Bellied Up - Never Buy a Car From Family W/ Kolby Cooper #150

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

Country Singer Kolby Cooper comes onto the podcast to chat about his up bringing in Texas and his country career. (20:33) First caller is upset that the car he bought from his brother and it's a hunk of s***. (46:31) Then we listen to a voicemail caller that loves corn nuts. Leave us a Voicemail: 218-303-5095

We've unlocked a new Charlie Barron's animal noise went from. That's an eagle that just took ecstasy. That's an eagle that just carried a full grown deer around. Probably what happens more like, oh, Miles, here we are. Another episode of the belly up podcast. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. What? No, I'm just like, like just seeing you over there, like.

I don't know, you just look beautiful glistening in the sunlight. I just had a moment there. Excuse me. Yeah, Charlie. Yeah. What's up, Miles? We got our buddy Colby here with us as well. Hey, how are you all doing? What's going on? Cooper here, did I? I'm trying to I'm trying to wake up officially right now. This is like this is like, you know, like an hour before my my wake up time.

What's your normal bedtime wake up? Oh, it's pretty bad. It's pretty actually variables pretty, pretty often. But I like to I'm like a three a.m. And then like a 11 a.m. to noon or on the road at the house. I got I got three babies. So it's a little earlier. But yeah. How do you like going from one that that no alarm clock to five a.m. alarm clock?

Well, five a.m. is very aggressive. I still you know, I got, we got three babies and one of them is in the bed of this every night and me and her will sleep till like nine or 10. You're training her. I say I get up like an hour earlier. Yeah. I'm trying to be a rock star one day. So school's going to be fun for the next 15 years. But after that she's going to be locked in. That's great. That's great. Yeah. I spent some time in my life. How old are you? 25. Yeah. When I was 25, I'd stay up till 3 a.m. and wake up at noon. It's a good time. It's good till it catches up with you. And then

when it catches up with you, it's a real problem to change. I feel like it's slowly starting. You know, I got to wake up with a headache. I'm like, why do I feel feel bad? Oh, no. Oh, well, I slept for four hours. Yeah, it's starting. It is. It's not good bad hangovers though. So yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Halt. Stay here as long as you can. I'm going to freeze this moment. Billy Madison is not going to get any older. Yeah. Billy Madison, I'm not going to get any older. Yeah. So, guys, Colby is a country artist here in Nashville. We're at the Red Door Saloon here in Midtown. But you're from East Texas, correct?

Yeah, I am. I still live in East Texas. I just I fly up here whenever. Nice. Whenever I need to. You know, it's a quick little drive to Tyler. I take two flights, unfortunately. So I go to Tyler and then Tyler to Dallas, like a 30 minute flight. And then Dallas to here. Oh, wow. Easy enough. You know, yeah, that's you do.

You're doing the puddle jumper time. Does it make more sense to just drive to Dallas? Well, you know, here's here's the thing. I. Don't want to drive to Dallas. OK, OK. Much further. I live in Bradford, Texas, which is like a 30 person town. And Tyler Tyler is 45 minutes away and Dallas is an hour and 45. Okay, okay much further I live in Bradford, Texas, which is like a 30 person town and Tyler Tyler is 45 minutes away and Dallas is an hour and 45 and I normally have my wife drop me off or something. So like going

Bradford to Tyler's like no traffic. Nobody you don't see anybody You go to Dallas. You're gonna see some people you see some people and then your your wife you're putting that stress I'm to drive back alone. Yeah. Yeah. That's a no go. Yeah. You're doing it. Right. I'll take an extra hour to to get here. You know, I'll just out of the kindness of my heart or whatever. Yeah. I don't want to go to Dallas either. Yeah. No, hold on. We're not going to escape past the fact that you live in a town of 30 people. Oh, yeah. It's uh, I mean, it's about as many people. So it's you, your wife, you said you

have three kids. Yeah. Three kids. So you're like one six of the whole town. And the thing is is that we moved to Tyler four years ago and we just moved back home. So we moved to Tyler, we had four of us, we didn't have a boy yet. So we took four people from the 30s he was significantly bang. But then we brought one back. The town's taxes just plummeted and they couldn't fix any of the roads. It was horrible. You should see it now. It's a dump now. No, it's great. It's great. I'm the mayor. Are you? No, I'm fighting for it.

30 people. It's not very many votes. You got to get it. So but people are happy you're back. They're not mad. You're changing the sort of the culture of the town, adding the all these new people. It's not very many votes you got to get. So are, but people are happy you're back. They're not mad. You're changing the sort of the culture of the town, adding the, all these new people. Dude, I don't know. I stayed to myself. I talked to my family and they're all happy. Okay. I think when you like going to a town like that though, do you like, and you move your family there or whatever, do you have to change the sign that go population? Population like 32? No, I don't think it even there's not a population sign.

They're a little embarrassed about it. It's really Bradford. I've seen some pretty low population signs in my day. You should put up a population sign. Well, who's the guy that decides there should be a population sign there? I don't know. You know, that's a good question. I may go to the big city of Palestine next week and fight for it. You know, maybe try to get my name on the side. Oh, that'd be if

you look up Bradford, Texas and Wikipedia, I found this out the other day at the bottom. I was just I love history. I love like Texas history and any of this like it's like forgotten history, right? In this little town of 30 people. And my grandpa owns like this huge spot of land that is essentially like where all the Bradford history happened. So I was like nerding out and figuring out all this stuff that happened since like 1870 when it was a town. And then I get to the bottom of the Wikipedia says notable persons and Colby Cooper. I was like, Oh, look at this.

Shit. It says my name here. I didn't put this here. I don't know who did it, but you know, I'd be excited. You know, so that was, I made it moment. I went outside and Bradford looked around the country. I was like, thank God. Here we are. That's like when you Google your name for the first time and it doesn't say, did you mean, and then my name's not LeBron James Cooper. So what, what's, what's there to do for fun in the old, the old hometown? Well, we got got a we got a cafe and we got a feed store. So there you go. And feed stores. You can have five. There's not even a stoplight. It's just

there's stop signs. You know, wow. How many horses in that town? There's more than 30. That's for sure. Wow. I would say the livestock to human population is I don't know, like 100 to one, maybe a thousand to one. Who knows? It's pretty wicked out there. Is the book Animal Farm scary you a little bit? And they're in. I've never seen that one animal farm. The book. Yeah. Yeah. You got to read it. It's about like animals taking over. You got it.

See, I can picture it, dude. I think often about an eagle or a hawk coming and swooping up one of my dogs. We have a four pound dog. You got to keep an eye on him when he's outside, you know? Yeah, I saw a video of an eagle carrying a deer the other day. It's like, that's way bigger. Really? Pound dog. Yeah. No, you didn't. I swear, dude. He was like the size of my drummer.

But what about the eagle? I mean, the deer is hanging us. If that's the case Charlie you can't you gotta be careful You up your size of a dear I though was that real? Well, I'm Never seen an egg eagle carry a deer and I don't want to be scared of Eagles Yeah, so lame cuz now I'm thinking that it may have just been AI. I'm pretty sure it was.

And you can't be doing this. So Charlie's an avid bird watcher. And the last thing he needs is being scared of any type of bird out there. Birds are my friends right now. Let's not ruin this. He just put an umbrella up. If an eagle flies over you, they can't get you.

Is that it? Yeah. It's got to be red, white, and blue up top, though. Oh. He respects the red, white, and blue. I'll give you a car and fly by. Yeah, actually it's more like, you're the birdwatcher. You know, you know what you're talking about.

Yeah, we've unlocked a new Charlie Barron's animal noise went from. That's not even a great eagle. That's an eagle that just took ecstasy. That's an eagle that just carried a full grown deer around. Probably. Well that was more like, oh yeah. That's an eagle with shoulders.

Oh my Lord. That eagle's got some lats on him for sure. Yeah. Look at it. Look at your free. Look at your hand right now. What is that? That's a that's an eagle or a hawk.

I don't know. Is that the one from the video? It was actually you can't tell anymore because it's kind of worn out, but there was a deer head right there and it went all the way down to like the tip of my finger. I just got this Yankees logo to cover it up. So what's the tattoo that you regret the most? I regret the most.

Man, there's really not one that I regret. Unfortunately, I don't. I guess this one and it's I love what it's it's so it's a way than Jennings song. Right. And I that morning was going to get like my second set of tattoos. I'd already gotten this one for my first daughter's birthday and this random way. I got this middle finger tattoo is my second set of tattoos. I'd already gotten this one for my first daughter's birthday. And this random way I got this middle finger tattoo

is my second tattoo. Okay. And I was like, all right, I want to get the, the Waylon Jennings logo and I want to get song lyrics around it. And I showed her, we put it there and then she was like, well, we can't really fit those lyrics around it. What if we just do it huge on your other arm?

And I was like 19 or 18 and I was like, oh yeah, that sounds awesome. We should totally take up all that real estate. And we did. And I haven't touched it. So yeah, that's a pretty big font right there. It's huge, dude. It's huge. It's a here's Roman too. Yeah. Here's to the one. Do believe you picked a font that wasn't trendy that old, you know, it's kind of a timeless font. So yeah, you're right. It's like, if you get on Microsoft and type, you could literally type my tattoo out if you wanted. Yeah.

Yeah. Here's to the ones who do believe in disbelief somehow. I just think it's like, you know, when I heard it, it was just like, it's about the people that talk shit about you behind your back or whatever. It's like the ones that to your face, you're like, oh, you're going to be fine. You're doing a great thing with them behind your back.

It's like, oh, this guy sucks. Oh, nice. I like that. Yeah. That's really cool. So I like what it means, but it's like, oh, this guy sucks. Nice. I like that. Yeah, that's really cool. So I like what it means. But it's a little bigger than I initially pictured. Yeah. Did she start going with the H and you're like, oh, no, you start doing the mental math in your head and you're like,

this is going to. No, she put this pencil on and I immediately was like, oh, I shouldn't do this. And then I didn't say anything. I was like, you know what? We're going to do this because we don't want to we don't want to cause tension. It's like that's the most Midwest thing you've ever done right there. I know you're from the South, but yeah, I know this can be on my body for the rest of my life. I'd like it a little smaller, but yeah. I mean, since you already put the stencil on me, that's literally what I was like, I

don't want to inconvenience for you to have to like take another five minutes to redo this. We'll just get it done. It'll be fine. It'll just be on me forever. It'll be good, whatever. I'll just be talking about a podcast five years from now. Well dude, if I didn't get it, then I wouldn't have had an answer. That's true. So that's maybe, maybe that's why I did it.

That's true. I just knew in my head. It's like when you're filling out a form with your name and you start too big and then you have to like go up over the other words with the rest of your name. Yeah. That's essentially what happened. Curve down the side of the paper.

My teacher used to always tell me to curve up because that means you're like shooting for the stars. And if you curve down, you're going to hell or whatever. Really? Catholic? No, not Catholic. We just get all of these texts, you know, Baptist. Yeah, Baptist.

Yeah. At first, I was like, wow, this teacher sounds very inspiring. And then if you go down, you go to hell. So, yeah, well, they, you know, I think they started with a go to hell first. So like they ended on a high note. Yeah, I go. That's good. Speaking of high notes, you got to you got a new album coming out. I do. I do. I'm really excited about it.

It's my favorite thing we've ever done. It took like two years to fully complete. And it felt like like pulling teeth just because there's multiple points. I was like, all right, this album's done. It was like, no, we need one or two more songs. And I was like, you know, like, I feel like it's done. But but then we got to the point where it's actually done. It's like, OK, you're there. Like we needed we needed these last three songs to really like make this a complete project. You know, that's awesome, man. Yeah, very cool.

Thank you. And who's the one saying you need it done? You know, it was the man. It was a, you know, it was like my or the label and management everything. We're just talking about it, you know? Yeah. Trying to get a lot. You and management had a conversation and turns out that management was right. Yeah, totally. Surprisingly, right. Management's my brother, too.

So that's like, no, there's no way he's right. What do you mean? Oh, is your brother? What's it like working with the family? Did it is awesome. It is like a like a dream come true as a as a kid. I wanted I tried to get my brother to learn to play bass and drums and guitar and anything. And he like he he'd always go like a couple of days with me doing it and then be like ah I'm good dude I think I'm just not gonna do that you know and I didn't think we're gonna work together and then he was tour

manager for me right out of high school once he graduated and then he picked up this band called Pegasus in the rooftops and the rest is history and now we work together as like that and that capacity. That is cool. What's the hardest part about working with family? Just, you know, we know how to kind of like shit talk each other and like we, you know, we've known each other since we were, you know, born. So it's like that thing where we know we know. I guess it's like it's a positive and a negative is like both already know kind of how we feel

without even talking to each other about it. But that's more of a positive, I guess. It's not really negative. I really enjoy it, you know? Yeah, you can kind of, that means you can insult them just by looking at them. Oh yeah, that's true. It's like send a text that's not like insulting at all,

but you can make it like where he knows like, ah, okay. Yeah, if anyone read this, they wouldn't think anything of it, but he knows. Oh yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Right between the lines. I love that. I if I try to work with my brothers, I don't know if it would go too well. Yeah, I can see that. Rather, we would just argue the whole time.

And in that part of the fun. No, I'm joking. There's a couple of arguments but it's not like arguments it's more like slight disagreements and then we you know then I finished the album yeah yeah yeah well that's cool what what song are you most excited about on it I would say at the moment probably empty-handed it's a song that I wrote so I'm like I've been happily married to my wife since we were 18. And

we were high school sweethearts. We've been best friends since we were in fourth grade. So we've we've known each other for a long time. But I love writing like heartbreak, like, you know, just, I'm so sad songs. And that's what the song is. It's like a, it's a song about leaving the person that's bad for you. So it's more just like, you know, I've seen bad relationships and people that are with people they shouldn't be my whole life. So it's almost things that it's pretty easy to pull from. But that song I wrote all by myself, just up in my office over like two weeks, I was making the track for the first time.

So I had the whole track done and then I had these melodies just like just mowed over whatever. And then I would just sit there and just listen to those melodies back to back to back and then slowly start writing words down. And like I said, it was a two week process, but by the time we got to the end of it, I was like, oh, wow, this is this is maybe my favorite song on the record. So I'm really happy with it. That's awesome. Yeah, I think that's cool. It's cool.

I like how you write songs too, about just like by observing, you know, your buddy in the worst relationship ever. Oh yeah. Does he, does he know that you wrote that relationship off his gal? Oh yeah, totally man. And that's like, we have a song off the last record called excuses. That's about my guitar player and his, his ex girlfriend. She, she cheated on him. Well, I guess we don't for sure know if she cheated on him, but they were like, he was madly in love with her. We thought she was super cool.

And then out of nowhere, he came to bus call one day and he was all sad. And we're like, what's wrong, dude? And it's like, man, she broke up with me like what? He's like, yeah. And then today she was posting some pictures with this dude in Dallas and whatever. I was like, oh, dude, no, it was like yesterday. They broke up me. I know you're really sad, but let's channel that.

Let's go write a song about. Oh, yeah. That was like I was like, tell me how it felt. How are you? What's on the pen? OK, so that war time. Oh, she really broke your heart. OK, that's actually a great way to write songs. Have everyone in your in everyone else in your life experience bad stuff. And then you just ask them questions about it. You write songs rather than you having to experience all just a trauma farmer.

At that point, you know, but like, you know, I told him about like we went to. I went to Nashville that Monday and sat down in the writing room with two of my buddies. And one of them was like, I got this song title I've been working on. It's called excuses. And I was before he even explained it, I was like, pause, let me tell you a story about my guitar player that just happened this weekend. And I was like, he got broken.

I told him the whole thing. And they were like, oh, we got to write about that. And we wrote about it. And it was more just like, man, this would be funny to to take back to Paul and be like, hey, dude, check this out. But this is about you and that girl. And we did. But then we wound up putting it out and that whole thing. So it's funny. So every now and we play it we're like this one's about Paul getting cheated on

He's like yeah, thank you for re bringing up the trauma he's married now he's in a good place he's fine She's way cooler than his last you find you find out he's just been blaring that song full blast Oh, yeah, his room he's screaming into a pillow. It's how he goes to bed every night. It passes out to it. I Love it. Yeah, you get you get some emotional on the harmonies. That's right. Yeah, see one stage crying every night It's pretty awesome. That's cool, man. Good for you guys bring that up back up. I thought you're gonna Do down in Dallas. It's like What's that one song down in Dallas? Yeah It's like the like the cleaner version of that basically yeah, I got song down in Dallas? It's like the, like the cleaner version of that.

Basically. Yeah. I got dude down in Dallas. Oh, so we wrote this, we wrote this song about his breakup. It's called Dick down in Dallas. He's like, what the hell man? It turned out to be her cousin, you know, but still as he was sleeping with him, he'd ever know and the crazier things have happened, you know? Yeah. Oh, I'll be sure. Brother, sister stuff. I've seen that on game of thrones, but I think that was like legal back in the day. Right? Yeah. Legal and preferred. Yeah. it's like the opposite of nowadays. It's like, you don't even know that girl. Wow.

Yeah. And Game of Thrones are like, oh, you're shacking up with someone who's not your sister. What do you think? You don't even share blood, right? Yeah, that's gross. You're going to dirty up the bloodline. Their teeth are going to be all straightened stuff. They're going to look normal. What are you doing? Yeah, oh

Boy well Charlie's so we take some callers. Let's take some callers. I do what coin is that? That's a Canadian dollar right in the middle of all these pennies Wow Nice you thinking these pennies are worth money? What about that? That's got a gal on it. I've never seen a penny like that. That's probably like a four million dollar coin they got up under this epoxy. Isn't that crazy? You think they care if we cut it out? No, I don't think so. Get your pocket knife out. Miles, look at that penny real quick. I know we got to go. But look at that. Have you ever seen a penny like

that with a man? Folks, it's Mother's Day coming up. And listen, if you find yourself in a crash with a mother, you better do yourself a favor and call Nicolet, because that mother's got insurance, okay? And their insurance company's going to screw you like a screw. And so what you want to do is call Nicolay right now. One eight five five. I mean, there's no better one eight five five Nicolay. Right. Yeah. No better gift. You can get your mother on Mother's Day than call a Nicolay. You know what? That's actually

a better way to approach this Mother's Day thing. Kind of weird to crash into a mother, you know, when we're talking about that on Mother's Day. So you're right. I like your spin on this. Let's go with that. Yeah. Yeah, folks, what better present to get your mom

who might've been in an accident than to tell them that Nicolay is here to help? Well, just call for her. Call for her. That's the gift, you know? 1855-NICOLAY, and I've got a feeling your mom is going to like that beard. Okay. Okay. All right. Thomas, you got the belly to podcasts with miles Charlie and country artists, Colby Cooper on the podcast. Oh my gosh. Well, I'm doing pretty good now. It sounds like it. Let's go. I heard, I heard you got yourself a pretty stupid car. Let

me tell you something. This thing is a piece of junk. This thing ain't good for nothing. It can barely drive Well, what'd you buy give us some details Okay, so I actually bought it from my brother So that's where I went wrong the first time never buy a scarf from your brothers apparently No, I bought a sob. It's a sob Oh you bought a sob a sob from a sob You bought a sob? A sob from a sob? You bought a sob from a sum bitch.

Don't talk about your mother that way. No. Yeah. Yeah, actually. Hey, that's mine. Yeah. No, it was terrible. Okay.

So I thought I was like, okay, I'll do him a favor. I need a car. You saw it for relatively cheap. You know, it'll be a win-win, right? What'd you pay wrong? That was terrible. Oh my God. Would you pay for it? Yeah. What are we talking? Well, I mean, it was like three grand, but like it doesn't work. Well, I mean, I mean, drives usually sometimes. Yeah. Are you saying that it sucks because like the heat and AC is broken out of it or it just breaks down? Oh my gosh. Let me, let me tell you when I first got it, when I first got it, okay, it was driving. All right. Let me tell you when I first got it when I first got it. Okay, it was driving All right, that's you know, that's the main reason I bought it right because you know drive but then the acceleration started flipping Right, so I'm thinking okay transmission going out or something and then it wouldn't start and it took me so long to get it started

So I had to take it in right and me so long to get it started. So I had to take it in. Right. And this dude, this dude tells me the spark plugs are, are, are messed up, which I blame my brother that I bought it from because he replaced the spark plugs. So I'm guessing he damaged them when he put them in. Did I imagine that his brother like the whole time he was test driving the car was just sitting there with his ball hole was this tight and he was just like, please all of the issues that I have with his car to not show up during this test drive.

Just please says a little prayer. The car didn't start that morning right before his first warning side should have been is that the car was never he's never saw the car off. When you walk out running his brother pulled up and got out of the car and left it running. You know that's an issue. And he was sweating profusely. Just dripping sweat. That should have been your second sign. It was real nervous. It should have been a sign too. And his brother got out and he had a mechanic rag and he was cleaning. I got grease stains all over your shirt. Just out of breath. Don't worry about it. Give me three grand. How many miles on that? Stop. I think it's like 150.

Quite another 150 in that thing. Yeah. So it's not too bad. Now that you replaced the spark plugs, is it working? Are you kidding me? Of course not. What are you talking about? That was only the beginning of the problem. Let me tell you. How much have you spent on it now? Well, give us a whole rundown.

Okay, yeah, here. So the first time it didn't start, I took it in. And actually the spark plugs did kind of help for whatever was going on at the time. But then, Oh my gosh, it didn't start again. So I, I called up my brother. I was like, yo Jacob, what, what the heck is going on with this stupid car? You sold me you piece of crap. And he's like, here, I'll come over and I'll see if I can fix it. He doesn't know anything about cars. This guy thinks he can do everything by watching a YouTube video. He's, he can't do nothing to cars. You know, the YouTube thing, you kind of can.

Okay. I changed the toilet out in the house. Oh, YouTube. I've done that too. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. My brother in laws redoing his basement off of YouTube. I've done that too. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. My brother in law is redoing his basement off of YouTube. Yeah, I think you can fix cars. I'm digging a doomsday shelter off of YouTube. I mean, just think about it. I fixed fix my water heater off of YouTube. Yeah. Saved a bunch of money not having a guy come there and clean out one of the tubes. That's all it was. I learned how to grow pot off YouTube.

You can do literally anything. Yeah, so your real problem here isn't that you bought a piece of crap car, it's that you're not on the sob YouTube figuring out how to fix your machine. Well, that's not true though. The issue is I just don't freaking know what's wrong with it because I did a ton of research And by a ton of research I watched one YouTube video. Oh see

well, I Mean, have you talked to your brother post purchasing of this car? Oh Yeah, and then we start then we all to all we got here. We got heated. We're driving around the car We're driving around the car and I'm like, hey dude, it doesn't, it doesn't accelerate. And he was like, well, you're just doing it wrong. And he's going and he's like, Oh shoot. It really doesn't start accelerating. I'm like, I'm starting to yell at him. He's starting to yell at me pretty soon. We're throwing fist, left jab, right jab, uppercut. No, I'm just getting like, it seemed like that we were getting heated in the car. Not that might end in a double homie.

Not going to lie. I don't know. Just the tales. All this time, a brother sells a car to another brother ends in a double homie. Classic Kane. Yeah, yeah. Who's Kane? Who's able?

OK, yeah. Are you with who would win in a fight? Who would kill who? Who would be telling God, I am not my brother's keeper Um, I don't know we're about we're like the same size same weight same height Yeah, but who has that killer instinct? Yeah. Well, he's got a full beard though You're gonna want to be nice to your brother about this car from now on yeah well, I gave him more than it was worth. I looked up the Kelly blue book value. I gave him like

500 more than it was worth. Why didn't you do that before you bought the car? But he wasn't having it. He was like, no, I can't afford the truck I'm buying. If I don't get this, well, you won't give me three grand, that doesn't sound like your problem. Yeah. It sounds like he's gotta go get a job at water burner. I'm a nice kind hearted man. I figured I'd help him out. It was real sweet. But yeah, I mean, no, that's just, that was just the start. Then the super gas engine lights always on because something's wrong with the gas engine light. It's like, dude, just fill it with gas. I think, I think you might, your whole problem might be is that you just don't have any gas in the car.

Are you familiar? Is this your first car by 16 years old? He's like, I keep plugging it in that night and it just doesn't work. For some reason, the parking brake lights always on to it is fully pulled up. It just can't accelerate. Yeah. I plug it in every night, but every get the car started, you know, it shows where the gas is actually at for like about two minutes. And then it just drops the deer on the gas light comes on and then the engine light comes on. I mean, I feel like, I feel like it's like the start of dodge ball when Vince Vaughn gets into his car and he's like, come on baby, be good to me. Just every

morning you're living the plot of dodge ball. You appear before it's kind of fun though. You get to roll the dice every day that puts your heart in a good way. It makes you grateful Every time you you know Gratitude is a thing we don't have enough of in this world today and you get to you get to be the example Right away every morning every time that like full dopamine hit when your car turns over. Yeah Yeah, it's like today's gonna be a good day just cuz your car started, you know, and when it doesn't start It's not gonna be a good day, but you'll remember the good day. Yeah. You can't have good days without bad day. No, you can't. You can't. That's a problem with the world today. No

one wants to have bad days. I got pretty lucky that the truck, the first truck that my parents bought like my brother that got handed down to me that then got handed down to my brother, uh, wasn't too bad. Oh yeah. Was your first guy's first cars kind of like this guy's car? It was rough. No, dude. I actually, uh, want to be bummer. But my dad actually got hit. He passed away and I was in freshman high school and he had a bad ass truck and I got this cool ass truck You know bummer, but I got a cool truck Pretty sad I wrecked it and totaled it like three years after I started driving We bought it back from insurance. She's still running check engine light though has been on since that day

So I feel you there brother. You know it's and there's no reason well check engine lights. Just your dad keeping an eye on you there, brother. You know, it's and there's no reason. Well, the check engine lights, just your dad keeping an eye on. That's right. Yeah. Amen. Reminding you. Come on. Oh, man. That's we had one of those Buick's where you had to like stick the roof to the ceiling. Oh, yeah. Pins, you know, you know, I'm talking about where it is. I know. Like, did you like make the pins of design? I actually it was my aunt's car before and she put stars up there.

So who needs a moon roof when you got going the dark stars? Way cooler, way cooler. I was I parked actually with this gal in this parking lot. OK, you know, you know, when you guys in on some secrets from my teenage years, parked with parked in a church parking lot because we wanted to look at the stars, the stable or the I don't know, the church, beautiful architecture outside. So we're parked there. Maybe 10 minutes. The steeple sound like my church has a stable up top. Actually, there is no steeple up there. I don't even know why I said that. You know,

my vision is like, what kind of shit are you into? It was a church. I don't even know why I said that. You know, I just my vision is like, what kind of shit are you into? It was a church. I don't know. It was the parking lot there. Anyways, it's not the point. OK, the point is I just I can't do any hanky panky without a crucifix. Ten minutes after parking there, the car runs out of gas because it was the winter and I left the car on. So then I got a I got to either call my buddy or I think I ended up calling my dad, tell him I ran out of gas in the parking lot and my dad started asking questions and he could tell pretty, pretty

quick what was going on. I'm sure that went over well. Did not go over well. It's like the video of the guy, like when your mom's mad at you, your dad's standing there. He's like, yeah, yeah, I can't believe her or whatever. And then she leaves. He's like, give me some. Just cut that shit out because she's now mad at me. You got me in trouble. Yeah, I don't get it. And she's already in bed asleep. Yeah. Just because you want to do hand stuff in the church parking lot. Now I can't get any tonight. So thanks a lot. I hope that was worth it. Next time. Think about both of us and make sure you filled the gas. There's a gas cannot

back next time. Put it in the trunk. Yeah. And to let you know, I still haven't found it. So you're not going to find it. All right. There's no shot at your age. Young man. You are now on a journey. You're going to wander in the desert for 40 years, just like the is relights. You'll find the garage, do this in the church parking lot. It should probably speak to you in terms you can understand. He just needed somewhere to go ask for forgiveness immediately. So as soon as it was done, they're all done. John is like, thank you. That was amazing. I'll be right back. I have an appointment, schedule it ahead of time.

Preacher pulls up. It's like, I gotta go. That's all they should start doing. Confessions these days, just drive through drive through confessions. They did that. I think during COVID, I think they were doing that. They were doing drive through hosts, too, I believe. Was the drive through confession like like a was it like a window or was it like a machine you'd pull up to and talk to like a McDonald's

ordering machine like into the speed? It's like you're yelling at your car window. Yeah, last week I, you know, I was jerking. Last week, I was jerking off. I absolve you from your sins. Please pull around for your penance. It'll be $15. Thank you. And for our fathers.

So how's the backseat in that shop? No, no, no, Charlie. I'm Catholic. I'm Catholic. No mess around. No pre-marital stuff. That's right. Really? I agree with you, man. I agree with you. Even if it's over the pants, it's an OTP still an NG. My man. You never soaked. We're not Mormon. That's for the more you can adopt. We just, you know, I didn't know. I didn't know how it works. Mormon for a night. That's a country. That's a guy. I'll be Mormon for a night. Maybe make me Mormon for a night. We found it. That's good. We're locked

in here. Yeah. Well, he touched on a lot of issues we shouldn't have in this conversation. This was about your car. Right? So, uh, well, where's the car now? Is it working? Is it still broken? I didn't really. Currently, she's all right. Currently, she's all right. But I mean, I've so many things have, have led up to getting it there. I mean, I blew the cooling hose on there. It, um, you go on a date first? At least you pay for dinner. Ask it its name. Maybe what colors the car? It's an off white, but here's the thing. The paint is, the paint is kind of chipping a little bit in like some big spots. So it's got like off white is most of it. And then like some big

spots around the top and like on the sides are like, are almost like a tanish color. So I was thinking about painting those, those tan color, like black. Yeah. He's got a black account. I'll tell you, I'll tell you exactly how you do that. So you go get a paper bag and you just cut like a little shape stencil. Yeah. And then you just go get black spray paint and just do it. It's as simple as I came out a car once doing that exact same thing. I had a tan car and I got green spray paint, black spray paint, just went around the whole deal. So it's really simple and you're going to be, I think, really happy with how it turns out.

I mean, that's going to be a real head turner there. I'm going to tell you this much. You're not going to have to be blowing any more gaskets or hoses after that. I think you do have to get some horns on the front, though, if you do that. That's the only acceptable. Oh, yes. And we need to see a picture of this, too.

I mean, I can already picture in my head with the horns on the hood. I mean, come on, man. You're going to be in the church parking lot all the time. And you got to check. If that's what you think, you know. Yeah, that's it. Don't pin this. I mean, I don't even remember if it was a church parking lot. Oh yeah. I'm a classic back. Also, you got to change the horn sound to a dude. Now we're talking. I don't know how to go about doing that. YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Yeah. What a wonderful world. There's somebody on YouTube that's got a cow horn

for sure. You got some work to do my man. Your car is fine by the way. We've we've realized that you got a sick car. Well, yeah, you came in here complaining about you've got a cow car your best asset, dude. What do you got set better than this cow car right now? No, just in your life. What's like your favorite thing that you have? I don't even know, I live in a trailer. Nice. That's kinda nice. Your trailer's probably nicer than the car though. Yeah, it's like a mobile home.

I live in half of it and then I got a roommate. Nice dude. Let's go. What's it like sharing a trailer with a, with a dude? Well, you know, I'm not, not that bad. I mean, usually when he's home, I'm at work and when I'm here, he's at work. Is it your brother? And then no, no, that would be crazy if you walked outside and started the car like early that morning. Huh? I said, it'd be funny if your brother was living with you and he was like,

walked outside at like 5, am and started the car and had let it run all day. You walked out and was like, Oh yeah, I just started it. Take it for a test drive. Oh my gosh. Nope. Nope. I would not, would not choose to live with one of my siblings. Three of my siblings live together like two blocks down the road. But, but I would not. What town do you live in? Where are you at smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin, Stevens point. Oh, you're up there in point, which are you in a park or you a little community over there? I mean, I'm in a small trailer park here. Which one? Uh, oh shoot. I don't even know the name of it. Oh, come on, man. Get to the Stevens point for us

here. What is it? Andrew, did you just move there? Told you. What? What? The name is trailer park. Well, spring's park. Well springs. Is that over by Rusty's? Maybe I don't know. I just moved here.

Yeah. That's pretty good. 15 minutes outside of point. Oh yeah. In here. He lives in a trailer. Home is where you park it. He's all over the map. This is Steven's points just right now. That's true.

It is true. Yeah. Well, um, uh, good for you. Listen, I think after, uh, further consideration after reviewing the play, the ruling on the field has been overturned. This car was a solid purchase for you and for your life. It's a big dub, for sure. So congrats and send us a picture. Well, I mean, it almost got me killed one time. What? Well, the gas, the gas light's always on, right?

So I didn't know when I had to fill it up. I'm driving, I'm turning across the highway and it runs out of gas right while I'm in the middle of it. So I had to get out and push it from the back. I threw it in neutral. I'm starting to push it from the back and then these cars are honking at me while I'm pushing my car. No one got out to help. Nobody got out to help. I'm like, what is this? A bunch of fibs out here? Like where's the Wisconsin Midwest nice out here? Everyone's just honking at me. I'm like I'm out out of my car pushing it. Why do you think I'm doing this on purpose?

Yeah, I'm embarrassed for everyone who passed you sounds like a bunch of fibs but Man, that sucks. But you got it out there safely. That's hard to do. Push a car. Like if you don't have someone in there steering it, you know, you're just kind of trying to get that momentum. Then running back to the steering wheel and getting the momentum. And that's a, so you know, they got like YouTubers that do pranks. That would be a funny prank. You're pushing a car. You get a bunch of people to help you push it like around the corner and then you just get in and start to drive away. Sorry. I had to pop the clutch. It's an electric car. Oh, it's electric. Oh, that makes so

much more sense. Oh, well, we appreciate you calling in today, Thomas. Oh, I appreciate you taking my call. Oh, but I'm real quick though. I think it's my sister's birthday today. I think my sister. Okay. And I know Charlie, you're practically like Luke, Brian and miles. Well, I mean, you're good to careful. So I was wondering if you couldn't see. Happy birthday to her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll sing happy birthday. What's your sister's name? Erin, Erin.

Well, we'll do a little video of it and send it over to you. Erin, you'll just do it right now. Yeah, I know. I'm popping it up. All right to you. Aaron, you'll just do it right now. Yeah. I know I'm popping it up. All right. Three, two, one. Happy birthday. Wait, wait, wait. What are we doing? We got like the singer started off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna go two octaves higher already. We're going to you. Happy birthday to you. Yeah. Happy birthday.

We'll see you soon. Oh man. I appreciate that folks and tell your other brother that he sold them a lemon. All right. All right. Well, we'll send that over to you. Well, it will text it to you. Can we do that, Jared? Yeah, we'll text it to your phone and yeah, tell her that we really tried to hit the key on that.

Well, do we're all over it over. Oh, well, thanks. Have a good one. Yeah, keep her moving. Watch out for dear you too. Now we'll see you soon. I mean his brother knew exactly what he was selling. I'm right. Absolutely. I mean, there ain't no way it just started that day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be hilarious stuff. It worked completely fine the entire time. And then as soon as he sold it to him and just, that would be bad luck. Maybe his brother actually took care of it. You know, there's always like was waking up, doing maintenance in the morning,

changing out the spark plugs every day, you know, like really just giving her the works. Yeah. And then he took over, didn't change the spark plugs out for like a week. It stopped working. And that can happen on on those things like I had this rabbit where you had to drive around with oil and you just had to the oil leaks. You just had to refill the oil every time you did like three gas tanks. One oil. Well, you should have done is you should have rigged up like an IV bag style for your smart.

Well, I actually like on the antenna, you just hang an oil can and then have a little tube going down. You got a button where you just press it inside the car. Oh, it needs some oil. That's we're good. That's see that if YouTube was more, I guess YouTube was around them, but I should have done something like that. The car needed work.

There was a bungee cord that just kept the battery in place, you know? And when you add heat under those engines, those things kind of wear. So there's- Is bungee cord stock? Or is it? Is it stock? It comes stock with the car?

Yeah, it comes stock with the bungee cord. It did come with it, yeah. Yeah, I think. I mean, and you know, you just want to make sure you have extra things actually now. Charlie rolls up to the shop and is like, ah, I need you to replace the bungee cord. And they're like, what?

What? Yeah, man, everything is good on a car, just a bungee pop. What? You know, the one that holds the battery in place. It came with the car when I bought it. OK. Yeah, you figure it out. I got some extra bungees in the back

if you guys don't have any. I mean, I could do it. But I figure, you know, since you're putting new transmission fuel in it, the least you could do is replace the bungee cord. This is like your job, right? You don't know how to do the bungee? I'll show ya, I'll show ya.

Just proceeds to fix it. Yeah. All right, boys, we got a voicemail from Jake. Jake-a-dee, Jake-a-dee, Jake-a-dee, Jake. See what Jake has to say. Hey, Miles. Hey, Charlie. Welcome.

My name is Jake, I'm 22, I live in Buffalo, New York, and I just really had to get off my chest. I feel like Cornnuts as a snack are severely underrated and there's a couple reasons for this right you think of the peanut and it gets the job Done you can make butters out of it. There's not corn butter will be realistic here Corn nuts are good, and I'm done pretending that they're not Thank you Huh? Did you say I'm gonna make a couple of points proceed to not make one point? Just I was trying to look back for the points

I didn't catch any of my guess I imagine that this guy's life is not there's not a lot going on 22 years old and corn nuts, you know, like he thinks that he's really, uh, um, like going out on a limb by saying that he likes corn nuts. Yeah. I mean, it's like, well, he's like really stirring the pot right now. He's like, this is bad. It is funny. Where is the corn butter? Um, I don't, I don't know if I've ever even had a corn nut. Really? Yeah, pretty good. Is it literally corn? Like, is it like? Yeah, it's just like crunchy corn. It's it's like just before it would pop.

It would pop in popcorn. Does it taste like popcorn? Kind of. Yeah, it tastes nutty. Yeah, it's like if you were to take a nut and a corn and just mix it together, it's corn nuts, but they put different flavors on it and stuff, you know, you get like ranch corn nuts and stuff like that Yeah, that's the process of it, huh? Just get him right before I have no fucking clue what the process is We got to look this up did we can't be passing along false information I can see the bag of them where they say corn nuts

But I you know, I don't I don't even know if I know what they look like on the inside Yeah, I mean that just looked like corn kernels. It looked like corn nuts like corn pops. Okay Corn nuts also known as toasted corn or a crunchy snack made from roasted or deep-fried corn kernels That are lightly salted. They have toasty nutty and salty flavor with a hint of sweetness. Some say they're a flavorful alternative to crackers, chips and pair well with soda. Yeah. Oh, is that what people pour in there? Like pouring their coke? Oh, they pour peanuts in their coke there. Do they pour corn nuts in their cokes, too?

I've never had a peanut in it. I haven't I hate no I hate peanuts hate on but as you've never seen Have you seen people like do they peanuts? Yeah, not a big nut fan like any any any crunchy nut not a Really not a big fan. You like peanut butter though. I like Reese's But the thing is is that I like a Reese's that's very well balanced. If you take a bite of the Reese's and it's got an overwhelming like peanut butter flavor, I'll spit it out on the ground. Dude, I'm a peanut butter hound. I'll just, I'll just do a scoop of peanut butter right before bed. Yeah. You know, not me. I'm an ice cream. Let me look at him. fat. I like ice cream. You're not fat. Yeah, I hide it well, dude

I'm I've got it. You're you're sturdy. Yeah for sure. I'm definitely sturdy as shit I'm like sturdy as hell If you see me, you know, I look like Like every time I meet like a fan or something they say oh you're taller than I thought You were I think it's because I'm so fat wide like So I've got broad shoulders, but it goes down in the industry. It's all about marketing. Yeah, he's not fat He's broad and sturdy. Yeah, he's got big bones My dad always said yeah mommy and daddy every time I come home crying for school. I said you're not fat. You're just big

always said, yeah, mommy and daddy, every time I come home crying for school, I said, you're not fat. You're just big, but I get a sketch where he said that they bought the tire swing and you're like, then some big bone and ruins the fun for everyone else. And it turns into a sandbox. See, that's me. That's why I like as a kid, but I knew that I wouldn't like, I always like gauge things before I sat on them. I'd be like, that is, yeah. Is that tire swing made for a big bone, sturdy fella or is it made for a normal kid? So I used to be like 60 pounds heavier than I am right now. And you don't, Charlie does never had to, you know, you're so, you just have your skinny privilege sitting over there. Skinny, dude. You're talking about you've never had to look. You've never had to look at the weight limit on like a stepladder, you know?

And guys like us have in our life. You know, have you broken something? You know, sometimes there's a bow in it and you're like, oh, shit, if I go any higher, I got to first let me look at this weight limit. And then you and it's never high enough So you're just like all right my willing. Why am I even reading this every time I go to read? I'm like I know the ladder. Yeah. Yeah. Oh the ladders fine, but then you get to like Like have you ever been asked to get off a roller coaster?

Have you obviously not Well, let me tell you a story So I was I was like a junior in high school, right? And I was probably 60 pounds every day. I weighed like in high school. I'm like six, three, weighed like like like 330, 340. OK, I mean, I played football.

I was I was locked in. I thought I was going to play football. Then I started doing music. But we went to Six Flags over Texas. What a, you know, land of wonders and happiness and all the good things and we get on this ride called the Texas Giant and I'm sitting by my Friend and I'm so excited like dude. It's gonna be so badass. It's like the oldest wooden roller coaster and I'm sitting here and I'm like I'm big all over dude. I've got large like tree trunk legs I've got long legs and I'm super wide in my shoulder area

so as soon as I get on, I lean back and my shoulders won't fit in the seat part. I was like, fuck it, man, I'll just lean up and hold on. Well, that wasn't the only problem because my legs on this platform were this high and the only buckle was this rail that would go over. And the rail was hitting right there and I Can't push my leg down any further. So I was sitting at go come on to talk. Come on

And they're like three cars down. I see him slowly coming to check. I'm like, oh dude They're gonna kick you off. You gotta get this done and he gets there and I'm still struggling and he just looks at me and he goes Hey, buddy, you gotta get off And I looked at my little skinny friend and he was like, I'll get off with you. Oh, what a guy. Thank God, dude. We got off and walked to the end and I was like, dude, this ride sucks ass anyways. I didn't want to do it. He's talking shit to all the people waiting in line. He's like, Hey, this ride sucks. It's not worth it. I was pointing out all

the fat people like you, you, you, follow me. We're going to get some candy, get some cotton candy. I've got some news to break to you. You're not going to be happy. Yeah. They have a, you must be this tall to ride. They don't have a, you must be this skinny to ride. Yeah. I did. You would just, you were too tall. It wasn't just that you were too big. I was just too big in general. It was more than I was too tall. I've been kicked off twice since both the first, the other time was this ride that you, it was same shit like the the the seat came to like right there on me, so I'm sitting there like

You know halfway tucked in and the guy comes up and it's in like a circle So there's like 60 people all just staring and he goes hey You don't fit. I gotta get off and I just know the walk of shame Yeah parents kids grandparents You don't fit. You gotta get off it. I just know the walk of shame. Yeah. We're like parents, kids, grandparents, tiny kids. So what you need to start doing is you certainly need to start bringing your own ratchet strap to the theme park. And then, you know, like on the airport and you can get the seatbelt extender. Yeah. They're not going to have that there. So you just got to ratchet strap yourself in and then the guy can't go flip the thing and

go, he has to say, it's like protest. That's not going anywhere. Like tie yourself to a tree. It's like the same thing. It's like, I'm tying myself to this ride and I'm not getting off until you let me ride. Yeah. You just say I'm not going. So you get down there, you're going down like, like then the flappy part of the strap just gets caught underneath The thing you know or or just hitting the person behind him Then they have the photo afterwards and he's like Strap over like five rows of people are just like black eyes everywhere Poked eyes. I actually haven't

Just like just black eyes everywhere. Polk dies. I actually haven't since since the since the last time I haven't gone back to the amusement park for the fear of of not being allowed to ride. Really? That was your last time at Six Flags. That was. And I mean, I'm smaller since then. So I need to you got to get back there. Fears. No way. And I don't I don't even want to do that.

That'd be an awful way to die. You know, right like like He's small enough now he can fit and then I'm still just like a little too big But they let me go anyways, and then I fly out or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want that to happen No, no You just you get enough thrills from music. Yeah I'm not like a thrilled thrill seeker. No any means to like I mean? I'm not like a thrill, thrill seeker now any means to you. Like I said, I'm a big guy. Like skydiving seems like an awful idea.

I'm going to fall really fast. Well, it is a terrible idea to be clear. You're right about that. Yeah. And you see King of the Hill as a bigger guy. You don't get your money's worth as much. You know, you don't fall for as long. I'll probably be down there for four minutes and watch. And he's gonna you're gonna float You're gonna play you're gonna play double the money that Charlie did for the amount of what's right I think give me like an extra parachute to like these may not work Even if they both come out you may have to throw a third up you need the XL You need the rocket booster parachutes

You get this Iron Man suit you're're going to fly down. Literally. It's the only thing that'll fit your big ass. Well, it's, it's good learning from you guys. Sort of the struggles that you face in your, and I just want to let you know, people like me, we got struggles too. Oh yeah. Oh, let's hear one. Okay. Well, sometimes when we arm wrestle one of you, we can't put all of our weight behind our arm and cheat. That's one for starters. I beat him in an arm wrestling competition and he's never agreed to arm wrestle me again. Really? Yeah. Dude, I love arm wrestling, but I hate it too. Cause I've seen all the videos of the people breaking

their arm. You know what I'm talking about? I knew a gal that a gal that happened to her. She was just screwing around and at a bar and broke her arm like that. You don't drink your milk. That's what happens. Right. You know, drink your milk, ladies and gentlemen. Well, man, we're excited for your new music to come out. We appreciate you bellying up to the bar with us. Thank you for having us. It's been awesome. Yeah. Yeah. And before we go, where can people find your

just look up Colby Cooper,by with a cake over the sea and Everywhere you get music and look it up on socials and I'm I'm there. Oh, yeah. Hang it out. It's man. Awesome Appreciate you. Thank you. All right guys. That's another episode of the belly it up podcast Remember to tip your bartender and we'll see you in the next one Okay, hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Oodaloo.