Arm Wrestling At Hooter's #132

Summary

Bellied Up Podcast Episode Summary: "Arm Wrestling At Hooter's #132"

Release Date: December 26, 2024
Hosts: You Betcha Guy (Myles) & Charlie Berens

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1. Introduction and Voicemail Announcement (00:00 - 00:49)

The episode kicks off with Myles announcing a new voicemail line for the Bellied Up podcast, aiming to provide listeners with an easier way to contribute topics and stories. Myles emphasizes, “The more interesting your topic and the more energy that you bring increases your chances of being featured on the show” (00:00).

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2. Christmas Traditions and Tree Talk (00:49 - 10:18)

Discussion Highlights:

• Christmas Eve vs. Christmas Day: Charlie declares himself a Christmas Eve enthusiast, appreciating the anticipation and magical moments before Christmas Day (01:06).

  "I like the anticipation... Santa coming." – Charlie (01:10)

• Take-Down Traditions: The hosts debate the appropriate time to take down Christmas trees, with Myles suggesting post-New Year’s and Charlie humorously recounting leaving his tree up until April (04:48 - 05:06).

  "Spring is sprung, I took it down." – Charlie (05:10)

• Real vs. Flocked Trees: Myles shares his preference for a flocked tree, which mimics a snow-covered appearance, while Charlie reminisces about his family's unique aluminum trees from the Miro company (05:32 - 05:58).

  "If you know someone with an aluminum tree, you hold onto that." – Charlie (04:07)

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3. Transition to Arm Wrestling and Hooter's (10:18 - 25:32)

Key Points:

• Christmas Arm Wrestling Mishaps: The conversation shifts to arm wrestling at Hooter's, inspired by a caller's story. Charlie and Myles humorously discuss the potential chaos of arm wrestling in a family-friendly environment.

• Christmas Gifts and Hunting Equipment: The hosts joke about receiving unconventional Christmas gifts like shotguns and revolvers, blending their love for hunting with holiday humor.

  "Cherry bombs... shotguns are the real thing." – Myles (11:16-11:33)

• Arm Wrestling Debate: The segment features an arm wrestling showdown between Charlie and Myles, filled with playful banter and exaggerated commentary on technique and strength.

  "I plan to hurt... You got to keep it on the chair." – Eli and Charlie (23:45 - 24:08)

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4. Caller Story: Tyler from Canada (25:32 - 36:16)

Incident Overview:

• Arm Wrestling Gone Wrong: Tyler recounts a misadventure at a Hooter's in Canada where an arm wrestling match led to accidental table destruction while he was under the influence, leaving beer-soaked and embarrassed (13:09 - 17:19).

  "Why the hell did you bring your four and six-year-olds to Hooters?" – Myles (13:10)

• Consequences and Redemption: After the incident, Tyler pays a generous tip to apologize, and the hosts humorously devise penance for his lowballing tactics on Facebook Marketplace later in the episode.

  "If you don't do these things, well, you're going to be condemned." – Charlie (50:29)

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5. Caller Story: Eli from Nevada – The Professional Low Baller (36:16 - 61:15)

Situation Breakdown:

• Lowballing on Facebook Marketplace: Eli shares his strategies for lowballing sellers, including teaming up with friends to make aggressive offers and using psychological tactics to negotiate lower prices.

  "I come in with a $100 offer to a $180 listing." – Eli (38:11)

• Ethical Reflections and Penance: The hosts and Eli engage in a comedic yet critical discussion about the ethics of lowballing, ultimately assigning Eli playful penance involving increased honesty in his offers.

  "List something on Facebook Marketplace that you don't want to list and accept the first offer you get." – Myles (51:17)

• Marketplace Dynamics: They delve into the subculture of Facebook Marketplace, comparing it to other platforms like Craigslist and exploring the community dynamics and inside jokes among frequent users.

  "It's a hidden bellied up confession." – Charlie (49:48)

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6. Pheasant Hunting Banter (61:15 - 62:35)

Highlights:

• Black Mutant Pheasants: A voicemail from Eli discusses rare black mutant pheasants, blending absurd humor with hunting tales.

  "It's a mutation in the pigment of the pheasant... turns it into completely jet black." – Eli (56:37)

• Hunting Humor: The hosts exchange light-hearted banter about the rarity and beauty of these pheasants, integrating hunting culture with comedic elements.

  "I'd probably shoot at it. I definitely miss it." – Charlie (60:00)

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7. Conclusion and Final Voicemail (62:35 - End)

The episode wraps up with final remarks on pheasant hunting and a humorous discussion about the voicemail's content, reinforcing the show's blend of comedy and relatable Midwest culture.

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Notable Quotes:

• Myles on Voicemail:

  “If you want to be on the show, call 218-303-5095.” (00:00)

• Charlie on Aluminum Trees:

  “If you know someone with an aluminum tree, you hold onto that. That's gonna be worth some money someday.” (04:15)

• Eli on Lowballing:

  “I lowball people even when I don't have any interest in buying their things.” (40:24)

• Charlie on Pheasant Hunting:

  “I'd probably shoot at it. I definitely miss it.” (60:00)

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Insights and Themes:

• Community Engagement: The introduction of the voicemail line demonstrates the hosts' commitment to engaging with their audience, making the podcast more interactive and listener-driven.

• Holiday Traditions: The extensive discussion on Christmas traditions and tree maintenance highlights the hosts' connection to traditional Midwest values and humor.

• Humorous Anecdotes: Real-life stories from callers Tyler and Eli provide a blend of humor and relatability, showcasing typical Midwest experiences with a comedic twist.

• Cultural Commentary: Through topics like arm wrestling at Hooter's and lowballing on Facebook Marketplace, the hosts offer a humorous critique of social behaviors and online interactions.

• Playful Rivalry: The arm wrestling segment adds a dynamic of friendly competition, enhancing the podcast's entertaining atmosphere.

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Conclusion:

"Arm Wrestling At Hooter's #132" is a vibrant episode that weaves together festive traditions, humorous caller stories, and lighthearted debates. Hosts Myles and Charlie deliver engaging conversations filled with notable quotes and comedic exchanges, making it a memorable installment for both regular listeners and newcomers.

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Transcript

[Miles]

Guys, we got big news in the Bellied up world. We now have a voicemail line. We know that it can be frustrating to call in and wait for a long time. We hear you. That stinks. So by including the voicemail line, it will allow everyone to get a chance to have their topic heard. We'll listen to the voicemails, then line up calls with the ones that we love. This means the more interesting your topic and the more energy that you bring increases your chances of being featured on the show. So if you want to be on the show, call 218-303-5095. You can call in 24. 7. And again, the number is 218-303-5095. If you forget the number, it's in the description of the podcast, so don't worry. Cheers. Joy the episode.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Bellied up podcast. I am Charlie Barrons and. Ho ho, ho, Merry last Christmas. It's. It's over now, Miles. So, yeah, by the way, are you.

[Miles]

Are you a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day guy or equal?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, I'm a Christmas Eve guy because.

[Miles]

I like Christmas Eve too.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I like the anticipation. You know, I like the, you know, baby Jesus not quite in the crib yet. You know, I like the. I like the idea of, you know, Santa coming.

[Miles]

You like labor more than you like the after.

[Charlie Barrons]

After birth, you know. Spoken like a true father, Miles. Yeah.

[Miles]

Tell you what, once they get that epidural, I know they didn't have them back then, but, I mean, you're chilling until it's go time.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, really?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you know that I don't. I wonder if I should say this on the. My mom had 12 kids. No epidural.

[Miles]

That is crazy.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Isn't that nuts? Like, I feel like. I'll tell you what, she deserves the props, man.

[Miles]

I don't think you've experienced this, Charlie. I don't know for sure, but once those contraction starts happening, it is.

[Charlie Barrons]

What do you mean you don't know? I just didn't want to assume that I have a. You think I'd tell you if I had a kid?

[Miles]

I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I don't have a kid, Miles. How did we even get on this topic? We're talking about Christmas, for God's sake. I would say I'm more.

[Miles]

I'm kidding. Charlie does not have a child.

[Charlie Barrons]

I would say we know about Wink wink. I would say I'm more of a Christmas Eve guy because I feel like by the night of Christmas, Miles, there's already that fear that, oh, no, it's over. The anticipation, all that we built up to, it's done. Because, you know, there's some crazy bastards that on the 26th this day, you know what they do? They box it all up and they put it away.

[Miles]

That is crazy.

[Charlie Barrons]

The Canadian.

[Miles]

I bet there's some people that even do it on new on Christmas day evening.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, like, like. Like the dad who, like, on the last day of vacation, like, doesn't enjoy the last day of vacation. He's like, all right, pack it up. Like, spend the entire.

[Miles]

We don't. We don't. Our flight doesn't leave till 6pm I don't care. We're going to go sit at the airport and so we're not late.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, some crazy man dad.

[Miles]

On Christmas Day, they open all the presents, like, all right, grab an ornament, put it away. I got the top of the tree. You kids are young. Grab the bottom of the. Bring it downstairs.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you think. Did you get a real tree at your house?

[Miles]

No. God, no.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, why, you got allergies?

[Miles]

That would require po. And time and all of that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Did you put up any tree?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. We got a nice flocked tree.

[Charlie Barrons]

What does flocked mean?

[Miles]

It's got the appearance that it's got snow on it, so it's white.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, really?

[Miles]

Oh, like, yeah, it gets everywhere. It's miserable.

[Charlie Barrons]

Dude, my. Growing up, my nana had this aluminum tree from the Miro company. You ever seen a Miro craft boat? You know, it's a little. It's a little dinghy boat.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Same company out of Mantwoc, Wisconsin. The Miro company Aluminum took their aluminum.

[Miles]

Extra aluminum and made trees out of them.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. And it was a huge thing to have an aluminum tree. If you know someone with aluminum tree, you hold onto that. That's gonna be worth some money someday.

[Miles]

Just like Beanie Babies.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah. In fact, you know, when we were cleaning out my grandpa's stuff after he passed, found a whole collection of Beanie Babies.

[Miles]

And Were any worth anything?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, actually, at the family reunion, there was a box of them, and every kid could take two, and they were, like, throwing them in the mud. It was hilarious. Anyways, my big question here is, when is it okay to stop? When is it okay to take down the tree? Like, what do we say? Like, I think Boxing Day. It's a little too soon. It's a little too soon for the Christmas magic to leave us all.

[Miles]

Yeah, I mean, you got to wait till at least after New Year's.

[Charlie Barrons]

After New Year's you say. Is that when you're going to be taking down your tree, Miles?

[Miles]

Yeah. It won't be before New Year's, I can tell you that. Yeah, it's still up right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

I go, I go, last year my tree was up until April.

[Miles]

Spring is sprung and then take it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Down, you know, Spring is sprung, I took it down.

[Miles]

It goes from a Christmas tree to just a winter tree. You always take the ornaments off, then it's just.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's just a tree in your house.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know. Yeah.

[Miles]

Why, why, why all the fake trees that people put as decor in their house?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Why are they all just like normal fig trees and olive trees? Why don't people put evergreen trees right in the corner of the room?

[Charlie Barrons]

Exactly. Like that's what I was thinking. Why not get the whole friggin root bed in there, put it in a big old pot and then plant it back out in the yard again after. You know, I could do that. You know, just. You bring. That's the Christmas tree right there.

[Miles]

Well, at some point it's going to be too big for your house.

[Charlie Barrons]

Then you go to the next one, the next sapling. That's the circle of life in my family. We always keep it up until the Feast of the Three Kings. Yeah.

[Miles]

January.

[Charlie Barrons]

Come on, you good Catholic.

[Miles]

What day is it? I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think it's the 9th. I don't know.

[Miles]

I was going to say. I don't. I don't even remember that. And I had 13 years of Catholic education.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, that's why parents need a refund. That'd be funny if you could get that. Like, like have your, like you take.

[Miles]

A test at the end and whatever you get wrong, you get discounted off of all of the money you spent.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's like a rebate.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Your dad's like, don't learn a damn thing there.

[Miles]

Yeah. Loophole.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

What's funny about when we did put our tree up this year. This is classic Miles and Ann situation here.

[Charlie Barrons]

What happened?

[Miles]

Well, first of all, and brings the lights out of the basement and she's just banging those things around, dropping them on the ground, hitting them against stuff. I'm like, you're going to, you're going to make the lights go out. Do you know what I mean?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You're going to fill them in, it's going to fall out and it won't work.

[Charlie Barrons]

And if one goes out, they all go out. How would they not fix that?

[Miles]

So then she starts wrapping the top of the tree. I'm like, let's plug them in to see if they work.

[Charlie Barrons]

Smart.

[Miles]

So we plug it in. Works, right? So we go around, then we do the next rung around there. Plug it in. Second rung doesn't work.

[Charlie Barrons]

Really?

[Miles]

Yep. So we had a half lit tree, so we had to order some lights off of Amazon. It's the whole thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

Why couldn't you just gone to the hardware store?

[Miles]

We could have, but it's 2024 and I'm a millennial, so bought it on Amazon.

[Charlie Barrons]

There you go.

[Miles]

There you go.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. I went last year and cut down a Christmas tree with Randa.

[Miles]

Did you?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

And how'd it go?

[Charlie Barrons]

It was cool. It was fun. Fell a little bad.

[Miles]

You use a chainsaw or an axe?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, use the saw.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

An ax on these little baby trees. Just hack away at it.

[Miles]

Yeah. You're like trying to impress her. You got a flannel on. You know, you oil up beforehand.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oil up.

[Miles]

Sleeveless flannel up the arms.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Just walking through with an axe. I think this one. And you choose too big of a tree and it takes you like an hour to chop it down.

[Charlie Barrons]

And I've clearly never chopped a tree down before.

[Miles]

Yeah. You know, just sweating.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have you ever chopped it?

[Miles]

Getting pissed.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have you ever chopped. Have you ever chopped it?

[Miles]

You're like, I thought, this is going to be more romantic.

[Charlie Barrons]

I just have a. A cold wedgie.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, from all the up and down of it all, she's just standing.

[Miles]

There like, I'm cold.

[Charlie Barrons]

Can we go freezing with a hot chocolate? You know, watching like the baby oil freeze to my skin. Yeah, it won't like that. Don't worry. It was just a little sod tree farm. Good tax loophole, by the way. Really? Yeah, it's called farm in the tax code from what I do.

[Miles]

Explain. I love a good loophole.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know. Someone told me that they said the best way to get. To get. Get in on the tax rebates is to get a tree farm. I think, because you plant them and then it takes seven years for them to grow. So in that seven years you can be like, yeah, I kind of need a movie theater on this farm as well. That'll really.

[Miles]

It's just basically a business. If you have a piece of land.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

Plant some trees, Call it a tree farm. Be Charlie's Tree Farm llc. Then you can write off all of the water at that place. Because you got to water them.

[Charlie Barrons]

You do have to water the trees.

[Miles]

Evergreens don't need that much, but we don't need to. Yeah, your soil's dry, so.

[Charlie Barrons]

It is. Yeah, it's dry. And then they, like, just open up the report of how much rain we got. You know, it's like, what, do you have a water park on this thing and. I do.

[Miles]

Yes, you do.

[Charlie Barrons]

I do.

[Miles]

And.

[Charlie Barrons]

But you got to have a water park on your tree farm, because how are you going to stay in business in the summer?

[Miles]

Exactly.

[Charlie Barrons]

No one's. But I don't know if you guys know this. The market for evergreen trees plummets right around this time of the year, so you got to.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. It's like. Guys, you won't believe this. On the. On Black Friday every year, turkey sales just go.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's crazy. So you gotta. You gotta diversify your portfolio.

[Miles]

Chocolate. Between the time of November 1 and February 1, just then it ramps up again in February.

[Charlie Barrons]

It does.

[Miles]

Then it goes.

[Charlie Barrons]

I just like that sound effect that you're doing. We should get a sound effects machine here. That'd be so much fun. You know, like a little frog sound or. What do you think, Jared? Jared, we did that for ybr. We didn't. It didn't quite go.

[Miles]

It's very distracting. Is it?

[Charlie Barrons]

Anytime I'm listening to a podcast that has it, I kind of turn it off right away.

[Miles]

You abuse it. You know, you overdo it, and then you kind of. Then you're like, I wish. Dial it back. And then you just forget about it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. And then. I don't know. I'm not. It's not my thing, but maybe somebody who's good at it can bring it back. And bring it back good.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Not us. Well, anyways, Miles, it's. I'm. I'm glad that we're here. I'm glad that.

[Miles]

What did you get for Christmas?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, I'm glad you asked that, Miles. I'm glad you asked. You know what I got for Christmas?

[Miles]

Fireworks.

[Charlie Barrons]

Shoot. I missed it.

[Miles]

Roman candle. Geez.

[Charlie Barrons]

I missed again.

[Miles]

Cherry bombs.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, I missed it. Missed another pheasant.

[Miles]

Did you get a shotgun?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes. Yeah?

[Miles]

What time?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, you know, a nice one.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

Over. Under. Semi auto.

[Charlie Barrons]

Over. Under. Little click drop.

[Miles]

Maybe a Judge revolver.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, Judge revolver.

[Miles]

We should try and hunt pheasants with a judge.

[Charlie Barrons]

Those things are cool, man.

[Miles]

My cousin's got one.

[Charlie Barrons]

Does my. Someone that I know has one. I forget who it is, but I've shot one of those things.

[Miles]

They're fun.

[Charlie Barrons]

Jeez Louise. What even is. I think it was like. It was like. It Was a very weird gauge. What is the gauge you put in those things?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

What, 410? Yeah, it's those four tens. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if someone could do that with like a 12 gauge. So that's like how you shoot yourself. It like kicks back.

[Miles]

I have a sawed off pistol grip, 12 gauge shotgun.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, that's illegal. I'm going to tell the police.

[Miles]

Is it really?

[Charlie Barrons]

It's totally illegal.

[Miles]

Buy them online.

[Charlie Barrons]

I guess you're right. It's America. Probably, probably not illegal. It's like that's as American as evading the tax code. Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Well, good for you. Where'd you get that? Do you saw it off yourself?

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barrons]

Where'd you get that?

[Miles]

Would have been cooler. Got online.

[Charlie Barrons]

Really?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I, I, that actually does sound illegal. I don't think it is in North Dakota. It's probably not in Minnesota. You cross that line?

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barrons]

No. Well, good for you, Miles.

[Miles]

Yeah, thanks. Well, guys, merry late Christmas and should we take some callers?

[Charlie Barrons]

Sure.

[Miles]

All right, folks. Well, we got Tyler from Canada on the line and Tyler is wondering why famil. Well, why families bring their children to Hooters. Tyler, what is so wrong with bringing your family to Hooters?

[Tyler]

Yeah, well, a, A couple weeks ago I was sitting there at the Hooters like, you know, just absolutely cranking beer as you do. And I was sitting there and I ended up having an arm wrestle. So we cleared off the table and then destroyed a bunch of by accident. It was a complete accident. But there was like a six year old watching me as I was doing this. Absolutely trash. And I'm like, why the hell did you bring your four and six year olds to Hooters to come have a friggin burger. Like go to the McDonald's or something for Christ's sake.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, whoa, whoa.

[Miles]

Okay. Well one, there's a lot to unpack here.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

First of all, what is so wrong with bringing your 4 and 6 year old to Hooters? It's a, it's a great establishment.

[Charlie Barrons]

They got great wings. You think kids don't like wings?

[Miles]

They got great wings. They have very friendly staff there.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the problem is.

[Miles]

They have a great atmosphere. What's so wrong with that?

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know.

[Tyler]

When I was a kid, my mom didn't like bringing me to places where there's just titties absolutely everywhere.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Miles]

What are you talking about?

[Charlie Barrons]

When I go to Hooters, I look at the menu and the waitress's eyes the menu, the eyes. Yep, that's it.

[Miles]

Sometimes the tv.

[Charlie Barrons]

Menu eyes. Tv. Menu, eyes, tv. What are you talking about? This titties thing.

[Tyler]

I think you're lying there, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Really? Oh, now he comes on the podcast. He insults parents in Canada for trying to feed their kids some good protein, and now he says I'm lying.

[Tyler]

Well, not just parents in Canada, parents everywhere.

[Miles]

Plus also, they have. For a four and six year old, they have high quality milk at this establishment. That's what kids drink. You know, that's a good point.

[Tyler]

Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong.

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't know they serve milk at Hooters.

[Miles]

Yeah, they do. It's. It's. It's. It's off menu, but yeah, it is on tap.

[Tyler]

Oh, fair enough. Kind of like the secret menu where you find, like, Everclear and stuff like that.

[Miles]

Sure, yeah. What do you do in arm wrestling? It sounds like maybe. I don't want to say it, but maybe you guys are the problem. Calling causing a ruckus. It sounds like you destroyed some stuff off of arm wrestling.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we might have knocked over a couple glasses and they might have been full of beer. And I might. I was walking down the street in Toronto, and I'm from. I'm from, like a small town about an hour outside of Toronto. So I was down there in the big city, you know, just living my life. And I'm sitting there drunk as hell, walking through downtown Toronto and all these people in their Gucci shoes and their Louis Vuitton purses. And I was walking up to him like, hey, where do I buy pants around here? And that was just not a good thing. Everybody looked at me like I was stupid as hell, which. Fair enough.

[Charlie Barrons]

Where do I buy pants around here? Is that what you said?

[Miles]

Why were you wearing pants?

[Tyler]

Yeah, I was wearing pants, but they were soaked in beer because I spilled when the glass broke. All the beer went directly over me. So I was walking through downtown Toronto just covered in beer, and then I was walking around trying to find some fans.

[Charlie Barrons]

Now, can you be honest? Can you be honest with me? Were you arm wrestling? Did you spill beer or did you just have too much to drink and miss the urinal? Because that happens.

[Tyler]

I had too much to drink and then decided to arm wrestle. I think that was, like, the key there.

[Charlie Barrons]

Did you get kicked out of the Hooters? Is that where this is really coming?

[Tyler]

Oh, no. We left before they got the chance to. We crunched the shots we had in the table and then paid our bills and left before they could kick us out and then went to the next part after we found some pants.

[Charlie Barrons]

Did you. I hope you tipped your bartender quite a bit for break.

[Tyler]

Oh, I.

[Miles]

Don't worry.

[Charlie Barrons]

It was.

[Tyler]

It was a couple days after payday. Don't worry.

[Miles]

Okay, smart question for you. Why were you arm wrestling? What happened?

[Tyler]

Well, we just got. We just started talking, and somebody said they would beat me in their arm wrestle, and I think. I don't really know what happened. The beer, lost the arm wrestle. I don't really know who won.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, my gosh. Okay, so you're not.

[Miles]

I wonder, though, if there was some sort of ego thing going on here, Charlie. You know, the friendly staff is watching 100%. You know, you're trying to look like a big man in front of the friendly staff. Some guy calls you out. What do you think?

[Charlie Barrons]

I think.

[Tyler]

I think it was actually my best friend.

[Charlie Barrons]

Your best friend called you out? Said, I want what?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And then. Hmm. So, yeah, the testosterone was just roaring through this place. And the problem is, is because you're not looking people in the eye, and I think that's where it all starts. You're not looking people in the eye. And I think you guys start doing that, that's where the soul lives. Okay. You know, you can't. You can't be doing. What you were doing in there is bottom line. Hey, go ahead.

[Tyler]

I was just about to say. You're probably right. Go ahead.

[Miles]

Charlie, are you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Are you a good arm wrestler? Just out of curiosity, like. Okay, so you don't go into bars typically, and arm wrestle? That's not kind of your thing? No. The beer caught on the wrong hour at the wrong moment, and. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

That's basically what happened.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

You know, I'm thinking about this bringing your family to Hooters thing, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

And I think that the more I think about it, the better the idea is. Actually. He's hating on it, but I think it's a great place to bring your kids.

[Charlie Barrons]

I also think that's the case. I mean, you could have, like, the owl's nest, you know, which is, like a little daycare, you know, for the kids. And, I mean, I think this is a whole side business for Hooters. And, you know, you have little owls all over the place. Kids love a good owl.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, and they can go.

[Tyler]

Very good. That's a very good point. They could put, like, I don't know, a big old cooler or something in there, and they could just fill it with ice, and they could keep beer and kids in there and they could just keep bringing us beers.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's. That is true. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, the kids.

[Miles]

What's the staff gonna do if they're. If the kids are bringing you beers?

[Tyler]

I wonder if they can get smart serves or allowed to serve alcohol. I guess once you hit like 12, you're good to go.

[Miles]

Yeah. Especially in Wisconsin.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, if that's in Wisconsin, that's fine. Yeah, we. We let that. We let that stuff slide all the time.

[Tyler]

It's the same way the.

[Miles]

In the owl's nest, they have like a crayon set with, you know, different pictures that you can color in, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

What are the pictures of?

[Miles]

They just have balloons and milk jugs, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

My God.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

They have. Help me out.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, no, I. I think you're doing just fine. Just find yourself.

[Miles]

Hey, coconuts, you know, watermelons.

[Tyler]

Yeah. You know, yeah, they could, like, they could call. They could color in the server's waitresses.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, see, that's what Miles was trying not to say, but I see where you're going with on that. Can I ask you this?

[Tyler]

The truth, like, that's what they want to do.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. What's the food situation like? What's the difference between a Hooters in Canada versus a Hooters in the States? Do they have good wings up there in Canada too? Or is it more like poutine?

[Tyler]

Lots of poutine. I think there's very few places you can't go in Canada where everywhere sells poutine. Literally everywhere.

[Miles]

Okay, so what's new? That I didn't know that poutine was a Canadian thing. Why do you guys love poutine so much?

[Tyler]

It's cheese, fries, and gravy. What's not to love? Like all the best pieces.

[Charlie Barrons]

I gotta tell you, poutine is a high risk dish, okay? You can ruin poutine pretty quick by having bad gravy. And honestly, I'm. I'm not a fan of poutine. I. I know. Yeah. I'm gonna get in trouble by all the Canadians by saying this, but poutine is definitely not my go to poutine.

[Tyler]

You'd rather eat cheese curds on their own?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I mean, you can't. You can't go wrong with a cheese curd. A deep fried cheese.

[Tyler]

You can't go wrong with it. I haven't had a fried cheese curd. We don't really have that up here in Canada.

[Charlie Barrons]

We eat them.

[Tyler]

Which is covered in gravy.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, my gosh. Well, it is a weird place. Yeah. Maybe. It's just. I'm not a fan of gravy, and that's where it comes from. But would you. What's better at the Hooters in Canada? What's their. What's their main dish? Is it poutine or is it wings?

[Tyler]

I'm pretty sure it's wings. Or like, Budweiser, One of the two.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

The main dish. Budweiser.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I could see it.

[Miles]

I'm starting to think, Charlie, I think that they should hold an arm wrestling night at Hooters. Right now it sounds like you're just having to do it on a table, and it sounds more dangerous than if they, you know, you have the owl's nest daycare. And then right next door is in. The place is a spot for people to arm wrestle. So when their testosterone gets a little bit too high from staring people in the eyes.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

They can go and duke it out on an arm wrestling table.

[Charlie Barrons]

That would be over the top.

[Tyler]

Miles, you pay $10 for a VFD spot to go arm wrestling?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah. You could add a little side business. Miles, who do you think will win arm wrestle, you or me?

[Miles]

Well, right now I'm dealing with a little bit of Lopper's elbow.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's that?

[Miles]

Do you know what a lopper is? No, it's just basically like a big scissors that you cut branches with. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

I was.

[Charlie Barrons]

You just called it loopers.

[Miles]

I was.

[Tyler]

I called them over here in Canada.

[Miles]

Okay. I was lopping some trees when I was deer hunting, and I don't know what happened. I got some sort of tendonitis in my elbow. So if we were to arm wrestle, I. It would. It would basically be. I plan hurt.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, well, that's fine. I didn't care. I don't care if you're hurt. Let's do it. And that just sounds like an excuse to me. And we just.

[Miles]

Do you have any technique tips for me if I'm an arm wrestle Charlie here, since you do it a lot, use your way.

[Tyler]

I don't do a lot of arm wrestling, but I have one buddy who's like half the size of me who just beats the hell out of everybody in arm wrestling. And I have no idea how really.

[Miles]

All right, Jake, you want to come hold?

[Charlie Barrons]

And he uses his weight. Huh?

[Miles]

Well, you got to keep it on the chair.

[Charlie Barrons]

Cheek on the chair. Okay. I like that, actually.

[Tyler]

Hey, boys, I got a question for you.

[Miles]

Well, hold on. We're. We're in the middle of something right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have him ask while we're doing this.

[Tyler]

Ah, okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's your question?

[Miles]

Go ahead. All right, so, Jake, I drink a.

[Tyler]

Beer called Old Milwaukee Ice.

[Miles]

And then you have that up there goes off. Then we go. Old Milwaukee Ice.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie, do you know I've had Milwaukee's best ice? Old Milwaukee Ice. Do you guys serve Old Milwaukee Ice here? No. She just laughs and says no. Are we ready, Miles? And game on. Oh, God damn. What are you coming out the gate?

[Eli]

Hot.

[Charlie Barrons]

Where? Miles?

[Tyler]

No, no, you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, he won. No, he caught me by surprise. I want a rematch.

[Miles]

Caught him by. You gave the count.

[Charlie Barrons]

I wasn't paying attention.

[Miles]

Oh, God.

[Charlie Barrons]

Two out of three.

[Miles]

I am one and done. I can't feel my arm.

[Charlie Barrons]

Miles, the mechanical energy there, that was. That was electric. You came out the gate with that. I'm almost embarrassed.

[Miles]

All right, Charlie, let's go to Hooters.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's ready. You want to ice some wings? What'd you say?

[Tyler]

Is that where the next podcast is going to be? At Old Hooters?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, that's not bad idea.

[Miles]

If your Hooters out there, we love wings. We love milk. So if you want to sponsor the show, hit us up.

[Charlie Barrons]

Cheese Louise. Chase Louise. Yeah. Hey, I got a question. What'd you do with your old pants?

[Tyler]

There is about. I think I left them in Toronto. To be honest, I never found them.

[Charlie Barrons]

He definitely steps out. Nobody just leaves their pants somewhere.

[Miles]

The old pumpkin and dump pumped his pants full of piss and dumped him in a garbage somewhere.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, we're starting to poke holes in this story.

[Miles]

I'm gonna be honest. After I'm coming down from that arm wrestling match, I. I don't know if I've. Unless it was clearly a weaker opponent. I don't know if I've ever won an arm wrestling match.

[Charlie Barrons]

So.

[Miles]

That should make you feel good.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know what it is. I think you. It wasn't that you're stronger than me. That's for sure.

[Miles]

You give me a place to stand, I'll move the world. Charlie, it's a. That's a quote about leverage. Life's all about you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Here's what happened. You. You got me right out the gate. And that. That's actually a good tip for arm wrestling. You got to go boom, right out the gate. Because as soon as you lose that leverage, that leverage, you're. You're done. So, you know. And I lost that leverage. I underestimated my opponent. I did.

[Miles]

Yeah. Maybe next time you'll estimate Me.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, overestimate.

[Miles]

I know. Next time you're gonna estimate me.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Instead of overestimate me, I. Loppers.

[Charlie Barrons]

I always call them snippers.

[Miles]

Yeah, same. Same church, different pew.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, I got snippers. Elbow. So that's. I was snipping, and, you know, that's.

[Miles]

Why I lost Tyler, I got a question for you. Why not just go? Why not just go, like, arm wrestle at Applebee's? Why or why do you got to go to Hooters?

[Tyler]

I've never been to an Applebee's before. Supposedly there is one down here. I thought it was an American thing for, like, the longest time ever, but I found out, like, a town, like, half hour, 40 minutes from me actually does have an Applebee's, and I really want to go there.

[Miles]

Charlie, this could be a fun game. All right. Do you have these restaurants in Canada?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, that's fine.

[Miles]

Do you guys.

[Tyler]

Oh, that'll be a good one.

[Miles]

Yeah. Applebee's.

[Tyler]

I believe so now, but only a couple locations.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

Chili's? No, Twin Peaks.

[Miles]

I know of Twin Peaks.

[Tyler]

There's a place called Twin Peaks. Like, it's like an expect. Inspection company. Expects houses.

[Miles]

Not what I'm talking about, but good to know. How about the Tilted Kilt?

[Tyler]

Nope.

[Charlie Barrons]

Miles. What? I've never been to a Twin Peaks or a Tetley Kill. What's. What's Twin Peaks?

[Miles]

It's the mountain version of Hooters. Just imagine if Hooters was set in Montana and. Or the Rocky Mountains.

[Charlie Barrons]

I see. I see. Okay.

[Miles]

Lumberjack version of Hooters.

[Charlie Barrons]

What do they serve there?

[Miles]

And that. They have great wings as well.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do they?

[Miles]

Yes.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And Tilted Kill.

[Miles]

I think it's the Irish version of Hooters.

[Charlie Barrons]

Kilts are Scottish.

[Miles]

Scottish. They're all the same.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's all right. You know, I might not be stronger than you, Miles, but I sure am smarter. And that. That's what? That's where I'm gonna hang my hat today. See, I'm not wearing a hat. Yeah, because it's hanging.

[Tyler]

What was your geography?

[Charlie Barrons]

What? My geography?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

What about.

[Tyler]

I've seen all these podcasts of you, like, in, like, knowing everywhere in Switzerland or.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah. No, wait. Where. Where are you. Where are you living right now? What's the name of that town?

[Tyler]

I'm living in a township called Clarington right now, about an hour east of Toronto.

[Charlie Barrons]

Clarenton. Is that what you said? Clarence? In Canada? Oh, yeah. No, I've been there. I've been there.

[Miles]

You know, you Know what Clarington's all about?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, it's. It's just north of Scot from Radford. Right. You ever been to Radford?

[Tyler]

Pretty close. Yeah, I've been up there drinking, playing hockey once or twice.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. And sometimes I go fishing over at Lock Green. Is that lake? Yeah, it's a. Lock is how they say lake in Canada.

[Miles]

Oh, God, it's. Sorry.

[Charlie Barrons]

Good walleyes and Lock Richardson. Oh, my gosh, forget about it. The perch there. Yeah. Now we're cooking. You ever been seeing salmon session salmon fishing? Yeah, sure have.

[Miles]

And where did you go? Where'd you go salmon fishing at, Charlie?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, you know, you got to find a good river system, and so sometimes what I'll do is I'll go down over to the Ottawa river, and if you hit it just north, just south of Sand Bay, North Castleford, there's some good salmon spots right there. But if you go up north of Scotch a little bit more. Okay, I'm talking the Ottawa river right by Bay Crawford Lake, right down.

[Tyler]

Pretty sure that's in, like, Quebec.

[Miles]

Yeah, they got good salmon in Quebec.

[Charlie Barrons]

I've heard, and it's Quebec.

[Tyler]

The Quebec people come down to where I am to come fish.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, well, they just don't know. Yeah, I mean, that's because they don't.

[Miles]

Know where to fish.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, they don't know. They don't know where. But no, I'll tell you. I'll tell you that Quebec, Ontario border right over by Dardanelles. I mean, my God, I gotta tell you, they know what they're talking about. And if you head over to Steamboat Bay, you are in for a treat because that is a good bed and breakfast right there. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Oh, I believe it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. So anyways, maybe I'll see you over there in the Portage du Fort at some point.

[Tyler]

Oh, fucking right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Did you imagine if you actually ran into him there one time?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we. I like. I go over to Murph's chip stand sometimes and chips. By the way, in Canada, it's fries. They. It's fries, but they don't call it fries, they call it chips. The River Club portage is beautiful. Fat Boys takeout. If you guys are hungry, go over to Fat Boys. So, yeah, I highly recommend it, guys.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, I gotta buy, sell, trade for you boys.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, what is it?

[Tyler]

I'm looking to find me a mechanical bull.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, you sound like a guy who's looking to buy a mechanical bull.

[Tyler]

Yeah, but I can't really afford what I've Been searching the old dirty Facebook marketplace, and they're like, anywhere from, like, a couple thousand to, like 20,000. So, like, my budget's like a case old Milwaukee, like 20 bucks.

[Miles]

Yeah. I think you're probably then not in the market for a mechanical bull, it sounds like.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think you could get a bowl that doesn't move. A broken mechanical bowl, potentially.

[Miles]

You could find a mechanic and a bowl, but I don't know if you can get both of them.

[Charlie Barrons]

And you might have to do a little bit more for that mechanic than that case of beer. You might have to drink that case of beer and then do something you're going to forget, and then maybe you'll get yourself.

[Miles]

Are you looking for a mechanic's bowl or are you looking for a mechanical bowl? I can't tell.

[Charlie Barrons]

You might have to kind of change your budget.

[Miles]

Might be more the mechanics bowl.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that's true, man. Mechanics are expensive over here. There's like. Like the one mechanic I was talking to. He says just to look at a car and diagnose it, it's 130 an hour.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, that's supply and demand, Charlie. Right. There's not a lot of mechanics, not a lot of. He knows what he's got. You know, he's clearly got a lot of business because he don't want to be looking at your car if he's charging that much.

[Tyler]

Yeah, well, I'm lucky enough where I got a shed that's got, like 18 different holes in the roof. But under all the beer cans and beer cases, there is lots of random parts. And I've fixed so many different things while searching through cases of beer, and I found. Oh, there's an alternator there that might fucking work. And we just bolt it back up and normally tends to work.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wow. Weird. You just own a shed with a bunch of beer and parts in it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. My dad used to be the snowmobiling, and he's a big fisherman and that. So we got, like, all kinds of parts for the boat because he's kind of cheap as hell like I am. And we just kind of collect parts and search through the piles of beer cans and that, and then we have enough to put shit back together most of the time.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, and then I wonder if you got enough to make a mechanical bowl out of those parts. How hard can it be?

[Tyler]

I've seen these boys on Instagram or Facebook, and they took, like, a coil out of a car, like a spring, and they welded it to, like, a rim of a car, and they Put like a big, like 50 gallon drum on top of it so it just goes in every direction. I'm like, man, that's what I might have to do because I can't afford me one of them mechanical bolts that.

[Miles]

You should absolutely do that. And you should take a video of it and send it to us.

[Tyler]

I feel like I'm gonna have to do that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, no, that's definitely it. Make sure you put a lot of padding between the coil and the barrel, though. You don't want it popping through because then, you know, you're getting the mechanics pull again. You know what I mean?

[Tyler]

The heat falls through on.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, no, make sure that's welded on good, whatever it is. And put a steel plate between you and that coil end because I've seen some videos and I know how that ends.

[Miles]

What kind of stuff are you watching online?

[Charlie Barrons]

Don't worry about Miles. Don't worry about it.

[Miles]

Well, Tyler, we appreciate you taking our call today. And hey, just keep the arm wrestling in check. You don't need to be breaking glasses. And it's a family establishment. Establishment over there at Hooters, whether you like it or not. And so you gotta. You gotta respect. Respect the. The facility.

[Tyler]

It's very true. I felt. I felt very bad the next way, and I'm happy. I. I felt very bad the next day, and I'm happy. I tipped him a good 30 bucks after that. I probably paid for the glass and for the waitress drinks that night.

[Charlie Barrons]

30 bucks. Something tells me that you might want to revisit that place with a nice 20 spot. That might take care of it the next go round. But anyways, it's a thought that counts. And you and send us a video that mechanical ball, all right?

[Tyler]

Oh, right. I will.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. Well, be good, Tyler. Thank you. Good one.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Keep her trucking, boys.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. We will, my guy. We'll see you soon. All right, let's do a rematch.

[Miles]

Oh, God. I.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready.

[Tyler]

You.

[Miles]

You counted it down.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got loppers on your left.

[Miles]

That. Loppers on the left.

[Charlie Barrons]

Lopper's elbow.

[Miles]

Yeah. So I don't know. Hey, pretty good idea, actually, for that mechanical ball.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is a good idea. You know, a barrel, a drum. I got a drum, actually.

[Miles]

Do you.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't have any other parts, though. I feel like. How would you get one going? You know what would like something that moves. The spring is all. Just a little one of these. Some that goes like this. Okay. So on top of this, put A wheel and then just an engine to move the wheel. We do it inside with a lawnmower. We just both die of carbon monoxide.

[Miles]

God, we didn't think that one through.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Well, should we take another caller?

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's do it.

[Miles]

We have Eli from Nevada on the phone, and let's just say Eli is a chronic low baller on Facebook Marketplace. And the first question I have for you, Eli, is, are you a middle child?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yep.

[E]

Right in the middle.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yep. We knew it.

[E]

Middle of seven.

[Charlie Barrons]

Middle of seven. Oh, yeah, you got some chronic male child issues.

[Miles]

He's mass produced.

[Charlie Barrons]

He is mass produced. Thank you for taking my joke there, Miles. I like that. Now, yeah. Eli, give us the backstory here. You're just on Facebook, Marketplace. Just. Just lowballing people to get kicks. What's going on?

[E]

Yeah, so growing up, we did, like, garage sales and stuff, and I think that's where I got the itch for it. And then when I got older and got a phone, I got Marketplace and started flipping stuff. Like, to me, kind of Marketplace is kind of like a social media, like Instagram or something. I just.

[Miles]

It's kind of like Facebook. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like Facebook.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're a marketplace. You fancy yourself a marketplace influencer, in other words.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I try to get my reviews up and stuff, you know.

[Miles]

Okay, well, it doesn't sound like you're doing the behavior to get your reviews up.

[E]

Well, I haven't gotten any bad ones, so I don't know if that just means. I don't really know what that means, but.

[Miles]

Okay, well, tell us. Tell us the scheme you got running with the low balling.

[E]

So sometimes it's for things I want, and sometimes it's the things I just see on there, and then I just kind of send a comment. I had one recently. My fiance's family was looking for a. Like, a inflatable Christmas decoration. And it. They had one in our town. So they messaged them and they were trying to get them down. So they were at, like. Like 180, I think, was their bottom dollar. So I came in with a. I came in, like, hard, like, I'll offer. I offered them $100 so that their deal at 150 would be good, would be, you know, look better. They messaged me and said, absolutely not. Like, bottom dollar is 155. So I went back to my fiance, and I was like, okay, I got him down to 155. I could go get it for you guys for 155 even. Though he told them 180. That's kind of. That was a recent one.

[Miles]

Yeah. No, hold on, though. You're. You're. You are. You're. You're not being totally truthful with us, because when you called us and left a voicemail, you said, I lowball people even when I don't have any interest in buying their things. I'll. I'll also look at anything in the entire country and just lowball people. And then if someone doesn't like my offer and is rude about it, then I'll be a little bit rude back. So that's what we want to talk about.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. This extends beyond your Christmas decorations, Eli. We've done our homework here. Okay? We listen to what you told us.

[E]

Okay, Okay. I. Okay, I'll get on that.

[Miles]

Because that is diabolical, man. You're just looking up random stuff and just low balling, taking up people's time.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is reverse inflation is what it is.

[E]

So a lot of times I'll lowball people the real value of what I think it is. So I think they're like. I'm like, bro, there's no way you're gonna get any, like, that much money for it. And I just want to see the reaction. Or I'll read their description and say, no trades, and I'll offer them trades.

[Miles]

I see what he's doing here a little bit, Charlie. He's kind of like a.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's a troll.

[Miles]

He's. Well, he's keeping people in check. A little bit of a Robin Hood type vibe. You see someone that's a little bit greedy with their listing, and you want to. You're doing work for the people to lower the price so that the person that ends up buying it doesn't get ripped off.

[Charlie Barrons]

Robin. From the rich to feed the poor, because of all the rich people selling stuff on Facebook. Marketplace.

[E]

I like that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, now, I know. I know you're stacked pretty heavy with some of these messages. Do you have any favorites from your archive that you can read to us?

[E]

I'm looking through some right now.

[Miles]

Yeah, we would, like.

[Charlie Barrons]

Take your time.

[Miles]

Yeah, we would specifically like one where the guy was a little bit rude to you and you were a little bit rude back.

[E]

Okay, here's one. You know, like those razor crazy cards. Cards.

[Charlie Barrons]

The razor crazy cards. Let me see.

[E]

It's like drift cards.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Those are cool. Those are fun.

[E]

So there was one of those, but the guy did a. He, like, made it into a tank, so it looked like a little airsoft tank. So I messaged him and he said, not a cent lower than $2,000. So I messaged him and said, would you take 1999? So he, he came back with like, like a bunch of laughy emojis and like said, basically, fu. And I was like, I was like, well, you really think someone might buy that for $2,000? When I basically put a piece of junk. Then he came back. Oh, go ahead.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, you go of court. Go for it.

[E]

Oh, yeah, he just came back and said, like, well, if you don't got the money, then. Then get out of my marketplace listing or something like that.

[Miles]

I like that, actually.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have you ever gotten into a fight off of this situation? Has it gone back and forth where you're losing sleep over the next thing you're going to say to this guy?

[E]

Sometimes I'll. So we'll like, message back a little bit. And then let's say like a month later, marketplace will like notify you if they lowered the price. So I'll give. It'll be like, message someone, let's say in September, and it'll marketplace and say, this person lowered the price by $100. So I'll go back and say, was my offer. Is my offer good now?

[Charlie Barrons]

Do they. Does it ever work?

[E]

It's actually gotten. We actually bought a dirt bike for my. One of my friends doing that.

[Miles]

Nice.

[E]

Like, he was like, yeah, actually, you know what? It actually, it actually would work and you can come pick it up. So we went and picked it up.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, there you go. What are the top five tips or top three? What are top tips for lowing somebody on Facebook? Marketplace.

[Miles]

Yeah, you're a professional low baller. What are the tips to the lowball?

[E]

Okay, I think first of all, the number one tip is have a buddy who has Facebook Marketplace account. You offer them a little bit lower than the price you actually want to pay and see what he says. Then if he says no, then you get your buddy to go on there, message him, and like, totally low ball him, like by a lot. Like by at least half. And then. Then your offer looks a lot better.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got a low ball tag team going.

[Miles]

Yeah. A little sting operation.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like it. I like it.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's. We call that low ball lowballing the low baller.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, low ball. The low baller.

[Miles]

That's again, this seems kind of scummy.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I. I know, but I kind of like the art of it. Okay, so you get a buddy, you got the buddy system going. What else?

[E]

Sometimes you can get them when they, if it's been on there for, like, so long, it'll be like, this was listed a year ago. And then you can hit them. You can kind of hit them with a little bit of a. Like, well, since it hasn't sold in a year, would you take this? And then. Then sometimes they'll do that.

[Miles]

Yeah. And you can word it, Charlie. Kind of like, you know, I'll take it off your hands.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles]

You know, like, this is burning a hole in your garage. I. I should just take it off your hands.

[Charlie Barrons]

Patronize the product a little bit.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like. Like, I'm doing you a favor.

[Miles]

Yeah. And do kind of the thing he did. Insult the product a little bit, like, ah, yeah. Probably hasn't sold because you can clearly tell there's no tread left on those tires.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So I'll pro. I could take it off your hands for you.

[Charlie Barrons]

A dig and drop. Dig the product, drop the offer. That's good in. In doing this.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'm doing you a favor by taking this off your hands.

[Charlie Barrons]

Exactly. It's kind of like, you know, like how. How those sort of douchebags hit on people at the bar. You know, they'll like, kind of. They'll kind of like, remember when it was big. What was the name of that book? There was some book, the Game or whatever came out. You ever heard of that?

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barrons]

It was a really douchey book about how if you're trying to go out with someone, you, like, insult them a little bit at the beginning to drop their confidence, you know, I don't know. There was some movie or a book about it a few years ago, but it seems like the same tactics are applying here to Facebook Marketplace.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

What. What is, like. Have you gotten, though, like, a dude. Like, people get in fights on Facebook Marketplace. Have you ever had that where you felt bad about it? Like, you've done. You went. You utilized your powers a little bit too poorly. Do you have a scenario like that?

[E]

No, I've never, actually. Because I'll only show up if someone. If I actually want to buy it or if I. We kind of agree on a price. I've never actually gotten an actual fight.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Okay. I kind of got us off track. All right, so you got tag team. You tag team.

[Miles]

Well, here's a. Here's the question. I got a question for him. Have you ever not lowballed someone and. Or after talking to them, you paid more than what you offered?

[E]

Oh, yeah, I have done that.

[Miles]

And that's what we call, Charlie, the old swindlers trick. On the other side, you know, you bring up about how your wife's got cancer or something like that, make the guy feel bad. These, this money is going to go towards hospital bills and all of a sudden they're paying full price. So the low baller just got highballed, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, because for every low baller out there, there is a high baller.

[Miles]

Correct.

[Charlie Barrons]

And when you sell stuff, are you a high baller?

[E]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I'm firm on my deal.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like that. This all started like your, your origin story is in Fle. You know, his hero origin story.

[Miles]

Well, he's more of a villain, Charlie. What's your villain, what's your villain origin story?

[E]

It was honestly garage sales just walking around the streets like garage sales like rolling up. You see sign on the side of the road and you pull over and walk up and then you can haggle with people there.

[Miles]

The art of the haggle.

[Charlie Barrons]

The art of the haggle.

[Miles]

This he got, he got all of his knowledge from haglin old ladies. Ladies in their garage.

[Charlie Barrons]

Who is the hardest haggler in the garage sale? Was it the old lady?

[E]

No, it was actually the younger, like kind of middle aged guys who. His wife was probably making him get rid of stuff, but he actually didn't want to get rid of it. But he was. Yeah, those guys will not let their stuff go cheap.

[Miles]

It's like Michael Scott with his neon beer sign. Oh yeah, it's not for sale.

[Charlie Barrons]

I look, there's a check in the bellied up bingo for a Michael Scott reference right there. We don't have one of those three episodes. Well, okay, so I think we do appreciate the fact that, that you know, you're coming clean with us on you being professional. Low baller.

[Miles]

I guess. I guess he confessed to us. Confessed low baller.

[Charlie Barrons]

This was a hidden bellied up confession. Which means, Miles, we need to end by giving him his. His penance.

[Miles]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. You didn't know, but you were in the confessional the whole time. And now we are going to give you your penance.

[Charlie Barrons]

Miles. What, what prayers does he need to do?

[Miles]

I think he needs to do a glory be or two.

[Charlie Barrons]

A glory be or two.

[Miles]

Okay, maybe, maybe one Nicene Creed.

[Charlie Barrons]

One. Oh, that's a deep cut.

[Miles]

Not the apostles creed. That's cutting it short.

[Charlie Barrons]

The nice scene.

[Miles]

I see the whole thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

Because you got to be nice seener to people.

[Miles]

Yes, you do.

[Charlie Barrons]

And I'm. And if you don't do these things, well, you better because otherwise you're going to be Condemned to. When you hit the age of 40, you're going to just have low balls because you're a low baller. All right, so you say those penance.

[Miles]

Balls, or do you want to do the penance?

[E]

I'll do the other. That second option, the penance.

[Miles]

All right, well, I think. What the. We should give him one more thing. One more thing for his penance. He's going to say those prayers. Then what?

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie, I want you to find the next thing you see. The next thing you see on Facebook Marketplace, you got to do the Midwest barter on it and say, oh, I couldn't give you $50 for that. That's real nice. I gotta give you 60 at least.

[Miles]

So that's one. And my additional penance is you have to list something on Facebook Marketplace that you don't want to list, and you have to accept the first offer that you get. So if you get a. Yeah, that's your penance. If you get a low ball offer, you have to take it.

[Charlie Barrons]

And we want to see receipts. Otherwise, you're going to be seeing them balls down by your ankles. You're going to be playing hacky sack with yourself. Do they wumble? Do they throw? Can you time in a knot? Can you tie them in a ball? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier? Do your ball. Those are your balls clicking together. Anyways, thank you for calling in here. We appreciate your confession, and good luck out there on the Facebook Marketplace.

[E]

Thank you. Watch out for deer.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, you as well.

[Miles]

We'll see you now, man, it's, you know, like this. The little, like, secret societies in. In society.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Like, the Facebook Marketplace is definitely one of those. Oh, yeah, it used to be Craigslist. Yeah. Now Craigslist is a whole different type of people. And now you got this subset of people that hang out on Facebook Marketplace all day, and they know the tricks of the trade, the ins and outs. I mean, you got inside jokes with people in Facebook Marketplace.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, I'll be honest with you. I've never used Facebook Marketplace. I've only used Craigslist.

[Miles]

Really?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I've always been very loyal to the Craigslist.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. You're old. So what?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, Miles, I'm just. I'm hip. Okay. Facebook Marketplace is, too. Yeah.

[Miles]

You broke a hip culture because you're so old.

[Charlie Barrons]

You watch yourself, Miles. I may have lost an arm wrestle.

[Miles]

You want to arm wrestle?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. You. You want to go toe to toe on this, huh? Yeah, you better sit down, Miles. You better sit. Sit down. Oh, you gonna raise your chin to me? Uppercut. Got him.

[Miles]

Should we take another caller?

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's do it. Before we get in a fight, folks, it's winter out there and things get icy, okay? Like parking lots. And sometimes you slip, you go ass over teakettle and then you, you break your femur. Who you gonna call? Miles?

[Miles]

No, don't call the. They won't do anything for you.

[Charlie Barrons]

They won't. They might come over and cross a stream, but cross streams, you know. But that's not gonna help you out. That's not gonna get you there.

[Miles]

Yeah, you get yourself in a slippery situation, huh?

[Charlie Barrons]

I like what you did there, Miles. It's a play on words. It's really good. And it's got to be some type.

[Miles]

Of fall if you're breaking your femur.

[Charlie Barrons]

To break a femur on a fall. But then who's gonna pay for that?

[Miles]

I don't know, you think your health.

[Charlie Barrons]

Insurance, gun cover it? Doubt it. No. If you want that money that you deserve, you call Nicolet Law. They're going to lay down that law just like you laid down in that parking lot. And they're going to get that money. You deserve to fix that femur. Right. They'll buy you a whole new femur if you want.

[Miles]

Yeah. And the worst thing, the last thing you want is to start the new year with a broken femur and not be. Get the money that you deserve.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I can't be going femur less into 2025. No. I gotta go fearless into 2025.

[Miles]

Yes, you do, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

And that means femur full, femur full.

[Miles]

And fearless into 2025. Guys, give Nicolay law call at 1-855-nicolay or visit nicolaylod.com let them handle the tough stuff so you can focus on enjoying the start of the new year.

[Charlie Barrons]

I. Beautifully said, Miles. Beautifully said.

[Miles]

Top of my dome, Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know what I love about New Year's?

[Miles]

What do you love about New Year's?

[Charlie Barrons]

I love cutting a big old hole in the ice and going polar plunging. And you know what feels the best after a nice cold dip into a freezing lake?

[Miles]

I don't know, what is it?

[Charlie Barrons]

An ice cold glass of Tippy Cow.

[Miles]

I see what you did there, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is the Wisconsin drink. After you tip it on back or after you celebrate the new year. Cold as hell. You tip it on back to the Tippy Cow. Because I gotta tell you, nothing beats an ice cold ice bath.

[Miles]

What gets more Midwest than jumping in a frozen lake?

[Charlie Barrons]

Now listen, I Know, there are some people that are like, I don't like to be that cold. Well, fine, fine, you pansies. I got one for you too. You take the Tippy cow and you put it inside your hot cocoa or.

[Miles]

A really good idea. I didn't think you were going to come up with that kind of an idea.

[Charlie Barrons]

You thank you, Miles. Or your hot coffee. You call it a latte tipe. And that's a typical latte for those of you don't speak French. And it is a beautiful alternative to the cold glass of Tippy Cow. However you bring in the new year, make sure you include Tippy Cow in the deal. Ladies and gentlemen. Tip it on back to the Tippy Cow, Miles. Cheers to you, Charlie.

[Miles]

Actually, yes. So we have a voicemail hotline now.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's pretty cool.

[Miles]

And we actually got a voicemail listened to to end the episode here.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hell yeah. Let's hear it.

[Miles]

All right, here we go.

[Eli]

Hey there. I apologize for the road noise in advance. It could be kind of bad. I'm traveling for welding. But what I'd like to talk to you about. Sorry, I forgot my name and age too. I'm Tyler, 18 years old, just left the house. But one of the things that I got is, you know, I take that.

[Tyler]

You guys are pheasant hunters.

[Eli]

I love the road hunting for ditch chickens hat. Although I guarantee you that you have never seen a black mutant pheasant. It's a mutation in the pigment of the pheasant and it turns it from a brown and you know, the beautiful browns and the tans and the red and the blues and just a normal pheasant and it turns it into completely jet black. And in some rare cases it'll make them purple, blue and green. It looks exactly like a peacock. You can look it up right now and you will be blown away.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wow.

[Eli]

So here's the kicker. I got one. It's taxidermies. I got it a couple of months ago like upon Grip my graduation. And I got 27 inch tail feathers on this sucker too. I got pretty lucky there. So I want to know. Sorry, but I'd like to know what's, what's your thoughts on that? I think it'd be kind of neat. I think it'd be kind of neat to hear your response. I know that whenever I say a black pheasant, you know, people look at me like I'm crazy and maybe I am especially liking it that much, but I know it's something that you don't find very often. I haven't Found much information on it, so I'd like to hear your thoughts.

[Charlie Barrons]

Fun.

[Eli]

Anyway, take care, guys. Watch for deer.

[Charlie Barrons]

This guy. This guy just texter me to crow.

[Miles]

Yeah, he got it. He got it for his graduation. They just told him it was a black pheasant. No, Charlie. We looked it up, and he's telling the truth.

[Charlie Barrons]

Look at that thing. I like how he talked about how rare it was, and then. And then he's like, yep, I got it hanging on my wall. Right.

[Miles]

Well. So my question is, do you think that he. He shot it?

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know. It was unclear. It was unclear.

[Miles]

But what a graduation gift.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, seriously, to get a black pheasant or. I mean, I thought he was being.

[Miles]

Oh, my God, look at that one. That actually looks like a peacock.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that's wild, man.

[Miles]

Yeah, I imagine it is a wild bird.

[Charlie Barrons]

They're actually. They were brought over from China. Do you realize that. That all the pheasants were brought over? Yeah.

[Miles]

So here's a question for you, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

What would you do if I saw.

[Miles]

Black pheasant get up in front of you? You got your new shotgun that you got for Christmas?

[Charlie Barrons]

I'd shoot at it a second. Yeah, it would live. It would. Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

You're like, what's the. Why does it matter if I shoot at it?

[Charlie Barrons]

I miss it for sure. I. Yeah, I'm not very good at pheasant hunting, but, I mean, that is.

[Miles]

Almost too beautiful to call a ditch chicken, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know.

[Miles]

What would you call it instead?

[Charlie Barrons]

Not a ditch chicken. I'd call it like.

[Miles]

Like ditch caviar.

[Charlie Barrons]

I wonder if it tastes any better. You know, I bet it.

[Miles]

I bet it tastes same. Because it's all the same on the inside, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, we do. You know that, Miles.

[Miles]

No, I don't.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, you don't know it. So don't just go throwing that out there like that. I don't. You know, I can't. I'd probably shoot at it. I definitely miss it. I'd actually be curious if that was okay to shoot at, you know, like, if you ever see a white deer, you're not shooting an albino deer.

[Miles]

Was that illegal or just a.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's a. No, no, it's a. You don't do that.

[Miles]

It's agreed upon that you don't do it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

The gentleman's agreement.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. The rare things, you just. You let them go, and then, you know. But, you know, I let everything go anyway.

[Miles]

I wonder if they could just breed them that way.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think they can this one looks to be in a facility of some sort. So I bet you they've. Someone at some point has found these things and. And made them, you know, watch them make love and have the babies. Yeah, it's kind of like, oh, look at that one. That's an interesting one with the brown coat there. Oh, that's a.

[Miles]

That's a pigeon.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's a decoy, too.

[Miles]

It's just a cartoon drawing, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, it looked weird.

[Miles]

Weird.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Well, yeah, I mean, I guess it could be a ditch peacock.

[Charlie Barrons]

Ditchcock. I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

So it's not road hunting for ditch. Yeah, careful where you say that. That might give someone the wrong impression. Yeah, you see these albino pheasants too, Charlie?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, never. Oh, that's just a chicken.

[Miles]

Those are chickens.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know what that is? That's. What's that cartoon chicken. That big cartoon one that walks around chit chat. Fogh. That's exactly what I like. How you knew that right off the top.

[Miles]

Wouldn't that be funny? Like, you buy that thinking that you bought an actual chicken and you're like, why eggs? Just not getting any eggs.

[Charlie Barrons]

This actually looks like the cornflakes guy.

[Miles]

Yeah. A little. A little fun pheasant fact for us.

[Charlie Barrons]

Here on Spelled with a phone. Fun, fun pheasants facts. Yeah. Do pheasant hunt this year, mouse?

[Miles]

I did.

[Charlie Barrons]

Nice. I didn't. I didn't go. I did not go. Well, I still could. It's the season.

[Miles]

Yeah. Was it through? You got a few days left, don't you?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, in Wisconsin. We don't really have a season. You gotta have a buddy who has a game farm and then you can shoot the hens there, so. Oh, my burger's here.

[Miles]

Nice.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm excited.

[Miles]

Well, guys, little fun pheasant fact for the Bellied up podcast because we're pheasant guys here.

[Charlie Barrons]

We pheasant. And arguably I'm more of a pheasant guy because I let them all live.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You care about them more.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah, I care enough to miss. So.

[Miles]

What I was going to say, though, is we actually got some new road hunting for ditch chickens. Patch hats on the. Oh, you betcha website. Charles, those are slick. We got to get you one of. These are brand new, hot off the press.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'll take that one off your head.

[Miles]

I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, let's see. All right, maybe I'm a good boy.

[Miles]

Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Bellied up podcast. We'll see you next one. And remember, Charlie, one tip your bartender. Love you guys.

[Charlie Barrons]

Bye.