Bellied Up - The Most Terrifying Midwest Haunted House #173
Episode Date: October 30, 2025We're at Vic's in Moorhead, MN. We breakdown what would be in a midwest haunted house. (15:52) First caller tells us a story of how they stole money from a casino. (42:59) Next caller's fa...ther in law is very particular on how to prepare steaks. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/belliedupuse promo code: belliedupLeave us a voicemail: 218-505-3095
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Well, hi, folks.
It's me, Charlie Barron's.
I want to welcome you to another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast.
Here beside me is my co-pilot, Miles, the Bech Guy.
And Miles, I got to tell you something, Halloween is in the air.
It is.
Yeah, so, well, first, where are we at, Charlie?
Let's tell the folks.
We're at Vicks, Miles.
We're at Vicks here in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Morehead's where I went to college, Charlie.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, what's the benefit of going to school here?
more head
never heard that one before
um
yeah it's terrible joke it's a great crowd in here
it's uh
people are here for lunch
yeah i like it the gal's behind us
she's getting a mushroom and Swiss
sandwich I was talking to her yeah
was it good tasty I don't see it anymore so it must have been good
yeah she doesn't want to be on camera though so
no that's fine yeah we're not going to interview her
there's a place my house this is a place
where like gentlemen
hold court,
gentlemen above their 70s,
hold court.
Yeah,
that's what's happening behind you over here.
And you got to love that.
Sometimes you see him at the,
at the filling station
or at the burger joint.
The one guy who was on the phone
and he had his phone on speaker
and he was clearly talking to someone
trying to tell him how to fix something
I could tell.
And, you know,
like if we're talking to speaker phone,
we're just kind of doing one of these.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was literally had the phone like right up to his face just yelling into the mic.
No, that makes sense because he's trying to look at the thing, you know.
I don't think he was on FaceTime.
Oh, he wasn't on FaceTime.
That's even funnier.
It's so good.
Well, it's a fantastic.
I remember my dad one time answered the phone for, he answered the phone, but it was a FaceTime.
And he answered it.
And he was talking on the phone like this.
but you didn't know
it was a FaceTime
so the whole time
the person who's talking to
you could just see his ear
and that was it
like I think
I think you're on FaceTime
it was right when he got a new iPhone
he like he was figuring it out
so he thought he called someone
but he actually face tied someone
so he put up to his ear
and the person answered the face time
and all I could see was his ear
damn puffs of hair coming out
that
that
is you
dad have the ear hair going?
Oh,
I'm starting to get
your hair.
You know what I'm in
your hair?
Let me see.
I've been plucking them out.
Okay.
You get the little,
they make the contraption
with the little spinning.
I use that for my nose.
Okay.
Yeah,
your nose looks good,
dude.
It looks like you got a no zillion.
I mean,
it looks bare.
But back to what you were talking about.
It's Halloween season,
Charlie.
Spooky.
Ooh.
Do I get you?
Yeah.
Hey,
what would like a,
what if there was like a haunted house
like for Midwest people
I mean there is
there's tons of haunted houses
a Midwest themed haunted house
yeah kind of like an escape room
but not an escape room but a haunted house
but with the theme borrowing themes from escape
you knew what I was saying before I brought up that analogy
yeah so it'd be like you come around the corner
and someone's just standing instead of a guy with a chainsaw
it's just a guy with a plate of blue cheese
being like put this on your pizza you know oh god no and like every door you open is just
and there's no wd 40 in the whole house that could be a whole section of it squeaky things with
no wd 40 yeah yeah there's no all the junk is on the floor and there are no junk drawers so you're
stepping on very important things and also thumbtacks.
Well, no, so it's like you combine with the escape room, you have to look for something
in a kitchen.
Yeah.
But you open where all the junk drawers would be and there's nothing in them.
Nothing.
So you have no idea where to find it.
Instead, there's a neatly organized silverware drawer with no old chopsticks.
Yeah.
And then the cupboard, there's just, it's just like only glass.
There's no like old beer mug, like plastic beer mugs.
from mug night there's no like uh souvenir water cups you know yeah it's just all actually like
way uh cupboard of cups is supposed to be like nice nice cups like that you just got from
home goods or better homes and gardens or whatever yeah it's like where you get for your
wedding you know yeah on the registry it's not a glass that you know you're pulling out of your
thing and you guys smell it before you give it to your buddy you know yeah um and then the way that
it ends, you walk into a room and they just say, buy, and then they walk out of the room.
Don't offer you a beer. And, and, and when you're, when you're leaving, there's, there's
nobody trying to get you to stay. Yeah. And it's because it's so, such a scary haunted house,
they do need a recombolation area. And in there, you meet up with everyone after and you have
beers and you do the Midwest goodbye there because it's just so jarring to just leave, you know?
Yeah, that's the bar outside. It's called the Reconvobulation area. Perfect.
The Recombovulation bar. Yeah. That'd be a great. I'm surprised there's not a bar name that in
Milwaukee. There's a, there's a room in the haunted house where it's only pull tab machines,
but there's no winners in them.
Oh, yeah.
So you just rip forever and just never get a winner.
That's really good.
And I think too...
It's like on space gym when he's talking to Michael Jordan
with the evil villain guy.
He's like, you're going to play one-on-one all day long
and never win or something like that.
You know, die about it?
Yeah. That's the pole tab.
You're going to play pole tabs all day and never win.
there's a bunch of deer on the wall but it's just doze
that would be so unsatisfying to look at
not one rack you know
deer everywhere but not one rack to look
yeah not one rack to hang your hat
um
there oh there's uh there's like a
it's on a lake it's a lake house
uh except you can't
none none the doors open
you know to get out to the lake yeah and there's there's fishing poles and tackle just sitting there
same kind of difference you can't get out you're just trapped oh there you maybe you can get out
you finally figure it out so to completely take away that premise and there's a boat outside a haunted
boat and on a nice lake well it's on a nice lake but there's no fish in the lake so again you're
just fishing all day and you don't catch anything i was going to say there's no keys in the boat but
I like what you did there
because yeah
you got one Jared
there's like there's like a guy
just throwing like older seats away
and like old phone charges away
and like one phone boxes
he's just throwing him away
guy we got to keep that
there was another one I had
oh there's a man
there's a woman cave
there's a woman cave
the detached garage
is just for
Like, his wife's, like, fifth bathroom.
Yeah, there's just, there's a whole section that's just salad, you know,
there's not a meat or potato in sight.
In the entire fridge.
Yeah.
It's like, and you, there's a section where it's, um,
tater tots, green beans, cream of mushroom soup and, uh, ground beef.
And it's just, they're all separate and they're not.
together so it's like a hot dish but but separate ingredients no it sounds terrible eating a hot
dish but not all together like eating them separately and you have to finish the green beans
when i was a kid i actually that's another one yeah he's just your grandma your your aunt's green bean
green bean cassero you just you have to eat it to go to the next room you have to clean your plate
of green bean casserole.
Also, I kind of take away the no Midwest goodbye.
I think there should be a Midwest goodbye,
but I should think it should be like every,
we all have these talkers in our life,
and I want four of them there in a row.
So you have one room where you think that you're not getting the Midwest goodbye,
and you go into the next room,
and it's actually the Midwest goodbye from hell.
Yes, yes.
And it's all of the people.
people you hate to talk to and you can't get out of the room until after it's like you'd be there
for like two hours because they just went through the haunted house too so they have to go through
everything can you believe that boat doesn't have a key in it i mean my god so the last time i was
in a boat like that it was your uncle harold now your uncle harold told me to only put a certain
kind of gas in it it was one of those with the dials on the engine where you could only
monitor how much oxygen gas was going you know how that works so there's dials on these old
Johnson engines, and this was a
1959 Johnson engine, it was on
an Alumacraft boat. Now, Illumacraft
Would you know what? They used to make boats for
the military back in the day.
Way, way back in the
1930s, you know, for World War II,
and back that Mantuaq, Wisconsin,
did you know that they built submarines
for the war? Did you know that? Yeah, they would take
them up the canal right
up there.
Hang on.
Well, I should.
What was the name of it? I don't
Don't tell me. Don't tell me.
The St. Lawrence Seaway, and so once you get in the St. Lawrence Seaway now, so really, if you're looking out at Lake Michigan, if you got your finger in Lake Michigan, you could have your finger anywhere in the world when you think about how far that water is traveling. That water has touched Russia.
Something to think about.
And that's just the first one.
It's like two hours. Yeah.
It's crazy, right? I think we should, I think we should make this.
Yeah, it's, uh, it's, uh, then you have a whole room where it's just your dad's in there
and he just is yelling at you the whole time.
Hey, it's your, yeah, like, get your ass in here.
It's just your, and it's your bedroom from growing up, you know?
Yeah, they give you a flashlight that constantly is moving.
So even if you are holding in the right spot, it's not getting into the right spot.
It's a flashlight, but with a little disco ball on the top.
of it.
Oh, yeah.
And then you have a room where it's just like your mom or grandma, depending how old you are.
And all they're doing is just telling you all the people they know in their life that have died recently.
And then reading the newspaper obituary to you.
Sue passed away this week.
Oh, God, what a tragedy.
You know, she was survived by her two sons and daughter,
and they each have three grandchildren.
You might have known one of our grandchildren.
He taught over at the Catholic school.
He's actually a priest now.
Do you know him?
I didn't know that, yeah.
Why don't you go get yourself a pop?
And that's a whole other thing.
It's, you have to just go to confession.
It's actually.
It's actually the one room is just a confessional.
But you have to, you can't, you can't leave the confessional until you, until you confessed
every sin from your first confession.
Yeah.
All the sins that you didn't tell in your previous confession.
Oh, even better.
All the ones you had, all the ones you didn't say.
And you're like, I, um, I, this should be good.
should be good jolly what are you going to say like i uh i uh i uh i touch my happy
i played with my dingy
i'm trying to think how do you even say that when you're a kid
i don't know too like you know too like some guy you haven't like to your buddies
No, to a priest.
Yeah, because you're trying to say, like, I don't want to say a jerked off.
I'm in church.
I mean.
Yeah, you watched explicit material and, yeah, I don't even know.
Yeah.
Anyways, I don't know how we got that.
Sounds scary to me.
Yeah, I put it in the haunted house.
There's a dartboard, no darts.
Pool table, no pool table with every ball.
except the four ball
for whatever reason
it's just you can never
have a fair game
you know yeah
yeah you're just
always solids you never get to be
stripes and it drives you nuts
that would be yeah it drives you nuts
you know because if it were the eight ball
you'd understand it's missing for some of it's
it's a pool table but it's like
slanted like at least a half inch
a slope on it it's just the most frustrating
pool table ever
oh it's a bar pool table
but you don't got quarters.
We got it.
We got it, man.
We nailed that.
Yeah, that's a scary place.
Let's take some collars.
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picks baby sophia hello how's it going it says me charlie and i'm here with miles and i heard
you're having some bad luck hey guys um yeah yeah my look is nothing great
right. But I'm hoping I turned it around. I try to go back and make it right.
Okay. Well, let's dive into it. What did you make wrong that you had to make right?
Well, so I needed some money. All right. I'm on a road trip from Colorado to Iowa.
I didn't have a lot of money. Yeah. I stopped by a casino because that's fun, you know. And definitely, you know, I saw one of those big fountains where you throw the money.
into them.
Yeah.
And, uh, yeah, decided to hop in there and grab as much money as I could.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
That's what that's the move.
Yeah.
It was the move.
I think I got about 20 bucks out of it.
So I mean, there you go.
Profit.
Now that's that entrepreneurial mindset that, uh, that I like to see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, so sorry.
Tyler was trying to talk.
to me. You didn't know we were live on the air. Oh, you miss. So why, why are you, why are you in such
a tough spot financially that you're dumpster diving in, and wish in the wells? Well, I was in
college, well, just out of college and, you know, couldn't find a job. And, uh, well, you know,
and so I figured that would be, you know, a quick little come up there. And, uh, yeah, jobless,
you know, doing the whole damn thing.
I don't know, well, do not set yourself up like that, Sophia.
You were not jobless.
You were cleaning the wishing well, okay?
Oh, yes, yes.
I was doing them a favor, really.
That's why the security guard came out and started walking towards me.
Okay, yeah.
So, okay.
So you just dive in head first or like you're just like up to your ankles.
Like, are you like, are you like, look like an alligator in there?
Or are you just like?
It's not wishing pool, Miles.
It's, um, yeah.
I guess I should have mentioned there was no water in it.
So it looks like the perfect opportunity.
Oh, my gosh.
So you're not even wet at this point?
No, no.
I mean, they were just asking for someone to do that, honestly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, like, I mean, I saw it there and I saw the opportunity and just took it.
Well, in your defense, if there's no water in it, and then it becomes take one, leave one, like at the gas station, you know?
Right.
And people will take a penny if they need one, leave a penny if they don't.
So a lot of people didn't need their pennies.
They left them.
you needed them so you took them.
So I think that it's their fault for not playing water.
So why do you just like sit on the edge, pretend like you were like looking at stuff
and then just reach behind you and start grabbing stuff and be more in conspicuous other than
just jumping in?
That probably would have been a better idea, but I don't know.
It just looks so fun and I wanted to get as much as I could.
Okay.
So you got 20 bucks.
What happened?
Did you get away with it or no?
Oh, yeah.
I got away with it.
That was no problem.
I just kind of ran away and had my boyfriend there ready with the car, like, right out front.
So I just hop right in and to the cost.
So we have an ocean.
We have an Ocean's 2 situation on our hands.
Yeah, I mean, it worked out.
They never, you know, never got in trouble for that, but, you know.
Fountains two miles.
Yeah, it's like, you know, on Home Alone, they're the sticky bandits.
and they sticks their hand in the Salvation Army bucket.
You're basically a sticky bandit at this point.
Hey, that makes it sound actually pretty cool.
I'll take it.
Yeah.
So your boyfriend, I mean, he must be a real keeper if he's not only broke himself,
but also making you do the dirty word.
Oh, that's just me.
I was down for it.
I was like, dude, what if I just like go do this right now?
And he's like, I'll pull the car up.
I'll pull it up.
All right.
So he's a rider.
die yeah yeah exactly nice i like that so i mean one this is more of a a side question but like
you're not great with impulse control are you oh uh i wouldn't say so yeah i would agree what other
scenarios have you gotten into trouble about you know that in the same scenario
well gosh that would be a long story well lucky for you
you we have time true um well geez i don't know just you know life you know you do uh
extracurricular activities and have fun and you know i think i had a little too much fun but you
know that's okay okay okay you're evading the drugs you were using at the time uh you know
yeah maybe a little good good because this said children show and we'll just say it was
caffeine yeah yeah i love caffeine that shit's great um so you said that you made it right did you go
and like throw a 20 back in the pond or what yeah okay so i yeah i went to the bank i was on
my way back out there you know i went to the bank and got like fucking like five i don't even know
like a bunch of i got $20 turned into change had a whole bunch of change went back to that same casino
went back to that same fountain and I get there and it's like they had like made it into like
a little like plant area like there was no more fountain okay yeah and so me and my boyfriend are
standing there like oh shit well we still got to make it right somehow and I'm like oh you're right
and so we just started throwing the coins into the was fountain and so we're just like standing
outside this casino throwing chains into like a new like little plant area
All the gardeners are going to be like, oh, let's go.
I found a quarter.
Yeah, they're going to find 20 bucks worth.
Oh, you put it all back?
Yeah.
Didn't you take this money because you needed it?
Yes, yes.
But now, you know, I got a good paying job.
And so I didn't really need it anymore.
And bad shit kept happening.
So I'm like, you know, I got to go make this right.
Oh, I see.
I see.
Okay.
And from a distance, someone like pulls into the parking line.
They're like, hey, look at these meth heads throwing change in the
flower pots. Probably, honestly. My boyfriend's like, yo, we got to go. Like, this is kind of
weird. And I'm like, oh, but I got like a whole other roll of quarters to go through. You're like
cracking the roll of quarters on the side of the planter. No, exactly. Actually, that's exactly
what happened. So, uh, what kind of job did you end up with? Uh, so I'm a, I do like digital
marketing for a software company for like building, uh, building buildings. Building, building.
So you're a digital marketer for a construction company that builds buildings.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you're not doing jack shit.
Yeah, I play around in Photoshop pretty much all day.
But I love it.
Well, what's the name of the company?
See, look at that.
Maybe bleep that one out.
Oh, you want us to bleep it out.
I was going to say we could keep it in and give you some, you know, you're doing your job right now.
Digital Canal.
now the company that hires people who steal change from pools right that's probably not the best
part to put it well we'll bleep it out marketing piece but you know we'll bleak it out she'll get
chick canned what do you spend the 20 bucks on uh i think it was gas to get the back of the
back way home so you literally had to steal gas money out of a wishing pond
wishing one. Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
Hey, I've been there. We've all been there. Charlie's been there more than I have.
I've been there one time. I went to Las Vegas and, uh, with only enough money in my tank to get there
from at the time I was living in Los Angeles, I need to make enough money to get home.
And, um, I ended up, uh, winning a lot of money at the, at the black check and I put on the Packers
to win the Super Bowl.
hell yeah yep and then i didn't have enough money to get all the way home so i did wait at a rest stop
and until my other buddy who was there would come give me some money yeah that was that was the kind
of friend i was i mean just really just you know pathetic um i've been in the same situation actually
where i was in Las Vegas too and uh yeah my boyfriend ended up winning a jackpot and so
we ended up coming home with having like
2,000 bucks or something nice like that
Yeah, so that's not the same situation
All like you want $2,000
That's actually the exact opposite situation
Charlie was in were you sleeping
Get home were you sleeping off
Like a three day
A hangover in a
Lot with a bunch of
Lot lizards? Yeah
A truck stop
I mean it was me and their truckers looking at
me like he's got a pretty mouth you know and so this was a different situation but i'm glad
you guys won the um won the deal yeah yeah i mean i feel you there i've stopped at lots of rest
stops on the way here and back and uh yeah yeah what oh i don't know just just uh you know sleeping
in your car and you know you got like a little camp out there and it's actually kind of nice you know
I stop at like every rest stop because you're like I'm fucking tired can you drive and they're like
no I'm tired too and you're like oh so you guys are some rest so are some rest stops like five
miles apart you guys are stopping at every rest stop to rest no sometimes how high are you guys
when you're doing these road trips oh uh blitzed that's what I would say always drive sober kids
Yes. Yeah, this probably shouldn't be an advertisement for, you know, Dare.
No. But Dare is probably how you got into it to begin with.
You know what Dare stands for, Charlie?
What?
Drugs are really illegal.
Or exciting. I don't know.
Oh, exciting. Okay. Okay.
Drugs are really exciting.
Yeah, that's what it was. And then you learn that you could sniff white out off your fingertips.
Then you changed it to illegal shortly after there.
What else do you want to get off your chest?
I feel like this is good.
We're kind of rolling.
You got the,
you stole 20 bucks from a casino,
which honestly,
it's a lot like you stole it from a church.
Yeah.
You know?
That's true.
The casinos have been stealing money from us since the beginning of time.
So that feels a little bit better.
They're built up mob money.
So how much money have you stole from a church?
Oh, none.
I never stole from a church.
but I also, you know,
I haven't been a church in quite a long time.
Well, you better get your ass there.
I know.
We know.
Yeah, we could tell.
Talking about getting blitzed and sleeping and random lots.
You know,
sometimes you turn your life around, you know,
and now I sleep in my nice,
comfy home and, you know,
got a dog and, you know,
the house and all the beautiful stuff.
I mean, she's living it.
Are you still with?
with your accomplice, I mean, boyfriend?
Yes, me and my accomplice are still together,
and we're actually going to get married, hopefully,
sometimes soon.
He hasn't asked me, but we talked about it.
Nice, nice.
Don't, don't count them out, Miles.
Don't count him out.
He's coming around.
How long have you guys been together?
Oh, it's been about, like, I think, three, four years now,
but we just haven't done it because my dad likes to give him shit about, like,
well, I'm not having a shit, but he likes to, you know,
rattle the cage about, why are you going to marry my daughter and da-da-da?
And so he's just kind of, you know, he's kind of like,
I can't do it now.
He's, like, pressure me too.
Like, you've got to make him wait a little bit now.
Yeah, I was a little bit like that.
Yeah, when you got the pressure on you, it's like.
Well, it's just like I'm not, I don't want to do it because you wanted me to do it.
I want to do it.
You know?
Right.
Make it special and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
yeah i went the other way and i don't think that you want to uh do that but i think that um you know
you give it a couple months how do you want him to do it i don't even know i don't i don't really care
as long as he makes it like you know cute special you know yeah just us no like crowd nothing
that sounds like kind of stressful yeah yeah crowds tend to well yeah the more a crowd you got the
more, like, witnesses you have when you're committing a crime as well, you know?
That's true. That's true.
You got any other, you got any other heist on the brain?
You guys working something out?
Any new stuff you're working on?
I don't know.
I'm pretty boring these days.
It kind of sucks.
I feel a lot less interesting now, you know?
Yeah, go commit a crime.
Call us back.
Yeah, I guess that's probably not true.
Yeah, you settling down and getting your life together is bad podcasting, Sophia.
Come on.
Yeah.
This is the boring part of the movie where we're leaving the theater.
This is the after credits portion of it.
They're like, oh, shit.
She's like getting married and has her life together now.
Damn, that was a bad ending.
Yeah.
Well, it's not that it's a bad ending.
Well, that's a happily ever after.
Yeah.
It's like when the movie ends and like the text comes up.
up on screen. Sophia and her delinquent boyfriend went on to marry each other.
Right.
You know, well, that's all right. We're happy for you. Do you think stealing, do you think stealing from
the fountain is the worst thing, worst crime you've ever committed? Um, honestly,
probably, I've never really done anything bad. I mean, like, I'm a pretty good human. I mean,
I've like stolen some stuff from Walmart a few times, but, you know, hard times called for that.
Would you steal from Walmart?
Probably some dumb stuff, like some nail polish or something.
Like cookie monster pajamas or some shit.
Yeah, right, right.
Something that goes great at the rest stop.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, actually, yeah, I had a one of those nice little mattress toppers.
I think I'm probably incriminating myself right now by saying this, but, you know, that might
have come from Walmart.
Okay, so you had a mattress topper, but no.
mattress? Well, you can't
fit one of those in the back of your car now.
Pretty smart. It's pretty smart actually.
Here's a thing. Do you
own a pair of cookie monster
pajamas? I don't know, but my boyfriend has some
hamburger ones. They're like little hamburgers
and hot dogs on. We knew there was a pair of
we knew you were going to have some sort of
fast food or pajamas pants.
I mean, you got to and like have like a little like
cups that you get from Casey's like
nice like humbler-sized ones you know water cups
Sophia what you don't realize is that
even though you've got a delinquent past you've helped create jobs
every time I leave a Walmart someone's got to check my receipt and it's because of
people like you and that has created jobs
yeah you are you're a job creator yes yes so pat yourself
on the back and stimulates the economy
hurts no one helps everybody
what is that from again that's Joe Biden
oh he is a meme
that was a meme
that was my Joe Biden
no you should have set it up though I would have
because now in retrospect
for a second there I was thinking like
is that Jim Carrey and then
yeah I know my Joe Biden
tends to sound a little Jim Carreyish
all right yeah
and you got Trump was like it's stimulating
the economy you know we're
doing great.
Stimulate the economy.
Doing great.
People steal.
We make it great.
That's what Jeffrey Epstein.
He was helping me stimulate a prostate.
It's okay.
Right.
You're too breathy on Trump.
Am I?
Yeah.
You're too breathy.
We'll work on it.
Yeah, we'll work on it, Charlie.
You got it.
You got this.
What does your accomplice do for a living now?
Oh, he's an electrician.
Oh, let's go.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's, uh, he's a, he's,
good he's trying to get his license and start a whole business and all that and so he's trying to
become a master electrician yeah i think you got to go like apprentice and journeyman and then like
master he's going to make some good money oh yeah yeah i mean we're not doing bad so yeah no i mean we
know that i mean you guys got enough money to plant in the grass now um or whatever
ever where'd you throw your old money what was it yeah like a flower bed a flower bed you got
enough money to plant you're doing good right maybe we can make some flower beds outside the house we
build like use the same flowers or something are you guys built our house together yeah we're building
one right now oh that's so cute yeah it's super cute but we can't decide on what we want it to look
like so I'm sitting here just like I don't know what kind of I don't know it's a hard thing to
plan you know is it is your boyfriend doing the electrical in your new house oh yeah I thought
she's back oh no I would never trust him for that not on our house I think he wants to yeah like
have all his buddies come over help hire it and uh well work buddies and uh yeah yeah so I like that
You know what I was just saying about Charlie?
At your guys' this future wedding, you know, they have the unity ceremony.
What you guys should do is have like a little like mini wishing well and you guys both flick a coin into it.
And when, you know, then they're you're both in the same well.
You know, that's the union ceremony.
That is a cute idea.
The coin flipping.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, some churches have a baptismal font already there.
Yeah, just do it right in the baptism font.
Yeah.
that'll make everyone happy
and no one will have any idea like
why we're doing it they'll be like
this is kind of a weird part of this wedding
but like okay
I mean Jared they
they planted a tree
you know and no one bad at an eye
watered a tree together
that was a unity ceremony so anything
can be me and Ann consider
doing a fart mixing
a party unity ceremony
were you both would fart in a bag
we both have fart in a jar and then
you like mix the air together you know i think they call that uh no that's fluid bonding when
like you know you guys are so close you're like uh fart bonding like like sharing blood do you mean
like like like that no like m gk and megan fox do that don't they sharing each other's
probably some wild that's why they're so obsessed with each other still i thought they broke up
i thought he had other girls on his phone or something probably yeah i don't know
I don't know. Well, listen, we're happy that you got your new job in the construction and
marketing the construction. Your boyfriend's electrician. You got a new house together. Seems like
he's really keeping you grounded. And we just hope you can. Nice. You like that, my house?
You like that? And we hope. That was a good one. Honestly, I like that one. I don't know. I'm excited
for your guys' future wedding. I think it's going to be electric. It's a great time.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. See? You've hung on with us, too.
long. The puns are coming out. Yeah, you're going to want to hang up. It's going to get worse.
Just wait till we bring the whiteout out. Yikes. Sharpies. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, Sophia, listen,
you be good. All right. Oh, yeah, you guys be good. All right. And, uh, you be good.
Watch out for deer now. You two, you two. Tell your apprentice or your apprentice. He is an
apprentice. Tell your apprentice. He says.
I don't think he wants to be my apprentice to life.
I think he's doing good at his electrical work.
But yeah, yeah, I'll tell him he says hi.
He was supposed to be here, but I don't know what he's doing.
He says he's in the middle of something.
So why are him must be crazy.
Oh, he is.
He's in the middle.
The HVAC guy is always in the fucking way.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
I wanted to buy him that shirt you guys have that says I worked with tools.
I was like, that would be a good one.
yeah but i mean
not too long ago you couldn't even
you had to dumpster dive in a phone
so i'm glad he didn't buy the shirt
glad he didn't finance the shirt
not a bit bad
yeah i got some now though
i got some now though i got the road hunting for ditch chickens
let's go nice
it's a good one honestly
i appreciate it
yeah
well it's been great sophia
uh great to talk to you
and uh yeah
have a good one
yeah good talking to you guys
guys too.
All right.
Tell your husband we says hi.
I'll tell them you guys say hi for sure.
All right.
Bye-bye.
I'll be honest with you, Miles.
I don't think it's that bad.
No.
It's like one of those scenarios, right?
Like, would you steal loaf of bread to feed your family?
Yeah, obviously.
Right.
But like that's kind of the thing.
It's like, oh, you stole $20 in coins from a casino?
right to get to for gas money you get home i mean i mean it was probably drugs but she was just
being polite but that's probably true but yeah i mean i i think you know if you casinos you know
they're they're they're some hard they steal from us all the time but sometimes we get lucky
and steal from them you know sometimes it's called getting lucky that's right winning them
slots all right should we do another caller charlie
I think so. Miles, I know I'm not here alone. All right. We've all had, or, you know, I know I'm not alone here.
Okay. I was like, well, yeah, you're at a bar. There's a lot of people in here.
Well, isn't it funny? I'm saying the same thing, but you took it two different ways. Yeah. I'm not here alone or alone here.
Yeah, you're not alone here. But we've all had a Halloween party to go to and have suffered that dreaded costume idea block. You know, you're like,
I need an idea.
I need an idea of what am I going to do?
And you can't think of it.
So you're like you're trying to come up with cute little things.
Like maybe I'll go as an elf and write S on this hand and IE on this hand.
You're like, I'm a selfie.
Yeah.
Yeah, I see.
That was good.
Uh-huh.
Is that your costume this year?
No, I did that years and years ago because I had the same problem.
But had I just had a bottle of tippy cow chocolate shake.
while I was trying to stir my creative juices miles
I mean the idea would have struck me
right there my creamy rich chocolate treat
would have inspired
me to be a cow
yeah I could have been a cow
well and you could have been you could have
wore the cow suit backwards
so then you would have been a tippy cow
miles see now we're thinking
and why are we thinking because we've been
a drink and the tippy cow, ladies and gentlemen, Wisconsin milk.
Tip it on back.
Tippy cow.
Moo.
Drink responsibly.
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Folks, I want to let you know, I'm on tour.
Miles is coming out to see the shows.
Every single show.
I'll see you in Missouri and Oklahoma.
I'll see him, Florida and a whole bunch of other places, too.
We're going to Missouri.
then we're going to Tulsa
then we're going to
somewhere in Florida
I forget which scene
maybe for the Waterdale
and after that we're going to the White House
Yeah we're doing
And that's what we're doing
So we'll see you guys
Charlie Barrens.com slash tour
And thank you for coming out
It'll be fun
Where can they go see your tour dates at?
What website?
Charlie Barrens.com
Backslash tour
So it's my name
dot com
com slash tour perfect i'll see you there b-e-r-e-n-s i'll see you there on the website yeah not at the
tour well miles would be on tour with me i said that at the beginning we can't have false
advertising you got to come tell you and it'll be fun bring oggy okay all right we're not anyways
thank you guys appreciate you charlie it's it's that Halloween season again what's that
trick or treating season again and you got drivers on the road trying to
to dodge little spider man running across little fairy princesses running across the road and if you're
swerving to avoid a young one and you hit a light pole you could be in a bad scenario uh yeah you
you dodged a worse scenario for certain just to clarify yeah count your blessings yeah count your
blessings but as soon as you get done count your blessings hit that little beard button in your car
and that's going to call nicolet law baby it dials one eight five
5-5, Nicolay, and he's going to let you know your options now that you're injured, chingered.
It's just a beard, chin.
Oh.
Alex, Alex, Alex.
You got Miles and Charlie from the Bellied Up podcast.
How you doing?
Oh, doing pretty good.
All the hell are you guys doing?
Doing pretty good.
I hear you have a situation with your father-in-law.
He doesn't know how to cook a steak.
Well, it wasn't necessarily the cooking so much.
And he's one of those fathers.
I only see him about once a year, so I'm not terribly close with him.
So he was coming over for dinner.
And first I think it was lasagna.
Then I think it was tacos and then shows up with steaks.
so it was kind of surprised
you know
and then I said
okay I'll go get the grill fired up
and you know
set them on the counter
I'll take care of it
and he goes
oh no you've had a long day
you relax I'll take over
like oh man
another guy using my grill
I don't know
the first time that's ever happened
I just
really took me back
so
wife got me a new flat top
for Father's Day
so I've been using
bad boy. Pellet grills kind of turned into a storage unit in the garage. So I had to go
with the flat top and I don't know, you know, you got to know how the heat, there's hot areas,
this and that. It's kind of one of those things, you know, I don't necessarily, I wanted to use
the phrase, you know, using another man's grills, kind of like sleeping with his wife, but being my
father-in-law, it's his daughter kind of, you know, need something else for that one.
Yeah, that's a little.
I also want, you know, let's put your, let's get in his shoes.
You, him using your grill is a lot like you dating his daughter.
So, you know, like maybe it's just paid back.
What?
Very true.
Well, it's your grill is your baby, you know.
Okay.
Okay.
And then another guy comes in and starts grilling.
Okay.
You know, creating friction and heat.
I was saying it was kind of like, you know.
yeah not that you put it that way yeah i see it i was saying it's like wearing someone else's
tidy whitties you know yeah you know sitting in his lazy boy that kind of deal
yeah he's sitting in the lazy boy there's a lot of analogies here just doesn't quite fit right
though you know yeah yeah yeah so anyhow i i say i at least fired it up for him you know
got make sure it was clean got the oil on there got everything going he takes the stakes inside
he had i think there were six nice new york strips oh oh so i go
inside after I got the grill already
and he's got the steaks
on the cutting board and he's cut
every speck of fat off of them
what you got going on here
he goes oh I don't like any
steak or fat on my steaks
holy crapes of the rest of us might you know
it was every one it was I mean
there wasn't a lick of fat left on them things
so what did it taste like I guess
I've never had a steak without any fat on it
well yeah so then
I'm like, God, we don't got any fat.
They better offer them some good seasonings here.
So I'll whip up my seasoning grower and, oh, nope, salt and pepper for me.
I'm thinking, oh, God, you got to do something else, you know.
You got to have something a little more on there.
I know there's the salt pepper only guys, but come on now.
A little Montreal steak seasoning, and that's the stuff, garlic pepper.
So, yeah, you know, he cooked him.
he's put he'd had the lid down you're not supposed to have the lid down when you're cooking he's over chit-chat not keeping rely on things you know so i didn't even get to relax it was more just it was like you cooked them as well like you could have you didn't he didn't uh let you relax you know the whole point was you were supposed to relax after work you didn't get to no i mean yeah i was standing there but my mind's just racing wondering what the hell we got going on here but you know we did eat them they
got eight, so it wasn't the worst
thing in the world.
I did make some jalapeno
poppers that I got at the oldies that were
the star of the show. Oh, yeah.
Just in the oven there, though. Wow.
You won up to him by
doing it in the oven. Well,
I got that little air fryer setting
on there. I don't know if you guys got that.
Convection oven. It got nice and crispy.
And it's got convection,
normal air fry. I don't know.
Just a whirlpool deal.
So your, your,
Your jalapeno poppers, you do a jalapeno with cream cheese and bacon or what?
Yeah, it was just wrapped around there.
Nice.
Those are good with pheasant.
I was to say, we've had pheasant poppers before.
It's pretty good.
My dad does those every Thanksgiving.
He's just sitting down like he's doing a puzzle, you know, and he's got like he's just
got his cutting station, then his folding station.
And you better not help him do that.
next time you tell him relax and you'll take over and see if you're holiday there.
Oh, no, he'll ask for the help.
He'll be like, come on, help, but you do not want to sign up for that project.
Just tell me you're doing something for mom.
That's what we call a trap.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, so overall, it was just a weird experience.
My other father-in-law, I don't know if I would have felt the same.
I hang on with him quite a bit.
It was just, you know, don't see him a ton and just kind of a weird deal, but we got through
it anyway, I guess.
You have two father-in-laws?
Well, stepfather, stepdad, that's, yeah.
I guess he technically is a father by law.
I see.
But not your biological father.
No, it's not his dad.
It's a stepdad.
Her stepdad.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Christmas has got to be great for you, dude.
You're getting so many presents.
Oh, yeah.
Do you get a present from your stepfather-in-law?
my mother-in-law usually get us a nice card with something oh yeah yeah he gets two
an extra christmas gift do you call him wife do you call him stepdaddy
i was always so jealous of my half-brother because he's he got some more presents than
than i did double whammy oh yeah it's like on uh talladig and nights when they're like
we're getting a divorce and the kids go yay two Christmases
Yeah, a lot of traveling for holidays.
Yeah, where are you guys drinking today, anyway?
We're over at Vicks Bar and Grill here in Moorhead, Minnesota.
You ever been to Moorhead, Minnesota?
Oh, sure, I have.
I live just over in Grand Forks.
Oh, that's not too far away.
I lived in Moorhead for a bit, right over by campus there, good times.
Oh, yeah.
Real good.
Yeah, I mean, you're in a tough spot.
I think you did exactly what you should do, you know?
like no one expects you to be cool with him cooking steaks on your grill but you let him do it
he's the father-in-law but it was nice to you to keep an eye because if something really was going
to go right you were going to step in right yeah yeah just take over i got her from here
yeah can you imagine i mean hey you go sit down have a beer i'm i got it from here buddy
because have you had any moments like that with your stepfather
i only see him maybe once a year that's what i'm saying i'm not wasn't terribly
comfortable, just telling them, you know, if it was one of my buddies or something that came
over and wanted to use it, I'd say, no, not a chance.
You know.
Yeah, go pounds and, but, yeah.
But, or watch the kids.
But, I mean, is this the first confrontational kind of thing you guys have had, or is there
been something else where?
Yeah, no, you know, we got a little different views on politics and this and that, but I don't
usually get into it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You say you don't usually get into it.
Have you ever gotten into it with them about politics?
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
No, my wife would kill me.
It's just as soon as he leaves, you just go off on your wife about it.
That kind of how it is.
As soon as the door shuts.
The hell is a mare with your dad.
What is, what she, did she know you were a little distraught?
Did she think it was funny?
No, I don't think I had to really told her at the time.
I told her later.
And she's like, are you kidding me?
It's like, yeah, it wasn't just really, it was really weird having your dad.
to use my grill and yeah she she didn't think it was weird so she's like okay you're being dramatic
it's usually what i get you know anytime but after a social event and i say something like that
and's like you're fine you're fine that's funny yeah i've been told that too it was like my
my parents uh my i kind of the same scenario but but like my parents came over to my house
and they're like we brought steak miles we need you to cook them
You know, like, so that I cook the stakes, but they only, there was four of us, me and my parents,
and they only brought three steaks.
Oh.
Those weren't the Menard's parking lot steak?
No, no.
No, we gave those to the dog.
Yeah.
I tell you about that, Charlie.
My dad bought the 20 stakes for 40 bucks in the, in the, in the hardware store parking lot.
Oh, yeah, it's a good deal on paper, yeah.
And then you get the steaks and you realize that they taste like paper.
And my dad tried so hard to make it like, you know, dad buys something cheap.
Yeah.
And everyone else is bitching about it.
He's like, it's not that bad.
Yeah.
Oh, it's pretty good.
I'll eat another one.
And then he's just like.
And eventually he did submit and he was like, he texted me.
He's like, hey, is there anyone at your office that would want these steaks to feed to their dogs?
in his defense anything tastes good after a long hard day of working concrete i'm sure yeah that's
probably true yeah he's like i'm usually eating mud and dirt this ain't too bad
yeah so don't get swindled by that that thing if you it's actually a whole
subgroup of people on ticot me and jared found a people being like don't buy these it's a
scam. I got scammed. Oh, really? So, do they even know if it's real meat? I don't know. We don't
know. Just eating beyond Menard's meat. Yeah. I checked it out. I've been close before, but
yeah, you can't. It's, it's very alluring. It's, it's like a siren song, you know. It's just
tractor beam just sucks you right in. How many for $40? $20? $10 for $40? Damn.
I mean, they're like an eighth inch thick.
Yeah, dude, they're paper.
Okay, got it.
And they're tough.
Yeah, probably not a speck of fat either.
So perfect for my father-in-law, I guess.
Yeah, that's probably, he probably would love him.
He's like, and they're so thin that if you just breathe hot air on them, they'll be well done.
Yeah, I mean, it's probably like, uh, I don't know.
Charlie, it's not a good idea.
I know you're starting to think.
I'm saying, I mean, like, proteins.
protein you know and if you got the right seasoning you know what you could what'd you say it would
you further along would you want to put on there he just wanted salt and pepper i like a little
the montreal steak i think it's a mccormick blend the mccormick blend okay yeah yeah
flowers and a while you know whatever yeah you got a few things going you make it spicy you're
fine you know you chop it up a bunch put it into you know tacos i'm just saying there's a way to do
it.
Oh, yeah.
That is a good deal.
Hey,
after you guys leave the bar,
you could probably drive around
Morad Fargo and find that truck somewhere.
Yeah,
and then burn it to the ground.
Yeah.
Is there anything,
is there anything else
that your father-in-law is done
that's suspect like that?
No, no,
not too much.
I, gosh,
there was probably a couple years
where I didn't even see them.
This was the first time
and maybe the last year or two.
Why don't you see them?
often. Well, they live
over by kind of Bismarck or
my not.
You mean he lives in the same state?
Yeah. Yeah, but you got to, that's
the thing. People
people don't understand
North Dakota and how large it is.
I went from Graham Forks to Bismarck.
It's like six hours, right?
Yeah. Yeah. It's like, four hours.
Four hours? I could
drive from Fargo
halfway into
Wisconsin, and I still
wouldn't make it to the end of North Dakota
if I went the same way in the same amount of time.
That is a long-ass state you guys
got. Yeah. It's a hole.
Well, yeah, no other than that
there things have been a pretty hockey dory.
Well, I like to hear it's hockey dory.
Tell your wife, we say
hello. Also, is it hunky-dory or
hockey dory?
I usually go with honky, like
H-O-N-K-Y. See, I go with
hunky-dory. Yeah. And you go
with hockey dory?
No, I thought you said hockey dory.
I thought it was hunky dory.
It's hunky dory.
It's not honky dory unless you're talking to a white guy.
White guy.
I don't know.
Like a honky tonk?
Is that like a honky?
Haven't you heard that?
People call white guys honkies?
Yeah.
Well, it was funnier than we all gave that credit for, but
Anyhow.
This is the long goodbye portion of a conversation.
What do you do for work?
I do home inspections.
Oh, God.
No wonder you were breathing down his neck the whole time.
Did you write him up for some stuff?
You make them, I'm surprised you didn't make them redo a bunch of stuff.
A couple improvement items and safety hazards.
Yeah, I could have him sign an agreement before.
he's just standing out on the on the deck with a clipboard and a and some slacks and a nice polo
yeah it's not that intense uh so you're like okay because you you do home inspections or that we said
yeah yeah for people buying a house and they hired me and i go take a look find you know everything wrong with
So you go to existing instructors.
You're not going to new builds and inspecting before like they would pour the concrete
or anything?
No, no, not a city inspector.
I do do some brand new houses, but there.
Got it.
Got it.
Okay.
You're one of the good ones.
You're not a city inspector.
How long does it take you to get over to a house from when the request is put in?
Well, usually, well, it depends on how busy.
I am two, three, four days.
Really?
Yeah.
Charlie seems like he's got some pent-up anger towards home inspectors.
Sometimes it can take months.
Yeah, what are you guys doing?
Not around here, fella.
Yeah, you're in the wrong stage.
He's got to a less populated place, I suppose.
Or with a higher concentration of inspectors.
There is quite a few of them, yeah.
Sucks, but.
Weirdest thing you've ever seen in a home.
Oh, I came across.
a piece of jawbone with some teeth on it in a crawl space and I thought maybe it was human
turned out I think it was either maybe like a cow or deer or something but when you're down
there and it's got about six inches of room and it's right next to your face and you're thinking
holy Christ is there someone buried down here oh so you're in a little crawl space
crawl space old farmhouse yeah middle of nowhere good place to bury body wait who said it was
did you get a good look at it or did you just get a half a look at it and they said oh that's just
a cow I took it with me oh okay so now you're here oh wow how could that go wrong yeah
transporting a dead body the realtor gal's husband was a lawyer or something and I sent it
to her and then he said yeah it looks like some cow or something or other but that's got to be
the worst part about being a home inspector right is getting in the
crawl spaces yeah yeah there's some pretty shitty ones i was when one in the toilet was the sewer
was disconnected it was literally just flowing shit right down in the crawl space oh no what did you do the
john taffer did you say shut it down shot it down tear it down start over yeah yeah no they were
the guys like oh are you kidding yeah you yeah better yeah call somebody
or so you couldn't smell it when you walked up to the house oh you could it smelled terrible
everything was rotten down there black mold everywhere yeah it was nasty you had to crawl down
there dude i was yeah i was crawling around a little bit down there but then once i realized that
was going on i said no yeah i got out real quick so gross and the fellow ended up buying it
and i think he still lives there so he must have got the fixed how is that not a tear down
Oh, I don't know.
I couldn't even walk through the yard.
It was about four, six feet high, brush, trees, grass, the whole, it was, yeah.
That's like a guy who works with my dad.
He lived out in the country and his grass got so long that he had to borrow someone's lawnmower
so that he could find his lawnmower to buy his lawnmower to go.
Oh, God.
Kind of one of those scenarios?
Yeah.
Honestly, you might have went to the guy who works from my dad's house.
Fish from Minnesota?
No, no, close.
It's also the same guy that he thought that is well broke.
And so he didn't have any water in his house.
And so he would haul five gallon buckets of water from the shop to his house every day
so he could shower and brush his teeth and stuff.
And then he finally scrounged up enough money by the,
end of the summer to have a guy come out and fix the well and the guy came out there
and he had it's an old fuse box like the ones that you screw in the guy just screwed the fuse
in tighter and it started right up so he spent he spent the whole summer hauling water and
taking five-gown bucket showers when he could have just screwed in a fuse and that brings
you to the bellied up lesson of the day if you got a home inspection
just a little screw can go a long way
well man we appreciate you calling in today
sorry you had to go through that traumatic experience
of your father-in-law cooking steaks on your grill
with the lid down
yeah well thanks for the call fellas
you guys take her easy watch for your miles
you watch for support polls
and talk later
see you dude
all right bye bye bye
Did I tell you about that?
No.
I got to start listening to your podcast as much as our other callers.
You're fine.
I, you know, I got the warehouse.
And then there's support beams in the warehouse.
You hit one with the for a roof.
Holding up the roof.
I parked my truck inside.
I was leaving one day.
I wasn't paying attention and smash the pole in the place.
The pole's fine.
Apparently that pole,
is like the sturdiest thing ever,
which thank God,
that'd have been a disaster.
How's your car?
$15,800 in damage.
What?
Yeah.
What?
Front of it got smashed.
15,000.
Initially it was 13 and then after.
How fast were you going into your parking spot?
I was riding the break.
I mean, I'm not Ann.
You can tell me the truth.
No, I'm telling you the truth, dude.
I couldn't be going fast.
I was in a warehouse.
You think I was Vin Diesel's drifting around the corner?
How was it even possible?
Did even look that bad?
It looked bad.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Let me see a picture.
So, yeah, that joke I definitely had coming.
Any hate I get for that, I deserve, you know?
Let's see if I can find it.
But yeah, $15,000 in damage.
a lot of...
There we go.
Oh, no, dude.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, man, you really...
You really mess that up.
Yeah, you did a number.
Good for you.
What, doubly?
Because I didn't, like, push the whole side panel back,
so then the door was, like, catching on it.
Oh, do some shit with that.
So you're talking a whole new...
I basically got a new truck.
$15,000.
Could you have just driven it for a...
until when i mean i did drive it it was drivable oh so don't get fixed on well do you get fixed already
i used insurance oh but now your insurance can't go up yeah but i talked to him about it it was fine
they're like okay you crash into a pole did it really not you want me just to drive around
my truck with the whole front end smashed up yeah dude that randomly will tell me that i'm
about the sensors that broke in the front tell me that i'm going to crash into a car when there's
no car. Well, you just added that new
piece of information to the pile. I thought
it was just an aesthetic choice. Every time I open up
my door, there's like a loud clicking noise
that's, you know. Yeah.
You see, you're adding new information. You're expecting
me to regret
my initial reaction, not knowing all
these things. I'm saying the way it looked
is fine because also
you're not going to get your car broken into when your
car looks like that. Yeah.
And I felt like such a moron drive around
because it's like, you know,
you guys have all drove by someone with a smash
up car and you're like, I got to get away from this guy. Clearly he's got a record of getting in car
crashes. Why was that guy for like a week and a half? I'm driving around with that. See, I don't
duct tape on my bumper, so it wouldn't rub on my wheel. That's who I am now. You know, one of those
guys. I'm a guy with duct tape on his car. Yeah. Well, you can see why. That's a lot. That's a lot of
with dilata dough um i got this back window at my place that i put it's cracked so i put duct tape on
it years ago and it still haven't fixed it because i think it prevents people from trying to
gain entry like he has nothing to steal right yeah yeah it's smart smart business move
saved you a lot of headaches to have a little duct tape on something you know i was just was
saying about something too stick with me here
so you know like if you have a safe with valuables you put that in a hard place to get
where in reality would you rather have someone come in murder your family and then take your
stuff or would you rather just have them come in and take your valuables and not even see your
family oh yeah yeah yeah like why don't we put like our safe like right by the front door
that's true i mean yeah with a sign that says if you're here to steal everything that's valuable
is right here, take this and go.
It's kind of like when someone's gone on Halloween,
they just leave the bucket out of candy
and just say take one.
Just do that.
I think you're on to something with this, Miles.
Because I'm much right to lose all my valuables
and have someone harm my family, obviously.
So why are we hiding the safe?
I really don't have that many valuables in there.
And, you know, you can put a sign on it,
like you get one try, you know?
Yeah.
You get one piece candy.
Or give them like two of the three,
digits to get into the safe, you know?
Yeah.
And then the third one, just get on the Zoom camera like.
No, like your entryway is an escape room.
Ah.
And if they figure it out, they can, they get to take all your valuables.
Not a bad move.
That's not a bad move at all.
People might even pay to do that.
That could be a business.
Pay to steal from you.
And all of a sudden, yeah.
I wonder if they, do you think you could put cash prizes on escape rooms?
Like, if you get out, you get money.
Yeah.
I'm sure.
That might be like get your money back or something.
Yeah, get your money back.
Then you'd have to make it really hard
because otherwise you wouldn't make any money.
That's true.
You shouldn't run the escape room.
Or you let people gamble on if they can get out of the escape room.
Yeah, they put down like I put 10 bucks that I can,
it's only going to take me 46 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Could you imagine how intense that would be inside?
We should do that and film it.
And get, you know, people who like really need the money.
and raise the stakes and put people really close to them, you know, watch relationships crumble.
That would be a great reality show.
That's what I'm saying.
Like boiling points.
So, like, you have a family doing an escape room and then you have one mole.
They're like, hey, he's here.
We're just going to throw him in there with you guys.
And he's just pissing off everyone in the escape room until they freak out.
If they don't freak out, they get the money.
It's like, you remember the show Boiling Points?
So basically they would just be social situations where there was an actor pissing off someone.
And if they didn't freak out, then they would, like, get money at the end.
Oh, okay.
But if they boiled over and it reached the boiling point, then they would lose.
That's fun.
I kind of want to watch that.
I feel like Scape Rooms is like a pressure cooker for emotions.
Because, yeah, you could have like sort of a saboteur in there and then also a guy who gets money if, you know, who bet against the family.
you know a little judas is scary it um well miles has been another i think episode of the bellied-up
podcast another good episode of the bellied-up podcast here at vicks bar and grill here at moorhead
minnesota i feel good charlie i'm feeling great dude feeling great they had a good we had a good
sandwich in this episode it well he took a break sandwich was great yeah yeah oh yeah you finish it
i had the the grilled chicken you ate that like you've never had a
meal before. I eat every meal like I've never
had a meal before. It's a problem. You've got 12 to 18 siblings
so I know. Makes sense. All right
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