Bellied Up - We Might've Uncovered Government Secrets #145

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

First caller! (9:40) John isn’t feeling too well, and he also fears that he might be an ahole. Then, (28:07) a different John calls in with an international dating question. After that, (37:22) we chat with Brad, a 39-year-old freshman in college, who also shares details about his confusing past in the military. We (1:05:15) end the episode with a boyfriend seeking advice on how to handle his 'drunk runner' of a girlfriend.

Welcome back folks to another episode of the bellied up podcast. We are bellied up with you at this bar. Doc Jekyll's Dr. Jekyll's here in Appleton, Wisconsin. DJ as I call him. DJ. What's up miles? Um, Charlie, I got a little something to get off my chest today. Yeah. What is it? So in our hotel there was a shaving. No God, no.

Oh, you let the taco meat fly, baby. Yeah. I told you I did this. I did it once in high school. I shaved my chest and I said, I cannot do this for the next 70 years. No. So I just let it buck ever since. Good for you. You got hair on your back too. Let me see. Well, you got some stragglers. It's slowly working its way down. Yeah. You'll get there one day. Um, no. So at our hotel, they have a Starbucks there. Okay. And I've been hearing a lot of hoopla in the media about coffee drinks that are shaken espresso. What does that mean? They, they, they literally shake your drink kind of like Kind of like a Martini. Yeah. Martini, you know, Margarita, stuff like that. Okay. And so I had to try it out. Really? You tried that? Hey, Starbucks shakes drinks. Yeah. I mean, I was, I'm an experiment guy. I wanted to see, I can't knock it unless I try it. Okay. So I bought

one of those. You have to buy them. The fuck are you talking about? I mean, what I'm thinking is you just go to Starbucks and you just get free drinks. Well, the way I thought it was like, you pulled it off the rack. So that's the way my brain went. Like, you know how you can buy, buy those like shade Starbucks drinks when you go to like the get those for free. You just stealing drinks from gas station. I said the wrong thing. I says the wrong thing, whatever. All right. So you buy a shaken espresso at star boxers or whatever. I hate Starbucks. What about it? Okay. So I wanted to try it out, right? Yeah. And I order it and my shaking espresso, the lady puts it in the thing, puts it in the

thing to shake it and just goes, and then pours it into the thing. Did you have to pay extra for that? I got, I got, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You're paying extra for a shake and espresso. It shows up. It's not mixed together in there. I then had to do the little swirl thing. You had to shake your own shake and espresso. Correct. Oh, forgot. What am I paying for? Dude, I don't know what you're paying for. Basically is paying for a dude's like two extra bucks for a shake and espresso. I got, I had to pay a buck per shake. That's insane, dude. $1, $2. She just gave two shakes. So then I started, I, you know, I got piqued

my interest. So I Googled it. I was like, well, what's the difference between a regular coffee drink and a shake in one? And it turns out that if you do it right, it becomes a little bit smoother and there's a froth on the top. So like a cap. So then I've asked GBT further, is this all just a marketing ploy? And basically like, yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Well, it's just a marketing gimmick. So we're paying two extra dollars for them to go with your drink. Crazy. Hey, couldn't believe it. You know that I can't believe that they can't give you a, just a little bit more. That's what happens when you go outside your comfort zone. Nothing good. No,

no, that's why you stick with drinking your coffee. They say nightmare is just on the other side of your comfort zone. Don't do it. Don't go there. I liked your style miles. I agree with you. I'm mad for you. Yeah. I couldn't believe it. You should have gotten your money back. There was like a sign there that said that that was the girl's last day working there. So did it really for it. So she might've had a little case of the fuck. It's senioritis senioritis on the old. I was expecting that. No froth on top. So much bite. It wasn't smooth at all. Was it in like a thing that you get the bar, the mixer at the bar? Was it one of those?

I don't remember. I was so taken aback by the whole lack of shaking. I'm so sorry. Literally just got like a it wasn't even shake shaking. I'm so sorry. Literally just got like a, uh, it wasn't even shake, shake it. It was just like, it was just like moved around a little bit. I got to moved around espresso around cause it wasn't even like stirred completely either. That's wild. Cause it's just like an espresso shot, right? It's just a shot. But why do we, why can't you just stir it? It's like, it's not going to be

that it's not like this is a $50 cocktail that's got smoke and all that. Yeah, folks, let this be a lesson to you. Do not get the shake and espresso. The only way to drink coffee is black, and be careful if anyone encourages you to venture out of your comfort zone. Just know that you'll be disappointed, okay. That's right. That's right. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe you paid extra

for that. What's what's happened to you? You become like a big, big town. Now big fancy guy. See, I know you're wearing white shirts. You want to bring it up. You're wearing white shirts, literally white shirts and shaken espressos. What happened to your roots? My I literally did it as an experiment to try it out and I just got burnt. I don't know what's wrong with you. You did you? Was it hot? No, it was cold. It was a shaken ice espresso.

Oh, my gosh. You're getting ice espresso too. Now I wanted to try it out. Count on you to get burnt by ice espresso. You know, leave it to you, Miles. Should've just got a Monster. Oh yeah. At the hotel, like little candy area.

It's what I get, it's what I get. I put a Monster into the Yucca app. Hoof, that stuff's cancer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're all gonna get it someday. I wonder what the beer is in the Yucca app. Should I try to scan that?

Also, fuck you. No, fuck you for showing me the Yucca app. No, fuck you. You act like me trying a shaken espresso one time is like a sin to a man. You said this knowing that's where I was gonna go with it. A, B, you were disappointed with it. Yeah, I can do some boosy things every once in a while.

The amount of dumb shit that you try once. Oh man, I don't, I hold my tongue. Who says it's dumb? How do you know the things I've tried once, Miles? I don't tell you about those. Well, this got awkward here at the intro, didn't it? Now you're curious, aren't ya? I'm not gonna tell ya.

I only tell you the things I've tried twice. I just thought I'd inform any listeners that were thinking about a shake an espresso. Beware. Beware. It's a crackpot. It's just a single shot. I don't know. You don't know.

I walked up to the counter. I looked saw that I had a shake and espresso. I heard a lot of hoopla about him lately. Tried one disaster. It's crazy. You've heard hoopla. You're telling me the first time this is the first time hearing about shaking this press. Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's very

popular right now. Is it not? No, no. Brent, have you heard of shaking espresso? Have you heard of shaking espresso? Our bartender hasn't heard about shaking espresso. I don't know. You guys are plugged in a pop culture like I am clearly not folks. That's why you don't go buy coffee. Okay. Go to the bar, buy the real stuff. All right, Charlie. Should we take some callers? I guess so miles. Let's do it. That's also, that's the last time that I tell you. I tried something new. What do you mean? It's a safe space. No, it's not the bellied up. The bellied up podcast is a sacred place. You can tell me any, no, I can't. Yeah, you can. No, it's not the bellied up. The bellied up podcast is a sacred place.

You can tell me any. No, I can't. Yeah, you can. Oh, you can't take a little ridicule. What's wrong with you? No, you know, you used to be a man. Now you're up here. Just a little boy drinking your shaken ass. What I mean, why don't you shake that ass? Shake that as for me. Shake that as for me. What a stupid thing, Miles. Next time you just get yourself a black coffee like a man, all right? Disgusting. What's next?

Lattes, cappuccinos, huh? Golly. Macchiatos. Macchiatos. Do you ever get pumps when you go to espresso? You ever go to what's it called, Starbucks? You ever get pumps? If you get a latte, they put pumps in it, I believe.

Do they? So you get lattes, huh? I have gotten a latte in my life, yes. I had to see what all the hoopla was about. I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you one thing. I don't know how Starbucks is still around. You know, the only reason Starbucks is still around

is because they put them off the highways. You know? If that weren't the case, nobody's like's like oh great. We're going to Starbucks. I think Charlie just discovered how business works Put your location where there's a lot of people you get business that's so weird No, but what was so strange who is they should be putting them in fucking Barnesville, Minnesota Yeah, it's a nice town. Yeah, who is the last Castleton, North Dakota's where they should be putting them in fucking Barnesville, Minnesota. Yeah. It's a nice town. Who was the last Castleton, North Dakota is where they should be putting another nice car into Charlie. Yeah. There's a nice spot there. All right. Should we take some callers? Well, you got me hot and bothered now miles about this whole anyways. Yeah.

We should take some callers. Hi, this must be miles. It is. I got Charlie here with me too. Is this John? Yes, sir. It is. All right guys. Well, we got John on the line and John is always loading trucks and hauling corn and he's wondering if he's an asshole. Is that true? John? Of course. Of course. So what actually when I don't have my morning coffee. Okay. Yeah. I don't, you don't want to run into Charlie Barron's. If he hasn't had his morning coffee either. And if he does have his morning coffee, he's probably going to spill it all over your pants and sweatshirt. I spilled, I spilled coffee on miles today. so I'm kind of wondering am I the asshole?

Right no, I always you know when someone says good morning to me I Always say yeah, it sure is No, it's not an asshole. Is that an asshole thing to say to anyone? I Chuckle try it out for size. Ask me Say good morning to me. Good morning. I don't know. Good. Well, it's a chuckle. Try it out for size. Ask me, say good morning to me. My good morning. I don't know, is it? Yeah, I don't know. I didn't get asshole vibe. No, no, no, no. Try it again.

Good morning. I don't know, is it? It's in how you say it. It's in how you say it. What else? What other stuff are you doing that's making you seem like an asshole? Also, what are you doing right now? You're breathing pretty deep. He's loading trucks and hauling corn. No, I am not. No, I'm not.

See, I actually took a sick day today, so I'm sitting in my garage. When you called and left a voicemail with us, you said that you're always loading trucks and hauling corn. Do you know the definition of always? Of what always? Always role is you are an asshole. Yeah You your laugh kind of sounds like the mousse soup lady. Yeah. No, no, we're sick. So we took a sick day today. Well, why, why, why you under the weather? You got a cold, you got the flu. What's going on? I think it's the flu. Is this why you why you've sat home working? So I'm just sitting in the garage, putzing around on stuff.

So we're getting a John flu game performance quite literally right now. Pretty much. I never give up. It's been sun up to sun down, some overnight's moving grains. So I got contracts to fill. Just loading trucks and hauling corn and soybeans. I thought I was going to add. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, with a hip replacement, but no, she says my music's too old. So I like to listen to between fifties and nineties country music. Now am I just an old soul living in a younger generation or am I just not hip enough for this new generation? Well, it sounds like you definitely weren't hip enough because you had to replace it. Yeah, it's good.

Good call. I see what you did there. That was good. I'll give you that one. I think that's the best era of country music right there. The 90s, it starts getting a little too a drama truck. Get her in the front seat, dip can, something or another. Let me ask you this though.

What are you doing in your garage right now? I gotta know, cause it sounds like you're struggling. You are breathing so heavy. I'm walking around keeping up with my blue healer and, um, see what else am I doing? I'm trying to work on a chainsaw. What's wrong with the chainsaw? Being a, what's wrong with the chainsaw? Uh, we're doing a couple of modifications to it so that we can bring up the RPM on it

so that it'll be more productive. You know, they, uh, they, uh, choke them up from the factory. So you're de choking. All right, fine. I'll sit. All right. Fine. All shit. Will that be better if I sit? You are an asshole. He calls us. He calls us and just sounds like this the whole time. And then gets mad at us. If we ask him, he's okay. Like how he's got the flu too. He decides to spend the day in his freezing garage. I can hear you sniffling. He's like, I took

a sick day from work so I can work in the garage. I actually, uh, when we re did our garage, uh, I put in Florence, it is a cozy 73 degrees in my garage. Holy smokes. That's a sauna for a garage. That's why his nose is running. Yeah. He's getting all those toxins out. Good for you. Um, you say your wife thinks you're too old. How old is she? She's 29. So you're both 29. I'm younger than me. Well, 29. She just thinks your music's all down. Think your music's old. Is that your wife's biggest complaint about you? And then I worked too much. Yeah. Well, isn't that funny though? The day he takes off, he, she makes him go to the garage. Did you work too much? All right. I'll come home now. Go to the garage. Get out of my site. She kicked you out. No, I went out here. She's in a meeting, huh? Of course.

Anything else over here just sitting in the garage? Yeah. Anything else you'd like to get off your chest or hip? Yeah. One. There was one other thing, too. Gosh, dang it. Being sick doesn't help either. Foggy, foggy brain. Of course. I mean I will have to say that Michael Jordan did drop like 60 points when he had the flu. Michael Jordan did drop like 60 points when he had the flu. So just throw that out there.

Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, there's one more. There's one more. But oh, oh, there, there we go. I think you all since you guys do a little movie or a little video skips. Yeah, I think you guys should do a little skit where you guys do little jobs around the Midwest. It's kind of a knockoff of dirty jobs, but it'd be a... We'll just call them little jobs. Little jobs.

Yeah, we'll just call them messy jobs. Messy jobs, yeah. The Midwest messy jobs. Yeah, it's completely different I don't know what it is, but I can really see Charlie pull a calf. Yeah, we're in the harder calving season Yeah, Charlie, you could pull a calf. I'll just do a ride along with John. I There was you know, I was doing a thing over at the technical college and they had a little calf in the deal and you'd put the sleeves on and you'd pull it out. Like a simulator?

A calf simulator. I was in it. I was elbow deep in it. Did they do all the smells and whatnot as well? No, it was smell free. Okay, I'll do deep in it. Did they do all the smells and whatnot as well? No, it was smell free. I'll do that. Yeah. Yeah, it's right over here.

It was fun. Yeah. Are you on a farm yourself? Or no, you're just driving? No, actually, I actually help out the in-laws. So they're literally right out my back door. You can walk across the field, which is three-quarter of a mile and pull fear there Poof just otherwise otherwise if you take the road, it's about a mile and a half. I

Be honest in your condition. I wouldn't walk that three-quarter mile. I don't know if you're gonna make it today Especially when it's five below heck no, oh heck no, what happened your hip No, I'm not. Especially when it's five below. Heck no. Oh, heck no. What happened to your hip? Not listening to the doctors, saying to take care of myself and lots of, let's see, when I was growing up, I played hockey, football. Oh, yeah.

Partying too hard. Partying too hard? Jumping off roofs? Yeah. I'm so confused by you. What is? Are you an old man or are you a degenerate? I can't tell.

I can't, I can't. Maybe a mixture of both, Kyle. Maybe a mixture of both. Are your partying days behind you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ever since surgery, I mean, you're sober now. Oh, wow.

Congratulations. You're sober. Yeah, congratulations. Congratulations or I'm sorry, whatever way you want to take it. Actually, I do feel better. I did drop 120 pounds. Holy shit. 120 pounds! Good for you. I'm starting to look like Miles. And now I got to custom order my pants sizes.

Custom order them? I got to buy them offline. Fleet Farm no longer carries my sizes. What's your size 28 holy lowest that lowest fleet farm goes at least in my neck of the woods is 32 what a kick to the nuts he's gotta buy custom pants because he's 120 pounds heavier. Then he loses too much weight and he's still got to buy custom pants. Yeah. I mean, you should have, you should have stopped a couple sizes ago. So you can at least get some affordable pants. Great. I wasn't size 40 and I'm a size 20.

Holy frick. How tall are you? I'm I'm short. so I'm five foot seven. Five seven, okay. Wow, well congratulations, how'd you lose the weight? Just not drinking? Not drinking. A lot of people say that I was starving myself, but I did a little bit of intermittent fasting

when I did OTR trucking. I'd go Monday through Friday without eating and then I just eat on the weekends. What intermittent fasting? That's just fasting. That's just regular fasting. That's fasting. Yeah. Nothing but water during the week. I will have to say I, we, as humans, we don't need as much food as we think we do. Yeah. I figured that out trying to lose weight., we don't need as much food as we think we do. I figured that out trying to lose weight. You just don't need as it's a food is way more psychological than anything. I think it is. And if I would eat, it would be a, just mostly a carnivore

based diet. So beef, eggs, butter. Yeah. You just fall. Especially when you got cows around, you got basically, when you got cows around, there's no shortage of beef, so. That's true. How does your wife, is your wife happy now you're not drinking? Does she, does she have, what's her biggest complaint now that you're not drinking?

I'm too, well, with the weight loss, I'm too bony. I'm not as good to snuggle with anymore. When you married her, were you a big boy then as well? I look at that pictures now, you can tell I was pretty husky, but I kind of filled it out because when I was in my, I'll consider this my prime, I used to squat, used to squat five 40 and then I used to like press 600. So you just got to start lifting again too. Then I'm old and fragile. I'm old and fragile. 29 years old.

He does have a hit replacement though. He just said, I guess I'm in my prime. No, he's saying that that was his prime. He's past his prime. Oh, you're past your prime. I'm past my prime. Well, didn't they change the... What the heck is it?

Not your half way. You bought a middle age. Yeah. And then they move it. And isn't it like 25? No. Going the other way. We're living longer now. Oh, we are. He just said that like you gave it like you extended his prison sentence. Yeah. He's like, Oh yeah. I forgot that sucks. What do you do for fun? Uh, other than where I actually, I did go ice fishing for the first time. And since I got married. Oh wow. Congratulations. You get anything? A couple of parts.

Picked up a FL 18 off marketplace for a hundred bucks. I'm pretty sure it's stolen, but Hey, it works out well. You got it. You got it. Good for you. You gonna do any more of that this winter yet? I'm hoping so. If I get better, I'll go out. Uh, that's for Friday. That's my birthday. So you're going to get a cut. If you're about to be turned 30, dude, you might.

You better make sure you get your will updated. You're fucking old. I don't. I don't. Hopefully go on. I get a couple of buddies who got those nice ice castles. I went on last weekend and never realized that ice can be thick and tough. It's been a while. It has been a while. You do it a little over three and a half foot.

You have ice where we were at. Wow. Geez, that's a lot of ice. We send you a long auger. Yeah. Yeah. It was a lot of, it was a lot of downward downward pressure on the hogger. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't have any of that anymore. No, I do not. And you got to go on ice house. If you're just sitting on a bucket out there, you're now going to fly away in the wind. I know I even got, I even got one of them Milwaukee heated jackets. No, and I bring three, four extra batteries with me. Yeah. When you lose a bunch of weight, you get cold way faster. Yeah. No one told me that. I know. Um, did you used to be a shorts in the winter guy? Yep, shorts in a t-shirt. I wore bibs and parkas and you name it, everything. Are you doing any rehab for

your hip? No, that was only two or three months. Oh, nice. Of that, of physical therapy. So. I was wondering, cause old guys, they don't, they hate rehab. Yeah. My dad gets his, my dad, you know, does, gets his knees done and then he doesn't do any rehab and then wonders why his knees still hurt. That's such a dick. Oh no. I, I started doing that right away cause he said, Oh, you don't do it. You're not going to be able to walk. And then it's like, well, now what the hell are you going to do? True. True. Well, man, we appreciate calling in.

You know, when we started to answer your first question, me and Charlie would have definitely been like, yeah, this guy's an asshole. But once you get to know you, this guy's an asshole. But once you get to know you, you're not so bad. So there you go. You're just an acquired acquired taste. Yeah. You're like broccoli. Yeah. Like this is actually good for me. This is the guy on the carnivore diet. All right, man. Well, thanks for calling in. Hopefully you feel better. Good luck with the hip.

Good luck with the sobriety and congrats on the weight loss. Appreciate it. Hopefully we'll hear from you guys soon. I'll check in when I'm not stuffed up. All right. Yeah. Good luck with that chainsaw too. Get a V8 on that sucker. For now, once I wreck my Cummins, I'll make it a diesel powered chainsaw. All right. Have a good one, man.

Yep. Thank you. We'll see you. If you would have asked me if this guy was fat or skinny, I would have definitely said he was really fat. Yeah. He's got that going. He's not, he's like, he lost a bunch of weight, but he's still, you know, sounds like he's got the attitude. He sounds like he's in pain. It may have just been that his

sinuses were plugged up, but yeah, good, good guy. 28 waist. Wow. I, I, I couldn't. I couldn't get there. I don't think. No, I think what are you? Thirty two. Yeah. I'm like a thirty four, thirty six in there still. Oh yeah.

Yeah. But I left, you know, I squatting. Yeah, I see. I see those quads are looking nice. Yeah. Arms too. Good. Yeah. Should we take another caller? Let's do nice. Yeah, arms too. Good, yeah. Should we take another caller? Let's do it. All right, Charlie, we got a voicemail from John. John.

John from South Dakota. Yeah, so I'm hoping that this is like the right number for the Belly.Podcast. Got some kind of international dating questions for the guys. the I said, watch for gear, tell your folks I said hi. And then she slapped the crap out of me. So I'm just kind of wondering where that really leads me. So I'm hoping, you know, might be able to get a funny story out of it,

get some advice from Miles and Charlie. So. That's hilarious. So he's just sitting at an airport and someone comes up to him and says, how do I say, No, no, no. He brought his girlfriend to the airport and she's, she was clearly emotional Charlie, cause she's leaving him. Oh, no, I get it. I thought this was some rando. I thought he was kidding when he said I met my girlfriend at the airport. No. So, and

then she was like, how do you, you know, how do you say goodbye to someone you love? Watch for dear. Tell your folks. I thought that would work. It should work. I mean, he's got the wrong gal. Yeah. You know, and that's really what I, you're finding it out now. It's better to find out now than later down the road. I mean, that should have just warmed her heart, like butter on cheese, but apparently not. Yeah, she should have been like, take me to the re-combobulation area

and discombobulate my insides. Oh, shout out Milwaukee airport, ladies and gentlemen. Miles, you really took that there, didn't you? Golly. Golly. That is a sentence I thought I would never, ever say. I don't think anyone's ever said that, Miles, but here it is being said.

We'll clip that and send it to Ann. She must be so proud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where do we go from here? Good luck, buddy. I wanna know where his gal's from though. Hell well. Charlie, we're gonna have to get you used

to taking voicemails, because we can't get that information because it's just a voicemail. I know. We gotta fill in the gaps ourselves. Fill in the gaps. Yeah. You know, what would you say if you couldn't say, tell your folks, I says, hi, watch out for deer.

What would you if I'm? Yeah. How do you tell tell someone? What was it again? How do you say goodbye to someone that you really love? I really love you. Well, I was thinking maybe give me a little something more than that. I mean, your beard looks nice, but it looks a little scratchy. So right now I'm just going to tell you I really love you, Miles.

I love you too. Yeah, I don't know. How would you say it? How would you say it? Oh, like, let's say let's's say your gals from Latvia or something. Latvia, why not? Well, I was just going to go the route that you you just you need to get emotional and then just say, like, I just I can't I can't say put into words how much I love you. Oh yeah. That's good.

Yeah. You got to think about something like, right? It's like at the end of sports games when they're like, tell us how you feel about winning that game. It's like, I'm just speechless. You're like, okay, well that sucks. Cause it's a TV, you know, just take that approach. So it'd be like, yeah, he's saying goodbye to someone you love. Yeah. Oh, God. That's a really good question. Man, I don't know. I just I can't express how much I love you. Well, that sucks because I just asked you to do that.

You got it. It's true. You got to take a beat and you got to think about something that really makes you, you, you feel that love. You got to think about like, like the time, you know, the Packers got into the super bowl, like for the first time in decades, like the 1990, 96, 97 season, you know, wasn't that their first super bowl ever? No miles. They won the first two fricking super bowls. Are you kidding me? I just get those confused with the championships, you know, titles miles title town. Do we have to have this conversation

again? I'm trying to get emotional and then you just transfer that emotion to the person in front of you. Yeah. Cause most Midwest guys are pretty emotionally unavailable human beings, but it's less it comes to sports. Yeah. Sports, fishing, you know, first time you got a buck, all those things, bring those emotions into it. Channel it. That's it. Well, good. I was making you feel Charlie that you got this guy slapped across the face. I didn't get it. I didn't tell him to say that. Well, I did tell him to say that actually, you know, now he knows now he knows that either this relationship is not going to work out or they got some growing to do yet still. Yeah. Yeah. Well, John, thanks for leaving a voicemail. Hopefully you're still together. If not. And if so, tell your girlfriend we says hi.

Tell her we says watch for dear. And give her a wink after that. All right, guys. Again, we have our lawyer, our friend Russell Nicolay on the line. The people's lawyer, as I call him. He's the people's lawyer. This is Trump. I Russell. How are you? Hey, doing well guys. Thanks for the introduction in

the trumpet. I appreciate it. How you guys doing? I wish Charlie would do that for me more. He sounded like a dog. Does that cartoon? He sounded like blues dog. I know. Is that cartoon? He sounded like blues clothes. So before we talk to Russell about this, Charlie, you got summoned for jury duty. Here's the mail that never fails. Yes, I did get someone for jury duty, ladies and gentlemen. So I got all, so I got summoned and then I says, um, I can't do it and, uh, I gotta move it cause, um, I forgot what was happening, but it, I was able to move it.

I was able to request to have it moved and they accepted the request. So then they moved it and then it was, I think you guys were in town that week. Right? Yeah. I remember we were trying to schedule around your jury duty. It was a nightmare. Yeah. Well, I shouldn't have rescheduled the first jury duty cause that was the problem, but I didn't know you guys were coming at that point. So anyways, uh, it was, I didn't even have to go. So they said she'd call in the number and I called in at six o'clock.

They're very precise. You have to call in at five o'clock the night before to figure out if you're supposed to show up the next morning and then you have to show up, call at noon the next day to see if you have to come in in the afternoon. So for three days, I had to call in twice a day. And I really hope that on the last day,

I wasn't requested to come in because I forgot to call on that day. So Russell, what does happen if you miss jury duty? Yeah, I mean they can issue a warrant for you. I mean I think the judges are pretty good about it. I think the bigger things if like someone showed up and for part of the jury, you know, like the first day of the trial and then didn't come back, but I mean there can be some punitive consequences. I do think the judges are pretty, at least in Wisconsin, throughout the Midwest, but Wisconsin for sure.

I've seen they're pretty lenient about people, uh, because they assume there's like a good reason why, rather than just jumping the gun and thinking that you're just trying to skip out, but I would definitely take it serious. And this is the serious part for me as a lawyer. I think that The the duty of a citizen to be on the jury is like one of the most important duties next to voting so I'm a big fan of people going and I just had a jury trial maybe two months ago and The judge there basically said that a lot of folks after they do jury duty Even though you know, it's inconvenient and whatnot, they often think of it as like a good experience that they learned from and

they like now more understanding the system and being part of the system and have an impact on the community and people's life. So that's the the official like serious part of it being you know on a jury and being a citizen. But yeah that's it is an important thing. You should take it serious because there could be consequences but I do think judges are pretty understanding because they know most folks have a lot going on that they're trying to balance when they're trying to work injury duty. Everyone can find Mr. Nicolay at nicolaylaw.com or at 1-855-NICOLAY. Thanks Russell. Thank

you Russell. Hi, is this Brad? That's me, Brad. This is miles and Charlie from the belly. That podcast. How are you doing? Great. Thanks for the call. I really appreciate it. Yeah. Where are you at right now? I'm at the gym in Ohio, just giving some games in, you know, I'm headed towards not 50, but, you know, sort of my thirties still. And I got to get games. Okay. I got to try and stay young somehow. You and Charlie are basically the same age. I'm 37. How old are you, Brad. Literally just turned 40 in a couple of hours.

Wait, you in a couple of hours? Well, theoretically in a couple of hours, I may have been up to 40, but I'm not 40 yet. Is it your freaking birthday, dude? It is. Look at the birthday on Brad. All right. Nice man.

The wars were catching up with me. I did the whole Iraq and Afghanistan stint and all of my joints are just creaking and breaking. So I'm not really sure if I'm going out tonight or not, but I may end up going out to look at college town, you know, do my thing. Wow. Well, hey, thanks for your service. Obviously it's taking a toll on your body. So sorry about that. But you're out there still getting gacked either way. Is that what we call it? Gacked? Oh yeah. Jacked jacked is cocaine. Sorry about that. My bad. My bad. Sorry, Brad. That's my bad.

Well Brad, uh, I, uh, the Intel that I got was that you are a 39 year old freshmen and college. I won't say 40. You are a 30 year, 39 year old freshmen in college. What's going on with that? This is a total disaster. So I think I've done like 10 years of my undergrad a bunch of times and went back and forth and I'm going back to a big college town in Ohio. Dating is something else. I tell you what, it is strange and it's whiplash. So one week you go on a date with a professor, you know, she's 30 something, you know, and

then the next time you go on a date with someone who's like 18 and then you realize, wow, they were like in middle school when you were doing some sort of job, it's a total disaster. Brad, you've got some fucking game, dude. You're taking professors and 18 year olds out on dates. I mean, I'm just, you know, I'm just doing my thing. And it's not like I planned it, you know, but I'm around the people, right? I'm trying to do my thing. But the problem is, is like the whip box. So then it's like the bitterness factor, right? How much bitterness do you really want? Right? So are you willing to go over like the, you know, the masters

of a nursing realm? You know, she's, she's doing 16 hour days and you know, it's got three kids that whole vibe, You know, she's, she's doing 16 hour days and you know, it's got three kids that whole vibe, you know, this is like few Van Wilder kind of like, like, so, so you're, you're at, are you in Columbus? No, no, no. Up North. I won't say the exact count, but up north, the big dogs. He doesn't want to get a rep around Cleveland in that direction. Okay. Not west towards Toledo. Not west. Was there Cleveland though? You and was that the small? That's a small town. No, no, no. But it's a larger college town. The college town is

the town. down the college town is down. Well, we've eliminated Toledo. We've Cincinnati's down south. South. It's not after my van word. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's can't stay. It is told to soldiers and Nixon's gunman. Alright, so listen. How do you know that? How do I know that song? We're finally on our own this summer. Gonna hear the drum and four dead in Ohio. Gotta get down to it. Soldiers are coming because Brad, I'm as old as you. So listen. So you're dating all around, dude. I mean, is it just is it?

Were you like in a relation? Were you married? No, I was almost married, but I was in Iraq. I was a dummy and I broke up with the person. I went back to war or whatnot. But when I came back at I had a bunch of surgeries, a bunch of different stuff. So I was getting back on the horse, and it's just wild swings, right?

It's freshmen and then like not older women, but you know, in their 30s or so, 40s. And I'm realizing, what am I supposed to do here? What is the advice that you guys have to be in dating? Well, my advice is stop dating freshmen. Okay, like you can fucking talk. What are you talking about? I'm not dating a freshman, bro. What? Randa is she is, uh, she is 25 years, 25 years old and you are 37 years old. I'm 37. I mean, you

know, it's a, it's, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying to be throwing stones at him for dating a freshman. It seems like a little bit of a glass house situation. My house in glass. I mean, it's very thin cardboard, but it's not glass right now. Um, so what advice would you give them? Give them for dating younger women like that? Well, I would. I would listen. You got to like tone back the references of that song and stuff like that, right? Because they don't know it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, referencing stuff. I mean, it's a whole new world there. But I would say let's you got gotta be realistic. 18 no go. 19 no go 20 no go 21 no go 22 no go. I would stick to 12 years. 12 year. What's the rule? It's your age by two and add seven. Divide

your age by two and add seven. So he's 40 divided by two plus seven, 27 year old, 27 year olds aim for 20 sounds awful. Why sounds so terrible? Well, are you commitment phobic right now? Cause that's okay. So change your mindset. Okay. Right. So you meet some lovely gal, right? You're in a Denny's right. Don't think it's open, right? And you're there early in the morning. If she just got off a ship working in the NICU, right. And there's like a smudge of blood somewhere around her sitting petri, right? And the stories that you're going to get talking to is about the three baby daddies, the four kids that are at home, and then she's got to pull three more doubles. And then you have to put up with all the drama and all the stuff.

So you're saying that sounds like one 27 year old you dated. They're not all the same. And nurses are just they're like hairstylists. They're just different. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. Well, you know that you don't have to date nurses or hairstylists or professors.

I mean, now I do have the hotspot of the athletic trainers here at the gym. She's like six, five, and I'm going to tell gals and she's like six, five and like a power lifter. It's totally my vibe, but there's never the right time It was trained. I want to be the creepy guy But making a you know, we're trying to hook up with the the trainer while she's like mid-train You're hooking up with her mid-train It starts with that let's go over here and do this hit machine, won't you, baby?

Pfft. Like, that's not what we would think you would do at all. That was a slip, that was a Freudian slip. Is your mom six-five? How's that a Freudian slip? Listen, Brad, Brad. Oh man. Okay. So listen, what are you looking for? Are you looking to settle down or just what do you want?

I'm trying to have a bunch of kids, you know, trying to do the whole, the whole thing, you know, do the Ohio thing, right? Get a compound, a bunch of kids may or may not have a boating accident with the tools that may fall in, you know, have the whole thing, you know, and maybe like do bow hunting or something and like go after deer I guess. That's not bad life right there. So you're trying to sell down, you're not gonna sell down with an 18 year old, Brad. I mean, what are you even thinking?

All right. I live in the laundry mat. So I go to a laundry mat that has a bar at the laundry mat. And whenever I, you know, be in my laundry, there's like a lovely gal that I meet. That just happens to be there. And we struck up a conversation and it goes really good. And we go on some dates and then I realized, Oh, wow. I may or may not have dated her mom.

And then I realized that her mom is like 39, 40 something years old. And I may have took her mom out on a date. So there's that kid. That happened. Uh, good Lord. I don't know. She was 18 and a half. We had her like 17. So like it just, well, my mom was 17. She had me. So he's pretty young. Who was 17, Brad, my mom. Okay. 17 when she had, okay. Got it. God. So there's a lot to unpack. There's a lot going on, Brad. What's why? Why? Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Brad. So you want to settle down with someone? You, you, you just, you, are you on the dating apps or you just mean people at the laundromat? It's so true, I'm not an apps kind of guy. I'm on them, but it's rough. Okay. The ladies I meet on there are just not quality. So he's just out there in the wild. And okay.

My first advice is try dating one other 27 year old. And see. Not a hairstyle. yeah. Also, I feel like you should know pretty early on if she's 18 years old, do you know what I mean? Like the difference between an 18 year old and a 27 year old, you shouldn't like get four dates in and be like, wow, yeah, she's really young. Feel like that you just don't have to go on a date with her. If you find out she's 18 years old for sure avoiding asking that question. I know. Although you're really sure. You got to ask that question,

dude. You got to ask that question. There are some really smart people in college, which means they skipped a few grades. So I would be asking, I would be looking for IDs, Brad. Is this what Charlie did? Charlie and I did. And so I dated one gal who happened to be younger. He doesn't check IDs. He just does background checks.

It's fine. It's way different. Oh my God. Like investigator Charlie. I dated one gal who happened to be younger and it's stuck. All right. So. OK. Yeah. So you said Ronda's in her 20s or so, right? Rand is 25, 25.

OK, that's approved. That's approved. Yeah, it's in the mix. If it is. Oh, shit. Is it? Are you guys planning to get married? Twenty five and a half. Boom. Got it. Oh, no. Twenty five and a half right now. Don't ask what my birthday is.

Anyway, Brad, are you planning to get married? Well, we have the question. You know what? Here's the deal, Brad. That's usually my line of questioning for people and I don't appreciate it when it's reversed on me. Okay, so this is my show. So I'm gonna be asking, we're talking about like creating something new and you know, flourishing and that, you know, Brad, I don't even think you called in for advice.

I think you just like to see the world burn. Yeah. He's our joker to our Batman. He just wants to see the world burn. He's going to keep dating girls with red flags left and right and he's going to come on podcasts and bitch about it. But secretly that's what he gets off. He loves it. Yeah. He's calling in the brain. So I spent some time in the Balkans and it was a blast. So I did Serbia and Macedonia and it was a ton of fun for David because they have these like huge nightclubs and different stuff. That's all in one kind of area and one city and the colleges in the city and everybody else is just there all.

So everybody works all over Europe. When you get to all the bars and stuff and you meet people, they're on their break time. So you just get to have a bunch of fun and meet a bunch of people and just go party throughout the whole city. I spent about six to seven months out there and I loved it. And I can't wait to go back to the Balkans. It was honestly the best place I've ever had a date because you meet just tremendous people that are working at cool places and like UK and different stuff. And it was a lot more stable.

It's like a, you know, moving back to Kent state is like a postcard from Paris when he see the real thing, Charlie. That's, I think the root of this problem is you got just too high standards. You got lower those suckers. Yeah. You're in Ohio now. You're going to Kent state, dude. You got to lower those standards. Secondly, is this when you were in the military overseas? You were there? Oh no, I just went there last year. Oh, year. I was just saying, you know, deployment doesn't sound so bad if you're just going to clubs all the time. What do you, what do you do? I was doing a, I was doing online college stuff for my masters. Nice. And I have some

master's seminary credits or whatever. And I was doing that to learn about the old, old village and sort of stuff and the history of it. And so Serbia is the best place to do it because you get this old school history and whatnot. All the ladies are six foot two, which is a lot of fun. You're into tall chicks. We get that. Um, but a bunch of, uh, yolkages over there. Brad, but they did. What do you mean you were getting your masters? I thought you were a freshman.

Well, yeah, I haven't completed my undergrad, but I've done some seminary credits to learn about religious history and It is up the last so what is your major? I'm doing both medicine and like we'll just stop so eventually I'll be like a fake doctor I'll have my like doctor of health sciences a DHSC should be a S C practice, some dentist. No, it's just, it's a, it's a terminal doctorate for healthcare. So the goal is to do like chaplaincy sort of stuff. And then like religious sort of things along with the medicine sort of stuff. So you're basically a pastor as well. Maybe in the future, it's not going to go well at whatever denomination and church you go to. If you're trying to sleep with all the 18

year olds going to church, no, no, no, no. I'm not a, I'm not a sleeping around kind of guy. I'm a dating relationship. Oh yeah. Oh, so you're not, you're not a celibate. You're celibate. Well, you know, somewhat, you know, how many days, you just do it hand stuff or what? I'm a good guy. You know, I'm good. You know, so you're just doing hand stuff like over the pants type of behaviors. You're doing over the sweet beard. You'd be able to have like 10 kids. So you of behaviors you're doing over there. Like a sweet beard. You'd be able to have like 10 kids. So you're, you're doing over the pants stuff. Orthodoxy, not, not over the pants Orthodox, like Russian Orthodox. So is that that's not a hand move. That's a denomination. the nomination. Yeah. Urban dictionary that, uh, okay. Wow. So, so he's not even, he's

not even doing any, no, no, no, no. I'm not a one night stand kind of guy. I'm going on dates. How many dates? How many, how many looks does it take to get to the center of the tootsie pop bread about three dates? You know, I'm a three-day kind of guy so far, but They don't really want serious relationships in these zoomer So what I'm so lost yeah, you you don't think an 18 year old wants a serious relationship bread Yeah. You, you don't think an 18 year old wants a serious relationship, Brad? None of them do. No, it's the zoomers are just rough. And then the one of your tricks are just better. So they had a fun, you know, Gen X girl, I mean, it's generally closer

to your age. Yeah. Do the 12 plus whatever the opposite way. Find me a grandma. Yeah. Nice. Nice. A nice gulf. Well, I guess there's no F at the end. Over the pants Russian Orthodox. Oh. So now with the older ladies, what am I supposed to do if I go the opposite direction? So if I go like 40s, 50s, like what do I do there? I got no experience on that one. And you've been together with your wife for what? Like 10 years or something like that you were looking your early 20s when you got together?

Oh no it was we've been together now seven years so I was I was 26 27 ish. It's a good age. No maybe I was earlier maybe I was 25. I'm almost 32 so you're getting old Yeah. Yeah. You're still that young. Oh yeah. 32 years old, baby. You're a young guy. Now I'm, I might still have a shot at 18 year olds, Charlie. If you do the math, we'll do the math. See when you asked me like how to do the division, by the way, my brain was just like,

When you asked me like how to do the division, by the way, my brain was just like, I have no idea how to do the 23. Um, yeah. I mean, I think you got that working against you. The fact that, um, you're, you're, you're only doing hand stuff. I think that that doesn't help with the 18 year olds, you know? So, um, it also throws them off when I literally am older. Yeah, but there's a lot of people that are into that. I think, I don't know. Well, Charlie, you had any last words for, for, uh, for him on what he should be doing? I go back to the Balkans. Go back to the Balkans. Yeah.

The Serbian honey seems like you were happiest there. I don't know that you're going to find what you're looking for at the Denny's and Laundromats of Ohio. But you can keep trying far inside of it and you can meet some nice ladies. Are all the washing machines, are they all working? Oh, it's great. Yeah, it's always functioning and whatnot. And I usually go around to go to the fancy coffee books. Sometimes I'm into specialty coffee. It's my one vice.

Do you have a job? No, I'm just the specialty coffee. It's my, it's my one bite. Do you have a job? No, I'm just a professional student. How much student loan? I suppose you were in the military. Yeah. God damn dude. He's he's doing it. He's maybe doing it right. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. No, I'm actually not a real veteran. So that's a whole story that's there. I did the whole like federal employee thing. What the fuck, Brad? I just said thank you for your service. Okay, absolute stolen valor.

You fought. What do you mean you you're not a veteran, but you fought in the war? Well, yeah, I mean, I've been in combat. I just never I'm not a veteran. So this is why I don't really know how to respond to that. Sometimes are you still like, Oh yeah, I did a racket of dance and the whole thing, but I'm not actually like a real battle. Why? Cause you have to be in the military to be a better. Okay. So unless you talk about like veteran podcasters or like veterans, CIA agent

Charlie was an investigator. Unless you're if you're into that. Right. It's not like a real better. OK, hi. So you're getting school paid for, though. No, I don't know. I have regular student loans like everybody else. Just racking it up. No, I want to back up.

Are you a mercenary? Are you a hired guy? I was a mercenary. I actually worked for the UK government once. So I literally am. I was a mercenary. There it is. We're talking a frickin James Bond dish over

here. So did you work with I think he's lying or what? What? He's fucking lying. Blackwater even Blackwater. I didn't. Yeah. They were long gone when I got there. So but I got to do the whole the cool guy fun stuff. Are you sitting in office for 12 hours and monitor logistics? So you went out there, you were in combat and try that shot back once he got shot at.

He shot back once. Do you get hit at all? No, but I got hit by some mortars. That was fun. That's, you know, some keepsakes in my spine. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I get where it's it's. Yeah. I don't know what to call you either. If you're not a veteran, I don't know what you are. It's strange. And I honestly never know how to respond to it. It's wild. It's a fun story for some ladies when they want to hear like really boring war stories that literally nothing happened. All right. Just so we can end this call. So I have a little bit of clarity. Let's start back at the beginning. You graduate high school, give

us the short a bridge version of how we got to where we are now and what you actually did for a job overseas. Ooh, that is a good question. One that I have to put some smoke and mirrors back. So I got out of high school, I grew up in Hawaii, which was a lot of fun. We didn't actually go to high school at all. We just go to the beach every day. I immediately go to Ohio in the middle of the fields and nowhere. We're closer to Canada than we are anywhere else. So I realized this is crap. And all my friends were over to Kent. So I go to Kent and fast forward, it was like 2008, just total

crash of the economy, right? So I was working bars, Chipotle, the whole thing. And they're like, oh, hey, you want to serve your country, be a dirtbag and go to Iraq? Oh, yeah, sure I'll do that for no money and we go to Iraq and immediately we're getting bombed who asked you that Said do you want to go to Iraq and do this? Okay, okay, so you're in the army now So there's a bunch of companies that hire people. So we all get hired by these companies and go deploy. There's a bunch of contractors. Actually 11 contractors per month sold.

There's more contractors than our soldiers at the time. So we all get deployed and do that. So you just work in construction over there. You know, shouldn't people. And moving, you know, materials and stuff like that. You have to have water. You have to have equipment and stuff like that. If you will place one place to the next, right? And so International Engines is one company I've worked for. You see all their semi trucks, all the international engine people got to work with them.

And fast forward into Pentagon stuff, that's a policy, you know, got to write some things, president signed, kind of cool. And then surgeries for four years and physical therapy. And then, you know, I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people.

And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people.

And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing a lot of work with the American people. And I've been doing You don't have to write some things. President signed kind of cool. And then surgeries for four years and physical therapy. And then now going back to school. So you were doing some classified shit over there. That's why you can't talk about it or what? Well, if I did, I'd have to go. And I'm listening. That's a lot of people. So do they do they hire the contractors so they can like avoid saying like we're sending troops over there?

Oh yeah. There was like five million people or something like that, you know. And with the UK people too and everybody else in Europe, it's like seven million people. We only had them on paper one million soldiers. There were millions of people. Holy shit. Wow. We're uncovering government secrets here on this episode. Is this turning into something? And then you also have civil service guys, which aren't included in those numbers, right?

So you have like a civil service guy who's a state department person or a military police guy who's a cop, technically. He's not a soldier, but you send him there to war and he's technically a soldier, but he's not a soldier, but you send him there into war and he's technically a soldier, but he's not a soldier, right? So then a bunch of people like this, or all retirees and stuff like too, who you saw this bulk of people that you need to have

fight a war for you that have skills, but they can't join the military because they're 58 years old or whatever. So you just put them as a contractor and you're good to go. Got it. Wow. Didn't know that. That's wild. So then- I'm just not about doing it anymore.

Well, how do veterans or people who served in the war, how do they like view you guys? I mean, everybody's done it at this point. You know, at the first part, there was like a lot of drama with it, but I mean, now nobody really cares. There's also no memorials, all those people who died. I suppose that

That's wild. That's crazy. That's wild. That's just a way for the politicians to say, Oh, we don't have boots on the ground over there. Do you get paid good? You're weird. Oh, you think you do at the time. So you're making 60, 80 K, you know, in 2008, 2010, right? That's his money, supposedly. But then you realize, well, 80 K, you know, in 2008, and right. That's good money. Supposedly. But then you realize, well, there's no healthcare. There's no nothing.

Yeah. So you have to figure out how to pay your own stuff. Yeah. Quickly catches up with you when you have to get like four servers. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so I'm going to find a gal who's willing to put up with the fact. She may have to take me to, you know, a medical appointment, you know, some, uh, some deep tissue side. That's why you went with the nurse right away. Hi. That makes sense.

All right, man. Well, we appreciate you calling in and happy birthday. Happy birthday. Thanks for calling. I really do appreciate it. I didn't honestly realize it was my birthday the same day we had the call. So I'm really glad this worked out. calling. I really do appreciate it. I didn't honestly realize it was my birthday the same day we had the call, so I'm really glad this worked out. Yeah. I'm excited to see you guys in concert sometime and actually see Miles in concert too. Yeah, we were just talking about that.

We'll have to announce those dates and we'd love to see you, man. That'd be incredible. Thank you guys so much. Take care, man. Thank you. Wow, dude, we learned so much on this podcast? I that was a whirlwind. You know, you know, that's why you keep asking questions. First, first rule

in journalism. Just keep asking questions and be silent. That guy, when you're silent, he talks. Boy, does he say some stuff. Well, yeah, you got to, I'm glad that we had him lay out everything that happened there at the end. Yeah. Well, all right, Charlie, we got another voicemail here from Devin. So let's hear what Devin has to say. Hey, this is Devin. Sam's got 22 years old out of South Dakota. Say, I was just wondering, my girlfriend, say we, when we go out to the bar together, you know, I can be walking up to the bar just fine. Turn around, boom, she's gone. So I was just wondering what is your guy's suggestions on a drunk runner? Give me a call back when you can. Thank you much.

A drunk runner. You know, a guy like that, you show up to a bar and it's like, where is Tyler? He's gone. He's gone. Just gone. Like is it, I've kind of wanted to, I feel like we should call them honestly. Cause I, the question is, did she leave the bar or did she just go find another group? Maybe this relationship in can last a while. I, yeah, I don't take it as a, that she's trying to get away from him. I think it's just when she gets in a scenario, she starts drinking some booze. She's a nomad. Yeah. Some people just, I guess do they do. They wander their wanderers. I remember this one time I was with my buddies

in this bar in Fort Lauderdale or some other kind of place in Florida. And one buddy, he, I was talking to one buddy. Meanwhile, this other guy that was there, he got punched. And then the, the runner in our friend group, the guy who just kind of always disappears, I just see him racing out the bar after this guy. I'm like, what is he doing? He crosses the street, he jumps at this guy and just lands straight on his chest.

And he just completely missed him. It was wild. I just docked and he flew over like a quarterback in a sports movie. No, the guy was running completely missed him. It was wild. I just docked and he flew over like a quarterback in a sports movie. No, the guy was running away from him, but at one point he was like sliding home to try and tackle them and it just didn't work out. So yeah, you gotta get, I would say you get a leash that might be frowned upon actually depending on the state. Your, your suggestion is that this guy should put a leash on his girlfriend at the

bar. Well, yeah. I mean, like, you know, when you see your kids at Disneyland, you see people with their kids at Disneyland, the leash kid, the leash kids. Yeah. I mean, you know, if it's, if it's for her own safety, now a lot of people will frown upon that and there's going to be a lot of issues with it it so my brother-in-law was a Leash kid really yeah, and what's great about it is he says it was the best Why because he said he just could just run around and if he knew he was doing something he shouldn't he just gets yanked back Wow, you know that's I haven't are least kids still a thing or have people like frowned upon there was definitely a period of time where Leashes for kids were very popular. It was a deal

Sometimes you see a kid out in the wild though and you're like hey get that thing on a leash, you know Yeah, maybe there should be more leash kids. Yeah. Yeah, I never had a leash growing up I mean if your parents would have looked like they were, I had a dog walking all their kids were unleashes. My dad, my dad would do this whistle. And when you heard that whistle, that was like the soft launch of get over here. Yeah. Kind of like blowing a horn and assembling the news team. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You're not a drunk runner. I don't think Charlie. Are you? No, cause there's a, there's a fine line between being a drunk runner and an Irish good buyer. Yeah. I'd be, I'd Irish goodbye more than anything else. I just, I

just tap out. I get to some points. I don't, I don't drink as much as I used to miles. And sometimes it gets to be too much for me. I pull the parachute, you know, you've seen it. You've seen my little pumpkin come late at night. What I mean by that is Cinderella or, you know know her carrots turns into a pumpkin But now thinking back on how I just said that that sounded sexual in nature And that's not what I was going for here folks. I don't know if that was a new hip term. They were using Yeah, well let's edit that out. No, we're keeping. All right. Board is board. Yeah. All right.

Miles, it's been another great episode here with you on the bellied up, folks. Make sure you tip your bartenders. All right. You said tell me you love them. I love you guys.