The OuterBelt's Podcast
The OuterBelt's Podcast
From Beef Jerky Taste Test To Predictive Truck Parking On I 5
A thunderstorm, a table full of jerky, and a big promise from Washington State: find safe truck parking up to four hours ahead. We kick off with a care package from David and Ramona and a spirited taste test—lemon pepper’s bright pop, jalapeno honey’s gentle burn, Texas heat’s serious kick, and bohemian garlic’s bold, road-worthy flavor—before steering straight into the news that could change nightly parking hunts on I-5.
We break down how a predictive system might actually work for drivers: sensors at rest areas and weigh stations, real-time counts blended with historical patterns, and the need for alerts that adjust when a crash or surge flips the script. The idea is simple—less circling, safer stops, smarter spacing—but execution matters. We talk accuracy, hands-free prompts, public vs private lot coverage, and the reality that a five-spot miss can blow a tight clock. If it’s going to help, it has to be transparent, fast, and driver-first.
A recent AWS outage adds context. When the cloud hiccups, maintenance platforms, phone systems, airline tools, and apps wobble with it. We share what went down, why services came back in odd patches, and how dependent modern trucking has become on a few giant backbones. That launches a lively sidebar on cyberattacks, hacker movie nostalgia, and the balance between embracing new tools and building analog fallbacks. We round things out with practical fuel talk: hidden sugar in road snacks, why many travelers feel better eating abroad, and small choices that keep energy steady.
Subscribe, share with a teammate who’s fought for a spot at 10 p.m., and tell us: would you trust a four-hour parking prediction to plan your night? Your take could shape what gets built next.
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SPEAKER_03:Hey everybody, welcome to the Autobelt. My name is Patrick, and you all know my acquaintances. Chili.
SPEAKER_04:Buttermilk.
SPEAKER_03:Eric.
SPEAKER_05:Zucchini Brad.
SPEAKER_01:And Jerry.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, we are so lucky to be here. And when I say lucky to be here, I mean it is storming outside. Absolutely storming its tail off. We had to move cars around the driveway, get them under shelter. Uh it's just uh when we went to move the cars around.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. There was a gust of wind that took all the leaves off the trees out there. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's how that happens, done. That's all gone.
SPEAKER_04:It does it every year. I never knew that's how that happened. So tonight must be the night.
SPEAKER_03:In South Louisiana, they have this weird thing where the leaves stay on the trees. Oh. Um, I don't know if y'all have heard of that. It's a it's a it's a rare phenomenon. Um, but no, we only lose like 25% of the leaves. I mean, it's enough to have to go rake. Yeah. But like the oak tree just gets rid of the old leaves, the young leaves stay on.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_03:It's crazy. But uh, welcome to the podcast, everybody. If this is a short show, we apologize. It's because electricity goes out. Um but uh yeah, it has uh been quite a few weeks. And so uh since we last talked to you, but first and foremost, we want to talk to you about our uh sponsor of the day, Uncle Irvin's Beef Jerky. Now, while they had absolutely nothing to do with this, uh we uh actually got really lucky and and blessed, and uh one of our teams uh sent a care package to us of Beef Jerky. And I'm gonna read a little bit about it. Just uh a thank you to the Highfield family. Um and they go on to say, thank you for making our first few months with Highfield so it goes so smoothly. Uh we learned a lot and have truthfully enjoyed getting to know your group a bit. Uh, and look forward to meeting uh many more good things to come. Uh and we know you get together occasionally, so uh for the podcast, and thought we would uh send you a little bit of Wharton County, Texas. Isn't there a school there, like the Wharton School?
SPEAKER_00:There is a school called the Wharton School. I'm not sure if it's in Wharton County, Texas or not, though.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04:Maybe that viewer can drop some let us know below in the comments.
SPEAKER_03:That would be very interesting to know. Yeah. Are we not naming them?
SPEAKER_04:I don't know yet.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, we can. We should. There we go. We should.
SPEAKER_04:I'll let you finish what you were reading.
SPEAKER_03:But thank you so much, David and Ramona. Uh they sent this uh wonderful package to us. Uh they're over on the Panther side. And um, I think you were their uh recruiter correct. I was, I was.
SPEAKER_04:I'm super excited that they've uh come on board and checking all the boxes for what they thought it was gonna be and more.
SPEAKER_03:Killing it too. They are just absolutely killing it. Uh dug in deep, got the mentorship, got all the endorsements, and just man, they're just they're out there killing it. Um they've sent us a wide variety of them.
SPEAKER_02:What do you have? Lemon pepper.
SPEAKER_04:Texas heat.
SPEAKER_00:Bohemian garlic. I thought you were gonna say rhapsody.
SPEAKER_04:I'm like, what does that taste like?
SPEAKER_00:I read that wrong. Bohemian rhapsody garlic.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I see a little silhouette uh of a man scarlet. Do you think he does the fandango? No, so I've got mosquito. Um, it makes sense for Texas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And uh Jalapano honey?
SPEAKER_03:Jalopeno. I heard that if you're not careful, that'll get gelopeno your business. I screwed that up, didn't know.
SPEAKER_05:Honey.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I'm excited to try it.
SPEAKER_03:I am too.
SPEAKER_04:Uh yeah. Oh, that didn't. Real real meat, real flavor, real good, it says. Do you think it's real meat? Well, it says so. Ooh, mine smells yummy. Wouldn't it be? We're making all sorts of.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. Can you imagine vegan jerky? They gotta have it, right? Oh, they do. It's called saltwater taffy, right? I am so sorry if I just offended our listener base. I uh but I do I do love saltwater taffy.
SPEAKER_00:Are we gonna meet while we chew? Are we tasting this?
SPEAKER_04:I just want a little piece. I'm gonna be a little I gotta get go on just little.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I I I'm gonna tuck it. Can't really get the smells great. Oh, if you had smell of vision, hmm.
SPEAKER_04:Oh.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Nobody needs to smack, but oh ooh. Mine does say Texas heat. Three little chomps into it, and there's some heat.
SPEAKER_00:I'm getting that bohemian garlic. Oh it's different than standard garlic.
SPEAKER_04:Is it nomadic?
SPEAKER_00:Kind of like those that are on straight trucks? All over all over my mouth, that garlic.
SPEAKER_04:Wow. There's definitely jalapeno in here.
SPEAKER_00:Do you? Which one do you have?
SPEAKER_04:Yours kind of got a little zip.
SPEAKER_02:I can see that one.
SPEAKER_04:How about your lemon pepper?
SPEAKER_02:Even though it says lemon, I'm still getting like a five percent spicy.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that's your pepper.
SPEAKER_03:I thought lemon pepper was a type of pepper. It's actually just lemon and pepper? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:The more you know. Holy Toledo, y'all. What's the Skullville on this bag?
SPEAKER_03:The bag, very low.
SPEAKER_06:It doesn't say what the Schoolville is.
SPEAKER_05:It's got all it's tasty.
SPEAKER_03:It's very good.
SPEAKER_05:A little bit. It's like a nice spice.
SPEAKER_03:So a little bit about Uncle Irvin's. I want to give props or props a do. Yeah. Um, there is a chain, and I'm paraphrasing a little bit. There is a chain of travel centers across America called. And they are world famous for their beef jerky. I always assume, like most people do, makes their own jerky. Yeah. They're a big company, right? Like I don't know how hard it is to make it, but I think that's what they do. Nay nay.
SPEAKER_04:Oh.
SPEAKER_03:Uncle Irvin's makes their beef jerky for them. And so they do the private label thing with them and then they have their own. So we're basically eating jerky. Interesting. Hey, and fun fact if you see this in the wild, it's cheaper. So, and besides, as truck drivers, we don't like that company anyways. That's neither here nor there. Thank you so much, David and Ramona. We really do appreciate this. We really do. Look forward to uh sinking our teeth into many, many, many more uh of these jerkies. Yeah. Yes. Then we're gonna look online and see if we can get it a little bit here.
SPEAKER_04:So far I've done two. I like the bohemian garlic.
SPEAKER_03:It's good.
SPEAKER_04:It had a nice flavor.
SPEAKER_03:I've had black garlic. I've had white garlic.
SPEAKER_04:You've never had traveling garlic?
SPEAKER_03:Is that like gypsy garlic?
SPEAKER_04:That's what I was saying. It's nomadic. Kind of like uh, you know, expediter's life.
SPEAKER_03:Oh.
SPEAKER_05:So is that certain garlics? It's certain garlics. Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. Well, why how about white others um sample another piece? Yes. Kind of quietly there, or whatever we're doing, because I definitely want to taste them all. I'm really yeah, I want to compare the heap between the jalapeno honey and the Texas heat.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's a great idea.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. So um there was an article and you know, over the weeks we've kind of just kind of pushed it, but it's still, I think, worthy of reading. Came out September 3rd in CD Life, CDL Life, pardon me. Really, really piqued my interest. So Washington State launched a predictive system to help truckers find parking along the I-5 corridor up to four hours in advance. Okay, now we all know that, you know, somebody can help me find parking four hours in advance to when I need to stop. So it says the Washington State Department of Transportation deployed new predictive technology to help find this parking along the I-5 corridor. Uh on September 2nd of this year, they announced the launch of the Truck Parking Information Management System, or T PEMS for short, uh, which equips truck drivers with real-time and predictive information about parking spaces available up ahead to ensure that truck drivers can find safe parking and that existing truck parking spaces are used to their full capacity. They partnered with University of Washington Star Lab to launch this system, which provides first of its kind predictive information to truck drivers on parking availability up to four hours down the road. Um, they were hoping that by the end of September, so I need to go back and follow up on this, uh, that the information will be available for truck drivers at the following locations. And there was about 10 different locations uh along that I-5 corridor uh with additional locations added by 2026. Uh, part of the project, they're using dry drive-wise and parker truck are providing the parking information for drivers uh through either in-cab displays in their trucks or through mobile apps on their phones.
SPEAKER_03:I'm dying to know how this works because there's a couple things that uh I noticed. One is it's all um rest areas or way stations with parking that they mention on here. So are they going to also at some point include truck stops in that? Yeah. You know, are they gonna consider private parking? Sure. Um, and then uh the other thing is what is predictive? What are they like how are they predicting it? So is it like uh you go I don't know if y'all been in these parking garages. We have one in Columbus I'm thinking of in particular out of um Easton Easton. And it's got a every parking spot has a green or red light bulb above it. Right. It's awesome because you can immediately look down an aisle before you turn into it, and if you see green or red, I'm sorry, if you see a bunch of green, you know there's parking spots. If it's solid red, you don't even waste your time. You just go. You just go. And they also have the the boards outside saying like uh third floor has 242 spots, the first floor is completely full, you know, that kind of stuff. And it's it's super helpful, but that's literally they've got a mechanism inside. It's the same technology. You ever uh had seen those lights where like you walk up to someone's house and the light just flashes and comes on? Yes. It's that same thing. It's just sensing that there's a sensor. Yeah, it's just sensing something's there and then it it it changes the light. It changes the light color. So it's super easy.
SPEAKER_04:But this with the productive predictive, are they installing like a counter at the beginning of an entrance and a counter on the end?
SPEAKER_01:I could totally invisible laser or something, and as the truck passes through, it updates on the app automatically.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I think that's a good thing. You've got those truck stops, even here in Ohio, the signs that tell you how how the the next rest area, how many spots are available, and then the one beyond that sometimes is how many spots are available there. I wonder if that works in that kind of thing. With you you pass a laser, it counts, and one comes in, one goes out, it's it's net zero.
SPEAKER_04:The thing with that is but the thing with that is you literally have to pass the sign on the road to decide when you want to stop. No, I agree. Four hours down the road. Well, everything you're assuming because you've driven long enough. Well, some people, if you're a newbie, you haven't. This this is like okay, I'm typing in, but again, it's predictive. What are they thinking four hours from where you are right now? That next stop in four hours, what is it gonna look like?
SPEAKER_03:The only thing I can think of is that they are taking all this data of these mechanical, we're counting every truck in, every truck out, and then we're looking over a year. Yeah, historic data a year or however long it is, and it's probably building as it goes, saying that okay, Friday, end of the month, it's 4 p.m., so we're looking out to 8 p.m. By the time I want to park, yes, then we know, statistically speaking, these will be the spots open.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And that's what they're going off of. And if you have enough historical data, that'll work pretty good. My thing that I'm nervous about with actually planning your route on this is what it it says, yeah, there should be five spots, and you get there, there's none. Then what do you do? Especially if you're if you're like banking your clock to where I'm gonna get there at hour 10 uh with 58 minutes. Right. Then which A, you shouldn't be four hours out, you shouldn't be that close. But I'm just saying, like, sure, what if you are trying to really get your clock narrowed in and then you get there and it's like, oh. Or what if there's a wreck and so now all of a sudden it fills up, you know?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, are they accounting for a wreck? That makes sense, especially on I5.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, that's interesting to see. But I mean it says up to four hours, right? Yeah. So let's say I know that I have to stop in two hours. Am I gonna be able to put in and say, hey, what's gonna be about two hours out?
SPEAKER_04:I think so.
SPEAKER_05:From where I am. So that can change too. You've got somebody who's an hour out, somebody who's two hours out, somebody who's 30 minutes out. So they're gonna be like, okay, well, these people are gonna stagger.
SPEAKER_01:And hopefully they got some type of notification system to where if you're banking on this stop and all of a sudden more trucks come in that wasn't expected, it's gonna notify you and be like, hey, this is filling out.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that would make sense.
SPEAKER_04:Like you're at your hour away from wherever you thought you were gonna stop, might start looking now.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, well, and I think that helps too. I would hope. In my mind, it would help as a driver too, because it's helping trucks space themselves out as well, right? Sure, you're not stopping, so not everybody stop in the same spot.
SPEAKER_03:You're gonna stop and you're not stopping at three different rest areas looking for a place to call at night. Right.
SPEAKER_04:Also hope that it's hands-free. Like if it reports in your ear, hey, you know, you were gonna stop at because this is what you put in, yeah, spot four at four hours, but it's already filled up. Would you like to blah blah blah three? And you could verbally say yes, reroute me to that one, then I mean, how do you keep it all hands-free of your notifications? That's kind of you know, keeping it all in line.
SPEAKER_03:I think I think drivewise, aren't they like uh I wouldn't want to say ELD, but there's something like that, aren't they? Drivewise is like pre-check.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. So I was just looking at drivewise. I wouldn't feel you want either drivewise or parker truck. Drivewise is like pre-check, it's an app you can use to bypass way stations. Okay. So you you're you have an account with drivewise, um, and two miles out it sends a message to the way station. It's get you get a message back on your phone saying you can bypass or not. Yes. Um Parker truck is more truck parking. They started out just along the I-10 corridor, and I've not seen anything that says what part of I-10, because it's pretty darn long. Yes. Um, and they've now added their their most recent update actually added support for Washington to help with the TPIMS system uh pilot. But I don't see really how I'm just reading the description on the app store, and it doesn't really say what technology or how they determine what kind of parking spaces are available at different places.
SPEAKER_05:I wonder if they're utilizing satellite at all as well.
SPEAKER_00:It's super expensive. And the satellite's not always over a particular place.
SPEAKER_05:That's true, and it's not always current.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, yeah, exactly. I mean if you look at like Google Earth, even that's not always accurate because it is expensive to capture the whole Earth and then recapture it and then recapture it and capture it.
SPEAKER_05:When you've got like Google Maps, you can see that there's maybe a accident ahead because right your map turns red. Sure. So why can't they use the same technology that that's using with the um cell phones?
SPEAKER_00:So what Google Maps is doing is using cell phone data, their cell phone data and my cell phone data and Jerry's cell phone data, whoever's on that stretch of highway, even if you don't have if you're not running Google Maps, right? It Google's still tracking your location. So it's using that data to know what traffic looks like because it's it's whether it slowed down or not.
SPEAKER_05:So why couldn't that be used as a truck stop?
SPEAKER_00:It could be if drive-wise or parker truck had access to that data. That's true. Yeah. So it could certainly be used for something like that.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I so it does I was gonna say, even on the Google side, I don't think Google uh gets that data from iPhones. Or if they do, that's new. It used to be strictly Android.
SPEAKER_00:It it could be from iPhones because when you agree to Google Maps or Google applications, you're allowing or disallowing that information to be used.
SPEAKER_04:Sorry. So I clicked on TPMIS within that article from CDL Life, and it took me to Washington State Department of Transportation.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, so that's where this next article comes from. Did come out on September 2nd, 2025. They're talking about it, so on and so forth. I found it interesting. I mean, there's a whole bunch more here. But the funding for the program is provided from the FMCSA, which I think is pretty cool. Um and the federal infrastructure for rebuilding America.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but that was a big bipartisan bill that um that got done under the Biden administration.
SPEAKER_04:So it's nine locations with two more scheduled for completion in the month of September. And then the additional locations in there. Uh says by the end of September, still the same thing. More information. Truck drivers are encouraged to provide feedback on how well the program is working by completing a short survey online. Um helping them continue. Those interested in receiving oh never mind. Email updates on the truck, you can subscribe to the website. But that might be a cool way to find out some more information about this.
SPEAKER_03:I agree. And then my other question is what happens if that system it happens to be on Amazon Web Services?
SPEAKER_04:That's funny. Right, right.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that whole debacle was fantastic.
SPEAKER_04:I asked Vince and Heather if uh tonight at dinner. I'm like, so was you know the system that we use to document truck stuff. I'm like, was yours down in the yard? I said, Mine was totally down in the office. They're like, nope. I'm like, I was worried about you. You're like, how are you gonna you need that to complete your like you that's kind of your lifeline? Yep. Um not that you couldn't have maybe remembered what something needed to be done or pivoted, done and went and done a truck wash or fueled or something that wasn't necessarily good old pen and paper.
SPEAKER_03:So let's give a little, a little, a little uh because this is yeah, this it's this is gonna be now as you're listening to this. This is a few weeks ago, so you may not remember it. But earlier this week, Amazon Web Services Web, yes, crashed. It was attacked, was it attacked or did it just crash? Did we just crash? Just crashed. So uh it went down and it took all kinds of stuff out. I I mean just all kind not Amazon.com. That's worked out fine. Amazon doesn't use Amazon Web Services, which is fascinating to me. Um Amazon's like, nah, we know those people. We we fired them, and so yeah, anyways. I I caught wind of it uh because it happened early, right? Like it was 3 a.m. So when I got up and I'm looking at my Facebook, it's one of the things I do in the morning, and I'm scrolling through just seeing if anything crazy happened. I caught that this had happened, but I'm like, okay, well, I'm used to that. Like Amazon's crashed before, not a big deal. And it's usually very pocketed, like a little service of it has crashed, right? And so maybe like a website goes down, or like if you have an e-commerce site, it goes down or something like that. And then a few hours later, I noticed that a uh Panther sent an email out saying, Hey, our our communications down. I didn't think it was related, like it just didn't seem right, right? And then like an hour later, I'm talking to you, and you're like, uh, yeah, so uh the the couple different programs we used on maintenance side, they're down. Our phone system kept popping in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, working, not working, not working, not working. Like Crazy Town as they're trying to get it to work again. And it's like all of this is connected because it all runs off this same backbone system. It was crazy. I think it was the first time we've had like a major so many of our platforms went out all at once. And uh and just kind of knowing there's nothing we can do but ride this out, shoot an email out. Thank goodness the email server still worked. Shoot an email out, let everybody know, email us because phones aren't working right now. Yeah, and um, and that's how we got through it. And I thought it was even more fitting because uh Monday was the start of uh Kelly, our FedEx fleet manager, and uh Jimmy, the our maintenance manager. It was their first or their uh week off for vacation. And I'm like, you picked a great time to leave, right? As everything comes crashing down. Has it completely gotten back up? Because it I know when I went to bed that night, they were still having issues.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think we noticed any issues today. I think everything was working. Oh, everything was working, well, at least from a recruiter standpoint of well, I see everything and I I didn't see no issues. Okay, good.
SPEAKER_00:No, no, that was uh that was a wild situation.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I'm glad maintenance or uh ops wasn't affected by it.
SPEAKER_00:We did have one little weird thing, but I think that was me hitting the wrong button on something.
SPEAKER_03:Oh um user error, an energizer bunny just popped up on the screen and just went, it just kept going and going and going.
SPEAKER_00:Quite frankly, as easy as it was for that to happen, I'm surprised it hasn't happened. Yeah, it didn't come back. But anyway, but that's neither here nor there.
SPEAKER_04:You're surprised it hasn't happened before.
SPEAKER_00:Before, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and that's it. You said you said uh that this this software was down. I know uh talking to maintenance, it was down. It worked just fine on my laptop. And we had no problem with it, the yard. It's so weird. Yeah, it's so weird how everything came back so fragmented, and one thing would affect you and not affect this other person. And it was yeah, it was weird.
SPEAKER_04:That is weird.
SPEAKER_03:And then at one point, Amazon, like at what, uh two o'clock in the afternoon, posted like, oh, everything's fine, it's back up and running again. And then like an hour later, they're like, We want to rescind that message.
SPEAKER_01:So Amazon Web Services, like Google has a huge branch as well, and there's another third party out there that's really big, and pretty much they rule all servers in the cloud.
SPEAKER_03:Is that Oracle?
SPEAKER_01:They have a huge chunk of it, yes. And so whenever you have all these different websites, they go through all these different companies because they're cloud hosted, and then whenever it went down, so what they were doing whenever one would come up, one would go down, and they were doing all that stuff is because Amazon was working on back in multiple paths for all these companies to reconnect to different servers and stuff. So as they were making switches and moving things around, it would come in and go out and and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Wow, definitely above my pay grade.
SPEAKER_03:I thought it was interesting just just being on the internet and seeing what worked and what didn't work. I can tell you right now, Carnival Cruise Lines, you use Amazon Web Services. At least partly. Uh I I logged on their website and uh I have a cruise booked with them in the future, and that actually let me go in and I could see everything and everything worked fine. I am uh talking with some friends about possibly doing an Alaskan cruise. Um, and so I wanted to like look at some dates. That system was out. I mean dead. Like wouldn't do a thing. Almost bricked my laptop. Like just you would say dead in the water? Yes. I would. I would say that Carnival Cruise Lines, you know, I I I it was it was like a poop website.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. That's unfortunate.
SPEAKER_03:It was unfortunate, but yeah, checked the day, it was fine. Okay. And uh Alaskan cruises are expensive. I forgot. Super expensive.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, luckily our email and all that stuff is it was still working, so yeah. Totally different cloud servers.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I did see uh I think the other one is Oracle, right?
SPEAKER_01:You said uh they have a huge chunk, yes.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I saw that Oracle um they do some airplane um like I know Delta and United are both with Amazon Web Services, but they're Oracle does maybe American Airlines or someone. But there's right now there's a big hacking attack on it. Like it's so weird to think about that's happening right now. Like it's over several days they're attacking known Oracle deficiencies on these airlines trying to get data and stuff, and it's just bananas. I always think of like cyber attacks as like, you know, uh, do you remember the movie The Net? With Sandra Bourne. One of my favorites.
SPEAKER_05:Exactly.
SPEAKER_03:I love it. I always think of like a cyber attack as like you get the thing on your computer, like, what's that? And you open it, and then it's like, boom, that's the attack, and it takes over your computer, and that's it. And then you pay, you know, six million dollars and they give you access back. I never thought of it as like they write a code, it kind of works or it doesn't work, and then they try another one, and then someone's on the back end going like no, we won't accept it, like literally back and forth trying to break into a software program. It's it's amazing how far we've gone.
SPEAKER_01:Another one. Another one is hackers. Yeah, um, haven't seen Hackers. Hack the Planet.
SPEAKER_05:You haven't seen Hackers? I don't think so.
SPEAKER_03:He's not old enough to I saw I saw Swordfish when I was not old enough to watch Swordfish. If you've seen the movie, you know. You know. Yeah. Uh great movie though. I will say this. It is one I really like, but it is uh there's a couple scenes you definitely don't want to watch with your uh preteen kids.
SPEAKER_04:Does hackers have a Penelope on it? Does she hack away like Penelope?
SPEAKER_01:Angelina Jolie when she's like 15, 16.
SPEAKER_04:Wow.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, Valcumber. I don't know that I have Velcro. Really? And then I'm thinking of a different one.
SPEAKER_03:Are you telling that's Matrix? No, I'm sorry, that's not the Matrix. That's what that's Keanu Reeves. That's Batman. So um uh so I'm I'm okay. So you're saying they're gonna if they're gonna make a movie nerdy enough to be about hacking, they have to have Sandra Bullock or uh Halle Berry or who'd you say just now? Angeline Jolie. Angeline Jolie in the movie. Gotta have someone there to make it less nerdy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That's so cringy whenever you watch old movies like that, too.
SPEAKER_00:I just wrote the I IMDB for hackers to see if Val Cameron was in it. And all the pictures of the cast are their today picture or recent picture. Oh yeah, a whole different uh cast.
SPEAKER_04:When was it when was it uh 895?
SPEAKER_00:1895. 1995.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay. Oh, you know. That's the right time.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I think the net was maybe a couple years before that. Net was probably 92.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I wonder if you were to watch it now.
SPEAKER_01:Does it oh it it's crazy. I love watching it because they're all like, oh, and you know, talking about a 28.8 K m KPV modem and fifty have we exceeded all these things?
SPEAKER_05:Oh my god, yes, in the net you still hear that yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01:They do it too at hackers. There's they're still going to public telephones and connecting and and hacking dial up. Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, thank god.
SPEAKER_01:That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00:Uh the net was 95 also. Oh, was it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, that's the start of the internet.
SPEAKER_04:I mean that's whenever the world was freaking out and thinking that it was just FOMO kind of things or you know, fear, not FOMO, what's the word? Uh were they movies to like instill fear for the technologies that was up betrayed? Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_05:I don't know. Exploding. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Like it was really starting to become but don't you feel that always is what's happening? Because a few years later, you start getting computers gotten a little more mature, we're a little more comfortable with them. So then you get um what's the Will Smith movie where he's um it's all about surveillance and Gene Hackman's in it?
SPEAKER_05:Am I no?
SPEAKER_03:Um The Hunt for Red October? The hunt for Red October is not it.
SPEAKER_00:No, that was the Washington. Oh, what that was Denzel Washington.
SPEAKER_02:Dinzel's on the hunt for Red October?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:What about the Crimson Tide?
SPEAKER_04:That's definitely Bond.
SPEAKER_03:That's James Bond.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I'm telling you, can you imagine like you step onto a submarine and it's like, oh, who's the captain? Uh Bond. It's James Bond.
SPEAKER_01:But then you look at today's time, people are the same way. AI. AI is like literally what all the tech companies are focused on right now. And then you talk to somebody like, you know, my mom, and she's like, I don't understand all that stuff. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Both the hackers and um hackers and the net were teen hackers finding government conspiracies or um criminal conspiracies. They were they portrayed the teen hackers as the good guys to us, but the cops were after them. Yeah. So it's definitely worth watching.
SPEAKER_03:Enemy of the state, yes. That was yeah. Or even the matrix. I mean, that's the whole theory, you know, where we're not even uh in the the society. We're all plugged into the machine, which uh has not been disproven. I just want to point that out. Has not been disproven.
SPEAKER_05:Has not.
SPEAKER_03:And then you got the whole Minute black thing.
SPEAKER_00:It's just it's just yeah, I think I got a bump on the back of my head that I think is from my plug.
SPEAKER_03:That's my tumor. There you go. My tumor is where my I don't want to brag, my my plug was a little bigger.
SPEAKER_01:So I hope before I die that they can take my brain and put it in a machine and just live forever.
SPEAKER_03:I was thinking of blender. I thought you were gonna say a blender.
SPEAKER_01:No.
SPEAKER_03:Live forever?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:We had that bicentennial man, remember? Mm-hmm. But it was the opposite.
SPEAKER_04:So many I didn't know this about you.
SPEAKER_03:Boy, so many technology movies.
SPEAKER_01:I love tech. I love all of it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:What is that Seinfeld episode where they're going through and they're like, okay, so uh you're you're in a coma.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And you're uh what are they? They're like, you're in a coma and you're you're you're still uh taking food, but you can't communicate with the outside world. And they're like, are my eyes moving? And they're like, yeah, and they're like, keep me alive. Like, just all that stuff. I was just listening to uh um so uh the this podcast I listen to, interview comedians and all stuff, but they also read news news stories for what's happening, and they love to talk about it's one of their favorite things in the world, is people that have been declared dead coming back to life.
SPEAKER_05:Lazarus effect.
SPEAKER_03:And a lot is that what it's called? Well that did actually happen to Lazarus, though.
SPEAKER_00:Lazarus Lazarus was declared dead. Yes. I think Dr. House signed his death certificate. He had lupus.
SPEAKER_05:Anyway, it's called the Lazarus Effect. And then Aspirin healed him.
SPEAKER_03:Which is funny, because oh, I don't want to say. Oh, have you okay. Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the TV show House, I'm gonna ruin the second to last season for you. So if you are planning on watching it, fast forward a week. Fast forward a minute. If you're not, then uh then uh or if you if you don't care, then just you're gonna hear me out. One of the main doctors, his girlfriend wife, I think they're engaged maybe, they're in a bus wreck or something, and she's in a hospital, and they're trying to figure out what happened. And she had some kind of disease or something where literally taking one aspirin makes the disease take over your body. It's a real deal. I actually I I looked it up and I'm like, is that a real thing? And it is. It's super rare, as you can imagine. It's like unbelievably rare. But they but that's that's what it was. And it's like, and then and then the doctor had to kill his girlfriend. Well, not kill his girlfriend, but like disconnect the it was it was very dusty in the room that night, if I remember correctly. Oh yeah. Oh, had to have a box of not Kleenex. I like um is it Puffs? Yeah, yeah, Puffs is the better one, I think. With lotion? With aloe. You gotta have lotion. Yeah, gotta have lotion. Can't be dampening your eye drums. Like at church glasses. Like at church, those remember the church uh like the ones they put in the pews? Yeah. Oh, they're you pull them out and you just watch dust.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You don't talk about, don't you?
unknown:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:So I think that predictive parking is gonna be great.
SPEAKER_04:That's where we're really going.
SPEAKER_00:Boy, that's really going.
SPEAKER_04:I really want to do a follow-up uh research and see uh what has transpired since September.
SPEAKER_03:I agree. You know what we should do? Go for a road trip. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00:Road trip. Road trip.
SPEAKER_04:Well, we were just what I was gonna say. We were right now. We were literally on I5 a few times.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we weren't in Washington. Well, aircraft. I was there too. We were in Seattle.
SPEAKER_02:In Seattle and I five.
SPEAKER_04:We were in Seattle, but we weren't on I5, not unless the tarmac goes on I5.
SPEAKER_03:No, we were on runway uh 18 uh uh 36. I'm sure we flew over it both both times.
SPEAKER_00:We had to coming and going.
SPEAKER_03:I'm pretty sure you had to, right? I think so.
SPEAKER_00:Going. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, we landed there, we took off from there. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:Amazing how that works.
SPEAKER_00:It's truly is. Yeah. We could have gone under it. This just brings to mind a Parliament Funkadelic song. Oh what? It brought to mind a Parliament Funkadelic song.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Thought you said something was gonna kick it kicked off YouTube. No. So uh I would not do that. Jerry would believe it.
SPEAKER_04:Funkadelic.
SPEAKER_03:Funkadelic.
SPEAKER_02:YouTube doesn't care anymore. I know the funk.
SPEAKER_05:Do you?
SPEAKER_02:I do. They're acting like I don't know funk. Play that funky music, white boy. I love where you all went with your different songs.
SPEAKER_04:Well, is that all we had? I mean, because we could just enjoy jerky and talk about predictive jerky.
SPEAKER_02:Um we have to do at least one more rotation. Yep, I need one more.
SPEAKER_04:Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
SPEAKER_03:So I'm getting into my Tehas heat.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, can I? I liked the jalapeno one.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, jalapeno is my favorite so far. The jalapeno is really good.
SPEAKER_04:It was really tasty, had great flavor. I do not think it is as hot as the Texas heat that I started with. I just put a bulk.
SPEAKER_05:It's a different kind of spice, though.
SPEAKER_04:It is.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, it's hot. I can already tell. It's really good. Why is it hot?
SPEAKER_05:Oh, but it's delicious.
SPEAKER_02:It's like Nashville hot chicken hot.
SPEAKER_05:Oh.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I was holding my opinions till the end.
SPEAKER_05:Oh. I was needing to fan just a little bit after the Texas heat. Texas heat.
SPEAKER_04:But that's the one I started with. They've honestly they've all been delicious.
SPEAKER_05:They are.
SPEAKER_04:I don't think you could go wrong. I really think it just depends maybe what your mood is. If you have the opportunity to because you don't go very often to find these, honestly, I'd get one of each.
SPEAKER_03:I'm go ahead. I'm not gonna lie. Hot, yes. Flavorful?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. That one's really good. There is a uh, I believe they call it a genesicois. It's something that is fantastic. Is it brown sugar? It's something in there. There is brown sugar in it, yes. Is there smoke? There's gotta be smoke. Natural flavorings. That one's really good. And I apologize. If you see me like get real quiet for a little while, we are enjoying uh little pieces of the jerky as we work our way around the room. And I um still have my braces. Oh although, and and today was an ortho appointment.
SPEAKER_04:Oh dear.
SPEAKER_03:Good news. In four weeks, these bad boys are coming off. And I don't even know how I'm gonna live without them because I've gotten so used to it.
SPEAKER_05:You will. It'll be weird, but you will.
SPEAKER_03:She's like, you will be.
SPEAKER_04:You'll be licking your teeth. Licking it, licking.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I have the best thing too. I get my braces removed and immediately get at least one cavity filled.
SPEAKER_04:That's okay.
SPEAKER_03:My dentist found it uh like a month ago, and he said it's very, very small. So since he knew the time frame for me getting him off was short, he's like, get him taken off and then we'll do it. That's good. So I'm like, great. It's like get these off and then immediately you know.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, but small is good.
SPEAKER_00:Are you outing for the gold gold uh cavity filling?
SPEAKER_03:Uh no, j uh Mercury.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, good choice. Freddy Mercury.
SPEAKER_04:I liked filament pepper, honestly. If I I've uh it was very OG old school, where you could either had what original or extra crispy or the pepper. Like you only had one of the and then maybe I think they incorporated terrible. But you know, it was in the the big tubes, and you'd take the lid off, and then you'd pull your stick of jerky in there 99 cents at the convenience store. No, uh who knows whose hand went in that jar before yours.
SPEAKER_03:I remember that, uh, but they uh said Slim Jim?
SPEAKER_04:Oh no.
SPEAKER_03:That's the original beef jerky for me. You me too.
SPEAKER_04:Really? No.
SPEAKER_03:Really?
SPEAKER_04:Ours was strips of long strips of jerky. Like not one end straight. They weren't packaged. No. My mom worked at a convenience store. She'd she you actually would get one of them, and then you'd get the scissors and you'd open the steel a meal packet, and then you'd dump the whole thing back in the tube. So again, if there were half of them gone, who knows how many ten other people's hands went in there to ruffle for theirs.
SPEAKER_03:And not to mention, are they waiting until it's completely empty before they add the next pack?
SPEAKER_04:Yes. Not already.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, because I was gonna say, if they don't, you have one that's a little more jerky than the other.
SPEAKER_04:And those sometimes were the better ones, though.
SPEAKER_03:The ones that were aged in the bottle?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, but usually at a convenience store, those didn't last very long, right? Yeah. And then they went to the tongs. Do you remember the tongs? They had them like in the block? Well, I still don't.
SPEAKER_00:Nobody used them. My favorite was the big old jar of pickled eggs.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. We had that in Louisiana. That was a thing. Legs and the pig feet and the pig lips. Oh, really? Oh, we had them at the circle K.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Do you remember that? The big thing that you put the tongue in the phone. And it was like this pinkish red liquid. Yeah.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:You just reach it with your hand or you'd use tongs.
SPEAKER_00:They were tongs.
SPEAKER_04:They were tongs for that. Yeah. Or the pickled steamy sausage.
SPEAKER_00:Or or the or the Kool-Aid pickles? Well, nope. The big old dill pickles that long, big old dick. Yeah, the big old pickles. Marinade and Kool-Aid. And Kool-Aid. And Kool-Aid.
SPEAKER_02:What? What flavor? What flavor?
SPEAKER_00:Purple or red? Corner store.
SPEAKER_06:Microsoft.
SPEAKER_00:Liquor st a liquor store in California though. Yeah, they're not. They're different. They're convenience stores around every corner. They're not like fancy high-end.
SPEAKER_03:It's not like Alabama, the ABC store, right there.
SPEAKER_00:There's no California, no. It's just the corner convenience store that sold liquor as well. Yeah. Jerky. And we called them liquor stores.
SPEAKER_04:What was your snacks? Jerky, eggs, sausages?
SPEAKER_03:Cool menthols.
SPEAKER_04:That doesn't count. No, I mean you didn't you didn't go to the Laffy Taffy? Corn dogs?
SPEAKER_01:It was always, yeah, candy and all that. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Not the savory. Slushies.
SPEAKER_03:So growing up where I live.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So I I mean I grew up in the city. Yeah. I think. Did you grow in the city or no? No. You?
SPEAKER_06:No.
SPEAKER_03:Did you did? Yeah. And you did not. Did you? No. Okay, so I th those of us grew up in the city. I grew up in a neighborhood, and uh it's so weird I say that like it's a rare thing these days. Yeah. Um, and you could walk like real cl real close to the house was a uh Texaco and a Circle K. And Circle K used to be 7 Eleven, 7 Eleven sold them, and Circle K bought them out. I don't know, it's a thing. We would go there and the Circle K and the um Texaco are right next to each other. Mom would always give us like, for me and my sister, three dollars. And it was a choose your own adventure and also make it work. And that, my friends, is where I learned economics. And I learned supply and demand, and I learned quantity of scale. And I learned that I don't like Snickers that much.
SPEAKER_06:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03:Because now now I do. I love Snickers now. But back then, I get a Snick one Snickers bar. Or I could get a pack of Boston baked beans. I could get a pack of candy cigarettes. Because I did love candles.
SPEAKER_04:The lemon drops. They were all that.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't like the lemon heads.
SPEAKER_04:No, but they were all on that bottom shelf for 25 cents or whatever.
SPEAKER_03:These were a nickel.
SPEAKER_04:Lucky you.
SPEAKER_03:Well, you have West Coast pricing, South Louisiana pricing. Right. We weren't as rich. And uh so uh candy cigarettes, the Boston baked beans, uh a Boston butt. Uh which that was a that was a really good deal.
SPEAKER_00:I bet a whole Boston butt for a whole nickel. Take that home, feed the family for a month. Yeah, no, right.
SPEAKER_03:Uh no, we get all that stuff, and you leave with a bag full of candy you just bought for that three bucks. Two dollars. Oh. Two dollars because one of those dollars went to the parental tax, which means a can of Dr. Pepper and a suite of whatever mom chose because you didn't dare walk back to the house without getting mom the things she requested. Because let's just be honest, we were the original Uber Eats. So I guess that'd be Instacart. I was drinking water when you said that.
SPEAKER_04:I'm glad I held it down.
SPEAKER_00:I think when you say we, you mean kids. Well, maybe kids, but I think it goes back beyond beyond this when you were a kid, you know. When you got your driver's license, you became super really, really, really truly super eats because you were running to the store to get a half gallon of ice cream because mom didn't feel like going, but dad wanted ice cream.
SPEAKER_03:Well, no, we just walked to it because it was the same store. But yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I would go to the store and buy cigarettes for my parents.
SPEAKER_00:At 12 years old. Yeah. Oh, younger than that. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I was like eight. And they'd be like, These are for your parents, right? And I'm like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh. Like, yeah, right?
SPEAKER_05:But uh.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but can you go ahead and pack them for me real quick?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So I'm at the age when smoking was cool. Remember that? We had camels, literal camels. I remember I remember seeing like the cool uh menthol commercials. Uh-huh. They were so cool. People be driving around on convertibles and stuff. You remember that? It was basically the mintos of cigarettes. Thinking like you knew because you had a pack of cigarettes with your, you know, you you slam it on your wrist two or three, four or five times, get him nice and packed. And at the time, my aunt uh was dating a cowboy. I mean, like, regular jeans, cowboy boots, uh, button-up, plaid shirt, skinny as a rail.
SPEAKER_04:With pearl buttons.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. Uh had the cowboy hat. Uh like I went to my first rodeo with him. Like, he's a real cowboy. And he one pop, bam, packed perfectly. And I used to think, like, oh, that's so cool when I start smoking cigarettes. Because I thought that's what adults did. I just thought, like, not if, but when I start smoking cigarettes, I'm gonna learn to be able to just bam, done. And uh, you know, come to find out here, I am 39 years old and I hate cigarettes. So that clearly didn't work.
SPEAKER_04:It was probably my favorite, but Camel Streets, too, as a cowboy.
SPEAKER_03:I would imagine.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Marble red.
SPEAKER_01:I want to say marble red. I think it was marble red. I was always marble red, marble man, the marble miles, and collecting them, tearing them off the box. And I had my little zippo ladder and I could do one flick across my leg, strike it, open it, and everything.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, I did I did get me a zippo because I thought it was so cool. And then you find out you don't smoke cigarettes, zippos are kind of pointless.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they don't are.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's funny.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, I've enjoyed the jerky all.
SPEAKER_00:Jerky's brilliant.
SPEAKER_05:I was gonna say, if you are not feeling good, you got like a cold or something, get the Mohemian garlic.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we're clear. I really like this the Texas heat.
SPEAKER_04:You have it in your lap.
SPEAKER_00:I'm keeping this one.
SPEAKER_04:I like the lemon pepper. I think it's probably second on the Schoolville for me. I pepper's really I really do.
SPEAKER_03:I really do not like the chicken uh the chicken. I don't like the chicken. The chicken burger.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I didn't really chicken. I didn't get any lemon flavoring out of it. All I got was just that really.
SPEAKER_03:All I tasted, oh all I tasted was lemon. To me, it was pure lemon. Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I just got the buttons. Oh, I didn't like it. Crunchy black pepper out of it.
SPEAKER_03:I did not so I as much as I appreciate it. I did not like the lemon pepper. I think it's fascinating you love it so much. That just goes to show our personal preferences and taste. Yeah. Uh the bohemium garlic is insanely good. It was good. It really is.
SPEAKER_00:It truly is good.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna say, if I if it were me, I would buy a uh a bag or ten of the bohemian garlic along with the Texas Heat.
SPEAKER_04:Kind of mixy mix.
SPEAKER_03:And I would blend them together. Oh, yeah. So I it was a yeah, uh not a two-jordan adventure, it was just an adventure. Yeah, definitely. You didn't know what you're gonna get next. Go for it, because man, these two these two are super tasty.
SPEAKER_00:Uh my only beef with them is that they don't have to make it. If it's with all beef, with all jerky or most jerkies, is the amount of added sugar, because I can't have the sugar. Oh, yeah. Otherwise, I would have eaten this whole thing already.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:There's only a few. I want to say, Melissa, you and I went and picked up a couple trucks one time, and there was a beef jerky that was no sugar, right?
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say there's one or two brands out there.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know about jerky. We've done pepperoni.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, maybe that was it. There's a couple of brands of beef jerky out there that are no sugar.
SPEAKER_04:Probably the same one too, but yeah, yeah. I've not tried the jerky, I don't think, but we definitely have done the pepperoni.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Usually if we're on a road trip, I'll grab one of those.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. It's amazing how much sugar is in everything. It really is. Like, uh, we were talking um with uh actually Kayla and Eric. Uh so Kayla runs our Panther uh fleet, and then Eric is one of the maintenance uh people over here at Highfield. And um they were at our house uh oh, you weren't here. No, I wasn't here. Yeah, Eric weren't here. Sorry, so it's just me talking to him. And we were talking about the uh the food in Italy and and you know, right now across America is a whole conversation about what's healthy in our food, what's not healthy in our food, and you know, there's so much conversation about how Europeans eat so much healthier and and and Japanese and Australians, and they don't allow preservatives and additives and all the stuff we have, right? So there's all this huge debate. And so she asked, they asked, like, uh, when I when we go on our travels, because Eric and I do travel uh quite a bit, do we notice a difference in the way we feel or anything like that? And and I would say, I told her, I'm like, I I don't really notice a difference in the way I feel. Like food doesn't change me that way. Um, and I don't if I'm on a diet, if I'm trying to behave, from trying to like not be a fat person uh like I am now, um then I I I will try to tame it down. But if I'm in Europe on on one of those trips and it's somewhere I've never been, that goes out the window. I really just want to focus on enjoying the culture, and I do believe you enjoy culture a lot through the food people eat. Sure. Oh yeah. So uh I'm very willing to eat more than I normally would here in America. That being said, I don't believe I've ever gained weight on a trip to Europe. I don't believe I like I know when we went to uh Japan last year, I didn't gain any weight on that trip either. To say that I'm eating more food and I'm not gaining weight probably says that the food is a little healthier. Possibly. And the things I noticed, like in Italy specifically, people talk about the bread. Uh they don't have nearly the sugar content in their bread that we do here in America.
SPEAKER_04:And they're also using more ancient grains, too. Yeah. Like where we're using GMOD and all those other kind of grains are using ancient grains.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, a lot of that is um not all of it, like people think, but a lot of it is um illegal there.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah. It's really hard to find that that ancient grain here. They can. Some people who are I don't want to see haters out there, but some people who are celiac or borderline celiac can get away with uh eating ancient grain, but you like you have to do your research to find those grains. Yeah. So it just means that, you know, they've not been tampered with, they've not been genetically modified anywhere.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that's what's so so crazy about it. Like, if you go to like um Walmart, which is the place you want to buy your seeds from, uh, but if you go to Walmart, you go to like we have a couple uh local nurseries here that have huge seed selections, right? And you look on the back of them, almost every single one of them says this product is genetically modified. This product is genetically modified. Like it's just it's so common. I I do think there's probably people who are like, I don't eat genetically modified foods who don't realize you might you're eating genetics. You really are, you might be, yeah. Um so I I don't know. I thought that was uh interesting. It is an interesting um but that that it's the lower sugar content and the fact they don't add sugar to everything, and um I do think you walk a lot more in the European countries.
SPEAKER_04:Absolutely. I don't know about Japan, because I've never been, but were you walking along Japan? Japan, yeah. Yeah, so much more than you are here in the States. Like I feel like we drive everywhere.
SPEAKER_03:Sure, but that's also building muscle. So like is it a net zero Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I mean when I lived there I didn't walk that much more than I would here. So it's a little different. But I mean, everything like you said, those people would go shopping like every other day. So they have trash stuff that they're getting. They're not getting the processed food that sits on the shelf for a month and is still okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So that's one of our favorite things to do, actually, is to go to a local grocery store. If you ever go to a foreign country and you're like, I wanna what the locals do, go to the grocery store. Yeah, yeah. You're gonna find out real quick. And even if you don't speak the language, I'm thinking every grocery store we've ever been to, I can't imagine a single one that I've it's not this way. They're a they're they're nice. Like no one's sure no one's like sure, get out. It's not like a bar where you're not the local people. Grocery stores don't care. And a lot of times you don't like we've been to grocery stores uh where we didn't speak the the tongue. We it's a local grocery store, so they're not like catering to American tourists, so they don't speak English. Money changes hands. They they don't tend to care. Yes, you know.
SPEAKER_04:I like the vegetables that you can see or the different products or we went to that produce market in France.
SPEAKER_00:We did. And the the produce in there was gorgeous.
SPEAKER_03:Those cherries.
SPEAKER_04:Those cherries, the something was vibrant, but they weren't cheap, let me tell you.
SPEAKER_03:No, they were not.
SPEAKER_00:But they were beautiful.
SPEAKER_03:They were be they looked like if you pulled up like Wikipedia and you were like, show me the picture of like what a perfect cherry looks like, you'd look at it in America, we'd go like, oh, it's a wax cherry. They're right. They're like no. No, it's that's actually how they are. Bananas. The the the watermelons were uh everything.
SPEAKER_04:Even the green, the greens, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. All right. Well, um, as I said before, we have these crazy storms rolling through towns. So we are gonna cut out a little bit early in this little shorter of an episode. I do apologize for that. Uh, but we do have to make sure everybody gets home safely. Um, thank you to uh David and Rona for the jerky. Thank you for hanging out with us. Uh Jerry, what am I forgetting?
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SPEAKER_03:Yes, you're gonna be able to do that. Yes. Now you'll be asleep at that point, so it's gonna be this vicious cycle, but phone t. That's anyways. Uh well, until we meet again, uh, please stay safe and make good decisions.
SPEAKER_00:Don't leave jerky on the table.
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SPEAKER_06:Good night.
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