31. Stupid Monday and Bad Backs

It's been a few weeks.  With some explanation of where we have all been, Reeve, Sean and Sebatian all discuss health issues, Motorcycle Perils, and all around bad stuff.

*Some adult language is used.

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Well, hello everybody. Ooh, I bounced out of there pretty hard. Hello, everybody. Welcome to another podcast. We call the Sour Patch Hour. I'm Reeve. I'm Sean. And I'm Sebastian. And uh we're all here to entertain you tonight. Well, let's we're gonna entertain each other. Hopefully, you're entertained with us. We haven't met for a while because Big Daddy here has had a little bit of issue. So we took a few weeks off so I could recoup. I had to uh have emergency gallbladder surgery, which was not fun. And it was almost exactly a week later. Yeah, I was sitting at home, and I actually I had you had talked to me. We had talked on the phone. And I said and I said, I think I might come hang out at the shop just to say hi, you know, get out of the house a little bit because I've been cooped up for a week. And I think the next I literally called him and said, You need to come take me to the ER because it felt like someone was taking a knife and just sticking me right here. I mean, it was almost as painful as the gallbladder itself. Yeah. So they eventually got me down, got me to uh Columbus Hospital, and uh what had happened was they my gallbladder had got so big that they couldn't get it out of my body. So what they tried to do is they tried to lance it and suck the junk out of it so they could get it out of what they had cut me open for. Well, when they did that, the yeah, yeah, got some of it got out and it laid in the spot where the gallbladder was at and just started brewing, and so I got a real, real bad infection in there. That'll make you a septic, or yeah. That's I was pretty close. I was pretty close, is what they said. Um, but what was stupid was so I get then they say, Yep, you got an infection there, and what we have to do is we have to take uh a peck line, if you will, yeah, run it down into that spot, and and then feed antibiotics right into that spot, right? Well, we don't have nobody in Columbus that can do that. Okay. So, yeah, you either got to go to Omaha or Norfolk, and Norfolk's closer. I said, Yeah, let's go to Norfolk because it's easier on my wife and everything. Sure. Right. So they as I said, I was in pain and I was pretty close to septic and everything else. So, what do they do? They let me lay in that bed here in Columbus for three hours because they what they kept telling me was any any kind of pain medicines or anything that they trust down. Trust me, they I made sure they're giving me painkillers. I would hope so. But yeah, I mean it was it helped. I'll say that it helped. But I find I looked at Sarah after a couple hours and said, Let's just drive up there ourselves. I said, This is ridiculous because they kept saying, Well, we can't get Norfolk on the phone, we don't know what's going on. Well, after it was all said and done, what it was is they couldn't find an ambulance to take me up there. Oh, and so I had looked at Sarah and said, Let's let's just go. I said, We can get it. She goes, I don't, you're in so much pain. I don't want you in the car. Well, I wish we just would have done that because it was I talked to her about an hour and a half into this, let's and she no, no, no. So then about three hours, an ambulance shows up, and there's these two girls, neither one was 25 years old, right? And I'm in the back of the ambulance, right? And so we take off. And in my brain, we're going up highway 81, right? And what threw me was you've been on a monastery, yeah. You know, there's that bridge where it's like if you take it, you go airborne on that bridge. She goes, Here comes a big bump. And we literally was like launched, yeah, because because this girl was, I'll bet you she's going 100 miles an hour on this. It's like, why are you you let me lay in bed for three hours? Why are we going so fast now? Well, instead of going up 81, they went over to Stanton and back up that way, and so it took twice as long to get up there as it is like, and when we got there, well, we were driving, and she poked her head back, goes, Okay, we're we're a half hour out. So in my and I'm still thinking we're on highway 81, so I'm thinking, okay, we're at we're at Humphrey. Yeah, we drive for a while. Now, keep in mind, I know I was in pain and I thought everything was taking for long, but we drove for a while, and she pops her head back, okay, we're 17 minutes out. What how are we going? I'm real confused here. How are we going? She goes, Well, we're going whatever, whatever. I'm not driving, but I think we're probably going whatever way the GPS said. And then we drive a GPS to get to Norfolk, and then we drive a little bit further, and then I hear her get on the phone, and I swear we had drove another 10 minutes. I swear to God, we did. I hear her get on the phone with Norfolk, and she says, Okay, we're 15 minutes out. I I was like, I wanted to know, did we go to Omaha and back that? What the hell is going on? We're taking the scenic route on this one. And when we finally they're making sure they charge you for every mile. And it's why I told Sarah, I said, I want to know what that bill says. Yeah. Because I'm not paying that fucking route. We should have gone up highway 81. Yeah. Yeah. And uh when we got there, the doors open up, and the driver was standing there. I goes, How the fuck did you get me here? And she goes, Well, I whatever way the GPS said was the quickest way. I said, if you would have high went up highway 81, we would have been here in a half fucking hour. Oh. And that was all that was said. It's like, I was so pissed off because number one, it wasn't in a soft road. I mean, yeah, monastery's a rough road. Yeah, and then even that road back in up into Stanton is a rough road, too. Sure. Well, these girls were these girls were out of st out of uh Fremont. They finally got these girls to drive up from Fremont and take me up to Norfolk. And so that was a long night. But then they ended up putting that pick line in, and I was in the hospital for two or three days. And so that's my that's my whore story. It's been a it's been a month. Yeah, it's it's been a it's been a month. It's been crazy. Well, because it started the so Easter. Remember last year, it was Easter last year when that hit me. Yeah. And so what they told me at the Columbus Hospital last year was, well, you have pancreatitis, and there's nothing we can do for you. So go home, and if you can't deal with the pain, just come back and we'll admit you in the hospital. Well, I just toughed it out in bed, and one day it was just after about it. Must have been because that was on Easter. So I think it was like Thursday. It finally everything passed, and I was like, okay, cool. Yeah. So I was under the same impression this year as well, they ain't gonna be able to do nothing for me, so I'm just gonna sit at home. Yeah. Well, four days that was Easter Sunday by Thursday, you know, I was like, uh-uh, I'm going to the ER now. Well, you came, you came to work on Monday after Easter. I did, and laid in here, and finally I'm like, go home. I I honestly I thought you were gonna die here. I was like, go home, you look brutal, horrible. We we were talking, you know, I I went through the same exact symptoms as you, and uh and then to hear you know what it actually was, they told me, Oh, it's indigestion, it's heartburn, and put me on some meds that I had to take every day, and that was a disaster. It's because they don't blame you when you tell you how much pain you're in. Yeah, and so uh so yeah, I brought that up at my doctor's appointment on Wednesday uh for a checkup, and I I had told him your story, and and he goes, Well, there's ways to check that. If you start getting that pain again, you know, do this, and and so now I'll have a little bit of a heads up heads up on the not hugely enlarged by the time I get there, and then I then I have to take a ambulance ride that's two hours longer than what it needs to be, but but uh yeah. Just makes you it makes you wonder if like last year wasn't a gallbladder attack and not actually. Right. Well, the the funny thing is they they gave me a CAT scan last year too. Oh, did they? Okay, so even the doctor said this year he looked at it last he looked at last year's and he said that it the gallbladder wasn't part of the issue last year. So but also not for nothing, it was also the Columbus Hospital. Yeah, because you don't I mean it had to have been that much faith in them. Because I don't either, I don't either not after what we just went through with my mom. Exactly. Your mom's horse story scares me just a little bit. Yeah, but the way the doctor explained it to me up in in Norfolk, he drew it all out on the on the thing is so your stomach is here, like so you got your stomach, your gallbladder is here, and your pancreas is here, right? What they told me at pancreatitis, and as he says, what happens is is there's these little tiny tubes that run behind your stomach from your pancreas and your gallbladder, and chunks, if you will, like stones, yeah, break, go out of your gallbladder and they go down, and where those two meet, where they're gonna feed down into your, I think probably in your intestines, I'm guessing, that blocks everything up. And then everything starts and then everything starts to swell. And he says, a lot of times what happens is it starts to swell so much that it gets pressure and then it pops out. He said, So when like on Monday when I came in, the what was here on at the top of my stomach kind of quit hurting, but he said I had one of them stones that was in my gallbladder that wouldn't bust loose, and that's why it kept getting bigger. Um so it was a mess. Well, I called him, I called him, he came to my house twice to check on it because well what what I called you one. I can't remember why I called you that one time to come to bring you my my that was after surgery, dude. Because he said you said yeah, I it burns, it's killing me. And I'm like, okay. I was up all night long with serious heartburn. Oh, you wouldn't. I mean, I felt like it was burning a hole in my stomach, it was so bad. Yeah, and I couldn't drive yet, and I didn't want to wake Sarah up because she's got to work and everything, and so I I think you're like I'd rather die than wake her up. Well, well I were you even clocked in yet when I got a hold of you. I don't know. Yeah, I was clocked in because I I told you I'll take off because Carrie had just Carrie had just got here. I said, You gotta bring me some Milanta. Is that what I had you? Yeah, because the doctor said, you know, Sarah called and he brought me two bottles, and by the end of the day, I had drank most of one bottle. And I felt better, but yeah, but then probably not the healthiest thing. Probably not, but then everything spun out of control on Thursday. So oh Wednesday. Wednesday, yeah, because Wednesday you were like, Yeah, you would text me, it was at 11, you know, I'll probably come in after lunch. I'm gonna eat a little bit and I'll be fine. And then two third, two o'clock. It was quarter, quarter to two. I called him up. I said, You gotta come take me to the ER. And I uh and I called called Sarah and she goes, Hello, I go, help me. And so he drove to my house just to help me out a couple different times, but uh it in here I kept telling him because the Platte Center uh ambulance brought me into town, right? And I kept telling him, I said, I had had cookie dough, I had eaten lunch, and they had little cookie dough chunks, you know. Yeah, I ate a couple of those, and I seriously thought that I had a bad gas, is what I thought. Yeah, and I kept telling him, I said, This is so stupid, I'm gonna fart on the way to the hospital, and then we got to all this is stupid. And as we're driving, the gal that was sitting next to me, I go, Man, this is gonna be so stupid. I'm gonna fart, everything's gonna be fine. She goes, Well, if you're gonna fart, you better do it now before we get to the hospital. But I'm I'm glad now I'm glad we did go in. I'm really happy. Well, you you were so bad that when it hit, when the pain hit, I he wasn't breathing, he couldn't talk. I was like, Wait, there's no way I'm taking you down the patio, down those steps, and getting you in a car. Right. And he walked in, his eyes were after he looked at me, he his eyes are like this. He goes, Should we just call the ambulance dude? I'm like, I at first I was like, no, let's just go, but then he goes, his wife is a nurse, and I he got her on the phone, she's like, just get the ambulance there. I'm like, all right, let's just get let's just do something. Her first words is I'm like, like when the pain hits, he can't breathe. And she's like, How bad is it? He goes, 12. Didn't even hesitate. 12. She's like, it's bad, call the ambulance. And I, you know, I felt bad about doing it, but I was like, I don't want to drop the if I had to drop you'd have been all over. No, we done the right thing. Yeah, I'm glad you were there to actually I had somebody to look at in so much pain because I was there by myself, and then he came in, he called the ambulance and everything, but I at least had someone to echo my pain to, you know, right. And I know that sounds weird, but sometimes when you're not alone, that helps tremendously. Yeah, so yeah, and and you told the lady on on the phone I had him, I called 911 on speakerphone. She said, Well, how bad is his pain on a scale of one to ten? 12. There was no hesitation, she barely got it out. There was an answer, and I'm like, and I, you know, you're in pain a lot. So I was like, if he's saying it's a 12, it's bad. I I hate that stupid what's your pain scale? Is it 10 being the best? I was like, come on, man. Yeah, and I'm I'm not calling you because it's a one. Yeah, and and I was told a long time ago that anytime they ask you that, just put the highest number on there because then you're gonna get whatever you want. Yeah, and and that's the truth, because when I was in there, they'd always say, How high is your pain? Nine. Nine. And I'd say nine for a while, and then they started looking at me like, Come on, dude. I'm like, all right. Like, this guy's a pussy. That's right, that exactly. We've got morphine going straight to him, and they did too. And uh shouldn't feel a damn thing, and uh what's it so I I tested the theory, and they go, How high is your pain level? I go, five. Well, how about we just don't give you so much painkillers like you motherfucker? I knew you were gonna do that to me. But here's here's what also happened to me when and this happens to me. I don't care. Every time I go to the hospital, this is what happens to me. That's the reason I hate going into the hospital because I'm on painkillers on a regular basis. I take painkillers on a constant for my back, right? So they never figure that into their equation when they're giving me painkillers. Sure. And they don't listen because when we got there, Sarah and I they were asking, what pet medications do you take? Sarah and I were going over through it, and when it came to the painkillers, we said, I take this much. Well, and it what did I take two tablets three times three times a day, right? Yeah, well, in their brain, they heard one tablet three times a day, and so everything and half of what you should, exactly, and then so what they were doing is they were giving me that, plus they were putting stuff through my IV, this Delauded, I think, is what it was called, and they could not understand why I kept wanting the Delauded. It's like because I am in pain, I don't know how to make you understand that, right? Well, then the doctor came in the next morning after I laid in bed all night in pain, right? The doctor came in the next day and he's talking to me, and Sarah's there with me, and I told him, I says, I am in constant pain, I don't know how to make you understand that. I said, I take regular painkillers for my back, and he repeated back to me exactly what I knew they were doing. So you take one tablet through the No, I take two tablets through oh, so he gets out his little calculator, he goes, I will up your medication now. And as soon as they started giving me what I was what I was supposed to get, they were able to take me off the Delauded. They were happy, and I was happy. Yeah, so but the nurses still didn't want to give it to me. They uh they still fought me on it. Well, no, and I don't I'll be I I don't want to say nothing bad against the girls the not there was one guy, I think, or two guys, they actually took pretty darn good care of me. I I I felt like I was taken better care of in Norfolk than I would have been taken care of in Columbus. My wife says she don't necessarily believe that, but whatever. But I I do feel like they were more attentive, they were. There's there's one girl, she's she was a young girl. She I think all the god, all these nurses are so young anymore. I had like three nurses that weren't even 25 years old, you know. But I mean, they went to school, and I they know more than I do, sure. But there's so one of the girls when she came in, she she was working overnight, I think is what her job was. Um, and the girl that worked during the day, she got used to. I was I yelled at her first about the pain. I mean, I yelled at her, and I and at the end, if you know me at all, I yelled at her, and I said, just so you know, I'm not mad at you, I'm not necessarily yelling at you, but you guys have got to understand you gotta fucking give me this painkillers or I'm gonna go insane. And she just goes, I'm sorry. I said, I'm not yelling at you. But by the end of the day, we were used to each other, you know. We joked around and stuff like that. So when the when the next girl came in, I had talked to Sarah. Sarah, Sarah's like, You smell, you need to take a shower. I'm like, Yeah, I'd love to take a shower. Well, I have a rule. I I'm an old man, I'm shy. I said, the only way I'm taking a shower is if my wife can come in in the shower with me. Well, when this girl came in, I had that conversation with the girl prior. Well, I had went to the restroom and the other the other girl had left the room, and when I come out, I was by myself. Well, that nurse said, just so you know, you if you have to go to the bathroom, you need to tell us so that we can watch you go in there and everything. I said, just so you know, I said, I'm not gonna shit in that bed, I'm not gonna shit on this floor. I said, if I'm gonna take a shit, it's gonna be in that bathroom. And if you guys aren't here fast enough, I'm going by myself, just so you know. Right. Here's how this, here's how this works. Yeah, and she goes, Well, uh, you you gotta understand we're liable. I says, You gotta understand I'm gonna shit in that bathroom, whether you're here or not. When I need a shit, I'm gonna go. And so then when it came time to take a shower, she she walked in and she goes, We need to be with you in that shower. I said, No. I said, My wife and I are the only ones going in that shower. She goes, Well, can we at least leave the door open then? I said, That's fine. I said, but you're not to come past that curtain. My wife is the only one allowed in there with me. Yeah, okay, all right. Well, what was weird about the whole deal was I went in, I took a shower, I come out and she was gone. She was nowhere to be found. It's like when I get the roll fit in. She's like, damn, I can't check him out. Oh, yeah. You didn't want to check my whole fat ass out. But it was funny. She's like, oh, he's playing hard to get, I guess. Maybe she has daddy issues. There's there this uh the first girl, the first morning girl, she she was there, and uh I didn't feel I was still kind of I didn't feel the greatest, and I didn't want to get out of bed. And Sarah was there, and uh, I go, I was talking. This girl, she was she was the older one. She was she had been there a few years, she was more laid back, she'd lived a while, you know. And uh so her and I got along great. And uh I go, I hate to do this. I said, but I really don't want to walk to the pisser right now. I said, can I use the urinal or the they call them urinals, right? Or uh bedpan. It's like a bedpan, it's like a tube, yeah. Yeah. I go, can I I think it's a urinal. I said, can I just use the urinal? She goes, Oh yeah. I said, um, just so we're clear, I said, I have a rule. I said, nobody's helping me but my wife. She goes, All right, that's cool. So she handed me that, walked out the room, and Sarah helped me pee in a in a in a bucket or whatever the thing is. That girl, that woman, she was pretty cool. Yeah, the other girls. He's like, I've done this enough today. One last one, that's great. Exactly. I like this guy. But I did, I did in all in all, the Norfolk people took pretty good care of me, I felt like. After each one got chewed out in their own little way, but they all we all come around as okay, the old man, let's let him do his thing. And yeah, everybody came to terms. Yeah, we're not changing his ways, so we'll just get along. Well, I I had a uh birthday on Monday, and uh it was the famous forty five. Oh, that's right. I think it's a good one. And then I I went in went into my doctor on Wednesday, and he says, Congratulations on your forty fifth birthday, it's time for a colonoscopy. I'm like, Oh boy. Did you schedule one? Yeah, I got it scheduled. It's June 8th. See, I was I was supposed to do one and I haven't done mine. Gonna be singing like a virgin. You know, Sarah had hers done. Go ahead. I talked my doctor into I said, So, like, can we just do color guard? And if the thing comes back, we're cool. He's like, Yeah. I've done Kohler Guard, you know, to basically poop in a box, mail it off. Then it's done it three times now. That's what that's what I was telling me. He did too. He waited until he was 51. Really? My doctor, I'm sorry, cut you off. Go ahead. No, no, that's what I had to say. My doctors said, because I asked about that. He goes, Yeah, you you definitely can do that. But the thing is, if you do that and you mell it in and something questionable comes up, and then you have to have a colonoscopy, you pay for the colonoscopy out of your own pocket. That's what my doctor was saying. He said, We wanted to wait until you were 45 because that's when they they accept it as a preventative type care. And so he said, But you know, if you can't if I would have came in there on Wednesday and said, Man, I'm you know, having issues or something, and he had to order that, well, then my insurance doesn't take care of it. They they take care of a portion of it, but it's because it's doctored or doctor ordered then as uh like trying to find out what the issue is. Yeah, yeah. This this is preventative, so insurance should take care of a hundred percent of it. So but I ordered one of those color guards and was just gonna do that. And I thought, uh I'm gonna wait till my doctor, till I talk to my doctor about it and see if he recommends this. So I'm glad I didn't do it and send it in. And you know, if there is an issue, exactly, you know, I could have really screwed myself twice. I don't know how much I don't know what one cost. I don't I mean I don't remember mine mine was free. That cola garden. Yeah, I don't know. I mean but uh uh colonoscopy about five grand. Oh my god. It's a it's considered a surgical procedure. Is it really? Yeah. My so my youngest sister went in and got one done as she was thinking preventative type thing because my dad had colon cancer, and and at the time we didn't know my mom had it, but uh, but she was thinking, you know, okay, dad had colon cancer, I want to go in and get early screenings done. And she was thinking, yeah, my health insurance is gonna take care of it. Well, she didn't meet that age age criteria, and so insurance said, uh no, we ain't paying this, and sent her a bill for like five grand. Jeez, I'm so tired of insurance companies rule how we fucking dig our robotties, yeah. And so I brought it up with Brooke today, too. And I said, Hey, you know, when I scheduled that appointment, I asked them, is this a hundred percent covered by my insurance? This is the insurance I have, blah blah blah. And they said, You have to talk to your insurance company. They they don't even tell you when you schedule the appointment because she said, All I do is I schedule the appointments, we do the procedure, and we bill you out afterwards. We talk to your insurance and we bill it out afterwards. So she says, if you don't want a surprise, talk to your insurance. And so luckily, Brooke was at work and she went to the HR while I had her on the phone, and they know all the ins and outs of the insurance that they have there at her place of employment. And she asked, and and the lady said, Oh, it should be 100% covered. Magic word there was should be, yeah. In case I'm speaking out of you know that you know that motorcycle I want? Yeah. Well guess what? There went a road glide right up my ass. I just paid five grand for the best hour of sleep I've ever had. That's what they say. I don't know. Sarah had hers, and she's and it wasn't. Now the next thing is gonna be what am I gonna say when the anesthesia is wearing off? Have you never you've been under surgery before, though? No shit. I haven't had any any kind of surgeries. Well, I had one on my knee because I I split my kneecap in half and then split it into four pieces, and they had to put it back together. But uh I wasn't with Brooke at the time, and I I was only 20, 18, 19, 20, something like that. And so, I mean I did you talk then? No. No, huh? But nobody was in the room when I was waking up either. So, but I know Brooke's gonna be right there. How do you do it? How is how you how's your ass feeling? I yeah, when they they usually when they wake up, they let you sleep for a while, and then all of a sudden they say, Hey, wake up, wake up! It's like, man, I was sleeping. It feels so good. What's wrong with my ass? Am I in jail? Am I in jail? Yeah, no, I'm supposed to reschedule mine, and I haven't I haven't rescheduled it. It's not because I'm scared of it, because I thought, man, my wife just done it. I can't act like I'm scared of it. Yeah, I mean, let's be honest, I'm sure doctors don't get a thrill of poking clip. My sister's not so my other sister, she's had four of them done already. Damn, and because she has stomach issues and other health issues. She's got Crohn's disease over there, yeah. And and so uh so she said during COVID they were running short supply on anesthesia. And and so uh she says they only like half gassed her. Oh and she says, I was laying there on the table. I mean, I didn't feel anything, I was pretty out of it. But she goes, I was laying there on the table and I was watching the TV of them going in. She goes, the doctor was singing as he was doing it. No shit. And I'm like, oh god. Well, that's the thing. You didn't, you know, if you're out, you don't know what goes on in the exactly, and I don't want to know that's a no well. That's me too. Right. And here's the thing. Okay, I'm a bigger guy, right? Yeah. So I'm a grower, not a shower. Okay. And so when they when they took me back to do this the surgery on my gallbladder, they this is the first time in I've had several surgeries. This is the first time they made me take my underwear off. Yeah, I'm like, oh, this sucks, man. Because all I can think is these nurses. And so if I see a nurse, they're all gonna be standing over the table looking at you, pointing and laughing, and then I see him in the hallway. They there's that guy to little fucking thing, you know. So and it never fails. Here comes one inch. But I've been under twice. And I from what I can you know remember, I know you you know, before you go in there, you're pretty loopy to begin with. But it always seems like it's just colder and shit in there. Oh, when they lay out. Yeah. When my mom came back from her surgery, uh, she it looked like she was in a seizure. Yeah, she was shaking so bad, and then they put that blanket on you and kind of warm you up. And but it's always, I mean, I can remember like wheeling into the surgical room, you know, they tell you to count backwards, and then you get like three and you're done. But it always feels like it's cold in there. Oh, you see, I never I they always say that hey, we're gonna give you something in your IV here that's gonna kind of take away some of your anxiety. Uh and I feel like I have my anxiety still out there, so it must be horrible. But so they they weigh you back there, and then the room, like you said, you want you all these lights, and it's freezing in this room, and they say, Okay, and every time they're gonna they scoop me onto the spot where I need to go, and I suppose they leave me awake enough because that way I can move myself onto the table, and then it helps them. Yep, and then they start strapping me down, and they say, Okay, we're gonna put oxygen on, and so they put the every time, and so they put this off, and so take some deep breaths, and then all of a sudden they go, Okay, you're gonna start filming but sleepy, and all of a sudden it's ringing in the ears and out. It always rings in my ears, and then I'm out. I remember that. Yeah, huh? You know, that's the best part is I don't care if I got a hangnail and they gotta clip it, put me out. I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want to be awake for anything. I've I've dealt with some pretty brutal blows working in construction. I mean, I I had a pair of tin snips that fell off a ladder that was up probably 12 feet above me and point directly right into the top of my skull. Blood just ran. No, it bounced off. I must have a pretty hard head. But I had a hat on also, so I think that helped, but I should have had a hard hat. Yeah, yeah. But uh, I had this this uh kid working with me, and uh we were this is when all the flooding was going on around here, and we were working in Octavia. Well, Octavia was you know bridge out to Skylar uh in order to get to David City. It was it was even flooded going to David City. We were kind of stuck. It was country roads and a big ass detour to even get to like Fremont or anywhere. Uh Columbus was out of the question. Yeah, you couldn't get to the other. And uh, and so that fell and it hit me in the head, and it rang my bell. I mean, I was I was seeing Tweety Birds, uh, and uh I told him, I said, God, and I still had my hat on, and I'm like, God, and I felt up top of my hat, and it was just just blood. Oh, blood, yeah, and I brought my hand down and I'm looking at it, and it's just red, and I'm like, oh fuck, I pierced my skull, and so I take my hat off and I sit down because I felt like I was gonna pass out, yeah. And I'm he's like, Oh my gosh, on this does not look good, man. And I'm like, Well, here, take a picture with my phone. I want to see what this looks like, I want to see how bad this is. And he takes a picture, and I mean, I had a gash across the top of my head, and I'm like, oh fuck. And I said, Go get me a clean rag out of my truck, go get me a clean rag out of my truck because I need to put pressure on this, I need to stop the bleeding. And your head, any head wound bleeds like crazy anyway. But I mean, it was just dripping down my face. Scary, and so I hold this rag up there, and I'm like, Juan, I don't think I don't think I should climb up on the ladder anymore because I'm I'm kind of dizzy, man. And he's like, I'll get it, I'll get it, Mr. Sean. I get it, I get it. And I said, Okay, I'm just gonna stand on the ground and whatever you need, I'll hand it, you know, hand stuff up to you. But I I can't I can't work today. I can't work anymore. And Mr. Sean, do you do you want to go to the hospital? I can drive, I can drive. And I you don't even have a license, man. But I'm dying here still drive. So anyway, we worked the rest of the day. Really? I toughed it out and just worked the rest of the day, and we got back to Omaha, and then I showed my wife, and she's like, You need to go to the hospital, that needs staples. How'd you get to Omaha? I drove. I mean, no, but I'm saying it was an country roads and and then hitting highway 30 for a while, and then once we got by the Elkhorn River, we had to take a big detour. And I mean, it it was to get to Octavia from Omaha was something like a two and a half hour drive. Oh my god. I mean, uh, you had so many detours to go around, and then your head is throbbing. Yeah, and my head's throbbing, and and now that that kid that was working with me, he was uh back, I don't know, six six months ago or so in Omaha. Uh, he was the one that went into the gas station. He he shot a guy at the grocery store, and then it took off, and the cops found him at the gas station on L Street, and he had a shootout with them, and they ended up killing him. I don't know that story. Yeah, man. What the hell? Why did you shoot somebody? He was probably fucked up on drugs, and he was the one working with him. He was crazy. He was crazy. He always respected me, and I've I've never had an issue with the guy, and I I saw the good in him. I mean, and I try to look at that in everybody. I try to, but they're they always fuck me over. But I could also see the ghetto in him come out every once in a while, and it was like, come on, don't fuck this up, don't do this, don't do that. And and he'd listen to me when I'd talk to him, but uh and his his uncle is my roofing foreman. Oh that's how I got to know him. No, but uh, but he got into trouble, went to prison for a while, and then he got out, worked for me again for a little while, just for something to do until he got his feet on the ground, and uh and then he kept asking me for work, and I I really didn't have anything for him to do, and didn't have the extra money to be given him. Uh, and I thought, you know, you've been out of jail for like six months. It's you've had enough time to find something, and uh, and then he went and did that. And I I kind of felt a little guilty about it because I was like, was he trying to rob somebody to get some money? Was he trying to do the what? But apparently he was I think he kind of planned it because his cousin is also in prison. Is that the one that had to shootout with the with the guys at the gas station? Yeah, yeah. And so his cousin is in in prison also, and Juan went through and sold everything he had a couple days before uh he went and did this stunt. Sold everything he had and put it on his cousin's books. No shit. Oh wow. See that his cousin and uh he got like 99 years or something out of that. Yeah, he's life in prison. Yeah, his his Now I all I can say is this kid's story sounds like it makes sense, but we I obviously don't know the whole thing. I've heard one one side of the story. Exactly. So these but he he you tell the story. So he uh he was a troublemaker, uh this guy's cousin. Okay, he he was a troublemaker and uh younger years, like 12, 13, 14, growing up trying he was in gangs and and uh I think he was 16, 17, something like that. He was he was still old enough to where they sent him to Boys Town. Okay. So he got in some more trouble, they sent him to Boys Town. He was straightening himself out, he was doing really good there. He got weekend visits to come home and uh and spend the whole weekend there and then just report back Monday morning, and and so things were going really good for him, and he had told the other gang members, I'm done, I'm not doing this anymore. I wanna straighten my life out, I wanna, you know. And the gang members said, You know too much. So you either meet us at this gas station by your parents' house, or we're coming to your parents' house and we're gonna talk this out. Well, he knew they weren't gonna talk it out, right? And so instead of those guys coming to his house, because he has a little sister there, he has another sister there, plus mom and dad, he didn't want some shootout going on at the house and put his family's life in danger. So he walks over there. I mean, it was like 20 below zero. Took off and walked over to this gas station, which is probably a quarter mile, maybe a half mile from their house, walking through neighborhoods. Um but he gets over there and there's three guys sitting in the gas station just watching out the window for him, and he steps foot into the parking lot, and here come two of them come running out, and they reach for their guns, and he had his gun on him, and he pulled his and pop, pop, killed them both. Well, the other guy he took off running then. Yeah, the other guy that was there in the gas station ran out, grabbed the guns off the guys, and took off. Oh, so it looked like he So it looked like you know they never had any weapons on them, anything like that. And shot two unarmed citizens. Yeah, yeah. And so he ended up getting life in prison for that deal. Wow. And he couldn't he couldn't prove self-defense. So that's a bad deal. That's sad. That's a bad deal, but again, we're hearing one side of the story. We do that's the story. That's the story I was told on it. So I mean it doesn't sound you know far-fetched. Yeah, it's a story you can believe. Yeah, you know, yeah. I mean, it doesn't sound like you know, well, I was the the the victim of playing the victim here. It was this is what happened, and I'm and this is what the price I'm paying for it. Yeah, yeah, that's that's sad. You know, I mean it's a tough life. You don't realize it. Yeah, these young kids they get themselves into these tough lives. That's what sucks. Is these young kids put themselves in these situations at a young age, and they don't really at a young age it seems like you're cool, but when you get to a certain age, you're like, I want out. Well, yeah, you can't. You can when you got life in prison. You uh so I can almost imagine he's in another gang in prison now. I would imagine because that's lifestyle he knows, and and to protect himself too, because I'm sure there's other gang members that are in that same prison of the gang he killed, exactly, you know, the gang members he killed. So now he's got to join a different one so that he has backup and he has protection in there. And well, and and he's young, and I yeah, yeah, yeah. I watch a lot of TikTok, you know. But I I listen I like to watch these where these guys were in prison and they're they're out now, but they talk about when you get in, you find a crew that you belong to. That way you have backup, and and yeah, you know, you don't know how you how you get into these games, you don't know what you gotta do, you know. But well, yeah, you can you can only do so much, yeah. But you've gotta survive. I mean, you know, I it's a pretty well known fact that you can't survive on your own, right? Yeah, yeah. You've gotta have some some click or whatever, you know, something that's somebody that's got your back. Sure. So well, anyway, uh brutalized before we I want to talk about you going to Vegas and stuff, but I just want to say it is finally official. It is, it is official. We have I'm getting ready to put a sign out in front of the shop. Congratulations, guys. Yeah, it is two fat guy customs, and it is uh officially open. We are gonna do oil changes, uh handleboard change. I mean, anything we're we're just not gonna get into diagnosing problems and fixing bikes, and we're we just want to do the the fun stuff afterwards, you know. Yeah, tire changes. We'll do tire changes and shit like that. But yeah, general maintenance is what we're after. We're not looking to rebuilding engines and yeah, I don't need to be like knocking down dyno shootouts and saying, hey dude, I can give you 200 horsepower out of that bike. Yeah, we're not into that. I don't want to. He's already going a lot deeper on on Shrek than he really wanted to. We're putting we have a new motor sitting there, we gotta put, you know, yeah, but it's it'll be nice to have somebody help me do that. That's what we got the motor. So I had to put cams in Shrek if there was anything left to put cams in. Exactly. Yeah. You know, when it starts splitting cases because it totaled the one side and that stuff went somewhere, so it's gotta be more than just just it's hiding in the pan. Well, yeah, it's probably in the sump. But the worst part of it is I don't know what it did to bearings and stuff, and I don't have the ability to split flywheels and that type of thing. There's that's just a that's an art. But uh I um when I was off, I think it was like a week and a half ago. No, it's right. I think maybe it was right after right when I got sick, somewhere in there, I got a message from that guy. I didn't open it, I didn't read all I read was I only read the first line. He says, I'm waiting for my tax return to come back, so I can go in. I just I didn't open it. It's like I don't care. I threw it in the archives, and so I I don't know. So I I don't know what it says. So I guess one of these you know what? Somebody tried calling me today, as a matter of fact. I wonder if it was him. Oh, I don't know. Did the number it was a five three one number? Well, that's that's a clumsy number. Well, it's the new area code, yeah. But I don't remember what it covers. I don't either. Let's see. Uh 53 a lot of the spam I get is a 531 number. But I but I know that's exactly I know that's Nebraska's new area code because I ran out of 531-236-909549. Do you want to announce that on our podcast? Oh shit. What do I care? Yeah, I don't know who it is. Yeah, yeah. Maybe go ahead and call it, guys. Make sure it's like four o'clock in the morning. Well, I mean, yeah, I don't want to, you know. Yeah, no, I don't think it's him. I don't I don't think it was him. But anyway, he's he's and I'm I'm sticking to my number. Uh I you know, you can say what you want, but if he actually did what he said he did to that motor, he didn't do it right. Exactly. There's no way that you put a thousand miles on that bike and it and it's not like you're out doing burnouts and hot rod n it. No, yeah. If you've rode, if you've rode with me, you know I'm pretty laid back. I've rode with you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The most you get out of me is swerving around because I'm not paying attention. Yeah. Yeah. Space that's me. Space it off. So, but anyway, you went to Vegas again. Yeah, yeah. Jesus, it's like your second home out there, man. I know it. I'm I'm really considering getting my condo out there now. And uh maybe how much money did you win this time? I I actually got rinsed. Uh I I lost up there and they hit me in the in the balls. But uh That's because you walked in and you were on camera from last time. Yeah. You took a bunch of our money last year. We saw how much you took from us last time. Did your nephew have a good time? Yeah, he had a great time. Uh it was his first trip. And he doesn't he doesn't drink. Explain why you went, I guess. Well, we went for WrestleMania. Yeah. And he's a he's a huge wrestling fan since he was a little kid. And he's 22 now, and still a big wrestling fan. Yeah, I mean, he knew everybody that came out. He all knows. He knew their special moves, he knew everything. And so uh so yeah, it it was fun. I have a buddy of mine out there that's uh a big YouTube gambler, and so I I was texting back and forth with him, and I said, Hey, you know, I'm bringing my nephew out. How about we gamble with him? Yeah, he says, Yeah, that'd be fun, his first trip. And I said, Yeah, and he says, All right. So we met him down on Fremont Street. We ended up gambling with him for like five hours. Really? And uh everybody came out a little profitable that night. Uh not huge. I mean, my nephew did good. He came out like 300 bucks up. Well, that's pretty good. I came out like 40, 50 bucks up, and uh I mean, where do you go to have entertainment and actually come out ahead anyway? Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so uh we had a fun night that night. Uh he enjoyed Fremont Street. He was uh he was just a lot of women down there, or what there's a lot of women down there, but it there's just so much to take in. You got performers everywhere, you got uh they call it Frequont because you see the crackheads down there, you see the you see everything Vegas down there. And so uh he he had fun, he liked it. We stayed on the strip, we stayed at Caesars Palace, and and uh he he enjoyed that place. It's centrally located, so we could kind of walk anywhere. He doesn't drink and he he's kind of against alcohol. No, nothing wrong with it, but he had brought up to grandma, my mom, and he says, I liked everything about Vegas, but everybody's drinking. Well, yeah, it's Vegas, you know. Uh people go there, let loose. But uh we I did take him to a whiskey bar. Oh yeah, and it it was the whole bar was nothing but different whiskeys. Really? Yeah, I th they had close to probably five, six hundred different whiskeys. Oh wow, I didn't know there was that out there. I was saying I know Canadian, that's about it. I was drinking one, they called it uh like a campfire whiskey or something like that. And they smoke the whiskey and and you know, give you an ice cube that's huge, it's a huge square, and put it in your glass, and then they pour and fill the whole glass up. And then they put a marsh uh uh toasted marshmallow on top. Those drinks were so damn strong. They were so damn great. That that drink tasted exactly like a s'mores. Really? And uh I sat there, I I probably drank six of them. And right be right before we went, you know, we went to Fremont Street, met up with my buddy, and then the next day went back to Fremont Street. And uh so before we went that second day, we had stopped at Resorts World. And uh I wanted to show him Resorts World, and I think I had some free play over there. And he I told him, go get a uh players card, because you might get something free, you never know. So he got the the players card and he swipes it, and he has a free entry into the slot tournament. And I said, Well, you may as well do it. You know, you're in Vegas, right? Right. So he's never done a slot tournament before. I've done a couple of them. Yeah. And uh so he wants to pull the handle, and I'm like, No, you rapid fire that freaking button. Yeah, and so he starts rapid firing that button, and he's going, he's going, and it he placed second place right at that time, but the tournament was still going on for a couple hours, and I'm like, I've I've placed first place, and by the time the tournament's over, you could be, you know, in a hundredth place or something. So I said, Don't get your hopes up too high. Well, we're sitting there at that whiskey bar, and and I'm about five in, and he he looks he looks at me and he goes, Uncle Sean, guess what? I said, What? Uh I got third place. I said, You did? What'd you win? He says $750 in free slot play. I'm like, well, fuck, I know where we're going. So I got a slow down on those ones. So I had one, I had one more. No, there's no slowing down. We're in Vegas. This is true. We're we're Ubering everywhere. I don't give a shit. But uh, so we get into the cab, and I thought, oh, that drunk Sean likes to fuck with people. So uh we get into this into this cab. Not only did the cab drive, I just walked up to one that was parked along the side of the road, I'm like, how much uh to take us over to the resorts world? And he's like, $30, $30. And I said, How about $20? $30. I said, $20? Okay. And then so we we hop in his cab and we're heading over there, and we're like halfway there. And and so I turned my my camera on, my phone, my video, and I I said, So uh, you know any good places to get any cocaine? And right away my nephew's eyes get huge, and he's like looking at me out of the corner of his eyes, like, oh fuck, Sean's going off the crazy train. And he's like, Oh, my friend, I tell you, you go here, you go there, you go here, there's a lot of undercovers over here. There's like and I'm just playing it off. It's like three, four minutes I got this video rolling, and and then he finally pulls up to the hotel to drop us or at the casino to drop us off, and and uh we get out and we start walking into the casino, and my nephew's like, so uh are you gonna ask somebody for some cocaine? And I said, No, I was just fucking with you to see what kind of reaction you'd get. But we we went into the we went into the casino then, and we get his uh 700 his $750 was already loaded onto his player's card, so all he had to do was stick it in a machine, punch in his passcode, and and he could download whatever. And I said, now if it was me, this is what I would do with it. And I said, I I would play like $15 spins, maybe $25 spins on a on something that's volatile, because if you get into a bonus, it's gonna pay you big. Yeah, right. No, I kind of want to go play this for 80 cents a spin and go play this for a dollar twenty a spin. Now get in there and I said, whatever, it's your money, you're having fun with it. You know, it's not my money, I'm not gonna tell you what to do with it. And so we I don't know, we spent a while in the casino just going around each machine, you know, stick fifty dollars of free play into it and play at 80 cents. And I'm like, God, you're never gonna win anything good on this. But he kind of proved me wrong on that too, because the last day we were there, we had like two hours before we had to get ready to go to the airport, and so we went down and had breakfast, and then he sits down at some Buffalo machine, and he's playing that at 80 cents a spin. He got into a bonus one 500 bucks. Yeah, and I'm like, you little shit. How old did you say he was? 22. See, and that age group must be bad, alcohol bad. My son is gonna turn 21 in in August. Wants nothing to do with going because uh on you're like, let's go to the strip club on Easter uh for brunch, if you will, uh before I got sick. I had made I I think did I give you some? I can't remember. No, but you made that orange, yeah, orange, and it so it was orange juice, it had uh whip cream vodka, and what was there was some other type of alcohol in it. Yeah, I don't remember what it was. I can't remember what it was because we talked about making it and didn't and drinking it here. Uh can't remember what it was, but anyway, I shook it up and it it tastes like a uh creamsicle. Oh, yeah, that orange creamsicle, yeah. Yeah, and so when he got there on Easter Sunday, I said, Elizabeth, you want to try this? She goes, No, not right now. I said, Ben, you want to try it? He goes, Yeah, all right. He takes a big old drink of it. He goes, Oh, wow, that I said, that does that taste like a creamsickle? Yeah. I go, here's what's in it. He goes, Oh, sure. After I drink it, you tell me there's alcohol in it. But no, he wants nothing to do with alcohol, which is fine. That's I I I admire that. That's all right. I'd hand my nephew my drink. You know, we you can take him walk up and down Vegas Boulevard, you can go from casino to casino, whatever you want to do. And uh, I'd hand him my drink if I had to, you know, switch something up in my hands or whatever, and he'd just stand there all frozen and staring at me like it was gonna jump up and bite him. Just handing me a piece of uranium. He's a good kid, he does great in school, he's very smart. So what's he studying in school? Uh uh animation. He's gonna be uh animator. Awesome. So he's really cool. He's moving to Japan after he graduates this semester. Japan? And he's gonna make cartoons over there. You know, in Japan. Yeah, there's money in that, and it and I and I admire it because I have no artistic ability. You give me, you know, I mean, I I draw crayon characters like you see, you know, well, all all of his is done through computer. You don't have to draw it. Yeah, now it's all through computer, but you still have to be artistic, yeah. You know, and uh but then Japan can be dangerous. I got a a buddy of mine that lives in Japan and he graduated somebody that had a cock. Well you lady boy! No, Marlon's a good guy. Uh, but he turned around and uh he went graduated, went to college, and then he joined the Peace Corps and he ended up in Japan. He's a teacher over there now. Married a Japanese lady who's got a daughter, yeah, and he comes back, but I probably see him once every three or four years, but you know, he's like you get over there, and he he said for me it was the culture. Yeah, you know, he said, he said they their culture is so much more dedicated to what they believe in. Exactly. There's very little crime, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he loves you're very strict on crime. That's what my nephew was saying. This this the reason he's gonna go over there is he's getting kind of it's not like a scholarship, but it's a work type thing that kind of a work based on the thing. It's uh I don't know if it's a grant or what it is, but they guarantee him a job out there, and uh, but he has to have a certain GPA. Yeah, yeah. And so uh so even when we were in Vegas, he'd wake up in the mornings and do online classes. Really? And dedicated. Yeah, very dedicated, and I'm proud of him for it. Yeah, and I told him that when I was up there. Uh we got a suite with a pool table in the room. It was pretty cool. It was pretty cool. They really wanted that money back. But uh they were trying to smooth me over, and they got a they got a portion of it back, but not all of it. That's funny. But uh, but yeah, that it we got up to the room and and we were playing pool up there after we got done uh running around Vegas all day and and we just kind of had a good serious talk while we were playing pool, and and I told him, you know, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you for what you're doing, and you're doing good in school, and and uh I I hope he turns into a millionaire out there so he can take care of Uncle Sean. Exactly, exactly. But that's what I keep telling my son. He'll be out in Japan and say, Uncle Who? Uncle Who? I can't even pronounce that anymore. My uh Ben, I'm hoping that you know, because he wants to work on robotics. He's a he wants to be a robotics engineer, and I'm thinking there's probably gonna be money in it if he can get into it, you know. But he's got a he's doing well in school. Um, he's coming up on the end of it, he has finals next week, and then he's done with his sophomore year of college already. Yeah, and it's like that's almost scary, you know. I I thought of Ben while I was out there because uh we were looking at different things to do out there, different shows. Yeah, and they had the the robot deal where they uh terminate each other and the last one standing wins, you know. That'd be cool. And I thought, oh, Ben would love to go to that. Yeah, he would, yeah. But he uh didn't get an internship this summer either, so he's coming back to work for me. Yeah, so he's got an internship with dad. Uh yeah, he's uh he knows that he's always gotta work here. So but that reminds me, so sitting up there, I've got four cameras that we're gonna set up, and as soon as he's for the summer, we're gonna start, we're gonna open up a YouTube channel, yeah, with and we're gonna have cameras and everything. And I and I was talking with my buddy out in Vegas about that, and I I asked him, What do you think? And and he goes, I think that's gonna go over really well. He says, if you can have a live feed go on so many hours a day and and constant, yeah. He says, That's the thing, you gotta have consistency in it. But he he kind of said, you know, that's gonna be a single subject by itself that's gonna draw a crowd that's interested in that particular thing. And he goes, I I think it's gonna take off really big and good do really well. So he thought that was a great idea. Good, yeah, good. What we do is kind of a lost art anymore. It is, yeah, and then you know, not only that, when we work in the bike shop, we can pull it into the bike shop and do that too, you know. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, but yeah, that's I didn't mean to bring it back to me and my son, but I I'm I'm kind of anxious for him to come home so he can set us up on these cameras and you know, shit like that. So yeah, so yeah, I mean look look how much further we'd been if we hadn't drunk, you know, drank away our our teens and toys. Yeah, I know. You ever think about that? Oh yeah, if I wouldn't have drank like when I own the bar, them 10 years, if I would have had my energy elsewhere and not spend them that much time drunk, I wonder I told that Sarah, as a matter of fact, I said that to Sarah last night. It's like, you know, I regret that because I wonder how far I'd be if I would instead of buying a bar, if I would have opened up the welding shop, how much I'd be 20 years in now. Yeah, and I would, but I wasted them years just being drunk basically might not uh ran that welding shop as well either because I learned a lot I learned a lot from owning a business like that because I learned I don't like to talk to people, and that's why he answers the phone now. I uh I I've thought about that too, you know, all the all the stupid money I've spent and uh you know, bars and and going on different trips and doing different things, but you know, you can't put a dollar figure on those experiences either. And they they help you grow mentally. Uh your trips, especially. Yeah, that's something you can't, you always you're gonna my mom jumps my ass about it. She's like, Oh god, you're going on another trip, you're going on another vacation. Well, you need to save your money. You're gonna you gotta retire sometime. And and I'm going, you know, by the time I retire, if I save all that money, I'm gonna be crippled up and not gonna do anything either. I'm gonna want to, but I'm not gonna be able to. And uh and she's in that boat right now, and she's do you don't ever win an argument with my mom. Oh, yeah, I hear you. But I can see that she understands where I'm coming from with it too. Yeah, and she gets I think she's almost kind of jealous because Whitney has seen more of the United States than she has. See, and but it it is it's these experiences, even if it was you know, going out and drinking with all your buddies in your 20s, you still had experiences. You still had fun, and you know, I do I remember having a lot of fun at the bar. Don't be wrong, yeah. Yeah, I remember having a lot of fun at your bar too. But you know, like you're saying, you get you get to the point where you're crippled. But look at me right now. I my back hurts so fucking bad. It's hard for me and my wife to go do anything because I can walk about 50 yards and then I gotta take a break. We've talked about going to Vegas, yeah. And I I invited you guys to come with us for New Year's. I know, and you're like, I just don't think I can do all that walking, and it's a lot of walking. But now that I know that we can build scooters, scooters, scooters, yeah. Hey, I was missing it this trip. I was like, God damn it. Hey, I put one of those counters on my phone to see how many steps you take. Yeah, one day it was 6.25 miles, another day it was five miles, and I'm like, I don't even want to look at this thing anymore. And then I go to my doctor's appointment and I gave him 14 pounds in the last six months, and I'm like, how does this happen? I just walked 30 miles in two days when I was in the hospital. Just last week I worked. I walked when I was in the hospital, I had lost 20 pounds because for a week I basically couldn't eat, you know. Yeah, so I lost about 20 pounds. Trust me, I found it again. It always comes back. You you know what? When you go that long without eating, you everything it's not safe around you. Yeah, because you you always feel like you're hungry, and yeah, it's a mind thing. And and but no, I I've calmed down that first week after. Man, I was eating everything. I went and bought me a half a gallon of ice cream because yeah, because and the reason I did that was because when when I was in the hospital, the first day I was in there, I was still on clear liquid, they wouldn't let me have nothing for that first day afterwards. Oh, yeah. Elizabeth brought me ice cream, and we asked the nurse, I go, Can I eat this? She goes, I'm sorry, you can't eat this. So, what does my wife do? I'll eat it right in front of me to my ice cream. That's kind of brutal. That's like remember the other night when you were an asshole. Here's my asshole. No shit, huh? Yeah, yeah. But anyway, no, I've calmed down. I've I'm not eating, but that first week out, man, I was nothing was safer on me, man. You're uh my wife's like she's just got fingers left. So I as you get older, you know, you those things you like to eat turn into your enemy because you put weight on quick. Quick. Yeah. And I and that was another conversation I had with my doctor because uh when I went in there and they weighed me, I mean, it's the most I've ever weighed in my life. And I'm like, holy crap. And I said, Well, since I seen you last, I mean, I had two trips to Vegas, and I do like the buffets there, and I like to try to. Do they still do buffets out there? Very rarely. I mean, there's not many buffets, but it used to be a big thing, but they must have been throwing too much away, huh? Well, no, after COVID, they shut them all down. But why did they reopen them, you know? Uh they kind of figure people are still coming here whether the food's there or not. Yeah, they could make more gaming on the floor, uh, you know, take the buffet out and put more machines in there, what's gonna be more profitable? Yeah, no, higher, yeah. So but uh but I I still I love going to those buffets because there's always crab legs on them. And oh, they might be a hundred dollars to go in and eat, but I'm gonna eat a hundred dollars worth of crab legs. But back to the whole what we were talking about. We are gonna take you up because Sarah and I have always said if we go to Vegas, we're taking someone that knows where to go. And so we're gonna take it away to do it. Now that we have nobody scooters, I'll rent a scooter with you. We'll race. And well, we'll have demolition derby in the middle of Caesars Palace. I'm not paying for that, man. You just keep your game with you because you say that bang. You say that now, just wait till we have some drinks. But no, I I want I after Sarah took me, I didn't. You can ask Sebastian. Oh, I did not want to go to Branson the day but I was pissy the day before. I was like, I don't want to go on this fucking trip. I don't want to go. But once I went and we had a good time together, I'm I'm looking forward to going on a trip again with her. It was I I I even asked her, I said, when are we going to the next trip? She goes, Well, probably not till Sturgis now, you know. And then I got sick and everything. So yeah, but it was what was weird was I got sick a week after we got back. It's like good thing this didn't happen out there in Brampton, man. Yeah. Oh, could you imagine that ride? You thought the ambulance ride was bad. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, that would have been brutal. What what road smoother the ambulance or your truck? What do you mean? Oh, you didn't take your truck. You probably took her car, didn't you? To Branson? Yeah. Yeah, we took her car. Yeah. So it would have been a little bit smoother ride. A little bit smoother, yeah. But god it would have been a brutal trip. I know that. So but no, I guess we haven't even been together since Easter. I guess we had a good Easter. Had to be before Easter. Yeah, we we had a good Easter. How was your Easter? It was good. Uh went to my father-in-law's and we had a we had a big Easter hunt over there. Whitney was just overwhelmed. And uh so it was fun for her. And then and then while I was in Vegas, uh Whitney and her mom and or or Whitney and her mom. Brooke and her mom and Whitney, uh they went went camping. While I was in Vegas, they rented a cabin out at uh Platte River State Park, I think. Oh, cool. Either Platte River or Mahoney. And uh I think it was Platte River State Park. And so then that was Easter with Granny. Oh. And uh so then they did another Easter egg hunt out there at the cabin. And that cabin that that they got, it was pretty nice. It was it had a full bathroom in it and two bedrooms and living room with a TV and fireplace. And so uh they had a good time. And I I kind of want to do that now. The cabins that we normally stay in, we just get the basic. You know, it it's basically a tiny home with two bedrooms, no kitchen, no nothing. No bathroom. No, there's no running. Oh my god, that's not my kind of cabinet. They have they have a fridge and two uh air conditioner heater. Really? Uh mini splits, I think. Yeah. And and then they have like bunk beds on one side, so there's four beds on one side, and then the other side has like a queen size bed. And uh so but bathrooms are just you walk right across the street, and there's shower and everything. Yeah, showers and bathrooms. And so uh it's not terrible. But uh the one she got, I was like, we never got it. We we stayed there last year. My wife, I have never seen her laugh so freaking hard. I so we had a campfire that night, and I'm we're her and I are both sitting out by the campfire and having some drinks, watching the campfire talking, and we decided, yeah, we're gonna go to bed. So Whitney was getting tired, so we all climb into the same bed and we're laying there, and I had to pee. I didn't want to get fully dressed and go walking across the street and go to the bathroom. I'm like, I'm just gonna go right outside the door and go to the bathroom. There, there was nobody out there. I'm like, gotta go to Farmer P. So I go out there and I start, stream starts coming out, big old frickin' raccoon comes right around the corner, and my stream has never stopped so freaking fast. And I let out a little ah, and that coon stood up on its back legs like you started in the king. We both we were both in shock, and uh, I go running in, and that coon probably went you know the other direction, and and Brooke's like, quiet, quiet, Whitney's sleeping, what is going on? And I'm like, this coon came around the corner and it's like stood up and like throwing its arms up in the air, like, ah, and I said, scared the shit out of me. And she's like, Well, did you pee? And I said, I still gotta go, but now I don't want to go out there because the freaking coon. So I'm looking through the windows and looking to see if this coon's anywhere around, and it's not around, so I kind of tiptoe out and take the rest of my leak. Luckily, the coon didn't come back. That's funny. So we came to a mutual understanding. You know, don't disturb me while I pee. Don't disturb me while I pee. So wildlife is not welcome. No, so how how I know this is probably gonna be a touchy subject, but we'll find out. How goes the camper search? Uh we kind of put it on the back burner for now. Yeah, you know how that goes. It's gonna be ten years from now. I was gonna say a couple more years, she'll never find one that's decent. And then it's oh, we don't have the money. Oh, we have the money, but then this came up, or I want this, and so we'll should have never sold your camper. I don't know. I've been looking. Have you? Yeah, I've been looking. So one day I'm just gonna show up at the house or more. Just pull up. Yes, I know now. So this is my new harebrained idea. And I I I'm not sure, but I think maybe maybe I've got Sarah sold on it. Maybe. Yeah. Okay. So if I buy a new truck, I want to get a one-ton because we have a bigger camper, right? Right. If I go buy a one-ton pickup and a decent one, it doesn't have a lot of miles. I'm looking at 40 or 50 grand. Right. You know now follow me. I can go buy a semi-tractor trailer, and you can pick them up for between 15 and 20 grand, right? And some of them have work done to them, and even if I had to put some work into it, I could have a nice semi semi to pull my camper for under 20 grand, maybe, you know. And is what I told her. I said, if we wanted to get into owning uh something that's not a toy hauler, I could take right behind the sleeper, I could extend my my axles out a little bit and put a garage. Right up there. Yeah, exactly. And we could we could also make it so like if we wanted to bring her car, put her car back there, and then put the bikes on top of it, and we we could it wouldn't need that that tractor trailer wouldn't even know it was on it. No, no, no, no, just it's not personal, right? Yeah, it's personal. You just put RV RV use on the side of it, and you're you're good to go. You know, uh and I you could get a nice and you wouldn't it would never overload that trailer, that track. And for under, I bet yeah, I bet you could get it all done for under 30 grand, 25 grand. I bet you because if you get one, I've been looking, I've been kind of looking. Yeah, you can pick them up between 15 and 17,000. Yeah, and by the time I stretched it out and put the garage on there, you know, 25 grand, that sure as fuck beats 50 grand for a new truck. Yeah, so I think maybe I've kind of got her sold on it, you know. So, but we'll see. But the other thing is this you always think you have her sold on something and she doesn't want to be kind of like your wife. I know at the very last time. Our wives are almost identical, they should be sisters. I know it. But you know, I've got that 550, that F550. The problem with it is is the flatbed is so long that I can't put my camper on it because the corners would catch it. Oh you know, so I like I told him, I said, I could do the same thing with that, is I could move them axles back so that the camper could sit back there, and we could still put a garage for the bikes up front. And if I got real crazy, I could put another set of axles behind it and make it a small little tractor trailer out of a 550, and then I could put our car on there too. If I make a Frankenstein, yeah, basically, you know. I mean, uh we could make it look pretty cool, but there's a lot of options. But I I when that and you know why I come up with that idea? I I I think I told you this. Yeah, you did how I come up with this idea is I was having when I was laying on my in my chair at home, I was watching these stupid TikToks, and there is a a couple walking around this campground, and it was tractor trailer after tractor trailer after track trailer, and that's how they were pulling their campers. And I thought, you know, that I wonder what it would cost to do that. So then I went to the marketplace, it's like, holy shit, how much cheaper would that be, you know? So yeah, that's where I can. I see guys in Sturgis doing that too. They come up in a semi pulling a fifth wheel behind it. It only makes sense to me. Yeah. And and if you don't want to sleep in your camper, you know, you just want to park somewhere alongside the road, stop at a stop or whatever, you don't even need to go to the camper. You can just sleep right there in the truck, you know, in the morning, go out there, take a shower real quick, get freshened up, and uh jump back in the semi and go. See, and and like I told Sarah, I said, we have always said that during this during the winter, it would be nice to jump, hook onto the camper, because we got the toy hauler, and drive south and ride around the side, like she came home on a Thursday night. I drive all night long, then we get up and we can ride and do our thing, and then come back on Sunday. This way, we would have a sleeper where she could actually work, keep working on on the road, and then she we'd have a place of sleep. Uh, she could sleep when we're going down there and everything. Yeah, and I like I said, she she did not flat out say that's stupid, so that's why I think that maybe she's on the same page. That's positive. Yeah, he's not he's not a hundred percent married yet. So he hasn't he has been married, yeah, but his his new wife is pretty cool. I think that I think that if he went there with this idea, he could probably sell her on it. She's pretty cool. Well, yeah, I know she's pretty cool. I I know I could. I mean I've sold her on a few ideas, another damn tractor setting in the yard, you know what I'm saying? Um but uh yeah, no, it's it and what's out there for even for toters that you can live in, yeah, you know, is still cheaper than a pickup. Right. I I I'm familiar with it from the racing scene, you know, doing the dirt track racing and that. And you get a lot of the you know, Ross up here with their deal, Johnny, yeah. Johnny sat off out of Beatrice, you know, those guys they show up with a freight liner stretched out and it's got a living quarter in the front, and then they they pull a pull a car hauler behind it, you know, a trailer behind it. And yeah, none of them have CDLs because they just put RV use on the side of it. As long as you can sleep in it, it's an RV. Yeah, you know, you can as long as you can it's got a bathroom, it's gotta have be livable. Right. A semi doesn't count. Well, some of them do now. Hell, most of them their sleepers are pretty damn nice, but you put RV use and you don't have a commercial deal, you're pretty much free to go. Yeah, you don't have to have a CDL. I mean, as long you're not using it to make money, so you wouldn't need a CDL for anything. And let's face it, you put a good size fifth wheel behind it, throw a car on the back of it, and a couple of bikes, you're not pulling 40,000 pounds down the road, you're not gonna work that thing at all. Yeah, see, and and what's nice is then I we could we could get out of trying to because you know this a toy hauler costs so much more money than a regular camper, sure, and they have really nice campers, and we could switch over to a regular camper because then our garage would be on the back of the semi, and then we'd have a nice, you know, nice camper to sleep in and everything, you know, take the kids and all kinds of shit. So I personally I think it's a great idea. Does my wife let's just say she didn't say I was an idiot. There was there was not a definite no. That's you know what, and when you're a man, that means as long as they don't say no, yeah, it's kind of a right to right up until they say that no that famous saying from Dumb and Dumber. So you're saying there's a chance. Yep, exactly. Even if it's point zero zero zero zero one, you're saying there's a chance. So this means if I come home with it and you're mad, it was no. Yeah, you know, that's usually how I explore my roads. That is how I I'm an idiot. I always wait till I get permission. He's like, I'm just gonna go do it and then ask for forgiveness. Yep, it she can only be mad for so long. Well, yeah, there hasn't been too many she's been mad about, but at some point when it when the garage had four motorcycles in it, she was getting a little pissed off. At some point, you regain your useful or your need, they have a need for you at some point, so then it's okay, yeah. Yeah, um, yeah. Well, yeah, I can't say anything. I got three antique tractors in my yard, two motorcycles, yeah, you know, yeah, and you can't run all of those at one time. Yeah, his wife, his soon-to-be wife is pretty cool. She's I dig her, and in in all honesty, it it's hard to find. Well, like we like Brooke, too. It's hard to hang out with couples where everybody gets along, yeah. Because usually there's an asshat or a bitch or something like that. But yeah, I I dig his old lady and I dig Brooke, and so you know, it's it's hard to find them kind of relationships, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, and it's you know, and Brooke Brooke always enjoys hanging out with you two, also, because there's never any drama. Yeah, it's always just a good time, and we sit and we have fun, and yeah, there's always a campfire involved. Yeah, good food, some drinks, drinks, yeah. We just we always have a good time, good conversations. Yeah, so like you said, that's that's the other thing is no drama. We we we've had friends where it was nothing but drama, yeah. And it's like with you, like you said, you guys, it's just like we sit around the campfire and eat and drink, and yeah, we'll like those times we come up. Yeah, you know, we'll come up yeah, as midnight, it's like, oh wow, oh wow, that went quick, you know. It just it's we get we you get to bullshitting about stuff you like to do, and as long as everybody, you know, everybody we all like to do the same thing, so yeah, right. He's going to sturge us this year. Did you know that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, we're doing some pre-planning now. Now that the now that the knee's pretty much out of the way for her. Yeah, she had a new knee put in about a month ago. Yeah, so she'll be ready to go by August. Oh, yeah, yeah. I well, it's supposed to be halfway decent Sunday. So well, maybe I'll jump on the bike for a while. Yeah. I said, maybe we'll figure out how to get you on it. No, not yet. Yeah. I went went over to my uncle's house yesterday and uh he had bought a trike. He he f he went in for back surgery because his one leg kept going dead. And so went in and had back surgery. He's in worse condition after that back surgery. You told me that that's bad yesterday when I was over there. He was walking so slow with a walker, and and uh I I was telling, you know, this surgery was in December. Yeah, I remember. And I'm like, so what are the doctors saying? He's been going to doctors in Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk, Columbus, and they've been doing MRIs, they've been doing CAT scans, they've been n uh checking all his nerves through his spine to make sure that that's good. Uh he thought maybe a hip surgery, and they checked that out. They said, no, everything looks great, and they're still trying to track everything down. He's like he's still going dead, yeah, yep. And he's he's moving a lot slower than he did before the surgery. He's in a lot worse condition than before the surgery. Ask him how I'm walking right now. Yeah, yeah. So uh, yeah, it was a it was sad to see it. God, that sucks because it makes a guy feel worthless. When we were talking last night, I was like, So is that bike out in the garage bugging you? And he goes, It's been on the battery tender all winter. And he says, That tender staying on there until I can ride it. God, I wish I knew. Oh, God, that sucks. So uh I know he's itching to get out on the bike, but uh he doesn't even drive right now because he ran into the fridge in his garage. He's got a fridge up against the wall. Oh, yeah. You know, just as you pull into the garage, the fridge would be at the front end of the vehicle, and he ended up hitting that fridge and pushing it into the wall because his leg went dead and he couldn't hit the brake. And he said, you know, luckily I wasn't in a school zone where kids were crossing the street or something. He goes, That was an eye-opener to me, and I don't want to drive and end up hitting somebody and hurting a little kid or hurting a family or so it's his right leg? Is that the one going dead? Uh yeah. Because I I mean I drive with one foot, so I that's yeah, his right leg. Gosh dang. And it was after the surgery that it that got worse. And they kept telling him, well, it's because of the surgery, and you're progressively gonna get better. He's progressively getting worse. Worse. Yeah. So and there's no other surgery. Now they're they're gonna check his head now and see if something's wrong in the brain that's affecting his coordination. Because I mean, they've searched all options and everything's looking great. So now they're gonna go through and do a brain scan and see if is there something going on in the brain. Hopefully it's not a tumor in his brain or something, you know. But uh, but it's just weird that the chain of events, yeah, you know, yeah. So because what surgery his surgery didn't they just go in and kind of do what they'd done to me is cleaned up around uh right, yeah. They took scar tissue out, took carpet, etc. I did I never got better after that surgery either. But I'm not gonna say I got worse, but I never got better. It wasn't something to help me tremendously. And as a matter of fact, the day that I went into the ER, I was supposed to be getting the stimulator put on. Yeah, and so that now the stimulator, they said I had to wait a month after that infection. Yep, and so now I gotta wait to get the stimulator. And in all honesty, before before I got sick, I was like, God, I don't know if the stimulator is gonna help or not. But for some reason, I don't know if it was because I laid in bed for so much or whatever it is, I can now focus on it. Is definitely pain going down my right, it not so much down my right leg, but right in my top of my hip area. Yeah, extremely painful. And I can't hardly walk, I can't walk without a walker around the shop here now. Yeah, I got one or three wheels on it, you know. And but I'm hoping that when they put that stimulator on, that'll take that pain away, then I can be a human again. My sister's had great success with it. My sister has a stimulator in her back, and uh she's had really good success with it. So uh hopefully it's the same for you. Yeah, yeah, that just makes me because I know your uncle, he's he's such a he he's a very social guy. Yeah, he's a uh he constantly has to be doing something and for his neighbors and everything else. Yeah, and now he's been stuck in his house. God drive you in and say the the old lady her her brother is in fact, I think, next month for like his fifth back surgery. And he came in and visit her, visit her the well the day she was supposed well the day she was supposed to come home and they kept her longer. Anyway, so he had stopped by the house and we missed him, and he came to the hospital and and he said the same thing. He said, I I just feel useless. You know, I keep going in for these surgeries and I can't, you know, there's no nothing's nothing's working. He said, It just makes you feel useless. He said, I can't I can't have a job, I can't, you know. He's I see and we're you know, my back, because I have such bad arthritis, that fused all my it fused all by itself, you know. And I my worry is that because when they fuse when you go to the hospital and they fuse you, they put it together in a straight line. Yeah, yeah. Whereas mine, you I've got one that's kind of cooked, kind of crooked a little bit. And so I'm worried that's where my problem is, and I don't know that they can fix that. That's you know, that's where I'm at. See, and that's like with my mom, she's got lower back problems, and now they are actually giving her medication, it's a new treatment to fuse her spine in that bad place. Yeah, really. She's getting injections, and then there's a medication, and it'll it'll cause it to do it on its own. I don't quite understand it. And and you know, mom's 86, yeah. And I don't think, you know, I mean, let's face it, it's it's a new a new procedure. And but she doesn't understand it either. Yeah, but that's the gist of the conversations that I've gotten out of it is that they're trying to actually fuse some. Well, it just it's and like you said, you're I the last time my wife went to the doctor with me the last time because she says that I don't ask the questions, and the one that none of us do the one thing that my wife has been asking for three or four years, would you get a handicapped uh thing to hang from your mirror? No, why not? I said, come on. I said, I'm I'm not old, and I I can she goes, you need to get one. I said, Well, if you want one, then you're coming to the doctor with me to ask. And so she did, and we got a handicapped thing hanging in my truck now, and or if she's driving, which she likes, it's in her car because then she can park in the handicap. But uh um uh when we was there, I I asked, I said, Do you think that I should look into going on disability? And the doctor says, well, he says, if anybody should, it should be you. He says, but just so you know, it's always a dogfight to get it taken care of and all that bullshit. So I don't know. I haven't quite pursued it. Well, in a former relationship. Um living with a girl anyway, she ended up with breast cancer and it metastasized into uh uh intestinal cancer. So she had two years of back-to-back chemotherapy, which basically or two rounds of back-to-back chemotherapy, which basically, you know, there's chemobrain those drugs are hard on people. You know what I mean? It's it's it's brutal. And she applied for disability the first time and got denied, and she had to get an attorney. Yeah, that's what my doctor said. He said you gotta get a lawyer. Yeah, and he, you know, and it still took if I remember right, six or seven months. Yeah. And you know, I mean, and the guy did his job, he did everything he did, and he took a certain amount of the back disability that she got, and it wasn't, you know, like a criminal amount. Yeah, but yeah, most people that do it, they it takes at least two times. You know, if you if you don't get an attorney the first time on your own, the second time you you get an attorney. But you didn't I feel I don't I haven't pursued it because I already feel worthless enough, whereas I'm moving so much slower than what I should, I can't do a lot of what I used to be able to do, so you you feel kind of worthless. But I don't know. I just haven't pursued it because I don't want to be that guy, you know. So anywho, we've been talking for about an hour and a half, I guess. Anything else you want to talk about? No, um, we covered quite a bit in an hour and a half. We covered our covered the exciting month that we've had here. Yeah. And you know, all right. Well, another another Vegas trip in the books. Yeah. We uh for a long time. So next time we meet, he'll have gone to Vegas again. Next time I go is let me look. Let me look. We've already got it booked. I've already got it booked. They've got the players, they're they'll have the player suite ready. Uh in November. November. Oh, geez. No, he's going, he'll end up going before then. Uh Brooke said the same thing. Um November is the F1 race. Oh, that I would like to see. I like to go out there for that. And the I already booked the room because there's a new hotel opening up, and it right now you can book it. And you know, so I got a room with a strip view. Oh, you see your room and watch it. Oh, watch it. That'd be awesome. Oh, that'd be awesome. That would be awesome. Yeah, and a lot cheaper. Yeah. You know, sit up there, go buy some beer over at the CVS and sit up there and watch it, and then you can have it playing on the TV in the room, too, to where you can see the room. Yeah, when the cars are out of the side, you can sit up and just see in the one second where they go. They're going 200 and some miles an hour down the bank of streets. That's crazy, ain't it? Yeah. I want to go. They say that they weld them caps down the manhole covers. Yeah. They weld them down, otherwise they'd suck them off as they went over them. Yeah. Yeah. That's what happened the first year. Yeah, I think you're the one that told me that, yeah. Yep. I think our big my dad's big adventure besides Sturgis is we're gonna try to figure out how to go out to her sisters. Her sister California? No, New York. New York, New York, New York. And I if she's been to New York, she's been to New York two or three times, and so I'm not, you know, she kind of knows her way around and and her sisters live there forever. But her sister and her husband live on the route for they their brownstone is on the route for the New York marathon. Oh, yeah, you told me that. Yeah, and I'm not a marathon guy. I mean, I'm a big guy. I don't run except for from danger. Yeah. To dinner and from danger. Yeah. You know, let's put it in. Into the bathroom. Yeah, into the bathroom. Um, but I guess like they get together and it's like a whole block party, and it's a big deal to do to yeah, to for this thing. Yeah. You know, it might be something to go see, and plus I've never been to New York, and yeah, it'd be I it's probably that'd be the biggest city I've ever been to. I would yeah, I wasn't a big fan of New York. Yeah, you know. Any bit of the state. I've been to New York City and I've been through all of New York state. Yeah, and I wasn't a fan of any of it. I've never been I think you know, before Yeah, it's different. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely something to experience. Before I die, you know, I'll say, hey, I've been there. Um yeah, I I I have absolutely zero desire to go to the West Coast. Yeah, I except for I just wish I wish it wasn't randomly, because it's so beautiful out there. I wish I'd like to look at it. I spent a lot of time going up and down that coast, and there is beautiful area out there, but uh Brooke wants to go out there really bad. She's like, Well, I want to go to California. I went, no, no, get out, get out, Brooke, get out. Whitney was doing that the other day, and I tried to catch it. I tried to video record it so that we could play it. But yeah, that's that's gonna be I've never been to Vegas. Yeah, you know, me neither, and that's something to experience. Everybody should experience that because it's just it even if you aren't a gambler, there's just so much to do out there because you got all these different shows, you got just even just walking around everything, walking around, yeah, just taking it in. I mean, when we went out there, we didn't gamble a whole lot, but we just took in everything. I wanted to show him so many different things and and go to some shows and do the fair big Ferris wheel up there at the top, you're at 550 feet. Oh, fuck that me, man. And uh, you know, show him Fremont Street and all the people that are around there, and and so he had a great trip, and I asked him at the end of it, I was like, So did you have fun? And he goes, Oh yeah, that's good. He goes, This was this was definitely a fun trip. He's like, Thank you for inviting me on this. This was so much fun. So it was pretty cool to get that room with a pool table. Yeah, that would be cool. Let's start out of a movie. Pretty cool, but you know, I I really schmoozed my my host out there the last time I was there, and uh took him out for dinner. And I'm like, you know, I've been winning some money, uh I'm doing good, and so take him out for a dinner, and and it was a nice like Japanese steakhouse type thing. Yeah, yeah, it was really good, really good. But uh it was something he recommended, and that's what I wanted to do, you know. So what's what do you like? What's good that I haven't tried yet? And uh so we went to this Japanese steakhouse and it it was it was amazing, it was a very good recommendation. But uh as we were sitting there eating, I'm like, so I'll bring in my nephew, huh? What can you do for me? But and it helped that we went we went out there on a Saturday and flew back on Wednesday, so it's not like we were out there over a weekend, you know, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and flying back because it's a little harder to get those type of rooms. Right. But during the week it's a little bit easier. So but uh we did we we had fun. I was watching them build the hard rock out there. I was I was just kind of in a daze watching that from our room because we had like front row seats watching them with the big cranes on the very top of the building, lifting these big steel beams up to these guys and them getting them just in the right place and then start welding on them and getting them welded in, and then boom, the next one. And speaking of which, you know Jason Prodock. Yeah, you know what his job is, right? Yeah, he's up there on the top of that building in Omaha. And yeah, and Sarah and I was starting because this will make sense when I'm done. Y'all, you guys will 100%, but you know, like he said, you get all the way up there, there's no bathroom up there. Uh-uh. And he says they got buckets and stuff like that, but they have no bathrooms or anything like that, and he's running that crane all the way up there. That's what I it's what seriously, when Sarah said there's no bathrooms. I couldn't do it because everybody below me. It's just like you think to yourself, what happens on days like that where it's like, ah man, my stomach's not the brain is right. I got I gotta run. Yeah, you definitely have to just call into work. You don't have to, man. You know, and he'd hate to do it because it's like, fuck, I know I could go and do my job, but yeah, you know, well, and then think what they get paid. That's a there's a ass load of responsibility. I guess he kind of risk. Yeah, yeah, I guess he kind of fell into that job because he had him and his wife and kids were trying to move a big gun safe or something like that, and it fell and broke his arm, and so his normal job he couldn't do, and so then he started taking these classes to run a crane, and that's how he got he kind of you know. So he's a pretty good guy. Yeah, I remember that when he broke his arm. Yeah, take something bad, turn it into something good. Yeah, he but you know what that is. That guy, I don't know if you know that. I don't know how well you know him, and you obviously don't know him. I don't know him at all. He's about the most positive person you could ever imagine. And and he's been through some his son committed suicide, and and he battled it, and he's I think he still silently battles it, you know. But he every time you talk to him, he's got something positive going on. He he doesn't talk bad about people, he's just a good guy. Even when that article came out, yeah, you know, he personally made a post on Facebook saying, I'm not the only one that does that job up there. There are all these other guys, and and they're it's not just me, and they really put the spotlight on him. Yeah, you know, and he's like, I can't take all the credit for that. It's not just me. He's just a good guy, and he lost his brother last week. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, yeah, and but he he had cancer, I think. His brother did, yeah. I I think maybe Sarah said something like that. Yeah, I think he had cancer. But uh he's he's a good guy, and then there's that that whole Pro Rock family, they're they're a good family. I know quite a few of them. Well, well, I'm not gonna go all the way. The ones I know. Okay, you know, they're they're all let's put it this way. I like Jason and and uh I don't Jason is the one I know mostly. Yeah. Um, but he's his brothers have dealt with the law, and one of his brothers actually I had a bunch of stuff stored out at my in-law's farm in a quantit, and it was before my brother-in-law built there, it was quite a few years ago, and his brother broke in and stole a bunch of stuff from me in that quantit. And so yeah, but I I would never hold that against Jason because Jason didn't do it, yeah. So but I I've always liked Jason. Jason was also an MMA fighter, how do you say that? Yeah, MMA fighter. Yeah, MMA fighter, yeah. Yeah, and he done really well. Oh, yeah. And he got in, he was older when he got into it. He does Polish Pounder. Yep, yep, the Polish pounder. We sold his t-shirts at the bar, yeah. But he was a good fighter, too. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, that just shows you're you know, you're not you're not gonna succumb to things. You need to, you know. Yeah, he's a good guy. So anyway, I I did want to say that I did invite Tyler to come in tonight and sit in, but his wife was gonna go out for supper with her sister. It was the last second thing. I just I happened to wake up today and I thought, you know, maybe Tyler would want to sit in tonight. Yeah, so it was nice to see him again. Yeah, it would. I haven't seen him in a long time, but uh his wife was going out for supper with her sister, and he said he couldn't make it. So hopefully in the next few weeks we can get him in here for something, sit in, and that little dude, he can make you laugh. He'll make you laugh. So anyway, you got anything else to say, guys? No. Oh, I think we're good. All right, good. Just remember to fat guy customs. There it is. Yep. All right, send them our way. All right, the we're gonna do the what is it, the Irish goodbye? Is it just white? Or is it we're not gonna do the Midwest goodbye? No, no, all right, guys. We'll see you later. See ya. See ya.