Welcome to the Towing Life podcast , where the ditches are deep , the trucks are loaded , but the drivers are not . I am your host , tomanji , and , as though this isn't a usual podcast , unfortunately both Playing Guy and myself couldn't meet up to record a podcast together , so I have thrown together some clips over the last . Oh , I think one of the clips we got in here is from episode 57 , 129 , 140 , 106 , 141 , 107 . We got a bunch of stuff that has never been in a podcast before . Most of it's from intros , just as we're starting to warm up , before we start recording . All about just random stuff from books and how our podcast is raw and uncut , and some funny stories and how COVID wasn't real .
Speaker 1Yeah , just a bunch of random junk , really , that I've saved over the course of these episodes and I put them together . Unfortunately , it's probably going to be about 30 minutes , fortunately . Unfortunately , it depends on how you enjoy it . I'm not sure If you don't wait till the next one . Hopefully you'll enjoy that one better , but hopefully this ties you over until then . So hope you enjoy the collection , the assortment of junk I've been able to provide for you today , so don't hold too much judgment . This is never stuff that was going to make it to an actual podcast , but here we are in a little pickle , so I guess this is what you get , so enjoy . Hey everyone . I'm Brad from Calgary . This is Sean from Cambridge , ontario . I'm Terry from Cornwall , ontario .
Speaker 2Hey , this is Larry from Pit Metals , british Columbia , and you're listening to the Towing Mike Podcast you ever get . So I get these like you know where your elbow sits on , like the armrest or like the window , and it goes numb . No , I get like a little , a little like a little bump , oh , like a like a little . I don't . I don't know what it is , I'm not , I'm not a doctor , I'm barely a toe operator . It almost feels like cystic . Oh , if that makes sense . It feels like a little little hard cyst bump that hurts and like . So when you put pressure on it you can like move how your arm is sitting on it . Now , I've been like prone to cysts and stuff in the past and like I know my my right elbow I really got to watch because ever since I had that terrible , terrible golfing accident , um , my elbow has still been pretty tender Like the bone , like the tip of the elbow .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2But yeah , I get like these like little . I don't know it's not really a pimple , yeah , but yeah , I get like these like little . I don't know it's not really a pimple .
Speaker 1I don't want to call it a pimple , but it's like a cyst or a little like bump , little calloused , maybe that's something's going on underneath , I don't know right on my elbows I know like I would hold the steering wheel in a weird way with my wrist and then my wrist would get really cramp up , or I always have a tendency of sitting sideways in the seat Ever since I drove that old , uh GMC of the company we used to work at .
Speaker 1That steering wheel of the offset steering no um , the 2015 and the 2015 GMCs and Chevys , the steering wheel isn't centered to the seat , it's off centered . It's off centered like an inch and a half to the right because , if you remember , there was a card holder slot on the left hand side anyways . So the steering wheel is closer to your right armrest . Well now , I've gotten used to that in every vehicle I've drived ever since . So I sit kind of sideways in my seat to get my arm up a little closer , so I don't have to reach over as far , which means I put a lot more weight on my elbow because I'm kind of shifted in my seat , which then will make my whole arm go numb and then I'll have to like stop and like sit to the left .
Speaker 2I feel like these are 100% like symptoms of getting old . Like I got an elbow , I got a bum elbow every once in a while . You got to like move , so you're like , so you're sitting . Funny , you sit on your wallet , though . Is that part of the problem ? Never , yeah , if you sit on a wallet like game over , like don't sit on wallets .
Speaker 2I did that for like the first two or three years that I actually started carrying a wallet around with me in high school , and I stopped immediately after that oh , yeah , yeah , no , I I mean my wallet doesn't fold very well and it's not because of the money that's inside of it , so I definitely have to like I all my work pants are cargo pants and that's for great reason , because I just keep it , keep it in my side pocket . These , actually these new cargo pants we have , are awesome because they have a a big pocket and then they have a little pocket in front and the little pocket works perfect for my case , for my wireless earbuds Like it just fits so snug in there , it won't fall out when you're in the ditch . It's beautiful . If my life was as easy to use as this product was , we would not be having to record first thing on a saturday morning your wife would be happier she's having dreams of a simpler time right now , Back before I was a tow truck operator .
Speaker 2Actually , she doesn't remember those days . I do , and God were they glorious .
Speaker 1Glorious , eh , do you believe ? I sold cars .
Speaker 2I was a car salesman . Yeah not a very good one . I was was a car salesman . Yeah , not a very good one .
Speaker 2I was a terrible car salesman , too honest and blunt yeah , pretty much well , I worked in a toyota dealership and we had this like chevy cobalt and this lady comes in I'd like to buy that car . No , you don't , it's a piece of shit . Oh , so do you want to sell me a new car ? No , not really . I just wanted to tell you this one was a piece of shit . Oh , so , do you want to sell me a new car ? No , not really . Just wanted to tell you this one was a piece of shit . Cool about your day . Thanks for coming .
Speaker 1If you go over to the Chevy dealer across the street , they'll try to sell you this piece of shit .
Speaker 2Don't do it , but I'm not that kind of liar . I had my owner come to me and go . You know your way with with people . I'm like , yeah , it's not great sometimes and he goes no , but I see you trying and and wording things in a different way to to change and I'm like , okay , I do try and he goes and you still come across as a dickhead and I'm like it's just me , like I
try .
Speaker 1I'm like our new operator was picking up someone on the side of the highway and put the medical concern member safety code in the call . Oh , and he still knew . So he didn't know exactly what that was , so he asked so is there anything wrong with you that I need to know about , because I'm kind of cold yeah . There's a code in the call saying that there's a safety concern for some medical issues . And he was like no , I've been a member for 15 years .
Speaker 2I've never been asked that is there something wrong with you that I need to be aware of ? So I think I hold on .
Speaker 1I think that should be a standard question we get to ask all of our customers so he ended up called back on his roadside and saying that my operator called him a and he scratched the driveway . No , I'll cut that right out . And uh , scratched the driveway at the drop off and ripped his bumper and took out his oil pan well .
Speaker 2So the only valid point he had is that your driver asked him what was wrong with him . I'm telling you I would like that to be a standard question on that we are you know what I mean Like does the vehicle run ? No , okay . Are you mentally stable , pardon ? Yeah , I will , in turn , answer the same questions to the customer back if they want to ask me to make it even , the answer is always going to be no , yeah , are you mentally stable ? Not today , maybe tomorrow . You want to call back then ?
Speaker 1if not , any tow truck driver you get is not going to be mentally stable rough day .
Speaker 2Yeah , take a load off . We're here for therapy .
Speaker 1Yeah , Therapy . Everyone in my household has COVID but it doesn't exist anymore . Yeah Well , mom and my girlfriend both tested positive for COVID , so did you not get the memo ?
Speaker 2COVID doesn't exist anymore .
Speaker 1I'd like to believe that because , other than being extremely tired , I'm not sick , and I sleep next to someone who has it , so you know if COVID was real , I would have gotten it in Baltimore . Well , it's got like a week long incubation period , doesn't it ? Isn't that what ?
Speaker 2they said so I might have COVID .
Speaker 1You might have COVID . Okay , that's fair . I have COVID because the girlfriend works in a germ factory .
Speaker 2Yep , my wife used to do that before she came over to the dark side , mm-hmm . So I understand that .
Speaker 1Yeah Well , beards don't run in my family , unfortunately .
Speaker 2What does Racism and political conservatorship Sure ?
Speaker 1Bowel cancer too . Ooh .
Speaker 2Some would say , and very thin skin .
Speaker 1I'm not sure what the medical term for it is , but some , some would say all cancer might be the less insulting of those three things something along those lines at least jesus christ .
Speaker 2Uh , if we can't have fun once a week doing this and pick on each other , what would be the fun ?
Speaker 1um any order . You want to do this clusterfuck in .
Speaker 2No , but your Facebook post about the pictures has to come before yeah , question from the interwebs . Yeah , well , here , what I'll do is I'll actually move it under here . I'll move it under here , just that way . It's a lead into it . Don't have to bold it . I don't know why I did that .
Speaker 2Oh , actually , italic it makes sense I feel like a lot of that is going to take over most of the episode , because anytime we get into damage claims and anytime we get into that kind of stuff , it it we ask more questions than we actually give answers for , um , which seems to perpetuate the uh , I got a book . It's a great book . What's the book say ? Open the door to the truth . It's a a dude . Um , is it a ?
Speaker 1conspiracy theory book ? No , no , how jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to bring buildings down .
Speaker 2No , no , it is nothing of the sort . It was from a guy who actually had a seminar at the Baltimore Tow Show . What was his name ? Again ? Michael Porter . Hmm , a very good speaker , and it's a very interesting book . It's kind of just about uh , making yourself better put it that way not a better person , because if that was the case I wouldn't read it because it doesn't apply to me . I'm already a good person , um , but how to ? It's kind of like it's one of those corny you would almost say . Like I would say corny , like not self help books , but like unlocking understand yourself better , like unlocking your more self-aware no , not even that , just unlocking your potential kind of things , um , which I would normally deem and laugh at .
Speaker 2But uh , I made it about a third of the way through the book and we were I'd actually like to have him . I met him at baltimore and talked to him about a third of the way through the book and we were I'd actually like to have him . I met him at Baltimore and talked to him about having him on the show he's been on with , uh , with our buddies , uh , jeff and Brad .
Speaker 1Hmm .
Speaker 2So I figured I would read up on the book . I got about a third of the way through .
Speaker 1They also have therapy for that kind of shit too , right .
Speaker 2No , it's not about trying to be a better person . I'm already a good person . Uh-huh , I am caring , understanding , empathetic , barely .
Speaker 1Those are all far stretches . There's your exercise for the day . What's that they're reaching like ? Stretching the truth , jumping to conclusions ?
Speaker 2Oh no , I'm all of those things , but the one thing I realized is that most people , in any industry , do not become better or do not grow by watching TikTok and YouTube . They do it by reading and actually taking time out of their day to focus on something specifically . So it's something I've been trying to do through reading a book . The only other book that I have read has been the Art of Not Giving a Fuck , and did you make it all the way through that book ?
Speaker 1Yes , Obviously . You gave enough of a fuck to read the book yep and anne frank's diary .
Speaker 2I really like that book in school yeah , I really enjoyed that .
Speaker 1And um , what's his name's book ? We had him on the show , or you ?
Speaker 2we didn't actually have him on oh hookers and blows , save christmas I did read that whole book yeah , you did read that whole book , but that's pretty much a picture book .
Speaker 1No , um , I own the book too . You own the book . You had them on the plane .
Speaker 2Guys show aiden aiden cole's um life in the fast lane yeah , that book , you read that one too I did read that book . You're right . I don't know where my copy of that book went . I need a bookshelf for all my two books , it's gonna be a very small shelf .
Speaker 2Hookers and blow takes up most of the shelf it would be like no , no , it would be like four foot long , of all the toe canada magazines that I have followed by hookers and blow save christmas . Um , opening the door to the truth and uh , yeah , the life and the fast lane . That's like my three books , you got me beat .
Speaker 1I've got a day in the life on just a few acres farm . Oh , is that about how to start your cult ? Well , it actually kind of sort of is . It's got a lot of philosophy in it and good ways of living your life and how to like run a small farm yeah , and how to like convince people that you're like the lord and um , that you should like breed with their wives .
Speaker 2Like , is that part of it or ?
Speaker 1anywho , welcome to the towing life podcast , where the ditches are deep , the trucks are loaded , but the trucks are loaded , but the drivers are not . You got the button , buddy . I got the button . It's the button . I'll let you have the privilege of clicking the record button .
Speaker 2The clicking honors .
Speaker 1The clicking honors of episode 141 .
Speaker 2Take 72 .
Speaker 1Imagine if we actually did multiple takes . I don't even know if we ever did rerecord a podcast .
Speaker 2No , no , it is as raw and and it is what it is . You get what you get . What we say cannot come back . The only thing that we can do is cut things out if they don't work . The only thing that we can do is cut things out if they don't work , but to say we have gone and went , oh well , that didn't work . Or oh , this , let's re-record Nope Negative .
Speaker 1I think we re-recorded a section here or there , probably because of my bad internet , maybe .
Speaker 2But even that I don't think .
Speaker 2So yeah , it's we're , we're one , take specialists yeah , because it's never as good , the second time I recently had that where we uh , we changed our voicemails at work and one of the words that my general manager was very wanted in , for whatever reason , is alternatively . Now , alternatively is not a hard word to say , but you do need to focus when you say it and the problem is when it's halfway through your recording . You're , you have to you know it's think about as you're saying it and then make sure you're prepped in your head for your next lines . And uh , I one taped it .
Speaker 2I'm not going to lie , I did it in one take and I sat there and I listened to him rerecord and rerecord and rerecord . I'll take the but the , but the , uh , no , okay , it's seven at seven to rerecord . Seven , I'll turn . I'm a turn them at seven to rerecord . I'll tell me that seven to rerecord and I'm like what made you want to have that word ? He's like what's another word for it ? I'm like , I don't know , I don't have the patience , but watch this . Alternatively , if you'd like to be forwarded to my cell phone um yeah , it was pretty funny uh , yeah , no simple words for me , my friend this is toman g leave message .
Speaker 2Yeah , you're like bobby from uh . Is it water boy ? Yeah , I'd be water boy . You're like bobby from boy .
Speaker 1Why use many word when few word do trick ? Mama said that's an office reference , if you didn't get it .
Speaker 2Nope , mama says that . So man G better hurry up and get this recording done so she can watch her soaps . Okay , mommy , sorry I was fixing something , something trying to keep it out of camera range . I did a poor job of that .
Speaker 1It just looked like you were holding a bar of soap after you said you wanted to watch your soaps .
Speaker 2Can't drop the soap if I bring it with me everywhere . My god , it's nice that you finally have like connectivity .
Speaker 1Illinois . Illinois Fire station in Darren Illinois .
Speaker 2Illinois . Wait , you call it Illinois Illinois isn't that what it's called Illinois ?
Speaker 1Illinois then why is there a fucking S in it ? It's silent . Well , you put an S in there to make it plural . So wouldn't it be Illinois ?
Speaker 2No , you don't put an S to make everything plural . Words end in S's that aren't plural . Now I got to think of a word that ends in S that isn't plural . I didn't think this one through . That is fair , god .
Speaker 1That's what they say is when you argue with an idiot , they'll just break you down and bring you down to your level , and then they'll beat you with experience .
Speaker 2All of the news . News isn't plural . Physics isn't plural . You had to google it . I am googling it . I am absolutely . Um , I had to Google that one . Yeah , like some of the references it gives maybe I'm just reading this too quick Like gas , dress right , class fuss , all that stuff ends in S and isn't plural . Illinois is one of those . It's not Illinois , illinois , yes , just Illinois , just Illinois . Illinois , yes , just Illinois .
Speaker 1Just Illinois Okay .
Speaker 2Man , is there any other states you can't pronounce ? That would be fun .
Speaker 1I don't know Memphis . No , I got that one yeah .
Speaker 2Memphis isn't a state . First of all , memphis isn't a state . Yeah , what state is Memphis in ?
Speaker 1Pretty sure it's in Nashville .
Speaker 2Nashville is not a state state . There you go memphis , tennessee .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's correct . Yeah , geography isn't my strong suit . Okay , especially in the country that I don't live in memphis is in nashville .
Speaker 2No , it's in tennessee and I I don't even know if those two are close to each other well , they're in the same state , so they're close enough . Okay , Ottawa and Thunder Bay are in the same state and they're not very close .
Speaker 1Well , Canada's bigger than America , is it yeah ?
Speaker 2Like square footage .
Speaker 1We're the second largest country in the world .
Speaker 2Okay , well , it's not much bigger . Beaten only by Russia . Okay , Well , it's not much bigger . Beaten only by Russia . Okay , but it's not much bigger .
Speaker 1Yeah , but we also have a lot fewer .
States are a lot smaller on average than provinces .
Speaker 2Like we're 3.8 million square miles . There's 3.7 , almost 3.8 . Like we're like 55,000 square miles bigger than the US , but we have nine provinces and territories.7 almost 3.8 .
Speaker 1like we're like 55 000 square miles bigger than the us , but we have nine provinces and territories , I think nine , twelve , I don't know and they have like 50 in the continental united states or 49 .
Speaker 2What ? Okay ? What do you think the continental united states means compared to just saying the united states ?
Speaker 1I want to hear this well , it means the actual landmass , because they got alaska , which is part of the united states , but it's not connected directly . Okay , and like hawaii , it's an island . It's not connected directly .
Speaker 2Okay , got you . There's 49 states , including Alaska , excluding Hawaii , located in the continent of North America in the District of Columbia . I think Alaska still counts because it's still land attached . It's just not land attached to the US .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2But Hawaii , yes , would be another one that would not be attached .
Speaker 1I've got a peacock that's in my windowsill pecking at the glass and it's getting the dog going on like grumbling , she's like staring at the window .
Speaker 2Does the dog not like the peacocks ?
Speaker 1She just doesn't know what's making the noise which makes her very upset .
Speaker 2Yeah , there's something making tapping on the window upset . Yeah , there's something making tapping on the window Seriously , I brought my dog to your place one time and my dog definitely wanted to chase the peacocks .
Speaker 1Yes , the peacocks are colorful and they look tasty .
Speaker 2Yeah well , my dog just has a pure focus on animal squirrels , chipmunks . Surprisingly , it doesn't care about birds like small birds , like crows , and it won't bug them , even geese . It hasn't really messed with geese . See , geese are the things that they should be messing with . Kill those cobras . I'd be afraid if my dog started messing with cobra chickens . My dog is tough , but geese are tough . Geese scare me .
Speaker 1Yeah , they got the honk , All right .
Speaker 2Canadian cobra chickens . Thank you , bye .