Bellied Up - What Every Midwest Kitchen Needs #60

Episode Date: July 27, 2023

The first caller has a dad who is way too good at the 'Midwest goodbye' and needs tips on how to get out of it. The next caller wants to know if he should call off his wedding. The last caller is infected with the remodeling bug and wants to know what they should do with their kitchen. Get yourself a ⁠"Road Huntin For Ditch Chickens"⁠ Hat Want us to come to your bar for a Bellied Up episode? Click Here

I'm here doing some full tab investing with Miles. He is furiously. We reinvested our winnings, Charlie. I'm $27 on the last round. That's a good haul for us. So Miles is the kind guy that just yanked some all. Very impatient. Me, I like to go one, one pull at a a time one tab pole at a time

Some people say Charlie that's how serial killers do pull tabs into that I say that's not nice But anyways Charlie I got to ask you yeah What's going on with your shirt Really I tried to dress it up for you I'm going to be a little bit outside the box miles and now all the sudden it's an issue. This shirt is from old Navy. I've had it since I was like 16. No, I'm not going to be a little bit

outside the box miles. I'm going to be a little bit outside the box miles. I'm going to be a little bit outside the box miles and now all the sudden it's an issue. This shirt is from old Navy. I've had it since I was like 16. No. Yeah, look at the tag. Look at the tag. I can't believe you've had this shirt since you were 16.

Yeah, it is. My mom showed it up before. It's a little tight, but I was going to say, I don't think you're a medium anymore. Okay, should I change shirts? I'm going to change shirts. No, do not. No, no. Now you're just going to make fun of me the entire podcast, which I'm not, you know, I knew I should, I knew that's what I get for being fashionable on the Belly to podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, this is called a Madras. That's the style of and the the the the

the the the the the I want a dollar. I got three right here. Lane. Yeah, I just was wondering because it didn't look like you recently bought it. Was all I was asking for. Oh, okay. So it's not that it's stylish. It's that it's old. Yeah. That's what you think.

Yeah. Yeah, we'll go with that. Well, maybe it's stylistically worn, you know. So, but my question is, is why do you, one, why do you still have that shirt? And two, why did you bring it today? One because the shirt's still good. Still fits. Some people say, Hey, that looks nice.

And I've had enough people say, Hey, that looks nice that I keep wearing. Now I'm starting to think that through my past is you usually don't dress up for this podcast and you're looking They say, hey, that looks nice that I keep wearing. Now, I'm starting to think that they're being casted. I think when you look through my heart, is you usually don't dress up for this podcast and you're looking fresh. Well, it's the last time I dress up for you, Miles. Really not nice of you.

Well, anyways, thank you for telling me I look fresh. I feel fresh. I'm going to try, I'm button it. So the shirt underneath. Well, I wish you would just go raw dog underneath it. You're always wearing a shirt under those buttons. We want to see some taco meat coming

out the top of that thing. Okay. Give me a minute. Okay. Well, guys, welcome to another episode of the Belly it up podcast. Charlie's going to let's show some skin here as we get into this podcast We are live here at the well kind of live at Dale Z's here I'm sure at some point Charlie will bring up the hot nuts and

That's kind of how today's going. We'll see if we can get one more to Keelah shot in him, but we'll see oh There we go Yeah, now he's looking like an ambercrabby model. Yeah I like that look on you. I told you I told you it looked nice. So all it takes to get Charlie to take his clothes off. It's just bully him a little bit. You want it? You want to touch the tag of me? Oh, yeah. Now my mic smells. So Charlie, that, no, no, no, one more, one more for the folks. Oh, yeah. There you go. Give them what they want, baby. Now you look like a movie star. Now we're cooking. Does he not look like a movie star now? Yeah. You look like Ashton Kutcher now. Thanks, dude. I like that. I do like cap forwards or backwards

I like it forward forward. Yeah, it's a good luck Let me look. I want to look at myself here. See how cool I look Ashen-culture in the flesh. Yeah, I'm looking I'm looking pretty cool. Yeah, all right, well, now the Charlie's oozing sex appeal. Here at Dale's, Dale's E's, baby. Dale's E's. You ready to jump right in, take some colors? Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, let's do it.

Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, let's cook with gas, baby. Feeling good. Let's take some colors. All right. All right, who do we got on the wine? Hi, this is Jane. Hey, Jane, how you doing? I'm good. Where you calling in from, Jane? I'm calling from Boston.

Oh, Austin, nice. How are the lobsters out there? This is a lobster season, but they're so better. Probably here than now. There are some follow up question. How's the tea out there in Boston? So interesting fact in Boston this year is the 250 anniversary and they're doing a big celebration to more tea over the harbor. They're gonna throw a little bit like a waste of tea, but I get it, you know, all on the name.

All right. I think it draws on the tourism. Yeah, I suppose whatever brings them in, those fish are going to be zipping around there. If you give them that a real great You know, they're gonna be all caffeine up. Yep Well, Jay want you belly up to the bar with us tell us what's on your mind Sounds good So I have two questions, but my first one is to ask your advice on

How to get out of a Midwest goodbye with my dad. Uh oh. So it Midwest Goodbye is always a tough one to get out of and we have our steps for that, which we're happy to tell you. But be more specific on your dad. What does he do? What's his thing? He's definitely one of those people. So I love out here in Boston. My dad lives in Iowa. He's from Iowa. So I don't get to see him that often, but we'll talk on the phone. And when we talk on the phone, he's one of those guys that does these. Oh, I'm gonna let you get off the phone now, but then he's talking. Well, that's, yeah, this is great because the Midwest could buy in person.

It's a little bit different than the Midwest could buy on the phone. So I think that this is a unique situation. So we're glad you called in. I think so. If you have any advice, I think, yeah, I think we're gonna start off. Let's start

off with a little role playing. Okay. So I'm you. We have to know kind of exactly what your dad's tactic is. So I'm going to play you when you play your dad. Okay. And you can just imitate what your dad does. Okay. I'll try. Okay, well, dad, that's great. I'm actually gonna get runnin' here, so unless there's anything else. Oh, well, I know that it's, you know, a little bit later, there's than it is here, so I'm gonna let you go, but, you know, next time we talk,

I'm gonna tell you, I have big moods, big moods. Oh, okay, I mean, do you I have big news big news oh okay I mean do you want to tell me now or well I mean you know I know you have better things to do than talk to your dad but you know I have things going on around here too that are you know pretty important to me oh dad I I'm sorry. I don't want to be rude. No, what's what's going on? Well, you know, after talking about it for the past 10 years, finally got some quotes. He gets the roof done. I don't know what you're upset about. This guy sounds awesome. Here's awesome, but it

got so bad a few months ago, he was on the phone for five hours. No, that's an exaggeration. Really? Yeah. Who is he on the phone with? You? With me. For five hours? Yes, and I love my dad so much. He's a great person, but sometimes I have things to do. You know. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Kudos to you for sticking with it for five hours. What did he have to talk about for five hours?

Well, I think during that conversation, we got to the point where he was repeating stories. He already said earlier in his team conversation. Yeah, I've been there. That's one thing I didn't say that also makes it a little bit like my dad's a little sensitive. So he'll also like, there's been when I've just been like, dad, I really have to go and I hang up. Well, then the next like 10 years of calls, I was like, well, I know my daughter doesn't have enough time to talk to her dad.

The old guilt trip. That's a classic dad. Yeah. Yeah. I feel that. Well, yes. Yes. Yes. Not bad. Mine's not so much my dad and as it is my mom. My mom is, uh, uh, Hey, it's, I know it's July, but it's never too early to start talking about Christmas plans. Yeah. What are you doing on Christmas? I don't know. I'll think about that in five months. So here's something you can do. Here's one tactic. Okay. Everybody's got that person in their phone call in their phone book. People are in some ways like dogs, I guess, is a good analogy. I'm not calling people dogs. I'm saying it's an analogy. You got to take them out for a walk every now and again. Yeah.

So you need to just find these moments, I guess, where like, let's say you have a car drive coming up. You got a long drive. That's when you're proactively calling them. Yes. And then you just, you kind of put a quarter in and let them talk and, you know, let them hit every mailbox on the block.

Don't, you know, you can zone out. You got to be driving anyway. Let them do their thing and let them get it out of their system. Almost view it like you're just listening to a podcast, but it's just your dad talking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is, I mean, that's pretty good. And I sometimes try that and it helps

if I'm going up to the mountain because sometimes you lose your stuff. She's a better he understands that right because we live in like near the mountain. So he's he's a little sympathetic to that. Yeah, I mean, that's a cousin to the I'm going through a tunnel. You know, that's a great way to do it. Yeah, well, in fact, we have lots of tunnels here. I can sometimes that we get just connected to that. Yeah, do you ever just go into a tunnel and park until it disconnects? A five car pile. It's almost like Yeah, it's like you take the long route to wherever you're going so you can walk through a tunnel. So I got another question for you.

Did he end up getting that refix after 10 years of talking about it? Yeah, he did. He did. That was actually the most recent one. If he, or last time I talked over, he was, when he finally has it done, the work done. Yeah. What a, I, because every dad's got something they've been talking about for 10 years, the project they're going to do. Is there other projects that are still, still ongoing in conversation? Oh, yeah. Because then when the guy did the roof, he messed up his antenna. So now it's fixing the antenna. I love that. What is is there a time when your dad would

not want to be on the phone? Does he have a favorite sports team? Yeah. So I've actually tried that. I've just packed it a few times. He never called me in March because of March Madness. And I can usually talk to him for shorter times if there's a packer game. There it is. This is how you do it. You call him. If it's a new game. The fall. Yeah, if it's a new game, you call me 1145. You give yourself these nice increments. You going out of your way to call him will make him feel like that You're thinking of him, but then he'll break off the call with you

That's what you got to do and schedule those in actually put those on your calendar call dad and give it a nice amount of time that you want to talk to him I think 15 minutes sounds good to touch base with them once a week Yeah, yeah, and then what you do when you get on that call you go talk to him. I think 15 minutes sounds good to touch base with them once a week. Yeah. Yeah. And then what you do when you get on that call, you go, Hey, dad, I got a bunch of time to chat. I got all afternoon. If you want to sit and chat, let's do this thing. And then he's going to be like, Oh, dang it. I can only talk for 15. You're like, well, I really, really tried. So then he doesn't throw that passive aggressive stuff, but you don't want to talk for very long in your face. A warning though, he may do this. Oh, yeah,

the game spots a start here. Let me put you on speaker. Yeah. You know, and then you're, yeah, yeah, then you're watching the game with them, you know, so just know that exactly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that I wonder what the delay is where I met. I was just where you're exactly what's good. Say that's a nice thing because you you can even get your Tibo on and just play it like 30 seconds after his you have your sound down and he's got his sound on that. You can get lucky enough to where yours is ahead of his. And then you cheer really loud when good stuff happens before he sees it. He'll hang up real fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't tried that, but that sounds like that could be a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Two solid tactics for you. Text your mom and say, Hey, pause the TV for 30 seconds. He won't know. And then he'll be behind me.

And it'll be all good. Now, I have a mic just they're trying to call all the other. Oh yeah, it's another good touch. Yeah, that's a really brave move on her part. How many siblings do you have and does he do this with all of them? And I know one thing making some tea like the talk to the mouth Hold on you cut out you you're going through a tunnel you cut out there What how many siblings you have Is she pulling the move on straight up doing that Todd she driving into the mountain we asked one too many questions Sorry, can you hear, we can hear you now.

Okay, I'll try not to be around. Okay. But yeah, so he said that he like, and I think that's because I'm the only one patient enough to stay on the phone with him for, you know, up to five hours. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you let it go too long one time and next thing you know, you know, up to $5. Oh my. Yeah. Yeah, you let it go too long one time. And next thing you know, you're the go-to chit chatter for five hours. This is a classic Midwest code dependency here, though. This is impressive that you did five hours. I mean, they have meetings for people, you know, like that, you know, I think it's called Eleanor something, you know. You just, you go there and, you know, like that, you know, I think it's called Eleanor or something, you know, you just go there and, you know,

you learn that you're a codependent or something. I saw it in a movie. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? I don't know. Yeah, I have to watch the movie again. But good for you, I mean, that takes a Midwest person at heart to hang on the phone like that. So I like that you're bringing that out to the East Coast, you know. My other question is I lived in Boston 25 years ago. And I still considered a little Western. Oh, yeah, you're, it's like being a US citizen.

If you're born here, it stays with you. Look, you don't have to ask that question. You're on the phone with your dad for five hours. You're more Midwest than half the people in the Midwest. Okay. You might be one of the most Midwest people I ever met. Yeah. You're letting your game do the talking here. Yeah. It doesn't actually both say like, oh, he's been Boston for so long. I can still claim that, but it sounds like I can't., I, it doesn't show at all. Now we, we appreciate you giving a holler on this one now.

I think a lot of people will, you know, at least get some good tactics from you. Yeah, it's almost like we started our own support group right here right now. I know. I think that's kind of it. Yeah. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and't so bad, you know, sometimes that's the role that you play

Misery loves company, you know Charlie absolutely now do we also it's great to talk to your parents and all that But for five hours is yeah, you know, do you want to talk to anyone for five hours? Besides you Charlie. Sorry. We've been sitting here five You know, she's always he says what you want to talk get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it.

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get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. I'm not sure if you're going to get it. Well, thank you for taking my call and I'll try some of those for timing and driving.

We will tactics and see if we get a little get the time down a little bit. Yeah, we'll better let you get going. Yeah, it's about that time and have your dad call us. You take up your whole day. I think I like free fog. I know we're trying to knock out a few, you know, right in a row. So that'd be great. That'd be great. Okay, I'm telling folks I said hi. Okay. All right, you two. We'll see you now. Watch for deer. Thank you. That's impressive. So the rough thing really actually hit home for me. Oh yeah. So my dad,

actually for the first time, I feel like in his whole life, he paid someone to redo the roof at the lake. Usually he's doing it. My brothers and him do it all. Oh man. I was like, Dad, you have turned over a new leaf. Look at you. And then he always wants to have one. No, you guys wouldn't help me. You've done it the past like five different times. Yeah, we did do the main Cavs with the garage and the back needed done. Now we might offense the pitch on this thing. It's like a barn style. So the one that is side of it, it's like how am I supposed to, I'm not a pro. Yeah, Ruffer. Yeah. So yeah, well, and also, you know, at this point in your life,

you know, you got a, I'm getting old too, dad. Yeah. I mean, you might be rolling right off that roof, you know, but maybe that'd be the way I'd want to go rolling off a roof. Yeah, with my dad and brothers, you're not going to go that way. You're just going to break your leg. It's going to be very painful. Yeah. And then maybe I can collect disability or something. Oh, that's true. You'd probably get out of a lot of future roofing jobs. Yeah, break one leg. You're done with them. Yeah, break one leg now for the next 40 years. I broke my leg that one time. Sorry, sorry, dad. Yeah, I got a lot of trauma from the last time. I think I'm gonna to sit this one out dad. I'll watch you guys though. I'll throw you beers.

the last time I think I'm gonna to sit this one out dad I'll watch you guys though I'll throw you beers Well should we take another caller? I suppose welcome to the belly to podcast. Who we chit chat with? Hello? Hey sorry about that I just just walked into Home Depot and you guys picked up of course. Oh That's all right. What are you getting there? I was getting some air filters to the house. Oh, yeah. Gotta get that fresh air for the today. Oh, that's not all. You're gonna pick up what else are you gonna browse for while you're there?

Oh, well, you know, I need a couple of little parts that they'll walk you back out and you don't want them up. Yeah, there's the, I knew it wasn't just air filter. Oh, there's a little something something extra. Well, yeah, well, the what I said when I'm at the house of a getting there. Yeah, there you go.

Smart man. All right. Well, why don't you belly up if you got some time here. Tell us what's on your mind. Oh, for sure. Well, so I am engaged to a fib. And yeah, how'd you make that mistake? I'm an Eric.

Well, she's a traveling nurse and I live in Arizona. She came down here for a contract and met me and it's all kind of worked out from there. She ended up moving. Got the took the fib right out of her. Okay, so she's no longer a traveling nurse is what you're saying. Exactly, exactly. That was the that was the goal all along and it ended up working out for him. Nice. So what do you what do you wonder about? So basically, we have our wedding plan.

It's in June of next year, the 2024. And we've been really wanting to go back to the Midwest. I've been able, she wants to go, I mean, but I want to move there. She loves it there, so we want to go back. I have to Illinois, of course, but just get back move there. She loves it there. So we want to go back up the Illinois course, but Just get back over there We have all this money tied up in this wedding. So it's gonna cost of like 30 grand for this wedding

I'm saying we just take yeah So I'm saying we just take this money and run and kind of do a little quick eloping and then get our asses out to midwest and start our life a little bit quicker instead of having to wait a year here to have the big wedding and and do all that. Well, first question is is that what she wants to do? That's what looks she's on the Like, we're both kind of on the fence. So obviously what she wants is gonna be our final decision. But she's a big fan of you guys.

So I feel like if I can get a different opinion and then we'll see how she thinks about it. Surely, this is a lot of pressure. This is a lot of pressure. This is a lot of pressure. Do we call off the wedding or do we not? I'm calling off the wedding for sure. 30 grand, here's the thing. You know, you're not gonna remember

half the people at that wedding, guarantee ya. I got married once and people were like, yeah, remember at your wedding? I was like, in my head, I didn't say this out loud, except now I was like, I didn't remember I didn't say this out loud, except now. I was like, I didn't remember you had my wedding. I had no idea. You don't remember his first cousin.

I don't remember you had my wedding. I don't. But you don't remember it. And then it's so much pressure on the day because you got to make your rounds. You got to go see everyone, shake some hands. I say, call it off. I say, save the money.

I mean, it's hot out there in Arizona. Hottest year on record, I think. And you know, it's only going to get hotter. So get back to the Midwest, get yourself, put that money in a nice home. I think you'll be a lot happier in the long run. Yeah, if you're already in Arizona, just drive a few hours north of Lopin, uh, Las Vegas and then head on home, fly right out. Yeah. And we're not saying you can't do it fancy. Get the eldest experience there. That's pretty nice, you know, uh, that's, that's my parent. Yeah. I would see. Now that was going to be my next question though. I'm president. So with weddings, there is a lot of family involved

in, you know, whether it's right or it's wrong, usually parents have some sort of opinion on the situation on what the wedding should be like and expectations, but it sounds like maybe your parents are going to be all for them or a cheap quick wedding. Is that accurate? Well, I don't know, so I'm kind of like an only child. So my mom, my dad doesn't give a shit. He's got like six kids. He doesn't care. But my mom, you know, she probably wants the big thing. Like so right now we haven't told anyone that we're even

toying with this idea. Everyone knows that we kind of want to move. And everyone's obviously just trying to fuck that out of it because they're like, oh, the winter, like out of there. It could be the place the as far. But, yeah, they, they, you know, like as far as the parent thing,

like it's, I think that my parents love us and they will go with whatever we want to do. What about her parents? Her dad doesn't care. I mean, he's, he's cool. Her, her mom passed away a few years ago, unfortunately. So he's just, he's kind of like a surfer dude, like, hey, whatever. So I don't know if you guys are familiar with Northern Illinois, but they live in the Kennery. So

they kind of are just like chilling on the river that just fibbling it up, just fish to have him. And you know, hanging I mean, this sounds like an ideal situation. Yeah, you might have to do some damage control with your mom, but you can figure that out later, right? Yeah, I think so. I mean, like I said, I think that she'll be cool. And what we want to do, like she doesn't want to, like if we do,

we look, it won't be a quick thing. Like she wants to kind of go up to like Mount Rainier or go somewhere crazy and cool like for us to remote to so she doesn't feel like she just kind of gave up her dream wedding for her nothing, you know what I mean. Which I'm cool with is I would much rather spend five grand and get a sweet trip out of it and spend 30 and go, you know, an hour away from home, just to sweat our asses off in June, at a wedding with a hundred people that, you know, I don't care, like I get drunk with them all the time.

Like if I get drunk with them in a suit, I work for this. Well, that's also a good way to do it is, you know, get the trip like you're saying, you're making a lot of sense, by the way. And then just throw a little party in your garage for everyone else. Get some cases. Yeah, especially once we get out. Yeah. Yeah, spend less the thing. And like, if we cut it, cut it in the middle, like so all her family and friends are all in Illinois, obviously

mine's here. But we're kind of thinking, this is another part of my question, we're kind of thinking Minnesota. So I didn't know if you guys had good places and minds that are not, we're big kind of hunters and fishers, but out in Arizona, the opportunity is super limited. I don't mean to be all over the place, but. No, I mean, there's plenty of cool places in Minnesota if you really can't go wrong. I don't mean to be all over the place, but no, I mean, I, there's plenty of cool places in Minnesota. If you really can't go wrong, I don't think. Yeah, especially Northern Minnesota, you got a lot of hunting fishing up there. I mean, that's like where people will take whole fishing trips to go to Lake of the Woods

and all that. Boundary waters. Now, you do have to promise me just this. If you're moving to Minnesota, first of all, I'd talk to you to Wisconsin, but if that chip is self, just don't become a Vikings fan. Can you promise me that? I will never.

Okay. I will never. I'm born and raised here. So unfortunately, I have been plagued with Arizona sports teams my whole life. But that's the way it's going to stay. I will die on hell. And some else to consider as well, if you want to just throw a party for all your friends after you guys get married, they kind of want that too. Yeah. I don't want to

have to dress up and wear a tie and do that whole shabang. They want to just, the only reason why you go to wedding is to drink and to make fun of stuff at the wedding. So if you can just give them the drinking part of it, I think everyone's going to be pretty on board with this. Yeah. Miles didn't even wear a tie at his wedding. No, God no. That's how little class he has. What? what what I had a pocket watch Excuse me he had a he had a conductors watch Which did not even tell the accurate time did okay just When you when Charlie when I mean that miles when you posted those

Those bush light labels that you guys had on your bottles. She showed me that and she was like, see, now we have to get married. I was like, oh, no. Oh, no. I'm sorry. I know, but they were so cool, though. So it's like, shit, that is, that is awesome. But I don't think that we have the cloud that my host does to get that handle for us. So like, just kind of maybe we can make

one on S. The or something. Yeah. Hold on to that. I mean, really, you just got to make some stickers and slap them on the label. I think is all you got to do. So yeah, you don't need to pay 30 grand for that. You can just, that's like a $10 job there. You get the picture. And yeah, and you can still do that at the post party. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. I think we're on to a good solution. Take a vacation, a lope, you know, if anyone really wants to be there, drop them a pin. And, you know, just just get on with your life, you know, I,

I think especially after COVID, COVID has given everyone, you know, kind of the high men on the big weddings. You got your blockers. Everyone who got married during COVID was small, so if you don't want to do it, don't do it. Well, just say, you can even say, we're just really worried about COVID. We don't want to have too big of a wedding.

It's under the sun. 2020, what the hell? You can just say you're really honest. Arizona, Arizona, I might get punched for that one coming out of here. We kind of skipped over COVID completely. Well, you got to give them a wink. You know, it's, you know, yeah, exactly. But people should understand, you know what I mean?

Like we're not old, but we want to get, we want to get rocking and rolling on the family stuff and get going. If we got to spend this money, that heats out our account savings, you know, and getting started with family and everything. If we don't want to do it until after, this is the whole thing. Well, I think you found your answer. It's a Wambam. Thank you, ma'am. A low head up to the Midwest. Have a party. Get some stickers online. Put them on the labels and have a good weekend. I love it. Yeah, I think we think we figured out the rest of your life right here on the Bellyduck podcast. That's what we do.

That's what we do here. Yeah, I appreciate it. One more thing, the huge, because I'd never been to the Midwest my whole life. And so we've been up there a whole lot of times. And the second time we went up to Wisconsin, we went to this bar, when I can get them a shot, I call it the main street tap. It's like in the,

just above the Canary right across the border. And I went to my first fleet farm and a whole Lee ship. I had never, I had never been so happy in my entire life. We don't have anything like that out here. But you got to go to like five different stores combined to get a fleet farm. Yeah, well, holy shit. Yeah, look at that.

Holy shit, boys. I about blew my mind when I was watching that. I was like, we got to move to all these cities that I'm looking at in Minnesota. I could quickly go over to Google Maps and I look at the fleet farm locations. And if we ain't got one within 20, 30 minutes, then it's off list. Yeah, smart man says a man at Home Depot right now. That's by the way, how are those tools? How can you get those air fresheners over?

Or air, what air filters? No, I ran back into the truck as soon as you guys picked up because I wouldn't want to be screaming and yelling in the middle of the home depot. I'm kind of an animated guy on the phone and I don't want to ask him to watch some of my face with my hand. Well, I love it, man.

Yeah, this is great. I'm glad we could help you out if we did help you out. And have fun browsing in the hardware store and good luck. Hopefully you find a nice spot in the Midwest. Certainly. Hopefully you stay. Thank you, boys. Play your folks.

They says hi. All right, watch for deer. Thank you, boys. Play your folks. They says hi. All right. Watch for deer. All right. Thanks. Bye now. Good for him.

We just saved him. I mean, that guy has got his head on right. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. No, and I say all this. I don't mean to take anything away from your wedding. It was a beautiful time.

No, I fully understood that. Yeah. I spent money that could have been spent otherwise, but you know what? All I was trying to do is give my wife the wedding that she truly wanted. It sounds like his wife wants to a lope So that's where to go. That's so romantic. Yeah Oh, it's getting deaf. I'm here folks. Hopefully she hears this then otherwise is a waste All right There we go one more call well Charlie. I just got back from Hayward Wisconsin at the lumberjack games I was gonna say they have the lumberjack games up there. How was it? Did you run on a walk?

I was gonna invite you, but we didn't have enough room in the hotel room, so I figured you wouldn't want to come. Miles, you know the rules. There's always enough room in your hotel room. We could have cutled up together, I suppose. Yeah. But you know what, man, you're in the heart of Wisconsin and hay work now.

Oh, yeah. No, maybe you want to do what's that? Chop some wood and suck back some tippy cowward. Oh, yeah, no, maybe you want to do what's that chop some wood and suck back some Tippy cow chop some yeah, it does have that effect on you doesn't and there is no better concoction after your chop and wood then Watching people run on logs. I was like I got a hankering for some Tippy cow So I'm glad we got some here today tip it on back. We're tipping it on back. With the Tippy Cow. And did you know, Charlie, that Tippy Cow is made with real Wisconsin cows?

Oh, I knew. That's why I'm tipping it on back. I could buy some cows on my way there, and I was like, you can't wait for them to be, uh, to be Tippy Cow. Did you tip your hat to them? I tip my hat to the future Tippy Cow's.

Heck yeah. Say, I like what's in your teeth Yeah, that's an official tippy cow statement heck yeah, I'm slogan. So bang bang boom tip it on back I'm back with the tippy cow Hello, who do we got Oh Oh, I'm here. This is on. No one from Michigan. My wife here with me. Lily. No love from Michigan and you're sitting there with your wife, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going out to dinner. And what's your wife's name? Lily. Lily. Got it. No one in Lily.

Lily. Lily. Got it. No one in Lily. Hi. Hey, how are you guys? Are you guys in the car right now? We are in the car. Okay.

All right, little date night. Good for you guys. No pride date night. See what she's doing tonight. So what's the hurry? Wait, say that again. He said you're going to meet tonight. So I'm going to go.

Hey, look at him. Hey, look at him. Hey, look at him. Hey, look at him. Hey, look at him. Hey, look at him. Hey, look the hey? Wait, say that again? He said you're going to meet tonight. So I'm like, hey, what's the hey? All right, get after it. I like it. All right,

belly on up to the bar with us. What's on, what's on your mind? Well, we just started with and wondering what kind of tips guys to give us so maybe do's or don't or what's there's going to or what are the needs of a Midwest kitchen? A Midwest kitchen. So you're remodeling is what you said? Yeah, okay. All right. So you're remodeling your kitchen You're remodeling your Midwest kitchen What needs to go in it?

So your Midwest kitchen. What needs to go in it? So well, well, when you're sitting, the little too dark and depressing. Well, that sounds like a Midwest kitchen. Honestly, I think you're off to a good start. Is there a lot of cherry oak cabinets in there? What that? Is there a lot of cherry oak cabinets in there? No, they're dark brown wood. Do you want like a teal? Ooh, a little splash of color, Charlie. All right, you go. A teal back splash.

Is that what we're thinking? Are you gonna paint all your cabinets, teal? No, we're thinking going cheap for now and painting up. Oh, okay. You're a good thing. Oh, we don't want to, we don't want to something to go to late. Okay, you know, DIY.

That's okay. This is a wrap. DIY, DIY or going to serve? DIY deal, I like it. Well, first thing I'm gonna say you need to make sure you have is a big enough cabinet for all your Tupperware. And by Tupperware, I mean, you're used cool whip and butter containers okay there's

gonna be a lot of leftovers that need to get going and you gotta give people some Tupperware to take on the road otherwise it's gonna spoil in your fridge. Yeah that's a great idea because every time I open the coverware it can come where it's stored now that all of it is filled right out in the down up room. Yeah We got lids and containers everywhere. So that's another thing you're going to need is you're going to need a good spot to store all of your hand knitted kitchen towels that you get from relatives. I don't know about you guys. But once a Christmas, I get one for my aunt.

I used to get it from my grandma, a little hand knitted towel that you throw on the stove. Yeah. Maybe one on the fridge, maybe one draped over the, uh, uh, where the sink is, you're going to need some spots for some hand knitted towels from the, from the relatives. Yeah. Very, very true. I don't know if even one from the store.

Yeah. Yeah. You shouldn't. No, no, they, they all come from various locations. It's a true Hodgepodge. You're also going to want to have a bulletin board by the refrigerator so you can hang up all the other Christmas cards that you don't have room

for on the refrigerator, yet you feel guilty about throwing out immediately. Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah. Now, one thing that's brilliant. Yeah. Now, one thing that's maybe not a traditional thing that I've always wanted in my kitchen, and maybe someday I'll have it, is you have your regular fridge,

but then you should have a mini fridge in there just for beer, is what I would do. Yeah. Very good. Oh yeah. I've got to find one for the garage, actually. Now I get that one first. The more the merrier. Yeah. Very good. Oh, yeah. I got to find one for the garage. Actually, I get that one first. The more the merrier. Yup. And if you're looking for garage fridge, you got to be only looking on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace,

or rummage through your uncle's old shit. He's got to have an extra one laying around and maybe start with that one because he'll probably give you a better deal on it. But don't let him know that you want it. You got to frame it up to him like, ah, you know, if you want to get rid of this thing, I know someone who might want it. And then you just take it. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah.

Yeah. Now, well, let's, what is Lily looking for in the kitchen? What? Yeah, Lily. What do you want? I just want something that makes me happy. I don't want to be depressed when I walk into the kitchen. As I told my husband, the kitchen is my office.

Oh, okay. All right. Well, if it's your office, I'm glad you're having a heavy hand designing it. Now do you guys have kids or no? We got one baby. You got one baby. Okay, well, here's what here's

a tip for you. I'd like a nice big sink situation there. Dual sink one for washing, one for drying because one of the greatest joys you'll have as a parent is saying, God, do the dishes tonight. And then when they try putting stuff in the dishwasher, say, Nope, dishwasher is broken. Do it by hand. My dad loved doing that. And the dishwasher was not broken. Our dishwasher is practically brand new, but we never use it because you do them by hand.

Doing by hand, that's the only way they're going to get clean. Yeah, I'm not going to say just use his paper plates. Uh, I, I, I'm just gonna say, just use his paper plates. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. liquor cabinet would probably if you want to feel good when you get in there, let's set the, set the cards in your favor, you know. So a question, Charlie, where do you store your booze in your kitchen? Well, everywhere I suppose. I suppose you got some. Yeah. I'm big go to for me is above the fridge. Above the fridge is a solid place to store.

Because that way it's out of reach of, you know, the kids, you know, and that's, it's just historically where it's been in my house too. And make sure that you have like a little bar area too for the mixing. You got to have your muddler there, you know, your shakers, all that sort of stuff. In case you want to get fancy when company comes over. Okay. My dream is to be the cocktail dad. Oh, well, then you're going to want to get yourself a Margaret Ritaville machine frozen in coctions all summer long. Miles just got one.

He hasn't shut up about this entire podcast. Yeah. It's a great machine. and shot up about this entire podcast. Yeah. It's a great machine. It's a great appliance you're going to want in that kitchen years. And I can tell you what it makes, it makes me happy walking into my kitchen, seeing that sucker out on the, out on the counter every day. Even if you don't have one, it's just Pavlov's dog. You just start salivating.

Anything else you're looking for, Lilyivating up anything else you're looking for Lily Lily anything else you're looking for besides good vibes. Oh I'm trying to decide if I want to do like take the cabinet doors off and let them be open or or keep them on or do glass cabinet doors. Well, can I just say this?

Sorry, Miles, to jump in about the glass cabinets. I am hardcore opposed to glass cabinets. That's like having a cool. Yeah, because you know, look, you got company coming over. How do you clean up the kitchen? You shove everything in the cupboards. If it's glass, it's given away all your secrets. You know, you know, that's too much pressure right there.

That's like having no door on the master bedroom. You don't want that. Yeah, yeah, that's like, right, that's where you shove everything when they come, you know? Yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem. You're gonna get rid of rugs so you can't sweep anything underneath it.

I mean, come on. Yeah, set yourself up for success here, okay. I will say the open concept, the only way that that works well, well, it could work out well, despite what I just said, because do you ever walk into the kitchen and every single cupboard's open?

Yeah. Yeah, well, that would fix that problem. Yeah, well, I mean, just getting yelled at for not closing the cupboard doors. You don't got to worry about that anymore. And also, you know, if you do go with that concept, I do think you embrace it and you really show off what you got, you know, here's the thing though, you can't have any matching cups in your Midwest kitchen. Yeah, there's that. And make sure if you're going to have the open concept door, no doors, you got to be buying the nice paper plates.

Otherwise, people are going to be like, if you get the flimsy one with the crinkle edges on it, they're going to be like, wow, you got the ones that got the nice, flowered pattern around the edge. People are going to be like, these guys, no class. Yeah. It's gonna make them feel worse about throwing food out on top of their paper plate because they'll put it face down, you know.

Yeah. But yeah, I think we've thrown out a lot there for you. Make sure you have a deck of cards, matches and lighters and have all the drawer for the grilling stuff, you know, so if they're like, you know, where's my flippers or whatever, you can always just point in the grill and drawer, you know, and then they don't even have to ask. Yep. And you also got to make sure you got multiple junk drawers. Several junk drawers. This might be the one of the most important things of a kitchen. There, a kitchen is not a place to go light on the junk drawers. A lot of junk comes in and out of the kitchen.

It's the office, as you said already, and you gotta have enough for like the bills, the batteries, you know, that you forget what goes with the master locks that you lost the key to all this stuff. The dried out permanent markers going there. Yeah. Exactly. The paper clips, you know, everything's got to go somewhere and that somewhere is the junk drawer. And another good aesthetic and a good Midwest kitchen is to make sure none of the light

bulbs match. That's true. And the one that's the fluorescent LED look they've got to have the really soft warm one that's looks like it was pulled from the prohibition era and a speakeasy. You know, if you have light bulbs match and you're doing something wrong, well, you need that because and I'll tell you why basically you're always buying the light bulbs on sale. So over time, they're all mismatched. That's just how time and light bulbs work. Because they never last as long as they say they do.

Charlie, how many midwesters does it take to change a light bulb? I don't know. Let me ask my two brothers. They came over the last time I need one change. However long it takes you to drink a case of beer. Ah, miles. Hey, that's a knee slapper. Oh, so what do you guys think you think that you can incorporate some of this and your new kitchen decor?

Oh, I think some of it. I think not all of it. What? What? What would definitely get in the Margarita? We definitely get in the Margarita. See, we converted another one, Charlie. What? What? What? Definitely getting the Margarita. We're definitely getting the Margarita. See?

Oh, yeah, that one's so good. And we converted another one, Charlie. Miles Blow. So he is selling those. Yeah. I got a, I get a royalty. Yeah. Um, can you get those at the wheat farm?

Oh, sure. I'm sure you can. I'm sure you can. Yeah. Uh, Lily, what don't you like that we put through out there? The set of several young shorts. No, we need more.

Really got one. See it? Yeah, I hate to say it, Lily. He's right on that, you know? And it's not even that you need. It's, well, you do need, but it's more so that you're just going to get another junk drawer at some point. You know what I mean?

If you got one, you'll get two. If you got four, you'll get five. It's just the way it goes because one junk one junk drawer fills up, and then you got to get another one because you're not going to clean it out. No, no one's got time for that. And while we're on this topic underneath that big sink, you're going to get so you can tell your kids do the dishes. You're going to want it big underneath the sink because that's where your bag of bags is going. Bags on bags on bags in there.

And you might get to a point where you have two different bags of bags, you know, different types of bags. So a bag of bags, a grocery bags, and then a bag of bags, all the other bags. And then there's definitely a distinction. There's the ones that got a little bit thicker plastic. Yeah. Those are your fancy bag of bags, right? You bring, you bring gifts over in those are sudden folks home with a lot of really thin ones that you maybe get from the dollar store or, you

know, convenience store of some sort. Those will go on a separate bag of bags. There's a distinction between them because once for leftovers and the others for dog crap. I like those little stick bags in the dark. I like. I like to talk stick bags in the yard. I like I like to go. I like to knock out my bowl. Oh, yeah. You can't throw those away. You throw them. If you're throwing away a bag,

that's a problem. Yeah, we don't know. It's like that piece of wood in your garage. You never know when you're going to need it. If there's not enough wood in your garage, you've got at least three other grouches. You're doing it wrong. All right. garage, at least three other grouches. You're doing it wrong. All right. Yeah, so I suppose we'll just send you a bell for our interior design feet. Yeah, it's not too much. I'm only two, uh, two beers on mine. Miles, what are you charge? Yeah, I got three to four, three to four.

Yeah, my way more than you do, I can put a few more down. So we'll just call the case. That's very doable. Okay. Real good then. Great. Well, you know, Charlie, I'd like to think another household helped out another household helped. You know, we're happy. We're happy to do it. Call us anytime. Anytime you want more decorations. Okay. Oh, we really appreciate it. Yeah, and have fun at dinner. Oh, we just got some hot nuts. You guys, you got to get over to Dale's ease in Milwaukee. Hmm. Oh my god, these nuts are hot and good. They are hot and I'm bothered. I love having hot nuts in my mouth. Wow. They got almonds, pistachios, chestnuts, this is better hot. Cash, shoes. Well guys, I hope you have fun at dinner. I can't wait to send us a picture of the newly remodeled kitchen when he

get it done. Oh, yeah, we'll do. I'll send it over about two to three years. Sounds about right. That's a reasonable timeline. We wouldn't expect any faster. Right on time. All right, well, you guys enjoy your date night

and hey, watch out for deer on your way to the restaurant. OK? All right. All you've got is wheat test out. All right, we'll do. Enjoy your date night and hey watch out for deer on your way to the restaurant, okay? All right, we'll do bye bye now That is a classic I'm getting to it situation that they're about to embark on yep, it is going to be All right, let's paint the cabinets and they're gonna take all the doors off and then they'll be like, you know what? I was gonna paint the doors. But let's just go with the open concept. And then let's just get rid of these doors or stack them in the garage somewhere.

It's gonna go through several evolutions before they're happy and it's never really gonna be quite done. You know, my mom always said a good house is never done, Charlie. Your mom's a smart gal. She is. She is. Well, Miles, that about does it for us here today. We've got some hot nuts and good vibes, good hot nuts and good vibes here on the Belly Up podcast.

Folks, make sure you get out to Dale's ease and Milwaukee. Check it out. It's a fantastic bar and place and pick a ball, place and Pickable. And do me a favor. Make sure you tip your bar tender. We'll see you the next one guys. Love you.