In this episode of Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, the hosts dive into a lively discussion about their daily experiences and the quirks of life on the road. Duude shares his rainy day adventures driving through Texas, highlighting the unpredictable weather and the challenges it brings. The conversation takes a humorous turn as they discuss the peculiarities of radio communication, the joys of bacon, and the cultural oddities of food from around the world. The hosts also touch on the topic of ham radio, sharing insights and personal anecdotes about their experiences with this unique hobby.
The episode continues with a candid discussion about societal norms, personal beliefs, and the complexities of modern life. The hosts reflect on the evolution of media, the impact of advertising, and the importance of living life intentionally. They share their thoughts on various topics, including the challenges of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, the intricacies of insurance, and the joys of simple pleasures like cooking and enjoying a good meal. With their trademark humor and camaraderie, the hosts offer listeners a glimpse into their world, filled with laughter, insights, and the occasional rant.
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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, 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] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, what's up?
[00:00:35] Rich Chelson:
What's up?
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Not much, man. What's up with you?
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I got about nine nine hundred gazillion or more raindrops on my truck today.
[00:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, really?
[00:00:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Okay. So Heading up 36, going to Abilene. Uh-huh. Right after Comanche, it starts to get dark. I mean, nighttime dark. And then it just, of course, opens up Damn. All the all the way for the next what is it? Nine 82 miles to Abilene. When I get to Abilene, fucking blue skies. I'm like, alright. At least I don't have to inventory shit in the rain. You know? I don't have to do anything in the rain. So I'm like, this is good. However, I knew however, I knew what was gonna happen coming back. So get all that done, all the paperwork, get back in the truck, start heading back to Belton.
Right after damn, I can never remember the fucking name of that damn town. It's the one where Brian's mom doesn't live too far away.
[00:02:10] Duuude-Ron :
Don't get me to lie.
[00:02:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. It's yeah. Damn. I always fucking forget that town town's name. But, anyway, it's about halfway between, Comanche and Belton. So I get through there. Oh, is that Hamilton? Hamilton. Why? I can never fucking remember that town and the that name of that fucking town, Hamilton. So I'm getting about just on the other side of Hamilton about 10 miles down the road, starts a sprinkle. I'm like, yep. And then from there, all the way into Belton was just another 900 gazillion raindrops that hit my truck. You know, not the surrounding area. Just my truck.
[00:03:05] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah.
[00:03:06] Rich Chelson:
Just my truck. So, you know and the car next to me or in front of me probably got about 900 gazillion, you know, if my calculations were correct.
[00:03:17] Duuude-Ron :
The cloud was centered over your truck and and any other vehicle that that ventured by you.
[00:03:24] Rich Chelson:
And for the next 60 miles
[00:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
Dang. Or so. It was So I was following you pretty damn quick.
[00:03:34] Rich Chelson:
No. Well, no. I I went through it North Of Comanche, left, and got to go through it again because it was heading west or east. No. Yeah. Which direction?
[00:03:54] Duuude-Ron :
South?
[00:03:55] Rich Chelson:
No. It was heading east or Okay. Northeast. So I hit the same storm twice. Once going there and once coming back. So I was like, this is going to be an outstanding motherfucking day. And it was.
[00:04:18] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:04:20] Rich Chelson:
Very interesting. Yeah. So So that was my day.
[00:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Mine mine was, a little better. I mean, it wasn't it wasn't bad at all. You know? Nice warm weather. I think even though it's not saying it in the in the in the weather report, I feel a change coming in the weather.
[00:04:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Don't we all when we get old?
[00:04:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. I mean I mean, it's just it's just been different. My I've just I I have felt and, yeah, I've got I've got no rain showing for at least a week, but the weather is just I don't know. It's been weird today. But, and, like, I was playing AM radio today, and and propagation, well, the last couple days have just really sucked balls. You know? Some of some of the bands that I talk on normally come in about, yeah, between ten and noon.
[00:05:34] Rich Chelson:
But Okay.
[00:05:36] Duuude-Ron :
Those bands yeah. Three, four, 05:00 in the evening is when they finally get rolling, and then they're dead probably about 09:00. And it's like, what the hell is going on? And there's no solar flares or nothing, so I I'm not I'm not quite understanding it. I mean, we've got pretty good numbers as far as propagation goes, but, yeah, it's just it's it's it's just been a weird week.
[00:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:06:07] Duuude-Ron :
And, I mean but but I will say I will say the contacts I have made, they've been really good contacts. I mean, everyone says I've got a booming signal, which that's awesome. I love to hear that. So
[00:06:23] Rich Chelson:
So what's the difference between a booming signal and a non booming signal? Well, if they if they can hear you talk
[00:06:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well is it? Yeah. Well, you see, the thing is I'm just using a hundred watts. And, normally, on a hundred watts, you know, a a, a good signal, you can hear them. It's it's it's just might be a little low. Your voice might go in and out with the atmospheric conditions or whatnot. That's Oh, okay. That's a good signal. A booming signal is when I key the mic with my hundred watts, and it sounds like that I'm sitting literally right next to them talking to them. That's a booming signal.
[00:07:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I mean I mean, yeah, it is you know, I've gotten I've actually gotten quite a few of those here, this past week, and and some even, you know, in, other countries. It's happened.
[00:07:31] Rich Chelson:
So where what countries did you talk to today?
[00:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
I just talked, just just before I jumped on here probably, oh, I don't know, about thirty, forty five minutes ago, I talked to Lisbon, Portugal.
[00:07:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:07:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I could god, I could hear him real well and, talk to him and, talked around The US. Talk there's another one I talked to. I can't remember who it was, but it was a a DX contact or contact. I think it was, Colombia. No. No. Say say Brazil was yesterday. Talked to Brazil yesterday. Talked to Lisbon today. And there's another one I talked to today. I can't remember where he was at. I wanna say Trinidad, but I might be wrong.
[00:08:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So Have you ever have you ever talked to Australia?
[00:08:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah?
[00:08:43] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yes. Okay.
[00:08:45] Duuude-Ron :
Been a while been a while since I talked to New Zealand, but, yeah, it just yeah. It wasn't too long ago. And I need to get back up with that old boy down there, but, we made a contact on seventeen and fifteen, you know, two different bands. I I had a real hard time hearing him. He could hear me, like, almost really, really good, but I couldn't hardly hear him. And I wanna try and get back up, you know, get back up with him and, you know, you know, talk to him on, other vans. But yeah.
[00:09:27] Rich Chelson:
Man, I wish I could do that with my GRMS.
[00:09:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. That's not gonna work. You would need to you would need to come over to the to the light and leave the dark side. You know, leave the dark side and come over to the light. It's calling you, dude.
[00:09:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, and, hell, the only time I do GRMS is when we're out wheeling. Right. So or in a convoy.
[00:10:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But, see, that's the thing. With a ham radio, you can sit in your house and throw up a wire antenna. Nobody will see it, so no one will know you have it. So if you have any HOA rules, you can tell them to suck up that one.
[00:10:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Thank goodness. I I will never live in an HOA ever.
[00:10:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. But but you see, that's the thing. Hands have gotten very creative, the ones that do live in HOAs. And, they still figure out how to put an antenna up, but still, I could set you up with a with a 29 foot vertical, and, it's an infrared random wire. You can talk all all over the world even from where you're at. I mean, I'm I'm reaching Texas, normally, pretty much every day. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Texas is normally not hard for me to get. So
[00:11:13] Rich Chelson:
And you and how do you know you, talking to a Texan? Because he's twanging.
[00:11:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Normally not. When I punch your call sign in into my logbook, it looks them up and tells me where they're at, or they'll tell me where they're at. Talked to an old boy just, he was at a park just west of, San Antonio today.
[00:11:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:11:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So yeah. You see, that's the thing. You see see, when you become a ham,
[00:11:48] Rich Chelson:
you're a I know. I am a that's just it. I am a ham.
[00:11:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. You are. Like Yeah. You don't have the call sign to go with it like I do. Say, I special.
[00:12:03] Rich Chelson:
But, you know, Yeah. You you're you're real special.
[00:12:08] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But yeah. No. I, when you become a ham, the the information that you put in on, on your, ham license application gets put into a gets put into a database. And, these, logbooks on the computer, you would bring them up. And when when you type a call sign in, it'll find your information and bring it up. It'll bring your address up and and, your name, call sign, shit like that, and and fill the login for you most away. And then Oh, okay. You just tab over, change a few numbers if you have to, and then hit enter, and it's logged. It's Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's, it's really easy.
But, but, yeah, you can normally find out where, people live and everything. Even even worldwide too. You get their addresses too.
[00:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow.
[00:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. They yeah. So, yeah, like like like, say who was it? I talked to Lauro, I think it was. Italy. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. But either way, I I had typed in his call sign and because I I had heard the name before. I had worked in before and didn't realize it, and I I checked it, and sure enough, yeah, it has his address. You can send mail to him, like, a QSL card or whatnot, you know, and everything through the mail and shit like that.
[00:14:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:14:04] Duuude-Ron :
So but, yeah, that's, so, yes, it's it's actually pretty cool, man.
[00:14:13] Rich Chelson:
I believe you. I believe you. It is
[00:14:18] Duuude-Ron :
it is a lot of fun to sit in your house and talk all the way around the world. You can go on a vacation and not have to spend no money.
[00:14:32] Rich Chelson:
Or, be like what was that movie? Arnold Schwarzenegger was in it.
[00:14:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Don't give me a line.
[00:14:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Where you could go in and they put a, you know, like an EEG around your head and, you know, take you on a vacation. Just implant those memories and not go anywhere. Recall. Total recall. Total recall. Yep. Total recall.
[00:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
So but yeah. No. It I mean, yeah. You could really if you wanted. But yeah. I mean I mean, there's I mean and that's the thing, though. You see? You know, there's there's always someone on the radio. Now I'm not saying you can jump on it 02:00 in the morning. Well, yeah, if you drop down to the lower frequencies, you know, down 80 meters or 40 meters. Like, last night, I was sitting here listening on 40 meters, and there was, like, four or five people. And one guy, I think, was one or two guys was here in America, and the others were around the world. I'm not exactly sure where, but they were sitting there, and, apparently, they do this nightly.
They sit there and basically do what we do. Talk about whatever comes up.
[00:16:11] Rich Chelson:
Now but when they're doing that, are they still doing all the call signs and all that other stuff, or they just say the hell with that and just actually have a conversation?
[00:16:26] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Hold on. Hold on. First off, the only time a call sign has to be said is at the beginning of the QSEL. Basically, let's say you were BravoCharlie3TangoAlphaDelta. Okay? Okay. I would I would say your call sign, say this is November5BravoLimaMike. Do you copy? You would come back with November5BravoLimaMike. This is BravoAlpha3TangoAlphaDelta. Hey, Rich. How's it going? That's the last time you have to say a freaking call, sir.
[00:17:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:17:04] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I mean, yes. They say about every ten minutes, you're supposed to identify yourself. Some people do, some people don't. It's not a hard, fast rule, and no one's gonna send a po po to your door. So but, I mean, yeah, you you don't you don't have to you don't have to use call signs on on every, transmission. Now some people do, like, after two minutes, they'll say they'll say, like, November 5 bravo Lima Mike four ID. You no. You don't say that shit. That's just that's just people being scared. You know? You just you just talk.
[00:17:54] Rich Chelson:
You know? Oh, okay. Yeah. Alright. I gotcha. And
[00:17:58] Duuude-Ron :
and if one person gets done, he'll say over to you. And then you jump in and start talking. You ain't even gotta say your call sign no more.
[00:18:07] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Well, that's good because that would get very annoying very quickly
[00:18:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:18:17] Rich Chelson:
To say all that shit with a reply of yes.
[00:18:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. And to say that's, Yeah. No. It's it's it's nothing like like, what you had to do in the military or anything like that. It is it it is it is laid back more laid back than anything. So, I mean, it's not it's not a big it's not a big deal.
[00:18:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:18:51] Duuude-Ron :
But
[00:18:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, the and it's not like they even have a fucking ham police.
[00:18:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yes. I do. Yep. It is it's it's not it's not it's not an actual, department. But, yeah, if, if you're causing malicious interference, then, yes, HAMS will turn you into the FCC if they find out who you are.
[00:19:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Well and it
[00:19:27] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. Hang on. But it's it's it's, it depends. They can turn you in. The FCC might or might not send you a letter. That's that's the first step. And if nothing has happened, then they might or might not come and see you. Now the FCC has fined people in the past, but last I heard, they don't really enforce enforce things much anymore. I'm not saying they don't.
[00:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:20:03] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Yeah. You don't hear much about it. Let's put it that way.
[00:20:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Yeah. Because we were at one of the parks one time, and I guess we hit a frequency that a ham operator was operating on. And got a case of the ass. So we just kinda changed channels. You know? Yeah. Okay. For, you know, for upsetting you, then, you know, yeah, but I would change channels.
[00:20:41] Duuude-Ron :
Hold it. Were you on your GMers?
[00:20:44] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[00:20:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And, no, I wasn't a ham radio operator then, more likely. I mean, it could have been, but but you see, that's the thing. When you're using GMers, believe it or not, you're you're supposed to have a, not a ham radio license, but a GMer's license
[00:21:03] Rich Chelson:
I know you are. With a call sign. But You're correct.
[00:21:07] Duuude-Ron :
But but this guy, you know, he, yeah, the dude the dude might have been on the frequency first. And, normally, if someone's on the frequency, see, this is why this is why before I transmit on an open frequency, I'll ask, is this frequency in use? Because at any point in time, you don't know someone over in European Russia is using that frequency, and he might he might hear my signal. And I might, you know, I might or might not hear him. You know? And so so if I say, is this frequency in use? And someone comes back, says, yes. The frequency is in use. Alright, man. Y'all have a good one. And I q s y to another channel or frequency.
You know? But if it's not being used, I'll ask a couple times, and, he'll, you know, I'll just I'll just go on doing doing what I plan to do on that frequency. You know? Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's all it's all it's all basically being courteous and being kind.
[00:22:24] Rich Chelson:
Well yeah. Absolutely. And, you know, yes, you're supposed to have a GRMS license. Now how many people that run GMers actually have a license? Very few. Not a lie.
[00:22:37] Duuude-Ron :
Very few. Very few. Yeah.
[00:22:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And there was a female group that I connected out with the park because, you know, the guys that I was running with had to leave early, and I still wanted to stay in wheel. Mhmm. So I just got in behind another group and then, you know, asked them, you know, can I just hang out at the back of your group? And they're like, sure. Why not? So I got their frequency that they're running, and there was this one lady just every other word was fuck this, fuck that, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Yeah. So I got on there. It's like, whoever is using the f bomb, you better stop before somebody finds out who you are and reports you to the FCC.
Right. So you better stop with the f bomb. This is a freaking yeah. You don't use that language on these radios. If you don't like it, you know, just stop.
[00:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, yeah. And see and see that's the thing, though. There's really gonna be no one to stop them. You know? If they wanna use it, they wanna use it. Like like on, like on the ham radios, there's a couple frequencies on the lower bands that there's, like, four or five guys sits on them, and, they talk about anything and everything, and they cuss up a storm and all like that. And we just ignore them. We don't talk to them. We just go on because they're not they're not interested in in talking to anybody else, but they're little cliques. So you know? Right.
[00:24:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. And and us in the military, you know, the f bomb is part of our language. Now we use it often, but it's not every other word. But it's just in general conversation more so than a civilian that has never been in the military.
[00:25:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well well, you see, that's the thing. Most people think it it it it it, it, it, behaves them to use that language, and they don't realize that the GMer's radios, run alongside with the FRS radios, which is the family radio service, and a lot of families switch between both sides. So Mhmm. They could be saying, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. And a six year old could hear that and guess guess what the six year old is saying for the next two months.
[00:25:38] Rich Chelson:
You know? And I know. And Right. Exactly. And really doesn't have any yeah. Doesn't. Yeah. Exactly. So and then come to find out, the same female that we use in all the the f bombs, 4 Corners. That's one of the places where four basically, four trails come together, and Mhmm. A lot of people have lunch there. You know? You know? 4 Corners. So we were stopped, and I come up and, you know, was talking with a couple of the other ladies. And the same lady was like, oh, it's that fucking asshole again in the red Jeep? So I found out who it was, and I walked over to her Jeep. I'm like, no. I am not the same fucking asshole that was here this morning.
So you might wanna get a control on your fucking language, and you better stop it with the way you talk on that radio. Because if somebody finds out who you are, yeah, you're gonna lose your freaking privilege real quick, and you're gonna get a fine. So just stop. Yeah. I she kinda got butt hurt. Oh, yeah. And I and you know what? I and I have wheeled with those a few of those same ladies, again, and never again, they said, had that one particular female ever gone out wheeling with them again. I'm like, good.
[00:27:21] Duuude-Ron :
That's good.
[00:27:23] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because she has, yeah, no ethics, no morals. Right. And, you know, and if you don't have that when when you're wheeling, you know, you're gonna get somebody hurt or you're gonna get or you're gonna destroy your shit. Well, let them destroy their shit. I would be laughing like a motherfucker. That's for sure. Right. Right. Yeah.
[00:27:49] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian, I heard you ding dong in. Yeah. I finally got on. Sorry.
[00:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That that's about right. It's it's ding dong in.
[00:27:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. As as Jumped in and and since you text, I was like, oh, son of a gun. That's what else was going on. I was, like, busy with mom. And then whatever got done, I was like, alright. Well, let's grab grab some lunch. And so I was chewing on lunch or supper whenever I got a text from you going, hey. You coming on? You died or whatever? And I was like, shit.
[00:28:19] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I knew I knew I knew you wasn't feeling that great last night, and it wasn't sounding great. I feel all all gobbed up. But Right. So so I was like, are you dead yet? Because, I mean, sometimes you're you're a few minutes behind, but you're barely thirty minutes,
[00:28:40] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, without letting me know. And and thirty minutes, and I've and and on top of that, I'm not driving. So I should've been there, but yeah. No. Mom was No. No. I just I don't have I don't have any sound on my phone. I was like, well, how are you talking to me? I had to figure out what she was meaning first. She was, she was meaning that her her ringtone is not coming through loud. I was like, well, let's turn everything up. So she went in there and she said, oh, everything's all turned up. She's like, well, then I would say, unpack your, phone from your case and start seeing how much lit and stuff you've built up in there.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
That's yeah. That is possible too.
[00:29:19] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:29:20] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Hey. Do y'all know what what this episode is?
[00:29:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Are we at fifty two?
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
This one is fifty two.
[00:29:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. Made a whole whopping year.
[00:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:29:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And I went through and re upped the, the the domain. So
[00:29:40] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah. It's looking like the numbers are down this month.
[00:29:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, mine mine are down two. So it's Oh, really? Yours are down two? I think it's I think it's not it's summertime.
[00:29:54] Duuude-Ron :
Spring. Yeah. Well, so, yeah, I was just yeah. I looked I looked this evening, and, I was like
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Ouch.
[00:30:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Because we're because, we were, our lowest one before that I mean, I think I think we're 40 below our lowest one or no, 50. Oh, no. We went up, actually,
[00:30:26] Rich Chelson:
from from what I saw. We'll make up your goddamn mind. We went down. We went up. We went down. We went up.
[00:30:32] Duuude-Ron :
Well, hold on here. The whole world's Hold on to that go a minute. Hold on to that go a minute.
[00:30:39] Rich Chelson:
Make up my mind.
[00:30:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I'm fixing to hold on a dadgum minute. Before I jumped on, I looked at the numbers. It said we had, like, 96 as of, like, five minutes before I started everything. And then now, right now, I'm looking at it. It says it's one seventeen, and this is for the month of April. I mean, we still have six days left, five days left. So but our lowest month before that was in December, which okay. But we had one fifty in December. So, I mean, we're not far off our lowest month. Our our absolute lowest month was, well, April of last year, and we only had 60, but, I mean, that was in two weeks.
So our lowest full month after that was July 24. We were down to one thirty six. Yeah. And then December, we were down to one fifty. Other than that, we've been up over 200¢. Pretty much 2 yeah. 200¢. And even hit 300 1 month. So
[00:31:56] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Had,
[00:32:00] Bryan Goodwin:
most people like to download us about 1,900.
[00:32:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:32:06] Rich Chelson:
So oh, the fun.
[00:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. Hey. Did y'all say I don't I don't know if y'all heard. I I caught it last night, and, I didn't say nothing last night. I I was I was waiting till the night. Oh, shit. Uh-oh.
[00:32:30] Rich Chelson:
You did a fucking ride again.
[00:32:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. I freaking closed out the browser. Damn it. I was being stupid. But but the other day in the White House and I love the press secretary.
[00:32:45] Rich Chelson:
She's Oh, yeah. I know. She's Awesome.
[00:32:48] Duuude-Ron :
Did y'all hear that that a fucking reporter got fired? An AP reporter
[00:32:54] Bryan Goodwin:
got fired? Oh, they keep they keep kicking AP out. I mean, they went AP or AP sued and the and the and a judge was like, you can't really
[00:33:07] Duuude-Ron :
kick them completely out. So what they Oh, no. No. No. This is no. No. No. This is just in the last couple days, dude. No. No. Yeah. No. You yeah. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. They had kicked out the AP, blah, then all this fighting them back and forth and shit like this in the White House, whatever. No. You're right about that. But, no, this has just been this week. Apparently, this, freaking reporter was, they were in a in a press briefing, and AP reporter tried to say that the tariffs are tax hikes and not tax cuts and and just and just raking her over the fucking coals.
Right? And, she she flat came right back on him and, put him in his place. And and, I mean, this guy this guy, she took it as an insult. Yeah. A few hours later, the AP fired his ass. I mean, just I was like, oh my god. That is awesome. And and, dude, that was like that was like what what we was talking about last night at a job. Yep. Fire fire some motherfuckers, and people are start doing their fucking jobs. Yep. This is the same thing right here because this this reporter tried to make her look stupid, like like, she didn't know about economics, and she even came right out and said, you trying to make it sound like that. I don't know about economics?
Oh, yeah. She was pissed. And, yeah, it said it said in the article
[00:35:06] Bryan Goodwin:
that old Corinne Jean Claude Van Dampere or whatever her name is.
[00:35:12] Rich Chelson:
The old Oh, the last vice secretary.
[00:35:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Know shit.
[00:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Yeah. No. No. That girl didn't know shit. This girl Oh, yeah. You don't you don't fuck with this girl's No. No. She knows her shit. But, but, yeah, it was a it was like it was I was like, oh my god. That's that was fucking awesome.
[00:35:37] Rich Chelson:
Because people I'm sure I'll see it come up on a YouTube feed here pretty soon.
[00:35:43] Duuude-Ron :
You should. It's been it's been it's been, it's been this week when it happened.
[00:35:52] Rich Chelson:
You know? Oh, yeah. It'll come around. Somebody will somebody will post it. And I hope the and I hope the catch caption is is play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
[00:36:08] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[00:36:10] Rich Chelson:
You know, why some of these reporters think that they are God, and they just know everything and fucking don't know shit. Have no fucking clue why they're even asking the question that they just asked.
[00:36:39] Duuude-Ron :
Well, what they're shit cocky questions, 90% of it. Yeah. What they're what they're trying to do is is, trip her up is what it is.
[00:36:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:36:49] Duuude-Ron :
And and it they haven't learned yet. It doesn't fucking work.
[00:36:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And why didn't they ask all these kinds of questions to fucking Von Claude, Von Schnott, whatever the fuck her name was? You know, in the last administration. Oh, hell no. Yeah.
[00:37:12] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Because she was a DI hire. They can't, like, just have her.
[00:37:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. The media had to use kid gloves with her. Yeah. No. But, see, that's the thing. You know? Caroline Levitt's, you know, conservative. Oh, fuck. Gloves are awful. Guess what, bitch? She brings her own gloves. She don't ask nobody for for gloves. She brings them on. Right. Yeah. But, yeah, the AP reporter, tried to attempt to reconcile the Trump administration's tax cuts with this proposed tariffs basically or saying, quote, isn't this simply a tax hike on the American people, end quote.
[00:38:00] Bryan Goodwin:
No. And They have a choice to be able to to keep price the same because if they try to increase prices, people aren't gonna buy it. So they actually have to keep the prices low.
[00:38:13] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that and and Trump has said many times, bring your fucking business to America, and you have no tariffs.
[00:38:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:38:23] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I've I've heard those words out of his mouth. He's like, bring your shit here. Build it here. Yeah. And that's what he wants you to do. And and and you have no tariffs. No tariffs. But, no, everyone's bitching about it and flipping out over it. Like, oh my god. We're gonna pay, you know, $30,000. No. Fuck you. Wake the fuck up, people.
[00:38:51] Rich Chelson:
And here's the other thing. Nobody's forcing you to fucking buy it.
[00:38:56] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. If you want it bad enough,
[00:39:00] Rich Chelson:
just like anything, everything has a price. You want it bad enough, you'll pay what they're asking.
[00:39:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And and and if the price jumps up $300 over last year, well, you know what? That's what you're gonna pay, but I'm not. No. I'll be like, no. I can do without it.
[00:39:28] Rich Chelson:
I don't need the whole
[00:39:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. Go ahead. I was gonna say, I don't need no Dolce and Gabbana shit.
[00:39:37] Bryan Goodwin:
That's not even Dolce and Gabbana. It's the thing that they're actually tearing up is the, is things like the TikTok store where you can get a whole bunch of crap for, like, 25, 30 not even $30, like, ten fifth 10 to $20.
[00:39:51] Rich Chelson:
Right. You talking you talking about Timu instead of TikTok? Or No. No. TikTok shop is is
[00:39:58] Bryan Goodwin:
they're I've I've bought shit off TikTok shop. I've got my my gravy, gravy. My my, not gravy. What the I've got gravy stuck in my head. Well, they didn't take it out. When you're done with bacon, bacon grease. A bacon, bacon grease container.
[00:40:15] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:40:16] Bryan Goodwin:
They have they they were selling a good sized bacon grease container that actually has a strainer on top. You put that on top, you pour your bacon grease in there, and it filters off all the, all the chunks. Okay. And so you've got just straight good, bacon grease. So been using that and cooking with it time to time when, when I feel like giving the dogs a treat, I'll take a take a, you know, a tablespoon of bacon grease and plop it in the food pan and then put some dog food on there and rub it around real good. All of a sudden, they eat the food really fast for some reason. I don't know why.
It make it makes everything better. So Right. Right.
[00:40:59] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. And I just saw a meme I just saw a meme today. It says, somebody asked a question of where do you put the excess bacon after you're done eating? And the statement below is There's a I have never heard of excess excess bacon. It would be nice.
[00:41:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I was gonna say, yeah. I've never heard of excess bacon. What happens to excess bacon? Well, the person who did committed that crime goes to jail. Right.
[00:41:36] Rich Chelson:
It they should. Right. And then get and then then then pass me the fucking bacon. Exactly.
[00:41:46] Duuude-Ron :
I cook a pound. I eat a pound. I cook a pound and a half. I eat a pound and a half.
[00:41:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, it's not good for my mouth today.
[00:41:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, to fuck what what processed food today
[00:42:02] Bryan Goodwin:
that we eat on a regular basis is good first? Not at No. You Not really being fake. Bacon bacon But now I really, really good for us.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Bacon is good for us.
[00:42:15] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. It is. Now I will have to definitely argue with you, Rich, about the pound and a half of bacon. You won't if you cook a pound and a half of bacon, you will not eat a pound and a half of bacon.
[00:42:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I would. No. You won't. I've cooked up three pounds of bacon, and by the time I got this, it it was gone.
[00:42:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. But you only ate about two pounds.
[00:42:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Yeah. If that Oh, okay. Okay. You got me. Alright.
[00:42:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was at first at first, when dude said that, I was like I was like, and then and and and then my mind kicked in. I'm like, oh, yeah. He's right.
[00:42:58] Bryan Goodwin:
And even then though, I mean, I'll like, well, I even nowadays, I I hold on to it. I, whenever I'm cooking eggs or if there's something that says that I need to have, like, you know, like, a half a cup of, of oil to cook.
[00:43:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:43:17] Bryan Goodwin:
But I That's how much, bacon grease you wanna you convert that to. It's half the amount of whatever they're claiming in in, in sludge and, and take that as bacon grease and, hell, you make everything taste better then.
[00:43:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, that's probably true. So in reality, if you do save it and then recycle it, yes. If you make a pound and a half of bacon, you'll eventually eat a pound and a half of bacon.
[00:43:53] Duuude-Ron :
Eventually?
[00:43:54] Rich Chelson:
Eventually. You know, if you use it for the, you know, cooking oil, yeah, you'll you'll get that pound and a half. So it's it's tomato tomato type aspect. But regardless, I ain't saving I ain't saving no fucking bacon ever.
[00:44:15] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Me neither.
[00:44:17] Rich Chelson:
That shit does not get saved. That shit gets eaten right then and there. And and then when you get done with it, you're like, damn. I should've I fucking should've made some more. Right. Always.
[00:44:33] Duuude-Ron :
And it and it doesn't matter how much you make in the beginning. When you get done, it's like, damn. I shoulda made some more. Always. Yeah.
[00:44:45] Rich Chelson:
That's how I always feel about it. What was cooked is never enough. So there in this house, there is never ever gonna be excess. That's for damn sure.
[00:44:57] Duuude-Ron :
I will say I did I did cook something, say, was it Monday? I think it was. And it was it was kind of a a conglomeration of a couple recipes that I found and just threw shit together and, put it in a 10 by 14 baking pan, and, I'll finally have it eaten, all tomorrow. But it turned out pretty good. And and it's it's, sausage, eggs, cheese, sour cream, onions, and I use scallop taters. I don't know why I didn't use, tater tots, but the next one I'm gonna make will have tater tots on it. But, yeah, I just I just basically mixed all that up, and then doing the taters in the skillet and poured the runny mixture over it all, slap the sausage on it, the cheese on it, and just let it in the oven and cook.
It's actually pretty damn good.
[00:46:09] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit. Yeah. I'm telling you, man.
[00:46:13] Rich Chelson:
There's only one there's only one thing that you were missing.
[00:46:17] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:46:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Bacon.
[00:46:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, yeah, you're right. I didn't have a thud, man. I didn't have a thud.
[00:46:26] Rich Chelson:
Man, you're fucking slacking. Motherfucking slackers.
[00:46:30] Duuude-Ron :
Goddamn. Well, I, I've got I've got the next one I'm I'm gonna make with tater tots and everything. So I'll make sure, I'll make sure to pull out the pound of bacon I got. There you go. I'll cook that up and throw that in there. Absolutely.
[00:46:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. We, got around where I'm trying to go, like, where my grandparents used to do. Because I remember growing up and going to visit my my visit my mom and granddad, my dad's, parents. And, there was always a plate of bacon sitting on the counter on the weekends. Because she would fry up a whole bunch of bacon. We had stuff. Granddad would have some. She'd leave it out there. As you went throughout the day, you know, you just grab a rasher of bacon and go enjoy it. That was some of the best stuff to have. Good cold bacon.
[00:47:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I love cold bacon, man. Oh, heck yeah. That's what I'm saying. Hot, cold, it doesn't matter. Bacon is fucking bacon.
[00:47:38] Duuude-Ron :
Absolutely. Oh, yeah. No. It's it's yeah. It's bacon is oh my god. Bacon is just a bomb.
[00:47:50] Bryan Goodwin:
It's bacon.
[00:47:51] Rich Chelson:
I don't know, man. I'm like, it's bacon.
[00:47:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think I think I think maybe this next Monday, I'll I'll probably, make another one of those, but with tater tots this time. I don't know. I'm thinking about doing, get, well, I've got a couple pounds of hamburger in the freezer. Pull that out. Throw that in a skillet or in a, baking dish, and then take some, cream cheese, put that I gotta I gotta look up, find a recipe. I saw it one time. I I don't know what they called it, but it looked really freaking good. And it's got cheese on it, and it's just, yeah, always good. I don't know. But that'll be breakfast and dinner for the next week.
[00:48:45] Rich Chelson:
There you go.
[00:48:48] Duuude-Ron :
It's cheap. I mean, yeah, I might spend $12.15 bucks up front, but, you know, two meals a day times five days. Yeah. Yeah. Buck and a half a meal, that's pretty fucking cheap. I don't care who you are.
[00:49:03] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And if you like it, who gives a who gives a shit what any anybody else thinks? Right. Right. This is this is good eatings. Now somebody they talk about chitlins and
[00:49:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Collard greens.
[00:49:21] Rich Chelson:
Collard greens chitlins? Well, chitlins, I will have Ugh. No. When we no. And
[00:49:29] Bryan Goodwin:
stuffing when we get a turkey. No. That's not chitlins. That's, I was gonna say that's not chitlins. Chitlins is the large intestine of a hog.
[00:49:37] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. What what am I thinking of? What the hell is going on with that? Yeah. But there you go. There you go. So yeah. No. Collard greens and and chillings, I don't fucking think so.
[00:49:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Ain't going Well, collard greens are are are not bad when they're made right. I mean, they're a little tough. But, I mean, but, I mean, I I feel sorry for the black community because Chitlins is part of their heritage. Well, I see. That is just that was left what leftover of the hog they would throw over to the slaves and go, here you go. Make something out of that. They they did what they could, and I've been around them cleaning the intestines. And it's you have to do a damn good job to clean those out to where they don't taste like shit because you can't smell a shit out of it.
Right. Auctions does not leave anything. You get it on your shoes. Twenty years later, you'll be gonna pick it up, go, oh god. Smells smells. It's horrible.
[00:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see down here, they sell chitlins. Now I've I've I've talked to a few people, and, they say fresh chitlins are are are really good to eat.
[00:50:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But It's kinda like it's kinda like the little is let them get cold. Black people eat Let them get cold, and they say they're nasty, and they smell nasty. Yeah. Well, I was gonna say, watching seeing black people eat chitlins is almost like whenever I see little Mexican kids eat Mexican candy. I wanna rip that candy out of their hand, handle a stickers bar, and give them a real sexual piece of candy because that little piece of corn with with chili powder on it isn't freaking candy, though they like to think it.
[00:51:29] Duuude-Ron :
They like it, though. And you know
[00:51:31] Rich Chelson:
and you know, over in Korea, kimchi, oh my god. Oh, yeah. Maybe I ain't touching I ain't touching American kimchi, let alone Korean kimchi.
[00:51:46] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. Touch Korean
[00:51:48] Bryan Goodwin:
kimchi. Kimchi's not bad. I'm I'm Yeah. Don't get it. All it is is pickled cabbage.
[00:51:55] Rich Chelson:
You're right. That is absolutely
[00:51:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, good. You know what else is pickled cabbage. Right?
[00:52:04] Duuude-Ron :
What?
[00:52:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Sauerkraut.
[00:52:07] Rich Chelson:
And I don't do sauerkraut.
[00:52:09] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. I'll do sauerkraut. Butter. You're you're so weird. I'll do sauerkraut. But kimchi? No. I won't do kimchi.
[00:52:19] Rich Chelson:
Do hell no. Not even on a Thursday. Ain't no way in hell. And that's when you put the katousas at the very back of the formation when we go for a run. They they start sweating out kimchi or the, yeah, kimchi. Yeah. No. Yeah. Alright.
[00:52:43] Duuude-Ron :
That's But see, the thing is though, dude, the thing is though, bugs will not mess with them.
[00:52:52] Bryan Goodwin:
There's there's a reason why.
[00:52:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well and no. And then that's the thing, kimchi, well, one, it's I mean, they like it over there, but but it's a very excellent bug repellent.
[00:53:06] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's kinda like,
[00:53:08] Bryan Goodwin:
over in Iceland. They, they eat forbidden, shark, and this stuff is horrendous. You people talk about how bad it smells, but you see people make these little thin slices, put it on a cracker or whatever, and chow down on it.
[00:53:27] Rich Chelson:
But it takes,
[00:53:28] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, what is the c like, I'm gonna be able to pronounce it because, you know, they put in all those extra work extra letters and o's with lines through them and stuff. Right. Sure. Okay. Yes. Yeah. See, I I I know what the line through it is. It's illegal to me. It's permitted shark, a dish made from the meat of Greenland sharks. The shark meat is actually poisonous, and if eaten raw, that's because it's actually got a a a antifreeze. Their blood is actually, top of antifreeze that's poisonous to us. And so it's permanent and a cure to remove all the toxins. Process involves burying the shark in sand for several weeks, then hanging it to dry for several months.
The resulting dish is a strong ammonia like smell that the flavor describes as everything from strong cheese to piss.
[00:54:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't think I could eat any of that.
[00:54:30] Rich Chelson:
You know? And, culturally, you know, yeah, kimchi in Korea and, you know, the shark in Greenland and runs us in Nebraska. If you ain't been to Nebraska, you probably don't even have a fucking clue as to what a runs is.
[00:54:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. You get that after eating really crappy foods. You get the runs.
[00:54:56] Rich Chelson:
No. Now that's the only time I will ever eat cabbage is in a runza because it's hamburger meat, cabbage, and then they put some other fixing in, and it's all packed inside of a bun, basically. Now you didn't when you go to Nebraska, if you ever do, runs a hut, yeah, buddy. You better stop in and get one of them motherfuckers because they are that's good eating.
[00:55:30] Bryan Goodwin:
That then there's a what is it? Sir Straub's? See, see, what is it? Sir sir sirstroming, which is a lightly salted fermented Baltic Sea herring. That's a traditional Swedish cuisine, and it comes in a can. And the can is bulging on the on the outside. And it is just some of the worst smelliest food you ever come across. There's guys on on the TikTok that I like to listen to, watch from time to time. Because one they they do try different stuff. Just try to because they got a guy with a weak stomach that they have Uh-huh. Making a bread. And so they decided to bring in the strong, Sastroni.
And the funny thing is is everybody in there was.
[00:56:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I've I've I've seen a few of of of those on TikTok. And, I mean, I'm I'm I mean, I'm not saying they're lying, but some of them might be doing it for for, you know,
[00:56:45] Rich Chelson:
views. Right? They're
[00:56:46] Bryan Goodwin:
thirty seconds of fame. Do a, do a live video, podcast sometime, and I'll go ahead and I'll order some and send it over to you and let you open it. And ain't it live live on Air Force? Yeah. No. That's okay. I'll pay. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I think they're making it up. Oh, well, that's okay. I don't wanna I don't wanna try it.
[00:57:12] Duuude-Ron :
I think I'm You know, that's like,
[00:57:14] Rich Chelson:
you know, that's like the the upper upper echelon with caviar. No. I I don't fucking think so.
[00:57:24] Duuude-Ron :
I've heard it's good, but I've never tried it.
[00:57:26] Rich Chelson:
I've never tried yeah. Fuck. Like, we can afford it. Even the fucking even the fucking, cheap shit. Like, we can afford it.
[00:57:39] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I don't know. I've never looked at the price of it.
[00:57:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, a well, whatever the one from Russia, that 10 of caviar
[00:57:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, is in the beluga? Whatever. It's in the thousands. Expensive. Yeah. That's beluga caviar because it takes, like, twenty years for the fish to actually, to actually mature enough to where it takes, like, fifteen, twenty years for them to mature enough to where they actually produce, produce eggs. And, sadly, they then go off and kill the fish.
[00:58:17] Rich Chelson:
So Well, as long as they're using the rest of the meat, that's great. But are they are they probably not?
[00:58:25] Duuude-Ron :
Probably not. Russians? No. I would say because Russians are are kinda like a lot of the Asian countries. They'll they eat fish. I mean, they're like Alaskans. They eat fish on everything. So, you know, they just
[00:58:42] Rich Chelson:
they As as long as the meat doesn't go to waste. You know what I mean?
[00:58:46] Duuude-Ron :
They do to fish what we do to cows and pigs. We we use every part of a pig except the oink. We use every part of the cow except the moo. Yep. I mean, literally. So, I mean, you know, a lot of these other countries know they don't waste. They have less waste than we do. Yeah. Some countries have more, but that's that's them.
[00:59:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. That's true too. You know? But but I'm not spending a thousand dollars on a fucking two pound tin of fucking caviar.
[00:59:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. I don't fucking think so. But you said it's a durian fruit, though. Somewhat? Durian fruit?
[00:59:34] Rich Chelson:
Frayed to ask.
[00:59:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:59:38] Bryan Goodwin:
It's, it's a stinky fruit that's real popular in Southeast Asia, but it's actually, it's banned in in hotels because it stinks so bad. Apparently, through the strong ory door, dairy and sometimes banned in, public places like public transportation hotels. Describe the the or see the smell. What was it? I saw something. Is, yeah. The strong smell durian is considered a a delicacy, but that okay. Come on. Where is it? It's renowned for its, for its incredibly pungent odor, which can be described as a mix of onion, garlic, and Jim's sauce.
[01:00:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh.
[01:00:23] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So it But it's Going past this southeast Asian. Smell. I wonder how it has to fucking taste.
[01:00:33] Bryan Goodwin:
They love it. The see, the taste, while the smell is strong, the taste is described as sweet, creamy, and nutty with hints of vanilla and almond. But people also love to have Limburger cheese, and Limburger cheese smells like feet.
[01:00:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've I've heard Limburger. I ain't never eaten it. Oh, it's not bad.
[01:00:57] Duuude-Ron :
It's creamy. Tried. Soft is creamy. It's nice. But I haven't tried Limburger yet. It's it's I want to.
[01:01:04] Bryan Goodwin:
It's yeah. It's a it's definitely foot. You're eating toe jab by the smell of it.
[01:01:10] Duuude-Ron :
Damn. No. That'd be rough.
[01:01:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. You know what? A lot of these You know what, Brian? You just eat whatever the hell you wanna eat. I would
[01:01:24] Bryan Goodwin:
but that's just it. I would love that might be something we have to do, something where down the road, we have one week one, one event where we just all get together. We sit down, and today is our food challenge and our food our week of food challenges or whatever. We tried. So this week, we're trying durian. Boom. So show the real thing, give a little bit of a background on it, then cut it open, and just watch everybody's reaction as they turn pale and start getting the shakes. Yeah. That would that yeah. I don't I'm sorry, but both of y'all need to just back off. No?
[01:02:04] Rich Chelson:
And I'll say, hold it. I'm not there. I did. I was gonna say, what are you doing? You know? Damn. That was what he did.
[01:02:12] Bryan Goodwin:
This guy turned into a real asshole real quick. I'm like, damn. What the fuck are you doing? Dogs wanting to sit in your eye damn time. I'm like, god. Right?
[01:02:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it was just funny.
[01:02:22] Rich Chelson:
How the fuck are we supposed to know that when you just say that right out of the blue that you're talking to the dogs and not us?
[01:02:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're like you're like, well, you two just need to back the hell off, and I'm like, well, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. What about you, man? Oh, shit. That was hilarious. I mean, I'm not even there and getting in trouble. Damn. Exactly.
[01:02:47] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Right. Yep. Now. Oh, man. That's funny. I know you you're just gonna have to get used to me not being there. I know you want me on the couch, but you're gonna have to build a bridge to get over it. Yeah. How's that going? Is the fucking bridge. That's the problem. She was not happy last night because I was sleeping on the couch. And so she was sleeping on the couch.
[01:03:17] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[01:03:18] Bryan Goodwin:
And our couch isn't big enough for me and a great Dane. And then on top of that, she got up for whatever reason to go get a drink or go to the bathroom, whatever. And so while she was up and down, Watson hopped in the up on the couch and was laying behind my legs. And she came over and looked at him. Came over and bumped me on the nose with her nose. Tell going, hey. Asshole's in the way here. I I that's my spot. And when when Watson lays down, his name changes. He he's no longer Watson whenever he lays down. He's Lump. Lump? Yeah. Lump. Because he doesn't move.
You try to like, if he's laying on your blanket, guess what? You're gonna be in a you're in a tug of war, and he doesn't even have a hold of anything. He, like, bonds to the bed. Oh, wow. The most incredible thing. But, but he, so he turned to the lump. Rain said they're going, well, I that's my spot. And so she's, I guess, after a bit of coming in, walking over to me, walking over to Watson, walking back over to me, walking around a little bit. She decided, alright. Fine. Screw it. I'm gonna go in the into the bed with mom. The only problem is is that I have my bed, my blanket with. And that throws her whole world off because she likes to lay on my pillow when she's in bed. So it's her pillow and her blanket, and I've got it. And so she's, like, laying there. She's wanting to stay take mom's pillow.
Jenna's, like, going, hello. This is my shit, man. You just you can get used to it. And so she, like, sat there and laid there for a little bit, kinda huffed and, puffed for a little bit, got up, come back out. And at that time, Watson got up and went off it and got bored of of harasses his, his sister, and so she comes along and hops up in bed. But, man, I got no sleep last night. It was just I would move. She would move. She'd get up. She'd wanted to move around, and so I would have to shuffle around. And I was sleeping on the edge of the couch at the time, so my hips were being grounded to a solid piece of wood. Yeah. It it kinda it kinda for sucked.
[01:05:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It sounds like it, dude. It definitely sounded like it. It. That's not cool. Yeah.
[01:05:56] Rich Chelson:
No. I I'm gonna be in a fucking bed. I ain't gonna be on the couch. I ain't gonna be in a recliner.
[01:06:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I tried to get my wife six since I've got the plague at the moment, so that's why I was on the couch.
[01:06:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Well and I can't say that with the recliners. So, you know, sometimes my medicine kicks in and you guys are ending the show, and the only thing you hear is Oh. Like, fucker. So you put, you know, you turn take or, you turn off my speaker, continue on, and say, see y'all. And then I wake up, and it's like everybody's gone. It's like, what the fuck? Where'd it go?
[01:06:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Goddamn. How rude.
[01:06:41] Rich Chelson:
That motherfucker just fell asleep. How rude.
[01:06:47] Duuude-Ron :
Rude. How rude. How rude.
[01:06:52] Rich Chelson:
In the words of Jarjal Binks, how rude. Oh, here's here's a real good one. Yesterday, stopped a pilot in Waco to get fuel because, you know, we have select places that they want us to get fuel because, like Lowe's, they get it for cost minus 5¢, for fuel and pilot. Yeah. I don't know what they get, but, you know, there's places there where they want us to fuel up at if possible. Right. So I get to pilot yesterday, and, a Schneider truck pulls in past me to you know, I mean, pulling into the fuel island. And I just barely caught a glimpse. I'm like, ain't no fucking way that I just saw what I think I saw.
Sure as shit. That driver, she couldn't have been if she was three hundred and fifty pounds, four hundred pounds, yeah, every bit of it. I'm like, holy shit. I'm like, yeah. You you was drooling over that, wasn't you? You're not a woman. Oh, yeah. I was tripping over my tongue. Yeah. It was just flopping on the ground hanging out so far. Oh, yeah. No. Every bit of 350, four hundred pounds.
[01:08:31] Duuude-Ron :
No. Oh. I'm like You know? The thing is, though, she's working. You say that's the thing. She's work. I mean, it's not it's not healthy for her to be that big, but, you know, she's working.
[01:08:44] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Yeah. That's true. She's not collecting welfare or, you know, got nine kids got nine kids because living off of, fucking the system.
[01:09:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean I mean, she might have nine kids, but at least she's working. You know? I mean, that's Well You know, when, you know, when I see people like that, you know, I just I just I look at it like this. You know? At least they're out there doing their thing. You know?
[01:09:17] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, I will not disagree with you on that, whatsoever. You know? There are, you know, some high paying jobs, some low paying jobs, and, you know, I get it. I have my job because of my education now. If I had a doctorate degree in physics, yeah, I'd probably be making a little bit more than what I'm making now.
[01:09:50] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[01:09:51] Rich Chelson:
Maybe. But, you know, yeah, you're right.
[01:09:57] Duuude-Ron :
But either way, though, I mean, you know, that's the thing. You know? You say you guys that's why that's why I've I've never really slammed on a large person like that because, again, like like, when the DOT was was trying to crack down on fat people, fixing to pull CDLs. Oh, I got pissed.
[01:10:20] Bryan Goodwin:
I I got fucking hot. Well, why are you gonna do that?
[01:10:24] Duuude-Ron :
Because it was unhealthy. They were they were at a a heart risk. This was the, first part of the well, it was about, 2,000, what, 9 or 10, I think. Yeah. That was a nine at that time. I don't remember hearing that. Oh, yeah. Converted just completely up and forgot about it. So Well, it is possible. But either way, no. I remember it because I mean, you know, I was pushing 300, and and they were threatening me with, you know, you need to sleep study and this and that. You're too fat. You need to lose fuck you. I'm motherfucking working. And then I I went to work for, this one company. I forget who it was.
I wanna say it was, god. Man, I can't remember the name of them. Anyway, I was in orientation. And, one of them safety men fucking popped up with that shit, and and I fucking raised my hand. And I I just fucking laid into him. You know? I mean, it wasn't his fault. He but but and and I wasn't going after him per se, and he knew it. But the look on his face was like, oh my god. This guy is fixing to rip my head off and shit down my neck. You know? But because of the simple fact, it's like, listen. DOT trying to come in and tell me as a fat man that I can't fucking drive a truck. The only thing that I've done for the last twenty fucking years, you're you're gonna fucking tell me that that I can't do what I know.
Kiss my ass. Oh, and I yeah. I went off and yeah. They do. Needless to say, no one really even even the other people in orientation, no one really, talked with me after that. We ain't gonna get him wound up. No. Just just don't talk about pulling the CDL of someone, whether they're fat, skinny, or whatever, fucking working.
[01:12:26] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, and now and now well, in the state of it well, in this area I don't know if this is the whole state, But you go in for a DOT physical, and if they put a, tape measure around your, neck, they'll send you or they'll request that you go get a sleep study done.
[01:12:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yes. They was they was fighting to do that when when, back years ago, but no one could ever get on the same page. But, yeah, I guess now because you said they'll they, they check your neck. See, that was always threatened. It it never came through. So so, apparently, they they must have gotten a lot of flack for it. So, you know, they had to wait until later to make it a requirement, and that's wrong. I mean, now in a way, maybe not because, you know, if you have sleep apnea, I can see where it'll affect it could affect your, driving ability.
[01:13:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yes. I I I agree with that 100%.
[01:13:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Good. Doesn't mean it will. Right. I'm if they would allow truck drivers to just take the brakes where they need feel they need to take a break
[01:14:04] Duuude-Ron :
Like we used to. Yeah.
[01:14:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. We would get a whole lot more done. Would Yeah. Would there be some irresponsible truck drivers out there driving way past their their ability? Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. There's still truck drivers doing that. Yeah. Don't stop the idiots who want who are going to violate the law. You're right. Yeah. They get what they get. They get, you know, vehicular manslaughter, murder, whatever it is they get slapped with. So, I mean, it's unnecessary. It's just something so that the the politicians could sit there and puff up their chest to go, I have done something for for, to keep the highway safety safer. No. Actually, you made the highways more dangerous. Like, when they put in the requirement for the eight hour or eight hour break, That didn't make things safer.
No. You now have more drivers driving tired when they need to take a break because they have to go sir so far so that they at least have a full out eight hours that they could take you.
[01:15:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:15:12] Bryan Goodwin:
So now they they've made it more dangerous than what they would've claimed.
[01:15:17] Rich Chelson:
And, you know, they then they've since rescinded that that you have to take a thirty minimum thirty minute break within that eight hours.
[01:15:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Well, guess what? They reset the eight hour break, Dale, now as long as you aren't driving for thirty minutes, which often happens when you're getting loaded.
[01:15:39] Rich Chelson:
Or Yeah. And we we physically have to clock out.
[01:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Do you?
[01:15:46] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We have to go off duty for thirty minutes. So my company said, you know, the federal, that's fine. You can do whatever, but we're sticking to thirty minutes within the first eight hours. Now I can go seven hours and fifty nine minutes and then clock out, and I'm still legal to our standards.
[01:16:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. See? That's the thing. Go back to the old rules and
[01:16:19] Bryan Goodwin:
fucking get jiggy witty. Yeah. Well, that basically, I still think all these rules are all these DOT rules came into place because the Teamsters got, got butt hurt because they independent truckers were running circles around their lazy asses.
[01:16:35] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. The, Teamsters, yeah, got got butt hurt. You're right. And that's why that's why we have a lot of this. Yeah. The teamsters
[01:16:52] Rich Chelson:
Go ahead, dude. Just like guns. When they outlaw guns, the only people that will have them are the outlaws.
[01:17:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:17:02] Rich Chelson:
They don't give a shit. The thieves, the criminals, they don't give a fuck. They will get one somehow,
[01:17:15] Duuude-Ron :
someway. That is truly that is a % true. So, yeah, it's a
[01:17:24] Rich Chelson:
when they get arrested. Oh, a felon that has a weapon. You think they're gonna fucking change their ways overnight? They ain't gonna change their ways, period.
[01:17:35] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. Anytime there's a there's a a a gun crime, they always go after the law abiding citizens, not the
[01:17:47] Rich Chelson:
Oh, of court.
[01:17:49] Duuude-Ron :
You know, not the Not the criminals. Criminals.
[01:17:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They freak out. The criminals don't care.
[01:17:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And, well, you see, the thing is, though, they can't catch fucking criminals. And and if they do, you know, they think, oh, we'll go after the gun manufacturer. It wasn't the gun's fault. It was the No. Behind the trigger.
[01:18:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Every bit of it. My gun, I've had several I have several weapons in my house right now. Not a damn one of them has jumped up off the table and it fired around. And, I mean, every single one of my weapons is chambered.
[01:18:34] Duuude-Ron :
So are mine.
[01:18:36] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And it had none of my weapons have ever fucking jumped off a table or where they're at and fucking shot off a round ever.
[01:18:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:18:50] Rich Chelson:
Now somebody comes into my house that's uninvited. Now that gun is not gonna jump off off the table, but that fucking my finger is gonna be right behind that trigger and going boom, boom, boom, and I'll empty the fucking clip.
[01:19:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:19:07] Rich Chelson:
You're gonna leave my house in one way in one way fashion through a body bag.
[01:19:17] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. It's see, that's the thing. It's it's you know? And it's like, you know, it's like when a when a drunk driver can kill somebody, they don't go after the car manufacturer, so why they go after the gun manufacturer?
[01:19:32] Rich Chelson:
You're right.
[01:19:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But if that's the case, go after the car manufacturer. Okay. What about someone who who chokes on a steak after the feedlot?
[01:19:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, come on now. Oh, they tried to go after the feedlot. Yeah. It
[01:19:52] Rich Chelson:
made the cows too yeah. The feedlot ever. No. Yeah.
[01:20:01] Duuude-Ron :
You see, that's the thing. You see, this is this is what bugs me is because it's shit like this that Uh-huh. It the problem is the person doing whatever is the fucking problem.
[01:20:18] Rich Chelson:
Fix Always.
[01:20:19] Duuude-Ron :
Fix that. And, yes, I know you can't fix stupid, but, you know, let let natural selection from the, from the, Jeeple. Right. You know? Let fucking natural selection take its course.
[01:20:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Damn. Yep. Yeah. It's funny how the the people who, who fight so hard against natural selection are the ones that believe that natural selection is the answer.
[01:20:47] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean?
[01:20:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, liberals are the ones who are always stay jumping around saying that it's, that it's, that it's, you know, that evolution is the is how the world came to be like it is. While Christians are the ones saying, well, God came along and created everything. Right. But yet they wanna fight against what they believe, which makes no sense.
[01:21:25] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Hang on. Yep. Hang on. I I I got lost. Okay. Say say that one more time. Liberals believe in evolution. Right?
[01:21:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. So, basically, man started out as a monkey and became eventually became an ape, became became a man, or became some poor or became a caveman, became a caveman, became a caveman, became a Yes. The ants all the animals didn't rent. Alright? Started out as as a little amoeba. The amoeba came eventually became a frog. The frog became a dinosaur. Dinosaur became a lizard or a bird. Yes. I I I I do understand evolution. Okay. So they they they said that a lot. Yeah. They Yes. I know what an evolution is. Evolutionary practices to take place.
Don't let they they sit there and do everything they can to keep to keep the the, the strongest alive around. So the the better of the species, they fight real hard to make sure that those aren't the ones that are around. They don't aren't the ones who the liberals are the ones who like wanna keep stupid in this in society. They wanna keep the dump in the gene pool.
[01:22:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, I know. So, so they can fill their head with, with their shit and everybody will roll over and think they're gods.
[01:22:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, possible. Yeah.
[01:22:54] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing, though. Okay? And and anyone that that I have ever found that that says evolution is king, I've got I've got one simple statement form, and I've used it a couple times. This pissed a couple people off. I just ask them if if if if we came from monkeys, why do we still have monkeys?
[01:23:20] Bryan Goodwin:
The reason is because the monkeys did die off. We, we the, birds I No. Because, I mean, the monkeys that have we've got a widespread of monkeys. We've got everything from little bitty bush babies to, you know Right. But they should have based upon silverback gorillas. It's not that they not that they if we were to come from the primate branch of of people that they would instantly die off.
[01:23:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, I would have to agree with Rich on this one that, yes, evolution over millions of years. And if there's humans, why are there still monkeys?
[01:24:08] Duuude-Ron :
Because if if if the evolutionists are saying that we are derived from monkeys, like you explained, Brian, then why are there still monkeys? And and I'm not trying to be facetious. I'm actually asking this question because no one can ever fucking answer it. They just say, oh, shut up. Well, I mean, come on. Answer my question. You're the one who's supposed supposed to be all knowing. You know? That's that's why I'm asking. You know? That's why I believe in creation.
[01:24:42] Rich Chelson:
Right. And, you know, I could and in the flip side, I can understand Brian's aspect. How many different, not species, but, how many different, breeds are there of dogs?
[01:25:05] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. Hundred species. Yeah. Okay.
[01:25:09] Rich Chelson:
You're right. So do you know, I I can understand. Okay. This this particular breed of monkey evolutionized into humans. Okay. And we still have the other breeds that didn't. Okay. So, however, I don't I, myself, don't believe in evolution. Well, I don't believe in the big fan theory.
[01:25:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, I don't believe in the big fan theory. I didn't think you did, Brian. I didn't think you did either. It's not. I just It it just but but you see, that's the thing, though. And and, like and, like, Ron was saying, okay, you know, if there's, okay, different breeds, you see that? How can I okay? Maybe it's maybe it's my wee little pea brain, but but, I mean, you know, I mean, did if if if the evolutionists think like this, okay, do they think we came from one certain breed, or or or was there, different humans come from different breeds? And I say I don't know.
Say this is
[01:26:22] Rich Chelson:
And you'll anybody can believe in whatever the hell they were taught and whatever they wanna believe. That's fine. You know? And if you're an atheist and believe that when you die, your body is dead, which, of course, it is, then that's the end. Yeah. And that's the you know, more power to you. Mhmm. Because I have yet to find anybody that knows somebody that knows somebody that has come back from the dead, from heaven, and given all the details. It would be nice, but, again, we go on blind faith.
[01:27:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see, though, the thing is, though, is is, you know, the person you know, if you ever do meet that person, where are they coming back from, heaven or hell?
[01:27:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, as soon as they start to explain the, you know, the area, it's pretty pretty evident based upon based upon blind faith of what I have been taught, of what my parents had been taught, my grandparents, great grandparents, so on and so on and so on. So, yes, I believe as being a Christian. Okay? And this is just Ron's belief that I will be going that my name is written in the book of life, and I'll be going to heaven when I die. Right. Okay? And there's only one thing that is not gonna get you to heaven. So and I believe in that. But, okay, you have everybody that believes in Allah.
Okay. We call God God. They call Allah God or God, all of the whichever. So who's who's right and who's wrong? Okay. The the Jewish, okay, don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
[01:29:02] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:29:03] Rich Chelson:
Okay. And that's fine because they live basically everything off of the Old Testament, not the New Testament. So but their god is still god or, you know, whatever the name that they use for god.
[01:29:25] Duuude-Ron :
Elohim, Yahweh, God, many different names. Names won't understand.
[01:29:32] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. So I guess I will find out when I am right before I become ashes and smoke one last time because I ain't quitting smoking anytime soon. Right. So Yep.
[01:30:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I I I don't know. It just it just it just stuff like that. You know? Because, you know, I was saying and thought about this stuff. And and, you know, I've tried to rationalize, like like, you know, people think Darwin's serious. Right? Yeah. No. Sorry. I can't. I can't. I can't even get behind that. But, you know, I just I just like you know what? Y'all are just y'all will find out. Y'all will find
[01:30:37] Bryan Goodwin:
out. And, you know,
[01:30:40] Rich Chelson:
there is very, a very select few people that I will talk religion and politics with. Right. Because I'm not getting into a pissing contest with somebody over their beliefs and my beliefs. You know, you ain't gonna you are not going to change my mind on what I believe. So I'm not gonna sit there and argue with you. That's just that's just a waste of fucking time, air, and energy.
[01:31:19] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:22] Rich Chelson:
Where I can waste that time taking a nap maybe because I'm fucking old and grumpy and, you know, old. But sometimes I need a nap.
[01:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:45] Rich Chelson:
But just on the weekend, especially on the weekends. And Folgers got it all fucking wrong. The best part of the it is not the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. The best part of waking up is taking a pee and going right back to fucking bed.
[01:32:05] Duuude-Ron :
Amen. And a lot of people will probably agree with you on that. I
[01:32:13] Rich Chelson:
I'm sure they would. And then after you, you know, get up, you have a cup of coffee and smoke, and then maybe, possibly, go take a nap. I've Yeah. Done that many of times.
[01:32:31] Duuude-Ron :
I can't do that.
[01:32:33] Rich Chelson:
You know, I'm trying to catch up on beauty sleep. I really am.
[01:32:38] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, give it up, man. Give it up.
[01:32:41] Rich Chelson:
I well, you you're right. Be well, be well, I'll never get beauty sleep because I'm still trying to catch up on the twelve years' worth of regular sleep that I'm already behind in before I can even go to beauty sleep. See. And that's what the and that's gonna take a hell of a hell of a lot more fucking years of beauty sleep to, yeah, to change this ugly motherfucking mug.
[01:33:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you said that I I didn't. So I I just figured out that I'm still out there.
[01:33:25] Rich Chelson:
There you go. And, see, that's why I can call you an ugly motherfucker. Because I'm uglier than you are. Yeah. I see. I'm uglier than you are, so I can say that.
[01:33:39] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'm sexy, man.
[01:33:44] Rich Chelson:
And you can say that, by all means. I'm not gonna argue with you.
[01:33:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm not gonna agree with you either, but, you know
[01:33:55] Rich Chelson:
You're right. They ain't gonna agree, but I ain't gonna argue because I don't have enough time, energy, and air to waste in that conversation.
[01:34:07] Duuude-Ron :
Plus, it would it would interrupt your nap.
[01:34:12] Rich Chelson:
Good point. It would interrupt my nap. You have nap interruptions. That's oh, god forbid. We don't want fuck. Hell no. We don't want fucking maps.
[01:34:24] Duuude-Ron :
That's like that's like that's like people leaving bacon on the table. That's just rude. That's wrong.
[01:34:32] Rich Chelson:
That's just you're right. That's raw that that is wrong like two boys fucking. That's how wrong that's how wrong leaving bacon on the table is.
[01:34:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit.
[01:34:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Wasn't expecting that one to come out there, dude. Now that we've angered the the the gay community.
[01:35:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, hell, we done pissed off quite a few people, so might as well add them into it. Why not? Care. Nope.
[01:35:12] Rich Chelson:
I'm too I'm too old to fucking care. Yeah. I mean, if if If you don't if you don't like me by now, I ain't gonna go to I ain't gonna yep. I ain't gonna I guess I ain't gonna change your mind, and that's okay. Not here to change anybody's mind. Alright. How you know, however, I can always say I will never ever be racist.
[01:35:52] Duuude-Ron :
Hate everybody.
[01:35:54] Rich Chelson:
I hate everybody equally. Right. I don't dislike anybody any one person more than the other. I dislike everybody the same.
[01:36:09] Duuude-Ron :
That's true.
[01:36:14] Rich Chelson:
And if yeah. Now I'm gonna baby. Brian, I thought you said you were gonna be in a truck this week.
[01:36:24] Bryan Goodwin:
I was in a truck until yesterday. Okay. Because I've got a my car's shit to bed, so I've got a I've been trying to find a find a car, and the person who I was supposed to be getting some information from a copy of the, the the title front and back of the title so I can give it to the bank so they can, determine if it's a clean clean title or not, has Oh, okay. Okay. Trying to trying to get a car.
[01:36:57] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Got you.
[01:36:59] Bryan Goodwin:
It's bored. Right now, it's sitting over at the, over at, over at my mechanic's place. But Oh, okay. I guess. Same time, it's it's not here, and it's not readily available. So
[01:37:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, gotcha. Last week,
[01:37:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I made a discovery. I actually found a movie that is 10 times better than the book. Star Wars? No. No. Star Wars didn't start out as a book. This movie started out as a book, became a movie, and the movie is so much better than the, than the book. And that, that book and movie is Forrest Gump.
[01:37:46] Rich Chelson:
Forrest Gump? Yep. Oh, okay. Because Well, I never read the book. Me, I'm like Rodney Dangerfield. Who has time to read? I'll go to the movie. I'm in and out in less than two hours.
[01:38:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Sometimes two less than two hours.
[01:38:06] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So, you know, I'm good. Yep. I got to see the movie.
[01:38:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, the, the book I mean, they have a lot of the correlation. The running gag in the book is that Forrest has always gotta go pee. So so anytime that he kinda uses that as a means to get himself out of out of a jam. So but it's always he always gets in trouble for for when he uses it, but but he, but it has the, Bubba's not a black guy. He's a white guy. And they met actually met Bubba in college, and, Bubba is a math or not Bubba. Forrest is a math savant and a music savant. And so they, these and so he's he gets, some of his adventures is is he, see, so he starts off he's in college. He he that that ever do the run forest run thing. That's a made up for the, for the movie. But, Jenny, that goes off. That's her own thing. She's kinda she's the she's kinda the slut in the, in the movie.
Or in the, in the book also. And say he goes to, goes to China, does the ping pong. Well, he goes to Vietnam, then he goes to China for the ping pong. Lieutenant Dan wasn't his commander. He was actually blown up in a, in a tank. He did lose his legs and was homeless where they re refined each other. But, but Forrest and Jenny and Dan are kinda all I'm I think I've still got three hours left in the book, and they have yet to actually even start the shrimping business yet. He keeps talking about starting up the shipping business, but he has never gotten around starting up the shipping business. But Forrest has gone to, gone to space and, with a with a, really nasty, mean old woman and a orangutan.
They crash land in the, in the Pacific around Papua New Guinea New Guinea because they got, cannibals. And, while they're there, they, they escape and get kidnapped by pygmies. They escape the pygmies, and then they get end up being rescued by NASA. I mean, it's just it's like, really, man? Come on. Didn't realize you had made the gay the story this freaking convoluted. I'll be right back. Hold up.
[01:41:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay.
[01:41:44] Rich Chelson:
Alright.
[01:41:47] Duuude-Ron :
So I take it wait. It sounds that that sounds like Forrest Gump.
[01:41:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And if if he's reading the book and seeing the movie and the movie is much better, I probably stop reading the book myself.
[01:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean,
[01:42:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Once I start, start something, I wanna finish it up because, every time that I have. I've I've gone through some books that I'm just like, holy crap. This is horrible. But even, what was it? The, oh, there was one it was I I think I've talked about it before. It was a ghastly, horrible self help book. It was. And and it was because one well, it was you could tell it's done by a liberal woman. And the reason why you could tell that it was done by a liberal woman is because they used the f bomb every freaking other sentence, if not every other word.
Oh, yeah. I remember you talking about Yeah. It's the f Yeah. The how to unfuck your mind or something like that. So yeah. Something like that. Yeah. And it sounded like she was recording in the bathroom. The echo there was room noise and echo and everything else. Horrible, terrible book. I actually finished it just so that I could leave a one star review and just talk about how horrible it was. Of course, at the same time, I got to the end, went to leave my review, and everybody else is leaving one star reviews for the very same reason. So so I fell in you know. And,
[01:43:26] Rich Chelson:
you know, if I start a book reading or audio, if, say, the first chapter is like, it you know, I ain't interested. I'm done reading it.
[01:43:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Pretty much. That's that's about the same thing, with me. If if, you know, I'll I'll give a book a couple chapters unless it's just really, really bad. Yeah. I I mean, I will try and give the book a, a decent shot. Yeah. But, yeah, if it can't grab me like like music. Okay? If if if within the first fifteen seconds of a song, if there's not a hook or a note change, I'm out. I can't listen to it. And and, I mean, seriously, I just I don't know because it's like, come on, people. Use your fucking head. You know? Books and, you know, movies the same way. You know? I'll get movies ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, and, I mean, I've struggled through a couple, and they've actually turned out halfway decent. But but yeah. No. I can't. I I just can't, man. Because it's like, I'm I'm gonna sit here and waste my time for, like an audiobook. How many hours?
[01:44:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Sometimes ten.
[01:44:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Right? If it's, Atlas Shrugged, it's, sixty two.
[01:44:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, that's different. Atlas Shrugged, I I would just It's not a big book. Right. Right. But
[01:45:03] Bryan Goodwin:
once a year.
[01:45:04] Duuude-Ron :
But just just just what I heard you talking about Forrest Gump there. Oh my god, dude. Oh, yeah.
[01:45:11] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But there's also got movie or books out there that are of the same, but are so different that they're actually two separate stories. No country for old men, one of them. Lot of the same points of the story in the book are in the are in the movie, but in all reality, they're two separate stories. Right. They're so different from each other, and I like them both. No Country for Old Man is a phenomenal movie. Just, oh, what's his name? The guy who plays Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardeen just played such an amazing sociopath.
[01:46:01] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. The dude with the with the air cannon. With the broke up hair cut. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:46:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. He uses the, uses the the stun, the stun gun for to to to kill people.
[01:46:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:46:17] Bryan Goodwin:
But, yeah, he it's just a I mean, he that whole story is just just an incredible story. You know, Lonesome Dove.
[01:46:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Lonesome Dove is is a book and movie. Yeah. Movie and book is good. Yeah. But then you find out that, oh, he,
[01:46:38] Bryan Goodwin:
he actually went off and and wrote, three other books afterwards. He wrote them as prequels or wrote two prequels and one, one, sequel, and those were all just as good. He talks about how, how Gus and and and, call meet up with each other, how they come across and become, come across each other, start becoming, Texas Rangers and all their Yeah. Incredible set of books. And, yeah, loads of dove falls many of the, again, many of the same, same story beats, basically, because, well, they had a week to tell the story. They turned it into a, what was it, six parts, series or a five part series? I think it's a five part week long series.
[01:47:34] Duuude-Ron :
Something like that.
[01:47:35] Bryan Goodwin:
So what about it?
[01:47:37] Duuude-Ron :
It's like it's if you watch it straight through, it's like eight hours.
[01:47:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's it's yeah. So it's about four or four.
[01:47:46] Duuude-Ron :
Four or five. I I I think it was four because remember back in the day when it come out, like like, they had they, would put it on during the week because the weekends, they they had their own shows on weekends.
[01:48:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Yeah. You then it was, it was, five days because, because you have to take it or count that it's two hours, but you but you also have commercial breaks, so it's actually an hour and a half.
[01:48:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So but
[01:48:24] Bryan Goodwin:
but there's a lot of stories out there that are that are really freaking good. They just
[01:48:35] Duuude-Ron :
just No. No. They are. It's just you just need to get Hollywood to actually see the actual story and not you know, sometimes I get it. Like like, what they did with Forrest Gump versus the book. You know, they changed it and made it an an excellent movie. You know? Right. But but sometimes when they make a movie off of a book and they totally, you know, blow the storyline and and the movie sucks. It's like really That just that just kinda, like, bugs me.
[01:49:16] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:49:22] Duuude-Ron :
Did dude fall asleep?
[01:49:24] Rich Chelson:
Nope. Dude did not fall asleep. He's too late.
[01:49:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, he Hold on hold on as best as he can.
[01:49:33] Rich Chelson:
No. I just no. I muted myself because I was making some coffee in the, hot water kettle. It gets kinda loud.
[01:49:45] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:49:49] Rich Chelson:
So I didn't wanna bother you guys' conversation.
[01:49:54] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. That's cool. I was just wondering. You you just being I didn't I didn't hear any noise back over there. Normally, when we don't hear no noise from your side, you're out, dude. You're gone. So Yeah.
[01:50:10] Rich Chelson:
I was on mute.
[01:50:13] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Alright.
[01:50:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's that's always been one of those things that I've all have always been, kinda fascinated with was, you know, watch read a book, then watch the movie. And 90% of the time, you walk out of there going, well, they just kinda left a whole bunch of the story on them cutting room table. Growing up Right. Now after watching Forrest Gump and watching you know? I understand why because there's a whole lot of the story that didn't need to be told. Well, it's kinda like the Rob. Same thing. They talk about you know, Victor Hugo goes into all sorts of details that are not pertinent to the damn story. Right.
Talks about the nuns of the nunnery that, that, Jean Valjean is is working in. And, I mean, it's maybe 200 pages of of just details about this nunnery and how they, how they, every day, they're always, they're always in a, in a prostate, states. One's always laid out on the ground praying, but they can't have any men around. So they guys all have to all the men have to walk around with bells on their knees so they could they could be heard and and and stuff. And it's just and it's like, okay. Alright. But what does that have to do with the story? You know? They talk about the different bishops of his trips through the, through the Alps. So this again or the, through the, the Pyrenees, and you're like, okay. But how does what does that be do for the story? And, you know, it's like, Jim and D, man. It's like, come on. Get on with it. But so, I mean, there's times I see. Okay. I understand why you wanna cut some of the story out or you'd have a thirty hour movie.
And, no one wants a thirty hour movie.
[01:52:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if it's good, I wouldn't mind. Like like Band of Brothers or, Pacific. Yeah. Those are ten fucking hours, man. I'll sit and watch them all. Watch y'all all dead. In fact, I just, I just got done probably a month ago watching, Pacific. You know? But, I mean and, you know, what's funny on that on that movie Pacific where they talk about, Easy Company? And how does that or is that Even companies Band Brothers. But Band Brothers. Okay. Yeah. The, freaking characters that that were in the movie, I I've been seeing, pictures in my Facebook of them of the original person, the actual person that the actor portrayed.
Oh, yeah. And and Hollywood did really fucking well getting that getting the actor that looked like the the original soldier. Oh, okay. I mean, it was it it I I mean, I've seen I've seen quite a few of of the, you know, the actors and and the soldiers, and it's like, oh my god. They could almost be twins. Right. You know? And I'm like and it it it was just it was cool, though. It was it was, you know, and I just love those. You know? Those movies, I like those because Hollywood didn't Hollywoodize it too much. You know what I mean?
[01:53:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:53:56] Duuude-Ron :
They stuck a lot to, you know, stuff that happened. Of course, some of the stuff they did have to make Hollywood Hollywoodized. Right. You know? Because but still, it was it's it was an excellent movie. And I'll probably watch it again when it comes up around, again, I don't know, six months or a year. I'll watch it again because I feel like I forgot, you know, I forgot something. So I'll watch oh, yeah. I remember now. But I'll still watch it anyway. I don't care.
[01:54:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Well, that's that's what I do. Also, about once a once a year, I watch, watch the original, Star Wars, and then I also go through, and I watch at least the, the,
[01:55:02] Rich Chelson:
Good god. What what's the the something saga? And I keep wanting to say the multiverse sagas.
[01:55:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Anyhow, the Marvel, MCU, the first basically, the first ten years. So from and watch it all in chronological order. So
[01:55:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. See, I that's that's something I never got into is watching comic book movies. Yes.
[01:55:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But the the the Marvel ones the first ten years of Marvel ones, they did a really good job.
[01:55:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. I I'm not saying they didn't. They just those those things just kinda don't excite me. I mean, I I never got into comic books. You know? I was I was never into comics, really. So Right. So that stuff just doesn't excite me too much.
[01:55:59] Rich Chelson:
I would have to agree with Rich. I'm not a big Marvel fan, and I wasn't a comic book fan myself.
[01:56:07] Bryan Goodwin:
I didn't wasn't a huge comic book fan. I wasn't I'm not someone who could sit there and and and, state the, you know, all the little details about, you know, all the hidden Easter eggs. I find them hidden Easter eggs and, that they put into the movies fascinating. But, I mean, they're not on it. Not so I'd I'd go off the hand.
[01:56:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You say that's you say I I I didn't movies had Easter eggs.
[01:56:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, they do. Yeah. I mean, they, they'll show in, like they'll give, callbacks and stuff to the original, original characters. They'll talk about how, you know, like, Captain America used to have his, his helmet used to have, the, the wings on the side of his hell. I think they hit yeah. The wings on the side of his helmet at one time. And so they they they will stick those things in the, in the movie for the for the big movie, for the, the big comic book fads so they have something to see and go, oh, hey. I know what that is. So what I usually would do is I would go through and watch the movie and then watch, was it New Rockstars and all their the they're they would do a series of all the, of all the Easter eggs they found or, or what's his name? Ryan Airy from, ScreenCrush.
He also does basically the same thing, and they just cover all the different, hidden Easter eggs that are in the, in the the, the the movies. And it's like, oh, oh, okay. Oh, I see. Alright. Now now I understand that. And some of it you kinda like going you'll you'll notice it and you're like, okay. What's that supposed to be? And you have no idea till till you read up on it, then you're like, okay. Now now I'll come play handy. So
[01:58:06] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah. Say say with me, I mean, I could watch a movie, and and I could read up on it probably a couple hours later, yeah, I'm not gonna remember it. I mean, that's a lot of times I resent Unless I resentful that remark. I mean I mean, unless unless it was it was a movie that that, you know, got me in the feels or something like that Oh, yeah. Then then I might. But other than that, I it's I don't know. That's that's me. I'm weird. You know? I'm weird like that. I don't know why I do that, but I do. Why? Yes. You are. By god.
And that's the thing about, six months later, even if I like the movie, I done forgot about it. No. Seriously. I mean, I just I don't that jokes, you know, small shit like that, I just cannot for some reason, I just cannot keep ahold of it in my head.
[01:59:23] Rich Chelson:
That's because those two marbles that are rolling around in your head, try to knock everything out.
[01:59:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Too many drugs, man.
[01:59:39] Rich Chelson:
Drugs, man.
[01:59:43] Duuude-Ron :
And that's the thing. I didn't do I didn't do that many when I was younger. I wasn't that bad.
[01:59:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I
[01:59:53] Duuude-Ron :
bet I bet a liberal's listening to this right now. I was like, oh my god. It's like, what? Really? Come on now.
[02:00:03] Rich Chelson:
You stick in the mud, man. Come on.
[02:00:07] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, who says I can't do it? Right. Say to government because I didn't get caught. So who says I can't do it? See?
[02:00:27] Rich Chelson:
See? No one. That's right.
[02:00:31] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. I got you.
[02:00:34] Rich Chelson:
And here's probably the biggest question is is all these liberals, you know, criticize of what's being done. But how many of have of them have done the same damn thing?
[02:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
Quite a few. Probably more than half.
[02:00:56] Rich Chelson:
Thank you.
[02:01:00] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm just I'm just speculating there, but, you know dude. Hey, dude.
[02:01:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, we Yeah.
[02:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
What is your tip of the week, man?
[02:01:14] Rich Chelson:
Tip of the week.
[02:01:16] Duuude-Ron :
Tip of the week. What is it?
[02:01:19] Rich Chelson:
Do not drive the tip of the week. Do not drive in inexcessive speed when it's freaking downporn because you're gonna hydroplane.
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
Are you sure you're gonna hydroplane?
[02:01:40] Rich Chelson:
Saw it today.
[02:01:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. How many three sixties did you see?
[02:01:49] Rich Chelson:
Luckily, I didn't see any three sixties.
[02:01:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, man.
[02:01:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That's always the fun part.
[02:01:56] Rich Chelson:
I know. What's in the Yeah.
[02:02:00] Duuude-Ron :
No. I just man.
[02:02:03] Rich Chelson:
No. I just saw a car in front of me when I got those 900 gazillion raindrops on my truck today. They're driving down the road, and all of a sudden, that car just shifted to the right real quick.
[02:02:21] Duuude-Ron :
All on its own.
[02:02:24] Rich Chelson:
All on its own. Yep.
[02:02:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, it's yeah. It's always good to, keep good tires on your vehicle too.
[02:02:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:02:38] Rich Chelson:
Does that I'll tell you what. And that was the same person that passed me on a double yellow line. Was in such a hurry, but almost fucking took out the damn car.
[02:02:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know what? Karma got got the revenge. It did. See?
[02:03:04] Rich Chelson:
He did slow down. That's for sure.
[02:03:08] Duuude-Ron :
I mean I mean, at least he didn't get hurt. That's a good thing. But you know? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I would I would laugh. I would laugh hard.
[02:03:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I love the fucking you know, some of these reels that come up on my Facebook feed. I love watching Instant Karma. Yeah. When some dumbass is doing something on the road. I saw one, an unmarked unmarked police car. The guy passes him. He was in the far left hand lane. The guy passes him on the shoulder on the left on the highway, gets in front of him, and then brake checks him.
[02:03:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He's got multiple colors in his rear view.
[02:04:05] Rich Chelson:
Yes. He did. A lot of flashing red and blue lights. Well, you can see what I love instant karma. I would love to see a lot more of it. Personally Yeah. But but whenever I see it on TV, I'm happy. Makes my day. Just like somebody getting slapped in the back of the head. For whatever reason, that just that I find that the funniest damn thing when I see somebody get hit in the back of the head. Hilarious.
[02:04:56] Duuude-Ron :
Even yourself?
[02:04:58] Rich Chelson:
Not so much.
[02:05:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I had to ask. I mean, you know.
[02:05:07] Rich Chelson:
I love it when somebody gets a DiNozzo slap. Everybody here knows what a Denozzo slap is. Right? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I was gonna say I made that statement, and then it got awfully quiet. So, but, yeah, it just fascinates the hell out of me when somebody gets smacked in the back of the head. Or better yet, that one that I sent, that meme that I sent with the guy that had the hot coffee or the hot water or whatever and put it up underneath the guy's hand, and the guy just reacted and smacked the guy next to him. They were holding the phone.
[02:05:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was a good one. That's a yeah. I saw that one. That was a good one.
[02:06:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That was fucking hilarious.
[02:06:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See, dude. But if
[02:06:11] Rich Chelson:
that to me, it's but, of course, Rich would me to have to.
[02:06:22] Duuude-Ron :
Do what, dude? You broke up.
[02:06:29] Bryan Goodwin:
He's really breaking up. Yeah. It's okay, man. Not being that we don't like you. Just letting you know we didn't hear everything you said.
[02:06:41] Duuude-Ron :
We're gonna lose him here in a second. I know we are.
[02:06:49] Rich Chelson:
So yep. Yep. Yep. I'm sure he's here in a sec.
[02:06:55] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Can you hear me now? Hey. There he is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. Say it again, dude.
[02:07:02] Rich Chelson:
But you put on sweet
[02:07:06] Duuude-Ron :
What was that?
[02:07:07] Rich Chelson:
I have no fucking idea. I opened up a web page because I was looking for things to talk about.
[02:07:13] Duuude-Ron :
Wow.
[02:07:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Like, ah, audio. Audio. No. I don't need audio.
[02:07:19] Rich Chelson:
Alright. So what the hell was I saying anyway?
[02:07:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't remember. I did those slaps and
[02:07:25] Rich Chelson:
and Oh, yeah. It's, you know, if it happens to somebody else, fucking hilarious. If it happens to me, not so hilarious, but I'm sure Rich would be fucking dying on the floor laughing.
[02:07:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I would. I would. You say I say I wasn't sure what you said on that first time, and that's why I'd asked you to say it again, and that was when your phone
[02:07:51] Rich Chelson:
started to die on us. Yeah. Shit itself. You know? Yeah. But Yeah. It's like signal shitting. Yeah.
[02:07:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, just to let y'all know, just in case y'all wanna get in the ham radio, I will be having a ham radio for sale here soon.
[02:08:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, really? Yes.
[02:08:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[02:08:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Which one are you ditching?
[02:08:16] Duuude-Ron :
The seven ten.
[02:08:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Seven ten split, man. That thing is always tar hard to get. It
[02:08:23] Rich Chelson:
is. Now It is.
[02:08:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The seven ten split is, but, seven ten is, easy to get. Oh, okay. No. No. I'm a sell it because, yeah, I went ahead and bought that one radio if I fucking wanted. Yeah. Alright. Talk to myself. No. I and I mean I mean I mean, there is nothing wrong with the seven ten. It's it's a good radio. It's just I don't like the screen. Right. Because it I and because it has all this eye candy shit on it. Now it's like some of it's useful, but most of it is, like yeah. It stupid. And it like, to change filters on the seven ten
[02:09:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I've got Is that the one I have? The digital screen? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha.
[02:09:28] Duuude-Ron :
The, the seven ten has has has one button you push, and you've got four different filters you can change, but you gotta hit each button or the same button. Like, you hit it once to bring the whole thing up, and then and then you got the first filter. You hit it, adjust it, hit it again to to save it, and then rotate to the second one, hit it to change it, hit it to save it, and you gotta freaking keep doing that. It drives me up fucking wall. The freaking radio I got, I've got knobs. It's gorgeous. I've got fucking knobs, and it just the knobs are right there at my fingertips, and I adjust.
There's no screen. There's a display that that tells me the frequency and where my my filters are set at and shit, but that's it. There's it's just a display. It's it's an old school radio is what it is. But yeah.
[02:10:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, that's basically the difference between a pure p r 77 and a Singar's radio.
[02:10:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:10:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We we actually just had the knobs, and the had all the fucking buttons and digital crap. Yeah. You know?
[02:10:54] Duuude-Ron :
But no. I mean I mean, the seven ten is a great radio, and and, you know, this I can probably get this new radio to work on f t eight, but I'm gonna use, like, my, g 90 or something to, run f t eight and digital modes and stuff like that. So I'm gonna sell this seven ten.
[02:11:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, there you go.
[02:11:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I tried I tried I I held off pretty good. I actually held off for quite a while.
[02:11:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's what you were saying. Yep. That's what you were saying.
[02:11:42] Bryan Goodwin:
What was it, couple weeks ago about that?
[02:11:46] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean well, I just I just bought this, like, what what late last week?
[02:11:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, that you were gonna go to that that you the radio that you wanted.
[02:12:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Vince yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I had no hard date. And because the one the one I had tried to get off eBay, someone else bought it out from under me. I was like, damn. Okay. So I was like, alright. That's fine. I'll just I'll just I won't I won't worry about it that much. And then, I was I was looking around at something, and I found this other site where this one was at, and, I looked at it. Dude was in Neosho, Missouri, and he, he's a ham radio operator, and he works on them and shit like that. So and he he had this one for sale.
[02:12:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's the one that you wanted, and the one that you really don't wanna use, why not sell it? Somebody will somebody, I'm sure, will snatch it up pretty quickly.
[02:13:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. It won't sit long. It won't sit long. I know that. Because, I mean, that because you see, that's the thing. You know? I've been I've been, I've been comparing the, the, receives on both radios, and I can see where the $7.10 is better because it's, you know, it's it's got more software, more software architecture in it, but it's not light years ahead of what I just purchased. And this radio I just purchased was built back in 02/2008. Yeah. Well So and this seven ten is only three years old, so it was made in '22. Either way, though, I can hit one button and be listening to WSM six fifty AM out of Nashville.
[02:14:17] Rich Chelson:
What is that? Old country?
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah, buddy. That's old country. Well, they do they do mix up. Well, when I say old country, they go all the way from the fifties to today.
[02:14:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. But they play more of the old country than they do the new country.
[02:14:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:14:45] Rich Chelson:
Or is it equal?
[02:14:47] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They they tend to stay anywhere from the 2 thousands on back to the fifties.
[02:14:55] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:14:56] Duuude-Ron :
They do they do play some of the new country, you know, and stuff like this. But, but, yeah, I can get six only at night, though. I can't get 06:50AM during the day. No.
[02:15:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, because there's too much cell phone traffic.
[02:15:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that and everything else that is using a radio frequency. 1,200 w o a I.
[02:15:22] Bryan Goodwin:
So when the sun's the sun sets, they, they are able to turn the power up on their on their antenna, and they could keep it up until the sun till the sun comes up, and then they have to take it back down.
[02:15:36] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. W a I. I'm gonna have to see if I can't get them. WAI?
[02:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. You can pick up +1 WAI. I've picked it up at South Dakota before. Or was it South Dakota? Not South Dakota. Yeah. Yeah. That's where, what's the name of that freaking city? We went up there. I think it's South Dakota. Right. Black Hills. Okay. Where is okay. Black Hills, the, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Right? Yeah. Okay. Is there, like, a there is there, like, a I I know it's not River City because that every time I hear River City, I think of, Music Man. But,
[02:16:21] Duuude-Ron :
There's there's Deadwood, Sturgis, Rapid City. But no. Grand Rapid City. Rapid City. Yeah. We were picking up
[02:16:30] Bryan Goodwin:
picking up some, some cement out of, out of Rapid City, taking it down to to, to Denver.
[02:16:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So So what so is that station also old country?
[02:16:49] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's all talk radio.
[02:16:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:16:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See
[02:16:55] Rich Chelson:
If I tune it.
[02:16:57] Duuude-Ron :
See, if I tune I gotta find them again. The, the old shortwave stations, a lot of them are still going. You know? You can get a lot of shortwave stations from different countries and stuff. And, at night, you can hear them really well. They, used to be on 40 meters, but they moved them. I gotta find them again, because, the shortwave stations were actually interfering with the hand bands, especially at night and even some during the day. So so the International Amateur Radio Union, which is a worldwide governing body for amateur radio, basically moved the frequencies of the shortwave stations for the different countries.
Uh-huh. So but, yeah, I can tune them in too. I gotta find them again. Some of them are funny. I can't understand what you're saying half the time.
[02:18:04] Rich Chelson:
So here's the here's here's the biggest question.
[02:18:07] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[02:18:08] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So you're part of the Amateur Radio Association. Right? Where's the where's the Professional Radio Association?
[02:18:21] Duuude-Ron :
That's your FM channels, dude. That's your terrestrial radio.
[02:18:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:18:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it's it's called the Professional Broadcasters Association, PBA. Oh. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I and and, I mean, I I can't say I'm a part of the amateurs whatever because it's I mean, it's just it's it's not. We just, like like, the IARU is, consists of each country as a representative, and they have a summit every year. And they discuss band plans between countries and and, you know, stuff like this. And, you know, if there's any rule changes that that that might help out the rest, you know, everybody in the world is, basically what that is. They set, like, zone CQ zones and everything, see if certain cities are in one zone this year or another zone next year.
It's all admin shit, basically.
[02:19:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:19:42] Duuude-Ron :
So but but see, that's the thing. No. It is this all this all I mean, I mean, it's not like it's not like I have to know this shit for a test or anything. It's just stuff you learn.
[02:20:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah.
[02:20:06] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, probably when we're done here, I'll probably listen to some WSM. I might look up 1,200. I I need to look up 700 WOW out of Cincinnati.
[02:20:18] Rich Chelson:
I thought that was different.
[02:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
What is that, dude? That's the count. That's the count.
[02:20:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I you whatever acronym you should send for the radio out of Cincinnati. I'm like, isn't that k WKRP?
[02:20:43] Duuude-Ron :
No. WLW had had you're funny, dude. Had the trucking bozo, man, back when he was alive.
[02:20:53] Rich Chelson:
Trucking bozo.
[02:20:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was dude, we we used to listen to the trucking bozo. Oh, god. Cross cross United States. Yeah. You turn on 700 WLW. He was a truck driver himself back in the day, and he become a broadcaster. And, oh, man, anybody who was everybody listened to it. And, I tell you what, that man said whatever the hell he wanted, and no one no one argued with him. You know? You know, as far as the radio stations go, He said whatever the hell he wanted. And it was it was it was great. And and, you could call in and request songs and all kinds of stuff. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Shit. Back in the day before the Internet, we got a lot of our news about the trucking industry from him.
[02:21:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, really? Mhmm.
[02:22:04] Rich Chelson:
Wow. Okay.
[02:22:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. This is yeah. I'm going way back way back before the Internet. You know? Because I mean, shit. Yeah. We yeah. Yeah. We didn't you know? Well, nothing was really on the Internet until the late nineties, and then it was still priced out of range. And none of the truck stops had Internet.
[02:22:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Shit. Oh, yeah.
[02:22:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So, I mean you know? And and, you know, if we spent months on the road, the CB and AM radio was how we got our information.
[02:22:49] Rich Chelson:
Absolutely.
[02:22:51] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I just dated myself for damn sure.
[02:22:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You old. But we but we already knew that. Right. You old.
[02:23:07] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, I think I think after the bozo passed, I think his son took it over took the show over. Oh, yeah? I think so. I don't know. I need well, here. I can probably look it up online and see if it's still going. Well, the well, the radio station is there still. That's a good thing. I said it's with iHeart
[02:23:43] Rich Chelson:
now.
[02:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. I gotta look and see because,
[02:23:52] Rich Chelson:
Dale Summers,
[02:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dale Summers. Yep. Yeah. He was I tell you what, that guy was awesome. Oh, they oh, they have the American Trucking Network now.
[02:24:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:24:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:24:18] Duuude-Ron :
At least they still have something. You know? Might not be the bozo, but they still have
[02:24:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Some of these Sure.
[02:24:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But no. Yeah. It was yeah. At night, man, we would try and get 700. We could get 700 better than a than a week to get six fifty. But, man, as soon as as soon as I could get six fifty back in the day, man, that was sweet sound coming up out of that radio with the crackles, the hisses, the pops.
[02:25:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:25:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was man, that's living. I don't care who he is. Yeah. You know, I wonder I wonder I wonder what what, kids would do nowadays or even some young adults would do if if, if, we went back to AM radio.
[02:25:35] Rich Chelson:
Lose their fucking mind.
[02:25:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, when they make cars now, cars don't have an AM side anymore on the stereo, I don't think. Wow. Yeah. They just have FM and barely even that anymore.
[02:25:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh.
[02:26:04] Duuude-Ron :
Well and and you see, that's the thing. If, I mean, FM the the FM stations have gotten and, well, AM's gotten bad too, but, you know, of all the freaking commercials, shit. I'd I'd rather watch TV with commercials than listen to a radio station with
[02:26:23] Rich Chelson:
commercials. Oh, I know.
[02:26:25] Duuude-Ron :
You know, they might play three songs an hour and the rest are commercials. And that's why, well, that's why podcasting took over. Absolutely. Podcasting and iHeartRadio, Spotify, all these all these others took over because people were tired because advertising took over regular radio.
[02:26:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:26:54] Duuude-Ron :
So but they still have radio stations because there's some people out here that, I guess, still listen to FM radio. And what does? I do. Okay. Yeah. See, FM radio, no. I I don't really. That's where I'll use, YouTube, you know, iHeartRadio. I won't use Spotify. I hate Spotify.
[02:27:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I don't buy Spotify for music, but Spotify, for for podcast, oh, hell no.
[02:27:41] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. No. No. I no. I I wouldn't even talk about podcasts and Spotify because, yeah, those two words do not go together. I don't care what Spotify says. But yeah. FM radio because I I mean, I've tried because I've got a little radio at my workshop. Sometimes when I'm outside, I'll turn the radio on. And it's like, good god, people. Shut the fuck up and play some music, please.
[02:28:15] Rich Chelson:
No no shit.
[02:28:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like, damn, please. I just I just want and and that's the thing. I'll flip I don't I don't care what genre it is anymore. As long as as long as I hear music coming out of the speaker, I don't care what I don't care what kind of music it is. Right. You know? Just as long as you're not telling me about, you know, this sale on cars or this sale on beds. I don't give a fuck.
[02:28:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's amazing that, when you talk about commercials that right now up until about week and a half ago, every damn commercial was concerning car sales and use your refund. It's like, goddamn it. Shut the fuck up, people.
[02:29:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. They want your money.
[02:29:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep. I know.
[02:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Because people still ain't figured out, you can legally claim two. A single person can legally claim two on a tax return and not have to pay any taxes. You just get a smaller refund or you break even. I learned that a long time ago.
[02:29:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. But Yeah. I don't yeah. I tried to give just enough myself to try to break even.
[02:30:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I did that for years. I claimed two because you can legally claim two, you know, as a single person. And, you get more money in your check. And Yep. Nine times out of 10, you don't have to pay. You know, if you get anything back, it might be four or five hundred bucks. You know? It's not the 3,000 most people get back, but I figure I got I got my money during the year.
[02:30:40] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. That's what shit. 90% of The US citizens use as their savings account. Mhmm.
[02:30:53] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. And that's why that's why you got all these commercials about buy a car, buy a car, use your tax refund. Yeah. Give us the $3,000 down. We'll still charge you 15% interest, and your payments will still be 650 a month. But you'll have a brand new car.
[02:31:16] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[02:31:19] Duuude-Ron :
But, hey, I'm not knocking anybody. You do you, boo. Yep.
[02:31:26] Rich Chelson:
That's just like this payday, I'll be $800 $900 richer.
[02:31:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah, dude. That's So
[02:31:39] Rich Chelson:
I'm happy about that.
[02:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
I I'd be I'd be happy.
[02:31:44] Rich Chelson:
I'll be damned if I'm gonna fucking trade it in.
[02:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know that. Yeah. I would I would probably have to give you a DiNozzo slap when I saw you for that one if you did that.
[02:31:58] Rich Chelson:
No. You wouldn't give me a DiNozzo snap slap. You would give me a kit d. Probably so, man. You know what a kit d is. Right?
[02:32:14] Duuude-Ron :
I believe I do. Tell me.
[02:32:17] Rich Chelson:
Kicking the dick. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because I'd be like, dude, you just gotta pay it off. Fuck, no. Keep it.
[02:32:27] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah.
[02:32:29] Duuude-Ron :
Paid off means you own the motherfucker.
[02:32:32] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[02:32:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Yours. Yours. All yours. That's right. That's right. Absolutely. Now you can drop your insurance down to just liability and even better.
[02:32:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You can do that. Probably won't do that. Oh, I mean, that's fine. But, you know, that's the thing. You have that option. You have options, dude.
[02:32:58] Rich Chelson:
You're right. I do have options, but, you know, the way people fucking drive in the state of Texas, when it fucking rains, their head explodes. When it snows when their when it snows, their head just completely explodes off their shoulders. Yeah. That's I can't afford them I can't afford them dumb motherfuckers.
[02:33:27] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, see, though, the thing is okay. Check this out. My g, when I do get it paid off, if it's if if the insurance isn't astronomical, I don't think it is because right now, I've got full coverage on my Jeep, and I only pay, what, a hundred and I'd have to look, like, a hundred and $30 a month. Right. And that's that's for full coverage. So that's not too bad, really.
[02:33:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, I pay a little over 400. However however, I have, yeah, four vehicles and three people on the policy. Right.
[02:34:18] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, you've got you've got multiple people and
[02:34:22] Rich Chelson:
you pay multiple people.
[02:34:24] Duuude-Ron :
You pay how much?
[02:34:26] Rich Chelson:
A little over 400.
[02:34:29] Duuude-Ron :
If you break that down, that's that's a little over a hundred dollars each. So that's not too bad.
[02:34:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're you're right. You know? Compared with what, you know, what you just said as having a single vehicle, yeah, my price is probably maybe a little bit lower because of the fact that I have the multi car discount.
[02:34:58] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I say I got well, mine, I got 12, military. I got I got I don't I don't know how many freaking discounts I got. I got all kinds of fucking discounts. I can't I can't keep up with them.
[02:35:14] Rich Chelson:
Well, there you go.
[02:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Because they're like, oh, you get this. Oh, you get this. You know, I got a paperless discount. I got a veteran's discount. I got a multiple policy discount. I got three or four other discounts. I don't fucking know. Just just tell me how much I owe you each month. If it's too high, I'll tell you to kiss my ass.
[02:35:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There you go. I You know? Yep.
[02:35:47] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But yeah. No. It's it's
[02:35:52] Rich Chelson:
but You know, like you said, you know, just tell me how much I owe you. But you know what? I appreciate all the discounts. And if you wanna give me more, I'll take them.
[02:36:03] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I'll take them all day long.
[02:36:06] Rich Chelson:
But If there's if there's discount for ugly, damn right. I'll take that 50%.
[02:36:14] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Fuck. Yeah. I'm game. I'm on it, dude. Yeah. No. I'll yeah. I'll definitely do that. Right. No. That's cool, dude. Your Jeep will be paid off, man.
[02:36:36] Rich Chelson:
No. Actually, come to find out that April 1 was my last payment. So May 1, I'll have all that money back in my wallet.
[02:36:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah.
[02:36:53] Rich Chelson:
Nice. So that so that I can start paying off my air conditioning system a little bit faster because that's $500 a month for four years to pay that system off. But so far so far, I think we've gotten into the mid nineties, and this air conditioning system is doing pretty good. So we'll wait and see how the summer does, and, hopefully, I don't have to put the window unit back in the dining room window and my house was at, you know, 77 degrees, I will be happy. Okay. I just don't have the 600 to $800 electric bill.
[02:37:56] Duuude-Ron :
You won't.
[02:37:58] Rich Chelson:
But, yeah, as just being an energy efficient system, and it's a hell of a lot more efficient than my other one was, that's for damn sure. You know, I'm sure that, yeah, my I will see a decrease in the in the summer electricity bill, which will be very nice. Oh, okay. And being and being cool in the house instead of coming home, and it's, you know, 86, 80 eight degrees inside. It's like yeah.
[02:38:36] Duuude-Ron :
No. It'll be, like, 72. You'll be needing your will be.
[02:38:45] Rich Chelson:
No. I'm good at I'm good at 7677. Right. Yeah. Those two, I'm I'm good. I'm comfortable.
[02:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
You better bring your whoopie when you come to my house because my house is, like, 72, dude.
[02:39:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, I will get I will acquire a Wobie.
[02:39:05] Duuude-Ron :
You ain't got one?
[02:39:07] Rich Chelson:
Dude. No. No. I gave all my military stuff, my uniforms, sleeping bag, boots, the whole nine yards to this, homeless gentleman that I met
[02:39:23] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[02:39:25] Rich Chelson:
That benefited benefited from it greatly because it was only collect dust in my garage. Right. Cool. Cool. And I haven't seen him in quite some time, so I don't know what has happened to him. But, you know, yeah, he when I started presenting him with all that stuff and, you know, I told him, take what you want. If you want everything, then take everything. Don't bother me. I had that gentleman in tears. Right. Because, you know, to him, that was worth a fucking lot. To me, it was just collecting dust, so why not?
[02:40:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:40:21] Rich Chelson:
So that's those tiers were my thank you. And very well you know, that was a very well, money's worth.
[02:40:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:40:47] Rich Chelson:
Trust me. I would love to love to win the lottery, and there's one guy I see, I think I've subscribed to him, that he's built up a huge following. I I think his name is Zach, and he's on, TikTok. And, basically, what he does is he he doesn't go to, like, big chain places. He goes to mom and pop shops, and he'll go in there, order a specific meal. And then when they bring it out, it's like, hey. Can I get a thousand of those? And they're like, what the hell? And he yeah. I'm going to feed homeless. And this every bit of that and I'm sure he may have sponsors, on TikTok.
But for the most part, every bit of this is out of his own pocket.
[02:41:54] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. I've seen those.
[02:41:56] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And, there it's getting more, and and he only uses mom and pop shops, you know, because, one, they make a hell of a lot better food. But it also he does advertising for them because he has such a huge following base, and there's a lot of them now that are just they won't let they will not let him pay.
[02:42:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I've seen those.
[02:42:33] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So it's a win win for everybody. Yeah. The business, you know, they're getting excellent freaking advertisement because then that all goes to word-of-mouth advertisement, and that's the best kind of advertisement. And then, you know, the homeless are also getting their needs met. Yeah. So one day, if I ever come into a large sum of money, I will do that myself.
[02:43:22] Bryan Goodwin:
It'd be cool to be able to do that. I agree.
[02:43:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I think it's looking to be about that time, Brian. Yep. Yeah. We're looking about $9.45. So
[02:43:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Ourselves all all cashed in and get through get her laid down for the night. So, anyhow, guys, thank you all very much for all y'all coming in and sitting down, having a listen, seeing what, the show is all about. The, two Grumpy Bets of Dude is a podcast that we've just kinda put together just as a means to for us three friends to be able to sit together and live life intentionally. And so we take that time and and share our thoughts and our insights and and, whether we are right or wrong is beside the point, but we just like we we share our opinions about what's happening in the world, and we have a, we have a good time doing it just because, hey. It's the it's not so much are we all correct, but it's about are we having a good time while we're talking. And we do that a lot. We I think we get it probably right half the time and wrong the other half, and and we're okay with it. We're just here to have a good time, laugh, and and and enjoy, enjoy each other's company. And our show is a little bit different than what most podcasts are these days because most podcasts, somewhere along the way of of this three hour journey, you would have heard advertisements for, for, for mattresses. You would have heard, probably a McDonald's, pop in there someplace.
You would have heard, you know, a bunch of other commercials. We don't do the commercials. Why do we not do the commercials? Well, we don't want it to commercials. We see commercials as a well, we got to see the evidence of when you are beholden to a advertiser because so many people even now, you go on to YouTube, you hear people talk about, they have a cord addiction or they are talking about pew pews or they're they're talking about, self deleting or there's talking about, talked about other, absurd ways of describing other actual words. And why do they use, corn instead of porn? Why do they use self deleting instead of talking about suicide?
What suicide is something that needs to be talked about? Because if they say those types of words, you won't get advertising on YouTube. Well, I don't really don't care if we get advertising on YouTube. We don't care about advertising on YouTube. We don't care about advertising on our show because we are a value for value show. That means that if you have a modern podcast gap, like podcast guru or truefans.fm or, fountain app, all these, all these apps have extra features that that iTunes, or Apple Podcasts or even Spotify, heaven forbid, happened to have.
And the reason, what they have is things like the pod roll, which is a funny sounding name, but, basically, we have suggestions for other shows that you might be interested in watching. These are shows that we've listened to and that we find interesting, and we think that you might enjoy them also. There's also the, live in person tag that is the l the lit tag, and that allows us to be able to stream our show live every Thursday. We stream it live. You could hear it without, any type of interruptions. And, it comes to you courtesy of the podcasting two point o, specifications that are, that are put into the modern podcast apps.
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And so you can do time, you can put talent, or you can put your treasure, which is, again, that's just the money. And what we do with that money is we just take it and we turn it to, to help pay for the, the hosting of the podcast. And and when we get enough, we'll actually turn it into into merchandise and things like that that, folks can be able to attain. So it's great that we're able to do this. So, again, everybody who listens, I appreciate y'all listening. And, if you have any questions, comments, or anything like that, you can always shoot me an email at [email protected]. You get ahold of Rich over at r chelson, that's [email protected].
And, hopefully, next week, I don't sound like I've been punched in the nose too many times. So, I I could probably may hopefully, be able to talk a little more co coherently. So but anyhow, if not, then, then we'll just, continue to make fun of the way I sound. So but, anyhow, so, Rich, what do you say about, in your closing shots?
[02:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, first off, I gotta say, you're just not being truthful that your wife is the one that beats you up this week. No. No. No. She
[02:50:54] Bryan Goodwin:
she she stays away from me whenever whenever I sound like this, she won't have anything to do with with me. She's she I if I mentioned somebody gets sick, she winds up catching it. I'll she's just she don't have to pull out the, the virus out through phones. It's scary. So
[02:51:13] Duuude-Ron :
That's funny. No. I just had to say something. I I just thought it was funny. Oh, yeah. Anyway, yeah. I just wanna thank everybody who's still listening. This is our fifty second episode and never thought we would make it this far. Oh my god. This has been it it's crazy because yes. Yeah. Go back and listen to some of our past episodes, and you'll hear I mean, we haven't changed much. We still do we still do the same thing we did back then, but, you know, yeah, we've got we've got quite a few, shows that that we go down many different subjects in a night. So but, Yeah. I just wanna thank everybody that listens. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Share this out.
You know, if you wanna talk to us, please, by all means, just let you know my name is not Rachel. It's Richard, Not Rachel.
[02:52:13] Rich Chelson:
Always Rachel.
[02:52:16] Bryan Goodwin:
What's that, dude? I just ain't other I just I got nothing at all. What's that now, Michael?
[02:52:24] Duuude-Ron :
Anyway, yeah. Just send us an email. You can send it to [email protected] or send one to me, [email protected]. And if you wanna talk to the dude and hear the dude's wisdom on on a subject, send an email to either Brian or I, and we will make sure the dude answers it on the air just for you. You know, that's that's I I mean, I would love for someone to send an email for the dude. That would be, like, really, really cool. So but, yeah, other than that, thanks for listening. Keep listening, and, you know, keep telling everybody. And who knows? Maybe one day, you know, we'll all get together and be geeks. So that's all I got. Dude, what you got?
[02:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, like you said, it's always enjoyable just for us to see how far how far and how many rabbit holes we can possibly go into and be able to, again, just yeah. Our every episode, little bit different, but it's, you know, we anything that comes to mind is what we will discuss. It ain't gonna be anything important. You know? So but, again, thank you for everybody that, chimes in and tunes in, and it's great to have you listening to us. And we enjoy what we do, and I hope you, also are enjoying the you know, our conversation.
[02:54:16] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Well, guys
[02:54:21] Bryan Goodwin:
I believe I believe that's a wrap. That it is. So alright. Well, guys, I appreciate all both of y'all coming on, and we're getting to talk once more. And, I appreciate everything that y'all do and the insights and the and the, the misdirections and the fun times y'all y'all provide. So, anyhow, guys, y'all take care. We will see y'all next week. To the audience, man, y'all take care, and we will see y'all next week too. Till then, bye.
[02:54:50] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:54:51] Rich Chelson:
Peace out.
[02:54:54] Duuude-Ron :
It's y'all. Get to feeling better, Brian. I'll definitely be driving that. So Alright. See you later.
[02:55:00] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Later.
[02:55:01] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Bye.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living, having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan Rich and the Duuude.
[00:00:34] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, what's up?
[00:00:35] Rich Chelson:
What's up?
[00:00:37] Duuude-Ron :
Not much, man. What's up with you?
[00:00:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I got about nine nine hundred gazillion or more raindrops on my truck today.
[00:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, really?
[00:00:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Okay. So Heading up 36, going to Abilene. Uh-huh. Right after Comanche, it starts to get dark. I mean, nighttime dark. And then it just, of course, opens up Damn. All the all the way for the next what is it? Nine 82 miles to Abilene. When I get to Abilene, fucking blue skies. I'm like, alright. At least I don't have to inventory shit in the rain. You know? I don't have to do anything in the rain. So I'm like, this is good. However, I knew however, I knew what was gonna happen coming back. So get all that done, all the paperwork, get back in the truck, start heading back to Belton.
Right after damn, I can never remember the fucking name of that damn town. It's the one where Brian's mom doesn't live too far away.
[00:02:10] Duuude-Ron :
Don't get me to lie.
[00:02:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. It's yeah. Damn. I always fucking forget that town town's name. But, anyway, it's about halfway between, Comanche and Belton. So I get through there. Oh, is that Hamilton? Hamilton. Why? I can never fucking remember that town and the that name of that fucking town, Hamilton. So I'm getting about just on the other side of Hamilton about 10 miles down the road, starts a sprinkle. I'm like, yep. And then from there, all the way into Belton was just another 900 gazillion raindrops that hit my truck. You know, not the surrounding area. Just my truck.
[00:03:05] Duuude-Ron :
So Yeah.
[00:03:06] Rich Chelson:
Just my truck. So, you know and the car next to me or in front of me probably got about 900 gazillion, you know, if my calculations were correct.
[00:03:17] Duuude-Ron :
The cloud was centered over your truck and and any other vehicle that that ventured by you.
[00:03:24] Rich Chelson:
And for the next 60 miles
[00:03:28] Duuude-Ron :
Dang. Or so. It was So I was following you pretty damn quick.
[00:03:34] Rich Chelson:
No. Well, no. I I went through it North Of Comanche, left, and got to go through it again because it was heading west or east. No. Yeah. Which direction?
[00:03:54] Duuude-Ron :
South?
[00:03:55] Rich Chelson:
No. It was heading east or Okay. Northeast. So I hit the same storm twice. Once going there and once coming back. So I was like, this is going to be an outstanding motherfucking day. And it was.
[00:04:18] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:04:20] Rich Chelson:
Very interesting. Yeah. So So that was my day.
[00:04:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Mine mine was, a little better. I mean, it wasn't it wasn't bad at all. You know? Nice warm weather. I think even though it's not saying it in the in the in the weather report, I feel a change coming in the weather.
[00:04:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Don't we all when we get old?
[00:04:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah. I mean I mean, it's just it's just been different. My I've just I I have felt and, yeah, I've got I've got no rain showing for at least a week, but the weather is just I don't know. It's been weird today. But, and, like, I was playing AM radio today, and and propagation, well, the last couple days have just really sucked balls. You know? Some of some of the bands that I talk on normally come in about, yeah, between ten and noon.
[00:05:34] Rich Chelson:
But Okay.
[00:05:36] Duuude-Ron :
Those bands yeah. Three, four, 05:00 in the evening is when they finally get rolling, and then they're dead probably about 09:00. And it's like, what the hell is going on? And there's no solar flares or nothing, so I I'm not I'm not quite understanding it. I mean, we've got pretty good numbers as far as propagation goes, but, yeah, it's just it's it's it's just been a weird week.
[00:06:06] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:06:07] Duuude-Ron :
And, I mean but but I will say I will say the contacts I have made, they've been really good contacts. I mean, everyone says I've got a booming signal, which that's awesome. I love to hear that. So
[00:06:23] Rich Chelson:
So what's the difference between a booming signal and a non booming signal? Well, if they if they can hear you talk
[00:06:31] Duuude-Ron :
Well is it? Yeah. Well, you see, the thing is I'm just using a hundred watts. And, normally, on a hundred watts, you know, a a, a good signal, you can hear them. It's it's it's just might be a little low. Your voice might go in and out with the atmospheric conditions or whatnot. That's Oh, okay. That's a good signal. A booming signal is when I key the mic with my hundred watts, and it sounds like that I'm sitting literally right next to them talking to them. That's a booming signal.
[00:07:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:07:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I mean I mean, yeah, it is you know, I've gotten I've actually gotten quite a few of those here, this past week, and and some even, you know, in, other countries. It's happened.
[00:07:31] Rich Chelson:
So where what countries did you talk to today?
[00:07:37] Duuude-Ron :
I just talked, just just before I jumped on here probably, oh, I don't know, about thirty, forty five minutes ago, I talked to Lisbon, Portugal.
[00:07:48] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:07:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I could god, I could hear him real well and, talk to him and, talked around The US. Talk there's another one I talked to. I can't remember who it was, but it was a a DX contact or contact. I think it was, Colombia. No. No. Say say Brazil was yesterday. Talked to Brazil yesterday. Talked to Lisbon today. And there's another one I talked to today. I can't remember where he was at. I wanna say Trinidad, but I might be wrong.
[00:08:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So Have you ever have you ever talked to Australia?
[00:08:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah?
[00:08:43] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yes. Okay.
[00:08:45] Duuude-Ron :
Been a while been a while since I talked to New Zealand, but, yeah, it just yeah. It wasn't too long ago. And I need to get back up with that old boy down there, but, we made a contact on seventeen and fifteen, you know, two different bands. I I had a real hard time hearing him. He could hear me, like, almost really, really good, but I couldn't hardly hear him. And I wanna try and get back up, you know, get back up with him and, you know, you know, talk to him on, other vans. But yeah.
[00:09:27] Rich Chelson:
Man, I wish I could do that with my GRMS.
[00:09:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. That's not gonna work. You would need to you would need to come over to the to the light and leave the dark side. You know, leave the dark side and come over to the light. It's calling you, dude.
[00:09:47] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, and, hell, the only time I do GRMS is when we're out wheeling. Right. So or in a convoy.
[00:10:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But, see, that's the thing. With a ham radio, you can sit in your house and throw up a wire antenna. Nobody will see it, so no one will know you have it. So if you have any HOA rules, you can tell them to suck up that one.
[00:10:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Thank goodness. I I will never live in an HOA ever.
[00:10:26] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. But but you see, that's the thing. Hands have gotten very creative, the ones that do live in HOAs. And, they still figure out how to put an antenna up, but still, I could set you up with a with a 29 foot vertical, and, it's an infrared random wire. You can talk all all over the world even from where you're at. I mean, I'm I'm reaching Texas, normally, pretty much every day. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Texas is normally not hard for me to get. So
[00:11:13] Rich Chelson:
And you and how do you know you, talking to a Texan? Because he's twanging.
[00:11:20] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Normally not. When I punch your call sign in into my logbook, it looks them up and tells me where they're at, or they'll tell me where they're at. Talked to an old boy just, he was at a park just west of, San Antonio today.
[00:11:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:11:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So yeah. You see, that's the thing. You see see, when you become a ham,
[00:11:48] Rich Chelson:
you're a I know. I am a that's just it. I am a ham.
[00:11:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, true. You are. Like Yeah. You don't have the call sign to go with it like I do. Say, I special.
[00:12:03] Rich Chelson:
But, you know, Yeah. You you're you're real special.
[00:12:08] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But yeah. No. I, when you become a ham, the the information that you put in on, on your, ham license application gets put into a gets put into a database. And, these, logbooks on the computer, you would bring them up. And when when you type a call sign in, it'll find your information and bring it up. It'll bring your address up and and, your name, call sign, shit like that, and and fill the login for you most away. And then Oh, okay. You just tab over, change a few numbers if you have to, and then hit enter, and it's logged. It's Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's, it's really easy.
But, but, yeah, you can normally find out where, people live and everything. Even even worldwide too. You get their addresses too.
[00:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Oh, wow.
[00:13:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. They yeah. So, yeah, like like like, say who was it? I talked to Lauro, I think it was. Italy. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. But either way, I I had typed in his call sign and because I I had heard the name before. I had worked in before and didn't realize it, and I I checked it, and sure enough, yeah, it has his address. You can send mail to him, like, a QSL card or whatnot, you know, and everything through the mail and shit like that.
[00:14:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:14:04] Duuude-Ron :
So but, yeah, that's, so, yes, it's it's actually pretty cool, man.
[00:14:13] Rich Chelson:
I believe you. I believe you. It is
[00:14:18] Duuude-Ron :
it is a lot of fun to sit in your house and talk all the way around the world. You can go on a vacation and not have to spend no money.
[00:14:32] Rich Chelson:
Or, be like what was that movie? Arnold Schwarzenegger was in it.
[00:14:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Don't give me a line.
[00:14:43] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Where you could go in and they put a, you know, like an EEG around your head and, you know, take you on a vacation. Just implant those memories and not go anywhere. Recall. Total recall. Total recall. Yep. Total recall.
[00:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
So but yeah. No. It I mean, yeah. You could really if you wanted. But yeah. I mean I mean, there's I mean and that's the thing, though. You see? You know, there's there's always someone on the radio. Now I'm not saying you can jump on it 02:00 in the morning. Well, yeah, if you drop down to the lower frequencies, you know, down 80 meters or 40 meters. Like, last night, I was sitting here listening on 40 meters, and there was, like, four or five people. And one guy, I think, was one or two guys was here in America, and the others were around the world. I'm not exactly sure where, but they were sitting there, and, apparently, they do this nightly.
They sit there and basically do what we do. Talk about whatever comes up.
[00:16:11] Rich Chelson:
Now but when they're doing that, are they still doing all the call signs and all that other stuff, or they just say the hell with that and just actually have a conversation?
[00:16:26] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Hold on. Hold on. First off, the only time a call sign has to be said is at the beginning of the QSEL. Basically, let's say you were BravoCharlie3TangoAlphaDelta. Okay? Okay. I would I would say your call sign, say this is November5BravoLimaMike. Do you copy? You would come back with November5BravoLimaMike. This is BravoAlpha3TangoAlphaDelta. Hey, Rich. How's it going? That's the last time you have to say a freaking call, sir.
[00:17:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:17:04] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I mean, yes. They say about every ten minutes, you're supposed to identify yourself. Some people do, some people don't. It's not a hard, fast rule, and no one's gonna send a po po to your door. So but, I mean, yeah, you you don't you don't have to you don't have to use call signs on on every, transmission. Now some people do, like, after two minutes, they'll say they'll say, like, November 5 bravo Lima Mike four ID. You no. You don't say that shit. That's just that's just people being scared. You know? You just you just talk.
[00:17:54] Rich Chelson:
You know? Oh, okay. Yeah. Alright. I gotcha. And
[00:17:58] Duuude-Ron :
and if one person gets done, he'll say over to you. And then you jump in and start talking. You ain't even gotta say your call sign no more.
[00:18:07] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Well, that's good because that would get very annoying very quickly
[00:18:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:18:17] Rich Chelson:
To say all that shit with a reply of yes.
[00:18:23] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. No. And to say that's, Yeah. No. It's it's it's nothing like like, what you had to do in the military or anything like that. It is it it is it is laid back more laid back than anything. So, I mean, it's not it's not a big it's not a big deal.
[00:18:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:18:51] Duuude-Ron :
But
[00:18:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, the and it's not like they even have a fucking ham police.
[00:18:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yes. I do. Yep. It is it's it's not it's not it's not an actual, department. But, yeah, if, if you're causing malicious interference, then, yes, HAMS will turn you into the FCC if they find out who you are.
[00:19:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:19:24] Rich Chelson:
Well and it
[00:19:27] Duuude-Ron :
Hang on. Hang on. But it's it's it's, it depends. They can turn you in. The FCC might or might not send you a letter. That's that's the first step. And if nothing has happened, then they might or might not come and see you. Now the FCC has fined people in the past, but last I heard, they don't really enforce enforce things much anymore. I'm not saying they don't.
[00:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:20:03] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Yeah. You don't hear much about it. Let's put it that way.
[00:20:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Yeah. Because we were at one of the parks one time, and I guess we hit a frequency that a ham operator was operating on. And got a case of the ass. So we just kinda changed channels. You know? Yeah. Okay. For, you know, for upsetting you, then, you know, yeah, but I would change channels.
[00:20:41] Duuude-Ron :
Hold it. Were you on your GMers?
[00:20:44] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[00:20:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And, no, I wasn't a ham radio operator then, more likely. I mean, it could have been, but but you see, that's the thing. When you're using GMers, believe it or not, you're you're supposed to have a, not a ham radio license, but a GMer's license
[00:21:03] Rich Chelson:
I know you are. With a call sign. But You're correct.
[00:21:07] Duuude-Ron :
But but this guy, you know, he, yeah, the dude the dude might have been on the frequency first. And, normally, if someone's on the frequency, see, this is why this is why before I transmit on an open frequency, I'll ask, is this frequency in use? Because at any point in time, you don't know someone over in European Russia is using that frequency, and he might he might hear my signal. And I might, you know, I might or might not hear him. You know? And so so if I say, is this frequency in use? And someone comes back, says, yes. The frequency is in use. Alright, man. Y'all have a good one. And I q s y to another channel or frequency.
You know? But if it's not being used, I'll ask a couple times, and, he'll, you know, I'll just I'll just go on doing doing what I plan to do on that frequency. You know? Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's all it's all it's all basically being courteous and being kind.
[00:22:24] Rich Chelson:
Well yeah. Absolutely. And, you know, yes, you're supposed to have a GRMS license. Now how many people that run GMers actually have a license? Very few. Not a lie.
[00:22:37] Duuude-Ron :
Very few. Very few. Yeah.
[00:22:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And there was a female group that I connected out with the park because, you know, the guys that I was running with had to leave early, and I still wanted to stay in wheel. Mhmm. So I just got in behind another group and then, you know, asked them, you know, can I just hang out at the back of your group? And they're like, sure. Why not? So I got their frequency that they're running, and there was this one lady just every other word was fuck this, fuck that, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Yeah. So I got on there. It's like, whoever is using the f bomb, you better stop before somebody finds out who you are and reports you to the FCC.
Right. So you better stop with the f bomb. This is a freaking yeah. You don't use that language on these radios. If you don't like it, you know, just stop.
[00:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, yeah. And see and see that's the thing, though. There's really gonna be no one to stop them. You know? If they wanna use it, they wanna use it. Like like on, like on the ham radios, there's a couple frequencies on the lower bands that there's, like, four or five guys sits on them, and, they talk about anything and everything, and they cuss up a storm and all like that. And we just ignore them. We don't talk to them. We just go on because they're not they're not interested in in talking to anybody else, but they're little cliques. So you know? Right.
[00:24:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. And and us in the military, you know, the f bomb is part of our language. Now we use it often, but it's not every other word. But it's just in general conversation more so than a civilian that has never been in the military.
[00:25:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well well, you see, that's the thing. Most people think it it it it it, it, it, behaves them to use that language, and they don't realize that the GMer's radios, run alongside with the FRS radios, which is the family radio service, and a lot of families switch between both sides. So Mhmm. They could be saying, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. And a six year old could hear that and guess guess what the six year old is saying for the next two months.
[00:25:38] Rich Chelson:
You know? And I know. And Right. Exactly. And really doesn't have any yeah. Doesn't. Yeah. Exactly. So and then come to find out, the same female that we use in all the the f bombs, 4 Corners. That's one of the places where four basically, four trails come together, and Mhmm. A lot of people have lunch there. You know? You know? 4 Corners. So we were stopped, and I come up and, you know, was talking with a couple of the other ladies. And the same lady was like, oh, it's that fucking asshole again in the red Jeep? So I found out who it was, and I walked over to her Jeep. I'm like, no. I am not the same fucking asshole that was here this morning.
So you might wanna get a control on your fucking language, and you better stop it with the way you talk on that radio. Because if somebody finds out who you are, yeah, you're gonna lose your freaking privilege real quick, and you're gonna get a fine. So just stop. Yeah. I she kinda got butt hurt. Oh, yeah. And I and you know what? I and I have wheeled with those a few of those same ladies, again, and never again, they said, had that one particular female ever gone out wheeling with them again. I'm like, good.
[00:27:21] Duuude-Ron :
That's good.
[00:27:23] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because she has, yeah, no ethics, no morals. Right. And, you know, and if you don't have that when when you're wheeling, you know, you're gonna get somebody hurt or you're gonna get or you're gonna destroy your shit. Well, let them destroy their shit. I would be laughing like a motherfucker. That's for sure. Right. Right. Yeah.
[00:27:49] Duuude-Ron :
Mister Brian, I heard you ding dong in. Yeah. I finally got on. Sorry.
[00:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That that's about right. It's it's ding dong in.
[00:27:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. As as Jumped in and and since you text, I was like, oh, son of a gun. That's what else was going on. I was, like, busy with mom. And then whatever got done, I was like, alright. Well, let's grab grab some lunch. And so I was chewing on lunch or supper whenever I got a text from you going, hey. You coming on? You died or whatever? And I was like, shit.
[00:28:19] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I knew I knew I knew you wasn't feeling that great last night, and it wasn't sounding great. I feel all all gobbed up. But Right. So so I was like, are you dead yet? Because, I mean, sometimes you're you're a few minutes behind, but you're barely thirty minutes,
[00:28:40] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, without letting me know. And and thirty minutes, and I've and and on top of that, I'm not driving. So I should've been there, but yeah. No. Mom was No. No. I just I don't have I don't have any sound on my phone. I was like, well, how are you talking to me? I had to figure out what she was meaning first. She was, she was meaning that her her ringtone is not coming through loud. I was like, well, let's turn everything up. So she went in there and she said, oh, everything's all turned up. She's like, well, then I would say, unpack your, phone from your case and start seeing how much lit and stuff you've built up in there.
[00:29:15] Duuude-Ron :
That's yeah. That is possible too.
[00:29:19] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:29:20] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Hey. Do y'all know what what this episode is?
[00:29:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Are we at fifty two?
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
This one is fifty two.
[00:29:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. Made a whole whopping year.
[00:29:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:29:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And I went through and re upped the, the the domain. So
[00:29:40] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah. It's looking like the numbers are down this month.
[00:29:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, mine mine are down two. So it's Oh, really? Yours are down two? I think it's I think it's not it's summertime.
[00:29:54] Duuude-Ron :
Spring. Yeah. Well, so, yeah, I was just yeah. I looked I looked this evening, and, I was like
[00:30:05] Rich Chelson:
Ouch.
[00:30:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Because we're because, we were, our lowest one before that I mean, I think I think we're 40 below our lowest one or no, 50. Oh, no. We went up, actually,
[00:30:26] Rich Chelson:
from from what I saw. We'll make up your goddamn mind. We went down. We went up. We went down. We went up.
[00:30:32] Duuude-Ron :
Well, hold on here. The whole world's Hold on to that go a minute. Hold on to that go a minute.
[00:30:39] Rich Chelson:
Make up my mind.
[00:30:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I'm fixing to hold on a dadgum minute. Before I jumped on, I looked at the numbers. It said we had, like, 96 as of, like, five minutes before I started everything. And then now, right now, I'm looking at it. It says it's one seventeen, and this is for the month of April. I mean, we still have six days left, five days left. So but our lowest month before that was in December, which okay. But we had one fifty in December. So, I mean, we're not far off our lowest month. Our our absolute lowest month was, well, April of last year, and we only had 60, but, I mean, that was in two weeks.
So our lowest full month after that was July 24. We were down to one thirty six. Yeah. And then December, we were down to one fifty. Other than that, we've been up over 200¢. Pretty much 2 yeah. 200¢. And even hit 300 1 month. So
[00:31:56] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Had,
[00:32:00] Bryan Goodwin:
most people like to download us about 1,900.
[00:32:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:32:06] Rich Chelson:
So oh, the fun.
[00:32:11] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. Hey. Did y'all say I don't I don't know if y'all heard. I I caught it last night, and, I didn't say nothing last night. I I was I was waiting till the night. Oh, shit. Uh-oh.
[00:32:30] Rich Chelson:
You did a fucking ride again.
[00:32:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. I freaking closed out the browser. Damn it. I was being stupid. But but the other day in the White House and I love the press secretary.
[00:32:45] Rich Chelson:
She's Oh, yeah. I know. She's Awesome.
[00:32:48] Duuude-Ron :
Did y'all hear that that a fucking reporter got fired? An AP reporter
[00:32:54] Bryan Goodwin:
got fired? Oh, they keep they keep kicking AP out. I mean, they went AP or AP sued and the and the and a judge was like, you can't really
[00:33:07] Duuude-Ron :
kick them completely out. So what they Oh, no. No. No. This is no. No. No. This is just in the last couple days, dude. No. No. Yeah. No. You yeah. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. They had kicked out the AP, blah, then all this fighting them back and forth and shit like this in the White House, whatever. No. You're right about that. But, no, this has just been this week. Apparently, this, freaking reporter was, they were in a in a press briefing, and AP reporter tried to say that the tariffs are tax hikes and not tax cuts and and just and just raking her over the fucking coals.
Right? And, she she flat came right back on him and, put him in his place. And and, I mean, this guy this guy, she took it as an insult. Yeah. A few hours later, the AP fired his ass. I mean, just I was like, oh my god. That is awesome. And and, dude, that was like that was like what what we was talking about last night at a job. Yep. Fire fire some motherfuckers, and people are start doing their fucking jobs. Yep. This is the same thing right here because this this reporter tried to make her look stupid, like like, she didn't know about economics, and she even came right out and said, you trying to make it sound like that. I don't know about economics?
Oh, yeah. She was pissed. And, yeah, it said it said in the article
[00:35:06] Bryan Goodwin:
that old Corinne Jean Claude Van Dampere or whatever her name is.
[00:35:12] Rich Chelson:
The old Oh, the last vice secretary.
[00:35:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Know shit.
[00:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Yeah. No. No. That girl didn't know shit. This girl Oh, yeah. You don't you don't fuck with this girl's No. No. She knows her shit. But, but, yeah, it was a it was like it was I was like, oh my god. That's that was fucking awesome.
[00:35:37] Rich Chelson:
Because people I'm sure I'll see it come up on a YouTube feed here pretty soon.
[00:35:43] Duuude-Ron :
You should. It's been it's been it's been, it's been this week when it happened.
[00:35:52] Rich Chelson:
You know? Oh, yeah. It'll come around. Somebody will somebody will post it. And I hope the and I hope the catch caption is is play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
[00:36:08] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right.
[00:36:10] Rich Chelson:
You know, why some of these reporters think that they are God, and they just know everything and fucking don't know shit. Have no fucking clue why they're even asking the question that they just asked.
[00:36:39] Duuude-Ron :
Well, what they're shit cocky questions, 90% of it. Yeah. What they're what they're trying to do is is, trip her up is what it is.
[00:36:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:36:49] Duuude-Ron :
And and it they haven't learned yet. It doesn't fucking work.
[00:36:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And why didn't they ask all these kinds of questions to fucking Von Claude, Von Schnott, whatever the fuck her name was? You know, in the last administration. Oh, hell no. Yeah.
[00:37:12] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Because she was a DI hire. They can't, like, just have her.
[00:37:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. No. The media had to use kid gloves with her. Yeah. No. But, see, that's the thing. You know? Caroline Levitt's, you know, conservative. Oh, fuck. Gloves are awful. Guess what, bitch? She brings her own gloves. She don't ask nobody for for gloves. She brings them on. Right. Yeah. But, yeah, the AP reporter, tried to attempt to reconcile the Trump administration's tax cuts with this proposed tariffs basically or saying, quote, isn't this simply a tax hike on the American people, end quote.
[00:38:00] Bryan Goodwin:
No. And They have a choice to be able to to keep price the same because if they try to increase prices, people aren't gonna buy it. So they actually have to keep the prices low.
[00:38:13] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that and and Trump has said many times, bring your fucking business to America, and you have no tariffs.
[00:38:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[00:38:23] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I've I've heard those words out of his mouth. He's like, bring your shit here. Build it here. Yeah. And that's what he wants you to do. And and and you have no tariffs. No tariffs. But, no, everyone's bitching about it and flipping out over it. Like, oh my god. We're gonna pay, you know, $30,000. No. Fuck you. Wake the fuck up, people.
[00:38:51] Rich Chelson:
And here's the other thing. Nobody's forcing you to fucking buy it.
[00:38:56] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. If you want it bad enough,
[00:39:00] Rich Chelson:
just like anything, everything has a price. You want it bad enough, you'll pay what they're asking.
[00:39:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And and and if the price jumps up $300 over last year, well, you know what? That's what you're gonna pay, but I'm not. No. I'll be like, no. I can do without it.
[00:39:28] Rich Chelson:
I don't need the whole
[00:39:32] Duuude-Ron :
No. Go ahead. I was gonna say, I don't need no Dolce and Gabbana shit.
[00:39:37] Bryan Goodwin:
That's not even Dolce and Gabbana. It's the thing that they're actually tearing up is the, is things like the TikTok store where you can get a whole bunch of crap for, like, 25, 30 not even $30, like, ten fifth 10 to $20.
[00:39:51] Rich Chelson:
Right. You talking you talking about Timu instead of TikTok? Or No. No. TikTok shop is is
[00:39:58] Bryan Goodwin:
they're I've I've bought shit off TikTok shop. I've got my my gravy, gravy. My my, not gravy. What the I've got gravy stuck in my head. Well, they didn't take it out. When you're done with bacon, bacon grease. A bacon, bacon grease container.
[00:40:15] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[00:40:16] Bryan Goodwin:
They have they they were selling a good sized bacon grease container that actually has a strainer on top. You put that on top, you pour your bacon grease in there, and it filters off all the, all the chunks. Okay. And so you've got just straight good, bacon grease. So been using that and cooking with it time to time when, when I feel like giving the dogs a treat, I'll take a take a, you know, a tablespoon of bacon grease and plop it in the food pan and then put some dog food on there and rub it around real good. All of a sudden, they eat the food really fast for some reason. I don't know why.
It make it makes everything better. So Right. Right.
[00:40:59] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. And I just saw a meme I just saw a meme today. It says, somebody asked a question of where do you put the excess bacon after you're done eating? And the statement below is There's a I have never heard of excess excess bacon. It would be nice.
[00:41:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I was gonna say, yeah. I've never heard of excess bacon. What happens to excess bacon? Well, the person who did committed that crime goes to jail. Right.
[00:41:36] Rich Chelson:
It they should. Right. And then get and then then then pass me the fucking bacon. Exactly.
[00:41:46] Duuude-Ron :
I cook a pound. I eat a pound. I cook a pound and a half. I eat a pound and a half.
[00:41:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, it's not good for my mouth today.
[00:41:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, to fuck what what processed food today
[00:42:02] Bryan Goodwin:
that we eat on a regular basis is good first? Not at No. You Not really being fake. Bacon bacon But now I really, really good for us.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Bacon is good for us.
[00:42:15] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. It is. Now I will have to definitely argue with you, Rich, about the pound and a half of bacon. You won't if you cook a pound and a half of bacon, you will not eat a pound and a half of bacon.
[00:42:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I would. No. You won't. I've cooked up three pounds of bacon, and by the time I got this, it it was gone.
[00:42:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. But you only ate about two pounds.
[00:42:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Yeah. If that Oh, okay. Okay. You got me. Alright.
[00:42:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I was at first at first, when dude said that, I was like I was like, and then and and and then my mind kicked in. I'm like, oh, yeah. He's right.
[00:42:58] Bryan Goodwin:
And even then though, I mean, I'll like, well, I even nowadays, I I hold on to it. I, whenever I'm cooking eggs or if there's something that says that I need to have, like, you know, like, a half a cup of, of oil to cook.
[00:43:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:43:17] Bryan Goodwin:
But I That's how much, bacon grease you wanna you convert that to. It's half the amount of whatever they're claiming in in, in sludge and, and take that as bacon grease and, hell, you make everything taste better then.
[00:43:35] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, that's probably true. So in reality, if you do save it and then recycle it, yes. If you make a pound and a half of bacon, you'll eventually eat a pound and a half of bacon.
[00:43:53] Duuude-Ron :
Eventually?
[00:43:54] Rich Chelson:
Eventually. You know, if you use it for the, you know, cooking oil, yeah, you'll you'll get that pound and a half. So it's it's tomato tomato type aspect. But regardless, I ain't saving I ain't saving no fucking bacon ever.
[00:44:15] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Me neither.
[00:44:17] Rich Chelson:
That shit does not get saved. That shit gets eaten right then and there. And and then when you get done with it, you're like, damn. I should've I fucking should've made some more. Right. Always.
[00:44:33] Duuude-Ron :
And it and it doesn't matter how much you make in the beginning. When you get done, it's like, damn. I shoulda made some more. Always. Yeah.
[00:44:45] Rich Chelson:
That's how I always feel about it. What was cooked is never enough. So there in this house, there is never ever gonna be excess. That's for damn sure.
[00:44:57] Duuude-Ron :
I will say I did I did cook something, say, was it Monday? I think it was. And it was it was kind of a a conglomeration of a couple recipes that I found and just threw shit together and, put it in a 10 by 14 baking pan, and, I'll finally have it eaten, all tomorrow. But it turned out pretty good. And and it's it's, sausage, eggs, cheese, sour cream, onions, and I use scallop taters. I don't know why I didn't use, tater tots, but the next one I'm gonna make will have tater tots on it. But, yeah, I just I just basically mixed all that up, and then doing the taters in the skillet and poured the runny mixture over it all, slap the sausage on it, the cheese on it, and just let it in the oven and cook.
It's actually pretty damn good.
[00:46:09] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit. Yeah. I'm telling you, man.
[00:46:13] Rich Chelson:
There's only one there's only one thing that you were missing.
[00:46:17] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:46:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Bacon.
[00:46:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, yeah, you're right. I didn't have a thud, man. I didn't have a thud.
[00:46:26] Rich Chelson:
Man, you're fucking slacking. Motherfucking slackers.
[00:46:30] Duuude-Ron :
Goddamn. Well, I, I've got I've got the next one I'm I'm gonna make with tater tots and everything. So I'll make sure, I'll make sure to pull out the pound of bacon I got. There you go. I'll cook that up and throw that in there. Absolutely.
[00:46:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. We, got around where I'm trying to go, like, where my grandparents used to do. Because I remember growing up and going to visit my my visit my mom and granddad, my dad's, parents. And, there was always a plate of bacon sitting on the counter on the weekends. Because she would fry up a whole bunch of bacon. We had stuff. Granddad would have some. She'd leave it out there. As you went throughout the day, you know, you just grab a rasher of bacon and go enjoy it. That was some of the best stuff to have. Good cold bacon.
[00:47:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I love cold bacon, man. Oh, heck yeah. That's what I'm saying. Hot, cold, it doesn't matter. Bacon is fucking bacon.
[00:47:38] Duuude-Ron :
Absolutely. Oh, yeah. No. It's it's yeah. It's bacon is oh my god. Bacon is just a bomb.
[00:47:50] Bryan Goodwin:
It's bacon.
[00:47:51] Rich Chelson:
I don't know, man. I'm like, it's bacon.
[00:47:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think I think I think maybe this next Monday, I'll I'll probably, make another one of those, but with tater tots this time. I don't know. I'm thinking about doing, get, well, I've got a couple pounds of hamburger in the freezer. Pull that out. Throw that in a skillet or in a, baking dish, and then take some, cream cheese, put that I gotta I gotta look up, find a recipe. I saw it one time. I I don't know what they called it, but it looked really freaking good. And it's got cheese on it, and it's just, yeah, always good. I don't know. But that'll be breakfast and dinner for the next week.
[00:48:45] Rich Chelson:
There you go.
[00:48:48] Duuude-Ron :
It's cheap. I mean, yeah, I might spend $12.15 bucks up front, but, you know, two meals a day times five days. Yeah. Yeah. Buck and a half a meal, that's pretty fucking cheap. I don't care who you are.
[00:49:03] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And if you like it, who gives a who gives a shit what any anybody else thinks? Right. Right. This is this is good eatings. Now somebody they talk about chitlins and
[00:49:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Collard greens.
[00:49:21] Rich Chelson:
Collard greens chitlins? Well, chitlins, I will have Ugh. No. When we no. And
[00:49:29] Bryan Goodwin:
stuffing when we get a turkey. No. That's not chitlins. That's, I was gonna say that's not chitlins. Chitlins is the large intestine of a hog.
[00:49:37] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. What what am I thinking of? What the hell is going on with that? Yeah. But there you go. There you go. So yeah. No. Collard greens and and chillings, I don't fucking think so.
[00:49:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Ain't going Well, collard greens are are are not bad when they're made right. I mean, they're a little tough. But, I mean, but, I mean, I I feel sorry for the black community because Chitlins is part of their heritage. Well, I see. That is just that was left what leftover of the hog they would throw over to the slaves and go, here you go. Make something out of that. They they did what they could, and I've been around them cleaning the intestines. And it's you have to do a damn good job to clean those out to where they don't taste like shit because you can't smell a shit out of it.
Right. Auctions does not leave anything. You get it on your shoes. Twenty years later, you'll be gonna pick it up, go, oh god. Smells smells. It's horrible.
[00:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you see down here, they sell chitlins. Now I've I've I've talked to a few people, and, they say fresh chitlins are are are really good to eat.
[00:50:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But It's kinda like it's kinda like the little is let them get cold. Black people eat Let them get cold, and they say they're nasty, and they smell nasty. Yeah. Well, I was gonna say, watching seeing black people eat chitlins is almost like whenever I see little Mexican kids eat Mexican candy. I wanna rip that candy out of their hand, handle a stickers bar, and give them a real sexual piece of candy because that little piece of corn with with chili powder on it isn't freaking candy, though they like to think it.
[00:51:29] Duuude-Ron :
They like it, though. And you know
[00:51:31] Rich Chelson:
and you know, over in Korea, kimchi, oh my god. Oh, yeah. Maybe I ain't touching I ain't touching American kimchi, let alone Korean kimchi.
[00:51:46] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. Touch Korean
[00:51:48] Bryan Goodwin:
kimchi. Kimchi's not bad. I'm I'm Yeah. Don't get it. All it is is pickled cabbage.
[00:51:55] Rich Chelson:
You're right. That is absolutely
[00:51:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, good. You know what else is pickled cabbage. Right?
[00:52:04] Duuude-Ron :
What?
[00:52:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Sauerkraut.
[00:52:07] Rich Chelson:
And I don't do sauerkraut.
[00:52:09] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. I'll do sauerkraut. Butter. You're you're so weird. I'll do sauerkraut. But kimchi? No. I won't do kimchi.
[00:52:19] Rich Chelson:
Do hell no. Not even on a Thursday. Ain't no way in hell. And that's when you put the katousas at the very back of the formation when we go for a run. They they start sweating out kimchi or the, yeah, kimchi. Yeah. No. Yeah. Alright.
[00:52:43] Duuude-Ron :
That's But see, the thing is though, dude, the thing is though, bugs will not mess with them.
[00:52:52] Bryan Goodwin:
There's there's a reason why.
[00:52:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well and no. And then that's the thing, kimchi, well, one, it's I mean, they like it over there, but but it's a very excellent bug repellent.
[00:53:06] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's kinda like,
[00:53:08] Bryan Goodwin:
over in Iceland. They, they eat forbidden, shark, and this stuff is horrendous. You people talk about how bad it smells, but you see people make these little thin slices, put it on a cracker or whatever, and chow down on it.
[00:53:27] Rich Chelson:
But it takes,
[00:53:28] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, what is the c like, I'm gonna be able to pronounce it because, you know, they put in all those extra work extra letters and o's with lines through them and stuff. Right. Sure. Okay. Yes. Yeah. See, I I I know what the line through it is. It's illegal to me. It's permitted shark, a dish made from the meat of Greenland sharks. The shark meat is actually poisonous, and if eaten raw, that's because it's actually got a a a antifreeze. Their blood is actually, top of antifreeze that's poisonous to us. And so it's permanent and a cure to remove all the toxins. Process involves burying the shark in sand for several weeks, then hanging it to dry for several months.
The resulting dish is a strong ammonia like smell that the flavor describes as everything from strong cheese to piss.
[00:54:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't think I could eat any of that.
[00:54:30] Rich Chelson:
You know? And, culturally, you know, yeah, kimchi in Korea and, you know, the shark in Greenland and runs us in Nebraska. If you ain't been to Nebraska, you probably don't even have a fucking clue as to what a runs is.
[00:54:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. You get that after eating really crappy foods. You get the runs.
[00:54:56] Rich Chelson:
No. Now that's the only time I will ever eat cabbage is in a runza because it's hamburger meat, cabbage, and then they put some other fixing in, and it's all packed inside of a bun, basically. Now you didn't when you go to Nebraska, if you ever do, runs a hut, yeah, buddy. You better stop in and get one of them motherfuckers because they are that's good eating.
[00:55:30] Bryan Goodwin:
That then there's a what is it? Sir Straub's? See, see, what is it? Sir sir sirstroming, which is a lightly salted fermented Baltic Sea herring. That's a traditional Swedish cuisine, and it comes in a can. And the can is bulging on the on the outside. And it is just some of the worst smelliest food you ever come across. There's guys on on the TikTok that I like to listen to, watch from time to time. Because one they they do try different stuff. Just try to because they got a guy with a weak stomach that they have Uh-huh. Making a bread. And so they decided to bring in the strong, Sastroni.
And the funny thing is is everybody in there was.
[00:56:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I've I've I've seen a few of of of those on TikTok. And, I mean, I'm I'm I mean, I'm not saying they're lying, but some of them might be doing it for for, you know,
[00:56:45] Rich Chelson:
views. Right? They're
[00:56:46] Bryan Goodwin:
thirty seconds of fame. Do a, do a live video, podcast sometime, and I'll go ahead and I'll order some and send it over to you and let you open it. And ain't it live live on Air Force? Yeah. No. That's okay. I'll pay. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I think they're making it up. Oh, well, that's okay. I don't wanna I don't wanna try it.
[00:57:12] Duuude-Ron :
I think I'm You know, that's like,
[00:57:14] Rich Chelson:
you know, that's like the the upper upper echelon with caviar. No. I I don't fucking think so.
[00:57:24] Duuude-Ron :
I've heard it's good, but I've never tried it.
[00:57:26] Rich Chelson:
I've never tried yeah. Fuck. Like, we can afford it. Even the fucking even the fucking, cheap shit. Like, we can afford it.
[00:57:39] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I don't know. I've never looked at the price of it.
[00:57:45] Rich Chelson:
Well, a well, whatever the one from Russia, that 10 of caviar
[00:57:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, is in the beluga? Whatever. It's in the thousands. Expensive. Yeah. That's beluga caviar because it takes, like, twenty years for the fish to actually, to actually mature enough to where it takes, like, fifteen, twenty years for them to mature enough to where they actually produce, produce eggs. And, sadly, they then go off and kill the fish.
[00:58:17] Rich Chelson:
So Well, as long as they're using the rest of the meat, that's great. But are they are they probably not?
[00:58:25] Duuude-Ron :
Probably not. Russians? No. I would say because Russians are are kinda like a lot of the Asian countries. They'll they eat fish. I mean, they're like Alaskans. They eat fish on everything. So, you know, they just
[00:58:42] Rich Chelson:
they As as long as the meat doesn't go to waste. You know what I mean?
[00:58:46] Duuude-Ron :
They do to fish what we do to cows and pigs. We we use every part of a pig except the oink. We use every part of the cow except the moo. Yep. I mean, literally. So, I mean, you know, a lot of these other countries know they don't waste. They have less waste than we do. Yeah. Some countries have more, but that's that's them.
[00:59:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. That's true too. You know? But but I'm not spending a thousand dollars on a fucking two pound tin of fucking caviar.
[00:59:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. I don't fucking think so. But you said it's a durian fruit, though. Somewhat? Durian fruit?
[00:59:34] Rich Chelson:
Frayed to ask.
[00:59:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:59:38] Bryan Goodwin:
It's, it's a stinky fruit that's real popular in Southeast Asia, but it's actually, it's banned in in hotels because it stinks so bad. Apparently, through the strong ory door, dairy and sometimes banned in, public places like public transportation hotels. Describe the the or see the smell. What was it? I saw something. Is, yeah. The strong smell durian is considered a a delicacy, but that okay. Come on. Where is it? It's renowned for its, for its incredibly pungent odor, which can be described as a mix of onion, garlic, and Jim's sauce.
[01:00:22] Duuude-Ron :
Oh.
[01:00:23] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So it But it's Going past this southeast Asian. Smell. I wonder how it has to fucking taste.
[01:00:33] Bryan Goodwin:
They love it. The see, the taste, while the smell is strong, the taste is described as sweet, creamy, and nutty with hints of vanilla and almond. But people also love to have Limburger cheese, and Limburger cheese smells like feet.
[01:00:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I've I've heard Limburger. I ain't never eaten it. Oh, it's not bad.
[01:00:57] Duuude-Ron :
It's creamy. Tried. Soft is creamy. It's nice. But I haven't tried Limburger yet. It's it's I want to.
[01:01:04] Bryan Goodwin:
It's yeah. It's a it's definitely foot. You're eating toe jab by the smell of it.
[01:01:10] Duuude-Ron :
Damn. No. That'd be rough.
[01:01:15] Rich Chelson:
Oh god. You know what? A lot of these You know what, Brian? You just eat whatever the hell you wanna eat. I would
[01:01:24] Bryan Goodwin:
but that's just it. I would love that might be something we have to do, something where down the road, we have one week one, one event where we just all get together. We sit down, and today is our food challenge and our food our week of food challenges or whatever. We tried. So this week, we're trying durian. Boom. So show the real thing, give a little bit of a background on it, then cut it open, and just watch everybody's reaction as they turn pale and start getting the shakes. Yeah. That would that yeah. I don't I'm sorry, but both of y'all need to just back off. No?
[01:02:04] Rich Chelson:
And I'll say, hold it. I'm not there. I did. I was gonna say, what are you doing? You know? Damn. That was what he did.
[01:02:12] Bryan Goodwin:
This guy turned into a real asshole real quick. I'm like, damn. What the fuck are you doing? Dogs wanting to sit in your eye damn time. I'm like, god. Right?
[01:02:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, it was just funny.
[01:02:22] Rich Chelson:
How the fuck are we supposed to know that when you just say that right out of the blue that you're talking to the dogs and not us?
[01:02:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're like you're like, well, you two just need to back the hell off, and I'm like, well, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. What about you, man? Oh, shit. That was hilarious. I mean, I'm not even there and getting in trouble. Damn. Exactly.
[01:02:47] Bryan Goodwin:
No. Right. Yep. Now. Oh, man. That's funny. I know you you're just gonna have to get used to me not being there. I know you want me on the couch, but you're gonna have to build a bridge to get over it. Yeah. How's that going? Is the fucking bridge. That's the problem. She was not happy last night because I was sleeping on the couch. And so she was sleeping on the couch.
[01:03:17] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[01:03:18] Bryan Goodwin:
And our couch isn't big enough for me and a great Dane. And then on top of that, she got up for whatever reason to go get a drink or go to the bathroom, whatever. And so while she was up and down, Watson hopped in the up on the couch and was laying behind my legs. And she came over and looked at him. Came over and bumped me on the nose with her nose. Tell going, hey. Asshole's in the way here. I I that's my spot. And when when Watson lays down, his name changes. He he's no longer Watson whenever he lays down. He's Lump. Lump? Yeah. Lump. Because he doesn't move.
You try to like, if he's laying on your blanket, guess what? You're gonna be in a you're in a tug of war, and he doesn't even have a hold of anything. He, like, bonds to the bed. Oh, wow. The most incredible thing. But, but he, so he turned to the lump. Rain said they're going, well, I that's my spot. And so she's, I guess, after a bit of coming in, walking over to me, walking over to Watson, walking back over to me, walking around a little bit. She decided, alright. Fine. Screw it. I'm gonna go in the into the bed with mom. The only problem is is that I have my bed, my blanket with. And that throws her whole world off because she likes to lay on my pillow when she's in bed. So it's her pillow and her blanket, and I've got it. And so she's, like, laying there. She's wanting to stay take mom's pillow.
Jenna's, like, going, hello. This is my shit, man. You just you can get used to it. And so she, like, sat there and laid there for a little bit, kinda huffed and, puffed for a little bit, got up, come back out. And at that time, Watson got up and went off it and got bored of of harasses his, his sister, and so she comes along and hops up in bed. But, man, I got no sleep last night. It was just I would move. She would move. She'd get up. She'd wanted to move around, and so I would have to shuffle around. And I was sleeping on the edge of the couch at the time, so my hips were being grounded to a solid piece of wood. Yeah. It it kinda it kinda for sucked.
[01:05:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It sounds like it, dude. It definitely sounded like it. It. That's not cool. Yeah.
[01:05:56] Rich Chelson:
No. I I'm gonna be in a fucking bed. I ain't gonna be on the couch. I ain't gonna be in a recliner.
[01:06:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I tried to get my wife six since I've got the plague at the moment, so that's why I was on the couch.
[01:06:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Well and I can't say that with the recliners. So, you know, sometimes my medicine kicks in and you guys are ending the show, and the only thing you hear is Oh. Like, fucker. So you put, you know, you turn take or, you turn off my speaker, continue on, and say, see y'all. And then I wake up, and it's like everybody's gone. It's like, what the fuck? Where'd it go?
[01:06:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Goddamn. How rude.
[01:06:41] Rich Chelson:
That motherfucker just fell asleep. How rude.
[01:06:47] Duuude-Ron :
Rude. How rude. How rude.
[01:06:52] Rich Chelson:
In the words of Jarjal Binks, how rude. Oh, here's here's a real good one. Yesterday, stopped a pilot in Waco to get fuel because, you know, we have select places that they want us to get fuel because, like Lowe's, they get it for cost minus 5¢, for fuel and pilot. Yeah. I don't know what they get, but, you know, there's places there where they want us to fuel up at if possible. Right. So I get to pilot yesterday, and, a Schneider truck pulls in past me to you know, I mean, pulling into the fuel island. And I just barely caught a glimpse. I'm like, ain't no fucking way that I just saw what I think I saw.
Sure as shit. That driver, she couldn't have been if she was three hundred and fifty pounds, four hundred pounds, yeah, every bit of it. I'm like, holy shit. I'm like, yeah. You you was drooling over that, wasn't you? You're not a woman. Oh, yeah. I was tripping over my tongue. Yeah. It was just flopping on the ground hanging out so far. Oh, yeah. No. Every bit of 350, four hundred pounds.
[01:08:31] Duuude-Ron :
No. Oh. I'm like You know? The thing is, though, she's working. You say that's the thing. She's work. I mean, it's not it's not healthy for her to be that big, but, you know, she's working.
[01:08:44] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Yeah. That's true. She's not collecting welfare or, you know, got nine kids got nine kids because living off of, fucking the system.
[01:09:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean I mean, she might have nine kids, but at least she's working. You know? I mean, that's Well You know, when, you know, when I see people like that, you know, I just I just I look at it like this. You know? At least they're out there doing their thing. You know?
[01:09:17] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, I will not disagree with you on that, whatsoever. You know? There are, you know, some high paying jobs, some low paying jobs, and, you know, I get it. I have my job because of my education now. If I had a doctorate degree in physics, yeah, I'd probably be making a little bit more than what I'm making now.
[01:09:50] Duuude-Ron :
Probably.
[01:09:51] Rich Chelson:
Maybe. But, you know, yeah, you're right.
[01:09:57] Duuude-Ron :
But either way, though, I mean, you know, that's the thing. You know? You say you guys that's why that's why I've I've never really slammed on a large person like that because, again, like like, when the DOT was was trying to crack down on fat people, fixing to pull CDLs. Oh, I got pissed.
[01:10:20] Bryan Goodwin:
I I got fucking hot. Well, why are you gonna do that?
[01:10:24] Duuude-Ron :
Because it was unhealthy. They were they were at a a heart risk. This was the, first part of the well, it was about, 2,000, what, 9 or 10, I think. Yeah. That was a nine at that time. I don't remember hearing that. Oh, yeah. Converted just completely up and forgot about it. So Well, it is possible. But either way, no. I remember it because I mean, you know, I was pushing 300, and and they were threatening me with, you know, you need to sleep study and this and that. You're too fat. You need to lose fuck you. I'm motherfucking working. And then I I went to work for, this one company. I forget who it was.
I wanna say it was, god. Man, I can't remember the name of them. Anyway, I was in orientation. And, one of them safety men fucking popped up with that shit, and and I fucking raised my hand. And I I just fucking laid into him. You know? I mean, it wasn't his fault. He but but and and I wasn't going after him per se, and he knew it. But the look on his face was like, oh my god. This guy is fixing to rip my head off and shit down my neck. You know? But because of the simple fact, it's like, listen. DOT trying to come in and tell me as a fat man that I can't fucking drive a truck. The only thing that I've done for the last twenty fucking years, you're you're gonna fucking tell me that that I can't do what I know.
Kiss my ass. Oh, and I yeah. I went off and yeah. They do. Needless to say, no one really even even the other people in orientation, no one really, talked with me after that. We ain't gonna get him wound up. No. Just just don't talk about pulling the CDL of someone, whether they're fat, skinny, or whatever, fucking working.
[01:12:26] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, and now and now well, in the state of it well, in this area I don't know if this is the whole state, But you go in for a DOT physical, and if they put a, tape measure around your, neck, they'll send you or they'll request that you go get a sleep study done.
[01:12:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. Yes. They was they was fighting to do that when when, back years ago, but no one could ever get on the same page. But, yeah, I guess now because you said they'll they, they check your neck. See, that was always threatened. It it never came through. So so, apparently, they they must have gotten a lot of flack for it. So, you know, they had to wait until later to make it a requirement, and that's wrong. I mean, now in a way, maybe not because, you know, if you have sleep apnea, I can see where it'll affect it could affect your, driving ability.
[01:13:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yes. I I I agree with that 100%.
[01:13:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Good. Doesn't mean it will. Right. I'm if they would allow truck drivers to just take the brakes where they need feel they need to take a break
[01:14:04] Duuude-Ron :
Like we used to. Yeah.
[01:14:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. We would get a whole lot more done. Would Yeah. Would there be some irresponsible truck drivers out there driving way past their their ability? Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. There's still truck drivers doing that. Yeah. Don't stop the idiots who want who are going to violate the law. You're right. Yeah. They get what they get. They get, you know, vehicular manslaughter, murder, whatever it is they get slapped with. So, I mean, it's unnecessary. It's just something so that the the politicians could sit there and puff up their chest to go, I have done something for for, to keep the highway safety safer. No. Actually, you made the highways more dangerous. Like, when they put in the requirement for the eight hour or eight hour break, That didn't make things safer.
No. You now have more drivers driving tired when they need to take a break because they have to go sir so far so that they at least have a full out eight hours that they could take you.
[01:15:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:15:12] Bryan Goodwin:
So now they they've made it more dangerous than what they would've claimed.
[01:15:17] Rich Chelson:
And, you know, they then they've since rescinded that that you have to take a thirty minimum thirty minute break within that eight hours.
[01:15:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Well, guess what? They reset the eight hour break, Dale, now as long as you aren't driving for thirty minutes, which often happens when you're getting loaded.
[01:15:39] Rich Chelson:
Or Yeah. And we we physically have to clock out.
[01:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Do you?
[01:15:46] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We have to go off duty for thirty minutes. So my company said, you know, the federal, that's fine. You can do whatever, but we're sticking to thirty minutes within the first eight hours. Now I can go seven hours and fifty nine minutes and then clock out, and I'm still legal to our standards.
[01:16:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right. See? That's the thing. Go back to the old rules and
[01:16:19] Bryan Goodwin:
fucking get jiggy witty. Yeah. Well, that basically, I still think all these rules are all these DOT rules came into place because the Teamsters got, got butt hurt because they independent truckers were running circles around their lazy asses.
[01:16:35] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. The, Teamsters, yeah, got got butt hurt. You're right. And that's why that's why we have a lot of this. Yeah. The teamsters
[01:16:52] Rich Chelson:
Go ahead, dude. Just like guns. When they outlaw guns, the only people that will have them are the outlaws.
[01:17:01] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:17:02] Rich Chelson:
They don't give a shit. The thieves, the criminals, they don't give a fuck. They will get one somehow,
[01:17:15] Duuude-Ron :
someway. That is truly that is a % true. So, yeah, it's a
[01:17:24] Rich Chelson:
when they get arrested. Oh, a felon that has a weapon. You think they're gonna fucking change their ways overnight? They ain't gonna change their ways, period.
[01:17:35] Duuude-Ron :
But, see, that's the thing. Anytime there's a there's a a a gun crime, they always go after the law abiding citizens, not the
[01:17:47] Rich Chelson:
Oh, of court.
[01:17:49] Duuude-Ron :
You know, not the Not the criminals. Criminals.
[01:17:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. They freak out. The criminals don't care.
[01:17:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. And, well, you see, the thing is, though, they can't catch fucking criminals. And and if they do, you know, they think, oh, we'll go after the gun manufacturer. It wasn't the gun's fault. It was the No. Behind the trigger.
[01:18:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Every bit of it. My gun, I've had several I have several weapons in my house right now. Not a damn one of them has jumped up off the table and it fired around. And, I mean, every single one of my weapons is chambered.
[01:18:34] Duuude-Ron :
So are mine.
[01:18:36] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And it had none of my weapons have ever fucking jumped off a table or where they're at and fucking shot off a round ever.
[01:18:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:18:50] Rich Chelson:
Now somebody comes into my house that's uninvited. Now that gun is not gonna jump off off the table, but that fucking my finger is gonna be right behind that trigger and going boom, boom, boom, and I'll empty the fucking clip.
[01:19:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:19:07] Rich Chelson:
You're gonna leave my house in one way in one way fashion through a body bag.
[01:19:17] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. It's see, that's the thing. It's it's you know? And it's like, you know, it's like when a when a drunk driver can kill somebody, they don't go after the car manufacturer, so why they go after the gun manufacturer?
[01:19:32] Rich Chelson:
You're right.
[01:19:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But if that's the case, go after the car manufacturer. Okay. What about someone who who chokes on a steak after the feedlot?
[01:19:46] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, come on now. Oh, they tried to go after the feedlot. Yeah. It
[01:19:52] Rich Chelson:
made the cows too yeah. The feedlot ever. No. Yeah.
[01:20:01] Duuude-Ron :
You see, that's the thing. You see, this is this is what bugs me is because it's shit like this that Uh-huh. It the problem is the person doing whatever is the fucking problem.
[01:20:18] Rich Chelson:
Fix Always.
[01:20:19] Duuude-Ron :
Fix that. And, yes, I know you can't fix stupid, but, you know, let let natural selection from the, from the, Jeeple. Right. You know? Let fucking natural selection take its course.
[01:20:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Damn. Yep. Yeah. It's funny how the the people who, who fight so hard against natural selection are the ones that believe that natural selection is the answer.
[01:20:47] Duuude-Ron :
What do you mean?
[01:20:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, liberals are the ones who are always stay jumping around saying that it's, that it's, that it's, you know, that evolution is the is how the world came to be like it is. While Christians are the ones saying, well, God came along and created everything. Right. But yet they wanna fight against what they believe, which makes no sense.
[01:21:25] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Hang on. Yep. Hang on. I I I got lost. Okay. Say say that one more time. Liberals believe in evolution. Right?
[01:21:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. So, basically, man started out as a monkey and became eventually became an ape, became became a man, or became some poor or became a caveman, became a caveman, became a caveman, became a Yes. The ants all the animals didn't rent. Alright? Started out as as a little amoeba. The amoeba came eventually became a frog. The frog became a dinosaur. Dinosaur became a lizard or a bird. Yes. I I I I do understand evolution. Okay. So they they they said that a lot. Yeah. They Yes. I know what an evolution is. Evolutionary practices to take place.
Don't let they they sit there and do everything they can to keep to keep the the, the strongest alive around. So the the better of the species, they fight real hard to make sure that those aren't the ones that are around. They don't aren't the ones who the liberals are the ones who like wanna keep stupid in this in society. They wanna keep the dump in the gene pool.
[01:22:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, I know. So, so they can fill their head with, with their shit and everybody will roll over and think they're gods.
[01:22:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, possible. Yeah.
[01:22:54] Duuude-Ron :
But you see, that's the thing, though. Okay? And and anyone that that I have ever found that that says evolution is king, I've got I've got one simple statement form, and I've used it a couple times. This pissed a couple people off. I just ask them if if if if we came from monkeys, why do we still have monkeys?
[01:23:20] Bryan Goodwin:
The reason is because the monkeys did die off. We, we the, birds I No. Because, I mean, the monkeys that have we've got a widespread of monkeys. We've got everything from little bitty bush babies to, you know Right. But they should have based upon silverback gorillas. It's not that they not that they if we were to come from the primate branch of of people that they would instantly die off.
[01:23:54] Rich Chelson:
Well, I would have to agree with Rich on this one that, yes, evolution over millions of years. And if there's humans, why are there still monkeys?
[01:24:08] Duuude-Ron :
Because if if if the evolutionists are saying that we are derived from monkeys, like you explained, Brian, then why are there still monkeys? And and I'm not trying to be facetious. I'm actually asking this question because no one can ever fucking answer it. They just say, oh, shut up. Well, I mean, come on. Answer my question. You're the one who's supposed supposed to be all knowing. You know? That's that's why I'm asking. You know? That's why I believe in creation.
[01:24:42] Rich Chelson:
Right. And, you know, I could and in the flip side, I can understand Brian's aspect. How many different, not species, but, how many different, breeds are there of dogs?
[01:25:05] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. Hundred species. Yeah. Okay.
[01:25:09] Rich Chelson:
You're right. So do you know, I I can understand. Okay. This this particular breed of monkey evolutionized into humans. Okay. And we still have the other breeds that didn't. Okay. So, however, I don't I, myself, don't believe in evolution. Well, I don't believe in the big fan theory.
[01:25:35] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You know, I don't believe in the big fan theory. I didn't think you did, Brian. I didn't think you did either. It's not. I just It it just but but you see, that's the thing, though. And and, like and, like, Ron was saying, okay, you know, if there's, okay, different breeds, you see that? How can I okay? Maybe it's maybe it's my wee little pea brain, but but, I mean, you know, I mean, did if if if the evolutionists think like this, okay, do they think we came from one certain breed, or or or was there, different humans come from different breeds? And I say I don't know.
Say this is
[01:26:22] Rich Chelson:
And you'll anybody can believe in whatever the hell they were taught and whatever they wanna believe. That's fine. You know? And if you're an atheist and believe that when you die, your body is dead, which, of course, it is, then that's the end. Yeah. And that's the you know, more power to you. Mhmm. Because I have yet to find anybody that knows somebody that knows somebody that has come back from the dead, from heaven, and given all the details. It would be nice, but, again, we go on blind faith.
[01:27:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, you see, though, the thing is, though, is is, you know, the person you know, if you ever do meet that person, where are they coming back from, heaven or hell?
[01:27:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, as soon as they start to explain the, you know, the area, it's pretty pretty evident based upon based upon blind faith of what I have been taught, of what my parents had been taught, my grandparents, great grandparents, so on and so on and so on. So, yes, I believe as being a Christian. Okay? And this is just Ron's belief that I will be going that my name is written in the book of life, and I'll be going to heaven when I die. Right. Okay? And there's only one thing that is not gonna get you to heaven. So and I believe in that. But, okay, you have everybody that believes in Allah.
Okay. We call God God. They call Allah God or God, all of the whichever. So who's who's right and who's wrong? Okay. The the Jewish, okay, don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
[01:29:02] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:29:03] Rich Chelson:
Okay. And that's fine because they live basically everything off of the Old Testament, not the New Testament. So but their god is still god or, you know, whatever the name that they use for god.
[01:29:25] Duuude-Ron :
Elohim, Yahweh, God, many different names. Names won't understand.
[01:29:32] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. So I guess I will find out when I am right before I become ashes and smoke one last time because I ain't quitting smoking anytime soon. Right. So Yep.
[01:30:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I I I I don't know. It just it just it just stuff like that. You know? Because, you know, I was saying and thought about this stuff. And and, you know, I've tried to rationalize, like like, you know, people think Darwin's serious. Right? Yeah. No. Sorry. I can't. I can't. I can't even get behind that. But, you know, I just I just like you know what? Y'all are just y'all will find out. Y'all will find
[01:30:37] Bryan Goodwin:
out. And, you know,
[01:30:40] Rich Chelson:
there is very, a very select few people that I will talk religion and politics with. Right. Because I'm not getting into a pissing contest with somebody over their beliefs and my beliefs. You know, you ain't gonna you are not going to change my mind on what I believe. So I'm not gonna sit there and argue with you. That's just that's just a waste of fucking time, air, and energy.
[01:31:19] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:22] Rich Chelson:
Where I can waste that time taking a nap maybe because I'm fucking old and grumpy and, you know, old. But sometimes I need a nap.
[01:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:45] Rich Chelson:
But just on the weekend, especially on the weekends. And Folgers got it all fucking wrong. The best part of the it is not the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. The best part of waking up is taking a pee and going right back to fucking bed.
[01:32:05] Duuude-Ron :
Amen. And a lot of people will probably agree with you on that. I
[01:32:13] Rich Chelson:
I'm sure they would. And then after you, you know, get up, you have a cup of coffee and smoke, and then maybe, possibly, go take a nap. I've Yeah. Done that many of times.
[01:32:31] Duuude-Ron :
I can't do that.
[01:32:33] Rich Chelson:
You know, I'm trying to catch up on beauty sleep. I really am.
[01:32:38] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, give it up, man. Give it up.
[01:32:41] Rich Chelson:
I well, you you're right. Be well, be well, I'll never get beauty sleep because I'm still trying to catch up on the twelve years' worth of regular sleep that I'm already behind in before I can even go to beauty sleep. See. And that's what the and that's gonna take a hell of a hell of a lot more fucking years of beauty sleep to, yeah, to change this ugly motherfucking mug.
[01:33:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you said that I I didn't. So I I just figured out that I'm still out there.
[01:33:25] Rich Chelson:
There you go. And, see, that's why I can call you an ugly motherfucker. Because I'm uglier than you are. Yeah. I see. I'm uglier than you are, so I can say that.
[01:33:39] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'm sexy, man.
[01:33:44] Rich Chelson:
And you can say that, by all means. I'm not gonna argue with you.
[01:33:52] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm not gonna agree with you either, but, you know
[01:33:55] Rich Chelson:
You're right. They ain't gonna agree, but I ain't gonna argue because I don't have enough time, energy, and air to waste in that conversation.
[01:34:07] Duuude-Ron :
Plus, it would it would interrupt your nap.
[01:34:12] Rich Chelson:
Good point. It would interrupt my nap. You have nap interruptions. That's oh, god forbid. We don't want fuck. Hell no. We don't want fucking maps.
[01:34:24] Duuude-Ron :
That's like that's like that's like people leaving bacon on the table. That's just rude. That's wrong.
[01:34:32] Rich Chelson:
That's just you're right. That's raw that that is wrong like two boys fucking. That's how wrong that's how wrong leaving bacon on the table is.
[01:34:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, shit.
[01:34:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Wasn't expecting that one to come out there, dude. Now that we've angered the the the gay community.
[01:35:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, hell, we done pissed off quite a few people, so might as well add them into it. Why not? Care. Nope.
[01:35:12] Rich Chelson:
I'm too I'm too old to fucking care. Yeah. I mean, if if If you don't if you don't like me by now, I ain't gonna go to I ain't gonna yep. I ain't gonna I guess I ain't gonna change your mind, and that's okay. Not here to change anybody's mind. Alright. How you know, however, I can always say I will never ever be racist.
[01:35:52] Duuude-Ron :
Hate everybody.
[01:35:54] Rich Chelson:
I hate everybody equally. Right. I don't dislike anybody any one person more than the other. I dislike everybody the same.
[01:36:09] Duuude-Ron :
That's true.
[01:36:14] Rich Chelson:
And if yeah. Now I'm gonna baby. Brian, I thought you said you were gonna be in a truck this week.
[01:36:24] Bryan Goodwin:
I was in a truck until yesterday. Okay. Because I've got a my car's shit to bed, so I've got a I've been trying to find a find a car, and the person who I was supposed to be getting some information from a copy of the, the the title front and back of the title so I can give it to the bank so they can, determine if it's a clean clean title or not, has Oh, okay. Okay. Trying to trying to get a car.
[01:36:57] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Got you.
[01:36:59] Bryan Goodwin:
It's bored. Right now, it's sitting over at the, over at, over at my mechanic's place. But Oh, okay. I guess. Same time, it's it's not here, and it's not readily available. So
[01:37:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, gotcha. Last week,
[01:37:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I made a discovery. I actually found a movie that is 10 times better than the book. Star Wars? No. No. Star Wars didn't start out as a book. This movie started out as a book, became a movie, and the movie is so much better than the, than the book. And that, that book and movie is Forrest Gump.
[01:37:46] Rich Chelson:
Forrest Gump? Yep. Oh, okay. Because Well, I never read the book. Me, I'm like Rodney Dangerfield. Who has time to read? I'll go to the movie. I'm in and out in less than two hours.
[01:38:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Sometimes two less than two hours.
[01:38:06] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So, you know, I'm good. Yep. I got to see the movie.
[01:38:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, the, the book I mean, they have a lot of the correlation. The running gag in the book is that Forrest has always gotta go pee. So so anytime that he kinda uses that as a means to get himself out of out of a jam. So but it's always he always gets in trouble for for when he uses it, but but he, but it has the, Bubba's not a black guy. He's a white guy. And they met actually met Bubba in college, and, Bubba is a math or not Bubba. Forrest is a math savant and a music savant. And so they, these and so he's he gets, some of his adventures is is he, see, so he starts off he's in college. He he that that ever do the run forest run thing. That's a made up for the, for the movie. But, Jenny, that goes off. That's her own thing. She's kinda she's the she's kinda the slut in the, in the movie.
Or in the, in the book also. And say he goes to, goes to China, does the ping pong. Well, he goes to Vietnam, then he goes to China for the ping pong. Lieutenant Dan wasn't his commander. He was actually blown up in a, in a tank. He did lose his legs and was homeless where they re refined each other. But, but Forrest and Jenny and Dan are kinda all I'm I think I've still got three hours left in the book, and they have yet to actually even start the shrimping business yet. He keeps talking about starting up the shipping business, but he has never gotten around starting up the shipping business. But Forrest has gone to, gone to space and, with a with a, really nasty, mean old woman and a orangutan.
They crash land in the, in the Pacific around Papua New Guinea New Guinea because they got, cannibals. And, while they're there, they, they escape and get kidnapped by pygmies. They escape the pygmies, and then they get end up being rescued by NASA. I mean, it's just it's like, really, man? Come on. Didn't realize you had made the gay the story this freaking convoluted. I'll be right back. Hold up.
[01:41:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Okay.
[01:41:44] Rich Chelson:
Alright.
[01:41:47] Duuude-Ron :
So I take it wait. It sounds that that sounds like Forrest Gump.
[01:41:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And if if he's reading the book and seeing the movie and the movie is much better, I probably stop reading the book myself.
[01:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
Right. I mean,
[01:42:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Once I start, start something, I wanna finish it up because, every time that I have. I've I've gone through some books that I'm just like, holy crap. This is horrible. But even, what was it? The, oh, there was one it was I I think I've talked about it before. It was a ghastly, horrible self help book. It was. And and it was because one well, it was you could tell it's done by a liberal woman. And the reason why you could tell that it was done by a liberal woman is because they used the f bomb every freaking other sentence, if not every other word.
Oh, yeah. I remember you talking about Yeah. It's the f Yeah. The how to unfuck your mind or something like that. So yeah. Something like that. Yeah. And it sounded like she was recording in the bathroom. The echo there was room noise and echo and everything else. Horrible, terrible book. I actually finished it just so that I could leave a one star review and just talk about how horrible it was. Of course, at the same time, I got to the end, went to leave my review, and everybody else is leaving one star reviews for the very same reason. So so I fell in you know. And,
[01:43:26] Rich Chelson:
you know, if I start a book reading or audio, if, say, the first chapter is like, it you know, I ain't interested. I'm done reading it.
[01:43:42] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Pretty much. That's that's about the same thing, with me. If if, you know, I'll I'll give a book a couple chapters unless it's just really, really bad. Yeah. I I mean, I will try and give the book a, a decent shot. Yeah. But, yeah, if it can't grab me like like music. Okay? If if if within the first fifteen seconds of a song, if there's not a hook or a note change, I'm out. I can't listen to it. And and, I mean, seriously, I just I don't know because it's like, come on, people. Use your fucking head. You know? Books and, you know, movies the same way. You know? I'll get movies ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, and, I mean, I've struggled through a couple, and they've actually turned out halfway decent. But but yeah. No. I can't. I I just can't, man. Because it's like, I'm I'm gonna sit here and waste my time for, like an audiobook. How many hours?
[01:44:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Sometimes ten.
[01:44:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Right? If it's, Atlas Shrugged, it's, sixty two.
[01:44:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, see, that's different. Atlas Shrugged, I I would just It's not a big book. Right. Right. But
[01:45:03] Bryan Goodwin:
once a year.
[01:45:04] Duuude-Ron :
But just just just what I heard you talking about Forrest Gump there. Oh my god, dude. Oh, yeah.
[01:45:11] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But there's also got movie or books out there that are of the same, but are so different that they're actually two separate stories. No country for old men, one of them. Lot of the same points of the story in the book are in the are in the movie, but in all reality, they're two separate stories. Right. They're so different from each other, and I like them both. No Country for Old Man is a phenomenal movie. Just, oh, what's his name? The guy who plays Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardeen just played such an amazing sociopath.
[01:46:01] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. The dude with the with the air cannon. With the broke up hair cut. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:46:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. He uses the, uses the the stun, the stun gun for to to to kill people.
[01:46:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:46:17] Bryan Goodwin:
But, yeah, he it's just a I mean, he that whole story is just just an incredible story. You know, Lonesome Dove.
[01:46:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Lonesome Dove is is a book and movie. Yeah. Movie and book is good. Yeah. But then you find out that, oh, he,
[01:46:38] Bryan Goodwin:
he actually went off and and wrote, three other books afterwards. He wrote them as prequels or wrote two prequels and one, one, sequel, and those were all just as good. He talks about how, how Gus and and and, call meet up with each other, how they come across and become, come across each other, start becoming, Texas Rangers and all their Yeah. Incredible set of books. And, yeah, loads of dove falls many of the, again, many of the same, same story beats, basically, because, well, they had a week to tell the story. They turned it into a, what was it, six parts, series or a five part series? I think it's a five part week long series.
[01:47:34] Duuude-Ron :
Something like that.
[01:47:35] Bryan Goodwin:
So what about it?
[01:47:37] Duuude-Ron :
It's like it's if you watch it straight through, it's like eight hours.
[01:47:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's it's yeah. So it's about four or four.
[01:47:46] Duuude-Ron :
Four or five. I I I think it was four because remember back in the day when it come out, like like, they had they, would put it on during the week because the weekends, they they had their own shows on weekends.
[01:48:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Yeah. You then it was, it was, five days because, because you have to take it or count that it's two hours, but you but you also have commercial breaks, so it's actually an hour and a half.
[01:48:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. So but
[01:48:24] Bryan Goodwin:
but there's a lot of stories out there that are that are really freaking good. They just
[01:48:35] Duuude-Ron :
just No. No. They are. It's just you just need to get Hollywood to actually see the actual story and not you know, sometimes I get it. Like like, what they did with Forrest Gump versus the book. You know, they changed it and made it an an excellent movie. You know? Right. But but sometimes when they make a movie off of a book and they totally, you know, blow the storyline and and the movie sucks. It's like really That just that just kinda, like, bugs me.
[01:49:16] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:49:22] Duuude-Ron :
Did dude fall asleep?
[01:49:24] Rich Chelson:
Nope. Dude did not fall asleep. He's too late.
[01:49:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, he Hold on hold on as best as he can.
[01:49:33] Rich Chelson:
No. I just no. I muted myself because I was making some coffee in the, hot water kettle. It gets kinda loud.
[01:49:45] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:49:49] Rich Chelson:
So I didn't wanna bother you guys' conversation.
[01:49:54] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. That's cool. I was just wondering. You you just being I didn't I didn't hear any noise back over there. Normally, when we don't hear no noise from your side, you're out, dude. You're gone. So Yeah.
[01:50:10] Rich Chelson:
I was on mute.
[01:50:13] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Alright.
[01:50:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's that's always been one of those things that I've all have always been, kinda fascinated with was, you know, watch read a book, then watch the movie. And 90% of the time, you walk out of there going, well, they just kinda left a whole bunch of the story on them cutting room table. Growing up Right. Now after watching Forrest Gump and watching you know? I understand why because there's a whole lot of the story that didn't need to be told. Well, it's kinda like the Rob. Same thing. They talk about you know, Victor Hugo goes into all sorts of details that are not pertinent to the damn story. Right.
Talks about the nuns of the nunnery that, that, Jean Valjean is is working in. And, I mean, it's maybe 200 pages of of just details about this nunnery and how they, how they, every day, they're always, they're always in a, in a prostate, states. One's always laid out on the ground praying, but they can't have any men around. So they guys all have to all the men have to walk around with bells on their knees so they could they could be heard and and and stuff. And it's just and it's like, okay. Alright. But what does that have to do with the story? You know? They talk about the different bishops of his trips through the, through the Alps. So this again or the, through the, the Pyrenees, and you're like, okay. But how does what does that be do for the story? And, you know, it's like, Jim and D, man. It's like, come on. Get on with it. But so, I mean, there's times I see. Okay. I understand why you wanna cut some of the story out or you'd have a thirty hour movie.
And, no one wants a thirty hour movie.
[01:52:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if it's good, I wouldn't mind. Like like Band of Brothers or, Pacific. Yeah. Those are ten fucking hours, man. I'll sit and watch them all. Watch y'all all dead. In fact, I just, I just got done probably a month ago watching, Pacific. You know? But, I mean and, you know, what's funny on that on that movie Pacific where they talk about, Easy Company? And how does that or is that Even companies Band Brothers. But Band Brothers. Okay. Yeah. The, freaking characters that that were in the movie, I I've been seeing, pictures in my Facebook of them of the original person, the actual person that the actor portrayed.
Oh, yeah. And and Hollywood did really fucking well getting that getting the actor that looked like the the original soldier. Oh, okay. I mean, it was it it I I mean, I've seen I've seen quite a few of of the, you know, the actors and and the soldiers, and it's like, oh my god. They could almost be twins. Right. You know? And I'm like and it it it was just it was cool, though. It was it was, you know, and I just love those. You know? Those movies, I like those because Hollywood didn't Hollywoodize it too much. You know what I mean?
[01:53:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:53:56] Duuude-Ron :
They stuck a lot to, you know, stuff that happened. Of course, some of the stuff they did have to make Hollywood Hollywoodized. Right. You know? Because but still, it was it's it was an excellent movie. And I'll probably watch it again when it comes up around, again, I don't know, six months or a year. I'll watch it again because I feel like I forgot, you know, I forgot something. So I'll watch oh, yeah. I remember now. But I'll still watch it anyway. I don't care.
[01:54:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Well, that's that's what I do. Also, about once a once a year, I watch, watch the original, Star Wars, and then I also go through, and I watch at least the, the,
[01:55:02] Rich Chelson:
Good god. What what's the the something saga? And I keep wanting to say the multiverse sagas.
[01:55:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Anyhow, the Marvel, MCU, the first basically, the first ten years. So from and watch it all in chronological order. So
[01:55:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. See, I that's that's something I never got into is watching comic book movies. Yes.
[01:55:27] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But the the the Marvel ones the first ten years of Marvel ones, they did a really good job.
[01:55:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. I I'm not saying they didn't. They just those those things just kinda don't excite me. I mean, I I never got into comic books. You know? I was I was never into comics, really. So Right. So that stuff just doesn't excite me too much.
[01:55:59] Rich Chelson:
I would have to agree with Rich. I'm not a big Marvel fan, and I wasn't a comic book fan myself.
[01:56:07] Bryan Goodwin:
I didn't wasn't a huge comic book fan. I wasn't I'm not someone who could sit there and and and, state the, you know, all the little details about, you know, all the hidden Easter eggs. I find them hidden Easter eggs and, that they put into the movies fascinating. But, I mean, they're not on it. Not so I'd I'd go off the hand.
[01:56:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You say that's you say I I I didn't movies had Easter eggs.
[01:56:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, they do. Yeah. I mean, they, they'll show in, like they'll give, callbacks and stuff to the original, original characters. They'll talk about how, you know, like, Captain America used to have his, his helmet used to have, the, the wings on the side of his hell. I think they hit yeah. The wings on the side of his helmet at one time. And so they they they will stick those things in the, in the movie for the for the big movie, for the, the big comic book fads so they have something to see and go, oh, hey. I know what that is. So what I usually would do is I would go through and watch the movie and then watch, was it New Rockstars and all their the they're they would do a series of all the, of all the Easter eggs they found or, or what's his name? Ryan Airy from, ScreenCrush.
He also does basically the same thing, and they just cover all the different, hidden Easter eggs that are in the, in the the, the the movies. And it's like, oh, oh, okay. Oh, I see. Alright. Now now I understand that. And some of it you kinda like going you'll you'll notice it and you're like, okay. What's that supposed to be? And you have no idea till till you read up on it, then you're like, okay. Now now I'll come play handy. So
[01:58:06] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah. Say say with me, I mean, I could watch a movie, and and I could read up on it probably a couple hours later, yeah, I'm not gonna remember it. I mean, that's a lot of times I resent Unless I resentful that remark. I mean I mean, unless unless it was it was a movie that that, you know, got me in the feels or something like that Oh, yeah. Then then I might. But other than that, I it's I don't know. That's that's me. I'm weird. You know? I'm weird like that. I don't know why I do that, but I do. Why? Yes. You are. By god.
And that's the thing about, six months later, even if I like the movie, I done forgot about it. No. Seriously. I mean, I just I don't that jokes, you know, small shit like that, I just cannot for some reason, I just cannot keep ahold of it in my head.
[01:59:23] Rich Chelson:
That's because those two marbles that are rolling around in your head, try to knock everything out.
[01:59:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Too many drugs, man.
[01:59:39] Rich Chelson:
Drugs, man.
[01:59:43] Duuude-Ron :
And that's the thing. I didn't do I didn't do that many when I was younger. I wasn't that bad.
[01:59:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I
[01:59:53] Duuude-Ron :
bet I bet a liberal's listening to this right now. I was like, oh my god. It's like, what? Really? Come on now.
[02:00:03] Rich Chelson:
You stick in the mud, man. Come on.
[02:00:07] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, who says I can't do it? Right. Say to government because I didn't get caught. So who says I can't do it? See?
[02:00:27] Rich Chelson:
See? No one. That's right.
[02:00:31] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. I got you.
[02:00:34] Rich Chelson:
And here's probably the biggest question is is all these liberals, you know, criticize of what's being done. But how many of have of them have done the same damn thing?
[02:00:52] Duuude-Ron :
Quite a few. Probably more than half.
[02:00:56] Rich Chelson:
Thank you.
[02:01:00] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm just I'm just speculating there, but, you know dude. Hey, dude.
[02:01:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, we Yeah.
[02:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
What is your tip of the week, man?
[02:01:14] Rich Chelson:
Tip of the week.
[02:01:16] Duuude-Ron :
Tip of the week. What is it?
[02:01:19] Rich Chelson:
Do not drive the tip of the week. Do not drive in inexcessive speed when it's freaking downporn because you're gonna hydroplane.
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
Are you sure you're gonna hydroplane?
[02:01:40] Rich Chelson:
Saw it today.
[02:01:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. How many three sixties did you see?
[02:01:49] Rich Chelson:
Luckily, I didn't see any three sixties.
[02:01:52] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, man.
[02:01:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That's always the fun part.
[02:01:56] Rich Chelson:
I know. What's in the Yeah.
[02:02:00] Duuude-Ron :
No. I just man.
[02:02:03] Rich Chelson:
No. I just saw a car in front of me when I got those 900 gazillion raindrops on my truck today. They're driving down the road, and all of a sudden, that car just shifted to the right real quick.
[02:02:21] Duuude-Ron :
All on its own.
[02:02:24] Rich Chelson:
All on its own. Yep.
[02:02:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, it's yeah. It's always good to, keep good tires on your vehicle too.
[02:02:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:02:38] Rich Chelson:
Does that I'll tell you what. And that was the same person that passed me on a double yellow line. Was in such a hurry, but almost fucking took out the damn car.
[02:02:56] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know what? Karma got got the revenge. It did. See?
[02:03:04] Rich Chelson:
He did slow down. That's for sure.
[02:03:08] Duuude-Ron :
I mean I mean, at least he didn't get hurt. That's a good thing. But you know? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I would I would laugh. I would laugh hard.
[02:03:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I love the fucking you know, some of these reels that come up on my Facebook feed. I love watching Instant Karma. Yeah. When some dumbass is doing something on the road. I saw one, an unmarked unmarked police car. The guy passes him. He was in the far left hand lane. The guy passes him on the shoulder on the left on the highway, gets in front of him, and then brake checks him.
[02:03:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He's got multiple colors in his rear view.
[02:04:05] Rich Chelson:
Yes. He did. A lot of flashing red and blue lights. Well, you can see what I love instant karma. I would love to see a lot more of it. Personally Yeah. But but whenever I see it on TV, I'm happy. Makes my day. Just like somebody getting slapped in the back of the head. For whatever reason, that just that I find that the funniest damn thing when I see somebody get hit in the back of the head. Hilarious.
[02:04:56] Duuude-Ron :
Even yourself?
[02:04:58] Rich Chelson:
Not so much.
[02:05:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I had to ask. I mean, you know.
[02:05:07] Rich Chelson:
I love it when somebody gets a DiNozzo slap. Everybody here knows what a Denozzo slap is. Right? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I was gonna say I made that statement, and then it got awfully quiet. So, but, yeah, it just fascinates the hell out of me when somebody gets smacked in the back of the head. Or better yet, that one that I sent, that meme that I sent with the guy that had the hot coffee or the hot water or whatever and put it up underneath the guy's hand, and the guy just reacted and smacked the guy next to him. They were holding the phone.
[02:05:57] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was a good one. That's a yeah. I saw that one. That was a good one.
[02:06:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That was fucking hilarious.
[02:06:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See, dude. But if
[02:06:11] Rich Chelson:
that to me, it's but, of course, Rich would me to have to.
[02:06:22] Duuude-Ron :
Do what, dude? You broke up.
[02:06:29] Bryan Goodwin:
He's really breaking up. Yeah. It's okay, man. Not being that we don't like you. Just letting you know we didn't hear everything you said.
[02:06:41] Duuude-Ron :
We're gonna lose him here in a second. I know we are.
[02:06:49] Rich Chelson:
So yep. Yep. Yep. I'm sure he's here in a sec.
[02:06:55] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Can you hear me now? Hey. There he is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. Say it again, dude.
[02:07:02] Rich Chelson:
But you put on sweet
[02:07:06] Duuude-Ron :
What was that?
[02:07:07] Rich Chelson:
I have no fucking idea. I opened up a web page because I was looking for things to talk about.
[02:07:13] Duuude-Ron :
Wow.
[02:07:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Like, ah, audio. Audio. No. I don't need audio.
[02:07:19] Rich Chelson:
Alright. So what the hell was I saying anyway?
[02:07:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't remember. I did those slaps and
[02:07:25] Rich Chelson:
and Oh, yeah. It's, you know, if it happens to somebody else, fucking hilarious. If it happens to me, not so hilarious, but I'm sure Rich would be fucking dying on the floor laughing.
[02:07:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I would. I would. You say I say I wasn't sure what you said on that first time, and that's why I'd asked you to say it again, and that was when your phone
[02:07:51] Rich Chelson:
started to die on us. Yeah. Shit itself. You know? Yeah. But Yeah. It's like signal shitting. Yeah.
[02:07:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, just to let y'all know, just in case y'all wanna get in the ham radio, I will be having a ham radio for sale here soon.
[02:08:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, really? Yes.
[02:08:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[02:08:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Which one are you ditching?
[02:08:16] Duuude-Ron :
The seven ten.
[02:08:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Seven ten split, man. That thing is always tar hard to get. It
[02:08:23] Rich Chelson:
is. Now It is.
[02:08:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The seven ten split is, but, seven ten is, easy to get. Oh, okay. No. No. I'm a sell it because, yeah, I went ahead and bought that one radio if I fucking wanted. Yeah. Alright. Talk to myself. No. I and I mean I mean I mean, there is nothing wrong with the seven ten. It's it's a good radio. It's just I don't like the screen. Right. Because it I and because it has all this eye candy shit on it. Now it's like some of it's useful, but most of it is, like yeah. It stupid. And it like, to change filters on the seven ten
[02:09:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I've got Is that the one I have? The digital screen? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha.
[02:09:28] Duuude-Ron :
The, the seven ten has has has one button you push, and you've got four different filters you can change, but you gotta hit each button or the same button. Like, you hit it once to bring the whole thing up, and then and then you got the first filter. You hit it, adjust it, hit it again to to save it, and then rotate to the second one, hit it to change it, hit it to save it, and you gotta freaking keep doing that. It drives me up fucking wall. The freaking radio I got, I've got knobs. It's gorgeous. I've got fucking knobs, and it just the knobs are right there at my fingertips, and I adjust.
There's no screen. There's a display that that tells me the frequency and where my my filters are set at and shit, but that's it. There's it's just a display. It's it's an old school radio is what it is. But yeah.
[02:10:33] Rich Chelson:
Well, that's basically the difference between a pure p r 77 and a Singar's radio.
[02:10:41] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:10:44] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We we actually just had the knobs, and the had all the fucking buttons and digital crap. Yeah. You know?
[02:10:54] Duuude-Ron :
But no. I mean I mean, the seven ten is a great radio, and and, you know, this I can probably get this new radio to work on f t eight, but I'm gonna use, like, my, g 90 or something to, run f t eight and digital modes and stuff like that. So I'm gonna sell this seven ten.
[02:11:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, there you go.
[02:11:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I tried I tried I I held off pretty good. I actually held off for quite a while.
[02:11:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's what you were saying. Yep. That's what you were saying.
[02:11:42] Bryan Goodwin:
What was it, couple weeks ago about that?
[02:11:46] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I mean I mean well, I just I just bought this, like, what what late last week?
[02:11:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, that you were gonna go to that that you the radio that you wanted.
[02:12:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Vince yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I had no hard date. And because the one the one I had tried to get off eBay, someone else bought it out from under me. I was like, damn. Okay. So I was like, alright. That's fine. I'll just I'll just I won't I won't worry about it that much. And then, I was I was looking around at something, and I found this other site where this one was at, and, I looked at it. Dude was in Neosho, Missouri, and he, he's a ham radio operator, and he works on them and shit like that. So and he he had this one for sale.
[02:12:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's the one that you wanted, and the one that you really don't wanna use, why not sell it? Somebody will somebody, I'm sure, will snatch it up pretty quickly.
[02:13:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. It won't sit long. It won't sit long. I know that. Because, I mean, that because you see, that's the thing. You know? I've been I've been, I've been comparing the, the, receives on both radios, and I can see where the $7.10 is better because it's, you know, it's it's got more software, more software architecture in it, but it's not light years ahead of what I just purchased. And this radio I just purchased was built back in 02/2008. Yeah. Well So and this seven ten is only three years old, so it was made in '22. Either way, though, I can hit one button and be listening to WSM six fifty AM out of Nashville.
[02:14:17] Rich Chelson:
What is that? Old country?
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah, buddy. That's old country. Well, they do they do mix up. Well, when I say old country, they go all the way from the fifties to today.
[02:14:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. But they play more of the old country than they do the new country.
[02:14:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:14:45] Rich Chelson:
Or is it equal?
[02:14:47] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. They they tend to stay anywhere from the 2 thousands on back to the fifties.
[02:14:55] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:14:56] Duuude-Ron :
They do they do play some of the new country, you know, and stuff like this. But, but, yeah, I can get six only at night, though. I can't get 06:50AM during the day. No.
[02:15:11] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah, because there's too much cell phone traffic.
[02:15:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that and everything else that is using a radio frequency. 1,200 w o a I.
[02:15:22] Bryan Goodwin:
So when the sun's the sun sets, they, they are able to turn the power up on their on their antenna, and they could keep it up until the sun till the sun comes up, and then they have to take it back down.
[02:15:36] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. W a I. I'm gonna have to see if I can't get them. WAI?
[02:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. You can pick up +1 WAI. I've picked it up at South Dakota before. Or was it South Dakota? Not South Dakota. Yeah. Yeah. That's where, what's the name of that freaking city? We went up there. I think it's South Dakota. Right. Black Hills. Okay. Where is okay. Black Hills, the, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Right? Yeah. Okay. Is there, like, a there is there, like, a I I know it's not River City because that every time I hear River City, I think of, Music Man. But,
[02:16:21] Duuude-Ron :
There's there's Deadwood, Sturgis, Rapid City. But no. Grand Rapid City. Rapid City. Yeah. We were picking up
[02:16:30] Bryan Goodwin:
picking up some, some cement out of, out of Rapid City, taking it down to to, to Denver.
[02:16:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So So what so is that station also old country?
[02:16:49] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's all talk radio.
[02:16:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:16:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. See
[02:16:55] Rich Chelson:
If I tune it.
[02:16:57] Duuude-Ron :
See, if I tune I gotta find them again. The, the old shortwave stations, a lot of them are still going. You know? You can get a lot of shortwave stations from different countries and stuff. And, at night, you can hear them really well. They, used to be on 40 meters, but they moved them. I gotta find them again, because, the shortwave stations were actually interfering with the hand bands, especially at night and even some during the day. So so the International Amateur Radio Union, which is a worldwide governing body for amateur radio, basically moved the frequencies of the shortwave stations for the different countries.
Uh-huh. So but, yeah, I can tune them in too. I gotta find them again. Some of them are funny. I can't understand what you're saying half the time.
[02:18:04] Rich Chelson:
So here's the here's here's the biggest question.
[02:18:07] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh.
[02:18:08] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So you're part of the Amateur Radio Association. Right? Where's the where's the Professional Radio Association?
[02:18:21] Duuude-Ron :
That's your FM channels, dude. That's your terrestrial radio.
[02:18:27] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:18:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's it's it's called the Professional Broadcasters Association, PBA. Oh. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I and and, I mean, I I can't say I'm a part of the amateurs whatever because it's I mean, it's just it's it's not. We just, like like, the IARU is, consists of each country as a representative, and they have a summit every year. And they discuss band plans between countries and and, you know, stuff like this. And, you know, if there's any rule changes that that that might help out the rest, you know, everybody in the world is, basically what that is. They set, like, zone CQ zones and everything, see if certain cities are in one zone this year or another zone next year.
It's all admin shit, basically.
[02:19:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:19:42] Duuude-Ron :
So but but see, that's the thing. No. It is this all this all I mean, I mean, it's not like it's not like I have to know this shit for a test or anything. It's just stuff you learn.
[02:20:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah.
[02:20:06] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, probably when we're done here, I'll probably listen to some WSM. I might look up 1,200. I I need to look up 700 WOW out of Cincinnati.
[02:20:18] Rich Chelson:
I thought that was different.
[02:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
What is that, dude? That's the count. That's the count.
[02:20:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, I you whatever acronym you should send for the radio out of Cincinnati. I'm like, isn't that k WKRP?
[02:20:43] Duuude-Ron :
No. WLW had had you're funny, dude. Had the trucking bozo, man, back when he was alive.
[02:20:53] Rich Chelson:
Trucking bozo.
[02:20:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was dude, we we used to listen to the trucking bozo. Oh, god. Cross cross United States. Yeah. You turn on 700 WLW. He was a truck driver himself back in the day, and he become a broadcaster. And, oh, man, anybody who was everybody listened to it. And, I tell you what, that man said whatever the hell he wanted, and no one no one argued with him. You know? You know, as far as the radio stations go, He said whatever the hell he wanted. And it was it was it was great. And and, you could call in and request songs and all kinds of stuff. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Shit. Back in the day before the Internet, we got a lot of our news about the trucking industry from him.
[02:21:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, really? Mhmm.
[02:22:04] Rich Chelson:
Wow. Okay.
[02:22:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. This is yeah. I'm going way back way back before the Internet. You know? Because I mean, shit. Yeah. We yeah. Yeah. We didn't you know? Well, nothing was really on the Internet until the late nineties, and then it was still priced out of range. And none of the truck stops had Internet.
[02:22:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Shit. Oh, yeah.
[02:22:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So, I mean you know? And and, you know, if we spent months on the road, the CB and AM radio was how we got our information.
[02:22:49] Rich Chelson:
Absolutely.
[02:22:51] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I just dated myself for damn sure.
[02:22:58] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You old. But we but we already knew that. Right. You old.
[02:23:07] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, I think I think after the bozo passed, I think his son took it over took the show over. Oh, yeah? I think so. I don't know. I need well, here. I can probably look it up online and see if it's still going. Well, the well, the radio station is there still. That's a good thing. I said it's with iHeart
[02:23:43] Rich Chelson:
now.
[02:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. I gotta look and see because,
[02:23:52] Rich Chelson:
Dale Summers,
[02:23:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Dale Summers. Yep. Yeah. He was I tell you what, that guy was awesome. Oh, they oh, they have the American Trucking Network now.
[02:24:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:24:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:24:18] Duuude-Ron :
At least they still have something. You know? Might not be the bozo, but they still have
[02:24:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Some of these Sure.
[02:24:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But no. Yeah. It was yeah. At night, man, we would try and get 700. We could get 700 better than a than a week to get six fifty. But, man, as soon as as soon as I could get six fifty back in the day, man, that was sweet sound coming up out of that radio with the crackles, the hisses, the pops.
[02:25:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:25:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was man, that's living. I don't care who he is. Yeah. You know, I wonder I wonder I wonder what what, kids would do nowadays or even some young adults would do if if, if, we went back to AM radio.
[02:25:35] Rich Chelson:
Lose their fucking mind.
[02:25:41] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, when they make cars now, cars don't have an AM side anymore on the stereo, I don't think. Wow. Yeah. They just have FM and barely even that anymore.
[02:25:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh.
[02:26:04] Duuude-Ron :
Well and and you see, that's the thing. If, I mean, FM the the FM stations have gotten and, well, AM's gotten bad too, but, you know, of all the freaking commercials, shit. I'd I'd rather watch TV with commercials than listen to a radio station with
[02:26:23] Rich Chelson:
commercials. Oh, I know.
[02:26:25] Duuude-Ron :
You know, they might play three songs an hour and the rest are commercials. And that's why, well, that's why podcasting took over. Absolutely. Podcasting and iHeartRadio, Spotify, all these all these others took over because people were tired because advertising took over regular radio.
[02:26:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[02:26:54] Duuude-Ron :
So but they still have radio stations because there's some people out here that, I guess, still listen to FM radio. And what does? I do. Okay. Yeah. See, FM radio, no. I I don't really. That's where I'll use, YouTube, you know, iHeartRadio. I won't use Spotify. I hate Spotify.
[02:27:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I don't buy Spotify for music, but Spotify, for for podcast, oh, hell no.
[02:27:41] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. No. No. I no. I I wouldn't even talk about podcasts and Spotify because, yeah, those two words do not go together. I don't care what Spotify says. But yeah. FM radio because I I mean, I've tried because I've got a little radio at my workshop. Sometimes when I'm outside, I'll turn the radio on. And it's like, good god, people. Shut the fuck up and play some music, please.
[02:28:15] Rich Chelson:
No no shit.
[02:28:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like, damn, please. I just I just want and and that's the thing. I'll flip I don't I don't care what genre it is anymore. As long as as long as I hear music coming out of the speaker, I don't care what I don't care what kind of music it is. Right. You know? Just as long as you're not telling me about, you know, this sale on cars or this sale on beds. I don't give a fuck.
[02:28:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's amazing that, when you talk about commercials that right now up until about week and a half ago, every damn commercial was concerning car sales and use your refund. It's like, goddamn it. Shut the fuck up, people.
[02:29:19] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, no. They want your money.
[02:29:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep. I know.
[02:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Because people still ain't figured out, you can legally claim two. A single person can legally claim two on a tax return and not have to pay any taxes. You just get a smaller refund or you break even. I learned that a long time ago.
[02:29:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. But Yeah. I don't yeah. I tried to give just enough myself to try to break even.
[02:30:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I did that for years. I claimed two because you can legally claim two, you know, as a single person. And, you get more money in your check. And Yep. Nine times out of 10, you don't have to pay. You know, if you get anything back, it might be four or five hundred bucks. You know? It's not the 3,000 most people get back, but I figure I got I got my money during the year.
[02:30:40] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. That's what shit. 90% of The US citizens use as their savings account. Mhmm.
[02:30:53] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. And that's why that's why you got all these commercials about buy a car, buy a car, use your tax refund. Yeah. Give us the $3,000 down. We'll still charge you 15% interest, and your payments will still be 650 a month. But you'll have a brand new car.
[02:31:16] Rich Chelson:
Yep.
[02:31:19] Duuude-Ron :
But, hey, I'm not knocking anybody. You do you, boo. Yep.
[02:31:26] Rich Chelson:
That's just like this payday, I'll be $800 $900 richer.
[02:31:33] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah, dude. That's So
[02:31:39] Rich Chelson:
I'm happy about that.
[02:31:41] Duuude-Ron :
I I'd be I'd be happy.
[02:31:44] Rich Chelson:
I'll be damned if I'm gonna fucking trade it in.
[02:31:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know that. Yeah. I would I would probably have to give you a DiNozzo slap when I saw you for that one if you did that.
[02:31:58] Rich Chelson:
No. You wouldn't give me a DiNozzo snap slap. You would give me a kit d. Probably so, man. You know what a kit d is. Right?
[02:32:14] Duuude-Ron :
I believe I do. Tell me.
[02:32:17] Rich Chelson:
Kicking the dick. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because I'd be like, dude, you just gotta pay it off. Fuck, no. Keep it.
[02:32:27] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah.
[02:32:29] Duuude-Ron :
Paid off means you own the motherfucker.
[02:32:32] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[02:32:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Yours. Yours. All yours. That's right. That's right. Absolutely. Now you can drop your insurance down to just liability and even better.
[02:32:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You can do that. Probably won't do that. Oh, I mean, that's fine. But, you know, that's the thing. You have that option. You have options, dude.
[02:32:58] Rich Chelson:
You're right. I do have options, but, you know, the way people fucking drive in the state of Texas, when it fucking rains, their head explodes. When it snows when their when it snows, their head just completely explodes off their shoulders. Yeah. That's I can't afford them I can't afford them dumb motherfuckers.
[02:33:27] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Well, see, though, the thing is okay. Check this out. My g, when I do get it paid off, if it's if if the insurance isn't astronomical, I don't think it is because right now, I've got full coverage on my Jeep, and I only pay, what, a hundred and I'd have to look, like, a hundred and $30 a month. Right. And that's that's for full coverage. So that's not too bad, really.
[02:33:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, I pay a little over 400. However however, I have, yeah, four vehicles and three people on the policy. Right.
[02:34:18] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, you've got you've got multiple people and
[02:34:22] Rich Chelson:
you pay multiple people.
[02:34:24] Duuude-Ron :
You pay how much?
[02:34:26] Rich Chelson:
A little over 400.
[02:34:29] Duuude-Ron :
If you break that down, that's that's a little over a hundred dollars each. So that's not too bad.
[02:34:37] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're you're right. You know? Compared with what, you know, what you just said as having a single vehicle, yeah, my price is probably maybe a little bit lower because of the fact that I have the multi car discount.
[02:34:58] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I say I got well, mine, I got 12, military. I got I got I don't I don't know how many freaking discounts I got. I got all kinds of fucking discounts. I can't I can't keep up with them.
[02:35:14] Rich Chelson:
Well, there you go.
[02:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Because they're like, oh, you get this. Oh, you get this. You know, I got a paperless discount. I got a veteran's discount. I got a multiple policy discount. I got three or four other discounts. I don't fucking know. Just just tell me how much I owe you each month. If it's too high, I'll tell you to kiss my ass.
[02:35:38] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. There you go. I You know? Yep.
[02:35:47] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But yeah. No. It's it's
[02:35:52] Rich Chelson:
but You know, like you said, you know, just tell me how much I owe you. But you know what? I appreciate all the discounts. And if you wanna give me more, I'll take them.
[02:36:03] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I'll take them all day long.
[02:36:06] Rich Chelson:
But If there's if there's discount for ugly, damn right. I'll take that 50%.
[02:36:14] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Fuck. Yeah. I'm game. I'm on it, dude. Yeah. No. I'll yeah. I'll definitely do that. Right. No. That's cool, dude. Your Jeep will be paid off, man.
[02:36:36] Rich Chelson:
No. Actually, come to find out that April 1 was my last payment. So May 1, I'll have all that money back in my wallet.
[02:36:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hell yeah.
[02:36:53] Rich Chelson:
Nice. So that so that I can start paying off my air conditioning system a little bit faster because that's $500 a month for four years to pay that system off. But so far so far, I think we've gotten into the mid nineties, and this air conditioning system is doing pretty good. So we'll wait and see how the summer does, and, hopefully, I don't have to put the window unit back in the dining room window and my house was at, you know, 77 degrees, I will be happy. Okay. I just don't have the 600 to $800 electric bill.
[02:37:56] Duuude-Ron :
You won't.
[02:37:58] Rich Chelson:
But, yeah, as just being an energy efficient system, and it's a hell of a lot more efficient than my other one was, that's for damn sure. You know, I'm sure that, yeah, my I will see a decrease in the in the summer electricity bill, which will be very nice. Oh, okay. And being and being cool in the house instead of coming home, and it's, you know, 86, 80 eight degrees inside. It's like yeah.
[02:38:36] Duuude-Ron :
No. It'll be, like, 72. You'll be needing your will be.
[02:38:45] Rich Chelson:
No. I'm good at I'm good at 7677. Right. Yeah. Those two, I'm I'm good. I'm comfortable.
[02:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
You better bring your whoopie when you come to my house because my house is, like, 72, dude.
[02:39:00] Rich Chelson:
Well, I will get I will acquire a Wobie.
[02:39:05] Duuude-Ron :
You ain't got one?
[02:39:07] Rich Chelson:
Dude. No. No. I gave all my military stuff, my uniforms, sleeping bag, boots, the whole nine yards to this, homeless gentleman that I met
[02:39:23] Duuude-Ron :
Okay.
[02:39:25] Rich Chelson:
That benefited benefited from it greatly because it was only collect dust in my garage. Right. Cool. Cool. And I haven't seen him in quite some time, so I don't know what has happened to him. But, you know, yeah, he when I started presenting him with all that stuff and, you know, I told him, take what you want. If you want everything, then take everything. Don't bother me. I had that gentleman in tears. Right. Because, you know, to him, that was worth a fucking lot. To me, it was just collecting dust, so why not?
[02:40:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:40:21] Rich Chelson:
So that's those tiers were my thank you. And very well you know, that was a very well, money's worth.
[02:40:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:40:47] Rich Chelson:
Trust me. I would love to love to win the lottery, and there's one guy I see, I think I've subscribed to him, that he's built up a huge following. I I think his name is Zach, and he's on, TikTok. And, basically, what he does is he he doesn't go to, like, big chain places. He goes to mom and pop shops, and he'll go in there, order a specific meal. And then when they bring it out, it's like, hey. Can I get a thousand of those? And they're like, what the hell? And he yeah. I'm going to feed homeless. And this every bit of that and I'm sure he may have sponsors, on TikTok.
But for the most part, every bit of this is out of his own pocket.
[02:41:54] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. I've seen those.
[02:41:56] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And, there it's getting more, and and he only uses mom and pop shops, you know, because, one, they make a hell of a lot better food. But it also he does advertising for them because he has such a huge following base, and there's a lot of them now that are just they won't let they will not let him pay.
[02:42:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I've seen those.
[02:42:33] Rich Chelson:
Yep. So it's a win win for everybody. Yeah. The business, you know, they're getting excellent freaking advertisement because then that all goes to word-of-mouth advertisement, and that's the best kind of advertisement. And then, you know, the homeless are also getting their needs met. Yeah. So one day, if I ever come into a large sum of money, I will do that myself.
[02:43:22] Bryan Goodwin:
It'd be cool to be able to do that. I agree.
[02:43:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I think it's looking to be about that time, Brian. Yep. Yeah. We're looking about $9.45. So
[02:43:35] Bryan Goodwin:
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And the reason, what they have is things like the pod roll, which is a funny sounding name, but, basically, we have suggestions for other shows that you might be interested in watching. These are shows that we've listened to and that we find interesting, and we think that you might enjoy them also. There's also the, live in person tag that is the l the lit tag, and that allows us to be able to stream our show live every Thursday. We stream it live. You could hear it without, any type of interruptions. And, it comes to you courtesy of the podcasting two point o, specifications that are, that are put into the modern podcast apps.
If you wanted pot modern podcast apps, you can go to newpodcastapps.com, and there you will pull up a, a list of different types of, podcasting apps that that, that support what apps features you or podcasting two point o features that you want. If you don't care for pod rolls, but you want, cloud chapters, you could actually separate filter the the, the pod rolls out. If you wanna be able to support the show but, but don't care about, about transcripts, you can separate those out. There's a lot of different options that we have, and all you have to do is make the choice that you want and download. But if you're not sure which one, I'm still a big fan of true fans, and I'm also a big fan of, a podcast guru. So those are my my choices when it comes to listening to modern podcasts.
And, one of the great things about this is that you can actually do value for value with podcasting two point o. And value for value is not just when we, when we're talking your if you find that you have received some type of value, you get to decide what that value actually is. And we we're not gonna sit there and try to put a, price on what we what we do and say that what we're doing is worth, worth $10 or even $7. It is whatever you feel like it's worth. And it's not even a percentage deal. It's just what do you think it's worth, and then you help that way. You can either donate time, talent, or treasure. Time is if you wanna help, lay out, cloud chapters for for the podcast, you can do that. You wanna go and find, chapter art for the podcast for the podcast chapters, you're able to do that. If you're good at, at doing, doing chapter art, creating your own chapter art, maybe that's what something you can contribute to. You can contribute your talent.
And so you can do time, you can put talent, or you can put your treasure, which is, again, that's just the money. And what we do with that money is we just take it and we turn it to, to help pay for the, the hosting of the podcast. And and when we get enough, we'll actually turn it into into merchandise and things like that that, folks can be able to attain. So it's great that we're able to do this. So, again, everybody who listens, I appreciate y'all listening. And, if you have any questions, comments, or anything like that, you can always shoot me an email at [email protected]. You get ahold of Rich over at r chelson, that's [email protected].
And, hopefully, next week, I don't sound like I've been punched in the nose too many times. So, I I could probably may hopefully, be able to talk a little more co coherently. So but anyhow, if not, then, then we'll just, continue to make fun of the way I sound. So but, anyhow, so, Rich, what do you say about, in your closing shots?
[02:50:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, first off, I gotta say, you're just not being truthful that your wife is the one that beats you up this week. No. No. No. She
[02:50:54] Bryan Goodwin:
she she stays away from me whenever whenever I sound like this, she won't have anything to do with with me. She's she I if I mentioned somebody gets sick, she winds up catching it. I'll she's just she don't have to pull out the, the virus out through phones. It's scary. So
[02:51:13] Duuude-Ron :
That's funny. No. I just had to say something. I I just thought it was funny. Oh, yeah. Anyway, yeah. I just wanna thank everybody who's still listening. This is our fifty second episode and never thought we would make it this far. Oh my god. This has been it it's crazy because yes. Yeah. Go back and listen to some of our past episodes, and you'll hear I mean, we haven't changed much. We still do we still do the same thing we did back then, but, you know, yeah, we've got we've got quite a few, shows that that we go down many different subjects in a night. So but, Yeah. I just wanna thank everybody that listens. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Share this out.
You know, if you wanna talk to us, please, by all means, just let you know my name is not Rachel. It's Richard, Not Rachel.
[02:52:13] Rich Chelson:
Always Rachel.
[02:52:16] Bryan Goodwin:
What's that, dude? I just ain't other I just I got nothing at all. What's that now, Michael?
[02:52:24] Duuude-Ron :
Anyway, yeah. Just send us an email. You can send it to [email protected] or send one to me, [email protected]. And if you wanna talk to the dude and hear the dude's wisdom on on a subject, send an email to either Brian or I, and we will make sure the dude answers it on the air just for you. You know, that's that's I I mean, I would love for someone to send an email for the dude. That would be, like, really, really cool. So but, yeah, other than that, thanks for listening. Keep listening, and, you know, keep telling everybody. And who knows? Maybe one day, you know, we'll all get together and be geeks. So that's all I got. Dude, what you got?
[02:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, like you said, it's always enjoyable just for us to see how far how far and how many rabbit holes we can possibly go into and be able to, again, just yeah. Our every episode, little bit different, but it's, you know, we anything that comes to mind is what we will discuss. It ain't gonna be anything important. You know? So but, again, thank you for everybody that, chimes in and tunes in, and it's great to have you listening to us. And we enjoy what we do, and I hope you, also are enjoying the you know, our conversation.
[02:54:16] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Well, guys
[02:54:21] Bryan Goodwin:
I believe I believe that's a wrap. That it is. So alright. Well, guys, I appreciate all both of y'all coming on, and we're getting to talk once more. And, I appreciate everything that y'all do and the insights and the and the, the misdirections and the fun times y'all y'all provide. So, anyhow, guys, y'all take care. We will see y'all next week. To the audience, man, y'all take care, and we will see y'all next week too. Till then, bye.
[02:54:50] Duuude-Ron :
Later.
[02:54:51] Rich Chelson:
Peace out.
[02:54:54] Duuude-Ron :
It's y'all. Get to feeling better, Brian. I'll definitely be driving that. So Alright. See you later.
[02:55:00] Rich Chelson:
Alright. Later.
[02:55:01] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Bye.
Introduction and Weather Talk
Ham Radio Adventures
Podcast Milestone and Listener Stats
Current Events and Social Commentary
Food Discussions and Bacon Love
Driving Safety and Road Stories
Evolution and Beliefs Debate
Movies vs. Books
Ham Radio Equipment and Sales
Radio Nostalgia and Modern Media
Financial Decisions and Insurance
Closing Remarks and Value for Value Model
