Bellied Up - Outsmarting The Landlord #70

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

First caller wants to know how he can sneak a pet into his apartment, Next caller wants to know when he should propose while his brother is planning his wedding, Last caller has a midwest math question and maybe our best buy, sell, or trade yet. Get yourself a ⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠ Hat Want us to come to your bar for a Bellied Up episode? Click Here

Welcome back to another episode of the Billy to podcast. I'm here with Charlie Charlie. How you feeling today? Hi guys. How are you? Good to hear. I'm doing good miles Thanks for asking where we at today. We are over at Scotty's bar and pizza It's a historic bar right over here by the airport in Milwaukee. It's a beautiful establishment We're lucky to to be here today. This is what time is it? It's 11, 30. It's 11, 30. And this bar is popping, popping. The patrons are fully ready to go. They are.

And I love that about this place. Some are eaten, some are just having their breakfast beers, you know, and it is a Thursday. Is it Thursday? It is. Thursday, Thursday. I'm excited to have some pizza later. Yeah. And the pizza is really, really good.

And also, Miles, I do want to point out, you guys got to get over here and just take a note of some of the decor. It's fantastic. I mean, I'm seeing some cool lunch boxes There's one of the best ham signs I've ever I've ever seen Yeah, it's a great spot. Yeah Well Charlie. Yeah, Miles before you know, what winner's gonna be here I hate to say that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. You got a winner right next to you, dude. No, winter.

Oh, winter. Yeah. The tee. Yeah. Winter is coming. Yeah. Is that still relevant to say? I think so. Winter is coming. I miss game of thrones.

I do too. But that's for another podcast, Charlie. Okay. Sorry. What in your mind, do you have to get done before snow hits the ground and it's full winter? Well, I got a fix the clutch on my snowmobile. Yeah, I had all summer to do it I didn't even do it a bit and then would you know it miles the starter on my motorcycle went out So now I got fixed that So it's you were good time Charlie with the Harley and now you're just good time Charlie with the Harley that doesn't work. Exactly.

It's like every it shouldn't be too hard though. I wouldn't think so, but I've never done it before and I never Fixed a clutch Clutch before on a snowmobile. How how long are you gonna struggle doing that before you call your dad? I write, call my dad, he said, throw that piece of shit out. So, he won't even help you. No, I called him for the carburetor and he was kind of excited about that. He's like, yeah, that could be fun.

You know, I'll give you, and he came over and he helped me a little bit. And then he was like, all right, you're on your own from here. And I did it with the help of a few friends and a few beers, we got it going. And then as soon as I got it going, would you know what that clutch went out? I think I've talked about this before on the podcast,

but still out, but yeah, that's what I gotta do. Miles, you know what I like about your dad is that he seems like a straight shooter. He has no fluff with your dad. He's gonna tell you how it is. Yeah. I even think he's told me how it is. And I just met him, you know, for a short time. So I appreciate that. Yeah. Dad's a true Wisconsin dad in that fact.

I think our dads would get along. Yeah. And a lot of that respect, you know, hanging out with your dad, having some beers with them around that fire that one time up by the cabin. That's where he's in his element. He's in his element. Yeah, he was giving it to you a little bit. Oh, yeah. He gave it to me, a tad, just a scotch.

Yeah, he didn't know me that I should. My family gives me. I have to then project onto you when we do this podcast. I've noticed, I've noticed you a big projector. Yeah. So we just lay it on thick. But drink until further notice. Is that a new hat? This is a hat of ours. What do you think of it? Oh, I think it's really good. Uh, we're doing

today. I'm going to be drinking till further notice here at Scotty's. Where do where do you get that is? That on oh you betch it.com that is head there. Check it out. We got the ditch chickens hats there as well. Ditch chickens, which I'm wearing hang on. on. Look at that. Look at that. See, it's on backwards today. So I got to turn around for all you see it. Cool guy. Oh, they got a deal going over here. Did you know, Historic Scotties has not one, not two, not three happy hours, two states through Thursday, early bird happy hours, seven to nine cocktail, three to five. And then the night owl, uh, that's covered up by a hug me heart, which has probably been up since the Valentine's Day. Which I like about this spot.

The, the one thing I got in my mind before winter here, Charlie, is I got a, I got to prepare for the vols. Oh, I, you know, I really like vols. No, you tease. I like vols because they're owl food. Well, whatever you do, don't poison the vols, they'll then poison the owls. Not if they're yeah. Well, that's how are you going to get the bull? That ship, that ship maybe has sailed. Oh, no. But are they going to die underground? I hope how is it work? Well, they go into the bait trap and then they go somewhere else.

The field next to my yard and okay. Pass. Now, let me ask you this, Miles. Why can't you live in harmony with the vols? Did you see what they did to my lawn? They just make little tunnels, but imagine if I went over to your house and did just tore up your lawn. I don't care.

You wouldn't be friends. I don't give a shit. No, you wouldn't be friends. No, I legit do not care about my own at all. I think I got to cut the grass real short this year. Uh huh. I got a layout, some invisible fence or whatever it's called where something you sprinkle on your lawn to keep moth over the winter and got the bait traps out. So I'm ready to go.

Can I give you an alternative method for perhaps next year? Yeah, go ahead. Buy some owls. It's probably illegal. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I bet I can't. Yeah, but it would be nice to have a little hairy potter action. Then I can send you owls with messages on there. Just yeah.

Yeah. But imagine if you just had the house that was like surrounded by owls. How cool would that be, dude? The owl house, that would be cool. It'd be a good. All right. You're gonna put that in here next special. I might. Yeah. That one might go in there. I think that that maybe is material you can use, Charlie. Yeah. That's what this podcast is all about. Getting you more material. Can I just double down on this owl thing real quick around? Yeah.

Not the owl thing, the whole thing. Volts, they just make these little indents, right? In your lawn, do they completely destroy it? Yeah, like they like eat your grass and they lit like literally my whole entire front lawn was just like dirt. Really? Yeah. Eat. I put it, I posted online, you probably didn't see what we see. Yeah, well, I'll show you here We'll take some call you show me offline. You're sending this to offline. I don't know how fast I'm able to find it All right, that's fine. You can show me offline. Well, I'll show you and then we can sorry

It's all right and keep up with you on that one. You know, I see a lot of your stuff, you know, it's fine Honestly, I've been trying to spend less time on Instagram personally You know, so if you don't text it to me, you know, okay, every single post we post, I'll text just the interesting ones, just the interesting ones. All right, let's take some collars. I'll find this video for you, Charlie. All right. We'll take some collars. All right. Welcome to the BellyUp podcast. Who are we talking to today?

Oh, you're talking to Jude Pittman. Jude Pittman. Yeah. Hey, Jude. So from, uh, uh, Lynn Missouri. Lynn Missouri. What are you doing there? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Wait, we're talking to Jude from Lynn. Yeah, Jude from Lynn. Oh, I love that. That's a country song right there. And shoot somewhere. Off to write it up. Yeah, right that up, Jude. So, um, what's on your mind, Jude? Well, I'm down here in Lynn for college. I've just started saying this college and been living in a apartment for a while now and I need to figure out a way

to sneak a pet in here. They don't allow pets. What kind of pet are we talking about? Well, of course a dog is, you know, a dog's a man's best friend. It is indeed. What kind of a dog, dude? Oh, I have to say, many of them are really in shepherd probably. Oh, you haven't gotten a dog yet.

Well, no, I do. I don't have a dog yet. So first question is, uh, I know that there's a lot of apartments now that do allow dogs. Have you looked into a different apartment or is the kind of area you're in? They don't really allow them anywhere. They just don't allow them anywhere because it's like a college town. So all the apartments are like every year they have to refresh people. So I don't know, that is being in animals.

Okay well, Charlie, do you have any advice on how you can sneak in one in? Yeah, it's going to be really tough, Jude. I'm going to be honest with you, you're going to have to sneak that sucker in every single day. And one of those dogs needs to roam. So, you know, huh, what do we do here? You're going to need some sort of suitcase apparatus. Yeah, it's kind of a whole. And you're going to have to maybe train it to do this business in a litter box. Well, yeah, if the litter box doesn't work, I kind of miles like your disguise thing better.

So a suitcase is good because it's already got the leash attached, you know, like the little roller bins. So here's what you do, Jude. You start looking online or perhaps you make these yourself, but little doggy shoes that look like roller wheels on a suitcase. Four of them. Uh huh. And then, and then is the dogs walk and it's just going to look like you're going on a little flight every single day

and then you just walk that suitcase around the block and You get a block away and then you know, you can take the disguise off and you know a little backster can run Let it out. Let it do its business and all that. Yeah, I think you're just about right about that. So another question for you. How many carons do you think are living in your apartment building? Who's going to ratchet out? Is it? I think you got a part of all the carons or you think everyone would be kind of cool. Well, here's the thing. You know, it's a college can with a bunch of students. So I mean, there's a lot of drink and happening. So if there was any Terrians, I think we would have figured

them out by now. Okay. So that's good news. Do you know where the security cameras are, Jude? I know where some, but I mean, there's a disguise, I mean, how much do I have to worry about them? That's true. That's true. Well, put a fake mustache on this dog. No one will know. Yeah.

I think I think maybe a pair of glasses, ball cap. Yeah, I think that was pretty quick. Yeah. I think we solved Jude's problem. What do you think, Miles? I think that was pretty quick. Yeah, I think we solved Jude's problem. What do you think, Miles? I think that sounds good. Nice. You got anything to buy so our trade?

Well, we got you on the horn here, Jude. Buy so a short while. I tell you what, if you had an extra one, I'd buy it, I'd buy it, hardly off you. Oh, would you? Would you be willing to replace the starter? Yeah, the starter's gone. I'm willing to do that.

I am willing to do that. Do you know how to replace a starter? I have no idea, but I know YouTube does. Yeah, I know YouTube does too. I just haven't gone looking yet. Well, I really like the Harley at this point, you know, at some point in the near future, it could just be a thing that's given me too much. And maybe I take you up on that. I think, yeah, you'll just have to hit me up about that. I'll take that off your hands whenever

you're ready. What kind of Harley is it? It's a 98 sports star, 12, 100. Yeah, yeah, always great. I've been looking for a fat boy for a while. So, oh yeah, that's pretty good. It is. I like the sports. There's some people are like, oh, that's like not like, you know, a badass

Harley, but I'm not no, dude, it's a badass. First of all, every Harley's a badass Harley. But, you know, they say it's more of like a starter bike or like just a cruise and a round type thing. I'm like, whatever man, you, it's like when I think of a Harley, I'm thinking like a sports dirt type bike. I'm, I like the, you know, the bigger ones, but I think the coolest looking ones are the sportsters personally. Everyone's got their own preference, but that's the fun. They're fun to scoot around on.

I mean, you know, and there's not a, I mean, you know, have is you have a lot more clearance for it. So, you know, get around and they'll go a little faster too. I mean, it doesn't carry all that weight. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. You can pretty good one. You can get it going, dude.

It's, It sounds cool. You know, that's my roar. Is that motorcycle right there next to you? Is that what I hear? That's exactly it. Yeah, I brought it right in this bar. Yeah, no, I thought so. It kind of sounded like that. Yeah, good to hear. We actually went to a bar in Cliforol, Minnesota, Charlie. Yeah. And someone actually brought their Harley into the bar and did a burnout. And there's a hole in the carpet and a skid mark on the wood underneath it, where he did a burnout with his Harley and they just now it's part of the bar. Are you kidding me?

I don't think that that would be too far off. That's a good, yeah, that's a, honestly, that's a really good way to, uh, kill everyone in the bar. Yeah. I mean, I don't allow that was. Wow. Also, all that carbon monoxide, you know, yeah, I mean, that's just, you just get an extra buzz going.

Yeah, that's true. It's not enough to lay you down, you know, yeah, I mean, that's just you just get an extra buzz going. Yeah, that's true. It's not enough to lay you down, you know. Well, yeah, all right. It is a good old time. Yeah, I'll have to do a belly up over there. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Well, dude, we appreciate where you guys are drinking that today. Oh, my gosh. Thanks for asking. We're drinking over at Scotties in Milwaukee, right by the airport. Scotties in Milwaukee. Yeah. Oh, okay.

I've been to that airport and never been to Scotties. That's a good one. Well, next time you're in Milwaukee, you know, get on off, get on over to Scotties, have some pizza. You're the little visit over. Okay. That sounds like a plane stand. All right. Well, don't

mean to be coy, Roy, but we're going to set you free. No, that's fine. It's quite all right. I hope you guys have a great rest of your day. All right, you two. Take care now. All right. Thank you. Well, Miles, I think we solved his proud quick and dirty there. I mean, sometimes it isn't a big long discussion, Charlie. Sometimes this lambam, thank you, ma'am. That's right, or thank you, dude. Yeah. Welcome to the Belly Up podcast, tour with Chicham with today.

This is Andrew from Chicago, Illinois. Andrew from Chicago. Oh, no, Andrew, are you a bears fan? I'm a huge bear fan. Oh, I feel very sorry for you. Yeah, we're off to a good start here, Charlie. Yeah, I know. Well, that's okay.

I understand you got to, you know, have you born and raised Chicago? Andrew? Yep. Born and raised in Chicago hasn't been a super great start to the year, but yeah, I think it's just like every other year. Hey, Andrew, real quick question.

Do you remember the first game of the season when the Packers came into town? I'm not black that one out. I had a little too many bush lot days after the second quarter. Just so I could forget it. Okay. Classic. You should, okay, classic. You should really go bad and watch that game. It was, it was really entertaining.

Anyway, what's on your mind, Andrew? So, I have a twin brother and he, and I always kind of share everything, but essentially, he's been dating his girlfriend, Malfiante, for probably six months less than I've been dating my girlfriend. Which put a little bit of a damper in my original plan to propose to my girlfriend. I'm super ready to do it. I have the ring, and I'm, you know, very in love with this girl, but I'm hesitant now because I don't want to kind of step on the back of his wedding.

And while he's gone through all the planning and stuff, I'm not really sure how to kind of nicely go about it if I should just wait or kind of a right way to go about that. Wow. So look at just some advice. That's very considerate. First of all, let's get some facts on your twin. What's his name? What's his fiancee's name? So his name's Alex. His fiancee's name is Vanessa. Alex and Vanessa. Okay. When are they

getting married and when did they get engaged? Yeah. So they just got engaged. Um, I believe it was like two months ago. They went went on a cruise to Alaska. You did it there, you know, great timing to do it. They're great couple together. It's just the timing didn't work out. My original plan was to propose in October on our three year anniversary, but it's a little bit close now.

Well, Miles, do you have thoughts? You said I'll play key out of thought. I'm gonna step on it. To be honest, you have to let you, you, you, you said up like you had a thought. Well, I mean, to be honest, you guys are twins. Maybe you need to start considering joint wedding. Yeah. I mean, financially, that's not a bad idea because you guys are going to have all the same people at the weddings. So you might as well just get a two for one deal at the venue.

It's a bowl goal. Buy one, get one, dude. It's awesome. I mean, I thought that was a great idea. It's the girls that kind of want their own special days. Wow. It doesn't make swell. Damn, dude. Yeah, you're right. Well, you guys should be marrying twins is what you should of. Then you could have done. I probably would have been on board with it. Yeah. That would have been easier. Should have thought about that. No, I mean, because like, you know, if you think about it, if I were related to you, Andrew, I'm going to be honest. If I got wedding invitations for both of you, I'm gonna be like, I'm picking one or the other, you know? Like, I'll bring two presents, but I'm not flying my ass in for both your weddings, you know? So I've all the guests would love a two for one wedding.

And you know what? Everyone knows that weddings are not about the bride, they're about the guests. So, yeah. Is it, um, is it, could you guys do back-to-back days? You know, I haven't looked into it. I'm not quite sure what their thoughts are, but I do know the venue that he picked out is like beyond expensive. Like, I just started my career. I'm not ready to put that day with me

and then I'm in a place which, you know, maybe is up to them and stuff, but I don't know. I think it might be a different kind of vibe with their wedding and kind of our wedding. But if it's an expensive venue, all the more reason to have a joint one. Mm hmm. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Well, you're, I'm what I'm sorry, I forgot your fiance's name already. What's your name?

So my name's Andrew and my girlfriend's name or Listen to be fiance is crystal crystal. I forgot you you have the girlfriend yet soon to be fiance All right, so Crystal what did crystal say when they got engaged? So Crystal, what did Crystal say when they got engaged? She was really happy for me, but it was kind of, yeah, I'd say she was just super happy for me. I know she was expecting me to kind of propose or is expecting me to propose relatively soon.

And she's of the mentality that I'm going to say yes whenever and however you do it. And that was just kind of on me because I don't want to step on my twin's toes. And then there's also my older brother who just broke his engagement off like a month ago. So there's a lot of wedding stuff going on. Yeah. I don't want to like get mixed in with it. I see. Well, you know what, Andrew, I got to say, how old are you? I am 25. 25. Yeah, you're a young lad, but you know, as someone told me once when I was 25, you're not that young anymore.

I think it's time you can break off from your womb mate. Well, and I have a good way that he can bring it up to his, uh, to his brother. Yeah. About seeing what their vibe is if they're going to be offended if he gets engaged right now, too. So what you do is you go to your brother and go, Hey, man, um, you know, thinking about getting engaged, I know that you aren't going to be mad, but just getting engaged on whether or not your fiance is going to feel like you're stealing the limelight and put it on your girlfriend and the fiance and go, girl's right, they're going to be all worried about it. What do you think they're going to feel?

Then it's not so much that you are being the pain. It's more so Mike, my girlfriend wants to get engaged, man. What do you want me to do? Then you get a gauge on there. Next thing you know, maybe it's all good. Maybe you're overthinking it. Yeah, I think that that's definitely a good strategy. I don't, and I think it's exactly what you're saying.

I don't think my brother would be upset at all. I think it would kind of, I don't want the girls to feel like they don't get their individual special day. So that would be kind of a hold up there. So, did you, that might be a good strategy? Did your brother tell you he was going to get engaged? Yeah, and you know, it was before I had the chance to kind of tell my family that I wanted to get engaged. And so it was kind of like I stayed silent after he told everybody to

come super happy for him. It's just now I don't want to like, you know, say, oh, well, I was thinking the same thing. And then it's, you know, back and forth and back and both getting engaged at the same time. Wow. So you had some hurt feelings. I'm getting the sense. I'm not hurt feelings, but schedule conflict. He's, I get it. You're, you're more, you're less mad about him getting engaged, you're more worried that your girlfriends now like, why didn't you do it already, buddy? Buckle? Yeah, did she say anything like, did she say anything like that? Or was she like quiet after? Did you get the vibe in some way that she's a little upset?

Well, so, but not she's not upset. I think before any of this happened, he gave me the impression and kind of told me, I don't really wanna get married close to somebody else's wedding, just because, you know, I want our wedding to be about us and I want, you know, it to be our special day and doing that close to somebody, you know, maybe I would wanna wait a year somebody in my family, you're driving her family, we're to get married. And then I would

wait or I'd want to do it beforehand. And I'm like, Oh, okay, no problem. And then my brother got engaged right when I was thinking of doing it. And I was like, Oh, Christ, you know, yeah. Wow. Well, so she wants a full year buffer buffer though. I mean, that's, you know, that's not really, well, give her a year buffer, I don't know. And that's the case then. I think you got your answer. Just propose that your brother's wedding. There you go.

Yeah, right before they definitely another go on her. What? That always goes over. That's like, no feelings ever get hurt when you try and steal the spotlight on someone's wedding. Well, okay, so she kind of has some some interesting, you know, not demands, but requests on this. So really, I mean, you know, you are in a position where you either have to have a very short engagement or a very long engagement. No, but you can't hop in front of their wedding. I mean, I think he's debating it. No, you definitely can't do that.

You can't get engaged. And then pump out a wedding before there is that is bad taste. I'm not debating you. And then pump out a wedding before there. That is bad taste. I would not do that. Well, that's not bad taste. Isn't really, isn't really bad taste. You've been dating this gal longer. I mean, I think your brother, honestly, maybe a little bit bad taste jumping in front of you.

Yeah. Or maybe you've been sitting on it a little too long. Well, also, Charlie, they're twins. Can't they like talk to each other through their brains? How did you guys see this coming? Yeah. Don't you guys have ESPN? You know, not all the time you moved in with his girlfriend and the connection got a little bit too far. A little fuzzy reception between the brains. little fuzzy reception in the brains. Yeah, but I guess another one of the reasons that I'm even calling in and asking because I mean, I guess the quick fix would just be, I'm okay waiting, but the problem is she also

has very kind of traditional family. So we can't, you know, be out past 11 o'clock at some points and he can't sleep over. We can't live together or move in together until we're like at minimum engaged. So I'm 25 and I'm you know saving up living with the folks for now. Wanting to move out and I kind of want to move in with her but can't do that unless we're engaged. We've been dating for longer than my brother and his fiancee have been dating. So now I want to do it, but I wanted to know what that wiggle room was. And I definitely don't want to throw myself in front of their wedding,

because I agree with Miles that it's probably in bad taste, the pump will wedding out in three or four months. But I think moving forward, maybe I don't know if I can do the year buffer because then, you know, that's a long time to sit with the folks still. Does she live with her parents right now? Yeah. So you both live with your parents and how old is she? Does she 24? I'm 25. Oh, yeah, really. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is, I mean, honestly,

this is a predicament. It is a prediction. I thought it was no problem, but it's, as I uncover this a little more, it is ufta. Yeah, I would say here in the Midwest, do you have the dough to get your own spot right now? Or are you still saving? I, you know, I'm always still saving, but I think I have enough to put a good down payment out on a house, kind of be good and settled that way.

I definitely have enough if I wanted to rent somewhere, but I just don't think if you got the money for a down payment, I just don't rent, you know? Yeah, you're talking to me. Yeah, I would agree. That's what's up. Now, have you ever lived by yourself? Yeah, in college, I lived on my own and it's pretty sweet. I'm not sure.

Yeah. I mean, the other thing, too, dude, is you guys got the rest of your lives together. You could just get that house, spend six months living by yourself, you know, sort of, yeah, I mean, the idea of living under, you know, your parents' rules as 25, 24-year-olds, you kind of want to find, I think what you really want to do here is find out, you know, who you are before you start making all these decisions based on what other people in your life have done. Kind of take more of a proactive as opposed to a reactive approach here, you know, kind

of get your own house and sort of find your own way a little bit. And then, uh, and then kind of the cards will fall where they may. I mean, she's not going to get married until a year after your brother by her own wishes. So you got some time, I would get your own house and just, you know, kind of see how you feel, you know, and if she's upset about, they're not, they're not thinking you can do based off her wants. So take a little time, take a beat here, you know. Well, and I also just thought of something, Charlie. What's that?

The important part isn't when you get engaged. I don't think it's how close the wedding is to their wedding. So I think it's okay to go a little sooner on getting engaged. I know you said October, but maybe you just wait till the winter or something and then that will have set a date by then. And then if you have a longer engagement because you don't want to be too close to their wedding,

that might be a good way to do it. Plus, then your future fiance isn't like, well, he hasn't proposed to me yet. I think she'd rather have a long engagement than sitting around waiting for you to propose. That's probably true. She wants that ring pick. Yeah. Um, what do you think of that? I thought too. I thought it was, it was, we've had the discussion. And like I said, I already have the ring. I'm like ready to go.

You're ready. I have a place picked out and everything. And the problem is, so I thought, yeah, we could do a longer engagement, but she kind of wants to not have a super long engagement like a year or like a year and a half engagement. And that's like the push in it in the year and a half. Okay. No, that's perfect. You know, that's like the push in it in the year and a half. Okay. No, that's perfect. You know, that's perfect. Yeah. Okay.

You're getting engaged six months after your brother. A year and a half engagement puts you a year out from his wedding. You're good to go. Or now six months, six months long, dude, I think you, I think you and your fiance need to do you and stop worrying about everyone else. You can't worry about your brother. You can't worry about your family. You can't worry about her family. All that's going to dissipate when you get married anyway. It's just about the two of you and to hell with what, what everyone else thinks.

Two of degree, respectfully. Also, what, what else are you guys going to do at family functions? If there's no drama? You know, you gotta have something talk about. What else are you guys gonna talk about if someone's not mad about something? Right. And I think that this honestly is maybe a win-win now that I think about it.

Yeah, do it at your own time, man. Yeah, maybe the conversation of a party I'll be a wedding to the electric boogle-le-over that. Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, it's a little, makes family functions a little bit. It's like a reality show at that point. And I think you need to get your own reality show now.

Yeah. And if we also look at the historical context of your family, you know, there is a shot that this engagement is not going to work out from your bro. So, oh, my God. I mean, your older brother got rid of his engage You know, there is a shot that this engagement is not gonna work out from your bro. So. Oh my God. I mean, your older brother got rid of his engagement. So, you know, he's got a perfect deflection.

Someone brings up, well, you kind of got engaged close to us go, well, at least I've still engaged. Yeah. To reflect to your brother brother. Yeah, there you go. There you go. So I think bottom line, you got to do you and you know, let the cards fall in place. I would propose exactly when you want to propose. It seems like you're ready.

So I would do that. And what you're going to say, no, you know, um, and honestly, people expect twins to do the same thing all the time. Yeah, I mean, it's not going to be a surprise. I would go to Alaska. Find out what he was wearing that day. And then you're good. How are you going to engage to get engaged? Are you going to propose? So three years ago, we had our first date in college at a pumpkin patch.

And so I kind of wanted to bring her back to that pumpkin patch. We went to originally get down in front of the world's largest corn maze and, you know, ask her a question. Wow. You didn't go to an apple orchard after. Yeah. Yeah. That's really fun, man.

That's a very Midwest way to get engaged. Oh, great idea. I got my flannel world's largest corn maze. You tell her you're going to go to the bathroom, be right back, go to the end of the corn maze and then she has to go find you. And when she finds you, you're down on one knee. Do you know how many people he'd be fake proposing to in that time? Like, ah, well, you may, uh, then when she finally does come around the corner, he's on his phone. Yeah, he's like, where the hell are you? She's not great with direction. It just gets lost. I feel there'd be a slight possibility that she wouldn't show because she would just get lost and give up from the field. Yeah. So maybe not. Then you know, it's not meant to be,

man. Maybe find the world's largest pumpkin. Get the pumpkin pop out. Yeah, that could be cool. Well stripper action Now we're thinking yeah Also if you do do if you do do a Carbon copy of your brothers engagement People aren't even gonna talk shit that you did the same thing because they're going to just think that they're re-seeing photos of your brother's engagement. That's true. That people I use as a repeat. And I really like this. It's like, God, I saw this like months ago. Why is it showing to me again? And then you're good. Wait. I got a different girl. You know, they wanted to question it.

Oh, yeah. I'm curious about some. You said that your girlfriend, she's got an 11 p.m. curfew. Yeah. So she's Hispanic and has very traditional, Hispanic kind of upbringing. So it's very much, you know, you got to be home at this time. You live under our house. You live under these rules.

So I'm trying to respect it best I can and go with it. Did you ask her folks for her hand in marriage yet? No, I know they're expecting me too though. I, you know, they know I'm gonna ask them before I do anything obviously, but they have grown on them, whether it's, you know, good they know I'm gonna ask them before I do anything obviously, but they they I've grown on them whether it's you know good or like cancer Appreciate me and everything like that. So that's great I mean, that's a great laugh. That's a great line. Yeah, Charlie. You're really growing on me like cancer is metastasizing

I mean Do you do you know Spanish are you gonna ask them in Spanish? I? I mean, do you know Spanish? Are you going to ask them in Spanish? I know. I know a very small amount of Spanish just from high school and college. And even right next to me, my car got this Let's Talk Spanish book that she bought me for $6. But I'm learning slowly, but a bunch of her family only speak Spanish. So I'm kind of the novelty person that shows up and just nod their head and act like I know what's going on, but smile. We definitely get through that. I'm that's the motto. Dude, you should English. I will ask you. You should learn how to ask in Spanish. I think that'd be cool. I think they'd appreciate that. Yeah, I think it'd be cool if it were her extended family. Because she even speaks fluent Spanish,

but it's like broken Spanish. Yeah. And she calls it whitewash Spanish. It's not like perfect. So her primary language is English. Okay. Well, then you got the bar set pretty low for doing it. Anyway, that's my idea.

You think I'm your idea, but I think you're sitting pretty. If you're, let me ask you this. Last question. I just want clarification on this. If you ask your fiancé to marry you in October, is she going to think that that's like too soon to ask her based off your whole brother situation. I think you would be in the back of her mind, but I think she would definitely be excited and still say, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's a gauge it too. You could make up a scenario like, oh, my buddy at work just gotten gazed really close to

his brother. What do you think of that? Do you think that's too soon? And then whatever she says, then you know your answer. That's fair. She didn't, she didn't engage there. She didn't explicitly say when, because she knows she's getting engaged too. She didn't explicitly say don't ask me to get married in, she didn't give you a timeline or nothing, right?

No, no, no, she, and she's doing stuff for work right now too. She may even like be relocated or something. So it's, she's not expecting it. You need to do it on a time frame. She's just, you know, she expects it to happen. And we'll say yes, whenever it does. All right. Well, I think you just take all the stuff we've said, sift through it, find

whatever you think's going to work best. And I think it, you know, I don't think it's going to be as bad as you think. Yeah. Just roll with it. I got you. Well, you know, I appreciate y'all giving me that advice and I think I might give you a call back if I do it in six months if I don't do it. I'll just let you know, you know, got cold feet. Sorry guys. I'm just like my mom. Yeah, I appreciate it all. Yeah. No, we tried our best on this one. And yeah, give us an update. Okay. All right, I appreciate you. I want a picture in the corn maze. All right, it's coming to you.

All right, sounds good. Good luck. All right, thank you. I'll talk to you soon. Bye. Bye, bye. All right, Charlie, Miles, fall. It is fall.

And most people would be trying to get themselves some sort of pumpkin spice concoction. Look, not these guys. Now, we what do you go for instead, Charlie? Little typical, got the orange cream action. Looks like the trees taste like fall. Yeah. And honestly, yeah. I we're talked before on the that we should go into the woods together and look at the colors. Let's do that. I think we should.

I was thinking about it last night. Laying bad with my wife. Yeah. And I was thinking about you and me going to the woods together. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the meme of he's probably thinking about other girls and what I'm actually thinking about is drinking Tippi cow with you in the woods, you know, that's so, you know, I don't

want to say romantic, but kind of romantic. It's romantic. You can say it. Yeah, it's real. It's romantic. And honestly, there's nothing more romantic than getting together with your buddy going to the woods, looking at the colors. There's nothing weird about it, folks, drinking some tippy

couch, and I'm back with the tippy cow. Hello, welcome to the Belly to podcast who we talking to. Hey, there, boy, this is Freddie. Freddie. What's up, Freddie, where are you calling him from? I'm calling from West Bend, Wisconsin. Oh, West Bend is beautiful this time of year miles. Really?

Yeah. The colors. Oh my gosh. Where's that at, Charlie? West Bend. Oh, it's just north ways. Just west of the bend. Just west of the bend.

Yeah. Yeah, the bend. You can actually, it splits off. You either go Fondie or you go West Bend. Okay. Yeah. So it's just west of the bed. Yes, sir. Just take the split of the Cabellas. Split at the Cabellas, you got it.

What's on your mind, Freddie? I got two big things for you guys today. All right. That's great. First one is, that's great. First one is super excited. Hey, I have a Midwest ball season traffic question for you. Okay. I'm going to kind of present to you guys in the ways of like a middle school math question. Okay. Go mind. And I kind of want to get your guys opinion because I did this about a week ago in the response I got from the car driving past me was not very Midwest.

I'll put it that way. Okay. Continue on. Guys ready. All right. Perfect. So Charlie is driving down a country road at dusk in the middle of nowhere Midwest. Miles is driving towards him.

Miles flashes his high beams at Charlie both three or four times. What is miles trying to tell Charlie that there might be coming his way? A bear. A cop. A cop. A deer. Perfect. Yeah. A cop. Yeah. Or exactly a herd of deer standing in a friggin field. Oh Is that what happened? Well, I flashed my bright to somebody who I'm thinking it's a New York license plate and Boy did I get the bright flash back at me with a honk and a middle finger? Really what yeah, if someone flustered lights at me, I don't, I, I, my head goes to being grateful because something you're warning me about something. Yeah. First, I'm looking

to see if my lights are on. Right. And then I'm like, well, there's either a cop, there's some deer or something, right? Yeah. This dude doesn't know how cars talk to each other. That's, that's the only way to communicate. Yeah, this, this, this, this, I thought you met last night. You absolutely were this guy. Where you warning them about, um, I was warning them about a bunch of deer in a field. They're like right on the side of a intersection coming up for them. Yeah. No, dude. I mean, absolutely. And you're not just warning him for his sake. You're warning him for your sake, because if he hits a deer with his car, there's a glass for you to shoot, come the fall.

So you're doing everybody a service here. This fella needs to understand where he is or just, you know, get the hell out. Absolutely. How am I supposed to fill my freezer with upcoming Venice and jerky if this guy's killing all my deer with his car? Exactly. Exactly. Now, on second thought, it makes your fall a little easier.

If he does hit one, you could circle back and just grab the road kill and. Yeah. That's true. That idea. You could, you know, for sure that that guy's not putting that deer in his, uh, New York, uh, what kind of car was it? You remember? It was like a four door is piking audio or something like that. Ah, classic.

Yeah. Um, you were in the right to classic New Yorker. You were a thousand percent in the right. And Charlie, I think it's a good time for PSA about flashing your lights on Midwest roads. Yeah. What, what, what do you think the PSA should be? Uh, folks, if you see a police officer or a herde deer or, you know, maybe a cow that's venturing a little off the fence line, give a little flash. Your brights just a little one, two, three, that should say that it's not a mistake. It is intentional. And, uh, and that you should be looking out for something and if you get though that you know call do not assume that the other person is just trying to mess with you You know, it's very intentional thing. So that's a PSA right there. There we go Perfect. I love it. Yeah, what else easy? What else do you have for us?

Yeah, what else do you have for us? So I got a little bit of Charlie's favorite thing right here. I got a little bicell trade going on. Yes, bicellent trade. All right. Tell me what tell me what you got going. Right. All right. I got a family member that just came back from Mexico and brought giant like coppercolored welded together, full-size spear smokers. That we are trying to offload of people are interested in a giant smoker. It's got the whole unit, right? It's got the genitalia on it.

It's got the tail where it sucks the air in. All right, that's not okay. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It is shaped like tail where it sucks air in. All right. That's sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It is shaped like what's a shape like? A bull like a giant steer. Oh, a steer. I thought he said deer. I did too. Okay. You've got that. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir. My up. God. Smoke comes out of the horns and out of the nose. Dude, hey, we might we might have a couple buyers. That's it. That's in West Bend. Yeah, it's in a giant wood shed out of my

family's farm. So you're going to take me and Charlie out to the wood shed. Maybe we should go look at that. So all right, I need a little backstory. One doesn't just go down to Mexico and acquire 10 bowl smokers here. Wait, there's 10 of them too. I know. I need to know what's going on. Yeah. Are you guys? Are you guys in some sort of? Is there? yeah, there's some sort of concoction inside the smoker that I'm really buying? Yeah, what? I've watched a few Netflix shows in my day. What's really going on?

Nobody's just trafficking copper, steers, smokers, dude. Tell us a story, how the reason for you to find it up on you guys. Well, I'm assuming that the FBI is listening. You guys are podcasting. No, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. We did actually have a Fed call in. Remember that? We had the Fed card? Coast Guard.

Oh, a Coast Guard. He was a Coast Guard. Yeah, never mind. Keep going. You have family. Yeah, so family member went down to Mexico. But thank you. I appreciate that. Works in the metal fabrication business and when they were down there, a metal

fabricator just made them down in Mexico. I was like, do you want some of them? So we brought a bunch of them back up here. Do you want to go? I'll or sound them. I can't. How do you trail around back? So they just put a trailer on the back of a big Ford and drove them on up. Back them all up and drove them up here. Okay, let's get this. I was like a total show. Let's get this back. So hold on, Charlie. He saw these

these steer smokers and he said I got to figure out how to make money on this. It's simply just too good. Is that what happened? You guys saw that and you saw a business opportunity. Are you and your family quite entrepreneurial or what? I got huge into metal fabrication and I think they kinda saw this from like,

people are into this crazy smoker craze right now. How about having something that looks absolutely ridiculous in your front on that as smoke coming out of their nose and horns and you can crack a bottle open on the nose because it's got a bottle opener for a nose. Great. So it has like tell you how to do this. That's fast forward six months later and you're trying to sell them on our show.

So how many of you sold already? Yeah, sounds like zero. We're down, no, we're down to three. We started with 10. We're down to three. Oh, we're going to keep one. Um, no, probably not because we can always go grab another one. So I'm like, how would I put them out there for people in the area to come by. Well, Charlie, it sounds like you and I need to head to Mexico, figure out who's supplier. And undercut him. Yeah. Yeah.

What are you charging for? Is this, is this, is this real copper? That I, I don't think so. If it was real copper, I think people would be buying it and giving it away. Okay, I did in the car. So what's the actual metal then? I just want to know what I'm smoking inside of. That's a really good question.

I wish I had a better idea for you. I think it's just quarter inch steel. Okay. And how long are these things? Is this a life size steer replica? It has got to be almost like half life size. They are big, man. They're big things. And I actually cut my leg today on one of them when I was moving the horns off of it. They're pretty sharp.

All right. Well, how much are you asking for? I think we're getting about 1400 for them. Oh, geez. Will you take a trade? I'll take a trade. I'm interested in a trade. We can make a trade happen. Okay. 1981, 1979. Yamaha snowmobile clutch needs work. Just a little

bit of work. A lot of work. Well, Charlie, you got to sell it more. I'm just being honest. Okay. All it's all it's sickened. It's white and it's got some orange blue orange white stripe going right across the top of it. Windshield is cracked. Oh, do I have a deal? Hey, you go with the orange and the blue is sold in the end. I love those colors. Oh, wait, why do you, are you a bears fan, dude? No, absolutely not. OK, OK, OK, OK, you just like those colors outside of this time of year in the fall. It actually, now that I say that, though, I don't, I actually think it might be red. I forget the colors.

Yeah, shoot. I'm really bad at this. Yeah, shoot. I'm really bad at this. I'm going to maybe advise you that you should do a little more research on Charlie's snow wheel for you say deal. I don't. Sorry, Charlie, but I've got a video out there called first time snowmobile or just Google that and that you can look at that snowmobile in in action. Have you eaten any of the food that's been smoked out of these smokers? Yeah, when you know how well they work. I have and I have not gotten sick from that. I think I did get sick around that no, but it was probably from the seller's product that we can't fear before.

I would really like to know what this actual metal is. I just want to know what's going into the deal. So on future discussions when you're trying to sell these, leave that part out. Yeah. Leave out the getting sick part. Yeah. Um, people to our crowd part. Yeah. So what? Okay, 1400 bucks. Pretty penny but supply and demand, Charlie. Where else are you gonna get a steer smoker here in the States? Well, yeah, you're not unless you take that trip down the Mexico Dang wow, okay

Yeah, it might be a steal at 1400 bucks Charlie Steer my deal $1,900, Charlie. That's dear my eel. There you go. Okay. Well, I'll put it out. I'll take you guys and on Twitter or something. Yeah, we'll retweet it. Yeah. And anyone who's listening can go to Twitter, then they can

message you about it if they're looking for one. How's that sound? Yeah, that's perfect. And if they don looking for one. How's that sound? Yeah, that's perfect. And if they don't like the color of it, we do some painting too, so we can paint it up a different color. And we've added colors for you there. Oh, we love that.

We love that. Full stop shop here. I like that. Right now it's copper, straight copper, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. And does it patina? Have you had it out in the weather at all? We have not put it out in the rain or anything like that.

We put it outside the smoke on it, but it was nice and cold it back in. Okay. All right. Well, you put a lot on our minds to think about. And yeah, we appreciate you, Freddie. Thank you. Thank you for calling in on this, sir. You bet. You guys have a great fall.

Good luck, hunting. All right, you two. Keep flashing them bright. People, people understand. That's right. Watch out for your career folks. Just say hi. All right, real good.

You too. I got to get my eyeballs, real good. You too. I got to get my eyeballs on this thing. I know. I have a picture of what it is, but I imagine it's even better. I mean, I think it's probably pretty, I know it's cool looking. I mean, it can't not be based off that description. My question is though, what is that actual metal? You know, because I'm not too worried about it. Well, I mean, that

might affect the taste, you know, what he's already sold seven of them. So I mean, what am I talking about? I've cooked stuff out of an old garbage can. Don't you microwave most of your meals, Charlie? No, but my grandbed is all rustic garbage can. We put a great on top of made some burgers on that ones. It works. Meadows metal. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, good PSA for all the folks out there, two flash in the brights. Yeah. I wonder what was it that dude was thinking, you know,

getting all that mad. What did he think he was doing? Just messing with him that early in the morning. I don't know. Silly bastards. Well, Charlie, I think that's another good episode of the Belly Up Podcast. Feeling good?

I am feeling good, sir. Rocking and rolling. We got a lot of, I think we helped some people actually on this. We might have a steer in our backyards. You know, it's been a good day. And it has been a good day. So guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Belly Up Podcast. As always, don't forget Charlie to tip your bartender. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Belly Up Podcast.

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