Bellied Up - "These Church Bells Are Too Damn Loud" #104

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

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Welcome to the Bellied Up Podcast. I'm your host, Charlie Barron's. Joining me is my co-host, Miles, the You Betcha Guy. What an intro, Charlie. Thank you very much. You're welcome. I like to do that sometimes. It's a power move. That's why I'm standing right now. I know. Sometimes I like standing at the bar, Miles.

I do, too. I'll probably join you at some point. It's good for me. I switch it up on the old back. Then I can quite literally put my belly on the bar. Oh, there you go. Belly up. Yeah. You just lift it and slap it on there. That's nice. Where are we at today, Charlie? Oh, well, we are at Stally Cat's here in West Dallas,

just outside of Milwaukee. Just well, technically in the county, you know, the whole deal. It's a nice spot. Like it here. We got some good patrons in the bar as well. They're we have a teacher here who. Oh, I'm good. I won't be off work. Yeah, she's off work. She did not leave early to come here. Yeah.

We got another gal, which I don't know. I don't know how you got it. If you, if you were going to do that, I don't know how you get away with that. Hey, I'm going to dip out early boss. I'm going to the bar, but luckily there's a teacher shortage supply and demand is the game there. My God. I like that. Um, We have another gal who drove here from Eagle, Wisconsin, which is how far away? 40 minutes. She did inform us that her husband thinks that we suck. Yeah. Hates the podcast. Yes. Basically said it at what really dug deep, Charlie. Yeah. It wasn't that he doesn't think we're funny or anything like that. It was it's to talk radio for me. Talk

radio. Here's what talk radio is. It's just screaming into a mic about some bullshit opinion no one cares about. Please. I guess that is us. You know what? We're not like that. Your husband is not wrong. I love talk radio though. I love how like, you know, every single day, you know, when they have nothing on them because they just kind of, they just start like repeating things. Yeah. Or they just eventually just say, screw it. We're not even going to talk about our own topics. We're going to have people call in. Yeah. Like how little work that talk radials mailed it in is when they start taking callers. Not us though. No, no, no. When we said people should talk in, it's definitely not because we wanted to figure out the least amount of

work we could sit in a bar all day. Nope, not us folks. Welcome to another episode of the belly to podcast. Miles, what's your favorite sport? Football is it? Yeah, that's great. And I've been bowling a lot. You've been bowling. Yeah, quite a bit. What's your what?

I don't know what your average score. What do you use? I don't want to go into it. It's it's a little over 100. OK, it's over 100, though. you use? I don't want to go into it. It's a little over a hundred. Okay, it's over a hundred though. I thought you were going to maybe be low eighties. No, no, no. Kind of like my golf game, you know?

You know, there's a lot of similarities between bowling and golf. Oh yeah. Bowling, golf, field goal kickers, it's all about repeat motion and it's a head game. You know, darts is the same way and it's more of a mental game than is a physical game, although bowling very physical game. You got to have a strong core to be a good bowler.

Good to know. Yeah. Yeah. And so how do you get into bowling? Well, after shows. I mean, I used to bowl as a kid, as a lot of people do, but I've I lost the art and the love for bowling somewhere along the way. I lost myself, Miles. But after shows on the road, I've been finding bowling alleys and I've been doing it pretty consistently after shows. So like at 11 at night. Yeah. I find a bull.

Yeah. Yeah. It's it's usually us bowling and then like one other person, you know, keeping everyone at the Bolero stay in there late. But which I do apologize for kind of, but they are open to like 12. So I take advantage of that. I like that. But I've been getting a lot of bowling in on the road. Got any shoes? I don't have shoes yet. No, I'm just easing my way into this whole situation, but I'm really I love the bowling jerseys. I think they're I just like all the. I mean, that's

just that's just high fashion. It is honestly. Yeah. You know, and then the bowling shoes are good for dancing. They're great for dancing. You slide around there a little loosey goosey. People aren't talking enough about how bowling shoes are kind of like a cow, a leather bottom cowboy boot. Yeah. Boot scoot around on the dance floor on those. Sure can. I'm thinking about getting myself some red bottom bowling shoes. All right. Yeah.

Now I got to save up for it. I better win that quarter machine or the pull tabs if I really want to do it. But I'll give it a go a little later. I like that. Yeah. So what's one piece of advice you got for people that are trying to get into bowling? I'm glad you asked miles. I, it's all about the ball. Make sure your balls are greased. Yeah. Well, you gotta have greasy balls when you're playing, when you're bowling miles, do not make fun of this. I'm not, that's what you were going with. No, it's about finding the right holes for your fingers, okay? If the holes are too small, you're gonna slice it.

You know, you're gonna hook her. I don't ever have that problem, so I should be good on that. Right size fingers for the holes. You don't want them too big, you don't want them too small, you want it just right, and you want the weight to correlate with your strength. Yeah, you don't want it to big. You don't want them too small. You want just right. And you want the weight to correlate with, you know, your strength. You don't want it to be like throwing a bowling ball down the hallway.

You know, no, no, you don't miles. That sound like an innuendo, but I'm not, I'm not going to go there with you because I'm serious about this. Yeah. And a lot of people make the mistake. Oh, I want to prove I'm a big, strong man. And I go with, you know, the heaviest bowling ball there is. That's not always the best thing. I actually like to pull two bowling balls. Oh, I want to prove I'm a big, strong man. And I go with, you know, the heaviest bowling ball there is. That's not always the best thing.

I actually like to pull two bowling balls. I pull myself a 10 pounder and I pull myself a 12 pounder. The 10 pounder is usually for my first toss. And then the closer the putter, that's the 12 pounder, a little bit more accuracy. I find it slows down the backswing. Okay. So anyway, should we take some callers? I can tell you're very bored by this conversation miles. You know what? I didn't shit on your sport. Okay. Football. Super cool. Were you a quarterback? Also football. You got to make

sure you got greasy balls, you know, do you grease the balls? I know you got to make it. Did you have an inflation? Like remember when Tom Brady got all that crap about deflating his balls? Do you have like when you were playing football, was there a nice sort of softness to the ball or did you like, or you know when you're playing pass with someone and overly. And you can know if balls are inflated or not. You just take the balls, you hold them in your hands, you caress them.

Yeah. You know, you may squeeze them, you might toss them around. We're not talking about your daily track here. And that's how you really know if you got a good set of balls on you. Folks, it is important to check your balls every night. If you got it. No, you should. You should.

You don't want any lumps growing. That's a that's a thing. That is true. That's some medical advice you can actually stick with. Plus, it's fun. Anyway, our last caller on the last episode would have said, if you got a lump, just cut them off. Just cut them off. Lance Armstrong, just get rid of them. Honestly, if you do it well, one of them. Yeah.

Anyway, anyway, smiles. Yeah, I think now we now cross over into the talk radio threshold. I know it's time to take some callers. The longer this intro goes, the more I'm agreeing with her husband right now. Anyways, let's do it. Welcome to the Bellied Up podcast. Who do we have on the horn today? Hello, this is Steve. Hey Steve, how you doing? I'm doing just Danny over here. Where you guys at today? We are at Stanley cats my guy. Where are you? Oh

Where are you? Oh, Southern suburbs of Minneapolis. Oh, there you go. That's nice. What are you? What's on your mind today? Belly up to the bar. Tell us what's on the old dome. Yeah, well I got this. So I live, my neighbor is a church here and they like neighbor is God. I my neighbor is Jesus Christ. Yes, sir. Amen. My guy. So what what is God doing? That's not very neighborly for you. Well, you know, they just like to play their church bells every day at 11am 6m. 6 p.m. and they're they're not natural bells either. They're not the nice spells.

It's coming through a loud megaphone speaker. Oh, they went all over the neighborhood. But my house is right next door to it. Wow. Jesus Christ. That's no good. Yeah, that was a prayer. That was a prayer right there.

No, I will. And on Sundays, I mean, on Sundays at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, every two hours, just the loudest bells possible, you know, and I'm like, I don't know what to do about this. Okay. Well, I'm going to venture to say that that church was probably there before you moved in. And so you are the one who bought a house next directly next to the church. Yeah. Miles has a point. Correct. But I mean, they could play, you know, something different, maybe like some AC DC. I've, I've tried going out there at the same time. Yeah. They could, they could play hell's bells. Yeah. That's a very churchy song. Yeah. That's a good point. Now I will have to say you've probably got slime balled by a realtor because they probably didn't

show you the house when the bells would ring. Did they? Yeah. They probably had you come on by half hour. That's an old realtor trick when they're selling houses next to churches. Don't ever show it at 11 noon or, or 6 PM. Don't ever show it on a Sunday. No, no, no. Yeah. Here's the question. I should go up to the owner of the church and be like, what's up with these bells? You know, Hey, Hey Pope, listen up. What kind of churches at what religion? Yeah. One of those United Methodist. Oh, method. I don't know what the difference is. Well, methodists, I think it's like Catholic

genuine draft or something. It's it's similar, but, you know, same church, different balance. I'll just say that they they look like pilgrims coming into the church. Oh, do they? The the methodists. I don't know if that's a Methodist thing or what, but what do you mean? They look like pilgrims. Like they're wearing long skirts

and suits. Oh yeah. The skirts and even the kids, you know, they got the whole, the whole looks like they just got off the wagon. All right. I got a solution for you to get the church church's bells on out off your back a little bit. You're going to fight fire with fire. That's what I'm talking about. You are going to purchase some large speakers and you are going to, I want you to play music all day long blaring directly at the church. the more vulgar, the better, especially during service time. So then they go, Hey, can you turn that off? And you can go, Hey, can you shut the bells off? And you're in a pissing match with the church. You got negotiating

power now. Some leverage. I do. No, I, I'm serious. serious that is a good that's a good suggestion there but I would also consider getting actual bells because You and your front yard You know coming out in the the old bathrobe with the with a hammer and just hitting your bells at the top of every hour That sounds like it could be a fun little visual. And I think really dial the point home, too. You just got to find yourself some old. What about cowbells? You know, just a little cowbell or cowbell, huh?

There you go. Yeah, that's an option. I do like it. Fight fire with fire. What song are they playing? Do you know? Oh, my. You know, there's one I knew I knew the rhythm I don't know what it's called, but the rest are all I saw the people at this whole method is I don't know what kind of Music they're playing but it's it's not it's not pleasant Ah Well, it's but I mean am I then am I going to am I going to go to hell for this?

Yeah. You know, like, is this? Yeah, you're for sure going to hell. Something on the fight over. OK. Yeah, God's not going to be happy with this one. You just really don't think so. Yeah, I know. So I hate to say that. But since you're already going there, you know, might as well enjoy the ride while you're here.

So really get creative with the music you can play at the top of every hour. Have you gone to church there? Maybe what those bells are really doing is reminding you that maybe you haven't been to church in a while. Have you considered going to one service? I went to Easter and Christmas, you know, that's, but not there. Oh, you're a cheaster. He's a yeah. Cheaster. I'm a, Hey, I mean,

I went the week before Easter too. Cause I wanted to look like, you know, there you go. I was part of the church before the crew, you know? Yeah. So then he could go when he saw his buddies at Eastern being like, yeah, we were here last Sunday. Looks like they got different decorations up and then it looks all of a sudden like he goes around. That's actually a good, good point. Yeah. What you want, that's Palm Sunday right before Easter. So then you get, you get, you're one of the guys with the Palm cross hanging in your rear view mirror. I'm going to just, you just put palms in your car or around your house and just makes you look like you go to church more.

There. That's really, that's all it is. You know, some people find the church bells in the neighborhood to be a relaxing thing, but not him, not him. Oh, I've talked to the neighbors. So the neighbors don't like the church bells either. No. When we thought about signing up to petition saying, you know, maybe lower the volume a little bit or or something here. But it's so weird.

You know, I was talking to the neighbors and I'm like, how about these church bells every so often? I mean, you guys, you're like, Oh, we, you and your neighbors just sound like a bunch of people who jumped into a bowl ring and are like, Oh my God, I can't believe the bowl keeps charging at us and trying to impale us with those horns. Yeah. You guys kind of knew what you were getting yourself into. I do agree with miles. I guess when you put it like that, yeah, it sounds like you guys spent 30 years just gorging yourself with sugar and fat foods and are like, I can't believe I got diabetes. You know, I, I guess, you know, there's no way around this. Huh? Well, Charlie, I want you to give him some advice on how to enjoy the bells. You know, philosophers say that it's not about what happens to you.

It's what what happens on the inside and how you approach things in life. That's true. So you can't control that. The bells are going off. Charlie, what would you tell them to do internally that can help them in this situation? I feel like I feel like what you could do is get yourself guitar lessons and get yourself a nice big amplifier. And every time the church bells go, I feel like what you could do is collaborate with

the church bells. You know, put a little guitar solo over all of those. Now that all make a little mix. There you go. Yeah. Do do your cuts. I mean, that that could be a whole a whole thing that could get you famous right there. So that's an idea. The other option, and this might get you

the solution you want, is go over and talk. What do churches like? They like God, right? They like doing the right thing, but they also like the basket that gets passed around. Donations. Donations. You go over there, you talk to the head honcho

at the Methodist deal I don't know if they're a priest or what they are you go talk to that pastor priest whatever it is and you you say hey How much do I got to pay to make this go away? You know and that's honestly probably why he's turning up the volume He's not getting the right donations from the parishioners. So he's seeking a little scratch from the neighborhood. That's pretty smart there. Yeah. Go. Yeah. Start. Start off easy. Take a casserole over there. You got to, you got to worm your way in. What do you think of that? Do you think that'll work? I think I could buy

my way in there, you know, maybe start off and if they don't like my first down payment on the bells, maybe I can just start playing my own music, you know, get some guitar lessons. And I like the remix option to play along with the bells. That's not a bad suggestion. Yeah, it's all and all just bribe the pastor and you're on your way. Yeah, that's how that's how it goes in that business. Oh, little bribery goes a long way. They called indulgences in the Catholic Church and probably similar deal in the Methodist.

So you'll find your way. Dollar speaks volumes, more volume than the bells. Don't forget that. OK. All right, man. Well, thanks for calling in. Good luck. If all else fails, just move away. That's that's probably what's going to happen. All right. Have a good one. I tell your folks, I say hi. Yep. Yep. Bring that casserole over to the preacher. That is a tough one. Okay. Yep. I mean he moved next door to a church. I just, yeah. I mean, he moved next door to a church. I just, yeah. Yeah. I mean, what do you want? You know, there's no sound regulations out there. They're

just doing whatever they do. That's like moving in next door to Hooters and complaining that the neighbors don't ever wear any clothes. It's like, right. Yeah. It's not owls in there. You know? Yeah. Anyway, we take another caller. What better concoction to pair with your brats, your burgers, your wieners and a little tippy cow. Okay. That dairy goes a long way. It pairs so well with any of the meats you're sizzling. Toss some ice in the glass. Toss them tippy cow glass. I like doing a nice tippy cow brat. Oh, that's like they do a beer bath, but I usually do a tippy cow bath. You do a tippy cow bath in your brats.

Miles, I'm telling you, that's a very interesting way to cook your brats. So someone listening should try it out and report back. As long as you don't poke the brats with the fork. I'll let it slide there, Miles. Hey, folks, make it a tippy cow this summer and let us know how it goes. Welcome to the Belly Dump Podcast, who we talking to? This is Tom over in Iowa.

Hey, Tom, how you doing, my guy? You know other being in a land full of fibs anymore, I'm originally a wisconsinite. Oh So I'm pretty good. I see you're taking the F in Illinois bastards and you're transferring that to Iowa Is that what you're doing? Well, how I was raised because we were close to the we're closer to the border Iowa Was it was always our Illinois in Wisconsin. It was always, or hell and what I mean, it was always Iowa bastards. Ah, interesting, interesting. I didn't know Iowa had that animosity over there.

I always felt like Iowa was an extension of Wisconsin. Just don't tell anyone in Iowa said that. Hey, I, no grief for me on that one. That's about as true as it gets. The only problem here. Well, Tom, why'd you belly up to the bar with us? Tell us what's on your mind, fella. So I had taken this job a while back. I didn't do it on purpose. I was kind of told to do it. Being a part of the military, you don't necessarily get a choice

when Uncle Sam tells you to do something. But I went from a construction life where I was wearing a hard hat, working 12 hours a day, to sitting in an office and typing clickety clackety on a keyboard. And not only that they put me in a supervisor position. So I'm just like how am I supposed to lead people when I don't know what their jobs are

let alone mine. So anyway I just kind of wanted to complain about the topic about some co workers that just don't do their jobs. You know, people you just can't stand to work with. Well what kind of what kind of co workers are we talking about? Because you just told us you don't know what job they're doing, Tom. Well, that's very true. But I took the time to learn.

I show up early and try and learn. I'd be asking questions. I'd be asking questions and I'd be initiating a lot of movements and stuff. And I would try to show people, like, this is what they, this is what our superiors want, you know? And I'd sit there and I'd tell you, they'd ask all these sorts of questions like, well, I don't know how to do this job, or I don't know what to do, or nothing like that. And I'm like, well, shit, me neither, but that didn't stop me from producing something.

Like it might be shit work, but it's still shit. Well, Tom, I mean, I hear you, my guy. Boil us down. If you could say in one sentence, what's wrong with workers today? Tell us. They're afraid to make mistakes. They're afraid to make mistakes.

Not you, Tom. You're just out there like, ah, whatever the hell happens happens. You know, it's a given a goal. Life is a dance. You learn as you go. Right. I'd like to agree with you there, Charlie. But, um, you know, there's some things that I can't sit there and say yes to, like if their life or death situations,

especially with the military, you know, the air or the room for air is barred. But, you know, first time you are saying so many conflicting things here at At first you're saying that, that, you know, no one's making enough mistakes or trying stuff. And then it's like, if they do, they'll die. Okay. Yeah. You're going to have to back up this complaint train a few stops, Tom, and boil down what's really chapping your ass right now.

They're real, more or less just administrative mistakes. Like, Hey, did you go to your appointment today to get your hearing checked? No, well, why not? Because I didn't want to make a mistake. And like, versus like, we're not overseas. We're not in a hostile environment. We're in an office, okay?

So in your particular line of work, Tom, there's just a bunch of people there that are not taking mistakes and that lack of initiative in doing anything is just leaving to Stacey's, I guess. Nothing's getting done because people are afraid of making the wrong move. Is that basically it? Yep, and then they also expect either me to do it or to other people to be more understanding that they don't hit deadlines and you know, X ways. They just don't have the discipline to try and, you know, do to do something, you know, like, I know, like I said, I don't care if it's shit work. It's just shit. Yeah. I think I got a solution for you. I think what we're really dealing with is a case of the comradery's Charlie. Tom, maybe you've lost the locker room. I think that's where miles is. So I think that what the, almost the answer to

everything in life is comradery. And so Charlie, let's talk a little bit. Let's identify the things that truly bring camaraderie to the office. Number one, gotta be a, when you get to work, just find a random coworker and just be like, Hey, you see the game last night, stuff like that. You're going to want to start a fantasy football league in the office. You're going to want to do lots of pizza parties because nothing says we appreciate you like a cold shitty piece of pizza. Yeah, that is true. What else could they be doing to build camaraderie in the office? Well, I think a little office potluck would work a lot of wonders, you know, although don't be surprised when no one brings anything and they just leave it on you, Tom. That sounds like the kind of office you're doing.

It's you can't, can you incentivize these guys with anything? Since this is a military thing, can you do door prizes or anything for getting your hearing checked? Oh, there's a, I don't know if there's a whole lot of positive things I could be doing because then there would just be, you know, there's a whole lot of positive things I could be doing. Cause then there would just be, you know, that's the mistake. You can't, you can't comradery all stick. No carrot. Tom, come on.

What are some other things you can do to build comradery? More carrots, you know, more deep fried. Well, Tom, you, you start, you are at donuts one day. You're going to see, you're going, you start, you bring donuts one day. You're going to see, you're going to see a little zip in everybody's step. Okay. Little box of donuts goes a long way. Also, I would say that I've been doing some of it, but you know, it never hurts to always keep trying. You know, I, I, there's probably some areas that I haven't tried.

I think it's another thing you could do as a supervisor is just pick a day that they already get off and just go up to him and be like, Hey guys, I handled with the higher ups and I got this day off for you. And if they say, well, we already had it off. And I said, you could say, you're like, Hey, you're welcome. You're welcome. I got it off for you. He did that. He said what day did you do it for? I have done that I Did it it was a random day. I think it was it was a day before Easter and they we had We got told that no everybody's working the Friday before so you're not getting to four day week And you only get into three and I said, you know, there's no Catholic with Catholic

I you know, we're gonna take the fourth day off and if we get any know, there's no Catholic with Catholic. You know, we're going to take the fourth day off and if we get any grief, it's on me. Yeah, that is, that is a good tactic right there. How important are these eye appointments that they're missing? Oh, they're not. I mean, the plant, the, my position as a supervisor is make sure the ultimate goal and mission is to make sure everybody's ready and their readiness is 100%. So if people aren't like making their appointments that they're supposed to be doing or submitting the documents that they're supposed to be doing or if they're in a amber or a red status,

which is a, Hey, you need to be doing something like that. It falls on me to ultimately track and make sure that they're, you know, getting that back in the green is what they call it. Okay. Wow. What are they? What do they need to be ready for? Tom? Well, the plan is to always be ready. That's what we're supposed to be trained for. We're always supposed to be ready in case, you know, something was to go down. God willing, you never want that to happen in the case somewhere to go down. You always got to be ready to go down. God willing, you never want that to happen. In the case, somewhere to go down, you always got to be ready to move and mobilize. Okay. But you're saying these are all office jobs. So who are you getting to mobilize like hearing check?

What is the role of the person that's getting their hearing checked? They're my administrator. So they handle all the soldier documents as in like, Hey, I was the, I was the one that set up their appointment. You handle the filing and the, and the, make sure that they actually go there and make sure they actually execute. I did the prep and plan. Now it's your job to execute and they're not doing the execute. All right. I think I got an idea for you. You got to trick them into going to these appointments. You're gonna, Hey, I'm buying lunch down at the restaurants. It's on me. You schedule an appointment for them. You give them the

address to the place and then they show up and find it's the eye doctor. Well, they better in go in and do their appointment anyways. That sounds like a great tech.'m going to write that one down. There you go. Can you give them like koozies and stuff? You know, do you have levels of prizes if you get to a certain level, you get this kind of a thing? I do have what I call the best mustache award.

Oh, that's good. So in the military, you show up with a, we call it a dirty stash. Yeah. And it's the only sort of a facial hair you can have in the military. So when I have these competitions, I always sit there and whoever got the best or dirtiest stash within regulation. All right. It's gotta be within regs, but it's gotta be dirty too.

Uh, you get a prize and the prize is usually like just a razor or something to tell them to go shave and everybody gets A big ol laugh out of it, right? Oh, that's that's good. That's good I feel like is there any rules on other bodily hair in the military? I Think sideburns you can have sideburns only down to your earlobe. So just facial hair. There's no man scape standards. I think a good way to get these people in line is you're going to have to make an example out of someone. So next time, okay. Yep. Next time Rick misses his eye appointment, take his eyes. Wow. Take his eyes out here. Scoop them. Yeah. Scoop them right out. And

I guarantee no one else is going to miss an eye appointment if there's in danger of losing them. There's no stakes involved in these eye appointments. Yeah. I think we're seeing a, the big level bureaucracy kind of getting the way here. I think also someone taking care of the pre-execution and then someone taking care of the execution. I think you gotta restructure the whole thing here. I don't know what that means at all, Charlie. Well, it's just one. I don't know what that means either,

but I'm only one guy. It sounded good. That sounded like some corporate jargon right there. There's too many passing of the batons. You know, there's, oh, well, that's what you guys are doing is passing the baton. So team building exercise with beer. All right. Do a little, uh, relay race with beers.

Yeah. So, you know, it's just a team building exercise as we're going in. Um, I think it's amazing. You say that with beer. There was a story a while back. I said, Hey, I'm supplying beer. And I didn't realize how many younger types I had. Um, they were, they were barely legal. They were legal, but they were barely legal. And, uh, none of them had ever had spotted cow before. And they were saying like this tastes like piss. And I told

them to go fucking stand in the corner for the whole fucking rest of the time. Why was it? I didn't want to hear that negative shit. No. Was it the I'm really smart corner of the room? Miles is not a fan of the issue. Yeah. I think it's your management style is condescending and offensive. Yeah. Tom, I think I have, you know, I never got to sit there and say that I have the best management style. So I will be open to criticism on that. Well, Tom, let's criticize them then. Tom, what are your deep issues? You're kind of being a dick. Yeah. What's standing in the way here, my guy, what's standing in the way of you being an effective leader? That's the real question. Oh, that's a great question. I wish I had the ultimate answer to that. I think it varies

between who my subordinates are. Oh, there we go. Another excuse. And also do you hear that subordinate? He sees them. You got to see them. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be teammates with these guys. You're all on the same team. Otherwise, they just resenting you, Tom. Billy didn't go to his eye appointment. These guys hate spotted cow them. This them. The Tom focus on the good things. Did they wear socks to work? Where you know, you point fingers. There's three more point right back at you,

Charlie. Yeah Tom you're gonna have to take a long hard look in the mirror. All right, and You know see what we see what staring back at you at the other end here, all right All right. He hates he hate. Yeah. Hey, I'm trying to listen to you. I called you guys for help. That is true. Yeah. He called us. You know what, Miles? I think we need to take a beat and accept what an honor this is that somebody at such high levels in the military is calling us for advice.

Yeah, either that or we got to be worried about the military. I think we might have to be worried about the military. Calling us for advice. Tom, what are what are what's what's the military. I think we might have to be worried about the military. They're calling us for advice. Tom, what are, what are, what's, what's the military? That makes, that's makes our advice. Military grade advice. Is it? We can put, we can advertise that now calling to the belly to a podcast. It's military grade. That's great. And people just rewind this interview and be like, how the hell did these guys get clearance? Tom how the hell did this guy get to that rank? That too Tom Tom. What's the biggest thing you're worried about with the military right now? Oh

You know at my level the biggest thing I have to worry about is Making sure we got proper guidance and everybody is motivated the right way to do the right thing. It's a motivation situation. But also he just felt like he was reading that off the corporate mission statement for the army. Tom, what do we really have to worry about? What's China up to? Give us the give us what Russia up to. That's extremely above my pay grade. I don't know nothing. Okay. All right. Well, Tom, we appreciate you calling in today. I think, hey, step one, just take a good look in the mirror. How can you be a better leader? Go from there.

That's very true, Miles. I appreciate that. Very humbling. Potluck some work beers, Tom. That's what I'll leave you with. Okay. I like Charlie's advice. Well, thanks for calling in Tom. Do me a favor. Tell everyone over there. We says hi. Okay. You do there too. So all right. Real good. We'll see you soon. It is June 6th. It's June 6th day here at the belly. It up podcast. And I know there's a lot of people that are tired of insurance companies giving you the run around. I'm sick of that miles. Stop running around. I'm too tired. Walk around me if anything. You know, you know what I like? I like a company that doesn't give you the runaround and that's Nicolay law. Their track record

makes it insurers tremble. I mean, sometimes you see Nicolay, you see that beard walking down the hallway into the courtroom. Those insurers better be trembling. Goosebumps. They got, and Nicolay law just relentlessly fights for what you deserve. Fighters, they got a good one to punch. Good cross, good jab. Guys, if you're fighting insurance company, make them fear the beard. Choose Nicolet Law. Sometimes we take callers, other times we take real people in the bar. And today, for those that were not in the studio or at a real bar,

we're at a real bar. We're at Stanley Katz over here in West Dallas. And who is our guest here today? I'm Kate Dushinsky and I'm from Eagle. Kate Dushinsky from Eagle. Nice to see you, Kate. And shout out to all the Dushinsky's out there. You guys are being represented well

here on the Bellied Up podcast. Kate's coming in. I want to remind everyone, she showed up at two o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon to the bar. So you know, Kate's got her priorities straight. Kate, what do you do for a living? I'm in mortgage lending. Mortgage lending.

So I'm not really busy. Yeah. What's the deal with the mortgage? Not busy. Not a lot. Charlie, ask me what it takes to get a mortgage. Miles, what does it take to get a mortgage? A pulse. OK, is that true? Right now, probably. Really? Especially in the commercial world. Yes. Yeah. You can just buy rentals left and right.

Keep going. All right. Credit scores are a thing of the past, ladies and gentlemen. Is that true, Kate Tyshinski? Well, it's somewhat. Yeah, a little bit. So. All right, Kate. Well, you came over here to you said you had something. Well, in the intro, we said one of the patrons husband is not a fan of the podcast confirms not a fan.

And that would be Mr. Dijinsky, Dijinsky, Dijinsky. You got his frickin name wrong. That's why he hates this podcast. What's Nick's deal? What crawled up his ass and died? Why does he not like talk? He doesn't like talk?

Music and noise. Oh, he's a music guy. Yes. You guys live next to a church? No, I wish. Consider it. Yeah, if he's a music, what's his favorite band? He's your husband of how many years?

11. And you don't know his favorite band? No, because we hate the same music. So anytime he's listening to it, I we don't. What does this music sound like? He likes Ted Nugent. Oh, God. All right. Nick, that told me everything I need to know. All right. Kill it. What is nice, Charlie, is we could say whatever we want about Nick because he hates this podcast. He's not going to listen. You're not going to listen. He'll probably listen to this one though. Cause Kate's on it. Yeah. Well, let's just assume he's not. Cause he hates his podcast.

What do you hate about your husband? Yeah. What do you hate about it? Oh, they are laughing so hard. You ate also her friend is mouthing things her husband works with my husband and he is on his own here now oh she knows my husband wait wait wait his her husband's on it on a way yes okay what I'm gonna ask her what what is she not like a bar husband he's just a quirky fella. Pretty quirky and he's a pass fail kid. Quirky and a pass fail kid in school. Yeah. What do you mean pass fail kid? You just had to pass fail. What the hell kind of school is that?

Oh, he means he was not getting good grades. Well, no, he worked the system. Did he? Yes. To figure out a way to help. These get degrees, Charlie. That's exactly where he's at. And he says he's doing better than people he knows that went to college. So he's fine with it.

What does Nick do for a living? He's a collision technician. Oh, no, I know what that means. You remember them commercials where like they're like the Toyota is the safest truck on the road and it shows the Toyota going all those crash test dummies like flying out of the car, but in the Toyota they kind of love the Toyota. Oh yeah. They're safe cars. Safe car. You know, Nick's not such a bad guy. There you go. Well, hold on. Well, if he doesn't like this podcast,

seems like he's, oh yeah, screw Nick. I forget. He's used his head one too many times as a crash. That's probably like collision technician. Yes. Anyway, Kate, you came over here to talk about something unrelated to your husband who hates our podcast. So what is it that's on your mind here? So I have these neighbors. We moved to Eagle about 10, 12 years ago. Show everybody on the hand where Eagle is, just in case they don't know.

This is the map of Wisconsin. OK. Other other. Yeah. Yeah. Turn it around. There you go. All right. Yeah. Maybe here. Perfect. All right. It may be there by Madison. Is that what? Yeah, that's yeah. There you go. In between here in Chicago. You're talking you off over.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Right by, yeah. Yeah, there you go. Right by the palm, right by where you figure out if your meat's ready. Right. OK, there you go. So we got a lot of farms by us. And so we have four and a half acres. OK, and our neighbor. Well, I'm just saying we have big lots and this is still a problem.

So this lady, when we moved in, she had a minivan collection. She had like 12 minivans on her line. She was like, she was like 98 years old. What kind of minivans? Grand caravans. Oh, Dodge Grand Caravan. That was my first car. I've heard. Fantastic vehicle. I heard. Fantastic vehicle.

What's the crash test rating on those suckers? Are they safe? It looks like they were all dying. I don't know. There was grass growing in them. I don't know. But they finally got them all cleared off the old lady. I'm pretty. She died. Rest in peace.

Yes. Is her daughter took over. And then this crazy guy from California moved in. And he was supposed to be the maintenance of the yard. Yeah, my husband fixed the guy's brakes. He did not pay him all the way. So he's our neighbor. So this is weird. Oh no. So there's that. And my husband's a cheap ass and you don't ever owe him

money or he'll come for you. So, Oh, so, well, you know, Nick here, I got a question for Nick. Yeah. Why isn't he just doing it out of the goodness of his heart? It's your neighbor for crying out loud. Where is Nick from?

New Berlin. Oh. Oh. Wow. for crying out loud. New Berlin. Oh, wow. For like 60 seconds, then they moved to New Berlin. Yeah. Well, you know what? I tell you what, I went to school in New Berlin.

I went to Orchard Lane. How old is Nick? He's born in 86. I was born in 87. Yeah, he's 38. Next month, this month. Where'd he's 38 next month. This month. Yeah. Do you go to grade school? You know what? I tell you what, Kate, you're not.

I feel like you and Nick need to go out on a date. And was it New Berlin? New Berlin Center? Does that sound right? You were Eisenhower. Eisenhower. OK. Yeah. Where do you go to grade school? I think New Berlin Center, New Berlin Center. All right. Anywho's. Yeah. So do you go? Grade school? I think New Berlin Center. New Berlin Center. All right. Anywho's. Yeah.

So what's the real issue? So now the old lady died. Now this guy's living there. The daughter came back. She's living there. She's got to be like 65. They're always they have 20 cats. Not joking.

Yard cat cat family. And they have cat signs outside that say beware for cats and like on the road. So like cat crossing, watch out for cats. Oh, you can't put a cat crossing out there. First of all, cats got nine lives speed up and we're in fricking eagle. Yeah, there's no street lights. There's nothing out here.

Here's what chaps my ass about these cats. I'm a big bird guy. These cats are killing all the fricking birds. Yeah, they are. They're an invasive species. Yep. You know, I don't I don't understand why. I was like, for fuck's sake, can we not talk about the birds anymore? Hey, stop listening. You know, I was just about to tell you to stop listening to the podcast.

I don't need more people tell me, don't worry about the birds. Birds are awesome. My grandpa was a taxidermist and they loved birds, so he would be all with you. That's great. That's great. Yeah. I'm sick of like these cats eating that. And they do. They do. They go after the scarlet tanagers. Can you believe that?

And they pee all over my stuff. Well, I don't care about the pee as much as I do them assassinating the birds, but. I get that. What's your, what's your real issue? Oh, sorry. The problem is that the guy didn't pay her husband. And well, that started it.

Oh, that's the start layers. So now the guy, they're just weird. They have like a chicken wire fence that they have to open like a gate every time somebody wants to pull in. They're always honking in case there's cats inside of the cars when they leave or come in the property. So like eight o'clock at night, like wailing on the horn to get cats out of the way so they can pull in their driveway.

So then these people and their cats. So last summer they got into a domestic argument and we had to call the cops because she asked him to cut the grass. We heard all this via screaming through the yard and cut the guy that grass. And then she said, you didn't cut the grass. You got the lazy piece of shit. You know what? Dumb bitch. You know what happened then?

He got on the lawnmower, started up, started cutting the grass. He ran over a cat. Oh, no. And she got domestic and we had to call the cops. Wow. It got domestic. They were screaming at each other. And then he was revving the car at the chicken wire fence. And he was like, get the fuck out of my way and wailing on the horn. And now I've got two small kids outside and my daughter's like, what are they doing?

And I said, I don't know. So then I'm like in the woods trying to hear what the hell they're arguing about. And he was like, you ran over the or no, she said you ran over the goddamn cat. You fucking asshole. Yeah. So what's the problem here? Right. No, I mean, what's the problem? So now, OK, another year later, now they've got somebody living in a camper on their yard.

They're living in a camper on their yard. Somebody is now the person's name. I don't know. Well, you got to introduce yourself to your new. No. Yeah don't know. Well, you got to introduce yourself to your new The problem is bring over a casserole to the camper So I saw them getting their septic pump the other day and then I was like I bet that tube is going right to the camper and this guy's just living in here and now he's got the generator running all day Long and it's so annoying. So now they've got 20 cats, a guy living in a camper generator honking,

a chicken wire fence. The whole thing's a train wreck and they're like 70. How do I get rid of these people? Well, do you want to get rid of the people or the cats? What's the biggest issue? My husband tried to start getting rid of the cats and he really likes animals. Did he get a scope for the BB gun? How do you what do you mean?

Try getting rid of the cat? Well, it's out my kitchen window. So, yes. It's not legal to shoot your neighbor's cats. No, that's very illegal. But they're outside cats. They're just make sure he doesn't have the muzzle sticking out the window. Make sure he's back a few feet so that they can't see where it came from.

That's that's just sniper one on one. Yeah. So I just need to get rid of these people. What do I do? Okay, Charlie, how do you get rid of your neighbor? How do you get rid of your neighbor? How do you get rid of an annoying neighbor? Now, first option, you can take us to leave it. You're going to have to, like we said earlier, fight fire with fire. You may have to amp it up even more than they have. What is the natural enemy of the cat? What's the natural enemy of the dog? Yeah. I have like a 12 pound Cavapoo. Okay. Not going to do it. No, it's not going to do it. What we are saying is start rescuing dogs. Oh yeah. Start a dog. Cut dog kennel. Yeah. You got how many acres?

Four of them. Yeah. All right. Start getting some outdoor dogs to combat bat. Those outdoor cats. He might need to start cutting grass more. He might, you know, you know, that's actually not a bad idea. Have your husband go over there and cut some grass. Here's here's the real here's the real winner right here. OK. Start to become a wolf advocate. All right. You want to bring the wolves back. He would eat my dog. Well, you lock your one dog up.

They're going to take care of the cats for God's sake. They're out of line. What the cats. So get some wolves in there. Fight fire with fire. Go find a coyote. Okay. We have a lot. Well, it would be a shame if you accidentally just threw some coyote

bait on the side of the property. Take your leftovers. I tripped and fell and through the bait on there. Get yourself a nice rotisserie chicken, toss it over into the cat deal, snip a little in their wire fence. The coyotes will come in, take care of it like a day next to the guy's camper. Yeah. Next to the guy's camper. You gotta be stealthy here. We're not. Well, I mean, you know, you're I mean, you're in a pickle here. And we are giving you the options out, okay?

They are like 70, I wish somebody would just die already. Have you gone, I mean, the way people are living these days, they could have 20 more years. Have you gone over and talked to them about their cats? Not the cats. Well, why don't you go talk to them about the cats? Because they owe my husband money. Well, why don't, your talk to him about the cats? Because they owe my husband money. Well, why don't your husband continues to be a thorn in the side of the ass of this

podcast? Aaron Aaron could justify Aaron is Nick a pain in the ass or no, no, it's a pain in the ass. All right. I think your husband is the real issue here. You're going to have to figure that out. Well, here's the thing. You got four and a half acres.

Yeah. Why don't you just slide the house further away? You got enough acreage. They are a good amount of way. Oh, plant some trees. I don't know. I gotta do something. These people are out of line. Why don't you go get some catnip, some weed for them cats and then they'll be less off their guard and then the coyotes will take care of. Will they? Yeah. The coyotes just chase cats and eat them.

Coyotes will eat a cat. Huh. Right? Yeah. Coyotes kind of eat whatever they can get their hand, their paws on. So I gotta bait the cats. We'll bait the coyotes into the cats. Oh.

Yeah. Use the cats as bait. Yes. All right. Yeah. That, yeah. Use the cats as bait. Yes. All right. Yeah. That's good. That's good. You know, the other thing you can do is could sell your house. You could move. Oh, my God. It's too expensive. I can't. Well, that kids back. Are you fortunate enough to get into one of those low interest rates on

your mortgage? Because I work at a bank. Yeah. It's not good that the mortgage lender saying that it's too expensive. You know, that's not good. No, no, there's a housing deal. What do you think? Is housing going to go up or down for all the people curious?

I really don't know. It's I don't know. I'm very curious with the election how it's going to pan out with things, but I don't see it. It'll never be like, oh, eight again, because all the requirements have become so tight on the the necessary funds.

I think that's a good thing. Thinking of commercial because consumer lending is pretty tight. Yeah, maybe I'm thinking. Yeah. So if you're talking rentals, there's a different guideline there. They'll hand they'll hand that out. But yeah, the consumer, they're pretty regulated. There's not enough houses. There's not enough houses. There's not a surplus.

Not enough houses. Still not enough inventory. Well, a bunch of old people got on load. So of the of the advice we've given you, what's what? What one you think you're maybe gone with? I don't really know. I was hoping for something better. Well, that you were looking for some better kind of Lord. What are we supposed to do? I mean, oh, all I was hoping for something better. You were looking for some better.

What are we supposed to do? I mean, oh, all right. Here's an idea. Here's an idea. Lure the cats over to your place. All right. Get little cat nip stands. You know, those raccoon traps. Yeah. Put some cat nip in the raccoon traps. Start relocating the cats. That's what I should do, because they name them.

They'll be out there like calling for them in people's yards. 10 cats, like 20, 20 cats. They're huge. Why don't you? Oh, I got a good idea. What turn you could profit off of this to make up for the money that your husband didn't get from them. Turn it into a cat zoo. So you put a little sign up that says pay five bucks to come look at the cat zoo. So you put a little sign up that says, pay five bucks to come look at the cat zoo. Yeah. They can walk across the fence. You can have feeding stations that people can feed the cats with. And all of a sudden you've got people coming through, feeding the cats, you're making money off of it. It's going to probably annoy them because I took their cats. Exactly. Yeah. Well, I think that that that could and you just tell them that

you've got to do this until you recoup the break fund, you know. It was probably literally twenty seven dollars at this point, but he will hold it. He's holding on to it. He is real cheap. I mean, that's classic Nick. Yeah. If I ask Nick, if I know Nick like I think I do, that sounds just like him. We're talking about Nick being cheap and holding a grudge for some cash. Petty fella. What's the pettiest thing Nick's ever done? Oh.

I know. You might know you're biting your nail off. I know there's just so many. He's he's real cheap. Is he? Yes. He's petty. I know because there's too many instances. Well, I feel like the situation with Nick, I don't think after this interview, Nick's going to like the podcast more. He will probably find it funny. He will. What?

He's got to. He's a good sport. Oh, no. Well, Nick, you know, give us another shot, my guy. Give us another shot and give those cats another shot. I would say about 24 and you should have your problem solved. All right. There we have it. There you go. Invasive species out of the deal. The birds are happy. And you guys can have cat for the next, you know, that's it.

Convince your neighbor. I probably shouldn't say that, right? There are a lot of cat lovers that can you eat cats legally? I don't know. Actually, it's a great question. Yeah. Regardless, you'll, you'll find a way. Yeah. Take our advice, digest it a little bit, you know, get Nick's brain on it. I'm sure he'll think of something. And if you guys can't digest it, start luring in the coyotes. They're good. That's what we need to do. We've got a lot on the trail cams. Maybe that's our next avenue. That's it. That's it. Yeah. Let nature's let nature take its way. Yeah. All right.

All right. Well, thank you. Kate, thanks for coming on. We appreciate you. Tell Nick we says hi. OK. I will. All right. All right. Watch for deer. Yeah. And hey, where there's one, there's many. Okay. Love it. All right. I forgot about that. Well, folks, there you have it. You never know what you're going to get here on the belly to podcast. Sometimes it's a fellow from the military calling in. Sometimes it's a gal with a cat infestation and miles. We're just here to offer whatever we can.

That's right, Charlie. Sometimes it's good. Often it's not. Sometimes it's just a listening ear. I tell you, I want advice. They just want to be heard. Right. And we're we're just like a herd of cats. Exactly. We stretch our ears every day so you guys can come over here and bend them. And we'll see you next time.

In the meantime, don't forget to tip your bartender. Love you guys.