Bellied Up - Midwest Boyfriend Refuses To F****** Clean #156

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Charlie shares a funny story about his struggles with a parking garage. The first caller (6:45) calls in asking for tips on how to get her boyfriend to start cleaning the house and help with household chores instead of avoiding em. She’s also a dedicated Green Bay Packers shareholder. The next caller, (34:21) from Montreal, wants advice on how to help his redneck hunting buddy reduce his beer drinking. Finally, (54:27) we listen to a listener voicemail asking, “When should you throw away your underwear?”Leave us a Voicemail: 218-303-5095Get Tickets to Bellied Up Live in Chicago July 8th 👇https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1052206/2025-charlie-berens-podcast-chicago-zanies-chicago

Hey folks, welcome to the bellied up podcast. I'm here. My name is Charlie Barron's and this is my buddy miles. You bet you guy. And we're here over at Frank's lounge dressed in our best pretty kitty. I'm just enjoying life today. Miles. I'm taking the moment. It's good to be here with you. I'm glad that you are enjoying the moment because you were not enjoying the moment this morning. I wasn't. Um was Charlie. Now we're going to shoot a video at eight 30 AM. I got a phone call eight 38 from Charlie at age 40. And he just calls me and he goes, what did he say? Jake, uh, uh, hang up. Yeah.

He goes, I, he sounded very frantic and he's like, I got a little hang up at the parking garage most frustrating thing I've done. And he was breathing heavy when I, and so I thought he got into an accident. Like I thought that you like hit an old lady walking to her car or something. And I was like, Oh God, what happened? And he's like, this whole not having a wallet thing really sucks. Yeah. So as you can imagine Charlie, as we talked about on a previous podcast, forgot his wallet in Milwaukee. And what happened? My wallet in Milwaukee. That's actually a really good name for a country. So tell, tell

everyone what happened. All right. So listen, I planned to head, believe it or not, because initially I wasn't going to park in the parking structure because the parking on the street is free. But the woman at the Radisson, she said, you know, they're pretty tickety around here. They give tickets and they tow. And I said, well, it's $7 to park here. I think I'm going to roll the dice. She said, I wouldn't.

So she sold me on it. She did. I moved my car to the parking structure. And I bought it. $7 a night to park there. Little spendy but I splurged thinking, you know, I don't want to be late because my car is getting towed. That's happened before. Most recently in Austin, Texas, because I wanted barbecue right before my flight. Missed the flight. Car got, cold. But in my defense, the signs that said no parking

anytime were burnt by the sun, and you couldn't see him unless you were up close reading on like a foot away. I think it was a play on behalf of the tow truck drivers to get more money. And I wrote a really long letter to the city of Austin to discuss this issue. Regardless, here I am trying to not redo my own mistakes, trying to learn from my mistakes.

And I says, are I parking your structure? Well, as I get out to the structure, I bring with me the coupon that she said would get me out. So I'm sitting there trying to plug the coupon in. It says I owe $8. By the way, you only saved the dollar prepaying for it. So truthfully, I should have only got one night rolled the dice on the second.

Regardless, I'm calling. You know the little thing that you call? I say hello, I was given a validation. I was validated by the hotel and I can't get out. And they said, okay, well sir, we do not work with the hotel. And I says, not my problem, you know? And-

Well, you better start. Right, so then I was like, oh geez, well I can't go anywhere, you got a car. There's a car behind me now. There's nowhere for me to go. And so then I get put on hold. And bad hold music. And so then it gets disconnected.

I go, geez Louise, car's honking at me. I'm like, aw. So I get out of the car. Now I parked too close to the little thingy my Bob, cause I got up nice and close to put my ticket, but too, not enough distance to open up my car. So I put it in the park and I try to put my reverse lights on now because they know I want to back out. Well this car behind me is not having it and they're honking louder now as I'm trying to open up the door against the thing. So I'm like, fine. I go over the front council.

This is a sedan, by the way. Not a very good one. It's a wicked shade of blue, so you can spot me anywhere. I go to open up the car. Well, now it's locked. And I unlock it from across the way, and it's not doing it because of child safety things or something.

So now I gotta get back into the driver's seat, unlock it. And then I realized I could have just pulled the thing up. Another story altogether. So I'm out. I go explain to the car behind me what's going on. I says, I've been screwed here. I'm as mad as you, in fact, probably madder. They said, why don't you just use your credit card? I says, I'm not just trying to save a dollar here. I don't have a credit card.

And I tried to use my phone and it wouldn't do the phone thing. What a useless piece of shit that is. So then I says, can I borrow your credit card? And they looked at me funny. I said, maybe if you just back up. Well, backing up is a whole situation. It's not just a quick backup turn around.

No, you gotta back up at least a quarter of a block through a turn and if someone's coming around the corner, it can be a dangerous situation. Well, at this point we finally get it all backed up and I'm back in the parking spot, which point I call miles. I tell them the predicament, go upstairs, get a new parking pass, new validation. Um, I leave and here we are. And the funny thing is, is you called me at eight 40. There's no way it took longer in 10 minutes from you pulling up to there, having

all this happen then parking again. Yeah. I threw a few extra beats in there just so you would kind of know, think that more time, not a chance. We, you were supposed to be there at eight 30 and you were leaving the parking structure at 830 so 832 actually So anyways, it's nice to be here miles Honestly, I was relieved because when you first called me in a frantic you it sounded like you ran over someone Let that be a lesson to you guys. Let that be a lesson, okay?

Start people thinking you killed a woman and then they'll forgive you being late, okay? Like, wow, at least we can still shoot this sketch today. I think we shot a fun sketch though, I'm happy about it. Yeah, I am too. Should we do some collars, Charlie? Let's do it, Miles. How are ya? Well, I'm doing good. How are you? Becky? I'm great. I'm so excited to talk to you guys.

Where are you? Where are you? Bellied up at we're bellied up at Frank's Lounge in Fargo, North Dakota. I'm here with miles. Hi, miles. How are you? Fabulous. I hear that you are trying to get your husband to clean more. What's going on with that? He drives me insane. He always finds little ways to create these other projects that need to happen right now. I get it. I get it. You get, you get fixed on something. It's gotta happen. I mean, cannot wait. You know, it's, it's like a little, it's gotta happen. I mean, cannot wait, you know? It's like a little, it's like when your glue bottle overflows

and it starts drying on the top of the glue bottle, you gotta pick that off right away. Life cannot continue until it's clean. Well, you know what? I'm looking out the window at him right now and he's weeding between the garden beds. And he's putting down that fabric stuff. Yeah. But he's just staring

at it. It's like, yeah, I know. I know you're thinking really hard, but fucking get some work done. And what do you think he should be doing right now? Or is he should just be working? Just moving faster. Well, what are you doing? Why don't you go out and help them? Well, that's what that was part of the message. So I just had surgery two weeks ago and I'm left handed and it was on my left arm.

Yeah, what happened? Uh, well, it's a long story. Basically, uh, it was actually in November, we were unloading a truck full of fresh cut greens and it was something like 8,000 pounds of cut greens, but the bales aren't individually weighed. It's weighed by the gross, you know, tonnage or whatever weight. And, uh, so the bail could have been 10 pounds. It could have been 50 pounds. And there was a strong guy in the back of the semi throwing to me and I was just

throwing them everywhere. And four days went by and my whole entire body was sore. And on the fifth day I couldn't lift up my coffee cup in the morning. Oh no. Yeah. So I thought I was a tough guy and I tried to just, you know, work through it, physical therapy and all that. And finally the doctor's like, well, you know, you've plateaued, you're not getting better. You need the surgery. So, so you tore something. The tendons came off the bone. Ooh, dang. Wow. Well, you know, that's the, you are just a bad ass Midwest gal over here, you know, working through the pain,

do a little ibuprofen, they'll stitch it up you think in your head and then before you know it. You know, you and my dad would get along great. He did. Oh, freaking appearance. It's my mom's birthday, can I shout out my mom? Yeah. Absolutely.

Happy birthday, Helen Klein 73. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Helen Klein. Happy birthday to you. Real good. Oh, you guys are so sweet. She's going to be so thrilled. That's awesome. All right. Update on the husband. Has he moved yet? All right. Let's look. He's pacing. He's circling like a lion. Okay. So he was formulating a plan. Now he's mentally mapping the plan. And yes, Oh, he's putting something in the ground now, but it's more like, yeah, still mental mapping. So this is his M.O. He moves slow and, uh,

pretends to do work even though he's not. Well, I mean, he gets shit done eventually, but it's like, like half his clothes are still in the front hall closet cause he hasn't finished the closet. You know what I mean? Like, Like, dude, that was like two years ago. Like... This is torture for you because you cannot do anything. And since you can't be distracted by doing work yourself, you're forced to just see what he's not doing. Yeah.

Yes, absolutely. This is going to be real trouble for your marriage the longer this goes on. Well, we're not actually married. OK. Might as well be. Well, I mean, that adds up. The guy takes forever on everything. Of course, he hasn't proposed.

Are you still mapping out where to put the knee down? He's now. But is he at least in the circling phase? Is he circling the jewelry store at least now? Oh, I get jewelry, just not that specific ring. Do you want a ring or are you guys mutual? Like, hey, we don't need to get married. I mean, I would like it. Every girl wants to get married. And well, really, I just want the honeymoon, I guess. But just take me on vacation. So is that what a big party and take me on vacation? Is that what this is really about? You're upset about his pace

on the chores, but it's really, really the big pop in the question you're looking for. No, definitely not. It's all about the short. Nice. You know, he's got a keeper. I'm not sure what he's thinking here. Have you tried different tactics to get his ass in gear? Well, that's why I called you guys. Cause my tactics don't work currently. What are you currently using? Sometimes I'll make fun of him. That's kind of how our relationship is. We got no problems with that, but like, you know, Hey Sally, why don't you get got no problems with that, but like, you know, Hey Sally, why don't you get out there and finish that? You know, that kind of thing.

Oh, that doesn't seem to work. And then what does he say in response? Oh, he usually have a little quip right back at me, you know, but, uh, have you tried bribing with always? It's always the thing. It's always just got to do something else. Oh, but I got to do this. I got to do that. His favorite thing is to cut the grass. I mean, in his defense, the grass does keep growing. So you got to stay on top of it. Well, I get that. I get that. What's up with the, your, your decks decks guys the zero turn or whatever I'm sure he'd love one of those zero turn mower zero turns yeah yeah that's what she said oh no miles miles is a battery broke on his zero turn currently are in a predicament with the zero turn got to get a new battery. Maybe you dangle a little zero turnover as the reward

if he gets your honeydew list done here. I'm guessing those are pretty expensive. Yeah, Miles, you got a second one somewhere, right? You really wanna ship that thing? Well. Charlie's gonna mail me your zero turn now? Put a stamp on it. Charlie is always pawning off all of my stuff and money.

Yeah, that's my specialty. You could another tactic you could try is the Midwest dad approach. So, Charlie, I want you I'm going to be you. OK, I'm dragging my feet in the garden and I want you to be your dad. Oh, OK. OK, I'm just gonna stand here. Hey, what the hell are you doing over there? We got work to do over here. I'm doing the garden.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. You've been doing it for a long time. Quit your dilly-dallying. I'm putting five minutes on the clock. Finish it, all right? I can't finish this. By the time I walk around this corner, if that's not finished, see the back of this hand?

Yeah, you wanna see it up close? Have you tried beating them or giving them beer you know I usually oh that's a good idea yeah you want to hear something funny Charlie I'm wearing the fleet farm dad hat right now are you nice thank you you should try the dad approach right now you should go poke your head out the wind, the door. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Give them a little Midwest dad. Tell them to unhook the plow, you know, get, get his ass in gear. Yeah. You guys want me to? Yeah. Let's do it. Okay. Hold on. I'm walking. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Oh wait, hold on. I'll put you on speaker. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Do that.

Yep. Hi. Hi there. What you're doing there, but you need to move that a little faster there. He said, he said, whipper into shape. You guys have a great relationship. We do. The thing you were missing is you didn't warn them about the backhand. That would have maybe ripped them into shit. Cause otherwise it's just an empty threat. Right. Right. Yeah. You gotta let them know that there's some, no, I didn't offer them the beer though. I forgot to offer them the beer. Yep. It's that's called the honey and the stick approach right there, or the carrot and the stick. Good cow, bad cow.

Oh yeah, with the dangling the carrot. Yep, yep, carrot and the stick. That's a good one. Yeah. In that analogy, is the carrot dangling from the stick? Yeah. Oh, okay. You dangle it.

Because you hold the stick over in front of the animal and then they chase the carrot that they can never get it. That's what the sticks for. I thought the stick was for beating. Now I know. Softly and carry a big carrot. Yeah, yeah. That's a Woodrow Wilson quote. Well, so what other projects do we got hanging around, hanging around the house? You got a list? Do you have a list written down? Oh God, I have a list. I have a list. Read it off. Put away the laundry, sweep and mop and vacuum, water the plants. And what was the other thing?

Oh, there was one more thing. He didn't do any of it. Oh, make the bed. Some of that you can do with one hand, can't thing? Oh, there was one more thing. He didn't do any of it. Oh, make the bed. Some of that you can do with one hand, can't you? Yeah, yeah. Water the garden? I mean, geez, you are milking this arm. You can't make the bed with one hand. Oh, really?

Really, Miles? You're gonna put on a fitted sheet with one arm? Yeah. That's funny. That's it. You can't even do that with two arms. Right? Hey guys, guess what happened today? Did you guys see what happened?

New Pope. He's a fib. He's a fib. The Pope's a... I hope he's not a Bears fan. I hope so too. Otherwise we're in trouble. I'm a fib, but. I hope so too. Otherwise we're in trouble. I'm a fib, but the old man isn't, which makes it even worse that he doesn't get the shit done.

Where are you guys living? Bensonville, right outside of O'Hare Airport. Oh sure, nice. Yeah, so if you guys ever need me to pick you up, I gotcha. I appreciate that. Alright. Midwest Hospitality.

I mean, I don't know if you can with your arm. You can't do any fucking thing else. Can you drive a car even? Geez. I am allowed to drive. I'm sorry. No wonder. That's a good idea. Oh, what was that? What was that? Nothing. Nothing. Well, like even when I had to still wear the sling, they told me I could drive. I just wouldn't cause I was going to fall out and face plant. But like, no, I will drive now, but just like only if I have to, you know, it's still, yeah, it's not all the way back. So yeah. What's your story?

What are you saying? You were throwing some bales around. What do you do for work? She's obviously a lawyer, Miles. Nice. Yeah, obviously. He's a golfer. Oh, he used to.

He used to what? Miles would like that, right? Miles likes golf. I do like golf. Oh, I was trying to do a Big Lebowski quote. Oh, that's my favorite movie. Yeah. Oh my God, Miles, I have to ask you, is your favorite show of all time, The Office? Probably, yeah, TV show wise, yeah.

And my favorite. What are some of your other faves? Because I've heard you quote golf, obviously, probably up. Yeah. TV show wise. Yeah. And my favorite, what are your, some of your other faves? Cause I've, I've heard you quote off obviously the office. I've heard you do friends. I caught a couple of friends quotes. Yeah. I thought one time I caught a letter Kenny quote, but I wasn't sure. Yeah. I also lately have been a righteous gemstones guy. It's a good show. That's a good one too. That's a good one. I just, I haven't finished this season, but there are some episodes this season where I was dying laughing and that doesn't happen a lot in today's world. I feel like comedy shows are, good comedy shows, tough to come by. Tough to find.

Comedy is my favorite genre. So what do you do for work? Oh yeah. So no, I work at a garden center. It's called Flat Hill Nursery. We sell everything from houseplants, trees and shrubs. And I'm the perennial director there. The perennial director.

Yeah. So all the pretty flowers. That's my department. That's a great specific for a for like a sketch at some point. What I am the perennial director. I don't know why that was so funny. Just such a serious title for flowers. I don't know. Flowers is serious business, Miles.

My wife. Well, yeah, Miles, because if we don't have the bees, then we're all screwed. Thank you. Thank you. You got a bee house or is that on the list too? The funny part about that is I'm terrified of bugs. People are always like, how do you do this? And I just say like when they come by me, I just run the other direction. Like, I don't know. There's something. Just say like when they come by me, I just run the other direction like you know, you're something What no, you're not a bug gallon, but you're a flower gal. Yeah, you only get one with the other I

Know well, that's the problem. See I like the bees. They just don't have to get that close to me. Yeah From afar, yeah, yeah definitely. They can do their business. Well, good. Well, yeah, we appreciate your service to all the yards out there around O'Hara airport that have those beautiful flowers in there. Thank you for getting those out there and distributing those. Yeah. And, and I could sense when he went out there to yell at your guy, you were, I felt like you didn't want to hurt his feelings. But now you're back in the house. He's not listening. Before we let you go, I'd like you to really let us know what you'd love to say to him while he's standing out there doing nothing. Just let, just let it out. Nobody needs to

see your ass crack. You lazy son of a bitch. There it is. The truth just sounds different. Well, maybe you should get him a belt or something for Father's Day coming up. Is he a dad? Yes, he is. Okay. There's your granddad.

Granddad, nice. Yeah. There you go. Oh, and then his granddad. Granddad, nice. Yeah. There you go. Oh, and then his grandmother is supposed to be here today. And that's why I'm all pissed that everything's not cleaned up, because I can't. And I know you guys think I'm whining, but no, there's stuff I can't do.

And his grandma's gonna come. Well. And I'm like, okay. I'll... She's from Bangor, Wisconsin, Charlie. Oh yeah, yeah. Bangor. Bangor, some would say. So, so his grandma, so she's got great, great grandchildren. Oh, their family's huge.

That is wild. That is wild. Well, I guess, you know, maybe there's not that much to do up there in Bangor, I'm not sure. Yeah. I mean, I guess. Why go to high school when you can have a baby by sophomore year? You know, you can go to the school of hard knocks. There you go. Well, look, I'll tell you this. If you want stuff to get done, you got one good hand.

Go pull a switch and make it happen. You know what? That's so possible. Yeah. Then she gets tendonitis in that elbow switch elbow instead of tennis elbow. Whoppers. It's a real thing. Well, hey, can I ask you guys a question? Yeah. Is George Kittle really that nice? Oh, he's a great dude. We, uh, we had him on the podcast and you know, we were figuring that he was going to be like, all right, good. Thanks guys. I got to get out of here. He sat with us for like an hour afterwards, just having some beers, chewing the child was just nice. And I don't, it's hard for me to say this cause he's such a, you know, thorn in the side of the Packers, but apparently he doesn't even think

about us. So that's what I want to say. But he's just too nice. Too nice of a guy. Oh yeah. I think that'll be nice. You know, we got, uh, yeah, he's like our Randy Moss. We'll see. I called that. I said, I said to my guy who's a bearskin, I said, I don't give a fuck what your team does, but I just want the Packers to draft a wide receiver in the first round of Bing, Bing. Boom. We got one. I was so thrilled.

I said the same thing and I was walking around the whole draft as a Packers owner. Like I had a job to do, you know? And yeah, miles doesn't like it when we talk Packers. Cause he, no, no, I don't care. It's a pyramid scheme, right? My, it really is. I just can't believe what that you guys are all drinking the cheese, you know, because we literally have our certificate hanging framed in our living room. You bought a how much was your stock? Two hundred fifty dollars. You bought a two hundred and fifty dollar piece of paper that you'll never be able to sell. No, I did not. It also came with a folder, Miles.

So and and you get to go to the meeting every year. Yeah, you get to go sweat your ass off at Lambeau in the dead of summer. Yeah, you get to go sweat your ass off at Lambo in the dead of summer. Swampy. You get a swassy group of owners. We went to the home opener game last year and it was so hot that they literally ran out of water. They ran out of water bottles. They started giving away cups of ice from the cocktail cart. So people wouldn't pass

out. That's not a shot at Lambo though. Lambo is beautiful. Yeah, we're out of water. Just have some beer at all. Right. Well, here's the ice from without, without the whiskey. Just take the ice. That's basically what I thought you were going to say. I thought you said he just started handing out beers like it was water. Oh no, no, no. Cause that's my Lambo experience. I got so drunk at Lambo because every corner I turned around, there was someone shoving a beer in my face. They got, I normally at stadiums, it takes 20 minutes to get one beer and it took 20 seconds for me to get one beer and it took 20 seconds for me to get a beer at Lambeau. I was very impressed. Miles got their shit together. Miles got so

drunk at Lambeau the next day he turned his whole life around. I wish I could say that's not true. I wish I could say that's not true, but it is. That's what he started his weight loss journey. No way. Yes. Yeah. Well, miles, you know what they say. You're looking like a snack.

Oh, okay. All right. He hasn't been back to Lambeau since he'll never go again. No, they're not going to recognize me when I walk in. They'll be like, last time you were here, you were twice the man you are now. Well, I'm half the man that I used to be. Yep. You know, I've never heard it stated like that, but yeah, it's accurate. It doesn't help Charlie that you, you also made me participate in some extracurriculars in terms of a snack as well.

I found there was a Delta eight thing that they were selling at the Stadium View bar. And back then, I didn't know Delta 8 was just jet fuel and a gummy bear. And I gave miles, I said, now be careful, take care of this miles, pop the whole thing in his mouth. The next day he was too sick to do bellied ups and between the alcohol and the booze and we were dancing, we were cutting up a rug and Yeah That was years ago. No, it wasn't you didn't say take half of this and then I took the whole thing He hands it to me and as it's already down my throat. He goes only take half I could help it. I was on Delta

I was on Delta. Okay. So let me ask you boys when you're not drinking the Bush light or the line, these are the typical what's your liquor barons, old fashioned brandy. Oh God. I should have known that. What about you? What about your mouth? I like drinking like a whiskey seven. You know, I like, I used to be a whiskey diet guy and then, I don't know. I like some little lighter now. Seven and seven. Yeah. Seven, seven, summer, Windsor seven. Oh, Windsor's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty good. So we'll go for you. Well, we appreciate you calling in today. Well, it's about that time down. Be careful when you slap your knee, use the right arm. Otherwise you're going to be, you know, face planted. You're going to regress on that rehab.

A little Midwest goodbye. You want to hear something? The doctor told me yesterday. It's kind of interesting. So he said that it's easier for left-handed people to become ambidextrous when they go through something like this, because right-handed people are dumber. Their left arm is typically 90% strong is their dominant hand. And for left-handed people, since there's so many right-headed things in the world, our arms are basically just as strong. So it's easier for left-hand people to come in ambidextrous.

So it's not that impressive. You beat me in that arm wrestle with your right arm miles. I fact check. Thank you. Thank you. I am a lefty. Yeah. And Charlie's just salty because I beat him in arm wrestling competition with my right hand, with my right arm. He cheated. Charlie said, ready? Go. He got to say when we started and he's saying that I cheated. You tickled my hand. He's never going to rematch you. I'm going to do the rematch. I'm going to, I'm going to slip them a Delta eight and get my rematch. Oh man. Yeah. Actually that's probably Midwest rehab is all right. I'm going to need you to do 15 welp knee slaps for me here. Yeah. That's what the old man always tells me. Yeah, you're fine.

Some dirt on it. Well, thanks for calling in. Hope your, uh, your arm gets better and, uh, you got whipped that old guy into shape. All right. I'm gonna go, I'm going to go pick a switch right now. Good for you. No, do it. Psychological warfare. Make him pick this. Oh yeah. I like that. All right. Have a good one. Oh man. Good gal. Great gal. You packer owners. I swear to God. What? We know what's up miles. You just wish you had a team. I want to say I did think it was maybe more money than 250 bucks. It's up to 300 now. Oh boy. Yeah. Just everything's getting inflated these days. I think it was two 50.

It might've been two 75. I got blind though. Whatever it was, I was buying it. Can anyone buy stock at any time or do they do different releases of stock? Differently really. You only have a certain window to get it. I've never bought, true story, I've never bought a coat. Never purchased a coat. Does they say give you one? No, just because there's always been coats around.

I don't know what you're talking about. I've never bought a big coat. I've never bought one. There's I've always used a coat or someone like since we I always like used a coat that was around or someone bought bought me it. Or then we started doing this thing and then people like would send us. People send us coats sometimes like we had the Duluth deal

for a little bit and they said a bunch of coats. So now I wear those. What does this have to do? We're talking about. I don't know. Some remind me of it. Am I missing? You brought up coats. Oh, no, this is what the connection was. I didn't complete the circle. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I've never bought a coat, but I spent three hundred dollars on two hundred fifty dollars on Packers. What are we talking about? Is coat some slang in the stock world? No, I didn't know. No, I'm just I'm just proud of that. You know, never got a coat, but I've spent 300 bucks on a piece of paper. Yeah. And people have been generous to me and given me codes. Well, should we take another one? Let's do it.

Fourth of July is coming, Charlie. You know what that means? It means fireworks miles. Put it in reverse. Terry, right? If you got a Terry in your family, it was lighting off fireworks. Can't get out of there. And maybe you have a firework accident. Yup. And before you know it, all you can say is it's the third of July. You guys can't see it out there, but I just made a joke about losing a finger. And it happens. It does. It happens. God forbid it does happen. You might be in a bad spot. You know, it's nothing's worse than trying to eat a bratwurst with three fingers. You know, it just, it just falls right out of your hands. And if you're in a scenario like that, you got to make sure to call Nicolay law.

Nicolay will go after those big firework manufacturers in China and will get you the money you deserve. One eight five five Nicolay. Oh, nice. Hello. Is this Anton? Yes, it's me. How are you doing? It's good. We are doing good. We are doing good.

So I'm here with Miles, the you betcha guy. Oh, nice. Are you guys hard at work or hardly working? We are or both. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm hard. Miles, is that work? So what's on your mind now that you know that? All right. I don't want to., I live in a city, right? I'm Montreal, but to go out, I got to get out of the city to go hunting. And I'll, so I managed to find a local redneck, a retired looking for a redneck. They got the spots, right? Yeah. They got the spots, but right now it's starting to be costing me a lot in

beer. And every time I get up, I leave hunting after we, I got to smash a couple of beers with them and everything, but I got to get back home and work the next day. And it's being rough and it's cost a lot of money to buy, supply all the beer for that old guy. So I was trying to figure out how do I keep going hunting with them without needing to bring in my case of 30 cores light every time. Wow. I mean, how much is beer in Canada these days? Hey, obviously not cheap enough. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I do get the best spots and everything, but my liver is now thinking it's a good deal. I see. So it's less about the money and more about that. You just can't keep up with them. And that's your first mistake. Don't ever try and keep up with a redneck on drinking a case of beer. No, yeah. He's a bit of a legend with that. Yeah. Yeah. Liver cancer at some point, but he just kept drinking. I don't like to drink water. He actually got liver cancer and the way that he killed his liver cancer is by drinking more. It was the holistic remedy.

So this guy currently has liver cancer or he beat it. He beat it. So now he's like, Oh, I'm back on the sauce boys. You had a couple year reprieve there. I said you had a couple of years where you where you could just go hunting and not get not ruin your liver. Yeah, well, I could like just buy non-alcoholic beer, but he would probably kick me out of the blind or something. So here's the question. He's taking you some good spots. Are you afraid that if you just show up at those spots that he's going to kick your ass like without him? Oh, well now no. But when I started hanging out with them,

you would tell me and he's like, Hey, if I see anybody there, I'm shooting and then I'm asking questions. So I don't want to see anybody. I'll put you up there without me or whatever, or tell anybody about it. So I got the warning in the beginning, but now like we're pretty cool. So sometimes he sends me out alone or with his buddies cause too old to go all the time. So how did you meet this redneck? We were fishing in the area and we saw a guy with like a painted Tamil boat and like with marijuana leaves used as the Tamil. And then we're like, if somebody's catching them, it's gotta be that guy. So I started talking to him and then it just started taking us fishing and then what a lot of beer on a picnic table outside. And, uh,

next thing you know, we're buddies. Well, maybe you can bring them some marijuana instead of yet floated. He grows his own cause he doesn't have enough money for retirement. What does he do for a job? She, well, she used to be like, he spent his 20s in prison and then he was working construction. So kind of outlined that tracks that tracks. So, okay. I don't know if you have a solution to this. It's just how bad do you want to go hunting with them? I mean, you enjoy hunting, right, Charlie? Yeah. Would you give it up? No, I would. I mean,

give him the beers and then you, uh, you don't have to go one for one for him. That's a one, two punch then. That's a one, two solution. That's killing two, two ducks with the same, with the same shell right there. They're just going to spend the day calling me a pussy. Well, you kind of are being one. So I don't spade a spade. What do you want? You're right. I should just man up.

Yeah, that's good advice. Just man up and stop being a pussy. What do you do for work? I'm in construction. Oh, well then what are you so worried about showing up to work hung over? I used to do that. I was fine. Yeah. But now I'm the boss. So it's kind of like everybody looks at my swollen face and like, yeah, rough night. Yeah. Rough night boss. You can afford a 30 rack. Yeah. And if you're the boss, you just sit in your truck all day anyways. So what's the, why do you need to look presentable? Oh, I don't know. I'm the guy. I'm the guy in the trenches. Cause I don't have employees

always subcontract the stuff I don't do. So the clients that I'll get those talking, how we want this or that. And if you smell like you had a liquor it up night before that's not a, he's like, he's like, I'm the boss. I'm like, how many employees do you have? He's like zero. I'm just an independent contractor. The boss of yourself. Yeah. Um, you speak French? Yes, sir. We were you miles as an interest in Monterey. You, Jay, my, you, Chris,

so we, so I mean, you want a croissant and weed. I think no, that means I want a croissant. Yes. So I mean you want a croissant and weed I think no that means I want a croissant. Yes That would be the first French word first French sentence I've ever heard you say oh Man a French language is crazy. You just don't pronounce any letters whatsoever. If you just go, you got it. I probably said a sentence right there. Oh, it's crazy. Especially French Canadians like Quebec. It's a complete different friends. You don't understand half of it because they're like basically mumbling it.

Especially if they're missing teeth, it's even worse. And then they whistle a little too with it because they don't have any teeth in the front. How do you say watch out for deer in French? And then whistle a little too with it because they don't have any teeth in front How do you say watch out for deer in French? so sure today But that's like that's in the Quebec accent has song shoulder a Trevor day has song show day Yeah, nice Set but 20 when they say bye. It's like a cool way like instead instead of watch out for a deer, they just say watch out for the machine.

Like your truck. So they say pass on my son. That's all my son. Yeah. It's like watch out for the year. But in French, Quebecer version, watch out for your truck. That's what you guys say when you say goodbye. That's what my friend Frank tells me every

time is like, Oh, I thought so much. And then I had out. That's so much. And is it because you hit it because you got in a car accident at some point or no, no, no, it's just like, just like you're able to say, have you ever hit a deer on the road? Charlie has. Oh, are you asking us? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, you say watch out for deer. They know you didn't hit one, right? Because you're going to never know what my heart. That's true. Yeah, you're right. You get ahead of it. That's smart. I like it. Or get ahead if you hit it. Yeah. But if it's Frank driving, he's probably going to hit it on purpose.

Like two birds of sunstone. Yeah. He's headed out to the stand. Just hit the deer with your thing. You can go back and drink your, your beer in your, in the warm weather, the AC. Yeah. Should we go to Montreal? I think you should. What do you guys want? Or you can you can meet Frank and we could go all like fishing or duck hunting. That'd be great. That would be awesome. We should do that. We should do bellied up some Montreal miles. Yeah, I got my passport. You need to get a new passport. Actually. Yeah. What the hell are you talking about? We can't, can't right now. I gotta go to Walgreens

first. Yeah. Charlie is traveling with an experience expired passport, by the way, just no wallet and an expired passport. Well, that sounds a lot like Charlie. He's a bit forgetful, right? Yeah. It's like everyone else would be shocking news, but you hear Charlie. You're like, I just thought that was your, how you normally do it. It's a Tuesday. Yeah. Well, we got to get up there to Montreal. What do you do for fun? I'll be waiting for you. It goes well. I drink beer with an old retired man. I go fishing and hunting. I like your style. Do you have a significant other? No. Okay. I mean, you're kind of living the dream right now. Just hanging out, drinking beer, smoking weed and fishing. Yeah. Cause whenever I go

out like with chicks, it's kind of hard to explain like, Oh, I hang out with like fucking 70 something. I don't know, but I'm 24. So it's like, yeah, what'd you do for fun? Hang out with this creepy old guy. He's a good guy though. He only spent a bunch of time in prison. Yeah. Great guy. So what did he do? How do you spend 10 years in prison? You know, that was the longest thing I tried to get it out. When I first met him, I kept asking, like, he kept telling us prison stories and stuff. I'm like, fuck Frank, what did you do? He's like, well, apparently you're not allowed to shoot at people. Like what the fuck do you mean? It's because someone went to his fishing spot after he showed them his permission. No, no,

they didn't dare do that. But he was robbing banks in the eighties. Really? No, it was the seventies because in the eighties he got out of prison by then and then started selling that. Three, just create a sketchy stuff and whatever. Does he have an Italian last name by any? No, no, no. But he does a lot of Italian friends. His name is Frank. I Frank's back in a day. Is he in witness protection at this point? No, he got caught. Right? Yeah. He was, he was not a witness. He was, oh yeah. He didn't rat. He didn't rat. But you know, if you get caught for some, they try to, they try to turn you in prison. Yeah. But he got caught for robbing banks. Like, I don't

know. So I mean, I feel like that was your last shot at Robin banks. And then after that banks were like, all right, we're sick of this shit. Let's start putting some cameras up. You know, let's make this little button underneath the counter. And it just made guys like Frank's job just become obsolete. You know, that was like in the bank robbing communities, like AI taking jobs. Yeah. Just took all the bank robbing jobs with all the technology. All the bank robbers are sending emails asking if you tell him to click this link and you can fulfill an invoice kingdom that they've been thrown out of and they need money to help their father

get back. Yeah. The Nigerian prince. Yeah. All the bank robbers moved to Nigeria. Oh man. That's, that's actually, you know, it's not cool to rob banks, but it is cool to know someone who used to rob banks.

Yeah. Give me any insight on how you would do it? Yeah. Well, he would just walk up with a counter was like, it was a pantyhose on his face and he was like, I dunno, he would cut his guns like to be shorter or whatever. And he was like, his escape route was going through like farm fields. I think he said like off roads. So like he thought outside the box with his run neck ways to get it succeed, go to succeed or whatever, but he didn't succeed at the end. Right? Yeah. How many years was he in the biz before he got pinched? Nine, nine. It's pretty good.

I would think, no, he was in the, he was inside nine years. So I don't know how long he was doing it before. I don't like to ask too many questions because I'm like, the less I know, the better. Right. Yeah. Yup. Yeah. I mean, there's no reason to hide a body of that body. Don't know. I mean, Frank is a gangster, dude. He's just, he just did it the old fashioned way. He didn't, he said, I'm not doing oceans 11 and that bullshit. I'm just going to walk into the bank. I'm a point of gun at someone and take the money and drives through a cornfield. That's like bank robbing at its purest. You got to hand it to the guy. Where, where did he get caught? America out west

kind of like an Alberta or somewhere. I don't know. He said it was out West because then they had to transfer. He, he did like a bunch of penitentiaries across the country, like going back to his home residence. He did like a brewery tour of penitentiaries, you know, basically party bus. And then they just went to all the different penitentiaries, Penitentiary crawlies. Oh, it sounds like a good guy. We got to get out to Montreal and go hunting with you guys. Oh, he's good. He met Jesus now. So he's in line and everything sounds like the likes the cores live and everything. Good, good. That's good for Frank. He should write a book. Oh, I keep telling

him I try. I started recording him now when he tells the stories because I'm like somebody needs to document this character. Yeah. Why don't you play as one of those recordings? Oh, I don't know. Like how to play it like well for you to hear on the phone. Right. But if you want to have, I made a tick tock of them, but half of it is in French. Basically. That's fine. Yeah. Send it over to us. Yeah. Just text us a link or whatever. Yeah. It's Frank L E buck. Cause he goes by buck. So it's B O C K not B U C K cause he's positive in French, but it's not even the right spelling in French, right? But I'll send it over so you guys can check it out. See what he looks like.

And then hopefully you don't fall off your bar stools. Frank Le Buck, is that what his handle is? Yeah. That's the most French way to say, yeah, I'm Frank Buck. He calls himself Le Buck, like the Buck. Yeah. Frank the Buck. And he has it tattooed on his arm

to his nickname. Really? God, he gave it to himself in prison. No, no. He gave himself the nickname because he liked hunting so much. He's like, I'm going to, I'm going to go by the buck now. Oh, I thought you meant in prison. He gave himself the tattoo. No, no. He just got the tattoo in prison, but he gave it a nickname. He got the the tattoo. No, no, he just got the tattoo in prison, but to give them the nickname, he got the nickname before. I think, I don't know. That's sweet. Um, if we like, is he well known? Like, is there any articles about him that I can read up on lay buck? No, I try to find some, but sold, uh, he's like for your storage. So old. They didn't even have newspapers back then. They did. But like, they don't seem to put them online or whatever.

Frank, that buck. Oh, you got a sick talk. He looks exactly how I thought he would look. Oh, she is. They should pray, you know, and I'll place a friendly dog on the menu is a hot dog with a big sausage with spaghetti sauce and cheese. Is he talking about eating a prairie dog with spaghetti sauce and cheese? Yeah, he is explaining what a prairie dog is out West.

It's like a type of hot dog with cheese on it or something. As he's holding a framed photo of a prairie dog is out west. It's like a type of hot dog with cheese on it or something as he's holding a framed photo of a prairie dog. How does this only have two likes? Three. The prairie dog, the prairie dog has a joint in his hands. Oh yeah. Oh my God. He does. Is he right there? How many followers? I'm going to give it to him as a gift because he likes marijuana a lot. He looks like he likes marijuana. I mean, he just he's got long gray hair with a big gray beard and tattoos. He looks exactly the way that I thought Frank would look. I'm starting to wonder if Jerry Garcia didn't die. Yeah, I see like sometimes in the woods when it's dark, you think it's a sasquatch.

So you got to put your safety back on clamped, come on. Oh yeah. He's having a little red beard. Just guessing that's in the, yeah. She got tired of the taste of beer.. She puts salt and Clemato inside. Oh, that's great. Well, we appreciate you calling in today, man. This was awesome. And sounds like a pretty good setup. You have to tell the buck. We says hi. Oh, I will do. And the man, I was talking about you guys. Sha Shah. It was great talking to you. And now, Tashao Mashin. Shah-show-mashin. Close enough?

Yeah, yeah, close enough. Lashow-mashin. That's it. All right. Well, Lashow-mashin and watch for deer, too. All right. Have a drink for me, boys. Will do.

Tell Frank we say hi. We get a little bit of everyone here miles He looks like a guy used to work with for my dad and his nickname was Flops Flops. Yeah, what a great name so lay buck and Flops why was it Flops because I Don't know. Yeah, the meaning was lost in translation many years ago I don't know. Yeah. The meaning was lost in translation many years ago. And the reasons they, the reasons are forgotten,

but the name lives on. He's the guy that told me that he could have went pro in BMX, but he just didn't have time. I remember you telling me about that guy. And then we found an old BMX bike in a dumpster next to the job site. We pulled it out and made him ride it and he actually wasn't terrible. He was pretty good at it.

Maybe it wasn't great. Right. Because he also spent the last 40 years just chain smoking and drinking every single night. So yeah, that'll that'll catch up with you. So unhealthy that his skin was like, I don't know if this will make sense. His skin was so tight that like he felt like if he just took like an end of a nail and just poked him, he would just explode.

Oh, that's how inflamed he was at all times. I just can't believe he's still alive. No wrinkles on the guy, though. So tight. Yeah. Well, we got a voicemail. Jared, well, let's do it. Joe has got a voicemail for us. Charles, here we go.

Yeah. Hey, this is Joe. I'm 23. I live in northern Minnesota. I got a hot topic because apparently it's a pretty big thing. I got this pair of underwear that I've had for like, God, 10 years and they are just, I mean, they're not stained. Let's just get that out of the way right now. They are clean, but they got a lot of holes and the waistband's fallen off.

And I guess it's just a guy thing. Or is there women out there too that like wear their underwear until they disappear or should I throw mine away? So I don't know what you guys think. Okay. I'm gonna hang up now. Do not throw those away. Don't throw them away I got a pair of those. I got a pair of those too. I got a couple pairs of those I mean underwear is a thing of like no one's gonna see it, you know I mean and if someone's gonna see it you're gonna go with you know You're gonna dress it up a bit and about the time you start getting holes in them They're like you finally got it broke in to be the shape that you want them. Yeah

That is form fitted to your body. It's like a nice pair of leather boots, you know broke a man Exactly. Yeah, that is a good question though like You know, broke him in exactly. Yeah. That is a good question though. Like do women do the same thing? They must, right? I don't know. There's gotta be some gals out there. I bet. Who's her Charlie? Why don't you, why don't you rifle through your, your girlfriend's underwear drawer next time you see her and report back. I'm just doing it. She's like, what are you doing? I was like, miles told me to the podcast. And she's like, what the fuck does miles want with my underwear? She DMS your wife. We have to talk. So, you know, I had a little incident today and I don't know if you're aware, but miles wants to know about my underwear.

And just like, not again, I'll do it when I get home. Charlie sounds like you're not going to do it. I'll do it. Just ask. And you want to text him. I will don't text. And okay, I should actually see if he got through with it. It was like the other day when he said he was going to buy that guy's $200 gift for his wedding. So glad that I didn't get called out on that bluff. Yeah. I was just getting into a good mood and start wasting money. You know, I know I can tell. Well, Charlie miles. Is that another good episode of the bellied up podcast? Get on over to Frank's lounge in Fargo if you can fold great merchandise and maybe you'll see the mascot like we did.

Yes. Yes. I'm going to have to come back to see that pink pinata. All right, guys. Thanks for tuning into the episode. Remember to tip your bartender. We'll see you in the next one. Bye bye now. Okay. Hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now.