Bellied Up - The Norwegian Definition of "Uffda" #88

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

We are at the VFW in downtown Fargo, ND. If aliens came to the Midwest, what would we show them? Our first caller is nervous about looking like a rookie on the job site. We give him some pointers on how to somewhat look like you know what you’re doing. In the next call, we go international with a call from Norway. We ask about Lefse, how to speak Norway, and we get a true definition of maybe the most important midwest word, "Uffda.”. 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

Hey everybody, here we are at bellied up podcast where we're at the VFW here in downtown Fargo right across from the ice skating rink. Yep. And I'm here with my good pal, Miles, the you bet you guy. I am here. I'm ready to roll. We got nice corner bar seat, which is exciting. And I'm happy to be here. Happy to take some calls with you, Miles. Miles, what's on your mind? How you living? Hey, have you been on the ice skating rink? I haven't. No. Are you a good ice skater? You know, it's been probably since I was like 14, 15, since I've been on the ice. Come on. What's wrong with you? We once in a while would go. So there was a little outdoor rink growing up that we would, we would sneak over to me and my brothers. Um,

and then one winter for some reason, we went out to our lake cabin area quite a bit and we would like shovel off the snow and skate on the lake. So that was kind of fun, but I literally just haven't done it since then. I don't even own skates, but you know, now that I'm going to be a dad, I might have to get back into it. I think so. You know what? I think to get back into you, you know, preparing for the day, I think you and I, after this, maybe go over that ice skating rink and take us a spin around. You could. Yeah. That'd be nice. Um, a mandate. Yeah. Well, and honestly, I think ice skating is very Midwest. You know, I wish that I did it more. Which brings me to a question that we were talking about before the podcast, Charlie. Oh, you guys had one we're waiting for you to show.

I was like, this place is right across from my hotel and 30 second walk here. I did text though. I text I say, I'm going to be there right at 11 showed up 1103. So we were talking about if aliens came to earth, what in the Midwest would you show them? And you can't say the Wisconsin Dells. Well, why would I show them that? Because that's what you say for everything. Well, here's what I would show them. I would be like, all right, this water here, these are the Great Lakes and 20% of all the necessary sustenance we humans need to live 20% in the world is located right here. I would be, I would show them, what do you mean by that? I mean, I would show them the Great Lakes because I think they're cool. I'd be like,

you can catch fish out of that. And then the aliens be like, do you need by that? I mean, I would show them the great lakes because I think they're cool. I'd be like, you can catch fish out of that. And then the aliens would be like, do you need the sustenance to survive? And I'd be like, oh, yeah, there's fresh water in there. How much fresh water is in the planet? Well, 20% of all of it's right here. Oh, I see what you're saying. And then they bring over the alien starship and then that's how I would inadvertently create alien overlords by giving them too

much information because I wouldn't shut up about it. You know? Yeah. That's what I think I would do. Okay. I think I'm going to go a different route. Okay. I think I want to show them more of the cultural side. So as much as it pains me to say, because you're going to be rock hard after this, but I think I would take him to green Bay, Wisconsin. I'd take him to some, yeah. Sorry. I was pushing off against the back bar there and I'd take him to some bars. Yeah. And then I think I would take him to a packer game because Lambo in my mind and bodies, what the Midwest is in a cultural event. Oh God, I am aroused and crying at the same time. And Jared is a big Vikings fan. And I think he would also agree with me on that. Well,

that, um, God, you guys, I feel like this is my birthday right now. Aliens would have a great time at the bar and tailgating. and then they would love being in Lambo field. Yeah. They really, they really would. In fact, um, that time that we went to the game together, I mean, that was really, I could not, I still to this day, cannot believe how easy it was to get beers in that stadium. There was no lines because there was a beer station. There's probably two beer stations per section in that stadium. I felt like yeah, and people walking up and down the aisle selling beers. I mean, I had more beer in that stadium than I have all the other stadiums combined. I feel like cause there was no wait time. They,

they know their clientele. Yes. They know their clientele. So you think the aliens would be Packers fans after this experience? Or do you think that they would be just very thrown by the whole situation? I think they would have to be Packers fans after that. Yeah. I mean, they're already Packers colors. You know, aliens are green. They're halfway there. Yeah. That's true. See when I view alien, they're more blue. Oh, really? Is that weird? No, dude, aliens are not blue. Everybody knows that aliens are green. Watch a, are you watching? Do you know your history or watching sci-fi movies from the fifties or you like. Yeah. But are any of those based off of real aliens? We don't know.

Yeah. No, they are. Oh, yeah. UFOs landed. Have you not seen men in black? I have. UFOs landed area 51. They have actual aliens there. They are green. The government said we have aliens. I mean, we have to have aliens. Do you think we're part of the simulation? Yeah. Yeah. We're not to hold another discussion. Okay.

All right. Well, we should take some callers then. I guess so. Are you a little mad that I came up with Lambo and you came up with water? I mean, you're throwing me at, I'm coming off a stressful morning. I'm shaking the dust off, you know, the old brain here. And I think some callers will really do me good. And maybe I should drink more of this beer instead of the water there.

There you go. All right. Let's take some callers, Charles. Rock and roll, buddy. Welcome to the belly to podcast. Who do we got on the line? This is Jack. Jack, my man. What's going on today? How you doing mild? I'm doing good. I'm here with Charlie too. Why don't you belly up to the bar with us? Tell us what's on your mind. I'm doing good too. Jack. Thanks for asking. Nice to see you, Charlie. Good to see you. My guy sitting over here in a shit boy. I'm sitting here in Sheboygan, Wisconsin enjoying my snow day. Yeah. I heard there's a snow day, but no snow yet. Huh? Yeah, I know it's just a wintery mix over by the lake right now. The old wintery mix.

What are you guys at today? We are over here in Fargo, North Dakota at the VFW today. Oh, nice. Yeah. The weather over in Fargo. You guys get with the winter storm at all? Well, it's, it's sunny out and it's snowing, which is a confusing thing. I feel like I'm in a snow globe right now. It is very snow global. You know, the snow here is very soft and dry. So it kind of does this thing where it just is constantly blowing off the tops of buildings. So it is, it's very snuggled. Oh, sure. Very whimsical here. Yeah. Well, well, fellow, what do you got on your mind? Well, um, so last year, well, I'll start with this. My father-in-law grew up on a farm just west of Fondlec. Charlie,

you might know where Nefcoro is. Yeah, yeah. Right over there, huh? Yeah, just west of Fondlec alias. And unfortunately last year there was a house fire. And so the original part of the house was destroyed enough that they had to tear it down. But my question is, um, I need some advice on, um, how to rebuild it. Because he's a guy that wants to do everything on his own. And he knows a lot about construction, but I'm his son-in-law, and I want to know more. I want to be able to help them, but I don't know shit about construction. And so I want to be able to help them rebuild the new farm and learn a little bit at the same time. So I was wondering if you had any advice on how a guy who knows nothing about construction can still be useful in a process

like this, as well as Midwest advice, Charlie on how to design it or what I should put in it or whatever. Oh, okay. I like how he already takes away the fact that I know anything about construction by saying and then he adds in a question for you. So first question is, are you a little bit insecure about not knowing as much about construction and you're worried that he's kind of kind of roll his eyes at your current knowledge or you just want to learn. I guess I would say I'm a little insecure and I'm not he doesn't like work construction. I guess it's more of a way that I want to like just like

make myself useful and be like I don't know because he's not really like construction worker. He's just a guy that likes to do stuff on his own. So he's kind of learning as well, but I don't want to just like show up and do nothing. I want to make myself useful. I want to figure out a way to like make that happen, but not look stupid at the same time. Well, first I just want to say you're a great son in law, you know, you're really putting the effort in on this one. Now, Miles is the resident bellied up construction expert. So I wouldn't go that far. I'm going to let him take the

lead here. I'm just his little tackle box. Now, I think the most important thing right off the bat is the way that you're going to get exposed by this work is if you do something and you do it wrong, or you don't use the correct tool, or maybe you swing a hammer and you miss every single time. So what I would do is I would, because if I know anything about father-in-laws, they're very particular about how they want stuff done. And what you should do before you start any project that he's giving you, you want to say, you know, I know how I would do this project, but I want to do it the way that you want me to do it. So if, you know, do you have anything that you would like me to

do so that I don't do it wrong. And I want to respect what you want to build here. Sounds like you talking to your dad right now. A little bit. Yeah. So then it's like, Oh, you know, he knows how to do this. He just wants to do it the way that I want to do it. He's going to like you more. You're going to do it the correct way. And you're going to hide the fact that maybe you don't know even know how to do it at all. Sure. And then when he gives you that, when he gives you that little bit of leeway to go do it

in the way that he tells you to do it and whatever, that's when you got to make sure you have access to good internet because you're going to need YouTube. Yes. You're going to need to YouTube the hell out of this thing. Do not try to do it on your own and don't try to just follow the way he tells you to do it because you're not going to remember that. Let's be honest. You're going to miss a critical step and then the, then his whole damn house, it's not going to catch on fire. It's just going to fall down on them and then you're going to have even bigger problems.

So make sure you YouTube it. Yeah. Okay. Oh, also don't pull permits. It's just going to cost you more taxes. And I don't think even need permits out there. Do you? I don't think so. In farm country. No. He has a bill. He has a permit. It's posted on the wall somewhere. I know he's done that. But he write it up in Sharpie. Didn't have one. Oh, also you're're going to have. I would also Google common construction lingo if I were you, you know, if you know, hey, you know, we just, we just got to move that a little a scosh, right? You're like, okay, well, how far is that? Do I go left? Do I go right? You got to Google, know these terms ahead of time so that when he is using his lingo,

you're going to know what to do. Otherwise, you're going to be standing there with your hammer in your hand, wondering what to do. Yeah. I'm also going to throw this out there. You've got to start pretending like you have a hearing problem now. Lay the foundation for him to repeat stuff often and give yourself plausible deniability where if you screw something up, you're like, ah, I'm sorry, you know, pop. I shot the gun too much and I can't hear as good. So I'm out here trying, but I've got this hearing impairment. All my years out here trying, but I've got this hearing impairment. All my years of doing construction, I just have bad hearing from it. I should award ear

protection. Yeah. Yeah. And actually that's that's or, or, um, the construction, the gun, or you can say you got memory problems because you hit your head on the construction site too. And So then make him write it down, write the stuff down. He's going to remember exactly what you said to you. You're, it's going to go in one and you're out the other for you. So make sure you write it down. Another tip when you're writing this stuff down, do if you use paper, he will know so fast that you'd have never done anything construction wise. I want you to grab any piece of scrap. It could be sheet rock.

It could be a two by four. Could be plywood. And you write anything that he says down on that. Therefore, he will know that you're not an imposter because you're using a pen and a piece of paper. That's great advice. It's always a big, fricking square pencil on a two by four is your notebook.

Sounds good. What are you specifically nervous about going into this? Is there something on your like, I really don't know how to do? I guess it would be just like, I don't know. I'm a teacher. And so I'm not really familiar with like building things. And he's like doing this from scratch. I guess like, framing or putting in drywall or things like that. I just need like, he hired someone to help because he's not like a professional construction worker. So he has people that come in like do stuff. So I guess just the biggest thing is just like trying to find like, what little things do you think I could do

as a person who never really like, like I don't need to help with any like the major, major stuff. It's mostly just like the little things that you can get done on the weekend or just things like that. Like what do you think are some things that I could do? Like, hey Chad, what are some things you need help with that I could easily get done? What do you think? I think that you could easily be the grunt

work guy. That was kind of my role, right? I, I'm not great at finishing stuff. Right? So I was not great with making sure every cut was square. I wasn't great with all that. But if you give me a job to move this thing from point A to point B, if maybe the demolition could be a good one, you can't mess up demolition. I mean, right? I hate to say this, but I've, you know, you take out a bathroom and they're like, oh, we, we wanted to keep that toilet and it's a broke, you know, you can mess up demolition. Speaking from experience. That is true. Put a hammer right through a toilet. That advice was not Charlie proof. So, yeah. No, no. Oh, I do, I agree with Miles on that last thing I'll say, you know, it's always hard to go from YouTube video to practice and just give yourself a little semblance.

Maybe you can frame up something you want in your basement, perhaps a bar, you know, put a little bar in your basement. Oh, you have that? Charlie, I got a bar. I have a bar with eight bar stools. I had the best New Year's Eve party ever. Oh, good for you. Did you build it? No, it was here when the previous owner built it. Well, this is a great project. You're going to tear that bar out. And then you're going to start from scratch because you got to have some experience under your belt. Yeah. If you could just give yourself one little bar to build. And maybe if you don't want to tear the one out in your

basement, go build a bar in your garage. Add on to the current bar and onto the current one, frame something a little bit, put up some drywall, give yourself just a base layer of something, you know, and show up with a show up with a good drill. Don't show up with a piece of crap. Otherwise that'll be a, that'll be a nowhere right there. But when you build the thing, you'll have a decent drill. So I think, I think there's something there. Also make you build the thing, you'll have a decent drill. So I think, I think there's some there also make sure the batteries are charged. Yeah. Oh, I cannot. No, this is how he impresses a miles show up with a corded drill and just a big old extension cord. You know, he's going to respect the hell out of a corded drill. Get yourself an old corded

the hell out of a corded drill. Get yourself an old corded drill, black and decker. One of those hammer drills, you know, that one of them suckers that can get through the concrete. He's gonna, I mean, you might be like, Oh, I haven't seen one of them in a while. Let me see the other aspect is you can't show up and clean stuff. You cannot have just bought this at the store. And if you do got to buy some new at the store, you're going to have to rough that sucker up. You buy a tool belt. You're going to have to take a sandpaper to it, rough it up, roll it in the dirt, roll it in the mud, all that. Otherwise, that's going to expose you pretty fast as well. Get a little 80 grit on it. Okay. Don't go with a 330. You know, that's not going to

help your cause. It's just going to polish it up nice. Yeah. It'll look nicer. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so that brings me to my next question. Do you understand the 80 grit in the 330 grit? What we're talking about? I believe so. Yes. Okay. You, you know, so, or you believe so. I guess I believe so. I guess I can't give you a hundred

percent satisfaction answer. We might be worse off than we thought. It's an easy one. Easy little 80 grid is the courses. Shit. The lower the number, the more course, the higher the number. Cause all it is. Yeah. All it is a little like a one grid is just like a two by four. You just shove at another two by four, you know, and then it goes all the way up to. Yeah, you get it. Well, that's that's actually very important. You're learning a lot. You're going to have to watch a lot of YouTube because if he tells you, you need to send that before that they paint it or something and he takes 80 grit to it and doesn't use the polish grid on it. That could be tough. It'll be bad. Yeah. Yeah. So a little, little wood, you know, I'm

going to say, I think we gave them a lot right on, on this deal. I agree. Yeah. Any other questions that we haven't answered for you? I guess now that we kind of got the construction part taken care of, what are some things that what are some things I need to tell my father in law, Chad, he has to include in his, um, in his new house, basically. And I will say he uses this property for hunting land. He's got 90 acres. So he spends a lot of time here hunting and we celebrate Thanksgiving. And what are some things he needs to include at what he calls the new arm?

Yeah, you're going to want a freezer wall. You're going to want a wall of chest freezers and none of the freezers can match and they all have to have some problem with the motor on the freezer. And they all got to be plugged into the same outlet. Yep. You got to just use an extension cords and a three prong. Like, you know, basically, you know, no power strips either. We don't need to protect against surges out there. Yeah. No, just one of those little three splitters. Yep. Right. Lots of three splitters. Yeah. And I want each of the motors humming at a different key. So I want one be like down here, like, and then one up here and every motor, just a little uneven in its deal, you know, it'll be a beautiful

freezer motor, broken freezer motor symphony. And it's going to hold all the deers because at any given time, one of them freezers is going to go out. So they're not all going to be completely filled. You're just going to have to move the deer over to the one that's working. Yeah. You're going to want, yeah. You're going to want like four to five on. Yeah. And then just have one be empty because you'll know that one's going to go out and you're going to have to do a little game of, you know, moving stuff around. Yeah. Musical musical deer freezer. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And you're, he's always going to be working on one. And then above that, of course, you're going to have the

trophy wall. You know, you got the trophies up top and then the rest of the deer down below in the freezers. So make that a nice big wall. That'll be completely necessary. Miles, what else would you toss in there? I would maybe toss in some like deep, deep red carpet. You know, it can't be like a tan carpet in there and it can't be very good carpet. It's got to be an off color, maybe a forest green because that's going to match real well with the paneling I'm imagining they're putting up in here. You should have wood paneling on the walls and at least one wall should have an accent of carpeting. So that same carpeting miles

is talking about. You're going to have a little bit extra. I have one wall where the carpeting just kind of crawls up the wall and it's a little accent wall, okay? That is a good point. You're gonna need a carpet wall. Yep, and then also you're gonna wanna find yourself a pull tab machine either through bribing of a local bar owner or just your traditional thievery and get that going on in there. You will need a constant supply of

pull tabs. I'm not sure how that system works. You can find them somewhere. Yeah, you'll want to figure that out before. So and the last thing that I'll add is you're going to none of the furniture or any decor should match. If it matches, you've gone down the wrong way. So every chair needs to be different. Every table, every light fixture, all of it. And if you can find an old neon too, that'd be nice. And I would even go out there to the Salvation Army, find yourself a nice table and sand that sucker down

and re-varnish it as a welcome gift to your father-in-law to start the process off. It's going to cost you 10 bucks, maybe 50 bucks in sandpaper supplies and whatnot. Varnish, paintbrush, all that and give them a nice new table for the deal. That would be really, really good. I think a nice little offering there. Yeah. Aside for that, Antler chandelier. Oh, and then if one of those freezers does officially screw the pooch, what you can do is cut the top off of it and then put some piping in the back and then take it into the restroom area, which should be a bar style restroom and make that freezer a trough pisser. Yep. That's a good one. And or you could just take it outside on the hunting land and put some tannerite in it and

blow that sucker up. Yeah. You know what? That's actually a better idea. Just blow it up. Yeah. You can find anything to be a trough. Yeah. What do you want to lug that thing to the dump? No. No. Let's just blow it to smithereens. No. Yeah, you blow it up or bury it. Oh, that's great. Okay. Oh, I appreciate all that advice. Yeah. Hang on. Last piece of advice on the freezer too. You can actually bury that halfway in the ground and then pump hot water into it. Those make great hot tubs. That's the last thing I'm going to say. They're insulated as you know. So yeah. And do not take the

top off because that's the top of the, that's the top of the hot, that's your hot tub cover. Okay. Just don't lock yourself in there. All right. All right. Well, that, it was great talking to you and we were happy to really, you know, give you some insight there. Yeah. Can I get a buy fell traded real quick? Well, I suppose I have a 10 more electric glass top cooking range for sale. I just updated or my wife and I just updated our appliances. And so we have our old oven up for sale. No, you don't. You have a gift to your father-in-law for the new place. Jay, here, what he just said. I did. I did. Yeah.

Is it going to match the fridge or the microwave or the stove or the anything else? And then I'm going to be a dishwasher. No. Does it match any of that? No, but that's exactly what we're looking for. And you're going to see, you're going to see that man cry. I mean that glass top there. I mean, you could have gotten like 300 or 400 bucks for that thing. You know, man. Yeah. So you're off to a good start for you, man. I think that the world is your oyster. And good luck. Gotta do some research side project. Get those freezers all that. We're excited for you. Send us a picture when it's done. We'll post it. Yeah. I'll send you. I'll send you a picture of the finished project.

Sounds good, man. Well, thanks for calling in. Yeah. Thank you. You guys have a great day. You too. Now. Bye. Bye. You know, I think the first mistake that he made is that he was calling it a house when it's really a hunting shack is what it did. Yeah. It didn't, it didn't seem like a house. I feel for the guy, you know, I've, I've been in my life. I've been in a lot of situations where I didn't know what the fuck was going on. Yeah. I imagine most of the time that's how it goes. It is. But you know, it's, it's fun because then you, you learn a lot of, you learn a lot of stuff, you know, I mean, but I think if you go into it with the attitude

of I don't know anything, that's difficult. If you go into it with the attitude of I don't know anything, that's difficult. If you go into it with the attitude of I know everything, that's difficult. So I think giving them right down the middle, a little baseline and out, you know, it's like when you go out drinking, you need a couple of pizza slices of pizza and you little base layer. So I'm just soak it up. Yeah. Yeah. Because otherwise it doesn't stick on nothing like that. I hope he framed something in his garage because that'll help him quite a bit. You know, I agree. Yeah. Well, so we take another caller. I think so. Folks, we want to talk about our presenting sponsor, Nicolet law, Nicolet or Nicolet.

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So check them out Nicolaylaw.com or just stare out the window when you're driving down the road. Don't get injured. But if you're injured, get Nicolay. Welcome to the belly of podcast. Oh, did we catch you in the pisser? What's going on? No, I was just really, I was just almost fell asleep and I was like, Oh shit. I had a beep and I was like, Oh shit. I'm in the podcast. Yeah. Where are you calling him? I'm calling from Norway. No shit. No, no way. Norway. No shit. Norway. Well, this is Norway. Okay. Well, welcome to the belly up podcast. This is our first Norway, your Norwegian that we've ever had call in. So this is pretty exciting. What time is it there? I was playing that game. What time is it there? What do

you meet? Let me check the clock here. It's almost seven o'clock here. So almost 19. Yeah, it is. I think it's like, uh, yeah, it is bedtime for an hour. Seven hours. Yeah. Seven hours. Also, my dad's in the background. If you heard someone, he was just correcting me. Tell your dad, we says hi. You guys are like, they say, hi, dad. Hello. There he is. you guys are future future travelers yeah what's the future like yeah we're away oh you know we got flying cars robots have taken over that kind of sucks I knew the robots were gonna take over yeah all cool well why don't you belly up to the bar with us tell us what what's on your mind. Yeah. No. So I was listening

to some, uh, few episodes ago, it was this guy from New Zealand and he asked if like New Zealand could be a part of the Midwest. And I was thinking, you know, like, why should Norway to be a part of the Midwest? You know, all right. It's time to state your case. See, I wanted to say it together. Oh, sorry. It is time to state your case. Should Norway be part of the Midwest? Let's hear your pitch. I think, well, I think well, we do enjoy, we do enjoy fishing. You fish a lot, especially down there in South Norway. You fish, we got boats, a lot of boating hunting hunting too we do a lot of hunting what do you guys hunt for hunting it oh you know we hunt you know deer I don't know what you

what that what kind of deer is it like do we call them white tails there no roe deer and uh a roe deer and stag and mooses. Oh, you got mooses. What's the cost? Yeah, we got mooses. We have mooses too. You guys. And what else? And reindeer. Yeah. If you go up north, you can hunt reindeer too. So we're kind of on Santa's most wanted list. All of Norway. You're off to a great start. I mean, there's nothing more Midwest than compromising Christmas for a nice reindeer. So feeling right so far. Also the fact that your dad is in the background reminding you to mention hunting pretty damn Midwest. I would say so. I'll tell you that. So, uh, yeah, keep, you're on a roll.

We're going to let you keep rolling. Yeah. What, what about culturally? What do you guys do for fun besides hunting and fishing? What we do for fun than hunting do drink. Well, we don't drink old fashion. No, we don't, but we don't drink old fashion here. Here we drink more gin and tonic. Gin and tonic. And so it's gin and tonic. So if you go to a bar or any restaurant, they will always have a gin tonic there. And, you know, they have like two kinds of gin tonics. They have the normal standard gin tonic. And then they have the fancy gin tonic, which is like, it's

like, they have like the gin tonic. And then I may be like a plant or like some berries in it to make it look fancy, almost tastes the same. So, Oh, well, putting berries in a, in a liquor cocktail, that's very old fashioned. We do that with old fashions. And we, we put veggies in, in Bloody Mary's. So I mean, it's sounding like, what'd your dad say? Cross country skiing. We did. I don't cross country ski. You don't say. But we do have some Nordic tracks here in the Midwest. We absolutely do. In Hayward, Wisconsin, we got the Berkebinder, which is the, you know, yeah, it's a big old

class. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Can you say that? Can you say that name again? The Berkebinder? Berkebinder. Berkebinder. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's, that's bit keep that we call it bitch give a nice. It's a

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apparently like she tries to make him to sleep. She puts him in the carriage outside and it could be like, what, like one minus outside or anything and he'd be just fine. And if we take him back inside again, he just starts crying. So she just puts him in back. She just puts him back outside again and then she's all fine. Then he's all fine and they're sleeping. So yeah, we do that.

That is awesome. We do that. Super badass. I heard that it's actually, this went viral on the internet not too long ago and some of the comments, I mean, I don't know if this is true. I got it off TikTok or some bullshit. I think that it's supposed to be better for your kids in some way, right? Like circulation or something. Do you read that, Miles? Yeah, I don't. I know that there's some sort of benefit.

The benefits, they're out of the house. They're crying outside with the squirrels. That's out of really. Oh, I think it was like it also helps build their immune system. That was it builds their immune system. Yeah. Yeah. Oofta. Oh, yeah, that could be it. That could be it. You guys. You guys. Yeah, we invented that word. We do say stuff. Yeah, we probably got it. Well, and that's what that's pretty. Yeah. I think your strongest argument here for being part of the Midwest is that, you know, Norwegians help build the Midwest. I mean, a lot of immigrant groups did and Norwegians certainly part of it. There's this town in Wisconsin called Westby, Wisconsin. And they've got all these, I think, yeah, they're the Norwegian flags just sitting

up there and they've got a lot of Norwegian heritage, you know, so and that's. So in reality, is it does Norway want to be part of the Midwest or does the Midwest kind of owe Norway? Midwest want to be part of the Midwest? Or does the Midwest kind of own Norway? Midwest want to be for a lot of our culture. Yeah, maybe we do own Norway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do have a grandpa lives in, he lives in Wisconsin. So yeah, I guess, I guess so.

Where is he in Wisconsin, your grandpa? He lives in the area. He lives pretty close to a small town called Hawking's, if you've heard about that. Not the one from Stranger Things, but like the different places. Oh, okay. Is it in the western part of the state? I don't know exactly where that is. This doesn't make good radio, but you know, I'm curious. Let me ask, hey dad, about more for us or sorry. Oh, yeah.

These some hayward. Yeah. Hey, we're this summer actually. So I was right by there. Yeah. Right up there. Every year to go fishing over at the Tiger Muskie. So maybe we should stop by and say hi to your grandpa, you know? Does your grandpa go to the, Yeah. Better to keep buying the? I don't, I think he's too old to go a bit, I think he's too old for that. He's like almost 90 years old,

but he lives kind of like a bit like, you know, small little farm all by himself. See, sometimes he drives down to Illinois, He lives kind of like a little farm all by himself. Sometimes he drives down to Illinois, Chicago to visit some friends and family over there, but he mostly keeps himself up there. We're going to visit him and then we're going to visit him and then for me, my dad, my sister, and my cousins and my cousins grandpa are all planning to visit him and go hunting in November.

That sounds awesome. That is going to be awesome. So a question for you. I've always wondered this. You say he's 90 years old. I feel like people in Norway live longer than Americans. I feel like they are happier than Americans are. So to us Americans, what is the key and success to long living and happiness from someone who lives in Norway? I would probably say that because we do go on a lot of walks and we do enjoy nature a lot.

We go on a lot of walks mostly like across skiing or long heights up in the mountains. So that's, that's maybe could be one of the keys. So you're saying don't sit on your, you're saying don't sit on your couch with your neck cranked looking at your phone all day. Get outside and touch grass. Yeah. Go outside, touch grass and also visit the Norwegian George. Those are also pretty nice. Well, well, we got to get a little info on that. What is that? If you're just like, I don't know how to describe it. Yeah, yeah. That's your words. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I know that. I've read miles is looking at me confused though. So you might have to explain it for miles, but I'm smart. No, I know. Just for our listeners that maybe

don't know. Yeah. Just for our listeners. Fjords is like, uh, I don't really, it's like a river that kind of goes between two really big mountains. That's probably where I can find most of the Americans actually, because, you know, that's the first thing they want to watch. Yeah. So, you know, big mountains, big mountains, river going through it. So yeah, that's your I'm not really good at explaining. No, we're looking at a picture right now and that's like a PDA Britannica's really. I mean, this is pretty awesome. You know, and what you're saying about being outside

that makes sense. I learned recently that trees give off a drug. It's called like fight a size or something. So and it helps prevent against cancer. I read I heard it. Your TikTok looks much different than mine, Charlie. I didn't see it on. All right. I know a fellow who's an expert said it to me and something and I don't really remember any of it, but look it up. Google it. Look up the drugs from trees as you breathe them in and no cancer or something. Google all that. See what pops up anyways. I got one more question.

You guys said that you do like to go drinking. I feel like every other country in the world has phenomenal drinking culture chance and songs that they sing when they're at the bar altogether. Does Norway have any of those? I'm not really an outsider drinker guy, but I've heard one song that I know the youth likes to sing now is something about that. We're so rich that we could buy Sweden or something. It's like, yeah, we got this. I don't know the song by heart, but it's like a song where they talk

about, oh, they're so rich because we got oil and Sweden doesn't. So we can just buy Sweden. Is there a lot of inner country rivalry between the Scandinavian countries? Yes. Yes, there is. We, it's not like we hate each other, but it's like, uh, you know, we just, it's like a Norwegian and a sweet needs each other. They will be like, Oh, fuck you. Fuck you. Anyways, have a nice day. Fuck you. I'm sorry for the language.

And you know what? Now you don't want to apologize. I think this leads into what you're originally called for being part of the Midwest. That sounds very similar to Wisconsin's beef with Illinois, you know, bears fans versus Packers fans. F you, F you. Yeah. Tell your folks. I says, hi, yeah. Watch for deer. That's another drink. Yeah. You want another beer, you know, F you, F you. Yeah. That's, that's basically how it goes. Here's a real... It's kind of like, I think... Oh, sorry, yeah. Oh, are you...

Is Norway the Illinois or is Norway the Wisconsin and is Sweden... Which one's the Wisconsin of the two? Oh, that's a really hard question, actually. I don't... I would say probably Norway is the... I think like Norway is the, I think Norway is the Wisconsin and Sweden could be the Illinois. Yes.

And I'm just going to accept that because I don't know any information on it. Yeah. Well, From where I'm sitting, I think that we would be glad to have you, but it kind of feels a little wrong because I feel like a lot of the Midwest came from Norway. So it's more so a joint venture than it is accepting you guys into the Midwest. It's more of a partnership in my mind.

Yeah, we'll call it a partnership. And before you go, I just want to hear it straight from a Norwegian's mouth. What is the definition of Ufta? The definition of Ufta, that's a good one. I think it's like, it's kind of like, I think it's, I think it's kind of like, if you say Ufta, it's like, oh, you dropped your, oh, you dropped your car keys. Oh, you, oh, you got your, Oh, you dropped your car keys. Oh, you, oh, you got run over

by a car. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you? Oh, I'm sorry. Did you? Did your wife break up with you? I could not have said it better myself. So Uftab can basically be used for anything. I mean, it's the same word you'd say if you drop your a casserole on the floor and if someone like dies, you know, it's just, it's the same word. Yeah. Ufta and all encompassing word, a beautiful word. Well, that's great. Left. So here's a, I got a question for you. Do you guys eat left? So regularly yeah, Norway. Yeah. Yeah. Oh

Yeah, we have like all different kinds of less than we have like left to with sugar on it Which is like a dessert then you have left so that you put around the hot dog in That's also pretty good. So that's what you guys eat You guys eat left so with hot dogs in them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like potato. Let's say you know you wrap around the hot dog and it's pretty good. You put like ketchup.

You take the left so you put ketchup. You put mustard. You put like a like roasted onion on it. Oh, yeah. I think that's what it is. So I wrote an onion. Sauerkraut. Sauerkraut? Is that what we call it? No, no. No, no, no. So it's like, it's like roasted onion and that's just mustard and you wrap around and you eat it. So that's kind of how

we have it. That sounds awesome. Next time I got left. So and shrimp salad and shrimp salad too. You put it in shrimp salad or it replaces the shrimp in the salad No, no, we put like shrimp salad is like or shrimp salad in the hot dog. Oh Still going in the hot dog. Okay. I'm gonna have to try this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also the oh, yeah And then for dessert, have sugar laughs. Yes. So if you, because I'm sorry. No, you just put sugar on it. Is that it? Is that the recipe? Butter problem? It's like a, it's probably butter. I really don't know, but like it's a different, like there's like two types of less. And if you probably go to, if you're probably in an

area in the Midwest around the 17th of May, which is like, you know, the national day of Norway, they, I like, last time I was in America, that was in the 17th of May. And I was like, you know, like a Norwegian American, Norway, Norwegian celebration. And then there I found the left or I say like to call it the pulse. No pulse with like hot. Like I love that. And that's really fun to you. Yeah, it's really fun to go to those Norwegian celebration in America. And you see, they all try to like, they find out, oh, you're from Norway. Can I, can I try my Norwegian on you? I was like, okay. It's like, find out, Oh, you're from Norway. Can I, can I try my Norwegian on you? I was like, Oh, okay. It's like, hello Washington. Gordon. I'm like, Oh my God.

Well, I, this is awesome. Yeah, it is. And can you, before we go, can you just teach us one phrase to say to a Norwegian that will impress them. Teach them one phrase that can impress an American. Hey dad, what should we, what the Norwegian word should we teach these people? They want to impress like other Norwegians by learning a Norwegian phrase or word. Oh my goodness. Oh boy.

Think about that one. I'm going to think about this look. Okay, yeah, so this is a word, a little sentence that we always say so if we have a guy who can't Who's like a foreigner and he wants to learn one Norwegian sentence the word? It's yeah, I can eat yes, not in Russia Can you go a scotch slower on also before we say what is it? I heard the dad laughing in the background. What does it mean? It means I cannot speak Norwegian.

That's good. I mean, I guess that would be nice to know. All right. Yeah, I can. One time slower. We're going to get it. And then we're're gonna let you go Okay, okay, sir. Okay. Yeah

No, I'm not gonna teach him that What did he say, okay, you said 50 kappa. Which means 50 kappa. 50 or 50 could mean. Oh, no, it's not that's another word. What are you? Got that. I really don't know, but it's like, it's like if you're being shocked or if you're having like a shocking reaction, it's like,

oh, 50 kappa. I really don't know what it means though but 50 yeah you said it again 50 kappa no not not kappa but kappa like kappa means cat kappa kata kata kata 50 kappa 50 kata It means like darn it. It means like darn it. Okay. Oh, it's a nice word. It's a nice word. It's a nice word. Well, I appreciate you teaching us some Norwegian man. That was great. Yeah, this was awesome. And I think it's time to officially make it. Norway is officially part of the Midwest.

Here here. Here here. Cheers to you. Yeah, I don't have a, I can drink some Christmas soda. Yeah. Have yourself a Christmas soda. Cheers. It. Raise it high. Well, thanks for calling in today, man. This is great. And maybe no problem. Don't be shy. Colin again. This is great. Yeah. Hey, that's a good one. And watch out for deer. You watch out for reindeer. We watch out for reindeer. Yeah. What? Wait, they're gonna, and my dad wants to say goodbye too. Yeah. See you later and don't eat the ludifish. Okay, we won't.

I don't have any problem with that. Yeah, and by the way, I just wanna say, this is really reiterating your stance as part of the Midwest, because we're now in a Norwegian goodbye. And that's very similar to a Midwest goodbye. Yeah, that's pretty similar to I forgot to mention that. Yeah. What's the word for balls? Pungen.

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Pungen. Pungen. Pungen. Pungen. Pungen. Pungen. Oh, thanks for calling in. Your dad's great. You're great. Tell your dad we says how your dad we says by the poonion, Luda fish. Okay, bye bye now. I will have a good one. Hey,

bye now. So many more things I wanted to ask. We could that's one place in the world I haven buy now. So many more things I wanted to ask. We put it in place in the world. I haven't gone. I would like to go to Norway or one of those countries. Yeah. Some fingers. You and me. Let's take this worldwide, Charlie. We can. You know, we can. Let's how about you think they have internet there. So I think we're good. Why don't we do why don't we do it before your baby boy comes? We'll do a little baby moon. You and me. We'll go in the winter, though. Or do we want to go there in the summer?

I think we got to go in the winter. So we got to go see babies sitting outside in the winter. Yeah, I do need to see that. I don't believe them. I think it's like they're just doing it for TikTok, you know. That's kind of why they wrap them up. They just, yeah, like they wrap them up in warm clothing and then they just leave them outside. Can you imagine if people started doing that? U.S. people would be losing their mind. Yeah. Someone would get called for child neglect.

Yeah. Do you like, do you like to change them up like a bike? You know, you know, and you don't want someone stealing your stroller, you know? So I would think you hear you'd have at least have to have a you lock for the baby. I mean, who wants to steal a baby though? Let's be honest. True. That's like the biggest pain. I'll start the trend with my kid. Do it. Yep. I'll just leave him outside. Yeah. Well, bring on. Bring your kid to the first. Oh, well, I guess you're gonna have a summer baby. Wait till the wait. I mean, wait till the winter. Yeah. Well, Charlie, I think that that was another good episode of the bellied up podcast. We went worldwide on this one.

Pune. Yes. We learned how to say balls in Norway. And that's why every episode of this miles just keeps getting better and better. You know, it never knows going to be on the other line. You never do know. You never know what country they're calling in from until they say Ufta. And folks, we love having you here listening. We thank you so much. We want to remind you to tip your bartender and watch for some deer. Love you guys.