Bellied Up - The Ultimate Roommate Test #46

Episode Date: April 20, 2023

In this episode we're at The Red Baron Lounge in Casselton, ND. First caller lost his wisdom and wants to know if he can drink with his buddies sooner rather than later. The next caller is seeking real estate advice and also has a "buy, sell, or trade" for a sweet motorcycle. The last caller is worried that she's becoming a "Karen"... Oh! and she can play the cello. Please consider helping Will, with his cancer treatment Here Get yourself a "Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens" hat

All right, Charlie. Michael back to the belly that podcast. Miles is headed by fleet farm. I want to welcome you to the belly that podcast. Miles, it's so nice to see you today. We're in Castle, tin North Dakota. Yes. We are at the red baron.

Tavern. Red baron, Castle, tin. Do you think that they name this castle tin? Lounge. I knew it was not bar. I knew it was something. So the red bar and the lounge. I do feel like I'm in a little bit of a lounge area.

This is a little lounge area. I feel a little lounge area. Look at this chair. It's got the nice little gold rivets in here. Yeah. I mean, this is slicker, slicker than heck, I like it. So, uh, yeah, today is what, April 20th, April 20th. Huh. Is it? There's some going on today.

I swear to God month of the year, the warm 20th day, nothing, nothing's ringing about for 20 20 23. It's Earth Day. Oh, it's Earth day. Happy Earth Day, everybody. No, Earth Day is for 22, I think. Oh, there's something that's important. I don't

know. But we'll think of it. We'll think of it. I don't know. It seems that everyone in this lounge seems to be giggling a little bit more today. I don't know what's going on. It seems like good vibes here in the lounge. Yeah. That is what it seems. Hmm. Hmm. Well, we'll get to the bottom of it. So Charlie, actually, yeah, Miles, uh, casted North Dakota is where my mom's family's from

and my grandparents still live here. And my mom is my mom's hometown. Wow. That's cool. Now tell me about Castleton. What should I know? What kind of folks here? Did your mom grow up in sort of a wealthy family, middle class? What was the vibe?

What's the vibe of Castleton and your mom's hometown? Well, it's definitely a farm in rural egg town. They actually think farm outside. I know if they had a carrot plant here might be a sugar beet plant. Now it's it's some sort of plant. I remember what actual it does there. I know at some point there was a carrot plant here. I don't know if it still does or not. Just one carrot plant. Yeah, just like a solo carrot plant. I think it's on 300 acres. There's what it has. You want to let carrots breathe? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that I love to see that

plant. Yeah. We'll have to go look at it. I mean, there's a lot of snow on the ground, but uh, carrots are, are hardy vegetables. They can, good for your eyes. Good for your eyes. I mean, are hardy vegetables. They can withstand. Good for your eyes. Good for your eyes. I mean, you know, if you think about a vegetable that can withstand a Fargo winter, it's gonna be good for something.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know when is the harvest for carrots? I don't know much about carrot planting. You know, I can't say that I'm, because I don't know if it has to withstand a Fargo winter. Well, if this place is known for one carrot plant, you would think that. Oh, yeah, that's true. You would think that that plant would be,

Yeah, that is true. You can't risk losing that plant in the middle of winter, if that's what this place is known for. So it says you sow carrots from early spring to mid-summer to be lifted from late spring to early winter. So it does get a little winery. Well, very. Uh, stored roots will tide you over until the following spring.

What's actually a fascinating fact about Castan is my grandfather actually helped build the golf course here. No kidding. Yeah. So he's a little bit of a landscape architect by passion, not by trade. Wow. Wait, wait, wait by passion.

He doesn't do that for a living. He just lives loves golf. So your grandpa helped, helped design it. Yeah, he led the charge. They used to have sand grains here. So back the day with golf golf when you didn't have the ability to like have mowers for for like actual green like actual grass for the greens. They used to just do sand greens that they would pat tamp down.

And uh, this so they started with sand greens and then eventually they got regular greens here, but yeah. Now, I've noticed in a lot of greens though, the basis for that is sand. Because right, on a lot of greens, there's sand underneath the grass there. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of how most of like golf course stuff, I from what I understand to help keep it level, you know, you got big chunks of dirt, it gets on level pretty good. Oh, God, it's you nice sand level. It's better.

Yeah. And then those plants sand is very soluble. It gets that water in there. Yeah, if you build the green now, there's rock P rock underneath it so that it drains through and there's a whole drainage system that goes underneath it. Oh, wow. And now your grandpa when he designed this golf course, he, they just said, hey, can you help us design this golf course?

Or did he bump here? I think it was. He worked. You knew a guy with the land and then they he's like, hey, could we build a golf course on this land? I think was I don't know, but I'm guessing that's how it went. OK, all I know is you hit over a big review on one of the T boxes. Yeah, it's right next to the railroad tracks.

Like literally, it's right there and you got to hit over a ravine. It's kind of cool. That's awesome. Yeah. That's our, our, your grandparents can be stopping by. I think they are, I called them this morning, told them we were going to be here. No idea when they're going to show up. They could show up now. I'm, they could show up three hours from now. So we're really playing that by ear. So do you think that in one of these episodes, we can kind of interview them or they will Yeah, I don't know if they're gonna want to do that. Okay, okay, that's fine. They're they're they're proud people who prefer to keep to themselves and not get mixed up in our shenanigans. Yeah, we'll see. Okay, I'll feel it out feel it out

Yeah, and your grandpa right now by the way you mentioned this off air He's playing cards. What's his card game? Well insect? Ross Where does Ralph play cards at? Where's the Vets Club? Oh, he plays at the Vets Club. You play like Pee Knuckle or something? Yeah, all Pee Knuckle You know, I've got a confession for you miles. Huh, I've never played P-Nuckle. I don't think I have either Anytime we get get together he also loves cribbage Play happens at the family get together. Do you like cribbage yourself?

Yeah, I just that's a no. Yeah, I just am not like a card game guy Okay, I just drink and chat then because I get really competitive. Yeah. And then it can literally ruin the entire vibes of the room. Ruin piss that I lose. Honestly, it's really something I'm working on, but not working on it very good. So I love that you're too competitive to play a crib with your grandfather. Well, yeah.

I mean, I can do it. I've done it. competitive to play a cribbage with your grandfather. Well, yeah. I mean, I could do it. I've done this. It's just not not the thing that you're gonna go out of your way to do it. No, I just would rather keep vibes good. Right. You know, it's knowing your limitations.

It's like, you know, if someone's an alcoholic, they usually try to abstain from drinking alcohol. Mm-hmm. When you're a spazzy competitive guy, you try and limit how much competition you do, especially not in the right setting. Yeah. You know what I've noticed? Hi, my name is Miles and this is a competitor spaziness anonymous and I have a problem. Yeah. Hi, Miles. First step is admitting that. Yeah, is admitting that it is the first step. I just yeah I'm competitive. I like I like sports and all that but

Sometimes you just don't like to lose Charlie. That's true. Sometimes you don't like to lose I don't really have that spirit. That's why I was never really good at sports like you I never had NFL prospects like you did you know I play I'm not gonna stop you. I'm gonna let you keep going did. You know, I played, I'm not going to stop you. I'm going to let you keep going down that road, whether it's true or not. Yeah, you got recruited by all the teams. I played, but I was not never good. I didn't have that killer instinct. Yeah. And you really got to have it. I haven't. I was too Lucy Goosey, you know, I was like, well, try to make everyone laugh, right? I mean, honestly, I was like, well, try to make everyone laugh, right?

I mean, honestly, I was like, this game really doesn't matter. It's kind of stupid when you think about it. Whatever game I was playing, you know, I was like, yeah, I have that perspective a little bit now, you know, yeah, unless someone gets in my face, then it's matters more than anything in the world. Yeah, what game are you most competitive with? What'd you say?

It's not so much game, it's more so who I'm competing against. If you and I were playing basketball right now. I just would beat you. It just wouldn't, it would really be a competition. In basketball? Yeah. I'm actually pretty good at basketball. I don't think you've seen me move.

I got good hips. So it's not so much that you're, you may be a better shot than me, but you're not getting a shot off because I just not good at defense. I'm, well, I'm a box you out. I'm better at rebounds. Rebounds are, that was my thing. I was good at rebounds. I was good at getting my ass in and back in that ass up.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Huh. Well, we'll see. It's not a lot of rebounding that you got to do in a one-on-one game, but well, when you're shooting there is, no. Oh, that's good. Burn.

No, mostly like my brothers are the ones that I get real worked up about. And then also Ryan, the T-shirt guy. Oh, yeah, I could see that. Have you ever gotten in a fist fight with any of them? Your brothers are Ryan, the T-shirt guy. I mean, if I played one on one with my younger brother there, it would get pretty lot of just no fouls called type of stuff, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I'd love to see that. Maybe at your wedding, well, I'll bring a basketball. Well, my wedding's already happened because it's April 20th. So. Oh, yeah, that's right. I forget we go back to the future on this podcast. So regardless, maybe while this podcast go, I won't remember what April 20th is all about. It's just for just scratching my head. I don't remember. Yeah.

Well, we'll find it. We'll find it. We'll take some collars and we find it. That sounds fun. Let's do it. Hello, who do we got on the line? Hey, this is Jonah from Texas. Jonah from Texas.

I love that name, Jonah. Uh, is your cousin named Jonah? Do you? Yeah. Jonah, are you named after the Jonah in the Bible that got swallowed up by a big old whale? Oh, I am. Oh, nice. Did you, did you ever as a kid wish that you were indeed

uh, swallowed up by a whale or did that scare you? All the time, all the time which that would happen. Okay. Oh nice. I hope it happens for you one day. Not, but I hope in a fun way. I hope you don't die. Just hope you go for a nice adventure and find yourself in the belly of the whale. Thanks for calling in Jonah. It's really nice to have you on the podcast today. Why don't you belly up to the bar with us and let us know what's on what's on the

dome. Okay, so got a little bit of a problem this morning. Yeah. Got my wisdom teeth out on spring break. I'm a teacher. Okay. Now they're saying after we four days before I can go drink it. St. Patrick's Day is Friday. Okay.

This is a conundrum. Yeah. Okay. Questions for you. So we could set the stage here. You had your wisdom teeth out this morning. Correct. Yeah. Did they put you under or did they just pull them out?

So I thought I was going under, except I never fell asleep. So about hour into it, I'm laying in the chair. And he's like, yep, we got first one out. And then just keeps going. And I'm like, what the heck is happening? No, what? So you were the local anesthetic is all you got? They gave me like some pill.

They're like, okay, this should make you sleepy. Never felt sleepy at all. And you just start pulling the teeth out. And I'm just like, what the heck is this? Was it painful or did you not feel the pain? I mean, you feel a little bit of pain just feeling the tooth come out of your head. Yeah, it feels like I've to us the feeling of your tooth being yanked out well. So there's just like slight pain slash pressure and it just has those little

tools and it just yanks it. It's just the weirdest feeling. And you just feel the wisdom leaving your body. Um, yeah, if there was any in there. So did you get any clarification on why you didn't go under or was it that you just assumed and they're like, yeah, well, first I just got to pull them out. We don't put you under. Yeah, I think it was just the assuming part. Well, we know what assuming does Charlie. It makes a buzz out of you with me. Um, why didn't you get the nitrous oxide? I have no clue. I said, I think you know what, I think you should go back and say, Hey, I wanted the full experience, put them back in,

and let's do this the right way. Let's do it the right way. Yeah. Now, were you wearing this glasses? So he couldn't see if your eyes were closed or did he know you weren't going full? Yeah, they. So it's one of those, I thought it was a fancy dentist office.

They have the TV up on the screen. They're laid back. Wow. Just watching TV and he gave you this little sun shade. So every now and then I start laughing at something. So I guess you knew I was awake. Maybe you did get the nitrous. I think he might.

What were you watching on the telly? Oh, feel Vaughan's Netflix. Oh, he's a funny dude. He's going already just. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have YouTube or I'd be, uh, they have the YouTube up or I'd be watching your special. That was on. Oh, thank you very much. Suck up. Thank you. You can up to you, Charlie. I know. I am all for it. Yeah. Charlie Barron's as special as now on YouTube. Ladies and gentlemen, it's called Midwest Goodbye. Just putting the Google machine and give it a like,

even if you didn't like it, I'd appreciate it. Thank you. That's awesome. So, you know, so what are you gonna do with all that extra room in your mouth now? I haven't really thought about it. Probably, you know, eat more food. Okay.

No, I've got a question. You waited until spring break to get your teeth pulled. Yeah, you should have done this. This is the perfect excuse to get out of school. You should have used vacation days. I should thought about I'm a teacher, but I'm just like trying to stay close for the end of the year. I get it. I get it. Yeah. It's, I forget that when you work a normal job with, uh, you know, that's not a podcast that you do at a bar vacation days are, uh, yeah. You got a stack of, I got to remember back. What's your vacation day strategy? Are you, uh, use them all at one time?

You try even if you're really, really sick, you still got to work? What's your strategy on that? So mostly just sick go to work. However, this year, March Madness happened to fall on the same week of spring break, so that worked out. Anytime there's like a major sporting event, that's when you take off.

Okay. So not only can you not drink because of St. Patty's day, you can't drink or not only can you not drink during St. Patty's day, it's also the basketball games you're missing your your little beer friends, huh? Oh, yeah, for sure. You definitely didn't plan this over. No, you didn't. And you've got nothing but not it all,

nothing but Tylenol to satisfy the pain. Is that the case? Oh, yeah, so what miss the green beer this year. Yeah, what time exactly did you have your teeth out? Because it's gonna matter here in the future. We're running numbers for you right now My numbers it was Like nine a.m. This morning. Okay. So 9 a.m. 1, 2, 3, dude, you're good for Saturday. You might have to miss Friday 9 a.m. Saturday morning. You can wake up. You can crack a beard. Just have a matter. Yeah. Yeah. You can. So there you have it. And we also do have to keep in mind that this podcast is being projected. We are going back to the future to talk about some patties.

They all are listeners. Yeah. It's actually it's April 20th, which I forget. What do you know anything that happens on April 20th? Yeah. We've been trying to there's something that usually happens on April 20th, but we've been unable to rack our brain. Would you be able to help us with that? I think I could help you out with that.

Very special day. Very special day. You got your wisdom teeth out. Yeah. Yeah, wisdom teeth. Yeah. However, also cannot smoke on that day either after wisdom teeth come out.

That's true. That's true. There's no smoking allowed after the wisdom teeth come out. That's true. That's true. There's no smoking allowed after the wisdom teeth come out. I remember that when I got my wisdom teeth out. They said Charlie. They said, don't touch it. They said no smoke and also no sucking, right? There's no straws you can use. You can't you can't have any shakes or anything. Nope. No, no. Now, do you have gauze in the back of your mouth and it's all bloody and stuff? Oh, I did for the first hour and a half. It was miserable.

Yeah, you got to make sure you don't get dry sockets either. That would be a disaster because then you really can't have any fun this weekend. If you're not taking care of those holes in your mouth, yeah. Our best advice is really take care of the holes in your mouth. And also, this is a really unique time. You don't have work. You can't drink. So it's just nothing but you and your thoughts. What are you going to do? That's too terrifying to think about. So you're calling into a pocket. You're doing everything you can did not be alone with your feelings right now, aren't you? Everything. Good for you. Good for you. So I mean,

really, I think you're, you're just going to have to bear Friday with no going out on St. Paddy's day, but I think you're ready to go 9 a.m.s. Just as soon as that baby strikes and I and you you go for it. That's advice you give them right? That is the advice I would give. Yeah, this isn't such a big deal. I don't think it's just my real question is, what are you going to be doing over the next few days

when you've got nothing to distract yourself? I mean, what's the plan? What's coming up for you with all this stillness in your life? What's coming up for you with all this stillness in your life? What's coming up for you? What emotions are there? I have no clubs. I live next to the river. So I'll probably just go fly fish in or something. Oh, he's a fly fisher. He's in Texas. Yeah. God. Yeah. What kind of fish you get out of that river? Well, they start stocking rainbow trout, but those are starting

to die off. So now it's just bass mostly. The rainbow trout die out down there. Is that how that goes? Typically is a two warm in the water for them? They're very sensitive fish those trout. Yeah, we have a good like good couple of months to get enough stock, but as soon as the water temp gets above like 62 degrees, they start to die out. Yeah. This might be a dumb question, but why stock something that eventually they will die off that quick. If you know they're going to die from the warm weather, why do you stock that fish in that? You want me to answer? Yeah. That really is it. You support the the local fishing deal. And I don't know much about down Texas. We do a little bit of stocking up here in the Midwest,

but a lot of those fish will live. But yeah, trout are so finicky with the weather. Those bass though, those must be super fun to get on a fly rod. I've caught one on a fly rod. I just got into fly fishing and man, that's a fun way to catch a fish. Oh, yeah. Hands down the best way since I started doing it. Well, you can't put your hands down. You lose the fish. You know, you got to keep it elevated. He really, he forced that way. He's he's like on that note. I'm about this is actually making the whole teeth pulling. This is like he's he talking to us is his literally worse than what it was this morning of getting his teeth pulled. Yeah. This is worse than pulling teeth for him. Yeah. He's trying to get off the call, Charlie.

Well, I did it. I took it every single time you start trying to talk fishing with people. They start to get, they start to glaze over. No, Miles, it's not just fishing. It's also bird watching. Yeah, that's it. It's also talking about my snowmobile people. And you're now getting into roasting nuts.

And that's also going to glaze people over. Yeah. Well, I like what you did there with the glaze. Yeah, you can glaze some nuts too. Well, this was super. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a benefit. We're right here on the Guadalupe River. So when you're fly fishing, you also get the aspect of bird watching, especially when the birds start to migrate. Wow. Yeah, you got a two for there. And you know what, I'm going to throw in a three for the thing about fly fishing that's so much fun is the bugs, the flies. You look at the

flies that are hatching miles because you know, it's kind of like match the hatch. So you look for the ones hatching in the river and also the fly, the flies buzzing around. You bring your binoculars out and you don't just look for birds you look at the flies and there are Many species of flies as there are birds so you you have just a whole Experience over there. I'm very excited for you Okay, you'll definitely have to make your tour down here next to Austin. So you don't need to come swing by it I'd love to come swing by. I'll bring my fly ride. How does that sound?

Sounds great. I know it's kind of local spot, but I don't think I should have been talking this much right after sir. You. He's now just bleeding from the mouth. All right. Don't say anything else. Thanks for calling in.

Get some gauze in that mouth. Get some rest so you can be in tip-top shape this Saturday. Good for you. Yeah, we go. Thanks for calling in. Wow. Thank you all. You'll have a good one.

You do know. So I already I never even thought about that. You probably shouldn't be just jabbering away. Yeah, you can't be jib jabbing after you got that. You know, I had an oral surgery myself recently I had a gum graft to put in because one of my gums I bit into an apple. I have Hereditary little gum line Well, those aren't low. Well, they're not going out. They've been open that up again

Wow, you got some wild teeth on the bottom there. No, they're good. That one is low. Holy shit. No, it's not low anymore. I got to fix. That's not low. What was it like? They took a whole job bone was exposed or why?

They took a graft from the top of my mouth, the roof of my mouth, and they put it right there. And no, now it's, it's healing very nicely. They actually used my gum graft as an example for the students at Marquette University. It was that kind of a graft. Did you disclose? Did you say you could use your name?

That's good marketing for your personal brand. I know. I should get a lot of followers because they were like, yeah, that'd be great. So like normally when that, like situation, they would just make sure that there's no personal information years You're like no, I want the personal information You guys put my handle on this throw at Charlie Barons on the like a watermark over the

Over the photo that they show I would get so many board dental students following me Hey, you know, we could start a dental podcast. Well, yeah, they need something. They're all so far this episode We got a dental podcast. Yeah, we talked about a lot of dental things. Oh, can you put my arm? My upper back? This, uh, yeah, let's do this. Let's wear a ticket to another caller. What do you think? I think that's good. Oh, yeah. Thank you. That helps. Hello. Who do we got on the line? Hello, who do we got on the line? Well, how's it going fellas? Um, uh, funny. It's, uh, Thomas from Woodstock. I was just actually recently on episode 39.

Thomas from Woodstock. Thanks for calling back. Well, you quickly remind the folks what we talked about on episode 39. Yeah, I was going to say it's a little belly update. Yeah. nine. Yeah, I was going to say it's a little belly update. Yeah. But I was going to call about getting advice for the best man's speech. Okay. All right. And you have some follow-up or um well, since that time, I've typed up, you know, like I wouldn't say I have a don't have a distinct number. I was going to say about 75% of it. I've gotten through most of it, but I got to add some finishing touches

and stuff to it. But um, do you want to give us your intro? Yeah, let's, let's maybe hear the intro. I don't know if I can do that, you know, the, the listener coming from the groom. Well, what, what day is the wedding? What day is the wedding? Again, we forget. It is September 15th. Oh, yeah. And you already have 75% of your shit written. He's a go getter, Miles. He's a go getter.

I am my wedding is literally not quite the opposite. Oh, you're not a go getter. I'm a master procrastinator. I'm a, but after that call, you guy, you know, I sounded very unprepared and unready for this. I'm like, all right, maybe I should start that. Okay. And we weren't giving you much either.

Yeah. So here's the thing too is he definitely hasn't started. He just has to say 75% of weight on that. That's why when we asked them to say some of it, he's like, no, no, the guy listen. So I mean, yeah, I can, I can share the Google Doc with you guys. You can read it on your own time. Some light reading. I'm not going to share this out loud over the air. Okay. Fair enough. Well, belly on up to the bar with us and tell us why you did call in today. So I am, as I mentioned in the previous episode, I'm 21 and um, but you sound like you're 48. I have a one. You do sound old. Well, I'm maybe you sound mature. Take it. I'm a tour.

mature mature. But I never I went off to a local community college for you know a couple semesters never finished and just started working. Yeah. And so I never got to leave home and we started to get a little set up. Oh yeah, fat ups. I just don't I don't know how to you know I'm currently saving money, putting it away. I have roughly enough to get 20% down on a house. Nice. But it's just today's market. It's kind of wild. OK.

Well, OK. So you're wondering, what should you do? Should you wait? Should you go for it? Is that kind of what you're thinking? That, yeah, because you know, like what's the solid interest rate, you know, like if I can get it off like, you know, start going to houses and they give me, uh, give me an interest rate, you know, what's, uh, I should take this and

what's, uh, you know, they don know, don't be stupid. Wow. First of all, glad you called into this podcast. I'm glad this is the most serious request for advice we ever got. And I got to tell you, miles is actually pretty well equipped to answer this. Yeah. I'll let you go. In the real estate.

What's up? I dabble a little bit. Charlie, you dabble a little bit. Now mostly though, Charlie, you got a lot of people around you that help you do that, right? I do. I have, I have some folks that help me make the right decisions. And because I am of, I'll be honest with you, I'm a very emotional buyer, which I, but the good thing is I know that about myself. And so I find people to prevent me from making big mistakes. And that doesn't mean I still haven't made big mistakes, you know. But I think you, you're good to save your money and that you have 20% down. It's going to be tough for you to get good interest rate.

I'm guessing what's your credit like? Okay. So hold on. No, okay. See, I already screwed it up. No, you're good. Sorry. This is a thing that's been going on though is everyone's like, Oh, it's a bad interest rate.

It's a bad interest rate times right now. But let's put some shit in perspective here. All right. Back in the day, I mean, a good interest rate was like 14% back in perspective here. All right. Back in the day, I mean, a good interest rate was like 14% back in the day. I mean, I'm talking a while ago. 80s. Right?

14% for a house. They were still buying houses. It ended up still being a good decision. They were still able to, if they sold it again, appreciate and make money on it. And now we're spoiled here in 2023. The interest rate goes up to 6% instead of three. And everyone starts panicking. Yeah. When in reality, the way the world works, it's so easy to refinance later, I wouldn't necessarily

wait to buy a home. I would just go at the lowest rate you can find in your area. Then I would live there until the interest rates go back down. Now refinance and about a boom, about a bang, all of a sudden you're investing in your own asset instead of paying rent to someone else who's making money off of you. And if the place you're buying is big enough, you could even rent out a portion of it to a roommate or perhaps, perhaps, and this is what I did when I first got a place, I bought a duplex and I lived there and then I had a tenant also live there. So that covered my mortgage and I was basically, you know, aside for the down payment, I was kind of living there rent-free if you will. What do you think? So that's the thing is I got some, I got some buddies that I've already asked me if they can live with me.

So, you know, making the payments, I don't see that being much of an issue, but I also don't want to, you know, turn this into a fret house. Okay, second part of his question. much of an issue, but I also don't want to, you know, turn this into a fret house. Okay. Second part of his question. He asked 48, too. He asked for it. You're active. I'm getting dad vibes. You know, you're a responsible dude for being 21. But I feel like you, you know, yourself and you know what you don't like. And yeah, you don't want guys coming in and be a big drinking situation because you know what drunk guys do. They put holes in walls and doors and then you got to fix them. And then it screws up your relationship with these friends. Now one thing I think that has to do with me not going for college.

Oh, why didn't you go for college? Well, I was supposed to start right when like COVID started and I didn't feel like paying all that money to go to a university. Yeah, I do all your school online. Yeah. That means yeah. So, you know, I never went off and I think that kind of just killed like the party life. Like I don't enjoy that stuff anymore.

Okay. Well, here's the thing. One, okay, I'm going to talk you through pros and cons lists of live-in-wish shitheads, all right? Oh, I'd love to hear this pro is you can use their dumb stuff as leverage for future stuff meaning

They punch a hole in the wall You tell them they got to fix it Plus They now are on snow duty this winter because they feel bad about punching a hole in the wall. You can then get free labor out of your dumb buddies because they're acting like idiots and then you can cash in on them being dumb. Well, and you got to remember that Miles is sort of, this is Miles in his sweet spot.

Miles, you should go into where Miles works. And it is, you are the ringleader. You like it. You like being that headhuncho. The question for him is before you give him more of this advice, does he like being the headhuncho? Or is he like, super think he sounds super mature, I think you'd be able to handle that.

But some people are like, Rex and Toy Story. I don't like confrontation, you know? That's kind of how I am sometimes. And sometimes you just don't wanna deal with it. Do you think you'd be able to sort of be that ringleader or are you trying to avoid confrontation? See, I'm not much of a, you know,

I'm a very mellow guy. I don't, I don't, I don't look for confrontation, but you know, I don't avoid it if it's there, but that's something that I have to, you know, get used to because I personally do not want to buy a house yet until I start my new job, which hopefully will be like towards the end of this year. Okay. And have you look at, definitely help with, have you looked at a duplex? Have you looked at duplex? Because then you have your room and you have their room and they can get roommates and they can do their thing or whatever.

And then whatever is messed up in the house, you just take out their security deposit and it's a non-issue. I haven't really looked at duplexes around here. I just, you know, I'm trying to move out of the state. And those actually can be a little follow-up question as I know Charlie can answer this. I currently live a 25-minute self of the border with Wisconsin. And I want to move across the border into Wisconsin. Well, that's still making me a fib.

Yeah, you're a fib for life, fella. But you know what? That's a stain you can't wash off. Yeah, you're a fit for life, fella. But you know what? That's a stain. You can't wash off. Yeah. You know, but it's okay. It's okay. You know what? We love fibs. We do. And it's a term of endearment. Okay. So don't worry about that. Where you can't change where you came from. But I do think Wisconsin's a great place for you. Now, do you have any cities mapped out of where you'd like to maybe venture? So with the ideal situation,

I'm trying to get onto a police department and I have to live within the bordering counties. So I'll be working in Illinois, but living in Wisconsin. So somewhere like right around the Lake Geneva area, you know, maybe anywhere from like all the way to Lake Michigan. Wow, that's a big stretch. It is a big old stretch. Yeah, you know, I'm not super familiar with all that real estate down

there, but Racine is nice. Kenosha is nice, but lights nice. Honestly, there's a lot of great spots there. It just sort of depends what you're looking for, you know, but there's no shortage of great places to live in that neck of the woods. You know, he does say that about every part of Wisconsin. There is not a bad part of Wisconsin. I'll tell you that. I can say that myself. I have not seen anything bad in Wisconsin. Yeah, well, besides the slow drivers. Oh, here it is. Here it is. Okay. Fimped. There it is. You know, it's like you guys are on Hawaiian time. I'd you know, it's like you guys are on Hawaiian time. Yeah. You're never in a rush.

Listen, listen, listen, that's because in the Midwest we're not trying and Wisconsin, we're not trying to get anywhere on time. We're trying to pass the time. Okay. And, uh, you know, put that on a t-shirt and sell it. Okay. You know, one thing kind of going back to he's worried about the roommates thing, Charlie, I want to ask you, yeah, if he's looking for roommates,

what's maybe a test that he can do to know if they're going to be a good roommate or not? Oh, a test. I know, I know, here it is. You invite them over, you invite them over to hang out, okay, and just kind of talk about the situation. And you put three cheese curds on a plate. And you say, I was just having cheese curds. You want any of these? And then here, try one, you eat one, he eats one. And then you sit one and then you sit there then you wait and

You wait you have the conversation and you let it go and he's gonna do one of three things He's either gonna take that cheese curd without asking you if you want it first He's gonna not take it at all He's gonna ask you if you want it. And that, or he's just gonna eat it. So four things. He, depending on what he does, will determine if he should be living with you or not. Now, my question for you is, what would he have to do with that last cheese curd to make you want to live with him. You know, if he doesn't, you know, offer it up. As long as he gives me an in-depth review, you know,

if it squeaks or not or, you know, he's got, I got a little bit of smart person. He's got to be educated. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So, you know, Well, there's one thing being educated, and there's one thing being educated in cheeses, though, I think Charlie was educated. I think Charlie was educated. I think Charlie was educated. I think Charlie was educated. I think Charlie was educated.

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get some roommates in there and then set some ground rules. Do some non-negotiables. Hey, if you're gonna use the restroom and kind of blow it up, make sure you use the upstairs one, not the downstairs one, stuff like that, establish a P corner. You know, it's just make sure that everything is in place when they move in. Come in hot with the rules, okay?

Have your demands there, but also do not let a friend come in that you want to keep for a long time. Because that's true. Do not move in with your best friend. That's disaster unless you want to end that friendship. But yeah, those are sort of the tidbits, but I really tell you to get a duplex because, uh, that'll give you your space, their space, and then that sucker can pay for itself. Why are you laughing at me? Because duplex is like in the areas that he's talking about. They're just not that

many duplexes available. It's like a Milwaukee thing. Well, I just think it's like a little more suburban area. No, there's, in the cities, there's all duplexes. There are duplexes in Bologna. It's hard to get one. Yeah, I suppose. I suppose. I don't know. I know nothing about this. Honestly, I've screwed up so many financial decisions. I'm not the person to ask. But I think we gave you a good, good deal with the whole cheese curd test. So I'm feeling good about that personally. Yeah, well, um, and then the second thing ahead was a bicell tree. This is what gets me excited in the morning. Bye. Come on down. right. What do you come on down?

All right, actually, actually, I'm going to go on crack. Well, that's actually where I planned to sell it. If you know, this doesn't end up working out. Usually does. We get a lot of stuff sold. I'm sending you guys a picture through, through Instagram DMs. Okay, general pulled up. Jared's got it. Suzuki 2017 Suzuki boulevard. 12,500 or best offer would stock Illinois. Let's hear the pitch. Let's hear the pitch.

All right, I'll stop reading. So it's a nice looking buy. When I was, you know, when I turned 16, I was able to drive and I've always been interested in cars. So I was buying and selling cars for quite a while. And I'm sorry. At 16 years old, you had been buying and selling cars for a while. You are such an old man in such a young person's body.

I love it. You're an old soul. And we're going to be here too. He's old school. Yeah. Continue on. But, you know, over the years, I've picked up some coin doing that and so now I currently own a car and two motorcycles and

You know with wanting to buy a house. I figured it's time to let go of one of them and I feel like that that might be that one there's the best option. Ty, all right. I'm gonna need a car and my other motorcycles a little too much fun to get rid of. What's your other motorcycle? Well, don't talk about the other one. We're trying to sell this one. Don't talk about how cool your other motorcycle is.

Yeah, we don't want to talk about it. Well, you know, I mean, it's about the right price. You can always get rid of both. Okay, there we go. I like that. All right, it's all about marketing. My guy, it doesn't matter what the price is, whatever. If you can sell this thing the right way, you can get it sold. Talk to me. How sick do you look driving this thing down the main

drag? Well, so the, my, the issue I used to run into all the time was my other bikes a crotch rocket and I ride with a bunch of Harley guys So of course you they all kind of congregate to their own group and I'm on my own so I was like, you know, I I got to get a cruiser Okay, and um, so I bought that bike all the way down near Indianapolis drove over home I'm super comfortable Indianapolis, drove over home. I'm super comfortable. Amazing, super powerful. It's got just under 1800 CCs. So that's a lot of CCs.

What on? I know CCs, like I think I do. That's a shitload. That's, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I have a few seconds ago. Yeah. Yeah. That's about it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Tons of CCs, what else? And like I said, super comfortable, but as soon as I got the thing,

you know, instead of all these Harley guys getting compliments, all the attention turned to my bike. Ah, you know, even the Harley guy started avoiding looking at the other guys bikes. And that became the conversation piece of how nice your Suzuki was. First of all, I love how you were trying to ingratiate yourself with the Harley guys by getting a Suzuki, you know, I think that I always I always give them a hard time. I tell them I talked shit about Harley's and I told them I can never get one after what I've been saying. So, you know, I had to have fun to have medium, get a cruiser that also was not a Harley.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's, I'd like to roll around town with 1800 CCs under my legs, you know? Yeah. Well, the app, $12,500. Well, we're gonna see if the open market does first.

Okay. You know, I can be convinced maybe after that, but. Okay, so you're looking for 12,500 bucks. OBO, short for, or best offer, Charlie, we know that. We're a buy selling trade podcast. What is there anything you could throw into maybe sweeten the deal for whoever's known? You got a cool helmet? You got what do you got? Well, I do have a helmet, but you know, it's I still need it for my other bike,

because I'm not getting rid of that one. But there's, I mean, there's not much to sweeten the deal. I mean, it's the only thing I could vouch for it is the things almost brand new. It's got 1700 miles. It's got less miles than CCs. Yeah, shoot. Okay. Well, I think, you know, I think all the listeners, yeah, I'm going to say all the listeners listening, which is what they're usually doing. And you're, you know, go ahead for all the people that, you know,

my other bikes modified, but this one, I just left bone stock, you know, because when I'm looking for a motorcycle, I don't want other people's, you know, modifications, because I don't know what they did to them. Yeah. I don't know what you would call them, all these other things. So this thing's bone stocks never been touched. Anybody, you know, likes that kind of stuff like I do. So why I like that now, how, look, we've heard a lot of the mechanics, a lot of the fine details of this.

And those are fine for your intellectual motorcycle buyers. But what I want to know is how do you feel when you're kicking that sucker 70 miles an hour on the highway? How do you feel in your soul? What does it make you feel like? I mean nothing nothing beats a motorcycle Wait, you feel like nothing or nothing beats a motorcycle. Your mind is clear. Is that it? Your heart is clear. It's just you. It's therapy. Like you, the open road, the rattling of the thing

beneath your legs, it's just there is nothing like it because there's nothing going on. I love that. I love that. That is, that was really. Like going out fishing when you're bored. I mean, it's, you know, it's a, it's a motor therapy. You go by yourself, you go with your body,

it doesn't matter. It's equally great of a time. So you're not just buying a motorcycle, you're buying a therapist. Exactly. And maybe a divorce if you're married. But. Yeah, if I give a moment of the motorcycle, And maybe a divorce if you're married. But.

Yeah, if I give him home with a motorcycle, Anne would not be happy with me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why you buy him. And you know, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. So you can come home within and eventually they just give up.

All right. Well, how can the folks reach you if, if they're interested in the old Suzuki? So I don't know if you guys are able to put that on the, like, building up story or anything on Instagram, but I left my Instagram on the bottom of the picture. I like that. Yeah. We'll definitely post it. We'll post it on the week. This podcast comes out. Or should we post it now? Um, it's the week that podcast comes out or should we post it now? The week that it comes out. We'll post it.

Yeah, probably a little later when it warms up, that'll be perfect. Because we're talking late April. And that is that then there's probably only one snowfall left to go in the season. And I laid April. Don't say that. Well, you get an early May snow. That's that's pretty typical, you know. So this will be the perfect time, you know, the birds and the bees will start, you know,

doing their fornication and people will just be like, oh, I gotta get a bike. And then they're going to see that Suzuki. And they're going to be like, wow, that's a lot of CCs. And then bang, you got a buyer. And we've got a success story here on the Bellyduck podcast. Yeah. Tomas can buy his house. I will mention that, you know, it may go up in a little bit of mileage because, you know, I might take it out in the spring if it gets nice. But, you know, I don't think that thing's going to cross the old 2000 mark.

It's because so many people are interested and you got to let them do test drives, right? That's why my mileage is going to be too. Yeah. I mean, I can already hear the calls coming. And also he loves it so much. It's going to be hard for him to part with this. You know, he's and if it goes over 2000 miles, I'd almost see that as a positive because it just shows how much he loves the bike. Yeah. He's trying to sell it. Yeah. Yeah, this is good. All right. I think this will go. Yeah. I appreciate calling in again.

Glad to have you back on the podcast. And I think we'll get this thing sold. That would be amazing. You guys, I know you're a big one there. All right. Sounds good, man. Well, thanks for calling in. And we'll only take 10%

Thank you guys. No, thank you. We'll take 10% see you later You agreed to it All right, hey watch out for deer on that motorcycle. I mean that okay Well, I had a couple friends go down from that. So yeah, I always have to call in again. We can talk about that All right, you guys said it not me. I'll do how always have to call in again, we can talk about that. All right. You guys said it not me. I'll do how I have to. Okay.

Sounds good. Talk to you. You guys have a good one. You do know. All right, Charlie. What do you think CC stands for? CC, you don't know what CC stands for? No, I know.

I want to know if you know. Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. You know, yeah. Yeah, of course. Well, the, the, the, the, the know if you know. Oh, yeah, I know. I know you know. Yeah. Yeah, of course Well, the what if you just come on for the listeners who don't know because we will They really know what CC stands for the listeners. They think they know they know everybody know Jared Yeah, Jared knows to it. Yeah, look on his face. Yeah, you know, everyone knows that it's cubic centimeters meters

You know, I mean of course, who doesn't fucking know All right, I got to let out some C-sees of this in the bathroom and then we'll be back. All right, have fun in there shake it more than twice You know what you're doing. Charlie. You love the earth. I love the earth. Well guess what earth days this Saturday Yeah, it was not it was not today. We thought, oh, we thought we were we missed took. So earth day is Saturday. There's nothing better than enjoying the earth. Nothing's better than enjoying the earth with a glass of tippy cow. We ever thought about that. You've ever thought about just doing one of these. Clankin,

sitting back on the porch and just going, I love this earth. I love this earth. It's a good earth. It is, I mean, I don't know a ton about earths, but from what I know about this one, it's pretty good. Yeah, and very similar revives with Tipeek. It is.

Do you think aliens celebrate Earth Day two? I don't know if they celebrate Earth Day, but I know that they would definitely not turn down a glass of Tipeek. No, it's the number one drink of all aliens in the galaxy. In fact, I have heard that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Wisconsin cow is an absolute delicacy to aliens. It is. Yeah. So every part of the Wisconsin cow, including the

la Cour that comes from it, the, sorry, the, the, the rum that comes from it. Yeah. Uh, is what they love. So seriously, everything tastes better outside for some reason. I don't know what kind cows produce the celebrates animals too, right? Animals live on earth. Sure do. And tippy cows made from almost sconson cows. So this earth day, Charlie, why don't we raise a glass

to aliens, to cows, to Wisconsin cows, and tippin' on back with Tippy cow. Amen. Folks, Fleet Farm is such a cool place. I go there on a very regular basis to get all my needs met. Yes. What are your needs, Charlie? Well, sometimes I need a new little screw for a carburetor. I can't find it. So I unscrew the one on my carburetor.

That's a little stripped. And then I go over to the fleet farmer. And he says to the guy, he says, I need a screw looking just like this. He's like, bang boom, bot. Bot of boom, bot of bang. Bot of boom, bot of bang. God she covered.

And he finds me that little screw. Or sometimes I need a new boat seat. I got my favorite boat seat from the fleet farm. I got one too. I think we bought them together. We did buy them together It's one of my favorite memories with you miles. I think we high five even we did high five I'm gonna high five and have a fleet farm. I can tell you that much. No, no, no So head on over to the fleet farm for all your spring shopping needs and by the way

Spring cleaning. They've got some nice tubs there. They do toots. I call call them Tots. Tots. I call them tubs because sometimes I take a bath in them. Folks, fleet farms got all the things you need for spring cleaning, for winter cleaning, for fall cleaning, and for summer cleaning. Check them out. Fleet farm, find your nearest one, and have a heyday. Welcome to the Belly to podcast. Who are we chit chat and with today? Hello, this is man Kato Ann Colin back in. I don't know if you remember me, but I called probably back in November or something. I don't know. Um, I'm also you call me a coffee snob, which I'm still trying to get over, but you know, well, coffee snobber.

What's that? I said, where are you being a coffee snobber? No. Well, I don't know. I didn't like ask station coffee. So, yeah. So yes, is the answer. You know, well, yeah, I get Oh, yeah, why don't you belly on up to the bar with us yet again and tell us what's on your mind? Okay. Okay. Well, first of all, I just wanted to dress a little blasphemy that happened in the last episode about Nancato. So that's where I live. And I heard that we're seeing Temecula by Nancato now. Yeah, just just Southwest a little bit,

you know, just Southwest. Yeah. Uh huh. All right. All right. Mm hmm. Okay, well, I just wanted to clear that. I'm not sure if the local hero take kindly to that.

It's a pretty California sound and name. Well, Temecula, you know, I mean, it just just trust me. If you go south and you go west, you're going to hit it. It's just down the road away. That's true. Yeah, yeah. No, that's it. All right. Good to know. Well, glad you guys didn't form you. Yeah. Now, belly on up to the bar with us today.

And let's get, let's really get into it. What is going on with you today? Let's let the past be the past. Yeah. Let's bring it up a lot of the past. You got to remember that was when Charlie and I were really drinking heavy. Yeah. We're goldfish. We don't, we're not hanging on to any of this. Yeah, you know, if someone called you a call, you snob, we've forgotten it. It's all over the country. I've already forgiven you for getting mad at us. So, I mean, it's all, yeah.

Oh, I ain't getting mad. No, no, no, no, okay. It's all wins. We're for Breeze Brothers, fresh start. Fresh start. Fresh start. All right. There we go Why don't you tell me up to the bar with us and tell us what's on your mind? I would love to I would love to you

Okay, so recently my older sister has said that I am a Karen and My older sister has said that I am a Karen and Yikes that was pretty hard to follow, you know, I mean I I'm out of eight you're getting it from every angle you're getting called coffee snob by us and Karen You know if one person says that you're a horse You they're crazy, but if ten people call you a horse you might as well just get a saddle Yeah, I think that that's starting to maybe be a little bit of a trends. What do you think? Well, okay, so here's the time here the situation that All right, okay, hold on new game. New game. Is she a

Karen or is she not? Come on now. State your case. Oh gosh. I should have never called in I'm just realizing this can just confirm everything. Okay. So um realizing this could just confirm everything. Okay. So, um, come on now. Okay, so I'm ready. I'm ready. Okay, so I'm a teller teacher.

I'm a musician and a music therapist. I teach teller piano guitar. Anyway, I have this new student that you started in the fall. And he's five years old. And he, like, three years ago, he started talking to his mom and saying, I played the cello. And she was like, oh my gosh, he wants to play the cello.

So he got all excited. And finally, they were like, oh, we think he's actually ready now. He's five. Like, we're ready to start him. So he started lessons, and he's so excited. And when he arrived with his new fellow, the shop had fitted him with a bow that was like too big, like two sizes too big. So we're talking like a double the size it should be okay. I hate when

they do that. I hate when that is the one when you get a bowl that's way too big. It's just the worst. It's awful. It's just happened to me the other week. Terrible. Okay. Okay, but Charlie, didn't you work at like a shop or something? I did.

You know, I'm saying, okay, I worked with a with a bowl maker. Okay, and that's got to make you just your blood boil. I just make my blood boil. Steve Boss was his name. He's passed away, but he is a great bowmaker. His bows are actually very sought after. So, but yeah,

so, so, so, continue on. Yeah. So anyway, okay. So, he's got a quarter size cello, right? So, it's a tiny cello. And he's got a, he's got a, like a three quarter size bow. Okay. And what? This little guy, this little guy has these tiny little

pants he can barely pull the bow across the string and he's been waiting two years to play the cello. Okay. So I was a little, I was mad, okay. I go to the store that sold the cello because I refer all of my students there, okay? So they know me and I'm like, okay, I'm giving you guys a lot of business here.

And I said, no, actually I called them. I maybe should have gone, no, I called them. So I said, you know, can I talk to your manager? Okay, so I know that's what Karen said, but I said it. Oh, he said it. I said it. Oh, he said it but I said it. Holy shit. Holy shit. Ah.

Hey, look, I said it. The segment's just right in itself as we do it. I mean, we didn't even, we didn't even trick you into saying that you wanted to talk to the manager. You just said it. Okay, but there has to be a difference between standing up for somebody and like just being brewed. Well, what did you tell the place?

What did you say? I said, I explained the situation. And I just said, you know, first of all, like he needs a new, he needs a different, he needs the correct size. So, sure, you know, because he, I said, he can't even like play his cello correctly. And I said, they're renting the cello from you. So if you could give him like a month, three rental or a discount for a month, it's like, I would appreciate it because he's already been renting. Yeah.

He's been renting for a month. Any, any couldn't even play it for that month because he couldn't take up the bow and pull it across the string. So now I can question for you. And someone who doesn't know a lot about the cello. Can't the kid just choke up a little bit? Oh my God. Well, sure, if he on a ruin is all hold for the rest of his life. I wouldn't want to do that.

That's good to know. That's bad advice. I don't want to lose as she is old. Okay. Well, let me put it this way. Miles, so the end of the bow is called the frog and it's like the widest part of the bow. So that's where your thumb,

there's like a little notch there, your thumb goes in the knot. So if you choke up on the bow, then your hand is just on the stick of the bow. And you don't really have enough grip to like hold the bow. So it actually be harder to hold the bow from, yeah, it's not. It's not a bow.

It's not a bow. It's not a bow. It's not a bow. It's not a bow. I don't know much about cello. No, it's a big question. Yeah. Well, no, it's not a good question.

Continue on. Yeah. No, well, I mean, they said we were so sorry that happened and we will, they complied with everything I asked for. They got, actually, they got two months free rental of the tell, so they went above and beyond. And I was like, okay, thank you so much. And I shared, my student was happier, they got it all fixed.

And when I shared the story with my sister, she was like, oh my gosh, you were such a Karen. And I was like, no, I'm a good teacher. You know what, I am taking, I think that's what a good teacher would do. I would want my teacher to do that for me. I'm taking your side on this 100% because yeah, they really screwed the pooch. They got them to, there's no way to do that. Although I will say Jimmy Hendrix did not have a right handed guitar or did not have a left handed

guitar. So he just strung his guitar the reverse way and learn how to play left handed. You know, there are some. I don't know. He's probably a young and I'm just saying that there could this, this could you could have let him just figure it out. And then maybe he starts this whole new way of playing cello and it's revolutionary chances of that happening. So small. I think you did the right thing. You bring them a lot of business. You're going to continue to bring them a lot of business. Someone definitely screwed up there. You made it right. And yeah, you were defending this five-year-old kid who has been weighing two years to play the cello. And this is the beginning of his musical journey. And you don't want it to be hampered because someone was lazy at work. I think you did the right thing.

Miles, agree or disagree? I would agree you did the right thing as a teacher. I think you're, if I'm your sister though, it doesn't matter if you just solved the world hunger. I'm gonna give you crap. So it's, I mean, it's kudos to your sister. I mean, if it was someone else, Kanye, Karen, I think you got to be a little more offended.

But if it was your sister, that's just her job is to call you at Karen. I would definitely though, find a way to not say, can I speak to the manager though? Because that'll give you a way right away. What's an alternative to, can I speak to the manager, Charlie, that she can maybe use in future references? Is there somebody here who actually does their fricking job?

You know, that's a little bit, that's a different way of saying it. Another way you could go, can I speak to the decision maker at the facility? Is another good way to talk? Something like that. Oh, this is a way you can say. Where's the pants at this facility? Yeah, I mean, it's a little sexist, but we appreciate that. I'm kidding. Yeah, we don't appreciate sexism. That was joke. But you know what you can say is like,

hey, listen, I know that this probably has nothing to do with you And it's probably tough for you to make this decision on your own because you may not have the power to do that Is it like your boss around you know someone I could talk to could kind of pull the strings here I just want to explain it to them. You know, you could add a few more words But get right to the point. Where's your manager sweetheart? You know, that's that'll work. What's kind? I was wondering. What? What?

What style of haircut are you sporting these days? I don't know what you call it. It's like shoulder length. Okay. So it's not like a bob or anything like that. I don't know. I would call it, I don't know. Do you have a bob? I don't know.

You have a big drape of hair going over one of your eyes. No. Okay, then I think you're going to think yeah, you're passing some care and tests here. Also shout out to all the... I don't have a lot. I don't have blonde hair, so I think that helps you. Okay. All right. Don't care and have blonde hair. A lot of them do.

Yeah. A lot of them do. And I also want to shout out all the ladies named Karen out there in our listening audience. You know, just because your name Karen doesn't doesn't mean, you know, you're a Karen, you know, and, uh, and we, we feel for you. Honestly, we feel really bad. Yeah. I think you got name Karen and that whole thing. Yeah.

There's nothing you could do about it. Yeah. Um, uh, okay. I have one final. I was kind of wondering. Sorry. I was kind of wondering like, what, if there would be any distinctions between a Midwest Karen and a Karen in other parts of the country?

I'll go with this one. Well, okay. If you're a Midwest Karen, you're going to be complaining about things like your beer being a little too warm, you know. You're also after you do your complaining, it's like, you need to get him a different bow. This thing is too big for him. You need to give him another month or a year subscription to this. But also we'll see you at the plot luck on Saturday. Yeah. A Midwest care and we'll follow up the complaint by an invite or an equally long apology.

You know, like, hey, I'm really sorry to say this, but you know, this, this beer was a little too. You know, I'm just sorry. I just get so worked up about Warren beer. I just say, ah, I just, I'm working on it. But I, you know, it just isn't right. But, you know, we'll see you on church on Sunday. Okay, see you later.

A Midwest Karen would complain about the warm beer, and then also ask if she can help fix your fridge, you know. There's a little helpfulness on the other end of it. A little more guilt. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I got one final question for you. Yeah, yeah, I'm listening. I've never met a child whose dream is to play the cello. What was the series of events that led him to have that dream?

Do you know? Well, what the mom said, so his older brother plays violin, if I'm not mistaken, and then he has several cousins that play. Gotcha. string instruments as well. So he's basically like they're playing, they're playing violin. They're doing this. And that is like, give me the biggest string instrument that I can find

so I can one up all my brothers. And then he saw the bass and he was like, that's too big. Too big. Yeah, I wanna be cooler, not that cool, yeah. Exactly. And I think, yeah, he saw them at like, recitals and there must have been a cellist playing at the recital

and then he just kinda got it in his head And I will say though like I don't feel out of kids saying they want to play the cello But I see a ton of adult thing. I wish I had learned to play the cello You really seeing that though. Oh Mile stop it A little far fetch the People are walking around gone. I wish I would have learned the cello. Do you have a vested interest in people wishing they knew how to play the cello?

Would you have a business perhaps that revolved around? God, you just wouldn't believe the people walking down the street complaining about not knowing how to play the cello. Oh my God. They say once you learn how to play the cello, you grow more chest hair. You're more sexy to women and attractive to men. That's like a, that's like a Will Ferrell movie is that he's like this famous cello player and women are throwing themselves at him and stuff. It's like when he plays a jazz flute and maker man.

Exactly. You got any students that play jazz flute? Not yet. No. I played the jazz cello myself. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't say.

What does a jazz cello sound like? Can you give me a little old? Do you have a cello handy by the way? I do it. I just have to get out of the case. Yeah, get it out of the case. Let's get it going. You're a music therapist, right? I am well miles and I are definitely in need of a little therapy today. We'd love to hear sitting at the bar drinking bushlights Just isn't getting the job done to the therapy wise So I think we can maybe add in a little music therapy. Yeah, we'll just keep talking here while you get that cello out, okay? Her name is Harriet Harriet your cello's name is Harriet

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I will help there. I was the Minnesota State Fair talent show winners. So I can play you that. Oh, yes, play us that. Play us that. Yeah, just give me something. You want that? Yeah, huh?

What? What? OK. What can we call this? This because we want to lead you in on it. What's it called? The sign is called Julio. Julio?

Julio. Julio. Yeah. Julio. Yep. It's like Julio. Julio? Julio, yeah. Julio. Yep. And it's like Julio. Julio. And then, that's oh. Oh, oh, Julio.

Julio. Julio. OK. Yeah. OK. LL, Julio. Anyways, all right. OK.

Give me a, it's like a, I say it's like two and a half minutes long, so I can do an excerpt if you want or. Yeah, let's, let's start with an excerpt because we might want you to, you know, freelance here later. So let's get a little excerpt of this one. Yeah, I mean, I do a lot of wedding smiles. So if you don't have a cellist book yet, you let me know. Okay.

Actually, at the time of recording this, I have a wedding in four or five, four to five days, depending on. Um, and we don't have a cellist. So how fast can you get the Fargo North Dakota? I'd take about five hours, I think. OK, well, first let me hear you play before I come into that. Fair. All right. Let me tune quick. Yeah. Yeah, fine.

Fine, I'm getting a G, G. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting a C, C, K. It OK? Yeah, can you hear it OK? I'm sorry. Can you hear it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You're okay. Can you hear it?

Okay. I'm sorry. Can you hear it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it.

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That was so good. Miles was dancing. I was gritty into your music. Yeah. Right. No, he was. He was moving. We could.

It was. Unfortunately, the phones. Fonatic. Didn't pick up every intricate We could it was it was though unfortunately the phones Fonatic Didn't pick up every intricate detail, but it sounded like you were doing a little like finger slapping on that you slapping the base Yeah, I Was yeah, I really felt that that that took out like some of the anger just seeped out of my soul really felt that that that took out like some of the anger just seeped out of my soul.

When you did that, it felt like we were taking out and it was so soothing. That was wonderful. That was really good. All right. I want. I want you. Okay. Here's how we're going to end this call. Okay. This is the end of this episode. Okay. And this is going to be the outro music to this episode, okay? So give it, I'm thinking maybe something very pirate to the Caribbean vibe, but mixed with, I want a slam of bunch of beer at a bar. If you could do something like that, that'd be sick. Okay, I got you. All right, so you're gonna play

and I'm gonna do the outro and then you just keep playing We'll let you know when it's all done. How's that sound? Wait, so I play in that I pause or I just keep playing just keep playing. It's the outro music Okay, I got you All right, whenever you're ready Okay All right, whenever you're ready. Okay. Well, good folks. Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Bellied Up podcast.

I am your host, Miles, you bet you guy here with Charles Barons. You have first makes and happy companion on the belly up cruise. Yeah, we will see you in the next one. And thou shalt not fdaith forgets have to pay thy bartender always pay thy bartender for their hard work. And if thou art are giving five year olds bows for their kelos. Sorry, shallows. See you all in the next one. I'm gonna be a little bit more beautiful. I'm gonna be a little bit more beautiful.