In this episode of Two Grumpy Vets, Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude gather to share their unique blend of humor and social commentary. They dive into various topics, including the challenges of working night shifts, the intricacies of truck driving regulations, and the quirks of vehicle maintenance. The conversation also touches on the nostalgia of old vehicles, the impact of modern technology on society, and the humorous side of everyday life.
The hosts also discuss the complexities of international trade, the effects of tariffs, and the economic dynamics between the U.S. and China. They explore the societal changes over the years, the role of family structures, and the influence of music and culture on behavior. With their usual banter and candid opinions, the episode offers a mix of insightful discussions and light-hearted moments, making it a must-listen for those who enjoy a blend of humor and thoughtful commentary.
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[00:00:01]
Bryan Goodwin:
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally.
[00:00:11] Rich Chelson:
We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together,
[00:00:13] Bryan Goodwin:
of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living, having weekly conversations is a good way to help
[00:00:24] Rich Chelson:
each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Brian, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian.
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
Sure. My audio quality is for what moment?
[00:00:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yes, ma'am.
[00:00:45] Unknown:
So I'm sure my audio quality is is horrible at the moment. So
[00:00:51] Duuude-Ron :
I've heard it better. Yes.
[00:00:59] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Let's try that.
[00:01:03] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
There,
[00:01:09] Rich Chelson:
the dude.
[00:01:13] Duuude-Ron :
Dude.
[00:01:16] Unknown:
Last one as usual. That's what I'm talking about.
[00:01:23] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit.
[00:01:27] Unknown:
Well, you know, if nothing else, I am persistent or not persistent. That's what I'm looking for. Consistent.
[00:01:35] Rich Chelson:
There you go. The other instant.
[00:01:38] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly.
[00:01:43] Duuude-Ron :
At least you're here. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. It's a good thing. It's a good thing Brian could be here too.
[00:01:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We got got ourselves all lined up right out to go. I'm gotta I've tried to run to the store and grab some grab some stuff for tonight before I before I took off, and then, then I got caught by by time. So that's why I'm in the car right now fixing to fixing to run back to the hotel, grab my, grab my stuff, and start hoofing it over to, over to the truck. So Okay. So
[00:02:26] Unknown:
so you clock in at 08:00 tonight.
[00:02:30] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Actually, I'll punch in a little bit earlier than, than 08:00. And, actually, about thirty minutes early just so I can get pre trip and all that done and get moving by eight. So
[00:02:49] Unknown:
Oh, okay. And, obviously, they don't have a problem with that. Right? Nope.
[00:02:55] Rich Chelson:
Nope.
[00:02:56] Unknown:
Well, are you under the, 50 air mile rule now?
[00:03:03] Rich Chelson:
Nope. No. They still, we're still required to have at least ten hours off. We do have the oil field exemption, which allows us to only twenty four hour resets. So
[00:03:15] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, yeah, that's that's what ours is is you can be on for fourteen, off for ten, and then, a thirty six hour reset.
[00:03:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Most most folks have thirty six hour, and we've got a good old twenty four. So whenever we go from, nights to days, which usually causes us to because we're doing twelve hours a day, somewhere in there, we'll we'll consume the, because we're actually we can only drive for 11 of those twelve hours. So
[00:03:52] Unknown:
Correct. Yeah. Same way with the 50 mile mile air rule. You might you can be on the clock for fourteen, but we can only drive for eleven. Right. Yes. So
[00:04:07] Rich Chelson:
and say, yeah. We're we're just, ouch. We're just just cruising right along doing all that we do.
[00:04:19] Unknown:
Alright. So, oh, you're so you're gonna be in the hotel for, what, basically the next two weeks? Yes. Oh, okay. Alright. So did you ever get that, other POS acquired? No. I didn't. No? Okay. Yeah.
[00:04:38] Rich Chelson:
I was looked at it, and we were real tempted to go ahead and go ahead and purchase it, but, nah, nah, we did, ended up not doing so.
[00:04:48] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So what the wife just bring you bring you there and then came back home type after? No. She's I've got the car. She just stays at the,
[00:05:01] Rich Chelson:
she stays at the house. She needs to go anywhere. She's got she's actually got a, a friend of the family who will will snag her and take her to wherever she needs to go. But in all reality, she doesn't really never go anywhere. So
[00:05:18] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well then, I guess, Carl will just sit there. Yep. Yep. Yeah. We're gonna we're still looking for another one so she can
[00:05:37] Rich Chelson:
she can go do assorted items that that she needs here in Yeah. Couple year a couple oh, couple longer than a month, sadly, but between a month month and two, I'm gonna be finding something so that because she needs some type of, transportation in case the, the friend's not available.
[00:06:06] Unknown:
Right. I gotcha.
[00:06:20] Rich Chelson:
Alright. You talking to bastards? Say something. Just talk I'm trying to get the last of my last of my rat packs for the, you know, in the time the back.
[00:06:32] Unknown:
Oh, you're, what, at the hotel right now? And then Yeah. Oh, okay.
[00:06:37] Rich Chelson:
Fixed it in that way. So there we go. There we go. I need to grab my
[00:06:45] Unknown:
So are you so are you assigned are you and only you assigned to this truck? No. Oh, Yeah.
[00:06:57] Rich Chelson:
It's we're we are, but we aren't. Does we can, I mean, we don't want we're not able to go through and, and deck everything out, you know, and quote, unquote, make it ours? Because, if, somebody else's truck goes down and you're you're not in yours, they'll they'll you they'll slip seat you. Oh, okay. So, basically, it's kinda floating slip seat. That'd be, I guess, be a good way to look at it.
[00:07:32] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:07:36] Rich Chelson:
But, but, you know, it's it's not I mean, as a whole, it's not a bad it's not a bad deal. I did my purse overnight last night. Man, I'm out of practice there. It was by the time I got done today, I was I was ready for that bed.
[00:08:01] Duuude-Ron :
So so how So
[00:08:03] Rich Chelson:
how many turnarounds you do last night? Oh, I see here. I got about eight, actually, if if I did my math right. Really? Yeah. Yeah. We're at a new new well location, which is about twenty minutes north of where I'm at right now. And where we're at the sand is about forty minutes south of us. So it's about an hour, hour fifteen turnaround.
[00:08:32] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:08:33] Rich Chelson:
And then so it's just down their back, down their back, down their back, down their back, down their back. So by the time you get done, you're like, holy crow. Get this. You get a few, get a few few steps that are a few miles behind you, but they're they're short miles.
[00:08:52] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, at least you're getting by the hour now. Oh, yeah. You get so if you get five trips, you get five trips. If you get seven or eight,
[00:09:02] Rich Chelson:
you get seven or eight. Yep. And if, well goes down and I'm not, I'm not doing any, then guess what? I still get, still get at least eight.
[00:09:14] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:09:16] Rich Chelson:
So they'll find something for us to do.
[00:09:19] Unknown:
I'm sure they will.
[00:09:22] Rich Chelson:
Well, I've done there's a couple times I've told the guys, like, yeah. You need me to go grab a broom and start sweeping the dirt? Because there was a couple times where I was I was getting done about nine. They would bump me off about eight or so, and I would end up find you know, by the time I got home, got post trip and all that. Son of a gun, that's what I forgot to do when I this morning too. I'm gonna have to run by and grab some fuel. But hang on. It's just I'm going through everything. I'm just I just realized I forgot to grab fuel last night, this morning whenever I got done. I said I was I was focused in on getting home or getting to bed.
[00:10:03] Unknown:
But, Oh, yeah. That that change of
[00:10:06] Rich Chelson:
day to night is definitely an asshole. It screws you up something severe severe. So Oh, yeah. But but now it's it it nothing bad about it about it at all. Like I said, it's just it's just a it's a it's an easy deal. They will and I was trying to find I was trying to find something that kinda extend the last, a couple days just so I got a little closer to, to to twelve hours instead of getting to, instead of only getting ten. So
[00:10:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:10:48] Rich Chelson:
But but it's a and it all kinda shakes out at the end, especially especially with the, once you once you actually get moving, you're you're doing, you're kinda you're kinda ready to go go home after after bed. So
[00:11:08] Unknown:
Well, yeah. But it just seemed to me, because I used to work a night shift, that, you know, once I got off, it was like just sleep, and then it's like you never seem to have enough personal time outside of sleep when you do night shift versus day shift.
[00:11:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, then what I try to look at it is I I try to transpose my AM, PMs, not my sun ups, sund downs. So I try to even though I was I was home by 08:30 or back at the y'all hotel at 08:30, I was like, alright. Let's, we gotta stay up at least till 10:00. So because that's about the normal time I go to bed at night. It's just 10:00 at night. So let's make it 10:00 during the, during the day.
[00:12:06] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:12:07] Rich Chelson:
And so it was I I made it to about had to about 09:30, and after that, I was like, what? Let's let's forget this stuff. Let's go to bed.
[00:12:20] Unknown:
I I gotcha. Alright. Awesome. Yeah. Let me turn that the TV down so you don't have that back noise. Yeah.
[00:12:35] Rich Chelson:
So don't want people yelling each other on court.
[00:12:41] Unknown:
Well, you know what? They do not have Court TV on on Wednesday nights anymore. They moved it to, like, late in the afternoons, and now they got some other new I don't know what the hell it is. So don't get to watch my don't get to watch my Court TV anymore, which kinda suck.
[00:13:04] Rich Chelson:
Not that.
[00:13:06] Unknown:
Well, it kinda sucks. Yeah. But you know what? YouTube's got a whole shitload of them. Oh, yeah. May not be may not be Court TV, but, you know
[00:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Karen's in Court are always a fun fun search to to do. So
[00:13:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And I can't remember his name that, usually pops up online. He's out of Houston, but I don't remember his name off the top of my head. But he I he in 99% of the time, he's in a bow tie.
[00:13:52] Rich Chelson:
Only one that comes to mind is old is the is the free money guy, old Matthew Lesko.
[00:13:58] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:14:01] Rich Chelson:
He's still around. He's still pretty he's still pretty much doing the same stuff he was doing before. He just does it on TikTok now.
[00:14:09] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:14:11] Rich Chelson:
I see it from time to time. They'll pop up on my on my feed and or for you page, and it's like, holy crow, man. Didn't realize you were still kicking. Yeah.
[00:14:25] Unknown:
But yeah. Yeah. I mean, this judge has a bright green jacket to go along with his bright green bow tie. And then he also have he has plaids and so on like that. But Oh, yeah. Yeah. But 99.9% of the time is, you know, he's got his bow tie.
[00:14:52] Rich Chelson:
He's happy. I'm running around with no bow tie. You wouldn't recognize him.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You're right. You are absolutely correct. So but I think he is, he's fun to watch the way he conducts his courtroom. And there's another one, judge Simpson up in the Detroit area up in Michigan. He's one of those that don't piss me off. Don't get stupid in my court. Don't get stupid in my courtroom because I will shut you the hell down.
[00:15:34] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:15:35] Unknown:
So so how's your day been, Rich?
[00:15:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too bad. Not too bad. It's been in the eighties. Looked like it's gonna rain this morning, but, it didn't. And, I started taking a new medication yesterday and, felt a little nauseous this morning, which is one of the minor side effects. But other than that, I just I don't know. I just I'm I'm thinking it's this new medication. I I only have to take it once a week, and it has
[00:16:20] Unknown:
Is it for the psoriasis? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:16:24] Duuude-Ron :
And, it it so so I took it yesterday. And then, at the day, I've been I've been feeling kinda funky, but, you know, nothing out of this world. So, hopefully, things will be smoothing out here shortly and everything and and Well, yeah, once
[00:16:50] Unknown:
once your body gets, what's the word, acclimated to it.
[00:16:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. And and like I was telling Brian last night, Tuesday, I got a phone call. And, well, last week, I'd gotten a phone call from the VA in Pensacola, and it's it's a, Just a clinic, but they handle, rheumatology out of there, I guess. And, they had called me, and, you know, I'd I had asked them to find me someone up here in Pascagoulas, so they found me someone. I couldn't find out he's an Air Force vet. Talks real fast too. Talks on my I mean, I had a hard time understanding that boy. And, you know,
[00:17:48] Unknown:
nice guy. And being air and being Air Force? Wow. They usually do everything so fucking slow.
[00:17:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. Well, he might do everything else slow, but he don't talk slow. I can guarantee it that. But, they called me on Tuesday, and they were like, we'd like you to come in, Wednesday morning at 10AM, and this was, like, Tuesday afternoon. And I'm like, okay. I'm like I mean, I was expecting a month out. You know? Because, I mean, normally, it's you don't see any doctor, you know, except for month, two, three, four months out. You know? Yeah. So I went there and dude took some blood tests and some X rays, and I haven't heard nothing yet. That was just yesterday, though. So I figured I'd hear something because I found out what a rheumatologist does.
Apparently, through the blood test and, the X rays, he can figure out if this psoriasis is causing arthritis. I don't know how. Didn't ask him that because I figured that's why he went to school was to learn all that, and that's something I don't need to know about. So, so I'm kinda waiting on his expert opinion to see if Right. See if there's anything. And if that's the case, then then I'll probably wind up getting another medication. And, you know, that'll maybe, help me manage some of my pain, which would be nice if if you know?
[00:19:50] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:19:51] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. So, yeah, that's that's that's kinda basically what I mean, the last couple days, just boom, boom, boom. You know? I'm like, alright. You know? But so so, yeah, I did that and played on the radio a little bit, you know, past couple days. I mean, not much because, the sunspot numbers are still in the tank. So but but I've got to
[00:20:24] Unknown:
How long can that last for?
[00:20:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, here by they're saying the end of twenty six. We're gonna be going down into our solar cycle, minimum. And, so we'll have nine years of struggling with, decent signals.
[00:20:52] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:20:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because you see say a solar cycle is normally eleven years. It can last as long as fourteen and be as short as, I think, nine. And but you've got, you've got a low point, and then it starts getting good. And normally, about halfway through at about the five, five and a half year mark is when it peaks. Okay? And sometimes it'll carry longer, and then it'll drop off and it'll drop off for the next, you know, three, four, five years or whatever. And then and then it starts back over, and it climbs back up.
[00:21:39] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:21:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. But, yeah, the, solar cycle, And we're we're at about the halfway point now, but, everything I've read, they're, still saying we should be doing pretty good until about spring or summer of twenty seven, and then things, should start tanking. And, you know, it it, it'll be a lot harder. So so, yeah, it's it's
[00:22:23] Rich Chelson:
it's just the solar cycles, but yeah. Right. Because, just So what you're saying is that ham radio operators are a lot like farmers. They're not really satisfied with anything but anything on the weather. Either the the the sunspot activity is too high or it's not high enough. And so y'all were just last year complaining that there's too many storms. You can't get through to anything. You screw everything up. And then, like, oh, no. Well, we don't have enough, sunspot activity. So we're we're you know? It was gonna be haunted for the next five years.
[00:22:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Pretty much. So Yeah. I can't I can't argue with that logic, man. I can't. I mean, because yeah. You're right. You know? And, actually, in, in some regards, farmers are are a lot nicer about things. Hands just bitch.
[00:23:17] Rich Chelson:
At least these farmers will throw back a hey. Throw back potato at you from time to time.
[00:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. That's I like that analogy. That was actually pretty cool.
[00:23:34] Rich Chelson:
So So anyhow So what else is happening? Are you so what's what's happening in the, Jeep saga?
[00:23:47] Unknown:
In the Jeep saga. Oh, yeah. I can tell you a couple stories. Go ahead, Rich. But go ahead, Rich.
[00:23:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I'm still I'm well, I'm still waiting on my title to come back from Missouri and, my duplicate title. As soon as that happens, then, hopefully, everything will be straight because I'll hand deliver it to the county and, you know, give it to them and say process it. You know? Please expedite process. Please. And send it back to me.
[00:24:23] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[00:24:24] Duuude-Ron :
No one else.
[00:24:26] Rich Chelson:
Write the lienholder's name on there, and we'll we'll continue from that department. Yeah.
[00:24:33] Duuude-Ron :
Write the please write the lienholder's name on there and just send the title to me, and I'll fight with the lien note because them motherfuckers apparently lost my original title. So no.
[00:24:45] Rich Chelson:
You ain't holding on to shit no more. No. They ain't. They ain't allowed to.
[00:24:51] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:24:52] Duuude-Ron :
So but, but yeah. No. Hopefully, anytime, I don't, well, I don't expect anything this week. Maybe starting next week or the week after, hopefully, I I will get it back, and then I can take it down there and, hopefully get this fiasco all set done.
[00:25:20] Unknown:
Well, that's good.
[00:25:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right? That'd be real nice. Because I I I mean, like I said, you know, you know, I still drive to my appointments and stuff like that that I have, but I don't go anywhere else.
[00:25:34] Unknown:
You know?
[00:25:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and and kinda bothers me. You know? I I mean I mean, part of it is, like, is, like, okay. Yeah. I can. You know, I don't mind staying home and stuff like that. Okay. But since I've been home this long and haven't really gone anywhere except where I absolutely needed to go, it's like, I something we gotta give here. You know? I can all I mean, I love my house. Do not get me wrong. I love my yard. Do not wrong. Goddamn. I wanna get out and, you know, go to a park or something.
[00:26:19] Unknown:
And get naked.
[00:26:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that too because I haven't pulled the top off the Jeep yet because I can't drive. What the hell am I gonna pull the top off the fucking Jeep and just let it sit there and let everyone fly over it in the driveway? Yeah. Exactly.
[00:26:41] Unknown:
That looks real cool sitting in the driveway.
[00:26:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right. All freaking naked and shit. Yeah. No. This is so funny to me.
[00:26:52] Rich Chelson:
You're all exposed.
[00:26:54] Unknown:
Right. I'll make it I'll make it and nowhere to go.
[00:26:58] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. That's rude. That's just rude. I don't care who he is. But hey, dude. Did you see, Thomas's post in military Yeah.
[00:27:13] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:27:14] Duuude-Ron :
He lifted his he lifted his freaking Jeep.
[00:27:20] Unknown:
Yep. He also got the he also got front lockers.
[00:27:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, really? I didn't know that.
[00:27:27] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. Got front lockers as well. That was the mechanical he was talking about.
[00:27:35] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay. But yeah. Yeah. I saw his Jeep, and I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. He does need bigger tires now.
[00:27:48] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:27:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He's, he's, a a little see. See, he was running what? BFGoodrich's k o twos or k o threes? One of them.
[00:28:01] Unknown:
K OTwos.
[00:28:02] Duuude-Ron :
K O Twos. Yeah. Yeah. And But the but the metric
[00:28:07] Unknown:
k o twos, the standard, you know, Jeep, metric tires? Yeah. Yeah. That's what he was running.
[00:28:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I knew that. I knew that. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He he, he, that'll be weird, though, if he puts thirty five twelve fifties on there. That'd just be weird, man. Because Thomas with the lifted Jeep lockers up front and thirty five twelve fifties.
[00:28:40] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:28:42] Duuude-Ron :
That just doesn't no one telling us like I do, that just doesn't fit his his his, what's the word? Personality? Yeah. Yeah. Because because he's so quiet. He's so calm. He doesn't get too wound up about anything. You know?
[00:29:03] Unknown:
Not like
[00:29:05] Duuude-Ron :
me. Do not like me. Right.
[00:29:09] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe maybe he is inadvertently sharing the inner wild man by getting super big knobby tires.
[00:29:23] Duuude-Ron :
He does a lot of rocks, so I don't think he'll get the knobbies like I do. Oh. He'll get something like what, dude has. He's crawling tires.
[00:29:34] Unknown:
Yeah. He'll probably he'll probably stick probably to the k o twos or the k o threes. I don't know.
[00:29:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But no. It just, yeah, it just it just funny when I saw that. You know, I was thinking, oh my god. Because, I mean, shit. Thomas has had that Jeep, and I've only ever seen it stock. Yep. Yeah. They did. And and he'd wheel that bitch.
[00:30:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Now he wasn't he didn't go up Carnage Canyon.
[00:30:13] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no.
[00:30:14] Unknown:
You know? But he did, and to the limits of what his Jeep could withstand being stock
[00:30:24] Duuude-Ron :
for the most part. Mhmm. And yeah. No. But but you see, the thing is, also, if Thomas thought he could make it, he'd try.
[00:30:34] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:30:36] Duuude-Ron :
Because I've been with him when he's done. Well, like, across the way before it got, messed up, there was a there was a hill that had been cleared out, and it was mostly rock all up through there. And, Thomas tried to go up it, and, the bottom rock was so wet and slippery. He couldn't get no traction to get started. So he went around to the top and came down. And I was like, oh my god. Oh, yeah. He was game.
[00:31:17] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. That shit. Oh, yeah. He's always game. You know?
[00:31:24] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. That is nice.
[00:31:26] Unknown:
Now now he now he'll be more game. He's like, oh, just now now he'll get to play with the bigger boys.
[00:31:35] Rich Chelson:
The biggest the bigger boys. Yeah.
[00:31:40] Unknown:
Well and, you know, if he just does 30 fives, hell, that's what I had on the TJ was 30 fives.
[00:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. He can still play good with 30 fives.
[00:31:54] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[00:31:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know? I mean oh, yeah. No. Either way, Thomas won't care. He'd be like, I can do it now. I'm done. See you.
[00:32:07] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:32:10] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:32:12] Duuude-Ron :
That's just the way Thomas is.
[00:32:15] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:32:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So, dude, what's up what's been up with you?
[00:32:28] Unknown:
In the clean world? As, in on blazing saddles? What's going on in the clean world?
[00:32:38] Duuude-Ron :
Clean world?
[00:32:41] Unknown:
Y'all remember that part?
[00:32:43] Duuude-Ron :
No.
[00:32:44] Rich Chelson:
No? I'm trying to think of that one.
[00:32:47] Unknown:
Well, no. When the sheriff black sheriff comes back from, with the, no. I can't remember her actual name. With the prostitute. Oh, Madeline Kahn's character? Yeah. Madeline Kahn. And he had eaten, what, 11
[00:33:06] Rich Chelson:
Lily. Lily. Lily. Legs. Lily. Yeah. The Lily Vonstoop. That's her name. Yeah.
[00:33:14] Unknown:
That's that. But what were the name of the sausages that she fed him?
[00:33:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh, oh, let's see here.
[00:33:28] Unknown:
But, anyway, he came in and Yeah. Wiped out and, you know, the other character asked him what's how you doing? He's like, what's going on in the clean world?
[00:33:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Gene Pyle, this character, what's going on in the clean world? Yeah.
[00:33:46] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. That is what what what movie are we talking about? Blazing Saddles.
[00:33:52] Rich Chelson:
Blazing Saddles. He rode a blazing saddle. He wore a bright and star. K.
[00:34:03] Unknown:
So who sings that song?
[00:34:05] Rich Chelson:
Forget, but he was told to try to sing it as as, straight as he could. Well, let's keep it that way. Oh, hell yeah. It was it was it was he did a good job, but, no, I don't care. I will continue to sing it because I like the song. So bite my butt. Oh, it was but, oh, no. One of my favorite Bill Brooks movies right there. That and history of the world part two. History of the world. Yeah. It was good. Spaceballs was pretty damn good. I like the producers too. That I thought that was hilarious.
[00:34:59] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:35:01] Rich Chelson:
With springtime for Hitler.
[00:35:09] Unknown:
Yep. And he started and Mel Brooks starred in every one of his movies
[00:35:15] Rich Chelson:
in some of his movies. Yeah. Yeah. At least that's some part. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Blade the mayor of Blazing Saddle or not, the mayor or the governor?
[00:35:25] Unknown:
Governor. Because we had a gov on the back of his jacket. Yeah. On the back of the jacket.
[00:35:33] Rich Chelson:
The the gov. I can't tell you what his what his secretary's name was, but he was always chasing her. So
[00:35:45] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:35:48] Rich Chelson:
I'd like to have a secretary like that. Hey. Wouldn't be bad. Nice little except she's a redhead. You'd have to change care colors.
[00:35:56] Unknown:
We definitely fucking do that shit. Damn right. No. Just was my usual early morning Thursday to have one. Really sucks when, alarm clock goes beep beep at 4AM. I but but one day it'll get better. No. Oh, yeah. Hell, I did twenty one years in the military. Fucking sucked every goddamn data. Here that long hot going off at 04:30 in the morning.
[00:36:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, it could be a little, a little, a little trying.
[00:36:43] Unknown:
I have never in my life been a morning person ever. Even in the military, never was a morning person.
[00:36:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Mornings, don't bother me. I enjoy good morning, actually. That's one of the reasons why I like wintertime is because I can actually wake up before the sun. So get out there and get out there on on cold mornings and watch the sun come up and with a steaming cup of coffee. There's just something kinda calming about it. So
[00:37:25] Unknown:
Well, yeah. No. So, anyway so, anyway, what, I was gonna say about the Jeep aspect Yeah. Yeah. So what's happening in the jeeping saga? Galveston had I think it was this past week or this week. I don't remember. It's a just like Jeep in the Coast, in a couple weeks on Louisiana, they're doing it down to Galveston Island. But it's basically a long weekend. I think it starts Thursday. I don't fucking remember if I haven't gone down there on Jeep in the Coast down at Port A or Galveston. But this year in Galveston, the only thing that is allowed on the beach is Jeeps.
No golf carts, no, trucks, ATVs, motorcycles, none of that. The only thing that's allowed on the beaches are the Jeeps. However, you cannot camp on the beach. You can't do any bonfires on the beach, and the travel for the jeeps is one direction. And they're basically a big loop. You go out onto the onto the street, and then there's one entrance to get onto the beach, one exit to get off of the beach, and it's one way. So they're basically trying to get all the crap, out of the jeeping event down in Galveston. Same way with Porte A. You can't camp on the beach. For this event, you can't camp on the beach.
You can't even park on the beach with your Jeep. You have to be driving it. So they're really cracking down on it because it Porte and Galveston, it had really gotten out of fucking control. Okay. I mean, very badly.
[00:39:43] Duuude-Ron :
Well, and see and see, that's the thing. I mean I mean, you know you know, how bad was it? I mean
[00:39:53] Unknown:
Well, everybody was bringing it their stuff. The like I said, the golf carts, the ATVs, trucks, anything that, you know, could go on the beach was on the beach, and it just turned into a great big
[00:40:09] Rich Chelson:
gaggle. Oh, okay.
[00:40:13] Unknown:
So, yeah, they've, kinda tightened the reins down on, the jeeping event down in Galveston and Port Aransas, which is fine because I don't go to, to either one of those. I'd rather go to Crystal Beach, which is over by Houston and Beaumont area
[00:40:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:40:41] Unknown:
Because it's a little bit more not commercialized area. So but I haven't been there in fucking, you know, couple years now. But that's alright.
[00:41:04] Duuude-Ron :
Well, when you do go, make sure to check if they've changed because you know how, you know, drop of a hat, people change things up. You know?
[00:41:19] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Most definitely.
[00:41:24] Duuude-Ron :
So
[00:41:30] Unknown:
but I'm sure I will because a group down in Just North of San Antonio. Went to Port or I think went to Porte, one of the clubs from Waco. They had people go down to part at our Porte, and then also the ones from, San Antonio itself. So I'm sure I will see the post from those clubs of what it was like down there for the, beach week.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[00:42:14] Unknown:
So I'm sure they will be complaining, but, you know, it'll bring down sure bring down the, lawlessness that was associated with that event in the past because all different types of vehicles and everybody talking shit about, you know, their type of vehicle and, you know, how that goes.
[00:42:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, that's I mean, I mean, that's just everywhere. I mean, that's I mean, it happens. So, you know, that's like all these rule changes and stuff like that. People will be bitching about that because they can't do what they've always done. You know?
[00:43:06] Unknown:
Yeah. And they, you know, they've always complained about the the other stuff other than the Jeeps at the Jeep event, but, you know, it is what it is. Yeah. So, yeah, they're they're gonna bitch about that. They'll bitch about everything else.
[00:43:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I yeah. That that I do not know. I mean, it's it's just, you know, you know, just I mean, I don't bitch about stuff. I just say fuck it. I just go have fun. You know? Yep. Because it's like it's like, you know you know, you wanna sit here and bitch about it, but in the end, you ain't gonna change it. So Exactly. So, you know if you don't.
[00:43:52] Unknown:
You know? Okay. So you cannot park on the beach this year. Okay. So you can't park. Doesn't mean you can't fucking get out of your Jeep and go walk on the beach and park your ass in a fucking chair Right. And watch the other Jeeps go by. You know? You just won't have your Jeep right there blasting your music in competition with everybody else that wanna blast their shit.
[00:44:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Which, I mean, yeah. You know? But yeah. Exactly. It's just like, you know what? Just screw it. You know? Sit there and bring your little JBL speaker and play your music right there by you and just watch the Jeeps go by.
[00:44:40] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:44:41] Duuude-Ron :
Wait. I mean, we can I can see where some people have a problem because, like me, I don't like parking my Jeep a ways away?
[00:44:51] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:44:52] Duuude-Ron :
I I just that's that's me. I I like to have my Jeep as close as possible.
[00:44:57] Unknown:
Oh, I got you.
[00:45:00] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's, I mean, it's it's it's not that I'm scared someone's gonna mess with it. It's just that, you know, if I wanna get up and leave, I ain't gotta walk two miles to do it.
[00:45:15] Unknown:
Yeah. That's that's true too. And, yeah, I get it. But, hey, they've set out the rules, and they said that they're going to enforce it. So the, the blitz that was going on with DPS for, what, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday pretty much has shut down because they got all the fucking, DPS down in Galveston.
[00:45:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit. Okay. Well, that was that was cool.
[00:45:47] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, we got one guy, and and it was broadcast. Well, I don't know if this one was broadcasted or not. I knew about it. The blitz this week was air pressure in the tires and ELD logs. That's what they were concentrating on. You know? And when I was going up to Grand Prairie in an old, rest stop just North Of Italy that isn't used anymore except for by the DPS when they, you know, wanna do level ones and so on like that. Tuesday, they had five rock trucks parked in that area.
[00:46:39] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, oh. Buddy, that's it was a Yeah. If you ever wanna go out and get yourself a ticket, draw a poor damn rock bucket. Golly. No. This thing's take a beating as it is.
[00:46:51] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Thank you. I'm not gonna do any rock buckets. No. Thank you. Because I like what I have right now. I have my truck, my trailer, and I know all of its idiosyncrasies. Right. So I am up on the maintenance. You know, unlike with what they're doing, you know, they get into a truck and a trailer and have no freaking clue as to, you know, any of the maintenance issues that's going on with it. I was, you know, get in, turn the key, and head down the road. Fuck the pre trip.
[00:47:36] Duuude-Ron :
No. Normally, the rock trucks, they got they, they keep their truck and trailers.
[00:47:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, do they? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's getting in getting in and go, though. It's and, they're the owners a lot of times, if they're if they're not they're not owner operators, then, yeah, those rock buckets will take a hell of a beating, and they'll just, they'll, they'll have some type of problem with the trailer itself. But
[00:48:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I'm sure. Without a doubt.
[00:48:11] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, not all companies are like that, but quite a few of them are.
[00:48:18] Rich Chelson:
No. No. But there is a reason why whenever they're whenever you see a whole bunch of rock buckets, going down, a route you normally go down, rest assured here soon, you're gonna start seeing, seeing highway patrol hanging out on that, on that same stretch of road.
[00:48:36] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, there's a right at the southern part, probably about, oh, fifteen minutes south of the Abilene Airport, that stretch, they have a quarry over there that you, you know, you see the rack trucks coming in and out of that road all the time. You know, that's great if, you know, DPS wants to pull them over. Hell, if they wanna pull me over, I don't give a shit.
[00:49:06] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:49:08] Unknown:
One of the managers at one of the stores I delivered to, last week, he knew about the blitz this week, and he asked he'd made one of the dumbest statements I've heard yet. And he knows me pretty damn well that, I'm black and white. There is very fucking very little gray. Very little gray. I am black and white. He says, are you ready for the blitz next week? I'm like, well, let let's rephrase that. Yes. I am ready for the blitz next week. Are your driver are your drivers ready for the blitz next week?
[00:50:03] Duuude-Ron :
What did he say?
[00:50:05] Unknown:
Not a damn thing. Because I already know those trucks up there are not ready. Just for one simple thing, and I've and I've told the manager repeatedly, you better get new placards on those trucks because they're well past UV degradation, and they're gonna get their your drivers are gonna get cited for it. And if the drivers don't give a shit, well, you know, that
[00:50:38] Rich Chelson:
oh, well. Sucks to be there. Well, you could do what you could do what, like, Updegrove did, where you got you got hit with a ticket. You're the one that gets to pay it. Updegrove is not gonna pay pay your overweight ticket for you. It's not gonna pay pay for, for, you know, any violation tickets you get, anything like that. It's, Gary's, philosophy was you're a truck driver. You know what you're supposed to be. You'll what you're allowed, not allowed. So if you end up fucking up, it's your own damn problem. So
[00:51:09] Unknown:
Well and and my company is the same way. Oh, okay. Good. But but when, say, we get we get a fine, they get a fine as well. Yeah. And it could be up to 10 times the amount of what I get fined. Oh, yeah. So but, yeah, overweight ticket and, you know, labeling, placarding, all that other stuff. You know, now I'm not buying the placards, but this shit better be, you know, to the standards. So and one of mine wasn't. And what was it? Yesterday yeah. Yesterday morning, before I hit the road, I changed out that placard because the red was it was it was getting faded. You could still see that it was red, but it was dull. But it wasn't pink.
Right. But it was still red. But to me, it was yeah. It needs to fucking get changed. So I Right. You know, I drilled out the rivets and put a new placard on and, you know, with the self tapping screws and, hell, I'm good to go. It's not me. Now the rest now the rest of the drivers, they ain't gonna do it. They're gonna fucking have our, who comes in and does our maintenance. They'll they'll have him do it. They ain't gonna fucking do it. Me, I'm like, fuck. If I see that it needs to be changed, I'm gonna fucking change it. Right. You know, it's my damn truck and trailer.
[00:52:52] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it doesn't matter who changes it as long as it gets changed properly
[00:52:57] Unknown:
and on time. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:53:01] Duuude-Ron :
I mean you know?
[00:53:07] Unknown:
Yeah. And I, you know, and I look at my stuff. And if I feel that it needs to be changed, then for that matter, I'll ask my boss, hey. We I need some placards for my truck. Fucking he orders them. He's and Max, the guy that does our work on all of our trucks, he doesn't have a problem changing them out. You know? In turn, I don't have a fucking problem changing them out either, But I'm the only one that doesn't have that problem. Everybody else is like, no. We're gonna get Max to do it. Like, yeah. Fucking pussy. But, you know, that's just me.
So now I feel a little bit better that I have my one placard that, you know, sees a lot of sunshine that I've gotten it replaced, and it's you know, now it's nice nice and bright red on that flammable two.
[00:54:09] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good deal.
[00:54:11] Unknown:
Yep. It is. And tomorrow, let's see. Max called me, and this was something completely out of the fucking blue. I didn't know he was gonna do. There was a couple of pieces he found when he did the dry PM last week. And one of the hoses to the self inflating system on my trailer, well, the hose, you know, got a hole in it, but we can take the hose off. And it it won't leak out of the system as a whole. You know? So I just put a one of those extender caps on the valve stem and, you know, just I just checked the air and tires. But we got one driver talking about that blitz, with the air pressure.
You know, what's the minimum air pressure that you have to have in tires?
[00:55:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I don't know. I always kept mine aired up.
[00:55:11] Unknown:
The what?
[00:55:14] Duuude-Ron :
Normally, a hundred.
[00:55:16] Unknown:
Yeah. The for the state of Texas, one hundred is minimum. So we had one of our drivers, and it wasn't me, that got pulled over and had 90 PSI in one of the steer tires and got placed out of service.
[00:55:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Running yeah. I have a 90 and a steer tire. Yeah. I don't think I'd be doing that. I'd have felt that, wiggle too much.
[00:55:55] Unknown:
Well, he got put out of service. So, I'm like, you knew the blitz was coming this week. You know what they were looking for. And, I mean, he's not he's one of the backup well, he's the backup driver for that location, so he's not on the road all the time. But he knows what the requirements are. And you know what? Every fucking vehicle has a tire pressure gauge and a, tread depth gauge in the trucks. Well, you know what? Use the motherfucker. Guess what? He didn't do it.
[00:56:38] Duuude-Ron :
That's his paycheck he has to worry about.
[00:56:41] Unknown:
Yep. So for two quarters, he lost his driver bonus, plus got a, written, what do we call it? In the military, it's a counseling statement. What the hell do we call it now? Basically, a written warning.
[00:57:09] Duuude-Ron :
Oh.
[00:57:11] Rich Chelson:
Well
[00:57:12] Duuude-Ron :
Either he'll learn or he won't.
[00:57:15] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, like I said, it wasn't me.
[00:57:23] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing because we'd be hearing about it if if if it had happened to you.
[00:57:29] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I'd be fucking rant ranting up a fucking storm. No. But I always have cold pressure. I've always had a hundred, which we're supposed to have because we do our monthly inspection that we do on ours on our vehicles. And cold pressure better be a hundred PSI in every tire. Nothing less. I did, however, find out that if cold pressure is a hundred PSI, hot pressure is about a 12 to a 14.
[00:58:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's.
[00:58:13] Unknown:
And, you know, I knew and I know the tires heat up, but, you know, I never knew that they went because I never checked it, the the pressure hot. I was just curious when I did my mid trip inspection and and checking all the straps and so on like that and make sure that the load's secure. And I just said, you know what? Let me see how much the fucking tire pressure is now. Yeah. The tire pressure on the steer tire, I had it a hundred and two, and hot pressure was a 14. I'm like, damn.
[00:58:53] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:58:55] Unknown:
So I didn't know they went up that much. I knew that they went up, but not 12 degrees.
[00:59:01] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's, yeah, that's normal. And and, actually, if you, you know, if they sit, you know, for very long and are are in cold climates, they can lose as much as 10 or 12 degrees just by sitting.
[00:59:18] Unknown:
So Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Mhmm.
[00:59:21] Duuude-Ron :
You can air them up to a hundred dollars on a Monday, not drive it till Friday. And if it's been cold out, it could drop down to 90 and and you not even know it. Let's just check your air pressure.
[00:59:38] Unknown:
Yep. That is very true. So, I do, however, have to now that it's May and before June hits, I'm gonna have to put, summer air into the tires and get the winter air out. So
[01:00:02] Duuude-Ron :
Go, my man.
[01:00:04] Unknown:
So there's not a drastic, you know, difference in tire pressure from cold and hot.
[01:00:10] Rich Chelson:
Well Yeah. I got you Yep. With that commercial air in, it's it's a lot it's a lot heavier duty.
[01:00:16] Unknown:
Commercial air. Yeah. I hadn't heard about that. You know, I knew about the summer and I knew about the winter and summer air, but I had never heard about the commercial air.
[01:00:29] Rich Chelson:
In all reality, I think it's kind of a rip off. It's about the same as summer air in the summertime. In the winter air and the winter time, they make those slight changes, but it's I think they do I think it's just a means to want to charge an extra 25¢ a a a a liter. So so, yeah, it's it really kinda just very it I don't think it really worth all the, all the hype.
[01:00:54] Duuude-Ron :
What's sad? What what is sad about both of those statements? There are people out there that believe that shit.
[01:01:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Well, I we had someone think that if you, you would go faster, if you if you put, helium in your tires because it made your car lighter.
[01:01:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god.
[01:01:22] Unknown:
Well, that's why those cylinders are the weight that they are so that the hydrogen and or helium that gets filled into them, you know, the cylinders aren't floating away.
[01:01:33] Rich Chelson:
Right. Absolutely. Don't want nothing worse than having having cylinders, floating up above you attached to a string or something. So
[01:01:44] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And it like you said, people out there would fucking believe that shit.
[01:01:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah.
[01:01:53] Unknown:
You know? Yep. I should I should actually weigh and empty 200, cubic feet cylinder empty and then weigh one full at ambient temperature just to see what the weight on compressed, compressed gas helium actually weighs. Because I know for an oxygen 300 cubic feet at ambient temperature for, 2,400 PSI plus 10% is for oxygen is 22 pounds of product inside that cylinder.
[01:02:45] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow.
[01:02:48] Unknown:
Yep. And it was 20.2 on the February because we used to have to weigh them on the medical cylinders, but we don't have to weigh them anymore. So, yeah, it they do have weight to them. Now what helium and hydrogen is, I don't know. And here's the here's the other the other things that make it go, like Arsenio Hall used to say, why is it cubic feet of product in a round cylinder?
[01:03:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Harris's will Because they actually have a a, a formula for figuring out what cubic feet is in a cylinder.
[01:04:05] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. That is true. They do.
[01:04:08] Unknown:
Yeah. But it's the ironic part. Why is it cubic feet instead of, cylindrical feet in a round cylinder. We don't have square cylinders. You know?
[01:04:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, because air won't hold hold right in in a in a square cylinder. Of course, I guess a square cylinder wouldn't be a cylinder then, would it?
[01:04:38] Unknown:
That's right. It wouldn't. So it's just the,
[01:04:41] Rich Chelson:
you know And I figured something out. Yay. I know my shapes.
[01:04:48] Unknown:
And they wouldn't roll very well either. That would
[01:04:51] Rich Chelson:
be all good. God. That sucks.
[01:04:53] Unknown:
Yeah. However, do you know why, high pressure cylinders are, round instead of squared?
[01:05:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because, the way air pushes against sides, it pushes equally on each side. So your your your seams, the corners would actually be the weak spot for every for every one of those, one of those, containers. And That is So you would when you put it as a round cylinder with round caps on there, you actually have equal pressure on all sides because, theoretically, it's all one side.
[01:05:37] Unknown:
That's correct. Yep. I was just seeing if anybody knew because I knew. But, yeah, the corners are the weakest points. The corners are the weakest points.
[01:05:49] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep.
[01:05:54] Unknown:
Well, I'm glad you paid attention in science class.
[01:05:58] Rich Chelson:
I well, science was the one was the one class that I just dug. I like biology. I mean, there were portions of it that really sucked, but at the same time, biology, anatomy, general science, love the shit out of the stuff. Only issue I ever ran into it was that you there was portions of it where you had to do math, and that was when it's like, oh, because I don't like math that much. There's a reason I went to Sunday High School.
[01:06:32] Unknown:
Oh, is that the reason why you went to Sundry High School? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Went to Sundry. And you and you want your family made damn sure you went to that school.
[01:06:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[01:06:43] Unknown:
Okay. Alright.
[01:06:45] Rich Chelson:
He's like, this this this son of a bitch is gonna suck at math, so we gotta make it as easy as
[01:06:53] Unknown:
possible. Yeah. Yeah. Never was a physics major myself.
[01:07:00] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Just
[01:07:03] Unknown:
some things I just could not get my fucking head wrapped around. Unlike the the movie, during the space race, the black ladies that were called the computers.
[01:07:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, are you talking about, what is it? Hidden numbers or something like that. Hidden yeah. I don't know I know what one you talked about. It's got Viola Davis, and they they were a beautiful movie. Love the movie itself.
[01:07:34] Unknown:
Yeah. Just
[01:07:37] Rich Chelson:
Hidden Figures
[01:07:40] Unknown:
is what it was called. Was it? I believe called computers.
[01:07:47] Rich Chelson:
Now heads and figures.
[01:07:49] Unknown:
Okay. I don't fucking remember. It was it Kevin Costner was the main Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good movie. Really enjoyed that one. But it's like, you know, just couldn't do wrap my head over this problem takes your old fucking chalkboard and then the back of the chalkboard to fucking get the
[01:08:15] Rich Chelson:
answer. Yeah. There was I mean, just the just the fact of what of all that of all those, of all those actual by hand calculations. But that doesn't show you how much society is itself, has has, you know, unless it's Deteriorate. Deteriorated. Oh, yeah. How much, how much, like, common core math, you know, is just get as close as you can. It's that's all that you need to do. Type of, type of, thought. Yeah. And Because, I mean, they're doing all of that by hand and was able to do it in was able to go from never having ever launched a rocket to parking somebody on the moon in, like what was it? Like, twenty, thirty years?
Because the by by the end of, Yeah. By the end of, end of of World War two is when they started going, hey. Rocket power. Okay. Let's let's do some rocket surgery here and then start to go into town. And about the you know, somewhere along that way in was late forties, early fifties when, when the Russians, slung up, Sputnik. Right. Well, when was beginning of the of the '60 right at the beginning of the sixties. I know that's when, JFK made it, did his moonshot, and they got that done within ten years of all things.
[01:10:09] Unknown:
That yeah. He wanted it done within by the end of the decade. Yeah. And they they Might the moon. What was it? June of sixty nine? I don't know. '69. Yeah.
[01:10:20] Rich Chelson:
I mean, it was it was within it was at a at a mind boggling time, but they did that all with computers that are weaker than our Texas Instrument, scientific,
[01:10:39] Unknown:
calculators. Yeah. Yeah. That you can put in your pocket. Yeah. Well, how many My my cell phone has more memory. Yeah. Computing power than that freaking computer that took up a whole damn fucking room. My phone in my pocket has hundreds of times more capabilities.
[01:11:03] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[01:11:04] Unknown:
So yeah. And God forbid Jesus. If I can if the computers went down in the world and computers have been a lot around for how many years now? Fifty?
[01:11:22] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean, depending on what there's there are digital computers have been around for, since the fifties, so it's been seventy years.
[01:11:35] Unknown:
Okay. And if the computers, every place crashed, would fucking society be able to sustain itself?
[01:11:49] Rich Chelson:
It would take a lot of adjustment, but, eventually, they would. But at the moment, no. There would be so much you know, you would have all us old folks that stand or have to go take up, jobs at the cashier station just to be able to count change And watch all the all the young ones sit there trying to figure out, how are you figuring that up? It's like, it's not fucking hard. You just you start with one and and, you know, you start with what you're ending ending imbalance was. It's, you know, they gave you $20. It was $17.35. So it's 35. That's a nickel.
So that's 40. 2 more, you know, you keep adding keep adding enough till you get to the next round number until you get to an hour.
[01:12:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I think hundred dollars is there no one has cash anymore, so you wouldn't even have have to have that.
[01:12:40] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. God forbid yeah. Fuck. Society as a whole would pay.
[01:12:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And I use them.
[01:12:50] Unknown:
And I do debit as well. But you know what? I always have some type of cash in my pocket.
[01:12:57] Rich Chelson:
You're one of the few. You're one of the few. I don't. Just because it's, I I I I don't just because it's easier just to just to flip that, that card out.
[01:13:16] Unknown:
Wow. No. I will have cash in my pocket. Because if I wanna go get a soda at the vending machine, yeah. And most I can't say all, but most vending machines, yes, you can fucking tap the card on that one too.
[01:13:36] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[01:13:37] Unknown:
But if the fucking system went down, you know, humans have been around for we'll just ballpark it for ten thousand years. Did okay. You know, with what they had. But if the computers went down, the fucking the whole world society would just fucking crash and would come to a fucking alt.
[01:14:11] Duuude-Ron :
It would eventually ride itself, but, yeah, you're right. It would come to a crash.
[01:14:16] Unknown:
Yeah. And it would take, oh, what, five, ten years to ride itself? I mean, if yeah. No. If computers crashed and you could not get them back up.
[01:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Exactly. Who knows if it would take, you know I mean, five, ten years, honestly, if you ask me, that that would be, too soon because, we would have to build a whole new currency. And to do that, like like, when we had the dollar backed by gold, okay, we had enough gold to cover the value of a dollar. And Correct. You can use anything to back a dollar value. You can use oil. You can use toothpicks if you have enough of them. You can use anything as as money.
[01:15:09] Unknown:
So Yeah.
[01:15:11] Duuude-Ron :
You know, you know, you would need to figure that out and then get enough of that to, you know, give it a value, assign it a value, and then start trading in that.
[01:15:26] Unknown:
Yeah. And, like, what Rich or what, Brian just said, it would take all of us old people to teach all the fucking new people just how to fucking count change, let alone how to fucking punch the numbers like they used to do.
[01:15:43] Duuude-Ron :
Plus well, we'd need all the old cash registers back because, you know, everything's computerized. The the new cash registers wouldn't even work.
[01:15:55] Unknown:
Yeah. So you'd have to do that. You have to teach people how to actually fucking count change. Yeah. It would be hilarious. And for us grumpy old motherfuckers, we'd just be sitting out on the porch, just sitting there fucking laughing, And then we probably laugh some more and just go, wow. Let me go get into my antiquated vehicle, which, unfortunately, none of us have an antiquated vehicle anymore. But, you know, if we had the antiquated vehicles, we could get in, you know, turn the key and get down the road. Why? Because for the most part, we knew how to fucking fix it.
[01:16:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see, though, the thing is you wouldn't be able to get gas because everything's ran on a computer.
[01:16:51] Unknown:
You want you wanna make a fucking bet? I'll fucking get gas. I'll open that main tank hatch, and I'll fucking siphon out the gas myself. Right. So I'd have gas. Now Walmart may not fucking like it. Oh, okay. You know? Much pain. I get it. Walmart
[01:17:14] Duuude-Ron :
wouldn't even think twice if someone did that because everybody would be whining and crying. We can't get no stuff at Walmart. Twenty trips a day to Walmart would end.
[01:17:35] Unknown:
Yeah. And the sad thing about it is is I know motherfuckers would do that.
[01:17:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dude, I can I can I I mean, now now I'm not saying the people I see drive up and down my street all day are going to Walmart, but I can guarantee you 90%, I and this is speculation, but I would say 90% of the motherfuckers that drive up and down my street all the time, and I know the vehicles? They go at least once, if not twice. I mean, good lord. There's I mean, I see vehicles up and down the road all the time all the time. I'm like, good god, people. Where the fuck are you going?
[01:18:23] Unknown:
Exactly. It's like, you know what? You couldn't have made a fucking list and gotten it all the first time.
[01:18:31] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Can't. No. Can't do that, dude. What's a list?
[01:18:36] Unknown:
Right. Oh, wow. You should And it's a list
[01:18:40] Rich Chelson:
yeah. Hey. Phone. Yeah.
[01:18:43] Unknown:
Yes. A lot of people use their phone, write a list. You know, I don't have Excel and all that other shit on my phone.
[01:18:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:18:53] Duuude-Ron :
Just need need a a note taking app, which your phone has, and you just type it in.
[01:19:03] Unknown:
Well, I'm sure it does, but I know about 10% of what the fucking capacity is of my phone.
[01:19:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. No. You've got a note taking app. You don't need Excel. You don't need nothing. You've got it on your phone. Every phone has it. Oh, okay. Open it up, type in your list, and bring it up when you're shopping, if you remember.
[01:19:28] Unknown:
See, I fucking write my list on a piece of paper with a
[01:19:34] Duuude-Ron :
pen. Yep. Same here. When I when I go shopping,
[01:19:38] Unknown:
when I get it, I cross it out so I know I got everything on my list.
[01:19:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, I do that. And that's if I remember to take the list with me. And then if I take the list with me, if I remember to bring a pen, it will normally, the list really doesn't matter because I wind up getting about 40 different things that wasn't on my list.
[01:20:05] Unknown:
Of course.
[01:20:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[01:20:08] Unknown:
You know, I go to check out But when you get but when you get home and the first thing that you had on your list, usually, that's the most important thing. And then the first thing you write down, that is what you fucking forgot.
[01:20:23] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. All the time. All the time.
[01:20:26] Unknown:
Because you know what? The first thing that is on my list, every list that I make pretty much
[01:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[01:20:34] Unknown:
Coffee.
[01:20:37] Duuude-Ron :
AM, dude.
[01:20:40] Unknown:
But I do instant. So you know? Yeah. But when I, you know, do yeah. You know, I will start. If I need something here and there, I'll stop at Walmart on the way home from work, but I ain't making a fucking special trip.
[01:20:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Same here. You know? If if, you know, if I go shopping and and, you know, I forget two, three, four things or whatever, oh, fuck it. I'm doing without till I go again. That's right. Might be in two weeks. Might be in two days. Who cares? My ass is waiting.
[01:21:17] Unknown:
But, yeah, but you're not gonna fucking unpack the bags and go, oh, fuck. I forgot this, and then go back out and get it. Yeah. No. No.
[01:21:27] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. I go shopping once I get home and get everything inside. Fuck that. Day's over. I may but up. Days over. Done. I'm done. I don't do nothing else the rest of the day.
[01:21:42] Unknown:
Well, all because only because with you, it it hurts. Mhmm. Yeah. Gosh. Being And I and trust me, I don't enjoy grocery shopping in any sense of the word. That's just like but in turn, I'm not fucking having somebody else shop for me and then bring it out to my car. Fuck that. I wanna go and look at the prob product and put it in a damn cart.
[01:22:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I've done that before, though. I I've tried it out and and, actually, on base at the at the commissary. I I did that. And, I gotta say, the person who who because I ordered meat and I ordered a whole bunch of stuff. And, I gotta say, I was impressed with their shopping abilities. They did really well.
[01:22:47] Unknown:
Well, that's that is great because I see the ones down here. And and it's not all of them, but I see some of the ones down here. It's like, just graduated high school. It's like, wow. I would not want to have you shopping for me. No. Thank you. But that's me.
[01:23:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, see, I've I've gotten some stuff from, you know, Walmart, you know, delivered, and everything like that. And believe it or not, just about everybody well, I mean, Walmart's I mean, everyone goes by name brands anyway because that's how, you know, Walmart it's it's either Walmart brand or a name brand. So, I mean, it's not a shop, and I don't get meat from Walmart ever. I don't I don't care how much they think they're saving. Yeah. The meat, no. I would rather go to a grocery store that cuts their own meat, which I've got one right up the road. They freaking cut their own meat.
[01:24:01] Unknown:
Right. Help with
[01:24:03] Duuude-Ron :
commissary on base cuts their own
[01:24:07] Unknown:
meat. So I don't think I don't think I don't remember the our commissary if they cut their own. I I don't remember. It's been so long. And we had two of and we had two of them on Fort Hood. We had the main one, and then there was a secondary one at the other on the other side of the post. It was about half the size, but still, you know, had the same stuff, just not in
[01:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
the quantity that the main one had. Right. Right. Well, I mean I mean, basically, the main one would would supply the smaller one, you know, especially, you know, if they cut their own meat, they just cut it for the smaller store and send it over that way.
[01:24:52] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
You knew. I mean, they I don't know. Don't you know, I don't I don't go to the commissary a lot over on on Keesler, down here. But, you know, when I do, it's, I mean, I enjoy going because I have they have so many different options. You know? It's not just the same shit in in every store. You know what I mean? Yeah.
[01:25:25] Unknown:
Yeah. Uh-huh.
[01:25:26] Duuude-Ron :
And, you know, I like to try new and different things anyway. So that's why I, you know, I don't mind going to commissary, but it's been a while
[01:25:39] Unknown:
since I've been out out that way. Oh, it's it's been a long while since it's been several years since I went to the commissary.
[01:25:48] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it hasn't been that long for me. But Well, I know that.
[01:25:52] Unknown:
It's been, what, couple months?
[01:25:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Probably about four months or so. Four or five months. But, yeah, I'll wind up going back. Don't worry.
[01:26:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I don't know. I completely understand. I I got you.
[01:26:12] Duuude-Ron :
Because, normally, the commissary has got the best prices on me. Oh,
[01:26:18] Unknown:
okay.
[01:26:24] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's it's, that's why I like going there. And plus, like like, on ramen noodles, you know, you could say I'm bougie or picky. About the one thing. Well, you know that top ramen stuff or that stuff made by Nissan and, you know, them those other brands, I can't stand it. I can't stand them because of the way they're made. The ones I like are the ones that come directly from Japan.
[01:27:00] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[01:27:03] Duuude-Ron :
They don't come from, you know, American factories or anything like this.
[01:27:10] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:11] Duuude-Ron :
Sapro Ichiban. Number one, soup is what it means.
[01:27:18] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:20] Duuude-Ron :
Ichiban in Japanese is number one. So yeah. But, but, yeah, they and say, like like like in Walmart or or, like, HEB for you or whatnot, if you go look at the ramen noodles, most most of the time, all you're gonna see is beef and chicken. Very you might see pork flavor. You might see oriental flavor. And then you'll see shrimp. Shrimp. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. That's that's a rare one. In in Walmart, all you'll see is beef and chicken.
[01:28:03] Unknown:
For the most part, yes.
[01:28:05] Duuude-Ron :
I mean yeah. But, but that's where you know? Like, because I like the pork flavor, the shrimp flavor. You know, I like the different flavors. Yeah. I I mean and I don't know. Like, I don't know. It's just the way the noodles cook up and taste with their mother brands. That's why that's why I like the ones that come straight from Japan.
[01:28:31] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:28:33] Duuude-Ron :
Those noodles seem to taste better.
[01:28:37] Unknown:
So Yeah. Probably because they're most of them are egg noodles.
[01:28:44] Duuude-Ron :
I believe so.
[01:28:45] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:28:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. It's not rice noodles. Rice noodles are very thin and very small. So, yeah, these are egg noodles. But but I don't know. It's just made differently than Yeah. Than, like, the Nissan brand or the Marucci and yeah. I can't I can't stand those flavors.
[01:29:09] Unknown:
Those Oh, I you know what? I'm and I'm gonna interrupt you real quick, and we'll go back to that. I found your next, riding lawnmower. It has little batteries that you can use on a push mower and a weed whacker are the same ones that they're putting in the riding mowers. That's what you need to get.
[01:29:35] Duuude-Ron :
Battery powered riding mower? Oh, hell.
[01:29:42] Unknown:
God only knows what the cost is on this, son, bitch.
[01:29:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, damn. And and holy. Same size battery is for the weed eater and everything else?
[01:29:55] Unknown:
You know, it it may be the bigger batteries. I really didn't see it, come up on the commercial, but it well, the company has weed eaters and all the way up to riding lawnmowers. I didn't I didn't catch I didn't catch the company's name.
[01:30:13] Duuude-Ron :
That is crazy. Because, say, guys, battery powered riding lawnmower. I'd be scared.
[01:30:25] Unknown:
You know what I'm gonna buy? If I ever get a riding lawnmower, you know what I'm gonna buy? Gas. I'm gonna buy something like what you have. It takes gas.
[01:30:40] Duuude-Ron :
And most most Sheraton mowers are gas now. There's a lot of push mowers out there that have battery. And I've got a weed eater that's a battery, and I got a blower that's a battery. We which is fine. You know? But yeah. The right yeah. Yeah. The big lawnmower? Uh-uh. No. It's gas.
[01:31:01] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't buying no fucking battery. Big no. Fuck. No. And, you know, here's the funniest thing I heard on Fox News the other night that, Bernie Sanders and AOC, they're getting on his private jet and flying all around The United States talking about, you know, green energy and all this other stuff, and they calculated it up to the amount of c o two that his jet produced on this little tour that him and AOC went on
[01:31:40] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm.
[01:31:44] Unknown:
Is the same amount of c o two that what was it? I heard my starting spot. Well, that'd be Like a like, 30 cars would make in a year. So
[01:31:59] Duuude-Ron :
That's crazy.
[01:32:02] Unknown:
So they're talking all about this fucking green energy and just yeah. Hypocrites.
[01:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Yeah. Hypocrites. That's funny.
[01:32:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I see. Yeah. For your best.
[01:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. People are are are falling for the
[01:32:26] Unknown:
Yeah. And battery this and electric this and electric that, and how much gasoline energy is used to extract what they need for one of these electric car batteries.
[01:32:48] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:32:50] Unknown:
Yeah. It will never fucking make sense. Now if you wanna have a battery powered car, a Tesla, or fucking a Humvee for that matter, because the new Humvees are all fucking electric.
[01:33:08] Rich Chelson:
Yes. All that. It's just like, holy shit. How far we have fallen?
[01:33:17] Unknown:
Yeah. If and if you won't have an electrical electric Humvee, knock yourself the fuck out. I see him driving down the road, you know, passing me, just blowing by me. Of course, I can only do 65 miles an hour. But, you know, I look at that, I'm like, wow. I would never own an electric vehicle ever.
[01:33:41] Duuude-Ron :
When did they start making Humvees again? Chevy. Build them
[01:33:47] Rich Chelson:
a few years. Oh, they were needing to try to find something that might wow the, the the the petrol heads. And so they, they're like, hey. Maybe they like they really like that Humvee. They were really mad whenever we took the Humvee away, so maybe we can get them with an electric Humvee. And no. No. Nobody wants to buy it. I mean, hell, you don't you can't even afford the insurance on the damn things.
[01:34:14] Unknown:
Right. Well, I'm not checking. But, yeah, the the Humvee the new Humvee, all electric Humvee looks like a little bit larger Ford Bronco.
[01:34:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It does. I'm looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. 99 to a hundred and 7,000.
[01:34:37] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. It's like, holy shit, man. What's up with the damn? No one wants to have them because one, you can't afford the damn things. And second, like I said, you can't afford the insurance. The insurance on them is just astronomical. Yeah. I mean,
[01:34:55] Duuude-Ron :
tons. They weigh five tons. For fucking
[01:34:58] Unknown:
five tons?
[01:35:00] Duuude-Ron :
Five tons. Wow. 8,000 pounds. It's a thousand horsepower. It's fucking crazy. And both and and it boasts a range of 311 miles.
[01:35:18] Rich Chelson:
Which is actually half that. Yes.
[01:35:23] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, either way but yeah.
[01:35:29] Rich Chelson:
The key word on that is boasts.
[01:35:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. That's crazy.
[01:35:40] Rich Chelson:
And your, your homeowner's insurance won't doesn't want you charging them inside the inside the garage. So, yeah, I mean, the insurance companies are so so against them too. They'll they want they are so dug into the ESG stuff that they're like, yeah. It's you wanna have all the charging stations and stuff, but, oh, don't charge it inside because if you charge it inside and it burns your house down, well, yeah, that doesn't quite go with our with our policy. So you wouldn't you would lose your house and everything if, if the if the battery fire took out your house, which, funny enough, it often does.
[01:36:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This is I swear. People are getting stupid.
[01:36:30] Unknown:
Yeah. And stupid is forever. Now okay. Since, Rich, you own a Jeep, obviously, how many miles to the gallon do you get?
[01:36:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right now, on the average, about two forty to the tank, and that's just in town driving. On the road, I can get closer to 300.
[01:36:57] Unknown:
Okay. You know what I get?
[01:37:00] Duuude-Ron :
You don't know. Right?
[01:37:02] Unknown:
I have not a fucking clue. When it gets down to a quarter of a tank, I go fill it up. Drive it around, goes down to a quarter of a tank, I fill it back up. I have no idea what my fucking mileage is nor do I care.
[01:37:23] Rich Chelson:
I I kinda I kinda peek at what my what my mileage is just because if there's time so, like, if I'll if I'm driving around and it seems like I'm having to fill up a lot faster, I'll peek and see what it thinks the, mileage is, and I'll actually go through and fill and, and we'll we'll hand figure it from time to time because I'll and I'll put in however many, gallons I put in, and, and I'll top it all the way off. And I can that's one if there's anything about that that Mazda that I like, I can top the shit out of that damn, damn, tank because I will sit there and I can I'll it I'll put be filling it up and, you know, it'll it'll click.
You know, I'll I'll put 40 say, I'll put put in put $40 on the pump, and I'll go and fill up, but that'll click off at about 30. I could put another $10 worth of, gas in the neck. If you just go slow enough, it'll start to fill up start to fill up, and it'll kinda get up to the top. So I'll shake my car, and it'll burn the x out of it. And so so, yeah, I could do that a few times. And just going slow enough, I can I've I've actually have gotten it filled all the way up to where it was sitting at the at the mount, once, and that was just because I ended up thinking I was lower than that. It ended up having, like, 20 extra dollars or something like that. So I don't know what, how much I can actually stick inside the neck, but, yeah, there's a I could put a lot of damn fuel in that thing.
Wow. Yep. I did that and drove to Amarillo, which is, you know, two and a half hours away. And by the time I got to Amarillo, the needle had finally started to move off a full. I was like, yeah. I'm all sorts of proud of myself. But
[01:39:30] Unknown:
now that you know what? And you know what you should get for that? A participation trophy?
[01:39:39] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. Wow.
[01:39:47] Unknown:
No. I have no fucking idea what my Jeep gets for that matter. Now my stepdad, god rest his soul, every time he filled up a vehicle. It didn't matter what vehicle they had. It had a fucking logbook for the gas, and he calculated it every fucking time.
[01:40:18] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:40:20] Unknown:
And you know what? Hey. That's absolutely fucking great. I don't know if that's a stepdad thing. I don't know.
[01:40:29] Rich Chelson:
Because my my I had a, I had a, stepdad, growing up. I mean, I never called him dad or anything like that. He was always known as Bill. But, but he was a cool dude. You know? I'd I'd been until I got older, I didn't realize how much of a, how much of a, a a dickhead he really was. I mean, he still has a special place in my heart just because he was such a cool dude. I mean, I you know, I went and we went up to, went up to New Hampshire to go see his, see his parents a couple three times, and it was just a it was a cool thing. But, but, yeah, he was he was one of those. He had he had a a maintenance log book, in his cars, And he would, he would figure up the mileage. He would, note, note when the, the services were and all that.
I don't know if it was just that, you know, that era of of men who who had that dedication.
[01:41:38] Unknown:
You know, I don't know. But my my dad never fucking did anything like that. Okay. My stepdad and it yeah. He did all the maintenance. He knew all the fucking yeah. He kept track of the oil changes and, you know, the fluid when it needed to be changed. You know, he kept that in a different book, but he had a gas book. And every time he filled up, and every vehicle had one, he would write it down, calculate everything out. It's like, hey. You know what? More power to you. I have never in my life done that. When the cast can or when the gas tank gets to a corner tank or a little bit below, you better go fucking tow it up because you're gonna run out of gas. Right.
[01:42:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It doesn't matter. Alright. Go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.
[01:42:29] Unknown:
No. It's it doesn't matter what the gas mileage is. Right. If you don't if you're not if you're getting bad gas mileage, you know, I ain't gonna fucking go buy another goddamn car. I couldn't afford that shit. No. But if you got bad bad gas mileage, then you would start,
[01:42:44] Rich Chelson:
most of those most of those types of guys, what they'd start doing is they start tinkering with the car to figure out why the gas mileage fell so much. And when I say fall so much where, you know, you start losing about five gallons of gas, in in range.
[01:43:00] Unknown:
Well yeah. And my stepdad, he wouldn't tinker with it. He'd take it to somebody and let them tinker on it, which is which is which is fine. You know? God rest his soul. And but it's like, okay. If you're gonna start getting gas bad gas mileage, well, the first thing I'm gonna do,
[01:43:21] Rich Chelson:
probably change this fucking spark plugs. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I would do too. I would start with the with the plugs and all that.
[01:43:29] Unknown:
That's unless you have a fucking computer, that's all you can fucking manually do now is change spark plugs. Everything You can change plugs, change out the the packs
[01:43:42] Rich Chelson:
for the plugs, and that's that's that's the extent of it. So but they're out wide.
[01:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
Can change the, idle air control sensor to map sensor because that all affects fuel mileage. You're Filter. Yeah.
[01:43:56] Unknown:
You're right. But you have to have a computer to you can change all that. Yeah. That's great. And I don't know what the cost on all that shit is. You know? I just
[01:44:07] Duuude-Ron :
Various prices for vehicles because I've changed, mass airflow sensor on on my TJ, an idle air control, valve on my TJ. You know? It's just different prices. Normally, less than a hundred bucks. You know? Mhmm. Out the wires out. You know? I I mean and so, I mean, there's there's a few things you can do that's not gonna break the bank, and you don't need a computer for it.
[01:44:37] Unknown:
Yeah. That's true. So But I tell you what, they, what's that bank called? Did it hooks up to all the spark plugs now? What the ignition bank or whatever? Man, that motherfucker was not cheap on a four o inline six. That's damn sure. I had checked out one of those in the TJ one time. That's, like, a hundred and $80 for that motherfucker. Wow. Because it because it's one strip for all six plugs.
[01:45:13] Duuude-Ron :
Is that fuel injectors? He was talking about the fuel rail?
[01:45:18] Unknown:
Not the fuel rail. Your ignition rail that runs the control on all the spark plugs. I don't remember what it's called.
[01:45:29] Rich Chelson:
The thing that took the place of the distributor.
[01:45:32] Unknown:
Distributor and the spark plug wires. Yes.
[01:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, and I had my Cherokee that had a four o. I I started distributor.
[01:45:40] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Mine had the, the coil pack is what it's called.
[01:45:47] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[01:45:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Hundred and $80 for that coil pack.
[01:45:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:45:54] Unknown:
Because it ran ran all six cylinders. Yep. I liked it when cars were, you know, carbureted and distributor cap and spark plug wires and yeah. I like those.
[01:46:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, my my, my great aunt, Dorothy, her husband, Benny, I mean, he they lived up in up around, three Purple Falls, Minnesota. And one of the most fascinating things about that man that I I remember of is that anytime we went on a little trip and, I mean, I only went and saw him probably two, maybe three times. But, anytime we'd go out on a trip, and a trip was anything beyond you know, we would we were in the area of Fargo, Fargo area. We were in driving distance of air. I I I remember that, of course, maybe not driving distance because it seemed like it took forever to get the landing in Fargo and and going over to their house. So I don't exactly know where I am. If we were to drive around, a lot of times he would we'd go up in the up in the Canada because we're close to the Canada Canadian area.
So if that helps, Annie. It was when we got done with our trip, this guy would change the oil. Before we took off to the for the trip, he would change the oil, and then he would change the oil again afterwards. And he did would go go through and do a full, preventive maintenance on on the car before we he'd ever take it out. He would throw on his he he had some, had some garage coveralls that he would he would throw on, and the I mean, the guy was probably 75, 80 years old, the last time I remember seeing him do it. And, I mean, this well, maybe not that. Yeah. About I would say about 70.
And, he would he would sit there and go through, and he would tinker on that old old car. And I could tell you what it was other than it was a land yacht because it was a big ass freaking car. But, but, yeah, he would he would take her on that car and get everything all taken care of, then he would, we would go out on our trip, and he would do every and and do whatever we were gonna do on our trip. And then we'd come back, and he would go back in there. He would drain the oil out. Hell, it was damn it was freaking clean oil. He was dump it out. It was like it's bad, spanking new.
But, but, yeah, he was he would take care of that car. That car did not have a squeak or anything. Yeah. It was it sounded like it was a brand new freaking vehicle every time he'd start fired up, and that thing was probably twenty years old whenever, whenever, whenever I remember seeing it. Right.
[01:49:02] Duuude-Ron :
It never broke down, though.
[01:49:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It never broke down.
[01:49:07] Unknown:
So look look in the chat real quick.
[01:49:09] Rich Chelson:
Yep. There you go. Now there's a family Roadster.
[01:49:25] Unknown:
Isn't that cool? That is cool. 1982 Mercedes.
[01:49:31] Rich Chelson:
That's an '82. Wow.
[01:49:35] Unknown:
Yes. And that guy, it it, yeah, that that that vehicle is as clean inside as it was outside. It was, one of my the neighbor from across the street, they had come to pick up something from her, and I saw that wagon. I was sitting out front having a smoke. I'm like, wow. So I went over there and just, you know, introduced myself, and I was just looking at the car. I was like, man, a 1982 Mercedes station wagon. That's a pretty cool car.
[01:50:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That is a neat looking car. So
[01:50:25] Unknown:
I thought I just now they reminded me we're talking about, you know, old land yachts. Because when I was growing up I mean, when I was a little kid, we had we'd my parents not had not just one, but two station wagons. Don't ask me what they were. I don't know if they were Chevys or what they were. But Yeah.
[01:50:52] Rich Chelson:
We had a Country Squire. I remember the brand on that one.
[01:50:58] Unknown:
Yeah. I remember the Country Squires.
[01:51:02] Duuude-Ron :
It's on the tip of my tongue. I remember. I it was a Plymouth, I think.
[01:51:09] Rich Chelson:
I probably wish they had bring back the station wagons. Yeah. They were people make fun of them and stuff, but damn, those were actually kinda fun cars to have.
[01:51:21] Unknown:
Yeah. Because you could throw all the fucking kids in the very back. Didn't have to worry about didn't have to worry about nay one fucking seat belt ever.
[01:51:32] Rich Chelson:
Ford made
[01:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
it. I made the Country Square.
[01:51:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. The Ford Country Square. Yeah. That's right.
[01:51:43] Unknown:
It's just, like, right around in the back of a pickup truck.
[01:51:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I mean and some, some of the, models even have the options of having the, the way way back was was able to transform into seats. And the kind of the seat not only did that, they were rear facing seats. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The rear facing seats too. That was awesome because you could sit there and make faces person behind
[01:52:09] Unknown:
you. So I did. Shit. I don't know how many fucking faces I made in my lifetime.
[01:52:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Load the kids up and the whole store and come home with it. Yeah.
[01:52:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:52:26] Unknown:
Without a doubt.
[01:52:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You could have you'd have mom, dad, and another other couple, and they'd all set the front the front seat and the back seat, and kids would all be shoved into the back. There'd be 30 of them. And Yep. And parents sat there, be spoken. The windows be open. It'd be two degrees outside, and y'all the kids in the back are pleased to death, but, you know, that was why. We just kinda we didn't bitch about it because, well, what was that gonna do?
[01:52:59] Unknown:
Get you smacked.
[01:53:00] Rich Chelson:
Get you, get you slapped at at the at the best. So
[01:53:04] Unknown:
Yeah. Get your fucking back of your heads fucking knocked off. You wanna you wanna fucking or you wanna fucking whine and cry? I'll give you something to whine and cry about.
[01:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. That was a what was it? I saw a Facebook bill earlier last week that just really kinda hits home on that. And, basically, it's talking about, what the what of us are are actually pursuing is actually the the feeling of pure joy and freedom that we had when we were young. But not that we really wanna go back to those days, but we want those times when we didn't have to have all the stresses in our lives stacked upon us as we do now. And, it's it's one of those things where it's oh, yeah. I get I understand that. And I've that's the the because I am one of those that does stay stuck in the past an awful lot.
[01:54:32] Unknown:
Well, yeah, I love the past.
[01:54:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I do too. I mean, it's whether whether shitty times in back then, it's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of shitty times. I mean, we all have our if you wanna use modern language, which doesn't mean shit because it's not really there, but, you know, we all have our forms trauma. What whatever that end that word ends up meaning in today's the today's terms. So, you know, we had stuff that that shaped us, but you learn how to help move on and still be able to manage with the yeah. Function with in society. Yeah.
Because if you got a little too far out of out of, out of range, you know, society would kinda look at you and you would you figure you had to figure out, like, how do we get ourselves, you know, straightened out? Because if we don't, you know, we're gonna be on the outs and out out doubts, and we don't wanna do that. But there's a lot of you know? That's one of the big problems I see. At least I feel today is is going on as you got people want society to bend to their will instead of them bending to society. And is society always right? No. Because, I mean, hell, look at what society's been doing here recently. Society has been doing the coddling. Society, you know, wants wants boys to be girls and girls to be boys, and all the times that that is all completely wrong.
[01:56:20] Unknown:
100% wrong.
[01:56:23] Rich Chelson:
But you've got but at the same time, you're you can't end to society's will in those instances. And to assume that society has to bend to your will is equally is equally wrong. You need to figure out how to get along in society with that won't be the best way because I kinda talk myself to a big old circle into into a trap on that one. Is a is take is how do you fit into society without without losing who you are?
[01:57:10] Unknown:
You know how to do that? Get your ass whooped every once in a while. Well, yeah. That definitely helps.
[01:57:17] Rich Chelson:
You know,
[01:57:18] Unknown:
I you know, I got my fair share of ass whoopings when I was a kid. Oh, yeah. And guess what? It developed the character that I have today. Right now or in different,
[01:57:36] Rich Chelson:
No. I agree. A lot of kids lot kids need to have need to have a battle applied to their bet on a on a regular basis. I mean, there there is something about the spoil of the rod, the bear of the rod spoil the child because Yeah. You see how you know? I mean, there is at least on on my TikTok feed, there's a lot of discussion right now up and a a term that is being bandied about a lot is called black fatigue. Not to make this a race thing, but it's but that's what's showing up. And it's and everybody who's complaining about it, yeah, we've got some white folks. I got some white folk on my feed that jump in there. But 90% of the folks who are actually commenting on black boutique is the black community.
And black fatigue is the all the, all the folks who are you know, you see the see the McDonald's breakouts, you know, not breakouts, but, meltdowns where all of a sudden you've got the someone with the from the brigade or the chef hat brigade or whatever the hell that damn hat is that, that everybody seems to be wearing. And, and they're duking it out with somebody else. That or they've got an overweight, you know, fat chick wearing wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. Fighting another fat chick in a cowboy boots cowboy hat at a freaking Beyonce concert. You know, it's they're they're it's so busy fighting everybody else. They're so ratchet because of the ghetto mentality.
And that's that's such a a sad thing to actually see because, yeah, the there is a there is a a a the black mentality for the for the black community was such a incredible and powerful thing. You saw oh, I I think I've talked about it before, but, it always is good to, to bring it back up. The the black, the black married family was actually more successful on on average than white, white families. There were more black married families who bought themselves out of poverty into upper middle class than white poverty, families. When they would get out of when they would improve, they would only wind up in lower middle class.
Low a lot more would wind up in lower middle class as opposed to upper middle class like, like the, like the black, black married families. And what ended up killing a lot of that, a lot of that mindset was the, was the, the great society created by LBJ. When all of a sudden the welfare system was kit it was applied, that designated the the black American family. And all of a sudden, you had more black people being found in the projects and and the and the on the on the poor side of tracks and and all that. And that's that's an accumulation of the victim mindset. Oh, I have I'm owed something even if it's to get my get the Big Mac exactly the way I want it, or I didn't get enough fries or whatever it is, these these people on on on online are throwing a shit fit about.
And it's, you know, it's sad, and it's you see you see them from well, I mean, from two from the time of COVID when they started, you know, doing riots. That was the time I was, like, going I did I personally don't understand. Okay. If you're complaining about racism, then why are you destroying minority owned businesses? And I guess they got a little smart about it and started figuring out. I was like, oh, wait a minute. We can go into the upper side upper the better part of town and go, you know, go rob Neiman Marcus, and then all of a sudden, they're mentioning that Neiman that all the, all the Walmarts and Targets and and everything were locking everything up behind, behind glass doors or plastic doors, they were closing up completely and leaving, leaving the neighborhood.
They were staying around going, what why are y'all leaving? What's what's what's the deal with with you with you, leaving our neighborhood? You're leaving us with nothing. It's like, no. You're getting you're getting what you deserve. And it's kind of been the kind of the past five years have been a really big turning point with a lot of the, a lot of the woke actually, the past two years have been the big turning point for a lot of the woke ideology because they have they are just wearing people's, nerves then. It's like, really? Come on. I can't even can't even go go to town, you know, without the without fear of of offending somebody who, you know, doesn't like the way that you looked in their general direction.
And sadly, it's it's not even the the men. It's all the women that seem to be causing all the problems nowadays. Just to add, you know, a little more insult to injury, I know I'm digging myself a big asshole. I'm gonna have all sorts of people bitch bitching at me going, my god. He's he doesn't just doesn't doesn't like like for other races. He doesn't like black other races women. So but it's
[02:04:27] Unknown:
well You know what? And then you this is your rebuttal. This is your rebuttal, and I'm not trying to change the subject. Here's your name. You're not racist. Just remember, you are not racist. You hate everybody equally.
[02:04:43] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. I I I I definitely detest, most people on an equal basis, but it's those people who I do absolutely detest and and abhor people who think they need to have special treatment.
[02:05:04] Unknown:
Yeah. I agree that.
[02:05:06] Rich Chelson:
And that's those are the ones that I've I throw the biggest biggest fit about. It's like, come on, man. Really?
[02:05:12] Unknown:
Well, you want everybody else to yeah. You want everybody else to go out and do your shit and
[02:05:18] Rich Chelson:
you know? Yeah. And then you wander around wondering why you're poor. Like, well, because you haven't done anything. Maybe if you stopped try stop from and I personally blame a lot, a lot of the, the problem on on on music. I think music does have some power over people. Yeah. But at the same time, it's that music should or shouldn't have the power depending on is there a dad in that family. And, sadly, most of the most of the folks who are running rampant through, you know, going in and doing smash and grabs, you know, with with the whole with the whole herd of, of people.
You know, you have a crowd of folks running into a store and grabbing everything that's not nailed down and running out. I personally you look at any of them, and I bet you if you ask them, there would be is there a dad in the and, did you grow up with a dad in the house? They would say, no. No. I didn't know my dad, or my dad's in jail or or or something to that effect. And that's the that's the big, that's the big big problem with society. And yeah. And I still think feminism being a, root of a lot of that problem because, yes, women are needed. Women have a very crucial important part in a functioning society.
But to, to say that men are not important in society is ignorant. That is actually acting highly that's like saying, well, you don't I I don't need a woman in my life. Well, to function day to day, technically, no. I don't need a woman. It's really freaking nice, though, to have a damn woman in, you know, around. Yeah. So But I don't have to have one, but I would live actually live longer if I was married to one. I would, on the on the average, be a happier person if I was married to one. You're on the average a better person. Women balance men out.
Hold up real quick. I mean, tell this guy that he's got sand pouring out of his damn bottom. So
[02:08:11] Unknown:
That's just a detail, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Other talker.
[02:08:16] Rich Chelson:
So, hey, I'm gonna put you on mute. I'll be back here in a bit. Alright.
[02:08:27] Duuude-Ron :
I'm still here, dude.
[02:08:29] Unknown:
Okay. Well, I I see your lovely camping picture. That's a That's right. Yeah. It is an old one. You've had that on now since forever.
[02:08:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:08:46] Unknown:
I don't think you've ever changed it. Course, I don't think I've ever put one up, my damn self.
[02:08:53] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know if you have.
[02:08:56] Unknown:
I don't think I have. I fucked for that matter. I don't even know how to. So
[02:09:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think I forgot how I, honest with you. But, yeah, that was taken up at Strawberry Lake, when I lived up in Montana.
[02:09:17] Unknown:
Oh, really? So was Montana right before Missouri, or was there something in between that?
[02:09:26] Duuude-Ron :
I was living in Arkansas in, Matt and Dee, and I went up to Montana. And, I didn't stay very long. It was it was way too expensive for me. So Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They ain't got no, you know, sales tax or anything like that. But where we live, we didn't live in town. We live 50 miles from the nearest town. And, yeah, prices were just outrageous because, I mean, we literally lived out in the middle of nowhere.
[02:10:06] Unknown:
Oh.
[02:10:15] Duuude-Ron :
Beautiful country. Yeah. Dang.
[02:10:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[02:10:21] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, that's living out there, you need a job making a minimum of $20 an hour. And that How much an hour? Twenty. Twenty? Yeah. And that's that's the poor house. That that's still the poor house.
[02:10:42] Unknown:
Oh, wow. Yeah. I know.
[02:10:45] Duuude-Ron :
Thing is out there when I was out there, the about the most anybody would pay is 11 to 12 to start. So And Yeah. Yeah. Price were just outrageous. See you. I would have loved to have stayed out there. Just couldn't. So but yeah. Then I came back to Iowa, stayed in Iowa for a little bit, then came back into Missouri.
[02:11:33] Unknown:
And then moved to Missouri.
[02:11:40] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean and then moved?
[02:11:43] Unknown:
Okay. So you went you were in Montana, then you moved went to Iowa. Right? Yeah. Went to Missouri. Oh, okay. From Iowa, you went to Missouri?
[02:11:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:11:55] Unknown:
Oh, okay. But before Montana, it was Arkansas.
[02:11:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:12:00] Unknown:
Okay. Now that we got now that I got all that figured out.
[02:12:08] Duuude-Ron :
And then, you know, let's say before Arkansas, I was living in, Virginia.
[02:12:17] Unknown:
That was
[02:12:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I shouldn't have done that, but I did.
[02:12:23] Unknown:
Why? Well, it depends on Virginia, I guess, too.
[02:12:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, actually, I wound up helping my mom move out to Virginia, which was the biggest mistake in my life. And and I wound up, staying out there for a couple years. And yeah. No.
[02:12:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Beautiful. At Virginia?
[02:12:46] Duuude-Ron :
South of Roanoke, Salem. Oh.
[02:12:49] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:12:51] Duuude-Ron :
But, I mean, beautiful. Beautiful country. Oh,
[02:12:55] Unknown:
oh, yeah. They just Without a doubt.
[02:12:58] Duuude-Ron :
They just got more liberal views than you can shake stick at.
[02:13:03] Unknown:
Well, yeah, it would be one of those, in the final Matrix movie when he's got that stick going around and hitting all the mister Smiths. I don't know if you've ever seen the final Matrix.
[02:13:17] Duuude-Ron :
It doesn't ring a bell.
[02:13:19] Unknown:
Okay. Well, he's there's, like, about 2,000 fucking mister Smiths that he's trying to fight off with a stick.
[02:13:27] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. I Yeah. A lamppost, actually. That too. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:13:36] Unknown:
But oh, yeah. And I'm sure that, that area had its fair share of pine trees like North Carolina does.
[02:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, they had different trees. Pines, lot of pines, but they had oaks. They had, all different trees.
[02:13:57] Unknown:
Well, I remember a brag. We always had the spring yellow snow.
[02:14:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. All the pollen setting on top of the snow?
[02:14:11] Unknown:
God. No. The pollen was the fucking snow. Oh, okay. Okay. There was so much pollen it made. You could see it. When the wind was blowing, it was, like, blowing sand on a sand dune. Yep. Yeah. It would fucking drift, the pollen. Oh, yeah. That was some lovely shit.
[02:14:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I've got that. Mississippi.
[02:14:38] Unknown:
Oh, yeah?
[02:14:40] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Accidentally bump a, bump a pine tree and just watch this yellow yellow shape of a pine tree come floating down.
[02:14:48] Unknown:
I have seen that. That is fucking miserable. Yeah. That yeah. And thank goodness, you know, I don't have allergies, but
[02:15:03] Rich Chelson:
dang I would have allergies just to see just Watching it? Experiencing that. Yeah. I don't have hay fever, but I will for a short bit.
[02:15:15] Unknown:
Yeah. I saw that on a video that they ran out.
[02:15:19] Rich Chelson:
Cut a cut a pine tree down, and it tips over, and there's this shape of a tree for a little while still.
[02:15:27] Unknown:
Yeah. That's what it was. They were cutting it down. And when it started tipping all the pollen yeah. And it had the shape of the tree. That was yeah. Saw it every damn year. Every year, Greg, for twelve years.
[02:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Trust me. Down here, you have to wash your Jeep every couple days just to get the pollen off.
[02:15:56] Unknown:
Oh, wow. I haven't seen that since, like I said, I was in North Carolina.
[02:16:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not bad now, but, yeah, in the early spring. Oh, yeah. It's all over the place.
[02:16:10] Unknown:
Oh, well, the only thing I can say about that is better you than me.
[02:16:17] Duuude-Ron :
About me. However however
[02:16:19] Unknown:
what was it? Tuesday, we hit a hundred degrees.
[02:16:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow.
[02:16:24] Unknown:
Yeah. That was fun.
[02:16:26] Duuude-Ron :
We ain't got that warm yet.
[02:16:29] Unknown:
Yeah. It was it was a little bit, toasty outside. Then, of course, we had the humidity was up on Wednesday too, so it was, you know, swampy. We'll just put it like that. Take a shower, and as soon as you walk out, you gotta fucking go take another one. Yeah.
[02:16:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Here, it's it's, you know, 88 to 95% constantly, so I'm just used to it.
[02:17:04] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was used to it when I was in North Carolina. Well, no. I never got used to a fucking humidity. It always sucked.
[02:17:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, when you When it gets hot down here, it'll, it'll get really swampy. Right now, we're we're in seventies and mid, high eighties, so it's not too bad.
[02:17:35] Unknown:
Yeah. I think it was 89 today, but Tuesday, it was a hundred. That's crazy. And it and it's only gonna get warmer from here. And, of course, you're never gonna hear me bitch about it either.
[02:17:53] Duuude-Ron :
I
[02:17:54] Unknown:
Why? Because, one, you're not gonna change it, and, two, it, you know, it doesn't matter your opinion. If it's hot, it's gonna be hot. But I take that over the cold any day.
[02:18:10] Duuude-Ron :
Any day. Yeah. That's that's for sure. So this is Thursday. Right? Yeah.
[02:18:28] Unknown:
Ever since midnight. Okay. Well, at least that's what the calendar said.
[02:18:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well, at least some said it because I had almost forgot.
[02:18:41] Unknown:
Well, you didn't because you're on a nice little podcast that we have. So at least you, you know, halfway remembered it.
[02:18:50] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, a lot of times I gotta sit there and think. During the day, I gotta sit there and think. You know? Because I don't know. It just you know? Days get away from me sometimes. And and then, like, well, like, now, you know, we just sit and, for some reason, my mind drew a blink, so that's why I asked.
[02:19:13] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[02:19:15] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I shoulda known because, you know, this is about the only night that, you know, all three of us are on.
[02:19:23] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[02:19:27] Duuude-Ron :
But then again, like I've said, my packer is longer in my memory. So and that's not saying much.
[02:19:41] Unknown:
You know, I wasn't even gonna add a comment to that this time. Just let it be. And and and in the words of Rich, you do you, boo.
[02:19:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right.
[02:20:03] Unknown:
Oh, shoot.
[02:20:07] Rich Chelson:
So but hell. Well, let's see. Trying to tell you what, anything exciting that I've seen on, news wise, what's been happening in the world. I actually have got fairly, fairly, fairly low, low do slow news cycle. I mean, biggest thing they've got is that Bieber broke his silence about, about what what happened with him over, at the assorted parties, which is good. Everybody figured that happened.
[02:20:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know the news site. Style. The the the only reason why it's slow is because they're not, talking about what Trump is doing. The good stuff. They're just Yeah.
[02:21:13] Unknown:
Exactly. Because Trump is out of the country.
[02:21:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But now he, there was a thing I saw in he's, worked with China, and the tariffs are coming down because China is caving.
[02:21:33] Rich Chelson:
I did hear
[02:21:34] Unknown:
I did hear that, but I have but I haven't heard the extent of what has been negotiated.
[02:21:46] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't either. I've heard I've heard it's it's dropped significantly even though I just saw on, MSN. It says, that Walmart's raising its prices due to the tariffs, and the tariffs haven't even kicked in yet. So Walmart's just price gouging. And they're trying to again. And yeah.
[02:22:15] Rich Chelson:
Of course, they're gonna price gouge. Hell, yeah. They gotta make up their money somewhere, but at the same time, you know, I I loved how they were trying so they're because it's interesting now that you mentioned that, how, media is working so hard to try to prove that, Trump hates children. They're trying was trying to work that angle. Because you'll see them talk about, how the tariffs, will are gonna keep kids from being able to have the toys that they want. And Trump's, like, going well, so they have to have only five instead of 30 Barbie dolls. You know?
That's, you know, that's not hurt them in any way, which, I mean, he's right. Because 90% of the they've talked about how much junk we are actually just consuming, that's junk out of out of China. And that's kinda what China's upset about is that's and because China's made all this shit, and Europe won't take it. We're you know, they can't sell it for for nothing here in, here in The States. And so they're, you know, yeah, they're having to they're having to cave because they see the because China, believe it or whether you wanna admit it or not, for being a communist country, they're doing one thing that is very, very capitalistic.
Make the bet make everything the cheapest that you can. And if it's good enough, then we then that that person will actually, you know, will will either, a, buy it at that quality. They'll see the the price that they've made, and they'll agree, okay. Hey. That's a really good price. Let's take it. Or, you know, they won't sell. And so what what China has done is they go through and and it basically become the monopoly for assorted items. So they, you know, they come in, they undercut everybody, put everybody else out of business, and then they then what they don't do, what everybody what people who don't understand capitalism, claim that happens whenever they have a monopoly is that they're supposed to come through and then all of a sudden start raising prices because they've knocked out all the competition. Well, you can't do that. If you make a monopoly, you have to keep your prices at that low level because the moment you try to raise your prices, some another competitor is gonna come in and try to undercut you.
And so there's always gonna be that that natural equalization of of, of prices. And so whether China knows it or not, they are being they're being more capitalistic than we are because they're actually following the natural rule of of capitalism, which is just naturally going to happen. You're going to have the lowest price that could be produced. And, yeah, if you wanna pay more because you think that that higher priced item is more valuable, then you'll then you'll be okay with it. You'll buy that. But if you're like everybody else, you're going to buy as inexpensively as possible.
And so I think it's really interesting that China is actually doing what so many people want to don't want America to do, to do to have natural monopoly because natural monopolies are actually very good for the economy. Back to you, Dave.
[02:26:48] Duuude-Ron :
I, I read an article. There's a guy who lives in America, has a business. He he sells shower heads, this one style of shower head. And, when he heard about these terrors, he said, I'm a do some AB testing. So so his current showerheads come from China. He goes out and looks for American made showerhead. His showerhead that he has China made, he sourced it from America and then found out what it would cost. He put both on his website. He did actual real time live AV testing. And on on his website, he gave him two options. Chinese model for a hundred and $29, USA model for $239, which is what, you know, was the cost gonna be.
And, you know, how everyone says, oh, I'll buy American. I'll buy American. He ran this test for, I think, a couple months. No one bought the American made model. People, only bought the Chinese model because it was cheaper.
[02:28:26] Unknown:
Well okay. I I I can agree with that, and I understand in that. I don't remember where Royobi is manufactured at. I'd have to look on one of the tools. I really don't remember. I'm sure they're made in China or Taiwan or, you know, some in some Asian company or country. You know? But uh-huh.
[02:29:03] Duuude-Ron :
They're they're made in China, Mexico, Thailand, and The US. But the majority is it says likely made in China, but they also have other areas that make parts. So they're global. They would call themselves global.
[02:29:23] Unknown:
Yeah. Okay. You know, my tool of choice is Ryobi. Yeah. My next door neighbor, his tool of choice, he has Milwaukee. Everything that he has, like what I have, the drillver, the drill, sander, sawsaw, jigsaw, drill, impact wrench, and we could just go on for fucking days. I'd have to go back in my toolbox in my Jeep and remember what all I have. Oh, DieGrinder, but all mine is Rovi. His is he likes Milwaukee. I'm like, okay. Milwaukee is probably 80% manufactured in an Asian country too. I'm sure. Oh, yeah. I could be wrong. I could be wrong, but, you know, I've when I bought the one plus for the Royal Bee, I have never had a problem with any of my tools ever.
You know? And could they be made in America? Sure. They could. Is it gonna cost a little bit more? Well, if the if the quality is there, I, you know, where it's made is where it's made.
[02:31:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, where it's made where it's made, true. But the issue that, a lot of is of where the prices come from is the fact that the the companies end up having to pay these unions or union prices. So sadly, the unions are the ones that cause everything to be so damn expensive here in The US.
[02:31:20] Unknown:
You're yeah. You're absolutely there is no doubt the reason why majority of the companies, Barbie, Lego, Apple, all those con all those companies went to China because of the labor rate, the price of labor. You think somebody from The United States would accept $4 an hour? No. And minimum wage is what? $7.65?
[02:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
That's in The US.
[02:32:13] Unknown:
We don't know what Yeah. Yeah. That's what's in The US. Okay. But over in China, they're getting paid average factory workers getting paid fucking Peanuts. $20.25 dollars a day. Not an hour, a day.
[02:32:33] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, again, also, they're it's a communist country. So, yeah, they're going to get paid very little because the government they're they're not, for lack of better they're not sovereign citizens. They're every they're they're a, they're all part of the government. They're all part of the same party. And so, yeah, they don't they're not gonna get paid $20 an hour because the government has to you know, they have to work for the government so that the government will have the money to be able to pay for their health care, pay for their, you know, pay for all the, all the products that they have to actually
[02:33:26] Duuude-Ron :
produce. I'll say and, also, the cost of living in China is cheaper.
[02:33:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Because the government pays for the pays for it. And it's part of the that's why go that's why communism sounds so wonderful because you get health care. You get every you know, you get everything taken care of.
[02:33:53] Unknown:
Oh, you know, and, yeah, just like Germany has countrywide health care. Go and try and see a specialist, an oncologist, rheumatologist, something like that, and see how long it takes for you to get your initial appointment. Oncology? Yeah. You get diagnosed. The first time you may see a doctor over in Germany is two years down the road. That's just for the initial appointment.
[02:34:35] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Well, that's same way in Britain and Canada. Everybody that likes to stat, how wonderful, social health care is. Yeah. It doesn't point that, little fact out.
[02:34:47] Unknown:
Of course not. Why the hell would they do that? All because that would blow their, their whole story. Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, now don't get me wrong. I don't like to fucking cost our health care, But at least, you know, I can get in to see a doctor
[02:35:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:35:19] Unknown:
Relatively quickly. And not have to wait two years to fucking see an oncologist for initial appointment. Hell, by the time you even get fucking treatment, you're gonna be dead.
[02:35:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that's big one of the big problems they have.
[02:35:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:35:46] Rich Chelson:
And, I mean, that's and then you go off yet, like, in in Great Britain. I mean, hell, they're, you know, they're still on that whole stick about diversity is their greatest strength by trying to bring every, every poor purse poor person in in Africa into into The Middle East into into their, into their their their country. And so now all of a sudden, people who were barely able to afford a, an apartment can't afford an apartment because all the apartments are being being bought up by the government. And so and then the, you have all the all everybody else is is struggling, and then they get they the, the immigrants get the health care too. And so they've they've exaggerated the the problem that they started off with.
So now, I mean Yeah. Social well, in Germany, same problem too. I mean, that's the reason why they have the AFD party take such prominence because and, of course, then the, the the to protect democracy, they banned the party, which is kind of asinine if you if you really wanna know. So but Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They went off and banned the, banned, the alternative, alternative for, for, for Germany. They banned that banned the party outright. They can't they're not supposed to have they labeled them a, labeled them a terrorist or a hate group or something like that. And and so yeah. It's, it's it's
[02:37:55] Unknown:
amazing how we vote in politicians to supposedly do what their constituents are asking them to do, and then it all comes back down about how much money is going to benefit that particular elected leader.
[02:38:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:38:25] Unknown:
How much money can go into his pocket?
[02:38:32] Rich Chelson:
Precisely.
[02:38:33] Unknown:
Every damn one of them. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat, Republican, independent, Whig party for that matter.
[02:38:43] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:38:46] Unknown:
It doesn't matter. Every fucking one of them does it.
[02:38:53] Rich Chelson:
And it That is a good idea. I wonder about. You you brought it up. I've I've kinda I wonder what is it that the wig party was was to stand for?
[02:39:07] Unknown:
Well, we already know that the the Democratic Party stands for the fucking their emblem, the jackasses. Well
[02:39:17] Rich Chelson:
yeah.
[02:39:21] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. I'm looking it up.
[02:39:24] Rich Chelson:
Oh, well, there we go.
[02:39:27] Duuude-Ron :
The Whig Party, and this is by Wikipedia. The party was hostile towards the ideal ideology of manifest destiny, territorial expansion into Texas.
[02:39:39] Rich Chelson:
Ah, okay. So, yeah, it was they were actually against, who was it? Madison, I believe, is the one who did the who was, no. No. It wasn't Madison. Who was that? And, just like presidential power
[02:39:53] Duuude-Ron :
as exhibited by Andrew Jackson and James K. Jackson. That's what it was. Yeah. Jackson
[02:39:59] Rich Chelson:
did the whole manifest destiny and and was, yeah, okay. Well, rightfully so. Yeah.
[02:40:06] Duuude-Ron :
So so, yeah, it was it was in my idea, it was it was the early form of the current day Democrats. That's just my opinion.
[02:40:19] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:40:20] Duuude-Ron :
If you think about it, the current Democrats basically against everything that that we do because it doesn't feed into their narrative. The Whig Party, with what I just read, kinda sounds like it was about the same thing. It didn't like Mhmm. Jackson Road.
[02:40:41] Rich Chelson:
And Yeah. But Jackson if that if anybody if you were to kinda compare Jackson to to modern politicians, he was more of the of the liberal style than than than than what modern Republicans are because, again, he was for the, the taking of Indian lands and things like that. He was for claiming all that and, and taking the and, basically, taking the the the lands for, for for America's expansion, which, I mean okay. That makes me sound sound like I'm currently liberal, which, I mean, everything's gotten so turned up upside down and backwards that yeah. Yeah. It kinda kinda makes us, I mean, makes us we're down all of a sudden. You know, we were four, for, for some of the things that we're now touting or touting against. We're most of the time, Republicans were for military might.
And, and, you know, nowadays, we're against, against what the the military is about. And so, you know, I've it it's so strange how everything has gotten so turned up, but turned upside down. But, yeah, it's what's what Jackson was saying it was basically just saying that it's God, gave us gave us the destiny of of conquering these lands, and so we just take over them. And, no, that that's not entirely I don't think that I don't a % agree with that. I think it was more of a, more of an instance of of, use that as an excuse of having to from having to go off and actually take the lands for for what they are to to to actually buy the lands out and use the land for you know, and include the, the the American Indians in the process of of of gathering their you know, of at least having the right to, to determine, hey. This is what we're gonna sell this land for, whether it's for peanuts or if we want, you know, a hundred billion dollars.
Sorry. I'm my speech is breaking up a bit just because I am constant. I've got a turn coming up here. We've moved, we've moved, locations. So so I'm happy to learn where this new location's at.
[02:43:51] Unknown:
Oh, okay. And you get to do that in the dark. In the dark on top of that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, get your night vision goggles out. Pretty damn much. Now's now's the time that you need a one of those 10,000 lumen flashlights.
[02:44:12] Rich Chelson:
Right. During tonight, the day?
[02:44:19] Unknown:
Exactly. Yeah. I'm not a big fan of if I don't know where I'm going with a semi and haven't been there and this is the first time. Yeah. I get a little bit unnerved because Yeah. What are you coming into and, you know, what obstacles are you going to have to face
[02:44:45] Rich Chelson:
with that? Well, that's kinda what I'm that's I'm I've I've a little okay in this department and because they've given me rig directions, but at the same time, it's freaking rig directions. So, oh, like, right there. Damn it. I almost missed it.
[02:45:08] Unknown:
Well, I would probably stop. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:45:11] Duuude-Ron :
Well, at least you're out of the burning and stopping back up.
[02:45:18] Unknown:
Yeah. Versus have to do a u return. Right. Alright. Now let's see here. Done. A little bit that would be a little bit hard on a two lane road.
[02:45:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Bring that up. So so North County Road 70 or 700, actually. Let's put the bright lights on. Road.
[02:45:45] Unknown:
Yep. County Road. You'll be having some fun with that one.
[02:45:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Two lane two lane roads. No fucking shoulders. Sometimes big ass fucking ditches.
[02:45:58] Unknown:
Are they actually paved?
[02:46:01] Rich Chelson:
This one I hear actually is, the one I'm on right now.
[02:46:05] Unknown:
Right.
[02:46:06] Rich Chelson:
But it it'll eventually turn to shit.
[02:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
I ain't drive down the middle of the road.
[02:46:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Is that's exactly it. Seriously? Oh, I do. I I drop right down the right down the middle of it. Right. I will. Go with the bright lights on. Yep. We got my brights on down the middle. And if someone's coming at me, I pull off to the side, and I come to a stop. I am not trying to shimmy past because that I I damn near a old truck once doing that. It's over in West Texas and, was loaded up and, piddling along in this fucking water hauler, go going right down the middle of the road, wasn't about to go move over either. And I was on the side of the road, and there was about a two and a half, three inch drop.
And I dropped, and when I did, I felt my ass in and start to slide into the ditch. Oh. And yeah. So I started the evasive maneuvers and, and got myself back on back on the road, but goddamn I the guy behind me said, yeah. Your back wheels came up about, came up about, came up off the ground, about six inches. So so after that one, I was like, yeah. We're not, I'm not I'm not playing the Pucker factor? Playing yeah. Play I'm not playing chicken with anybody no more.
[02:47:50] Unknown:
Yeah. No. I gotcha. No. I'm not gonna do the Pucker factor either. No. Thank you.
[02:47:58] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I never set out to do the pucker factor, but I had quite a few pucker factors.
[02:48:04] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. There we go. There's 70.
[02:48:12] Unknown:
Well, luckily, all my route roads, I don't have to so much worry about a pucker factor. So I'm happy with that.
[02:48:25] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing.
[02:48:27] Unknown:
Yeah. It is. Very much so. Because, trying to pull your seat out your ass is a little bit challenging. Yeah. Yeah. It's Or if you have a seat or if you have a seat cover on your seat trying to iron out the mohawk that you see. Mohawk with a brown stain. You know, and with the TJ, I got into one obstacle. Yeah. No. I don't think I ever got that fucking Mohawk, fucking ironed down on that one. Yeah. No. I gained big.
[02:49:17] Duuude-Ron :
And you know it is about that time, guys.
[02:49:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Holy smokes. That's right. Wow. So alright. Well, my wife said she was, listening to the listening to my spiel from last, last week. Said, dude, you or, man, Brian, you talk way too damn long. So let's see if I could be a little more concise on my, on my my my closing here. So alright, guys. I wanna say thank y'all very much for taking the time and the the energy and the dedication to listening to us. Our show is a value for value show, which means that we don't do commercials. We don't do the, hey. Here's a here's a mattress that you might like, or here's, here's a a non non, entertaining trinket that you may end up, not wanting after you go go off buy it.
We actually decide if you found any value for the show, then, you know, share share out that value. And you could do so by doing using three different, channels, and those channels are either, a, you could do your time, your talent, or your treasure. You can with your, with your time, that is sharing your, taking your time and maybe doing a a chapter arc for us, to help and take some of the load off of our, up our, our work that we do for the show, that is you applying your time. So if you've got some time that you'd like to donate, you can reach out to me. My name's Brian, and that's with a y, but you can, reach me over at circle cast. That's [email protected], or you get a hold of Rich. That's spelled r Chelsea. That's c h e l s o n, Chelsea.
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[02:52:57] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too much. Just, thanks again for everyone listening and still sharing this out. It still it still amazes me. We've been going this long and, you know, the show gets still shared out and listened, and I I enjoy seeing that and you know? But, yeah, like, Brian said, you know, reach out with any questions, comments. You know, if you wanna help out, you know, send an email to [email protected] or myself @rChelseaatGmail.com. And if you wanna talk to the dude, send an email to either either myself or Brian, and, we'll make sure the dude gets the email.
And, you know, we'd love to hear from you. We'd love to have a conversation with you. And, who knows? We might even talk about, what was said on the show. So, you know, tell your friends, tell your family, tell everybody, even the people you don't like. You know? Share it out. So, anyway, y'all take care, and have a great day. And, dude, what you got, man?
[02:54:14] Unknown:
Well, the dude has the tip of the day.
[02:54:18] Rich Chelson:
Hey.
[02:54:21] Unknown:
And the tip of the day is, if you are outside and it starts raining, go inside so you don't get wet.
[02:54:33] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good one.
[02:54:37] Unknown:
So, as Rich and Brian has said, yes. We, enjoy coming on every week and are able to beat each other up if we so desire, which you have heard in the past. If you have listened to any one of our podcasts, you have heard us beat each other up, and we are just fine with it because we know each other. We know how each other receives what we say, and it just makes our friendship even stronger. So, again, yep, take tell everybody, listen to our show and give us a comment. If you don't like it, tell us why you don't like it, and, you know, we'll include you into the podcast.
[02:55:34] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:55:36] Unknown:
So if you like us, dislike us, agree with us, disagree, you know what? We'll add you into the podcast because we will respond to your email message. So
[02:55:51] Rich Chelson:
Actually, if you call Rich Rachel.
[02:55:53] Unknown:
That's right. That is exactly
[02:55:56] Rich Chelson:
right. So May not be general about the response, but we'll respond. That's
[02:56:01] Unknown:
right. You're right. So that is Ron's, final comment.
[02:56:12] Rich Chelson:
So, guys, alright. Well, we'll go ahead, and we'll put this, baby to rest. And, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, anything like that, again, shoot us an email, sir [email protected] or [email protected], and we will catch y'all next time. Rich, Ron, appreciate y'all coming on again. We will see y'all next week. Till then. Bye.
[02:56:38] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:56:40] Unknown:
He he said out.
[02:56:42] Rich Chelson:
Bye, guys.
[02:56:44] Unknown:
See you guys. Bye. Bye. Bye.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally.
[00:00:11] Rich Chelson:
We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together,
[00:00:13] Bryan Goodwin:
of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living, having weekly conversations is a good way to help
[00:00:24] Rich Chelson:
each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Brian, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian.
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
Sure. My audio quality is for what moment?
[00:00:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yes, ma'am.
[00:00:45] Unknown:
So I'm sure my audio quality is is horrible at the moment. So
[00:00:51] Duuude-Ron :
I've heard it better. Yes.
[00:00:59] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Let's try that.
[00:01:03] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
There,
[00:01:09] Rich Chelson:
the dude.
[00:01:13] Duuude-Ron :
Dude.
[00:01:16] Unknown:
Last one as usual. That's what I'm talking about.
[00:01:23] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit.
[00:01:27] Unknown:
Well, you know, if nothing else, I am persistent or not persistent. That's what I'm looking for. Consistent.
[00:01:35] Rich Chelson:
There you go. The other instant.
[00:01:38] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly.
[00:01:43] Duuude-Ron :
At least you're here. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. It's a good thing. It's a good thing Brian could be here too.
[00:01:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We got got ourselves all lined up right out to go. I'm gotta I've tried to run to the store and grab some grab some stuff for tonight before I before I took off, and then, then I got caught by by time. So that's why I'm in the car right now fixing to fixing to run back to the hotel, grab my, grab my stuff, and start hoofing it over to, over to the truck. So Okay. So
[00:02:26] Unknown:
so you clock in at 08:00 tonight.
[00:02:30] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Actually, I'll punch in a little bit earlier than, than 08:00. And, actually, about thirty minutes early just so I can get pre trip and all that done and get moving by eight. So
[00:02:49] Unknown:
Oh, okay. And, obviously, they don't have a problem with that. Right? Nope.
[00:02:55] Rich Chelson:
Nope.
[00:02:56] Unknown:
Well, are you under the, 50 air mile rule now?
[00:03:03] Rich Chelson:
Nope. No. They still, we're still required to have at least ten hours off. We do have the oil field exemption, which allows us to only twenty four hour resets. So
[00:03:15] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, yeah, that's that's what ours is is you can be on for fourteen, off for ten, and then, a thirty six hour reset.
[00:03:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Most most folks have thirty six hour, and we've got a good old twenty four. So whenever we go from, nights to days, which usually causes us to because we're doing twelve hours a day, somewhere in there, we'll we'll consume the, because we're actually we can only drive for 11 of those twelve hours. So
[00:03:52] Unknown:
Correct. Yeah. Same way with the 50 mile mile air rule. You might you can be on the clock for fourteen, but we can only drive for eleven. Right. Yes. So
[00:04:07] Rich Chelson:
and say, yeah. We're we're just, ouch. We're just just cruising right along doing all that we do.
[00:04:19] Unknown:
Alright. So, oh, you're so you're gonna be in the hotel for, what, basically the next two weeks? Yes. Oh, okay. Alright. So did you ever get that, other POS acquired? No. I didn't. No? Okay. Yeah.
[00:04:38] Rich Chelson:
I was looked at it, and we were real tempted to go ahead and go ahead and purchase it, but, nah, nah, we did, ended up not doing so.
[00:04:48] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So what the wife just bring you bring you there and then came back home type after? No. She's I've got the car. She just stays at the,
[00:05:01] Rich Chelson:
she stays at the house. She needs to go anywhere. She's got she's actually got a, a friend of the family who will will snag her and take her to wherever she needs to go. But in all reality, she doesn't really never go anywhere. So
[00:05:18] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well then, I guess, Carl will just sit there. Yep. Yep. Yeah. We're gonna we're still looking for another one so she can
[00:05:37] Rich Chelson:
she can go do assorted items that that she needs here in Yeah. Couple year a couple oh, couple longer than a month, sadly, but between a month month and two, I'm gonna be finding something so that because she needs some type of, transportation in case the, the friend's not available.
[00:06:06] Unknown:
Right. I gotcha.
[00:06:20] Rich Chelson:
Alright. You talking to bastards? Say something. Just talk I'm trying to get the last of my last of my rat packs for the, you know, in the time the back.
[00:06:32] Unknown:
Oh, you're, what, at the hotel right now? And then Yeah. Oh, okay.
[00:06:37] Rich Chelson:
Fixed it in that way. So there we go. There we go. I need to grab my
[00:06:45] Unknown:
So are you so are you assigned are you and only you assigned to this truck? No. Oh, Yeah.
[00:06:57] Rich Chelson:
It's we're we are, but we aren't. Does we can, I mean, we don't want we're not able to go through and, and deck everything out, you know, and quote, unquote, make it ours? Because, if, somebody else's truck goes down and you're you're not in yours, they'll they'll you they'll slip seat you. Oh, okay. So, basically, it's kinda floating slip seat. That'd be, I guess, be a good way to look at it.
[00:07:32] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:07:36] Rich Chelson:
But, but, you know, it's it's not I mean, as a whole, it's not a bad it's not a bad deal. I did my purse overnight last night. Man, I'm out of practice there. It was by the time I got done today, I was I was ready for that bed.
[00:08:01] Duuude-Ron :
So so how So
[00:08:03] Rich Chelson:
how many turnarounds you do last night? Oh, I see here. I got about eight, actually, if if I did my math right. Really? Yeah. Yeah. We're at a new new well location, which is about twenty minutes north of where I'm at right now. And where we're at the sand is about forty minutes south of us. So it's about an hour, hour fifteen turnaround.
[00:08:32] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:08:33] Rich Chelson:
And then so it's just down their back, down their back, down their back, down their back, down their back. So by the time you get done, you're like, holy crow. Get this. You get a few, get a few few steps that are a few miles behind you, but they're they're short miles.
[00:08:52] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, at least you're getting by the hour now. Oh, yeah. You get so if you get five trips, you get five trips. If you get seven or eight,
[00:09:02] Rich Chelson:
you get seven or eight. Yep. And if, well goes down and I'm not, I'm not doing any, then guess what? I still get, still get at least eight.
[00:09:14] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:09:16] Rich Chelson:
So they'll find something for us to do.
[00:09:19] Unknown:
I'm sure they will.
[00:09:22] Rich Chelson:
Well, I've done there's a couple times I've told the guys, like, yeah. You need me to go grab a broom and start sweeping the dirt? Because there was a couple times where I was I was getting done about nine. They would bump me off about eight or so, and I would end up find you know, by the time I got home, got post trip and all that. Son of a gun, that's what I forgot to do when I this morning too. I'm gonna have to run by and grab some fuel. But hang on. It's just I'm going through everything. I'm just I just realized I forgot to grab fuel last night, this morning whenever I got done. I said I was I was focused in on getting home or getting to bed.
[00:10:03] Unknown:
But, Oh, yeah. That that change of
[00:10:06] Rich Chelson:
day to night is definitely an asshole. It screws you up something severe severe. So Oh, yeah. But but now it's it it nothing bad about it about it at all. Like I said, it's just it's just a it's a it's an easy deal. They will and I was trying to find I was trying to find something that kinda extend the last, a couple days just so I got a little closer to, to to twelve hours instead of getting to, instead of only getting ten. So
[00:10:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:10:48] Rich Chelson:
But but it's a and it all kinda shakes out at the end, especially especially with the, once you once you actually get moving, you're you're doing, you're kinda you're kinda ready to go go home after after bed. So
[00:11:08] Unknown:
Well, yeah. But it just seemed to me, because I used to work a night shift, that, you know, once I got off, it was like just sleep, and then it's like you never seem to have enough personal time outside of sleep when you do night shift versus day shift.
[00:11:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, then what I try to look at it is I I try to transpose my AM, PMs, not my sun ups, sund downs. So I try to even though I was I was home by 08:30 or back at the y'all hotel at 08:30, I was like, alright. Let's, we gotta stay up at least till 10:00. So because that's about the normal time I go to bed at night. It's just 10:00 at night. So let's make it 10:00 during the, during the day.
[00:12:06] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:12:07] Rich Chelson:
And so it was I I made it to about had to about 09:30, and after that, I was like, what? Let's let's forget this stuff. Let's go to bed.
[00:12:20] Unknown:
I I gotcha. Alright. Awesome. Yeah. Let me turn that the TV down so you don't have that back noise. Yeah.
[00:12:35] Rich Chelson:
So don't want people yelling each other on court.
[00:12:41] Unknown:
Well, you know what? They do not have Court TV on on Wednesday nights anymore. They moved it to, like, late in the afternoons, and now they got some other new I don't know what the hell it is. So don't get to watch my don't get to watch my Court TV anymore, which kinda suck.
[00:13:04] Rich Chelson:
Not that.
[00:13:06] Unknown:
Well, it kinda sucks. Yeah. But you know what? YouTube's got a whole shitload of them. Oh, yeah. May not be may not be Court TV, but, you know
[00:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Karen's in Court are always a fun fun search to to do. So
[00:13:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And I can't remember his name that, usually pops up online. He's out of Houston, but I don't remember his name off the top of my head. But he I he in 99% of the time, he's in a bow tie.
[00:13:52] Rich Chelson:
Only one that comes to mind is old is the is the free money guy, old Matthew Lesko.
[00:13:58] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:14:01] Rich Chelson:
He's still around. He's still pretty he's still pretty much doing the same stuff he was doing before. He just does it on TikTok now.
[00:14:09] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:14:11] Rich Chelson:
I see it from time to time. They'll pop up on my on my feed and or for you page, and it's like, holy crow, man. Didn't realize you were still kicking. Yeah.
[00:14:25] Unknown:
But yeah. Yeah. I mean, this judge has a bright green jacket to go along with his bright green bow tie. And then he also have he has plaids and so on like that. But Oh, yeah. Yeah. But 99.9% of the time is, you know, he's got his bow tie.
[00:14:52] Rich Chelson:
He's happy. I'm running around with no bow tie. You wouldn't recognize him.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You're right. You are absolutely correct. So but I think he is, he's fun to watch the way he conducts his courtroom. And there's another one, judge Simpson up in the Detroit area up in Michigan. He's one of those that don't piss me off. Don't get stupid in my court. Don't get stupid in my courtroom because I will shut you the hell down.
[00:15:34] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:15:35] Unknown:
So so how's your day been, Rich?
[00:15:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too bad. Not too bad. It's been in the eighties. Looked like it's gonna rain this morning, but, it didn't. And, I started taking a new medication yesterday and, felt a little nauseous this morning, which is one of the minor side effects. But other than that, I just I don't know. I just I'm I'm thinking it's this new medication. I I only have to take it once a week, and it has
[00:16:20] Unknown:
Is it for the psoriasis? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:16:24] Duuude-Ron :
And, it it so so I took it yesterday. And then, at the day, I've been I've been feeling kinda funky, but, you know, nothing out of this world. So, hopefully, things will be smoothing out here shortly and everything and and Well, yeah, once
[00:16:50] Unknown:
once your body gets, what's the word, acclimated to it.
[00:16:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. And and like I was telling Brian last night, Tuesday, I got a phone call. And, well, last week, I'd gotten a phone call from the VA in Pensacola, and it's it's a, Just a clinic, but they handle, rheumatology out of there, I guess. And, they had called me, and, you know, I'd I had asked them to find me someone up here in Pascagoulas, so they found me someone. I couldn't find out he's an Air Force vet. Talks real fast too. Talks on my I mean, I had a hard time understanding that boy. And, you know,
[00:17:48] Unknown:
nice guy. And being air and being Air Force? Wow. They usually do everything so fucking slow.
[00:17:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. Well, he might do everything else slow, but he don't talk slow. I can guarantee it that. But, they called me on Tuesday, and they were like, we'd like you to come in, Wednesday morning at 10AM, and this was, like, Tuesday afternoon. And I'm like, okay. I'm like I mean, I was expecting a month out. You know? Because, I mean, normally, it's you don't see any doctor, you know, except for month, two, three, four months out. You know? Yeah. So I went there and dude took some blood tests and some X rays, and I haven't heard nothing yet. That was just yesterday, though. So I figured I'd hear something because I found out what a rheumatologist does.
Apparently, through the blood test and, the X rays, he can figure out if this psoriasis is causing arthritis. I don't know how. Didn't ask him that because I figured that's why he went to school was to learn all that, and that's something I don't need to know about. So, so I'm kinda waiting on his expert opinion to see if Right. See if there's anything. And if that's the case, then then I'll probably wind up getting another medication. And, you know, that'll maybe, help me manage some of my pain, which would be nice if if you know?
[00:19:50] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:19:51] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. So, yeah, that's that's that's kinda basically what I mean, the last couple days, just boom, boom, boom. You know? I'm like, alright. You know? But so so, yeah, I did that and played on the radio a little bit, you know, past couple days. I mean, not much because, the sunspot numbers are still in the tank. So but but I've got to
[00:20:24] Unknown:
How long can that last for?
[00:20:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, here by they're saying the end of twenty six. We're gonna be going down into our solar cycle, minimum. And, so we'll have nine years of struggling with, decent signals.
[00:20:52] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:20:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because you see say a solar cycle is normally eleven years. It can last as long as fourteen and be as short as, I think, nine. And but you've got, you've got a low point, and then it starts getting good. And normally, about halfway through at about the five, five and a half year mark is when it peaks. Okay? And sometimes it'll carry longer, and then it'll drop off and it'll drop off for the next, you know, three, four, five years or whatever. And then and then it starts back over, and it climbs back up.
[00:21:39] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:21:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. But, yeah, the, solar cycle, And we're we're at about the halfway point now, but, everything I've read, they're, still saying we should be doing pretty good until about spring or summer of twenty seven, and then things, should start tanking. And, you know, it it, it'll be a lot harder. So so, yeah, it's it's
[00:22:23] Rich Chelson:
it's just the solar cycles, but yeah. Right. Because, just So what you're saying is that ham radio operators are a lot like farmers. They're not really satisfied with anything but anything on the weather. Either the the the sunspot activity is too high or it's not high enough. And so y'all were just last year complaining that there's too many storms. You can't get through to anything. You screw everything up. And then, like, oh, no. Well, we don't have enough, sunspot activity. So we're we're you know? It was gonna be haunted for the next five years.
[00:22:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Pretty much. So Yeah. I can't I can't argue with that logic, man. I can't. I mean, because yeah. You're right. You know? And, actually, in, in some regards, farmers are are a lot nicer about things. Hands just bitch.
[00:23:17] Rich Chelson:
At least these farmers will throw back a hey. Throw back potato at you from time to time.
[00:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. That's I like that analogy. That was actually pretty cool.
[00:23:34] Rich Chelson:
So So anyhow So what else is happening? Are you so what's what's happening in the, Jeep saga?
[00:23:47] Unknown:
In the Jeep saga. Oh, yeah. I can tell you a couple stories. Go ahead, Rich. But go ahead, Rich.
[00:23:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I'm still I'm well, I'm still waiting on my title to come back from Missouri and, my duplicate title. As soon as that happens, then, hopefully, everything will be straight because I'll hand deliver it to the county and, you know, give it to them and say process it. You know? Please expedite process. Please. And send it back to me.
[00:24:23] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[00:24:24] Duuude-Ron :
No one else.
[00:24:26] Rich Chelson:
Write the lienholder's name on there, and we'll we'll continue from that department. Yeah.
[00:24:33] Duuude-Ron :
Write the please write the lienholder's name on there and just send the title to me, and I'll fight with the lien note because them motherfuckers apparently lost my original title. So no.
[00:24:45] Rich Chelson:
You ain't holding on to shit no more. No. They ain't. They ain't allowed to.
[00:24:51] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:24:52] Duuude-Ron :
So but, but yeah. No. Hopefully, anytime, I don't, well, I don't expect anything this week. Maybe starting next week or the week after, hopefully, I I will get it back, and then I can take it down there and, hopefully get this fiasco all set done.
[00:25:20] Unknown:
Well, that's good.
[00:25:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right? That'd be real nice. Because I I I mean, like I said, you know, you know, I still drive to my appointments and stuff like that that I have, but I don't go anywhere else.
[00:25:34] Unknown:
You know?
[00:25:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and and kinda bothers me. You know? I I mean I mean, part of it is, like, is, like, okay. Yeah. I can. You know, I don't mind staying home and stuff like that. Okay. But since I've been home this long and haven't really gone anywhere except where I absolutely needed to go, it's like, I something we gotta give here. You know? I can all I mean, I love my house. Do not get me wrong. I love my yard. Do not wrong. Goddamn. I wanna get out and, you know, go to a park or something.
[00:26:19] Unknown:
And get naked.
[00:26:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that too because I haven't pulled the top off the Jeep yet because I can't drive. What the hell am I gonna pull the top off the fucking Jeep and just let it sit there and let everyone fly over it in the driveway? Yeah. Exactly.
[00:26:41] Unknown:
That looks real cool sitting in the driveway.
[00:26:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right. All freaking naked and shit. Yeah. No. This is so funny to me.
[00:26:52] Rich Chelson:
You're all exposed.
[00:26:54] Unknown:
Right. I'll make it I'll make it and nowhere to go.
[00:26:58] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. That's rude. That's just rude. I don't care who he is. But hey, dude. Did you see, Thomas's post in military Yeah.
[00:27:13] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:27:14] Duuude-Ron :
He lifted his he lifted his freaking Jeep.
[00:27:20] Unknown:
Yep. He also got the he also got front lockers.
[00:27:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, really? I didn't know that.
[00:27:27] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. Got front lockers as well. That was the mechanical he was talking about.
[00:27:35] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay. But yeah. Yeah. I saw his Jeep, and I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. He does need bigger tires now.
[00:27:48] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:27:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He's, he's, a a little see. See, he was running what? BFGoodrich's k o twos or k o threes? One of them.
[00:28:01] Unknown:
K OTwos.
[00:28:02] Duuude-Ron :
K O Twos. Yeah. Yeah. And But the but the metric
[00:28:07] Unknown:
k o twos, the standard, you know, Jeep, metric tires? Yeah. Yeah. That's what he was running.
[00:28:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I knew that. I knew that. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He he, he, that'll be weird, though, if he puts thirty five twelve fifties on there. That'd just be weird, man. Because Thomas with the lifted Jeep lockers up front and thirty five twelve fifties.
[00:28:40] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:28:42] Duuude-Ron :
That just doesn't no one telling us like I do, that just doesn't fit his his his, what's the word? Personality? Yeah. Yeah. Because because he's so quiet. He's so calm. He doesn't get too wound up about anything. You know?
[00:29:03] Unknown:
Not like
[00:29:05] Duuude-Ron :
me. Do not like me. Right.
[00:29:09] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe maybe he is inadvertently sharing the inner wild man by getting super big knobby tires.
[00:29:23] Duuude-Ron :
He does a lot of rocks, so I don't think he'll get the knobbies like I do. Oh. He'll get something like what, dude has. He's crawling tires.
[00:29:34] Unknown:
Yeah. He'll probably he'll probably stick probably to the k o twos or the k o threes. I don't know.
[00:29:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But no. It just, yeah, it just it just funny when I saw that. You know, I was thinking, oh my god. Because, I mean, shit. Thomas has had that Jeep, and I've only ever seen it stock. Yep. Yeah. They did. And and he'd wheel that bitch.
[00:30:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Now he wasn't he didn't go up Carnage Canyon.
[00:30:13] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no.
[00:30:14] Unknown:
You know? But he did, and to the limits of what his Jeep could withstand being stock
[00:30:24] Duuude-Ron :
for the most part. Mhmm. And yeah. No. But but you see, the thing is, also, if Thomas thought he could make it, he'd try.
[00:30:34] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:30:36] Duuude-Ron :
Because I've been with him when he's done. Well, like, across the way before it got, messed up, there was a there was a hill that had been cleared out, and it was mostly rock all up through there. And, Thomas tried to go up it, and, the bottom rock was so wet and slippery. He couldn't get no traction to get started. So he went around to the top and came down. And I was like, oh my god. Oh, yeah. He was game.
[00:31:17] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. That shit. Oh, yeah. He's always game. You know?
[00:31:24] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. That is nice.
[00:31:26] Unknown:
Now now he now he'll be more game. He's like, oh, just now now he'll get to play with the bigger boys.
[00:31:35] Rich Chelson:
The biggest the bigger boys. Yeah.
[00:31:40] Unknown:
Well and, you know, if he just does 30 fives, hell, that's what I had on the TJ was 30 fives.
[00:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. He can still play good with 30 fives.
[00:31:54] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[00:31:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know? I mean oh, yeah. No. Either way, Thomas won't care. He'd be like, I can do it now. I'm done. See you.
[00:32:07] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:32:10] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:32:12] Duuude-Ron :
That's just the way Thomas is.
[00:32:15] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:32:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So, dude, what's up what's been up with you?
[00:32:28] Unknown:
In the clean world? As, in on blazing saddles? What's going on in the clean world?
[00:32:38] Duuude-Ron :
Clean world?
[00:32:41] Unknown:
Y'all remember that part?
[00:32:43] Duuude-Ron :
No.
[00:32:44] Rich Chelson:
No? I'm trying to think of that one.
[00:32:47] Unknown:
Well, no. When the sheriff black sheriff comes back from, with the, no. I can't remember her actual name. With the prostitute. Oh, Madeline Kahn's character? Yeah. Madeline Kahn. And he had eaten, what, 11
[00:33:06] Rich Chelson:
Lily. Lily. Lily. Legs. Lily. Yeah. The Lily Vonstoop. That's her name. Yeah.
[00:33:14] Unknown:
That's that. But what were the name of the sausages that she fed him?
[00:33:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh, oh, let's see here.
[00:33:28] Unknown:
But, anyway, he came in and Yeah. Wiped out and, you know, the other character asked him what's how you doing? He's like, what's going on in the clean world?
[00:33:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Gene Pyle, this character, what's going on in the clean world? Yeah.
[00:33:46] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. That is what what what movie are we talking about? Blazing Saddles.
[00:33:52] Rich Chelson:
Blazing Saddles. He rode a blazing saddle. He wore a bright and star. K.
[00:34:03] Unknown:
So who sings that song?
[00:34:05] Rich Chelson:
Forget, but he was told to try to sing it as as, straight as he could. Well, let's keep it that way. Oh, hell yeah. It was it was it was he did a good job, but, no, I don't care. I will continue to sing it because I like the song. So bite my butt. Oh, it was but, oh, no. One of my favorite Bill Brooks movies right there. That and history of the world part two. History of the world. Yeah. It was good. Spaceballs was pretty damn good. I like the producers too. That I thought that was hilarious.
[00:34:59] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:35:01] Rich Chelson:
With springtime for Hitler.
[00:35:09] Unknown:
Yep. And he started and Mel Brooks starred in every one of his movies
[00:35:15] Rich Chelson:
in some of his movies. Yeah. Yeah. At least that's some part. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Blade the mayor of Blazing Saddle or not, the mayor or the governor?
[00:35:25] Unknown:
Governor. Because we had a gov on the back of his jacket. Yeah. On the back of the jacket.
[00:35:33] Rich Chelson:
The the gov. I can't tell you what his what his secretary's name was, but he was always chasing her. So
[00:35:45] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:35:48] Rich Chelson:
I'd like to have a secretary like that. Hey. Wouldn't be bad. Nice little except she's a redhead. You'd have to change care colors.
[00:35:56] Unknown:
We definitely fucking do that shit. Damn right. No. Just was my usual early morning Thursday to have one. Really sucks when, alarm clock goes beep beep at 4AM. I but but one day it'll get better. No. Oh, yeah. Hell, I did twenty one years in the military. Fucking sucked every goddamn data. Here that long hot going off at 04:30 in the morning.
[00:36:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, it could be a little, a little, a little trying.
[00:36:43] Unknown:
I have never in my life been a morning person ever. Even in the military, never was a morning person.
[00:36:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Mornings, don't bother me. I enjoy good morning, actually. That's one of the reasons why I like wintertime is because I can actually wake up before the sun. So get out there and get out there on on cold mornings and watch the sun come up and with a steaming cup of coffee. There's just something kinda calming about it. So
[00:37:25] Unknown:
Well, yeah. No. So, anyway so, anyway, what, I was gonna say about the Jeep aspect Yeah. Yeah. So what's happening in the jeeping saga? Galveston had I think it was this past week or this week. I don't remember. It's a just like Jeep in the Coast, in a couple weeks on Louisiana, they're doing it down to Galveston Island. But it's basically a long weekend. I think it starts Thursday. I don't fucking remember if I haven't gone down there on Jeep in the Coast down at Port A or Galveston. But this year in Galveston, the only thing that is allowed on the beach is Jeeps.
No golf carts, no, trucks, ATVs, motorcycles, none of that. The only thing that's allowed on the beaches are the Jeeps. However, you cannot camp on the beach. You can't do any bonfires on the beach, and the travel for the jeeps is one direction. And they're basically a big loop. You go out onto the onto the street, and then there's one entrance to get onto the beach, one exit to get off of the beach, and it's one way. So they're basically trying to get all the crap, out of the jeeping event down in Galveston. Same way with Porte A. You can't camp on the beach. For this event, you can't camp on the beach.
You can't even park on the beach with your Jeep. You have to be driving it. So they're really cracking down on it because it Porte and Galveston, it had really gotten out of fucking control. Okay. I mean, very badly.
[00:39:43] Duuude-Ron :
Well, and see and see, that's the thing. I mean I mean, you know you know, how bad was it? I mean
[00:39:53] Unknown:
Well, everybody was bringing it their stuff. The like I said, the golf carts, the ATVs, trucks, anything that, you know, could go on the beach was on the beach, and it just turned into a great big
[00:40:09] Rich Chelson:
gaggle. Oh, okay.
[00:40:13] Unknown:
So, yeah, they've, kinda tightened the reins down on, the jeeping event down in Galveston and Port Aransas, which is fine because I don't go to, to either one of those. I'd rather go to Crystal Beach, which is over by Houston and Beaumont area
[00:40:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:40:41] Unknown:
Because it's a little bit more not commercialized area. So but I haven't been there in fucking, you know, couple years now. But that's alright.
[00:41:04] Duuude-Ron :
Well, when you do go, make sure to check if they've changed because you know how, you know, drop of a hat, people change things up. You know?
[00:41:19] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Most definitely.
[00:41:24] Duuude-Ron :
So
[00:41:30] Unknown:
but I'm sure I will because a group down in Just North of San Antonio. Went to Port or I think went to Porte, one of the clubs from Waco. They had people go down to part at our Porte, and then also the ones from, San Antonio itself. So I'm sure I will see the post from those clubs of what it was like down there for the, beach week.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[00:42:14] Unknown:
So I'm sure they will be complaining, but, you know, it'll bring down sure bring down the, lawlessness that was associated with that event in the past because all different types of vehicles and everybody talking shit about, you know, their type of vehicle and, you know, how that goes.
[00:42:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, that's I mean, I mean, that's just everywhere. I mean, that's I mean, it happens. So, you know, that's like all these rule changes and stuff like that. People will be bitching about that because they can't do what they've always done. You know?
[00:43:06] Unknown:
Yeah. And they, you know, they've always complained about the the other stuff other than the Jeeps at the Jeep event, but, you know, it is what it is. Yeah. So, yeah, they're they're gonna bitch about that. They'll bitch about everything else.
[00:43:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I yeah. That that I do not know. I mean, it's it's just, you know, you know, just I mean, I don't bitch about stuff. I just say fuck it. I just go have fun. You know? Yep. Because it's like it's like, you know you know, you wanna sit here and bitch about it, but in the end, you ain't gonna change it. So Exactly. So, you know if you don't.
[00:43:52] Unknown:
You know? Okay. So you cannot park on the beach this year. Okay. So you can't park. Doesn't mean you can't fucking get out of your Jeep and go walk on the beach and park your ass in a fucking chair Right. And watch the other Jeeps go by. You know? You just won't have your Jeep right there blasting your music in competition with everybody else that wanna blast their shit.
[00:44:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Which, I mean, yeah. You know? But yeah. Exactly. It's just like, you know what? Just screw it. You know? Sit there and bring your little JBL speaker and play your music right there by you and just watch the Jeeps go by.
[00:44:40] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:44:41] Duuude-Ron :
Wait. I mean, we can I can see where some people have a problem because, like me, I don't like parking my Jeep a ways away?
[00:44:51] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:44:52] Duuude-Ron :
I I just that's that's me. I I like to have my Jeep as close as possible.
[00:44:57] Unknown:
Oh, I got you.
[00:45:00] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's, I mean, it's it's it's not that I'm scared someone's gonna mess with it. It's just that, you know, if I wanna get up and leave, I ain't gotta walk two miles to do it.
[00:45:15] Unknown:
Yeah. That's that's true too. And, yeah, I get it. But, hey, they've set out the rules, and they said that they're going to enforce it. So the, the blitz that was going on with DPS for, what, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday pretty much has shut down because they got all the fucking, DPS down in Galveston.
[00:45:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit. Okay. Well, that was that was cool.
[00:45:47] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, we got one guy, and and it was broadcast. Well, I don't know if this one was broadcasted or not. I knew about it. The blitz this week was air pressure in the tires and ELD logs. That's what they were concentrating on. You know? And when I was going up to Grand Prairie in an old, rest stop just North Of Italy that isn't used anymore except for by the DPS when they, you know, wanna do level ones and so on like that. Tuesday, they had five rock trucks parked in that area.
[00:46:39] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, oh. Buddy, that's it was a Yeah. If you ever wanna go out and get yourself a ticket, draw a poor damn rock bucket. Golly. No. This thing's take a beating as it is.
[00:46:51] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Thank you. I'm not gonna do any rock buckets. No. Thank you. Because I like what I have right now. I have my truck, my trailer, and I know all of its idiosyncrasies. Right. So I am up on the maintenance. You know, unlike with what they're doing, you know, they get into a truck and a trailer and have no freaking clue as to, you know, any of the maintenance issues that's going on with it. I was, you know, get in, turn the key, and head down the road. Fuck the pre trip.
[00:47:36] Duuude-Ron :
No. Normally, the rock trucks, they got they, they keep their truck and trailers.
[00:47:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, do they? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's getting in getting in and go, though. It's and, they're the owners a lot of times, if they're if they're not they're not owner operators, then, yeah, those rock buckets will take a hell of a beating, and they'll just, they'll, they'll have some type of problem with the trailer itself. But
[00:48:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I'm sure. Without a doubt.
[00:48:11] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, not all companies are like that, but quite a few of them are.
[00:48:18] Rich Chelson:
No. No. But there is a reason why whenever they're whenever you see a whole bunch of rock buckets, going down, a route you normally go down, rest assured here soon, you're gonna start seeing, seeing highway patrol hanging out on that, on that same stretch of road.
[00:48:36] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, there's a right at the southern part, probably about, oh, fifteen minutes south of the Abilene Airport, that stretch, they have a quarry over there that you, you know, you see the rack trucks coming in and out of that road all the time. You know, that's great if, you know, DPS wants to pull them over. Hell, if they wanna pull me over, I don't give a shit.
[00:49:06] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:49:08] Unknown:
One of the managers at one of the stores I delivered to, last week, he knew about the blitz this week, and he asked he'd made one of the dumbest statements I've heard yet. And he knows me pretty damn well that, I'm black and white. There is very fucking very little gray. Very little gray. I am black and white. He says, are you ready for the blitz next week? I'm like, well, let let's rephrase that. Yes. I am ready for the blitz next week. Are your driver are your drivers ready for the blitz next week?
[00:50:03] Duuude-Ron :
What did he say?
[00:50:05] Unknown:
Not a damn thing. Because I already know those trucks up there are not ready. Just for one simple thing, and I've and I've told the manager repeatedly, you better get new placards on those trucks because they're well past UV degradation, and they're gonna get their your drivers are gonna get cited for it. And if the drivers don't give a shit, well, you know, that
[00:50:38] Rich Chelson:
oh, well. Sucks to be there. Well, you could do what you could do what, like, Updegrove did, where you got you got hit with a ticket. You're the one that gets to pay it. Updegrove is not gonna pay pay your overweight ticket for you. It's not gonna pay pay for, for, you know, any violation tickets you get, anything like that. It's, Gary's, philosophy was you're a truck driver. You know what you're supposed to be. You'll what you're allowed, not allowed. So if you end up fucking up, it's your own damn problem. So
[00:51:09] Unknown:
Well and and my company is the same way. Oh, okay. Good. But but when, say, we get we get a fine, they get a fine as well. Yeah. And it could be up to 10 times the amount of what I get fined. Oh, yeah. So but, yeah, overweight ticket and, you know, labeling, placarding, all that other stuff. You know, now I'm not buying the placards, but this shit better be, you know, to the standards. So and one of mine wasn't. And what was it? Yesterday yeah. Yesterday morning, before I hit the road, I changed out that placard because the red was it was it was getting faded. You could still see that it was red, but it was dull. But it wasn't pink.
Right. But it was still red. But to me, it was yeah. It needs to fucking get changed. So I Right. You know, I drilled out the rivets and put a new placard on and, you know, with the self tapping screws and, hell, I'm good to go. It's not me. Now the rest now the rest of the drivers, they ain't gonna do it. They're gonna fucking have our, who comes in and does our maintenance. They'll they'll have him do it. They ain't gonna fucking do it. Me, I'm like, fuck. If I see that it needs to be changed, I'm gonna fucking change it. Right. You know, it's my damn truck and trailer.
[00:52:52] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it doesn't matter who changes it as long as it gets changed properly
[00:52:57] Unknown:
and on time. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:53:01] Duuude-Ron :
I mean you know?
[00:53:07] Unknown:
Yeah. And I, you know, and I look at my stuff. And if I feel that it needs to be changed, then for that matter, I'll ask my boss, hey. We I need some placards for my truck. Fucking he orders them. He's and Max, the guy that does our work on all of our trucks, he doesn't have a problem changing them out. You know? In turn, I don't have a fucking problem changing them out either, But I'm the only one that doesn't have that problem. Everybody else is like, no. We're gonna get Max to do it. Like, yeah. Fucking pussy. But, you know, that's just me.
So now I feel a little bit better that I have my one placard that, you know, sees a lot of sunshine that I've gotten it replaced, and it's you know, now it's nice nice and bright red on that flammable two.
[00:54:09] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good deal.
[00:54:11] Unknown:
Yep. It is. And tomorrow, let's see. Max called me, and this was something completely out of the fucking blue. I didn't know he was gonna do. There was a couple of pieces he found when he did the dry PM last week. And one of the hoses to the self inflating system on my trailer, well, the hose, you know, got a hole in it, but we can take the hose off. And it it won't leak out of the system as a whole. You know? So I just put a one of those extender caps on the valve stem and, you know, just I just checked the air and tires. But we got one driver talking about that blitz, with the air pressure.
You know, what's the minimum air pressure that you have to have in tires?
[00:55:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I don't know. I always kept mine aired up.
[00:55:11] Unknown:
The what?
[00:55:14] Duuude-Ron :
Normally, a hundred.
[00:55:16] Unknown:
Yeah. The for the state of Texas, one hundred is minimum. So we had one of our drivers, and it wasn't me, that got pulled over and had 90 PSI in one of the steer tires and got placed out of service.
[00:55:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Running yeah. I have a 90 and a steer tire. Yeah. I don't think I'd be doing that. I'd have felt that, wiggle too much.
[00:55:55] Unknown:
Well, he got put out of service. So, I'm like, you knew the blitz was coming this week. You know what they were looking for. And, I mean, he's not he's one of the backup well, he's the backup driver for that location, so he's not on the road all the time. But he knows what the requirements are. And you know what? Every fucking vehicle has a tire pressure gauge and a, tread depth gauge in the trucks. Well, you know what? Use the motherfucker. Guess what? He didn't do it.
[00:56:38] Duuude-Ron :
That's his paycheck he has to worry about.
[00:56:41] Unknown:
Yep. So for two quarters, he lost his driver bonus, plus got a, written, what do we call it? In the military, it's a counseling statement. What the hell do we call it now? Basically, a written warning.
[00:57:09] Duuude-Ron :
Oh.
[00:57:11] Rich Chelson:
Well
[00:57:12] Duuude-Ron :
Either he'll learn or he won't.
[00:57:15] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, like I said, it wasn't me.
[00:57:23] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing because we'd be hearing about it if if if it had happened to you.
[00:57:29] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I'd be fucking rant ranting up a fucking storm. No. But I always have cold pressure. I've always had a hundred, which we're supposed to have because we do our monthly inspection that we do on ours on our vehicles. And cold pressure better be a hundred PSI in every tire. Nothing less. I did, however, find out that if cold pressure is a hundred PSI, hot pressure is about a 12 to a 14.
[00:58:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's.
[00:58:13] Unknown:
And, you know, I knew and I know the tires heat up, but, you know, I never knew that they went because I never checked it, the the pressure hot. I was just curious when I did my mid trip inspection and and checking all the straps and so on like that and make sure that the load's secure. And I just said, you know what? Let me see how much the fucking tire pressure is now. Yeah. The tire pressure on the steer tire, I had it a hundred and two, and hot pressure was a 14. I'm like, damn.
[00:58:53] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:58:55] Unknown:
So I didn't know they went up that much. I knew that they went up, but not 12 degrees.
[00:59:01] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's, yeah, that's normal. And and, actually, if you, you know, if they sit, you know, for very long and are are in cold climates, they can lose as much as 10 or 12 degrees just by sitting.
[00:59:18] Unknown:
So Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Mhmm.
[00:59:21] Duuude-Ron :
You can air them up to a hundred dollars on a Monday, not drive it till Friday. And if it's been cold out, it could drop down to 90 and and you not even know it. Let's just check your air pressure.
[00:59:38] Unknown:
Yep. That is very true. So, I do, however, have to now that it's May and before June hits, I'm gonna have to put, summer air into the tires and get the winter air out. So
[01:00:02] Duuude-Ron :
Go, my man.
[01:00:04] Unknown:
So there's not a drastic, you know, difference in tire pressure from cold and hot.
[01:00:10] Rich Chelson:
Well Yeah. I got you Yep. With that commercial air in, it's it's a lot it's a lot heavier duty.
[01:00:16] Unknown:
Commercial air. Yeah. I hadn't heard about that. You know, I knew about the summer and I knew about the winter and summer air, but I had never heard about the commercial air.
[01:00:29] Rich Chelson:
In all reality, I think it's kind of a rip off. It's about the same as summer air in the summertime. In the winter air and the winter time, they make those slight changes, but it's I think they do I think it's just a means to want to charge an extra 25¢ a a a a liter. So so, yeah, it's it really kinda just very it I don't think it really worth all the, all the hype.
[01:00:54] Duuude-Ron :
What's sad? What what is sad about both of those statements? There are people out there that believe that shit.
[01:01:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Well, I we had someone think that if you, you would go faster, if you if you put, helium in your tires because it made your car lighter.
[01:01:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god.
[01:01:22] Unknown:
Well, that's why those cylinders are the weight that they are so that the hydrogen and or helium that gets filled into them, you know, the cylinders aren't floating away.
[01:01:33] Rich Chelson:
Right. Absolutely. Don't want nothing worse than having having cylinders, floating up above you attached to a string or something. So
[01:01:44] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And it like you said, people out there would fucking believe that shit.
[01:01:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah.
[01:01:53] Unknown:
You know? Yep. I should I should actually weigh and empty 200, cubic feet cylinder empty and then weigh one full at ambient temperature just to see what the weight on compressed, compressed gas helium actually weighs. Because I know for an oxygen 300 cubic feet at ambient temperature for, 2,400 PSI plus 10% is for oxygen is 22 pounds of product inside that cylinder.
[01:02:45] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow.
[01:02:48] Unknown:
Yep. And it was 20.2 on the February because we used to have to weigh them on the medical cylinders, but we don't have to weigh them anymore. So, yeah, it they do have weight to them. Now what helium and hydrogen is, I don't know. And here's the here's the other the other things that make it go, like Arsenio Hall used to say, why is it cubic feet of product in a round cylinder?
[01:03:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Harris's will Because they actually have a a, a formula for figuring out what cubic feet is in a cylinder.
[01:04:05] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. That is true. They do.
[01:04:08] Unknown:
Yeah. But it's the ironic part. Why is it cubic feet instead of, cylindrical feet in a round cylinder. We don't have square cylinders. You know?
[01:04:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, because air won't hold hold right in in a in a square cylinder. Of course, I guess a square cylinder wouldn't be a cylinder then, would it?
[01:04:38] Unknown:
That's right. It wouldn't. So it's just the,
[01:04:41] Rich Chelson:
you know And I figured something out. Yay. I know my shapes.
[01:04:48] Unknown:
And they wouldn't roll very well either. That would
[01:04:51] Rich Chelson:
be all good. God. That sucks.
[01:04:53] Unknown:
Yeah. However, do you know why, high pressure cylinders are, round instead of squared?
[01:05:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because, the way air pushes against sides, it pushes equally on each side. So your your your seams, the corners would actually be the weak spot for every for every one of those, one of those, containers. And That is So you would when you put it as a round cylinder with round caps on there, you actually have equal pressure on all sides because, theoretically, it's all one side.
[01:05:37] Unknown:
That's correct. Yep. I was just seeing if anybody knew because I knew. But, yeah, the corners are the weakest points. The corners are the weakest points.
[01:05:49] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep.
[01:05:54] Unknown:
Well, I'm glad you paid attention in science class.
[01:05:58] Rich Chelson:
I well, science was the one was the one class that I just dug. I like biology. I mean, there were portions of it that really sucked, but at the same time, biology, anatomy, general science, love the shit out of the stuff. Only issue I ever ran into it was that you there was portions of it where you had to do math, and that was when it's like, oh, because I don't like math that much. There's a reason I went to Sunday High School.
[01:06:32] Unknown:
Oh, is that the reason why you went to Sundry High School? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Went to Sundry. And you and you want your family made damn sure you went to that school.
[01:06:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[01:06:43] Unknown:
Okay. Alright.
[01:06:45] Rich Chelson:
He's like, this this this son of a bitch is gonna suck at math, so we gotta make it as easy as
[01:06:53] Unknown:
possible. Yeah. Yeah. Never was a physics major myself.
[01:07:00] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Just
[01:07:03] Unknown:
some things I just could not get my fucking head wrapped around. Unlike the the movie, during the space race, the black ladies that were called the computers.
[01:07:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, are you talking about, what is it? Hidden numbers or something like that. Hidden yeah. I don't know I know what one you talked about. It's got Viola Davis, and they they were a beautiful movie. Love the movie itself.
[01:07:34] Unknown:
Yeah. Just
[01:07:37] Rich Chelson:
Hidden Figures
[01:07:40] Unknown:
is what it was called. Was it? I believe called computers.
[01:07:47] Rich Chelson:
Now heads and figures.
[01:07:49] Unknown:
Okay. I don't fucking remember. It was it Kevin Costner was the main Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good movie. Really enjoyed that one. But it's like, you know, just couldn't do wrap my head over this problem takes your old fucking chalkboard and then the back of the chalkboard to fucking get the
[01:08:15] Rich Chelson:
answer. Yeah. There was I mean, just the just the fact of what of all that of all those, of all those actual by hand calculations. But that doesn't show you how much society is itself, has has, you know, unless it's Deteriorate. Deteriorated. Oh, yeah. How much, how much, like, common core math, you know, is just get as close as you can. It's that's all that you need to do. Type of, type of, thought. Yeah. And Because, I mean, they're doing all of that by hand and was able to do it in was able to go from never having ever launched a rocket to parking somebody on the moon in, like what was it? Like, twenty, thirty years?
Because the by by the end of, Yeah. By the end of, end of of World War two is when they started going, hey. Rocket power. Okay. Let's let's do some rocket surgery here and then start to go into town. And about the you know, somewhere along that way in was late forties, early fifties when, when the Russians, slung up, Sputnik. Right. Well, when was beginning of the of the '60 right at the beginning of the sixties. I know that's when, JFK made it, did his moonshot, and they got that done within ten years of all things.
[01:10:09] Unknown:
That yeah. He wanted it done within by the end of the decade. Yeah. And they they Might the moon. What was it? June of sixty nine? I don't know. '69. Yeah.
[01:10:20] Rich Chelson:
I mean, it was it was within it was at a at a mind boggling time, but they did that all with computers that are weaker than our Texas Instrument, scientific,
[01:10:39] Unknown:
calculators. Yeah. Yeah. That you can put in your pocket. Yeah. Well, how many My my cell phone has more memory. Yeah. Computing power than that freaking computer that took up a whole damn fucking room. My phone in my pocket has hundreds of times more capabilities.
[01:11:03] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[01:11:04] Unknown:
So yeah. And God forbid Jesus. If I can if the computers went down in the world and computers have been a lot around for how many years now? Fifty?
[01:11:22] Rich Chelson:
Well, I mean, depending on what there's there are digital computers have been around for, since the fifties, so it's been seventy years.
[01:11:35] Unknown:
Okay. And if the computers, every place crashed, would fucking society be able to sustain itself?
[01:11:49] Rich Chelson:
It would take a lot of adjustment, but, eventually, they would. But at the moment, no. There would be so much you know, you would have all us old folks that stand or have to go take up, jobs at the cashier station just to be able to count change And watch all the all the young ones sit there trying to figure out, how are you figuring that up? It's like, it's not fucking hard. You just you start with one and and, you know, you start with what you're ending ending imbalance was. It's, you know, they gave you $20. It was $17.35. So it's 35. That's a nickel.
So that's 40. 2 more, you know, you keep adding keep adding enough till you get to the next round number until you get to an hour.
[01:12:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I think hundred dollars is there no one has cash anymore, so you wouldn't even have have to have that.
[01:12:40] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. God forbid yeah. Fuck. Society as a whole would pay.
[01:12:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And I use them.
[01:12:50] Unknown:
And I do debit as well. But you know what? I always have some type of cash in my pocket.
[01:12:57] Rich Chelson:
You're one of the few. You're one of the few. I don't. Just because it's, I I I I don't just because it's easier just to just to flip that, that card out.
[01:13:16] Unknown:
Wow. No. I will have cash in my pocket. Because if I wanna go get a soda at the vending machine, yeah. And most I can't say all, but most vending machines, yes, you can fucking tap the card on that one too.
[01:13:36] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[01:13:37] Unknown:
But if the fucking system went down, you know, humans have been around for we'll just ballpark it for ten thousand years. Did okay. You know, with what they had. But if the computers went down, the fucking the whole world society would just fucking crash and would come to a fucking alt.
[01:14:11] Duuude-Ron :
It would eventually ride itself, but, yeah, you're right. It would come to a crash.
[01:14:16] Unknown:
Yeah. And it would take, oh, what, five, ten years to ride itself? I mean, if yeah. No. If computers crashed and you could not get them back up.
[01:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Exactly. Who knows if it would take, you know I mean, five, ten years, honestly, if you ask me, that that would be, too soon because, we would have to build a whole new currency. And to do that, like like, when we had the dollar backed by gold, okay, we had enough gold to cover the value of a dollar. And Correct. You can use anything to back a dollar value. You can use oil. You can use toothpicks if you have enough of them. You can use anything as as money.
[01:15:09] Unknown:
So Yeah.
[01:15:11] Duuude-Ron :
You know, you know, you would need to figure that out and then get enough of that to, you know, give it a value, assign it a value, and then start trading in that.
[01:15:26] Unknown:
Yeah. And, like, what Rich or what, Brian just said, it would take all of us old people to teach all the fucking new people just how to fucking count change, let alone how to fucking punch the numbers like they used to do.
[01:15:43] Duuude-Ron :
Plus well, we'd need all the old cash registers back because, you know, everything's computerized. The the new cash registers wouldn't even work.
[01:15:55] Unknown:
Yeah. So you'd have to do that. You have to teach people how to actually fucking count change. Yeah. It would be hilarious. And for us grumpy old motherfuckers, we'd just be sitting out on the porch, just sitting there fucking laughing, And then we probably laugh some more and just go, wow. Let me go get into my antiquated vehicle, which, unfortunately, none of us have an antiquated vehicle anymore. But, you know, if we had the antiquated vehicles, we could get in, you know, turn the key and get down the road. Why? Because for the most part, we knew how to fucking fix it.
[01:16:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see, though, the thing is you wouldn't be able to get gas because everything's ran on a computer.
[01:16:51] Unknown:
You want you wanna make a fucking bet? I'll fucking get gas. I'll open that main tank hatch, and I'll fucking siphon out the gas myself. Right. So I'd have gas. Now Walmart may not fucking like it. Oh, okay. You know? Much pain. I get it. Walmart
[01:17:14] Duuude-Ron :
wouldn't even think twice if someone did that because everybody would be whining and crying. We can't get no stuff at Walmart. Twenty trips a day to Walmart would end.
[01:17:35] Unknown:
Yeah. And the sad thing about it is is I know motherfuckers would do that.
[01:17:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dude, I can I can I I mean, now now I'm not saying the people I see drive up and down my street all day are going to Walmart, but I can guarantee you 90%, I and this is speculation, but I would say 90% of the motherfuckers that drive up and down my street all the time, and I know the vehicles? They go at least once, if not twice. I mean, good lord. There's I mean, I see vehicles up and down the road all the time all the time. I'm like, good god, people. Where the fuck are you going?
[01:18:23] Unknown:
Exactly. It's like, you know what? You couldn't have made a fucking list and gotten it all the first time.
[01:18:31] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Can't. No. Can't do that, dude. What's a list?
[01:18:36] Unknown:
Right. Oh, wow. You should And it's a list
[01:18:40] Rich Chelson:
yeah. Hey. Phone. Yeah.
[01:18:43] Unknown:
Yes. A lot of people use their phone, write a list. You know, I don't have Excel and all that other shit on my phone.
[01:18:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:18:53] Duuude-Ron :
Just need need a a note taking app, which your phone has, and you just type it in.
[01:19:03] Unknown:
Well, I'm sure it does, but I know about 10% of what the fucking capacity is of my phone.
[01:19:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. No. You've got a note taking app. You don't need Excel. You don't need nothing. You've got it on your phone. Every phone has it. Oh, okay. Open it up, type in your list, and bring it up when you're shopping, if you remember.
[01:19:28] Unknown:
See, I fucking write my list on a piece of paper with a
[01:19:34] Duuude-Ron :
pen. Yep. Same here. When I when I go shopping,
[01:19:38] Unknown:
when I get it, I cross it out so I know I got everything on my list.
[01:19:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, I do that. And that's if I remember to take the list with me. And then if I take the list with me, if I remember to bring a pen, it will normally, the list really doesn't matter because I wind up getting about 40 different things that wasn't on my list.
[01:20:05] Unknown:
Of course.
[01:20:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[01:20:08] Unknown:
You know, I go to check out But when you get but when you get home and the first thing that you had on your list, usually, that's the most important thing. And then the first thing you write down, that is what you fucking forgot.
[01:20:23] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. All the time. All the time.
[01:20:26] Unknown:
Because you know what? The first thing that is on my list, every list that I make pretty much
[01:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[01:20:34] Unknown:
Coffee.
[01:20:37] Duuude-Ron :
AM, dude.
[01:20:40] Unknown:
But I do instant. So you know? Yeah. But when I, you know, do yeah. You know, I will start. If I need something here and there, I'll stop at Walmart on the way home from work, but I ain't making a fucking special trip.
[01:20:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Same here. You know? If if, you know, if I go shopping and and, you know, I forget two, three, four things or whatever, oh, fuck it. I'm doing without till I go again. That's right. Might be in two weeks. Might be in two days. Who cares? My ass is waiting.
[01:21:17] Unknown:
But, yeah, but you're not gonna fucking unpack the bags and go, oh, fuck. I forgot this, and then go back out and get it. Yeah. No. No.
[01:21:27] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. I go shopping once I get home and get everything inside. Fuck that. Day's over. I may but up. Days over. Done. I'm done. I don't do nothing else the rest of the day.
[01:21:42] Unknown:
Well, all because only because with you, it it hurts. Mhmm. Yeah. Gosh. Being And I and trust me, I don't enjoy grocery shopping in any sense of the word. That's just like but in turn, I'm not fucking having somebody else shop for me and then bring it out to my car. Fuck that. I wanna go and look at the prob product and put it in a damn cart.
[01:22:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I've done that before, though. I I've tried it out and and, actually, on base at the at the commissary. I I did that. And, I gotta say, the person who who because I ordered meat and I ordered a whole bunch of stuff. And, I gotta say, I was impressed with their shopping abilities. They did really well.
[01:22:47] Unknown:
Well, that's that is great because I see the ones down here. And and it's not all of them, but I see some of the ones down here. It's like, just graduated high school. It's like, wow. I would not want to have you shopping for me. No. Thank you. But that's me.
[01:23:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, see, I've I've gotten some stuff from, you know, Walmart, you know, delivered, and everything like that. And believe it or not, just about everybody well, I mean, Walmart's I mean, everyone goes by name brands anyway because that's how, you know, Walmart it's it's either Walmart brand or a name brand. So, I mean, it's not a shop, and I don't get meat from Walmart ever. I don't I don't care how much they think they're saving. Yeah. The meat, no. I would rather go to a grocery store that cuts their own meat, which I've got one right up the road. They freaking cut their own meat.
[01:24:01] Unknown:
Right. Help with
[01:24:03] Duuude-Ron :
commissary on base cuts their own
[01:24:07] Unknown:
meat. So I don't think I don't think I don't remember the our commissary if they cut their own. I I don't remember. It's been so long. And we had two of and we had two of them on Fort Hood. We had the main one, and then there was a secondary one at the other on the other side of the post. It was about half the size, but still, you know, had the same stuff, just not in
[01:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
the quantity that the main one had. Right. Right. Well, I mean I mean, basically, the main one would would supply the smaller one, you know, especially, you know, if they cut their own meat, they just cut it for the smaller store and send it over that way.
[01:24:52] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
You knew. I mean, they I don't know. Don't you know, I don't I don't go to the commissary a lot over on on Keesler, down here. But, you know, when I do, it's, I mean, I enjoy going because I have they have so many different options. You know? It's not just the same shit in in every store. You know what I mean? Yeah.
[01:25:25] Unknown:
Yeah. Uh-huh.
[01:25:26] Duuude-Ron :
And, you know, I like to try new and different things anyway. So that's why I, you know, I don't mind going to commissary, but it's been a while
[01:25:39] Unknown:
since I've been out out that way. Oh, it's it's been a long while since it's been several years since I went to the commissary.
[01:25:48] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it hasn't been that long for me. But Well, I know that.
[01:25:52] Unknown:
It's been, what, couple months?
[01:25:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Probably about four months or so. Four or five months. But, yeah, I'll wind up going back. Don't worry.
[01:26:07] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I don't know. I completely understand. I I got you.
[01:26:12] Duuude-Ron :
Because, normally, the commissary has got the best prices on me. Oh,
[01:26:18] Unknown:
okay.
[01:26:24] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's it's, that's why I like going there. And plus, like like, on ramen noodles, you know, you could say I'm bougie or picky. About the one thing. Well, you know that top ramen stuff or that stuff made by Nissan and, you know, them those other brands, I can't stand it. I can't stand them because of the way they're made. The ones I like are the ones that come directly from Japan.
[01:27:00] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[01:27:03] Duuude-Ron :
They don't come from, you know, American factories or anything like this.
[01:27:10] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:11] Duuude-Ron :
Sapro Ichiban. Number one, soup is what it means.
[01:27:18] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:20] Duuude-Ron :
Ichiban in Japanese is number one. So yeah. But, but, yeah, they and say, like like like in Walmart or or, like, HEB for you or whatnot, if you go look at the ramen noodles, most most of the time, all you're gonna see is beef and chicken. Very you might see pork flavor. You might see oriental flavor. And then you'll see shrimp. Shrimp. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. That's that's a rare one. In in Walmart, all you'll see is beef and chicken.
[01:28:03] Unknown:
For the most part, yes.
[01:28:05] Duuude-Ron :
I mean yeah. But, but that's where you know? Like, because I like the pork flavor, the shrimp flavor. You know, I like the different flavors. Yeah. I I mean and I don't know. Like, I don't know. It's just the way the noodles cook up and taste with their mother brands. That's why that's why I like the ones that come straight from Japan.
[01:28:31] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:28:33] Duuude-Ron :
Those noodles seem to taste better.
[01:28:37] Unknown:
So Yeah. Probably because they're most of them are egg noodles.
[01:28:44] Duuude-Ron :
I believe so.
[01:28:45] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:28:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. It's not rice noodles. Rice noodles are very thin and very small. So, yeah, these are egg noodles. But but I don't know. It's just made differently than Yeah. Than, like, the Nissan brand or the Marucci and yeah. I can't I can't stand those flavors.
[01:29:09] Unknown:
Those Oh, I you know what? I'm and I'm gonna interrupt you real quick, and we'll go back to that. I found your next, riding lawnmower. It has little batteries that you can use on a push mower and a weed whacker are the same ones that they're putting in the riding mowers. That's what you need to get.
[01:29:35] Duuude-Ron :
Battery powered riding mower? Oh, hell.
[01:29:42] Unknown:
God only knows what the cost is on this, son, bitch.
[01:29:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, damn. And and holy. Same size battery is for the weed eater and everything else?
[01:29:55] Unknown:
You know, it it may be the bigger batteries. I really didn't see it, come up on the commercial, but it well, the company has weed eaters and all the way up to riding lawnmowers. I didn't I didn't catch I didn't catch the company's name.
[01:30:13] Duuude-Ron :
That is crazy. Because, say, guys, battery powered riding lawnmower. I'd be scared.
[01:30:25] Unknown:
You know what I'm gonna buy? If I ever get a riding lawnmower, you know what I'm gonna buy? Gas. I'm gonna buy something like what you have. It takes gas.
[01:30:40] Duuude-Ron :
And most most Sheraton mowers are gas now. There's a lot of push mowers out there that have battery. And I've got a weed eater that's a battery, and I got a blower that's a battery. We which is fine. You know? But yeah. The right yeah. Yeah. The big lawnmower? Uh-uh. No. It's gas.
[01:31:01] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't buying no fucking battery. Big no. Fuck. No. And, you know, here's the funniest thing I heard on Fox News the other night that, Bernie Sanders and AOC, they're getting on his private jet and flying all around The United States talking about, you know, green energy and all this other stuff, and they calculated it up to the amount of c o two that his jet produced on this little tour that him and AOC went on
[01:31:40] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm.
[01:31:44] Unknown:
Is the same amount of c o two that what was it? I heard my starting spot. Well, that'd be Like a like, 30 cars would make in a year. So
[01:31:59] Duuude-Ron :
That's crazy.
[01:32:02] Unknown:
So they're talking all about this fucking green energy and just yeah. Hypocrites.
[01:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Yeah. Hypocrites. That's funny.
[01:32:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I see. Yeah. For your best.
[01:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. People are are are falling for the
[01:32:26] Unknown:
Yeah. And battery this and electric this and electric that, and how much gasoline energy is used to extract what they need for one of these electric car batteries.
[01:32:48] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:32:50] Unknown:
Yeah. It will never fucking make sense. Now if you wanna have a battery powered car, a Tesla, or fucking a Humvee for that matter, because the new Humvees are all fucking electric.
[01:33:08] Rich Chelson:
Yes. All that. It's just like, holy shit. How far we have fallen?
[01:33:17] Unknown:
Yeah. If and if you won't have an electrical electric Humvee, knock yourself the fuck out. I see him driving down the road, you know, passing me, just blowing by me. Of course, I can only do 65 miles an hour. But, you know, I look at that, I'm like, wow. I would never own an electric vehicle ever.
[01:33:41] Duuude-Ron :
When did they start making Humvees again? Chevy. Build them
[01:33:47] Rich Chelson:
a few years. Oh, they were needing to try to find something that might wow the, the the the petrol heads. And so they, they're like, hey. Maybe they like they really like that Humvee. They were really mad whenever we took the Humvee away, so maybe we can get them with an electric Humvee. And no. No. Nobody wants to buy it. I mean, hell, you don't you can't even afford the insurance on the damn things.
[01:34:14] Unknown:
Right. Well, I'm not checking. But, yeah, the the Humvee the new Humvee, all electric Humvee looks like a little bit larger Ford Bronco.
[01:34:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It does. I'm looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. 99 to a hundred and 7,000.
[01:34:37] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. It's like, holy shit, man. What's up with the damn? No one wants to have them because one, you can't afford the damn things. And second, like I said, you can't afford the insurance. The insurance on them is just astronomical. Yeah. I mean,
[01:34:55] Duuude-Ron :
tons. They weigh five tons. For fucking
[01:34:58] Unknown:
five tons?
[01:35:00] Duuude-Ron :
Five tons. Wow. 8,000 pounds. It's a thousand horsepower. It's fucking crazy. And both and and it boasts a range of 311 miles.
[01:35:18] Rich Chelson:
Which is actually half that. Yes.
[01:35:23] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, either way but yeah.
[01:35:29] Rich Chelson:
The key word on that is boasts.
[01:35:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. That's crazy.
[01:35:40] Rich Chelson:
And your, your homeowner's insurance won't doesn't want you charging them inside the inside the garage. So, yeah, I mean, the insurance companies are so so against them too. They'll they want they are so dug into the ESG stuff that they're like, yeah. It's you wanna have all the charging stations and stuff, but, oh, don't charge it inside because if you charge it inside and it burns your house down, well, yeah, that doesn't quite go with our with our policy. So you wouldn't you would lose your house and everything if, if the if the battery fire took out your house, which, funny enough, it often does.
[01:36:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This is I swear. People are getting stupid.
[01:36:30] Unknown:
Yeah. And stupid is forever. Now okay. Since, Rich, you own a Jeep, obviously, how many miles to the gallon do you get?
[01:36:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right now, on the average, about two forty to the tank, and that's just in town driving. On the road, I can get closer to 300.
[01:36:57] Unknown:
Okay. You know what I get?
[01:37:00] Duuude-Ron :
You don't know. Right?
[01:37:02] Unknown:
I have not a fucking clue. When it gets down to a quarter of a tank, I go fill it up. Drive it around, goes down to a quarter of a tank, I fill it back up. I have no idea what my fucking mileage is nor do I care.
[01:37:23] Rich Chelson:
I I kinda I kinda peek at what my what my mileage is just because if there's time so, like, if I'll if I'm driving around and it seems like I'm having to fill up a lot faster, I'll peek and see what it thinks the, mileage is, and I'll actually go through and fill and, and we'll we'll hand figure it from time to time because I'll and I'll put in however many, gallons I put in, and, and I'll top it all the way off. And I can that's one if there's anything about that that Mazda that I like, I can top the shit out of that damn, damn, tank because I will sit there and I can I'll it I'll put be filling it up and, you know, it'll it'll click.
You know, I'll I'll put 40 say, I'll put put in put $40 on the pump, and I'll go and fill up, but that'll click off at about 30. I could put another $10 worth of, gas in the neck. If you just go slow enough, it'll start to fill up start to fill up, and it'll kinda get up to the top. So I'll shake my car, and it'll burn the x out of it. And so so, yeah, I could do that a few times. And just going slow enough, I can I've I've actually have gotten it filled all the way up to where it was sitting at the at the mount, once, and that was just because I ended up thinking I was lower than that. It ended up having, like, 20 extra dollars or something like that. So I don't know what, how much I can actually stick inside the neck, but, yeah, there's a I could put a lot of damn fuel in that thing.
Wow. Yep. I did that and drove to Amarillo, which is, you know, two and a half hours away. And by the time I got to Amarillo, the needle had finally started to move off a full. I was like, yeah. I'm all sorts of proud of myself. But
[01:39:30] Unknown:
now that you know what? And you know what you should get for that? A participation trophy?
[01:39:39] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. Wow.
[01:39:47] Unknown:
No. I have no fucking idea what my Jeep gets for that matter. Now my stepdad, god rest his soul, every time he filled up a vehicle. It didn't matter what vehicle they had. It had a fucking logbook for the gas, and he calculated it every fucking time.
[01:40:18] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:40:20] Unknown:
And you know what? Hey. That's absolutely fucking great. I don't know if that's a stepdad thing. I don't know.
[01:40:29] Rich Chelson:
Because my my I had a, I had a, stepdad, growing up. I mean, I never called him dad or anything like that. He was always known as Bill. But, but he was a cool dude. You know? I'd I'd been until I got older, I didn't realize how much of a, how much of a, a a dickhead he really was. I mean, he still has a special place in my heart just because he was such a cool dude. I mean, I you know, I went and we went up to, went up to New Hampshire to go see his, see his parents a couple three times, and it was just a it was a cool thing. But, but, yeah, he was he was one of those. He had he had a a maintenance log book, in his cars, And he would, he would figure up the mileage. He would, note, note when the, the services were and all that.
I don't know if it was just that, you know, that era of of men who who had that dedication.
[01:41:38] Unknown:
You know, I don't know. But my my dad never fucking did anything like that. Okay. My stepdad and it yeah. He did all the maintenance. He knew all the fucking yeah. He kept track of the oil changes and, you know, the fluid when it needed to be changed. You know, he kept that in a different book, but he had a gas book. And every time he filled up, and every vehicle had one, he would write it down, calculate everything out. It's like, hey. You know what? More power to you. I have never in my life done that. When the cast can or when the gas tank gets to a corner tank or a little bit below, you better go fucking tow it up because you're gonna run out of gas. Right.
[01:42:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It doesn't matter. Alright. Go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.
[01:42:29] Unknown:
No. It's it doesn't matter what the gas mileage is. Right. If you don't if you're not if you're getting bad gas mileage, you know, I ain't gonna fucking go buy another goddamn car. I couldn't afford that shit. No. But if you got bad bad gas mileage, then you would start,
[01:42:44] Rich Chelson:
most of those most of those types of guys, what they'd start doing is they start tinkering with the car to figure out why the gas mileage fell so much. And when I say fall so much where, you know, you start losing about five gallons of gas, in in range.
[01:43:00] Unknown:
Well yeah. And my stepdad, he wouldn't tinker with it. He'd take it to somebody and let them tinker on it, which is which is which is fine. You know? God rest his soul. And but it's like, okay. If you're gonna start getting gas bad gas mileage, well, the first thing I'm gonna do,
[01:43:21] Rich Chelson:
probably change this fucking spark plugs. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I would do too. I would start with the with the plugs and all that.
[01:43:29] Unknown:
That's unless you have a fucking computer, that's all you can fucking manually do now is change spark plugs. Everything You can change plugs, change out the the packs
[01:43:42] Rich Chelson:
for the plugs, and that's that's that's the extent of it. So but they're out wide.
[01:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
Can change the, idle air control sensor to map sensor because that all affects fuel mileage. You're Filter. Yeah.
[01:43:56] Unknown:
You're right. But you have to have a computer to you can change all that. Yeah. That's great. And I don't know what the cost on all that shit is. You know? I just
[01:44:07] Duuude-Ron :
Various prices for vehicles because I've changed, mass airflow sensor on on my TJ, an idle air control, valve on my TJ. You know? It's just different prices. Normally, less than a hundred bucks. You know? Mhmm. Out the wires out. You know? I I mean and so, I mean, there's there's a few things you can do that's not gonna break the bank, and you don't need a computer for it.
[01:44:37] Unknown:
Yeah. That's true. So But I tell you what, they, what's that bank called? Did it hooks up to all the spark plugs now? What the ignition bank or whatever? Man, that motherfucker was not cheap on a four o inline six. That's damn sure. I had checked out one of those in the TJ one time. That's, like, a hundred and $80 for that motherfucker. Wow. Because it because it's one strip for all six plugs.
[01:45:13] Duuude-Ron :
Is that fuel injectors? He was talking about the fuel rail?
[01:45:18] Unknown:
Not the fuel rail. Your ignition rail that runs the control on all the spark plugs. I don't remember what it's called.
[01:45:29] Rich Chelson:
The thing that took the place of the distributor.
[01:45:32] Unknown:
Distributor and the spark plug wires. Yes.
[01:45:35] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, and I had my Cherokee that had a four o. I I started distributor.
[01:45:40] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Mine had the, the coil pack is what it's called.
[01:45:47] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[01:45:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Hundred and $80 for that coil pack.
[01:45:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:45:54] Unknown:
Because it ran ran all six cylinders. Yep. I liked it when cars were, you know, carbureted and distributor cap and spark plug wires and yeah. I like those.
[01:46:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, my my, my great aunt, Dorothy, her husband, Benny, I mean, he they lived up in up around, three Purple Falls, Minnesota. And one of the most fascinating things about that man that I I remember of is that anytime we went on a little trip and, I mean, I only went and saw him probably two, maybe three times. But, anytime we'd go out on a trip, and a trip was anything beyond you know, we would we were in the area of Fargo, Fargo area. We were in driving distance of air. I I I remember that, of course, maybe not driving distance because it seemed like it took forever to get the landing in Fargo and and going over to their house. So I don't exactly know where I am. If we were to drive around, a lot of times he would we'd go up in the up in the Canada because we're close to the Canada Canadian area.
So if that helps, Annie. It was when we got done with our trip, this guy would change the oil. Before we took off to the for the trip, he would change the oil, and then he would change the oil again afterwards. And he did would go go through and do a full, preventive maintenance on on the car before we he'd ever take it out. He would throw on his he he had some, had some garage coveralls that he would he would throw on, and the I mean, the guy was probably 75, 80 years old, the last time I remember seeing him do it. And, I mean, this well, maybe not that. Yeah. About I would say about 70.
And, he would he would sit there and go through, and he would tinker on that old old car. And I could tell you what it was other than it was a land yacht because it was a big ass freaking car. But, but, yeah, he would he would take her on that car and get everything all taken care of, then he would, we would go out on our trip, and he would do every and and do whatever we were gonna do on our trip. And then we'd come back, and he would go back in there. He would drain the oil out. Hell, it was damn it was freaking clean oil. He was dump it out. It was like it's bad, spanking new.
But, but, yeah, he was he would take care of that car. That car did not have a squeak or anything. Yeah. It was it sounded like it was a brand new freaking vehicle every time he'd start fired up, and that thing was probably twenty years old whenever, whenever, whenever I remember seeing it. Right.
[01:49:02] Duuude-Ron :
It never broke down, though.
[01:49:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It never broke down.
[01:49:07] Unknown:
So look look in the chat real quick.
[01:49:09] Rich Chelson:
Yep. There you go. Now there's a family Roadster.
[01:49:25] Unknown:
Isn't that cool? That is cool. 1982 Mercedes.
[01:49:31] Rich Chelson:
That's an '82. Wow.
[01:49:35] Unknown:
Yes. And that guy, it it, yeah, that that that vehicle is as clean inside as it was outside. It was, one of my the neighbor from across the street, they had come to pick up something from her, and I saw that wagon. I was sitting out front having a smoke. I'm like, wow. So I went over there and just, you know, introduced myself, and I was just looking at the car. I was like, man, a 1982 Mercedes station wagon. That's a pretty cool car.
[01:50:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That is a neat looking car. So
[01:50:25] Unknown:
I thought I just now they reminded me we're talking about, you know, old land yachts. Because when I was growing up I mean, when I was a little kid, we had we'd my parents not had not just one, but two station wagons. Don't ask me what they were. I don't know if they were Chevys or what they were. But Yeah.
[01:50:52] Rich Chelson:
We had a Country Squire. I remember the brand on that one.
[01:50:58] Unknown:
Yeah. I remember the Country Squires.
[01:51:02] Duuude-Ron :
It's on the tip of my tongue. I remember. I it was a Plymouth, I think.
[01:51:09] Rich Chelson:
I probably wish they had bring back the station wagons. Yeah. They were people make fun of them and stuff, but damn, those were actually kinda fun cars to have.
[01:51:21] Unknown:
Yeah. Because you could throw all the fucking kids in the very back. Didn't have to worry about didn't have to worry about nay one fucking seat belt ever.
[01:51:32] Rich Chelson:
Ford made
[01:51:33] Duuude-Ron :
it. I made the Country Square.
[01:51:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. The Ford Country Square. Yeah. That's right.
[01:51:43] Unknown:
It's just, like, right around in the back of a pickup truck.
[01:51:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I mean and some, some of the, models even have the options of having the, the way way back was was able to transform into seats. And the kind of the seat not only did that, they were rear facing seats. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The rear facing seats too. That was awesome because you could sit there and make faces person behind
[01:52:09] Unknown:
you. So I did. Shit. I don't know how many fucking faces I made in my lifetime.
[01:52:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Load the kids up and the whole store and come home with it. Yeah.
[01:52:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:52:26] Unknown:
Without a doubt.
[01:52:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You could have you'd have mom, dad, and another other couple, and they'd all set the front the front seat and the back seat, and kids would all be shoved into the back. There'd be 30 of them. And Yep. And parents sat there, be spoken. The windows be open. It'd be two degrees outside, and y'all the kids in the back are pleased to death, but, you know, that was why. We just kinda we didn't bitch about it because, well, what was that gonna do?
[01:52:59] Unknown:
Get you smacked.
[01:53:00] Rich Chelson:
Get you, get you slapped at at the at the best. So
[01:53:04] Unknown:
Yeah. Get your fucking back of your heads fucking knocked off. You wanna you wanna fucking or you wanna fucking whine and cry? I'll give you something to whine and cry about.
[01:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. That was a what was it? I saw a Facebook bill earlier last week that just really kinda hits home on that. And, basically, it's talking about, what the what of us are are actually pursuing is actually the the feeling of pure joy and freedom that we had when we were young. But not that we really wanna go back to those days, but we want those times when we didn't have to have all the stresses in our lives stacked upon us as we do now. And, it's it's one of those things where it's oh, yeah. I get I understand that. And I've that's the the because I am one of those that does stay stuck in the past an awful lot.
[01:54:32] Unknown:
Well, yeah, I love the past.
[01:54:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I do too. I mean, it's whether whether shitty times in back then, it's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of shitty times. I mean, we all have our if you wanna use modern language, which doesn't mean shit because it's not really there, but, you know, we all have our forms trauma. What whatever that end that word ends up meaning in today's the today's terms. So, you know, we had stuff that that shaped us, but you learn how to help move on and still be able to manage with the yeah. Function with in society. Yeah.
Because if you got a little too far out of out of, out of range, you know, society would kinda look at you and you would you figure you had to figure out, like, how do we get ourselves, you know, straightened out? Because if we don't, you know, we're gonna be on the outs and out out doubts, and we don't wanna do that. But there's a lot of you know? That's one of the big problems I see. At least I feel today is is going on as you got people want society to bend to their will instead of them bending to society. And is society always right? No. Because, I mean, hell, look at what society's been doing here recently. Society has been doing the coddling. Society, you know, wants wants boys to be girls and girls to be boys, and all the times that that is all completely wrong.
[01:56:20] Unknown:
100% wrong.
[01:56:23] Rich Chelson:
But you've got but at the same time, you're you can't end to society's will in those instances. And to assume that society has to bend to your will is equally is equally wrong. You need to figure out how to get along in society with that won't be the best way because I kinda talk myself to a big old circle into into a trap on that one. Is a is take is how do you fit into society without without losing who you are?
[01:57:10] Unknown:
You know how to do that? Get your ass whooped every once in a while. Well, yeah. That definitely helps.
[01:57:17] Rich Chelson:
You know,
[01:57:18] Unknown:
I you know, I got my fair share of ass whoopings when I was a kid. Oh, yeah. And guess what? It developed the character that I have today. Right now or in different,
[01:57:36] Rich Chelson:
No. I agree. A lot of kids lot kids need to have need to have a battle applied to their bet on a on a regular basis. I mean, there there is something about the spoil of the rod, the bear of the rod spoil the child because Yeah. You see how you know? I mean, there is at least on on my TikTok feed, there's a lot of discussion right now up and a a term that is being bandied about a lot is called black fatigue. Not to make this a race thing, but it's but that's what's showing up. And it's and everybody who's complaining about it, yeah, we've got some white folks. I got some white folk on my feed that jump in there. But 90% of the folks who are actually commenting on black boutique is the black community.
And black fatigue is the all the, all the folks who are you know, you see the see the McDonald's breakouts, you know, not breakouts, but, meltdowns where all of a sudden you've got the someone with the from the brigade or the chef hat brigade or whatever the hell that damn hat is that, that everybody seems to be wearing. And, and they're duking it out with somebody else. That or they've got an overweight, you know, fat chick wearing wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. Fighting another fat chick in a cowboy boots cowboy hat at a freaking Beyonce concert. You know, it's they're they're it's so busy fighting everybody else. They're so ratchet because of the ghetto mentality.
And that's that's such a a sad thing to actually see because, yeah, the there is a there is a a a the black mentality for the for the black community was such a incredible and powerful thing. You saw oh, I I think I've talked about it before, but, it always is good to, to bring it back up. The the black, the black married family was actually more successful on on average than white, white families. There were more black married families who bought themselves out of poverty into upper middle class than white poverty, families. When they would get out of when they would improve, they would only wind up in lower middle class.
Low a lot more would wind up in lower middle class as opposed to upper middle class like, like the, like the black, black married families. And what ended up killing a lot of that, a lot of that mindset was the, was the, the great society created by LBJ. When all of a sudden the welfare system was kit it was applied, that designated the the black American family. And all of a sudden, you had more black people being found in the projects and and the and the on the on the poor side of tracks and and all that. And that's that's an accumulation of the victim mindset. Oh, I have I'm owed something even if it's to get my get the Big Mac exactly the way I want it, or I didn't get enough fries or whatever it is, these these people on on on online are throwing a shit fit about.
And it's, you know, it's sad, and it's you see you see them from well, I mean, from two from the time of COVID when they started, you know, doing riots. That was the time I was, like, going I did I personally don't understand. Okay. If you're complaining about racism, then why are you destroying minority owned businesses? And I guess they got a little smart about it and started figuring out. I was like, oh, wait a minute. We can go into the upper side upper the better part of town and go, you know, go rob Neiman Marcus, and then all of a sudden, they're mentioning that Neiman that all the, all the Walmarts and Targets and and everything were locking everything up behind, behind glass doors or plastic doors, they were closing up completely and leaving, leaving the neighborhood.
They were staying around going, what why are y'all leaving? What's what's what's the deal with with you with you, leaving our neighborhood? You're leaving us with nothing. It's like, no. You're getting you're getting what you deserve. And it's kind of been the kind of the past five years have been a really big turning point with a lot of the, a lot of the woke actually, the past two years have been the big turning point for a lot of the woke ideology because they have they are just wearing people's, nerves then. It's like, really? Come on. I can't even can't even go go to town, you know, without the without fear of of offending somebody who, you know, doesn't like the way that you looked in their general direction.
And sadly, it's it's not even the the men. It's all the women that seem to be causing all the problems nowadays. Just to add, you know, a little more insult to injury, I know I'm digging myself a big asshole. I'm gonna have all sorts of people bitch bitching at me going, my god. He's he doesn't just doesn't doesn't like like for other races. He doesn't like black other races women. So but it's
[02:04:27] Unknown:
well You know what? And then you this is your rebuttal. This is your rebuttal, and I'm not trying to change the subject. Here's your name. You're not racist. Just remember, you are not racist. You hate everybody equally.
[02:04:43] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. I I I I definitely detest, most people on an equal basis, but it's those people who I do absolutely detest and and abhor people who think they need to have special treatment.
[02:05:04] Unknown:
Yeah. I agree that.
[02:05:06] Rich Chelson:
And that's those are the ones that I've I throw the biggest biggest fit about. It's like, come on, man. Really?
[02:05:12] Unknown:
Well, you want everybody else to yeah. You want everybody else to go out and do your shit and
[02:05:18] Rich Chelson:
you know? Yeah. And then you wander around wondering why you're poor. Like, well, because you haven't done anything. Maybe if you stopped try stop from and I personally blame a lot, a lot of the, the problem on on on music. I think music does have some power over people. Yeah. But at the same time, it's that music should or shouldn't have the power depending on is there a dad in that family. And, sadly, most of the most of the folks who are running rampant through, you know, going in and doing smash and grabs, you know, with with the whole with the whole herd of, of people.
You know, you have a crowd of folks running into a store and grabbing everything that's not nailed down and running out. I personally you look at any of them, and I bet you if you ask them, there would be is there a dad in the and, did you grow up with a dad in the house? They would say, no. No. I didn't know my dad, or my dad's in jail or or or something to that effect. And that's the that's the big, that's the big big problem with society. And yeah. And I still think feminism being a, root of a lot of that problem because, yes, women are needed. Women have a very crucial important part in a functioning society.
But to, to say that men are not important in society is ignorant. That is actually acting highly that's like saying, well, you don't I I don't need a woman in my life. Well, to function day to day, technically, no. I don't need a woman. It's really freaking nice, though, to have a damn woman in, you know, around. Yeah. So But I don't have to have one, but I would live actually live longer if I was married to one. I would, on the on the average, be a happier person if I was married to one. You're on the average a better person. Women balance men out.
Hold up real quick. I mean, tell this guy that he's got sand pouring out of his damn bottom. So
[02:08:11] Unknown:
That's just a detail, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Other talker.
[02:08:16] Rich Chelson:
So, hey, I'm gonna put you on mute. I'll be back here in a bit. Alright.
[02:08:27] Duuude-Ron :
I'm still here, dude.
[02:08:29] Unknown:
Okay. Well, I I see your lovely camping picture. That's a That's right. Yeah. It is an old one. You've had that on now since forever.
[02:08:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:08:46] Unknown:
I don't think you've ever changed it. Course, I don't think I've ever put one up, my damn self.
[02:08:53] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know if you have.
[02:08:56] Unknown:
I don't think I have. I fucked for that matter. I don't even know how to. So
[02:09:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think I forgot how I, honest with you. But, yeah, that was taken up at Strawberry Lake, when I lived up in Montana.
[02:09:17] Unknown:
Oh, really? So was Montana right before Missouri, or was there something in between that?
[02:09:26] Duuude-Ron :
I was living in Arkansas in, Matt and Dee, and I went up to Montana. And, I didn't stay very long. It was it was way too expensive for me. So Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They ain't got no, you know, sales tax or anything like that. But where we live, we didn't live in town. We live 50 miles from the nearest town. And, yeah, prices were just outrageous because, I mean, we literally lived out in the middle of nowhere.
[02:10:06] Unknown:
Oh.
[02:10:15] Duuude-Ron :
Beautiful country. Yeah. Dang.
[02:10:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[02:10:21] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, that's living out there, you need a job making a minimum of $20 an hour. And that How much an hour? Twenty. Twenty? Yeah. And that's that's the poor house. That that's still the poor house.
[02:10:42] Unknown:
Oh, wow. Yeah. I know.
[02:10:45] Duuude-Ron :
Thing is out there when I was out there, the about the most anybody would pay is 11 to 12 to start. So And Yeah. Yeah. Price were just outrageous. See you. I would have loved to have stayed out there. Just couldn't. So but yeah. Then I came back to Iowa, stayed in Iowa for a little bit, then came back into Missouri.
[02:11:33] Unknown:
And then moved to Missouri.
[02:11:40] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean and then moved?
[02:11:43] Unknown:
Okay. So you went you were in Montana, then you moved went to Iowa. Right? Yeah. Went to Missouri. Oh, okay. From Iowa, you went to Missouri?
[02:11:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:11:55] Unknown:
Oh, okay. But before Montana, it was Arkansas.
[02:11:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:12:00] Unknown:
Okay. Now that we got now that I got all that figured out.
[02:12:08] Duuude-Ron :
And then, you know, let's say before Arkansas, I was living in, Virginia.
[02:12:17] Unknown:
That was
[02:12:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I shouldn't have done that, but I did.
[02:12:23] Unknown:
Why? Well, it depends on Virginia, I guess, too.
[02:12:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, actually, I wound up helping my mom move out to Virginia, which was the biggest mistake in my life. And and I wound up, staying out there for a couple years. And yeah. No.
[02:12:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Beautiful. At Virginia?
[02:12:46] Duuude-Ron :
South of Roanoke, Salem. Oh.
[02:12:49] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:12:51] Duuude-Ron :
But, I mean, beautiful. Beautiful country. Oh,
[02:12:55] Unknown:
oh, yeah. They just Without a doubt.
[02:12:58] Duuude-Ron :
They just got more liberal views than you can shake stick at.
[02:13:03] Unknown:
Well, yeah, it would be one of those, in the final Matrix movie when he's got that stick going around and hitting all the mister Smiths. I don't know if you've ever seen the final Matrix.
[02:13:17] Duuude-Ron :
It doesn't ring a bell.
[02:13:19] Unknown:
Okay. Well, he's there's, like, about 2,000 fucking mister Smiths that he's trying to fight off with a stick.
[02:13:27] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. I Yeah. A lamppost, actually. That too. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:13:36] Unknown:
But oh, yeah. And I'm sure that, that area had its fair share of pine trees like North Carolina does.
[02:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, they had different trees. Pines, lot of pines, but they had oaks. They had, all different trees.
[02:13:57] Unknown:
Well, I remember a brag. We always had the spring yellow snow.
[02:14:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. All the pollen setting on top of the snow?
[02:14:11] Unknown:
God. No. The pollen was the fucking snow. Oh, okay. Okay. There was so much pollen it made. You could see it. When the wind was blowing, it was, like, blowing sand on a sand dune. Yep. Yeah. It would fucking drift, the pollen. Oh, yeah. That was some lovely shit.
[02:14:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I've got that. Mississippi.
[02:14:38] Unknown:
Oh, yeah?
[02:14:40] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Accidentally bump a, bump a pine tree and just watch this yellow yellow shape of a pine tree come floating down.
[02:14:48] Unknown:
I have seen that. That is fucking miserable. Yeah. That yeah. And thank goodness, you know, I don't have allergies, but
[02:15:03] Rich Chelson:
dang I would have allergies just to see just Watching it? Experiencing that. Yeah. I don't have hay fever, but I will for a short bit.
[02:15:15] Unknown:
Yeah. I saw that on a video that they ran out.
[02:15:19] Rich Chelson:
Cut a cut a pine tree down, and it tips over, and there's this shape of a tree for a little while still.
[02:15:27] Unknown:
Yeah. That's what it was. They were cutting it down. And when it started tipping all the pollen yeah. And it had the shape of the tree. That was yeah. Saw it every damn year. Every year, Greg, for twelve years.
[02:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Trust me. Down here, you have to wash your Jeep every couple days just to get the pollen off.
[02:15:56] Unknown:
Oh, wow. I haven't seen that since, like I said, I was in North Carolina.
[02:16:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not bad now, but, yeah, in the early spring. Oh, yeah. It's all over the place.
[02:16:10] Unknown:
Oh, well, the only thing I can say about that is better you than me.
[02:16:17] Duuude-Ron :
About me. However however
[02:16:19] Unknown:
what was it? Tuesday, we hit a hundred degrees.
[02:16:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow.
[02:16:24] Unknown:
Yeah. That was fun.
[02:16:26] Duuude-Ron :
We ain't got that warm yet.
[02:16:29] Unknown:
Yeah. It was it was a little bit, toasty outside. Then, of course, we had the humidity was up on Wednesday too, so it was, you know, swampy. We'll just put it like that. Take a shower, and as soon as you walk out, you gotta fucking go take another one. Yeah.
[02:16:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Here, it's it's, you know, 88 to 95% constantly, so I'm just used to it.
[02:17:04] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was used to it when I was in North Carolina. Well, no. I never got used to a fucking humidity. It always sucked.
[02:17:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, when you When it gets hot down here, it'll, it'll get really swampy. Right now, we're we're in seventies and mid, high eighties, so it's not too bad.
[02:17:35] Unknown:
Yeah. I think it was 89 today, but Tuesday, it was a hundred. That's crazy. And it and it's only gonna get warmer from here. And, of course, you're never gonna hear me bitch about it either.
[02:17:53] Duuude-Ron :
I
[02:17:54] Unknown:
Why? Because, one, you're not gonna change it, and, two, it, you know, it doesn't matter your opinion. If it's hot, it's gonna be hot. But I take that over the cold any day.
[02:18:10] Duuude-Ron :
Any day. Yeah. That's that's for sure. So this is Thursday. Right? Yeah.
[02:18:28] Unknown:
Ever since midnight. Okay. Well, at least that's what the calendar said.
[02:18:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well, at least some said it because I had almost forgot.
[02:18:41] Unknown:
Well, you didn't because you're on a nice little podcast that we have. So at least you, you know, halfway remembered it.
[02:18:50] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, a lot of times I gotta sit there and think. During the day, I gotta sit there and think. You know? Because I don't know. It just you know? Days get away from me sometimes. And and then, like, well, like, now, you know, we just sit and, for some reason, my mind drew a blink, so that's why I asked.
[02:19:13] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[02:19:15] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I shoulda known because, you know, this is about the only night that, you know, all three of us are on.
[02:19:23] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[02:19:27] Duuude-Ron :
But then again, like I've said, my packer is longer in my memory. So and that's not saying much.
[02:19:41] Unknown:
You know, I wasn't even gonna add a comment to that this time. Just let it be. And and and in the words of Rich, you do you, boo.
[02:19:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right.
[02:20:03] Unknown:
Oh, shoot.
[02:20:07] Rich Chelson:
So but hell. Well, let's see. Trying to tell you what, anything exciting that I've seen on, news wise, what's been happening in the world. I actually have got fairly, fairly, fairly low, low do slow news cycle. I mean, biggest thing they've got is that Bieber broke his silence about, about what what happened with him over, at the assorted parties, which is good. Everybody figured that happened.
[02:20:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know the news site. Style. The the the only reason why it's slow is because they're not, talking about what Trump is doing. The good stuff. They're just Yeah.
[02:21:13] Unknown:
Exactly. Because Trump is out of the country.
[02:21:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But now he, there was a thing I saw in he's, worked with China, and the tariffs are coming down because China is caving.
[02:21:33] Rich Chelson:
I did hear
[02:21:34] Unknown:
I did hear that, but I have but I haven't heard the extent of what has been negotiated.
[02:21:46] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't either. I've heard I've heard it's it's dropped significantly even though I just saw on, MSN. It says, that Walmart's raising its prices due to the tariffs, and the tariffs haven't even kicked in yet. So Walmart's just price gouging. And they're trying to again. And yeah.
[02:22:15] Rich Chelson:
Of course, they're gonna price gouge. Hell, yeah. They gotta make up their money somewhere, but at the same time, you know, I I loved how they were trying so they're because it's interesting now that you mentioned that, how, media is working so hard to try to prove that, Trump hates children. They're trying was trying to work that angle. Because you'll see them talk about, how the tariffs, will are gonna keep kids from being able to have the toys that they want. And Trump's, like, going well, so they have to have only five instead of 30 Barbie dolls. You know?
That's, you know, that's not hurt them in any way, which, I mean, he's right. Because 90% of the they've talked about how much junk we are actually just consuming, that's junk out of out of China. And that's kinda what China's upset about is that's and because China's made all this shit, and Europe won't take it. We're you know, they can't sell it for for nothing here in, here in The States. And so they're, you know, yeah, they're having to they're having to cave because they see the because China, believe it or whether you wanna admit it or not, for being a communist country, they're doing one thing that is very, very capitalistic.
Make the bet make everything the cheapest that you can. And if it's good enough, then we then that that person will actually, you know, will will either, a, buy it at that quality. They'll see the the price that they've made, and they'll agree, okay. Hey. That's a really good price. Let's take it. Or, you know, they won't sell. And so what what China has done is they go through and and it basically become the monopoly for assorted items. So they, you know, they come in, they undercut everybody, put everybody else out of business, and then they then what they don't do, what everybody what people who don't understand capitalism, claim that happens whenever they have a monopoly is that they're supposed to come through and then all of a sudden start raising prices because they've knocked out all the competition. Well, you can't do that. If you make a monopoly, you have to keep your prices at that low level because the moment you try to raise your prices, some another competitor is gonna come in and try to undercut you.
And so there's always gonna be that that natural equalization of of, of prices. And so whether China knows it or not, they are being they're being more capitalistic than we are because they're actually following the natural rule of of capitalism, which is just naturally going to happen. You're going to have the lowest price that could be produced. And, yeah, if you wanna pay more because you think that that higher priced item is more valuable, then you'll then you'll be okay with it. You'll buy that. But if you're like everybody else, you're going to buy as inexpensively as possible.
And so I think it's really interesting that China is actually doing what so many people want to don't want America to do, to do to have natural monopoly because natural monopolies are actually very good for the economy. Back to you, Dave.
[02:26:48] Duuude-Ron :
I, I read an article. There's a guy who lives in America, has a business. He he sells shower heads, this one style of shower head. And, when he heard about these terrors, he said, I'm a do some AB testing. So so his current showerheads come from China. He goes out and looks for American made showerhead. His showerhead that he has China made, he sourced it from America and then found out what it would cost. He put both on his website. He did actual real time live AV testing. And on on his website, he gave him two options. Chinese model for a hundred and $29, USA model for $239, which is what, you know, was the cost gonna be.
And, you know, how everyone says, oh, I'll buy American. I'll buy American. He ran this test for, I think, a couple months. No one bought the American made model. People, only bought the Chinese model because it was cheaper.
[02:28:26] Unknown:
Well okay. I I I can agree with that, and I understand in that. I don't remember where Royobi is manufactured at. I'd have to look on one of the tools. I really don't remember. I'm sure they're made in China or Taiwan or, you know, some in some Asian company or country. You know? But uh-huh.
[02:29:03] Duuude-Ron :
They're they're made in China, Mexico, Thailand, and The US. But the majority is it says likely made in China, but they also have other areas that make parts. So they're global. They would call themselves global.
[02:29:23] Unknown:
Yeah. Okay. You know, my tool of choice is Ryobi. Yeah. My next door neighbor, his tool of choice, he has Milwaukee. Everything that he has, like what I have, the drillver, the drill, sander, sawsaw, jigsaw, drill, impact wrench, and we could just go on for fucking days. I'd have to go back in my toolbox in my Jeep and remember what all I have. Oh, DieGrinder, but all mine is Rovi. His is he likes Milwaukee. I'm like, okay. Milwaukee is probably 80% manufactured in an Asian country too. I'm sure. Oh, yeah. I could be wrong. I could be wrong, but, you know, I've when I bought the one plus for the Royal Bee, I have never had a problem with any of my tools ever.
You know? And could they be made in America? Sure. They could. Is it gonna cost a little bit more? Well, if the if the quality is there, I, you know, where it's made is where it's made.
[02:31:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, where it's made where it's made, true. But the issue that, a lot of is of where the prices come from is the fact that the the companies end up having to pay these unions or union prices. So sadly, the unions are the ones that cause everything to be so damn expensive here in The US.
[02:31:20] Unknown:
You're yeah. You're absolutely there is no doubt the reason why majority of the companies, Barbie, Lego, Apple, all those con all those companies went to China because of the labor rate, the price of labor. You think somebody from The United States would accept $4 an hour? No. And minimum wage is what? $7.65?
[02:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
That's in The US.
[02:32:13] Unknown:
We don't know what Yeah. Yeah. That's what's in The US. Okay. But over in China, they're getting paid average factory workers getting paid fucking Peanuts. $20.25 dollars a day. Not an hour, a day.
[02:32:33] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, again, also, they're it's a communist country. So, yeah, they're going to get paid very little because the government they're they're not, for lack of better they're not sovereign citizens. They're every they're they're a, they're all part of the government. They're all part of the same party. And so, yeah, they don't they're not gonna get paid $20 an hour because the government has to you know, they have to work for the government so that the government will have the money to be able to pay for their health care, pay for their, you know, pay for all the, all the products that they have to actually
[02:33:26] Duuude-Ron :
produce. I'll say and, also, the cost of living in China is cheaper.
[02:33:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Because the government pays for the pays for it. And it's part of the that's why go that's why communism sounds so wonderful because you get health care. You get every you know, you get everything taken care of.
[02:33:53] Unknown:
Oh, you know, and, yeah, just like Germany has countrywide health care. Go and try and see a specialist, an oncologist, rheumatologist, something like that, and see how long it takes for you to get your initial appointment. Oncology? Yeah. You get diagnosed. The first time you may see a doctor over in Germany is two years down the road. That's just for the initial appointment.
[02:34:35] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Well, that's same way in Britain and Canada. Everybody that likes to stat, how wonderful, social health care is. Yeah. It doesn't point that, little fact out.
[02:34:47] Unknown:
Of course not. Why the hell would they do that? All because that would blow their, their whole story. Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, now don't get me wrong. I don't like to fucking cost our health care, But at least, you know, I can get in to see a doctor
[02:35:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:35:19] Unknown:
Relatively quickly. And not have to wait two years to fucking see an oncologist for initial appointment. Hell, by the time you even get fucking treatment, you're gonna be dead.
[02:35:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that's big one of the big problems they have.
[02:35:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:35:46] Rich Chelson:
And, I mean, that's and then you go off yet, like, in in Great Britain. I mean, hell, they're, you know, they're still on that whole stick about diversity is their greatest strength by trying to bring every, every poor purse poor person in in Africa into into The Middle East into into their, into their their their country. And so now all of a sudden, people who were barely able to afford a, an apartment can't afford an apartment because all the apartments are being being bought up by the government. And so and then the, you have all the all everybody else is is struggling, and then they get they the, the immigrants get the health care too. And so they've they've exaggerated the the problem that they started off with.
So now, I mean Yeah. Social well, in Germany, same problem too. I mean, that's the reason why they have the AFD party take such prominence because and, of course, then the, the the to protect democracy, they banned the party, which is kind of asinine if you if you really wanna know. So but Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They went off and banned the, banned, the alternative, alternative for, for, for Germany. They banned that banned the party outright. They can't they're not supposed to have they labeled them a, labeled them a terrorist or a hate group or something like that. And and so yeah. It's, it's it's
[02:37:55] Unknown:
amazing how we vote in politicians to supposedly do what their constituents are asking them to do, and then it all comes back down about how much money is going to benefit that particular elected leader.
[02:38:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:38:25] Unknown:
How much money can go into his pocket?
[02:38:32] Rich Chelson:
Precisely.
[02:38:33] Unknown:
Every damn one of them. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat, Republican, independent, Whig party for that matter.
[02:38:43] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:38:46] Unknown:
It doesn't matter. Every fucking one of them does it.
[02:38:53] Rich Chelson:
And it That is a good idea. I wonder about. You you brought it up. I've I've kinda I wonder what is it that the wig party was was to stand for?
[02:39:07] Unknown:
Well, we already know that the the Democratic Party stands for the fucking their emblem, the jackasses. Well
[02:39:17] Rich Chelson:
yeah.
[02:39:21] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. I'm looking it up.
[02:39:24] Rich Chelson:
Oh, well, there we go.
[02:39:27] Duuude-Ron :
The Whig Party, and this is by Wikipedia. The party was hostile towards the ideal ideology of manifest destiny, territorial expansion into Texas.
[02:39:39] Rich Chelson:
Ah, okay. So, yeah, it was they were actually against, who was it? Madison, I believe, is the one who did the who was, no. No. It wasn't Madison. Who was that? And, just like presidential power
[02:39:53] Duuude-Ron :
as exhibited by Andrew Jackson and James K. Jackson. That's what it was. Yeah. Jackson
[02:39:59] Rich Chelson:
did the whole manifest destiny and and was, yeah, okay. Well, rightfully so. Yeah.
[02:40:06] Duuude-Ron :
So so, yeah, it was it was in my idea, it was it was the early form of the current day Democrats. That's just my opinion.
[02:40:19] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:40:20] Duuude-Ron :
If you think about it, the current Democrats basically against everything that that we do because it doesn't feed into their narrative. The Whig Party, with what I just read, kinda sounds like it was about the same thing. It didn't like Mhmm. Jackson Road.
[02:40:41] Rich Chelson:
And Yeah. But Jackson if that if anybody if you were to kinda compare Jackson to to modern politicians, he was more of the of the liberal style than than than than what modern Republicans are because, again, he was for the, the taking of Indian lands and things like that. He was for claiming all that and, and taking the and, basically, taking the the the lands for, for for America's expansion, which, I mean okay. That makes me sound sound like I'm currently liberal, which, I mean, everything's gotten so turned up upside down and backwards that yeah. Yeah. It kinda kinda makes us, I mean, makes us we're down all of a sudden. You know, we were four, for, for some of the things that we're now touting or touting against. We're most of the time, Republicans were for military might.
And, and, you know, nowadays, we're against, against what the the military is about. And so, you know, I've it it's so strange how everything has gotten so turned up, but turned upside down. But, yeah, it's what's what Jackson was saying it was basically just saying that it's God, gave us gave us the destiny of of conquering these lands, and so we just take over them. And, no, that that's not entirely I don't think that I don't a % agree with that. I think it was more of a, more of an instance of of, use that as an excuse of having to from having to go off and actually take the lands for for what they are to to to actually buy the lands out and use the land for you know, and include the, the the American Indians in the process of of of gathering their you know, of at least having the right to, to determine, hey. This is what we're gonna sell this land for, whether it's for peanuts or if we want, you know, a hundred billion dollars.
Sorry. I'm my speech is breaking up a bit just because I am constant. I've got a turn coming up here. We've moved, we've moved, locations. So so I'm happy to learn where this new location's at.
[02:43:51] Unknown:
Oh, okay. And you get to do that in the dark. In the dark on top of that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, get your night vision goggles out. Pretty damn much. Now's now's the time that you need a one of those 10,000 lumen flashlights.
[02:44:12] Rich Chelson:
Right. During tonight, the day?
[02:44:19] Unknown:
Exactly. Yeah. I'm not a big fan of if I don't know where I'm going with a semi and haven't been there and this is the first time. Yeah. I get a little bit unnerved because Yeah. What are you coming into and, you know, what obstacles are you going to have to face
[02:44:45] Rich Chelson:
with that? Well, that's kinda what I'm that's I'm I've I've a little okay in this department and because they've given me rig directions, but at the same time, it's freaking rig directions. So, oh, like, right there. Damn it. I almost missed it.
[02:45:08] Unknown:
Well, I would probably stop. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:45:11] Duuude-Ron :
Well, at least you're out of the burning and stopping back up.
[02:45:18] Unknown:
Yeah. Versus have to do a u return. Right. Alright. Now let's see here. Done. A little bit that would be a little bit hard on a two lane road.
[02:45:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Bring that up. So so North County Road 70 or 700, actually. Let's put the bright lights on. Road.
[02:45:45] Unknown:
Yep. County Road. You'll be having some fun with that one.
[02:45:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Two lane two lane roads. No fucking shoulders. Sometimes big ass fucking ditches.
[02:45:58] Unknown:
Are they actually paved?
[02:46:01] Rich Chelson:
This one I hear actually is, the one I'm on right now.
[02:46:05] Unknown:
Right.
[02:46:06] Rich Chelson:
But it it'll eventually turn to shit.
[02:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
I ain't drive down the middle of the road.
[02:46:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Is that's exactly it. Seriously? Oh, I do. I I drop right down the right down the middle of it. Right. I will. Go with the bright lights on. Yep. We got my brights on down the middle. And if someone's coming at me, I pull off to the side, and I come to a stop. I am not trying to shimmy past because that I I damn near a old truck once doing that. It's over in West Texas and, was loaded up and, piddling along in this fucking water hauler, go going right down the middle of the road, wasn't about to go move over either. And I was on the side of the road, and there was about a two and a half, three inch drop.
And I dropped, and when I did, I felt my ass in and start to slide into the ditch. Oh. And yeah. So I started the evasive maneuvers and, and got myself back on back on the road, but goddamn I the guy behind me said, yeah. Your back wheels came up about, came up about, came up off the ground, about six inches. So so after that one, I was like, yeah. We're not, I'm not I'm not playing the Pucker factor? Playing yeah. Play I'm not playing chicken with anybody no more.
[02:47:50] Unknown:
Yeah. No. I gotcha. No. I'm not gonna do the Pucker factor either. No. Thank you.
[02:47:58] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I never set out to do the pucker factor, but I had quite a few pucker factors.
[02:48:04] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. There we go. There's 70.
[02:48:12] Unknown:
Well, luckily, all my route roads, I don't have to so much worry about a pucker factor. So I'm happy with that.
[02:48:25] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing.
[02:48:27] Unknown:
Yeah. It is. Very much so. Because, trying to pull your seat out your ass is a little bit challenging. Yeah. Yeah. It's Or if you have a seat or if you have a seat cover on your seat trying to iron out the mohawk that you see. Mohawk with a brown stain. You know, and with the TJ, I got into one obstacle. Yeah. No. I don't think I ever got that fucking Mohawk, fucking ironed down on that one. Yeah. No. I gained big.
[02:49:17] Duuude-Ron :
And you know it is about that time, guys.
[02:49:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Holy smokes. That's right. Wow. So alright. Well, my wife said she was, listening to the listening to my spiel from last, last week. Said, dude, you or, man, Brian, you talk way too damn long. So let's see if I could be a little more concise on my, on my my my closing here. So alright, guys. I wanna say thank y'all very much for taking the time and the the energy and the dedication to listening to us. Our show is a value for value show, which means that we don't do commercials. We don't do the, hey. Here's a here's a mattress that you might like, or here's, here's a a non non, entertaining trinket that you may end up, not wanting after you go go off buy it.
We actually decide if you found any value for the show, then, you know, share share out that value. And you could do so by doing using three different, channels, and those channels are either, a, you could do your time, your talent, or your treasure. You can with your, with your time, that is sharing your, taking your time and maybe doing a a chapter arc for us, to help and take some of the load off of our, up our, our work that we do for the show, that is you applying your time. So if you've got some time that you'd like to donate, you can reach out to me. My name's Brian, and that's with a y, but you can, reach me over at circle cast. That's [email protected], or you get a hold of Rich. That's spelled r Chelsea. That's c h e l s o n, Chelsea.
And, his name is Rich, not Rachel. And so get a hold you can reach out to us. Say, hey, man. I'd like to be able to, help the help with the show in some way. Love to take the the volunteer work in that form. Or you have a certain talent, so you're, like, a a good at, at graphic design, then you could provide some, some of your talent to us and give us some, chapter art. Love to have some, love to have some chapter arts that we can start putting into the end of the show because we are a podcasting two point o compliant show. So you can, start watching and seeing the chapter arts change for each chapter if you're on a, podcasting two point o compliant type of, of app like Fountain app or Podcast Guru or True Fans.
And then the final one is, treasure. And if you ever wanna be able to just donate, or give, give us money because you found the value in us in what we do, then you can also go, go to these podcast at two point o, client shows, or you can go to two, grumpyvets.com. And there you'll see a, value for value tab. Click on the tab. You go to, PayPal, and you can set up a, reoccurring donation or just a one time donation. And so with that, guys, I wanna say thanks again for everything that y'all y'all do, and, and thanks for, returning and listening to, to us, yabber as we do. So, Rich, what do you got for closing?
[02:52:57] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not too much. Just, thanks again for everyone listening and still sharing this out. It still it still amazes me. We've been going this long and, you know, the show gets still shared out and listened, and I I enjoy seeing that and you know? But, yeah, like, Brian said, you know, reach out with any questions, comments. You know, if you wanna help out, you know, send an email to [email protected] or myself @rChelseaatGmail.com. And if you wanna talk to the dude, send an email to either either myself or Brian, and, we'll make sure the dude gets the email.
And, you know, we'd love to hear from you. We'd love to have a conversation with you. And, who knows? We might even talk about, what was said on the show. So, you know, tell your friends, tell your family, tell everybody, even the people you don't like. You know? Share it out. So, anyway, y'all take care, and have a great day. And, dude, what you got, man?
[02:54:14] Unknown:
Well, the dude has the tip of the day.
[02:54:18] Rich Chelson:
Hey.
[02:54:21] Unknown:
And the tip of the day is, if you are outside and it starts raining, go inside so you don't get wet.
[02:54:33] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good one.
[02:54:37] Unknown:
So, as Rich and Brian has said, yes. We, enjoy coming on every week and are able to beat each other up if we so desire, which you have heard in the past. If you have listened to any one of our podcasts, you have heard us beat each other up, and we are just fine with it because we know each other. We know how each other receives what we say, and it just makes our friendship even stronger. So, again, yep, take tell everybody, listen to our show and give us a comment. If you don't like it, tell us why you don't like it, and, you know, we'll include you into the podcast.
[02:55:34] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:55:36] Unknown:
So if you like us, dislike us, agree with us, disagree, you know what? We'll add you into the podcast because we will respond to your email message. So
[02:55:51] Rich Chelson:
Actually, if you call Rich Rachel.
[02:55:53] Unknown:
That's right. That is exactly
[02:55:56] Rich Chelson:
right. So May not be general about the response, but we'll respond. That's
[02:56:01] Unknown:
right. You're right. So that is Ron's, final comment.
[02:56:12] Rich Chelson:
So, guys, alright. Well, we'll go ahead, and we'll put this, baby to rest. And, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, anything like that, again, shoot us an email, sir [email protected] or [email protected], and we will catch y'all next time. Rich, Ron, appreciate y'all coming on again. We will see y'all next week. Till then. Bye.
[02:56:38] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:56:40] Unknown:
He he said out.
[02:56:42] Rich Chelson:
Bye, guys.
[02:56:44] Unknown:
See you guys. Bye. Bye. Bye.
Introduction and Show Overview
Life on the Road: Trucking Tales
Health and Medication Experiences
Jeep Adventures and Modifications
Movie Memories and Mel Brooks
Trucking Challenges and Regulations
Society's Dependence on Technology
Societal Changes and Challenges
Personal Reflections and Life Stories
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
