If We Had a Bar #199

Summary

Bellied Up Podcast Episode #199: “If We Had a Bar”

Hosted by: Charlie Berens & Myles “You Betcha Guy”
Original Air Date: May 7, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and imaginative episode, Charlie Berens and Myles (“You Betcha Guy”) belly up to a (theoretical) bar and—true to the show's form—dream up what their own bar would look like, piece by hilarious piece. Listeners are treated to their off-the-cuff humor as they brainstorm a Midwest destination full of chaotic charm, unique events, and quirky features. The pair then open the line to fan callers, which sparks earnest, funny, and surprisingly poignant conversations about small business hustle, snowblowers, bull riding, heartbreak, and more. Throughout, the Midwest flavor and fun-loving spirit shine.

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Main Segment: Building the "Bellied Up Bar" (00:00–21:29)

Dreaming Up the Ultimate Midwest Bar

Key Features:

• Location Debate: Fargo, Milwaukee, Minneapolis? Or just one in each of their hometowns for “market research.”
• Décor & Memorabilia:
  • Everything drilled to the wall (ask guests to bring something for the wall and use the available drill and screws) (05:05)
  • Mural of Charlie and Myles riding a mechanical bull (05:26)
  • Notebooks to write down patrons’ stories, high school jerseys and yearbooks as menus (06:24)
• Games & Activities:
  • Bar dice, cribbage, decks of cards, tarot readings (02:05)
  • Mechanical bull—and a unique “mechanical rodeo clown” you dodge for practice (05:33)
  • Open mic nights for any performance—stand-up, karaoke, even open podcast night (“Open Podcast Mic,” 07:41)
  • Comedy room with tight seating for 50, “pack them in tight” for louder laughs (10:58)
  • Aquariums, casting competitions (“casting couch” with fishing poles), golf shotgun range, and a “wreck it room” for smashing glass (12:39, 20:12)
• Quirky Facilities:
  • Confessional booth/bar for privacy (03:37)
  • Boutique “hardware store” in the bar for trading/donating screws (02:20)
  • Day-drinker closet with beer vendor shirts (03:04)
  • Bread and butter flights, ramen, and a “bread bar” (14:24)
  • Milking parlor for true “bar-to-table” dairy (15:22)
• Paying & Trading:
  • Payment alternatives: 3 insults, a fishing spot, or an invite to your uncle’s hunting land (“whether he knows it or not” 09:30)
  • Large “Buy, Sell, Trade” section, possibly in an abandoned Kmart (10:02)
• Live Entertainment:
  • Roasts from house pianist Billy Deuce as you enter
  • Dumb and Dumber and Uncle Buck (Uncle Chuck) remakes looping on TV (17:29)
• Miscellaneous:
  • Slogan options: “Bar of America” or “Welcome to the Ditch Chicken—We’re the Bar of America!” (13:39)
  • “Bread Brand Bread”—Myles’s potential new business, with a future pitch (16:09)
  • “No money? Donate to the screw and bolt section or bring something to buy, sell, or trade” (09:49)

Memorable Quotes:

• “Confession—I’ve always wanted a little privacy for that in a bar. Normally you’re just, you know, raw-dogging that confession.” —Charlie (03:42)
• “If you don’t want to pay for any beers tonight, you better donate to the bolt-and-screw section.” —Myles (09:49)
• “Mechanical bull, yes, but how about a mechanical rodeo clown you have to dodge?” —Charlie (05:33)

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First Caller: Joe Blow, Snowblower King of Appleton (21:29–42:40)

From Hobby Hustle to Side Business

Joe, calling in from Appleton, is a full-time ag mechanic with a booming side gig: buying, fixing, and selling snowblowers. His self-proclaimed title: “Snowblower King of Appleton.” He shares tips, stories, and maybe a few branding lessons.

Discussion Points:

• Started with 10 snowblowers, expanded to over 30 per season (23:09)
• Avoids lawnmowers because of—you guessed it—dog crap (“Don’t want to deal with other people’s dog crap,” 25:36)
• Best blowers: Favors “Aarons” for durability; MTDs for cheap parts and DIY repairs (27:29)
• Wife’s response: “As long as it stays behind the garage, it’s fine” (30:04)
• Sales boost during blizzards, slow summers (31:12)
• Advertising: Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace work best, but “Marketplace is an algorithm game” (39:56)
• Future ideas: Repurposing old snowblowers for summer, billboard branding (“Joe Blow—Look me up on Craigslist!” 42:06)

Notable Quotes:

• “A carburetor is a carburetor—once you play with one, you can play with pretty much any of them.” —Joe (24:40)
• “I tell the guys at work I’m Joe Blow, and they put an ‘S’ at the end… that kind of insinuates the wrong services.” —Joe (39:04)
• “Just say ‘Joe Blow—Look me up on Craigslist.’ That is all you want to do!” —Charlie (42:06)

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Second Caller: Logan, Fourth-Generation Plumber & Amateur Bull Rider (48:44–78:46)

The Wild Life of a Young Bull Rider

Logan calls from a construction site at Valley Fair in Shakopee, MN, and immediately charms with his young-veteran blue-collar cred, pet pig, plumbing lineage, and candid tales of rodeo and heartbreak.

Discussion Points:

• Works as a plumber in a family business (50:00, 70:20)
• Lives with a “mini” pig (200 lbs) that is house-trained and acts like a dog (55:29; 55:56)
• Amateur bull riding origin story: signed up accidentally for the pro division, “broke the arena record for furthest flown: 14 ft” (56:58)
• As the “old man” of bull riding at 22, aiming for eight seconds but has only hit four (61:39)
• Favorite part: adrenaline rush, crowd cheering, “It feels like the first time every time” (66:08)
• Injuries: ACL, concussion, but “never hurt in the sport, only at the sport” (62:01)
• Recently dumped—heartbreak compounded by surgery and immobility; friends use his pig to pick up girls (73:11; 74:40)
• “All I want is a smart girl who, if I get hurt, doesn’t look at me like I’m a vegetable.” (76:36)

Memorable Moments & Quotes:

• “[Bull riding’s] gotta be the worst profession to be an amateur in.” —Charlie (54:14)
• “I broke a record for furthest flown: 14 ft.” —Logan (57:20)
• “Sometimes you last four seconds.” —Charlie, riffing on riding and romance (61:28)
• “All my friends bring girls over to use my pig to pick up girls.” —Logan (74:40)
• On his breakup: “All it took was you being immobile for her to be like, ‘I don’t think it’s worth it.’” —Myles (73:43)
• “You gotta lean into the ick for a while—through ‘ictus’ and health!” —Charlie (79:39)

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Final Reflections: The "Ick" in Relationships & Dessert Banter (78:49–end)

• Charlie & Myles mull over the concept of “the ick” in dating, inspired by Logan’s heartbreak (79:27).
• Personal confessions about moments they’ve given their partners “the ick” (Miles’s dainty jump on the canopy bed, 80:50).
• Lots of banter about Midwest relationships, mental note to always tip your bartender and tell your friends you love them.

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Notable Quotes Summary

• “If you don’t want to pay for beer, be prepared to donate to the screw and bolt section!”
• “A carburetor is a carburetor.”
• “You got a taste of that adrenaline, now it’s never going away… always chasing the rush.”
• “All my friends use my pig to pick up girls; I might need to start charging them rent.”
• “You gotta lean into the ick for a little bit… through ictus and health!”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00–21:29 – Designing the Bellied Up bar, brainstorming features and activities
• 21:29–42:40 – Joe Blow, Snowblower King of Appleton, on running a backyard business
• 48:44–78:46 – Logan: plumbing, pigs, heartbreak, and the dangers (and comedy) of amateur bull riding
• 79:27–81:46 – Reflections on “the ick,” relationships, and “ictus and health” vows

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Tone, Style & Character

The episode is every bit as improvisational, jovial, and relatable as Bellied Up fans expect: full of Midwest flavor, low-key wisdom, and endless riffing. Both hosts maintain their regional charm, mixing genuine advice with self-deprecating hilarity, and invite callers to join in the fun and vulnerability. The result is an episode that feels like hanging out at the best small-town bar in America—where plans are hatched, stories are swapped, and everyone leaves with a smile.

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Missed the episode?
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Transcript

[A]

All right, Miles.

[B]

Hey, folks. Welcome back.

[A]

Shoot, I got so excited, I wasn't even going to say hello to everyone. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Bellied up podcast. Miles, I'm thinking we should own a bar. It's time. I think we should make the Bellied up bar because, you know, I mean,

[B]

honestly, Charlie, we should have our own bar. We should have one in Fargo.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

One in Milwaukee and one in Minneapolis, because that's either hometowns or halfway between, basically.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then we could just do all of our podcasts at our own bars.

[A]

Right.

[B]

But then we also wouldn't get to be able to see all the cool bars.

[A]

It is true. I think we should just stick with two. One in our each hometowns. And then we can continue borrowing. Borrowing. Not stealing.

[B]

Market research.

[A]

Market research on other bars. And just the coolest things we find, we find our version of that in our bar. Like, right there, they've got a plane made out of Coors Light cans.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, and that's kind of cool. Maybe in our bar we could do like a bicycle, you know?

[B]

Sure.

[A]

And we could do it after that one guy who got all horned up about the people riding bikes in his town.

[B]

That would be funny collars. And do our whole Bellied up theme around it.

[A]

Yes, yes.

[B]

Like, we can. On the menu. We could do, like, ramen and have it. Ethan's Ramen.

[A]

Ethan's Ramen.

[B]

You know, and obviously, the bar would be called the.

[A]

The. The. It would be called the Ditch Chicken. Yeah.

[B]

I actually, if I ever did a bar, it would be called the Ditch Chicken.

[A]

By the way, it's a. I like claiming that right now. So I don't.

[B]

I claimed it a while ago.

[A]

Oh, you're lucky. I don't listen. And I think that we want to have a stained glass situation. The question is. Oh, we need a stained glass in honor of our tarot card reader. So we need stained glasses of the.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we would just like, you know, just like, we'd have bar dice. We'd have cribbage.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, we have decks of cards. We'd also. You could get a tarot reading at this bar.

[A]

Oh, yeah, that would be cool. That's better idea. Actual tarot reading cards.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

See, I like that. I start up with an idea. You're like, that idea sucks. Let me make it palatable. That was good.

[B]

You know, and then we just like, we invented in another bar having the hardware store connected.

[D]

Mm.

[B]

You know, we have a hardware. Like, you could just pick up we, it's basically like you donate things to the section, right. So if you got some extra screws laying around, you go and just put them in the section. And so guys that are in need of maybe just a couple of screws, they can go to the section. Me like, ah, this should work for me.

[A]

Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah.

[B]

And then we obviously, like, we, we said this before on the podcast, we have a, a room where people bring their stuff and guys just all try and fix it together.

[A]

Perfect. And also for the people just trying to day drink without judgment, we'll have a closet there with various beer vendor shirts so you can pretend to be a beer vendor.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Bunch of broken laptops. So you can just pop that up and you know, just.

[B]

We'll kind of end up looking like a, like a hipster bar with all the lap with all laptops out.

[A]

Well, we won't make it. Just. We'll have notebooks in there too. We'll diversify it. We'll have a flat, flat. A box of flat pencils, you know, so that you can think that you're, you know, trying to remodel the bar. And we'll cover all your stories. You come to the bar, you write down your story and we know the story for anyone who comes in there. Anyone who calls will have exactly what you need them told.

[B]

And you know what else we're going to have?

[A]

What's that?

[B]

We're going to have a confessional booth.

[A]

Yes. And privacy for the confessions is something I've always wanted in bars. You know, usually you're just doing it, you raw dog in that confession. Sometimes you don't want other people to

[B]

hear it was right. Yeah, yeah. There'd be like a section of the bar where you can go sit in it and there's a screen and you can just tell all the stuff to the bartender without having to have that face to face. Just like, you know.

[A]

Yes. Yeah, that can be the smoking section since Father Tom still rips those ciggies.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do cigs inside.

[A]

Yeah, that's, that's cool. It's good to bring that one back.

[B]

It's not going to be banned in our bar. It just might be a little frowned.

[A]

A little frowned upon. But Father Tommy gets a pass. Yeah, he always, always smells. And we'll have his favorite cologne there too, because he always smells like cologne and cigarettes. You know, I think that's pretty good.

[B]

You know how your, your, your priest smells.

[A]

Oh my God, dude, you're an altar boy for that many years. You know that your priest smell.

[B]

Dude, you smell like incense.

[A]

Incense and peppermints. Yeah, no, we had that too. Actually. A little incense would be nice for Easter week. That might. That might go. Go into sacrilegious.

[B]

Yeah, you gotta. It was just cool with those. Stop at the confessional here.

[A]

Okay, that sounds good. Let's see here.

[B]

Do you. So how much Miles and Charlie memorabilia will there be at our bar?

[A]

I think it's less. Miles and char. Maybe to start. It's miles, like, just to fill up everything because we can't have any wall showing. It's. Everything's gotta be. And we need. We need people can bring stuff in. And we'll have a table with screws and a drill because nothing is going on our wall that's not drilled to the wall. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, but I just mean, like, you know, maybe we could do, like a mural of you and I, like, riding a bull together or something.

[A]

That would be cool. You know, that would be really cool. We should have it of us riding the mechanical bull and. Because we should definitely have a mechanical bull and. And a rodeo clown thing from a rodeo clown. Because you've seen a mechanical bullet bars, right? You've never seen a mechanical rodeo clown.

[B]

So you're gonna ride one.

[A]

No, you're not gonna ride it. You're just gonna put the bowl. We're gonna give the bull an extra spring. And as a rodeo con, you gotta dodge a bowl. I mean, you want practice to be a rodeo con. How many more places can you.

[B]

Hey, I'm on board, you know, don't get me fired. You can always tell when I disagree with Charlie, and he don't like that. He starts getting loud.

[A]

You know, I'm the second oldest and you're younger than me. Okay, so ptsd. Yeah. Oh, we do have to have your high school football picture there.

[B]

Yeah. Well, yeah, Stats will hang my jersey in the rafters.

[A]

I look like an Applebee's.

[B]

It'll look like. It'll basically look like an Applebee's. For my. Near my high school in Fargo.

[A]

And I want seven copies of your high school yearbook so it can be open to all the pages you're.

[B]

Yeah, that would be the reading. That'll be our menu. Will just be my old yearbook. You know, like, if Miles is yearbook, it'll say on the front, and then the menu will be inside for food.

[A]

You know how when you go to some places, though, they have the Bible out on a reading table, you know, and it's never opened. Like, we'll just have your yearbook always open as well. How do you feel about, like, theme nights? Like trivia night, Karaoke night? Definitely karaoke. Definitely karaoke. Because we're going to have to give people, you know, we got to do open mic. Right? Open mic would be great. Karaoke. I love bingo. We'll definitely. We'll have to steal a slot machine.

[B]

When I say open mic, we mean all open. Like, we're not doing. It's not open mic. Stand up. This is just an open mic and you can go up there. You and a buddy could just podcast for a while if you want. Yeah, we can do. We could do open podcast night. You get hot five, you and a buddy go up there, and that's maybe how we can find our next. The next talent.

[A]

That's good.

[B]

Why are we. Why is there no open mic podcast podcasting? We could start that.

[A]

An open mic. Yeah. I mean, there's Kill Tony for the stand up and that's. That's only. Yeah, it's stand up. So then if you just have an

[B]

open mic, two open mics, and then also it's like, oh, I came here with myself. I'd love to podcast. We can start pairing people up. Maybe you find the next gold. Maybe next. Find the next.

[A]

Yeah, no, I agree. It's not Kill Tony. It's Live Tommy, you know. Right?

[B]

Yeah, Live Tommy.

[A]

Yeah. And it also could be Live Tommy or Tommy Live Tommy live, you know, or Charlie live or Miles Bellied up live. Bellied up live. Oh, yeah.

[B]

At our next Bellied Up Live, we should do an open podcast mic segment.

[A]

That's a great idea.

[B]

We start a timer. We do like, everyone gets like three minutes, them and a buddy. Or we just start pairing people up and we have them do podcasts and then we. We rate them afterwards.

[A]

That's good. I. I think we'll definitely find out if we need to dedicate a whole section to this in our park.

[B]

Yeah, it's actually great.

[A]

Good way to test it out. We need. We need a piano there for Billy Deuce, because Billy Deuce in the Bellied up lives, he can make songs throughout the night for people he sees coming in their own personality.

[B]

Yeah, Honestly, it'd be great if the piano's right there when you walk in. And then like, the way you're greeted in the bar is Billy Deuce does a little roast of you as you walk in.

[A]

That's informed. That's real good.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. You know, there's that one restaurant where they like put the dunce hat on. You and they like, yeah, dicks. I'd like a version of that where everyone's just kind of insulting each other all night in good fun.

[A]

And I think it's kind of. If you don't have money, that's fine. You're. You're still welcome here. You can pay with, like, either three insults, or you can pay with one fishing spot, or you can pay with an invite to your uncle's hunting land, whether he knows it or not.

[B]

Yeah, good idea.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Like, if you don't want to pay for any beers at night, you better make sure that you are donating something to the screw and and bolt section.

[A]

Or bring some to buy, sell, or trade.

[B]

Yes. You know, we could have a buy, seller, trade section.

[A]

That would be. We're gonna need a decent amount of square footage.

[B]

There's a ton of Kmarts that went

[A]

out of business in Fargo. You guys got square footage over there? Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Imagine doing a bar in old Kmart.

[A]

You know, that's not bad, because then we could put all the buy, seller, trade stuff up there on the roof when we're not. That might. That might structurally not be a good idea.

[B]

We have enough square footage in the Kmart.

[A]

Well, we're going to have a lot of buy, sell, or trade stuff. I keep pushing this like it's the next big thing, although that roofs aren't really built for that kind of things. Never mind. We'll have a yard out back for Joe Blow, the snow blow king of.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Appleton will have a spot for some of his snowmobiles when they creep out past the garage behind him.

[B]

So here's a question for you. If we were going to do a little comedy section, how many chairs do we need for a good comedy room?

[A]

Well, you want to get probably, you know, 50.

[B]

Done. 50 chairs and that's it.

[A]

That's good. Yeah. And then pack them in tight. Yeah. You know, you want people uncomfortably close.

[B]

I want the ceilings low. Yeah.

[A]

Let those laughs reverberate. We have very fragile egos, us comedians. We need laughs always amplified. Trophies. I want to. I would like to bring in some of my old trophies to the bar.

[B]

I'd like to bring in my taekwondo second place trophy.

[A]

That's pretty sick. I would like to sparring.

[B]

Second place.

[A]

All your rollerblades, Charlie. I would bring my rollerblades in my rollerblade. Rollerblades, yes. I'd like to bring in. When I was a kid, I was fishing at the muskie competition. They have a muskie expo and they had a casting contest And I casted and I hit the light and I broke it. And the whole bar started clapping. And I was a kid, I thought I was in trouble, you know? And I looked up at my dad, and he was laughing, too. I was like, thank God. And then the guy gave me a little. Like, a little ribbon, you know, I do casting competitions. Honestly, that would be great.

[B]

Yeah. Like, they could do it from a couch. Then we can call it the casting couch.

[A]

Yes. Dude.

[B]

Black. Just in case.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Spills happen.

[A]

We should really put a lot of fishing poles there so people understand it's a play on words and no one's. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know. But I do like the idea of doing that. Oh, yeah. Like, just the way you got the golf simulator. We should have a casting simulator, right?

[B]

Yes, we should.

[A]

Yeah. And that's a great idea. That's fantastic.

[B]

So I don't need as much space as a golf simulator, too.

[A]

I think you need the same amount of space, possibly more, because there's hooks involved.

[B]

Well, you don't have to. So, you know, like, did you ever play that video game that was just a handheld thing where you, like, you. You. It's based off emotion you cast, and there's a screen on it, and then you like. Yeah, it's like this long.

[A]

No, let's do that. I. I like. You want to get the feel of the.

[B]

Or just like a Wii remote.

[A]

You want to get the. I think let's just get a little more square foot. We're in a Kmart. We got space.

[B]

We'll get a super Kmart.

[A]

Yeah, we got space. No, I want. I want a real. And I want an aquarium. I want an aquarium. A big one.

[B]

Sick if you belly up to the bar and the whole back wall is just fish swimming around.

[A]

I think it should be the aquarium room. And this is the only.

[B]

Okay, so. Yeah, we got so many rooms. This is going to be like a maze. We're going to need a map. This is like Mall of America.

[A]

Bar of America, dude.

[D]

Boom.

[B]

That could be our slogan.

[A]

Bar of America.

[B]

Welcome to the ditch, chicken. We're the bar of America.

[A]

Yes. That's great. Way perfect, dude. Perfect. And. Yeah. Oh, and we've got to have. We got to have Keith's book on display. Yeah, we'll put that right next to your yearbook. Your yearbook and Keith's book so people can read about his time in prison. I'm feeling good about this. Oh, some Barron's Old Fashioned Brandy. No plug intended there. Just. You want to have the world's Best brandy, Miles. That's it.

[B]

I got to add our bar.

[A]

Yep, you got to. What do you want to add in there, Miles? Drinks wise.

[B]

Yeah, we just have some bush lights. We could bread flights. Oh, yeah, bread flights. Wait, basically our. If we got Ethan's Ramen, we're gonna have, you know, you've heard of a salad bar. We're gonna have Miles's bread bar. It's gonna be an all you can eat bread buffet. And there'll be garlic butter, butter, honey butter. Basically all versions. Bread flight. So what you're doing is you're gonna go. You're gonna go to the bread bar. You can get all. You may have all breads. We're talking. We're talking bread sticks. We're talking sourdough bread. We're talking King's Hawaiian rolls. We're talking cheddar biscuits, regular biscuits, English muffins, donuts. Any type of bread will be at the bar. And then you can get a butterflight is what I think we need to do.

[A]

A butterfly would be great. That would be awesome. And we'll. We'll also have a milking parlor there past the aquarium, so we can go bar to table. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

It's true. Also, what do you think? I. Jared told me last night at dinner that I should start my own bread. Bread brand.

[A]

Yeah, I think you gotta learn how to say it first. But as soon as.

[B]

Well, that's not gonna be the name of it. It's not gonna be bread brand.

[A]

I think it should be bread brand bread. Have you tried some of that bread brand bread?

[B]

Would you buy my bread online?

[A]

Miles, I buy anything you're selling. Except all the T shirts I've just taken for free. Yeah, yeah. I buy your bread. Well, what makes this bread good? Miles, you want to pitch me this bread?

[B]

Well, I haven't made it yet.

[A]

Well, you obviously have some ideas percolating. Unless it's too soon to like, literally.

[B]

Last night, Jared pitched this idea to me, said I should do a bread brand.

[A]

Jared, did. Did you cut yourself in on some of that profit? You think Miles will break you up? It's still in the oven. Okay. Still brewing. Yeah. All right, all right. Some bread does brew. Yeast is involved. Oh, I want to roll some pretzels. I want to show off my pretzel rolling skills.

[B]

Okay. We have a pretzel rolling station.

[A]

You got your Brad, I got the pretzels. Charlie would use it once the never again. Pretty much.

[B]

He would. You know, when he's in town, he would go and do it. Do a show, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Then not like a comedy show, like a bread rolling show, but then we would also, we would have like, you know, like gals can go paint a picture and drink wine. Yeah, you would do like where you go and you watch a tutorial video of Charlie Barron's and drink Barron's Brandy and roll pretzels.

[A]

That would be great. That would be great. Yeah, we'll. We'll do it. Very method. I'll roll it.

[B]

Uncle. Uncle Charlie's. Auntie Annie's.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I thought you're going Uncle Buck, Uncle Chuck, but yeah, Uncle Char, you and

[B]

I could re remake Uncle Buck and you can be instead of Uncle Buck, you can be Uncle Chuck and we'll remake the movie and that could be playing on the TVs.

[A]

That's a great. Oh yeah, and we have to have our full dumb and Dumber remake now that our super bowl commercial went well. Yeah. So I'm ready for it, dude. I am ready for this venture.

[B]

How we're gonna pay for it. We're just gonna plaster Nicolay Law's face everywhere and he'll pay for it.

[A]

Yeah, we'll call. We'll make the whole side of just a billboard. Yeah, yeah, we'll sell billboard space. That'll be it. I mean it's the whole roof.

[B]

You said the best investment you can do is put a billboard on your roof.

[A]

Yeah, we'll make it somewhat close to an airport so it gets those eyeballs.

[B]

And we're a super Kmart, so we got a lot of roof space.

[A]

Yeah. And we'll start paying the planes to fly over it. You know, we'll start bribing pilots. We should locate next to the airport so we can get the pilots hammered and then send them home with that idea and say, well, well, they're going

[B]

to be sober by the time they're flying Car. That should be intentionally getting pilots drunk.

[A]

Well, they, they can. They're allowed to drink, Miles. They're okay, you're right. So get them just drinking. But we gotta find a way to, you know. Well, we'll sweet talk them. You're right. Pilots should not be drunk. Period. End of discussion.

[B]

You know much, this bar would be a disaster without me.

[A]

Yeah, you have a bunch of drunk pilots crashing into it and we're done.

[B]

Next idea is like, hey, we could get the next generation drinking. We go to the high school and recruit kids to come drink at our bar. Is that your next idea?

[A]

Newspaper had like bellied up, bar goes belly Up.

[B]

That's probably what would happen. It would just be a money pit for Charlie and I. Yeah, sorry, wife and kid, no vacation this year. We gotta pay for the debt on the bar. Yeah, and sorry, little buddy, your college tuition got pissed away. As bellied up bar,

[A]

we just have a bunch of dead walleyes floating in the tank. We're just throwing them outside for the eagles.

[B]

They're like, wow, that's a really weird green glass wall that they have there.

[A]

What's floating up top?

[B]

All of a sudden, there's just one eyeball that's pressed up against the thing. Holy. What is that? Is that an aquarium?

[A]

Was. Sure was now.

[B]

Oh, Chuck.

[A]

Just a breeding ground for red, blue, green algae. Well, Miles, let's see what the fans think. If you guys want to contribute to our bar, send us ideas and. Yeah, give us a call sometime. We want to hear from you.

[B]

And also, we're going to have a load. A dock out back, like. Like a loading dock. And if I'm stealing from the ice bar in Yankton, South Dakota, everyone can go smash their glass bottles underneath the deck back there.

[A]

Oh, that's a great idea. Very fun. That's. It's good to just get that aggression out.

[B]

Yeah, it'll be our version of the, like, wreck it room or whatever where you go smash stuff with bats.

[A]

That got me on the idea. You like golf? I, you know, and you also like hunting, you know, and I'm a fan of hunting and sometimes golf when I'm with you and you don't yell me, but I would think that it would be great to have a little golf shotgun range. You know, you hit the ball, you shoot the ball, you know, and 60

[B]

degree wedge out there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Orange balls.

[A]

That would be the sound. And yeah, we probably would have to get some. Some insurance for. For certain.

[B]

Yeah, I'm. You don't have to worry about that. I'll get, I'll get all that.

[A]

If you. If this sounds like something, I don't

[B]

want to bog down your creativity with the logistics like insurance.

[A]

Okay. I'll give you the ideal and then you say, all right, here's what we can afford. Okay. All right, all right. We're looking for sponsors, you guys. We're looking for insurance. We're looking for all of it. Give us a holler.

[D]

This is Joel. Is this Miles and Charlie?

[B]

Yeah, Joe, you got Miles and Charlie here on the Bellied up podcast.

[A]

Hey, Joe.

[D]

Holy crap.

[A]

Where are you going with that gun in your hand?

[D]

That's, that's, that's Jimi Hendrix.

[A]

Yeah. There you go.

[D]

That's a good one. That's a good one. You got Every Deer Season.

[A]

Every deer season is a great one. Absolutely. Is that your favorite Joe song, Joe

[D]

Boy?

[C]

I don't know.

[D]

That's a good question. I. It's a good one. I'm trying to think of any other Joe songs.

[B]

Cotton Eye, Joe Cotton.

[D]

I joke. That's a good one.

[B]

That song is a Joe though.

[D]

Actually. No, you know, that's. That's not a bad one. You know, that gets the white folk turned, right? Isn't that what they say?

[B]

Yeah, that is very true.

[D]

So where are you guys drinking at today?

[A]

1029 up here in Minneapolis. My guy, bras on the wall and Frank is here. What's on your mind?

[D]

Well, I have snowblower issues.

[A]

Oh no. Well, good time to have them.

[D]

Well, so you are talking to Joe Blow, the snowblower king of Appleton.

[A]

I don't know if you heard this, this is amazing.

[B]

Is this Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration?

[D]

No, no, no. This is. This is Joel.

[B]

This is Joe Blow, the. The snowblower king of Appleton. I know.

[D]

Correct. Well, this, this might be self prop. Self proclaimed.

[A]

I've heard this guy can blow, Miles. I've heard he can blow with the best of them.

[B]

All right, so do you. Do you sell snowblowers?

[D]

Yeah, it's kind of a hobby of mine. So I'm a full time agriculture mechanic. So just kind of on the side for fun, I started buying and selling snowblowers. So what started out with one season, probably like 10 snowblowers, probably less than that. I'm now to the point where I've touched over 30 of them this year. Buying and selling them out of my garage.

[A]

Wow. How much money have you made?

[D]

Is Uncle Sam listening?

[B]

No.

[D]

Okay. All right. Because hypothetically, let's say this is less than 10, but better than 7 this year.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Dollars. $10.

[A]

I didn't think you were actually going to answer that question. I just wanted to ask a rude question and see what Miles would do, but he just stared straight ahead. That's pretty cool, man.

[B]

That wasn't that rude of a question.

[C]

I was.

[A]

Oh. Getting into the business mechanics. Do you want to expand your blowing business, Joe Blow?

[D]

Well, so that's kind of what my.

[B]

How much blowing do you want to be doing, Joe?

[D]

Well, I want to be doing it year round if possible. Because like, you know, you kind of got your one season of the year here when there's snow on the ground and then after that. Yeah. You're kind of twiddling your thumbs all summer with 20 snowblowers in your backyard like I got right now.

[B]

Does the snowblower knowledge and skill go to lawnmowers? Do they transfer? Well, they're both small engines, right?

[D]

Yeah. I mean, it. It. A carburetor is a carburetor. Once you, you know, play with one, you. You can play with pretty much any of them.

[A]

Joe, I want that just to be your tagline right there. A carburetor carb.

[D]

That's pretty good. I like that. We should make a T shirt on that.

[A]

Yeah, you should. You should.

[D]

I should. I should.

[A]

So you think you could transfer into lawnmowers a little bit? Joe, Blow.

[D]

Well, so here's the thing, is I

[B]

took a lawnmower to Joe Mo Jo.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Just to turn over the billboard.

[D]

That's. That's true. But that doesn't fix all the 20 snowblowers I have in my backyard over the summer.

[B]

Okay, sorry. Continue on.

[D]

But. Okay, so the reason I don't do lawnmowers. Well, number one is the real reason is, you know, I'm a farm mechanic in the summer is. Is when things get a little bit more busy at work.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But the other more important reason is I did take a lawnmower in once on trade for a snowblower. And I'm sitting there working in my garage under the lawnmower, and I keep. Keep getting the smell. And I'm thinking, God, what the heck is this? It. This kind of stinks. It smells like dog crap. And once you know it. Yeah, it's dog crap. The whole bottom of the lawnmower. So I'm kind of stepping away from the lawnmowers because I don't want to deal with other people's dog crap.

[A]

So. Whole under end of the lawnmower.

[B]

Unbelievable prank by that guy. He's like, all right, he didn't want him. He wouldn't give me any money for this. For this lawnmower. So I'm just gonna run over a big pile of dog and then bring it to his house.

[A]

I'm gonna go mow the dog park just for fun.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So, yeah, so, yeah, that was.

[D]

That was my one experience with lawnmower so far. So I'm trying to stay away from them if possible. But I mean, you know, a deal's a deal, man. You know, you really can't. You know, if the money is green, you gotta chase it, right?

[A]

Yeah. You got. You gotta deal with some dogs sometimes.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Well, what's, what's your plan? Are you trying to start your own business full time right now?

[D]

It's not really a full time gig just because I got a good enough gig at work. It's just something that's just fun on the side to do. I mean, I, I got the dealership background working at a, an ag dealership. So it's something where, you know, I'm. I don't think I'm going to go full time big time anytime soon, per se, but definitely something where I'm able to take those skill sets that I have from work and seeing, you know, how a dealership runs and apply it to my garage and which kind of sets me apart from other people doing this kind of a gig, I think.

[B]

Wow, that's cool.

[A]

What's the best blower on the market,

[D]

you think, Joe boy, You know, living in Appleton, being kind of close to brilliant, a guy's got to kind of lean towards the errands.

[A]

Doesn't he love the errands? Oh, yeah.

[D]

Gotta. Yep, yep. And those are a heavy duty duty snowblower. Let me tell you.

[A]

They don't mess around.

[D]

No. However, a guy like me, where I am able to fix things and, you know, I can put a new gearbox together if need be. I kind of like the MTD line of machines, you know, just parts are cheap, you can get them off Amazon a lot of times. And yeah, you just, you make do with what you got with those ones and I kind of like the control setup on them better. But boy, if you're going to be a home operator, you know, using your own equipment, definitely your Aaron's, your Toros, those bigger names like that, those are heavy duty machines.

[A]

How does your wife feel about this new line of work?

[D]

So that was something where, yeah, it did take up, you know, pretty much every night of the week you run out to the garage after the family's bed and you spend most of your life out in the garage. But she does see the dollars coming in and understands that, you know, like I said, you know, you gotta, gotta chase the money, right?

[B]

Yeah. I mean, like, what's quality time with your family worth? You found out between 7 and 10,000 DOL.

[D]

Well, the hope is to have something to pass down to the daughter right. When she's old enough to take over the business, you know.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Isn't that the American dream?

[A]

Yeah. How old's your daughter?

[D]

She is just over a year now.

[A]

So have you gotten her helping you out with some carburetors?

[D]

Not Quite yet. There has been a few shop days where she kind of sits in a stroller and kind of hangs out taking a nap or so.

[A]

Okay. But Shimbaya. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Those fumes put them right to sleep, I've heard.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's good.

[A]

It builds up their fumunity.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah. You get used to those carburetor gases when you're. When you're a kid. They won't affect you. When you get older, it's kind of like, you know, any sort of getting immunity. I like that.

[A]

Yeah, that's good.

[B]

Yeah. Like, we all played in Chuck E. Cheese as kids, so now, like, we were.

[C]

We.

[B]

Covid wasn't as bad for us.

[D]

No, that's true.

[C]

That's true.

[A]

Licking pinball machines.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So is your wife, like, get these out of my backyard before summer, or is she okay with you just keeping them there as lawn ornaments?

[D]

So right now, they're behind the garage, but I keep accumulating them where they're kind of spilling out from behind the garage into where she can sit on the couch and. And see the lovely collection as it's growing. And, you know, she's fine with it as long as it stays behind the garage.

[B]

Yeah. Just put up a fence so she can't see it.

[C]

Oh, that's.

[D]

That's true. That's true. But that. That, you know, cuts into the whole profit margins here.

[B]

Yeah, that is true.

[A]

A few nice tarps. How about that?

[D]

You know, I don't know if that's gonna cut it for her either. I think the. The snowblower is a little better looking than a tarp flapping in the world.

[B]

You got to start working faster. Those are your two options.

[D]

Well, it doesn't matter how quick you, you know, you work on them to get them going. It's about selling them. And, I mean, I could have all. I could have.

[B]

Inventory problem.

[D]

It's. It's kind of inventory. Well, at least when the summer comes around, I mean, that blizzard that Elsa that came through, that was a blessing. Let me tell you. What.

[A]

How many pretty much blowers you upload there?

[D]

That was. There was. I had five machines left that were ready to go winter ready, and. Yep, I got all of them. All of them were sold. Which was. Which was good.

[B]

That's sweet.

[A]

So sounds like you need to hire another mechanic. You probably could have sold another 510 there if you had them ready to roll.

[D]

I probably could have, but, boy, that. You know, you have that. That dry spell that we had in January, February, where it Was just. It didn't feel like we were gonna get much more snow. You start losing some motivation to work on snowblowers.

[A]

That's the problem right there. Joe Blow. You always gotta be ready. What's your billboard game?

[D]

Right, like my billboard game right now? I don't really have any physical things. I do have my marketplace ads and my Craigslist ads. That's about all that I'm running off. And my front yard, which I'm sure my neighbor who had his house for sale really enjoyed. The snowblowers with the for sale sign on them right next door.

[A]

Can you put up a billboard? Are you on a corner lot at all?

[D]

No, I'm not.

[B]

You think the next move for Joe Blow is to purchase a billboard and put it up in his yard?

[A]

Or on his roof? Or on his roof. There's some people have like houses next, next to a highway, and the best investment you can do is just put a billboard on your roof because you can make so much extra money. Just consider it, Joe Blow. Okay. I know a thing or two.

[D]

It's not a bad idea. But between me and 441, there's a pretty good, like, sound wall that I don't think they'd be able to see it. But I like the thinking. I like the thinking.

[B]

Yeah, maybe summertime, you know, like, it depends. Like, are you willing to take a discount in the summer just to get rid of inventory? Like everything's gotta go.

[D]

You know, there's, there is that whole philosophy of just keeping inventory moving. And I definitely, you know, if, if I can keep things moving and still make a little bit on it. Yeah, definitely. I'm.

[B]

I'm run a boat, run a bogo sale in the summer and have a plane fly the advertisement around the nearest lake.

[A]

That's smart.

[B]

Or you know what you need to do? You need to set up outside a good ice fishing spot and catch the folks as they're coming in and off the ice.

[A]

You know, that's true.

[B]

Shanty to shanty marketing, you know, instead of door to door.

[A]

Yep, I like it. Bring beers and flyers and really embrace the Joe Blow of it. Another thing you could do is figure out how can you repurpose a snowblower for the summer? I mean.

[D]

Yes, that's the key. That's the key.

[A]

You could do it to dig up some gardens, you know, is that a positive killer option? Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Well, I was thinking about that. You'd have to. You'd have to do some work to the auger.

[C]

Right.

[D]

Well, there you go take the guards off. Now you're sounding like a farmer, Charlie.

[A]

Yeah, I think. I think that's your move right now. And you know, I mean, yeah, you just. A lot of people are looking for those, and they're. They're overpriced, you know.

[D]

That's true. That's true. And if you can buy one machine to do two things.

[A]

Yes, yes. And just imagine the commercial you can make.

[D]

I'm trying to. What would that look like?

[B]

What is the commercial you can make, Chuck?

[A]

Well, okay. I can say, hi, I'm Joe Blows, the best blow in Appleton. And what I want to do is tell you how you can repurpose your snowblower for the summertime. Got a garden you want to re. You got a garden you want to start? Watch this. And then you just slam it on the ground. The shield comes right off. And then just start. You're the shamwow guy of snow blowers and augers. All right, Just sham while this situation. See, I found.

[D]

So are we thinking. So. So is this. This going to be radio or this? Tv.

[A]

Tv, yeah.

[D]

TV ad.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So it works well on radio too, though.

[D]

All right.

[B]

Too visual, right?

[A]

Yeah. I mean, and then smart. Yeah, yeah. Which model do you think would work best as an auger?

[D]

Well, as an auger or as a rototiller, you mean?

[A]

Or as a rototiller. My bad.

[D]

Rototiller. Probably something that's rusted out because then you don't have to take so many shields off because they're all gone.

[A]

There you go. Yeah. Just embrace that fully and that opens the inventory you can get. You can find a bunch of snowblowers that are pretty much done and you, you know, you can give them a whole new life.

[D]

Well, and that's true. I get a lot of people actually who message they want to find snowblowers like that and they just want the drives. They use them for things like trailer movers. They want to build and they want to build a ice fishing hauling gear where you like. You. You hook it up, you put studded tires on it and you hook it up behind in front of your. Your otter sled and you ride your otter sled out to. Out to the ice fishing spot.

[A]

I like that. Yeah. Yeah. The world is your blower here, Joe.

[D]

The world.

[A]

I don't want to hang out.

[B]

Did we lose them?

[D]

No, I'm still here, guys. I'm still here, guys. I'm just trying to think of how I could go off of that. I couldn't I. I couldn't keep up with you. To go on the back and forth on the world is your blower not quite like a garden dig it kind of a thing. I wasn't.

[B]

Life's a garden dig it. It's like.

[D]

Yeah, that's what you're kind of going off of with the whole, life's your blower. And I couldn't think of the. The dig it part of the blower. Life's your blower.

[A]

Yeah, life's your blower. Don't you, don't you know her? I. That's terrible. But you know what? You're gonna just start ripping. Ripping shots and ripping taglines. Pull that carburetor one we had. A carburetor is a carburetor. Just start doing one like three second ads. I'm Joe Blow. The best blow in all of Appleton. Carburetor is a carburetor and that's it. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

He's the blower king of Appleton. Is that what he said? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[B]

Snowblower, king of apple.

[A]

Snowblower king of Appleton. Yeah. Get a crown. You'll need that for the billboards. Get a staff, you know.

[B]

How's that sound, Joe? You in on that?

[D]

That's doable. I mean, I mean, we gotta be a little bit careful here because we're not licensed nor insured. And we pass those savings right on to you, the customer.

[A]

That's it. That's your commercial. Right?

[D]

I did steal that. I can't. I can't just give that away. I've heard that before. I can't claim that as my own.

[B]

And you're businessman. That's who you are. That's what you're getting when you go with Joe Blow.

[D]

That is true. Hey, I try to make sure these are good, solid machines that I can stand behind. I tell you that when you buy

[B]

them from me, Joe blows the competition away.

[A]

There you go. We're just Joe Blows.

[B]

Joe is blowing the competition now. That doesn't work.

[A]

No, that's not where we want to go with that one. Although that's another business entity right there.

[B]

You see a different LLC for that one.

[D]

So when I talk to the guys at work about this, you know, because there's guys talking at work about what you're doing on the weekend, they always. I tell them I'm Joe Blow and they put an S at the end of blow and I tell them that kind of is insinuating the wrong services that I'm providing. So we got to be careful about

[B]

Be careful on Craigslist with that name.

[A]

You get more in the misconnections.

[B]

I accidentally posted on missed connections. I'm getting a lot of inquiries. It's kind of wild.

[D]

Hey, but the whole click thing isn't that important. Getting part of the whole click, click through rate click algorithm.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

There's something like that click algorithm on Craigslist.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Which we're on that. We're on the Craigslist. We're on the. The Facebook Marketplace.

[A]

So what's been more lucrative for you?

[D]

Facebook is the one that really, really hits home. Which. Which is unfortunate. I'm not a fan of Marketplace, to be honest with you, because they just. It's a whole algorithm game. They try to. Facebook Marketplace looks at you and what you searched up and tries to. They think they know what you want to see, and that's what they'll show you. Craigslist, on the other hand, it's just, you know, it's classified. So, like, right now, you. And. You and Miles could probably open up Marketplace right now, have the same area and search up the same exact thing. And Facebook will show you two different set. Like. Like Charlie, your phone will show one thing for ads, and then your phone will show you the other thing.

[B]

Because, like, if Charlie searches Joe below, it's me. Way different than me.

[D]

Correct. Yeah. You might not see my ads right away because of.

[B]

I'll see your ads. Charlie will.

[D]

Oh, that's. It all depends on your search history.

[A]

You know, Miles, let me tell you this right now. I think Joe Blow could do well. Imagine a guy looking for a fella, and then he's gonna need a snowblower. So eyeballs are eyeballs. All right.

[B]

Yeah, I agree.

[A]

And bought. You know, anyways.

[B]

Anyways.

[A]

Well, listen, Joe, we are. We kind of didn't give you a lot of great stuff to go off of. I'm going to be honest with you on this. You caught us.

[B]

But we're not licensed or insured. We are not licensed guarantees in this business.

[A]

No, absolutely not.

[D]

No. But we do work with you to make sure that if something comes up, you know, we can. We can stand behind it and work with. You gotta make sure it's right.

[A]

Hold the flashlight.

[D]

Yes, yes.

[A]

There you go. You'll stand behind and tell them how to fix it. All right. Well, Joe, hey, good luck with this business. My guy, the snow blower king of Appleton, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Blow.

[D]

Yes. Feel free to look at. Look me up on Marketplace or Craigslist. Just search up Joe Blow, man. I usually have Most of my ads have that tag on it, so you can find them.

[A]

I'm serious. Joe Blow. If you just say. If a billboard just says Joe Blow, look me up on Craigslist. You are gonna sell so much of whatever you want. That is all you want to do. That's it. That's the best business move you can do.

[D]

That's not bad.

[A]

You want to turn that 7 to 10 into 70 to $3 million. Buy one billboard.

[D]

You think so? That's why, you know, maybe you're not right, maybe you're not wrong.

[B]

All right, Joe. Have a good one, man.

[D]

Thank you, guys. Appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

[A]

All right, you too. Watch for deer now, Charlie.

[B]

Fishing openers here. And one of the. It's one of the biggest days of the year. Everyone's up early loading the boat. They're fired up like it's a holiday, which it is a holiday. It's not like a. At a prime rib sandwich coming up a little bit. That was.

[A]

That was. You had no bodily force. Let me take it from you.

[B]

I got it. But the boat launch is absolute chaos. You know that, Charlie? Yeah. I've seen you back in a boat. It's chaos.

[A]

I've had some. I've had my share of issues over the years.

[B]

People backing trailers in like they've never done it before. Slipping on wet concrete rods flying everywhere. You step out to help hit the slick ramp, and we got a little algae on it. Then you got down hard. Boom, you're down hard. Someone in. Someone rushes it, loses control and crashes into you or another boat. Now you're injured. Next thing you know, now you're injured and dealing with a serious mess. If opening weekend doesn't go as planned, call Nicolet Law.

[C]

They'll.

[B]

They'll. They'll fight for you.

[A]

They'll fight for your slippery rods. Miles, check them out. 1-855-NICKEL LAW. Miles, check out these sunnies. Okay?

[B]

I like that. You got. You kind of got the double barrel going. Yeah. Double Decker prescription glasses with the sunnies over top.

[A]

But I was talking to Shady Rays, and you know what they said, Miles?

[B]

What'd they say?

[A]

They says to me that, hey, we can put a prescription in these sunglasses.

[B]

No way.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And for a fraction of the cost that those. You know, those. All those expensive sun goggles companies are. So. Yeah, I'm getting a prescription in here. It's gonna be slick. And, you know, I'm ready. I'm ready for summer or I'm gonna be hell. I was ready like this Driving up here. But you know, come summer, come fishing. Oh my gosh. And these are polarized and prescription. I'm, you know, I'm praying for the walleyes.

[B]

Plus you look hot.

[A]

Thanks. Thanks, Miles. Appreciate that. Because I'm sweating or what?

[B]

Both.

[A]

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

[B]

Yeah. Hopefully your glasses come with one of those little cloth things so you can clean them.

[A]

I'll clean them. I'll clean them. Don't you wear. Miles, I'm growing up a little bit and then you're going to miss the old Charlie.

[B]

I was wearing my shady rays on vacation. People loved them.

[A]

Did they? Did it? Did Ann. Was she getting jelly donut or no? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

Yep. You had to say, sorry, ladies, I'm married and got a kid.

[B]

Sorry, senorita married.

[A]

Yeah, I like that you put that Spanish in there too. El sol, Miles, these sunglasses protect you from el sol, all right? And that's not soul, that's sun and espanol. So there you have it, folks.

[B]

So guys, if you want to get yourself some Shady rays, all you gotta do do is go to their website, use code bellied up. You get 40 off 40 or more more polarized glasses. You can't pass up on those kinds of savings. Go check them out.

[A]

Miles. The other day I was, I was walking and I looked into the mirror and my shirt said run. I was like, oh, I might be athletic. And then I, I was like, bro.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Pretty cool, huh?

[B]

That was, that was it? That was what you wanted to show me?

[A]

That was what I wanted to show you. I'll take this off now.

[D]

I like.

[B]

No, it's funny, Ron. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If you're wearing, if you're wearing a jacket that's not zipped up, it just look. Does look like you are. You're. You're a runner. You're anathon guy.

[A]

Yeah, but with Brunt you kind of can be an athlete, you know, I mean you got those non marking boots right there. You can play basketball with those things.

[B]

You know, if also if you have like, it's like a backpack strap over here. You just look like a runt.

[A]

Runt. It's perfect, man. You can be whatever you want with Brunt. And that's why I'm such a huge fan. That's why, that's why, that's why I'm excited, Miles. It's. It's about that time I got. I'm going to go do some clearing on my trail. Going to get the chainsaw out. And you know what? I'm bringing with, you know, I'm wearing out there.

[B]

We brunted up my.

[A]

Brunt it up for this adventure. You want to come? I need a spotter just because I'm accident prone, so.

[B]

No, I know. Yeah. Yeah, I'll be there.

[A]

So. Always good to have a.

[B]

Can I bring the whole family?

[A]

Sure, yeah, you actually can bring the whole family. That'd be great.

[B]

And both get brunted up and just start moving brush around. It's gonna be great, you know, chopping down trees.

[A]

Yeah. And then we'll use the. The trees to line the path. It's. I need another guy. I need another brunty guy out there. You know, someone give me a little brunch assistance.

[B]

It sounds like we're joking, but that actually sounds like a great time. You and I just cutting wood and laying a trail.

[A]

Dude, it's incredible. I'm getting these telephone poles, and I just got to cut the ends off. So it's just the wood, not the treated part. And then we bring them over, and then I got deck boards. It's going to be sick.

[B]

Oh, you're making, like a path. Path through.

[A]

Through this swampy area, so used all year round. Yeah.

[B]

Tyler works for me. He's just been. He's got some swamp. He just throws wood pallets down.

[A]

Wood pallets.

[B]

To be the cheap way to do it.

[A]

Shit it. That's. I'm definitely. You know, if you go to the back of. Don't ask me how I know this. If you go to the back of certain grocery stores, they're just handing them out. You know, the right guy. Like, when I worked at the bike shop, we would give bike boxes out to people all the time. And pallets, sometimes they can resell them, but sometimes they're like, you know, kind of broke or something. So you can. That's a great idea. That's a great idea. I got to talk to Tyler about that.

[B]

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[C]

How's it going, everybody?

[A]

What's up, my guy? How are we?

[C]

Not too bad.

[B]

What's going on?

[C]

Well, right now I'm at Valley Fair doing construction.

[B]

Oh, like here? Like in Shakopee, Minnesota, all the way. Oh, yeah. You're at the Valley Fair. Charlie, you ever been to the Valley Fair or.

[A]

No, I've been to Shakopee. Yeah, we did a show over there

[B]

in like seventh grade at the end of the year. Yeah, our whole class got to take a class trip to Valley Fair for a day.

[A]

No, kid, dude. Four hours each way?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Are you serious? You drove four hours, sat there for two, and then left for four? Yeah. Wow.

[B]

Pretty fun, actually. And as a kid, though, it's like just getting with all your buddies on a road trip. You don't really care.

[A]

Oh, yeah, Just a little Hellraisers on the bus. Someone brings fishing line and a Polly Pocket and just see how far back you can dangle her. Maybe that was just me. We didn't have video games when I was a child.

[C]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere where I didn't have anything. All right, well, bring stick.

[B]

So what are you doing at Valley Fair? That's not good. If they. If you're fixing stuff at Valley Fair,

[C]

I am a plumber.

[A]

Plumber. Oh, are there funnel cakes at Valley Fair?

[C]

I kind of wish there were a

[B]

lot of foot long corn dogs there.

[A]

What plumbing issue are we working on right now?

[C]

We are working on a break on the main line in a bath house.

[A]

Bath house, huh? I didn't know they had those at Valley Fair. What kind of a theme park?

[C]

Pretty much just a giant bathroom.

[A]

Okay. Is it a. It's a theme park? Valley Fair, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, they got the Power Tower. They got the Wild Thing. They got. I think they got Steel Venom there. They got every ride.

[A]

Sounds like you could buy it at the adult toy store on the way to Valley Fair.

[B]

It's true. That is true. And yeah, so I've never. I've never been on the Power Tower, though. It's the one where they just literally just dangle your feet. You're just in a seat. They just bring you all the way top. You just have to sit there and then suddenly it just drops.

[A]

Yes, we had the giant drop.

[B]

I just hate heights so much that I was like, I just don't need to do that.

[A]

See, I. I'm kind of with you. I never really. I think I did the giant drop one time, but I didn't want to do it again because it just wasn't my thing. I was at Six Flags.

[C]

Charlie.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Can you even read all the signs out here? I mean, you do have to wash your glasses occasionally.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

You want.

[A]

Logan. You can't see this with your eyes, but you're getting the bird, pal. Boom. I can see that.

[C]

Well, I know you can't see with your own eyes, so that's fine. I like it. I like it.

[A]

Are they. How are they looking today?

[B]

Too bad. Today it's mostly just the corners of them. But you don't look out the corners of them.

[A]

No, I mean, I've tried. I'm just. I'm just. It's. It's.

[B]

You know, I. Logan, we. We. We're doing an ad read for Shady Rays the other day, and he put on it. Oh, he put on a brand new pair of sunglasses and was like, holy shit, these things are clear. That's what he said.

[C]

Word for word, right away.

[A]

All right, here's the problem, okay? My. My hands get cracked, okay? So I've been putting on some stuff to moisturize them because they're painful when they crack. And when you do that, you touch your. Your glasses from time to time. So I'm not dirty, okay? I'm just trying to be. Just trying to have less band aids on my fingers. Okay?

[D]

Sure.

[C]

It's just more excuses, not less bandaids.

[A]

Ah, listen to this guy. Listen, Logan. I like him. I like him too. It's fine, I'll say that. So what's on your mind here, Logan? Belly on up to the bar with us.

[C]

Well, I. Pretty young guy. I feel like I've experienced quite a bit and I figured I'd shoot my shot on the podcast.

[A]

Well, miles is taken and I.

[B]

You're in a relationship.

[A]

I'm in a relationship. I mean, but hey, we're not married yet, so.

[B]

Yeah. Let's see it. All right, here we go. Let's see if any of your pickup lines work on us.

[C]

Oh, trust me, I. I already found a woman. I ain't gotta do that.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

What do you mean, shoot your shot?

[C]

Like, let's see, I come from 4 Generation Plumbing Co. And he's seen some. Yeah, I've seen. I've seen some plumbing joke. Yep. And then I got a pig that lives in the house, and I'm an amateur bull rider.

[A]

Oh, yes, dude, you're in. I don't care. When. When can we go on our first date? I'm gonna leave this bar right now. I. If you can. If you can.

[B]

Hey, I'm right here.

[A]

Hey, amateur bull rider. He's not gonna be around much longer.

[B]

Dude, you're gonna leave me.

[C]

They call that a buckle bunny. A buckle bunny handle you like that?

[A]

Oh, okay. In my business, they call him a chuckle sucker, but they. It's a word that R. That's what they'd say. I'm not. I don't approve of it. Buckle bunny. Okay, so you're an amateur bull rider, which must be the worst profession to be an amateur in.

[C]

Oh, it is.

[B]

You're literally just destroying your body for no reason whatsoever.

[C]

My. My job is to go out there and make the other guy look good.

[A]

Ah.

[B]

You know, a fluffer in the porn industry.

[C]

Yep. And then I listened to your other episode, and apparently my sport is a pageantry sport, so.

[B]

Oh, that's Charlie's words, not mine.

[A]

I did not say that.

[B]

No, that was the caller.

[A]

I think the caller might have said. I would not have said that. I know what you guys go through. I know what you guys go through.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Also, I gotta give props to you for having a fact about your life. Top the one that you have a pig living in your house. I think that's impressive. You know, not every guy's got a pig in their house.

[B]

Miles, have you ever seen the. The one gal that. That does the show pigs and she's walking and doing the. With the little stick?

[A]

No.

[B]

You haven't seen that?

[A]

I don't think so.

[B]

Is your pig a show pig?

[C]

Oh, no, he not. He just. You know, those mini pigs?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

But yeah, by the way, if you're going to own a mini pig, a mini pig is considered anything under 300 pounds, so prep yourself.

[A]

How big your pig?

[C]

My pig is probably close to 200.

[A]

All right, so does he sleep in your bed with you?

[C]

No, sleeps at the end of the bed on the floor.

[A]

You ever let him in your bed?

[C]

Yeah, when he was a piglet. I couldn't stop him from jumping up.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

But then luckily, he got too fat, so I was like, good job.

[A]

How does that work? Do you have to take him on a walk? How many times a day? Like, does he ever. Is he house trained?

[C]

He's house trained. He goes right to the door, and then he. He'll knock on the door when he wants to go outside, go to the bathroom, and then he'll just come back and he'll knock on the door to come back inside.

[A]

How often do you have to bathe your pig

[C]

during the summer? All the time. Because he rolls in everything, right?

[B]

He's sweating like a pig.

[A]

Yeah, but that's easy. It just hose him off, right?

[C]

Pretty much, yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Same treatment the dogs do.

[A]

So what made you want to get into bull riding?

[C]

Me and my buddy Mark, we kind of just sat around one day and Then we went, you know, it sounded really fun. And he went, well, let's just do some bull riding. He goes, I know a guy. And that's. On the first day I was out of town, and he signed me up for me. And we found out that we were supposed to be in novice bull riding, which is for amateurs, and we ended up being in open bull riding, which is professionals.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

So I. I broke a arena record for the furthest flown.

[A]

What else?

[C]

Luckily, nothing else.

[A]

God.

[B]

Dude, he flew so far. He landed in everyone's laps and that kind of cushioned the blow.

[A]

How far did you fly?

[C]

14ft.

[A]

Oh, my God. That's insane. That's insane. How'd they even let you do this?

[C]

You. You literally don't have to have any experience. You can just sign up and sign a waiver.

[B]

I don't care.

[C]

And you can be in a legit rodeo and do that.

[B]

Huh. Wow.

[A]

All right. So how many times have you rode

[C]

a bowl so far? I think I'm up. I want to say 14.

[B]

Nice. And how have you. Have you gone the distance yet?

[C]

Longest time was on a bull named BlackBerry. He's in the PBR now, and I got four seconds on him.

[B]

Holy. So you're not very good. No, no. God.

[C]

But it is. It's hard because I was watching the PBR with that bull and that guy only got two, so I was like, oh, that's.

[A]

That's impressive.

[B]

Now this is when he was still a young bull. Yeah, it's like his ball. The bull's balls hadn't dropped yet.

[A]

Yeah, he had just. He had just gotten some the day before. He had just gotten something extracted the day before. So. What?

[C]

Wow.

[A]

No injuries.

[C]

I mean, I've had a few bruises here and there. Actually, the worst injury I had, I am still recovering from it. It happened out of rodeo, but it wasn't from bull riding.

[B]

What happened?

[A]

Peyronie's disease.

[C]

No. You're at this. We had a three day rodeo called Bulbash and Nimrod. And you got to be a nimrod to go there. And there was a guy running from a cop, and I tackled him and I tore my acl.

[B]

Just trying to do a good deed. Just trying to back the blue. And you tear your acl?

[C]

Yeah, I did. And then the worst part was trying to do my good deed. All my friends did. Why the hell would you do that?

[A]

He was running away with our drugs, dude.

[B]

Well, he ran.

[C]

Yeah, he ran through our camp and he knocked over all of our beers, and I Went, screw this guy. And I tackled him.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And the best part was is that later on in the night, I was laying in the camper, and my buddy came back with the guy, because this guy was walking back to his camp, ran into my buddy Mark and said, did you tackle me? And he goes, no. He goes, you want to help me beat up the guy who did? Sure. And they. They walked in the camp, and he goes, oh, this is where I got tackled. And he goes, what? Goes, yeah, this short guy tackled me with, like, a mustache and a white cowboy hat. And he goes, oh, are you talking about Logan? And he goes, yeah. And he goes, I. I might have

[D]

to beat you up.

[B]

And then he left.

[C]

Well, we threatened the call the cop that took him away the first time, and he took the hit.

[A]

Wait, wait. Why would he. Why would he have to. I got confused. Why would he have to be who up?

[B]

So he met this guy, and he didn't know that that was the guy that he tackled.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

And so then when he got back, they put it together, and they were like, oh, shit.

[A]

Oh, my.

[C]

My friend thought he made a new friend. Turns out that that friend was the enemy.

[A]

Ah, I see.

[B]

But the. The friend of the friend of my enemy. What is it? The enemy of my.

[A]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. There it is.

[B]

So you're just. You should just stay out of sports. You should take up chess.

[C]

Well, I never been injured in a sport. I just been injured at the sport, not doing it.

[A]

Yeah, but the sport is the reason you got injured. You got a taste of that adrenaline, you know, and now it's never going away. You always need to recreate that adrenaline in your life.

[C]

Oh, it feels like the first time every time.

[B]

How old are you?

[C]

But sometimes better.

[B]

How old?

[A]

Sometimes better. Sometimes you last four seconds.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Okay. Do you like that, Miles? That was a good joke, actually. All right, now, how old are you?

[C]

I am 21. Coming up on 22.

[B]

You're just too young to be tearing your ACL, tackling someone.

[C]

Actually, they say if you want to be a good bull rider, start at 14.

[B]

Wait, what?

[C]

You're considered a senior in bull riding once you hit 25.

[B]

Oh, so you're saying you're old?

[A]

Yes, old for a bull rider.

[C]

All right, old for a bull rider.

[A]

Where are you hoping to take this bull riding?

[C]

Until I get eight, and then I might just say screw it.

[B]

So. Because what I understand, they do a draw of which bull you end up riding. Is that correct? Do they do it in the amateur Level. So really, you're just hoping to get really lucky and just get the worst bowl so that you can quit is kind of what you're saying?

[C]

Pretty much.

[B]

All right, smart.

[A]

What's the wildest injury you've seen on that in that rodeo?

[C]

It was actually at a practice pen, and, I mean, there was injuries going left and right, but it was. It was the writer's fault. There is a certain way to fall, and they weren't falling the right way.

[A]

How do you fall off a bowl?

[C]

So the hand that you're tied down on. Let's say you tie down your right hand.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

You need to fall off on the right side.

[B]

Yeah. So you don't.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So you can put your hand out and, like, break your arm.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. So you can kind of drag yourself

[C]

down, fall off the left side, your hand will get caught up even more, and you're just gonna get tossed around with it.

[A]

Yeah, I see. Doll ragdoll it. Yeah. You want to be very limp when you hit the ground. Right. You want to tense up.

[C]

Nope. Just let gravity take you, and as soon as you hit the dirt, just start running.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Because you got an. What about the. Would you ever want to be a rodeo clown?

[C]

I've thought about it.

[A]

Well, what do you think about it?

[C]

It's. You got to be good, that's for sure.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Not just making jokes. You have to. You have to throw yourself at the bowl occasionally.

[B]

Oh, yeah. That's part of the gig for sure. Yep. I. One question for you. It's a little off topic. When you said you were gonna shoot your shot, what exactly did you mean by that earlier?

[C]

I'll just see if I could just get on the podcast.

[B]

Oh, I thought you're maybe looking to, like, you know, be a third chair on the podcast.

[C]

No, no, no. You know, I ain't that talented.

[B]

Travel with the crew.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. I wasn't totally sure, but.

[C]

Well, I'll invite you a few rodeos and I'll see where it goes.

[A]

What rodeo? We should do a bellyed up live from a rodeo mouse.

[C]

Well, there's Nimrod, Lone Oak, Sandstone,

[D]

a

[C]

few others that My head got hit too hard. I can't remember.

[A]

I was gonna say. Yeah, there's a lot of pauses going on on the other end of this podcast. 22. Any head injuries that you're aware of?

[C]

Well, the one I can remember is definitely. I'd say about a year ago.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Concussion.

[A]

Ah.

[B]

You got concussed that on a Bowl or is that just like walking down the street?

[C]

That was. I was on a bowl this time. I got a horn to the helmet right in the face.

[B]

Well, if you mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horns.

[A]

Ye.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

You got a hockey helmet.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I'm done. But I ain't that dumb.

[B]

So you do know that you don't have to ride the bulls, right?

[C]

But the thing is, I want to.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And it's just. Is it the adrenaline you're after?

[C]

It's just I've always loved the sport, and I feel like you can't really love a sport until you do it.

[B]

Yeah, but, like, what do you love about it? Do you love the adrenaline? Do you love the pain that you get? Like, are you into that? Or is it maybe that you're into the Glo, maybe getting the girls? Like, what is.

[C]

It's. It's definitely the adrenaline. Sometimes you get the occasional glory. You know, it's. It's. It's interesting walking into arena, not knowing anyone in the crowd, and then you just start cheering.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's the rush.

[C]

It's the rush.

[B]

It's the fame. It's being the star of the show. And. And you really were the star of the show that day when you flew 14ft in the air.

[C]

Oh, yeah. It's. It's interesting because when you're on the bull, you don't hear anything. It's dead silent. And as soon as your hand leaves the bull. And when I started flying through the air, all I heard was from the whole crowd, and I went, this is not going to be good.

[B]

You know, Charlie, I'm starting to think bull riding ain't much different than doing stand up comedy.

[A]

Yeah, it's. It's not. It's what a lot. You know, there. Let's say this, there's a less barrier of entry for bull riding than, like, stand up. You at least have to write one joke for bull riding. Well, I suppose you got to get a hockey helmet, but anyone can do it.

[C]

It's probably just sometimes they let you ride. Hat down, though.

[A]

Does that mean no helmet?

[C]

No helmet, just hat.

[A]

That's insane. That is nuts. Do. Is this like. Is this like the hockey thing of where you get more props if you don't wear a helmet? Kind of.

[C]

Oh, for sure.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The badass guys don't wear.

[C]

Am I gonna do it? No. Yeah.

[B]

You know what I mean? Like, it's not much different, Charlie. Sometimes. Sometimes you knock it out of the park. You go all eight seconds. Crowd Goes wild. And sometimes you bomb and you go flying 14ft in the air. Yeah, regardless, the crowd's going wild there.

[A]

Well, usually they're silent if you bomb, but sounds like here. They'd be silent if he was dead here. Yeah, man, I just. It's hard to get into your mind. What are you doing? Were you looking at Miles right now is looking at Jared and looking at me. What are you making fun of me for?

[B]

I just brought up your stand up career and you just. Yeah. Got nothing out of you.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Folks see me on tour, I'll be in charliebarons.com.

[C]

well, can you read the jokes after you write them down with the glasses on or you guys take them off

[A]

of that, you know? Logan, can you read it all after your next brain injury? My guy. Good God.

[C]

Hey, I can still read. Do you wear. Sounds like I'm four.

[A]

Do you wear a cup? Do you wear a cup?

[C]

No, you can't wear a cup.

[A]

Can't wear a cup. How about padded ass chaps?

[C]

They don't make those either. What you do is they. There's a pad that attaches to your rope, so when you land on your rope, hopefully it's just a little softer.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

All right. Wow. Miles, would you try bull running?

[B]

No, I already banged

[A]

already.

[B]

I. I already. I already exposed my risk to CTE in my life. I'm done doing that. You know, I've already gone through the ringer on that,

[A]

but.

[B]

Glad you asked me a question. I answered. And then you started drinking water with no response.

[A]

I was waiting for you to go. I was waiting for you to go.

[B]

I was stalling till you were done drinking your water.

[C]

Well, you stalled too long. You got dehydrated.

[D]

Yeah,

[A]

I don't know. I feel like. I feel like I don't. I don't have it in me either. I've done a mechanical bowl.

[B]

Me too. I can do a mechanical bowl on vacation. So you want to see?

[A]

Yeah, I do want to see. Miles wrote a mechanical book. I always thought that. Do. Do you ever go ride a mechanical bull to practice? Oh, look at your kid.

[C]

Miles.

[B]

It was crazy. We almost flew off. Oh, my gosh, how crazy it was.

[A]

This is in Mexico.

[B]

Cambodia.

[A]

Cambodia. Oh, crazy. Cambodia. Yeah.

[B]

We almost flew off right there.

[A]

That's nuts. He can really hold on, man. Damn.

[B]

What's your plumber? Fourth generation plumber, you said?

[C]

Yes, sir.

[B]

What. What's the business? Give it a shout out.

[C]

Kramer. Mechanical plumbing and heating.

[B]

Kramer. Mechanical plumbing and heating. You guys maybe do like mechanical work? Potentially some Some heating, some plumbing. And is your guys last name Kramer?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Kramer or Kramer?

[C]

Kramer with K. Kramer.

[A]

Okay. All right.

[B]

How'd you guys come up with the name for the business?

[C]

Well, my grandpa's last name was Kramer, and then he put mechanical after that, and then that was that.

[A]

Oh, wow. We found your. We found the picture of your company here.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What do you guys are all standing. What did you spell out? I think that's funny that you guys like clearly spelled out something in this. Does that say 50? Did you do a 50 photo?

[C]

Yeah, for the 50th anniversary.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

I think the drone might have had to go just a skull tire.

[B]

It just looks like you guys are all just awkwardly standing too far apart from each other.

[C]

Well, it's funny that you think we got a drone that's just boom.

[A]

Yeah, none of them wanted to be in that picture.

[C]

No, none of us wanted to be in that picture.

[B]

Is there like one in your family? Is there like a. Is there like a young, like, nephew or cousin that's running the social media and they made you do that?

[C]

Oh, no, we had to push it. Pride. Just to get a website.

[A]

Whose idea was it to do the 50 picture?

[C]

That would probably be my Uncle Steve.

[A]

Your Uncle Steve. It's always an Uncle Steve. Yeah. Yeah, I get that. You guys, it looks like a zombie apocalypse right there. Guys are just staring right at Eat brains. It's good luck.

[C]

Sorry, what?

[A]

No business is going well, though.

[C]

Oh, business going well. It was slow for a while.

[B]

Like, how long is a while? Like this year or like the last 10 years?

[C]

About a year.

[B]

All right, just. What was what attributed to the slow work?

[C]

Just, it was just slow, especially with the. The tariffs and stuff going on. Just. No one wanted to send out materials, so then we kind of got screwed on that.

[B]

The supply chain issues.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, but you're back. You're back working at Valley Fair, riding poles.

[A]

You dating anyone?

[C]

Actually just broke up with someone like a week ago, so. Oh, single now.

[A]

Did you break up or did she?

[C]

She did.

[A]

Sorry.

[B]

Let's. Let's talk about it. What happened? What happened?

[C]

Well, she was going through some stuff, and then I was going through some stuff with my acl, so neither of us could just be around, so that was that.

[B]

So all it took was for you to be immobile for her to be, like I say, worth it?

[C]

Pretty much.

[B]

Is it because you're. You're suddenly having bedroom issues or just like. She's like, I like going for walks. And now we're.

[C]

I. I don't know. Just. I don't think she just didn't like it. I don't know.

[A]

Yeah, well, she. Love was. You know, it's not in sickness and in health, that's for sure.

[B]

You know, dodge a bullet there. What didn't you like about her?

[C]

Oh, it didn't.

[D]

Or did?

[B]

Didn't.

[C]

Didn't let me get over this concussion. Think about it. Oh, I had to take care of her cat. That's pretty much it.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

There you go. Well, no more cats now.

[B]

I mean, you already are taking care of a pig. What is. You know, how much time does she think you have?

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Did she like the pig?

[C]

Oh, she liked Big. I mean, all my friends bring their. They bring girls to my house to use my pig to pick up girls.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[B]

So you're not even worried about the next date.

[A]

Yeah, you're gonna line up. You got another weight in the way.

[C]

I start charging my friends a wingman rent.

[A]

There you go.

[C]

There you go.

[A]

Pigman. Pigs wings fly. Do you think that you're over her right now? Are you still broken up about it?

[C]

Still broken up about it. I'll give it a few months.

[B]

Did you feel you loved her?

[C]

Doesn't everybody?

[A]

Yeah. Miles. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

[B]

Not always.

[A]

Well, I suppose. How long were you together?

[C]

A year.

[A]

Well, listen, 22. You got a year one under your belt. That'll sting for a bit. But you know what? You'll be back on that bowl soon. And you'll get thrown off a few more times, hopefully. Yep. Yeah. It's the rush. Maybe you'll find a buckle bunny for your next rodeo.

[C]

What they got, you can't treat. At least the bulls get shots for what they have.

[A]

Okay, there we go. All right. Sta. Dud. Joke. It's STD as a word.

[B]

I know.

[A]

What do you want from me, Miles? You know, you got one guy who's got several concussions on the other end of the phone. You've got three under your belt.

[B]

I got cte.

[A]

I've got a couple. And also just. I'm me, so.

[B]

And you're on antibiotics, and you're still on antibiotics.

[A]

I'm on antibiotics. So we're all.

[B]

We're all just living.

[A]

We're all just living. Well, listen, anything else you want to put yourself out there for the next gal, just give. Give a little bit of what. What you're looking for.

[C]

Want a girl. That's. That's smart. And, you know, if I get hurt, doesn't look at me like I'm a vegetable.

[A]

That's brutal, man. You know what? This. This was a blessing in disguise, okay? You were with the wrong gal. And. And

[B]

so funny is you tearing your ACL gave her the ick.

[C]

Yep, pretty much what it was.

[B]

Oh, yuck. You're in a. You're in a air cast.

[A]

Does she know that ACLs can heal up or.

[C]

No, apparently not.

[B]

But here's the thing. Charlie or Jared, they. From what I understand from the Internet, is once a girl gets the ick, she's got the ick forever.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Huh.

[A]

And the ACL did it.

[D]

Damn.

[A]

She's probably looking at her summer and she's like, how are you in that cast for six, eight weeks? Three months.

[C]

I was in it for three months. I mean, I. I just got back to work this week.

[B]

You know, I did it for.

[C]

I still have restrictions.

[B]

You know what it did for is the little knee scooter that he had to roll around on.

[C]

Oh, I didn't even get that.

[A]

You didn't get a knee scooter?

[C]

No, because I. I live where there's gravel, so I would get stuck every inch.

[A]

You gotta get the off roader.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, you need. You need to get the tracks.

[C]

I wanted one of those like old lady scooters.

[B]

Yeah, we see me rolling.

[C]

Oh, put some nice rims on it.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Well, this was really great to kind of get into the mind of a bull rider. This was wonderful. And don't worry about that gal. You deserve better from the get go. Okay.

[C]

Is what it is.

[B]

It is what it is. All right, dude. Well, I appreciate it. Have fun and Valley fair.

[C]

You boys have a good one and have fun with the next caller.

[A]

All right. Thank you, Logan. Take care, pal.

[C]

Take care.

[A]

Oh, Miles. I could sense a heaviness in his heart.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, that's so funny because there's a guy online that his. His page is dedicated to like, like, because girls will talk, they'll do videos about getting the ick from their. From a guy and he's got a running list of all the stuff he can't do. And it's like 700 things long. And so he's got to add that to list acl. I mean, there's on the list. It's like, eat food. Because the girl was like, oh, the way he eats, gives me the egg. He's like, I guess I can't eat food around her now. It's. It's really becoming a problem in the world.

[A]

The ick. Yeah, you gotta. You gotta lean into the ick for a little bit. You know, give it a couple months, see if it still bothers you. Oh, through ictus and health. Yeah.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

There, that's great.

[B]

That's really.

[A]

Was that in your vows, Jared? Was it nice? You ever gotten the ick from a gal, Miles? I didn't know that was a thing till recently.

[B]

The ick?

[A]

No,

[B]

I don't know that one. That sticks out in my mind.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Also, mentally, I've only dated my wife, so.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, me too.

[B]

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[A]

All right, well, Miles, and once in

[B]

a while, we'll tell me when I give her the ick.

[A]

What have you done? I give her the yek.

[B]

Sometimes how you swim in a swimming pool, you know? Or like this one time. This one time. She still doesn't let me hear the end of it. So, like, we have, like a canopy bed. So it's like, got like the. It's a four post.

[A]

Four post bed. Nice.

[B]

But like, with the. The like. Yeah, around the top.

[A]

You have stars up there.

[B]

No, it's not like a princess bed. It's like a wood bed.

[A]

Got a mirror up there, Mom.

[B]

But I. I went to, like, hang a shirt over it, and I did, like, it was just a little too tall, so I did like, a little mini jump with it. And she said it was the most disgusting thing she's ever seen.

[A]

Just.

[B]

She was like. That meant you. That's the least attractive you've ever been in your life. Wow.

[A]

Wow. It's a little like, was. It was just too dainty of a thing.

[B]

It was just kind of dainty.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

She didn't love it.

[A]

Bummer. When was this?

[B]

A few years ago.

[A]

So she wrote it out, but she

[B]

still talks about it.

[A]

I want to see her react her reenact that the next time we're there.

[B]

Well, that it, Jared. Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Bellied up podcast. Remember to tip your bartender and tell your buddy that you love them.

[A]

Little love tap. Ah.

[B]

We'll see you in the next one.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

Hope you guys have a good one.

[D]

Goodbye now.