Bellied Up - Ex-Girlfriend Etiquette #64

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

In this episode, we're at Zad's in Milwaukee, WI. The first caller is missing his "bro time" with his best buddy. The next caller has a significant turkey problem in their town. The last caller is wondering if he can get back with his ex-girlfriend. Get yourself a ⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠ Hat Want us to come to your bar for a Bellied Up episode? Click Here

All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Bellyduck podcast. We are here at Zads here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Charlie, how you feeling, buddy? Miles, I'm feeling good. It's a nice day. You got the windows and the doors open here. Yeah. Summer in Milwaukee. You can't do this all year round. That's for sure. It gets a little bit nippy. You know what I like about Milwaukee? What's that? When you're walking around, you just get the sweet sounds of seagulls. It gives you that real amount on the ocean feel, but you're just on a lake. No, you're on the west coast. Yeah,

close your eyes. I'm at Myrtle Beach. Exactly. Yeah, we do have a lot of seagulls. Some great red breast and mergansers come through here in the spring and you should see their courtship dance I've talked about the head on the podcast before let me ask you on this trip I think it's your one of your first summer trips in Milwaukee Did you do did you see the sights? Did you get a picture with the bronze fans at all? I have not We maybe have to swing in there before I leave. You know, I do want to applaud you though. Last night we all went out to dinner

and I really want to applaud you, Miles. I think it was unfairly put upon you to be the decider of what the table would eat. We decided on family style. Actually, you decided that. And then the next question was also funny before that even. You texted me and you gave me some options on food. Yeah.

And I actually heard you last night say, you guys decided Chinese food. Yeah. I decided Chinese food. You just shy. Wow. You that was all you. I had a full evening of decisions. And I just owned up to it.

You know, I do like that about you. I will say, I mean, you're a guy who just says things. It could be the wrong answer, but you just say it just comes out of your mouth. Yeah, we can always adjust after you can. Yeah, you can always, but a lot of times it's sort of the procrastination or what's it called when you can't make a decision and then it paralysis by analysis, analysis, paralysis. Yeah. You got it wrong, but you sure, yeah, that's way better. You said it wrong initially, but then we got the right one quicker than both of us trying to think of the exact right one first off.

Exactly. So anyway, then it came time for you to order for the table. Now, if I had that, I'd be asking people, you know, it'd be a hard kind of thing, but you just kind of said, all right, and then you just popped up a bunch of stuff. You gave it to the, our, our waitress. And then you know what she said, she said, that's a nice smattering. And I had no idea what's smattering. I, I, I,, I said, you got to know what's mattering. It's like Schmorgas board. Okay. Oh, I know that now you're speaking my language is what, what, uh, now that's a language of smattering.

That's a hat. That's a nice smattering. Oh, you know, I mean, it's just what you say if it's a good Schmorgas board. But what, what is it? It's it's from a English. Okay. Yeah. I think, um, I think it's, or origins are probably somewhere in Norweja, you know,

yeah. Do you know how to spell Schmorgasbord? Sure. SHMORGZ, you are GZ. Yep, yep, yep, exactly. Now, when you, if anyone else is in a situation where they've been tasked with ordering family style for the whole table, which is a very common occurrence, you know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The biggest thing is you gotta read the room.

That's number one. You gotta look into everyone's eyes. You can kinda tell what they're feeling. The eyes tell you how hungry someone is. Yeah, how hungry and how specific, you know, if you, if you announce the table, okay, I'll order, does anyone have any thoughts? If they're not looking at the menu, you know, you got the table, okay, I'll order. Does anyone have any thoughts? If they're not looking at the menu,

you know, you got the green. But if someone's like digging through the menu a little bit, they either have a dietary restriction or they use something's really catching their eye. You want to double check with them, I think. Well, the biggest thing is always to get a variety. Because if you get a variety, you're gonna hit it all. So we went with some egg rolls to start, you know, even if you don't like

egg rolls, more foods coming. Sure. And you don't have to eat a bunch of them. You can just cut them up. Then you also, the idea was get some chicken and some beef. Yes. Just in case someone's not a red meat type of person. Yeah. But then also get two types of chicken, one regular flavors, and another one a little spicier. Oh, yeah. And last night the spicy was spicy. Yeah. I almost murdered my wife with the spicy chicken.

Yeah, she was, she was tearing up, man. I just, what is wild is she actually handle spice better than me. So she must have got a spicy piece of chicken. She did handle it like a champ. She was like, I, she really said she thought she got a seed, but I saw the tears wound up in her eyes and she was just like sucking them back in. She didn't want anyone to see her. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. I mean, I've never seen her like that, but never seen her get that hot. Luckily, in a crisis, I, crisis, I made quick decisions yet again. Yeah. I mean, it was my decision night. And I said, hey, it's hot. Everyone would probably go towards, oh, you got to drink some milk.

You don't want to drink water, right? Right. Well, we're at a Chinese restaurant. It's kind of weird to order milk. I feel like at a restaurant in that situation. Plus, it's gonna be a while before you get it. So I said, hey, does anyone got any mint gum? Oh, that was your idea?

Oh, yeah, was it? And turns out that mint gum will actually make your mouth not feel spicy and hot anymore. I did not know that. Yeah, I may have uncovered a new thing. I've never heard that before, but I was just like, because you know, when you have mint gum and you drink water and your mouth gets really cold, yeah, you know, I'm talking about.

I applied the same logic to this and she put a piece of mint gum in and she was back to normal in 30 seconds. That's, I mean, you are just a, I was, I was saved. Yeah, I was dialed in last night. Maybe, you know, yeah, I mean, so almost feel like this miles is first miracle. Yeah, you got the hair too. There we go.

You got a Midwest Jesus vibe going. So if any of the listeners, let me know. It may be this isn't an original idea with the mint gum button. Yeah. And I like how we're asking our listeners as opposed to just googling it right now, but we're at the bar. We're not on our phone. Yeah. Yeah. We're trying to be in the moment here. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, we had a good dinner. We did have a good dinner. That was nice. Went out for a couple of drinks after a couple concoctions, libations, and I called it a night first. I did, and I'm proud of that. I had to go to bed. I was, I was getting old, living. I like to think I'm living with him. I limits. Okay. I like to think I'm listening

to my body. But yeah, you know, as the world turns around the sun, you know, I can't stop it. So yeah, I've, I've, I've, I've ticked up a few years in the age thing, Miles, I'm your senior. So, you know, there you have it. Yeah, he actually got a senior citizen discount at the bar too.

That's false. And I'm actually more than a couple years away from that discount, Although when it happens, I'm not going to turn it down. I would never. Yeah, maybe even like when you have the kid who's like 13 and he lies and says he's 10 to get the free meal at the restaurant, I'll be pushing it completely. I'll be like, yeah, I was just seeing, you know, and if I live a little harder, I'll look 55 when I'm 50. And maybe just put like actually start like putting some gray hairs in your hair like get some gray dye.

There you go. You get the senior citizen discount. Yeah, but I'd have to pay for the dye. That's true. So I'll wash it that way. Yeah, I suppose. Yeah. Well, should we take some call?

I think we should. Hello, who are we talking to? This is Braden. Hey, Braden, how you doing? Where you calling them from? Oh my goodness, this is great. I'm from Fresham, Oregon, right outside Portland. Oh, sure. What are you up to today? Oh, you know, just trying to distract myself from doing some college homework right now. Okay, so you're a student. What are you going to school for?

Business and sports administration right now. Okay, what's the dream job for you? Athletic director would be dope. Nice. At a college? Yeah, college, really anywhere. Well, I think that sounds pretty cool actually. That would be pretty fun. I think in that pretty cool. Actually, that would be pretty

fun. I think in that industry, it's all about who you know. So make sure you're networking, I think is the key. Oh, definitely always on indeed. We're leaving. Yeah. Not a sponsor. So what's on your mind today? What's on your mind? Oh, my best friend is three years. Got this girlfriend. Low key of stripper and she's taking all my time from me. Well, I can see why.

Okay. Uh, uh, low key of stripper or an actual stripper? An actual stripper, but you know, we don't like to talk about it. Well, first of all, let's get the terminology right. Okay. This is an exotic dance profession. Thank you, Charlie. Seriously. Let's put some respect in it.

It is a skill. The job is, takes a while to get there. You don't just take your clothes off and, you know, now you're working. No, there's a lot of athleticism in the profession. So let's give them the respect they deserve. How long has he been dating the stripper? Oh, probably about five, six months now. Okay. So I'm guessing that he fell in love with a stripper much like our boy T. Payne said, is that what is that accurate?

Did he go to the strip club and fall in love and next thing you know, or they meet at church? No crazy. They are both security guards together. This is awesome. This is a movie right here. I love it. Okay. So she is the most bad as exotic dance professional. I think I've ever heard of in my life. She's by day a security guard by night. She just walks in with the same security guard attire and just lose. I was going to say is there like, she zip off the bottom of her pants before she goes on stage and she's just that's a theme or what?

I love it. Hey, is your buddy? So how often do you frequent this strip club that? Yeah, have you seen her perform? I have not known. Never been to a strip club. Oh, okay. Are you morally opposed to strip clubs? No, just haven't been to one. My buddy was trying to take me to it one time and we just didn't go. They're expensive and sometimes they don't really treat their exotic dance professionals right

depending on the club. They are actually I think they're unionizing in California now. They're not surprised at all the answers. I think they should union some of those strip club owners. I don't know. I mean, should you need some strip club owners? I don't. Keep stripper tickets on me very much or more, but a credit card gap. Okay. Okay. Good for you. Strip or tickets. I like it. Um, so walk me through this.

Let's say your buddy is like, Hey, I want to go see my girlfriend. You want to go to strip club? Are you you, you go there and she gets up on stage. How are you feeling about that? Are you trying to pretend to like just look at the ceiling or and just so that your buddy doesn't catch you, you know, your eyeballs in the wrong place or what, what's your plan on that? Oh, man, I even even thought about that. I might just have to take a couple of glances

and pretend I'm on TikTok or something. What's with you guys? Ah, you can't be on your phone. You can't find all that. Yeah, he's over there. He has never been to a strip club you can tell. Hey, yeah. Yeah, so no phone, what's your move?

Oh, man. So you are going to catch a few glances, is what he said. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's attractive, but I can't disrespect my boy like that. So you're really sure that you there may be some jealousy going on in this friendship. Yeah, what is the real issue? You're losing time with him because he's he's started dating this, this gal, and really it doesn't matter what her profession is.

It's just your buddies got a gal now, and you're seeing less and less of him. Is that the heart of this? Yeah. Look at that. Is that the heart that you're just seeing less and less of your buddy? I mean, does it, you know, you could say,

you could have called in and said, I have a problem, I'm seeing less and less of my buddy, he's dating a security guard. Yeah, you could say you could have called in and said, I have a problem, I'm seeing less than less of my buddy, he's dating a security guard. Yeah, you could have said that. Makes a last good video to be happy. You said what you said, but you know, well, here's a question for him, is it, what if matter if she was a stripper or not

in this situation, or is it more so that he just has a girlfriend now? Or is the stripper relevant here? Is he spending too much time late at night than he's groggy in the morning or what? The stripper part is just a funny detail of it. The first time, and our friendship that either of us has had a girlfriend and we used to spend, we used to hang out like four or five times a week. Now it's maybe once a month and it's tough.

Oh, and he's really deep into it right now, you know, it's kind of that the other can do no wrong kind of thing, you know, and so he's all about hanging out with her. It's a new thing. You're going to have to kind of this will equalize over time. It will. Well, I think it's also, this is kind of a tough pill to swallow that you guys are just getting older, you know, it's no longer Saturdays for the boys every single day. It's going to have to just be every other Saturday from now on. Yeah. If you're lucky. Oh yeah. So, timeout, you guys used to hang out four, five nights a week. What would you do? Smoke some levels lettuce, drink some call boys and just have a good time.

Play an NHL, I imagine. Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely play some madden. Yeah, there you go. the security guard slash dancers name. And we can go with stage name. Man, I actually don't know that because I don't really want to know too much about her because I don't really care. And I don't even think I think it's like a Maya or something. Okay. Did you know Matt? I've not met her. No good. That might be a good better. Yeah, I mean, well, it also though sounds like you said you don't care. Maybe you're giving off vibes to your buddy that you don't support his relationship and maybe that's why he's not coming around as much. That could be

well, maybe, but we do talk about her all the time because she's, she's toxic as hell. She's always flipping out on them. Seems like they're always on a break, but it's funny. The break only really lasts for maybe a day. Yeah. But feel bad for me. Go you going through stuff. Well, so is he, are you the shoulder that he cries on when they do break up is that when you see him usually right now? Yeah Well, maybe you got to take that away from him and say hey, man I've noticed that you're only coming to me when she pisses you off and I thought we were better friends than that So maybe next time you need a shoulder to cry on look elsewhere and that might change his tune a little bit

He might give him that ultimatum. Now, I am curious as well. Have you ever seen a picture? Have you seen the two of them in a picture together at all? Do you know what she looks like? Oh, yes, I do. I've seen a ton of selfies. They love to take selfies. Oh, I get, okay, selfies together. Are they posting them all over social media? I get okay selfies together. Are they posting them all over social media? Snapchat Instagram all the time. Okay, so she is real okay, because I thought for a second that maybe he was inventing the girlfriend thing and maybe just found a new best friend, you know, anyone to hide that. Oh yeah, that'd be tough. Yeah. That would be a tough one. So I'm glad that this is real, that these facts are checking out.

Okay, one more thing. I mean, this could be another way to go. Does Maya, you said Maya, right? Yep. Does Maya have a friend, either in the security profession or the exotic dance profession or just a friend that per, you know, you yourself

could find a gal if you swing that way, you know. Oh, she does have a older sister. Oh, all right. Now this, the plot thickens, the plot thickens. This is great. I mean, this is like a, this is like a matinee, a TBS matinee class. Yeah. I mean, the first step is you got a meter, you know, you got to tell your buddy, hey, I need to meet this gal so that I can maybe get a fling with their older sister. Yeah. Maybe I don't

think she wants to meet me because I'm kind of surprised I haven't met her yet. Maybe I don't think she wants to meet me because I'm kind of surprised I haven't met her yet. Oh So you think that she doesn't like you I? Think so I think she might be one of those She likes to just laying lay low type of cows, you know doesn't really like to go out much except work and hang out with her friends they kept working in Eleford friends. Okay. Well, I mean, I guess I don't really know what else to tell you, man. I think that it's sound I don't want to put words in anyone's mouths, but it sounds like it's not going to last forever. They're breaking up every other week and all that.

So I think your buddy might just be going what we call it through a phase. Yeah. He might just be going through a phase. He fell in love in a strip club slash the security. I think he fell in love at work. Yeah. That right locker room. Yeah. It's a workplace. Oh, man. Do you know if he's seen her perform? I, I, yeah, I don't think so because he's, he doesn't really, well, he doesn't care that she does it, but he's also not a fan of it. So I don't think he's onto the strip. God, yeah.

I think you just, I honestly, you just got to wait it out. I think that sounds like what's going to happen here. Yeah, yeah, wait it out. I mean, that, or see if she has a friend, you know, I mean, I'm still holding out hope that she's got a friend, you know, and that it can all work out. But realistically, the writing is on the wall. She is in a profession where she's meeting a lot of other

fellows on a very regular basis. And there's a good chance that one of them fails my phone love with her in her workplace. And there might be a lot of temptation there. I'm just spitballing. I think that's a good chance that one of them fell is my phone up with her in her workplace and there might be a lot of temptation there. I'm just spitballing. They're already it's not going good. So give it another month or so and call us back

with an update on that. I will thank you guys so much for taking my call. I never thought I was going to get on. I've been trying for months. Thank you. Well, we're happy that you kept trying. Thank you very much. And you keep her moving and tell your buddy and Maya, we says, hi, okay? All right. Thank you. You tell your folks I say hi.

All right. We'll do my guy. But bye, have a good one. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of red flags going on in this situation. I think Charlie, yeah, never met her. He tried to act like he didn't know our name. He definitely knew our name. He's been the breaking up and getting back together constantly. He his buddy said he doesn't he doesn't like that she's a stripper. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a tough one. Yeah. It says, good money in the exotic dance profession. And it's tough to give that up, you know, especially if you're good at what you do. And I knew, you know, one of my friends at one point

was in that profession and really loved it. Great money, great work out, you know. So, you know, if you really like it, it's tough. Some people, it stops some people. It's not their thing and they are trying to get out, but it sounds like she's got another job. So she has options to get out and uh, might just be her passion. Might it might be her passion. And who might say don't do your passion, not in this world. We only get one, uh, one shot around this sun.

Yeah. You know, we're all going to die, Charlie. We are all dying miles slowly, but we're all living. Yeah, but don't forget to live too. Don't forget to live. We're all dying, but don't forget to live. No, we're all dying, but don't stop living. That's a hat.

Put that on a hat with a period at the end of it. OK. All right. Should we take our next call? I think we should. OK. Holy cow, am I on? Oh, my gosh, you're on. Holy we take our next call? I think we should. Okay. Holy cow, am I on?

Oh my gosh, you're on. Holy cow, who is this? Oh, this is Sarah. Sarah, how are you doing, Sarah, where are you calling in from? I'm calling in from Toza. Walwatoza? Walwatoza with Johnson.

Walwatoza with Johnson. Okay. All right. I know Wawatosa. What's cooking in Wawatosa? Just outside of Milwaukee for those of you who don't know. Milwaukee County. But just outside of Milwaukee. What's going on in Toza?

That is correct. I'm wondering if you've seen the Toza turkeys around town. Oh, all right, Miles. Let me explain this to you. I've seen the toaster turkeys around town. Oh, all right, Miles, let me explain this to you. I've seen the toaster turkeys. The toaster turkeys is this gang of, imagine like a badass biker gang minus the bikes and they're turkeys. Okay.

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car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to be in the car. They're going to you are spot on. You're spot on and they, and they, they rotate places. They go through pick and save, then they go up to the eighth hardware, and then they work their way down the left around town. I'm wondering though some of them have disappeared. Oh, well, sounds like we got ourselves a conspiracy theory about the turkeys. Yeah, where do you think?

Now, which one disappeared? Was it a hen, a tom, a Jake? Which one left? Which one? Not even sure. I mean, my mom's even heard that maybe they were taking out. She just could not agree with that left. She said, and just take them out to the wild. Why do we have?

Because we heard Tosa did something with them. Oh, okay. And then a new gang reappeared. A new gang reappeared. So they do keep coming back. You know, and that's what you got to remember when you're trying to control these turkeys. I tell you what, you can take out the gang leader, but you know, another gang is going to come in and fill their place, you know, they're filling that void. They're like cockroaches in that sense. And a lot of respect. The only things that are going to

survive nuclear war are the cockroaches and the turkeys in this town. It's exactly right. It's just going to be them and a bunch of cigarette butts hanging around. So you're calling in because you're like you're wondering what you guys should be doing in the town to help control these turkeys or what or do you like the turkeys and you're upset. I'm also just wondering do other towns have the same issue? Well, you know what? I'll tell you a story. I think this, uh, this is up in Kekana, Wisconsin. I think I saw this video a couple of years ago. You can actually Google it. There's a little boy, actually, about, uh, I want to say, eight, nine years old, he gets off the school bus. He's walking back to his house and won't be hold encounter to Turkey. And that Turkey, uh, was a little territorial. And that turkey started chasing that boy down the road

So the video is as a but turkey racing after this boy who's in his backpack has his lunch box in his hand And he's just racing from this turkey. I mean they are for rocious Animals, you know, they will they will get after you especially if you encroach on their territory So I do think that's it that this is not an everywhere problem, but an every other where problem. You know, it's getting around. Yeah, so a lot of people can resonate with it. Okay. It seems bad.

Like, people are certainly get like really upset about it. So when you say they detour traffic, they like severely down state street, people have to go like all the way around and it's a one way each way. Now there's some people who'd argue that maybe the turkeys were there first. You know, maybe you encroached on their land and put up a road down the middle and they're like just like, hey, this is my home that you guys paved over. Maybe it is that reminder that that synergy between progress and the world as it was,

can it coexist? And I think we got to find ways to do that more. So what would you do with the turkeys? If you were going to maybe not eliminate the problem, but if you were going to come up with solution, what do you got on your mind that you guys could maybe do to not stop traffic? I don't know. Maybe we could take them out to walk a shower out in the country. Okay, so you want to capture them and release them somewhere else, but they probably are going to come back. Yeah, the thing about turkeys is they got wings. So, you know, you're going to have to take

them outside of their fly and zone, but the thing about turkeys, they got feet too. So, you know, you can't, you can only do so much if they want to come back home, they do have the means might be a few days journey, but Where there's a will there's there's a way All right, yeah, I have no solution. I don't even know what to do But I just know I do get a little worried if I don't see them With the game around town. Yeah, so we always ask my husband and I go back and forth, I can't have you seeing the turkey. Okay.

So this seems like a strange relationship. You have with the turkeys. Yeah. It's kind of on love. Yeah. On one end, you're like, we got to get these turkeys out of here. And when they are gone, you're like, where the hell are the turkeys?

I miss them. So which camp are you in? I don't know. I kind of sit in the middle because they're annoying, but at the same time, they're kind of like the turkeys. They're like they are. And then when they're not there, you're like kind of worried about them. Yeah. My question is, is around maybe middle of November, do you see some turkeys disappear ever? Or yeah, I know they're more of like a summer game okay summer game yeah they know well I've seen them around the winter I will I do wonder if someone took out that old tosa silencer you know that little bow and air always you know I mean middle November yeah I've got a feed your, you know, a gunshot that would raise some

eyebrows, but the nope. No, no eyebrows raised just turkey fall. And maybe a guillotine arrow. That's true. Guillotine arrow. No, it literally just have like a blade on the end of the thing and they shoot right at their neck and their head pops straight blade. Yeah, not like the arrow blades. Or like a BB gun. BB gun. Well, no, I'm going to take down a turkey. No, BB gun with one of them turkeys. No, that just that's like a black bear and a magnum or a brown bear and a magnum. They'll just shake that one off. You know, they'll just say, you're going to do better than that. So if you, I mean, if you guys maybe consider it scary, steering into the skid and just made them the official mascot of the

town and maybe turn into a tourism event, yeah, maybe start making some money off these turkeys. So it's the east could go from the red raiders to the, the brown turkeys, you know, or the Tom's. Oh, there you go. Well, I mean, I have seen people dressed for Halloween as the Tulsa Turfie. Yeah. So I mean, there's not everybody complains about them. The people, I think secretly like, well, I think what you guys need to do as a town is I think collectively with everyone that lives there, they can pitch in a little

money. And you guys, the city can hire someone to be the turkey Wrangler. So when they are in the way of traffic, they can do what they can to kind of shoe them across the road and keep them out of everyone's way. That's not a bad idea. Like a felcaneer, but for Turkey, they're the turkey whisperer. Yeah, whisperer. Yes. How about the you Fetchuk? I does that. Oh, I like that idea. I like that idea a lot. And I'll manage him. I'll collect the money. I mean, I'll watch I'll watch that video over and over. Yeah. Run it around. Post a wrangling. He's Turkey. It sounds like there's a little

bit of a hint that you think I couldn't do it very good. Well, is that accurate? I think you would do it great. You could sit at last grab up your watch them because they usually hang out at the bank and then they cross the street. That sounds like a good Wednesday morning just hanging out with the bank drinking beer watching turkeys and I think Miles should also dress up as one of them so they trust them. So I think we should get miles of turkey suit and you know just so they know Charlie is always trying to dress me up as animals. I mean it's kind of my thing. He's really likes it when I put the deer costume on now he wants me to put a Tom costume on and I don't know if I love it. It's kind of my thing. I don't know if I love it. It's kind of my thing. Okay. Well, I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'll wait for that video.

Okay. Um, you can have a push latte. You dresses the turkey. Ian Tulsa. Okay. Do you want a job because it sounds like you could be our content manager? Yeah. What it sounds like. Yeah. What are you up to these? I mean, I can for sure. I'll ride my bike down and meet y'all. you could be our content manager, is what it sounds like. Yeah, what are you up to these days? I mean, I can for sure, I'll ride my bike down and meet y'all. Okay. And I'll buy you a bush.

I'll buy you a bush latte. I don't think they serve on that latte. You might have to upgrade to maybe a crores. Well, whoa, no. I'm out on this job then, if that's what it entails. What's, what's a you guys tell me? What's the interview process look like for the Tom Wrangler? Oh, patience.

Patience. Well, I'm out. I'm, I'm kind of a spaz. So maybe me and Turkey's don't mix in that sense. No, you got it. Just, all you got to do, you don't need patience if you got a good Turkey call. Yeah, can I hear you turkey? No, I don't have a good turkey call. I'll get you a scratch box. Yeah, you can turn them times on

You know just sitting there scratching that well I feel like you guys you either way should come and rock it down at left and so So okay, that's a great bar. Maybe you'll see the game Charlie. We could do a video great bar We could do a video where I'm in the studio. Yeah, as the reporter and we're going to cut live to the turkey watch. And that's the interview in the turkeys. That's I like that. That's good. I like it. You guys are on to something. I just got a Kepler vest because if they don't like me, they're not going to mix bones about it. They'll chase my ass right down that road. Um, you can just chase him and go, oh, oh, oh, oh, geez, go, oh, oh, oh, you start

going to Turkey. Yeah. They come. They don't move real fast. I mean, if they're just, they usually go pretty slow unless they're not blessed. Unless they're cheap. When you see, they still kind of stay there. Well, they don't, they don't need to move for anyone. But if they want someone moving, I've seen those suckers hit 15 knots on the road, you know, that's how they measure it. Not. Yeah, I mean, they'll, they'll take off when, when

necessary. But otherwise, in the morning, when I drive, might send the school, they take their crushes time and they can't be bothered. That's their territory. Yeah, at the school, it's like, oh, you were tardy. It's like, I was turkey tardy today, though. It doesn't take out. I was, yeah, instead of bringing the doctors note,

you just got to bring a photo of the turkeys on the road. And then they'll be like, okay, that's fine, but maybe take a different route tomorrow, okay? That's true. That's actually what's it. I bet you said that. That's what's it. Yeah. Well, thank you for calling in here today.

Well, thank you and Charlie. I wanted to thank you. You think you dropped off a book from my husband. He had camped during the past year. And you were kind enough to drop off a book and stay high to your folks shirt or somebody in your. Yeah, my pleasure. Your organization.

My pleasure. Miles is laughing because he thinks that your husband is used that to prop up the coffee tables. So has he read it at all? That silence is definitely okay. Oh nice nice. He has red it's No, we for sure loved it because you wrote about your grandpa and Mark cat where my son does and like there's a hundred relatable thing. There you got it. Oh, well that's super cool. Well, Charlie, what a good day.

You found someone that finally read the book. Thank you, my old son. What's going on? Jake, can you guys just say hi to him quick? Yeah, your husband. What's his name? Hey, hey, how's it going? I'm Brian.

Brian, how you doing? How you feeling? Yeah? Oh, pretty good pretty good. He's gonna follow up today everything's clear. So I'm good to go Oh, we're so happy for you. I'm gonna drink a beer to that. Yeah cheers to the Emory racing. I'm gonna have a beer tonight. Yeah, good for you. I love that So what are the follow-up question? What do you think of the book? I love that. So what are the follow up question? What do you think of the book?

I thought it was awesome. Thank you very much. Yeah, I liked it. Another follow up question. You're going to go ahead. Oh, do you kill those turkeys? Brian, what's that? Do you kill those turkeys?

You don't have to say loud. We know. You did. What'd you get those turkeys you don't have to say loud. Yeah, you did what you get them with. Yeah You can oh yeah, you know, I'm gonna get a 12-kage 12-kage. Oh you weren't even you didn't even need that silence I did it on the 4th of July on the cover of the fireworks. Hey smart man. There you got it Very smart man. You got that freezer fall Oh, yeah, good for you. Yeah, okay.

They said in the kids to school and every single day they have Turkey sandwiches. Well, good for you. Okay. It was good to meet you Brian. Yeah, we're happy for you. It's awesome news. Congratulations. You got anything you want to buy seller trade while we got you on the horn?

Maybe a turkey mount? No. Turkey. All right. Yeah. No, I'm good. OK. All right.

Well, listen, you keep, you keep removing and good luck with it. And we hope you continue to show no signs of recurrence on the old cancer deal there. OK. All right. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. All right. Thanks for moving. Yeah. no signs of recurrence on the old cancer deal there, okay? All right, thanks guys. Appreciate it. All right, thanks for moving. Yeah, watch out for turkeys. All right, we'll see you soon. All right. Bye. Bye. What a good, good family. Seriously. Now I didn't bring it up, but we don't have turkeys as much in Fargo, but there's a lot of geese running across the road. Oh, geese own the towns, all every single town. And I'll just

lay on the horn. I'm not ashamed of it. I'll just get it creep up to them, honk on the horn until they move out of the way. Now geese come with their own horns. Yeah. They can honk right back. As long as they're on the side of the road, honk and amy, I don't care. Yeah. Get them out of them and all the road. Yeah. Now, do they do the shooting to scare them and have them fly off? They shoot blanks. They're like the police will shoot blanks.

I've seen that. I don't know if it gets that bad that we got to get the police involved. Wow. Yeah. There are some counties here where I've heard that's their goose control. DNR gets out there, shoots a couple blanks, but I think some guys might accidentally fill in. Oh, accidentally. Yeah.

I thought it was a blank. Is that an example? That's a shame though, because geese, they mate for life. Do you know that? No, they're not. That was just ducks. Or the duck. Or the dougloons.

I don't know if ducks do. That's a good question. Yeah. good question. Yeah, we take another call. Let's do it. We were talking in the intro about spicy food and you had that great idea for mint gum because you didn't want to ask for milk, but I've got an idea and it just came to me. Next time, Anna's in that spicy situation, you don't have to get her milk just ask for a

Tippy oh my god because there is milk. Why didn't I think of that before I was sitting right there my house I should have had a little shooter a tippy cow on my belt that didn't really out. God I wish I had my tippy cow utility belt on and I didn't even jump to that I should have you're like Schemer from Shining Time Station with the little money. Yeah. Everyone's Shining Time Station. And you got the little belt concoction with some tippy cow on that. Shout out if any of you got that reference.

I don't think there's a better combo than spicy hot wings and some tippy cow. Oh, no. A little spice, a little cool, a little something to some typical. No, little spice, little cool, little something to cool you off, little spice up to cool you off alternating. It's a neutralization tactic, you know, and that's what you got to go for, okay? You got to find neutral just like you're on your Harley. Yeah, exactly. Harley Charlie.

Tough to find the neutral sometimes I've heard. So if you guys find yourself in a spicy situation, nothing better to cool you off than a ice cold glass of tippy cow. Tip it on back. Welcome to the Belly Up podcast who we chit chat with. Hey, it's Nick from South Florida. Okay, from South Florida. How's the weather down there? from South Florida. How's the weather down there? Well, it's about 115. It's sweaty out there in Southern Florida.

I'm sweating just thinking about it. Yeah, jeez, well, we. I'll tell you what, it's flash of the real concern right now. Okay, yeah, it's swampy enough to have a bullet constrictor swimming around. You got to only wear black shorts down there so you're not exposing all the sweat stains. Grey shorts are a no go. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, this is the time we're here where underwear is optional.

Okay, I like that. You need a little cool breeze up in there. I like it. Go and command That we need the absolute ventilation. Yeah, all right, but not too much ventilation that'll get you in jail So make sure those are fine line you can free ball it just remember to zip the fly up all right, so what's on your mind? All right, so I was calling today to talk to you about a situation at the bar. If you're at the bar and your ex-girlfriend's also at the bar, can you hit on another girl?

Yeah, I mean, ex is the key word in that sentence. I actually think you should hit on girls even harder when she's there. Wow. And that now let's hang on, Miles, I'm having some second thoughts here. Who broke up with who? Um, I would say it was her idea kind of mutual. Okay. Did she, all right, if it's her idea, did you like cheat on her? Did you do anything like that? Nope, there's no bad blood whatsoever. We're on really good terms.

So that's why I was worried about the editor. Okay, all right. Well, here's another question. Do you kind of want her back? Oh, oh, oh. That's a crack truck with the one on back there. Do you kind of want her back? Yeah, I would.

I would say perfect world. I wouldn't mind, but it's uh, well, in that case, you're definitely going to want to hit on someone else at the bar. Yeah, let's see is a big time motivator. Yep. If she sees what she had and say, you know, humans, I don't care if you're a fell out, care if you're gal, whatever it is, we're all just a bunch of muskies. Okay. And we're just sitting there in the water. And when that lure comes by, if you see us sitting there in the water,

we're muskies now and you keep casting your lure at us and you slow it down in front of our face. No, we can get that. We don't need it. But if you zip it right by and boom you got it you know we are nothing but fish chasing lures I tell you that right now I don't know why you're laughing I'm speaking truth fella okay I mean that's there's no joke about that Charlie preach we are nothing we are nothing but fish that's why they say plenty of fish in the sea. Well, how do you catch one? Amen. Mm-hmm.

Boom. That is true. I have not heard it put in terms of muskie talks. That's what I thought it was got him funny. Sometimes just takes a new perspective for him to understand, Charlie. That's why you're the best in the best. Hey, thank you. You know, I do what I do. That's why you call for all the relationship advice. You get it right here. Let me ask you this question.

Why did she break up with you? What was the reason? Well, we, you know, we just got a little too, a little too titsy-calad one night and gotten to an argument. And that was that. I got you got drunk and you got an argument. Was there anything weird that happened? Like we asked that. Not really. We just kind of got new in

argument. We were both just like, ah, you know, I don't like to fight. You don't like to fight. I'm not fighting. Okay. Well don't like to fight. That's not fighting. Okay. Well, they do say that drunk, drunk words are sober thoughts. So maybe that's, I don't know. But question is,

if you are thinking about hitting on a girl at the bar, what's gonna be your strategy? Do you have anything in mind to make her jealous? Well, the reason I'm calling is because it kind of happened about a week ago. I like that. Getting advice and retrospect is always the way to do it. So walk us through that night. You step into what bar? What bar? So you know, I'm not to go to the bar that I work at. So this is where I bar. This is your home turf. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is my home turf. Hang on, she went to

the bar that she knows you work at. She did. Okay, that's good sign for you. Yeah, you know she kind of wanted to see you that night. Okay, continue on. What happened? Yeah, I had a hunt so we get there and you know we dated for four years so we've got a lot of the same mutual threat. So we're kind of like in the same crowd a little bit and I was walking over to get a few drinks from the waitress and a woman stopped me. That recognized me for some workings here. And she was a beautiful girl. So she started talking to me for a while and her and I started chatting for a bit and saying a more friendly manner. And then when I'm done with the conversation,

she was pissed. Oh, let's go, dude. Man. That's awesome. Vellar are still some feelings there. What? I love it. How did you know she was pissed? Because she told me. Yeah. She quite literally said, hey, I'm it. How did you know she was pissed? Because she told me.

She quite literally said, hey, I'm pissed. She said that was rude. And I didn't know if I just crossed some etiquette there but I for some reason felt bad. Well, feeling bad isn't bad. It means you still like now. Are you dating this other gal now or was this just a flirty deal or did you did you guys exchange a little saliva in the bar? Now there's no

a flop in saliva unless you took a sip of my England without me looking. The window was there, Yeah. The window was there, but I felt like when I was talking to her, I could feel the daggers and eyes of that. So I kind of just, you know, I finessed my way out of it. So unappletically as I could. Yeah, so what did you say to her when she told you she was pissed? What was your response? I said, you know, just played it completely blind. And I just said about what?

Oh, like, I didn't just have a whole conversation. I, you know, what you are so in the, in the right in this particular situation, you're having a conversation with another person in the bar. Like what's the most flirty thing you did, like where you guys like touching each other's hands, you didn't kiss. So like you, you, you are a single guy, like her having a problem with you having a conversation with someone else. I don't think that's rude. I think you're well within your limits. I mean, was, is there some you're not telling us here? That's what I thought. And for some reason, I just felt like maybe I had, you know,

disrespectful etiquette because she was there. Okay. Well, let's do this for a second. A little exercise here. Why don't you put yourself in her flip flops for a second? Okay. She comes in, you go into the bar that she works at. Let's just pretend she works at a bar. And then all of a sudden, she comes in, you go into the bar that she works at. Let's just pretend she works at a bar.

And then all of a sudden, she is hitting on this fella. How would you feel? You know, I don't think I'd be too prime for it, but I also, I think I would just keep it to myself. You think you just get blackout drunk and a little later. Is that what you would do? No, no, definitely not. And yeah, I just feel like I probably wouldn't put myself in that situation.

What would when you guys got drunk and broke up? What was the argument about? That was the argument about? So he don't even remember what you guys broke up about But nobody was disrespectful to the other it It was just a straight up argument. And like you didn't find anything out the next day. There were no low blows or anything like that. Well, there was definitely some like word low blows for sure. Okay.

Okay. Do you know what you said? Looks like both sides. We've got to get strategies for him here to get her back Well, that's the get her back miles. I need that information in order to get back Let's say that he said something bad, you know, then you know We got to rectify that in order to help solve the problem, you know I think one thing that he could do yeah, you should start. I think you should take a

Moment out of the movie Greece. I don't know if you remember the movie Greece. Sure do. They broke up spoiler alert. Oh, absolutely. And then what happens when the end of the movie, when Sandy shows up to a little fair at the end of the movie? Oh, she's wearing a lot of leather.

Yeah. And she's smoking cigarettes. Ah, that. So I think that that might be a movie you could try out. I want you to get you. Charlie just invested in a new Harley Davidson. Yeah. I think you got to get yourself a motorcycle, get some leather. Uh huh. And just start smoking cigarettes if you aren't already doing that. And that will change someone's tune a little bit. It will. You'll get one

cancer in church. You kind of like you. You kind of like you just do the grease grease lightning you know what I guess that's it. The issue here is say this work like this is the money plan right I show up in the leather. No things start to get hot and heavy. I'm circling back now leather in South Florida. Oh, yeah. Well, just get the assless chaps version. Then you don't got to worry about the swass. Wow, we're talking. Okay.

It's okay. It's an air-cooled engine you got going on there. That's genius. I don't know if the Harley is going to be an option. So I hope you have a mind if I'm on the way. The thing is, is you don't even need a Harley. You just need a helmet. That's true.

Right. You walk into the bar with a helmet and full leather and a bandana, smoking cigarettes. No one knows that you don't actually have that you showed up in an Uber. You know, you think people might get the wrong impression if I'm wearing a helmet while I'm getting out of the car. Well, you just got to have them drop you off a block down the road, man. You know, you're not going to just pull up to the front door. Yeah, you see your noggin, dude. It's more than a helmet wrap. Come on. Yeah, just be like, God, there was nowhere to park up front. I had to park down the block and then they look outside and there's no cars in the parking lot.

there was nowhere to park up front. I had to park down the block and then they look outside and there's no cars in the parking lot. Yeah, it sounds like a full group. Well, we're excited for you because I think, you know, one day when you're married to this gallery, you got a couple little kiddos running around you'll be thinking back to how somehow you rearrange the situation in both of your favor, and I think you can thank us. And then they could have a grease themed wedding as well. That would be cool. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool. We'll only wear leather for the rest of our day.

Re-slightening, baby. What? So I also have another question for you guys. Sure, sure. What? So I also have another question for you guys. Sure. Sure. So I've lived a foreign race on your self-floor. That's about 14. And my mom packed our stuff and we moved to the UP. Nice. Love the UP. A UP or transplant is what it's on. Transplant exactly. Yeah. So I did high school up in the U.P.

And then I've moved right back down and I've been here for 20 years and I lived in the U.P. for about four years. What do I classify as a midwestern? Yeah. I look, if you've lived in the U.P. for any extended period of time, I mean the UP is Midwest on steroids. That's baptism by fire is what we call that.

Exactly. You know, you don't live in the UP for any any significant period of time and not have that Midwest course into your blood. You know, you are absolutely a Midwestern. Congratulations. Oh, I was going gonna say, all right. I thought so. I considered myself probably like 25% Midwestern

because I call that home. Everyone still lives there, but I didn't know if I had enough time there. Sure you do. Yeah, sure. I think we can rule that, yeah, you're at least 75% Midwestern. Yeah, yeah. Bump those numbers up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bump those numbers up. Yeah. I say, oh, there you go.

I mean, you can be a Midwesterner at heart too. And I mean, you've already surpassed that. You've done your time, fella. All right. Well, I appreciate the approval. Yeah. There you go, man. While we appreciate you calling in, hopefully, uh, we gave you

some good advice. There we took us a little bit, but I while we appreciate you calling in. Hopefully, we gave you some good advice, sir. We took us a little bit, but I think we found a good solution. Yeah, we always do the roundabout way. We do the scenic route to the good advice there. Yeah, so. Hey, I like it. I'm going straight to the weather store as soon as we get off. Yeah, right.

Send us a picture of what you look like, okay? I'm going to go for the the boots from Reno 911. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Good luck on your new journey here. Thanks fellas. Good talking to you. All right. We'll see you now. Ah, Miles. He's in a very interesting spot. The post breakup, jealousy, the whole thing. It's like, oh, to be young. To be young again. You know, well, that is, that is nice.

You know, he's probably, he's, what we didn't tell him that's going to be a tough pill this while. She's going to counter punch here. Oh, yeah, that is that is nice. You know, he's probably he's what I we didn't tell him that's going to be a tough pill The Swallow she's gonna counter punch here. Oh, they're gonna go to that bar again and she's gonna start flirting it up with another guy But it may be better for us to not she may have said him. Yeah, she may even do a social media post Yeah, guys slip some into a story Yeah, like just like her at dinner, you know, with like two plates in front and like just the spec of a man's hand, yeah, the other end. Yeah. A little hair on the knuckles.

Maybe a cryptic tweet will go. Oh, yeah. Maybe song tweeting. Yeah. Subtling that would be good. Well, he's got a rocky road ahead. Yeah. You know, if he, if he wears it, well, um, by it, I mean, the leather, uh,

they'll be able to venture down that path. No problem. Yep. Absolutely. Well, Charlie, hey, I think that was another episode of the billy-dob podcast. Yep. A live from Zad to Milwaukee, folks, we are signing off and don't you forget to pure bartender. See you next one. Love you guys. Bye-bye. See you next one, love you guys, bye bye.