Bellied Up - What Every Garage Needs #99

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

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Welcome to another episode of the Bellied Up podcast, guys. I am your fearless co-host joined by my fearless co-host, Miles, the you betcha guy. We got poll tabs now. This is where we're turning to the seat of the accent. We're here at Schuller's here in Gold Valley. We won seven hundred bucks here last time, Charlie. Let's see if we win. Let's rip and roar.

These are five dollar ones, too. We all one left one left. we got one left. All right 19 of these suckers how much did you spend on this mouth? See if you're five just dead silent for like a minute We were a full focus man full focus. All right All right, and here we go. Nothing. I kissed a pole. Ted, you already kissed for nothing. Well, there's a hundred bucks down the drain, Charlie. But that's what investing is all about. I'm just happy it wasn't my money. So now you've got to go throw a hundred bucks in. I'll think about it. Hey, miles, you know what I was

thinking about spring cleaning? I am currently cleaning out my garage and I started to think, you know, I got all this stuff in my garage, but what do I actually want? Yeah. My most like what does every good garage need? Yeah. What does every good garage need? Well, I think in every good garage needs to have a pile of shit that has just been a cumulative been accumulated over a certain amount of time, right? I have this one spot, I call them piles. Everyone needs to have a good pile of random stuff that you don't really need, but you don't want to throw out either.

And it just goes in the pile. It's got clothes, it's got boots, it's got probably you got a tape measure in there somewhere. You got a clothes pile in your garage. Yeah, because it goes from my truck to the clothes pile. And then sometimes that clothes pile makes it into the house. That's impressive, dude. You got to watch out for that mice really like that.

That's good mouse bedding. Yeah. Or rats. One time, one time I was cleaning out my garage, I opened up a gun case. I was keeping fishing poles in and a rat jumped out at me. A rat. A rat. A mouse. No full full on rat dude. Jesus. Yeah. I know. That's what I said. Mary and Joseph pray for us. Finish the prayer and everything. What do you think a good garage needs? Every good garage. I learned this from my grandpa, Bob. Every good garage needs a good chair. You know, he's a what? Sorry. Oh, you were chit chat and you got, he was told me he was

my good. He told me he was my good luck charm for pull tabs and he wasn't. Yeah. Can't win them all. I think every good garage needs a chair. There's nothing, a solid chair. Now I think in chair. My question is, is it, do you need, just need a chair or is there a specific chair you have in mind? I'll tell you what I have in my garage. I have this lazy boy that my folks found off the side of the road and they said, Hey, there's a lazy boy here. And I was over there with the trailer, picked it up, put it right into the garage. It's my thinking chair.

I liked that. There's nothing better than looking out your garage door and just thinking, yeah, I got to get a good chair. Cause I got like the, you know, the lawn chairs that fold out, but you know, I'm not taking out those out of the bag and just to sit down. You know, you don't, you want to have as little friction as possible between you and the thinking chair. It's always set up. My thinking chair right now is the lawnmower.

You know what? That counts. That counts. I don't have a rider. So, so that's been my kind of go to chair in the garage. Yeah. Good for you. While I sit on the steps. OK. And in the garage, you got steps in your garage.

You don't have steps in my garage. Yeah. I got a few steps up into the house. Mine's a disconnected garage. I think every garage needs a hodgepodge of tools and saws that are in various stages of use and abuse. You gotta have a new one, but you gotta have one that barely works. And you guys say, if you really want to get the job done, I trust that one, you know, which doesn't make any sense because you bought the new one because you didn't trust that

one, but it's hard to trust a new saw sometimes. I think also every good garage needs a single gas can. You're not quite sure what kind of gas is in there. Is it mixed? Is it diesel? Is it 87? What is it? And once a year you pick it up and you smell it to see if it's going to give you any hints and you know whatever gas is there is bad. But then you're like, how am I going to get rid of this gas? And then you, you're like, I got to look up the poison situation. You're like, ah, I'll just put it on the next fire. I start, you know, well in that, and I even have a gas can that's labeled mixed, but I also don't trust that either. Cause I might've in a pinch

needed to put regular gas in there. So now it's all sorts of messed up. There's never a gas can is like, uh, like that old bottle of liquor in, in your, uh, grandparents wicker cabinets. Like, I don't know. We, I mean, that could be three years old. That could be 30 years old. You never know. No. And I also think a good garage needs a beer fridge that is just a collection of all of the the booze that people have brought to your house and left. Nice hodgepodge. In the same note, you also need an old freezer that you didn't want to throw out. It didn't quite work, but six months out of the year, it's a good freezer for all your all your deer meats and whatnot. And then when winter is over, you kind of reassess which ones are really keepers and you bring those

back into the house and the rest of them you give away and you act like it's a present, even though it's clearly frostbite. Yes. Freezer burnt freezer burn. Also, you need enough wood in your garage to build at least three other garages. freezer burn. Also, you need enough wood in your garage to build at least three other garages. Yes, you do. Yeah. Because you never know. You never know. You just never know when you're going to need that piece of wood. You can't throw that away. And you should have seven brooms, but no dust pans and just a bunch of different piles of dust. It's important to have a good arrangement of brooms as well. Yeah. You got the push broom. Push broom. You need one of the little feather ones for the corners. Oh, yeah. A little stand up one.

You also need probably a hand broom or brush of some sort. You have a good arrangement of brooms. Yeah, absolutely do. Yeah, this is something I've put into my garage. I put a target in there because I've been trying to get better at my recurve bow action miles. And if you put a target in your garage sideways, you can get a pretty good little diagonal. Yeah. You got a big garage then I do actually have a big garage. It's detached from the house and it's you know what they say about a guy with a big garage, right? What do they say?

Miles? Lot of junk. Yeah, that's accurate. You know, the bigger the garage, the more junk the guy's got. Oh, I tell you what else you need. You need little tire lifts, little jack lifts, you know, so people think, Oh, this guy knows how to work on a car. He's changing his oil himself. Yeah. Yeah. I, that's the only thing I really use them for. Honestly is changing the oil. Good. That's about, that's

about where my car knowledge that that's one of the only things I trust myself to really do on that. And it's a great, that's a great point, Charlie. If myself to really do on. Yeah. It's a great. That's a great point, Charlie. If you have, let's say you got a extra extra car, you got an old car. Yeah. Just make sure the hood's up. Yeah. Right. Like you're not going to work on it, but if the hood is up and someone comes into your garage, they're impressed. They'd be like, Oh, this guy's been working on that. He knows his way around the car. So as long as you got the hood up on it, it's all he, all you need.

I've had the hood up on my snowmobile for going on three years now. No, no one's like, why isn't he working on that? They're like, well, clearly he's been working on it. Yeah. They think I'm a handier man than I am. Yeah. So I think all those things are good. They were probably missing some, but old beer cans. You need old beer cans along the wall. My garage is down to the studs. There's just a few areas I've put up, like some slat wall to hang things, but everything else is down to the studs.

And between the studs, you just put a little horizontal two by four, that's your shelf there. So I've got the internal shelving unit, and I've got some old beer cans in there. Some collector's cans too. I've got an old mash beer can. Can you believe that? Don't know. Even know what that is. Mash the TV show from the day. Oh, I didn't know they made beer cans. Neither did I, but I got one in my garage too. In fact, I'll give one to

you the next round this out, Charlie. I think that brings up a great point. Every good garage needs a bunch of shit that you just have no business ever needing. Exactly. That's what it's about. You never know. The garage is the junk drawer room. Yeah. You know, it's not just one drawer. It's a whole room in the house. Yeah. Two of everything you never need folks. Well, Charlie, should we take some colors? Let's do it, Miles. Welcome to the Bellied Up podcast. Who are we chit chatting with today? You're chatting with Everett.

How are you guys doing today? Doing good, Everett. How are you, my man? Doing just fine. Well, Belly up to the bar. What do you got on your mind? Oh, no, I got a lot just about to pull into the old Exxon here, put some fuel in the company truck.

Now you're way back in the Spokane. You're going to sneak a couple snacks on the company card or no? Oh no, they don't want to do that anymore. Lame guy. Yeah. Who ruined it for the rest of you? more. Lame. Who really guy? Yeah. Who ruined it for the rest of you? It was a guy a few years back on the weekends. He'd bring his boat in and fill up his boat and his personal track on it and kind of screwed us all over. Yeah. He filled up his boat on the company card. He's got like a nice, nice sucks gallons too. Classic. Oh yeah. He'd buy like a couple 30 racks of beer and

fill up the old, the old boat there. Did he lose his job or just his credit card privileges? I think he just lost his credit card privileges. Really good. Not bad for technically embezzling from the company, you know? Nah. Nah. He must have been good at what he was doing. Yeah, that's, you know.

Well, what's on your mind, fella? Oh, a lot of stuff. Actually, I can't believe I made it on. So here's a, hold on. I got enter the odometer in here. Yep. Right. So I think I'm from North Idaho and I think North Idaho should be inducted into the Midwest. Okay.

North Idaho. Is this a state your case? I believe this is a state your case. All right. Well, let's state our case. The Northern part of Idaho. Is this a state your case situation? I believe this is a state your case. All right, well, let's state our case, the northern part of Idaho. Let's hear it. What do you got? Well, if you're from here, generally you're friendly. We're, you know, I hear you guys talk a lot about, you know,

getting help with something. You always get your buddy out, you know're, we're all about that here. We're good natured folks, a lot of small towns, a lot of agriculture, a lot of beer drinking. I'm like, you know, we're, we're pretty much mid-last year. And you know, on top of that, if you just take the northern part of Idaho, it kind of looks like a sawed off shotgun. So, I mean, that's a big plus. Yeah, that is it.

I never thought about that. Yeah. Look at that. Looking at it right there. Just the northern part. I mean, that's a really short barreled sawed off shot. I just say just looks like a nine millimeter handgun. I thought it'd be more fun to say sawed off shotgun though. It was fun to say. Yeah. Okay. So you got that going for you.

What a, you know, what do you guys do at the bars? It's not, it's not just about having bars cause everyone's got bars. What's, what's the culture like? Oh man. Friday night, Saturday night, we usually go down the river city lanes there and do karaoke and have, Oh, probably two, three, too many beers. Okay. What's your karaoke karaoke song of choice? Oh, my opener is always friends in low places. That always gets the bar going. Yeah, that'll do it. I love how it says opener. This isn't just a guy with one karaoke song. This guy's going out to perform. What's the set list look like?

What's the what? Set list look like? Yeah. Oh, it's everything, man. We got country music, 80s rock. There's guys who get up there singing the weirdest stuff I've never even heard. And it's, dude, it's a little bit of everything.

You know what else I like about northern Idaho or just Idaho in general is you got those potatoes going and you know you guys are responsible for so many of our chips, our fries, the whole deal. You know what's so funny about that is in the Northern part, we have pretty much zero potato farm. I'll just go fricking myself. We're, we're mainly logging into like a few, few wheat fields, but other than that, it's just mainly timber products coming out of here. Okay. Well, what do you guys, what do you guys, what do you guys do for fun? Sides go to the bar and carry over fun. Oh God,

we go, uh, we got snowmobiling. We've got a lot of lovely ski resorts around here. Uh, got a real nice swing dance place there at state line. It's hunting, fishing, drinking, tubing. Summer comes around. We go golfing, go out on Lake Coeur d'Alene there, you know. What are the folks like out there? Are they pretty nice, pretty warm, accommodating, or do you get a little cold shoulder? You know, you're close to the West Coast. So, you know, do you have any of that bleed in India? Oh, God. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Now, the California plate starter in Idaho now, it's just

it's a bit of a sore subject of most of us. But oh, well, what can you do? What? That's a very Midwest response there. Yeah. Oh, well. Oh, yeah. So far, you're well, Charlie, what do you think? Do you think we allow the northern part of Iowa or Iowa, Idaho into the Midwest?

I think because most people screw up Idaho and Iowa so much. It's already been in the Midwest. That is true. So here, here, here, here. I know to the Midwest. We'll put you right there next to the Eastern end of Colorado. So what we got a flat part of Colorado, Northern part of Idaho. We got like Maine and a bunch of other ones. We'll ask her. Hawaii. We have Hawaii as well. Yeah. We got it all. I mean, we are just expanding our territory. I like it. Oh, wow. You got anything else you want to discuss? You said

you got a lot on your mind. Yeah. Anything you want to buy, sell or trade. So it's kind of cool. I feel a little bit honorary Midwestern. My grandma is from Green Bay on my dad's side. Yeah, that'll do it. And then, then my, my mom, whole families from Northeastern Montana. So we, we go pretty out there pretty close to you, to you there, Miles. Yeah, you got to drive through if you're going from Montana to Green Bay. How's that? If you're going from Montana to Green Bay, you got to go through North Dakota. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've been to North Dakota many times. Oh, yeah. Well, what's on your mind?

You got another question for us or no? What else can I ask you guys? How's the weather out there right now? Weather is a shit show, man. It's cold one minute on another minute. What what what's your story? You are married. You got kids.

Give us the biggest problem in your life. You're divorced. How long you been divorced? Eight months. Oh,'s fresh huh? What's the best part about it? What's the best part about being divorced? What's the worst part? You know the best part is you know I'm back home with my with my friends and family I moved down to kind of central Western Oregon for a little while for a year and then marriage fell apart move back here and having a great time and so just just getting back into freedom is what he said yeah freedom again I can be myself and put whatever accessories

I want on my truck. There you go. I like that. Yeah, that's good. Well, we appreciate when I want. Yeah. Well, we appreciate you calling in today, man. Yeah. Thanks for accepting me there. Now we snuck northern Idaho into the Midwest. I like it. I think you now have to the next accessory you got to put on your truck is a bumper sticker of just the top part of Idaho. Yeah, you know.

Oh, we have that. We have and we have custom ones that look like a nine millimeter too. A little tree out of the top. Yeah, I like that. Hell yeah man, well thanks for calling in and congrats on the divorce. Well thank you, thank you again for accepting me. I'll let you guys get back to her and I guess keep her between the ditches and look out for them deer out there. Heck yeah, heck yeah.

We'll be good now, we'll see you soon. Freedom. Freedom. Northern Idaho, it's not something y'all often think of too. Classic us not knowing anything about Idaho, bringing up potatoes and then he just being like, we don't do that up here. There was a thought in my mind that they don't do potatoes up there too. And I just is it is it a ploy from big potato to, you know,

sell more potatoes by labeling it that or the rest of Idaho has got? Oh, I mean, they do a ton of potatoes in Idaho, you know, not a ploy there. So all in the Southern part. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're the number one producer in the U.S. Wisconsin's number three. Fun fact. That is a fun fact. Not as fun as Jared's facts, but Jared has great facts. Just take another caller. Welcome to the bellied up Podcast. Who we got on the line? My name is Christian from Montana.

OK, Christian, what's going on today? Where are you at? What you hauling? It's funny you say that. I'm a truck driver. I am hauling. Gosh, what did the bill say? I am hauling, I think, coffee grounds to Portland Oregon apparently in Utah where

you is that where you're coming from is Utah or just passing through I actually stopped at the Wilson Arch over in Moab, Utah. Oh, cool. You're getting a little sightseeing in. I actually came from Houston, Texas. Yeah, yeah, a little bit, yeah, I'd say so. All right, so you're in Utah hauling coffee grounds. You know what I like about his answer on the coffee grounds is it doesn't matter to him what he's hauling.

It's all about the journey for him. It's not about the destination. Yep. It's all about that open road, baby. Taking some time to check out the fine scenery, you know, do you ever get concerned that you're hauling something illegal? No, I'm not really concerned about that. I honestly, I'm actually going to be soon getting my hazmat endorsement so I could really

realistically help really anything as long as you know, my weight's illegal and all that. Oh, I like that. Good to know. Very good to know. Well, what's, what's, what's on your, what's on your mind, fella? Hey, so I currently technically live quote unquote in Montana. However, the place I'm living at or quote unquote living out of, we're going to soon be selling that place and my family is going to be moving all their stuff and moving to Georgia or wherever they're planning on moving to. They haven't exactly like set down a place yet, but I don't really want to live with them.

I don't particularly like living with my family. And so I drive over the road and I'm just planning on living out of my semi truck am I justified in my decision to well live out of my semi truck and just bank away money okay let's uh let's break this down a little bit first of all a lot of quote unquote about your current living situation what does that mean? Why is it they quote unquote live? Well, I mean, the reason is, is I'm spending a couple of weeks on end on the road. And so I'm not technically living at home. Okay. But it's just my place of residence. And your family, you mean like your parents house?

you mean like your parents house? So I live in a three bedroom house but there's what would it be six of us living there right now? And who is six? You got a wife and kids that live there? No, no, no, I'm a single man with no kids. Okay. It's my parent. It's my mom and stepdad. It's my brother, my sister and my grandma and then heavily me, but I'm not there. Okay, because I was like, hey, what's going on if you got a wife and kids back home and you're like, I just want to live on the road. Okay, much better.

Yeah, no. Much better. Much better. The only real kid I have is my German, but that doesn't particularly shotgun rider. You can have a German chef exactly. Well, what do you think Charlie? What should he do? Should he take it on the road or should he move to Georgia? Yeah. Why, why are you even, um, why why are you even? How old are you? I'm 27. You're 27. You should probably just get your own place anyway, and if your place has wheels on it So be it you're living there most of the time. What do you need a mailing address? Can't you get a PO box and call that one a day? Yeah, I think the thing with PO boxes is you have to have a

like an actual address so they can send your mail in case something with I don't know how PO boxes work to be honest. I don't have a set address if I use a PO box. Well, just have your set address be your parents' house and then just get a peel box wherever you want. OK. How do your parents feel about you moving out? Are they happy about it? Are they like, oh, no, you should go over here.

So it used to be in my house. It used to be just me and my grandma. And then honestly, and I know this is gonna sound weird, we live in an area, like, I don't know if you guys ever heard the phrase Californi-ized, where like an area just becomes so importantly high regarding the prices, the cost of the lip there, that it's because of people moving from out of state into there.

And that it kind of offsets the people that live there. So it's just the cost of living in Montana is ridiculous right now. My mom and all them moved into my grandma's house my mom and all that. Did my mom and all that moved into my grandma's house just because it used to be just me and my grandma. And now I don't really want to live with my mother. I just, I just, yeah. So it sounds like you're going to be a lover to death, but I was just saying, it sounds like you should live on the road. That. I mean, it sounds like that's what you're trying to do. Talk me through how it is living in your, in your semi. I mean, you got a bed in there, right? Yeah, I do. I do have a bed in there. How do you feel about taking showers at truck stops? I like it. The only thing I, I kind of dislike is that some trucks stops, they don't particularly

clean the showers like very well. At certain truck stops, it's like, they just kind of like just clean up the water from the other guy that was in there. You gotta make sure you got a good pair of flip-flops on ya. Yeah, I don't know. I like looking professional. So I don't particularly,

I'm not really one to wear flip flops, but I do understand because I swear like there's like this weird like road grime stuff in truck stop showers. It's weird. So you gotta back this truck up for a second. You think it's more professional to just be waiting in line for your shower bare feet than flip flops? Dude you raw dog in these truck stop showers? Like what's growing on your feet right now? Oh my God. Well, I wash my feet. Yeah, I know. That's not what this is about. Do you know how athlete's foot works?

What kind of fungus you got growing on there? I don't really know. Do you have any itching or burning sensation between your toes? No, no, not even a hangnail. It's like he's playing Russian roulette. He just hasn't died yet. Yeah, I know dude. Yeah. At some point there's only strong immune system. I got a strong immune. I don't think that's how it works. I don't think that immune system has anything to do with athletes foot. I don't think that does that. Oh, I think fungus fungus don't discriminate if it likes your toes, it likes your toes. But how many of these showers have you gone a bear back in?

to go on a bear back end. All of them. Wow. I am praying for your soul. My guy. This is this is interesting. All right. Well, that's fine. So you're going out there.

What do you like to do for fun on the road? Like if you're going to be living out of your semi, what are you going to do to pass the time when you're not driving? For the most part, mainly just speed. I'm planning on putting a TV in my truck so I can play games and whatnot. I don't really have internet in my truck so I can't really play online or anything. There are truckers that do that, but I'm not one of them. But I mainly just mess around on my phone while I'm laying down. What's the dating scene like on the road? It's non-existent. Is it true what they say about the truck stops? What about, what about them? You know, about lot lizards, yeah.

A lot of lizards commercial company sleeper creepers. So that's, so I have actually just recently started truck driving. It used to be a kind of a lot more of a problem back before I think about 2010 because there used to be, because there was actual fight against it back in like 2010. It used to be a lot more common because honestly there wasn't really much of a fight against it. And honestly, I mean, truck stops are, I mean, if I'm a prostitute, I'm looking for truck stops because I mean, there's guys with money there. But that's the point.

Yeah. Yeah. It's probably a lot of weird stuff that goes on there. Probably best to avoid all that. How much money would you, do you think you can make as a truck driver? Let's say you're the best truck driver out there. What kind of you know for other people looking to maybe Consider this as a career how much money can a good truck driver make? it honestly depends, depends on a couple of things, like what kind of break you're hauling. The more labor involved in your truck driving career, the more money. So how much money give us a range that a truck driver can make in a year? Well, it's hard. That's kind of a loaded question. Let's unload it. Let's just just give us a fact check. You are not going to send you to jail if it's wrong. What do you think? Well, so as you guys probably know, there is a major, once you first get into truck driving, there

is a major learning curve in driving an 18 wheeler versus a regular passenger car. Try trying to maneuver corners, tight traffic. Yeah. 12 more wheels to deal with. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So there's, there's kind of a, kind of a, so the more it honestly pays better, the more experience you have in the field. All right. Let's do a race. Let's do a range. Let's have the bottom part of the range being a starting wage for a truck driver and the top being a really experienced truck driver hauling some good freight.

I really, really wish I could tell you. I will say I've been doing it for about a year over the road and I'm making between $1,600 to $1,800 a week. So what's that a year? That's pretty for guys who can't do math here. You know what? I got a calculator. I'll figure that out. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know about 83,000. We're getting 83,000. Does that make, does that sound right? Yeah, that sounds about right. But there are possibilities to make up, make an access to a hundred thousand dollars a year. About 83 to a hundred thousand dollars a year, you would say.

Yeah. But the problem is there's a lot of company trucking companies. They require a self, a set amount of experience behind the wheel before they'll even consider you because of the learning curve that is involved. And what are those guys? Like a lot of companies you talk about the new guys or the experienced guys, the experienced guys, do they make a hundred thousand or is it more than that? Yeah, they can guys, do they make a hundred thousand or is it more than that? Yeah, they can. They could easily make a hundred thousand dollars a year. Okay. So we got 80. That's a good, that's a good paying job. Yeah. That's pretty, we got to start pushing people to the trucking industry, Charlie. Yeah. So I like, I look, I like your game

plan here. Yeah. Your game plan is save up the money for a few years and then you buy your own house. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. And like for so when I was talking about the experience part, a lot of trucking companies, because they require so much experience buying the wheel, honestly, new guys, guys for the most part have to start out at like the sort of like mega carrier company like Swift Werner prime CR England and those guys

Do not pay the best they When I first started I was making 41 cents a mile back in November. So what is that a year? I don't even know. Because the problem is you get paid by the mile, so you don't get like I said, amounted. But how many miles a year do you drive? said amount of about how many miles a year do you drive?

I do. I average, let's say like between like twenty six hundred and thirty six hundred a week. So we'll say about three thousand a week or times forty one times. However much you make a mile. Yeah. I'm having miles to the calculations here anyway, regardless of what? Oh, God, regardless of thirty five hundred miles. Is doing forty one cents miles is figuring out your books. I'm not up either. Sixty thousand.

So OK, so the range for a trucker is between like sixty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars. Yes. Well, man, we appreciate you calling in today and letting us letting us into the mind of a trucker a little bit. It's always fun to see where you're at and what you're hauling. You've been a good ambassador for the trucking industry. And maybe there's someone that listens to this and says, hey, 60,000 to $100,000 a year sounds pretty good for just driving on the open road. And, uh, we got you to thank for that.

So we appreciate you calling in, man. Yeah. Drive safe. Keep the rubber side down the shiny side up. Tell your folks. I said, hi. Uh, love it, buddy.

Tell your, tell your mom. He says, hi. Yep. I will. See you. All right. Bye bye. Love it buddy. Tell your mom when he says hi. Yep, I will. See ya. Bye bye. Not good. Well, Miles, you know, just anytime we can get a nice look inside the truck, I think is beautiful.

I agree. Just, you know, it's the backbone of the American economy. I love that he didn't know what he was hauling. That's just like the purest form of trucking in my mind. No, he was hauling. He didn't know he was making he all he knew was for the love of the game. He knew the open road, baby. And you got to give a guy like that credit. Well, should we take another caller?

Yeah, Charlie. Yes, my son is out and shining. I think April flower. How would we know we're in a bar? April flowers bring May flowers. You know, my favorite color flower miles orange. Yep. Just like this orange. Chippy cow orange cream. Tippy cow, baby.

Beautiful. And you know what the orange reminds me of hunting the sun and the sun. Yeah, that was my next guess and what better way to enjoy the new Sun outside Charlie Then what and some ice cold tippy cow miles cheers to you and cheers. It won't be long now Charlie I'll be sitting at the lake My feet kicked up nice little little sunset, nice little orange, beautiful sunset. And I'll be sucking down an orange cream to be cow. I cannot wait. Mm hmm. Mm. Folks, this podcast is presented by Nicolay Law,

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Insurance companies fear the beard. Fear the beard. Welcome to the Bellied Up Podcast. Who we got on the horn today. My name is Abby. Fear the beard. Welcome to the Bellied Up Podcast. Who we got on the horn today? My name is Abby. Hi Abby. And I am from Northwest Indiana. Indiana.

Indiana. Indiana, I love it. I know. I got distracted. I'm getting some bottles ready. I have a newborn calf to feed. Oh, right. Dairy farmer, I like that.

Yeah, we're a fourth generation. Good for you guys over there in Northwest Indiana. I know there are way around a teat over there. Yeah, sure do. Well, good. We try to. Well, I'm glad that we can be part of the milking process. So, feeding process.

What's cooking? I need some advice. So this is my rookie year, but next year I get to hand out the milk to the winning driver at the Indianapolis 100. Oh, that's awesome. So this this year I know I'm super excited. I was selected by a group of other dairy farmers to do it. So this year I get to hand the milk to the team owner and the chief mechanic.

So I'm super excited about that, but I just didn't know if you guys had some advice for me because I really don't want to become a meme. First of all, congratulations. Second of all, tell us the name of your dairy farm. We got to give you a little plug here. We are her dairy farm, H E R R in Kindleville, Indiana. Okay. North. Yeah, I like it. So this is kind of the pinnacle of dairy farming. I feel like this is kind of the Nobel Prize. Am I right in saying that? Especially in Indiana.

I mean, this is quite the honor. How did you even get this honor? So I was selected by a group of dairy farmers. They found me worthy enough that I get the opportunity to hand out the milk. And I know it's such a tradition and stuff here in Indiana. So to be a part of it, I'm super excited, but I, I'm just so nervous. I'm going to drop the milk or something. Okay.

Don't do that. That'll be number one. But if you do, there's no use crying over it. Okay. Don't cry over that. I know I'll try not to. So what, like what qualifies you? Like you just, you know, you're just, you're just quick hands on the teats. You're, you know, you just know how to get the most out of your cows. Like what qualified you?

So pretty much like I did apply for it and they liked the story that we had to tell and the other dairy farmers, they selected us. So we got to go down and we got to go to the race last year, which my family has been going to the race for a long time. It started when my dad was just a little guy. And so I know it's been a big part of my family and then I got to get the opportunity now to do it with by being selected by them. It's not really too many qualifications other than sharing our story and stuff on

social media and just trying to give Daria a voice here in Indiana. I love it. Yeah. Hey, real quick, before we dive in further, what was the story that you shared with them that made them wanna select you? It was, so my dad, as a little guy, his dad bought tickets there, also dairy farmers. He bought tickets because he loved the time on our tradition, you know,

that milk being handed out in 1930s by Louis Meyer, he wanted that buttermilk when he won the race there at the Indianapolis 500. So his mom brought him some buttermilk. And that's something that, you know, my grandpa, he loved that tradition. And so they started buying tickets and stuff down there and going down every year and attending the race. And I think that just really spoke to people because not only, you know, is it generations going back

with the milk tradition, but also generations in my, in my family that have loved us the Indianapolis 500. What a tearjerker story. I like that in the family. All right. Well, yeah. So you're, you called into the right place by the way, because I got a little bit of a racing experience myself. I was able to wave the green flag over at Daytona when they did the bush clash a few years ago. So I've seen my way around the racetrack Charles. Yep. I definitely want your advice then okay, so Should we dive into what she needs to do? Yeah, and in fact, I'm looking for any Viral moments that have happened in doing this in the past

Is there a viral moment that sticks out to you? What was the biggest, like you have a fear of becoming a meme. Is there a big meme that you're referring to? Oh, there is not a moment that has happened yet. I'm afraid I'm going to pause that moment. That's what I'm supposed to. All right. So first of all, I think you got to start with a, so it's, it's butter milk is what you're bringing to the table. Well, there are three different types that the drivers get to choose. So it's whole milk,

2% and skim milk. All of the milk has the same nutrition. So, well, that's what I was going to ask is you're already on top of it. I was going to say, you got to make sure you're giving them the right percentage here because that'd be the worst thing if you gave skim milk to someone who wanted whole. So it sounds like there's a pretty rigorous process in that to make sure you get in the right hands, right? Yes. Yes. Very much so there. We have a nice a cooler that we get to carry in and we get to guard it on race day. and then we make sure they're all labeled and stuff so we hand the right stuff to the right person. Right because whoever wins,

you've got to look at what their milk of choice is and pull the right bottle, huh? Yeah. Yeah. What are they going to be drinking it out of? It'll be a nice glass pint jar. It'll be a nice glass pint jar. The glass. Yeah, it's a glass bottle that they'll be drinking out of. It's a very, it was once awarded like the coolest trophy in racing. So I know I've seen that milk. Yeah, I've seen it.

Another so you're worried about dropping it or spilling it or that would be bad. So I think one move you could try out is you could take a page out of the college drinking scene and just duct tape the bottles to your hands. Kind of a little Edwards milk hand situation to ensure that you're aren't spilling that milk or dropping it because it can get glass can get sweaty in the summer heat. Especially with the condensation of the cool milk. Yeah, very much so. Miles, I don't often say this, but that's a great idea.

I was gonna ask that, do I need to like put some Gorilla Glue on my hand or something like that? I was thinking that, but then I can't hand it over. I'd be afraid then I would be a meme or something. No worries. You've got to look at a profession that is similar to what you're doing here, okay?

And I would look no further than the wide receivers in the NFL. They've all got stickum on their gloves, all right? Whether they want to admit it or not. So you get yourself some wide receiver gloves and some stickum and a little bit of force will pull it off, but at least you're not gonna be dropping it. Yeah, that's true.

That's very true. Have your backups too. Can you do two of each just in case you drop one? Yes, I believe there is extra in the cooler. So then that way we don't have any mistakes. So I know it's, I'm definitely going to enjoy the moment. I know I definitely need to do that, but it's still nerve wracking. How are you getting the cow ready to, you know, where, where's this milk coming from?

Are you going to set aside a special cow and make sure that they're tip top shape and ready to go for it? Or what's that process look like? Well, it will be the milk does come from Indiana, Indiana dairy farm family. It's not a specific one, but I mean, collectively when the milk goes to the plant and stuff like that, it'll be fresh out of the cow via pasteurization and all that to be handed out. So it's kind of a collective Indiana dairy farm families that are putting that milk to hand out to the winning driver. I think that's perfect and we are not leaving any room for air here. So in addition to the cooler, I want you to come in with a full ass cow. OK, just in case worse comes to worse.

Yeah, they can go straight to the teeth. Yeah, you don't want a wheel flying off, hitting the cooler, breaking all the bottles, milk everywhere. You got to have a cow on deck. Yes. And you have to. I think that is so smart. Yeah. Yeah. And it's great publicity. It is. I mean, who wouldn't want a cow up there?

I mean, she worked hard to give them that milk. She did. Plus at these racetracks, there's a lot of crowds and sometimes not easy to maneuver around. So if you're walking around with a cow, all you gotta say is, move, and people are gonna move out of the way for you. I like what you did there, Miles.

I feel like maybe I should like get a saddle and try to break one just to ride it around the track Hey, there you go. That definitely won't make you a meme. Yeah, I Know not at all with it. You know what? I'm I why are we thinking about it like this? We got a we got to think about completely different you need to be a meme you I mean this is this you wear your t-shirt for your dairy farm her you know H E double R yeah and and make sure you drop that glass because yeah it's gonna be embarrassing in the moment but you're gonna see sales skyrocket after drop it on purpose. Then do a little magic trick and pull another glass of milk out from behind the driver's

ear and hand it to them. There you go. Now we're a good idea. My nieces and nephews love that trick. Yeah. And who says it's gotta be the ear too? You know, you could pull it out anywhere. So is that what you're going to teach your son miles? Congratulations. Oh, thank you. You guys are

expecting. Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm going to be hitting them with all the tricks when he comes out, you know, he's not, he's going to think he's going to grow up without a nose, you know, cause I'm going to take his nose away. Never give it back. I keep thinking, uh, before I probably step out, I definitely need to take a couple of shots of hippie cow. I feel like that will help me muster the courage and hopefully it doesn't bite me in the butt though. So it's sure it's that should do the trick. Don't you think Charles a little to ease the nerves, you know?

And yeah, this is really exciting, though. We're super stoked. Now, I think you need to spend some time thinking about what your catchphrase needs to be when you hand over the milk, you know? And don't go basic cable on me either. You can't go, hey, congrats on winning and hand it to them and go, got milk? That's been used before. It's it's been done.

Actually, it's winners drink milk. That's the catchphrase that we are going to be using. Winners drink milk because who wouldn't want to be a winner and drink that ice cold bottle of milk. You know, I like it. I'm not in love with it, Charlie. How would you improve it? We can spit ball here. Yeah, I want to play off the her with the double R. Do we really just have to drink it normally? Like, do you have an extra funnel laying around there?

What if they did a milk bomb? Well, they usually drink a little and then they pour the rest of it on themselves. Well, why don't they drink a lot and then pour the rest of one of the extra ones on themselves? You know, I'm trying to think out. Maybe, maybe you could put a, like a dog cone on them so that all the milk doesn't go to waste and they can catch it all when he pours it on his head.

Now that's a good idea. Yeah, that is a good idea. It would work because then they could just keep sipping off of it. There you go. Yeah. The old milk boarding. Yeah, they definitely could do that. And honestly, having the last name her, when we had kids,

I could have been really mean to them, but I was not. My husband would not allow me to. Well, give me an example. What were you wanting to do? So we have two daughters. So if I would have had a son, I probably would have been like Ben Dover her, but we never did anything too crazy. So, well, I know I probably could have gotten more creative, but we, we kept it simple. Well, I mean, this is exciting. We're excited for you. We'll be watching. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to make sure I have something out there that gets you guys out there too. Get some of your merch. Although I don't know, we have to wear a white shirt. We have a specific uniform we have to wear too.

So yeah, we don't need it. We don't need it. You, this is your moment. You know, you, you, I know your time to shine for generations of hard work or lead up to this point. And yeah, that is very true. Take all the pressure off you becoming a meme. That could be the best thing for your business. Yeah. They say, you know, like if you want to fall asleep, the best key is to try not to fall asleep, try to be a meme and then you won't end up being

one. I think that is some very good advice. Well, congratulations and send us a video when it's all said and done. All right, I will. All right. Well, you guys take care and tell your folks. I say hi. All right. Watch out for them deer out there and cows and cows All right. Thanks guys. See you soon What a cool thing. What I like about this job that we have Charlie, you know, I never know who's on the other line and Talk never did I didn't even think about that. That was a job dairy royalty right now. You know, it's pretty slick. So it's another good episode, I think. Charlie, don't get episode miles. Sorry, we didn't win the poll tabs. Maybe next time. Now you win some, you lose some. That's why they call

it investing. Folks, make sure you tip your bartenders. All right. We'll see you next week. Love you guys.