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Sour Patch Hour
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Shawn has just returned from a trip, Reeve just returned from a trip, and Sebastian is joining in the fun. So hear a little about Vegas, Branson, and why cash is no longer king.
Some adult language is used.
Hello everybody, welcome to another show. We call the Sour Patch Hour. Um it is me today, sh and then Sean. And then today we I was uh I thought this week that we'd have a third person again, and we have Sebastian. Yeah, you guys uh as of right now you haven't heard him, but you will the next day or so. We've got it ready to roll. I just haven't dropped it yet, but he filled in for you when you went out to Vegas. Yeah. So but in the next couple days, you guys all hear him, and then you'll hear him here. So we're just sitting here talking about vacations, and Sean was just out of vacation, and he said that he went down to Kansas City and he won. He he done pretty good, so that he had money to go to Vegas with, and he said that when he got money to go to Vegas, the girls taste a lot better. So I do.
SPEAKER_02Oh my lord and Jesus. Yeah, you don't have to go under the streets to find them.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, that's probably better.
SPEAKER_02No, it it was a fun trip. Uh so it was a buddy of mine's birthday, uh and kind of as a joke, we decided to get the hover rounds. Oh, yeah. Well, I no the scooters, they weren't hover rounds, or yeah, they were they were the chaired, you know, sit in a chair, drive them around. Yeah, that's what they're doing. Scooters.
SPEAKER_08But uh you're thinking of rascals.
SPEAKER_02Rascals. That's what you're thinking. But uh, yeah, we and after we got them, we both kind of agreed that was a great idea. It was probably probably it'd be great for me. I'd like it. It was probably one of the best uh Vegas ideas yet. So but we could what? No, it was 60 bucks for three days. Really?
SPEAKER_08And you could get anywhere you want to go.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I mean, yeah, we drove all the way up and down the strip.
SPEAKER_08Because Sarah, Sarah and I've talked, you know, if I go out to Vegas, you know, I can't I have a hard time walking, that'd be perfect about it.
SPEAKER_02Oh shoot. You I got I got a good deal on uh Groupon, and Groupon kind of promotes local businesses and you get discounts off of their uh services and stuff, and so I always try and do that when I go traveling to different places. I look on Groupon, and there's a lot of restaurants. You can try different restaurants. Uh there's massage deals, there's beauty salon stuff, there's rascals. Rascals. There, I mean, everything you you can rent uh slingshots on there, you can do helicopter tours, uh, Grand Canyon tours. There, there's all sorts of stuff out there in Vegas on that. But it's in about any town. I mean, they got they have it in Omaha too. I don't know if they have Groupon.
SPEAKER_08Group, oh, Groupon. Yeah, I've probably heard of the wives talking about Groupon and stuff. Or tiny Stephen shows PC.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I've seen shows.
SPEAKER_02That's how we did the did the uh hover around deals or scooters. So and it was fun.
SPEAKER_07Quick question did you have to charge them when you were done every time? Yeah, I mean, did they last the three days or not?
SPEAKER_02No, they said you'll get about six hours worth of use out of them. That's pretty good, actually. I mean, yeah. Uh six hours. We never did even come close to running out of a battery. Uh we did get drunk one night and played Demolition Derby with them in the casino.
SPEAKER_08God, what is it? Sean!
SPEAKER_02But it was fun.
SPEAKER_08But somebody else has got to use them next time. Well, what'd you expect? It's to behave yourself. You you know what?
SPEAKER_01People like you behave yourself, Vegas and drinking do not go.
SPEAKER_08Oh no, you forgot you forgot one more. Sean.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And the company I was with.
SPEAKER_07Well, that brings up a second question, then. Can you get DWI'd on one if you're out on the street? I didn't find out if you could. Well, obviously not, but I'm just curious. I mean, you know, it it is kind of a motorized vehicle.
SPEAKER_02It is a motorized vehicle. I I never thought about it, but I didn't really care. I was driving up and down the street. I I even bought off Amazon bought cup holders like you get for a motorcycle that you crank down on the handlebar. I bought those and bought a pair of them. I thought I was buying one and it came as a pair, and I was like, oh, even better. And uh so we had those attached to the handlebars of the of the scooters, and we add our drinks in there. We're green.
SPEAKER_08Sarah, I'm I'll tell Sarah that then maybe we go on out there, you know. It was fun. This is this is a guy that you know, I I don't get in a whole lot of trouble when I go places, but this is a guy. He says, Why don't we meet up at Valentine on the way to Sturgis? And so, and then he shows up blitzed. He's with his wife at the time, and he was blitzed because she had been driving, I think. Yep, and he goes, Let's go down to because we stayed in Valentine, they're supposed to have strippers, which they never do. Let's let's go see the strippers, and we ended up at a VFW, and Sean out of the standing next to my daughter. She was talking to someone, and this out of the blue, Sean goes, I'm gonna hit you.
SPEAKER_02No, I said I don't like the way your nose looks.
SPEAKER_08Is that what it was? Hit him and their fight starts out. Oh, geez. So what I mean, I guess cash crashing a scooter isn't too far from Sean. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Well, and you know, let's say, let's just be honest, what is the caliber of strippers in Valentine?
SPEAKER_02Well, I call it the retirement home for strippers because you can't even drink these girls pretty.
SPEAKER_08No, you can't. No, no, no, they don't take they don't really take their clothes off anymore anyway. No, they no, it's pretty they're pretty tame. But no, I'll have to tell Sarah about that. Maybe we could go to Vegas and you know, buzz around. She get one, I get one, and it's more comfortable that way. Yeah. And you know, neither one of us gamble. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I mean it'd be cool to drive around and you know, that commercial uh for hover rounds was so where would you take your grand where would you take your hover round?
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna go to the Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_02I do now you say that you're gonna be. You're gonna be close to the Grand Canyon, but you'd have to do it six hours at a time.
SPEAKER_07Well, I guess you could be the new commercial. I'm gonna go to Las Vegas. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Whitney's got a hell of an infatuation for Las Vegas now. That's what he said. Ever since we took her uh for the bowl game, now uh she sees any kind of skyline on TV, and it's daddy, daddy, look, it's Las Vegas. Daddy, I want to go to Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_08Go to Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_02Her and I stayed at Hara's here in town on Monday and Tuesday last week. And uh we pulled up and right away, you know, she could see in the front doors, and she goes, Daddy, daddy, look, it's a bonus and it's Las Vegas. And I'm like, Yeah, but you can't go in there.
SPEAKER_08So she can go into like the hotel and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, a hotel is clearly. I believe there's a separate entrance, you know, because to go eat there, you gotta go through them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, and and that's what stinks. And I brought it up with the general manager over at the one here, and I said, you know, it would have been a little bit better design instead of having the sports book up front, put the sports book in the back and put the restaurant up front, and that way people staying at the hotel with kids can come in there and still be able to eat exactly and not have to you know you're already way you're uh on the outskirts of town, so if you want to get anything, yeah, you can order a pizza or whatever, but if you want to go to a sit-down restaurant, all you got is prime ten there. Yeah, or you can have you ever eaten there? Oh yeah, is it good? Yeah, it's really good.
SPEAKER_07I've I've heard good things about it.
SPEAKER_02I haven't been there yet. In fact, uh Whitney and I ate there on the Monday when we were there. Or no, Tuesday. Tuesday we ate there last week. And uh I was really disappointed. They have a lot last time I was there, they had a lobster mac and cheese where they put chunks, and I mean good sized chunks, of lobster on mac and cheese. It was so good, and that's what I went there for. I was hungry for it, and that's all I was gonna get. It was like an appetizer type thing or a side dish, and they don't have it on the menu anymore. I had to bitch a little bit at them. I was like, This is why I came here.
SPEAKER_08Speaking of speaking of like a side dish that's a fucking dish. Um when we were at Branson this last weekend, we went to uh uh Full Throttle. Yeah, and we were looking at their menu and I said, Sarah, I want an appetizer. I'm I'm hungry, I want to eat an appetizer. She goes, All right, and I Sarah is you know lactose intolerant. No, she's allergic to uh dairy. And uh so about the only thing we can get with her is either onion rings or fried pickles. Yeah, and they had fried pickles, and you order fried pickles, you think you get like four or five fried spears or you know, oh no. I'm not joking. It was it was probably oh, what is that, ten inches long by eight inches wide? Oh big plate, uh it was like a metal plate full of chips, like and there was a butt ton of them. It was crazy.
SPEAKER_02Um, if you listening can imagine how big a butt ton is, it's it's a butt ton.
SPEAKER_08And it it I mean it was it was heat, not I wouldn't say it was overheaping, but there was a lot on there, and then we start eating them, and all of a sudden our food comes out. It's like, well crap, we didn't get those eaten. Yeah, and I mean, in all honesty, because I I wanted a water burger. I I love whataburgers, yeah. Have you ever been to a water burger?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_08And uh all the way down there, Sarah. I want a Whataburger.
SPEAKER_03She's like Reeves Shadow.
SPEAKER_08Well, she would, you know, she's the type of she's she's the old man in this relationship. When she's on a mission, she's going.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_08And she's getting there. And so she drove by every single one of them. And when we were down there, uh, well, the thing is that's Branson, and everything closes early in Branson. It's an old person, it's retirement, and so uh we were before we went to the show, she's like, Do you want to go eat before or after the show? I said, I want to eat after the show, I don't want to eat before. I don't want to sit there all bloated and everything. And uh she goes, Well, there ain't gonna be nothing open, so I Google it real quick, and that was one of the places that was open, it was open till midnight. It was nobody in there, it's meant to be there was nobody in there, but it was it was open, and uh I kind of wish we just would have gone to a Whataburger or something because I mean the burger was okay, but it wasn't like knock it out of the park, great, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So, but no, that I couldn't and we did you guys rent a cabin over there, or what what was it?
SPEAKER_08We got a um a condo. Oh, yeah, and Sarah said that it was a condo, and it you walk in. I mean, it wasn't overly huge. Uh you walk in, you had uh like a little a couch and a chair with a television, with a flat screen television, and then you had your kitchen and it had a kitchen table and everything. You walk down the hall and it had a huge bathroom uh down the hallway, and then you go to the back, and it was a pretty good-sized bedroom with uh uh it'd probably be a full-size bed, um, with the television stuff in it, and then you open up and it had a sliding glass door right out the back. I mean, and there's a creek and everything going by there. It's pretty cool, man. Yeah, so it's relaxing. Yeah, $100 a night. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_02Wow, yeah, that's that's really that's probably a lot less than even a hotel or something.
SPEAKER_08Well, that's what Sarah said. She goes, at the at the very least, it's it's the same amount. Now keep in mind this was also the off season, right? So, but I mean, because we were we were talking, and she gets me on these conversations. I think she does it to kind of because she knows I don't like driving around and stuff like that, but uh, you know, but I I don't know if we had this conversation on the way back. I think it was on the way back we started this conversation, but um she's like these people that rent these condos and stuff out, do you think they actually make money doing it? I said, Yeah, I really think they do. I said, in all honesty, and I and I believe this wholeheartedly, and I tried to talk her into this when we went down to South Padre Island. I tried talking her into this because I wouldn't mind going down to South South Padre once in a while. It's not bad down there, but if you owned a condo and you rented it out or Airbnb'd it, whatever you want to call it, right, the rest of the time when you're not gonna be there. I said, honestly, I do believe that would be better than a retirement fund. I think that you instead of taking that money, you're dumping into a retirement fund that you're hoping you're getting good interest on. I said, I bet you 10 bucks you'd make a butt ton more money renting that out. Of course, I start, I am gonna say I didn't make any headway on her. She doesn't she doesn't bite off on that kind of stuff. Yeah, but I started talking to her, and I was I was feeling like maybe, maybe, because every once in a while she'll go, you think? And I but then I it was like a week after we got back, they got hit with this huge ass. It was not I don't think it was uh a hurricane, but it was a huge storm blew through there, and there's a lot of damage, and I thought, well, I'm not even gonna bring it up now.
SPEAKER_07I'm not even gonna bring it up. Well, and that's like I lived in Florida for a while, and there are people that do that with their oceanside condos. Yeah, and everybody wants the one that views the ocean in good tropical storm, and those are the ones that get the damage. The guy on the back side that looks into Daytona Beach doesn't really have a view. Sure. They don't they they seem to not get the damage, it goes in between those buildings and it gets blows out windows and everything else. And yeah, that would be my luck as well.
SPEAKER_02I have a friend of mine that he's got some rental properties in uh uh Pensacola, and he said just insurance on those things, you uh damn near have to switch it every year because see that was the only thing we talked about. Hurricanes hit, and he said you're constantly having a search for insurance.
SPEAKER_08Because they're dropping you all the time, yeah. It's expensive as well, yeah. That's why she said, Does it really pay to do that kind of stuff? And I just I really do think it does. Um and I wouldn't do it. I personally, you know, after that happened and I didn't want to bring it up again, it wasn't for her only, it was my benefit too. It's like I don't want to, I don't, I think that's a little too risky. You could charge a lot more for a place like that, but with bigger risk comes, you know, if yeah, you get hit. Um but I'm I have been working for years on this with her, and she done one of those numbers on me's like, you think but talking about I said we should seriously consider just going up to Sturgis and buying a house in Sturgis and then Airbnb being and out the rest of the year, whatever, because I said it's still kind of touristy, not necessarily Sturgis, but people do uh they uh ski and they do snowmobiles and they four-wheel, and you got the rally, then you got uh I've must hang round. Yeah, I I really but I told him I want the house during the when it produces the most money I want to see that's that's the thing.
SPEAKER_02I would want to say that doesn't sound like a good deal for me.
SPEAKER_08Well go ahead.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I'm sorry. No we're we're renting a house when we go up there this year for Sturgis, and it's three hundred and fifty two dollars, I think, a person. We paid ahead, and that's another three fifty-two when you get there. So per person?
SPEAKER_08Per person. So it's seven hundred dollars per person for and you're only there for four days.
SPEAKER_07We're there for four days, yeah. And there's how many people in that place? There there's seven of us going up, and it will sleep nine, they said. But there's so seven people at seven hundred dollars a person.
SPEAKER_08Do the math. It's crazy. Wow. Um now I am going out Sarah and saying we need to buy a fucking house up there, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I said, and if I said if But what are they getting uh you know beyond that?
SPEAKER_08Uh during during the off season, again probably a hundred bucks a night. Well, no, I think that I think there's enough going on up there with ski. I bet you could get at least two hundred dollars a night.
SPEAKER_07I was gonna say probably I didn't I and I could find out too. I mean, if we ever really want to know. Yeah. Um my brother's wife's husband is that ain't right. My brother's wife's brother's wife is a travel agent. She's the one that found this. Yeah. But yeah, you know, I mean, like you said, there's enough that goes on. And let's face it, I would stay somewhere like that at $200 a night versus a hotel room. Yeah, a hotel room, a hundred dollar hotel room anymore really isn't much.
SPEAKER_08You ain't getting a hundred dollar hotel room in Sturgis.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, well, yeah, not in Sturgis, but even anywhere else. This is true. Well, that's it's kind of like what we did.
SPEAKER_02We bought tacondo for $100 a night. You can get them down in like Keystone. You can get $100 a night hotel rooms down there, but that so I did it one year. That town dies at like eight o'clock at night. Keystone does really bars shut down at eight, nine o'clock at night. It's like well, I thought I came for a rally. Oh, that was during the rally, even. Yeah, that was during the rally. No shit. Because everybody takes off out of there. There's only business you got is the people staying there in town. Well, there's only so many people. And uh, you know, a lot of them that stay down in Keystone stay for the quiet. They don't really the drinkers and the partiers, and so they just shut the bars down.
SPEAKER_08Wow, I never would have seen that coming, not during a rally type of thing.
SPEAKER_01I thought, what did I get myself into?
SPEAKER_03I'm going, I'm going back to Glencoe. When you come out of Glinko, I just had supper and I'm ready to start drinking.
SPEAKER_08When you when you're used to staying at Glencoe, everything else comes pretty short.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But uh, so so that's why the rooms down there were like, I I think I got a room down there for like $89 a night. Wow. That was three years ago. No, I was thinking this is like 10 years ago. No, and uh, I stayed there one night and I can't I just said well I'm out. I'm out and I went I went out, I went back to Glencoe and I just paid the the eight-hour pass thing and stayed there the rest of the day. Who are you talking about? In Sturgis.
SPEAKER_08I thought you said Key West.
SPEAKER_02No, no, Keystone.
SPEAKER_08Oh, Keystone. Yeah. I'm sorry. Two different pages. No, no, Key West, they won't shut a bar down.
SPEAKER_07Key West, when we were down there, they're open till three and then they're back open at seven.
SPEAKER_08Oh, so I'm sorry, I misheard that. Yeah. I was I was I was in Florida and you were in South Dakota, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, so Keystone is.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you can get you can get hotel rooms during the rally for eighty, ninety dollars. Or it was that way three years ago, it might be more now, but but you got nothing. I mean, you can sit in the hotel drink drink by yourself, yeah. But uh unless you're if you're there by yourself, you're gonna be kind of bored unless you make some friends with the neighbors next door.
SPEAKER_08Weren't you gonna stay at Keystone before you got the house? Yeah, we had looked, they had you had rented a place already and then changed your mind and went into Rapid City.
SPEAKER_07Well, they were she was able to get a block of motel rooms there with all of us, you know, within a room of each other or whatever. And now you know why. Yeah, yeah. And it was like, well, I ain't bad. I can do that for $89, you know. Yeah, and then this other deal came up and it was like, well, it's not really, you know, I mean you'll I think you like Rapid City better. Uh yeah, we're way closer.
SPEAKER_08Yes. Uh so Keystone, is that the one that's down by Hot Springs?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Kind of, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's right by the monument.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it is. Yeah, that's the town you go through before you hit the monument. If you're well, I guess you could.
SPEAKER_08No, I I think I'm with you.
SPEAKER_02But where where they have that upper deck, that kind of mists. You can sit up on that upper deck, they have a pizza place up there. Yeah, yeah. And the top of the that's where the taffy place is.
SPEAKER_08They have buffalo on each corner or something like that, too. I'm in the wrong town. Yeah. Um, why can't I Sarah Drake takes me everywhere? And so I always get I just look ahead and listen to my music. I don't know where I'm at at the time. But so Keystone, it would be south of Hill City.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yes, okay.
SPEAKER_08Yep, I'm with you.
SPEAKER_02It's a it's a cool town. No, yeah, yeah. We we go there. I really like Keystone, but uh you can do that train ride out of there. Uh Brooke and I did that one year. I we did that with somebody else. I forget who was with us, but we all it was like four or five of us all went on that train ride. And I think that's where they go is Hill City. And you'd get to see a little bit of wildlife and different things. Yeah. Stuff you don't normally see. Right. So it it was fun. It was fun to do. It it killed you know, two hours, something like that, two or three hours. But it wasn't all that pricey to do it. But it was well worth it. I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_08Huh. Maybe so. I never I never would have seen you leaving Glinco to go to Key Key uh Keystone.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, that's where I like to ride to.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I like to go down the Keystone and he'll say.
SPEAKER_08I don't remember you doing that. I I usually, you know, we talk you at least send a text back and forth, and I don't remember you doing that.
SPEAKER_02I haven't I haven't been down there in I don't know two two or three years. Yeah. But uh yeah, I I don't know. I think I'm getting older. And then I guess you stayed. I go, hey, guess what? I I can go over here to to uh kickstands. Uh yeah, kickstands. Uh oh, what's that what's that gambling town there?
SPEAKER_08Uh gambling in South Dakota?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Right there by Sturgis. Uh Deadwood. Deadwood, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Deadwood.
SPEAKER_02Ride over to Deadwood and sit there and eat a prime rib dinner, gamble a little bit, and then walk around downtown, hit up Dairy Queen. Yeah, we uh But we we spent quite a bit of time there this year. Uh sitting sitting there doing that bike show and auction.
SPEAKER_08You were were I with you? No, Sarah and I was here at the same time, but we didn't know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. Because I I sent you that picture with Richard Rollins. Yeah, yeah. And uh I I was sitting there talking to him, watching this auction go on, and I sent you the picture I took with him, and you're like, We're right here. Where are you? Then you come over and sat with us, right? Yeah, yeah. I came over and sat with you guys for a while. We had a had a beer or two sitting there and just watching everybody leave. That was like the mayor's ride or or celebrity ride or something like that.
SPEAKER_08But isn't that the one they do out of uh full throttle?
SPEAKER_02No, it's out of Buffalo Chip. Uh yeah, but that's it, Buffalo Chip. Yeah, there was a lot of we missed there were a lot of different celebrities on that ride.
SPEAKER_08They had left before Sarah and I had sat down. You had you were there. Yeah, I was right in the middle of all of them.
SPEAKER_02It's trying to talk to them.
SPEAKER_01We hi, my name's Sean. I want to be famous.
SPEAKER_02We do this podcast. Columbus, Nebraska, United States.
SPEAKER_08They here's I always hate it when you're at when you're at Sturgis, and so he says, Where are you from? Nebraska. Because it's like and then they and then they they always ask the natural question because they know where Nebraska is, uh according to South Dakota. So did you ride? No. We walked. I pulled my bike. I walked. Yeah, I walked, you know, we walk a long ways. No, but I campered it, and people hate that, but I don't care. I don't either.
SPEAKER_07You know, you're there. That's that's the thing, you know. And I mean a lot of guys, there's probably a thousand people running around there. So, well, I rode here, and you go and follow them, and they probably didn't.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08You know, I think most of them.
SPEAKER_02Hey, last year I rode.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, you did, didn't you? Yep. He stayed at kickstands, which uh blew me out of the water. He's a he's a Glencoe.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I've stayed at Glencoe for well since '99. Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. I I think there were two or three years in there that I one year I stayed in town. Uh I I I my buddy and I always set a tent up in somebody's yard. And it was right below the sturgis on the hill. Oh, really? Oh, right below. You told me about this. And they had they had a little daughter, I I don't know, maybe 10 years old, seven years old, something like that. And that girl was just like the little mosquito that won't leave. Yeah. And uh we we pull up on our bikes and she greets us, and we're like, Are we at the right place? And we're trying to set our tents up, and she's out there trying to talk to us as we're setting our tents up, and then she does a cartwheel out in the yard. She says, You want to see what I can do? And she does like this cartwheel and pops her ankle. Oh, and mom and dad are in the house, and it's just this little girl and two strangers out in the yard, and she's out there screaming bloody murder, and I'm like, Oh my god, this is horrible. I don't remember this part of the story. And uh, mom comes running out, and I'm like, she did a cartwheel, and I think she popped her ankle or something, and she's like, Yeah, she does that shit.
SPEAKER_03And so like, get in the house, get in the house.
SPEAKER_02So now you know what the little girl was outside. I'm like, oh good. Walk in the house. So uh so yeah, but that little girl, she'd come out to the tents. I mean, we were partying until 2 3 in the morning, and it she'd be out of her tents banging on them at 8 o'clock in the morning. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03Do you guys want some breakfast? Oh if I wanted a kid, I would have brought one with me. God damn it. Now I gotta get out of my tent and piss.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. And this is gonna happen in the front yard, get back in the house.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but you're gonna see something you don't want to at this time.
SPEAKER_08But no, he stayed at kickstands last year, and and of course it rained right when we got there and everything. And not only so it was muddy, and and not only that, I dumped my bike, he's like, so just when you get here, well, basically before we left, we said when we get there, we're just gonna park next to each other. Well, when he when he gets that you got there before us, I think.
SPEAKER_02Then yeah, yeah, I got there a couple days before yeah.
SPEAKER_08And this the he had rented, somebody had taken out their RV for him. Oh, okay, and they parked it in the middle of nowhere. I mean, yeah, there was no road, I told no road to it, nothing.
SPEAKER_02I showed him the map circle on the map, and then they said they talked to the owner, and the owner led them to that exact spot, and then we get there and we're like, what?
SPEAKER_07What the this ain't the exact spot.
SPEAKER_02And it we we basically needed four-wheel drive on our motorcycles just to get to it, and then Reeve shows up like two days later, and you had to have your truck in four-wheel drive just to it was it had just rained before we got there, yeah.
SPEAKER_08And we had to seriously, I was like, shh, why why is he parked over there? But seriously, there was all these campers all around us, and we're the closest camper to us was probably what 50 yards? Yeah. I mean oh no, there are something.
SPEAKER_02I had that guy in that little pole behind camper, like you pull behind a motorcycle.
SPEAKER_08Did you ever see him?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I seen him a couple times. I saw I saw him sleeping in there one day. He was sleeping in his underwear, and I'm like, dude, at least he had underwear right next to you. At least he had underwear on.
SPEAKER_08At least he had underwear on, but but it was something else. We had to four-wheel drive it to get it to our spot, and Sarah dumped her bike going out once.
SPEAKER_02I was coming back from the bar. They have a bar on the premises there, and and we we met up with these farmers from Iowa.
SPEAKER_08Oh, let me tell you, those guys know how to party too.
SPEAKER_02Oh fuck. Hey, hey, uh O told me on our trip that uh they're cut all of them are coming to Columbus, Nebraska for a wedding right after Sturgis this year.
SPEAKER_08So that'll be fun. We gotta oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Hey, we're all planning on going to like the Pawnee or going to be. We should. Yeah, we should. But they were they were just a freaking blast. Oh, they're they're a bunch of good old good old boys.
SPEAKER_08They know I met him last year because oh, somehow oh boy, they blow through money. It's a buddy of ours that he's known for years, and I mean I've drank with him. I'm I consider him a buddy, but uh um he somehow ended up partying with them last year, and I'm telling you, those guys, they they I'm not joking when I say they could probably put a keg on the table and not even they drink the whole thing without even blinking. Oh yeah. They can drink, man.
SPEAKER_02We would we would start off at the bar on the premises, and we'd uh probably all buy a round.
SPEAKER_09Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02And then it was okay, now let's hop on the bus and go downtown. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Then we'd go downtown and it would be get another round, get another round, get another round, get another round, get another round.
SPEAKER_02I'll bet you they went through a thousand bucks a night. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_02And I and I felt bad because I I you know, I would buy a round two, and they were probably buying two rounds to my one, and I'm like, guys, slow down. You know, this is I can't afford you. This is downtown Sturgis. The fucking beer is sixteen dollars. But uh and to top it all off, their wives are hot as fuck. Well, that's always a bonus.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So so yeah, oh, when we were in Vegas, oh was sending them videos of me and him, primarily me. I I had this one shirt that uh I bought for O for his birthday, and it didn't fit him, so I ended up wearing it, but it was uh it had an Indian on it, and it's it said Chief Chief Lick a lot of pussy and it's from the Slapitho tribe. Slap a ho tribe. And uh so I was wearing that. He had to get some videos of me on my scooter with that. Well then there the night before so we went for the NASCAR race. We we went to NASCAR, which was really cool. We were right behind the drivers. You showed me, yeah. I sent you a video of that. We were right in the pits, and but the the day the night before that, I was doing really good in Vegas. I I was doing really good in Vegas, and we were drinking double Crown and Cokes and double vodka tonics, and we were just getting lit and driving. And so we get back over to Caesar's Palace where we were staying at, and I said, Well, let's just go sit up at the bar and we can get free drinks up there. We'll just play the quarter roulette and bet a quarter at a time, and we get all the free drinks we want. So we sat up there and I just kept drinking them and drinking them and drinking them. Well, as you sit in a chair, you don't realize how fucked up you're getting. So you gotta get up and go to the bathroom. Yeah, so we it was funny because we're sitting up in the bar and we park our scooters like parallel with our chairs because one lady came up to us and she's like, do not let those things out of your sight because the keys are universal. Oh, you can and we tried it. I tried my key and his and his key and mine. No kidding. So it but she said her sister rented one of them, and they were down on Fremont Street, and her sister was playing a slot machine, and there was she didn't want it in the way of everybody walking around, so she just kind of parked it off to the side. Well, all of a sudden she goes back there and things gone, and and it was right by a bar. And the bartender said, Yeah, I saw this guy leave on a homeless guy. Well, he had one of them keys and he took off on it. Well, she she ended up having to pay like $1,500 or $1,800 for that thing. I would have so and not even have it after. But the cops had told her the same thing. They said the keys are universal on those, so anybody could just come up and grab it.
SPEAKER_07I would have never thought that.
SPEAKER_02So we kept them right by us the whole time, and uh, but anyway, I so I get off my bar stool after d I don't even know how many I had up there, but I get on my scooter and somehow made it through the whole big casino to the elevator without running anybody over. I I ran oh off the road a couple times, but uh so then we pull into the elevator and we go up and we get to our floor and I back out of the elevator and I pull forward just a little bit into the trash can outside the elevators while I'm sitting on my seat. I didn't want to get off the scooter. And O's video recording this and sending it on Snapchat to all the Iowa farmers, and they're all laughing about people are coming off the elevator, they're laughing about O's laughing at me, and I'm sitting there. So then we get into the room, park our scooters in the room and hook them up to the charger, and I said, Oh shit, and I took off running for the bathroom again. And I don't think I've ever puked in Vegas. And you tap out. I did that night, man. And uh pretty soon O's knocking on the bathroom door. You okay, sir? You pass out. I said, I need help off the floor, man. He came over there, picked me up, and took me to the bed, and I laid down in my bed and and I looked at him and I said, bed spinning, get the trash can. No shit. He grabbed the trash can. I puked about two or three more times, and then he's I was out. I woke up the next day, hung over so bad. I thought I was gonna die. I I I was having heart palpitations. I'm going, oh my god, I'm gonna freaking die today. This this is how it's gonna happen. And we have to go to this NASCAR race. Well, we had to leave at like 11 o'clock in the morning to go to that. It's 91 fucking degrees outside. Oh we're we're in a suite, which is kind of nice because it was air conditioned. So we we eat up there, have a couple drinks, but uh you had chairs out in the stands that you can go sit on that are like roped off and stuff. So we sit out there and we're like right in the sun. And I'm just sweating, and uh I'm already breaking into beers and trying to cure this hangover, and I'm like, all right, we gotta get out of the sun, we gotta go inside. There's TVs in that suite, we're gonna go watch. Uh we start watching inside and kind of cool off. And I'm like, let's go check out that neon garage. We gotta see what that's all about. Uh apparently you can like watch NASCAR drivers work on their cars or something. So we go, it's a tunnel that goes under the track and then comes up into the infield.
SPEAKER_08Oh, no shit.
SPEAKER_02And it we're walking around, we're like, this is freaking cool. We should have been here the whole time. So now you know. So yeah, that was it was it was a lot of fun. We we had a pretty good time. The winner of the race, the guy that won the race, we were right behind his spit crew when the final lap happened. So we were probably on ESPN or I don't know, Fox Sports or whatever. One of one of the girls, uh one of the anchors or the reporters, I guess, from ESPN was standing right next to me. Oh really? And she was doing a report, and I'm like, hello. Come on, he was that guy. Yeah, I was the guy in the background going, hello.
SPEAKER_08But uh on the phone, Brooke, Brooke, Brooke, turn on the TV, turn on the ESPN and come online.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, if not, I'll be on at six.
SPEAKER_02But it it was it was definitely fun. Uh then you know the whole TSA thing happened. Yeah, well, yeah, that was it happened on our way back.
SPEAKER_08No, it happened on the way there because remember you got delayed because we were supposed to talk to you on the phone and yeah, yeah, that too.
SPEAKER_02Well, that was more the plane. Oh but on the way home, so uh we were leaving Monday after Monday or Tuesday, one of the two. But uh so we I I get up early in the morning. I'm up at early in the morning every morning while we're there. Except for when I was drinking or when I was hungover. I didn't want to get out of bed that day.
SPEAKER_08I don't blame you.
SPEAKER_02But uh so I was up at like six, six thirty in the morning, and and uh I go down in the casino and grab a coffee and start walking around and I I thought, oh I can uh check in on my flight. I forgot to do that last night. So I'm doing that off my phone, and it my flight was supposed to leave at like six fifteen at night. It said 1.38 in the morning is what it got rescheduled for. And I'm like, I'm flying to Kansas City, and then I gotta drive all the way back.
SPEAKER_08How long did it take to get from Vegas to Kansas City? A couple hours?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was like two or three hours. Okay. But so I'm like, this isn't gonna work. So and and plus you gain two hours coming.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_02You lose two hours going there, but you gain two hours coming there. So I'm like, this isn't gonna work. So I'm on the phone with Southwest, and I come barging into the room. Oh, still sleeping, and I'm like, oh, oh, hey, you better check your flight. You better see if your flight's screwed up because they're talking about this TA site deal on the news. You guys were flying together? No, we were flying separate airlines, and and uh so did you fly down together? No, we flew on different flights. It was well, see, he lives near Kansas City. I suppose anyway, so uh so he checks on his flight while I'm on hold with Southwest. He's like, brother, my flight's completely canceled. Oh they had him rescheduled to come home on like Wednesday or Thursday. Oh my god, wow, and he's like, I I can't do this. So so then he's calling around trying to just book something else and then cancel his other one, and he ended up getting on a southwest flight too, and was able to get home the same day. But uh I ended up getting on a flight, a direct flight that uh left I think an hour earlier than what I was supposed to, which was fine. Uh but it's a good thing you checked. It was a shit show.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
SPEAKER_02Plus, we had all that bad weather too happening here while I was in Vegas. Well, bad weather there was a snowstorm that hit.
SPEAKER_07I don't remember. Oh, that was the one it ended up hitting Iowa. It was supposed to hit here, and that we didn't get hardly anything. Okay. I think we got Omaha got hit. I yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember now.
SPEAKER_02Chicago and yeah. Yeah, we got like an inch.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. The usual the usual one to 83 inches is what it all expected.
SPEAKER_02Between those storms and and TSA and blah blah blah. It was just But going through the airport, you know, I showed up like three and a half hours early for my flight because they were showing on TV. All these airports are backed up and get there, you know, super early because it's gonna take forever. I was through the line and everything by you know 45 minutes.
SPEAKER_08But they uh kept getting worse though this until I don't know I don't know what where we're at now. I kind of quit paying attention, but um Sarah and I we just drove down to Branton. We don't Sarah knows I don't mind flying, you know. It's it's it's all right. I I just would rather drive. Well, if I had my choice. You can ask him for a guy getting ready to go on vacation. I was pretty pissy that day because I came in and worked half a day and I did not want to go on a stupid vacation. I just but I'm glad I went. It was you know what you forget when when you're when you've been married as long as I have and you've had kids in and out of the house and they're all out now, you forget how to bond with your wife on that level, you know what I mean? Because like especially Sarah and I, because usually Sarah and I, if we're creating a conversation, it's about business, it's about what's going on tomorrow, you know, we don't really talk about life, yeah, life and so we had an eight-hour drive, and so we seriously we I ain't gonna say like connected, but I mean it was like it was nice to sit and even even when we go to Sturge, like we drive to Sturge's shit, but almost always when we're going to Sturge's, we're talking about business and stuff like that, and you know what we're gonna do while we're there and all this. And Sarah had everything figured out in Branson already. She's like, We're going down, we're gonna see two shows, we're coming back home. That's all I want to do. Yeah, I'm like, cool, man, you know, and so I was grumpy leaving because we were I ain't gonna I mean I'm we're pretty busy here. Yeah, we're yeah, and I did and we had just got this that new plasma table we're cut, yeah. And because I don't do anything easy ever, um when I bought this table, it said it'll cut up to inch and a quarter. Well, the first project I bring in for this table, I have to cut inch material. So it's like, well, we gotta figure this out. So and we still don't know what the hell's going on. It's it still doesn't really do what it's supposed to. I mean, it no tend to manage it. It cuts. But as far as the program is concerned, we're still kind of flying by the seat of her pants. But so basically, was it two?
SPEAKER_07I left on Thursday, right? You left on Thursday. Tuesday, you got 'em cut because then Carrie machine that first one on Wednesday.
SPEAKER_08So I left here, and we were still kind of in the middle of we're working on this dirt mover there sitting out front. We just got it finished. And I was like, I got these guys into this, and here I am leaving for vacation. And yeah, but they they took care of it. And so I was grumpy, but about halfway through the I got better, and you know, like I said, we talked, and it was nice to sit. And and my wife is a very good wife, and I'll explain that at some point. I ain't gonna do it today. But my wife is a very patient woman with me, and it was nice to sit and talk and just have a conversation again, you know. So went down and we seen uh the so both shows were on Saturday. So we we got there on we stayed at Clinton, is that what I said? I think something like Clinton, something like that, somewhere, and it was like two hours or two and a half hours before so we stayed the night Thursday night somewhere, drove in on Friday, and uh Sarah and I just kind of walked around, done some, you know, we got walked around downtown and the like down where down the original downtown walked around down there and um but we went to it's kind of small, isn't it? That that downtown it is, it really is, but then but then you kind of you zoom out, it's like everything's on it's like outside uh on the edges, every all the everything is, you know. It's really, really strange because to get from this show to that show, you drive all the way around the damn town. Jesus. But uh we went to something, it was I don't know what lake it is or what reservoir or whatever it is. They have this big paddle boat, and there's some show that they done, dinner show type thing. Sarah wanted to do that, and then we went to she always makes fun of me because I call it the hey dudes. She goes, It's not the hay dudes. I and and she I go, what is she? It's the hay goods. Oh, okay. So, but it's it was, and here's the thing, yeah. Y'all know me, I'm not a big music person, and I don't, yeah, you know, but she and except when you're on your bike. That's about the only time I listen to it, but uh she enjoyed it very much, and I was I kind of struggled down this road for a reason. Um, you wouldn't think that little town that we've already discussed is basically for old retired people, this whole thing. You sit down at the Hay Dags, and I was almost getting sick to my stomach. The pot in the air was so bad.
SPEAKER_01Oh, really? Oh, did you get a contact back?
SPEAKER_08I almost think I could probably were you hungry? I know. Well, I ate when I left, so there it is. But uh it was it was it was an alright show. It's I don't know if you know you know who they are. Uh-uh. They're they're the uh crew, it's a family, and they they started out as little kids doing these the show in in Branson, and they've grown up doing this whole show and everything like that. And so they're that's their whole still, is they're they're a family doing this, and and they do all kinds of they had some pretty cool stuff, I will say that. They put out a pretty good light show, and and uh like the there's one girl in the whole crew, and uh she played the she played the harp, and they they played some really cool rock and roll songs on that harp, and there is one I can't remember what song it was now. I can't I can't I'm Sarah could tell me, but it took three of them to play the harp to play this song. It was pretty it was pretty cool, man.
SPEAKER_07So interesting.
SPEAKER_08It was it was a 70s got song, if I remember right. It was uh like um I almost I want to say it was stairway to heaven, but it was a stairway to heaven, but it it was maybe a Led Zeppelin song or something. It was pretty cool. So that's and then we jumped in the car and drove back, and so it was again, I forgot what it was like to sit and talk to my wife, you know.
SPEAKER_02Because like I told Sarah's right and I need to do that too. We need to take a vacation, just her and her and I, you know, no Whitney. Yeah, and uh we just don't get the opportunity to do that.
SPEAKER_08When you got kids, you very seldom because then if you sit and and you just have a conversation, you you forget what it's like when because usually when you're driving, you got kids in the back seat, so you don't talk about everything you normally would talk about.
SPEAKER_06Right.
SPEAKER_08They kind of spoil everything. You're still in parent mode. Yeah. But then you know, when you're alone, you can just say whatever's you know you want to talk about. So yeah.
SPEAKER_07I'm lucky, you know. My my kid's 40, so yeah. Yeah, it's been a long time since I had to worry about that.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, and he's he's just in a new relationship, he's gonna get married here shortly.
SPEAKER_07Oh, yeah, thanks. Fall is the no absolute schedule yet, but the fall. Yeah. When you do it on my son farms, so he's like, you can't do it during planning and you can't do it during harvest.
SPEAKER_02So busy time. Yeah. Do it in Sturgis.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we could, I guess. My brother and sister-in-law will be there. I guess I can have them, you know.
SPEAKER_01Jesse James, Mary, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, there you go. Good out. Yeah, sure. I don't know how I'd feel about that. I liked him at first, but now he's sold out. I'm sorry. You don't like him? I I he's okay. You know what? Why do you so why did he sell out? Um I you know, I I I I went through a deal when he first started building bikes, and I did actually meet him in Daytona.
SPEAKER_08Oh, you were talking about two different people.
SPEAKER_07Oh, Jesse.
SPEAKER_08Jesse J uh from Jackal.
SPEAKER_07Jackal. Oh, oh, okay. I thought you were talking about Jesse James the other.
SPEAKER_02He wants to jack your lumber.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08No, that's he because they always the Jackal always plays full throttle every Thursday during the rally. Oh, okay. And he marries people and jackets.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I did not know that. They got a wedding chapel out there now.
SPEAKER_08Oh nice. You when you go out, when you go this year, yeah, you gotta hit the throttle. It's gonna be expensive, but you gotta hit the throttle.
SPEAKER_07It's all right.
SPEAKER_02And if you go during the day, there's no cover charge to get in. That's what it is, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But if you're the they're they can go in there, walk around, kind of take it all in.
SPEAKER_08But if you're there after a certain time, don't they come around and collect? No. Oh, they don't.
SPEAKER_02Oh, because they figure they got it out of you because you drank or you were in there for a couple hours and bought their $25 beer or something.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, no, they they're not cheap, man. But they cheap. But you know, they're you you you had been disturbed way even before throttle was a thought, right?
SPEAKER_07Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_08I the it's been oh god, let me think back.
SPEAKER_07It's been over 30 years.
SPEAKER_08Okay. So before the original throttle burnt down, they were kind of getting in the mode of built building these little shops all around that you can shop in and buy t-shirts and all you kind of like a little the distillery is what killed them. Is that what burnt down?
SPEAKER_02Well, it was it was a cooler. Supposedly it was a cooler that got rolled back and was on the extension or on the cord for it. The wheel was pinching it. Oh and eventually worked its way through. Well, I didn't pop a break, but but it it sparked, started everything on fire. Everything was wood. Yeah. So, you know, it's going up in flames. Well, you have that distillery there, and that alcohol caught fire, and that's what really took off and really uh made it unmanageable.
SPEAKER_08But they're kind of the the new place is ungodly huge. I mean, it it's there's it's huge. There's no reason it's I mean, yeah, but I mean if you seriously, if you want to go and you want to party and not be feel crowded in a bar, that's go to the throttle.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and I hate I am not a crowd person.
SPEAKER_08When you were there, wouldn't have wouldn't uh 30 years ago, wouldn't have the broken spoke been there?
SPEAKER_02The broken spoke was there because I'm at Steven Tyler there at the broken spoke. Yeah, just sitting up at the bar, and here he came at the seat right next to me. I look at him, and he was kind of a scary dude in person. He's had a lot of plastic surgery. And I look at him and I looked again and Steven Tyler, can I buy you a beer? And he goes, I don't drink anymore. But yeah, take a Pepsi or Coke, and I'm like, You want some Coke? Yeah, you want Coke in a can? Can I buy you a Coke? Yeah, your Coke.
SPEAKER_07Can we at least go to the bathroom for this and go outside? Yeah, I'm not famous enough to do it off the table. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08No, it's it's a cool place. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool place. I mean, I I know we always just go hang out. You you will dig the when you walk right in the bar, they've got old machinery, like, oh, yeah, like stuff that came out of the city.
SPEAKER_02Presses and drills. Yeah, that's yellow.
SPEAKER_07That'll dig that'll get me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. And their whole bar is welded together. It's all chains and sprockets. Yeah, I've heard that. That is pretty cool.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's something to see. I mean, I'll be honest with you, the starch is gonna be a whole new experience this year. Yeah, it's been so long.
SPEAKER_02So the broken chip wasn't even around. The broken spoke is still there, but I think that's their warehouse now. Is that broken?
SPEAKER_08The broken spoke is still there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's still there. You just don't see it when you pull in because you don't pull into the broken spoke, you pull into full throttle. Broken spoke is still past the entrance.
SPEAKER_08Is it really where you can do it?
SPEAKER_02I guess I did not know that. But that building is still there, you just it's kind of hidden back in there to where you don't really see it anymore. But I think that's their warehouse, or maybe that's where the staff sleeps, too. Maybe, you know, they might have turned it into you know housing housing. But uh I mean you can you the if you the broken spoke was pretty cool because you could ride right through that pile.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, it was it was kind of I liked it. I remember it being kind of a free-for-all when I was up there. You there was yeah, you were gonna see tits and the whole nine hours.
SPEAKER_08Uh the throttle now. I mean, if you have a camper, you could have hookups for campers and they have like tough sheds where people can sleep, but it's not cheap. I know that I know that Rediger stayed out there a couple of times, I think, didn't he? Not at the new place, at the old place.
SPEAKER_02I think he stayed at the old place. Maybe. They normally stay at Glencoe. Oh, do they? Yeah, they're gonna stay there. Maybe I'm but they'll go out there and like go hit up the pool and stuff like that. But uh yeah, it's it's a fun place. It's just expensive.
SPEAKER_07Um it's like it, you know, it's like when I lived at Dayton, you know, we had well you had to go to Disney, you gotta go to Universal Studios, it's the same way. You walk through that gate, you pay your money. Well, you can buy this refillable cup. Yeah, yeah. This refillable cup is $28, and you can refill it as many times as you want. You're not gonna get $28 worth out of it ever. Okay.
SPEAKER_08Uh, we gotta take one quick break. And we're back. Had to go pee-pee. All right.
SPEAKER_02So what were we talking about? Oh, full throttle and uh I think we're iron horse.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, bringing me up to speed.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Um, we uh I haven't shown you, but we've got the everything kind of pretty close. We've got a few more things to do back here, but we've got the shop for the bikes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tire machine set up.
SPEAKER_01Get anybody in.
SPEAKER_08Us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_08My wife, my daughter, me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So best word of mouth.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Well, we just Elizabeth's bike was giving her fit, so we had to get that taken care of. And then Sarah's got a flat tire on her bike, so she bought a new tire. We're gonna put it on, and then she wanted new bars and shit like that.
SPEAKER_02She needs to quit doing all those burnouts. Yeah, that's what she does. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08I would love to buy her a new bike, but I we had a conversation this week. I was doing some quick I'm I was I have another I ain't gonna say business idea, it's just a way to enhance what I'm doing, let's say that. And so I'm putting numbers together as as we're driving down the road, and I keep typing this number in there and trying to, you know, because it's what it is is I'm looking, I wanted to hire someone to do a job and how much I was gonna pay them, and and then it's like that can't be right, because my wife makes a butt ton more money than that, and so let me do this again. So I keep typing this number in, expecting a different number, but it keeps coming back. Sarah finally looks at me and she goes, What are you doing? And I said, I don't understand how you have I said how you have this much money you make every month. And I feel like I'm broke all the fucking time. I said, where's all our money fucking going? I don't understand this. And as and then she she snags the phone out of my hand and starts typing all the bills and stuff like this, and then I said, unless that comes up to fifty thousand dollars per month, you got some explaining to do. And she she was, you know, she was gonna show me well that well, she never did hit equals because she as she starts seeing it, she all of a sudden hands me a phone back. She goes, Well, I'm not saying I don't have money. Well, what do you mean? Well, you have a retirement. So I think she should buy her own goddamn bike.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. That's your retirement fund. You're just not aware of it yet. I guess so, huh? Well, let's face it, if we if we were in charge of our own retirement funds, we wouldn't have any money.
SPEAKER_08No man would have a retirement fund.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, we'll work till we're 72 and bitch about it.
SPEAKER_08No, none of us are gonna live to 72.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I'll still be working at 90 and still taking trips to Vegas.
SPEAKER_08If you can win that much money before you head out, I can see why.
SPEAKER_02Right. Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02So now I speaking of that, I am going back uh April nine April 18th through the 22nd or 23rd. For what now? I'm taking my nephew out there. My nephew's never been. He this boy is 23 years old, never had a drop of alcohol.
SPEAKER_08Congratulations. Yeah, that's awesome. If I could rewind time, I think I'll start over that way.
SPEAKER_02I didn't, and I didn't know this. I figured, you know, his 21st birthday, he probably went out with his friends. But this kid is very, very book smart. Uh he like Ben? He yeah, he's kind of like Ben. He's very book smart, but when it comes to street smarts, he puts the helmet on and starts licking windows.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I'm not saying Ben's that bad, but not too far from but he's he's huge into wrestling.
SPEAKER_02Oh, like WWE, and uh so I I got an offer right before I left. I got an offer uh to come out and and see WrestleMania, and that's like the biggest event of wrestling. And so I called my nephew and I'm like, hey, I've got this offer to for free tickets to go to WrestleMania. Do you would you want to go? And he's like, Am I dreaming right now? Am I dreaming? Are you are you just kidding me? I I would love to go. And I'm like, all right, well, it's out in Vegas. I said, I'll I'll pay for the tickets to go out there in the in the room and everything, and you bring what you can afford. He's in college, you know. So I'm like, you just bring what you can afford and and uh we'll we'll go to it. Oh, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Oh my god, yeah, this is gonna be so much fun. And now he's getting nervous about it, and because he's like, I'm gonna get behind in school. I'm gonna get behind because you know, we're gonna be there a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And uh so yeah, he's starting to freak out about it. Well, I I was working late Monday I think it was Monday or Tuesday night. I was working real late. I had to work on one of the day spots in Omaha, and I can only work on that after they close. So I gave him a call while I'm working, and I'm like, Are you getting pretty excited about this trip out to Vegas? And he goes, Well, yeah. But I think I'm gonna bring my laptop so that I can do Zoom calls for my classes. And I'm like, You realize we're two hours behind. So when it's eight o'clock in the morning in Nebraska, it's six o'clock in the morning over there. And he's like, Oh, that works out perfect because my classes are at like 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock, so that means nine or eight o'clock and nine o'clock. And uh and I said, Oh yeah, just in time for you to quit puking from all the beer you're gonna drink out there.
SPEAKER_03And he's like, I am not gonna drink anything.
SPEAKER_02Is he a Mormon?
SPEAKER_07Is he a Mormon? No, just remind him this is the Super Bowl of wrestling.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know, I mean that's so he and he totally explained that to me. He said, people from all over the world come in for this. Really? He said it is the huge event of the year. Oh, for God's sake.
SPEAKER_08So this is like the sturgis for bikers, so they can huh sturgis for wrestlers, for wrestlers, yeah. Yeah, it's so watch people hate fake hit each other.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I if I don't see somebody put somebody in a suplex in the casino, I'm gonna be hit. Or at least through a table and out through a chainleaf fight.
SPEAKER_05I did see a hooker fight.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, did you really and I were out there?
SPEAKER_08Were they good looking hookers? Oh no, no, not at all.
SPEAKER_02They they'd probably be dancing in Valentine. But they uh this was at like seven o'clock in the morning. This is that same day that our flights got all messed up, and uh I had gone down to get my coffee, and this big old black girl, she was talking to this guy, and the skinny little black girl came up and kind of started talking to the guy. The guy wasn't interested in the big one, and the the skinny little one comes up and starts talking to her and or talking to him. Uh big girl got pissed off about this. You're stealing my customer. Them two, you know, there's something about black culture when they get into it, when they express themselves, yeah, they get loud and the hands fly. Oh, yeah, there's no and everybody within a 50-foot radius knows that they're pissed off and they got a point to make. And so it starts off like that, and I'm like, oh my god, I gotta watch this. And so I just casually sit down in a machine and I stick a 20 in there, and I'm on like the minimum bed of five cents, just hitting the button to make it look like I'm playing.
SPEAKER_08You had a vacuum, you vacuum the cement out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah, vacuuming the slot machine off.
SPEAKER_07Got it, but got a paper towel out, wiping the corners off.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but the the big one, she says, You do not walk up and steal my customers and get down on your knees and kiss my feet. And she goes, I am not gonna get down and kiss your feet. She says, Bitch, I'm gonna kick your ass. And she goes, Listen, listen. And she gets down on her knees and kisses the girl's feet. Oh, and the the big one grabbed her by her hair and like lifted her up and then threw her off to the side and threw her down on the ground, and them two started wrestling.
SPEAKER_08Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02I mean, a weave fell off. I was waiting for a titty to come out. It was an all-on brawl.
SPEAKER_08She literally kissed her feet.
SPEAKER_02She kissed her toe.
SPEAKER_08That had to be bad, dude.
SPEAKER_02And so as I'm getting my phone up to video record this, security was already there and woke it up. Dang it. I'm like, oh, god dang it.
SPEAKER_01I want I wanted to put this on like snaps YouTube or something.
SPEAKER_02But uh TikTok video. So then I get up to the room and I'm like, oh, oh, you gotta check your flight. It might be canceled. Oh, by the way, I saw two prostitutes get into a fight, and he's like, What, what, what?
SPEAKER_07What's two prostitutes have to do with my flight? And he's waking up to this news.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, I fucking love Vegas.
SPEAKER_07God, I don't know if I want to run around Sturgis with you.
SPEAKER_01Well, there's always interesting moments around me.
SPEAKER_07I was just gonna say.
SPEAKER_08I got it. I didn't you I haven't seen you in a while. We haven't been together for probably two, three weeks. Yeah. Uh we got a new motor for my for Shrek.
SPEAKER_01Oh, did you?
SPEAKER_08Yeah. We sat around the corner.
SPEAKER_01131? No.
SPEAKER_08No, we're down to 110. 110. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Put a big boar, big boar kit in it.
SPEAKER_06That's uh S E. Yeah. Put a 110 screaming eagle. We'll pull it down, we'll check the lifters in it to make sure everything's good.
SPEAKER_07Maybe put cams in it. That'll wake her up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08As long as it doesn't blow up on me again. What do I care?
SPEAKER_07It should be about 90 horse now. We can bump her up ten, twenty horse with cams, really.
SPEAKER_08So I haven't heard, you know, the guy that fucked me on that whole deal. You know, I haven't heard from him in a long time.
SPEAKER_01So or at least you didn't give him the other bike.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Him and I, that's see, that's another bike we're supposed to work on. It's that that blue one.
SPEAKER_07Well, she brought that, she brought that up Saturday when we were in here. Did she? Yeah, and I said, Well yeah, I said, it's really close to ready to run. I got it all well, probably a need to run some more oil through the top end and some of the things.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, since it's been sitting for a while empty.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I mean it but it's yeah. I think it'll run. It'll run well.
SPEAKER_08But no, we though we're pretty excited about doing this. It's we're gonna one of our things we're gonna do is let people bring their tires. If they buy a tire off the internet, they can bring it into us. Yeah. And right now that's hard to find. Yeah, you can't get it done hardly ever.
SPEAKER_02Just to have 'em sign a waiver on it. Yeah. And you're good to go.
SPEAKER_08And I'm not yes, they're gonna sign a waiver, but I like he said, there's dates on these damn tires. Yeah. You know, and this whole excuse we don't know when it was made. Well, it tells you right there when it was made, you know.
SPEAKER_02So well, so another thing too is sometimes those these people go and they buy cheap tires. Yeah. Buy them off Amazon, buy them off eBay or whatever, and they're lopsided. I've had one.
SPEAKER_07You can run into balance issues, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And I start going down the interstate and I'm looking at my it was my front tire, and you could see a higher point in that tire, and it was so. Yeah, well, I bought one from if I would have someone else here, remember? Mine, mine wasn't uh bought off eBay or anything else, it was from that shop. This is the I was early 20s living in Omaha and I took my bike down to a shop to get a new front tire on it, and I took off right from that shop and rode to Lincoln with my uncle. We're going down the interstate, and I'm like I'm on rumble bars. And I'm like, my uncle looks at my tire and he's like, Who the fuck put that tire on? Um then I took it back over to that shop. That shop goes, Well, what are we gonna do about it? I said, You're gonna replace this fucking tire. Well, uh, well, we'll have to send it to the manufacturer, have them check it, and then they'll send us another one. I said, No, no, no, we aren't gonna go through all that. You're gonna take this tire off, you're gonna put another one on, and I'm gonna ride out of your shop today. After about a half an hour of bitching back and forth, finally I got my tire put on, and and it was fine after that. Well, you but it was just a bad tire.
SPEAKER_08I mean, it's just Well, keep in mind, I bought one from somebody here in town, and yeah, same thing happened to me. Yeah. So it doesn't really matter where you buy them. They're gonna some of them are gonna be lopsided.
SPEAKER_07So Yeah, I mean, well, you know, let's face it, Goodyear gets they won't admit it, but Goodyear gets a certain amount of bad tires out there when it comes to you know car stuff.
SPEAKER_02It it happens, but I imagine it happens with cars, motorcycles, semis.
SPEAKER_07But you know, you should they should have noticed it balancing it. Balancing it, yeah. But they probably thought, well, we can get away with it.
SPEAKER_08Or you know, we're gonna young kid, we're gonna, you know, we buy dead.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, he ain't gonna carry, so yeah, he got no money. He ain't hiring no lawyer. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08We uh we have the tire balancer and everything too, but he done some research, and a lot of places are going to these uh glass beads.
SPEAKER_02Don't do it. Why is that? They wear the inside of your tire. Oh, they do not.
SPEAKER_08You don't think so? No, that's it. How many miles are you going on a tire?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_08How many miles can you get out of a tire? I I change mine out every year. You can get 5,000 miles out of a tire.
SPEAKER_02I do mine every spring.
SPEAKER_08That's that's max in a tire. Yeah. If you tell me that them beads are gonna tear up a tire on the inside in 5,000 miles, then there's more wrong with that tire than the beads in that tire.
SPEAKER_07Those beads are round, they're glass, then they're you can buy ceramic ones as well. Yeah, but they're perfectly round, as or as close as you know you can get. Here's the thing people don't understand that only rolls until inside that tire until you get about three or four miles an hour. Then it then it doesn't move.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_07If you're writing down the interstate at 60 miles an hour, that bead's stuck to the outside of that tire, it ain't wearing out nothing. It don't move. It doesn't move. You guys do you.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I know you know, I'm just trying to tell you that, you know. I'm just trying to I mean, logically, if your tires this thick Yeah.
SPEAKER_02In five pounds. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I don't know that I would try them on anything new that has, you know, like I can't say personal experience.
SPEAKER_02I've never done them.
SPEAKER_0723 and up, is it? You get uh you can get tire pressure sensors in your Harley now. Yeah. You know, I don't know that I would try that in there. Even at that that by blog plug them up. Well, here the other thing is is I mean how big are those beads? They're tiny. They're smaller than a BB. Oh, really? Yeah, I got them out here.
SPEAKER_02They're I mean, it's so how do you know how much to put in a tire?
SPEAKER_07They give you uh they measuring cups for yeah, and then there's a chart out there with it, and everything that I've read and the research that I've done, and the one person that I have talked to that's had them said it's like two, maybe three ounces worth. Really? They're small enough you can pour them in through the bell stem if you can figure out how to funnel them through there. I you know, I mean little the person that I talk to that uses them is a guy that I know, I've known him for years, and he drives truck, and they're using them to balance the tires on the semi-with. Really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And those put on a lot of miles.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and he says he absolutely loves.
SPEAKER_02How many miles can you get out of a semi-tire?
SPEAKER_07I, you know, I don't know. I'll bet you it I know it's close to what you can get out of a car. You can buy 40.
SPEAKER_08You can buy retread those. Yeah, so that's recaps and stuff.
SPEAKER_07Recaps, that's what I I it's 50,000, 60,000 miles. Uh if you maintain your tires, you know. I mean, there's always keep them up. Yeah, you always go down the interstate and you can look over and see that. Dave, Dave swears by him. He said he put him in his he put him in his motorhome. Really? He runs them in his motorcycle, and he said, I started running them in my semi. So and that's kind of where we were talking about it this summer. I ran across the room.
SPEAKER_05I wonder if I could run them in Brooke. Balance her out. Balance her out. We probably can't spit her fast enough.
SPEAKER_08I hope she doesn't listen to this.
SPEAKER_07But we're gonna give it a try. Um I'm gonna put them in in Sarah's bike. We'll see how they do. Um, you know, worst case scenario, nobody likes them, and we're taking them back out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_07We'll try them with us first.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I got new tires on the bike I just bought, so that's out for that.
SPEAKER_02I think that it it almost sounds like when you were putting numbers together, maybe you should try them in Sarah's bike. Yeah, no shit, huh? No shit.
SPEAKER_07And make sure we wear that tire missing money situation.
SPEAKER_00Holy shit.
SPEAKER_08He's got a bike for sale that did you ever buy a Harley? No. Are you gonna still? Uh there's a lot of them coming up for sale, right now. Did you sell yourself? Oh, you did sell it, huh?
SPEAKER_02Yep. And so uh I don't know. I've seen a lot come up for sale. I've seen some really nice ones come up.
SPEAKER_07Uh I got a 13 street glide. Uh road glide. Rogue glide? 103. Uh Scott Andrews. No, it doesn't. It doesn't need a front tire, but I know a guy that can hook you up on that. Oh yeah. Um 103 twin cam. Six speed. About I'd have to look. It's 40 some thousand miles on it. I'd probably put 30 of that on there. And then I did cams in it. I had a guy do cams in it for me just because I didn't have a place to do it. Yeah. Um it's probably right around 100 or it's not it's not nice. I like the road glides. And then it I've got it's got factory uh header on it, but I kind of built up a road glide.
SPEAKER_02Uh it had the 88 in it, and I built that to a 95, and it was that's a good job.
SPEAKER_08I'm not riding it, I'm gonna sell it.
SPEAKER_02It was quick.
SPEAKER_08He must have been broke or something with the second, so he needed a money right away.
SPEAKER_07So you need to ride my neck my new one. What's that one? That's a 16, but they it's got uh SNS 110 jugs on it, and then uh CP pistons and and uh 585s. It's almost 120 horse.
SPEAKER_02Nice. So you keep it belt drive or did you go chain? No, I keep it belt.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, uh you know what? Yeah. And you gotta be stupid. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's hard on those belts.
SPEAKER_08Hold on, hold on. You're talking to the guy. You're deciding to play devil derby with scooters.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, let me rephrase that. Okay. Okay. I can fuck shit up. Yeah, I'm sorry. Um, but yeah, and you're gonna you're gonna snap a belt. You know, I mean, there's guys that tell these whores you.
SPEAKER_02I think a lot of reason too of putting that chain drive on is it's a lot easier to change out than a belt. Because it's a lot of work to break that all down to put a belt on. But I'll give you you'd be sitting at a shop all day. Well, last year, last year while we were up in Sturgis, uh O stopped in to get an oil change, and there was a guy sitting there, he said he'd been there two days. Two days at the shop, just sitting at the shop because his belt broke, and you gotta tear the frickin' engine apart.
SPEAKER_07You gotta take the primaries off of it. Yeah, you gotta take the inner and the outer primary off to get it to get to it.
SPEAKER_08But two days?
SPEAKER_02Well, if they sturge us first of all. Yeah, they got like one, maybe two mechanics at the shop, and they're trying to do oil changes and tire changes and everything else in between, and so it's like, well, we'll work on yours when we're slow.
SPEAKER_08I suppose, man.
SPEAKER_02But they rented out like the Jiffy Lube. Oh and they just turned it into a bike shop for two weeks.
SPEAKER_08Oh, oh, okay, yeah. Oh, so they they weren't Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02It wasn't a shop that's there year-round. It's some mechanics that came into town. Boy, that almost made me a little squeamish to take my bike there. Well, we'll run out the jiffy lube and we'll do oil changes, tires.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, all those guys that run up to the burnout pit and then go, this is great. Yeah. And then two months later, you know, my bike doesn't quite run right. Well, maybe because you throttled the ass out of it. Remember that video where your headers were all red? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Setting still.
SPEAKER_08Um see that's the thing. We're doing we're gonna do oil changes and things like that. And we'd like to honestly, we'd like to get out pretty fast. We'd like to be known as a jiffy. See how that goes. Yeah. We'd like to we'd like to say that you could drop your bike off and then a couple hours later come back and get your bike, is what we want to kind of do. So yeah. We'll see how that works.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, no, I got that road king. I'm probably gonna throw it up for sale here shortly.
SPEAKER_08I mean, I want I want to buy it for Sarah, and I'm still kind of picking at her, wanting her to because I mean it's a whole different ride.
SPEAKER_02I think she would like it, but the problem it takes a little getting used to going from like a street glide to a road glide because that fixed fairing. Yeah, yeah. I know it took me, it took me a little bit, but after I got used to it, I loved it. And I always thought those bikes were just ugly.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I didn't do it.
SPEAKER_02I I said, no, I'll never own a road glide. God, look at that fucking ugly fairing on that thing. And then after I had one, I was like, okay, I like this thing. Yeah, this is a comfortable bike.
SPEAKER_08But Sarah's problem is she's short. And to get her just on her street glide, we've done so much to it, she still can't quite touch it. And part of the reason I want her to buy his is because it's new enough where we could put the reverse on for it, because that's her big thing, is I could we could lower it down and she can get her feet flat, but then she can't, she ain't got enough leg to push backwards. Yeah, and so if we put the reverse on, she would be right up town. But to get her to spend money on her is like pulling teeth.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And that six speed kit's not that hard because it's just on the it's on the secondary side of the transmission. You basically you pull that cover off when you change your clutch cable, it's just another gear in there. Yeah. Um that's really not that hard to do.
SPEAKER_08I keep pecking at her and she keeps she's my wife is a person that if you think of the old man that buys his bought his F-150 in 1970 and he's still driving it because it's what he's used to. That's my wife. That's why she's still with me. It's because she's used to me. Because she bought him in 72.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Your your wife and my wife are the same. You and me are the same. But uh my wife, she's I mean, she still probably got her covet relief money. Well, she did last year, yeah, yeah. So I mean, it was she she can save and save and save, and me, I get some money, and I'm like, oh, motorcycle. Yeah, go-kart. Oh, scooters in Vegas, scooters in Vegas, and get this.
SPEAKER_08So when we're on vacation, my wife, I I don't she shows me this stuff because she knows she knows because she knows I'm gonna want it, and then she can tell me no. I think that's why she shows it to me. But you know them trikes that they actually look like a little kid's trike, but they're like got motors and shit like that. Um and they got two different there's one that's a little bit lower than the other, and one that's up higher. And she's showing me those. I'm like, yeah, I like one. And she just kind of smiles, and then she shows me another one. It's like, yeah, I want one. Mom, I want that exact now. So I I won't get one, but I would like one.
SPEAKER_02Tonight, when you get home, you should just throw yourself on the floor and start kicking your hands and feet and saying, I want to try, I want to try.
SPEAKER_03I should.
SPEAKER_08You know what she'd say? Build it. Yeah, yeah. She knows I've got I'm too busy to build it.
SPEAKER_02Quit whining and say, Spank me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07My old man, my old man pulled that. That's been several years ago. My parents have been married for 61 years. Yeah. And went over at this probably been 10 years ago. Went over to the house, and mom's like, Your dad bought another new car. And I'm like, What? You didn't need a new car. The one you got, you know, it was like two years old.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Anyway, so oh yeah, come out and take a look at it. And so him and mom come out to the garage, we take a look at it. They'd bought a Chrysler 300, is what, you know. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I'm like, damn, I kind of like this. And your dad's like, Yeah, it's all right, he says, but your mom was laying in the in the car lot crying on the pavement. He said, I had to buy the car. He said, The salesman's looking at me like, you know, he said, I had to buy the car. Of course, my mom doesn't think that's funny, but yeah. And my old man, when he deals for a car, he's ruthless. I mean, the Italian comes out and he's like, Nope. What it says right there, that's what I'm paying for.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. I've done that before, you know, because they always want to add all these things on after you say after you agree on a price. Oh, the cost of this.
SPEAKER_02Did this extended warranty do this?
SPEAKER_08Well, I've I've done this and it works. Just like we agree on this number here. I'm not writing you a check for any more than that number right there.
SPEAKER_02So if you're gonna cut- I always get pissed off about the documentation fee. Yeah, are you fucking kidding me?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no shit. Yeah, you're gonna charge me something. You gotta do it.
SPEAKER_02So if you're already making money on the vehicle, and then you're gonna charge me extra to do the paperwork on the vehicle that you're making money on.
SPEAKER_08That because the the person sitting over there, they got to make it. I'm gonna start doing that with construction. No shit, huh?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there you go. There's a documentation fee. This is me figuring up all the materials, everything that I need to do.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. I mean, honestly, more people should do shit like that because I think people would start relaxing and you know, understand what it takes.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I did learn one thing from Oman, and he used to buy vehicles. He was part of the transportation department for the rest of Play Power. So he dealt with car lots all the time, you know, buying fleet vehicles. And he always told me, so when you buy a vehicle, you ask them, is that taxable? And if anything that they're trying to add to your car is taxable, it's an option. You do not have to take it. Oh. And I never you know, I never thought about that, but you know, like extended warranties, they charge you tax on that. Added protection. Well, you know, for for 70 or $85, you know, every oil change, we can add an oil change for that. Is that taxable? Yeah. Then that's an add-on. It is not a required good to know. I mean, they don't try that with fleet vehicles, but he always said that he knew, I don't know if you guys remember years ago, Missly Chevrolet, and Lincoln. Used to be kind of there where well, where all those strip malls are at now after you cross uh 48th, headed towards 56th. Huge place.
SPEAKER_08What was it called?
SPEAKER_07Missly Chevrolet. It was on both sides of the road. They sold trucks on one side, sold Cadillacs on the other, they sold Chevies down. On O Street? On O Street.
SPEAKER_08Did it I think I know what you're talking about. It like it was several different names before it actually went out of business.
SPEAKER_07Right. It was originally Missly Chevrolet, and then yeah, it changed to two or three different names after that.
SPEAKER_08I almost bought a car from one of the places that changed, yes. I know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_07Ball man knew Abram from dealing with buying fleet vehicles, they sold fleet pickups on at the back part of their one truck lot. So, you know, he and I will never forget pulled on the lot, and the salesman hits my old man. I was a kid, and we were looking back then, custom vans were the thing. Yeah, you know, you bought the conversion vans and he's looking, we're looking at buying a version. The salesman's like, Well, you know, we can uh and he says, My dad looks at him and says, Abram here? And he says, Mr. Missly is here. He says, You go tell him that I'm here. He said, You go tell him Sebastian's here. Here comes this fat Jewish guy. I'm not, you know, with a cigar, just exactly what you think. Blue blue suit, the whole nine yards, shakes my dad's hand, calls him by name, and that salesman just wanted to kind of crawl away. He knew. And Abram looked at him and said, You'll get the commission, but I'll sell him whatever he's looking for. That's been uh I was in high school, so it's been a long time ago. But yeah, but yeah, he said that he learned that from dealing with Abram and other car dealers through buying vehicles through.
SPEAKER_08So anytime they offer something, not so much offer, but say this is on there, say is that taxable? And if it is, say take it off.
SPEAKER_07Yep. Okay, yep. They because that it's an option, okay. They can they they can't charge you tax on your documentation fee. They have to charge you sales tax on the sale of the vehicle. Sure. But anything that they add on, you know, like, oh well, you know, for $500, we'll give you the the paint protection program. You go, is that taxable? Well, it's it's an op yeah, yeah. And I've I worked at a car dealership right after my son was born. And I'll tell you right now, they would they would sell these people a $500 paint sealant, and you went and you got it out of the shop, and it was a sponge and it had a little plastic handle on the back of it. You snapped off three prongs, poked a hole in it, wiped it on, it dried, it reminded you of turtle wax, and you wiped it off, and that was a $500 paint sealer.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_07And people, you know, they get these old people, oh yeah, I want my car to look nice for 10 years.
SPEAKER_02And it looks nice for about a week until it brings, and you know, six months later, that shit's gone.
SPEAKER_07Right. It didn't do you a damn bit of good. Yeah. Undercoating.
SPEAKER_08And you know, for years, and I they don't really so much anymore, but you know, for years and years and years, car dealers used to have the worst name. You people hated used car dealers. And you don't really hear that so much anymore. They've gone to what's on the stickers, what you're gonna pay. There's no haggle. They've all kind of went to that whole no-haggle thing so that you feel more comfortable.
SPEAKER_07That's a sales ply. Yeah, yeah. And you know, just like they'll do a sales ply for a weekend.
SPEAKER_03No documentation fee this weekend only. Coming by. No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_07Right. Joe Chevrolet. But that documentation fee's still in on the price of the vehicle because you didn't realize the week before that it was $500 less than what it is this weekend. Um Yeah, those are big things that people don't realize. Or they'll come out and say, Well, you know, the finance company is because of your credit, is going to require you to take out an extended warranty. They'll only loan you the money if you take there ain't a finance company in this world that will require you to take an extended warranty on a vehicle to finance you. Yeah. I've never been told that, but now I know that it's coming, maybe, you know. I've heard of people being told that. You'll be, yeah, I mean, you know, you might you might take it with the interest rate. You know, you might have a stupid high interest rate, and that's what people are like, we can get you into any car. Come on in, regardless of your credit. Yeah, and when you get done signing on the bottom line, you're paying 18%. 27.99% interest. Yeah. You may as well put it on your credit card.
SPEAKER_08You just well went to a loan shark.
SPEAKER_07Right. You're paying $30,000 for a $10,000 car when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER_02There's a lot of my wife did not understand that when we were car shopping. Uh she when I first met her, I mean, she'd never had anything on credit. And then I told her, you know, go get a secured card and uh build your credit off that, and then you'll get an unscared, and then you can get a loan, and blah, blah, blah. And now now she's got a freaking higher credit score than me. She's at like oh damn near an 800. And uh, yeah, I'm like, Jesus Christ, woman. But so we uh we went car shopping, I don't know, six, eight months ago. Went out car shopping, and we get down to the car lot, and they're like, Well, uh, we can offer you this loan at 10.99% interest. I'm like, no. Well, we aren't gonna do this. We're more in the like two to three percent range. Let's let's let's talk, really. If you don't want to talk, we're gonna walk and we're gonna go to the next dealership. Oh, well, wait, we just got another offer that gave in. Yeah, and uh she she cannot have that poker face sitting at the table when you know what she wants it or not.
SPEAKER_04She she test drives the car and she's like, I love this car, I am so in love with it. Please just hand me paperwork so I can sign it and drive it.
SPEAKER_02Salesman's dream. And uh, and I'm the one sitting at the table going, No. Yeah, no. We'll leave. If you can come up with something better, give us a call tomorrow in the afternoon, not the morning.
SPEAKER_03And uh she gets so pissed with me when I do that shit.
SPEAKER_02And I'm like, make them make 'em fucking work for this. I you've got the credit, you've got everything, you've got all your ducks in a row, and they know it, and they know they can sell that vehicle to you in a heartbeat. We are gonna get the best interest rate, we are gonna get the best deal on this, and no, they are not gonna talk you into oh, do that paint protection, do the extended warranty, do this, do that. No, yeah.
SPEAKER_08My my wife tickles me once in a while because she's she everybody knows. If you know me, you know my wife, that she's the one that controls the purse strings, she's in charge of it all. And when we're going to buy a car, she always says, Okay, this is what we can afford. So this don't don't go over this. Well, you get in, she drives something, she likes it. And so she's the one sitting there, and and so if she if we let's just say we're going in and she says we can only afford $350 a month. So that's in my brain, right? Yeah, and the guy comes back and he goes, Well, we can get it down to $375, and I'll go, Nope. And he'll he'll look at her and she'll kind of do one of these numbers.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, well, I've got all this extra money in the bank.
SPEAKER_08And and so we said, I mean, that was her younger.
SPEAKER_02She's not I didn't tell Reeve about that.
SPEAKER_08She's not she's not that bad so much anymore. She's not that bad anymore. But she she used to be, well, you know, I in and so she'd kind of budge on her.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_08And I've got to the point he's like, you said 350, that's what we're paying. And every nothing pisses me off more is when you tell them 350 is my max. I'm not gonna pay any more than 350 a month. Yeah, let me go talk. So they go, they leave, they come back. Well, the best I can do is 360. 10 more fucking dollars. Get it off there. It's not that got you're doing that.
SPEAKER_02What they did is they ran into the back room, took a drink of coffee, took a little snort of coke, and they came back and they said, Yeah, we need 360.
SPEAKER_08You know, you're telling you you're telling you're trying to tell me you're in charge of this whole situation, and we both know you're not. So come on, because I don't know your kid can use these shoes. The older I get, the more I truly believe this. You have nothing I want. I'm here because honestly, I seen that vehicle, and you know what? There's probably one down the block that's probably just as good, probably better shape even. But I seen this one first. So you can deal with me or not.
SPEAKER_07That's kind of how I look at it. You know, yeah. Well, that's a good that's a good way to look at it. You know what, dude? They made more than 10 of these, so I can buy one somewhere else.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I think the internet's a huge place. I have never no kidding. I have never I've never read the book, but the one thing I do know that's said in it is uh ne always be willing to walk away from a deal. And that's from old uh Donald Trump's book, uh the art of the what is Art of the Deal.
SPEAKER_07Art of the Deal, yeah, yeah, our art of negotiation.
SPEAKER_08Art of the deal, I think, is what it is, isn't it? Yeah, but that I like I said, I've never read the book, but that's in there is never be afraid to walk away from the deal. And so I've got that in my head. It's like, you know what? I don't care. Yeah, you need me more than I need you.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07And you know, like when you were talking about financing and stuff, I learned this from a guy in Daytona when I lived down there, and he had been a salesman for Harley Davidson there in Daytona, and he broke off, ended up well, his mom died, left him a buttload of money, so he opened his own bike shop. And I had a bike at that time that the motor had had blown up. It was an it was a Harley, but it wasn't. It was made by a company by the name of Ultra. Yeah. And uh had an SNS motor. Well, they assembled that SNS motor, they didn't buy them, they bought them in kit form and assembled them because it was way cheaper. Well, it let loose, so they warrantied it. And he agreed to do the warranty, and then he came to me and he's like, I can hook you up with one of the for like three thousand dollars more. He says, We'll take I'll take your warranty money and you give me three thousand dollars, we'll put one of these hundred cubic inch RevTex in there. Like, and they had just come out and they were at that time they were quite the motor, yeah. You know, and I'm like, a deal. But he was telling me that you if you walk into a Harley dealership, they're gonna push Harley financing, which is fine. That's I mean it's corporate. He said, but if you can't qualify for Harley Finance, they'll run you through some other finance company. And he says, usually it's not at the same rate as Harley Davidson. He goes, if you can afford to buy a bike through your bot through your bank, always go to your bank because these finance companies pay or charge you one, two, three percent more interest than what your bank will, and then they kick a certain percentage of that back to the dealership for using them. Oh you said you can always do better directly from your bank.
SPEAKER_02I I went to the Harley dealer in Omaha, and I seen I seen one that I wanted, brand new, sitting on the showroom floor, and I've wanted it. It was just the color of the bike. I just I like that color. I wanted that color, I wanted that motor, it was a rogue glide, and and I actually said no, that I didn't want it, and Brooke was pushing me to do it. She's like, You work your ass off. Just do it, just do it, get the bike, you're gonna enjoy it. Alright. So I I started the negotiation process then, and I got him down quite a bit on that bike.
SPEAKER_08Usually you hardly don't deal.
SPEAKER_02They did that day. They came down quite a bit on that bike, and I said, Alright, well, I'm gonna pay cash for it then. They would not let me pay cash. No, they they told me finance it, and you can pay it off in the first sixty days, but you you need to finance it. I said, I can write you a check right now that is perfectly good. I can go down to the bank and get you a cashier's check and bring it up.
SPEAKER_08And then they wouldn't take it.
SPEAKER_02And they would not do it. They wanted to finance it, and you can pay it off in in I think he said sixty days. It wasn't 30 days, it was sixty days. And I said, No, I don't want to do that. Yeah, but that that's part of that deal.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Well well, with Mother Harley and I walked away from the deal.
SPEAKER_08I didn't know. So they would have got all the money.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I know, but but they would have made more money by financing it because they would have got a kickback.
SPEAKER_07They would have got the Harley would yeah. And the other thing is, is for their floor plan, it looks better if you're selling a bike that you have to finance than cash.
SPEAKER_08I'll never buy a Harley then, because I I will not uh I mean if I could pick apps, that's what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I had the I had the cash on hand. I was alright, let's do it. We came to an agreement on price, it was what I could afford to spend. Let's do it. And it was gonna be my first brand new Harley. And I in my heart, I was kind of sold on it too. I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna have a brand new bike. But in the back of my head, I'm also thinking, all right, now I gotta put bars on it, pipes. Yeah, yeah. I want to do engine work, I gotta upgrade the stereo, I gotta put a different seat on here. There's all that extra expense. But I thought, I'm gonna have a brand new bike. I'm gonna have a brand new bike. Yeah, they wouldn't take your money. They wouldn't take my money, and and Brooke kind of understood where I was coming from when I told her she was sitting there in the finance office with me, or in the salesman's office. It's not a finance office, but in his office, and he wouldn't take my check. And I'm like, well, if you don't feel comfortable taking the check, her and I can run over to the bank, I can get you a cashier's check. It's as good as cash, and I can give that to you. Nope, nope, we want to finance you on it. You can pay it off in 60 days. I don't want to pay a dime of interest on money that I can afford to spend right now.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. That tells you 100% what it is.
SPEAKER_07It's a paper trail and it's yeah, and and it just looks better for them. You know what I mean? That's it's it's a weird, it's weird to think because you'd think, why would I why would they not take cash?
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_07And I ended up walking away from the deal.
SPEAKER_08Where was that? The one Defiance. Um Defiance, really.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, huh. I've heard pretty good stuff about that. I've never been in, you know, never dealt with it. I've been there a good dealership. Yeah, I've never dealt with them.
SPEAKER_02I've been in there, but I I would I I don't know if maybe on a used bike if they would do that, but brand new. Oh shit. It was brand new on the showroom floor.
SPEAKER_08Is it only because you got them down so far that they wanted to do it that way? So they made the extra money back that they come down.
SPEAKER_02I didn't get any explanation or nothing on it. Because he just said you gotta finance it.
SPEAKER_08So you're to Mike, the only reason I asked it is let's say I'm just another guy that just walks in and see the sticker and said, I'm gonna write your check right now. They I want to know if they'd take your check for that.
SPEAKER_07They probably would because that bike has built-in markup.
SPEAKER_02Oh. That makes sense. What they have on that because then they weren't they they would actually be making more than the finance company would pay them in say 30 or 60 days or right.
SPEAKER_07And so you gotta figure when you go look at that bike and just say you walk in and it's got a $36,000 price tag on it, okay? That bike didn't cost them that. No, yeah. So they put it out at suggested retail, and then they stack on, well, there's destination fee. We no Harley does not charge its dealership destination fees. Right. Oh, they'll tell you they do. It's like when I went to Frontier and the guy's like, we put four thousand dollars in that motorcycle you're looking for. You know, it's five hundred dollars to get your oil changed. That's what you would charge me.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
SPEAKER_07You paid your mechanic $25 an hour to spend an hour and a half and change oil in all three of those plus the oil. But oh no, you don't understand. Yeah, our service department charges charges our sales department. Don't matter on paper, yeah. Yeah, it looks good on paper, but don't yeah, I ain't stupid. Yeah, the check, the check you get, the check he gets are written from the s or signed by the same guy. But what yeah, they've got all that built into the price of that new bike, they'll take cash for that. Yeah. But when you start cutting out their profit and then go, I want to pay you cash, their profit margin just got even smaller.
SPEAKER_08So when they when you started the process, did they ask you, are you gonna finance? And did you say yeah? They never even asked the question.
SPEAKER_02They they just said, You like this bike? Well, yeah, I'm sitting on it.
SPEAKER_01You see the woody right here? You see the drool running down the side of my mouth? This isn't pharmaceutical created, this is Harley created.
SPEAKER_02But uh then he says, Well, let's go talk. And so we went in and he's like, Well, what could we get you on that bike for? Well, this is my price, this is what I'm willing to spend. Well, let me go talk. And you did back and forth, back and forth, and then it was all right, we came to an agreement, I'm gonna pay you cash. Well, no, well, we want you to finance it, you can pay it off in 60 days.
SPEAKER_08How about I give you the money and you do what the fuck you want with it?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. Well, and that's like that, yeah, they're good at that, and they'll they'll do it to you every time they can. I I went in well before I bought the this blue bike, and my brother traded in in 07. Oh, well, wait, it was the year before they made the street glide, so it was an electric light that had been stripped down to look like a street glide. Yeah, traded that in on a on a 17 Street glide. He says, You want to ride along with me? Yeah. It was last it was about this time last year, and it was it was chilly, but it wasn't bad. So we jumped on. I rode in on a Saturday with him, and he dropped off the bike that he traded and picked up the new one. And I'm walking around out front. We'll just say it's a Harley dealership in Lincoln.
SPEAKER_08And uh in the only one, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, there's only one. Anyway, you know, and real nice that dark gray 19 used road glide setting over there, had the pullback bars on it. It was a nice looking bike. So I threw my leg over it, and the guy comes out, he's like, Oh, here, he says, stand her up. He says, I'll I'll prop it in between my legs. He says, Well, you can see what it's like to ride it. I'm like, I rode in on a 13. I said, I've rode Harley's for 20-some years. I'm pretty sure it's not gonna be a whole lot different. So, you know, he I'm like, there's no need to do that, you know. And this is a guy that if he'd turned around, I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd have seen a man button, and he's trying to sell me a Harley. But whatever. Okay. So I said, you know, I found out what they were asking for, and he says, So, you know, you looking to buy? And I said, Well, I rode in here with my brother. I said, he's trading in a bike. And so, long story short, they come out and I said, You I said, I'd be interested in trading this off. I don't know anything, you know. I paid off. Well, he comes out with this form, he says, Well, we'll do an estimation, we'll get you an idea. And he says, Well, you're gonna finance it. I said, Well, you know what? I said, I'll look into your financing if it's reasonable, knowing I wasn't going to, but yeah, you know, so he says, Well, come on in. He comes out, he says, Have a seat, I'll be right back. He comes out, sets down, throws down this piece of paper, and he goes, Congratulations. He says, You qualify to buy a brand new Harley Davidson at $535 a month. I said, I ain't paid $535 a month for anything I've ever bought.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07And he looks at me, he goes, Well, pick a bike on the floor. And I said, Oh, I was asking about that 19. You know, what can you do on that? Well, I'd have to go back to my sales manager. I said, So what are you gonna give me for my bike? And he slides the paper across and he's got an estimate of $5,500 on a 2013 road glide with engine work that I can provide at that point, only had a thousand miles since the last time it had been opened up. Yeah. Said $5,500. Well, you know, he says, Your front and back tire are mismatched, and he says, You're getting to where you need a tire. I said, the bike you're selling me will need a tire. Well, and I said, here's the insult. I said, You see that guy over there? And he's like, Yeah. I said, he just picked up in 2017. Yeah? I said he rode in an 07, and you gave him $5,500 for that, and my bike's six years newer. Well, I said, that's my brother. Well, let me go back and see what we can do. You know, at that point, I let him walk back there and he came out and he started his spew, and I said, you know what? We got a schedule, we gotta be back. I got somewhere I need to be at three o'clock. Yeah. Which was a bold-faced lie, but he didn't know any better. Well, let me Monday morning my phone rings and it's the sales manager. What can we do for you? You know, how can we make this right? I said, Well, first of all, or you know, what what's wrong? Well, first of all, you don't come out and insult your customers with an offer like that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07And he's like, Well, I said, if from here we're done. I said, I'm I'll keep my bike.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07You know, but yeah, he comes out and the first thing he took pulls out, you know, kind of, well, you qualify for a brand new bike.
SPEAKER_08Well, everybody qualifies for the bike.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but I I was like, I I just it's thousand dollars, everybody will qualify for a bike. Right. But it just it was like, wait a minute. I was you went in to get a price on a 2019, and you come out and tell me I could buy a brand new one.
SPEAKER_02Right. I I was dealing with a guy at uh one of the R V dealerships around Omaha, and uh I Brooke and I had found one that we really liked. It was uh it was a toy hauler, it was a fifth wheel, and so I I sent him pictures of our motorhome, and I said Oh, this is when you still had your motorhome? Yeah, and I I said, This is what we've got, this is the work that's done to it, and at that point, the that $7,500 fucking transmission was brand new in it, and uh and I said, What what would you I I know without looking at it you can't tell me exactly what you'd give, but what's an estimated price that you'd give us for uh trade-in on that? Oh, we'd give you about five hundred bucks. I said, Are you fucking kidding me? I said, one tire is worth more than your five hundred dollar trade in. Are you fucking kidding me? And then what two years later, so it should be worth less. Yeah. Two years later, but guy fucking steals it from us, and we end up with like 14 something off of it.
SPEAKER_08Really?
SPEAKER_0214 14,000.
SPEAKER_08You made 14 grand on that fucking camper.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_08And uh somebody's still my camper.
SPEAKER_02But we'll talk up this show. And they and this and this guy's offering five hundred dollar traded. Are you fucking kidding me? I swear. They're they're all granted. This was at, you know, I'm scrolling through Facebook, and this salesperson has ads up on Facebook for the dealership, and I message him at like nine o'clock at night. Maybe he was at the bar drinking and it was really fucked up or something. I don't know. But uh, it so happens the people that were watching Whitney at the time that were babysitting her, they're her husband. worked at that same dealership.
SPEAKER_08Oh no shit.
SPEAKER_02And I brought it up to him and I said I I showed him the whole conversation. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? And and that guy had been in our camper, had seen our camper and he's like why would he even offer you that? Because nowhere even close to because honestly you wonder why?
SPEAKER_08Because there is a fool out there at one time took him up on his offer.
SPEAKER_02Right. Probably yeah yeah yeah somebody that didn't know anybody I even I showed Brooke that and Brooke's like tell him to fuck off yeah you you want us to take that offer get out don't look into the light and no looking no laughing no talking that's that's what his daughter says when she's taking a poop such a bad idea there's times I feel that way I admit now now her new thing so she's got a she's got her little potty and it's like right up next to the bathtub. So now when she goes in there to take a dump she pulls the shower curtain around her you know there's the shower curtain that falls into the tub and then there's one outside the tub. The one outside the tub she pulls it like completely around her potty so that she's by herself yeah she's got her little private area and all you hear is the tablet going and you see little toes wiggling and like well whatever works I guess I don't know so hey so I got another me and Whitney story. Alright uh we were uh down at the little bar by her house where we like to go for lunch every once in a while so we were down there and it was on St. Patrick's Day and she grabs my phone and she's every time she grabs my phone she goes straight to the photo gallery and she's got to look at pictures of herself. So I'm talking to this person that's sitting next to me I've got this this person sitting next to me that I'm talking to and the the bar manager and the bartender are behind the bar and they're kind of watching Whitney you know looking at Whitney and and Whitney's scrolling through the photos and she's going uh this is this and this is this and then she turns my phone and she says look at this crap and I'm like what is she talking about look at this crap you know well it was Whitney's poop in her potty chair and it was it was a huge shit. Did you take it yes I took it and I I had I had taken a picture of this to send it to Brooke while she was at work and I'm like look at this fucking thing it's like two inches in diameter how did this come out of our little girl he's got a big problem and so Whitney's showing him this picture of a turd in a little potty chair and she's like look at this crap look at this crap and then she turns around and you know it's St. Patrick's Day so there's people in the bar yeah and she's showing everybody around us look at this crap look at this crap and I'm like oh my god and I get my phone away from her and I delete the picture and I'm like sorry this was one of her huge craps.
SPEAKER_07You know what this is right this is class crap in her fucking this is classic payback. You are now raising you yeah because she if she's doing that at that age you're in trouble.
SPEAKER_02That little girl loves me so much when her and I are when it's just her and me. And she's daddy I love you. Daddy give me snuggles daddy give me kisses and then mom comes around not even knowing you daddy you're naughty daddy you're you I don't love you anymore.
SPEAKER_03Daddy you're not my friend you're not nice what the fuck did I do?
SPEAKER_02Ten minutes ago I was gone she takes off running through the room and she trips over something and it's Daddy Daddy was naughty daddy did this daddy tripped me I've been sitting in the fucking recliner oh yeah I'm sure that if I went through my memory which has been erased by painkillers but if I went through my memory I probably got stories like that with Elizabeth too you know what kind of a handful she is now think of her as a kid so I'm I'm still figuring out what I'm gonna do with my nephew when we go to Vegas because he's not he he gambles a little bit he doesn't drink so I asked him I said are you like wanting to go do the zip line we could zip line all the way down Fremont Street which is like six, seven blocks we could zip line that he's like yeah like that thrill stuff and I'm like alright and he's big into theater so I think maybe going to the Sphere and going to Wizard of Oz or doing one of the movies over there that'd be pretty cool. But I don't get I don't know I I found so there's this big shopping cart and these people put a Corvette engine it's on a car frame but it's a shopping cart. No shit and they do tours all the way up and down the strip. And it takes it takes like an hour to do the whole deal and they stop in front of the fountains in front of the Bellagio and you can see the fountain show and shop I don't get it. It it's just something different. Something different but it's like sixty bucks a person to go and do that. So I'm like oh maybe that'd be kind of cool but then I don't have to rent a scooter yeah yeah somebody else is driving I asked him I asked him I said what would you think if I rented a scooter's and he's like like uh scooter scooters and I'm like no like mobile old people scooters well you can I mean I'll follow you and then he says and you're getting up there uncle Sean fuck you yeah we're not running scooters guess what you're not going to Vegas you little asshole you've lost your fucking ride yeah guess who's going to WWE WrestleMania and has ten fingers this dude right here guess who's not you right there I'll be honest with you I thought they had WrestleMania like weekly no wrestle doesn't no they have Monday night raw and Friday night something yeah I don't even know I haven't watched it I never really watched it as you know habitual watcher but so we're gonna go to the WrestleMania and we're gonna do this uh Monday night Raw Raw and he says I want to do Monday night raw because that's when all the drama happens I'm like alright it's like a big soap opera for big people my uncle is my uncle's been WWE since when I was a little kid and he still watches it and my my nephews the same way my nephew and him they'll talk on the phone for hours about this my grandpa I don't get into it I don't my grandpa my on my mom's side he was into that you know but he was like you gotta remember my grandpa I think how old he died years ago but he was into that wrestling stuff but he was more into like I think he was more like under Under the Giant and stuff like that before they had like WrestleMania I mean it was still small time when he watched it on television.
SPEAKER_08You know I never I just never could get into it.
SPEAKER_07I yeah I mean as a kid dude I got into it when I was a kid yeah I was gonna say as a kid yeah you kind of you it's kind of cool you get to you know you watch it and then after a while you go yeah there's no way he just smacked that guy upside the head with a folding chair I mean yeah he did you know it'd be cool if he did but he did something I remember going to one at the Platte County fair they had oh yeah they had like the big time wrestlers that came to that Platte County fair when I was I want to say I was maybe twelve thirteen something like that.
SPEAKER_02What year would have that been early nineties how old are you oh yeah you're a lot younger than me aren't you it was probably early nineties somewhere around there but uh I remember you know they got the chair out the steel chair out and whap hit that guy and I I re I was like ringside and I remember that guy coming off the stage and there was blood all over his face and I was like oh my god this is real it was probably a little capsule that he's more likely but uh but yeah I remember that just I I can still see it in right now that guy coming off that stage and he had blood all over his face and I was like yes this is real I could never watch which I still want to call it WWF that whole bullshit that went down at that wrong WWF I never could watch it um but then because like you said I can't get into that I mean if I'm gonna watch soap opera I'm gonna watch women and and now they have women you know in it you know and they're hot but then they got MMA fight and I'm like now that's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_07That's like that's like WWF.
SPEAKER_08I watch that quite a bit oh yeah yeah and it we and it it doesn't have to be name people you know I like watching the guys are coming up you know some of them guys are you know they're literally fighting for a living at the end there's and you know it's you you get these guys that are just kind of doing it because they're big and they think they can fight and they get in there you could tell all of a sudden all the blood rushes out of their head and it's like I'm in the ring almost they they throw about three punches and they're out of air already it's like nope now this is what it's like to you you you don't people don't realize these guys that fight they're good from the couch they're not good in the ring but these these guys that are good at fight they they control they have so so much control over their body and how they breathe when they get in the ring because you and I we get in a ring we're getting in a fight we're hyperventilating we're all these guys you look at them you know they look well and they're collected there exactly yeah yeah they control their their adrenaline and if you watch the good fighters they're two or three steps ahead of that guy yeah they have they have a counter move figured out for what you know that's that's what's so amazing you watch these guys and you they will throw a punch just to see what the other guy's gonna do and that they also figuring them out yep they're figuring them out and so they know that if I do this like I was watching one fight and this and I it wasn't like I figured this out there I heard the commentary telling me it was like oh yeah that is what he did he hit him a few times and every time he went to he would hit him he would kind of flinch on the on the opposite side so the guy come he went like this and just as he is flinching he came over the top and just wham and it dropped him man I mean it was just like my thing is I couldn't think that fast. You know what I mean I I I don't think that I could be in a fight and have the wherewithal of I'm throwing a punch what's my next gonna what's gonna happen next yeah you know I'm all in in the I'm throwing this punch.
SPEAKER_07Yeah yeah you're yeah you know this is what I'm doing this is how I'm gonna do it this way yeah you've got to they've they're calculated those people are you know and that's what makes them dangerous.
SPEAKER_08And every year it gets a little bit more intense of how focused in they are on I mean when they first started MMA it was just a couple of guys and they're just beating the fuck out of each other.
SPEAKER_02Now it's you got skilled skilled guys that train for it all year for one fight.
SPEAKER_08What do they call that? What is uh Rogan what does he do? He's like that uh uh what kind of fighting does he do he does uh is it uh UCF no no I'm talking he's no no no no no I mean he himself when he oh when he did it yeah they the guys that roll around the floor and stuff all what do they call that um uh I can't it's not karate like jujitsu jujitsu jujitsu those guys and and there's what's weird is you think okay so this guy's got jujitsu and he's doing really well but then they say they add they take a part of this guy's you know uh not jujitsu but puts it in there and it it's and they're just unstoppable it's like wow well they had those fights up there at the knuckle in uh Sturgis they had anybody in yeah anybody could fight anybody in the bar.
SPEAKER_02Oh no while you signed a waiver saying the bar was not responsible yeah and anybody could fight anybody in the bar that was the fucking shit to watch God that would have been fun yeah that would have been that was just a regular street brawl yeah it was so much fun to watch up there in Sturgis and we went to it every year I mean we went several days in a row and watched these they happen like every day and uh you'd have girls in the ring fighting each other you'd have guys in there fighting each other but then it started professional fighters from Rapid City would come up because you know the way the knuckle is set up around that ring you had your main floor and then you had the upper deck yeah the upper deck yeah and so whoever won that fight people uh the audience would throw money in there they would you know crumple up no shit money and throw it in there for the winner well it turned into you know big deal money you know people crumpling up ten dollar bills fifty dollar bills twenty dollar bills throwing them in there yeah well when you're drunk and you let go of that 20 it's too late when it when you're a professional fighter out of Rapid City and you're going against somebody in the bar yeah you're gonna win you're gonna win and you're collecting you know maybe a thousand two thousand bucks I mean that house was packed and I'll I'll never forget there there was one guy he was kind of taunting the crowd and there's some YouTube videos out there on this there was this guy he's taunting the crowd and he almost looked like Paul Tuttle senior oh really and he had this big cigar in his mouth and and he was come on motherfuckers come on fight me somebody fight me and nobody really did it I mean he was a big guy and nobody wanted to go up against him and and everybody was just kind of like go the fuck away you know you're kind of being a douchebag right now well finally this smaller a small guy came out and he's like I'll take him on and they're like he's way above your weight class I don't care so they got into the ring and this guy's still sitting there with a cigar in his mouth fuck you you little shit I'm gonna fucking smash you and uh so they start fighting that little guy just whooped the fuck out of him he he was one of those professional fighters and just beat the fuck out of him in like a minute minute and a half and just put him in his place the whole place erupted I think that guy probably made the that little guy probably made the most money out of anybody ever there but they stopped doing it because you know maybe people sued him I don't fucking know what happened but it was so cool to go to it was so much fun. I wish I wish the new owners now because the the knuckle got sold last year or two years ago but I wish the new owners would do that so if you're listening but uh I wish they'd do that because that really drew in a huge crowd and it was so fun to watch even you know if they would keep the professional fighters out of it and just let people from in the bar fight yeah that'd be a lot of fun to watch it was so fun to watch did you ever get in there? No and I wanted to because I I did do martial arts I I did martial arts for quite a few years and I always wanted to do it but I always wanted to do it after quite a few beers so I don't think and now at my age I I wouldn't do it because I'd probably break something yeah no share can't break a hip or somebody break something for you that you can't repair.
SPEAKER_08Yeah but yeah I haven't yeah we used to I haven't done it in probably 10 years but occasionally we'd go to the Golden Gloves in Omaha just to watch those you know oh that'd be fun yeah it's kind of neat I mean I I'll be honest I like watching boxing yeah I like boxing too yeah yeah you know I mean there's it's I'll say what you want he's retired now whatever you know the famous Bud Crawford yeah but the dude could fight oh yeah you know I mean he's a hell of a fighter yeah I don't I don't like what he done to Omaha lately but no he's a fighter yeah you know I mean from the fighter aspect I liked him yeah no as a as a person he was straight up from the hood yeah you know but yeah you know you'd watch him and all of a sudden he'd lay a guy out with his left hand you know the guy's like yeah he was a he was a hell he he could fight left or right yeah he was a hell of a fighter and I never watched him ever fight except for the very last fight where he you know what he do go up two weight classes or whatever it was yeah I watched I was at the camper actually it was right one of the last times we was at the camper last year uh we watched it and it was it was cool to watch the guy fight you know yeah say he's from Nebraska and he's kicking everybody's ass that's something to say you know I I was watching him fight one year in jail I was I was locked up in jail and we were watching the fight and then it's that was the stupidest thing they could have put on fucking TV because a fight broke out then in our shit but yeah it was it it was cool to watch it because you know Omaha boy you know yeah yeah yeah I mean we haven't you know just think about Nebraska we don't get much well just think about Leon Spink slipped here down for how long and everybody that was the coolest thing and I say this I'll say this I thought he was pretty cool when I owned the bar yeah he'd come in he was always a rule his wife I think is what it was yeah she would fall and run and say don't let him do Jaeger bombs I think is what it was could because it once he there was something about those she didn't want him drinking those but I'll say this and I'll say to the day I die and I if his wife is listening I truly apologize she's not but because I want to get that out there he was in love with my wife yeah oh my god he and it was you know he's quiet he didn't didn't really talk a whole lot I mean and let's say he didn't talk around me a whole lot but I I no we're about we're done we're done but he he was in love with my wife that he would he del I went to a couple after parties with him did you yeah he was a good there were people that wanted to fight him at the after parties he couldn't though and I I was thinking you know what this motherfucker lands one punch on you you're gonna go through the wall he would have got I mean he could have got a lot of trouble because once once you're a a uh but then they drunk ass motherfuckers had an after party go oh well I could say I beat up Leon Sphinx he's old he's I'll never forget when he was at the Jokers somebody ran off with his hat and he wanted he finally did get his hat back but he was pretty tore up because you know it was a world champ yeah hat and somebody stole it but he got it back. Yeah huh I mean you gotta figure if the guy's 80 years old and you're 25 and he fought professionally and he's a world champion at 80 he's still faster than you will ever be still gonna hit harder I don't I don't care what anybody says that whole fight with that Jake Paul or whatever the fuck his name was with Tyson six fight Tyson would have still I still say would have whooped that guy's ass. Anyway uh we better call it a night yeah we all got to do work tomorrow yeah and uh we got got you driving home tonight. Yep I got he's driving home so I'm the only one that's got about 20 minutes to home so I got 45 or yeah I got an hour and a half so but no it was cool having Sebastian this time and uh thanks guys it was it was cool I thought it went really well yeah we'll have him again hopefully a lot um yeah but anyway so we don't do the whole Midwest goodbye so anybody got anything to say? Nope see you next time I'm out