บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ From Costco TVs To A Driver Lounge Built For Road Warriors

walks up and he snatches the bag off their microwave or the box or the box and he has to go through and verify there's no sesame in it. 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:01.840 And they're like, what? 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.560 I'm like that with TVs at Costco. 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:05.439 You snatch them up. 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:06.879 I can't stop and look at TVs. 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.159 I gotta keep walking by. 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:08.639 Why? 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:09.759 Because I'll buy a new one. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:10.879 Oh, that's ridiculous. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.159 Who buys who buys their TVs at Costco besides me? 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:17.199 Vince has raised his hand for those of you that are listening. 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:20.560 Exactly. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.560 In free in free uh shipping, and they installed it themselves for free. 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.919 Um, which was a fiasco because one guy showed up ahead of time. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.479 Eric and I had to install the TV while the other guy supervised. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:31.280 It was weird, remember? 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:32.159 Yeah, that's odd. 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:33.120 It was very odd. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:36.639 Uh, but you know, it's up and it's level and it's you know. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:37.360 There you go. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.199 Did we have to level it after they left? 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:39.759 Yes. 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:45.280 But you know, I used to install TVs professionally, so at least I have that skill. 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:46.240 There you go. 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.400 There's always that scratch on it, and then you remember, oh, that's the film. 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.960 I don't think there's not a scratch on this one though, right? 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:53.439 No. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:54.719 Is there a scratch on this one? 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:55.199 Okay, no. 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:56.159 It was just the film. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.560 There was a mark on it before we pulled the film. 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.080 Oh, it was yes, okay. 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:01.520 No, no, you're talking about yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:01.919 I remember that. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.599 Like the plastic rack wrapping film. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:04.719 Yeah, it makes sense. 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:11.599 Well, our last TV was open box from Costco that I was able to negotiate down even further than the open box price. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:13.840 I we could have done that, I guess. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.120 Well, why didn't you? 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:16.479 Well, I didn't go to Costco. 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.680 I because I knew if I stopped at Costco, I would end up buying a TV. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:20.080 Yes. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.479 So instead I waited for a Black Friday sale and I was like, well, when in Rome. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:25.120 As you do. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:26.560 You gotta get the Sicilian pizza. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:26.960 You do. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.319 But you could have negotiated down the open box down a little lower. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:32.719 But my box was closed. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:34.960 You can open it. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.360 We had we had someone come and show up and open it themselves. 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:40.000 Nice. 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.120 By that I mean we had to help them, but still. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:50.159 It was a crazy so the person shows up and their helper is like, and this was the helper. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.080 Even crazier, this was the helper. 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:56.080 And so the main person's like, I'll be there in like 30 minutes. 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:03.520 And I'm like, well, this is nice having someone who very lovely man, spoke marginal English. 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.719 Um, so we're trying to communicate as best we can, right? 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:08.080 We're all being civil. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.919 And finally he's like, he's like, 30 minutes. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.199 So he's like, no, no. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:18.720 And he goes outside, he grabs his tool bag, he comes back in, you know, tool bag in one hand, level in the other. 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:29.199 I don't know why he brought the level, and uh, he's like, you you get that side, you get that side, and so we we started taking the TV apart. 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:30.560 If am I lying, Eric? 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.480 Like, this is what really happened. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:33.600 You know what I mean? 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:39.839 Spend$2,800 on a TV or something, and this is how Costco shows their appreciation. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:53.680 And uh, we had it not mostly done, but a good ways into it by the time the second guy showed up, and then we were able to sit back and they hung it crooked and then uh left, and then uh Eric and I went in and um fixed it. 00:04:53.920 --> 00:05:00.639 Now I did uh uh I I I feel weird about like uh when someone comes to your house do things like this, do you tip them or not? 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:01.279 Right? 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.439 Because I never know. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:07.279 Sometimes I'm like, eh, maybe sometimes not so much. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.759 This felt like a situation where I needed a tip. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:10.800 I don't know how to describe that. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:11.839 It just did. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:12.480 Okay. 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:13.199 Does that make sense? 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.680 Just stand around at the door while okay. 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:16.319 No. 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.439 Um no, it felt like it felt like I wanted to. 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:20.000 Okay. 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:22.959 Like installation was your poor job. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:24.639 No, they did a good job. 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.519

They're just crooked. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.639 Oh, just crooked. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:28.879 That's all and it was I fixed it. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:29.439 Okay. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.600 So I um the hard part. 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:32.399 They got it on the wall. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:38.800 Yeah, but I did I did break the tip up and I did give the main guy considerably less than I gave the helper. 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:40.720 Oh, I get that. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.600 Like, I'm sorry. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:43.279 I mean initiative. 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:44.800 He's like, why should we be waiting? 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:45.120 Absolutely. 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:46.319 Absolutely. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.160 And the sooner you can get out of my house, the better. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.959 Like, you know, I wanted to watch TV and see what's going on. 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:51.439 Yeah. 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:55.199 And then I think as soon as that was over, didn't we record an outer belt that night? 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:56.319 Oh, I don't remember. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:57.279 I think we did, right? 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.639 Because the uh yeah, because when you came in, I was still setting the TV up. 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:01.519 Yep. 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.560 Oh, it was crazy town. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.319 And now I I love the TV. 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.319 It's although I will say this weekend we were watching something, and Eric said we need a bigger one. 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.279 So always a bigger one. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.199 I didn't say it, he did. 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:19.519 So I think you guys have been through like four TVs since we moved here three and a half years ago. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.600 There was a 65, the 75, the 85, and now we're in the 98. 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:25.600 Yeah, and we're still on the 65. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:28.160 Which fits. 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:32.639 I mean, yeah, I I joke with buttermilk all the time about getting a new TV. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.000 We don't need a new TV. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.519 Our TV is just fine. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.439 Well as much as you know, I like electronics, is like, why? 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.040 I I felt the same way. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:45.759 So we actually bought this TV last year or in 2024, so two years ago. 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.079 Two years ago, but really 13 months ago. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:48.800 You know what I mean? 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:49.199 Sure. 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.639 Uh I guess 14 months ago. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.160 So uh I bought it then on a Black Friday special and it was five grand. 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.879 And I it yeah, it was one of those things where you order it, and it's same with this one. 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.399 I ordered it for Black Friday special, and I didn't get it until January. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.240 Like it just takes that long for them to come in. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:12.560 Um and while this thing was on delivery or whatever, I'm like, I can't spend this much money on a TV. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:13.839 This is ridiculous. 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:17.680 And so I did go back and canceled it last year or in 2024. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:24.480 So when it came out this year and it was less than half price, I'm like it was less than half the price it was the first time. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:25.040 The first time. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:25.519 Yeah, right. 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:28.079 So I'm like, ah, okay, I'm gonna buy it. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.560 Our TV was like 1,500. 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.319 It was a previous year's model and it was open box. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:34.720 Yeah. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:36.560 And I got it for 700. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:44.319 And I got the Costco extended warranty because it was over the certain price originally, and they threw it all in. 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.800 I mean, they didn't deliver or set it up, which was fine. 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.600 You know, I it doesn't my ours isn't mount to the wall. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.120 It does, but we don't mount it to the wall. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.680 Yeah, it sits on a TV stand, but it fits our room, it fits our space. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:56.160 It does. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:57.600 I I've been in your house many times. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.759 I've never walked in and been like, oh, you need a bigger TV. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:00.480 Yeah, exactly. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:00.800 Right? 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:01.199 Exactly. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:03.519 How do you watch things on that? 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:03.839 Yeah. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.959 Well, if you did, it would be like uh Jerry and Don's. 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.040 Jerry and Don's TV is way too big for their space. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:10.560 Now they love it, and if they do, that's great. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.279 That's all that matters. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:12.000 That's all that matters. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.759 Is if you're happy with your TV. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:15.360 I think y'all would agree. 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.519 Like, I have a a large living room. 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.160 It's two-story living room, it's it's big. 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.800 You can easily your seating is is far enough back from the TV. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.160 You're not sitting right there on top of the room. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:27.920 It doesn't feel like you're watching the movie. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:28.800 Right. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:30.959 Yes, like at the first row of the movie theater. 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:33.039 And then you can't see. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.000 Wait, do you ever and you couldn't really see out to your left and right? 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00:08:38.799 Right. 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.679 I think where I sit is 18 feet from that wall. 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:43.279 That's that's quite a long way. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:44.480 That's not an exaggeration. 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:45.840 No, it's literally like 18 feet. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:46.720 Yeah. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:55.840 So it's I think if you look at this at the what you know, they had those scales where they're like, if you're this far away from the TV, you can have a TV this small or this big, and you'll feel comfortable. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:56.159 Yeah. 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.360 We're definitely on the upper end of that, but we're still within those boundaries. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:08.080 I think technically we could go a little bigger, but the price jump from a 98-inch to like a 110 or 115, it's like$100,000. 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:09.679 That's not sarcasm. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:10.159 Wow. 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:11.679 It's literally$100,000. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:12.080 Yeah. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:12.320 Really? 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:19.200 And I'm like, I could buy, I don't know, a house or a TV that's gonna be worth five grand in two years. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:20.000 Two years. 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:20.559 You know what I mean? 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:21.279 Six months. 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:21.679 Yeah. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:22.879 Like it doesn't make any sense. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:26.639 The benefit, though, of you buying a new TV is the hand-me-downs. 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.559 Hand me downs that we get in the driver's lounge. 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:31.840 Right. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:32.559 Very true. 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.159 I mean, the TV in the driver's lounge is I don't know how big, but 86 inches. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:43.600 It's a beautiful big TV that is there for our drivers when they come in and they're at EOW taking care of business or something. 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.480 They can come and hang out and watch TV in the driver's lounge. 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.240 It's got Direct TV on it. 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:49.840 You know, it's it's there for them. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:51.120 Is it officially open? 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:51.840 Is it open yet? 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:52.879 I know it's still an ass. 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.279 Officially open, I don't know what that means. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.840 However, we do have the access code on the front door now. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.320 Um Yeah, I was gonna ask when I was there earlier, why is it taped to the front door? 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.240 I feel like that's counterproductive. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:07.279 The code number? 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:07.679 Yeah. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:13.120 Well, because somebody comes in, they haven't seen their their newsletter that has the code on it, uh, that hasn't gone out yet. 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:17.039 And then they're they they have the code they can just, oh, just read it and punch it in and go in the door. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:17.600 Okay. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:17.919 Yeah. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:19.679 Well, what about burglars? 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.639 What about they're not smart enough to get in there because it's the code. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.960 It just seems they're just not gonna recognize it. 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.080 It just seems silly. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:26.799 That's all I'm saying. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.519 It seems silly, but really if you think about it, it's not. 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:29.759 Okay. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.480 Don't think about it because I don't want to start a fire. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.240 But if you think about it, it really it really isn't. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.720 Um Well, and the fact that you put it on a post-it note, too. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.440 I mean, do you think there's so much wind that goes to there? 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:42.799 How long do you think it's gonna last? 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.360 Well, you know, get there now and you can you know the code. 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.639 If you don't get there, if it's not already if it's not already gone, it's gone. 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.039 It's raining, so it's probably melted. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:52.320 Sipping, dripping wet. 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:53.120 Sipping wet. 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:55.039 Sipping wet. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:56.399 Uh no. 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.799 The driver's lounge, we got it all set up with the TV, coffee maker, coffee. 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:00.960 Yeah. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.840 It's got a bathroom with a shower, um, water machine, a microwave. 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:06.720 A water machine. 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:07.600 Water machine, yeah. 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:08.240 It makes water. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:12.159 We have a washing machine. 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.759 Yeah, if you if you push the button, it water comes out magically. 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:16.720 Are we doing the heat? 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:17.840 We're not doing the heat, are we? 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:18.960 The heat, the hot water? 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:19.279 Yeah. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.600 Ah, run it through the Keurig or run it through the microwave. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:22.720 Oh, there's a Keurig? 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:23.919 There's a coffee maker. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.240 I shouldn't name the brand because they don't sponsor us. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:26.639 Oh. 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:27.919 So there's a coffee maker. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:28.960 But they take K cups. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.000 They do take K cups, which a lot of coffee makers these days take K cups. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:33.600 Would you recommend them bring their own K cups? 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:38.799 They can bring their own K cups so they have a brand that they like, or they can use the coffee that we provide for them.

00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:40.559 And there's a decaf. 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.919 There's a regular non-decaf coffee. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:44.720 Sugars? 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:44.879 Yeah. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:46.960 There's a coffee station. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.919 You've got your sugar, your artificial sweeteners, and variety of colors. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.039 I thought I saw, I thought I saw some kind of vanilla pump. 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.600 There is a vanilla creamer pump there. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:11:59.919 Yeah. 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:01.039 No, it's just vanilla. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:01.679 Just vanilla. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:03.440 Straight vanilla. 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:04.639 Straight vanilla. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.120 Lovely. 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.279 So the teams that have already stopped by, what are what are some of the things you've been hearing? 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:10.480 They're loving it. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:12.480 Wednesday TV getting mounted on the wall. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:13.919 But I take care of that. 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.000 When will we have TV service? 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.480 Um, do we have uh do we have uh direct TV in there yet? 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.080 We do have direct TV in there, yes. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:22.879 Cool. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:24.159 We have direct TV in there. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:25.919 Uh there's internet in there as well. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:26.399 Nice. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.159 You need internet access while you're there. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.919 Uh during business hours, uh, if you get a hold of one of the staff that's there, we can print things for you. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.600 If you have permits you need to print it, that kind of thing, we can print things for you. 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.320 Um but you know, that's during business hours, of course. 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.039 Um but yeah, it it's it's uh it's ready to go. 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.639 I was gonna ask about that printer because that was a much much really excessively debated. 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:49.919 It was debated excessively. 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:50.559 It was excessively. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:51.679 I really overthought that. 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:52.159 I know. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:03.120 The fact that we uh like went and looked up reviews for printers that have been made in in six years, the fact that one person on staff literally recommended a dot matrix. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:03.600 Right. 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.840 That was where do you find a uh a PCI? 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:10.320 No, but not print uh a printer cable. 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:15.919 Where do you find printer cable to USB C adapter? 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:17.120 Jerry? 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:18.320 Are you serious? 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.480 So you're talking to like an iPad? 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:21.759 Like a laptop? 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:22.720

Like a laptop, yeah. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:23.759 You gotta be able to hook it up. 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.039 And dot matrix don't have uh Wi-Fi. 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.279 You can't do like remote? 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:30.240 Not on a dot matrix. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:31.039 No dot matrix. 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:31.440 No. 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:32.639 I mean, I guess we could run it. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.519 No, the paper's not crazy hard to find. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.360 What's hard to find is that little table for it to sit on. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:37.600 Yeah. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:42.080 You know the one with the little slot on the bottom of it? 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:43.200 Oh man. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.039 I mean, we were we were all in on the dot matrix until we couldn't find the table. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:47.679 Yeah. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:48.879 That was the only thing left. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.320 And we thought about custom manufacturing a table, but it seemed like that's excessive. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:53.120 That's excessive. 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.559 So that's when we eventually went to uh laser. 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:57.200 Laser. 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:57.679 Yeah. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:03.200 My dad used to bring home the extra paper from work, so we'd use that for coloring and stuff. 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:09.120 So I can neither confirm nor deny how we got our dot matrix paper because I don't want to get sued by a multinational company. 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:15.200 The uh the um the uh what do you call that time? 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:27.679 The statute of limitations of limitations is not no no uh we uh the thing that was cool about the dot matrix printers back in the day, if you ever had one, those are the ones that were like everyone had them at when I was a kid. 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.320 So in the 90s, it's maybe the only printer you had. 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:34.960 If you had a uh if you had a printer, and if you had a uh what was the other one? 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:36.159 The uh inkjet. 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.279 Oh you living high on the hog data. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:40.240 Fancy pants. 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:40.799 Exactly. 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.240 Um exactly, but you could not print anything discreetly. 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:44.720 No. 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:53.759 I mean, the whole house knew if you were printing, yes, dot matrix or inkjet, the whole house knew because the inkjets weren't quiet then either. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:54.559 No, they were not. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.600 Everything has changed so much since uh I was a kid. 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:58.799 Like everything was loud. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:14:59.279 Yeah. 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:06.879 Like even just turning a computer on, you know, you had like this uh 100 horsepower fan to cool the power supply. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:11.200 That was uh they had just just invented transistors.

00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:21.120 I was just a dial up tone for AOL or I was on I was on Juno at the time, but nothing was quiet. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:22.240 Oh, I remember Juno. 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:22.879 Oh yeah. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.639 Yeah, we were Prodigy until Prodigy went away and then we went to AOL. 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:32.480 But we had but even like you wanted to like let's play Monopoly games, so we gotta put the Monopoly and load it in. 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:33.039 Right. 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:39.200 So you put the the Monopoly uh the floppy in, and then you go with the little key. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.120 It was a thom. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.440 And then you had to download it and install it. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:43.679 Right. 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:45.279 Because there was nothing running off of it. 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:46.240 You couldn't play right off. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:47.120 You couldn't play right off. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:48.559 That was unheard of. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:56.639 I remember when CDs came out and you started having games where you can actually just play them off the disc and it was like, I don't I don't have to install anything. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:56.799 Right. 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.320 Yeah, but sometimes you had to wait for it to download to the next screen. 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:06.720 Well, right, there was a C had to spin up and we don't have any of that stuff in the driver's lounge. 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.720 We're not that advanced to have CD rooms and floppy disk in the driver's lounge. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.320 Right now, we do have Wi-Fi, though, is what I do. 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:19.919 So bring your own we have a little charging thing if you happen to forget your cable in the truck and don't want to go out there. 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.600 Got a box of extra cables. 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:22.720 We don't have a Blu ray. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.759 We don't have a box of extra cables. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.679 I don't have a Blu-ray player, I didn't hook up one. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:36.639 I I feel like if we have a special circumstance where we really absolutely need one, we do have a couple spares and you would have to go grab it and hook it up. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.519 But I'm telling you, between the walls let me tell you what. 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:40.639 Let me tell you what. 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:43.440 We don't have a Blu-ray player. 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:44.879 I wasn't involved in this. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.759 But what was so let me tell you a little story. 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:54.559 When we first set up the TV, uh we had a direct TV box that we connected to the TV and all was good. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:17:01.360 And then we had a little bit of an issue with getting direct TV boxes from our provider because they're using the same direct TV box that we use in the trucks. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:01.840 Correct. 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:12.720 And we had a bit of an issue getting direct TV boxes from the provider, and we had a team coming through that wanted direct TV and we wanted to satisfy them and get them a direct TV box. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.279 So we took it off the driver's lounge TV. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:16.559 And the lounge wasn't open yet either. 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:17.279 So it wasn't open. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.440 We didn't need it, and we gave it to them. 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:28.240 So when we started getting our shipments, our regular shipments of direct TV boxes, Jerry graciously came by to install it, and uh he didn't have fun. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.200 I wasn't helping, I was doing other stuff. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:37.680 Jerry did not have fun, and I've heard words come out of Jerry's mouth that I've never heard Jerry say before. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.680 Because he is a southern gentleman. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:52.559 And so, no, we will not be hooking up a Blu-ray player to that TV if you cannot stream it and cast it to the TV, you will not watch it on that TV. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.920 Telling you what, telling that right now. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.880 So if you want to watch something off Blu-ray, bring a TV in with your Blu-ray player and then send it up on a TV. 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:04.240 If you want a Blu-ray player for your truck, reach out. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.440 I got one or two. 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:06.240 Yeah. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.079 Uh that's great. 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.720 Sorry, I feel like that last part was ranting. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.200 That whole whole point of that whole conversation was the driver's lounge is open. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:20.559 Uh if you need the code for the door, look for the red post-it note. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.240 If it's a purple or blue or green, it's not gonna work. 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:29.759 The red post-it note or you can reach out to fleet support and they'll provide it to you. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:31.279 So we don't have red post-it. 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:32.079 Exactly. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.119 That's my point. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:33.440 Yes. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:35.920 Woo, you picked up on that. 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:39.440 This is fun. 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:40.319 It is fun. 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:53.119 I uh I'm looking forward to actually being able to hopefully, when the weather gets nicer, do some events there, maybe do some next weekend hangouts, do uh hot dogs, you know, in in keeping with our our brand. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:59.599 We have, of course, we mentioned before, it's not a surprise, the absolute cheapest coffee I could find for K Cups. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.920 And um, and uh one of them is terrible, and I do apologize for that. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.440 That's why we have the French vanilla, and the other one's tolerable. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:08.000 Yeah, sweet.

00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:15.839 Um so when we do the hot dog uh cookouts, I'm or when they do the cookouts, I'm thinking um the red uh hot dogs. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:16.480 Yes. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:17.680 You know the ones I'm talking about? 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.759 Uh it's like they're from Nebraska, by the way. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.519 16 of them for 33 cents. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:22.000 Yeah. 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:22.480 Yeah. 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:22.880 Yeah. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:24.000 Heather knows somebody. 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:25.359 We can get them in bulk for a discount. 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.559 But the problem is we got a ship. 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:28.960 Well, they need to make like 20 cents a hot dog. 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:29.359 I don't know. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.839 I'll be going home in a couple months. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.640 So I mean, we've got tons of FedEx trucks with reefers. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:35.920 Go get them, bring a whole shipment. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:40.000 Yeah, but if you get them, if you go, if you go now, you don't need a reefer. 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:40.319 Right. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:40.640 Exactly. 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:42.880 You can just take a box truck and just read. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.839 You actually give me a reefer so you don't freeze too deep. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.319 It is getting to be 50s and 60s out there. 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.000 So we did have a friend of ours reached out to me and Eric the other day. 00:19:52.240 --> 00:20:00.400 Uh he runs um uh a fleet of tractors um under his own authority, and they haul cheese and ice cream and all this other stuff. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:04.160 And they uh they had a truck breakdown in Columbus. 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.200 And uh not a truck, the reefer broke down in Columbus. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:15.440 And they said, Hey, do you happen to have a uh reefer truck we can borrow for a couple hours, throw the stuff in here and and and and hold on to it? 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:19.920 And I said, Well, I said, I I don't have one that could do that. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.880 Um or I I might can, I'm not sure, but I I just checked, do you really need it though? 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.039 Because it's so cold outside. 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:28.079 What are you worried about? 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:29.200 He said, That's the problem. 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:31.039 We can't let it uh freeze that deep. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:31.440 Yeah. 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:33.119 And I was like, oh, snap. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:33.599 Yeah. 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:35.759 And so uh I said, let me work on it. 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:41.920 And then a few minutes later he wrote me a text and said, Hey, I actually found out I've got a truck in the area, they're gonna go switch over there and grab the load. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.160 So it ended up being fine, didn't have to bother anybody. 00:20:44.400 -->

00:20:47.920 But um they uh yeah, that was the whole thing. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.559 It was just so freezing here, we had to keep the you had to keep the ice cream warm. 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:53.440 That's weird. 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.559 It did a crazy thought. 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:55.440 It's a crazy thought. 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:57.279 Absolutely. 00:20:57.759 --> 00:20:58.079 I get it. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:02.559 Uh so in my basement, I have a uh freezer, refrigerated freezer. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.599 It used to be upstairs in my kitchen when I bought the house. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:10.480 I ended up uh was it my pair, personal aesthetic style. 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.200 So we replaced uh we replaced it, but it worked fine. 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:14.799 It just aesthetically I didn't like it. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:17.440 So we got put in the basement because why not, right? 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:18.319 Beer fridge. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:19.359 Yeah, beer fridge. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:22.960 Literally or busy fridge or garage. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.759 Or when you send somebody to Louisiana to pick up a bunch of atuffe or or crawfish tails or whatever. 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:30.559 That's exactly where it goes. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.920 When we do the big uh the mentor retreats, right? 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.960 A lot of times it's it's racks of food and stuff like that. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:46.160 So um and it my freezer then that thing was actually too too cold, and we lost a lot of food to Freezer Burn because of it. 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:49.039 So and it's been I've been backing it off and backing it off, bagging off. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.400 I finally bought um they're called uh freezer thermometers. 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:53.200 Oh, yeah. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:53.920 Yeah, yeah. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.039 I highly recommend it. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.559 Specifically for your freezer, yeah. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:21:59.839 That definitely is ideal. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.720 Opening. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:08.640 When you see that it's in the danger zone of two frozen and you've already backed it off two clicks, I got an overachiever. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.880 That's good though to get one of those. 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:15.359 Yeah. 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:16.160 I'm excited. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:21.839 So I did go by the office today, or not the office, the shop today, and I did see uh a lot of what y'all had done. 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.359 It was a very busy day, so we didn't really get a chance to hang out and talk too much. 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:38.160 And it happened right at the same time as every um uh Tuesday we do a staff uh call because we're we are a global company, so we do a call read everybody on on the same page. 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:42.480 And um so that I was there during that time as well. 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:54.880 But I did get a walk around and

look at a bunch of stuff, even though we weren't able to chat about things, and I saw um like on the front door of the driver's lounge, there is a uh a door dedicated just to entry and exit from that lounge. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.960 Yeah, and they had uh some weird things with a deadbolt that I didn't understand. 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:01.119 I'm like, this is crazy, I don't like it. 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.079 I don't know why the previous tenant did what they did. 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:05.519 Uh but I was weird. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:11.039 But I saw how you uh got that uh keypad thing on there, and it looks beautiful. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:11.359 Good. 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:12.960 I was gonna tell you, I really like that. 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:13.440 I'm glad. 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:18.240 And I know that was from what I'm saying, that was the most difficult keypad to get, right? 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:25.599 It was a challenge because there were things we needed a keypad and locked to be able to do that. 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:30.480 A regular, like a regular one from Home Depot. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.839 Well, yeah, it it wouldn't do it what we wanted it to. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:34.160 Yeah. 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:49.839 There's a certain feature on it that the other ones, like the ones that's on the the kitchen door, or sorry, I call it the kitchen, the the the break room door and the office door, uh the that that feature can be defeated really simply like turning a switch. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:50.240 Yeah. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:57.279 And there's a lot of other ones that have a just a button or just a a a mate way to to defeat that and we can't share? 00:23:57.440 --> 00:23:59.119 And we can't have it defeated because fire code issues. 00:23:59.519 --> 00:23:59.920 Can I share? 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:00.319 Sure. 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:12.880 So what we want to be able to do is the the door, the way it works right now is when you open the door and go inside and you release it or lock the door closes, it locks on the outside automatically. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:13.359 Yes. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:15.039 Now you can exit what freely. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.480 It doesn't lock from the inside. 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:17.599 You can exit freely. 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:30.799 Um so the other two, if you turn the switch and there are others on the market where you just push a button, it defeats that's called passage mode, where you can have the outside unlocked all the time. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:31.119 Yeah. 00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:31.359 Right? 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:33.039 And just open the door and come come in. 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:41.680 What we don't want to have happen is somebody defeat that and then forget to reset it when they leave so that door be is open 24-7. 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:42.799 To the burglars. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:45.200 To anybody, to burglars, anybody, right? 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:45.839 Yeah. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:25:01.279 So the lock that I ended up finding finally, it has a button on the inside, but requires verification to allow that passage mode to work where it's always unlocked on the outside, which is a feature that we want to have if we're having a function down there. 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:01.839 Absolutely. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.279 We want to be able to not I gotta enter a code every time I want to come in and out, or you know, most people coming in and out. 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:12.079 Or the other option is prop the door open, but you got AC blowing and all that. 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:22.799 So this this one actually allows for you can set passage mode, you verify it with a couple of different ways to verify it, and it's it's unlocked all the time. 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:23.119 Yeah. 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.079 And then when you're done, you just reset it back to passage mode on. 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.640 But you can't accidentally do it, you can't accidentally do it, yeah, not realizing what you're doing. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:32.160 And it's a safety thing too. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:37.519 Like we do have we're in a shared lot, so there's four or five other businesses there. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:43.119 And so they may have people coming in and out at at all hours of the morning, and not know which business they're going to. 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.480 Not either not know which business they're going to, or they're not people we vetted. 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:50.559 We don't know who they are, we don't know what their situation is. 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:58.400 There is a certain level uh of a person that you have to be to be able to run one of our opera vehicles. 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:02.720 So um we know there's security inherently built into that. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.559 Uh we can't speak for the other businesses in that area area. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:12.799 So if you come in and it's like, all right, we're gonna be here for a couple hours, we're gonna do some laundry, it's three o'clock in the morning. 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:14.400 Hey, well, hey, that's what it's for. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:15.680 That's what we want you to be able to do. 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.400 Exactly. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:26.720 And uh when you close that door behind you, we want that door to be locked so that if someone comes and tries to get in there behind you, uh, they don't have that option. 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:27.759 They won't be able to. 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:31.839 And there's nothing you can do to accidentally disable that feature. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.200 And again, you can always leave. 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.079 That was a big thing too. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.759 We wanted to make sure we had 100% egress egress, right? 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.240 Yes. 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.319 Uh so you can always leave no matter what. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:42.799 There's no like, oh my

gosh, I locked the door on me on accident. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:43.599 None of that. 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:45.119 You can always get out easily. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:49.039 Um and so if you turn that lever, it's gonna unlock and you can go out. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:49.440 Yes. 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:50.000 No problem. 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:57.359 So that was one thing where just getting everything to fit in that mold was not nearly as easy. 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.000 It wasn't. 00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:59.440 It took what, three, four weeks to find it? 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:00.079 It took a while. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:00.400 Yeah. 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.559 It was a hot while and it looks good too. 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:12.079 It actually turns out it turns out that that lock is when I was looking for for the access to the staff area. 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:12.720 Yes. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:19.119 And realized that I didn't need that particular style of handle unlock for the staff area. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:25.519 But again, I've been in my research looking for that lock for the staff area, it turns out, oh, hey, it works in this situation. 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:26.400 So yeah. 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:33.359 And it also gets complicated when you're talking about um a deadbolt versus a slam latch or whatever. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:34.799 Yeah, levered lock. 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:36.720 So it's been uh it's been interesting. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:38.559 So I looked at it, it looks really good. 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.920 Um, I know there's one more project we gotta do in there. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.599 Um, and that is we're gonna be hanging some cameras. 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:46.000 Yep. 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:50.079 Um, and uh we got uh that system came in. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.839 It here it's a huge box. 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:52.960 It's a huge box. 00:27:53.119 --> 00:28:01.279 I saw that and I was like, just immediate, you know, like that when you've got like oh, we've got a big job ahead of us that's thinking. 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:03.200 Yeah, I had that immediately when I saw that. 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:06.799 Yeah, I I've been avoiding thinking about how we're running wires for that. 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.160 Yeah, that's not gonna be fun. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.359 Where they're gonna be run. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.880 That's I've been avoiding thinking that. 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.759 I am glad that we're doing running wires and and doing that style. 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:20.720 You know, anything like that's why Wi-Fi connected or whatever. 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.559 There's so many like variables where you gotta have Wi-Fi signal, you gotta have whatever, yeah, all this stuff. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.680 Yeah, we don't have to have that. 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.599 We got we're gonna put this on a UPS. 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:34.240 So even if power dies, we are gonna have 24-7

uh camera surveillance. 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.240 So again, just safety, safety, safety in the back of our minds. 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:51.440 And um, but that does mean physically pulling wire, pulling the the ends of the wire off, and then twisting those little twisted pairs, putting them in that little connector, and then that's the easy part. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.319 Where the wire runs is the hard part. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:55.680 I'm excited about it. 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.160 I don't know. 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:04.559 I don't know because I don't know because the one area that we need to get to to access everything is an office that no one uses. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.279 Yep. 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:06.400 Oh, I don't have a problem. 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.519 Drill, baby drill. 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.480 We'll just we will poke some holes. 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.319 Oh, one ball cinder block, isn't it? 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:13.119 It is. 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:15.920 I think we can go over that wall. 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:16.880 I think. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.519 Or there's already penetrations we can use. 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.400 Does it not have a drop ceiling that you can just no? 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:24.880 No, because it that's that's like the storm wall. 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:26.720 Yeah, we'll figure it out. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.759 Listen, it'll be fun. 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:30.240 I've I've listened I I've used a masonry bit. 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:32.559 I was gonna say masonary bit and a hammer. 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:33.680 Let's go, baby. 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.240 I just I was having a uh conversation. 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:41.759 Uh Brandon, uh, if you were at Expo the last one we had, was it 32, three years ago? 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:43.359 He was one of the guys playing guitar. 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:47.119 Uh he's done some uh private events for us with the mentors and stuff. 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:48.240 He's he's a really cool guy. 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:50.319 You'll probably meet him at upcoming functions. 00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.839 He also does some uh handyman carpentry. 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.519 Carpentry work for us. 00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.720 I wouldn't call him handyman. 00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:57.920 He's he's he's above that. 00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:58.640 He's above that. 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:00.160 He's carpenter, he's carpentry. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.279 He's custom installs and builds. 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.240 Beautiful stuff. 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:05.200 Beautiful stuff. 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:08.079 And he uh we were talking about hanging the TV. 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:16.640 I showed him my handiwork or whatever because he doesn't necessarily believe that I know how to use a screwdriver, let alone hang a TV and have it look as good as I did. 00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:20.720 Uh so I was showing him all that and he was like, wow, and

we were just talking about the way we did it and everything. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:26.799 And we were talking about that one wall being masonry and hanging the TV there, and he's like, Well, you know, I've done masonry and here's how we did it or whatever. 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:31.039 And I'm like, Oh, I I learned how to hang TVs in South Louisiana. 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:31.519 Oh, yeah. 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:37.920 I learned how to hang TVs at Catholic churches where your wall is uh three, four feet of concrete. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:43.519 I mean, like I've I've snapped masonry bits that were three, four, five feet long. 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:48.400 Like that that's that's all all old old hat for me. 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.279 And um, so yeah, I a cinder block wall. 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:51.920 Yeah, we got that. 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:52.720 Yeah, no problem. 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.599 It's not that won't be a concern at all. 00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:02.240 Um now the landlord, you know, you know we weren't gonna get that street deposit back anyway. 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:04.720 The landlord's not worried about it. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:11.680 The landlord's attitude when we ask to be able to do stuff is yeah, sure, go for it. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.920 There was something I asked the we have great landlords. 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:20.079 I asked them the other day about something, and they were like, why would you ask me? 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:20.880 I said it's in the least. 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:22.319 And you're like, It's in the least. 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:26.799 I think it was the elevator clause. 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:28.960 I think it was the elevator clause, yes. 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.480 And when you see our building, you realize it's a one-story building. 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.519 There is no elevator. 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:38.079 Yes, oh my gosh, it was uh yeah, we'll be fine. 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:44.079 They uh they they appreciate our tendency and are happy to accommodate. 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:59.359 Yeah, and we are respectful also, though, of our tendency, and we don't we we do our best to stay within the uh the the the boundaries of that tendency. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:03.200 I like how you say uh we stay we do our best. 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:04.640 We do. 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:06.319 We don't accomplish it, but we do our best. 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.279 We do our best. 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:18.799 Yeah, there there are times when we go outside of it, not on purpose, but there's a conversation had to say, hey, I recognize that outside the lines a little bit here. 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:19.359 Yeah. 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:23.440 Here's why, and here's what we're doing to it to take care of that. 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.880 So my question is have there been times where we've been completely within our borders? 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:29.359 No. 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:29.920 Okay. 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:42.799 We were within our borders in one area, but outside of our borders in another area. 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:43.359 Okay. 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.119 With that was the snow's fault. 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:46.720 Oh, yeah, that's not fair. 00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:47.759 Everything's different. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.200 Oh, where was I driver the other day? 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.079 Uh oh man, where was I? 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:55.119 Uh I don't remember where it was. 00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:56.319 I was driving. 00:32:56.559 --> 00:33:01.519 And um I went, oh, I was driving the the circle in Dublin, the traffic circle in Dublin. 00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:02.640 We all know what I'm talking about, right? 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:02.880 Yep. 00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:03.359 Yep. 00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:24.720 And uh I was going to get onto old uh across the river, and the snow bank just made me like shove into the other lane and then back into my lane or whatever, and I'm like, in any other time, this is like giant 10 feet wide lanes, everything's really spacious and comfortable or whatever. 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:29.279 Leave a little snow to come through, and it just turns to the Wild Wild West, and people are like, who cares? 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:29.759 It does. 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:31.920 City Dublin's like, we're not shoveling any more snow. 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:33.599 We've it's just got to melt. 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:39.519 Yeah. 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:40.160 Yeah. 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.039 It's I it's it's actually been melting pretty fast. 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:43.759 That rain helped. 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.119 It has melted really fast. 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:45.359 Yeah. 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:45.759 Yeah. 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.960 I mean, our yard is still covered in snow, but we get very little sun in that area. 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.599 Like the fields across from the shop. 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:53.920 Yeah. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:55.359 You couldn't tell it's snowed there. 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:56.160 There's no snow on them. 00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:56.480 Yeah. 00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:03.920 But there are certain areas we you can you can you can drive out there now and recogn and see where the sun hits and where it doesn't hit, yeah. 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:05.440 And know where to plant your plants. 00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:08.719 Because if you want sun, you don't want to plant in our front yard. 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:15.119 So, you know, because as the sun, as the year goes on, the sun's gonna get more and more directly over us. 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.440 Yeah, and right now it's it's a little south of us. 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:17.679 Yep. 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.519 So you can clearly see in our backyard where that's where that shade line is. 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.679 Because my backyard is um, there's no trees in the dead center of it. 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:27.440 It's

a big open lawn, which I love. 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:31.280 I think it's I think it's actually uh manicured nicely. 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:32.320 Annie loves it. 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:35.039 Like just having that big because it's all trees around it. 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:35.360 Sure. 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:42.719 So we have this big, nice lawn that actually looks really nice when it's not uh it's so crazy now that's everything's so wet we're talking about. 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:49.440 But you know, in late summer when it becomes a barren, dry land of waste out there and it turns brown. 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.800 Um but it looks like a really nice lawn for a while. 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:59.199 But because of the all the trees on the other side of it, you can see exactly where that tree line hits that that that uh shadow. 00:34:59.280 --> 00:34:59.440 Yeah. 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:03.440 And everything within that tree line is snow, and everything above it is green. 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:04.480 And it's actually nice. 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:04.880 It's green. 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:05.920 It's green, it's actually nice. 00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.960 It looks pretty. 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:07.360 Yeah. 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.480 So we have officially encountered faux spring. 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:10.800 Yep. 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:12.800 Oh, very faux, probably first foe. 00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:14.559 60 degrees today. 00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:15.679 It was beautiful. 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.400 It was nice. 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:19.199 I was outside and short sleeves. 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.079 It's beautiful. 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:25.119 I had my my thinnest, lightest jacket on, and there was a point where I'm like, this might be too much. 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:26.079 It might be. 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:26.719 You know? 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:27.119 Yeah. 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:35.199 Uh until I went and got gas, and then like under the under the gas canopy with a little breeze, I'm like, oh, it's chilly. 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:44.400 I went outside thinking I was gonna go outside today for just a rest a minute, go to a truck, come back back in, and I put it didn't put a jacket on, and got out there and realized I don't need a jacket. 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:45.679 We were actually outside. 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.119 Mel and I were outside sprinkling uh ice melt around some of the trucks that don't get sun. 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.199 And I was out there in shirt sleeves sprinkling ice melt, and I was comfortable. 00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.400 Go figure. 00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:58.800 I saw that giant bag of ice melt you'll have. 00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.280 I was like, oh, this would be nice to have at the house. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.480 But I know where you can get it. 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:05.679 Yeah, yeah. 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.800 Or you can save big money at Menards, either way. 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:18.159

Did we ever find I know we were looking for the stuff that got left over by our previous the people that own the house before us, did we find it? 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:19.119 Yeah. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.719 Can't find it. 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.400 Interesting. 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:29.280 Well the uh the driver's lounge is open for business. 00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:30.320 Nice. 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:30.719 Yeah. 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:31.599 Very excited. 00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:32.559 Yeah, I am too. 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:40.239 We gotta decide uh when our first official uh uh I believe where I come from in the deep south, we call it a throwdown. 00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:42.320 What do y'all call them? 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:44.079 A day that is in Y. 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:45.679 We call it in Los Angeles. 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.760 We always call it a get together. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.960 Jerry, what'd you call them? 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.880 You're from You're from the throwdown area, aren't you? 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:53.840 Yeah. 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:54.559 Yeah. 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:56.480 That or just get together. 00:36:56.719 --> 00:36:57.760 You call it a cookout. 00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:58.480 Cookout. 00:36:58.960 --> 00:36:59.440 Potluck. 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.079 Potluck. 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:00.800 Oh my god. 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.000 I was watching an episode. 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:03.760 Jerry just woke up. 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.440 Boy, that was a quick lifter. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.320 Sorry. 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.760 Ladies and gentlemen, I gotta present to you, Mr. 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:10.960 Jerome Barrow. 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:19.760 You said that, and I was watching an episode of uh um Golden Girls? 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:20.480 Blake. 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:22.480 Jesus. 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.960 Anyway, what happened on that episode? 00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:28.079 Clues. 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:28.639 Give us clues. 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:30.320 Project runway. 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:34.159 It would not have existed. 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.239 I was thinking, I was thinking like RuPaul. 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:45.920 One of the judges on there was like um describing someone's dress, and he was like, it looks like you would wear that to uh bring a pot dinner. 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:47.280 Bring a pot dinner. 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:50.000 And I'm like, what the hell is bring a pot dinner? 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:54.480 And me and Don's looking at each other like a potluck? 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.800 Like, I guess what the hell is bring a pot dinner? 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:01.280 That's one thing we won't have at the shop is bring pot dinner. 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:02.000 Yeah, no. 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.639 No pot. 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:04.079 No pots, no pot. 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:04.880 No, yeah, yeah. 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.000 And if you do, if you do bring pot, it needs to be cast iron. 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:08.480 Yes. 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.000 Or uh it needs to be metallic, that way it uh works the induction. 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:13.119 Yeah, yeah. 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:13.840 Instapot. 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:14.559 Instapot dinner. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:16.800 We got a gas stove. 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:17.519 Crockpot. 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.440 Is it a gas stove or electric? 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:20.639 It is electric. 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:20.960 It is. 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.039 But we don't have it's not accessible. 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:26.000 We'd have an accessible. 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.199 So we have a get together. 00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:28.239 You mentioned it earlier. 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:34.800 So we do have a um lounge, not a lounge, a uh break area for staff. 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:35.360 For the staff. 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:36.000 Yeah. 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:37.920 And this is separate from the lounge. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:44.719 And this is a place for um the our our people that work in the yard, uh our staff. 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:50.480 Our our staff to be able to to, you know, they're out there working on trucks and whatever, and they need to have lunch or meetings or whatever. 00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:52.000 This is a place for them to hang out. 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:56.559 Um, so it's not accessible to drivers um typically. 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:57.280 Typically. 00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.840 Now that being said, it is it does have a little bit nicer of a kitchenette set up to it. 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:13.280 So when we do bigger events, we will have it accessible because I know some of you are like, well, I'd like to help clean, or I'd like to help make my world famous green beans or whatever. 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.840 Yeah, we absolutely will have those facilities available. 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:18.000 And we have a larger refrigerator in there too. 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.960 You didn't mention we do have a refrigerator in the driver's lounge area. 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.679 But we have a larger refrigerator in there if we need to do a big function and have larger dishes. 00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:26.239 Yes. 00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:30.239 And the the little fridge in the driver's lounge, we will be cleaning it out once a week. 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:42.400 So um if you come and uh bring your food in there because you're gonna have a late snack and you just want to throw it in the fridge for a little bit and you forget about it, um, it will get thrown away. 00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:46.559 We will not be uh keeping that around until you come back and we're not holding food. 00:39:47.920 --> 00:40:13.119 But if you if you if you I think the thing it'll be really helpful for, it probably the reason we ultimately decide to keep it, I didn't mean to cut, yeah, I'm sorry, is um if you're gonna have your truck into a shop that's gonna be

down for three or four days and we know you won't have electricity and you need to like unload a few things out of your fridge, then that that's something, but that's gonna take prior conversation with Vince because we don't want other people taking your food or whatever. 00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:16.000 So there will be some of that stuff that we can do as well. 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:18.559 So it's it's exciting, uh, the things we can do. 00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.199 And there's not a lot of shops where that's gonna happen. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:22.559 Like no, but there are some. 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:24.159 But there are some, and we know that. 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:28.719 So um and we we want to be accommodating to a certain point. 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.199 Yeah. 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:31.199 What that point is, I don't know. 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.800 It's we're we it's it's new and we're gonna work through it, and it really is gonna be a case-by-case basis. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:37.280 Sure. 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:41.760 So truly reach out to me and we'll figure out what we can and can't do. 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:42.000 Yeah. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.559 Because again, we do want to be accommodating. 00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:54.000 We recognize that you invest a lot of of money into the food that you have on your truck because you do have a nice size fridge on your truck. 00:40:54.159 --> 00:41:00.559 And the last thing you want is that you go grocery shopping, and the next day something happens where you can't keep that food stored. 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:02.480 Gotta go to Cat City or a repair. 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:04.480 Possibly, right? 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:05.840 So reach out to me. 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:07.760 We're we want to be accommodating in that way. 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:08.320 Certainly. 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:09.760 So you say you're open. 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:16.639 Does that mean I can bring my tractor with my 53-foot trailer and park? 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:17.199 No. 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:26.719 Um, does it mean me and two other teams that I'm aware of that are in the area um can all come and hang out for the weekend and park? 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:27.599 Possibly. 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:28.960 Possibly, yeah. 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.199 So here's the thing with parking. 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:34.559 We have less parking now than we did before. 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:34.880 Okay. 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:49.440 We do not have the ability to have you come in and park your truck for a few days, even and go on home time. 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:53.119 Let alone a week or two and you go on home time. 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:54.800 We just don't have that space. 00:41:56.159 --> 00:41:59.360 When we do have space is weekends. 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.559 Generally speaking, our our neighbor that does the most business closes at 4 p.m. 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:05.280 on a Friday. 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:05.519 Right. 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:06.880 They open at 7 a.m. 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:07.840 on Monday morning. 00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:14.800 Other folks might be stopping to drop a truck there, but chances are there's not gonna be a whole lot of activity between 4 p.m. 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.360 Mon uh Friday afternoon and 7 a.m. 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:18.320 Monday morning. 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:24.880 So if you pull in on a weekend and there's a spot to play to park on, you know, you're usually good till Monday morning at 7 a.m. 00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:26.000 Which there frequently is. 00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:29.119 On the weekends, it's typically some spaces out there. 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.119 There's typically guard spaces there. 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:33.440 Um, however, 7 a.m. 00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:37.119 Monday through four o'clock Friday, there's not a whole lot of extra extra space. 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:44.880 If you're coming in and you're you need to go to EOW, um sure, you you park there at night and you take it to EOW in the morning. 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.800 The driver's not just open to you. 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.320 We just don't have long-term parking available for our trucks. 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:50.960 Got it. 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.519 We don't have space for trailers, period. 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:55.119 We just don't. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:58.159 There's I don't even know if you could turn a truck around. 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:07.039 Not when not when it's you was on the phone with a driver the other day, and she was telling me, Oh, I need to bring back our direct TV box, the old one. 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.000 And I was like, Oh, okay. 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:10.320 And she's like, Well, we're delivering right down the road from there. 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:11.679 Can I just swing by and drop it off? 00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:16.880 And I'm like, Oh, yeah, absolutely, you know, and I'm I'm telling everything, and then all of a sudden I looked in the top right and open phone. 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.199 You saw the truck number, and I seen the truck number, and I'm like, second thought, no. 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.079 Yeah, we'll send somebody to you. 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:27.519 I told her, I was like, it's not a big deal, just hold on to it, we'll get it later. 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:33.920 We have if something like that happens, the Walmart down the road on Stringtown, they have a huge parking lot. 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:43.519 Yeah, one of us generally can probably meet them there during business hours, can meet them there and make that swap or pick up for something from them just because that that lot's so huge. 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:52.079 Yes, I can't voucher parking in that lot, but if I know they're gonna be there at two o'clock, someone can meet them there at two o'clock and make that swap for them. 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:56.800 It's gonna be the easiest way to do it to bring a trailer

into into our facility. 00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:59.119 It's just tight, it's super tight. 00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:03.840 Especially See with our large our large tractors and a 53-foot trailer. 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:12.079 I see RL or FedEx ground pull in there and make a U-turn, they're in a day cab and they're pulling a 25-foot trailer. 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:12.320 Yeah. 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:15.840 You know, they're not pulling a 53 and they're not an extended sleeper cab. 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:22.159 So unfortunately for our tractor friends out there, it's just not the right the best place for that. 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:29.440 But the good news is, because we've had quite a few of our tractors go over to ELW and get work done or go over to um FIDA or something like that. 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:29.840 Sure. 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:33.519 We do have a couple, like Arc Best is who owns Panthers. 00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:40.719 Panther is really good about like, hey, I need to drop a trailer for the weekend because we're getting some work done or whatever, and then we'll pick it up Monday morning. 00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:43.920 They're really good about there's locations around Columbus where you can drop a trailer. 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:54.079 They may say drop it at, well, I can't say because there's customer locations, but there's a few places there around town that we know that people teams have dropped trailers and then you just kind of pick them up Monday morning. 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:55.760 So you do have that as an option. 00:44:56.079 --> 00:45:07.920 We have had uh our our our Freightliner dealership as well allow us to drop trailers before um there's they're a lot tighter on their sp on their parking as well, so that's hit or miss. 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:13.840 Uh, but but Panther is really good about finding places, drop trailers just temporary, you know, two, three days. 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.920 So um there are certainly options um for that. 00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:28.159 But if you've been to uh where we're at, or if you've been to ELW, you know that parking is a long, narrow parking, and there's no turnaround at the end. 00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:31.679 You get to the end, you're like, oh, I'll be able to make a big U turn there, and there's nothing. 00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:33.119 You're backing out to the street. 00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:33.599 Yes. 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:43.519 And I mean it's there's been times in straight trucks when it has been packed where it's like, ooh, I'm doing a seven-point turn to get this truck out of here. 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.800 Yeah, uh, I can't imagine having to do it in a tractor. 00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:48.880 You know, so I'm excited. 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:49.519 I am too. 00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:50.400 I'm too, I'm too screaming. 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:51.280 I really am. 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:52.079 I really am. 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.800 And you know, the Haifel Social page uh that we have. 00:45:54.880 --> 00:46:03.039 Yeah so if you're a Haifield driver uh social gathering uh page on YouTube, uh YouTube, on Facebook, look it up. 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:06.960 Uh you'll be able to uh if you haven't joined it, uh ask to join it. 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:12.000 Like in the right now in winter, it's kind of dormant because it's not dormant, dormant. 00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:17.920 I mean, there are still people asking questions, but there's just not a lot of hanging out because who wants to hang out in negative 10 degree weather? 00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:24.320 Um, but come springtime, summertime, it gets really busy on those groups and a lot of people try to meet up. 00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:26.880 Columbus is a hotbed of people meeting up. 00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:27.280 Oh, yeah. 00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:38.800 I can easily see that it's gonna be a lot of it's gonna happen around um our shop and around that driver lounge and having those uh uh uh abilities uh to go and and and hang out. 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:41.360 So definitely uh keep an eye on that page. 00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:42.639 And if you haven't joined, join. 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:48.079 And if you're like, I want to join, but I'm not a high filled, I'm sorry, it is strictly for Highfield contractors. 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:55.920 Um so if you're interested in uh becoming a High Field contractor, feel free to reach out to us at 1833 Highfield. 00:46:56.239 --> 00:47:01.599 That is 1833 493-4353, option one. 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:06.400 And you'll be able to speak to one of our lovely recruiters, uh, Melissa being one of them. 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.800 And um you'll uh learn more about the Highfield family and what we're doing. 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:11.519 I'm excited. 00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:12.719 This is a long time coming. 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:14.559 We've talked more about this. 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:21.360 Uh next week, I'm gonna ask uh Vince to talk a little more about the barbecue space there and what we're doing uh to accommodate that. 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.320 So excited. 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:24.639 But uh goodness because you're so excited. 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:27.360 We've got to talk about your history and everything. 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.480 So uh yeah, it'll be a lot of fun. 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:37.199 Um in the meantime, I was thinking the other day, I love California. 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:39.360 California's a beautiful state. 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:40.960 I I love going out there. 00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:44.800 I just saw that they opened up a huge section of Highway One. 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:45.519 Did you see that? 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:46.480 Oh, that was closed there? 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:46.960 That was closed. 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:47.760 They just did not see it. 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:56.559 They just opened it and they were talking about it's open now, you can go drive it, and um it's I I know you have mixed feelings

because you Highway One or 101? 00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:57.119 Highway one. 00:47:57.280 --> 00:47:57.760 Highway one. 00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:58.320 Yeah. 00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:00.320 Right along the specific ocean. 00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:01.760 Which specific ocean is it? 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.360 Just it's specific. 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:03.920 It's all specifically. 00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:05.440 Specifically the Pacific. 00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:06.159 Oh my goodness. 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:07.519 Um, but you've done it before, right? 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:13.360 You said you did it on a motorcycle and it was one of the most scenic, beautiful, beautiful, relaxing. 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:14.880 I wouldn't say relaxing. 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:16.400 I would say relaxing. 00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:18.880 It's it's it's a beautiful drive. 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.000 It's 35 miles an hour the entire way. 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:27.920 Which some folks would be like, oh yeah, you want to go slow, because you want to see everything. 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:36.320 Yeah, you once you see the ocean and a cliff, you you've seen it and you want to get moving a little bit faster, especially in a bike where you can enjoy the curves. 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:45.519 But when you get behind that RV that's towing a car or a trailer and he's doing 25 miles an hour, there are no turnoffs for hours. 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:51.920 So if you travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it's a six-hour drive. 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:52.800 Yes. 00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:55.199 But not on on on i-5. 00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:56.079 On i-5. 00:48:57.039 --> 00:48:59.519 On 101, it's probably a seven-hour drive. 00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:00.960 I thought you say seven-day. 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:03.360 Well, that's on Highway One. 00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:03.679 Oh. 00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:08.320 On Highway One, it can be an 11, 12-hour drive. 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:10.800 Fuel is few and far between. 00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:11.519 Yeah. 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:13.280 And it is expensive. 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:13.840 They know. 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:15.039 They know. 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:16.480 They know what they got. 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:17.920 They know what they got. 00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:25.119 So if you're not prepared and you don't fuel before you hop on Highway One, uh, I'm not sure what gas prices are in California right now. 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.920 Last time I was there, it was like five bucks a gallon, literally. 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.039 So I would imagine those places are eight, nine bucks a gallon. 00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:31.599 Oh, wow. 00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:33.760 You're paying through the noise truck gas on Highway One. 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.639 Can you imagine one of those big gas-powered RVs? 00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:37.119 Oh, yeah. 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:38.239 Just what you're paying. 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:39.760 Yeah. 00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:52.159 So, you know, it's it's a long trip on Highway One, and there are places to turn off and cut back to 101 or I5 are few and far between, but it's a beautiful drive. 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:59.440 So for a while, because of the rainstorms and the uh landslides, highway one was closed in certain places. 00:49:59.519 --> 00:49:59.840 Yeah. 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:06.559 South of like Santa Cruz and north of probably like um Santa Barbara-ish. 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.800 That's a big area, but it was closed there because of landslides. 00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:12.400 The road washed out. 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:14.719 So are you telling me that's been rebuilt and it's back to the city? 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.280 I don't know if it's all I don't know if all of it's built, but there was a section of it that is. 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:19.760 Nice. 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:21.119 And that's what they were talking about. 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:27.840 And it made me think about just my limited experience being out there. 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:49.599 And I remember uh driving um through uh San Francisco out uh I think it's I think it's Highway One, and you go past the um Golden Gate Park on your right side, the Pacific Ocean on your left, and then uh you get to the baths, the um what are they? 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:52.159 The hot springs. 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:52.800 Yes. 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:56.159 Uh so it's um sutro baths. 00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:56.960 That's what it is. 00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:57.599 Okay, yeah. 00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:00.079 So we uh the sutro baths are right there. 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:08.159 I remember this so vividly because three years ago, four years ago, something like that, uh during COVID, couldn't do anything. 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:12.719 So me, dad, Eric, my sister, we all uh jumped in a couple vehicles and we just headed west. 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:14.239 Can I can I stop you for a second? 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:14.639 No. 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:19.760 And so why were we you mentioned COVID three years ago? 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.840 COVID was like five years ago. 00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:23.599 Listen, it's been longer. 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:24.480 I'm getting older. 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:24.800 Okay. 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.079 Remember, this is this is my equivalent of just the other day. 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.239 I I okay, fair, fair. 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:31.119 You are from the south. 00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:31.840 Fair. 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:34.000 So, Jerry, you understand just the other day, right? 00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:34.639 Absolutely. 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.519 That just the other day, something that happened to me in high school. 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:39.199 All right, I'm just saying. 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:50.079 So I uh so we head out west and we went and saw a bunch of stuff, and it was had a great trip, but we did uh daddy girl trucking, DGT trucking, Donna Sleezman.

00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:54.719 She's a great fleet owner with FedEx, custom critical, uh uh and Landstar. 00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:57.440 If you haven't met her, talk to her, she's a wonderful lady. 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:13.280 Uh and uh she lives out in California and she let us park our vehicles there, uh the big vehicles there, and then we jumped in my SUV and we headed down into uh San Francisco and went and drove all around and had a really wonderful time. 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:18.800 And we went to the Sutro baths, and um I had to pull up pictures because it was closed. 00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:21.760 Like it's a national park, but or I think it's national park. 00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:22.800 Pretty sure it's national. 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:24.639 I don't think it's a state park, I think it's national park. 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.960 And I'm trying to, I I already done the research, I knew about this place, but nobody else did. 00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:30.400 So I'm showing them pictures. 00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:32.079 It's this look it up. 00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:38.880 It's it used to be this massive, I mean, absolutely massive swimming pool, hot, springy kind of area. 00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:46.400 The tide would come in and actually uh fill everything up, and then it would drain everything out, and then it would bring it back in so the pools were constantly refreshed. 00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:48.800 They didn't have to worry about any kind of chlorine or anything like that. 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:50.400 It was natural salt water. 00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:53.199 Uh the places were massive. 00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:57.840 I mean, it's huge, beautiful structure back in like the 1800s. 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.199 And uh it got rebuilt multiple times over the years. 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:03.679 It's burned to the ground, got rebuilt, all this stuff. 00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:07.679 Well, eventually it got burned to the ground, and they're like, we can't keep doing this, and they quit. 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:18.800 And um, so now there is still a building there close to where the the original building was, and it I think it's part maybe was the original building, but you can see the ruins of the old pools and everything. 00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:20.000 They're still there. 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:25.039 Um, and so we went and checked it out, and I've shown them all these pictures of it. 00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:32.400 It's very cool, and a flock of seagulls flew over us, and it's majestic background, Pacific Ocean. 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:40.880 You know, you got the bay, uh, not the Bay Bridge, you got the the Golden Gate there, you got the these bass, it's and you're on a rocky cliff, and it's so cool. 00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:43.199 And one of those birds shat on me. 00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:44.960 For good luck. 00:53:48.159 --> 00:53:51.840 And I'm like, seriously, I'm freaking out. 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.280 You can't imagine. 00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:59.440 Like, I just got shot in World War II on the beaches of Normandy, freaking out. 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:06.559 And so we had to go back to the vehicle, and Eric it happened like the back of my head, so I couldn't see it. 00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.239 So you don't want to touch it, right? 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:09.920 Because you don't want to make a mess. 00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:21.679 So I had to go, we had to dig out some used tissues or something, and then Eric had to like slowly get it out of my hair and everything, and it was just horrible. 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:25.199 Now I had my clothes, so I was able to change shirts, but horrible experience. 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:27.280 I I had that happen in London, remember. 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:28.400 And you handled it much better. 00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:29.360 You handled it much better. 00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:29.840 Much better. 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:32.400 You were you are it was a direct hit right to the book. 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:33.760 I did. 00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:36.000 It was and I had the pleasure of cleaning it out. 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:39.039 Yes, you I will we I look I we looked for the napkins. 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:40.880 Yeah, those were hard to come by. 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:42.639 I did reward you with gin. 00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:43.679 No, you didn't. 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:50.159 But uh yeah, so that was one of my uh very strong memories. 00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:53.199 So the balance aren't usable anymore? 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:59.760 No, they're just um they're just like ruins of of rock formations and stuff. 00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:03.599 Like now the tide just comes in and goes out every time a wave blows through. 00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:10.719 Oh so they're like people will go down there and walk around and like look at stuff, and I guess you could theoretically jump in them, but it's not safe. 00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:12.480 I wouldn't recommend doing it. 00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:18.320 Um and out there in San Francisco, all the surfers and everything, it's that's all their territory now. 00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:26.639 But it is really cool to see and to to especially if you're there and you also pull up a picture of what was there, it is one of those things where it's like, holy cow. 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:32.480 You know, there's a few things in history that I wish I could have seen that we just can't. 00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:38.880 The Crystal Palace out of Chicago, or the one in France, because they did it, you know, built it multiple places. 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:39.280 Uh-huh. 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:42.000 I'd love to see one of those places, all of them burned to the ground. 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:50.880 Um the uh go to Egypt when it was thriving, you know, when they when they built the temples and everything. 00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:51.360 Right. 00:55:51.440 --> 00:55:56.800 Yeah um to go to uh the the sutro baths in their prime. 00:55:57.199 -->

00:55:59.679 Like I'd love to see some of that stuff. 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:02.000 And and we just never will be able to. 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:10.639 But it's cool that the foundations are there and you can see scale of how big it is and realize like this is massive, massive. 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:11.519 Sightseeing. 00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:12.239 Absolutely. 00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:14.320 Just look it up, it is a national park. 00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:15.119 It's national park. 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:15.760 Okay, yep. 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:17.280 And it's it's it's just I don't know. 00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:17.840 I really like it. 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.920 Sutro baths, S U T R O baths, like bathtub baths. 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:22.800 Um, check it out. 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:27.199 It's very fascinating what they built, and to think of how old it is that they built that back then. 00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:35.599 Um, and then we drove across uh the Golden Gate Bridge, one of my favorite bridges in the world, and went over to um oh, what is it? 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:38.480 Uh Mills, Mill, is it Mill Valley? 00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:39.760 Is it Mill Valley? 00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:41.119 Just it is Mill Valley, right? 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:41.519 Yeah. 00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:42.719 Just north of uh the bridge. 00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:43.920 Yep. 00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:48.480 Went over there and checked that out, which is cool because I almost went to uh grad school in Mill Valley. 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:49.920 That was where I was gonna go to grad school. 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:51.519 We've talked about that before. 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:52.719 So it's not too late. 00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:53.679 It's not too late. 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:55.119 It's too late. 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:59.280 So um so you didn't stop near on the Golden Gate Bridge? 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.239 No, no, no, no. 00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:08.559 We just drove across it and back and uh and and and got to see uh the Golden Gate is have you been on the Golden Gate? 00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:10.000 Yes, it's magic, right? 00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:10.639 It is. 00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:15.440 It is, I don't I got a speeding ticket to the Golden Gate one time. 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:26.480 Did you really yeah, I was in my my Dodge Charger, and I I got to the other side and I look in review mirror and there's a there was a cop pulling me over. 00:57:26.559 --> 00:57:32.800 Oh and he's like, Yeah, I got a partner back there on the bridge, and he spotted you doing 55 and a 35. 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:33.599 I'm like, really? 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.320 It's a 35 across the bridge, it's wide open. 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:38.000 He's like, Yeah, I got you. 00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:40.000 No, the Gulf Gate, it's it's beautiful. 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:40.639 It is magical. 00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:42.000 It's magical, it's a beautiful bridge. 00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:54.320 I don't, you know, uh some things that they build, like the uh what's the bridge in um I-71 bridge going through um Cincinnati. 00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:55.199 That's a gorgeous bridge. 00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:57.679 That is a hideous looking piece of structure. 00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:58.559 It is. 00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:02.480 It's ugly. 00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:06.960 Like the golden braid gate, the golden gate, it it's gorgeous. 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:07.760 It's gorgeous. 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:15.679 The the the the the way the spans work, the two towers, you've got it's just a it's in the color, everything, it just really, really works. 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:16.960 It's a beautiful structure. 00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:20.400 I've never been uh across it, but I've been on a boat and went under it. 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:20.960 Ooh. 00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:23.440 I've only been across it in a in a personal vehicle. 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:25.119 I've never been across it in a in a truck. 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:26.320 No, we didn't either. 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:29.039 Just in a in a vehicle. 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:31.199 I did in the truck a couple times. 00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:31.920 Really? 00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:35.920 Yeah, but we had to deliver or pick up another. 00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:37.599 We did it in the truck once. 00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:39.440 Yeah, not at the golden gate. 00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:40.639 We did a bay bridge. 00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:44.320 I've done the golden gate, but not with you. 00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:44.880 Right. 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:46.239 In a truck? 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:48.000 In a personal card. 00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:48.559 Okay. 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:50.800 If it was in a truck, there's a problem. 00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:51.440 No. 00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:58.719 So speaking of the Golden Gate Bridge, I read an article from CDL Life. 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:11.840 Oh, um, that uh CHP, that's uh California Highway Patrol, was issuing tickets to truckers for parking on the shoulder to do some sightseeing. 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:15.199 Uh this specifically, though, was on the Golden Gate Bridge. 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:17.280 There's a shoulder on the Golden Gate? 00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:17.679 I don't know. 00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:20.719 It wasn't on the bridge in the pictures that she shared with me earlier. 00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:21.039 No. 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:27.039 Okay, it was like uh off on one of the sides, the the ground sides. 00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:28.079 Oh, okay. 00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:38.000 So before after CHP is reminding truckers that sightseeing is not an emergency after a driver made a stop on the shoulder to take in the view from the Golden Gate Bridge. 00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.199 Uh this is on January 18th of this year. 00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:51.440 Uh CHP specific, this person ticketed a truck driver for making a non-emergency stop on a freeway shoulder in the Bay Area. 00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:56.320 The driver of

the big rig was nowhere near his vehicle after he parked on the shoulder. 00:59:56.559 --> 00:59:59.280 Uh, he was found almost a mile away. 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:04.159 Uh taking in the view of the bay on the Golden Gate Bridge. 01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:05.519 Wow. 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:25.440 Uh use the incident as a reminder to the trucking community that stopping on the shoulder of a freeway is dangerous and permitted only when your vehicle is disabled, when directed to do so by a police, sorry, peace officer, or in case of emergency. 01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:29.840 I do see uh so she just sent me the article and I'm looking at it now. 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:34.559 I do see it, it looks like it's on the Mill Valley side, so that is not the San Francisco side, that's the opposite side. 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:35.119 Yeah. 01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:38.639 I mean, like, I can see the the handrailing of the bridge like right there. 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:39.920 Yeah, it's right there. 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:45.119 He literally because again, there is no emergency exit or emergency lanes on the bridge. 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:49.440 Uh he like the very first, like, oh, I can pull over. 01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:51.119 Let me pull over here real quick. 01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:53.519 That is, I don't think that's where I would have stopped. 01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:55.679 So I need to be a mile from your truck. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:06.480 Well, there are parking areas on both sides of the bridge, um, the San Francisco side and the Mill Valley side, where you can park and you can walk across the bridge. 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:15.199 There's a separate pedestrian footpath on the side of the bridge that you can walk on to walk across the bridge. 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:20.960 So I guess that's what this driver was doing was he figured, hey, let me uh But there's not there's not truck parking, it's just for car parking. 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:22.480 No, it's it's it's car parking. 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:22.960 Yeah. 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:28.320 Well, just I guess make note don't be sightseeing. 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:32.559 Use use your viewpoints and rest areas and all the other places. 01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:35.199 I get I get you know I get both sides of it. 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:37.199 I know I uh I could put it. 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:42.159 Especially if like you've lived out east and you've never seen it before and you're a truck driver now. 01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:43.440 But it's a right there. 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:57.039 But if you go if you go across, if you go across and you stop right there, if there is an emergency emergency on the bridge, they have no choice but to drive on and get off the bridge, you stopped in the first available emergency spot. 01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:57.440 Sure. 01:01:57.599 --> 01:01:59.039 Like you can't do that. 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:00.400 That's it's silly. 01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:04.159 But um, so I don't you know, figure

something else out. 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:12.320 But I also get so when I was a kid, uh I uh wanted to be published. 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:18.719 So as a uh first grader, I I made a few books. 01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:19.599 Nice. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:25.840 And uh the first one was a how to book uh of how to uh publish a book. 01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:26.880 Okay. 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.039 Yes, interesting first grade. 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:31.760 My second one was how to build a bridge. 01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.760 And my bridge to build was the Golden Gate. 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:40.639 So my love for the Golden Gate Bridge goes back a long time. 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:41.199 Yeah, yeah. 01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:47.440 So I understand that excitement and joy of wanting to pull off and hike in a mile. 01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.280 Yes, and risk a ticket. 01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:50.239 Correct. 01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:56.880 That being said, I have not done that because I am a law-abiding citizen. 01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:06.320 And because I recognize, like, if I want to go see the Golden Gate Bridge, we're going to stop, get a car, get to a place where it's whatever more convenient. 01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:08.880 Like, we're going like I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it responsibly. 01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:09.280 Yeah. 01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:14.880 Can I just say though, even the pictures in this article, again, CDL I've talked about? 01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:15.599 Look beautiful. 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:16.719 They're beautiful pictures. 01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:25.039 Whoever took the pictures for CHP, they they got the truck framed in the picture with the bridge in the background. 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:27.280 Yeah, they're gorgeous pictures. 01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:31.519 This guy can now take these pictures and save them and look, this is what I did. 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:32.400 Absolutely. 01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:34.079 It cost me$600 something dollars. 01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:36.719 I don't know what the I'm just saying, you know, but there is that. 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:40.239 At my job, because it was a preventable, yeah. 01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:44.719 Sure, but there's also the whole like what would it have cost to have a professional picture of my truck? 01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:45.519 Exactly. 01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:46.800 That's a very, very good point. 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:50.800 No, uh, I just thought it was a kind of a friendly reminder. 01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:56.239 I know a lot of people this is a new industry, at least with with Highfield. 01:03:56.400 --> 01:04:22.880 Yeah, you know, it's a new industry, it's the smaller 40-foot straight trucks that we all love, and you can tuck in somewhere, sneak in there, do whatever here, and uh just a reminder that the straight trucks are still a commercial vehicle, and make sure you're doing your due diligence of where you can go, where you can park the beaches, the white sands park, national parks, public parks, state parks, all of those. 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:25.599 San Francisco is a great town to explore. 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:32.880 But it's also one of those great towns where if you have a weekend and you're in that area, you stop down in Los Banos. 01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:41.199 It's a trip, it's a drive from Los Banos to San Francisco to the to the to the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge is a drive. 01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:46.239 But there's so much to explore there that you can't do in a straight truck. 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:46.800 Yes. 01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:47.119 Yeah. 01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:50.000 Can you imagine taking Lombard and a um straight truck? 01:04:50.239 --> 01:04:51.360 In a straight truck, I'd love to try. 01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:52.719 And no, no, I would not. 01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:58.559 Uh but you know, that's that's one of those times where you you you stop in Los Banos because that's where the nearest truck stops are, really. 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:09.519 You rent a car and you get into San Francisco for a day, or you you get a hotel room for the night, and you spend the weekend in San Francisco or Oakland or anywhere up there in the Bay Area. 01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:17.199 It's just it's just such a beautiful I know people hate California, and I'm from California, and I don't like going back there. 01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:20.239 I'm going to LA to visit my family in about three weeks. 01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:27.760 But you know, this is a time where you you go and you just spend some time in the Bay Area in San Francisco and just take in the sights. 01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:28.960 It's really, it's really cool. 01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:29.599 Absolutely. 01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:30.480 It's really cool. 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:38.639 I, you know, um, yeah, I I know because like especially it seems to me that people don't like uh California because of the pricing and because of the politics. 01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:39.119 Sure. 01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:42.320 And I'm I I say if you take both those, throw them out out the window. 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:43.199 Yeah, ignore that. 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:43.920 I agree. 01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:45.599 Um, it's beautiful. 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:46.239 Gorgeous. 01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:46.960 It's beautiful. 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:49.119 Now that's it's Southern California, not so much. 01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:50.800 No, I don't agree. 01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:52.639 Uh San Diego? 01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:53.760 Yeah, San Diego. 01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:54.960 San Diego's beautiful. 01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.400 You take when you get down to uh Cornado Island. 01:05:58.719 --> 01:05:59.840 You take the greater LA area. 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:00.719 Yes. 01:06:01.039 --> 01:06:03.119 LA, Ontario, that whole thing. 01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:04.960 San Bernardino, that whole thing, that whole thing. 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:05.280 Yes. 01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:07.119 And you take it and

you chuck it out the window. 01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:07.519 Yes. 01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:08.800 Oh, and then you just go the rest of it. 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:09.440 The rest of it. 01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:09.599 Yes. 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:10.320 Gorgeous. 01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:11.039 Gorgeous. 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:11.519 Yeah. 01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:18.239 No, I mean, like Hollywood is uh it's way more seedy than what you're led to believe. 01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:19.199 Way more seedy. 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:22.880 You definitely need to be prepared for Hollywood. 01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:26.159 Uh but it's also really cool. 01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:29.199 It's also walking down and seeing the stars of the celebrities you've watched. 01:06:29.920 --> 01:06:38.400 Seeing going to man's uh theater and seeing the uh the the the footprints or handprints of R2D2 and C3PO. 01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:41.039 Like they're cool things to see. 01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:44.559 Yeah, yeah, there's things like that that give me goosebumps that are like, wow, this is really cool. 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.000 Those are the kind of things though, in my opinion, you see once and you've seen them. 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:52.320 Sure, but if you've never but if you've never seen them, you go to it. 01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:53.039 You go do it. 01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:54.400 Rent the car. 01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:54.719 Yes. 01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:57.440 If you get out of that area, don't park on the side of the road. 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:05.360 You get up in Northern California, above San Francisco, even up into Reading, Eureka, the Northern California. 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:08.719 That's area I need to that's the area I really want to go explore more and see. 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:09.360 Let's go. 01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:16.639 We Eric and I have been to we've been to San Francisco three or four times now, each for two or three day spans. 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:18.960 So I think we spend probably a solid week and a half there. 01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:20.000 Yeah, sure. 01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:23.119 And I feel like we've scratched the surface. 01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:24.000 Yes, you have. 01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:24.400 Yeah. 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:25.039 Barely. 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:25.679 Agreed. 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:26.320 Barely. 01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:27.679 And we've had so much. 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:34.639 We went to a hardware store one time in the Castro, and it was bananas. 01:07:35.039 --> 01:07:44.880 It was like a hardware store from the 1820s, and Eric and I were getting our supplies to go gold mining mining. 01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:45.039 Yeah. 01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:47.920 Like it was, and it was a legit ace hardware. 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:48.239 Yeah. 01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:53.119 Like it was crazy that it was, and I'm like, we're in the middle of San Francisco. 01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:54.159 Why is this store here? 01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:55.360 It doesn't make any sense. 01:07:55.599 --> 01:08:03.599 I I live so I grew up in Los Angeles, and then I moved up to Sunnyville, which is just south, south of San Francisco. 01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:04.000 Yeah. 01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:08.000 Um, so I I spent a lot of time up there and I've explored the area. 01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:14.400 Uh Los Angeles, I you know, I lived there for I don't know how many years, 30 something years, 35 years. 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.399 Um, and I'm just done with it. 01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:20.720 I've I've done it except for the Getty, but I've done it, I'm done with it. 01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:28.159 San Francisco, there's so much there to explore and see just by walking down the street. 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:30.720 I think it has history, maybe a little more history. 01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:31.600 So much. 01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:32.800 It has a ton of history, yeah. 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:33.439 You're great. 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:40.640 And then once you get above the the bay, above the Golden Gate, there's so much up there to see. 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:44.560 You go up into um uh the place where they have all the oysters. 01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:47.199 I'm drawing a blank on the name of that place right now on the coast. 01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:48.079 Oyster Bay. 01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:49.680 Oh, that's the place. 01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:50.960 That's the place. 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:55.600 You get into Oyster Bay, you get up into Naples, Sonoma County. 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:58.319 Yeah, even if you don't like wine, it's just beautiful up there. 01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:00.079 You know, great restaurants. 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:01.760 Um Eureka. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:07.680 We I used to go up to Eureka with my ex-wife and kids and spend a few days just on the coast. 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:10.560 And just there's so much, so much history. 01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:15.439 Yeah, I I definitely it's again, it's a place I want to spend more time. 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:23.439 Eric and I um well years ago, we were talking about doing this epic road trip through California. 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:28.560 Basically, basically uh San Diego to uh Alaska. 01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:35.760 And we said that the way to do it is you get an RV and you park it in San Diego, and then you fly out there because we're on the East Coast. 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:40.159 I mean we're we're Midwest, but we're eastern time zone, might as well be in the East Coast. 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:50.000 And so we're like you go out there, you you you do uh San Diego uh two or three times because it takes that long to see everything. 01:09:50.319 --> 01:10:01.119 And then uh you make the drive up into uh lower Los Angeles, you know, Orange County and enjoy all that because that Orange County's awesome. 01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:01.920 It's just beach. 01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:03.039 Orange County's beach. 01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:04.800 It's beach and it's a vibe.

01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:06.000 It is a vibe. 01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:06.560 Okay. 01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:12.560 Well, I I see how you don't see it be like being from there, but when you're not from there, it's a vibe. 01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:13.439 It absolutely is. 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:15.439 I I don't I don't begrudge you that. 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:22.000 And I I I would do that trip with you, and as much as I hate R Ving because everything breaks and your phone. 01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:24.479 And I gotta fix stuff all the time. 01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:26.000 Yeah, but I wouldn't have to be a big thing. 01:10:26.079 --> 01:10:29.279 But California's one of the few places you can actually just park on the side of the beach. 01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:29.840 I get it. 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:30.399 It's fine. 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:31.359 I get it. 01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:35.039 But I gotta I gotta park on the side of the beach, I gotta go fix the water pump. 01:10:35.199 --> 01:10:35.520 Yes. 01:10:35.680 --> 01:10:38.479 Or I gotta fix the I'm gonna stop because I'm gonna be able to get a big thing. 01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:42.720 But aren't you glad but aren't you glad that you have all this experience fixing uh sleepers? 01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:43.920 So you know how to fix it. 01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:45.840 I don't want to fix shit on my vacation. 01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:48.800 I just don't that's that's the joy of camping. 01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:50.399 I don't want to spend my vacation fixing. 01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:56.800 So listen, when you are a camper and you tent camp, you have to build everything and then tear it all down. 01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:00.159 When you are an RVer, you just repair things. 01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:01.199 That's the difference. 01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:04.560 You same amount of work, it's just where's your work channeled. 01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:15.039 Um so so I I don't want to interrupt because I'm gonna just derail the whole conversation, so I'll let you finish and we'll talk later. 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:25.439 So I think I found some interesting information for points of comparison. 01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:29.199 Central Park in New York is 843 acres. 01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:30.079 Yes, and it's huge. 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:33.520 It's 1017 acres. 01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:35.359 It's a point of comparison. 01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:36.159 Yeah, yeah. 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:37.920 It's friggin' huge. 01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:42.720 And it's beautiful, and they have and it was did Robert Moses do both? 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:47.840 Uh I don't remember if Moses did both or not, but it's it's gorgeous. 01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:52.159 The old and the old growth trees that are in, oh, it's it's insane. 01:11:52.399 --> 01:11:59.039 If you even I mean again, I know a lot of people who uh are anti-California, and I understand I understand it. 01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:05.920 I'm just saying if you take that part away, it's a it's a really cool

state. 01:12:06.159 --> 01:12:09.119 Um boy, it's a hard sell for California, isn't it? 01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:11.359 We're sponsored today by California Tourism. 01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:11.920 Exactly. 01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:15.680 We'd like to thank the California Tourism Board for their uh sponsorship. 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:19.840 Uh but no, so I my thought was okay, you do so you do uh Orange Beach, right? 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:20.880 Yeah, not Orange Beach. 01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:22.960 Orange County, that's in Alabama. 01:12:23.119 --> 01:12:30.159 You do Orange County, and then you bring your truck to the local public storage, and you are not your truck, your RV. 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:30.560 RV. 01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:41.920 You park it there, you go back home, you do your two, three, four, five months of work or whatever, and then it's like, all right, let's go back out to California, and then you do uh northern Los Angeles. 01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:44.640 So you hit Venice, you hit Santa Monica. 01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:46.800 Now I love Venice and Santa Monica. 01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:58.960 If you think about your 1980s, um what is uh that horrible movie that you love with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer and they're on the beach playing volleyball? 01:12:59.279 --> 01:12:59.680 Top gun. 01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:00.239 Top gun. 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:01.359 Top gun. 01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:02.399 Now that I've alienated. 01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:21.760 Now that I've alienated all the all the people, uh, if you imagine the top guns in the 1980s movies, and you imagine people uh roller skating up and down the boardwalk, and you imagine people on the beach playing volleyball or playing football, or is it football they were playing? 01:13:21.840 --> 01:13:22.399 That's what it was. 01:13:22.640 --> 01:13:30.239 Playing football, or you imagine people surfing and all this stuff, and just the leotards, is that the right word? 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:32.479 And all that in the neon colors. 01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:37.279 That's what Venice and Santa Monica look like right now. 01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:38.640 Yeah, like right now. 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:40.560 It's a vibe, like you said, it's a vibe. 01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:44.640 They have they locked into 1982 and they are not letting go. 01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:45.520 Good. 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:52.479 And it's so cool, like, especially you know, being a kid seeing all that stuff on TV, then getting out there, and it's like, oh, y'all have changed nothing. 01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:53.199 Yeah, nothing. 01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:53.680 Nothing. 01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:57.279 I spent a lot of time out on Venice Beach playing basketball on the basketball courts. 01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:04.319 You can't tell by my gorgeous, voluptuous figure now, but we would go out to Venice Beach and play basketball because that was some of the best competition. 01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:11.840 And it's funny that they had the one court that was closest to the boardwalk that was always full court. 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:13.920 Yeah, and that's where the top guns played. 01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:15.840 That's where if you You wanted to get invited. 01:14:16.079 --> 01:14:19.600 If you weren't damn near NBA level, yeah, you didn't play the court, and it was always full court. 01:14:19.840 --> 01:14:21.279 Like when Kobe was bored, he would go there. 01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:24.560 He would Kobe was a nine nine-month-old, he played that court. 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:30.479 And then as as you got further away, there were I think there were four courts total. 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:32.479 The other courts were all half court games. 01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:39.840 There were full courts that you played half courts, yeah, and as you got further away, the the talent level got further away. 01:14:40.079 --> 01:14:46.399 And so I would play on the fifth court where there was like a little net over a trash can. 01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:47.279 And it was sand. 01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:48.960 You were dribbling in sand. 01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:49.520 Exactly. 01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:53.920 But that's holding wasn't I would go out there a lot and playing to display basketball. 01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:55.439 And it's still the same. 01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:57.600 The the gym on the beach is still the same. 01:14:57.840 --> 01:14:58.319 Still there, yeah. 01:14:58.479 --> 01:14:59.520 You know, it's still there. 01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:08.560 Um the beach is so wide that you have volleyball courts on the beach, and you still have the beach if you want to go out in the water. 01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:12.159 I don't know why you would, because it's dirty and polluted, but it's not nice. 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:18.079 And the the bikers along the boardwalk and the skaters, and it it's all still there. 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:22.239 And there's skate parks or skaters guys walking around you know, doing their thing still. 01:15:22.319 --> 01:15:26.720 It's like it's funny how we started this conversation, and I was like, stay away from LA. 01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:28.720 And now I'm like, Yeah, LA's not bad. 01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:31.680 You can stay out of the traffic, but LA's not bad. 01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:33.520 I hear they have some palm trees. 01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:34.880 A couple, one or two. 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:35.199 Yeah. 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:35.760 One or two. 01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:37.920 And if you like airplanes, huh? 01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:40.319 They got airplanes, especially in that area. 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:41.199 Yeah, they do. 01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:58.159 Um, so no, the the whole thing, the idea is you you you bring an RV, you do your your tour, and then you stop and you park the RV in a storage place, you pay a couple hundred bucks a month until you can come back, you pick it back up, you move to the next place, and you and you work your way all the way up to Alaska, and it takes you a

couple years to do it, right? 01:15:58.319 --> 01:15:59.279 Or a few years to do it. 01:15:59.920 --> 01:16:01.600 I thought that would be a lot of fun. 01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:06.239 It's not happened yet, but it did seem like it'd be a great way to see. 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:14.800 Because I want to go up to like, okay, keep in mind when I was a kid, much like Jerry, Free Willy was a big deal to me. 01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:16.000 You remember Free Willie? 01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:16.560 Absolutely. 01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:16.800 Yeah. 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:18.560 We've talked about him before in this show. 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:19.199 Yes. 01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:24.319 I remember seeing those scenes because those all take place in Washington, Oregon, somewhere in that range. 01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:25.920 The Pacific Northwest, right? 01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:26.399 Sure. 01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:32.079 So seeing all that against the the out, you know, the Pacific Ocean, everything. 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:35.520 I still to this day have not seen that. 01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:37.680 Oh, you know, you're missing out. 01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:38.560 I know. 01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:39.439 I know. 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:51.359 Now I've been to Sa Seattle, I've been to Portland, um, and I've actually I've cruised out of s Seattle, but when you cruise, by the time you're out in the water, it's pitch black. 01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:52.319 You can't see anything. 01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:52.880 Right. 01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:59.840 So then you wake up the next morning and you're passing Canada, and then you wake up the next morning after that and you're in the fjords of Alaska. 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:07.359 Like, I still haven't seen that Pacific Northwest, the rocks in the ocean and all the stuff that you see. 01:17:07.520 --> 01:17:08.720 I've not seen that. 01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:12.399 And it's someplace that I I really want to go visit and see. 01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:15.119 So I think that's why that trip would be a lot of fun. 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:17.760 And so many of our teams have done it. 01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:24.079 I've seen I see pictures of our teams all the time doing that stuff, and they're like, hey, we just delivered here and look at this. 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:35.279 And it's like, that's you can right down the road is where uh Jesse and his mom and or his uh adopted mom and dad lived in Free Willie's not far from there, and you can go see it all. 01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:40.319 And um, but yeah, no, I I think that'd be uh a really fun thing to do. 01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:51.119 So there's a photo that comes up on our Apple TV of the beach with rocks, and I'm like, that's Oregon, that's Brookings. 01:17:51.840 --> 01:17:54.159 Yeah, and Vince will tap the little button on the remote. 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:55.520 It says Brookings. 01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:57.840 First off, he says yes, it is. 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:00.239 That's what he says before he confirms it. 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:09.760 Uh, but then he confirms it, and I just I think it it it makes me happy that one of the auto-scrolled because normally it's Thailand and Singapore that's a screensaver, yeah. 01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:10.800 Screensaver. 01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:14.640 Uh, but when Oregon comes by, I'm like, I've been there. 01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:16.239 So Eric and I have two of those. 01:18:16.319 --> 01:18:23.920 One of them is uh Hawaii, where they do the the uh the helicopter drone, whatever in Hawaii. 01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:25.520 So we've been to that park. 01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:30.319 Um, if you didn't see the picture of us with the dinosaur, that's it. 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:31.279 Yes, that's it. 01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:32.000 Remember that? 01:18:32.319 --> 01:18:33.840 That was that was scary. 01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:37.119 Um, and then definitely not staged. 01:18:37.279 --> 01:18:41.199 And then um the other one was Dubai, the marina district. 01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:41.520 Yeah. 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:44.640 So like we can actually see like we stayed in that apartment. 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:45.520 That's pretty cool. 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:46.560 That's pretty fun. 01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:50.159 Um, but I see those other pictures and I'm like, I want to go. 01:18:50.319 --> 01:18:54.239 Or the ones of like Singapore, the ones of uh uh Hong Kong or something like that. 01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:56.319 I'm like, oh, that looks so amazing. 01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:56.880 Yeah. 01:18:57.119 --> 01:19:05.600 Um hopefully later this year, me and Jerry and Eric and Don will be able to uh throw some light on some of the some of those. 01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:09.199 Uh not to foreshadow, but a little foreshadowing. 01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:10.479 I'm gonna sprinkle in there. 01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:13.039 Um sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle. 01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.199 And uh, but no. 01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:23.359 I I think that's what I love most about this job, this thing that we do is the travel aspect and the seeing the country and the seeing the places. 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:35.439 And the for me, the pack the fact that Eric and I drove for as long as we did, we saw every state in this country, we've explored most states in this country, and we've barely scratched the surface. 01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:36.159 Sure. 01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:38.159 Just don't park on the side of the road. 01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:38.399 Yeah. 01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:40.560 Just don't park on the side of the road. 01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:41.439 That's the most important thing. 01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:45.039 Or make sure or make sure it's okay if it if you do. 01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:47.600 Or be ready for the ticket money. 01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:48.239 There you go. 01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:49.920 There's so much to see out there. 01:19:50.159 --> 01:19:50.560 So much to see. 01:19:52.560 --> 01:19:52.800 Yeah. 01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:53.359 Yep.

01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:56.079 And I see a lot of these people doing truck parking. 01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:57.359 So parking club. 01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:58.319 Parking club. 01:19:58.479 --> 01:19:59.199 Yeah, truck parking club. 01:19:59.920 --> 01:20:00.079 Yeah. 01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:05.119 I just got a um, real trucker couple and the Lord's uh D D Expediter. 01:20:05.279 --> 01:20:09.119 They both are doing some stuff with uh truck parking club. 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:10.399 Truck parking club. 01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:15.920 I just got a uh email introducing me to a truck parking club uh person. 01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:16.399 Yeah. 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:19.039 So I'm gonna have a chat with them. 01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:20.399 We'll see what if anything comes with that. 01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:23.920 There's some really cool places I've been watching the Samuels tuck in out of. 01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:24.399 Yep. 01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:30.960 Um so if you don't watch their channel, they're uh the real trucker couple. 01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:32.640 I think they're the only trucking couple. 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:33.359 2.0? 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:34.960 Are they 2.0 now? 01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:36.079 I think something like that. 01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:37.439 Maybe just a real trucker couple. 01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:38.079 Maybe they're YouTube. 01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:38.880 I don't know. 01:20:39.279 --> 01:20:39.680 Branding. 01:20:39.760 --> 01:20:40.239 What is branding? 01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:41.199 Yeah, what is branding? 01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:41.840 Who knows? 01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:43.520 Just the real trucker couple. 01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:44.960 It used to be 2.0, but maybe. 01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:46.399 They've got some cool merch. 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:47.520 Do they? 01:20:47.680 --> 01:20:48.720 No, I I have no idea. 01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:52.960 I'm just suggesting they're like, oh Steve, we'll see this and make some cool merch. 01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:53.520 Yes. 01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:55.039 Just a thought. 01:20:56.319 --> 01:20:56.720 I don't know. 01:20:56.800 --> 01:21:08.720 I'd be using the parking club, which is truck parking club, which I think we, me, I'm gonna raise my hand here, debuted and discovered them from like four mats ago. 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:10.159 Yes, maybe three maths ago. 01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:14.479 I was so excited, they were brand kind of new, but I could see their vision. 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:14.880 Yep. 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:19.439 Uh their vision looks like it's coming to fruition in leaps and bounds. 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:27.920 Uh, and I gotta say, if we were still out over the road, that we most likely would be utilizing parking club, truck parking club. 01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:29.359 Yep. 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:30.720 I agree with you. 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:31.600 I agree with you. 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:35.359 And I like how they have it on a as needed basis. 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:39.600 So it look, we're not sponsored by them. 01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:40.399 No, we're not. 01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.880 I'm I'm I'm talking with uh it's starting to start in the early onset conversation with the city. 01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:48.159 Check them out. 01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:49.600 There's a need, right? 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:51.840 And they're they're helping to fill that need. 01:21:52.079 --> 01:21:56.239 But they're also helping other people who have that vacant space. 01:21:56.560 --> 01:21:57.359 Like, what are you doing with it? 01:21:57.520 --> 01:21:58.159 So it's like a win-win. 01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:00.159 It's a win-win-win. 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:01.680 It's like a win-win-win, yeah, right? 01:22:01.840 --> 01:22:08.239 A company creating it, and then you've got the owner of the property, and then people who need that space to park your truck. 01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:09.359 Like a Steve Wynn. 01:22:09.439 --> 01:22:10.239 It's like a three-win. 01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:11.600 No, not like a Steve Wynn. 01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:13.359 We're gonna leave Steve Wynn out of this. 01:22:13.600 --> 01:22:26.399 I was listening to a uh podcast about bourbon, and they were interviewing a guy who was who was the founder of a distillery, and I can't think of the name of it, and he's involved with Truck Parking Club now because he recognized that the need as well. 01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:28.000 And it's just it's amazing. 01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:28.800 Yeah, yeah. 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:29.439 It's amazing. 01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:30.159 No doubt. 01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:31.039 That's pretty cool. 01:22:31.199 --> 01:22:32.640 Uh, what a good talk tonight, y'all. 01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:33.359 It was a lot of fun. 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:34.239 We needed this. 01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:35.359 It's been a hot minute. 01:22:35.439 --> 01:22:37.760 Uh, those of you don't know, we were supposed to meet last week. 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:40.479 We ended up having this is probably delayed a week because of it. 01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.119 I had a severe case of the plague. 01:22:43.359 --> 01:22:44.800 Is it still going around nowadays? 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:46.399 I it I guess. 01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:47.920 Uh you know I got it. 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:51.039 I see a lot of people in my feed. 01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:59.680 So like friends and whatever acquaintances saying that their family has it, and it's like the worst ever they've seen. 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:00.720 I don't agree with that. 01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:02.479 Just really knocking them out. 01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:05.520 So I this is my second, so I had the flu. 01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:08.479 Uh I I got that influenza bee. 01:23:08.640 --> 01:23:09.039 What? 01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:12.960 I need that patch, you know, my Boy Scout patch for the influence of B. 01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:13.199 Yeah. 01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:18.079 So um and it was it was bad. 01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:20.880 I still have a

little bit of stuff I'm dealing with. 01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:22.880 If you hear my voice and you're like, it's not quite right. 01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:24.079 You're not wrong. 01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:26.159 But I have survived. 01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:35.039 And there was a point when I was uh for an entire week, an entire week, an entire week, I had a fever. 01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:36.319 A week. 01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:37.279 For how long? 01:23:37.439 --> 01:23:39.520 Your body's not supposed to have a a week. 01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:40.640 Crazy. 01:23:41.520 --> 01:23:42.479 What week? 01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:44.960 103 was the highest I got. 01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:46.800 I get that's who cares? 01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:49.680 104 is if you want to be on the on the list. 01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:51.279 One of three is like, what are you doing? 01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:52.640 But how long? 01:23:52.880 --> 01:23:53.600 A week. 01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:54.239 Wow. 01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:59.920 But I lived on Tylenol Advil, took up at the same time every time, four hours on the dot. 01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.640 So I I was bouncing between 100 and 103 the whole time. 01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:05.279 Wow. 01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:07.039 For a week. 01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:10.000 And uh a week, a whole week. 01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:10.800 Like a whole week. 01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:11.520 Wow. 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:13.439 Actually, a day, like six days, actually. 01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:15.760 We'll call it a week. 01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:16.960 No, it was seven days. 01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:17.760 Sorry, it was seven days. 01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:18.159 Seven days. 01:24:18.239 --> 01:24:18.640 It was seven days. 01:24:20.960 --> 01:24:21.920 Felt terrible. 01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:25.439 Felt like I got uh hit by that bus and backed up. 01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:26.479 You feel better now. 01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:27.279 I do feel better now. 01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:27.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:28.880 I'm moisturized. 01:24:29.119 --> 01:24:31.039 That's so um good call. 01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:34.079 Well, you you should me the uh you know cocoa butter. 01:24:34.239 --> 01:24:34.960 Cocoa butter, yeah. 01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:36.079 Yeah. 01:24:37.039 --> 01:24:38.319 I thought it was the bus? 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:40.159 I thought you said it was mother's back to black. 01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:41.039 The the bus is. 01:24:41.359 --> 01:24:42.239 Then I used the wrong thing. 01:24:42.479 --> 01:24:43.760 No, no, yeah, you're fine. 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:46.720 I'm I'm sharing with the folks at home that's cocoa butter. 01:24:46.960 --> 01:24:47.199 Okay. 01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:53.119 So I felt like the bus Melissa was driving, and I got run over and then backed over and then run over and backed over again. 01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:53.840 Actually, it's not true. 01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:54.800 It's not true at all. 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:56.479 I feel like a bus would have been gentler. 01:24:56.800 --> 01:24:57.680 A bus would have been gentler. 01:24:57.920 --> 01:24:58.560 This was a Mac truck. 01:24:58.720 --> 01:25:01.680 She is not Mac truck, gold bulldog. 01:25:01.840 --> 01:25:04.479 If you know Mac trucks, you know what the gold bulldog means. 01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:06.720 Dump truck fully loaded out of the quarry. 01:25:07.039 --> 01:25:07.279 Yeah. 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:09.920 Like just all the axles down. 01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:12.159 All the axles down, full speed. 01:25:12.319 --> 01:25:12.640 Yep. 01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:13.760 That's how I felt. 01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:15.439 It was horrible. 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:18.399 Um, but I feel much better now. 01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:22.159 And uh, but because of that, we did miss a week, so I apologize for that. 01:25:22.479 --> 01:25:25.760 It's amazing the amount of tape that's on Jerry's floor. 01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:26.720 I know. 01:25:26.800 --> 01:25:28.720 And the fact that we still recorded tape, right? 01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:31.199 Like, I know this looks like a digital soundboard that you see over here. 01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:34.319 It's not the camera is behind all the things. 01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:35.279 Yes, behind the camera. 01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:39.279 Actually, it's not behind the camera, it's it's over in another room on the other side of this wall. 01:25:40.479 --> 01:25:42.159 They make noise when they're recording. 01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:45.600 It's like constantly, so we have to have them in a separate room. 01:25:45.680 --> 01:25:48.239 Yeah, but it's it's all in take. 01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:52.560 One of these days we need to do like an overhead shot of Jerry pulling pulling. 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:53.520 Splicing it. 01:25:53.760 --> 01:25:54.159 Splicing. 01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:54.640 Yes. 01:25:54.960 --> 01:25:55.439 Can we do that? 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:56.640 Can make that happen sometime. 01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:57.359 Do a mind. 01:25:58.479 --> 01:25:58.960 It's a lot of work. 01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:01.520 Yeah, you could use the digital stuff for that. 01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:07.760 It's not that we're against digital, it's just we like the look and the aesthetic of it's just warmer. 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:08.319 It is. 01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:09.039 It's warmer. 01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:11.920 I mean, even our soundtrack plays off of off of vinyl. 01:26:12.239 --> 01:26:12.720 That's right. 01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:13.600 So, you know. 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:15.359 But it's vinyl to cassette. 01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:16.560 Vinyl to cassette. 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:16.880 Yep. 01:26:17.119 --> 01:26:23.119 That it's amazing the process goes through to make this all happen for you all. 01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:26.399 From the sound side, if you're listening to the podcast, yeah. 01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:30.640 From the video side, if you're watching us on YouTube, I mean, we put it out there. 01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:33.840

You you can get us on all your your podcast apps. 01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:34.159 Yes. 01:26:34.479 --> 01:26:35.600 We put it out there on all of them. 01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:37.760 We're we're podcast app agnostic. 01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:38.800 My voice is going away. 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:40.159 It's you know what's crazy? 01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:41.840 So I hear your voice going away. 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:42.720 I'm sorry about that. 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:43.760 That's my fault. 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:53.279 But uh the fact that y'all don't know that we actually record this two and a half weeks before you get it because Jerry has to stamp all of these podcasts into vinyl. 01:26:53.359 --> 01:26:53.680 Yeah. 01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:57.439 And then he sends them physically to everybody. 01:26:57.680 --> 01:26:57.840 Yeah. 01:26:58.079 --> 01:27:05.039 So like there is like Napster has to get a copy of this vinyl, and they then record it to digital. 01:27:05.279 --> 01:27:05.359 Right. 01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:11.760 And then LimeWire gets Napster's version version of the vinyl, and they gotta do it all too. 01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:13.760 And then LimeWire sends it to BearShare. 01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:14.319 Right. 01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:14.800 Exactly. 01:27:15.199 --> 01:27:17.439 And then Bear Share sends it to BitTorrent. 01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:18.000 Right. 01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:21.279 And then BitTorrent sends it to uh Spotify. 01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:21.680 Right. 01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:23.600 It's it's amazing how that all works out. 01:27:23.920 --> 01:27:27.680 Yeah, I was at Barnes and Noble the other day, and there was a huge vinyl section. 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:29.840 I think I saw our record there. 01:27:30.079 --> 01:27:32.239 Uh Jerry, what'd we forget? 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:39.600 If you're interested in highfield trucking and all that we have to offer over here, please check us out online at highfieldtrucking.com. 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:44.239 You can chat live with any of our recruiting agents over there Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:44.880 to 5 p.m. 01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:45.920 Eastern Standard Time. 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:48.159 They would love to answer any questions that you may have. 01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:51.680 You can also reach out to recruiting at 833 Highfield. 01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:54.880 That's 833 493 4353. 01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:56.000 Option one. 01:27:56.479 --> 01:28:06.079 Um, if you have any suggestions or comments about the show or any future topics, suggestions, please send us over an email at the outerbeltpodcast at gmail.com. 01:28:06.319 --> 01:28:08.239 You can also leave a comment down in the description. 01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:11.039 We do read all of those and we would love to hear from you. 01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:14.319 Please like and subscribe if you haven't done so. 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:17.039 Uh it really does help us out with the algorithm. 01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:22.960 And as Vince mentioned earlier, you can check us out on all of your favorite podcast streaming apps. 01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:25.279 I like it when you call me a recruiting agent. 01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:30.159 Recruiting agents I love it. 01:28:30.239 --> 01:28:32.399 I'm being very respectful here, but I love it. 01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:37.600 I heard you I'm like Secret Agent Recruiting Girl. 01:28:37.840 --> 01:28:40.720 Recruiting Secret Recruiting Agent Girl. 01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:44.399 I'm gonna go on to that that site where you get business cards for cheap. 01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:51.520 I won't mention their name because we're not a sponsor we're getting you new business cards on your kind of not be recruiting agents. 01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:52.239 I love it. 01:28:52.399 --> 01:28:53.520 Yeah no I love it. 01:28:53.920 --> 01:28:56.079 I love recruiting agents what would you call her? 01:28:56.319 --> 01:28:56.800 A recruiter. 01:28:56.960 --> 01:29:04.000 Yeah recruiting sourcing sponsoring uh that is recruiting agent I love it. 01:29:04.239 --> 01:29:29.279 She's recruiting agent 000 I know right I am double agent agents agents yes recruiting agent 001 yes yes I agree yes I love it Eric make the uh Eric make it so make it make it so I don't know what that is either doesn't matter it doesn't matter engage. 01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:37.359 So tell you what folks um as you're out there on the road doing your thing be safe and make good decisions don't leave money on the table. 01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:44.239 And keep those rolls attorney good night