Best of Bellied Up: Volume 3

Summary

Bellied Up Podcast: Best of Volume 3 Summary

Release Date: April 3, 2025

Overview

"Bellied Up" is a unique comedy podcast hosted by Emmy-winning comedian Charlie Berens and Myles, known as You Betcha Guy. Set in the cozy ambiance of the Old Town Tavern in Appleton, the hosts engage with live callers from across the Midwest and beyond, offering humor, advice, and a sense of community. In "Best of Bellied Up: Volume 3," the episode compiles some of the most memorable interactions, showcasing the show's blend of comedy and heartfelt conversations.

Key Sections

1. Opening Shenanigans
2. Caller Spotlights
   • Connor from Montana
   • Amanda from Arizona
   • Patrick from Alabama
   • Sally from Wisconsin
3. Rehab Conversations
4. Unique Listener Stories
5. Interactive Segments
   • Tarot Card Reading
   • Relationship Advice
6. Closing Remarks

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1. Opening Shenanigans

The episode kicks off with Charlie Berens and Myles navigating the quirks of the Old Town Tavern, including playful banter about spilled coffee and the notorious beer claw machine. Their chemistry sets a humorous tone, immediately engaging listeners with their witty exchanges.

Notable Quote:

Charlie: "[...] sorry, Miles. You okay? You can be all right. Yikes."
(00:26)

2. Caller Spotlights

Connor from Montana

Connor, an electrician and construction foreman from Missoula, Montana, calls in to discuss a personal dilemma—convincing his pregnant wife to let him buy a snow machine. The conversation humorously explores the practicality of snow machines versus Ferraris in snowy climates.

Notable Quote:

Connor: "If a grizzly bear comes knocking tears apart your Ferrari, you guys have nowhere to go. You need that snow machine."
(08:18)

Amanda from Arizona

Amanda, an Arizona-based bartender, shares her experiences managing a bar flooded with Midwesterners—often referred to as "snowbirds." The discussion delves into cultural differences, driving habits, and the humorous challenges of serving an older clientele.

Notable Quote:

Amanda: "I love it. And I have to say no to that because I don't muddle things."
(34:32)

Patrick from Alabama

Patrick, a structural engineer from Mobile, Alabama, engages in a playful debate with the hosts about engineering versus construction workers. Their lighthearted argument highlights common stereotypes and fosters camaraderie despite professional differences.

Notable Quote:

Patrick: "We're trying to avoid those bad situations."
(43:02)

Sally from Wisconsin

Sally, a school bus monitor from southeastern Wisconsin, discusses the exhausting nature of driving a school bus in the Midwest. She emphasizes the decline in courtesy among students, attributing it to excessive phone usage and generational shifts.

Notable Quote:

Sally: "I'm waving at every one of them, and half of them won't even say it back."
(05:05)

3. Rehab Conversations

A segment featuring Emily and Braylon, both residing in rehab, explores the social dynamics and recreational challenges within rehabilitation centers. They discuss the importance of community, coping mechanisms, and the humorous side of strict environments.

Notable Quote:

Charlie: "Rehab is like summer camp, or what?"
(182:01)

4. Unique Listener Stories

Listeners share diverse and entertaining anecdotes, ranging from impromptu gender reveal parties involving snow machines to navigating complex relationships while living on a family farm. These stories blend humor with relatable life situations, offering both laughs and insights.

Notable Quote:

Patty: "I want to use chopsticks a little bit more [...] My first food after practice will be a deep-fried cheese curd."
(148:16)

5. Interactive Segments

Tarot Card Reading

Willie introduces a tarot card reading segment, bringing an element of mystique and personal reflection to the podcast. As he interprets the cards, listeners gain philosophical insights intertwined with the show's comedic essence.

Notable Quote:

Willie: "The High Priestess represents someone in tune with their divine feminine intuition."
(138:12)

Relationship Advice

The hosts offer humorous and practical advice to callers grappling with relationship issues, including navigating breakups and fostering meaningful connections. Their candid discussions provide both entertainment and genuine support.

Notable Quote:

Charlie: "Find someone that you're happy to FaceTime with."
(75:16)

6. Closing Remarks

The episode concludes with reflective and humorous exchanges, reinforcing the show's theme of community and laughter. The hosts express gratitude to their callers, highlight upcoming segments, and maintain their signature comedic flair.

Notable Quote:

Charlie: "Bellied up to the bar. Water is warm and the beer is cold. What's on your mind?"
(75:37)

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Conclusion

"Best of Bellied Up: Volume 3" encapsulates the essence of the "Bellied Up" podcast—where comedy meets community. Through engaging caller interactions, humorous banter, and heartfelt advice, Charlie Berens and Myles create a space where listeners feel both entertained and connected. Whether navigating the mundane or delving into the absurd, the podcast remains a testament to the power of laughter and shared stories.

Transcript

[Charlie Barrons]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Bellied up podcast. I'm here with my friend Charlie Barrons, and we are at the Old town Tavern, the Ott.

[Miles]

You down with Ott?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you know me.

[Miles]

You down with Ott?

[Charlie Barrons]

YeahS, you know Steve?

[Miles]

I know Steve.

[Charlie Barrons]

My name's not Steve.

[Miles]

They got.

[Charlie Barrons]

We're an appleton chart.

[Miles]

They got a beer claw here, Miles. A beer claw. The claw chooses who can come, who will. Okay? So you just go pick a beer. All them beers. Oh, shit.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hot coffee. Hot coffee on my.

[Miles]

Sorry, dude.

[Charlie Barrons]

Fuck.

[Miles]

That's all over you. Oh, man, is that wet? Yeah, it is, sugar tits. I'm so sorry, Miles. I didn't mean it. Dude, I was looking at the beer claw. Oh, that's gonna stain on that nice sweatshirt, too. I am so sorry. Let me help you. Sorry, sorry.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're only gonna pat my dick.

[Miles]

Well, I'm patting around your dick, all right, Trying to help. I'm sorry.

[Charlie Barrons]

The only sweatshirt I brought.

[Miles]

Really?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Well, I have to raw dog my arms all the whole trip.

[Miles]

Dude, how did it spill that fast? I can't believe I did that. Oh, I'm so sorry. You can spill out me later if you want. Let me wipe off your.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is a classic situation.

[Miles]

Wipe off.

[Charlie Barrons]

You hit your. You hit your brother a little bit too hard. So then instead of telling mom, you're like, no, you can hit me back even harder.

[Miles]

Oh, jeez. You know, I. It's not my fault. It is the beer claws fault. I mean, who puts a beer claw in a bar and doesn't expect accidents like this to happen? Oh, sorry, Miles. You okay? You can be all right. Yikes.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes, I am going to be okay.

[Miles]

Damn, that sucks.

[Charlie Barrons]

Although I may have to sue you. Now, that was some pretty hot coffee. And I don't know what kind of burns I'm going to get underneath these pants.

[Miles]

Well, unfortunately, it's a yeti coffee cup, which means it doesn't work.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, that was your first mistake, Charlie. Oh, maybe next time try closing the lid when you're not using it.

[Miles]

How about Habitat for Humanity, folks? I was plugged.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charity at a moment like this.

[Miles]

No, I was just over there trying.

[Charlie Barrons]

To make you seem like a better human.

[Miles]

Just over there this morning helping them put together a few houses for the less fortunate. And Miles is worried about a little bit of spilled coffee. You know, it's all about keeping things in perspective, Effective. And that's what I want the kids out there to know. Hey, Miles, you know the worst part about coffee when it spills is the smell after.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Just smells like crotch rot, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah, you know that. My good pants, too.

[Miles]

Those are your goods.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm gonna have to utilize the laundry at the hotel.

[Miles]

Oh, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like a dunce.

[Miles]

Wow. Yeah, you always know if you're doing laundry at the hotel. Some went wrong.

[Charlie Barrons]

Go wrong.

[Miles]

You know, people aren't just planning on doing laundry at the hot. Well, anyway, how's your day going otherwise, Miles?

[Charlie Barrons]

It's still going good, Charlie.

[Miles]

All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, I'm used to stuff like.

[Miles]

This with you now, folks, this was not planned, okay? Don't think we just did this for a cheap bit off the top of the show. Miles is sincerely pissed off right now. And. Yeah, nothing you can do about it, though. It's in the past. The past is the past. Miles, you want to play the beer cola machine? This is the wrong time to ask, but do you have quarters?

[Charlie Barrons]

Holy.

[Miles]

Is this a belly up?

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Miles]

I'm on the third floor.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's up, boys?

[Miles]

How you doing?

[Emily]

I'm.

[Braylon]

I'm doing fantastic.

[Charlie Barrons]

How are you guys?

[Miles]

Oh, fantastic too. Yeah, that's great.

[Charlie Barrons]

What are you doing right now? You sound out of breath.

[Braylon]

I'm at. I'm at work.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm the foreman.

[Patty]

But we're okay.

[Braylon]

We're safe in the truck.

[Charlie Barrons]

What were you. If you're the foreman, what were you doing out of the truck?

[Braylon]

You know, I'm a fool. I had my bags on. I should have known better.

[Charlie Barrons]

What do you do? What do you do for work? Where do you work at?

[Braylon]

I'm an electrician. I'm an electrician in Missoula, Montana.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, we got a sparky on our hair.

[Miles]

There we go. When was the last time you electric electrocuted yourself?

[Braylon]

Oh, boys, I electrocuted myself in front of a whole office in the main building.

[Miles]

Were you on something tall? Did you fall with it too?

[Braylon]

No, luckily I was making up a switch and I was. I was just trying to get it done and doing a hot. And I accidentally touched the lives screw and I. I did a jump and I made it. And.

[Emily]

And the.

[Braylon]

And the gal behind me and behind the desk goes, oh, my goodness, are you okay? She wanted to. She wanted to call the cops on me.

[Charlie Barrons]

He touched a hot wire and turned into Michael Jackson. Ow. So are you wearing a quarter zip Carhartt sweatshirt right now?

[Miles]

You're.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're close.

[Braylon]

I'm wearing a blaze orange Carhartt sweatshirt.

[Miles]

All right, there we go.

[Charlie Barrons]

Quarter Carhartt sweatshirt is a uniform for all electricians, I swear. Charlie. Yeah.

[Braylon]

Yeah, that's exactly right. And the, then the really expensive hard hat because we just make all the money.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is true. You guys have someone, you have a limo driver pick you up and take you home from work every day too.

[Braylon]

It's, it's not, it's not a limo driver. It's. I bought us. I bought a Ferrari and I have my chauffeur drive me.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is a baller move. You buy a Ferrari and don't even drive.

[Miles]

Oh man.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, Connor, why don't you belly up with us? You Conor is like you said, from Montana and he is wondering how he can convince his wife to let him buy a snow machine. Is that true, Connor?

[Braylon]

That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Me and my wife just learned that we're pregnant just in time for snowmobile season.

[Miles]

Congratulations.

[Charlie Barrons]

Congratulations.

[Miles]

Congratulations.

[Braylon]

Thanks.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, she always on the sex, by the way.

[Miles]

Yeah. Good for you.

[Braylon]

I've done it at least once. We can prove it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, not yet. If she's just pregnant.

[Miles]

Yeah. Could come out not looking like you.

[Braylon]

You know, if it comes out anything other than redhead, I'll be suspicious.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I got a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes, so I'm pretty suspicious as well.

[Miles]

Hey, I have blue eyes, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Watch it make you a face in the wrong direction.

[Braylon]

You should have been facing east. You're probably facing west.

[Miles]

All right, so yeah, your wife doesn't want you by a snow machine, huh?

[Braylon]

That's exactly right. I, I, I have enough to get a snow machine. But she says that paying, paying the hospital bills to pull this baby out of her is more important.

[Miles]

Well, here's a, here's something to keep in mind. All right, first and foremost, Ferraris are not known for driving in the snow. Very good. So you gotta have a snow machine to get her to the hospital.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is true.

[Miles]

Yeah. And the hospital bills can take care of themselves after the fact. All right, I agree.

[Braylon]

I've been trying to tell her if we get a freak snowstorm, my Ferrari won't make it to the grocery store. But a snow machine sure will.

[Miles]

Yes.

[Charlie Barrons]

Right?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And it's much easier to put a car seat on the back of a snowmobile than in a Ferrari.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yes it is.

[Braylon]

Oh yeah. You just got enough tie downs I could make it work.

[Miles]

There you go.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's ratchet straps the kid on the snow machine. That's kids not going anywhere.

[Miles]

Going anywhere. Your wife can ride behind in a toboggan. No, I mean, I look, I think, I mean how, what's the going Rate to have a kid these days.

[Braylon]

Shoot, Miles, it sounds like. It sounds like you'd know best.

[Miles]

We're.

[Braylon]

My wife is a nurse, and she has hospital health care, but it sounds like the going rates about a double deductible. So it sounds like It'd be about $6,000, which would be a slick sled.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

What?

[Charlie Barrons]

That sounds about right. That sounds about right.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, in reality, it's like, why can't you just have both, you know? Yeah, yeah, I know you're an electrician and you have exp. Taste, but just maybe get a used snow machine that's a little cheaper.

[Miles]

Yeah. And buy now, think about it later. That's the American way. All right. Put that baby on layaway.

[Braylon]

Shoot, I forgot I have a credit card. Yeah, you're totally right.

[Miles]

Right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Rack it up.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I imagine that after he had done the deed, you know, you get that post nut clarity. Immediately afterwards, he was like, I just lost my snow machine. We just sitting on the end of the bed, smoking a cigarette, going, God, what could have been.

[Miles]

Head in the hand, just looking out.

[Braylon]

The window, asks, what's wrong? Yeah. When my wife asks what's wrong, I just gotta say, nothing. Don't worry about it, honey.

[Charlie Barrons]

We're pregnant, damn it.

[Miles]

Now, what you have to do to convince your wife is to prove to her that a snow machine is not a sunk cost. It's an investment in your fatherhood. You know, you are going to be so much more relaxed as a dad. You're going to be so much better of a parent by having this snow machine in your life. And from a very practical standpoint, it's an escape vehicle. If you guys get a lot of snow out there in Montana, what if a grizzly bear comes knocking tears apart your Ferrari? You guys have nowhere to go. You need that snow machine.

[Braylon]

Oh, absolutely. I. I think you hit it on the head when I. So when I become a dad, I'm gonna have to fall into one of the dad categories. And I can't play golf for. So I'll be the snowmobile dad.

[Miles]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, you still could do the golf. Because a lot of us still can't play golf for. And that doesn't stop us. So.

[Miles]

Yeah, you could do. You could do golf on a snow machine. Have that be winter golf. Have that be your golf cart.

[Charlie Barrons]

Just paint the golf balls neon orange.

[Miles]

Yeah. You can even do, like, golf polo on the snow machine. Like, you know, that would be fun. That's a whole new sport.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

That's how you Pay for it.

[Braylon]

The best redneck sport I've ever heard of.

[Miles]

Yes, and we just invented it here. Okay, so get the snow machine. It's winter now. And start shooting videos of you playing snow lo. That snow polo. And. And you're gonna. You. You are gonna be a multi millionaire, my guy.

[Charlie Barrons]

And then you can have all the babies you want.

[Braylon]

Oh, that is genius. Okay, that's. Do you think the YouTube handle Snowlow has been taken?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, no, not a chance.

[Miles]

No, this just came out of the dome.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, and this comes out later, so you have time to get that handle.

[Miles]

Yeah, get the handle and start shooting these videos, man. We got. You got money to make. And say, babe, think about all the kids we can have when we're multimillionaires. Does she want more than one kid?

[Braylon]

She. She wants the one, but I keep telling her either two or four so we don't end up with the oldest, middlest, youngest syndrome.

[Miles]

I got news for you. That syndrome exists no matter how many kids you got. I'm one of 12. We've just got like 10 middle children. We all have attention issues. That's why I'm on this podcast right now.

[Braylon]

That's a great point.

[Charlie Barrons]

Now, one thing to think about, to save some money on the hospital bills. Just. Your. Your wife's a nurse. She's got to know what to do.

[Miles]

She knows how to do it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have a home birth.

[Miles]

Yeah. You guys got a good bathtub? I got.

[Braylon]

I got a bathtub. We can. We can do that. I see she's really. She gets cold really quickly, so I would have to be just filling the water and emptying it and keeping her warm the whole time. We could. We could do that.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Braylon]

But I think I. I think the difficulty would be more on my side for that kind of a pregnancy. That's too much work for me.

[Miles]

Well, get yourself a. A mid wife.

[Charlie Barrons]

Cost money, Charlie. Less money towards the snow machine.

[Miles]

We'll give the midwife free snow machine lessons.

[Charlie Barrons]

You brought up YouTube. There's YouTube as a video for everything. There's gotta be a tutorial on how to have a home birth on YouTube.

[Miles]

Yeah, we know. Half of your electrical work is. You YouTube in it before you do this thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, and the time that he electrocuted himself in front of all those people is he didn't look at it on.

[Miles]

YouTube or he was looking at YouTube while he was doing it.

[Braylon]

That's a great idea. So I'll tell my pregnant nurse wife to just pick up some. Some overtime shifts. Then I can get my Snow machine.

[Miles]

That's not what we said. Okay. That is the worst. That's the worst idea ever.

[Charlie Barrons]

I love how our solution isn't just trade in your Ferrari for something a little bit more economical. You can't do that.

[Miles]

No.

[Braylon]

Okay, so the best thing I'm hearing right now is home birth, and then I can have them both.

[Miles]

Correct. Don't forget snow low. All right. Yeah, yeah, and snow low.

[Braylon]

Yeah, and snow low.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, how hard can it be? I. You know, I went through it once. It's really just getting under center and going, Boo. 42. Hot brown, high brown. And then the baby comes out listening to the.

[Braylon]

I've been listening to you bet your podcast about Ryan's birth, and sounds like all he had to do was hold a leg and play her guitar. I figure I can do that.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's it, man. That's all it is. I was a smart one, though. I didn't have to do any work. The nurse asked me if I wanted to hold the leg. I said no, you got it. What else am I paying you for? You know.

[Miles]

That'S like, I. I'm.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm not one to fall for the scam where you go to those restaurants where you have to cook the food and you pay more money to do it. I. I think those are dumb.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. That's like going to the. Going to the grocery store and you checking it out. You're like, do I work here now?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Self checkout is a racket.

[Braylon]

Yeah, Self checkout for a baby. So I can kind of get Skip some things past the scanner.

[Miles]

Yeah. Oh, man. Now, well, congratulations on both your baby and your new snow machine.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you know what you're having yet, or are you guys waiting?

[Braylon]

We just had our first. Our first ultrasound, but she's gonna want to do some kind of baby reveal, and I told her we can do a baby reveal as long as we burn down a little bit of forest.

[Charlie Barrons]

You sound like the rest of the country.

[Miles]

Yeah. Oh, perfect. Perfect.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, what. What gender reveal should he do?

[Miles]

Charlie do it with? Okay, so you get. You tell her that it's going to be either you guys get a pink snow machine or a blue snow machine.

[Charlie Barrons]

There you go.

[Miles]

And. But really, it's gonna be a red snow machine because you probably don't want a pink one. Although a pink snow machine could kind of be cool. Or you put some sort of fluid in the exhaust. Well, that's gonna ruin it. But wouldn't it be cool if you could, like, find the color of your exhaust?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

No, that's it. Okay. Yeah. So your first snowball game, you're gonna reveal the sex of the baby.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Instead of having a normal ball, it's gonna be one that explodes on impact.

[Miles]

Yes.

[Charlie Barrons]

Does a smoke thing like they do with the golf balls.

[Miles]

Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's gonna be.

[Charlie Barrons]

Could you imagine a slow mo video of him ripping on a snow machine with this? With his.

[Miles]

Millions of views.

[Charlie Barrons]

Millions of views too, Charlie. We could do. If you guys wanted to let us know, we could do the first ever bellied up gender reveal call.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Throwing it out there.

[Miles]

We can give you a little. A little spark here for your new Snowlow YouTube channel.

[Braylon]

Oh, that's genius. We would love that. That's a great idea.

[Miles]

So the way you say this to your wife is, honey, I'm not buying a snow machine. Don't worry. I am starting a side business and buy the machine, buy the exploding golf balls, and then here's the good thing. It takes a lot of time for businesses to make money. So this is all a write off. You're basically making money. You can't afford not to buy this snow machine is what I'm saying. This is. Is a ski. Don't test me right now because I know what I'm doing. You like that ski, dude?

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's not skip over the fact that he's pretty keen on us doing the gender reveal party.

[Miles]

Oh, so are we going to Montana?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, he's going to call in and we'll review it live on the podcast.

[Miles]

That's true. So now you have proof to give the IRS when they obviously are going to question this.

[Braylon]

Absolutely. Well, we could do both. During the first Snow Low game, you guys could be the commentator.

[Miles]

That's it. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Now you have plenty of proof to give the IRS when they come a calling.

[Braylon]

Yep, Exactly.

[Miles]

Perfect. Well, we got a business here set up. We got a baby on the way. I. I'm feeling pretty good. Just don't kill yourself with electricity before now and then.

[Braylon]

Okay. So my main goal right now is to not die from electricity and to buy a snow machine and convince the wife it is a business venture. I like it.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And the home birth.

[Miles]

Yup.

[Charlie Barrons]

That'S it. That's all you got to do. Okay.

[Braylon]

Okay, I think we can figure that out.

[Miles]

Wonderful. Well, Connor, another. Another issue solved here on the Bellied up podcast. Thank you for calling in.

[Braylon]

Well, thanks, boys. I really appreciate it. It was super cool talking to you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Before you go, I got one more question. Okay.

[Miles]

All right. All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

As A foreman and electrician. I want you to give me the top tips of being a construction foreman. Okay?

[Miles]

You.

[Braylon]

You nailed it on the head by saying, don't get out of your truck. Unfortunately, I'm behind, so I have to get out of my truck. But you can betcha I walk around and I look at one of my guys while they're working, and I don't say nothing. I look at him and I kind of look around and I just walk away. I don't say a single word.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Then he starts doing all sorts of paranoia in your head.

[Miles]

You know, just your presence is productivity more. Yeah.

[Braylon]

It's a mind game. Absolutely.

[Miles]

Huh. Judgmentalize. I like it. What else?

[Braylon]

Let's see. The other thing that I like to do is I like to. I like to call one of my guys and be really serious, say, hey, I need you to come out to the truck right now, immediately. And then when they get out here, I just say, hey, how's your day going?

[Charlie Barrons]

It's getting kind of boring here sitting in the truck by myself, and I've listened to every podcast I could. So what's going on, man?

[Miles]

I just wanted you to come over. So I had an excuse to roll down the window because it was getting kind of hot in here. Exactly.

[Charlie Barrons]

And he's. And he's wondering why he's behind, and he has to actually get out of the truck. I like that. Yeah. I mean, for everything I've heard, you're not lying. You are a foreman. You got that thing dialed in.

[Braylon]

I listened to. I listen to your guys podcasts every day, especially by you doing concrete and being down in a hole. So I've taken all that straight to heart.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you got it easy. You know, you're usually working in an enclosed area. You know, you. You don't have to get all muddy and dirty and deal with people who live out of a cardboard box and have to bike to work every day. You know, you're the high class.

[Braylon]

That's exactly right. We're better than everyone. And then. And don't forget.

[Charlie Barrons]

You really are an electrician, aren't you?

[Braylon]

I haven't touched a broom in years.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, someone will clean that up. Are you a master electrician or. Or what?

[Braylon]

Nope, I'm a. I'm a journeyman electrician. That's. And that's all you got to be to really be a foreman around here.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. Do you have aspirations to be a master electrician or no?

[Braylon]

So the first time I took my journeyman test, I got a 38%. And I. And I got lucky to pass the test in the first place. I think we're going to leave her here.

[Charlie Barrons]

You can get a 38% on your journeyman test.

[Miles]

First time. First time, Right. He had to then go past it.

[Braylon]

No, that was the first try. The second try, I sat in my truck and toked on a little bit of electric lettuce and then went in and passed it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, my God. Is that how you electrocuted yourself? Too much electric lettuce?

[Braylon]

We. We keep things interesting around here. We. We gotta.

[Charlie Barrons]

We gotta.

[Braylon]

We gotta make it fun.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's good.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like this, though. He knows his. He knows his ceiling. He's like, this is as high as I go, literally.

[Miles]

Oh, man. Well, thank you, Connor. We appreciate you, my guy. Yeah, thanks.

[Braylon]

Thanks for talking to me. You boys watch out for deer, all right?

[Miles]

You too.

[Charlie Barrons]

Congratulations, too, by the way.

[Miles]

Yeah, congrats.

[Braylon]

Hey, thanks, guys. I'll talk to you.

[Miles]

All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Good one.

[Miles]

Oh, man, he's great.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I would love to work for him.

[Miles]

He sounds awesome as a boss, you know, A lot of good energy in that one.

[Charlie Barrons]

You ever electrocute yourself, Charlie?

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, I have. I told you about that.

[Charlie Barrons]

I did have my water heater.

[Miles]

Really?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

What were you doing?

[Charlie Barrons]

I was adjusting the dial of how hot the water could get, and I just touched the wrong thing. The nastiest shock. Look at the nastiest shock. And when I came to, I had an epiphany. Epiphery?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Said I need to hire someone to do this instead.

[Miles]

Yeah, they're. They're. You know, they're. I. I told you about the extension cord when I was a kid, splicing it and out of the wall. And I've electrocuted myself a couple times since. I did avoid a massive electrocution, though. I was fixing this washing machine, or, sorry, dishwasher, and it had all the water coming up, so I was clearing it out on the bottom, and then I was like, oh, this is still. It still had water coming out. It's like, this is a deeper issue. So I pull it out, you know, and then I get underneath and I'm messing with the live wires. And keep in mind, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm just trying to see if something's not, like, hooked up or whatever. And then I. Of a sudden, I was like, wet hands, live electricity. This is stupid. So then I went down and I shut it off. But I. I could almost kill myself on that one.

[Charlie Barrons]

I watched my dad almost die.

[Miles]

Really? How'd he almost do it?

[Charlie Barrons]

So at their lake cabin, they were getting rid of a baseboard heater.

[Miles]

Oh.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hooked up to electricity.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

He had thought that the electrician came in and made sure it wasn't live. Well, he found out the hard way it was live. Sparks flew.

[Miles]

Oh.

[Charlie Barrons]

Emotions ran high.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And we all were kind of like standing there and obviously he was pretty. He was pretty stoic. Frazzled.

[Miles]

Oh, he was frazzled.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. He just got what's happening. And we look at the Cuz he was going to cut the wire so we could take it off the wall.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And there was a little like indent, perfect little semicircle of where he tried to cut the wire and melted the metal that he was.

[Miles]

Oh, my God.

[Charlie Barrons]

So.

[Miles]

If you are standing on the ground, you are the ground.

[Charlie Barrons]

So I could have had a more baggage not growing up without a dad, you know?

[Miles]

Wow.

[Charlie Barrons]

Even more than I already got.

[Miles]

Well, we're just happy Bud's okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So it's a lesson for all you guys out there.

[Miles]

Y.

[Charlie Barrons]

If you're gonna.

[Miles]

You're gonna di DIY E L E C T R I C T Y YouTube it twice. Yeah, YouTube it twice, cut once.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do something to make sure that the wire is not live.

[Miles]

Yeah. Turn. Turn your power off.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie. Should we take another caller?

[Miles]

Let's do it. Amanda's on the phone. She's coming to us from Arizona and she says her. Her Arizona deal is flooded with Midwesterners. And Amanda is it right? You want to know what that is all about? Huh?

[Willie]

Yeah, I'm curious. We've got culverts everywhere. We've got tortillo's everywhere. What is it about Phoenix that draws everybody here aside from the absence of.

[Miles]

Well, it's not just that. It's arthritis. Okay. You know, we are so true.

[Charlie Barrons]

My dad's like, when I'm down there, man, my joints are feeling good.

[Miles]

There's just something about that heat that loosens up the old hammer toe. And you're just. You're like, I can walk here and not take ibuprofen. So what we're really doing is saving money on ibuprofen.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like, my Paul Bunyans feel great.

[Miles]

Yeah. My Paul Bunions. Yup. It really is a health issue for a lot of us. And also, if you look in. In the Midwest, you look at heart attack rates, they spike in the winter. Something about shoveling your car out of the snow isn't good on the old ticker. After you get past 65 so people like to, you know, they've, they paid their dues to the, they, they've sacrificed their, their sacrifices to the Midwest gods. And it's time to go enjoy some warmer weather.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, and I think that if you're in the Midwest and you turn 55 years old, you're spending either your entire winter in Phoenix, Arizona, Scottsdale area, or you're going to somewhere in Florida.

[Miles]

Yep, it is Arizona or Florida. That's pretty much what we do. And we go with the. They call us snowbirds because it is a migratory pattern. You know, people, I can tell the.

[Willie]

Roads make that parent a very apparent.

[Miles]

And what's it like driving with all those Midwesterners down there?

[Willie]

I'm not entirely certain that I have the most solid footing to talk about that as I'm from the New York metro area originally.

[Miles]

So you didn't even drive until you got down there to Phoenix?

[Willie]

No, no, I've been, I've been driving quite a bit, my friend in Jersey, in Rhode island, in Northern California, around San Francisco area, out here in Phoenix. And I got to tell you that Phoenix is awful.

[Charlie Barrons]

How dare you put her in a box, Charlie.

[Miles]

She said she's from New York. New Yorkers don't drive.

[Charlie Barrons]

Dare you.

[Miles]

They have good.

[Charlie Barrons]

New Jersey.

[Miles]

Oh, New Jersey.

[Charlie Barrons]

How dare you that. How does that make you feel that Charlie just said that? Because you're from New Jersey, you're a New Yorker, how does that make you feel?

[Willie]

I feel like the most or the majority would consider that a compliment anytime I've mentioned like my husband loves to throw me under the bus for being from New Jersey. So yeah, it was bit of a compliment. You know, I guess I'll water off the duck's back.

[Miles]

Take that Miles. Why don't you try throwing me under the bus for something else?

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie, how do you spot a Midwesterner in Phoenix, Arizona?

[Miles]

Well, you just look at the Culver's Drive thru.

[Willie]

Culver's Drive through that or any golf cart that's on the street.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Patty]

To be honest.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. My dad, he. He doesn't vacation. He vacations in Southern California. Not Arizona, Palm Springs. But he rented a place and it came with a golf court. And I tell you what, this is the giddiest I've ever seen my dad. Really, he loved that thing.

[Miles]

It's like UTV without the balls. It's a castrated utv. That's a golf cart.

[Charlie Barrons]

There's just something about, you know, in the Midwest we like, we like going, hey, Charlie, you want to go for A drive?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, that'd be great.

[Charlie Barrons]

And then you just spend two hours driving around not saying anything. It's the equivalent down south. You just get in a golf cart, you drive around your little gated community and just look at stuff.

[Miles]

Are these Midwesterners like really clogging up the roads with the. With the golf carts or are they doing it in a respectful way? Way.

[Willie]

In Sun City for sure. There's signs specifically. So I mentioned earlier that I'm baking. I have a small French macaron bakery, which is exactly what I'm doing right now. And one of my farmers markets is out in Sun City. And I got to tell you guys, if I'm running late because child care doesn't show up in time. It's an exercise of patience for certain.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you're a professional baker?

[Willie]

Yes, sir.

[Charlie Barrons]

I knew you level. You have that kind of warmth.

[Miles]

She's doing it in the background right there. What are you chopping up there? Carrots for the carrot cake, huh?

[Willie]

No, I'm banging on the bottom of the sheet pan. So French macarons or macaroons, Air is the enemy in the recipe. So you gotta bang out all the air bubbles so they don't pop and crack in the oven.

[Miles]

Gotta bang out the air bubbles.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sounds like something else.

[Miles]

Yep, sounds like a euphemism. How are you?

[Willie]

Can you, you know, it could be.

[Miles]

Yeah. Are you gonna send us some bakery? That would be really nice.

[Willie]

If you guys have a P.O. box. I would love to. I have Italian grandmother syndrome.

[Charlie Barrons]

We don't know a P.O. box, but I can give you Charlie's home address. It is.

[Miles]

How about we don't get that beeper in here?

[Charlie Barrons]

What is. Obviously you live down there and you're clearly a little bit annoyed at all the Midwesterners coming down there. What is your biggest gripe to pick with the Midwesterners? Snowbirding in Arizona.

[Willie]

I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but honestly, it's just the driving.

[Patty]

It's.

[Willie]

It's really just the driving. I love that everybody's so thoughtful and sweet and you can have a conversation with anybody. That is lovely to be fair, but just the driving in. I just the driving.

[Miles]

Well, we're waving at you, you know, so we're not impolite. We're just going five to 10 under the speed limit because, you know, we got nowhere to go.

[Charlie Barrons]

And honestly, where do you got to be other than the precious present? Living in the moment.

[Miles]

We're teaching you to slow down in this fast paced world.

[Charlie Barrons]

If you don't look around once in a while, you miss it.

[Willie]

I do appreciate the lesson, and there is something to be had in that wisdom, but, my friend, time is money.

[Miles]

Ah, there's the jersey coming out.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey, get out of the way. Trying to get some macaroons, soldier.

[Miles]

You just scream that in this bar? And in my ear.

[Willie]

You also just quoted me verbatim.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, well, as someone from New Jersey, what do you think us Midwesterners can work on?

[Willie]

On being a little more assertive.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Willie]

A little. A little more aggressively assertive. There's a time and a place for politeness. Absolutely. But just a little bit of urgency in it. Just a little bit of urgency.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Willie]

That's the only thing I gotta harp on.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Little knees to chest. Get her moving, keep her moving.

[Miles]

As he all comes full circle.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, Charlie, let's try it here. Here.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So I own a bakery.

[Miles]

Hey, Miles, how's it going?

[Charlie Barrons]

You're here to buy some macaroons from me.

[Miles]

How are you?

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey, what can I get you?

[Miles]

Ah, man, you got. Oh, it smells good here, D. Yep, yep.

[Charlie Barrons]

We got macaroons. So what can I get you? We got a long line here.

[Miles]

Good Lord. How much are they now?

[Charlie Barrons]

450 per macaroon. That's for two. Two.

[Miles]

Oh, so really, two of them? 220.

[Charlie Barrons]

How many you want? Two. Three. Two, three. Two. Four.

[Miles]

How many you think I should get?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I would recommend four.

[Miles]

All right, I'll do two. Trees.

[Charlie Barrons]

$9.

[Miles]

Okay. All right, hang on.

[Charlie Barrons]

Flavor? You want chocolate?

[Miles]

You got that?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, we got chocolate. What else?

[Miles]

Peanut butter.

[Charlie Barrons]

Peanut butter. Done.

[Miles]

You got brandy? Old fashioned One.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't even know what that is.

[Miles]

All right, right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sir, really, please, just make a decision.

[Miles]

Hang on. I left my wallet in the golf cart. I'll be right back. Hey, how are you doing, Tony? Hey, I saw you the other week over at the filling station, right?

[Charlie Barrons]

Sir, honestly, you can just have these macaroons for free if you just keep.

[Miles]

Are you kidding me? Sure. That's. Hey, I got a two for you guys. Want to try one?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, they're paying customers. Don't give away the free ones.

[Miles]

All right, well. Well, I'm going to go drive four miles an hour home. I'll see you later.

[Charlie Barrons]

What should he have done differently?

[Willie]

Kim or you?

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey, this is not about me.

[Miles]

You're a bad New Jersey.

[Charlie Barrons]

I was the straight man.

[Miles]

You're a bad New Jersey.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, well, what should I have done differently? Was I still too nice to him?

[Willie]

Am I permitted to use some choice language.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sure, 100% said.

[Willie]

Jesus Christ. What is it that I can get for you? Come on.

[Miles]

No, you can't be taking the Lord's name in vain like that. First of all, his middle name was James. Second of all, I'll see you in church. All right? I'm going to light a candle for you right there. Okay.

[Willie]

Believe it or not, I was raised Irish Catholic. So both my grandmother and my grandfather just rolled over in their graves.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. All jeepers, I tell you what, Catholic. Peace be with you.

[Miles]

Yeah. And I will raise you up on eagle's wings, hail to the sun and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hold you in the palm of his hand.

[Miles]

You weren't gonna join in with us?

[Willie]

No. You know.

[Miles]

No.

[Willie]

No notes. No notes, gentlemen.

[Miles]

Okay, dance then. Wherever is he? I am the Lord of the dance.

[Charlie Barrons]

And the dance.

[Miles]

Well, we gotta go to church. Clearly, we haven't been there in a while.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's what all the. That's what all Catholics do anyways. They don't actually sing. They just mumble and move their mouths. That's what my dad does.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's true. True mumble.

[Willie]

Move your mouth. Put the dollar bill in the basket. Take communion.

[Miles]

Go home. Don't miss that. Don't miss that.

[Charlie Barrons]

In and out, in and out. Shake a few hands. Peace be with you. And also with you.

[Miles]

Well, Amanda, all I have to say to you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Amanda, we. We like to ask our Catholic listeners, are you a. How do you like to receive communion? I was gonna ask her if she was a tongue gal or a hand gal, and I figured that was. That was gonna end badly. How do you like to receive your body of Christ?

[Willie]

I feel like after the pandemic, it's only hands. Yeah, but you know, it's.

[Patty]

It used to be mouth.

[Miles]

Okay. Oh, you were a mouth gal.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wow, you really are Irish Catholic, aren't you? Holy smokes.

[Miles]

Very pretentious.

[Charlie Barrons]

They've done that since the 70s.

[Willie]

Pretentious? How was that pretentious?

[Miles]

What? Because you're, you know. I know some people that are mouth people and they're a little better than you. That's. That's what they're saying.

[Willie]

Because of blind faith.

[Patty]

I'm still confused.

[Charlie Barrons]

Amanda, if you don't ask. Mind me asking, and trust me, there's a follow up question. When was the last time you were at church?

[Willie]

Oh, God. Actually, to be fair. To be fair. No pun intended. I guess with that. Last October for a Catholic wedding.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so it had been a minute. Do you remember when they changed the whole routine of the they just decided that we were going to do church a different way. Do you remember that church, Charlie? It was like all the responses were different, and people were getting it half wrong the whole time, and it was a mess.

[Miles]

Yeah, it was like five, 10 years ago. And you can always tell the Chris the creasers because they still screw it up.

[Charlie Barrons]

Get those air bubbles out.

[Miles]

Well, well, Amanda, good luck with that. Okay. And we. We hope that the Midwesterners get. Get the message here. We hope they hear this and they pick up the pace a little down there in Arizona. Or maybe you slow down and enjoy life a little more. One of the two.

[Willie]

Yeah, that's a solid piece of advice. If I may, before we go, I do have two dear friends out here that are both from the Midwest, one from Chicago. I know how you guys feel about that, but her husband is from Minnesota, and they're two of the greatest people that I've ever known. We went through pregnancy together. Our babies are two months apart. We're. We vacation together all the time. They're just salt of the earth human beings. So if they're representative of. Of your. Where you hail from, then y'all are good people.

[Miles]

Wow, that's.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's their names? Can we give them a shout out?

[Willie]

Sure. Melissa and Sean. Though Melissa, in our text message earlier this morning, when I told them that I was doing this, she did want me to say, go squares.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh.

[Miles]

Oh, my God.

[Charlie Barrons]

My God.

[Miles]

Amanda, it was nice talking to you, but your fib friends are not indicative of the Midwest, unfortunately, so makes sense you'd find a fib out there or two. And.

[Charlie Barrons]

And when the. When the folks are down in Arizona, where can they find your macaroons?

[Willie]

I deliver two homes. I'm at different farmers markets, and I also ship across the country. So Amanda's Max is my business. Business.

[Miles]

Amanda, Max.

[Willie]

We love. We love alliteration.

[Miles]

I love it. Well, good stuff. Well, congrats on your baby. Congrats on your macaroons. And tell your fib friends we say hi.

[Willie]

Thanks, gentlemen. I appreciate the time. Merry Christmas.

[Miles]

Merry Christmas.

[Charlie Barrons]

Merry Chrysler.

[Miles]

Well, Miles, I gotta tell you, she's a feisty one. She is a feisty one. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, look, we're on vacation. That's what you got to remember about Midwesterners when we're invading your chose to.

[Charlie Barrons]

Live in a phenomenal part of the country. It doesn't entitle you to making us speed up.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah. You might be living your daily life, but we are either retired or on vacation, so we're going the pace that we go, and that's. There's no bottom rungs about it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Guys, we have Patrick from Alabama on the line. He is a structural engineer, and he says that he wants to go to toe with me.

[Miles]

Wow.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I don't know what. I don't know what he wants, but, Patrick, let's do it. Let's go toe to toe. What do you.

[Justin]

I mean, I just heard you complain about engineers when you. You know, and your time as a concrete worker and always giving engineers about a hard time. So I figured somebody's gotta stand up for the engineers every now and then.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

I knew this was gonna happen, Miles. You couldn't leave the engineers alone, and this is the repercussions you get. All right, you guys go toe, pecker to pecker. Let's see what we got.

[Charlie Barrons]

Maybe for Patrick, but not me. It's more like belly to belly.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's a closer fight.

[Justin]

How about arm and arm?

[Miles]

Yeah, arm and arm. All right, well, that's a whole other thing. Well, what? State your piece, Patrick.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, so what? What did I say that really rubbed you the wrong way?

[Willie]

What?

[Justin]

I mean, I run into it every day at work, man. You. It's not concrete guys anymore. It used to be, but now it's welders and fabricators now. Everything's always blamed on the engineer, as if we had the final say. So when in all reality. I think the problem that we have when engineers and concrete workers and these guys don't get along is we get distracted by who the real common enemy is.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Justin]

And that is the client.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. Yeah. You know what? I'll agree with that one.

[Miles]

Client is always wrong. In other words, the client is always.

[Charlie Barrons]

A pain in the ass.

[Justin]

Always. Whether it's the Navy on a ship that you're building or somebody's concrete driveway, and they want it, you know, six inches wider at this one spot after it's already been formed up and poured.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And I think, for me, Charlie.

[Justin]

So why is it that engineers get blamed for everything, Miles?

[Charlie Barrons]

It's because you guys are the rule followers. You guys are the nerds. You're the one saying, we can't do it like this because the building will fall down. You know, it's like. What do you mean? We've done it the other way a hundred times in a row, and the building's still standing.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Justin]

But everything's always okay until it's not. And that's what we're doing. We're trying to avoid those bad situations.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I. I mean, really, I. I think the bone I have to pick is when there is a classic over engineering going on. Would you agree that some people over engineer things every day, man?

[Justin]

That's part of the job.

[Miles]

Well, give us an example, Miles of something. When is an engineer hurt you? When has it been over engineered?

[Charlie Barrons]

Pocketbook.

[Miles]

Pocketbook. Oh, it's a little spend.

[Charlie Barrons]

The more time they end up engineering something. Not only you got to pay them for more time, you then got to pay for more material. You got to do all of this extra stuff that ends up costing the client money, ends up costing each everyone more money.

[Justin]

Well, yeah, but doesn't the con. Don't y'all end up making more money? That's extra overtime for you guys.

[Miles]

Thank you. I was just gonna say people.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I also have another one. A little zinger for you. It'll say you're the concrete guy. You build it too good, you're not gonna have any repeat customers.

[Miles]

Ah, planned obsolescence.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like the iPhone. It's like the iPhone's intentionally making your battery go to.

[Miles]

That's why every new building looks like a freaking Ikea.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, concrete businesses are built on upcharging for having to come fix things. How is anyone supposed to make a living if you guys are engineering stuff to a T?

[Miles]

Stop doing your job so good is what he said.

[Justin]

All right, I'll. I'll make. I'll make sure our building start falling down so you guys can, you know, have a little.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, we did not say that. We did not say that.

[Miles]

I mean, we did.

[Charlie Barrons]

We just want you to make sure that it just has enough structural integrity to not fall down. Not in the worst case scenario.

[Miles]

Patrick, I gotta tell you, from an argument standpoint, you're winning right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah?

[Miles]

Yep. In the debate. Yep. He's currently winning. You're gonna have to buckle up. Miles, you're gonna have to give him a little bit more because he just said said that also. Who says pocketbook these days? You know, in my pocketbook. Do you still balance a checkbook, Miles? Yeah. You kind of look like you do.

[Charlie Barrons]

No. God, I need to. I had a checkbook in high school, though. Did you checkbook in high school?

[Miles]

I did. Patrick, do you have a checkbook?

[Justin]

I did. Man. I thought you had to pay rent back in the day. You couldn't do cash or credit card.

[Charlie Barrons]

No.

[Justin]

Had to be a check.

[Miles]

God. Nice accent, by the way. Where are you calling him from again.

[Justin]

Man, I'm from Mobile, Alabama.

[Miles]

Mobile, Alabama.

[Charlie Barrons]

We got a southerner on the Phone, Charlie.

[Miles]

I was just in Birmingham, or as you guys call it, Birmingham. And that was interesting. It was nice being down in Alabama. Do you guys have a buc EE's around there?

[Justin]

Yeah, there's one just down the road from me right now.

[Miles]

Oh, my gosh. I gotta tell you, I got a bone to pick with that frigging Buc EE's. Okay. I'm a quick trip guy through and through. And going to that BUC EE's, that was like a quick trip. Made love to a Walmart while that dumb stuff beaver cocked, you know?

[Justin]

I'll tell you what's distracting is that giant wall of jerky they got over there, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, they have a giant wall of jerky.

[Miles]

They do.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's got to cost more than the whole building itself.

[Miles]

I mean, it's. It's some spendy jerky. I will say I wasn't. You're impressed by some things when you walk in, but you start getting close to it and you peel the facade off and it's not as good as it looks. Okay. Okay. Are you.

[Justin]

Now, Bucky's is a. Bucky's is a Texas thing. You're going to have to get you a Texas fellow on here to talk about that.

[Miles]

Okay. So you're not. They just.

[Justin]

They're just jumping over state lines and, you know, coming on over here.

[Miles]

They're spreading like the oral herp. They are. They got one that they were saying might come up in Wisconsin and, you know, there's a flare up every nine months. Not that I know anything about that. And I got like a good time to do.

[Justin]

Sounds like a good comparison video coming up.

[Miles]

Yep, exactly. That would be good. A comparison video of Quick Trip versus. But, you know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, let's hear what.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

What. What's better, Charlie? Bucky's or Quick.

[Miles]

Quick Trip is better than BUC EE's. Okay. BUC EE's. If it was so good, did they need to put up a billboard like 7,000 miles away from the nearest buc ee saying, nearest Buc Ees 7,000 miles away? It's just. It's attack marketing is what it is. And. And nothing that's really good needs a mascot there. Do the Green Bay packers have a mascot? No. Okay. You only need a mascot if your team sucks. Unless you're the Badgers.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, that's a good question. Is Bucky Woodchuck or what is Bucky.

[Miles]

Bucky's a beaver. I think he's a beaver. Yeah. Yeah. Bucky the beaver.

[Charlie Barrons]

So why is the Badgers got Bucky.

[Miles]

There's Bucky the badger. And. And they also ripped off the name Bucky, you know, from us. You know, you can't be ripping off a mascot. And again, you know, badgers got grandfathered into the mascot thing. And, like, the bottom line here, the box, the. The box, of course, also grandfathered in. Same with the Brewers. But, you know, you don't need it for a frigging gas station, all right? And then you go into that place, they've, like, socially engineered a gas station. It' I feel like a cattle in there. You know, I feel like I'm in a herd of cattle. You know, the way they shovel people around and the way you move. Like, they took, like, all these videos and they had surveillance, trying to find the easiest flow for people to get in and get out. I mean, it's too perfect. You know, there's something deeper there. You know, they're looking at something there you do, you know, and it's destroying the fabric of American society. That's what's. That's what's happening.

[Justin]

Miles, I think Charlie is just projecting a little bit because I think he really wants to be the official mascot of Wisconsin. Oh, projecting that. Bucky's has their own mascot. If he's thinking, well, if this gas station is good enough for a mascot, you know, Charlie's, you know, Wisconsin's number one fan.

[Charlie Barrons]

If Charlie was the mascot for Wisconsin, he wouldn't be able to walk into any bar because his head wouldn't fit through the door.

[Justin]

Cheese wedge would be a little too big.

[Miles]

That would actually be good. A Wisconsin mascot. Big old cheese.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's not going to happen. I won't let it happen. I'll do a smear campaign against it.

[Miles]

Patrick, you don't even like BUC EE's. Why. Why did it turn out you were calling in to give Miles crap? Now you're giving me crap. You're supposed to be on my side. I thought this was a safe space.

[Justin]

Hey, this is part of being an engineer. You have to walk that middle line of keeping the client happy and keeping the construction crew happy.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is true. You did a good job there. Because at first I was ready to arm wrestle you, and now I'm, like, thinking you're a great guy, so. Hey, you are good. You are good.

[Justin]

I appreciate that.

[Miles]

What do you mean?

[Justin]

Also, I had another thing to bring up.

[Miles]

Yeah. You got a Navy ship you want, buy, sell, or trade, man, I don't.

[Justin]

Think we can swing that right now. There's a lot of contracts And a lot of legal jargon about this.

[Charlie Barrons]

Not.

[Justin]

It's about my pay grade.

[Miles]

All right?

[Justin]

But the Midwest nice versus Southern hospitality. Okay, what's the defining line? Like, I hear you guys talk about the Midwest. The Midwest nice. And I'm from the south, and I've lived this Southern hospitality. So where's the difference? I think the Midwest and the south are pretty much one in the same.

[Miles]

Let me just say this. We're not one the same. There might be similarities, but the whole Southern hospitality, it doesn't hold a can. Handle to the Midwest nice. All right?

[Charlie Barrons]

Exactly. Yeah. Like, yeah, yeah. Hey, it's pretty easy to have nice hospitality, Charlie, when It's sunny in 75 every day.

[Miles]

Yeah. Have you guys ever erected the windshield wipers before a sweet snort storm of your loved ones or just kind of liked ones in the neighborhood? I think.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have you ever been on your way to work, saw someone in the ditch and derailed your whole day to help pull him out? No, I don't think so.

[Miles]

I don't think so. Have you ever been sitting in an ice shanny? Okay, And. And your buddy is outside, and he goes, flag. And I'm like, miles, don't call me that. And then I. I run out and I go, oh, my gosh. I got a northern on. And. And Miles told me that my fish was biting the hook. He. He could have gone taken that fish. But no, he alerted me, you know? Have you guys ever done any of that?

[Charlie Barrons]

Ever done any of that in the South?

[Justin]

Absolutely.

[Miles]

Really?

[Charlie Barrons]

You've shoveled your neighbor's driveway before, so hear me out.

[Justin]

It's the same coin. It's just different sides. Y'all have these winners that are just so terrible and brutal, you don't even want to step outside because the air hurts your face. Our summers are so hot. When you walk outside in the morning, you can hear the sun. You can hear the sun cooking you alive.

[Miles]

So what do you do then?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, so what do you do in that blistering heat that equals our Midwest nice.

[Justin]

It's the op. It's the opposite of the same coin. Y'all bundle up. We shredded, we take off layers.

[Miles]

That's not what you're taking off other people's clothes. This sounds honestly very Southern.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I'm gonna be honest, Charlie. I think I kind of like Southern hospitality now.

[Miles]

Well, Miles, you guys down there?

[Justin]

What's that?

[Miles]

Miles? No.

[Charlie Barrons]

Nothing.

[Miles]

Well, what do you guys do in the heat? What do you do in the heat to help other people?

[Justin]

Offer them a cold glass of sweet Tea bud.

[Miles]

All right, that's a start.

[Charlie Barrons]

What else?

[Justin]

You know, invite them inside, send them down, offer them some lunch, give them a good sandwich, ask them how their folks are doing.

[Miles]

Okay, okay.

[Justin]

What do y'all do when it's super cold outside and see somebody shivering and.

[Miles]

Well, I mean, we give them our coat.

[Charlie Barrons]

You give them. Yeah, yeah. Maybe give them a shot of brandy, Charlie.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's the internal sweater.

[Charlie Barrons]

But here's the thing, Hospitality, every hospitality.

[Justin]

Has to go a step above. Because we can't give a coat to somebody in the summer, we have to bring them into our home, bring them into the luscious air conditioning that we're paying for.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, it turns out, Charlie, that everything they do for Southern hospitality, we also do do up north.

[Miles]

Yeah. It gets swampy up here in the summers.

[Charlie Barrons]

We got some ice cold beers instead of sweet tea up here that we offer people. We, you know, welcome them into our home and say, hey, a walleye biting out there? Or no.

[Miles]

Yeah. And we say, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. You know, we say, yeah, it's hot enough out there for your, you know, balls to stick.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, I mean, what I'm trying to say, Charlie, is we do all the stuff that they do, but I've never heard of someone in Mobile, Alabama, shoveling their neighbor's driveway.

[Miles]

Have you ever shoveled anyone's driveway?

[Justin]

No, not. Never one.

[Miles]

Well, so, yes, there is Southern hospitality, but I think Midwest, nice. Beats it out. And also, I'm on to you, Patrick. I know when you say, bless your heart, you're really telling me to go F myself.

[Justin]

I would never say that to you, Charlie.

[Miles]

You wouldn't. You would say, bless your heart.

[Justin]

And no, I just say, oh, he sure is.

[Miles]

He.

[Justin]

You know, I'm sure his mama loves him.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie, you're a guy only a mom could love.

[Miles]

I got that. I got that. Patrick, what are you building over there on the. On the. In this. In the stockyard? What are you in. You're in the shipyard. What are you. What are you. Yeah, what are you building over there?

[Justin]

We're building a couple Navy vessels, a Coast Guard vessel and a big dry dock right now.

[Miles]

Oh, nice. How's the Navy looking these days? We going to beat China or what's going on?

[Justin]

Right now they're looking haze gray. That's what we paint everything, haze gray.

[Miles]

Okay. Because that when you get out on the sea, you know, it's largely hazy gray. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we know what the weather's like and the, you know, South China Sea. Taezy Grass.

[Justin]

That's right.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's it. South China.

[Justin]

I got one more, Miles. I got one more bone to pick with you, buddy. I'm sorry.

[Miles]

I like it.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's all right.

[Justin]

I think there's a little bit of a conspiracy on our hands that needs to be addressed. You see a lot of my favorite content of yours, Miles, has always been the Yeti comparison.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Justin]

And I've noticed lately I haven't seen any more yeti comparisons coming out make. Begs the question, has Miles been bought out by big yeti?

[Charlie Barrons]

I would. I would love to be bought out by big Yeti. You know, the paycheck that could come with that. Have you seen what that company is worth? They're worth a billion dollars.

[Miles]

Well, I bet they're a billion dollars because they sell a coffee cup.

[Charlie Barrons]

If I was bought out by yeti, I definitely wouldn't be sitting at this bar with Charlie.

[Miles]

What? I thought we're here because we're friends.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

Oh, my gosh.

[Charlie Barrons]

We would be in the Caribbean at a bar doing this.

[Miles]

Ah. Begs the question, where have the Yeti comparison videos gone?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, one, we've done a lot of products and I don't want to just. I don't want to just pick something on their website and make fun of it. You know, that's what the. That's the low hanging fruit. That's what someone who is an amateur would do. I got to make sure that I'm waiting for the fresh new stuff. Stuff that is so absurd that it basically writes itself.

[Miles]

So.

[Justin]

Sounds like he's waiting on that next Yeti care package to show up to his front door so he can have a review of it.

[Charlie Barrons]

I would love that. You could sling that stuff on Facebook. Marketplace. Marketplace for a pretty penny.

[Miles]

Patrick, you seen any product you want Miles to do a review of?

[Justin]

Hey, what? That YETI backpack? A little bit. A little bit out there.

[Charlie Barrons]

How much is it?

[Justin]

More than I can afford.

[Charlie Barrons]

Probably $600. For a backpack?

[Miles]

Backpack?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

I mean, you gotta hand it to them. They're like, there's a bunch of rich people out there with that. Like dog bowls, white coolers for white collars.

[Justin]

You said that should be their catchphrase.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, we. It's also one of those things I've been doing yeti videos now for like, at least four years that now it's to the point where I want it to be a little bit of a sweet treat when we do it.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know?

[Patty]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Oh, here's the Yeti bag.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, it's on sale, Charlie, for only $184.

[Miles]

Dear God. What the hell?

[Justin]

At that price, you lose money.

[Miles]

Not buying.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know. You can't pass up on those kinds of savings.

[Miles]

Clearly, it's not selling very well.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's action packed. Tough enough to get dirty. Smartly designed to sort your essentials.

[Miles]

Wait, it says tough enough to get dirty?

[Charlie Barrons]

Honestly? Yeah. Oh, you can get the 35 liter. You know, I usually measure my backpacks in liters.

[Miles]

I don't even know how big that.

[Charlie Barrons]

The 35L backpacks on sale for 200 bucks.

[Miles]

Are they selling these to Europeans leaders?

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, this one's waterproof. It's blaze orange.

[Miles]

I like the blaze orange. That's.

[Justin]

It's water Blaz orange would be nice. I come in handy.

[Miles]

Dude, that's $300. Are you freaking?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, but it holds 28 liters of stuff, so. Yeah. God, if, you know.

[Justin]

Million liters. In a case of beer, though.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, God. Okay.

[Miles]

Carry minus the two divided by four.

[Charlie Barrons]

Four liters. I don't know.

[Miles]

Let's Google it.

[Charlie Barrons]

We're in America. All right.

[Justin]

Yeah, we use Freedom Units over here.

[Miles]

Thank you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Thank you.

[Miles]

How many things are measured by liters on that chip you're designing?

[Justin]

Exactly. Zero liters worth.

[Miles]

Zero liters worth. See that? See that?

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, that's got to be a weird thing. Don't. Do engineers use the metric system system, or do they. They still using the American Freedom system?

[Justin]

It depends on the project. Which is weird. You would think all one Navy would use the same thing from boat to boat, but different boats use meters, different boats use Freedom Units.

[Miles]

Different boats.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's why engineers cost so much. They're spending their whole time converting different metrics.

[Miles]

See? Oh, terrible again, Miles. It's not the engineer, it's the client.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's true.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Bring it all back, Charlie. That's what I'm talking about.

[Miles]

Yeah. I got your back, Patrick. I got your back.

[Justin]

I appreciate it.

[Miles]

Well, thanks for calling in, man. This has been really insightful. This really has been insightful. Miles, any final questions here?

[Charlie Barrons]

If you know anyone. If you know anyone who works at YETI that wants to send me a care package, I need to sling that on Facebook Marketplace because I got a kid now, so I got to pay for stuff.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. So send Miles a free backpack. He'll sell it first.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'll do a video first. I'll do it, and then I'll sell it.

[Miles]

Then it'll be on Facebook Marketplace for a whopping $200 for a 30 liter backpack.

[Justin]

We'll know when Miles gets that Yeti gig because he'll have a Yeti wallet. Finally.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes, a hundred percent. You know, I'll start wearing like gold chains and stuff, you know, 200 bill fold. I'll show up in a black Suburban. That's. The windows are all tinted. That's when you'll. No, I. I took the bag from Yeti.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah. I didn't know they had a $200 wallet. Good God. Have you done that video? No, no, you gotta get back.

[Justin]

That was just my idea.

[Miles]

See, Patrick, I think now if you do this video, Miles gotta send you a little check.

[Charlie Barrons]

Actually, the.

[Miles]

I was.

[Charlie Barrons]

I was the.

[Justin]

I mean, I was gonna ask for some royalties, you know, giving them all these good content ideas.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you know, this actually comes full circle, Charlie. Why Charlie are. Yeti's whole motto is over engineering something. And so honestly, this sounds like the perfect marriage for you. Patrick, I think if this whole job you got now don't work out, go work at yeti. They're gonna love you.

[Justin]

Well, yeti, if you're listening, you know, Miles will give me my phone number.

[Miles]

They gotta go through Miles to get to Patrick. Well, Patrick, than for calling in my guy.

[Justin]

Absolutely. Fellas, it was a blast.

[Miles]

All right, we'll talk to you soon. Good luck on the ship.

[Justin]

Appreciate it.

[Miles]

Bye bye now.

[Charlie Barrons]

I actually am a little disappointed, Charlie, that I've never gotten one contact from YETI ever.

[Miles]

That well you spend. You built your career trashing them. Why do you think they're gonna call you?

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know. You know, I mean, the Vikings fans spend their whole life trashing their own team. But you know, that's true. Appreciate the fans.

[Miles]

That's true. So are you low key, a Yeti fan? Do you own any Yeti stuff?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, so here's what I do own YETI stuff, but it's all the stuff that I bought for a video.

[Miles]

Oh.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, it's like you have the receipt and then it just never gets returned.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

But then it actually has come in handy because we've used it for future videos.

[Miles]

Oh, okay. But you've never actually used the Yeti stuff.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, I have buddies that have Yetis.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

But yeah, I actually don't own a Yeti cooler.

[Miles]

I own. I own a bunch of the Yeti cups because people send them to you for promo.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got as a gift.

[Miles]

I got his gift.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, no, I have a lunchbox. I have a bottle opener, a ice bucket. So if you want to do the ice bucket challenge. At any point, let me know. I got one.

[Miles]

Mouse. You ever get out there with your UTV and roll it and pretend like you meant to?

[Charlie Barrons]

I, yeah, I've done, I've done that.

[Miles]

Done that. Like, oh yeah, the struts weren't good on that thing, you know, and there's not even really struts to be spoken of anymore, you know, and there you are, you know, just sitting there looking at the thing and you're like, shoot, I'm injured emotionally and also physically. And maybe you can sue the hell out of the ATV company. You never know. Maybe it was a user error. Either way, you know, you don't just take that lion down, you know, you call Nicolet, right?

[Charlie Barrons]

You first peel the ATV off of.

[Miles]

You peel it off and you say shoot. And you make sure you get checked out because if you roll an ATV tv, first of all, dry them safely. But if you roll it well then you, you never know what could be happening. You could have be bleeding from the inside. So you got to go to the hospital. That's going to cost money. Are you going to pay for that? I don't know. I think someone else should. Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

Right, so what should they do?

[Miles]

Call Nicolay. Call Nicolay, Call Nicolet Law, ladies and gentlemen, 1, 881-858-1855. Nicolae. Hi, this is Nick. Nick, how you doing my guy? What's on your mind? What's your rant? Let us hear it. I didn't think I was gonna get through. This is awesome. So it's like I got this girlfriend, right? And for some reason she likes to facetime me like every minute possible. And it's just like I don't wanna, I don't listen to like your, your dunking order that got messed up.

[Justin]

I don't care about that.

[Willie]

You know what I mean?

[Charlie Barrons]

I think that you are every man with a significant other. That's a rant I think we all have.

[Miles]

I will say the technology, man, it's a different level. It used to be a phone call, text, you know, kind of got a break from the phone call for a while. But then the FaceTime, if she's FaceTiming you that much, I don't think she trusts you a whole lot personally. Personally. But that's a whole other situation.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, no, because my wife does the same thing. She'll just text me, she doesn't FaceTime me. Thank God. Condolences to Nick here. But she'll just text me, be like, I had a, I had a bagel for breakfast.

[Miles]

Really?

[Charlie Barrons]

And then she'll be like, oh, you know, I'm watching tv or I ran an errand to the gas station station. And that's just boom, boom, boom. And I don't even have to respond. They just keep coming in.

[Miles]

Oh, so she's one of them one line texters.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles]

There are people who texting like just one lines and then people who like do a whole paragraph, you know, and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Nick, what's so wrong with her facetiming you every other minute?

[Miles]

It's like on my commute to work, I drive far from work. It's about like an hour, you know, so it's like when I, I'm exhausted, I'm working outside all day and I get in the car, I just want to listen to my podcast.

[Willie]

Listen to my.

[Miles]

No, she's like, as soon as she knows I'm in the car, bang, I got a call.

[Justin]

And it's like I'm just sitting there.

[Miles]

And it just makes me more tired. I'm not driving back.

[Justin]

Like I'm sitting in traffic.

[Miles]

That's making me tired. Now I'm listening to her and it's like, well, now I'm about to fall asleep and what? You know, it's like that, that's where it's like too much. I think we've uncovered maybe the deeper issue issue here. My guy. I think you might be in the wrong relationship. What do you think about, about that? I thought about it.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's like, he's like, honestly, I would ask you to marry me, but you just call me way too much and it makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

[Miles]

If your girlfriend is constantly, man, I'm definitely waiting. You're definitely. Well, if she's constantly putting you, putting your life in danger by putting you asleep while driving, I feel like, you know, you could just not answer. What would happen if you just didn't answer? Yeah, well, then she text me and then like, I'd rather, you know, call than text about. I don't like being on my phone, but sometimes I'll be like, hey, like, my mom's calling me real quick, can I call you back? And I hang up, listen to like songs for like about 10, 15 minutes and then like muster up enough energy, energy to call her back and then.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'll call her back. He's, he's like having to do. He's like listening to like motivational speeches just to stay awake and like work up the courage to call her back. You're like, you got this.

[Miles]

Did she when she calls, like, does she ever say anything of interest to you?

[Charlie Barrons]

No. Never?

[Miles]

Not one thing? No.

[Charlie Barrons]

So give us, like, a list of, like, what are the. What are the main five things she's calling you about? What is. What is she dumping on you at the end of your work day?

[Miles]

So I'd say the main thing is how, like, her day went. She's a teacher, so she'll say, oh, my God, you'll never believe, like, what happened in the classroom. This. This kid did this, and I said this, and then he laughed and I said, oh, okay. And it's like, oh, well, this teacher said this about me. Like, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, good job. And she's like, yeah, but, like, blah, blah, blah. And then going to, like, gossip with it. I'm like, oh, okay. And then she'll say, like, how her Dunkin order messed up again. And then it's just like, the repetitive kind of thing, and it just puts me to sleep.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, what you need to start doing, what you should start doing is just getting ahead of it. You answer a phone, you just go, wow, I can't believe that student did that today. I can't believe that teacher said that about you. God, Duncan sucks because they get your order wrong. All right, honey, well, see you when I get home. Bye. Just get ahead of everything.

[Miles]

Yeah. Can I tried it one time.

[Charlie Barrons]

And how did that go?

[Willie]

Go ahead.

[Miles]

It didn't go well. She thought that I wasn't listening to her or give her a chance to yap, and I just told her that I already know what you're gonna say. I was like, did I. Did I say everything you're gonna say? And she was like, yeah.

[Willie]

I was like, there you go.

[Miles]

I got ahead of it. I think there's really two issues here. There's one issue of FaceTiming when you don't want to be FaceTiming, but then also, I feel like you got some kinks to work out in this regard. Relationship. Are you guys good when you're in person or no? Well, yeah, when we're in person, we're good. We joke around together. We have a good time. And she's always on the tick tock thing. And it's like sometimes I just take her phone and shut it off on her. Other than that, yeah. Pretty good in person.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Other than stealing her property and making her do something else, things are going well in the relationship. Relationship.

[Miles]

I was on this. Have you ever been on a FaceTime call where she's, like, cooking or something? And she puts the phone down and the phone is just facing the ceiling. So you just talk into a ceiling for 10 minutes. That usually happens when she's in the bathroom. She doesn't cook, which. That's also another issue I gotta train.

[Charlie Barrons]

Her on, but trainer.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, my God.

[Miles]

I don't think that's how to cook.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't think that's the right mentality.

[Miles]

Are you close to your girlfriend right now?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, no, no.

[Willie]

She.

[Miles]

I meant to get a haircut and she's off running errands. The way you said. No, no, no. Sounds like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's in the next room, but you don't want that to happen, so.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, here's a question.

[Miles]

In my truck, you.

[Charlie Barrons]

You called into our podcast today. You seem like you got a lot of energy going on. What's the difference between talking to us on the phone and talking to her on. On the phone?

[Miles]

You guys are more enjoyable to talk to. It's like I talk to her every day. I don't know. You guys are. This is my first time speaking with you guys. I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, different then. Why don't every time you just imagine that you're talking to Charlie and I. Yeah.

[Miles]

Just don't carry that over to other aspects of your relationship.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Otherwise.

[Charlie Barrons]

Otherwise you might not be able to perform, if you know what I mean. Or maybe you would perform better. I don't know. I don't want to judge.

[Miles]

I mean, I could try it out and let you guys know next time, but. Yeah, she just doesn't bring the same energy as you guys.

[Charlie Barrons]

She's more monotone.

[Miles]

Oh, so she. That's the deal.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hi. Yeah, work today was kind of crazy. I. This one kid, Billy. Dylan. Dylan threw spitballs at the wall again. It doesn't sound like that.

[Miles]

Exactly like that. What did you do?

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know. I might be a little bit on your side because that was boring. I mean, I'm guessing the listeners that are listening, as they tuned out, they probably shut the podcast off when I started doing that.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'm trying to think of an actual solution to help you, you know, And I know you were just calling in to rant. Have you ever thought about breaking your forward facing camera on your phone? Just like a. A little like chisel and a hammer real quick and then you're done with FaceTime calls just like that.

[Willie]

That's just.

[Miles]

I thought you were going to go a different route and just break up with her.

[Charlie Barrons]

I thought you were too. I thought you were Gonna say break up with her.

[Miles]

I mean, you could do that, but, you know, if you're still gonna. Yeah, actually, that's a better idea right there. You save yourself the phone. That's perfect. Or you could. Break myself the phone to money. Yeah, I could break her phone. No, don't do that. That's not. Just break up with her.

[Justin]

I gotta pay for it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean, do you think this relationship's gonna work? It's sounding like a disaster to me.

[Patty]

I don't know.

[Miles]

I mean, I guess we're still young to figure that out, you know, I'm 23, so I got. I'm not worried about it. If it works out, it works out. If it doesn't.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, well, yeah, smart.

[Miles]

Maybe you just find someone you want to face with and then start there.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's what life's about, Charlie. Find someone that you're happy to FaceTime with.

[Miles]

Exactly. Yeah, well, we. And want to listen to.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, we appreciate you calling in my guy. Yeah. Well, thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure. Yeah. And good luck with your gal. And thank you for sharing the rant.

[Charlie Barrons]

I get it. It's mine. I don't get FaceTime. But Ann will text me a lot during the day, and I'll be in meetings or shooting a video or something. And then I open my phone and I got 36 unread messages. And you think something's wrong, but no, it's just a journal, you know, it's just like. It's a ledger of what she did throughout the day. And if that makes her happy, that makes her happy. Charlie.

[Miles]

Does she get mad if you don't text her back?

[Charlie Barrons]

At first. But then she realized that this is my life now, so.

[Miles]

Yeah, you know what? That would have been good advice for that guy. He's setting the wrong precedent by opening up the FaceTime.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I should have just never answered.

[Miles]

Yeah, because then. Then she'll find out if she needs that FaceTime. You know, the truth will set you free, Maggie. Come on. Belly up to the bar. Water is warm and the beer is cold. What's on your mind?

[Willie]

Am I seriously on right now?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, you're on. I'm Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, this is a recording.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's not.

[Willie]

That'd be funny if this was, like, someone answers. If someone answers first and then gives me a little, you know, hint that I'm going to be on or something.

[Miles]

Oh, we're not that buttoned up my question.

[Willie]

Okay.

[Patty]

Wow.

[Willie]

Okay, cool. This is more for Charlie. Sorry. Miles.

[Miles]

Sorry.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's all right. That's all right. These tend to usually be fun for me. So here we go.

[Willie]

Okay. Why do you have such a big chip on your shoulder about people from Illinois?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie.

[Miles]

Oh, my God.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's so wrong with people who live a little further south than you? Charlie? Charlie, what's so wrong with Illinois?

[Miles]

There is nothing wrong with Illinois. There's just something not quite right about it, okay? And I'll tell you what it is. It all stems Soldier Field, Chicago Bears, okay? And the audacity that Bears fans have to think that they're even at the same level as the Green Bay packers is something I just received, all right? And that's the beginning of it. The other thing is you guys come up to Wisconsin in your fib cars, all right? And you expect it that it's Chicago rules. You drive around Chicago, it's like a NASCAR race, okay? You come to Wisconsin, we go a little slower, we wave you past twice at the stop signs, you know? And it's not because we got nowhere to go. Oh, hang on, my mic is getting a little crazy. It's not because we got nowhere to go. It's just that we're not that interested in getting there that fast, you know? But you guys are pow, pow, pow all the time. And also prices in Door county have skyrocketed. I'm not going to say because of you, but you sure haven't helped that situation. Those are just three things that are kind of beefs that Wisconsin people have with Illinois. And there's more. But I will say that we love you a lot. We really do love you. We just sometimes don't like you. Like if the. You know, and that's it. And I think that's a healthy thing. We do love you. It's, you know, it's like. Let me ask you this. Do you guys have any beef with anyone from Wisconsin or do you just not think about us? I think that's really what it is, is that you guys just aren't thinking about. And that makes us even more angry, you know?

[Willie]

Yeah, I think you're right. Not really thinking about.

[Miles]

You see a break my heart like this, I'm gonna go home, cry about it, stuff the emotions down before I walk outside, and then scan come back in some unfounded hatred of Illinois. And that's where the chip come comes from. But it's, it's. It's meant when with love. So that's all I gotta say.

[Willie]

Okay, well, that's good.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I got my Question for you is, what is your gripes with Wisconsin?

[Willie]

I just don't understand. I just didn't understand why they didn't like us. I remember when I was younger, I had a friend and her cousin from Wisconsin would always come down and visit and call us bibs. And I just. I didn't understand why.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wow.

[Willie]

I'm outside of Chicago. I like a northwest suburb.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, yes, Charlie, you got to put yourself in their shoes. They're feeling like these are, like, unwarranted shots. They don't feel like they've done anything wrong.

[Miles]

That's because everyone comes up to Wisconsin. They go to Milwaukee, and they go, oh, this. This is almost as cool as Chicago, you know? Or they say like, oh, this is kind of like Chicago, but worse, you know? Or they go, at least there's plenty of parking here. We got more than parking in Wisconsin. All right? So we're sort of fighting back against that air of superiority that Illinois gives, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, and here's another question for you. As a fib. Fib. As a fibula. Yeah. Charlie's got a bone to pick with you Fibulas.

[Miles]

Oh, that's funny, Miles, because tibia is a bone.

[Charlie Barrons]

What is so wrong with just slowing down a little bit once you cross the border? What's so wrong with not cutting people off in traffic? What's so wrong with laying off the horn instead of laying on.

[Miles]

Thank you, Miles. Thank you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Why can't you guys. Guys just, you know, hey, show a little bit of respect in that sense.

[Miles]

Thank you. Yeah, Miles said it better than me.

[Willie]

I guess we're just angry about stuff.

[Miles]

What are you angry about? Let's unpack that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's do therapy with the whole state of Illinois here. What's wrong? Who hurt you?

[Willie]

This is kind of stupid.

[Patty]

Stupid, but I.

[Willie]

When I drop my kids off at school, there's like a line, you know, to drop the kids off. And they keep telling me that there's a sidewalk. Move up, move up, move up. And, you know, don't stop the car and let your kids out. Just get them out. And I don't know why, but infuriates me. And it's so stupid that people don't pull up and they get out of their car, they unbuckle their kids, they let them out of the car, you know, wave goodbye, you know, And I'm waiting between two cars, and I got to get out of there. I got to get to work. I don't have time for that.

[Charlie Barrons]

So that's the problem right there.

[Willie]

I honk it. Honking. Yell at them.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, that's the problem.

[Miles]

But.

[Charlie Barrons]

But then when people from Illinois spend their whole life saying, I don't have time for this, and then they realize they didn't spend any time doing anything other than trying to get more. More time.

[Miles]

Wow, that's profound, Miles.

[Willie]

That's a really stupid reason to get mad about something.

[Miles]

It is.

[Charlie Barrons]

It is, isn't it? But it is stupid.

[Miles]

It wears on you. And then. And then you take out your. Your pain and your emotion on the. The poor people up north, you know, and you buy the land and you jack the prices up. God dang it. And then you're in. You know, you're in our slow lanes going 85. Well, if I just want to park here and enjoy the fall colors, darn it, that's my pride prerogative, you know? I mean, the oranges and. And the greens and the Taco Bell purple. The Taco Bell purples. I mean, you gotta sit back sometimes and just enjoy the colors because you really got nowhere to be. Life is not about the destination. It's about how slow you can get there. Okay? And that's what you get. So if waiting in that line is an issue. Your kids got bikes, right? Put them on those horses and send them to school. Or. Or get your. Get your doors, take off the child protective lock on them. Teach your kids how to tuck and roll.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Do a drive by.

[Miles]

Do a drive by. You know, exactly. It'll build character. So I hope you know that this isn't with you personally. It's just with the state that, you know, you were unfortunately living in and. Yeah, but I do. Thank you.

[Willie]

Another question.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, go ahead.

[Willie]

So, you know, you have your chip on your shoulder, and you explain why. Now, have you or would you ever date someone from Illinois? Illinois. And if he did, how would your family feel about that?

[Miles]

Oh, God, I wouldn't tell my family, first of all. I mean, I would lie. I would say that, you know, she's from Beloit, you know, something like that. I mean, if they found out. Dana, bears. I mean, you've seen Romeo and Juliet, right? This. This ends with a double sui. You know, over at Soldier Field. I mean, I hate to say it, but I'm drinking that poison right after you, you know, so it's a tough. It's a tough goal, but love is love, and you can't.

[Charlie Barrons]

You can't help the old double suey. Oh, yeah. This is a classic double suey situation, Charlie.

[Miles]

Yeah. She was Illinois. Who's from Wisconsin. We see this five, seven times a year at least.

[Charlie Barrons]

Classic Double suey. Yeah.

[Miles]

Why? I. Who are you trying to hook me up with?

[Charlie Barrons]

Cousin to the double homie? You know?

[Willie]

No, there's this show on Netflix, it just came out and it's called. No one wants this. It's like this Jewish rabbi guy and then this girl that's just like a hot mess and she's not Jewish. And it's just like a feel good movie. It's got a guy from the OC on it. Adam Brody.

[Miles]

Adam Brody. Still alive.

[Willie]

Fall in love.

[Miles]

Wow. I gotta give that a watch.

[Willie]

He's hot.

[Miles]

Yeah. Are you. Are you trying to get with Adam Brody? Is that what I'm getting here?

[Willie]

I'm. I'm married.

[Miles]

You're married?

[Charlie Barrons]

So. So you're saying that if a guy, someone from Wisconsin was dating another person from Illinois, it would be like a rabbi and a girl who's kind of a mess dating is what you're saying. Who's the rabbi and who's the mess?

[Willie]

Well, I was listening. I listen to your guys podcasts when I work and it just. I don't know, I just saw it and I thought of how much Charlie has a dislike for people in Illinois.

[Charlie Barrons]

Who's the rabbi and who's the mess?

[Willie]

In the movie or the show?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, in this Wisconsin, Illinois situation. Is Charlie the rabbi or is Charlie the mess?

[Willie]

No, neither of them. It's the. I don't like all their friends and family. No one wants this.

[Miles]

Well, I'll tell you this.

[Willie]

Let me say this, Juliet, like everyone else.

[Miles]

Let me say this to you and all the people of Illinois. I love you, okay?

[Charlie Barrons]

I do.

[Miles]

But sometimes I. I'd like you if you just slowed down a sko and you bought land in Michigan instead. Come visit.

[Willie]

I guess I won't be heading to the Mars cheese factory.

[Miles]

No, Come on, I'm teasing. I'm pulling your leg. Get up here. We love you. We do. And here's the thing.

[Willie]

I came up to see you at the. Sorry.

[Miles]

No, don't say sorry. God, you are so Midwest, I gotta tell you. Let me wrap this up here. Let me wrap this up here and just tell you that we do love you. And we need you. We need you, okay? We need your love for the bears to transcend. It gives us some determination. Talk about. Because if. If it. If. If we don't have this unfounded hatred for you, we might have to start feeling our feelings. And that is not something we're about to.

[Charlie Barrons]

Without Illinois. Charlie, it's Just go Packers.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's. It's so much funner to say, fuck the Bears, you know, so we.

[Charlie Barrons]

Punchline to that.

[Miles]

Yeah, there is.

[Charlie Barrons]

Go Packers. It's boring.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean, we thank you because without you, you we wouldn't have all your losses against the packers, and. And we just wouldn't have as much fun. So thank you for being you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Without the Bears, you wouldn't be able to start the season two, and.

[Miles]

Oh, thank you very much.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Well, we appreciate you calling in today. Thanks for the love. Thanks for tuning in, and, yeah, thanks for calling in.

[Willie]

Don't forget to tip your bartender.

[Miles]

Yes, tip your bartender. Thank you very much. Go Packers. And F. The Bears. We'll see you soon.

[Willie]

Bye. Bye.

[Miles]

Bye.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, Charlie, is that another solid good episode of the Bellied up podcast?

[Miles]

In the books, ITB Miles. In the books, cba.

[Charlie Barrons]

Could be anything.

[Miles]

Could be anything.

[Charlie Barrons]

Could be anywhere.

[Miles]

Could be anyone. Hello there, guys. This is Josh. Hey, Josh. How you doing? My guy, Josh. Where you from? I'm from southwest Louisiana, a little bitty town that nobody knows of. Southwest. The heel of the boot. Boot, right. Does Louisiana look like a boot?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah, it does. Yeah. He's the boot to your mitten, Josh.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the capital of Louisiana? Booton Rouge.

[Miles]

He said Booton Rouge. Get it? Do you hear what Josh said? The boot to my mitten. That was really. It was fun. Sorry, Josh, I missed what you said.

[Justin]

Which part?

[Miles]

I don't know. Yeah, tell us what's on your mind. All right, I'll up with y'all. All right, so I had a question for you guys. Okay. What's the Midwest equivalent to a crawfish boil? Oh, well, I mean, we got a few equivalents to a crawfish boil. One would say a flavor fish boil. Another would say a fish fry. You know, one of those things, because I think you got crawfish boil, you kind of just dump it all out on a plate. I would say the closest thing is probably a fish boil or a pickled fish salad. You know, you get a bunch of fish. You get a bunch of veggies in there. You get the northern pike with the wide bones. You don't want to clean the wide bones. You just chop them up, put in there, pickle up. My Uncle Joel makes a great one, but that you can just kind of dump it out into a smorgasbord. We got a couple options. But anyway, why do you ask? You know, just being nosy. Just chilling out on a Wednesday.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

That's what you also What?

[Justin]

Had something interesting happen last night.

[Miles]

So over here, somebody stole a truck and drove into a convenience store and stole her atm. That's very inconvenient.

[Charlie Barrons]

That took that.

[Miles]

Yeah, very convenient.

[Charlie Barrons]

That took that convenience store and turn it into an inconvenience store.

[Miles]

Did you see what Miles did right there? Did you see that? Oh, yeah, I see what he did. Oh yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm gonna head down to the thing.

[Miles]

Right.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm gonna head down to the inconvenience store. You gotta go through all the rubble to get inside.

[Miles]

Probably pretty convenient for them though. You think they got a good haul out of that or did they get pulled over by the pokey? It was a stolen truck and they crashed in a ditch not far from my sister's house.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so this has got to be the talk of the town. Sounds like you're in a small town if something like this happens.

[Miles]

Got about 9, 800 people in it. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you. I mean this has got to be a talk of the town. Is it the talk of the town?

[Miles]

You probably know did. Oh, we got a picture right here pulled up. Holy. I mean I can.

[Charlie Barrons]

It looks like a clean break.

[Miles]

Right?

[Charlie Barrons]

Right through.

[Miles]

Yeah. They knew the weak spot. Oh my God. Oh yeah.

[Justin]

Y'all found it.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what, they just backed up into it, threw the ATM in the back of the bed of the truck and drove off?

[Miles]

That's pretty much what I'm gathering. Yeah. Who did it? We don't know that much.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is a classic. Who done it?

[Miles]

Yeah, who do you think done it? You know everyone in the town.

[Charlie Barrons]

Everyone.

[Miles]

I don't know everybody, but had to guess. It's probably someone who stole that truck.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, that's good detective work. Do you think there was any meth involved? It seems like a meth ridden accident.

[Miles]

Smells a little methy. Oh, definitely meth involved.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Most robberies do have meth involved. I've seen the case. I had a buddy that got robbed by a bunch of meth heads.

[Miles]

Method. Yeah, it's not the breakfast of champions, tell you that much. Well, what else is going on in your town? Aside for the lack one less atm, I think the rest is just the normal well going about their business, wondering about that atm. Listen, listen, I. I understand your where you're coming from of just like, well, an ATM got stolen and that's kind of that. This is an unsolved crime right now, all right? And you're just sitting there on your ass in the boot of Louisiana, not solving the crime. It's time for you to start contributing to society. This is your calling. Get up out of the Lazy Boy, go to where that truck was found, and start looking for clues. You know, they might have left something in, maybe some footprints on the grass over there. You never know. Do you track a deer ever? No, but I've tracked some ducks before.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, you got to start looking for droppings. Yeah. Look.

[Miles]

Yeah. To see if there's any meth droppings.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes.

[Miles]

They're. They're like rabbit pellets. Just. Yeah. Boot prints. Yeah. Use needles, anything like that. Anything. You start getting through the woods, seeing what. And that's the best case scenario. You find the worst case scenario. You get out in the woods, you're in enjoying life, you know, Best case, you can't solve a crime. Worst case, you see a new woodpecker.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, Charlie, you know, I do. Like, since we're now a true crime podcast, I have a question for you.

[Miles]

What's that?

[Charlie Barrons]

I'd like you to tell me what you think the perfect crime is.

[Miles]

I mean, I think. Right. I think we've witnessed a perfect crime right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

They definitely got caught.

[Miles]

They didn't get caught.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, they haven't been caught.

[Miles]

That's why I told him to go figure it out.

[Charlie Barrons]

They're at large.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Well, I mean, perfect crime so far. What's the craziest thing about this is the chief of police owns that store.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh. Oh. Gone from a classic who done it to a full gone conspiracy.

[Miles]

Josh. I think that this was an inside job, my guy. And I think that's. That's why it hasn't been solved yet, because the chief of police.

[Charlie Barrons]

Kind of weird how much they're dragging their feet.

[Miles]

Yeah. Now, Miles, how are you gonna let your own store get robbed? Yeah. And it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Insurance money.

[Miles]

Stop. Stop talking. At this point, from a journalistic standpoint, because obviously we're journalists. We have to say allegedly before any accusations.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is probably an alleged. This is for sure, sure.

[Miles]

Alleged possible insurance. One could see how someone with police connections could figure out how. No one could figure out who stole an atm, collect some insurance money, and also take the. The atom. How did they get the atm? Was the ATM still in the truck? I think, yeah, it was in the bed of the truck. It was broken into. Oh. So they broke in, they got the money, and they. Whoa. Take the money and run.

[Charlie Barrons]

All I know is when this inevitably goes to trial.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

The lawyers better make sure no one tries on a glove, because that could be disastrous.

[Miles]

Yeah. Because you know what they'll say? No Glove? No, love.

[Charlie Barrons]

No. If it don't fit, you must stop.

[Miles]

Taking their medicine so their hand gets bigger.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that's how it goes. So we have a. I mean, this is a conspiracy theory. We have chief, chief of police involved. He owned the convenience store.

[Miles]

How does the chief of police own a convenience store?

[Charlie Barrons]

He probably bought it with his money.

[Miles]

Oh, well, I think he inherited it. Oh, he inherited it. See, that's. That's what I'm talking about. It's tough to get a convenience store on a police chief's salary, I think. I don't know that they. Yeah, I would have seen himself.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. So tell me, what are some of the murmurs that are going around the small town right now of maybe who did it? Seems speculative that the police chief owns the store. What? There any rumors going around right now?

[Miles]

Not that I'm aware of. I haven't really talked to anybody about it yet. I just got told about. My sister told me about it because, you know, truck crashed by her house. That's about all I know right now. Boys, what do you do for a living that's more important than solving this frigging crime? Josh? I'm a school bus monitor.

[Charlie Barrons]

What do you mean?

[Miles]

All right, so I ride with the substitute drivers and keep an eye on the kids and help them with directions.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you. You do ride alongs with bus drivers?

[Miles]

Pretty much. Fricking awesome.

[Charlie Barrons]

So that's where all our government money is going. We're paying two bus drivers for one.

[Miles]

Bus going on with the new drivers. Miles, you can't just send. Are you kidding me? It's a great way to spend public funds. You can't send a new driver out with a bus full of kids. The one kid, probably you, Miles, is gonna smell the weakness and start fricking with the bus driver, hijack that thing, back it into a convenience store, steal the atom, and then they're off on the. On the deal, ripping it out. Going through the woods and hanging out with Matt. Meth edge. I mean, how dare you? Question. Yeah, I think you know that there. Yeah, I did, Josh. Don't worry. Hey, I am in full support of you doing this job right now. I know, I. And the reason Miles was questioning it is he was that kid that would have been hijacking that school bus. No.

[Charlie Barrons]

Lots of spitballs.

[Miles]

Yeah, it would have started off spitball balls, but you sense what he's being.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, spitballs is a gateway drug to stealing ATMs from convenience stores. It is, right?

[Miles]

Yeah. It all starts with one spitball. It's a slippery spitty slope after that.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what are some of the stuff you got to deal with as the bus super moderator, monitor superintendent?

[Miles]

Kids who were just like you were, acting spitballs and breaking up fights, little arguments.

[Charlie Barrons]

Are you guys still allowed to use the rulers to discipline, or is that frowned upon? Now, hold on, guys.

[Miles]

Talking to my dad. What's up, Dad? I don't know. Mama was talking about tomato sauce. That sounds good.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is that your dad?

[Miles]

Dad? Yep. Yes, my dad.

[Charlie Barrons]

Can you ask him what he knows about the burglary?

[Miles]

What do you know about the burglary in town? I know that somebody backed the truck up. They found the truck. It was stolen. They packed the truck up, broke the front end. The long y'all was open, and they found the truck down Elliott Road. Miranda's house. Yep. That's all we know right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is it? Does he know any details about how much cash was stolen?

[Miles]

No, we don't know that. Stolen? Look, I promise you, that cash machine has a tractor in it. They know exactly where it's at right now. Pretty sure it was still embedded in trust and found a truck. Oh, no, they didn't say. Huh. Does he think it was an inside job?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Ask him that.

[Miles]

Do you think it was an inside job because of the chief?

[Emily]

The police?

[Miles]

No. No. Why not? Because I ain't never heard nothing bad about Cruz yet. Now, it could have been the last chief of police that we had. What's his name?

[Braylon]

Sean.

[Miles]

Sean. Then I said, oh, Sean done made him some money. All right, dad. Tell your dad when he says hi, it's your family. All right, well, he's a.

[Justin]

Said hi.

[Miles]

Real good.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so. All right. Good to know. Current police of police chief, he's a. He's a straight shooter. But the old guy, Sean, kind of a piece of probably would have done it. Who knows? Sean. Sean may have done this in retaliation of Luke losing his chief of police job to new guy.

[Miles]

Maybe.

[Charlie Barrons]

We may have a new lead.

[Miles]

I feel like we're on CSI, L.A. right now. Yeah. Also, I just learned where. I just learned where a cop came from. Chief of police. Oh, cop.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, I got that. I don't know if that's true or not.

[Miles]

It's true. I just thought of it.

[Charlie Barrons]

What would be the tagline if this was a csi? You know, right before they do the intro, they do the opening scene, and then he takes off his glasses and says a one liner. What would be the one liner?

[Miles]

This guy lost more than his pin. Wow. Honestly, I think they would walk through the Doors and say this place is wide open. Wow. Burning out.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Or.

[Miles]

Where Y'all drinking that today? Were you changing this up? We're not done yet. Let's withdraw from his. All right. Ah, I lost it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Maybe we can go convenience store again, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah, no, that seems convenient.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, well, this convenience store sure seems inconvenient. Yeah, so we're.

[Miles]

We're over at the packing house in Milwaukee. You want to fly up here right next to the airport? Yeah, I mean, he's got a.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's got an airplane. He's got a crime to solve, Charlie. You can't be fleeing the state.

[Miles]

That's true.

[Charlie Barrons]

Now, wouldn't it be something if he was the one that did this and this is his alibi?

[Miles]

I mean, that would. Would be hilarious. Did you do it? Well, Josh, I got an alibi. Who's your alibi, Josh? I was drinking the Miller high life at 2:30am at the time of crying.

[Charlie Barrons]

That sounds like someone who maybe robbed a convenience store would say.

[Miles]

Yeah. Who are you drinking with, Josh? My dogs. Your dogs?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, convenient. They can't talk.

[Miles]

Yeah. Hey, put your dog on the phone. I want to talk to your dog. Put that dog. Tell your dog. Tell your dog I says this Relay the message. You better do it just like that, Josh, that dog's gonna go homeward bound on your ass if you don't do that deal. Okay? He's gonna be his way to Wisconsin to tell me the real freaking culprit. You better have been drinking highlights with that pooch. Oh, he's a blue healer. He's gonna get distracted by a cow before he makes it to Milwaukee. Josh, I gotta tell you, you're not giving us a whole lot of hope to think you didn't steal that atm. Well, I didn't steal no truck, but your dad might have.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sounds like something someone would say we didn't want us. I think he still old truck.

[Miles]

Yeah. And, oh, maybe you are telling the truth, but your dad might be in on it too, Josh. Yeah, well, if he's in on it, then good for him for living the retirement life. I think you guys are trying to frame that former chief of police.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sean.

[Miles]

Sean. I'm gonna call the Louisiana Son plan. A little story in here, a little plant a little seed in their brain.

[Charlie Barrons]

I thought you were talking about good journalism. Charlie.

[Miles]

It'S 2024. It's dead.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, well, honestly, good luck on the. On the case. Good luck finding evidence.

[Miles]

Appreciate that.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know you call us back once you find him, because I don't know if I'm be able to sleep very good at night knowing that there's a.

[Miles]

Criminal at large currently in the boot of Louisiana. All right. All right. Hey, good talking to you. Yeah. Watch out for gators and snakes and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Creepy crawlies and pick and ATMs.

[Miles]

Yeah. Watch out for deer. All right, thanks, my guy. We see you soon.

[Charlie Barrons]

My favorite part of the call was that his dad had. You know, he was. I don't know anything yet, but he came off. If I had is not the current chief of police. He's got the dirt on the old.

[Miles]

Guy, so I. I like that he comes off firing on it. Yeah. Good. Good dad. You know, Josh is a nice guy, too. I hope he wasn't offended we accused him of potentially being involved. Involved in this. But he did start.

[Charlie Barrons]

Everyone's a suspect. Everyone's guilty. In our mind, unless proven innocent, we're all suspicious. Okay, Kale, well, why don't you belly up to the bar with us? Tell us what's on your mind.

[Patty]

Well, I've got a. I've got a lot of friends that are wanting to do some double dates, but they just.

[Miles]

Can'T seem to pull any girls, so they. I. I need some help on how I can be a good wingman here, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. So one. Not to brag. You got yourself. Yourself a girl, correct?

[Patty]

Well, I. I do, yeah. Believe it or not.

[Charlie Barrons]

Are you married? Girlfriend? Fiance.

[Patty]

So. So I'm actually 17 years of age, but.

[Miles]

So I'm not married. You're 17. That complicates all the advice we're gonna give you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes, it.

[Miles]

Really? Yeah.

[Patty]

Wow.

[Charlie Barrons]

I had a whole host of things that I was gonna maybe say.

[Miles]

Thank you for clarifying that before we were in some legal figure.

[Charlie Barrons]

Figure was good.

[Patty]

We get that out of the way.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Okay. First question that pops in my head is, why are you so worried about going on double dates at 17 years old?

[Miles]

Well, I'm just trying to help out.

[Patty]

My buddies, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys are 17?

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

What are they more. Are they more interested in Fortnite than hanging out with girls or what?

[Miles]

A lot of. A lot of them are, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And what's so wrong with that, Kale?

[Miles]

Well, there's nothing that's wrong with that. They just. Well, so see, here's the predicament is they. They all would like some.

[Patty]

They would all like some female interaction.

[Miles]

In their life, but they just. They don't know how to get it. And so I'm trying to be of assistance if I can, you know, you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sound like you're 30. You sound like you're 30.

[Miles]

I sound like I'm 30?

[Patty]

Is that what you said? You know, I actually get told a lot that I'm really old.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Patty]

Or I sound like I'm really old.

[Miles]

What do you.

[Charlie Barrons]

So. Well, hold on. How did you meet your girlfriend?

[Miles]

I. I asked her on a date.

[Charlie Barrons]

At. At school?

[Miles]

Well, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Okay.

[Miles]

Well, is. Do you say, well, like, what class? Where in school? How did it happen?

[Charlie Barrons]

Was it at her? Locked?

[Miles]

I didn't ask her. I didn't ask. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I.

[Patty]

So it was for. For a dance.

[Miles]

You want to go close that door for me? Did you just call someone? Hang on. Pause, pause. Did you just call that guy Bronco?

[Patty]

That's his name.

[Miles]

So Bronco and Kale.

[Charlie Barrons]

Kale and Bronco are chilling, playing Fortnite on. On their summer break.

[Miles]

No, we're. We're. We're working right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, where are you working at?

[Patty]

We're. We're beekeepers, believe it or not.

[Miles]

You're beekeeper. This is. This just keeps getting more and more. This. The onion that just keeps peeling. Hey, is Bronco your brother, by chance?

[Patty]

No, he's.

[Miles]

He's the boss's son. Do you mind if I put you on speaker so I can use both mine? Yeah, yeah, go put us on speaker. It's just. Okay. All right, boys, if you can't hear me, let me know. I'll figure something else out. What are you doing while you're talking to us? Well, we're. So we got these pallets that we're putting what's called loading boards on them, and we put them around like honey boxes when we strap them down, or like, underneath boxes so the honey doesn't spill. And we're just banding them up so we can store them. Oh, that's great.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like that.

[Miles]

Yeah, we can count each one. You're standing up. It's nice.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what is. So you're wondering how you're gonna help your guy buy buddies get girlfriends? Is that what you're wondering?

[Miles]

Well, at least, I don't know. Just help them out a little bit, you know? Whatever you can do to help me with that.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. All right, Charlie, let's want you to close your eyes and pretend you're back in high school.

[Miles]

Okay?

[Charlie Barrons]

How you gonna help your other high school friend get a girlfriend? What's.

[Miles]

Step one? Was not good at this in high school.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, I'll go. What, you're gonna start?

[Miles]

I just dropped something, but it does Suck that. You weren't good at that in high school.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you weren't good at it. Like Kale is Kale.

[Miles]

Clearly Kale is with a game that.

[Charlie Barrons]

He'S reeling and dealing in high school.

[Miles]

Yeah. Now name like Kale, you're gonna.

[Charlie Barrons]

So if I'm in high school and I'm trying to be a good wingman, I am probably be starting a rumor that one person likes another person. Remember that it was Charlie likes Miranda. You know, I heard that you're maybe in the. In the. At lunch, in the cafeteria, and now you just spill that information out, plant the seed.

[Miles]

Yeah, Yeah, I do like that. Now I've got to ask, with all the technology going on, do kids still right now.

[Patty]

I. I honestly, I have no idea.

[Miles]

I can't confirm. Deny that. What do you mean you can't confirm or deny it? Dude, you're in school. Who are we gonna. Well, I mean, I don't have enough.

[Patty]

Like, I don't know if people do that.

[Willie]

I don't know.

[Miles]

Maybe not that I've seen. You've never not write in notes anymore.

[Charlie Barrons]

Accidentally send a Snapchat to the wrong person saying that Charlie likes Miranda. Right? That's. You guys used to.

[Miles]

Okay, I see what you're saying. I don't, but a lot of people do. Well, you're giving us a lot to work with here, Kale. I'm trying my best. Boy, no, you keep putting those pallets on that. The honey is serious business.

[Charlie Barrons]

So I'm gonna think back to when I was a high schooler. If I was with my girlfriend, I wanted as much alone time with my girlfriend in high school school as virtually possible. And you're wanting to go on double dates. What's. What's the real root of this?

[Miles]

That's true. What, sorry.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the real root of wanting to go on double dates?

[Miles]

I don't know.

[Patty]

A lot of my buddies just have.

[Miles]

Very strict parents, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you have non strict parents?

[Miles]

I don't know. I wouldn't say non strict, but they're very, very loving and forgiving parents.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you're having the parties at your house then as well, what you're saying?

[Miles]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, all right. Charlie. Charlie. Were you allowed to have parties growing up?

[Miles]

Oh, God, I had 12 kids growing. The house was never empty.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's true.

[Miles]

Be a party with the whole family. That's exactly. So listen, you. You've got. You're trying to get your. Your motivation here. How long have you been dating your girl girlfriend? Nine months. Nine Months. And we cut you off. Before I cut you off, where did you guys meet?

[Patty]

So there was a.

[Miles]

There was a school dance, and I.

[Willie]

Asked to do it.

[Miles]

And then she.

[Willie]

She asked me on another date.

[Miles]

And that's how that happened.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Pallet. You just dropped a pallet.

[Charlie Barrons]

Did you get stung by a bee?

[Miles]

I haven't yet today, but I did a whole bunch. Yesterday or the day before?

[Charlie Barrons]

A lot of. A lot of EpiPens getting thrown around at this job. I like it.

[Miles]

All right, I got the solution. Kale. I'm not. I'm not allergic. I don't ever have to use the EpiPen, but Bronco here had to use one yesterday. Well, sorry to hear that. Bronco. Go.

[Charlie Barrons]

Bronco was almost not bucking anymore, I can tell you that. Close call.

[Miles]

Well, he just. He just. He just held my hand and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is Bronco there, by the way? Can we talk to Bronco?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Patty]

Here he is.

[Miles]

There you go.

[Charlie Barrons]

Bronco. Bronco, you there?

[Miles]

What.

[Charlie Barrons]

What are you doing working at a beekeeping job? Being allergic to bees. My uncle.

[Miles]

Family business. It's a family business. You know, you risk it all for the family. That's how it goes. So. Like, a month ago, so. Well, glad you've changed course.

[Charlie Barrons]

Have you fired up your resume now, knowing you are allergic to bees?

[Willie]

No.

[Miles]

I should, though.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. I mean, it's just you're constantly living in a state of thrill. I could die at any. Any moment. And maybe that's what keeps you there.

[Justin]

We've got plenty of epidemics here.

[Miles]

Just give me another one.

[Charlie Barrons]

I get back to work is what happened yesterday. So you're not even getting the day off after getting stung by a bee and getting stabbed with.

[Miles]

I work seven more hours after that.

[Charlie Barrons]

And. How old are you, Bronco?

[Patty]

Sixteen.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. They just. You know, they don't make kids like they used to. Broncos. One of the.

[Miles]

You know, he's one of the.

[Charlie Barrons]

The. The. My dad would be very proud of Bronco. He'd be way more proud of Bronco than he is of me.

[Miles]

You know, with a name like Bronco, you really. You really got to live up to that situation.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, is that your God given name or is that a nickname?

[Miles]

Oh, God, given that.

[Charlie Barrons]

I love it.

[Miles]

That's. I mean, do you ever wonder why your name. Bronco. Bronco. I do actually wonder why. I don't. I don't know why, but I wonder all the time. You ever ask? I do ask them, and they don't even know why the name is Bronco. Oh, okay. Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

All Right. All right, we'll leave it at that. You're 16.

[Miles]

Hey, Bronco, do you have a girlfriend or any idea how to get Kale's friends to talk to? Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wait. Kale talking about Bronco right now while he's in the room?

[Emily]

Turns out I am that friend.

[Charlie Barrons]

You are?

[Miles]

Yeah. Okay, well, Bronco, do you want to. Do you want to hang out with girls? Yes. Okay, well.

[Charlie Barrons]

What. What's what? Why haven't you been able to hang out with girls and talk to girls?

[Miles]

They scare me. They scare scary. You can't even just. How can I help make Bronco more comfortable around people of the female variety? I mean, with. With a name like Bronco, you shouldn't have any fear.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think what he does, Charlie, is you got to lead in with the be thing.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, He's a bee. Oh, I like the way you boys are thinking. Yeah, you just in with the beekeeping you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Maybe. Maybe you just leave.

[Miles]

Bronco just about brought the whole building down, in case you want.

[Patty]

Boys are wondering how he just about.

[Miles]

KO'd the ceiling with.

[Patty]

With the forklift.

[Miles]

But it's okay.

[Emily]

We're good.

[Miles]

We didn't get crushed. Anyway, sorry to interrupt you. Should I even ask if he's certified on that thing?

[Patty]

No.

[Miles]

No one.

[Patty]

No one that works here is certified.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's the wrong answer. What if we were undercover OSHA agents? You got to say yes, we are.

[Miles]

For everybody here has went through many, many hours of rigorous, rigorous training on the forklift. Good job, Cal.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so what you're gonna do, Bronco, is you're gonna. You're gonna be in the hallway at school.

[Miles]

Oh, sorry. Hold on.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hold on.

[Miles]

Bronco.

[Patty]

Bronco just took off on the forklift. But I can relay this message, I think.

[Miles]

Or you can wait. I think the forklift is a good look. Bronco can give tours of a beef keeping facility, you know, so find the. I like the way you think. Find the nerdy, beloved girls or find the machine loving girls. He can give forklift pride.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I'm thinking you go the badass.

[Miles]

I like the way you think. What's the badass route?

[Charlie Barrons]

Like, he needs to be leaned up against a locker in the school hallway and just casually around some girls. Be like, I almost died last week. Yeah, it's a close call, but.

[Patty]

Oh, I like the way.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Nothing.

[Miles]

A little.

[Patty]

And then I've got to help. I've got to help, like, add on to these stories, right?

[Miles]

Help them.

[Patty]

Like, help them. Give them more reasons for them to.

[Miles]

Be true, you know? Yes. Kale. Build the legends. My man.

[Charlie Barrons]

He got stung by a bee, and he just didn't even stop. I. While he was running the forklift, I had to stab him with an EpiPen. The guy just came. Keeps going. He's the Energizer Bunny. Yeah.

[Patty]

I help build their relationship upon a mountain of life.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. She's just like, what a man. One, his name is Bronco, and two.

[Patty]

He'S named after a crazy horse, for heaven's sakes.

[Miles]

He's got to be a good guy.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, exactly. And nothing will make someone like someone more than if they flirt with death and survive. Nothing's hotter than that. That's why all the women were crazy about Evil Knievel back in the day. Guy, right? Women love guys who flirt with death and come out unscathed.

[Miles]

Exactly. And you. You've got to talk. You say you can even throw it in there. Bronco is the Evil Knievel of. Of forklift operators. You know, like, I've seen him. Yeah. Build the legend. I like the way you boys are thinking.

[Charlie Barrons]

I tell you what, you. You guys, whoever's running that beekeeping place is running a tight ship. You guys haven't stopped.

[Patty]

See, I. I tried to call you.

[Miles]

Earlier, but then old boss man started yelling at us, so I had to hang up. Oh, that's what that was? Yeah. All it was was. And then click. Thanks for letting us know. Yeah, well, yeah, he. He's gone now, though, so we can do whatever we want.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I like that. Well, I think.

[Miles]

Yeah, just help Bronco out one legend at a time. Build one legend at a time. Start with Bronco. Once Bronco gets himself a gal, you can move on to your other friends.

[Patty]

I like the way. I like that.

[Miles]

One at a time. Don't. And I want to over complicate ourselves here.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, with a name like Bronco, you should just tell everyone that his middle name is Danger. And I. Honestly, I don't think I. At that.

[Patty]

I'm going to be.

[Miles]

One question about that. What?

[Charlie Barrons]

There's not going to be.

[Miles]

Oh, no.

[Patty]

Oh, I. I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm just.

[Miles]

I'm just not very good at doing.

[Patty]

Two things at once.

[Miles]

What's Bronco's actual middle name? Let's determine if Danger is a better Bronco. What's Bronco?

[Patty]

What's your middle name? What's your middle name, Bronco? Clive. Oh, sorry. Clive.

[Miles]

And is his actual middle name Cliven?

[Charlie Barrons]

Bronco. Cliven.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, you say he sounds like an outlaw.

[Miles]

He does. Is that their Bronco, Clive?

[Patty]

Yeah, he does. We're building a lot of lore behind this guy. I like the way this is going here.

[Miles]

He's going to be running through ladies like it's nobody's business here pretty soon, you guys.

[Charlie Barrons]

And by running lady. Running through ladies. We meet lots of hand stuffs in movie theaters at age 16, you know.

[Miles]

Right. There'd be no.

[Patty]

No inappropriate activities.

[Miles]

Absolutely not. Hey, you guys, take your money, get Bronco leather jacket, work on his, lean against the locker. Before you know it, one friend will have a gal, and then it's just domino effect from there. Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like.

[Patty]

I like this plan, boys.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, well, thanks for calling in. Get back to work. And watch out for. For bees.

[Patty]

Hey, I appreciate.

[Miles]

I appreciate your advice.

[Patty]

I'll try not to get stung for you the rest of the day.

[Miles]

Real good. Real good, Kel. We'll see you soon. All right. You boys watch out for deer. We'll see you. All right, my guy. Bye. Bye. I like it, Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is not where I thought that call was going, Charlie. But we are here and we're. It's very funny. It's like high school relationships don't matter.

[Miles]

No, not at. I didn't want to have the heart to tell Kale that I usually wait till their early 20s to say it's not going to last.

[Charlie Barrons]

You do say that a lot.

[Miles]

Yeah, just for funsies, you know? And if it. If it doesn't last, I was right. And if it holds that test that just. Whatever doesn't break it makes it stronger, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

And we know what I'm having regrets about, Charlie.

[Miles]

What is that?

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't name my kid Bronco Cliven Montplasier.

[Miles]

I mean, dude, it's just when he.

[Charlie Barrons]

Said it's really got a Social Security security card, too. It's gonna be a lot of paperwork to change it.

[Miles]

But you know what? You're gonna do the right thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know. Yep. So he's no longer August. He is Bronco Cliven.

[Miles]

I mean that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Should we take another caller?

[Miles]

Let's take another caller. Oh, hi. What's your name?

[Willie]

I'm Patty.

[Miles]

Hi, Patty. Where are you calling in from?

[Willie]

Wisconsin.

[Miles]

We're in Wisconsin, Patty. Be more sp. Specific.

[Willie]

Delavan.

[Miles]

Oh, Delavan. Beautiful this time of year. Belly up onto the bar with us, Patty. Tell us what's on your mind.

[Willie]

Well, I'm going. Well, I went through a breakup.

[Miles]

Oh, sorry.

[Willie]

A couple of weeks ago.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie]

It's such a bummer, right?

[Miles]

Did you like him?

[Willie]

Oh, I Hated him? No, of course I liked him.

[Miles]

Well, did you break up with him?

[Willie]

I only think I. I like well.

[Miles]

I know, but you broke.

[Charlie Barrons]

Honestly though, you'd be surprised. There's a lot of people there date people that they hate their guts and they just are afraid to get out of.

[Miles]

Stay in it, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, give us some details on the breakup.

[Miles]

Yeah. Who did it?

[Willie]

He did it.

[Miles]

Ah. What was his reason?

[Willie]

There was no reason. Like, it was so weird. Yeah. So I don't have closure. And then apart from that, I have. Have some of his stuff and I'm friends with.

[Miles]

We're all.

[Willie]

We all have the same friends.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the friend group saying about the breakup? What are they. There has to be some information about it.

[Willie]

They're like, what? Like, well, okay. Because, like, well, you know, I kind of just. It was weird. Okay. So we were planning on getting together and I was making a pasta bake. And then all of a sudden, you know, we're going back and forth, oh, let's have some pasta bake and hang and whatnot. And then he's like, we need to talk. And I'm like, what? And I called him up like, you want to break up? I'm like, no one texts that. Like, who texts we need to talk? And then they want to pour tea or something. I. I don't think that happens.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, but I was like, do you.

[Willie]

Want to break up?

[Charlie Barrons]

I will have to say it is nice to get a warning shot. Text, though, about the talking. Yeah, it's tough to just think that you're going to hang out and have fun and then you show up and it's somber. At least you got a little bit of a warning. Sh.

[Miles]

It was a heads up. I could see that being something, so. But then he called you and he really told you the deal, huh?

[Willie]

Well, then I'm like, well, do you just want to break up or whatever. And he's like, yeah. I'm like, okay, I have some of your stuff. You have some of my stuff. Like, let's just meet up somewhere and, like, exchange the stuff. So, okay, fine, you know, we meet up, we exchange the stuff. No one talked about anything. There was no talking. It was just like, okay, canceled. And I'm like, okay, cool.

[Patty]

Cool.

[Willie]

Like, but not cool, but fine. But I don't even think our friends even knew the difference because we're both pretty independent. Like, I'm busy a lot. He's busy a lot. Like, we're both doing stuff, so I don't even think anybody even realized so, like, we weren't together, you know?

[Miles]

You have no insight as to why he wanted to break up? He just canceled his subscription to you without any notice.

[Willie]

I feel like I am a fiercely codependent person, and I. I love too much, and I do too much, and, like, we're both musicians and we're both busy and whatever, but, like, I still take the time to, like, I just think that he didn't like not having all the. Like, I don't know what he didn't like, but I think I did too much.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you're saying you squeezed the teddy bear a little too hard and the head popped off?

[Willie]

Yeah, I think I said, you know, and I just. But then again, I don't think I did, though, because, like, we would go for, like, a while without hanging out or whatever. I. I don't know what I did. I don't know what I did.

[Miles]

How old are you guys?

[Willie]

I don't know. What. I'm 43 and he's 32.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. Do you have. And so you think that might be the reason? It might. If you had to put your finger on something, would be that you were a little too much for him.

[Willie]

Well, I have a secret.

[Miles]

Oh, please.

[Willie]

He has a very good friend who is a girl who has had a crush on him for many, many years. And I don't like her, and I don't like the way she touches him and talks to him and stuff. And one time we were all out, and she stepped to me and she said something, you know, like, rude to me, and I didn't take it. I was like, girl, I said, y'all can like and love each other as much as you want to, but it's going to take me a long time to warm up to you, you know, the way you're acting and stuff. Like, you know what I'm saying? And it was like, kind of like one of those things. Yeah. And then everything kind of, like, fell apart since. You know what I mean? He had to choose homies and stuff like that. And also, like.

[Miles]

Also what?

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. What? What were you gonna say?

[Willie]

Well, they both have a similar lifestyle habit that, like, I don't have. Smoking weed and, like. No, not that it's something else, but they're connected. I just, you know, it's not, you know, it's just like when you ski on mountains and stuff and, like.

[Miles]

Cocaine. Cocaine.

[Willie]

I'm not.

[Miles]

That's exactly what you're talking about, isn't it, Pat?

[Charlie Barrons]

Hold on. So you're saying that they like to Go skiing together? Is that what you said?

[Miles]

Like, no snow, booger sugar?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, they like to do coke.

[Miles]

They like.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you're right.

[Miles]

You know what? Look at me, this day and age. Patty, I gotta tell you, with all the fentanyl and stuff going on out.

[Charlie Barrons]

There, cocaine's not so bad.

[Miles]

You don't want to be messing around with the booger sugar. Okay. So in the end, this is probably the right thing. Thing to do. Probably the right thing as much as it is, it sucks.

[Willie]

Absolutely. It's the right thing to do. Like, I'm not. I mean, obviously, like, my ego's bruised and I'm. You know, I have feelings. Right. You know, but the thing is it. This is my question. So that's the backstory. But the question is, is like, I. I still have, like, some of his stuff. And. And I.

[Charlie Barrons]

Didn't you do the meeting?

[Willie]

What do I do?

[Charlie Barrons]

Didn't you do the. And already exchange stuff. You have more stuff on top of that?

[Willie]

Yeah, it was too short notice, and I had. Well, and then, too, some of the stuff that he gave back to me. It didn't belong to me. He gave me back.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. So that was. This whole time I've been trying to see if there was an opportunity to ask this. I'm just going to ask it. Charlie, do you think that there was a chance, and I don't mean to hurt your feelings here, that there was a chance, another girl? Mainly the coke girl?

[Willie]

Not to be like, whatever, but the coke. The coke girl's really not that attractive.

[Miles]

Yeah, no, it's good. You're. It's good you're whispering that because that. We'll just keep that.

[Willie]

I don't think. Yeah, you're o first. Oh, man. Well, you know. Okay. Yeah. All right. It doesn't matter if I whisper it. I don't think they're attracting. I think she's attracted to him, but I don't think that he's attracted to her. And, like, he does have a female roommate, so, like, maybe the laundry got mixed up, but he gave me back this, like, black song that is, like, not my size at all. Like, it's bigger than me. And. Yeah. And I'm like, why is this in the laundry that he gave me back? You know? And then, like, I did. It was the short notice.

[Charlie Barrons]

What, it fit his roommate?

[Willie]

Well, his roommate's married. He lives with a married couple. It's a whole thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Do they have pineapples at their house? Hanging upside down?

[Willie]

You know what? I freaking love pineapples. Like, I love pineapples, dude. Like the fruit, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Like, why does everybody have to take everything, right? Like the rainbows, the pineapples, the unicorns, horns, like.

[Miles]

Well, you know, everybody's got their own things. You know, everybody's got their own thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

What the hell Is he doing a stand up?

[Miles]

I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the deal with all the swingers? Yeah, I love pineapples. And now I took that from Flamingos.

[Miles]

Were my favorite bird. Damn it. Now they think I'm fornicating with Mrs. Wolinsky down the street.

[Willie]

Flamingos.

[Miles]

Flamingos.

[Willie]

Oh, flamingos.

[Miles]

Yeah. That's a swinger symbol, too.

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't know that, actually.

[Willie]

Hi. Karamba.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Oh, my gosh. My golf partner loves flamingo.

[Charlie Barrons]

I feel like this call, she's just slowly losing her innocence. Like, I feel like we're just exposing her now to more things here. And I don't know, I like.

[Willie]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you know how babies are made?

[Willie]

I practiced a couple of times, but I don't really know.

[Miles]

Okay, well, so the thing to answer your question about your mutual friends is that were you guys mutual friends with them before the relationship, or did one of you become friends with them after the relationship? Relationship.

[Willie]

No, it's worse. Like, we. We kind of. Like, we both play music. We both work in the same sort of scenes. We both go to the same festivals. Like, I'm gonna bump into the guy, and I'm gonna bump into all the friends. Like, the friends are beautiful. They're so beautiful. Everybody is so beautiful. Except the one T. Buddy, what kind.

[Miles]

Of music do you.

[Willie]

And whatever the f. I want, Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, she's a punk rocker.

[Miles]

Seriously?

[Charlie Barrons]

F you.

[Miles]

I won't do what you tell me. Okay, I see.

[Willie]

Wonder why I got broken up with.

[Charlie Barrons]

Ah.

[Miles]

I mean, no. Throw it back at me. You know, I. I'm sorry. You know, you didn't get to do your part. Pasta, bacon, chill. That was unfortunate, but you don't need to blame me for that.

[Charlie Barrons]

I feel like you have two different personalities.

[Miles]

Yeah, we're seeing them both on this just sweet Patty and then all the.

[Charlie Barrons]

Patty if you don't tell me what to do.

[Miles]

Yeah, I'm just teasing.

[Willie]

I was just kidding.

[Miles]

So you're in punk rock?

[Willie]

The keyboard.

[Miles]

You play the keyboard?

[Willie]

No, I'm not a punk rocker, but I am punk on the inside. I think I'm kind of punk on the inside. You heard what I just said? Like, I was kind punky.

[Miles]

What genres of music?

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, I don't know a lot of punk people that go, you know what? I'm kind of punky on the inside.

[Miles]

Is it bluegrass? You play bluegrass?

[Willie]

Sometimes.

[Miles]

Sometimes.

[Willie]

I might play bluegrass tonight with my friend because he plays the banjo.

[Miles]

Do you know my buddy Adam Gruel from Horseshoes and Hand Grenades?

[Willie]

Your buddy probably knows my buddies, but I know his music, but I don't know him. I don't think.

[Miles]

Okay. Are you guys at the same festivals, Blue Ox and all that?

[Willie]

I didn't go to Blue. I don't play. Like, I'm a vendor at these festivals. Well, I might play.

[Miles]

Are you a musician or a vendor? I'm confused now, Patty.

[Willie]

I read tarot cards as a vendor, but I also play play music. So depending on the scene, I might be playing music, or I might be setting up a tent and reading people's tarot cards.

[Miles]

Wow. This is just getting deeper and deeper to me.

[Charlie Barrons]

The reading of the cards.

[Willie]

Well, there's 78 cards in the deck, and you pull some, and then you, like. They're like flashcards. They're like Rorschach ink lots or something. Like, it's like archetypes, and that sort of sparks people's intuition. I just want to give people a tool to kind of, like, help themselves spark their own intuition, you know, like when you go to flip a coin and you're like, okay, heads or tails? I'm gonna go drink a PBR today. And you obviously want it to be heads because you want to drink your pbr, you know, and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, okay, similar to that, can we do it here on the show with Charlie here? Can we do something similar?

[Willie]

Yeah, but you want your tarot card.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Can we pull me a tarot?

[Willie]

Oh, I could pull. Yeah. Well, I mean, are. Are you being sincere? Like, do you sincerely have a question, or should, you know? Because seriously, like, the card, like, I. I, you know, I. I try to be real sincere when I do it. Like, do you really have a question?

[Charlie Barrons]

We are very, very curious on how this all works, and we'd like to do it with you.

[Willie]

All right, well, the way it works is that whoever's the client, whoever's going to ask the question, you keep that question in your mind. Please don't tell me what it is, but just focus on it, like, really hardcore. Okay?

[Miles]

Focus.

[Willie]

Look around for a deck of tarot cards really quick.

[Miles]

Don't accidentally pull the sheepshead cards.

[Charlie Barrons]

Can Charlie tell me the question? Question?

[Miles]

No.

[Willie]

Well, I mean, that's up to you guys.

[Miles]

I'm not telling you my question. No, you're gonna make fun of me for, like, four episodes? Yeah.

[Willie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Miles]

Stop not giving them any more ammunition.

[Charlie Barrons]

Patty, do you find those cards?

[Willie]

Yeah, I'm shuffling them right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, let's go, dude. Let's go. All right, let's get into Charlie's intuition.

[Willie]

Thank you. Thank you so much. By the way, my tagline is thank you for fine tuning your free will and intuition with me. So thanks.

[Miles]

I love it.

[Willie]

Hey, let me know.

[Miles]

Shout out your tarot business, Patty, for all the folks who are curious.

[Willie]

I'm called Esperanza Benzetero.

[Miles]

Esperanza Benze Taro.

[Willie]

You can find me all over southeastern Wisconsin. I'll be reading in Janesville on Saturday.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

All right. There you have it.

[Willie]

All right, well, I don't know how much I want to say, like, this is all over the Internet and stuff. Like, it's just so, like, random and weird. But I do want your advice, and I'll give you some advice, too, with these cards. So let me know when you're ready, and I'll. I'll throw the three cards.

[Miles]

Okay, I'm ready.

[Willie]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's got his question in his mind. That's what he should be doing right now.

[Willie]

Oh, cool. You got the High Priestess. Oh, my gosh. You got the Lovers, and you got the High Priestess. Taro fan.

[Miles]

Holy moly.

[Willie]

You got three major arcana cards all at once. That's like pulling three aces in a lake.

[Miles]

Yeah, baby.

[Willie]

Hard. Look at you.

[Miles]

Let's go. So what does it mean, Patty? What do you think?

[Willie]

Okay, I'm gonna have to take a picture of these beautiful cards and, like.

[Miles]

Send them over to Big Bell, take a picture and tweet them at us Bellied up. Or.

[Charlie Barrons]

Or on Instagram, too.

[Miles]

Or on Instagram. Whatever.

[Willie]

Cool. I love you to see these beautiful cards. So I will do that.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know what any of this means, Charlie, but I am so psyched.

[Miles]

I know, dude. I. I pulled three aces, man. I won, dude.

[Willie]

I am also very psyched. I am also very psyched, man. So check this out, all right? The High Priestess, dude. Like, okay, so she is a card that represents, like, a character who is really in tune with her divine feminine intuition. She knows what she knows. She doesn't always say what she knows, but it's like a card of, like, having that higher guidance from a, like, feminine perspective. So look what you're doing right now. And then the card of the. That's in the middle of the spread, because, like, the High Priestess and the High Refinery See, that's crazy too, because the hierophant is like. Whereas the high priestess is more like the spiritual woman of the occult. The hierophant is like a priest, like somebody who's in an organized religion, like a church, you know, so that's like the two sides of the same coin. And they make a really good couple.

[Charlie Barrons]

Duality. Little duality there, Charlie.

[Willie]

Yeah, like they make like a really good couple. And then in the middle, it's the lovers. And obviously, duh, we all know what that is. And the lovers is also. I mean, as well as being a card of a soulmate path, the lovers is also a card of choices. It's strong Gemini energy. And it's a card of like choosing to take that path with another or with yourself. Like if you choose to take a soulmate path, like going after your passion or creativity or whatever it is. So you can tell us or not tell us what your question was.

[Miles]

No, I'm not telling any of you guys. Really? Yeah. Hell no.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the point of this?

[Miles]

It's my own spirit. It's my own spiritual journey. It's my own spiritual journey. No, no.

[Charlie Barrons]

Come up with a different question then that you could tell us.

[Miles]

I want to know if I was gonna get a buck. Buck this year.

[Willie]

Apparently you're gonna get like a dang good one.

[Miles]

I'm gonna get bucked this year, Miles. Boom.

[Charlie Barrons]

Get bucked, baby.

[Miles]

Look at that. Bangerang.

[Charlie Barrons]

So how do you. How do you determine that?

[Willie]

Well, I just think that these cards are just so lucky, all three of them, that they just all popped. Come on. Like that doesn't even happen. You're gonna hit a buck.

[Miles]

Yeah, Patty. Hey, do even shuffle that down or. No.

[Willie]

Dude, I totally shuffled the deck, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

She's a pro, dude. That was offensive.

[Miles]

See? Of course she shuffled. How dare I? I'm sorry. Patty. Patty, that's awesome. Hey, you really. You really put some juice in my gas tank today. I appreciate that. That was really nice driving on.

[Willie]

Oh, you should definitely put gas in the gas bag, not juice.

[Miles]

Well, you know what?

[Willie]

I. Oh my.

[Miles]

Oh, that's pretty slick. That's great.

[Charlie Barrons]

Dude, we gotta. Hey.

[Willie]

Okay, do I throw this features away or whatever in the song or do I make a point?

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey, here we go. Let's pull some more cards and determine what you're gonna do with his clothes.

[Miles]

Determine why I'm gonna do it.

[Charlie Barrons]

She's already moved back on to what she's gonna do with the ex boyfriend stuff.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Keep up Charlie, I know you got buck fever.

[Miles]

I'm a little. Yeah, I'm a bucking rut here also.

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's pull some cards.

[Miles]

Yeah. And, hey, I just want to ask you, Patty, did you intentionally not give your boo thing everything back because you kind of want to leave a little handkerchief behind, maybe a reason for a second guess in his life, you know?

[Willie]

No, it was so fast that I didn't realize that I had his shirts in my laundry. And then I tried to give him back right away, and, like, he just. Just freaking disappeared. Like, you know, And I. I mean, they have a weekly gig at this one spot where, like, I also would be there usually, but I'm just, like, avoiding the scene, you know? But this one girl that works there is like, dude, I really wish I would see you, you know, you know, and blah, blah, blah. So I was like, all right, well, maybe I'll just drop it off to her when I know nobody's going to be there.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, let's see. Let's pull some cards, and then you'll know what to do. Let's do it.

[Miles]

Shuffle that deck.

[Charlie Barrons]

Now, I want you to hold that question in your mind, but don't tell us.

[Willie]

Well, d. I just told you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, well, I. Yeah. Let's see what the cards say.

[Willie]

Let's see what the next card in the deck is, and that's going to determine the outcome here. So it's like, all right, my question. Oh, jeepers, I'm getting potential. Spam is calling me right now.

[Miles]

Ignore it or merge the calls. You want to merge the call?

[Willie]

O. Okay, I'm. I got. Is the call merged? Oh, my gosh, no. I don't think I did. I got King of Pentacles reversed.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got what, though?

[Willie]

King of Pentacles reversed.

[Charlie Barrons]

And what is that?

[Miles]

Does that king got big pentacles?

[Charlie Barrons]

Explain to me as if I don't know anything about this, which I do.

[Willie]

They're definitely reversed. Okay, so the King of Pentacles is a card of, like, somebody who's really responsible. They're usually a Taurus, a Capricorn, or a Virgo person. They're very earthy, and they're very, like, able to take care of people, places and things. They're good father figure. Now, the King of Pentacles reversed. That's like being a little bit irresponsible or maybe needing to get a handle and get a little bit more grounded in the situation. There's some sort of ungrounded groundedness to the whole situation.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think you got.

[Willie]

I think I'm just gonna chill.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think you got your answer. The first thing you said.

[Willie]

Yeah, I'm just gonna chill. I'm just put the bag of crap in my car. And then, like, if I ever happen to just, like, bump into him or anybody else.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're reading it wrong. You said earth in the first part, and you said grounded in the next. The cards want you to bury this.

[Willie]

Oh, my God.

[Miles]

Wow, Miles, you got it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Dig a hole, dump it in, just like the old farmers do. Cover it up and go on your way.

[Miles]

That's it. And it will be very spiritually revitalizing for you to bury. Put in the ground. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's kind of like death.

[Miles]

Hold a funeral for that relationship. Say your own. What do they call it at a funeral? The eulogy. Say a eulogy for. For this relationship.

[Charlie Barrons]

This whole time you've been looking for closure. Have a funeral for the relationship. Dump the clothes in there, and then don't let it suck any more of your energy.

[Miles]

Right. And you better do it quick before the ground freezes.

[Patty]

Oh, my goodness.

[Willie]

Yes, I. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's actually really good advice.

[Miles]

You know what, Patty? Thank you for calling us today. And we're happy that we could help you. And you help. Helped us.

[Willie]

Okay. I'll take a picture of those cards for you.

[Miles]

Yes, please.

[Charlie Barrons]

Also, you gotta let us know where we can get a deck of cards, because now I'm addicted to the advice life.

[Willie]

Oh, my gosh. Well, I. Yeah, I. There's so many places to get cards. And, yeah, if. If you ever need a reading, you know how to find me, so.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Thanks a lot, Patty. Thank you.

[Charlie Barrons]

This was great.

[Willie]

Bye.

[Miles]

Bye.

[Charlie Barrons]

Bye. Bye.

[Miles]

Well, Patty was.

[Charlie Barrons]

What a way to end that episode. Charlie.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're getting a buck. She's gonna dig a hole.

[Miles]

I mean. And, Miles, can I just say, dude, I am impressed with you. I mean, look at both flying. You're a Toro card reader. And the whole deal.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, I gotta get myself some Toro cards.

[Miles]

Hey, do you know if you're Verted, Vertigo or I'm an Aries. Oh, I'm a. I'm a Taurus.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. An's a Taurus, actually.

[Miles]

Is she. And so that must be how you select your life partners with the cards. No, by. And you're my life.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I'm a Taurus guy. I'm attracted to a nice old bowl.

[Miles]

I'm your work husband. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, you really are so.

[Miles]

Well, folks, I mean, you never know what you're gonna get here on The Bellied up podcast. That's for go Darn sure.

[Patty]

Hello, this is Sally.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hi, Sally. This is Miles and Charlie from the Bellied up podcast.

[Patty]

Hello.

[Miles]

How's it going, Sally? You having a good day?

[Patty]

Yeah, I'm having a great day. How are you guys doing?

[Miles]

Great.

[Charlie Barrons]

Bellied up to the bar.

[Miles]

Yeah. I hear you have got some resolutions you want to chit chat about.

[Patty]

One of the things I want to accomplish is using chopsticks a little bit more.

[Miles]

You got chopstick ambition, Sal. You woke up 2024 and you're like, you know what? 2025, that's going to be the year of the chopsticks.

[Charlie Barrons]

But the thing is.

[Patty]

That's right.

[Charlie Barrons]

But it's not even to learn how to use chopsticks. It's just to use them a little bit more.

[Patty]

You know, actually, I have to learn how to use them in the first place.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, okay.

[Patty]

And know, I. I found a couple of sets in the. In the junk drawer.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Patty]

And that's what really inspired me to say, hey, these are a little dusty. You know, maybe they're under the set of keys that. I don't even know what the hell the keys are for. We got some batteries in here. And like that. I'm like, chopsticks. This, this is. This is good. And. And I want to use them for various foods. Not just Chinese food or sushi, too.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, Korean barbecue.

[Patty]

I mean, you know, I'm like, they're going to waste here in the junk drawer. Let's get some good chopsticks and learn how to eat them.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'm very proud of you. I mean, that's not the typical New Year's resolution. We hear what's been. Did you look up a YouTube video on how to properly use chopsticks or did you find a friend?

[Patty]

No, I just found the chopsticks in my junk drawer.

[Miles]

That's the whole story here. Huh?

[Patty]

That, that, that's about it. Now, since then, we've had a lot of leftovers in the fridge, so we haven't ordered Chinese food, so, you know, don't have any soy sauce in the COVID But. But yeah, I'm.

[Miles]

That's.

[Patty]

That's one of my New Year's resolutions. And I have all year long. You know, it's not. It's not like I have to use them by January 13th. You know, I. I have them. I. I have them. And that's the first step.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, and honestly, the first couple months is all mental work anyways. You know, you got to be. You're Thinking about how you're going to attack it. What's the first food you're going to try with it? I have a very similar New Year's resolution. I want to solve an army Rubik's Cube without any help whatsoever. So in the corner. Yeah, I'm gonna put myself in a room.

[Patty]

By yourself in the corner.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yep, yep.

[Miles]

Wow, that's impressive, Miles. I don't know what's harder to figure out, the chopsticks or a Rubik's cube, because everyone can kind of use chopsticks, but to use them the way they're supposed to be used. I don't even know if I'm using chopsticks.

[Charlie Barrons]

You want to know what my wife does with chopsticks?

[Miles]

Does she poke it?

[Patty]

What does she do?

[Charlie Barrons]

She. You know how, like, the wood ones come where, like, you break them apart? Yeah, she doesn't break them apart. She just separates them a little bit.

[Patty]

And just pinches stuff and just pinches it. Oh, that's a cheater.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know.

[Patty]

That's a cheater there.

[Charlie Barrons]

My first is.

[Patty]

I'm gonna move them. I'm gonna move them from the junk drawer. I've already done this step. I moved him from the junk drawer two sets to the drawer with the spoons and the knives and the forks.

[Miles]

So you look at them every time you want to eat, every time you're reminded, hey, I got a year to figure out this whole chopstick thing.

[Patty]

Correct.

[Miles]

That's very ambitious.

[Patty]

Do you have wrapped in that. In that. In that paper? So, I mean, they're still clean.

[Miles]

Take the next step today. Take that paper off.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hey, don't rush her. Don't rush her.

[Miles]

I'm not trying to rush her. But for God's sakes, we're months into the year now. It's time to take. It's time to take off the gloves.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

All right, all right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Little tough love from Barons over here.

[Miles]

I'm just telling you.

[Patty]

Wow. You want me to use chopsticks with a glove? Oh, gosh, that's not gonna come till, like, October or November. Is that what I heard you say?

[Miles]

No, I said take the. Well, yeah, You. You. I. I would like to see you just add a tailgate, wearing gloves, using your chopsticks on some communal food there. That'd be great.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, honestly, this is something that would crush on Tik Tok. You just go, like, day one of attempting to learn how to use chopsticks, and then it's you just fumbling with them and not being able to use them and then by day 40, you got it down, and then people lose their mind on it.

[Patty]

Here's what would be funny. If you're tailgating and you're wearing the snow gloves and you're at the Green Bay Packer Stadium, you're using drumsticks for chopsticks.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that would be funny.

[Patty]

How are you gonna.

[Miles]

I don't know. No, I. I like it, too. Don't lose faith in that idea. That's a good bit right there. Yeah, you got the big gloves on, you know, the insulated ones, and you got some drumsticks. That's fun. That's good. I like what you're doing there.

[Patty]

Do you have an idea the hell out of it?

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you have an idea in your mind the first food you're going to attempt this with, or are you just going to let it happen?

[Patty]

Well, it's not going to be Cheerios, I'll tell you that much right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

That was. What I was going to suggest, was Cheerios. Okay, well, that's off my list. What else are you thinking?

[Patty]

I'm thinking cubes of chicken and some broccoli.

[Miles]

Yeah, very good. Why do they call it chopstick? You don't really chop with them. You ever think about that with them? You can stab. They could be stabbed. They're really, like. They're. They're. They're holding sticks. Really?

[Patty]

That's a beginner move. You separate the wooden chopsticks, you stab your chicken. That's not using chopsticks. Chopsticks.

[Miles]

No, they're not stabbing sticks. But what I'm saying is you're not chopping with the damn sticks either. Right. Like, you're not chopping your broccoli.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're kind of chopping a little bit.

[Miles]

Kind of a little bit in my thing. Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

More of a pinch.

[Miles]

Yeah, they're pinch sticks.

[Charlie Barrons]

They're pinch sticks.

[Miles]

Yeah. Because chop would mean something gets divided into two. Right.

[Charlie Barrons]

You think it's like that? They're.

[Patty]

You're correct.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you think it's that they're chops of, like, bamboo?

[Miles]

Oh, that could be it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like, they, like, chop it and then make them into the sticks.

[Miles]

It's also translated from Chinese or Japanese or. Right. So maybe the. You know, it's probably some. I want to figure out. Hey, can we figure out why they call chopsticks chopsticks? What are you doing on your phone over there?

[Charlie Barrons]

Texting his girlfriend all day.

[Patty]

Oh, my gosh.

[Charlie Barrons]

Who's texting their girlfriend on the job? Yeah, Jake is.

[Miles]

Jake, how long you been Dating her.

[Patty]

Oh, God, Jake.

[Miles]

Say that again.

[Charlie Barrons]

They come from calling him Chop Chop.

[Miles]

Like. They come from calling them Chop like. Chop Chop. Cheerio.

[Charlie Barrons]

He. He's. He's been no help.

[Miles]

Did you just Google it? Is that what the. The AI on Google says? Cuz that's. All right. Anyway, you keep digging on that.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you're going with cubes of chicken. All right, I like that.

[Patty]

Actually, no. Nope, I just changed my mind.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Patty]

I'm going with deep fried cheese curds.

[Miles]

There we go.

[Patty]

Once I learn how to use chopsticks, my first food, my very first food after practice will be a deep fried cheese curd. Culver's. And I'm gonna dip it.

[Miles]

Oh, wow. Okay, you're getting crazy vicious. Is this your only New Year's resolution?

[Patty]

No, I had another one, but I forgot what it was. Oh, I remember.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I remember, too.

[Patty]

It. I kind of forgot, like, what I call. Because it was like, back in January when I got. I think it was like to not use vacation time or pto.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's not. What.

[Miles]

What did she say?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, wait, maybe. Nope. Nope. That's not. You want to learn how to moonwalk, Sally? That was. That was.

[Patty]

That was the other one. That was the other one.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Patty]

Because I couldn't remember for the life of me when I finally got your text message and I was like, holy smokes. I did call in about two New Year's resolutions, and I remembered the chopstick, and I couldn't remember the first one. I was like, was it not to use pieces or was it to learn how to moonwalk? And then it came to me the other day, and then I second guessed myself. But anyway. Yeah. Yeah, that's my next number two resolution.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I'll refresh your memory. You said that you got a wedding invite. Actually, you got a save the date magnet for your fridge.

[Miles]

That's overkill.

[Charlie Barrons]

And you said, holy smokes, I have to learn how to moonwalk, is what he said. And you said, I want to be the cool aunt who can do the moonwalk on the dance floor at the reception.

[Patty]

Well, there you have it.

[Miles]

I gotta be honest with you, Sally. If you can both moonwalk and use chopsticks, I mean, you're gonna have a whole different life ahead of you.

[Charlie Barrons]

And that's a full 20, 25 right there.

[Miles]

Yeah, New doors will start, start opening up.

[Charlie Barrons]

If you can laugh, use chopsticks and moonwalk in a day. That's a full day. That's what Jimmy V. Said.

[Patty]

And I do have my step. My step number one on the moonwalk is I got the Michael Jackson Thriller album, vinyl for my record player.

[Miles]

All right.

[Patty]

And so I got that.

[Miles]

Have you listened to it yet?

[Patty]

Oh, heck yeah.

[Miles]

Okay. All right.

[Patty]

I got a pretty sweet record collection going on right now, and I listen to it. Now. What I also have is a hardwood floor in my kitchen. And that is my surface. I'm looking at the surface and I'm playing Michael Jackson on the record. And I'm just. What I'm doing is you start. You just walk backwards. That's how you start. So you just try that out.

[Emily]

And.

[Patty]

Then you get out of your. Then you get on socks and then. Then you walk backwards in socks. And you should build on it.

[Miles]

You just build on. You just start walking backwards and before you know it, it's walk backwards, question mark, moon landing, smiley face.

[Charlie Barrons]

I like. I like how much mental prep work you do in this.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Versus just looking at the chopsticks in the paper. Then she's going to open it up and look at the chopsticks raw. Just like that. She puts the record player on. She's just getting a feel for the surface that she's going to be moonwalking on. I like that.

[Miles]

Looking at the surface. She's got her socks on. You're not rushing the process.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't think anyone would accuse you of jumping in head first. I don't think.

[Patty]

And then when you're looking at the surface, you're thinking, oh my gosh, I should probably Swiffer sweep that before I put on a fresh pair of socks and walk backwards.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, but. But the dust is going to help you slide better. So that's maybe.

[Patty]

Oh, that's a good point. Good point there.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, if you. It's going to be an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force in 2026, when your new Year's resolution is learn how to dive head first into something into the water. It's gonna be. Just gotta dive head first.

[Patty]

And don't count your chickens before they're hatched because we don't have any here. We're not talking about 2026, we're talking about 2025 right here in the now. And yeah, that saved the day. I put it on the beer fridge. I should put it on the main fridge.

[Miles]

Well, you want to remember it. You put it on the beer fridge.

[Charlie Barrons]

Sally, you're using that way more. One thing, before we move on from the moon walking, you might want to rest your Michael Jackson record for a sec. There's a Drake song where he actually explains how to do the moonwalk in the lyrics.

[Patty]

What?

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys remember that?

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barrons]

Jake, what song is that? No, when Drake tells you how to moonwalk and the song.

[Patty]

Drake?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. He's like, right foot up, left foot slide. Left foot up, Tootsie slide.

[Patty]

Oh, I remember that. Fun.

[Willie]

But I didn't.

[Miles]

That.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. You didn't realize that he was just explaining how to do the moonwalk.

[Patty]

No, I did not. Are you guys jonesing me?

[Charlie Barrons]

I'm not. I realize that.

[Miles]

I don't think that's how you use Jones. And so right foot up, left foot slide.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, you're literally moonwalking Charlie Shuffle.

[Patty]

Because I tried that many a times at my aunts niece's weddings. The Cupid Shuffle is not how they explain how to do the. The moonwalk.

[Miles]

I got news for you. I got news for you. I just.

[Charlie Barrons]

Charlie just moonwalked with my direction.

[Miles]

Yep. Actually Drake's direction. But I'm. I'm already beating you on your New Year's resolution, Sally. It's time to get in the game. All right, we're three months into this year. Let's start shaking off the dust, cracking the chopsticks. I'm your motivator here.

[Patty]

I love that and I love your inspiration, and I love you guys. Listen to you all the time. Charlie, I've met you in real life a few times. I've been to six your shows, Miles. I listen to your podcast. I'm a patron right now, Patreon. Just keep on doing what you're doing. You guys make people laugh. And the world's not a fun place a lot of times, but if we can, you know, listen to you and, you know, love you up and you make everyone laugh. So I don't know. I'm getting corny now, but that's all I have to say about that.

[Miles]

No, Sally, thank you. Thanks for. That's way too many of my shows for you to come to. My God. Why? Got to get you free tickets at some point.

[Patty]

No, you don't, because one of them was an accident.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Patty]

Do we have any time? Okay, we do. You can edit this or whatever. So last year I went to see you in Bowler, Wisconsin.

[Miles]

Yeah, at the casino.

[Patty]

Got tickets. I asked my husband to buy them for me for a super early birthday present, and he was like, okay. And so by the time I booked my tickets, the casino was out of rooms. And this is such a long story, but I'm going to cut to the chase. How I got. Okay, so we had to, like, book A book, a hotel, like, 40 minutes away. And we weren't going to drink and drive. And the hotel we stayed at had, like. It was, like, owned by Amish people, this, that, and the other. And I'm just not going to get into it too much. But so when. Okay, I could go on and on about this story with, like, the most craziest night of all. But the reason I. Part of the crazy part is I got to see you twice that night because I got tickets for the 10:30 show, and we went to go get merchandise before that show. No, I got tickets for the 6:30 show. And anyway, so we got. We went to see the 6:30 show, and it was great, and we had great seats, got some merch, blah, blah, blah. I'm walking out of. Out of the venue into the casino, and this lady grabs me by the hand from behind the wrist. And she's like, 60. Older lady. And turns out her name is Brenda. And she's like, hi. Me and my wife bought tickets for this show and for the 10:30 show, but my wife is too drunk to go to the 10:30 show, so I put her in bed. Will you come to the 10:30 show? It just grabs me out of the blue, you know, and my husband is a few steps forward, and, you know, he stops. He turns around. He's usually talking to this nice older lady, not hearing the conversation. So I'm like. I'm like, okay. And she gives me the ticket, and she's like, left me back here. And she's drunk.

[Miles]

Sounds like it.

[Patty]

Okay. And I'm like, okay. So I go back to Sean, and I'm like, you'll never guess what. This really nice lesbian gave me a ticket to the 10:30 show. He's like, are you sitting me? I'm like, no, here's a ticket. All right. So we go. Campbell. In the meanwhile of gambling before the 10:30 show, I see. Are you sitting down? I picture Charlie standing up. I see Miles sitting down right now.

[Miles]

I was standing up. I sat down right before you said that, though.

[Patty]

I see Grandma Sue.

[Miles]

Oh, you saw my grandma in the.

[Patty]

Casino with her beautiful white hair and a little team of people around her. And I'm like, are you kidding? I'm trying to find my husband because he wandered into the casino not knowing that I got a free ticket. And on the. On the way to find my husband, I see Grandma Stool, and she has a little people team of people around her. And, you know, and I wasn't. I wasn't sneaking. I wasn't Anything. But I'm like, that is Grandma Su.

[Charlie Barrons]

Your grandma's got a posse.

[Miles]

She was.

[Charlie Barrons]

She's got a whole team.

[Miles]

My grandma was gambling up a storm that night. She won $1,800. I think. I think that was the night after she lost all her money. But you found her there, and then what happened?

[Willie]

I didn't say a word.

[Patty]

I didn't say a word. But I. I saw the posse as. As we said. And I'm like, you know, I'm like, kind of like keeping my distance. I'm like, oh, she is. Oh, my gosh. I love her so much. I've seen her in so many pot, you know, and I was never going to say anything, but she found her slap the sheen and sat down, and I walked behind, and I was looking, but I wasn't looking, and it wasn't creeping, but I was creeping, but, you know, and I just walked. I'm like, oh, my gosh. My night is 100% fulfilled.

[Miles]

You were stalking my grandma. And.

[Charlie Barrons]

And so instead of going to the 10:30 show, you watched Picasso paint at the slot machine, and she just put on a Show and won 18. $1800 in front of you?

[Patty]

No, I didn't watch her. I was on my way to find my husband to let him know I got a free ticket to the 10:30 show, and I saw Grandma sue on the way.

[Miles]

She didn't say hi or nothing.

[Patty]

Okay, so it's not over yet. So I get to the 10:30 show, and Brenda is waiting there for me. It's right like we said, she's even drunker now. And we walk into the 10:30 show, and her seats were better than mine. I mean, there's not a bad seat in the house. Her seats were better than mine at the 10:30 show. So I'm, like, talking to her, and I'm. And she's. I'm trying to talk to her and stuff, and, you know, I'm just like, oh, my God, Charlie's so close, and all this is so great. And I look over at one time, and Brenda is tipped back. Her neck is tipped back, and her mom mouth is a game, and Brenda's snoring, and I'm like, jesus Christ, Brenda. I'm thinking to myself, I am your second date because your first wife is, like, too drunk to attend this show, and you're staying in the casino. Like, the panther is back.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Jesus Christ, Brenda.

[Miles]

Oh, So I put her to sleep. I put Brenda to sleep. Huh?

[Patty]

She. No, it wasn't you. It must have been The Charlie Baron Brandy.

[Miles]

I don't know. Oh, my God, that's hilarious.

[Patty]

Okay, so then I gotta get Brenda back to cindy in room 506.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what, you, fireman carried her through the casino or what?

[Patty]

I just left after.

[Miles]

You laugh.

[Charlie Barrons]

You just left?

[Patty]

No, I stayed for the whole show, but of course it was going to. But then it was like, okay, how am I gonna get Brenda back to Cindy, her wife that was too drunk from the for show?

[Miles]

What?

[Patty]

I got her back to.

[Miles]

Oh, go ahead, say it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Could. It could have been. It could have been a Weekend at Bernie situation. You could have put some sunglasses on.

[Miles]

Her and put her at the door.

[Patty]

Yeah, so I didn't know what her room number was and her name, and so I kind of, like, wake her up, and she kind. I take her by the hand, you know, my. My wife d. Get her back to room 506. We're banging on the door. Cindy opens it up.

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys are banging on the door.

[Miles]

Wasn't me.

[Patty]

I. I had to be responsible. I mean, Jesus Christ, she gave me a free ticket to the Charlie Be show. It's like, you know, pass it on kindness kind of a thing. Get her back to the freaking hotel room that her wife is at, and she answers the door. Now she's drunk again. I'm like, can you just. You just take her?

[Willie]

I just.

[Patty]

Here you go. All right. So then I got back down at the casino, found my husband, and I didn't even tell you about the. About the ride. The ride from this awful hotel that we were at was like 40 minutes long. Hubby couldn't find an Uber in Bowler, Wisconsin to get us to the casino in the first place. It was like a 30, 40 minute ride. So he finally finds some people that are not Uber, but they do kind of taxi cab, but they weren't that night of Charlie's shows.

[Miles]

And how are you talking.

[Patty]

He finally. He finally finds one, and they Uber us back, back and forth to the casino. And their cab smelled like the devil's lettuce like you wouldn't believe. Like they had gone to the farmer's market and beyond. So we hop into Uber in Bowler, Wisconsin for like, 40 bucks to get us to the casino in the first place to see Charlie. My husband's like, oh, I just don't. I don't. The devil's asparagus. I just don't. You know, I'm like, okay. You know, we're at the farm, and I'm like, they're getting us there safely. Okay. They agree to pick Us up on the way back. So after I bring Brenda to Cindy, I find my husband back in the casino. I'm like, okay, let's call that Uber people, whatever. To get back to the hotel. And he said, okay. And so we hop in the car, they showed up, and lo and behold, they had been grocery shopping again at the farmers market. And so next thing to get back the hotel, and my husband is. Has passed out on the window with his cheek like this and his mouth is like this. Once again, I was like, thank you for the safe ride. And I have to, like, help slap.

[Willie]

Him across the face and get him.

[Patty]

In the hotel room that night. It's like my job wasn't done.

[Miles]

So anyway, it was a great night. Yeah, sound. Sounds like it. My gosh. Think your husband got a little contact high there on the way back. Well, thanks for coming to see the show. Twice. My God, six times. Six times. But twice that night.

[Patty]

One of them was in Sheboygan.

[Miles]

Really? Oh, yeah. At the Weil center, huh?

[Patty]

Yep. And that one not break. I did bring a Charlie Baron's virgin. She drove in from Beaver Dam to see your show with me and she. Yep, that's my best friend.

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't know that's what they called them. I lost my Charlie Barron's virginity in. Was it 2022 maybe when we first met?

[Miles]

Yeah, 2019.

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't see a show for a couple years.

[Miles]

Oh, when you saw the show?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that's what a Charlie Baron's virgin is.

[Miles]

Yeah. I thought you meant when we met. Miles did time on my show. Tell Miles he should do stand up.

[Patty]

I want to tell Miles so bad that he wants to do that he should do stand up.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I would go.

[Patty]

See, I listen to the you betcha radio all the time.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I appreciate it.

[Patty]

And you're so damn funny. You're so great. And impromptu, both of you choose that if you feel comfortable with it, you know, Keep on making the world laugh, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I like to spend too much time at home to be stand up comedy median.

[Patty]

Yeah, well, you kind of have a different life now, and that's a good thing too, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, it's a good thing too, Miles.

[Patty]

All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

I just.

[Willie]

Well, we better slap the knee.

[Patty]

Unless you guys want to go on. I mean, I got time. I took PTO this afternoon just to race home and talk to you guys.

[Miles]

So much for that resolution. Oh.

[Patty]

I went. I went way better on that.

[Charlie Barrons]

So also, I like. I like. You call in, you say your New Year's resolutions and Then we're like, what was that second New Year's resolution? She's like, oh, yeah, I remember. It was something that you didn't say at all. You're just bullshitting us this whole time.

[Miles]

Did you ever do. Effectively do a New Year's resolution, Sally?

[Patty]

Yes, actually, I resoluted to put chapstick on more often. Yep, yep. And also, also, this is a really bad one, but this is one I absolutely stick to, is to not litter out of my car window. You and that. That one came. Oh back in Frick 2012. So I stuck to that one.

[Miles]

Congratulations, McDonald's.

[Charlie Barrons]

What were you doing in 2011? You were just launching garbage out the window.

[Patty]

Well, that was before self recycling was cool. I like, you know what? I'm gonna do that my New Year's resi. New Year's resi.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I like how all our resolutions are just like. It's either like something that normal people just do all the time, or it's like, yeah, my New year's resolution for 2025 is just to not commit any crimes. If I can just stay out of jail, it's gonna be a good year.

[Patty]

Or like, no, my New year's resolution for 2025 is to collect. Collect more magnets. Like I really need to do that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Just stuff doesn't stay on her fridge, you know, she tries to put stuff up there. Just doesn't have enough magnets.

[Miles]

Well, Sally, listen, this has been a lot of fun. Thank you for. Thank you for enlightening us.

[Patty]

Well, you're welcome. Really glad talking to you guys. Hey, Charlie. Yeah, not too bad. Not too big or anything, but I am done with my very first bottle of Charlie Barron's brandy.

[Miles]

Oh, you want another bottle?

[Patty]

Hubby brought it home for Valentine's Day. My first bottle ever. It wasn't at the normal discount liquor store that I go to, but he found it at festival here in Sheboygan and he brought Valentine's Day with flowers. And I was like, I am putting this in the booth cabinet and I'm not gonna touch it.

[Charlie Barrons]

You drank a bottle of Baron's Brandy in five days.

[Patty]

It is delicious. It is so delicious. And I have this teeny tiny glass that says, oh, oh. And so that's how I taste tested it. So we were. And then there's Valentine's Day and they there you guys.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, what is that all about?

[Patty]

I would love an autographed bottle of. Of Carly Barron's brandy.

[Miles]

Hey, you been to six shows?

[Patty]

I mean, I don't have George. I don't have George Clooney autographed Tequila. Like, Milestone.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, I mean, what. What was I supposed to do? That's all I had on me when I ran into Clooney. Was it the tequila bottle? And it's. Why. Yeah, I felt bad that his friend was standing there not signing the bottle, so I had him sign it, too.

[Miles]

Well, Sally, we're going to get your address. We're going to send you an autographed bottle of that brandy. All right?

[Patty]

Awesome. I'll keep it forever. Thanks, guys.

[Miles]

All right, let it last more than five days this time.

[Patty]

I'll try next New Year's resolution 2020.

[Charlie Barrons]

Make a makeup bottle of brandy lasts six days.

[Miles]

Thank you, Sally. We appreciate you.

[Patty]

Yeah, you too.

[Miles]

Touch for deer.

[Charlie Barrons]

I have so many things to say. Number one, you gotta use. You gotta have her record your intro to you going on stage.

[Miles]

I don't think I'd ever get on stage.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, no, I. I mean, how Midwest her accent.

[Miles]

Oh, my God.

[Charlie Barrons]

Pto. It was just. It was.

[Miles]

It was butter.

[Charlie Barrons]

It was perfect.

[Miles]

Yeah, she's great, you know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, hey there, folks. Charlie. Barbara.

[Miles]

I love how when she was talking about that casino, she said three times she was just gonna give us the short version of that.

[Charlie Barrons]

She.

[Miles]

She spent more.

[Charlie Barrons]

Anytime someone says, I'll just do the short version, you know, it's not going to be the short version. So I buckled in.

[Miles]

Yeah, you sure did. Wow.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, Miles, if we had more time, I would have definitely asked her about that Amish hotel and what was going.

[Miles]

On there, but we should have.

[Charlie Barrons]

But there was so much other stuff to process.

[Miles]

Thought she was getting a horse and buggy ride to the casino, the way she was talking about it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Instead, she got a horse and buddy.

[Miles]

Oh, marijuana.

[Willie]

You are talking to Emily and Braylon.

[Charlie Barrons]

Emily and Braylon. Well, why don't you belly up to the bar? What do you got in your mind today?

[Willie]

Well, we are actually in a rehab, and we were just taking suggestions for recreational activities.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, hold on.

[Miles]

Back up the truck. Back up the ATV here.

[Charlie Barrons]

Who.

[Miles]

Who.

[Charlie Barrons]

Who is we? You said we are in rehab. Why are you in rehab? What kind of rehab are we talking?

[Miles]

Emily and Braylon? Yeah, we got a twofer here. A bogo. Buy one, get one.

[Charlie Barrons]

I thought that Braylon was the town she was in.

[Miles]

I thought so, too.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so we're talking to two gals in rehab.

[Miles]

Did you meet in rehab or go there together on the same corridor?

[Willie]

Yeah, we. We. We did end up meeting here. So.

[Charlie Barrons]

They say that that's one of the steps to Rehab, Charlie, is finding a mate to help you along the way.

[Miles]

That's true. You need a support system. It's good you guys found each other.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what ended up. How'd you guys land in rehab?

[Miles]

Let's bring up the past, okay?

[Willie]

This is Emily's speaking. I am in rehab for alcohol and me being brayan, I am here in rehab for fentanyl.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

All right. Not messing around.

[Charlie Barrons]

So we're getting, we're, we're getting both ends of the spectrum here, Charlie.

[Miles]

How's rehab going so far? Give us the update.

[Willie]

It's actually, it's going really good. The first week is the hardest week, but now that we're couple weeks in, I mean, shit's actually starting to go smooth, so.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so it's. After a few weeks, rehab is basically just like summer camp or what?

[Willie]

Yeah, something like that, yeah.

[Miles]

Okay, good.

[Willie]

But we're running. We're running out of activities and I'm the recreational leader and I have to come up with activities to do for all 45 patients to enjoy.

[Miles]

Oh, okay. Have you started cigarettes yet?

[Willie]

Oh, yes. I didn't smoke cigarettes for getting here, but that's a habit you pick up real quick.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, actually, I didn't know that.

[Miles]

It's like a staple of aa. Everyone drinks coffee and smokes cigarettes.

[Willie]

That is one of the top recreational activities here.

[Miles]

Well, let's see here. What can we put on top of the cigarettes? What can really increase that buzz? So running is out of the mix there. Where is the rehab?

[Willie]

It is.

[Miles]

Where is the rehab facility?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, if they go running, Charlie, the people are going to think they're trying to escape.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's true.

[Charlie Barrons]

And then they're going to chase them down with a net.

[Willie]

They put up fences.

[Miles]

Oh, you guys got.

[Willie]

Nobody can go for a run.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, so you guys are in one of those high security rehabs.

[Willie]

It's. It's a glorified jail.

[Miles]

We prefer to call it like a deer farm, you know?

[Willie]

Yes, yes, if you will.

[Miles]

So do you have a lot of outdoor space you can kind of play with here, or is it mostly indoor activities you're looking for?

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, there is quite a bit of outdoor space. We have a smoking side and a non smoking side. But as you can imagine, nobody really goes to the non smoking side.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, so I did not know that about rehab. I'm glad you called in. I now, I now have a talking point with someone who just got out of rehab at the bar, you know?

[Miles]

Do you guys have bags set up there?

[Willie]

Yes, we do have that, but nobody really plays it because one of the boards is broken.

[Miles]

All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. Well, there's first activity.

[Miles]

Wood shop.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yes, yes, Wood shop.

[Willie]

That's a good one.

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys could make bag board sets.

[Willie]

We're not allowed to have any. Anything that can possibly kill somebody.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. So no power tools or screwdrivers even.

[Willie]

I guess, Charlie, as you can imagine, tensions run high.

[Charlie Barrons]

So what do you guys do? I suppose you guys don't have steak for dinner ever. It'd be tough otherwise.

[Willie]

You're just maybe steak the other day.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so just a lot of plastic silverware.

[Willie]

Yes, very much myself.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's tough. You guys could o. Charlie, you might like this one.

[Miles]

What?

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys could do improv night.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's great.

[Willie]

Oh, that was a great idea.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you guys can roll.

[Willie]

Really good idea.

[Charlie Barrons]

You can role play. Me and Charlie will give you an example here.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, so Charlie and I, we're walking down the road and this is the role play. Hey, Charlie, you just got out of rehab, right?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you want some fentanyl?

[Miles]

Oh, no, Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

There we go. You passed the test, Charlie.

[Miles]

See, it's that much fun.

[Charlie Barrons]

Not only is it fun to do improv, you guys can do life lessons within it and. And really test the waters on your guys. Skills that you're learning.

[Miles]

Yeah. You can express yourself.

[Willie]

That accountability.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, because I know. Because I know one thing about people who are in rehabilitation is they love to talk about the devices that got them in rehabilitation. Right, Charles?

[Miles]

Yeah, that was our first question. We found that out.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that was. Sorry about that.

[Miles]

Yes, that was rude in retrospect.

[Willie]

Gotta embrace it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I suppose.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So we got improv, we got workshop. What else?

[Miles]

Charlie, have you guys ever. Can you do leather working? You know?

[Willie]

Leather working?

[Miles]

Yeah. Can you learn how to work, make some wallets or something for the four people that still have wallet?

[Charlie Barrons]

You guys should do a Etsy shop.

[Miles]

Yeah, you guys can start your new business right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

And you got a great people. People are a sucker for rehabilitation story too. You just put that front on the website and just say, we're all recovering and this is our way to cope. And you guys are gonna sell wallets like crazy easy.

[Miles]

Or handbags. You can call them rehab bags. You know, rb.

[Willie]

That's a good selling line.

[Miles]

Yeah, Coco Chanel should watch out. What if you guys become the next, like, coach? Or is coach the cheap one?

[Willie]

Yeah, and I mean, we already, all of us here pretty much learned how to make bracelets of every kind of any style. You can think of. So yeah, we could start with that and move on to purses and wallets.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's really cool.

[Charlie Barrons]

That could be good.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Willie]

There is one problem with recreation on Sundays is we all fight over which game we're gonna watch.

[Miles]

Oh, the game. Yeah. I'm. Well, I feel like I'm. I mean, I'm not at rehab. I'm at a bar. Close second. But yeah, we are also fighting about the game here.

[Charlie Barrons]

Also now to think about Charlie, you should probably stop calling into podcast name bellied up to the bar. It could be a part of your.

[Miles]

Rehab, could be frowned upon. Well, they're in there.

[Willie]

I've watched you guys on. I've watched you guys forever. Okay, well, so rehab isn't going to stop me.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. I like.

[Miles]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do they ever make you pull landscaping duty at rehab?

[Willie]

We actually just cleaned out and pulled leads in the volleyball court.

[Miles]

Really? So is this a rehab that you pay to go to or you. That you like are sort of have.

[Charlie Barrons]

State.

[Miles]

State warrant. Yeah. What's the funding system there?

[Willie]

Well, you pay for it, but insurance covers a lot of it.

[Miles]

Pay for it. Insurance covers it, but they do. They make you do the. The labor. How does that work?

[Willie]

No, we just did it because we were bored and we didn't have anything else to do, so we started pulling weeds.

[Miles]

Oh, start. Start a community garden.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, that could be good.

[Willie]

Yeah. Oh, that's a really good idea.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Willie]

And then even like do like fruits and vegetables.

[Charlie Barrons]

Fruits.

[Miles]

Vegetables. Hemp. The.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, hemp, Charlie.

[Miles]

Hemp can work. Hemp is non. There's no chemicals, carcinogens. I didn't say. I didn't say marijuana. I said hemp.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, you guys start growing hemp.

[Miles]

They can grow tobacco though, for. And then you guys can learn how to roll your own cigarettes.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is. Is true. Yeah.

[Willie]

Then we won't have to spend $10 for a pack of cigarettes every two days.

[Miles]

Jesus. Every two days?

[Charlie Barrons]

You're worried about that? Then that's a half a pack.

[Willie]

Sometimes it's a. Sometimes it's a pack a day. So that's how many breaks you get throughout the day.

[Miles]

Yeah. Are. Are people smoking more acoustic cigarettes? Are they going on the vape train?

[Willie]

The base train?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the dress code like in rehab?

[Willie]

No bellies, no butt cracks, no shoulders.

[Miles]

No shoulders. Is this a Mormon rehab? The hell's going in Utah?

[Willie]

Kind of feels like it. Yeah, it kind of feels like it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Oh, sorry. Are there rehab hookups?

[Charlie Barrons]

That's all I was Gonna say, what's the dating scene like in rehab?

[Willie]

Personally, I'm actually on a behavioral contract because they don't encourage fraternization, and I accidentally, unintentionally, intentionally partook in fratizing.

[Miles]

Wow. Wow. Back that fraternization.

[Charlie Barrons]

Someone talked to their lawyer, Charlie.

[Miles]

Yeah, Unintentionally, slash intentionally. What happened?

[Willie]

We. We were making out in the kitchen.

[Miles]

How is that unintentional? You were on what, dude?

[Willie]

Well, we have chores.

[Patty]

We.

[Willie]

We get chores. And so we were on dish duty. It just happened.

[Charlie Barrons]

Let's just say they got down in dish dirty in the kitchen. Charles, was it just making out or were there any hand stuff involved?

[Willie]

No. Oh, my gosh, no. Only making out.

[Miles]

Okay, how long. How long were you guys on dish duty together before you started swapping? Swapping the old saliva tonsil hockey? Yeah.

[Willie]

Two days.

[Miles]

Two days. What's his name? Not. Not last name. Just.

[Willie]

His name is Miles.

[Miles]

Oh, Miles. Yeah. She's going with a fake name. She's going with.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's good.

[Miles]

What'd you like about it? Oh, it's really.

[Willie]

This is Emily. It's actually. It's actually not a fake name. That's real life.

[Miles]

That's. So what. What attracted you to him? Was he just, like, a really good scrubber? Like, see them forearms, those veins popping?

[Willie]

He' down and dirty with those dishes. Army. Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

I imagine it started, like, the flirting started when he was spraying the dishes and then just turned the hose towards her and sprayed her a little bit.

[Miles]

Yeah. Next thing you know, get a little wet shoulder contest.

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, yeah, something like that.

[Miles]

Who made the first move?

[Willie]

Actually, he did.

[Miles]

What? How'd he do it?

[Willie]

Really intense eye contact. And then one thing to another.

[Miles]

Miles is doing an improv act out of your first day, and I'm starting to get turned on. So please, Miles. Miles, if you don't want this to end up the same way, we better hear the end of this story.

[Charlie Barrons]

So now that it's forbidden, do you want him even harder now?

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Isn't that crazy how that works? When you're not allowed to do something, you want to do it even more.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, that's how you guys ended up there.

[Willie]

Yeah, exactly.

[Miles]

Did they catch you making out?

[Willie]

Somebody did. I don't know who. I think it was one of the kitchen staff.

[Miles]

One of the rats. Huh. So. So you're making. You're making out in the kitchen, you get ratted out, and now are you guys separated?

[Willie]

Yeah, they. They transferred him. They were going to transfer me too, but I begged for a behavioral contract. I was like, look, I didn't even get a warrant.

[Miles]

That's intense. Do you have any contact with him? There's no. I mean, this is a love. Write a country song about this. I met him in rehab over by the dishes.

[Charlie Barrons]

They said we couldn't be calling us.

[Miles]

Mrs. Yeah, something like that.

[Willie]

Oh, my God. Yeah, there's a song in the works.

[Miles]

We.

[Willie]

We'll see it for you next time we call in.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is this a. Is this like the movie Grease situation where. Where you guys are just hanging out for the summer or, like, you really like this guy or is it just a summer fling?

[Miles]

Rehab lovers having so fun.

[Willie]

And Nana, I. I do really like him, but I. You can't put all of your eggs in one basket, you know, That's.

[Miles]

Oh, she's playing. She's playing the. The field outside the rehab facility.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. What's the other guy you got your eye on at rehab? I know. Know that now that Miles is gone. Who's next up?

[Willie]

Oh, man. How did you know? Oh, my gosh. His name is Wyatt.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wyatt.

[Miles]

Damn. That was the name I was gonna pick right there. Wyatt. Tell us about Wyatt. What's he in for?

[Willie]

He actually has the same drug of choice, so he's in for fentanyl.

[Miles]

Oh, well, you guys have a lot in common.

[Willie]

Yeah, I know, right? It's a good starting conversation.

[Miles]

Yeah, you guys can be a good support system for each other. What do you like more about Wyatt than you do Miles?

[Willie]

That he's more genuine. I feel like Miles was kind of just, you know, like, he didn't really. He was just into the flirting and the acting of flirting, and Wyatt's actually genuine, has genuine conversations with me. Oh, any.

[Miles]

Calls me beautiful. So beautiful.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, beautiful.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, it sounds like Miles is just in the rear view mirror now, and it's all about Wyatt. So how are you flirting with Wyatt knowing you can't, you know? Do you think Wyatt.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're on a behavioral contract?

[Miles]

Yeah. Are you slipping them notes?

[Willie]

Well, that's how it started. And then I got my phone back. You get your phone back after a week, and so now we just text, and then we still have the intense eye contact, but it's just texting conversation.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so you're just. You guys are just sending photos back and forth.

[Willie]

Essentially.

[Charlie Barrons]

Dude, hey, rehab is crazy.

[Miles]

It's. I mean, no, it's like. It's like a retirement home in there.

[Willie]

Just hormones and everything. Is a retirement home.

[Miles]

Does the staff suspect that you and Wyatt are trading ugly bumpies over the text messaging?

[Willie]

Not to my knowledge. I mean, I feel like I'm a.

[Charlie Barrons]

Lot more discreet now, so. Emily, right? Emily. You Are. You. You don't got any love interests in rehab?

[Miles]

No.

[Willie]

No.

[Miles]

That was a hesitant no. Is it? Wyatt, you can tell us.

[Willie]

No.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

We'll leave it at that.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Emily's mad because she.

[Willie]

No, I just got out of a very long relationship and it ended very messy.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. Give it some time. Give it. Well, we gotta. We gotta talk to Emily. Emily. You're the one that called in, right? About the recreational activities. And here we are just talking about Charlie.

[Charlie Barrons]

I still just have so many questions.

[Miles]

Okay, keep going.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know, it's just my head is spinning.

[Miles]

Well, give us one Miles. That's fine.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Are. Is the staff nice to you there, or are they kind of hard asses?

[Willie]

Depends on the day.

[Charlie Barrons]

What would make them get really mad at you besides making out in the dishwashing area?

[Willie]

For me, it's always being late.

[Miles]

Where are you going?

[Willie]

Because I. Well, I just have to walk from my room to the. To the lecture hall, but for some odd reason, I'm always late because I just. That's just who I am. And so I always make the excuse of, I'm sorry, I hit a deer on the way here. And they don't find that funny?

[Miles]

I find it very funny. Emily.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know what? You're not late. You just have time blindness. Try that one next.

[Miles]

You know, it's like I'm time blind.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, it's a. It's a medical condition. I have time blindness, so you can't be mad at me for showing up late. What are they gonna do exactly?

[Willie]

Well, they can make me stay here longer.

[Miles]

Oh, they can. Oh, so you gotta. That's the leverage. I was wondering what the leverage was. How long are you in for?

[Willie]

Yeah, I'm in here until the end of this month.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so I only got a couple weeks left.

[Patty]

Yep.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is there, you know, is there people that have been there, you know, three, four, five times? You know, like, have they done a few tours of rehab now? Are they kind of the.

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, this is actually my second time.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, so is it like. Is there respect in the rehab community of someone who's been there multiple times to where, like, they kind of have a. Like, they know the ropes? Yeah, they got a crew that they lead. You know, is it like that basically.

[Willie]

The people that have been here before just kind of takes the lead, if that makes sense. Yeah, kind of like Kind of like the team captain, if that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, Rehab team captain. Put that on a resume, actually.

[Miles]

Yeah, that is perfect. Yeah. Well, I. I think that, you know, we've got like the. The gardening that could be the non hemp gardening and you know, the woodworking. If we could have some tools that didn't involve life threatening conditions, that would be good. God, I'm trying to think what else?

[Charlie Barrons]

I think we did a good job, Charlie. Okay, I got some good. They can't do it all at once. Start with those and go from there.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

How's that sound?

[Willie]

We actually. We actually had a fire drill the other day and my counselors didn't think I was too funny, but I shouted out. I was like, well, we're all outside, no gates. Why don't we all just run? Because they can't catch all of us. They didn't find that very funny.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, you.

[Miles]

Hey, smart.

[Charlie Barrons]

You don't have to be the fastest one running away. You just can't be the slowest.

[Miles]

That's true.

[Willie]

Yep.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's tough.

[Willie]

There was a. There's a. There's a milo field right across the way. And I was just like, everybody's head in there. Stay as low as you possibly can. Nobody will see you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, smart. Running high. Don't just run a long ways because you guys all got smokers lungs anyways. You ain't getting far before you're keeled over.

[Willie]

Exactly.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Willie]

So you gotta think smarter.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Well, we appreciate you calling in today. Stay strong in there. You're almost done. And, you know, if you need a sponsor.

[Willie]

This is actually my second time. This is my second time talking to you guys, and I don't think I made the actual. Actual video last time that was posted on Facebook. So hopefully this one makes the cut.

[Miles]

Wait, why?

[Charlie Barrons]

I think it's gonna.

[Miles]

What are we talking about? The last time?

[Willie]

The last time, I was asking for relationship advice and we talked about going. I said that I'm a football fan, Chief span. And we talked about how a first date would be a Chiefs game.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.

[Miles]

Did that not make the cut? Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Jared, are you.

[Miles]

Are you bullshitting? No, I'm. Right now.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, I do remember that. You might not have made a clip, but I think it's at the.

[Miles]

It's on the. It's on the podcast. I'm not.

[Willie]

Well, I didn't see it on Facebook.

[Miles]

Well, this. This I think will make a video cut out of. So, yeah, don't you worry about that. All right, all right, all right. Well, congratulations. Yeah, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And we'll drink one for you, all right.

[Willie]

Yeah. Order a Coors light. Drink it for me.

[Miles]

All right? You got it. Good work. You guys enjoy rehab and we'll talk to you soon.

[Charlie Barrons]

We'll see you on the other side.

[Patty]

Okay?

[Willie]

All right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Right.

[Miles]

Good gals.

[Charlie Barrons]

That was gals again. It's just like that's a world that no one ever talks about. You know, I. I like that they made rehab not such as a sensitive subject. No, you know, cuz you don't know what goes on in there.

[Miles]

Oh, summer camp, hookups, the whole deal. I mean, it's like a TLC show in there.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, guys, we got Amanda, the Wild Rice bar and Grill bar bartender here. Now, what I like about you is literally yesterday we were just discussing that a good small town bar has got a sassy bartender. I think that's you here.

[Amanda]

Honestly, I'm probably the mild one.

[Charlie Barrons]

You are?

[Amanda]

Absolutely. My sister Brie and her best friend Des are definitely worse, but by far, like you will probably leave offended. And they're okay with that?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, that's part of the small town bar experience.

[Miles]

Who got who the job here?

[Amanda]

Who actually. So my sister's best friend started working here a little bit over a year ago, and then my sister did, and I come down to Morehead during the summer and my kids are out of school because they're really bored up by Canada. And so I picked up some hours to work over the summer.

[Charlie Barrons]

Here we are.

[Amanda]

I love it.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you said that the polka is.

[Amanda]

Called coming in here at 3:00 today, 12 minutes.

[Charlie Barrons]

The poker squad's gonna get here.

[Amanda]

I'm just telling you, it's a party. I'm getting ranches ready. You never know what's.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is true. What's. What does the poker crowd usually look like?

[Amanda]

Exactly what you would think. They average ages 82.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, so there's a bus from the nursing home getting dropped off.

[Miles]

What do they like to drink?

[Amanda]

Drink things that I don't serve. A lot of old fashions. I have to say no to that because I don't muddle things.

[Miles]

Oh, you're not modeling at all here.

[Amanda]

I'm not muddling.

[Miles]

You got brandy though?

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, well, do you do North Dakota old fashioned? It's just basically just brandy.

[Amanda]

I was gonna say I've seen at other establishments that they just do the brandy and the ice and just throw the cherry and the orange in it. They don't really.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Do much else, but I feel like that's not doing old Fashioned justice, so.

[Charlie Barrons]

And he's the old fashioned guy.

[Amanda]

If I can't do it justice, I really shouldn't put it in a cup.

[Miles]

I. I honor the fact that you have that much dignity when it comes to. If I'm not going to make it right, I'm not going to make it all. But you're also like, ah, I'm still not going to make it at all.

[Amanda]

And I don't even have the right equipment, so it be. It would be an injustice to the drink.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is true.

[Amanda]

It's the same thing with, like, food, though. Like when you guys were ordering earlier. Like, I'm not going to.

[Miles]

Oh, you said the tot suck. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Get the fries, get the ranch.

[Miles]

Get.

[Amanda]

I'll let you know. Know anything you want.

[Charlie Barrons]

Tater tots not so good, right?

[Amanda]

Not when you have those delicious fries to choose from.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's true.

[Amanda]

You know.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, so we like to say in this podcast that the best Midwest therapist is your bartender. So I think on this one, we should ask her for some advice instead of the other way around. Charlie, what do you think?

[Miles]

That's pretty good.

[Charlie Barrons]

You're looking for some advice on anything.

[Miles]

Well, let's start with you, actually.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, you go ahead.

[Miles]

Oh, my gosh. Okay. All right, so let's see here. I gotta think of mine. I. I'm.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. Well, so as you know, I'm getting older, right? As we all are starting to develop waking up with just random body pain, you know, like a shoulder will just be sore or lower back pain.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's the best remedy on how to handle getting older and having everything start to hurt?

[Amanda]

Literally get up and power through it.

[Charlie Barrons]

Like, don't be a w. Yes.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Amanda]

Just take your hits and keep on going. March forward. Just keep going.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is that why you see a lot of older folk here at the bar is that the liquor kind of tends to heal the pain a little bit?

[Amanda]

Definitely.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. There we go. Joint juice is what we call it now.

[Miles]

Do you think you're feeling it more because you got that personal trainer, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, that when I found. When I'm not doing that, then that'll. Because I'm not stretching and stuff. But it's still some days you just wake up, you didn't do anything the day before, and you just hurt everywhere. Yeah, you know.

[Amanda]

Yeah, I just ignore it and move on.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. All right.

[Amanda]

Literally just power right through that.

[Charlie Barrons]

You stuff to carry it deep down and never bring it back up.

[Amanda]

I'll leave. And ibuprofen go a long way.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think yeah, sometimes both.

[Amanda]

Yeah. And of beer.

[Miles]

I mean, little beer. Yeah, that's. That'll. That'll ease the pain, that helps the al activate.

[Amanda]

Sometimes it's severe. Good keg stand will help that out.

[Charlie Barrons]

Keg stand.

[Amanda]

I'm just saying.

[Charlie Barrons]

Do you guys do keg stands at this bar?

[Amanda]

We do horseshoes and bean bag tournaments and keg stands. I mean, literally, let's lawn mow, race it out.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Amanda]

Charlie's a pro. I don't think he should be able to play cuz he did do that professionally when he mowed the law. I feel like that's an amateur league.

[Charlie Barrons]

Is what you're saying. Amateur smart.

[Miles]

All right, my question is, let's say that there is a person you are interested in three bar stools down. Okay. And you're sitting here drinking by yourself. They're over there drinking with friends.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Miles]

Okay. What is the in to say? I like this one of the three.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You know, because you don't want to.

[Amanda]

Buy just one drink.

[Miles]

You got to buy them all drinks.

[Amanda]

That's true.

[Miles]

Buy them around. So if they're sitting over there chitchatting and you kind of like one of them, you buy them all drinks. But now how do they know which one? You have to go over there and just have the conversation. Or do you even have a conversation? Is it weird?

[Amanda]

No. This is where you use your own advice, guys. Trust your, your, your bartender therapist. And you say, hey, Amanda. So the one on the third is the one that I, I'm really, I'm kind of into and like to maybe get to know a little bit better. And I. And you say, I'm going to buy. I want to buy them around, but. And I make direct eye contact with the one that you bought the round four and say. I say with my body language, the gentleman over there bought you. Okay, around.

[Miles]

And then I do this.

[Amanda]

And then I do this, ladies.

[Miles]

Oh, wow. So use the bar. And then, of course, that's a big tip. Commit there.

[Amanda]

Communicate that well. And it really, like, it's fun for us to help each other out. Like, literally. It's so much fun to be in a bar where, you know, over there, I call the nursery because that's where all my babies sit that are like, people think are 12. When they come in, I'm like, I swear I've carted them. And their parents come in here all the time. And then over here you have people that have so much money they don't know what to do with. And to see them interact without Knowing who each other are or what they come from or any of that. It's amazing. And yeah, talk to communicate with your bartender man. And like, literally, they will lead you to the promised land.

[Miles]

Well, let's say you did that. Let's say you. You set it to the one that. That I happen to be interested in.

[Charlie Barrons]

Deadlock eye contact. Hey, that fell over there. Bought you guys all around, but you're just still locked. Eye contact.

[Amanda]

I would say bought you around and with dead eye contact. And then I would say, ladies and then span.

[Charlie Barrons]

Gotcha.

[Amanda]

The rest of the group.

[Miles]

So at that point, do you then just stay in your seat, give a wave and do not go over there instead?

[Charlie Barrons]

I do after that.

[Amanda]

Yes. You make direct eye contact. She's going to make direct eye contact with you, period. It's going to happen 100%. And you do the. And she'll say thank you. She's either going to do the giggle smile. You're going to know that with more of her physical body language back that if she's making eye contact more and more and more.

[Charlie Barrons]

More.

[Amanda]

There's your in there you go.

[Miles]

Okay. And then. And then it's on you to walk over there and say hi. Or do you wait for her to walk over and say something?

[Amanda]

I'd use your bartender for that one, too.

[Miles]

Oh, what if we don't have a.

[Charlie Barrons]

Really wants to be involved?

[Miles]

What if we don't have a bartender as helpful as you, though?

[Amanda]

Well, I think most of them are like, yeah, really? I do. And like when our friends go to the bathroom or something, like, we're not above being like, so you interested?

[Miles]

Oh, got you right to the point.

[Amanda]

Then 1. There's no awkward situation between anybody.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And I can be like, hey, I just got a boyfriend to you. And you're like, cool, but I bound it. Have a good night.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, cool. All right, let's try the gal on the other corner over.

[Amanda]

Right, Right.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Well, then I'll just make eye contact with the fifth friend down. You know? Yeah, that's how that works.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. Not you. All right. What about you?

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You were his second choice.

[Amanda]

What about you Just wait till the friends go, you know, because they have to go to the bathroom in pairs.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So.

[Amanda]

But pick a girl. Like, that's an odd number group because, you know, then at least one of them is going to be singled out and probably weakest from the herd.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

Jeez.

[Miles]

Wow. What? How do you. Because you can't. You go into a bar, you have to develop that relationship with Your bar to tender first. Right. Like. Like if someone were to just ask.

[Charlie Barrons]

Money talks, Charlie. You drop a 10 or a 20 on the table and you say, hey, you mind help me out there? And be like, absolutely.

[Miles]

Well, now, that's another question. Is that offensive right there To. To.

[Amanda]

Is it offensive?

[Miles]

You're like, it's a 20 bill. No, it's not offensive.

[Amanda]

Like, a dollar is a dollar. But I also, like. I guess I treat my guests as the same way I would expect to be treated somewhere else.

[Charlie Barrons]

But not one. Not every bartender is as helpful as you. I. We've found. We've been to a lot of bars.

[Miles]

You've been exceptional.

[Charlie Barrons]

I would say about 75% of bartenders are as helpful as you. You're gonna have a 25 once in a while. Really? Yeah, that'll happen.

[Miles]

See?

[Amanda]

And there. See, there's a lot of things for me, like, money's not worth it. And like, just kind of like you guys do, like, you kind of scope people out of talking to them. Like, I do the same through their body language, the way they act, the. The way that they interact back with me. And. Yeah, you know, kind of. I'm not gonna be like, oh, here's 20 bucks. Like, can I buy your drink? But can I hold it first? No, no, you can't. Well, you drop something in there, you're not going to deliver it yourself.

[Miles]

I got this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got. Well, you've got everyone's safety in mind, too. That's. That's a. That's a big.

[Amanda]

Everybody's got to get along. I'm safe, and I take people home all the time.

[Charlie Barrons]

Smart. You are.

[Miles]

You are the iconic small town bartender. This is.

[Charlie Barrons]

There we go.

[Amanda]

I have a blast.

[Charlie Barrons]

You said you had a buy, sell, and trade for us, right?

[Amanda]

Dude, it's free. No buy, seller, nothing. Just come get.

[Miles]

Pick it up.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

They.

[Amanda]

They come as a pair.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Amanda]

There is one female and one male. One is a miniature horse. He is about 32 inches tall.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Amanda]

His name is Turbo. He does not run fast, and I like that. I have a miniature donkey who is smaller than that.

[Charlie Barrons]

And would you say that the best things come in small packages then, is what you're saying?

[Amanda]

No. Or I would.

[Miles]

Sorry, pal.

[Amanda]

I would not be keeping. I wouldn't be getting rid of them for free.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know, but we want someone to come pick it up, so we need to make it.

[Amanda]

They're so together. They're wonderful. That's why you got to take them as a parent. Hair. And I Got him last year because hay shortages and I felt bad and people couldn't feed their own animals.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you got a mini horse and a mini donkey.

[Amanda]

Yep. That are absolutely. A married couple in love that weren't together to start with but now are.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay, well, if you're listening to this and you're in the market for a mini horse and a mini donkey because you got to take them both.

[Amanda]

That's right.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Amanda]

I mean their happiness matters.

[Miles]

What do they need to sustain America?

[Charlie Barrons]

These.

[Miles]

These are not house pets.

[Amanda]

No. The pasture of grass. I mean, they wouldn't.

[Patty]

You.

[Amanda]

Less than an acre.

[Miles]

Less than an acre.

[Amanda]

Less than an acre of miles.

[Miles]

You got easy about an acre at your place, right?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I guess we do you want to help me put up a fence then or what?

[Miles]

I'll watch a video of first time.

[Amanda]

They stay in a hot wire pasture just fine.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Do they? No. That's not bad. All right. That's pretty cheap right there.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't imagine they can jump over a fence or anything at this.

[Amanda]

At this point in time, I would probably come do the fencing for you and do this.

[Justin]

Oh, wow.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Like.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

So if you're in the area, come to the Wild Rice Bar and Grill. Ask for Amanda. She's not here. They'll take a note or they'll call or whatever. Say, I'm looking for a mini horse and a mini donkey. I got the perfect situation. She's got. She's got you covered. It's not even a. But you don't. It's just free.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I'll even deliver.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And delivery service.

[Amanda]

As long as it's a good home. Yep.

[Miles]

Oh, that's great. Oh, and you're gonna vet the home a little bit. You're gonna talk to folks.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that's smart.

[Miles]

Good on you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Don't be a serial killer or one of those.

[Amanda]

And the little pony. I will give them all of the tack that it came with the saddle and all of its fancy.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Amanda]

Riding things. Children do ride.

[Charlie Barrons]

This is a sweet deal. Honestly.

[Miles]

It is.

[Charlie Barrons]

And you buy a farm.

[Amanda]

He looks like a little tiny Hildago paint horse.

[Charlie Barrons]

You bought a farm?

[Miles]

Haven't closed yet, unfortunately. Oops. You know, listen, if I.

[Amanda]

When do you close?

[Miles]

Can you take the. I mean, are they self sustaining? For the most part, absolutely. So you can leave them out there a week and they're going to be fine?

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

[Miles]

Going to have water.

[Amanda]

Water and access to grass.

[Miles]

Yeah. Access to grass.

[Charlie Barrons]

I think that. Yeah. Why don't you throw. Throw Them in the bed of the truck on the way home.

[Amanda]

And the hot wire fencing. You get a solar panel.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

For it. And so you don't have to use your own electricity or worry about wiring, anything like that.

[Miles]

Oh, that's perfect.

[Amanda]

And yeah, they're great.

[Charlie Barrons]

They.

[Amanda]

They stay fat and happy and they like kids and.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles]

So awesome.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right. So there you got it.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Looking for a mini horse. Horse. Mini donkey. Man, is your gal.

[Amanda]

Just give me your address and I'll drop them off.

[Charlie Barrons]

There we go. Appreciate you letting us come and. Yeah, this is great.

[Miles]

Thank you so much.

[Amanda]

No, thank you, guys.

[Miles]

Watch out for deer.

[Charlie Barrons]

Watch out for many horses. Yeah, watch out for many horses and donkeys on your way home.

[Amanda]

That's true. And because, I mean, if you want to come by, I work Thursday and Friday. I could bring them with if anybody wants to check them out.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Just time to the tables, you know. All right, whatever.

[Charlie Barrons]

You've heard of a horse in a bar? Have you heard of a donkey in a bar? Never.

[Amanda]

It's about to happen.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. There we go.

[Miles]

I'm excited for these suckers to find a new home.

[Amanda]

Me too.

[Miles]

Yeah. Miles's front yard.

[Amanda]

Yep. We're going to go up after this and fence it off.

[Charlie Barrons]

Right. My fiance would murder me.

[Amanda]

Or would she love it?

[Miles]

Might fall in love.

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't think so.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Well, do you have a co program? Cuz many donkeys actually keep cattle and other livestock safe.

[Miles]

They're. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Companion animals.

[Charlie Barrons]

There you go.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right.

[Miles]

All right. Well, there we got it. So.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Thank you again.

[Amanda]

Thank you, guys.

[I]

Hey, it's Willie.

[Willie]

Hey.

[Miles]

Hey, Willie. How you doing?

[I]

Doing pretty good.

[Miles]

Where are you calling in from?

[I]

I'm calling in from Washington state. I. I drove to Montana last week and. Oh, geez. About quite coeur d'alene to just outside of St. Regis. Endless construction on Interstate 90.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[I]

In both directions.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's that time of year, isn't it, Charlie?

[Miles]

It is road construction season. My.

[Charlie Barrons]

Tell me about the four seasons the Midwest has.

[Miles]

Of course, you've got fall, you got winter, you got spring, and you got road construction season. And sometimes it bleeds into those other seasons, depending on the weather. And it is. Is a tough one. It's a tough go. But hey, those pot hills, those potholes are not gonna fill themselves. All right? So, you know, you complain about one, you get the other. It's just how it goes.

[I]

Very, very true.

[Miles]

Yeah, those beautiful orange flowers are in full bloom, my guy. So the question is, what do you do when you're in that construction zone.

[I]

I try and just go the speed limit best I can. And it's a little bit anxiety inducing when you have the teeny little orange cones and you have semi trucks coming at you to run the other direction because they closed down the eastbound lanes, both eastbound lanes of I90 in Idaho. So the eastbound traffic is going in the westbound lane, and then the westbound traffic scoring in the right lane. And this happened in both directions in Idaho, and. Oh, geez, it was. It's hard not to look at this scenery because Interstate 90 through Idaho and Montana.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's beautiful.

[I]

One of the most beautiful things you'll ever see.

[Miles]

And you got those white knuckles going.

[I]

Oh, absolutely.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, you kind of. Yeah. You got nothing left to do but pay attention to the road in those scenarios and, you know, just hope that everybody else is also paying attention to the road. Because one mistake, one beer to the left or to the right, and, oh, no, then you. Then you got some bigger issues. You got an insurance situation on your hands. But what is your question specifically with all this traffic?

[I]

My question is what I do to sort of de stress while I'm going down the road and while I'm waiting. Because that's the other thing. As soon as I got off of the highway and I went up through St. Regis, there was a. At the very end of 135, when you turn left onto 200 to go towards Kalispell, there was a guy in the neon vest with the slow stop sign, and that thing was at the stop sign towards. Pointed towards me for about 30 minutes. I was sitting in the same spot for, oh, 30 minutes.

[Miles]

You got to be kidding me. You got. Do you have a car?

[I]

I should have. My cousin was texting me, like, hey, what's your ETA on getting here? I'm gonna order pizza. I'm like, I'm not sure. This. This construction guy's been in at a sign point at a stop for about a half hour now. So I honestly don't know what I'm gonna get there.

[Miles]

Yeah, you were about to order pizza to that spot, you know? Yeah.

[I]

Oh, it would have been. Would have been nice and toasty warm since my car doesn't have air conditioning.

[Miles]

Oh, geez. All you had were the windows to keep you cool. Do those at least work?

[I]

Yeah, the windows and this in this little neck stand I got for my birthday that actually works really well.

[Miles]

Oh, did you get a nice neck fan? What. What kind?

[I]

Worked very well in the 90 degree Montana sun.

[Miles]

Yeah. Does that plug Right into the cigarette lighter then.

[I]

No, it's just a rechargeable thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh.

[I]

That you use for usbc. And then it lasts about five or six hours.

[Charlie Barrons]

It was where, where can, where can a guy find a good neck fan these days?

[I]

Yeah, probably Amazon or, or something like that.

[Miles]

Okay, we'll have to look for.

[I]

Yeah, if you have an old Honda Civic like I do and it doesn't have air conditioning, that's, that's your best choice problem.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, we actually have a guy who has a Honda Blue Honda CRV with 130,000 miles on it. And the AC works about 75% of the time. Would you be in the market to buy three grand OBO or best offer?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Does that interest you at all?

[I]

I just thought the Civic, we had a, we had an old Honda van for about 21 years and then, you know, we used to live in, around Cleveland, Ohio when the rust just ate that thing up.

[Miles]

Yeah. So the salt on the road, it'll do that.

[Charlie Barrons]

But eerie coming off the lake.

[Miles]

Still 20, 21 years though. I mean, congratulations.

[I]

21 years and 211,000 miles we got out of that odyssey through the workhorse.

[Miles]

And how did it finally go, that odyssey?

[I]

Well, just driving to work one day. Oh, the check engine light came on and I was like, oh shoot. Then the traction control light came on, like, oh no. So I got home, I plugged a little scanner thing into it and, and it said the code is a knock sensor. And once my dad, he's like, oh shoot, not again. Because I guess what that meant is that somehow, some way, somewhere where I parked it when I was out in the public somewhere, rodents had found their way into the engine. And the car was clean as a whistle. But somehow rodents had found their way into the engine. Shoot the knock sensor wires. And my mechanic was like, it's going to be $3,000 to fix this.

[Miles]

Yeah, I know. Oh, no, no. Well, you wrote it for 200,000 God loving miles and you did good. You did good.

[I]

I grew up in that van.

[Miles]

Did you like you guys, like you.

[Charlie Barrons]

Guys didn't have a home and you lived out of the van or.

[I]

No, no, we just. My folks bought that van when I was six months old and I'm now 20 too. And that's really the vehicle that's been around my entire life. That's from Cleveland to Washington.

[Charlie Barrons]

And you are 22 years old. How old did you think he was?

[Miles]

You sound about 73.

[Charlie Barrons]

I, I had you no younger than 60 years old. And that's a compliment you sound like an old soul, but I. You could knock me over with a feather right now that you are 20, 22 years old.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, you got that. You got Joe Para thing going for you right now. It's good.

[I]

Yeah. My cousin actually, who lives in Texas, my cousin in law, he was actually just up in Marquette, Michigan, and he told me I should watch that show on hbo. Max, Joe Para talks with you.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[I]

And I've been watching a little bit of it. I like it.

[Miles]

Yeah. Do you notice any similarities and your patterns of communication?

[I]

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I even, you know, I was out visiting my family. I was, you know, hanging out with one of my first cousins, and I got him into your. Into your two's videos. He loves them.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hell, yeah. I. So you had brought up, you know, a way to de stress on the road. Considering hearing how we thought you were maybe 60 years old, I think a good way to de stress on the road is just listen to the Midwest survival guide on the audiobook, Charlie's audiobook.

[Miles]

And thank you, Miles, for that plug. I do appreciate it. That should give you at least nine hours, you know, depending on what speed you're listening to it at. Miles usually listens to it at 20x. But I. I will say I think I see a business opportunity here, Miles. Okay, here's what I think, Willie. I want you to get your nearest dictionary and I want you to just read it, the whole thing, and I want you to record it. And I think that that would be one of the most soothing things for anybody in traffic to listen to. And I think it's could. Cause. Could solve the road rage problem in America today. And I think they would just sell like hotcakes. Do you have.

[Charlie Barrons]

You do have a very nice voice.

[Miles]

You really do. Yeah. Could you just pull up any news article and just read it to us just for a little bit?

[I]

My computer right here?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[I]

Oh, man. Yeah, that was about nine hours of driving I did over the course of last Monday, but, oh, man, it was all worth it. Montana is one of the most beautiful states I've ever been to.

[Miles]

Keep talking, Willie. Why is it so beautiful, man?

[I]

The mountains all around you. And as soon as you exit the Lolo Pass, you enter just into all these flatlands and then you see Flathead Lake. And, oh, it is just the most beautiful thing. You.

[Charlie Barrons]

And describe Flathead Lake. Describe that for us.

[I]

Flathead Lake. Oh, it's really clean. I got to swim in it on last Wednesday. And starts out, you're on the shore. You, you know, you have all your stuff laying in your baggie. You walk out to the. To the lake, and there's these really, you should be wearing, like, shower shoes or some sort of swim shoes because the rocks are really jagged and they'll kind of hurt your feet. But once that's all done, you get to the really nice soft and squishy sand. And it's actually really shallow up to about. For about a quarter mile or so. And once you're done with that, you sort of start getting into the deeper part of the lake. But just all around your mountains, you're about. If you hit Flathead lake, you're about 45 minutes to an hour drive from Glacier National Park. And, oh, man, there are so many opportunities in that whole area. I mean, I did archery for the first time in about 10 years, and my. My cousin said I did great. This is good to hear, but what's.

[Miles]

Your cousin's name, Willie?

[I]

Parker.

[Miles]

Parker.

[Charlie Barrons]

And I tell you what, Willie, you just need to start a podcast. And here's how it's going to de stress you while you're in road construction and how you're going to de stress other people in rogue construction. It's about. The podcast is centered around living in the present moment, Charlie. And you're gonna drive, and you're just gonna describe what you see, how you feel, just like what you did with us with the Flathead Lake. And I tell you what, I couldn't be more relaxed right now. That was very pleasant.

[Miles]

I don't know how I'm gonna finish the next podcast we gotta record. I'm just ready to kick back and relax. Next, a fire. And Willie, play us out can. Where are you right now?

[I]

I am sitting at home with just the radio next to me and my computer, and I think the cat might be downstairs.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, why don't you take a gander out the window and describe what you see? And this is a. All the listeners listening. Just take this moment. Just look around and live in the present moment. What do you see, Willie?

[I]

Let's see. Oh, that's the wrong side of the blinds. There we go.

[Miles]

Yep.

[I]

There are the maple trees. And the tulip poplars are. Are getting their summer bloom going in. There's. There are the Casks mountains way off in the distance. There's a guy that almost ran a stop sign, but he hoped that he fortunately stopped in time. There's some people. People out walking. Don't have a dog or anything, but I'm sure it's a nice enough day that any dog or Any cat would love to be outside. And it's a beautiful Sunny day, about 85 degrees. Forecast calls for more of that. And there's an elementary school with the US Flag and the Washington state flag and baseball field and. And then you have the driveway. You have my old Honda Civic and the garage that's full of router tables and power tools that haven't been used in a long time.

[Charlie Barrons]

I love it. Will, that was.

[Miles]

That was poetic.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, I think we may have found a new segment on this podcast.

[Miles]

I think Willie Free Willie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, Free your mind and listen to Willie Willie talks.

[Miles]

Yeah, we'll.

[Charlie Barrons]

We'll find it.

[Miles]

We'll find it. Yeah. Well, Willie, we're gonna. We're gonna save your number here. We might have to give you a call back and have this be a little recurring segment here on the Bellied up podcast.

[I]

Very nice. Yeah. Like, I am. I am all blissed out. You know, know that that trip last week was just what I needed. It's gotten rid of all the anxiety and stress that I had when I left.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's awesome.

[I]

So I'm. I'm really turning over a new leaf, I think.

[Charlie Barrons]

I love it.

[Miles]

You're turning over our leaves. And I don't mean that as a weird innuendo, Willie. Thank you for servicing us here on the Bellied up podcast. And, Willie, you have yourself a good day, okay? And I want to let you know that that Honda minivan still thinks about you.

[I]

I still see it every day. I sold it to my mechanic, and they're gonna fix it up and use it as a loaner.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay.

[Miles]

Smart service to others. I love it, Willie. Well, you have yourself a good one, my guy.

[Charlie Barrons]

And watch out for construction workers on the road.

[Miles]

Yeah. Keep your eyes on the line minds, my guy. We'll see you next time.

[I]

Thanks. Watch for dozen deer.

[Miles]

Yes, you too, Willie. You too.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Bellied up podcast. I felt somewhat we turn into an NPR episode. How about you?

[Miles]

We did. We really did.

[Charlie Barrons]

Honestly, I feel really good. Willie's got it right.

[Miles]

He does. It's just noticing the things because before you know it, they're gone. Be like, Willie. Folks, free your, free your mind, free your Willie.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hi. Is this school bus driver?

[Emily]

Yes, it is.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got Miles and Charlie from the Bellied up podcast. How are you?

[Emily]

Oh, I'm living the dream. How about yourself?

[Charlie Barrons]

Same. Bellied up to the bar.

[Miles]

We can't complain.

[Charlie Barrons]

Should we dive into it, Charles?

[Miles]

Let's dive into it. All right.

[Emily]

Sounds like you fellas are having more fun than need.

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, yeah. So, guys, we have a school bus driver on the line from the Midwest, and he wants to one, talk about how exhausting it is to drive a bus in the Midwest. And number two, his goofy living situation. I'm excited, Mr. Bus Driver. What is so exhausting about driving a school bus? You're just sitting there driving, man.

[Miles]

Well, I don't know about.

[Emily]

About you boys, but I like to wave and take. Say good morning and everything to everybody I see. Well, you know how many people you pass in a bus to begin with, and then you have 60 kids walking past you and you have to say good morning and have a good day to every one of them, and half of them won't even say it back. I don't. I don't think that these kids are learning the good Midwest values anymore.

[Miles]

What the hell? They're not even saying good morning back to you?

[Emily]

Heck, no.

[Miles]

Are they on their phones, just staring on their phones, Little robot boys?

[Emily]

Pretty much. Heck, I don't think they know. They'd know if we crashed into a tree, the way they look at their phones.

[Miles]

Oh, God, that's scary, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

So you gotta, like, ice. You have to, like, ice your arm at the end of the day from waving at people all day long on the bus.

[Emily]

I. I pretty much. Pretty much do.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Emily]

I have to go home and put ice on my shoulder from all the waving at everybody. It's an exhausting experience.

[Miles]

Look at you. Look at him, though, holding it down, committed to saying hello when these little shits don't even look up from their freaking devices. You know what that you need? You need a Midwest dad on there to smack the phone out of their hands and say, look them in the eyes. Not too long, but look them in the eyes.

[Emily]

I agree. That's great. That'd be great.

[Charlie Barrons]

What's. Yeah, go ahead.

[Emily]

If you get a parent standing at the end of a driveway, man, you might take all day to get these kids home because they just want to talk all the time. That's the downside of the Midwest.

[Miles]

That's because they're kids. Kids aren't talking to him. So they're like, oh, finally a normal human.

[Emily]

I agree. I agree.

[Miles]

Yeah, we're in the Midwest.

[Emily]

Are you Southeastern Indiana?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, Southeastern Indiana. All right. So, yeah, you're just going down there and you're trying to wave at these kids, and then. What about people who pass the bus? Are they waving at you too, or. No?

[Emily]

Well, they're not waving at me, but I'm waving at every one of them.

[Miles]

Look at you. Look at this guy. He's just a Midwest soldier, just. Just ready to go just to spread the Midwesternness to a bunch of people. He's like a missionary, you know?

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Emily]

I'm thinking we must be having some Illinois. Some Illinois people around here or something, the way you get the manners back.

[Miles]

I think phones make everyone fibs is what I think.

[Emily]

I guarantee it.

[Charlie Barrons]

So my experience with bus drivers going up is there were always yelling at us to sit down and stop doing this and stop doing that. Have you. Are you. I'm gonna pull this bus over type of guy, or what's your approach when kids are misbehaving?

[Emily]

Oh, I've. I've had to pull over a time or two, but I've also learned that if you just talk to them real mean a couple times, they think you're scary and they'll leave you alone.

[Miles]

Well, that's. That's a. That's a good option there. You got good relationships with any of the kids?

[Emily]

Oh, yeah. Well, I tell you, I'm a. I'm a sub, so I'm on different routes about every different day.

[Miles]

Oh, wow, you're a. Yeah, I know. You're a sub bus driver. Now that's interesting. Yeah, because the substitute teacher, it's tough to get respect from the kids on that. I wonder if the substitute bus driver, maybe that's playing into this.

[Emily]

It might be, but I know something. Like I said, if you just sound like your real man when he gets started, then you usually don't have no problem.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Emily]

Nicest guy you'd ever meet. But you gotta. You gotta make the kids think you're mean.

[Miles]

Well, yeah, because you gotta lay the precedent. First thing, you gotta make sure there's no horse around. What's the weirdest thing any of these kids have ever done on your school bus?

[Emily]

I had a kid, actually, two days ago that we got to his house and he refused to get off the bus because he was mad that his sister got off before he did. He started crying. The weirdest thing I ever seen. I've had kids refuse to get off at school. I mean, we can all get behind that. Come on. Who wants to go to school? But, man, you're already home, kid.

[Miles]

Gosh, yeah. Yeah, you were there. My guy. Now the next day he's going to get made fun of for crying.

[Emily]

I agree, I agree.

[Miles]

How'd you get him off the bus?

[Emily]

Well, I'll say the mother came up there and she was not Too happy with him. So I was a little. I. I was a little scared to making her angry. I don't know what that kid's thinking.

[Charlie Barrons]

He was scared. You had to imagine how the kid was feeling. Oh, I know.

[Emily]

I was the mom come up there, and she was. You could tell she was mad about it. I was like, man, I. I don't want to get on the wrong side. Geez, kid.

[Miles]

I wonder what that kid did at school. Because, you know, that his sister got off first. She already told her mom the thing that the kid did. That's probably why he was crying. There's probably a deeper story.

[Emily]

He's scared that the school called home before he made it there.

[Miles]

That's wild, man.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, yeah, because, like, I don't think you can, like, physically remove a kid from the bus.

[Miles]

No, it's not like a bar, you know, you can't bounce him out of there.

[Emily]

Maybe that's what we need. Maybe we just need some school bus bouncers.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah. Checking IDs.

[Emily]

And yes, now you're thinking.

[Charlie Barrons]

You said in your voicemail you got a goofy living situation. What's going on with that?

[Emily]

Okay, so I'd say, let's say maybe three years ago, four years ago, maybe. I was dating this girl, and me and her, you know, got pretty serious. We moved in together, and we were engaged. We were living on a farm that her parents owned, and we actually ended up moving into the house that she grew up in. It's a dairy farm. And me and her dad started dairy farming together. Well, then, you know, folks, flash forward another year or so. Well, she found her a new boyfriend, and her dad found out, and her dad told her to get out and told me to stay. So to this day, I still live on the farm she grew up in, and I still. I still milk cows with her dad.

[Charlie Barrons]

Helen.

[Emily]

I talk to her dad more than he talks to her.

[Miles]

Oh, my God. You are the father. Son he wish he always had.

[Emily]

He told me that one time, which I thought was weird because he has a son.

[Miles]

Wow. What a deal. What a deal. That's. That's. I mean.

[Emily]

I mean, I. I got, like, the woman's end in the divorce. I got to keep all the stuff.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's what I was. That's what I was gonna say. It's hard to pull off keeping the house, but you did it.

[Emily]

Yeah. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe I was smart. I got out of there before we filled out any paperwork.

[Charlie Barrons]

True.

[Miles]

So do you ever see the girl anymore?

[Emily]

I tell you what, I. Being A nice guy. I know her and her new boyfriend, I guess just bought a house a while back and they're wanting to fix it up and you know, me being a nice guy, I even offered to help him out and her new boyfriend told me he'd rather freeze to death than have my help. So you know what? I guess that's their problem.

[Miles]

That's a real secure boyfriend is what that is.

[Emily]

That's what I kind of figure.

[Charlie Barrons]

So do you like see, you see her at like Thanksgiving and stuff or. No.

[Emily]

Oh, yeah. It, it definitely makes, it definitely makes her angry every time you see her over at her parents house and I'm there. But that's okay.

[Charlie Barrons]

He's got like a stocking on the mantle during Christmas time and.

[Emily]

Oh, oh, I, I Do.

[Miles]

You have a stocking on the mat?

[Emily]

I, I do, I do.

[Miles]

How long you been in this family now?

[Emily]

Well, me and her were together. I'm trying, I think probably four years ago. And like I, I think we've been broke up now at least two years, so probably four years.

[Charlie Barrons]

So. So like you guys broke up, you guys stayed living in the house together and she found another boyfriend all while you still were living together?

[Emily]

No, she moved out. I'm still living in the house.

[Charlie Barrons]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Emily]

Why say it's the house she grew up? It's the house she grew up in as a kid.

[Miles]

Why did you guys break up?

[Emily]

I guess she decided this new guy was better than me.

[Miles]

Oh man, you get.

[Emily]

Yeah, fine by me.

[Miles]

You dating someone else? No.

[Emily]

Heck, honestly, I kind of like living alone.

[Miles]

I don't think you're living alone, are you, you're living with her dad, right?

[Emily]

No, they're, they live, they live at a different, on a different house, you know, I'm living a house she grew up in. They, they moved on into a different house. We moved in there.

[Miles]

Do you pay rent?

[Emily]

No.

[Miles]

Dude, how the hell did this work out? Are you that good with the cows?

[Emily]

I, I, I honestly have no idea. I somehow just force gumped my way through life. I don't know.

[Charlie Barrons]

I just started running. Yeah, I just started driving. Driving? Forest Gunk does drive a school bus at some point, doesn't he?

[Emily]

I, I don't think he does.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, but no, he drops his kid, his kid gets on the school bus at the end of the movie. Spoiler alert. That's what it is. Yeah.

[Emily]

I tell you what, if Forrest Gump drove a school bus, that would have made a way more interesting movie.

[Miles]

Wow, so you're working on the farm every day. And you're doing the school bus us when they call you?

[Emily]

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, that's a couple days a week. And actually, I have another job working a maintenance job at a school, too.

[Charlie Barrons]

Wow. Busy guy.

[Miles]

This guy's doing everything.

[Charlie Barrons]

He doesn't have time to find another gal.

[Miles]

No.

[Emily]

Yeah, my. My dad. My dad once told me I was a. I'll do anything for money.

[Charlie Barrons]

What does your parents think of this situation you're in?

[Emily]

Oh, they just shake their head. They're like, I don't know. I don't know what. What you're doing, but it seems to be working for you, so that's good.

[Miles]

Wow. And there's no. There's nothing the dad has not told you that you gotta find your own place at any point in time?

[Emily]

No, no, they. Basically. He makes it sound like he wants to take. He wants to retire from farming in a couple years and he's looking for somebody to take it over.

[Miles]

Ah, so you're the investment. Are you gonna be. You're gonna be good taking care of the farms then?

[Emily]

I guess. I'm not. I'm not opposed.

[Charlie Barrons]

That's a pretty good deal.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's a great situation. He's gonna leave you the farm. Dude, that's gonna piss your ex girlfriend off so much when you get that whole farm.

[Emily]

Yeah, well, I might say so, but hey, that's not. That's not my business.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, I mean, a little bit. You are living in her house, working with her dad.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, we appreciate you calling in, man. This is great. Yeah. Any advice out there for other bus drivers on how to, you know, not be so exhausted at the end of the day?

[Emily]

I would say, well, for one thing, if the kids get out of hand, you do need to resist the urge to blame on the brake pedal.

[Charlie Barrons]

But when they're standing up in the. In the walkway and it slam on the brake and they go flying.

[Emily]

Yeah. Mysteriously, a squirrel ran in front of me. I don't know what happened.

[Miles]

Break check them. That's great.

[Emily]

No, I. I don't know. I would say that we just need to keep trying to teach the good value to the younger children and to, you know, be nice to people and say good morning to everybody because it's getting ridiculous out there. I say it's just. It's got to be the phones. I heard a story of a kid. I heard a story of a kid a while back that got on the wrong bus and he ended up at the wrong school in the morning. Like he Was at a, there was a, there was a class of like kids that went over to the local community college for some classes and after class he walked out of, walked out of there and got on the wrong bus and they took him to the wrong goddamn school. Like 45 minutes away.

[Miles]

It's the phone in our school is.

[Emily]

Probably five minutes from there. I'm like, how does this kid get on there and not be like wow, I've been on here more than a few minutes. You think something's probably wrong. But he ended up 45 minutes away at the wrong darn school.

[Miles]

How old are the kids when they get phones these days?

[Emily]

I mean, I don't know. I see kids getting on, you know, fourth, fifth grade sometimes with phones. It's ridiculous.

[Miles]

Good God. Yeah, I know it. I feel like, yeah, that's just crazy. They can just access anything on those deals. Just a bunch of robots. We're getting dumber. Robots are getting smarter. That's the end of it right there.

[Emily]

I, I agree. I tell you, kids are so darn, they don't pay attention to nothing.

[Charlie Barrons]

I know.

[Emily]

Like the school that I drive for, they, the kids, you know, use computers that you know, do for learning every day. You know, they have, bring a laptop with them. Man, I bet every day there's at least one kid that forgets their computer like at home or on the bus. It's like you have one thing you have to have for school today and you can't keep track of one thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

So do you turn the bus around and go get it for him or. No?

[Emily]

No. Yeah, a lot of people do. I'm the kind of guy like, well if you can't manage that, well, you'll just have to figure it out today. Like there was one thing.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's not my fault you have to borrow your neighbors computer. You know, just like I used to have to borrow people's pencils because I never had a pencil.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

You ever have a pencil in grade school?

[Miles]

No. And I gotta give some sympathy to these kids. If, if I were on that bus, I'd forget my friggin thing every single day.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Emily]

You know, yeah, Charlie does seem like the kind of guy that would forget stuff every day.

[Charlie Barrons]

But that's not because you'd have been on your phone. It'd be because you're like looking at the birds outside.

[Miles]

I know. Birds are freaking awesome. That's what these little shits are never going to learn how cool birds are because they're too busy looking at their stupid ass Tik tock. I'm. I'm just turning into an old, old man, you know? But at the same time, these phones are killing us.

[Emily]

I agree. I'm the youngest old man you'd ever meet.

[Miles]

How old are you?

[Emily]

25.

[Miles]

You got to be freaking kidding me. Dude. You got to be freaking kidding me. You sound like you've been through three divorces, forces, and two world wars.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, I. I know.

[Emily]

Everybody's like, you're. If you're only as old as you feel. I'm 87.

[Miles]

My God.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, we appreciate you calling in today, man. This is great. And keep doing the good work out there. Spreading the. Spreading the love, the good mornings and Midwest waves.

[Emily]

Yeah, I'll. I'll have to work on that.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hell, yeah.

[Miles]

Well, thank you. Thank you for your service to the Midwest. You keep her moving out there.

[Emily]

Hey, you boys watch out for deer, all right?

[Miles]

Thank you. Yeah, you watch out for deer and pretend you see one the next time one of those little shits is in the middle of the alley walking on their phone, kick that up to the front.

[Emily]

Hey, I've only almost hit a deer in a bus once, so that's okay.

[Miles]

That's a big win. That's a big win.

[Emily]

I. I agree. I agree. Yeah, the kids wouldn't have known the difference if there was five of them in front of us.

[Miles]

As we say that, a school bus drives right by us. That's symbolic.

[Charlie Barrons]

Really?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

I was too busy looking at my phone.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah.

[Emily]

You guys are too busy looking at your phone.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Charlie Barrons]

Well, I suppose so.

[Emily]

Hey, you. You boys have a wonderful day.

[Charlie Barrons]

You, too, man. Have a good one.

[Miles]

We'll see you soon.

[Emily]

Make. Make sure you drink one for me, because they frown upon that. If you do that before you get on the bus.

[Miles]

We will take. Take care.

[Patty]

All right.

[Emily]

Have a good one.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know what was the worst part about riding the bus?

[Miles]

What's that?

[Charlie Barrons]

I didn't ride the bus. But when we go on field trips and like that. Yeah, when you get the seat that was over the wheel well.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

And then you have to sit there with your legs like you're sitting on a squatty potty.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's always the worst one. Dude. I remember being on the bus. That's why I'm worried about these kids, like, they're not going to learn. Well, I remember kindergarten or first grade, one of the two just exchanging swear words that I learned with my buddy, you know? I mean, what a memory.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's core memory.

[Miles]

That's when I learned shit. And he taught me fuck And I was. And I feel like now kids are learning that off of the Internet and you should learn that from your friends.

[Charlie Barrons]

I mean, we're a little bit part of the problem. Charlie.

[Miles]

I. No, I'm definitely the problem. I mean, look at all the videos we do. This is on the Internet right now. Now.

[Charlie Barrons]

Correct.

[Miles]

I know. Yep. That's how it goes, Miles. That's how it goes. Gotta look at the look in the mirror before you look at everyone else. Like, why are these kids all on their phone? Hey there, folks. How you doing?

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, on their phone. We're on their phone.

[Miles]

We're on their phone. Oh yeah, that's right. It's even more meta than that.

[Charlie Barrons]

All right, Charlie, we got a voicemail from Justin that Jared's gonna play.

[Miles]

All right, let's hear.

[Charlie Barrons]

See what he has to say.

[Miles]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if you have the stat same problem as me getting a little bit too much lit in your belly button. Take a shower, land your belly button. I kind of stink sometimes. It's Justin. I'm 28. Justin.

[Charlie Barrons]

Hold on.

[Miles]

Yeah, let me check. Oh, hang on. I got some right here. We both have. Both have lint in our belly buttons.

[Charlie Barrons]

Look at that lint ball. That's so disgusting.

[Miles]

You have a pum on yours, Miles.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, that's cuz I got.

[Miles]

Oh, I got one too. I got a hair in mine.

[Charlie Barrons]

H. Yeah, you just get to a certain age, you got enough hair on your, on your belly that it just. The lint goes in and it can't get out.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's like a street sweeper, you know, just shovels it right in there.

[Charlie Barrons]

Yeah, it's like the, the dune bucket that. Just stick your hand in, you can't get it out.

[Miles]

Has an ever commented on your belly button?

[Charlie Barrons]

Oh, she despise it. If we show her that photo, she may puke. And so I make it point that in the morning or at the, in the. Usually in the evening, I'll take it out and I'll look at her and I'll just drop it on the bathroom floor.

[Miles]

Does she not get.

[Charlie Barrons]

Look her dead in her eyes.

[Miles]

You know what's, what's that about do. When do you get more lint in your belly button?

[Charlie Barrons]

I don't know. You just. As soon as you get hair going on down there. I feel like.

[Miles]

Does an never.

[Charlie Barrons]

You got a hairy ass belly button. You got lint coming out of there all day. Oh God. Let's see it. Cleaned it out this morning. That is so funny that we both just Pulled it up. It was the exact same size.

[Miles]

My boys are a little bigger. Does Anne ever get lint in her belly button?

[Charlie Barrons]

No, she doesn't have any hair on her belly.

[Miles]

It's really a hair thing. Huh.

[Charlie Barrons]

Just traps it all in there.

[Patty]

Wow.

[Miles]

Isn't that one of the miracles of life, though? Hey, I mean, how does that actually work?

[Charlie Barrons]

To rent the in, I should just like trim a. Like a. A thing around the outside.

[Miles]

It's like a fire lane. You know, for the fire.

[Charlie Barrons]

Build a little bike lane around the belly button to keep it from trapping Lynn.

[Miles]

The lint cut.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, we. That's what we should do. Charlie, this is. Hey, Musky Tank with me right now, okay? We're gonna start selling like, you know. Know how you can buy strips of like, wax stuff that you could put on your skin and rip it off?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

We'll just sell them in little circles with a little bit of wax around it. You just put it on around your belly button, you rip it off and you. It's a.

[Miles]

It's a delinter.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's a delinter.

[Miles]

The. It's like. And people go to like our spa for it. You know, they like. I'm going to get a Brazilian.

[Charlie Barrons]

You know, I'm going to get a Baron's.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's the man wax. Call it the Max, you know, and then just.

[Charlie Barrons]

That actually probably would work.

[Miles]

That's a great idea. Are we sure it's the hair that traps it in there?

[Charlie Barrons]

I. That's my guess. But Jake's probably googling it right now.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

How do you. Oh, yeah, he. He just put his phone away. He was texting his girlfriend all day.

[Miles]

What? Yeah. How do you get. Yeah.

[Charlie Barrons]

Belly button lint is also called navel fluff. Is primarily made up of stray fibers from your clothing that get caught on your stomach hair, which then naturally directs the fibers towards the belly button where they accumulate due to the shape of the navel, essentially acting like a trap. It's a dune bucket.

[Miles]

We gotta do a whole thing on it, man. We gotta do the belly. The bbt, the belly button. Trim the bbw. Like, forget bbw. What? Why is that funny, Miles? I don't know why that's funny.

[Charlie Barrons]

No, it's a bazillion belly button wax.

[Miles]

Brazilian bbw. Yeah, Brazilian bbbb. Bbbw.

[Charlie Barrons]

Would you call it the naval fluff?

[Miles]

Naval fluff. It's like the scientific term for it. That is fan freaking taste.

[Charlie Barrons]

So, Justin, you're not alone.

[Miles]

Justin 28.

[Charlie Barrons]

That is like one of of the Shortest voicemails. We got to just straight to the point.

[Miles]

That voice, that was like a Midwest haiku what he just sent there. It was beautiful. It was like he was paying per character. He called us collect or something.

[Charlie Barrons]

Okay. All right. Well, I'm glad that we just exposed our naval fluff to the entire Internet.

[Miles]

Oh, God, that's great. I might lead with that in my special.

[Charlie Barrons]

Are you gonna.

[Miles]

No, come on, Lead with it. That's what. That's what comedians always say if you got a new bit. Feeling good about that? Yeah, lead with it, because usually it bombs. I don't think this would bomb. I think I'm gonna have every guy stand up and everyone raise their hand. Who has belly button Linton.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's so gross. The. The maintenance staff just hates you because they got so much to clean up afterwards.

[Miles]

So many dust bunnies.

[Charlie Barrons]

It's going to look like after they sweep a basketball court in that auditorium, Little thing they walk behind.

[Miles]

And then we do a prize for the person with the biggest one. I just never film my special. It's just that the entire time just releases the belly lint crush crowd work special. God, what if. What if we collected all the lint and made a pillow?

[Charlie Barrons]

So gross.

[Miles]

Is it, though? Why?

[Charlie Barrons]

Ah, well. Well, Is that it, Charlie?

[Miles]

I think that's it, ladies and gentlemen.

[Charlie Barrons]

Guys, thanks for tuning in, hanging out with us at the Old Town Tavern here in Appleton, Wisconsin.

[Miles]

The Ott. Yeah, you know me. We'll see you guys soon. Okay. Tip your bartender.

[Charlie Barrons]

See you. Next one.