In this episode of "Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude," we dive into a lively discussion about the quirks of daily life, from the frustrations of technology updates to the humorous mishaps at the dentist. We share personal stories about the challenges of vehicle maintenance and the unexpected joys of finally getting things sorted out. Our conversation takes a turn into the world of military vehicles, exploring the evolution of Humvees and the implications of electric vehicles in the military. We also touch on the complexities of global politics and the impact of economic policies on countries like China.
As the episode unfolds, we explore the intricacies of the fracking industry, sharing firsthand experiences of the demanding work environment and the unique challenges faced by those in the field. We discuss the importance of valuing the services provided by others and the role of capitalism in fostering innovation. The conversation wraps up with a reflection on the importance of staying connected with friends and the value of shared experiences, whether through podcasting or spontaneous adventures. Join us for a candid and entertaining chat that covers a wide range of topics with humor and insight.
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[00:00:01]
Bryan Goodwin:
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. 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 and 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 Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Let's see.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian. Hello. Hello.
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
How are you? Doing good. Just getting a copy of, of the, Zoom meeting sent over to, to to, to Ron. And I'm about oh, I'd say about thirty minutes out for being done for the day. So
[00:00:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that is cool. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Heck no.
[00:01:04] Rich Chelson:
So what have you been up to today?
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well,
[00:01:08] Rich Chelson:
oh, dude jumped on right away. Boom. Yeah? Well, I sent him a sent him the link. Right. Right. Yeah. I have to scroll back two two years.
[00:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. No. No. Stop. Yeah. Piece of software was trying to update, and it was Zoom. I'm like, no.
[00:01:27] Rich Chelson:
No. Update Zoom.
[00:01:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. Yep. Not right now.
[00:01:33] Unknown:
The problem is you pushed another fucking button that you shouldn't have.
[00:01:37] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. I I need to do the updates and everything, but, yeah, you're right. I did push another button. I ain't gonna lie. And I waited until now to do it. You know? I coulda done it anytime, any other day. No. I had to wait till right now. Leave it to me. Right?
[00:01:55] Unknown:
Of course. Can't leave it to anybody else. They're the one who's fucking button happy for whatever reason. I don't know.
[00:02:06] Rich Chelson:
Dude. You know? They make buttons for the sake of being pushed, so you gotta well, fair as destiny.
[00:02:12] Duuude-Ron :
You gotta mash the button, man. Exactly. You got to mash the button.
[00:02:17] Unknown:
Yeah. People push my buttons all the fucking times. I like to just We'll push them back, dude. No. I just like to fucking throat chomp people.
[00:02:28] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You go to jail for that. If you push push the buttons back, you can't go to jail for it. See?
[00:02:36] Rich Chelson:
You can you can it's actually legal to have it to push people's emotional buttons and get them all round up and stuff. No no problem with that. So you can you can push buttons. Push other people's buttons. That's even better.
[00:02:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Like like like freaking Brian does for me here in the last couple weeks. You know? It gets me wound up pushing my buttons. You know? It's just normal course of things, but, you know, I I ain't saying it as a bad thing or nothing, Brian.
[00:03:13] Unknown:
You know? Or just or just wanna say shut the fuck. Just Well, say it. I do. I do. But it doesn't fucking help. A throat chop would fucking help much better.
[00:03:26] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? A roll of duct tape helps things alone.
[00:03:30] Unknown:
Yeah. You you're right. They do.
[00:03:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But Yeah. Yeah. No. I I I had to go to Dennis this morning and get fillings done, and, they got some mean ass tools, man. Uh-huh. Them sons of bitches. That old girl come in, I put some fillings in. And they put this cream paste up in my gums and all like that. Oh, dad gum. Numbed them up just like like no I couldn't feel a damn thing. And then next thing I hear, I go.
[00:04:04] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, what? They don't give you the big ass shot with the long with the long needle anymore?
[00:04:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They they Hey. They, they have a cream with a swab with a cotton swab, and it don't take long to numb you up either.
[00:04:21] Rich Chelson:
It does not. A lot better because my man, that was the thing I ate is they'd stick that middle as soon as it starts wiggling around. Like, oh, yeah.
[00:04:31] Unknown:
Yeah. And see what and see if you can't use your ass to fucking climb Mount Kilmajero.
[00:04:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right. But yeah. No. No. They just have a cream, and and and it don't taste bad neither. It's like, yeah, it's kinda cool. I guess, I'm a little sweet. A little tangy. Little tangy, a little sweet. Alright. I'm good. And then next thing you know, your whole mouth's numb and numb.
[00:04:56] Rich Chelson:
You can't feel it. Honestly, have you all seen you all seen the video of the girls who, go off and get, actually almost have too much anesthesia put put in their mouth, haven't you? No. I haven't. It's like half their face is just just well, I was like, don't put an arm. It's gonna look like when you look at the mirror, it's gonna look like you had a stroke because half her face is just numb. So listen. If I have their ass off on one side, they'll be able to they'll be on the other side. It's just kinda there.
[00:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
But no. It's no. She, she threw these fillings on, and, I I asked her about the glue. I said, is it super glue? And she laughed. She says, no. It's a bonding agent. I thought, how cute. Use a city word. And I said I said, is it like gorilla glue? She's like, what? She's like, well, it bonds to teeth. Well, when she put that stuff on my teeth, it smelled like PVC glue. Yeah. Smells like yeah. Yeah. You know? And I I told her that. She's like, really? I'm like, yeah. It smells like PVC glue. She's like, do you still smell it? I'm like, no.
[00:06:09] Rich Chelson:
It was just pretty little. Do what? It says just a little whip, and then it it goes away. You just hey. Hey.
[00:06:17] Duuude-Ron :
And and, yeah, she, put them on, and then and then and then and then, when she got done, she said, bite down. She says, those feel okay? I said, no. This side is jacked up. My right side was jacked up like I had a lift on on my jaw.
[00:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah.
[00:06:35] Duuude-Ron :
And so, she's like, really? And I said, yeah. Really. It it feels did feels like I got a lift on it. And she, they they have this thing. It's attached to the computer. And and I I didn't fully get to see it, but it has a piece of paper on it. And if you bite on this piece of paper, she can look on the computer screen and see where the crown or the filling is high at. And she's like, okay. I see it. And she went in there. You know? I'm just like, oh my god. You know? You're bamming it down. You know? And and everything like that. And then after that, she said, try it again. I tried it again. I said, we good now. Back in alignment.
So so yeah. And It it was just a puck lift. It was a what?
[00:07:29] Unknown:
Instead of a full, you know, lift, springs, all that other stuff, it was just a puck lift.
[00:07:35] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. Yeah. I gotta go back to first and get one or two more teeth filled, and we're gonna start doing the things with my front teeth. I'm gonna wind up getting a partial.
[00:07:52] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Good.
[00:07:54] Duuude-Ron :
Everything like that. And I looked at her day. I said I said, I want my partial now. I said, this I said, I can't eat a sandwich. I can't eat pizza. I can't eat none of this stuff.
[00:08:08] Rich Chelson:
You know? And Yeah. Yeah. But there are two on one side of your mouth. They're like, well, they're like you're doggone all about them.
[00:08:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I'm freaking Haiti.
[00:08:22] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. I'm at Then you gotta put the then put the fucking bone down. Exactly. You want.
[00:08:30] Unknown:
Goddamn. Do does it is it do you need somebody in the outside world to tell you just to put the fucking bone down?
[00:08:37] Duuude-Ron :
It's a milk bone, though, man. Those are my favorite. Exactly. I've had it before
[00:08:44] Unknown:
long time ago.
[00:08:46] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, actually, I mean I mean, it wasn't that bad, and, you know, my my mouth and my lips were numb for couple hours. I couldn't hardly talk right. Well, I mean I mean, a lot of people probably say I can't talk right now, but, you know, I couldn't really talk right. You know? So but I get home. I ain't home half hour on my phone. My phone rings.
[00:09:13] Rich Chelson:
And who's that? The saga is over with the Jeep. They got your they got your, your your your Jeep stuff. Yes. Awesome. Yeah.
[00:09:22] Unknown:
Paper thingy.
[00:09:24] Rich Chelson:
Title. What do they call it again? Title. That's it. Yeah.
[00:09:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was I was just sitting there, and it was the Jackson County tag off, so I'm like, oh god. Please please let it be good news. And I answered the phone. I said, this is Richard. And, of course, my mouth was still numb. And and, Stephanie was like, I need to speak with Richard, please. I said, this is him. And, she told me she said, your title cleared. I said, oh, thank god. I I was I I mean, oh, man. I I I was just I was I was beside myself. I said, is it okay if I come down right now? She said, yes, sir. It is. I'm on my way, ma'am. And I I I must have thanked her another 10 times after that. And, yeah, I went in, went pee, grabbed grabbed my wallet, my keys, everything, jumped in the jeep, and drove straight to the license bureau. And I licensed my trailer at the same time, so I got all I'm I'm good on everything. I'm freaking renewed on everything.
[00:10:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, how about that?
[00:10:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And then and then I went cruising. I bet you did. I did. I drove around for a little bit. I I didn't I didn't stay out too long, but I I still hey. I I was just driving around. It's like, yeah. I can do this legal now. Yeah. You know? But yeah. No. I was Yeah. Oh,
[00:10:54] Unknown:
what do you mean? And if you would've suck and and that's great news. Absolutely. Because it's been a fucking trying now for, what, nine months? Do you know? Something like that. Well, when did your when did your tags go out?
[00:11:09] Duuude-Ron :
Well, the tags went out in March March. So I've been illegal since the March, since the March, so about three and a half months. But I've been I've been trying to get this title business done
[00:11:26] Unknown:
since Most possibly never.
[00:11:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sometime last year. Yeah. And the yeah. And that's the thing. Come to find out, it was all my fault because I didn't read the Find one. One piece of paper right. And if I would've read it right, I I would've gotten a duplicate title before now. You know? Right. And I would've had it all fixed, and this conversation never would have happened, honestly.
[00:11:59] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They haven't had all this great content.
[00:12:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. True. I mean so, yeah, I mean, we did great with the content for how long now?
[00:12:09] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Let me know. About nine months.
[00:12:12] Unknown:
Yeah. Since January because you deal I fucking tag has been going out. Tags are fixing to go out. Tags are fixing to and, you know, so, yeah, since about January, we've been we've been having this drama. Now that's the biggest question of the day. Now that we know that you are all legal, you can go out cruising without any worries whatsoever. When you got your tags, was your face still numb, and did you put your head out the window so you could look like someone
[00:12:47] Rich Chelson:
else?
[00:12:50] Unknown:
So you could look like a what kind of dog you got, Brian?
[00:12:54] Rich Chelson:
A great dame. Great dame.
[00:12:57] Unknown:
Yeah. I was just hanging out there. A great dame with his head out the sunroof and the lips just flapping all over the place. I bet that would have been just fucking entertaining.
[00:13:07] Duuude-Ron :
Hell, yeah. It would have been funny in hell, but now my well, actually, my top lip was still a little numb. It didn't I mean, it wasn't bad. It was it the it was weird because the center of my top lip eased up before the outside of my top lip, but it was it was a little numb, not much. And the bottom lip was fine. So but, no, I didn't I didn't I didn't hang my head out the window.
[00:13:37] Unknown:
Yeah. That probably woulda had that caused a lot of drool too.
[00:13:41] Duuude-Ron :
I probably would.
[00:13:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Probably would. Yeah.
[00:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
Probably would.
[00:13:47] Unknown:
Wow.
[00:13:48] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, I'm I'm I'm very I'm I'm I'm very happy. That means I can jump in my jeep and just drive wherever I want now. There you go. And you and you can even be fucking naked. Yes. I can.
[00:14:02] Unknown:
Yes. You can. Well, not right now, obviously. Slow down. No. All around you?
[00:14:09] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:14:10] Unknown:
Are the storm clouds still around you from yesterday?
[00:14:14] Duuude-Ron :
There's a couple. Not really, though, because most of that stuff, it's I looked at it earlier today, and they said it's, already making landfall on on Louisiana. So it's it's pretty much out of here where I'm at, and it rained all hell. I think it rained a half an inch. Ground just soaked it up is all. Yeah. I mean, it didn't it didn't make a dent. Nothing. And then, but, say, I don't know I don't know if it's gonna swing back and come across status or not yet. So I gotta kinda wait to see what next week looks like before I decide to get naked.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Alrighty.
[00:14:59] Duuude-Ron :
But if it's if it's nice next week, well, it'll be hot. It'll be fucking hot.
[00:15:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:15:06] Duuude-Ron :
But but either way, if it's if it's not supposed to rain, yeah, I'll get naked next week. In the heat? In the heat. Yep. In the heat. Yeah. I don't care.
[00:15:19] Unknown:
Well, all you need to all you need to do is get a little bit of flexible tubing, kinda like like the dryer vent, the flexible tubing, not not as big. Right? And get one a little bit smaller, tape it to your dash at the, you know, heater and air conditioner port, and just shove it up your pants or shove it up your shirt. You'd be nice and cool.
[00:15:48] Rich Chelson:
You know, I I I might do that. We'll see. Hey. Hey. I I still think that's probably one of the somebody needs to go off and make those. Just make it prep so that you know? Because well, be nice if they brought back the the ball chiller, vent that that's under usually underneath the steering wheel, but
[00:16:07] Unknown:
there is actually there is actually a product out there of what we're talking about. I bet there is. Oh, there is? Yeah. Yeah. There is, actually. Yeah. Is it where is it at? On Amazon? No. I've seen it on YouTube, but, you know, I'm sure I have no fucking clue. Or better yet, if you find a Humvee, Rich, you know what I'm talking about. You find a Humvee, you get that little piece of hose Uh-huh. That you would detach from the defroster and put it up into your, into your jacket when you're driving Humvee when it's fucking 40 below zero. You need to acquire one of those.
[00:16:49] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I I I I haven't seen a Humvee for a while. I need to find one. See, the military went to them, what, LMTs. Right? Yeah.
[00:17:02] Unknown:
The MRAPs and MRAPs. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah. All the ballistic stuff. Now they still well, there's a few Humvees with the up armor, but, I mean, they're mostly going to the MRAPs and all the up armored stuff that, actually, the hulls the hull, h u l l, is like a v, so it tries to divert the blast.
[00:17:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:17:31] Unknown:
From going straight up. So, yeah, I don't even know if they are actually manufacturing on these for the military anymore
[00:17:40] Rich Chelson:
that I Well, I know they don't, they don't make the Hummers anymore. So
[00:17:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. They they stopped making the Hummers, what, five, six years ago?
[00:17:49] Unknown:
I don't know.
[00:17:52] Rich Chelson:
Five to ten.
[00:17:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Something like that. It's been yeah. I remember I'm I remember when, GM decided to back off on that.
[00:18:03] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, been retired now for what's Uh-huh. Fucking retired now. Fuck. I retiree. O seven, eighteen years ago. Really haven't fucking paid much attention to it. But
[00:18:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. Actually, GMC still does make the Hummer, the Humvee, but it's electric.
[00:18:24] Unknown:
Well, have you seen those fucking pieces of crap?
[00:18:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They're they're they're just yeah. They're nasty.
[00:18:33] Unknown:
They're they're they're just like the fucking cyber truck. They're fugly. They're fucking ugly. And you know how much you know how much that fucking I'm sure you're gonna look it up and, you know, probably do. They're like, fuck. Get the $110,120,000 fucking dollars Yeah. For one of those h three.
[00:18:56] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. No. It's no. It's not an h three.
[00:19:01] Rich Chelson:
Well, it's a it's a it's a yeah. The electric you talk about the electric commerce. They're, they're not h threes. What are they? It looks like an Apache
[00:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
or not an Apache. What what's that? What's that? Avalanche. Kinda looks like an avalanche. And it starts it starts at 99,000 and goes to $1.00 7.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They were they got Chevrolet's attempt to go, and, hey. We brought the, we brought the Humvee back, and everyone's going, yeah. You didn't.
[00:19:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and no. And, actually, GM Defense, which is a division of General Motors Yep. Is a concept yet, but they're sitting here trying to make an electric military Hummer.
[00:19:52] Rich Chelson:
Or Yeah. That is gonna fucking work.
[00:19:55] Duuude-Ron :
Basically gonna have basically, a military Hummer that looks like the new electric Humvees.
[00:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Again, that ain't gonna work. All it's gonna take is one little ping from a bullet into the into the battery, and that thing's gone up in smoke.
[00:20:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:20:13] Unknown:
Shit. You don't even need to freaking bolt from a battery. You'd have fucking soft cot sand. It fucked the dust. Yeah. They'll chew that up those shit up unless they have those day.
[00:20:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh my god. Definitely. Yeah. I'd eat those eat those motor, those electric motor brushes up in no time.
[00:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It's saying it's saying the military is currently transitioning to the joint light tactical vehicle. Oh, it's And the MB is expected to be phased out by 2050. Totally.
[00:20:48] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. I know. Till an actual alarm comes along and they're going, oh, wait a minute.
[00:20:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This I don't know. This thing
[00:20:58] Unknown:
hell, look. I've seen them.
[00:21:00] Duuude-Ron :
Have you seen these?
[00:21:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:21:03] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:21:04] Unknown:
They're I see them come down 35 on the back of flatbed going towards Fort Hood
[00:21:09] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:21:10] Unknown:
All the time. But, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
[00:21:13] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. They're actually actually, these were these are starting to be delivered in 2016, and they started running full full production in 2019. So the army has canceled future purchases, but the Marine Corps is still buying them.
[00:21:32] Rich Chelson:
Well, the Marines, sadly, they don't know what the hell they're doing anyhow. They're just like, oh, we got crayons. Right.
[00:21:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. The army has about 20,000 of them.
[00:21:45] Rich Chelson:
Unamazed Biden.
[00:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I it says it has a top speed of 70 miles an hour on the road and 55 mile an hour off the road. And a range of 50 miles. 300.
[00:22:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They you know, they claim 300. It's got a range Yeah. Of 50 miles. Yeah.
[00:22:07] Unknown:
But these ain't electric. Right? They're still diesel.
[00:22:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, these are the still the diesel ones that okay.
[00:22:15] Unknown:
Now We're talking no. We're talking about the new ones that are taking over for the Humvees. Nah. I don't remember the name of them.
[00:22:23] Duuude-Ron :
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, JLTV.
[00:22:28] Unknown:
Send me a picture of that so I know what you're talking about versus what I've seen. I'm sure they're the same thing without a doubt.
[00:22:37] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. Hold on a second.
[00:22:39] Rich Chelson:
Alright.
[00:22:41] Duuude-Ron :
Trying to see it there because I would think they're also fueled,
[00:22:47] Rich Chelson:
but I'm not You hope so if if it's military, but same time. Yeah. They're Well, the military can't
[00:22:53] Duuude-Ron :
handle all that shit.
[00:22:55] Unknown:
Hell no.
[00:22:57] Duuude-Ron :
Not for a luxury.
[00:22:59] Unknown:
No. They they do you talk about a strain on the fucking infrastructure that would need to be used for fucking electric vehicles in the military? Nah. Yeah. Ain't gonna happen. Oh, no. It ain't gonna happen.
[00:23:15] Rich Chelson:
They're trying, though.
[00:23:16] Unknown:
Yeah. We need to know what they just they need to stay out of the fucking electric vehicle party all fucking together. Alright. Just leave it the fuck alone.
[00:23:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's like that's like in in in the show land man when when he's talking with when Billy Bob Thornton is talking with that hot lawyer chick for the company, and and he they're out at a windmill, and he freaking tells her tells her just how much oil and petroleum we use windmills take. Those windmills, besides making them, besides everything that's been, you know, all the products that are made with with freaking petroleum, he's like, if if if we started today to get ready for going fully 100% electric, it would take thirty years. Now I don't know if that's storyline that I you see, that's the thing. Everything he said in that whole line, I could believe every freaking word of it.
Right. Because I've worked as a low I've seen the infrastructure in a lot of areas. Okay? And the it's it's not there. I mean, it and it'll never be there unless I spend each state will have to spend trillions of dollars to upgrade their system. So do check the chat. I'll put that picture in.
[00:24:49] Unknown:
Alright. And, you know, what we were talking about with the when the r well, when president Trump had the, army parade for its what was it? 02/1949 February birthday. What was it? 02/1950
[00:25:03] Rich Chelson:
is next year. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:25:06] Unknown:
So for the for the big parade, they got I've seen thus far coming down 35 going back to Fort Hood, probably eight of those tanks that were completely brown for the parade coming back.
[00:25:27] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:25:28] Unknown:
$70,000,000? Yeah. I believe it. But you know what? Yeah. That's exactly what that's exactly what, yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Yep. Okay.
[00:25:38] Duuude-Ron :
No. Okay. Yeah. See, that one's not electric. It can't be. And you see, that's the thing. You know, if if if the army, marines, whoever, ever went electric, any of those vehicles would have to stay on base and here in America. They could not go overseas into a war zone. Couldn't.
[00:26:00] Unknown:
Where are you gonna fucking charge them at? And that's that's what I'm saying. The infrastructure for the military, how many generators would you have to fucking just like tankers. Right. Now we gotta have generation
[00:26:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you know, the crutch would start taking generators and strapping them to the back ends of those things.
[00:26:21] Duuude-Ron :
Bad thing is a three k generator is not gonna charge that bitch.
[00:26:25] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. They'll give us as much as they can. They'll take one that is that'll at least structurally will hold, and they'll find they'll they'll use all the bubble gum and and paper clips they can find, but those grouts will find some way of strapping that thing to it.
[00:26:40] Unknown:
And and that All they did and all they needed to do is take that engine, strap a transmission to it, and it fucking would have done the same goddamn thing. Oh, yeah. Right. Instead of having the damn battery you know, it was the funniest thing. I saw a clip on YouTube where a guy is on the side of the road. His his car is not immediately with him. So he's walking with a one gallon gas can to to go get gas. So guy picks him up, takes him, gets gas, comes back to his car, and it's a Tesla. And the guy is like, what the fuck?
Where are you gonna put the fuel in? So when he gets there, he pops the trunk, which has a fucking generator in the back, puts the fuel into the generator to fuck your plug his car in on the side of the road.
[00:27:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. No way.
[00:27:47] Unknown:
Yes. Fucking way.
[00:27:50] Duuude-Ron :
That's cray that no. That's that's crazy, man.
[00:27:54] Unknown:
And, you know, here's the other thing. If they wanna make Teslas, you should see the fucking power supply going into the Tesla factory down by Austin. It's its own fucking eight grids. All the fucking elect oh my god.
[00:28:16] Duuude-Ron :
It I I don't have to
[00:28:19] Unknown:
I just might have to stop sometime when I go down to deliver down to Buddha. Stop and take a picture. It is just yeah. It looks like a fucking huge substation, and they and they have the electricity that comes with the real tall metal structures that the electricity travels on or, you know, the wires hang on. That's what he has coming to his plant. I believe it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It is fucking just you know what? If all these people, they wanna have electric cars and they wanna do this and that, okay, then the electric cars can only be powered by either solar or a wind generated electricity.
Let's see how far that would go.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
Bad thing is they can't make enough of them to make enough power. That's the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, I I mean, I mean, the build time on a windmill with with the supporting wires and everything like that, they would have to have crews running day and night, and they would have to have trucks running up and down the road constantly. They can't do that because those trucks need permits and all like this. And, a lot of states with oversized loads have certain rules, and they're not gonna bend their rules. Nope. Because most No. I 9999% of your oversized loads cannot run at night.
Nope. Don't care. Don't care if you have a pilot car service or not. You cannot run them at night.
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Without a gotta find a place to stop right there at sundown.
[00:30:09] Unknown:
But, you know, it's amazing. All these people complaining about fossil fuel and fucking promoting the hell out of a out of a fucking battery operated car. Well, if you don't have the fucking fossil fuels for, you know, making electricity, your car ain't gonna fucking charge.
[00:30:31] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:30:32] Unknown:
I just you know, it makes no fucking sense. However, there is there is no common sense. There is no sense for I don't know how many fucking millions of fucking people out there that I but, of course, they may say the same thing about me, which I really don't give a fuck. You know? But at least I got a little bit of common sense. I may not be able to tear an engine down, but you know what? I can definitely help you put one tear one down and put it together. And you know what? I'll fucking learn. Right. I'll be watching you fucking do it.
[00:31:11] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's it's you see, that's the thing. You know what I mean? I'm not knocking green energy. It's it's a great thing if you can scale it. That's the whole thing. You right now with with the way everything is going, you can't scale it. So you can only do it in certain areas.
[00:31:31] Unknown:
You can't do it everywhere.
[00:31:33] Duuude-Ron :
And that's that's the only problem I have with it. I don't mind using solar power, but you see, that's the thing now. If if you're using solar power to power my house, I shouldn't have to pay you a dime. You're getting the energy for free.
[00:31:50] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:31:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Yes. You're right.
[00:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You spent the money on the on the solar panels and stuff like that. Okay. I'll give you a few bucks a month for that till they're paid for. When they're paid for, I'm done. I'm out. See you later. Bye. Yeah. Because you're getting it for free.
[00:32:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:12] Duuude-Ron :
That's that's where I'm at on that. With wind, the same way. Wind's the same way.
[00:32:18] Unknown:
I know. It's free. God gives us the wind.
[00:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And and you see, that's the thing. I mean, we can make generators, solar and wind power, but you see, that's the thing. It depends on you know, my house would be hard because I have so many trees. My windmill would have to be up 70
[00:32:40] Rich Chelson:
feet. Or No. No. You you do like what the environmentalists do.
[00:32:45] Duuude-Ron :
What?
[00:32:46] Rich Chelson:
You cut the trees down. Oh, fuck. You make room for the for the windmills and the solar panel. You clear cut all the greenery out, and so you can actually utilize the all that wonderful environmentally friendly windmills and and and solar panels. I mean, have you seen the solar panel farms out there? I mean, there's hundreds of acres of nothing but black glass all over the place, and then they wonder why the Earth is heating up.
[00:33:16] Unknown:
No shit. And they're building another one just South Of Italy on 35. Oh, it's not I don't know how many fucking acres. I don't know how many acres.
[00:33:26] Rich Chelson:
Crazy huge. I'm sure. Is it?
[00:33:28] Unknown:
It it it was somebody's farmland.
[00:33:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. No. That's what they're doing is they're turning farmland into Yeah. Into, into into in the inland farms. Solar farms and shit. Yeah. And then, you know, and then you're gonna people are gonna stand around going, why don't we have enough food? I don't know. Maybe because you're gonna start getting rid of the really good, really good stuff that the Earth creates. It's not really dinosaur soup. It's a it's something that the Earth just it just naturally forms from the Earth and is abundant. They keep finding bigger and bigger oil fields all over the damn place, but yet we're running out. We've hit peak oil somehow. I don't know how. We've been running out since the fucking seventies. Come on now. Oh, we've been running yeah. Yeah. That I mean, they couldn't get anybody to join in on the, on the population explosion, which they tried to throw on us all the way into the eighties.
So, you know, they had to find something else. Like, I don't know how they're cutting their clear cutting the the rainforest. Well, except for when they were clear cutting the rainforest, all the all the trees in the in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere were all miraculously getting bigger because there was an increase in carbon dioxide.
[00:34:55] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they And and and I've watched what the hell is his name? His first name is Charlie. He's
[00:35:04] Duuude-Ron :
Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk.
[00:35:07] Unknown:
Yes. Him. Some whatever. I don't know what the fuck they wanna what she wants to call herself. They, them, I don't fucking know. But she is said there's so much carbon dioxide. You know, where does where does the carbon dioxide come from? And Charlie just blows out. Right there. She didn't get it. Right the fuck over her head. No. You're not understanding what I'm saying. Yo. We got too much carbon dioxide. Where is it coming from? He blows into the microphone again right there. I just showed you. You could hear it. You can't hear it. You know what? People like that, you just gotta
[00:35:58] Rich Chelson:
throw a throat chop. That's what colleges do these days. They they they work their damnest to breathe the knowledge out of you so that you're a blind, mindless mindless follower. You don't it's colleges haven't been, an institution of free thought in in, in centuries.
[00:36:18] Unknown:
Wait. No. Yeah.
[00:36:21] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Last they didn't they have really haven't pushed real good free thought since, like, since the eighteen hundreds.
[00:36:30] Unknown:
Well, okay. I can agree with you on that. Since the start of the industrial revolution.
[00:36:36] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Especially since, since, old Marks decided to throw out his little his little, diatribe of a book. Yeah. Also, people well, people had an had it were able to collectively, and that's that's the only time collectivism actually comes together. I've, collectively decided, hey. That might be a good idea. Look at that. We don't have to don't have to worry about that any anything, big and horrible because, you know, we're we're gonna be as a group. Don't have to worry about the rich getting too rich and the poor getting too poor because we'll we'll all be poor. They don't like to say that, but
[00:37:22] Unknown:
Look at China.
[00:37:23] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look at the state of China. They, don't they don't even properly set up their their systems like they need to be.
[00:37:37] Unknown:
Yeah. China's fixing the well, they've been in a recession for quite some time. They're facing to go into a depression.
[00:37:44] Rich Chelson:
They're Not really much so.
[00:37:46] Unknown:
They're gonna fucking collapse.
[00:37:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, everybody Trump is doing the one thing that no one else was willing to do, and that was he is slowly isolating, China.
[00:37:59] Unknown:
And the bad thing about it is and I understand what he's doing, and I understand that, you know, just need to get rid of fucking tariffs completely. Just fucking get rid of them. But, no. You know, there's so many countries that we would sign that, and within weeks, they would be breaking that. But, you know, to put a whole fucking country's people, how many million people in China?
[00:38:28] Rich Chelson:
There's, what, one or, one or 2,000,000,000. I know India is the largest largest country or most populated country. Most populated. That's correct. And then China's second. Right. So if you're gonna put a whole population population,
[00:38:42] Unknown:
you're gonna put a whole population into worse than a depression.
[00:38:47] Rich Chelson:
Well, because it's not about the people. The people are just a are just a commodity. Yeah. They're not even a commodity. They're they're a, they're a liability to to the bottom line.
[00:39:00] Unknown:
Yeah. You agree with that?
[00:39:02] Rich Chelson:
Well, that it I mean I don't. They're not. They're they're not, but that's how that's how communism looks at them. Oh, I know.
[00:39:12] Unknown:
I I can't wait that you know? Ping or whatever the fuck that commander is, he's gonna be fucking he's gonna be out here very shortly because there's gonna be a fucking revolt.
[00:39:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know about that. It might maybe.
[00:39:28] Unknown:
It's I mean, maybe, but I don't know. He's gonna have a revolt from within. If he sees it. Within somebody within his his group is gonna fucking take him out.
[00:39:42] Duuude-Ron :
Next person gets in gonna do the same thing.
[00:39:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I know.
[00:39:48] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I it's it's it's a catch 22 is what it is.
[00:39:53] Unknown:
You're right. It is a catch 22. You know? Just look okay. Look at North Korea. One family has been in charge of that country now since the end of the country. Right now. Well Yeah.
[00:40:07] Rich Chelson:
Before the war. No? Basically. Yeah.
[00:40:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You're yeah. One family has controlled the entire country, and it's not and it's definitely the yeah. It's do as I say, not as I do. Somebody needs to take that motherfucker out too.
[00:40:31] Rich Chelson:
We wouldn't have a boogeyman.
[00:40:34] Unknown:
Gotta have a boogeyman. Take out the whole fucking family. The whole fucking family line. Yeah. But then I get it. We wouldn't
[00:40:44] Rich Chelson:
who we gotta have a boogeyman or or the or the the military industrial complex doesn't have anybody to any reason to be making money.
[00:40:54] Unknown:
And that is absolutely fucking pathetic. That that is what this world has come to.
[00:41:01] Rich Chelson:
And the funny thing is is no one listened to Eisenhower because he warned everybody this was what was happening.
[00:41:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Nobody just Because everybody wants goddamn money.
[00:41:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Get that get the I mean, that's what do you think think, Elon Musk has been been doing? He's try he's been doing his damn best to nuzzle up next to, whoever's in power so that he can his, Starlink and everything else will be, open while that's on. But, Starlink will be the be the go to communication channel. So he's got government contracts there.
[00:41:43] Unknown:
Yes. I know. You know? And how many fucking boats can he water ski behind? How many fucking yachts does he need to own? How many fucking planes does he need to own?
[00:41:56] Rich Chelson:
I guess as many as he thinks he needs. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean and and how much does he need and how much does he think he needs? That's that's the that's the interesting aspect of it. As many as he wants is the answer.
[00:42:14] Unknown:
Yeah. I I think I can
[00:42:16] Rich Chelson:
super in the world, that's his pro go for it. Okay. As long as he's providing a this actually and and is paying paying then good. Then he he's the to have that type of that type of living, that type of cash. That's the good thing about capitalism. If he's if a person's rich and under a free system, if they're if he's rich, he did it not because he stole. It's not because he he he swindled anybody. K. It's because he provided a a service that was of high value and low cost.
[00:43:03] Duuude-Ron :
You think Tesla was this fucking Before he, before he pissed off the Tesla with a He bought Tesla. He did not build Tesla. You're right. He did not do Tesla. Caught it, but he turned it around. He was the lab's darling. I
[00:43:17] Rich Chelson:
I re hold this to you. He's wanting to go to Mars is because of, of global warming. But the thing is, Elon Musk is not a not a, a a a a not a to die. So it's not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
[00:43:39] Unknown:
You know what? I can't wait to die so I can get cremated and fucking choke up, you know, a
[00:43:44] Rich Chelson:
a couple of carburetors. Oh, did I lose it? Piss one. Pissed people off the one last time.
[00:43:50] Unknown:
I think Brian just went blink.
[00:43:53] Rich Chelson:
I bet you did.
[00:43:54] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Nope. You're still here. Hey. Right. Dude, dude, if you stop and think about it, you can be still you still have time to be as rich as Elon Musk. You have the ability. You have everything you need for success. You just have to wanna do it.
[00:44:15] Unknown:
Yep. Got it. Because look. Look at colonel Sanders. Argument there.
[00:44:20] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, colonel Sanders started KFC at 65 years old.
[00:44:25] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:44:26] Duuude-Ron :
Ray Croc was in his fifties when he acquired McDonald's, I believe.
[00:44:33] Rich Chelson:
He he went yeah. He he wasn't he wasn't a, wasn't a wasn't fresh out of college. That's for sure. No. No.
[00:44:42] Duuude-Ron :
But and that's the thing. So, I I mean, I don't need you know, people that you know, look. Oh, shit. Look at Warren Buffett.
[00:44:51] Rich Chelson:
Warren Buffett. He's just finally getting around to decide, you know, it's time for me to time for me to retire, and he's 86.
[00:44:58] Unknown:
Yeah. I think he's going on eleventy now. And what kind of car does he own?
[00:45:03] Rich Chelson:
I don't think he drives. He probably does.
[00:45:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Most honestly honestly, I've looked it up before. Most of your extremely rich people drive two to three year old vehicles. Yeah. They do not drive brand new cars. They might have them in the garage, but they don't drive them. Yep. Broke people
[00:45:25] Rich Chelson:
drive brand spanking new cars. They're the ones who take half of the value of that car on the nose. The moment they go, yeah. That sounds like a good deal. I got myself a brand new Dodge Hellcat. Alright. Fucking a. Alright. Boom. Half the you know, all of a sudden, that $100,000 come to turn into a $50,000 dollar car. And then They did wonder. Oh, I was tired. No. You have it. You what you did is you suppose you're gonna sign to that, that agreement purchase agreement, you have a used car. Oh.
[00:46:01] Unknown:
Yeah. You don't even have to drive it off the lot. Nope. But yeah. Well, Warren Buff had an old station wagon. I mean, from, like, the seventies. Station wagon. Right. That was his daily drive ever.
[00:46:23] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Believe that for sure.
[00:46:25] Duuude-Ron :
Thing is a man's worth billions.
[00:46:28] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Yes. Yeah.
[00:46:31] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And, see, that's that's the whole thing about this. You know? A lot of people knock rich people. I don't. I don't. I I mean, I did years ago, but but after I thought about it
[00:46:42] Rich Chelson:
It was out of jealousy. Like, no. They
[00:46:46] Duuude-Ron :
they freaking went out and, like like Brian said, they provided a service, whatever that service was or a product, and people bought it. You can't get mad at someone who came up with something and said, here, I wanna sell this. And then people just like, oh my god. I want it. You know? Yeah. So Now there are people who have actually swindled
[00:47:07] Rich Chelson:
out of money, and those are the ones that a lot of people don't wanna that are they're actually bitching the most about. And that those are the Utah fine. Right? And the and the cable companies, the everybody that is regulated and you can't enter in freely, you have to pay into a certain amount of money, be able to get into that. That where you have a public private partnership with a with the government is when you are actually hog tying your freedom of of purchase. And that's one reason why everybody is doing ineffectual green energy bullshit is because they got into the government and gone, hey.
This stuff is, like, really expensive, and I know you've got deeper pockets than what what all my people can do. You wouldn't wanna go in, like, three quarters of the of the bill. I'll pay you I'll tip it to you at a quarter, you know, 25% of what the full amount is. Would you, help us out in this way? We'll we'll pay you back a little bit later on. And, also, could you also lower the price of the of the equipment too? Could you make some way of lowering the equipment? Give us a unthird bandage is essentially what to do. Now you don't say that, but that's what it what it mean amounts to. And so they go in with with the government, and the government's able to go, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We and so they get a unfair advantage with the with the the the stuff. So all of a sudden, you get tax write offs because you've, you've done you're you're in in cahoots with the government.
And that's the that's the problem that a lot of people run into is, no. Don't. I I still still am a firm believer that government if you're a there it's not a separation of church state. It should be a separation between business and government. Stop letting is allow for laissez faire government or laissez faire capitalism to happen. Keep the government out of it, and you'll actually see that things things progress a whole lot better, whole lot faster. Let the monopolies happen because the monopolies are actually the lowest that it can be.
China's done a beautiful job of that.
[00:49:31] Unknown:
Okay. When and you you talk about the monopoly. What was his name that owns Standard Oil back in the late eighteen hundreds?
[00:49:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:49:41] Duuude-Ron :
What was the name? Carnegie.
[00:49:44] Rich Chelson:
Or was that US Steel? No.
[00:49:46] Duuude-Ron :
That You don't have to.
[00:49:48] Unknown:
US Steel. No. I don't remember his name, but he he owned Standard Oil.
[00:49:55] Rich Chelson:
See here. Who started Standard Oil? That, boy.
[00:49:59] Duuude-Ron :
John d Rockefeller. Rockefeller.
[00:50:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. And how did he
[00:50:05] Unknown:
go ahead. When the government when the government said that he had the monopoly on the oil, that they needed to break it up
[00:50:19] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:50:20] Unknown:
They just made him richer.
[00:50:22] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:50:23] Unknown:
Because now all of his companies because he owned them all.
[00:50:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. He just went off and bought bought all of them and and, that's essentially like what Google did. All of a sudden, the alpha Google became a subdivision of Alphabet along with YouTube and all the other little tidbits that that Google all those other little businesses that that Google owns. That's what Microsoft went off and did when they went off and busted the busted that monopoly. Sorry. But monopoly busting is the fact that people are complaining that they've got made you made too good of a product. How dare you make such a good product? We need to we need to hobble you because you have an unfair advantage.
[00:51:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, okay. Okay. Take take fucking DJI then. Yes. It's a Chinese company. Take that off the table. That's not in this conversation.
[00:51:21] Rich Chelson:
Look at DVT. That DJI is is is a great product.
[00:51:25] Duuude-Ron :
They yeah. They have made an excellent product.
[00:51:29] Rich Chelson:
They paid Yeah. They make the best investments and not keep up. Hold a candle. No. They can't. They can't hold a candle to a station. There's nothing about it. Yep. And so that's why they're trying to outlaw DJI. That is the government business, you know, the mingling of government and business. They're weeding out the the, quote, unquote, unfair competition by making it the unfair to have a have a competitor. Have somebody that kicks ass, does a damn good job of what they're doing. I mean, that's that's what TikTok was doing. You know, do you really think it was about the unfair advantage or the information that was being sent to China?
No. On TikTok? No. Because that's the exact same stuff that Google and Facebook and were do are doing. They're still doing. Yeah. It was because TikTok shop was doing too much damn business. It's taking too much business away from Amazon. And so they were like, oh, well, let's, we gotta find some way of of making a, a tale that will scare the bejesus out of people. And so they're like, oh, look at all this data that's being sent over to, to China's, sir server information or or sort the server farms. Look at all that information. They're like and, you know, you get dumbass senators and and house representatives going, oh, yeah. Well, we can't have them knowing our location and stuff. Well, then ban Facebook from doing the same damn thing. Ban Google. I mean, what do you think Google does with all you do any search you do on on your phone now. It seems like I get a pop up.
Thanks to thanks to Apple, but still you get a pop up going, hey. Google would like to know your location. Do you wanna allow it? It's like, no. Oh, I'll I'll No. But give the app give the location if I want it. Yeah. So but now that's just that part of it is just they when you have allow businesses to schmooze with the government, you get that unfair advantage. While if you had actually allowed a normal monopoly to happen, then you would have the lowest prices possible, created the cheapest means possible at the highest quality. Because if you ended up having a higher quality item, then if somebody decided, you know what, quality is a lot more important than price, and you had a higher quality item that cost just a little bit more, people would go to the higher quality item.
So you can't have a low quality item as a monopoly. The only way things like Ma Bell became, became a monopoly is because Alexander Graham Bell made a deal with the government and said, hey. I've done all the work of putting these lines up. I own these lines. This is my stuff. And granted, yeah. But at the same time, he also outlawed anybody from coming up with any new type of telephone. That's why when, telephones first started until the eighties or till the seventies, you didn't have a a you all the only telephone you really had were those black, hard rubber phones that were made out of the same stuff the bowling balls are made out of.
[00:54:45] Unknown:
Unless you had the one on the wall that had eventually a 90 foot fucking cord, And, of course, the phone was always wired into the fucking kitchen.
[00:54:59] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because it was the closest to the, to the lines.
[00:55:03] Unknown:
So, you know, that was the only difference is having that phone that was up on the wall with the 900,000 foot, cable
[00:55:13] Rich Chelson:
so you could take the, you know Yeah. So you can run it into the bathroom and talk talk in private. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. But, again, that was that's yeah. Oh, I I know that was still. There there was something something great. You became very attuned to the background noises when you were on the phone. Because the first time you heard a you you know, you're like, get off my phone.
[00:55:44] Unknown:
Yes. And and god forbid, God forbid, and I'm just as guilty as everybody else that has one, God forbid that the fucking cell phone infrastructure just stopped. What would The fucking United States do without cell phones? Yeah. I know they would would lose their fucking minds. Uh-huh. They would. Yeah. I know they would.
[00:56:14] Rich Chelson:
And, yeah, I I think it'll eventually you know, it'll fall for a little while. We've, we've already seen this. This is, like, where AT and T had a massive, blackout. You know? And everybody, oh, no. Isn't that so they have to they got what the what the password was to their computer again. Had to dust the old old, you know, 15 year old desktop off. So they you know, online so they could bitch about the, about the fact that AT and T wasn't working.
[00:56:45] Duuude-Ron :
I'd say that's the thing. I mean, we just bitch about so much.
[00:56:48] Rich Chelson:
You know what I mean? That's it.
[00:56:50] Duuude-Ron :
Just because it's not right there. It's I mean, you know, God forbid if you have to wait a day or two or, oh, God forbid, if it's a week or a month, and you you know, all you just can't. I mean, that's all that's all people do, and it's like, shut up. Deal with it. Move on.
[00:57:09] Unknown:
Yeah. God forbid God forbid if we had to go back to letters being set being set by mail.
[00:57:16] Duuude-Ron :
No one well, I I don't I don't I don't really trust the postal service. You know? I mean, look how long it took him to get my title from from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Jackson, Mississippi, which is about two and a half hours away.
[00:57:37] Unknown:
That's not Yeah.
[00:57:38] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. And, I mean, thank God they got to it, and they got it and all like this, but I coulda drove up there every freaking day and, you know, hounded them. It's that close. Oh, yeah. You know? But it seems like the post office has a hard time. And I I don't I don't know if the post office held it up or or exactly what or or if the mail room up up where the because this place up in Jackson is does the whole state. So they got titles and paperwork coming in,
[00:58:18] Rich Chelson:
you know, from the whole state. So Oh, okay. So now I'm on four quarters of the globe. Darn near. Yeah. Yeah. Up the state.
[00:58:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It wasn't just me. You know? But, yeah, this I mean, they've got so I imagine it was sitting up in the mail room, and they just got to it finally.
[00:58:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Sitting in the mail room, and then someone happened to move a book and goes, oh, hey. Look. Right. Probably needs to be delivered. Right.
[00:58:49] Duuude-Ron :
And, yeah, you know, I I mean, you would think they would have easier system. And I I'm not I'm not just dogging Mississippi. This is a problem in other states as well.
[00:59:03] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:59:05] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So I don't know. It's just that's just messed up.
[00:59:12] Unknown:
So here's got a couple, I can't say stories, but situations. I was gonna say one of my situations last night, but I just kinda put my microphone on mute. And, you know, one person that always says, well, I'm gonna stop talking now just continues, but, you know, I digress and just sat there and listened and you know? So I didn't get to put my story out there. So I wanna put my story out there now. So you guys know the issues that I've been having with my work truck, especially the trailer. Right. So Tuesday, I was heading to Giddings to deliver my product and got to damn. What the hell is the name of that town?
It's about as big as the tip of a a fucking pen. I don't even fucking remember it right now. So the ABS light came on yet again. So I had called, you know, Warner, our our tech support, and they called Luvs, which was the closest one they could get out there. And that and that still took almost two hours for Luvs to get out there. When that tech got there, oh my god. I have more knowledge than that individual has as a mechanic. Every bit of the troubleshooting he was trying to do for the ABS, he was googling it. I'm like, oh my god.
Wow. So what what came down to he tapped all the ABS sensors closer to the tune wheel or the tuning wheel for the ABS sensor closer. Well, then I got it was about three miles down the road to get to the town. Buckholtz. Look that one up. Buckholtz. It's about as big as the ship of it's about as big as the tip of the freaking your pen in your pocket. That's how big that town is. But, anyway, we got up there. The ABS light would not shut off. I'm like, okay. Well, call my boss. He said, well, you can't, obviously, you can't fucking drive it, so you're gonna have to get it towed back to the plant.
Like, alright. Call the tow truck. That took another two hours for the fucking tow truck to show up. That's about normal. It that didn't bother me one bit at all. We ain't even gonna talk about the driver of the fucking tow truck. Anyway, we get back to the plant. The ABS light is still on even after all the travels from the tow truck. We drop it down on the access road instead of bringing it into the lot with the tow truck, the tractor, and the trailer that were just fucking been a mess. So we parked right on the access road, right in front of the gate, basically, and detached it. He put the drive shaft back on, and we continued I continued on getting the truck back into the plant.
And so I'm getting it parked, and, of course, we run up in just like a parking spot, you know, at any truck stop. You have to back it into your parking spot for the most part. Right? So I back up, and to get it on my line, I have to back up three times, get everything positioned. Guess what fucking turned off?
[01:03:05] Duuude-Ron :
ABS
[01:03:06] Unknown:
light. The ABS light. I would you know? Might as well be
[01:03:12] Duuude-Ron :
It was probably a plug, dude.
[01:03:15] Unknown:
No. It was well, when we took the one sensor, which has been the the whole system on one fucking hub has basically been a nightmare, which is the driver on the passenger side front axle on the trailer. So he took the sensor off. The sensor was covered in grease, which is normal wear and tear. You know, you're gonna get grease from the, you know, from the mechanical aspect of the system. So he put all new sensors on. All all four sensors, you know, had grease on them. This one in particular was even packed on the face of the sensor and on the tuning wheel.
It had a lot of grease on it. So we got all that cleaned up, all new sensors. Guarantee you that I am not gonna have an ABS light come on anytime soon.
[01:04:15] Duuude-Ron :
Nah. I don't know if I'd say that, dude.
[01:04:18] Unknown:
Well, you're you're right. And, you know
[01:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, but Uh-huh. Tits and wheels, man. Tits and wheels.
[01:04:29] Unknown:
I know. You're right. And I can have the ABS light come on tomorrow. The only thing that we have not changed on that trailer is the main wiring harness and two of the sensor cords that run from the ABS splitter module to the sensors themselves. Everything else is brand fucking new. I mean, I have all fucking four brand new brake chambers. Right. The ABS splitter. Now I have all new sensors. Two of the cables coming from the the ABS sensor junction to the ABS sensors, two of those cables are brand new. The other two, well, they're still in good condition. Everything else has been fucking replaced.
As per fuck. I don't have another ABS problem for quite some time. So now and Max is our mechanic, and he he is fucking outstanding. I mean, he keeps our shit up, running. And if we have an issue, he drops pretty much all the rest of the clients and comes to our facility. I can't say all of the times, but there's been a lot of times that he has done that.
[01:06:01] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:06:02] Unknown:
So he is a fucking very, very, very knowledgeable mechanic. And since we talked last and then we talked today because he was supposed to come and do some some more stuff on my trailer that was already scheduled to be done, And we both had the same thought since we had last talked. It's like, every time we do a dry PM, the sensors need to come off, get wiped down, you know, get all the grease off of them, and also wipe down the tuning wheel and get make sure that that is clean, there's no grease. It would probably help a lot and but that's not part of a dry PM for a trailer whatsoever.
But me and him, I was like, you know, if he didn't if he wasn't gonna do it, the next time my dry PM was done for my trailer because we always know when ours is coming up. I told him, you know what? I if you weren't gonna do it, I was gonna take all my sensors off and clean all of them and clean the fucking the tuning wheel, my damn self, because I'm tired of this shit. But we've had three tractors and no trailer. We've had three three sets of tractors replaced, but no trailers replaced since I've been there in fifteen years.
[01:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
That's crazy.
[01:07:38] Unknown:
Yep. They they won't get trailers, but they'll get they'll get new tractors. But, of course, that's that's a fucking yeah. Well, I don't know how many millions of dollars is spent every year for new tractors and someone like that just because of the size of the fleet. So
[01:08:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You got the size of the fleet. Not to mention, you it's easier to lease the the the truck itself than it is to lease a trailer. Because most most companies will lease the, the the power unit.
[01:08:19] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Our power every single one of our power units are leased. And as soon as the lease is finished, now, for the most part, they'll start selling the tractors and get new ones. Right. You know, because it's cheaper to you know, as a whole with the huge fleet to lease them is more economically feasible than to buy them. But yeah. And our trailers where the pallets sit on those tombstones on the side of our trailers that are welded on Uh-huh. That's prepare what's that word? Proprietary? Proprietary with the way it's supposed to be welded. The tombstone size is all owned by the company, and nobody wants to brew with it. In essentially, yes.
But, you know, I don't pick it. I don't pull them. I just haul them. Yep.
[01:09:22] Rich Chelson:
That's why I am happy to have just relegated my my life to the land that to that of a steering wheel jockey. Some people may take offense to that, but you know what? Oh, shit. What was that damn where was I where did I see that? I might have even saved it. There was a a, a video that I saw. It was this guy, he was in boot camp, and he was he was showing off it how how well his his boots were cleaned and chined up. And the drill sergeant was like, holy shit. How'd you do that? I was like, well, I just did exactly what you told me to. I would just you said to to cut the laces, pull off the tongue, and then putting it up, and then put put everything back. And I just do it exactly like you said and proof of all. It's great.
It's like, well, how did you do it? Well, I didn't think. I just did what you told me to. Yes. I But I noticed life gets a lot better, a lot easier when you when you don't see when you stop thinking. So
[01:10:27] Unknown:
Yeah. I've I've seen that. Yeah. That that is true. That is true.
[01:10:33] Rich Chelson:
And so, yeah, when it comes to driving, tell me where you want me to go. If there's a time limit, tell me when what time I need to get there. I I'll I'll do that.
[01:10:44] Unknown:
Yep.
[01:10:44] Rich Chelson:
Anything else comes in the way, I'm gonna call you up, though. So don't expect me to make a judgment call.
[01:10:50] Unknown:
You know, in our share is there is so many factors that that justifies if we make gain share or not because our facility does not make a fucking dime. We are nothing but a cost center. Same way with Grand Prairie. They're nothing but a cost center because we don't have any retail stores. But the retail stores, their quarterly gain share for the people that are in that branch get it based upon the sales of that branch. So some people get a higher gain share or some branches, people get higher gain shares than others because they're making more money. Right. That's just part of
[01:11:42] Rich Chelson:
yeah. What's the difference between a driver and a salesman?
[01:11:46] Unknown:
Yep. And but ours is based upon they call it EBITDA, but, basically, the gains and the expenses throughout the quarter
[01:11:58] Rich Chelson:
Sounds like a battle song.
[01:12:00] Unknown:
Yeah. Our facility is based upon our whole area, the whole Southwest areas. So we either get all or none. Right? So
[01:12:19] Rich Chelson:
They sing it so much better. I know they do, but, you know, that's why they're the Beatles, and it's not the good ones.
[01:12:27] Unknown:
Yeah. So, anyway and here's story number two. Just you know, it is hilarious. And I'm in my Jeep, not in my truck. I'm in my Jeep. And I I utilize, like, going through on I 20, I 35 coming out of fucking Dallas area. I utilize the center lane. And, yes, I'm governed 65 miles an hour. If it's 70 miles an hour, guess what? I'm in that motherfucking center lane. Oh, yeah. If you wanna go if you want traveling faster than I am, you can either go around me to the left or go around to me on the right. But I'm not gonna sit in the right hand lane when I have to fucking pump the brakes every time the fucking if there's a off ramp or an on ramp. No. Thank you. I'm gonna sit my ass in the middle lane.
Go the fuck around me. So I'm driving home from work, and this pickup truck I see in my in my rearview mirror, and this guy hold on just a second. So I see him coming up on my rearview mirror. It's a brand new pickup truck with temporary tags on it. Just in and out and in and out and in and out of traffic, all to get one fucking car ahead. Well, I take the, or the exit that takes me to my house, and we get to the red light, guess who's one fucking car in front of me to the right, that same fucking pickup truck. And then when the light turned green, I pass him because he's held up in that lane's traffic because it always happens on those particular lanes. So I pass him. I don't know if it pissed him off or not. But, you know, he did all of that just for me to pass him when the when the light turned red. And we're on the interstate. I'm like, you know what?
You are gonna have that car, that brand new truck, however much it costs, probably about $80,000. He ain't gonna have that fucking truck for ninety days before he totals it. Guaranteed. I'd like to be there when he does. And another one go going on the same highway coming or getting on, yeah, coming from work. I don't know if it was a Toyota or if it was a Nissan. This car, yeah, he was on his fucking phone because he locked up the brakes. But it was amazing. You guys still there?
[01:15:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We're listening. Yep. I'm through it, man.
[01:15:08] Unknown:
Okay. So when he locked up his brakes now I bet you it was at least a hundred hundred and fifty feet where the fucking tread he laid down on the fucking asphalt. And he didn't swerve. It was fucking straight as an arrow. The fucking front tires were squealing and the back tires and the fucking car was not stopping. Abel went into the car in front of him. That guy dodged out of the way, but it was like that car just did not wanna fucking stop. I'm like, man, you're a fucking idiot.
[01:15:47] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know what? He can be an idiot with a fucked up car.
[01:15:52] Unknown:
Hey. No doubt in my mind that that guy also will not have that car for too very long before he totals it. Oh, no. Right?
[01:16:01] Rich Chelson:
The the the one they don't value what they have, they're gonna break it.
[01:16:05] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You're right about that. So I was entertained today on my way home from work. Just laughing, just sitting there. And guess what lane I was in? The middle lane. Middle lane. The center fucking lane. My god. Thank you very much. There's a way to do it. Yep. Yeah. I see all these fucking morons when I go down to Austin going into and coming out of I'm in the center lane. They're doing all that just for me to pass them eventually. I'm like, man, you wasted all that fucking gas, energy. You know? Your fucking head's about ready to explode, and I just passed you. I should've waved. Right. You know? I didn't.
Or, you know, honked my horn, waved, and goes, yeah. I'm I'm right here. Look at where you're at. Oh, that's right. I'm passing you, dumbass.
[01:16:58] Duuude-Ron :
Hey, guys. I got a question.
[01:17:00] Rich Chelson:
How do you get an answer? Let's see if they match.
[01:17:03] Duuude-Ron :
I probably already know the answer to this,
[01:17:06] Unknown:
but Without a doubt.
[01:17:08] Duuude-Ron :
I'm thinking about taking a boat ride to Ship Island.
[01:17:14] Unknown:
To Ship Island? Yeah. Where is Ship Island?
[01:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
About 11 miles south of Gulfport out in the Gulf Of America. It's a it, it it's an island. It's been there as an old, military fort
[01:17:31] Unknown:
on it. Okay. That was the one that was the one we were talking about when I came down. Right?
[01:17:37] Duuude-Ron :
No. We was talking about Deer Island and well, yeah, Ship Island. Yeah. We talked about Ship Island, Deer Island. I mean, there's there's, like, three or four out there, Cat Island, Horn Island, but there's a ferry service
[01:17:51] Unknown:
that goes I was gonna say, did that ferry does that ferry that we passed go to Ship Island?
[01:17:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:17:59] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. Because we we did pass that one. I don't remember where it was at. That old fort that was at the very end of where we could travel to on what's what condenser was that that we drove out to? Oh, Dolphin Island. Oh, no. Yeah. Dolphin Island. Yeah. Yeah. Dolphin Island. Then we went to That that and had the old fork there. I don't remember the name of it. Fort Gaines. Yeah. I'm sure it's probably the identical to the Fort Gaines.
[01:18:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It probably is.
[01:18:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See see see, they've got that cruise. They've got a dolphin watching cruise, and they have a sunset music cruise. And, I mean, the highest cruise is $30. The others are 28. You know? Right. But I I was thinking about going and and, like, taking video or whatnot and maybe getting awesome sunset. You know what I mean?
[01:19:05] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Right?
[01:19:07] Duuude-Ron :
And and they say they see dolphins quite a bit.
[01:19:11] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So
[01:19:14] Unknown:
You know, that would be awesome. You know, it would be even more awesome is if the boat was small enough, you know, kinda like a little one one of the little rubber,
[01:19:26] Duuude-Ron :
shit. But, Zodiacs?
[01:19:29] Unknown:
Yeah. To where you could actually possibly touch and or feed a dolphin. That would be freaking awesome.
[01:19:39] Duuude-Ron :
That would be cool, I think.
[01:19:41] Unknown:
But even even just watching them is cool. Yeah.
[01:19:44] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. I'm thinking about doing that because now you see I can go. I can do things because I'm legal. So
[01:19:53] Unknown:
You ain't going tomorrow?
[01:19:55] Duuude-Ron :
I'm thinking about it. I don't I I don't know I don't know which one to take.
[01:20:01] Rich Chelson:
He he's he's gotta get out of the house. He's free finally.
[01:20:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do. I I mean, I'm serious. I've been staying home all this fucking time. So, yeah, I wanna I wanna get out.
[01:20:14] Unknown:
But During that time, can you fucking put your drone up?
[01:20:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would be cool. Well, no. I can't. I believe it or not, Ship Island, Deer Island, all those islands out there, they are protected by the National Wildlife Service. Okay. There is no drone flying on any National Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge, anything like that.
[01:20:45] Unknown:
So you can't so you wouldn't even be able to fly them in Yellowstone No. Mount Rushmore?
[01:20:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well yeah. I mean Yeah. Not supposed to. Not supposed to. But, you know, I can go ahead.
[01:21:01] Unknown:
You know, what would be really cool is if you on the ship, on the dolphin finding one, if you could put your drone up and get some close ups of the dolphins.
[01:21:12] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that is yeah. Well, I've got a hell of a zoom on my drone, believe it or not. You know? I don't I don't I don't have to be that close. I can I can just zoom right into them? That would be cool, though.
[01:21:25] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Hey. I got a question for you, Rich. What? What's that? What was the okay. The the camera lens that you bought and took over that I that I got to use back to last tears event?
[01:21:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:21:40] Rich Chelson:
What was that?
[01:21:42] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. You would have to ask me. Of course. I wanna say it was hold on. It was a zoom lens, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It was definitely a zoom lens. I thought so. It was a either an 18 to 300. I wanna say it was an '18 to 300 Tamron
[01:22:01] Rich Chelson:
or a a Tamron. Oh, okay. That's it. That's what I went for. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. If it, yeah, if it was a Tamron, it was an '18 to 300.
[01:22:13] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:22:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now Tamron, believe it or not, makes good lenses.
[01:22:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I like the no. That's just the one thing that I have not ever been able to do with my camera. That that it's and I've only the only thing I've been able to narrow it down to now is something with the lens that I'm using is muting the colors ever so slightly. Really? Because yeah. Because whenever I took pictures with took several of the pictures using your your Tamon, those colors just pop.
[01:22:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:22:47] Rich Chelson:
And just were just amazing. And I was like, okay. So if if from everything I've looked at and searched on and and stuff and the fact that you talked about cameras, it was like, oh, hey. Yo. Been meaning for the past year and a half to ask you about that.
[01:23:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh. Yeah. No. I mean, shoot. You could probably find a good used Tamron. Yeah. A Ron ATK. Butts. You know? Yeah. I mean, they're they're and they're I I mean, I I love that thing when I I don't know what I don't I don't have it anymore. I don't know. I think it got dumped. No? What do you mean it got dumped? No. This was I don't know where it went, dude.
[01:23:37] Rich Chelson:
Where where is your camera at?
[01:23:40] Duuude-Ron :
Over in the other room. I I don't I don't have the lens anymore, though.
[01:23:44] Unknown:
I think Brian's head's gonna explode now. Yeah.
[01:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Well, hold on. Y'all talk. Y'all talk. Let me go look.
[01:23:54] Rich Chelson:
This guy go off and lose a damn lens like that? Oh, please. I just remember being a three hundred three hundred millimeter. Well, I don't remember the name of the, name of the manufacturer.
[01:24:05] Unknown:
Yeah. For quite some time, he couldn't find his fucking drone.
[01:24:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:24:10] Unknown:
You remember that? Yeah.
[01:24:13] Rich Chelson:
What's that? Nothing. Nothing. We weren't telling you anything about it. And
[01:24:18] Unknown:
then we said, yeah. At one point in time, you lost your damn drone too. Couldn't find that. I don't know where you found it at, but
[01:24:26] Duuude-Ron :
See, the thing is my my new drone has a find me feature.
[01:24:32] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well Hold it. Brian, let me ask you this. Did I have my seven eighty with me? My Nikon seven eighty? Yes. Yeah. It was your okay. Then it wasn't a Tamron. It was Look here. No. It's my 85.
[01:24:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's the I know it's, like, three hundred three hundred millimeter.
[01:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
Three to four. Then well, let's see. What's this one? It's a Nikon it's a Nikon 28 to 300 then because I had this lens, and I had the 24 to 85,
[01:25:08] Rich Chelson:
which is a good lens. Yeah. No. They're that one's good, but yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it was okay. So it was Nikon, haven't it?
[01:25:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Nikon 28 to 300. You can find these used for, I'd say, probably $200.
[01:25:22] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:25:23] Duuude-Ron :
Look look on, like, KEH MPB website.
[01:25:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I was I was parked around over on once I started asking, I was getting my getting my, my my KEH pulled up. So
[01:25:41] Unknown:
Well, I bet. Here's here's here's another here's another camera question. Yeah. Can you use the lenses from film cameras on digital cameras?
[01:25:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[01:25:53] Rich Chelson:
Okay. If they are yeah. If if if they're not if they've got the same type of ring, but say you've got one that's a manual,
[01:26:01] Duuude-Ron :
manual lens versus a automatic lens. No. No. I've got a I've got a I've got an old 85 manual, 85 millimeter manual.
[01:26:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. As long as it'll hold the same ring.
[01:26:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It yeah. Well, okay. Some of the lenses all the lens, some of the lenses have, like, a little arm sticking out, and that was to catch the mechanism for the film cameras to advance the film. Right. And and most of those will work, especially with Nikon. Canon is touch and go. Canon is is like the apple of the camera world if you ask me. That's my opinion. But and probably we might finally get some email over that. Who knows? But, but, yeah, yeah, a lot of the older lenses will work, you know, as long as, like Brian said, the mount is the same, and it's Oh, okay. It's not something funky. Yeah. It'll work because I've got an old SLR, which is a single lens.
It's a, can't remember the acronym for it, but it's for film cameras. But it works on my my my digital camera for portraits.
[01:27:20] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:21] Duuude-Ron :
And it's all metal. There's not a lick of plastic on that bitch. It's all metal. Right.
[01:27:29] Unknown:
So what's that? Dad passed away when my dad passed away over twenty years ago, I got some of his camera bodies and lenses.
[01:27:42] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[01:27:43] Unknown:
And that's as far as it went. It it got to my house. It got put up in the closet and has not been touched since.
[01:27:54] Duuude-Ron :
You could be sitting on a gold mine with them old film cameras, dude. I'm serious. Okay. Lot of people still shoot film.
[01:28:04] Rich Chelson:
I have no doubt. No. That that's become a very specialized niche for, in photography as people who still shoot silver.
[01:28:15] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:28:16] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Hey. Did I tell y'all I had bought another camera?
[01:28:20] Rich Chelson:
No. You sure about this? This was, like, last year. And I'm gonna have to call you if it starts with the name of the camera. It starts with an h.
[01:28:31] Duuude-Ron :
An h? No. Okay. I didn't know. I didn't buy a Hasselblad or a Holga.
[01:28:38] Rich Chelson:
Okay. No. I got Leica either. Did you?
[01:28:42] Duuude-Ron :
Not Leica either? No. Oh, god. No. I can't afford them bitches.
[01:28:47] Rich Chelson:
I can't afford them either. That's why I was gonna say, goddamn it. You went all gotta because I'd love to get a Hasselblad
[01:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
medium format. Oh, yeah. It would it'd be great. Digital.
[01:28:58] Unknown:
And a Leica? Leica suck these nuts?
[01:29:03] Rich Chelson:
Almost, but not quite.
[01:29:06] Duuude-Ron :
No. Leica Leica is is a German made camera, and it's an entry level Leica. You're looking at probably $4,000.
[01:29:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, they they got the laser laser distances and stuff. I mean, those things will start out at at at at a grand at times too. But yeah. Yeah. Leica cares. Oh,
[01:29:30] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. They're, I mean, awesome. They are they are freaking awesome. But no. I what god. Was it last year? I did it on a whim, and I was being I was being stupid. I just got it paid off. It's it it was a Nikon z, Zed FC, the Z mount. Okay. Yeah. And so, yeah, I've got I've got I've got my my seven eighty yet. And why I bought it? Well, this this camera looks like an old film camera even down to the buttons.
[01:30:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I see what you're saying.
[01:30:08] Duuude-Ron :
But it's totally digital. It's smaller. It's not as heavy. It's less bulky. I haven't shot much with it. I was shot well, dude, I that's the one that I was shooting with at Jeep in the Coast.
[01:30:24] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:30:25] Duuude-Ron :
That little tiny one. Well yeah. But either way so, yeah, I've got that one. I've got my drone, and, well, I found my GoPro finally.
[01:30:37] Unknown:
And Where did you fucking find the GoPro at? I still don't know.
[01:30:43] Rich Chelson:
That's okay. It just popped out of his ass all of a sudden one moment, and he's like, hey. Where the hell was that at?
[01:30:49] Duuude-Ron :
I still cannot remember where I found my GoPro at.
[01:30:54] Unknown:
I I can I can almost guarantee you that that was in with one of your fucking drones?
[01:31:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, I've got I've got I've got my one closet here that back here in my AM radio computer room, and I've got I've got most all of my electronics in this closet. Okay? And I'm I might have found it in there, but I cannot for the life of I'm still thinking about it. And that's been, what, two weeks?
[01:31:28] Unknown:
Something like that.
[01:31:29] Duuude-Ron :
And I and I said, I was I was laughing at myself the other day because I still can't remember where I found that son, bitch. I mean, I found it.
[01:31:39] Unknown:
Or better yet, it wasn't in with the drones. It was sitting on the fucking dining room table.
[01:31:46] Duuude-Ron :
Could've been.
[01:31:47] Unknown:
Yeah. It could've been. Very well could've been.
[01:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I've got so much crap on my dining room table. It's crazy. Yes. Yes. You do.
[01:31:58] Unknown:
And I and I bet you probably looked at it looked at it a thousand times, and then all of a sudden, it's like, crap. There's my GoPro.
[01:32:07] Duuude-Ron :
But then you can't remember where the fuck you exactly found it at. But No. I cannot. And and, you know, I had actively gone and looked for it. And so yeah. And and something else I just did. I just got it yesterday. But I'm gonna play with this too because I think this is gonna be cool. I got one of them at Insta March, the three sixty camera.
[01:32:33] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[01:32:34] Duuude-Ron :
I got one of those.
[01:32:36] Rich Chelson:
We're gonna see you start making videos like that little Chinese girl.
[01:32:40] Duuude-Ron :
I know. That was cool as shit. That
[01:32:43] Rich Chelson:
was cool. I mean, just the coolest way of doing that. And then she there somewhere in there, she's got an explainer on how she film how she does all that filming.
[01:32:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. I I gotta I gotta find it and watch it. But, yeah, I, yeah, I followed her on TikTok. So Yeah. I'm finding it. But but you see, that's the thing. When I go on this cruise, you know, I can take my camera. I can I can take my three sixty camera and do a three sixty of the boat ride with the dolphins? And it's cool as shit because I, tried it out yesterday. Right?
[01:33:18] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:33:19] Duuude-Ron :
And and, I mean, it's cool because you can sit there and and when you're watching it back and even while I'm recording, I I can move the screen, you know, to look at things and stuff like that. But when I'm watching it back, I can move the screen around. Like, if I'm talking in it, I can just move the screen around and look around. Just it's cool it's cool as crap, man. So and, yeah, I can make tiny planet videos and you know? It it just I'm a geek. I'm a fucking geek.
[01:33:58] Unknown:
Yeah. And you're gonna have that motherfucker test your Jeep here probably within the by the end of the month.
[01:34:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I will. Okay.
[01:34:07] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[01:34:08] Duuude-Ron :
And don't require on that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No.
[01:34:11] Unknown:
That's probably the only re that's probably the primary reason why you got it is put on your Jeep.
[01:34:16] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. Well, cruising the coast, man. We're gonna drive down the road at cruising the coast and and and fucking record these cars, man. It's gonna be cool as crap.
[01:34:31] Unknown:
Alright.
[01:34:32] Duuude-Ron :
We're gonna be right there beside them. Oh, hey, dude. Hey. I got a question to ask you.
[01:34:38] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:34:40] Duuude-Ron :
Do you wanna go to drag races? The gassers are are coming back. Are they? Yes.
[01:34:48] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:34:49] Duuude-Ron :
You wanna go one night or two nights? It's on a Friday or a Saturday.
[01:34:55] Unknown:
I'd probably say just Friday.
[01:34:58] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. That's on me. I'll I'll I'll get us. Okay. We'll we'll go.
[01:35:05] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:35:06] Duuude-Ron :
We'll go on Friday because they, yeah, they race on Saturday too, but
[01:35:12] Unknown:
but, yeah, we can go to Well, Saturday night or Saturday during the day?
[01:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Not a 100% sure yet. Hang on. Let me look it up again because I see, I I I don't know if they have the time
[01:35:25] Unknown:
time. Oh, okay. Because, you know, everybody, I'm sure, is gonna be packing up Sunday to head back home.
[01:35:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. But, no. Hang on. Let me look. Because I I was looking I was looking, yesterday, I think, for tickets and can't get tickets yet.
[01:35:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[01:35:51] Unknown:
So You know, I would I would just say Friday.
[01:35:55] Duuude-Ron :
Let's see. October. October 9, which is Friday. It opens at 5PM. Track is hot at six. So so if we got there right at five, we could probably get a good spot because there's gonna be a lot of people go go into
[01:36:16] Rich Chelson:
this. Yeah. And
[01:36:19] Duuude-Ron :
or no. The tenth or the ninth. I don't know. They don't have times for that. I gotta wait till it gets closer.
[01:36:27] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:36:29] Rich Chelson:
But
[01:36:30] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, yeah, I'll watch it, and we'll go yeah. Like I said, we can go Friday and Saturday or just Friday. It don't matter.
[01:36:38] Unknown:
Well, once it gets to that time, we'll we'll make a better decision.
[01:36:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:36:43] Unknown:
Because now I found out with my Jeep, my steering stabilizer shock
[01:36:51] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[01:36:52] Unknown:
Is blown.
[01:36:54] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. So you need
[01:36:56] Unknown:
one? Yeah. You know how much those motherfuckers are? Well, if you buy the most expensive one Well, yeah. Well, that's what I I I believe I believe that's what I got, which is the Fox two o's.
[01:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god, dude. What'd you pay?
[01:37:12] Unknown:
$239 for that motherfucker now.
[01:37:15] Duuude-Ron :
Damn, dude. Or a steering stabilizer.
[01:37:19] Unknown:
Yep. The steering stabilizer shock.
[01:37:22] Duuude-Ron :
Just because you just because you had to match.
[01:37:26] Unknown:
I swear. Yeah. Well, they're that and they're damn good shocks. But replacing them replacing them is expensive On the and my front drive shaft is a fucking the rear seal is blown on it.
[01:37:45] Duuude-Ron :
That's not good.
[01:37:47] Unknown:
Nope.
[01:37:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I
[01:37:50] Unknown:
You know what your new, front and rear drive shafts are?
[01:37:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, for you, probably $2,000.
[01:37:58] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. Because I would not get OEM. I would get oh, what the hell are they? Tom fuck. I don't remember the name, but, yeah, they're not cheap. However, I do have an extra front drive shaft in the garage.
[01:38:20] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you got one and you only need three.
[01:38:24] Unknown:
No. Drive shafts? I only need two of those. Oh, drive shafts. Yeah. I got a spare front drive shaft in the garage for my Jeep. Well, that thing That's the one that's the one I'm gonna use, obviously, because I can't afford the other drive shafts.
[01:38:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[01:38:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I'm because go ahead.
[01:38:47] Duuude-Ron :
On the on the gasser's page, Friday October
[01:38:54] Unknown:
Uh-huh.
[01:38:56] Duuude-Ron :
It actually starts at 05:00, and you can meet and greet drivers and see the cars and go hang out. And then Saturday, it starts at one. Racing starts at one Friday. It starts at five, 5PM.
[01:39:12] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:39:14] Duuude-Ron :
So it'd be Friday night, and then Saturday is during the day. Yep. So I think Friday night would be better.
[01:39:24] Unknown:
And so do I. So For sure.
[01:39:27] Duuude-Ron :
But no. We'll go then.
[01:39:30] Unknown:
Okay. Sounds
[01:39:32] Duuude-Ron :
good. Have we set a date for, when you're coming down?
[01:39:37] Unknown:
Nope. Not at it yet.
[01:39:40] Duuude-Ron :
What day are you coming down?
[01:39:41] Unknown:
I don't fucking know. Hold on. Let me look at the damn calendar.
[01:39:46] Duuude-Ron :
It starts the October 5.
[01:39:50] Rich Chelson:
Let's see. Come on.
[01:39:53] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Starts the fifth?
[01:39:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Starts the fifth.
[01:39:59] Unknown:
I can't remember what I had. I think I have my vacation from the third to the thirteenth Okay. If I remember correctly. So, you know, I may travel down on Saturday. Who knows? That's fine. Not sure yet. Come on down. I will.
[01:40:18] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, dude, we I mean, we think about it. You're gonna cruise for a whole week and get paid for it. And you know that? Paid for.
[01:40:29] Rich Chelson:
Oh,
[01:40:31] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. Vacation wise, dude. Vacation. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. You're gonna go cruising the coast and get heavy to do it. That's awesome. I love it. Yeah. You're right.
[01:40:43] Unknown:
Now I just gotta figure out where to fucking discharge the rest of my vacation time at.
[01:40:50] Duuude-Ron :
How much more do you have?
[01:40:52] Unknown:
Three weeks.
[01:40:54] Duuude-Ron :
Good god, dude. I don't know if there's anything else going on after cruising the coast. Around Christmas, there's always stuff going on.
[01:41:08] Unknown:
Well, yeah, but the other drivers have already put in their vacation time for Christmas and Thanksgiving week. So I don't know. I have to get ahold of the boss. But, yeah, I still got three weeks
[01:41:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh, dude. A vacation left.
[01:41:23] Unknown:
That's cool. And we're and we're fucking more than halfway through the fucking calendar year.
[01:41:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And you still have three more weeks. That's awesome.
[01:41:33] Unknown:
Yeah. And the only vacation time that I've taken this far or thus far this year is when I came to visit you for Jeep in the Coast.
[01:41:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So so you get five weeks then.
[01:41:49] Unknown:
Right? Well, I get no. It's four weeks plus a week of sick time plus two floating holidays. So I know I ain't gonna use my sick time, so now I'll have and I don't know how it's gonna carry over into the new year, but right now I have forty hours for this year. And right now I have banked a hundred and forty hours. So at the end of this year, I'll have a hundred and eighty hours of sick time banked.
[01:42:23] Duuude-Ron :
Dang, dude. Call your boss and go, I'm sick.
[01:42:29] Unknown:
He's made that he's made that same statement. It's like, you know what? Just one day, call me and, you know, if it's a Friday or a Monday because now we have the flexibility
[01:42:42] Rich Chelson:
on Fridays and Mondays. Like, just call me up in the morning and go, I won't make it in.
[01:42:48] Unknown:
And he'll be like, alright. See you tomorrow.
[01:42:52] Duuude-Ron :
See? There you go, man. Alright. That's all you gotta do. But no. I need to decide, guys, which cruise should I go on? The dolphin watching cruise Dolphin one. Or the sunset cruise. Because any of these, they say there's a you you know, see, you'll see dolphins. That well, hey. This one doesn't. This is the nighttime. Yeah. I could go to the dolphin cruise.
[01:43:21] Unknown:
That's what I do. If this is a spontaneous thing that you're gonna be doing tomorrow because you haven't been able to get out of the house since yesterday.
[01:43:36] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:43:36] Unknown:
Like, I bought way yesterday. I'd go on the dolphin one. Or what's the heat light gonna be like tomorrow?
[01:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
It's gonna be hotter than hell.
[01:43:50] Unknown:
Okay. So would it be better to go would it be more enjoyable to go on a, you know, sun sunset cruise than it would be in the the heat of the day? Yeah. That's probably your best best question to answer of how you're going to enjoy your day tomorrow.
[01:44:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, I I'll enjoy it either way because I'll be riding on a boat. I'll be in the Gulf Of America, and I'll be taking pictures and video. So, I mean, honestly, yeah, it'll be hot, but I don't know. I just I'd
[01:44:32] Unknown:
you know, I would suggest the Dolphin Cruise then
[01:44:36] Rich Chelson:
myself. Okay. So
[01:44:41] Unknown:
now where does that leave out of
[01:44:45] Duuude-Ron :
Gulfport down there?
[01:44:47] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:44:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Gulfport where we drove by. We drove by the the entrance to Ship Island or the cruises.
[01:44:59] Unknown:
Okay. Where that where it went on out on the pier with the where all the boats were at.
[01:45:05] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Okay.
[01:45:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're, yeah, we're we're all the boats are at. You're right.
[01:45:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Because we drove up, and then we had to turn around because it became the yacht club property. Is it that one?
[01:45:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's Okay. It was back this way. I mean, they've got, like, I don't know, four or five of them. Oh, no. No. No. It's further down. Because that Oh. The one we was talking about, I think, was that one's in Biloxi.
[01:45:45] Unknown:
Yes. That one was in Biloxi.
[01:45:48] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. So yeah. No. The one the one I'd be going to tomorrow is further down in Gulfport. We passed it going down to Jeep Central couple times.
[01:45:58] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
So but, that's
[01:46:05] Unknown:
I'd say I'd say the Dolphin Cruise. And then next week and then next week, go on the the sunset cruise. Because like you said, they're less than $30. Yeah. That's pretty damn good. How many hours is it? How many hours is it?
[01:46:25] Duuude-Ron :
The, the dolphin cruise is an hour and a half, and the sunset cruise is two hours.
[01:46:33] Unknown:
Well, that ain't bad for that price. No. Better than better than the cost of a movie.
[01:46:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Exactly. Yeah. They can and they got drinks and snacks and all like that. You know? So, you know, I'll probably I'll I'll probably take 20 or $40 with me just, you know, just to have, you know, some cash on me. Yeah. And, and then, you know, I'll just I'll just because one, I'll get to go on the go on the Gulf Of America and, I mean, go out. I've been in the sound. You know? Yeah. The the small water right there by the beach, I've been there. I haven't been past there, and I've been wanting to go past there. So I've I've booked it. So I gotta be there at Ship Island by 04:00 tomorrow afternoon.
[01:47:30] Unknown:
So And that's and that's which one? The dolphin
[01:47:34] Duuude-Ron :
watching cruise.
[01:47:35] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:47:37] Duuude-Ron :
So and then yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next week, I can do the sunset cruise, and I'll take video then too.
[01:47:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There you go. Sounds like a plan.
[01:47:48] Duuude-Ron :
Bye bye. Thanks, guys. Y'all I I I don't know. I mean I mean, you know, I'm I'm not afraid to do things and shit like this, but, man, I've done shit by myself for so long. I just I get tired of it, to be honest with you. Yeah. I
[01:48:05] Unknown:
I resemble that remark, and, yeah, it fucking sucks.
[01:48:10] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:48:11] Unknown:
It does.
[01:48:12] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. I agree. But but this is because, one, I love big boats, and this boat's, like, fifty, sixty foot long, I guess. It's huge. But, you know, and it it's just I don't know. I've never been on one like this. So I'm gonna go try it out and see what kind of pictures and videos I can get.
[01:48:35] Unknown:
Yeah. Like I said earlier, take your drone with you. What's the worst thing that they're gonna tell you? No. You can't fly it off the ship.
[01:48:42] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. They'll yeah. Yeah. The ship will probably say no.
[01:48:46] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:48:48] Duuude-Ron :
Because drones say that's the thing. When when you're on a ship or, you know, when you're somewhere, like, on a ship or something like that, you had you have to get permission from the captain. And nine times out of 10, it's a no. Now now if it was something that I set up weeks, you know, weeks ago, then, yeah, it'd be different.
[01:49:14] Unknown:
But but just Where are your where are your veteran at? You may you may fucking just be generous. Mhmm. Right. Well Yes, sir.
[01:49:23] Duuude-Ron :
I'm gonna take my x five because I've got a selfie stick, and and it's cool as shit because some of the trial videos I've used, it actually makes that selfie stick disappear. It's cool as crap.
[01:49:39] Unknown:
Like Yeah.
[01:49:40] Duuude-Ron :
Like on the videos you've seen with, people using it, no stick or nothing. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. That's not that's honest to God. That's the way the camera does it. It knocks out that selfie stick. I'm like, that's cool as crap, man. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. I wanna go to the back or the front of the boat and extend the selfie stick and then Yeah. Hold it out while we're, you know, going out in the Gulf and just and just let it record. You know? And I can get the whole boat, and then he dolphins out around and, you know, the sky. Oh my god. It's it's just like I'll get I'll get it and get it processed.
It'll be fun.
[01:50:29] Unknown:
Oh, I have no doubt in my mind.
[01:50:32] Duuude-Ron :
I'm excited. I'm a I'm a go see some dolphins.
[01:50:39] Unknown:
That's cool. There you go. Yeah. Absolutely. That'd be fun.
[01:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, dude, I mean, cruising at coast, they'll they'll still be running excursions. We can go if you want.
[01:50:53] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:50:54] Duuude-Ron :
So I mean, because they run till the November.
[01:50:59] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:51:00] Duuude-Ron :
Then they stop for the year. So so, yeah, when you come down, yeah, I'll go on another one. I don't care.
[01:51:07] Unknown:
Well, hell yeah. At that price? Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, it's that boat ride to boat ride to see dolphins, one, is a hell of a lot better, and two, cost less than a ticket for a movie.
[01:51:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[01:51:25] Unknown:
So that is paying for the damn popcorn.
[01:51:29] Rich Chelson:
Right. Alright. That's that that breaks the bank, not every single time. You know, I know it does.
[01:51:36] Duuude-Ron :
I think the last time I went to a movie god, it's been, god, twenty some years. I think last time, I think, for a large popcorn, I think I paid, like, $12.
[01:51:47] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:51:48] Duuude-Ron :
And, I mean, you know, it freaking cost them pennies, literally pennies to make
[01:51:53] Unknown:
it. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Same way with the soda.
[01:51:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. But, you know, that's okay. I'll I'll just I'll just you know, the cost of the ticket, popcorn, hell, those two things right there is is more than the cost of this cruise. Yeah.
[01:52:12] Unknown:
Yeah. You know? And And the last movie I went to in the theaters was a Harry Potter which one was it? It wasn't the Chamber of Secrets. It was the next one. Prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:52:29] Rich Chelson:
Azkaban.
[01:52:30] Unknown:
Okay. That's the last movie that I've seen in a movie theater was Harry Potter's prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:52:40] Duuude-Ron :
I I can't even remember the last movie I saw.
[01:52:45] Rich Chelson:
Let me see here. Well, I know I'm I know I'm gonna go and watch one here pretty soon as soon as it when it comes out. But
[01:52:53] Unknown:
What's that? Superman?
[01:52:55] Rich Chelson:
No. No. The Long Walk. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. You were talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. Completely lost y'all with the, with the description of that. And then my couple of my my story ideas.
[01:53:09] Unknown:
Yeah. You you kinda lost us by the time you got done explaining that one last week. That was for sure. It's like, what the hell are you talking about?
[01:53:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know you know, that's really not a hard job losing us.
[01:53:25] Rich Chelson:
I'll lose myself all the time. What the hell was that? I just trying to spell well. What? I don't wanna know.
[01:53:38] Unknown:
I wanna know.
[01:53:40] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I'm gonna do that. So, yeah, I'll I'll, yeah, I'll probably well, I'll I'll probably have a video up either Friday night or Saturday.
[01:53:52] Unknown:
I'm sure it will pop up on my my Facebook.
[01:53:57] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will.
[01:53:58] Unknown:
Without a doubt.
[01:54:00] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will because I'll I'll probably post it there. And if because, I mean, because these these videos that's that's one thing on TikTok. I haven't seen many three sixty videos, you know, as well. But but, you know you know, it can be done.
[01:54:20] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Instagram,
[01:54:23] Duuude-Ron :
No. You can't put three sixty videos on Instagram.
[01:54:27] Unknown:
Too big of a file?
[01:54:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's Oh. It's it's their encoding for three sixty files. It, it has to be a flat file. You can put videos up, just not three sixty. And say with the x five, I can I can take the three sick I can shoot three sixty, make it into a flat file, and then post it on Instagram? You just can't spin it around.
[01:54:55] Unknown:
Okay. Well, you do you, boo, with the taking around to a flat and post it. And you know what? You just knock yourself the fuck out.
[01:55:10] Duuude-Ron :
I will, man. I will. I'm sure you will. Now you see, Facebook ain't hard.
[01:55:16] Unknown:
Right?
[01:55:18] Duuude-Ron :
You know, Facebook lets you do three sixty videos. So when I post this video, be sure to spin around the screen and look at everything. And and, you know, what's what's weird though with it is I don't have to move the camera anywhere. I just Yeah. I just hold it out. I don't have to move it towards anybody. But when I go back and look at the footage, I can see anybody and everybody or whatever, you know, object I wanna see and everything. So, yeah, that's that'll be kinda cool.
[01:55:57] Unknown:
Three lenses in there?
[01:55:59] Duuude-Ron :
Two. Two? Okay. Yep. Two. And it has them. And when it makes it, it it they merge because this thing's probably, I'd say, a good inch wide. Yeah. In between the limp, but it stitches the video, you know, perfectly. Stitches it perfectly. So
[01:56:23] Unknown:
Wow. Okay. Yeah. I've I've seen a few of the the three sixty videos on Facebook, but I'm not a member of Instagram or TikTok.
[01:56:34] Duuude-Ron :
You ought to be, man. Give you something else to look at. You'd love TikTok, dude. You would really love TikTok.
[01:56:42] Unknown:
I'll give you this. I'll think about it.
[01:56:46] Rich Chelson:
TikTok's got some cool stuff in there. It's got some really annoying stuff, and it's got some really dumb stuff, and it's got some stuff you're like going, what?
[01:56:54] Duuude-Ron :
So
[01:56:55] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, you know, and with TikTok, how many people are trying to get their, you know, ten seconds of fame? Just like the hawk tour girl.
[01:57:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know but but, see, that's the thing. You can watch them. You don't have to, you know, like, watch stuff. You can just look at them, man.
[01:57:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But you also know that if you watch one all the way through, they're they you tell them that you're kinda interested in it. So if you see one, you don't wanna see it, then you wanna zip past it fairly quickly. Yep. Okay.
[01:57:36] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, it's it's it's not bad. Yeah. I mean, some, I just watch because it's so stupid. I watch it all the way through just because I can't believe it, but and I I mean, I don't care.
[01:57:48] Rich Chelson:
I mean,
[01:57:49] Duuude-Ron :
no no one contacts you, dude. You need to get TikTok.
[01:57:56] Rich Chelson:
Join the crowd. It's all good.
[01:58:03] Unknown:
Yeah. I'll think about it. What's the difference between Facebook and Instagram?
[01:58:09] Duuude-Ron :
Really nothing because it's the same company. Same company.
[01:58:13] Unknown:
Oh my god. Okay.
[01:58:15] Rich Chelson:
I mean I mean Facebook, Instagram, threads, and WhatsApp. We're all owned by Facebook. Meta.
[01:58:22] Unknown:
What was the second one you said? Instagram then what?
[01:58:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, threads.
[01:58:29] Unknown:
I've heard of it.
[01:58:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it's a it's a slower a slower Twitter, but it's through Instagram.
[01:58:39] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well then, we know how far I am behind in the technicality
[01:58:47] Duuude-Ron :
age. Yeah. But, I mean, it wouldn't be
[01:58:53] Rich Chelson:
it wouldn't be hard. You'd have a lot to look at. I'm telling you right now. And then you go off, discover the, the TikTok shop and all the cool things they have in there. For $3
[01:59:05] Duuude-Ron :
or less.
[01:59:07] Rich Chelson:
Well, the stuff I keep looking at is a little more bad. Not bad. Yeah.
[01:59:11] Duuude-Ron :
You see, I don't I don't I don't really look on the TikTok shop. Now I did just buy something off the TikTok shop. I bought the Ethiopian Bible, which is it's not it's it's it's it's it's not the oldest Bible. It's it's number three. It's older than the King James version. It was written back in, like, four BC
[01:59:38] Unknown:
Right.
[01:59:39] Duuude-Ron :
Or four AD, fourth century.
[01:59:43] Unknown:
So why? Just to get a different perspective?
[01:59:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, it's well, yeah. Because you see Bibles I mean, Bibles have all the same message pretty much. Right?
[01:59:58] Unknown:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[02:00:00] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Now now some of the words and say, the Bible is as we know it has 66 books, and that's not all of them. Okay? Because it's been it's been curated since Yeah. Since first one since King James the eighth, I believe. I was reading up on it the other day. They, figured out he he took, like, a 100 and some men scholars, religious guys, and basically told them, look through the manuscripts and put it together. And this is what they come up with, which, I mean, it's it's great. You know? Y'all still there?
[02:00:47] Rich Chelson:
Yep. I am. I am. Okay.
[02:00:49] Duuude-Ron :
I thought I saw Zoom flip on me. That's why I was asking. Anyway Okay. So this is this is what they came up with, and this is the Bible as we know it, as we were raised with. Well, the Ethiopian Bible, they not only have the normal 66 books that every other Bible has, but they also have another 22 books that the scholars with King James back in 1611 decided not to put in the Bible. Uh-huh.
[02:01:27] Rich Chelson:
So Okay. So that Yeah. There's, like, 17 of those books that they decided not to put in. Yeah. And and, I mean, you know, I I mean, I've talked
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
I've I've talked to people smarter than me about the Bible and, you know, asked them, you know, why they do that, and they explained it, broke it down as to why. And because they they said the books, they when they put all the books together, they wanted one single message. Okay? And it they, they wanted it centered on God and Jesus Christ. Okay? But the Ethiopian Bible has it has all the extra books, and it has more of the backstories of of Christ and God and and and the way things were. Oh, okay. That's that's why these books were left out because it was more history, more backstory, but it it it gives this stuff, I believe I mean, I just got it today, so so I haven't got to, get into it and, you know, read all that much on it. But I believe the the extra books and and a few other things they have in there will explain more about the Bible. You know what I mean?
Yeah. So that's why I got it.
[02:02:57] Rich Chelson:
Well Well, yeah, there's quite a few of those books. Like, there's the gospel of gospel of Judas. There is the gospel of Mary Magdalene. Enoch? Yeah. The book of book of Enoch.
[02:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The book of Enoch is in the Ethiopian Bible.
[02:03:13] Rich Chelson:
Right. There's Tobit, Judith, the wisdom of Solomon, and my the first and second Maccabees Mhmm. And gospel of Mary, gospel of Thomas, the apocalypse of Peter.
[02:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's so there's I mean, this and and, you know, it's funny. Something else I learned, Ethiopia, we all know is in Africa. Right? Yeah. Do you know Ethiopia is its own and always has been its own independent country?
[02:03:47] Unknown:
Yes.
[02:03:48] Duuude-Ron :
I did know that. Okay. No. That's cool. But, no. I see. I didn't know that, and I I just learned that. I was I was yesterday years old when I learned that. But, yeah, Ethiopia is a is the African continent, all the other they're like states. And and then you have the main one, like like The United States. They're like The United States. We have all these states and then one government. Africa has all the others, and Ethiopia is like, uh-uh. We're gonna be ourselves.
[02:04:25] Unknown:
So Yeah.
[02:04:27] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. And and they have had this Bible since the fourth century, so around 300 AD. I figured Sure. And with all this other stuff, I'm like, This might, you know, explain a few things or at least at least give me knowledge.
[02:04:48] Unknown:
You know? And what does BI Joe say?
[02:04:51] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[02:04:53] Unknown:
Knowledge is power.
[02:04:55] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. That's why that's why I got it because I I just I've been I've been seeing people talk about it, and, you know, I looked it up and everything like that. And it's like it just sounds like that would be really cool. You know?
[02:05:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, I got about, you know, probably 12 Bibles in his house, and, unfortunately, I haven't picked up one and read one in years. Now, Okay. The and I don't like to read anyway. It doesn't matter if it's the Bible or if it's, you know, freaking the Moby Dick or the what. I just don't like to read it. Romance? You don't want me to No. There's only actually, there's only two
[02:05:44] Rich Chelson:
harlequin romances.
[02:05:46] Duuude-Ron :
You know you.
[02:05:48] Rich Chelson:
There's only two good Anybody who drinks poo poo bitch drinks, you know, will read a read a harlequin from time to time.
[02:05:56] Unknown:
Yeah. That's okay. I'll I'll re I'll read the Penny House short stories. The short stories.
[02:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Good. Of course. There's only three books I like. Connie Francis that.
[02:06:11] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yesterday, I I I just saw that.
[02:06:15] Unknown:
Why is why is the flag at half staff currently?
[02:06:19] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good question.
[02:06:21] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Let's see. There is answers. Flag, half staff today. It's Half staff American flag notification. Yeah. Let's see here.
[02:06:41] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. That didn't say nothing.
[02:06:44] Unknown:
Oh, so shit. No. Well, flags have been at half staff for about a week now. Well yeah. And this is,
[02:06:51] Rich Chelson:
this is for for, the flooding.
[02:06:55] Duuude-Ron :
No. In Texas, it says the, governor Tate Reeves ordered all flags be flown to half staff on Tuesday. Now I don't know why today, but
[02:07:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. In recent Texas.
[02:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. To honor the passing of officer Troy Floyd. Hang on. Stars and Stripes daily. Let's see if it's it's saying it's supposed to be a full staff.
[02:07:21] Rich Chelson:
So it's no. What I've got right here is the the Texas flag is currently or the Texas flag is currently half staff. Governor Abbott ordered the Texas flag, lowered to half staff on July 9 in honor of those who lost their lives during the most recent Texas floods. Mainly lowered to half staff. Well, it's just for that day, though. Yeah.
[02:07:41] Duuude-Ron :
I'm I'm I'm gonna save this site to start in the stripes daily because it it tells you that the flag's at half staff, full staff, or what, and then it explains why it was at half staff. So now is it down there with you, dude, is it just Texas flags, or is it the American flags, dude? American flag. Oh, I don't know. Well, both.
[02:08:08] Unknown:
Both. Because when they put any time that they put the American flag at half staff, Texas put their flags at half staff as well. Well, yeah. Because they send it. So Uh-huh. Well, they can fly the Texas flag at the same height as the American flag.
[02:08:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well yeah. But but, normally, if it's on the same pole, it has to be under it.
[02:08:34] Unknown:
Well yeah.
[02:08:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'm not sure why it's at half staff then.
[02:08:38] Unknown:
I don't know either. It's been half staff for about a week now.
[02:08:42] Duuude-Ron :
And unless maybe it is for the flooding victims.
[02:08:46] Unknown:
But I mean I don't know.
[02:08:49] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing. That's that's not really, you know, not to take take anything away from the victims or anything like this, but, yeah, with flag etiquette, that's not allowed. You know?
[02:09:05] Unknown:
Well, they put the flag at half staff with the pope died. It was a half staff. It that would they it was a half staff for a week when the pope died. Yes. It was.
[02:09:16] Duuude-Ron :
Because the pope is is, considered head of state. Yes. So that's why that's why I went to have staff. Right. You know, it has it went to have staff on May 4 in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service. So, yeah, there's there's different things, but I I I I've never I don't see anywhere I don't see anywhere where they would do it for the flooding.
[02:09:49] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[02:09:50] Duuude-Ron :
But but, again, and and, say, an individual state can do it if they want, and that's probably very well what it's for.
[02:10:03] Unknown:
It it it very well could be.
[02:10:07] Duuude-Ron :
So well, what the hell do I know? That was just a
[02:10:12] Unknown:
do I do? Yeah. I'm just a 57 year old driver that retired from the military. What the hell do I know? You know a lot of boot. I know how to shine a fucking pair of boots to where they look like mirrors. I can pull my I can pull my boots. As a matter of fact, my, my jump boots were I can't remember where the hell I had it. Yeah. And after ten years, yeah, once I cleared the dust off of them, I could still see my reflection in them stand you know, I can see the reflection of my face with the boots on and standing up. Man, I can shine a fucking pair of boots.
I was the motherfucking man
[02:11:00] Rich Chelson:
back then,
[02:11:02] Unknown:
but all I ever wore were jungle boots. But yeah. And shining motherfucks up like a mirror.
[02:11:10] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:11:13] Unknown:
And now you can't even shine boots anymore.
[02:11:17] Rich Chelson:
Not as easily.
[02:11:19] Unknown:
No. You can't at all because it is
[02:11:23] Rich Chelson:
It's all I've got. Smooth.
[02:11:26] Unknown:
No. You got the smooth side of the cow, and then you have the rough side of the cow skin. I can't remember what the rough side is called.
[02:11:36] Duuude-Ron :
I just know it. It was like suede.
[02:11:39] Unknown:
Suede. Exactly. So now the boots the boots are made with the suede side out. They don't shine boots anymore in the military at all.
[02:11:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, with the dress uniforms, it's all patent leather. So
[02:11:58] Unknown:
Well, yeah.
[02:11:59] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, there's there's no shine in the ball.
[02:12:02] Rich Chelson:
Are those are those plastic style shoes? I can't remember what they're called. That's the patent leather. Well, yeah, they've got patent leather, but then there's another style or another one out there that you actually don't have to worry about. Because the patent leather, you still wanna you still have to shine from time to time because they'll get scuffed up. But there's another one. I can't remember what it's called, but it's but they stay shiny, and they don't scuff.
[02:12:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's patent leather. At least that's what I know them as.
[02:12:32] Unknown:
Yeah. I know what you're talking about, Brian, but I can't remember the name of it. But I know what you're talking about. Yeah. And they make patent leather jump boots too, but they're well, when I was in, they were not legal to wear.
[02:12:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right. They are now, but not then.
[02:12:54] Unknown:
Yeah. Because now they're a bunch of fucking pussies.
[02:12:57] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's I mean, they're just, doing what they're told, really. Yeah.
[02:13:05] Unknown:
Amazing. It works. You know? Yes. I do.
[02:13:12] Duuude-Ron :
Man, that's cool. I'm a go on a boat ride. In fact, I I better I better I better put that in my calendar
[02:13:20] Rich Chelson:
because Coroprams. That's what they were called. Yeah. That's right. Coroprams. Called what?
[02:13:25] Duuude-Ron :
Coropram. Oh, I've, yeah, I've heard of them.
[02:13:30] Unknown:
Never rode any of them.
[02:13:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. I didn't either.
[02:13:34] Rich Chelson:
I I should have never them.
[02:13:38] Duuude-Ron :
Right. They were they were freaking expensive. But, yeah, we couldn't wear them when I was in.
[02:13:44] Unknown:
Oh.
[02:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
No? That was that was that was a no no. Yep. It was a worked,
[02:13:53] Rich Chelson:
essentially. Third quarter.
[02:13:55] Unknown:
But, of course, when I left in, no, I take that back. I had to wear my class a one time after I left the eighty second in 9098. Yeah. '98. The only other time that I wore my class a uniform is when I had to do casualty assistance and casualty notification.
[02:14:21] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:14:22] Unknown:
And, honestly, I don't remember what foot foot gear that I wore. I mighta had my my jump boots on, but I don't remember.
[02:14:33] Duuude-Ron :
Were you in the eighty second or no?
[02:14:35] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[02:14:36] Duuude-Ron :
Well Then yeah. What? Then
[02:14:39] Unknown:
well, I was out outside of the eighty second, I can't remember what footwear I wore when I had to do What? Kinda casualty assistance because I didn't do casualty assistance until I was at Fort Hood.
[02:14:55] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[02:14:57] Unknown:
I think I wore my jump boots because we were wearing black berets then.
[02:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[02:15:04] Unknown:
Dookiest goddamn Just because one one person wanted to have the ability to wear a black beret. And that's when yep. Got the hell out. And that's when general what the fuck was his name? Sanjaycki, when he became the army chief of staff, because of him, that's when he put the Black Beret to the army forces as a whole.
[02:15:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But didn't the 86 wear maroon?
[02:15:44] Unknown:
Yeah. The eighty second wore maroon, but the rangers wore the black gray.
[02:15:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:15:51] Unknown:
So because general Sanjekt, and I know I'm mispronouncing that, because he wanted to have the the ability to wear a black beret.
[02:16:04] Duuude-Ron :
That shit is wrong.
[02:16:06] Unknown:
Yeah. It was. Takes it from one special ops group and gives it to the rest of the fucking army. So the rangers went back to, actually, the original color they started with, and that was tan.
[02:16:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[02:16:26] Unknown:
Yeah. The original gray color that the ranges were was tan, then they went to black, and now they're back at tan again.
[02:16:34] Duuude-Ron :
They just need to leave things alone. Exactly. I mean, good luck.
[02:16:41] Unknown:
Yeah. That's what they need to do. Leave the fucking shit alone.
[02:16:45] Duuude-Ron :
But now they I mean, this is the army. This is what they do.
[02:16:49] Unknown:
Yeah. I know. But certain individuals, when they get to to a certain rank, they they, you know because I didn't get to do it when I was down here. But now since I'm up here, I can make that decision, and I'm gonna do it because it benefits me Right. And because I say so. Do as I say, not as I do.
[02:17:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's the rule.
[02:17:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yep.
[02:17:22] Unknown:
It is bullshit rule, but rule nonetheless.
[02:17:27] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:17:29] Unknown:
As an adult, you're right. Well, not much, really. I mean awfully quiet tonight. Oh,
[02:17:36] Rich Chelson:
just just realizing exactly, you know, I like I like the job as a whole, I like, but it did go off and remind me last week why I left the fracking the world of fracking, you know, five years ago back in, 2019. And, that was just because, one, it's hot in the summertime, cold as shit during the wintertime, dirtier than hell because especially during the summer, you're sweaty. And most of the, at least in places I've ever been, the the pads are are have got glitchy on them. And when you have semi trucks going in and out, in and out, in and out, you have cars going in and out, in and out, and you've got all these trucks and trailers going in and out. It takes that takes the, cliche and turns it into baby powder.
Oh, cool. So trucks drive through, and whatever fails, when dry pull on the location, the truck fan has to turn on. I don't know what they have style on the damn thing, but the moment you pull on the location Mhmm. So you get this big explosion of dust in the air. So I was working I was even working nights last week doing shagging trucks trailers, which is basically, most of the time, I I take pick up empties from staging pad, and I take them to the sand plant, get them loaded, bring them back, drop them off. And last week, since we're doing a zipper, we've had we've had to make some changes.
And so I would show up and through, through the night, I would grab I would bring a loaded truck trailer from the low, staging pad to location and then take it and then hop out of that truck, hop to a different truck that has an empty trailer, take it back over to the staging pad, drop the trailer, get a a good loaded trailer, and bring it back. So I was basically just doing that, and it's only, like, maybe a half mile away. So it was hop in, run down there, run back, pop out, wait till another trailer unloads, hop back in a different truck, run back down, back and forth, back and forth. So but, again, every time you pull on, paying on the truck's gotta kick in for some whatever dumbass reason. And so every night, I would get tired. I had you're around the the blowers all the time, and and it's just, you know, just a it's a lot. And it's just after after that week, yesterday, I had my 24 off. I was just that whole time, I was just going, yeah. That's that's one of the big reasons why I left fracking. That's didn't I mean, I the granted, I am getting paid a hell of a lot more than what I was with when when I was just hauling sand beforehand.
So they make it worth it. And, I mean but and there's not really anything I can complain about other than if I get offered to be a a shuttle driver where I'm shuttling trailers back and forth, I'm gonna have to probably say no unless you add an extra $5 an hour. Because because no. I don't I don't care to be a part of the, of the, of the of the prac crew itself. I'll I'll just stick with my little my little sand hauling duties and and just enjoy the hell out of it. We've still got we're basically about halfway done with that, with that zipper that we're doing right now that did was doing last week, and we're still doing it this week. It's just because what they're doing is they've got two wells that are setting probably about maybe 25, 30 feet apart from each other.
Yeah. And they have one they have, a set of they've got a set a set of pipes that are set on a rack on a trailer. And this set of pipes is called the missile trailer, and it's because there's four four big, depending on what size flag job it is. It's usually the I think they're about usually about three inch three inch pipe, and that's the high pressure side. You got the low pressure side. And the low pressure side's a little smaller, but the high pressure sides of this big three inch pipe, and this is where all the all the frac pumps do all their do all the pumping. So you have when they put pressurized the the frac fluid and the sand and all that's been mixed together and shove it into the, end of the missile, it goes down. Now what they what they do, a lot of times, I've I haven't actually been down into the hot zone of the frac job yet, so I don't so I haven't actually seen how they how precisely they do it. But most of the time, they have basically, it's a a a diverter, a a couple ball valves that they will turn to block off the the one valve so they can pop over to the into one, and then they'll close the that one and open the other and and pump into the other one.
And while they're pumping into one, while one is running down the other to send the the gun down so it could perforate the next stage, come out. And usually, by the time they get that out, the, the back to the stage that they were pumping on the other well, say, like, well two, is finishing up. So then they'll they'll shut down, shift the the the ball valves around. Wire long will come off the wall, swing over, go on to the other wall. They'll reset their guns, then go into the other wall, rinse and repeat. So you're basically zipping back and forth, back and forth. So it's a high it the and and when they're tracking, you start at the bottom of the walls, and you work your way up.
Because whenever you get done, it's whatever sand was in that in that stage, you put shove as much sand in there as you can until you can't get anymore. So when you get done, you have your plug From the place that they plug, you are you're done with that sand, done with that stage. So you start at the bottom, you work your way up. And so the as the stage as the job goes on, it gets faster because you don't have to have as much sand or as much sand and and all that. You don't have to pump as far down. So it gets a lot it gets a lot faster. So and they have been because the first the first time we were doing it, I was there. You would do, you'd go down. They do well, you'd get about three, three trailers each each driver and that you set for four hours or so because they were there was actually also a problem with the, with the casing. So while I was having to really fight to get past that little bad spot in the casing.
But today, now is that every time I was pulling in, there'd be one it'd be an, an empty shuttle truck come whipping on in there too right behind me. And by the time I got my loaded trailer, adult, dropped and got underneath the got underneath and empty, there would be one or two more two more empty empty, trailers coming in. So I was like, okay. They're picking up for sure. So but, yeah, that's, that's the big thing that's just happening right now. It's just the just realizing is like, okay. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm definitely staying as a sand hauler, and I if I get offered, the to be a part of the, the frack crew and doing the shuttle runs, says, well, No. I think I'm just gonna stay just like I said, unless they offer me $5 an hour or more.
Probably just going I'm just gonna stay, stay in my in my nice clean little little Kenworth and just be bopping out around and a half down the road and get loaded. And, also, they're they're John are normally, when you're you're usually there on a fifteen hour shift instead of a, twelve because they have they add the, when you're on location, not at staging pad or any place else, but when you're on location and you're standing around having to wait for something to happen, you can act there's actually a a status in the logbook called waiting.
Okay. And waiting is really, really cool because it stops your clock.
[02:26:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. That's cool. Yeah. So it's
[02:26:25] Rich Chelson:
I I was working for twelve hours and still had seven hours of drive time, cycle not cycle time, but shift time left and all. Because we'd just be waiting around, so you would you know, while you're on location waiting to take the take the trailer, take an empty, you would you know, you'd be out sitting on waiting. Your tie all your time stopped, while you're away. So that that was cool, but at the same time, it was, yeah, just the just the sheer mass, amount of noise and and, and and back to the their their there was every time, yeah, I got done, I come home. I was just coated in dust. I just, you know, I just felt horrible. So Right. Yeah. There was it was it it it wasn't fun, but I'm I'm excited to see what my paycheck looks like, though.
Because, heck, I had thirty hours the first two days.
[02:27:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, damn annoying. Yeah. Dude, yeah. That's game on right there, dude.
[02:27:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We got, I got forty one let's see. Last paycheck last pay period, the sixth to, the twelfth. Only I only work three days, but I have forty one hours.
[02:27:45] Unknown:
Yep.
[02:27:47] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Yeah. And this, this pay period, I've started on Sunday, and, I have put in a whole whopping fifty six hours.
[02:27:58] Duuude-Ron :
So so when you hit, what, 70, you have to take 24 off?
[02:28:04] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Well, they they have it to where it is after six days, and usually, you will hit your your 70. You'll be within your 70 at the end of that 70 with by the sixth day on normal days. But when you're doing the shuttle run, no. I still I still actually had, like, thirty seven hours or something like that left after six days because of all the waiting and stuff. But but you've got normally, yeah, by the time that sixth day comes along, you may have, like, you know, eight hours left. And so you're you know, you're you might have enough time to go down, grab one load, drop it off, and then you're coming back and just kinda pitfall fart to try to make up for the rest of the time.
And, so you get that you you do it do that, But then to remake to reset your 78, you have to do a 24. And, to, like, last night this last Wednesday, whenever I had I was doing my 24. It is you know, I was trying the time because I knew they want me out earlier than the 08:00 that I normally am supposed to get my my shift's supposed to start. Right. And, so I was like, well, let's see here. It takes an hour fifteen to get out there, fifteen minutes for, pre trip. You know? So okay. I've got, you know, hour and a half. And so I was trying to figure out figure out it's like the morning that I was supposed to start my the twenty four hour off, I was like, alright. Well, I'm gonna need to leave about 03:00, which is, you know, sounds really crazy early.
But I was like, alright. So I need to leave about three, and I was getting ready to take off. And the guy that that we were helping is like, alright. Well, since you're heading back into town, I need you to take this pump. I was like, alright. Well, sweet. I can do that. It's I I've gotta park the truck anyhow. And, so that they could do PM and stuff. So I was like, alright. Sure. So they he tells me what pump number it is and tells me it's in the back corner. So I go back there. Yeah. It's back there, but it's just barely damn big enough for me to get that, to get that that pump pulled out.
And so I got myself out and jacked my my happy ass around, getting around, trying not to hit the light, light tower that's, that's right there. Had a guy there trying to get me you know, had to kind of my ass in around a little bit so I could get enough room to be able to turn. And so finally got out of there, and that took, you know, an extra fifteen, twenty minutes. Got myself out, got on the on the road and took off and stuff. Got all the way to a ceiling, dropped the went to go drop the trailer, but there's no freaking place to park the damn trailer in the offline because somebody a whole bunch of people decided, oh, it's a really good place to park our pickups at night.
And so I had had circled around a couple times like, well, where the fuck can I park? And I saw where somebody had gone off, parked the yard dog truck in a spot. So I pulled up behind it and ran over to the, yard dog truck and and, the shag truck and and, went to look for it, found the keys for it, turned it on, moved the truck out of the way, and moved it off to the side, and I pulled on through. So by the time I got the trailer parked, got the, got the the stuff inside my truck cleaned out because when you're off, there's always a chance that your truck may become your when you're, when you're off, your truck becomes a slip seat.
Okay. So so all of a sudden, it's like, you gotta move move all your shit out. Don't go off and start trying to customize the inside of the truck because there's no guarantee that that you're gonna that truck's gonna just sit there for your six days off, let alone put your your, points for it off because if there's somebody whose truck goes down and they need something, they're gonna, you know, they're gonna use one that's available. So I went ahead and I pulled all pulled my frac bag out and stuff and and went and they also, like, to, at the end of the, end of the day, you fill your truck up. You don't wait till the following day because I've done that once before and, yeah, got my got got a little, little email with the with some rather crosswords going, we don't do that. You go ahead and you fill it up in case somebody needs to drive the drive the truck. So they they go through and look. I guess they've got catch all the readings on on readouts and and stuff. So but, anyhow, I was like, alright. Yep. You you got it. I'll start filling it up. So by the time I got finished filling the damn truck up with fuel and and and all that, Got it all parked and stuff. I'd finally got myself all clogged off and and and duty status set to off duty, and it was 06:30.
It's like Wow. Going up again. They want me out there again at 05:00 in the morning. And I was like when they told me that, I was like, yeah. That's not gonna happen unless y'all know some special trick that I don't know about that's that allowed me to do that. I told them that to what what it was. And when when I actually punched out, then they were, like, going, oh, I'm well, I'll see you, after 06:30 when you get here. So, like, alright. But I'm glad because wow. Trying to get up. Got around to thinking thinking about it. I was like, yeah. That means I'm gonna have to get up at fucking 03:00 in the morning to be get out there by five, and that's gonna suck. So glad I don't have to get up five 05:00 or 03:00 in the morning at the moment. So
[02:33:57] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing.
[02:33:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Anytime I can get up after 05:00 is a good thing. Because I am not up early. I I'm I'll well, I like getting up early as long as early is considered anytime after 06:00. Alright? If it's after six, then I mean, yeah. I might be a little slow to start at 06:00, but it's not like 05:00. Getting up at 05:00, that's oh my god. You would think I just got finished partying hard or something. That wake up just
[02:34:32] Duuude-Ron :
drained. So but yeah. Oh, Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't well, hell, a lot of times, I don't I don't freaking go to bed till, you know, two, 03:00 in the morning depending.
[02:34:46] Rich Chelson:
But
[02:34:48] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. Normally well, like like, this morning, I was up at six, which, I mean, it, you know, didn't matter. You know? So I I I normally because I know I got coffee, so I don't worry about it too much. I pour enough coffee down me. I'm looped in about an hour, hour and a half, two hours. I'm I can actually do something.
[02:35:12] Unknown:
Right. So
[02:35:14] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. I've I can I can I've gotten up early before, but, yeah, it just knocks my dick in the dirt? That's a good way to put it. Yeah.
[02:35:29] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't heard that one in a while. Oh, lord. It's it's Alright time. Yeah. It is. Shoot. Last time I looked at the clock, it was like 08:30.
[02:35:44] Rich Chelson:
08:30? So, yeah, So yep. Alright. Well, we'll go ahead and we'll start getting this old ship, ready to be docked. And, wanna say hello and welcome, and thank y'all everybody who has made it this far. And, this is a the two grumpy vets and a dude show. And we basically are just three friends who like to get together and yabber about anything and everything. As you've well heard, we've talked about a little bit of anything and everything, a little bit of bellyaching, a little bit of laughing, a little bit of poke in front of each other, and a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And but one of the things that makes this show different than so many other shows is that we are strictly value for value.
And that means, what do you think what type of value did you get from the show? And whatever that value is, you know, then you can you can repay that type of value. And that doesn't mean necessarily money. If you wanna be able to provide money, that that's awesome. You can you can support the show in that that, means. But you could also support the show with your time or your talents. Maybe you wanted to decide, hey. You guys really need to have a better website. You know, y'all need to have a better means of being able to set up like a, like an RC channel or something so we could actually see what everybody's talking about. Things like that. Then, hey. That great. Awesome. Let's do that. You can provide your time. You can provide your efforts. You can do you can put your blood, sweat, and tears into into some type of project like that and we want to support the show in that way. If you wanna be able to, commit your your hard earned treasure to us, then you're more than welcome to be able to do that. There are a lot of new podcast apps out there, and you can go to newpodcastapps.com.
And there, you can actually find apps like True Fans. This is True Fans is a is a great podcasting two point o modern podcasting app. There's Fountain. And all these apps, one of the cool things that a lot many of these apps have is a button where you can support the show. And when you click that on for ours, it'll actually bring up PayPal page, and you can actually decide how much you wanna give. Is it just a just a one time gift, or is it or is it a reoccurring gift? You can support the show however you feel for however much you wanna give. And there's no minimum. There's no maximum.
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So with that, I wanna say, thank you all again very much for, listening. And, Rich, what do you got?
[02:41:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not much. Just wanna thank everybody for listening to us and coming back and, you know, share this out with your friends. And be sure to send us an email, [email protected], or Brian, you can send one to Brian, @circlecastatgmail.com. And if if you wanna talk with the dude, just send me or Brian an email, and we'll make sure the dude gets it, and we'll get the dude's wisdom on everything. So but, yeah, just, you know, thank you for list thank you for keep coming back because, you know, honestly, I don't know if we'd be doing this if we didn't have anybody listening. So and the last time I checked, Pod Stats, I think it was early this week.
Somehow, we're getting more listens in Russia and England.
[02:42:29] Rich Chelson:
Apparently, someone They hate each other to listen.
[02:42:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. So either way, I'll you know, I just I just I just wanna thank everybody for, you know, keeping coming back and listening. You know, like I said, talk to us. We would love to hear from you. We would love to read your question or comment on the show, and we don't care what it is. We'll read it, and we'll give our opinions. You know? Because, we got trust trust me. All three of us have opinions. But, anyway, that's that's about all I got. So, dude, what you got hanging on?
[02:43:08] Unknown:
Well, you know, you two have pretty well said the majority of everything, again, for me. Again, thank you very much for tuning in and listening to us to dive down overhead holes that we usually end up diving down into. Some days are heated. Some days are not. But, again, thank you very much for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this episode.
[02:43:33] Rich Chelson:
But, guys, again, thank you all very much for coming back on and us you and you too and we get to talk and have a good time and and yabber. And, guys, can't wait to see talk to y'all again next week, and we'll, we'll talk to y'all then.
[02:43:51] Unknown:
Alrighty.
[02:43:52] Rich Chelson:
So alright. Hey, Brian. Rich, Ron, y'all take care. Have a good night, and we will see y'all next week.
[02:43:59] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. See y'all next week. See you then. Bye. Alright. Bye.
[02:44:03] Unknown:
Peace out.
[02:44:07] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Alright. See you. Yep.
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. 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 and 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 Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude.
[00:00:34] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Let's see.
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian. Hello. Hello.
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
How are you? Doing good. Just getting a copy of, of the, Zoom meeting sent over to, to to, to Ron. And I'm about oh, I'd say about thirty minutes out for being done for the day. So
[00:00:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that is cool. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Heck no.
[00:01:04] Rich Chelson:
So what have you been up to today?
[00:01:07] Duuude-Ron :
Well,
[00:01:08] Rich Chelson:
oh, dude jumped on right away. Boom. Yeah? Well, I sent him a sent him the link. Right. Right. Yeah. I have to scroll back two two years.
[00:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. No. No. Stop. Yeah. Piece of software was trying to update, and it was Zoom. I'm like, no.
[00:01:27] Rich Chelson:
No. Update Zoom.
[00:01:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. Yep. Not right now.
[00:01:33] Unknown:
The problem is you pushed another fucking button that you shouldn't have.
[00:01:37] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. I I need to do the updates and everything, but, yeah, you're right. I did push another button. I ain't gonna lie. And I waited until now to do it. You know? I coulda done it anytime, any other day. No. I had to wait till right now. Leave it to me. Right?
[00:01:55] Unknown:
Of course. Can't leave it to anybody else. They're the one who's fucking button happy for whatever reason. I don't know.
[00:02:06] Rich Chelson:
Dude. You know? They make buttons for the sake of being pushed, so you gotta well, fair as destiny.
[00:02:12] Duuude-Ron :
You gotta mash the button, man. Exactly. You got to mash the button.
[00:02:17] Unknown:
Yeah. People push my buttons all the fucking times. I like to just We'll push them back, dude. No. I just like to fucking throat chomp people.
[00:02:28] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You go to jail for that. If you push push the buttons back, you can't go to jail for it. See?
[00:02:36] Rich Chelson:
You can you can it's actually legal to have it to push people's emotional buttons and get them all round up and stuff. No no problem with that. So you can you can push buttons. Push other people's buttons. That's even better.
[00:02:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Like like like freaking Brian does for me here in the last couple weeks. You know? It gets me wound up pushing my buttons. You know? It's just normal course of things, but, you know, I I ain't saying it as a bad thing or nothing, Brian.
[00:03:13] Unknown:
You know? Or just or just wanna say shut the fuck. Just Well, say it. I do. I do. But it doesn't fucking help. A throat chop would fucking help much better.
[00:03:26] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? A roll of duct tape helps things alone.
[00:03:30] Unknown:
Yeah. You you're right. They do.
[00:03:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But Yeah. Yeah. No. I I I had to go to Dennis this morning and get fillings done, and, they got some mean ass tools, man. Uh-huh. Them sons of bitches. That old girl come in, I put some fillings in. And they put this cream paste up in my gums and all like that. Oh, dad gum. Numbed them up just like like no I couldn't feel a damn thing. And then next thing I hear, I go.
[00:04:04] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, what? They don't give you the big ass shot with the long with the long needle anymore?
[00:04:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They they Hey. They, they have a cream with a swab with a cotton swab, and it don't take long to numb you up either.
[00:04:21] Rich Chelson:
It does not. A lot better because my man, that was the thing I ate is they'd stick that middle as soon as it starts wiggling around. Like, oh, yeah.
[00:04:31] Unknown:
Yeah. And see what and see if you can't use your ass to fucking climb Mount Kilmajero.
[00:04:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Right. But yeah. No. No. They just have a cream, and and and it don't taste bad neither. It's like, yeah, it's kinda cool. I guess, I'm a little sweet. A little tangy. Little tangy, a little sweet. Alright. I'm good. And then next thing you know, your whole mouth's numb and numb.
[00:04:56] Rich Chelson:
You can't feel it. Honestly, have you all seen you all seen the video of the girls who, go off and get, actually almost have too much anesthesia put put in their mouth, haven't you? No. I haven't. It's like half their face is just just well, I was like, don't put an arm. It's gonna look like when you look at the mirror, it's gonna look like you had a stroke because half her face is just numb. So listen. If I have their ass off on one side, they'll be able to they'll be on the other side. It's just kinda there.
[00:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
But no. It's no. She, she threw these fillings on, and, I I asked her about the glue. I said, is it super glue? And she laughed. She says, no. It's a bonding agent. I thought, how cute. Use a city word. And I said I said, is it like gorilla glue? She's like, what? She's like, well, it bonds to teeth. Well, when she put that stuff on my teeth, it smelled like PVC glue. Yeah. Smells like yeah. Yeah. You know? And I I told her that. She's like, really? I'm like, yeah. It smells like PVC glue. She's like, do you still smell it? I'm like, no.
[00:06:09] Rich Chelson:
It was just pretty little. Do what? It says just a little whip, and then it it goes away. You just hey. Hey.
[00:06:17] Duuude-Ron :
And and, yeah, she, put them on, and then and then and then and then, when she got done, she said, bite down. She says, those feel okay? I said, no. This side is jacked up. My right side was jacked up like I had a lift on on my jaw.
[00:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah.
[00:06:35] Duuude-Ron :
And so, she's like, really? And I said, yeah. Really. It it feels did feels like I got a lift on it. And she, they they have this thing. It's attached to the computer. And and I I didn't fully get to see it, but it has a piece of paper on it. And if you bite on this piece of paper, she can look on the computer screen and see where the crown or the filling is high at. And she's like, okay. I see it. And she went in there. You know? I'm just like, oh my god. You know? You're bamming it down. You know? And and everything like that. And then after that, she said, try it again. I tried it again. I said, we good now. Back in alignment.
So so yeah. And It it was just a puck lift. It was a what?
[00:07:29] Unknown:
Instead of a full, you know, lift, springs, all that other stuff, it was just a puck lift.
[00:07:35] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. Yeah. I gotta go back to first and get one or two more teeth filled, and we're gonna start doing the things with my front teeth. I'm gonna wind up getting a partial.
[00:07:52] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Good.
[00:07:54] Duuude-Ron :
Everything like that. And I looked at her day. I said I said, I want my partial now. I said, this I said, I can't eat a sandwich. I can't eat pizza. I can't eat none of this stuff.
[00:08:08] Rich Chelson:
You know? And Yeah. Yeah. But there are two on one side of your mouth. They're like, well, they're like you're doggone all about them.
[00:08:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I'm freaking Haiti.
[00:08:22] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. I'm at Then you gotta put the then put the fucking bone down. Exactly. You want.
[00:08:30] Unknown:
Goddamn. Do does it is it do you need somebody in the outside world to tell you just to put the fucking bone down?
[00:08:37] Duuude-Ron :
It's a milk bone, though, man. Those are my favorite. Exactly. I've had it before
[00:08:44] Unknown:
long time ago.
[00:08:46] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, actually, I mean I mean, it wasn't that bad, and, you know, my my mouth and my lips were numb for couple hours. I couldn't hardly talk right. Well, I mean I mean, a lot of people probably say I can't talk right now, but, you know, I couldn't really talk right. You know? So but I get home. I ain't home half hour on my phone. My phone rings.
[00:09:13] Rich Chelson:
And who's that? The saga is over with the Jeep. They got your they got your, your your your Jeep stuff. Yes. Awesome. Yeah.
[00:09:22] Unknown:
Paper thingy.
[00:09:24] Rich Chelson:
Title. What do they call it again? Title. That's it. Yeah.
[00:09:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was I was just sitting there, and it was the Jackson County tag off, so I'm like, oh god. Please please let it be good news. And I answered the phone. I said, this is Richard. And, of course, my mouth was still numb. And and, Stephanie was like, I need to speak with Richard, please. I said, this is him. And, she told me she said, your title cleared. I said, oh, thank god. I I was I I mean, oh, man. I I I was just I was I was beside myself. I said, is it okay if I come down right now? She said, yes, sir. It is. I'm on my way, ma'am. And I I I must have thanked her another 10 times after that. And, yeah, I went in, went pee, grabbed grabbed my wallet, my keys, everything, jumped in the jeep, and drove straight to the license bureau. And I licensed my trailer at the same time, so I got all I'm I'm good on everything. I'm freaking renewed on everything.
[00:10:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, how about that?
[00:10:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And then and then I went cruising. I bet you did. I did. I drove around for a little bit. I I didn't I didn't stay out too long, but I I still hey. I I was just driving around. It's like, yeah. I can do this legal now. Yeah. You know? But yeah. No. I was Yeah. Oh,
[00:10:54] Unknown:
what do you mean? And if you would've suck and and that's great news. Absolutely. Because it's been a fucking trying now for, what, nine months? Do you know? Something like that. Well, when did your when did your tags go out?
[00:11:09] Duuude-Ron :
Well, the tags went out in March March. So I've been illegal since the March, since the March, so about three and a half months. But I've been I've been trying to get this title business done
[00:11:26] Unknown:
since Most possibly never.
[00:11:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sometime last year. Yeah. And the yeah. And that's the thing. Come to find out, it was all my fault because I didn't read the Find one. One piece of paper right. And if I would've read it right, I I would've gotten a duplicate title before now. You know? Right. And I would've had it all fixed, and this conversation never would have happened, honestly.
[00:11:59] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They haven't had all this great content.
[00:12:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. True. I mean so, yeah, I mean, we did great with the content for how long now?
[00:12:09] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Let me know. About nine months.
[00:12:12] Unknown:
Yeah. Since January because you deal I fucking tag has been going out. Tags are fixing to go out. Tags are fixing to and, you know, so, yeah, since about January, we've been we've been having this drama. Now that's the biggest question of the day. Now that we know that you are all legal, you can go out cruising without any worries whatsoever. When you got your tags, was your face still numb, and did you put your head out the window so you could look like someone
[00:12:47] Rich Chelson:
else?
[00:12:50] Unknown:
So you could look like a what kind of dog you got, Brian?
[00:12:54] Rich Chelson:
A great dame. Great dame.
[00:12:57] Unknown:
Yeah. I was just hanging out there. A great dame with his head out the sunroof and the lips just flapping all over the place. I bet that would have been just fucking entertaining.
[00:13:07] Duuude-Ron :
Hell, yeah. It would have been funny in hell, but now my well, actually, my top lip was still a little numb. It didn't I mean, it wasn't bad. It was it the it was weird because the center of my top lip eased up before the outside of my top lip, but it was it was a little numb, not much. And the bottom lip was fine. So but, no, I didn't I didn't I didn't hang my head out the window.
[00:13:37] Unknown:
Yeah. That probably woulda had that caused a lot of drool too.
[00:13:41] Duuude-Ron :
I probably would.
[00:13:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Probably would. Yeah.
[00:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
Probably would.
[00:13:47] Unknown:
Wow.
[00:13:48] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, I'm I'm I'm very I'm I'm I'm very happy. That means I can jump in my jeep and just drive wherever I want now. There you go. And you and you can even be fucking naked. Yes. I can.
[00:14:02] Unknown:
Yes. You can. Well, not right now, obviously. Slow down. No. All around you?
[00:14:09] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:14:10] Unknown:
Are the storm clouds still around you from yesterday?
[00:14:14] Duuude-Ron :
There's a couple. Not really, though, because most of that stuff, it's I looked at it earlier today, and they said it's, already making landfall on on Louisiana. So it's it's pretty much out of here where I'm at, and it rained all hell. I think it rained a half an inch. Ground just soaked it up is all. Yeah. I mean, it didn't it didn't make a dent. Nothing. And then, but, say, I don't know I don't know if it's gonna swing back and come across status or not yet. So I gotta kinda wait to see what next week looks like before I decide to get naked.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
Alrighty.
[00:14:59] Duuude-Ron :
But if it's if it's nice next week, well, it'll be hot. It'll be fucking hot.
[00:15:05] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:15:06] Duuude-Ron :
But but either way, if it's if it's not supposed to rain, yeah, I'll get naked next week. In the heat? In the heat. Yep. In the heat. Yeah. I don't care.
[00:15:19] Unknown:
Well, all you need to all you need to do is get a little bit of flexible tubing, kinda like like the dryer vent, the flexible tubing, not not as big. Right? And get one a little bit smaller, tape it to your dash at the, you know, heater and air conditioner port, and just shove it up your pants or shove it up your shirt. You'd be nice and cool.
[00:15:48] Rich Chelson:
You know, I I I might do that. We'll see. Hey. Hey. I I still think that's probably one of the somebody needs to go off and make those. Just make it prep so that you know? Because well, be nice if they brought back the the ball chiller, vent that that's under usually underneath the steering wheel, but
[00:16:07] Unknown:
there is actually there is actually a product out there of what we're talking about. I bet there is. Oh, there is? Yeah. Yeah. There is, actually. Yeah. Is it where is it at? On Amazon? No. I've seen it on YouTube, but, you know, I'm sure I have no fucking clue. Or better yet, if you find a Humvee, Rich, you know what I'm talking about. You find a Humvee, you get that little piece of hose Uh-huh. That you would detach from the defroster and put it up into your, into your jacket when you're driving Humvee when it's fucking 40 below zero. You need to acquire one of those.
[00:16:49] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I I I I haven't seen a Humvee for a while. I need to find one. See, the military went to them, what, LMTs. Right? Yeah.
[00:17:02] Unknown:
The MRAPs and MRAPs. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah. All the ballistic stuff. Now they still well, there's a few Humvees with the up armor, but, I mean, they're mostly going to the MRAPs and all the up armored stuff that, actually, the hulls the hull, h u l l, is like a v, so it tries to divert the blast.
[00:17:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:17:31] Unknown:
From going straight up. So, yeah, I don't even know if they are actually manufacturing on these for the military anymore
[00:17:40] Rich Chelson:
that I Well, I know they don't, they don't make the Hummers anymore. So
[00:17:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. They they stopped making the Hummers, what, five, six years ago?
[00:17:49] Unknown:
I don't know.
[00:17:52] Rich Chelson:
Five to ten.
[00:17:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Something like that. It's been yeah. I remember I'm I remember when, GM decided to back off on that.
[00:18:03] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, been retired now for what's Uh-huh. Fucking retired now. Fuck. I retiree. O seven, eighteen years ago. Really haven't fucking paid much attention to it. But
[00:18:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, no. Actually, GMC still does make the Hummer, the Humvee, but it's electric.
[00:18:24] Unknown:
Well, have you seen those fucking pieces of crap?
[00:18:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They're they're they're just yeah. They're nasty.
[00:18:33] Unknown:
They're they're they're just like the fucking cyber truck. They're fugly. They're fucking ugly. And you know how much you know how much that fucking I'm sure you're gonna look it up and, you know, probably do. They're like, fuck. Get the $110,120,000 fucking dollars Yeah. For one of those h three.
[00:18:56] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. No. It's no. It's not an h three.
[00:19:01] Rich Chelson:
Well, it's a it's a it's a yeah. The electric you talk about the electric commerce. They're, they're not h threes. What are they? It looks like an Apache
[00:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
or not an Apache. What what's that? What's that? Avalanche. Kinda looks like an avalanche. And it starts it starts at 99,000 and goes to $1.00 7.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They were they got Chevrolet's attempt to go, and, hey. We brought the, we brought the Humvee back, and everyone's going, yeah. You didn't.
[00:19:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and no. And, actually, GM Defense, which is a division of General Motors Yep. Is a concept yet, but they're sitting here trying to make an electric military Hummer.
[00:19:52] Rich Chelson:
Or Yeah. That is gonna fucking work.
[00:19:55] Duuude-Ron :
Basically gonna have basically, a military Hummer that looks like the new electric Humvees.
[00:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Again, that ain't gonna work. All it's gonna take is one little ping from a bullet into the into the battery, and that thing's gone up in smoke.
[00:20:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:20:13] Unknown:
Shit. You don't even need to freaking bolt from a battery. You'd have fucking soft cot sand. It fucked the dust. Yeah. They'll chew that up those shit up unless they have those day.
[00:20:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh my god. Definitely. Yeah. I'd eat those eat those motor, those electric motor brushes up in no time.
[00:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. It's saying it's saying the military is currently transitioning to the joint light tactical vehicle. Oh, it's And the MB is expected to be phased out by 2050. Totally.
[00:20:48] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. I know. Till an actual alarm comes along and they're going, oh, wait a minute.
[00:20:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This I don't know. This thing
[00:20:58] Unknown:
hell, look. I've seen them.
[00:21:00] Duuude-Ron :
Have you seen these?
[00:21:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:21:03] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:21:04] Unknown:
They're I see them come down 35 on the back of flatbed going towards Fort Hood
[00:21:09] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:21:10] Unknown:
All the time. But, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
[00:21:13] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. They're actually actually, these were these are starting to be delivered in 2016, and they started running full full production in 2019. So the army has canceled future purchases, but the Marine Corps is still buying them.
[00:21:32] Rich Chelson:
Well, the Marines, sadly, they don't know what the hell they're doing anyhow. They're just like, oh, we got crayons. Right.
[00:21:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. The army has about 20,000 of them.
[00:21:45] Rich Chelson:
Unamazed Biden.
[00:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I it says it has a top speed of 70 miles an hour on the road and 55 mile an hour off the road. And a range of 50 miles. 300.
[00:22:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They you know, they claim 300. It's got a range Yeah. Of 50 miles. Yeah.
[00:22:07] Unknown:
But these ain't electric. Right? They're still diesel.
[00:22:11] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, these are the still the diesel ones that okay.
[00:22:15] Unknown:
Now We're talking no. We're talking about the new ones that are taking over for the Humvees. Nah. I don't remember the name of them.
[00:22:23] Duuude-Ron :
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, JLTV.
[00:22:28] Unknown:
Send me a picture of that so I know what you're talking about versus what I've seen. I'm sure they're the same thing without a doubt.
[00:22:37] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. Hold on a second.
[00:22:39] Rich Chelson:
Alright.
[00:22:41] Duuude-Ron :
Trying to see it there because I would think they're also fueled,
[00:22:47] Rich Chelson:
but I'm not You hope so if if it's military, but same time. Yeah. They're Well, the military can't
[00:22:53] Duuude-Ron :
handle all that shit.
[00:22:55] Unknown:
Hell no.
[00:22:57] Duuude-Ron :
Not for a luxury.
[00:22:59] Unknown:
No. They they do you talk about a strain on the fucking infrastructure that would need to be used for fucking electric vehicles in the military? Nah. Yeah. Ain't gonna happen. Oh, no. It ain't gonna happen.
[00:23:15] Rich Chelson:
They're trying, though.
[00:23:16] Unknown:
Yeah. We need to know what they just they need to stay out of the fucking electric vehicle party all fucking together. Alright. Just leave it the fuck alone.
[00:23:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's like that's like in in in the show land man when when he's talking with when Billy Bob Thornton is talking with that hot lawyer chick for the company, and and he they're out at a windmill, and he freaking tells her tells her just how much oil and petroleum we use windmills take. Those windmills, besides making them, besides everything that's been, you know, all the products that are made with with freaking petroleum, he's like, if if if we started today to get ready for going fully 100% electric, it would take thirty years. Now I don't know if that's storyline that I you see, that's the thing. Everything he said in that whole line, I could believe every freaking word of it.
Right. Because I've worked as a low I've seen the infrastructure in a lot of areas. Okay? And the it's it's not there. I mean, it and it'll never be there unless I spend each state will have to spend trillions of dollars to upgrade their system. So do check the chat. I'll put that picture in.
[00:24:49] Unknown:
Alright. And, you know, what we were talking about with the when the r well, when president Trump had the, army parade for its what was it? 02/1949 February birthday. What was it? 02/1950
[00:25:03] Rich Chelson:
is next year. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
[00:25:06] Unknown:
So for the for the big parade, they got I've seen thus far coming down 35 going back to Fort Hood, probably eight of those tanks that were completely brown for the parade coming back.
[00:25:27] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:25:28] Unknown:
$70,000,000? Yeah. I believe it. But you know what? Yeah. That's exactly what that's exactly what, yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Yep. Okay.
[00:25:38] Duuude-Ron :
No. Okay. Yeah. See, that one's not electric. It can't be. And you see, that's the thing. You know, if if if the army, marines, whoever, ever went electric, any of those vehicles would have to stay on base and here in America. They could not go overseas into a war zone. Couldn't.
[00:26:00] Unknown:
Where are you gonna fucking charge them at? And that's that's what I'm saying. The infrastructure for the military, how many generators would you have to fucking just like tankers. Right. Now we gotta have generation
[00:26:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you know, the crutch would start taking generators and strapping them to the back ends of those things.
[00:26:21] Duuude-Ron :
Bad thing is a three k generator is not gonna charge that bitch.
[00:26:25] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. They'll give us as much as they can. They'll take one that is that'll at least structurally will hold, and they'll find they'll they'll use all the bubble gum and and paper clips they can find, but those grouts will find some way of strapping that thing to it.
[00:26:40] Unknown:
And and that All they did and all they needed to do is take that engine, strap a transmission to it, and it fucking would have done the same goddamn thing. Oh, yeah. Right. Instead of having the damn battery you know, it was the funniest thing. I saw a clip on YouTube where a guy is on the side of the road. His his car is not immediately with him. So he's walking with a one gallon gas can to to go get gas. So guy picks him up, takes him, gets gas, comes back to his car, and it's a Tesla. And the guy is like, what the fuck?
Where are you gonna put the fuel in? So when he gets there, he pops the trunk, which has a fucking generator in the back, puts the fuel into the generator to fuck your plug his car in on the side of the road.
[00:27:44] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god. No way.
[00:27:47] Unknown:
Yes. Fucking way.
[00:27:50] Duuude-Ron :
That's cray that no. That's that's crazy, man.
[00:27:54] Unknown:
And, you know, here's the other thing. If they wanna make Teslas, you should see the fucking power supply going into the Tesla factory down by Austin. It's its own fucking eight grids. All the fucking elect oh my god.
[00:28:16] Duuude-Ron :
It I I don't have to
[00:28:19] Unknown:
I just might have to stop sometime when I go down to deliver down to Buddha. Stop and take a picture. It is just yeah. It looks like a fucking huge substation, and they and they have the electricity that comes with the real tall metal structures that the electricity travels on or, you know, the wires hang on. That's what he has coming to his plant. I believe it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It is fucking just you know what? If all these people, they wanna have electric cars and they wanna do this and that, okay, then the electric cars can only be powered by either solar or a wind generated electricity.
Let's see how far that would go.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
Bad thing is they can't make enough of them to make enough power. That's the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, I I mean, I mean, the build time on a windmill with with the supporting wires and everything like that, they would have to have crews running day and night, and they would have to have trucks running up and down the road constantly. They can't do that because those trucks need permits and all like this. And, a lot of states with oversized loads have certain rules, and they're not gonna bend their rules. Nope. Because most No. I 9999% of your oversized loads cannot run at night.
Nope. Don't care. Don't care if you have a pilot car service or not. You cannot run them at night.
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Without a gotta find a place to stop right there at sundown.
[00:30:09] Unknown:
But, you know, it's amazing. All these people complaining about fossil fuel and fucking promoting the hell out of a out of a fucking battery operated car. Well, if you don't have the fucking fossil fuels for, you know, making electricity, your car ain't gonna fucking charge.
[00:30:31] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:30:32] Unknown:
I just you know, it makes no fucking sense. However, there is there is no common sense. There is no sense for I don't know how many fucking millions of fucking people out there that I but, of course, they may say the same thing about me, which I really don't give a fuck. You know? But at least I got a little bit of common sense. I may not be able to tear an engine down, but you know what? I can definitely help you put one tear one down and put it together. And you know what? I'll fucking learn. Right. I'll be watching you fucking do it.
[00:31:11] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's it's you see, that's the thing. You know what I mean? I'm not knocking green energy. It's it's a great thing if you can scale it. That's the whole thing. You right now with with the way everything is going, you can't scale it. So you can only do it in certain areas.
[00:31:31] Unknown:
You can't do it everywhere.
[00:31:33] Duuude-Ron :
And that's that's the only problem I have with it. I don't mind using solar power, but you see, that's the thing now. If if you're using solar power to power my house, I shouldn't have to pay you a dime. You're getting the energy for free.
[00:31:50] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:31:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Yes. You're right.
[00:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You spent the money on the on the solar panels and stuff like that. Okay. I'll give you a few bucks a month for that till they're paid for. When they're paid for, I'm done. I'm out. See you later. Bye. Yeah. Because you're getting it for free.
[00:32:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:12] Duuude-Ron :
That's that's where I'm at on that. With wind, the same way. Wind's the same way.
[00:32:18] Unknown:
I know. It's free. God gives us the wind.
[00:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And and you see, that's the thing. I mean, we can make generators, solar and wind power, but you see, that's the thing. It depends on you know, my house would be hard because I have so many trees. My windmill would have to be up 70
[00:32:40] Rich Chelson:
feet. Or No. No. You you do like what the environmentalists do.
[00:32:45] Duuude-Ron :
What?
[00:32:46] Rich Chelson:
You cut the trees down. Oh, fuck. You make room for the for the windmills and the solar panel. You clear cut all the greenery out, and so you can actually utilize the all that wonderful environmentally friendly windmills and and and solar panels. I mean, have you seen the solar panel farms out there? I mean, there's hundreds of acres of nothing but black glass all over the place, and then they wonder why the Earth is heating up.
[00:33:16] Unknown:
No shit. And they're building another one just South Of Italy on 35. Oh, it's not I don't know how many fucking acres. I don't know how many acres.
[00:33:26] Rich Chelson:
Crazy huge. I'm sure. Is it?
[00:33:28] Unknown:
It it it was somebody's farmland.
[00:33:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. No. That's what they're doing is they're turning farmland into Yeah. Into, into into in the inland farms. Solar farms and shit. Yeah. And then, you know, and then you're gonna people are gonna stand around going, why don't we have enough food? I don't know. Maybe because you're gonna start getting rid of the really good, really good stuff that the Earth creates. It's not really dinosaur soup. It's a it's something that the Earth just it just naturally forms from the Earth and is abundant. They keep finding bigger and bigger oil fields all over the damn place, but yet we're running out. We've hit peak oil somehow. I don't know how. We've been running out since the fucking seventies. Come on now. Oh, we've been running yeah. Yeah. That I mean, they couldn't get anybody to join in on the, on the population explosion, which they tried to throw on us all the way into the eighties.
So, you know, they had to find something else. Like, I don't know how they're cutting their clear cutting the the rainforest. Well, except for when they were clear cutting the rainforest, all the all the trees in the in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere were all miraculously getting bigger because there was an increase in carbon dioxide.
[00:34:55] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they And and and I've watched what the hell is his name? His first name is Charlie. He's
[00:35:04] Duuude-Ron :
Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk.
[00:35:07] Unknown:
Yes. Him. Some whatever. I don't know what the fuck they wanna what she wants to call herself. They, them, I don't fucking know. But she is said there's so much carbon dioxide. You know, where does where does the carbon dioxide come from? And Charlie just blows out. Right there. She didn't get it. Right the fuck over her head. No. You're not understanding what I'm saying. Yo. We got too much carbon dioxide. Where is it coming from? He blows into the microphone again right there. I just showed you. You could hear it. You can't hear it. You know what? People like that, you just gotta
[00:35:58] Rich Chelson:
throw a throat chop. That's what colleges do these days. They they they work their damnest to breathe the knowledge out of you so that you're a blind, mindless mindless follower. You don't it's colleges haven't been, an institution of free thought in in, in centuries.
[00:36:18] Unknown:
Wait. No. Yeah.
[00:36:21] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Last they didn't they have really haven't pushed real good free thought since, like, since the eighteen hundreds.
[00:36:30] Unknown:
Well, okay. I can agree with you on that. Since the start of the industrial revolution.
[00:36:36] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Especially since, since, old Marks decided to throw out his little his little, diatribe of a book. Yeah. Also, people well, people had an had it were able to collectively, and that's that's the only time collectivism actually comes together. I've, collectively decided, hey. That might be a good idea. Look at that. We don't have to don't have to worry about that any anything, big and horrible because, you know, we're we're gonna be as a group. Don't have to worry about the rich getting too rich and the poor getting too poor because we'll we'll all be poor. They don't like to say that, but
[00:37:22] Unknown:
Look at China.
[00:37:23] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look at the state of China. They, don't they don't even properly set up their their systems like they need to be.
[00:37:37] Unknown:
Yeah. China's fixing the well, they've been in a recession for quite some time. They're facing to go into a depression.
[00:37:44] Rich Chelson:
They're Not really much so.
[00:37:46] Unknown:
They're gonna fucking collapse.
[00:37:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, everybody Trump is doing the one thing that no one else was willing to do, and that was he is slowly isolating, China.
[00:37:59] Unknown:
And the bad thing about it is and I understand what he's doing, and I understand that, you know, just need to get rid of fucking tariffs completely. Just fucking get rid of them. But, no. You know, there's so many countries that we would sign that, and within weeks, they would be breaking that. But, you know, to put a whole fucking country's people, how many million people in China?
[00:38:28] Rich Chelson:
There's, what, one or, one or 2,000,000,000. I know India is the largest largest country or most populated country. Most populated. That's correct. And then China's second. Right. So if you're gonna put a whole population population,
[00:38:42] Unknown:
you're gonna put a whole population into worse than a depression.
[00:38:47] Rich Chelson:
Well, because it's not about the people. The people are just a are just a commodity. Yeah. They're not even a commodity. They're they're a, they're a liability to to the bottom line.
[00:39:00] Unknown:
Yeah. You agree with that?
[00:39:02] Rich Chelson:
Well, that it I mean I don't. They're not. They're they're not, but that's how that's how communism looks at them. Oh, I know.
[00:39:12] Unknown:
I I can't wait that you know? Ping or whatever the fuck that commander is, he's gonna be fucking he's gonna be out here very shortly because there's gonna be a fucking revolt.
[00:39:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know about that. It might maybe.
[00:39:28] Unknown:
It's I mean, maybe, but I don't know. He's gonna have a revolt from within. If he sees it. Within somebody within his his group is gonna fucking take him out.
[00:39:42] Duuude-Ron :
Next person gets in gonna do the same thing.
[00:39:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I know.
[00:39:48] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I it's it's it's a catch 22 is what it is.
[00:39:53] Unknown:
You're right. It is a catch 22. You know? Just look okay. Look at North Korea. One family has been in charge of that country now since the end of the country. Right now. Well Yeah.
[00:40:07] Rich Chelson:
Before the war. No? Basically. Yeah.
[00:40:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You're yeah. One family has controlled the entire country, and it's not and it's definitely the yeah. It's do as I say, not as I do. Somebody needs to take that motherfucker out too.
[00:40:31] Rich Chelson:
We wouldn't have a boogeyman.
[00:40:34] Unknown:
Gotta have a boogeyman. Take out the whole fucking family. The whole fucking family line. Yeah. But then I get it. We wouldn't
[00:40:44] Rich Chelson:
who we gotta have a boogeyman or or the or the the military industrial complex doesn't have anybody to any reason to be making money.
[00:40:54] Unknown:
And that is absolutely fucking pathetic. That that is what this world has come to.
[00:41:01] Rich Chelson:
And the funny thing is is no one listened to Eisenhower because he warned everybody this was what was happening.
[00:41:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Nobody just Because everybody wants goddamn money.
[00:41:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Get that get the I mean, that's what do you think think, Elon Musk has been been doing? He's try he's been doing his damn best to nuzzle up next to, whoever's in power so that he can his, Starlink and everything else will be, open while that's on. But, Starlink will be the be the go to communication channel. So he's got government contracts there.
[00:41:43] Unknown:
Yes. I know. You know? And how many fucking boats can he water ski behind? How many fucking yachts does he need to own? How many fucking planes does he need to own?
[00:41:56] Rich Chelson:
I guess as many as he thinks he needs. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean and and how much does he need and how much does he think he needs? That's that's the that's the interesting aspect of it. As many as he wants is the answer.
[00:42:14] Unknown:
Yeah. I I think I can
[00:42:16] Rich Chelson:
super in the world, that's his pro go for it. Okay. As long as he's providing a this actually and and is paying paying then good. Then he he's the to have that type of that type of living, that type of cash. That's the good thing about capitalism. If he's if a person's rich and under a free system, if they're if he's rich, he did it not because he stole. It's not because he he he swindled anybody. K. It's because he provided a a service that was of high value and low cost.
[00:43:03] Duuude-Ron :
You think Tesla was this fucking Before he, before he pissed off the Tesla with a He bought Tesla. He did not build Tesla. You're right. He did not do Tesla. Caught it, but he turned it around. He was the lab's darling. I
[00:43:17] Rich Chelson:
I re hold this to you. He's wanting to go to Mars is because of, of global warming. But the thing is, Elon Musk is not a not a, a a a a not a to die. So it's not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
[00:43:39] Unknown:
You know what? I can't wait to die so I can get cremated and fucking choke up, you know, a
[00:43:44] Rich Chelson:
a couple of carburetors. Oh, did I lose it? Piss one. Pissed people off the one last time.
[00:43:50] Unknown:
I think Brian just went blink.
[00:43:53] Rich Chelson:
I bet you did.
[00:43:54] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Nope. You're still here. Hey. Right. Dude, dude, if you stop and think about it, you can be still you still have time to be as rich as Elon Musk. You have the ability. You have everything you need for success. You just have to wanna do it.
[00:44:15] Unknown:
Yep. Got it. Because look. Look at colonel Sanders. Argument there.
[00:44:20] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, colonel Sanders started KFC at 65 years old.
[00:44:25] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:44:26] Duuude-Ron :
Ray Croc was in his fifties when he acquired McDonald's, I believe.
[00:44:33] Rich Chelson:
He he went yeah. He he wasn't he wasn't a, wasn't a wasn't fresh out of college. That's for sure. No. No.
[00:44:42] Duuude-Ron :
But and that's the thing. So, I I mean, I don't need you know, people that you know, look. Oh, shit. Look at Warren Buffett.
[00:44:51] Rich Chelson:
Warren Buffett. He's just finally getting around to decide, you know, it's time for me to time for me to retire, and he's 86.
[00:44:58] Unknown:
Yeah. I think he's going on eleventy now. And what kind of car does he own?
[00:45:03] Rich Chelson:
I don't think he drives. He probably does.
[00:45:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Most honestly honestly, I've looked it up before. Most of your extremely rich people drive two to three year old vehicles. Yeah. They do not drive brand new cars. They might have them in the garage, but they don't drive them. Yep. Broke people
[00:45:25] Rich Chelson:
drive brand spanking new cars. They're the ones who take half of the value of that car on the nose. The moment they go, yeah. That sounds like a good deal. I got myself a brand new Dodge Hellcat. Alright. Fucking a. Alright. Boom. Half the you know, all of a sudden, that $100,000 come to turn into a $50,000 dollar car. And then They did wonder. Oh, I was tired. No. You have it. You what you did is you suppose you're gonna sign to that, that agreement purchase agreement, you have a used car. Oh.
[00:46:01] Unknown:
Yeah. You don't even have to drive it off the lot. Nope. But yeah. Well, Warren Buff had an old station wagon. I mean, from, like, the seventies. Station wagon. Right. That was his daily drive ever.
[00:46:23] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Believe that for sure.
[00:46:25] Duuude-Ron :
Thing is a man's worth billions.
[00:46:28] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. Yes. Yeah.
[00:46:31] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And, see, that's that's the whole thing about this. You know? A lot of people knock rich people. I don't. I don't. I I mean, I did years ago, but but after I thought about it
[00:46:42] Rich Chelson:
It was out of jealousy. Like, no. They
[00:46:46] Duuude-Ron :
they freaking went out and, like like Brian said, they provided a service, whatever that service was or a product, and people bought it. You can't get mad at someone who came up with something and said, here, I wanna sell this. And then people just like, oh my god. I want it. You know? Yeah. So Now there are people who have actually swindled
[00:47:07] Rich Chelson:
out of money, and those are the ones that a lot of people don't wanna that are they're actually bitching the most about. And that those are the Utah fine. Right? And the and the cable companies, the everybody that is regulated and you can't enter in freely, you have to pay into a certain amount of money, be able to get into that. That where you have a public private partnership with a with the government is when you are actually hog tying your freedom of of purchase. And that's one reason why everybody is doing ineffectual green energy bullshit is because they got into the government and gone, hey.
This stuff is, like, really expensive, and I know you've got deeper pockets than what what all my people can do. You wouldn't wanna go in, like, three quarters of the of the bill. I'll pay you I'll tip it to you at a quarter, you know, 25% of what the full amount is. Would you, help us out in this way? We'll we'll pay you back a little bit later on. And, also, could you also lower the price of the of the equipment too? Could you make some way of lowering the equipment? Give us a unthird bandage is essentially what to do. Now you don't say that, but that's what it what it mean amounts to. And so they go in with with the government, and the government's able to go, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We and so they get a unfair advantage with the with the the the stuff. So all of a sudden, you get tax write offs because you've, you've done you're you're in in cahoots with the government.
And that's the that's the problem that a lot of people run into is, no. Don't. I I still still am a firm believer that government if you're a there it's not a separation of church state. It should be a separation between business and government. Stop letting is allow for laissez faire government or laissez faire capitalism to happen. Keep the government out of it, and you'll actually see that things things progress a whole lot better, whole lot faster. Let the monopolies happen because the monopolies are actually the lowest that it can be.
China's done a beautiful job of that.
[00:49:31] Unknown:
Okay. When and you you talk about the monopoly. What was his name that owns Standard Oil back in the late eighteen hundreds?
[00:49:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:49:41] Duuude-Ron :
What was the name? Carnegie.
[00:49:44] Rich Chelson:
Or was that US Steel? No.
[00:49:46] Duuude-Ron :
That You don't have to.
[00:49:48] Unknown:
US Steel. No. I don't remember his name, but he he owned Standard Oil.
[00:49:55] Rich Chelson:
See here. Who started Standard Oil? That, boy.
[00:49:59] Duuude-Ron :
John d Rockefeller. Rockefeller.
[00:50:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. And how did he
[00:50:05] Unknown:
go ahead. When the government when the government said that he had the monopoly on the oil, that they needed to break it up
[00:50:19] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm.
[00:50:20] Unknown:
They just made him richer.
[00:50:22] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:50:23] Unknown:
Because now all of his companies because he owned them all.
[00:50:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. He just went off and bought bought all of them and and, that's essentially like what Google did. All of a sudden, the alpha Google became a subdivision of Alphabet along with YouTube and all the other little tidbits that that Google all those other little businesses that that Google owns. That's what Microsoft went off and did when they went off and busted the busted that monopoly. Sorry. But monopoly busting is the fact that people are complaining that they've got made you made too good of a product. How dare you make such a good product? We need to we need to hobble you because you have an unfair advantage.
[00:51:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, okay. Okay. Take take fucking DJI then. Yes. It's a Chinese company. Take that off the table. That's not in this conversation.
[00:51:21] Rich Chelson:
Look at DVT. That DJI is is is a great product.
[00:51:25] Duuude-Ron :
They yeah. They have made an excellent product.
[00:51:29] Rich Chelson:
They paid Yeah. They make the best investments and not keep up. Hold a candle. No. They can't. They can't hold a candle to a station. There's nothing about it. Yep. And so that's why they're trying to outlaw DJI. That is the government business, you know, the mingling of government and business. They're weeding out the the, quote, unquote, unfair competition by making it the unfair to have a have a competitor. Have somebody that kicks ass, does a damn good job of what they're doing. I mean, that's that's what TikTok was doing. You know, do you really think it was about the unfair advantage or the information that was being sent to China?
No. On TikTok? No. Because that's the exact same stuff that Google and Facebook and were do are doing. They're still doing. Yeah. It was because TikTok shop was doing too much damn business. It's taking too much business away from Amazon. And so they were like, oh, well, let's, we gotta find some way of of making a, a tale that will scare the bejesus out of people. And so they're like, oh, look at all this data that's being sent over to, to China's, sir server information or or sort the server farms. Look at all that information. They're like and, you know, you get dumbass senators and and house representatives going, oh, yeah. Well, we can't have them knowing our location and stuff. Well, then ban Facebook from doing the same damn thing. Ban Google. I mean, what do you think Google does with all you do any search you do on on your phone now. It seems like I get a pop up.
Thanks to thanks to Apple, but still you get a pop up going, hey. Google would like to know your location. Do you wanna allow it? It's like, no. Oh, I'll I'll No. But give the app give the location if I want it. Yeah. So but now that's just that part of it is just they when you have allow businesses to schmooze with the government, you get that unfair advantage. While if you had actually allowed a normal monopoly to happen, then you would have the lowest prices possible, created the cheapest means possible at the highest quality. Because if you ended up having a higher quality item, then if somebody decided, you know what, quality is a lot more important than price, and you had a higher quality item that cost just a little bit more, people would go to the higher quality item.
So you can't have a low quality item as a monopoly. The only way things like Ma Bell became, became a monopoly is because Alexander Graham Bell made a deal with the government and said, hey. I've done all the work of putting these lines up. I own these lines. This is my stuff. And granted, yeah. But at the same time, he also outlawed anybody from coming up with any new type of telephone. That's why when, telephones first started until the eighties or till the seventies, you didn't have a a you all the only telephone you really had were those black, hard rubber phones that were made out of the same stuff the bowling balls are made out of.
[00:54:45] Unknown:
Unless you had the one on the wall that had eventually a 90 foot fucking cord, And, of course, the phone was always wired into the fucking kitchen.
[00:54:59] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because it was the closest to the, to the lines.
[00:55:03] Unknown:
So, you know, that was the only difference is having that phone that was up on the wall with the 900,000 foot, cable
[00:55:13] Rich Chelson:
so you could take the, you know Yeah. So you can run it into the bathroom and talk talk in private. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. But, again, that was that's yeah. Oh, I I know that was still. There there was something something great. You became very attuned to the background noises when you were on the phone. Because the first time you heard a you you know, you're like, get off my phone.
[00:55:44] Unknown:
Yes. And and god forbid, God forbid, and I'm just as guilty as everybody else that has one, God forbid that the fucking cell phone infrastructure just stopped. What would The fucking United States do without cell phones? Yeah. I know they would would lose their fucking minds. Uh-huh. They would. Yeah. I know they would.
[00:56:14] Rich Chelson:
And, yeah, I I think it'll eventually you know, it'll fall for a little while. We've, we've already seen this. This is, like, where AT and T had a massive, blackout. You know? And everybody, oh, no. Isn't that so they have to they got what the what the password was to their computer again. Had to dust the old old, you know, 15 year old desktop off. So they you know, online so they could bitch about the, about the fact that AT and T wasn't working.
[00:56:45] Duuude-Ron :
I'd say that's the thing. I mean, we just bitch about so much.
[00:56:48] Rich Chelson:
You know what I mean? That's it.
[00:56:50] Duuude-Ron :
Just because it's not right there. It's I mean, you know, God forbid if you have to wait a day or two or, oh, God forbid, if it's a week or a month, and you you know, all you just can't. I mean, that's all that's all people do, and it's like, shut up. Deal with it. Move on.
[00:57:09] Unknown:
Yeah. God forbid God forbid if we had to go back to letters being set being set by mail.
[00:57:16] Duuude-Ron :
No one well, I I don't I don't I don't really trust the postal service. You know? I mean, look how long it took him to get my title from from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Jackson, Mississippi, which is about two and a half hours away.
[00:57:37] Unknown:
That's not Yeah.
[00:57:38] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. And, I mean, thank God they got to it, and they got it and all like this, but I coulda drove up there every freaking day and, you know, hounded them. It's that close. Oh, yeah. You know? But it seems like the post office has a hard time. And I I don't I don't know if the post office held it up or or exactly what or or if the mail room up up where the because this place up in Jackson is does the whole state. So they got titles and paperwork coming in,
[00:58:18] Rich Chelson:
you know, from the whole state. So Oh, okay. So now I'm on four quarters of the globe. Darn near. Yeah. Yeah. Up the state.
[00:58:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It wasn't just me. You know? But, yeah, this I mean, they've got so I imagine it was sitting up in the mail room, and they just got to it finally.
[00:58:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Sitting in the mail room, and then someone happened to move a book and goes, oh, hey. Look. Right. Probably needs to be delivered. Right.
[00:58:49] Duuude-Ron :
And, yeah, you know, I I mean, you would think they would have easier system. And I I'm not I'm not just dogging Mississippi. This is a problem in other states as well.
[00:59:03] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:59:05] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So I don't know. It's just that's just messed up.
[00:59:12] Unknown:
So here's got a couple, I can't say stories, but situations. I was gonna say one of my situations last night, but I just kinda put my microphone on mute. And, you know, one person that always says, well, I'm gonna stop talking now just continues, but, you know, I digress and just sat there and listened and you know? So I didn't get to put my story out there. So I wanna put my story out there now. So you guys know the issues that I've been having with my work truck, especially the trailer. Right. So Tuesday, I was heading to Giddings to deliver my product and got to damn. What the hell is the name of that town?
It's about as big as the tip of a a fucking pen. I don't even fucking remember it right now. So the ABS light came on yet again. So I had called, you know, Warner, our our tech support, and they called Luvs, which was the closest one they could get out there. And that and that still took almost two hours for Luvs to get out there. When that tech got there, oh my god. I have more knowledge than that individual has as a mechanic. Every bit of the troubleshooting he was trying to do for the ABS, he was googling it. I'm like, oh my god.
Wow. So what what came down to he tapped all the ABS sensors closer to the tune wheel or the tuning wheel for the ABS sensor closer. Well, then I got it was about three miles down the road to get to the town. Buckholtz. Look that one up. Buckholtz. It's about as big as the ship of it's about as big as the tip of the freaking your pen in your pocket. That's how big that town is. But, anyway, we got up there. The ABS light would not shut off. I'm like, okay. Well, call my boss. He said, well, you can't, obviously, you can't fucking drive it, so you're gonna have to get it towed back to the plant.
Like, alright. Call the tow truck. That took another two hours for the fucking tow truck to show up. That's about normal. It that didn't bother me one bit at all. We ain't even gonna talk about the driver of the fucking tow truck. Anyway, we get back to the plant. The ABS light is still on even after all the travels from the tow truck. We drop it down on the access road instead of bringing it into the lot with the tow truck, the tractor, and the trailer that were just fucking been a mess. So we parked right on the access road, right in front of the gate, basically, and detached it. He put the drive shaft back on, and we continued I continued on getting the truck back into the plant.
And so I'm getting it parked, and, of course, we run up in just like a parking spot, you know, at any truck stop. You have to back it into your parking spot for the most part. Right? So I back up, and to get it on my line, I have to back up three times, get everything positioned. Guess what fucking turned off?
[01:03:05] Duuude-Ron :
ABS
[01:03:06] Unknown:
light. The ABS light. I would you know? Might as well be
[01:03:12] Duuude-Ron :
It was probably a plug, dude.
[01:03:15] Unknown:
No. It was well, when we took the one sensor, which has been the the whole system on one fucking hub has basically been a nightmare, which is the driver on the passenger side front axle on the trailer. So he took the sensor off. The sensor was covered in grease, which is normal wear and tear. You know, you're gonna get grease from the, you know, from the mechanical aspect of the system. So he put all new sensors on. All all four sensors, you know, had grease on them. This one in particular was even packed on the face of the sensor and on the tuning wheel.
It had a lot of grease on it. So we got all that cleaned up, all new sensors. Guarantee you that I am not gonna have an ABS light come on anytime soon.
[01:04:15] Duuude-Ron :
Nah. I don't know if I'd say that, dude.
[01:04:18] Unknown:
Well, you're you're right. And, you know
[01:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, but Uh-huh. Tits and wheels, man. Tits and wheels.
[01:04:29] Unknown:
I know. You're right. And I can have the ABS light come on tomorrow. The only thing that we have not changed on that trailer is the main wiring harness and two of the sensor cords that run from the ABS splitter module to the sensors themselves. Everything else is brand fucking new. I mean, I have all fucking four brand new brake chambers. Right. The ABS splitter. Now I have all new sensors. Two of the cables coming from the the ABS sensor junction to the ABS sensors, two of those cables are brand new. The other two, well, they're still in good condition. Everything else has been fucking replaced.
As per fuck. I don't have another ABS problem for quite some time. So now and Max is our mechanic, and he he is fucking outstanding. I mean, he keeps our shit up, running. And if we have an issue, he drops pretty much all the rest of the clients and comes to our facility. I can't say all of the times, but there's been a lot of times that he has done that.
[01:06:01] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:06:02] Unknown:
So he is a fucking very, very, very knowledgeable mechanic. And since we talked last and then we talked today because he was supposed to come and do some some more stuff on my trailer that was already scheduled to be done, And we both had the same thought since we had last talked. It's like, every time we do a dry PM, the sensors need to come off, get wiped down, you know, get all the grease off of them, and also wipe down the tuning wheel and get make sure that that is clean, there's no grease. It would probably help a lot and but that's not part of a dry PM for a trailer whatsoever.
But me and him, I was like, you know, if he didn't if he wasn't gonna do it, the next time my dry PM was done for my trailer because we always know when ours is coming up. I told him, you know what? I if you weren't gonna do it, I was gonna take all my sensors off and clean all of them and clean the fucking the tuning wheel, my damn self, because I'm tired of this shit. But we've had three tractors and no trailer. We've had three three sets of tractors replaced, but no trailers replaced since I've been there in fifteen years.
[01:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
That's crazy.
[01:07:38] Unknown:
Yep. They they won't get trailers, but they'll get they'll get new tractors. But, of course, that's that's a fucking yeah. Well, I don't know how many millions of dollars is spent every year for new tractors and someone like that just because of the size of the fleet. So
[01:08:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You got the size of the fleet. Not to mention, you it's easier to lease the the the truck itself than it is to lease a trailer. Because most most companies will lease the, the the power unit.
[01:08:19] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Our power every single one of our power units are leased. And as soon as the lease is finished, now, for the most part, they'll start selling the tractors and get new ones. Right. You know, because it's cheaper to you know, as a whole with the huge fleet to lease them is more economically feasible than to buy them. But yeah. And our trailers where the pallets sit on those tombstones on the side of our trailers that are welded on Uh-huh. That's prepare what's that word? Proprietary? Proprietary with the way it's supposed to be welded. The tombstone size is all owned by the company, and nobody wants to brew with it. In essentially, yes.
But, you know, I don't pick it. I don't pull them. I just haul them. Yep.
[01:09:22] Rich Chelson:
That's why I am happy to have just relegated my my life to the land that to that of a steering wheel jockey. Some people may take offense to that, but you know what? Oh, shit. What was that damn where was I where did I see that? I might have even saved it. There was a a, a video that I saw. It was this guy, he was in boot camp, and he was he was showing off it how how well his his boots were cleaned and chined up. And the drill sergeant was like, holy shit. How'd you do that? I was like, well, I just did exactly what you told me to. I would just you said to to cut the laces, pull off the tongue, and then putting it up, and then put put everything back. And I just do it exactly like you said and proof of all. It's great.
It's like, well, how did you do it? Well, I didn't think. I just did what you told me to. Yes. I But I noticed life gets a lot better, a lot easier when you when you don't see when you stop thinking. So
[01:10:27] Unknown:
Yeah. I've I've seen that. Yeah. That that is true. That is true.
[01:10:33] Rich Chelson:
And so, yeah, when it comes to driving, tell me where you want me to go. If there's a time limit, tell me when what time I need to get there. I I'll I'll do that.
[01:10:44] Unknown:
Yep.
[01:10:44] Rich Chelson:
Anything else comes in the way, I'm gonna call you up, though. So don't expect me to make a judgment call.
[01:10:50] Unknown:
You know, in our share is there is so many factors that that justifies if we make gain share or not because our facility does not make a fucking dime. We are nothing but a cost center. Same way with Grand Prairie. They're nothing but a cost center because we don't have any retail stores. But the retail stores, their quarterly gain share for the people that are in that branch get it based upon the sales of that branch. So some people get a higher gain share or some branches, people get higher gain shares than others because they're making more money. Right. That's just part of
[01:11:42] Rich Chelson:
yeah. What's the difference between a driver and a salesman?
[01:11:46] Unknown:
Yep. And but ours is based upon they call it EBITDA, but, basically, the gains and the expenses throughout the quarter
[01:11:58] Rich Chelson:
Sounds like a battle song.
[01:12:00] Unknown:
Yeah. Our facility is based upon our whole area, the whole Southwest areas. So we either get all or none. Right? So
[01:12:19] Rich Chelson:
They sing it so much better. I know they do, but, you know, that's why they're the Beatles, and it's not the good ones.
[01:12:27] Unknown:
Yeah. So, anyway and here's story number two. Just you know, it is hilarious. And I'm in my Jeep, not in my truck. I'm in my Jeep. And I I utilize, like, going through on I 20, I 35 coming out of fucking Dallas area. I utilize the center lane. And, yes, I'm governed 65 miles an hour. If it's 70 miles an hour, guess what? I'm in that motherfucking center lane. Oh, yeah. If you wanna go if you want traveling faster than I am, you can either go around me to the left or go around to me on the right. But I'm not gonna sit in the right hand lane when I have to fucking pump the brakes every time the fucking if there's a off ramp or an on ramp. No. Thank you. I'm gonna sit my ass in the middle lane.
Go the fuck around me. So I'm driving home from work, and this pickup truck I see in my in my rearview mirror, and this guy hold on just a second. So I see him coming up on my rearview mirror. It's a brand new pickup truck with temporary tags on it. Just in and out and in and out and in and out of traffic, all to get one fucking car ahead. Well, I take the, or the exit that takes me to my house, and we get to the red light, guess who's one fucking car in front of me to the right, that same fucking pickup truck. And then when the light turned green, I pass him because he's held up in that lane's traffic because it always happens on those particular lanes. So I pass him. I don't know if it pissed him off or not. But, you know, he did all of that just for me to pass him when the when the light turned red. And we're on the interstate. I'm like, you know what?
You are gonna have that car, that brand new truck, however much it costs, probably about $80,000. He ain't gonna have that fucking truck for ninety days before he totals it. Guaranteed. I'd like to be there when he does. And another one go going on the same highway coming or getting on, yeah, coming from work. I don't know if it was a Toyota or if it was a Nissan. This car, yeah, he was on his fucking phone because he locked up the brakes. But it was amazing. You guys still there?
[01:15:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We're listening. Yep. I'm through it, man.
[01:15:08] Unknown:
Okay. So when he locked up his brakes now I bet you it was at least a hundred hundred and fifty feet where the fucking tread he laid down on the fucking asphalt. And he didn't swerve. It was fucking straight as an arrow. The fucking front tires were squealing and the back tires and the fucking car was not stopping. Abel went into the car in front of him. That guy dodged out of the way, but it was like that car just did not wanna fucking stop. I'm like, man, you're a fucking idiot.
[01:15:47] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know what? He can be an idiot with a fucked up car.
[01:15:52] Unknown:
Hey. No doubt in my mind that that guy also will not have that car for too very long before he totals it. Oh, no. Right?
[01:16:01] Rich Chelson:
The the the one they don't value what they have, they're gonna break it.
[01:16:05] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You're right about that. So I was entertained today on my way home from work. Just laughing, just sitting there. And guess what lane I was in? The middle lane. Middle lane. The center fucking lane. My god. Thank you very much. There's a way to do it. Yep. Yeah. I see all these fucking morons when I go down to Austin going into and coming out of I'm in the center lane. They're doing all that just for me to pass them eventually. I'm like, man, you wasted all that fucking gas, energy. You know? Your fucking head's about ready to explode, and I just passed you. I should've waved. Right. You know? I didn't.
Or, you know, honked my horn, waved, and goes, yeah. I'm I'm right here. Look at where you're at. Oh, that's right. I'm passing you, dumbass.
[01:16:58] Duuude-Ron :
Hey, guys. I got a question.
[01:17:00] Rich Chelson:
How do you get an answer? Let's see if they match.
[01:17:03] Duuude-Ron :
I probably already know the answer to this,
[01:17:06] Unknown:
but Without a doubt.
[01:17:08] Duuude-Ron :
I'm thinking about taking a boat ride to Ship Island.
[01:17:14] Unknown:
To Ship Island? Yeah. Where is Ship Island?
[01:17:19] Duuude-Ron :
About 11 miles south of Gulfport out in the Gulf Of America. It's a it, it it's an island. It's been there as an old, military fort
[01:17:31] Unknown:
on it. Okay. That was the one that was the one we were talking about when I came down. Right?
[01:17:37] Duuude-Ron :
No. We was talking about Deer Island and well, yeah, Ship Island. Yeah. We talked about Ship Island, Deer Island. I mean, there's there's, like, three or four out there, Cat Island, Horn Island, but there's a ferry service
[01:17:51] Unknown:
that goes I was gonna say, did that ferry does that ferry that we passed go to Ship Island?
[01:17:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:17:59] Unknown:
Okay. Yeah. Because we we did pass that one. I don't remember where it was at. That old fort that was at the very end of where we could travel to on what's what condenser was that that we drove out to? Oh, Dolphin Island. Oh, no. Yeah. Dolphin Island. Yeah. Yeah. Dolphin Island. Then we went to That that and had the old fork there. I don't remember the name of it. Fort Gaines. Yeah. I'm sure it's probably the identical to the Fort Gaines.
[01:18:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It probably is.
[01:18:38] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See see see, they've got that cruise. They've got a dolphin watching cruise, and they have a sunset music cruise. And, I mean, the highest cruise is $30. The others are 28. You know? Right. But I I was thinking about going and and, like, taking video or whatnot and maybe getting awesome sunset. You know what I mean?
[01:19:05] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Right?
[01:19:07] Duuude-Ron :
And and they say they see dolphins quite a bit.
[01:19:11] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So
[01:19:14] Unknown:
You know, that would be awesome. You know, it would be even more awesome is if the boat was small enough, you know, kinda like a little one one of the little rubber,
[01:19:26] Duuude-Ron :
shit. But, Zodiacs?
[01:19:29] Unknown:
Yeah. To where you could actually possibly touch and or feed a dolphin. That would be freaking awesome.
[01:19:39] Duuude-Ron :
That would be cool, I think.
[01:19:41] Unknown:
But even even just watching them is cool. Yeah.
[01:19:44] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. I'm thinking about doing that because now you see I can go. I can do things because I'm legal. So
[01:19:53] Unknown:
You ain't going tomorrow?
[01:19:55] Duuude-Ron :
I'm thinking about it. I don't I I don't know I don't know which one to take.
[01:20:01] Rich Chelson:
He he's he's gotta get out of the house. He's free finally.
[01:20:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do. I I mean, I'm serious. I've been staying home all this fucking time. So, yeah, I wanna I wanna get out.
[01:20:14] Unknown:
But During that time, can you fucking put your drone up?
[01:20:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That would be cool. Well, no. I can't. I believe it or not, Ship Island, Deer Island, all those islands out there, they are protected by the National Wildlife Service. Okay. There is no drone flying on any National Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge, anything like that.
[01:20:45] Unknown:
So you can't so you wouldn't even be able to fly them in Yellowstone No. Mount Rushmore?
[01:20:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well yeah. I mean Yeah. Not supposed to. Not supposed to. But, you know, I can go ahead.
[01:21:01] Unknown:
You know, what would be really cool is if you on the ship, on the dolphin finding one, if you could put your drone up and get some close ups of the dolphins.
[01:21:12] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that is yeah. Well, I've got a hell of a zoom on my drone, believe it or not. You know? I don't I don't I don't have to be that close. I can I can just zoom right into them? That would be cool, though.
[01:21:25] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Hey. I got a question for you, Rich. What? What's that? What was the okay. The the camera lens that you bought and took over that I that I got to use back to last tears event?
[01:21:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:21:40] Rich Chelson:
What was that?
[01:21:42] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. You would have to ask me. Of course. I wanna say it was hold on. It was a zoom lens, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It was definitely a zoom lens. I thought so. It was a either an 18 to 300. I wanna say it was an '18 to 300 Tamron
[01:22:01] Rich Chelson:
or a a Tamron. Oh, okay. That's it. That's what I went for. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. If it, yeah, if it was a Tamron, it was an '18 to 300.
[01:22:13] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:22:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now Tamron, believe it or not, makes good lenses.
[01:22:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I like the no. That's just the one thing that I have not ever been able to do with my camera. That that it's and I've only the only thing I've been able to narrow it down to now is something with the lens that I'm using is muting the colors ever so slightly. Really? Because yeah. Because whenever I took pictures with took several of the pictures using your your Tamon, those colors just pop.
[01:22:46] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:22:47] Rich Chelson:
And just were just amazing. And I was like, okay. So if if from everything I've looked at and searched on and and stuff and the fact that you talked about cameras, it was like, oh, hey. Yo. Been meaning for the past year and a half to ask you about that.
[01:23:06] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh. Yeah. No. I mean, shoot. You could probably find a good used Tamron. Yeah. A Ron ATK. Butts. You know? Yeah. I mean, they're they're and they're I I mean, I I love that thing when I I don't know what I don't I don't have it anymore. I don't know. I think it got dumped. No? What do you mean it got dumped? No. This was I don't know where it went, dude.
[01:23:37] Rich Chelson:
Where where is your camera at?
[01:23:40] Duuude-Ron :
Over in the other room. I I don't I don't have the lens anymore, though.
[01:23:44] Unknown:
I think Brian's head's gonna explode now. Yeah.
[01:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Well, hold on. Y'all talk. Y'all talk. Let me go look.
[01:23:54] Rich Chelson:
This guy go off and lose a damn lens like that? Oh, please. I just remember being a three hundred three hundred millimeter. Well, I don't remember the name of the, name of the manufacturer.
[01:24:05] Unknown:
Yeah. For quite some time, he couldn't find his fucking drone.
[01:24:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:24:10] Unknown:
You remember that? Yeah.
[01:24:13] Rich Chelson:
What's that? Nothing. Nothing. We weren't telling you anything about it. And
[01:24:18] Unknown:
then we said, yeah. At one point in time, you lost your damn drone too. Couldn't find that. I don't know where you found it at, but
[01:24:26] Duuude-Ron :
See, the thing is my my new drone has a find me feature.
[01:24:32] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:24:35] Duuude-Ron :
Well Hold it. Brian, let me ask you this. Did I have my seven eighty with me? My Nikon seven eighty? Yes. Yeah. It was your okay. Then it wasn't a Tamron. It was Look here. No. It's my 85.
[01:24:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's the I know it's, like, three hundred three hundred millimeter.
[01:24:53] Duuude-Ron :
Three to four. Then well, let's see. What's this one? It's a Nikon it's a Nikon 28 to 300 then because I had this lens, and I had the 24 to 85,
[01:25:08] Rich Chelson:
which is a good lens. Yeah. No. They're that one's good, but yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it was okay. So it was Nikon, haven't it?
[01:25:15] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Nikon 28 to 300. You can find these used for, I'd say, probably $200.
[01:25:22] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:25:23] Duuude-Ron :
Look look on, like, KEH MPB website.
[01:25:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I was I was parked around over on once I started asking, I was getting my getting my, my my KEH pulled up. So
[01:25:41] Unknown:
Well, I bet. Here's here's here's another here's another camera question. Yeah. Can you use the lenses from film cameras on digital cameras?
[01:25:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[01:25:53] Rich Chelson:
Okay. If they are yeah. If if if they're not if they've got the same type of ring, but say you've got one that's a manual,
[01:26:01] Duuude-Ron :
manual lens versus a automatic lens. No. No. I've got a I've got a I've got an old 85 manual, 85 millimeter manual.
[01:26:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. As long as it'll hold the same ring.
[01:26:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It yeah. Well, okay. Some of the lenses all the lens, some of the lenses have, like, a little arm sticking out, and that was to catch the mechanism for the film cameras to advance the film. Right. And and most of those will work, especially with Nikon. Canon is touch and go. Canon is is like the apple of the camera world if you ask me. That's my opinion. But and probably we might finally get some email over that. Who knows? But, but, yeah, yeah, a lot of the older lenses will work, you know, as long as, like Brian said, the mount is the same, and it's Oh, okay. It's not something funky. Yeah. It'll work because I've got an old SLR, which is a single lens.
It's a, can't remember the acronym for it, but it's for film cameras. But it works on my my my digital camera for portraits.
[01:27:20] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:27:21] Duuude-Ron :
And it's all metal. There's not a lick of plastic on that bitch. It's all metal. Right.
[01:27:29] Unknown:
So what's that? Dad passed away when my dad passed away over twenty years ago, I got some of his camera bodies and lenses.
[01:27:42] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[01:27:43] Unknown:
And that's as far as it went. It it got to my house. It got put up in the closet and has not been touched since.
[01:27:54] Duuude-Ron :
You could be sitting on a gold mine with them old film cameras, dude. I'm serious. Okay. Lot of people still shoot film.
[01:28:04] Rich Chelson:
I have no doubt. No. That that's become a very specialized niche for, in photography as people who still shoot silver.
[01:28:15] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:28:16] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Hey. Did I tell y'all I had bought another camera?
[01:28:20] Rich Chelson:
No. You sure about this? This was, like, last year. And I'm gonna have to call you if it starts with the name of the camera. It starts with an h.
[01:28:31] Duuude-Ron :
An h? No. Okay. I didn't know. I didn't buy a Hasselblad or a Holga.
[01:28:38] Rich Chelson:
Okay. No. I got Leica either. Did you?
[01:28:42] Duuude-Ron :
Not Leica either? No. Oh, god. No. I can't afford them bitches.
[01:28:47] Rich Chelson:
I can't afford them either. That's why I was gonna say, goddamn it. You went all gotta because I'd love to get a Hasselblad
[01:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
medium format. Oh, yeah. It would it'd be great. Digital.
[01:28:58] Unknown:
And a Leica? Leica suck these nuts?
[01:29:03] Rich Chelson:
Almost, but not quite.
[01:29:06] Duuude-Ron :
No. Leica Leica is is a German made camera, and it's an entry level Leica. You're looking at probably $4,000.
[01:29:17] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, they they got the laser laser distances and stuff. I mean, those things will start out at at at at a grand at times too. But yeah. Yeah. Leica cares. Oh,
[01:29:30] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. They're, I mean, awesome. They are they are freaking awesome. But no. I what god. Was it last year? I did it on a whim, and I was being I was being stupid. I just got it paid off. It's it it was a Nikon z, Zed FC, the Z mount. Okay. Yeah. And so, yeah, I've got I've got I've got my my seven eighty yet. And why I bought it? Well, this this camera looks like an old film camera even down to the buttons.
[01:30:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I see what you're saying.
[01:30:08] Duuude-Ron :
But it's totally digital. It's smaller. It's not as heavy. It's less bulky. I haven't shot much with it. I was shot well, dude, I that's the one that I was shooting with at Jeep in the Coast.
[01:30:24] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:30:25] Duuude-Ron :
That little tiny one. Well yeah. But either way so, yeah, I've got that one. I've got my drone, and, well, I found my GoPro finally.
[01:30:37] Unknown:
And Where did you fucking find the GoPro at? I still don't know.
[01:30:43] Rich Chelson:
That's okay. It just popped out of his ass all of a sudden one moment, and he's like, hey. Where the hell was that at?
[01:30:49] Duuude-Ron :
I still cannot remember where I found my GoPro at.
[01:30:54] Unknown:
I I can I can almost guarantee you that that was in with one of your fucking drones?
[01:31:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, I've got I've got I've got my one closet here that back here in my AM radio computer room, and I've got I've got most all of my electronics in this closet. Okay? And I'm I might have found it in there, but I cannot for the life of I'm still thinking about it. And that's been, what, two weeks?
[01:31:28] Unknown:
Something like that.
[01:31:29] Duuude-Ron :
And I and I said, I was I was laughing at myself the other day because I still can't remember where I found that son, bitch. I mean, I found it.
[01:31:39] Unknown:
Or better yet, it wasn't in with the drones. It was sitting on the fucking dining room table.
[01:31:46] Duuude-Ron :
Could've been.
[01:31:47] Unknown:
Yeah. It could've been. Very well could've been.
[01:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I've got so much crap on my dining room table. It's crazy. Yes. Yes. You do.
[01:31:58] Unknown:
And I and I bet you probably looked at it looked at it a thousand times, and then all of a sudden, it's like, crap. There's my GoPro.
[01:32:07] Duuude-Ron :
But then you can't remember where the fuck you exactly found it at. But No. I cannot. And and, you know, I had actively gone and looked for it. And so yeah. And and something else I just did. I just got it yesterday. But I'm gonna play with this too because I think this is gonna be cool. I got one of them at Insta March, the three sixty camera.
[01:32:33] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[01:32:34] Duuude-Ron :
I got one of those.
[01:32:36] Rich Chelson:
We're gonna see you start making videos like that little Chinese girl.
[01:32:40] Duuude-Ron :
I know. That was cool as shit. That
[01:32:43] Rich Chelson:
was cool. I mean, just the coolest way of doing that. And then she there somewhere in there, she's got an explainer on how she film how she does all that filming.
[01:32:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. I I gotta I gotta find it and watch it. But, yeah, I, yeah, I followed her on TikTok. So Yeah. I'm finding it. But but you see, that's the thing. When I go on this cruise, you know, I can take my camera. I can I can take my three sixty camera and do a three sixty of the boat ride with the dolphins? And it's cool as shit because I, tried it out yesterday. Right?
[01:33:18] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:33:19] Duuude-Ron :
And and, I mean, it's cool because you can sit there and and when you're watching it back and even while I'm recording, I I can move the screen, you know, to look at things and stuff like that. But when I'm watching it back, I can move the screen around. Like, if I'm talking in it, I can just move the screen around and look around. Just it's cool it's cool as crap, man. So and, yeah, I can make tiny planet videos and you know? It it just I'm a geek. I'm a fucking geek.
[01:33:58] Unknown:
Yeah. And you're gonna have that motherfucker test your Jeep here probably within the by the end of the month.
[01:34:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I will. Okay.
[01:34:07] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[01:34:08] Duuude-Ron :
And don't require on that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No.
[01:34:11] Unknown:
That's probably the only re that's probably the primary reason why you got it is put on your Jeep.
[01:34:16] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. Well, cruising the coast, man. We're gonna drive down the road at cruising the coast and and and fucking record these cars, man. It's gonna be cool as crap.
[01:34:31] Unknown:
Alright.
[01:34:32] Duuude-Ron :
We're gonna be right there beside them. Oh, hey, dude. Hey. I got a question to ask you.
[01:34:38] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:34:40] Duuude-Ron :
Do you wanna go to drag races? The gassers are are coming back. Are they? Yes.
[01:34:48] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:34:49] Duuude-Ron :
You wanna go one night or two nights? It's on a Friday or a Saturday.
[01:34:55] Unknown:
I'd probably say just Friday.
[01:34:58] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. That's on me. I'll I'll I'll get us. Okay. We'll we'll go.
[01:35:05] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:35:06] Duuude-Ron :
We'll go on Friday because they, yeah, they race on Saturday too, but
[01:35:12] Unknown:
but, yeah, we can go to Well, Saturday night or Saturday during the day?
[01:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Not a 100% sure yet. Hang on. Let me look it up again because I see, I I I don't know if they have the time
[01:35:25] Unknown:
time. Oh, okay. Because, you know, everybody, I'm sure, is gonna be packing up Sunday to head back home.
[01:35:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. But, no. Hang on. Let me look. Because I I was looking I was looking, yesterday, I think, for tickets and can't get tickets yet.
[01:35:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[01:35:51] Unknown:
So You know, I would I would just say Friday.
[01:35:55] Duuude-Ron :
Let's see. October. October 9, which is Friday. It opens at 5PM. Track is hot at six. So so if we got there right at five, we could probably get a good spot because there's gonna be a lot of people go go into
[01:36:16] Rich Chelson:
this. Yeah. And
[01:36:19] Duuude-Ron :
or no. The tenth or the ninth. I don't know. They don't have times for that. I gotta wait till it gets closer.
[01:36:27] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:36:29] Rich Chelson:
But
[01:36:30] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, yeah, I'll watch it, and we'll go yeah. Like I said, we can go Friday and Saturday or just Friday. It don't matter.
[01:36:38] Unknown:
Well, once it gets to that time, we'll we'll make a better decision.
[01:36:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:36:43] Unknown:
Because now I found out with my Jeep, my steering stabilizer shock
[01:36:51] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[01:36:52] Unknown:
Is blown.
[01:36:54] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. So you need
[01:36:56] Unknown:
one? Yeah. You know how much those motherfuckers are? Well, if you buy the most expensive one Well, yeah. Well, that's what I I I believe I believe that's what I got, which is the Fox two o's.
[01:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god, dude. What'd you pay?
[01:37:12] Unknown:
$239 for that motherfucker now.
[01:37:15] Duuude-Ron :
Damn, dude. Or a steering stabilizer.
[01:37:19] Unknown:
Yep. The steering stabilizer shock.
[01:37:22] Duuude-Ron :
Just because you just because you had to match.
[01:37:26] Unknown:
I swear. Yeah. Well, they're that and they're damn good shocks. But replacing them replacing them is expensive On the and my front drive shaft is a fucking the rear seal is blown on it.
[01:37:45] Duuude-Ron :
That's not good.
[01:37:47] Unknown:
Nope.
[01:37:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I
[01:37:50] Unknown:
You know what your new, front and rear drive shafts are?
[01:37:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, for you, probably $2,000.
[01:37:58] Unknown:
Right. Yeah. Because I would not get OEM. I would get oh, what the hell are they? Tom fuck. I don't remember the name, but, yeah, they're not cheap. However, I do have an extra front drive shaft in the garage.
[01:38:20] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you got one and you only need three.
[01:38:24] Unknown:
No. Drive shafts? I only need two of those. Oh, drive shafts. Yeah. I got a spare front drive shaft in the garage for my Jeep. Well, that thing That's the one that's the one I'm gonna use, obviously, because I can't afford the other drive shafts.
[01:38:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[01:38:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I'm because go ahead.
[01:38:47] Duuude-Ron :
On the on the gasser's page, Friday October
[01:38:54] Unknown:
Uh-huh.
[01:38:56] Duuude-Ron :
It actually starts at 05:00, and you can meet and greet drivers and see the cars and go hang out. And then Saturday, it starts at one. Racing starts at one Friday. It starts at five, 5PM.
[01:39:12] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:39:14] Duuude-Ron :
So it'd be Friday night, and then Saturday is during the day. Yep. So I think Friday night would be better.
[01:39:24] Unknown:
And so do I. So For sure.
[01:39:27] Duuude-Ron :
But no. We'll go then.
[01:39:30] Unknown:
Okay. Sounds
[01:39:32] Duuude-Ron :
good. Have we set a date for, when you're coming down?
[01:39:37] Unknown:
Nope. Not at it yet.
[01:39:40] Duuude-Ron :
What day are you coming down?
[01:39:41] Unknown:
I don't fucking know. Hold on. Let me look at the damn calendar.
[01:39:46] Duuude-Ron :
It starts the October 5.
[01:39:50] Rich Chelson:
Let's see. Come on.
[01:39:53] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Starts the fifth?
[01:39:56] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Starts the fifth.
[01:39:59] Unknown:
I can't remember what I had. I think I have my vacation from the third to the thirteenth Okay. If I remember correctly. So, you know, I may travel down on Saturday. Who knows? That's fine. Not sure yet. Come on down. I will.
[01:40:18] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, dude, we I mean, we think about it. You're gonna cruise for a whole week and get paid for it. And you know that? Paid for.
[01:40:29] Rich Chelson:
Oh,
[01:40:31] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. Vacation wise, dude. Vacation. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. You're gonna go cruising the coast and get heavy to do it. That's awesome. I love it. Yeah. You're right.
[01:40:43] Unknown:
Now I just gotta figure out where to fucking discharge the rest of my vacation time at.
[01:40:50] Duuude-Ron :
How much more do you have?
[01:40:52] Unknown:
Three weeks.
[01:40:54] Duuude-Ron :
Good god, dude. I don't know if there's anything else going on after cruising the coast. Around Christmas, there's always stuff going on.
[01:41:08] Unknown:
Well, yeah, but the other drivers have already put in their vacation time for Christmas and Thanksgiving week. So I don't know. I have to get ahold of the boss. But, yeah, I still got three weeks
[01:41:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my gosh, dude. A vacation left.
[01:41:23] Unknown:
That's cool. And we're and we're fucking more than halfway through the fucking calendar year.
[01:41:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And you still have three more weeks. That's awesome.
[01:41:33] Unknown:
Yeah. And the only vacation time that I've taken this far or thus far this year is when I came to visit you for Jeep in the Coast.
[01:41:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So so you get five weeks then.
[01:41:49] Unknown:
Right? Well, I get no. It's four weeks plus a week of sick time plus two floating holidays. So I know I ain't gonna use my sick time, so now I'll have and I don't know how it's gonna carry over into the new year, but right now I have forty hours for this year. And right now I have banked a hundred and forty hours. So at the end of this year, I'll have a hundred and eighty hours of sick time banked.
[01:42:23] Duuude-Ron :
Dang, dude. Call your boss and go, I'm sick.
[01:42:29] Unknown:
He's made that he's made that same statement. It's like, you know what? Just one day, call me and, you know, if it's a Friday or a Monday because now we have the flexibility
[01:42:42] Rich Chelson:
on Fridays and Mondays. Like, just call me up in the morning and go, I won't make it in.
[01:42:48] Unknown:
And he'll be like, alright. See you tomorrow.
[01:42:52] Duuude-Ron :
See? There you go, man. Alright. That's all you gotta do. But no. I need to decide, guys, which cruise should I go on? The dolphin watching cruise Dolphin one. Or the sunset cruise. Because any of these, they say there's a you you know, see, you'll see dolphins. That well, hey. This one doesn't. This is the nighttime. Yeah. I could go to the dolphin cruise.
[01:43:21] Unknown:
That's what I do. If this is a spontaneous thing that you're gonna be doing tomorrow because you haven't been able to get out of the house since yesterday.
[01:43:36] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:43:36] Unknown:
Like, I bought way yesterday. I'd go on the dolphin one. Or what's the heat light gonna be like tomorrow?
[01:43:48] Duuude-Ron :
It's gonna be hotter than hell.
[01:43:50] Unknown:
Okay. So would it be better to go would it be more enjoyable to go on a, you know, sun sunset cruise than it would be in the the heat of the day? Yeah. That's probably your best best question to answer of how you're going to enjoy your day tomorrow.
[01:44:11] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean, I I'll enjoy it either way because I'll be riding on a boat. I'll be in the Gulf Of America, and I'll be taking pictures and video. So, I mean, honestly, yeah, it'll be hot, but I don't know. I just I'd
[01:44:32] Unknown:
you know, I would suggest the Dolphin Cruise then
[01:44:36] Rich Chelson:
myself. Okay. So
[01:44:41] Unknown:
now where does that leave out of
[01:44:45] Duuude-Ron :
Gulfport down there?
[01:44:47] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:44:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Gulfport where we drove by. We drove by the the entrance to Ship Island or the cruises.
[01:44:59] Unknown:
Okay. Where that where it went on out on the pier with the where all the boats were at.
[01:45:05] Rich Chelson:
No. No. Okay.
[01:45:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're, yeah, we're we're all the boats are at. You're right.
[01:45:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Because we drove up, and then we had to turn around because it became the yacht club property. Is it that one?
[01:45:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's Okay. It was back this way. I mean, they've got, like, I don't know, four or five of them. Oh, no. No. No. It's further down. Because that Oh. The one we was talking about, I think, was that one's in Biloxi.
[01:45:45] Unknown:
Yes. That one was in Biloxi.
[01:45:48] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. So yeah. No. The one the one I'd be going to tomorrow is further down in Gulfport. We passed it going down to Jeep Central couple times.
[01:45:58] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
So but, that's
[01:46:05] Unknown:
I'd say I'd say the Dolphin Cruise. And then next week and then next week, go on the the sunset cruise. Because like you said, they're less than $30. Yeah. That's pretty damn good. How many hours is it? How many hours is it?
[01:46:25] Duuude-Ron :
The, the dolphin cruise is an hour and a half, and the sunset cruise is two hours.
[01:46:33] Unknown:
Well, that ain't bad for that price. No. Better than better than the cost of a movie.
[01:46:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Exactly. Yeah. They can and they got drinks and snacks and all like that. You know? So, you know, I'll probably I'll I'll probably take 20 or $40 with me just, you know, just to have, you know, some cash on me. Yeah. And, and then, you know, I'll just I'll just because one, I'll get to go on the go on the Gulf Of America and, I mean, go out. I've been in the sound. You know? Yeah. The the small water right there by the beach, I've been there. I haven't been past there, and I've been wanting to go past there. So I've I've booked it. So I gotta be there at Ship Island by 04:00 tomorrow afternoon.
[01:47:30] Unknown:
So And that's and that's which one? The dolphin
[01:47:34] Duuude-Ron :
watching cruise.
[01:47:35] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:47:37] Duuude-Ron :
So and then yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next week, I can do the sunset cruise, and I'll take video then too.
[01:47:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There you go. Sounds like a plan.
[01:47:48] Duuude-Ron :
Bye bye. Thanks, guys. Y'all I I I don't know. I mean I mean, you know, I'm I'm not afraid to do things and shit like this, but, man, I've done shit by myself for so long. I just I get tired of it, to be honest with you. Yeah. I
[01:48:05] Unknown:
I resemble that remark, and, yeah, it fucking sucks.
[01:48:10] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:48:11] Unknown:
It does.
[01:48:12] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. I agree. But but this is because, one, I love big boats, and this boat's, like, fifty, sixty foot long, I guess. It's huge. But, you know, and it it's just I don't know. I've never been on one like this. So I'm gonna go try it out and see what kind of pictures and videos I can get.
[01:48:35] Unknown:
Yeah. Like I said earlier, take your drone with you. What's the worst thing that they're gonna tell you? No. You can't fly it off the ship.
[01:48:42] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. They'll yeah. Yeah. The ship will probably say no.
[01:48:46] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:48:48] Duuude-Ron :
Because drones say that's the thing. When when you're on a ship or, you know, when you're somewhere, like, on a ship or something like that, you had you have to get permission from the captain. And nine times out of 10, it's a no. Now now if it was something that I set up weeks, you know, weeks ago, then, yeah, it'd be different.
[01:49:14] Unknown:
But but just Where are your where are your veteran at? You may you may fucking just be generous. Mhmm. Right. Well Yes, sir.
[01:49:23] Duuude-Ron :
I'm gonna take my x five because I've got a selfie stick, and and it's cool as shit because some of the trial videos I've used, it actually makes that selfie stick disappear. It's cool as crap.
[01:49:39] Unknown:
Like Yeah.
[01:49:40] Duuude-Ron :
Like on the videos you've seen with, people using it, no stick or nothing. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. That's not that's honest to God. That's the way the camera does it. It knocks out that selfie stick. I'm like, that's cool as crap, man. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. I wanna go to the back or the front of the boat and extend the selfie stick and then Yeah. Hold it out while we're, you know, going out in the Gulf and just and just let it record. You know? And I can get the whole boat, and then he dolphins out around and, you know, the sky. Oh my god. It's it's just like I'll get I'll get it and get it processed.
It'll be fun.
[01:50:29] Unknown:
Oh, I have no doubt in my mind.
[01:50:32] Duuude-Ron :
I'm excited. I'm a I'm a go see some dolphins.
[01:50:39] Unknown:
That's cool. There you go. Yeah. Absolutely. That'd be fun.
[01:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, dude, I mean, cruising at coast, they'll they'll still be running excursions. We can go if you want.
[01:50:53] Unknown:
Okay.
[01:50:54] Duuude-Ron :
So I mean, because they run till the November.
[01:50:59] Unknown:
Oh, okay.
[01:51:00] Duuude-Ron :
Then they stop for the year. So so, yeah, when you come down, yeah, I'll go on another one. I don't care.
[01:51:07] Unknown:
Well, hell yeah. At that price? Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, it's that boat ride to boat ride to see dolphins, one, is a hell of a lot better, and two, cost less than a ticket for a movie.
[01:51:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[01:51:25] Unknown:
So that is paying for the damn popcorn.
[01:51:29] Rich Chelson:
Right. Alright. That's that that breaks the bank, not every single time. You know, I know it does.
[01:51:36] Duuude-Ron :
I think the last time I went to a movie god, it's been, god, twenty some years. I think last time, I think, for a large popcorn, I think I paid, like, $12.
[01:51:47] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:51:48] Duuude-Ron :
And, I mean, you know, it freaking cost them pennies, literally pennies to make
[01:51:53] Unknown:
it. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Same way with the soda.
[01:51:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. But, you know, that's okay. I'll I'll just I'll just you know, the cost of the ticket, popcorn, hell, those two things right there is is more than the cost of this cruise. Yeah.
[01:52:12] Unknown:
Yeah. You know? And And the last movie I went to in the theaters was a Harry Potter which one was it? It wasn't the Chamber of Secrets. It was the next one. Prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:52:29] Rich Chelson:
Azkaban.
[01:52:30] Unknown:
Okay. That's the last movie that I've seen in a movie theater was Harry Potter's prisoner of Azkaban.
[01:52:40] Duuude-Ron :
I I can't even remember the last movie I saw.
[01:52:45] Rich Chelson:
Let me see here. Well, I know I'm I know I'm gonna go and watch one here pretty soon as soon as it when it comes out. But
[01:52:53] Unknown:
What's that? Superman?
[01:52:55] Rich Chelson:
No. No. The Long Walk. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. You were talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. Completely lost y'all with the, with the description of that. And then my couple of my my story ideas.
[01:53:09] Unknown:
Yeah. You you kinda lost us by the time you got done explaining that one last week. That was for sure. It's like, what the hell are you talking about?
[01:53:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know you know, that's really not a hard job losing us.
[01:53:25] Rich Chelson:
I'll lose myself all the time. What the hell was that? I just trying to spell well. What? I don't wanna know.
[01:53:38] Unknown:
I wanna know.
[01:53:40] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I'm gonna do that. So, yeah, I'll I'll, yeah, I'll probably well, I'll I'll probably have a video up either Friday night or Saturday.
[01:53:52] Unknown:
I'm sure it will pop up on my my Facebook.
[01:53:57] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will.
[01:53:58] Unknown:
Without a doubt.
[01:54:00] Duuude-Ron :
Probably will because I'll I'll probably post it there. And if because, I mean, because these these videos that's that's one thing on TikTok. I haven't seen many three sixty videos, you know, as well. But but, you know you know, it can be done.
[01:54:20] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Instagram,
[01:54:23] Duuude-Ron :
No. You can't put three sixty videos on Instagram.
[01:54:27] Unknown:
Too big of a file?
[01:54:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. It's Oh. It's it's their encoding for three sixty files. It, it has to be a flat file. You can put videos up, just not three sixty. And say with the x five, I can I can take the three sick I can shoot three sixty, make it into a flat file, and then post it on Instagram? You just can't spin it around.
[01:54:55] Unknown:
Okay. Well, you do you, boo, with the taking around to a flat and post it. And you know what? You just knock yourself the fuck out.
[01:55:10] Duuude-Ron :
I will, man. I will. I'm sure you will. Now you see, Facebook ain't hard.
[01:55:16] Unknown:
Right?
[01:55:18] Duuude-Ron :
You know, Facebook lets you do three sixty videos. So when I post this video, be sure to spin around the screen and look at everything. And and, you know, what's what's weird though with it is I don't have to move the camera anywhere. I just Yeah. I just hold it out. I don't have to move it towards anybody. But when I go back and look at the footage, I can see anybody and everybody or whatever, you know, object I wanna see and everything. So, yeah, that's that'll be kinda cool.
[01:55:57] Unknown:
Three lenses in there?
[01:55:59] Duuude-Ron :
Two. Two? Okay. Yep. Two. And it has them. And when it makes it, it it they merge because this thing's probably, I'd say, a good inch wide. Yeah. In between the limp, but it stitches the video, you know, perfectly. Stitches it perfectly. So
[01:56:23] Unknown:
Wow. Okay. Yeah. I've I've seen a few of the the three sixty videos on Facebook, but I'm not a member of Instagram or TikTok.
[01:56:34] Duuude-Ron :
You ought to be, man. Give you something else to look at. You'd love TikTok, dude. You would really love TikTok.
[01:56:42] Unknown:
I'll give you this. I'll think about it.
[01:56:46] Rich Chelson:
TikTok's got some cool stuff in there. It's got some really annoying stuff, and it's got some really dumb stuff, and it's got some stuff you're like going, what?
[01:56:54] Duuude-Ron :
So
[01:56:55] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, you know, and with TikTok, how many people are trying to get their, you know, ten seconds of fame? Just like the hawk tour girl.
[01:57:08] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know but but, see, that's the thing. You can watch them. You don't have to, you know, like, watch stuff. You can just look at them, man.
[01:57:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. But you also know that if you watch one all the way through, they're they you tell them that you're kinda interested in it. So if you see one, you don't wanna see it, then you wanna zip past it fairly quickly. Yep. Okay.
[01:57:36] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, it's it's it's not bad. Yeah. I mean, some, I just watch because it's so stupid. I watch it all the way through just because I can't believe it, but and I I mean, I don't care.
[01:57:48] Rich Chelson:
I mean,
[01:57:49] Duuude-Ron :
no no one contacts you, dude. You need to get TikTok.
[01:57:56] Rich Chelson:
Join the crowd. It's all good.
[01:58:03] Unknown:
Yeah. I'll think about it. What's the difference between Facebook and Instagram?
[01:58:09] Duuude-Ron :
Really nothing because it's the same company. Same company.
[01:58:13] Unknown:
Oh my god. Okay.
[01:58:15] Rich Chelson:
I mean I mean Facebook, Instagram, threads, and WhatsApp. We're all owned by Facebook. Meta.
[01:58:22] Unknown:
What was the second one you said? Instagram then what?
[01:58:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, threads.
[01:58:29] Unknown:
I've heard of it.
[01:58:31] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it's a it's a slower a slower Twitter, but it's through Instagram.
[01:58:39] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well then, we know how far I am behind in the technicality
[01:58:47] Duuude-Ron :
age. Yeah. But, I mean, it wouldn't be
[01:58:53] Rich Chelson:
it wouldn't be hard. You'd have a lot to look at. I'm telling you right now. And then you go off, discover the, the TikTok shop and all the cool things they have in there. For $3
[01:59:05] Duuude-Ron :
or less.
[01:59:07] Rich Chelson:
Well, the stuff I keep looking at is a little more bad. Not bad. Yeah.
[01:59:11] Duuude-Ron :
You see, I don't I don't I don't really look on the TikTok shop. Now I did just buy something off the TikTok shop. I bought the Ethiopian Bible, which is it's not it's it's it's it's it's not the oldest Bible. It's it's number three. It's older than the King James version. It was written back in, like, four BC
[01:59:38] Unknown:
Right.
[01:59:39] Duuude-Ron :
Or four AD, fourth century.
[01:59:43] Unknown:
So why? Just to get a different perspective?
[01:59:48] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, it's well, yeah. Because you see Bibles I mean, Bibles have all the same message pretty much. Right?
[01:59:58] Unknown:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[02:00:00] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Now now some of the words and say, the Bible is as we know it has 66 books, and that's not all of them. Okay? Because it's been it's been curated since Yeah. Since first one since King James the eighth, I believe. I was reading up on it the other day. They, figured out he he took, like, a 100 and some men scholars, religious guys, and basically told them, look through the manuscripts and put it together. And this is what they come up with, which, I mean, it's it's great. You know? Y'all still there?
[02:00:47] Rich Chelson:
Yep. I am. I am. Okay.
[02:00:49] Duuude-Ron :
I thought I saw Zoom flip on me. That's why I was asking. Anyway Okay. So this is this is what they came up with, and this is the Bible as we know it, as we were raised with. Well, the Ethiopian Bible, they not only have the normal 66 books that every other Bible has, but they also have another 22 books that the scholars with King James back in 1611 decided not to put in the Bible. Uh-huh.
[02:01:27] Rich Chelson:
So Okay. So that Yeah. There's, like, 17 of those books that they decided not to put in. Yeah. And and, I mean, you know, I I mean, I've talked
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
I've I've talked to people smarter than me about the Bible and, you know, asked them, you know, why they do that, and they explained it, broke it down as to why. And because they they said the books, they when they put all the books together, they wanted one single message. Okay? And it they, they wanted it centered on God and Jesus Christ. Okay? But the Ethiopian Bible has it has all the extra books, and it has more of the backstories of of Christ and God and and and the way things were. Oh, okay. That's that's why these books were left out because it was more history, more backstory, but it it it gives this stuff, I believe I mean, I just got it today, so so I haven't got to, get into it and, you know, read all that much on it. But I believe the the extra books and and a few other things they have in there will explain more about the Bible. You know what I mean?
Yeah. So that's why I got it.
[02:02:57] Rich Chelson:
Well Well, yeah, there's quite a few of those books. Like, there's the gospel of gospel of Judas. There is the gospel of Mary Magdalene. Enoch? Yeah. The book of book of Enoch.
[02:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The book of Enoch is in the Ethiopian Bible.
[02:03:13] Rich Chelson:
Right. There's Tobit, Judith, the wisdom of Solomon, and my the first and second Maccabees Mhmm. And gospel of Mary, gospel of Thomas, the apocalypse of Peter.
[02:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it's so there's I mean, this and and, you know, it's funny. Something else I learned, Ethiopia, we all know is in Africa. Right? Yeah. Do you know Ethiopia is its own and always has been its own independent country?
[02:03:47] Unknown:
Yes.
[02:03:48] Duuude-Ron :
I did know that. Okay. No. That's cool. But, no. I see. I didn't know that, and I I just learned that. I was I was yesterday years old when I learned that. But, yeah, Ethiopia is a is the African continent, all the other they're like states. And and then you have the main one, like like The United States. They're like The United States. We have all these states and then one government. Africa has all the others, and Ethiopia is like, uh-uh. We're gonna be ourselves.
[02:04:25] Unknown:
So Yeah.
[02:04:27] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. And and they have had this Bible since the fourth century, so around 300 AD. I figured Sure. And with all this other stuff, I'm like, This might, you know, explain a few things or at least at least give me knowledge.
[02:04:48] Unknown:
You know? And what does BI Joe say?
[02:04:51] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[02:04:53] Unknown:
Knowledge is power.
[02:04:55] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. That's why that's why I got it because I I just I've been I've been seeing people talk about it, and, you know, I looked it up and everything like that. And it's like it just sounds like that would be really cool. You know?
[02:05:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, I got about, you know, probably 12 Bibles in his house, and, unfortunately, I haven't picked up one and read one in years. Now, Okay. The and I don't like to read anyway. It doesn't matter if it's the Bible or if it's, you know, freaking the Moby Dick or the what. I just don't like to read it. Romance? You don't want me to No. There's only actually, there's only two
[02:05:44] Rich Chelson:
harlequin romances.
[02:05:46] Duuude-Ron :
You know you.
[02:05:48] Rich Chelson:
There's only two good Anybody who drinks poo poo bitch drinks, you know, will read a read a harlequin from time to time.
[02:05:56] Unknown:
Yeah. That's okay. I'll I'll re I'll read the Penny House short stories. The short stories.
[02:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Good. Of course. There's only three books I like. Connie Francis that.
[02:06:11] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yesterday, I I I just saw that.
[02:06:15] Unknown:
Why is why is the flag at half staff currently?
[02:06:19] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good question.
[02:06:21] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Let's see. There is answers. Flag, half staff today. It's Half staff American flag notification. Yeah. Let's see here.
[02:06:41] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. That didn't say nothing.
[02:06:44] Unknown:
Oh, so shit. No. Well, flags have been at half staff for about a week now. Well yeah. And this is,
[02:06:51] Rich Chelson:
this is for for, the flooding.
[02:06:55] Duuude-Ron :
No. In Texas, it says the, governor Tate Reeves ordered all flags be flown to half staff on Tuesday. Now I don't know why today, but
[02:07:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. In recent Texas.
[02:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. To honor the passing of officer Troy Floyd. Hang on. Stars and Stripes daily. Let's see if it's it's saying it's supposed to be a full staff.
[02:07:21] Rich Chelson:
So it's no. What I've got right here is the the Texas flag is currently or the Texas flag is currently half staff. Governor Abbott ordered the Texas flag, lowered to half staff on July 9 in honor of those who lost their lives during the most recent Texas floods. Mainly lowered to half staff. Well, it's just for that day, though. Yeah.
[02:07:41] Duuude-Ron :
I'm I'm I'm gonna save this site to start in the stripes daily because it it tells you that the flag's at half staff, full staff, or what, and then it explains why it was at half staff. So now is it down there with you, dude, is it just Texas flags, or is it the American flags, dude? American flag. Oh, I don't know. Well, both.
[02:08:08] Unknown:
Both. Because when they put any time that they put the American flag at half staff, Texas put their flags at half staff as well. Well, yeah. Because they send it. So Uh-huh. Well, they can fly the Texas flag at the same height as the American flag.
[02:08:29] Duuude-Ron :
Well yeah. But but, normally, if it's on the same pole, it has to be under it.
[02:08:34] Unknown:
Well yeah.
[02:08:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'm not sure why it's at half staff then.
[02:08:38] Unknown:
I don't know either. It's been half staff for about a week now.
[02:08:42] Duuude-Ron :
And unless maybe it is for the flooding victims.
[02:08:46] Unknown:
But I mean I don't know.
[02:08:49] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing. That's that's not really, you know, not to take take anything away from the victims or anything like this, but, yeah, with flag etiquette, that's not allowed. You know?
[02:09:05] Unknown:
Well, they put the flag at half staff with the pope died. It was a half staff. It that would they it was a half staff for a week when the pope died. Yes. It was.
[02:09:16] Duuude-Ron :
Because the pope is is, considered head of state. Yes. So that's why that's why I went to have staff. Right. You know, it has it went to have staff on May 4 in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service. So, yeah, there's there's different things, but I I I I've never I don't see anywhere I don't see anywhere where they would do it for the flooding.
[02:09:49] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[02:09:50] Duuude-Ron :
But but, again, and and, say, an individual state can do it if they want, and that's probably very well what it's for.
[02:10:03] Unknown:
It it it very well could be.
[02:10:07] Duuude-Ron :
So well, what the hell do I know? That was just a
[02:10:12] Unknown:
do I do? Yeah. I'm just a 57 year old driver that retired from the military. What the hell do I know? You know a lot of boot. I know how to shine a fucking pair of boots to where they look like mirrors. I can pull my I can pull my boots. As a matter of fact, my, my jump boots were I can't remember where the hell I had it. Yeah. And after ten years, yeah, once I cleared the dust off of them, I could still see my reflection in them stand you know, I can see the reflection of my face with the boots on and standing up. Man, I can shine a fucking pair of boots.
I was the motherfucking man
[02:11:00] Rich Chelson:
back then,
[02:11:02] Unknown:
but all I ever wore were jungle boots. But yeah. And shining motherfucks up like a mirror.
[02:11:10] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:11:13] Unknown:
And now you can't even shine boots anymore.
[02:11:17] Rich Chelson:
Not as easily.
[02:11:19] Unknown:
No. You can't at all because it is
[02:11:23] Rich Chelson:
It's all I've got. Smooth.
[02:11:26] Unknown:
No. You got the smooth side of the cow, and then you have the rough side of the cow skin. I can't remember what the rough side is called.
[02:11:36] Duuude-Ron :
I just know it. It was like suede.
[02:11:39] Unknown:
Suede. Exactly. So now the boots the boots are made with the suede side out. They don't shine boots anymore in the military at all.
[02:11:54] Duuude-Ron :
Well, with the dress uniforms, it's all patent leather. So
[02:11:58] Unknown:
Well, yeah.
[02:11:59] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, there's there's no shine in the ball.
[02:12:02] Rich Chelson:
Are those are those plastic style shoes? I can't remember what they're called. That's the patent leather. Well, yeah, they've got patent leather, but then there's another style or another one out there that you actually don't have to worry about. Because the patent leather, you still wanna you still have to shine from time to time because they'll get scuffed up. But there's another one. I can't remember what it's called, but it's but they stay shiny, and they don't scuff.
[02:12:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's patent leather. At least that's what I know them as.
[02:12:32] Unknown:
Yeah. I know what you're talking about, Brian, but I can't remember the name of it. But I know what you're talking about. Yeah. And they make patent leather jump boots too, but they're well, when I was in, they were not legal to wear.
[02:12:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right. They are now, but not then.
[02:12:54] Unknown:
Yeah. Because now they're a bunch of fucking pussies.
[02:12:57] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's I mean, they're just, doing what they're told, really. Yeah.
[02:13:05] Unknown:
Amazing. It works. You know? Yes. I do.
[02:13:12] Duuude-Ron :
Man, that's cool. I'm a go on a boat ride. In fact, I I better I better I better put that in my calendar
[02:13:20] Rich Chelson:
because Coroprams. That's what they were called. Yeah. That's right. Coroprams. Called what?
[02:13:25] Duuude-Ron :
Coropram. Oh, I've, yeah, I've heard of them.
[02:13:30] Unknown:
Never rode any of them.
[02:13:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. I didn't either.
[02:13:34] Rich Chelson:
I I should have never them.
[02:13:38] Duuude-Ron :
Right. They were they were freaking expensive. But, yeah, we couldn't wear them when I was in.
[02:13:44] Unknown:
Oh.
[02:13:45] Duuude-Ron :
No? That was that was that was a no no. Yep. It was a worked,
[02:13:53] Rich Chelson:
essentially. Third quarter.
[02:13:55] Unknown:
But, of course, when I left in, no, I take that back. I had to wear my class a one time after I left the eighty second in 9098. Yeah. '98. The only other time that I wore my class a uniform is when I had to do casualty assistance and casualty notification.
[02:14:21] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:14:22] Unknown:
And, honestly, I don't remember what foot foot gear that I wore. I mighta had my my jump boots on, but I don't remember.
[02:14:33] Duuude-Ron :
Were you in the eighty second or no?
[02:14:35] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[02:14:36] Duuude-Ron :
Well Then yeah. What? Then
[02:14:39] Unknown:
well, I was out outside of the eighty second, I can't remember what footwear I wore when I had to do What? Kinda casualty assistance because I didn't do casualty assistance until I was at Fort Hood.
[02:14:55] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[02:14:57] Unknown:
I think I wore my jump boots because we were wearing black berets then.
[02:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[02:15:04] Unknown:
Dookiest goddamn Just because one one person wanted to have the ability to wear a black beret. And that's when yep. Got the hell out. And that's when general what the fuck was his name? Sanjaycki, when he became the army chief of staff, because of him, that's when he put the Black Beret to the army forces as a whole.
[02:15:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But didn't the 86 wear maroon?
[02:15:44] Unknown:
Yeah. The eighty second wore maroon, but the rangers wore the black gray.
[02:15:50] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:15:51] Unknown:
So because general Sanjekt, and I know I'm mispronouncing that, because he wanted to have the the ability to wear a black beret.
[02:16:04] Duuude-Ron :
That shit is wrong.
[02:16:06] Unknown:
Yeah. It was. Takes it from one special ops group and gives it to the rest of the fucking army. So the rangers went back to, actually, the original color they started with, and that was tan.
[02:16:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[02:16:26] Unknown:
Yeah. The original gray color that the ranges were was tan, then they went to black, and now they're back at tan again.
[02:16:34] Duuude-Ron :
They just need to leave things alone. Exactly. I mean, good luck.
[02:16:41] Unknown:
Yeah. That's what they need to do. Leave the fucking shit alone.
[02:16:45] Duuude-Ron :
But now they I mean, this is the army. This is what they do.
[02:16:49] Unknown:
Yeah. I know. But certain individuals, when they get to to a certain rank, they they, you know because I didn't get to do it when I was down here. But now since I'm up here, I can make that decision, and I'm gonna do it because it benefits me Right. And because I say so. Do as I say, not as I do.
[02:17:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's the rule.
[02:17:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yep.
[02:17:22] Unknown:
It is bullshit rule, but rule nonetheless.
[02:17:27] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:17:29] Unknown:
As an adult, you're right. Well, not much, really. I mean awfully quiet tonight. Oh,
[02:17:36] Rich Chelson:
just just realizing exactly, you know, I like I like the job as a whole, I like, but it did go off and remind me last week why I left the fracking the world of fracking, you know, five years ago back in, 2019. And, that was just because, one, it's hot in the summertime, cold as shit during the wintertime, dirtier than hell because especially during the summer, you're sweaty. And most of the, at least in places I've ever been, the the pads are are have got glitchy on them. And when you have semi trucks going in and out, in and out, in and out, you have cars going in and out, in and out, and you've got all these trucks and trailers going in and out. It takes that takes the, cliche and turns it into baby powder.
Oh, cool. So trucks drive through, and whatever fails, when dry pull on the location, the truck fan has to turn on. I don't know what they have style on the damn thing, but the moment you pull on the location Mhmm. So you get this big explosion of dust in the air. So I was working I was even working nights last week doing shagging trucks trailers, which is basically, most of the time, I I take pick up empties from staging pad, and I take them to the sand plant, get them loaded, bring them back, drop them off. And last week, since we're doing a zipper, we've had we've had to make some changes.
And so I would show up and through, through the night, I would grab I would bring a loaded truck trailer from the low, staging pad to location and then take it and then hop out of that truck, hop to a different truck that has an empty trailer, take it back over to the staging pad, drop the trailer, get a a good loaded trailer, and bring it back. So I was basically just doing that, and it's only, like, maybe a half mile away. So it was hop in, run down there, run back, pop out, wait till another trailer unloads, hop back in a different truck, run back down, back and forth, back and forth. So but, again, every time you pull on, paying on the truck's gotta kick in for some whatever dumbass reason. And so every night, I would get tired. I had you're around the the blowers all the time, and and it's just, you know, just a it's a lot. And it's just after after that week, yesterday, I had my 24 off. I was just that whole time, I was just going, yeah. That's that's one of the big reasons why I left fracking. That's didn't I mean, I the granted, I am getting paid a hell of a lot more than what I was with when when I was just hauling sand beforehand.
So they make it worth it. And, I mean but and there's not really anything I can complain about other than if I get offered to be a a shuttle driver where I'm shuttling trailers back and forth, I'm gonna have to probably say no unless you add an extra $5 an hour. Because because no. I don't I don't care to be a part of the, of the, of the of the prac crew itself. I'll I'll just stick with my little my little sand hauling duties and and just enjoy the hell out of it. We've still got we're basically about halfway done with that, with that zipper that we're doing right now that did was doing last week, and we're still doing it this week. It's just because what they're doing is they've got two wells that are setting probably about maybe 25, 30 feet apart from each other.
Yeah. And they have one they have, a set of they've got a set a set of pipes that are set on a rack on a trailer. And this set of pipes is called the missile trailer, and it's because there's four four big, depending on what size flag job it is. It's usually the I think they're about usually about three inch three inch pipe, and that's the high pressure side. You got the low pressure side. And the low pressure side's a little smaller, but the high pressure sides of this big three inch pipe, and this is where all the all the frac pumps do all their do all the pumping. So you have when they put pressurized the the frac fluid and the sand and all that's been mixed together and shove it into the, end of the missile, it goes down. Now what they what they do, a lot of times, I've I haven't actually been down into the hot zone of the frac job yet, so I don't so I haven't actually seen how they how precisely they do it. But most of the time, they have basically, it's a a a diverter, a a couple ball valves that they will turn to block off the the one valve so they can pop over to the into one, and then they'll close the that one and open the other and and pump into the other one.
And while they're pumping into one, while one is running down the other to send the the gun down so it could perforate the next stage, come out. And usually, by the time they get that out, the, the back to the stage that they were pumping on the other well, say, like, well two, is finishing up. So then they'll they'll shut down, shift the the the ball valves around. Wire long will come off the wall, swing over, go on to the other wall. They'll reset their guns, then go into the other wall, rinse and repeat. So you're basically zipping back and forth, back and forth. So it's a high it the and and when they're tracking, you start at the bottom of the walls, and you work your way up.
Because whenever you get done, it's whatever sand was in that in that stage, you put shove as much sand in there as you can until you can't get anymore. So when you get done, you have your plug From the place that they plug, you are you're done with that sand, done with that stage. So you start at the bottom, you work your way up. And so the as the stage as the job goes on, it gets faster because you don't have to have as much sand or as much sand and and all that. You don't have to pump as far down. So it gets a lot it gets a lot faster. So and they have been because the first the first time we were doing it, I was there. You would do, you'd go down. They do well, you'd get about three, three trailers each each driver and that you set for four hours or so because they were there was actually also a problem with the, with the casing. So while I was having to really fight to get past that little bad spot in the casing.
But today, now is that every time I was pulling in, there'd be one it'd be an, an empty shuttle truck come whipping on in there too right behind me. And by the time I got my loaded trailer, adult, dropped and got underneath the got underneath and empty, there would be one or two more two more empty empty, trailers coming in. So I was like, okay. They're picking up for sure. So but, yeah, that's, that's the big thing that's just happening right now. It's just the just realizing is like, okay. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm definitely staying as a sand hauler, and I if I get offered, the to be a part of the, the frack crew and doing the shuttle runs, says, well, No. I think I'm just gonna stay just like I said, unless they offer me $5 an hour or more.
Probably just going I'm just gonna stay, stay in my in my nice clean little little Kenworth and just be bopping out around and a half down the road and get loaded. And, also, they're they're John are normally, when you're you're usually there on a fifteen hour shift instead of a, twelve because they have they add the, when you're on location, not at staging pad or any place else, but when you're on location and you're standing around having to wait for something to happen, you can act there's actually a a status in the logbook called waiting.
Okay. And waiting is really, really cool because it stops your clock.
[02:26:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. That's cool. Yeah. So it's
[02:26:25] Rich Chelson:
I I was working for twelve hours and still had seven hours of drive time, cycle not cycle time, but shift time left and all. Because we'd just be waiting around, so you would you know, while you're on location waiting to take the take the trailer, take an empty, you would you know, you'd be out sitting on waiting. Your tie all your time stopped, while you're away. So that that was cool, but at the same time, it was, yeah, just the just the sheer mass, amount of noise and and, and and back to the their their there was every time, yeah, I got done, I come home. I was just coated in dust. I just, you know, I just felt horrible. So Right. Yeah. There was it was it it it wasn't fun, but I'm I'm excited to see what my paycheck looks like, though.
Because, heck, I had thirty hours the first two days.
[02:27:25] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, damn annoying. Yeah. Dude, yeah. That's game on right there, dude.
[02:27:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We got, I got forty one let's see. Last paycheck last pay period, the sixth to, the twelfth. Only I only work three days, but I have forty one hours.
[02:27:45] Unknown:
Yep.
[02:27:47] Rich Chelson:
There you go. Yeah. And this, this pay period, I've started on Sunday, and, I have put in a whole whopping fifty six hours.
[02:27:58] Duuude-Ron :
So so when you hit, what, 70, you have to take 24 off?
[02:28:04] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Well, they they have it to where it is after six days, and usually, you will hit your your 70. You'll be within your 70 at the end of that 70 with by the sixth day on normal days. But when you're doing the shuttle run, no. I still I still actually had, like, thirty seven hours or something like that left after six days because of all the waiting and stuff. But but you've got normally, yeah, by the time that sixth day comes along, you may have, like, you know, eight hours left. And so you're you know, you're you might have enough time to go down, grab one load, drop it off, and then you're coming back and just kinda pitfall fart to try to make up for the rest of the time.
And, so you get that you you do it do that, But then to remake to reset your 78, you have to do a 24. And, to, like, last night this last Wednesday, whenever I had I was doing my 24. It is you know, I was trying the time because I knew they want me out earlier than the 08:00 that I normally am supposed to get my my shift's supposed to start. Right. And, so I was like, well, let's see here. It takes an hour fifteen to get out there, fifteen minutes for, pre trip. You know? So okay. I've got, you know, hour and a half. And so I was trying to figure out figure out it's like the morning that I was supposed to start my the twenty four hour off, I was like, alright. Well, I'm gonna need to leave about 03:00, which is, you know, sounds really crazy early.
But I was like, alright. So I need to leave about three, and I was getting ready to take off. And the guy that that we were helping is like, alright. Well, since you're heading back into town, I need you to take this pump. I was like, alright. Well, sweet. I can do that. It's I I've gotta park the truck anyhow. And, so that they could do PM and stuff. So I was like, alright. Sure. So they he tells me what pump number it is and tells me it's in the back corner. So I go back there. Yeah. It's back there, but it's just barely damn big enough for me to get that, to get that that pump pulled out.
And so I got myself out and jacked my my happy ass around, getting around, trying not to hit the light, light tower that's, that's right there. Had a guy there trying to get me you know, had to kind of my ass in around a little bit so I could get enough room to be able to turn. And so finally got out of there, and that took, you know, an extra fifteen, twenty minutes. Got myself out, got on the on the road and took off and stuff. Got all the way to a ceiling, dropped the went to go drop the trailer, but there's no freaking place to park the damn trailer in the offline because somebody a whole bunch of people decided, oh, it's a really good place to park our pickups at night.
And so I had had circled around a couple times like, well, where the fuck can I park? And I saw where somebody had gone off, parked the yard dog truck in a spot. So I pulled up behind it and ran over to the, yard dog truck and and, the shag truck and and, went to look for it, found the keys for it, turned it on, moved the truck out of the way, and moved it off to the side, and I pulled on through. So by the time I got the trailer parked, got the, got the the stuff inside my truck cleaned out because when you're off, there's always a chance that your truck may become your when you're, when you're off, your truck becomes a slip seat.
Okay. So so all of a sudden, it's like, you gotta move move all your shit out. Don't go off and start trying to customize the inside of the truck because there's no guarantee that that you're gonna that truck's gonna just sit there for your six days off, let alone put your your, points for it off because if there's somebody whose truck goes down and they need something, they're gonna, you know, they're gonna use one that's available. So I went ahead and I pulled all pulled my frac bag out and stuff and and went and they also, like, to, at the end of the, end of the day, you fill your truck up. You don't wait till the following day because I've done that once before and, yeah, got my got got a little, little email with the with some rather crosswords going, we don't do that. You go ahead and you fill it up in case somebody needs to drive the drive the truck. So they they go through and look. I guess they've got catch all the readings on on readouts and and stuff. So but, anyhow, I was like, alright. Yep. You you got it. I'll start filling it up. So by the time I got finished filling the damn truck up with fuel and and and all that, Got it all parked and stuff. I'd finally got myself all clogged off and and and duty status set to off duty, and it was 06:30.
It's like Wow. Going up again. They want me out there again at 05:00 in the morning. And I was like when they told me that, I was like, yeah. That's not gonna happen unless y'all know some special trick that I don't know about that's that allowed me to do that. I told them that to what what it was. And when when I actually punched out, then they were, like, going, oh, I'm well, I'll see you, after 06:30 when you get here. So, like, alright. But I'm glad because wow. Trying to get up. Got around to thinking thinking about it. I was like, yeah. That means I'm gonna have to get up at fucking 03:00 in the morning to be get out there by five, and that's gonna suck. So glad I don't have to get up five 05:00 or 03:00 in the morning at the moment. So
[02:33:57] Duuude-Ron :
That's a good thing.
[02:33:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Anytime I can get up after 05:00 is a good thing. Because I am not up early. I I'm I'll well, I like getting up early as long as early is considered anytime after 06:00. Alright? If it's after six, then I mean, yeah. I might be a little slow to start at 06:00, but it's not like 05:00. Getting up at 05:00, that's oh my god. You would think I just got finished partying hard or something. That wake up just
[02:34:32] Duuude-Ron :
drained. So but yeah. Oh, Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't well, hell, a lot of times, I don't I don't freaking go to bed till, you know, two, 03:00 in the morning depending.
[02:34:46] Rich Chelson:
But
[02:34:48] Duuude-Ron :
yeah. Normally well, like like, this morning, I was up at six, which, I mean, it, you know, didn't matter. You know? So I I I normally because I know I got coffee, so I don't worry about it too much. I pour enough coffee down me. I'm looped in about an hour, hour and a half, two hours. I'm I can actually do something.
[02:35:12] Unknown:
Right. So
[02:35:14] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. I've I can I can I've gotten up early before, but, yeah, it just knocks my dick in the dirt? That's a good way to put it. Yeah.
[02:35:29] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't heard that one in a while. Oh, lord. It's it's Alright time. Yeah. It is. Shoot. Last time I looked at the clock, it was like 08:30.
[02:35:44] Rich Chelson:
08:30? So, yeah, So yep. Alright. Well, we'll go ahead and we'll start getting this old ship, ready to be docked. And, wanna say hello and welcome, and thank y'all everybody who has made it this far. And, this is a the two grumpy vets and a dude show. And we basically are just three friends who like to get together and yabber about anything and everything. As you've well heard, we've talked about a little bit of anything and everything, a little bit of bellyaching, a little bit of laughing, a little bit of poke in front of each other, and a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And but one of the things that makes this show different than so many other shows is that we are strictly value for value.
And that means, what do you think what type of value did you get from the show? And whatever that value is, you know, then you can you can repay that type of value. And that doesn't mean necessarily money. If you wanna be able to provide money, that that's awesome. You can you can support the show in that that, means. But you could also support the show with your time or your talents. Maybe you wanted to decide, hey. You guys really need to have a better website. You know, y'all need to have a better means of being able to set up like a, like an RC channel or something so we could actually see what everybody's talking about. Things like that. Then, hey. That great. Awesome. Let's do that. You can provide your time. You can provide your efforts. You can do you can put your blood, sweat, and tears into into some type of project like that and we want to support the show in that way. If you wanna be able to, commit your your hard earned treasure to us, then you're more than welcome to be able to do that. There are a lot of new podcast apps out there, and you can go to newpodcastapps.com.
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So with that, I wanna say, thank you all again very much for, listening. And, Rich, what do you got?
[02:41:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, not much. Just wanna thank everybody for listening to us and coming back and, you know, share this out with your friends. And be sure to send us an email, [email protected], or Brian, you can send one to Brian, @circlecastatgmail.com. And if if you wanna talk with the dude, just send me or Brian an email, and we'll make sure the dude gets it, and we'll get the dude's wisdom on everything. So but, yeah, just, you know, thank you for list thank you for keep coming back because, you know, honestly, I don't know if we'd be doing this if we didn't have anybody listening. So and the last time I checked, Pod Stats, I think it was early this week.
Somehow, we're getting more listens in Russia and England.
[02:42:29] Rich Chelson:
Apparently, someone They hate each other to listen.
[02:42:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. So either way, I'll you know, I just I just I just wanna thank everybody for, you know, keeping coming back and listening. You know, like I said, talk to us. We would love to hear from you. We would love to read your question or comment on the show, and we don't care what it is. We'll read it, and we'll give our opinions. You know? Because, we got trust trust me. All three of us have opinions. But, anyway, that's that's about all I got. So, dude, what you got hanging on?
[02:43:08] Unknown:
Well, you know, you two have pretty well said the majority of everything, again, for me. Again, thank you very much for tuning in and listening to us to dive down overhead holes that we usually end up diving down into. Some days are heated. Some days are not. But, again, thank you very much for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this episode.
[02:43:33] Rich Chelson:
But, guys, again, thank you all very much for coming back on and us you and you too and we get to talk and have a good time and and yabber. And, guys, can't wait to see talk to y'all again next week, and we'll, we'll talk to y'all then.
[02:43:51] Unknown:
Alrighty.
[02:43:52] Rich Chelson:
So alright. Hey, Brian. Rich, Ron, y'all take care. Have a good night, and we will see y'all next week.
[02:43:59] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. See y'all next week. See you then. Bye. Alright. Bye.
[02:44:03] Unknown:
Peace out.
[02:44:07] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Alright. See you. Yep.
Introduction and Show Overview
Technical Glitches and Button Mishaps
Dental Adventures and Numbing Experiences
Jeep Saga and Legal Driving
Weather and Naked Driving Plans
Military Vehicles and Electric Hummers
Green Energy and Infrastructure Challenges
Global Politics and Economic Concerns
Rich People and Capitalism
Work Truck Troubles and ABS Issues
Driving Anecdotes and Road Rage
Boat Rides and Dolphin Watching Plans
Ethiopian Bible and Historical Insights
Fracking Job Realizations and Work Reflections
Military Memories and Uniform Changes
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
