Bellied Up - The Most Important Resource in the Galaxy #197

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

We're at Lyon's Pub in Minneapolis, MN. We chat about Charlie's birthday, Elvis impersonators, and what our most valuable resource on earth is. Then we chat with Tyler, who tells us about the prison journal he found. Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code belliedup at https:// www.bruntworkwear.com/belliedup #Bruntpod #adnote: Since bad weather was on the way, we had to squeeze five episodes into two days, sorry for the limited number of calls. We'll be recording again in early May so be sure to leave us a voicemail 218-303-5095

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast. We're bellied up here at the Lions Pub here in Minneapolis, Charlie. How you doing? Good, Miles. It's a fantastic pub. I took the Skyway here, believe it or not. You ever taken the Minneapolis skyway? Did I walk outside?

Didn't even walk. I haven't stepped outside today, Miles, and it's almost 1130. Isn't that crazy? I thought you were a nature guy. You don't want to get the nice cool breeze on your face? I'm a nature guy, but I had every. one telling me about the skyway they got to try it i got to try it out how was the skyway um it was nice honestly i could see it being nicer for like a really cold blustery day and because i'm a

boozy bish i don't even know what temperature it is outside i didn't even look okay because i took the skyway although i got to leave before the skyway closes because well i guess i brought a jacket just in case yeah you'll be fine yeah it's you a ride i got some food in the skyway. That was the incentivizing thing is there was food halfway between here and there. My buddy had told me about it. A hot dog stand or? It was a sandwich shop. I forget the name. But my buddy said, oh, you got to try this sandwich shop. And I says, okay, where is he? He says, well, you're here. Just take the skyway. And I was like, oh, yeah, I've always heard of this skyway, but never really took it seriously. So I did it. All right. So folks, this is the first ever, uh, downtown Minneapolis

Skyway review. Charlie, let's hear it. Okay. The part I like the most is when you bring the outside inside. They got this one thing where they got big like open sky windows and then trees. You know, I'd like to see more trees. Also indoor trees. I'd like some more indoor trees.

I'd like the whole skyway to be like a rainforest cafe. But I want real living plants. I want there to be mold issues throughout the whole skyway. Okay. So very humid skyway. I would love that. Which could be good in the wintertime. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it feels like you're in, you know, in Milwaukee, we have the domes, which is like, you know, they basically do these tropical environments in these old, like, glass domes. And they got really interesting birds flying around. Like a greenhouse. Yeah. It's a greenhouse. Yeah. Why are you laughing at me?

Why didn't you just say green house? Instead, you described what a greenhouse is. But it's the actual, it recreates the climate of these places. So there's an arid desert climate. There's a tropical rainforest climate. And sometimes they switch out the climates. And in high school, I was part of the choir team. And we sang a song and me and my buddy were late because we may have had some pre-school ritual going on.

And I had, my teacher was so upset because I did not have. have a bow tie and I left my bow tie in my locker and she was pissed and then I had to run to the bow tie and then run back to the bus and I was oh no she was just mad we were late and I said my bow tie was in my pocket and then I had to stand in the back of the baritone so she didn't realize I didn't have a bow tie I think she realized she never brought it up you did a choir concert at one of these greenhouses yeah well it's called the domes though miles okay anyway what else is going miles. So like you want the skyway. Oh yeah,

we're talking about the skyway. Rainforest Cafe. I want rainforest cafe. Do you want to like pump in bird noises and stuff too? I want real bird noise. I want real birds flying through that sucker. You know, rescue birds. We don't need to kidnap birds for the skyway, but you get some birds that were, you know. Well, I think

what you do is just leave the doors open during the summer and then whatever birds just make a living in there. That's true. If they decide, you know, I'm all about bird choice miles. I know that about you actually. You're pretty well known for bird choice. Some birds, they just want to be outdoor birds.

Other birds choose to be an indoor, outdoor experience. But we need a little bird holes there because we can't go just leaving the doors open. Think about the heating bill, you know. Yeah. It's going to be excessive. We'll do bird holes. Birdholes. Yeah.

So review. Review. I'm going to give it. In terms of. I'm going to, it's got a lot of potential. It's got a lot of, I'm giving a seven out of ten. 10 out of 10 for Skyways have been in. 10 out of 10 hands down.

And how many Skyways have you been in? One other one. It was at the hospital when I broke my hand. So I wasn't really in the right mood to rate it, but this was a far superior. Okay. So relatively it's 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. In terms of what you imagine all Skyways are and what they could be, it's a 7 out of 10?

It's just seven out of ten because we really got to just expand. Yeah, leave for them. Yeah, I want some Jaguars walking around, you know, toothless ones. Like if they got into a fight and they lost their teeth, rescued Jaguars that aren't going to hurt you. But I don't want them on a chain because I don't. I just don't know if that type of Jaguar exists. Probably not. Probably not.

It's just hypothetical. If you get a Jaguar that just enjoys being there, it'd be cool to be close to a Jaguar. That would. Or maybe just like a stuff. What was the hospital skyway? What did you rate that? It was pretty subpar if I'm being on. It was just going from the parking garage to the to the hospital.

That's the only other skyway you've ever been. I'm sure I've been in other Skyways miles, but nothing's coming to the dome right now in my 38 years of existence. Oh yeah. And Charlie. What? Happy birthday. It's your birthday week.

It's not my birthday yet. It's not my birthday. No, I'm 38. I am 38, 30 great. Oh, wait, so you were 39 this year? Yeah. I thought you were 37. No, I am 30.

What year were you born? Let's, let's, we need to. You want to double check my math? Yeah. 2000 or 19, 1987 miles. You're from the 1900s. I'm from the 1980.

I'm from 18. I'm from the 1980s. So you graduated high school in 2005? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was in, elementary school. I was in fifth grade.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's really freaking cool, you guys. I don't give a shit. Okay, so I'm smarter than both of you. So happy birthday, Charlie. You're 39 this week. 35, miles. 30 fine.

So we got to do something big on the podcast next year for your 40th. That's true. We should do something big. We could go to... Vegas. We can go to Vegas. Oh, that's not a bad idea. We could podcast in Vegas for your birthday.

Dude, I... See how much money I lose at the old slots out there. That could be good. You know, Miles, I don't know. I'm not one to celebrate a birthday anymore, you know? Well, I feel like I, yeah, it's like I feel like, and maybe you don't feel this way, but like once you hit like your mid 20s, once you're mid 20s, I feel like you just don't need to celebrate your birthday anymore. Honestly, once you hit like 22, I feel like you don't need to celebrate your birthday anymore. I feel like you don't need to celebrate your birthday anymore.

Yeah, because, well, 25 is kind of a big one. That's quarter of life. You could get that 30 is kind of like a, it's like, all right. Yeah, maybe it's everything in between. If it ends in a zero, you can celebrate it. Right. That's pretty much it. But 39, it's, you know what I'm doing?

I'm doing a show the day before in Sacramento, I think. Hey, you guys want to come celebrate my birthday? See you in Sacramento. I think it's Sacramento. Tickets at Charlie Barron's.com. But then the next day is my birthday. So I have a choice, Miles. Do I either fly home from the West Coast, which means I'm already losing.

It means I'm losing hours on my birthday. That's true. You know, do I want to be a guy who loses hours on his birthday or spends his birthday alone in a cabin somewhere? But here's the thing. What? You're 39. It doesn't fucking matter.

That's what I was saying. Yeah, yeah. I was telling him Rand to this. Why would you be worried about it? about losing hours on your birthday. It doesn't matter. Well, or doesn't matter to you. I think we're finding out whether or not something matters to you. Well, I don't know. I mean, it's not that my birthday matters to me, but it's not like I'm trying to actively subtract hours from the one day a year that people have to be nice to me, you know? Yeah, but it just doesn't matter, does it?

I guess it doesn't matter, but it's still like, you know, like you matter. Like, does that? But your birthday just kind of doesn't matter. Thanks. Yeah, but it's like, does that beer matter? I mean, in the grand scheme of the entire universe, no. Right, but I'm not just going to jump out. The entire universe, you and I don't matter either. I suppose. Well, then nothing matters, Miles, and I got a decision to make. I don't know what I'm going to do. Should I fly home or should I just go find a cabin in the woods or go hike something at Yosemite or something? Yeah, have you been to Sacramento before? I've never been. I did. I was there for an Elvis impersonator

competition back in the day. No, you weren't. No, you weren't. Yeah, I was. What do you mean you were there for it? You were impersonating Elvis? No, I was interviewing the Elvis's. Okay. Haven't I brought this up on this bag? You never brought this up.

Let's hear the story of how you ended up in Sacramento interviewing fake Elvis's. Me and my buddy, Jed man. This was a side gig. Chad and I just, I, I assumed it was because I don't think interviewing Elvis's at a lookalike competition is a main gig. No, I think my buddy John, he had this idea. John had this idea of Elvis impersonator competitions.

What you get is it's a convention. And all these Elvis impersonators from all different generations of Elvis's life, they get together. And these guys not only recreate the voice of Elvis and recreate the style, but they are to the T to the generation. They also recreate the plastic surgery, the drug use of the era, the infidelity, and you literally and the the dietaryness. So whatever Elvis was doing at that time in his life, these guys recreate that. So they're just all like doing Coke in the bathroom? Yeah. I mean, Coke and banana sandwiches, you know,

Coke and peanut butter banana samis. With bacon. With bacon. Did he have those on there too? I mean, but these guys really, they take it to the next level, but they do plastic surgery to look like him.

And they spend, it's not even prostate. Like, they're like actually getting surgeries. Yes. And they're spending so much money on the clothing. Because they're getting like actual. some of them are some of them are actually buying like clothes from those designers or if they can find

whatever they can get to the closest thing they're doing it no not all of them of course but we talked so gotta find those interviews we talked to some of those so so why did you do this well i was a little pa i was a little coffee grabber i was a little set up the camera boy set up the lights so you and your buddy was just the hump so what did you you posted it to the internet i don't know what he did with it. He was trying to sell it as a show. This was back before the internet was really. You guys like where we were shooting a pilot. A pilot. Yeah. Pilot. Yeah.

And I was, yeah. And the show was going to weird conventions and interviewing people or just Elvis-based show. I think it might have been what would be a better show is going to, because I don't know how long you can let an Elvis. But think about it. If you did a whole series on these conventions, that could be good. But also now that I think about it, Elvis has a big enough fan base that the Elvis impersonator convention could be a legit thing. Like if you really love Elvis and you love the personalities of these guys, they said some wild stuff, man. I couldn't believe.

You never believe the things people say on camera until they're on camera. I mean, this podcast is proof of that. Yeah. Yeah. Charlie, did you feel like you're in a trap and you couldn't walk out? I don't know. That's impersonator convention. Yeah, I did.

I did. And it was just too much, baby, you know. but, you know, I'll say this, guys. I'll say this. Wise men say that only fools run in, okay? But I just cannot help falling in love. For those of you just listening, I just tweaked Miles's peck. He gave me a little...

I surprised him. I surprised him with it. Actually, you cropped me. I think you will be hearing from my lawyer. Oh, yeah. Well, your lawyer is probably my lawyer. 1-855, Nicolet. Nicolay.

Have you had your boob growled by your best buddy at the bar? Get over it. Fear the beard. So are you on, so you, with the birthday thing, though, you're on board with that? Just like, hey, just, just hand the ball of the ref and go back to the huddle. just treat your birthday like any other day. I suppose, but I'm also one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Maybe I jet out there and do a couple days of solitude in the redwoods, bro.

You know, maybe I just get lost in the woods. You know, that's maybe a good way to describe it. I feel like after 25, because like before 25, you want to go out with your buddies and celebrate and stuff. But after 25, it should your birthday should be about you doing whatever you want. Yeah. You know? And like there might be guys out there that I want to go to the bar and celebrate my birthday. But I would say most guys, they just want to like go do something by themselves.

Yeah. And especially as like having a kid now, love my kid. But like on my birthday, it would be awesome to just be like, just go do whatever I want. Because right now we just do whatever my kid wants to do. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, I mean.

So if you want to go, you know, whisper to the Redwoods, you should. Right. Because, you know, think about this. The other thing is like, have you tried flying these days? It's a freaking nightmare. Yeah. And let's say that the flight gets delayed. I don't even make it home.

So it's like, you know, you got a bird in the sky or a bird in the bush miles. And it's a lot easier to shoot one in the bush. You know what I mean? That's just not the right phrase. It's also illegal. Okay? Don't go ground swapping. You might shoot your dog, you idiot.

So is it technically illegal to shoot a bird on the ground or is it just frowned upon? It should be. I feel like it should be too, but... Well, I think a peasant is different than it's not illegal. Also, what a privileged spot we are in society to where we're like...

We must let the birds fly. Oh, shit. We must let the birds fly before we assassinate the miles. Like, we gotta give them a chance. Yeah, I really don't know the etiquette on that. I usually don't shoot them on the ground. But I also...

We definitely shouldn't. Don't shoot them really, period, because I miss like all the time. But that's okay. I like to go. I like to walk around. It's nice. So what do you think you're going to do?

I feel bad. I feel like you're leaning towards staying in Sacramento for your birthday. I mean, I think you should. Yeah. I mean, look, I'm not saying downtown, I would get out there to,

you know, I would get out away from like, that's also like tech central, you know, so that's, Um, that's kind of, uh, it's kind of like, you know, you want to get out into the woods. You got to get out of Sacramento, I think, you know, but I, yeah, that's also a drive. I'll look into it. The short answer is, Miles, I've done zero research on it.

What'd you do for your birthday? Um, I spent some time in my garage. And we were, I think we were leaving to. go on vacation the day after, day after that. And so I think I was just like helping end pack stuff. What'd you do in the garage? Went out to brunch with my family too. Okay.

Yeah. All right. That's sweet. What'd do in the garage? I finally cleaned up my garage after moving in four years ago. And so I got shelving up. I got a workbench finally. Oh, my God.

It's a whole new world in there. It's just great. Dude, shit's been on the floor. I thought that was how you designed it, honestly. You'd think. So now it's all organized, me and, you know, once I finally got it to where it's like, now I want to hang out in there, you know? Yeah. I did you get home from work.

We eat dinner. And then I tell my kid, I'm like, hey, you want to go in the garage? And he goes, yeah. Nice. But then we're just hanging out in the garage doing stuff. He loves the flashlight. Sick. Yeah.

But now my wife, though. my wife is a little bit like okay but like I want to be included she can come out too she can but she the first couple time she was like you know doing because it's also she's like oh this is nice because now I can just like clean this up

or do this in the house without having to worry about if he's going to jump off a couch and you know break his neck right and so but she was like a little bit jealous you know and I kind of like that a little bit I like that too. There's so many cool things you can do.

You can also make a little target. I think that's what you should do. You should make a target for him to aim the flashlight at. Say, how long can you hold it there, buddy? You know? Time them. That would be great. What kind of workbench?

Did you build one? Did you buy one? What did we do? We had one at the office. Oh, nice. That I just brought home. All right. That's easy.

And you know what I would like? what I'm doing right now too. You know, like doing what we do, Charlie, we could probably contact a company that does garage storage. We can say, hey, we're going to do a video. Send us a bunch of this. We'll set it up in the garage. We'll do a video with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And basically just get a really awesome garage. Right. Combed, right? Right. But then you like didn't earn it. Right. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, you want to.

Right now I'm currently like stuff I already got and stuff I'm slowly building over time. I want to build this garage the way that I want to do it, not just go and, you know, buy a whole set and then just set it up and it's done. Yeah, I agree with you. I, uh, I built this work bench, which I was pretty proud of. Okay. I was pretty, it's a, it's a thick bench. Like you can, it's not going anywhere. It's not going anywhere.

Like if it was in California, earthquake hits, don't matter. This sucker is supported by six, four by fours, all right? But then I got a little jealous because I went over to buddy mine's and he made a cool workbench too. And it folds right into the wall. And I could really use that extra space. But at the same time, at the same time, I got too much shit for it to fold. So, you know, I got to be realistic about it too. But shelving, I haven't done any shelving.

of substance yet. So that's kind of next on my list. I, uh, I wanted to mount my battery chargers for like my drill and stuff on the wall. Uh-huh. And I could have just drilled it into the wall and I said, no, I'm going to make something cool with it. Yeah. So I had some extra two-by-sixes laying around the garage. Okay. So I made a little, I screwed the one, two-by-sixth to the other one. So it made like a wall plate and then a shelf above it. Okay. And then I mounted that to the wall. Okay. Then I was online and I found like flush mount

drill thing. Like, uh, so basically like, you know the battery goes on the bottom of the drill. Yeah. They make mounts that are shaped just like that and they click in that are only like, you know, a quarter inch thick. Oh, so you can just put them right up on it? So I just slide on there. It just looks like it's hanging there. No shit. So I added all that stuff

and I'm just slowly going to build the garage like that. That's cool. You know what? On that. that whole deal. I just got a little rack from the store and hung it up. And it's just not big enough. And it's, it's awkward with the chargers. So send me the blueprints for that. Yeah. Because that's that's, I even, uh, brought the, the charger, the charger mount off the wall a little bit so I could hide the cords behind it. That was another thing. I got cords draping like it's my television. That's why you got to just build it custom so you can think about stuff like that. I know. Sometimes though I get like, auntie in. I'm like, I, I,

just want this thing hung so I can do this project. And then, um, and then I just like drill shit to the wall, you know, and so now I got to backtrack a little bit. And it was great. I spent, it was a Saturday. My kid nap for three hours that day. And the three hours, I just spent building that shelf. Oh, that's great. I even ran to the northern tool, picked up the mountain stuff. How many times did you go? Not just once. But I did get back and I was like, I probably should have grabbed some more stuff. You ever go to a nice lumber yard and just smell certain woods? I like doing that.

I used to work for this violin guy in his shop. I always say this, but he would send me out to the lumber yard because he would need. And I would just like, there was certain aisles you walk down just nothing like the smell of cedar. Do you ever like just like scratch a little bit? You know? Just do a little line of, yeah. What's good? Good. Wood's good. Nothing like the smell of wood, right, Miles?

I want to, you're going to love this. You're kind of, you like, you like something that'll blow your mind. If you think about it. My mind. In terms of building materials, right? Like think about gold and different precious metals and rocks and stone and all that, right? Right. You think about that. And then you throw wood in the mix, wood is the scarcest resource in the entire universe that we know about. No kidding. Because we're the only planet with wood that we know of because we're the only one that can support life.

So in other words, life is the scarcest resource that we know of. Because if you think we're one planet with life on it, thus we have vegetation. trees wood. Yeah. And from what we've seen, we haven't seen another planet with life on it. They got gold and lithium and all sorts of, you know, all the other elements, all the other resources they have on all these other planets, but they don't have wood. Dude.

And we act like, we just act like wood. We take wood for granted. Yeah, we do. Well, I don't. I got stockpiles of it, dude. We should, we should create a bill for the government to make wood, replace the, gold standard with the wood standard and we will be rich do you think about if aliens show up they're gonna want all our wood they're not gonna want our other shit yeah they're like our whole planet our whole planet's made of gold we don't have wood where we're hot we would like your wood we'd like we'd like all of your hard woods soft woods all of the woods erotic wood uh also life actually how you get life um yeah that's true Miles, I think that's really, really interesting.

Yeah, because gold for whatever it's worth, there's gold everywhere, I guess. In the universe, yeah. You just dig enough. You don't need life to produce gold. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Rock. There's so much stone. Yeah.

Oh, there's rocks for days. Just a commodity in the universe, but wood? They don't got it. Oh, that's what I like where. We're just not thinking about the fact that we got what everyone else don't got. It's not what we think. It isn't that funny? It's like the more you know, the more you don't.

You know? That's so true, man. That's so true, man. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, I figured you'd like that because you are like a notorious wood guy. You love wood. I love good wood.

And I'm sorry to appreciate it more and more. I like, uh, I like sanding wood properly, you know. I hate sanding wood. well i hated it for a long time too because i was in my life generally i'm a cutting corners guy no i grew like you just work on the corners like of a table or like you only cut the corners or you're cutting big circular table guy i hate doing rectangular tables i hate cutting the corners no i grew up it was i was drilled into me measure twice cut once and then when i kind of got out of my family household where that was drilled in, I was like, I don't fucking need to measure.

I'll just. You don't even need to measure at all? Not even just once. You measure once, but you really learn that you should measure twice after trying it a few times. So, but then I've, I started to realize after I rebelled against the early lessons of life, I came back to them. And I found out you can't just start off with the finest sandpaper that's, or the, you can't just take some wood and just get the roughest,

you got to listen to the wood, you got to feel the wood, you got to see what that wood needs. See if it's softwood, hardwood couldn't handle that coarseness or does it just need some a little bit more subtle and how much lacquer is on it?

So anyways, Miles, I think for my birthday, I might go get some wood. That's great. In California. I was going to say, how you can get home. Well, we talked about you going to the Redwoods.

That's kind of the same thing. That's true. We were already talking about that. I don't think I'm... Go smell the Redwoods on your birthday. I've walked through a Redwood forest by having been to the Redwoods. Although I think a bunch of them burns. To the New York Islands.

This land was made for you and me. Mostly billionaires. Dun, done. We had such a great segment. I hope people know it's true. All right, What do you think?

What do you think? Let's take some collars. Let's take some collars. Spring cleaning season is here. Okay? So, all right. So remember when I was in my garage? Yeah.

You know? And I was like, I was putting up, it was putting up those little, it's not slab wall. Is it slat wall? It's the wall that lets you like hang shit on it, you know? Yeah. Okay.

It's not pegboard. It's like this. Yeah, it's a wall sled. Yeah. Forget what they call it. They have some name for it. But then, you know, you got to put up like a base layer first.

you know anyway I had the I had the old circular saw there miles and you know I was I was cutting it

I was cutting good and then my brother came out and my brother had just flooded the upstairs okay and he said

hey char and I knew the way he said hey char and I was like yeah and like he had he had a mistake

I was like what's wrong and he goes we got an issue inside and I was like shit and I

slipped with the saw and what I was doing and I just cut a bad cut but it could have been my finger is the point okay so what I'm telling you is had I cut my finger I would call Nicolet Law because I was on company time and I could

have gotten some workers comp yes I own the company yes he would have been suing me for that but probably would have just been the insurance company but in another scenario where you aren't your own boss yeah call 1855 nickel A all right folks the sun is starting to shine again

again in the Midwest. Miles, you look like you could drive a NASCAR right now. Actually, you look like you could drive to a NASCAR race with those bad boys. Yeah, driving the truck. Yeah. Carrying in the NASCAR. Uh-huh. I feel that way. Look at these. I got my shady rays on and it's warming up in the Midwest, sunshine. You got to make sure you're going into summer with a nice pair of shades. Absolutely. And for Sprinter too, like we're about to get some snow, even though it's spring, crazy, but when you got white on the ground, a lot of glare off that snow. You need sunglasses more in the winter than the summer, I would say, because you get

the sun just reflecting on you, but summer, obviously, you, I'm saying, it's full year for these sunnies. That's true. And I got the JFK special over here. I'm waiting for Miles to sing me happy birthday like Maryland Memorial, you know? Happy birthday to you. I like it with those shady rays, dude. Yeah. You're one lapper away from and having issues with us. Charlie,

you want us something crazy about Shady Ray's? What's that? They have over 300,000 five-star reviews and millions of people have switched to Shady Race. Dude, that's insane. That's crazy. I mean, we don't even have that many reviews, not even close.

And they definitely wouldn't all be five-star. No. No, God. No. think this podcast doesn't even have five stars no i know my mom gave it one star that's for sure yeah so um guys guys if you want to switch just some shady rays like charlie and i have you got to go to shady ray's website use code bellied up you get 40% off two or more polarized sunglasses you heard that right 40 40 zero for his coat bellied up get ready for uh get ready for the summer with some night some new shade

shady ray chuck look what i got in front of you guys you're just look what i got in front of to me here. New pair of boots. These are my brand new pair of brunt boots. I just got them. Now are those oil resistant mouths? Are they slip resistant? I believe so.

Are they? They're oil resistant, slip resistant, and non-marking. Damn. Non-marking. You could play basketball with those suckers in the gym, right? You could. Yeah. Yeah.

You just could you see yourself shooting free throws, just wiping off the bottom of those brunts, you know? Yeah. Yeah. The reason why I got this pair is so I got the steel toe, but I also want to just the soft toe and that's what these guys are and um i can't wait to break them in oh these are soft toe over here but the thing is with brown boots is you don't really have to break them in they're already uh kind of like the the leather is nice and soft already yeah it is soft

so like you kind of just wear them right out of the box and you're like feeling good your feet don't hurt at the end of the day because you got to break them in still yeah i mean usually you know you're just putting your boots under the mattress with your baseball glove Is that how you break your boots in normally? You don't got to do that anymore? No, I was just trying to make a joke about baseball glove breaking it in. You ever put baseball glove under a mattress? So we've been wearing these brunt boots now for quite some time and we love them.

Charlie, you love them. I do. I wear them as much as I can and I'm excited to beat the hell out of these guys and that's what they're there for. They're durable. They're comfortable and I think they look pretty good. You know, Miles, mine are looking pretty good. them pretty worn down there and I've got to say I put them through uh you know purgatory I won't say hell yet not not full hell yet put them through purgatory yeah but they are they're pretty new

they're only a month but uh you know back feels good feels right you're on your feet that's what we're at in life we're all about just me you know it's all about back security at this point yeah how do these shoes make my side ass feel you know like they do am I are they even flaming the sciatica issues. I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, I used to lift with my back a lot. My dad would be like, lift with your life, not your back, you know? And I didn't listen. Sometimes you're quick, and now you need a nice pair of boots.

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Tyler. What is cooking, Tyler? Uh, you know, not much, just sick. With what? What do you got? Clamydia, what is it? Like a head cold. Okay, that's how it starts usually.

Hopefully it doesn't devolve into chlamydia. Well, good for you. So we hope you get better. Are you doing anything to take care of yourself? Are you watching some Netflix, getting some rest? Or you just working getting everyone else sick? Uh, mix of the last two. Okay, nice.

Good for you. I can't take a dump truck to the dump here in a bit. Oh, what are you hauling? Scrap. Scrap. Yeah. All right. Hopefully not any scrap wood.

That shit's precious. Yeah. Do you have scrap wood in there? No, that's all rotted out and termite infested. It's already garbage. All right. Well, yeah, good burn pile. Yeah, would be.

I mean, that goes up fast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just. So, Tyler, what's going on? Yeah, sorry. So this is the billied back up for the book of Keith. And boy, does this story get more juicy than I ever thought when I told you boys about it. Oh, wait, what is this?

Jared intentionally kept us in the dark about what was going on. What is it? This is the bellied back up for the book of Keith. I found out more about this story. And it gets so much more messed up. Okay. Great. To set the table, Tyler called us up, oh, about a month, two, three ago.

And he had a car that he had purchased or his buddy did. It doesn't matter. But the trunk smelt of ass. And he popped the trunk. And that was kind of like a misnomer of a thing. We don't know what that meant. But there was a journal in the trunk. And in this journal was a man, Keith's prison journal.

Tyler then called the number in there, which was Keith's gal lover, lover. who he was writing all these glove notes to and he never knew how to spell lose from what I recall Yep I don't want to lose you I don't want to lose you any but we said we wanted him to read the journal to us but he didn't have it

So he's going to get it call back in and so now we are going This is a new segment of Reading from chapter one of Keith's Prison Journal Chronicles of Keith Chronicles of Keith so it gets better so i found out more about this whole story about how we got arrested and everything and it gets it gets it gets kind of crazy so turns out i have a friend named keith spelled the

exact same way the only difference is their last name so happens are there multiple ways to spell keith there are multiple ways to spell keith no there's no there's not dude wait give me one other way to out Keith. I can't spell. Never mind. I take that statement back. Tyler, how are we supposed

to trust what you have to say now? I can't spell. I can read. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. All right.

But my buddy Keith knows book of Keith and was talking to him about it. Got got kind of the scoop on it on how he got arrested. Okay,

so your buddy Keith knows the real Keith. Yeah. Got it. Book of Keith knows my buddy Keith. Okay. So did they like do all Keith's just get together? How did they know each other? They were all a Keith meet up. Secret Keith meeting every Wednesday or something. Secret Keith convention. No,

they work with them. Did he date him? What? So I never asked him how he knew this story either because he lives kind of in that general area. Okay. I would expect that they ran into each other from time to time. Yeah. Guy around. So why did he get arrested? So it turns out Didn't go to jail Went to or didn't go to prison Went to jail But how he got arrested

So he got pulled over by the cops He got out and he fled Well his gal stayed behind And she called the book of Keith Pulled him The cops aren't going to arrest you Come back He came back

They cuffed him and booked him And took him away Wow So his girl's a rat Yeah What was her name again? I can't remember the name we gave her. She'll call her the rat.

We'll just call her the rat. The rat. The rat works fantastic. Wow. The rat works fantastic. But maybe she's not a rat. Maybe the police just fooled her. I don't know.

Why did he run? While he was in there. Well, yeah. Yeah. Several times. Why do you run? Um, no idea. I wasn't told that information.

So why did he actually get arrested because he ran or because of something else that he was getting pulled over for and then they just added the running on top of it? I think it was a mix of that plus priors. Ah, okay. So he's got a rap sheet. Yeah, probably one of those. I can't get arrested again ordeals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because then he'll lose his girlfriend.

All right. Okay, so, and he only got a year. I mean, it must have been a bunch of petty crimes plus running from the police to only get a year. Probably. So you said, is his girlfriend cheated on him a bunch? How did you find that out? And does Keith forgive her and are they still together? Sorry, I was taking a drink.

So, friend Keith didn't really fill me in on that portion of whether they were together or not. But I'm going to go off of her word that they still are. job just due to the fact that you know i may have called her at eight o'clock a night but you know it might have been might have been truth might not have been who knows well we'll assume they're still together that that keith's a forgiving guy because he forgave her for ratting him out and cheating on him we'll assume the the best rather than the worst that's what you usually do with people who bet in jail yeah for the most part give him give him several chances all right so what's the weird shit

no i was going through i was looking at i was looking at these stories as i've gone through him his he started out like with pencil went to pen back to pencil and then and then the blood

just randomly speckled in here just gets more and more it's soaked through more pages as i've looked through it huh that's peculiar i forgot there was blood on them Yeah, maybe I had a buddy nose. Maybe someone snuck him in some nose drugs.

Some little Bogota, bugger sugar. Something like that. So that's the, is that all the news that we know right now is that that's how we got arrested and that she cheated on them? Yes. Okay. All right. All right. Well, can we, can we dive into this journal?

Yeah, read us a section. Let me find a, let me find a good section. Get us a juicy one. All right. July 30th, Wednesday. Same shit, different day. Boring as hell. There's only two people

in the unit right now. They moved a shit ton of people a little bit ago, comma. Probably two days ago, I think. Nobody will answer any calls. I still don't have my tablet. I swear to God, if I don't get one soon, so I can see if you texted me, I'm going to

loose my fucking mind. I'm getting pids. I miss you so fucking much. I've asked multiple times to see if I have a court date, and they are still telling me that they do not have me scheduled yet. I often wonder what you're doing, what you're thinking, how you're doing, and it's really driving me crazy, not being able to ask about your day and talking to you. end of July 30th

Wow I miss you so fucking much I just love the love letter The unsent love letters You know Yeah was his plan to give it to her When he was out you think I am guessing so

And it just never happened Yeah He has What did I do in two different spots Just randomly post sideways On pieces of paper You ran from the police and a bunch of other shit.

So is he, I forget, he's out now, right? Yeah, he's out. He's out and about. He's chilling. So can we get another one in there? All right. So get ready for this. Bear with me. My ability to read is ass.

You and Jared. Yeah. Jared. We're team. So, rat. Babe, you don't even know how much I miss you. You don't know how much I appreciate you. You mean so much to me. You're my world, my heart, my soul, my best friend.

You're the only person I trust at this point. I don't know what you have over me, but you will always have a place in my heart. I've said it before, but I honestly don't think I've ever felt this way about a woman before, question mark. Why do I love you so much? Why am I so drawn to you? I honestly don't know. I love your smile, you're your laugh, especially when you giggle, dot, dot, dot, dot.

It's just cute. I love the way you handle yourself. I remember the fun times like cooking a single slice of Little Caesar's Pizza over a campfire, watching movies and making TikToks. I wish we would have taken. Oh, no, that's not taken. That's token. T-O-O-K-E-N, T-O-K-E-N, T-O-K-E-N, T-O-K-E-N, T-O-K-E-N, A-K-A, A-K-A, me let you take more pictures of us. There's truly a lot of things I could have done different, and that's what I intend to do.

when I get out of this, get out of this time. I want to be the person you want in life. Give you what you deserve. Baby, when I get out, I really do want to get a dog. You of all people know I love. And I got to put the page. Love days than I do. Oh, dogs.

That's dogs. Love dogs than I do. People. Well, besides you. I really do need to start working out. past time, you know, I'm thinking about getting an MP3 player and downloading some music, but to get one of those, it's expensive AF. It's capital A and F. So I don't know if I should or not. I honestly don't know what to do. If I get back out on probation, I'll have no job, no money,

no legal place to stay, no car, no nothing. I'm nervous as fuck to get out without any of those and beyond probation because at that point I'll be screwed and sent right but in here B-U-E-T for probation

violation period at the bottom in all caps fuck I love you so much baby three hearts and three smiley faces holy smokes guy what were they they were cooking on little Caesar

slice of pizza over a fire is over a campfire that's so romantic that's so romantic. This is nothing more romantic than a hot and sweaty pizza. Little Caesar's pizza. Pizza pizza. Pizza pizza. That is.

Yeah, go ahead. I got one more. And the ending on this one's kind of sad. And if you guys want to, it's a little bit of a tear jerker. Yeah. That's real life. Yeah. Start this out.

Mamas, baby girl, rat, love. Hmm. Where the hell do I start? What do I say? Jail is just the same. day repeated over and over till you get out basically literally the same thing wake up eat breakfast stay up or go back to sleep go eat lunch then maybe play a game of castle or spades damn near too much spades uh that's the wrong too it's t w o in this context um too much spades is what i like

though what the hell people don't like betting with me on two man spades because i'll bid low and end up throwing off the given amount or no give them bags and geez give them bags and set them back about 90% of the time

I end up winning I can't tell if he's cheating in the spades or if he's just got the luck of a gambling man anyways damn I win desserts milks nudes oh

noodles coffee oh coffee Jesus all the time and cash in when I want them. What the fuck? My,

my, my, my homie Lobel, L-A-B-O-E-S, how the, lobe-os? L-A-B-O-E-S?

L-A-B-O-E-S. Leboeos? LaBose? Sure. My homie Leboz keeps coming back and I keep telling him he don't want to, no matter what he keeps doing it. It's to,

it's to the point, low-key, or to the point I low-key felt bad and stopped taking his dessert. Oh. Carolina got out today, so now I ain't got no one to talk shit with, but fuck. Guess I'll have to find somebody else. Well, that's what it says. This dude Gunner, I'd call him goldfish, though, because of his stay in the

MRT class, MRI class, lets me listen to music. on his tablet, which is pretty nice. And then he's got three big hearts drawn. And down below those three big hearts, P.S, I would draw more stuff, but I don't know how to. But I know how to draw at all. So sorry, but that's all you get. I love you.

He doesn't know how to draw. But he knows how to draw at all. He doesn't know how to draw at all. Yeah, he doesn't know how to draw at all. Okay, I do have a question. I let this go the first time. I thought you had added it, but now I heard it a second time. He said rat twice.

No, he says her name, but we're keeping her name. Oh. We're redacting it. I see. We're doing the Epstein files. Well, if we were doing the Epstein files, he would have just been silent for two minutes. Well, been silent or you just would have heard a beep. Yeah, exactly.

That was, that was a such a, just, I think I hear the takeaway. that's that's that's that's that's wholesome one this kind of one of those yeah he's got friends he's just he's a he's got friends he's an average man just trying to live his day to day life yeah he's got so much so much kindness in his heart you can tell you know not taking those not taking uh low's dessert i mean that that that was really i mean you know and he's a bit of a hustler but a hustler with a conscience yeah i think i think i like to see that And this gal is just the light at the end of his tunnel, just keeping him sane, you know? Just keeping him saying.

And then there's also a, he wrote down a bill of sale in here. He sold a car. I know, he bought a car while in jail. What? I thought he was worried about not having any money. There's a, I kid you not, there's a bill of sale for a 95 GMC, Yukon, 200 bucks. Are you can't? Maybe, oh, here's what I bet it is.

he won that playing spades. Yeah. What a D to a car playing. It's not racing for pinks. It's gambling for pinks. I want you for pinks all out. Gambling for pink slips. That's kind of fun.

Yeah. And then after that bill of sale, it's just kind of radio static to the back where it's got his music playlist that he wanted to download onto the MP3 player. I currently have a few of them. queued up in the truck. What was his playlist?

So it's it's a list. There's one, two, three, four. There's a shit ton. I'm not going to count all. You need to make a Spotify playlist called Keith's jail playlist. And then put all the songs in there. And then our listeners can go listen to Keith's playlist. Yeah.

And I think you should read, record yourself reading the entire journal. And then we'll go like song entry. Get like some ASMR. Yeah. I get really close to the mic, like have some faint rain sounds in the background. Read some sections while one of the, while the playlist of the music is just slowly and quietly playing in the background. I fucking love you.

Stuff like that. Do you think he gave this journal to her after he got out? It sounds like he wrote this journal with an audience in mind. It sounds like he did, but honestly, it was just sitting in the trunk. So I don't know. if he threw it back there and then just forgot to give it to her or what and like i said when i called her asked if she wanted it and she goes do whatever you want with it so i said okay wow well we got consent from her yeah yeah exactly have you talked to teeth yet uh which keith you know the keith

in jail friend keith or keith book keith book uh no i have not i was kind of try and look up if he i i I was trying to find what he got arrested for through the public work system. I got to figure out where he got sent to jail to begin with. I'm trying to figure that out. Yeah, you'll figure it out. Yeah, that sounds cool, man. Well, yeah, thank you for the update on this. This is great.

At some point, you've read every page of this journal. Is that correct? Yeah. I think that when I get home, I need to tell I need to get babysitter. and I need to do a Keith date with Ann. We need to go campfire somewhere. Go go and go get one slice of little seasons. A little season.

Just say, you know, TikToks together. And this may not seem like much of a night, but when I'm in jail, this is what I'm going to write about. This is what I'm going to remember. Mm-hmm. The little moments.

It is the little moments. He's got some little moments written down in here and some funny moments, some sad parts. Is there, is TikTok handle in there, I'd love to get a peep at those TikToks. I would love to as well, but there's no

TikTok handle. There's a credit card pin. Like I said, a bunch of numbers with people's names, apartment. Oh, wait. I might be able to find out where he is. Okay. I've got his old apartment in here. Which means I can

find the area of where he was at. See if that's where he got. Yeah. Okay. Another breadcrum. Yeah. You're slowly pulling. in the string, you know. Yeah. Sherlock and Holmes. Yeah, and he sounds like a nice guy. He sounds like a real nice guy.

He does sound really nice. Maybe you can help him get a job, you know? I mean, he had a lot of valid concerns in there. No job. No place to live. Maybe you can help him reenter society. This is a great. I probably said this last time.

This is such a great plot for a movie. You find this notebook. You get obsessed with him. You finally meet him. You help him out. You become friends. Or have a TV series, too. TV series.

Kind of like one of those Not documentaries What is it? It's where people like find stories And I go find the actual people in real life And it's like an hour and a half Yeah A little segment

A little mini docu series made three four episodes Yeah exactly Sometimes Sometimes you know People Like if you write Like sometimes I write screenplays In like a job

journal. And I'm like, oh, God, if anyone ever found that, that'd be interesting. Because you do like sort of character stuff in it. And one time I found something that looks similar. I was like, oh, this guy's guy's a similar brain as me. And the, I think it was stories because the stuff he was talking about was just insane. I found it in this lost and found at this pool I worked at as a kid. and I was just bored, but I was like, this is insane. And I think what I can gather is he's just writing screenplays, you know. I've done that before, you know. Lost and Founds are great, man.

If you ever work at a place with the Lost and Found, there's nothing better than going through that. There was this one Lost and Found, or one time at the Pool Lost and Film where someone had a wedding ring in there, did not come back for it. But there was a little, a little naughty toy. in a bag. They came back that next day. So I don't know what that says about American society, but.

Well, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, so time about Charlie. Yeah. You're working at a pool. Yeah. What were you working? You were a lifeguard? No, I, I, I was, I was the guy who worked, uh, I worked maintenance and landscaping and like cleaning the garbage cans. So what the hell are you doing looking through the lost and found? Because when you're bored, you go, you, you, you try to Mac on the 16 year olds when you're I I'm I'm 13 I am 13 years old 14 years old these were older you go Mac on the guy can we can we can I put that edit that before I said 16 year olds I'm 14 I'm trying to hit on these 16 year olds and it's tough to do it because I smell like soda because I kept stealing the the aluminum cans from the garbage so I could go sell them

ever thought someone smelled like soda you you stick. You stick. When I walked in, it was like I was a sticky guy. And I had soda stains all over my pants. But I cleaned up with the price

of aluminum at the time, Miles, I can make a lot of extra money. But anyways, yeah, I would just go in there and, you know, sometimes she would take a break and I would like man the table. She wasn't supposed to do that. But largely I had just enjoyed looking through the lost and found. It's kind of like,

why I enjoy going to flea markets these days. You know, you can just go back in history. Everything's got a story. You know, it's nice. So, no, so you found this journal in the Lost and Found. Yeah, it was a journal. And you think it was a guy writing screenplays? Yeah, it was, it was, you were a guy writing screenplays.

And this was in what town? This, this would have been in, uh, Elm Grove, Wisconsin at the pool at the public You think a guy was writing screenplays at the Elm Grove Pool? I think maybe. I think that's perhaps the case. Yeah. And there was some wild shit in there? What was the wildest thing you remember?

None of it really made sense, honestly. And I can't give you specifics. But I hadn't thought about that in a while. But I just thought about it. But it was just like, it was like, you know, there was some like, like, it seemed like bad, um, bad soap opera stuff, you know. like and then what made me also

connected dots is when I was doing a screenwriting class you would basically take a character and I've done this stuff where you take a character and you try to think specifically through that character's lens and you write stuff

as if you're that character you know that's what he was doing I think that's what he was doing yeah so I mean I do a bunch of that stuff and but out of context it's kind of like uh oh what's going on with this guy

it and so what I mean with this dude everything seems from the same point of view that he's trying to get the it's like a collection of love letters for this gal i wonder if he had a bunch of other journals you know that detailed other elements of it that had a different audience you know yeah like i don't know just dodge but yeah that awesome that awesome found stories clearly than mine i used to work out of pool as well but i was a lifeguard i found a scarf in Austin down there in the middle of summer okay yeah um in the middle of summer that is that's crazy where was this pool it's just in my hometown up in idaho did you ever uh have to save anyone

no ironically enough every time that i got swapped out because we'd do rotations just because of how hot it was so none of us would get overheated at five minutes after we'd rotate i'd hear the whistle blow and whoever was watching would have to jump in and save someone. Oh. So I always missed it just by a couple minutes. That sounds a little suspicious, dude. Or they were drowning that whole time and you weren't just weren't paying attention. We almost had to kick one family out because they had a,

it was a toddler, like not much older than two. Who, do you want to know how they would teach him to swim? Strowman. Yeah, they pulled, um, what was that movie? The Western movie, great actor Cameron. remember his name. But basically just threw their kid in head first and watch them roll around and float and sink and then come back up.

Well, that's like actually, that's a thing. Like, that's a way you teach kids how to like, it's actually safer than not teaching them anything because if they do that and they come back up to the top and they can float on their back, then they won't drown at least for a while,

at least for a couple months. Oh, this kid was floating face down. Oh, well, you know, first, you know,

you think you're just going to figure it out the first time. It's a story about life. You got to float face down before you can float on your back. And a kid also had nine siblings. Well, what does that have to do with anything? You're talking shit about Charlie's family? Is this?

Yeah, I got 11 siblings, dude. Where do you fall in that 11? Second oldest. See, you're fine. You're sensible.

Yeah, true. Facts. Yep. But yeah, they start. I don't know how sensible he is. He's putting his siblings on the mantle and leaving the room.

Can we stop bringing that? up because I forgot I said well here's the thing how's that ain't different than throwing a kid in a pool huh how's actually more responsible than throwing a kid who can't swim in the pool yeah because I was gonna catch him they weren't actually going to fall I was just left the room uh but I was peeking they were oh and I forget you're like you're like spider man and you just you got quick reflexes yeah I can do it I can do it I don't know why I decided to do that uh I'm trying to blame it on someone else right now, but I can't remember if it was done to me.

I don't think so. I don't know why I thought that. I was young. My brain wasn't fully formed miles. There you go. Yeah. When they threw their kid in, they would hype it up like an MMA fight.

I'm not kidding you. They were screaming their chain. Go, go, go and turn, roll, roll, go. Yeah. Screaming. Right. People will walk away to hear them. Oh, okay.

Well, I mean, I guess that can be a little jarring for the rest of the paying customers of the pool. um all right well we appreciate the update on keith oh yeah of course i'll see if i can't find out uh yeah what he got arrested for and i'll just shoot jared a text so he can tell you guys that'd be sweet we appreciate it dude we appreciate you getting the notebook too of course my pleasure all right watch for deer there oh you as well boys all right a good one you keep a journal yeah yeah yeah i keep i keep many a journal like actually keep a journal where you're talking about your internal feelings i have some of that yeah a lot of times it's first drafts of most of the stuff i write i just do it on pen pen and paper you know um yeah do you ever i have notebooks oh he doesn't want to call it he doesn't

want to call it diary do you must do you have a diary pal no it's more so like uh it's like kind of my like brain dump. Yes. It's not like I'm, it's not like I'm doing a narrative thing all the time. Right. Like writing something out. It's more so like,

I need to do this or what if we did this or is this piece of content good? You know, um, you know, then I'll have like random just math in there. Yeah. Drawings. I like to draw arrows.

Yeah. I draw on the margins a lot. Basically like to get all my thoughts out of my head and onto paper and then I can organize them, you know? That's good. And I actually have, I think, five of them. Nice. And I have them all dated.

That's wonderful. So it's kind of cool, actually, because you can go back in a business sense for me. Like, there's a lot of business stuff in there. He's trying to make this very masculine talking about diaries. I do have entries where I talk about, you know, like how I'm feeling about my current state of my life. Yeah, feelings. And at the end of every single one, I try and like do like a. message for the next notebook, you know? Oh, that's cool. A takeaway. But yeah, so you can go back

in the notebooks and see like what state of mind I was in over the years and how my philosophy and strategy and stuff evolves. And you can be like, oh yeah, I thought that was a good idea back then. That would turn out to be a really bad idea. Yeah. But cool to see it written down. Cool to see. I wish I could go back and tend to this entry. I don't have that. I don't have that. I don't have the regret. Good. Because without that entry, you don't get the next one. Right. It's all the stop what you didn't hit, you know. Wait. Yeah. Yeah. It's a country song lyric or a bet, but you know what? I go back and I read some, sometimes and I see the patterns. Some patterns have changed and some parents are the exact same. I'm like, oh, I'm, this thought I think is new. I've

thought a thousand times before. Yeah. You know, like the man's one minute, that idea, I had that in 2014. That's cool. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So a lot of times, but so going back and reading the old stuff I find is kind of almost as useful as writing the new stuff. But I do a lot of sometimes it can probably get in your head too much. But on those brain dumps, yeah, I do a thing like where you just you don't even think about what you're thinking you just write your thoughts fragments whatever and um you know none of it's true they're just thoughts and i think that's an interesting thing if your brain like how many thoughts do you think a day that are just not true or accurate but they come through your mind and where do they come from and then when you write them on paper you

can see okay which thoughts are part of me sucks that that's not a good idea which thoughts are part of me and which ones are just, you know, projected on to me from the world, you know? Yeah, yeah. Like, oh, that thought sucks and isn't real. That thoughts, it's not a productive thing. It's not a good thing. That's not who I am. But it's a thought.

And for all honest with ourselves, we all have a bunch of terrible thoughts, whatever they are. And but to just almost, the idea is if you put them out there, you release them, but you do have to do that work of saying that's not me, you know. Well, yeah, it's, uh, once you realize. that you aren't your thoughts. There's just something going on in your head, then your whole game changes. Exactly.

You get to choose which thought to chase and not. Yeah, yeah. So that's... You can choose which thought to give energy to and not. Right, right. And that's, especially in this business, this very sort of creative business or whatever, you can, I mean, you know, you know, I can go down on rabbit hole, you know?

And, oh, oh, do I? But, you know, some things are, are, you can see what you're seeing is accurate and then you just also pay attention to your patterns over time. What I think kind of sucks though is what I realized those notebooks is I really only spend time in them

when things aren't going well. So it's just a collection of when you're just kind of in low spots. 100% I've had that and I've had the full. It was like, oh, if you just read the notebook, you'd be like, this guy is so mentally unstable. Yeah. Yeah, no, 100%.

And I've sort of made myself do it every day for a while. I go in bits and starts with it. So to avoid that, you know, even for yourself when you're going back reading it. Yeah, well, you should have happy notebooks and sad notebooks. Yeah, I should. Yeah. Sad journal, good journal. Yeah.

But it's had habit, I guess, of doing it every day. That's kind of funny, actually. Miles in the happy journal. And basically, like, when I die in my will, I have it that they're going to make two books of my life. And if you read the sad book, you'd be like, this is a tragedy. If you read the happy book, you're like, wow, this is a

fairy tale. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, who's going to read your journals when you go, Miles? I don't know. Whoever grabs them? Yeah, I guess why is it matter? You're gone. That's kind of an interesting idea. That's actually a really good idea for like a, you know what I mean?

Like, if you just read people's low points, you'd be like this person had a terrible life. Yeah, maybe they're They're crazy, whatever. But if you just read their high points, be like, wow, this guy's got the best life ever. He's so happy. That's probably a thing, though, when they're like Picasso, he was so depressed. You know, all these people.

He only wrote down when he was depressed. Right, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, well, you can't just go off of what's there. He was a tortured poet. He's like, well, because he only wrote when he was tortured. Right. Yeah.

Van Gogh's like that. It only paints what he said. Yeah. He was happy 95% of the time. Those few paintings that got him on. depression people painted his whole life as that's true yeah it is true oh man and we're really untangling uh the that yeah like when you're like having a great time in life you're on like i should go right down how this feels no no like fuck i don't have to write today because i feel

yeah i feel great i'm gonna just sleep in till 10 fuck it you know it's actually pretty funny that is funny yeah we came across a little bit there miles Um, what do you think? Should we, uh, that's it? Is that it? So, Darren. Well, guys, thanks for tuning into another episode of the Bellied Up podcast. You got to get down to the Lions Pub.

If you're in Minneapolis, it's a great spot. And, uh, with a Y, L-Y-O-N. We'll see you in the next one, guys. Tip your bartender. Okay. Hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now. Oudaloo.