Bellied Up - How To NOT Get Screwed At a Yard Sale #92

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

We're at Woody's Bar and Grill in Fargo, ND. The first caller is a classic video game collector but is worried about getting a raw deal with negotiating. The next caller is having sleepwalking issues, but that seems to be the least of his problems. The last caller is in a pickle of dating his best friend's cousin, and we give him some pointers on what his next steps should be. Get yourself a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hat Want us to come to your bar for a Bellied Up episode? Click ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check Out Myles' other Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You Betcha Radio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check Out Charlie's other Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cripescast

Welcome back, folks, to the Bellied Up podcast. Me and Charlie are here bellied up to the bar at Woody's. We got some paper pull tabs from our friend Katie over at the pull tab station over there. And we are in the thick of it. One five nine nine five. I think it just says you're a winner. Oh, others are just, you know, miles.

I got an admission to make. I never done poll tabs like this before. Never done the paper ones. I don't have those in Wisconsin. I don't think we got these in Wisconsin. It's kind of fun. Looks like a little piece of gum, you know, and this says lick shot. Oh, look, shot shot. Yeah, it's right up your alley,

Charlie. Look at the boar over there. Where? It's got the deer hunter on it. Over there. Oh yeah, it's got a deer hunter on it. That's fun. That's really cool. Well, I hope we get some luck. So far, no luck. Does it say luck? What does it say if we win? What's that? Oh, it's got pictures. You don't want numbers, Charles. We got pictures and numbers right now. We can win fifteen hundred dollars. We're going to have to go back in and we don't. Yeah, I think so. Well, both tabs are hard holding the microphone

at the same time. They are. Oh, wait, Miles, I've only been checking one. Yeah, there's three of them. I didn't know that. Oh, my. Now we've got to go back and check all of them. I haven't been checking on Miles. We could have had winners here. Oh, geez. Hang on. It's a needle in a haystack. So, you know, miles, I told you this was my first time doing it. You should have known that, hey, we could have almost thrown out $1500.

And whose fault would that have been, Miles? No, wouldn't have been mine, because I disclosed my handicap to you. And I mean, that's like going golfing with someone saying, hey, I tend to hit 120 and you thinking it's going to be a short round. It's not going to be a short round. It's going to be a long round. And I might embarrass you, you know, at your golf course. All right. We didn't win. You still got one left, though.

Well, then you can't say we didn't win if you got one left. I didn't know you had one left. All right. Good luck. Good luck. All right. First one, no goal. Come on now. Second one, no go. Come on now. Second one. No go. Third one.

But that's all right, Charlie. That's what investing is all about. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. But you can't win if you quit. So we'll have to maybe go back in here. We'll be going back in. You know, I think that this is partly karma when we won seven hundred and seventy seven7 at one time.

Seven, seven, seven. But we're back, folks. We are. Charlie, how are you feeling today? I'd be feeling better if we won, but honestly, you know, I'm better than I deserve, Miles. Better than I deserve. We're here at Woody's in Fargo, and boy, I tell you, I love seeing gambling in bars. I love that.

It's not gambling. It's investing. Charlie. You reminded me that this last time. Oh, that's true. What about that car game right there? What's going on with that? That maybe is that's gambling.

That's why I like, do you go to the casino miles? No, not really. Do you enjoy the casino? Kind of. I like playing blackjack and stuff, not like poker and all that. What about roulette? I like a little roulette. That's fun. You know, once that once that marble gets going and you're like, all right, I one time told the story. I think on the other podcast that I put money on black like 12 times in a row

and it was red every single time. Lost all my money. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, see, you gotta know when to quit that scenario. No one to quit. You were asking me a question. Yeah, I said, do you like the casino? No, the other one.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, what are you most excited about being a dad? I think I think what i'm most excited about because i'm having a boy And I think the best part is be is going to be playfully ganging up on my wife ann with my son You know classic little pranks here and there. Yeah, I think it's going to be the best part. That's good. That's good. Now You got a few How old do you think you're gonna start them with that on the on the pranks? I probably like three Yeah, do you have it to three you got any pranks in mind? Um

Maybe no that one's bad Should definitely not fake that he's choking on his steak. That'd be bad one not gonna do that I don't think he's gonna be eating steak. Do I what's a tree you're giving him stay? He's got to his steak. That'd be bad one. Not going to do that. I don't think he's going to be eating steak. What? At three, you're giving him steak? He's got to cut it up more. You don't give him good steak at three? How else is he supposed to learn?

Wait till he's six till he can appreciate it. I see where this is coming from. He's mad that his dad didn't give him steak at three years old. I mean, you know, what I'm saying is you don't want to give a kid steak until they can. It's like taking him to Disneyland. You're not doing that when they can't remember. Well, he's not going to get a way goo burger or something like that.

He's just going to get, you know, a slab or rib eye. Yeah. And doesn't eat all over steak anyways, you know, just cut part of that. That's true. All right. Well, yeah, you don't want to. Well, a little choking joke, you know, also just don't give me parenting advice, Charlie. Why? How many kids do you have that you know of? Ah, zero. Exactly. So just relax. All right. I wasn't giving you advice, dude. Yeah.

I might put my kid on the all carnivore diet. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're right. I was giving you advice. I forgot about that. Yeah, you were well, I apologize. But I'll think of some pranks. I'll figure it out. I'm speaking on a turn. Hey, does that happen a lot? Like are people now just like, Oh, just you wait. You know, is everyone kind of giving you advice and stuff? Yeah, a little bit, but not too bad yet. It's not too bad. I think once a kid comes out, there's gonna be a lot of that coming my way. All right, well, I won't contribute to it, okay?

I don't really care. I'm just trying to make conversation. No, I just, I don't feel bad about it. I just was saying. Yeah, yeah, there's old childless Charlie. Couldn't make the marriage work. I didn't say that Yeah, you did. Oh my god. You are a projector. You are projecting on to me now Let's project onto some callers. Let's take it out on them. Yeah

Welcome to the bellied up podcast who are we having the pleasure of chit chatting with today? My name's Eric. I'm from Southern, California. How are you guys doing today? Doing good Eric from Southern, California Wow, is it warm where you are? It is a very chilly 50 degrees in the shade 60 in the sun. I'd pay for that right now in the shade 60 in the sign. Oh, I'd pay for that right now. It's a, it's a titty bit nip we here in Fargo. We're out Woody's and yeah, it's just a cold one out there. But you know, anyway, we're why'd you belly up to the bar with us? Tell us what's on your mind. I went down the weather

hole. Sorry. It happens sometimes. It's quite literally. We cannot, there's no way to shut the Midwest small talk off in Charlie's brain. It's like on the West coast, they're doing like the club drugs and they're like, I went down the K hole, you know, in the Midwest. It's like, I went down the weather hole. Yeah. I'm just, just, it's not like we have anything erratic here where, you know, Oh, how's the weather in California? Guess what? Sunny. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that that's why they're doing so many drugs in California. Cause the weather is so boring. So anyways,

what's on your mind, fella? Well, I'm starting to build a retro video game collection. I've already started going to my local mom and pop shop, but I seem to be struggling when I go to yard sales. And I don't know, man. I feel odd walking into someone's yard, not picking up anything. Cause I'm looking for one specific item, but also I seem to lose my ability to, the ability to negotiate with the homeowner. So you guys have any tips on yard sale etiquette? Great question. So you're looking for vintage video games, retro video games, and you're going

in and you're like, I'm looking for one thing and one thing only. And that causes you some issues. Well, Charlie, let's maybe dive in. I feel bad. Not by me. Oh, I, well, where are you from? That doesn't sound like a Southern California problem. Are you from the Midwest? No, I'm actually from Northern California, but now I live here in Southern. All right. Well, I shouldn't judge. Well, Charlie, why don't you give them some advice on how to negotiate

with a homeowner, because that is I agree that can be you don't want to seem rude. This is their prized possessions that they're trying to unload on people. Now, let's talk them through it. Yeah. So the first thing you want to do when you're walking, I know you're looking for a specific item, but you can't let anybody know that. And I mean that in your words and your actions, you, you got to go around to and start touching a lot of things. Cause they'll think you're just browsing for anything. If they know you're specifically going for these video games, if they have them, they're going to up the they know you're specifically going for these video games,

if they have them, they're gonna up the price or they're not gonna budge on the current price. So you wanna be the guy who could go for anything or go for nothing. Now, the one thing that I think, if I know about garage sellers, time is money, right? You're not just hitting up one garage sale per se one morning on a Saturday. You're

trying to hit up five or six and the later it gets in the day, the less you're going to have to choose from. So I agree that you can't just walk in, walk out. That wouldn't be very nice. So what you need to do is you need to commit that you are going to spend 25 cents at every garage sale, regardless of if you find what you're looking for. 25 cents. Every single garage sale has a section of 25 cent items. You know what I'm talking about? It's where the key it's basically they take the junk drawer and they just put it on the table and they just say 25 cents for anything in here.

And you just walk up to that. You're first going to scan for what you're looking for, then go right to 25 cents, throw a quarter down and you're on your way. They made, they got their quarter and then you don't have to feel bad about not buying anything. And when it comes to haggling, you know, it's an art form and it's something that's respected by both the haggler and the haggly You know whichever one it is they they put that price there knowing you're gonna talk them down But just because they're not budging doesn't mean they're not enjoying the process You have to enjoy the haggle find the love of the haggle, find the love of the haggle. You know, they'll appreciate you

more and they'll respect you and they will eventually meet you in the middle, but they're really just looking for a conversation. Well, and so the, my question to you is you said you've ran into some issues with negotiating. What have you run into? Well, here's the funny thing. If I do this on offer up, or if I happen to be at the swap meet, no issue. It's a neutral playing field. When I go to someone's house, I feel like I'm playing at Lambeau in the middle of January. I don't know why it's loud. It's cold. I've lost. I'm the dolphins in green Bay. Yeah.

I'm the doll. I love that. We know exactly what you're saying. Great analogy. Cause you are on the lawn that they cut, you know, go. Yep. Okay. Well, is that just how you feel or have you tried to negotiate it and it hasn't gone well? You know what? I've, I've kind of uh, I haven't tried negotiating. I kind of just pay what they ask. See? Yeah. So I think that's an internal thing. I think you're, uh, maybe just got to try it one time. You got to ask yourself, what's that about? Are you a people pleaser? Uh, in a sense. Yeah. In a sense. I got a situation, Charlie. We're going to role play it.

Okay, let's role play it. You're going to be the guy, the homeowner, and I will be him. Okay. And I have this. Give me a retro video game. Which one do I have in my hand? Let's say Super Smash Brothers. Okay, I have Super Smash Brothers.

It is listed for $8. Let's say Super Smash Brothers. Okay, I have Super Smash Brothers. It is listed for $8. I ain't paying $8. All right. So here's how it's going to go. I'm browsing. Oh, shit. This is a Super Smash Brothers for $8.

See anything you like? Oh, hey, how's it going? Is this your establishment? I sure hope so. Otherwise, we're both trespassing. Exactly. Oh, hold on one sec. I'll be right back. I'm getting a phone call. Hey honey. Yeah. Did the food stamps come? Okay. Yeah. I just, it's getting tight out there. You know, the economy's not in the shitter and you just

lost your job and I just lost my job. And I tell you what, I just don't have any, anything, but what I could do is have a little enjoyment. So that's why I'm here, honey. I'll be home. I found them the video game that will make our son absolutely just forget about all of our money problems and have an enjoyable childhood. OK, yeah, I'm just going to go pay for it. All right. So yeah, what's that, hon? Well, what do you?

What what? Hang on just a second. What do you mean the mortgage building clear this month? We're going to lose a house if we don't sell everything at the Mark price. Oh my gosh. That's awful. Well, hopefully I don't get any hagglers. What's going on pal? Yeah. Hold on one sec. I'm getting a phone call. Okay. Hello. Lone officer. Yeah. I, I now no longer have a home. Okay. Well, do you know what the price of cardboard is? Cause I'm gonna be living on a cardboard box. It's wait, it's $4 for a cardboard house. Well, I only

have $8. All right. Well, there goes half my money. All right. See you. Hey Steve, how are you about that? I just getting a few phone calls here. So I see you got this $8 video game. I only have $4 to my name now because I just bought a new house cardboard house, $4. I was wondering my kid, he really, I mean he has, he has Ms. And this was his, this is his wish to play this game. Do you think you could do it for four? I only have $4 in my name. I just bought a house for four bucks. And it's a cardboard house. Yeah. It's not good cardboard either. It's kind of soggy. Well, you know, I, I would like to sell you that at a deal, but I'm having some financial difficulties myself. And also, I got to warn you, I'm doing I can't sell it to you, period,

because it's a safety issue at this point. I can't have your child playing a video console in a soggy cardboard home. He could get electrocuted. Well, we usually go to the library and he plays it there, but that's fine. I only have $4. So I guess I'll just call my kid who has MS and tell him that he has nothing to look forward to anymore because we live in a cardboard box. Hmm. Well, we'll see you later. And then I run off with it and just steal it. And that's what you got to do. If you're not getting anywhere with the homeowner, just steal the thing. Okay. That's

perfect. I run at a pretty, pretty decent speed. I can, I can't, I can't run very far, but I can run faster. I can do a good, good. Yeah. And that's the important thing. Keep your car running. That's what we're going to need. Also, Charlie was being difficult, but there's no way if you played the game that I played that that homeowner isn't giving it to you for four bucks. I know that Charlie was being a little bit of a stickler, right? And how it is in real life. You say your kids got MS, you're living out of a soggy cardboard box and all you got is $4 to your name. You're getting that video game for $4. I think miles lost the game and he's trying to play

change the rules mid game, that's what I think. That's what I think. No, look, I do think you can come up with a SAP story, but I'll tell you this, in all honesty, knowing, having doing a couple yard sales myself, everything is overpriced by at least a couple bucks because we yard sailors love the chit chat. That is true. I mean, otherwise we just sell it on Facebook marketplace, you know, but we like the chit chat and we'd say no low balls. And I actually spent a summer going to garage sales, trying to flip some stuff before Charlie

and the move that I always do. You don't gotta be disrespectful in any way. You just go, you go up to them with it and you say, Hey, would you do this for $4? Yeah. It's a classic line. Would you do this for blank? And then they'll usually meet you in the middle. Yeah. How about six and we call it gravy. Six 50. Yeah. And I get there. And every, every time

they, they get, they up you a little bit. You gotta act like your sciatica is acting up. You gotta go, ah, you gotta pretend like your wallet has sciatica, you know, and even opening it is hard like You got any wd-40 in there to see if I can get this extra dollar out, you know Yeah, yeah, he's so over this call The other thing is you need to get a, the other thing is you need to get a wallet that has the cash line in it, the, the pocket for cash, but have one that has a divider. So basically two different cash things. You're going to want to put the $4 in the one side and the rest of your money in the other. And then when you show him like, this is all I got, you open it up and hold the other one closed. So all he can see is the $4.

Also, also what you're going to want to do is get a moth trap in your basement. You're going to want to trap the moths, just get a light that's always on, you know, and get a little moth trap in there. And then before you go in, put two moths in your wallet. So when you open it, two moths fly out. Should I get like some thin, thinly like Halloween decor with some cobwebs in there? Maybe. Yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Maybe just pull your wallet out of your pocket and have, and just have it covered in dust and blow the dust off of the wallet could be good too. Yeah. And bonus, if that fellow's got allergies,

he'll be sneezing so much, he'll just give it to you for whatever. So. Yeah, just to get rid of you, right? Yeah. Just a few tips there. What was your question? We kind of cut you off there. What were you gonna ask?

Well, here's the thing. I was watching one of your bits, Charlie. Thank you. And I thought I saw an old, I thought, you're welcome. Very good content. You too, Mal. I highly recommend it.

I always like it when- I noticed him. Let him go. I'm sorry. No, I was just gonna make a joke about you looking at my bits, but. So, but anyway, I thought I saw an old Nintendo in one of your bits. Would that be your Nintendo? Ah, yeah, that's my Nintendo. Okay, here we go.

This is where. Hold on. Here we go. We're going to set this up. You are at Charlie's garage sale and this is a real item and you want it from them. Let's do this thing. This is your time to shine, baby. Take everything we said. Okay. I might put some coaching though. I need you in my corner. Okay. I'll be, I'll be your, your brother. I'm with you. Yeah. I got it. I got, I got it. What's it listed for Charlie? I got a Nintendo. Well, I bought it. I bought it for $24. And in that time, that was about two years ago, now I restored the finish on it. And I also put a little lubricant on the cords so they don't crack.

As we all know, cords can crack over time. So lubed up the cords, put a new finish on it, and I blew it out with my leaf blower. And we all know that the thing about Nintendo is they get dust in them. This one has been a dust reduced by my snowball. So how much you want for it, Charlie? I would, I, I could go, I could go 32 on it. All right. Let's hear it. Let's do it. Well, let's assume I don't know how much you paid for it, but let's hypothetically say, would you be willing to do 25, 25, huh? Hmm. You

know, did I mention I blowed it out with my leaf blower? Hey man, hey, I know we're going to lunch after this. I'll make sure to cover lunch. I know money's tight for you. So don't worry about it. Lunch is on me. Once you buy this item from this old guy, we're heading to lunch. We're heading to lunch. Hmm.

You know, actually, since I am old, there's a lot of wisdom that went into cleaning out this Nintendo, so I think the price just went up to $40, unfortunately. $40? I don't know, man. I can't quite do that.

No. Let me browse around the yard sale and let me, let me think about it. I see you got some other stuff out here. Yeah. Take a look around. Hey, Hey, he just kind of just, Hey, he up to, Hey, he up the price on you. Yeah, he did. What a fucking dick. All right. I know man. I'll make a diversion. You grab you grab the game. Also, I think he's got his his his lunch on the table over there.

Grab that. I'll make a diversion. I'll meet you at the car. OK, perfect. OK. Wow, look at your gutter is coming off over there. What the hell is going on? Oh my God. Oh, geez, it is. Oh my gosh.

I can't even. I, I really hope someone buys this Nintendo was a close one. I can't even afford new gutters and where my Nintendo go. Oh my gosh. Did they just steal? Now I'm going to have to foreclose on my home. Now I'm going to have to foreclose on my home. I've spent my whole life savings on this home. And now that that Nintendo's gone.

All right. Well, we did it. Perfect. So, yeah, exactly how I am now. You're going. Yeah. Don't steal from, from people, but if you need to, and they're being a Dick and they have the price on you, you know, it's not the end of the world. All right. Well, thanks guys. I really appreciate it. You helped me out quite a bit. I know he did. Yeah. Anytime. Well, thanks for calling in, man. Good luck on the search. I think the moral of the story is just don't be afraid to say, would you do this for blank? I think it'll turn out pretty good for you. They're usually willing to negotiate. They're not all like crotchety old guys like Charlie.

I'm not old. I'm not even middle-aged yet. And then how long you live. Why don't we just say he's trying to maximize profit. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Well, man, thanks for calling in. Good luck on your search. Thanks guys. God bless you. All right. God bless you too. Is that how you really would be? Cause I don't think that's how you would really be at a garage. Yeah. Charlie would be like my mom. We, we had a couple of garage sales growing up. We didn't have much. My mom would literally go up to people at garage sales that were just looking at an item and she would just go, we can come down on the price. And I'm dead serious. Let's say you make 300 bucks on a garage sale. We probably could have made 800 because she just immediately, well, people would walk in and she would just be like,

everything here is negotiable. Low ball me. It was basically what she was telling customers when she came in. I feel like you'd be a little bit like that. You would not like the confrontation. Well, it's, I think your mom, was she doing that because she just wanted to get rid of the stuff partly Yeah, would you guys do it like was this something fun for who who thought it would well they were moving was? Yeah, they were moving trying to offload it gets Liquidation everything must go kind of sale. Yeah. Yeah, but well, I would probably be in that realm because honestly, yeah, if I'm just trying to get rid of stuff, that's it. Yeah. You know, well, should we take another caller? Charlie? Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Miles.

Welcome to the belly of the podcast. Who do we got? This is Joey from Mankato. Joey from Mankato. Hey, Joey, I'm going to be playing in Mankato soon. Come on out. See the show, my guy? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. You pop up on my Facebook feed all the time. But I actually did go to your show in Rochester in October.

Oh, well you saw it. I know. I was going to ask you about that actually. See if it was going to be some different material or? Yeah, it's it's From october to now i'd say it's probably like, uh, 25 new material from then i'm always honing the show my guy Uh, but uh, yeah, probably not probably not worth the money uh Was it worth the money the first time?

Absolutely, it's worth it as long as I can go boo Charlie anytime he brings up the Packers. Oh, Vikings fan. You bring up the Packers in Minnesota? You bet your ass I do. I like that. Yeah. Behind enemy lines. Well, what is on your mind, fella? Well, so I got, this isn't like that big of an issue, but, um, every once in a while when I drink, I will, uh, come home and then sleepwalk. I mean, that sounds like a decent issue. Well, as long as you're not that big. Nope. Go ahead.

I cut you off. Oh no. I mean, uh, well, so that's half of the issue the other half is sometimes I Urinate places I shouldn't where's the weirdest place you've ever urinated Well, so there's the coffee table And then there was one time where I opened the, the laundry hamper when there, no, that was not great. Well, at least the laundry was already dirty, better. The laundry hamper than, than the, you know, washing machine.

That's true. You got a point there. It was a, it was, you know, kind of smelly when I woke up, but we got it. We got it clean. Okay. so I mean sleepwalking can be dangerous right you could go out in public I know that my brother had a buddy at the lake who slept walk which is not good when you're next to a lake yeah that would be bad so there is a little bit of danger and then there's a little bit of cleanup if you're kind of a walking urinating guy they call him sleep peerspeers, Miles.

And I gotta say this, folks. They're literally, they're very sleepy. Sleepy, sleep-peers. Yeah. Sleepying. Yeah, no, this is a very common issue. My buddy, his roommate in college, dropped his ding- out and peed all over his brand new laptop and none of them had the money to replace it. So this is an issue. And then

recently he opened up his wife's unmentionable drawer and peed on all her lingerie. So that- He's got me beat there. Yeah, so this is an issue you're gonna wanna get under control for sure. But I think you called the right place. You did. You did. And I'm glad that you did this

before this gets too out of hand. Now- Absolutely. So I did kind of bury the lead. The worst one that happened to me was I went out to the bars and then I came back and I was with my girlfriend at the time now fiance and we, you know, had relations. And then, uh, my friend who I was living with at the time had a friend sleep on the couch and I was in my birthday suit and just walked down

and slept next to him on the sectional couch. You slept next to your buddy's? On the couch. Your buddy's friend. My buddy's friend. On the couch, you know, my uncle had a buddy who got drunk and slept over at his house and then got up in the middle night and got in bed

with my grandparents and they called him wrong way Tommy ever since then so Again it's a it's a common issue now did did you um, did you spoon your buddy's friend? No, it was it was on a big sectional couch So he was on like one, one leg of it and I was on the other part of it. All right. So he didn't wake up going, I had my head. No, we weren't, we weren't canoodling. Your heads were touching. Yeah. Yep. Yep. They were not that kind of head, but like the head was like, you know, up top. Yeah. Yeah. So we kind of got a three pronged issue here, Charlie. First, it's that he's sleepwalking number two, he'll, he'll

tend to do it naked. And the third one is, is he likes to urinate. So we're going to have to tackle this. I know just the first tip. Okay, just the tip? Just the first tip on this is- You go ahead, I got one too, so. Yeah, you can't go to bed, you can't be sleeping in your birthday suit anymore. That's gotta be a no-go. You gotta go to bed wearing long johns and snow pants. Because-

Good call? Yep, because in the process of taking those off, maybe you'll wake up before you pee on something else that you shouldn't be peeing on So little we talking bids Further Charlie, yeah, I think that he just wears waders to bed So if he does happen to urinate all he's got to do in the morning is just take the waiters and pour them into the toilet. Miles. I don't know. I often say this, but you are a genius. An absolute genius. He doesn't say that ever. So that is, that is the money move, you know? And then because it'll, it'll actually you'll have a dream of being in a hot tub and then you'll know it's time to wake up and drain the old waiters. Cause once that hot tub starts turning into a cold plunge,

well, yeah, that's a, and then it's easy cleanup, easy peasy, beautiful. Just jump in the shower with the waiters, um, fill them up and then the shower will fill the waiters. They'll start filling over the top. Yeah. It's like when you're cleaning out your coffee pot, you know, there's still a little coffee at the bottom Fill it up swish it around and then dump it all out. Yeah. Good. Yeah, I mean Solution I don't even know if we need any more so now I do have a backup solution What's that? If you know you're going out for a night of drinking what you're gonna need to do is give the old apartment or house the Dexter approach. That's true. So

you're going to need to cover this place in Polly. You're going to need to roll it all out. I mean, we're Dick sounds like you're going anywhere. So kitchen, living room, everywhere. And in the, in the case he can't find your waiters and you'll do urinate, at least it's got Paul, you got some poly down or some newspaper, I suppose. I do have to warn you though, if you are, uh, you know, bringing someone new home to the house, he's got a fiance. So we don't have to worry about that. I'm just saying if anyone else, anyone else comes into a new home and it's it's dextered

up, you know, they're going to have some questions about their mortality. So you're going to want to explain this on the ride home. Uh huh. I was basically it's basically a condom for your apartment is what it really is. It's basically a, it's basically a condom for your apartment is what it really is. It's true. Um, you're not doing any of that while you're sleepwalking. Are you doing any what you know, if, you know, if maybe there's like a fresh baked pie in the, in the kitchen, you know, you're not suddenly coming to and you're having yourself a grand

old time. Are you? No, no, I'm not. I'm not doing that. Okay. That is very good. Yeah. You don't, you know, a blueberry pie does not need any cream filling. No, it's mostly just, it's mostly like, I, I kind of like think that I make it to the toilet in my dream And then it's just not the toilet. No, I mean, yeah, we we know that this is not intentional We know what's gonna happen. Yeah, it's just we got to take precautions here

And I do think what we're doing is we are covering up the symptom I mean, this is a classic case of you got mold on your wall Just just paint some kilts over. You know what I mean? Just paint over the mold. I think there's a deeper issue brewing here, and we're going to have to figure out why do you. I have no idea why people sleepwalk.

Is there even a scientific reason? Do you know? No, I don't well I think we're not qualified to figure that part that's not true miles okay I'm right don't put limitations on us no no no I think we can figure this out I think a lot of people sleepwalk because they're not getting enough energy out during the day all right so if during the day you can find yourself something harmless to pee on, that would be good. Every day it is your goal to,

I mean that's why people sleepwalk because they didn't get enough steps in during the day. Sleep peeing, same thing. You didn't pee on enough things that were not a toilet during the day. So you gotta, you know, and that way you can choose the most appropriate things. A tree. Fantastic thing to pee on. Yeah. You know, if no one's looking, pee on a mailbox, you know, fire hydrant.

Another good one. Yeah, it's a victimless crime. OK. Absolutely. Yeah. That solves more of the peeing thing. I think sleepwalking, some preventative measures we could take Charlie is you're going to poly it up, poly everything up. And then what you're going to do is take a bucket of some old Legos and you're going to throw those all over on the floor around your bed. So when you get up to start sleepwalking, you're going to hit a little booby trap you set for yourself earlier in the day. If that doesn't wake you up, nothing will. I agree. And if that doesn't work, this is your last ditch effort, but could be your first ditch effort. Your fiance, she loves you and she's

not going anywhere. And that's what we want for you. You get yourself a nice ratchet strap and have your fiance ratchet strap you down to the bed before you go to bed. And she slaps you on the ass and says, that's not going anywhere. Now your fiance might wanna strap you to the couch cause chances are you're gonna be wet in whatever you're sleeping in.

Not if he's wearing the waiters. Oh, that's true. strap you to the couch. Cause chances are you're going to be wet and whatever you're sleeping in. Not if he's wearing the waiters. Oh, that's true. So waiters on ratchet strap you down. Problem solved. My guy problem solved. I appreciate that. Plus I don't know what you guys are. Yeah. Plus I don't know what you guys are into, but it also, before you fall asleep could be a good time as well. A little blue collar kinky play is what we call that. That's nice, Miles. Yeah, hey, maybe bring in some bungee cords, you know? But hey, safety first, okay?

Put the eye protection on. Eye protection on is key. Yeah. We've all had a bungee cord ripped back at us and we don't want that when you got dangling things. Okay. Anyways. Yeah.

Sounds like I got a, sounds like I gotta go, uh, go to fleet farm and find some waiters and racquetstrap. Yeah. He's at fleet farm and he runs into a buddy. Oh, what are you buying? Uh, just some sleepwalking materials. He bought a Lego set. He's got Polly. He's got waiters and he's got ratchet straps. And he's good to go. We should sell a sleepwalking starter kit.

Do that. Yeah. Sleepwalking starter kit. That's perfect. Oh, you cut me in on some of the proceeds for giving you the idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We negotiate that. And, um, absolutely. And what did we tell you? Matt, the beginning of this, he called the right place. Yeah. There's not a lot of other podcasts out there that would give you the sleep, sleep walker starter kit. No, no, this might be the only one in the world. Yeah. So, no, that's a great idea. Yeah. Is there anyone that you think you're going to start with that you like the most? I think the waiters probably sounds like the least hassle to me and least convenient

ratchet strap sounds not pleasant, but if it comes to that, we'll get to it. But the Legos, that's not happening. That's a tough one. Okay, but he might end up there. So just don't take it off the table. Yeah, what's tougher, stepping on Legos or cleaning up your hamper again? You know, think about it.

Think about it. But anyways, we're glad you called in. We're glad we could help you. And give us an update in a couple months. Let us know how the waiters worked and if you need further advice. Absolutely will do. I appreciate you for taking my call, guys.

Appreciate you. Watch for deer. Pee in the right place. Absolutely, sadder folks. Will do, will do. I mean. Another satisfied customer miles. There's just not a problem we can't solve. Charlie, I don't think there is. I love that about us too.

A couple beers, got the creativity flow and that's all it takes. Now all we got to do is win in these pole tabs and we'll call it a magical day. Like, can you imagine if you went to the doctor and asked them for advice on what to do about sleepwalking? That would have been a disaster. Yeah. And we'll call it a magical day. Like, can you imagine if you went to the doctor and asked them for advice on what to do about sleepwalking? That would have been a disaster. Yeah. Doctor probably would have been like, well, don't drink.

Okay. Doc. Oh yeah. No classic. I know. Freaking doctors. Well, should we take another one? Let's do it.

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people that I'm looking for to do business with. I want a lawyer where I walk into their law offices and it's like one of them nice haircutting places where they got a fridge with beer in it. And it's like, have a beer while I cut your hair. They'll give you a beer while they do your stuff. I don't know if that's true, but you know, it could be true, you know? And that's my legal jargon in this advertisement, because if it's not true, it's my fault,

but I bet you they probably got a fridge there with some beer. Somewhere in that office, there's beer. We know that. For sure. Now, whether you're getting that or not, well, I guess that depends how bad your injury is. So if you're injured, give Nicolay a call. 1-855-NICOLET. Yeah. Yeah. I say Nicolet because some people only, if some people see a T, they're pronouncing the T. So for them folks there you have it

All right, welcome to the bellied up podcast. Who do we have the pleasure of talking with today? Hi Hi Andrew from Spokane wash Andrew Spokane like a true Washingtonian. How you doing my guy? What'd you say Yeah, take your time container well You get out of here. You're in a shipping container. All right

Don't get locked in that, dude. You wake up in China because you called the belly of the podcast. That's no good. So what's on your mind? Bellion up to the bar with us, Andrew. Yeah, I'll do that. So I am dating my best friend's cousin, and it is currently ruining our friendship.

Also, um, well, a little bit of backstory here. Uh, I met him at Welding schools named Colton and we came super close. We would hang out like three, five times a week. And at the time I was single, he would try and hook me up with every single girl he's ever seen in his life. And he was about to leave from Mexico. And his cousin was coming to town to house it. And I was like, well, why don't you give me her number? Let me meet her and stuff. And she was like, Oh no, no, no, you wouldn't want to do that.

She's mid and all she ever talks about is how sad she is and how much anxiety she has. And I was like, whatever. What? And he wouldn't even show me a picture of her. And, and then she finally came into town. I got to meet her. I was like, Holy crap. She ain't made. She's super attractive and cute and whatnot. So I got to hang out with her and it seemed like he wanted us to get together all of a sudden

when we actually started hanging out more. And then out of the middle of nowhere, when I told him I was actually interested and wanted to like potentially ask her out on like some real dates and whatnot. He sat me down and was like, well, listen, she didn't graduate high school, she has a list and her family's unbearable and she's super weird, man. You want nothing to do with her. Which, by the way, she did graduate high school and she doesn't have the list. She does not have a list and her family's like fantastic. I don't know what he's saying. So this whole thing, he just lied to me. And so he left for his trip. We hung out every day at the end of the week, I asked her out and, uh, he, uh,

uh, he got really weird after that. And then just to make matters worse, we were supposed to rent an apartment together, but we ended up not because I just didn't wanna rent, spend my money like that. So I'm building a tiny house right now. He kind of blamed my girlfriend for that. And this happened in July and we only hung out once since then. And I've been inviting him to things constantly and he's either getting weird excuses or left me on red every time.

Wow. I think I know what happened, Charlie. I think I know what happened too. You want to say it on the counter three? Well, mine's a little longer winded than, than just, okay. Mine's pretty quick. So I'm going to guess what you think he's what it is. What do you think already? One, two, three. He wants to bang his cousin. Jealous. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing. Sounds a little jealous. Yeah. I think the other thing is, is I don't think he ever wanted to set you up with anyone. What do you mean? So he said he was trying to set me up with anyone that walks. Well, when he was doing the setting up, he got to choose who he was trying to

set it up with. And I think it's a classic. He knew that if you got a girlfriend, then you aren't going to be able to hang out as much this and that. So he might've been trying to set you up with girls he didn't think was going to work. That's why it didn't. And therefore you never found a gal until you saw someone that you liked. And he panicked. Oh, is that before. Did you ever see someone you liked before? No, most of those girls he tried setting me up with, I didn't really like. Okay, well, Miles, you might be onto some. I gotta ask you though, is your former best buddy,

did you say he has a girlfriend currently? He does, they've been dating for two years, so two years ever since I've known he's been having a girlfriend. Yeah. What does what does your girlfriend say about this weirdness with her cousin? Does she think he's interested in her? All right. You know, I can't say I've ever heard her say that, but hey, who knows? Now here's another question. How good of friends were you guys? Were you guys doing like sleepovers and cuddling for movies and talking about your feelings?

Well, I wouldn't say that much. Hold on now. I'm just saying. Well, did you guys have? Oh, go ahead. You were what? Oh, like, so we were doing a night school welding and like we would, I would go over to his house after, um, after, you know, school and whatnot. And then I would just sleep there. And the next morning we'd do our homework together. And then, uh, you'd go to, we would hang out and then go to school when uh when school started. Maybe it is more innocent. We were doing that like I would sure hope so.

Yeah no I think I think I was wrong I think I misread the situation I don't think he has romantic feelings for his cousin I just think that that, you know, you were his best buddy and he could see how much you liked his cousin and he probably has lost other buddies to his hot cousin before in the past. And he didn't want to see that happen with you as good welding buddy. And now it happened.

And he's like, oh, this is just history repeating itself. And, and you know, repeating itself. And, um, and, you know, I'm sad for, uh, for your friend that he can't kind of get over it. Um, but, um, he's got to stop inviting his cousin places if that's the case. So then what do you think if he invites his cousin to, uh, to something else? Do you think she's going to leave me for another one of his friends? I got me worried about that. I got to look out for that. Yeah. You got to protect your heart.

Maybe it's a blessing that they don't hang out anymore. Could be. Yeah. I, I think you guys just need to, you guys just need to give it a rest for a while. You know, you need to, you need to protect your heart. My man. It sounds like his buddy's going through something too. You know, I think the best thing you can do is just be supportive of him and give him the time that he needs and maybe he'll come around. Yeah. Have you ever asked him point blank why he doesn't want you dating his cousin?

No, I haven't. Have you ever asked your girlfriend why he doesn't want you dating her? Yeah, I've asked her one time. What'd she say? Yeah, I've asked her one time. What'd she say? She said she thinks he's worried that she'll take me away from him. Well it's exactly what happened, isn't it? A little bit, except I've been inviting him to hang out all the time. He's protecting his heart.

And I think you just have to leave space for that. And maybe even call it out, call out the elephant in the room, say, hey, I know you're worried that this relationship is going to get between our relationship, and it appears it already has. And I want you to know that I miss our sleepovers. And I miss you walking me to class. And I know you to know that I miss our sleepovers and I miss you walking me to class. And if I know this won't fix anything, but I need you to at least know

that, you know, so it's going to be hard. I think that's some great advice right there. Yeah. It's going to be hard, but I think you just, you just cut to it. Call, call it, call it what it is. Now I got another question. If you and your girlfriend broke up today Tomorrow would he be totally normal again? Do you think? You know, I wouldn't doubt it Hmm, that's tough, dude. Yeah, cuz now you got a dilemma. I think you have the tough conversation with them Charlie You somehow get them in the place where you're at and you got to sit them down and go dude

This is what's happened. and this is what I'm seeing. Why don't you want me dating her? What's so wrong with me being happy with someone? And if you're not ready to fully commit to that, what's, what's your buddy's favorite song? Uh, you know, he really likes, um, uh, the go, I think it's called like the ghost inside or some heavy metal band. I don't know the song though.

No, that's fine. You get yourself a boom box. Okay. And you get yourself some- You be him and I'll be the boom box. Okay. Well, okay. Hang on just a second, Miles.

So Miles is my boom box, but Miles, in this analogy, it's gonna be hard, because, oh no, it's not, it's not. Okay, you be the boombox, Miles. And I also went to the Walgreens to get some poster board and his name's Colton, right? Yeah, yeah. All right, so I'm writing on this poster board, Colton, I miss us. And now I'm

standing in his front yard, holding that sign above my head. And Miles, you're the boom box. Did you you think so? I know. So I know. So all right. I should throw like some pebbles out of the window too. Yes. I wake them up. I do this during the day. No, I like the idea of doing it at night. It's more romantical and start with the pebbles and bring yourself a nice heavy rock just in case the pebbles don't work. Don't wake them up. Everyone wakes up to broken glass. Hey, you're not wrong. No, I'm not. And then the next sign, the boombox could be walking on broken gun.

Good call, miles. Hey, by the way, off subject, but I think miles, you could have a future as a heavy metal singer if this doesn't go away. Yeah. Wow. I could feel your, the vibrations of your court on that. Thank you. Wow. I could feel your, the vibrations of your court on that. Thank you. Wow.

Well, ladies, he's married. Okay. Um, anyways, I, I, I'm glad we could have this talk Andrew and, um, you know, yeah, this tells me a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited for your friendship. I'm excited for your relationship. I'm excited for your relationship.

I think it's all gonna move forward swimmingly from here. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for the advice. Anytime. Sounds good, man. Well, thanks for calling in. Good luck. We're thinking about you.

We are. Thank you. I salute you. It's nice. Yeah, I just don't think the buddy ever wanted to actually set him up with anyone. He said everyone he tried to set up was sucked. You know, I should have said this to him, but I also wonder if the buddy was, you know, maybe he had some, maybe he just liked living vicariously through his friend and he knew

that everyone falls in love with his cousin. And as soon as he met his cousin boom done And then now who's he gonna live vicariously through true. Maybe he is buddy shouldn't be in that relationship We also didn't bring up the maybe his buddy found a new buddy who was single It's true. Well, I mean same same same deal I think we're saying the same thing like his buddy just like setting up single guys Because his buddy needs an setting up single guys because his buddy needs an excuse to go you know work his uh hitting on magic and when that wasn't going

you need to find another way to get out his very true his wingman his buddy is a professional wing man. Yep. Oh we gotta call him back and let him know we screwed up the whole call. Oh my can you believe I actually thought his buddy wanted to get with his own cousin? That was really judgmental of me. If I did agree with it, I was doing it to make you feel good. I wasn't totally on board with it. OK, that's not the one you start with.

You know, that was rude. You should never say that somebody wants to. And I said bang to which that's not nice. Anyways, well, you know, sometimes in life we make mistakes and we, what we do is we apologize for them. So I want to apologize to Colton. I did not think, I do not think now that you're looking for fornication with your cousin and I do apologize. Well, folks, that's another episode of the Belly It Up podcast where we're not afraid to set the record straight. That's true.

Uh, we hope you guys have a wonderful time. Get on over to Woody's in Fargo, uh, Woody's bar and grill. And when you're here, don't forget to tip your bartender and say thanks to your Bart or your bouncer, say thanks to your bouncer, too. Was that on this call? Well, I can't keep it going. Yeah. Say thanks to your bouncer and bartender and all this much, but we'll work out.

Yeah, we'll figure it out. Next one, guys. All right. Bye bye.