Bellied Up - The Midwest Has GREAT Lakes #217

Episode Date: September 10, 2026

We're at Charlie's lake place. Tim has a catholic guilty problem we diagnose how bad it actually is. Then Nathan wants to know if he should move out to the Midwest. Hey you! Give us a call and leave a voicemail! 218-303-5095

Welcome to another episode of Bellied Up Podcast. Hey folks, welcome to the Bellied Up podcast. My name is Charlie Barron's Miles. Here's a grenade. I don't want it. It is an actual grenade, folks. A replica, not a replica, but it was purchased at a Army surplus store. And they have a pin in it, which is a paper clip.

Should I pull the pin, Miles? See what happens? Wait, that's a real grenade. Yeah. You want to feel it? No. I thought that was fake. It's,

feel it. It's a real army issue. It's decommissioned. Yeah, I mean, I think. Maybe don't pull the pin,

but don't do what? You don't want to touch it? Where to go? You're freaking out Jared. Jared. Now the whole episode's going to be off because he's, or he might be moron.

I can't tell. I mean, Miles, go throw this outside. Yelp firing the hole first. No, it's, have to throw a grenade like this too.

Jared is freaked out by that thing. Jared is very freaked out. Here's the thing. No, Miles, don't give me the grenade, okay? My, Jared, the pin is that. There's just no way that a surplus store is selling a grenade

that's going to blow up. Here, let me show you. Jared. Let me show you, Jared. I'll shine a light on it. See, right in there. Do you see any gunpowder? There's nothing in there.

Right, it's empty. It's hollow. It's hollow. So let him look. Let him look so he knows it's how because people need to visualize it. It's like being on a plane and you're like, I don't know how this mechanics of this thing works. There's nothing in there. There's nothing that can explode, right?

Oh, we're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but Jared is very, Jared, that's the attitude we got to see more of. Safety first, right? Yeah, what does that say about us? If you're over at your friend's house and this goes for anyone out there, If you over at your friend's house and they say, hey, my dad's got a grenade, you don't just start handling that grenade without knowing what you're looking at, right, Miles?

Yeah. So this is an empty grenade, as you can see there, decommissioned Army surplus store. We got it as a prop. We also got a helmet and a radio. The radio did not work either. So it wasn't hollowed out. So let's also play a game here. Jared, grab the microphone, please.

What if that was a real grenade? I would put it outside. You would just put it on the deck? No, like kind of deep in the trees that I would do. So, because my head goes, the safest way to handle a grenade is set it off. If Charlie would have been cool with that, yeah, sure. Like if we just took that grenade through it somewhere on his property,

it blew it up. That's going to be the safest scenario for everyone. Yeah, if Charlie's cool with that, I would have been totally game for that. I would have not been the one to throw the grenade because I'm going to be honest with you guys. I want to be the guy to throw the grenade. Yeah, yeah. I want to be the guy.

But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be like really. I really want to throw a grenade. I don't know how to throw a grenade. Yeah. I mean, the movies that go like this. I probably would maybe do a hybrid between that and like a football throw.

Yeah, but isn't kind of like a. There's a, there's a, there's a reason they're throwing it the way they're throwing in movies. There's a reason they're throwing it over a bear. barrier you can't you know what I mean they're not just like it's not like call of duty where they're just running and they're just throwing it like that yeah they're hiding behind some sort of barrier doing one of these and they're launching it over like that you can't really like you know like a trench or something i thought there was something and where you can't throw it normally because that motion would how long do you have after pulling a pin for a grenade to go off no but you you don't

know anything about grenades miles there's a reason they throw it the way they throw it yeah there might be I'm just saying I think it's probably because they're like hiding behind something. You can't just do a normal baseball throw. Hang on. Here's Dante. Hey, Dante. Dante, do you know how to throw a grenade? The Kareem.

That's what they do in the movies. They're all doing the Kareem. But. Okay. So there's not like... In this scenario on your property, I'm going for distance because I'm trying to put myself between my... There's much space between me and me and the grenade here on your property.

Let's ask Bill. the World War II expert. Bill, how do you, is there a proper way to throw a grenade? What are you doing with the grenade? We're trying to explode it at an enemy. The main thing is just don't hold onto it too long. How long is too long to hold onto a grenade? Until it explodes. Okay.

But you don't want to throw it too quick because then they can throw it back. Right. That's a good point. Okay. So is that why they're lobbing it in all the war movies or is that for it to get over a wall? Yes. So then it's in the air longer so that it's, explodes when it hits the ground. Yeah, I think that you pull the pin and then you hold this thing.

And once you release this, that's when it's starting to count down. It's like five seconds. Oh, that's what that's for. Okay. That's why in movies, you know, they hold this down until they're ready to throw it. Yeah. So I've never noticed that. I've only noticed I'm pulling the pin.

New segment, grenade talk. Huh? Grenade talk. That'd be a good pod for you. When they drive away. Oh, so they put that part up against my tires every time I go anywhere. It's a lot, Dante. Not just you.

We just aired that to the audience. Check your air filters and your tires. Yeah. Come on. Brought to you by Nicolet and the United States Army. Folks, if you get injured in an errant grenade, call Nicolet law. Injured in a grenade accident. Call Nicolet.

why are you looking at me like that? Was that insensitive? No, what are you talking about? I don't know. I'm looking at you to see if you had anything else with the grenades. No, I'm just sorry I scared you, Jared. Jared thought it was a real grenade. We also strapped C4 to the bottom of your bed.

Okay. Yeah. I'm really scared, though. Sleep, sleepy, sleep tight sweep. And I called in an airstrike earlier. Perfect. Apparently, we're pretty remote. There's not a lot of bases hereby.

It's taking a while to get here. Called that in like a couple hours ago. I guess the airport is like five miles away from here. It is. Jim, what's your favorite song in church? It's got to be Eagles' wings. Why wouldn't it be? And I will raise you up on the eagle's wings.

There you want a breath. make you shine like the sun and hold you in his hand. There it was. That was Bill. He was a professional singer. He came on to join us for that. Jared told us you were Catholic and you just confirmed it. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you know, there's Catholic guilt that it just follows you, you know. And God, I'm guilty. I know you boys got to be too, right? I think you've talked about that before on the podcast. Plenty of Catholic guilt. Plenty of Catholic guilt. I got it up the deal.

Now, did you get confirmed? Yeah, I did. Okay, so you've gone through all the sacraments, except last rites. So is it? Correct. Don't most Catholics get confirmed? Is that a thing to not get confirmed?

Well, there's the, there's the people who, like, their family gave up on it after, like, Catholic school. You know, no. The cheesters. The cheesters. They're like, you don't have to get confirmed. Yeah. Yeah.

So, but just want to see if you went through all the sacraments and everything. But weird. What do you feel most guilty about right now? I don't know. You know, it's one of those things where it's like I feel like I should be going to church at some point. But like I told you guys, I basically went to church every day for about seven years, you know. Wow.

How long does that punch your ticket for, you know? That's my question. Yeah, you've paid your dues. So what ages were you going to church every day for seven years from? Basically kindergarten through sixth grade. And then when we had when it was lent, we were doing stations of the cross every Friday. Yep. In addition to mass Monday through Thursday.

Done that. So at your Catholic school, you went to mass every day? So yeah, Miles, how it worked was my school was directly across the street from the church. So it was literally like a 25 step walk to the church. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So like you were choosing the whole school was doing this.

The whole school. Holy shit. All school, Matt. We did it once a week. We went twice a week. Really? Yeah. God, I caught off easy.

Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. I hope you weren't doing that. But I went all the way through. You cheaped out on me and left after, you know, six grade or whatever. You know, it's one of those. things where my mom always said to me, boy, if we had enough money, you bet your ass, you'd be going to that Catholic school across the river. But we just settled for the public

school in our hometown. So that's just how it worked. Oh, got it. Yeah. After sixth grade, you guys said you're going to middle school at the public school, right? Correct. Yeah. What was that like for you to go and Charlie, maybe you can weigh on this? Because you went to Catholic school till sixth grade? No, that was him. No, but you? I went, no, I went to public school and then I went to Catholic school. Oh, so you finished at a Catholic school? I wouldn't put it like that, but I, um, I completed my I know what goes on at Catholic school. I completed my education at a Catholic school and then I went to public school for college. Got it, got it. So what was that like going from, you know, all you know is Catholic school and then you enter the doors of a public school.

What would it feel like? I think the biggest thing was, you know, class size. You know, when you're at a private school, your class size, I think my class size was like 20 people. And then you go to a public school and you're looking at about 150 people in your class and it's just a different thing. We never really had uniforms at my private school. So it was never really going from a unit. a form to basically a free dress, you know, but it was definitely a different world. I mean, it was kind of crazy.

You know, you saw some of the people that you went to private school with, but it really forced you outside your comfort zone to make new friends. But I also played sports. So, you know, some of the people that I would see in summer sports, I was starting to see at school as well, too. Nice. Did you start mixing with the Protestants? You know, after it's weird because it's.

As soon as I got out of that place, none of that stuff really bothered me. It's weird. You know, I would go to church with my parents on Saturdays or Sundays every once in a while. And I was, you know, you talk about the holidays, you know, the ones that just go on Easter Christmas. Creesters. Yeah, we used to do that too, but it was one of those things where it's like once I was in public school, none of that stuff seemed to matter as much anymore.

and I wonder if I just like abandon that stuff by the road right away once I hit seventh grade. I was like, I'm done with this stuff, you know? And is that where the guilt comes from? Yeah, that. And, you know, just again, you know, it's like, should I be going to mass? Is your guilt is about should you be going to mass? Yeah. You know, like, well, you know, I think if you got to get to that tonal caliber, that maybe you should be going to mass.

Yeah. Maybe that's true. Maybe a Sunday here and there. Well, okay, so where is this coming from, do you think? You know,

is this stemming from? Maybe you're not, you know, you're spending too much time on the weekends on your vices and you feel guilty about that. What's, what's the motivation behind like being like, I got to go to church again?

You know, is it something that's, I don't know. Is it something that's missing? Do I feel like something's missing? I don't know, you know. We're having a,

quarter life crisis here, I think, Charlie. Yeah, the church is calling you back in, calling you once I thought I was out. So how old are you, though? I'm 39, so I mean, I'm not like young. You're young. You are a young buck. Sorry, midlife crisis. Yeah, I was going to say quarter life crisis.

I sure hope I don't live to be 160 miles. That's not what I'm looking for. Well, kudos. I thought you sounded younger than you are. Hey, I'll take it. What do you mean younger than he is? 39? I mean, he's a young buck.

He's halfway through his life. No, he's not. It's just starting out for him, Miles. He's, you have a wife and kids? Chuck, are you, are you the type that's going to dread? Are you 40 or are you 39, Chuck? I'm 39.

Yeah, is 30 fine, dude for you? No, I think he's going to, there's going to be some sort of crisis going on. There won't be until I do, of the first podcast after I tiered in 40 with Miles. is just going to be a nightmare. You know what, Chuck, for your 40th, are you going to finally finish fixing that snowmobile? Or did you sell that thing?

One is sold. The other is, believe it or not, operating. I'm not going to say it's completely fixed because it's like my deck. It doesn't have much longer in this world. You put another bandaid over a bullet hole. Well, more than a bandaid. But, yeah, we, we, we, we, we, wasn't much, It was like a butterfly bandage over a bullet hole.

Okay. A couple stitches. A couple stitches. Well, it's working. That's what matters, right, Chuck? Sure it is. I like that. You're calling me Chuck.

It's getting me going over here. You know. Do you actually like these Claudia Chuck? I do. No, I like it. Hey, question, though, on the guilt, just aside for church, do you find the guilt creeping into other areas of your life? Has it dictated what you do with your life?

No, I wouldn't say that. I don't think it's gone that far. Thank God. you know but uh i do think if i'm i do wonder if i'm i'm disappointed the man upstairs sometimes you know he's uh he's always watching and boy i've fallen off the wagon pretty hard from those six grade days about 27 years ago you know sure did when was the last time you been to confession oh man uh probably i would say probably 25 years 20 years what's one sin What is one sin you would feel comfortable sharing with us that you've confessed?

I would just say, you know, I've lied. I think we all have it to some extent, you know? What's one more entertaining sin that you feel comfortable sharing with? You know, what are you looking for? We're on a podcast, Miles. What are you looking for? Chuck, I feel like you're fishing here. I am fishing.

Sometimes you get a little northern that hits. Relax. Yeah, well, we're not getting those here up north right now. So I don't know if I should be perverted, Miles. Maybe he like, you know, killed something. I don't know. Well, I mean, it's not a sin to kill animals, is it? Well, I don't know.

It depends what you feel guilty about them. What I'm trying to do is get a sense of where you're at. I'm trying to diagnose your Catholic guilt, how bad it really is. I mean, I can't think of anything too crazy, you know. Are you from? the south side Milwaukee? No, I'm actually from like La Crosse, Wisconsin actually.

Oh, just like our other fella. Yeah, like just across the river. I'm actually from La Crescent, Minnesota, but it's such a small town that I just say, I'm from lacrosse, and then everyone knows that because of how much they drink, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

Have you ever been to that boat on the river across the river? La Crosse the... Are you talking about like the lacrosse queen or whatever? I think so. It's like a bar that's just a big barge on the river. No, I've never been on it, but I can imagine it's a pretty good time. Most things are down in that area, you know. Yeah, yeah, I know. You frequented down there? I've been down there at time or three. Do you remember them all is the main question? No, can't do that. I went to a library once that was a bar, but it had books. Yeah, they have really good long islands there, too, from what I've heard. And I tell you, I had a couple of them. And I was, that was, that was the end of it for me that evening. Tim, is there any good like fish fries in the area?

Oh, yeah, definitely. There's quite a few. There's a spot called features that we like to go to. To each. Holman. Holman. There's some, yeah, Holman. And then there's some supper clubs in the area, too, within 20, 20, 30 minutes that are really good for fish fries to.

You ever been down to Dickieville there, Tim? No. Where is, where's Dickieville? Well, Dickieville is just not too snored south. Yeah, right along the river, right, you know, kind of in your way to that, right before you get to Dubuque, you got to go through Dickieville to get to Dubuque. So up there past Prairie DeShian is what you're saying. Sure. Sure. Just past her.

Okay. And if you get to Gaze Mills, you're just on the wrong road there. Oh, yeah. You're way out of the way. You get to gays mills. Boy, let me tell you. But I'll tell you this much. Not a bad town to pop in at.

And they got a good farmer's market down there. Oh, I do love me a good farmer's market with some good veggies. Yeah. And what's your favorite veggie to get from a farmer's market there, Timbo? I would say late season, probably a good heirloom tomato. A good heirloom. Or some sweet corn depending on when you get there. Tim, I was just going to say the sweet corn.

Now you just got to hit it right, you know, with the sweet corn. You got a few good pockets in the summer. But when you're getting that sweet corn, are you boiling it or are you putting it right on the grill? We put it right on the smoker and the husk is what we do. Oh, the smoker with the husk. Do you put butter in the husk or? Yeah, a little bit, a little bit of salt pepper too. Yeah, maybe some rub depending on what you want to do.

Now, what are you rubbing your corn cob with there, Tim? Chuck. A little provocative. there, Chuck. Oh, I didn't mean it like that, Tim. You know, hey, hey, get your mind out of the gutter. I'm just saying, maybe that's, yeah, yeah, what are you dry rubbing that corn cob with Tim? Generally, generally some, uh, some Blanco from, uh, meat church or, uh, maybe even some yard bird, uh, yard bird's a really good one, too. Yard bird, huh? Where do you get that yard bird? Uh, get over there at, uh, farm and fleet, fleet, fleet farm. either one of those, you know, any good butcher will have it too.

Yeah. Good for pork and chicken, boys. Pork and chicken. Pork and chicken and corn. Yeah, and corn. Sure. Now, you're a smoker guy then? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Can you answer us a question real quick, Miles? Sure, I'll try. Can you ask him the question? Do you know what an offset smoker is? Sure do. Oh, you do. Now, would you say someone who puts charcoal in an offset smoker?

is perhaps not the smartest cookie in the jar? I mean, they might be a couple bulbs short of a full strand of lights. Yeah, but not really something I'd find myself doing. But hey, if you want to try something out for scientific purposes, by all means, see if it works. That's what it was. It was science.

It was science. Does it help if the offset smoker came from T-Moo and was advertised as a charcoal grill? a little bit how much how much you pay for this to timu uh charcoal smoker it was 84 dollars hey you know if they're advertising as a charcoal grill then that's what i'd be putting in it too okay thank you thank you yeah i mean that's as advertised right yeah sometimes timu doesn't quite get the uh the translation isn't right as what you're trying to say basically. Thank you, Tim. Thank you. That's exactly exactly the words I was

going to choose. Yeah, and that's a warning for anyone trying to get anything on Timu. Miles ordered a lighter and they gave him a flamethrower. Yeah, I wanted to pick up one of those actually after I saw the video. That looked pretty nifty. It is nifty. Yeah, Charlie's kind of talking shit, but you love that thing. Oh, my, my nieces and nephews, like every time I bring up the flame thrower. They are ready to roll with it. It's a fun little toy. You're not letting them use it though, right? No, no, not yet. They'll get to that age

though. They'll get there. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's good. I can see it right now. It's sitting on his table outside right there. Yeah. What they like doing is shooting the bow and arrow. I got a little bow and arrow. So we're Robin Hooding out here. Okay. That's good. Stay away from the flames until they're at least 15, 16.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, 13. But They'll just old enough to know Hunter's safety, you know. Yeah. Yeah, of course. So do you have any advice for, you know, there's a lot of people out there with Catholic guilt, Tim, and I'm wondering if you've got developed any sort of mechanisms and or mental processes to deal with that? Yeah, I just try to not think about it about 95% of the time, honestly.

But when do you think when does that 5% creep in? You never know when it's going to happen. You know, you could be on your hour drive to work. You could be on the pot. You could be out in the middle of a lake, which I'm doing this week. Maybe that's where it came from, you know? Yeah. You know, anytime you're spending time out there on the lake, you got time to think, you know?

It's any time you got time to ruminate. And, uh, or you have a few drinks, Saturday night, a few more. you wake up Sunday morning in a full panic at 4.30 in the morning. Jazz cabbage will do that to you too, Chuck. Jazz cabbage will absolutely do that to you, Timbo. And that's good PSA here. You guys, you know, you might want to think twice before knocking some of that back, you know, or in, you know.

In, yeah, yeah. See, Miles, I got an unrelated question. I'm about 70 miles from Detroit Lakes. Do you guys ever find that bunker? I might want to go on a mission today to try to find that doomsday bunker. Yeah, if you, we'll text you the coordinates. I know exactly where it is. Tyler works for me.

He claims that he has a doomsday bunker somewhere around the Detroit Lakes area, Charlie. And we tried to get it out of him where it is. And he wouldn't, he wouldn't tell us. I mean, I would not tell you either. Yeah. But we know where it is. Do you? You have it zeroed in?

Yeah. I'm looking for something to do today. So an adventure sounds like finding a new state bunker. I would eat all of his candy yams. I would love that. I would love for you to raid his doomsday bunker. And actually what he told us was it was less of a doomsday bunker and more of a martial law situation bunker.

Okay. He thinks that we're much more likely to end up in a martial law situation than we are a doomsday situation. Thoughts, Charlie. I would say that's probably accurate. So what he's saying is he didn't quite spring for the nuclear winter portion of the package. Yeah, I don't think it's in Tyler's budget to be doing a nuclear bunker. Yeah, but as soon as he gets himself a nice shovel, you know, he can dig.

I think it's got to be well underground. Is this underground? Some of it, yeah. Okay. Some of it. What are you doing 70 miles from? Are you parked out by a lake, 70 miles from Detroit Lakes? Yeah, actually, I'm on a vacation this week.

On a week-long vacation, just kind of, we're surrounded by lakes right now. I was able to get out on Thumper Pond on Monday, too, for a round of golf. So just out here, enjoy nature. You're 70 miles from Detroit Lakes and you played a Thumper Pond. that's that's way less than 70 miles away. I was just spitball. Oh, I thought,

you know, how close am I? You're pretty close. You're probably only like a 20 minute drive from DL, 20, maybe 30 minutes. Okay, I like it.

Reference points based off where my cabin's at, you know? Yeah, I was just, you know, I'm not from, I'm clearly from like six hours away. So I was just throwing out some mileage.

Are you over there on the old Ottertail Lake or no? You got it, Miles. Yep. Right off Watertail over here. He heard enough information and he, that's just that Midwest GPS in the brain. I mean, that's a lake.

You can go on an eight hour pontoon ride. Is it? Oh, Ryan would hate it with his in-laws. Ryan, I can only imagine. Ryan, uh,

his in-laws like to go on very long pontoon rides. And Ryan does not like it. And he talked about the podcast and they found out, and so they give him shit for it. Really? Now he doesn't have to go on eight-hour pontoon rides. That's hilarious. You know, we do these podcasts thinking nobody we love listens to them.

And then we find out, hey, some people are fans. Chuck, I've seen you live once or twice. I saw you when you came to lacrosse. Yeah. The last time, yep. Was it okay or no? I loved it, Chuck. I had a blast.

And then Miles, I've been. been a Troy Escalade Jackson level Patreon supporters since I think the first week. So wow. Jared's here too. Yeah. The man the man behind the glass. It's good to hear you talking.

You too, Tim. Thank you. Yeah. So are you willing to reveal? Are you willing willing to reveal your Patreon name? Yeah. I could do that. I'm willing to reveal it.

I haven't been cool. I haven't been commenting as much lately as I should be. There is that. Catholic guilt. It is that, Cassie. You go to church and you think about that, Tim. That's the confession. I haven't been commenting enough in the water cooler section in the Patreon.

My name's Carrie Oakey. Let's go. Let's go. But yeah, just because I haven't commented doesn't mean I don't listen to every episode, every Friday. I actually look forward to it at work. But yeah, I've listened to every bellied up, every, you betcha, and also a Patreon member. So yeah, I really support you guys. Let's go, Tim.

I appreciate that. Yeah, absolutely. Carioki. Yeah. Carrioki. Well, Tim, you're a family man. I'm not married. No, do have a girlfriend, but not married. Hey, you and me both, Tim. Are you divorced? No. You have one up on me for that, Chuck. Okay. All right. Well, you know, how long you've been with the we've been together for a long time i would say on and off probably nine probably nine 10 years okay and are you going to pop the question or we've we have talked about it before but it's not something i see in the immediate future i don't think but uh okay i think we're both on the same wavelength as far as that's concerned but i guess i could be wrong okay okay you guys just just you're like we're happy as do you live together yeah we do okay i'd like to see a little bit more

catholic guilt coming out of uh coming out of this relationship yeah what's the the milk in the cow getting the milk for free what's that whole yeah why would you buy the cow if you can get the milk for free yeah is that's it yeah so you're getting some free milk over at that farmer's market there Tim. It's one hell of a proverb, boys, but, uh, sure. Yeah. That's how she goes.

It's how she goes. Um, your mom's not going to love that. No. No, probably. Actually, my mom and I,

yeah, my mom and I, we don't talk as much as we should, but, uh, yeah. I mean, does she bring it up at every family function?

Uh, not as many as she probably should. but why aren't you talking to your mom, Tim? I think we vary so differently in our beliefs that it's kind of one of those contingency points. I mean, I should be a lot better about it for sure. There again is the Catholic guilt should be talking to my mom too, you know? Yeah.

How often you call on your mom? Maybe more normal guilt, you know? Yeah, that's true. I would say my mom and I probably talk about once a month. month. Okay. Okay. We're gonna pretty good. Let's, let's just dial it up. You made it sound worse than that. Well, she lives six blocks away from

me, Miles. Oh, geez. Yeah. Wow. Why don't we, can we try dial it up to twice a month? Yeah, I think we can do that for sure. Maybe pop over there for a little Sunday dinner. Yeah, or invite her over to our place too, you know? Why'd your voice get so high? It doesn't sound you're going to do that at all. Well, I like

cooking miles that's why i was kind of you know getting a little excited maybe i could her a good meal that she shows your mom how you rub your corn on the cob you know yeah that's how you dry rub your corn my i remember yeah yeah dry rub that's right yeah well that's real good well hey well hey you could bump it up to four times a month you've already been talking about going to church go pick your mom up on sundays go to church and uh there you go then you get to two birds one stone Yeah, I mean, you're not, you're not lying, Miles. That's a great idea. We'll have to put that plan into action.

Yeah, and I bet that your mom's probably got a little bit of Catholic guilt herself for taking the out of that Catholic school because, you know, she probably thinks that might be where you stop going to church. Well, you know, like I said, when you're forced to go to church that long for that many times for that long, you just feel like you got a blockbuster card punched up there for quite a few years, you know. That's true. That is true. So yeah, I'll be better. You know what, boys, I'll be better. Okay. Well, that sounds good, Tim.

Hey, if the best thing that comes out of this call is you talk to your mom two to four times a month, I'd say that's pretty good. I would say that's great, Chuck. All right. Here I am, Lord. Is it my Lord? I have heard. Calling in the night.

I will go, Lord. I'm on verse 3, my bad. Do you see me? I have heard you coming in the way. All right. All right. What a banger, though. What a banger. Here I am Lord, ladies and gentlemen.

Bangers only. Yep. Well, good, Timbo. It was nice talking to you, my guy. Yeah, you boys have a drink for me and you have a great day and watch out for deer out there. Okay. All right. We'll do. Hey, Timbo, we'll see you over there on the Patreon. We'll get a question from you this next couple weeks. That sounds good to me, Miles. All right. Later, boys. See you now. What a good guy. What a good guy. moment there, Charlie.

Yeah. Well, I was just appreciating his Midwesternness. Oh. It just, I mean, that's, it's just, he just checked every box. The accent, the discussion, the minute, it was, that was great. I was enjoying it. Timbo is our, is our true Midwest guy. He is the butter on our dry rip corn.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Should we take another car? Let's do it. Now, Wisconsin's archery season opens this week. which means garages across the state are covered in camo, gear tubes, and tubs,

trail camera batteries, and at least one thing, someone was supposed to replace last year. It also means more trucks, trailers, rural roads, before the sunrises. Driving early. Driving early.

You never know. You never know. Unfamiliar field. Blind turns. entrances, the deer moving when visibility's already low, one person following too close trying to pass where they can't see and then all the real

you get a deer before you even can pop your bow out of the case. If another driver's mistake or a, you know, deer or something, yeah. If it leaves you injured, you know

what to call. Call Nicolay. 1-8-55- Nicolay. Oh, We're doing real good, Nathan. What's cooking on your grill? Well, just was getting some eggs off the stove right now. Currently, it's like...

In California, it's 947. Wow. I've had nothing but bread and an alani, so I am running off the jitters. Get that protein going. It's in California? Yep. Currently in the middle of a move, actually. actually from Napa County all the way up to, you know where Bremerton, Washington is?

Oh, I know it. Yeah. Brimmerton. I know. We know, Charlie knows all about Brimerton. That guy is a Brimmerton officianta. I love Brimmerton. You've spent some time up there, Chuck.

I know that you have. Yeah. Brimerton. Brimerton. Brimerton, Washington is a beautiful place. Now, if I'm up there in Bremerton, I tell you what I like to do, I am definitely going to pop over to Port Orchard just across the Sinclair Inlet, you know? Yeah.

And you can just kind of take that Bremerton Port Orchard Ferry, and that'll take you right into Port Orchard. And in Port Orchard, I'm for sure checking out the Brickhouse 714 Bar and Grill. I mean, they have got some deals on some salads. Yeah, and I would say like if I had to attach, I know which bar and grill your time about. Yeah. If I had to attach like a money value of if it's expensive or not, I would say it's about two money signs out of four.

Two money signs. That's about how expensive that point is. Let's say you're about right, you know, but you get some nice outdoor seating there. And they've got like some beautiful lights hanging over the past. But, you know, if we swing that very back around to Brimmerton, oh my gosh, those Olympic college kids love to party in West Brimerton. And God, do they. And if I could say one spot to check out there, since you're going up there, check out that Axnero Gastropub.

I mean, you can't go wrong with a little Axonero. And the food there is delicious. yeah i mean you can get flights a beer and a shrimp uh scampini i'm and again if i had to rate it out of one out of five stars i'd probably rated like a 4.1 4.1 i'd say that too and uh they got antlers there on the uh on the deal um they're i'm just going to give a shout out because it's my namesake char kitchen is pretty cool and uh So what you ate at when you were there. Yeah, that was right before my little walk down the Bremerton boardwalk.

Almost got to the USS Turner Joy, but not quite. I was tempted too much by the first street dock that I turned away from it. So anyways, that's neither here nor there. So Charlie knows exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, what brings you up to Brimerton? Well, I'm currently trying to move, well, love to stay in my area. I've lived in a little city called American Canyon for the longest time. Oh, yeah.

If you're American. Wait a minute. Hold on. You actually know American Canyon, California. American Canyon? Charlie, come on. You did a show there one time. I've been to American Canyon.

You got to be kidding me. Charlie's a well-traveled man. I mean, you know that song? I've been. everywhere, man. That song is about Charlie Barron. I like to take a little stroll through the Napa Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area. I think that's a real. Seriously. Oh, that's a big winner right there. Do you ever do paintball at American Canyon paintball jungle fields and pro shop? You know, personally, I've never been there. I know where you're talking about. I've

hiked being gone to the wetlands edge a lot, done the Bay Trail, even done the reindeer. run like two different Decembers in a row. The reindeer run. You were talking about that. Sure. I did the reindeer run. And then I slung over to

San Pablo Bay National Wild Reefuge just for fun. I mean, I was in it. You know? Oh, goodness. But honestly, you got my curiosity up because even a lot of locals in the Bay Area don't even know

about American Canyon. Where did you do a show there? Oh, it was. Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you first we stopped at Eminem Liquors right before going. And then, you know, the show, I can't remember the name. It was a charity event. It was at the...

It was a stone strove from Dan Foley Park. Yeah, but remember it was a charity event and you did it, you did it at the medical center there. Oh, the Kaiser Permanente, Vallejo Medical Center? That's what it was. Yeah, remember you did it for charity? Could have been that. Could have been that. and I remember before I popped over to Starbread,

a beautiful bakery they got over there. Oh, senoraed the bread. Oh, got to get on that. And those donuts they have, like the balls in the circle, yikes. You know what I like about Starbread too? What's that? They're probably like one money sign out of four.

Just a great deal. Yeah, not. Very, very, you know, cost saving. which is good because there's a lot of places you can burn a dollar or two over there in, well, Vallejo or, you know, I mean, really the whole area is just kind of, right? You can burn a penny or two, can't you? Oh, yeah. Like American King, we don't have much, but the further north on 29 you go even on 12 towards Sonoma,

it gets so damn expensive. Sure. But Starbred may be good, but I've got to give a share. shout out to buttercream bakery in Napa off of Lincoln and Jefferson. Off of Lincoln and Jefferson. They've been there since like 1948. It is the place where all the locals go. You can get cupcakes, donuts.

You can get all these different baked goods there. They have a little like breakfast and lunch, a little diner attached to it. It is so, my friends who moved over to like Vancouver, Washington, they rave about voodoo donuts. they got great selection. This place beats almost any

any bakery out of the park. Well, I'm glad that we're giving shoutouts to the places that deserve it, okay? Because I was just going to say that, you know, the South Napa marketplace, you can find some good deals on things, but let's just shout out the people that need it. You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So anyways, yeah, what's, you're moving. What's driving you up there? So I've got family over in the Gake Harbor area and been wanting to move somewhere that's a bit more affordable. And I know Washington, at least Western Washington's not that much more affordable than where I'm at.

But in Kitsap County, it's a little bit more, I guess, better than what I'm looking at. but trying been living with my dad for so many odd years like 31 years old kind of needed to get out as soon as I could I've got a six-year-old son that I'm raised by myself so just trying to go over there still be close to family and just trying to find something that's I guess not going to burn up almost every single year and actually decent weather. That's kind of when I'm looking at Washington. I'm tired of all the smoke and like every June to November, it seems, everywhere where I'm at is on fire. Yeah, we are burning up, burn into a crisp.

But, you know, you go over to Bremerton and let's say there's a fire there. I mean, good Lord, you just hop in that Sinclair Inlet and you are not going to get burned in there. I'll tell you that much. Or the poor Washington Narrows, for that matter. But that's good. Yeah, a lot of water. And then you can maybe get a pontoon and go over to Kitsap Lake. Stop at the Ralphs.

Get a couple sandwiches for your boat ride, you know. You know, I got to get a pen and paper and just like write all of these recommendations. Town. Have you been to the oak table yet in Silverdale? Oh, in Silverdale, the oak table? Yeah, it's like a breakfast lunch diner that I guess a lot of the locals they rave about. And there are a couple of times. The food is pretty good.

And kids can actually pick up these binoculars, look across the entire area and like try to spot all these different landmarks, which is awesome. Well, that's like I got to tell you. That's the one place you haven't been. It's one place I haven't been. But it's a good shout out again. and we're happy that you're getting out of your pop's house, you know, I'm sure it'll be bittersweet to a degree, but nice little fresh start for you and your son.

Oh, yeah. So that's going to be good. But that's kind of why I wanted, I left that voicemail with you guys. While I'm looking at Washington, from listening to the podcast and both your guys' channels, plus one other guy I've listened to. It's I've been wanting to get like a little insight on the Midwest and just kind of see what the weather is typically throughout the year,

what the people are like and just how you guys experience overalls like in that area. But I've been kind of considering that as a possible move in the future. Okay. All right. Well, I think it's it sounds like we need to pitch him on moving to the Midwest, Charlie. First of all, I think that the Midwest, is an excellent choice for you, okay? Because we got lush, green, well, I guess this summer's been a little smoky. I'm not going to lie to you, but let's save that for later.

That's not, we're not burning up. Well, Minnesota, Minnesota did caught a flame, we'll say. That'll happen, though. It'll happen. That'll happen. Charlie, you're doing a terrible job. Sorry. I just wanted to get the smoke out of the way first.

I'll sell the Midwest. the winners are brutal. God, they suck. In the summer, they're smoking mosquitoes. In the spring, it's wet and muddy all the time. And in the fall,

you know what? We got one week of it. It's pretty nice. I didn't say that. The Midwest. I didn't say that. The Midwest is wonderful. I mean,

I would recommend, I mean, there's a reason they call them the, we have the best lakes here. Some would say the greatest lakes. Some would just call them great. lakes. And we got a bunch here. Some would call them superior lakes. Yeah, some would say

superior lake. Some are a little eerie. Some are a little eerie though. Some, they're just like, is this Michigan? No, you idiot. It's a lake. For God. And some just feel like home. Some just feel like home. Exactly. I would get yourself. Home lake. Yeah. I'd get yourself a nice little bungalow. Oh, look, hummingbird miles. Hummingbird. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah. You, you, you, Some would say like just get a nice bungalow here on the lake, you know? Yeah, a nice little bungal. Lake Winnebago I'd recommend. He's not listening to me at all.

Oh, here on the lake. A nice little bungal here on the lake. Oh, that's from our sketch that we shot. Isn't it? What are you talking about? Here. Here on the lake. Oh, here on.

Dude, there was a hummingbird miles. There was a hummingbird. How am I supposed to concentrate? They're so cool. the helicopter of the sky the helicopter of the bird community no but Miles tell him about

that's pretty accurate it is that's where they got the idea from now it's not just Wisconsin though it's not just the greatest of lakes I mean let's say lakes ain't your thing you could go to the where the world is flat right Miles the land of ice and snow

The land of ice and snow and an occasional summer, right? Up there in Fargo? Oh, yeah. No, yeah. It's, you know, we got lots of, if you're not really into heights, you know, we're pretty flat. So that's pretty good for you. But it's a good place to live, you know, there's not much going on in terms of good or bad. You can see any enemies coming for miles.

You can see any enemies coming for miles. Yeah. Like if Canada and Vegas. aids us through North Dakota. We're going to see it coming a hundred miles away. Yeah. Not just a mile away. I don't know.

Without hills, you won't be able to get that advantage point. Well, that's why. You don't need a hill when there are no hills. We're just laying in the wheat field and they can't see us, you know? Yeah. Just, just, yeah. If you got a second floor of a building, you are at the highest point in the. Yeah, it's like you go up four steps.

on the stairs and you have the high ground. You sure do. You sure do. Any Anacons better watch out. I think there's a lot of interpretation going on. Interpretive centers in North Dakota, you can check out. But I think the biggest selling point in the Midwest is we do have great summers. I will have to say, yes, there's some good and bad with it.

But there's nothing that beats the Midwest summer. And, you know, even in the winter, there's like a little period. time where it's brutally cold where we're at. But other than that, summer could be pretty pleasant. You know? You got snow on the ground. You got the changes of the seasons. But I think the thing you're really getting when you move to the Midwest is the people

and the folk. You know? Yep. The people and we got a lot of folk music here. I'll also say, I really like the winter. Winter, you know, it's quiet. The snow puts a little snow blanket on a sound blanket. on the land. Tell them what you do in the winter

right out here in the woods. Right out here in the woods. The winter really opens up the boggy area, the swamp. I got a cedar swamp here, but I put some snow shoes on and I walk out in the woods and I go about a mile out there and then I just take a nap. Just right

every snow pile is a beautiful bed. I mean, Serta mattress got nothing on a Wisconsin snowfall. And I don't recommend everyone just go nap in the woods. you got to, you know, set an alarm and, you know, you don't want to wake up not feeling your stuff. Or it's like you take a nap in the afternoon, you wake up, it's dark out, you don't know where you are. Does that happen to you, Charlie?

I've woken up to dust. What's the longest nap you've taken in the woods? Oh, not too long, just an hour or three, you know, and it depends how comfortable the snow is that day, Miles. But I'm bundled up. I'm basically in a sleeping bag. you know yeah i'm going to walk in sleeping bag in my dear stuff so um you wake up it's his pitch block i mean at that point you just go back to bed right you do and you just you just say what do i eat what else do i need you know and the answer is not much maybe take the snow shoes off but

get comfortable you know so yeah if you want to sleep in the snow come on out here i think i'd love to something tells me my sons just every time I close my eyes he'll probably be pelting me with nothing but snowballs and then running away when I try to yeah core memories that's true core memories you can have a snowball fight in California well parts of it yeah but yeah well you can always go to the Sierra Nevada's um but even then it's inconsistent I guess with every year like a couple of years ago I was able to take him as well as my dad over to like strawberry off of 50 and in the those areas, when it gets really snowy, you can just pull off on the side of the road because

there's already like several feet of snow off of the side. You can just play as much as you want. You don't even have to go all the way to Tahoe. And even then it's got too an expensive. But yeah, no, I'm already seeing like a winter wonderland in my head about the Midwest. Yeah. And then ice fishing too, dude. I haven't done that before well you're wonderful come on out come on out

Washington's nice but Wisconsin is nicer well I'd probably be the only Cardinals fan in Wisconsin so now there's some other Cardinals fans Miles likes how you're how you're giving me

the what are you laughing at my he's doing the California goodbye right now Charlie we got more Charlie says something he doesn't know what to say well

oh man well come on out all right come on out okay you won't be the only Cardinals fan go brew crew all right or are you talking the Arizona

Cardinals Arizona With the baseball, I'm a diehard Oakland-Aise fan, no matter where the hell they play, which a little side note, thank you very much for coming out to Sacramento on your birthday. I actually got to take my mom to go see you over there, and there's a blast.

Wow. And also blended in with my A's jacket. So there you go, man. You got the best of both worlds there. Coming out to see Charlie Barron's, all tickets at Charlie Barron's.com slash tour. So you had a fun time with your, mom. Oh yeah. She never heard of you before. I showed her a couple of videos of your skits. She loved it.

And then she was just busting up at your show. Oh, that's great to hear. And I think I only caught like little snippets of the, correct me of my pronunciation, the Minotawk Minute. Manit. Close. Very close. Mantuaq Minute. There you got it. Okay. I've only heard about it. So I was actually laughing my butt off when I found out about it during your show. Oh, nice. But speaking of it, are you going to be going up, I guess, to the Bramerton area on your tour? Oh, that's a great question. You know what? We actually, we've done Seattle and Tacoma. So we'll probably do one or both of those in early 2-2-7. 2027. So, yeah, if you're in the area, come on out, man. See it again. Appreciate you coming. Yeah, we don't have a booked yet or I'd block you in on the tickets. But you call back when you see a show and we'll get you locked in. Much appreciate. I'd love to take my son to that, actually. Well, maybe let him get a little bit older.

Well, at least from my experience, from what I saw at your show, it seemed like most of it was child-friendly and then the rest of it would just go over his head. That's true. Yeah, that is true. I mean, unless you kept saying like six, seven, he's probably only going to be to listen to like a couple things. That's fine. Yeah. That's, you know, then I can, I don't even have to. Maybe add in a six-seven joke.

I'll add in a six-seven joke. Sure, sure. Let's workshop it. Let's workshop with six-seven jokes right now. Miles, so I was out fishing. I got myself a perch. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

How big? About six, seven inches right there. Oh, oh. Do you see how quick that was? Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, no, we'll get it going for them. And, yeah, we'll start about six, seven o'clock for them.

And go from there. I don't want to take up too much you guys' time, but one last thing I did have on the voicemail. So all throughout California, all the bars that I've been to, I've never once saw this. I've only seen this up in Washington. What the hell are poll tabs? And how does that work? Oh, Miles, take it away. So pole tabs is one of the greatest investment opportunities this side of the Mississippi.

basically you put in a $20 bill and you don't get any money back out of it is essentially what it is but on occasion you can win 700 bucks thousand I want a thousand bucks one time I was there for the 700 but in reality some folks like to call it cardboard crack if you ever heard of called that try. Yeah. Cardboard crack because you're cracking that cardboard

is what's happening. And you are seeing exactly what your new financial situation is going to look like. Yeah, I mean, essentially if you had to boil it down,

it's just a much more fun and interactive slot machine. This is what you're planning. Okay. You know? I've done scratchers a decent amount. Are any more winning any more winning odds

with that? than scratchers or about the same. I've won more on pole tabs than I have on scratchers. I can say that. Have you, Charlie? Yeah, scratchers I've never had great luck with. Pull tabs, I've definitely one more. I've also played pole tabs more.

They're not selling scratchers at the bar. But Grandma Sue likes to get a couple scratchers. And actually, it's fun for your kid to crack open the cardboard as well. You can teach them early. Six years old, he can start cracking. You see, I've learned early on that if I get my son into trading cards, he's at least going to be too broke for drugs. So I might just have to get him onto pole tabs then.

There you go. That's the move. Smart, smart man. I was going to do Magic the Gathering, but I guess Pokemon is the new drug nowadays. Yeah, well, he'll get to magic soon and very soon. All right. Well, listen, this was, this was a lot of fun.

And I hope you, you spend your time out there in Washington, but come to Wisconsin when you're done, okay? Certainly will. Any of you guys' area about 10 years ago on a solo cross-country trip. Wow. Checked out Custer, South Dakota, got to see Crazy Horse. Let's go. Washington Monument.

Dude. They're working on it again, by the way. they had a hiatus going on the what they had a they weren't working on it for a while no it uh I don't know if someone pulled funding or whatnot

but there was a standstill over there at at uh crazy horse but now they're back working on it's volunteers I understand though so it could take a while so if you swing through bring your pickaxe and your dynamite maybe you can help out a little bit

every little bit helps I'll do my best. I've been there. I did go check out like Sparta, Wisconsin for a little bit. Got to go on a little river boat tour on the Dals. Lake Dalton, sure.

Yeah, which is that the one with like the world's biggest, I guess, natural limestone deposit? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. We know all about that stony lime. and got a little lemonstone out there too. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Sure do.

Damn. But come on back out. There's more to Wisconsin than there is Sparta. But Sparta's beautiful. So Zadales, you get back on out here. We got more to show you. Okay, well, one of these days, I'm going to have to make my way out to Lambeau Field.

I love to see a Packers game over there. The Pilgrimage, yes, yes. come on out and, you know, Miles is going to get you tickets. Sit right next to you, right, Miles? Sure. Yeah, sure. All right, let me just write this down to at this time. It's recorded.

It's recorded. Yeah. You just let us know, okay? Well, do. Well, Miles, Charlie, and also Jared, thank you guys very much. And tell your folks I says hi. All right. We'll do.

Remember to tell your dad, we say. die too. We'll do. Hope you guys have a good one. Bye bye now. Well, Charlie, is that another episode of the bellied up

podcast? Bangorang, Miles, we did it. This was fun. It's been a pleasure ride. I'm with you.

Don't hit me. And, yeah, we'll see you guys next one. Tip of bartender. Change your air filter. Watch for deal.

Change, clear your air ducts. Your dryer ducts. We'll see you next one. Okay. Hope you guys. Have a good one. Goodbye now.

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