Bellied Up - When Asking For a Raise Goes Wrong #128

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

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Folks, welcome. Welcome. Here we are at Slim's in Bemidji, Minnesota, deep in the Vikings territory miles. We just actually met the original owner of the bar, narrow. I was setting it up for yourself. I was going to say it. So I asked him, so you're slim. And then he said, no, they actually call me narrow.

Oh, I thought that was his name. What? Now I get the joke. Now I get the joke. God, it would have been so much funnier if you just said it, but here we are folks. So we met narrow. We met narrow. He's a good, good guy. He is. I liked that actually. I actually remember we did chubs. You remember he was in Fargo as a bar bar called chubs pub. Oh yeah. And when we were in there the former owner of the bar was drinking at the bar and then we just met the former owner of this bar who's drinking at the bar. I like a bar owner

that even after they have sold and they're out of it they're showing up. That's real that's real love. Could be contractual. Could be something like hey we're gonna buy this, we're gonna buy you out, but we want you to stay on for the next five years. Yeah, for the next five years, you have to do a token daily smoking joke with the patrons.

Just to ease the transition, because people are wary about just people coming up all willy-nilly buying bars, turning them corporate. Not here though. Not it's limps Yeah, too much change can scare people off of a bar. Yeah, and I know the ownership that Last thing you want at a bar is people going. Oh ever since narrow sold the bar that place is going to shit Yeah, you can't have you can't have that chit chat going around chit chat. Oh sink a ship. It's true sink a bar Got a question for you miles. Yeah and have that chit chat going around chit chat or sink a ship. It's true. Sink a bar.

Got a question for you, Miles. Yeah. So I was talking with, I was talking with someone yesterday. I was like, what do you think about the people that turn their cameras off during a zoom meeting? And this dude was like, I think they're the most arrogant assholes in the world. He went off, he went off all the the while I was like, oh, I just have my camera off in a Zoom meeting. You know? Well, so here's what I'll say about it.

What? I actually feel like everyone who has their camera on and there's one that doesn't, they all secretly wish they were the person without their camera on. I want to, I think nobody should have their camera on. I want to, I think nobody should have their camera. I, I, what happened to the conference call?

You know, we had the technology right with the conference call. It's kind of one of those things that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. We went too far. We do go too far because there's nothing better than, you know, multitasking. Like you're listening, but you're also walking or you're driving or like. now a little piece of advice for you, Charlie, why you can't multitask. That's not true. I can walk. I can walk and do it and chew bubble gum. I can, but you cannot multitask, but dude, it's call after call after call after call. I feel like, I feel like what I should say to everybody on the call is,

Hey guys, let's all take a piece of our lives back today. Let's turn off the zoom cameras. Is that rude? It's not that I don't want to see them. I just know nobody wants to be on zoom. Yeah. I mean, then they're going to be, start thinking about like why there'd be like, why doesn't he want us to have our cameras on what's going on? I just want to be, extend my politeness instead of me turning my camera on, because I like I like, like I said, I like being, you know, I feel like we do so much with this. I like to be out there, you know, walking or on a Zoom call.

I don't want to be on the Zoom call, but if I got to be on it, it's like it's just nice to walk at the blood pressure down. Yeah. Am I am I a jackass? Do you keep your zoom camera on all the time? I don't do this all the time. Mind you, I only do it if I'm driving or what I do. So what I do is, you know, before you get into the room, you can turn your camera on or off. Yeah. I start with it off most times and then feel it out. Okay. If there's other people with them off, I've seen you do that before, actually. I've seen you do that.

I think it was a target call or something. Like halfway through, you gave up and you just turned your zoom camera on. Well, that was probably because my kid was crying and I had to friggin deal with him. I mean, there's so many other things, you know. I don't know. I don't think it's that big of a deal. If you guys have my new move on on Zoom is to put a silly background behind me. Oh, like on a sailboat or something.

Yeah, it's a great because, you know, the worst part about a Zoom call is the initial ice breaking small talk. Yeah. Immediately someone comments on it. You'd be the guy that looks like Miles is enjoying his vacation on his boat. And then it's just it's a natural icebreaker. You don't even got to worry about saying anything. That is smart. And it really takes the pressure off everybody else. And you really jump in on the grenade there at the times you have your, your camera on that is I want to say, Charlie, yeah, your hair today is looking

good. Do you get a new barber? Thank you. I did get a new barber. I can tell I went back to my old barber. Okay. When I used to Aiden shout out to Aiden. Yeah. Stag barber shop at Milwaukee. Great guy. Classic. You have a high school sweetheart. You break up to go to college and realize she was the love of your life. So you went back. Well, I mean, I just moved geographically. I wasn't cheating on Aiden. It was just we went our different ways. I went my way, he stayed where he was. And then, can I also say this?

Trying to schedule a haircut is a difficult thing. And so I'm always thinking, ah, I should really get a haircut, but it's gotta be immediate, so I wanna get it done tomorrow or that day. You can never find an appointment. So you know what I did? So what you need to do is what I to do I split into his DMS. Okay, what'd you do? Well, it's just when you get a haircut if you like that person you just schedule the next haircut before you leave

I don't know if you know this about me miles But there is no world that I've ever existed in where I say yes to scheduling the next doctor's appointment Cuz I'm like I'm gonna forget it's not gonna be worth that. Let next doctor's appointment. Then because I'm like, I'm going to forget it's not going to be worth it. Let's just I'll call you when I need you. I need to do more planning. The thing that makes humans, you know, different than a deer on the side of the road is that they plan. Yeah, deer don't plan.

They just run to the hump. Yeah. And they die. A lot of them die. I will say you kind of have like a Like you got some volume going on. Let me see and then there's a neon above you and it's like you have like a Kind of a pinkish purplish silhouette. You're looking good today. Thank you. Thank you You know miles the other thing is I've let my hair grow long and I've seen a lot of comments somebody said that Charlie, why do you look like you just got out of a fight all the time? It was like that might be because

you're so sleep deprived that your eyes look like they're black and blue. Yeah, I think that might be it. Do they do they look bad? You look good. I got some good sleep last night. Looks like you got some good sleep. Yeah, thanks, Miles.

I really appreciate you pumping my tires, my guy. And that's the nice thing about the Bellied up podcast is we're always nice to each other. Always pumping each other's tires. Miles has been working out and a boy I can tell I've been able to tell for a while now. That's not a full pump. I mean that I was going to tell you that whether he's talked about my hair or not. Okay. Yeah. Should we take some call before that though? Charlie, we got to remind the listeners. We got the new bellied up merch. Check it out. Charlie's got the, if you can read this, I'm bellied up to the bar shirt on with the bellied up logo on the front.

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We just love the fact that you are listening Bellin up to the bar with us 100% We love you. So anyways, should we take some call or smile? Let's do it. Welcome to the Bellied Up podcast Who are we talking to? Hey, this is Isaac from Omaha Isaac from Omaha. Why don't you belly up to the bar? Tell us what you want to get off your chest today. OK, well, you see, I got this apartment with my with my cousin.

And I had it planned out when I assumed she did as well. We were just going to be staying here for a while. Yeah. But she got back with her boyfriend uh, boyfriend that had previously cheated on her and that's, you know, that's the reason we got the department because she needed a place to stay after then. So did I. So, and you know, yeah, yeah. And, uh, you know, it's just, it's just a little irritating, you know, on two months notice that, uh, we are going to continue the week, you know? All right. I don't know what you guys have like, yeah. So let's unpack this. So you moved

in with your cousin because she got cheated on. She was living with her ex boyfriend. You're like, Hey, what's sign a year to lease, right? Cousins. Yeah. Then she goes and gets back together with the other fella and wants to move out again. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. I'm like two months notice. I mean, I'm going to be honest with you. I think you just got to wait it out a couple of months. She's going to be back. Yeah. I mean, this guy sounds like you, you think this guy's had a come to Jesus moment and is never going to do it again? No. How old is he? Oh, no, no, no.

How old is he? Oh, he's 25. She's 21. I think isn't gonna work. So here's what you do. No, no, no. It's not going to work. I love on this podcast that if anyone is under 30 years old, Charlie's like justice doesn't

matter. You're never going to either get married or stay married. There's been a few I've let slide by, but he's always saying she he cheated on her. 100 percent. I'm right. So here's all you got to do. OK, you got to start a service and it's called BreakupBadRelationships.org or something. So you're going to get some some, you know, some gals and some fellas. OK, because you're doing this for men, you're doing it for women.

And they are going to go meet up with their mark, that guy. And they are going to tempt them with, you know, a little make out session at the bar. Oh, OK. And then when I think I'm following, then you get you get a photographer there, you know, or someone would just to sell you or telephone. They take pictures these days. You get a little snapshot of that drunken bar makeout. Boom. Your cousin's paying rent again. You're trying to trap them into it. Entrapment. Yeah. Is this entrapment? I don't know. I don't even know what entrapment is. It sounds doesn't matter. That could be the name of the company entrapment.org. Well, that might

get that might get a little, uh, a little, uh, well call it something else. But anyway, your idea spurred an idea for me here, Charlie. What's that miles you, you got an open bedroom and you have a website. What was the website called again? Kill this relationship. It's a working title. It's a working anyways. You need to become the Ronald McDonald house of people who just got cheated on. Oh, now there we're talking. So you got, they got cheated on. They got to move out of the house. You take them in. I mean, you're not bringing them on in for like two, three months. Exactly. It's like a short term rental, but they're back together and they're out here. Yes. You're

your father. I need my own place for that. That's not a bad idea. You're fostering broken hearts and you got a freezer full of chocolate ice cream and cigarettes. And it's going to be a wonderful time. Yeah. You know, when you get into an Uber, you know, it's fancy. They have water bottles and like mints that you sit in there. Yeah. And three chargers. They move. They move in. You make sure you have a cozy warm blanket, a Netflix subscription and a big tub of chocolate ice cream.

And you just keep cycling the broken hearts through and you're just raking in the cash. Pretty soon you're not even paying rent because you got four people with broken hearts paying rent for you. I mean, Miles, I don't say this often, but you're a genius. Thank you.

Here's the thing though. Do I just charge them rent or do they gotta pay extra? Well, they have to pay a little extra. Cause you're stocking that thing with ice cream and treats. And good point. Good point. Yeah. I mean, come on. That Netflix subscription is not going to pay for itself. So you charge them 30% more.

But you know what? OK, people are looking for something to help after a broken heart. And what they're going to say is like, why can't I just do a month to month lease at an apartment and it'll be a little bit cheaper. And then you go, but it's all about marketing, baby. Do you wanna go live in an apartment by yourself with all of your feelings?

Or do you wanna move into a house with a bunch of other people who are sad and depressed and you guys can complain to each other. Exactly. All about marketing. Exactly. I like that. I like that. Yeah. I like that. Just make sure that what your guys, there's go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry. No, you go after you. I ain't says so. Okay. Uh, so what you guys are suggesting here, right? So I start, I start a company where I take broken hearted people, bringing them and have them pay rent. And that will figure out my, my situation I got going on here.

Exactly. And you're not, you're not, you're not selling a place to live. What you're selling is comfort. Yes. You got to keep that. You're there to get them back on their feet and in and out kind of thing. Yeah. And I think you also got to make sure you got to stock the apartment or house or whatever. Well, no, you got to stock condoms as well because you get a guy, a gal who is, you know, both broken hearted. There's, they're going to be, there's going to be some hanky panky going on. So you're going to also need to make sure you insulate each wall. Double. So this could also be a matchmaking type thing. Yeah. I think more likely, I think more lightly said it's a smash pad is what it really is. Okay. Yeah, okay It turns into the bachelor bachelor at mansion, you know, you could even hold a rose

Yeah, I want these for people you could and you should film. No, I have to Go ahead. I was just gonna say you could film it make a pilot. It could be a whole TV show, a whole thing, you know, that actually is a great concept for my, I might have to get a little permission from my leasing office. Oh, they're not going to approve it. This is a sweep it under the rug situation. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Don't let anyone know. Okay. Or, or, or I can go out and get myself a nice little house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't need the business plan. Some look, it's going to love that. Yeah. Um, you know, you should have a rebound book too. You also can upcharge. You could have a resident therapist living there as well. You know, like some, uh, some, uh, hairstylists will just have like a little salon in the

back of their house and then like they'll just cut hair out of their house. You just have a little one room therapist office and then you can upcharge them for them talking to a therapist while they live. Yeah. Are you still in school? Oh, I'm done with school now. Well, maybe not backing the trade. You know how it is. Yeah, I know how it is. You could go back and get your BA and BS and you could be a, you know, be a therapist, a psychologist. Yeah. Now I'm going to get myself that might, that might be, that might be, that might be too much of an investment. Yeah. Now I'm going to get myself in trouble. That might be, that might be, that might be too much of an investment. Yeah. We're starting to get away from it. I'll just, I'll just

pick someone up off the streets, stick him in a closet and say they can be the, well, I sounded a little illegal the way you're saying it now. Well, I'll pay him. I'll pay him. I'll pay him. Okay. That is better. You'll pay him. Yeah, just yeah, and maybe stick them in some other than a closet. That's all the only room I got unfortunately for them. Now, but once his business takes off, you can afford, you can afford a full studio. So, well, that is true. So they'll get a little upgrade. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Well, glad we could help you out here today. Okay. Oh, I appreciate it. Good to get that off of my chest. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you called in, man. This is great.

Don't worry. She's going to be back. She'll be back. She'll be your first customer. I'm sure. I'm planning on it. Yeah. To help out with the rent cost for a couple months, just donate plasma. I'm playing it on it. I'll give it to help out with the rent cost for a couple months. Just donate plasma and then you'll get through it. She'll be back. Yeah. Plasma and sperm. That's a lot of plasma. Yeah. That's why you got more than one. Well, all right, man. Well, have a good one. Thanks for calling in today. Yeah. I'll see you guys later. And Charlie, I'll see you in Nebraska in a couple of months. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. I'll see you guys later in the Charlie. I'll see you in Nebraska in a couple months. Yeah. Oh nice

Yeah, I'm going to Nebraska Miles yeah, I'll see you there in a couple months. Well, that'll be fun. Thanks for coming out bring your cousin We'll talk about our relationship on stage I'll convince her now. Okay. All right real good. We'll see you soon. Thank you for calling in We'll see you soon. Thank you for calling in. It's pretty good. I mean, it's not a bad idea. The Ronald McDonald House for Broken Hearts. I mean, she's that's what I'm talking about right there. I mean, that's what we're here for this podcast for, Charlie.

Yeah. I mean, I wasn't sure how you were going to one up my half baked idea, but you somehow pulled some almost fully baked out of that oven miles. A few little details here and there. You got to work out. But what are people, what are they doing? Moving in with a boyfriend that cheated on you? Like, you know, why is everyone moving in right away? Because rent is so expensive, but she's got cheap rent with her cousin.

Yeah, maybe he's not making her pay rent. Maybe that was the deal. Honey, come back to me. I won't make you pay rent. She's like, fuck yeah. Yeah, screw this cousin thing. Yeah. Well, should we do another car miles? Let's do it.

Oh yeah, tell me about the bar business. We're always looking for a profit center in the bar business. We're always looking for a profit center in the bar business. Hamburgers, tap beer, liquor, whatever. And I found the magic formula. What is it? Here we go. Yeah, let's hear it. Are you ready for that? I'm ready. An empty condom machine in the women's bathroom. Really? Think about it. I'm thinking and I'm not coming up with the answer.

What kind of a thinker are you? Not a good one. Empty condoms, women's bath. So the little lady at closing time think she's scored a stallion correct and she wants protection she goes in and feeds the machine a buck and it doesn't puke out a condom is she gonna come out and bitch no no she's not that's's smart. That is good. Profit Center. Wow. I was also smart. That is that is that's all I have for you today.

That was brilliant. Brilliant. Thank you very much. That is perfect. Well, Miles, you know, we learned something every day here on the belly. Just never know what you're going to learn at the bar. That's why I love so much about it. That's a beautiful thing. Well, should we take another caller? Let's do it.

What's up, boys? It's Keith. What's up, Keith? Bellying up to the bar. What's on your mind, my guy? Well, you know, you said y'all were taking rants. I mean, I was just laying here, scrolling through TikTok, and I saw your notification.

I was like, oh, let's call. But I kinda got two things I could rant about uh one of which is my dog who's staring right at me right now he's kind of a crappy guard dog I mean so I mean yeah he's a good boy but he's a bad guard. But the story with that goes, one day I left to go to work, y'all may remember I called in a while ago working at the golf course. Yeah. And what was that? No, quick reminder. What were you doing at the golf course? We've had a few golf course

people come. Yeah, yeah, no. I work on the grounds crew. You know, basically growing grass for living on the glorified lawnmower. Yeah, yes, yes. So you go to work at the golf course. Yeah, so I left for work and. You know, normal day, I got home and well, I came home to find he had a Hershey

squirt it all over my living room, which was great. Oh, not that Hershey squirt. I cleaned that up. Oh yeah. Well, why are you feeding them chocolate? Yeah. You gotta think that's not good for dollars. I don't think everyone knows that that's not good.

Chocolate and onions. Don't do it. Yeah, yeah. That'll do it. It was nasty. But yeah, so I cleaned that up and I'm like, I'm taking my side play fetch and I had a chair by my back window in the backyard and I keep feeling this cold, coldness, I guess, on my back. I'm like, what is that? I turned around and the back window had been pried open. So I was like, oh, that's what that is. So I'm like, no way

I left it open because I don't open that window. So the back window. So I find out, Oh, that's what that is. So I was like, no way I left it open because I don't open that window. So the bad find out, I guess someone had, yeah, someone jumped over the fence and tried to pry open my back window and I guess got in and it didn't take much. They just kind of got whatever they could. But it ended up being a broken phone and just some random stuff in my kitchen. But I mean, it just pissed me off because while, while they were taking my shit, my dog was just taking Asia. Multiple, multiple. Yeah. Just multiple. I mean, just, just, and it's good to know that, you know, he's going to

protect my stuff, I guess. Why do you think your house was targeted? I don't know. So what the cop told me here in Lubbock is a lot of people will... When they're trying to break in places, they're trying to get in just to find stuff to pawn. And it's usually firearms. But that makes sense why they took the broken iPhone that was on my counter. So yeah, they're just seeing what they can get into. And they were able to pry a window open. So, okay. So you're telling me this was a back door to door salesman. I don't know if it was a salesman. I mean, he was taking your shit and selling it to the pawn shop. Sounds to me like he's a sales Yeah. What kind of, I guess that makes sense.

That's where we're at in America, Charlie. We went from door to door salesman to back door to door salesman that just take your shit and then pawn it off. Sounds like a window's involved too. I, I think so you got one problem here and that's that you got to fix your window now and your other problem is that your dog's a tear. What kind of a dog is he? So he's a, he's a, he's a mix. I mean, I found him as a puppy. He was abandoned, but he, his main grub is knocking over all my shit in here. He's, he's a black mouthed her, which is a herding dog from frontier Southern America. So they're pretty cool dogs. He's too smart for his own good, but yeah. Well, so he kind of looks scary sometimes.

Yeah. So, I mean, I think, see, we took the wolf, okay. And the wolf was the ultimate guard dog. All right. And then we started breeding the wolf with like ferrets and lizards and stuff. And now you end up with all these other bastardized versions of wolves and they're not doing what a wolf is supposed to do. So I think if you want a guard dog, you can't roll the dice with a mutt.

You got to go full bore and just buy yourself a wolf somewhere. Now the DNR may have a problem with that, but it's just a question of how much. Well then you can just plead self-defense, you know? Yeah, the wolf may also kill you. So you wanna think about the limitations of this argument. But yeah, dogs, it's tough to find one that's gonna attack the bad guys and not accidentally bite some kid's hand, you know?

And then you gotta. Yeah, well, yeah, I guess you kid's hand, you know, and then you got it. Well, yeah, I guess you do win some, you lose some. But I'll take this one. He's pretty good. Otherwise, you said you had another rant for us. What else do you have on your mind? Oh, okay. This one is kind of towards Texas parks and wildlife. So well, backstory, I guess on this one is my, my girlfriend's dad has a nice piece of property near the red river on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. And it's got, it's a high fence and it's just got, I mean, too many massive bucks. If I could send you a pic, that is, that's the worst Charlie when there's just too many amazing property and you just have trophy deer on there. That's the worst.

Yeah. I hate that. Well, the problem, the problem comes in that TPWD has shut down that area for the last few years because of some of that chronic wasting disease. Yeah. So they're no good. And so we can't, it's no good. Well, the old quarantine situation. Yeah. And it's been a long time. Basically, this is the Chernobyl along the Red River.

Yeah, a little bit. But we we've guaranteed now that there's no CWD out there. We just have to get parks and wildlife to come out and actually test, which we've done. I guess we'll call them my future father-in-law has done tests and it's hyphen. So we know, we would know if there was some, but TPWD just won't come out and do their test. Well, what's holding them up? This is Texas. Don't you guys have enough money for that there? Red tape, red tape all day. But yeah, the saying is everything's bigger in Texas. Not everything is faster moving in Texas. That's true. Yeah, that's no, no, definitely not. What's the hold up? Is it just you know government being slow or what?

Yeah, just the red tape of bureaucracy The old red tape of bureaucracy well you can always walk over that red tape shoot one of the bucks and roll the dice with Yeah, you might end up in jail, but Worst case gets CWD. Yeah. I mean, I think human fans are probably. Yeah. They had a couple of cases of it. Humans getting CWD this year, I think.

We can Google that. But yeah. I mean, how'd your father-in-law test for those things anyway? You basically have to kill a deer and then send them to a lab. So he already poached one of the deers. Well, you have to basically get a, I think a special tag to basically say like, oh, I'm sending it to a lab to get it tested to make sure. But I don't know how he did it. We just know there's none on there. I'm going to be honestly, this guy sounds like he did not get that necessary. Yeah. I've also could be, I see. I don't know if you know by one sample, if it doesn't exist there

still, that's fair. That's fair. I'm just, I just want to go out there. I mean, with my girlfriend, to be a video for her mom, they were in their main pasture. I think in just a three second clip, I saw five or six 10-pointers just standing all around eating. And we just have an update on my news story. No CWD infections in people have ever been reported. So I was a thousand percent wrong.

A thousand percent wrong. You know, and that's why you don't, I think I must've dreamed it. Really, there's nothing here. Anyways, thank you for that. I would say, don't give it a go. Just hold, wait for the Texas people to do their thing. Hold, do not fire and, uh, yeah, just keep her moving. All right.

Wait for Turkey season this spring. Yeah. There's other things to shoot, but good luck with it. My guy. Thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. Yeah. I was surprised to see you on saying calls. They will. I appreciate you picking up and, uh, if you ever make it down to love it and then want to drink down here, I got a few spots for you. All right. Appreciate you. Have a good one. Yeah. Take your phone. Way to go, Jake. Yeah. Terrible, terrible situation there with all those huge bucks. I know, it's just tempting fucking hate when that happens I'm surprised Ozzie in Texas that they haven't been poached already You know like I hate it when you're like, you know in the deerstown

You're ready to take the shot and then all of a sudden another huge buck behind you standing there So then you whip around and then that startles another big buck that's standing broadside always happens I hate that always happens, you know, and all of a sudden it's like I need three guns, three guns, three bows. I know. Should we take another caller? Let's do it. Charlie. Hi, Miles. Black Friday.

It used to be fun. Did it? When you're a kid, I guess. Yeah. You know, I remember Black Friday is when it was like, Oh, let's go to the store and let's get a good deal. And now people are getting trampled and it's starting on Monday instead of Friday. It's going crazy. And black Friday can be stressful. It can. I never liked black Friday. I was a pretzel boy and that was the worst day to roll pledges on black Friday. But anyway anyway for the purposes of this I understand what you're saying

But how can we make Black Friday fun again miles you need to? Relax after a nice day of shopping with a glass of tippy cow Charlie tip it on back There's no reason to have a cow Instead you should drink a tippy cow instead you should drink a tippy cow. Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo back baby. Tippy Co. Hey there folks. So with all the holiday hustle and bustle, it's easy to get distraction and maybe even have a little mishap. But don't worry if you find yourself dealing with an injury during these busy season. Nicolay law is here to step in and handle the tough stuff so you could focus on your holiday cheer. Everyday injuries can happen, folks. You've seen it happen, Charlie.

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folks what Charlie and I told you to do. Not that we don't remember, but the folks. Sure, yeah, it would be a pleasure. So I called you guys about a job that I had. It was not a self-starter job, but definitely not like a huge employer job. There was just a couple of us there. I had, at the time of the call, been there almost a year and was just looking to see how I could get a raise.

And you guys gave me some pointers to just go in there, ask for it pretty much outright, but in a, not in a roundabout way. That was, that's the recap for the, so we told you to go in there and just ask for a damn raise. You pretty much told me to sit down and say, Hey, look, I'll, I'll walk. If you guys don't, there's nowhere else to walk to in the area. But you know, that was, that was a get-go. That sounds like in there and just kind of asked for it. Yeah. Sounds like four beers. Deep advice. All right. Well, let's hear the update. Let's hear the update. All right. Here's, here's the update. I've been waiting to give it to you guys since, since I gave you the call. So I believe I called you on

a Thursday because I had worked that morning and then my next week schedule was a Monday and Tuesday because I was still a student going to school Monday. I didn't ask because it was kind of, I could tell the boss man was in the greatest of moods, right? You got to make sure you're in the best scenario, but best give you, give yourself the best case. So I tried to ask him on Tuesday, Tuesday I walk in. So how the office was set up is the chemical place that was, that I was

working out because no one else could mix the chemical place that was, that I was working out. Cause no one else could mix the chemical. Right. Steve, what's the chemical that he felt? Right. You guys remember that? Yep. So, so we have almost the whole warehouse was, you know, the chem chemicals and the line and all that stuff. And stuff. And then there's a big garage door opening, but we

kept that closed in the winters, obviously, because it gets cold. So I would go in and out at this time through the office where my boss was. So I walked in on Tuesday, thinking about when I should ask for this race. And my boss says, Hey, Hayden, why don't you take a seat? And so I sat down and I was, I was maybe thinking maybe he had listened to the podcast already, but it hasn't come out yet. So I sit down and, and he just actually tells me, you know, we're, uh, we're going to let you go.

No way. Let me explain here. No, I'm completely serious. This is a it's a funny joke. Now. It's a very funny joke now, but I was completely blindsided by it. I sit down and I was so ready to and I'm thinking everything you guys were telling me. I was thinking about how I should word this. And he just drops the bomb on me first and tells me, Hey, yeah, we're going to let you go. It's like, it's like going, going into a gas and going to a dinner, Charlie, like ready to propose to a girl. And she dumps you while you got the

ring in your pocket. You should have asked them for a raise right there just to see. So so I guess, well, let me let me fill fill in the listeners from a while ago is my job was to do chemical titrations and mixing and all that whatnot. But the other half of my job was to put aluminum parts on, um, what would go on the assembly line through the chemicals. That was the other part of my job. And they didn't, they just didn't think that my productivity of that second part was up to par with the other other fella. It had nothing to do with the chemical stuff because I was really the only one that was doing that.

So maybe you were a little bit too focused on the other half of the job and not enough on the one that was really keeping you there. Huh? I mean, looking back, it's totally, totally at all. Totally possible. You're darn right. Right. So anywho, so then to get into my into the what's grinded my gears is I left there thinking I was going to go in and get a raise two days beforehand and they were thinking to the same two days beforehand how they're going to give me the freaking boot. And so it's just kind of funny how we had two completely different mindsets, but they didn't tell me anything. They didn't give me any sort of a, you got to pick your up your production. I mean,

I wouldn't have asked for a raise if I didn't think I was doing a good job. So communication wasn't there at all, but they let me go. Yeah. And you misread the situation. Classic case of it, miles. Classic case. So what's your job now? So for a while, because I was still in school and I was going to graduate a couple of belly updates, I did graduate from school. Congrats graduated in the spring.

Thank you very much. So now I've worked with an optometrist here and it's only about six to seven minutes away from my place. So it's a lot closer than my other job was. All right. Well, and it pays more. Well, it's an upgrade. I got that raise after just a couple of months. Just had to be a different gig. Yeah. So what you need to do on Monday is you need to walk in there and you need to look them right in the face. You say, I want to raise. I think you're too, you're due for a raise. Go away. And how long you been working there now? So I've been working there just since

I graduated. I got the gig there middle of June. Oh yeah. Ask for a raise. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Do well, well, let me tell you, let me tell you this. I was in a training pay for a while. Right? Cause I think that's reasonable. You're learning and you're in training pay. So I was in training pay for a long time and I even asked my boss, maybe 10 days ago, I said, Hey, I feel pretty like pretty much like I can handle the job by myself. I have for a while. What else, what I need to do in this training so I can have my pay adjusted accordingly. And he said, Oh yeah, I'll adjust it. And he didn't adjust it until yesterday, I believe. So I can't

go and ask him for a raise when he just adjusted my training pay my normal regular day. Yeah. That's maybe not a, not a great situation, but, uh, um, he, he just got a raise. Oh, he did. Sorry. I was doing a little selfie right there. So he's got, I just, I just like to see that selfie somewhere. No, I, they, a fellow came up and he asked for a picture. What I was doing. I was being Midwest nice and therefore I missed that part of the conversation. So, so you got a raise already. I went from training paid a regular pay. Oh yeah. That counts. Yeah. Give it a few more months. Yeah, it counts. It counts. Yeah. Yeah. I count. Um, well, so that's, that's the biggest valid update that I have for you guys. What else was grinding my gears?

Well, we appreciate you calling in, giving us the go on that, my guy. Thank you very much. And I'd like to say for all future raise advice, Charlie. Yeah. I think what we need to do, this is a great lesson from Hayden here, is just quit your job and get a higher paying job

instead of asking for a raise, avoid that conflict. You know, I think that's actually not a bad It's called the failing upwards. I believe failing upwards it happens in all Forms look at us. I mean you're looking at a couple failures here or listening to him at least but here we are So I know like kind of like tripping up the stairs I guess. Hey well however you get up there it's all that matters. Well thank you for calling in. Thanks for the bellied up. Yeah. And yeah give it a few more months and you'll get that other raise. Yeah. Well you guys have a great day and I was just going to give you I was just going to pass by some quicker grinds. My gears comments here. I just think, uh, like when you're watching

a football game and they're ready to line up for the PAT and then the officials come on the field and want to review the play that always grinds my gears. Like what took so long, right? I like that. You just toss that one on the end there. I like how it was kind of just like that was just kind of like a deadpan stand up. Yeah, it was good. It was good. What's the deal with these refs? What were they doing? What's the deal with these refs and then all their tinker and all the field?

Yeah, maybe I got a career. I think you do hate it. Now, maybe not. Fail upwards. That's exactly what it is. So we got a career. I think you do. Hayden. No, maybe not fail upwards. That's exactly what it is. Next time we talk to him, he's going to be selling out arena comic. Yeah. You got bright future. You want to come on my tour? Yeah. I'll be on your tour. I'll be there. Hey, Hayden from Utah. Charlie Barron's is opening in Bemidji. Hey there folks. Mind if I plug my tour right now? Yeah, plug your tour, you piece of shit.

I see what you're doing right there. Now I'm getting my gears ground. By the way, folks, tickets you can find at CharlieBarons.com. Hayden, you're the best, man. Oh, I'm just joking. No, I'm joking, too. I don't think you're a piece of shit. Sorry for saying that. Oh, I'm just joking. No, I'm joking too. I don't think you're a piece of shit. Sorry for saying that.

Oh, one more belly up. Oh, sure. That girlfriend that I have is my wife now. So we're all. Congratulations. Update after update. Wow. You guys having any kids?

And Charlie, we dated for two months. Or sorry, two years and two months. So. Yeah, I think that's great. I feel like we, I feel like that's great. I know a lot of callers come in asking for advice and they're 19 and I always love to hear your, your, your input on that. Wait, how old are you again? I'm 25. Yeah, it'll work. It'll work. Oh yeah. See, no, no, I'm not high five. Five. Jake, earlier you literally told someone who was 25. That's never going to work. Let me ask, have you

ever cheated on your wife and got back together with her? Uh, no, she, we went on, we went on our first date and we didn't see anyone else since. All right. Well, there you have it. That ice that sounds solid. Miles is just trying to put every round peg into my square hole and it's feeling a little weird. Okay. Put more words in my mouth. All right. Well, good to talk to you, man. Congrats on failing upwards. We'll talk to you later. Hey guys, thanks for picking up the call. It was great to hear from you again. You betcha.

Alright, we'll see you soon now. You ever failed upwards? Actually, Charlie, you got a story for us? Failed upwards. Yeah, I mean, in a lot of ways, the news business I was in failed at that, took all the failures of it, it put into a stand-up bit and then that was beginning the man 12 minute failing upwards baby. That's what it's all about you miles.

I had a media business that didn't do very well and then I did you betcha and it took off. So my first media business it goes so well. But now in my defense I was putting other people on camera during that. Hey, you just needed to have your, your baby face up there, you know, talking about how you don't like spotted cow. And from there it was, it was rest is history. Oh my gosh. It's cold. Well, Charlie, another good episode, bellied up podcast. Fantastic episode indeed.

And listen, folks, I got to tell you, if you're out there thinking, should I tip my bartender tip them double? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, cheers, Charlie. See you guys in the next one. Bye bye now.