In this episode of Two Grumpy Vets, the hosts Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude dive into the challenges and humorous moments of air travel, sharing personal anecdotes about the frustrations of flying, dealing with TSA, and the unexpected adventures that come with navigating airports. They also touch on the evolving requirements for identification when flying within the United States, sparking a discussion on the implications of such regulations.
The conversation shifts to personal stories about moving, the quirks of small-town life, and the joys and challenges of visiting family. The hosts also explore the world of technology, discussing the pros and cons of upgrading computers and the humorous side of dealing with modern tech. The episode wraps up with reflections on military life, the importance of community, and the value of shared experiences, all delivered with the hosts' signature humor and camaraderie.
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Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally.
[00:00:11] Rich Chelson:
We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together 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] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian.
[00:00:40] Unknown:
There we go.
[00:00:41] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. There you go. There you are.
[00:00:47] Rich Chelson:
So you're back home again home again?
[00:00:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I got home last night. God, it was I don't like flying.
[00:00:57] Rich Chelson:
Bet not.
[00:00:58] Duuude-Ron :
Do not. Although the ride back was nice was nicer than the ride out for sure, but I still don't like flying.
[00:01:10] Rich Chelson:
No. No. I mean, I used to enjoy flying. I used used to be kinda nice, but these days, no. It's just they've it is degraded to the point that it is absurd.
[00:01:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And, you know, in, May, if if I read the sign right, you have to have a real ID or or a passport card or something to fly in The United States?
[00:01:39] Rich Chelson:
Well, ain't that gonna be cool?
[00:01:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I I've got the real ID. I've got, you know, the passport card. I mean, I I can fly, but it's just the fact that, yeah, if you don't have it, you don't have a choice. If you want to fly in in the Continental United States, you have to have it.
[00:01:58] Rich Chelson:
Ain't it funny how they go off and start restricting interstate travel?
[00:02:03] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[00:02:06] Rich Chelson:
In our own state. Oh, you can't fly. You can't go there that fast unless you have this, this approved, approved form of identification. It's like, well, what happened to the driver's license?
[00:02:18] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Exactly. Hold on a second.
[00:02:21] Rich Chelson:
You've got somebody wanting to get ahold of you. Yeah. Answer the phone with I don't need this isn't even my desk.
[00:02:39] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. I'm back. Alright. But, yeah, I was, yeah, it was my nephew, trying to video chat me. I said he saw my headphones on. He's like, oh, I said, I'm podcasting. He said, how long? I said, three hours. I'll call you later. Alright.
[00:02:59] Rich Chelson:
Where's Ron? Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron.
[00:03:03] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it was yeah. I tell you what, I damn near I damn near said fuck it and turned around and flew home once I got to Dallas. Oh, no shit. Really? Yeah. Well well, storms had I I mean, it wasn't the airline's fault. Right. Or or anything like this, but, I mean, because the storms had screwed things up. And I left from Gulfport, and we got behind and didn't make it to Dallas in time to catch my flight
[00:03:37] Unknown:
Oh.
[00:03:38] Duuude-Ron :
And everything because of the storms. And then I had to wait till the next morning, okay Uh-huh. To fly up to Northwest Arkansas, and and it was set for, I don't know, like, 06:40 or something. And it was, like, four or 05:00 in the morning. And, they had pushed it to, like, 09:00. And then it was, like, seven, seven thirty, and and and then they just canceled it. Just canceled the fucking flight. And, you know, of course, I'm I'm I'm on the phone with, you know, Matt and Dee and stuff like that. Hey. Fucking help me figure this shit out. I don't, you know, I don't do this shit. And so, there was another flight, and, so it was it was sketchy because I I I went to the gate for it.
And then I had asked the guy, I said, is this good? He's like, yeah. I can I can get you on this flight? And then, like, they were boarding the plane, fixing to board the plane. The guy looks at me, and he says, no. You have to go to customer service. And that's up and around in yeah. Because the Dallas Fort Worth terminal is a freaking nightmare. Yep. Oh my god. So you went to you actually flew into DFW and not Love Field then? No. I flew into D N Fucking W. Oh my god. Dude, Skynet. Skynet is is is running strong in DFW.
[00:05:13] Rich Chelson:
I bet it.
[00:05:14] Duuude-Ron :
Because, they got these little tram cars that run along run along the outside of Oh, yeah. All the terminals. You know? And I had to ride one, get over on the other side, and then, I wound up I had to ride another one because they changed the gate. And the first time I got on, there was a whole bunch of people on. I didn't you know, I just like, whatever. Okay. Let's go. And then second time, there wasn't so many people on. I I you know, I figured I'd jump on and and, ride by the driver. Right? Right. I ain't no driver.
[00:05:52] Rich Chelson:
Uh-uh.
[00:05:54] Duuude-Ron :
No driver, what so never. And I was like, oh, fuck. Robot's coming for us. I was like, oh, shit. They've invaded DFW. I want dude, I was I was nervous, you know, because, I mean, I I mean, seriously, it's like it's like when we came up to a stop, you know, there's a voice come up, you know, blah blah blah, you know, and they and no driver. I'm like, oh god. Didn't know. I was freaking out. Recordings. Yeah. I'm like, I don't like this. You know? I I mean
[00:06:26] Rich Chelson:
those trams there in in the DFW area for since at least since the eighties, because I remember riding on them in the eighties. So now they may have updated them and made them all a little more expensive, but, yeah, they're they've been there forever.
[00:06:43] Duuude-Ron :
Well, this this first time I had ever seen anything like that, and so or or had experienced anything like that. So, you know, I'm sitting here thinking I'm in I'm in, the fucking Man, I'm outside of I'm outside of Missouri for sure. Right. Right. And and I was just like, oh, hell no. And but, yeah, right at the last minute, I got my ticket straight, and they they fucking let me on the plane. And, well, I'd called Matt. I was pissed by this this thing because I because I you know, it wasn't his fault, you know, but still it was just I hadn't had no sleep. You know, I was I was I was hurting to beat hell because you gotta walk every fucking place. Oh, yeah. You know, and shit like this. And it was just it was just pain in the ass. And, you know, I was talking to Matt on the phone, and I told him, I said, Bubba, I said, I'll tell you right now. If this shit don't get off quick, my ass goes the fuck home.
I coulda drove here faster than it took me to get there to fly. Right. Seriously. I mean, it was it was supposed to be a total time of three hours to go from here, DFW, and XNA. Total time of three hours. Yeah. About that, it took over, what, twelve? Say seven. Yeah.
[00:08:05] Unknown:
And it takes about twelve hours.
[00:08:07] Duuude-Ron :
It's almost
[00:08:09] Rich Chelson:
air airline travel has almost gotten as bad as bus travel.
[00:08:14] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, we'll say on the way back, though, the flights on the way back, three hours. Oh. Pretty good. Well well well, three and a half hours. Because I left out of Lexington, Kentucky, went to Charlotte, jumped on a plane there, and was back in Gulfport. Yeah. So, yeah, I left at 06:00. So well, what the time zone difference, about four hours total time with the labor. So Wow. So yeah. It yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. When I was up there, I told Matt, I said, next time? My I said, well, first off, I'm I'm never moving you again. So you just might as well light a torch to the fucking house and walk away because I'm not helping.
[00:09:04] Rich Chelson:
I'm done. Yep. If you wanna move, then I would suggest suggest Atlas Van Lines and let them pick shit up and they move it over.
[00:09:12] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I guess I guess he called a moving company, and they said something like starting at $10.
[00:09:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's it's stupid. It's You know? Yeah.
[00:09:23] Duuude-Ron :
So so yeah. You you know? But but he told me he said, nah, dude. I ain't move I ain't moving again. I said, that's good because my ass ain't gonna help you. Because I ain't moving your ass. I mean, hey. I don't know. I mean I mean I mean, the trip was was okay, you know, and everything. Going out there was okay. It was it it was just fucking rough, whatever. But it's just the fact that I had to fly, and I could've drove there faster. So Yeah. Yeah.
[00:09:53] Rich Chelson:
It would've seemed prettier countryside too.
[00:09:56] Duuude-Ron :
That's for damn sure.
[00:09:58] Rich Chelson:
Because hell, you don't have to go off and go from from Mississippi over to Dallas back up to to to Central Arkansas. You can just drive to our Central Arkansas.
[00:10:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Exactly. I mean, I can I can stay in Mississippi for most for half the way, cross into Arkansas, and be in Arkansas the other half? Yep.
[00:10:20] Unknown:
And it would've been cheaper too.
[00:10:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But yeah. No. I so, yeah, that's that's, that was my, experience with flying. And it was funny when I went through TSA here in Gulfport, I had to take out my CPAP, my tablet, damn near strip naked Yeah. Get my picture took of my whole body and, get groped, which, yeah, I I wasn't happy about that, but whatever. And, and so but but after that, I I was never groped or I still got my picture took, but they didn't have to have me pull my CPAP out and that I even carried a lighter,
[00:11:13] Rich Chelson:
a BIC lighter in my pocket. Accomplish that because you're not supposed to allow that to happen.
[00:11:19] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, it's funny because when I was in Gulfport, talk to us because Gulfport still has a smoking lounge after we go through TSA. And, I was talking with the lady because I didn't bring a lighter or nothing because I didn't think I could. And this lady looked at me and she said, I fly all over the place. She said, in fact, I just got back from Japan. And she says, I carry ladders all the time. She says, they see them, but they don't touch them. Okay. Cool. So I brought one back with me. I stole it from the hat, but you know? Yeah. I'll have it still. Right. But yeah. So so, yeah, I was I was never so glad to see my Jeep.
I'm serious, man. I was I was walking. I was still a ways away, and I hit the button. I'm like, oh, shit. I heard her. I heard her. Where is she at? And, you know, it was dark. I couldn't see. And, so, I kept I kept hitting the buttons, and then I heard her and saw her. And I'm like, yeah. There we go. Okay. I'm happy. Yeah. I miss my Jeep. I I I I'm I'm not leaving my Jeep again.
[00:12:32] Rich Chelson:
Don't blame him.
[00:12:34] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'm driving.
[00:12:36] Unknown:
So yeah. I know I know I got in on this conversation a little bit late, and I know that we had talked, you know, about your flight and something like that previous. But why did they fucking take a picture of you? What the fuck? Your ID is not good enough?
[00:12:54] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. It is. You you have to have your ID just to get into TSA. And then when they take a picture of you, it's your whole body. You gotta hold your hands up over your head, and and they go, and they take a picture of your whole body and make sure you ain't carrying nothing.
[00:13:12] Unknown:
Is is that everybody?
[00:13:17] Duuude-Ron :
Sometimes, not always. Man, that's yeah.
[00:13:25] Unknown:
Goddamn. If it if the metal detector did not fucking go off
[00:13:30] Duuude-Ron :
Is that right? But but you see, though, the thing is, in this day and age, three d printed shit
[00:13:37] Unknown:
won't set the metal detector off. You're right. I got that. I completely understand that. But you're gonna three d a fucking bullet?
[00:13:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I doubt that. But no. No. I know.
[00:13:54] Unknown:
You know, I I I that's just fucking outrageous. It is. I hope I don't have to fucking fly anytime soon. Right. Because they you know what? If they'd had me put up my hands, I might fucking add two goddamn, fingers to go along with, you know, my arms being raised. They they can't tell you how to, you know, manipulate your finger. Right?
[00:14:26] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean?
[00:14:28] Unknown:
Throw my hands up with with fucking throwing the bird. Oh. Oh. Yeah. I
[00:14:35] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if they'd have something to say about that or not.
[00:14:40] Unknown:
That's just fuck. Goddamn. That's just fucking outrageous. It is. Fucking stupid.
[00:14:49] Duuude-Ron :
I I agree with you, dude. I mean, it was, yeah, I don't I don't like it.
[00:14:56] Unknown:
Yeah. It's a three d printing a gun. Okay. I understand that. But you can't three d print a functional firearm.
[00:15:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Actually, you can. Yes. You can. Yes. You can, dude. Yeah. They're called ghost guns.
[00:15:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You can three d print an actual firearm.
[00:15:17] Rich Chelson:
Now the bullets, not so much, but most most three d printed guns, well, they're now making I mean, you still wanna use plastic, as the as the material, but they do have three d printable metals too.
[00:15:34] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. No. When I say when I say operable, that's gonna be your we're three d printing. The slide, the spring, the trigger.
[00:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. All those All of it. All of it. All of it. Wow.
[00:15:50] Rich Chelson:
Sure. I mean, they don't they're not pretty looking guns. I'll see if I can find one for you.
[00:15:56] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Because, I was talking with Matt because, you know, Matt does three d printing. Right? Yeah. And, you know, he wasn't talking about three d printing a gun, but, you know, he we were talking about, like, a spring loaded, like, clamp or something. You can even three d print a working spring. It works just like a spring. So, yes, you can three d print every part on a firearm. You just need a a metal bullet.
[00:16:28] Unknown:
Well and and I understand that because just having the threat of a weapon, whether it's loaded or unloaded, you don't know that. But, you know, the threat is still real. It's a handgun. I, you know, I can understand that. Jesus. Yeah. Oh, man. Words and in the words of Buford t Justice of Texas, What in the war what in the world or what in the hell has the world come to? Exactly. You know, that's just, like, so much fucking fraud, especially coming from India.
[00:17:21] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Oh oh, before you jumped on, I was I was telling Brian, this is up at the airports. And so so you'll know this information as well. Come May seventh of this year, you either have to have a real ID driver's license or a passport card, your passport, some shit like that. If you have just a regular driver's license that's not real ID, possible, you can't fly.
[00:18:01] Unknown:
ID possible, meaning the barcode on the back of the driver's license?
[00:18:06] Rich Chelson:
No. It is a different type of, driver's license altogether. It's called a Real ID.
[00:18:12] Duuude-Ron :
And it's got It it has a star in the upper right hand corner, and it has a chip in it.
[00:18:18] Unknown:
Well, I got that on my license. I got a star up in the corner. Okay. Well, then you
[00:18:23] Duuude-Ron :
you have a Real ID then.
[00:18:25] Unknown:
Oh,
[00:18:26] Duuude-Ron :
okay. But there are people that don't, and states have been, fighting it for a long time. I mean, they do offer both, but now, the FAA and the government has said that you as of May seventh of this year, you have to have a real ID, a passport card, passport, some other type of identification to fly in the Continental United States. So
[00:19:02] Unknown:
You know what? We just need to take technology back to the fucking mid eighties. Yeah. Well I saw a thing come across talking about the fraud. Saw a thing come across of, TurboTax. There are there are a lot of scams now, the people doing services saying that they're turbo taxed. Really? And scamming and scamming people out of their, refund. Yep.
[00:19:42] Duuude-Ron :
That's messed up. Yeah.
[00:19:46] Unknown:
You know, it's amazing how people well, how fucked up it is that people their full time job is fucking scamming people out of money. Oh, yeah. You know, like, get a fucking job. No. And then, unfortunately, they fucking probably make a hell of a lot more money than a regular job. Yep.
[00:20:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:20:13] Unknown:
Yep. So, anyway, with the trip to Arkansas Mhmm. You flew you flew up there. We already know that. So you drove one of the trucks. Uh-huh. Did the truck that you were driving have a trailer attached to it in any way, shape, or form?
[00:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was pulling a cam trailer.
[00:20:36] Unknown:
Okay. Was any of the other trucks not hauling a trailer of some sort?
[00:20:43] Duuude-Ron :
Me, Matt, and Brian were hauling trailers. He wasn't.
[00:20:47] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So you could have actually drove up there, got another trailer for your Jeep, and Dee could have pulled your Jeep. Right? Yes. That is correct. Pulled the cam yeah. Pulled the cam trailer, and you could've pulled your Jeep.
[00:21:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I yes. And and yeah. I could've. But yeah. He doesn't like pulling a trailer. I don't give a fuck. Well, like like I was telling Brian before you jumped on, I done told Matt. I said, dude, I never again. I will never help you move again. You just butter light a torch to the house and walk away because I'm not helping. I'm done. I'm not flying. No. I'll come visit, man. But but, I mean, I mean, the house he got and the land and the shop. Oh my god. It's it's yeah. It's a dream. It's a dream for a lot of men. I guarantee.
That shop alone is 2,400 square feet.
[00:21:55] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:21:56] Duuude-Ron :
Oh god. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's huge.
[00:22:01] Unknown:
So did the person that was selling the property just trying to get out?
[00:22:08] Rich Chelson:
Single owner.
[00:22:11] Unknown:
Yeah. It's Yeah. Just trying to just trying to get rid of it. No. Getting up in getting up in years. Or
[00:22:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It was it was an old lady. She had, I mean, well, they built the town, basically. They were they were the richest people in town. She's got multiple properties, and, she was she had let her son live in this house and everything like this. And, they was all wanting to move out to the farm because they have a farm where they run cows and stuff, and and she's just wanting to get rid of the rest of her property. So that's why that's why she was selling this.
[00:22:55] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So
[00:22:58] Duuude-Ron :
and, yeah. Sits on two acres. Oh, it's it's nice. It's really nice.
[00:23:05] Unknown:
Are they on mount? Is where Matt is at, is that a mountainous area? Or
[00:23:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. It is.
[00:23:14] Unknown:
Yeah. And they they sit in a holler, and they Oh, that's why I was that was gonna be my next step. Is it big enough to be called a town, or is it still a holler?
[00:23:25] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's it's I mean, it's a town, but it's, it's only a town it's only a town because the government says so. Other than that, it was pretty much a holler. They they got a Dollar General, a Family Dollar, a little small grocery store, one gas station, and a a little burger joint homemade burger joint. And so, yeah, it's it's it's a cool little town. The town square I'm gonna tell you what. You can only go one way around this town square, and if you make a turn, you don't really have time to straighten up before you have to make another turn. And any and you just do that, and it's and it's, yeah, it's small, but it's awesome.
I kinda like the town. It's cool. And and and a Verizon phone is is on an extended network up there.
[00:24:25] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:24:28] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. It's it's oh, yeah. See, the nearest the nearest Walmart's up in Winchester on the highway, on on I 64, and it's, like, 60 miles from their house.
[00:24:47] Unknown:
Oh, wow.
[00:24:48] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it was funny. It was funny. We we were at the house, you know, unloading shit and all like this. Dee come up two or three different times. Wanna go to Walmart? And Matt looked at her. No. No. I don't.
[00:25:04] Rich Chelson:
And He left Arkansas for that very reason.
[00:25:07] Duuude-Ron :
Right? Oh, no. By god. I looked at Matt. It was, like, the second or third day I I looked at Matt. I said, you gonna wind up going to the Walmart. I guarantee you. He's like, no. I ain't. But, yeah, she she freaking asked him at least once a day, for, like, three days. And he finally told her, like like, you know, they'd go, like, up on Saturday or something because they have to take the yule trucks back and everything, just, you know, make a full run out of it. And and Dave was like, well, I'd like to go up on Friday before the kids get here. He's like, no. We got everything. And, you know, and that's the thing. Dollar General's, like, three literally three minutes from their house.
But, oh, no. She wants to go to the Walmart.
[00:26:00] Unknown:
Well, you know what? I'd be saying, you know what? You wanna go to Walmart so bad, go to fuck to Walmart. Bye. Knock yourself out. He did. Have fun. Have fun.
[00:26:13] Duuude-Ron :
He did. She's like, well, I'm afraid I get the wrong thing. He's like, no. I'm not going.
[00:26:24] Unknown:
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Okay. So let so let me get unclusterfucked here. Dee kept asking Matt to go to Walmart, and he said, no. We ain't gonna go to Walmart.
[00:26:39] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm.
[00:26:40] Unknown:
So he ended up going to Walmart anyway.
[00:26:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. Did not.
[00:26:47] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So they ain't been to Walmart.
[00:26:51] Duuude-Ron :
No. Oh, no. Okay.
[00:26:53] Unknown:
Okay. So if I was yeah. If I was Matt, I'd tell Dee, it's like, if you wanna go to Walmart so bad, knock yourself out. Bye. Have fun.
[00:27:04] Duuude-Ron :
He did tell her that.
[00:27:06] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Okay. That's where I okay. That's where I was confused. And what was and her response was no. I may get something wrong?
[00:27:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:27:19] Rich Chelson:
And make damn sure you got the right thing.
[00:27:23] Unknown:
Why you fucking make a list? Yeah. Not only that, if she's there and has a question, goddamn. Get on the fucking cell phone and call. Right. How fucking hard is that? No comment. No. Just leave it the fuck alone. Leave it alone. Okay. We'll just
[00:27:49] Unknown:
we'll leave it alone.
[00:27:51] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But yeah. No. It was it was funny because, I mean, I I was just laugh I was just sitting there just laughing. I was just like, oh my god. I looked at Matt. I said, you're gonna wind up going to the Walmart. He said, the fuck if I am. So, yeah, I don't I don't know if he went today. I kinda doubt it. But, yeah, it'll be, yeah, it'll be tomorrow or Saturday when they went to the
[00:28:21] Unknown:
I was gonna say, how far away was the U Haul place that he had to turn the U Hauls into from where his place was at?
[00:28:31] Duuude-Ron :
They're, like, a forty five minute drive.
[00:28:34] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:28:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and they don't they don't have to have the trucks back until Sunday.
[00:28:42] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:28:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So
[00:28:48] Unknown:
But do they do they have them downloaded, or did you even help with the download?
[00:28:53] Duuude-Ron :
I did. I I did some. I mean, I I I mean, I work I work until I couldn't walk no more, and then I sat my ass down. You know? There you go. You know, no one said anything. And, you know, I I didn't care if they did or not, but, you know, they don't. What I'm saying. And, you know, because it's it's it's not, you know, it's not my stuff.
[00:29:15] Unknown:
Yep. You know, at that point in time, if I can't move and they're hurt, I'm hurting and they say something, it's like, you know what? Just fucking take me over to the get me a fucking ticket and take me over to the fucking airport. Right. Right. Yeah. You're gonna be like that. You know? So how far away was the airport from where they're at?
[00:29:41] Duuude-Ron :
An hour and a half.
[00:29:44] Unknown:
Damn. Yeah. And I'm sure that was then I'm sure that airport was a puddle jumper too, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. They were all puddle jumpers.
[00:29:52] Duuude-Ron :
It was, like, it it was actually kinda cool with the puddle jumper. Oh, okay. And and it was funny. We we was fixing to go into the airport in Lexington, and we're sitting at the light to turn in. Of course, it's rushing our traffic, so we're waiting. And, one plane comes in to land, flies over the road, and then, a little Cessna comes flying in. Matt says, there's your plane right there.
[00:30:21] Unknown:
You you actually, if if a crop duster had flown, it that would have been the perfect moment for a crop duster to fly over. It's like, nope. That's your plane.
[00:30:31] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. But, yeah, no no. The Lexington Airport, it was small. It was it was actually, really, really nice. And then, Charlotte I wound up going to Charlotte, and, Charlotte was actually a nice airport. It was small too. So I was I was I I was telling Brian I will not go back to DFW ever again.
[00:30:58] Unknown:
I don't care. That shit that's just a fucking madhouse.
[00:31:02] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, dude.
[00:31:03] Unknown:
Oh, I know. That was yeah. That was I've been there, and it's a fucking madhouse. The last time I flew, I had to fly out of DFW to Saint Louis for a course, for air gas to, test cylinders. Alright. And now and now that particular course is all online. Mhmm. So, you know, nobody has to fly any place anymore, and knock yourself out because we'd be we were in class for six hours a day and then fucking doing homework for another four to six hours after we got done with the fucking class. Metallurgy metallurgy, man, that ain't no fucking bullshit. And, you know, the fucking formula for the testing aspect of the way it's the metal is tested, You had to have one of those fucking, yeah, fucking computer calculators.
Oh, scientific calculators. Yeah. Yeah. To do the, the equations. And the guy that teaches it, he's the only one in air gas that teaches this course because he has two degrees in metallurgy. Two master's degrees in metallurgy.
[00:32:52] Duuude-Ron :
Wow.
[00:32:53] Unknown:
So, yeah, he's a very smart guy. Me, not so much. Me, I'm not so much smart. No. Yeah. We would be doing homework for another four to six hours just so I could pass this fucking test at the end of the fucking week. Damn. And a third of the students that were had flown into Saint Louis did not pass the class. And, I mean, they were coming from all over The United States.
[00:33:25] Duuude-Ron :
That's crazy.
[00:33:26] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. And a third of them didn't pass because well,
[00:33:30] Unknown:
it was not fucking easy.
[00:33:33] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah.
[00:33:34] Unknown:
But never yeah. I won't ever have to go through the metalurgy calculations because, hell, the fucking system does it all. But we just have to have the understanding to be certified by DOT. Mhmm. So but hey. So I won't be, doing that anytime soon anymore.
[00:34:03] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's good. Now now now when you went to DFW, did you, ride the Skynet
[00:34:13] Unknown:
train?
[00:34:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yes. Dude, I was scared. I was scared because it didn't have a driver, and it drove like my sister. Oh, goddamn. Oh, man. That thing, we freaking took off. Right? Uh-huh. And it was, like, zero to a hundred and go, god forbid, on a corner. Fuck. It it throw you halfway across the other side of the damn train and and and breaks. Oh my god. Damn. You you better hang on. It it was gonna throw you forward when it hit the brakes. I mean, it wasn't gentle about it. No. I dude, I was scared. The robots were coming for me, and I was I wouldn't have that.
No, sir. It was not even that.
[00:35:00] Unknown:
Yeah. No. I I was
[00:35:02] Duuude-Ron :
I was so glad to make it back last night.
[00:35:08] Unknown:
And you said you went through what? Charlotte, North Carolina or South Carolina?
[00:35:13] Duuude-Ron :
Charlotte's only in North Carolina, dude.
[00:35:18] Unknown:
No. There's a Charlotte, South Carolina.
[00:35:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But it's not as big as Charlotte, North Carolina.
[00:35:24] Unknown:
Well, I didn't I don't I ain't been there. I just said that there was one in each.
[00:35:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But but normally normally, when you say Charlotte, everyone thinks North Carolina because Charlotte, North Carolina is pretty good size.
[00:35:39] Unknown:
But Yes. It is. It is.
[00:35:42] Duuude-Ron :
It's it's not as big as Atlanta or Raleigh Durham or any of the mothers, but it's Yeah. It's sizable. I ain't gonna lie. But, yeah, Charlotte was nice. I I I enjoyed Charlotte.
[00:35:56] Unknown:
Well, that that's only because you didn't leave the airport. Right?
[00:35:59] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm. Hell no.
[00:36:02] Unknown:
Uh-huh. You didn't you didn't even let leave the airport to have a smoke.
[00:36:07] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, fuck no. Because I would have had to come back through TSA. Yeah.
[00:36:12] Unknown:
See. I've I've done that.
[00:36:15] Duuude-Ron :
You're right. And see, that's the thing. You know? It's like it's like, Dallas. Oh my god. You know? Well, I see, I had a cigarette in Gulfport because they had a smoking lounge, like, one of the last airports to have a smoking lounge in in an airport. Uh-huh. And after I got on the plane, had that smoke, I did not have another cigarette until, 10:00 the following morning. I was not No. No. I was not a happy camper. Soon as I got outside, I was puff, and I said, fuck the pass.
[00:36:58] Unknown:
I was in the budget. Yeah. I was fixing to say there was no fucking puff puff pass. It was puff puff puff puff puff rinse and repeat several times.
[00:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. I was like, oh, hell no.
[00:37:14] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:37:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I wouldn't that morning. But so I mean, I mean, you know, it wasn't a bad trip or anything like that. I mean, it was it was pretty good, but I was still glad to get back home.
[00:37:30] Unknown:
Oh, I'm sure.
[00:37:32] Duuude-Ron :
I I was so glad to get back home. I mean, it's freaking beautiful country up there. Yesterday morning, it was 34 fucking degrees.
[00:37:42] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[00:37:44] Duuude-Ron :
No. I was wrong.
[00:37:46] Unknown:
I was at home.
[00:37:48] Duuude-Ron :
I was like I got up, and that's like, there's frost on on the windows. I said, what the fuck? He's like, yeah, man. There's frost. And I saw his phone. It said 34. Dude, no.
[00:38:01] Rich Chelson:
It's the three wire left for the left.
[00:38:05] Unknown:
You know what? We out of here. What was it? Monday morning? I had frost on my windshield.
[00:38:14] Duuude-Ron :
No. You see, this is this is, Yeah. No. This is April. Oh, last night last night when I landed, I walked out of Ford Airport, and that and that fucking humidity hit me, and it was warm. I'm like, oh god. I feel okay. Okay. I'm alive again. I feel good.
[00:38:37] Unknown:
Yeah. And when that humidity slapped you in the face, it kinda turned your head about
[00:38:42] Duuude-Ron :
a 80 degrees. Right? Oh, no. No. No. I was loving it. I was like, bring it. Give me more. Dude, 34 degrees. No. In April. No. And and, you know, that's like that's like they're saying, well, well, how is it supposed to be in the fifties? No. When I get up, it's six it's in the sixties minimum. Like this morning, I get up. It was, like, 63 degrees. I walk outside and and and my shirt and, you know, my shorts. I'm good. Leave me alone. No. It'll be 34 damn degrees. Uh-uh. That's just uh-uh.
[00:39:27] Unknown:
I don't yeah. So did did you did you pack for that?
[00:39:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. I took a jack. It was it. I took a jacket. So yeah. No. I I was not I was not enjoying the mornings.
[00:39:45] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:39:46] Duuude-Ron :
Now now Matt and Dee's house is a beautiful house. I love it. And, I mean, when you put furniture in the rooms, it the room the rooms look even bigger. Wow. I'm serious. I'm serious. Up in the living room, they had their 75 inch TV, a couch, a loveseat, match chair, and a a makeshift coffee table right now because it was it was all packed. And that room looked like it got bigger. There was enough room. You could, you know, stack more in there. There's, the hallways, you could damn near walk with your arms outstretched, you know, side to side and and and barely touch the walls. The hallways are wider than hell.
Has an eight track player in the wall with a intercom and a stereo system. I mean, beautiful. God, it's a beautiful house, but stairs. They got stairs. Yeah. That was fun. Up and down, up and down, up and down.
[00:41:10] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:41:11] Duuude-Ron :
Told told Maddie he, needs to put in a dumbwaiter or elevator or something that'll hold my fat ass. Them stairs were just oh, man. They're brutal. But now it was and and the thing is that house, even empty, felt homey. When you walked in, you kinda felt like you you was supposed to be there. It was it was a weird feeling, actually. Ah. Yeah. It's it's it's weird because most houses don't, you know, don't feel homey till you get your stuff in them. Right?
[00:41:58] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:42:00] Duuude-Ron :
Not this. Not this one. This this home felt like grandma and grandpa's house is what it felt like. Well, that was
[00:42:10] Unknown:
That's cool.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It was. I mean I mean, they just you walked in. You just felt like he's gonna see grandma and grandpa. You know, grandma in the kitchen cooking something because Right. You you fixing to eat. You know? And it just that's just the way it felt, man. It was it was it was weird. It was cool, but it was weird. So and, something else kinda cool, happened today that was totally out of the blue.
[00:42:47] Rich Chelson:
What's that?
[00:42:49] Duuude-Ron :
I met the daughter of the original owners of this house. Yeah. In fact in fact,
[00:43:00] Unknown:
her and her husband Your house. Your house. Right?
[00:43:03] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. My house. Yeah. Okay. They, her and her husband live I mean, they're they're, like, in her, mid seventies, you know, close to 80. And, they, they came down, and they was going across the street to talk to the neighbors across the street because, you know, they they know them. Right? Right. Well, no one was at home. There's a work. And and, I had I had come out the front door, and lady saw me. And they started coming over, and I was like, may I help y'all? And, they told me, you know, she was raised in this house. I'm like, oh my god. Her daddy built this house is what it was.
Yeah. And I was like, oh, hell yeah. And they was like they was like, we'd heard there was there was a lot of work done. So mind if we come in and, look around? I said, no. Not at all. Come on. And, it it was cool because I got to see some of the old pictures, you know, before it got remodeled. There was a few walls moved, come to find out, you know, and, you know, stuff like that, but the bathroom was made bigger. My bedroom was actually bigger. It was more out in the living room. They just moved the wall back, you know, made the bedroom smaller and everything. It but it was it was cool because this lady grew up in this house, and she was walking through telling me the way the house looked back then where where there was, you know, picture windows and where mom had her sewing room and stuff like that. It was it was actually cool. They were nice people.
[00:44:52] Unknown:
Yeah. That's good. Yeah. And,
[00:44:55] Duuude-Ron :
and, yeah, we were chitchatting, walked in the yard. They they freaking told me about the yard and just the area and everything. And and, I told him. I said I said, if y'all wind up coming back up here, you see that Jeep in the driveway, just knock on the door. You know? We'll sit and talk. And, you know, they're like, you know, they're like, well, if we get back up this way the way it sounded, this was probably gonna be their last time they're here. Trips. Yeah. Yeah. But he's like he's like, if we ever do come down, I said, you better knock on my door. Y'all, like you know? Because, I mean, they were just cool people.
So That's true. It was yeah. I thought so. It was it was, it was cool. So so, yeah, that was that was nice. I wasn't expecting that.
[00:45:51] Unknown:
Yeah. How old how old were they?
[00:45:57] Rich Chelson:
Seventies.
[00:45:58] Duuude-Ron :
Mid yeah. I would say I would say mid to late seventies.
[00:46:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:46:07] Duuude-Ron :
So
[00:46:11] Unknown:
And re remind me when was your house built?
[00:46:14] Duuude-Ron :
1950.
[00:46:16] Unknown:
'50. Okay.
[00:46:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. So so, yeah, it was so, yeah, so her mom and dad owned it. Well, she their daughter wound up owning it. I, I did find out this house has only flooded once, and that was during Katrina. She said this this house has only flooded one time in its life. I'm like, that's good to know.
[00:46:51] Unknown:
How however, the backyard is a different story.
[00:46:54] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And and come to find out, that backyard's always been like that.
[00:47:00] Unknown:
Yeah. I was gonna ask you. Did you get to the question, has this backyard always had this issue?
[00:47:06] Duuude-Ron :
I didn't even have to ask the question. They they just volunteered it. Her her mom had a garden back there for years is is, what they figure, but that backyard has always been soft.
[00:47:22] Unknown:
So I wonder Yeah. I wonder if you couldn't just build a trench and, you know, use some, paving stones or something like that to drain it drain it away. Can you even do that?
[00:47:37] Rich Chelson:
Or even, or even put it install a French drain in that area and just and just run it to your to your sewer line.
[00:47:50] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that would be that would be across the whole yard. I mean, that's But it would drain the whole yard. Well, yeah, that is true. That is possible, maybe. I might I might have to look into that.
[00:48:05] Rich Chelson:
We'll get Ron over there to dig the ditch.
[00:48:12] Unknown:
Yeah. That's like that's like that's like me running. You know? I did that for twenty one years in the military, eighty second, five miles a day except for on Friday when it was 10 miles. So Oh, okay. O s e 10 ran 30 miles a week for twelve years. The only thing that I'm running right now is my fucking mouth. I ain't running across the street unless my hair's on fire, and you guys seen the top of my head. There ain't shit there. No. That's not gonna be on fire. It'll be a very faint fire. Yeah. So I ain't running yeah. Not not I ain't running for shit unless somebody's fucking, you know Yeah. Chasing me with a gun.
And then Right. They're probably gonna catch my hats anyway because I can run about a block and then I'm done. Just
[00:49:19] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. That's farther than I can run.
[00:49:23] Unknown:
And that's why I only run my mouth these days. That's just that's the only running I do. That's the only running I do. So I guess I shouldn't piss too many people off that have guns.
[00:49:41] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. It was it was, it was actually fun to get to meet him. And and, and her husband's, he was air force. So Okay. Yeah. Because he was he was stationed at Kiesler and then Tinker and few other places.
[00:50:00] Unknown:
Oh, heck. He ran around our friend. He ran around my backyard.
[00:50:04] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:50:05] Unknown:
Yeah. Tinker is what? Oklahoma City, isn't it? Oh, KC. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
[00:50:12] Duuude-Ron :
So but, yeah, they they, they live in Ohio now. Yeah. It was just it was it was cool it was cool to get to talk to them and and, you know, get to hear about about this house and, come to find out this back part, it was added on after the main house was built. The front part of the house was built, but it wasn't too much longer after the front house was built that it was added on.
[00:50:41] Unknown:
So But but your house is how many square feet, though?
[00:50:46] Duuude-Ron :
Like, 1,100.
[00:50:49] Unknown:
I wonder what the hell that square footage was before the add on. Wow.
[00:50:55] Duuude-Ron :
It was small.
[00:50:57] Unknown:
Okay. You think? And it's only 1,100 square foot with the addition?
[00:51:04] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. I don't know. Wow.
[00:51:07] Unknown:
Yeah. Damn.
[00:51:11] Unknown:
Okay then.
[00:51:19] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. This
[00:51:21] Unknown:
this last part was dedicated to our hearing impaired listeners.
[00:51:30] Duuude-Ron :
To what? I'm lost.
[00:51:33] Unknown:
It's silent, so it was dedicated to the hearing impaired
[00:51:37] Rich Chelson:
hearing impaired meltdown. Everything died off.
[00:51:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. Okay. I get it now. That was god. It took took me a couple seconds to figure that out.
[00:51:52] Unknown:
Couple seconds and a couple of explanations. But, hey, we're good. It's it's it's fucking well, it's almost 08:00. So you know? And and you've been traveling, and, you know, just got back today. And so, you know, I'll give you a little bit of leniency, but not very much. Because probably by later on tonight, I'll probably be yeah. I don't know. You'll say something stupid. You'll say something stupid, and I'll have to dog you.
[00:52:25] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right. Right.
[00:52:27] Unknown:
That's okay. That's just that's just the love coming through the airwaves.
[00:52:36] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I hear you, dude.
[00:52:39] Rich Chelson:
For show. For show.
[00:52:43] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it was, yeah, it was good to get to see the kids. I I I thoroughly enjoyed that.
[00:52:52] Unknown:
You get to play, Breezy in a in an actual one to one on her game that she likes so much? I don't remember the name of it. Like, car, soccer.
[00:53:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, Rocket League?
[00:53:08] Unknown:
Sure. Okay. I believe it.
[00:53:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's that's that's Rocket League. No. We no. No. We didn't get to do that, but we got to hang out and everything like that. And, Breezy got to stay, Sunday night into Monday, so I got to hang with her for a while, which was cool. It sucks. Good. Yeah. It was. But it sucks because she's growing up. Fuck. Pisses me off. Damn it. Stop. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm like, no. Stop. But, I mean, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed spending time with her.
[00:53:52] Unknown:
You know? And I could say the same thing with my body. Stop grow just stop. Just rewind about fifteen years and Right. Stop right there. Well, this be good.
[00:54:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was I was teasing Breezy. I'm like I'm like, I'm like, how old are you? Nine, eight, six? And she's like, no. I'm 12. I'm like, no. You ain't. Oh, yeah. She she was laughing at that. And I'm like, honey, you you you have to stop. Allowed to be 12. Yeah. No. You have to stop growing up.
[00:54:30] Unknown:
But, you know, she wants to be a teenager now. So I'm sure so badly she wants to be a teenager. And then once she gets to be a teenager, she's gonna be I wanna be an adult. I don't wanna do this teen thing. I wanna be an adult. And the first day of adulting
[00:54:53] Duuude-Ron :
the first Like, I wish I was six.
[00:54:55] Unknown:
And the first comment is like, damn. I wish I was fucking five or six again. I don't know. I hate. All I had to worry about is being in the house, before the lights came on.
[00:55:09] Duuude-Ron :
Right? Yeah. I don't know. It just, yeah, I mean, damn, she's getting big. So I don't know. I just I just I just didn't I just enjoyed the time I, you know, got to have with her and stuff like that. And MJ and Mia got got to, hang out with them and play with them, and that was that was cool as shit. So, I mean, it it that's why I say it wasn't a bad trip. It was it was it was actually, you know, a really good trip except for the air flights.
[00:55:48] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:55:50] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But I I will tell you, I was ready to come home. The only reason why I wasn't home on Tuesday is because there was a chance I was gonna wind up and have to go through, Dallas Fort Worth again. I had options. I told Dee, I said, no. I ain't doing Dallas again. I'll go to Charlotte. She's like, okay. You're leaving Wednesday night then. Fine.
[00:56:13] Unknown:
I don't care. Work for me.
[00:56:16] Duuude-Ron :
I'll I'll freaking wait another couple days. I don't care. I'm not going through Dallas.
[00:56:23] Unknown:
But when did you actually when did you actually step out of the airport in Mississippi?
[00:56:31] Duuude-Ron :
09:45 last night. So
[00:56:40] Unknown:
So what was your what was your act okay. This is, yeah, this Thursday. So what was your actual travel time? Basically, what time did you, get to the airport in Kentucky?
[00:56:56] Duuude-Ron :
Got there well, I I flew out at 06:00 yesterday evening, and I got to Gulfport at 09:45 last night.
[00:57:07] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:57:08] Unknown:
So it was only a few a few hours of travel time. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:57:14] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. And and and the airports in in Charlotte and, Lexington, they were small, so they didn't have 20,000 gates. You know? They just had a couple. And so it it wasn't in fact, when I got to Charlotte, we rolled into Gate Echo 26. My the flight to catch for Gulfport was at Echo 44, so I only had to walk a short distance. I was I was real happy about that.
[00:57:45] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[00:57:49] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah, I just mhmm. Excuse me. That snuck up on me. But, yeah, it it it's it's not something I wanna do, anytime soon.
[00:58:11] Unknown:
I don't blame you a bit.
[00:58:14] Duuude-Ron :
Now if if if if I can ride a boat to Belize, I'll be happy because I'm not flying. Screw that shit. They'd probably wanna send me to Dallas Fort Worth. No. Kiss my ass. Yep. So so, yeah, it's like, uh-huh. So what's up with y'all?
[00:58:45] Rich Chelson:
Not a whole heap and lot. See, biggest thing that happened this week is I went in for an interview Okay. With with Gore and, got accepted. And first, they, they went through and, wanted to do go ahead and do a, fit for, fit for work exam Yep. Which was where they go through. It's like, can you, you know, your, your blood pressure okay, yada yada yada. And then they went off and, and, had me do 20 squats. Just squat down, stand up, squat down, stand up, do that 20 times. Mhmm. And then walk up two steps, walk back down, two steps of a of a step ladder, do that 10 times. Man, that was just a combination of first just to see if my you know, I didn't make sure I didn't have any type of knee problems or anything like that, knee, hip problems, but also to get my blood, my my pulse, my heart rate up so they could, check and make sure that there wasn't anything there. So it's kinda like a little little, moderate, stress test.
And, then after that, they had me carry basically pick 50 pounds up off the ground, walk, like, 15 feet, put it on to a put it on to a counter, and then pick it back up, move it back, put it, put it on the floor, and basically repeat that also 10 times.
[01:00:28] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell no. So
[01:00:31] Rich Chelson:
thing I found out about that, my legs are out of shape. You think? I woke up this morning, and I was sore. I was like, what the hell is with my legs? Why are they so oh, yeah. I did all those 20 squats and walked up to this, you know, tens. There's basically two steps times 10, so 20 steps. It's like well, walked up and down 10 times, so that's ten forty steps. It's like, god dang, man. My legs won't let stand out. Let's get out of the truck, stand up, and go to stretch and be like, oh god. Oh oh oh oh oh, what the hell? Yep. Yep. So so yeah. Yeah. My
[01:01:17] Unknown:
You know, I resembled that remark.
[01:01:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It was it was kind of a, bit of a, of a learning experience. I'm gonna have to now start doing, doing about 20 squats every day just to get my to get my endurance up. Can't be having legs get sore just because I'm walking a little bit, especially if I ever plan on completing my, checking off my bucket list to walk walking the Camino De Santiago. Right. Right.
[01:01:48] Unknown:
And and what's that?
[01:01:50] Rich Chelson:
That is where well, there's several different paths, but the way I I wanna take is what's called the French way. And you start in Lords, France, and you walk the path of of, is it Saint Peter? No. Saint James. The way of it's a way of Saint James. Santiago. Is what what the, Camino De Santiago, the Road Of Saint James. So but, anyhow, you walk from Lord France to the farthest west west most furthest point in Spain, and that is the Camino, that is Santiago, the Compostela. And it's usually they say it's about a six week journey. You can do it in little you can do it in increments, but, but at the same time, it's a it's a And
[01:02:58] Unknown:
you're and you're starting in France? Yeah.
[01:03:01] Rich Chelson:
And you walk you walk basically, you can start in France. You can start actually, oh, what is the you can actually start North Of Of Spain and walk down and then, but, I mean, come on. Who wants to who wants to do the the the the baby way? We're gonna no. I wanna do the I wanna do the if I wanna do the walk, I'm gonna do the walk. So
[01:03:29] Duuude-Ron :
so
[01:03:32] Unknown:
that in is that in any mountainous
[01:03:35] Rich Chelson:
areas like Yep. You cross the, you cross the, the Alps or not the Alps. What is it? Because the Alps are north. What is the, what's the mountain range between, stay here. Mountain range between Spain and France. Pyrenees Pyrenees, mountain range. Yeah.
[01:03:59] Unknown:
Yeah. Because that's where they do the Tour de France.
[01:04:03] Rich Chelson:
Is it there or in the Alps?
[01:04:06] Unknown:
Fuck. I don't know.
[01:04:07] Rich Chelson:
I don't know either. It's still the problem. I don't follow the You know? Here in France. It's just a whole bunch of guys on bicycles driving real fast.
[01:04:15] Unknown:
You know? And I have a bicycle. It's been dis assembled now for twenty plus years. Haven't rode the bike in, god, fuck, since I was at in Germany. And, yeah. But I I actually like watching the Tour de France. Now am I gonna fucking do anything of the Tour de France? And I don't think so. Ain't no way in fucking hell. I get you it would take me the whole tour time to get up one of those fucking mountains. Yeah. I'd And the come and the coming down part shit. That's, shit, you're hitting sixty, seventy, 80 fucking miles an hour. You can? Yeah.
No. I ain't doing that because I am thoroughly allergic to pain.
[01:05:30] Rich Chelson:
Pain doesn't hurt unless you let it.
[01:05:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Tell that to me when I'm just walking through my house thinking about a naked girl and and, yeah, my back just locks up. Yeah. Come on, dude. I understand what you're saying, but that shit don't work for me.
[01:05:53] Unknown:
I mean Not buying it.
[01:05:56] Duuude-Ron :
I can I can I can walk to my house not even thinking about about my pain or anything, and all of a sudden, yeah, I get a spasm and, fuck, I'm I'm, you know, flopping around on the floor like a freaking Damn fish? Other. It's like, what the fuck? Where'd you where the hell this come from? I know. I've I've I've heard that too. You know? You know, people say you know, a lot of people over the years have said, you know, pain is just, you know, in your mind, which, yes, I I didn't say it is. It is.
[01:06:34] Unknown:
You're right. It is. But damned if it don't fucking hurt.
[01:06:39] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. Right. Right.
[01:06:42] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. It's in my mind.
[01:06:46] Duuude-Ron :
And it tells me that something is not right.
[01:06:55] Unknown:
Yep. But You know, if we just didn't have nerves, we would be good to go. I agree. I agree. You know, breaking arm, I can put a stick on it.
[01:07:06] Duuude-Ron :
And that's if you notice it.
[01:07:08] Unknown:
That's true. That's very true.
[01:07:12] Duuude-Ron :
Break an arm and and you gotta reach for something and it don't move. It's like, oh, I better put a stick on it. My arm,
[01:07:22] Rich Chelson:
mate. That place. I mean, yes, we but when I broke it or something.
[01:07:26] Unknown:
Right. You know, and I under and I understand nerves, but goddamn, why do we have to have so fucking many of them? Jesus.
[01:07:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. What yeah. What's up with that, man?
[01:07:36] Unknown:
I don't mean to cover our whole body. It's terrible. It you know, just like our skin. Yeah. You know, you know, that's a question I will have to ask God when I get there. Why did you give us so many fucking nerves?
[01:07:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because yeah. Yeah. Honestly, sometimes it's like it's like I don't need 3,000,000 nerves. I need, like, two.
[01:08:04] Unknown:
Yeah. That way, the two people that hate you the most or you hate the most can stand on that one nerve. You don't have to worry about 30,000,000,000 nerves. You just have to worry about those two.
[01:08:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
[01:08:24] Unknown:
Yeah. I don't know either. But why do we like steak so much?
[01:08:31] Rich Chelson:
Because they're made of cow.
[01:08:33] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Because it's good.
[01:08:36] Unknown:
That's right. Because it's good. It's good.
[01:08:41] Duuude-Ron :
Little salt and pepper make anything taste good.
[01:08:44] Rich Chelson:
This is true?
[01:08:47] Duuude-Ron :
Throw in some bacon and oh my god. You're fixing to have an orgasm.
[01:08:54] Unknown:
Now that that salt and pepper can taste can have anything taste good. I will definitely disagree with you on that one.
[01:09:05] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[01:09:06] Unknown:
Because there are some MREs there are some MREs that salt, pepper, Tabasco sauce. Yeah. It ain't it ain't gonna change any. And camel burgers? No. They just sucked.
[01:09:26] Rich Chelson:
Not gonna like it.
[01:09:29] Unknown:
Disgusting. And, you know, over in The Middle East, you know, they don't have as many cows as they have camels. So, you know, they make camel burgers, but they are disgusting. If ain't never doing that shit again.
[01:09:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah.
[01:09:52] Unknown:
Yeah. I've never been in fucking Middle East again either.
[01:09:57] Duuude-Ron :
Never say never, dude.
[01:10:00] Unknown:
Fuck.
[01:10:02] Duuude-Ron :
You you might you might get a while to help you ass just to go, oh, I miss it. I ought to go check it out. No. I don't fucking think so.
[01:10:10] Unknown:
It's what I can go visit. I do you know what? It'd take me the rest of my life to visit the stuff just in United States.
[01:10:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:10:20] Unknown:
You know? And to see the castles over in Germany and France and someone like that again, now that would be cool, but I ain't going to fucking Africa. I ain't going to The Middle East. I ain't going to India. No. I don't need to go to any of those fucking places.
[01:10:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, actually, you know, if you wanna go to Middle East, just go to Detroit.
[01:10:48] Unknown:
Yeah. But yeah. You know what they call you know what they're called up there?
[01:10:53] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[01:10:55] Unknown:
Chaldeans.
[01:10:59] Duuude-Ron :
They're what?
[01:11:02] Unknown:
The nickname in Michigan for anybody that is, Arab from an Arab nation are called Chaldeans. Okay. Why? I don't fucking know.
[01:11:17] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[01:11:19] Unknown:
But that's what they call them up there, is Chaldeans.
[01:11:23] Duuude-Ron :
More paratool?
[01:11:25] Unknown:
Yep. You're right. And I ain't going to fucking Detroit either. I don't fucking think so.
[01:11:31] Duuude-Ron :
Detroit's not that bad.
[01:11:33] Unknown:
Well, you know what? And I ain't going and I ain't never gonna see a Hundred And 70 Second Street off the interstate of Chicago ever again. May you know what? Two two white people in a white truck stand the fuck out. Really? Yeah. Hundred And 70 Second Street in Chicago? Yes.
[01:12:01] Duuude-Ron :
So it say y'all y'all look like a neon sign?
[01:12:07] Unknown:
You know what? I felt like there's a fucking huge bullet or a target on my fucking truck. Oh. Yeah. No. We got we we found out well, when we started seeing the Sears Tower in the distance, We're like, what the fuck? So we knew we were going in the wrong direction, getting off that exit, going over the highway, and getting back onto the highway. Yeah. That was enough for me at A Hundred And 70 Second Street. Yeah. No. Thank you. That was a now. Yeah. That was a very dark neighborhood.
[01:12:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Yeah. We
[01:12:52] Unknown:
we stuck out.
[01:12:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It sounds about like Cicero Avenue in on the West Side Of Chicago. It's dark even in the daytime. And even darker at night because the street lights have been knocked out. There's, like, two for three miles.
[01:13:13] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:13:15] Duuude-Ron :
So
[01:13:18] Unknown:
I mean, I ain't got a problem with that because I need to have absolute darkness to sleep. So if you knock out the street lights, hey. I'm good to go. Less light coming through my windows. Right. But no. I ain't complain. No. But I ain't gonna go there to do it. Not only that, they have entirely too much white shit that hits the ground in the winter months.
[01:13:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yes, sir.
[01:13:48] Unknown:
Ain't no thank you. Fuck that shit. Now it's fun to drive around on a Jeep on that and do some donuts and that kinda cool shit, but, no. It like, Rich says, too fucking cold. Yeah. They ain't gonna do it. Nope. Nope.
[01:14:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The white shit's fun for, like, two minutes, and it's like, okay. I'm going in and drinking hot cocoa. Fuck that shit.
[01:14:17] Unknown:
You know? And it and it's and it's fun to, you know, push people up a hill or pull people up a hill. Yeah. Do you know do you know the funner things of life that when you have a Jeep, you can do that. But, yeah, just the overall cold and white shit on the ground, no. No. Thank you. Exactly. Nope. Nope.
[01:14:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's yeah. It was funny. When we got up there, I looked at Matt and Dee. I said, so I take it Thanksgiving and Christmas is, up here in Kentucky. Yeah. I mean I mean, it was it wasn't even really a question because I knew the answer. You know? Uh-huh. But, and I'm like, fuck. I'm gonna have to go out and buy winter clothes now just to go up there for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yep.
[01:15:14] Unknown:
And make sure you get a set of chains for the fucking tires.
[01:15:20] Duuude-Ron :
Or my Jeep? I don't think so. No.
[01:15:24] Unknown:
Well, they're in the mountains, and it gets snow and ice.
[01:15:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well I'll I'll make it.
[01:15:31] Unknown:
I know you will. Because the people around that area know how to fucking drive in it too.
[01:15:38] Duuude-Ron :
This is true. This is true. Yeah. Because the people up there and it was funny. Matt and I was up at the shop. You know, we, you know, we had moved some stuff. We was taking a break. I said I said, Matt, I got a question. He's yes, sir. I said, well, just the people we've seen walking by on the street, I'm like, what is your wife gonna think? He looks at me, and he's like, I don't really care. I said, do you know this is gonna be a culture shock for her? He's like he started laughing. He's like, yep. Because it was funny. Not long after that, we saw a we saw a lady walking down the street, and she wasn't in her right mind.
And and and it wasn't very long after we saw our d comes out. Did you see that crack here walking down the street? I just turned around and started laughing. I'm like, welcome to Kentucky. You know, it happens everywhere. You know? I'm not just picking on Kentucky, but, yeah, this is Dee Who is? Who's lived in the city. And and, oh my god, if if if if everything ain't right, you know, you know, if it's not the way she thinks it should, she loses it. I was just I was just thinking it's like, oh my god. She is gonna just eat it up here.
[01:17:18] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yep. Gonna have to learn to slow down a little bit, and that's for sure.
[01:17:23] Duuude-Ron :
Honestly, I don't I don't know if she can. One of her biggest things is is, going to the Walmart. I'm I'm dead serious, man. I mean I mean, she is all about that day in Walmart. And,
[01:17:43] Unknown:
I mean, good. We'll see how long she'll be about all about that Walmart driving a fucking hour just to get to it.
[01:17:54] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, she'll do it, dude. She don't care.
[01:17:57] Rich Chelson:
Once she realizes how far and stuff and that she has to get what she wants, she'll she'll get very comfortable in in making the proper choices. Nah. You know, I don't know because when they lived in Montana, Walmart was up in in Kalispell, and that was over 50 miles away. And, when were they even living in Montana? When were they living in mon oh, no. No. They were looking at moving to, to Idaho. That's who it was. I was like, why? Wait. Wait. Wait. They moved up there and then suddenly they're
[01:18:27] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. They no. This was back in, 2016 Okay. 2015.
[01:18:34] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You don't wanna live in Montana. Montana's cold.
[01:18:37] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. No. It's too cold for me. But Yep. It's not true. But Oh, yeah.
[01:18:44] Unknown:
Except for when it's cold and the fucking wind is blowing at 60 miles an hour.
[01:18:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Which is nine months out of the year. Winter is like yeah. Winter's like nine months out of the year. I mean, it it it still snows in June up there. Okay? I know because I I saw it with my own eyes. Well,
[01:19:05] Unknown:
my ass ain't going up there.
[01:19:07] Duuude-Ron :
But well, you see, when they lived up there, the nearest decent jobs was Kalispell, and that was over 50 miles from where we lived out out in the middle of fucking nowhere. And, every day when, when, Dee went to work, she had to go to Walmart every single day. And, I mean, she was always coming home with stuff. I mean, she is totally hooked on the Walmart. So I I don't know if she'll ever give the Walmart up or not. She might maybe in twenty years, but I ain't holding my breath.
[01:20:06] Unknown:
You know? Yes. I do my shopping at Walmart. But for me to have to fuck. I ain't too Yeah. No. I am I try to be in and out just because I really don't wanna be there in the first place.
[01:20:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. No. No. You see you see, you go to the Walmart just to do your shopping and get out. You don't go just to go. Or or like like like, oh, I I need a pack of pens. I need to go to Walmart. You don't do that. She
[01:20:48] Unknown:
does. She does. Oh, yeah. No. It's
[01:20:53] Duuude-Ron :
and and, you know, it's like, you know, Dollar General has the same shit. No. She don't like the Dollar General.
[01:21:02] Rich Chelson:
No, sir. Of course not. That's a cheap people place. Hey. Again, I resemble that remark. Oh, I'm not you ain't hearing me complain about it. I'm Okay.
[01:21:17] Duuude-Ron :
I'm a cheap old better student. Honestly, Dollar General got almost too expensive for me. Dollar General's getting really freaking expensive. Absolutely.
[01:21:26] Unknown:
Yeah. I know. It's no longer Dollar General. It's dollar fifty five General. Yeah. Right. Right. Well, the dollar store is two bits. Yeah. And the dollar store is four and a quarter.
[01:21:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[01:21:50] Unknown:
So I know that I came into the converse again, came into the conversation late. So our who did you interview with?
[01:21:58] Rich Chelson:
Gore Nitrogen. It's an oilfield company. Yeah. Oilfield company. The only thing that they talked about, though, that I heard and the first thing I thought of is, oh, that's not gonna be fun. They apparently have the same damn system in their trucks that you have in yours.
[01:22:16] Unknown:
Now you said whatever nitrogen. Gore? Yeah. Are you gonna be hauling nitrogen?
[01:22:25] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. I mean, the way they the reason why they call themselves Gore Nitrogen is because they started off being nitrogen frack company. And Oh. What they with, nitrogen fracking, what they did is they took liquid nitrogen and would pump it down hole. And so it would go down at a lower pressure. So if you have a really high pressure, well that you've gotta get broke up, you would use liquid nitrogen because once it got went down hole, it's hot down there. So all that air all that nitrogen is gonna expand.
[01:23:02] Unknown:
Well, yeah, the the difference between liquid nitrogen and compressed nitrogen or even atmospheric is three I'd I'd have to get back in the book, but it's, like, several thousand like, one cubic cubic inch of liquid will expand to, like, 1,800 cubic feet of gas.
[01:23:36] Rich Chelson:
Something like that. Yeah. I don't believe that. Something like that. Yeah.
[01:23:43] Unknown:
And like I said, I'd have to get back in the books to fucking remember what all the gas's expansion aspect is from liquid to gas. So that when they did that, that's where their name came about, but they don't do
[01:23:59] Rich Chelson:
the nitrogen Well, they still do some of that. They do a bit what's called now called, foam fracking. And, basically, they send, basically, a foam. From what I understand, I'm not because I wasn't whenever I was in the land of of hydraulic fracturing, I was we were doing slick wells, slick water. Basically, it was a water it was a they would take water, mix it with a chemical that was a friction reducer for water. And so it'd be the slimy, nasty shit. You got it on your gloves. You could never wash it off, and it would crust up, and then you take it take it off. The moment your hands got wet again, it would slime up again. You never could get rid of the shit.
But, but it was, but, yeah, they would do, basically use, use slick water and and sand and send that down the well using just the pump pressures of the, of the machines themselves.
[01:25:06] Unknown:
So So so what are you actually going to be, driving?
[01:25:14] Rich Chelson:
I'm gonna be driving. Basically, it's a Freightliner, but it's a day cab. And What
[01:25:21] Unknown:
what are you hauling?
[01:25:23] Rich Chelson:
Hauling a frac sand. Oh, okay. So I'll, basically, what I'll do is in the morning, well, depending on shift because we work twelve hour shifts. We start off, six nights at night. You get twenty four hours off, six nights of days, and then we have six nights or six days off. So we, have a we have six days of days and nights, so six full days of of, being absolutely off. Don't have to don't have to worry about calling. Unless you wanna go and work some more, and then you can go back in and you can work and, for four more days, and you take another day off. I think you could then work two days four off.
Forget how they did it. Or just work two more days, you're off a day, two more days, then you're off another day. So Anyhow, they they want you to do a twenty four hour reset before you get back go back in so that, you have plenty of time.
[01:26:31] Unknown:
Right. So, basically, you're gonna be gone from the house for two weeks to work. Time. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
[01:26:41] Rich Chelson:
So
[01:26:44] Duuude-Ron :
And where are they working at? I mean, is it they are the
[01:26:49] Rich Chelson:
Basically, right now, they are the biggest hydraulic fracturing company in Oklahoma. They had one instance back in 2015 where they did layoff. The last few, slow periods that they had, like in, like, in '20 what would that been? 2020, '20 '1, about the time where all of a sudden there was too much, too much oil, or no. That was in the, that was yeah. No. That was during, during the Wuhan flu. No. No. That was during when was that? I don't know. Yeah. It was during Wuhan Flu period. It was March of twenty twenty. Shortly there or shortly thereafter, after March 2020 or that area because, yeah, Trump was still in office, and that's when oil got so low that it actually was negative $25 a barrel.
You Yeah. Could actually would've been paid by the oil companies to take oil off their hands. Yeah. I remember that. And so there was there was that, and where it got real flow in that period, they, they actually took a took a hit in their profits, but they kept everybody on. They just found stuff for people to do. It might have been that you were sleep sweeping out the corners, of all the buildings. You know? You might be sweeping the dirt in the parking lot or whatever, but they were gonna find something for you to do so that you could at least and they may they dropped them down to eight hours at a time, but they were still working.
[01:28:37] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:28:39] Rich Chelson:
So and it's $27 an hour. So and I'll be getting my hazmat because if you get your hazmat, then they bump you up to $28 an hour. So it's like, alright. Well and then if I need to and and I have to move to to Central Texas, I guess I could always just run over to Temple and go, hey. I know I know this Ron dude. He I know he's kind of a jerk, but I I can work with him.
[01:29:08] Unknown:
Yeah. He would be. Man, that that that sounds like that guy's a real fucking asshole. Yeah. Major dickhead.
[01:29:16] Rich Chelson:
Anybody get my head job?
[01:29:19] Unknown:
Not recently.
[01:29:22] Rich Chelson:
Get a little get a little turtle wax and a towel and polish that chrome up.
[01:29:29] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:29:31] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. Y'all are killing me.
[01:29:35] Unknown:
So they so in your off time, is there obviously, there's a place that you can crash, but is it a a shared place
[01:29:49] Rich Chelson:
between the day shift and night shift? No. Actually, what they do is they, I guess, they go off and buy out a whole damn hotel or something because they give you each each buddy a person's got their own room. Oh, wow. That's nice. Yeah. I thought so too. I was like, holy smokes. That's awesome.
[01:30:09] Unknown:
Well, hopefully, you have a now do they will they also give you a, any type of
[01:30:18] Unknown:
food allowance,
[01:30:19] Rich Chelson:
or is that all They do, on you? Okay. Yeah. It's a they give you a per diem.
[01:30:24] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:30:26] Rich Chelson:
It is $2 for every hour the first forty hours, which I'm not exactly sure what that means, if that is for four the forty hours or if that's for the twelve hours that I'm off. I don't know. But, anyhow, it's $2 per hour, the first four, first forty or forty hours
[01:30:50] Duuude-Ron :
because That's about $25
[01:30:53] Rich Chelson:
a day. Yeah. And then you get $3 an hour for all the overtime hours. Okay. So you get something like about a if I did my math right, which I mean, I did go to Sunray High School. So, probably, it's, should be around about a hundred and $50 or a hundred and $20, I mean.
[01:31:17] Unknown:
So Hundred and $20 a week. Right?
[01:31:21] Rich Chelson:
A week. Yeah.
[01:31:23] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, that's not bad to be able to feed yourself.
[01:31:34] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. Yeah. Go shopping and cook in your room. Take your camp stove.
[01:31:41] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. Take a little camping stove. We're getting
[01:31:45] Duuude-Ron :
a buy it. Oh,
[01:31:47] Rich Chelson:
yeah. Yeah. No. I'm buying a coffee, but yeah. Right. I just I'm gonna have to probably buy a tub so that I can put the stuff in so I'm not having to bag it out, at the end of
[01:32:03] Duuude-Ron :
at the end of of a job.
[01:32:06] Rich Chelson:
Right. And we moved to another because, I mean, we might be at, like, say, Arnett One Day or or for one job and be there for two weeks and then up and and shag butt all the way over to, you know, like, outside of ceiling, which is, you know, about a about a two hour drive away from there and be there for another another month and a half, two months.
[01:32:34] Unknown:
So Oh, so you're continuously moving around?
[01:32:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:32:39] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:32:41] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Get a cooler. Throw your stuff in and Oh, yeah. No. I'm definitely having a cooler. That's for damn sure.
[01:32:47] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Okay. So
[01:32:50] Unknown:
let me find out. My neighbor, I don't know if he's gotten rid of it yet or not, had a 60 gallon cooler.
[01:33:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my bad.
[01:33:07] Unknown:
God. It's free.
[01:33:13] Duuude-Ron :
That would hold your stuff, dude.
[01:33:15] Rich Chelson:
It would hold stuff. Plus half a cow. No. I thought it's just I'd never heard of a of a 60 gallon cooler before. It's like, holy crap, man. That's that's what,
[01:33:28] Unknown:
fucking Matt had in his, camping trailer for the alcohol. Oh, was it? Yeah. That was a 60 gallon tour cooler. Yeah. They had two of them in there.
[01:33:39] Duuude-Ron :
Holly.
[01:33:40] Unknown:
Yeah. Those big coolers. Yeah.
[01:33:45] Rich Chelson:
It's insane.
[01:33:48] Duuude-Ron :
You you you had never seen them bacons? I guess not. Yeah. No. They got they got some massive ones, dude.
[01:34:00] Rich Chelson:
Hell, I need a semi truck just to be able to transport it.
[01:34:05] Unknown:
Well, I put it to you like this. It would not fit into the fucking cab of a day cab.
[01:34:12] Rich Chelson:
That's for damn sure. I'd have to go off, get, get some ratchet straps and and and strap it to the into the, the catwalk on the back. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
[01:34:24] Unknown:
Pretty much. Arbor freight. Would have to do that. Arbor freight. Yep.
[01:34:30] Duuude-Ron :
Get you ready? And and freaking get the automatic ones. Those things are freaking nice, man. Automatic ratchet straps. What? Yeah. Yeah. You just oh, it's it's it's cool as shit. They're they're, like, on a little spool. You you hook the, end where the spool's at, hold the other end over your stuff, hook it on, and then hit a button, and it tightens up. Very slick. And and and, taking it off is just as easy. Just hit the button, and it releases it. And oh, yeah. I I didn't know they made them either till, say, was it last year or sometime? But, Matt had some, and he's like, oh, check this shit out. And he pulled them out. I'm like, look at you getting all fucking bougie.
What the hell, dude? And but yeah. And I wanna say, I wanna say Harbor Freight's got them. They're, like, ten, twelve foot, you know, but, yeah, they're you just and, actually, once you use them once or twice, you'll be like, why the fuck haven't I found these before?
[01:35:39] Rich Chelson:
You know? Because it it it makes sense to me. It hasn't applied enough tension on it to to hold everything tight? You can ratchet it too. Oh, okay. Okay. So it just sucks it all up for, all the all the loose up. So Yeah. Yeah.
[01:35:55] Duuude-Ron :
And then and then you ratchet a couple times, you know, snug it up. And then and then when you're done, just just hit the button, and it'll loosen it, and you can take it off. I don't know that. They're actually pretty dadgum slick, dude.
[01:36:12] Rich Chelson:
I agree.
[01:36:13] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I don't have any personally, but I've used a couple of them. And I'm just like, damn. Where have these been my whole life? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It makes strapping a whole lot easier.
[01:36:33] Rich Chelson:
And it'll let the let the guys over here at the Up to Grove know about about that. Too bad they don't have them for trailers.
[01:36:42] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I don't know if they do.
[01:36:44] Rich Chelson:
They probably don't. I'm sure DOT would I'm sure there's something about DOT rules that requires manual labor.
[01:36:52] Duuude-Ron :
So I think it could be. I mean, those straps, they're I think they're rated for, like, a thousand pounds. And Oh, okay. Yeah. They're those are little little one inch straps then. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Your four inches are, what, 4,700 if I remember right? 57. 50 7. Okay.
[01:37:14] Unknown:
Well, you know what? Just get yourself a cordless drill. Yeah. Get yourself a, you know, a little, you know, your own invention type thing and, you know, put it on the strap and, you you know, turn on the drill and it'll take up all that you want. Oh, they've
[01:37:35] Duuude-Ron :
they've got a winder tool for them four inch straps. You can put your drill on it and and Yeah. Yeah. Wind up a four inch strap. I know I had one when I flatbed it. I thought I thought that thing wasn't anything since cupcakes.
[01:37:49] Unknown:
Okay. Well, yeah.
[01:37:51] Duuude-Ron :
You know, when you're sitting there rolling up four inch straps, rolling up, you know, 10 or 12 of them, that takes By hand? Yeah. By hand. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It no. Fuck that. Yep. You get this. I think I paid, like, $60 for that little tool, and it's nothing really to make. It just it just sits on the rail, and it's it's a forked thing. And you just Yeah. Spin it with your hand, but, oh my god, it it saves so much time.
[01:38:21] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. I've seen them. I've never had one, but I've seen them.
[01:38:27] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I like to.
[01:38:29] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm sure. But, you know, our pallets are we have ratchet straps that, secure the pallets onto the onto the back. But
[01:38:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:38:43] Unknown:
They're what? That strap is only what? I think my tails are, like, 12 inches long after I get done tightening the straps. Oh. Yeah. So, yeah, not not quite the as difficult of a as flat bedding life is. No. Hopefully, I'll never have to go through that shit.
[01:39:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. What Come on now. Builds character, dude.
[01:39:25] Unknown:
Now, you know, just getting there, at in there in the morning. Make sure that my that, you know, I got everything on the truck that I need to have on it. Get my paperwork. Get my, haz or my, manifest hazmat, and just go to the destination, unload, reload, come back, and then go to fuck home. That's what's nice about this. I'm home every night.
[01:40:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:40:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'm home every night too.
[01:40:07] Unknown:
Yeah. We know. Fuck you. You're home every day too. You know? Right. Any any fucking thing else you wanna, like, you know, add to the conversation within that aspects, asshole?
[01:40:24] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I did find out I'm still fighting to get my fucking title.
[01:40:29] Rich Chelson:
I think I was that was fucking resolved.
[01:40:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So did I. And and and, I was last time I talked to him, I was told it was in progress, that Mississippi had the title. And today, I called the state and talked to him, and they're like, no. The title is not in the system. I'm like, what the fuck? So so I had called back to,
[01:40:55] Rich Chelson:
Broadcaster and
[01:40:59] Duuude-Ron :
had to had to, call them again and and because they sent the title. I've I've got I've got the delivery receipt from back in January. Okay? They don't have the actual title, so it's somewhere in Mississippi.
[01:41:17] Unknown:
Oh, that's yeah. Okay.
[01:41:19] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. It would be in a fucking landfill right now. But, so so I had to call back to Bridgecrest and get they, they made a copy of paperwork, you know, saying my title and stuff like this. And, they, they they sent it to me. They were real helpful. I was I was actually happy for that. It was real helpful. And, so I've gotta send this to, Mississippi, and they say they can issue me a Mississippi title off of what I'm fixing to send them, apparently. So I'm gonna try this again. But, yeah, yeah, somehow, my title got lost. I was told it was in Mississippi. They were working on it, and then I'm told today it's not even in the system.
And I'm told awful. The hell. Yeah. It's this is
[01:42:18] Unknown:
So are you gonna go down in person to do this?
[01:42:22] Duuude-Ron :
No. I can't, dude. I can't because they do the titles in in the state
[01:42:28] Unknown:
at the state. I understand that, but can you take the paperwork that you're gonna get to generate the title? Because, obviously, you're not gonna get the title. It's being held by the lienholder.
[01:42:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. Right. It is. I you see, that's the thing. I don't know because if I mean, you know, if I took it down there, I I mean, honestly,
[01:42:56] Unknown:
I couldn't It sounds like anything that gets mailed as far as the title for your vehicle, it just comes to a fucking nightmare. And when do you have to title a fucking vehicle by?
[01:43:07] Duuude-Ron :
The end of last month.
[01:43:11] Unknown:
Nice.
[01:43:12] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. So yeah. But, I mean, I've I've got they emailed me the paperwork, so I could probably print this out and take this in and try it tomorrow and see if that'll fly. But I'm almost scared to even try that. But I've I've I've got I've got the copy the certificate of title PDF from from Bridgecrest. They emailed it to me, so I've got it to where it was registered in Missouri. But and the lady in, up in Jackson at the state said they can do it, I guess, off this piece of papers. You know, she said they like to have the actual title. It's like, honey, I ain't got the title.
The lien company don't have the title. They sent it. You know? Because the dude I was talking to today, he's like, you know, I could give you the tracking number, he says, but you you have it. I said, yes, sir. I've got the delivery receipt from back in January when they received it. So I don't know. I might I might print it out and take it up there and see if I can do something about it tomorrow. I just might email it to the state. I don't know. I know. Right now, I don't know what to do.
[01:44:42] Unknown:
Yeah. Because
[01:44:43] Rich Chelson:
irritating as can be.
[01:44:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It is.
[01:44:47] Unknown:
You know? Because right now, you have what? Thirty day grace Fifteen. Before they can fifteen? Well, yeah, that's in, like, fucking five days. I don't know. Right?
[01:45:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Exactly. Or
[01:45:02] Unknown:
the grace is actually up to where they can cite you for, you know
[01:45:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. They can cite me now. They can cite me now. And and and in four days is when they start adding on extra money.
[01:45:22] Unknown:
Oh.
[01:45:23] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They can yeah. If I get stopped, they can write me a ticket for for having expired tax. But in four days is when, DMV starts saying, okay. You owe us more money as late fees. And it's like, this is none of this is my fault. I have been trying to work on this since last, like, freaking year. And I thought I was making headway, but apparently not.
[01:45:58] Unknown:
Nope.
[01:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
Because, you see, every time I call them, I I write down the date and, you know, kind of a little blip of what of what, you know, was talked about, you know, the answers I found out. And so I've I've I've got I've got a list of every time I've called and everything. Bridgecrest or or the DMV. You know?
[01:46:31] Unknown:
Mhmm.
[01:46:32] Duuude-Ron :
So, I mean, I don't know why I just do it. So when I'm talking to somebody, because I don't get the same person every time, and sometimes I kinda have to reexplain everything.
[01:46:45] Unknown:
Oh, yeah.
[01:46:47] Duuude-Ron :
That's why I make notes.
[01:46:52] Unknown:
Absolutely. Well, hopefully, you don't get pulled over.
[01:46:57] Duuude-Ron :
I hope not. I hope not.
[01:47:03] Unknown:
Well, I would, you know, I would go in and say, you know, this is my situation. You know? Even though they can't do anything right there at the counter, but, you know, but then that that is somebody that you can go and revisit Right. You know, and to be able to, you know, hopefully get a status. And while you're there, once they find out the status, hopefully, you can get the damn vehicle registered.
[01:47:44] Duuude-Ron :
I I hope so. I mean, I really do. I I don't know. I'm I might try and print this off and take this in and, see if they can. Because on this piece of paper, it says the original motor vehicle title receipt. It's it's it's not the actual title, but it is it is the original motor vehicle title receipt. And it lists my information and the Jeep and,
[01:48:16] Unknown:
you know, and it has a But it's gonna list everything that's on the title, obviously, the VIN, the all that shit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[01:48:25] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe maybe I'll go down there and and try and use this because other than that, yeah, I'm I'm lost. I don't know what to do. I really don't. Unless unless unless I ask for a duplicate title from Missouri. It's the only thing I can think of. Right. And then wait on that and then have, Missouri send it to me. And then I can go down and get it redone and tell them to send it to fucking Carvana. I don't care who holds the motherfucker just as long as it says Mississippi.
[01:49:15] Unknown:
Exactly. That's all I can do. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:49:22] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's it's as simple as that. I don't care who holds the motherfucker. Just make it say Mississippi and let me pay for my tags.
[01:49:35] Unknown:
So Well, maybe if you take that down there, you may be able to renew the tags while this process is going through.
[01:49:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well yeah. Well yeah. Say say if they'll take this and and make a title off of it, that'll be done at the state level then, you know, if this will work, then they should be able to renew my tags right there on the spot, which which is what I would work.
[01:50:08] Unknown:
I would definitely take it in and see what they can do. Right. That kind of stuff.
[01:50:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. This is yeah. This was not
[01:50:24] Unknown:
It turned into a goddamn clusterfuck You think? Rather quickly. Because it's already gone past a gaggle screw. Now it's coming onto a cluster. A gaggle screw.
[01:50:37] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good one. I like that. Gaggles. Dude, where are you coming up with these, man? These are awesome.
[01:50:42] Unknown:
You you never, when you were in the army, ever heard gaggle screw?
[01:50:49] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'd never heard gaggle screw. I'd always just heard fuck. Oh, yeah.
[01:50:55] Unknown:
But never heard of a gaggle screw.
[01:50:58] Duuude-Ron :
No. Never never heard of a gaggle screw.
[01:51:02] Unknown:
Damn. Wow. I know we used it a lot on the eighty second, but, you know, I can't remember if we if I ever used it in the leg world. So you were a leg. Yeah. Yeah. I was a leg. Yeah. You're a leg, non airborne folk. The dirty nasty leg at that is what we always call them. Right. If you ain't airborne, you're a dirty nasty leg. Where the hell that came from? I have no idea. I never ever researched why non airborne folk are called legs. Don't have to worry about it. They don't they don't float it through the sky.
[01:51:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's true. Airplanes. They have to walk everywhere.
[01:51:55] Unknown:
That could be. That that very well could be. You got, you know, the airborne infantry that fly in, then you have the regular infantry that walks every place. Really? Okay. I could I can I can get that, but I still need to research it on where that saying came from in the first place? Because after you fucking drop, yeah, you fucking every bit of
[01:52:24] Duuude-Ron :
walking. Oh, that's true. Yeah. That's true.
[01:52:32] Unknown:
Yeah. You the eighty second, they didn't fucking jump into place and be able to get into vehicles. Hell no. Well, it's just You're you're kind of lamberfitties. Lambert.
[01:52:51] Rich Chelson:
The way we have it
[01:52:53] Unknown:
if you wanted it, you better fucking be able to carry it, which sucks because when we went over to Iraq for Desert Storm, I took 14 cartons of smokes. And by the Dang. Cartons Uh-huh. Of smokes. And
[01:53:24] Rich Chelson:
Became a small became a an instant millionaire from after after they found out he had that many cigarettes.
[01:53:31] Unknown:
Hell no. No. I didn't fuck hell. I wasn't giving them away.
[01:53:35] Rich Chelson:
I didn't say you're giving away. You're selling them. Yeah. I I wasn't even sold. A square, man.
[01:53:41] Unknown:
No. Hell no. If you didn't have, sucks to be you. Because they they finally came to be able to have a or a replenishment, and, I was, like, down to my last two packs. They made a brigade tobacco run for cigarettes and Copenhagen dip was about, for the whole brigade. It was something like $40,000, and it took two Blackhawk helicopters filled with tobacco for the brigade run. To go get tobacco for everybody in the brigade. Well, shit. That's only thousand fucking people. No. Brigade. Yeah. Brigade task force is about a thousand people.
[01:54:56] Duuude-Ron :
That was priorities, man.
[01:54:58] Unknown:
Hell, yeah. It is. Especially when the brigade commander, you know, dipped Copenhagen.
[01:55:06] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:55:11] Unknown:
Like, hell, yeah. We need to fucking do a tobacco run.
[01:55:15] Duuude-Ron :
You want us to follow the Geneva Convention? We better be smoking cigarettes or dipping tobacco. Because if we're not fuck the Geneva Convention. We're out.
[01:55:27] Unknown:
Yeah. And they fucking don't put them in the MREs. Now they put them in the fucking World War two rats. Yes. They did.
[01:55:37] Duuude-Ron :
Fucking put them in MREs. Nope. Bastards.
[01:55:43] Unknown:
I know. Right? Yeah. They wanna they've been saying since fucking early eighties, they wanted to have a tobacco free military. That will never ever
[01:55:57] Rich Chelson:
happen. Oh, hell no. Ever.
[01:56:06] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. It it's sad. It won't it won't happen.
[01:56:10] Unknown:
No. Because if I was in the military, it sure the hell would never be a fucking smoke free military because I'd be the last one fucking holding out. Right.
[01:56:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's yeah. I went I went to the dock, and then, they asked me about my my smoking and all like that. I said I I just told them smoking. I said, yeah. Pack and a half, two packs a day, thirty plus years. Just shut the fuck in and stop asking me. You
[01:56:43] Unknown:
know? And every time I go to the the VA and it doesn't matter who I'm seeing. If it's mental health, if it's my primary care, it doesn't matter. They ask me, do you still smoke? I'm like, yeah. And they say, you know, that's bad for you. I'm like, you know what? It's been bad for me for the last forty fucking years because I started when I was 14. So forty three years. I know that it's bad for me. Well, do you wanna quit? No. No.
[01:57:20] Duuude-Ron :
If I wanted to quit, I would ask.
[01:57:23] Unknown:
You know, I have tried several times to quit. The only time that I have ever quit was eight weeks of basic training.
[01:57:34] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:57:35] Unknown:
Yeah. When my dumbass when they said in AIT that, you know, we could have tobacco, my dumbass fucking went and bought tobacco. Yep.
[01:57:46] Duuude-Ron :
What? So Well, you see what was funny? We weren't supposed to smoke in basic training, but I I got a couple hits off a couple cigarettes every now and again. We'd we'd hide out in the bathroom at the exhaust fan and and. Oh, yeah. Late at night too. And and and when we knew the fire watch guy, you know, if he liked us. Because Sometimes I just have to pay him with a couple cigarettes of yourself. Hey. Hey. Shit. We were good with that. You know? Yeah. No. You you know, as long as we could puff puff past, we didn't care.
[01:58:28] Unknown:
Yeah. But the problem is is fucking finding a a damn good hiding spot for it. Right.
[01:58:36] Duuude-Ron :
And then and then freaking dispose another cigarettes afterwards. Well, we just flush them, really. And then, yeah, AIT, oh, it was unlike Donkey Kong.
[01:58:47] Unknown:
Unlike Donkey Kong. I ain't heard that one in fucking coon's age. I remember it.
[01:58:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. That's not something you hear every once in a while. I'll say it, but that's me.
[01:59:06] Unknown:
Yep. That's not something you hear very often.
[01:59:09] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So, Brian
[01:59:14] Unknown:
Yep.
[01:59:15] Duuude-Ron :
Did y'all do anything crazy in basic training?
[01:59:19] Rich Chelson:
No. Honestly, I was I I was I was actually trying to be, trying to be exemplary there at first. So yeah. Right. No. No. Actually, I I I I graduated out of out of basic, top of the division.
[01:59:41] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow.
[01:59:43] Rich Chelson:
Then got to the Kitty Hawkman LS one Lemaster and said, you know what? Fuck you. I ain't doing this bullshit. I'm gonna I'm just gonna be I'm just gonna do the bare minimum so I can hide and keep out of everybody's way. So it goes to show the power of a good leader versus a shitty leader.
[02:00:05] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So But then you see, though, that's the thing, though. You're that that that one dude, you know, wasn't gonna be your leader for the whole time.
[02:00:30] Rich Chelson:
No. But at the same time, within, like, the first week, he'd already said that you can't wait until he gets my till he, until I, became a a third class petty officer so he get so he can get my Chevron. And I was like, oh, okay. Good luck with that.
[02:00:51] Duuude-Ron :
What? He was wanting to bust you back down? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's something he he was
[02:00:57] Rich Chelson:
known to do.
[02:01:01] Duuude-Ron :
Damn. That's crazy.
[02:01:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. He was he's an asshole. That he's the one that, Scott's always talking about.
[02:01:08] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[02:01:11] Rich Chelson:
Yep. He might be an asshole, but he's our asshole. I was like, no, dude. Let us let him get his fucking ass kicked. He needs to learn to show his fucking mouth sometime.
[02:01:22] Unknown:
Right. So what what what e rank was he?
[02:01:26] Rich Chelson:
He was, he was in E5. Oh, okay. So yeah. Three no. Sayre. One, two, three. Third, say semen. Fourth is, yeah. Yeah. No? Fourth is, is, E321. So E6E6.
[02:01:54] Duuude-Ron :
It was an E 6 in acting like that as well? First class by the officer.
[02:02:00] Unknown:
Because,
[02:02:02] Duuude-Ron :
you know, some of the e fives I knew, they were dickheads, major dickheads because they got power and they just let it go to their head. But e sixes once people made e six, they were more laid back than anything.
[02:02:19] Rich Chelson:
Nah. No. Well, that was just it. The second class petty officers were usually pretty cool. The e threes or the no e threes. The, third class petty officers, second class petty officers, they were cool. And the most a good deal of the first classes were cool, but it wasn't until you became a chief, which is, a seven, that, you know, which is, you know, their the navy's version of an of an NCO. Right. So but, yeah, the first lot of cool lot of cool first classes, but, yeah, you had o s one Lemaster. Yeah. Yeah. He could he could suck a turd out of my ass for all I care. I'm still not a big fan of him.
So Right.
[02:03:09] Unknown:
Well, I'll tell you what. When I was a first sergeant, I was not I didn't have any fans as for damn sure. But, you know, they also knew that well, in one, I would take care of them. I would go to bat form if they were in the right. But if you weren't in the right, I'm gonna I would bury your ass.
[02:03:35] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:03:36] Unknown:
You know, There's no I really don't have any gray area. It's pretty much black and fucking white.
[02:03:45] Rich Chelson:
Right. Hey. Got let me well, okay. Never mind. Looks like she finally gave isn't it stopped? No. I was fixing to say, hey. I may have to answer this call because got my aunt who's trying to call me and keep telling us, like, call you back here in here in an hour. Call you back here in a night. She keeps trying to call. So I don't know if she's just she calls me. Usually, sadly, means she's probably been drinking. Fucking shit. Oh, damn it. Alright. Hey, guys. Let me see what that get to see what it's gonna take to get her off the phone. I'll I'll be back here in a moment.
[02:04:20] Unknown:
Alright. Alright. Alright. That'll be it.
[02:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah. Hopefully, we're back. I didn't end the live, so maybe that's going good. We'll see if dude can get back on, and I think he's trying to get back on. So, yeah, this is this is a a this has been a full night, really, is my trip. And then, of course, we talk about military and trucking and work and all this other stuff, and and then Brian's aunt wants to call him and everything. So yeah. Let's see. Well yeah. Maybe dude's not able to get in. I don't know. Oh, this is a oh, dude.
[02:05:34] Unknown:
You back? Alright. Alright. Gotcha. Okay. Alright. Oh, alright.
[02:05:40] Duuude-Ron :
I was beginning to wonder, dude.
[02:05:42] Unknown:
I was like, what the when he went off, it's like, mine shut off. I'm like, what the hell?
[02:05:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, normally normally, a Brian cuts out, Zoom, automatically and switches me to being the host.
[02:05:56] Unknown:
Okay.
[02:05:57] Duuude-Ron :
And and I just thought I just oh, well, no. Brian's on his phone too. So so, yeah, normally, when Zoom cuts out, it just switches me to being the host, and things go on, and and no one knows anything except, you know, except for me. You know? So it's it's like and this time when it cut off, I was just like, okay. Alright. Well, we're still broadcasting as far as I know. You know? I haven't changed none of that. So so, yeah, it's I don't know.
[02:06:26] Unknown:
I don't know. You guys are the ones that play with all the buttons. I I just I just press four buttons, and I'm good. Right. Right. You know? You guys start pressing buttons, and everything just goes haywire.
[02:06:45] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. Leave it to us.
[02:06:47] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm a leave it to you because if I start pressing button, we all fuck.
[02:06:53] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Should've blow up then.
[02:06:56] Unknown:
Yeah. You don't want me fucking pressing buttons. Like, I you know, the system that we have that controls all of our inventory and everything is called SAP. Don't don't give me to tell you what that acronym stands for, but the operating system is SAP. Okay. I have no clue whatsoever as to how to do anything on SAP. Why? Because I don't need I have no purpose to get on a computer work other than my ELD in the truck, and that's it. Right. So, you know, I'll tell these guys when I go to locations, like, you know, if you want me to get on SAP, that's fine. I can fuck some shit up for you. Don't ask me how to fucking fix it, but I can probably fuck some shit up for you. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. No.
[02:08:00] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, it it gets I mean, honestly, messing with computers is not that hard, you know, unless you unless you get into the actual,
[02:08:10] Unknown:
operating system or whatnot. But No. Yeah. No. That that will never happen. No. I'm good. I'm good.
[02:08:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I used to play around with stuff like that, but I I gave that up probably twenty some years ago, and I've got no inkling to go that deep into computers anymore just because Yeah.
[02:08:36] Unknown:
Yeah. I ain't doing any programming. Well, I fuck. I ain't had a computer in my house in fifth let's see. Twelve years. Now I have two computers at my house, but, you know, one of them is a desktop that's probably hasn't been out of the box now in ten years. So that that fucking operating system I doubt of it can even get anything put on it anymore. And then I I have a laptop that has Windows eight, but can you can you put an operating system in on a computer? Yes. Okay.
[02:09:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You can. The only the only thing that would come into play is the hardware requirements for the operating systems, and you'd have to, you know, figure out the the, hardware that's installed on the computer, the motherboard, the the chipset, and all that. But Oh, okay. I mean, if it if it has the right, specifications, yes. But since those are sold, they're probably running slower than what what these newer, operating systems want. And so, honestly, it would be cheaper just to go buy a new one.
[02:10:12] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:10:13] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, it would be yeah. Because on the desktop, you can buy a parts and and, you know, change out the RAM and change out the motherboard and all like that, but you'd be money ahead going and buying buying a new one.
[02:10:29] Unknown:
Oh, okay. So Yeah. Because I got I was looking at them the other day, you know, just for, you know, seeing what is out there possibly for the grandkids. Mhmm. And there was a what was it? It was a my oh, fuck. Microsoft? No. Wait a minute. Hewlett Packard was the, the computer itself. Right. And it and it had six 64 megabytes. And it was only, like you know, it wasn't a freaking major computer, but it was, you know, only $310. Yeah. Yeah. Also yeah. Trying to piece together and, you know, figure out an operating system on the old ones versus, okay, $310 for a brand new computer that has, you know, all the current operating and all that other shit.
[02:11:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Your, yeah, your best bet is don't but just throw the others away because they're non usable for because if if you don't know enough about computers, the old ones are just headaches. Okay? So just go out, spend your $300, you know, plus tax, and get your get a brand new computer. It'll run Windows 10, Windows 11, probably Windows 11 because it's Hewlett Packard. Hewlett Packard only makes Windows computers, so it'll be Windows 11. And, just just go with it from there.
[02:12:27] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:12:31] Duuude-Ron :
Because, I mean, yeah, you don't need I and you see, that's the thing. Most people surf the Internet. That's all they do. You don't need a $2,000 computer to surf the Internet.
[02:12:43] Unknown:
Well, this would just be for schoolwork. Primarily is the reason why I was, you know, looking at them.
[02:12:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, still, you don't need a $2,000 computer because, you know you know, the school work and stuff like that, it would be more than fast enough
[02:13:02] Unknown:
for Yeah. And it also and the reason why I was looking at this specific one, it was Wi Fi capable, and all of that was inside the computer.
[02:13:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just about just about every computer nowadays has has all that.
[02:13:21] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:13:22] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's I mean, it's yeah. It can all do wireless. It can it can do you know? They all do about the same. Some do it faster than others, and some have more memory storage. But, again, most people don't save a lot of shit on their on their hard drives.
[02:13:42] Unknown:
They put apps
[02:13:43] Duuude-Ron :
they put apps and stuff, and that's it.
[02:13:47] Unknown:
And most of the time and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong because I'm probably wrong. You know, the only thing you need as far as the speed and all that stuff is gaming.
[02:13:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, and and, and, some programs, you know, regular programs like to have, more speed. You know, they can they can operate on on less speed, but to work efficiently, they want more speed because I've got some programs that they want, minimum of 16 gigs of RAM just to run. You know, they'll work on eight, but it's it's sluggish.
[02:14:34] Unknown:
I think this the one that I was looking at was, like, 64
[02:14:40] Duuude-Ron :
Gigs of RAM. RAM. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. That's fine. That that would be that would run that would run anything you need.
[02:14:49] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[02:14:51] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Yeah. And and most hard drives are 500 gigs or a one terabyte, maybe two. So you know? And that's again, for what most people do on them, that is more than enough.
[02:15:09] Unknown:
Right.
[02:15:10] Duuude-Ron :
So now if they're doing video editing stuff like that, then, yeah, no. No. You need to spend some money. But, you know, if they're just doing schoolwork and surfing the Internet, $300 will definitely get that job done very well.
[02:15:30] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Yeah. And that's the primary aspect is, you know, is just the schoolwork. Right.
[02:15:40] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah. I'd do that. And shoot shoot. Get one for yourself, dude.
[02:15:50] Unknown:
You know, I will I'll get back, and it was on Amazon. I'll get back with you. I'll send you a picture of what the specs are in the computer that I'm looking at, and you can let me know if it's a, you know, a good investment. I'm sure it is for the price. I have no doubt, but I'd just rather send you a picture and say, okay. Yeah. This, this, and this. You know? Yeah. You're good to go.
[02:16:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well, what's the name of it? I can look it up.
[02:16:21] Unknown:
Oh, fuck. You would have to ask me that shit.
[02:16:25] Duuude-Ron :
Well well, you know what? I talk on a laptop. So, I mean
[02:16:30] Unknown:
Yeah. You know?
[02:16:32] Duuude-Ron :
I got browser. I shoot. I I run, like, three different browsers. Well, four, actually. No. Three. Oh, well, you know,
[02:16:42] Unknown:
sure. Okay. I run zero. Right. Hero. I run zero hero.
[02:16:53] Unknown:
Yeah. No. I I got I'm not that I'm not that damn sophisticated.
[02:16:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I use Chrome, Opera, and Firefox once in a while.
[02:17:06] Unknown:
Sure. Okay. Every bit of it, I I would have to agree with you on that. And so well,
[02:17:17] Unknown:
shit. Well, it fucking didn't save in my in my Amazon, so I'm gonna have to figure that out.
[02:17:31] Duuude-Ron :
I'm looking at your browsing history.
[02:17:36] Unknown:
Oh, I already got it open for let's see.
[02:17:46] Unknown:
See if I can't find it real quick. I think this was the one. Okay. So it's got
[02:18:01] Unknown:
Intel Celeron n four one two zero sixteen gigabyte RAM, 288 gigabyte storage, 20 or 720 p webcam Wi Fi, one year of Office three sixty five window or Win 11 s. I take it that's Windows 11? Yeah. Windows 11 standard. Oh, okay. And this one is 03/2009. It's a fourteen fourteen inch,
[02:18:43] Duuude-Ron :
h laptop?
[02:18:45] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:18:46] Duuude-Ron :
14 inch HP laptop. I can find it just off that. Shit. There's one for, $2.72 on sale.
[02:18:59] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:19:00] Duuude-Ron :
$3.49. Yeah. I saw you back, dude. You you cut all of us out. It didn't switch.
[02:19:10] Rich Chelson:
Did it jump does it dump everybody?
[02:19:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It yeah. Yeah. It dumped all of us, dude. Normally normally, it switches over and just Yeah. You know? Makes me the host passed it over to you. But Yeah. Yeah. Normally, it switches, but it didn't this time. It dude called me. I said, hang on. And and I was I was going back in. He's like, I'll get back on. I said, alright, man. And I was like, I was like, okay. Well
[02:19:37] Rich Chelson:
so, yeah, we'll we'll have two audio files. Yeah. We're gonna have two audios this run. So, man,
[02:19:42] Duuude-Ron :
that's fine. I can I can put them together and blend them? I'm not worried.
[02:19:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah, dude. There's a a Yeah. When, when we do or when you do and and wherever it all cuts off at, we need to find a good fart sound just knowing that whatever happened, it just took a big shit.
[02:20:02] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Okay. Okay. Let me make a note, and and I'll I'll do that. Yeah, dude. Actually, I'm saying they've got one. It's an HP, 14 inch, 16 gigs of RAM, 320 gigs of storage, Intel quad core n forty one twenty, Windows 11, for $2.72. It's normally $3.99.
[02:20:37] Unknown:
Oh, okay. But I have not come across that one yet.
[02:20:41] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. But yeah. No. Those those would work. The the only thing is when you get it, do not sign up for the one year Microsoft Office because there's a free there's a there's a couple free versions that work exactly like Microsoft Office, and, yeah, you don't have to pay for them at all. There's LibreOffice.
[02:21:04] Rich Chelson:
There's OpenOffice. There's Google, Docs. I mean, there's a lot of different ways you can do that.
[02:21:11] Duuude-Ron :
And they all and they all intermingle and work with Microsoft Office. Yep. So yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. It is yeah. It's funny when you get a new laptop. Oh oh oh, get get Microsoft Office, you know, one year free. Fuck you.
[02:21:31] Rich Chelson:
No. Thank you.
[02:21:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. Because after that year, you want a hundred bucks or a hundred and 30.
[02:21:37] Rich Chelson:
Closer to 400, so half the time.
[02:21:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I think I think if you just keep Microsoft Office as a subscription, it's, like, $1.30 a year. Yeah. As a as
[02:21:51] Rich Chelson:
a software as a service. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:21:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. If you buy it outright, then, yeah, it's like $400. And it's like, no. I don't I don't care what you do because
[02:22:02] Rich Chelson:
You do not provide that amount of value.
[02:22:05] Duuude-Ron :
No. Not at all. I use I use LibreOffice, and and I've even, donated to them.
[02:22:11] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:22:12] Duuude-Ron :
Because, I mean, it you can save in so many different formats. It's unreal. You know? Yep. So
[02:22:28] Rich Chelson:
Take everything. Save it as a PDF if you want.
[02:22:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So But you see, lee LibreOffice comes with a PDF reader, editor. Mhmm. And you can save it as a PDF, and Microsoft Office will run it.
[02:22:49] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:22:53] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's yeah. It's, that's why, yeah, that I gave up Microsoft Office years ago.
[02:23:00] Rich Chelson:
Same here.
[02:23:02] Duuude-Ron :
Now now, you know, it's funny. A lot of people bitch about the paperclip. I always kinda like the paperclip.
[02:23:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You kinda like clippy?
[02:23:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I did. That yeah. It was just I I mean, it was okay for a little bit, but after a while, I got annoyed with it.
[02:23:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Just about everybody did. Right.
[02:23:27] Duuude-Ron :
But but, yeah, I gotta say I gotta say back back when they had it for a minute, I I enjoyed that. I just I just thought it was, you know, cool. Right. Because it it was because that was you know, most most programs didn't have something extra like that. You know? Uh-huh. They were just programs and, you know, at least at least Microsoft Office had had a little, you know, moving icons. Oh, hey. Oh, yeah. You you have an iPhone. I read an article today. Well, this is for you too. Keep up on your, updates with your iPhone.
[02:24:14] Unknown:
Yep.
[02:24:15] Duuude-Ron :
Because, yeah, they're guess they're starting to, hammer Android and iPhone, operating systems trying to exploit them. Oh, yeah.
[02:24:26] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It they actually recommend about, the, the more paranoid safety folks, they recommend you restart your phone once, once a day, and I'm like, oh, yeah. Well, we ain't playing that game. So once a week will work.
[02:24:44] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah. You you
[02:24:46] Unknown:
You said did you say reset or restart?
[02:24:50] Rich Chelson:
Restart. I mean, oh, you really wanna be secure, then, yeah, you re you just go through to a factory reset.
[02:24:58] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. That would be a lot of fun.
[02:25:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. No. I I I norm I normally, restart mine once a week if I remember. But as as far as updating, normally, I just let, you know, the software updater do it. Yeah. But but when I read that article, I checked, and there was a major operating system upgrade for my phone. Oh, yeah. And it hadn't come through yet, and I'm like, no. I'll take it. Thank you. And so so I went ahead and downloaded it. I mean and, yeah, it changed the whole Outlook or changed The whole layout? Yeah. Well, it my icons are still there, but everything is is a much more natural look, I guess.
Okay. You know? I mean, it it didn't move any of the icons. It just, layout's not the word. It's, it's, I guess, the eye candy of of Yeah. When everything is done.
[02:26:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know what you're talking about.
[02:26:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I can't I can't think of the right word, but I kinda like it. It's it's it's it's it's actually kinda cool. And that's like that's like now all my you see, before, you know, when I go to all my icons, they, they used to be on, like, four different pages I would have to swipe over. You know? Not now. I just I just swipe down or swipe up, and they're all on on on one page. There you go. Yeah. So that's that's actually kinda cool because I don't I don't have to Nope. Not on that page. Nope. Not on that page. Nope. Not on that page. I just scroll up. I still probably miss it, but, oh, well.
So, dude, I I I forgot. What is, the tip of the week?
[02:27:06] Unknown:
Oh, well,
[02:27:11] Rich Chelson:
Tip of the week. Remember that there's a tip of the week.
[02:27:16] Unknown:
No shit. Yeah. My mind has been so fucking occupied with with other things in life that's going on in life right now. So let's see. Tip of the day. I think I remember what I said last week. Last week's tip of the day was don't let the door hit you where the good Lord splits you. Correct? Yep. Yeah. Okay.
[02:27:49] Rich Chelson:
Love our sign, better sign.
[02:27:51] Unknown:
Alright. Tip of the day. Do not have a screen door on a submarine.
[02:28:04] Rich Chelson:
That is very helpful. Yes. Yes. That And wise on top of that.
[02:28:09] Duuude-Ron :
It would be very wise. Now now what if you had to what what if you had a a a screen door on the inside of the outside door? Would that make sense?
[02:28:21] Rich Chelson:
Now why would you do that?
[02:28:24] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I I don't know.
[02:28:28] Unknown:
Keep the bugs out? Well, you know, if you have, you know, most of the stuff away or or the shrimp. You know? But still, if you had a screen door on the screen when you opened up the big part, you don't see you know, if there's any fish on the outside of the sun. Right?
[02:28:51] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. It wouldn't help if you knew if there were fish. True.
[02:28:58] Duuude-Ron :
You you could get that fresh sea air.
[02:29:03] Unknown:
There you go. Or better you step outside to have a smoke.
[02:29:09] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Shit. I did find out on my house on the front porch. It used to be a screened in front porch.
[02:29:20] Rich Chelson:
Oh, and someone took it down.
[02:29:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. So, I I've actually, I don't know, a couple weeks ago. I was sitting outside and enjoying it, and I I was I was I was kinda looking around everything. It's like, alright. How can I screen this back in? You know? Not not sure if I really wanna do it, but kinda wanting to do it because Lowe's down here sells screen doors for, like, $65. They're cheap. Okay. It was 65.
[02:29:58] Unknown:
So the half screen door is a full door screen. Basically, the frame, and then it's all the rest of the screen.
[02:30:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it's got it's got a wood, you know, wooden divider and stuff like that, but, yeah, it's all screen. Okay.
[02:30:15] Unknown:
Because you remember back in the days when they had, you know, half the screen with the windows and the metal bottom and all that other good shit? Yeah. The the desk stoppers.
[02:30:26] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. This here this here is an actual screen door. Oh, okay. There's Got it. There's no metal. It's all wood. So but yeah. I Okay. Yeah. I'd gotten to, thinking about that. And, I I just had to look on Lowe's and because I didn't know. Because I know what North Lowe's does not sell screen doors because I guess people don't buy them or whatnot. But I looked on lowes.com for down here, and sure as shit, they keep them in stock. Grandma approved. I'm like, you know, I'm like, you know what? That would be cool to put a screen door on the front and back of my house. I could open the doors and
[02:31:12] Unknown:
keep Let the wind blow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would work.
[02:31:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I like to I like to, keep you know, I like I like fresh air anyway. You know? Right. So oh, I found out, see, when she tell me. That lady, Shirley is her name. The one that lived in this house her life her whole life. Oh, okay. Okay. It wasn't, I think oh god. What'd she tell me? Oh, I can't fucking remember. I I think it was like they didn't have air conditioning in this house till, like, the seventies.
[02:32:06] Rich Chelson:
I believe that.
[02:32:08] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And I'm like, oh my god.
[02:32:12] Rich Chelson:
That's crazy. You know? Because, you know, think about it. Heats in front of the in front of the windows.
[02:32:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right? And fans in the windows? Because, I mean, that I mean, the the freaking humidity is just oh, it you know, it it it's rough.
[02:32:29] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:32:30] Duuude-Ron :
You know? I mean, yeah, I enjoy it, but I've got AC to go into. So it's like, when I get too hot, I just go inside, dry off a little bit, and then walk back outside. Poof. I'm I'm I'm wet again.
[02:32:46] Rich Chelson:
We're we're glistening once more.
[02:32:51] Duuude-Ron :
I wasn't gonna use those words. But but, yeah, it was funny. Yeah. She said is yeah. It was like the first yeah. She didn't have, AC in the house. Her her parents, I think, it was in the seventies when they put it in. I was like, oh my god. That's crazy. That's that's kinda tough. I don't care who you are. Exact well, I mean, that's
[02:33:20] Rich Chelson:
how a lot of them did. I mean, hell, even my grandparents, for the longest time, they, they didn't have, air conditioning in their house. And then late eighties, they stuck they put a couple swamp coolers in. Well, swamp coolers is better than nothing. Oh, yeah. The only problem is they don't work very good if you're in a humid environment. So
[02:33:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. If you're in a humid environment, swamp coolers are not efficient.
[02:33:55] Unknown:
No.
[02:33:57] Rich Chelson:
I don't care who you are. But, yeah, there was many nights. I remember going to bed in the front bedroom there at my great grandparents' house there in Pottsville, and all they'd have is they'd have, two windows open and a, and a fan running. And, boy, you loved it when that fan comes sweeping across. You're like, oh, yeah. Uh-uh. Oh, yeah. Uh-oh.
[02:34:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. We, when I I don't know. I was probably 11 or 12. We lived in a house, didn't have no AC, and and we had a big ass window in our fan. And we slept upstairs. And, Yeah. That that fan, we'd flip that on high, and, I'd I'd tell you what, it moves some air. It it pulled hot air out pretty quick and made it tolerable. So so, yeah, I do I do I I do remember them days. I just don't I just don't wish to revisit them. Yep. But I will if I have to. You know? But but, actually, before that, I've got a brand new, window AC unit that's still in the box that I'll pull out and fire up the generator first.
[02:35:27] Rich Chelson:
There you go.
[02:35:30] Unknown:
Yeah. I got that I got that for my tent. Generator air conditioner fucking there. Right? I am no long I am no longer camping. I will motherfucking glamp.
[02:35:44] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, I remember I I remember the first time you freaking told me you had an AC unit for your for your tent. I bought shit.
[02:35:53] Rich Chelson:
I was like, oh my god. Well, apparently, Matt thought that was a good idea because I remember sure the the second, second, event that, tears did. Heck, he had a had a AC unit stuck right there in front of his, in in one of his tents.
[02:36:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Damn right. Know. Yeah. He he saw Ron did it, and he's like, oh, fuck. No. I gotta do it.
[02:36:23] Unknown:
I I there ain't no I can't fucking sleep in the heat anymore. There ain't no fucking way. I yeah. I'm on a fucking half goddamn air conditioner. Yep. Fucking ain't right. Well,
[02:36:39] Rich Chelson:
I don't like to like to do it either, but, I mean, heck, that's what the river's for is to go jump in it and cool off and then go to bed.
[02:36:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that'd be cool. But, yeah, wake up three hours later at 01:30 in the morning, sweating your ass off, wait you Oh, yeah. No. I did that, definitely over Moyers.
[02:37:00] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I Moyers, for whatever reason, does not like wind. No. He doesn't. Ban they ban the wind. I don't know how I don't know how, Sandoval has the power to ban wind, but he does.
[02:37:14] Unknown:
Yeah. You're right. You're absolutely correct.
[02:37:18] Duuude-Ron :
You know something I just found out?
[02:37:21] Unknown:
What'd you find out? What did what'd you find out?
[02:37:24] Duuude-Ron :
Adam sold Cave River. Did he really? Yeah. In fact, I need to call Kathy back and find out what's up.
[02:37:38] Unknown:
So if he sold that, I take it. He's not doing his big motorcycle rally about anyone?
[02:37:51] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I don't know.
[02:37:53] Rich Chelson:
The way Kathy is actually.
[02:37:55] Duuude-Ron :
The, the the way Kathy was talking, he's he's still doing stubborn. That's why that's why I need to call her back because she called when I was in, in Kentucky, and Kathy was asking me, you know, questions. I'm like, well, Matt's here here, and I was gonna hand Matt the phone, and he was like, no. No. And I'm like, what the fuck? You know? And, you know so I was like, because no one had talked to me about anything, so I didn't know what was going on. You know? But yeah.
[02:38:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, according to the, K River Campground, Facebook page, which, I mean, take what what you want. I mean, it so it shows that, the that, they still have the the Scootin' America van sitting out there. Adam Sandoval, Scootin' America,
[02:38:59] Duuude-Ron :
there. Have The van's been gone. Hey. Hey. Hey. The van's been gone for a couple years now. Okay. But they've got
[02:39:07] Rich Chelson:
showing seven hours ago. Law Tigers Oklahoma, seven hours ago. It's a nice day out here in Moores, Oklahoma, K River Campgrounds, Adam Sandoval, Scootin' America, and it shows law law tigers van butted up against the Scootin' America van.
[02:39:26] Duuude-Ron :
That's weird because the last time we were out there last year, the Scooting America van was gone, and we told it was told it wasn't coming back. And that was from the that was from, Cathy and them.
[02:39:40] Rich Chelson:
And, let's see here. They've got a story on on there for the, once again, that's stubborn American rally is, ten nine to 10:12. And that was done that was first posted up, about, nine hours ago, and then they've got K River and up Sandoval Scootin' America, big trail, Harley Davidson, giving away my custom motorcycle April 26. Right. Help raise money for the CVMA. We're going right through the Ozarks with the pigtail Harley. Yada yada yada. So, I mean, they got flooded, though.
[02:40:28] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. They get flooded. If it, yeah, if it rains quite a bit, yeah, they get flooded.
[02:40:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. The, the the treehouse that's right next to the stage by the river Mhmm. Yep. Yep. You've got a problem looks like probably about three feet underneath it.
[02:40:47] Duuude-Ron :
The whole campground got flooded then. Yep.
[02:40:51] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. The the the stage, the water is up to just, I don't know, probably a foot below the, the the stage would help. People are fishing.
[02:41:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you too.
[02:41:05] Rich Chelson:
Actually, they say, actually say, when the water is high, the fishing is great. Fishermen and women, come on. Let's, don't let the water scare you. You could fish, from the burn pit. Bath fishing, catfish lovers, cat fishing, water level. It's, down now, but by the time the book, book stay and fish all year long, FYI, stand by these signs. No lifeguard on duty. Don't park on the grass, and always a good time. Right.
[02:41:34] Unknown:
Yeah. So there are a lot of their fucking electrical hookups are
[02:41:39] Rich Chelson:
Are are out of the way. They. I bet. For what? I bet you they yeah. They're they're probably right that they're down and out.
[02:41:47] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, they they they are more more likely to kick the breakers before all that happened. And once they dry out, they'll be fine. Yep. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. No. It's that's that's not a big o' deal. But, yeah, Kathy said that Adam sold Campground. I need to call her back and, talk to her some more. You know? Because it's like I you know? It's like, this isn't you know, I don't know why Matt wouldn't talk to her, but that's Matt.
[02:42:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:42:21] Duuude-Ron :
So
[02:42:24] Unknown:
Well, is I'm sure he ain't even planning on doing music first. Stubborn, is he? This year?
[02:42:35] Duuude-Ron :
We did kinda touch on that, and, yeah, we were asked last year to come back and do the music, but, honestly, between me, you, and the fence post, I I don't And all those listening? Yeah. And all those listening. I don't think I don't I don't think Matt's gonna do it.
[02:43:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, he tells them that'd be kind of a shitty thing come August expecting them to show up. And
[02:43:07] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean come August? Well, come August, which is the working. Or October.
[02:43:13] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. October, I mean. Sorry. Yeah. Remember, I went to Sunrise High.
[02:43:18] Duuude-Ron :
Well Yep. Well, I told I I told Matt. I said I said, well, you need to make up your mind and call and tell Adam about it now so he's got time to, you know, find someone else.
[02:43:35] Unknown:
You know? Yep. Yep. Because now how long of a drive would that be from his house
[02:43:40] Rich Chelson:
to Moyer? That damn equipment? Holy smokes.
[02:43:46] Duuude-Ron :
Probably eighteen, twenty hours. Let me look it up.
[02:43:51] Unknown:
Dang. Compared to what? Six? Three. Oh, he was only three hours away when he's in Arkansas? Yep. Oh, okay. Yeah. That would yeah. Twenty hour trip? Yeah. I don't think I'd fucking be doing it.
[02:44:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hang on. Let's I'll tell you shortly, but, yeah, I'm I'm probably twelve.
[02:44:16] Rich Chelson:
I don't think that'll be a eighteen hour trip from Kentucky down to Moyers.
[02:44:23] Duuude-Ron :
That'd be fifteen because it was twelve from Arkansas.
[02:44:27] Unknown:
Was it really? Yeah.
[02:44:30] Duuude-Ron :
Fudge. Yeah. I'll just do from, Winchester
[02:44:36] Unknown:
in touch. Well, shit. It only takes if you go from point to point in Texas, hell, it only takes you twenty two hours.
[02:44:42] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You go from you know, go from Texarkana all the way down to El Paso.
[02:44:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, it's saying no. It's it's saying twelve and a half hours between twelve and thirteen hours.
[02:44:55] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:44:56] Duuude-Ron :
Give or take, you know, maybe fourteen, whatever. That's that's straight through driving, though. Right. But, but, yeah, that's I mean, that that's still quite a ways.
[02:45:09] Unknown:
Yes.
[02:45:11] Duuude-Ron :
You know? I and I don't know. I mean, I told Matt, I said, if I were you, I would I would, let Adam know, you know, if you're not doing it or whatnot.
[02:45:26] Unknown:
Yeah. Because he needs to have as much fucking backwards plan in time as he can have.
[02:45:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, and you see this thing, Adam moved to Paris, Texas. So and, I mean, Adam can find a DJ. Yeah. You know, it's I mean, they've got DJs up up there around, Moyers or well, Adam lives in Paris, Texas now. So he got That's just that's
[02:45:55] Rich Chelson:
an hour away from
[02:45:57] Unknown:
Yeah. From Moyers. So Yeah. So that was fun move I bet you had a lot of fun moving all those damn motorcycles.
[02:46:05] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean?
[02:46:06] Unknown:
That he had in his collection in that fucking warehouse.
[02:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that's I don't know.
[02:46:14] Unknown:
I don't know what you're looking for. His
[02:46:17] Duuude-Ron :
his house was, up for sale. I don't know if it's sold yet. Uh-huh. It was up for sale. $8,850,000.
[02:46:26] Unknown:
Damn. Well, that was he had a pretty good sized house. And with that warehouse and all the shit on that, John, that property. Yeah.
[02:46:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, it sat on five acres.
[02:46:39] Unknown:
Yep. Yeah.
[02:46:42] Duuude-Ron :
So but, yeah, I I'm not sure I'm not sure who would bought the campground or whatnot or anything. I gotta like I said, I need to call Kathy back and ask her the details on it.
[02:46:55] Unknown:
Yeah. So Yeah. I don't know why the hell anybody would move to Paris, Texas.
[02:47:03] Rich Chelson:
The way Adam see see Jesus in the cowboy boots.
[02:47:08] Duuude-Ron :
I guess I well, that's where his wife worked, and, her son went to school and stuff like that. So
[02:47:19] Unknown:
Alrighty then. At least I don't know why hell anybody fucking wants to settle in Temple, Texas either, but I fucking did.
[02:47:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. You did.
[02:47:34] Unknown:
I did.
[02:47:35] Duuude-Ron :
You did eat
[02:47:36] Unknown:
Like a dumbass. Should've fucking went back to North Carolina.
[02:47:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, go.
[02:47:47] Unknown:
I know.
[02:47:48] Duuude-Ron :
Take off.
[02:47:50] Unknown:
I'm home. Bye y'all. Yeah. I know. Be nice.
[02:47:56] Duuude-Ron :
But Get in get in touch with our guests over there and do a transfer.
[02:48:02] Unknown:
Yeah. Simple.
[02:48:10] Duuude-Ron :
And then have a big ass yard sale.
[02:48:15] Unknown:
Yeah. No shit.
[02:48:16] Unknown:
Yep. I mean, I don't know what garage sale. I even have a garage sale. 50¢ for a brick and 25¢ for a shingle. I don't know what I, you you know, the sheet rock and the rafters, I don't know how much I would go on those. But, hey. You know? To actually sell the garage, That'd be kinda that kinda suck for the fucking new homeowners, but, you know, hey.
[02:48:49] Duuude-Ron :
It's not your problem, dude. It's not your monkey.
[02:48:53] Unknown:
It's not my yeah. You're right. It ain't my goat to fuck. Right. Oh my god.
[02:49:06] Duuude-Ron :
Damn. And I can't use that for a title. Oh, shit. That's awesome. Oh, sorry about that, guys. I just oh, wow. That was a good one. That was. That that man. Wow.
[02:49:34] Unknown:
I'm just I'm just all filled all kinds of fucking joy today, ain't I?
[02:49:40] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Oh, god. I'm I'm a laugh about that one for a minute.
[02:49:52] Unknown:
I'm gonna laugh about that one for for a minute. Damn. Well, that's that's good. At least I, you know, got you a little bit of humor to where you can, you know, let that roll around in your brain and, you know, laugh about it every time it rolls around. So that's good. Glad I can help out.
[02:50:12] Duuude-Ron :
I'm I'm a probably wind up using that one one day. And I'm gonna do it just like you did. I'm I'm just gonna pop it off. And, oh my god, when it
[02:50:25] Rich Chelson:
And watch everybody go, what? Oh, hey.
[02:50:30] Unknown:
You know? And you can use it by all means. You know, it's not,
[02:50:36] Unknown:
what's the word I'm looking for? Proprietary.
[02:50:40] Unknown:
You know? Use it all you want. As a matter of fact, I called to do my, my policy for my health insurance, And the lady there at TRICARE says, well, what is your what is your date of birth? I'm like, dirt plus one day. And she was like, it took her about, you know, April. Like, No. Yeah. What's your actual date of birth? But she was laughing. Right. Right. She got, just like you, got a chuckle out of what I said. You know? How old are you, dirt plus one day? And, you know, she said, I'm gonna have to use that. I'm like, you know what? By all means, I'm glad I gave you a laugh, and use it at your discretion because it just rolls off your tongue.
You know, there? Yep. It just sounds natural. How old are you? Dirt plus one day.
[02:51:42] Duuude-Ron :
That's old. Right.
[02:51:46] Unknown:
That's probably why I got glasses because I'm old and grumpy.
[02:51:58] Rich Chelson:
Nothing wrong being a Grunt Master.
[02:52:00] Duuude-Ron :
I had to write something down. I I can't talk and write at the same time.
[02:52:04] Rich Chelson:
I don't blame you. I'm not I'm the same way. I'll start writing what I'm talking about or talking about what I'm writing.
[02:52:11] Duuude-Ron :
Yo. Yeah. I've done that quite a few times.
[02:52:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Just walking down the pizza is very delicious. The street. Sound like I'm having a stroke or something. Right.
[02:52:31] Duuude-Ron :
Or or, you know, be freaking talking about a conversation and just writing, and then next thing you know, conversation totally does a three sixty, and you're talking about what you just wrote. Oh, wow. Well, dude, it's it's about time to
[02:52:53] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Time to wrap it up. Yep. Yeah. It is. So we guess we need to go ahead and get this big old bird landing and say, hey, guys. Thank you all very much for actually, listening to the show instead of just kind of, you know, perusing through idly and then, and not catching all the good juicy bits. So if you made it this far, man, I appreciate it. I'm grateful for the, the fact that you hung on for a whole whopping three hours. Either you were needing something to listen to or you like us. One of the two. I'm I'm opting for the previous one than than than the latter, but, you know, that's that's just me. But, anyhow, this show is a value for value show. We use podcasting in two point o, features to, to help with the, value for value so that we provide a little bit more value to you. We have the, we have the the pod role, which shows us, shows you several podcasts, shows that we actually recommend.
We also have the, have the transcripts, and we've got chapters. So if you're, if you're if you're like my dad who is hard of hearing, you can actually go through and just hear or read what we're actually, saying as we actually say it because the transcripts will are time dated, and so they they roll up, like, on a on a television show. So it's great. It's awesome. It's a it's an amazing advancement that has been done to, to podcasting. And there's a lot more options. Like, we have the the live item tag, which allows us to be able to go go live and stream live to, to modern podcasting apps like TrueFans.FM or Podcast Guru or Cast O Matic or, or any of those types of, of podcast, apps out there. If you're wanting to try a new, modern podcast app, you can go to newpodcastapps.com.
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And so you get, you get three hours of us yammering about something in particular, and you might pick up some interesting nuggets of, bizarre facts or or strange in, insights of our way we think. And in return, maybe you wanna help us out with our with our chapter art or our our episodic art. And, so you can help us out do by doing that, you may wanna set up chapters for us and spend some time just getting that all set up. If you've got some, some other idea to help be able to bring the community together, a little bit closer, love for you to take the initiative and just start, start doing that. We have no problem with, with you doing doing that. Just we wanna build a, a community around around this show.
And so if you are wanting to if you don't have much talent or like me or you, or your days are are packed solid, but you still wanna provide something, you can provide you that a bit of treasure where you can go to our, any modern podcast app, and you will see a support this show button someplace on the, on our page. And there, you'll hit it, and it'll bring up a a link to, to PayPal. And there, you can set up a onetime, donation or support, or you can do a reoccurring support, like how they do it with Patreon. But this is completely up to you. How much do you wanna give? That's up to you. Send you know, if you wanna do a dollar, okay, a dollar. If you wanna do a hundred thousand dollars, well, you know what? God bless you, and and, we will, make sure we mention you consistently throughout every show from now on. So we'll we'll find something to be able to do to to to pay you back for that vast amount amount of money. But it is again, it is all completely up to you.
You, you provide what you wanna provide, and, we'll, and and we will definitely be saying thank you anytime you do that. If you'd like to be able to send us an email, say you heard something that we were completely bass ackwards on and you wanna call us out on it, then by god, call us out on it. Just send us an email over it. You can send it to me, circle cast, that's a c I r c l e c a s t, circle cast at g mail dot com, or you can send an email over to rich Chelsea. That is r Chelsea, that's rchels0n,@Gmail.com. So those are the two email addresses that you could send, over to. And, hey. You get ahold of us, and we will, we will reply to you on the show. So with that, I'll go ahead and pass the torch over to, Rich. What what do you got to say for the closing shots?
[02:58:49] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, well, just wanna say, even with our snafu tonight, this this was fun. I'm I'm I'm I'm glad I was able to make it back home this week because I didn't know how long I was gonna be gone on my trip, and I I was just glad I was able to make it back home so I could hang out with y'all and have fun. So but, yeah, I just wanna say thanks to everybody for listening, and keep listening and keep downloading, and share this out with your friends, your family, your loved ones, shit. People you hate. Who cares? Because, sometimes dude comes up with some very funny stuff like tonight, and, you'll definitely wanna write it down and freaking remember it.
I I I can see his last, his last saying, catching on and and, becoming viral. That would be really cool. So but, yeah, like like, like Brian said, you know you know, if you wanna reach out to us and, you know, tell us we're doing a good job, we suck, or whatever, you know, send us an email, [email protected] or [email protected]. And, we'll be happy to, read your, emails and answer them and give you our thoughts. And if you've listened to the show enough, you can kinda tell where our thoughts might land.
[03:00:16] Rich Chelson:
But then again, you might be totally surprised. So that's So, yep, we're giving y'all a chance. Trolls. Trolls. Hey. If y'all wanna watch us get ourselves get our knickers all in the bunch, come on, man. Throw throw us something. We we'd love to love to get all riled up over, you know, whatever nonchalant item you decide to do, to bowl into our into our, consciousness.
[03:00:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would be fun. So but, yeah, other than that, thanks again, and come back and, check us out next next week. We do broadcast live. This one got cut short. Yeah. So, I mean, we're still recording and, you know, it'll be a full episode, but our broadcasting didn't survive the the transition. Yeah. I know. I, I didn't catch it quick enough, but it's okay. Next week, we'll be we'll be broadcasting again. So But with that, dude, what you got, brother?
[03:01:21] Unknown:
You know what? As usual, you guys pretty well, have said pretty much everything. Again, thanks for everybody that, sits and listens to us and, tolerates us for three hours at a time and just for us ramming on about anything and everything. Really appreciate you, spending your time with us each week. And that's all I've got.
[03:01:51] Duuude-Ron :
So
[03:01:53] Rich Chelson:
so alright. Well, guys, I wanna say thanks again for, for listening. Rich, dude, awesome to have y'all around again, and, we will talk to y'all next week. So, guys, till then, bye.
[03:02:08] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[03:02:09] Unknown:
Peace out. No. Schedule later, guys. Alright, guys. Be careful. Later. Bye.
[03:02:16] Duuude-Ron :
Bye.
Introduction and Purpose of the Show
Travel Experiences and Flying Woes
Moving and Family Dynamics
Real ID and Travel Restrictions
Small Town Life and Adjustments
House Stories and Meeting the Previous Owner
Job Interviews and Physical Challenges
New Job and Work Schedule
Military Memories and Tobacco Stories
Technology and Computer Talk
Future Plans and Relocation
Closing Remarks and Thank You