Bellied Up - Rules of The Garage Fridge #55

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

In this episode, we're at Matt's Bar and Grill in Minneapolis, MN. Our first caller wants to know what belongs in the garage fridge and what shouldn't. The next caller, who has a pilot's license, wants to know which parts of the Midwest he should visit. In the final call, Myles and Charlie engage in a buy-sell-trade and get educated. 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 everybody to the Belly Up podcast today. Charlie and I are at Matt's in the Minneapolis area. Or yeah, or maybe you might know it as what Charlie home of the juicy Lucy home of the juicy Lucy. What's actually all funny, the jucky lucky if you can't read. Yeah. Something to think about. Jucky lucky, which honestly, I like that name a little bit more.

Juicy. That sounds like the knockoff version, right? Yeah. You try that jucky lucky or no. Why don't you come on over for a barbecue and we'll maybe make some jucky lucky. Yeah. Let's do a jucky lucky, you know, what actually Charlie is there's no pun intended. There's a little bit of a beef going on with the juicy Lucy. What's going on with that? Well, there's another

bar or restaurant that's trying to claim the juicy Lucy. What is it, the five eight? Really? The five eight is doing a little bit of stolen valor on the juicy Lucy is what I hear, but this, we go to the original. Well, yeah, we do, but what is their claim here? I mean, I feel like that's a bullet.

They invented their juicy Lucy is what their claim is. No, I understand, but what's their claim here? I mean, I feel like that's a bullet. They invented, or Juicy Lucy is what their claim is. No, I understand, but what's this other joints claim that? They're claiming they started it. But what's the, what is the, I guess my bad, that was a bad question. What is their proof? Oh, I don't know. What are they pointing to as evidence?

I don't know. How dare you come on this podcast and just give me like the tip of the iceberg. I want to know, I want to know the whole story now. What, I mean, I'm just saying, I'm not full to see with you. I know just as much as you do. No, you know more than me, you found out the headline,

but you didn't read the article. So you know what's happening right now, guys? Okay, I figured it out. Charlie did a personality test this morning And he found out that his personality type is the mediator and it's so now he's mad about it So he's trying to pick a fight with me over absolutely nothing. I'm mad that my little cartoon of the mediator is this little fairy guy Okay It's shocks. I look like a little, you know, guy who just likes to pick

blueberries all day and blueberries are good mind you. But yeah, I'm gonna stop being a little freaking mediator. I'm gonna start being more, you know, I'm gonna start expressing my feelings more. I want to be the guy holding the sword in those little cartoons. You want to be the protagonist is what you're saying. Kinda. This is a classic. Are you a protagonist? What's your? No, I'm actually a debater, which is very funny.

That's my first time. That's just very accurate. Yeah, accurate. Yeah, but it's funny because we have now switched roles. You were trying to pick a fight and I was trying to diffuse a situation. Yeah, and maybe in a couple months, you'll have my little blueberry picker guy. Yeah, yeah. So I know what that was really about.

Okay, thanks for reading through it. Hey, I like those ducks on the wall. They go a little ring neck. Oh yeah. Those are some nice ducks, man. And they got that kind of coppery or that gold kind of looking 10, you know, um, very thin copper on the wings. I mean,

those are some docs that if they fall off the wall, they're broke. And you can't ever twist those wings back the way. I know that because my Nana had a similar kind of wall decor and it would always fall off the wall and it never looked as good as it did. Yeah. The first time it fell off the wall. So other things in the wall, what I like about Matt's bar here Charlie, is they got no ice, no plates because they blew the

budget on the napkins. You know, they're honest here at Nats. Yeah, they really are. That is that is that's a t-shirt. I mean, that's that looks like a hat. It's a great way to save some money. You know, you're like, Hey, God, this ice machine's going to cost this much money. We're like, No, let's just put a sign up saying make a little joke about it. Be part of the brand.

Yeah. And there are no plates. I mean, that is accurate. Everyone's just got napkins on the table. Yeah. I guess I've never seen a spot like this. Some folks are lucky enough to have baskets. They got baskets for the fries, but the baskets are not suitable for the burgers. No, no. The burgers are all on the napkins. And I like that though. I like that there's a hat just hanging on the wall. Looks like a Cuban hat. Yeah, a hat that they're known to wear in Miami or Cuba. Yeah.

No great vibes here in mats. Yeah, and the walls are golden, which I do like that too. It's a little, I don't know that I want that in my house, but in this place here, I'm good with it. And then of course, the classic wood paneling walls, I'm just trying to give a scene setting for the folks at home. You're doing a good job. You're really describing it in vivid detail. Yeah.

Yeah, you are. I kind of want a jucky lucky. I'm going to be honest with you about that too. A jucky lucky. We're going to have to get a juicy Lucy as we head into this podcast. And for those who don't know what a juicy Lucy is, I'm pretty sure it's that the cheese and something that's inside of the patty. Am I correct in saying that, Jared?

Why? It's an encased beef patty. Why couldn't you let it be a surprise for me? Well, I mean, I don't know. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy.

I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. I was why today is a long day. It's about to get longer pal. It's about to get longer. I know, especially with you arguing with me now all day, you found out that you're not an arguer for a conmediator. And also I want to say that the longest day of the year that sometimes makes people excited. For me,

it's kind of sad a little bit because days are only going to get shorter. So I'm going to appreciate this day and appreciate every minute of sunshine, knowing that the last minute of sunshine, I won't see that again for another year. So not to bring the conversation down, but hey, I'm excited to talk to some callers. Should we take some callers? That would be great. Yeah, that would be a good good thing. See, I can also be a mediator sometimes. Not everything needs to be right. And I was just over thinking it Charles. All right, let's get down to business. Hello, who do we got on the line? This is

Todd, Miles, how are you doing? Good, John. I got Charlie here too. It's Todd. Oh, I thought he said, Hey, cut out a little bit. Just give me a break. So how about that, Todd? Todd, Miles is upset. I, um, I just didn't mean to. I'm sorry. I am, uh, I was a mediator in my anyogram test. So I'm being more combative this podcast episode. All right. I've got it.

Well, I, I'm glad to hear it because I'm calling from Chicago. Oh, nice. Oh, no, oh, go bears. Is that what you think? Okay. Listen, you guys may have a decent looking year this year, but you'll find a way to screw it up. I promise you that.

Okay. Probably. Oh, dang, you know, if you're not upset about this and coming back at me hot with some heat, then I just feel like a jerk. Okay. Look at me smoothing things over. It's not season, buddy. I mean, you're, you're going through your own stuff. I don't know when you guys

are airing this, but obviously I feel like it happened number 12. How am I going through my own stuff? He doesn't know when we're airing this. Oh, see what he did there? No, I see what you did there. Todd, what's on your mind, guy? Well, I'm outside here in the great state of Illinois and cleaning out the garage and I got one of those miles, you know, all about a garage refrigerator. Oh, yeah, I just want to know what the boys think about what beer you should keep in there. Let's not talk about possible. Oh, wow. What do you want them to say? Oh wow, but then what do you want them to say? Yeah, yeah, I'm just curious.

I mean, I think that would be in the go to it. I'm curious what if there's, you know, just maybe like a deeper conversation like sort of like a light summary, something that, you know, kind of hits all the things. Maybe people enjoy, but you like maybe have a couple different alternatives. So here's what would have pushed in the

CRISPR there. I don't worry about that. Yeah, so here's what I'll go for it. And then you go after that. All right. So in my garage fridge, if I don't have bush light in there and I got other stuff in there, all of the beers that are in there are stuff that people brought to my house at a party and left the couple stragglers woke up the next morning and you just throw it in the garage fridge and all of a sudden you got a collection

of just one or two random beers from what you've collected over the years and some of them are probably overdue and some of them probably aren't. But either way, they're not leaving your fridge because you never know, you might have a buddy come over that's like, hey, you got one of those double chocolate triple IPA. Oh, yeah, with the hours, you know, it's the honey nut after taste. Yeah. And you're like, well, actually, I had a, you

know, buddy with a screw loose that came over two years ago. He left it here. So yeah, I got that coming right up, buddy. Screw loose and a man bun. Yeah. And so you basically got the Hodgpodge. Yeah, it's like the junk drawer of fridges is the garage fridge. I like to make your own six pack, but make your own six pack. Yeah. Some of it.

Do you have it? And you got expired beer in there too. You all, I mean, that's just a little extra flavor, right? Yeah, that that just adds it's kind of like seasoning the pan and it's not skunky, right? It's funky funky That appears a little funky. What about your overall fridge experience? You got like pickles in there. Do you have like some ketchup? That's like spilled from like some food you got like you brought a burger home and it's got a little ketchup residue in there. Do you have like some ketchup that's like spilled from like some food you got like you brought a burger home and it's got a little ketchup residue in there. Do you have some like old brats are kind of that got that.

Well, I mean everything in that freezer is freezer burns. It's been in there a while. Wait, Fridge or freezer there's a big block of ice that's built up in the freezer. Yeah, you know, where you can't even shot it Yeah, yeah, breaks a seal. Yeah, so what do you think of that Todd? Do you have a few of those in your garage fridge? Yeah, I had that issue where you know you pull a little like maybe some ice cream bars in there and then maybe He's trying to plug into the space eater as well and then forget about When the power should stop and turn into a little bit of like an ice cream. That's the rejells in the freezer. Yeah. I keep a lot of those, you know, jalapeno poppers and not sticks in there with the air fryer. There you go. Yeah. It's like anything. Anything that you're not really going to instead. You're just gonna reheat goes in that freezer, right?

Charlie, what do you got in your garage fridge? I am my garage fridge. I got I got you know, we got Lines that's kind of my go-to beer That's what I got the most That's kind of my go-to beer. That's what I got the most beer like the standard Linies or the so here's what I really like I like Linies light which is this beer that you can't get everywhere you can honestly think only get it over in like the Chippewa Falls area maybe maybe you can get it all through Wisconsin can't find it off and them so So I like to have that. That's like the sweet treat for you.

It is. It's really good like beer. And then beyond that, it's very similar to miles. It's a hodgepodge of things that people have brought over. But then also, there's a lot of leftovers that have kind of been forgotten. You know, like a leftover gets to this. It's got this shelf life of like maybe a week where you're going to

actually eat that leftover. And then after that, it's just some uglays over. It becomes part of the decor of the fridge. Yeah, it's like, now that is just part of the fridge. Right. It's like, look, I got this new end table over here, but it's like, you know, half of a burger from cops or something, you know, it's a burger from Cox or something. You know, it's a little hard and crispy. And I don't know why I wouldn't take the time to clean it out. I just haven't yet.

I mean, you don't know why. I mean, that says something about me, doesn't it? I think you know why. Well, because our personalities, Charlie, we don't clean stuff very often. Is that part of a mediator too? I'm not a cleaner. No, I don't know.

I don't know. We're just not the cleanliness. I kind of, I also think I kind of smell right now. Have you gotten a smell of me here? No, I think that just might be the juicy looses. Oh, no, it's not smelling good. I think it's me. I don't get too close.

Don't stand. Don't stand so close to me. It's going to be tough right the bar. Anyway, so that's kind of the inside of my garage fridge. They're Todd Todd, what would you say are the top three things you got to have in your garage fridge? Well, I mean, certainly, I think something that, you know, anybody walks in, they can take it out and sit on it. So I'm going to go with, again, I'm going to go with like maybe for us out here in the Chicago and area, a Gu-style in the 312 ale.

And definitely some pickles. I heard that a couple times. I think we always keep the gurgings around. Those are good. Just stick your finger in there and get a couple out. Yeah, I think it's important. You said it yourself. You said they can just come in and grab whatever they want. I think number one rule of a garage fridge is everything is fair

game to anyone. If you're putting beer in the garage fridge, you got to be okay with your buddy just walking in through the garage, grabbing a beer and coming into the house and sitting on the couch without even asking, you know, and spoken rules. Number two rule of the garage fridge, Todd, you touched on it just there you must have pickles I you gotta have a pickle jar and it's it doesn't have to be door county pickle all out I'll I'll I'll take the door county pickles all day but I my one of my favorite things to do is actually get a pickle and put it in a beer you ever do that we call that a beer in a spear Charlie beer in a spear Todd you ever you get it in the beer and a spear action. I can't say that I have it. What is the, what is

the right combination of beer to spear? And you know, that's dealer's choice, honestly, but just any sort of what I, what I like to do is like, you know, you take one spear of a pickle, toss it in there, and then you do a little like a pickle. Yeah. Toss it in there and then you do a little like pickle bonus points. So just a little, little just a little wrist action splash of pickle juice in the beer. Oh, you know what I mean? I like that. Throw a spear in and then you're like, whoops. And he accidentally just get a little bit,

a little bit of pickle juice in there. It's a little splash and all of sudden, you got yourself a pickle beer. I like that a lot. Pickled beers, by the way, are pickle juice is very good for hangovers. And it'll keep you from cramping as well. Keeps you from cramping. And I got that whole pickle in the beer from my grandpa Bob.

He, I saw him do that a few times. He'll also salt his beer, but then his doctor said, you can't salt it. I think that was his who pull because there was salt in the pickles. But anyways, and then he had to use pepper because things got real bad. But he would, he would always have to put, decorate the beer somehow. So anyway, have yourself a pickle jar in there? What's another unwritten rule, Todd?

I don't, I keep popsicles in there. You know, the kind of flip off with a scissors in the freezer. Oh, I love freezing. I see these pops. Freeze. Yeah. Freeze pops are called. I mean, that's good call. Good. That is a garage freezer. Yeah, we're staple. You ever slice the side of your mouth on one of those as a kid. Yeah, felt like the Joker on Batman. By the end of the time you're eating it, but it was so good that it didn't matter. Yeah, blood. Is it blood or is it the fruit punch flavor? I don't know. And those were like, if they were a certain kind of hardness, you would like break your teeth kind teeth trying to get them open.

Or you would just hold it like a baseball bat so then you can get it to melt a little bit. Yeah, but then we'll make your hand cold. You put it, you kind of sit on it. You have your shirt. You hold it with your shirt, you're doing that. Yeah. Yeah, man, those were good. You got kids, Todd?

Oh, you cut out. What was that? kids Todd. Oh, you got what was that? Oh, geez Todd, I think our connection is on life support right now. Let us know. Do you hear us, Todd? Todd, are you in a tunnel? Tell us, are you in a tunnel? What's where are you? You're coming back you got a pulse you got a pulse. Let us know. You know Todd I was Nice I was kind of hoping a little bit that you didn't have kids and you just were stalking or fridge with the ice pops, the freeze pops just for yourself. He had been in there prior to the children. Okay, I like that. I like that, Todd.

But you're going to want to get through those though. They're not just a decoration. Don't be afraid of those. That's a good one. Yeah. Or he probably just got the massive size wine. So he's got, you know, hundred of them. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta start on the, you're like, oh my God. 1000 freeze pops and I can save three bucks in the big netted bag. I can save three bucks on 1000 freeze pops. How can I pass up on those kinds of savings? What a deal. Man, well Todd, I suppose it's about that time, fella.

Oh, I suppose it is. Thank you both, love your stuff. Charlie, I saw you house that brought which is a bus game. You would go to the other side. Oh, did you? Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, I housed it for sure.

I offered AJ, I don't know. They looked like they wanted to ask you a question. They were trying to ask me. I don't want to ask you a question. Not the third. Yeah, no, I was I was busy chewing. I was busy chewing. That was a lot of fun. Too bad the box didn't make it, um, you know, all the way to the

championship this year. But we'll get them next year and same with the Packers. And I'm sorry your bears fan Todd. Yeah, well, hello, your parents for me. Okay. Yep. We're good. We'll see you soon watch for your pal. I should go. All right. That's the long goodbye. All right. See you, Todd. Todd's a good good guy. You know, he's genuine fella. And I don't mean this in a creepier weird way. I'd like to go to that guy's garage. I'd like to go to Todd's garage too.

I'd like to hang out in the garage. I feel like not enough people are doing it these days. I got myself a nice chair for the garage. I found it off the side of the road. But that's step one of getting a, your garage game up and going is have a nice chair for the garage. I found it off the side of the road, but that's step one of getting a, your garage game up and going is have a nice chair when you want to sit in, you know? Yeah, I would recommend buying chairs

that you want to sit in. Well, miles. There are many chairs that people get just because they're free. You know what, guys, this is good. Hey, let's keep this wrong. Guys, buy a bed you want to sleep in. Bed is different than a chair. Bed is different than a chair.

And also, it's good advice, yes, but I've slept in a bed just because it was free for a large number of years. Yeah, that makes sense, Charlie. Same with chairs. It's like, how much is it? It's free. You know, it's on the side of the road. You bring it in and you make it comfortable. I like that. I like that about you, Charlie. Yeah. You're really a go-getter. You're not someone. You're not some guy who mediates stuff. You know, usually I'm one thing to tell.

Yeah. I think I did it. Yeah. Cool. It's the longest day of the year today. Cool. It's the longest day of the year today. And I tell you what, that means you have more hours, you have more minutes, more seconds in today than the entire rest of the year to drink some tippy cow. Does that get you excited? Does it get me excited? I'm going to enjoy this moment while it's going to sip in the sunshine and the tippy cow hell yeah, and we brought our own tippy cow here today. It was kind of like one of those things you carry around a briefcase and they're like oh my god that guy's got a bunch of cash in there. She doesn't know. We got something better than cash in this briefcase. Yeah. You pop it open. We got bottles of tippy cow. It just glows. It's a white glow for that Wisconsin white milk.

Yes. Absolutely. So guys, longest day of the year, gotta go to the store, get yourself some tippy-coz. You can tip it on back to the longest day of the year. Welcome to the Belly-Up podcast. Who are we talking to today? Hey Matthew. Matthew, how you doing? All right, Charlie, how are you? I'm doing great. I'm sitting here with Miles. Why don't you belly on up to the bar with us

and tell us what's on your mind? Hey, I'm good. So I just got my private pilot ticket to get. Congratulations. I'm trying to figure out what I can do about. Thank you. Wait, you're trying to figure out what you can do with it. Yeah, what do you guys think are some good things in midwest?

I need to go fly around and think. Now, I got to ask you a question first. Did you happen to see our podcast where we had a private jet flight attendant on? I believe so. Yeah, was that a few months ago? Is that what inspired you to become private jet licensed pilot? No, I started training like a year ago.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's going to take a lot more day. Yeah. First of all, how much of a new driver's license? I'll take you that. Well, congrats on you. You had all that cockpit talk and you wanted to get in on that. That was just the icing on the cake. So how? That's right.

Absolutely. Yeah. First of all, congratulations. I know that that's a hard process to kind of go through and get the private pilot's license, got a money, a lot of hours in the air, so congrats to you. So you're looking, can you like, though, are you in a financial situation where you can just like fly to one of these places yourself? Yeah, I mean, I just got to rent a plane and then I can hop in and go wherever I want

pretty much. How much does it cost to rent a plane? The ones I'm flying are anywhere between $150 and $200 an hour. That's it. Well, if you think about it though, if you're going to play so for tonight. Single engine. Yeah, these are single engine piston planes. I mean, this is no Boeing or Airbus. So I, you know, I can cruise it like a hundred miles an hour and I got about four to five hours worth of gas. Okay. So you're wondering, well, where are you located at currently? So I'm in the far west suburbs of Chicago.

Okay. Okay. So you're wondering you got about a five hour flying radius going a hundred miles an hour. We'll give it within, we'll give it within 400 miles in Chicago. Oh, 400 miles in Chicago. Well, I got pretty good. And I can stop for fuel too if I need to. So pretty much anywhere in the Midwest. OK, anywhere in the Midwest, where do you, if you can, if you got a private jet and you can fly yourself anywhere in the Midwest, where do you go?

I'm going to go first off the bat. I first off the bat is my go to, but it's a fantastic place Wisconsin Dells. It you got that bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear,

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out because little like Vegas you stay there longer than a couple of days it starts to be like this is getting a little weird. Yeah. What happened? Dead, what's it's called? What'd you say now? Did you still little little fat and goat on these either too long? Yeah. I think that'd be a great place to go. Charlie, where else would you send them? I would go to Shaboygan, Wisconsin, but before you go, I would ratchet strap your surfboard to the top of that airplane because you can surf in Cheboygans. It's one of the, you know, one of the little known facts about Cheboygans, the folks not from Cheboygans, you can surf there. It's the Malibu of the Midwest.

So just ratchet strap, like I said, your surfboard to the top of your plane, that should be a lot of fun. I don't think that would mess with the aerodynamics because there's a fin on the bottom of the surfboard. Miles, where would you go? I would, I would, I would, I would, I would, I would, I would, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you're into like hiking and stuff like that, you can go to the North Shore of Lake Superior, right?

Oh, yeah, like Minnesota, that's Lake Superior. Sure. And you go to the North Shore up there. Are you talking Duluth on the Minnesota side? Are you talking the Wisconsin side? Well, even further north of Duluth on the North Shore. Oh, you said North Shore, that makes sense. Yep.

Duluth's more south. So you could fly into, I mean, you could probably fly into a smaller port up there. It's got to have one. Oh, they got one. Then you can actually, they got a nice high. Oh, yeah, they're all over. Yeah. So you fly into the North Shore. It would be a great spot to go. You know, uh, that's where all my friends go. Now that I got my life, they all want to go up to up the minute. They want me to fly them up there. Yeah, there you go. A little puddle jumper. You could also head down if you want a little more of a party scene though, do they want me to fly him up there? Yeah, there you go. Little puddle jumper. You could also head down if you want a little more of a party scene

in the summer. Head to Lake of the Ozarks. But it's also similar to Vegas and Deadwood. You only want to spend a few days there. And then you probably want to get out. Well, renting that sucker for $150 an hour, he's probably only got time to really explore for an hour, don't you think?

Yeah. Just maybe fly over the Ozarks, see't you think? Yeah, just maybe fly or maybe just even fly over the OZR to see all the lake. Yeah, that's nice. That'd be kind of cool. Yeah. Here you go. Yeah. I think you could also go to the Mackenac Island, you know, that's one.

I've never been there myself. Is that in the EP? Yeah, it's up. That's the bridge from the you. It's kind of like by its UP. Yeah, but it's close to, you know, where the trolls live in the U.P. Yes, up that's the bridge from the U it's kind of like by its U.P. Yeah, but it's close to, you know, where the trolls live in the South. That's what they call them, the trolls under the bridge. Oh, you know, lower Michigan. That doesn't sound very nice. It might not be nice. I may have upset some Michiganders here, but that's okay because

we're the true Mitten state. And also the U.P. should really be part of Wisconsin. It's another conversation. Now I got to ask you, why do you got something on your little bucket list to fly to in the Midwest? Not necessarily in the Midwest. I had Matt and all Island was on my on my airport bucket list. I got a whole bunch that are all over the country. Like I want to go fly out to markets in here at some point. I want to fly out to a first flight airport at Kitty Hawk and the Outer Bank in North Carolina where the Wright Brothers said the first flight there. So I thought, be pretty cool.

Yeah. Other than Wisconsin Dells, that's pretty much all I got from the squad. OK. Also, Muskegon, you can fly into Muskegon, Michigan, right on the coast there. Sometimes there's an optical illusion where you can see the lights of Milwaukee from the shore of Muskegon at night because there's this refraction thing going on with the clouds.

I don't really understand, but you can literally see the lights of Milwaukee with a mile south across Lake Michigan. You can see that. You can also go see the Pauling light up in the UP. It's a ghost of a train conductor who lost his life to a train at one point, but he still holds the lantern. You go out there with a six pack and he shows up every now and again, the Paul Ding light. Go to Mitchell, South Dakota, you see the court, Dallas, all, do you hear about the court? What'd you say?

You had me at six pack that works for me. Yeah, six pack and ghosts, sign me up. And Miles has another great suggestion. Go ahead. Yeah, I got to go to Mitchell, South Dakota, see the corn, Dallas. It's the world's old corn, palace. Yeah, you can also go to Hayward. No, you can't, you should never. And while we're at world's things, world's biggest

muskie in Hayward, Wisconsin, that's a big winner right there. I think the world's biggest loon sculpture is in Fergus, Minnesota. Oh, there. That's cool. You got a whole laundry. Honestly, what are you doing talking to us? You should be getting in the air. You should start flying. Get there. Yeah. There's a league idea. I'll come to bar. We're at match home with the juice. Yeah, just buzz the tower for a tower, but I like that. Well, Yeah, just buzz the tower for a little bit. I like that. Well, I think you got a good list ahead of you. And you know, by the way, there's a little bit of wind going. Are you flying a plane right now as you talked to us? Yeah, you got the top down. I'm outside. I'm getting ready to go to work some standing out on my car. Oh, yeah, he's got the window down.

You know, his arm out the side is doing the little flow hand thing like you do when it's nice out in 40 degrees in the spring. I love it. Well, have fun at work, man. Appreciate calling in. Hopefully you can add a few things to your list now. All right. Yes, I'm good.

Let me know if you guys want to ride sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Can you bring both of us? Yeah. What's the weight limit? Well, I don't okay. I know how Leonard Skinner left this world. What? Did I get about 900 pounds? You can do it that way. How much do you weigh? I think I weigh about 130 pounds. 130. We're good. We can make it work. Okay. I'll suck it in, Charlie. All right. Thanks for chit chat. All right. Okay. Tell you folks that I are I watch for deer now and rain deer in this plane. He's gone, Charlie. I just want to know. Yeah. Um, I hate that. I hate being the guy in the room when people like, all right, well, there's

a weight capacity on this elevator and then everyone tries to do the, oh, I'm going to look at Charlie and look at Jared so that when I do size up miles, it looks like I just didn't immediately just go all right What's is he gonna put us over the weight limit? Does that happen a lot? Wow you go into a lot of elevators you the 12th guy in a lot of elevators Yeah, once in a while, you know you open it up. It's already full and they're like oh come on in and they don't see me back There and then I start coming there like oh, you know There's another one. We'll send another one back up for you guys.

It's old miles. I'll take the next one. Mon pleasure. Yeah. Well, miles. I do want to say you're looking a trimmer than a tack right now. You've really been hitting the gym. Yeah, I've just been sucking it in the whole time. Have you said? Yeah. No, we miles and I wrestle for the front seat. time. Happy. Yeah. Yeah. No. We miles and I wrestle for the front seat. Uh, yesterday, the old shotgun battle, shotgun battle. I haven't done one of those in a while. And it was like, um, you

know, it was like the punt return. Yeah. It was what I said. It felt like I was a blocking on punt return again, where all you got to do is you don't have to block them the entire way. You just got to stay hip to hip with them. And then right at the right moment, you throw a block. You'll find your angle.

Yeah. And that's what we did is we ran to our car in a parking ramp like a bunch of children hurt my shoulder trying to edge them out. Yeah. I tried to edge them out. You know, the nice thing about being a bulkier guy, you know, because of all that muscle is that when I'm trying to edge my way in, when I want you to listen harder, when I edge my way in, I had no chance. As soon as you asserted your dominance, this mediator had, you know, you did have,, you know, they say that the low man wins. You were lower than me, but I just had too much body mass, I think I got to hit the gym more. I got work on these legs, you know, get more hip-action. You didn't

activate the hips. I heard you got good hips. I heard that from you was running around telling that story. You are every every every day of this podcast. Yeah, I got some hips on me. Yeah, good for you. Good for you. One more caller. Let's do that. Yeah, let's do that.

Hey, your guys. This is Devon from Portland, Oregon. Devon from Oregon. Is it Oregon or again? I don't. It's Oregon. Well, Oregon is to you guys. It's Oregon. I won't it's Oregon It's Oregon I won't say it Oregon okay, that was bad

You got a bicellent trade is what I have a feeling I got a bicellent trade I got a Really? Did you see how I could you just open a garage or what's going on? really? Oh, did you see how I could really grow up feeling or what's going on? I'm having a car sale. Yeah, I got a couple of vehiculars that I'm not going to pawn off on somebody. Cool. Well, you know, you say it vehicular and that's really going to it's going to be tough to get someone in the door. But anyways, what do you got? in the door, but anyways, what do you got? Once once you see it, though, I just think a couple pictures. I got some mint condition 1977 Honda Accord listed two inches with a big old bumper on it. Also got a four Ford focus with a

winch. Lightning lifted refractal. Okay, you, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait little little left or when you've got me out of us in situation. And pull the mail carrier out of the dish when we had a lot of ice. With a Ford focus. Yeah, with a I guess a cool little rig. Yeah, you're quite the salesman. I like how you're making it

sound. It makes me want to maybe make an offer on this bad boy And it has a nice custom steel bumper and A little skid plate made out of don't tell anybody road signs that I got Legally, right how do you get a road sign? Oh, God look at this freaking thing Oh, that is a nice machine right there wait. Can we show road sign? Oh, God, look at this freaking thing. Oh, that is a nice machine. Right. Wait, can we show the camera? Oh, oh, you can just put it up on there.

What the hell did you do to this? I guess the question is gambler 500. The question is, is why? Why is why did you do this? Why'd you put a winch on that side I mean I approve by the way but oh here's the other one oh my god that is so cool how much do you want first of all this is not mint condition looks like you spray painted it yeah that's a nice color yeah that's a Honda Accord. Yeah, the 77 Honda Accord with the, yeah, some speed bumpers on it. Okay, is that stick shift?

Is that a little five speed deal? Oh, yeah, it's a little, it's a little five speed. Probably has all of 48 horsepower. Nice. Okay, well, you didn't answer my question. Why? Why?

Why did you put a winch on that car? Well, so again, we're 500 is a little off road and now the gate will challenge you. You basically make these ridiculous cars to go out in the wilderness. You pick up a bunch of trash and you make it nice and clean and have fun while you're doing it. So these are trash grabbers. Yeah, yeah, that's what the root fracks are on them for, yeah. So you're an environmentalist.

That's pretty much the gambler 500 is all about just cleaning up the environment. And some of the smoky is their non-profit, you know, that they just go out in the desert and pick up trash that people will be really done. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's interesting.

All of these. What do you do for a living? I dabble. I dabble on this and that. I have all my little side gigs, but he's unemployed. He's unemployed. I have fun employed. I have two jobs, two jobs.

Yeah, fun employed and two jobs. And, you know,, little dairy farm too. Oh man, no, this guy's a hustler. This guy's an entrepreneur. Yeah, at some point you go from being unemployed and a hustler to then eventually having your own business, you know, at one point I was also a hustler. Just means that you're an entrepreneur who's making no money, but you know what? I have a feeling this one of your side games got a dairy farm besides daddy sounds like

he's got two other ones. Yeah, we do that. We do the dairy and we sell the eggs and we do some some dope milk and then sell it. And then I kind of do a little way and do the gig as well and I have my actual big boy full time job. What's actual big boy full-time job. What's the big boy full-time job? It's a sit-mahinda desk and stare at monitors and schedule people to go assemble things

that at the store looks like a low-sum depot, the old fleet farm and stuff like that. Are you sure? Run with just the form and build drills. You're there right now, aren't you? I have beer right now. Looking at my computers. Hi, hi.

I like how you build that growth. So now you've got these beautiful vehicles. They seem to be passion projects. Why are you getting rid of them? I don't want to get a different one. So I'll take a trade with somebody. I'm looking for that bad-ass life. You know, 70s, early 80s old beer,

that's rear-wheel drive, five speed is possible. And then I'm gonna list that and make my next one. Nice. That's great. What's the craziest thing you've ever pulled out with that winch on that on that focus? It's probably the the mailman. He was stuck in a ditch and he angst him out on an icey road. It was pretty fun, but other than that, just a lot of trash. People bring in boats to camp him on know, into the gambler camp. They just punch a hole through the front of it

and drag it into camp and throw in the dumpster. Okay, wait. So, you're saying that you... There's a big gambler town, yeah. Okay, so what's the weirdest thing you've ever pulled out like with trash, like what trash have you pulled out of the desert? A lot of boats, a lot of boats. So people are just dumping boats in this desert or what?

All the time, all the time. Yeah, you go over to Central Eastern Oregon and people dump their boats. If you go to like, if you just type in gambler 500, you know, on the old Google there, you'll see all these crazy ridiculous pictures and limousines that are listed four feet in the air with, you know, hammock, center, niche, and stuff like that. It's a good hobby. You guys should look into it. I mean, oh, I'm looking at it now.

Okay. There you go. It's a rally. The gambler 500, I recommend everyone listening to Google, the gambler 500. This is quite interesting. The gambler 500 rally is a mostly off road rally style navigational adventure using cheap impractical hence the focus or fun vehicles to run through the country picking up trash and removing abandoned vehicles and boats participants are encouraged to spend no more than $500 on their vehicle. However, this cruiser. Oh yeah. This is cool man. Now that I see it miles, we should really get we should get a gambler 500 vehicle. How many one did a boat? Someone ate a collot of a boat. That's that's so cool. That's like a duck boat, dude. I bet you he can actually actually know he definitely cut those wheel wells. That's that's not floating anymore. Um, this is really cool. So where does the

gambler 500 begin? Or the OV, the gambler, gambler OV, what we call it, that's central organ usually held in New Year's July, July this year. And you just kind of go to gambler town and there's different waypoints, you can hit those waypoints if you want. You can do your own thing or you can just go out in the wilderness, have fun, play up trash. That's what most people do. But it's all central. That's Oregon.

And you guys have trailers like when you see that boat out there, you're not just dragging that boat. Like do you have a trailer and you're hooking it up to it? No, you drag it. You drag it? That's why the West one needs the win. I know, but I figured he'd just winoking it up to it. You drag it. That's why the West one needs the win. I know, but I figured he just winch it onto a trailer that day. You're gonna how far? So the this focus can drag about.

I know you can drag anything with a winch. I know, I just feel like that there's there's too many things for it to get caught up on where you might get your own car stock, but I suppose there's a bunch of others there. There's a bunch. Yeah, the big one there's a guy I think, you know, for thousandish cars out there running around in the desert. Well, where are you dragging it to? How far are you dragging that boat with that winch? I want to find you're just trying to get it to a place you can get a trailer to, but these people about there and dump them in inconvenient spots. You just try to get them. There's actually a thumbs of smokey half where you can mark the location of some debris and then you go out there. If you't get something you just mark it on the app And you know, hopefully the next guy comes along and and they can pick it up. That's cool

That's really cool. Well, I learned something new today Charlie. I learned about the gamblers 500 Yeah, me too. How much you want for these automobiles by the way You know, I like to I like to trade. Okay. Sam was all about trading. Got it. I want a trade for an older vehicle, you know, running driving both of these cars running drive the focus I had daily point of it. And just want to get something new and you know, get the next project. Wonderful. And people want to reach out. They like what they see here how can they get in touch. Well you know you can just give me now give me a call but goodness gracious you know they can hit me up on the old Instagram and the old Instagram is Devon

or so D Watson WPS 07604 That's my Instagram handle. So they want to do with a trade. What's wrong? D Watson 7604. You got it. There it is. D Watson is D Watson. He is not E Watson. He's D Watson. Followed folks and reach out if you're interested in one of those vehicles. Also, if you got a photo on there, I bet people would like to even just see this sucker on your Instagram if they wanted to see what it is. All, all throw.

So yeah, I post on Instagram maybe once a year. So I'll throw some photos up there. Throw a couple photos up there. They're beautiful. It would be fun to do something like that in the Midwest. They're beautiful. It would be fun to do something like that in the Midwest. But there might very well be something in the Midwest. You never used to have a small event that happened

all through the country and in different countries throughout the year. That's cool, man. I love it. Well, thanks for calling in, man. We appreciate you. That's cool, we got it. It's a calculator. All right. So yeah. Thanks for calling in, man. We appreciate you. Absolutely got it. Talk to you later.

All right. So yeah. Those those vehicles are sick. It will be fun to do one of those. Now we're definitely you and I are going to need the handy person or hand person to actually make it work. I can. But we could come up with some good.

We can come up with some good. I can do some car stuff. Not a lot. I did have this beautiful Volkswagen rabbit back in the day. I still miss. I think diesel five on the floor. Whole man. They got these Volkswagen rabbit pickup trucks that I really like too. I think what I'd want to do is get a double-decker bus. That'd be cool. That'd be a very miles move. You throw all the trash in the first floor and then you get to party on the second floor, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how you'd be able to lift that and get that into some like

tighter spaces, but I feel like you'll figure it out. We could put some training wheels on the side. Oh, that's a good idea. Lift it up so it might be a little top heavy. Yeah. We then make some side cart wheels on it as well. Oh, that's good. That's a really good idea. See?

Yeah. Charlie, we should be able to. Innovator. Yeah, we'll do the game. I'll drive and you can pick up all the trash. How does that sound? You know what, miles, that sounds fun. It does.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, it doesn't. Yeah, it does. I'm going to drive and you pick up the trash. Oh, yeah. We'll switch off every 500 miles. Okay You start Pick him with the trash. I'll get it. It's the gambler 500 so it's 500 miles. Oh, you do the second. Damn. That was funny

That was funny. Well, that was another episode of the Belly to podcast Charlie. Yeah, feels good miles to have one of the books with you today We're gonna have to get ourselves a juicy Lucy and us here now I'm all about that jockey lucky. I can't wait. Well, yeah, so guys. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Melina podcast and as always Charlie tip your bar tender. See you next one. Bye. Bye you