32. Let's go cruising

Shawn and Reeve have some enlightening conversation about Cruises, Nighttime habits, and some motorcycle riding.  We hope you join us for the ride.

*Some adult language is used.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:01

Well, hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Sour Patch Hour. I am the pretend host, I guess. I'm the constant Reeve and then we got Sean. And it's just me and Sean today. We're gonna try to keep the boat upright, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 0:20

Keep it, keep it floating.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Yeah. Keep the whatever they got the what? Some type of what are they calling it? That the people are dying on that cruise ship. They're sending them off to another little island somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 0:37

I just seen today there was a flight attendant that tested positive for it too. No shit. Different country. But uh how many people are they gonna lock us down again? It's gonna end up being another coronavirus. You think so? Watch. But you gotta have something cycle through every couple years.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

Now because an election's coming up. Yeah. So they'll lock it down probably about August.

SPEAKER_05 1:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

So yeah. It's I'm so tired of it. Uh I can't even express how tired I am of the bullshit. Yeah. I wish I wish we everybody would just be adults and start trying to actually do what's good for the country and not good for the party. Right. I'm just so tired of it. I wish that we had more than two parties. I wish that we actually had three or four parties that people could actually choose and be comfortable with. And but and our very first president said a two-party system will kill you, and that's what's happening. Yeah. It is tearing this country apart.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

It is.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

So anywho, that's that's my rant.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

So it's Brooks' next excuse on why not to get on a cruise ship.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Yeah. Honestly, I love cruises, and I'm at the point where I won't get on right now.

SPEAKER_05 1:57

I just I I I like cruises. I've only been on one. Have you? But and it was a short cruise. It wasn't like, you know, a 10-day cruise or anything like that. It was a three-day cruise.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

But uh still have a lot of fun in three days. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:11

Yeah, it was still fun. But I've I've tried to talk Brooke into it, and she's like, Nope, the boat will sink. And I'm like, Well, we've came a long way from the Titanic, but Tyler didn't want to ever get on a cruise either.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

He was he said that if he walks out and he can't see land, he'd freak out. So he said he'd never want to get on one.

SPEAKER_05 2:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Drag talking radio several times. Nope. Nope.

SPEAKER_05 2:34

I was lucky on mine. It was it was nice calm waters while we sailed. And so I don't know what I'd do in choppy water if I'd get seasick or big how big of a ship were you on? It it was a big one. Yeah. Honestly. It it opened my eyes when I got to the port and I was like, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_05 2:54

It was like a city on water.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Exactly. Then you get on it, and keep that in mind that even when I mean Sarah and I have been on a couple a few cruises actually, and one or two of them will pass through a storm and it's a little choppy. And there have been times where you're walking down and you all of a sudden get slammed into the wall, you know. And uh, but as long as you stay inside, you barely notice it, to be honest with you. Everything is it's so big that when it rocks, it has to rock quite a bit for it to knock you off, you know. Yeah, you know, and I'm not saying that don't happen, because it does happen.

SPEAKER_05 3:31

But yeah. Brooke and I went deep sea fishing uh off of uh Key West one time, and I was having a blast. I was catching fish, we were we were having a good time. She was not, she was in the bathroom, puke in the whole time. I'm like, honey, I caught another fish. Wow. But yeah, so sh she gets seasick pretty easy, but they make medicine for that.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Yeah, they put well my kids, if I remember right, maybe Sarah just took it just in case, but they have a little patch put behind your ear and it works really well. No, really dramamine or something. I think or something like that.

SPEAKER_05 4:11

Yeah, I told her, you know, they have that in a pill form too. I said, Take take a couple of those before you get on there. If you're worried about being seasick, ah, I won't get seasick. Yeah, and then she's so fair skinned too that she just fried out there. I ri I remember we went to dinner that night, and she she couldn't even smile or raise her eyebrows because her skin was so tight that it just hurt to move. Wow. And then we we flew into I think it was Clearwater, Florida, and then drove down into the Keys. And uh we ended up you know driving back to Clearwater to fly back out and stayed there, you know, overnight and then got on a flight the next morning. That night she couldn't even sleep. And that was two or three days after our fishing adventure.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Really?

SPEAKER_05 5:06

And uh she couldn't even sleep that night. She had blisters on her cheeks, on her forehead, and I felt sorry for the girl.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

But if I burned, you know, because I got I don't have a forehead anymore, I have like a seven head. Yeah. So like right along my hair, I get blisters up in here, and then on my shoulders, I'll blisters still. That's something that when I was a kid, we'd go, my you you you've heard me say I used to have a cabin on the Missouri, you know, by Lynch. Well, my uncle had one there for years and years and years. That's how I knew about it. And so we'd always have a family reunion up there, and every year I would fry, kind of like kind of like Brooke. I mean, I was red lobster, and honestly, you my mom, when we'd get back home, she'd put vinegar all over my back and everywhere, and it took the sting out of it, and I got over it pretty quick that way. I smelt like a pickle, yeah, but it took the sting out of everything. Huh. Yeah, but yeah, I had great big blisters on my back. And so I I kind of with Elizabeth, you know, because she went through that melanoma, and so it kind of scares me that I'm gonna get skin cancer one of these days because I blistered up. I every year I'd blister out. And like I said, sometimes if if I if I wear a bandana and I don't wear a helmet or a hat on my head while I'm riding, I will burn right there and I'll blister up almost every time.

SPEAKER_05 6:32

I I do that too when I ride and I I've blistered it. You start losing hair, you you burn your head a little bit easier.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

You realize how much hair's gone when you start blistering.

SPEAKER_05 6:43

But and then the shower just stings. God, that hurts. Yeah. I I did one trip up to Sturgis where I I uh had a mohawk and it it stood off my head like a couple feet. It was two foot, I think, tall. And uh on the way up there, riding without a helmet, it felt like somebody just had a fistful of hair and was trying to pull it out of my skull. And so I kept the mohawk while I was up there, and I had some friends that lived in Rapid City at the time, and I stayed at their house the last night I was there, and I told his wife, just shave this off. I am not riding back with this. It was a really strong hair gel. Yeah, it was my nephew, maybe called glue or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Well, my nephew, he when he was younger, he had a mohawk and he just used glue. Yeah, and yeah, just Elmer's glue, and you just wash it back out.

SPEAKER_05 7:39

Yeah. It's water soluble, I guess. Yeah. But uh so she she shaved my head, and I rode back not thinking about I have a freshly solved uh shaved head. And uh I got I got about halfway through the trip and I was like, God, my freaking skull hurts. And the sun was, you know, I'd get in the shade and it'd feel good, but once the sun hit it, it was just like, man, I feel like my head's on fire. I'm sunburnt. Well, it was sunburnt and windburnt.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:15

And uh by the time I got home, I mean, it was just beat red. I I could not stand under the shower head for a couple days. I I had to keep my head away from the shower head because just that those droplets of water hurt so damn bad. But uh yeah, that was a lesson learned.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:35

So so yeah, now I put a beanie on or put I kind of look ridiculous in the middle of summer with a beanie on, but it's like, hey, I'm I'm with you. I'm protecting my freaking head.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Yep, I'm with you. I that's why I usually I wear a top hat or some type of hat.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

If not, then I'll wear a bandana that covers my head, otherwise I burn way too fucking easy.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

And that's you know, a person that has tattoos on his arms and you know, sleeves, you should always cover them up when you're riding because well, the reason we're doing this cover-up on this arm is because the sun fade. Oh, geez, and it was bad. You couldn't even see what it was anymore. Yeah, and so Matt has been gone through and he's I don't know. I've have I showed you this tattoo since this have I? Yeah, so he's doing a pretty good job for what he had to work with, so I'm pretty happy with it so far.

SPEAKER_05 9:28

He does good work, yeah. I've seen a lot of his work, and it's it's always very he he knows what he's doing.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

He's yeah uh when he was younger, when he was younger, you know, I've known him for quite a few years. And when he was younger, I owned the bar, and at that time he wanted to be a rock star, and so he didn't really give attention to his craft, but when he decided that hey, I've got a family and I I don't want to be so much I want to play music, but I want to be an artist now. Yeah, and when he done when you turned that corner, man, his work is amazing. And then he teamed up with Dano, yeah, and they Dano taught him some things, and I think he taught Dano some things, and them two guys together, they're rocking it, man.

SPEAKER_05 10:11

They are. I've seen a lot of their social media stuff, and yeah, and uh it it's very detailed artwork, it's nice.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

I was talking I was talking to Matt one time about he says it's to run social media like on TikTok and Instagram and all it takes almost a full-time person to do that because you gotta edit everything you do, and that's I'm kind of hoping Ben does that for me this summer, you know. Like I said, I'm I'm gonna run uh uh that camera, we're gonna do lives with that, and this is gonna go video, you know, with him. So and Ben really isn't a big social media person, he doesn't he really doesn't if I if he has a Facebook, he has never posted anything on it. Yeah, he he I think the only reason he has them is so that he can just look at stuff, but I uh I can almost say that I I don't think he has ever posted anything out there, and you want to know why? And I don't know if he's serious or or if he he's just using the excuse, but he has literally looked at me and said, I'd like to run for president one day. And he, you know, that if you're that young thinking about what you're throwing out there, yeah, maybe he has a shot. You know I I told him up front, I said, I won't vote you for you if you you you keep thinking the way you're thinking now. So he voted for uh the witch this last time. Oh he did. I told him I was pretty pissed off when I said, I hate that I sent you to college because before he went to college, him and I were kind of on the same page. Yeah, he was at college for three fucking months before he voted and he voted for the witch, and I'm like, What in the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

So it's it's just wait until Whitney gets old enough and you think that you're on the same page, and it just takes that boy, or it'll take that friend that they just gotta say a few words and they'll just take them in a whole nother direction, and you're like, We had a discussion about this. What are you doing? But the friend or the boyfriend or something. They know better, you know, yeah, yeah. And Ben, I I honestly he don't have a girl or nothing like that. He didn't do it to impress a girl, he did it because I kind of he it was a professor there, got in his ear, and obviously a professor will know as knows more than the guy that actually lives a life, right? So anyway, I was pretty pissed off.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Well, Whitney had her first adventure of uh going to the zoo this weekend with a friend.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 12:55

Without mom and dad. No, mom and dad took her and her friend.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_05 13:00

And uh it was kind of nice. Her her friend Emmy is a little older. Uh she's six or seven years old. And but she had she had a younger sibling, the same age as Whitney, and and she lost him. Uh he he ended up passing away, and and Whitney has kind of taken his place for her emotional support. She has rough days yet. She found her brother, passed away.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Oh, oh yeah, you told me that. I think you told me that story.

SPEAKER_05 13:33

Yeah, and it's it's sad, sad deal for a kid that age to find a uh sibling like that or anybody. I don't remember what it was. He he had uh um what do you call it? No, I can't remember. But he didn't he he didn't like to go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

Oh, so he got septic or something?

SPEAKER_05 13:57

Yeah, he so he kept holding it in, holding it in, and then overnight passed away one night and they shared a bedroom. Well, she woke up in the morning and couldn't wake her brother up. And yeah. So he was uh uh autistic. Yeah, very autistic and for some reason just didn't like to go to the bathroom. And so that's too bad. So yeah, it's a sad deal, but but she uh Brooke even said, Wow, this is what it'd be like to have an older sibling for her, you know, because that girl would hold her hand and take her around and make sure that she was biased and she was playing with her and making sure, you know, this and this and this. It just made things ten times easier on Brooke and I. And uh yeah, it was it was nice, it was a nice trip. Shit, we s I think we spent five hours at the zoo.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

Oh my god, I'd go insane. I don't know, I don't do zoos.

SPEAKER_05 14:58

But we we had a lot of fun, uh and like I said, that was her first time taking a friend with her, and so it was it was entertaining to see how she interacted and how different she was versus going with mom or going with dad. So it was fun. But she she did a uh uh they had that deal over at um uh pizza ranch last weekend. No, and it was like dinosaurs.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Didn't you go last year? And you you or was it robots last year that you're gonna be?

SPEAKER_05 15:33

Robots, I think it was.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

And it you were very disappointed in what it was, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:38

And so my my mom watched her that day. She she told me that was on Friday last week. My mom said, Make sure you bring Whitney on Friday. And normally grandpa watches her on Fridays, and uh and it just it worked out perfect, where yeah, he was busy and and my mom was available. So my mom said, This is what I want to do with her. I want to take her to this dinosaur deal. I guess she just had a blast over there.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

Well good.

SPEAKER_05 16:05

So what was it?

SPEAKER_02 16:06

I guess was it I don't really people walking around like they were dinosaurs, is that what it was?

SPEAKER_05 16:11

No, it it I think it was like robot dinosaur. No chance. But I called, I called my mom. It was kind of windy and cold last Friday, and uh I called my mom once I got back to town from uh working out of town, and I said, Hey, I got back a little bit early. What time are you guys gonna go down there? And she's like, We're here now, and Whitney's out dancing with a bunch of kids, and they must add music playing and stuff and a little dance floor. But she said, I think we're gonna take off here pretty soon because uh I can tell Whitney's cold, she won't admit it, but I can tell she's cold.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

And she was having too much fun.

SPEAKER_05 16:49

Yeah, she didn't want to leave. But as soon as she got in grandma's car, uh it was I don't think my mom even made it four blocks away from there, and she's passed out in the back.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Too much to drink. How's your mom feeling?

SPEAKER_05 17:03

She's doing good. Uh she she's been asking me to bring Whitney over more. Uh, you know, she she used to watch her quite a bit for me while I'd work. And then when she got sick, uh, you know, her energy levels were down, she just didn't feel up to it, and plus she had IVs running in her and everything else at home.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 17:24

And so she was afraid Whitney would want to crawl up on her like kids do and then rip one of them out, or and so she says, you know, just keep her away for a while and let me get better. Well, that's been since Thanksgiving, and now now my mom's saying, Bring her every day if you want. It gives me something to do, it it helps me, it gets my mind off of everything.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

It gives you a reason to be awake, you know.

SPEAKER_05 17:48

Yeah, yeah. And so uh so that's nice because you know, it's it it stinks when I can only work four days out of the week instead of five, or work three days, and so so it's nice to have that backup plan again. And she enjoys it, you know. Yeah, and and Whitney enjoys it. She she loves going to grandma's house. Grandma has all the cool toys. So yeah. But they find something fun to do. They were gonna go out to the Horn Tea Zoo uh yesterday, but it's closed.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

Is it because they're working on the road?

SPEAKER_05 18:27

I I don't I think something's going on at that zoo because they said I looked on their Facebook and it says they're gonna be open the month of June, and then they're closed again until fall.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

It probably costs a lot to do that. I mean, not sure, yeah. So I but like you said, they've always they're almost always in the past been open all summer, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_05 18:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

Maybe is what they're doing is they've they know their business, but all I can think of is being open every weekend like they have been. Maybe what they're trying to do is they had a few people come in, and now what they're trying to do is make it so that they have a bigger crowd all at once all at once, and then they can take care of them, and then if you know if you're only open that that happens that way, you know. That might be a smart business plan.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

Might be. So I guess yeah, I I know Whitney was looking forward to going to the zoo.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Yeah, she likes the zoo.

SPEAKER_05 19:21

Yeah, she loves animals. But over there, I think you can pet them and they got a little petting zoo area or something.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

I've never been there.

SPEAKER_05 19:30

I've never been there either.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

But uh we drive by it, you know, because that's on our way to our camper, you know, which there's a story behind that. Um, but so yeah, there's it's almost always open when we go over there. So like I said, maybe they know their business plan, and maybe that's they're just trying to get more people at once, make it worth their while being open. Yeah. We uh you know, we take our camper over to Silver Creek every year. Well, we have since uh whatever that first year I got my hips done. Yeah, you know. Well it was it was sold last year and somebody bought it the location. And we had no real big issues with them last year. Well, then they they do everything via Facebook, try to communicate people via Facebook, and they posted a according to Sarah, because I didn't see it, but they kind of posted a map of what what spots were open and what spots were taken. Well, they had our spot as an open spot, and Sarah got a hold of them right away and say, No, no, I have a contract that says that is my spot. And they they basically said, Okay, yeah, like okay, it's your spot. Well, then we got they put out a notice that they were gonna dredge, they have a little lake there, you know, and it's it's an old sand pit, you know, so they were gonna dredge it out and make it you know nicer and stuff like that. Well, there's a I'm not for sure what creek it is. There's a creek that the Silver Creek. I don't know, you know, I don't know, but they decided, I guess, that I didn't we didn't we was not notified that they dredged all that too. Well, that was right behind our camper. Well, and have you ever been over to my camper? Okay, so right behind our camper is like they they said they were gonna dredge beachfront property. Well, we don't have beachfront, we got this little creek behind us. So then Sarah Sarah just had a weird feeling, and so she drove over there and she gets there and goes, We have a problem. They had not only dredged behind, and we couldn't put put our camper there yet, because we were gonna take our camper over there, but they took about 20 foot out of our camping area, you know. Oh, and I got a 40 foot camper, yeah. And so I said that I said, I'm sure we could park there. I said, but they better not bitch at us when we got to park in the circle that they don't want nobody to park in because they take it off. My camping spot away, you know.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Well, every week there's something new as to why we can't take bring it bring your camper and we we paid from April 1st till November 1st. That's kind of what our contract. I mean, we can leave it sit there all year round if we want to, but that's kind of the yeah, we still are unable to take our camper over there because they don't have it finished yet. And so Sarah was talking to a gal, the gal was real nice, and Sarah, like Sarah said, we understand that this person was the go-between, and she can't make any decisions, and we weren't asking her to. We just wanted to be informed on what the hell was going on. Yeah. Well, this this gal ghosted Sarah. Just quit talking to Sarah. So Sarah dug around and found an email to the owner. Instead of an email to the owner, and basically said, This is a shit show. You know, she didn't really say it that way, but yeah, she said it wasn't not very long after that. The gal starts texting her again. Oh, I'm sorry, I missed your two messages, and I can't believe I didn't see them. Or you know, gave her a big long story.

SPEAKER_05 23:09

Well, damn it, I gotta deal with this lady again.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Basically, yeah, and Sarah says, So she got a hold of her yesterday, and Sarah says, So can we bring our camper over then? Well, no, it's not quite done yet. It's supposed to be done on the like next weekend. What is yeah, it'd be next weekend, not this coming one, but the everything's supposed to be done by then. And Sarah says, What's the insurance on this? Because I was also told it was supposed to be done two weeks ago, and I've paid since, you know. And the woman, the gal goes, I'll make sure that it is done, so you get your camper over here. All right, we'll see, you know.

SPEAKER_05 23:45

So did she ask her about the parking?

SPEAKER_02 23:47

When in Sarah's email to the owner, Sarah said, Not only have you done this to us, because we don't and we weren't informed, but you guys took 20 foot out of our camping spot. So if we got a park, there better not be any complaints about us where we have to park. And there was nothing brought up after that. You know, he didn't say nothing back to her about it, but he did.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

You get a little less of a rate, too, don't you?

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Well, see, that hasn't been brought up yet.

SPEAKER_05 24:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Um, we're gonna wait till our camper's sitting there and then we're gonna bring it up and say, look, what do you how are you gonna make this right with us? Because we were unable to be here from April 1st because of you, not because of us.

SPEAKER_05 24:24

Right. And now your camping spot's smaller too.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Exactly. And so we're the guy in Sarah, was it today or was it yesterday? One of the days my days are getting together, but he sent her an email apologizing kind of, I guess, but the the uh part about money hasn't come up yet. Yeah, so Sarah says, Well, we'll get our camper over there and then we'll have the conversation. So I wish there was other camping spots around here that was a little bit clear. We liked we don't they charge too much for that location for what it is, but we like it because we can still say we're camping and we can ride our bikes there, and we can both go to work from there. We we got to the point last summer where we go there on Friday night and then leave for work on Monday morning, and so it worked out really well, and we would like to do that again, but if we were any further away, it wouldn't work. So that's that's the only reason we like that spot.

SPEAKER_05 25:25

I drove past that uh that campground, what was it, two weeks ago. Drove past there, and I was like, oh, that's what we're leaving.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Yeah, it's it's I mean, for what it is, it's all right. I mean, for what we pay, we I mean, if we if we didn't want to leave on a Monday morning to go to work, you know, we could go closer to Omaha, like Blair up in that area and get a nicer spot right for probably cheaper, to be honest with you, but because of the location is what we like about it. Yeah, I really, you know me, and I'm not a huge camper. I I I only do it because my wife loves it and I want to make her happy, so I go and I enjoy I'm not saying I hate it. But I would I would do other things if I could. But um last summer I kind of got into it. It was like leave work on Friday night, drive over there, hang out all weekend, get up Monday morning, come to work. I mean, it actually was pretty nice to kind of say it kind of second home, you know. Yeah, so I kind of ended up liking it last year.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

That's what I wanted to do with our camper was get a spot out in Blair at Cottonwood Marina. Because every weekend they had bands out there, they got a restaurant, they got a bar, they got pools, they've they've got uh Wi-Fi out there if you want to go out there and work, uh, plus your TVs will work out there if you just want to spend a day inside your camper and chill out if it's you know 110 degrees outside. Uh I I really wanted to get a spot out there, and then it just never came up, you know. The the couple of spots that I found were just outrageously priced.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Are they?

SPEAKER_05 27:10

Well, but you own the land.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

Yeah, I was gonna say you own it, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:14

So you can modify it however you want and sell it when you want to move. So all in all, I mean, it's not that bad. The the yearly dues weren't crazy high uh for what you're getting. And so and it was close to our house. Yeah, I mean it wasn't that far away from our houses like like with you, you know, it's an extra 20-minute drive to get to work or whatever, but uh it wasn't like we had to drive a couple hours.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Yeah, exactly. And see, that's the thing where we're at, they don't have a bar, they don't have a place to eat, they don't have they got a place really, they got a shower, I think, and uh and a place to wash your clothes. But and they they I'm not saying they don't try like last weekend they had a pancake feed for everybody that had a camper there, you know. Yeah, and like Sarah said in her, I think she's in her email, we would have went, but we we we can't have our camper over there yet, so we're a little pissed off, basically, you know. So but they and they they try to have like a one-man band, and it the the pavilion they do it in is just I could actually throw a rock and probably hit it from my camper.

SPEAKER_05 28:33

Yeah. So if the band sucks, you can throw a rock at them.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

But they try different things, they try bingo, they try, you know, they try to get the which I think actually is kind of cool. I think if you're gonna hang out at a campground with a bunch of people, you all should, you know, be friendly and get to know each other. And I'm the asshole that once I walk in my camper, I very seldom come back out because I don't like to eat.

SPEAKER_05 28:59

So that anyway, that's that's my yeah, we're what two two maybe three weeks out from uh Memorial Day weekend.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:10

And so I don't know if you'll want to be out there over that weekend.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Yeah, exactly. And Sarah Zara was real excited about getting it out there, and we was actually gonna get it out there that weekend. I think it was right after Easter, is what she her plan was is right after Easter we were gonna take it out there because we was Easter? I don't even remember. Was it the middle of the middle of the month or was it the first part of the month?

SPEAKER_05 29:40

It was the first part of the month, I think.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Okay, so she was gonna do it. We were gonna take it out there, but then I got sick. Yeah, and then I ended up in the hospital and everything. And so she was just kind of said, Well, when you feel better, we'll take it out there. Well, we had plans of last two weeks, it would have been the weekend after I got home from the hospital. I felt like, well, I can hook on a camper pull and it's no big deal. Yeah, she just drove over there after work, and that's where this whole thing started spinning out of control.

SPEAKER_05 30:06

So yeah, I'd be a little irritated by that too. Yeah. Hopefully they work that out right.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

I'm prorate it out or I hope they do, because it I mean, if they don't, that that's bad business if you ask me, because you can't sell something that we can't get to.

SPEAKER_05 30:23

Right. Yeah. So anything big going on here at the shop?

SPEAKER_02 30:30

Actually, no. It kind of um you know, I got that whole pile of feeder bunks out there that and we got all the we got two of the dirt movers done, and then well, let's get some of them things done because they've sat here all winter long and I never touched them. So that's he's been kind of working on those. So on I do I decided uh I could just tell that the brakes on my truck were getting worn out.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

So I stopped one morning on the way to work and bought brake pads, and then it wasn't yesterday, but it was the day day before yesterday. I thought, well, let's just do this because it literally front brakes on anything is is about a 20-minute job each side, right? Have you ever changed brakes on a vehicle? Yeah, it's like 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 31:26

Just did it this week.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Did you? And so I thought, well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna do it real quick and just get out of my hair. Well, of course, the top on each side, on each side, the top bolt would come out. You know, they got them Allen Head, you know, T whatever, you know, heads that go on there. And the top bolts come out, but then the bottom ones. We we thought that whoever done my brakes last, which we thought was Scott, and I'm pretty sure it was Scott. Yeah, I was cussing him out because we thought he put red Loctite on it. Oh, and we heated it up and we did we done everything. Finally, we ended up just taking the whole kit and caboodle off, and we we said, well, probably is what it was is that it was seized up in there, and so we just cut the bolt that was sticking to separate everything out. Uh, I think you kind of understand what I mean. And all we had to do is knock the head out one way, and then we're gonna weld a nut on the bolt and twist it out, twist it out. Well, the bolt was free. Once we cut that, the bolt was free. It wasn't locked tight, I was keeping it in. You know them heads that smooth part rides on a sleeve, yeah. It's seized up in there on both sides, and so instead of it being a 20-minute job, we had to put two new calipers on the damn truck, and yep, and so then you gotta bleed it all, and you gotta do all kinds of bullshit. So a 20-minute job turns into a day and a half job, and I was I was I was I was because I stopped and I talked to uh a buddy of mine, Jesse, and he's like, Oh god, if you don't get that out of there, we gotta cut everything apart, your spindle's gonna be shot, everything. So I and I was thinking I because I was talking to Sebastian, he's like, Well, if that all we gotta do is this and this and this. Well, then I talked to Jesse. He's like, Oh no, man, you're gonna be you're gonna cut your spindle off. You're looking at probably $1,500 aside. And I'm like, holy what what else could go wrong here? Well, so that night I wake up at 2 30 in the morning, and that's all I could think about is how am I gonna get that damn bulldogs? I don't want to spend $1,500 on my damn truck right aside. And so I didn't sleep. Well, then come in and he gave me a tool, and it was a pretty pretty badass tool where it has you you take your T-head or whatever you want to call it, you know, the Allen head looking thing. Yeah, you put it on something, on like a let's call it a uh extension, yeah. And then what you do is you put it on an air hammer, and then there's a place where you put a wrench, and you just start hammering that, and you just start turning that thought, that's gotta work, that's gotta break, because we thought it was the threads that was in there, sure, didn't budget a bit, man. Didn't didn't even it was C's, that's no god, it was bad. And so when Sebastian said, Well, let's just take these two bolts out, we'll just pop do do it's like it ended up costing me about no, not that much. Right around $300, I think. No, each side, you know, total total. Oh, it was like fuck yeah, dude. That's a lot better than three grand. No shit. So that was, and then today I thought, well, I bought brake pads for the rear, and I thought, uh crap, I let's see what trouble I'm gonna run into now. Well, those bolts came out right, and but I didn't have to put brakes on the back, so how's no, but I done the growing up thing, which I can't even remember the last time I done something like this, I rotated my tires. Oh, there you go. Uh so that I that's one thing I always forget to do is when you you know change your oil. What they say is when you change your oil, rotate your tires. Yeah, well crap, man. See, and I got these stupid aluminum rims, and you're not supposed to use an impact to put them on, you're supposed to torque them down. Well, there's freaking what eight eight lug nuts on that damn thing, and I I I used uh impact. No, no, I didn't. I torqued them down to it was 140 pounds, and I every single one of them I after I switched them, I did them. And that's a lot of work, dude. Yeah, yeah. But I did it. I I'm a growing up now.

SPEAKER_05 36:03

I I pulled a kind of a heavy trailer on uh what was it, Friday, and it was just a whole lot of building materials, and my truck seemed to do fine, and Saturday we went to go do a roof, and I'm driving to this roof and I could hear something. And I thought, what in the hell is rubbing? And I rolled the window down. I'm going through a neighborhood and I hit my brakes, and it was I'm like, Well, I wasn't doing this yesterday. Well, at least not yeah, and so I didn't drive it at all uh Saturday after that, uh, or the whole day Sunday, and then a guy I had a guy come to the house, mobile mechanic, come to the house because I wasn't sure what all was going on in there. And uh I figured if they're grinding like that, it might be calipers, and I gotta go to work and I I get somebody in here that has all the tools to do it quick. And it ended up just being the brake pads. I caught it soon enough. Yeah, one rotor had a little bit of wear in it, but he said, uh, it's not enough to worry about. Well, I can feel it in my steering wheel. I can you really feel just wobbled? Yeah, just a little bit of shake in there.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Really?

SPEAKER_05 37:26

And I called him and I told him, Well, maybe we should change out those rotors, and he said, Drive it for a little while, it might smooth out if it doesn't, you know, give it about two weeks. And if it doesn't, I I can come back over and change them out. But uh, so yeah, we'll we'll see if that smooths itself out. It's gotten better.

SPEAKER_02 37:48

Yeah, I caught I caught mine before I started grinding, and so my my rotors were pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 37:54

I had shoot about a 32nd of an inch, if that, of brake pad left on uh my inside on my driver's side, and that's what was making the sound. And so uh yeah, luckily I caught it fast enough. But I think pulling that heavy trailer and braking, it just wore it down to that point where it was like, all right, I'm done.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

The way I knew I was ready is several times in the past few months I'd step on my brake, but it would go down far enough. I'd kept my catch my accelerator too. And so I'd be like, what the hell? But so I was like, I gotta put brakes on this thing, and I'd put it off probably six months longer than what I should have. But yeah, I just didn't want to do it. I hate, I okay, I'm not a mechanic. I hate playing mechanic, I hate working on vehicles, but I suppose if I expect my son to do this kind of stuff as he grows up, I should be able to do it myself. And being old and decrepit with my back and everything, it makes it so much harder because it does it, you gotta go so much slower. But I did it, and I'm a man now. Yeah, I changed my oil in the truck and everything.

SPEAKER_05 39:04

I I try to change my oil all by my you know in my driveway all the time, but in the winter I don't do it just because I'm not gonna lay in this in the snow. But I'll take it to a shop and have them change it out. But uh anymore, I mean it's I don't know, $15, $20 extra for a shop to change it. Yeah, and it's like then I don't have to deal with the oil sitting in my house.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

And the thing I hate about taking it to a shop is I don't know if they use impact wrenches or what the fuck they use.

SPEAKER_05 39:38

Oh, and they put it in that blood down.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

It took, I pulled on it. It was that was just a few days after surgery that I was climbing underneath there doing this, and so I couldn't. I mean, when I pulled, I felt it. It's like yeah, and so Sebastian's let me try it. He climbed under there, and it took everything he had to break. We had a breaker ball.

SPEAKER_05 39:57

There's no reason to put it on that.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

No, that's so that's in the la I had a shop do it last time. Yeah, and there's no reason, and then same thing with the oil filter, it took everything he had to get the and you don't need to put them oil filter on that tight either.

SPEAKER_05 40:10

So get a hand tight and a put a wrench on it and give it about a half a turn.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Yep, and that's all you need. That other than that, it I I would prefer taking to a shop too, because they can do it in ten minutes where it takes it takes me.

SPEAKER_05 40:24

I think right now in my garage, I've probably got four uh five-gallon buckets full of oil sitting in there. And I just I gotta run it down over to the parts store so that they can recycle it.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

But uh I just What do they do with it? Did you say recycle it? Do they make it?

SPEAKER_05 40:43

I don't know. I don't know if they use it for oil burners or see I know what or if they re-filter it and sell it, or how I don't know. Sebastian oil breaks down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

So Sebastian said he knew some people with an oil burner, and it but these kids back here behind us that work on vehicles, they got a tub sitting out in front of that says oil on it, and so I think that's where he's been putting the oils in that tub.

SPEAKER_05 41:07

So yeah, I know uh Zager, he had an oil burner over at his old shop, and uh insurance let him do that.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

Oh, I suppose yeah, a new one, yeah. They will, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:20

Yeah, and uh he said he said, you know what? He goes, that was the best thing I ever put in my shop because all winter he'd want he'd keep it shop warm for motor oil.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

And burn off oil, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:31

And being an automotive shop, that's all you got a lot of that, man. Yeah, you doing all those oil changes, save it up over the summer, and in the winter you you're able to have free heat.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

Yeah, I trust me, I I know it I wish thing is I they cost quite a bit. And uh you heat a shop my size would I don't know if an oil burner will do it. So uh but anyway, well we're I'm sorry, my brain is what blank. Oh, you're talking about oil burners. Um but uh we need to because of the bike shop, we need to figure out what we're gonna do with all our all our oil because eventually we're gonna have enough to you know do something. He says he knows the people with uh oil burners, I think is what he said. So yeah. Or you just put it in the back of your truck and oops, it's built until they catch it. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 42:34

So oh, don't worry, it's only a hundred thousand dollar fine. Well, Walmart will take it too.

SPEAKER_02 42:40

Oh, do they? Yeah. Oh. Uh I was talking to Carrie, you know, the other guy that works for me.

SPEAKER_05 42:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

See, and I didn't know this. Maybe you knew this, but you know, you know where his uh his maca his machining shop is at there in Put Center? Uh-uh. It's Grueball Machine Machine. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you know the the old bank around the corner, and then he's right there. Did you know that used to be a gas station? I didn't know that. I did not know that. He said there was gas pumps out in front of like off to the in between where Schumacher's have that building, and there was a there's gas pumps there, huh? So when he bought it, the old owners had to pay to have all that stuff, you know, they got to do something so that the the environment isn't being harmed and stuff like that. And they told him that if he had oil stains or any like any more oil stains or anything like that on the floor that he contributed to, they'd fine him like a hundred thousand dollars for cleanup. Yeah, it was ridiculous. I'm like, I he just told me that this week. I'm like, so he says, I don't I don't even fuck around with it. He's I don't want no oil anywhere. He said they it's they're gone now, they don't come check it no more because that you know they'd always come in and check it and make sure he says they haven't been there in a few years, he's been on.

SPEAKER_05 44:01

Right. Yeah, about the time you forget about it, is the time they'll come knocking on your door.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

Any kind of environmental destruction or whatever you call it, they'd find him for it.

SPEAKER_03 44:11

Yeah. Huh.

SPEAKER_05 44:17

We got we got another house bot.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

We're at.

SPEAKER_05 44:21

Genoa.

SPEAKER_02 44:22

Oh, so you're gonna be around here for a bit, huh?

SPEAKER_05 44:24

Yeah. So we're uh we're gonna start in on that house. That how close are you done close to being done at the house in House? Probably by the end of the month is is my goal. Uh we still got a lot of work to do, but uh we got you know three, four weeks to get it done. So uh my my goal is the end of the month. I'm guessing it's gonna lead into the first week of next month, but because I forgot about Memorial Day weekend and the guy that works for me, he wants to take that whole week off because him and his wife usually go camping that whole week. And so he already asked me last week about it. He's like, I'm giving you a heads up. I need to take that week off. That my wife and I that's usually our week just to get away from work and spend some time together, and I'm like, uh I know you you want to say no again. It's right towards the end of a project, and I kind of need you here because that's when everything turns to chaos, but you know, I'm not gonna deny him his time off either.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

I mean, because you gotta be good to them because in the long run they're always good to you.

SPEAKER_05 45:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:29

You know, that's the thing is when somebody says, Hey, can I have can I take a few hours off? You're like, Yeah. Yeah. And it always works out in the end.

SPEAKER_05 45:39

So Yeah. So like this week he's been trying to put in some extra hours, and I I know it's because of the money situation for one, and then trying to get ahead so that he doesn't feel like he just dropped a ball on me, you know. But I think if we get to a a certain point by then, you know, I can just work on doing trim and and windows and different things.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

So is that the special house? Or is or is the special house already No, the special house has to be living in right now.

SPEAKER_05 46:15

Yeah. Yeah. I see. So and and we're gonna have that that's the other thing. We're gonna have that house in the mix too.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:25

Because uh that's gotta be moving ready by well, no, no, that'll be June. That'll be in June. We'll be working on on the special house.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

So because you said you gotta replace the carpet and all kinds of stuff in that house.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

Yeah. As far as we know, uh I don't know. The the people told me they're gonna have the carpets professionally clean. That carpet's only a year and a half old.

SPEAKER_02 46:48

But you said they got animals in there? And it smells.

SPEAKER_05 46:51

Well, I don't know if it smells or not. It last time I was in there, it doesn't stink, but a week or week and a half after I uh started renting that one out, I walked in there and there was dog shit and dog puke already on the carpet, and I'm like, this is brand new freaking carpet. And you know, with with animals too, with dogs, uh, regardless how how clean you are with with dogs, they still gotta go outside, no matter if it's muddy outside, if it's freaking dry. True, and those dogs go running through the mud to go take a shit, and then they come happier than hell, come into the house, and they're trailing mud everywhere through that carpet, through the hard floors, through everything. And so you could be the cleanest person, and it's still gonna stain up carpet. Yeah, and I I think every pet owner knows you know, there's times you gotta work extra hours or whatever, and though and that pet's at home, and you can't really blame a pet for having to take a piss. Agreed, you know. If you tried to hold your bladder for 10 hours, exactly exactly.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

That's what that I I always hated doing that to our dog and stuff like that. Is nobody's around, you gotta hold it. I I just that's part of the reason I haven't got another dog.

SPEAKER_05 48:17

We're probably one of the few landlords that allows pets. And and I I love pets. I I love uh we've had several dogs, but I'm almost at that point where I'm ready to say, uh-uh. Because you want to be when they move when they move out, it is a lot of work to clean that up because you don't want the place stinking for the next tenant or dog hair everywhere to where they they put say they uh drop their shirt on the floor, a black shirt on the carpet in their bedroom after they move in and they pick it up and there's cat hair all over it.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 48:57

You know, and they're like, I don't even have a frickin'.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

See, and the and the thing about cats also is they find a place they like to piss, and usually it's on a baseboard or something like that, and then it gets in behind that baseboard, and then it soaks into that wood.

SPEAKER_05 49:13

You can't seal that.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

Yeah, you gotta rip all that back off and put all new on because that cat liked that place to piss, you know.

SPEAKER_05 49:21

Uh I mean they same thing with a dog, yeah, especially a male dog. Yeah, they'll mark their territory and then they'll do it again and again, or they'll find another spot and do it. And then if you're living in that house, I think you kind of get used to that smell. I know that I do and you don't smell it, but somebody else comes in there and they're like, Man, it smells like pissing me.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Yes, and I would I always tell, like, like you said, you come home every day and you're used to it, but like if when we had poncho, when we'd go to Sturgis and we'd gone for a week and come walk back into it, it's like, oh shh, yeah, we gotta clean some carpets, man. This is bad.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

Yeah, because you'd get that that different smell, yeah, and that you're not used to it anymore a week later when you come back, yeah. And we were the same way with Buddy. Uh, and Buddy never made any messes in the house. I mean, he was a very, very good dog, never made any messes in the house. And uh, but just his smell, you know, and we would bathe him once a week, something like that, sometimes twice a week, depending on, you know, but still he was a fat dog. And I swear they say dogs don't they say dogs don't sweat, but I think this dog had sweat glands. Because uh I could smell him, you know, every once in a while. It'll just like you were saying, you leave for a week and then you come home and you walk into your house and you're like, I can smell dog in here, you know.

SPEAKER_02 50:59

But uh but you get so used to it being in it day after day after day that it just that's how that's how people that older people that have these dogs and stuff like that when they never leave their house, yeah, and then you as a visitor come in and it's it hits you like a wall, yeah, and it's they don't smell it because they're just in it, you know, they're part of it at that point, you know. Um and how do you tell a person, hey, your house smells that that is my I um my biggest fear is to have somebody come to my house and then go tell everybody, not tell me, but tell everybody else, man, his house smells like dog, man. Don't go to his house. Yeah, I always hated that. But yeah, like you said, when you got a a pet, they they have needs too, you know. And if you're not there when they need that need, it happens. Yeah, and Poncho got into a habit of he would never do it on the main floor, he would run in the basement, and that was brand new carpet in the basement at one point, anyway. And and he basically we I never go down the basement, but Sarah said, and she hadn't been down there in a while, she went down there and it was just like bombs everywhere, you know. So she spent she spent like two weeks cleaning, getting all that up, cleaning the carpet, doing this, and yeah, and so and you gotta realize your furnace is down there, so then we don't have a furnace.

SPEAKER_05 52:23

Oh our oh yeah, you got a baseboard, don't you? Yep. But yeah, for for you know, most houses have a furnace down there. Well, if if Poncho was going down there doing that, and then the furnace kicks on, it just brings that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:39

Yep. Uh don't get me wrong, I do want another pet. I w I would like another dog, but the rule is, and that's part of the reason Sarah won't let me do it, is number one, dogs have to have exercise, and she says she's not doing it. And if we get a dog, we got to figure out how I can get it to exercise. Yeah. So that's that's problem number one. Because I can't walk them. Uh this it's just that right now, until I get that stimulator and see how the stimulator works, it's out of the question. Um, the other thing is I said, if I get a dog, it's gonna come, it's gonna be with me everywhere I go, work, everything. And she's like, you cannot take him to the shop, take the dog to the shop because then you have to give him a shower every day because you'd be so dirty. I says, I take a shower every day, I'll just give him a shower with me. Yeah, so there's a problem number two. Um, and number three is just I we can't we it has to be an older dog because a pup would just too much energy for you. We're too old for a pup. So, and my daughter's mean to me because she'll send me pictures like of the Humane Society of Lincoln of these dogs. It's like I want the dog.

SPEAKER_05 53:47

I was doing that to Brooke for a while. I'd send her pictures, uh, but look at this, they're gonna kill it. She's like, shut up, they are not gonna kill it. But yeah, I I just got asked that question today. Uh my uncle was asking me, so are you guys gonna get a dog? And I said, No, I said, we're getting pretty used to this not having a dog now, and and it's a lot easier if we want to go out of town for a night, or or you know, if we have to work a couple extra hours. I mean, Whitney's now our dog, yeah, basically, you know, because she needs all the attention, but but uh but we can take her with us and don't have to try and find a hotel room that'll allow kids. So, but uh but yeah, I got asked that today by my uncle. He's like, so are you guys gonna get another dog anytime soon? And I said, No, I don't think so. We're we're pretty used to this, although I would like one, but uh Whitney's such a pet lover.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:53

And you know, I I would like one, but like you said, in in theory, I don't just for the companionship of I love my dog, but that brings like what was it, you know, a month or whatever it was when we went to Branson, that would have brought up a whole nother issue of having a dog at that because it's it's just Sarah and I now we don't have kids at home, yeah. So what would we done if we're adult with our dog when we are gone for four days, you know? So it always brings in theory, it's awesome to think you got a dog, it's your buddy, we're together all the time, but then it's like, well, we can't do trips anymore, you know?

SPEAKER_05 55:28

Yeah, yeah. So yeah. But you know, Whitney, I I thought it was cute when Whitney was you know, two and a half, three years old to have her snuggle with us at night, sleep in our bed, and now it's become her bed. Exactly, and she doesn't want nothing to do with her bed, and so every night it's I want to sleep with you guys, I want to snuggle. And we've tried putting her in her own bed, and she'll lay there for a little while and then sneaks in, sneaks back into our room.

SPEAKER_01 56:04

Hello, are you sleeping?

SPEAKER_05 56:07

And uh kid in here with go ahead, maybe maybe if we got her, you know, a dog and that dog slept with her in her bed, maybe she'd stay there.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Sarah, when we had kids, because I I was kind of like you, I always thought it'd be cool to have the kids sleeping with us or something, you know. Sarah had a rule, she's like, uh-uh, no kid is gonna sleep with her. Even there, I could probably count on one hand how many times, even when a kid was sick, got to sleep with us. Really? She knows no kid is sleeping in our bed, and like you said, it it ends up being a problem after a while. Yeah, and so we've always had our own bed, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 56:49

But yes, it was Sarah's rule. I I love it in the morning when she wakes up and and it's I love you, daddy, give me some snuggles, and and she doesn't say that when mom's around. Oh, she don't? No, no, it's I love mom. Oh yeah, daddy get away. Yeah, when it's just her and me, it's uh it's nonstop. I love you, daddy.

SPEAKER_02 57:11

Oh, give me a snuggle. She knows she's got you wrapped out in a little finger. She can't do no wrong with you, man.

SPEAKER_05 57:18

The the funny thing is, is like she'll be running around the house and she'll trip over her own feet and fall down. And who will she blame? It's me.

SPEAKER_04 57:29

You're a naughty daddy, you're naughty. What the hell?

SPEAKER_02 57:35

You know, I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna take a hard right here, okay?

SPEAKER_03 57:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:40

So the other day I walked in the kitchen and Sarah uses our living room now, our dining room table as her office, basically, right now. She's trying to get an office, but in one of the kids' room. But I was like, What do you I heard is like that? Sounds like the podcast. I I couldn't it sounded weird, is what it is. And I said, What are you listening to? She goes, Your podcast. And what she was getting ready to post it is what it was. And of course, she was listening to the part where remember here a couple weeks ago, it was me, you, and and Sebastian, and we were talking about her when we was buying a car, how I laid this is what we're spending, and I said, She'd you kind of wishy-washy. Yeah, of course, that's what she was listening to. Oh shit. And I thought, oh crap, this is gonna be an argument. But she just I she acted like she didn't hear it and we just moved off. I went to that movie.

SPEAKER_05 58:38

I'm going for a walk.

SPEAKER_02 58:41

But I just she has she listens to him because you got to give it kind of a description, and so she'll she'll stop, she'll fast forward and stop and listen to him, and then give a description. Of course, she stops on that right there. She could have stopped anywhere. That was probably a three-hour fucking podcast, but that's that's where she landed. So she never even give me a she would look at me weird. I didn't get laid, but she did look at me way. I hope she hears this, land on this. I hope my wife is good to me. Yeah, so and like I said, and that was when she was younger, she would do that to me. And if you listen to the podcast, you know what I'm talking about. So anyway, that was a hard right. I'm sorry, but that I just it rem something you said made me remember that.

SPEAKER_05 59:28

We did we did drywall all day today. I hate drywall. I just did you mud it or just just put it up? Tape, mud, hang, uh, texture.

SPEAKER_02 59:39

You know how to t you know how to mud all that, do you? God, I hate I can never get it smooth.

SPEAKER_05 59:44

It it is such a pain in the ass, and it's such a dirty job. And but when it's all done, I mean it's a fresh surface and it's it's hard on your shoulders and everything goes on. It is, it's it's hard on your shoulders, hard on your hands, hard on your lungs. Yeah, I'll bet because dust, you know. I I went over to the hardware store to go pick something up. Oh, we need more mud. So I ran to Shelby to the lumber yard and picked up another bucket of mud, and I drove all the way over there, and just as I pull up, I look in the mirror, and it looked like I just left from uh coke party. I had white all around my nose and it was all over my face.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

Well, yeah, it must have been a good party then.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:32

Yeah, I just didn't get the buzz out of it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:36

But it always makes you wonder if it's all this, what's inside my body, you know. I know that's what welding does. It's I didn't really think about it when I was younger, but now I'll blow my nose and it's all black. It's like yeah, I wonder what's in my lungs.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:50

Yeah. I uh tomorrow we gotta do a little more. And my other guy, he's gonna he's been getting there about 7.30 in the morning. And so I'm hoping he has all that done by the time I get there tomorrow. Because I got some stuff to pick up, I got some materials to pick up, we're putting new floors in tomorrow. Yeah, we're we're resheeting all the floors, and so we gotta put down new plywood across all the floors. And uh so I gotta pick up all that, all the all the screws, everything. I ordered it all today, but I just didn't want to drive around with it in my truck all night. So I'll go pick that stuff up in the morning and then take that all the way up there, and we'll work on that. Plus, we're taking a window out, and then uh we're not putting another window in where this window came out, and we're just gonna put more plywood across that and then uh siding and kind of close it off like it was never there, and drywall that on the inside. So we got we got our work cut out for us tomorrow. It's gonna be a long day. Yeah. But like you said, so then we have the weekend.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

So I was gonna say, well, you said you're working you're not you're working four or ten hours, so what are your working?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:09

We're we're gonna st I brought it up this week with them, and because we both drive quite a few miles to get to our uh place, and and so uh I mean it's fuel efficiency-wise, it would save us money to work maybe Tuesday through Friday and work four tens instead of Monday through Friday and work you know five eights. So it'd be one less trip a uh week and you know for me that's $70 that it saves me every week. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:49

Honestly, I should have the conversation with Sebastian because he drives he drives from Waco.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:54

I should honestly uh give him that option if he'd rather not, you know, because fuel is expensive right now, and it is and if he would rather do, I'd let him work ten hours a day if he wanted to, you know. Maybe it'd help.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:07

Take Mondays off.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

I I bet I know I bet he'd take off Fridays. Because he rides.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:13

So but yeah, you take I I like doing having Saturday, Sunday, Monday off. I like having a Monday off because then I can still get stuff done, you know, places that are open, you know, that aren't open on the weekends, get stuff done. It gives me a a day of just sitting at home planning for the week and figuring out what we're gonna do, what materials we need, where so I'm still working, but but I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:43

When you can work from home, it's yeah, you know, kind of like me when I can take my computer home and do a bunch of work on AutoCAD just sitting in my chair, yeah. And he doesn't have that option. So I mean, like you said, you're working, but you're not driving. I should I should have that conversation with him. Is the light still on? Is he still here?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:05

I think so.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:06

Yeah, I should have that conversation with him because uh until you brought it up, I never thought, well, like I said, I usually don't even look at fuel prices, I just go put fuel in my truck and drive off because it I need the fuel, and so I'm gonna pay for it. But Sarah's the one who's like, Do you know how much you're paying for fuel? She asked me yesterday, I was like, No, and she pointed out, I was like, I but I guess you know he's paying the same, so and he's driving an hour every day, so yeah, I should have that conversation with him. Yeah, should I let him work 12-hour days and work three days a week?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:36

Yeah, and we we talked about that too. Uh we were looking at uh house in Omaha, and I knew that was gonna be a big drive for him every day. It's a big drive for me, yeah, but I don't I don't expect that out of my employer. Exactly, it's different, and so I told him, I said, you know, we we buy this house in Omaha. I said, You're more than welcome to stay in that house. It was it's a livable house, it's not like it's disgusting in there or nothing, it's just empty house. And I said, You're more than welcome to stay in that house. I've got a very comfortable airbed, six hundred dollar fucking airbed. And uh I said it's like sleeping on a pillowtop bed, and I could blow that up, put that in the in one of the bedrooms, and you could stay there three days out of the week and work 12 hour days, and I'll pay you for 40.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:30

And he liked that idea, but uh his wife didn't like it. His wife's like, no, I want him home every night.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:38

Of course, she's not the one driving. Um yeah, so what is three twelve hours? What that'd be 36 hours, so you basically give him four hours, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:47

You know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:48

I I could talk to him. I I I need to give him some options, I think.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:51

I know because I don't want to lose on FlexCon or no, it was uh BDs. They did that when I was younger. I I worked a weekend shift where I worked five. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and it was 12 hour days, and but you got a paycheck for 40 hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:05

And I always thought that was nice because during the week I still had a uh part-time job during the week then.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:11

And uh so I was I was making good money doing that, but uh but your weekends were constantly shot.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:20

Yeah, and you don't do nothing but work because you're sleeping or working, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:23

But if you do it during the week, that's not so bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:26

You know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:27

So and have four days four days off, three days off.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:32

Yeah, you could do and in all honesty, if you wanted to, he if he wanted to do something like that, we would still have the bike shop that if you wanted to come over and put more hours in the bike shop, you know, he could do that. Yeah. Now we I got my postal digger, and because I bought I'm not gonna dig that by hand because I'm putting a sign out by the highway.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:54

Um, I should show you uh my hands are dirty, otherwise I'd show it because it's a white background, but um I got a bowl uh plywood that I braced up and I'm putting in the ground, and uh I ordered a postal digger, like an uh motorized one, you know. Yeah, uh I don't know what they call them. What do they call Auger? Yeah, and it was like $250. I thought for $250, I'm gonna save my back, man. So I bought it, it showed up yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:22

So um what do you get at the doctor's office for $250? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:27

So anywho, but oh, and then I I think I'm gonna buy these signs, they turned out really good. I bought them off, not Vista print, but I bought up bought them off of something else. They were like uh $100 apiece, but they turned out really well, and so I'm thinking I don't have a sign for the welding shop by the highway yet, and I've been here for over a year.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:49

And I asked Sarah, because she's usually pretty territorial about me doing signs, she likes to do them. I said, Can I just order a sign and do and she agreed to it? So I'm gonna I gotta think naked ladies on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:00

Like she excels.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:02

See, these signs turned out pretty good because we didn't we just have you can read it all, and my we gotta figure out what we want to put on the welding shop sign so that it's not too cluttered, you know. You read it and it draws you in. So I gotta do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:17

You gotta think there when somebody's driving by, they see it for a split second. Exactly. And they gotta read it in that time.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:22

So I hope I didn't hit something there. No, we're good. Yeah. What they read is what they want to read.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:30

And and you know, the the other point of putting naked ladies on there is you'll probably make the news.

unknown 1:08:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:38

Look at the advertising you're gonna get off of that.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:41

Yeah. Look at look at that.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:43

That's what I want. It may not be positive advertising, but people are gonna know you're there.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:48

Yeah, you know what? I'd probably get the news if I just simply put on their Trump supporter. Yeah. Yeah. The news would be here.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:55

Yeah. So huh.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:58

Anywho, I g I don't really know much of anything else, brother.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:02

I saw they put a food truck out here, too.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:04

Yeah, it's been there for a few years ago. Have you tried it? No, I don't really do food, but uh I thought it was like a Mexican place, but these kids back here, one of them's Mexican. He goes, No, that's Guatemalan. So I don't I don't know what Guatemalan food is.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:17

Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I saw that out there a couple weeks ago, and and I thought, oh shit, that's kind of nice if you want to grab a quick bite to eat.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:27

Well, I I said something to so that actually I I said something to Sebastian today. I said, We should maybe try that food truck. I said, I don't know what Guatemalan food is. He goes, I don't know either. And he goes, I don't feel like spending money on something I'm gonna throw away. So you know I'm kind of in the same boat, I'm not yeah, you know, and but here's it brought up a conversation. I said, you know what? Because what I want to do is put a 40-foot uh storage container out here and like right in front of right by the walk-in door, basically running this way along the building. And I want to uh have uh I want to sell apparel, like leathers and things, helmets and whatever you know you think about in the in there. And I said, what we should do then is because I've always wanted to own a food truck, but my wife has zero interest. That's I could not spark her interest in that at all. But I said, what we need to do is then we could build a food truck and just set it right on the other side. I said, then during the summer, make this a place to ride to, have a burger and stuff, and walk through all the apparel and then talk to the tech, you know, that type of thing. I said, That we need to get something like that going. I would love to have a I told him, I said, I'll let you take care of the the bikes. You could be the tech, and I'll do the food truck and I'll do the apparel. You you do that, I'll do that. I said, we can get something going here. But my wife would never she she's I think maybe I'll get that 40-foot container, but the food truck, I'm not even gonna bring it up to her. Yeah, uh, if if I do what I'd like to do is I'd like to build the food truck and own the food truck and let somebody else run the food truck because that's a lot of fucking work.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:03

It is, it's a lot of work, and in the summer it's gotta be hotter than hell in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:07

Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:09

So I know you can put an air conditioner in there, but you also have to have a vent, yeah, and it's gonna suck that air conditioning right out of there, and you're gonna be working over a hot grill.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

And every time you open that window to talk to someone, it all rushes out anyway. So the only thing I could think of is, you know, because you're not constantly got people there, but you tr make a little spot where you go sit and watch television and air conditioning, you know. Yeah, it's in a camper, why not? You know, yeah. So but that that was my my butt no, I I I really do want to sell apparel. Sarah, Sarah actually, you know, I have a sewing machine that uh does leather and stuff, and I want to get into doing seat covers for bikes. I would I I've always liked that. I I think I could do pretty good at it.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:58

I say that. I've never tried one, so the my first one will look like shit. We both know that.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:03

Yeah, it's always trial and error.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

But Sarah wants to make uh customized gloves. She's bought a bunch of a bunch of uh uh designs and stuff like that for riding gloves and uh like uh purses and vests and stuff like she wants to start making that kind of stuff and sell it out of our apparel store. So she's she she can do it, but right now her job is very demanding, and so every time she thinks she's gonna have time to do it, something happens and it you know spins out of control. Right now, she's learning how to hydro dip. She's a matter of fact, she's been practicing, and that's harder than it looks. But last night she finally because when you dip it, it's hard not to get a crease in there if you don't dip it right, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:51

Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:52

Last night was the first time she dipped something that didn't really get a crease in it, and so she's pretty proud of it. So she had me cut her a bunch of test squares, and then I made her a little sign because one thing she she she likes is she likes the um uh why can I not think what I wrote? I put uh So Sings My Soul. So is that how it goes? But anyway, that's she likes that saying, yeah. And so I I made that and cut it out. So sings my soul is what it is. Yeah, and I figure when she gets really good, she can hydro dip that too, you know. She hanging on her wall. But the the thing about hydro dipping is it's not just hydro dip and you're done. Then there's another step where you got to learn how to clear coat it and sand it down and and you know make it look like glass. Yeah, exactly. So she's learning all that right now, and she's trying hard. She is, and we got we have so many lasers in that house. We got three lasers. She's got a glowforge. She bought a portable laser that when we don't do shows, she thought she would set them up and cut designs out right in front of people and give them sell them that way, you know. Yeah, and then she has another one in the garage that she could do cups and all kinds of stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:10

And two out of the three. That's the Glowforge.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:16

Two out of the three, she's never even taken out of the box yet. Oh, really? And and it it irritates me, but I it's it was her money, it was bonuses that she got from her job. Yeah. And I I just wish By the time she uses them, they'll be out of date. Yeah, yeah. I think I I'm thinking the one is out of date already.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:37

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:37

But I it just I I hate the fact that she's so busy doing everything else that she can't do what's fun for her because I just find a way to do what's fun for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:45

I'm surprised Ben didn't get into that with her.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:48

He's more into the 3D printing. We have that 3D printer. Yeah. And he's he last summer when he was home, he 3D printed a hand or something like that. That you know, make the hand work or something. Yeah. I oh speak, I'm sorry, were you gonna say something? Oh, okay. Uh Ben, he's doing finals, he has one final this week or something like that. He might be done tomorrow, I don't know. But one of his tests was he had you know, because he's it he's going to robotics in robotic engineering, is that what yeah, yeah. And so he had to build and program this thing to work. And I'll show you when we're done here, but it basically it's an arm that goes and it sounds like a sprinkler, but it you it goes like this, and then it touches a spot and it comes back, and then in so I for he had to build the entire thing and make it work and program it so it all does this, and he I'm pretty proud. I think he done a pretty good job.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:50

So that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:51

Yeah, so if he can start doing that shit, I can't wait to get him to the shop, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:57

Did you get the uh uh plasma cutter figured out? No, no, I'm I'm still battling with that, huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:04

I I mean we can use it, we got it to where we can use it, but like today, I got a bunch of signs I gotta cut for uh pillins.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:12

And I mean they're just simple signs, but when you cut a sign, you need to cut the inside of it out, like let's say lettering, so it drops out, and then cut the outside so that it don't move on you when you're cutting it. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:30

So I loaded it up into the program thinking I can make this work. Man, there is it, it it counts it out. This is movement one, cut two, cut three, cut four, cut five. And I think there was like three hundred and seventy-five different pierces and cuts it had to do, and it was so out of whack. It was I there was no way that I could cut it on there because if I let it do that, it'd be cutting the sign out before it cut the lettering out, and it it was all now. I if I I think that if I knew what I was doing, I could change up what when and how that you know that type of thing. Yeah, but I'm not I'm not smart enough yet. So yes, I can use it, but for simple projects right now, and I want to get into being able to throw a sheet up there and cut a sheet, so yeah, that's where I'm at with that. I this morning I was having a rough day. I I just I woke up pissy, and I don't know why I slept good. I woke up pissy and I sat down at that computer for that table, and I seriously said, Let's sell this fucking thing. I said, I'm I'm tired of feeling like an idiot because I know how to run my other table. Why is why is technology so fucking stupid? My old table, it is so archaic, it's so why why does everything have to be difficult? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:57

Yeah, why change it up so much from this table to that table?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:02

So Sarah kind of had a good idea, and I don't I don't think it's possible, but my son is pretty good with computers and stuff. I'm not saying it's possible though, and I don't think it's possible, but like Sarah, because the the program I use for my little tape, my well, my other table is called Design Edge. And she's like, maybe we could find a way that we can use Design Edge on that table. I'm like, if we could do that, man, we'd be scored. Oh, yeah. Dude, game on is 100% true. Yeah, I mean, it would be out of this world what I could do at that table then. Huh. So that's where I'm at with the table. I'm I was I I just I sent a text to Sarah and I said, let's sell this table. I said, I'm uh no, I wasn't even joking.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:48

Is there anybody that will come in and do training on it? Nope.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:53

The what you what they want you to do, what they want you to do is uh watch videos. There's a diapepsy in there. Will you hand it to me? Uh they want you to watch videos on YouTube to learn how to do it, which uh honestly that's probably what I'll end up doing. I'll probably learn a bunch, but my problem is is I have a hard time unless I'm sitting right at the computer and pausing it and then doing this and then let it go and then pause it and do it. I learn I'm a very hard learner, I'm not very smart. Um I'm an idiot. So to learn that it's gonna take a lot more than and I like Sarah said, she goes, we'll figure it out. We'll just the two of us working together. Usually, if the two of us work together, I know things, and then she can. My problem is I can't read an instruction and and have it make sense to me. I'm kind of an idiot.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:45

I'm I'm the same way. I'm a visual learner, I'm not a read-it learner.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:49

I I cannot read something and learn it. But if she reads it to me, and because I understand some of the movements of what needs to happen, there's certain certain key words that I would pick up on that if she explained it to me, I can make it happen. Yeah, but she's a busy woman, and she I can't expect her to do that for me if she's busy doing other stuff, you know what I mean? So I need to find YouTube, I need to try YouTube, and then like I told Sarah, I said, I wish we could find someone that knows how to run this to just come in and give me a class or something, yeah. But there's nobody around you. The place where we bought it from, they didn't know nothing about it either. Because we've called them and said, Hey, can you help us do they they were great, don't get me wrong, I'm not bad mouthing them. They they did come up and they spent about two hours with us saying this is what we know, and and they were just as confused as us when they but they at least tried, they were very cool when they tried.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:46

So what about where did you buy it in state or out of state?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:54

No, I but yeah, I bought it from a place two blocks from me.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:56

Oh, yeah, and they didn't know how to run it?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:59

Well, no, because the way I understand it is they bought it, and the guy that knew kind of how to run it, I don't know that he works for me anymore, or is he does something different or something like that? I don't he wasn't around, yeah, and so what they done is they took a gal, must be like a designer or something like that in their business, said, Okay, this is what you're gonna start doing, and then what he would do is he would create the program and then put it on a zip drive and hand it to her and say, Go load this up, and it would load up and she'd press start and cut.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:40

She was a machine operator basically, exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:43

And so she was the one that came and tried to help us. She was like, I really all I done is load this up and did this. It's like, well, she did teach us some things, which was helpful, but the guy I I don't know if the guy that actually knew what was going on doesn't work for more anymore, or if he was out of state, because this this company, it's a it's not a very large as building size, but they're all over the country, they're in Canada. I mean, they're all over, it's a big little company, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:11

So that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

What they do is it's called PMT. And what the I I'll probably say what they do wrong, but this is how I understand it is they go into these companies, and if you have a motor that kind of has a something that spins, yeah, like a uh on a car. What's that?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:36

Uh your cam?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:37

No, no, no. Like the underneath the vehicle that spins, it turns your your uh transmission. The the drive shaft. Drive shaft. Yeah. So like let's say there's for lack of a better way, let's say this machine has a drive shaft on it and it has kind of a wobble to it. Yeah, they come in. Again, I'm probably not even getting this close to right, but this is how I understand it. They come in and they balance it all out. So they balance all these machines that are shaft ribbon, yeah. But well, that or I don't know. Yeah, anything that can move go in a circle and they can balance it. And they're all over the country and in Canada and everything. So I'm pretty impressed, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:18

There's a there's a need for it then, yeah, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:21

And so the reason they bought the machine is I think it's probably what happened is the guy that owned the company must ended up at the bar with the guy that owns another company in town, and he's like, You should do this. And he goes, Okay, I'll do it. So he bought this thing, put it in there, and then after he cut these parts for him for a while, the other company had a fire and a burned part of their come on in, Sebastian. The burn part of their company down, and then uh are you leaving? Uh give me give me two seconds. Um I want to talk to you. Um uh when they rebuilt from the insurance money, they bought their own table, and so they were sitting there with this table that they didn't have anything. So that's they're like the guy that owned the company know uh went to well Bill. Well, you know Bill, the guy that used to own uh uh Double T. Oh, yeah, yeah. What's his last name? Uh Heinz Hills.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:19

Uh Bill Bill I I don't think I've ever known his last name.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:25

Uh I I know it, but I can't think of it right now. But anyway, he's their salesman now.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:29

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:30

Yeah, and so he drove by and he says, Go ask that place up there if they want to buy this table. And so I bought the table in that truck. And so here, uh, I want to take a quick break here. Uh so we're gonna pause for two seconds and we're back. That's right, but we uh we took care of some business, and part of the business is somebody just bought a bike. Yeah, a nice bike, too. Yeah, so so now we're we're back, you're gonna be back in business.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:59

Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:00

You'll like that bike, I promise. He he takes good care of his stuff. You're gonna like that bike.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:04

Yeah. My my uh and you know him, so if you have questions, you know who how to got uh a life-changing event coming up, and and it's gonna free up some time to where my wife and I can actually spend some time on the bike and go riding. So that was that was uh another part of it was you know, I I didn't ride a whole lot. Number one, uh a lot of the people I ride with, I just don't talk to them anymore and just start life over, kind of thing. And uh and when I would go riding around Omaha.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:41

Scary.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:42

Well, Brooke, Brooke had to stay at home. Yeah, we got a baby now, you know, so it's not like both of us can take off riding without a sitter.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:50

So uh, so you know, my better half is at home and I'm out there, you know, not really riding with anybody. I got I got some buddies of mine up in Omaha that I ride with, but uh, but they have families too, and so you know, poker runs and stuff, they're they're fun, but they're nothing like what they were around here when I'd go on them and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:12

If you're like me, and I think you kind of are, if you're like me, I know it sounds kind of weird to say it this way, but my wife is my best friend. Yeah, and when I'm doing stuff without her, it's not that I feel guilty, it's just I feel like I'm not having as much fun because she's not here. And so I can completely understand where if you were out doing these poker runs and your your wife wasn't with you, is like it'd be so much fun because you yeah, you got a rapport, and you you know it yeah, it's fun because you get to pick on your wife, and you know, she picks on you.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:45

And and it seems like it's easier to talk with other people when you have you got you got your partner with you, or you know, even just friends with you, yeah. Uh, you know, mingle in, but uh yeah, it it'll be a whole different summer and it'll be it'll be fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:02

With your life changing changing event, you'll be able to ride with us more. Yeah, and you know that my wife on a weekend does not sit still very often. So even if we're at the camper, she's taking the bike there and we're riding from there. So you'll be able to ride with us more.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:17

Yeah, so I'll let everybody in on the secret. Um you weren't gonna say nothing. I'm gonna retire at 45.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:26

You might, you never know.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:27

I finally became financially stable. I've got uh $100 in the bank, and so uh $100 is gonna go a long way. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna buy bubblegum once a day, and I'll be able to live all summer on this.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:46

But you you you got you got me hook line and sinker on that one.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:52

But uh no, we're we're looking forward to this uh this event. So, yep. It'll be it'll be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:01

You will let everybody know when the time's right. When the time's right. Do you do you see yourself getting back and riding with the same old guys that you didn't know? You just no.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:12

I uh it was a lot of drama, a lot of problems, constant nosing into people's business that they didn't need to nose into, and uh everybody's always fighting or you know it's not fun. That that's why Sarah and I it it was it was fun. It was fun for a while when I was younger, but I guess in all those years of being around those people, I found out how backstabby they are and how hypocritical they are because I watched these same fuckers do worse shit than what I did, but it was hey keep it hush hush, keep it hush hush, and then you do trip, you trip over one fucking toe, and it's like we're telling the whole damn town, exactly, and you're a dickhead, and you it's like you know what, fuck you.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:11

Yeah, I mean I I completely that's why Sarah and I we it's not that we're I don't want to say this. Sarah and I are friendly enough that we could ride with anybody and and hang out with anybody, but the problem is we absolutely hate drama. Yeah, if we go on a ride, we and we stop at a bar, we don't want to the two people ride to have an argument about something stupid and then try to draw it. We just want to have fun, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:42

And that's why Brooke and I get along so good with you guys because we learn about the drama either. And uh, you know, we go out, we go riding, or we go to Sturgis, or we go camping or something like that. There's never any problems. Yeah, and you don't ever see me and Brooke fighting and exactly you know, getting drunk and being pissed off at each other. I mean, you see us getting drunk, but even when you never see us pissed off at each other about stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:07

Even when you make her drive the camper because you're drinking and you don't get us in a fight and everything else. She never, she never lost it one time. She's like, uh, this is my this is my future husband. Yep, because you were you I don't you were married, were you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:26

We were married at that time. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:28

Yeah. But she never lost her cool one time. She kept, she just went with it, you know, and that's those are the kind of friends that make writing fun. Yeah. You know what I've what Sarah and I have figured out is I I for lack of a better, I'm just gonna say bike clubs. By you know, I use that uselessly. Bike clubs, they are nothing but a bunch of drama. I don't care what club it is, from Baca clear up to a bait. Yeah, there's always some type of stupid fucking drama going on that if people would just be adults, it would be a lot more fun. But everybody's gotta have drama.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:17

People look into things further than what it actually is and just creates the issues that don't need to be there. Yeah, you know, if you weren't there, you didn't see it with your own eyes, shut your fucking mouth. Yeah. You know, instead of this is the way I think this went. Yeah. And uh it yeah. So I mean, has life been a lot simpler? Hell yeah. Has life been a lot more boring? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:48

Yeah, but uh that's what that's what but what's fun about it was it wasn't boring, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:53

Right. But I do I miss it? Do I miss the fun? Yeah. I do. But uh we had great times. We had a lot of really good times riding together. But uh but again, at the end of the day, you thought, fuck, tomorrow when I wake up, what kind of bullshit stories are gonna come out, or who's gonna be pissed at who?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:22

That's what always was who's gonna be bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:24

Or at the end of the night, when everybody's drunk, who's gonna get into a fight and punch the other guy, and then it's you're my friend.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:30

No, you're my friend. No, I'm not taking sides.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:34

You both my friends, but you know, it uh life just so I'm just I'm saying this is a lot less stressful. And I'm saying this, and and I mean it, and I know that I'm speaking for Sarah also. You and your wife are always welcome to ride with us, always welcome to ride with us, and and vice versa.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:53

And hopefully we can get out on some of the uh supper rides, yeah, the dinner rides. That seemed like a lot of fun, uh, but being so far away, it's hard to do it. I made it on what one or two of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:07

Yeah, you were in town, so you kind of tagged along, yeah. Yep. And we when we do it, it's you know, uh sometimes you know we have 10, 11 people show up. It's a lot of fun to sit and bullshit with people, and yeah, it was kind of sad because you know, we you get in this crew, and there's always there's two guys that almost always showed up. I mean, always and people you wouldn't expect, but we rode at this guy, I think, for two years. He retired. I think he retired in May. And then he passed away, and he died like two months later. And yeah, he was when he was younger, he was a bodybuilder and he still took very good care of his body. Yeah, he was for I think he was 70 some years old, I think is what he said. Dude, I he was in better shape than a lot of 21-year-old boys, yeah. And when he passed, he's like that hit honestly, it hit kind of it wasn't like we were great buddies or nothing like that, but it hit is like that dude was in shape, and but when I I had a good conversation with them, uh we went to Seven Mile, and I sat next to him and I was sitting there talking with him and kind of picking his brain, and and he was an interesting guy. Oh, he had a very interesting guy. Yeah, if you sat down and talked to him, he had story upon story upon story, and they were all interesting, they weren't stupid stories, and they're the he he drew you in as like really, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:41

So yeah, but yeah, looking looking forward to doing some riding this summer. So that's one thing, one thing I just haven't done much because I've been so focused on working, and then with my schedule too, of of you know, basically working Columbus area and living in Omaha you work an eight, even just an eight-hour day. You still got during that day, on top of that eight-hour day, you got three hours of driving. So uh so yeah, it's see Sarah Sarah works 45 minutes from home, and and so she's kind of the same way.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:28

She'll work she's at work by eight o'clock every morning, she leaves at five, but she still has to drive there. I mean, I I wish they would let her work from home more. She doesn't really push the issue, but she's I think she might ask because the fuel prices she might ask to work from home one or two days a week. Yeah, and because her job she can because she just deals with truckers all day long, and all the information she needs is on her because she has a couple computers, yeah. She can see where every truck is at. They call her, tell her. I mean, she can do her job. The only reason she needs to be at the location is because they seem to love meetings. I just don't and she can do that via Skype, I think. So but I and I guess every place loves meetings. The people that they gotta feel like they're doing something, so let's have a meeting about it and then discuss nothing and then go eat.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:22

Yeah. So makes them feel like they're productive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:28

Yeah. I you know, we uh speaking of which I don't the only reason I thought of this is because the gal, we when I was doing this with uh Tyler, we had a gal, Tiffany, she was uh and one of the owners, it's his wife, and I would like to have her back on. She don't ride or nothing like that, but she likes to do she uh goes to like spooky places, she likes to do haunted houses and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. I'd love to get her back on and talk more. We didn't really talk a whole lot about it last time, but she was a little bit nervous for the first time. So I want to get her back in here.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:02

And I what I'd like to do is have I wonder if she's ever done that place out in Colorado, that hotel. There's there's uh super scary hotel out in the world.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:13

Would you would you be open to doing a Sunday morning or a Sunday brunch time podcast?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:22

Probably not, because that's usually the day I'm home.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:26

Okay, because I I want I would like to do a Sunday Mary.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:30

Maybe later on in the year.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:32

I'd like to do a Bloody Mary Sunday and sit and drink Bloody Marys and talk to her. Yeah. I before Tyler quit, I had kind of set up a time for her to come in. Well, then when Tyler left, I had to kind of shift things around because I didn't know exactly what was going on, and I kind of put her off. But I'd like to have her back in.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:49

Hey, you know, I I was telling you about that girl that was working for me that we should have her on, that she has so many wild stories and different things. She fell off the face of the earth. Her and I've been friends for 20 years.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:05

What do you mean? She she's just gone?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:07

Yeah. No calls, no texts. I tried I don't know. I I even Googled to Googled her name to see if there was an obituary. And there's nothing that comes up. But I mean, I've sent her messages on Facebook, just sent her funny videos on Facebook. She hasn't seen them. Uh I've tried calling her, tried texting her. Every week she her and I would talk. And and you know, she was working for me part-time on the weekend. She'd come in and clean the house up good, or or do a little painting, or do you know some of the easier work? And uh every every week she'd be calling me, you know, hey, I need a little extra work, I need a little extra money. Is there anything I could do? Yeah, you come and sweep the whole house down. Uh, you know, like this week would be nice because we've been doing drywall all week and that house is full of dust. It'd be nice to have somebody come in and sweep everything up and clean.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:03

Was she Hispanic?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:04

Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:05

No, she was white, she was white. Really? I thought maybe maybe she went back to Mexico or something.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:09

But but I know she she had a vape pen, like the weed vape pen. And she would hit that thing like a person would hit a normal vape. I mean, uh, I was like, man, if I if I hit that that much, I I'd be so freaking high. I'd I'd be in a coma. But uh, but I'm I'm wondering if she didn't end up in rehab. Maybe she's she's been there once before.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:36

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:37

It wasn't for weed, of course. Yeah, and so I wonder if she didn't get messed up into some other drugs, and maybe maybe she's not in rehab, but she's messed up into those other drugs again, and she knows I'll chew her ass. So hopefully that's not the case, but um almost veer into that side of the road.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:58

Yeah, well, because there well, because she's not reading Facebook or nothing. They do they take everything away from you.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:03

Yeah, and uh, and there was no reason for just uh up and not talk to me. I mean, we weren't on bad terms or nothing like that. We were all on good terms last time we talked, and and then uh I know the very last time we talked, she was saying her and her dad had a falling out, and that her dad she was in her dad's vehicle and left her car keys in there and her phone.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:31

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:32

And just kind of stormed off because they were fighting, you know, having a conversation in the vehicle, and he dropped her off at her house, and she stormed off and forgot her phone and her keys in there. Well, she called me from another phone telling and from her neighbor's phone, telling me, you know, hey, I'm not coming to work this weekend because I don't have my car. I I need to settle this with my dad, and I need to, and uh so I was like, well, no big deal, you know, that's fine. But uh yeah, I just I wonder if that's what the follow falling out was, was her dad maybe knew something that I didn't, and he was saying, you know, hey, you're getting you're going down the wrong path again. I'm gonna send you to rehab. No, you're not, and I'm yeah, then stormed out of the vehicle. I don't know. But uh I've I've been worried about her. Yeah, you know, she's a friend of mine. I I don't want any of my friends just to up and quit talking to me and not know how many weeks has she been gone again? It's been shit, two months.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:33

Are they in rehab that long?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:36

I've never been there. Me neither.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:39

But uh she's been there once, and I I visited her while she was in rehab, and I don't know, I can't recall how long she was there for. I I honestly couldn't tell you. But uh that's weird.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:55

Yeah, that's really weird. Yeah, maybe her dad's got her locked up in a room somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:01

I don't know. But let me see. I sent her a video, just like a funny video today on Facebook. Let me see if she's read it.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:22

That is so weird. I mean, like you said, you talk to her all the time. It's almost gotta be that, don't you?

SPEAKER_05 1:42:32

No, I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:34

It's almost gotta be somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:36

Where did I start sending the messages that she hasn't seen?

SPEAKER_02 1:42:47

Oh shit. Yeah. We're four months out.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:54

The last message she sent me was January 18th.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:58

Wow. That's that's that's scary. Yeah. I mean, literally, what happened? Her dad didn't kill her, did he?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:08

No. I mean it wouldn't be anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:14

Right. Well, what that makes you wonder, dude. You could file a busy person. They could find her for you. See, I got a friend that disappeared and I I need to know where she's at because I'm worried about her, and they would look into it.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:35

Yeah, I don't.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:40

And then you find out she's hiding from you because she's mad at you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:45

You never know with women. You could have farted her on and you piss them off to where they don't talk to you for three months. But weird, yeah. It's been been something that you know I think about quite a bit, and I go, Well, I hope she's alright.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:01

Hope that is scared. Uh honestly, you you see this type of stuff on television all the time where all of a sudden they disappear, nobody sees them again, and then they years later do a cold case about it, and they find something out, you know. But I watch too much of that. I'm I'm one of them guys that watch too much of the stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:19

Brooke watches that kind of stuff too. I don't know. I I get into it every once in a while, but I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:27

Um I used to Sundays used to be you'd turn on the television and put it on the ID channel, and you just watch show after show about stuff like that. You just sit in Sarah and I kind of got out of that habit. It started getting dark, and it's like, uh, we can't. I just I don't feel right being this dark on a Sunday. Yeah. But that gal that I was talking about, she said that she does she basically watches ID channel, and her kids made fun of her because it's like, you know how it says ID at the bottom of the it's burned into her television.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:05

Yeah, you know you're watching the same channel way too long when it burns into your screen.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:11

Yeah. Well, I'm glad I'm glad that you got a motorcycle now, and I I think you'll like it. And I gotta I gotta get Sarah's bike is on the lift right now. She's getting new bars, she bought heated hand grips, and we put a whole bunch of stuff. I did I've been I'm putting a center stand on it because last year she went we went somewhere and it fell over. And so I just said I'm putting a center stand on it. And she was supposed to do it two years ago, but I put it in the I found it and I put it in the shopping cart on Amazon thinking she would buy it. No, what does she do? Moves it to the find do it later, you know, save for later. It's like Sarah. But this year I just I said I'm buying it, I don't care. So I I don't know if I bought it or she bought it because yeah, uh sometimes I'll buy something if it's for her, she'll reimburse me and she just don't tell me.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:03

So I I made a little fuck up this week. I was putting stuff in my Amazon core cart for the house. And uh I was putting stuff in there that I needed for the house, and I then I just clicked on you know buy my cart. Well, I had a bunch of other stuff that I had in my cart, and I forgot all that. I thought I thought the price kind of seemed high for what I was buying, but I was like, well, it's for the house, whatever. And then Amazon shows up yesterday, and I have like six packages. Brooke's like, what are you buying? I'm like, no, really, this is all stuff for the house. I gotta take it, take it with me tomorrow to work. And and Whitney, she just think it thinks it's the coolest thing when Amazon comes over, and so uh it's like Christmas, and so she wants to open up every package and see what's in there, and so I said, All right, we can open this up, and I I wanted to see what six packages were. I was like, you know, I ordered like three things, I think. And I start opening them up, and I'm like, oh well, you know, I've been wanting this for a while. All right, I got it.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:14

But yeah, it was uh I am I am notorious for thinking, oh, I want that. So then I jump on Amazon and I throw it in the cart. Once it goes in the cart, I look at it, I think, oh I don't know if I want to spend the money right now. As soon as this guy pays his bill, then I'll do it, you know. So then I'll move it to save later, and then I forget about it, you know. Yeah, and it and then later it's like, oh yeah, I wanted that. And then I get mad at Sarah or something like that. It's like I'm buying my shit today. I'm gonna revenge spin. I uh I gotta buy me a new cane. I lost my cane. You know that one with the crown on it? I lost it somewhere. I don't know if when I went to Walmart or something like that, I forgot to take it out of the cart or what. I swear to God, I'm very careful about grabbing it because I love that cane. Yeah, I cannot find that cane anywhere. And you know, it might be hanging on something out in the shop. I'm just not seeing it right now, but I have tore everything apart looking for that goddamn cane. So I found the same one, I'm gonna buy it, but I found another one that's green. Yeah, I'm a green guy, so I'm gonna buy it. Yeah. So anyway.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:28

How's your bike coming along?

SPEAKER_02 1:48:30

It's still we haven't even looked at it. The boat the motor is sitting over here, and the bike is over here. Yeah. But once once we get Sarah and Elizabeth's bike out of here, I gotta get Fiona in here because she's got an oil leak. And I think all it is is the plug or something like that. But we gotta figure out what the oil leak is on Fiona, and then do a couple. I want to do the oil change and all that bullshit. And I'm putting a center stand on not on Fiona on this other one and stuff, but but we gotta get those two bikes out of here, get my bike in here, that way we can ride. And then and then once those are cleared out, I'm hoping we start getting some bikes in here. We've we've had a couple calls here and there, but sometimes there's just people fishing for prices, you know. Yeah, and and but honestly, I can't I can't say I haven't got a sign up yet. Yeah, you know, once I put I got two signs to put up, one out by the highway and a button, one on the side of the building, too.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:25

So you know do some do some advertising, talk to that Platte Valley Media. They they seem to advertise for people.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:32

Oh, I I I guess I never thought we should, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:35

New business in town, yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:37

But Sarah's been running, I don't know if she's paid to run ads yet or not. I don't know how she's been doing it, but she's she's been kind of slowly feeding it out on Facebook.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:46

So that would almost be better than paying for an ad.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:49

Yeah, I agree. Because people look at that, yeah. Yeah. I ought to talk to her and say that, you know. I'll see.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:54

Reach out to the to the guy that runs that. And I see him all the time, you know. Putting up stuff for businesses and just promoting a local business.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:03

I should, I should. Plat Valley Media is that what it's called? Yeah. But anyway, once my bike, my Shrek is gonna be kind of on the back burner. Everybody else's bike comes before Shrek right now. Yeah. Uh Sebastian's kind of itching to get it, get it in, get it done, but I just I don't want to push to yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:27

I I mean I'll like I'll like it when it's done, but I got Fiona to ride right now. So I think you know what I'm gonna do? You know how you know how I was gonna go, I was gonna originally make Shrek a big wheelbagger, you know? Well, we ended up not doing that because I think the guy spent my money elsewhere. Yeah. But I'm thinking about follow me here. Instead of doing big wheelbagger, doing a fat wheelbagger. So in other words, putting putting a rear tire on the front, you know, so it's big and fat. That would go with me, you know what I'm saying? I think that would look yeah. I don't have to change the rim size or nothing. This you know, I might have to do a little adjustments on the fenders and stuff like that, but I think that'd be pretty badass, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:14

Yeah. So I wonder how those handle with that bigger front tire.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:18

Like like the big wheels or the fat tires.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:21

The fat tires. I wonder there's gotta be a difference in handling.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:24

I think there'd be a harder lean. I think you'd have to lean a little bit harder. Because it you gotta you got a lot more tire, tire to roll, you know. So I've uh you you've heard of the the um what they call uh the dark side, yeah, you know, on the back. Or you put a car tire on the back. I've seriously been thinking about it, but I just can't seem to pull the trigger quite yet. Because I don't know, I'm old school car tires aren't made for motorcycle, and there's a reason, but there's what they say is just buy a uh one of them run flat tires so that it has a real heavy sidewall and everything like that. Yeah, and that way it's basically a motorcycle tire, is what it ends up being. So but you get you get 50,000 miles off one of them damn tires.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:13

So right. They they what I've read up on is your cornering isn't as good.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:20

Yeah, until you break it in. Once you break it in, you you do enough to wear it, then you then you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:27

Yeah. I just wonder how that would, you know, changing that over to a front fat and then putting a car tire on the back, and then you go up to Sturgis and you're like, fuck.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:38

I would bride it a lot around here before I took it to Sturgis if I did that. But but uh I think that honestly, I don't think it would be any different than you remember back in the 2000s when everybody's buying them fucking choppers and they had them huge back tires, yeah, they would be no different than that. Right. And you see them all over Sturgis all the time.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:58

Yeah, yeah. You don't see many of them guys ride them up to Sturgis. No Teddy did. Teddy rode his, yeah. That green. Did he really? Yeah. I remember he took off after work, after it was like five, six o'clock in the evening. Took off and rode all the way up to Sturgis while we were all drinking and partying and having a good time. Then he gets there and he's sober, and it's like three o'clock in the morning. Oh shit. And uh and we were all ready to go to bed. Well, he was ready to party. But I stayed up and partied with him until the sun came up. Oh jeez. Oh you guys.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:41

But uh you gonna ride and party with him yet?

SPEAKER_05 1:53:44

Oh yeah, yeah. I still get along with Teddy really good.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:48

I thought so.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:49

But Teddy and O, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:51

Yeah, oh it was a good ride. Yeah, it was a good ride.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:54

Yeah. So but most of the other people, I just said no. I just done with it.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:04

And I never rode with them. I didn't ride with any of them, but I from the outside looking in, Serenar, I was like, God, there's gotta be so much drama in that. Yeah, so we just never tried. Yeah. We were invited a few times, yeah, and we just kind of a lot of fighting.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:21

And some of the fights were fun. You know, we'd get into fights with other people, and it was fun, but I'm past that too.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:29

Yeah, that's that was honestly that's what would be fun about riding with a crew like that, because if one one gets you know, everybody had each other's back, they didn't care, they're just going, you know. And uh they don't even ask why why you're fighting, they're just there throwing punches.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:45

Yeah. You know, when when you own the bar, you know, that's when I was riding with them guys a lot. And we uh when all of us would pull up in front of a bar and we'd walk in, we were respected. Oh, yeah. I mean, nobody nobody really wanted to get into a fight with us, and if if they did, they were probably other bikers.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:07

And it wasn't like they just wanted to see whose dick was big at that point. Yeah. And it it was fun. Yeah, there was a lot of after parties that were a lot of fun too. But uh, but yeah, I'm past that age too.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:24

Yeah, me too. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:26

Shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:27

So if I got in a scrap, I can't I can't remember the last time I closed the bar down. Oh I I think that I got in a screen. When I was running with those guys, I could remember the last time we closed the bar down because it was just a couple days ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:41

Exactly. I know that if I got in a scrap right now with someone, if I didn't get them knocked out in about three punches, I'd be dead. They'd just pummel me to death.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:50

I just I'm not built for it anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:54

When I was younger, I could I could hold my own, but now I can't even stand up straight hardly.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:59

If I got pissed off enough, I probably hold my own still.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:02

But uh I'm sure I'd have to be pretty pissed off though.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:05

But uh really, nothing really pisses me off anymore. Yeah, I'm medicated now.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:10

Oh, that's right. You is that working well for you? Yeah. Is it do you do you what are some of the side effects because my wife has kind of mentioned maybe because I have non-anxiety medicine?

SPEAKER_05 1:56:22

Yeah, because I I have it makes it makes you lazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:26

So you know I don't want that.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:27

It it's not so much lazy, it just calms you. And but what about work?

SPEAKER_02 1:56:33

When it comes to work, you I you my job, I can't be lazy, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:37

Yeah. It makes you easy, easier going, you know, you're doing the guy I get along with the guys better. Yeah, you would. I get along with my guy better. But uh, but I'm also more passive, I guess. Instead of instead of being more aggressive, I'm more passive, and I just kind of go with the flow of things. I but I think about things more and I kind of analyze before you do anything more before I do anything. So it's it's a positive thing to do. But uh, but before that, I mean I wouldn't even sleep at night because I'd be so worried about I gotta get this done, I gotta do this, how am I gonna get this project done? Uh, what's the best way, you know? I get stuck on a project to where uh how am I gonna figure this out? Because the guy that I had set up to do this job that knows how to do this and can get it done efficiently isn't showing up, and now it's thrown in my lap, and I still gotta get it done, but I don't really know what I'm doing. So then I sit there and I watch YouTube videos and I research it and I figure it out, and now if something like that happens, I go That's a tomorrow problem? That's I'm going to sleep, and tomorrow while I'm at work, I can look and research this and look at it while I'm there while I actually have the problem in front of me instead of trying to figure out a problem that I don't have in front of me and stress about it and not sleep at night.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:18

And well, I just told you about the brakes on my truck. I woke up at 2 30 in the morning and I was up. That was that would I went to bed at 10, woke up at 10 30 or at 2 30, and I was up the rest of the night thinking about that stupid truck. Yeah, but that's and Sarah has mentioned that maybe I should try something because I mean we've known for years I've got ADHD. Yeah, I just I don't talk about it because I've learned to live with it, and so I don't I don't ever say it to anybody. When I hear other people say I have ADHD, I don't ever say, Yeah, me too. I just do you know, but I know I have it, yeah, and my anxiety is you this is how stupid my anxiety is, dude. I own my own business, right? When I was off with surgery and everything, and I spent the time in the hospital, so I was basically at home basically three weeks. I was home, didn't really come to the shop at all. My anxiety to come to my own shop and work was so high, it almost took a crowbar to get me out of the house. My own business. Yeah, I was freaking out about going to work at my own business. My anxiety was so high, and like I said, I've learned to live with it. So, what I just started doing is I started coming in later, like later in the morning, and then I've slowly worked my way into being here by eight o'clock now. Yeah, but isn't that stupid? Yeah, is that the stupidest thing you've ever fucking heard?

SPEAKER_05 1:59:49

Yeah, it it it doesn't make any sense. No, but in your brain it makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:56

With my brain, it totally makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:57

It was the way to cope with it, and it was the way to deal with it, and yep, yep.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:01

So my wife has has made mention that because my son got on put on something, and I I said there's no way Ben has ADHD. You know, you've seen Ben.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:11

But they said the doctors and all say he has it. So he's and Sarah asked him. I'm I'm I have a brother. Well, I had a brother, he passed away years ago, uh, but he was schizophrenic. And and so I have always been when it comes to messing with the chemicals in your brain, I've been really dead set against that because once schizophrenia is in the family, it can pass, you know. My girls, well, my my middle daughter, she's not quite out of the woods yet, but there's kind of a you know, basically your 20s, basically, where you're at, you know, you're mid to late, early in there, and so that's where Ben is at. And I was really dead set against him taking anything because I don't want to mess with the chemicals because I don't want that to trigger something. Yeah, but Sarah, I he hasn't talked to me about it because he knew how I felt about it. But Sarah said he's he's doing, he says it calms him a little bit and he's doing better, and so she made mention to me, you want to try something.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:21

Well, it it was my wife that brought it up really to get on the anxiety medicine because she would say, you know, you come home from work and you got so much on your mind, you are so high strung. And she goes, You just you need something to calm you down. Because there were times just any little thing would just trigger me, and her and I would get into it. And it was never a physical, you know, altercation or anything, it was more we would just scream at each other, yeah, and the littlest thing would just set me off because I had so much going on at work and I had I had bills to pay and I had this going on at the house, and and and you know, everything just builds up and then all of a sudden spills out. Yep. And she's like, You need to talk to your doctor about this, and so I did, and it was probably the best thing I did because it it did help out quite a bit, and she and she brought that up too. I went in and I seen my doctor last Wednesday, and uh he was asking me, you know, how are the medications going? How how's everything uh reacting with you? And I said, Everything's great, you know, it it's really changed how I feel about things. Uh can I ask what you're on? It's I I don't even know the name of it. No, I I have medicines like that. Like an anxiety medicine. And uh but it it does help out. So and you know, your doctor can always put you on it for you want to try it for two or three months because it it takes a while to really settle in, uh kick in. But try it for two or three months if it doesn't change you any, uh then you just tell your doctor, hey, you know, I don't I don't feel that I need to be paying for this. And they aren't expensive with with uh our insurance, I think it's like six bucks a month. Really? Eight bucks a month.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:19

Um yeah, you say it the littlest thing, yeah. Like so Sarah knew how stressed out I was about the truck, right? I have this is why my wife takes care of me, is she knew I was stressed out about the truck, and so because when I when she got ready to leave for work, she goes, Are you alright? I said, Man, I've been up all night worrying about that stupid fucking truck, you know. So she gave me kids goodbye. Well then what she done, which you know, she has so much on her plate, she didn't need to do this. She obviously on the way to work or whatever, she starts looking for YouTube videos of how to how to fix this problem, you know. And so I come in and then I go to Menard's, and then all of a sudden, like three texts in a row come from her, and I'm trying to focus on what I'm doing, and I cannot do two things at once. And then I tried, I would read that text, I'd answer it, and I'd put my phone back in my pocket, and three more texts would come in. And I'm like, I'm getting more and more mad. I'd say, leave me alone. And I finally told her, I said, You you gotta quit. I cannot do this. And being that she knows who I am, she's like, I'm sorry, yep, I wasn't feeding you too much. And so if I could, if I could just treat my wife better, it'd be worth the medication. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:39

So yeah, maybe give it a give him a shot. I might talk to my doctor. It's worth a try. So you're taking enough medications the way it is. What's another fucking pill? Pretty soon it'll it'll be like the breakfast buffet.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:55

Yeah, we'll do this one and this one.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:00

Man, I'm full after this breakfast. Who needs food when you got pills?

SPEAKER_02 2:05:06

My eyes are watering. I got oil on my hands, and so I've been rubbing my eyes, and it's fucking yeah.

unknown 2:05:12

Uh anyway.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:14

Well, well, let's call her an hour.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:15

Yeah, let's call her done. We've been talking for well, with the gap in there, a little over two hours. So all right. All right, bud. Um, see you again next week, I guess. Yeah, and uh we are gonna do the quick goodbye again, I think. I think that does as well. Yeah, all right. Well, got anything to say? Nope. All right, goodbye, everybody. All right, see you guys.