In this episode of Two Grumpy Vets, join Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude as they dive into a lively discussion filled with humor, personal anecdotes, and a touch of social commentary. The trio shares stories from their daily lives, including the challenges of long-haul driving, the peculiarities of eating habits, and the unexpected adventures that come with owning a Jeep. They also touch on the importance of helping others and the ripple effect of good deeds, all while maintaining their signature grumpy yet entertaining banter.
The conversation takes a turn into the realm of movies and pop culture, with mentions of classic films like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, as well as a discussion on the evolution of news media and the impact of modern technology on podcasting. The episode wraps up with reflections on the value-for-value model in podcasting, encouraging listeners to engage and support the show in various ways. Tune in for a mix of laughter, nostalgia, and thought-provoking insights from the grumpy vets.
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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
[00:00:14] Bryan Goodwin:
with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Brian, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
There we go. And how are you? Not too bad. How are you? Oh, I'm doing pretty good. Just getting myself all off duty and all that good stuff. So let me shoot the dude a quick, Zoom's open.
[00:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
So how was your day today?
[00:00:56] Rich Chelson:
How? Wasn't bad at all. It was it was a bunch of running to, to a sand plant and back, and, and so, yeah, it wasn't half bad.
[00:01:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's cool.
[00:01:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:01:10] Duuude-Ron :
Just, You get a lunch break, or do you have to eat while you're driving?
[00:01:15] Rich Chelson:
It's completely up to you. You got twelve hours.
[00:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. So Oh, I yeah. I didn't know because, you know, I've had some jobs where you had to eat while you were driving. You know, you didn't get the luxury of stopping or you know? But, you know, after a while, I just I was just like, yeah. Screw y'all. I'm gonna stop.
[00:01:38] Rich Chelson:
I'm gonna eat. Oh, I'm hungry.
[00:01:42] Duuude-Ron :
That's exactly right. I'm gonna eat. You know?
[00:01:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I do that several times. It's, there's been a few times where I've stopped to grab the sonic burger over at the over at Travel Plaza or grab Sonic over at the over at the Domino's. So yeah. No. Then there's a lot of times I'll just load up I'll just show up with three or four bags of sunflower seeds, and I'll just go to town just to spit and and, and then just not stop at all. So
[00:02:16] Duuude-Ron :
You see, I I I never could do, sunflower seeds the way everybody else does. I don't know why. I just I just never had
[00:02:26] Rich Chelson:
I just don't have the tongue control,
[00:02:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. I and so, I I mean, I love sunflower seeds. And if if I got them in the shell, I ate shell and all. Oh, yeah. No. I can do that. Oh, I did. I I would I would just yeah. I would gnaw and yell and all. Swallow it all. It was it was good roughage.
[00:02:47] Rich Chelson:
Good roughage. No. Let's see. I'll give you that. It's good roughage. Just don't eat a shit ton of them, though. I would. I would I would eat a whole freaking bag, man. Okay. But, I mean, when I say a shit ton, I mean a shit ton. Because the same thing happens with because I'm I'm that way with pumpkin seeds. I love a good pumpkin seed. David's is pretty good. Pumpkin seeds have got a lot of really good protein and stuff in them, but David's is really good, but they're the brand called Spitz, and they do what's called they do seasoned pumpkin seeds, and they just basically what they do is they just take a bunch of, seasoned salt and and oh, they're they take a bunch of seeds of salt, soak it in, dissolve it into water, soak the sun, the pumpkin seeds in there, for for a while and then and then, then roast them.
Oh my god. Those are good. Now those are pumpkin seeds. They're the, you know, the round they're they're basically round. Got a little bit of a point on one end. They're you know, they come from a pumpkin. About sixteen, 16, I've been about probably now probably about, fourteen or so years ago. I was driving for a company called Endeavor Enterprises. And, basically, what they did is they went to the caterpillar shops, picked up parts, and we went to all the different caterpillar sheds that were lay littered throughout, between Elk City and Diamond, and I'd stop and I'd drop off all the different caterpillar parts. Some of them were heavier than the fucking hells because they were they were blades for, for, like, dozers and stuff.
The the little cutting edge blade. Yeah. Yeah. Those are fucking heavy. Barrels of of oil and the antifreeze and, you know, everything else that they could possibly need. And I got really good at being able to roll these off of a panel truck. But one of the things that it was a long drive, you had to start it by, about 01:00 in the morning. You get done about 09:10 o'clock in the in the, in the morning. So it was an overnight deal. And so one night, I saw this big bag of Pepitos, which is not it says Pepitos, and then underneath, it says pumpkin seeds. Those are not fucking pumpkin seeds. Alright?
[00:05:29] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:05:29] Rich Chelson:
They're long, skinny. They're fucking gourd seeds. But they were salted up, and they were tasted pretty damn nice. And so I, you know, I bought it, and it was a big fucking bag. It was a pound bag of them. And so I was driving along, and I'd grab a head full and I and then I'd eat the shells and all. I ate shells and all and shells and all and shells and all. And for, you know, the there are so hours, you know, eight to ten hours of of driving that I did through that day, I consumed that freaking pound bag of of pumpkin seeds or. Yeah.
That was the worst fucking mistake you could ever make in your life. Because the following day so that day, got home, went to bed because, you know, I slept I got up that morning with and I happened to be off. And so we thought it'd be a good idea to go to go to Emerald, so I went to Emerald. And, you know, did our normal stint and seeing family and all that. And about the end of the day, I was like going, yeah. You know, I think I need to take a shit. I sat on the damn toilet, and I grunted. I groaned. I heaved. I twisted myself. I got into cramps. I got into all sorts of pain and discomfort and nothing.
This shit had a good job. It had it did what roughage is supposed to do. It cleaned all the shit off my damn intestines, packed it up nice and tight, and and called it, and and called it a day.
[00:07:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:07:20] Rich Chelson:
And so that night, it's like you I told the wife, it's like, you have to go to the bathroom three or four times and just beat my head up against the wall when nothing happening. I told her, might be something wrong. And she's like, oh, really? What's that? I'm like, can't take a shit. He's like, oh, well, that's not good. And I was like, yeah. I know. And so I was like, well, let's let's try some stuff. So I I I went off. I got the I I took a drank a bottle of of TNT, also known as magnesium citrate.
[00:07:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:07:57] Rich Chelson:
And just as good added bonus, I went ahead and I got some laxatives suppositories and shoved them up the opposite end to to tag them for both ways.
[00:08:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. Nothing.
[00:08:08] Rich Chelson:
It was not budging. And, I mean, I for information, but who who cares? I'm already I'm already in the the land of t TMI. But, I mean, I went as far as I could still have it sitting right there at the door. It was knock it was trying to get through the door, and it was not it was not it the door was not big enough. I hate it when that happened. Oh, I had a supersized turd. It was like that one Viking one that they, they always like to, to to to show about the largest largest actual human turd. It was one done by a Viking back in, like, the December or July or something like that. So, anyhow, so now now we're going into Matt's favorite thing. We're doing shit talk tonight.
But but, yeah, so it was and I I wouldn't I I was like, alright. Well, fine. I'll see if I could break it up with my fingers. And now it was fucking hard. It was a freaking rock. I was like, oh, son of a bitch. So, you know, the following morning, I had to it what got up. Yeah. And I mean, everything's still knocking at the door going, hey. Hey. We need to get, need to yell that stuff go here. Alright. Well, we're we're done. And let's go pee. And there was it was so much pressure that it had actually had started pushing up against my urethra where I couldn't pee. And so I Wow. I told Jan, I was like, alright. Let's let's go to the the hopsicle because, man, things ain't working anymore.
So we go to the hospital, and they they're like, alright. Well, let's try let's try this. They tried an enema. They tried this. They tried that and nothing. And, I mean, they they eventually had to they give me a shot for the discomfort, which helps because within about fifteen minutes, I was out. And so I guess somewhere along the way, they took a little scope to and stopped at try to look up in there, and he couldn't do it because, I mean, it's just right there. So it's not like you you you had to see you couldn't see anything. And so he I don't know what it was they took. I'm I'm just assuming they took some little bitty salad tongs or something in there and started mashed breaking it up. And, he got it all broke up eventually.
And they said, holy crap. That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. They're like, yeah. Yeah. Don't don't do that anymore because, that's, that's too much. Your body doesn't process the the shells. And it's it's a lot like corn. That's why corn shows up in your poo also and stuff. And so for several years, I wouldn't touch a pumpkin seed. And then I I got to look in, and that's where I found out that Pepitos are a different animal altogether. They're not a pumpkin seed. They're a gourd. Okay. And and so, so I've I've decided I limit myself to just the little bags of David's and and and spits from time to time. But I
[00:11:08] Duuude-Ron :
so so the lesson in all this is to eat them sparingly.
[00:11:13] Rich Chelson:
Eat them sparingly and make sure you have something in between. You know? Have have them layered. So if you're gonna eat it like a handful of pumpkin seeds, then okay. Okay. Eat a sausage or or hot dog or, you know, eat something else, throw it on top of that, and then let, you know, let it all get mixed up so it gets you know? So you you're, you know, the solution for pollution is dilution. That type of type of a lot of thought. Okay. That's that's a that's a different choice of words. I kinda like that. Well, that I mean, that's actually how you that's the the mantra that they have for actual to the if you come across something that is that that was it's been severely polluted.
That's the that that is the solution for any type of pollution is you have to dilute it down to where it's not pollution anymore.
[00:12:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, I learned something new because I had never heard that.
[00:12:11] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, let's see here. Let's eleven hours forty minutes. Let's go ahead and end that shift. There we go. We are done.
[00:12:20] Duuude-Ron :
So, dude, what's up with you, man? Yeah.
[00:12:24] Unknown:
Yo. I didn't even get a get a chance to say what's up, bitches No. Before my before my signal went, fuck you, bitch.
[00:12:38] Rich Chelson:
I know. Right? That was awful early. Yeah. The phone was, like, going, they're talking about stuff. I don't care. Hey. Here in pastor, I'm I'm a boss, so we're not we're just gonna cut it off here. So
[00:12:51] Unknown:
You know what? I wish they would've cut off with the pumpkin seed story, but, you know, that TMI, like you said Yeah. Yeah. That was definitely
[00:12:59] Rich Chelson:
definitely a TMI moment. I've burned down those deep in the TMI, so, you know, I'm I'm Oh, yeah. My life is basically an open book. Holy, though. Holy, though.
[00:13:10] Duuude-Ron :
I I see, I don't I don't understand the whole TMI thing because how can you share stuff like this if not with your friends,
[00:13:20] Rich Chelson:
your close friends? I mean, come on now. They're the close friends. And one of you wonderful listeners out there who are now in the process of probably eating eating a hot dog as you're driving down the road going, fucking hell. Really? Damn it.
[00:13:37] Unknown:
Yeah. I was gonna say your closest friends and thousands of fellow listeners. Right. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Now if we were sitting on a campfire, it'd be something a little bit different.
[00:13:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. A bore a bore Well, there'd be a lot of chili bean parts going on in between there too. So, you know, gotta That is true.
[00:14:00] Unknown:
Just like blazing saddles?
[00:14:02] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. Yes. Once more, mister Tackett, I'd say you've had enough.
[00:14:09] Unknown:
Walked walked into it with his mouth wide open.
[00:14:17] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. Slim pickings is awesome. We'll do a number four two. I don't think I'm familiar with that. Well, that's where we are. A run-in a hoppin. Right in town. Wait. Oh, shit. Damn it. It all drew out of pulled out of my head. Right in town over here. Oh, yeah. And I forgot it. But, you know, just just because it's like, what do you so you spread the web and it's like, shit. No. We just wake the shit out of them.
[00:14:53] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:14:55] Rich Chelson:
Have you ever worn Blazing Saddles? Yes. I have. I I know I know I know him. He's he's still too young to watch it, but at the same time, it's you know? You've seen Blazing Saddles, and you when he's when mister Taggart's talking about William Jerry. Oh, no. No. That, that,
[00:15:19] Unknown:
oh,
[00:15:21] Rich Chelson:
oh, crap. I don't a shot of a gun. What is his what is his character's name? It's Teddy. Hedley. Yeah. That's right. It's Hedley Lamar. It's Hedley. Because yeah. Because, Mel Brooks wanted to use the name of Teddy Lamar, and he asked Heavy Lamar if, if he could do that. And she said if he did, he was gonna she was gonna sue sue shit out of him. So he's like, alright. It's Hedley. And so everyone keeps calling him Heavy. Hedley. It's a little cold weather
[00:15:59] Duuude-Ron :
joke. I've I probably have watched the movies. I just you see, that's the thing. When I watch movies, I never I I never get so focused that I remember that that stuff. You know?
[00:16:13] Rich Chelson:
Oh, and you haven't watched Blazing Saddle then because you can't help but laugh at at it all and then remember the remember the jokes. It's almost as as as well quoted as young Frankenstein. Almost.
[00:16:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. See, I've I've never seen young Frankenstein.
[00:16:33] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Alright. Okay. Well, we're starting on day two of the of the, of the past Google Film Festival now.
[00:16:42] Unknown:
Blazing Saddles, a cult classic.
[00:16:47] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Blazing Saddles and and young Frankenstein. They just have to make the second day. Just Bellbrooks Bellbrooks, film, film track or something. Yeah. I don't know. I just
[00:17:03] Duuude-Ron :
I've just I've just never been good at that. You know? I mean, some movies, I might I might remember, you know, the jokes maybe a couple times, you know, for about a couple weeks afterwards. But after that, yeah, I'm lost. I'm out. Yeah.
[00:17:22] Rich Chelson:
Me and my wife, we talk we we love to throw out to just movie to each other when they're when they're fitting.
[00:17:31] Unknown:
So And he's cellular.
[00:17:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, did I am I really? Damn it. What am I what am I
[00:17:37] Duuude-Ron :
you you did for just a second there.
[00:17:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I am driving. So and I'm going up and down hills. So god only knows how many I'll probably do it about one or two more times.
[00:17:50] Unknown:
But, I thought you I thought you clocked off. I did. Now I'm going home. Oh, okay.
[00:17:58] Rich Chelson:
I'm going home, bitches. So
[00:18:01] Unknown:
Oh, and go home. Get you I am. I am.
[00:18:05] Rich Chelson:
You can see my bitch, my wife, and and and and and our little boy dog.
[00:18:11] Unknown:
Oh, so you're on your way home home? Yeah. I'm on my way home. Oh, okay.
[00:18:18] Rich Chelson:
Then Sunday, I gotta go get, gotta go get Watson a haircut. So that'll be a $100 out of my back pocket, but that dog's needing it. He he's missed about 40 of his appointments. So
[00:18:32] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's and and this heat, it's simple. Just just take some beard trimmers and shaving.
[00:18:39] Rich Chelson:
Actually, that is not that is the worst thing you can actually do for a dog is is shave them because and it's it is a lot like why you see construction workers wearing long sleeve shirts and pants. Yeah. I know that. It is buying that. Yeah. It's harder for a dog to actually regulate his body heat when he doesn't have his fur.
[00:19:04] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:19:05] Rich Chelson:
And the same thing as why guys wear long sleeve shirt, some pants that actually are too are wearing shirt wearing long sleeve shirts and and and jeans than it is to run around in tank tops and and shorts. Okay.
[00:19:21] Unknown:
Because You know what? I just cannot get past the psychological aspect of that, which is you know, I know. Long sleeve shirts, one's gonna save you from sunburn, and, yeah, will keep you cooler if you're out in the sun. But I just can't get past the psychological
[00:19:39] Rich Chelson:
aspects of that. Absolutely. I I've I've with you on that. I was like, hell no. If I'm go if I'm hot and hot and sweaty, then I'm gonna try to get as as few close between me and the circulating air as I possibly can. So because, yeah, it's just oh, it is it just, I mean, I I get it because I now nowadays, I have to wear a long sleeve. I have a retarded shirt of all things. I haven't gotten around to wearing the coveralls yet. I just I can't bring myself to wearing the coveralls.
[00:20:12] Unknown:
I think that's You have to you have to wear the long sleeves?
[00:20:15] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep. I got a long sleeve shirt, and I actually I I throw a T shirt on underneath it too. So it's and, I've actually I I kinda I kinda get what it does now, especially when you wear an undershirt too, because you're you know, the undershirt collects the sweat, and the air passes through the shirt, which actually evaporates the sweat, which allows you to be cooler, which long as the temperature of the air as it blows through the through the the the cloth. And so, yeah, you're you're actually are cooler as you because you're wearing wearing the longer sleeve. You're and you're actually providing a aid for your, for your your extremities and all.
But, again, like you like you said, though, I there's just something about it. Just like, no. No. If you're if it's hot, and nine if it's over, you know, 70 degrees, you need to be having shorts and a T shirt on at the most.
[00:21:19] Duuude-Ron :
If it's what?
[00:21:20] Rich Chelson:
If it's over 70.
[00:21:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[00:21:24] Rich Chelson:
Now if I had my if I had my my choice, it would be you'd be in a sweatshirt and shorts, you know, anything under 50.
[00:21:34] Duuude-Ron :
But Oh, yeah. No. If
[00:21:37] Rich Chelson:
it's Uh-uh. Uh-uh. No. Yes. No. If it's under 50, uh-uh. And That's what the sweatshirt's for. No. Yes.
[00:21:50] Duuude-Ron :
Sweatshirts don't go on your ass.
[00:21:53] Rich Chelson:
If they're big enough.
[00:21:55] Duuude-Ron :
I can't get them big enough to go down that far.
[00:21:59] Rich Chelson:
Well, they put you on a rack sometime and stretch your torso out? Are you like Michael Phelps where you've actually got the torso of a seven foot tall dude?
[00:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. No. My belly just spread spread it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:22:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Takes up the the extra. Sideways.
[00:22:25] Duuude-Ron :
Not not up and down, but sideways. Yeah. I got I got the torso of my.
[00:22:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay.
[00:22:34] Duuude-Ron :
It's a him on his side, and I'm good. So yeah. No. If it's no. If it's under 50, uh-uh. Nope. And probably under 60 for me. And that's that's awful dadgum chili right there. I don't care who he is.
[00:22:53] Rich Chelson:
It can be it can be considered chili, but, you know, it's not it's not that cold.
[00:23:00] Duuude-Ron :
It is for me. No. It's not. Yes. It is. Oh. Yes.
[00:23:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've hung out down in Mississippi long enough there. Actually, it should be. That's what usually the way you tell Northerners is when it's, like, 40 degrees outside. They're running around in in swim shorts looking for the looking for a place to go go swimming.
[00:23:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Not me. Not you? Nope. I got pants on.
[00:23:30] Rich Chelson:
You you Pablo, the the tropical penguin then,
[00:23:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:23:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I don't. That's a book I've been looking for. If y'all happen to find one, let me know.
[00:23:41] Duuude-Ron :
The tropical penguin?
[00:23:43] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Pablo the top I think it's what it what it was what I know it's I know the, the the penguin's name was Pablo, but, let me see. Pablo the penguin. There we go. Disney Wiki. He is he was a, he was a penguin that didn't like the cold. And, so and it there's a book about his whole adventure of of trying to find someplace warm. He ends up taking a potbelly stove and all that and gets it lit. And sadly, unfortunately, as he's going through the, as he's sailing off off the, the hot hot bellied stove melts the ice and everything, you you know, everything falls apart, and eventually, he winds up on a on a, on a on a tropical island. But
[00:24:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, there it's funny because there is a tropical penguin, and they Oh, yeah. They live it's the only one. They live on the Galapagos Island.
[00:24:47] Rich Chelson:
The penguin that hated the cold is actually what it's called. It's one of those old Disney reader books.
[00:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:24:55] Rich Chelson:
That's what it's called.
[00:24:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This this here says this is the only penguin species that lives North Of The Equator and in a tropical climate. So
[00:25:08] Rich Chelson:
And they're So that's where Pablo wound up. Okay.
[00:25:12] Duuude-Ron :
What With the, What was that?
[00:25:14] Unknown:
Hold on. You said it's they're only on the Galapagos Islands?
[00:25:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Yeah. This this this the only species of penguin that that lives North Of The Equator, and they live on the Galapagos Islands.
[00:25:29] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:25:30] Duuude-Ron :
All the rest of them live South Of The Equator and more down towards the Antarctic. Well, I'll never go.
[00:25:38] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. Fuck that shit. That is too cold. Way
[00:25:44] Rich Chelson:
too cold. Oh, only in the only in the summer is it cold down South South Of The The Equator.
[00:25:50] Duuude-Ron :
Well, our summer, yes, it's cold down there. But
[00:25:54] Unknown:
their summer down there, it's cold down there. Who the fuck are we kidding? Who the fuck are we kidding here?
[00:26:02] Rich Chelson:
No. Yeah. Yeah. When it's, when it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the reason why it's gets hotter is because the sun is actually hitting the that surface of the Earth more directly. So when we are in because of how the earth is tilted, so whenever we get around to to winter side of the sun, we're actually tilted away, but the Southern hemisphere is actually pointed towards the sun. So Right. South of the south of the equator is they're not a winter. Right. They're they're warm, but they're they're they're not a summers when they're cold.
[00:26:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Right. Yeah. No. That's that's what that's what we're saying. Now here's the temperatures for their summers. Okay? This is their summers. Average 33 to 36 degrees, potentially reaching highs in the fifties.
[00:27:05] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Hey. It's nice.
[00:27:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So it says the coastal areas, though, the summer temperatures can reach a maximum of 41 to 59.
[00:27:19] Unknown:
But We are we are still talking about Antarctica.
[00:27:22] Rich Chelson:
Correct? Yes. Yeah. Oh, the well, you also the very southern tip of, like, South America, they get they have penguins show up around there too.
[00:27:31] Unknown:
Well, yeah, just New Zealand and Australia. I don't know if they Australia? Yeah. If they hang out. But, yeah, they're they're wearing shorts on Christmas.
[00:27:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. But still, 33 to 36 degrees in the summer.
[00:27:49] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:27:51] Rich Chelson:
No. Right. That sounds amazing, actually. No. Don't have to don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about mowing your lawn, man.
[00:28:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, this is true, but no. It's cold.
[00:28:05] Rich Chelson:
No. Well, cold's the only
[00:28:09] Unknown:
the only continent to not have any vegetation.
[00:28:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They don't they don't have I don't have
[00:28:19] Unknown:
No. And on the Because
[00:28:22] Rich Chelson:
no vegetation. It's just blood fall well, there's blood falls in it that created that's created by an algae, isn't it? Or is that a bacteria?
[00:28:31] Duuude-Ron :
That's Well
[00:28:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I'm not I just know that it's the water's iron is rich in iron, and that's the reason why it turns red. Yes. It's oxygen deficient, but it's hot it's saturated in iron. So whenever it hits our it turns to instant well, that's the moment it hits the surface.
[00:28:51] Duuude-Ron :
So Oh, hang on. Hang on. Yes. It says there is vegetation in in in Antarctica. Although it is limited and concentrated in specific areas, it says the vast majority of Antarctica is covered nice in snow. There are areas along the coast and on some islands where mosses, lichens, liverworts, and even two species of flowering plants can be found. So so there is a very limited amount of vegetation in Antarctica.
[00:29:31] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's like point 12%, it says.
[00:29:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Point 12%.
[00:29:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Of the whole continent. I mean, that's that's I mean, yeah, it looks pretty, but still, no. It's too cold.
[00:29:48] Rich Chelson:
Damn stupid.
[00:29:49] Duuude-Ron :
I couldn't I couldn't go.
[00:29:52] Unknown:
It would be too cold. Not only that, you can't get fucking cheap parts.
[00:29:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, I can't go there if I can't get Jeep parts. So yeah. See?
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, they just you just have to make sure you order them during those times where they're opening up. They there's little there's little windows where they're able to bring people in and out. Of course, you also have to deal with that, with that southern scientist that went off and went ape shit and started, started attacking people. So
[00:30:24] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that was South African?
[00:30:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:30:31] Duuude-Ron :
I just I just I just jump on the on the ham radio and talk to a few of the guys that I talked to from down there in the Southern tip of South America and see if they can't hook me up.
[00:30:46] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Well, you have Problem the problem would be that you'd end up talking to someone, and they'd go, no.
[00:30:55] Unknown:
So what are you saying there?
[00:30:58] Rich Chelson:
Ron, stopped all over you.
[00:31:01] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Have fun trying to get that, shipping container with your, Jeep down there even. That would cost a fucking dime or 2.
[00:31:11] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[00:31:12] Rich Chelson:
You would be able to Jeep on trails no one else has Jeeped.
[00:31:16] Duuude-Ron :
This is true.
[00:31:18] Unknown:
Yep. This this is You might have to you might have to trade the tires for the tracks, though.
[00:31:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Hey. That would be cool. Turn turn that Jeep into a skid steer.
[00:31:31] Unknown:
I think I sent you guys the video of the limousine that has the the treads tread, system on it out in the desert.
[00:31:42] Rich Chelson:
I don't remember see I think I remember seeing that seeing something like that where someone was running running something similar to that on over on the on the dunes. I don't remember it being a limousine.
[00:31:55] Unknown:
Yeah. They well, somebody made a limousine. I don't remember what vehicle it is, but they it's probably stretched 25 feet, 20 feet.
[00:32:07] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:32:08] Unknown:
And, yeah, it has treads on it, and they're running it in the dunes. Now you talk about rednecks with paychecks.
[00:32:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You get Arabs with Arabs with their with a with a little bit of boredom, and and they're and they're they get around playing in that sand. They do some they do some pretty insane shit. Yeah.
[00:32:30] Unknown:
Or or better yet, when they got a Jeep on the coast no. Was it a Jeep? Yeah. It was a Jeep, I think. Or was it a Toyota? I can't remember, but he's on the coast, and he cuts it real hard. And the vehicle starts flipping, and ejects him out of the vehicle.
[00:32:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've seen those.
[00:32:51] Unknown:
I can't remember if it was a Jeep or something.
[00:32:54] Rich Chelson:
30 feet up in the air.
[00:32:56] Unknown:
Yeah. I can't remember if it was a Jeep or if it was a Land Cruiser. I don't remember.
[00:33:03] Rich Chelson:
Probably a Land Cruiser because Land Enrover because that's something they they definitely enjoy, driving around over the air. Oh, yeah.
[00:33:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean, think about it. The Land Rovers and shit like that, they were I mean, they've a lot of countries that don't have Jeeps use them, and they're just as tough as Jeeps.
[00:33:24] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. If not tougher.
[00:33:26] Duuude-Ron :
Like, down in Australia, they use a lot of, which man jigger, Toyota four, four runners and shit like that. And Oh, yeah. They are they are just on them harder than hell just like we are with our Jeeps.
[00:33:43] Unknown:
You know? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:33:46] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's it's I mean, in Land Rovers is it Land Rovers or Range Rovers? I saw one one time. It was a nineties model, strictly mechanical. Oh, fucking loved it. It was awesome. And it, it was fully restored. Right? I'm talking about everything brand new, front to back, had a little four cylinder diesel in it, and just oh my god. There's $190,000 for it.
[00:34:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. Hell, yeah. Those those, those straight mechanical diesels are are in high demand now.
[00:34:27] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. And and see and see, that's the thing. They I had talked with the guys, and and they had went through and totally redid top to bottom inside now, everything on it. And the dude looked at me, and he said, yeah. This this little four cylinder diesel will, pull a house, and it won't stop. You can't stop this thing from pulling it. It it has that much power in it. And it just you know? But, oh, I was wanting it. But when he said $90,000, I'm like, yeah. I can't do that. I ain't got that much money.
[00:35:06] Unknown:
Actually, it can be stopped by a house.
[00:35:09] Duuude-Ron :
How's that?
[00:35:11] Unknown:
Sure as shit. You're gonna break a drive shaft, then you ain't going no place.
[00:35:16] Duuude-Ron :
Are you sure you're gonna break a drive shaft?
[00:35:20] Unknown:
It was rhetorical.
[00:35:22] Rich Chelson:
Oh, my bad. My bad.
[00:35:29] Unknown:
Oh gosh. That's weird. No. It's just like the just like the army jeeps. You put them in fucking first, and, yeah, that motherfucker walk up the fucking side of a cliff.
[00:35:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Right?
[00:35:50] Unknown:
And won't fucking slip.
[00:35:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. They'll they'll just yeah. And that's, you know, that's when that's when they knew how to build vehicles.
[00:36:01] Unknown:
That is true.
[00:36:03] Rich Chelson:
So That almost sounds like something that'd be nice to a nice little company to to create.
[00:36:10] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:36:12] Rich Chelson:
Start may just making mechanical diesels.
[00:36:15] Duuude-Ron :
That would be cool.
[00:36:17] Rich Chelson:
And, you know, if EPA is like, oh, we can't you can't sell those types of engines, Okay. Okay. We sell them as a puzzle.
[00:36:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, there you go. Some assembly requires.
[00:36:29] Rich Chelson:
Oh, some assembly may be required. Exactly. It is a 2,000 piece puzzle.
[00:36:38] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. $10,000.
[00:36:41] Rich Chelson:
We'll call them with the IKEA.
[00:36:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shoot.
[00:36:48] Unknown:
No. They already got a they already got a furniture store with that name, so we'd have to Yeah. But well, no. You don't spell it the same way. You don't spell it I k e a because, yeah, you get hit with, copyright.
[00:37:00] Rich Chelson:
So it would be e y e a I a. Sure. Yeah. Gotcha. Without a doubt.
[00:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. Actually actually, that's that's actually pretty smart because this way here because it's it's not anywhere in any way, shape, or form like the name IKEA, I I k e a. It's it's totally different, so there's no reference to the home store.
[00:37:31] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, you know and there actually is because everything they have is all assembly required.
[00:37:39] Rich Chelson:
It is all disposable furniture.
[00:37:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's all cardboard furniture. It's not real none of it's real wood.
[00:37:47] Unknown:
No. No. It's press fucking board. Yeah. It's cardboard.
[00:37:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. MDF, press board.
[00:37:54] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:37:55] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. And, yeah, as soon as it gets wet, it swells up and splits.
[00:38:00] Unknown:
Yep. Oh, yeah.
[00:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
It's like, why the hell do you oh, it looks pretty. You know what? You just spent a $150 on an end table. You could've gone to a yard sale, got a wooden one for 20 fucking dollars.
[00:38:15] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And And it would last to it'll last you another thirty years. Or more. Or more. Yeah. It is probably 30 years old when you bought it for Oh, yeah. Yeah. So You know? Yeah. It would last another 30 or more. Oh, no. People oh, I go to IKEA. Everything is just Yeah. They make sense so cute. It looks so so cute. It's like, yeah. Oh, no. You just thought you just hoped that if you bought something, you they would open up the, the get out of the maze free card. So you ever been to an IKEA?
[00:38:47] Duuude-Ron :
No.
[00:38:49] Rich Chelson:
They well, they're very ingenious on how they've designed the layout because it is a maze. You go and it is just it's just so wide and then you got room assemblies as you go. And so you might go down you'll go down one side and you'll go up one side up one wall, and then you may turn and you'll curve and twist and turn, and and there's not an ounce of space that's wasted.
[00:39:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:39:19] Rich Chelson:
Because it'll just be a single partition and for each little room that they're showing you. You can buy everything in the room. You can buy one thing in the room. You can you know? But you it will take you a good hour and a half to worm your way through that whole damn warehouse. Just pop back out at the other end.
[00:39:41] Unknown:
Yep. Right where you started.
[00:39:43] Rich Chelson:
Yes. See, that's And then one reason why they weren't served Swedish meatballs there is because people why? Because they figured you get bored, you'll decide to buy something.
[00:39:53] Duuude-Ron :
You'll get hungry
[00:39:55] Rich Chelson:
trying to get the hell out? Yeah. Well, they sold the yeah. Yeah. Yep. And most people will buy the hot dogs and the sweet meatballs at the end. Yeah. I think, actually, I think they probably make more money on their sweet meatballs and hot dogs than they do on the furniture. Probably.
[00:40:11] Unknown:
Well and the reason why it's set up the way it's set up is because, like, Walmart, they have aisles, obviously, just like any regular store. But if you go into look at automotive, you don't have to go through where the furniture's at or the desk or whatever. They set it up to where you see everything in that store. Yep.
[00:40:43] Duuude-Ron :
And they hope you'll deviate from your intended path.
[00:40:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, there ain't there ain't no deviate. Forget what you originally went in there for, so you buy three to three other things that might work.
[00:40:56] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But you see, that's where that's where you're saying now back when Walmart was the home of everyday low prices, they aren't no more No. No matter what they say or what they try and claim. Yeah. That was true. I would go into a Walmart and wind up buying 20 things I didn't fucking need. Yeah. Now I can walk into a Walmart, buy exactly what I need, turn around, and walk the hell out, and not look at anything else.
[00:41:25] Rich Chelson:
Well, that is until they go off and and move all the aisles around on you again. Oh, I fucking hate it when they do that. No. No. No. Yeah. I can't wait. It's like, holy shit. Like, yeah. I just need a bag of why is the baby wipes in the in the chip aisle? Right. Where's the chip aisle?
[00:41:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And it's oh, and see. That's when that's when it's like, you know what? I'll just turn around fucking. I'm out. I'll go to Ramey's Crosstown and spend another dollar because I know that's not gonna move.
[00:41:57] Rich Chelson:
Not much, at least.
[00:41:58] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. These guys don't move their shit. Ramey's, once you go in there a couple times, you you pretty much know where everything's at. It does not change. They do not change it? Nope. They don't. And I love them for it.
[00:42:14] Rich Chelson:
Probably get that that'd probably be because the they get tired of hearing the teenagers, pitch. It's like, god, man. Now I gotta remember where they moved everything at. Right. Uh-huh. Because every time Walnut moves, all the moves are moves are does their big shuffle, which is usually about every five years. But but, yeah, it's up there and walk around and the, and and the, the the employees. I hear the employees bitch about it more than customers do. Like, fucking shit. Where are they moving this to again? I can't remember. Yeah.
The the shelf stockers are all sorts of bit out of shape.
[00:42:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, you see, at least at least the shelf stockers can't say they get bored. No. No. Same old job every time because they, I mean, think about it. If if if things get moved every so often, yeah, it's something new every night. Well Yeah. Maybe not every night, but you know?
[00:43:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. That's gonna be fun, though. I've gotta go to next time next time I find out they're gonna be moving stuff around, I'm gonna have to go and hang out after the, hang out after they get done just so I can listen to the, the their their merchandise pickers that clog up all the the aisles so that nobody else can actually access it. But to listen to them bitch about it, it's like, god. Hey. Robert, what the hell the hell they put the wish assurance on that? Not nice. Hell, I remember standing over in the chip out. Why is everything in the chip out?
[00:44:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It just yeah. I I I don't know, man. It's it's crazy.
[00:44:11] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. I I think having a having the I Kia Motors would be a would be a great puzzle solution. Sell and sell a sell a puzzle for, you know, $20,000. Yeah. We'd make all sorts of money.
[00:44:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They would do it. Yeah. They would buy it, you know, especially if it but but you'd have to sell the transmission to go along with it, which wouldn't be bad.
[00:44:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm sure there's a way to fill to create an adapter. You'd need find some way of being able to fit, like, a Chevy, transmission or a Ford transmission to it. So
[00:44:58] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, the thing is There's gotta be some way of doing it. It depends on the torque. Regular, like, Chevy truck transmission or something like that probably wouldn't handle the torque off of a diesel motor like that.
[00:45:15] Rich Chelson:
You'd still No. But that would be so funny to watch people try.
[00:45:19] Unknown:
Mhmm.
[00:45:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There's a
[00:45:23] Unknown:
And watch it slow up. You?
[00:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That because, yeah, if you built something like that, yeah, you would need the tranny to go along with it. You could probably get away with leaving the rear rear end alone, maybe. I don't know. But still
[00:45:42] Rich Chelson:
well There you go. And we can have fun with that too that we can call up the dirty tranny company.
[00:45:51] Duuude-Ron :
It's true.
[00:45:52] Rich Chelson:
We're inclusive. We're we're we're helping trannies.
[00:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Spell it t r a n n I e s. Yeah. Leave the y out.
[00:46:07] Rich Chelson:
Leave the y out. Exactly.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
IKEA and tranny shop.
[00:46:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. See? There you go. You could upsell. Get the, get the motor, upsell the upsell the transmission.
[00:46:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yay. There we go. I'm not a salesman. No. We'd let dude
[00:46:29] Rich Chelson:
be the head of the Yeah. Dude be the yeah. Yeah. No. You dumb fucker. You don't want that transmission. You want this fucking transmission. Now you're gonna get this transmission. Alright? Because it starts knife knife, handing at them. You're gonna do it this way. You
[00:46:48] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh. That'd be hilarious. That would be hilarious.
[00:46:54] Unknown:
I couldn't sell sand to a fucking camel.
[00:46:59] Rich Chelson:
Wouldn't need to. Just need to sell ice to the Eskimos.
[00:47:02] Unknown:
Yeah. Can't do that either. Now more power to the people that are you know, the salesman and the, oh, showman, you know, like PT Barnum. Oh, yeah. You know, I just if I know something is not for them, I ain't gonna fucking try and sell it to them. But somebody that is heartless and can sell fucking heat to a fucking desert, you know, more power to you. I'm I can't be that shit. You know, if you wanna be that that type of a ruthless individual, yeah. No.
[00:47:50] Rich Chelson:
I just Not gonna do it.
[00:47:52] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't built like that. And so I've had a hell of an interesting week.
[00:48:02] Rich Chelson:
So how was your week? Well, let's see. How interesting was it?
[00:48:08] Unknown:
Yeah. How interesting was it? Well, Tuesday, going up north on 35. And I I don't know if you guys remember this, but about five miles north of Italy, Texas, they have an old, very small rest stop. You may or may not remember where it's at. Well, the only time they open up that rest stop is when DPS opens it up, And that's where they guide you to to do a level one inspection. So I got a level so I got a level one inspection on Tuesday. Yay. Yeah. That's what I thought. Yay. Yay. And I don't care. They can level level one me do safety meetings. Yeah. They can level one me to death. I don't care. You know, I try to be as prepared.
So they are up underneath the trailer, and the DPS officer that pulled me over is telling me to push down on the brake pedal. Right. Push and hold. I'm holding that motherfucker for a long time. So in the ABS splitter module for the air chambers
[00:49:40] Rich Chelson:
k.
[00:49:41] Unknown:
I have an a very faint audible air leak. And I'm like, damn, fucking great. And I asked the DPS officer. I said, can this be heard on a pre or and or post pre trip or post trip inspection? No. You ain't gonna hear that. The only time you're gonna hear is if you push and hold on the brake pedal.
[00:50:10] Rich Chelson:
If there's a leak, you can hear it. So I guess you're gonna need to go out and get yourself a, a Jimmy stick then.
[00:50:17] Unknown:
I guess. You know, whoever is that part of fucking any pretrip that has been taught to you guys? No. No. I mean Okay. So and since it was a level one, I passed my tractor and trailer passed the level one inspection.
[00:50:39] Rich Chelson:
That's was told you better get that that little leak fixed.
[00:50:43] Unknown:
Exactly. It's basically one of those here's your information.
[00:50:49] Rich Chelson:
Your gold star. Yay. You got a gold star. Get that shit taken care of. That that's exactly right.
[00:50:55] Unknown:
And then guess what they did not fucking have? They didn't give you a sticker. They didn't have the fucking stickers yet because one July for Texas, anyway, I don't know about the rest of the states, that's when they start their year rotation. All that's bullshit. From July to June is when, you know, their sticker.
[00:51:23] Rich Chelson:
All that is. That's all that shit. On the July 1.
[00:51:28] Unknown:
And, I mean, there was they had a lot of trucks
[00:51:31] Rich Chelson:
pulled over. Yeah. So that that place was filled. Yep. They got the quotas. It's time to fill the quotas.
[00:51:38] Unknown:
And, you know, the cylinder trucks are gonna be we're gonna get hit every time because we're underneath a new category of hazmat. You either have bulk or you have cylinders. So
[00:51:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. So what happens if you have a bulky cylinder?
[00:51:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, it I can carry up to a 450 liter cryogenic.
[00:52:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that'll that'll that'll make it cold cold.
[00:52:08] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. That'll make a cold cold. But they have at the federal level, they split from, okay, a bulk you would be considered a bulk trailer. Yeah. Yeah. Pneumatic is bulk. Category as gasoline, cryogenic liquid. That kind of stuff is a, you know, hazmat bulk. Well, they broke down to where you have the cylinders style, like what I drive, or you have the bulk liquid or dry goods, they have split those two. So now anytime that they see one of our trucks that have the cylinders on the back Yeah. Yeah. Because they have to pull over so many of those. So I'm like, you know, do what you gotta do. But, you know, I get a level one. I pass it, but I get the warning saying you got you have an audible leak on your splitter.
You need to get it taken care of. You didn't put me out of service. But then they don't even have the damn stickers. I'm like, how fucking rude. Damn. If you're gonna do that, you'll at least have the fucking new stickers. Damn. So they gave me a second copy of the RSI to keep in the book that I have my registration and everything in. So if I get stopped again for another RSI, he told me to show the trooper that RSI.
[00:53:54] Rich Chelson:
They don't harass me. Dang. Enough.
[00:53:57] Unknown:
No. And then once they get the stickers, they'll give me the stickers. I So but that's my proof that I passed the level one that Gotcha. I could've got my stickers, but they didn't You know, you're gonna have an asshole,
[00:54:12] Rich Chelson:
DPS guy go, yeah, but there's a warning on that. I can't give that to you.
[00:54:17] Unknown:
You know what? And if he says that, I'll be like, you know, whatever. Do another level one.
[00:54:25] Rich Chelson:
I got that shit fixed. Come on, bitch. Check it out. Yep. I got it fixed, so let's do a level one.
[00:54:33] Unknown:
My shit's ready at all times. Now there's some shit you, me, and everybody else see on the fucking road is like, wow. How the fuck can this even be on the damn road? But there are there are a few, get that. Oh,
[00:54:53] Rich Chelson:
someone lost a little bit of hay. Hey. That's hay.
[00:54:57] Unknown:
Hey. Alright. You saw some hay?
[00:55:00] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Little fluff. Someone, had a round bell, and I guess they had clump fall off.
[00:55:06] Unknown:
Oh, that's always fun. Especially if you run over. So, yeah, you know, that was just a lovely, you know, roadside inspection. But, yeah, they were doing all of the ones of who they pulled over. And they didn't have just one or two DPS cars in this little thing. There was 12.
[00:55:32] Rich Chelson:
Good grief. That sounds like old Henrietta, rest stop. Times go over there, and there's, like, ten, fifteen of them all all lined up, checking somebody out, talking to the customers.
[00:55:46] Unknown:
Yep. So yeah, I mean, I it's not a big deal to me. I'm I'm not scared to get pulled over. Yeah. Some of these other guys, yeah, they just yeah. They're shitting themselves. Yep. You know, well, but they should've fucking never put the damn truck on the road, I guess.
[00:56:06] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's the thing. Anytime I got pulled over, I I never got upset, got worried as because either they was gonna give me a ticket or they wasn't. They was gonna find me doing something wrong or not, and I was prepared for whatever happened. So, you know Yep. That's why it that's why it never really bothered me. You know?
[00:56:30] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. It makes me nervous because of the fact if we get anything other than in the remarks, either the word none or left blank, then I have an incident review phone call.
[00:56:46] Rich Chelson:
You sure you don't wanna come up here and work for Gore? But You ain't gonna have that type of headache. I'm sorry, but they just sound more and more like like they're just being you you the company you work for is just being a pain in the butt to be for the sake of being a pain in the butt.
[00:57:02] Unknown:
Well, you know what? And if I do have an incident review phone call, then I guarantee you I will get my I will not be hit for my driver's bonus.
[00:57:17] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[00:57:20] Unknown:
So and I'll explain to them and, you know, no uncertain terms. It's like, okay. I got issued level one stickers. Even though they didn't have them, I got another copy of this RSI, and DPS officer told me to keep it in my book. So if I get pulled over, once they get the stickers, then I'll get stickers. Yes. Okay. You heard the audible. That but that was only when the brake pedal was being pushed down and held.
[00:57:52] Rich Chelson:
And you had to be underneath there?
[00:57:55] Unknown:
Yes. So that ain't something that is, you know, detectable on a standard pre trip and post trip inspection. I understand an audible air leak if I have one of my lines going to my brake chamber that the fitting is broke and you can hear an audible air leak, or my umbilical lines going from the tractor to the trailer are so freaking degraded that they're cracked, and you can hear an audible air leak. I get that. But, no, not not for this.
[00:58:35] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. With with, what they wrote on that that piece of paper, that conversation should never come up. You know?
[00:58:46] Unknown:
Well, we'll see. I mean, it's fine. It it it shouldn't.
[00:58:50] Duuude-Ron :
It probably will because the people you work for are fucking citified, and they just wanna talk to hear themselves talk. But you see, this is this is why well, I never drove from many companies that had these types of conversations because I I have a hard time sitting with a group of people that just wanna sit there and talk, to hear themselves talk, singing shit that doesn't have anything pertaining to the topic at hand. You know what I mean? Mhmm. Yeah. That just that that shit bores me. It does. Yep. I mean, yeah. I mean, call me whatever, but, yeah, it it it bores the fuck out of me.
[00:59:39] Unknown:
Yeah. And and our we usually have three people from the safety team that are on that phone call. We have our area one. Remember his name. And then we have this the one that's over all of Southwest. Damn. I can't remember his name off the top of my head either. I can see his face. But, anyway and then there's another one. And I'm like, I'll be okay. Who here in the safety department knows how to do a pre trip inspection? And I'll ask him. And I know Rusty. Rusty is the head of our safety department for Southwest. I'll say I'll ask him. It's like, okay. Is this part of a pre trip inspection that you would do?
Let's see how he would answer it, but we'll see. I ain't heard anything yet that I'm gonna have one, but I'm sure it's coming. So that piece is just for the part, is $962.
[01:00:47] Duuude-Ron :
They're getting tuck.
[01:00:51] Unknown:
Yep. Well, this is well and they get the parts from the dealership. I know. But they should get I don't know where Matt is getting it, but, yeah, it's they're limited on where they can get stuff at. But, yeah, it was the part for that, the splitter, which is the huge box up underneath the trailer. He has to replace the whole thing, and the part is $962. So, hey, I'm not paying for it.
[01:01:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. I know. I know that, but I'm just saying they're they're getting took.
[01:01:27] Unknown:
I'd have to believe you because I have no fucking clue.
[01:01:31] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, you know, a box sitting up under that trailer that that how's this basically a t valve that splits air going to the brakes or the the the air tanks or whatnot between the air tanks is not 960. It's not made out of brass. It's not made out of silver, titanium, or gold. Made out of steel. Yeah. You do. I does not cost that fucking much money. And anybody can build one that has any common sense. So they're just they're just gouging the prices because they can, because they know people will pay it.
[01:02:18] Unknown:
Yeah. Because they don't have much of a fucking choice.
[01:02:22] Duuude-Ron :
No. They do have a choice. They can find the parts somewhere else cheaper, but they won't.
[01:02:29] Unknown:
That could be. But I know our mechanic is you know? He could possibly could, but I, you know, I don't if he's if he's gonna chase chase that part around any place because my company is gonna pay pay what he quotes.
[01:02:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. I know that. But you see that you see, that's where you know, some of these parts for cars, Jeeps, big trucks, anything. Oh, yeah. The freaking prices they charge is is just fucking stupid.
[01:03:05] Unknown:
It's Oh, I know. You know you know how much and I think I think both of our trucks are the same. You have the day cab, Brian, that has the you have the LED lights on yours that's all one casing?
[01:03:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh, for the headlights? Yeah. Yeah. They they've got the those LEDs have cost $1,200 now.
[01:03:28] Unknown:
Yeah. That's how much you and you can't just
[01:03:31] Rich Chelson:
replace You can't just you have to take the whole flipping thing out and replace the whole assembly. Not 12.
[01:03:40] Unknown:
Yeah. 1,200 fucking dollars you have to replace the whole assembly. Yep. $1,200 for fucking headlight. What the fuck?
[01:03:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And see, that's the thing. There's other companies that make the same exact product, okay, and sell it for cheaper.
[01:04:03] Unknown:
I'm sure they do without a doubt. But And what's the sticker on the back of it's gonna say? Made in where?
[01:04:12] Duuude-Ron :
Where everything else says. China, Hong Kong, Mexico,
[01:04:17] Rich Chelson:
anywhere in America. Vietnam
[01:04:19] Unknown:
yeah. Ain't made in America.
[01:04:23] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. I won. No. No. That's the thing. If it's made in America, it'd be $2,400.
[01:04:30] Unknown:
That's yeah. That is exactly true. That is very true.
[01:04:34] Duuude-Ron :
So so I mean I mean, you cannot shit that come from other countries because, yeah, some of it is shit. You can knock it all all day long, but, you know, I've, you know, I've read articles about people sourcing stuff, you know, when all these tariffs were being talked about having having their stuff made here in America, and the cost was twice to three times higher than it is over in other countries. Yeah. You know? So, I mean, I mean, where it's made really doesn't make a shed anymore. You're gonna get about the same product.
[01:05:16] Unknown:
Yep. And and look at Ford. What's that? And look at Ford. Ford is not built in America anymore. It's assembled in America, and you can if it is what is the clause now? If more than 51% of the assembly of the vehicle is done in The United States. They can say they can't say made in America, but, you know, assemble that in America. Because every fucking pretty much every damn part, panels, you know, I don't know if Ford is still making their, you know, own bodies and frames and well, no. Frames get shipped to, assembly plants, you know, if they're making their own body panels. But, shit, everything else is more than likely it is not made in America.
[01:06:12] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, you need to look at more than just cars because I've I've noticed a lot of products that I've purchased in the last couple years. Read the box, it says assembled in The USA Right. From globally sourced products. Those are the exact words on many different products I have personally bought. So Yeah. Nothing is is saying made in America. So, I mean, it's like it's like, what's the big deal?
[01:06:48] Unknown:
You know, me, it's not a big deal. I now I try not to buy, you know, like, anything from Tumi or, you know, these other fucking Amazon style sites that is strictly outsourced in China because a lot of the stuff is, you know, poor quality. Now there's some good quality, I'm sure, but I'm not gonna buy anything off of Timu. So it's like but, yeah, hell, half the cylinders that we pump are made in fucking Brazil Right. Yeah. In South America. Now we also get, you know, Chinese cylinders, but they have to have a certain UN code on them. But, yeah, we got a lot of companies in South America that we buy, cylinders from that are new.
Yep.
[01:07:47] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. Your company buys stuff buys cylinders from China, and they passed the test that you all put them through. You're right. They do. So so I you know, that's the thing. Just because it's made in a certain country doesn't mean anything anymore. You know? You you will get good and bad stuff regardless of where it's made.
[01:08:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Well yeah. Very true. There's no exception there or no argument.
[01:08:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But that's the thing. You know? And so, I mean, the way I look at it because most things are designed to last three to five years max.
[01:08:36] Unknown:
Yeah. And they're making lawnmowers, it seems like, these days that are seasonal. What you you buy it from one fucking season, and when you go to start in the fucking spring, it don't fucking run, so you gotta go buy another one.
[01:08:52] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well So You know, when you only spend a couple $100 on a lawnmower, yeah, that's that's how they make them. Yeah. You're right. Sad. They shouldn't. You know? Because, I mean, back in the day, you know, Briggs Yeah. Griggs and Stratton Yeah. You know, if you bought that in 1970, it would still be running in, you know, you know, the latter part of 1990, and you could still get parts and fix it and keep it going. You know?
[01:09:26] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And what was the My my lawnmower right now is a brick. And it's dry. And believe it or not, it's it I don't treat that thing Stratton. Exactly. Well, we gotta love the the implementation of the cellular Chinese at the weird times. So it's a talent.
[01:09:49] Unknown:
So It is a talent.
[01:09:51] Rich Chelson:
But it's, I
[01:09:54] Unknown:
go ahead. Yeah. I got a Briggs and Stratton as well. The freaking deck will rust before that engine stops running. Right. But I do
[01:10:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Maintenance,
[01:10:06] Unknown:
that that fucking that steel deck will rust out before the engine stops.
[01:10:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, that's the I mean, my the previous lawn mower I had before this one, that's exactly what happened. Yep. Sounded there mowing the lawn, and all of a sudden, the whole damn engine just started jumping all over the place. And I was like, what the hell? And you have to look at them. Yeah. Yeah. The, the the bolts had all rust rusted out and so it would it the deck itself was gone. And yeah. Yeah. I mean and that was a Honda engine too. And, I mean, my my engines, my lawnmowers, I'd my grand would would have my head with the way I treat my lawnmowers because he would put them up. He would make sure they and that's the the mine sits out the damn lane for, and it's it it'll it'll have a little hole it'll have a dirt pack where it where it sets during the wintertime.
Yep. It's just it, it's just where I I stop by the market, but it stays there. And so, I mean, it's it's exposed to the to the elements all the time. The only time I ever had problem with the new one is there was a point where, I I realized on the on the newer Briggs and Stratton, we have to run the gas out of it. Yeah. Because if you don't, you leave a little bit of gas setting in the bottom of the yeah. You gotta you gotta clear it.
[01:11:38] Unknown:
Yeah. I can't remember what it's called, but you you put a can of the one stuff in there and it, you know, and run that out.
[01:11:45] Rich Chelson:
A little reservoir, of the carburetor. There's ethanol in the gas, and it collects water. And so it you actually have a layer of water in in your in your carburetor. So you have to clear it out and then spray it with some with some ether to get it, to get it run for a few moments and then fill it up with gas and my damn. It it runs on it starts up on the first or second pool. Runs great. I mean, this is just Yep. The only issue I've ever had is don't mold here in the heat of the day because it will vapor lock. I've never had that happen. Yeah. I'd be dry molding a lot. I'd fill it up.
Like, oh, man. We're out of gas already. I thought I'd just filled it up, open it up, and no. No. About maybe a quarter take down. Still plenty of fuel in there. But, yeah, you sit there. So you stop, put it move it into the shade and let it set for for thirty minutes to an hour, then go out there. It's like, yeah. Yeah. We're good again. I just was hot. So
[01:12:52] Unknown:
Yeah. I've done, you know, I've never had.
[01:12:55] Rich Chelson:
No. I have no idea.
[01:12:57] Duuude-Ron :
Crack the the lid on the gas tank.
[01:13:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, I do because I look to see how much fuel's in there.
[01:13:03] Duuude-Ron :
No. When you when you put the lid back on, just put it back on about a half a turn or a quarter turn, and don't don't tighten it down. It it locks up because the heat the the air expands from the heat, you know, and from the heat. The air expands and fills up that that tank,
[01:13:26] Rich Chelson:
the space The whole reservoir.
[01:13:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And it and it stops the flow when you crack that and let that loose and then just because, like, on vehicles, vehicles will vapor lock. You do that Yeah. With the fuel tank, it's just cracked the the knob on the gas tank and just put it back in. Works. Yeah. Yeah. Once it and it'll vent itself, and it won't vapor lock anymore. Yeah.
[01:13:58] Rich Chelson:
Get a lot of grass in your in in your gas tank.
[01:14:02] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Because because the cap's still on there, but it's just not on their tight. Tight. It's just not on their tidy. You see see, most of the, you see, most of the lawnmowers have them four holes in the gas caps or used
[01:14:18] Rich Chelson:
to. I'm not sure about the newer ones. Used to. They no. They you won't want them used to. Not to no more.
[01:14:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but, see, they would get clogged up. And, and these newer ones are supposed to be vented, but they get clogged up too. So if it happens, just, like I said, crack it, let the air pressure off because you'll hear it normally. And then just Yeah. Lightly put it on to where it still holds on so it doesn't fall off while you're mowing. And then just it should start up and mow.
[01:14:49] Unknown:
And then drill yourself four holes in the top of the gas tank. Or Right. Drill. Get it. Yeah. You can get a sixteenth
[01:14:56] Rich Chelson:
sixteenth of a, of an inch drill bit. Just beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. Right. Little bit old. Would it actually would it actually sound like that? Probably. Because I would be doing it. It'd be like.
[01:15:12] Unknown:
Yeah. In in in Brian's world, I'm sure that's exactly what it was sounded like. Yeah. Yeah. Just
[01:15:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I remember I remember when when I was living out in California, I was towing cars. And this RV I was living out in the desert, and this RV was on the side of the road, got called out there. My boss told me said said said, don't even mess with them. Just drive up. Tell them they need a tow truck, and I just had a rollback. I didn't have nothing big enough. You know? And, you know, tell them they need to be towed. I rolled out there, and I gotta talk with that old boy and his wife. They were nice people. And I'm like, I ain't gonna fuck them like this.
And dude told me what was going on. I walked around, popped open his fuel door, popped that cap off. Yeah. It was vapor locked alright. And, put the cap barely back on, closed the door. We stood there talking for another ten, fifteen minutes, and, I told him I said, okay. Start it now. He fired it right up. He's like, what you doing? I explained. I said, man I said I said my boss told me to just have y'all call a wrecker, but I couldn't do it for something like this this easy. I got yelled at by my boss, but I didn't care. The dude gave me, like, $40 of cash. You know?
No. You don't need to do that, dude. I'm just trying to help you out. It was, like, a 110
[01:16:49] Unknown:
degrees that day. It was And and see that and you got your ass chewed Yep. For helping somebody out with your moral ethics Yep. And could solve the problem and not cost anybody or the customer any money, but you got your, you know?
[01:17:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. That is I I mean, I did, and I looked at her. I said, Jay, and I said, I wasn't gonna fucking do that. It was a mess of cracking a fucking cap and letting letting the air out. Settle. Let the press release. And just Yeah. And just letting things settle for a minute. Screw it. You know? So Oh, yeah. She was mad at me. I didn't care. It's like, fire me. I don't give a fuck.
[01:17:46] Unknown:
Yeah. Fire me.
[01:17:48] Duuude-Ron :
Good. Hey. You know, I and and you see, that's the thing. When I towed Carrie, you know, nine times out of 10, you know, I'd load people, and, you know, I'd tow their cars or what or whatever. But, yeah, if it was something like that, nah, man. Just if if if it was something easy I could fix in two minutes, boom. Done. Get. Have fun. See you later.
[01:18:15] Unknown:
Yep. And that's where when people's ethics get watered down
[01:18:21] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:18:23] Unknown:
That's what happens.
[01:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[01:18:26] Rich Chelson:
But I I mean That's like that's like me
[01:18:30] Unknown:
with the configuration that I have in my Jeep. I don't care if there's somebody on the side of the road mainly with a flat tire. To me, it's it I got all the tools to get to get the tire done very quickly with the hydraulic jack, with the, you know, all the pneumatic tools that I have. It is twenty minutes out of my fucking life. Yeah. So that individual is fucking priceless because hell, I don't know if that individual can't afford that don't have that doesn't have insurance for that and can't afford a tire and, you know, have some who knows?
But it's like, okay. Why not stop and help? Well, coming down to to your place, Rich, there was that one couple that was stopped on the side of the road. You know? They were changing on a tire, and I just happened to stop to see if I couldn't render assistance. And they had one bolt that their tool would not loosen. And it just so happened that I picked the one I think it was a three quarter socket, and it just happened to be a three quarter, and it got the lug nut off. And I said, you know, how long have you guys been sitting here with this?
It's like, we've been here thirty, forty five minutes, and not one person has stopped to help you, have they? I bet you there was three, four hundred cars that had passed them, and I was the only one that stopped.
[01:20:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:20:18] Unknown:
You know, I I really do hate that our society has gone to that. And if it and if and if I stop and it cost me my life, well, then that's that was God's plan. Right. You know? So and I don't then I don't take a dime. Yeah. The only thing I asked them to do is if you find somebody that you could help, if it's a fucking giving them a dinner or, you know, paying for their dinner, just pay it forward. That's all I ask. Yeah. And and maybe one day, I'll meet somebody that somehow, some way, that that pass it forward has come full circle back around to me that I know about.
But I doubt it'll ever happen. Right. But you you never know. It just might.
[01:21:15] Duuude-Ron :
See, I do things a lot of times, and I don't I don't care if it ever comes back around to me because that's it's for me, it's it's, you know, it's not about recognition or anything like that.
[01:21:31] Unknown:
Oh, no. Well, no. And what I'm saying coming back around to me is, okay. I helped this person. They helped this person. Then they helped this person, and then the next person helps me in whatever. You know? But, no, you're right. I don't do anything for the Bible says what whatever the right hand is doing, don't let the left hand know.
[01:21:56] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:21:57] Unknown:
So as far as I know, you know, they may have saved somebody's life from committing suicide. You know? 10, pass it forwards down.
[01:22:15] Rich Chelson:
Who knows? You know, that that would be a really kick ass movie right there.
[01:22:22] Duuude-Ron :
I see.
[01:22:23] Rich Chelson:
Where you start start off, you know, something like, you know, you have some guy stop on the side of the road, help a person out, and he's and they're, like, trying to give him money. It's like, whatever. He's like, no. No. No. Just just find somebody who needs help, help him out. And it keeps and it becomes something different. So the next person's, like, you know, sees a family who is who's struggling to pay for a grocery cart full of, of groceries, and they're like, so how much do you need left? And so they're like, it's a $120 that was that were short. It's like, alright. Well, here. Help. Then he pays it out. And from there, those people help somebody else. But then eventually, what happens is somebody's like, well, I'm I helped someone I helped a, an abused woman out, so I killed her husband.
And so the the woman who got the abused woman helps another guy out by, you know, when a bit it just keeps getting a little more twisted, a little more twisted, a little more twisted till it eventually gets around to the guy that originally starts. So that all of a sudden, he realizes that he started this line, long chain of of of of psychotic behaviors just because he helped one person out.
[01:23:33] Unknown:
Yeah. Actually, I was scared.
[01:23:36] Rich Chelson:
I was I know. I think I was I was up with you till you started going off on the, you know, killing the house. That's a but that's part of it. You know? That might may have to make that make that up my own my own, make that a novel or something.
[01:23:52] Unknown:
There you go. But you know what? I actually think if I'm not mistaken, there is already a movie out. I don't remember the name. That there's already a movie or and or a book that has that that same Same premise? Story. I'm sure it does. Line. The story line. It starts with somebody doing something very inconspicuous, changing a flat tire on the side of the road, And then it it it comes
[01:24:23] Rich Chelson:
Goes off the way off yeah. The wheels fall off literally.
[01:24:28] Unknown:
You know? So I think there's a book or a movie that's already Yeah. That. But it is you know, who knows? Because I helped a person with the flat tire. They helped the family to get a meal. That family helped another family get some groceries. That family helped shelter a person that was being abused. Yeah. And the person that was being abused had an acquaintance that saved that they saved from committing suicide.
[01:25:07] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:25:08] Unknown:
You just, you know, you just never know.
[01:25:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But that would be just the the the twist of it. You know? All of a sudden, a good deed turns around to where it becomes a horrible deed. It's kinda like the I I've had another thought for a for a novel. You know, you've heard about what a what a doppelganger is. Right? It's your twin, but it's usually in the direct opposite. And the what happened? Yeah. Well, except for whenever you actually you you may hear about your your doppelganger, you know, off and on throughout your life. But if you ever come across your doppelganger, the doppelganger will just disappears. It ceases to exist.
Wanna have something like that where, you know, the doppel the, you know, the doppelganger is doing almost like the dark half with Stephen King's dark half, except whenever the guy finally catches up to his doppelganger, comes up to him, doesn't always it's his doppelganger, just knows that the, you know, the this guy is is committing all these murders and stuff. Gets up to him, spins him around, and disappear and and the the main character, the the perceived good guy disappears. So that he's actually the doppelganger that he so because it's direct opposite. So you had really evil dude running around and you had doppelganger who who was who was the nice good good guy trying to save everybody.
So things I think of while I'm driving up and down roads. Alright. Sorry.
[01:26:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Weird sometimes.
[01:26:46] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, some of the things you think of are just yeah. They're
[01:26:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's fun, isn't it?
[01:26:53] Unknown:
Well, you know, we've got you say so.
[01:26:57] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, some of your thoughts, sir, are just kind of out there. I ain't gonna lie.
[01:27:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You know, I'm way out there. They end up being the they of course, the one of the best move or one of the best Stephen King stories he has ever created is coming to theaters in September. Finally, they're they're putting it out. They're putting out The Long Walk.
[01:27:22] Unknown:
Putting out the what? The long walk. The long walk. Okay. Yeah.
[01:27:28] Rich Chelson:
And since I'm not a fan of reading
[01:27:31] Unknown:
books, I don't even fucking know.
[01:27:35] Rich Chelson:
Dude, this is one of those one of those that at the end, you it doesn't it's not I'm not gonna say it changes you because, I mean, it's a Stephen King book. But it was him writing as Richard Bachman, so it's a Richard Bachman book. But but is the what the story is is it's almost like Hunger Games in that you start out with, I think it's a 100 kids, and they start at the Canadian the Canadian border, and they walk along this one particular highway for as long as they can. They have to maintain three miles an hour the whole time. There's no stops. There's no breaks. There's nothing like that.
You stop, but you get, you get three warnings. And I can't remember if it's within a twenty four hour period or what. I think, for some reason, I'm thinking that it is. But, anyway, you get three warnings. And if you end up get going past those three warnings, you're eliminated. Not just in a Stevie King style. It's not just, oh, okay. Congratulations. Here's here's our play at home at home board game, and have a good day. It's a, you know, no. It's a bullet to the brain.
[01:28:41] Unknown:
And so Yeah. You get eliminated.
[01:28:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You get eliminated eliminated. And and so and and so they it's about this these 100 kids who who go. Now the winner ends up being set for life, and it's kind of a whole it's kind of a a, that's kind of where the premise like, Hunger Games premise comes from where they you start off. You got a bunch of kids who are desperate. This is kind of the dystopian United States type of thing and and all that. And so as they, as they go as the story progresses, you know, you get, the kids drop more and more and more, and eventually, the kids that have become friends, you know, are all being affected. And it's down to the last one, which kinda boils down to where, you know, winning isn't always the greatest thing in the world.
And, but it's a fabulous a fabulous story. And, it'd be they're act they actually finally made a movie about it.
[01:29:51] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Like I said, it's kinda that's coming up. Have to I might have to just go watch that Yeah. When it comes on to the television.
[01:30:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow. Okay. Brian Brian got all excited. He's like, I'm a I got a dude out in the public again. He's gonna be there. No. He's not. And then freaking dude
[01:30:15] Duuude-Ron :
slams the door. That is funny.
[01:30:20] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You know the last time that I have been in a movie theater?
[01:30:26] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:30:28] Unknown:
When the third Harry Potter movie was in the theaters. Oh, okay.
[01:30:35] Rich Chelson:
See, and that was one I never actually got to watch in in theaters. That's never did get to see any of the Harry Potters in theater.
[01:30:44] Unknown:
Yeah. That was not Chamber of Secrets. Fuck. I don't remember what the fourth one is or the third one. Fourth one is
[01:30:55] Rich Chelson:
Let's see here. The Sorcerer's Stone Chamber of Secrets. Chamber of Secrets, prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:31:03] Unknown:
That's it. Yeah. That was the one. Okay. And then it's the
[01:31:08] Rich Chelson:
Then the the, the one with the
[01:31:11] Unknown:
Triwizard cup. Yeah. Triwizard cup. And then it's the Order of the Phoenix, half blood prints, and the Deathly Hollows part one and then part two. Something like that. Yeah. Guess what I'm watching right now?
[01:31:27] Rich Chelson:
Court TV.
[01:31:29] Unknown:
No. That was last night. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
[01:31:36] Duuude-Ron :
There you go.
[01:31:38] Unknown:
I don't know why. I just I just at 57 years old, I'll still watch, you know, the whole trilogy of Harry Potter. Yeah. No. I love the Harry Potter series.
[01:31:49] Rich Chelson:
I've watched them quite a bit. I've gone through. I've rewatched the extended versions of of of the Hobbit and and, Lord of the Rings where they all of a sudden turned each of those into four hour long movies. It's like, holy shit.
[01:32:05] Unknown:
I never got into I I've had I've seen a couple of the lords of the rings, but the Hobbit and, you know, the spin offs from that, no. Never really interested me in it.
[01:32:19] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And then, but yeah. And then, also, I'll I like I like the Infinity Saga of of the, of the MCU. So, you know, from Captain America up to, to endgame. You know, that that old line, those were those were were great. Now after that, the the Guardians of the Galaxies were still were still good, but, that's where that's where all of a sudden MCU became MCU, and and nothing was nothing was really good. I'm well, their their television series were still pretty good. The what ifs were fabulous. The, Loki, I enjoyed the Loki series. And WandaVision was okay.
Agatha all along was okay. Well, they they explained how the Scarlet Witch could come back. But, but, and I have no idea how they're gonna how this next phase is coming coming about because they're they're starting the next phase with with redoing the fantastic four, and they're actually making it look like the fantastic four. The only problem that they have. And I'm I'm I don't know if it's just me or what, but I'm getting real tired of Pedro Pascal. You know who the who he is?
[01:33:48] Unknown:
Not a clue.
[01:33:49] Rich Chelson:
Not a clue. Okay. Well, he's an actor who started out he did a really good job. They, he was one of the he was a member of one of the main families in in Game of Thrones. He's the one that ended up in his head smooshed by by the mountain. But after that, he started kinda peering time to time. He plays the Mandalorian. He shows up in, in, oh, what was the other damn thing? He's he's he bumped his head in. He's shown up more and more and more here recently. And I've only kinda started looking into him, trying to figure out exactly blinding my gears about him. And the only thing I could figure is that he is being placed into now, Brandon, we're in conspiracy corner right now. So I have do I have proof of any of this? Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Just my brain working.
And I just let you know how my brain works on on a couple of different, couple of different stories. So who knows? Maybe this is just my brain going down another path also. But it's like Pedro Pascal is being used as the front man of what weak masculinity is supposed to be. And that weak masculinity is the is the masculinity that the left and and feminists want men to be. Because there's been but a couple of, a couple of videos that I came across that were talking about how and they're all like e entertainment, you know, just both entertainment channels on YouTube, but talk about how he became very vulnerable about healings and stuff.
And I'm going, okay. So so and stuff or is or is this what he's being paid to do? This is how you wanna be trying to be the be the the the go to representation of what a what a modern man is supposed to be like. And I'm all I I think that's exactly what they're working real hard to do is to say, yes. You wanna be like Pedro Pascal. You wanna be open and vulnerable and and cry and weigh your emotions out on the sleeve, and and you put women women first and yada yada yada. And it's like, that's probably not the best thing in the world because that's your that basically, when men do that, they are abdicating their power. They're abdicating their leadership. We've seen what happens when men give up their leadership.
The past four years, all the men in in any type of leadership stepped out of the way and was letting women have it. So you ended up having you know, you had, Fannie Willis and and, and and a what's her name up in, who's the New York AG, and you have, Adesha Jackson Brown and and or Brown Jackson or whatever her fucking name is. The the the justice for a supreme court, Khadashi Khadashi or whatever name is. And when you step out of the way and and you let just people who think they deserve to be in power have power, you get shit.
You get the crap. You get socialism. You get communism. And a good example of that is what, what is the the Democrat mayoral candidate
[01:37:46] Unknown:
in New York City? Oh my god. In New York?
[01:37:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. This and it's gotten bad. He's he's going off he's wanting to cut the police force, from remembering right. I think three either half or three quarters. I think it's three quarters. He's wanting to take three quarters of the police population, police force away and replace them with social workers because, you know, social workers know more about about crime than police do for some, for some reason. It it was easier. All buses would be running legalized prostitution. And, I mean, is is I mean, he goes off. He is he's from the same place, uses the same language, and is, by the sound of it, about as smart as as AOC.
Calls himself a a democratic socialist just like she does. Everything he talks about is leans ahead harder to the left than that. So it all he almost sound he sounds more communist than he does socialist man. Didn't mow my lawn. You know? He did, but he didn't do my he didn't get my my debts like he's supposed to. And if they vote him in,
[01:39:09] Unknown:
they'll suffer the consequences. You know, if he reduces the police force, I hope the hell that somebody goes and breaks into his house. And then he'll then the first person he'll call is a police commissioner and say, why didn't I have police protection at my house in a timely manner? Well, you're the one that fucking cut them.
[01:39:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, the commoners don't. You know? I'll lose I'll take it.
[01:39:41] Unknown:
When they brought all these illegal aliens in yeah. They should have dumped them all off, thousands of them, up in Martha's Vineyard. We've lost you. Hold up. Can you hear me now?
[01:40:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I can hear you, dude.
[01:40:02] Unknown:
Okay. So take a thousands of those and plant them in Martha's Vineyard with tents, and they better not have problem with it. Of course, I did. Okay. Put another thousand in Oh, hold up. O Pelosi's estate. But you know what? If it doesn't affect them directly, they don't give a fuck.
[01:40:29] Duuude-Ron :
Even if it does, they'll just they'll just remove the problem. They've they've tried that. They've tried sending people to Martha's Vineyard and all like that, and and they just shoved them out and didn't address the problem. It was a big media cycle, news cycle for all of, what, two, maybe three days, and then they moved them out, and nothing else was ever said. So nothing's gonna change. What has to change is is the people of New York City or the state of New York or whatever has to stand up and say no, but they're not gonna do that. They're just gonna roll over because these people are saying what these people wanna hear even though there's no truth to it. It's all lies, but people think they're they're they're just blindfolded, and they think that everything will be hunky dory. And Yeah. When they get in, they're gonna do what they want. And that's
[01:41:32] Rich Chelson:
And they pretty much true.
[01:41:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It is. And and that's the thing. Until, you know, more and more people stand up and take an active interest in the government again, like we used to do in the fifties and sixties and seventies, the forties, the thirties, the twenties, It's nothing's ever gonna change. We can talk about it all we want. We can we can talk about all different kinds of scenarios. Right. But it's the simple point. If we're not going to get involved into city, county, state, federal government, what we have right now is only gonna get worse.
[01:42:18] Rich Chelson:
Agreed. Absolutely.
[01:42:21] Duuude-Ron :
Sometimes sometimes I have too much time to think.
[01:42:27] Rich Chelson:
Well, when you start coming up with really good stories, then then you've had too much time to think.
[01:42:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. Yeah. I And
[01:42:35] Unknown:
and, Rich, you just completely blew the hell out of your statement from a couple of weeks ago.
[01:42:44] Duuude-Ron :
What was that?
[01:42:45] Unknown:
That if it doesn't affect me, or my money directly, I don't give a fuck.
[01:42:55] Rich Chelson:
I don't give a good goddamn. That was that was somebody's words.
[01:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah.
[01:43:02] Unknown:
And you were fucking adamant about it, and now we're talking this.
[01:43:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you started it, dude. I mean, come on now. Did I start it? Well, I don't know. You or Brian, one of y'all started it. Probably me.
[01:43:17] Rich Chelson:
Because I was talking about the New York mayor. So Oh, okay. Mayoral candidate is not the he's not the mayor yet. Right. But they're working real hard against all oh, mayor Adams because he he worked with ICE.
[01:43:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We got
[01:43:33] Unknown:
But, you know, the the problem is is as a whole in The United States, we wanna see this, this, and this done based upon what a president's running on for his, you know, presidency. Right. And when he starts doing that, because we as a major group got together and voted voted for that, but with the other aspects, nobody
[01:44:10] Rich Chelson:
That was gross talk. What you do that for?
[01:44:13] Unknown:
Nobody comes together for a cause anymore. No. Unless unless they are fucking rioting. Yeah. Well, they have to be paid to do that too. And these days, they're getting paid to fucking riot. Mhmm. True. Because those individuals cannot go out and find a regular fucking job.
[01:44:38] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. Because they're sitting at home in mommy mommy's basement playing video games expecting the government to pay for everything.
[01:44:48] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:44:50] Duuude-Ron :
No, dude. No, dude. You're right. Yeah. Normally, I don't let shit get to me, but every once in a while, it just
[01:44:58] Rich Chelson:
I can I can drop something, like, just just kick some into gear?
[01:45:04] Duuude-Ron :
Like, my mind just fills up and yeah. Yeah. And then every once in a while, Brian just says just starts the conversation, and it's like I've got to let it out. You know? And it And get and get your spring all
[01:45:20] Unknown:
wound up at night. Yep. And then you just give her hell.
[01:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, and see, that's the thing. You know? If if more people were more laid back, more chilled out, and only worried about what they could handle, this world would be in a whole lot better place
[01:45:44] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I think. I think.
[01:45:46] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I might be wrong in that, but I don't think I'm too far off that point.
[01:45:51] Unknown:
You know, I think if they just got rid of fucking 90% of the mainstream media and find somebody like oh, what the hell is his name?
[01:46:07] Duuude-Ron :
Walter Concrete, the, Elbro Concrete. Boys. Yeah.
[01:46:12] Unknown:
Yeah. And who's the one that had the rest of the story?
[01:46:16] Duuude-Ron :
Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey. You know,
[01:46:21] Unknown:
individuals like that that had the morals and ethics to report what's going on without adding their political agenda.
[01:46:38] Duuude-Ron :
Or their feelings.
[01:46:40] Unknown:
That's true too. So we're never gonna have any news anchors or reporters like those two individuals ever again. No. And they told you the story. They told you what was going on. And then You had to make the decision. Exactly. You had to follow-up to your decision on court. Sides.
[01:47:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Whether You were whether Yeah. Whether it was a presidential race, they told you the Republican and the Democratic side, and you made the decision. There was no bias. And Exactly. Back then also back then, news media was was more well, for the most part, I watched a couple movies. It's it's been a while. There's one. It's a really good one. It's called September 5, and it was it was about the Olympics over in, god. Where was that? It was a Winter Olympics. I can't remember which country it was in.
[01:47:50] Unknown:
But, The Winter Olympics held in June.
[01:47:53] Duuude-Ron :
It was, 09/05/1972 when the team Israel got got murdered.
[01:48:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that's, Munich.
[01:48:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Germany. Yeah. Munich. Yeah. Yeah. Munich. And ABC was over there, and they you ought to watch that movie. It's it's it's it's done really, really well. You know? And that was when you and the the newscasters that were over there in Munich at the time, they were being told not to air this stuff by Right. By ABC. But they're like, screw it. They aired it, you know, and everything like this. And it it I think heads rolled over it, but, I mean, it's if you can find a movie and watch it, September 5, it's it's actually a really good freaking movie. I was I was impressed with it because it it was just yeah.
[01:48:58] Rich Chelson:
It was that's good.
[01:49:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I had I had heard I mean, I was only three when it happened, so, you know, I didn't know about it. But I I I had heard something, you know, mentioned about it over the years. And then and then when I decided to watch it, I read it, and it's like, yeah. I think I heard something about that. Well, hell, hell. Let me watch the movie. And I was like, oh, hell yeah. Yeah. It was good. Okay. Get up here. But, see, that's the thing. Even back in the seventies, they started to try and censor, you know, the news and stuff. Right. Right. That's where that's where a lot of the anchors and and the news people, they were still fighting back, pushing back, saying kiss my ass. No.
People need to hear about this. We're gonna air it. You know? But, yeah, it wasn't long after that. Then, of course, you know, news media started going going by the way it kind of of, what it is now. And I think what was it? Like, the middle eighties, I think, maybe? Or late eighties was when they kinda fully switched over to not not telling us the whole story.
[01:50:21] Unknown:
Basically, when CNN came on to the scene.
[01:50:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Probably so. Sounds about right. When did CNN come on?
[01:50:32] Unknown:
Mhmm. Earlier, that was a thought. But their but their their biggest story was about Jessica that fell down into the well.
[01:50:43] Rich Chelson:
Jessica McClure.
[01:50:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. CNN started 06/01/1980.
[01:50:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's better. Right? Not that I had we didn't have, didn't have any any cable until, like, '88.
[01:51:00] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. No. We didn't have cable. We oh, fuck. Yeah. It was yeah. I wanna say it was probably about the same time as you, Brian, was when we got cable. I got I got ribbed about it hard when I was in high school because I had never heard of cable before.
[01:51:18] Rich Chelson:
My mom mom lived in Dallas, so they had they had cable. It just wasn't there wasn't any cable service even available in in Sunray until, like, '86 or '88, somewhere. Well, no. Let's see here. Because it was I was in the third grade when, when cable was really becoming big in in Sunray. So that would have been oh, okay. Maybe it's a lot sooner than I thought. It'd have been about 8084. '83, '84.
[01:51:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We yeah. We, Yeah. We had moved to Booneville, Missouri in the summer of eighty two or 8383. And, went to school that year, and everyone was talking about cable TV, MTV, and all this. And I would and I was a new kid. I was stupid. And I asked I said, what's MTV? Oh my god. Could have never asked that question. Yeah. I got I got ridiculed, picked on. And, there's these two brothers, and, I was in I the oldest brother was in the same grade I was in, and he would pick on me. The the, youngest brother was a dickhead. I never did like him.
But before school, we was all standing in the lunchroom, and this kid, David no. Danny. No. Danny was younger brother. David David Seager. He was picking on me, picking on me, picking on me, and I'd had enough, and I just popped him in the nose real quick. And it started bleeding. I didn't hit him that hard. And, he was like he was like, oh, my nose is dry. That's why it bled, and he ran off down to the bathroom. He he wound up leaving me alone, but his brother Danny was a was a bitch, kept fucking with me for a year or two. I finally got him to stop.
But, yeah, they they were all laughing at me because, you know, I wasn't from around there, and I was from the country. We didn't have, you know, a lot of stuff that everybody had. We were city kids is what it was. So bye.
[01:53:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, he's terrible. Oh, okay. Times, they'll, they they are can be like that, sadly.
[01:53:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It's true. And, yeah, it hasn't hasn't stopped. It still goes on today. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But y'all know that one podcast we was talking about last night, you know, you know, besides all them ads, what the Oh, yeah. What the hell is Apple doing with their operating system? Oh my god. Everybody
[01:54:15] Rich Chelson:
talk did you catch all everybody talking about the about the liquid glass?
[01:54:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They was they was talking about the new operating system. Yeah. Next year will be iOS 26 across everything. Yeah. Phone, tablet, all that. And then Yep. Y'all have watchOS
[01:54:36] Rich Chelson:
26, iOS 26, Mac,
[01:54:40] Duuude-Ron :
macOS 26. Yeah. And and see and see the thing is, it's funny because they were freaking talking about and and I don't know why this is a thing. But you're supposed to be able to go into each app separately Yeah. Yeah. And and set up different microphones for, for, for, whatever you're doing. And I'm like, what? Why?
[01:55:09] Rich Chelson:
What Well, just in case you're, you know, you're talking on, on the phone with on your headset, but you've also got you also got your your your Bluetooth phone or not Bluetooth, but a different microphone that you're recording into.
[01:55:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But you see, what's the big deal? Because you're gonna wind up go in and do post processing anyway. So what's the freaking matter?
[01:55:40] Rich Chelson:
Because a lot of people aren't doing that type of pros post processing anymore. A lot of folks are using things like Riverside and and, and and apps like that to do all the hard hard processing work. So they would it's easier just to use a higher quality microphone microphone for recording. And so if you open up, say, like, they have maybe they have come up with an Audacity app for the, for the iPad. Well, on the iPad, you could have it set where this microphone is is or or a particular DAW is accessible because of of that. Maybe you've got, you know, like a Pautrec p four that USB c to USB c. And so whenever that's connected, you're able to you you're able to pick up the the that, PawTrak p four and be able to record with it. So it's got all the settings that you and stuff that you wanted set for strictly for that. Yeah. No problem. It's it's basically like they're they're turning the the the the tablet more into bringing it closer to the closer to the, to being like a, like a laptop is what they're basically doing.
[01:57:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I don't know. I just I mean, honestly, that's a feature not a lot of people's gonna use. Podcast.
[01:57:12] Rich Chelson:
I mean, there's a lot of podcasters who probably might, might enjoy that a lot more than you think.
[01:57:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean, I don't know. I I I don't ever have to worry about it because I'm not ever having Apple. So and that's something I don't have to worry about. But, yeah, they spent, like, good god, about half the show.
[01:57:36] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. First half of the show talking about Well, also, it is Rob Walsh who is he's not gonna make a he's not going to talk anybody into doing anything that might benefit podcasting unless Apple does it. So so so yeah. He it's of course, he's go they're gonna be you know, they're gonna have boners for whatever it is that that Apple Apple's doing even if it doesn't actually improve anything with with podcasting or not. I mean, it's Oh, I And there's some stuff. I think it will do some benefit. It will improve and be able to separate the like like, being able to do the car compartmentalized processing.
So now if you're doing doing the processing postproduction processing on your on your your your tablet, you don't have to try sit there and keep it open the whole time it's processing for it to work. You can actually put it to sleep or open up a, completely different, app. So maybe you're gonna start getting social media stuff wrote for for the for the show.
[01:58:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. I got some of that I caught, and I was like, that would be cool. Yeah. No. I got that. But but, I mean, for the most part, it's like it's like, hey. It's I don't know. It's pointless. You know? You would think well, as you said last night, though, Lipson isn't really a podcasting company anymore. They're they're all about advertising. Yeah. They're an advertising agency now. You know? But, you know, the thing is, though, it's it's like, you know you know, appeal to everybody, not just one, you know, realm of of, you know, a space way I look at it.
But yeah. No. I just I don't know. I listened to it. They it was it was touch and go there for quite a while.
[01:59:43] Rich Chelson:
I mean No. It it it usually is touch and go for me too. I wouldn't listen to the feed now. It's like, I mean, just really just not doing it for me anymore, man. So I what what? But, but, yeah, they're it's it's just one of those things where it just gets it's sad because, I mean, Lipson's always been known for being a a a it's the OG. Well, it's one of the OGs. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the OGs. It but sadly, it's not about not about the the the hosting anymore and the podcaster experience. It's more about, well, can we, can we get, how many ads can we get stuffed into a into a podcast now? Apparently, it's 12.
You know? It's like son of a gun, man. The way they were talking, it sounded like you put almost as many as Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's why I was like when we were talking about the other day, I was like, hey. Hell, yeah. Might as well gonna just start up the advertising show and just make it about all about the advertisements.
[02:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
But but but you see there, you have to host on Libsyn to be able to do that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't wouldn't mind spending $15
[02:01:01] Rich Chelson:
something for for a few month for a few months. Just see if funny.
[02:01:06] Duuude-Ron :
And and and their payout. Oh my god. The payout is like it's gonna take four four to almost six months before you even see a check from the first month.
[02:01:20] Rich Chelson:
It can't well, it usually takes two months because they're Oh. They've gotta finish the first month, and then, and so if you do, like, say, like, July, you they don't take the information. They don't, gather the information together until July or till the July, so it'd be August 1. And then they send that they do their calculations, and then they send send the information over to the company that's gonna pay. And so it's, it's usually about, two months for you to get your, to get your money. They said
[02:01:58] Duuude-Ron :
this is this is the example they use. They said, if you ran a campaign in January, like you said, they run the whole month of January, then at the January, they take it like you said. They do their numbers. They send and then they send it off to the advertisers or whoever. They do their thing. They said you would see a check if if there was one, and and the payout is $21. At least $20, but they say $21.
[02:02:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You'd have to save it. $21.
[02:02:34] Duuude-Ron :
They would say you wouldn't see any money from January until April or May.
[02:02:42] Unknown:
I missed that. Yeah. That was Sounds like a two sounds like a 2AM infomercial.
[02:02:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sad thing is I it was it was in the middle of the day when I was listening to it. But yeah. No. Basically, that's and and, yeah, it was, yeah, it was actually, yeah, kind of an infomercial because they was trying to sell all that, you know, because that's what basically, when, people podcast anymore, they just wanna know how much money can they make. Yeah. That's it. It's all about how much can I get paid? That's not why you podcast.
[02:03:24] Unknown:
Well, that's why they podcast.
[02:03:26] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah.
[02:03:28] Rich Chelson:
And that's the reason why so many people actually burn out the way they do too. So
[02:03:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And that's why there's not that many pie active podcast.
[02:03:39] Rich Chelson:
Not anymore. No. There's they're they're starting to starting to kinda decrease.
[02:03:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Because everyone's realizing that they actually have to work if they wanna make any money at it. You know? Mhmm. So Absolutely. Yeah. It says on this one check, they're saying active podcast is three point o 1,000,000.
[02:04:07] Rich Chelson:
But
[02:04:08] Duuude-Ron :
it's it's actually around only 450 to 500,000 are actively producing any new content.
[02:04:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. Sadly, I need to I I need to go on ahead and start getting relaxed mail going again. I just haven't I haven't really done anything with it and since for, about about three months now.
[02:04:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You might be on the inactive list. Yeah. No. I I figure I am. But you know?
[02:04:39] Rich Chelson:
But it's still active because it's still being hosted. Well
[02:04:43] Unknown:
yeah. But,
[02:04:45] Rich Chelson:
no. You just haven't put nothing new out. No. I haven't put anything out. I haven't new out in in a in a while.
[02:04:53] Duuude-Ron :
But not like us.
[02:04:57] Rich Chelson:
So but, like, be kinda like like to just see how much, you know, what what the stats would pop up to if I was to, if I was to go ahead and put another one up because I'd like to see what to see how well all that podstats.net and see what it's see how it functions. Because, I mean, from what I've seen I I mean, it's pretty. They do a really good job of getting everything kinda
[02:05:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I I mean, because, you know, I did ours last night. I got Oh, did you? Running. Yeah. And, the way I'm looking at it and say I mean, I like it because it's pretty. It's all laid out. Yeah. Basically, it's the o p three stats, you know, that that first page we had going.
[02:05:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We still well, and then we still actually do have going. It's just
[02:05:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but now what I'm saying, this is just a better UI of what that was, but I think this one is updated more often.
[02:06:09] Rich Chelson:
I think actually, what I think happens is I think that actually takes the the o p three information.
[02:06:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It does. But you see because I was looking at I was looking at the original o p three site for two grumpy vets. Right? Right. And I compared those numbers with the numbers from podstats.net.
[02:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[02:06:34] Duuude-Ron :
No comparison. This, new site
[02:06:38] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:06:39] Duuude-Ron :
Has has a way better numbers, and they don't seem inflated at all. But the old site, the numbers are still, like, down into double digits. Whereas here and I don't know why it's not letting me sign in because I signed in.
[02:07:02] Rich Chelson:
Everything's make sure you don't have any capitals. Or at least if you signed up without any capitals, that does make a big difference.
[02:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. I know. Okay. Hang on. I gotta check something here. But yeah. No. I noticed. Because I I checked both both sites. And I'm gonna tell you right now, the original o p three, yeah, those numbers were basically still in the tank like they always had been, and they I thought. Because this one said we were we had 643 downloads. I I can't remember the, doohickey, the time frame on that. Hang on. I'm figuring something. I'm I'm getting it figured out. He's suffering.
[02:07:54] Rich Chelson:
He's
[02:07:55] Duuude-Ron :
suffering. Yeah. That's scary, isn't it? What?
[02:08:00] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. What? Exactly.
[02:08:08] Duuude-Ron :
I signed up last night. Right. I I logged in.
[02:08:13] Rich Chelson:
K.
[02:08:14] Duuude-Ron :
And it won't hang on. Did I do it on my other browser?
[02:08:20] Rich Chelson:
I don't know.
[02:08:21] Duuude-Ron :
Let me check.
[02:08:23] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. That's just messed up, man. That's just messed up. That's wrong. It is because I know I signed up. Oh, no. Because I had to go through and, you know, get the RSS feed, the o p three GUID, all that stuff. Really? Yeah.
[02:08:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, when I signed up, all it did is ask, like, what, which podcast you sign you you want to use? And just type the name in, and it pulled it right on up. Not me. Pod Stats, p0dstat
[02:09:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. S.net.
[02:09:07] Rich Chelson:
Dotnet even.
[02:09:09] Duuude-Ron :
Wait. Hang on. That's I was I think I was being a goober head.
[02:09:16] Rich Chelson:
Hi. Those are always fun.
[02:09:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was. Hang on. I was being a goober head. Oh, don't do that. See, this is what happens when I don't save save it, but I saved it. Okay. My stats. Let me view the data dashboard. Okay. It says all time downloads, 666.
[02:09:45] Unknown:
There we go.
[02:09:46] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. Let me see if that changes. Is that all time? Yeah. That's all time. It says in June, we had 43 downloads. July, we had so far, we have 13. We have 24 countries and 60 episodes total. That's worth our trailer. Yesterday, it says we had 12 downloads and everything, so it it breaks things down. It it seems to be we've had two downloads on the title motivational cookies. We published that back in August of twenty four. We had two downloads on it. So and then it list others. And say, looks like about 9AM was when we got our 12 download yesterday. Yeah.
So it it and our apparently, our podcast is being consumed on a computer on, computers.
[02:10:52] Rich Chelson:
And Oh, yeah. We got a bunch of old parts who don't know how to use their phones. So they're like, oh, I could find it on the Right. Uh-uh. I could find it on the on the on the on the Chrome. I can find it on I can find it on the Internet Explorer.
[02:11:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, honestly, I don't care how you listen to it. Just as long as you listen to it. Oh, you're listening. I mean, that's I I mean but, yeah, I just I just it says the top device models. Now I don't know if this is in the last month or what, but a Windows PC is the big one. Hotnews.net is the top site where people listen, podcasts Oh, pull us up at? Is the second. Yeah. Yeah. Apple computer is second to to, Windows and then iPhone and then Android. So yeah. Oh, we've had 12 downloads in Russia, two in Canada, one in China.
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, someone got through the firewall.
[02:11:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I think Indonesia, we got one. I think Singapore, we have one. BW, I'm not sure what that one is. That's a country. Trying to think. Don't know. But out of top podcast app is Podcast Guru and then Fountain and then Amazon Music.
[02:12:21] Unknown:
So Yeah. Okay.
[02:12:23] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So different apps, dude, that that, people listen to our podcast on.
[02:12:32] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:12:33] Duuude-Ron :
So so, yeah, it's I mean and I will say the the layout and, you know, watching of the, you know, of of everything looks a whole lot better than the old Botswana. That's BW. Botswana.
[02:12:52] Rich Chelson:
Aye.
[02:12:53] Duuude-Ron :
But, but, yeah, I'd this, podstats.net is a is a whole lot easier to look at and understand than the old 0 P three site
[02:13:07] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:13:08] Duuude-Ron :
By far. So
[02:13:12] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:13:13] Duuude-Ron :
I think. And you'll say once you, you know, get it, you know, get it set up for what you're doing.
[02:13:21] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:13:22] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But, yeah, it's it's it's okay.
[02:13:28] Rich Chelson:
Not bad at all,
[02:13:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. I mean, it it well, I don't know. I I haven't been paying attention, so so I can't really, excuse me, say much. You know? I, haven't been paying attention to o p three or anything like that. So or the updates are you know? My knowledge is limited. So Gotcha. I can't say whether I fully like it or not. I like our other numbers better. I ain't gonna lie. You know? I like POD homes numbers.
[02:14:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I get that.
[02:14:12] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, honest look. We got people listening to us. They keep coming back and listening to us.
[02:14:18] Rich Chelson:
I haven't figured out why, though.
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? I'm just happy they do. You know? I mean, they must be our kind of people if they keep coming back and listening. That's kinda what I'm thinking. That's almost scary, though. It is very scary. You mean there's there's other people out there that that think, like Cizarre like us? What? Right? It's like, oh my gosh. That's a scary thought, man. Oh oh, I I had something the other day. Y'all y'all are probably gonna gag, but, oh, I just oh, I love the hell out of this shit. Oh my god. I I had to start in my head last week, and I I was like, man, I gotta try it. I gotta try it. And it took me a day or two to roll it around in my head, and I said, screw it. I'll try it.
It's hang up butter and jelly with green olives and tater chips in the sandwich.
[02:15:24] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:15:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. This oh, that was awesome. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, put about four or five green olives in it, put some wavy chips on top, smooshed them together. Oh, man. I just tore it up. Oh, that shit was good. That was good stuff. And that's the thing. I knew when when I was making it, I was thinking about y'all because I knew I knew y'all was gonna be like, oh, that's nasty.
[02:15:58] Rich Chelson:
Aw, that's nasty.
[02:16:00] Duuude-Ron :
But it's not, man. It's actually It's really, really good. Dude, did you fall asleep?
[02:16:08] Unknown:
Not really, but close.
[02:16:11] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, you've been a little little extra quiet there, so I figured I'd wake you up.
[02:16:17] Unknown:
I'm just letting you guys talk shop.
[02:16:20] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, I'm not talking shop now. I was talking about peanut butter and jelly, green olives, and chips, dude.
[02:16:26] Unknown:
Oh, well, that's about
[02:16:29] Rich Chelson:
no. Thank you.
[02:16:31] Unknown:
No. I don't mind at all. I I can eat peanut butter. I can eat jelly. I can eat bread. I cannot choke that shit down together.
[02:16:40] Rich Chelson:
But I'm right. Maybe you need the green olives and the tater chips on there, especially the wavy chips.
[02:16:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't doing no fucking olives either.
[02:16:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, gee whiz.
[02:16:52] Duuude-Ron :
Good lord.
[02:16:54] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm I'm what's that word I'm looking for? Special? No. Not special. Isn't that special?
[02:17:05] Duuude-Ron :
Expand your mind, dude. Expand your horizons. He's singing, buddy. Singing it, buddy.
[02:17:15] Unknown:
I ain't thinking I ain't thinking about making it.
[02:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, come on, dude. Yeah. I will say I will say when I got these teeth pulled out, I did have soup, you know, first day and a half. Well, two days. And Yeah. Oh my god. It was it was good. I mean, I love soup. Do not get me wrong. I love soup, but soup does not stick with you. It it, it's I mean, it does not stick with you as far as filling your belly.
[02:17:50] Unknown:
Yes. Yes. So substance.
[02:17:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So so now mind you, last Thursday was when I had these nine teeth pulled.
[02:17:59] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:18:00] Duuude-Ron :
By Saturday afternoon, I said, fuck it. I pulled out the andouille sausage, cut it up, cooked it up, and ate it.
[02:18:10] Unknown:
And And you should've went out got you should've went out and got yourself a po'boy.
[02:18:16] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. Me and yeah. You see, that's the thing. They had told me I wouldn't I was only supposed to eat soft foods for the first three to five days. Right. Yeah. No. By the third day, I was like, I wound up and had that andouille sausage, which, I mean, you know, wasn't hard. It wasn't crunchy or nothing, but it wasn't Topo is soft.
[02:18:44] Unknown:
Well, Topgolf is soft.
[02:18:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right now, I'm trying to eat a sandwich. Oh my god. Because I I don't I don't I have my teeth on the bottom. My my middle ones on the bottom right now. And, yeah, it makes it kinda hard to try and buy the sandwich. I gotta shove the sandwich in the side of my face and and gnaw on the bitch. Right. Yes. A little it it's it's a little challenging trying to eat a sandwich right now.
[02:19:21] Unknown:
Well, have you ever thought of chopping it down into bite sized pieces before you start eating
[02:19:29] Rich Chelson:
it. Well into quibble.
[02:19:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I did that yesterday because I I figured because after after a couple times of trying to gnaw on the sandwich and just not, Yeah. I mean, I made it work, but I had I I was so hungry after I ate the sandwich because I had worked too damn hard. I had to eat another one. So so later on that night, I made a sandwich, and I, cut it up. And, yeah, and, and, I did like you said, cut it up into smaller bite sized pieces. And then I could I could just it felt weird doing that because it's like, damn it. I just wanted to pick the sandwich up and eat it, but I couldn't. Right. So so I cut it into smaller pieces and made it to where I could eat it.
[02:20:24] Unknown:
Well, there you go.
[02:20:26] Duuude-Ron :
But it took me a couple of sandwiches to figure it out, you know, because, you know, I'm a little slow sometimes.
[02:20:34] Unknown:
Yeah. I know. I resemble that remark. In every sense of the word.
[02:20:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But yeah. No. That's, oh, y'all wanna hear an update on my Jeep?
[02:20:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's been happening with Jeep?
[02:20:53] Unknown:
We would love to hear an update on your situation with your Jeep.
[02:20:59] Duuude-Ron :
My Jeep saga? Well, I can say now, I finally received a duplicate title from the state of Missouri.
[02:21:11] Rich Chelson:
Yay.
[02:21:14] Duuude-Ron :
As soon I I didn't even have it in my hand five minutes. And I was down to the license bureau, and I turned it in.
[02:21:25] Unknown:
That's it. And what did they do with it?
[02:21:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well, now this was last week when this happened. Uh-huh. The girl uploaded everything and all like this. Now, apparently, now I have to wait. Yeah. I have to wait because Mississippi, I guess, has to take my Missouri title. I I don't know exactly what they do. I'm only guessing here. I'm probably not far off, but I'm guessing. They have to verify if this is a proper legal title and all like this. And then when they get confirmation or whatever, then they'll issue a Mississippi title. And when they do that, then I can license my Jeep. I can renew the license on my Jeep. Now the girl that was put all the information in for me that afternoon, because it was, like, 04:15, 04:20 when I got there, and, she put everything in.
She even called up to the state and was like, hey. This is what I've done. This is what I've done. Can we get a title number? You know, the girl was trying to get me, like beat everything up. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I heard her tell them, I've got the title in my hand. It's gonna be in the mail tomorrow, you know, and all like this. But, apparently, Mississippi is like, nope. We gotta have all this in hand. And so lady, you know, told me she's like, well, I'll check on it the next morning, you know, and I'll call you. Okay. Well, I hadn't heard from her. So I called down up there, and I asked them.
Now earlier this year, they were saying it would take eight to twelve weeks. That was earlier this year. This time when I talked to the lady, he said to call back at the end of next week, not this week, next week, and see if it's been done. So it's still a crapshoot. Alright. So I don't know when it's gonna be done. But I did receive the title from Missouri. It is now hand delivered in Mississippi's hands. However long they take is however long they take. We'll lose it. Got it. Hope. Well well, this lady made a copy of it, emailed a copy to this date, and so so it's it is it is attached to my file already.
So if they lose it, they can still issue a freaking title.
[02:24:19] Unknown:
Okay? Okay. Yeah. Okay.
[02:24:22] Duuude-Ron :
Because she scanned it, and it and it attached a copy to my file. Then she emailed a copy to the state. And then the next morning, he sent the physical title to the state. So if they lose it, they can still issue the title off that piece of paper because it is Right. Out of my hands now.
[02:24:48] Unknown:
Right.
[02:24:49] Duuude-Ron :
So maybe next week, maybe three months from now. I don't
[02:24:54] Unknown:
know. Well, let's hope let's hope that doesn't happen.
[02:25:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right? I mean, trust me. I'm praying. I'm praying hard that it don't take that long. But Yeah.
[02:25:08] Unknown:
What can I do about it? K. But you've been doing it before?
[02:25:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see and you see, that's the thing. Before, it was all my fault. Okay? So now it's it's because I was the one that didn't pay attention and verify and read and all like that because it it was you know, before it was come to find out, it was all my fault. But now it's not. So I'm just waiting on the state of Mississippi to get done with it.
[02:25:41] Unknown:
Well, there you go.
[02:25:43] Duuude-Ron :
So we'll see, and we'll have a party whenever it happened. Exactly. It'll probably be for New Year's, but, hey, we'll have a party.
[02:25:53] Unknown:
Hey. I'll get some Roman candles.
[02:25:56] Duuude-Ron :
There you go.
[02:25:58] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep.
[02:26:01] Unknown:
Here's a real good one for you. I'm still yet to really figure this one out.
[02:26:07] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[02:26:08] Unknown:
So, you know, my issue with my Jeep getting ducked. Right?
[02:26:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yep. You love it. Absolutely.
[02:26:21] Unknown:
So my Jeep was not even in the driveway. I get home. I have a duct on my table that holds my ashtray in the front of my house. They didn't duct the Jeep. They ducked my house.
[02:26:50] Duuude-Ron :
They knew you had a Jeep. They was like, I don't that's funny.
[02:26:56] Unknown:
I get I get back, and I think yeah. I was wondering, we did that show for, the Children's Medical or, Miracle Network. I get home. I sit down, and I'm sitting there having a having a smoke just like I always do. I'm looking down. I'm like, it and it takes me a few seconds to register that there's a duck sitting there. I'm like, what the fuck? Why is there a duck here? Alright. I'm like, well, because my Jeep wasn't there, they ducked my house. And let's see. And I still have, and somebody will look it up. And I get a little card with it. It says you've been you've been ducked from view Buberty Val Verde, Texas.
[02:27:57] Rich Chelson:
Valverde. Yep.
[02:27:59] Unknown:
Have no fucking clue where that's at.
[02:28:02] Duuude-Ron :
Spell it.
[02:28:03] Rich Chelson:
V A L V E R D, Valverde.
[02:28:08] Unknown:
Yeah. I have to go first. Of it. Yeah. You know, I'm like I haven't looked it up to find out where it's at, but it's like Yes. Someone's coming all the way from Valder Verde or whatever the name is to my house and finding out the Jeep is not there, so they ducked my house.
[02:28:30] Duuude-Ron :
It's just North of San Antonio on 2 81.
[02:28:34] Unknown:
Well, I am a member of New Braunfel Trail Team six. I'm part of that Jeep Club.
[02:28:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, maybe maybe one of them was up up your way.
[02:28:48] Unknown:
Yeah. You just never know. Could be.
[02:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
So you got ducked, and you weren't even home. That's fucking awesome. I love it. That makes me happy, dude. You know that?
[02:29:06] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:29:07] Duuude-Ron :
So got ducked.
[02:29:09] Unknown:
I got ducked. Oh, dear. Even know that. Well, I got ducked at the Jeep show.
[02:29:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that that kind of stands without reason.
[02:29:23] Unknown:
You're right. Yeah. I see. That duck you know where that duck went to? Onto somebody else's Jeep before I left the event.
[02:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that was one of them. You got ducked a couple more times, dude. You didn't get all of them give out down here.
[02:29:41] Unknown:
No. I'm talking about this past weekend.
[02:29:44] Rich Chelson:
The one where him and, him and junior almost got into it Or him and, well, he was he was Yeah. They did. Showed yeah.
[02:29:56] Unknown:
Yeah. They showed the disrespect. Yep. Yeah. So, yep, before I left, I just set it on somebody else's Jeep and let them deal with it.
[02:30:12] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, you just need to embrace the Ducks, man.
[02:30:17] Unknown:
I have embraced the ducks.
[02:30:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. You haven't.
[02:30:22] Rich Chelson:
You need Well, he doesn't jump them across the highway anymore.
[02:30:26] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that I mean, this is a good thing, but still
[02:30:29] Unknown:
You know, I embrace the duck. I embrace the duck to give it to somebody else and and let them have their, you know, happy, happy, joy joy feelings of being gut.
[02:30:50] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. I swear, dude.
[02:30:54] Unknown:
I think I'm gonna find some, just absolute stock Jeeps.
[02:30:59] Rich Chelson:
Just just
[02:31:02] Unknown:
oh, yikes. I'm gonna like some things for call. Yeah. And and duck some or reduct some base model Jeeps just to make them happy. That would Just to put a smile on that place. Yeah. I'm sure it would.
[02:31:20] Duuude-Ron :
Well well, just don't. Just don't let them see it because they'll probably duck your house if they don't see your Jeep. Oh. Next thing you know next thing you know, it'll be a thing. Dude's Jeep at night time, so I just just set it on his patio table.
[02:31:40] Rich Chelson:
He'll see it. Yeah. He'll get to it eventually.
[02:31:44] Unknown:
I will get to it eventually because that's where I have my smoke.
[02:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
You're gonna wind up you're gonna wind up getting more deduction. You realize you ain't gonna have no choice but, just embrace the duck, dude.
[02:32:01] Unknown:
Well, I showed you the picture of the only one that the only duck that I'm gonna have visible on my Jeep. Oh, yeah. The rubber ducky.
[02:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
But still, that, yeah, that, I I I just have a feeling your Jeep is will become DUC central before too long. That'll be awesome. That will be just awesome.
[02:32:31] Unknown:
And I'll come down to, Pasadena, Mississippi And with some superglue and some ducts, I know a Jeep to hit.
[02:32:42] Duuude-Ron :
Remember, I got superglue too, dude. And I know I got more ducts than you.
[02:32:50] Rich Chelson:
Or putting putting rubber ducks on his valve stems and on the, on on his, on the Windshield wipers. Windshield wipers.
[02:33:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that'd be and then and then and then freaking take pictures? Oh, hell yeah. That'd be awesome. Yeah. And and then post them to social media and, like, tag Patrick and all like that.
[02:33:20] Unknown:
Have you seen this Jeep? Do you know the owner of this Jeep?
[02:33:25] Rich Chelson:
Or even better. Instead of being rubber ducked, get them rubber dicked.
[02:33:31] Duuude-Ron :
You can buy them on Amazon.
[02:33:32] Rich Chelson:
How about?
[02:33:34] Duuude-Ron :
I know a lady bought a bag of them. Little tiny ones. It is, like, an inch long. Yeah. I'm serious. I know. I know weird people. Oh, shoot. It looks like it's about getting that time, gentlemen. Is it? I don't know.
[02:33:55] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Well, if that's the case, then I guess probably need to start talking about the fact that well, we kinda thought there's a lot of it on to talked a little bit about it a little earlier today about, you know, Wolfson was going as far as saying, hey. If you've got a, I don't know, a foul forty five minute long podcast that you should be able to put in roughly about eight eight advertisements. Two in the front, two in the back, and then two in then two sets, two in the middle. They're also talking saying two in the front, put three in the front, three in the back, or three and do three in the, two sets of three in in there and and one in the end. And it's just like you hear all these ads.
And the funny thing about ads is that you can especially if you hear people who are doing, like, Patreon style community, what are they what's one of their their their selling points to to to to go join the Patreon. You can get your get our ad free version of the show, which if you think of that and you really apply some thought to it, that means that you're advertising to people who can't afford your product. What you do, Doug? No. Because those who can't afford it are going are going to buy the ad free version. If you can't afford it, then you're gonna not you're not going to you're gonna be faced with the, the commercials. You're gonna be annoyed by commercials. So the whole ad advertising model straight up just doesn't work by its very nature.
And so why do you wanna do something like that? Why would why would we want to advertise advertise to you? Give you something that you probably just aren't even interested in in, in using. You know? You only you only need one mattress every ten years unless you get one of the modern ones, and then it's probably last a bit, maybe, five years. And they're twice as expensive as the, as the ten year my mattress. And if you're like us, then you buy one mattress and it lasts you it lasts twenty years. But so there's no reason for for you to have a mattress. There's no reason for, you know, maybe a hairy razor person. Well, what happens if you grow on beard?
You ain't gonna need a hair razor. So there's a lot of of ads that just aren't needed. And that's one reason why we have gone the direction we went, which is value for value. You you want to you wanna say, I appreciate the the show that you you've done. I appreciate the work, the time that y'all put in to talking. Well, here is some money. How much? Oh, it didn't matter. It's however much you wanna give. You wanna give you know? Some people some people like to do different types of numerology. You know? You got, like, $11.11.
Well, that's a that's a bag of Richards. You know? $22.22. Well, there you go. There's a there's a a a a row of ducks. There's all sorts of neat little little numerology style games that you could play with the very with the numbers. I mean, 17 o one if if you're a if you're a Star Trek fan. Okay. So there's a lot of fun things you can do and displaying your personality and with displaying displaying the value that that you wanna wanna give to us. There's also but that's but that's just treasure because treasure is a yes. It is a a a form of saying thanks, and that's what value for value is. We we provided a a a show, and you're saying, hey, man. Thanks for providing the show.
Here's how much I say thank you. And so maybe it's time. You're you wanna start helping with doing chapters or things along those lines. Maybe it's talent or you wanna create chapter art or or or, some other type of episodic arts or anything along those lines. Or, again, if you have treasure, you can also provide treasure and say thank you in that manner also. So there's a lot of different ways you could say thank you, and that's the crux of how we do our show is I'm not out to say, if you wanna wanna say, wanna be a part of the community, join our $7 a month group. No. No. I mean, if you wanna give us $7, okay, that's that's great, but I'm not going to I'm not going to force you to be a part of a community by having to pay. No. We're all part of the community. You could shoot us an email. You send me one over at CircleCast. That's [email protected].
You can get ahold of Rich. Same way. You can get ahold of of dude by getting ahold of me or Rich because dude is email address, he just he went crazy, and and he has a hard time actually remembering what his email address is too. So we just it's just safer to to send it over to us because, you know, we we know how to spell. R chelson, catlson,@Gmail.com or [email protected]. And so you can shoot an email over to us. You can reach out to us, yeah, over at Facebook. You can go to two grumpy bets on on, do a search two grumpy bets over on on Facebook and proof of luck. Guess what you'll find? You'll find our our Facebook page, and you can actually could make comments there. We have means of you being able to reach out, talk to us, say hi, and and all that, and we would love to be able to hear from you.
That but we also enjoy just spending the time that we have talking with each other, and that's the that's actually the crux of what this show is. We started out have doing this show just as a means of actually, it started didn't even start out as a show. It started out as just us getting together every Thursday just to talk, just to yabber, just to have a good time and laugh at each other. And then it was like, hey. Let's do a shit let's let's turn this into a podcast. You know? Anybody gonna listen? Probably not, but that's fine. We don't have to have them listen. It's just, you know, anything. It's just a a record of our of our talks and and and our views of the world.
So that's kinda how we the how this show has come about and why it's the way it is now. And, and wanna just say thanks for for everybody for doing, for coming in and listening because that just the fact that you listen is is a thank you. And we love to be able to complete the circle. So if you, you know, if you say something, we're gonna say something back, and, we're gonna have a have a good time while we're doing it. So, Rich, what would you like to say in your closing shots?
[02:41:51] Duuude-Ron :
I just wanna say thank you to everyone who listens and keeps coming back. You know? It's awesome that, you know, y'all apparently like what we have to say or groan at what we have to say and or laugh at us or whatever, and, you know, we're fine with that. So, yeah, just, yeah, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your loved ones. Hell, tell the person you hate. Who cares? You know? We're just we're just out here to spread cheer, love, whatever. We don't care. You know, as long as we make you laugh or cry or think or groan or, you know, yell at us, you know, send us an email. You know, you can send me an email at [email protected] or [email protected].
And, of course, I you know, me and Brian know that that dude the dude is the star of the show here. And and Absolutely. You know, if if you really wanna hear his timeless wisdom and input, please send me or Brian an email, and we will definitely make sure dude gets it and reads it and gives his his time honored just just astounding wisdom on whatever topic you wanna bring up. And, yeah, just, you know, say, hey. Send us ideas on stuff to talk about because we will give you our opinion on anything. We don't care. You know? It might be good. It might be bad. We don't know yet because you haven't sent anything.
So, yeah, if you wanna do that, go for it. Other than that, that's about all I got. So, dude, what you got going on?
[02:43:44] Unknown:
Well, I'll give the dudes wonderful piece of wisdom. You know, it's always nice hanging out with the the two people that I get to hang out with and talk to on a weekly basis, and, you know, we've gone through a lot of rabbit holes. Then, again, we've had some, kind of not, I would say, interesting conversations, but, you know, it's all the same. We're just gonna talk about what we just happened to come up with. So Absolutely. And, again, thank you for everybody that's listening and enjoying our show and, you know, likes to hear the monotone voices of three old men.
[02:44:36] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that's about all I got. So alright. Well, then with that, Rich, Ron, appreciate y'all coming on again and having a letting us yabber and talk and expound on on weird ideas and thoughts and and, things like that. And, and we will, see y'all next week. Call y'all out there in, in podcast land. Thanks again for, listening. See y'all next week. Till then. Bye.
[02:45:06] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:45:08] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Out. Catch y'all later. Bye. Alright. See you later. 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
[00:00:14] Bryan Goodwin:
with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Brian, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
There we go. And how are you? Not too bad. How are you? Oh, I'm doing pretty good. Just getting myself all off duty and all that good stuff. So let me shoot the dude a quick, Zoom's open.
[00:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
So how was your day today?
[00:00:56] Rich Chelson:
How? Wasn't bad at all. It was it was a bunch of running to, to a sand plant and back, and, and so, yeah, it wasn't half bad.
[00:01:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's cool.
[00:01:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:01:10] Duuude-Ron :
Just, You get a lunch break, or do you have to eat while you're driving?
[00:01:15] Rich Chelson:
It's completely up to you. You got twelve hours.
[00:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. So Oh, I yeah. I didn't know because, you know, I've had some jobs where you had to eat while you were driving. You know, you didn't get the luxury of stopping or you know? But, you know, after a while, I just I was just like, yeah. Screw y'all. I'm gonna stop.
[00:01:38] Rich Chelson:
I'm gonna eat. Oh, I'm hungry.
[00:01:42] Duuude-Ron :
That's exactly right. I'm gonna eat. You know?
[00:01:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I do that several times. It's, there's been a few times where I've stopped to grab the sonic burger over at the over at Travel Plaza or grab Sonic over at the over at the Domino's. So yeah. No. Then there's a lot of times I'll just load up I'll just show up with three or four bags of sunflower seeds, and I'll just go to town just to spit and and, and then just not stop at all. So
[00:02:16] Duuude-Ron :
You see, I I I never could do, sunflower seeds the way everybody else does. I don't know why. I just I just never had
[00:02:26] Rich Chelson:
I just don't have the tongue control,
[00:02:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. I and so, I I mean, I love sunflower seeds. And if if I got them in the shell, I ate shell and all. Oh, yeah. No. I can do that. Oh, I did. I I would I would just yeah. I would gnaw and yell and all. Swallow it all. It was it was good roughage.
[00:02:47] Rich Chelson:
Good roughage. No. Let's see. I'll give you that. It's good roughage. Just don't eat a shit ton of them, though. I would. I would I would eat a whole freaking bag, man. Okay. But, I mean, when I say a shit ton, I mean a shit ton. Because the same thing happens with because I'm I'm that way with pumpkin seeds. I love a good pumpkin seed. David's is pretty good. Pumpkin seeds have got a lot of really good protein and stuff in them, but David's is really good, but they're the brand called Spitz, and they do what's called they do seasoned pumpkin seeds, and they just basically what they do is they just take a bunch of, seasoned salt and and oh, they're they take a bunch of seeds of salt, soak it in, dissolve it into water, soak the sun, the pumpkin seeds in there, for for a while and then and then, then roast them.
Oh my god. Those are good. Now those are pumpkin seeds. They're the, you know, the round they're they're basically round. Got a little bit of a point on one end. They're you know, they come from a pumpkin. About sixteen, 16, I've been about probably now probably about, fourteen or so years ago. I was driving for a company called Endeavor Enterprises. And, basically, what they did is they went to the caterpillar shops, picked up parts, and we went to all the different caterpillar sheds that were lay littered throughout, between Elk City and Diamond, and I'd stop and I'd drop off all the different caterpillar parts. Some of them were heavier than the fucking hells because they were they were blades for, for, like, dozers and stuff.
The the little cutting edge blade. Yeah. Yeah. Those are fucking heavy. Barrels of of oil and the antifreeze and, you know, everything else that they could possibly need. And I got really good at being able to roll these off of a panel truck. But one of the things that it was a long drive, you had to start it by, about 01:00 in the morning. You get done about 09:10 o'clock in the in the, in the morning. So it was an overnight deal. And so one night, I saw this big bag of Pepitos, which is not it says Pepitos, and then underneath, it says pumpkin seeds. Those are not fucking pumpkin seeds. Alright?
[00:05:29] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:05:29] Rich Chelson:
They're long, skinny. They're fucking gourd seeds. But they were salted up, and they were tasted pretty damn nice. And so I, you know, I bought it, and it was a big fucking bag. It was a pound bag of them. And so I was driving along, and I'd grab a head full and I and then I'd eat the shells and all. I ate shells and all and shells and all and shells and all. And for, you know, the there are so hours, you know, eight to ten hours of of driving that I did through that day, I consumed that freaking pound bag of of pumpkin seeds or. Yeah.
That was the worst fucking mistake you could ever make in your life. Because the following day so that day, got home, went to bed because, you know, I slept I got up that morning with and I happened to be off. And so we thought it'd be a good idea to go to go to Emerald, so I went to Emerald. And, you know, did our normal stint and seeing family and all that. And about the end of the day, I was like going, yeah. You know, I think I need to take a shit. I sat on the damn toilet, and I grunted. I groaned. I heaved. I twisted myself. I got into cramps. I got into all sorts of pain and discomfort and nothing.
This shit had a good job. It had it did what roughage is supposed to do. It cleaned all the shit off my damn intestines, packed it up nice and tight, and and called it, and and called it a day.
[00:07:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:07:20] Rich Chelson:
And so that night, it's like you I told the wife, it's like, you have to go to the bathroom three or four times and just beat my head up against the wall when nothing happening. I told her, might be something wrong. And she's like, oh, really? What's that? I'm like, can't take a shit. He's like, oh, well, that's not good. And I was like, yeah. I know. And so I was like, well, let's let's try some stuff. So I I I went off. I got the I I took a drank a bottle of of TNT, also known as magnesium citrate.
[00:07:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:07:57] Rich Chelson:
And just as good added bonus, I went ahead and I got some laxatives suppositories and shoved them up the opposite end to to tag them for both ways.
[00:08:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. Nothing.
[00:08:08] Rich Chelson:
It was not budging. And, I mean, I for information, but who who cares? I'm already I'm already in the the land of t TMI. But, I mean, I went as far as I could still have it sitting right there at the door. It was knock it was trying to get through the door, and it was not it was not it the door was not big enough. I hate it when that happened. Oh, I had a supersized turd. It was like that one Viking one that they, they always like to, to to to show about the largest largest actual human turd. It was one done by a Viking back in, like, the December or July or something like that. So, anyhow, so now now we're going into Matt's favorite thing. We're doing shit talk tonight.
But but, yeah, so it was and I I wouldn't I I was like, alright. Well, fine. I'll see if I could break it up with my fingers. And now it was fucking hard. It was a freaking rock. I was like, oh, son of a bitch. So, you know, the following morning, I had to it what got up. Yeah. And I mean, everything's still knocking at the door going, hey. Hey. We need to get, need to yell that stuff go here. Alright. Well, we're we're done. And let's go pee. And there was it was so much pressure that it had actually had started pushing up against my urethra where I couldn't pee. And so I Wow. I told Jan, I was like, alright. Let's let's go to the the hopsicle because, man, things ain't working anymore.
So we go to the hospital, and they they're like, alright. Well, let's try let's try this. They tried an enema. They tried this. They tried that and nothing. And, I mean, they they eventually had to they give me a shot for the discomfort, which helps because within about fifteen minutes, I was out. And so I guess somewhere along the way, they took a little scope to and stopped at try to look up in there, and he couldn't do it because, I mean, it's just right there. So it's not like you you you had to see you couldn't see anything. And so he I don't know what it was they took. I'm I'm just assuming they took some little bitty salad tongs or something in there and started mashed breaking it up. And, he got it all broke up eventually.
And they said, holy crap. That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. They're like, yeah. Yeah. Don't don't do that anymore because, that's, that's too much. Your body doesn't process the the shells. And it's it's a lot like corn. That's why corn shows up in your poo also and stuff. And so for several years, I wouldn't touch a pumpkin seed. And then I I got to look in, and that's where I found out that Pepitos are a different animal altogether. They're not a pumpkin seed. They're a gourd. Okay. And and so, so I've I've decided I limit myself to just the little bags of David's and and and spits from time to time. But I
[00:11:08] Duuude-Ron :
so so the lesson in all this is to eat them sparingly.
[00:11:13] Rich Chelson:
Eat them sparingly and make sure you have something in between. You know? Have have them layered. So if you're gonna eat it like a handful of pumpkin seeds, then okay. Okay. Eat a sausage or or hot dog or, you know, eat something else, throw it on top of that, and then let, you know, let it all get mixed up so it gets you know? So you you're, you know, the solution for pollution is dilution. That type of type of a lot of thought. Okay. That's that's a that's a different choice of words. I kinda like that. Well, that I mean, that's actually how you that's the the mantra that they have for actual to the if you come across something that is that that was it's been severely polluted.
That's the that that is the solution for any type of pollution is you have to dilute it down to where it's not pollution anymore.
[00:12:07] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, I learned something new because I had never heard that.
[00:12:11] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, let's see here. Let's eleven hours forty minutes. Let's go ahead and end that shift. There we go. We are done.
[00:12:20] Duuude-Ron :
So, dude, what's up with you, man? Yeah.
[00:12:24] Unknown:
Yo. I didn't even get a get a chance to say what's up, bitches No. Before my before my signal went, fuck you, bitch.
[00:12:38] Rich Chelson:
I know. Right? That was awful early. Yeah. The phone was, like, going, they're talking about stuff. I don't care. Hey. Here in pastor, I'm I'm a boss, so we're not we're just gonna cut it off here. So
[00:12:51] Unknown:
You know what? I wish they would've cut off with the pumpkin seed story, but, you know, that TMI, like you said Yeah. Yeah. That was definitely
[00:12:59] Rich Chelson:
definitely a TMI moment. I've burned down those deep in the TMI, so, you know, I'm I'm Oh, yeah. My life is basically an open book. Holy, though. Holy, though.
[00:13:10] Duuude-Ron :
I I see, I don't I don't understand the whole TMI thing because how can you share stuff like this if not with your friends,
[00:13:20] Rich Chelson:
your close friends? I mean, come on now. They're the close friends. And one of you wonderful listeners out there who are now in the process of probably eating eating a hot dog as you're driving down the road going, fucking hell. Really? Damn it.
[00:13:37] Unknown:
Yeah. I was gonna say your closest friends and thousands of fellow listeners. Right. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Now if we were sitting on a campfire, it'd be something a little bit different.
[00:13:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. A bore a bore Well, there'd be a lot of chili bean parts going on in between there too. So, you know, gotta That is true.
[00:14:00] Unknown:
Just like blazing saddles?
[00:14:02] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. Yes. Once more, mister Tackett, I'd say you've had enough.
[00:14:09] Unknown:
Walked walked into it with his mouth wide open.
[00:14:17] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. Slim pickings is awesome. We'll do a number four two. I don't think I'm familiar with that. Well, that's where we are. A run-in a hoppin. Right in town. Wait. Oh, shit. Damn it. It all drew out of pulled out of my head. Right in town over here. Oh, yeah. And I forgot it. But, you know, just just because it's like, what do you so you spread the web and it's like, shit. No. We just wake the shit out of them.
[00:14:53] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:14:55] Rich Chelson:
Have you ever worn Blazing Saddles? Yes. I have. I I know I know I know him. He's he's still too young to watch it, but at the same time, it's you know? You've seen Blazing Saddles, and you when he's when mister Taggart's talking about William Jerry. Oh, no. No. That, that,
[00:15:19] Unknown:
oh,
[00:15:21] Rich Chelson:
oh, crap. I don't a shot of a gun. What is his what is his character's name? It's Teddy. Hedley. Yeah. That's right. It's Hedley Lamar. It's Hedley. Because yeah. Because, Mel Brooks wanted to use the name of Teddy Lamar, and he asked Heavy Lamar if, if he could do that. And she said if he did, he was gonna she was gonna sue sue shit out of him. So he's like, alright. It's Hedley. And so everyone keeps calling him Heavy. Hedley. It's a little cold weather
[00:15:59] Duuude-Ron :
joke. I've I probably have watched the movies. I just you see, that's the thing. When I watch movies, I never I I never get so focused that I remember that that stuff. You know?
[00:16:13] Rich Chelson:
Oh, and you haven't watched Blazing Saddle then because you can't help but laugh at at it all and then remember the remember the jokes. It's almost as as as well quoted as young Frankenstein. Almost.
[00:16:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. See, I've I've never seen young Frankenstein.
[00:16:33] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Alright. Okay. Well, we're starting on day two of the of the, of the past Google Film Festival now.
[00:16:42] Unknown:
Blazing Saddles, a cult classic.
[00:16:47] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Blazing Saddles and and young Frankenstein. They just have to make the second day. Just Bellbrooks Bellbrooks, film, film track or something. Yeah. I don't know. I just
[00:17:03] Duuude-Ron :
I've just I've just never been good at that. You know? I mean, some movies, I might I might remember, you know, the jokes maybe a couple times, you know, for about a couple weeks afterwards. But after that, yeah, I'm lost. I'm out. Yeah.
[00:17:22] Rich Chelson:
Me and my wife, we talk we we love to throw out to just movie to each other when they're when they're fitting.
[00:17:31] Unknown:
So And he's cellular.
[00:17:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, did I am I really? Damn it. What am I what am I
[00:17:37] Duuude-Ron :
you you did for just a second there.
[00:17:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I am driving. So and I'm going up and down hills. So god only knows how many I'll probably do it about one or two more times.
[00:17:50] Unknown:
But, I thought you I thought you clocked off. I did. Now I'm going home. Oh, okay.
[00:17:58] Rich Chelson:
I'm going home, bitches. So
[00:18:01] Unknown:
Oh, and go home. Get you I am. I am.
[00:18:05] Rich Chelson:
You can see my bitch, my wife, and and and and and our little boy dog.
[00:18:11] Unknown:
Oh, so you're on your way home home? Yeah. I'm on my way home. Oh, okay.
[00:18:18] Rich Chelson:
Then Sunday, I gotta go get, gotta go get Watson a haircut. So that'll be a $100 out of my back pocket, but that dog's needing it. He he's missed about 40 of his appointments. So
[00:18:32] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's and and this heat, it's simple. Just just take some beard trimmers and shaving.
[00:18:39] Rich Chelson:
Actually, that is not that is the worst thing you can actually do for a dog is is shave them because and it's it is a lot like why you see construction workers wearing long sleeve shirts and pants. Yeah. I know that. It is buying that. Yeah. It's harder for a dog to actually regulate his body heat when he doesn't have his fur.
[00:19:04] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:19:05] Rich Chelson:
And the same thing as why guys wear long sleeve shirt, some pants that actually are too are wearing shirt wearing long sleeve shirts and and and jeans than it is to run around in tank tops and and shorts. Okay.
[00:19:21] Unknown:
Because You know what? I just cannot get past the psychological aspect of that, which is you know, I know. Long sleeve shirts, one's gonna save you from sunburn, and, yeah, will keep you cooler if you're out in the sun. But I just can't get past the psychological
[00:19:39] Rich Chelson:
aspects of that. Absolutely. I I've I've with you on that. I was like, hell no. If I'm go if I'm hot and hot and sweaty, then I'm gonna try to get as as few close between me and the circulating air as I possibly can. So because, yeah, it's just oh, it is it just, I mean, I I get it because I now nowadays, I have to wear a long sleeve. I have a retarded shirt of all things. I haven't gotten around to wearing the coveralls yet. I just I can't bring myself to wearing the coveralls.
[00:20:12] Unknown:
I think that's You have to you have to wear the long sleeves?
[00:20:15] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep. I got a long sleeve shirt, and I actually I I throw a T shirt on underneath it too. So it's and, I've actually I I kinda I kinda get what it does now, especially when you wear an undershirt too, because you're you know, the undershirt collects the sweat, and the air passes through the shirt, which actually evaporates the sweat, which allows you to be cooler, which long as the temperature of the air as it blows through the through the the the cloth. And so, yeah, you're you're actually are cooler as you because you're wearing wearing the longer sleeve. You're and you're actually providing a aid for your, for your your extremities and all.
But, again, like you like you said, though, I there's just something about it. Just like, no. No. If you're if it's hot, and nine if it's over, you know, 70 degrees, you need to be having shorts and a T shirt on at the most.
[00:21:19] Duuude-Ron :
If it's what?
[00:21:20] Rich Chelson:
If it's over 70.
[00:21:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[00:21:24] Rich Chelson:
Now if I had my if I had my my choice, it would be you'd be in a sweatshirt and shorts, you know, anything under 50.
[00:21:34] Duuude-Ron :
But Oh, yeah. No. If
[00:21:37] Rich Chelson:
it's Uh-uh. Uh-uh. No. Yes. No. If it's under 50, uh-uh. And That's what the sweatshirt's for. No. Yes.
[00:21:50] Duuude-Ron :
Sweatshirts don't go on your ass.
[00:21:53] Rich Chelson:
If they're big enough.
[00:21:55] Duuude-Ron :
I can't get them big enough to go down that far.
[00:21:59] Rich Chelson:
Well, they put you on a rack sometime and stretch your torso out? Are you like Michael Phelps where you've actually got the torso of a seven foot tall dude?
[00:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. No. My belly just spread spread it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:22:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Takes up the the extra. Sideways.
[00:22:25] Duuude-Ron :
Not not up and down, but sideways. Yeah. I got I got the torso of my.
[00:22:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay.
[00:22:34] Duuude-Ron :
It's a him on his side, and I'm good. So yeah. No. If it's no. If it's under 50, uh-uh. Nope. And probably under 60 for me. And that's that's awful dadgum chili right there. I don't care who he is.
[00:22:53] Rich Chelson:
It can be it can be considered chili, but, you know, it's not it's not that cold.
[00:23:00] Duuude-Ron :
It is for me. No. It's not. Yes. It is. Oh. Yes.
[00:23:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've hung out down in Mississippi long enough there. Actually, it should be. That's what usually the way you tell Northerners is when it's, like, 40 degrees outside. They're running around in in swim shorts looking for the looking for a place to go go swimming.
[00:23:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Not me. Not you? Nope. I got pants on.
[00:23:30] Rich Chelson:
You you Pablo, the the tropical penguin then,
[00:23:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:23:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I don't. That's a book I've been looking for. If y'all happen to find one, let me know.
[00:23:41] Duuude-Ron :
The tropical penguin?
[00:23:43] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Pablo the top I think it's what it what it was what I know it's I know the, the the penguin's name was Pablo, but, let me see. Pablo the penguin. There we go. Disney Wiki. He is he was a, he was a penguin that didn't like the cold. And, so and it there's a book about his whole adventure of of trying to find someplace warm. He ends up taking a potbelly stove and all that and gets it lit. And sadly, unfortunately, as he's going through the, as he's sailing off off the, the hot hot bellied stove melts the ice and everything, you you know, everything falls apart, and eventually, he winds up on a on a, on a on a tropical island. But
[00:24:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, there it's funny because there is a tropical penguin, and they Oh, yeah. They live it's the only one. They live on the Galapagos Island.
[00:24:47] Rich Chelson:
The penguin that hated the cold is actually what it's called. It's one of those old Disney reader books.
[00:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:24:55] Rich Chelson:
That's what it's called.
[00:24:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This this here says this is the only penguin species that lives North Of The Equator and in a tropical climate. So
[00:25:08] Rich Chelson:
And they're So that's where Pablo wound up. Okay.
[00:25:12] Duuude-Ron :
What With the, What was that?
[00:25:14] Unknown:
Hold on. You said it's they're only on the Galapagos Islands?
[00:25:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Yeah. This this this the only species of penguin that that lives North Of The Equator, and they live on the Galapagos Islands.
[00:25:29] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:25:30] Duuude-Ron :
All the rest of them live South Of The Equator and more down towards the Antarctic. Well, I'll never go.
[00:25:38] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. Fuck that shit. That is too cold. Way
[00:25:44] Rich Chelson:
too cold. Oh, only in the only in the summer is it cold down South South Of The The Equator.
[00:25:50] Duuude-Ron :
Well, our summer, yes, it's cold down there. But
[00:25:54] Unknown:
their summer down there, it's cold down there. Who the fuck are we kidding? Who the fuck are we kidding here?
[00:26:02] Rich Chelson:
No. Yeah. Yeah. When it's, when it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the reason why it's gets hotter is because the sun is actually hitting the that surface of the Earth more directly. So when we are in because of how the earth is tilted, so whenever we get around to to winter side of the sun, we're actually tilted away, but the Southern hemisphere is actually pointed towards the sun. So Right. South of the south of the equator is they're not a winter. Right. They're they're warm, but they're they're they're not a summers when they're cold.
[00:26:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Right. Yeah. No. That's that's what that's what we're saying. Now here's the temperatures for their summers. Okay? This is their summers. Average 33 to 36 degrees, potentially reaching highs in the fifties.
[00:27:05] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Hey. It's nice.
[00:27:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So it says the coastal areas, though, the summer temperatures can reach a maximum of 41 to 59.
[00:27:19] Unknown:
But We are we are still talking about Antarctica.
[00:27:22] Rich Chelson:
Correct? Yes. Yeah. Oh, the well, you also the very southern tip of, like, South America, they get they have penguins show up around there too.
[00:27:31] Unknown:
Well, yeah, just New Zealand and Australia. I don't know if they Australia? Yeah. If they hang out. But, yeah, they're they're wearing shorts on Christmas.
[00:27:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. But still, 33 to 36 degrees in the summer.
[00:27:49] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:27:51] Rich Chelson:
No. Right. That sounds amazing, actually. No. Don't have to don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about mowing your lawn, man.
[00:28:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, this is true, but no. It's cold.
[00:28:05] Rich Chelson:
No. Well, cold's the only
[00:28:09] Unknown:
the only continent to not have any vegetation.
[00:28:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They don't they don't have I don't have
[00:28:19] Unknown:
No. And on the Because
[00:28:22] Rich Chelson:
no vegetation. It's just blood fall well, there's blood falls in it that created that's created by an algae, isn't it? Or is that a bacteria?
[00:28:31] Duuude-Ron :
That's Well
[00:28:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, I'm not I just know that it's the water's iron is rich in iron, and that's the reason why it turns red. Yes. It's oxygen deficient, but it's hot it's saturated in iron. So whenever it hits our it turns to instant well, that's the moment it hits the surface.
[00:28:51] Duuude-Ron :
So Oh, hang on. Hang on. Yes. It says there is vegetation in in in Antarctica. Although it is limited and concentrated in specific areas, it says the vast majority of Antarctica is covered nice in snow. There are areas along the coast and on some islands where mosses, lichens, liverworts, and even two species of flowering plants can be found. So so there is a very limited amount of vegetation in Antarctica.
[00:29:31] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's like point 12%, it says.
[00:29:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Point 12%.
[00:29:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Of the whole continent. I mean, that's that's I mean, yeah, it looks pretty, but still, no. It's too cold.
[00:29:48] Rich Chelson:
Damn stupid.
[00:29:49] Duuude-Ron :
I couldn't I couldn't go.
[00:29:52] Unknown:
It would be too cold. Not only that, you can't get fucking cheap parts.
[00:29:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, I can't go there if I can't get Jeep parts. So yeah. See?
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, they just you just have to make sure you order them during those times where they're opening up. They there's little there's little windows where they're able to bring people in and out. Of course, you also have to deal with that, with that southern scientist that went off and went ape shit and started, started attacking people. So
[00:30:24] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that was South African?
[00:30:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:30:31] Duuude-Ron :
I just I just I just jump on the on the ham radio and talk to a few of the guys that I talked to from down there in the Southern tip of South America and see if they can't hook me up.
[00:30:46] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Well, you have Problem the problem would be that you'd end up talking to someone, and they'd go, no.
[00:30:55] Unknown:
So what are you saying there?
[00:30:58] Rich Chelson:
Ron, stopped all over you.
[00:31:01] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Have fun trying to get that, shipping container with your, Jeep down there even. That would cost a fucking dime or 2.
[00:31:11] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[00:31:12] Rich Chelson:
You would be able to Jeep on trails no one else has Jeeped.
[00:31:16] Duuude-Ron :
This is true.
[00:31:18] Unknown:
Yep. This this is You might have to you might have to trade the tires for the tracks, though.
[00:31:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Hey. That would be cool. Turn turn that Jeep into a skid steer.
[00:31:31] Unknown:
I think I sent you guys the video of the limousine that has the the treads tread, system on it out in the desert.
[00:31:42] Rich Chelson:
I don't remember see I think I remember seeing that seeing something like that where someone was running running something similar to that on over on the on the dunes. I don't remember it being a limousine.
[00:31:55] Unknown:
Yeah. They well, somebody made a limousine. I don't remember what vehicle it is, but they it's probably stretched 25 feet, 20 feet.
[00:32:07] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:32:08] Unknown:
And, yeah, it has treads on it, and they're running it in the dunes. Now you talk about rednecks with paychecks.
[00:32:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You get Arabs with Arabs with their with a with a little bit of boredom, and and they're and they're they get around playing in that sand. They do some they do some pretty insane shit. Yeah.
[00:32:30] Unknown:
Or or better yet, when they got a Jeep on the coast no. Was it a Jeep? Yeah. It was a Jeep, I think. Or was it a Toyota? I can't remember, but he's on the coast, and he cuts it real hard. And the vehicle starts flipping, and ejects him out of the vehicle.
[00:32:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've seen those.
[00:32:51] Unknown:
I can't remember if it was a Jeep or something.
[00:32:54] Rich Chelson:
30 feet up in the air.
[00:32:56] Unknown:
Yeah. I can't remember if it was a Jeep or if it was a Land Cruiser. I don't remember.
[00:33:03] Rich Chelson:
Probably a Land Cruiser because Land Enrover because that's something they they definitely enjoy, driving around over the air. Oh, yeah.
[00:33:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean, think about it. The Land Rovers and shit like that, they were I mean, they've a lot of countries that don't have Jeeps use them, and they're just as tough as Jeeps.
[00:33:24] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. If not tougher.
[00:33:26] Duuude-Ron :
Like, down in Australia, they use a lot of, which man jigger, Toyota four, four runners and shit like that. And Oh, yeah. They are they are just on them harder than hell just like we are with our Jeeps.
[00:33:43] Unknown:
You know? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:33:46] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's it's I mean, in Land Rovers is it Land Rovers or Range Rovers? I saw one one time. It was a nineties model, strictly mechanical. Oh, fucking loved it. It was awesome. And it, it was fully restored. Right? I'm talking about everything brand new, front to back, had a little four cylinder diesel in it, and just oh my god. There's $190,000 for it.
[00:34:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. Hell, yeah. Those those, those straight mechanical diesels are are in high demand now.
[00:34:27] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. And and see and see, that's the thing. They I had talked with the guys, and and they had went through and totally redid top to bottom inside now, everything on it. And the dude looked at me, and he said, yeah. This this little four cylinder diesel will, pull a house, and it won't stop. You can't stop this thing from pulling it. It it has that much power in it. And it just you know? But, oh, I was wanting it. But when he said $90,000, I'm like, yeah. I can't do that. I ain't got that much money.
[00:35:06] Unknown:
Actually, it can be stopped by a house.
[00:35:09] Duuude-Ron :
How's that?
[00:35:11] Unknown:
Sure as shit. You're gonna break a drive shaft, then you ain't going no place.
[00:35:16] Duuude-Ron :
Are you sure you're gonna break a drive shaft?
[00:35:20] Unknown:
It was rhetorical.
[00:35:22] Rich Chelson:
Oh, my bad. My bad.
[00:35:29] Unknown:
Oh gosh. That's weird. No. It's just like the just like the army jeeps. You put them in fucking first, and, yeah, that motherfucker walk up the fucking side of a cliff.
[00:35:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Right?
[00:35:50] Unknown:
And won't fucking slip.
[00:35:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. They'll they'll just yeah. And that's, you know, that's when that's when they knew how to build vehicles.
[00:36:01] Unknown:
That is true.
[00:36:03] Rich Chelson:
So That almost sounds like something that'd be nice to a nice little company to to create.
[00:36:10] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:36:12] Rich Chelson:
Start may just making mechanical diesels.
[00:36:15] Duuude-Ron :
That would be cool.
[00:36:17] Rich Chelson:
And, you know, if EPA is like, oh, we can't you can't sell those types of engines, Okay. Okay. We sell them as a puzzle.
[00:36:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, there you go. Some assembly requires.
[00:36:29] Rich Chelson:
Oh, some assembly may be required. Exactly. It is a 2,000 piece puzzle.
[00:36:38] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. $10,000.
[00:36:41] Rich Chelson:
We'll call them with the IKEA.
[00:36:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shoot.
[00:36:48] Unknown:
No. They already got a they already got a furniture store with that name, so we'd have to Yeah. But well, no. You don't spell it the same way. You don't spell it I k e a because, yeah, you get hit with, copyright.
[00:37:00] Rich Chelson:
So it would be e y e a I a. Sure. Yeah. Gotcha. Without a doubt.
[00:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. Actually actually, that's that's actually pretty smart because this way here because it's it's not anywhere in any way, shape, or form like the name IKEA, I I k e a. It's it's totally different, so there's no reference to the home store.
[00:37:31] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, you know and there actually is because everything they have is all assembly required.
[00:37:39] Rich Chelson:
It is all disposable furniture.
[00:37:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's all cardboard furniture. It's not real none of it's real wood.
[00:37:47] Unknown:
No. No. It's press fucking board. Yeah. It's cardboard.
[00:37:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. MDF, press board.
[00:37:54] Unknown:
Yep.
[00:37:55] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. And, yeah, as soon as it gets wet, it swells up and splits.
[00:38:00] Unknown:
Yep. Oh, yeah.
[00:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
It's like, why the hell do you oh, it looks pretty. You know what? You just spent a $150 on an end table. You could've gone to a yard sale, got a wooden one for 20 fucking dollars.
[00:38:15] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And And it would last to it'll last you another thirty years. Or more. Or more. Yeah. It is probably 30 years old when you bought it for Oh, yeah. Yeah. So You know? Yeah. It would last another 30 or more. Oh, no. People oh, I go to IKEA. Everything is just Yeah. They make sense so cute. It looks so so cute. It's like, yeah. Oh, no. You just thought you just hoped that if you bought something, you they would open up the, the get out of the maze free card. So you ever been to an IKEA?
[00:38:47] Duuude-Ron :
No.
[00:38:49] Rich Chelson:
They well, they're very ingenious on how they've designed the layout because it is a maze. You go and it is just it's just so wide and then you got room assemblies as you go. And so you might go down you'll go down one side and you'll go up one side up one wall, and then you may turn and you'll curve and twist and turn, and and there's not an ounce of space that's wasted.
[00:39:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:39:19] Rich Chelson:
Because it'll just be a single partition and for each little room that they're showing you. You can buy everything in the room. You can buy one thing in the room. You can you know? But you it will take you a good hour and a half to worm your way through that whole damn warehouse. Just pop back out at the other end.
[00:39:41] Unknown:
Yep. Right where you started.
[00:39:43] Rich Chelson:
Yes. See, that's And then one reason why they weren't served Swedish meatballs there is because people why? Because they figured you get bored, you'll decide to buy something.
[00:39:53] Duuude-Ron :
You'll get hungry
[00:39:55] Rich Chelson:
trying to get the hell out? Yeah. Well, they sold the yeah. Yeah. Yep. And most people will buy the hot dogs and the sweet meatballs at the end. Yeah. I think, actually, I think they probably make more money on their sweet meatballs and hot dogs than they do on the furniture. Probably.
[00:40:11] Unknown:
Well and the reason why it's set up the way it's set up is because, like, Walmart, they have aisles, obviously, just like any regular store. But if you go into look at automotive, you don't have to go through where the furniture's at or the desk or whatever. They set it up to where you see everything in that store. Yep.
[00:40:43] Duuude-Ron :
And they hope you'll deviate from your intended path.
[00:40:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, there ain't there ain't no deviate. Forget what you originally went in there for, so you buy three to three other things that might work.
[00:40:56] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But you see, that's where that's where you're saying now back when Walmart was the home of everyday low prices, they aren't no more No. No matter what they say or what they try and claim. Yeah. That was true. I would go into a Walmart and wind up buying 20 things I didn't fucking need. Yeah. Now I can walk into a Walmart, buy exactly what I need, turn around, and walk the hell out, and not look at anything else.
[00:41:25] Rich Chelson:
Well, that is until they go off and and move all the aisles around on you again. Oh, I fucking hate it when they do that. No. No. No. Yeah. I can't wait. It's like, holy shit. Like, yeah. I just need a bag of why is the baby wipes in the in the chip aisle? Right. Where's the chip aisle?
[00:41:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And it's oh, and see. That's when that's when it's like, you know what? I'll just turn around fucking. I'm out. I'll go to Ramey's Crosstown and spend another dollar because I know that's not gonna move.
[00:41:57] Rich Chelson:
Not much, at least.
[00:41:58] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. These guys don't move their shit. Ramey's, once you go in there a couple times, you you pretty much know where everything's at. It does not change. They do not change it? Nope. They don't. And I love them for it.
[00:42:14] Rich Chelson:
Probably get that that'd probably be because the they get tired of hearing the teenagers, pitch. It's like, god, man. Now I gotta remember where they moved everything at. Right. Uh-huh. Because every time Walnut moves, all the moves are moves are does their big shuffle, which is usually about every five years. But but, yeah, it's up there and walk around and the, and and the, the the employees. I hear the employees bitch about it more than customers do. Like, fucking shit. Where are they moving this to again? I can't remember. Yeah.
The the shelf stockers are all sorts of bit out of shape.
[00:42:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, you see, at least at least the shelf stockers can't say they get bored. No. No. Same old job every time because they, I mean, think about it. If if if things get moved every so often, yeah, it's something new every night. Well Yeah. Maybe not every night, but you know?
[00:43:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. That's gonna be fun, though. I've gotta go to next time next time I find out they're gonna be moving stuff around, I'm gonna have to go and hang out after the, hang out after they get done just so I can listen to the, the their their merchandise pickers that clog up all the the aisles so that nobody else can actually access it. But to listen to them bitch about it, it's like, god. Hey. Robert, what the hell the hell they put the wish assurance on that? Not nice. Hell, I remember standing over in the chip out. Why is everything in the chip out?
[00:44:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It just yeah. I I I don't know, man. It's it's crazy.
[00:44:11] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. I I think having a having the I Kia Motors would be a would be a great puzzle solution. Sell and sell a sell a puzzle for, you know, $20,000. Yeah. We'd make all sorts of money.
[00:44:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They would do it. Yeah. They would buy it, you know, especially if it but but you'd have to sell the transmission to go along with it, which wouldn't be bad.
[00:44:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm sure there's a way to fill to create an adapter. You'd need find some way of being able to fit, like, a Chevy, transmission or a Ford transmission to it. So
[00:44:58] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, the thing is There's gotta be some way of doing it. It depends on the torque. Regular, like, Chevy truck transmission or something like that probably wouldn't handle the torque off of a diesel motor like that.
[00:45:15] Rich Chelson:
You'd still No. But that would be so funny to watch people try.
[00:45:19] Unknown:
Mhmm.
[00:45:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There's a
[00:45:23] Unknown:
And watch it slow up. You?
[00:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That because, yeah, if you built something like that, yeah, you would need the tranny to go along with it. You could probably get away with leaving the rear rear end alone, maybe. I don't know. But still
[00:45:42] Rich Chelson:
well There you go. And we can have fun with that too that we can call up the dirty tranny company.
[00:45:51] Duuude-Ron :
It's true.
[00:45:52] Rich Chelson:
We're inclusive. We're we're we're helping trannies.
[00:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Spell it t r a n n I e s. Yeah. Leave the y out.
[00:46:07] Rich Chelson:
Leave the y out. Exactly.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
IKEA and tranny shop.
[00:46:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. See? There you go. You could upsell. Get the, get the motor, upsell the upsell the transmission.
[00:46:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yay. There we go. I'm not a salesman. No. We'd let dude
[00:46:29] Rich Chelson:
be the head of the Yeah. Dude be the yeah. Yeah. No. You dumb fucker. You don't want that transmission. You want this fucking transmission. Now you're gonna get this transmission. Alright? Because it starts knife knife, handing at them. You're gonna do it this way. You
[00:46:48] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh. That'd be hilarious. That would be hilarious.
[00:46:54] Unknown:
I couldn't sell sand to a fucking camel.
[00:46:59] Rich Chelson:
Wouldn't need to. Just need to sell ice to the Eskimos.
[00:47:02] Unknown:
Yeah. Can't do that either. Now more power to the people that are you know, the salesman and the, oh, showman, you know, like PT Barnum. Oh, yeah. You know, I just if I know something is not for them, I ain't gonna fucking try and sell it to them. But somebody that is heartless and can sell fucking heat to a fucking desert, you know, more power to you. I'm I can't be that shit. You know, if you wanna be that that type of a ruthless individual, yeah. No.
[00:47:50] Rich Chelson:
I just Not gonna do it.
[00:47:52] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't built like that. And so I've had a hell of an interesting week.
[00:48:02] Rich Chelson:
So how was your week? Well, let's see. How interesting was it?
[00:48:08] Unknown:
Yeah. How interesting was it? Well, Tuesday, going up north on 35. And I I don't know if you guys remember this, but about five miles north of Italy, Texas, they have an old, very small rest stop. You may or may not remember where it's at. Well, the only time they open up that rest stop is when DPS opens it up, And that's where they guide you to to do a level one inspection. So I got a level so I got a level one inspection on Tuesday. Yay. Yeah. That's what I thought. Yay. Yay. And I don't care. They can level level one me do safety meetings. Yeah. They can level one me to death. I don't care. You know, I try to be as prepared.
So they are up underneath the trailer, and the DPS officer that pulled me over is telling me to push down on the brake pedal. Right. Push and hold. I'm holding that motherfucker for a long time. So in the ABS splitter module for the air chambers
[00:49:40] Rich Chelson:
k.
[00:49:41] Unknown:
I have an a very faint audible air leak. And I'm like, damn, fucking great. And I asked the DPS officer. I said, can this be heard on a pre or and or post pre trip or post trip inspection? No. You ain't gonna hear that. The only time you're gonna hear is if you push and hold on the brake pedal.
[00:50:10] Rich Chelson:
If there's a leak, you can hear it. So I guess you're gonna need to go out and get yourself a, a Jimmy stick then.
[00:50:17] Unknown:
I guess. You know, whoever is that part of fucking any pretrip that has been taught to you guys? No. No. I mean Okay. So and since it was a level one, I passed my tractor and trailer passed the level one inspection.
[00:50:39] Rich Chelson:
That's was told you better get that that little leak fixed.
[00:50:43] Unknown:
Exactly. It's basically one of those here's your information.
[00:50:49] Rich Chelson:
Your gold star. Yay. You got a gold star. Get that shit taken care of. That that's exactly right.
[00:50:55] Unknown:
And then guess what they did not fucking have? They didn't give you a sticker. They didn't have the fucking stickers yet because one July for Texas, anyway, I don't know about the rest of the states, that's when they start their year rotation. All that's bullshit. From July to June is when, you know, their sticker.
[00:51:23] Rich Chelson:
All that is. That's all that shit. On the July 1.
[00:51:28] Unknown:
And, I mean, there was they had a lot of trucks
[00:51:31] Rich Chelson:
pulled over. Yeah. So that that place was filled. Yep. They got the quotas. It's time to fill the quotas.
[00:51:38] Unknown:
And, you know, the cylinder trucks are gonna be we're gonna get hit every time because we're underneath a new category of hazmat. You either have bulk or you have cylinders. So
[00:51:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. So what happens if you have a bulky cylinder?
[00:51:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, it I can carry up to a 450 liter cryogenic.
[00:52:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's that'll that'll that'll make it cold cold.
[00:52:08] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. That'll make a cold cold. But they have at the federal level, they split from, okay, a bulk you would be considered a bulk trailer. Yeah. Yeah. Pneumatic is bulk. Category as gasoline, cryogenic liquid. That kind of stuff is a, you know, hazmat bulk. Well, they broke down to where you have the cylinders style, like what I drive, or you have the bulk liquid or dry goods, they have split those two. So now anytime that they see one of our trucks that have the cylinders on the back Yeah. Yeah. Because they have to pull over so many of those. So I'm like, you know, do what you gotta do. But, you know, I get a level one. I pass it, but I get the warning saying you got you have an audible leak on your splitter.
You need to get it taken care of. You didn't put me out of service. But then they don't even have the damn stickers. I'm like, how fucking rude. Damn. If you're gonna do that, you'll at least have the fucking new stickers. Damn. So they gave me a second copy of the RSI to keep in the book that I have my registration and everything in. So if I get stopped again for another RSI, he told me to show the trooper that RSI.
[00:53:54] Rich Chelson:
They don't harass me. Dang. Enough.
[00:53:57] Unknown:
No. And then once they get the stickers, they'll give me the stickers. I So but that's my proof that I passed the level one that Gotcha. I could've got my stickers, but they didn't You know, you're gonna have an asshole,
[00:54:12] Rich Chelson:
DPS guy go, yeah, but there's a warning on that. I can't give that to you.
[00:54:17] Unknown:
You know what? And if he says that, I'll be like, you know, whatever. Do another level one.
[00:54:25] Rich Chelson:
I got that shit fixed. Come on, bitch. Check it out. Yep. I got it fixed, so let's do a level one.
[00:54:33] Unknown:
My shit's ready at all times. Now there's some shit you, me, and everybody else see on the fucking road is like, wow. How the fuck can this even be on the damn road? But there are there are a few, get that. Oh,
[00:54:53] Rich Chelson:
someone lost a little bit of hay. Hey. That's hay.
[00:54:57] Unknown:
Hey. Alright. You saw some hay?
[00:55:00] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Little fluff. Someone, had a round bell, and I guess they had clump fall off.
[00:55:06] Unknown:
Oh, that's always fun. Especially if you run over. So, yeah, you know, that was just a lovely, you know, roadside inspection. But, yeah, they were doing all of the ones of who they pulled over. And they didn't have just one or two DPS cars in this little thing. There was 12.
[00:55:32] Rich Chelson:
Good grief. That sounds like old Henrietta, rest stop. Times go over there, and there's, like, ten, fifteen of them all all lined up, checking somebody out, talking to the customers.
[00:55:46] Unknown:
Yep. So yeah, I mean, I it's not a big deal to me. I'm I'm not scared to get pulled over. Yeah. Some of these other guys, yeah, they just yeah. They're shitting themselves. Yep. You know, well, but they should've fucking never put the damn truck on the road, I guess.
[00:56:06] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's the thing. Anytime I got pulled over, I I never got upset, got worried as because either they was gonna give me a ticket or they wasn't. They was gonna find me doing something wrong or not, and I was prepared for whatever happened. So, you know Yep. That's why it that's why it never really bothered me. You know?
[00:56:30] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. It makes me nervous because of the fact if we get anything other than in the remarks, either the word none or left blank, then I have an incident review phone call.
[00:56:46] Rich Chelson:
You sure you don't wanna come up here and work for Gore? But You ain't gonna have that type of headache. I'm sorry, but they just sound more and more like like they're just being you you the company you work for is just being a pain in the butt to be for the sake of being a pain in the butt.
[00:57:02] Unknown:
Well, you know what? And if I do have an incident review phone call, then I guarantee you I will get my I will not be hit for my driver's bonus.
[00:57:17] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[00:57:20] Unknown:
So and I'll explain to them and, you know, no uncertain terms. It's like, okay. I got issued level one stickers. Even though they didn't have them, I got another copy of this RSI, and DPS officer told me to keep it in my book. So if I get pulled over, once they get the stickers, then I'll get stickers. Yes. Okay. You heard the audible. That but that was only when the brake pedal was being pushed down and held.
[00:57:52] Rich Chelson:
And you had to be underneath there?
[00:57:55] Unknown:
Yes. So that ain't something that is, you know, detectable on a standard pre trip and post trip inspection. I understand an audible air leak if I have one of my lines going to my brake chamber that the fitting is broke and you can hear an audible air leak, or my umbilical lines going from the tractor to the trailer are so freaking degraded that they're cracked, and you can hear an audible air leak. I get that. But, no, not not for this.
[00:58:35] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. With with, what they wrote on that that piece of paper, that conversation should never come up. You know?
[00:58:46] Unknown:
Well, we'll see. I mean, it's fine. It it it shouldn't.
[00:58:50] Duuude-Ron :
It probably will because the people you work for are fucking citified, and they just wanna talk to hear themselves talk. But you see, this is this is why well, I never drove from many companies that had these types of conversations because I I have a hard time sitting with a group of people that just wanna sit there and talk, to hear themselves talk, singing shit that doesn't have anything pertaining to the topic at hand. You know what I mean? Mhmm. Yeah. That just that that shit bores me. It does. Yep. I mean, yeah. I mean, call me whatever, but, yeah, it it it bores the fuck out of me.
[00:59:39] Unknown:
Yeah. And and our we usually have three people from the safety team that are on that phone call. We have our area one. Remember his name. And then we have this the one that's over all of Southwest. Damn. I can't remember his name off the top of my head either. I can see his face. But, anyway and then there's another one. And I'm like, I'll be okay. Who here in the safety department knows how to do a pre trip inspection? And I'll ask him. And I know Rusty. Rusty is the head of our safety department for Southwest. I'll say I'll ask him. It's like, okay. Is this part of a pre trip inspection that you would do?
Let's see how he would answer it, but we'll see. I ain't heard anything yet that I'm gonna have one, but I'm sure it's coming. So that piece is just for the part, is $962.
[01:00:47] Duuude-Ron :
They're getting tuck.
[01:00:51] Unknown:
Yep. Well, this is well and they get the parts from the dealership. I know. But they should get I don't know where Matt is getting it, but, yeah, it's they're limited on where they can get stuff at. But, yeah, it was the part for that, the splitter, which is the huge box up underneath the trailer. He has to replace the whole thing, and the part is $962. So, hey, I'm not paying for it.
[01:01:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. I know. I know that, but I'm just saying they're they're getting took.
[01:01:27] Unknown:
I'd have to believe you because I have no fucking clue.
[01:01:31] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, you know, a box sitting up under that trailer that that how's this basically a t valve that splits air going to the brakes or the the the air tanks or whatnot between the air tanks is not 960. It's not made out of brass. It's not made out of silver, titanium, or gold. Made out of steel. Yeah. You do. I does not cost that fucking much money. And anybody can build one that has any common sense. So they're just they're just gouging the prices because they can, because they know people will pay it.
[01:02:18] Unknown:
Yeah. Because they don't have much of a fucking choice.
[01:02:22] Duuude-Ron :
No. They do have a choice. They can find the parts somewhere else cheaper, but they won't.
[01:02:29] Unknown:
That could be. But I know our mechanic is you know? He could possibly could, but I, you know, I don't if he's if he's gonna chase chase that part around any place because my company is gonna pay pay what he quotes.
[01:02:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. I know that. But you see that you see, that's where you know, some of these parts for cars, Jeeps, big trucks, anything. Oh, yeah. The freaking prices they charge is is just fucking stupid.
[01:03:05] Unknown:
It's Oh, I know. You know you know how much and I think I think both of our trucks are the same. You have the day cab, Brian, that has the you have the LED lights on yours that's all one casing?
[01:03:21] Rich Chelson:
Oh, for the headlights? Yeah. Yeah. They they've got the those LEDs have cost $1,200 now.
[01:03:28] Unknown:
Yeah. That's how much you and you can't just
[01:03:31] Rich Chelson:
replace You can't just you have to take the whole flipping thing out and replace the whole assembly. Not 12.
[01:03:40] Unknown:
Yeah. 1,200 fucking dollars you have to replace the whole assembly. Yep. $1,200 for fucking headlight. What the fuck?
[01:03:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And see, that's the thing. There's other companies that make the same exact product, okay, and sell it for cheaper.
[01:04:03] Unknown:
I'm sure they do without a doubt. But And what's the sticker on the back of it's gonna say? Made in where?
[01:04:12] Duuude-Ron :
Where everything else says. China, Hong Kong, Mexico,
[01:04:17] Rich Chelson:
anywhere in America. Vietnam
[01:04:19] Unknown:
yeah. Ain't made in America.
[01:04:23] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. I won. No. No. That's the thing. If it's made in America, it'd be $2,400.
[01:04:30] Unknown:
That's yeah. That is exactly true. That is very true.
[01:04:34] Duuude-Ron :
So so I mean I mean, you cannot shit that come from other countries because, yeah, some of it is shit. You can knock it all all day long, but, you know, I've, you know, I've read articles about people sourcing stuff, you know, when all these tariffs were being talked about having having their stuff made here in America, and the cost was twice to three times higher than it is over in other countries. Yeah. You know? So, I mean, I mean, where it's made really doesn't make a shed anymore. You're gonna get about the same product.
[01:05:16] Unknown:
Yep. And and look at Ford. What's that? And look at Ford. Ford is not built in America anymore. It's assembled in America, and you can if it is what is the clause now? If more than 51% of the assembly of the vehicle is done in The United States. They can say they can't say made in America, but, you know, assemble that in America. Because every fucking pretty much every damn part, panels, you know, I don't know if Ford is still making their, you know, own bodies and frames and well, no. Frames get shipped to, assembly plants, you know, if they're making their own body panels. But, shit, everything else is more than likely it is not made in America.
[01:06:12] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, you need to look at more than just cars because I've I've noticed a lot of products that I've purchased in the last couple years. Read the box, it says assembled in The USA Right. From globally sourced products. Those are the exact words on many different products I have personally bought. So Yeah. Nothing is is saying made in America. So, I mean, it's like it's like, what's the big deal?
[01:06:48] Unknown:
You know, me, it's not a big deal. I now I try not to buy, you know, like, anything from Tumi or, you know, these other fucking Amazon style sites that is strictly outsourced in China because a lot of the stuff is, you know, poor quality. Now there's some good quality, I'm sure, but I'm not gonna buy anything off of Timu. So it's like but, yeah, hell, half the cylinders that we pump are made in fucking Brazil Right. Yeah. In South America. Now we also get, you know, Chinese cylinders, but they have to have a certain UN code on them. But, yeah, we got a lot of companies in South America that we buy, cylinders from that are new.
Yep.
[01:07:47] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. Your company buys stuff buys cylinders from China, and they passed the test that you all put them through. You're right. They do. So so I you know, that's the thing. Just because it's made in a certain country doesn't mean anything anymore. You know? You you will get good and bad stuff regardless of where it's made.
[01:08:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Well yeah. Very true. There's no exception there or no argument.
[01:08:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But that's the thing. You know? And so, I mean, the way I look at it because most things are designed to last three to five years max.
[01:08:36] Unknown:
Yeah. And they're making lawnmowers, it seems like, these days that are seasonal. What you you buy it from one fucking season, and when you go to start in the fucking spring, it don't fucking run, so you gotta go buy another one.
[01:08:52] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well So You know, when you only spend a couple $100 on a lawnmower, yeah, that's that's how they make them. Yeah. You're right. Sad. They shouldn't. You know? Because, I mean, back in the day, you know, Briggs Yeah. Griggs and Stratton Yeah. You know, if you bought that in 1970, it would still be running in, you know, you know, the latter part of 1990, and you could still get parts and fix it and keep it going. You know?
[01:09:26] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And what was the My my lawnmower right now is a brick. And it's dry. And believe it or not, it's it I don't treat that thing Stratton. Exactly. Well, we gotta love the the implementation of the cellular Chinese at the weird times. So it's a talent.
[01:09:49] Unknown:
So It is a talent.
[01:09:51] Rich Chelson:
But it's, I
[01:09:54] Unknown:
go ahead. Yeah. I got a Briggs and Stratton as well. The freaking deck will rust before that engine stops running. Right. But I do
[01:10:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Maintenance,
[01:10:06] Unknown:
that that fucking that steel deck will rust out before the engine stops.
[01:10:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, that's the I mean, my the previous lawn mower I had before this one, that's exactly what happened. Yep. Sounded there mowing the lawn, and all of a sudden, the whole damn engine just started jumping all over the place. And I was like, what the hell? And you have to look at them. Yeah. Yeah. The, the the bolts had all rust rusted out and so it would it the deck itself was gone. And yeah. Yeah. I mean and that was a Honda engine too. And, I mean, my my engines, my lawnmowers, I'd my grand would would have my head with the way I treat my lawnmowers because he would put them up. He would make sure they and that's the the mine sits out the damn lane for, and it's it it'll it'll have a little hole it'll have a dirt pack where it where it sets during the wintertime.
Yep. It's just it, it's just where I I stop by the market, but it stays there. And so, I mean, it's it's exposed to the to the elements all the time. The only time I ever had problem with the new one is there was a point where, I I realized on the on the newer Briggs and Stratton, we have to run the gas out of it. Yeah. Because if you don't, you leave a little bit of gas setting in the bottom of the yeah. You gotta you gotta clear it.
[01:11:38] Unknown:
Yeah. I can't remember what it's called, but you you put a can of the one stuff in there and it, you know, and run that out.
[01:11:45] Rich Chelson:
A little reservoir, of the carburetor. There's ethanol in the gas, and it collects water. And so it you actually have a layer of water in in your in your carburetor. So you have to clear it out and then spray it with some with some ether to get it, to get it run for a few moments and then fill it up with gas and my damn. It it runs on it starts up on the first or second pool. Runs great. I mean, this is just Yep. The only issue I've ever had is don't mold here in the heat of the day because it will vapor lock. I've never had that happen. Yeah. I'd be dry molding a lot. I'd fill it up.
Like, oh, man. We're out of gas already. I thought I'd just filled it up, open it up, and no. No. About maybe a quarter take down. Still plenty of fuel in there. But, yeah, you sit there. So you stop, put it move it into the shade and let it set for for thirty minutes to an hour, then go out there. It's like, yeah. Yeah. We're good again. I just was hot. So
[01:12:52] Unknown:
Yeah. I've done, you know, I've never had.
[01:12:55] Rich Chelson:
No. I have no idea.
[01:12:57] Duuude-Ron :
Crack the the lid on the gas tank.
[01:13:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, I do because I look to see how much fuel's in there.
[01:13:03] Duuude-Ron :
No. When you when you put the lid back on, just put it back on about a half a turn or a quarter turn, and don't don't tighten it down. It it locks up because the heat the the air expands from the heat, you know, and from the heat. The air expands and fills up that that tank,
[01:13:26] Rich Chelson:
the space The whole reservoir.
[01:13:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And it and it stops the flow when you crack that and let that loose and then just because, like, on vehicles, vehicles will vapor lock. You do that Yeah. With the fuel tank, it's just cracked the the knob on the gas tank and just put it back in. Works. Yeah. Yeah. Once it and it'll vent itself, and it won't vapor lock anymore. Yeah.
[01:13:58] Rich Chelson:
Get a lot of grass in your in in your gas tank.
[01:14:02] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Because because the cap's still on there, but it's just not on their tight. Tight. It's just not on their tidy. You see see, most of the, you see, most of the lawnmowers have them four holes in the gas caps or used
[01:14:18] Rich Chelson:
to. I'm not sure about the newer ones. Used to. They no. They you won't want them used to. Not to no more.
[01:14:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but, see, they would get clogged up. And, and these newer ones are supposed to be vented, but they get clogged up too. So if it happens, just, like I said, crack it, let the air pressure off because you'll hear it normally. And then just Yeah. Lightly put it on to where it still holds on so it doesn't fall off while you're mowing. And then just it should start up and mow.
[01:14:49] Unknown:
And then drill yourself four holes in the top of the gas tank. Or Right. Drill. Get it. Yeah. You can get a sixteenth
[01:14:56] Rich Chelson:
sixteenth of a, of an inch drill bit. Just beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. Right. Little bit old. Would it actually would it actually sound like that? Probably. Because I would be doing it. It'd be like.
[01:15:12] Unknown:
Yeah. In in in Brian's world, I'm sure that's exactly what it was sounded like. Yeah. Yeah. Just
[01:15:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I remember I remember when when I was living out in California, I was towing cars. And this RV I was living out in the desert, and this RV was on the side of the road, got called out there. My boss told me said said said, don't even mess with them. Just drive up. Tell them they need a tow truck, and I just had a rollback. I didn't have nothing big enough. You know? And, you know, tell them they need to be towed. I rolled out there, and I gotta talk with that old boy and his wife. They were nice people. And I'm like, I ain't gonna fuck them like this.
And dude told me what was going on. I walked around, popped open his fuel door, popped that cap off. Yeah. It was vapor locked alright. And, put the cap barely back on, closed the door. We stood there talking for another ten, fifteen minutes, and, I told him I said, okay. Start it now. He fired it right up. He's like, what you doing? I explained. I said, man I said I said my boss told me to just have y'all call a wrecker, but I couldn't do it for something like this this easy. I got yelled at by my boss, but I didn't care. The dude gave me, like, $40 of cash. You know?
No. You don't need to do that, dude. I'm just trying to help you out. It was, like, a 110
[01:16:49] Unknown:
degrees that day. It was And and see that and you got your ass chewed Yep. For helping somebody out with your moral ethics Yep. And could solve the problem and not cost anybody or the customer any money, but you got your, you know?
[01:17:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. That is I I mean, I did, and I looked at her. I said, Jay, and I said, I wasn't gonna fucking do that. It was a mess of cracking a fucking cap and letting letting the air out. Settle. Let the press release. And just Yeah. And just letting things settle for a minute. Screw it. You know? So Oh, yeah. She was mad at me. I didn't care. It's like, fire me. I don't give a fuck.
[01:17:46] Unknown:
Yeah. Fire me.
[01:17:48] Duuude-Ron :
Good. Hey. You know, I and and you see, that's the thing. When I towed Carrie, you know, nine times out of 10, you know, I'd load people, and, you know, I'd tow their cars or what or whatever. But, yeah, if it was something like that, nah, man. Just if if if it was something easy I could fix in two minutes, boom. Done. Get. Have fun. See you later.
[01:18:15] Unknown:
Yep. And that's where when people's ethics get watered down
[01:18:21] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:18:23] Unknown:
That's what happens.
[01:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[01:18:26] Rich Chelson:
But I I mean That's like that's like me
[01:18:30] Unknown:
with the configuration that I have in my Jeep. I don't care if there's somebody on the side of the road mainly with a flat tire. To me, it's it I got all the tools to get to get the tire done very quickly with the hydraulic jack, with the, you know, all the pneumatic tools that I have. It is twenty minutes out of my fucking life. Yeah. So that individual is fucking priceless because hell, I don't know if that individual can't afford that don't have that doesn't have insurance for that and can't afford a tire and, you know, have some who knows?
But it's like, okay. Why not stop and help? Well, coming down to to your place, Rich, there was that one couple that was stopped on the side of the road. You know? They were changing on a tire, and I just happened to stop to see if I couldn't render assistance. And they had one bolt that their tool would not loosen. And it just so happened that I picked the one I think it was a three quarter socket, and it just happened to be a three quarter, and it got the lug nut off. And I said, you know, how long have you guys been sitting here with this?
It's like, we've been here thirty, forty five minutes, and not one person has stopped to help you, have they? I bet you there was three, four hundred cars that had passed them, and I was the only one that stopped.
[01:20:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:20:18] Unknown:
You know, I I really do hate that our society has gone to that. And if it and if and if I stop and it cost me my life, well, then that's that was God's plan. Right. You know? So and I don't then I don't take a dime. Yeah. The only thing I asked them to do is if you find somebody that you could help, if it's a fucking giving them a dinner or, you know, paying for their dinner, just pay it forward. That's all I ask. Yeah. And and maybe one day, I'll meet somebody that somehow, some way, that that pass it forward has come full circle back around to me that I know about.
But I doubt it'll ever happen. Right. But you you never know. It just might.
[01:21:15] Duuude-Ron :
See, I do things a lot of times, and I don't I don't care if it ever comes back around to me because that's it's for me, it's it's, you know, it's not about recognition or anything like that.
[01:21:31] Unknown:
Oh, no. Well, no. And what I'm saying coming back around to me is, okay. I helped this person. They helped this person. Then they helped this person, and then the next person helps me in whatever. You know? But, no, you're right. I don't do anything for the Bible says what whatever the right hand is doing, don't let the left hand know.
[01:21:56] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:21:57] Unknown:
So as far as I know, you know, they may have saved somebody's life from committing suicide. You know? 10, pass it forwards down.
[01:22:15] Rich Chelson:
Who knows? You know, that that would be a really kick ass movie right there.
[01:22:22] Duuude-Ron :
I see.
[01:22:23] Rich Chelson:
Where you start start off, you know, something like, you know, you have some guy stop on the side of the road, help a person out, and he's and they're, like, trying to give him money. It's like, whatever. He's like, no. No. No. Just just find somebody who needs help, help him out. And it keeps and it becomes something different. So the next person's, like, you know, sees a family who is who's struggling to pay for a grocery cart full of, of groceries, and they're like, so how much do you need left? And so they're like, it's a $120 that was that were short. It's like, alright. Well, here. Help. Then he pays it out. And from there, those people help somebody else. But then eventually, what happens is somebody's like, well, I'm I helped someone I helped a, an abused woman out, so I killed her husband.
And so the the woman who got the abused woman helps another guy out by, you know, when a bit it just keeps getting a little more twisted, a little more twisted, a little more twisted till it eventually gets around to the guy that originally starts. So that all of a sudden, he realizes that he started this line, long chain of of of of psychotic behaviors just because he helped one person out.
[01:23:33] Unknown:
Yeah. Actually, I was scared.
[01:23:36] Rich Chelson:
I was I know. I think I was I was up with you till you started going off on the, you know, killing the house. That's a but that's part of it. You know? That might may have to make that make that up my own my own, make that a novel or something.
[01:23:52] Unknown:
There you go. But you know what? I actually think if I'm not mistaken, there is already a movie out. I don't remember the name. That there's already a movie or and or a book that has that that same Same premise? Story. I'm sure it does. Line. The story line. It starts with somebody doing something very inconspicuous, changing a flat tire on the side of the road, And then it it it comes
[01:24:23] Rich Chelson:
Goes off the way off yeah. The wheels fall off literally.
[01:24:28] Unknown:
You know? So I think there's a book or a movie that's already Yeah. That. But it is you know, who knows? Because I helped a person with the flat tire. They helped the family to get a meal. That family helped another family get some groceries. That family helped shelter a person that was being abused. Yeah. And the person that was being abused had an acquaintance that saved that they saved from committing suicide.
[01:25:07] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:25:08] Unknown:
You just, you know, you just never know.
[01:25:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But that would be just the the the twist of it. You know? All of a sudden, a good deed turns around to where it becomes a horrible deed. It's kinda like the I I've had another thought for a for a novel. You know, you've heard about what a what a doppelganger is. Right? It's your twin, but it's usually in the direct opposite. And the what happened? Yeah. Well, except for whenever you actually you you may hear about your your doppelganger, you know, off and on throughout your life. But if you ever come across your doppelganger, the doppelganger will just disappears. It ceases to exist.
Wanna have something like that where, you know, the doppel the, you know, the doppelganger is doing almost like the dark half with Stephen King's dark half, except whenever the guy finally catches up to his doppelganger, comes up to him, doesn't always it's his doppelganger, just knows that the, you know, the this guy is is committing all these murders and stuff. Gets up to him, spins him around, and disappear and and the the main character, the the perceived good guy disappears. So that he's actually the doppelganger that he so because it's direct opposite. So you had really evil dude running around and you had doppelganger who who was who was the nice good good guy trying to save everybody.
So things I think of while I'm driving up and down roads. Alright. Sorry.
[01:26:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Weird sometimes.
[01:26:46] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, some of the things you think of are just yeah. They're
[01:26:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's fun, isn't it?
[01:26:53] Unknown:
Well, you know, we've got you say so.
[01:26:57] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, some of your thoughts, sir, are just kind of out there. I ain't gonna lie.
[01:27:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You know, I'm way out there. They end up being the they of course, the one of the best move or one of the best Stephen King stories he has ever created is coming to theaters in September. Finally, they're they're putting it out. They're putting out The Long Walk.
[01:27:22] Unknown:
Putting out the what? The long walk. The long walk. Okay. Yeah.
[01:27:28] Rich Chelson:
And since I'm not a fan of reading
[01:27:31] Unknown:
books, I don't even fucking know.
[01:27:35] Rich Chelson:
Dude, this is one of those one of those that at the end, you it doesn't it's not I'm not gonna say it changes you because, I mean, it's a Stephen King book. But it was him writing as Richard Bachman, so it's a Richard Bachman book. But but is the what the story is is it's almost like Hunger Games in that you start out with, I think it's a 100 kids, and they start at the Canadian the Canadian border, and they walk along this one particular highway for as long as they can. They have to maintain three miles an hour the whole time. There's no stops. There's no breaks. There's nothing like that.
You stop, but you get, you get three warnings. And I can't remember if it's within a twenty four hour period or what. I think, for some reason, I'm thinking that it is. But, anyway, you get three warnings. And if you end up get going past those three warnings, you're eliminated. Not just in a Stevie King style. It's not just, oh, okay. Congratulations. Here's here's our play at home at home board game, and have a good day. It's a, you know, no. It's a bullet to the brain.
[01:28:41] Unknown:
And so Yeah. You get eliminated.
[01:28:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You get eliminated eliminated. And and so and and so they it's about this these 100 kids who who go. Now the winner ends up being set for life, and it's kind of a whole it's kind of a a, that's kind of where the premise like, Hunger Games premise comes from where they you start off. You got a bunch of kids who are desperate. This is kind of the dystopian United States type of thing and and all that. And so as they, as they go as the story progresses, you know, you get, the kids drop more and more and more, and eventually, the kids that have become friends, you know, are all being affected. And it's down to the last one, which kinda boils down to where, you know, winning isn't always the greatest thing in the world.
And, but it's a fabulous a fabulous story. And, it'd be they're act they actually finally made a movie about it.
[01:29:51] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Like I said, it's kinda that's coming up. Have to I might have to just go watch that Yeah. When it comes on to the television.
[01:30:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow. Okay. Brian Brian got all excited. He's like, I'm a I got a dude out in the public again. He's gonna be there. No. He's not. And then freaking dude
[01:30:15] Duuude-Ron :
slams the door. That is funny.
[01:30:20] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You know the last time that I have been in a movie theater?
[01:30:26] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[01:30:28] Unknown:
When the third Harry Potter movie was in the theaters. Oh, okay.
[01:30:35] Rich Chelson:
See, and that was one I never actually got to watch in in theaters. That's never did get to see any of the Harry Potters in theater.
[01:30:44] Unknown:
Yeah. That was not Chamber of Secrets. Fuck. I don't remember what the fourth one is or the third one. Fourth one is
[01:30:55] Rich Chelson:
Let's see here. The Sorcerer's Stone Chamber of Secrets. Chamber of Secrets, prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:31:03] Unknown:
That's it. Yeah. That was the one. Okay. And then it's the
[01:31:08] Rich Chelson:
Then the the, the one with the
[01:31:11] Unknown:
Triwizard cup. Yeah. Triwizard cup. And then it's the Order of the Phoenix, half blood prints, and the Deathly Hollows part one and then part two. Something like that. Yeah. Guess what I'm watching right now?
[01:31:27] Rich Chelson:
Court TV.
[01:31:29] Unknown:
No. That was last night. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
[01:31:36] Duuude-Ron :
There you go.
[01:31:38] Unknown:
I don't know why. I just I just at 57 years old, I'll still watch, you know, the whole trilogy of Harry Potter. Yeah. No. I love the Harry Potter series.
[01:31:49] Rich Chelson:
I've watched them quite a bit. I've gone through. I've rewatched the extended versions of of of the Hobbit and and, Lord of the Rings where they all of a sudden turned each of those into four hour long movies. It's like, holy shit.
[01:32:05] Unknown:
I never got into I I've had I've seen a couple of the lords of the rings, but the Hobbit and, you know, the spin offs from that, no. Never really interested me in it.
[01:32:19] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And then, but yeah. And then, also, I'll I like I like the Infinity Saga of of the, of the MCU. So, you know, from Captain America up to, to endgame. You know, that that old line, those were those were were great. Now after that, the the Guardians of the Galaxies were still were still good, but, that's where that's where all of a sudden MCU became MCU, and and nothing was nothing was really good. I'm well, their their television series were still pretty good. The what ifs were fabulous. The, Loki, I enjoyed the Loki series. And WandaVision was okay.
Agatha all along was okay. Well, they they explained how the Scarlet Witch could come back. But, but, and I have no idea how they're gonna how this next phase is coming coming about because they're they're starting the next phase with with redoing the fantastic four, and they're actually making it look like the fantastic four. The only problem that they have. And I'm I'm I don't know if it's just me or what, but I'm getting real tired of Pedro Pascal. You know who the who he is?
[01:33:48] Unknown:
Not a clue.
[01:33:49] Rich Chelson:
Not a clue. Okay. Well, he's an actor who started out he did a really good job. They, he was one of the he was a member of one of the main families in in Game of Thrones. He's the one that ended up in his head smooshed by by the mountain. But after that, he started kinda peering time to time. He plays the Mandalorian. He shows up in, in, oh, what was the other damn thing? He's he's he bumped his head in. He's shown up more and more and more here recently. And I've only kinda started looking into him, trying to figure out exactly blinding my gears about him. And the only thing I could figure is that he is being placed into now, Brandon, we're in conspiracy corner right now. So I have do I have proof of any of this? Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Just my brain working.
And I just let you know how my brain works on on a couple of different, couple of different stories. So who knows? Maybe this is just my brain going down another path also. But it's like Pedro Pascal is being used as the front man of what weak masculinity is supposed to be. And that weak masculinity is the is the masculinity that the left and and feminists want men to be. Because there's been but a couple of, a couple of videos that I came across that were talking about how and they're all like e entertainment, you know, just both entertainment channels on YouTube, but talk about how he became very vulnerable about healings and stuff.
And I'm going, okay. So so and stuff or is or is this what he's being paid to do? This is how you wanna be trying to be the be the the the go to representation of what a what a modern man is supposed to be like. And I'm all I I think that's exactly what they're working real hard to do is to say, yes. You wanna be like Pedro Pascal. You wanna be open and vulnerable and and cry and weigh your emotions out on the sleeve, and and you put women women first and yada yada yada. And it's like, that's probably not the best thing in the world because that's your that basically, when men do that, they are abdicating their power. They're abdicating their leadership. We've seen what happens when men give up their leadership.
The past four years, all the men in in any type of leadership stepped out of the way and was letting women have it. So you ended up having you know, you had, Fannie Willis and and, and and a what's her name up in, who's the New York AG, and you have, Adesha Jackson Brown and and or Brown Jackson or whatever her fucking name is. The the the justice for a supreme court, Khadashi Khadashi or whatever name is. And when you step out of the way and and you let just people who think they deserve to be in power have power, you get shit.
You get the crap. You get socialism. You get communism. And a good example of that is what, what is the the Democrat mayoral candidate
[01:37:46] Unknown:
in New York City? Oh my god. In New York?
[01:37:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. This and it's gotten bad. He's he's going off he's wanting to cut the police force, from remembering right. I think three either half or three quarters. I think it's three quarters. He's wanting to take three quarters of the police population, police force away and replace them with social workers because, you know, social workers know more about about crime than police do for some, for some reason. It it was easier. All buses would be running legalized prostitution. And, I mean, is is I mean, he goes off. He is he's from the same place, uses the same language, and is, by the sound of it, about as smart as as AOC.
Calls himself a a democratic socialist just like she does. Everything he talks about is leans ahead harder to the left than that. So it all he almost sound he sounds more communist than he does socialist man. Didn't mow my lawn. You know? He did, but he didn't do my he didn't get my my debts like he's supposed to. And if they vote him in,
[01:39:09] Unknown:
they'll suffer the consequences. You know, if he reduces the police force, I hope the hell that somebody goes and breaks into his house. And then he'll then the first person he'll call is a police commissioner and say, why didn't I have police protection at my house in a timely manner? Well, you're the one that fucking cut them.
[01:39:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, the commoners don't. You know? I'll lose I'll take it.
[01:39:41] Unknown:
When they brought all these illegal aliens in yeah. They should have dumped them all off, thousands of them, up in Martha's Vineyard. We've lost you. Hold up. Can you hear me now?
[01:40:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I can hear you, dude.
[01:40:02] Unknown:
Okay. So take a thousands of those and plant them in Martha's Vineyard with tents, and they better not have problem with it. Of course, I did. Okay. Put another thousand in Oh, hold up. O Pelosi's estate. But you know what? If it doesn't affect them directly, they don't give a fuck.
[01:40:29] Duuude-Ron :
Even if it does, they'll just they'll just remove the problem. They've they've tried that. They've tried sending people to Martha's Vineyard and all like that, and and they just shoved them out and didn't address the problem. It was a big media cycle, news cycle for all of, what, two, maybe three days, and then they moved them out, and nothing else was ever said. So nothing's gonna change. What has to change is is the people of New York City or the state of New York or whatever has to stand up and say no, but they're not gonna do that. They're just gonna roll over because these people are saying what these people wanna hear even though there's no truth to it. It's all lies, but people think they're they're they're just blindfolded, and they think that everything will be hunky dory. And Yeah. When they get in, they're gonna do what they want. And that's
[01:41:32] Rich Chelson:
And they pretty much true.
[01:41:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It is. And and that's the thing. Until, you know, more and more people stand up and take an active interest in the government again, like we used to do in the fifties and sixties and seventies, the forties, the thirties, the twenties, It's nothing's ever gonna change. We can talk about it all we want. We can we can talk about all different kinds of scenarios. Right. But it's the simple point. If we're not going to get involved into city, county, state, federal government, what we have right now is only gonna get worse.
[01:42:18] Rich Chelson:
Agreed. Absolutely.
[01:42:21] Duuude-Ron :
Sometimes sometimes I have too much time to think.
[01:42:27] Rich Chelson:
Well, when you start coming up with really good stories, then then you've had too much time to think.
[01:42:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. Yeah. I And
[01:42:35] Unknown:
and, Rich, you just completely blew the hell out of your statement from a couple of weeks ago.
[01:42:44] Duuude-Ron :
What was that?
[01:42:45] Unknown:
That if it doesn't affect me, or my money directly, I don't give a fuck.
[01:42:55] Rich Chelson:
I don't give a good goddamn. That was that was somebody's words.
[01:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah.
[01:43:02] Unknown:
And you were fucking adamant about it, and now we're talking this.
[01:43:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you started it, dude. I mean, come on now. Did I start it? Well, I don't know. You or Brian, one of y'all started it. Probably me.
[01:43:17] Rich Chelson:
Because I was talking about the New York mayor. So Oh, okay. Mayoral candidate is not the he's not the mayor yet. Right. But they're working real hard against all oh, mayor Adams because he he worked with ICE.
[01:43:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We got
[01:43:33] Unknown:
But, you know, the the problem is is as a whole in The United States, we wanna see this, this, and this done based upon what a president's running on for his, you know, presidency. Right. And when he starts doing that, because we as a major group got together and voted voted for that, but with the other aspects, nobody
[01:44:10] Rich Chelson:
That was gross talk. What you do that for?
[01:44:13] Unknown:
Nobody comes together for a cause anymore. No. Unless unless they are fucking rioting. Yeah. Well, they have to be paid to do that too. And these days, they're getting paid to fucking riot. Mhmm. True. Because those individuals cannot go out and find a regular fucking job.
[01:44:38] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. Because they're sitting at home in mommy mommy's basement playing video games expecting the government to pay for everything.
[01:44:48] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:44:50] Duuude-Ron :
No, dude. No, dude. You're right. Yeah. Normally, I don't let shit get to me, but every once in a while, it just
[01:44:58] Rich Chelson:
I can I can drop something, like, just just kick some into gear?
[01:45:04] Duuude-Ron :
Like, my mind just fills up and yeah. Yeah. And then every once in a while, Brian just says just starts the conversation, and it's like I've got to let it out. You know? And it And get and get your spring all
[01:45:20] Unknown:
wound up at night. Yep. And then you just give her hell.
[01:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, and see, that's the thing. You know? If if more people were more laid back, more chilled out, and only worried about what they could handle, this world would be in a whole lot better place
[01:45:44] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I think. I think.
[01:45:46] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I might be wrong in that, but I don't think I'm too far off that point.
[01:45:51] Unknown:
You know, I think if they just got rid of fucking 90% of the mainstream media and find somebody like oh, what the hell is his name?
[01:46:07] Duuude-Ron :
Walter Concrete, the, Elbro Concrete. Boys. Yeah.
[01:46:12] Unknown:
Yeah. And who's the one that had the rest of the story?
[01:46:16] Duuude-Ron :
Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey. You know,
[01:46:21] Unknown:
individuals like that that had the morals and ethics to report what's going on without adding their political agenda.
[01:46:38] Duuude-Ron :
Or their feelings.
[01:46:40] Unknown:
That's true too. So we're never gonna have any news anchors or reporters like those two individuals ever again. No. And they told you the story. They told you what was going on. And then You had to make the decision. Exactly. You had to follow-up to your decision on court. Sides.
[01:47:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Whether You were whether Yeah. Whether it was a presidential race, they told you the Republican and the Democratic side, and you made the decision. There was no bias. And Exactly. Back then also back then, news media was was more well, for the most part, I watched a couple movies. It's it's been a while. There's one. It's a really good one. It's called September 5, and it was it was about the Olympics over in, god. Where was that? It was a Winter Olympics. I can't remember which country it was in.
[01:47:50] Unknown:
But, The Winter Olympics held in June.
[01:47:53] Duuude-Ron :
It was, 09/05/1972 when the team Israel got got murdered.
[01:48:01] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that's, Munich.
[01:48:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Germany. Yeah. Munich. Yeah. Yeah. Munich. And ABC was over there, and they you ought to watch that movie. It's it's it's it's done really, really well. You know? And that was when you and the the newscasters that were over there in Munich at the time, they were being told not to air this stuff by Right. By ABC. But they're like, screw it. They aired it, you know, and everything like this. And it it I think heads rolled over it, but, I mean, it's if you can find a movie and watch it, September 5, it's it's actually a really good freaking movie. I was I was impressed with it because it it was just yeah.
[01:48:58] Rich Chelson:
It was that's good.
[01:49:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I had I had heard I mean, I was only three when it happened, so, you know, I didn't know about it. But I I I had heard something, you know, mentioned about it over the years. And then and then when I decided to watch it, I read it, and it's like, yeah. I think I heard something about that. Well, hell, hell. Let me watch the movie. And I was like, oh, hell yeah. Yeah. It was good. Okay. Get up here. But, see, that's the thing. Even back in the seventies, they started to try and censor, you know, the news and stuff. Right. Right. That's where that's where a lot of the anchors and and the news people, they were still fighting back, pushing back, saying kiss my ass. No.
People need to hear about this. We're gonna air it. You know? But, yeah, it wasn't long after that. Then, of course, you know, news media started going going by the way it kind of of, what it is now. And I think what was it? Like, the middle eighties, I think, maybe? Or late eighties was when they kinda fully switched over to not not telling us the whole story.
[01:50:21] Unknown:
Basically, when CNN came on to the scene.
[01:50:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Probably so. Sounds about right. When did CNN come on?
[01:50:32] Unknown:
Mhmm. Earlier, that was a thought. But their but their their biggest story was about Jessica that fell down into the well.
[01:50:43] Rich Chelson:
Jessica McClure.
[01:50:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. CNN started 06/01/1980.
[01:50:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's better. Right? Not that I had we didn't have, didn't have any any cable until, like, '88.
[01:51:00] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. No. We didn't have cable. We oh, fuck. Yeah. It was yeah. I wanna say it was probably about the same time as you, Brian, was when we got cable. I got I got ribbed about it hard when I was in high school because I had never heard of cable before.
[01:51:18] Rich Chelson:
My mom mom lived in Dallas, so they had they had cable. It just wasn't there wasn't any cable service even available in in Sunray until, like, '86 or '88, somewhere. Well, no. Let's see here. Because it was I was in the third grade when, when cable was really becoming big in in Sunray. So that would have been oh, okay. Maybe it's a lot sooner than I thought. It'd have been about 8084. '83, '84.
[01:51:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. We yeah. We, Yeah. We had moved to Booneville, Missouri in the summer of eighty two or 8383. And, went to school that year, and everyone was talking about cable TV, MTV, and all this. And I would and I was a new kid. I was stupid. And I asked I said, what's MTV? Oh my god. Could have never asked that question. Yeah. I got I got ridiculed, picked on. And, there's these two brothers, and, I was in I the oldest brother was in the same grade I was in, and he would pick on me. The the, youngest brother was a dickhead. I never did like him.
But before school, we was all standing in the lunchroom, and this kid, David no. Danny. No. Danny was younger brother. David David Seager. He was picking on me, picking on me, picking on me, and I'd had enough, and I just popped him in the nose real quick. And it started bleeding. I didn't hit him that hard. And, he was like he was like, oh, my nose is dry. That's why it bled, and he ran off down to the bathroom. He he wound up leaving me alone, but his brother Danny was a was a bitch, kept fucking with me for a year or two. I finally got him to stop.
But, yeah, they they were all laughing at me because, you know, I wasn't from around there, and I was from the country. We didn't have, you know, a lot of stuff that everybody had. We were city kids is what it was. So bye.
[01:53:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, he's terrible. Oh, okay. Times, they'll, they they are can be like that, sadly.
[01:53:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It's true. And, yeah, it hasn't hasn't stopped. It still goes on today. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But y'all know that one podcast we was talking about last night, you know, you know, besides all them ads, what the Oh, yeah. What the hell is Apple doing with their operating system? Oh my god. Everybody
[01:54:15] Rich Chelson:
talk did you catch all everybody talking about the about the liquid glass?
[01:54:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They was they was talking about the new operating system. Yeah. Next year will be iOS 26 across everything. Yeah. Phone, tablet, all that. And then Yep. Y'all have watchOS
[01:54:36] Rich Chelson:
26, iOS 26, Mac,
[01:54:40] Duuude-Ron :
macOS 26. Yeah. And and see and see the thing is, it's funny because they were freaking talking about and and I don't know why this is a thing. But you're supposed to be able to go into each app separately Yeah. Yeah. And and set up different microphones for, for, for, whatever you're doing. And I'm like, what? Why?
[01:55:09] Rich Chelson:
What Well, just in case you're, you know, you're talking on, on the phone with on your headset, but you've also got you also got your your your Bluetooth phone or not Bluetooth, but a different microphone that you're recording into.
[01:55:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But you see, what's the big deal? Because you're gonna wind up go in and do post processing anyway. So what's the freaking matter?
[01:55:40] Rich Chelson:
Because a lot of people aren't doing that type of pros post processing anymore. A lot of folks are using things like Riverside and and, and and apps like that to do all the hard hard processing work. So they would it's easier just to use a higher quality microphone microphone for recording. And so if you open up, say, like, they have maybe they have come up with an Audacity app for the, for the iPad. Well, on the iPad, you could have it set where this microphone is is or or a particular DAW is accessible because of of that. Maybe you've got, you know, like a Pautrec p four that USB c to USB c. And so whenever that's connected, you're able to you you're able to pick up the the that, PawTrak p four and be able to record with it. So it's got all the settings that you and stuff that you wanted set for strictly for that. Yeah. No problem. It's it's basically like they're they're turning the the the the tablet more into bringing it closer to the closer to the, to being like a, like a laptop is what they're basically doing.
[01:57:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I don't know. I just I mean, honestly, that's a feature not a lot of people's gonna use. Podcast.
[01:57:12] Rich Chelson:
I mean, there's a lot of podcasters who probably might, might enjoy that a lot more than you think.
[01:57:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean, I don't know. I I I don't ever have to worry about it because I'm not ever having Apple. So and that's something I don't have to worry about. But, yeah, they spent, like, good god, about half the show.
[01:57:36] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. First half of the show talking about Well, also, it is Rob Walsh who is he's not gonna make a he's not going to talk anybody into doing anything that might benefit podcasting unless Apple does it. So so so yeah. He it's of course, he's go they're gonna be you know, they're gonna have boners for whatever it is that that Apple Apple's doing even if it doesn't actually improve anything with with podcasting or not. I mean, it's Oh, I And there's some stuff. I think it will do some benefit. It will improve and be able to separate the like like, being able to do the car compartmentalized processing.
So now if you're doing doing the processing postproduction processing on your on your your your tablet, you don't have to try sit there and keep it open the whole time it's processing for it to work. You can actually put it to sleep or open up a, completely different, app. So maybe you're gonna start getting social media stuff wrote for for the for the show.
[01:58:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. I got some of that I caught, and I was like, that would be cool. Yeah. No. I got that. But but, I mean, for the most part, it's like it's like, hey. It's I don't know. It's pointless. You know? You would think well, as you said last night, though, Lipson isn't really a podcasting company anymore. They're they're all about advertising. Yeah. They're an advertising agency now. You know? But, you know, the thing is, though, it's it's like, you know you know, appeal to everybody, not just one, you know, realm of of, you know, a space way I look at it.
But yeah. No. I just I don't know. I listened to it. They it was it was touch and go there for quite a while.
[01:59:43] Rich Chelson:
I mean No. It it it usually is touch and go for me too. I wouldn't listen to the feed now. It's like, I mean, just really just not doing it for me anymore, man. So I what what? But, but, yeah, they're it's it's just one of those things where it just gets it's sad because, I mean, Lipson's always been known for being a a a it's the OG. Well, it's one of the OGs. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the OGs. It but sadly, it's not about not about the the the hosting anymore and the podcaster experience. It's more about, well, can we, can we get, how many ads can we get stuffed into a into a podcast now? Apparently, it's 12.
You know? It's like son of a gun, man. The way they were talking, it sounded like you put almost as many as Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's why I was like when we were talking about the other day, I was like, hey. Hell, yeah. Might as well gonna just start up the advertising show and just make it about all about the advertisements.
[02:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
But but but you see there, you have to host on Libsyn to be able to do that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't wouldn't mind spending $15
[02:01:01] Rich Chelson:
something for for a few month for a few months. Just see if funny.
[02:01:06] Duuude-Ron :
And and and their payout. Oh my god. The payout is like it's gonna take four four to almost six months before you even see a check from the first month.
[02:01:20] Rich Chelson:
It can't well, it usually takes two months because they're Oh. They've gotta finish the first month, and then, and so if you do, like, say, like, July, you they don't take the information. They don't, gather the information together until July or till the July, so it'd be August 1. And then they send that they do their calculations, and then they send send the information over to the company that's gonna pay. And so it's, it's usually about, two months for you to get your, to get your money. They said
[02:01:58] Duuude-Ron :
this is this is the example they use. They said, if you ran a campaign in January, like you said, they run the whole month of January, then at the January, they take it like you said. They do their numbers. They send and then they send it off to the advertisers or whoever. They do their thing. They said you would see a check if if there was one, and and the payout is $21. At least $20, but they say $21.
[02:02:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You'd have to save it. $21.
[02:02:34] Duuude-Ron :
They would say you wouldn't see any money from January until April or May.
[02:02:42] Unknown:
I missed that. Yeah. That was Sounds like a two sounds like a 2AM infomercial.
[02:02:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sad thing is I it was it was in the middle of the day when I was listening to it. But yeah. No. Basically, that's and and, yeah, it was, yeah, it was actually, yeah, kind of an infomercial because they was trying to sell all that, you know, because that's what basically, when, people podcast anymore, they just wanna know how much money can they make. Yeah. That's it. It's all about how much can I get paid? That's not why you podcast.
[02:03:24] Unknown:
Well, that's why they podcast.
[02:03:26] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah.
[02:03:28] Rich Chelson:
And that's the reason why so many people actually burn out the way they do too. So
[02:03:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And that's why there's not that many pie active podcast.
[02:03:39] Rich Chelson:
Not anymore. No. There's they're they're starting to starting to kinda decrease.
[02:03:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Because everyone's realizing that they actually have to work if they wanna make any money at it. You know? Mhmm. So Absolutely. Yeah. It says on this one check, they're saying active podcast is three point o 1,000,000.
[02:04:07] Rich Chelson:
But
[02:04:08] Duuude-Ron :
it's it's actually around only 450 to 500,000 are actively producing any new content.
[02:04:16] Rich Chelson:
Right. Sadly, I need to I I need to go on ahead and start getting relaxed mail going again. I just haven't I haven't really done anything with it and since for, about about three months now.
[02:04:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You might be on the inactive list. Yeah. No. I I figure I am. But you know?
[02:04:39] Rich Chelson:
But it's still active because it's still being hosted. Well
[02:04:43] Unknown:
yeah. But,
[02:04:45] Rich Chelson:
no. You just haven't put nothing new out. No. I haven't put anything out. I haven't new out in in a in a while.
[02:04:53] Duuude-Ron :
But not like us.
[02:04:57] Rich Chelson:
So but, like, be kinda like like to just see how much, you know, what what the stats would pop up to if I was to, if I was to go ahead and put another one up because I'd like to see what to see how well all that podstats.net and see what it's see how it functions. Because, I mean, from what I've seen I I mean, it's pretty. They do a really good job of getting everything kinda
[02:05:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I I mean, because, you know, I did ours last night. I got Oh, did you? Running. Yeah. And, the way I'm looking at it and say I mean, I like it because it's pretty. It's all laid out. Yeah. Basically, it's the o p three stats, you know, that that first page we had going.
[02:05:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We still well, and then we still actually do have going. It's just
[02:05:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but now what I'm saying, this is just a better UI of what that was, but I think this one is updated more often.
[02:06:09] Rich Chelson:
I think actually, what I think happens is I think that actually takes the the o p three information.
[02:06:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It does. But you see because I was looking at I was looking at the original o p three site for two grumpy vets. Right? Right. And I compared those numbers with the numbers from podstats.net.
[02:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[02:06:34] Duuude-Ron :
No comparison. This, new site
[02:06:38] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:06:39] Duuude-Ron :
Has has a way better numbers, and they don't seem inflated at all. But the old site, the numbers are still, like, down into double digits. Whereas here and I don't know why it's not letting me sign in because I signed in.
[02:07:02] Rich Chelson:
Everything's make sure you don't have any capitals. Or at least if you signed up without any capitals, that does make a big difference.
[02:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. I know. Okay. Hang on. I gotta check something here. But yeah. No. I noticed. Because I I checked both both sites. And I'm gonna tell you right now, the original o p three, yeah, those numbers were basically still in the tank like they always had been, and they I thought. Because this one said we were we had 643 downloads. I I can't remember the, doohickey, the time frame on that. Hang on. I'm figuring something. I'm I'm getting it figured out. He's suffering.
[02:07:54] Rich Chelson:
He's
[02:07:55] Duuude-Ron :
suffering. Yeah. That's scary, isn't it? What?
[02:08:00] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. What? Exactly.
[02:08:08] Duuude-Ron :
I signed up last night. Right. I I logged in.
[02:08:13] Rich Chelson:
K.
[02:08:14] Duuude-Ron :
And it won't hang on. Did I do it on my other browser?
[02:08:20] Rich Chelson:
I don't know.
[02:08:21] Duuude-Ron :
Let me check.
[02:08:23] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. That's just messed up, man. That's just messed up. That's wrong. It is because I know I signed up. Oh, no. Because I had to go through and, you know, get the RSS feed, the o p three GUID, all that stuff. Really? Yeah.
[02:08:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, when I signed up, all it did is ask, like, what, which podcast you sign you you want to use? And just type the name in, and it pulled it right on up. Not me. Pod Stats, p0dstat
[02:09:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. S.net.
[02:09:07] Rich Chelson:
Dotnet even.
[02:09:09] Duuude-Ron :
Wait. Hang on. That's I was I think I was being a goober head.
[02:09:16] Rich Chelson:
Hi. Those are always fun.
[02:09:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was. Hang on. I was being a goober head. Oh, don't do that. See, this is what happens when I don't save save it, but I saved it. Okay. My stats. Let me view the data dashboard. Okay. It says all time downloads, 666.
[02:09:45] Unknown:
There we go.
[02:09:46] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. Let me see if that changes. Is that all time? Yeah. That's all time. It says in June, we had 43 downloads. July, we had so far, we have 13. We have 24 countries and 60 episodes total. That's worth our trailer. Yesterday, it says we had 12 downloads and everything, so it it breaks things down. It it seems to be we've had two downloads on the title motivational cookies. We published that back in August of twenty four. We had two downloads on it. So and then it list others. And say, looks like about 9AM was when we got our 12 download yesterday. Yeah.
So it it and our apparently, our podcast is being consumed on a computer on, computers.
[02:10:52] Rich Chelson:
And Oh, yeah. We got a bunch of old parts who don't know how to use their phones. So they're like, oh, I could find it on the Right. Uh-uh. I could find it on the on the on the on the Chrome. I can find it on I can find it on the Internet Explorer.
[02:11:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean, honestly, I don't care how you listen to it. Just as long as you listen to it. Oh, you're listening. I mean, that's I I mean but, yeah, I just I just it says the top device models. Now I don't know if this is in the last month or what, but a Windows PC is the big one. Hotnews.net is the top site where people listen, podcasts Oh, pull us up at? Is the second. Yeah. Yeah. Apple computer is second to to, Windows and then iPhone and then Android. So yeah. Oh, we've had 12 downloads in Russia, two in Canada, one in China.
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, someone got through the firewall.
[02:11:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I think Indonesia, we got one. I think Singapore, we have one. BW, I'm not sure what that one is. That's a country. Trying to think. Don't know. But out of top podcast app is Podcast Guru and then Fountain and then Amazon Music.
[02:12:21] Unknown:
So Yeah. Okay.
[02:12:23] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So different apps, dude, that that, people listen to our podcast on.
[02:12:32] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:12:33] Duuude-Ron :
So so, yeah, it's I mean and I will say the the layout and, you know, watching of the, you know, of of everything looks a whole lot better than the old Botswana. That's BW. Botswana.
[02:12:52] Rich Chelson:
Aye.
[02:12:53] Duuude-Ron :
But, but, yeah, I'd this, podstats.net is a is a whole lot easier to look at and understand than the old 0 P three site
[02:13:07] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:13:08] Duuude-Ron :
By far. So
[02:13:12] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:13:13] Duuude-Ron :
I think. And you'll say once you, you know, get it, you know, get it set up for what you're doing.
[02:13:21] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:13:22] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But, yeah, it's it's it's okay.
[02:13:28] Rich Chelson:
Not bad at all,
[02:13:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. I mean, it it well, I don't know. I I haven't been paying attention, so so I can't really, excuse me, say much. You know? I, haven't been paying attention to o p three or anything like that. So or the updates are you know? My knowledge is limited. So Gotcha. I can't say whether I fully like it or not. I like our other numbers better. I ain't gonna lie. You know? I like POD homes numbers.
[02:14:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I get that.
[02:14:12] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, honest look. We got people listening to us. They keep coming back and listening to us.
[02:14:18] Rich Chelson:
I haven't figured out why, though.
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? I'm just happy they do. You know? I mean, they must be our kind of people if they keep coming back and listening. That's kinda what I'm thinking. That's almost scary, though. It is very scary. You mean there's there's other people out there that that think, like Cizarre like us? What? Right? It's like, oh my gosh. That's a scary thought, man. Oh oh, I I had something the other day. Y'all y'all are probably gonna gag, but, oh, I just oh, I love the hell out of this shit. Oh my god. I I had to start in my head last week, and I I was like, man, I gotta try it. I gotta try it. And it took me a day or two to roll it around in my head, and I said, screw it. I'll try it.
It's hang up butter and jelly with green olives and tater chips in the sandwich.
[02:15:24] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[02:15:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. This oh, that was awesome. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, put about four or five green olives in it, put some wavy chips on top, smooshed them together. Oh, man. I just tore it up. Oh, that shit was good. That was good stuff. And that's the thing. I knew when when I was making it, I was thinking about y'all because I knew I knew y'all was gonna be like, oh, that's nasty.
[02:15:58] Rich Chelson:
Aw, that's nasty.
[02:16:00] Duuude-Ron :
But it's not, man. It's actually It's really, really good. Dude, did you fall asleep?
[02:16:08] Unknown:
Not really, but close.
[02:16:11] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Well, you've been a little little extra quiet there, so I figured I'd wake you up.
[02:16:17] Unknown:
I'm just letting you guys talk shop.
[02:16:20] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, I'm not talking shop now. I was talking about peanut butter and jelly, green olives, and chips, dude.
[02:16:26] Unknown:
Oh, well, that's about
[02:16:29] Rich Chelson:
no. Thank you.
[02:16:31] Unknown:
No. I don't mind at all. I I can eat peanut butter. I can eat jelly. I can eat bread. I cannot choke that shit down together.
[02:16:40] Rich Chelson:
But I'm right. Maybe you need the green olives and the tater chips on there, especially the wavy chips.
[02:16:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't doing no fucking olives either.
[02:16:50] Rich Chelson:
Well, gee whiz.
[02:16:52] Duuude-Ron :
Good lord.
[02:16:54] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm I'm what's that word I'm looking for? Special? No. Not special. Isn't that special?
[02:17:05] Duuude-Ron :
Expand your mind, dude. Expand your horizons. He's singing, buddy. Singing it, buddy.
[02:17:15] Unknown:
I ain't thinking I ain't thinking about making it.
[02:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, come on, dude. Yeah. I will say I will say when I got these teeth pulled out, I did have soup, you know, first day and a half. Well, two days. And Yeah. Oh my god. It was it was good. I mean, I love soup. Do not get me wrong. I love soup, but soup does not stick with you. It it, it's I mean, it does not stick with you as far as filling your belly.
[02:17:50] Unknown:
Yes. Yes. So substance.
[02:17:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So so now mind you, last Thursday was when I had these nine teeth pulled.
[02:17:59] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:18:00] Duuude-Ron :
By Saturday afternoon, I said, fuck it. I pulled out the andouille sausage, cut it up, cooked it up, and ate it.
[02:18:10] Unknown:
And And you should've went out got you should've went out and got yourself a po'boy.
[02:18:16] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. Me and yeah. You see, that's the thing. They had told me I wouldn't I was only supposed to eat soft foods for the first three to five days. Right. Yeah. No. By the third day, I was like, I wound up and had that andouille sausage, which, I mean, you know, wasn't hard. It wasn't crunchy or nothing, but it wasn't Topo is soft.
[02:18:44] Unknown:
Well, Topgolf is soft.
[02:18:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right now, I'm trying to eat a sandwich. Oh my god. Because I I don't I don't I have my teeth on the bottom. My my middle ones on the bottom right now. And, yeah, it makes it kinda hard to try and buy the sandwich. I gotta shove the sandwich in the side of my face and and gnaw on the bitch. Right. Yes. A little it it's it's a little challenging trying to eat a sandwich right now.
[02:19:21] Unknown:
Well, have you ever thought of chopping it down into bite sized pieces before you start eating
[02:19:29] Rich Chelson:
it. Well into quibble.
[02:19:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I did that yesterday because I I figured because after after a couple times of trying to gnaw on the sandwich and just not, Yeah. I mean, I made it work, but I had I I was so hungry after I ate the sandwich because I had worked too damn hard. I had to eat another one. So so later on that night, I made a sandwich, and I, cut it up. And, yeah, and, and, I did like you said, cut it up into smaller bite sized pieces. And then I could I could just it felt weird doing that because it's like, damn it. I just wanted to pick the sandwich up and eat it, but I couldn't. Right. So so I cut it into smaller pieces and made it to where I could eat it.
[02:20:24] Unknown:
Well, there you go.
[02:20:26] Duuude-Ron :
But it took me a couple of sandwiches to figure it out, you know, because, you know, I'm a little slow sometimes.
[02:20:34] Unknown:
Yeah. I know. I resemble that remark. In every sense of the word.
[02:20:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But yeah. No. That's, oh, y'all wanna hear an update on my Jeep?
[02:20:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's been happening with Jeep?
[02:20:53] Unknown:
We would love to hear an update on your situation with your Jeep.
[02:20:59] Duuude-Ron :
My Jeep saga? Well, I can say now, I finally received a duplicate title from the state of Missouri.
[02:21:11] Rich Chelson:
Yay.
[02:21:14] Duuude-Ron :
As soon I I didn't even have it in my hand five minutes. And I was down to the license bureau, and I turned it in.
[02:21:25] Unknown:
That's it. And what did they do with it?
[02:21:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well, now this was last week when this happened. Uh-huh. The girl uploaded everything and all like this. Now, apparently, now I have to wait. Yeah. I have to wait because Mississippi, I guess, has to take my Missouri title. I I don't know exactly what they do. I'm only guessing here. I'm probably not far off, but I'm guessing. They have to verify if this is a proper legal title and all like this. And then when they get confirmation or whatever, then they'll issue a Mississippi title. And when they do that, then I can license my Jeep. I can renew the license on my Jeep. Now the girl that was put all the information in for me that afternoon, because it was, like, 04:15, 04:20 when I got there, and, she put everything in.
She even called up to the state and was like, hey. This is what I've done. This is what I've done. Can we get a title number? You know, the girl was trying to get me, like beat everything up. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I heard her tell them, I've got the title in my hand. It's gonna be in the mail tomorrow, you know, and all like this. But, apparently, Mississippi is like, nope. We gotta have all this in hand. And so lady, you know, told me she's like, well, I'll check on it the next morning, you know, and I'll call you. Okay. Well, I hadn't heard from her. So I called down up there, and I asked them.
Now earlier this year, they were saying it would take eight to twelve weeks. That was earlier this year. This time when I talked to the lady, he said to call back at the end of next week, not this week, next week, and see if it's been done. So it's still a crapshoot. Alright. So I don't know when it's gonna be done. But I did receive the title from Missouri. It is now hand delivered in Mississippi's hands. However long they take is however long they take. We'll lose it. Got it. Hope. Well well, this lady made a copy of it, emailed a copy to this date, and so so it's it is it is attached to my file already.
So if they lose it, they can still issue a freaking title.
[02:24:19] Unknown:
Okay? Okay. Yeah. Okay.
[02:24:22] Duuude-Ron :
Because she scanned it, and it and it attached a copy to my file. Then she emailed a copy to the state. And then the next morning, he sent the physical title to the state. So if they lose it, they can still issue the title off that piece of paper because it is Right. Out of my hands now.
[02:24:48] Unknown:
Right.
[02:24:49] Duuude-Ron :
So maybe next week, maybe three months from now. I don't
[02:24:54] Unknown:
know. Well, let's hope let's hope that doesn't happen.
[02:25:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right? I mean, trust me. I'm praying. I'm praying hard that it don't take that long. But Yeah.
[02:25:08] Unknown:
What can I do about it? K. But you've been doing it before?
[02:25:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see and you see, that's the thing. Before, it was all my fault. Okay? So now it's it's because I was the one that didn't pay attention and verify and read and all like that because it it was you know, before it was come to find out, it was all my fault. But now it's not. So I'm just waiting on the state of Mississippi to get done with it.
[02:25:41] Unknown:
Well, there you go.
[02:25:43] Duuude-Ron :
So we'll see, and we'll have a party whenever it happened. Exactly. It'll probably be for New Year's, but, hey, we'll have a party.
[02:25:53] Unknown:
Hey. I'll get some Roman candles.
[02:25:56] Duuude-Ron :
There you go.
[02:25:58] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yep.
[02:26:01] Unknown:
Here's a real good one for you. I'm still yet to really figure this one out.
[02:26:07] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[02:26:08] Unknown:
So, you know, my issue with my Jeep getting ducked. Right?
[02:26:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yep. You love it. Absolutely.
[02:26:21] Unknown:
So my Jeep was not even in the driveway. I get home. I have a duct on my table that holds my ashtray in the front of my house. They didn't duct the Jeep. They ducked my house.
[02:26:50] Duuude-Ron :
They knew you had a Jeep. They was like, I don't that's funny.
[02:26:56] Unknown:
I get I get back, and I think yeah. I was wondering, we did that show for, the Children's Medical or, Miracle Network. I get home. I sit down, and I'm sitting there having a having a smoke just like I always do. I'm looking down. I'm like, it and it takes me a few seconds to register that there's a duck sitting there. I'm like, what the fuck? Why is there a duck here? Alright. I'm like, well, because my Jeep wasn't there, they ducked my house. And let's see. And I still have, and somebody will look it up. And I get a little card with it. It says you've been you've been ducked from view Buberty Val Verde, Texas.
[02:27:57] Rich Chelson:
Valverde. Yep.
[02:27:59] Unknown:
Have no fucking clue where that's at.
[02:28:02] Duuude-Ron :
Spell it.
[02:28:03] Rich Chelson:
V A L V E R D, Valverde.
[02:28:08] Unknown:
Yeah. I have to go first. Of it. Yeah. You know, I'm like I haven't looked it up to find out where it's at, but it's like Yes. Someone's coming all the way from Valder Verde or whatever the name is to my house and finding out the Jeep is not there, so they ducked my house.
[02:28:30] Duuude-Ron :
It's just North of San Antonio on 2 81.
[02:28:34] Unknown:
Well, I am a member of New Braunfel Trail Team six. I'm part of that Jeep Club.
[02:28:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, maybe maybe one of them was up up your way.
[02:28:48] Unknown:
Yeah. You just never know. Could be.
[02:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
So you got ducked, and you weren't even home. That's fucking awesome. I love it. That makes me happy, dude. You know that?
[02:29:06] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:29:07] Duuude-Ron :
So got ducked.
[02:29:09] Unknown:
I got ducked. Oh, dear. Even know that. Well, I got ducked at the Jeep show.
[02:29:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that that kind of stands without reason.
[02:29:23] Unknown:
You're right. Yeah. I see. That duck you know where that duck went to? Onto somebody else's Jeep before I left the event.
[02:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that was one of them. You got ducked a couple more times, dude. You didn't get all of them give out down here.
[02:29:41] Unknown:
No. I'm talking about this past weekend.
[02:29:44] Rich Chelson:
The one where him and, him and junior almost got into it Or him and, well, he was he was Yeah. They did. Showed yeah.
[02:29:56] Unknown:
Yeah. They showed the disrespect. Yep. Yeah. So, yep, before I left, I just set it on somebody else's Jeep and let them deal with it.
[02:30:12] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, you just need to embrace the Ducks, man.
[02:30:17] Unknown:
I have embraced the ducks.
[02:30:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. You haven't.
[02:30:22] Rich Chelson:
You need Well, he doesn't jump them across the highway anymore.
[02:30:26] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that I mean, this is a good thing, but still
[02:30:29] Unknown:
You know, I embrace the duck. I embrace the duck to give it to somebody else and and let them have their, you know, happy, happy, joy joy feelings of being gut.
[02:30:50] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. I swear, dude.
[02:30:54] Unknown:
I think I'm gonna find some, just absolute stock Jeeps.
[02:30:59] Rich Chelson:
Just just
[02:31:02] Unknown:
oh, yikes. I'm gonna like some things for call. Yeah. And and duck some or reduct some base model Jeeps just to make them happy. That would Just to put a smile on that place. Yeah. I'm sure it would.
[02:31:20] Duuude-Ron :
Well well, just don't. Just don't let them see it because they'll probably duck your house if they don't see your Jeep. Oh. Next thing you know next thing you know, it'll be a thing. Dude's Jeep at night time, so I just just set it on his patio table.
[02:31:40] Rich Chelson:
He'll see it. Yeah. He'll get to it eventually.
[02:31:44] Unknown:
I will get to it eventually because that's where I have my smoke.
[02:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
You're gonna wind up you're gonna wind up getting more deduction. You realize you ain't gonna have no choice but, just embrace the duck, dude.
[02:32:01] Unknown:
Well, I showed you the picture of the only one that the only duck that I'm gonna have visible on my Jeep. Oh, yeah. The rubber ducky.
[02:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
But still, that, yeah, that, I I I just have a feeling your Jeep is will become DUC central before too long. That'll be awesome. That will be just awesome.
[02:32:31] Unknown:
And I'll come down to, Pasadena, Mississippi And with some superglue and some ducts, I know a Jeep to hit.
[02:32:42] Duuude-Ron :
Remember, I got superglue too, dude. And I know I got more ducts than you.
[02:32:50] Rich Chelson:
Or putting putting rubber ducks on his valve stems and on the, on on his, on the Windshield wipers. Windshield wipers.
[02:33:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that'd be and then and then and then freaking take pictures? Oh, hell yeah. That'd be awesome. Yeah. And and then post them to social media and, like, tag Patrick and all like that.
[02:33:20] Unknown:
Have you seen this Jeep? Do you know the owner of this Jeep?
[02:33:25] Rich Chelson:
Or even better. Instead of being rubber ducked, get them rubber dicked.
[02:33:31] Duuude-Ron :
You can buy them on Amazon.
[02:33:32] Rich Chelson:
How about?
[02:33:34] Duuude-Ron :
I know a lady bought a bag of them. Little tiny ones. It is, like, an inch long. Yeah. I'm serious. I know. I know weird people. Oh, shoot. It looks like it's about getting that time, gentlemen. Is it? I don't know.
[02:33:55] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Well, if that's the case, then I guess probably need to start talking about the fact that well, we kinda thought there's a lot of it on to talked a little bit about it a little earlier today about, you know, Wolfson was going as far as saying, hey. If you've got a, I don't know, a foul forty five minute long podcast that you should be able to put in roughly about eight eight advertisements. Two in the front, two in the back, and then two in then two sets, two in the middle. They're also talking saying two in the front, put three in the front, three in the back, or three and do three in the, two sets of three in in there and and one in the end. And it's just like you hear all these ads.
And the funny thing about ads is that you can especially if you hear people who are doing, like, Patreon style community, what are they what's one of their their their selling points to to to to go join the Patreon. You can get your get our ad free version of the show, which if you think of that and you really apply some thought to it, that means that you're advertising to people who can't afford your product. What you do, Doug? No. Because those who can't afford it are going are going to buy the ad free version. If you can't afford it, then you're gonna not you're not going to you're gonna be faced with the, the commercials. You're gonna be annoyed by commercials. So the whole ad advertising model straight up just doesn't work by its very nature.
And so why do you wanna do something like that? Why would why would we want to advertise advertise to you? Give you something that you probably just aren't even interested in in, in using. You know? You only you only need one mattress every ten years unless you get one of the modern ones, and then it's probably last a bit, maybe, five years. And they're twice as expensive as the, as the ten year my mattress. And if you're like us, then you buy one mattress and it lasts you it lasts twenty years. But so there's no reason for for you to have a mattress. There's no reason for, you know, maybe a hairy razor person. Well, what happens if you grow on beard?
You ain't gonna need a hair razor. So there's a lot of of ads that just aren't needed. And that's one reason why we have gone the direction we went, which is value for value. You you want to you wanna say, I appreciate the the show that you you've done. I appreciate the work, the time that y'all put in to talking. Well, here is some money. How much? Oh, it didn't matter. It's however much you wanna give. You wanna give you know? Some people some people like to do different types of numerology. You know? You got, like, $11.11.
Well, that's a that's a bag of Richards. You know? $22.22. Well, there you go. There's a there's a a a a row of ducks. There's all sorts of neat little little numerology style games that you could play with the very with the numbers. I mean, 17 o one if if you're a if you're a Star Trek fan. Okay. So there's a lot of fun things you can do and displaying your personality and with displaying displaying the value that that you wanna wanna give to us. There's also but that's but that's just treasure because treasure is a yes. It is a a a form of saying thanks, and that's what value for value is. We we provided a a a show, and you're saying, hey, man. Thanks for providing the show.
Here's how much I say thank you. And so maybe it's time. You're you wanna start helping with doing chapters or things along those lines. Maybe it's talent or you wanna create chapter art or or or, some other type of episodic arts or anything along those lines. Or, again, if you have treasure, you can also provide treasure and say thank you in that manner also. So there's a lot of different ways you could say thank you, and that's the crux of how we do our show is I'm not out to say, if you wanna wanna say, wanna be a part of the community, join our $7 a month group. No. No. I mean, if you wanna give us $7, okay, that's that's great, but I'm not going to I'm not going to force you to be a part of a community by having to pay. No. We're all part of the community. You could shoot us an email. You send me one over at CircleCast. That's [email protected].
You can get ahold of Rich. Same way. You can get ahold of of dude by getting ahold of me or Rich because dude is email address, he just he went crazy, and and he has a hard time actually remembering what his email address is too. So we just it's just safer to to send it over to us because, you know, we we know how to spell. R chelson, catlson,@Gmail.com or [email protected]. And so you can shoot an email over to us. You can reach out to us, yeah, over at Facebook. You can go to two grumpy bets on on, do a search two grumpy bets over on on Facebook and proof of luck. Guess what you'll find? You'll find our our Facebook page, and you can actually could make comments there. We have means of you being able to reach out, talk to us, say hi, and and all that, and we would love to be able to hear from you.
That but we also enjoy just spending the time that we have talking with each other, and that's the that's actually the crux of what this show is. We started out have doing this show just as a means of actually, it started didn't even start out as a show. It started out as just us getting together every Thursday just to talk, just to yabber, just to have a good time and laugh at each other. And then it was like, hey. Let's do a shit let's let's turn this into a podcast. You know? Anybody gonna listen? Probably not, but that's fine. We don't have to have them listen. It's just, you know, anything. It's just a a record of our of our talks and and and our views of the world.
So that's kinda how we the how this show has come about and why it's the way it is now. And, and wanna just say thanks for for everybody for doing, for coming in and listening because that just the fact that you listen is is a thank you. And we love to be able to complete the circle. So if you, you know, if you say something, we're gonna say something back, and, we're gonna have a have a good time while we're doing it. So, Rich, what would you like to say in your closing shots?
[02:41:51] Duuude-Ron :
I just wanna say thank you to everyone who listens and keeps coming back. You know? It's awesome that, you know, y'all apparently like what we have to say or groan at what we have to say and or laugh at us or whatever, and, you know, we're fine with that. So, yeah, just, yeah, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your loved ones. Hell, tell the person you hate. Who cares? You know? We're just we're just out here to spread cheer, love, whatever. We don't care. You know, as long as we make you laugh or cry or think or groan or, you know, yell at us, you know, send us an email. You know, you can send me an email at [email protected] or [email protected].
And, of course, I you know, me and Brian know that that dude the dude is the star of the show here. And and Absolutely. You know, if if you really wanna hear his timeless wisdom and input, please send me or Brian an email, and we will definitely make sure dude gets it and reads it and gives his his time honored just just astounding wisdom on whatever topic you wanna bring up. And, yeah, just, you know, say, hey. Send us ideas on stuff to talk about because we will give you our opinion on anything. We don't care. You know? It might be good. It might be bad. We don't know yet because you haven't sent anything.
So, yeah, if you wanna do that, go for it. Other than that, that's about all I got. So, dude, what you got going on?
[02:43:44] Unknown:
Well, I'll give the dudes wonderful piece of wisdom. You know, it's always nice hanging out with the the two people that I get to hang out with and talk to on a weekly basis, and, you know, we've gone through a lot of rabbit holes. Then, again, we've had some, kind of not, I would say, interesting conversations, but, you know, it's all the same. We're just gonna talk about what we just happened to come up with. So Absolutely. And, again, thank you for everybody that's listening and enjoying our show and, you know, likes to hear the monotone voices of three old men.
[02:44:36] Rich Chelson:
Oh, that's about all I got. So alright. Well, then with that, Rich, Ron, appreciate y'all coming on again and having a letting us yabber and talk and expound on on weird ideas and thoughts and and, things like that. And, and we will, see y'all next week. Call y'all out there in, in podcast land. Thanks again for, listening. See y'all next week. Till then. Bye.
[02:45:06] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:45:08] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Out. Catch y'all later. Bye. Alright. See you later. Bye. Bye.
Introduction and Purpose of the Show
Daily Life and Work Experiences
Memorable Work Stories
Humor and Movie References
Weather and Clothing Preferences
Weekly Highlights and Inspections
Ethics and Helping Others
Societal Issues and Government
Podcasting and Technology
Jeep Saga and Personal Updates
Value for Value and Closing Remarks
