focusing in that on you? I mean, that sounds like he's gonna strangle you with love and that can be overwhelming at

time and hard to breathe. I think it's maybe okay that there's some time spent away. What do you think? You know, that's true. I mean, he does, he does a good job on both sides, but I mean, yeah, it's just He just talks too much about his lawn and I just as a midwestern. I just don't know. All right. I got a solution for you All you got to do is give him a time limit Say per day you can talk about the lawn for 10 minutes a day

And you got to get it all out in that 10 minutes. You start a timer. And when that's done, he doesn't get to talk about it the rest of the day. What do you think of that? Is it a per day then? A per week thing. You can, it's up to you guys.

Where's the middle ground? Yeah, I think you guys can negotiate it out. Attention, I can see guys can negotiate it out. I can't. I could see that makes maybe working. Oh, yeah, I'm going to throw out one other piece of advice since you have that nice plush lawn and it's not going anywhere clearly. What if you found a passion for bocci ball? Because if you really love playing boc cheap ball, you would appreciate the lawn in a whole new way. You know, we do have a bat cheap set, but we haven't really played it in the lawn yet.

So maybe that is a good. But then again, all the people walking the lawn and stuff might end up ruining the lawn. So I think that the lawns just for looks. No. Okay. Excuse me, no that. Okay. We played Coo.

I'm going to play Coo. No. How do you spell it? K-U-B-B. Coo. Nope. Never played it. It's like with blocks.

Okay. It's big. And when there's gone scenario, that's big and lense. There was gone scenario. That's where we're at the college. But we played that in the backyard with our families. And it was fun. We both enjoyed the game, but a couple days later, he was not the long because it was madded down. I mean, that's a disaster scenario for Mitch. I mean, I, you just can't win. That's my thought process. You know, it's like, he works so hard and then you guys are just gonna

mat it down. His name's Mitch not Matt, you know, so frustrating. Who? Frustrating for my boy Mitch. Have you guys thought about getting along therapist? You know, we had something that you would recommend before we get married. I think so.

I think you're gonna want to get this figured out. Before you walk down the aisle, you're gonna want, there's entire therapy sessions. Well, we know a music therapist now. Yeah, we know a music therapist, there's a long therapist. How's that sound? Can you guys be our long therapist?

You know, you guys are both on the opposite side. The one-lumped lawn. When we go to the lake here. Charlie, you'll just start arguing. And then it'll be double whammy. And miles and I will need a therapist for this podcast. Yeah. To continue on.

What do you think the long represents for Mitch? I don't know. I think it's maybe calling or he grew up on a farm. It would just like give him his farm hobbies in the backyard. Yeah, I think the way it is. So when it concludes is you can take, have a good one. You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. And we're just gonna. Yeah, I think that's the problem.

I think that's it. I think you guys agree on a time you get to talk about the lawn X amount of time per day or week. And then outside of that, it's, uh, it's about you. I want to talk about me. I want to talk about, I want to talk about number one. I mean, you know, so I think we solved it there. What do you think? Yeah, I think that'll, that'll give us a good, uh, good start. 10 minutes. Yeah. 10 minutes only. Yeah. Set a timer. Talk about the lawn for for week. Maybe. Well, you can you can wean off to that. I think you have to start with maybe 10 minutes a day. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. That sounds okay. All right. Well, thanks for calling in. This is great. I, uh,

you know, it's good to know that honestly, I'd love to get a pick of that lawn It sounds like Mitch is doing God's work out there. You want to you're asking they're recently engaged and you're asking for one picks She's you know the man or something this guy. Sorry about that. Just send lawn picks I'm gonna text Mitch and say you up How's the lawn? How many inches is that long right now? We can send you a lawn pick if you'd like. Oh, yeah.

All right. All right. I didn't even take a look at that too. I'm just curious. All right. Jaws. Well, thanks for calling in. Yeah. No problem. Thanks for answering. Yeah. Have a good one.

The two of thanks guys. All right. But by you next time. See you next time. Oh, that was great. I mean, I think they're going to make it. I think that's all they're complaining about. I think that that's going to be okay. Yeah. I mean, like I said, he could be out of being obsessed with partying. You could go out. You could be have a bowling obsession.

He's never at home. Yeah, always at home. The longer I heard about, you know, his backstory being a farmer, the more I said, you know, even though I maybe I'm not a fan of my lawn, that's my own emotional issue of having a lawn business growing up. Yeah, that's true. And so I'm still, I have trauma from that.

Can I run your trauma? It's better to face it head on and just mow it over. We're gonna take another color. Whoa, hello! Coming in hot! Welcome to the Belly Up Podcast who we got. We're going to take another call. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Coming in on. Welcome to the Belly Up podcast who we got. All right.

Hey, boys. Once I'm listening to first time call, this is Grant from Detroit. Grant from Detroit. Belly on up to the bar with us. Tell us what's on your mind. All right. So I'm looking for some Midwest advice. So my wife and I bought our first house together in November.

And it's a mid-century ranch and as you know every mid-century ranch has a basement bar and the house is no exception. There's a corner of the basement it's about 15 by 12 feet and it has a bar already built in. Put a couple things in there and I want to call on a kitchen advice. What belongs in a proper midwestern basement bar? Oh it's a kitchen advice. What belongs in a proper Midwestern basement arm? Oh, it's a great question. Did you write all that down? I've been thinking about it for a little while. I've got to call in and ask. No, I was going to say you articulated that absolutely pristinely. And so it was like kudos to you. It was a sound like you like had that baby written out, but nice work to you.

First of all, owning a ranch is cool. Well, it's a ranch style house. Oh, right. Ranch style house. We are ranch style house. I'm not sure it's about 100 feet deep. So it's about as much land as I'm getting. Ranch style.

Sorry. Oh yeah. Rand style, sorry. Rand style. Um, yeah. How old is the house, do you know? It was built in 1962. So that bar in the corner was probably what they would have called the rec room back in the day. Wouldn't you say?

Oh, yeah. I get 100% is. So it was owned by the same guy from one of his built and built like 2017. Change stand a few times with the flippers. And we're now like the first full-time people to live here. Some of the original owner passed it on, but there's a building permit at the basement,

which is name on it, to finish out the basement. So the whole house is built, and they left the basement splang from the builders, and then the owners would come in and contract out finishing off the basement and it's listed on there as record so we have that built in 1963. Wow you got yourself a record. That's sweet. Exciting. All right, let's get to the must have smiles. You want to go first? You want me to throw a couple of? Well, I need to know is this been an updated or is this kind of more of a vintage vibe in the basement? So as far as I know, the house used to be a smokers house and I can't smell anything because I'm bottomy, but it was originally like that feeder paneling like that 60 stuff. Yeah, and they had to spray paint over it. There's a lot of smoke in the basement. So it's it's currently spray painted white.

The bar itself has three seats with like the orange laminate top. The floor is like a 9x9 like brown tile. Of course, I have this headboard from like a 70s water bed that I found on Facebook. It's got like these aided roses out it. So on each side, I keep my accessories and then in the middle, big rose covered mirror. I have all my liquor behind the bar. I took it for the wall. Dude, this is all the stuff we would have said. Yeah. Down to the bar stools, even. What did you say?

Was it an orange plethora or what? The countertop to the bar is like an orange-laminant material. It didn't come with any bar stools. My friend who lives down the street had some that came with her house when she bought them and they're like original 1950s like low back black leather. So I have a set of those. Oh my

God. I'm loving this. I don't think you need any really any advice on this. I'm gonna throw out a couple of things. I love I'd love to see an old school beer sign with the mirror. So like a mere beer sign, you know, like someone hunting or, you know, a Miller light has some great ones. I'm sure. I also have some pretty cool one. I'm sure Bush has some good ones. I'd also like to see it to canter of an animal. So, I'd like to see a squirrel decanter where the head pops off and it's brandy inside. I'd like to see some carpet on the bar.

So, the upright part of the bar, I'd like that to be carpet. If you got shagged, that's even better. Right, where your legs go. Yeah, can we get a bumper pool table in there? You know, I think there's some room. I have a table that came with it. So it's the bar and then on the other side of that area The round table with some chairs around it. I just kind of fill out the space. So it's like Little chockies that hang up on the wall fun stuff like that. I looked at putting a full tap machine But you can't they don't really have cheap ones with a hang up on the wall, fun stuff like that. I looked at putting a full tap machine,

but they don't really have cheap ones. They're always, they're the pretty expensive because as long as they're working in the plug-in, you can use them in a real bar and then make money on them. So I couldn't find a cheap full tap machine, but I really wanted to capture that midwestern vibe. You're like full tap machine. I'll need to put like a, you're like a cheap computer

and run a Kino screen in the corner. Those capture that dive bar vibe. So you said a keynote screen. You get me a beer? Thanks, Gramps. Thank you very much. Yeah, just like in the corners, what a little computer monitor and it just plays over a keynote over and over again.

I don't care if it's real or not, it's just kind of at the authenticity. So, um, okay. First of all, you can get the pull tab vibe if you just get a, like a, like a plexiglass box, or a few of them and just put them in the corner and put all the pull tabs in there and have someone be distributing them out.

That can give you the pull tab vibes without having to spend all the money on the machine. Okay, so you're suggesting I go out and do a little bit of pull tab investing and that'll be not only investment in myself and my finances, but in my basement bar as well. I forget that keeps on giving. Yeah, you got it.

And also, I'm going to need you to talk to someone who specializes in taking spray paint off a wall because some you're going to be sandblast those walls. But it's you're in the basement. So just be careful with it because you don't want to just, you know, get yourself all, you know, you got to get proper ventilation for it. But bottom line is we need those old school fake wooden panelings back in there. Those are just beauty and those are beautiful.

And you're just going to have those will really make the carpeting pop on the bar. What color carpeting are we thinking? I mean, we're looking like a shak carpet. I like orange. Yeah. I like a burnt orange. I think burnt towards anything that really and if you went to an interior designer today, they should almost be getting sick by the

by the colors that you choose. Lots of browns, lots of really deep dark greens, lots of really, you know, greenish yellows, oranges, all that stuff. Stuff that's really not in today. That's what you're looking for. Really that late 60s color palette, anything that completely rejects modern design in any way should be. Exactly. And in about 25 years, that's gonna be hot.

So, you know, you're really investing for the future when you go back to the past. So, actually, my grandpa actually had a rec room. Oh, did you? Hey, the friend of mine. Miles is grandpa is here. You used to have a rec room at the old house, right? You used to have a rec room at the old house?

Oh, yeah. What did your rec room look like? The guy that we have on the line. Ah, fence forage for walls. Fence forage. Yeah, like, you know, you're one by 12. Oh yeah. Just rough lumber. Sure.

Yeah. That's where the walls were. Yeah. It's on a carpet, did you have? Oh, I don't remember the carpet too much. I don't know if Vee Mad Card. Maybe it was Linoleum. Linoleum, little Linoleum. That's great. Were there any activities down there?

Was there like bumper pull or a card table? I had a small pool table, a minister type. Many pool table. Nice, six foot type. Many pool table. Nice, six footer. That's great. How about cards? What kind of, did you have poker chips there? Any cards?

Oh, yeah, I had, I still got them, I think. Unless I game, I got poker chips with RL and on them. Oh, nice. That's your initials. That's so some nice initialed chips. That's great. What about the decorations on the walls? Do you have any good decorations on the walls? Big mirror. Big mirror. Behind the bar. Any, yeah, anything else that this guy's got a bar

an old rec room in his basement, he's trying to make it look like the real deal. Anything else you'd recommend we have in the mansion. What does a good rec room always have? Well, you know, I used to coach a boy's basketball and we learned North Dakota in the grade schools. Four, fifty-six. And we had, we won a lot of games.

We just hardly ever got beat. And then after the game, you and the parents go over for pizza, hang out in the record room. There you go. And one of the kids dad, he would drink all my vodka. How many extra vodka in that record? By the way, how many

times did he drink all your vodka? Did he ever get invited back for once? I want to drink one time when he finished my vodka. And I said, the only thing I got now is gin. He says, it's the same color. Ha, ha, ha. So he's dying. Oh, the guy on the phone loves this advice, by the way.

He's adding it all to his list. All right, well, that's perfect. Well, thank you for that. From the guy who knows the rec rooms the best, you're getting the best advice here. Sweet. That's a real deal. Yeah, it is absolutely the real deal.

So, Miles, is there more of that? I think that we kind of nailed it all. What do you think? I think we did. Absolutely. Well, thanks for your help and make this guy's bar and I think that we can't nail that all what do you think I think we did absolutely well thanks for your your helping make this guy's bar as authentic as it can possibly be so that's

perfect. All right, man. Well, thanks for calling in hopefully got some good stuff. I mean, you're already on the right track. So just keep doing it. Your instincts are good. Just keep it rolling. All right. Thanks, boys. We'll just go and take care. All right. Appreciate you. Watch for dear.

Gramps got the the vodka and gin. Vindu Vindu. This is he loves this. We literally will just go somewhere. And we'll be like, go and sit down at a table for going out to dinner and we'll just be like, where's grandpa at? He's just walking over and he's like, talking to people and we get him back, corralling back to the table. And like, you know those people? No, I just had to tell him what a shot for golf today.

It's like, so that's, that's what my future looks like, by the way. I love it. Yeah, I can see it. I can see you doing that exact same thing. All right. Should we take one more? Yeah. Chippy. Tippy cow. Happy Cinco de Mayo. Charles. Happy Cinco tomorrow. Tomorrow. Happy Cinco de tomorrow. Cinco de tomorrow.

I'm going to be celebrating with a Midwest Margarita. Oh, what's that? What consists of that? Tippi Cow on ice. What? It was a Margarita, baby. Sounds just nothing like a Margarita, but okay. If you wanted to, Charles, you could call it a Mugorita.

I see what you did there, Miles. I'll leave you wanted though. Okay. Cause it's so smooth. Man. That's exciting. I mean, I can't wait for a single day tomorrow. Neither can I. Maybe I'll tip one back with you.

We're gonna have ourselves a mid-west you. Boogarita. Boogarita. All right. And folks, make sure you get yourselves over to the fleet farm for all of your Spring needs I'm talking rakes and saws and chain saws and you know those saws on a stick and Everything else saws all saws them all and get a broom to over at the fleet farm whatever you need They got you covered head on over to the fleet farm. Hello Welcome to the Krebscast where we this is the belly. This is the belly-up podcast. Hello. I've had a couple drinks. Who are we talking to?

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. Who is this? This is Mark. Mark. Mark from Illinois. Mark from Illinois. Silinoid. How's it going, Mark? It's going good. I just had a question. So I was born and raised to Illinois. Okay. And I'm moving up to Milwaukee soon. At a boy. And I want to know how long do I have to live in Milwaukee before I'm no longer a fib. Oh, this is a very interesting question, Mark. And it's philosophical in nature. The short answer, the short answer is once a fib, always a fib. But I'm gonna give you a chance and on this, on this Belly.com podcast, we could defib you. All right, yes. We could defib you. Here's how Charlie, this is Charlie Barron's guide to defibbing someone. Yes. One should toll road toll one should toll roads exist. Yes or no? No. No. toll suck. Okay. See they know it in Illinois.

Check one. Okay. What do you call a device used to drink water from? Do you call a device you use to drink water from? So down here we call it a water fountain. I know you guys call it a bubbler and I've debated so here's the other thing I lived in Madison for a year. Yeah, and then I'm moving back up there And so I from what I understand it it's only Wisconsin. They call it a bubbler I I can call it a bubbler too I I can call it a bubbler too But we call it a water fountain down mark what do you call it? The question is we are trying to de-fibure here and you are not playing ball right now Actually acting a lot more like a fifth then

Yeah, we got off that answer was very fibby. Yeah, so We got off that answer was very fibby. Yeah, so Well, I'm gonna ask you know what miles ask him again. Yeah second chance Yeah, second chance we give second chances. We do go ahead miles ask him What do you call a Water hang on you're gonna you're gonna screw it up. What do you call To fight I wasn't gonna I was gonna call it a water phone. And I was gonna call it a water. Hey, okay, I was gonna say water shooting receptacle.

I could watch your brain. And it was not working. We're not fires and all cylinders. Yeah, this is the last call of the day. So what do you call device you use to drink water from? A water fountain. Oh, for Fricks. I tried to defibb you know, I went out of my way. First of all, I don't even use a defibrillator and it just wouldn't work. So he's coding. There's no pulse on this guy.

Get the defibrillator. It's not working. All right, you pitch it. Pitch it. What's going on? If anything, I can't get the fib out of me. I'll accept that. But I'd like to redefine the fib.

Okay. And I think the fib only really applies to the people of Chicago and the Chicago suburbs. Mostly. I'm from Central Illinois and we don't associate with them. We call them thins for all I care. I don't like the Chicago and the Chicago suburbs, but here in Central Illinois, we associate a lot more with kind of the true Midwest and out that Chicago stuff.

Now, before we go any further, I think we have to define what a fib is for our audience who is in the dark. A fib, historically speaking, is known as an effing Illinois bastard. And if you're an adult, it's fucking Illinois bastard. And if you're an adult, it's fucking Illinois bastard. Okay. And you can also say a fish, effing Illinois shit head or a fish tab, effing Illinois shit head towing a boat. So these are all the variations of this situation. And now why people were like, why we ended up calling on this? What the thing is, Charlie is, it's not a F C B.

It's not a, also, first of all, man, we're not, we're gonna, when you said you're an adult and then you drop the F, I'm, turn around. We're in a bar, How old are those kids? I know those kids, they're my cousins kids. Trust me, my cousins does way worse than what I just did. So those kids probably didn't even notice.

I said the word, that's just part of their language. All right. So what I was saying is they're not FCBs. They're not fricking Chicago bastards. Yeah. They're Illinois bastards and he's trying to, he's trying to just contain all the fibness in Chicago. How do you feel about that Charlie? I mean, look, the problem is we are talking about the greater Chicago area. Okay, so G C A. We have to come up with an acronym that is more catchy than Fib. So G C A G C F F G F G G C the problem I'm coming up with right now. It's tough to get some of that rolls off the tongue.

Do you have an alternative? I'm on a big tab. A what? A figure. A F-I-C-A-B. The cab. The cab. The cab.

The Illinois Chicago area bastard. A Focab, a fricking Illinois Chicago area bastard, Focab. Well, those Focabs. Yeah, those freaking Focabs. I honestly don't hate it. I, it sounds kind of fun. It is. It ended growing me a little bit. The cob.

If you want to know where the stems from when I lived in Madison, I had a co-worker who was like, oh, you're a fib, you're a fib. And then like once they got to know me, since I'm not from Chicago or the Chicago area, so like, you're really not a fib. Can we call you a half fib then? You know, it's I'll accept the half like the half Nelson, the full Nelson. Can we go a half fib full fib? Why won't you call a half?

Why won't you call it a bubbler? I said I would. I just my I'll switch when I move to Wisconsin here in a month. No, no, no, such a fib thing to say. Yeah, you went full fib again. Yeah, this is the problem. You've been. Is every single time we think that you got it out of your system, you just relapse into full fib again. What, what's better? Six flags or Wisconsin Dells? Wisconsin Dells. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you got so much pick up on that. You got so much going for you. What do you call what it said? A device used to drink water. What do you call it?

A bubbler. Oh, yeah. He's catching on. He's catching on. Okay. Are you a Cubs fan? I'm a White Sucks fan. Oh, it's so much better than I know. I have no issues with the Brewers. And I have no issues with the White Sucks. I actually, when I was in Little League, my team was the White Sucks. I've been on White Sucks fan since I was a kid. You know, Brewers fan first obviously, but I do like the the white sucks. I like you. I do. No, I just, but I mean, it was, it was that initial animosity to saying bubbler it was almost like you weren't ready to be one of us. And it was almost like you were a little bit better.

And I'm curious where that came from. No, it had nothing to do with that. I'm moving there because I love Wisconsin. Wisconsin's way way better than Illinois. And I'll be moving there in April and then hopefully I'll be there permanently. So I don't want to be in Illinois. I want to get the vow being a fit.

Okay. Well, I think you're taking the right steps. You are taking the right steps. I could feel, I could feel his passion actually in that last thing he was saying. Yeah. You know, we you know on Dumb and Dumber they say, well, we don't usually pick up hitchhikers, but I'm gonna go with my instinct on this one. Yeah. You know, yeah. We usually don't defib people, but I think I'm gonna go with my instinct on this one. What we're gonna do is we're gonna do a de-fibbing ceremony with you.

So when you move to Milwaukee, okay, we're gonna meet over... Madison? No, he used to live in Madison. Now he's moving to Milwaukee. Why don't we meet at Wal-Skis? Why don't we meet at Wal-Skis? And what we'll do is we will pour a schlitz on you sort of a Milwaukee baptism of sorts. And we will we will take the fibroid out of you.

Yeah, they close down Walzke's. Close down Walzke's. We do this with only a few select number of fibs a year, the secret society type thing, and there will be a bubbler there, that bubbler will be flowing with linies. Here's what I'll have to do. So you're gonna do the baptism, you're gonna do that. Then afterwards, because it is a defibrilleration, you're gonna hand him a shot. You know, preferably of typical, right, right, right?

And you're gonna, instead of the cheers, it's just gonna be clear. And then you take the shot, and then that's the defibular, D, it's so hard to say. D, defibularator. D, defibularator. Defibrator. Defibration. Why? I said it right before. What's going on? What do you think of that? What do you think? Have we helped you out here or not? I think that that all sounds great. I think, you know, I'll get a deep bid and we'll be good.

I think, you know, I'll get a deep bid and we'll be good. All right. Hey, it feels good. Honestly, Charlie, I think that we're doing Lord's work. We are doing the Lord's work. Amen. I'll see you out. Wal skis. When you left kids in the world, yes, we do. Yes, yes, we do. This is starting to get like a little, little dark here.

Well, he's not meaning like we need, you know, we just need more people to convert. Okay, is what he's saying, you know, it's converged. I want to say it, but you guys sound a little bit like fib fascist. I don't know. It's kind of like, I didn't want to say it. I don't want to say the F word, but I did. We should have made the kids behind us close their ears when I said that.

But that for that F word. Well, thank you for calling in. I'm so excited. You're moving to Milwaukee where it's said to see you over there. Yeah, it would be great. Awesome. All right. Well, thanks for calling in. Yeah, can't wait to see you at your D-fibbing ceremony. Yeah, it's going to be great. Sounds good. Look forward to it. Thanks again. All right. Take care now. Ah, Miles. What another good episode of the belly to podcast. I mean, my favorite part of this, um, of this episode was talking to your grandparents. I mean, it was, it was electric on the mic. The one where right in the middle didn't, didn't say like, Hey, can I say something? Just walked up and just started talking.

Was electric. Oh God. And you know what? My first talk I was like, can we bring your grandparents on the podcast? You're like, I will have to see if they're feeling it. I didn't know if they'd actually want to be on camera, but oh my God, your your grandpa gravitated that camera like a, a moth to a, a light, you know, he loves it. I think, I think here's what I think I think you should do a podcast with your grandparents. I mean, it wouldn't necessarily be just it would be more like a just a monologue podcast. We just set the microphone up front of my

grandpa and just let him roll. You should do that. Honestly, you should do it for the for the you bet your one. You should interview them. And you should envy your grandma. You'll, you'll be forever thankful you did it. I think he's hilarious. Yeah. All right. Well, is that it? I think that's it, man.

There's another good episode. Cheers on the Tobi cow and, uh, guys, we'll see you in the next one. And what Charlie? Don't forget to tip your bartender and it's your turn today to pay the bills. Yes.