Bellied Up - Which State Has The Best Beer? #135

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

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I'm your host Charlie Barron's and. Son of a buck. If you're looking for another podcast to listen to, Cripes cast comes out every week that I remember. Miles, how are we feeling, huh? You have an asterisk, like on the graphics, like new episode every week asterisk. If we remember.

I should. What are we gonna say? I was just saying, how you doing? I'm doing good, how are you? Yeah, I'm doing great. Built a bench this week, no big deal. Work bench, yeah, cause I'm a real man. Okay. Uh huh. I can say I have not built a work bench. Yeah, cuz I'm a real man

I can say I have not built a workbench before yeah, I got working man hands miles Look at those see little cut that was a paper cut from opening a box That's why you lost to me in arm wrestling is you had that cut on your dude Anyways, I'll lose to you in arm wrestling you cheated. Okay. Um, so you built a bench. Yeah, I did. Why? To prove to myself that I'm worthy That's why is it to prove to yourself or to your dad that you're my dad. Yeah thousand percent percent That's basically everyone's motivation is to prove to your dad you're worth a damn. Well, you know, I got this garage, OK, and the garage is a mess. All right. So I'm looking around in my head. I can't. So instead, clean the garage.

I was like, you know what? I should build a bench. Yeah, because otherwise you wouldn't have anywhere to put the stuff once you clean the garage. Right. And there's a lot of things I got to build in this garage. Like I got to build a little stand to hold this shelving. Yeah, you know, you got you. There's a lot of steps between cleaning your garage or between now and cleaning your garage.

Right. First and foremost is you need a good working tool bench because you need more horizontal surfaces to put things that you're not quite sure where it goes or what to put away out of having on the floor. You just put it up in the air a couple feet. Yep. And that way you can get a better look at it. It can seep into your imagination. So, yeah, I what I did, Miles, I built an eight foot long bench with I got four by four as the basis.

So that sucker is rock solid. Not going anywhere. Not going anywhere. That would be a great name for your woodworking business. Ratchet strap. Oh, I thought you meant not going anywhere. Yeah, ratchet strap incorporated. And then you're like, you know, is it solid? And you're like, that's not going anywhere.

I like it, dude. Now some of the pieces may be held together by a ratchet strap, but that-hmm that sucker's not going no It's not and that's okay by the way y'all if you need a ratchet strap to just make sure you to double check your work That's fine when when Charlie Barron's is building a bench. Are you a pilot hole guy? It's funny you should mention that I was drilling these one by ones on on the lower deal because I know what a one by one is now. And and I drilled the first one in, crack the wood.

I was like, yeah, you only drill pilot holes after you crack the wood. That is true. Yeah, that's smart. I mean, because you know, you hear your dad in the back. You're right. I told you, well, you just take your time. Have the patience. I have this old deck that's rotted out. And I was telling my dad that I was going to take it down. You know, he's like, he said, you don't have the patience to do it right.

And I was like, damn, that hit right to the. I don't have the patience to do it right. Here's how I was going to do it. I was going to it's a leg bolted into the side of the house. I just got undo the leg bolts, put a rope around it and pull. That was my idea. Yeah, just.

I'm still not convinced it's not a bad way to do it. Back your truck up to it. I was just gonna pull, cause at that point it's top heavy, you know, so I bet you. Right on top of you? No, long rope dude. And I'll stand behind a tree to make sure I'm protected.

Okay. You know? I would save that for when I'm there. I'd love sure I'm protected. Okay. Yeah, I was saved that for when I'm there I'd love to be a part of that. Yeah, you want to do that? I kind of do you just want to film it You want to film my film crew? You want to do that is there's good wood on it, too So we take it apart and then we got all this wood to make some else and if not, there's just a nice bonfire We got exactly so that's actually the next thing I'm building though, after my bench is I'm building a wood caddy. Oh, I thought you were going to say a deck. No, the deck, this deck is two

stories. So I gotta, I gotta learn. I gotta, you start with a wood, right? Then you go to the wood. First you gotta clean the garage and to clean the garage. You need a wood bed, the wood bench and, you got to clean the garage and clean the garage. You need a wood. The wood bench and then shell all this year. Many steps away. And I do. And in this garage, I inherited because the the person I purchased the thing from just didn't want to clean it out.

So I got a broken snowmobile, a broken UTV, a bunch of broken old machinery. So I have to fix those too. Projects. Ask me how good I am at fixing light machinery. About how good you are at taking down a deck. Yeah, exactly. Gonna find a tree to stand.

Yeah, I've rebuilt a carburetor, if you remember from- I do, yeah. Speaking of, that was the highlight of your year. That was last winter, I wouldn't shut up about that. So now the starter is broken on this. It's an old one. It's an old snowmobile. So how did the workbench turn out?

Did you finish it all or is there still some pretty good? It's pretty much does it have a top on it? Yeah, it's got a top on it. Are you going to stain it or are you just dog? And I'm going to try and figure out how to plane it. And actually, the top on, I'm not sure I'm satisfied with it. My buddy just redid his mom's read to my baby, Jay, mom's redoing her kitchen. She's got this old butcher block, uh, thing. So what I'm thinking is I may cut that up into a few pieces of refashion it as

the top of this work bench, cause it's really nice butcher block situation. And so, you know, you're going to have to oil that thing up on a regular basis. Well, if you want to use it properly as a butcher block, yes. But, you know, in my scenario, it's going to be in the garage. It's past the time of oiling up. Now this is where you kind of drill.

You have my drill vice to it. At this point with a workbench, you can drill holes in it and it's just like, yeah, that hole had a purpose for this job and now the hole just exists. I like that. So it's almost done. It's almost done. Got a few-

When you started this, you said, I built a workbench. Yeah, started this, you said I built a workbench. Yeah, but. So you built most of a workbench this week. What I built is not going anywhere. Okay. It's rock solid. Yeah, okay. It's rock solid.

So yeah, it's there and you know, it's fun, Miles. I gotta tell you, just get out there and work it with your hands, you know. I don't mean to brag, but I'm more man than you. I'm more and I can beat you in an arm wrestle, by the way, now that I built that bench, I can beat you in an arm wrestle. Hey, should we take some colors? Well, I was one more question for you is now that you are a master craftsman.

What advice would you give to guys out there that want to get into building a workbench? Oh, well, it's really easy. Just go on YouTube and figure it out. No, honestly, I got to work. I got my, my dad actually got me a woodworking book last year for Christmas. And so I just cracked it open. It's, it's like cooking. They got all the directions right there. Really? It's like Tinker Toys. So you basically built this thing like you would Legos.

Kinda, yeah. No, I did some cute things, I will say. I didn't just drill the two by fours to the four by fours. I cut out little slots in the middle. So I was on a table saw, I was vroom, vroom, vroom. Then I got the chisel in there with all the cuts and I satisfying. And then I sanded it out after getting the chisel in and I could feel hair grow in places I didn't know grew hair

miles, you know? So I'm sitting right now. So that's it. If you want to get into woodworking, you just got to go That's it Few saws. I will say you you want to make sure you buy a nice drill or a drill. I have a drill and Chop-saw and After that you can pretty much do you know, you can do a lot with just those two things and And then there by the way great place to get tools believe it or not You can do a lot with just those two things. And then there, by the way, great place to get tools, believe it or not, the Goodwill.

Okay. Goodwill, they have to, now these aren't good tools, but it's enough to get you off your feet. They're not good tools, but you will have goodwill. You will, yeah. Now I will also say that for some jobs you want to make sure you have the right tool You want to make sure you actually did invest that and so I would say drill chop-saw

You know use any wood glue I? Did cuz I screwed up one cut so I I just glued it back together You cock and paint make a carpenter what he ain't. Oh, I like that. He's a cuck. Anyways, Miles, have you built anything recently? I built a bench. Did you?

Yeah. Oh my gosh. I mostly built a bench. Where's the bench in the house? In my entryway. Really? I still gotta stain it. Wow, well, you don't need to do it Wow me and my dad built that last

winter that's awesome man congratulations thanks is it decorative like this chair is decorative you get any of those designs no but that's actually a good idea to buy more time before I have to stain it as I plan on putting a design in it with a chisel exactly exactly this chisel then this looks yeah I mean, they knew what they were doing back in the day. You don't see them like this no more. Only see it in the Amish.

By the way, we should say major Gulsby's, here we are in Milwaukee. Big shout out to this amazing facility. I used to come to this bar as a kid with my dad, actually, before the Bucks game or the Marquette game. And, uh, you know, it's just a fantastic drinking establishment. There's a lot of great sports memorabilia here. Motorcycle.

There's a whole ass motorcycle in the deal with a guy riding with the cheesehead. So it's right here in Milwaukee. Um, and, uh, just across where the admirals play, I feel like I can feel the history in here. Yeah, you can. And there's an Einstein sitting on a bench over by the door. Yeah, you know, there's a there's a big pig in there. You can from the World Fair that they are something.

Was it from the World Fair? Oh, yeah. A fundraiser. It was a Don Nelson for fundraiser for the farming. Yeah. So he got the pig and they would take it around on a parade and they put money in the pig, right? Yeah, now the pig sits right over there. We'll do a picture with it after, Miles. Yeah, we should.

Yeah, so anyways, shout out to Major Goolsby's and you know, there you have it, Miles. Should we take some colors? Let's do it. What do you think? All right. Guys, we have John from Michigan on the line and he's got a little bit of a marital spat on his hands. Oh.

His wife wants to wear a t-shirt to the band that they're going to. Oh no. And he doesn't know if that's too good or not. So John, why is that such a big deal? Well, it's a little bit backwards. Actually. I'm, I'm the guy who likes to wear the themes apparel and my wife is Oh, gotcha. I flip-flopped it. That is a no-go. You're what's your wife's name, John? Her name is Erica.

Erica is absolutely correct. What band are you trying to see? What band are you trying to see? Is it Nickelback? Oh gosh, you know, I know about a photograph of that band, but I haven't listened to them anytime recently. That's a well played John. I like what you did there. What is so wrong, Charlie with wearing the band t-shirt to the concert. I mean, that's the place to go. No, that's the place where you buy the t-shirt for $120. That's not the place you wear the t-shirt because everybody's like, okay, dude, we get it. You're a fan.

Your presence here is the t-shirt. Yeah, it's like redundant, you know? It's a hat on the hat. It's Gildan the Willy. You got me started on this Charlie because it was you guys sitting at the bar wearing a shirt of the bar that you were drinking at recently and so when I got that.

Wait Charlie what? That is completely different John. That is patronaging the bar. I got a free t-shirt on that day and I spilled on my other shirt. So that's. Oh yeah, right. That's why I did it.

That's why I did it. Now. Well, it's sending mixed signals. Yeah, you got caught in 4K, dude. No, I didn't. Yes, you did. These cameras are 2K. First of all.

Second of all, John, everybody, like, what band are you going to see? Well, this is less about band, but just seeing shirts in general, you know, if I were going to see a band, you know, I might be going to see, you know, an old nineties punk band or something like that, but a blink 182. Yeah. There you go. Oh, is it blink way too? Cause you're avoiding telling us the concert.

Are we going to the concert tonight? No, no, you know, see like, I like to go to the bar and I like to support the local brewery. So I would wear a brewery shirt or something like that. Or, you know, if I were going, you know, I've been skiing out West or here in Michigan. And oftentimes I'll wear the, the place of the resort that we're going to. And I will tell you, you know, sometimes I do get mistaken for an employee of that business. It's like back when I used to wear a uniform in Catholic school and the uniform was khakis

and red polos. And my mom would take me to target after school and people thought I worked there. Well, okay. I'm starting to get it now. I'm starting to see a little bit of your wife. It's not, if it was a couple isolated incidents, right, Charlie, if it was just a concert, if it was just a football game, a little different, he's buying resort t-shirts and sporting them around the resort. He's got a thing miles of where every place he goes, he has to get that shirt. When you go to Kroger, are you wearing the Kroger shirt too? Do you just have a wardrobe in the back of your car that no matter where you go,

you got a shirt for that? Well, you're giving me ideas now that that's not half bad. I sometimes wonder what I'm going to wear out that day, but maybe I can just plan it around the trip that I'm taking around town. You should. I have yet of anyone pass away recently in your life. Do you get a funeral home shirt? Oh, man. That's deep.

No, thank God. It's about six foot deep. Yeah, he walks. He walks in the funeral and he's just like, you know, you know, well, so I feel like, hold on Hold on hold on I'm doing a bit I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm so sorry for your loss He walks by a funeral director and like pulls open his button-up shirt, and he winks at him. Hey, you're doing great work Wasn't that good of a bit? That's actually not bad because actually one of our close friends is a funeral director.

So I probably could score some merch. Oh, that's, I bet the merch booth at the funerals is just popping off to like, yeah, why, you know, we always say, Charlie, when one of us goes, we're going to make a killing off of an RIP miles or RIP Charlie shirt. Why are't we just doing that at funerals to help cover the cost of funerals miles. Your funeral is going to have so much merch. It's going to be ridiculous. You're going to have your funeral at your bunker and it's just going to be a flash sale. Yeah. It'll be a garage sale basically. Yeah. But you know what I mean? It's like, you know, a grandma Kathy goes,

I want an RIP grandma Kathy with their face on it. I'd buy that at her funeral. And then all of the proceeds go towards paying for the funeral. Miles also, I love that idea, but I think you just stumbled on a beautiful, beautiful idea. I think this is genius. Every funeral in the Midwest should be in the guy's garage, and that's where the visitation should be. Roll the casket right in there, and then everybody gets to take something from the garage when they leave.

It helps clear out the garage so the family doesn't have to do it. Yeah. And it's a good going-away gift, and that incentivizes people to put cool stuff in their garage while they're living. And then you can bury them in the backyard to save money on a plot.

Yeah. And then you have a barbecue while it's going on. Oh, this is going to revolutionize the funeral business. Your buddy's going out of business, John. I hate to say it. Hey, you've heard of a New Orleans funeral. Midwest funeral is the way to go. Yeah.

Do it in the garage. Midwest. Goodbye. Hey, with the Midwest, goodbye. That funeral is going to take like two days. Yeah, it is. You know what? And instead of laying the guy down, you got to prop them up with his hand on his knee, you know? So everyone walks in there knowing that we've already started well by suppose. Yeah. You know, that would be, that's actually, I want to, when I die, I want to casket that when they open it, every time they open it, it just says, well, I suppose that's good. Like one of those cards that you can get music playing and then just have a closed casket, but encourage people to open

it up and take a look at a single time. And maybe that's a pop-up one. And so you have daisies popping up every time, you know, popping up daisies, get it. Little play on words. Pretty cute. Okay. I don't think you liked it as much as I liked it, but anyways, John. So anyways, your, your wife is right, but I I'm starting to think that I mean, this is John, you are a classic Midwest person. How is anyone supposed to know that you went to a concert or you went on a vacation if you don't get a novelty t-shirt with that band or that resort on it?

How are they supposed to know? Well, and here's where I'm conflicted with, you know, this marital spout, because a couple years ago, my wife, we planned a trip to go to Disney, and she insisted we wear the matching shirts with the year that we attended Disney on them. And I was totally against it,

as someone who likes to do the, the place of the thing you're doing, but except Disney, I think it's a little too cliche. So I caved and I did it. And up to her, she says, that's fine. You got to do this. But when it comes to other things, you know, comps or, you know, stuff like that, she's, she says that's a no-go. I'm just getting mixed signals. Is your wife a Disney adult? I say, do you have kids? Yeah, I have two boys. OK, did they go to Disney when you

went to Disney? They did. Is your wife a Disney adult? A recovering addict. Oh, no. My God. Do you see your kids showing the same troubling signs of carrying the Disney

into adulthood? We made strides this year. We skipped Disney and we went to Legoland in the universe. You know, you can do it. Did you show up to Legoland with a Lego Lego movie t-shirt on or what? I'm passing on the tradition. Actually, my boys had Lego theme shirts. Oh, all right. All right. Well, you know, you can do it. Oh, go ahead. From the root

of this, I don't know if you did the investigation for it, but this all, I guess goes back to a book from a 1994 movie, like 1995 PCU is college movie, kind of like animal house. And Jeremy Piven, the actor says to John Favreau, he says, you're going to wear the shirt that you're going to have the band that you're going to go see. He says, don't be that guy. So I don't know if everybody else has just had this whole thing passed on from generation to generation since that movie, but why is that? Oh, like a misnomer, but you can go to the, you know, Packers game and a, and your best. Yeah. I mean, I can, Charlie, I I'm trying to come up with it's good reason why you shouldn't do it completely different.

I'm trying to come up with a good reason why you shouldn't do it. And I can't think of anything. What's so wrong with letting them wear a Mars cheese castle shirt to the Mars cheese castle. Well, that's different too. You can wear a Mars cheese castle shirt to the Mars cheese castle. Well, that's different too. You can wear a Mars cheese castle shirt to the Mars cheese castle. It's just something about the band. Something about it. It's not cool, Miles.

It's not cool. I don't know why. As you are sitting here as Charlie Barron's wearing a Charlie Barron's piece of merch. Completely different. I'm trying to sell these. manswagman.com. And they're not $100. I got a follow up question about this

because I have old t-shirts in the closet that I refuse to wear because I feel like, you know, they're in this weird limbo state of being old but not vintage. So like, how about shirts that have dates on them? How long can you wear them with a certain year printed on them before it gets weird? And then when is that acceptable to wear them again now because they're vintage you ever have like a, Hey, 1999, you know, tour or a family trip, 2022 on it.

I think, I think if it, the more recent it is, the weirder it is. You had like a 2021 band t-shirt tours, maybe keep that in the closet for another 10 years and then you can whip it out and it's cool again. It's like a fine wine. You got to find cheese. You got to let it age. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're thinking plus two years. You got to let it simmer, but then get it out a decade later. Yeah. I think, yeah. If it was last year's shirt, you could probably wear it, you know, but two years just gets weird. There we go. Yeah. All right. So I'm good. Good tips. I

have one last question for you. What, what's been the weirdest combo of shirts to event you've wore? Like what's been the most obscure shirt that you've wore to that facility or event? Oh, well, I'm going to incriminate myself, but back in high school, you know, a group of us did go to a Blink-182 concert and while it was mostly dudes in the group, we did have a couple ladies join us and we made handmade shirts with letters printed on them that spelled out, let's see some titties. Did that. Oh, that's classic.

God, that's just creative is what that is. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of it's resourceful as well. Anyways. Well, good for you, John. I say, John, don't listen to the haters. Keep wearing those shirts. Keep going to events with said shirts on. And yeah, you're a true Midwest guy for it.

Cheers to you, John. Cheers to you. Thanks guys. Well, thanks for calling in today and have a good one, John. Well Merry Christmas to you guys. I'm not sure when you guys will play this next, but we just wanted to say we're thinking about you and holiday season. You too, John say we're thinking about you in holiday season you too John thinking about you too John tell your wife we says hi all right guys watch very Midwest dad of

him to be going on vacation and going on vacation in Scottsdale and coming home with a whole arrangement of shirts about Scottsdale. Yeah. I mean, I, I, does he go to like the holiday and he gets like a holiday and T-shirt. It's like, Hey, do you guys have any of those employee shirts back there? If you just have one in the last. Yeah. I'm in it. So I have to wear polos to work. So if you've got a holiday and polo back there, that would be greatly appreciated. Should we take another one? Let's do it. We have Randall from Washington state on the line and Randall is wondering which Dakota is better North Dakota or South Dakota.

Randall, I'm mostly wondering what why South Dakota or South Dakota Randall. I'm mostly wondering what why South Dakota. Oh, shot fired. All right. This is how it's going to go. Well, one, why are you such a South Dakota fan? You live in Washington state. Oh, I'm just looking at other places to live across the country and been considering South Dakota maybe, but I thought I'd ask a Dakota professional before I made a decision. Because I think in the Dakotas, because I like the taxes and the land. Yeah, you know, South Dakota, their motto is great faces and great places. And there's a reason why they don't say great smiles in it, because they're all on meth and none of them have any teeth.

You know, miles quit messing around. They like Tyson. South Dakota, I think, is a very beautiful state. You got the black hills there. You got, you know, the, the, that one rock with all the faces they drilled into it. You know, you got two falls, you got a lot of pheasants there. What does North Dakota have? You can't just be crapping on South Dakota. All right, are we doing this? Yeah, we're doing this.

All right. What's so great about North Dakota? Which state is better, North Dakota or South Dakota? You guys go first. You said Mount Rushmore. What else? I don't know, dude. I'm not a geographer.

Oh, Randall, what about South Dakota? I'm in agreement with Charlie. I mean, all those are good points. Black Hills, you know, a little more mountainous hills. Just a little, just a little less flat, I guess, than North

Dakota. And I mean, I don't know, at least, you know, you got Sioux Falls is a pretty nice little town. It's a little bit. I mean, you guys basically all North Dakota has as far as I know, Fargo. And I mean, how interesting is cargo really? Well, one Sioux falls is just a wannabe Fargo.

Let's put that out there. So everything Sioux falls is they copied from Fargo one to Fargo's got a TV show and a movie about it. I don't I've never watched the HBO series Sioux Falls. So let's just throw that out there. Plus, we have a plethora of interpretive centers. You guys just have what is centers. What is it? And that would in by centers I mean rehab centers for all the people on meth Wow

We have the Madora Musical ever heard of it. No, it is the Broadway of the Great Plains Everyone knows that Wow Sounds a little plain to me. We have a capital building that is on a hill. Okay. You guys do have a, and it's a nice capital building.

You guys have, I mean, I could go on and on, then do it. All right. We are dangerously close to Minnesota lakes country. So you bet. One of your best things is that you're close to another state. Yeah. It's location, location, location. What do you guys next to Wyoming? You guys are close to Wyoming. A lot going on there. It's good fishing in Wyoming. I have a good, I have a question for you though yeah let's see you get let's see you get to Canada without going through North Dakota okay all right I mean I guess that's one fair point but how many people from South

Dakota are visiting North Dakota versus the other way around I mean like why why would somebody from South Dakota visit North Dakota when you got the Black Hills? Have you never heard of the Jamestown Buffalo? No well, that's because You're from Wisconsin Charlie, so So what about that people go up and see the Buffalo all the time. We have the Continental Divide There's a Continent Divide in North Dakota. Yeah, I think so does that not extend into South Dakota, you know, I Think South Dakota also has a I think the continental divide literally divides the freaking continent miles

No, cuz when you're driving on the interstate south you see a sign that says continental divide and then there's no other signs in South Dakota that say that you, if I wasn't so lazy, I would Google it and call you out on some of this stuff. Miles, I think Charlie will back me here. South Dakota has the sturgest motorcycle rally. Well, we have interpretive centers. What the hell is an interpretive center? Well, it's different for each person. It's all about how you interpret it.

Yeah, it's up to interpretation. So I don't want to put it in a box. Randall, why is it? Well, what else about you? Okay, Sturgis. Not too bad. If you want to get some sort of STD or something like that. Yeah. Not just that you could get shanked as well. That's true. If you'd like to scar your kids for life by taking them downtown rapid city

during Sturgis and he sees a woman who should not be wearing assless chaps and a thong wearing assless chaps in a thong. Yeah, I do that corrupt the youth Well, hey, you got me there already. I'll admit that people were assless chaps and thongs on motorcycles Yeah, I seen it really. Mm-hmm Wow guy or gal both both nice Actually, that was what you call an interpretive assless chaps. You didn't know. You only saw it from the behind. Yeah. Wow. Look at the bottom. That one. Yeah. He must work out.

Like a game you guys play over there. Is that a guy or a girl? So I got, I guess there to do with the interpretive. So Randall, what else is South Dakota? God, I've been rattling them off. South Dakota's got a lot of good stuff. Miles, you know, you can't look it up. You can't look it up. Charlie, you gotta go off the dome. South Dakota. First of all, South Dakota's got a life size David statue downtown. You got the tour day statues at the Sioux Falls area. And there's a lot of cool statues that they have there. There's a brewery in Sioux Falls and they have bars

and bars and a hotel that I stayed at. There's great pheasant hunting in South Dakota. They got the best pheasant hunting in Dakota as well. Well, they got better in South Dakota, no doubt, no doubt. And the the hills are beautiful in South Dakota. From what I remember driving through. Now, I took a train through Fargo once, but it was dark outside and I don't remember anything

that was worth mentioning. You planned that trip correctly going, the whole pass through North Dakota was at night. South Dakota, better with the lights out. Well, Randall, what do you think? I'm not so sure you convinced me on North Dakota. I mean, the really the reason I was thinking that the code is in general. I don't know if you guys know much about Washington or the Northwest, but

we're kind of known for being impossible to make friends with. Like we're friendly, but you can't really make friends with us. It's real. It's real difficult. You gotta know somebody your entire life. Otherwise you're never going to make it into the community. So you're, you're feeling, are you from there originally? Yeah, I'm from here. And so, yeah. So you want to go to a place where you can find friends at the filling station? I want to go somewhere just where the people are more inviting and not. I don't have you been to the West Coast, West Coast people. We're not the most Washington kind.

I've been there. I've done some shows. I actually got some shows coming up in Seattle Tacoma That area folks are wondering Charlie Barons comm it's coming up in. Oh, yeah coming up here But I ever come to Portland Portland. Yeah, I've done Portland. Yep Yeah, and how are you? I'm closer to Portland. How was the crowd in Portland Charlie Portland? You know there was there was a lot of uh tattoos from what I recall someone actually gave me a lots of tattoos of trees and birds Yeah, yeah the tree. Yeah, I have a tattoo of a bird on my hand Yeah, that makes sense

The tattoo artists are making a killing on landscape tattoos out west. They're hot right now. No, when I was doing a show in Portland, I there was a fellow there. He gifted me this homemade glass piece that said F the Bears on it. It was pretty and he gave me all criminal amount of marijuana too. I didn't even feel comfortable bringing that on the plane. It was like, okay, I can't bring this on planes. I guess it'll just smoke it all right now. Oh, I couldn't. No, no, no, no. My gosh. They don't mess around with their, um, their THC levels out there. You gotta be careful.

To circle back to the whole, go ahead. Oh, I was going to say the whole North Dakota, South Dakota conversation. I would be open to the idea of a mega Coda. Like I don't, I don't sound like a problem solving solar. You know, there was a thing on the internet not too long ago. Why don't we just combine the two? And I know, you know, we are different, but would be nice to get a little extra real estate. Be nice to do a mega coda. What do you think of a mega coda idea? I like it personally.

That's a good idea. Reunite to Dakotas. Yeah. Why does there have to be this north south divide? Personally mine that idea. That's a good idea reunite to Dakota's Yeah, why does there have to be this north-south divide? When was the Dakota Civil War by the way? I? Don't remember that happening and also why couldn't you get more creative with? The name of the state, you know Yeah, what was the what was the divide over you guys couldn't figure out who it was the continental divide it was a continental divide Miles this is why you gotta stay in school kids. So you don't turn out like miles

Teddy Roosevelt go to North Dakota or South Dakota. It was North Dakota. Wasn't it? Yeah, so that's only because the train went through there What's true It was North Dakota, wasn't it? Yeah. So that's only cause the train went through there. What's true. It's cause the train went through there. That's why he went there. Why do you think they put a train to North Dakota? A lot more going on. Well, maybe back in the 1800s, there's just more Buffalo to poach out there. I suppose it's true. Exactly. Well, I have a proposition for both of you. Yes.

I would like to make a statement that there are two, there are two out of the three things that the Midwest is good at, that they're known for, that Washington state is better at. Washington state. Say that again.

There are two out of three things that the Midwest is known for that I think Washington state is better at. All right, well let's hear it. First I'll give you guys, like I said before, the third one I was thinking is friendliness. You guys win on that one. But when it comes to

beer and cheese, we win. I'm sorry. We got way better beer than you guys. And we got till much cheese and it's I've had, I've had, I've had Wisconsin cheese and I'm sorry. I don't think it went, this is, are you Randall? This is terrible timing. We are currently in Mars cheese castle right now, Randall Does Washington have yeah, tell me how many cheese castles do they have in Washington Randall? I'm stunned with your ignorance right now Randall I couldn't even believe I was hearing the friggin words coming out of your mouth. You freaking hipsters take your little goat, cheese, cow, Splendor, whatever, and shove them where the cheese goes. Comes out, comes out. You get what I'm saying. It doesn't come out. I get

blocked up. If it makes you feel any better. My roommate, he's from Kentucky and he told me that that was fighting words when I was talking to him about it. Yeah. So he already he's from Kentucky and even he knows that and that's saying a lot. Charlie, some people just like to watch the world burn. And that's exactly what this guy is. And also better beer. Oh my gosh. What do you, we have the best beer in the country. No, you don't. I hate to break it to you. A quadruple blueberry scone,

IPA sour is not better just because you put a bunch of shit in it to mask that you can't brew a beer. Doesn't mean it's better than the beer that we got. Be a man drinking Milwaukee's best ice. All right. For God's sake. You guys have lagers that taste like sugar water and piss. I mean, we've got flavor in our beer.

Flavor? You know what the truth is? You could brew an IPA in Washington with toilet water and you wouldn't know the difference. Yeah, you guys throw enough spices and crap in that. You can't tell the the purest drink, the light beer, best light beer ever. All right, Charlie, let's pretend we are brewers in Washington. Ready? God, you know, turns out we're not very good at brewing beer.

What do we do? Because we bought all this equipment. Well, now it turns out that our beer is not very good. What do we do? OK, OK, OK equipment. Well, we're now it turns out that our beer is not very good. What do we do? Okay. Okay. Okay. So we're going to go to whole foods. Okay. And we're going to find the best. We can use my rewards card. We'll use your rewards card. We'll just get a bunch of spices and a pumpkin and just drop them all in there. Yes. We'll do watermelons, peaches, apricots. Do you think we should go with like kind of a bland favor or like a tart flavor? What should we go with?

Let's just go with a very tart sour. We'll call it tart sour. Yes. Yes. Yes. If we do all of that, then no one will know we suck at brewing beer. Exactly. They'll get distracted by all the extra flavors. You know what else we'll do? It's like cooking dry chicken and then putting gravy on it so that it's not so bad in your mouth.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Also let's take- Little nice chicken au jus. Basically we're brewing beer that we mask it with au jus. I just like the way you say au jus. It's French for juice. Oh, ho ho ho. What were you saying though? I wanna take a lock from your hair

and a lock from my beard and a lock from your grundle. And I want to put them all inside the beer and mix it in there. Extra flavor, extra flavor. We can call it a beard brew. We'll call beard brew and the other one we'll call a grundle. Because all of our clients wear flannels and big beards and have tattoos of trees and birds, and that's what we can put on the label.

And they've never picked up a hammer, so we'll make the handle just nice and crisp for their dainty hands. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I don't know, I kind of lost it there at then. We'll workshop our last one. We'll workshop it, sure. I kind of lost it there at that. We'll workshop it. Yeah.

It was funnier in my head, but it came out dumb. But anyways. Oh, and what we'll do is we'll pick an old building and put a bunch of Edison bulbs in it and call it reclaimed. And that can be our brewery. Even though it'll be a new building. It'll be a new old building. It'll be new, but we'll just put the,

we'll do the duct work on the outside of the ceiling. Save money, but then we'll make it a style so that it looks cool. The shittier, the better. And all of this stuff will be there to mask that we can't brew good beer. Oh my gosh. Let's turn on the dials front. I think you're right on the beer quality, though.

You guys are way far off. I mean, yeah, we got the fruity little weird beers. I'm not sorry. I can't hear you over the Mumford and Sons playing in the background. Can you turn it down? That little lion at the start. You've got to give us credit though, because for what? Beer in America was dying out in the early seventies. And then it was the Northwest that

made beer popular again. And you want to know why it's true. It's true. It's because we made beer good again. It had flavor for the first time beer almost died out. People Americans weren't drinking enough beer anymore. Real Americans were Americans in Milwaukee were where we have Miller light. I don't Miller high life. Like the Midwest into your fantasy world. All right, buddy. Yeah, we've been keeping it. We've been keeping it 100 for a long time. You guys are just in a fad. All right. Talk to me in

five years when you're drinking your THC seltzer. Charlie, here we go. We're back in it. We're back in it. Okay, back in it, yeah. All right. What's that? We've been making all of these exotic beers. Tell me more, Caleb.

But the market seems to be somewhat saturated, and it seems like there's a small group of people that want these exotic beers. So what if we took out all of the stuff we put in it and made it really crisp and took out some of the flavor to appeal to more people and we'll call it a soft beer. No, that's not right. What can we call it? It's not heavy. It's a, oh, it's lighter. We could do a lighter beer. Oh, it's lighter. We could do a lighter beer. Call it. We'll call it hippie lights. Yes. That's what's going to happen. Randall, when everyone gets sick of drinking cinnamon toast, crunch smoothie, sours, they're just going to be back drinking light beer. It's how it's

going to go. It's already started going that way. You know, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I won't my roommate again from Kentucky. He said I was wrong on the cheese, but he did agree with me. We have the best beer in the country that he's ever had. Well, he's from very talk to you with the, what do you say? You heard me, Randall. I did not. I say he's from Kentucky, all right?

You know, drinking the same stuff. They drink Miller Lite and Bud Light and Budweiser. I know, but their taste buds are a little funny because some of their aunts are also their moms, all right? So. No. No. No.

No. No. No. You know, I can't defend. All right. You know, you got you got a look for the bartender, Charlie, she was like, what is he talking about? I'm a Kentucky. Listen, oh, after you said that, she's like, oh, yeah, I know. That's not all people in Kentucky. OK, that's just the people in Kentucky that think Washington is better beer than Wisconsin. All right.

OK. All right. You're just backpedaling now so you don't get a bunch of Kentuckyans coming after you. No, fuck it, Charlie. Don't backpedal. Yeah, you know. Tie your state of Kentucky's that way.

Say it. Don't backpedal. Yeah, you're right. Don't let Randall win. I'm not letting Randall win. I'm just trying to sell tickets in Louisville Camp Randall's jumping around all over on you right? Oh, I like what you did there. Yeah, Randall. Your name's Randall We got camp Randall here change your allegiances. Why are you even talking about the Dakotas come to Wisconsin?

It's a better W state I did think about Wisconsin a lot of my family was originally from Wisconsin before they moved out here. We'll come back. I thought about it, but I don't know the Dakota. It's more affordable, better, better, more land, cheaper land. I want to raise some cows. You want to raise some cows? Yeah, want to build a farm. Look at you. You've been on that that one Instagram algorithm, haven't you?

Oh, I'm not on the I'm not on social media. I'm kind of an old kind of an old school guy How'd you find her podcast then? Well, I'm on Spotify. Oh, well, thanks for finding it. Yeah. Thanks for finding it. Well, Randall, we appreciate you calling in, man. This is a good, good little friendly duke it out section session. Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me. Thank you. All right. Take care. Now tell your roommate I says I'm sorry. All me. Thank you. All right. Take care now. Tell your roommate. I says I'm sorry

All right Folks I didn't mean that if you're from Kentucky out there and you think dance man You're thinking of seeing me on tour. I was just kidding. I don't think you're in bread Sorry Let's keep that in okay I think I think I made some pretty good points about North Dakota yeah you really did it was the nail in the coffee I think the continental divide folks I gotta tell you are you ice fishing this winter if you are I've got the cocktail for you. It's a little tippy cow, okay?

Best part about tippy cow when you're ice fishing is you gotta ice all over the place. So you go out there with your chisel and you get a little few ice chunks, you put them in a glass and then you pour over a little tippy cow and mm-hmm. Here's another pro tip, you get that auger, right? You get one of the handheld augers. So you get control over it. You put it on the ice.

You go, you know what you got now? Shaving shaved ice, shaved ice. So you take that shaved ice in your mitt. You put it in your glass. Now you got a little, a little, it's like what you buy at the gas station, the filling station. Well, I was going to say it sounds like we're getting Hawaiian shaved ice right there on in the middle of the Midwest. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking like a slurpee, but Hawaiian shape. Same deal. Same church different pew. That's right, folks. That's how you do it. Get that auger out there. Go

nice and slow. So you go, you get that shaved ice, add some tippy cow, and you are cooking with gas. I love it. And you don't wanna know something, Charlie? Yes. Everyone needs a lucky shirt when they're going ice fishing. Oh, sure do. What's your lucky shirt?

Sure do. This is my shirt, Miles. What does it say? Tip of glass, not a cow. It's like, kind of like save a horse, ride a cowboy. Tip of glass, not a cow. It's like kind of like save a horse, ride a cowboy tip of glass, not a cow, less sexual, but still fun. Um, how many fish you caught wearing that exact shirt? A thousand. Yeah. I don't think that shut up miles. Don't question me. Thousand fish. So guys, you can get those shirts on our website. Oh, you bet you.com

tip glass, not a cow. Good luck ice fishing and, uh, well shaved ice. Great tip. Thank you. My, that was a great tip. I don't get complimented often on this show, so I'm going to put that right in the pocket, right in the pocket. Charlie. I thought I was going to have to call Nicolay at some point on the drive here today. Oh no. What'd you do, Miles? Um, I was riding with you. Miles, why are we bringing that back up? I thought that maybe we were going to catch some black guys go spinning into the oblivion and I was going to get injured, but I didn't. Yeah, because it's over freezing. I would have black ice is like a 15 degree thing, Miles.

But as we were driving... Fresh rain, flash freeze. What the hell is wrong with you? As I was driving, I had my phone down by my side and I had the number 1-855-NICOLAY queued and ready to go. So as soon as we went spinning, I would be ready. But didn't happen, thank God.

But guys, if you end up driving with Charlie and you do end up in an accident and end up getting hurt, gotta give a Nicolay law call miles. Why don't you get that number dialed back up before I beat you with this microphone? Call Nick Clay fear of the beard. There's no way I can lose that one. I, it's premeditated. Yeah, it is. I've been meditating on that all podcast. So guys go to Nikola law.com and they're going to help you out. Hi, is this Miguel? Hey miles. How's it going? Doing good. I got Charlie here with me too. Miguel. How are you doing? I'm doing good, man. What's cooking? Oh, nothing. Mac. Just got nothing much. Just got back from a driving around all day riding around.

Good for you. I had to head up to Fort Knox. Oh, I hear it's beautiful this time of year. Good for you. Pretty decent. So you got something you want to say about water towers is what I hear. Oh yeah. I heard that y'all are more interested in in one of your episodes and you had all these questions and I used to up until This year the water tower inspection through our college and so I might be able to answer some of y'all's questions. That's awesome We got a water tower expert right here on the bellied up podcast. I I've always loved water towers. I've always been fascinated by them. You know?

Well, that's one of the parts of it. We had to make sure they are beautiful. So whenever you're over there just staring at them, you're not staring at an ugly blob of white up in the sky. Okay. Yeah. I got questions for you. I got them lined up.

Um, the Midwest is water tower towns central. I mean, we got water tower towns everywhere, but you'd think at some point we would, uh, standardize the water tower. But when you drive through Minnesota, Wisconsin, every, it's almost like a snowflake. I feel like every single water tower is just a little bit different than the others. So I got a question. Why are some water towers, the wine glass shape with the one stem and the bulb at the top? Why does some have four legs? Why does some have eight legs? Why do some have no legs? The lieutenant Dan special. Why is there so many variants in water towers? Well, for one of the features on them, it depends on their size and the capacity. The

easy answer for like the four leg and night lug is, are you dealing with a million gallon, 2 million gallon, 500 gallon? It's just kind of the weight distribution and where it's at now for like the ones that look like lollipops, that's just different manufacturers and depends on who is building it and refurbishing them and doing work on them because it's an open market so you're not just, if you do water towers, you're not in one spot. The contractors I work with, a lot of them were based out of Kentucky But their employees were from Texas, North Carolina and they travel all over the country to do them they go up for bid and They sit there and send out whoever's the most qualified or cheapest bid and it depends on which water tower

They can build with their specifications. Wow, that was a that was a detail. That was the whole book I would expect nothing less from an inspector. What is your favorite water tower? And let me start by giving mine Rochester, Minnesota. There's a water tower that looks like a corn cob. Oh, really? Yeah. I haven't seen it. They painted it to look like corn cob. I think it's Rochester might be Mankato. I think it's Rochester. I brought it up in one of the podcasts. I actually had to look it up when he brought

it up and it was a really cool looking water tower. We'll give you that. Oh, I brought that up before. We'll have to excuse us. We go. We've done a lot of hours of hours of my pastime while I'm driving. That's one of the reasons I started listening was when I was driving from tower to tower, I would spend hours on the road and started listening to you guys. Well, thank you for letting us keep you company on the road. Now, what is the purpose for people that don't know anything about water towers? Why put water in a tower? It seems like a lot of work to get it up there. Or does it just open up every time it rains and just collect?

It's kind of like a Mercedes Benz stadium where the, the top kind of holds open. It's like a ball. Well, so the biggest, the easiest answer to that is gravity is that you push the water up and then it helps dis disperse it throughout the town. The higher up it is, the just gravity spreads it out. So if you have a closer house to a water tower, you're going to have higher water pressure. Oh. So if you got a sky one taller building than the water tower in town,

do you have to have a Lieutenant Dan on top? No, it should even out. Those things are pushing out a lot of pressure. And then it's actually funny you mentioned that they don't open up from the top. They fill up from the bottom. They have an inlet and outlet pipe and it'll bring the water up through there and it stores it. And that way it can be pushed out throughout the town. And most of the times they're not under half a tank. They're constantly being filled and pushed out throughout the day. So do the, is it hard getting the water up the tower or is that just the physics of water and water rises?

It's just your average pump station. Okay, so there's a mechanical pump getting it up there. Yep, and they also do have storage tanks and water towers, I guess water tanks into the ground and on the just regular surface level. You just don't really see them as often. Now inside the water tower, can you go swimming if you'd like? That's, that's actually how we used to do the interior inspections with all up all the scuba gear and go swimming in there. That doesn't make me feel good about our water

supply. I was going to be next question is how do you clean this sucker? Yeah. Are you paying in your scuba suit inside the water tower? Cause everyone's peeing in their wetsuits a little bit before my time. My, my boss luckily had a, a drone called the RoV that I just call up there and let me tell you what, alling that son of a bitch 200 feet in the air with just a rope is not the best workout on the arms. Your arms are burning. Why don't you just leave it on the ground and fly it up there?

Yeah, that's just. It's not one of these new drones that are flying around the country. It can only go in the water. It can't fly and go in water at the same time. Wait, the drone, they have in water drones? That's called a submarine first of all basically it's a little submarine we have a tether and remote control it I

don't know why I thought he meant a real drone like like a DJ yeah that's what I thought too actually first he said actually Charlie I should bring this up to you I'm pretty sure is Wisconsin that was having one of the water tires worked on and it was a gentleman cleaning the inside. And for some reason they decided not to drain it like they normally do. And it was a guy from Texas who thought it would be okay to scuba dive in there and clean it and didn't take into account the weather difference and ended up getting hypothermia and dying inside of the tower. Well, no way there's a dead guy in one of the towers. Well, rest in peace. But also that's our drinking water, Charlie. Oh, so do they have to get rid of the water? Yeah.

So yeah. Does this water get purified or is the, yeah, trust me. There's like 15 million filters. They have to go through before it even touches your faucet. So they feel better with the dead guy in the water tower. They, they didn't even, uh, they didn't even do anything special. It's just, they got them out of there and I'm pretty sure it has to be a full tank decontamination. At least that's what we would require is them drain it and, it and decontaminate it and go through the whole process. But then again, each state and city has a different inspector. You said there's all these filters in the water.

Are these filters pulling out the microplastics? Because we have so much microplastics in our water. I should have seen that one coming. Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm not really a water biologist. I just make sure the water towers are staying top shape and I recommend the engineers in the cities and make sure the contractors do the work properly. Well, just so people know, there's so many microplastics in our water that we got in our brains and our balls. Miles,

you got like, you are worried about this as you are drinking beer and drinking liquor at a bar. Yeah. I mean, that's going to be the way that your afternoon. Hey, miles beer does something to my brain. Okay. Water. Like I didn't ask for the microplastics.

If the microplastics made me feel a little loopy and then fine. That's my choice. But, uh, I didn't ask for that. Micro-dosing microplastics for a good high? Yeah, I mean, if that got you high, then that's a different story. You're choosing to do that. But no one's choosing to put all these microplastics

in our balls, you know? I got a question about the cleaning process. Is it similar to pools in the sense you just have a pool boy that comes over, kind of shirtless kind of rock hard abs, maybe oiled up a little bit. And he's got these shorts on. Are you sure you're in a happy marriage miles? Sounds like he's not, to be honest, it might be a little bit more a Beverly Hills pool boy life. Yeah. I was just wondering if, if it's the same type of process or not. I mean, it depends or fat Mexican, your type. Oh God. Now he can say

that his name's Miguel. Okay. Let me remind everybody. Let me remind everyone. Oh, no, it's like they have that pool boy type situation. They're like, I don't know. All the middle-aged women in town gather around the water tower every, every first Wednesday of the month. It's just weird. They got the, they dress up more covered and clothing than anything else. They are from the head to toe covered in long sleeves gloves. Cause a lot of times we're working with the bracelet materials so they can't show off their glistening bodies to the local women. It's really, they hide it. Unfortunately, really ashamed to cover all that up. Good Lord. It was a fun industry to work in. Got to work with a lot of different people and got to climb a lot of different towers. And yeah,, see that's where I'm out. I can't

do heights. If I had to climb on top of water tower, I think I'm more of a lieutenant Dan type of water tower guy. If I had to inspect it, give me close to this. I'm a flat land guy. Keep me as close to land as possible. I didn't realize you had such a fear of heights. It's not the fear of heights. It's the fear of falling. Oh, okay. Oh, you have a harness on harness on. I don't matter. You, you, you put that on now. They'll prevent you from falling. Don't matter if it makes you feel any better. My hands are starting to get sweaty. Just thinking about climbing on top of a water tower. Can't do it. Let me feel. Oh yeah. I told you he's perspiring over here. Perspiring. Yeah. I sweat first. Brady shut Miguel. Shut up, dude. See, I, I'm talking language and I'm like it when I can correct, you know, just when I

haven't happened often, just when I was turned a corner on inspectors, you gotta say something like that. Como se dice. You're a jackass Miguel. When I was working concrete, the inspectors would come with their pocket protectors and just start pointing out shade and all that. And I was starting to turn a corner thinking, Hey, maybe all inspectors aren't a narc nerds. And then Miguel, you said something like that. But that wasn't to you miles. That's for Charlie. I know. Well, it is refreshing to see someone calls Charlie on his bullshit once in a while. You do it all day miles. Someone else called his bullshit. Well, Miguel, listen, what do you do now? By the way, I don't do anything. I'm trying to get on active duty orders with the Navy. And it's

just a pain in the ass. Well judging by the state of the world politics, I feel like you're going to be getting out of here in no time. Well, I don't know. We'll see about that. I can't really say much on it. If I knew anything, I'd say it, but I don't know anything too little. Sounds like someone would say who on it. If I knew anything, I'd say it, but I don't know anything too little. Sounds like someone would say who knew something. Who's got the best Navy in the world, Miguel? Is it us or did China beat us? I think we do.

Okay. Okay. But I can't really speak much. I haven't been in the Navy for too much while I did the Marine Corps for six years previously. Damn. I've put branches. Wow. You're a bad ass dude. You went in the transfer portal.

I did too much money at the other place. You got something you want. I know you, I know you like, yeah, actually I do. I got a buy sell trade. What's that? I got a piece of land out here in central Kentucky, right off a beautiful golf course. So miles, if you want to, you know, build a little escape home, it's about half an acre right off a beautiful golf course. So Miles, if you wanna, you know, build a little escape home, it's about half an acre right off hole 11, and I'm trying to get rid of it. Wow. Is it a nice golf course?

It is a nice golf course. Okay, see. I don't really play golf, but a lot of people seem to enjoy it, and it's one of the nicer ones around. What do you want for it? We're asking 45 for it. 45,000?

Yeah. Geez. Yeah. I got a half acre now. It costs me more than that. Yeah. Well, listen. Miles, why don't you buy it? It's an investment. It could be.

It's a tax write-off. It's the end of the season. Is there any direct flights from Fargo to Louisville to Louisville? Most likely. But Lexington's probably a little bit closer to me. Oh, got it. Well, it's not that far of a drive miles. You just get through, you, you start to end south, you get through like six, seven episodes of the bellied up podcast. Yeah, exactly. I'll have to talk to you old ball and chain. See what she says. All right. All right. All right All right

well Miguel was so nice talking to you and thank you for your service Appreciate that been a long time listener. Okay. Well, we do appreciate you and watch for deer out there All right, y'all do the same. Have a good night. All right. We'll see you now That was really cool. I learned so much about water towers All right, y'all do the same. Have a good night. All right. We'll see you now. That was really cool. I learned so much about water towers. Yeah. Next time you, you drive a lot for the old fashioned tour. Yeah. Take a peep at the different water towers. You see I've been peeping water tower back in the day when they did the, the States on the back of the

quarters. Yeah. And then you get the booklet and collect all of the quarters. Oh yeah. States. Yeah. They should start doing the booklet and collect all of the quarters. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They should start doing that for water towers. Every water tower should have a little penny machine where you put a penny in and you get a water tower penny back. That's good. Well, like the ones where you crank it and it flattens it out and puts a design on it. Yeah.

We should do. Let's start. That's a good business for us. Thank you very much. Oh, that's we just got some eat cheese. I want to talk. Oh, OK, fine. This is Packers colors. That's what's up. Eat cheese or die. Eat cheese or die.

All right. Was that it, Charlie? That's it, Miles. It's another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast. It's been so wonderful sitting here with you, my friend, even though you gave me a bunch of crap today, which is unfortunate. I'm gonna put this bracelet on. Look at this, Miles, we're like friendship bracelets.

Eat, cheese, or die. Eat, cheese, or die. Well, that's it, folks, here at the Mars Cheese Factory. Mars Cheese Castle. God, Miles, we went through a whole episode here. You should get the name right. Sorry, I was so enamored by the eat cheese or die bracelet. It's kind of like a WWJD.

What would... This is the WWCD. What would Charlie do? Eat cheese or die. Eat cheese or die. All right, folks, nice to see you. Tip your bartender and watch for deer. See you next one.

Love you guys.