The World's Coolest Homemade Bicycle #130

Summary

Bellied Up Podcast – Episode #130: The World's Coolest Homemade Bicycle

Release Date: December 12, 2024

Hosts: You Betcha Guy (Myles Montrez) & Charlie Berens

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Episode Overview

In Episode #130 of Bellied Up, hosts Charlie Berens and Myles Montrez dive into a lively mix of sports banter, culinary critiques, and heartfelt listener stories. Recorded at the Garden Grill and Pub in Nymore Nigh, the episode encapsulates the quintessential Midwest charm with plenty of humor and camaraderie.

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Main Discussions

1. Sports Banter: NFL Chants and the Packers-Vikings Rivalry

The episode opens with a spirited debate about the infamous skull chant used by the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, which Charlie critiques humorously.

• Charlie Berens (00:45): “I think it is the dumbest chant in the NFL.”
• Myles Montrez (04:28): “The skull chant comes from the Viking war chant made popular by the Icelandic national football soccer team during UEFA Euro 2016. So they stole Aaron Jones and Brett Favre and the skull chant.”

The conversation highlights the playful rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and the Vikings, with Charlie expressing his disdain for the chant and Myles providing a backstory on its origins. They also brainstorm potential new chants for the Packers, showcasing their creative and comedic synergy.

2. Culinary Chat: Sweet Potato Fry Taste Test

Transitioning from sports, the hosts engage in a humorous taste test of sweet potato fries available at the Garden Grill and Pub.

• Charlie Berens (06:11): “This sweet potato fry. I gotta tell you, the Green Mill does not hold a candle to these.”
• Myles Montrez (06:30): “There's a reason why grill is in front of pub at this bar.”

Their playful critique praises the quality of the fries, awarding them “6 out of 5” stars, and adds a lighthearted touch to the episode’s flow.

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Callers’ Stories

1. Wedding Woes with Caller Joe (08:15 – 24:50)

Joe shares his frustrating experiences with wedding vendors, highlighting issues like unexpected fees and unresponsive service providers.

• Joe (08:35): “These vendors, they just fleece you up, they flee sideways.”
• Charlie Berens (10:47): “That's a DJ move right there. So you're just having one thing after another. Huge pain in the ass.”

Joe details the challenges faced with his wedding venue, photographer, and DJ, emphasizing the stress and financial strain of planning a wedding. The hosts sympathize, offering humorous yet empathetic advice on navigating the notoriously tricky wedding industry.

2. Family Ski Lessons with Caller Morgan (26:37 – 37:50)

Morgan seeks advice on encouraging her athletic husband to learn winter sports to bond with their daughter.

• Morgan (27:04): “How do I convince him to do that?”
• Charlie Berens (29:08): “You could teach them together, you know. So then you're holding your kid's hand and then your husband's hand.”

The conversation explores the dynamics of teaching new skills within a family, blending practical suggestions with comedic storytelling about skiing mishaps and the intimidation of winter sports.

3. The World's Coolest Homemade Bicycle with Caller Caleb (42:31 – 56:38)

Caleb introduces an ambitious project: constructing a seven-person tandem bicycle, blending creative engineering with collegiate camaraderie.

• Caleb (43:19): “We’ve been collecting bikes around town and we're welding them together.”
• Charlie Berens (43:48): “I gotta see a picture of this. Do you guys have any pictures yet or you just in the drafting phase?”

Caleb elaborates on their process of merging different bike types, aiming to create a uniquely large and functional bicycle. The hosts engage enthusiastically, encouraging Caleb’s ingenuity while playfully cautioning about safety and liability.

• Myles Montrez (53:33): “You guys don’t have any assets then.”
• Charlie Berens (55:38): “You should actually go and ride it. I absolutely will.”

The segment highlights the Midwest’s inventive spirit, with Charlie and Myles expressing genuine interest and offering humorous support for Caleb’s unconventional project.

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Fan Mail: Gift Ideas for Randy (40:03 – 41:19)

Heather reaches out seeking unique Christmas gift suggestions for her father, Randy, a classic Midwesterner with a penchant for Packers merchandise.

• Charlie Berens (40:29): “This is Heather, a very stressed daughter. Heather. How’d she know? I was going to suggest six pack.”
• Myles Montrez (40:33): “If you got a Randy in your life, just get him a nice ice cold bottle and glass of Tippy Cow.”

The hosts humorously navigate Heather’s request, ultimately recommending personalized and regionally relevant gifts that resonate with Randy’s personality and interests.

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with continued banter about Caleb’s bicycle project, reinforcing the show’s blend of humor, community engagement, and authentic conversation. Charlie and Myles encourage listeners to stay connected via Instagram for future call-ins and interactions, maintaining the podcast’s interactive and inclusive atmosphere.

• Charlie Berens (58:09): “Make sure that folks, you get these. Road hunting for ditch chickens, the merch.”
• Myles Montrez (58:13): “Well, guys, we'll see you in the next one. Make sure to tip your bartender.”

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Notable Quotes

• Charlie Berens (00:45): “I think it is the dumbest chant in the NFL.”
• Joe (08:35): “These vendors, they just fleece you up, they flee sideways.”
• Caleb (43:19): “We’ve been collecting bikes around town and we're welding them together.”
• Myles Montrez (40:33): “If you got a Randy in your life, just get him a nice ice cold bottle and glass of Tippy Cow.”

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Final Thoughts

Episode #130 of Bellied Up masterfully combines humor with real-life dilemmas, showcasing the hosts' ability to engage with listeners' stories while maintaining an entertaining and relatable dialogue. Whether it's navigating wedding planning headaches, fostering family bonds through sports, or embarking on wild engineering projects, Charlie and Myles create a welcoming space for the Midwest community and beyond.

For more episodes and to participate in future call-ins, follow Bellied Up on Instagram and join the conversation every Thursday.

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Transcript

[Charlie Barron's]

Welcome to the Bellied up podcast. I am Charlie Barron's. I am here with my very, very good, great buddy, stellar buddy, Miles Montrez, AKA Miles. You betcha, guy.

[Miles Montrez]

Hello, folks.

[Charlie Barron's]

Hello.

[Miles Montrez]

How you doing, Charles?

[Charlie Barron's]

Doing good, Myles.

[Miles Montrez]

We actually have a correction from the last episode. We're still at the old Garden Grill and Pub. But we're not in Bemidji, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron's]

Not.

[Miles Montrez]

We're technically in Nymore Nigh.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, tell me more.

[Miles Montrez]

We're on the wrong side of the Paul Bunyan Bridge. Oh, go to the other side. It's Bemidji. Here. Where Nymor. So.

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, Nymor is beautiful this time of year, Miles.

[Miles Montrez]

Really is.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'll tell you what.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Now, Miles, when we're recording this, I got a little thorn still stuck in my paw that I haven't quite fully gotten out of my chest.

[Miles Montrez]

Before we do that.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

Charlie, I like your hat.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, do you? The road hunting for ditch chickens hat.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

And you're wearing the blaze orange sweatshirt.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Why? Miles, with Christmas coming up, what a.

[Miles Montrez]

Great Christmas gift idea.

[Charlie Barron's]

A great stocking stuffer for St. Nicholas Day.

[Miles Montrez]

Depends on what size sweatshirt you get and whether or not you can stuff it in the stocking.

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, you just get a bigger stocking, Miles.

[Miles Montrez]

That's true.

[Charlie Barron's]

I mean, they can do that these days with the wonders of sewing.

[Miles Montrez]

So, guys, if you got a lovely loved one that would love some bellied up merchandise, we also got the bellied up shirt that says if you can read this and bellied up to the bar, as well as ditch chickens shirts, hat, sweatshirt. Go to oubety.com. oh, hhubetyou.com get them a Christmas gift. Back to regular scheduled programming.

[Charlie Barron's]

Miles, we're in Nymore, Minnesota. Okay? And then there's a fellow on the other side of the bar who asked me to do the skull chanting. And I said there's no way in frickin heck I'm doing the gosh darn skull chant. In fact, when the packers played the Vikings at Lambeau Field, they were smacking the snot out of them in the first quarter. And all I saw around the whole freaking stadium were these skull chants. And I got to tell you about the skull chant. I think it is the dumbest chant in the NFL.

[Miles Montrez]

So wait, the whole. The whole stadium sounded like this. Skull, skull, skull, skull.

[Charlie Barron's]

Guys, you look like a drunk uncle at a white wedding that everyone swore they put in an Uber 45 minutes ago. But here he is trying to do the YMCA on the dance floor. Why the hell is that the deal?

[Miles Montrez]

I think I. You guys sense a little jealousy in that conversation?

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, we don't need a chant, okay? We got. We get. We have. Go, Pac, go. Okay. He loves the school, Chance. Wait, are you talking about Aaron Jones right now? You stole Aaron Jones. And he says he likes the school, Chip. He has to say that now. Let me tell you that much. And I will also say that you guys are paying him an asinine amount of money, and that's probably also wise. I'm not. No.

[Miles Montrez]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate. I don't know if you've ever heard of the packers stealing a Vikings player, though. When was the last time that happened?

[Charlie Barron's]

You know what? You guys are welcome for Brett Favre, too. And I hope that last game where he threw it right over the middle to the New Orleans Saints, ending your.

[Miles Montrez]

Super bowl, you could see that. You could see the pain, and you can see the teeth breaking that up.

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, what do you.

[Miles Montrez]

Hey, you got. This is traumatic, all right? You keep bringing up these traumatic things.

[Charlie Barron's]

I. You got to remember, I grew up with Brev Farm there. That. That's why I have heart murmurs now is because every time he would go back, it's like, oh, gosh, this is getting picked. But a lot of times, it got caught.

[Miles Montrez]

They got trauma about the Vikings just like Brett Favre's got brain trauma. Trauma.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, he had to go there. Miles, what are you doing? I suppose. But what. What is it with, like, hey, guys, where does the skull chan even come from? Who knows the story?

[Miles Montrez]

It was a soccer team in Europe.

[Charlie Barron's]

I think you guys stole that from a soccer team.

[Miles Montrez]

Is that true, Jake? Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Does it. I don't know. Get on Google. This is what's wrong with America right now. You guys can't even lie to me about it.

[Miles Montrez]

What is it, Jake? I got it. The skull chant comes from the Viking war chant made popular by the Icelandic national football soccer team during UEFA Euro 2016. So they stole Aaron Jones and Brett Favre and the skull chant. Charlie, you guys are just thieves.

[Charlie Barron's]

You're pirates. You're Vikings. That makes a lot of sense.

[Miles Montrez]

They're pillagers is what I think.

[Charlie Barron's]

Pillagers. Yeah, that's true. Other things, too, that we don't need to give historical accuracy on. So you really stole that from a Iceland soccer team?

[Miles Montrez]

It's true.

[Charlie Barron's]

That makes a lot of sense. Well, anyways, come on.

[Miles Montrez]

It's at least more clever than. Go pack. Go.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, go pack. Go. I do agree that the packers could find a really cool chance all right.

[Miles Montrez]

Let'S see what you got. Charlie, is there any. How would you. What Chant if you were going to invent it right now for the packers, what would it be?

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, you. You got to think about it, because first of all, I like Go Pack, go. But I agree. We could. We could maybe spice up something. Maybe a little bit. A little bit of spice. Little pepper. Speaking of spice. Ooh, our food's coming.

[Miles Montrez]

Are you buying? Time to try and find this.

[Charlie Barron's]

Thank you very much.

[Miles Montrez]

Thank you.

[Charlie Barron's]

Ladies and gentlemen, right off the top here, we are doing a sweet potato fry taste test.

[Miles Montrez]

And what is. What's the consensus?

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, man. This sweet potato fry. I gotta tell you, the Green Mill does not hold a candle to these. What is that place called?

[Miles Montrez]

Green Mill is right.

[Charlie Barron's]

These suckers. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

There's a reason why grill is in front of pub at this bar.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'm going.

[Miles Montrez]

There's a reason why it's not.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'm going.

[Miles Montrez]

Garden Pub and Grill. It's Grill & Pub.

[Charlie Barron's]

4.98. 6 out of 5 on these sweet potato fries.

[Miles Montrez]

I agree. Very good. Well, Charlie, what do you think? What's the. Before we get into callers, you gotta come up.

[Charlie Barron's]

Thought I got the diversion.

[Miles Montrez]

I know what. Give me a. Give me a Packer chant that you think that they should implement.

[Charlie Barron's]

Keep er moving.

[Miles Montrez]

That doesn't really work.

[Charlie Barron's]

Kind does, because you gotta think packing. The Acme Packing Company is where this came from.

[Miles Montrez]

That's what the managers are yelling.

[Charlie Barron's]

There it goes.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. Okay. Keep er moving. No, it's move in. So it goes. Because Iowa, like University of Iowa, they do Iowa. And each section of the stadium does a different letter. You could do the same. Keep er move in and then go all the way around the thing after a touchdown.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, I like that. I like that.

[Miles Montrez]

And keep her moving because you guys are. No, that's the chant you do after a first down, first down game er move in.

[Charlie Barron's]

You've got to be like, keep. What are you going to hit the 2.

[Miles Montrez]

Keep er move and keep er move. That's actually good.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. After press down, that's what's up. We'll see if the packers adopt it, huh?

[Miles Montrez]

Let's go. Should we take some callers?

[Charlie Barron's]

Let's do it. Miles, belly on up to the bar and tell us what's on your mind, Joe.

[Joe]

Well, I. I just got married on September 21st.

[Charlie Barron's]

Congratulations.

[Joe]

Thank you. Thank you much. But let me tell you what. These vendors, they just. They fleece you up, they flee sideways.

[Miles Montrez]

So you're saying that wedding venues, the vendors, the flower people, the. All of the photographer. You're saying they're, they're dicking you up and down is what you're saying.

[Joe]

Yeah, exactly what I'm saying. Well, yeah, go ahead. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, it all started. We were trying to lock down the venue. We find the venue and you know, we're negotiating back and forth with them. They say we'll wait the event fee as long as you hit your food and bed minimum, which, you know, we do. We plan our menu out so we get over it and then the final bill comes around and they throw that back on there. It's like, what the heck are we doing, guys? We just talked about this in the first contract. It wasn't there. The second contract there. So, you know, we have another round of negotiation after the final bill before we pay it. You know, thank God for my wife. She's a. Drives a hard bargain. We were able to get it taken off, but you know, it's like, what are we doing, guys? Next thing, we had our photographer. We get her all lined up and everything. Miles, I don't mean to, I don't mean to be taking shots at your wife. I know. I'm sure she runs a much more honest business than this one. But we get the photographer lined up and we, we reach out to her 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 times to get that final bill paid. And you know, she, she's leaving us on, leaving us on delivered. You know, finally she gets back to us and she says, yeah, I, I have your photos ready. I'm just, I won't, I won't release them to you guys until. Or our first preview. Won't release them to you guys until you pay your final bill. We're like, we've been trying to do that for two weeks now. What's going on? Yeah, so. So those two. And then our dj. Our DJ has maybe been the worst one. We, we finally find this guy. He, he says he wants to meet up with us, finds a place. We agree on a place to meet up. I go, I'm sitting there for an hour. He doesn't show up.

[Charlie Barron's]

That's a DJ move right there. So you're just having one thing after another. Huge pain in the ass. Pain in the ass. Did you overpay for the DJ and the wedd wedding photographer too? Do you feel, or were those prices at least reasonable? If. Yeah. And you just save money on their professionalism.

[Joe]

Well, my, my wife, she said she didn't want to skimp on the. Skip on the photography, which, you know, I understand. You know, you see the horror stories with those. I. So I think we overpaid a little bit on the, on the photographer. But thankfully, you know, after the DJ didn't show up, he gave us a call back and, you know, was very apologetic, offered 100 bucks off. I said, why don't we make that 500 bucks off? He said, meet in the middle. 250, call it a deal. But, you know.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, I mean, really, if you think about it though, that hour where you sat there by yourself, you're getting paid 250 bucks an hour to do that. So that's not such a bad gig.

[Joe]

Yeah, Excellent. Excellent way to look at it.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, so we knocked that one off the list. Cha ching.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

250 bucks an hour. Now, photography, you got to think photographers are creatives. Correct. And Charlie, you're a creative guy.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

If you had a photography business, do you think that you would be messaging people back about billing? Very often.

[Charlie Barron's]

So here is the thing with creatives. Oftentimes they are space cadets. They should not be doing their actual nuts and bolts of the business. And that's just, that's what you get. You know, you're dealing with some. With probably a tattoo on their kneecap or something like that. I mean, I'm sorry to say this comes with the territory of, you know, those pot smokers.

[Miles Montrez]

And usually the better they are, the worse they are at responding.

[Charlie Barron's]

That's true. So it's very fair point, Miles. If you are just have. If they have terrible business skills, you're going to get some really good pictures. And if you don't, then you can have a problem. So my question is, how good were those pictures?

[Joe]

Well, you're bringing me to another point. We pay the final bill yesterday, she said, she said, the day you pay the final bill, I'll Release your first 300 photos of 600. And we have yet to see a picture. Oh, that's 24 hours since we paid the bill.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'm gonna say this. I don't like the holding your pictures hostage for the money. That's. That seems like at least do half up front. You know, I don't know, maybe there's.

[Miles Montrez]

The other thing is, is knowing I know a few wedding photographers. She hasn't started editing those things yet. I'm being totally honest. Yeah, it's. Yeah. So it's. That was her saying she's not releasing them until you pay the final bill. Was her just trying to buy time? I'm not saying that my wife does.

[Charlie Barron's]

This, Charlie, but is that how it goes?

[Miles Montrez]

She's gonna kill me for. But it was more so when she was doing wedding videos. She was like, so we can't do anything on Saturday because my wedding video is due. Oh, my God, tomorrow at noon, and I have to do that.

[Charlie Barron's]

So that's a.

[Miles Montrez]

That's just the nature of the beast. I think in that industry, it's kind of like you've seen a thing called rapper time. Charlie.

[Charlie Barron's]

Rapper time.

[Miles Montrez]

Rappers show up whenever they want.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

It's kind of photography. Time is a thing.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

They send the photos when they're ready.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. I mean, as I. As somebody who's often late, but not. Not out of ego, just out of fact.

[Miles Montrez]

That you have time blindness.

[Charlie Barron's]

No, I just my excuse. I grew up in big family and we were always late for everything. So that translated to me, that's my excuse. I'm sticking with it. Not my fault. Totally my fault, but not my fault. So now here's the other thing. The. Them screwing you over on the billing standpoint, if we're talking about the catering person, all these fine line, like, little. What do you call them? Hidden costs, that kind of a thing. What is the service fees, you know, like, what do they actually do and why do they exist? And I think people just put them in the contracts, hoping people don't read the contracts and say, well, was a great wedding, you know, and this is a once in a while, two to three time in a lifetime kind of a deal.

[Miles Montrez]

And they're taking advantage of that.

[Charlie Barron's]

They. Absolutely. And you know what's worse than weddings? Funerals. Oh, my gosh. You want to get, you know, raked over the coals for a $10,000 casket, you know, watch one of your loved ones die? I tell you what I mean. And that's probably a nice casket, but it's just going in the ground, you know what I mean? Like, the finish doesn't need to be that good on that thing. It's only going to be seen for a few hours. So.

[Joe]

Yeah, my. My dad passed away a few months ago, God rest his soul. He. He saw the price of a casket and said, no chance. Burn me and put me in a. Put me in an urn.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

I was thinking he was maybe gonna be a coffee tin type of guy. Earn does the job as well.

[Charlie Barron's]

I was.

[Joe]

Yeah, he splurged a little.

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, sorry for your loss with your dad, first of all, but I appreciate it.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

You like how we. You like how he's Midwest Cheap to the end, God bless him.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I. I don't know. I just. Something about it, you know, you're paying all this money, you think might. Might raise you up on the priority list a little bit? You know, the other thing, the venue, they said, you know, Mike's and TV Screen were included if we wanted to do a slideshow. So we put together a slideshow, we sent it over, and they tack another 500 bucks for that. We say, well, we're not going to have the slideshow up. Then they say, you know that one.

[Charlie Barron's]

This is all. This is all crazy negotiation. Just put in a bunch of stuff, you know, people are going to negotiate for so you look like a good guy and you just get the overpriced thing that you were going to go for to begin with.

[Miles Montrez]

What, what was the. Was the wedding venue? Was it like at a hotel? Was it at a barn? Like, what kind of wedding venue are we talking?

[Joe]

So it was a country club, so it was a little on the nicer side. But, you know, they said they only do about four weddings a year when there are member events going on.

[Miles Montrez]

They did a study and they told some students to make. Half of the students were supposed to make one pottery piece for the semester, and they told the other students to do as many pottery pieces as they can in a semester. And tell you what, by the end of semester, the people who were doing as many as they could, their pots were better than the people who did one. So you gotta maybe keep an eye out for that. If they're only doing a few weddings a year, they're not gonna be very well trained in how to do a wedding.

[Charlie Barron's]

Miles, I didn't know where you were going with that at first, but now I see it. And I like that you're reading studies. That's what I like about you.

[Miles Montrez]

I saw on TikTok, I think, no, it's smart.

[Charlie Barron's]

But. Yeah, the more reps you get, the better you are. But also doing a wedding at a country club. Oh. Because everybody sees that you got that money right there.

[Miles Montrez]

That is true.

[Charlie Barron's]

And so that's true. They're gonna throw on those service fees, you know, they're gonna take their sweet ass time, say, pay up front, all that, because it's like, should we role.

[Miles Montrez]

Play the country club here? Charlie?

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. Which one do you want to be?

[Miles Montrez]

I'll be the event coordinator.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

You be the GM of the country club.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

Hey, looks like we got a couple that are looking to get married here. How much. How much should we Charge them.

[Charlie Barron's]

Do they know how much an annual fee is. Is, is one of their family members a member here?

[Miles Montrez]

No.

[Charlie Barron's]

What, and they, they want. Yeah, I mean, well, and then we got to put on. Then we got to put on a non member wedding fee.

[Miles Montrez]

Yes, yes.

[Charlie Barron's]

Which we go without. They'll talk it down 16 grand.

[Miles Montrez]

You can start high. They're going to talk it down somewhere in the middle.

[Charlie Barron's]

Maybe 7,500. Who will look like heroes? We look like heroes. Yeah. Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

Hey, let's also, let's charge them for a slideshow.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

And then we'll say.

[Charlie Barron's]

We'll throw that in for free.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, so.

[Charlie Barron's]

So we'll take that off right there.

[Miles Montrez]

But then we're going to upcharge them for the non member fee.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, but we won't tell them that till like after the fact. Once it's done. Hide that in the, in the fine print, they're never going to read it.

[Miles Montrez]

So do you think. God, you know what, What's Jerry, should, should we give them a good experience? It's their wedding day. They're already going to be stressed. We shouldn't stress them out, right? No, no, no.

[Charlie Barron's]

Let's stress them out the week before.

[Miles Montrez]

Yes.

[Charlie Barron's]

Because then they'll be like, I can throw money at it.

[Miles Montrez]

Let's stress them out the week before.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because then they'll forget by the time they get to the wedding that we ever stress them out at all.

[Miles Montrez]

We'll make them sign a contract. They're not going to read it.

[Charlie Barron's]

No, no, no. By the way, what's Jerry doing? Jerry the lawyer. Get Jerry the lawyer over here. Have him type four to five pages of just.

[Miles Montrez]

How about 40 to 50?

[Charlie Barron's]

40 to 50 is better. Sound, have it sound legal, but say absolutely nothing.

[Miles Montrez]

Correct.

[Charlie Barron's]

40. 50.

[Miles Montrez]

All right. $50,000 wedding.

[Charlie Barron's]

These people itched.

[Miles Montrez]

Is that how you think it went?

[Joe]

That is almost verbatim. The meetings we had with them.

[Miles Montrez]

It's like, did you get charged a non member fee?

[Joe]

No, I think, I think we were able to negotiate that one out. We said, we said because we did a relatively quick engagement, seven months. But we, we said, listen, you're not, you're not booked in seven months out. You're not going to get anyone in here. You're not going to get a member that's getting married in that amount of time.

[Charlie Barron's]

I like what, you.

[Joe]

Know, we, we know what. We had played our hand, right? But you know, it was just those ticky tack fees at the end there. I.

[Charlie Barron's]

Well, you know, what happened to the goal?

[Miles Montrez]

You Know why they're doing right? You know why they're doing the ticky tack fees? Because you were ticky tacking them from the get go and they're tick attacking back turn into a game of tic tac toe.

[Charlie Barron's]

Ticky tack on the toes. I gotta tell you, Miles, even if he wasn't doing the tic tac, they probably still do the tic tac because that's how they make their money, off the tic tac. Yeah, they're not making burger sales at the country club pool, I can tell you that much. And I'll say this, I'll say this as someone who worked at a country club once. There's a lot of money that you get from people.

[Miles Montrez]

There's a lot of money in tic tac toe.

[Charlie Barron's]

There's a lot of money in that, that world. And they just say, well, it's a country club. They pay him. You're paying for the name, you're paying for the esteem, you're paying for the exclusivity. And it's just a bunch of happy horseshit. I think that the end of the next time you get married, you and your wife, you guys, or for your, you know, renewal of your vows, good save. You guys just find yourself a nice little tavern and two bar stools sit next to each other. And there will be no hidden fees in that, but you should tip your bartender.

[Joe]

Yeah, well, here's the thing. I told my wife, I said, let's find a vfw, an American Leisure or something that's available on the weekend. She shot that one down before I was eating. Even down on one knee. I said, let's, let's save the money. Let's just have a party. But we had to make it a pretty party.

[Charlie Barron's]

So it's a cultural thing, man. It's not until we as a society, like look at weddings and say, you know what? A house would be better. It's not until we all collectively do that we're just going to be going to the, doing these stupid ass tux rental things and just da, da, da, da, da, da da, you know?

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the other thing. Wedding dresses. I, I told, I told my wife, I said, whatever you're spending on your wedding dress, I get to spend on my suit because I'm gonna wear that thing more than once. And the second, the second she got into the wedding shop, it, it must have just gotten right out one ear because she came home and told me the price and I almost fainted on the spot. Holy cow. The white dress, for God's sakes.

[Charlie Barron's]

Ten grand?

[Joe]

A little less. Seven under five, you know?

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, I said the same thing. I said the same thing about my wedding suit. And then I lost a bunch of weight and I can't wear it anyways, so I literally bought a wedding suit that I could wear in the future, and then now it doesn't fit.

[Charlie Barron's]

Miles, you can go get it tailored and probably make a soup for your little guy now.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. The excess small jacket.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, man. Well, listen, we're sorry you got screwed over by the wedding industry. The good news is you're in good company with everybody else who ever got married. So the only way to save it is. Yeah, the only way to save it is a lope.

[Miles Montrez]

Hey, just think how Charlie feels. He paid money for a wedding and then now he doesn't even have a wife.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, there's a lot of things could be worse. It could be worse. Count your blessings before they're hatched.

[Joe]

Yeah, definitely. Where are you guys drinking today?

[Miles Montrez]

We're at the Garden Grill and Pub near the Bemidji area. Where are you at?

[Joe]

Sure, I'm. I'm over in Woodbury right now. Minnesota.

[Miles Montrez]

Oh, not too far.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, well, enjoy the berries this time of year.

[Joe]

Yeah, thank you.

[Charlie Barron's]

Here, they taste like.

[Joe]

Hey, I'll. I'll let you get going. Make sure. Make sure you give a talking to whoever's on that on that phone line. All right, I will.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, we're sorry.

[Miles Montrez]

We've already been given a little bit.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, no worries, boys. Hey, take it easy.

[Miles Montrez]

Have a good one.

[Charlie Barron's]

All right, Bye. Bye. It's tough because you got. You got artists, you got people like DJs, photographers, DJ art. But, you know, there's a spectrum.

[Miles Montrez]

They're on the spectrum and it's not necessarily high. DJs are on the spectrum of creativity.

[Charlie Barron's]

They are. You know, and catering and food is a lot of hard work. It's like, you understand, running a small business, as I do, too, that those are. Those are big gigs and they want to get paid. They want to get paid by people. So you understand it from that standpoint, but on the other standpoint, it's like to buy a friggin house. Let's hope. Like, what is the point of this? Yeah, because then you just get 200 people there and you're expecting them without telling them that they should bring a gift that's worth at least $75 a person.

[Miles Montrez]

Well, what's smart about the wedding industry, Charlie? They get them young, you know, culture. Culture is, you know, trained young kids to be excited about their future wedding day someday. So when it comes wedding time, it's. This is my dream since I was a young and sells a young gal, and then they can just take advantage of that.

[Charlie Barron's]

I just wonder how many people get married because they put down deposits and they can't get that money back, you know, and they don't have that money. You know what I mean? Because this is like a huge financial. It should just not be about the money, you know, but it is. It is nothing you can do about it. There are worse problems in the world. So anyways, take another one. Let's take another caller.

[Morgan]

Oh, this is Morgan.

[Miles Montrez]

Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, want your belly up to the bar? What do you want to get off your chest today?

[Morgan]

Oh, my gosh. I can't even believe I'm on. I want to talk about. So I just recently had a baby and my husband.

[Miles Montrez]

Congrats.

[Morgan]

My husband.

[Miles Montrez]

Congrats on the sex.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Charlie Barron's]

Good job.

[Morgan]

Thank you. And so my husband and I are both from Minnesota, and I'm a tried and true, like, Midwest gal. Like, grew up doing winter sports. So I know how to ski, I know how to skate, I know how to snowboard, and I want to teach all my daughter all these awesome, you know, winter sports. And my husband doesn't know how to do any of that. He's never learned how to skate, never learned how to ski, doesn't know how to snowboard. How do I convince him to do that? Or should I convince him to do that before, like, my daughter gets older? Because I want her to be able to do that stuff, too.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, she doesn't want her dad to be a loser.

[Miles Montrez]

Just because a guy doesn't really know how to ski or snowboard that well doesn't make him a loser.

[Charlie Barron's]

Charlie, looks like we got another loser on this side of the bar. You know, I got.

[Miles Montrez]

I grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. Charlie, tell me the closest ski hill from Fargo, North Dakota.

[Charlie Barron's]

All right, well, I didn't learn how to. I grew up in Wisconsin. I didn't learn how to ski till I was, like, 18. A big family. You're not. You don't got the dollars to go skiing. Skating, though, is something that anyone can figure out there. Skating ranks anywhere. And I will say this. I grew up with roller blades and rollerblading. Really taught me how to ski. So you can learn how to ski without spending a lot of money. You just get some roller blades and go down. Obama, big hill you know, I had my dad's old ice skates and he had these hockey skates and then you can kind of learn that stuff. You can get a lot of this stuff cheap enough, you know?

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

So I don't know why I'm even talking about. Oh, you brought up the, the skiing thing. But anyways. Yeah, or, or what you could do is teach them together, you know.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

So then you're holding your kid's hand and then your husband's hand.

[Miles Montrez]

That would be cute.

[Charlie Barron's]

That would be so cute.

[Miles Montrez]

You and your daughter are your husband and your daughter on the bunny hill together. That's a great Christmas card photo, isn't it?

[Charlie Barron's]

Or it's a great like long video that somebody takes from a distance and puts on TikTok and be like, look at this woman's teaching her husband and her kid at the same time. Dad, you can shame him. You can tell him he's going to go viral if he doesn't learn because.

[Morgan]

Do you think it would kill his confidence a little bit if he's in a class though with like all these little kids together and it's like him.

[Charlie Barron's]

And my daughter, Snowy Madison.

[Miles Montrez]

Here's how you gotta. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta pitch it to him like he's doing the plot of Billy Madison. He'll love that.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. Does he, is he an athletic guy? Period? Does he do any athletics?

[Morgan]

Yeah, he is athletic. He play, he plays softball.

[Miles Montrez]

That's put the brakes on being athletic. Yeah, I've seen 400 pound guys playing softball.

[Charlie Barron's]

Softball does not count. By what? Did he play actual baseball at ever any point?

[Morgan]

Yeah, in high school he did.

[Caleb]

Yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay. All right, so he's an athletic guy. He just didn't grow up doing this cold, cold winter stuff.

[Morgan]

No, no, he never got introduced to it. And I feel like my family was super fortunate. My dad's a ski jumper. So like my dad's kind of crazy in that aspect. He was, you know, dumping.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. I mean, put yourself in his shoes. You got an intimidating ass family.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. How is he supposed to just get up on a hill knowing that your dad's pract probably somewhere that just like judging him because you're for sure taking video of his first time down, you know?

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, I guess you could say that is pretty intimidating because you know, my dad was in the 1980 Olympics for ski jumping.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh my God.

[Miles Montrez]

1980S you said?

[Morgan]

Yep. Miracle.

[Miles Montrez]

That was that year. Is he buddies with those guys still or.

[Morgan]

So he's. He doesn't like. They ate every meal together and you Know they, he bunked with all of them. He doesn't stay in contact with them too much, but like he was there for the game. We have all the tickets, the. He has all the memorabilia. Yeah, we got a lot of stuff.

[Miles Montrez]

That is sweet.

[Charlie Barron's]

That is so intimidating for your husband.

[Miles Montrez]

Your poor husband.

[Charlie Barron's]

Is your husband from a different place from a non cold weather place?

[Morgan]

No, he's from Coon Rapids, Minnesota. So it's a suburb of Minneapolis.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay.

[Miles Montrez]

Okay. So that's pretty cool. Your dad is a Olympic ski jumper. Did he happen to take any hardware home or was it just a really awesome thing that he was able to go?

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. You got any pawnables sitting around?

[Morgan]

No hardware, but you know, it was an awesome thing for him to be able to go. And we've got some other cool like stuff from him traveling all over.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, that's awesome. Does he have the Olympic ring tattoo?

[Morgan]

No, but he has the. He actually has a ring. He has a US Olympic ring.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, that's cool. I didn't know you got that.

[Miles Montrez]

I think that's cooler than a tattoo, in my opinion.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, you can take the ring off. Tattoo at some point will be like a saggy set of ring.

[Miles Montrez]

Instead of rings, it'll just be ovals.

[Charlie Barron's]

The Olympic gold. Oh, man. Well, hey, does your husband seem like he might be interested in this or is he going to need some convincing?

[Morgan]

I think he's going to need some convincing because he's been going for so long without, you know, like actually, you know, trying it. So he's like, well, why start now? You know?

[Miles Montrez]

You know what, I think you're thinking about it all wrong, Charlie. When you were young, yeah. Your dad would be working in the garage and what do you do?

[Charlie Barron's]

Get your ass out here. You're helping.

[Miles Montrez]

And he called it. What?

[Charlie Barron's]

Clean the garage.

[Miles Montrez]

Quality time.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, you didn't call it that, but.

[Miles Montrez]

That'S what that was.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

So you were doing quality time with your dad. Fond memories, I'm sure.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, yeah, Very fun.

[Miles Montrez]

You now have a one on one bond quality time thing to do with your daughter where your husband isn't there.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, it could be mommy, mommy lady time. You know what I mean?

[Miles Montrez]

It's like this is a thing that you two do together.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. We definitely need more opportunities to like have one on one time because we've been so busy with the baby. So we're trying to spend more some time together alone and maybe it's a good date night thing.

[Miles Montrez]

Correct.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, wait, no, Miles was saying the opposite. He was saying. Oh, he was saying, you with your daughter.

[Miles Montrez]

Your daughter spending quality.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, but we'll. We'll take it the way you're taking it too. We'll take it the way you're taking it.

[Miles Montrez]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Hey. What. How come you guys didn't do any of this while you were dating? Did you want him to do it or no?

[Morgan]

I did want to do it, but I think he's just like, you know, we've never had the chance to do it. Like, if we were going to do a ski normally when we do, like, trips and stuff, like, because we would normally go like on a ski trip or something, but we normally go to, like, warmer places now and I don't know, it just hasn't really, like, come up. So I want to be able to teach my daughter this stuff. But yeah, we just. I guess we really hadn't had the time or opportunity to.

[Miles Montrez]

How pissed would you be if he actually decided to take it up and he was a better skier than you after a little bit?

[Morgan]

Oh, I'd be so mad.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. So you gotta take into that account as well.

[Charlie Barron's]

Dangle that carrot up.

[Miles Montrez]

You might be opening up a can of worms that you may not love. You may be like, hey, I wish I wouldn't have done that because now I'm pissed off because he's a better skier than me.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Charlie Barron's]

Skiing is a tough one to learn later on in life. How old is he?

[Morgan]

He's 33.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay. All right. Still a good time. Because you don't want to be embarrassed on the bunny hills. And then you might try a bigger hill and then you're just flying. And it's tough to go ass over tea kettle on a ski hill and yard sale and know how to deal with a yard sale. I had to learn that at a fairly old age. Respective to the others. And you just got these little kids there, you know, just whizzing past you. And I did a yard sale when I was in Colorado once, and this little girl, she was seeing me put my skis back in the boots and she shouts, your toes gotta go in first, bro. From the chair stand. So it's really embarrassing if you don't know what you're doing.

[Miles Montrez]

There's nothing more intense, intimidating than a young person who's really good at skiing or snowboarding.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. And they're so good out there.

[Miles Montrez]

I know.

[Charlie Barron's]

And it's like dangerous, you know, like you're up on a mountain. The only way to get down like you're kind of nervous.

[Miles Montrez]

So, yeah, as Michael Scott would say, all the people he knows that skis are dead, so it's a dangerous sport.

[Charlie Barron's]

I love a good office quote from you, Miles. That's got to be on our bingo.

[Miles Montrez]

Hey, maybe he's not a skier. Maybe just have him spend some quality time with your dad and get him on the ski jump.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, send him off, throw him in the deep end.

[Miles Montrez]

Have you ever ski jumped before?

[Morgan]

Not. Not since I was really, really little.

[Miles Montrez]

I mean, that's got to be one of the most terrifying things ever, Charlie.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, you couldn't pay me to do that. No, I tried one jump one time. Oh, man. It did not end well. And it was a real baby jump. I ran into my buddy. No, that. The seeing that, that's like, oh, how do you even practice for that? How do you go off that the first time? I don't know.

[Morgan]

I have no idea.

[Charlie Barron's]

Is there a big trampoline underneath? You know, like, how to even do it? Nothing can prepare you for that. You just go, no, thank you. No, thank you.

[Miles Montrez]

Well, we appreciate you calling in today that you got a lot of stuff to think about, you know, and maybe just treat it as quality time with you and your daughter someday. Let him just have a few whiskeys at the lodge and call it a day.

[Morgan]

Sounds good. Thank you, guys. I appreciate your help.

[Charlie Barron's]

You bet you. We'll talk to you soon.

[Miles Montrez]

Now, I went skiing with Ann's family. Figures back.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

Was also like 40 pounds heavier in this.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

And they're all bundling up to go skiing.

[Charlie Barron's]

Right.

[Miles Montrez]

It's cold out.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

So I start bundling up. You know, I. I do like two runs and I'm so fucking sweaty and hot.

[Charlie Barron's]

You get really hot.

[Miles Montrez]

I'm shedding. I mean, I could have just been out there in a T shirt. Still been sweating because I'm just spending the whole time snow plowing all the way down because I'm just scared to eat.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, you're pizza ing the whole way down? Is that what you're saying?

[Miles Montrez]

Towards the end of the trip, though, I started to figure out the little back and forth and, Yeah, I gotta.

[Charlie Barron's]

Be honest with you. I've been doing it since I was 18 years old, and I do it maybe one time a year, maybe less. I'm still not very confident, not very good.

[Miles Montrez]

I just. What's the point in breaking a bone just to ride down on skis?

[Charlie Barron's]

I think it's fun and you see some cool stuff. But yeah, I mean, it's like super expensive.

[Miles Montrez]

I get why it's fun, but for me, at the skill level that I'm at, I'm kind of just like, it's not necessarily worth it to get injured.

[Charlie Barron's]

Doing this, but you're an athletic guy, and I feel like with a little bit, you could, like, get. Get safe. I think that's all you got to do is get like, can I get down a hill if I find myself accidentally on this hill? And the answer for me for a long time was no.

[Miles Montrez]

I'm still at that stage.

[Charlie Barron's]

Okay. I just got to a. An okay thing where I'd feel all right if I found myself on black diamond. Anyways.

[Miles Montrez]

Take another one.

[Charlie Barron's]

Let's do it. All right, folks, it is time for a little fan mail.

[Miles Montrez]

Fan mail.

[Charlie Barron's]

Fan mail. Here's the mail that never fails. It makes me want to wake my.

[Miles Montrez]

Tail when it comes. I want to whale fan mail.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'm hoping you can help me with gift ideas from my dad, Randy. He's the ultimate midwestern cliche. Born and raised up north, thinks a blizzard is good grilling weather, has more Packers T shirts than friends. You get the idea. Every year he gets us these ridiculous gifts but insist he doesn't need anything. But I refuse to accept that. Got any ideas that aren't a six pack or a custom cheese tray?

[Miles Montrez]

Well, Charlie, this is an easy one.

[Charlie Barron's]

This is Heather, a very stressed daughter. Heather. How'd she know? I was going to suggest six pack.

[Miles Montrez]

And a custom cheese tray, but if he doesn't want that, if they've already done that, what should they get him, Charlie?

[Charlie Barron's]

Hey, you know what's green Christmas? You know, this is green Tippy cow Shamrock mint, baby.

[Miles Montrez]

I'm. I'm sucking down a little shamrock mint today. And if you got a Randy in your life, you just don't know what to get them for a gift. Make sure you get him a nice ice cold bottle and glass of tippy cow.

[Charlie Barron's]

And tell Randy we says hi.

[Miles Montrez]

Cheers. Holidays like a little tippy cow?

[Charlie Barron's]

Hell no. Cheers to you, Miles. Randy. Cheers to you and Heather. Cheers to you and Heather. Before you give it to him, crack open that bottle. Pour a little out for yourself.

[Miles Montrez]

You earned it. Hey, folks, as we dive deeper into winter, we all know accidents happen.

[Charlie Barron's]

They do, Miles. You can't avoid them. Sometimes you give a slippity doo da slippity day. Go ass over tea kettle and tomorrow becomes today.

[Miles Montrez]

Exactly. And that's what I was gonna say. Whether you're shoveling snow or taking a tumble while trying to get your holiday lights up, I know it's gonna happen to you this year. Those Christmas lights, you might have a stumble in a fall. Charlie, I've seen your balance but don't let those insurance companies push you around. You gotta call Nicolay Law when that happens.

[Charlie Barron's]

You see my balance after a couple cocktails I am very good at. But if there's a steady wind, you never know.

[Miles Montrez]

That's true. And there can be a lot of frustration when dealing with insurance claims especially around the busy holiday season. Charles.

[Charlie Barron's]

That's true Miles. It is a accident prone time of.

[Miles Montrez]

Year and so the importance of having someone, you know. Sorry, there's. It's important to have someone who knows the local landscape that's fighting for you Charlie. So if you guys are injured this holiday season call Nicolay Law 1855 Nicolay or visit nicolay law.com and tell Russell we says hi.

[Caleb]

Hey, this is Caleb.

[Charlie Barron's]

What's up Caleb? How you doing my guy?

[Caleb]

Doing good, how you doing?

[Charlie Barron's]

All real good. Belly up to the bar, tell us what's on your mind.

[Caleb]

Hey, I'm just calling to let you, Charlie and Miles know that me and some of my pole vault buddies from college are building like a seven man maybe plus tandem bicycle and seeing if you guys wanted to come on down or ride that when you're in town. Yeah, we, we've been collecting bikes around town and we're welding them together and we're going to see how long of a bike we can make it ride.

[Charlie Barron's]

I just want to say as a former bike mechanic I approve of this message. And how many bike frame bongs did it take you to come up with this idea, might I ask?

[Caleb]

Oh yeah, it's funny, I can't disclose.

[Charlie Barron's]

I'm going to guess two secret formul. Yeah, right. That's awesome. So are we doing, are we talking like a mountain or road bike frames or.

[Caleb]

Because that, oh yeah, I mean right now we had on a really old like 70s road bike connected to you know, mountain bikes. You know that was actually a full suspension but we swapped it out since then and you know we're really open to any bikes.

[Charlie Barron's]

Really you can do that with.

[Miles Montrez]

We're talking huffies, you know we're talking, talking all of them but that's pretty.

[Charlie Barron's]

I feel like it might. Oh that's awesome. I gotta see a picture of this. Do you guys have any pictures yet or you just in the drafting phase?

[Caleb]

We got, we got two, you know so it's a tandem, actual tandem connected right now, you know and we're trying to be putting a Third one on sometime soon here, the next coming week. And, you know, if we can get more bikes, we can, we can get them done as soon as possible. Yeah, we got a picture of the tandem we got welded up right now.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, you should send that to the bellied up Instagram page.

[Charlie Barron's]

And as you keep adding more bikes, keep sending us updated pictures, we need more updates. Then we should do like a full post of the progression for people to see. I think this, this is one of the most special things about the Midwest, the ingenuity that comes out of here. I mean, this is the, this is the place that brought you the trampoline miles.

[Miles Montrez]

That's true. And the foam finger.

[Charlie Barron's]

And the foam finger. And also the chiropractor. A seven plus tandem bicycle.

[Miles Montrez]

Now, I will have to say something here, Charlie. It's been on my bucket list for my life to talk to someone who's a pole vaulter.

[Charlie Barron's]

Is it?

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. So I am checking that box off today. If I had to imagine in my head what a pole vaulter does in their spare time, it would be exactly this. A seven person tandem.

[Caleb]

You're just about right.

[Miles Montrez]

It's like you're crazy enough to run with a giant pole, fling yourself, yourself 20ft in the air and say, land safely. I mean, you're doing tandem bicycle. You're doing crazy in your spare time.

[Charlie Barron's]

It's a drug. This guy's doing tandems for sure. Oh, man. Have you made other crazy stuff or is this your first invention?

[Caleb]

Yeah, I'm trying to think. Well, we've been doing like pallet bars and, you know, stuff around the house. And, you know, we've taken old poles that we've snapped and put them up and made stuff out of that. But the tandem, you know, thus far is, you know, we're just getting into welding territory, so, you know, the sky's the limit, really.

[Charlie Barron's]

Wait, so you're just getting into welding territory, so you're first learning how to weld on something that could put somebody in the hospital, is that right? Just going down a monster, then the middle guy just falls off? No front tire to speak of.

[Caleb]

Yup.

[Miles Montrez]

You gotta remember, Charlie, this is a pole vaulter. We're not talking with a normal human here.

[Charlie Barron's]

Before you weld another bike onto this, I want you to do me a favor and type up a document that limits your liability in this whole situation. You can thank me for that later.

[Caleb]

All right.

[Miles Montrez]

How old are you? You're pretty young.

[Caleb]

Yeah, we're all about 18 through 22. Since we're all freshmen or seniors in college.

[Charlie Barron's]

You guys don't have any assets then.

[Caleb]

No, absolutely not. The asset is the tandem itself. You know what I mean?

[Miles Montrez]

Well, that's what I was going with. If you were a little bit older, if you were like, Charlie and I, no way are we going to be able to find seven friends to ride a bike with us.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, your friends, you get older, your friends just, like, peeling away.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. You're like, you have to put your grandpa on the back at the end. If you and I were going to do a bicycle, maybe three deep, and that's about it.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. Well, so now is the time. While you got a bunch of friends that are. That, you know, haven't had the injuries, I feel like once you get to the age of 26, you start pulling things a little bit and. Oh, hang on. We got the video. We got the video.

[Miles Montrez]

We got the video of you guys welding in. Just looks like it's. Oh, yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Right in the driveway. Oh, that's cool.

[Miles Montrez]

Also, I like the eye protection you guys are wearing.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. For God's sake. One. One dude's just looking away.

[Miles Montrez]

One guy's got the helmet on. The other guy is just burning his retinas. He's just staring right at it. You see that?

[Charlie Barron's]

And I like this dude up here holding the bike. He's just looking away.

[Miles Montrez]

Well, no, he's the lookout.

[Charlie Barron's]

You know, he's like, yeah, why are. Who's holding the thing without the eye protection?

[Caleb]

You know, it's. It's probably Gavin or Alex, one of those two. But everybody in that video is a pole vaulter, so, I mean, if that answers any questions.

[Charlie Barron's]

This does answer the question. Yeah. The pole vaulter house. What gets you guys into pole vaulting? What, like, what first inspired you for that?

[Caleb]

I guess maybe not being, like, the best at other events. So you gotta pick the one that's a little bit harder. And then once you get good at it, you're better than everybody else because everybody else is either too scared or not good enough to do it. So then you got to stick with it.

[Charlie Barron's]

What. What do you do for your package? I've seen a few pole vaulting videos where the package is the thing that. That touches the pole, where the pole. Pole on pole.

[Miles Montrez]

Actually, every time I see a pole vaulting video on the Internet, I think he's coming down on the pole. And then when they don't, it's like a sigh of relief.

[Charlie Barron's]

It's a miracle. It's a miracle.

[Caleb]

Yeah. I mean, you know, if the package is causing the problems you just gotta make, you know, make sure everybody knows that's what knocked the bar down.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's actually street crime in the vaulting community.

[Charlie Barron's]

Good way to lose the Olympics. Yeah, I would have won the Olympics, but I had too big of a package.

[Caleb]

Exactly.

[Miles Montrez]

Now tell us, have you ever gotten a Cole Answeree from the pole vault poll?

[Caleb]

Well, no, I luckily haven't. You know, there's been some cool calls, and there was another Walter from our conference a couple years ago. You know, you might have seen the videos on the Internet where, you know, he had a little bit of that going on, but it's, you know, it definitely leaves a mark. You know, that thing's coming down with some force.

[Miles Montrez]

Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

[Charlie Barron's]

What happened to him in the video? I didn't see it. What can we look up to see the video?

[Caleb]

You know, pole vaulter, you know, gets pulling the anus or something. It should have come up. It was on, you know, Sports center and all that. You know, there's a good video of it out there.

[Charlie Barron's]

He took the pole, right?

[Miles Montrez]

I think we call that the top 10.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, here it is. Here it is. Yeah.

[Caleb]

Yes.

[Miles Montrez]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Charlie Barron's]

Wow.

[Miles Montrez]

That is a full.

[Charlie Barron's]

Play it again, here's the poll and. Oh, no.

[Miles Montrez]

He cleared, though. He cleared. He's going.

[Charlie Barron's]

How was. Did you talk to, you know, him? Huh? Did it. How was his. His butt after that?

[Caleb]

Yeah, he had like a huge, like, ring bruise almost where, like, he almost got impaled by the pole since the top is another hollow. But, you know, he recovered and came back.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, there's like a few people getting this pole in them.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. Go to the doctor. And you're like, doc, I need you to take a look at my, my, my booty.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

And he's like, what happened? And then he takes a look and he's like, I was a pole vaulting accent. And he looks at you like, sure, sure.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

This is a pole vault.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, we're just experimenting.

[Miles Montrez]

You're not the first person tell me.

[Charlie Barron's]

That you had a rodent issue. Anyways, I think that however you go about it, that's a dangerous situation. Man, oh, man.

[Miles Montrez]

So you're gonna get a patent for your seven person tandem bicycle?

[Caleb]

Maybe.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Caleb]

I mean, we got a. Maybe we got a couple of lawyer friends or something that can write us, you know, write us something a little up. And you gotta get a name for it yet, too. And, you know, from there. Yeah, figure it out.

[Miles Montrez]

You got any good names that he can name? Thinking about that too.

[Charlie Barron's]

Like the seven deadly. Something that rhymes with sins.

[Miles Montrez]

The seven deadly winds.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh.

[Miles Montrez]

Isn't a win a type of bicycle?

[Charlie Barron's]

You call it the cat. Oh, no, call it the Centipede. Seven deadly Schwins. That's good.

[Miles Montrez]

I like that.

[Charlie Barron's]

That's what's up. Seven deadly Schwinds. Do you have. You gotta have it be all Schwins then. Or at least.

[Miles Montrez]

At least just put the stickers on there.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah, the seven deadly Schwinn.

[Miles Montrez]

Go to Walmart and peel the stickers off the bikes.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. Or you can do like. I mean, it's very like human centipede. So you can like kind of mess with that whole situation there, you know? Yeah.

[Caleb]

I mean, some of these. Some of these seats are pretty nuts to bots right now. I mean, you're basically sitting. Sitting on the first person handlebars.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Caleb]

You know. You know, it's basically human centipede.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

You guys kind of becoming the talk of the campus or. No.

[Caleb]

Not quite yet. We've only. It's. It's new, to be honest. We just started it this week and it's already been in and out for repairs. But I mean, as soon as we get, I'd say four or five plus going and to get up to our mark of around seven or eight. Hey, yeah, we're gonna. We better be on, you know, like the bar stools and whatnot of this campus, you know, I mean, getting on the campus story and maybe in the paper or something. I got a buddy who's in the press.

[Miles Montrez]

Before you release this. Any other media outlets. When you start getting more bikes on this, you got to send it to us first so we can release it on the bellied up page first.

[Charlie Barron's]

Charlie, we want to. We're your biggest.

[Caleb]

Yeah, all you guys. And hey, send us some stickers or something. We'll throw them on.

[Miles Montrez]

Absolutely. We'll send you some shirts. We want you guys wearing bellied up merch on this thing.

[Charlie Barron's]

Bellied up to the centipede.

[Caleb]

Absolutely.

[Charlie Barron's]

And we all you guys gotta come on rider though. I'll come up and ride as long as you promise that that one dude who was doing the welding without the glasses is not the first bike. You can promise me that?

[Caleb]

Yeah, come on. You're gonna be biased in November. Charlie.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, wait, where are you again?

[Caleb]

We're in lacrosse.

[Charlie Barron's]

Oh, Miles, you should.

[Miles Montrez]

Well, hold on. So did you go to the Oktoberfest by chance?

[Caleb]

Of course. Oktoberfest. Did you really get to opt out if you live in lacrosse?

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah, it's true.

[Charlie Barron's]

Same did. So did another caller.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. You have to keep an eye out for any dumps by the dumpster. And that's just a warning shot for.

[Charlie Barron's]

You if you see two downtown. Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

Third Street. Was that what it was?

[Charlie Barron's]

Yep. Guy.

[Caleb]

That sounds about right.

[Joe]

Holy.

[Charlie Barron's]

Guy also got in trouble rounding third in the bathroom the night before.

[Caleb]

No kidding. In the bar.

[Miles Montrez]

Wow. Yeah.

[Caleb]

Bouncers won't like that one.

[Charlie Barron's]

No, no, that's not. That's a no go right there. That's indecent exposure.

[Caleb]

They're basically the umpire at that point.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yep, yep, That's.

[Caleb]

You're out right there.

[Charlie Barron's]

And out at third. Yeah, third. Not safe. I mean, safe, safer, safer, but definitely not safe. So you can still get the oil herp and kicked out that way. Anyways, this is really exciting. Please keep us posted. And yes, when I come to lacrosse, I would love to get on that bike and give her a go. So there you go, you guys. Roughly a month. Okay, so a little less than a month. Yeah, sounds good.

[Caleb]

I appreciate Miles. And Charlie, thanks for taking my call.

[Charlie Barron's]

You bet. This was fun. We'll see you soon.

[Caleb]

Take care, y'all.

[Charlie Barron's]

Bye. Bye. I love it.

[Miles Montrez]

You should actually go and ride it.

[Charlie Barron's]

I absolutely will.

[Miles Montrez]

Because what's funny is when this comes out, you have already been in lacrosse.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

And then we can post a video of you. Right?

[Charlie Barron's]

That would be great. Dude, you should come down too.

[Miles Montrez]

Okay.

[Charlie Barron's]

You be honest. It as well. I'm not doing this alone. And we're definitely not going down a hill first. First go.

[Miles Montrez]

No.

[Charlie Barron's]

See, these guys also, I don't know that they. I think this is their first time welding. They're learning how to weld on this thing. And unfortunately for this, you're really going to want a decent someone who. Someone who knows something, I think. I don't know. I've never done it, but it does seem like something you just.

[Miles Montrez]

You gotta remember though, like these are pole vaulters. They don't give a shit.

[Charlie Barron's]

Pole vaulters. That dude just looking at it, you.

[Miles Montrez]

Know, I mean, staring directly at the weld.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. And sparks are just flying like.

[Miles Montrez]

I respect it though.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah.

[Miles Montrez]

It's like tow truck drivers and pole vaulters are cut from the same cloth. I know that doesn't really make sense, but they're just fearless.

[Charlie Barron's]

I feel like I do tow truck. I got my car towed one time. Got repoed and my truck guy repoed.

[Miles Montrez]

Why did. Oh, you told that. I feel like before at least you told me that. Sorry.

[Charlie Barron's]

I think so.

[Miles Montrez]

But to pay your bill.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yeah. Well, I just wasn't answering my phone and. Dude, this guy was awesome.

[Miles Montrez]

Yeah. You know, Tyler has a bit like. They'll show up. It'll be negative 10 degrees out. T shirt, jeans, smoking a cigarette right on the side of like a glare ice highway. And they don't give a. They pop out of there. They're on the ground hooking up. Yeah. Give a rat's ass.

[Charlie Barron's]

No, no. The amount of near death misses of. Of your. Yeah, yeah. And not only that, but trying to repo someone's car. I mean, people pull guns on you, you know, it's gnarly business. Should we do another call?

[Miles Montrez]

No, Charlie, I think that's it.

[Charlie Barron's]

Is that it? That's it for. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, for another episode of the Bellied up podcast. What a blast. Miles it's been here with you here at the Garden Grill and Pub. Wonderful times. And make sure that folks, you get these. Road hunting for ditch chickens, the merch.

[Miles Montrez]

The whole Bellied up shirt. The whole thing.

[Charlie Barron's]

Yep.

[Miles Montrez]

Well, guys, we'll see you in the next one. Make sure to tip your bartender.

[Charlie Barron's]

Bye bye now.