Bellied Up - Wisconsin VS. North Dakota (Midwest Trivia Showdown) #154

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Myles and Charlie kick things off with a quick round of Midwest trivia to test their midwest knowledge. The first caller, checking in from New Hampshire, has concerns about having too many hobbies and tells us his experience working as a police dispatcher. The next caller talks about receiving an "ugly" clock from his Aunt Carol as a wedding gift and asks for the most respectful way to get rid of the damn thing. Finally, a caller asks Is spaghetti and milk actually a good combo?Leave us a Voicemail: 218-303-5095Get Tickets to Bellied Up Live in Chicago July 8th 👇https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1052206/2025-charlie-berens-podcast-chicago-zanies-chicago

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We have some cheese curds on the way. Charlie, that sounds like a savory shot miles here at sweet shots. Yeah. Okay. I got it. Yeah. I go. What I did there. Yeah. I have all the shots here at sweet shots. They have sweet ones and they have savory ones. Yeah. And shots also double on Tundra because they have alcohol and golf swings. Correct. Yes. Miles, isn't that where you went school?

That is. Is that what number were you? I was number five. Five. Uh huh. We all nickel. Wow. As I used to call it. Yeah. I wonder why your jersey's not on the wall here at sweet shots. Well, that's because they went they sold at a charity auction for like 500K or something. Oh, OK.

Yeah. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. Who's 52? I don't know. You know, that was not the Jersey that I wore. So that's a new one. So that's some young in out there. Oh God. Maybe you went to the NFL or I'm forgotten already. It's clear. I didn't want to talk about that today. Sorry. I'm Charlie. Jared had a good idea for us. He's going to do. He's going to, we're going to do a little trivia. Yeah, let's do it. He said he's got four questions for you. Okay. Four questions for me. Okay. For my, why, what I understand is we cannot help each other. Okay. If you interrupt, you

lose a point. Okay. Okay. Okay. You what? If you interrupt, you lose a point. Okay. Okay. So miles, we'll go first with you. Sure. Yeah. All right. Which 1980s TV sitcom was set in Milwaukee and starred Ron Howard and Henry Winkler. Cheers. Is that your final answer? Yes. Is happy days. You were born in the eighties. I was born in the nineties. Are you stupid? First of all, it wasn't 1980s show seventies eighties. Yeah. Oh, it was sad in that timeframe. It was set in the fifties. Where is cheers located at Boston, Boston. What's the hell? I just said to you. No, that I'm, I'm, I'm a little too young for that. We have the bronze. It was Hans. I know I'm just saying, I don't know all the'm a little too young for we have the brown. It was.

I know. I'm just saying, I don't know all the details about it. I know the gist. I know this jingle. All right, Charlie, what animal appears on the North Dakota State license plate? This game sucks. North Dakota State license plate. OK, think about this, Charlie. It's a du press of elimination is a badger. No, that's in the Wisconsin one.

The far. Oh, it's yeah, I know this. It's a it's a big old tetrapod. It's a buffalo. It's a bison. That's the same church, different pew. That one counts. I'll give you a half point. Fine. Could be the difference. Could be the difference. All right. I like this game. All right. He likes it now. Miles Wisconsin's door

county is known for growing witch fruit. growing which fruit everyone knows that Appleton got its name from the fruit that they get in Door County and it's apples no you idiot Appleton's not even indoor County I know but cherries Door County cherry, stupid miles. All right, Charlie. Yeah. What is North Dakota's official state beverage? State beverage here in North Dakota. That's interesting. It's an interesting question. I know this.

OK. Alcoholic or no, not an alcoholic. OK. Hmm. State beverage. I just want to say mine are harder than Miles's. State beverage. It's all relative state beverage. Ten seconds. Okay. Okay.

I know there's time or diet Coke. Is that your final answer? Yeah, it's milk. Milk. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's milk. Milk. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's Wisconsin state. Well, I know that's probably beer, old fashions or something with alcohol. Miles was Wisconsin's officials date.

Is it milk? Yeah, I got it. Let's go. That's bullshit. See, now this now I'm upset about this because you're cheating, Jared. That's just the facts. That's just yeah It's always it's like kind of just the belt along all the states guarding the US from Canada. They just all milk Okay, one two one and a half one two a half a point All right, Charlie this popular highway in North Dakota is known for its large metal sculptures. Thirty nine. It's got a name.

It's something highway. Oh, I can do this. I can do this. North Dakota, the Mount Rushmore Highway. No, that was a joke. Being committed. Your final answer was wrong. The rush more is doesn't matter. The code doesn't matter.

Same state, different bunk. It's the Enchanted Highway. Oh, yeah. I didn't pull it. It's the enchanted highway. Oh yeah. Oh, I didn't pull it. I feel like that would be a new Mexico. Nope. North Dakota. Cause new Mexico is the enchanted state. Ooh. And that's on their license plate. All right. Is this the last one for me? That last one, a few miles, which Wisconsin town is known as the Malibu of the Midwest. Shabuigan. Got it. Easy. Easy. I win. He can't catch up. I win. You have a half point. You can still interrupt me. As well. Oh, sorry, dad. Just say that loud. All right, Charlie. Now you guys know how I, he treats me behind the scenes. Hmm. No, I see rub in a rub asshole. There's people

over here eating that like it's like a book club and we're stealing ass. All right. All right, Charlie. Where's the North Dakota state fair held every year? Easy Fargo. Any interrupted Bismarck, any interrupted fuck grand forks. What other towns do you guys even have lucky? I couldn't ask anyone else in the U S to name three North Dakota towns. No one's going to do it. You did a good job on that. Thank you. Where is my not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Sounds like? Why not? My not. My not sounds like something that you would, you actually should do a show at the North Dakota state fair. I'd love to.

Yeah. I'd love to. If you're a part of that, just hit Charlie up. Yeah. Yeah. Let me know. That'd be fun. Okay. Well, I mean, honestly, it's kind of funny that I won that off of the Sheboygan thing because the only reason why I know that Sheboygan is the Malibu Midwest is because Charlie told me that. Right. So I knew you were going to get that one because I know I've said that a thousand times on this. Like your only bit that you have is just constant. Also I kind of like trivia now.

I was, I started this off talking smack about it. That kind of got me going a little. Yeah. Got the adrenaline pump. You're a competitive competitive guy a little bit, a little bit. Well, Charlie, I mean, I just want to remind the listeners that I am to and O against Charlie in competitions in the opening of our podcast. First was the arm wrestling and now the trivia. So I just don't want people to forget that. Both were rigged in your favor. I don't know how Jared he works for you and now he's just taking Rick and J shots

and anyone that'll take it. And also you had a false start on the arm wrestle and you won't do a rematch you said go You said go no, I use my right hand I did not left-handed I did not say go Did he not? Well, then I'll go left hand the left hand I Be sure enough to know that I'm not doing it again So we take some colors. Let's do it. Let's do it Alex. Yeah, it's Charlie from belly up podcast I hear you got too many hobbies. What the hell's up with that chart, dude? I got way too many hobbies and I can't afford to do half of them, which is fine, but I still want to do them

Okay, what are the hobbies list them off? Oh Boy but I still want to do them. Okay. What are the hobbies list them off? Oh boy. Let's see winter time. I like to ski and snowboard. My knee hurts whenever I do it. So I probably shouldn't, but I still like to, I like ice fishing. I don't have any ice fishing stuff. I tried buying some, but you know, credit card pretty much, pretty much. Just got it. I just got to get another one. I guess. Another hobby. Yeah. Oh, another credit card. They'll let you open up unlimited. They're just, if you have a pulse, they're giving you credit cards these days. The most predatory industry out there. Well, there's others anyway, keep going.

In the summer, I like fly fishing, hiking, camping. I, I skateboard every once in a while. I like bird watching. Good. Got into that recently. So that's, that's a free one, which is good. Yeah. But knocks are expensive. Some, some, yeah. Oh, I got this monocular. It's just a single-handed one. That's a way to cut it in half. Oh yeah.

The thing's slick. You can keep it right in your pocket and it's man. It's good. Hey, is that a monocular in your pocket? Are you just happy to see a red breasted Merganser? pocket or you just happy to see a red breasted Merganser. I'm still on the I out for one of those. We don't have many of those around. And I like how you said I out for it. Yeah. Uh, I like cars, but my car doesn't really, it's hanging in there.

cars, but my car doesn't really, it's hanging in there. So I could try and drop that one. Motorcycles, cooking, I got into whittling. So I got that going for me. I'm into like building mountain bikes and stuff. We got a lot of the same hobbies, you and I. Yeah, I want to learn how to play the guitar. Maybe the accordion. I was thinking about picking up one of those. Yeah. I'm not really sure where to start, though. I haven't really got into the accordion forums yet, but.

Yeah, those are tough to find. Yeah. It's both people on those forums probably know a lot, but yeah. So yeah, I like reading. I like grilling. I got a smoker. I still haven't used that yet. that's still sitting on my porch, but it's on the list. Yeah, that's, that's a few of them, you know, so I got a lot going on. Yeah. You should get another credit card. So you, you, you just bought a smoker and it's just sitting there in the box. Well, I tell you what I've used to work at this hardware store and my boss bought one thinking it was going to be like a regular grill, but didn't realize that smokers cook slower. So they used it once and hated it. So I bought it off them for 50 bucks.

Oh, smart. So you're getting deals on these things. Like you didn't go out and just get Orvis fly fishing stuff or something like that. No, goodness. No, absolutely not. I peruse the marketplace until I find the right things. Yeah. I like it. I like smart. Well, that's another hobby is marketplace. You know, that's a hot right. That's another hobby. Yeah, exactly. I spend way too much time doing it. Well, I got another question. So, you know, you kind of said your problem is the money aspect, but I'm starting to wonder if time is becoming an issue for you. How do you have time to do all this?

I do not. I mean, I work seven to three every day. I just got this new job with a pretty good schedule, but every day after work, I'm pretty much doing like house projects like renovating that, which is also a hobby, which is also a hobby, which also leads to me buying tools, keeping up to date on the tools. That's another hobby. So yeah, I'm, I'm trying to cut back on a few, but I want it. It doesn't sound like you, you are though. Yeah. I don't think you want to. It's like, yeah, I'm, I'm trying to cut back on a few, but I want it. It doesn't, it doesn't sound like you, you are though. Yeah. I don't think you want to. It's like, yeah, I want to quit nicotine, but I just love it so much. I think, I think you could try and keep trying to cut down on your hobbies or go to a shrink and get some ADD meds. That might naturally thin the herd.

Oh, absolutely. I'm sure it would. Probably not. You probably just get like super into like every single one of them. And then, yeah, I I tend to like I find one hobby and I hyper fixate on it for like two or three weeks. Yeah. And then that one kind kind of starts to lose its flame, I pick up another one and then I get really into that for two or three weeks. So my wife, like I tell her,

I want to get something for this hobby. And she's like, we'll give it three weeks. See if you still want it. And I usually don't. And then I'm onto something different I want. So she's been great through this whole thing. That is good. I was going to wonder what your wife thought. Yeah, that is good advice

though. You know, like when we met, I was in the, like not much, you know, I skied and that was it. And then I moved like, when I'm at my wife, this is my wife, I only like to ski. Then I met my wife and I had to find all these other hobbies. I had to find a way to get out of the house. She's well, she got me into a lot of these. She got me into like camping and hiking and all these things that we, that we do together. So we cook together, we go camping and bird watching and fly fishing together. So I don't, I don't want to not do them because she still enjoys doing them. I just think we need to pick the ones that were, that we enjoy the most and that we can actually afford to do.

Yeah. Your wife is also thinking, Oh my God, I unleashed a beast on accident. You know, she was at the zoo and I, and unlock the lion's cage. And now he's just got so many hobbies. Yeah. Where I lived before I lived up in Maine where like we had farms and that was pretty much it. So there wasn't much to do, which was great because I would just work and save a bunch of money. And then I met her and I moved over to New Hampshire where there's ski resorts and hiking trails and campgrounds and the whole nine yards. And now, like, we can do any of our hobbies anytime we want, because they're all like 10 minutes away. It's also very funny, his relationship with hobbies right now. He goes, I live somewhere

where there was nothing to do and it was great. It's like it went from being enjoyable to now it's just become another job. It's a burden to like so many things. Yeah. I have a, like all my friends, like they each enjoy one of my hobbies. So I'll go fly fishing with one guy or I'll go skiing with another guy or hiking with another guy, but they don't all have all the same hobbies as me. No, dude, I get it. I, I feel like I'm in kind of a similar boat as you and, um, I don't have a good solution other than, uh than at some point, you're going to not touch something for a year.

And if you don't touch it for a year, then get onto your other hobby and sell that on Facebook Marketplace, you know? Yeah, I think- I have so much stuff on Marketplace right now, and I would love to sell it. Are you in the market for any doors or tile right now? I got a bunch of tile on my porch. I'm trying to tile

Oh They're 12 inch hexagonal ones. They're white and like one corner. It's like a wood grain color to it They're pretty neat looking. Yeah, we've got them got them down at the Habitat for Humanity And we bought it and ended up changing our mind. Oh, okay. So you took it down to Habitat for Humanity Yeah up changing our mind. Oh, okay. So you took it down to Habitat for Humanity or take it back to them. Yeah. Sounds good. I showed it was like 15 bucks a box. I got six boxes, six boxes. That's not bad. So I think you just got to the first start with the ones that cost no money, right? Or you've already got the gear. You can keep those in. I view that this is, you now have a utility belt of hobbies, right? And so the ones that are the most expensive, let's maybe cut those ones out.

So what are the most expensive hobbies you have? Well, my car, like I used to modify it and now it's like struggling to pass inspection. So I can't really cut that one out right now because I still got to get to work and buy groceries and such. What's the most expensive? Probably skiing. Honestly, I could sell my stuff pretty quick and I could leave that one behind. Wow. Your first love gone like that. Yeah.

Or I could sell my skis and buy a guitar. So it's like a little, little swapsy daisy there. So it's just exchanging one hobby. I don't do as much for a hobby that I could do more possibly. I think that's, I think, you know, I, um, what's your favorite song? My favorite song is probably, uh, welcome to hard times by Charlie Crockett. First date of link one 82. Just can't wait to pick you up on our very first date. It's cool if I hold your hand. I sing the Charlie Croggin. Yeah. What was Charlie Croggin song again?

Welcome to hard times. It's called welcome to hard times. Something like that. Yeah, something like that. I think you actually just played it over your phone. That's pretty spot on. Hey, thank you. I like how we also ask what was what's's your favorite song and you gave us two songs. I think that's the problem here. Your brain works in quantum, you know, it depends on the day. You know,

you gotta have one for every day. I don't think it does depend on the day. I think every day you're just given multiple your point. If he's got a hobby every day, it does it not become a hobby then is just like a new experience. He does every day then like when does it become a hobby? Well, when does it become a hobby? How many times do you have to do it in order for it to be a hobby? Oh, and not just a novel thing at least twice. So if I have two hobbies, but I have 12 new experiences every month, I cut out some hobbies, right? Correct. A way. It's a great way to frame it to your wife. Honey, these aren't, these aren't new hobbies. I'm not doing that. I just want to try it once. Yeah.

Yeah. Just come and be like, I just, Speaker 3rd-Gen. Hanna, I fixed the problem. I fixed it all in one day. Yes. I only have three hobbies now and then explain it to her and then she'll be like, but you still have all this shit. Oh yeah. It's a, it's all in the basement right now. So it's, it's not bad. The Christmas decorations are down there too. So I'm, I'll see all the stuff in December again. I'm just trying to keep that out of the way. I haven't bought a new motorcycle yet after my accident a few years ago. We're all good to go with motorcycles. I think. Hey, you got your fix. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I bought a, oh, I bought a Harley Charlie.

You'd appreciate that. What'd you get a little, Oh, I got a, it was an Oh seven sports stereo. It was a nice blue, had like some ape hangers on it. Super uncomfortable. And I had the bike for three weeks and I T-boned some 18 year old kid in a pickup truck. Oh God, dude. How did you, how? Uh, well he pulled in front of me. He was pulling into a mini golf course and I was just out for a ride. And so I, I tried honking the horn, but I don't even,

I don't even know if it worked. I didn't. I'm sorry to hear that. Are you all right? Oh, I'm all good. You know, the bike is gone now. So I guess that took care of one of my hobbies and I really have no interest in getting, getting back into that. Now you probably got off easy with that hobby. Well, yeah, yeah, I think they're all good. I think another good idea is, you know, your wife's like, three weeks, right? I would, I would consider, God, dude, God, that was juicy too. I would consider if you're trying to get into a holiday hobby, just rent the equipment. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Rent it. And then if you really like it, you then can buy the equipment later.

But why not just rent some stuff? You go to monoclerentals.com. Where do I rent an accordion? Oh, you could go to a music store and rent an accordion that like that. That's actually like a service they offer. Yeah. Where do you live? Oh, I live up in new Hampshire. We're kind of, we're about an hour north of conquered. Oh God. Up in the mountain. You're out there that that was the Capitol. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. And now our north of the Capitol, it's where it goes from three lanes to two lanes and then it goes from two lanes to one lane on the highway Yeah, you don't have a music shop up there

I don't believe so you can definitely write one online though. They'll ship it to you. Yeah Alright, I'll have to look into that and I'll let you guys know how it goes. Yeah I Think if I stick with it, I already have all the fly fishing stuff. My catching fish to loss flies ratio is like one to two. So the flies are cheap though. And then I can keep doing the bird watching because I have an app for that. So that's free. Well, and also you got another hobby. You could make your own flies. I was shot miles.

We have ESPN dude. Just thinking that. Yeah. So if you, there's this great kit you can get and it's got like a sort of a big magnifying glass and there's this little thing that holds the flies. Although now that's another hobby. Now it's a whole, yeah, that's another thing. Yeah. That's another hobby. More stuff. I got a store. Let me just I could Let me if I could find a hobby where the items you need are smaller in size So I can just I can throw them wherever and you don't see them. That would be ideal crypto Hey, what's the weirdest hobby you've ever had?

The weirdest hobby I ever had? Yeah. Uh, I got really into running one time. Wow. You and I got to go to a dictionary and look up the word weird. I know I'm on board. That is strange. Join like a running club or something.

That is, I don't really have any I wouldn't consider any of them weird yeah I think they're all pretty normal yeah you know they're all within the realm like what would you consider a weird hobby like what's a weird hobby like you're in the furries you know you got like a giant life-size squirrel. That is not a hobby, Charlie. That is a lifestyle. Okay. That, yeah, that, that takes some dedication and I'm not going to lie. I ain't about that.

Okay. So you know, I would say LARPing is kind of a weird LARPers. Yeah. I, I, I haven't really gotten into LARPing. That's not really my thing. I used to, Oh, I shot a bow and arrow at summer camp, but that's, that's about the extent of my love. That's not a hobby. That's not a hobby. That's another thing you might want to look into is the recurve bows. Those are funny.

We have to stop suggesting more hobbies. This guy's got like every hobby that I have though. It's kind of amazing. If you ever come to new Hampshire, we'll go fish and we can watch birds. We got, we got a great selection up here. That'd be good. Maybe don't get rid of any hobbies. Why are we even getting rid of hobbies? Yeah. Just cycle them through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And don't, and don't force it, right? Don't make a schedule of when you're going to do what hobby, just wake up and go, what hobby do I want to do today? And then just do it today. Right. Today is a bike day and I can go out and I could build a bike. There you go. I mean, that's, that's, and

then if you can do that, you're just winning at life. I, I think that's the goal. I just, I got to convince myself to do it and not get sidetracked. Once, once we finished this house, then I can, then I can really sit down and focus on the hobbies. You definitely need to get some 80. Yeah. It is a blast. Let me tell you. Yeah. I thought you were going to tell us. Yeah. Let me tell you. Oh yeah. It's a, there's some mice in the basement that we've been working on getting out. So those are going away. Uh, I've been doing some electrical in the attic, trying to put in some ceiling fans. And how's

that going? There's no, there's no fires yet. So it's going great. The ceiling fans are up and the rooms are brighter. Yup. It's going awesome. You're the American dream. You are the exact guy that should not be allowed to do electrical or plumbing. And I am a plumber. I'm out of jobsite right now. Oh no. Oh man. It's like the worst job for someone with ADD. This is the worst advertisement for his business. Go ahead. Shout it out now. Oh, we're not going to worry about the name for his business. Go ahead. Shout it out. Oh, we're not going to worry about the name of the business. Also his hours are from seven to three. He's basically got bankers hours and he probably charges like 15 grand a day to people. That's why he's got so many hourly. So I got no clue what the boss man makes. But a lot

more, a lot more than that. I can tell you that much. Tell you what plumbers are raking people over the coals. That'll be $3,000 for me to come and look at your sink. Okay. Well, what, what did you, what did you conclude? I think the whole bathroom needs to be redone. Let's just tear it all out. I think I could give you a deal by $45,000 to get this thing done plus the $3,000 for me showing up. I mean we're under $50,000 and honestly, this is a deal because if we let this go any longer you're going to have to replace the whole house.

That's right. If that tub is dripping, just tear it down to the foundation and start over. You spoken like a true plumber. I'm catching on. I'm getting there. You keep talking like that, you're going to get a promotion. I feel like I'm catching on to this better than my last job. So I really, I'm enjoying it a lot more. All right. What was your last job? My last job? I was a police dispatcher. Oh boy.

Oh no. So terrible for ADD. Yeah. It was, it was great. I mean, yeah, for you. I don't know if it was great for everyone else. Hey, I helped everyone who called. I just answered the phone. That was my thing. So I didn't have to go out and personally save anybody. So I just told people, Hey, this person needs help. And they always got helped. So I did. Oh, I did have one guy call in asking for the best like chicken wings in town one time. And I just, I kept telling them, this is the police department. Like, are you in trouble? Do you need help? Is this like a, I'd like to deliver a pizza kind of deal. And he was like, no, I just really want to know where the best wings in town were. So I had another

call come in. So I put them on hold. The dude stayed on hold for like 15 minutes while I had other nine, one, one calls. Is that why you became a plumber? Cause you got fired for doing that. I asked him if he needed help and he kept saying no. So when I picked back up and he was still there, I just, I picked the restaurant. We always get wings from him. Yeah. Where's the, where can I get it? Where can I get wings out in town? Oh, you can get them anywhere. I mean, I picked the restaurant. We always get wings from him. Yeah. Where's the, where can I get wings? Where can I get wings out in town? Oh, you can get them anywhere. I mean, we usually just go down to like Wayne's market. That's a good place there. They got, it's like a little butcher shop in there and a gas station. You can get like everything. I liked them. There we go. Yeah. Well, thanks. Potato salad's good too.

Well, we started off at hobbies and we ended up at potato salad. I think that says everything we need to know about this call. I think that just about sums it up. Well, man, we appreciate you calling in today. Oh yeah. Appreciate the time. Yeah. If you guys ever end up in new Hampshire, you know, definitely reach out. Yeah. There's a, there's plenty to do here. So I love to get a peep at that monocle years, you know? Yeah. Oh yeah. You, you come by anytime. Maybe we can go, we'll go come out there, go ice fishing on Lake Winnipesaukee or fly

fishing or fix your car or mountain biking mountain bike. You build a mountain bike. We can build them out. We could get rid of the rats in your basement. We could just go to skate park too. We could go to the skate park. We could, we could go skiing or snowboarding. You know, we got options. Yeah. Oh, yeah Plenty of them and guess what? I got plenty of gear to do all of them There's no need for you guys to rent anything even better That's sorry just open a rental shop and start renting your stuff out. Yeah, dude. I Should honestly. Oh, I could be a guide. I could start a guide service for all this stuff. That's not what I said

It's not what I said. You gotta be good out for that. That's not what I said That I start out renting the gear and then when people that's it I don't know where to ski and that's it Focused on the mission just rent the gear out on the mission. Just rent the gear out, rent it out. Just rent it out. I now I now I'm getting a new perspective on how your wife feels. Oh yeah. She's a, she's got a handful. I think trying to, you know, trying to handle everything. She does great though. Wind beneath my wings. Love her. Yeah. He's going to get off the phone, call his wife and be like, yeah, miles

and Charlie told me to start a guide business. She's like, God damn, I hate those guys. Open another credit card and start a business. The best financial advice I've gotten a long time. Yeah. Yeah. You can call it shitty rentals too. Yeah. Plumbing and renting. Yeah. Plumbing andrentals. There we go. Shitty rentals and the stuff you're renting is shitty. Yeah. Think about it.

That's a good one. All right. I'll have to keep that in mind. Yeah. Well, keep it on the top of the hat at least. But it's up there. All right. Well, have a good one, man. Thanks for calling in. Thanks for the, thanks for taking the call. Appreciate it guys. All right. Be good now. Magi called nine one one. If me, if we called and he was the dispatcher. Yeah. Hey, how you doing? Oh, my, my, my arm got ripped off in a car accident. Oh no. What happened? I got in a car accident. You know, that reminds me, I got this car. What kind of a car do you have? So my car, it's not going to pass inspection because it's, Oh God, I think I'm losing a lot of blood. Okay. Okay. Hang on just a second.

I got to tell this guy where to get some wings and I'll get right back to you. All right, can you hang on just a second? Hello, sir. So if you want to get some wings, what you got to do is go down. There's this great spot. It's the market.

Oh, I forget the name. You know, I just told these guys on podcast. Hang on, let me call them. Hey, Miles, do you remember that wing spot I told you? Wains. Wains, Wains. OK, miles. Do you remember that wing spot? I told you. Wayne's Wayne's. Okay. Yeah. So it's Wayne's mean. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Wrong number. Sorry. Sorry. Okay. Well, you can't hear me because you put me on hold. That's why anyway. Oh, oh my God. I see the,

I see a light. Okay. What kind of light is it? You know, I'm a plumber, but I do do some electric stoplight. I'm on the corner of 45th and 86th, 45th and 86th. Got it. Got it. Got it. Someone here. Yes. Yes. Forty five, 40, 40, six and 85th. Just one second. OK, bye. Oh, OK. Oh, what was I doing? Oh, I was tying this fly. You got ran over by a car.

That's what that was. was actually pretty good sound effect. Yeah, I was. It's good. They know you can do that, too. Well, it's kind of fun. And it's probably some sort of like, yeah, try it again. The fact that the blood just squirting out onto the pavement, try it again. I'll do it as it hits. That's great. That's great.

That's great. That's great. That's great. There's a bloody ending. Gory. The gory sound effect. Oh well, headphone warning by the way. Should we take another caller? Yeah. Well guys, it's getting warm out and you know what happens when it gets warm out Charlie? Sunburns. Sunburns and people start doing some wild stuff out there. They're going boating, they're going ATVing. That's what it's called I guess. Yeah. They're sitting in lawn chairs and whether you've been in a boating accident and a TV accident or chairs or maybe your chair busted and you busted a collar bone, you busted a collar bone. You got to give Nicolay law a call. They're going to make sure that you are taking care of when you see that beard,

miles, if you own an insurance company or trembling, you got the shakes. Yeah. You're like John Daly on the course, the shakes. So if you guys happen to bust your chair and then bust your collarbone, give Nikolai law a call. Can you say break next time? Call Nikolai. Their number is Nikolai law.com. Hello. Hi, Nick.

Oh, Charlie. How's it going? Well, this is miles. So, okay Charlie. How's it going? Damn. Well, this is Miles. Nick. So. Okay, my bad, my bad. We are very distinct voices.

Mine is deep and sensual. Mine's a little higher. I guess you could say. Mine's a little higher. I'll consent to that. Especially when a circuit worked up, it gets a little higher. What are we doing? You can't talk like that to me anymore. Dad.

Well, Nick, I hear that you got some bad wedding gifts. What are you doing with them? Oh man. You know, all right, so let's take it back a year ago. Take it back. Yeah. About a year ago, my wife and I got married and you know, we would bring the, the presence home and we're, we're going through them and you know, most of them are good. You know, the most of them are hanging up. Most of them are, were spent or gift cards or whatever, but my Carol. All right. Okay.

I don't know what he was thinking. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. I mean sorry. Yeah. I mean, I love her to death, but you know, it's like, it's this clock that no one would ever put up. I mean, I mean, understandably my, my grandparents had it. So it's like kind of a Memorial thing, but it's just a copy of it. Oh, it's a copy of your grandparents clock. It's just a copy. It's not, not the same one. It's just like a newer version of it. It's one of those like cuckoo clocks. It's kind of like, it's

like all bejeweled and everything. And my wife, I mean, we pulled it out of the box and she was just like, speechless. I just couldn't understand who would give this to someone. It just doesn't fit our style. So, you know, I guess I'm really asking for an advice of how do you, how do you, what, when's the appropriate time to get rid of this gift? Cause right now, you know, my Midwest heart, I'm, I've been holding onto it for like a year. Yeah. Yeah. Not wanting to, you know, put it behind me.

You're Catholic. Yeah. Well, and you're on the right track. at least a year is a good benchmark. You know, I think that that feels like you are respecting the gift. Yep. Yep. Now, is this a buy seller trade or you know, it was one of those things where I got it and I was like, you know, my wife completely wanted to get rid of it. She's like, we're never going to hang this up in any house we ever own. And I was like, you know, that's a valid point. And I was like, well, we better hold onto it because you know, we're going to see my aunt Carol at Christmas time. Yeah. And you know, she's going for bids. She asks, you know, about it. And we're like, Oh, well got rid of that. You know,

I just don't want to break. No, you'll never tell her first of all, what kind of clock is it? Read it to me. Oh gosh. It's like, it's kind of oval shaped. It's bejeweled. It has these like every hour, different song plays. You know, it's like chimes and stuff. It's a whole ordeal. It's, it's just, is it a grandfather clock? No, it's kind of just, it's just, is it a grandfather clock? No, it's kind of just, it's just like oval shape just kind of fits on the wall. There's nothing, it's not humongous or anything. It's just, it's just the way it looks and all of the aesthetic to it. It's just too much. Well, what's the name of it?

I honestly don't know. So what we have to go off of is it's oval. It goes on the wall and it's a clock and it tells time. Yeah. That's about what we got to go off. Dude, I want to know how much this clock is. Do you look it up? Oh gosh, I think we did.

I want to say it's under a hundred dollars. I think. Oh God. But here's the bigger problem. Yeah, here's the bigger problem is it says limited edition on the front. That's marketing. That's not real. Yeah. Yeah. They say I got to start doing that with, with our merchandise, just saying limited edition on it. Oh, you're not doing that. Honestly, honestly, I feel like you'd probably sell 10 times more. You say, Oh, we only ran, you know, a hundred of these bad boys. Yeah. Yeah. And then restock now, get

it before they're gone. All that stuff. So do you have a garage? You know, we don't, we have, we have an apartment, but here's what, here's what happened with it. I told my parents about it and I was like, listen, we're never going to put this up. So we need a place to store it. So I just put it in their attic. Oh, yeah. Dude, that's a move. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But also another question. How often is on Carol coming to your apartment? Oh, absolutely never. I don't expect her to ever be here. Well, then get rid of it. No, they do. That's he did the right thing. Why would you get rid of it? Why would you get rid of it when you can just put it in your parents'

house? That's true. Anything you don't want, you put it in your parents' house. I will have to say, and for Christmas, when you're at her parents' house, she got a gift. I won't say from who or what it was, but she didn't love it. You know, similar to this clock situation. And she, I watched her the next morning before it was, we were packing up. She picked it up, looked at it and just walked to the corner of the room behind the lazy boy and just set it on the floor behind the chair and looked at me like, we're not telling anyone about this. It's still there. Probably. I got to look next time.

Yeah, that's a power play, honestly, though. No, this is the this is the everybody should know this. If you don't already know this, your parents house is in infinite storage, especially in the Midwest, because 90% chance your dad is either a hoarder or recovering hoarder, you know? That's true. Oh yeah. There's all these nooks and crannies you can put it in. And if you ever need it, you just go there and get it.

If you can find it, if you can't, well, that's the risk you run. If you do happen to run into Carol at your apartment, maybe she moves in next door or something, That's the risk you run. And if you do happen to run into Carol at your apartment, you know, maybe she moves in next door or something. You just tell her, hey, it's an apartment we want to. We don't have a lot of space for it in the apartment. When we move into a house today, we're going to put it up. It's in storage. You threw it away.

It's in storage. And then when you move into a house, you move into a house, you say, we are so peeved. because we had that thing we had the perfect spot right here and we lost it in the move oh that's okay I I still have the link I'll get you another one yeah that's the problem is you know and that's exactly miles of exactly what I told my wife we're gonna tell my aunt Carol if she asked about it but you you see Christmas came and went, no one sent me things. So I'm thinking like the resale value I think

is probably at the peak prime right now. So I don't know. It's a tricky situation truthfully. And little do you know that your aunt Carol's telling all of her friends at, you know, Euker group, she's like, I bought them this clock and they accepted it like it was something good. I mean, you should have seen their face. They had to fake that they liked it. It was hilarious. And I think they still have it. Can you believe that?

I pulled that Betty. You remember when I got that as a white elephant two years ago, we are with the jewels that hideous and it's a limited edition on it. Oh, my God. I gave it to him and told him that it was the grandma's. Did one that that is that is kind of the move, you know, with with weddings. Just just give them something weird, you know, because people will remember. People will talk about that.

No one's going to talk about. Miles, you remember what I got you for your wedding? Shouldn't have gotten them anything. For all I know, I didn't get them anything. You definitely didn't give me anything. No, that's not true. What'd you get? I don't know, cause whoever.

You had a guy, yeah, he has someone to do that for him. I did have someone get you it. Oh wow. Yeah. I fulfilled something on your. the only thing I remember that I got for my wedding, um, was the only thing I put on the registry and that was a Margaritaville machine. And I did not get you that. You didn't. I think I got you a stroller. Oh, well we got, no, you didn't need to not get a stroller. I was worth a shot. But that's the lesson that I think really is the underlying thing here. No one ever remembers what they, you got them for their wedding. So just, just give them the money

and call it a day. It's an exchange, right? You give me a dinner. I give you money. We call it a day. That's it. Right? No, it's good miles. Right? That's right. Yeah. Wait, what did I agree to? I don't know. Anyways, what else? Do you get anything else? Weird? Anything else you want to throw in there? You know, honestly, my, my wife and I, we did pretty good. Just that one, that one gift. It's just like, you know, you feel bad because you can't get rid of it right then and there. And you got to hold on to it. And you know, my wife actually isn't from the Midwest. So to her, it was just like an immediate, like, we can just get rid of this right now. And I was like, no, no, no, that's not how you did the right move. OK, you held on to your end of the Midwest bargain that you signed at birth. OK, you did it good for you. And, you know, you can you can let go of guilt.

I know you're not going to, but you don't have to either. You can always go to your folks and get one good night of sleep. Yeah. From it. And if if there's anyone out there just still holding on to a clock or some, what I did was something that I didn't really like that someone game. I hung it in the closet. You never look at it in the closet. It's sitting there if you need it kind of hung up like a gun, you know, and pull it out if time is necessary and proves that you

need to bring it out, but you probably won't. And, uh, well, we'll let you know, we'll let you know if anyone reaches out and wants to buy seller trade that thing, that limited edition, but I will oval clock. Yeah. Yeah. No, I wish I had a better description. I feel like I'm not selling it right now. It seems like a really lackluster Facebook post. Honestly. Do you have a picture of it? No.

Well, take a picture. Take a picture. Send it to us. Yeah. I mean, well, so maybe, okay, so we're going back to my parents in a couple of weeks. Maybe then I'll head up to the attic and take like a really horrible, dimly lit photo of it. Yeah. I mean, I think that's a, so we're going back to my parents in a couple weeks Maybe then I'll head up to the attic and take like a really horrible dimly lit photo of it or something Oh, it's already at your parents. Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah, I've been there. Yeah. Yeah, you're good

You don't even have to think about that for another second. It's there forever. Yeah Yeah, I didn't know that I thought you put it in the attic at your apartment Then I guess addicts apartments only have addicts. I was pretty dumb, but where I got a question. All do you think Carol listens to our podcast? I don't think so. I think I'm safe, but you know, why don't you think so? We're pretty popular. I just don't think she's in the podcast game. I don't know. Charlie's got a lock on the 55 plus female market. You should see my DMS. They slide.

I was, I was just listening to the podcast. Was it Angela called in? You hit on her daughter or something? It was a whole thing. Oh yeah. You mean her daughter is in the seventh grade. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that we You mean her daughter is in the seventh grade.

Yeah. Oh, that we didn't cut that out. Yeah. Damn it. I wasn't asking like that. It's just an honest question. I understood what you meant. No, it was good. Yeah, you're good. But you just brought it up in this context. So, yeah, that's right.

That one's on me. That one's on me. I'll take a point for that one. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah, I mean, maybe maybe I can be like, hey, I, you know, this is a pretty good pocket. But then see, I got to kind of clear clear if I end up in the show. Yeah, you're going to be in the show. You don't want to listen to this. Yeah. So it's kind of like, so now it seems like it's too, uh, it's just wrong now to introduce it to it. Yeah. I mean, what you're battling

against is if, you know, your family finds out you're on the podcast and they're like, Oh, we should listen to it. Let's have a listen party at our house. Yeah. Carol, she'll think it's hilarious. Let's bring her over. How old is Carol? Oh, I think she, she, well, okay. See, I don't know that. I think it's, she retired a few years ago and her and my uncle are just like snowbirds. Now they go to Florida and they come back and they go back. So, you know, stop giving more information, dude. That's more people that are like, wait, I don't want Carol. And like, I have another on Carol.

It's not you. Yeah. They gave me a clock like that. I kept yours. Cover my basis, honestly, though. I mean, oh, yeah, I think I'm fine now. I told my wife, I was like, you know, hopefully she doesn't listen to this. And we're both pretty positive. She doesn't. Well, let's, if she is listening, let's give on Carol a little message right now, Charlie on Carol. Um, just know that Charlie and I would have, even though your nephew didn't

love the gift, Charlie and I would have loved it. I would have hung it in a place of honor because aunt Carol, it came from you because not only is it a great gift, but we know how much love came from it. And I just couldn't, I don't know, but I can't speak for you. I just couldn't imagine someone loving me that much. And then just throwing that love away. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. The amount of thought you put into that on Carol, when so many people just buy some crap off the registry that I didn't even put on to think about our grandparents, our lineage, our heritage. And for you to man, for you to think, put all that thought into it and get me an exact replica of grandma and grandpa's clock.

Oh, you know, he's yeah. We just want Carol. We just want you to know that Charlie and I appreciate the gift, even if your nephew does not even in the slightest. We are just pouring water on the Catholic circuit breaker in his brain. It's just like going in confession. What the color of the jewels? Like, oh, I think it was all I think they were mostly silver and like white. And there's a Steve, but I remember at the very like top of the top of the

clock, there's like these little like spinning people that are also bejeweled. It's like a whole thing. This clock sounds frigging awesome. Can we have it? Can you send it to us? Gladly send it to you guys. Yeah. All right.

I'm going to send it to you guys. I'm going to send it. Can we have it? Can you send it to us? Gladly send it to you guys. Yeah. All right. Yeah. The brotherhood of the traveling clock. That would be great. Send it to us.

We meet up for bellied up. We can exchange it and you have it for six weeks. And I do. I just have to leave you half my clothes because it doesn't fit in my suitcase. It was a ginormous box. I'm going to be honest. It took up a big like gift bag that they had bought, which, you know, they paid for the gift bag too. But, and on Carol, I would have had no problems storing this giant clock, you know, and I would have kept the gift bag and cherished it just in case. I know the style of clock you're talking about. It's, it's like kind

of wavy, like going up and down sort of, oh, maybe I feel like I really should have researched this before I, yeah, I would love a picture. I love the roast o'clock right now. Time is it it's roast o'clock. You laugh. I'll have to, I'll have to, I'm pretty sure we, we took it to my parents and put in the attic, but like I said, next time I go, I'll you guys be the first people I think of when I walk in my parents' house. I'll go right up there. Yeah, do that.

Send it over to us. All right. Mm hmm. Yeah. I can ship it or whatever, you know. All right. And well, yeah, do that. And we would love to see it. We would love to have it. And thank you for calling. And you take care now and prepare for the fiery pits of hell for

Giving away your ounce clock. I Know you know you guys thanks for calling it. It was good to get that off my chest I feel like I needed to tell someone else. Yeah, you did and you need to tell priest because this does not count as your confession, sir Okay, we we do not have the ability to absolve you from your sense. No, we do not. We are here to support you and to guide you to Christ's light. And that is through a confessional. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Well, well thanks guys. I appreciate you guys. Tell your folks, it says hi and watch

out for those. Honestly, I'm with Angela on this one and watch out for those raccoons. I feel like they're kind of more prevalent right now. All right, we will. We will. And hey, you tell your aunt Carol. He says hi. Okay, I will. Yeah, I will. Yep. All right. We'll see you soon now on Carol. Miles and Charlie say hi. Well, who are they? I'm Carol miles and Charlie say hi He just starts talking like reflexively about how much he loves the clock, you know Yeah, he's like he finally has to show her and he's like else this part's boring. Let's fast forward Tell your aunt Carol he says she only hears like we had a wedding.

He edits it down so it feels like. Limit addition. No way. Emails are an mp3 file that's edited. Redacted. All right. We have a voicemail from Johnny Johnny. Charlie. Here's Johnny. Johnny, I'm 23. I just discovered your podcast right now. We're on our way back from Florida, Bama, which is in Florida. But anyways, we have an important question that it's been an argument for some time within our friend group.

Is it acceptable to drink milk with your spaghetti? Cause I've done it before. And it's not intolerable. But it is kind of intolerable. But if you got chocolate milk, that's bonus points. Anyways, I'd love to hear your feedback. Okay, Johnny, well, welcome to the podcast. He's a new listener, new listener, first time caller.

I'm pretty sure the only time I've had milk with spaghetti would have been when I was a kid. I was going to say that's the only drink I've ever had with spaghetti until I was probably 16 years old. Yeah. You know, like when we were growing up, it was all we ever drank at dinner was milk. Yeah. It was just milk. Yeah. We had milk. I didn't, I don't love milk. Like I like milk. I mean, you should love it. It's the official drink of Fargo miles and Wisconsin. Yeah. No, I mean, even I remember my house, someone would be like, I don't want milk.

I want water. You can have water after you finish your milk. That is that is that happened to us too. Yeah. What does it do with that? That was nineties parents, man. Well, that was all parents up until almond milk came around and people started shitting on milk. Quite literally. People were shitting after drinking milk. They were shitting on milk. Yeah. It wasn't until they realized that that was the source of the diarrhea that they were like, wow, this is maybe not.

Maybe I should not do this. Maybe. 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, it's good milk pairs well with pretty much anything. Yeah, the chocolate milk thing kind of threw me for a loop. I wouldn't, I wouldn't have chocolate milk with my spaghetti. You just wouldn't if it was offered to you.

What are my options? Hey, that's it. They're like, Hey, you want some chocolate milk? Yes, I guess. I mean, if someone's offering me chocolate milk, I'm not just turning it down. That's true. I don't think I've ever turned down ice cold glass of chocolate milk. Did your parents buy you chocolate milk or did you have to take the chocolate syrup and put it in there? Yeah, we would. Most of the time it was chocolate syrup. My mom would get us chocolate milk once in a while. No, we had to make Swiss Miss. Oh, the Swiss Miss. And we think sometimes it was you put a spoon of that in and stir it around. Swiss Miss, what I know Swiss Miss for.

I'm older, like the hot chocolate style. Yeah. Yeah. This was like it actually came in a gallon jug. Oh, I don't. We didn't get that. My mom, because we had so many kids. Not Swiss Miss. Maybe it's just Swiss. I don't know. No, it's Swiss miss. Yeah, that's right. Local chocolate milk. OK. So, yeah, I don't I don't I don't know what all the hoopla is down in Florida.

Bama and the milk and spaghetti. I mean, if you're if it's a hot day out, you pry. That doesn't sound like it's a temperature thing. You know, you don't want to be eating spaghetti and milk outside. I don't think when it's a hot day. Yeah, I mean, you just end up like Ron Burgundy, you know, drinking milk on a hot day. Oh, yeah. It's a bad choice. Right. So you want you want it cold, I think, or fresh from the teat.

It's got a different flavor profile, you know it cold, I think, or fresh from the teat that it's got a different flavor profile, you know, like ice coffee. I don't, you lose me miles. Yeah. I'll send you a pin. Yeah. I'll send you a pin. You had me till you lost me. Yeah. What else is new? Um, well, Charlie, well, miles at another episode. I just did the high voice thing. God, it's good though. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. Well, Charlie, thanks for hanging out with me for another episode of the belly to podcast. It's been another fine time here with you miles well shall we take the next caller yeah well guys super bartender we'll see in the next one

bye bye love you guys okay hope you guys have a good one goodbye now oodaloo