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Charlie Barrons
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Miles
See you in Chicago.
Charlie Barrons
Well, folks, here we are, another episode of the Bellied up podcast. I'm Charlie Barrons, here with my good buddy Charlie.
Miles
You look good today, man.
Charlie Barrons
Well, thanks, Miles.
Miles
You look good.
Charlie Barrons
You're looking good. You're looking chipper, Miles. My pleasure.
Miles
How can I not be chipper when I'm in proximity to swing golf clubs, Charlie?
Charlie Barrons
I don't know. Here we are, Miles. Here we are.
Miles
We are at Sweet Shots in Fargo. Sweet Shots Bellied up to the bar. We actually met some high school kids on the way in here.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Doesn't sound good coming out of your mouth, Miles.
Miles
Well, no, they were coming to golf, and they said that they're. They're doing Senior Skip Day.
Charlie Barrons
Senior Skip Day? Did you ever do a Senior Skip Day?
Miles
I don't remember.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
Feel like maybe. Yeah, I feel like it was, like, organized by the school, so. It wasn't even really Skip Day.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I did see a whole herd of them walking in here. I said, that looks like a field trip, but those kids look too old for field trips. I wasn't sure. Fraternity party. It's right before. There they are, right out there. Some nice swings I've seen so far.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Some of these kids have. Looks like they belong to a country club or something. That guy, not so much. He just shanked.
Miles
You were telling me that you almost didn't make it here today.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, Miles, it was rough, man. So listen, I'll tell you this. So this morning, 5:30am Right? Well, 5:00am 5:15, I wake up because I'm flying here to see you, and I'm sitting on the. On Throne. The hopper, as they call it out on the East Coast. You know they call throne a hopper.
Miles
I did not know that.
Charlie Barrons
I was sitting down, I was peeing, and.
Miles
Just.
Charlie Barrons
Just in case I was prepared.
Miles
You do live alone, so, like, you're one.
Charlie Barrons
Exactly.
Miles
So it's less splashback.
Charlie Barrons
Yes.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. You understand? You understand. So I'm thinking, a mind goes through my. A thought goes through my mind.
Miles
Your mind goes through a thought or.
Charlie Barrons
My mind goes through a thought. One of the two. Either way, they connected. And I was like, geez, I don't know where my wallet is. I was like, no, it's fine. I'll just use my passport. And then I thought, I wonder if that's expired. Turns out I forgot to check, so I went to the airport. And then I'm like, okay, where's my wallet? Oh, I'd forgot my wallet. And I was like, oh, where's my passport? Oh, I forgot to check. And then I look at it right outside the TSA line, and lo and behold, it expired. April 25, 2025. Can you believe that?
Miles
And as of recording this, this is what, May 7th?
Charlie Barrons
May 7th, 2020. So I'm like, I mean, it's so crazy that that thought crossed my mind. I haven't thought about renewing my passport.
Miles
Ever in, like, 10 years.
Charlie Barrons
10 years. Yeah. Literally haven't thought about it. And now, lo and behold, I think about it, and I just think that that's crazy that that thought crossed my mind, happened to be true. I happened to not do anything about it. So, anyways, I'm getting to my point, Miles, telling the story here. I'm building up the suspense.
Miles
That's the. You. You. Yep. Go ahead.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, thank you, Jared.
Miles
Jared is like our parent.
Charlie Barrons
He is. You know, I did.
Miles
Almost to the edge of the table.
Charlie Barrons
Hey, honey, watch your beer. Oh, yeah, there's another beer. So, yeah, we goblin. So, Miles, I'm freaking out now. I get up to the TSA stand and I'm like, I gotta play cool. So I get up there, I hand them my id. You know, I. I'm.
Miles
Your passport.
Charlie Barrons
My passport. It's an idea.
Miles
No, I know. I just. Thanks for the clarifying that. You don't have your wallet.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. I give them my passport, and I try to play it cool, you know? So I say, hey, nice shirt. You know, this dude looked at me like I had cocaine in all of my pockets. And I had cargo shorts, cargo pants on. Miles, he let me through. He didn't bat an eye. He didn't say anything. Nothing. I just got through. I was already ready to call you. I was acting nervous. Everything. I don't know how it happened. I got through TSA with an expired passport today, and today is the day that they were starting the real ID thing.
Miles
And you don't have a real id, either?
Charlie Barrons
No, I. A passport is a real id, but this is an expired real id, which I think now makes it federally a fake id. So. Isn't that amazing?
Miles
That is amazing.
Charlie Barrons
Now, it makes me think two things from here. One, I'm very lucky. Or two, you know how you're staying in front of the camera These days, I think they have biometrics, and I think this whole.
Miles
They already know if you're legit or not.
Charlie Barrons
They already know.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
So now the question is, because I got to fly back, do I have my wallet overnighted here, or do I just roll the dice again at the Fargo Airport?
Miles
Well, so, Anna, this happened to Ann, actually, she forgot her ID and passport.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, damn. She had nothing.
Miles
But she had her wallet. She just didn't have her id. I don't know why, but, like, she was able to, like, show him a bunch of credit cards with her name on it and stuff, and she was able to get.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, so they. Yeah, so they can do it.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, so it's not that big of a deal.
Miles
Yeah. Like, if you have a bunch of credit cards and it's the same name that's on there, like, they. I don't know. That happened to us at the far airport.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, okay.
Miles
I think it'd be.
Charlie Barrons
All right, so this story didn't have as high a stakes as I thought it.
Miles
Yeah, but you think they would have at least said something like, I could imagine. Be like, hey, you know this is expired, right? Like, yeah, I know. I just. I didn't realize it. And then he'd be like, well, let it slide this time.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, I didn't say anything. I didn't think you could even get away with that. I guess I just watched too many movies.
Miles
Yeah. It's like, I liked. I think about sometimes the fact that these. You know when you were working at Auntie Ann's.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
Pretzel shop. Did you care about that job?
Charlie Barrons
No.
Miles
There's probably some TSA agents that don't give a. About their job either.
Charlie Barrons
Oh. Like, all of them.
Miles
Right. So if he makes a whole deal about your passport being expired for, like, 15 days or whatever the math is.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
He's like, this is going to just make my day suck.
Charlie Barrons
But I thought it was, like a. I thought it was a thing. You know, how they scan them. I thought it was like, you know, the robot agent won't let you through. Like, sorry, man, I can't. It's against federal law.
Miles
I think they just, like, do that so they have a record that you're there.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, okay.
Miles
I think they just scan it. I don't know. All right, well, I think.
Charlie Barrons
You think, but you think you got a good story to tell a guy turns out to be a nothing.
Miles
Well, yeah. I don't know. I. I would be freaking out as well.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
That's like, my fear. I saw Tick Tock is people, like, when you're flying abroad.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, yeah.
Miles
Like, you're like, check to see if you have a passport. And he, like, goes, I guess, and puts his passport in his backpack. And then he just sits there and then just opens it. Looks. Make sure he does it again. He does it like 10 times. I am. I've been that guy.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
Like, my big fear is to be like, lose my passport in a foreign country and then just like, not be able to get back.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
United States.
Charlie Barrons
No. Because you kind of do have that fear of, like, you lose your passport out there. You know, it's kind of like Will Smith. When he puts his hand on the big orb and Men in Black, like, removes his fingerprints. He just does not exist.
Miles
I don't exist anymore.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
I'm going to end up, you know, begging on the side of the street here in Jamaica, you know?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Yeah. Just you and. Yeah.
Miles
I'm going to be slinging weed in Jamaica for the rest of my life.
Charlie Barrons
I don't think anyone's going to be buying weed from you in Jamaica.
Miles
I'm trustworthy.
Charlie Barrons
We're in Jamaica, and we're going to buy weed from you. Yeah. This guy knows where the good weeds.
Miles
Yeah. I'm not even going to have a job then. I can't even get a job.
Charlie Barrons
You could sweep floors, Miles.
Miles
That's true.
Charlie Barrons
You sweep floors for the weed dealer and then sell the shake to tourists. Just American tourists that are afraid of anyone.
Miles
Yeah. You lose your passport in U.S. you're like, I'm chilling.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. I just got to go back to Walgreens.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
I don't do to. I. I don't even know what is involved with me getting a new passport.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Back when that happened, I was making an appointment now. That's it.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Do you think I can get the TSA pre redone at the same time? Because I haven't renewed that in a while, and that's got to be close to up. And if I lose that, if I lose my tsa, I will lose my soul.
Miles
Oh. And if I have to. And you'll just will miss everything if I have to wait in the regular line at the airport. Charlie, you're not arriving early.
Charlie Barrons
Miles, I showed up 22 minutes before my flight this morning. Like, they have been boarding for five minutes. As I was terrified this guy was going to hold me up for not having my I.D. i always barely make.
Miles
Thank God. At the Milwaukee airport, they have the recombobulation area. You need to recombobulate A little bit.
Charlie Barrons
I did, but I didn't have time.
Miles
So you're still discombobulated.
Charlie Barrons
I'm still discombobulated.
Miles
Here. And we'll take some callers. How about that?
Charlie Barrons
That sounds nice. I'd like that.
Miles
Michael, you got Miles and Charlie from the Bellied up podcast.
Michael
Holy shit. What's up, fellas?
Miles
Not much. What's up with you?
Michael
Oh, you know, I'm just taking off at work.
Charlie Barrons
You're taking off at work? Good for you.
Miles
Well, and speaking of guys, Michael works at a racetrack. It sounds like he's a wrecker or a bulldozer or something like that. Michael, what do you do at the racetrac?
Michael
I run a wrecker and a rollback.
Miles
Okay.
Michael
95% of the time, I'm just sitting there listening to your guys podcast or flipping through TikTok.
Charlie Barrons
That makes us all feel better about the safety over there. Wait, Michael, what's. We gotta back up the. The record here for a second and explain exactly what those machines are for those not familiar with the process.
Michael
A wrecker is just a short, little stubby truck, and it's got a big extension arm on it. And say someone puts their front end into a wall, we go up and we have this thing called a spreader bar. We just back up to it, hook it up by the wheels, pick it up, and take them on back to their. Back to their garage. And that's pretty much our day.
Charlie Barrons
This is great, ma' am. You're like. You're like a character in like the next Mad Max, I feel.
Miles
Or he's just. He's just mater from cars as well. That's true.
Charlie Barrons
That's a better reference right there.
Michael
I like that one. Are you guys familiar with Mid Ohio at all? Do you guys get into racing or.
Miles
I. I know a very novice amount about racing.
Michael
You guys familiar with Indy car?
Miles
Yep.
Michael
Yeah, so we get IndyCar out here every 4th of July. And that's just. It's. It's the tits, man. I love it. It's just titties.
Miles
So you're a wrecker. So did you. How do you get this job? Did you start as someone who was doing that for the public sector, and then you transition into the private sector? Or how does that work?
Michael
So now I. I don't want to deal with people. So I've never done, you know, tow trucking for the public, but I started working at the track in 2013 for the security department, and then I got tired of dealing with all the shenanigans of people and all the bullshit they bring with. So I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna switch over where I only have to deal with one person and that's the driver after they have a bad day. So I've been running record rollback for oh, three years now. It was the best, best move I've ever done.
Charlie Barrons
So you're kind of like, you're like mostly spend most of your day like a pitcher in the bullpen, you know, like just sitting there, just biting your time, you know, scrolling tick tock, walking around, probably chewing something that's going to give you some kind of something in a few years. But you know, and then when your time comes, like, what's your rollout song? Do they play a song for you when you come out? Little danger zone, you know, like, what is it?
Michael
You know, if, if I had a roll out song, it would probably be oh, little three six Mafia, you know, popping my collar. You know that ever since I can remember, you know, I just go out there and we're the rock stars of the racetrack. So these people got to know that when they get picked up by us, they're in good hands. We're gonna make sure they get to where they go and they're with, they're with the top of the top.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
I imagine Charlie, he's, he's currently just wearing overalls with no T shirt on underneath, I bet with one of the straps just hanging off.
Michael
And I'm telling you guys, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Miles
Oh really?
Charlie Barrons
What are you wearing?
Michael
Well, right now we're just. Well, it's lunchtime, so I went and got pizza and a pack of smoke.
Miles
But I was gonna say you probably had a cigarette hanging out of your mouth. So I got part of it right.
Michael
Oh yeah, you did. But right now it's just kind of a chill day. We're washing wax and we're about to do the old oil on it. But I'm just in my shitty old boots and some shitty jeans and my work shirt.
Charlie Barrons
So it's button up, work shirt.
Michael
We're not that fancy.
Charlie Barrons
Okay. All right. So we weren't too far off.
Michael
No, you weren't too far off. We only get real fancy when like we had NASCAR come through about two years ago and they wanted us to wear a little pullover, you know, little polo shirt.
Charlie Barrons
Oh yeah, dress it up.
Michael
Yeah, they wanted us to look good even though we have a little fire coat over it. So you're not going to see the nice little polo we are wearing at all. You're just going to see our boots, our black. Our black pants we wear and then the fire coat.
Miles
I think you got to start building yourself a brand at the track. I think you need to adopt the overalls, no shirt. I think you need a coming out song.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
I think you need to, as you're rolling up to the truck, have an American FL out the window, you know, roll some coal and make it kind of like you've seen the Savannah Bananas.
Charlie Barrons
Charlie Bananas.
Miles
Right. So it's baseball, but it's about all the other stuff. This racetrack needs to make everyone that works there a character. And when it's your go time, you're entertaining the crowd.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Because otherwise it's just wasted time for the crowd like this. You guys could be like the rodeo clowns. They didn't used to dress as clowns. They used to just be guys that would get their ass kicked by bulls. But then at one point they're like, hey, let's be clowns. And then people loved it. It just adds, you know, value per second to the experience. This is how you got pitch it to your boss. Because as soon as you do, as soon as you become that guy. I mean, are you married?
Michael
I am, but we are legally separated.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, okay. All right.
Miles
Well, you then.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, this is. This is. You're. You're not going to be upset about that anymore. Because, my Lord, look at. Look at what's going to happen. What's your official title right now?
Michael
You mean like for the job or.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, what? Well, or what.
Miles
I used to go by Mr. Yeah, I don't. I don't. I'm not MD yet. Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
What'S. What's your job position? What does it say on your. Your LinkedIn?
Michael
Oh, I don't have a LinkedIn. I'm not that. I'm not that bougie.
Charlie Barrons
I know. I was saying that I don't have one either, so don't worry.
Michael
Mine just says Mike Finnerty Stacy 2025. That's what my little employee card says.
Charlie Barrons
Just a safety.
Michael
Yep, just says safety. I need to go down to the office and have them put in their record rollback extraordinaire.
Miles
That's what I' about now he's thinking.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, the record rollback.
Michael
Yeah, man. Wait, hold on. Jordan, go back to work now. Go back to work now. Down there. Ah, damn it, boys. I gotta go back to work, but I'm not getting off this phone call. That can wait.
Miles
Are you hopping in the truck right now?
Michael
No, I'm in. I'm in my old Buick because I just got back from getting pizza.
Miles
I like that you drive a Buick.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Michael
Oh, dude, I'm telling you what, I bought this Buick for my grandma and she passed away and she's a beaut.
Miles
So your grandma died and she still made you pay for the.
Charlie Barrons
He paid the estate.
Michael
Yeah, I paid the estate.
Miles
That's still.
Charlie Barrons
His dad made him.
Miles
That still made him do it.
Neil
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
You lose your grandma and have to pay for her Buick. God.
Michael
I mean, it was worth it though. It's an 07 Lucerne. And when I got it, it only had 60 grand or 60,000 miles on it, and I only paid 2 grand for it. So I won that up.
Miles
Okay. All right.
Charlie Barrons
That's a nice ride. That's a nice ride. You got a sweetheart deal on it.
Miles
All right. In your grandmother's will, she left you the Buick that you can have for $2,000.
Michael
Yeah, I had to pay for it, but you know, I got it.
Charlie Barrons
She left you opportunity to purchase Buick after your cousins got the offer ticket.
Miles
To the auction with your. With your cousins?
Michael
Yeah. I'm telling you, my cousins were trying to snake it from me. Like they didn't already have good cars. I was like, you think you're gonna snake this one from me? You got another thing coming. I'm going to the bank.
Miles
So you guys are a strictly Buick family, it sounds like.
Michael
Well, you know, we get good deals because my uncle works at a Buick GMC dealership. So, you know.
Miles
Yeah.
Michael
Got to take on the family deals as you can get them.
Charlie Barrons
You absolutely.
Michael
And I mean, look at this, guys. Before I had the Buick, I had a. A total shit box of a Grand Prix. That sounded like just absolute hell.
Charlie Barrons
This surprises me.
Michael
Really?
Charlie Barrons
Oh, no.
Michael
I'm shit box king, buddy. I love shit.
Charlie Barrons
I believe it. Well, I believe it. Have you. You've all. You've exclusively owned shit boxes before this beautiful Buick.
Michael
I'm telling you, I've had three second gen RAM 1500s and all the transmissions go out on them, but I always fix them. I love them trucks.
Charlie Barrons
Good for you.
Miles
You also. Have you ever spent any time at a demolition derby? You seem like a demo derby guy.
Michael
You know, I've been there, but I've never participated.
Miles
Something tells me, I think you'd love it.
Michael
I probably would. And I, you know, I'm sure the soon to be ex wife wouldn't mind if I took the old Grand Prix out there and just smashed it because it already sounds like hell about 3/4 of the windows, don't Go down. It's rusted. It's got a couple flat tires. It's, you know.
Charlie Barrons
How much role did the cars have in the divorce?
Michael
Well, they were going to have a big role because I was going to be without the Buick, but then she went and got herself a Jeep, and so I just got the Buick, which was cool.
Charlie Barrons
Okay.
Michael
I just thought I was going to be stuck. Oh, no, no, no. Because the cars weren't the cause of the divorce. I was the cause of the divorce.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, what'd you do?
Miles
Yeah, go ahead.
Michael
Oh, you know, I'm just an.
Charlie Barrons
Well, you're just an. That tells us. Tells us nothing.
Michael
It tells you nothing. Well, I'll put it this way, buddy. I had to go sit down and do a little bit of some prison time. So, you know, there's always.
Charlie Barrons
Ah, got it. See this? What happens, Miles, when you go prying, and you shouldn't be doing that.
Miles
Why?
Charlie Barrons
Start getting too much of the story? What'd you go to prison for?
Michael
I. Well, you know, just a little bit of a bar fight, and I might have broke the guy's jaw in some places. Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Wow. You broke a guy's jaw at the bar?
Michael
I did.
Miles
Well, we.
Michael
We were out for my buddy's bachelor party, and we were up in the tourist town, and we went to this little local bar there, and they were getting mouthy, and I said, you know what? You're invited for Achille outside, bud, if you want your ass kicked. But if not, just sit down and drink your beer.
Charlie Barrons
Way to de. Escalate that situation.
Miles
Ultimatums are always good, you know?
Michael
Yeah, I mean, I gave him a choice. It was either sit down and enjoy your beer or get your ass kicked in front of your friend.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, the judge didn't think that was a good choice to give him either.
Michael
Oh, I know. Oh, no. He looked at me like I was the scum of the earth. I come up. He said to me, you come up in my town as a tourist and you're starting problems. I was like, I didn't start the problems. He started it with me. I just finished it.
Miles
Yeah, what actually happened? What was he mad about?
Michael
And I started a fight. And then the guy was. You know, he was. Went to the hospital, and I was being a little bit mouthy. I'm like, well, it's not my fault he was mouthy. And the judge, he didn't like that so much.
Miles
I mean, what started the initial. The initial spat?
Michael
Oh, well, you know, we. Me and my buddies, we come in there, we're Just. We're just trying to have a good time, drink some beers, you know, smoke a little bit of weed. Just chill. We're, you know, we're up there, we're having a good time. And as soon as we walk in, the bartender goes, oh, it's another bachelor party. I'm like, this fucking guy.
Charlie Barrons
What town? What town? Austin?
Michael
No. You ever heard of Port Clinton, Ohio?
Miles
No.
Charlie Barrons
No, but. But that's like the bachelor party mecca of Ohio.
Miles
Is that. Is that Nashville for bachelor parties? Like Nashville is to bachelorette parties?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, that's what I'm getting. Is it.
Michael
I don't think.
Charlie Barrons
Is it on the lake somewhere? Is it, like an up.
Michael
No, I got one. It's on. No, you can keep that. It's on Lake Erie. Like, you pretty much walk around town, and you're right on Lake Erie.
Charlie Barrons
I get it. I get it. So.
Miles
So the guy said, another bachelor party. And you said, I'm gonna beat this guy's ass.
Michael
Well, no, no, no, no. It didn't happen exactly like that. Let me. Let me back up a little bit. So the bartender says, oh, no, it's another bachelor party. And I just kind of brushed that off. And then his buddy, sitting in the corner, we're like, where are you guys from? I was like, well, we're from Mansfield. What's the deal, buddy? And he was like, this is our bar. You don't belong here. I'm like. I was like, that's funny. I didn't see a private bar, only on the door before I walked in. So what's the deal? And he was like, this is our bar. We don't like you locals. I'm like, I don't give a. I'm not here to talk to you. I'm here to drink some beers, have some shots of whiskey, and go on my merry way without you guys making a buck. And he didn't like the way I was talking to him, so, you know, can't imagine that. You know, probably not. I was being a mouthy asshole, which, I mean, but this situation, like, why are you starting problems with us? We just come in here. We were just trying to drink beers, dude, what's the deal?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, I mean, your defense. You were hammered, you know.
Michael
Yeah. That's fair.
Miles
I mean, there's just no surprise that whiskey was involved. Yeah, he's doing some shots of whiskey. Yeah, of course.
Michael
Oh, yeah. I tell you. So my buddy gave me a right. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Miles
I was gonna say, did it ever occur to you and the fellas to just Hit up a different bar.
Michael
Yeah, that was the second bar we went to. The first one was cool, and the second one was Power Starter. Not my one. Buddy's like, maybe we should leave. I'm like, yeah, it's probably a good idea. So I cash out, and we're getting to leave, and the guy turns around and he's like, yeah, you better leave. I'm like, oh, no, now we can't leave. Now we can't leave.
Charlie Barrons
Just call me chicken.
Michael
Pretty much. And I. I already had the whiskey in me, so I was like, all right, buddy. You started this.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Yeah.
Miles
So how much time did you do?
Michael
I did a year and a half.
Charlie Barrons
A year and a half. Holy shit. What'd you do to this guy? Did he die?
Michael
No, he didn't die. I just. I shattered his jaw into a couple pieces.
Miles
Wow. So you own the bar now? Like, I feel like you guys basically fought for pink slips of the bar.
Michael
No, I don't own the bar. I. I don't go up there anymore because I feel like if I do that, I'm gonna be met with the police telling me to turn around.
Neil
It's.
Miles
It's very smart move by you.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. That's the problem with fighting, man, is, like, if you win, you lose. Like.
Michael
Yeah, you lose.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. You can't. Like, when you're a kid, you get into fights, you know, you go to the bar, you do that, and then when you get older, you realize, I'm gon to lose, like, everything. I got to maybe win this fight, you know?
Michael
Yeah. Yeah. I wish I was thinking about it at the time. I wasn't.
Charlie Barrons
The lecture's about a year and a half delayed.
Miles
Charlie, I got one more question for you. Can you provide any insight to us about what prison's like?
Michael
It's weird, I'll tell you that. It's a weird, weird. Well, all right, well, buckle in, boys, because it's about to get weird.
Miles
Okay.
Michael
So my first day there. I've never been to prison. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was in my pants. I'm like, these guys are gonna probably whoop my ass just because I'm a skinny little white boy. And. But it wasn't like that. I had a cube with four other dudes in it. We were in a big old Dorm with, like, 200 other dudes. And so you have these rows of. Where everyone lives, right? And on the first row is the people that come in, like, they're the new. New fish. Whatever you want to call them. They're the new guys. And so this one, it's my first week, right? Or it's my second week, and another ride in comes in, and here comes this guy. Didn't look like a guy. Had titties, had an ass, and had long black hair. I'm like, what in the. What is going on here? And then, so anyways, I'm, you know, I'm sitting down at the card table, we're playing a little bit spade, and this guy walks by and some. What do you call the real tight pants girls wear? What do you call those? I forget.
Miles
Yoga pants.
Michael
Yeah, those. I'm like, what? He's just walking around showing that. I'm like, okay, now it's about to get real weird. So I wake up in the morning because I got a job working in the library, just cleaning and whatnot. I wake up and I go to take a shower, and I'm like, that's weird. Why are people clapping in here? Well. Well, I tell you what. I look over and there's a curtain over the shower, and I see four. Four feet, boys.
Charlie Barrons
What? Why?
Michael
Go ahead. Go ahead.
Charlie Barrons
No, you go ahead.
Michael
I was just gonna say I turned right around and I let them finish their session. And then I got into the shower about 15 minutes later.
Charlie Barrons
Wow.
Miles
Wow. Yeah, I mean, I was maybe looking for, like, how's the food? You know? You know, are the beds comfy, maybe, something like that. Did not expect. Cheeks. Clapping in the shower.
Michael
Yeah. Yeah, the. The food was food, like the equivalent of, like, nursing home food. It's just bland, and they give you a lot of beans.
Charlie Barrons
Beans. Easy source of protein.
Michael
I tell you, there's one thing I was not mad about, going to prison for it. Because when I went In, I was 215. By the time I got out, I was 175.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, wow.
Miles
So I lost a good little diet.
Michael
Yeah, it was an unwanted diet, but it sure was a good diet.
Charlie Barrons
Probably took a little oomph out of that punch, you know?
Michael
I don't know. I haven't tried again because now I'm on probation, so I'm not trying to end up back there.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Did you get any fights in prison?
Michael
No, I didn't. You know, I was. I learned. I like to read a lot because the TV there, it kind of sucked. And I got tired of watching tv, so I picked up some books, and I read a lot.
Miles
Nice.
Charlie Barrons
There you go.
Miles
Yeah, a little positive out of it.
Charlie Barrons
Sounds like a. Sounds like a prison librarian to me. Miles.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
What was your favorite book you read in prison?
Michael
Probably as the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer.
Miles
Nice. I haven't read it was a pretty.
Charlie Barrons
Good book, this, like you said.
Michael
You have.
Miles
I have not. I haven't. No.
Charlie Barrons
It's like the Midwest Shawshank Redemption we're hearing right now, you know?
Michael
Okay, so speaking of Shawshank, the prison I was at was literally when I come out and I would, like, walk around the yard stuff, I could see Shawshank.
Charlie Barrons
You could see Shawshank?
Michael
Yeah, dude, I live in Mansfield. So where the prison was, the old reformatory, which you guys know is Shawshank. If we call it the reformatory, yada yada. It's literally like you would walk out of your house, warehouse looking deal, and it's right there.
Miles
Huh. Well, you did.
Charlie Barrons
I didn't know that. I honestly didn't even know where Shawshank was.
Miles
I never even thought to ask where Shawshank was.
Michael
Yeah, it's right here in Mansfield.
Charlie Barrons
Wow. Well, this is a. This is a whole new.
Miles
We've.
Charlie Barrons
We've covered a lot of territory on this call.
Miles
More territory than we bargained for.
Charlie Barrons
That thing going on in the shower, was that a. Was that something everyone wanted to be a part of or.
Michael
If you were into that, that's what you did kind of deal. If you didn't, you just kind of look the other way and let those guys do what they do.
Miles
It's got. It's a don't ask, don't tell situation.
Michael
A lot of things are don't ask, don't tell.
Miles
Yeah, it's like CTE in the NFL. You know?
Charlie Barrons
What kind of. Yeah. What kind of contraband did you have snuck in there?
Michael
Well, let me clarify, just in case my PO's listening. I did not sneak anything in there.
Miles
Okay, but you saw.
Michael
I had witnessed. There is a little bit of pot. There was some mess. There was tobacco. There's stuff.
Miles
That's crazy.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, you can get all that.
Michael
Oh, you can get all that. And people would make hooch out of, like, we get little fruits and stuff. So people would bring it back from the chow hall, and they'd let it ferment and add, like, ketchup and jelly and all sorts of other. And they. We get these little trash cans. You know the tiny little office one.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Michael
They'd put a trash bag inside those, let everything ferment, and they'd make hooch that's gone.
Charlie Barrons
Wait, hooch out of what? Orange?
Miles
Fruits. Fruit.
Charlie Barrons
Fruits, yeah.
Michael
Jellies, jelly, stuff like that.
Miles
So is. Is the shower cheek clapping the way that you get your Hands on some meth or what's is the form of payment or what. What are we talking on payment wise?
Michael
So I know cash app was a big thing and Apple pay, they just call their people from the outside and money would exchange and next thing someone would be up for four straight days and.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, why would you want. Why would you want to do meth in prison?
Michael
Well, I mean, they come in there, you know, they were drug addicts before. That was their drug of choice, I suppose.
Charlie Barrons
Like, hey, I can keep doing it, I suppose. Wow. What was your weapon? Do you have a shank?
Michael
No, I did not. It wasn't like I was at a level 1, which was the lowest level low. You got 1, 2, threes, and then I think it's a 3R is what they call it where you only get like, you get an hour out of your spell a day, and that's about it.
Miles
Wow. So you were in prison light is what it sounds like.
Michael
Yeah, pretty much.
Charlie Barrons
Not prison. Genuine draft.
Miles
That's the next step. All right, man, well, we appreciate you calling in. You got to get back to work, so.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Think about your drive out song though, to bring this full circle.
Michael
I will. I'll tell you guys before you go, if you ever want to come out, I can get you ticket.
Miles
Okay, great.
Charlie Barrons
Great.
Miles
That's huge.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, we. We just might take you up on that.
Miles
How much is a ticket running these days?
Michael
Oh, I get tickets for free, so if you bring me. I'm not gonna drink it, but if you bring me a bottle of that baron brandy, I'll give you both weekend tickets.
Charlie Barrons
Hell yeah, I'll bring you two bottles. Yeah, maybe we come to town, we go to that, and we. We go to a bellied up from the prison. Nope, nope, nope. No entertainment. Think about the. Okay, you're good. You don't want to go back.
Miles
He's like, definitely. He's like, I don't. He's like, I don't want to go back, but I might go back. And I can't embarrass myself in front of all my future roommates. You know, if I bring those guys there, I'll never hear the end of it.
Charlie Barrons
Well, look, good luck, stay. Stay out of trouble.
Michael
Of course.
Charlie Barrons
And good luck with the divorce. It can't be easy. I've been there, man. I've been there.
Michael
Have you.
Charlie Barrons
So good luck and I appreciate that. Thanks for calling in before we go.
Miles
When I adjust my original overalls outfit. You've been to prison? Dude, we need to get you in an orange Jumpsuit.
Michael
Can we get a different color?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. What's your favorite color?
Michael
I don't know. I like the classic, you know, blue jean denim. Dan. Overall.
Charlie Barrons
There you go. Oh, that's the Shawshank special, man.
Miles
Yeah. You really like Shawshank?
Michael
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
All right, all right, all right. Well, we'll make it happen. We'll make it happen.
Miles
Well, thanks for calling in today, man.
Michael
Well, thanks for having me, fellas. This was awesome.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, good luck with everything. We're glad you're on the straight and narrow now.
Michael
Yes, sir. Well, good luck with the podcast. I'll be listening some more.
Charlie Barrons
All right, thank you kindly. We'll talk to you soon.
Miles
You know, his voice didn't sound like I went to prison for breaking a guy's jaw that was shattering his jaw.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, yeah.
Miles
It's always also a guy in his scenario, he never. They never say I just broke his jaw. They always say that they shattered it.
Charlie Barrons
Duke went to prison for a year and a half. I'm gonna say he shattered.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
I'm gonna say, like, you just break it. One place. That thing had to be rebuilt.
Miles
And this is a good time for a nice psa, folks. You're having some whiskeys with your buddies and someone starts mouthing off, just be the bigger man. Just go to the next bar. All those. All they're looking for is attention, right? You know?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. And I, I, I had this little, Little quick story on that. I was walking with my buddy.
Miles
Yeah, you've told me.
Charlie Barrons
Did I tell you it on this podcast?
Miles
I don't know.
Charlie Barrons
Ah, whatever.
Miles
Just tell quick.
Charlie Barrons
So I was walking with my buddy, and this dude is, is driving in a, Riding a bird scooter. He's got someone on the back of it, and he was coming right toward me and my buddy. And my buddy was like, you're not supposed to be on the sidewalk with that scooter because he's kind of a narc. And that pissed this guy off. And because he had his lady on the back of the scooter, apparently he felt like he had to show force, you know? So he comes by and we're like, halfway down the block now. He comes by on a bird scooter, and he does sort of a drive by on a scooter.
Miles
He did, like, clothesline, little haymaker.
Charlie Barrons
It was like a haymaker off the scooter, him in the back of that. I reflexively, like, went after the guy and fought him, and I, I hit him a couple times and got in the street. And then I saw this car Coming. And I had this flash go right through my head. This car hits this guy, he dies, it's over, like for this guy. But then also, you know, I'm a. I'm an idiot. I'm in a huge deal. So then I pull him out of the street, and then I'm like, all right, you got to chill. You got to chill. You got to chill. And then what ended up breaking the fight was this woman there with her dog. And she said, I'm calling the police because you're scaring my dog. That that was the right move in this scenario, was whatever she did to de escalate it. But that was dumb. That was dumb on me.
Miles
I'll tell you, maybe a great way to de escalate. Charlie just unlocked. Just have someone announce that the police are coming and it'll de escalate everything. Even if they're not.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it's, it's, it's the move because, yeah, you hit someone the wrong way and. And they knock, they pass out, they can hit their head on a curb. You know, you can die pretty easily from.
Miles
Yeah, that'd be bad.
Charlie Barrons
That would be bad.
Miles
Glad you didn't do that.
Charlie Barrons
And then before you know it, guys, you're sitting there in prison just reading books and walking into doors you wish you didn't walk into. So there you have it.
Miles
To dang, another caller.
Charlie Barrons
Let's do it. Hey, Russell.
Miles
Yeah, welcome back, by the way.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, welcome back to the Belly Dub podcast. So Miles and I, we've been, we've been chit chatting this, we've been riffing it, spitballing. There's a lot of states in the Midwest. You've covered a lot of them. Which state gets injured the most?
Russell
Well, that is a good question, and I cannot answer that. Like, as far as the actual data, you know, I don't have that.
Charlie Barrons
But.
Russell
But from my experience, I would say you see a lot of injuries in the states that have large metropolitan areas. Like for example, in Wisconsin, you have Milwaukee and a little bit into Madison. In Minnesota, for example, you have obviously the Twin Cities, North Dakota, I guess you can kind of say Fargo. But what I've seen, the worst injuries are the states that have a lot of rural roads that are like the two lane, 55 mile an hour roads. Those are where the most things happen. Wisconsin has a ton of those. Anytime you get out of basically Milwaukee, you hit those. And so I'd say Wisconsin, we see a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of bad injuries because of the two lane 55 mile an hour roads and you see a lot of, you know, you've got driveways up and down them, you've got intersecting roads. And so that's what my experience has been as far as accidents and injuries.
Charlie Barrons
A lot of milk. We do see them. Is it what, a lot of milk trucks?
Russell
A lot of milk trucks. We see a lot of truck injuries in Iowa and in North Dakota too. North Dakota, there's some interesting. They run some interesting rigs out there.
Charlie Barrons
So.
Russell
And I don't know what it is, sometimes I feel like they're just throwing anybody behind a wheel.
Miles
And I totally get the two lane road thing because when I was in high school, had a Dodge Dakota Sport.
Charlie Barrons
Oh, not to flex.
Miles
V8. Not to flex. And me and my buddies were doing the old caravan to the lake. Oh, two lane road. And I was the last one in the caravan or second to last or something. And there was a moment for us to pass a car because we were going the speed limit being a teenager, you know.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Right.
Miles
And long story short, we decided to do collectively as a group, a quad pass.
Charlie Barrons
Ah, always a good idea.
Miles
So we decided to pass four cars at one time on a two lane road in Minnesota. And the first three of us made it through no problem. And as I'm driving on the road and looking in my rear view mirror, I see my buddy pulling up the rear. And luckily he was able to get past the last car and dart in the car in the other lane. Might have had to have slowed down quite a bit. And so it's a little PSA for everyone out there. Don't be Miles in high school.
Charlie Barrons
That's just a good lesson all the way around. And you can even take out the in high school. Don't be like Miles.
Russell
There could be a class on that. Don't be like Miles and his walks through like his life stories of what he's done and like what not to do.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, that's the title of his memoir for a book. Yeah.
Miles
Don't be like Miles.
Charlie Barrons
All right, well, listen, Russell, you be careful out there and we don't want you have to call your brother, all right?
Russell
Yeah, I appreciate that. You guys take it. Be safe. Miles. No, you especially. But thanks for having me, guys.
Charlie Barrons
I appreciate you.
Michael
Right.
Charlie Barrons
See you soon.
Miles
Thank you. Yeah. So guys, Neil has a spicy situation with his father in law. Neil, will you enlighten us on what's going on with your father in law?
Neil
Yeah. So, well, technically he's going to be my father in law on Saturday, which adds to the chaos here.
Miles
Okay.
Charlie Barrons
Hey, congratulations.
Miles
Congrats.
Neil
Thank you. Yeah. So you want the short story? The whole story?
Charlie Barrons
We want the whole story.
Neil
Okay, so just for a little reference, I didn't really know what was going on up until maybe about a month or two ago.
Miles
Okay.
Neil
But back in November. Well, this is. This is going to be my fiance's father's third marriage. Or. No, he's in the middle of his third marriage and they've been married, I think about 12 years. And back in November, we're. Me, my fiance and I are going to Utah to visit her mom. And he shows. Before we leave, he shows my fiance some video. This girl doing cosplay, some video game cosplay on his phone. And he's like, look at this cool friend of mine. And my fiance's like, that's kind of weird. Why, you know, why are you showing me this Instagram video, this cosplayer? And why is she your friend? And we didn't think a whole lot of it. We thought he was either kidding or just joking around and he thought it was cool. So whatever. And then fast forward a couple months and we find out he's been supposedly messaging this woman. And we dig a little deeper and turns out she's this only fan star making content with her husband on only fans. And he has been messaging this girl a lot, apparently every day, and thinks he's in love and wants to start a new life with this onlyfans woman.
Charlie Barrons
This is the whole story. Holy smokes.
Miles
This is modern day falling in love with stripper.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, that's exactly. Yeah. They wrote rap songs about this 20 years ago, just not on the exact topic. It doesn't have the same ring to.
Miles
It, but not the same.
Charlie Barrons
You get it? You get it?
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
And what's crazy, I bet this only fans mount is like, I don't know, 12 other guys who's sending her money on the reg.
Miles
Probably at least, don't you think?
Charlie Barrons
Well, I bet this is money on top of the standard only fans money, I suppose. Yeah.
Miles
It seems like there's still more that is happening.
Neil
We did a little test because it seemed. It just seemed odd to us that this onlyfans woman, who's probably in her 20s or 30s, is all of a sudden gonna get up and leave her husband and the successful only fan. Well, I don't even know if it's successful, but so far it sounds successful. Yeah. Just to go get with some mid-50s balding man and start a new life. And so she. This only fans woman. I Can't remember her name, but that's what I'm gonna refer to her as.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, right, yeah. We are gonna get that name out of you by the end of this phone call.
Miles
I don't remember her name.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, dude, and don't sell your father in law short either. Maybe he's got a massive hog. All right.
Neil
Maybe he does. I don't know. I don't know if I want to find out, but.
Charlie Barrons
Sounds like you're going down that road right now though.
Neil
We did a little test because she posts daily videos of like a, like a life vlog. And in one of these videos, her husband got her some new pet. I think it was like a parrot or something. And so we told, we told my future father in law, we said, hey, how's, you know, how's she liking her new pet bird that she got? He's like, I don't know, she hasn't said anything. So he messaged who he thought was this only fans girl. But apparently whoever he was messaging had no idea about this pet parrot or bird or whatever she got. So now we're thinking that, that either this only fans woman has outsourced her communications to some guy in India and he's been paying to message some guy in India who he thinks is this only fans woman.
Miles
Oh, dude, I know he's just messaging another guy.
Charlie Barrons
Dude, a hundred percent. So I gotta tell you man, I have, right now, right now I have like probably three people that message me asking that this has happened. One person's come to a show, another person has messaged me, Another person went to the news because. And I was on the news talking about it. But people will impersonate public figures, make them think like, hey, this is my private account, whatever, start messaging them, start getting money from them. Like a lot of times it's gift cards is a very weird, well known scam. And they'll send pictures, the, the, the whole deal. And that, that happens so often. So it sounds like your father in law got scammed.
Neil
That's what we're thinking.
Miles
How much money do you think he's been scammed out of? If you had to guess.
Neil
Probably thousands. And the only reason I think that is because he's quite the gambler. And whenever he's home from work, maybe about, I don't know, maybe once a month, he'll just go blow three grand at the casino.
Miles
Yeah.
Neil
Come home when it's 10,000.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Does he have a good job?
Neil
Yeah, they. He and his current wife own a trucking business.
Charlie Barrons
He's gonna lose half of that.
Miles
Yeah. What does the. Does his wife know?
Neil
Yeah, yeah that's the, that's the other fun part of it. She knows and he's told her and.
Miles
They'Re just working through it or.
Neil
Yeah, they, I guess they've been doing therapy. I don't know where it currently stands, but they've been doing therapy the last couple weeks.
Charlie Barrons
So it should be a fun wedding.
Miles
Is. Is the only fans model invited to the wedding. As is plus oh shoot.
Charlie Barrons
For sure. God.
Miles
As is plus two.
Neil
I hope not.
Charlie Barrons
You know he sent an invite in the mail.
Neil
Took his invite and send it out to her.
Miles
Oh that's. That's yikes.
Charlie Barrons
It happens man. It happens. It happens to a lot of people. It really does. I mean I know three people who it's. It's happened. People have impersonating me and they've. These people messaged me and they've sent money sent money sent money sent pictures. So like thought we were in a romantic thing with like a terrible thing. It was like Charlie Barron's official 8298 underscore. I was like are you kid. Like come on now that is, that's tough.
Miles
I hope that doesn't happen with. I, I'm. I don't think I have enough notoriety.
Charlie Barrons
You pro. You probably do that. You just don't check your messages. My brother checks my messages so I heard about it. I mean I checked some of them like, like some dms but not a lot. And one person emailed me. They got a hold my actual email and yeah, I haven't contact the police but that, that does happen quite a bit and it's, it's popping up more and more. I was on a news story all about it.
Miles
Yeah, I'll have to check it out.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, check it out. It's on the real news. So your father in law, man, oh man. At least he's got money though. You know it' sad when they don't have money and they spend all of it on their Walmart gift cards. You know that's what these people ask for. Guys, I don't need Walmart gift cards. Now if it was asking for coordinates to your fishing spot and maybe a Fleet Farm gift card, that's a different story. But definitely not Walmart. Come on now.
Miles
So how do you. Is he still. Does he think he's getting scanned or does he still think that he's in love with this, this guy in India?
Michael
I don't, I don't.
Neil
I mean I don't. I really don't want to bring it up because it's kind of weird, but I think after our little test, I think that kind of opened his eyes a little bit because about. About the time we started doing that test is when they started going to therapy. So I think. Yeah, I think it's. I think it's getting fixed now, but I don't know for certain.
Miles
What is your fiance think of the whole scenario?
Neil
She wants to castrate them.
Charlie Barrons
Like chemically or with.
Miles
With a rusty kitchen knife.
Neil
Yeah, I think she wants to make it hurt as badly as possible.
Charlie Barrons
Okay.
Miles
She's passed, which is nice for you to know that now. So you know what you're getting into with this marriage, so.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Miles
Don't you be going on only fans either. Otherwise you're gonna get castrated rated yourself.
Neil
I think I'll be fine. She wants kids, so I think I'll be all right for at least a couple years.
Miles
What does that mean?
Charlie Barrons
How many only fans accounts do you subscribe to?
Miles
Just the one. Just the one that he went on her page.
Charlie Barrons
I'm waiting on a reply right now. Sorry. Five.
Neil
Zero.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, zero. Which way were your eyes looking when you said zero?
Neil
Right at the phone.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, there you go. There you go. Are you still subscribed to that account, by the way?
Neil
Oh, no, we never. We never got on her only fans. We were on her like, Instagram and Tick tock.
Miles
Got it.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, I. I got you. That makes sense. Well, hey, good luck getting married, man. Yeah. Yeah. That's exciting.
Miles
You guys giving a speech at the wedding?
Neil
Probably not.
Charlie Barrons
Okay, smart. You know the thing about speeches at weddings where there's booze and a microphone, anyone who wants to go goes, you know? Yeah.
Neil
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Are you guys excited or is this playing a cloud over your marriage day?
Neil
No, I'm still excited. I mean, to be honest, you know, I don't. All this kind of stuff I don't care about. All that matters is her and I are happy. And that's. That's the goal right there. So I really don't care. Doesn't bother me a whole lot, but.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, Ma' am. Well, we're happy for you guys.
Neil
Thanks.
Miles
Yeah.
Charlie Barrons
Okay. I mean, I meant that heartfelt.
Miles
We're not happy for you that your father in law is getting scammed by a guy in you. We're happy for your. Your marriage.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Trying to move past it, you know? What do you guys want for your wedding? Huh?
Neil
What do we want for our wedding?
Charlie Barrons
Yeah.
Neil
Oh, I don't know.
Charlie Barrons
You guys on the not dot com. Miles is buying.
Miles
Charlie forgot his wallet.
Charlie Barrons
I forgot my wallet at home. Yeah. So tell us the most expensive thing on your. The not dot com.
Neil
Oh, what is the most expensive thing on there?
Charlie Barrons
Go big.
Neil
I don't even know. I didn't even. She set that all up. All I put on there was you all know what Warhammer is?
Charlie Barrons
Warhammer?
Neil
Yeah. No, no, it's like a board game, but you build all your figurines on it. And so I got this like $200 figure on there. That's about the only thing I put on.
Charlie Barrons
That's hilarious. Jake's over here just shaking his head. Jake's like, I love. Jake's super excited about this. Nice. Well, you got one fan here of your wedding gift.
Miles
Well, when Charlie gets back to Milwaukee, he'll head to the Knot dot com and they'll get you that figurine.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, you know what? Here's what I'm gonna do and I promise you I'll do this. Text us the link to your thing. If nobody else buys it for you, I'll get it for you. All right.
Neil
All right.
Charlie Barrons
How much?
Miles
I'm just gonna tell everyone not buy it.
Charlie Barrons
No, no, don't do that, dude. That's cheating. That's cheating?
Miles
Yeah, you want to end up like your father in law? All right, don't cheat on this.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So set. But you gotta send the link because I'll be. Jared. Jared will send it to me then, so. All right.
Neil
Someone already bought it.
Charlie Barrons
Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Wow. Who. Who do that?
Neil
Probably my friends who play with me.
Charlie Barrons
You should rephrase that.
Miles
I was thinking. I didn't know how to say it, so thank you.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Well, hey, we're sorry that your father in law fell in love with the Indian dude posing as an only fans girl. That is a big business. So that is worth a significant portion of India's gdp. I'm not even kidding you. I read a friggin article on it. But man, this world's freaking crazy. It's all nuts. Started going downhill with Pong anyways.
Neil
Oh man.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah. Yeah.
Miles
Well, have a great time at your wedding. Thanks for calling in, man. And good luck.
Neil
All right. You guys have a good day too. Thank you.
Charlie Barrons
All right, we'll see you soon. Bye Bye.
Miles
Yeah, did you ever find out who was scamming that people pretending to be you?
Charlie Barrons
Dude, it's could. No, it's.
Miles
Was it a guy in India or.
Charlie Barrons
No, probably, man. Like it's a mil. It's like when we have merch we put up merch, and then there's, like, a thousand replica at this point. It's like, it could be an AI agent, you know, an AI bot just doing it. It's. Anybody. There is a huge. There is a huge industry around this exact thing. Like, and it's all. I guarantee you, if. If Miles has scammed you out of money or photos, send us a picture less or send us a thing. Let us know. They send me the screenshots of these conversations. These guys are like. They're like romance. They're acting romantic to them.
Miles
And question, are they good enough at catfishing, where they'll throw in a Watch.
Charlie Barrons
Out for deer catfishing. They do some of that. They do some of that.
Miles
Use your tagline.
Charlie Barrons
Yeah, they try to. They, like, try to bring in, like. Like, my grandma or someone, like, I publicly had in a video. They'll, like, drop their name, you know, like, they've gotten more sophisticated. It's not just, you know, doing research. Right. Well, I mean, you know, you type some in the chat, it can write the whole goddamn catfishing script for you.
Miles
It's true. You know it's true.
Charlie Barrons
So anyways.
Miles
All right, we have a voicemail from Blake. Charlie.
Charlie Barrons
Blake.
Miles
Here we go.
Charlie Barrons
Blake.
Blake
Hey there, Miles and Charlie. Hope you guys are doing good. Mine, Blake. Here we are in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Some people say ocleezy, but I don' Know why they do. I'm sitting here on the porch rubbing my mandolin next to my dog Berkey. Berkey, you want to say hi? Okay, calm down there, sir. Anyway, he says hi to you guys. He also says, watch out for deer. He likes deer, by the way. But, yeah, let me play you a little tune here.
Charlie Barrons
Oh.
Michael
Okay.
Blake
Hope you guys have a good one.
Charlie Barrons
Damn, he should have kept going. That was almost their intro song.
Miles
It was. Oh, we could probably just clip that and put it just.
Charlie Barrons
Okay. I was just starting to bob my head. Okay. Man, that guy's great.
Miles
Wait, did he not want to do a call? No. I mean, in future episodes, could we hit that guy up and get him? I want to talk to this guy.
Charlie Barrons
I want to know where his accents from. Didn't he sound like he's from, like, down south for a little bit there?
Miles
Yeah, I don't. And he seemed like a character in a movie.
Charlie Barrons
He did. He did to him. Yeah, Yeah.
Miles
I. I love how he does the dog noises for him.
Charlie Barrons
Dude, I couldn't tell. I was just gonna ask. Play that again. Is that. Yeah, this deserves a second play.
Blake
Hey there, Miles. And Charlie. Hope you guys are doing good.
Charlie Barrons
Good.
Blake
Mine's Blake. Here we are in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Some people say Oklisi, but I don't know why they do. I'm sitting here on the porch rubbing my mandolin next to my dog Berkey. Berkey, you want to say hi? Okay, calm down there, sir. Anyway, he says hi to you guys. He also says, watch out for deer. He likes deer, by the way. But, yeah, let me play a little tune here.
Michael
Okay.
Blake
Hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now.
Charlie Barrons
You know what?
Miles
Let's. Can we clip that and make that the end of the episode? Okay. Have a good one. Let's do that. That is money.
Charlie Barrons
Have you guys. Have you ever seen, like, an Opry? Like, in Oklahoma or in Nashville? They have, like, an Opry kind of thing. He. He seems like a host for a show. Like. Like, even every word he talks, it sounds like a song, you know?
Miles
And he's always got his fingers in his belt loops.
Charlie Barrons
That's a. That's a skill, man. Yeah, we gotta talk to that guy.
Miles
That's a great ending to the podcast. Just throwing that guy in there.
Charlie Barrons
Hell, yeah. Let's call it a day. Yeah.
Miles
Well, Miles, another good episode of the Bellied up podcast here at Sweet Shots.
Charlie Barrons
Might I say great episode. And I just want to remind the folks, tip your bartender.
Miles
Absolutely. Tip your bartender.
Charlie Barrons
I don't have a wallet today, Miles.
Miles
I will tip the bartender.
Charlie Barrons
All right. I'll pay you back.
Miles
Oh, yeah, we'll see. All right, have a good one, guys. See you. Next one.
Michael
Okay.
Blake
Hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye, now.
Bellied Up Podcast Episode #153: "Father-in-Law Is in LOVE With an Only Fans Model" Release Date: May 29, 2025
In Episode #153 of the Bellied Up podcast, hosts Charlie Barrons and Miles Berens dive into a whirlwind of humorous anecdotes, caller stories, and candid conversations. Recorded live at Sweet Shots in Fargo, the evening kicks off with the duo's light-hearted banter before transitioning into engaging listener interactions that range from travel mishaps to unexpected jailhouse tales.
The episode begins with Charlie sharing his harrowing experience of nearly missing a flight due to an expired passport.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
Charlie Barrons [02:57]: "It's so crazy that that thought crossed my mind, happened to be true. I happened to not do anything about it."
Michael, a caller from a racetrack job, shares his journey from running wreckers to serving time in prison due to a bar fight.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Michael [21:07]: "I shattered his jaw into a couple pieces."
Charlie Barrons [29:38]: "That's a good lesson all the way around. And you can even take out the in high school. Don't be like Miles."
Russell joins the conversation to shed light on the prevalence of road injuries in Midwestern states, attributing high accident rates to two-lane highways and heavy truck traffic.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
Russell [39:45]: "Anytime you get out of basically Milwaukee, you hit those. And so I'd say Wisconsin, we see a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of bad injuries because of the two lane 55 mile an hour roads."
Neil introduces a pressing family issue involving his soon-to-be father-in-law falling victim to an OnlyFans scam, prompting a deep dive into the dangers of online impersonation.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Neil [43:35]: "It's literally like you would walk out of your house, warehouse looking deal, and it's right there."
Charlie Barrons [48:58]: "It sounds like your father in law got scammed."
The episode features a charming voicemail from Blake in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, adding a melodic twist to the show's dynamic.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
Blake [59:34]: "I'm sitting here on the porch rubbing my mandolin next to my dog Berkey... Hope you guys have a good one. Goodbye now."
As the episode wraps up, Charlie and Miles offer listeners practical advice drawn from their conversations:
Final Notable Quote:
Miles [36:32]: "It's always also a guy in his scenario, he never. They never say I just broke his jaw. They always say that they shattered it."
Episode #153 of the Bellied Up podcast is a rollercoaster of laughter, suspense, and valuable life lessons. From Charlie's near-miss with an expired passport to Michael's transformative journey from wrecking at a racetrack to navigating the constraints of prison life, the episode offers a blend of humor and heartfelt narratives. The discussions with Russell and Neil further enrich the conversation, addressing real-world issues like road safety and online scams. Wrapped up with a delightful voicemail from Blake, this episode underscores the podcast's unique blend of comedy and authenticity, making it a memorable listen for both regulars and newcomers alike.
Remember: Always double-check your travel documents and stay informed about online safety to avoid situations like those discussed today!