For The Love of Dairy #126

Summary

Bellied Up Podcast Episode Summary

Title: For The Love of Dairy #126
Hosts: Miles ("You Betcha Guy") & Charlie Berens
Release Date: November 14, 2024
Location: Slim's Bar and Grill, Bemidji, Minnesota

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1. Introduction & Banter [00:00 - 02:26]

The episode kicks off with Miles and Charlie engaging in their trademark playful banter. They dissect the phrase "turning over a new leaf," with Charlie humorously analyzing its literal meaning:

Charlie: "If you turn over a new leaf, it probably looks just like the other side of the leaf." ([00:26])

Miles compliments Charlie's fired-up energy as they set the stage for the episode:

Miles: "Well, I'm glad you're fired up. You know, I'm fired up about Charlie being here in Bemidji, Minnesota." ([00:48])

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2. Exploring Slim's Bar and Grill [02:26 - 06:54]

The hosts provide a vivid description of Slim's Bar and Grill, highlighting its unique ambiance adorned with taxidermy and themed decorations celebrating local folklore, such as Paul Bunyan. They share their dining experience, praising the loaded potato soup and World Famous Black Dog BBQ sauce:

Miles: "It was loaded Hearty." ([02:42])
Charlie: "Oh, yeah. That is a party on the palate, Miles." ([03:30])

They also discuss the bar’s strong merchandise game, teasing upcoming apparel and encouraging listeners to visit the store:

Charlie: "You're getting all horned up about the merch game in here." ([06:11])

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3. Merchandise Promotion [06:54 - 08:43]

Miles and Charlie delve into promoting their latest merchandise, including Bellied Up shirts and the "Road Hunt for Ditch Chickens" blaze orange sweatshirt. They humorously critique their own designs and encourage listeners to purchase:

Miles: "Guys, go to youbetcha.com to check out the new merchandise Bellied up shirt." ([07:00])

Charlie adds a playful twist, suggesting humorous additions to their slogans:

Charlie: "If you can read this, there's not a back to my bar stool that'd be good for." ([06:32])

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4. Caller Interaction 1: Traffic Troubles [11:15 - 16:00]

The first caller expresses frustration over slow drivers and texting while driving, detailing a recent accident he witnessed:

Caller 1: "Somebody wasn't paying attention and pulled out, going really slow and got rear-ended." ([11:55])

Miles and Charlie engage in a lively discussion about possible solutions, joking about creating a separate slow lane:

Miles: "So you know how they got the express carpool lane thing on the far left side? Why don't we flip those and have an opposite of express lane." ([18:18]) Charlie: "Why do you think all these people are driving slow? Do you think it's on their phone?" ([15:14])

Charlie humorously conspiratorializes the issue, suggesting a deeper societal problem:

Charlie: "I just see it all as a grand conspiracy." ([15:43])

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5. Caller Interaction 2: Dairy Farmer's Dating Dilemma [26:12 - 46:18]

Kyle, a full-time dairy farmer from Appleton, Wisconsin, shares his recent breakup and seeks advice on re-entering the dating scene while dealing with his father-in-law who built his new home:

Kyle: "I'm a dairy farmer and I live with my grandparents. I don't know what I'm doing here." ([26:18])

Miles and Charlie entertain Kyle with humorous suggestions and engage in a mock dating profile creation, poking fun at his desires and lifestyle:

Charlie: "You sound like you're 45." ([31:04])
Kyle: "I'm 20 years old." ([32:37])

As the conversation unfolds, they delve into Kyle’s farming life, robot milkers, and the challenges of balancing work and relationships:

Charlie: "The better care you take of your animals, the better care they will take of you." ([41:29])

Kyle’s heartfelt reflections on his family farm and appreciation for quality time with his cows add depth to the interaction.

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6. Caller Interaction 3: Church Coffee Commentary [50:27 - 59:54]

Jason from Bemidji initiates a discussion on "church coffee," observing that the coffee served after services seems unusually watery:

Jason: "I can see through the coffee... that is not how I like mine." ([55:36])

The hosts humorously dissect the economics of church fundraising and the quality of refreshments:

Charlie: "They gotta have a basket at the end of that thing... and tell 'em you want to go to purgatory." ([56:14])

They debate the role of donations in improving church amenities, blending humor with light-hearted critique:

Miles: "You gotta up the game." ([56:27])

Jason’s anecdotes about his church experiences and Miles and Charlie’s playful banter culminate in a comedic yet insightful conversation on community and resource allocation.

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7. Closing Remarks & Final Banter [60:08 - 62:01]

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on the interactions, share more jokes, and promote their merchandise once again:

Miles: "You guys should release that." ([47:12])
Charlie: "Billy Up to the bar. Don't forget to tip your bartender." ([61:56])

They conclude with heartfelt thanks to their callers, encouraging listeners to visit their online store and stay engaged with the community.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Charlie on "Turning Over a New Leaf":

  "If you turn over a new leaf, it probably looks just like the other side of the leaf." ([00:26])

• Miles on BBQ Sauce:

  "It's a party on the palate, Miles. I'll tell you that right now." ([03:30])

• Charlie on Slow Drivers Conspiracy:

  "I just see it all as a grand conspiracy." ([15:43])

• Kyle on Dairy Farming and Relationships:

  "The better care you take of your animals, the better care they will take of you." ([41:29])

• Jason on Church Coffee:

  "I can see through the coffee... that is not how I like mine." ([55:36])

• Charlie on Merchandise Tagline:

  "If you can read this, there's not a back to my bar stool that'd be good for." ([06:32])

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Key Discussions & Insights

• Local Flavor: The hosts vividly describe the ambiance of Slim's Bar and Grill, emphasizing its unique decorations and community vibe, which serves as the perfect backdrop for their podcast.

• Merchandise Marketing: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to promoting their merchandise, showcasing their entrepreneurial side and engaging listeners with playful critiques of their own products.

• Road Safety Concerns: The discussion with the first caller highlights prevalent issues with texting and driving, blending humor with genuine concern and speculative solutions.

• Agricultural Lifestyle: Through Kyle's story, the hosts explore the challenges of balancing farming life with personal relationships, offering a glimpse into the modern dairy farmer's world.

• Community Engagement: The interactions with multiple callers demonstrate the podcast's commitment to addressing listener concerns, fostering a sense of community, and providing both comedic relief and thoughtful commentary.

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Conclusions

In "For The Love of Dairy #126," Miles and Charlie successfully blend humor with meaningful conversations, offering listeners both laughter and relatable discussions. From dissecting local bar culture and promoting their merchandise to addressing important societal issues like road safety and the intricacies of agricultural life, the episode embodies the essence of the Bellied Up podcast. Their ability to engage with callers and weave their stories into entertaining narratives makes this episode a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.

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Transcript

[Miles]

Welcome back to another episode of the Bellied up podcast. It is your host, Miles. You bet you guy. Here with my lovely buddy, Charlie Barron.

[Charlie Barron]

Fired up Barron's Charlie. Fired up Barron's coming in a hot. Ready to kick some ass and take some names.

[Miles]

Today you are turning over a new leaf. Yeah, fired up.

[Charlie Barron]

Why do they say turning over a new leaf?

[Miles]

I don't even know if that's the real phrase.

[Charlie Barron]

I mean, if you think about it, if you turn over a new leaf, it probably looks just like the other side of the leaf. Since it's a new leaf, it's not rotted. It just fell off the tree.

[Miles]

Leaves are kind of like snowflakes, Charlie. They. They're all different.

[Charlie Barron]

They're all different and they run our society today. Snowflakes. Anyways.

[Miles]

Nice.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. Do you like that?

[Miles]

Yeah, that was good.

[Charlie Barron]

That was pretty good.

[Miles]

Well, I'm glad you're fired up. You know, I'm fired up about Charlie being here in Bemidji, Minnesota.

[Charlie Barron]

Bemidji, beautiful this time of year. Some would say the whores.

[Miles]

Some would say the home of Paul Bunyan.

[Charlie Barron]

Some would be incorrect because we all know Paul Bunyan is from.

[Miles]

Which we can get into later. Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

I will say this Paul Bunyan, though. Heck of a porn stache he does. You know, he's got the. Isn't this the one here?

[Miles]

Does he have a beard?

[Charlie Barron]

No, he's just got, like.

[Miles]

Just got the pencil stash.

[Charlie Barron]

He's got the pencil stash.

[Miles]

It's kind of like one of those things that, you know, like, remembering. What's it. The Nelson. The men. Nelson Mandela. The Mandela effect. The Mandela effect where you remember things wrong. I guess I didn't know if he had a mustache or a beard when I started thinking about it.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, and that's because a lot of Paul Bunions have beards. But.

[Miles]

But the one here has got a porn stache.

[Charlie Barron]

Total porn stache.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. Look at that. Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

I mean, that fella is, you know.

[Miles]

Now I actually think there probably is a corner of the Internet that would be into Paul Bunyan activities that Paul.

[Charlie Barron]

Bunyan is probably really good in, you know, the YMCA community. You know, if you look at that, he looks like a village person. You know, I mean that in a very good pro. Pro gay way. We don't know which way Paul Bunyan goes. Yeah, that's what he looks like, though. Look him up and tell me. Couldn't be in the vil. Anyways, here we are, Miles. I love this bar.

[Miles]

We're at Slim's Bar and Grill here in Bemidji. And the. The bar here is a vibe. We got here a little early. We had some lunch, had the special today which was a loaded potato soup.

[Charlie Barron]

Was it loaded with potatoes?

[Miles]

It was, yes. Very good.

[Charlie Barron]

Did you have potato chunks in there or was it the sort of a chunks? Okay, yeah, it was loaded hearty.

[Miles]

It was. And you may think I'm crazy, Charlie, but they have some world famous barbecue sauce should grab.

[Charlie Barron]

I don't think you're crazy. This. If I were to pick a place with a world famous BBQ sauce, it.

[Miles]

Is the Black Dog. Wait, beers, black dog barbecue sauce. It's very good. Plus a D. If you're ever in Bemidji, you gotta swing in and get some barbecue sauce. I put it in my potato soup.

[Charlie Barron]

Did you.

[Miles]

It was pretty good.

[Charlie Barron]

Did you taste it on its own? Is it really hot?

[Miles]

No, it's not hot.

[Charlie Barron]

Should I do a taste test?

[Miles]

Yeah. So taste test of beer's Black Dog barbecue.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That is a party on the palate, Miles. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, a little sweetness in there, little hit of spice, but not too much. We are in Minnesota. You're getting a note of spice, a note of like. There's a little pepper in there for sure.

[Miles]

It's good.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. Tastes. It does not taste like a black dog. I can tell you that. It does.

[Miles]

I wouldn't have anything to compare to.

[Charlie Barron]

You haven't lived, Miles. Anyways, I like that. That I can see why. That's, that's award winning. I love this bar though. I mean, I'm. I'm just settling in. I just got here, but already I'm counting like 420 points.

[Miles]

A lot of antlers, a lot of taxidermy.

[Charlie Barron]

I got a beaver. Got a bobcat. What else we got? Oh, God. Bemidji State hockey jersey. I have one of those, Miles.

[Miles]

Oh, do you?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

There's an elk over there. Is that a mountain lion over there?

[Charlie Barron]

Jake, where's the elk?

[Miles]

Elk over there.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, he's hiding.

[Miles]

There's a moose.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, holy smoke.

[Miles]

Great vibes in here.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, and a scary moose. They got it all dialed up for Hallows Eve. Wonderful.

[Miles]

You guys got to swing on into Slims here in Bemidji. It's a great vibe. Merch game is strong. I think by the end of this, I'm going to have a whole new wardrobe when I leave here.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, you like the merch game?

[Miles]

I'm going to one of those Jean Shirts like my dad used to wear.

[Charlie Barron]

Big jean shirt guy. Hang on one second. I'm getting a. A line from the fella playing piano.

[Jason]

Right up above you.

[Charlie Barron]

Say that again.

[Jason]

There's a beaver playing piano right up there.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah. Oh, we got a piano playing beaver up there. How did I.

[Jason]

A lot of beavers in Bemid.

[Charlie Barron]

You know, a lot of beavers in Bemidji. Did you know that, Miles?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Sir, what's your name?

[Jason]

Jason.

[Charlie Barron]

Jason. You're from here?

[Jason]

Yes, yes.

[Charlie Barron]

What's your favorite thing about Bemidji?

[Jason]

The lakes.

[Charlie Barron]

He likes the lakes. Clever lakes guy.

[Jason]

Yeah, fisherman.

[Charlie Barron]

What's your fish?

[Jason]

Walleye.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, he's a walleye guy. What's the biggest walleye you ever caught?

[Jason]

31 and a quarter.

[Charlie Barron]

Say it again.

[Jason]

31 and a quarter.

[Charlie Barron]

I see his eyes darting a little. I think. I think he's fibbing a bit. I think it's 31.

[Jason]

It was in Canada. Does account.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, Canada. Geez. That's like fishing the aquarium up there.

[Miles]

Well, they use the metric system up there, so you're confusing inches with centimeters.

[Charlie Barron]

2.5 centimeters to an inch. Oh, that was a wiener joke, wasn't it? Or no. You got several centimeters. Good for you.

[Miles]

I like that.

[Charlie Barron]

Vibes are right here today, Miles. Vibes are right.

[Miles]

They are. And Charlie's. You got a nice shirt on.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah. Hey, speaking of the merch game, you know, you're getting all horned up about the merch game in here.

[Miles]

Up at your merch right now. We got new bellied up shirts, folks.

[Charlie Barron]

Bellied up.

[Miles]

That's the bellied up logo on the front.

[Charlie Barron]

And. Hang on, hang on.

[Miles]

And on the back it says, if you can read this, I'm bellied up to the bar. How about that?

[Charlie Barron]

That's like. You know what's funny, though? It should say, if you can read this, there's not a back to my bar stool that'd be good for.

[Miles]

There is. And you can still read it.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, you can. You guys are smart about that.

[Miles]

Yeah. And then, Charlie, we also the classic road hunt for ditch chickens. We now got it in a shirt. Why it took us this long to put it on a shirt, I don't know.

[Charlie Barron]

I do. Pure laziness. Pure unadulterated laziness.

[Miles]

And just when you thought so. Guys, go to oubet you.com to check out the new merchandise Bellied up shirt. We also have a road hunt for ditch chickens blaze orange sweatshirt for hunting season on the.

[Charlie Barron]

Do we have that coming out?

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Dang. Is it out now?

[Miles]

Yeah, we got one over there. We can. On another episode.

[Charlie Barron]

I want to wear that.

[Miles]

So, guys, you got to go to. Oh, you bet you dot com. Check it all out. It's O h h, you bet you dot com. The bellied up merch is on there. And one final merch comment, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

Yes.

[Miles]

They also have a shirt here at Slims that says home of the friendly Beavers. And an occasional cougar.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, see, you see what they did there, Miles? Play on words. You got beavers and cougars. I. That's a shirt. I'm gonna see if. I can't see if they got any of my size, you know, xl. I'm a large. I'm working on the xl. Trying to beef up.

[Miles]

I'm working on the large. We're going the opposite. We're in Excel today. I trying to get into a large. You're trying to beef up being xl.

[Charlie Barron]

Trying. I'm trying to just eat three salad meals a day.

[Miles]

Are you? Yeah, I'm trying to eat one solid meal a day.

[Charlie Barron]

Are you?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, before you know it, we'll be fighting each other. We should fight each other.

[Miles]

We should.

[Charlie Barron]

Like. Like one of those Jake Paul people. Who is he? Fight?

[Miles]

Yeah. Like play up Actual boxing match, you mean?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. Do you see Jake Paul recently?

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barron]

He's got, like a big old stomach. I saw it on. On. I don't know, some.

[Miles]

Maybe it's steroid belly.

[Charlie Barron]

Could be.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Is that a thing you get steroid also?

[Miles]

I imagine if you and I did a boxing match.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Like a third of the way through the first round, we would be gassed.

[Charlie Barron]

Totally gas, dude.

[Miles]

By the end, it would just be.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing half a haymaker. I actually box, like, in my spare time. A little bit off. No, I'm.

[Miles]

Get out of here.

[Charlie Barron]

I'm. What? Can I not talk about my hobbies?

[Miles]

You have no spare time? When are you boxing?

[Charlie Barron]

I work out and sometimes my workout is going to the box.

[Miles]

Let's see it. Here, I'll hold your mic. Let's see if. Let's see a 1, 2, 3 move here.

[Charlie Barron]

That was a four move, Miles. I'm a little slow, admittedly.

[Miles]

Also, I was waiting for like a.

[Charlie Barron]

The detail. I didn't want to draw too much of a scene here, you know, I didn't want people to see.

[Miles]

Yeah, you wouldn't want to draw too much of a scene at a bar. That would be way too much.

[Charlie Barron]

Broke up a fight last night.

[Miles]

Did you?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Did you use the one Tube there.

[Charlie Barron]

No, I didn't. It was at a concert and this guy was being a wanker and he was getting after it with another fella. I just stepped right in. I was like, hey, hey, hey. Let's enjoy the show. Let's enjoy the show. I was way bigger than this. This was like a little Napoleon fight, you know, he was just a bull barking dog. I was like, come on. Hey, come on, let me take you for a walk, pal. So that felt good.

[Miles]

You just held your hand on his forehead and he couldn't swing and hit you.

[Charlie Barron]

I just stepped in the. I stepped between the two. They were, you know, there was about to be a punch thrown down.

[Miles]

So anyways, while you're doing good vibes.

[Charlie Barron]

Good, I'm trying to keep vibes good. Why. Why are we getting into these fights?

[Miles]

And you know what they taught me in Taekwondo, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, hang on, there's a flex right there. Miles did taekwondo.

[Miles]

Yeah. From age 5 to 9.

[Charlie Barron]

What taekwondo did they Tai cha.

[Miles]

You only use it in self defense, so I'm proud of you for not throwing the swing. First punch.

[Charlie Barron]

I'm never one to throw a first punch. I don't. It's stupid to fight, let me just say, because here's this. Let's say you're good at fighting, okay? Solid. Chances are a person you're fighting not going to find you connect with them, gets knocked out, falls on the pavement. Now you got a manslaughter charge. Not worth it.

[Miles]

Not worth.

[Charlie Barron]

Not worth the jail time, guys.

[Miles]

So, Charlie, should we do some callers? Yeah, let's do it. We need you to stay fired up.

[Charlie Barron]

I got to stay fired up and focus. That's right. That's a big, big deal here. Maybe we'll do a coffee review again.

[Miles]

Good.

[Charlie Barron]

All right, callers, do it.

[Miles]

Why don't you belly up to the bar with us and tell us what you want to get off your chest.

[Caller 1]

Well, the one big rant I have, I drive about 45 minutes to and from work every day. I'm a work for a general contractor, the superintendent. So I'm on the road quite a bit. And it's all these dang slow drivers that just don't pay attention anywhere. They're going like 35 and a 55, going 20 and a 40 and causing wrecks everywhere.

[Miles]

Now you're saying they're causing wrecks, but how many wrecks? Have you seen it?

[Charlie Barron]

Cause that's a good question.

[Caller 1]

I saw one earlier this week, actually. Somebody wasn't paying attention and pulled out, going really slow and got rear ended by the person in oncoming traffic.

[Miles]

And what did you say as you went by?

[Caller 1]

Probably some exploitative followed by an idiot or something like that.

[Miles]

Yeah, that, that'll happen. Well, what would you recommend drivers? Do you think they that bird should have waited or you should have gunned it right out of the chute?

[Caller 1]

I mean, me personally, I would have gunned it right out of the shoe. But the smart thing to do would be to wait. I would say.

[Charlie Barron]

Are you one of those guys that if someone's driving in a way you deem not appropriate that you do the thing where you drive up past them and you look at them do the stare down?

[Caller 1]

Possibly if they're going really slow, maybe.

[Charlie Barron]

The drive by stare down. Dbsd.

[Miles]

Listen, hey, we know it'd be funny if someone was doing the drive by stare down or I call it giving them the chin.

[Charlie Barron]

Give them the chin.

[Miles]

What? Oh, give them. Give them the. Give them the chin. While they're doing that and they're doing the stare down, they rear ended someone in front of them. That would be the ultimate karma.

[Charlie Barron]

That was what we call bad karma. Why do you think all these people are driving slow? Do you think it's on their phone or did they just legalize the weed in your town?

[Caller 1]

I think both of that because I'm near Austin, so we get quite, quite a bit of that. And then you drive up next to them and they're texting away on their phone.

[Charlie Barron]

So it's a phone thing. I see. Yeah. But how do you know they were on their phone? Maybe they were just going school. Maybe it was a student driver, you know. How can we be so sure?

[Caller 1]

Well, I've seen a lot of people because if they're going. So I'll go around them and they're sitting there looking down at their phone.

[Jason]

With one in their hand, one on the wheel.

[Caller 1]

It's ridiculous.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, that is ridiculous. People got.

[Miles]

Well, here's the question. I don't think any of them are going to be getting off their phone anytime soon. Yeah, you know, we can, we can put all the signs on the side of the road that say don't text and drive.

[Charlie Barron]

And then we all feel better about we fixed it. No sign.

[Miles]

But the, but the problem is is all the people it's intended for never see the sign because they're looking at their phone and not the road.

[Charlie Barron]

That's true.

[Miles]

It's kind of just an echo chamber of people who don't te and drive.

[Charlie Barron]

We are not serious.

[Caller 1]

Very true.

[Charlie Barron]

We just as a Society are not serious about not texting and driving because all those dumb driving apps are like, was there a police there? You know how they marks off a police? Was there a police there? Confirmed yes or no? It's like, I'm not supposed to be touching you. Just give me the directions. Then it puts up an ad while I'm driving. I'm like, who the hell is doing this? That's my big question, man. That's that big tech lobby, man. They're over there giving hjs to our fellows in Congress just to let this shit fly. You know, it's crazy. It's crazy. The bribery and government, man. Just call it lobbying. It's not bribing anymore. Hang on a second. I gotta get off my soapbox. Sorry, Miles. It's fun up there for a little bit.

[Miles]

Glad you're back.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, sorry.

[Miles]

You are fired up this.

[Charlie Barron]

Fired up. Fired up.

[Miles]

So where I was going with that though is would you rather. Because we're. They're clearly not going to stop texting and driving. Would you rather have a someone texting and driving going slow like you were complaining or going really fast? What's worse? What's better?

[Caller 1]

Well, yeah, I guess probably slows better. I mean if. If they're all going slow and I can pass them and I'm not texting, I guess that's. That's better. Probably better. Less injuries. Going slower than faster, huh?

[Charlie Barron]

Ah, I see it. I'm sorry, Miles. I just see it all as a grand conspiracy. I see as all as a grand conspiracy. Think about it, Think about it. We continue to get in these accidents because these phones are a distraction. And then what happens? They're like, well, driverless cars are safer than humans.

[Miles]

You are. That's a great conspiracy.

[Charlie Barron]

And that's just the beginning. Now I just saw there was this thing about the AirPods can be hearing aids. Well, why. Why are the AirPods hearing aids? Why do we need all these hearing aids? Because people have AirPods in the volume's up past 50% now your hearing is getting damaged. There's studies about that.

[Miles]

And now more people gotta buy AirPods and their ears are even getting more damaged, so they have to keep buying. Buying them.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. And they are just turning us into these robots. Why are they turning us in? So we have more sympathy when the robot overlords take over. And I will be the first to be killed because I have not been kind.

[Miles]

Well, I. Yeah, you are. You kind of are the number one.

[Charlie Barron]

I am there. Like we gotta get rid of that loud.

[Miles]

I Think we could even maybe throw out the title that you're the number one robot hating podcaster in the world?

[Charlie Barron]

I don't think.

[Miles]

I don't think.

[Charlie Barron]

I don't. It's not that I hate the robots, okay? In fact, I'm so nice to Siri. I've said that before. But I am, like, doing all Siri's work. But I just. I wonder.

[Miles]

But Siri knows that you're talking behind her back.

[Charlie Barron]

No.

[Miles]

You think? She's not listening right now. So even if you're nice to her face, it's actually worse because then she knows you're talking shit behind her back.

[Charlie Barron]

I am so in deep on this. You guys enjoy this podcast while it lasts. Because soon enough, Miles is just going to be talking with a Charlie avatar, you know?

[Caller 1]

Well, it'll be Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

It'll be a deep fake Charlie. Charlie. Exactly. And lie is the keyword in that char lie. Okay? Because it won't be true. I'll be dead. Anyways, one more question about this. Yeah. Dive in deeper.

[Miles]

What do you propose we should do about all the texters and drivers going slow?

[Caller 1]

Maybe some like, if there's like a driver re education or something. And it's even like on the highways, especially around here, you got your big three, four laners. There's people camped out in the left lane on their phone when there's zero cars on the road. Yeah, you can just go around them. But I think with the flow traffic.

[Miles]

And everything, I think what we should do. Charlie, this is experimental here, okay?

[Charlie Barron]

I can tell this is a hear me out. You're not saying hear me out, but every. Your body language just says hear me out.

[Miles]

So you know how they got the express carpool lane thing on the far left side?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Why don't we flip those and have an opposite of express lane, A slow lane for anyone who just wants to text and drive and just keep them away from all the other drivers.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, that's not a bad idea, Miles.

[Miles]

You know, it's like, hey, we can't stop them. Let's just put them in a little kennel off to the side and let them all run into each other and then maybe they'll figure it out themselves.

[Charlie Barron]

The problem is. Here's the problem with that, Miles. I hate to poke holes in your argument so early on in it, but that's all right. By the merge lane. So in order to get in, you have to break through the death layer trap of the phone people.

[Miles]

The phone lane, the on ramps, they stay fork. So. So you don't have to cut across anywhere they fork. Yes, It's a separate little highway on the side.

[Charlie Barron]

Where are we going to get the money for this, Miles? You got to go give hjs to their fellows in Congress now. You got to be dry riding them stick shift. You know what I mean?

[Miles]

True.

[Charlie Barron]

Anyways, it's a complicated one, but I agree. The problem is the same. I do like. I do like the thought, Miles. We just got to find a financial way to make it happen.

[Miles]

Maybe we should. Like my mom used to do when I was a kid, because I was always wanting to do exactly opposite of what she told me to do. Yeah, let's just start telling people to text and drive. Then they won't want to. I think it's kind of a thrill for them, you know, hey, I'm not supposed to be texting, driving, but I am, and there's an adrenaline rush in that.

[Charlie Barron]

Interesting.

[Miles]

Let's tell them to text and drive. And they'll get bored with it because there's no adrenaline.

[Charlie Barron]

That crazy. Like, the most boring thing you can do is kind of like be on your phone and you get to ride this friggin, like, death trap at 70 miles an hour. People die in these things all the time, and we're like, ah, I'm bored. You know, dude, you're going 70 miles an hour. Like, be in the moment, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah. Two and a half hour. It's 100 miles or so. It would take me, like, two days on horseback back in the day to get here.

[Charlie Barron]

We should. That's really the solution. We should start riding horses again.

[Miles]

Let's bring back horses.

[Charlie Barron]

Bring back horses. That's it. I knew we'd find a solution here. Yeah, the economy would crash, but that's all right. You know what? Economy would crash, but you wouldn't.

[Miles]

We could do robot horses that are run by gasoline. So we can still have the.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah, and let's make their eyes laser beams. That's great.

[Miles]

Well, Walker, we appreciate you calling in today. This is great. Thanks for listening to the podcast for so long. We really appreciate it. And hey, drive safe out there, my guy.

[Charlie Barron]

And watch for deer.

[Caller 1]

Thank you. Y'all, too.

[Charlie Barron]

Thank you. We'll see ya. Wow, Miles.

[Miles]

Yes.

[Charlie Barron]

We got shots delivered here. You know, I tell you, man, that just grinds my gears, you know? Of course, we're all guilty of the phone thing. Thing. We're all guilty of it.

[Miles]

Not me, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, not you. I mean, never, Never. But it's just.

[Miles]

I mean, I, you know, did you. My dad Always growing up because we didn't have phones. Right. When I was really young.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

My dad both though, like, we go through a. Like, McDonald's drive through or something. We. He'd get a burger. He was the classic king of driving with his knee. I knew your dad used to do that.

[Charlie Barron]

The knee driving.

[Miles]

E sandwich while driving with the knee. I always. I was like, God, that's so impressive. My dad is the coolest dad. He can drive with his knee.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, no, we hit a deer.

[Miles]

Do you frequent the knee drive?

[Charlie Barron]

The knee driving? Yeah. My. My dad would kind of like, mess with us a little bit, you know, like get a charlie horse in there. Or like, he'd say, give me your hand. You know, you gotta do it this way because he's driving, so. And then he'd do this thing where you go. Just roll the knuckles like that.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

You know, you get us screaming in the front seat. You know, just whatever keeps the blood flowing while you're a lot. While you're driving. That keeps you focused. That'll keep you focused. This thing distracts you.

[Miles]

It's true.

[Charlie Barron]

Get back to messing around with your kids a little bit.

[Miles]

You know it's true. I like that.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Should we take another collar?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, let's do it. We got a bar dog coming in.

[Miles]

Coming in right there.

[Charlie Barron]

Puppy. Look at that. Bar dog. Bar dog. Nun. Dennis. What a great, great name for that little fella. Oh, my gosh.

[Miles]

Bring Dennis over yours.

[Charlie Barron]

Is this a. What? Who is. Yeah, I want to pet the puppy. Oh, woods up. Oh, I was telling you about that puppy. Freshly shampooed. I got a little slobber on my mouth there.

[Miles]

Get to pet him.

[Charlie Barron]

I. I got to pet. You didn't get to pet him.

[Miles]

No.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, that's. This is the saddest I've ever seen you.

[Miles]

And he's very fluffy. Oh, my God.

[Charlie Barron]

Are you. You're a golden retriever guy.

[Miles]

Yeah, I just want to pet the puppy. Yeah, we'll do that. I'll do it later.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, you. You pet your puppy?

[Miles]

Maybe get him a beer.

[Charlie Barron]

That'd be nice. Thank you. This is why you go. What is your name, sir?

[Fred]

Fred Zipple.

[Charlie Barron]

What's that? Fred. Fred comes over, he drops me off a check. It just says gold packers and fuck the bears. I love that. And then it says a Jan. What does it say at the bottom? What's that? Oh, you're a fan. That's enough.

[Miles]

A fan. Got it.

[Charlie Barron]

Ah, cursive. A lost art form. A lost art form. Well, thank you very much. I'M a fan of yours now, Fred. You said, right?

[Miles]

Are you a Packer fan amongst the Viking country here in Bemidji, Minnesota?

[Fred]

Yes, I am.

[Charlie Barron]

Good. Hey, what'd you think about that game on Sunday?

[Fred]

Well, our quarterback threw, I think two ints had led to 14 points.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Fred]

And our kicker missed two field goals.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Fred]

You make one field goal, you win the game.

[Charlie Barron]

You win the game.

[Fred]

The defense stops one of those touchdowns and you win the game.

[Charlie Barron]

I don't think we lost or I don't think the Vikings won. I think we lost. I think that one's on us.

[Fred]

You know, when you let up 28 points in the first half, it's just not a good thing.

[Charlie Barron]

Not a good thing. But we had a great comeback. Got. Got my blood flowing at the end.

[Fred]

I actually took the dogs for a walk in the second half and I missed most of the comeback.

[Charlie Barron]

Did you really?

[Miles]

I had to.

[Fred]

It was 28 to 7.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. There's only so much the body can take of that weather like this. Yeah, it's gorgeous weather. Yeah, I was at the game.

[Kyle]

You were at the game?

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah, I was at the game.

[Fred]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. I mean, no one left, though. No, I didn't see anyone leave. Vikings fans, maybe.

[Fred]

They're like that. No one. No one leaves. And you got to witness the big comeback. So it had to be fun in the second.

[Charlie Barron]

It was very, very fun. Lucky to be there. Well, thank you, Fred, and cheers to you and thank you for this. This is a beautiful. I'm gonna put this on my wall.

[Fred]

I've seen your routines a lot, and I know that's your little catch line.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, yeah. Catch a lot with that. You know, it's like the old familiar suggestion. That's beautiful. Thank you very much.

[Kyle]

All right, you got Kyle from Appleton, Wisconsin.

[Charlie Barron]

Kyle from Appleton. All right, Kyle, belly up to the bar. What's on your mind, my guy?

[Kyle]

All right, so I got a fucking doozy for you.

[Charlie Barron]

All right, Kyle, let's. Let's hear the dudes.

[Kyle]

Dairy farmer.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Full time dairy farmer.

[Miles]

Right.

[Kyle]

Well, me and my girlfriend of four years just broke up. Right. You know, sad state of affairs. Yada, yada, yada.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

So how you get back into, like, the dating Game? I don't. I. I'm a dairy farmer and I live with my grandparents. I don't know what the I'm doing here.

[Charlie Barron]

I mean, you. You're just rolling dice here, you know, do your grandparents have friends? Start there. Work your way to your demographic. That's what I would say.

[Kyle]

All right. So then this is round two of this doozy. And this is where you guys, I'm really need your help. So that does custom home build. I just acquired a new house and we're working on. He's going to do the flooring in the house. Is that, like, going to be weird or do I just continue with it?

[Charlie Barron]

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Miles]

Father in law?

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, your old father in law is. First of all, I like how you say you just acquired a new home. How do you acquire. Did you kill the person who was living there? Did you purchase it?

[Kyle]

Well, unfortunately, time got the best of great grandma, so.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, well, may she rest in peace. But regardless, regardless, you've got your ex girlfriend, right? It was girlfriend, not wife. Okay, Your ex girlfriend. Your ex girlfriend. Dad is now doing the flooring in this house.

[Miles]

Right?

[Kyle]

Because me and him are still real cool. You know, we text each other about the brewers pretty much every day and make jokes with each other. And basically, if she was a little bit more like her dad, I think we'd still be together.

[Miles]

Hey.

[Charlie Barron]

Hey. You know, hey, maybe you've been barking up the wrong trees, my guy.

[Miles]

When she broke up with you, did you go, can I still go fishing with your dad? Throw back beers on Can Am? Do I have to give him back his Craftsman toolbox and Leatherman? Don't wanna lose my hunting land.

[Charlie Barron]

Wow. And Miles is getting some feeling in this, you know.

[Miles]

What's the next line?

[Charlie Barron]

God, I. I don't know.

[Miles]

I wanna lose my haunting land.

[Charlie Barron]

Please take more time to think about it, Miles.

[Miles]

I'll think of the rest of it. I'll think of the rest of it. Yeah, I'll do another rendition. Sorry.

[Kyle]

Okay.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, we can't. We can't Google talk to you. I mean, that was like you were really hitting some pet. There was passion. You were off key, but there was passion.

[Miles]

Of course, I've never been on a key in my entire life.

[Charlie Barron]

Everybody's on some key. But anyways, I'm not even like a broken clock.

[Miles]

I even write twice a day. When it comes to singing.

[Charlie Barron]

Miles, don't say.

[Kyle]

I just got to say this is. This is exactly what I thought it was gonna be. And I fucking love it.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah. Well, thank you. We love you, too. Now, I do have a little question on the relationship here. Why'd you guys break up?

[Kyle]

Well, basically, we were both going down two different paths in our lives at this point. She started working at Pierce Manufacturing, and, well, she works really weird hours, and me being a dairy farm, I'm pretty much working 24 hours. And so we lived together for three years out of our four year relationship. Damn near. And you know, it just. Time kind of brought us, you know, together and time brought us apart. So it wasn't like a messy breakup or anything like that, but it's just, you know, people coming home angry and. Yeah, life gets on.

[Charlie Barron]

It does. Now, who broke up with who? Was it a mutual breakup or.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it was, it was mutual.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay. Okay. And then how long has it been? Real quick.

[Kyle]

Like a month or two.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay, so it's about time to get out there, get the boards going. I assume you've made your farmers only profile.

[Kyle]

I know, I don't even know how to do that. I don't have a computer. All I got is damn telephone and I don't know how to use the thing.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, you used it right, actually. Because you are going to make your bellied up dating profile and you are going to find your next three and a half to four year relationship on this podcast. So let's start it off. Give us your name, your age and your height because women love hearing about the height. And if you're not 6 foot, lie about it. Okay. And go.

[Kyle]

Well, I'm Kyle Banker. I'm a full time dairy farmer at Wickman family farm. Family owned for four generations. No, we're a century farm. So we're over 100 years old.

[Charlie Barron]

Congratulations.

[Kyle]

I am.

[Miles]

I love how he's treating this like a job interview.

[Charlie Barron]

He's doing a plug right there.

[Miles]

It's like this is dating profile. Like she's gonna want to know if that. It's a four generation owned 100 year old farm.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, he's also smart because he just got his family farm in the podcast. So you know, he's a businessman. He's a businessman. All right. So how tall are you?

[Kyle]

I am six foot one. Six foot two with boots on.

[Charlie Barron]

He is a dairy.

[Miles]

That's a good point because, you know, like you get measured without shoes on. But when am I ever in public without shoes on unless I'm at the beach.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. And then by the time they find out you're real height, well, you're all.

[Miles]

You're already in bed.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. You're already horizontal. So there you go.

[Kyle]

Well, like Miles says, you gotta fuck on the first date. Right.

[Miles]

I said that.

[Charlie Barron]

Is that something you said, Miles?

[Miles]

I mean, I, I'm not gonna put past me, like it sounds like something I could have said, but you have.

[Charlie Barron]

So many podcasts out there, I'm. I'm guessing you probably said I think.

[Miles]

We calculated it's like 600 hours of me talking at some point. And so we're having. I'm having a tough time sometimes being like, okay, what was my stance on this? I know we talked about this before. What did I say? I tried to remember.

[Charlie Barron]

It is tough. It is tough. So you probably said that. All right.

[Miles]

Yeah, that sounds like me, I guess.

[Charlie Barron]

All right, well, give us some more details. And did you say. How do you say how old he is? How old are you?

[Kyle]

I'm 20.

[Charlie Barron]

You're what?

[Miles]

20.

[Charlie Barron]

You're.

[Kyle]

I'm 20 years old.

[Miles]

And you lived with a girl for three years.

[Charlie Barron]

Let me be honest with you.

[Miles]

Not adding up.

[Charlie Barron]

You sound like you're 45. First of all. Second of all, if you saw me.

[Kyle]

Let me paint a picture for you. So please. You know, step one, I got scoliosis already.

[Charlie Barron]

Scoliosis.

[Kyle]

I have a full goatee. I have a full goatee and beard going on right now. And I'm 20 years old.

[Miles]

Okay, well, hold on. Isn't scoliosis a girl disease?

[Charlie Barron]

No, no, no. It's a back thing.

[Kyle]

No, that's a back disease.

[Miles]

Yeah, but it was only the girls in. In middle school that got checked for scoliosis, not the dudes.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, girls.

[Miles]

Don't you remember that?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, no. You were an exercise scientist.

[Kyle]

Never checked for it. I was. Never checked for it. I. I got up out of bed one day to go to work and my legs were numb and I had to have my mom bring me to the hospital to get X rays. And. Yeah, they said I got a curvy spine, I guess.

[Charlie Barron]

Curvy spine hunched like a question mark.

[Miles]

So what do they do to fix scoliosis, by the way? What do they do?

[Kyle]

Honestly, There is. There is no fix for it. The only thing I have found that has worked because I did physical therapy. I've done dry needling. I've done a lot of different things. The only thing that fixed it is a good chiropractor.

[Charlie Barron]

A good tire. What? Oh, a good chiropractor.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean, you are a chiropractor's dream. They are licking their chops at you.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, you are spending a lot of that, right?

[Miles]

Dude, that's what you need to find in a girlfriend. You need to find a chiropractor girlfriend, then you can save a lot of money.

[Charlie Barron]

That is a good idea. Think long term on this one. You got a lifelong situation going on with your spine. Think smart. Be Midwest, cheap. Find a chiropractor. Do you guys know that chiropractors were invented in Iowa.

[Miles]

I just. I have no way to prove that wrong. But that doesn't sound right.

[Charlie Barron]

No, it is right. I'll tell you more details. His name was Daniel David Palmer. All right? He worked at a medical healing place, or a magnetic healing place. You know, where you hang someone on the fridge and you're like, ah, you're healed. But he saw this janitor. Janitor was blind, and he said. Or janitor was deaf. And he said, hey, I see you got a crook in your back. Can I fix it? And the janitor didn't say anything. So he got up there and he. You know, and he did it. And guy felt better. Guy felt better. Yeah.

[Miles]

And that's how you know that chiropractic care is real, real science. A guy just walked up to another guy and cranked on him. And that's how it was Bor.

[Charlie Barron]

Some dude in Iowa. Everyone thinks it's like an Eastern thing. No, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa. Also, what was invented in Iowa? The trampoline. The chiropractor and the trampoline.

[Miles]

I like that.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, that sounds like it. And the foam finger. Wow. I mean, the innovation in the Midwest is just stellar. All right, so what are you looking.

[Miles]

For in a woman? Go the other end. Which one you swiping right on?

[Kyle]

Well, first off, I don't want crazy, because that's just too much to deal with. I deal with 280 crazy women every day, twice a day, and I'm about sick of that. So I don't need to make it 281.

[Miles]

Talking about.

[Charlie Barron]

I know what he's talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, he's funny, folks. He's coming loaded up full of. Full of it, too. I like it. Okay, yeah.

[Kyle]

So maybe another thing is someone that also has farm background because it's really hard to get, you know, your average city girl to not understand why we work 24 7. Or, you know, someone that doesn't drink milk, you know, they're just kind of a.

[Charlie Barron]

Man, you are a catch, I gotta tell you.

[Miles]

All right, so you're looking for a girl who drinks milk. What? What else? A girl who produces milk.

[Charlie Barron]

Wait.

[Kyle]

Well, we wait for that.

[Charlie Barron]

What did you say? What were you about to say? You're a what?

[Kyle]

I'm also a Bush Light drinker, so she drinks Bush Light. That'll work.

[Miles]

Okay, that'll do. What else? What do you want? Let's talk looks. You've gotten all the other stuff out of the way. What do you want her to look like?

[Kyle]

Blonde hair, five Foot, Two double D tits.

[Miles]

Giant ass.

[Charlie Barron]

Wow. Dude, I think if you want all of this with your general attitude, you should find a time machine. Go back to 1968. Let's go further. 1952. I think you'd be able to find what you're looking for. He just doesn't mince words.

[Kyle]

That would be kind of nice. I'm just an old soul lost in a new world or something like that.

[Charlie Barron]

I don't know. I, I, I suppose, I suppose what, what is your actual town of residence? I'm gonna try to hold this interview together because Miles has lost it. What's your actual town of residence?

[Kyle]

You got your computer thing up?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, we do have a computer here.

[Kyle]

I'll give you something. I'll give you something to type in. Okay. Mer and Jackie's. M E R the and sign and Jackie's. That'll bring you one mile away from my home.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay. I can't believe you're giving out your full location on this sucker, but that is. Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

What's somebody gonna do?

[Charlie Barron]

I guess that's true. I mean, come steal one of your 200A.

[Kyle]

I'm not gonna lie. I got an AR with a night vision scope on it.

[Charlie Barron]

You know what? That don't. That doesn't surprise me at all, frankly.

[Miles]

Put that on the list of stuff that's not shocking.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. So you just. You're about hour north, though, like the top of Lake Winnebago there, huh?

[Kyle]

Yep. So if you're, like, right. Zoomed in on that blue building, the supper club there.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Zoom out just a little bit. You can see the dairy farm.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, okay.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

Which is really cool that you guys should come visit because we got all automatic robots that milk our cows. We've had people from all across the world here.

[Jason]

There's.

[Kyle]

We got a map with pins on it.

[Miles]

This is, this was going so good until he brought that up.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, no, I mean, you know, if you want a robot, that's what robots.

[Miles]

Probably should be used.

[Charlie Barron]

I mean, honestly, probably. You know, it's tough to kick a robot. Yeah. So you got. What do the robots look like that are milking your cows?

[Kyle]

Well, then you got to look up Layla. L E L Y A4 robot.

[Charlie Barron]

Let me see this thing. It's not just a machine. Is it an actual humanoid robot or is it a machine? Let me see that.

[Kyle]

I don't know how to describe it. It's a big thing with an arm on it that goes underneath the column.

[Miles]

Yeah. That's fascinating.

[Charlie Barron]

How much do one of those things. Run.

[Kyle]

You want to know what we just got for putting in two new ones?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

100,000 a piece.

[Charlie Barron]

You got a hundred thousand a piece? What do you mean?

[Kyle]

No, that's. That's what we paid for each robot.

[Charlie Barron]

Holy smokes.

[Miles]

But I mean, save some money on labor. After a few years, it pays for itself.

[Charlie Barron]

Pays for itself. So, I mean, hey, listen, you're. Here's the good news. Yeah. You get these robots doing all your work now, you got more time to get out in there and find yourself a nice job.

[Miles]

What are you doing for 24 hours?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, the robots.

[Kyle]

Seriously here, that's the huge, like the biggest disconnect between, say, because you guys aren't farmers. The biggest disconnect is right there in itself. Well, you got robots to milk your cows. You don't need to see them. It's. You don't spend as much time working on the cow, physically putting the milker on, you know, checking them over. You spend more time with your animals. You watch your herd. You see them. Oh, you know, that way.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay, I like that.

[Miles]

So it's more quality time.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you do.

[Kyle]

Yeah, that's about what it is.

[Miles]

So if you spend more quality time with your cows, do they produce more milk?

[Kyle]

Absolutely. The better care you take of your animals, the better care they will take of you.

[Miles]

A happy cow, Charlie, means more tippy cow for the rest of us.

[Charlie Barron]

That is true. That is very true. I do wonder, though, what do the cows feel for the. About the robot? Like, do. Do the cows just.

[Kyle]

That's interesting too. So when they first start coming in, right after they have their first, you know, calf and they become a mother, they're a little bit timid to it. You know, they kind of kick the. Out of it. Break some.

[Charlie Barron]

I would too. You just after.

[Kyle]

After two weeks time, they go through in. On. On their own. We don't have to mess with them. And they. They do what they're supposed to do.

[Miles]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Charlie Barron]

That is wild, man.

[Kyle]

This is the kind of stuff we should sit down in a bar and talk about.

[Miles]

That's what we're doing right now.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. We are through the robots of the computer. You are with us at this part. We should.

[Miles]

So what's. What's kind of funny, Charlie? I saw an article like, our generation is spending like 31% more time with their children than the dads previous.

[Charlie Barron]

Really?

[Miles]

They're spending more time with their kids. It doesn't just stop there. Now the farmer dads are also spending 30% more time with the cows.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, that's a win. You know, I've given a lot of crap to robots.

[Miles]

You know, they say the number one most important thing about being a dairy farmer is just showing up for the cows.

[Charlie Barron]

Just showing up.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. Just being there, listening to them. Yeah. Well, that.

[Miles]

So if we miked you up when you were hanging out with the cows, would we hear some weird shit? Do you talk to the. Talk to them a lot of.

[Kyle]

What. What in the. Are you even doing?

[Miles]

So by quality time, you know. You know, it's good to know. Yes, he's spending more time with them, but it's kind of like when our dads would spend quality time with us, Charlie. And make us do manual labor and yell at us. So, yeah, it's not as quality as we thought.

[Charlie Barron]

That said, I do appreciate that. In retrospect, I feel like. I feel like more kids should do some home renovations. All right, well, listen. Yeah, go ahead.

[Kyle]

Well, that's a lot of it, too, is, you know, living with my grandpa and that. You get to see a lot of the appreciation of his eyes from, you know, starting in a stanchion barn when he was. Basically it since he comes as long as he remembered to doing this now, you know, it's. It's really cool.

[Miles]

Yeah, sorry, we got a note. Yeah, it's a great heartfelt note.

[Charlie Barron]

It is a really nice. Yeah, Fred had to go say that last thing again, though. Sorry. We were saying goodbye to someone.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah. Like I was saying with my grandpa, you know, because he. This was his family farm, just growing up, seeing it from when they were milking physically in the stanchion barn all the way to where we are today. You know, my great grandma, when she was alive yet she got to see all of it, too. And it's really cool hearing all the stories about it, like, the quality time with the animals is actually there. You know, someone has a. Someone like me has a greater appreciation for a glass of milk than for a glass of Tippy call than what it is.

[Miles]

Yeah, 100 agree, no doubt. Awesome.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, listen, we thank you for, you know, raising the cows that provide our Tippy Cow, and we thank your entire family, four generations. Thank you for calling in. And listen, if you're ever in the Green Bay.

[Kyle]

If you're ever in the Green Bay or Appleton area and you want to actually get a tour, shoot me a DM on Instagram.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. What's your Instagram.

[Kyle]

@, Kyle, Banker, 1219.

[Charlie Barron]

Kyle, Banker, 1219. All right, good plug.

[Miles]

Oh, and also, if you're listening, and you are a blonde woman who's five two with double Ds and a big old booty, hit him up on his Instagram.

[Charlie Barron]

Kyle Banker, 12:19. Is that what you said?

[Kyle]

Yup.

[Charlie Barron]

All right, so, ladies, you can. You can give them a follow right there at. Kyle Banker, 1219. Is your birthday December 19th by chance?

[Miles]

No, it is not.

[Kyle]

It is January 10th.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay, well, you had me fooled. Well, we hope you find yourself that gal. And best of luck to you. Okay.

[Kyle]

All right, well, thank you guys for the advice and all that. It was really nice talking to you.

[Charlie Barron]

You betcha, my guy. We will talk to you soon.

[Miles]

Can do. I have to give him back his Craftsman toolbox of leather. Men don't want to lose my hunting land. The big old buck on our trail.

[Charlie Barron]

K. Wow.

[Miles]

Live to see another day if I ain't in that deer stand if we're really breaking up All I really got. Can I still go fishing with your dad?

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, that is so sweet, Miles.

[Miles]

That is.

[Charlie Barron]

Hey, I take back what I said about your voice.

[Miles]

All I need is a track. I'm more of a karaoke.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice little bass.

[Miles]

You can find it, though.

[Charlie Barron]

You can find it. That was really good. That was sweet. That was touching. Well, that goes out to you, Kyle Banker.

[Miles]

That was actually a song that me and Fillmore wrote that we never released, so really little debut here on the podcast.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, I like that.

[Miles]

I do.

[Charlie Barron]

You guys should release that.

[Miles]

Dude, we talked about it.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, you just released it, so. I like that. I like. We got new music out on this bellied up podcast, folks. Yeah, that's great. Perfect. I like that, by the way, that guy. I mean, we see the issue.

[Miles]

Also, we just glazed over the fact he said he's lived with a girl for three years and he's 20. So he moved in with her when he was 17?

[Charlie Barron]

No, he said they dated for a year and then moved in together. He said they lived 18.

[Miles]

Moved in to move in with a girl at 18.

[Charlie Barron]

I mean, that's the guy that would do it.

[Miles]

I mean, I guess I kind of. Did you move into a dorm room with girls down the hall?

[Charlie Barron]

It's kind of like I just. Did they move to the farm? You're right. We left a little meat on that bone right there.

[Miles]

That's all right. There was a lot going on.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, man, we're gonna have to talk to Kyle again. I want to talk to Kyle's father in law. Set him straight.

[Miles]

You know, Charlie's days are getting Darker and col. Oh, yes, they are. And when that happens, you can only think about the good old days. You know what the good old days are?

[Charlie Barron]

Summer.

[Miles]

Summer and sunshine.

[Charlie Barron]

Yes.

[Miles]

And as it gets darker and colder and you maybe slip into a fog brain fog of darkness and sadness. Yeah, you got to find some sunshine in the winter time.

[Charlie Barron]

Wow, this is so poetic, Miles. You're waxing poetic over here.

[Miles]

And the only way to do that, Charlie, is to tip on back a glass of tippy cow, as we like to do here on this podcast.

[Charlie Barron]

Cheers to that, guys.

[Miles]

If you want a little summer, a little delicious creamy treats, as the days get shorter, the darkness grows longer, make sure you pick up some tippy cow. Make you feel good all winter long.

[Charlie Barron]

You're like a real thorough, you know that?

[Miles]

I don't know what that means.

[Charlie Barron]

He wrote books.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, a real Emerson. Yeah, a real Emerson. Lake in Palmer.

[Miles]

Compared more to Hemingway, but that'll be fine.

[Charlie Barron]

Have you. Okay, Hemingway, sure.

[Miles]

Hemingway, Right, like you did.

[Charlie Barron]

We're all busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. You know, cook and clean and maybe even a little bit too much time on them slippery sidewalks. I just gotta tell you, if light throws you a curveball and you end up going ass over tea kettle, hurting yourself, do not worry because Nicolet Law is here to handle all that insurance nonsense while you can just focus on healing and enjoying the festivities. And you know, I tell you what, Miles, that, that'll happen. This time of year there's a lot of.

[Miles]

Yeah, maybe for. For non athletes.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, okay. So for all you non athletes out there getting injured, Miles wants to let you know that you're not as good at him in life and.

[Miles]

Oh, no, no, just not as athletic.

[Charlie Barron]

Just not as athletic. Well, even athletes get hurt sometimes.

[Miles]

That is true.

[Charlie Barron]

I've seen the NFL.

[Miles]

I spoke too soon. You never know what could happen.

[Charlie Barron]

It can happen to any of us. So if you get injured, call Nicolay. Well, Miles, we've got a live one.

[Miles]

A patron of the bar, as you would say.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, belly on up to the bar. Tell everyone your name and what's on your mind.

[Jason]

My name is Jason. I'm local guy from Bemidji here and I know your guys's stories. I mean, I've seen you both and seen your stuff and it's very Midwestern, right?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Jason]

I want to talk about church coffee.

[Charlie Barron]

Church coffee.

[Miles]

Now, before I can't get this out of my head. Before we get into that, has anyone ever told you you look exactly like Zach Galifianakis? No, I was gonna say the guy who plays Ron Swanson.

[Jason]

Oh.

[Charlie Barron]

Nick Offerman.

[Jason]

I've heard that one.

[Miles]

Yeah, you're Nick Offerman to me.

[Jason]

I get Zach Galifianakis a lot. Well, that was when I was fatter.

[Miles]

Same dude. I used to get that, too.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. You guys, what was your workout routine? You know, what'd you do?

[Jason]

Mine's high stress and just drinking instead of eating.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, there you go. Yeah, the liquid. Liquid lunch.

[Miles]

Yeah. Mine would be high stress and the op Zempic. Heavy beer to light beer.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, that's funny. Is that a video? Did you do that yet?

[Miles]

No, we talked about it on a previous episode. I'm reusing jokes, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron]

I like it. I like it. It.

[Jason]

Yeah, recycle them.

[Charlie Barron]

It's all about that. That's all we do.

[Miles]

So you want to talk church? Coffee?

[Charlie Barron]

What kind of church are we talking? Because I grew up Catholic. So did Miles. We had wine in church. Didn't have a lot of coffee.

[Jason]

So I grew up Presbyterian.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, the presbyter.

[Miles]

And what does that mean?

[Jason]

Well, it's like a sideshow of a Lutheran, probably.

[Charlie Barron]

Lutheran, sideshow, Presbyterian. Are there more rules or less rules? Is this Lutheran light? Because Lutheran is Catholic light.

[Jason]

And so are you, like, probably even maybe lighter.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, wow.

[Miles]

So you're like a hot Catholic, zero sugar.

[Charlie Barron]

All right.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

You like that? We did the same. Same church, different people on that joke there. Yeah. All right, so, yeah, is this.

[Miles]

What. Is this one of those churches that, like, the pastor where it's Converse and like. Like a quarter zip?

[Charlie Barron]

Or like how that' Tsunami?

[Miles]

How churchy are we getting?

[Jason]

No, they've got the. The robes.

[Miles]

Okay. All right.

[Jason]

It's not that I did.

[Miles]

Hey, I.

[Jason]

That light.

[Charlie Barron]

It's not like, off a highway somewhere? Some huge warehouse that they, you know, built for Jesus somewhere?

[Miles]

No.

[Jason]

No, I don't think so.

[Miles]

Okay, so you're going to a church is what you're saying, Right. Okay.

[Jason]

So I grew up in a town of 400 people. There was the Lutheran Church and the Presbyterian Church. We didn't have a Catholic church. My hometown, so though I married, and I married a Catholic woman.

[Charlie Barron]

Did you. Where'd you find her?

[Jason]

At a bar.

[Charlie Barron]

At a bar. That was a long thought process to get to.

[Miles]

I would like to know the real story.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, What's.

[Jason]

What's going on there is a long story, but let's make it easy and call it a bar.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay. Kind of want to know the long story.

[Jason]

Long story?

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah. What's the long story? Story.

[Jason]

Oh, boy. So she went to school In Mankato. I'm up in Bemidji.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Jason]

I get a move in with some guys, and she was dating my roommate.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, wow.

[Jason]

She moves in for the summer job.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Jason]

Hangs out here for a summer internship. They break up. We live together for about a year. Year and a half off, there's a party at our house. We have some beers, and we're hanging out in a corner, and I'm like, I like you. And she says, I like you. And then we made up.

[Charlie Barron]

And was.

[Miles]

Was roommate there.

[Jason]

Now we've got no. Well, they. Yeah, he'd moved out.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, he moved out. Okay, okay, okay. All right.

[Jason]

We were roommates. John's a good man. He still lives down in New Almond.

[Miles]

Did it. Was he at the wedding?

[Jason]

He was not at the wedding.

[Charlie Barron]

Okay.

[Miles]

Yeah, I just figured that was maybe touchy, but. Yeah.

[Jason]

So, yeah, 17, 18 years later, whatever it is, we are married with two kids and two dogs. Dennis, who you met earlier.

[Charlie Barron]

Dennis.

[Jason]

Yeah, that's mine.

[Miles]

I didn't even get to pet him.

[Charlie Barron]

I petted them.

[Jason]

She's. She had a doctor appointment, so I had to run to the resort she works at.

[Miles]

Hunting dog.

[Jason]

Well, he'll. We'll try it.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Jason]

But he's mostly cuddling and petting and.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Lap dog.

[Charlie Barron]

Emotional support dog. Right, right.

[Miles]

Okay, so church coffee.

[Jason]

Yeah, let's get to the point of this. Church coffee. And I don't have very much experience with Catholic church or Catholic church coffee, but when I went to church growing up, and when I've gone lately, you go downstairs after church and you have coffee, and usually the gals have made some bars or they've made some. Some cookies or something, and you have coffee, but you can see through the coffee. Like, I can see the bottom of the cup. And I don't know how you guys like your coffee, but that is not how I like mine. Well, I'm wondering if. Is this a. Is this a thing? I mean, I've been to multiple churches, and I've seen this, and I've experienced.

[Miles]

I think what you're experiencing is the results of a low economy right now. It's like even churches are not. They're. They're getting affected as well.

[Charlie Barron]

It's like the great Jack Kennedy once said as, not what the church can do for your coffee. Ask what you can do for the church coffee. How much were you putting in the little basket as it went around?

[Jason]

Exactly.

[Miles]

You know, how much. How much do you donate? Yeah, seriously, are you tithing or. No?

[Jason]

Oh, well, I. I've put Some in the offering cup during the service. A little obviously less for the coffee downstairs. And. And good point.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Jason]

Probably need to put more in there.

[Charlie Barron]

It's an offering cup. Well, that's where the church is going wrong right there. You gotta have a basket.

[Miles]

Catholic churches have like three people on payroll just to ask people for money and all you guys got is a little cup. You need to up the game.

[Charlie Barron]

You gotta get a pole. Go ahead and get an old cane pole and then put a basket at the end of that thing. Get it out there in the aisles and look at people as they're putting in, you know, and tell em you want to go to purgatory. Put a twenty dollar bill in, find.

[Miles]

The judgiest person in the whole congregation and put them on the duty of collecting the money.

[Jason]

Yeah, I want some good Colombian coffee.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, if you want Colombian, don't just grow on trees. That comes from money. So I think. What's the name of the church saint.

[Jason]

Who now that, that I grew up going to.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Jason]

First Presbyterian Church of Ashby.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, First Presbyterian. Are you guys the ones with the pointy things on the top of your church?

[Jason]

No, we don't have any pointing.

[Charlie Barron]

You just have a normal cross up there.

[Jason]

Heck, we didn't even have that.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, you didn't? Well geez, dude, they're Catholic.

[Miles]

Zero sugar.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, I guess that's.

[Miles]

They can't even afford good coffee.

[Charlie Barron]

They also probably don't want you guys getting all hopped up on the caffeine and spending like an extra hour down there chit chatting, you know, and I.

[Jason]

Think part of it too is it's, you know, you sit down there and it's a lot of, of older women, let's be honest. I think those women just. That's their drink of choice.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Coffee. Yeah.

[Miles]

A little weaker is what you're saying.

[Jason]

Because they're going to drink it all day.

[Charlie Barron]

That's true.

[Jason]

Where I'm switching to you getting out of church and going to the. I'm going to watch a football game and switch into beer.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, that's their, their full day thing. I mean they're not. That'd be like you ordering your first beer and get one of those like IPAs. 28% alcohol, you know. Right.

[Jason]

I have that when I'm only having one. But I.

[Charlie Barron]

Right, that's the same thing, same deal.

[Jason]

Here, you know, that's why I drink light beer. Because you can drink all of it all day.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, yep. And that's what they're doing with their coffee. So I think we solved it right there. And I think we all learned a lesson today. Main lesson, give some money to church. Give. Give your church some money so we.

[Jason]

Can have good coffee.

[Charlie Barron]

But you have to make. You have to earmark it. This is for caffeine or booze if you want to get wild. You know, the Catholics, they throw those fundraisers, and you can get lit up like a Christmas bush. They don't skimp on that.

[Jason]

Well, do you sneak in a little shot of the Tippy Cow?

[Charlie Barron]

You know, BYOB for the jc, baby. You know, I mean, you didn't hear that here, but you heard it.

[Jason]

I did not promote drinking at church, that's for sure.

[Charlie Barron]

Well, you got to do what you got to do. That's part of the deal, so.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Well. Yeah. Well, thank you for bellying up with us. I hope that we. You know, I think we showed some solution, but I get your point. Yeah, I get your point. Stronger coffee at the church. Bring it up with the gals. Next time that collection basket comes through, put in a 20 staple to a piece of paper that says stronger coffee, and then you're good to go.

[Jason]

I'll see what happens.

[Miles]

We know anything about churches, Charlie? Bribing goes a long way.

[Charlie Barron]

Sure does. Sure does.

[Jason]

Church and everywhere else.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's how.

[Miles]

That's. Sorry. It's not bribing. It's lobbying.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Lobby for stronger coffee.

[Charlie Barron]

Lobbying. That's it.

[Jason]

Yeah. Bribing is probably a bad word, Richard.

[Charlie Barron]

Yeah, it is.

[Miles]

Yeah. There's no thou shall not lobby rule.

[Charlie Barron]

Thou shall not bribe. That's not a Ten Commandments.

[Miles]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Charlie Barron]

Steal. You can't steal. Unless it's stealing people's votes with your money. Then it's called a super pac. So, anyways, yeah. Well, thank you for coming on.

[Jason]

I appreciate you having me on. And I appreciate you guys coming to Bemidji.

[Charlie Barron]

Hell yeah.

[Miles]

Good time.

[Charlie Barron]

Keep that beard up. That's a good beard. All right.

[Jason]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Charlie Barron]

Don't shave that sucker.

[Jason]

My children have never seen me without 1.

[Charlie Barron]

1. Well, hopefully they never do.

[Miles]

My father, I never. My mom never even saw him without facial air. And my grandma, before she died, want him to shave it, and he did it, and it was a nightmare. So don't do it unless you want to scare your children.

[Charlie Barron]

He did shave it for. Oh, my God.

[Jason]

I don't want to comb my chins.

[Miles]

That's what I told Charlie. The reason why you keep a long beard when you're a big guy is you can hide all the chins.

[Charlie Barron]

That's smart. Smart women should get beards. You know, I'm just saying. Because women are like to hide all their chins. No, but I'm saying some. Some women are like, shoot the camera up here. They talk about the multiple chins. Give them beards. Like, it's not fair. Only guys get beards.

[Jason]

Yeah, I don't know if I want that tickle in my underparts.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Jason]

I don't know what kind of pizza.

[Miles]

Take that back to the first church after.

[Charlie Barron]

Go back to church. Confess that.

[Jason]

Sorry about the PG13.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, no, that's. That's okay. Little. Little tickle on the grundle.

[Miles]

Earlier, we had a guy say he's looking for a girl with double Ds and huge ass. So you're doing all right.

[Charlie Barron]

Oh, yeah, yeah. We set the bar very high here on the Bellied up podcast.

[Miles]

Well, thanks for coming on, man. Have a good one.

[Charlie Barron]

Watch for deer miles. That about does her here for Bellied up podcast.

[Miles]

Yes. And, guys, remember to go check out out oubetchy. Com. The Bellied up merchandise is on there. Charlie's got that. I got the road on for ditch chicken shirts. We got other colors in the ditch chickens. Check it out. Thanks for tuning in today. Charlie was fired up.

[Charlie Barron]

All podcasts fired up. Don't forget to tip your bartender.

[Miles]

See you in the next one. Love you guys.

[Charlie Barron]

Love you back.