Bellied Up - The Groomsman Who’s Never Met the Groom #148

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

We’re at Acme Feed & Seed in Nashville, Tennessee. Our first caller (12:31) asks for recommendations on the best places to visit in the Wisconsin Dells. The next caller (26:22) has found a local bar he loves and is determined to get a nickname. Another caller (50:19) shares his unusual experience of being in a wedding for a groom he’s never met—they connected through Call of Duty. Finally, (1:02:45) we update everyone on what happened to the bar that was built for the first couple Bellied Up episodes.

You can go to the country bumpkin farm market and country country bumpkin farm. And sorry about that. Welcome back to another episode of the Bellied Up podcast. Miles, we have Charlie here and we are at the Acme Feed and Seed bar here off of Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah. And they are named after the Acme feed and seed company, which here in Nashville, they were a mainstay back about 100 years ago. They were one of the biggest booming businesses in town.

Miles, really? Yeah. Tell me more. I don't. I just made that up. So I don't feel like I should give you more information on that. There is an interesting deer that they have here. The deer is as white as the wall and the antlers are as brown as the wall used to be. You know, what kind of that's an albino deer, I believe.

What kind of deer is that? No clue. Jake would probably know. Jake, that's a species I'm unfamiliar with. It's got like kind of moosey antlers, you know, and that's what the Elky moosey deer antler. Yeah Yeah, it's a mix of them all and I'm uncertain perhaps Perhaps there was a deer that got a little drunk one night and decided to mount a moose And albino deer decided to mount a moose and this is the product of it. And the guy that fell was so stupid. He found the

wrong end of a bullet. Yep. God bless him. Yeah. It's a cool looking bar. They, uh, when we got here, they asked if we wanted the disco ball on. And so naturally I said, yes, Charlie, you decide to put that on. Well, no, but they offered. I said, yeah, yeah, it's nice. It sets the mood for us, Miles. We're not doing disco balls enough anymore. We're not, you know. But what a technology, Miles. Just imagine being around the 70s,

never seeing a thing like that before in your life. You walk in and you're like, you can't wait to tell everybody you meet about this disco ball that you saw, it would shoot lights all over the place. And then you're explaining to someone like, so it's like there's a light inside and you're like, no, no mirrors. Right. Those are mirrors. Correct. Yes. Yeah. And it's just a ball. It's a globe.

Like you remember in school when you had a globe, you're like, where did all the globes go? Well, they went to the paper maps and they turn the globes into disco balls and there's a motor inside that and it turns it. Now the low tech ones, they just have a string and it just kind of dangles spin it. But if there's a good ventilation system, that kind of messes with it because it pushes it in odd directions. Yeah. I'd like to think that disco balls are just globes that like move to a city and got sassier.

Yeah. Right. Right. They decided to find their own way. Like, look at these. There's multiple disco balls in the Acme feed and seed business. You would think Acme feed and seed was in the globe game back in the day. Actually, if we were to do a little research on this Acme feed seed and globe, that was what was originally called. Now, Charlie, I got a question for you. Well, I

got an answer. So your girlfriend has a cat. Yes, she does. She's got four cats. Yeah. Okay. All right. And I love the other three. I love all of the cats. So I feel like you've been kind of, and Jared, you can correct me if I'm wrong. It's maybe me just projecting and making this up, but I feel like you've, you're not necessarily a cat guy.

I wasn't historically, but now I love cats. And if you're wondering, his girlfriend is standing off camera with a gun with a gun pointed at him. I know I do. I have grown to appreciate the feline. What is there to appreciate about the feline species? These these cats, they've now look, let me take it back. Before I met her, before I met Miranda, I was, you know, I was a typical dog lover, and if somebody had a cat, if they say, I have a cat, I'd be like, why?

You know, I'd be like, that's like you saying I have like a footstool for my chair. Like why do you own that piece of furniture? You know, like what made you think that that was a thing to get? You know, people would tell me they had a cat and it would be like them telling me they had an armoire or something like what would possess you to go out of your way to purchase such a thing. And then my brother also had a cat pancake and pancake was ill. His, his wife was the cat owner previously. I promise you this story's

going somewhere miles. What happened to pancake unfortunately was sick, ill, not running as fast as cats would do. And I landed on its last last life My brother accidentally stepped on pancake and rest in pieces. Oh my gosh. That's very traumatic It is it was traumatic for my brother. He ended up bearing pancake in my parents garden and he didn't tell anyone and Then my dad said hey He was out there with the shovel and Mandy was freaking out. He's like, what's dad doing out there? My mom said oh, he's raising the gardens. We're making garden beds. And my brother had never seen him.

He was as ghost white as pancake was the day pancake flattened. And he went out there with a shovel, excavated pancakes, remains like he was part of the teamsters in the 1970s and moved pancake over to the river bed of the park and buried buried pancake in the in the moist ground. Now what he doesn't realize is once it floods, pancake is just going off to Lake Michigan. But anyway, we don't know where pancake is. Don't know. Jimmy Hoffa and pancake will never know. So anyways, I've always been suspicious of cat folks. I know. So that's where I'm wondering. You're basically dating a crazy cat lady. And she's not crazy miles. Well, it's like, he just has four cats. Yeah. That's where I'm kind of where she loves

these cats miles. And so do I. Do you love the one that doesn't have any fur? Is that that there's two of them that don't have for actually two sphinxes freaks me out. She's a sphinx rescuer. She's never seen a sphinx. She didn't want to rescue and she's got to one's data and the words. Malphouf means Malphouf means cabbage and data means corn. Okay. Corn and cabbage corn and cabbage. I like it. Oh, are you? Oh, go ahead. What like what happened to you? You just fell in love and all of a sudden you're like, wow, cats are awesome. And I want to date a crazy cat lady. You know, Miles, I was in a relationship with a gal

about seven months too long because I fell in love with her dog. And that was, oh, OK. That was a tough thing for me. You know, it was a bird dog. She named this dog Gucci. I was like, Gucci is a hunting dog. Have you gotten this dog out to point at things? I take the dog for a walk. He just be any as a he, he'd just be sitting there pointing and things as like Gucci. What do

you say? You and me, we, we run away together, you know? And yeah. So, and she was a bears fan believe it or not, but I fell in love with her dog. So we found Charlie's kryptonite is love. That's the thing that'll make him go against his morals is if he falls in love. Sometimes it's with a dog and sometimes it's with a cat. Well, it's with a human who has four cats. Yeah. And I do love those cats. What is the Sphinx like feel like? Is it like I'm thinking what it feels like? Honestly, it's Sphinx feels like a peach, a big old peach. They're kind of fun.

I'm going to be honest with you. The Sphinx is I can sort of get behind them now. You know, look, it's like anything miles It's like some people are like, how do you live in Wisconsin? It's like well, you just haven't been there long enough And if you sit with a cat long enough you start to you know I'll tell you this you get a little feather and you brush it around They just chase the feather all day long you can and they fight each other too I'll see him fight each other and I'll take bets. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I'll film them. I I'm like, you gotta go talk live next time. I should think swore. All right. Send, send some hearts. If you

think that corn's going to win. And if you think cabbage is going to win, send the whatever else they do. Yeah. Little emotes. That's not a bad idea. Maybe I should do that. Extra revenue stream. Pay for the cat food. That's true. That's yeah. Cats, they eat a lot. They eat a lot and they they all shit. And it's disgusting. Disgusting. Like you and they do it in the house. It's crazy. Like, send them outside, you know? But I do. I do really like you're and they do it in the house. It's crazy like send them outside, you know, but I do I I do really like the cats and but sometimes they'll poop and then they get the zoomies and they run around, you know

I had odd hours of the night, you know, you're like you're someone breaking in. No, it's just the cat took a dump. Hmm. Yeah Miles I've never asked you this. Are you a cat guy or a doggy dad? I would rather own a dog than a cat. Do you have some against cats? No, no, no. I just don't really know what to do around them because I feel like at any moment they could just get pissed off and do something I don't like, you know? Well, same with dogs. Yeah, but less likely.

I feel like they're more friendly. Yeah, but some dogs are mean. And if you get bit by a mean dog, that's much worse than getting bit by a mean cat. Just playing the cat's advocate over here. Yeah, you really are changed, man. I mean, you know. That'll happen sometimes. I like it. Yeah, thank you.

So it's the more sensitive side. My wife would she would take either one. She's like, why don't you get her one miles? And my kid, every time he sees a puppy while we're out and about, he's just glued to it. Oh, he loves it. And, uh, and thinks she really plays that up. Cause she thinks that's going to be the thing that, uh, allows her to get a dog in the house. So you think, do you think that you're going to get,

who's making the shot? Who's calling the shots here? Is it you or Ann on the dog thing? I'm calling the shot. Really? I love, I, I can appreciate a dog, but I just, I'm not, I'm not in on owning one in this point. Why you already have a kid you've exactly right. But dog, you just let them outside. That's true What kind of an offense though? Yeah, what kind of dog would you get? You need a fence there in Fargo you the whole backyard just you can see him for miles. That's true um dog a dog like a flusher pointer

Flusher flusher so lab black lab lab retriever, maybe a golden retriever. That's what I am would want to do. So much. Yeah, they shed a lot. I've not hunted with a golden retriever before me. I knew I didn't even know what they hunt. They're good at retrieving balls. So whereas a pointer is terrible at returning balls, they just point at it. Well, then you know where the ball is, though you do. Yeah. Yeah. If that ball moves out, I'll know. Well, this has been real nice way of getting that. It'd be funny if they may came out with a GPS app that was called pointer and then there's just a dog on the screen that it's just pointing

the direction you need to go. That's it's like driving. It's still going this way. And then all of a sudden it just goes to the right. You just have to fucking that'd be great. It'd be kind of funny. Yeah, that would be fun. Probably we would lead to a lot of accidents, but you know, yeah, try to, you know, as a banger. No, I didn't say it was a bad idea. I mean, the insurance companies will love it. True. Well, Miles, what do you think? Do you take some callers? Let's do it.

Hello, Lauren. How are you? Welcome to the Bellied Up podcast. Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm talking to you guys. You better believe it. Me, Charlie Barron's here with my best buddy miles the you betcha guy Lauren. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you guys? Real good. We've heard that you are going to be honeymooning in the Wisconsin Dells. Is this accurate? Yes, that is absolutely correct. God. You made a great choice

Why no great last date spots there? What You made a great choice. Well, I know great last eight spots there. What inspired the Wisconsin Dales? I mean, there's something. Was it the upside down White House? Was it Pirates Cove? Mini golf? Was it the the deer feed station? Was it Mount Olympus? Was it the Calahari?

Was it just the miles and miles of waterslides, more waterslides per capita than anywhere in the world? Suck it, China. What made you decide on the Wisconsin Dalles, Lauren? Actually, it was your podcast. Yeah. I know. Yeah.

You guys were talking about you were talking to somebody about like getting engaged in the Dells or something. And my, my fiance and I were looking for honeymoon spots and we were, you know, couldn't decide and we had some in mind, but I was like, wait a minute. I feel like I heard something on the belly to podcast about going to the Dells for something. And I was like, that's where we should go. And we started looking at some different, just things that they have going on, like the boat tours and just all this stuff.

And I was like, oh my gosh, we'd be busy for days. We should just go. And he totally agreed 100% like without even skipping a beat. So that's what you guys are meant to be together. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Where are you guys living at? How far of a trip is it to the Dells? We are in like the middle of Nebraska. Okay. So it'll be a drive, a good maybe eight hours, but I mean, that's a road trip that I'm willing to take. Yeah.

So many places you can stop along the way. I mean, I think you'll pass the world's biggest penny and probably a scotch out your way is the world's biggest fiberglass balloon. And then the Dells, I mean, you could go to a house on the rock, which is really cool. I mean, there's so many amazing roadside attractions. Also a great way to test the marriage strength right away. Yeah. Just started off with an eight hour drive. Yep. Yeah, that's so true. Where are you staying?

Where are you staying? We haven't decided yet. Do you have suggestions? That'd be great. Yeah. What kind of a vibe are we going for? Are we going for authentic Wisconsin Dells? Are we going, you know, kind of like an all inclusive resort style? What do they have those there? All inclusive resorts in the Dells. Are we going, you know, kind of like an all inclusive resort style. What do they have those there? All inclusive resorts in the Dells? No, but I mean, I'm just trying to get a sense of the vibe. There's a sliding scale here. I was going to say if they did,

that sounds awesome. Yeah. I don't know if there's something kind of in the heart of the Dell that would be like walking distance to everything. That's, that would be ideal. But other than that, I mean, we're pretty open to whatever. Yeah. I mean, I stayed at a great hotel in the Dells five some years ago. It was called the hair ball hotel. Oh, that's a good one. Oh yeah. Um, it, the It the name was lost in translation a little bit, but I think it's from when you pull back the bed sheets, there's always hairballs in there. So, oh, yeah, it's a great spot. It's got history. It is good about the history. Now there's plenty of good spots.

Look, if you want to do if you want to get like a nice situation, you know, kind of standard, but maybe save your money on a couple other things. I could not recommend more the Econo Lodge in-in-suites. Okay? It's a pleasant, it's very pleasant and it's a good stay. It's got everything you need, bed, pillows, about three pillows per bed. And if you get one of those rooms with two beds, you know, just in case your husband now pisses you off or something, you can have two beds just in case. But if you want-

That's perfect. They're actually shooting the next season of White Lotus at the Kalahari. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah. So- Oh yeah, yeah. And that's gonna be more your all inclusive situation. If you're looking for water parks, they'll give you a wristband

and you have access to every single Kalahari splash pad and water slide. Okay. So you're going to want to go. I don't know if you're a spending gal or not, but It's something to consider so you were a teacher. Okay. Well, we may be looking at the Connell lodge might be the O'Connell Could be more in in your wheelhouse or the sleep in there we go Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah But there's so what what are your do you have a list of things that you're going to do? Um, no, not yet. Okay, we're very, we're very open to if other people who have been there have a suggestion, we're like, Oh, we'll write that down and look it up, you know? And so we're still just kind of planning it out. Well, my recommendation, what month are we going?

July. Okay, so you might wanna get your rent a pontoon on Lake Dalton, and that could be very fun. Now, keep in mind, if you go out there wading in the water, my buddy did cut his foot on a broken beer bottle there, so just wear your water shoes. Okay. Oh, right. Right.

Yeah. Yup. But that could be fun thing to do. Um, beyond that, just tell me about your interests. Being outside, walking. We take a lot of walks. Um, we like to, I don't know, just miles to walk.

No, I know. I'm just laughing because it's like, you know, like, what's your hobby? And it's just like just being outside. I don't know. Kind of a funny it's like, like, like 500 years ago, that wasn't a hobby. That was just living life. How you got side? Yeah. Well, now people got to make special time for it. And we are we are we'll throw out a few things here. You can do horseback riding.

OK, you can go to the fun. You can go to the country bumpkin farm. And sorry about that. There's the Lost Canyon tours where you can go around the beautiful gorges along the Wisconsin River. I mean, there's so many things you can do here. Have you seen Tiger King? A little bit of it, yeah. Well, there's the Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue

and Educational Center, and they've got some tigers. So yeah, there's more. I can go more, but yeah, Miles, any other thoughts? What, so you're getting married, are you going like right after the wedding, are you guys headed for the Dells, or is there's gonna be some lag time between the two? Oh no it'll be like the week after yeah. Nice it's exciting that's very exciting. Well we're stoked for you and you know Miles? What? I wonder if we can get them a gift package sent to their hotel room.

You know, filled with you betcha merch. Yeah. And some bellied up merch. Okay. Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, that'd be nice. Right. That'd be great.

Welcome into that. So you let us know if you're end up going to the icon a lodge and we'll have that waiting for you in your room when you get there. Maybe a little, are you guys brandy drinkers? Uh, yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, you are now because we'll leave you a bottle right in that room. All right. Absolutely. That'd be great. Yeah. You just let us know where you end up staying. You got our phone number. Just text us and we'll get you set up right. Awesome. That'd be great. Cool. Well, also last thing I'll say is the Museum of Historic Torture Devices is pretty cool. All right. They might have closed, but they kind of close and open,

close and open. So depending on the supply of torture devices, that it's a touring thing. So they can they just kind of have to take what they get, you know, coming through. Right, right. But we're excited for you. This can be a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Good way to kick off the marriage. Oh, yeah, it sure is. Um, Charlie, I do have one thing to mention. Um, my family and I have been friends or not friends, fans very, very long time. Thank you. Um, my, I don't know if you guys had Catholic schools week when you were in school. But yeah, so one of the days was Famous Person Day or something along those lines. And my youngest brother

dressed up as you Charlie for Catholic Schools Week. Wow. For that day. That's really cool. What's his name? Yeah. His name is Ben. Ben. So did he like have to order a muscle suit or did you get it, Miles? No, they put some like dark makeup underneath his eyes. Oh, that's so annoying. You know, do I have dark circles right now? Right. Thank you. I see you got a great night of sleep.

I got seven and a half No, big deal. No big deal that I what did he wear in all seriousness? I think he wore like a oh gosh, he has like a one of your Some of your merch I think it was like a watch out for deer shirt like the camo line And then there was a like a cap that he wore But I can't remember which one it was. That's okay. He got that off Comment good for him. Yes. Yes. He did

Yeah, or at the fleet farm because he absolutely loves the fleet bar good for him. See I like it You're smart family making wise decisions. That's I'm honored. Tell my mom or the next time you see him Okay, I will I will and honestly he might he might listen to this episode So I know my I know my mom does she listens while she's walking doing her walks every evening and Yeah, so he probably might be he might be listening. No, what's his name? Yeah, so he probably might be, he might be listening. Who knows? What's his name? Ben.

Ben? Ben, good for you, man. Thanks for wearing my stuff out there. And what's your mom's name? Donna. Donna. Keep on walking, keep her moving out there, okay? Watch.

Yeah, you could start a walking club, Charlie, called Keep Her Moving. Keep her moving on one side, watch out for deer on the other. I just imagine Charlie going to different cities with his walking club, and it's just all like 55-plus women just walking with Charlie around the city. That'd be a great idea, Miles.

It is actually a great idea. All the millennial run clubs. Yeah, just a walking one. Hey, guys, today we're walking. I'll have the binoculars to be showing you guys some birds. You know, that'd be cool. I mean, honestly, any you showed today, you're basically a tour guide for cities anyways. Right. So you're just looking at your skin, showing the sights of the city. You're getting a good walk in and you get the added advantage of getting to see

all the birds. I mean, it's smart when you think about it and we can, you know, every everyone can come. There's no barrier of entry and I'll have t-shirts for sale. I'm my person, you know, so good idea. Well, thank you for calling in and congratulations to you guys. We're happy you're going to spend your lives together and you're making you're making good life decisions by choosing the Dells. Yeah, awesome. Thank you guys so much.

Yeah, we'll see you soon now. Yeah, watch out for deer. You do. Bye bye. Smart. So I have to say about that is smart. Miles, where'd you honeymoon at? My wife at the time, she had a free coupon for or she had like a three night free stay and then we added on to that in Mexico, Mexico. Nice. Yeah. So, yeah, I went to see the Los Anotes. That's C notes to you and me, but pretty cool underwater activity going on there. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

It was fun. Good time. Thanks for bringing up my honeymoon. All right, folks. Well, should we do another call? Let's do it. What's on your mind, DJ? I hear you want a nickname at your bar, huh? Oh yeah, so, you know how I like to go to bars,

like local bars and talk in local places that like, again, only locals know about and like, yeah, you'll get a few stragglers in there every once in a while, but I just moved and I just found a local bar I like. So I want to start going there more. I don't want to get a name for myself. You want to get a name for yourself? Yeah. You got it right. Like you want a bar guy there. Oh yeah. There's one guy there named El Camino

Dan. That is a great name. That is cool. Well, did he get the nickname? Like I think he got them nickname. Does he have an L cam? He's got an El Camino. All right. All right. Well, what do you got to bring to the table? Dan's got an El Camino. What do you got at the moment? I got an 87 Bronco that I'm trying to get rid of. And then I got a 70 Chevy pickup. Okay. Chevy and Bronco great nickname. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they could go from calling you DJ to BJ, you know, what's your, what's your middle name? Alexander.

Well, where the freak that where does DJ come from? Oh, I'm a junior named after my great granddad. Oh, what's your first name? Donald Douglas, Douglas Jr. But I don't know if that's how junior works. Well, I always thought junior was immediately following the senior. And then if you skip a generation, it's the second, isn't it? Ooh, that's, yeah, we're going to go into this now.

So my dad's also named Douglas, but I'm not named after him. He's also named after my great grandfather. So he's named after his grandfather. I'm named after my great grandfather, and we basically have the same name, but I'm the junior somehow. But to Miles's point, no, you're not. You're Douglas or the third. So your D three, they could call you mighty doc. Yeah. Muddy duck Gordon Bombay. Yeah. We got Gordon Bombay over here. Yeah. Bombay. And then you can make that your signature drink. Oh yeah. He's bomb.

Yeah. See, I think you got to backtrack it. You know what I get DJ, you just go into that bar and start spilling the whole naming situation and you're not going to get a name. They're going to name you. And that's really what happened. Yeah. You just got to go, go in there and spread, spread your brain like a book and they'll, they'll start giving you options. And then you're not going to like probably the name that they pick. Well, you never do. No. Yeah. There's only one guy in my life that successfully said this is my nickname and we accepted it and we loved it. What was it? His nickname was Jizz. Jizz. Yeah. Well, I can see that. And we kind of started razzling him about it. And he said, no, no, no, no, no. If you're going to call me Jizz, you can't be a Dick about it.

We're going to be cool. If you're a call me Jizz, you gotta be cool. But there was a lot of respect in that. And I mean, we didn't make fun of it after that. Sounds like a guy has been called jizz his entire life. Well, shout out to jizz. Do you think what's the name of this bar? We as long as we're shouting out things, what's, let's give the bar. Oh yeah. Sure. It's Kelly's bar in sun valley, Nevada. Ooh, I like that Kelly's bar sun valley, Nevada. Yeah, I like that Kelly's bar, sun valley, Nevada. Um, yeah. I mean, you're kind of going about the nickname thing wrong. It's like, uh, the guy who wants a nickname never ends up with one. You kind of got to drop the wanting a

nickname and then you get one also should be noted DJ currently in the right. Yeah, that's always what I've gone by my friends when they hear my legal name. They're like your name is Douglas like yes, that's my legal name, but don't call me that there's only a few people in my life that call me that my mother doesn't even call me that who are the few people that your mother can just like to two of my buddies and I've told them multiple times, please stop using that. And they relentlessly just call me Douglas. As soon as you tell me not to do something, I'm going to do it. So whatever you do, keep

your, if they try to call you Douglas, looking at your ID, don't fight it the first few times and it'll pass. So Douglas, who do you think you are that you think you can have multiple nicknames? You've already got it. I'm that kind of guy. You already got a nickname and now you're just, it's like the rich getting richer. Yeah. You're supposed to appreciate what you got. Oh, I do. Don't worry. But I got multiple nicknames back home. I had a nickname called moonshine Why? Cuz my great-granddad ran moonshine and I like to drink it Because your head's so far up where the moon don't shine. Is that what it was? Oh nice

That's what's up. I didn't give myself that nickname. Somebody else gave me that that nickname Wow cuz you like moonshine. Okay Okay, what do you do for a living there Douglas? I'm a welder welder. Okay, so you are filthy rich. Yeah, you're making all that money Some broke dude in the Nevada that just welds for a living. What do you weld? some broke dudes in the Nevada that just welds for a living. What do you weld? Speaker 3rd-5 Ornamental iron. So all like a hand rail stairways stuff that goes in people's homes. Look all fancy. Okay. So you're a finished guy. You work on the finishing touches. Yeah. Yeah. We're definitely finished guys. We're talking to an artist here. Douglas, the artist, huh? Kind of is a good way to make extra money as a welder is to weld stuff and sell it on Facebook marketplace.

If you can weld, I recommend people learn enough to where they're comfortable, their welds are strong. And then if somebody's got a broken muffler or somebody stole somebody else's catalytic converter, just do it out of your garage or something. I used to do that for a little bit between jobs and a little cash. So you would, and maybe I didn't get this right, but so you would find people who have, who stole Cadillac converters and you would help them attach it to something else. No, no, no, no. People who have had their Cadillac converse.

Got it. I was like, what a business. No, it is a business. Cause what he's not telling you is he was the guy stealing the Cadillac converters. How do you ensure there's still a demand? You create demand. If you don't, I'm going to put this on that one. See, I know, I know how you operate over here. Jeez. Yeah. What do you, uh, yeah. I mean, if you truly want to nicknames at the bar, you're going to have to start doing some random shit, you know? Cause that's always how a nickname starts. Yeah. Oh yeah. Of course. Yeah. I mean, I think it's, it's hard to pinpoint it though. Miles. It's like, what's it like? It's like a hug in a cloud. Yeah. You just can't do it. You can't, you can't force a

nickname. You can't plan it. Exactly. You hug a cloud. You think you just can't do it. You can't. You can't force a nickname. You can't plan it. Exactly. You hug a cloud. You think you're going to like balloon animal that thing into a giraffe before you know it. You got a giant wiener in the sky, you know, and now your name's sky wiener. And, um, so that's a beautiful analogy. You can't, can't go there hugging clouds. You just got to enjoy it, appreciate, let people appreciate too. And then the cloud becomes what it's called. Same with constellations, you know? You know, this whole nickname thing kind of brings stuff up for me because I was I was kind of a kid growing up that just

never had a nickname. Well, you got a cool name. So but not really. I if I were to nickname you, call you kilometers I have got that before but doesn't stick is what I mean you know it's too there's always one clever guy like you Charlie clever not funny DJ laughed I just never had a call to one of my buddies kilometer for a while was his name miles to? Yes, it was Now guess it wasn't that original here. I thought I was being quick on the lip not so much

Well with the name Charles, you mean you got Charlie you got Chuck Charlie Chuck Chas chip up Chuck Chuckles buckles Yeah, I've got about that one. about that one. So you just got built in. And I just took it. Whatever, whatever anyone said, I just took it. And I think part of that was the reason why I named my kid so that he could have a nickname. You know, it's like, I didn't want him to be deprived of the nickname that I never had, you know, yeah. Living vicariously nickname wise through my own child. Augie. Yep. August. Call him Augie. Call him Gus. The whole thing. Oh, you got all of it.

Yeah, that's what I mean. August. Do you know how to spell August? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He just had to write it in crayon on the birth certificate though. Oh man.

Well, we hope you get your nickname. Do you have a nickname in mind that you're hoping to get? That's a good question. If I can stick with moonshine, because that's the one I had back home, then awesome. If not, I'll gladly take something else. Well here's what you do. You go to that bar every day and you ask for moonshine, whether they got it or not. And you just say, you guys getting moonshine in yet?

And they'll start calling you moonshine yeah that's actually good idea yeah you didn't you didn't think of that one before you called it because it doesn't seem like revolutionary advice they don't have it on the shelf and I've asked once before and I'm just like oh they don't have it they don't have it they don't stock it they don't stock it I know but the guy who's nicknamed moonshine doesn't, he brings it up all the time. Yeah. You gotta have a quirk. You gotta have a hook and a crutch for people to give you a name. So embrace it. I'll try. What's your favorite kind of moonshine? I mean, the easiest to get the old smokey stuff. I'm looking at the sign on the back of the bar right there, Charlie. It says old smoke.

Oh, it does. What a thing. What a, what a deal. Yeah. We spoke it into existence. Yeah. I mean, so you said it's the easiest to find. So we'll let that pass. But if your nickname is going to be moonshine, you can't be just going with the basic cable Starbucks version of moonshine, which seems to be all smoky is that what's the like underground moonshine we should be looking for. So the moonshine, my granddad actually used to run was Georgia moon moonshine. And I tried it a few times and I've tried a bunch of other moonshine for some reason. That's the one I like.

Okay. Go in. So your, your grandpa was running moonshine. You said, Well, he was running lumber from North Carolina, New York. And what was in that lumber, you know, Wow. So you're in a crime family. Yeah, this is a this is a It's just a family oh Bootle family what's your what's your are you Italian? No, I'm half German and half English Scandinavian Wow, okay, so they they just found a wood man and made him a moonshine man bootlegger half English, Scandinavian. Wow. OK.

So they they just found a wood man and made him a moonshine man. Bootlegger. He's a bootleg bootlegger and a rum runner. Who do you run for? What families in New York? Uh, I didn't really get to that part before he passed. Well, does anyone know the little kid he used to tell me? Yeah, I think my old man knows. Yeah. Talk to your old man or Google your grandpa's name and Gambino and see if anything comes up and just go through all the crime families in New York. You might be able to find maybe

you get his fingerprints somewhere. Did he ever get picked up busted? I don't think so. He was, he was pretty as much as you can do in bootlegging on the level. Well, that's cause he was a smart bootlegger and he didn't talk about being bootleggers. And then he has some grandchildren that go on a fucking podcast and blowing up his spot. Loose lip sync ships. You ever heard of that? They always say, they always say it. The third generation ruins the family business. It's true. It's true. DJ come on man. Douglas. Oh no, no, no. The rumor is if you go looking for moonshine is you ain't going to come back out of them woods.

Okay. Wow. We better be careful too. Now we gotta be. You might be on the hit list, you know, he's going to own this podcast, but he hadn't probably, yeah, we're going to, he's going to dip his beak in it. You know know Tell your family that I like my kneecaps and anything you want me to cut out of this. I'll do it. I Can be bought Don't worry, okay. Well appreciate that moonshine Yeah, you have we do have family in Chicago though. So, you know Watch out watch out. I like it. You go in there, start, start, start making people feel like you're part of the business still. They'll call you moonshine out of respect.

You got to start wearing like lots of gold rings and bracelets. Pinky. And then like girls, some yeah, a hundred percent girls,, some chest hair track suit, track suit. And then when you're feeling fancy, you get like a shirt that you only button up halfway with like a gold chain on. Yeah. Then they're going to start one way to stand out. Yeah. That's a move. You just got to command the bar, you know, don't say anything. Nothing screams. I'm in control more than not saying anything. Yeah. Yeah. Speak softly and find one of the corner booze. Yeah. Yeah.

And just like pay people to just randomly rifle in like you're having business meetings with them. Yeah. That's always been my dream. You know, in today's world, we have business meetings on Zoom. Right. It's just I want to start having business meetings on zoom, right? It's just, I want to start having business meetings at bars at like 11 PM. Like they do in the movies. And then you show up with a, just a thing at quarters and you're out there keeping the last pay phone in business. And, uh, it was also, I don't know if you notice this about

TV shows, Charlie, but every time like, time like someone has like a dinner and then they have like a business conversation, their conversation lasts two minutes and then the one guy gets up and leave. Yeah. So it'd be kind of funny to view that conversation as the perspective of the waiter. Oh yeah. Like the one guy gets their first, like he gets you something to drink and he's like, I'll do a, you know, whiskey, just whiskey need and he bring it to him. And then you see the other guy come in and you're like doing something else. And you walk over a table to get up, guy gets up and leave and you're like, what the hell? Yeah. Was it my service? Yeah. I, I, that's a good sketch actually. Yeah. Like, uh, like being a waiter at at a like a mob restaurant.

And it just ends with four gunshots and he goes and gets the mop bucket. Yeah, bleach in the bucket. Yeah. See, look at this. We're just spitballing here. Walks in. Yep. Another day. Another dollar. Yeah. That's it. You have to throw them in the dumpster. Vinny knows what to do. Yeah. Well, look, Moonshine, it was great for you to call in.

They just always have a concrete truck out back. They've been setting up the concrete patio for so long. They keep having to tear it up. Every now and again, there's a bunch of them. They're three foot by six foot squares. Just little pads out back. They're building a big house. It's just a mausoleum, you know, with those concrete slabs.

Oh, it's concrete. It takes 28 days to set. Why you asking so many questions? Why it's taking so long? Forget about it. Mind your own business. So, yeah, you go in there with that attitude. You go to Kelly's like that Douglas, you're going to turn into moonshine in no time. Yeah. Well, good for you. My man, the bar command it. And the way you command it is don't say or do anything. Say you want any mob show. The head honcho guy, he doesn't say shit. He just nods, just nods lights up a cigar. He'll do

one of these with his finger. Maybe he'll kind of He just nods, just nod lights up a cigar. He'll do one of these with his finger. Maybe he'll kind of give just a little, yeah. And then all of a sudden the room just goes into action. Yeah. Yeah. Orders of Gabagool. Maybe his gumas there. All right. Yeah, of course. Well, Douglas, thanks for calling in today. That's moonshine to you, miles. Get out there. Moonshine. We'll see you soon. All right. All right. Tell your folks, I say, hi, watch out for deer. You too. See you soon. The Italian restaurants waiter, because that could be like the title of the video is just like a waiting tables and Italian restaurant. Every waiter at an Italian restaurant, every waiter

at an Italian restaurant. And then it's just the setting is that it's the mob guy there. We should do that. You gotta get Italian restaurant and Fargo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Olive garden. Oh, definitely. That's where it should be. For sure. Should be that more breadsticks, sir. Puts down the breadsticks guy leaves the fuck. I feel like the mob guy does the like little like hand thing. And then the waiter was like, sir, I don't know what that means. More bridge sticks. Russell, what's up? Yeah. Going on. Do you have a bar in your office? Like I know you pass the bars and you got that probably hanging up somewhere, but do you have like a physical bar booze in your office?

Like you're on Mad Men. I do have a little mixture of like some, some spirits from Wisconsin, but then I also have a bottle of Barron's brandy in here too. So it's not like an official bar that you can belly up to, but I do have a little, a few bottles of booze in here, including Barron's brandy. That's what I'm talking about. Nice Russell. That's why I asked the question. We didn't even take that long to get there. That's pretty cool. Do you feel like, do all lawyers,

like every time you think of a lawyer, you think of a guy like clutching, like just drinking like some hooch straight, no rock, you know, is that how all lawyers drink their booze? You know, there, there are a lot of lawyers that drink booze. I can tell you that I've, I've seen some cool setups. I was at a law office once and I had this big globe and then you could actually open the globe and it was full of booze. It's pretty much the coolest globe I've ever seen. So that was in a law office.

So that's pretty awesome. I've been to a few of the older offices where they'll actually have like a lounge in like the basement area that looks kind of like a bar and it's fully stocked. There's one actually I think in Hudson that has that. I know there's a few in the Twin Cities. And then back in the day when I was like a younger attorney, there's kind of like the passing the guard

of a lot of the older judges. And I know one judge that would be like, he had a little bottle of the booze and bring the new attorneys in and sit them down and hand them the bottle to take a little swig on. So just, just saying, hi, welcome to the bar. So, well, the bar association. So yeah, it's, I don't know how many have official bars in their office, but I would say there's quite a few that have some access to, you know, a few, few choices of liquor.

That's maybe a good idea, Charlie Russell. We should attach a bar to your office. And then when you, you know, you have people in, you can bring them over to the bar and you're like, wow, this guy really knows what he's talking about. Plus what? Well, then someone, what if someone slips at his bar and cracks their head open? And then they like, you know, they go up to him and they say, they'll have slip free floors, three floors. There'll be a lot of grit on the flooring. Smart sticky force. Just as so by that logic, you shouldn't even have an office either. Cause someone can walk into their office and sleep and fall and crack. I didn't say I was using logic. Basically, Russell, you should just put everyone in bubble wrap and, or just a bubble in general. And that's how we should all live our life.

According to Charlie's law. Well, we don't need miles would make a real great attorney Russell if you're looking for someone Yeah, I'd see that I think You know wouldn't it be kind of an interesting cell to have a bar I know in my Hudson office, we have a bar right below us in the same building So, you know that ever goes under we could just absorb that into the office and you'd come in to the bar and then you know on the way out you could get like a office and you'd come in to the bar and then, you know, on the way out, you could get like a, you know, like a token or whatever chip to get a drink. And then, you know, maybe get some burgers on the grill down there too. You can, you can start, you could do a lot of things with that. This is not actually a bad idea.

I mean, and then just a, just a lawyer themed bar would be great or a courtroom theme bar. And he just call it to the bar. Obviously. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Then people will be like, you'd be talking on the phone, walking in the street. And then somebody like, what are you doing? And you're like, Oh, I'm passing the bar. You'd be like, don't pass the bar. Yeah. That could be the name of it. You know, passing the bar. Don't pass the bar. Don't pass the bar. Go in the bar. Don't pass the bar. Yeah. You know, it's for all the people who failed law school, all the bartenders is going to be wearing robes. Whoa. This took a week. Legal thing. Right. Like, yeah, those kinds of robes judges, not lawyers. My house. I

was thinking the bartenders or the bartenders are the judges. Bartenders are kind of like the judges, you know, and the judge injury at a bar. That's true. That's true. Yeah. They can have you thrown out, right? They can have you cut off and they can also like do your stories and give you good advice and make a, make a decision for you. Yeah. You got to do. Yeah. You went wrong in life. Yeah. That's really interesting. Judge jury and executioner. Yeah. Just be like, honey. Yeah. Or he just called the bar jury duty. Like I've been summoned to do. There it is. My house. We found it. I like it. There's gotta be a bar out there called jury duty. And whoever thought of that, I commend them. That is that's phenomenal

name. I think where were you at tonight? You know what the bar before me is going to be called jury duty. Yep. Hey, sorry, honey. I'm good. I got jury duty. I'm going to jury duty. Yeah. Where you been all day jury duty. Oh, okay. You're doing your, you're doing your hurt. You're doing your part. Civic duty. You're going to jury duty every week. I know I'm a great citizen. Yeah. Where can the folks find you at? If they're looking to get some help from you, nickel a law.com or one eight five five NIC. C O L E T or just Google Nikolaide. Yeah. Or just Google or

check us out on the tick tock. Okay. We're all over social stuff. Nice. Well, thanks for calling in, man. Have a good one. Yeah. You guys do take care. We'll see you. This is Brandon. What's up, Brandon? What's going on? It's me, Charlie. I'm here with miles. Nice to hear from you. Yeah. Nice to hear from you too. I heard you're going to a wedding coming up. Tell us about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, well I'm back now, but, uh, when I called you guys, I was, uh, I'm on my way down there. Um, yeah, we know we all like weddings, right? But, uh, this was a little different. Like I never

actually met the guy in person before. So yeah. How do you, how does one get invited to a wedding that you've never met the person for? He's like, I was a good man. I was standing next to the guy. You were in the wedding party and you never met him before. How does this happen? Well, back in 2009, I played call of duty a lot and he did too. We met in the random chat lobby back way back. So this is amazing. So you guys meet over the internet, you know each other, headset to headset, spend a lot of time with each other hours and he invites you to the wedding.

You don't even think to meet them before there. Where does he live? Where do you live? Well, yeah. So I mean, that's probably the issue, right? Like I'm in Northern Michigan and he was about 15 hours away. I'm in like Benton, Ohio or no Bentonville, Ohio, she's Bentonville, Arkansas. Wow. Oh yeah. Wow. 15 hour drive, man. 15 hour drive is a lovely drive. It's just a ways down the road. But even since, Oh, this is just classic. Just guys being dudes. Yeah. You met, you started playing call of duty with them in 2009 and we're not asking you guys to meet up like three times a year, just between 2009 and 2025. You thought that I thought maybe there'd be one time that maybe you guys

could meet up halfway. You know, if you're on vacation, you swing on through. Yeah. Arkansas, great vacation spot. Yeah, nothing. You guys never even planned it. Did you like zoom each other? Did you know what each other looked like? I don't play Call of Duty. I don't know if you can see the face or. Well, no, no, you can't.

I mean, it's probably the better because if you can see faces, you probably see more of the faces. But no, that's kind of leave that there. Weiner's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. You said it. I didn't want to say it. I got a reputation to uphold, you know? Yeah, for sure. So, but you have you seen like, did you guys like follow each other on Instagram? You know what the look is? Or did you just never see the guy?

So he was on a, we're friends on Facebook for a bit. He got rid of it after some time. So that, you know, you're really kind of shooting in the dark when you travel 15 hours to meet a dude that you have only talked to like the headset on while you're, you know, shooting virtual people. And, and you guys went to war together. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we did. Yeah. We were blood brothers, man for life. Yeah. You got each other's sixes, you know, sixes for sure. So, okay. Yeah. So you, you guys only talk through playing call of duty. What was it like when you guys met for the first time? So I rolled up to his apartment and he was standing outside and I'm like, I think that's

him. Cause you know, I've always seen like pictures circa like, you know, 10 years ago. So, you know, it was like, it's kind of weird, you know, cause he's, we're obviously like, you know, we used to just playing with the headsets on and don't interact. Never. He doesn't interact much with other people, I'm guessing, because I sit in his wedding, you know, bad guys that want to, but anyway, so I walked into the apartment and like, um, I was just checking out the space and I'm like, anyway, so I walked into the apartment and like, um, I was just checking out the space and I'm like, man, this guy's living the life.

He's got like TV kind of tilted down towards like a big beanbag chair. It's all fluffed up with pills and blankets. It was just like the true bachelor pad life. And I'm driving from like, I left my wife and kid to come down and see him. And busy time of work too. And like, you know, I don't know. It's just kind of envious, you know That's gonna wake up play games. That's what Call of Duty friends are for though. You answered the Call of Duty on this I mean

Did you ask him how many friends on the list he had to go down before he asked you to were you? In his wedding he was in the wedding, right? Yeah. Yeah, were you best man? I wasn't the best man. OK, no, I wasn't. But I was I was standing next to the best man. Wow. Second place. I imagine, you know, like they first read. It's like an awkward first date. They don't really know what to talk about. But then he's like, they're just standing in the living room.

So, yeah, that's my beanbag chair. Looks like cool. Cool. Looks cool. Cool. So you want to play some call of duty? Yeah. Did you guys play? And then, and then the conversation was just elite. Once they got the headset on, that's the only way they can talk. But he's like, get right into the thick of it. Yeah. But he's like, you sit down on the couch and he's like no, dude Go play in the other room Why did you bring it with I Kind of like you talking better when it's a little distorted, you know He can only like stand his voice if it's a little distorted it feels like it feels different

in person. Did you guys have any tips or any things you had to smooth out once you met in person or did it go pretty swimmingly? Probably a couple of times I you know threw him out in the wild and told the enemies he was there and told him to shoot him but you know we got over that pretty quick because we're talking 2009 this This is a while ago. So while I'm heels, you know, I'm trying to, I love how you can only think and call the duty. Yeah. I'm talking in reality to these two guys don't exist reality right now. They, they think that they are at war and they're calling home

right now. Yeah. And you know, marriage in the military, you know, you, you only have so long to do it because the next tour is calling, you know? It's true. Yeah. Yeah. Well, fortunately for us neither, well, we were both men, so not that, not that I'm against any of that, but we didn't get married. So, okay. Okay. Not married. There wasn't any marrying him. No, I didn't get married. So, okay. Okay. Not married. That wasn't me marrying him. No, I didn't think that at all until you said it. Now we're kind of starting to want to. Yeah. I see why you drove 15 hours. Your words missing me, man. Yeah. When they asked if there were any objections, did you kind of want to stand up at all? Well, I already

was standing. Okay. I did not speak up. No. Yeah. He just sits down on the ground cross legged and crosses his arms. Like I object. I object. I object. What's the best? So yeah. Like where you guys wearing your like best with the, with the uniform, the military uniform, what do they call the, when they like wear the or whatever. Is that what you guys were wearing? No, no, no. No, we weren't. We're wearing, we're wearing just your normal wedding attire, you know, all black and yeah. So that was the best man. Also a call of duty friend. Actually, yeah, he was. Wow. Yeah. And had they ever met before the wedding?

They had met before the wedding. Yeah, they don't live too far from each other. OK. Was everybody in the wedding party was a call of duty friend? No, no, no. Does anyone who existed in this guy's real life at this way was his family there? Yeah. Yeah. It looked a lot like his dad. So I don't, I don't think his dad was fake. So, okay. Well that's like a vouch for those two for sure. Do it. It was a good experience. Would you do it again? Oh yeah, yeah, I'd go back down there.

Okay. It was good if you ever had to get married again, I'd be there for him. That's nice of you. Is he gonna come to your wedding? Yeah, he's already married. Oh, you're already married. Yeah, I'm already married, yeah.

Show us how much I was. Nine years, man. Good for you. And did your wife, was she supportive of this? Yeah, she was. Yes. So she wasn't too supportive of me leaving her with the kids for half a week.

Duty calls, man. Duty does call, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and on top of all that, we both work as CPAs. So, or as they call them in the Midwest, CPA. So a busy, or is it called in the Midwest CPA? But, uh, so like a busy time of year for us right now. So I left her in the dust with that one, but this all tracks, this all tracks CPAs getting together after work,

living a different life. What was your buddy's name? Oh yeah. Uh, his name is Stephen. Stephen. Stephen. Well, tell Stephen, we say congratulations and we're happy for you guys. Oh yeah. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, you bet. Now get back out there and answer the call, my guy.

Oh yeah, you better believe it, man. I'll be up all night taking care of those zombies and whatever else comes across my path. Who else is going to protect us from the zombies? We need you out there. No one. That's great. Well, we appreciate calling in, man.

Yeah. I appreciate it guys. Say I love all your guys' stuff that you do. I've been watching it for gosh forever and the whole trip down there, 15 hours of miles on the, you betcha crew on the old radio. Got to hear your voice quite a bit on the way down. 15 hours. For sure.

Not one hour for the Cripes cast. Hey, give your book and listen on the way back. So all right. Hey, I'll take that. You got that whole book done in 15 hours. He said he gave it a try. And he was right back to listen to your podcast. Well, that's all right.

I'm not offended. Yeah, well, I liked it, man. It was good. I can relate to about everything in it. So I thought I was doing pretty good for a Midwestern guy. Hell yeah. Well, thanks dude.

Thanks. You keep getting back out there, counting the CPs and the A's up there in the the upper peninsula and tell you he's in Nebraska is an upper peninsula No, oh, you say he's in Michigan, right? Lascaux from Nebraska Petoskey, yeah, Toskey. Yeah, who's in Nebraska gal before? Oh man. Geez. Miles, miles. This is my job. This screw up the fact. I know. What the hell? Sorry about that. That's all right. Well you take

care now. Okay. And thanks for supporting my podcast. Appreciate you guys. So take care. Have a good one. You know, we've been over the internet. We met online. We did. We did meet in person before he came to my wedding, though. That's true. Many a times. Yeah. Yeah. We had a lot of interactions before your wedding. Is that where we're headed as a society? More and more of the of call of duty parties being in each other's weddings. I think so, man. I think so.

You know, and I'm normally a snoozy Sally about that kind of stuff, but you know wherever you meet friends, it's good They seem to be about it. He seemed happy and they got together They would have never met if it weren't the other way and they found friendship and who am I to piss on anyone's parade? That's the new leaf. I'm turning over miles. I like that. Who am I to piss on anyone's parade? Yeah I'm still pissing. I don't listen to any of the frigging Cripes cast 15 hours, 15 hours. You guys God, if only he knew only knew what I can't say it on this.

Okay, well, should we do another Karma? Let's do it. Right, Charlie. We got a voicemail from Eric. Eric on the voicemail. Hey, how's it going? My name is Eric. I'm 20, 23 from Northern Illinois.

Young lad. Just a quick question for you guys. Whatever happened to the bar? Real listeners know what I'm talking about in your first episode. You guys talked about it. I'm not talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar.

I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm talking about the bar. I'm happened to the bar, real listeners know what I'm talking about in your first episode. You guys talked about it. They just kind of dissipated from there. So call me back to 815.

Well, like everything in miles in my life, half baked ideas, You know, that's really what it was. Half built ideas, built ideas. That was a fun project. That bar. We're just trying to do too much in too little time with too little. No, no, too much ambition, too much. I still have the bar though. It's beautiful. My warehouse. It's currently just sitting there. It flips upside down actually, I think. So the car is on the ground. Oh, Sam, the guys that we got it from were very disappointed to find out that that's what we're doing with it. Cause it's like this cool old reclaimed thing. I remember exactly what it was. It was like a door or something. I don't know what it was, but they were, they themselves were keeping it for something. And then I know what it was, but they were they themselves were

keeping it for something. And then I messaged them to see if they had anything so we could build the bar and they're like, you're going to love this piece. So then we put it together and we just haven't really done anything for it. And so they're pretty salty that we took their their wood top and not using it for anything. But I think we paid for it, didn't we? Something I don't remember. I got a deal. I think we paid for it. Didn't we something? I don't remember how I got a deal. I get why they're disappointed is a nice piece of wood. Maybe we should Go back. I mean and do some get some nice four by four legs for that thing Well, so the problem is it because it got really wobbly

But that's because we didn't do the crisscross X that you're supposed to do. Cause they put like inserts for that. Yeah, we got a bunch of tools and screws to like drill into it, to pilot hole and all this stuff. And we went to the store, bought all the stuff, and then we flipped the thing over to do it. And they had already like done pre done like rivet holes in it so that we could just screw a bolt into it already. It's ready to go. Yeah, we did all this work and I think the challenge we said was it'd be like we're gonna do this in four hours and how long did it actually take us like eight hours. It was insanely long but it

wouldn't be too hard. You just build a little frame and then just drill the pilot hole through the frame wood and then a few screws and we're done. Yeah. So like what we were planning on doing is we were like, it would be nice to just have like a studio for bellied up. So when you're in Fargo, we could just go anytime and do it. And then we went and did one at a bar in Milwaukee or around that area. And we were like, I think we just kind of

came became addicted to doing it in real bars because it was so much more fun. Yeah, it's a good vibe, better vibe, better look. And so that's kind of why it was a one and done situation. Yeah. And it's just nice to shout out all these different bars and get to see the different bars. So, you know, as a couple bar guys, we didn't want to recreate the bar. Yeah. You know, we do and try to reinvent the wheel. Exactly. Yeah. Reinvent the bar. That's it. Yeah. So we didn't and we've been doing this ever since, but that's still a nice piece of wood. And in the Smithsonian one day, it will certainly be there on display for the

first bellied up episode. But until then, we'll keep thinking. Maybe we could bring it on a bellied up live one time. That would be good as the set. That's a good idea for the bellied up live. Yeah. We'll just have to finish off the frame. Yeah.

I think that's, that'll be great. Any movement, Charlie mentally on bellied up live, bellied up live. Yeah, I think that's that'll be great. Any movement, Charlie, mentally on Bellied Up Live? Bellied Up Live. Yeah. So we were actually going to maybe do it here in Nashville because it's a Nashville comedy week while we're doing this. But given that it's Nashville comedy week, all the venues are booked the entire time that we're here. So I do think we should do it. I do think the first one should be live in the Midwest. And I think if we just pick the next dates where we're going to film, I'll find us a venue. Just let me know the city. And I got the calls. I got it all. We're ready. We are ready. I do think

it's going to be great. And during the belly to plives, you guys, like I think it'd be fun to bring you guys on stage. You know, you kind of submit your questions beforehand and then bring you up on stage and kind of talk to you in person. I mean, it's great to have you on the horn, but if we got you in person, we want to, you know, right. Yeah. Yeah. So just have to figure out how to do a topic submission when they get there. Yeah. I, uh, QR code on Q.R. code on the screen and then fill out like a Google form or someone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And while people are sitting there chit chat and having some beers, doing the tailgate, right. And then they see the thing and they put it on.

We look at them before we bet them, you know, and we call you guys up. And it's great. I can actually be really fun. It would be fun. Well, let's do it. Let do it this what we need to do We just got chit chat enough for it until we get sick of chit chat and then we get from chit chat and to do it You know, it's it's no different than the project that you have half unfinished When you get sick of explaining to people what you're doing in your household halfway done You know a little DIY project When you get sick of explaining it, that's when you finally finish it. Yes. So I think we're there. I think it's also

very Midwest guy of us to bitch. Not we're not bitching about it, but talking about something for years before you do anything to do it. It's how it always goes miles. You know, all good ideas need to ferment and IDA like a. Well, just think about if we would have started it a couple of years ago, Charlie, like how much dumber we would have been. Right. We didn't know. But now we know smarter now. So we're in a good way. So look out for it, you guys. Look out for it.

It'll be coming probably this summer. Soon as the summer. Yeah. Yeah, I can commit to the summer. This summer fully on board. Now we'll see which one of us puts the next piece of the puzzle together. Yeah. I mean, Charlie, you do a standoff of who's going to do the work first. Cause it's kind of like, if you go first, one, you lost and two, you're kind of stuck as the guy doing the work after that.

I feel like though it's, it's just a volley because I'll do something you'll do something I'll feel accountable to you and you'll feel accountable to me. So Volley back and forth. Yeah, we just got to figure out the next city and then I can do the rest All right, the next city we're shooting and so that's my job. That's your job. Okay. I don't know where we're shooting next Where do we shoot last Milwaukee? Yeah, did we? Appleton. You're an Appleton. That's right. Well, we'll figure out you guys.

Stay tuned. And until then, make sure you guys tip your bartender. We'll see you the next one.