Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

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This week on Two Grumpy Vets, I sit down with Bryan and the Duuude for a meandering, laugh-out-loud catch‑up that runs from ham radio projects to hot rods, road rage, and real talk on military standards. We kick off with Rich’s Mississippi antenna build, WebSDR 101, and Raspberry Pi tinkering, then veer into highway headaches, CDL enforcement stories, and prep for Mississippi’s massive Cruisin’ the Coast car week. From gassers at the strip to shade-hunting curbside strategy, we map out our plan to soak in 10,000+ rides.

We pivot into a serious segment on the state of the U.S. military, leadership, PT standards, and why tough love matters—grounded in our own experiences from smoking soldiers to the heavy burden of casualty notifications. We wind down with windshield woes, Jeep mods, old-money rabbit holes, urban legends, and book talk—Stephen King, Truman Capote, and the Amarillo-set Bomb City—before closing with our value‑for‑value invite and listener shout‑outs. If you like shop talk, service talk, and a little life talk, grab a seat in the garage and hang with us.

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[00:00:01] Bryan Goodwin:

Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally.   We do this by throwing a little social commentary   with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together  

[00:00:18] Rich Chelson:

to show folks that living and having weekly conversations   is a good way to help   each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan  

[00:00:31] Bryan Goodwin:

Rich and the   Duuude.  

[00:00:35] Duuude-Ron :

Hello,   mister Brian.  

[00:00:38] Rich Chelson:

So what's going on?  

[00:00:40] Duuude-Ron :

Nah. Not too much.   I got freaking old today.  

[00:00:44] Rich Chelson:

You did?   Must be feeling a little better.  

[00:00:49] Unknown:

Oh, there we go.  

[00:00:50] Rich Chelson:

Get out of my damn  

[00:00:52] Unknown:

work clothes.  

[00:00:53] Rich Chelson:

Ah, I'm naked on the podcast.  

[00:00:56] Duuude-Ron :

No. What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said.  

[00:00:59] Rich Chelson:

So I'm trying to get take off my trying to get out of my work clothes.   And I was like, ah, I'm naked on the podcast.  

[00:01:05] Duuude-Ron :

Oh,   no. No. Before that, when I said I was I had dug a hole today. Oh, you must be feeling better.   No. No.   No. Uh-huh. I was hoping. So   Right. But yeah. No.   Yeah. No.   Yeah. No. Yeah. No.   I mean, I will say it is it is easier   to dig in the dirt down here in in Mississippi.  

[00:01:31] Rich Chelson:

I bet.   All I say is it  

[00:01:34] Duuude-Ron :

it did take me long to dig down two and a half feet.  

[00:01:39] Rich Chelson:

What'd you what were you digging?   I put a Base for your antenna?  

[00:01:44] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I put a pole in the ground because I got a tilt over   base that   that I have to mount to the pole.  

[00:01:52] Rich Chelson:

Ah, okay.  

[00:01:53] Duuude-Ron :

And then I'm gonna put that   put the antenna on that base.   So,   when I tilt it up,   one, the base is solid,   it's set,   and then I can just swing it up, and it locks into place.  

[00:02:12] Rich Chelson:

Ah, okay.  

[00:02:13] Duuude-Ron :

So  

[00:02:14] Rich Chelson:

so, yeah, that's I wonder if Ron's gonna be late today because he had he said didn't he say yet last night that he had double double runs today?  

[00:02:22] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. So   He'll be on. Oh, yeah.   So   so, yeah, I did that   and farted around a little bit, and then, yeah, that was it. I'm done.   Put a fork in me. I'm done.   Done. Done. And done.   Mhmm.   So tomorrow, I'm gonna smoke that pork shoulder.  

[00:02:45] Unknown:

Yay.   And  

[00:02:48] Duuude-Ron :

oh, I oh, I can't wait for that, man.   And I'm gonna finish up the   last few pieces I got.   I'm gonna have everything in place.   So on Saturday,   when I push this pole up for the antenna,   it's just a matter of pushing the pole up,   hooking up the guide wires,   snugging them,   and then   doing a few other things, and then that's it. The antenna's up. Okay.   So   I'm trying to get it to where   because Jim and Dana's gonna come over and help me raise the antenna or raise the mast.   And,   I'm trying to make it as easy as possible   and as safe as possible.  

Okay.   Because it's 41 and a quarter feet tall.  

[00:03:37] Rich Chelson:

Damn.  

[00:03:38] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.  

[00:03:39] Rich Chelson:

Neighbors are gonna love you.  

[00:03:43] Duuude-Ron :

Damn. They in fact in fact  

[00:03:46] Rich Chelson:

You probably find out that half your half your neighbors are ham rot enthusiasts too. Like, oh, hey. Someone actually put something up.  

[00:03:53] Duuude-Ron :

No. I met I met I met one of my other neighbors over here in these apartments.   She's   a I'd say she's late six. She's early seventies. Nice lady.   And I guess I guess her and Ray was talking about   about my antennas and stuff like that, and   she had made a joke that that   that I was trying to contact the aliens.   So,   yeah, she was a nice lady.   I said, no. I said I said I said I'm just talking around the world.   But  

[00:04:30] Rich Chelson:

I'd love to hear see the see the neighbors. What so what's up what's up with all the antennas?   You CIA, I tell you. You CIA.   He's a spook. He's coming to he's reporting on us all.  

[00:04:44] Duuude-Ron :

Right? The old number stations. Yeah.  

[00:04:49] Rich Chelson:

+1   (734)   339-7849.   Right. Right.  

[00:05:02] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. That I, honestly,   that would be cool to find an old book like that.   Oh, yeah. You know?   But yeah. No. I should   I should have this antenna up   Saturday for sure.   Because, I mean, once I get the mast up, it's just a matter of raising the antenna, and I've got   I'm gonna have it on a pulley. So  

[00:05:25] Rich Chelson:

Oh, okay. Yeah.  

[00:05:27] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. That's that is one thing I learned when I was up north. I I put a two by four up about 17 foot   above my house,   and I got smart and put a pulley up there   and then just,   you know, doubled my my rope   so I could let it all the way to the ground if I wanted or whatever.   And I tell you what, that makes things that makes life a whole lot easier.   You know, if I want I bet it does.   Work on the antenna. I can I don't I don't have to mess with the mast? I can sit there and just   unwrap it,   run it down,   do what I need to do, or totally change the antenna if I want   and then run it back up. You know?  



[00:06:14] Rich Chelson:

So   Alright. So   speaking of number stations, I was just kinda farting around and jump and, apparently,   everything's on Reddit. There's a subreddit for number stations.   Okay. And they keep talking about one particular one particular thing and that and I've never heard of. What is a   WebSDR?  

[00:06:35] Duuude-Ron :

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Web yeah. WebSDR,   and I know what that is.  

[00:06:40] Rich Chelson:

Okay. What is that?  

[00:06:42] Duuude-Ron :

It's it's,   basically   a ham radio on the web.   Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. It's a site.   You   you, you can go to WebSDR.  

[00:06:53] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. I'm over here at websdr.org?  

[00:06:55] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. You can listen to ham radio   online.  

[00:06:59] Rich Chelson:

Oh, that's cool.  

[00:07:01] Duuude-Ron :

Uh-huh.   And you can pick from, you know, the different bands and, you know, frequencies and stuff and just listen to people talk because   it's all broadcasted.   You know? Right. So, yeah, it's it's,   it's actually cool. You know? If if you don't have a ham radio and   wanna get your ham radio fixed,   webstr.org,   like you said, and   just   it's on. Just set your frequency or find an active   frequency and then sit and listen.  

[00:07:31] Rich Chelson:

Okay.   Yeah. There's Northern Utah   out of Careen.  

[00:07:37] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. They've got they've got different sites. A lot of USSR.  

[00:07:43] Unknown:

Russia.  

[00:07:45] Rich Chelson:

Sierra.   San Diego, Argentina.  

[00:07:48] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   Say with you in Oklahoma or Texas. What's up, dude?  

[00:07:53] Unknown:

What's up?  

[00:07:56] Duuude-Ron :

Not much, man.   Some of these on the on the SDR,   you might not hear   them, like the ones in Russia and France. It depends Right. Yeah. The day.   You know?   I mean, you can hear them, but for   trying to see   where the best one would be for Oklahoma and Texas.   One that I know would be   you could actually hear   on a regular basis.   Because I've I've tried to listen to some overseas,   and,   you know, I don't   I couldn't hear them very well.   Hang on. Let me   oh, that's   Yeah. That gets real loud real quick, don't it? Yeah. It does.  

[00:08:41] Rich Chelson:

I was like,   Adjust a little bit. Just a little bit.  

[00:08:46] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I would say I'd say right now, Utah would be good.   Maybe DC.  

[00:08:53] Rich Chelson:

North Texas is one that was the just hit.  

[00:08:57] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, you found one in North Texas? Yeah.   Okay.  

[00:09:01] Rich Chelson:

North Texas RTLSDR   operated by   Whiskey five,   Charlie Quebec uniform.  

[00:09:08] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. There we go. I see.   I gotta put my call sign in.   Because it says, do you have a call sign? What is he?  

[00:09:20] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. There's   a trace aureus receptor SDR,   and that type of antenna is a 40 meter double bazooka.  

[00:09:28] Duuude-Ron :

Yep. That's   a that's a real good receiving antenna.  

[00:09:34] Rich Chelson:

And then there's one that's a not so long wire.  

[00:09:39] Duuude-Ron :

It's probably a 29 and a half foot.  

[00:09:44] Rich Chelson:

Not so long wire is 29 and a half feet.  

[00:09:47] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Yeah. No. No. That's you see, a a long wire   is a,   it's it's   it's not a multiple   of any band.   Okay? It's it's it's not on the 80 meter band   or all the way down to six meters, and it's not an odd multiple.   It's it's totally   in between them. That's why it's called a long wire.  

[00:10:12] Rich Chelson:

Okay.  

[00:10:13] Duuude-Ron :

And when they say it's not so long, then it's probably a 29 and a half footer, which it works.  

[00:10:19] Unknown:

I bet.  

[00:10:20] Rich Chelson:

It works, actually. Really. Funny that the technical term would be, it's not so long.   Right.   Got a delta loop, a mini dipole,   a VHF   turnstile   filtered   LNAR   TL SDR,   a a UHF,   a 13   ELE Yagi,   and a twenty twenty   ELE Yagi.  

[00:10:47] Duuude-Ron :

13 element Yagi.  

[00:10:49] Rich Chelson:

Okay. So, yeah, I'm   I I I am I am,   I I am   I am a nonsmoked ham.   But, yeah, seriously, I don't know. I don't know. Damn. This thing just kinda keeps going, doesn't it? Yeah. It  

[00:11:06] Duuude-Ron :

does. And,   you can change   now on this one, I'm not see.   Well, you can type in the frequency because, normally,   a lot of them   is   well, this one only has two frequencies,   80 meters and 40 meters.  

[00:11:23] Rich Chelson:

Okay.  

[00:11:24] Duuude-Ron :

Hang on. Let me try.   Let me let me see if I can do   no.   Maybe.   No. This one only does eighty and forty.   But if you go back and find another one,   it can do   more   more bands.  

[00:11:45] Rich Chelson:

Oh, okay.  

[00:11:47] Duuude-Ron :

So   and you see, that's the thing. Hams Hams own these radios,   and they put them up online to let you listen to them. Right.   You know?   So   but, yeah, twenty meters is is a good band to listen to.   Okay. I see the one out of Gatesville, Texas.   He doesn't have that many bands.   I would see.   Plus, a lot of people have theirs offline right now, which is possible.   New Orleans, Louisiana.   Oh, there we go. Got   got a  

[00:12:28] Rich Chelson:

Wait down so I can get to the map.   There's a 120   right around the boss. Oh, no. That's not Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge is right there. So what is that? It shows to be in New Orleans.  

[00:12:40] Duuude-Ron :

Well, I just clicked on Oh, there you go. And it said it wasn't working.  

[00:12:45] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.   And zero users.   Apparently, it's being run off a Raspberry Pi, FunQ Pro receiver.  

[00:12:53] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Raspberry Pi is, like, supposed to be an easier version of Linux. Well, Raspberry Pi is a very  

[00:13:00] Rich Chelson:

economic computer is all it is. Yeah. You can install you could you can install any, operating system you want that'll that'll run it. You can put on,   you know, any type of Linux. Now a lot of people will put them will use them as   as as Internet of thing hubs   is one. Another thing that a lot of people use Raspberry Pis for is   or media servers.   They'll hook up a, like, a an array of,   of of,   of movies, not discs for that contain a bunch of movies.   And so they'll have, like, a, like, a sling box that's that's nothing but,   of a, Raspberry Pi. They also will have   have very inefficient,   you can also get really inefficient   Bitcoin miners made out of them, but like I said, they're incredibly inefficient. So don't ever think that you're gonna get you're gonna get a $120,000   Bitcoin out of it. So  

[00:13:59] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. No. I'm good.   I mean, I've I've got one of my, you know, my hand clock that I had running that that freaking told me   all of the,   you know, stuff I needed for, you know, AM radio and stuff, my spots,   all like   that. Well, he had died on me, and it was Raspberry Pi.   Oh, okay. Yeah. He just said, no. I'm done. I'm out. He's like, no. We ain't doing this. Well   Yeah. I mean,   I I could probably   reprogram it, but   I don't know. I might go a different route. Well, I'm  

[00:14:37] Rich Chelson:

kinda tempted to get my own little Raspberry Pi   system go up and going so I can   just one just so I can play around with it.   Right.   Like to like to turn it into to a media server   or a media server or heck, just turn it into a,   at least into a node for,   for   the for, lightning   network or something like that.   Again, I haven't had any luck. I think the last time I looked on my on my laptop, I think I was finally   at 75%.   So   Dude, something's wrong. It it shouldn't take that long. Oh, I know. It shouldn't. But   it it one, it's a shitty old computer. And when I say old, the thing is like,   oh, shit. It's  

[00:15:28] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. But see, the thing is, though  

[00:15:31] Rich Chelson:

I think I got that in 2014.  

[00:15:35] Duuude-Ron :

All the last time it has to do is start up.  

[00:15:39] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.   The, the rest of it. Yeah. Well, y'all it also needs to be especially with Umbrel,   which or not Umbrel. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was no. It will start nine.   They one of the things they'd say is you wanna have make sure you have a solid drive   on it because they're faster,   and you want it hardwired to the, to the router. And so mine wasn't, wasn't hardwired to the router, and it's it's over Wi Fi.   And, it also is,   not   it is far I think that thing was created even before they decided realized what, what solid state drives were. So  

[00:16:20] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, well, yeah. 2014.   Yeah. They they didn't have no solid state drives back then, I don't think. No. No. Or if they did, they were, like, $2,000  

[00:16:30] Unknown:

Right.   For for a $5.12  

[00:16:35] Duuude-Ron :

bag.   So, dude, you're being quiet. What's up, dude?  

[00:16:39] Unknown:

I'm just listening to y'all talk.   Oh, okay. Talk about  

[00:16:44] Duuude-Ron :

Shit.  

[00:16:46] Unknown:

It goes right up over my head. I'm just listening.  

[00:16:52] Duuude-Ron :

We are trying  

[00:16:53] Rich Chelson:

to parts and There's a  

[00:16:55] Unknown:

Well, I understand that.   But I'm sitting here going,   okay.   Maybe I'll   get this. Don't fucking understand that.   Don't have a clue about this.   What the fuck did he just say about that?   You know, these are the comments that are just   bouncing off the spacious   void between my ears.   How about that?   Yeah. Didn't understand   90% of what you gentlemen were talking about, but that's okay. I'll just go, you   know, and be happy.   Exactly.   And so,   Rich, you're just talking about   computers.   I guess I need to bring my laptop   Yeah. And have and have you look at it.   Yeah. Great.  

It's got   with our   Windows 10.   I mean, it's been kinda it it was my boss's old computer   when he was going to school,   and   he got another computer and then   had this one   basically   put back to   out of the box type condition, had all of his stuff erased and so on like that.   Yeah. But it's running off   Windows 10,   which nobody fucking uses anymore.  

[00:18:18] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, some people still use it, but, yeah, Microsoft is well, actually, Microsoft is is still bouncing around with killing   Windows 10 and not killing Windows 10. They can't make up their mind. Oh, no. They never will.   Come on. Because I just I just saw an article,   what, week or two ago that that   Microsoft is   is because,   end of life for Windows 10 is supposed to be October this right   this month.   Right. Okay. And yeah. No. They're  

[00:18:51] Rich Chelson:

they're still They haven't got there yet.  

[00:18:53] Duuude-Ron :

They're yeah. Yeah. They're still hanging on to it for some reason.  

[00:18:57] Rich Chelson:

But you can put another operating system on a computer. Right? Oh, yeah. You can put a top of any type of Linux that shit you find. I mean Oh, that would contribute to be able to put some type of Ubuntu on there.  

[00:19:10] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:19:11] Duuude-Ron :

Brian?   We're trying to keep due to hopefully   open the laptop.   Now if we put Ubuntu, which is one of the easiest Linux the easiest one. Yeah. Well, I know, but this is dude we're talking about. Right. Well, you could always put in just, you know,  

[00:19:29] Rich Chelson:

sheer command line Linux in there and watch them melt down.  

[00:19:35] Unknown:

Okay. And I've had this computer sitting up underneath my bed for about   four  

[00:19:42] Rich Chelson:

years, something like that. God. I hope that the battery may have may have be completely toast then.   Yeah. So you might try charging it up for let it set for a day charging and see if it'll fire up when you hit the power button.   Okay. Because I have If it doesn't powered it up. Then there's not much you can do.  

[00:20:01] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, okay. Except for change out the battery. No, Brian. Brian, you can plug it in and leave it plugged in.  

[00:20:09] Rich Chelson:

Mhmm. A lot of the modern ones that have   lithium ion,   sadly, no.  

[00:20:15] Duuude-Ron :

No. I I don't have a problem. I've got I've got I've got my 17 inch laptop   that the battery doesn't last thirty minutes on, but as long as I have it plugged in,   it runs just fine.  

[00:20:28] Rich Chelson:

Is it one of those where you can actually take the battery out, or is it one of those where the battery is built into the system, though?  

[00:20:34] Duuude-Ron :

I haven't looked at that. I just plug it in. It it it  

[00:20:40] Rich Chelson:

it some of them will, some of them won't. I mean, that's the ones where you can actually remove the still actually take the   the the the battery out.   Yeah. I've known those to always be able to run even with the battery not having a battery at all.   Right.   But a lot of the ones that have it's kinda like your phone. If your phone's battery   dies completely and loses all charge,   it'll never boot back up again.  

[00:21:08] Duuude-Ron :

Right. But that's why there's a safety thing in phones that   even if it says 0%,  

[00:21:14] Rich Chelson:

it the, battery is still not totally drained. Right. Right. But that that again but if you let the let's say, like, you had an old old phone and you were like, alright. Well, I'm gonna hold on to this in case I ever break my new phone,   and you stick it in the in the drawer.   And   four years down the road, you're like, oh, hey. I wonder if I could still use this phone for maybe do a little modding on the phone. And you gotta plug it in, it's not gonna pull it's not gonna charge up. It's not gonna turn on. It's not gonna do anything.   It'll it's just a brick because the bat the juice is drained completely out of the phone or out of the battery.  

And when when it loses all charge,   it's   just as dangerous as if you   as if it was a swelled battery.   And so they a lot of them have a emergency cutoff so that it cuts all electricity off from the from the phone   when the battery is completely empty.  

[00:22:09] Duuude-Ron :

Right.  

[00:22:10] Rich Chelson:

So  

[00:22:11] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I've known that. Oh, okay.  

[00:22:14] Unknown:

But but good information to know.  

[00:22:17] Duuude-Ron :

But, dude, bring your laptop, and, we'll see we'll see if we can do anything about it. Okay.  

[00:22:23] Rich Chelson:

So   Watch dude come back, and he's a hacker. He's like, oh, dude, I just got into   the just got into   neighbor's Wi Fi down the road and   turned on this particular   particular   program, and all of a sudden, boop. Hey. I had their passcode and was able to jump on and yeah.   Got got access   to got access to the banking information and everything.  

[00:22:49] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:22:51] Rich Chelson:

That would be fun. What's seems like   yeah. Whatever.  

[00:22:57] Unknown:

You know, I would never   ever do that to anybody.  

[00:23:02] Rich Chelson:

Oh, you would peak.   You may not do anything within the information, but you may you'd peak.  

[00:23:09] Unknown:

Well, I wouldn't even hack into anything,   but that's just me personally.  

[00:23:17] Duuude-Ron :

That's a   that's a whole level of learning that dude is not  

[00:23:23] Unknown:

No. Not even   no. Not even I wouldn't say capable.   Just not willing.   Just   nope.   But that's   okay. Hey. Did you realize   that today,   stupid did not take a fucking day off?  

[00:23:41] Duuude-Ron :

No. I did not realize that.  

[00:23:44] Unknown:

Man,   none of the stupid took days off today.   They're all fucking   out there   working their magic.  

[00:23:55] Rich Chelson:

Oh, really?   So what was going on? Well, just four wheelers cutting my truck off. Ah, there you go.  

[00:24:02] Unknown:

Yeah. You know, especially   when   I got   one pickup truck that is behind my trailer,   and the lane is already going   is already discontinuing,   and you have to get to the right.  

[00:24:18] Rich Chelson:

Uh-huh.  

[00:24:20] Unknown:

And the asshole punches the gas.   Alright.   You know? You're so fucking   stupid.   I just want  

[00:24:32] Duuude-Ron :

to witness  

[00:24:33] Unknown:

somebody trying to do that,   and you hear this dunk dunk dunk dunk   as they're hitting the fucking   construction barrels.   I just wanna fucking witness that one time with these stupid fucks.  

[00:24:51] Duuude-Ron :

I've come close, but I've never seen no one run into them.  

[00:24:55] Unknown:

I'd like to see an instant karma too   where somebody cuts me off and then you know? Or better yet,   a big rig   is tail grabbing a four wheeler's ass, and I mean   20 feet apart,   baby.   I would just love to fucking have DPS officer come by and go,   no. I think that's a little bit close and pulls his ass over.  

[00:25:20] Duuude-Ron :

I've seen that happen before.   Not often, but I've seen it happen once or twice.  

[00:25:26] Unknown:

Yep. And then that individual   be,   oh,   not able to speak the English language and gets a CDL pulled?  

[00:25:35] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. Like those 160,   odd people in,   over in over the, the I 40   I 40 Texas Oklahoma   Port Of Entry.  

[00:25:47] Unknown:

Texas Oklahoma.   Yep. On I 40?  

[00:25:51] Rich Chelson:

Yep. On I 40,  

[00:25:53] Unknown:

Texas Trail.   Okay. Okay. Sure. I'll, you know what? I'll pay your games.  

[00:25:58] Rich Chelson:

Sure. Anyhow, there's there's a, there's a a port of entry there. They've got a super scales   and stuff. And so   when they saw that somebody was from California   coming into coming into Oklahoma, they actually pulled them off.   They they would pull of course, they pull all trucks.   When you're when when it's open, they pull all the trucks over onto the, the scales, and you have to run over the scales over time.   Right. Or well, damn near. There's been once once out of all the twelve years of me driving past there that I got to got waived on.   But when they pull on,   they would have all anybody with a with   a California license plate   pull in, and they would do a do a,   an English check.  

And they were finding   they actually found one guy whose commercial driver's license, his name was   name not given.  

[00:26:55] Unknown:

Yeah. I'd I'd I'd seen that.  

[00:26:58] Rich Chelson:

And so  

[00:27:00] Duuude-Ron :

Name not given. How did that get through? Because It's California.  

[00:27:05] Rich Chelson:

California.   California,   they're gonna be doing it for, New York here soon. They're basically gonna from what I understand, and it's in conjunction with ICE.   So they found, you know, a 160 odd people. They've taken a 160 odd people off the highways   that were driving big rigs when they weren't supposed to.  

[00:27:24] Unknown:

Wow.   Well, here here's two more   factors for you   as far   as illegals go.   This was a couple weeks ago down   down in South Texas.   They Mhmm. DPS   spotted a   flatbed   with the big rolls of hay   on it. Right.   And something's   I didn't read it. Somebody was telling me about it, that the bales of hay didn't   look   normal,   so they stopped   the truck.   And what they had did   is hollowed out   the hay bale.  

[00:28:06] Rich Chelson:

Uh-huh.  

[00:28:07] Unknown:

And they found, like, he didn't say how many I think he said there was over 50   illegal aliens   in those   bales  

[00:28:17] Rich Chelson:

Jesus. That they had. God. That's gotta be odd.  

[00:28:25] Unknown:

You know,   that is definitely a new one. And I know that every day, they're trying every every day is,   you know, finding something new   to   smuggle people in.  

[00:28:39] Duuude-Ron :

Yep.  

[00:28:41] Unknown:

So and what else? Bell County just started as of   January.   They are no longer   issuing CDLs   to   DACA,   anybody with   that's going through the naturalization   process,   but has not been   sworn in as a citizen.   And there is one more thing, and I can't remember what it was,   that they're no longer giving or allowing those individuals to get CDLs.   You know?  

[00:29:17] Rich Chelson:

Oh, good.  

[00:29:18] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:29:19] Rich Chelson:

They can't,   they   they can't follow the rules. And if they're having problems following the rules, I'm I don't really have a much of a,   much pity for them.  

[00:29:31] Unknown:

Neither do I.   Well, I found another picture of a   18 wheeler doing a u-turn in the fucking   I don't know if it was an interstate or a highway   and a truck, you know, plowed into the side of the trailer   because this 18 wheeler wants to do a fucking  

[00:29:48] Rich Chelson:

a car. Miss maternal, so we're just flip a bitch. Yeah.  

[00:29:51] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.  

[00:29:53] Unknown:

They just   like I said, stupid did not take a day off today.   Every one of them were working   and working extra hard too.   Right? You just gotta   sit back and laugh.  

[00:30:06] Rich Chelson:

Yes.  

[00:30:07] Unknown:

You know? And if I get stuck in a traffic jam, hell, I get paid by the hour.   So I'm good.   I had to run a double today,   Giddings and then Waco.   And   one of the other drivers that went up to Grand Prairie today,   as I was   finishing Waco,   and I guess there was an accident right there where the construction is   on 35 South and, yeah, it was backed up for days.   I got onto the highway,   That same individual that had gone to Grand Prairie and I made two runs, I he was on the service road,   and   I just passed him. I'm like, damn.   If I didn't have to stop and get gas, I would have beat him to the plant.  



[00:30:58] Rich Chelson:

Right.  

[00:31:01] Unknown:

But I said, just gotta shake your head and go,   yeah, stupid people.   So it was my day today. That was your day? Yeah. Mine was highly uneventful, so  

[00:31:12] Rich Chelson:

nothing big happened in my department.  

[00:31:15] Unknown:

Very anticlimactic.   Exactly.  

[00:31:18] Duuude-Ron :

Well, that's always a good thing. Yeah.  

[00:31:21] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:31:23] Duuude-Ron :

Because   because when you have   when you have climatic stuff,   that usually costs money or headaches or heartaches.  

[00:31:32] Unknown:

Yeah. And you   look like a and the look on your face is like a stroke viscom   or if you're having a stroke and your eyes are crossed.  

[00:31:46] Rich Chelson:

So   y'all got y'all got a big event coming up next   week.  

[00:31:53] Duuude-Ron :

Yep.   Yeah. Starts with Sunday.  

[00:31:56] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. And that is the   not Jeep and the coast. The cruising the coast. Coast.  

[00:32:02] Duuude-Ron :

Cruising the coast.   Any kind of hot ride, rap ride   from   stock   to wild and crazy is gonna be down.  

[00:32:14] Rich Chelson:

What was your favorite one you saw from last year?  

[00:32:16] Duuude-Ron :

There's a couple. I saw I saw a top down short 1959   Peterbilt. That was pretty freaking  

[00:32:26] Unknown:

cool. Was it still running the dual   rear axles or just one axle?  

[00:32:32] Duuude-Ron :

No. No. He was twin screw.  

[00:32:35] Unknown:

Okay.   It was a rat rod, not a working truck. Right?  

[00:32:39] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. No. It was too small to be a working truck.  

[00:32:42] Unknown:

No. Okay.   Well, maybe not. He might put a trailer and put his other hot rod  

[00:32:48] Duuude-Ron :

and go with that truck. You just never know. No. That is true. That is true because, yeah, a lot of people have done that,   You know,   built an old old,   you know, semi truck, and   they haul their other stuff around their RVs around. You know? So  

[00:33:05] Unknown:

Yep. Yep.  

[00:33:07] Duuude-Ron :

You know, it's   oh, I saw a short bus   that had been modded up. That was cool.  

[00:33:13] Rich Chelson:

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:33:16] Unknown:

There's a,   dragster driver.   Can't remember his name.   Both of his daughters also well, now he's does funny cars.   And both of his daughters do funny cars, and I can't remember what the hell his name is.  

[00:33:30] Duuude-Ron :

John Force?  

[00:33:32] Unknown:

Yes. John Force. There you go. Thank you.   He has one of those   little buses as well   that has   a big block motor   running an eight seventy one wing   wing blower,   and I think it had   two demon   seven fifty carburetors on it. But it's been a while since I've seen it. And, of course, he has he was running fifteen   fifteen inch wide tires   in the back.   Oh, wow.   And Chip Foose was actually the one that   built it for him. But, yeah, it was a short bus.   Yeah. No. Probably   do about a 180 miles an hour.  

[00:34:18] Duuude-Ron :

Probably good.  

[00:34:21] Unknown:

I have no doubt in my mind.  

[00:34:23] Duuude-Ron :

Well, the I no. I'm not sure I'm not sure how many,   cars are gonna be here. They are expecting over 10,000.   Wow.  

[00:34:34] Unknown:

Yeah. 10,000   hot rods?  

[00:34:36] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. 10,000. So you might wanna fill up before you get before you head over there. And, Ron, not just hot rods. It's  

[00:34:43] Duuude-Ron :

it's fully restored.  

[00:34:46] Rich Chelson:

Hot rods and cruisers,  

[00:34:48] Duuude-Ron :

and it's everything.  

[00:34:50] Unknown:

Yeah. Everything. Rad rods, hot rods,   OEMs.  

[00:34:54] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   Yeah. Like,   the   yeah. I saw a thing. They were they were up 200   registrations,   I think, over over their best, and their best was 2023   at 10070   Ridge.   Yeah. I told dude, I told you when it's a a   you're gonna be   we will be driving in and amongst   old cars   constantly.  

[00:35:25] Unknown:

Yeah.   And then you have this fucking   2018   Jeep   amongst all those hot rod.  

[00:35:32] Duuude-Ron :

Dude,   I was driving my 2012   Jeep naked blaring my music right through them, and they loved it. They fucking loved it.  

[00:35:41] Unknown:

Oh, yeah. I have no doubt in my mind.  

[00:35:44] Duuude-Ron :

I say last year, there was 9,961   vehicles registered.  

[00:35:50] Unknown:

That's a few.   But out of the registration   you know?   You know, that kinda aspect, I'm sure whoever was registered   showed up.  

[00:36:01] Duuude-Ron :

No. I mean,   whether they   whether they showed up or didn't, you know, I mean, they were registered, but   you see then again,   you have to add all the people that don't register and still show up.   Yeah. Uh-huh. Yep. So, yeah, it's yeah. It could very easily   be twelve, fifteen thousand more vehicles   or, you know, two to 5,000   more   because this is known the world over.   This event is is is not just known in settlement. This is known the world over.  

[00:36:38] Unknown:

You know, that would be   cool if somebody actually   shipped their car   from overseas   to attend this   particular event.  

[00:36:49] Duuude-Ron :

Well, in 2023,   they had   10,070   vehicles from 45 states, Canada, Germany, and England.  

[00:36:58] Unknown:

Oh, wow.  

[00:36:59] Duuude-Ron :

So, yes, people do ship their vehicles.  

[00:37:03] Rich Chelson:

Some people do have a lot of money.  

[00:37:07] Unknown:

You think?   Slightly.   Slightly.  

[00:37:12] Rich Chelson:

I'm gonna go grab something to drink real quick. I'll be right back.  

[00:37:15] Unknown:

Alright. You go ahead and follow that. Yeah. Apparently, last year,  

[00:37:20] Duuude-Ron :

cruising the coast brought in $36,100,000   into   the Gulf Coast.  

[00:37:27] Unknown:

Wow.  

[00:37:28] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.  

[00:37:29] Unknown:

Now I know   where they had   a jeep on the coast   where,   you know, their the main event   was set.   Do they have main events   set up for this as well?   Yes.   Okay.   I mean I've never been there.  

[00:37:48] Duuude-Ron :

No. No. This is this   is Jeep in the Coast on steroids, dude.   I'm talking bigroids.  

[00:37:56] Unknown:

No. I believe it.  

[00:37:58] Duuude-Ron :

I mean I mean, for it to be a week in fact, the ninth, the tenth, and the eleventh   is say, last year, it was just one day down here in Pascagoula.   This year, it's three days.   They'll have car show right down here at the park, right down from the house.  

[00:38:16] Unknown:

Oh, wow.  

[00:38:17] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   So and I've I've already got the itinerary printed out so we can   pick and go see whatever we want.   I already know when the races are  

[00:38:30] Unknown:

Yep.  

[00:38:30] Duuude-Ron :

On Friday. So  

[00:38:33] Unknown:

Yep. Can't wait for that. See the what are they called? The back creatures?  

[00:38:39] Duuude-Ron :

The gassers?  

[00:38:40] Unknown:

Gassers. That's it. Yeah.   Mhmm.   And anybody else that wants to drag race their shit?  

[00:38:47] Duuude-Ron :

No. No. This weekend, it's gassers only.  

[00:38:51] Unknown:

Gassers only? Okay. Gassers only.  

[00:38:54] Duuude-Ron :

Now during the week in fact, this weekend,   they got Ford versus Chevy.   I believe they also have   tune and run.   I mean I mean, during the week, they've got shit going on all the time, but when it's cruising the coast, no, sir. The Southeast Gassers   come in,   and   they own that drag strip for the weekend.  

[00:39:19] Unknown:

Oh, okay.  

[00:39:21] Duuude-Ron :

So   but they've got over 50 vehicles   entered.   Oh, really? Wow. Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. I looked up I looked up the information   yesterday and saw that they've got over 50 racers   that'll be there.  

[00:39:37] Unknown:

Wow.   Yeah.   And a lot of cars for sale that I won't be able to afford to buy.  

[00:39:43] Duuude-Ron :

Well, you know,   you you just might find one that that you can't live without, dude.  

[00:39:52] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.  

[00:39:53] Duuude-Ron :

I this is a lot of fun, man. I'm telling you. This is   the I mean, just fucking   just driving around. You you you you you you you you know how deep in the coast was?  

[00:40:06] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:40:07] Duuude-Ron :

You know? I mean, it it was good. Okay?   Quadruple that.   Okay.  

[00:40:14] Unknown:

So we could actually   find a spot on the side of the road   that has some shade and just watch them drive by   as well. Right?  

[00:40:25] Duuude-Ron :

If we get there early in the morning.  

[00:40:29] Unknown:

Because No.  

[00:40:30] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. No shit. Now now Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday   won't be so bad, but Fridays Friday and Saturday?  

[00:40:39] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[00:40:40] Duuude-Ron :

You   you better be beachside.   You better be parked by the beach   eight, 09:00 in the morning.   I guarantee you people are gonna come out of the woodwork, dude.   I bet they will. And the thing is, dude dude, we don't even need shade. Remember?   I've got shade for us.   I've got shade for you. That's true too. Yeah. I mean I mean, shade is cool.  

[00:41:09] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. It is. It helps. Absolutely.  

[00:41:12] Rich Chelson:

But Makes you a little more intolerable.  

[00:41:14] Duuude-Ron :

I'm just saying. I'm just saying. On the weekends,   you   we better get beachside   shortly   shortly   before things kick off   and just hang out   because you won't find a place by   eleven, 12:00.  

[00:41:32] Unknown:

Anywhere on either side of the road?  

[00:41:35] Duuude-Ron :

No.   No. You won't.  

[00:41:37] Unknown:

Oh.  

[00:41:38] Duuude-Ron :

That is a given.   Because last year, I mean,   I was down through there   at, like, ten, 10:30,   and,   you know, I had thought about swinging into   now I did find one spot that I swung into and, you know, I you you know, I stopped to take some pictures and stuff like that.  

[00:41:59] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[00:42:00] Duuude-Ron :

So, I mean, I did, but   that was on god. What? See.   What day was that on?   It was either on a Wednesday or a Friday,   and I only found a couple spots on a Wednesday.   Because, oh, yeah, people come down and they just, yeah, they just park.   They just park right there on the side and hang out,   and some people barbecue right there on on,   you know Oh, I'm sure.   On the road and stuff. You know? Oh, I'm sure.   But   but, yeah, they,   yeah, it's it's it's a big thing.  

[00:42:35] Unknown:

Well  

[00:42:36] Duuude-Ron :

And anywhere you go   well, remember when we went all the way to Bay Saint Louis?  

[00:42:41] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:42:43] Duuude-Ron :

It it'll be that way again, but   four times the amount.   I mean, there   there will be cars cruising   constantly.  

[00:42:55] Unknown:

Well, I'm sure it will be enjoyable   without a doubt   more so than jeep on the coast.  

[00:43:04] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, yes.   Yes. I have no doubt.   No doubt whatsoever.  

[00:43:10] Unknown:

So my plan is right now   to leave out   early Sunday morning. Because how long did it take me to get there last time? Nine hours?   Something like that. Hours.   Something like that.   Yeah. And leave out early Sunday morning.  

[00:43:26] Duuude-Ron :

That's  

[00:43:27] Unknown:

fine. So you're supposed to   Be there by dinner.  

[00:43:34] Duuude-Ron :

That works.   Thing is, though, it's supposed to rain   on Sunday.  

[00:43:41] Unknown:

Well, that's alright. I'll have the doors and tops on.  

[00:43:44] Duuude-Ron :

I'm good. I know.  

[00:43:48] Unknown:

Yeah. I was thinking about   rearranging   the Jeep and possibly driving down with   the the two front doors   off in in the, back area   on top of the box.  

[00:44:04] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, you could.  

[00:44:05] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:44:07] Duuude-Ron :

I mean,   that   that says you couldn't.  

[00:44:11] Unknown:

Well, you're right.   Absolutely.   But we'll see   come   Sunday morning, but I probably won't. And I'll probably just try with the doors on.   Right.   Well, it's  

[00:44:25] Duuude-Ron :

right now, it's saying it's and I just looked. There's   there's a storm in The Gulf coming across.   It's it's not a hurricane or nothing,   but Sunday   Sunday and Monday   is supposed to rain.  

[00:44:41] Unknown:

Okay.  

[00:44:42] Duuude-Ron :

So   but yeah. Yeah. If there is stops raining, I'll I'll take I'll take my top and doors off   and say we can ride your Jeep or we can ride mine, let you look around a little bit.  

[00:44:55] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. You know? We'll do that. Yeah. Now he can drive his. This is true. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:45:01] Unknown:

Without   worrisome.   Right?  

[00:45:06] Duuude-Ron :

And and, hey, dude.  

[00:45:08] Unknown:

Uh-huh.   I  

[00:45:10] Duuude-Ron :

I got a handicap placard now.  

[00:45:13] Unknown:

Well, alright.  

[00:45:14] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.   He he gets he can use all the good parking spots now.  

[00:45:19] Unknown:

Right. Right.  

[00:45:20] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. I know. And, you know  

[00:45:22] Duuude-Ron :

know.  

[00:45:23] Unknown:

And I can tell this time last year,   if you had disabled plates in Texas,   you could park in a handicap   spot   just by having the d DV plates.   Yeah. But I have always   if somebody out there   is worse than I am,   if I don't you if I don't need it,   and I haven't,   I have never used one ever.   Right.   But now you have to have either,   you know, your window placard or   the license   plate.  

[00:46:01] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Well well well, say in Mississippi,   it's the plate or the placard.   You don't have a choice because because because my plates say a disabled veteran, but that don't matter.   But   so   so when I went to the VA,   saw my doc on Tuesday  

[00:46:21] Unknown:

Yep.  

[00:46:22] Duuude-Ron :

I asked her about it, and   she filled the sheet out right there.   It said here.   And on the way home, I swung by the   where I get my plates,   gave them that thing, and they   they printed out the tag, the placards right there.  

[00:46:41] Unknown:

Oh, there you go. How long is it good for for?  

[00:46:46] Duuude-Ron :

Five  

[00:46:47] Unknown:

years. But Five years? Okay.  

[00:46:49] Duuude-Ron :

But I got   this   this placard that they're on   was in 2023.   So in 2028, the placard expires. So I gotta   do a new piece of paper in '28,   and it'll be Yeah.   A straight five years.  

[00:47:07] Unknown:

Yeah. And it's transferrable to any vehicle   Yeah. I'm I'm sure.  

[00:47:12] Duuude-Ron :

Has my name on it. So as long as I'm in the vehicle  

[00:47:15] Unknown:

yeah. Yep.   So Well, alright.  

[00:47:20] Duuude-Ron :

But   so, yeah, if we could find the spot  

[00:47:24] Unknown:

Go ahead.  

[00:47:25] Duuude-Ron :

I was gonna say, so when we're driving around, if, we can   find a open handicap spot,   which I'm not expecting to by no means.   I mean I mean I mean, think about it. You know, with with possibly ten, fifteen thousand hot rods   and people.   I and, you know, figure figure   two people per vehicle. That's 30,000 p or 20,000 people   plus the people that live down here.   Okay?  

[00:47:57] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[00:47:58] Duuude-Ron :

You know, I mean,   chances aren't on my side of finding a handicap shop.  

[00:48:04] Unknown:

Because you know that   and what's a good percentage   of the people that own the hot rods   are   in that upper age class   like us.  

[00:48:19] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, I I would say 70%   minimum.   Yeah. I mean, I'm guessing, but I'm probably not far from it.  

[00:48:27] Unknown:

I'm sure you're not.   Not at all.  

[00:48:32] Duuude-Ron :

So, I mean, it's   either way, it's fine. But yeah. No. I was just saying that,   I did finally break down and ask my doc, and, yeah, she didn't hesitate.  

[00:48:43] Unknown:

Well, that's good.  

[00:48:45] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Yeah. She just   filled the form out. Boom. There.  

[00:48:50] Unknown:

Go giddy. Yeah. Because all it is is the prescription,   basically.  

[00:48:54] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah.   So   I've been fighting it.   Excuse me. I've been fighting it for   last couple years, and   I finally just said, no. I'm done.  

[00:49:09] Unknown:

Yeah.   Gotcha.   I completely understand.  

[00:49:15] Rich Chelson:

So what do y'all think about the, the government shutting down?  

[00:49:19] Duuude-Ron :

You know,   that's   it's bullshit.   It's all  

[00:49:24] Rich Chelson:

it is. K. Now is it bullshit as in it's bullshit or bullshit as in it's   not anything   big or important type of bullshit?  

[00:49:33] Duuude-Ron :

When has a government shutdown been bigger and important?  

[00:49:37] Rich Chelson:

Okay.   That makes sense.  

[00:49:41] Duuude-Ron :

I mean I mean, this is the way I mean, honestly, this is the way I look at it because,   you know,   for one,   we haven't had a balanced budget since Clinton.   Right. Right.   Okay?   And and   we've just been using stopgap measures   sincerely   nineties.   Just say, oh, and then and then everyone wants to, like, shut down the, public parks,   you know, the federal parks and all like that. But you're saying I don't get that because   the,   federal parks   are not funded   by packs   by a packs   taxpayer dollars.   They are not funded by freaking government money. They are funded by the money that that people who go in   to see the park pay.  

Okay? Look it up. You'll find out. Or, like like, the National Monument and stuff like that now.   You know? And it it's   it's it's   it's all posturing is all it is.   That's all it is. It's just posturing.  

[00:50:50] Unknown:

When I was in the military, I think they shut the government down, like, five fucking times.   Didn't affect me one bit.   Right.   Still had to come in and do PT.   You know? Just still had to Right. You know?  

[00:51:04] Rich Chelson:

Okay. Oh my god.  

[00:51:06] Unknown:

Come to work. You know?  

[00:51:09] Rich Chelson:

Okay. Now you now you talked about the PT and stuff there, Ron.   So what about what do you think about what Pete Hegseth said about the,   said to, I guess, the heads of of the, the different branches   and, about about   getting the military back into shape?  

[00:51:30] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, fucking time.  

[00:51:32] Rich Chelson:

Okay.   Right. Right. It's like, oh, shit. 100%.  

[00:51:36] Unknown:

And Well, you got all those four star generals that are sitting up in the Pentagon?   You're damn right. They should be taking a fucking PT test   and passing it   twice a year.   What what makes them so much better   than when I was in?  

[00:51:53] Rich Chelson:

We've got important jobs we're doing. You know? Bullshit.  

[00:51:57] Unknown:

Standards are standard.  

[00:51:59] Duuude-Ron :

Exactly.   And you see this You wanna be  

[00:52:02] Unknown:

you wanna be a leader?   Lead from the front, not the rear.  

[00:52:06] Duuude-Ron :

Mhmm.   See, that's the thing. We never should have gotten away from it, but,   you know, it's been it's been it's been all this shit. You know? The federal government, you know, said, oh oh, we have to be more inclusive and all like this, and the fucking branches   just ran with it. You know?   I mean,   you know, like like like earlier before Pete Hegsa said this,   just a couple weeks or, a month ago,   this had the fucking military branches all wound up too   is is   because   they brought back   the old rules   about your hair being cut.   Yeah.  

And and and how you were supposed to dress and all like this and facial hair because   when I was in oh, fuck. No. You couldn't have no facial hair. Uh-huh.  

[00:53:00] Rich Chelson:

You know? Yeah. I mean, the navy was always able to, but that was you had to you could only do a mustache.   And it was That was It can That was the same way with the arms. Beyond the corners of your mouth,   vertically or horizontally.  

[00:53:13] Unknown:

That's correct. Yep.  

[00:53:15] Rich Chelson:

But And could not touch your lip. Nope. Nobody couldn't touch your lip on top of that.  

[00:53:21] Duuude-Ron :

But but see, that's the thing, though. It just with you know,   basically, what it is is is all those years   we dealt with   the freaking   Democrats changing shit is is is how this shit got   into this way.   Right. Yeah. And then finally finally, there's fucking people standing up saying, fuck no. Because,   you know, if you look at our military   right now this minute   and   put how our military looks right now against other countries,  

[00:53:55] Rich Chelson:

oh my god. We are we're we're we're got roller polies running around.  

[00:54:00] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Yeah.   You know? And it's like it's like, how sad.   I mean,   who's gonna take us seriously?   We used to be a superpower.   We haven't been a superpower now for years.   Yep.   Everybody just laughs at us.   You know? And, I mean, we might get hate mail   about this, but   when you actually look at it,   actually look at the shit in the past and now and look at everything else.   And and if you're   of some common sense in your fucking brain,   you'll understand what I'm saying is, like,   fucking a 100% right. Right.   And I'm I'm not doing it to be mean   or or,   you know,   you you know, talk down about anyone. It's just   sad state of facts.  



[00:54:55] Unknown:

Well, in most of my career was in a quick reactionary force.   Even going to the leg world   or nonquick   reactionary   force element,   yeah, it just   no.   Fucking   yeah. Just   night and day.  

[00:55:15] Rich Chelson:

Right.  

[00:55:17] Duuude-Ron :

Now I wonder I wonder if they're gonna   because they did,   and   I haven't heard about this. And I heard this from Dalton a few years back.   The army came down and basically   told all the NCOs   that they couldn't smoke soldiers anymore.   Yep. Well, that's no fun. Yeah. They could drop them for 25, but they had to bring them up.   Then   they could redrop them, but   that's not that that's not smoking a soldier.   You smoke them, but you get tired. Exactly.   You know? But And you know  

[00:55:56] Unknown:

how much   how more   effective that is   than a counseling statement?  

[00:56:04] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, it's very effective.   Yes.   Thank you.   Very effective because if you smoke them till their arms are hurting,   they're gonna think twice and more and it again.   Exactly. Oh, no.  

[00:56:17] Unknown:

Oh, not not yeah. Smoke them until they're shaking.   Yeah.   Yep.   Or better yet, wall to wall counseling.  

[00:56:29] Duuude-Ron :

What's that?  

[00:56:30] Unknown:

Wall to wall counseling.   We're afraid of the family.   Basically, the same term as going around going   behind the barn   and whooping their ass.   Wow. Okay. And you know what? I actually   and it was fucking hilarious.   You know, we could never do that,   you know, in the US military.   You couldn't physically strike   another soldier.   Now I could physically move   and put my hands on another soldier and   move him in the direction that I wanted him to go,   yes. I could do that. I couldn't strike him.   There went   it was   the infantry.   There was a   battalion   was it a battalion size element   from the German army   that came   and trained with one of the units in the eighty second?  

And this   I think he was I don't know what the rank structure is in the German army, but I think   the kid was an e four.   The other guy was an e seven.   Took him   behind a fucking   berm   and fucking whooped his ass,   literally   whooped his ass.  

[00:57:54] Duuude-Ron :

And they  

[00:57:55] Unknown:

it was, like, about fifteen minutes later, they came back, and the kid had a fucking,   you know, bloody nose,   fucking   dotted eye.  

[00:58:06] Rich Chelson:

And then he I bet you he said, yes, sir. No, sir.  

[00:58:11] Unknown:

Yep. But, again, you know, he may once he got back, he asked the the soldier a question.   And what was it? What did he say? It was,   are you gonna do that again or something within that? He's like, nope.   Not gonna do that again.  

[00:58:27] Rich Chelson:

And it's I mean, that's one thing a lot of these   a lot of these mamby pamby   pieces of crap out there who thinks that they have   you know, they're the reasons why we have more we have gentle parenting and all this other stuff. It's like, no. I get it. You don't like violence. But one,   the military,   the department of war   is violent.   Yep. It is about fighting. It is about doing violence upon other people.   And you have to have   the sheer   trust and dedication and loyalty   from those soldiers to know when it's time to go, do you have your the rest of the guys back?   Yep. And if that is not a hell yes,   then no one's gonna trust you. That's one reason why hazing   is actually a good thing   that men do.  

You have somebody new come in, they're gonna test you. How far will they can they push you till you snap?   If they could push you cut pretty hard   and you don't snap, you're you're okay.   We can trust that you're going to handle handle life under pressure because what what we're gonna be doing is under pressure.   Yep.   And so if they can't if but if you're if you sit there and run to run to the boss   the moment someone makes fun of you,   then, yeah, you're not gonna be included in the group. You're gonna be exiled. You're gonna slowly be where   and it's not a mean thing. It's just that's life.  



[01:00:02] Duuude-Ron :

You see? That's the thing. Exactly.   That's   life. Welcome to the real world. Exactly. Yes.   And that's that's where that's where a lot of people,   young and old,   has forgotten   about that.  

[01:00:17] Rich Chelson:

You know what I mean? It's not even that they forgot about it. They never even been a lot of a lot of youngers,   young young boys,   young men   have not even ever been told that because they don't have   they've they don't have parents in,   you know, a dad in the picture.   Right.   And so mom stands around. I mean, she's doing her best. I'll give her that. But she's doing her best   and is only able to raise   boys from the mom's perspective.   You have to have men mixed in there to be able to raise good noble men.   And, yeah, sometimes the men are going to be a little rough. They're gonna be a little mean. They're gonna do say stuff that's gonna hurt the women's feelings,   and they're not even have the ones that the words are being directed at.  

But you have to be the women have to trust. The men know what they're doing.   And sadly, a lot of them don't trust men and don't respect men enough   to be able to even go that far.  

[01:01:20] Unknown:

Right. Yeah. That is correct.  

[01:01:23] Duuude-Ron :

And and, I mean, rightfully so, I could see that. You know what I mean? Mhmm.   You know, especially nowadays,   you know, where we've,   you know, dealt with toxic masculinity.   You know? You need to be more feminine and  

[01:01:38] Rich Chelson:

no. Why not? That's that's what creates the toxic masculinity.   Right. It's exactly what toxic masculinity is. It is the it is the   the lack   of masculinity.  

[01:01:51] Duuude-Ron :

But yeah. I don't know. We'll see we'll see what goes on. But   yeah. No.   No. I agree with Pete Hegsa,   you know, when he said that. Because it's like, finally, get back to the actual fucking rules   and stop   trying to hatred everybody.  

[01:02:10] Unknown:

And coddle.   So   you ain't you ain't here to fucking   just like when the stress cards came out.  

[01:02:20] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, yeah. I heard about that. No, man. I had a problem. Oh, yeah. No.  

[01:02:26] Unknown:

Oh, yeah. With that OSET battery that I got on the second deployment,   I got 32 brand new soldiers in two days   while the main body was deploying.   And that that at that time, they still had stress guards.   So I was I can't remember what the hell I was doing. We were in formation. I was yelling at them.   And   one of them,   you know,   pulled out that card   and goes   and just raises it up.   And   I'm like, okay. What the fuck is this shit?   So I finished with what I was doing,   and then I pulled him   aside. I'm like,   what is it you're trying to show me?   You know, sergeant, you're stressed out.  

We need to take a time to settle down. I looked at the card at all.   I haven't read it. It you know, just   stupid shit.   Absolutely. And I commenced to say,   okay.   So I took the card, and I shredded it up into confetti   and threw it up over his head. And I said,   now do you honestly think   the person that   is firing at you   gives a   fuck   if you're stressed or not?   They don't give a fuck   about   you're stressed.   They will fuck that bullet will kill you   all the same.   Mhmm. Whether you're stressed   or not,   when that bullet goes between your eyes and takes a huge fucking hole off the back of your head,   you're gonna be just as dead.  

I'm like, no. We ain't playing that fucking game. And I guarantee you when you guys get over in the country   and you meet your   command group,   Oh, did fuck. No. I'm telling you right now, you better not fucking do that shit in a combat zone   because you will fucking   yeah.   You'll you'll hit your ass handed to you. You Oh, yeah. You'll hit your ass handed to you. That card.   Damn right, I said.   So   and then once   I did that to him, I announced it to the group. It's like, you know,   that stress card shit   that   once his name was holding up in the formation,   don't pull that fucking shit out.  

I'm telling you right now,   you get over in the the fucking   theater   of combat,   they nobody there give two fucks about your stress level.  

[01:05:04] Duuude-Ron :

Right.  

[01:05:05] Rich Chelson:

And so you In fact, they wanna make it as high as possible.  

[01:05:08] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, your stress level? Yeah. Yeah.   And you see, that's the thing. What   what these young soldiers need to learn, a bullet has no conscience.  

[01:05:18] Unknown:

Absolutely   not. Nor is it racist.  

[01:05:22] Duuude-Ron :

No. Exactly.   It's yeah. It's not racist   or it doesn't have a conscience.   You don't give a  

[01:05:32] Unknown:

That yeah. That bullet   no. Don't give a fuck.   Who it hits,   It'll kill you just the same. Yep.  

[01:05:42] Duuude-Ron :

And it doesn't care who your mommy and daddy were   or where your preacher come from or nothing.  

[01:05:48] Unknown:

Yep.  

[01:05:50] Duuude-Ron :

Nice.   Yeah. Some people are just   just   you know?   It's like,   y'all just need a checkup from the neck up.  

[01:06:01] Unknown:

Yep.   And that was one of the worst days of my life  

[01:06:05] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, I bet.  

[01:06:07] Unknown:

When   I was the casualty assistance officer.   And   I didn't notify   the mom and dad   that had been done the the day prior, but coming in there is like and then when the remains   came in,   oh, hell.   That was the fucking one of the worst days of my life.   Is and   and I have I can't   because I've never had the feeling   of losing   well,   I've lost all my upper family level, mom, dad, grandparents,   you know,   uncles, all that. They're all deceased,   but it's different when   it's a 19 year old kid.   Yeah.   Less than a week   before he was killed with by an IED,   he was   less than a week   shy   of his   graduation from high school.  



[01:07:10] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, wow.  

[01:07:12] Unknown:

I think I had about,   well, we had two services because his mom   was a devout Catholic,   and she wanted to have a   a   Catholic   funeral. So we had two   funerals.   So we did the Catholic funeral first,   all that for his mom, and then   the remains were brought back to the chapel that was on the grounds of the cemetery.   We had probably   that line of cars   from the   the Catholic church   to the cemetery,   I'd say, have a good   quarter of a mile long.   And then when we got to the chapel,   it was already   standing   room all night.   He probably had about   2,000, 2,500 people   at his gravesite.  



[01:08:09] Duuude-Ron :

Good to hear people showing. Yep.  

[01:08:11] Unknown:

Yeah. Do you well, a lot of the people that showed up   were friends of his that were still in high school.  

[01:08:18] Rich Chelson:

Wow. Yeah.  

[01:08:20] Unknown:

So, yeah, that was that was a fucking   that was a miserable day when the remains came in.   And not only have I had to do it once, I've had to do it twice.   Both both times up.   And then the other one, it was even a harder day was the day I had to go notify   a spouse   that her husband had been killed.   Right.   And it just so happened to be   that his wife was also   in the military.   So as soon as she opened up the door   and saw   two individuals in class a's and one being a chaplain   Yep. He just   fucking   screamed.   I didn't even get a chance to say anything.   She already knew.  

She just screamed   and fucking   ran to the back of the house.   Basically,   I don't want you here. You shouldn't be here.   You know, that type of aspect.   But, yeah, that was   not a good day either.  

[01:09:25] Rich Chelson:

I can understand that. I would agree.  

[01:09:27] Unknown:

Yeah.   And now since I'm not in the military, I won't ever have to do it again.   Right.   So Now when I when I was getting ready to retire,   because I was also   had a spot,   when I got issued as a casualty assistance officer,   I had to go to   the CAC,   the casualty assistance center,   you know, to get   my briefing, and   my class   was here. Read this. You go see the family tomorrow.   I'm like, what?   I I get I get to do this with   never fucking doing this before, and you expect me to fucking take care of a family   with   this paragraph   of information?  

I'm like, no. That, you know, that's just setting up   me for failure.   Now I did   an outstanding   job, but   when after the funeral's over,   I had to go.   I was up there   from   Fort Hood up to Grapevine,   which is just, what, North Of Dallas a little bit every day for a month.   You know, make sure everything was complete and so on like that.   And I got to know the director   of the catch here in, at Fort Hood. I'm like, you know, you were setting these people up for failure.   Here. Read this   little booklet here   and go take care of the family.   Fucking how how do you expect anybody   to truly   they   if you give a fuck   like I did,   you find a way   to make shit happen   regardless.  

But if you really it's like,   I got this assignment. I gotta go see your family and, you know, you you were a believer?   Yeah.   You're setting up the, you know, the active duty member for failure.   I'm like, you   we need to have a fucking class.   And, eventually,   they got a what was it?   The block of instructions   just and rear detachment.   They got a three day course   on, you know, fucking what,   what needs to happen and, you know,   and they   did better wrote a block of instructions   on,   you know,   questions that you need to ask,   you know, some of the questions that will be asked by you, by the family.  

You know, this is the kind of stuff that you're fixing to   encounter. Now most   senior NCOs have a little bit of common sense.   Some have a lot of common sense.   I would say I have a lot of common sense, but there's others that just   are lacking in common sense.  

[01:12:31] Rich Chelson:

Oh, yeah.  

[01:12:32] Unknown:

So, you know, I can say that my actions   resulted in   the manufacturer   of that class   so that   before you were selected   to be a casualty assistance officer, you had to go through this course   so you didn't go in,   you know, cold,   not knowing a fucking thing.   As a matter of fact, to this day,   I still have   the binder and all the paperwork   for   when I served as a casualty assistance officer.   Why I'm still holding on to it? I don't know.   But   next year,   yeah, he was killed in   I don't know how was he killed.   2000   and   well, hold   on. I'll give you the exact date.   Because you know those Vietnam bracelets,   the hero bracelets   that they've   that you've seen in the past?  

The names of the soldiers,   the one for the guy who was in Vietnam.   You know? Never knew the guy, but   okay.   Well,   let's see. The soldier's name was PFC Charles or Stephen Charles Tucker,   and he was killed on 05/21/2005.   So, basically, last May was twenty years,   and his bracelet is one of my   prized possessions, you could say.  

[01:14:03] Duuude-Ron :

So   Yeah. It's a little worn.  

[01:14:07] Unknown:

Matter of fact, just even though it's aluminum, it's pitted out from   me sweating.  

[01:14:12] Duuude-Ron :

No. I didn't know you sweated.  

[01:14:15] Rich Chelson:

Nah. Don't sweat.   You fibber McGee.  

[01:14:21] Unknown:

No. I don't sweat.   I profusely   sweat.  

[01:14:27] Rich Chelson:

Profusely perspire?  

[01:14:29] Unknown:

There there you go.   Yeah. There you go.  

[01:14:32] Duuude-Ron :

That's why that's why I dug this hole this morning.  

[01:14:37] Rich Chelson:

You didn't wanna do it till 04:00 this afternoon?  

[01:14:40] Duuude-Ron :

No.   Because I knew I knew I was going to profusely   sweat.  

[01:14:47] Unknown:

Yeah. No. I'm good. What did what did the temperature hit there at, Pascagoul   today?  

[01:14:53] Duuude-Ron :

It was only about 83.  

[01:14:55] Unknown:

Damn.   Is it 99? I think it was 99 we hit today.  

[01:15:01] Duuude-Ron :

You know? I'm good.   I mean, I'm I'm you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't,   complain.   You know?  

[01:15:09] Unknown:

I would just stay inside. Like, you know, I wouldn't complain. Yeah. I I didn't have that luxury.   Didn't have that luxury. That's okay.   I got to get back into my vehicle and, you know,   drive with the AC on full blast.   My truck even has   a cooling function   in the seat.  

[01:15:31] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, no way. You out.  

[01:15:34] Unknown:

Yeah.   Check me out. And when I have   profusely   perspired   or   perspirated,   whichever you wanna say,   yeah, that feels good.   That AC in that seat,   that is refreshing.  

[01:15:53] Duuude-Ron :

It is refreshing.  

[01:15:55] Unknown:

It is refreshing.   Yes.  

[01:15:59] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, shoot.   That is funny.   That's funny how you said that.   So   so our so our   our   title to one of our previous episodes, AC   to the nuts   Oh, yes. Comes into play there.  

[01:16:17] Unknown:

Yes.   But   have ball filling.   Kind of.   But   but when is the AC directly to the nuts? It's like, you know, there is no better feeling.  

[01:16:32] Duuude-Ron :

Nope.   Well, you know,   you can get a dryer hose and tape it to your  

[01:16:37] Unknown:

and then, you know   Damn stick damn damn skippy you can do that.   And now they I bet you if you researched it, they act somebody actually makes   those from the   the blower outlet   to where you can tuck it into your shorts.   I guarantee you somebody's making it out there. I haven't looked on Amazon or any place, but I know that somebody makes them.  

[01:17:05] Duuude-Ron :

They make everything else. So, yeah, I I I wouldn't argue that point. You know?  

[01:17:10] Unknown:

Or better yet, just steal the hose out of the fucking Humvee.  

[01:17:14] Duuude-Ron :

But if you don't have a Humvee around,  

[01:17:17] Unknown:

you have to make your own. Yeah. You gotta make your own.  

[01:17:21] Duuude-Ron :

You know?  

[01:17:22] Unknown:

But still So it's I've you know, I haven't done it yet.   I might   because when I get back,   I have two wheeling events   to go to.  

[01:17:36] Duuude-Ron :

Which two do you have to go to?  

[01:17:38] Unknown:

One of them is   part called Domo.   It's   Yeah. It does nest   motorsports.   They have a   it's not as big as Hidden Falls   Wheeling Park down in Marble Falls. It's probably about   oh, a quarter   of Hidden Falls, but it's still, you know, it's still a good Wheeling Park.   But he's just   it just opened, like, about,   oh,   nine months ago,   and he just bought another   160   acres   adjacent to the property that he already owns.   And so he's just con   you know, got another 160 acres to be able to build,   you know, and add on to his trails.   So we shall see.   Okay.  

Eventually and he does and he has a dirt   racetrack,   kinda like a motocross   track, but for   vehicles.   And, eventually, his goal is to also have a concrete   track or, you know,   a paved track like   COTA down in Austin   to be able to bring in some you know,   I don't   I don't think you'll get NASCAR,   but indie style cars.   Okay.   Well, that's So we still see.  

[01:19:08] Duuude-Ron :

And then and then what's the other   wheeling event?  

[01:19:13] Unknown:

Just wheeling down at Hidden Falls.  

[01:19:15] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, okay.   Well, that's cool.   Yep. And and yeah, dude.   You   can buy   a   hose tube   to go from your AC vent in your vehicle,   and it extends up to 10 feet.   And Wow.   Yeah. It,   collapsed. It's 33 inches, and it can extend up to a 120   inches.   So,   yeah. And it clips onto your vent.   And so, yeah, you can have AC to the nuts anytime you want.  

[01:19:52] Unknown:

There you go.  

[01:19:53] Duuude-Ron :

$39.99.  

[01:19:55] Unknown:

Amazon. 3995.   3999,   you said?  

[01:20:01] Duuude-Ron :

3999.  

[01:20:02] Unknown:

3999.   You got penny?  

[01:20:05] Duuude-Ron :

No. I ain't got no pennies, man.  

[01:20:08] Unknown:

Okay. I think it was George Carlin that said that. It's like,   when you're talking to Asians and they get really hard time speaking English,   they give you the price. $39.99.   You got Penny?   Then it would be $39.98.   No. I ain't got a penny.   Are you kidding  

[01:20:29] Duuude-Ron :

me? So, yeah, this this thing here, this is this is only showing using it where you clip it on your vent and then put it in the back seat so the kids and the pets can stay cool and all like that.   They don't show other uses for it.  

[01:20:46] Unknown:

Right. I can't I can't imagine why.   Yep.   But now the JLs   and the Gladiators   have AC   vents   to in the back seat.  

[01:21:01] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, that's cool. By the time.   Yeah.   I mean, shoot.   There's been a whole bunch of other cars that have had   vents back in the back. You know? I know. Yeah.   I don't know why Jeep waited so long.  

[01:21:16] Rich Chelson:

You know what? They wanted to make sure that you actually did want that.  

[01:21:20] Unknown:

Well,   here's the other aspect. Here's the devil's advocate for that.   Don't give a fuck who's in the back seat.   In my Jeep, I'm not worried about who's in the back seat.   One, because rarely there's anybody in the back seat, and two,   I'm in the front seat. So it doesn't really matter. I got a bed.   Right. But yeah. You know?   I could share if I want.   Maybe.  

[01:21:49] Duuude-Ron :

Maybe.   Maybe.   See, I don't hold people. So  

[01:21:54] Unknown:

Well, you do   and you don't have a back seat.  

[01:21:58] Duuude-Ron :

No. I don't.   Well, I do. It's just not in the Jeep.   And if Bella's back there, I just I just flip open the glass.  

[01:22:07] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[01:22:08] Duuude-Ron :

You know, she's fine.  

[01:22:10] Unknown:

What's the glass for what? The,   the very back?   Yeah.   Yeah. Okay.  

[01:22:15] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I just flip it up, drive around.   Yeah.   You know?   But   so, yeah, I don't I don't I don't really worry about that.  

[01:22:26] Unknown:

No. I don't blame you.   Yep. And you're being at two doors, like, don't give a shit who's in the back seat.   You know? You ain't get you ain't getting any air. Sorry.   Unless you stick your stick your head outside the side of the Jeep, you get plenty of air then. Because if I'm going 65 miles an hour  

[01:22:46] Duuude-Ron :

Right. Right.  

[01:22:47] Rich Chelson:

You can you can have all that air you want. All the air. More air than you care to have.  

[01:22:53] Unknown:

Yep. And be looking be looking like that great big   Great Dane with his lips flapping up flatly ears.   Or if they're, you know, got their head out the sunroofs.  

[01:23:07] Duuude-Ron :

Well, I haven't taken my panels off, so I don't have a sunroof till I do that.  

[01:23:14] Unknown:

Well, yeah.   Oh, I got a mold bar now.  

[01:23:18] Duuude-Ron :

You got a what?  

[01:23:19] Unknown:

A mold bar,   m o l l e, or moly bar.  

[01:23:25] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Where do   you where do you have that put?  

[01:23:29] Unknown:

In between the, driver's seat and the passenger seat in the front.  

[01:23:34] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, okay.  

[01:23:35] Unknown:

What you got on it, let me say?  

[01:23:37] Duuude-Ron :

Do what? What you got on it? The CB  

[01:23:41] Unknown:

or the GRMS   and the, speaker.  

[01:23:46] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, you, you had took your bar off the dash?  

[01:23:49] Unknown:

No. The bar is still on there. You know, that way I have a you know, where I can put my phone attachment and my   oh, what's that other fucking thing that I got? Tablet.   So, yeah, that the the bar is still on there, but all the stuff for the radio and all that is above my head now.  

[01:24:07] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, okay.  

[01:24:09] Unknown:

And then I haven't started getting any attachments   yet.  

[01:24:13] Duuude-Ron :

Right.   I'm still   I'm still hung up on paying a $170   for that one bar.  

[01:24:21] Unknown:

Well,   the MOLLE   rack   on Amazon   was $70.72   dollars,   I think.  

[01:24:33] Duuude-Ron :

Really?  

[01:24:34] Unknown:

Yep.  

[01:24:36] Duuude-Ron :

Because, yeah, I because that that bar that you have on your dash   Uh-huh.   I looked it up, and I was like, fuck. I ain't paying that. It's just a piece of metal that's powder coated.  

[01:24:48] Unknown:

Yeah. That's   basically   it. New York. Yep. It that's what it is.  

[01:24:55] Duuude-Ron :

No. That's that's not under it's not a $170   worth.  

[01:25:00] Unknown:

Well and when I got mine, it well, it was still over 100. I think it was 119   when I got mine,   something like that.  

[01:25:09] Duuude-Ron :

So I got nailed it with inflation.  

[01:25:13] Unknown:

Inflation   and tariffs?  

[01:25:16] Duuude-Ron :

No. I was looking at this before there was ever talk about tariffs.  

[01:25:21] Unknown:

Oh, yeah. Inflation? Yeah. Most definitely.   Yep.   But now that I have it on my dash, it's gonna stay on the dash.   Gives me a reason to   not have any ducks.   You can see have an open now I have an open spot   that I could just put a handful of freaking ducks   in there   and   the ones that I got from Jeep in the Coast and, you know,   reduck.  

[01:25:50] Duuude-Ron :

Right.   Right. You could do that.  

[01:25:54] Unknown:

I might have to,   bring some of those down with me and   jeep a cup or, duck a couple of hot rods.   You could do that. They would do. I wonder what they would do.  

[01:26:08] Duuude-Ron :

Probably think it's cool.  

[01:26:10] Unknown:

Oh, sure. I  

[01:26:12] Duuude-Ron :

mean  

[01:26:13] Unknown:

But I'm still keep I'm still keeping the one with the mohawks.   Eventually, I'll put them up on the   on the speaker bar   Yeah.   And just put them upside down on the speaker bar. But you know that they have, and they were selling them at cheap in the coast, and you saw them with those   the ropes   where you could   stick the   the ducks on the rope and just hang them anywhere in the fucking Jeep.  

[01:26:44] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:26:47] Unknown:

Ain't doing that either.  

[01:26:49] Duuude-Ron :

Come on, dude.   Hey. Remember those side marker lights   that   that that one guy had that said JK on them?  

[01:26:58] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[01:26:59] Duuude-Ron :

I found them on Amazon.  

[01:27:01] Unknown:

Oh, did you?  

[01:27:02] Duuude-Ron :

$80.  

[01:27:04] Unknown:

$80.  

[01:27:05] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   You can get white or amber.  

[01:27:10] Unknown:

No. I'm good.  

[01:27:11] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. That's that's that's kinda what I'm thinking. I mean, that's good for shit.   Yeah. I mean, you're right. Oh my god. It was freaking well, wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.   I found one that's half price.   Yes.   With the j k,   and it's only $35.99.  

[01:27:31] Unknown:

Well, there you go.  

[01:27:32] Duuude-Ron :

That's better.  

[01:27:34] Unknown:

That's better.   But it's only worth $35 to me.  

[01:27:38] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, dude. It'd be cool, man. Well  

[01:27:41] Unknown:

Well, you see where my side marker lights are at, though. Right. Right. You don't have  

[01:27:47] Duuude-Ron :

stock fenders.  

[01:27:48] Unknown:

Yeah. I don't have any fenders anymore.  

[01:27:50] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   Yeah. So $35.35   99.  

[01:27:56] Unknown:

Well, if you order them today,   they'll be there in time for us to put them on.  

[01:28:02] Duuude-Ron :

Well, that is true.   That is true.   But I'm a po white boy. I am po. Hey. Yo, po. No. Yeah. No. You're not po. You're pa.   Yeah. Yeah. I can't make it to to o.  

[01:28:19] Unknown:

Yeah. You keep yeah.   You have enough money to buy the first valve, let alone the second valve.   We're the last continent.   Yeah. We.   That's what my bank that that's what my bank statement says.  

[01:28:35] Rich Chelson:

So poor that your mom used to cut holes in your pocket so you had something to play with? Right.  

[01:28:42] Duuude-Ron :

But at least at least I know at least I know I can get them side marker lights because   well, that one on the left side,   you know, I mean, it still works, but the lens cover isn't on there.   That's Uh-huh. That's the one that I smacked off on the trail   because I ran over a tree.   Yeah.  

[01:29:02] Unknown:

I know a lens so much.   You need a lens cover?  

[01:29:07] Duuude-Ron :

No. I'm good.  

[01:29:08] Unknown:

I think I have one.  

[01:29:10] Duuude-Ron :

No. I was I was   when I saw that dude with with the JK side marker lights   Yeah. I was I was gonna get those and just swap them out because, Yeah.  

[01:29:23] Unknown:

Yeah. That's what we had talked about when I was down last time.  

[01:29:27] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I just I just hadn't done it.  

[01:29:30] Unknown:

Yeah. And for $80, I wouldn't do it either.   Well, no. I can get them for 36 now. Well, now you can get them for 36 instead of 80.   That's less than half price, so it's better.  

[01:29:44] Duuude-Ron :

Well, I ain't gonna find them any cheaper than that.  

[01:29:47] Unknown:

Oh, probably not. Because this I guarantee that.  

[01:29:51] Duuude-Ron :

I mean,   this is JK specific.   Mhmm.   But yeah. And that no. I ain't gonna do it. I don't blame you.  

[01:30:02] Unknown:

You never know. I'm not I'll look tomorrow, but I think I might have   one of those from   one of the vendors.  

[01:30:10] Duuude-Ron :

Do you have clear or smoke?  

[01:30:13] Unknown:

They're yellow.  

[01:30:15] Duuude-Ron :

Oh,   because, see, because, ones I have on mine are smoked.   I smoked them. Oh, oh, okay.  

[01:30:23] Unknown:

No. I No. I don't have I don't have smoked.  

[01:30:26] Duuude-Ron :

You don't have smoked? Okay. Yeah.   No.   Yeah. No. I had I had changed those out when I was still up north   shortly after I got the Jeep because   I found those on Amazon   for 40 I think right at $40,   and I thought they were cool. And the front Yeah.   The front are smoked as well.   So I got I got   the grill lights and then the side fender lights.  

[01:30:57] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[01:30:58] Duuude-Ron :

And then that   smoke lens cover just yeah. It just got whacked.   It got whacked, man.  

[01:31:06] Unknown:

Yeah. Because the tree didn't give a shit.   Nope.   You you gonna poke me out, buddy? I'm taking something.   Alright. You poke me out. I'm taking something.  

[01:31:16] Duuude-Ron :

Right. It damn sure did too.  

[01:31:19] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[01:31:20] Duuude-Ron :

But it's funny.   It it it it freaking popped the lens cover off. Right?  

[01:31:25] Unknown:

Uh-huh.  

[01:31:26] Duuude-Ron :

Didn't scratch the fender.   Right.   I'd   I'd expected it to, you know, scratch fender you know, leave a scratch in the fender. Nope.   Did not do that. It just took that cover and said, ah, bitch. It's mine.  

[01:31:43] Unknown:

Yeah.   It's yoink.   There's a there's a few trails in Hidden Falls that, you know, have glass on the ground because   hitting the the window on the hardtop.   Oh.   Yeah.  

[01:32:01] Duuude-Ron :

What do you like? Was ruined. What's that? One of those windows?  

[01:32:05] Unknown:

Yeah.   Oh, I have no idea but the fucking hardtop. Well, the color match my hardtop is $3,200.  

[01:32:13] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. No. No. I'm just saying the window,  

[01:32:16] Unknown:

though. Because I have no idea.   I mean Because if you if you blow out the window,   you you fucking damage the hardtop as well.  

[01:32:26] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Maybe not. I mean,   you could pop just the glass.  

[01:32:32] Unknown:

You know, I'm sure it's like the windshield, and you can you can get another one and and   get adhesive to put it back on.  

[01:32:40] Duuude-Ron :

I don't think it's that cheap, though, dude, to be honest with you. Because I know I know, like like,   like, if you do a side window or or something like that on a car,   you know, when cars had had wing windows.  

[01:32:56] Unknown:

Yep.  

[01:32:57] Duuude-Ron :

If you busted one of those,   you're looking at $400   minimum.   Or like   or like the old, s tens, s fifteens, the extended cabs   that Yep. That small little glass behind   Uh-huh. The   Yep. I guarantee you, I know for a fact it was $400  

[01:33:18] Unknown:

because I would not.   I unlocked doubt that'll do it.  

[01:33:22] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Wouldn't doubt that'll do it. I had locked my keys in the truck,   and I thought, oh, that small little glass won't cost much. So I busted it, got in the truck.   Yeah.   My ass.   They told me for and and this was back fuck. This was back in,   shit,   early two thousands.   And Yeah. They said $400.   I'm like, is that thing made of freaking gold?   I'm like, good god. I'm like, why is it so much?   And she said, because we don't sell many of them. It's not a glass that normally breaks.  

[01:34:02] Unknown:

Yep. Supply and demand.  

[01:34:05] Duuude-Ron :

Right?   I was like, oh my god.   So, yeah, note to self and anyone else who's listening,   if you have an old s 15, don't break that side glass.  

[01:34:16] Unknown:

And god only knows what the prices are today,   twenty years later.  

[01:34:22] Duuude-Ron :

Because   well,   well, I know I know a windshield for my for my Jeep right now, my $20.12,   through Safelite is $3.50.   Through a local company here in town, it's $2.50.   Right. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Safelite   wants, like, a $100 more. And I'm like, no.   Uh-uh.   I ain't paying that.  

[01:34:47] Unknown:

Well, and I'm sure you it probably have a deductible on your insurance.  

[01:34:52] Duuude-Ron :

No. I don't.  

[01:34:53] Unknown:

Really? For windshield?  

[01:34:56] Duuude-Ron :

Nope. USAID   does not   do that.  

[01:35:00] Unknown:

They they did for me.  

[01:35:02] Duuude-Ron :

No. I asked them when I signed up, and they're like, nope.  

[01:35:07] Unknown:

Well, I mean,   my deductible   I've had USAA for twenty   twenty two years   ever since I went over to Germany.  

[01:35:19] Duuude-Ron :

Right.  

[01:35:20] Unknown:

And so   that might have been   and I'm in   because my insurance has never lapsed   that I have that ability. But my deductible   for a broken windshield is   still $200.  

[01:35:36] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, shit.  

[01:35:37] Unknown:

Yep.  

[01:35:38] Duuude-Ron :

Might as well well, down here, you might as well just put the extra 50 with it and just pay for it.  

[01:35:45] Unknown:

Yeah. It is. You know?   Yeah. But my deductible   is 200, so they're only paying 50.   Yeah. Your is it   it but it's just still part of my insurance?  

[01:35:57] Duuude-Ron :

Right.   Now No.   Now when I had my insurance up north,   I forgot   which company I was with.   But   they put   a glass rider   on my Jeep,   which I didn't have to pay nothing.  

[01:36:14] Unknown:

Oh.  

[01:36:15] Duuude-Ron :

I had no deductible on glass.   Never had used   it, Demi. Yeah. You know, never had to use it. In fact,   I didn't put a windshield. Well, my TJ,   I never   had any cracks in my glass there.   And my JK,   it didn't shit. I didn't have it that long, and I had a crack in the windshield,   couple of them. And it and it started getting I mean, we don't have inspections down here, but still it bugs me. You know?   Yeah. Even though it wasn't in my view, it just bugs me. So   so that's why   I looked at Safelite. You know, I figured, well, shit. I'll just bring them to me. No. No. We ain't doing that. Not No. And price.  

[01:37:00] Unknown:

Yeah. And you're paying for the convenience. That's Right. What it is.  

[01:37:04] Duuude-Ron :

And and so I called Dixie Glass   right down here in Pascagoula,   and they told my wife, and I said, when can he do it? She's like, when can he get here?   I said, about fifteen minutes. She's like, alright. We'll do it then.  

[01:37:21] Unknown:

And, I mean I've had I've had a crack in my windshield now for   two years,   and I also got a spider chip too.   Yeah. See, I see, I can't Let's see. I can't see my crack at all   because in my line of sight,   that bar that I have on my dash  

[01:37:43] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, okay.  

[01:37:44] Unknown:

Covers that crack.  

[01:37:46] Duuude-Ron :

Okay.  

[01:37:48] Unknown:

So I'm not constantly looking at it.  

[01:37:52] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. See, that's that's the main thing right there. You know, if I'm constantly looking at it now now I do have about   four rock chips.   And, I mean,   I got this new windshield,   and, fuck, I don't think it was a week later I got my first rock chip.  

[01:38:09] Unknown:

Yeah.   And soon   with my policy,   I don't have any deductible   for fixing   chip,   you know, as long as it's less than a size of a quarter,   one inch, basically.   I can get that repaired for free with USAA.  

[01:38:27] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, wow. Okay.   But now you see see with Dixie Glass,   they give you the first rock chip for free,   which I Oh, okay. Took advantage of that. After that, it's $65   a pop.   And   it wasn't   it wasn't very long after   I got that first one fixed.   I hit the second one, and I fucking paid for it. And after that, I'm like, nope. I'm done.   I'm done.   And   I've gotten 2 more cents,   and I just I just drive.   I don't worry about it.  

[01:39:02] Unknown:

Well, I got about it's less than one inch,   but I've had a spider crack   on the   upper side of the driver's window   for longer than I've had the crack in the windshield.   And I look at it, and I'm like,   yep. Just as long as it doesn't start to spread, now I'm good to go. And it hasn't spread yet.   But, eventually, I'll get it replaced.  

[01:39:26] Duuude-Ron :

Don't go north.  

[01:39:27] Unknown:

Yep. And once I do that, I'm gonna put the Gorilla Glass   on the outside.   Okay.  

[01:39:36] Duuude-Ron :

Gorilla Glass?  

[01:39:37] Unknown:

Mhmm.  

[01:39:38] Duuude-Ron :

What's that?  

[01:39:40] Rich Chelson:

Really tough glass.  

[01:39:42] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, I know that. Well, is it Basically,  

[01:39:45] Unknown:

it's the same material   that your   Phone screen. Phone screen saver.  

[01:39:51] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I know. I know. I know what it is, but   I've never heard of it on a windshield.  

[01:39:57] Unknown:

Yeah.   Oh, yeah.   As a matter of fact, they make it to   it's not tinted.   It kinda looks tinted,   but it is a   UV protector   as well.   Yep.   Yeah. So when I get my glass replaced, I'll get the   it   it's like a Gorilla Glass, but I don't remember the name of it. And it's like, I think the running price around here is, like, a $100,125   dollars for that.   That's not bad.   No. Uh-uh.   But if it's able to save you from   any more chips on your windshield,   yeah?  

[01:40:38] Duuude-Ron :

That would yeah. Yeah. That would be really nice.  

[01:40:42] Unknown:

That and have the UV   protection   coming into the vehicle?   Yeah.  

[01:40:49] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I'd I had never heard of them.  

[01:40:51] Unknown:

Oh, yeah.   Okay.   That's but that's one day.  

[01:40:58] Rich Chelson:

I wonder how much that that glass would end up costing because, boy, that's gotta be expensive.  

[01:41:03] Unknown:

What? The Gorilla Glass? Yeah.   It's only about $25.  

[01:41:10] Duuude-Ron :

Okay.  

[01:41:11] Unknown:

Wow. Yeah. So a lot more than that.   Nope. Uh-uh.   Nope. Only about a $125   around here.   So   No. But I'll worry about it once I get a great big   across my line of sight.  

[01:41:26] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   Well, I just I just looked it up. I'm not sure where this place is at.   Let me bring up the website.   They're saying anywhere from 6 to $800.   Let me see where they're out of.  

[01:41:43] Unknown:

Hold on.  

[01:41:46] Duuude-Ron :

Davenport, Iowa. Well, Des Moines, Davenport, Kansas City, Omaha,   Sioux City, Springfield.   So they,   can Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.   Oh.   Yeah. Well, yeah, that's a little steep.   Yeah. That is a little steep.  

[01:42:04] Unknown:

I know. I ain't gonna worry about it. I mean, do Not until I get New York Field.  

[01:42:09] Duuude-Ron :

Well, that's the thing. You know, if you can find it down where you're at for a 100 and a quarter, jump on it. Oh, yeah. I will.   You know?   Just don't go up north and ask for it.   Yes.   Let's see what Mopar says.   Oh my gosh. No.   Just   oh, man. I swear. So many sites, it's just crazy.   Oh, it says go to a dealer.   Okay.   They probably ain't gonna say,   I ain't gonna go through all that just   to, oh, contact us for a quote. Don't kiss my ass. Tell me how much you charge.  

[01:42:52] Unknown:

Yeah. No shit.  

[01:42:53] Duuude-Ron :

I hate I hate it when a site does that. Oh, reach out. Send us an email and for a quote. No. You you just wanna get my information   so you can send me 20,000,000   fucking emails and blow my phone up with text messages and phone calls because   you want my money.  

[01:43:12] Unknown:

For sure. Precisely.  

[01:43:14] Duuude-Ron :

No. That answer is a negative   negatory ghostwriter. The pattern is full.   Not gonna do it.  

[01:43:23] Unknown:

Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture.   Exactly.   Wouldn't be prudent.  

[01:43:30] Rich Chelson:

Who said that? What the hell is his name? That one. Well, that that's Dana Carvey making fun of George h w Bush.  

[01:43:39] Duuude-Ron :

Still, it's funny, though. Oh, hell yeah.  

[01:43:43] Unknown:

Yeah. But he was   he was trying to run for president. Perot.  

[01:43:49] Rich Chelson:

Oh, yeah. You know, Perot was   yeah. He was he was yeah. Yeah. See, that's yeah. Yeah. This here, and that's it. And you he's made the made the chalkboard famous.  

[01:43:59] Unknown:

Yeah. It wouldn't be prudent.  

[01:44:02] Rich Chelson:

Made the chalkboard famous. Yeah. Because he would do these just he would do   when he's doing his talk, he would get, like, a, like, a card stock or or a he would he would do displays, and he would make it weigh out these elaborate   diagrams showing,   you know, showing how and why what he wants to do is is actually better for America than what everybody else wants to think.  

[01:44:26] Duuude-Ron :

One of those.  

[01:44:28] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. He was a show and teller.  

[01:44:30] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. Okay.   I mean I mean, I get that to a point, but   you know what? Most people don't really give a shit how you're gonna do it. Just do it. Just just put the bullet there.   Right.   It's like, shut the hell up and get it done.   I don't care how it gets done as long as it gets done.  

[01:44:52] Unknown:

For sure.  

[01:44:53] Duuude-Ron :

Like,   some people think they have to explain   everything, and it's like, no. I don't need to know all that.  

[01:45:02] Unknown:

Oh, and, you know, how they say a picture is worth a thousand words?  

[01:45:07] Rich Chelson:

Right.  

[01:45:08] Unknown:

Have you ever seen a picture of George Soros?  

[01:45:12] Rich Chelson:

Oh, god. Didn't he scare you with him? He in his  

[01:45:16] Unknown:

Nazi   youth   uniform.  

[01:45:22] Duuude-Ron :

Yep. I've never seen a picture.  

[01:45:24] Unknown:

Yeah. There's one I think it was came up on my Facebook feed   of a picture of George Soros when he was   you know, before he was able to join   the German army was a Nazi youth.  

[01:45:40] Duuude-Ron :

Right.  

[01:45:41] Unknown:

So that gives a good hint of why he   supports for all of the   violence   and all that   against United States and,   and, basically, the people of The United States.  

[01:45:57] Duuude-Ron :

Well, you see, that's the thing. George Soros   has never hidden that fact from anybody.   He has never hidden that fact.   That fact has always been out there.   It's just Oh, has it? Yeah. Oh, yeah.   Oh, no. George George Horace is he's   you know, he   he wants things ran a certain way because,   you know, it's it's like, you know,   what he had growing up.   Yeah. Now that's that's why no. He has he has never hid   hidden the fact that, yeah, he's   he leans that way.  

[01:46:37] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[01:46:38] Duuude-Ron :

You know, everyone seems to think, oh my gosh. It's something new. No. It's not.   That's why that's why he owns, what, 90%   80 or 90%   of the media companies   so he can control the narrative.  

[01:46:53] Unknown:

Oh, okay.  

[01:46:55] Duuude-Ron :

And I hear his son, Alexander, is worse.  

[01:46:58] Rich Chelson:

Oh, his son, Alexander, doesn't know what in the hell he's doing. He's something he invested a crap ton in   in some electric car and   lost, like, 90% of the value that he in that he   invested in that company.  

[01:47:14] Unknown:

That is outstanding.  

[01:47:15] Rich Chelson:

I know. It was it may not be quite that drastic, but it's to my in my head, it was something like that that drastic where he lost just   lost his freaking shirt on the Adam investment. His son just doesn't know anything about what   what they were doing he he's doing. So,   I mean, the great the great,   Soros, you know, open society will always be around because, I mean, that's   what Soros that's that's what   everybody really focuses in on.   Yep. But but the actual   hedge fund and investment company that is George Soros and now that his son's taken over,   now that's that'll eventually   his son will eventually throw all that damn money away. Be one of the greatest fortunes ever lost.  

But, you know, good.  

[01:48:08] Unknown:

Good. It happened to a better family.  

[01:48:10] Duuude-Ron :

Yep.   Do you think   do you think he can,   lose all that money? Because they've they got a bunch of it, dude. Well, yeah, they got a whole lot of it.   I mean,   well, he is one of five children. So Right.   So   maybe maybe he doesn't have untapped dollars.  

[01:48:32] Unknown:

Well, I hope the hell they use it all in one way, say it, perform.  

[01:48:37] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, yeah. No. No. I I   agree with you on that one.   I definitely agree with you on that one.  

[01:48:45] Unknown:

And as far as I'm as far as I know,   the only old money family   that still has generational wealth is the Vanderbilts.  

[01:48:57] Duuude-Ron :

No.   There's there's Warren Buffett.  

[01:49:00] Unknown:

Yeah. But where did Buffett's money come from?  

[01:49:04] Duuude-Ron :

Was it Investments.  

[01:49:06] Unknown:

Right.   Well, we're talking   from the eighteen hundreds.  

[01:49:12] Rich Chelson:

Now Buffett made all of his money himself. Right? Right. Yeah. I see what you're saying now. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So yeah. No. He's  

[01:49:21] Duuude-Ron :

he's new money.  

[01:49:22] Unknown:

Yeah. He's he would be considered his money. New money.  

[01:49:26] Rich Chelson:

We don't   we don't mingle with   them.  

[01:49:32] Unknown:

Even though it's, you know, probably   they've been doing it for more than fifty years.  

[01:49:39] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, yeah. Well, shit. He's he's, what, 90. So   Yep.   And it it says here,   at 14,   he bought 40 acres of Nebraska farmland and partnered with a local farmer   for passive income. So   he started at 14.  

[01:49:58] Unknown:

Oh, there you go.  

[01:50:00] Duuude-Ron :

That I see. Like   well, you got JPMorgan   Chase.   He's he's old money.  

[01:50:07] Unknown:

Yeah. But   has his   descendants   do they still have, you know,   that fortune?   J. P.  

[01:50:18] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, yeah. Because they  

[01:50:21] Unknown:

but did JP Morgan even have any heirs?   I don't know about that. Well, JPMorgan  

[01:50:27] Duuude-Ron :

died in 1913   at 75.   Say,   his company,   JPMorgan Chase,   has a it has a market   capitalization   of   about 870,000,000,000.  

[01:50:46] Unknown:

But did did he have any heirs to pass that down to?   I imagine. It'll   let me find out.   Let's see.   Let's see what it said. Yep.  

[01:50:57] Duuude-Ron :

+1, 234.   In fact,   let's see.   Oh, shit. One of his grandsons,   Henry Morgan,   cofounded Morgan Stanley.  

[01:51:10] Unknown:

Oh, okay.  

[01:51:12] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. So yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. He yeah. He's got heirs.   Oh, okay. He's got grandkids, great grandkids.   So, yeah, he's   they're still old old money.  

[01:51:25] Unknown:

Well, I'd still love to have,   the summer home   that the Vanderbilts have.  

[01:51:32] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. Yeah. Not in that see, what was it? The one that there was also I think it was the Vanderbilts.   The last kind of they had a,   they had a   a   kind of some of the last direct descendants   were living in a   living in a, in a   in a freaking palace of of sorts.   And then just kinda up and real quickly, up and left, but I can't remember if that was the Vanderbilts or not.  

[01:52:03] Unknown:

Well, the Vanderbilt   gave their summer home   to the state of North Carolina.   You know what? You know the Biltmore Estates?   Yeah.   Yeah. That was abandoned.   Ah, okay. When he built that house,   all the land that you could see, all the mountains, then you could see from that   or from around the house   Right. Was was all part of his property. Oh.   When he originally bought it,   I think it's down to,   like, 400 or 500 acres.   But, yeah, the Biltmore Estate since the Vanderbilts'   summer home.   Beautiful fucking place.  

[01:52:46] Rich Chelson:

Let's   see. Just look and see if I can find the,   on this,   place. It's full of images.   I don't know what that is, but that   looks like it's getting ready to fall down around everybody's ears, but still is see, there's the Vanderbilt   family's abandoned mansion.   Oh, what does that have to do?   See.  

[01:53:10] Duuude-Ron :

What are we seeing?   Say again? What are we seeing?  

[01:53:15] Rich Chelson:

I'm looking, and and there's a   claims to be a   keeps throwing up the same fucking thing, so I don't know what the hell they got going on here.   I love it when,   they do the little screws up like that.   They crawl over everything, but it can't seem to keep up  

[01:53:34] Duuude-Ron :

with  

[01:53:34] Rich Chelson:

the with shit. So   but, yeah, no. It was just a it's a interesting looking,   home, but looks like it's kinda dilapidated. And they were saying that it's supposed to be the abandoned Vanderbilt abandoned mansion. And I'm like,   I'm buying that one.  

[01:53:53] Duuude-Ron :

So   when you know if you had that home, you'd have to clean it because you couldn't afford the staff  

[01:53:59] Rich Chelson:

to keep it. I would have yeah. I mean, I would   I I I understand. I would I'd probably have to   I'd have to   to hire the kids to come back to the house.   Well, it it would be big enough. They could all live there, and you'd Live there and not see each other for weeks. Yeah. Hey, James. Where you been? Oh oh, man. I got I got lost in the West Wing, and   wow. Found a stale piece of bread or sandwich there, but it it was it was awful awful stale.   So anything from your sister? No. No. She's a   I heard, she was going down in the basement. Oh, no.  

[01:54:40] Unknown:

Right?  

[01:54:41] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.   Yeah. You know, having large houses like that, that that's just I don't know. For me, that's just too much.  

[01:54:50] Rich Chelson:

Well, if I had a means to be able to take care of it, I'd I'd, you know,   be fun, but at the same time, yeah, I'm just I'd rather have have all the money and be able to just, you know,   have a respectably   good sized house, not even a McMansion size, but just a, you know, just a respectable sized house that's got four, maybe five bedroom.   But,   but now I just I'd rather just have plenty of dirt that I can just walk around on and not have to worry about running into anybody else.  

[01:55:21] Unknown:

Right. Yeah.   Agree with that.   So 100%.   I don't mind my place. I like it. Be nice and quiet and be able to go out and   actually see the stars.  

[01:55:36] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah.  

[01:55:37] Rich Chelson:

Oh, I would I wouldn't even mind, you know, if being able to hear hear noise and just knowing that it's I'm the one that's causing the noise.   So, you know, aside, I'm just getting too loud. I can just shut up.  

[01:55:53] Duuude-Ron :

But why would you wanna do that?   I mean, come on, man. Well, you know? Too loud. Crank it up. Crank it up?   No one's gonna call cops on you except you.  

[01:56:05] Rich Chelson:

That would I was bored. I'm calling the cops on myself, man.   There is no excitement around here.  

[01:56:12] Unknown:

You it might have been the cricket over in the corner.  

[01:56:15] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.   Someone's shooting guns. Who? Me? Why? They're a damn cricket. I can't seem to get to shut up.   Oh,   that reminds me. There is an   there's a kind of a discussion that's popped up over on to   over on on Reddit in the Amarillo subreddit   because there's there's people that are doing some scouting for I guess they were doing some scouting for a,   for a movie   in the Amarillo area.   And they were talking about this this character,   kind of an urban legend guy from what I'm we've been able to grasp because I never heard of him, but his name was supposed to be Johnny Amigo.   And this guy   is   is is kind of an interesting little   little deal because it's Johnny Amigo   is a they place I was able to find was on in a on a country music   website, but   if you grew up at Amarillo in the late eighties and nineties, which, you know, I didn't grow up in Amarillo, but I was definitely around the Amarillo in the especially in the nineties. You probably heard about a man who drove around and would shoot at you.  

And this guy's name is supposed to be Johnny Amigo,   which is funny because Amigo's a friend, but still   lived apparently, he lived near   Emerald High, and he had this van, and he would, if he didn't like you or annoyed,   or you annoyed him in some way, he would go off and shoot you. Now it sounds all all menacing and stuff because it said that back in the nineties would randomly   shoot at, Emerald High School, baseball players as they were practicing outside. So, you know, you kinda started seeing a little bit of a bullshit here on some of the story.   But   what some a lot of people have kinda talked about it and what it was is he wasn't shooting you with, like, you know, like, with a 22 or anything like that. It was just a BB gun.  

But, apparently,   people had it's one of those things where if you find someone who's got a,   who knows who Johnny Amigo is or knows the story. There's the whole urban legend. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We were driving down   down the road one day, and our car we had car trouble. And so we broke down close to his house, and he came out, and he was running at us with his with his gun and started shooting at us   and shooting you at you with BB gun. Now what type of BB gun? I don't know if it's a, you know, like a spring air or if it was a pump action or or what, but   those pump ones can you know, if you if you're able to pump more than more than once or twice, yeah, those things can definitely do some, do some harm. They hurt. Yeah. They can. Yep.  

But in truth, Johnny me apparently, Johnny Amigo wasn't actually an urban legend as much as his actions   grew into legendary status.   He did shoot people with BB gun, and he would even chase people around in his van. Either way, getting shot with BB gun be can be quite painful if you hit in the right spot. We didn't call someone   on here. Well, it was quoted as saying. We didn't call him Johnny Amigo. We just called him Bush.   You would go by there every Friday, Saturday night and yell, Bush, and this guy would throw axes and bricks and cinder blocks at us. Other times, he would just chase us around in his van.   So, it was like a horror movie. My cousin drove a Chevette, and we were driving by Johnny Amigo's house, and then the car died. And we pulled up to his house, and they started he started coming for us. And luckily, the car started back up, and we got the heck out of there. We thought we're gonna die. So but the true story is apparently Johnny Amigo was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD.  

And sometimes he would have these have delusions and hallucinations,   and Meagle would shoot at people from his home with a BB gun, and he chased people in a van. And, yeah, the police were visiting this house apparently several times.   They don't know   the the stories of Johnny and Meagle have faded, and then it's possible that if Johnny was an actually real person, then either he has passed away or is lying very, actually real person, then either he has passed away or is lying very low right now. Of course, I mean, also, he would be, like, almost in his,   like, late sixties,   seventies.  



[02:00:25] Duuude-Ron :

Well, okay.   Area.   Seventies.   Yeah. Mid to late seventies.  

[02:00:31] Rich Chelson:

But yeah. So but, apparently, I guess someone's talking about doing a, doing a a a movie or there's rumors of somebody doing a movie about, about Johnny Amigo.   So   okay.   That'll be kinda interesting. I mean, have you it's like there's a movie about a   a, punk   back in the   early   or no, kinda mid mid nineties from what I understand, may mid to late nineties. I'm thinking, like, '96,   '97,   maybe even as late as '98.   This punk kid this punk was living in the Amarillo area,   and, him and his group got into a scuffle   with   with a set of jocks from Tascosa High School.  

And, they got into a fight, and and   one of the, one of the jocks ended up running over this one   guy and then killing him.   And big story, it was   court hearing, the court case, and all that, and, eventually, the the the the jock got   basically got away with murder.   And they made a story about it, made a movie about it. And, actually, it's pretty pretty decent. It's neat just because if you know anything about Amarillo, you see Amarillo's   the different Amarillo landmarks in there.   And so you're like, hey. Hey. I know that place. I know that place. I've been there. You know? It's it's kinda neat to see those types of places, like the Santa Fe Building and and,   and Amarillo National Bank and things like that   cropping up on on the big screen. It's like, hey. Alright. I'm I'm just that much closer to being the being in the movie. So, you know,   that's how it feels. But, yeah, the movie's called Bomb City, and it's a it's a pretty it's an it's not a bad movie. It's it's definitely you could tell the director it's for director's first time directing a movie.  

And so it's it's a little a little on the rough side, but it's it's got a little bit of a it's got a decent story. A lot of the, a lot of the mall scenes are done more in,   in in the DFW area than because they recorded the the place that they the whole fight went down at was at an old mall that doesn't even exist anymore in Amarillo.   But there's a mall that was called Western Plaza,   and it used to be over on Western Street. And it was right across   right across the I 40 from Tascosa, and   there's a, an IHOP and a, and a waffle house that are sitting right next across the street from   from the, from Western Plaza.  

And   so   and the fight and stuff supposedly happened in the Western Plaza parking lot, and so there's a lot of buildup   in in Western Plaza,   But since Western Plaza didn't didn't exist when they were doing the filming, they got to the closest thing they could, which I think was over at one of the malls there in, in Dallas.   And so a lot of people talked about, oh, well, most of it was filmed in Dallas. Well,   yeah. Okay. Most of it's because where the kids live, I have no idea where those are supposed to be, supposed to be at because I was there is no identifying markings of of what   of where these, where these kids are supposed to be, these punk kids living at because they do a section of it where they're living they show their house, and it's kind of this dilapidated,   rundown   apartment sort of complex. And I got a maybe an idea of where it might be over on Sixth Street. There's a there's a burnt up motor   in place there, but at the same time, it's like, I don't know.  

But it's been kinda fun to try to figure out where in the heck that is in the in the grand scheme of things.   But, yeah, good movie. If you wanna try and check it out, just just know it's   it's no Spielberg.  

[02:04:35] Unknown:

You know, and the and the way you described   it sounded a lot a lot like The Outsiders.  

[02:04:42] Rich Chelson:

And and to a point, it is. And that was one something I never knew about the outsiders until, oh, probably a couple, three years ago,   was that the outsiders   was actually written   by a girl   in Tulsa,   And that would and the outsiders,   yeah, the, what was it? The,   I'm now I'm getting I'm gonna get these mixed up because I see them also in   in, in crybaby, but I think they're, well, hell, I wanna say greasers, and I'm not I don't think that's right.  

[02:05:17] Unknown:

That's that's correct.   You had the greasers,   and then you had   the sochers.  

[02:05:24] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. Yeah. The sochers.   So yeah.   And so but yeah. What's his name? PJ Soul? Not PJ Soul. That's what's her name from,   from let's  

[02:05:36] Duuude-Ron :

see here. What was her name?  

[02:05:40] Unknown:

Written by the book.  

[02:05:43] Rich Chelson:

I guess the movie.   Film.   Let's see here. Let's change that to book.   Novel. Okay. Yeah.   S. E. Hinton. S. E. Hinton. Yeah. PJ Soles is from,   from Halloween and Stripes.   She's an actress.   So but yeah.   But yeah. Yeah. It's it's a lot   like it had a lot of the same beats as what the outsiders were, except it's   with punks and jocks.   But, yeah, I never knew S. E. Hinton. And the reason why she   used only her initials was because   no one would take her book seriously   if they knew that she knew a girl had written it.  

[02:06:29] Unknown:

Really? Wow.  

[02:06:30] Rich Chelson:

So that's the reason why she's known as S. E. Hinton on the book. It's   and she was 16   when she wrote that.  

[02:06:39] Unknown:

The Outsiders? Yeah.   Wow.  

[02:06:42] Rich Chelson:

Or say, yeah. She was 15 when she wrote wrote the bulk of the book.   Six and oh, okay.   Began writing the novel when she was 15. Wrote the bulk of the book when she was 16 and a junior in high school. When she was 18, she got the book published.   Oh,  

[02:07:00] Duuude-Ron :

that's crazy.  

[02:07:01] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. Because her actual name is Susan Eloise.  

[02:07:05] Unknown:

Okay.  

[02:07:06] Duuude-Ron :

Well, that's actually  

[02:07:08] Rich Chelson:

good to know. Yeah. Yeah. No. And it I mean, the book I mean, hell. I mean, I'm sure y'all probably had to read the book while in school. I I had to.  

[02:07:17] Unknown:

No. Was that outside?   Yeah.   No. I didn't No. Since  

[02:07:23] Rich Chelson:

Y'all were still y'all were still golden with with with Shakespeare.  

[02:07:28] Unknown:

No. We we had to read To Kill a Mockingbird.  

[02:07:32] Rich Chelson:

Oh, hell yeah. No. Yeah. We all have to read To Kill a Mockingbird. That's just one of the most most wonderful books out there.   And I just find it the funniest thing about To Kill a Mockingbird, though, is who Dill is actually supposed to be.   Do you know that?  

[02:07:49] Unknown:

Who Dill is?  

[02:07:50] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.   Dill is Truman Capote.   Do you not know who Truman Capote is?   No.   Okay. He wrote a book. His his biggest call to call to fame is is the book In Cold Blood.   And there's actually a a movie that is about him writing that particular book,   But but he's an author who, I mean, died   in back in '84,   but very   precocious   type of type of guy.   Definitely,   yeah, definitely knew he was not his bread is buttered on the other side.   But,   say, Truman Capote is born in   New Orleans, Louisiana   to Lily Mae Faulk   and a salesman of Articulous Persons   or Archilus.  

And he was sent to Monroeville,   Alabama, where for the following four or five years, he was raised by mother's relatives, formed a fast bond, mother's distant relative,   nanny Rumley Folk, whom Truman called Sooke. Her face was remarkable, but unlike Lincoln's   craggy like that intended by the sun and wind, is now Truman   described   Sooke in a Christmas memory. In Monroeville,   Capote was neighbor and friend of Harper Lee,   who was also to go on to become the acclaimed author and lifelong friend of Capote's,   the Sakhile mockingbird likely models Dil's characterations upon Capote.  

But, Capote was   See, he had a little short story. He was mostly known for his   for his his,   first book, the, In Cold Blood, but   he also did, several,   several other books. Let's see what some of the,   his stage,   Broadway films, adapting his the grass harp into   a play with the same name, which I've not ever seen that one, House of Flowers,   Sleep and Bee. And   he wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's,   another one that he's fairly well known for, but that was actually just a short short novella.   House of Flowers, Diamond Guitar, Christmas Memory,   The Sin of   Violence,   then In Cold Blood, an account of the, of, multiple murder and its consequences.  

Written in '65,   which was inspired by a 300 word article that ran in November '59 in the issue of New York Times. The story describes an unexplained   murder of the Cutler family   in rural Holcomb,   Kansas quoted the local sheriff saying apparently a case of a psychopathic killer fascinated   by this brief news item. Capote traveled with Harper Lee to Holcomb and visited the scene of the massacre. Over the course of the next few years, he became acquainted with everyone involved in the, investigation,   and most of the residents of the small town and the area, and rather than taking notes during interviews, Kubota committed,   conversations to memory and immediately, quote,   wrote quotes soon as as the interview ended. So, you know, a lot of the stuff that he wrote   probably didn't quite happen the way   he way he wanted to think that it did because, you know,   human memory is very fallible.  

But Yeah.   But, yeah, it's,   yeah, it's I've seen I've seen that particular I've seen at least the the making of the,   or the   I think it's called Capote   is the name of the movie   that was about that.   Yeah. Capote. I know I you know, movies.   Yeah. It was one of the last   Philip Seymour Hoffman played, Truman Capote in the, in the movie.   It was done in released back in 02/2005.  

[02:11:39] Unknown:

Must've been living underneath my rock at that point in time.  

[02:11:45] Rich Chelson:

Interesting. Yep. I I like it. Of course, I'm I'm always   after,   interesting movie like that.  

[02:11:52] Unknown:

Well, we'll just put it to you like this. You're one of a kind.   I am. I am.   And we'll just keep it at that one  

[02:12:00] Rich Chelson:

because we don't need anything. Because we don't need anything. Another one, then there's gonna be all sorts of problems because, you know no shit.   The world would start falling apart.   You couldn't handle more than me.  

[02:12:16] Unknown:

Yeah. You're and you know what? You resemble that re you resemble that remark. I resemble that, Mark, all the way.  

[02:12:24] Rich Chelson:

So   so   So have you seen any movies here recently?  

[02:12:33] Unknown:

No. I have not. The last time I went to a   movie theater   to watch a movie,   it was  

[02:12:42] Rich Chelson:

Harry Potter.  

[02:12:44] Unknown:

Yeah. I think it was the   I think it was the second one. Might have been the third one.   That's the last time I've seen a movie in a movie theater was Harry Potter. Yeah. Last movie I saw was  

[02:12:57] Rich Chelson:

about, about two weeks ago. I went and saw The Long Walk.  

[02:13:02] Unknown:

How is that?  

[02:13:03] Rich Chelson:

It's actually a really good movie.   I mean, it's it's a it's kind of a it's a little bit of a slow burn, but not entirely slow.  

[02:13:12] Unknown:

Yeah.  

[02:13:13] Rich Chelson:

But   but it's,   it it's it's good, and they don't shy away from from the from the brutality of the,   of the, of the story.   So how if if it comes out on when it comes out on DVD, I'm or Blu Ray, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick it up. So   you know, that's back when Stephen King was actually writing   good stories.   I've not been a big fan of Stephen King's work for   several years.  

[02:13:44] Unknown:

Well, that's because because he's become a leftist.  

[02:13:47] Rich Chelson:

Well, it's not even that. It's because he got hit by a damn van, and he went screwy.   I mean, he's always been a leftist.  

[02:13:56] Unknown:

Was it was it the tan van   hauling   the word and?   No.   See,  

[02:14:05] Rich Chelson:

I think it was actually just a white van.  

[02:14:08] Unknown:

Okay.   I wonder if the guy that drove it lived down by the river.   I live in a van   down by the river.  

[02:14:19] Rich Chelson:

Was hit by a van while walking on the road in North Lovell, Maine, an accident caused by the driver, Brian Smith, who was distracted by his dog.   King sustained serious injuries, including a broken right leg, fractured hip, broken ribs, collapsed lung. He underwent lengthy recovery and later expressed gratitude for being alive stating that every day for of the twenty years since has been a gift.   06/19/1999.  

[02:14:46] Unknown:

Well,  

[02:14:47] Rich Chelson:

I did not know that he'd been run over by a a mania. Oh, I did. Yeah. That's back that's back whenever I was all about Stephen King. I was like, yeah. He's the best author ever. So   and,   yeah. Then   heard he got got clobbered by a van, and   he's like, well, alright. Well, we'll just kinda keep keep   because he about that time, you know, shortly thereafter is when he's, I guess, he's realized, I guess, better get done with the whole Dark Tower series before I die.   And so he kicked those out, and   and I think he that's well, see what what else were some of the   Was it part of one of those movies? No. No. It's, it was written in the eighties   or released in the eighties.  

So Okay. Now that's back when it in the king prime king   zone. That's where you had, you know, the dark half,   the stand. No. Actually, the stand was the seventies, but when they did the stand complete and unabridged,   that's where that's about the time that I became a big fan of of King was about that time because they did the Stephen King Library. I don't know if you remember those commercials   on on television or not, but  

[02:16:08] Duuude-Ron :

I saw those. I was like, yeah.   So  

[02:16:12] Rich Chelson:

I've so I actually ended up,   getting most of the Stephen King Library in before I ended up leaving,   leaving for after graduation. So   ended up   packing all the books up, and   I've still got still got the, the books. I mean, some of them have lost their their covers because, well, I've had kids and, you know, kids and paper covers are always fun to tear up. So Oh, yeah. Of course.   So but, yeah, I mean, I've got everything from Mies of the Dragon   to to It, The Midnight, Pet   Sematary,   Christine,  

[02:16:49] Unknown:

Carrie's gonna be my next one. I thought he did Christine as well. Yep. Yeah. Oh, Christine's and Christine was a good one.  

[02:16:56] Duuude-Ron :

That was a good movie. I I enjoyed that. Yeah. Well Yeah.  

[02:17:00] Unknown:

See. You got to have to fucking crush that car.  

[02:17:05] Rich Chelson:

Yeah.  

[02:17:07] Duuude-Ron :

Steve  

[02:17:09] Unknown:

King That was a beautiful nomad.  

[02:17:13] Rich Chelson:

Bibliography. There we go.   In chronological order.  

[02:17:17] Unknown:

I bet you'll have one of those that cruise in the coast, won't they, Rich?   What's that? One of those old prestige   nomads.  

[02:17:27] Duuude-Ron :

Probably so.  

[02:17:28] Unknown:

I would that's pretty good. Would not doubt it.  

[02:17:32] Rich Chelson:

So you had Dead Zone, Firestarter,   Don C. Macabre,   Cujo,   The Running Man, which was Richard Bachman book,   and the start of the gun, The Dark Tower started in '82.   Yeah. I got Christine.   Never got Cycle of the Werewolf, that one until   until, I don't know, probably about ten years ago.   Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman,   Thinner,   was a great one. And my great my grandmother's the one that got   got me into Stephen King. That and that and a girl in in eighth grade, she was reading   reading Stephen King. I was like, hell, yeah. If she can read it, I can read it. And  

[02:18:13] Unknown:

that takes a little while to research.  

[02:18:17] Rich Chelson:

Skeleton crew. Yep.   Misery. Tommyknockers   was a it was an interesting one. The dark half. Yeah. And then the stand complete and uncut. And that's base that's so 1990 is about the time that I came   into,   into,   Stephen King and just   went, went crazy. Because about '98 whenever I started, kinda   reading from reading a a book or two. Started off with the step with Shining.   And from there, it was the span of one of those graduate from high school? I graduated.   High school?  

[02:18:52] Unknown:

'92. '92. Okay. Yeah.  

[02:18:54] Rich Chelson:

See, so Dark Tower Wasteland, Needful Things, great book.   Gerald's Game, Dolores, Claiborne, that was one of those really cool ones where they both   are taking place at the exact same time from two different two different views of it, of the, of a of an eclipse.   Nightmares and dreamscapes,   insomnia, that was actually   tie into   the whole gunslinger.   Rose madder was good.   See the green mile,   desperation.   Green Mile was interesting because I was in in the navy at that time, and I was trying to collect all the books as they kept coming out.   Desperation Regulators,   same that was a neat little crossover also that he did where   he took all the characters   from the book from one book   and reused them   in a completely different setting.  

And, it was it was kind of a neat little experiment that he did.   Bag of Bones was a good one. Girl who love to love Tom Gordon   was kind of a his first delve into, I'm gonna call it true crime.   Hearts of Atlantis, storm of century,   On Writing, Dreamcatcher. Dreamcatcher got weird.   Of course, again, we're in 02/2001, so he's already been clobbered by the demand. Black House, which is a sequel to the talisman, everything's eventual,   is a pretty decent one. From a Be Okay,   also from the dark tower series,   but was kinda it it got a little weird too.   Then you had the last three   books of the dark tower series. So you had the wolves of kala, song song of Susanna, and the Dark Tower.  

See? And then we started getting into books that, you know, like faithful,   which was a co which is a kind of a co written thing with Stewart Onan. Colorado kid, I've got that one.   Wasn't impressed.   The cell was okay.   It's when cell phones are starting to come in into play. Lacey's story was actually really good.   Blaze   was   not horrendous,   but and that was a Richard Bachman. Dooma Key   was another one.   Under the Dome,   and then   Blockade Billy.   I was like, alright. Well,   I didn't require I didn't read that one. I just didn't look interesting. So I was starting to kinda   veer off,   and then there was,   see,   the full dark, no stars,   eleven twenty two sixty three. And then he came out with dark tower, went through the keyhole, which was kind of a surprise for everybody.  

And then, see, the dark man,   doctor sleep.   And then   after that, I've been like, yeah. No. I have I think I've got, what is it,   fairy tale   is the last one that I've gotten, but he's he's written Holly.   You Like It Darker,   Never Flinch, and actually wrote apparently came out this this year,   Never Flinch, and Hansel and Gretel, the last two that he's written. And I haven't even heard it in Deadly Squad on those.   So, yeah, he's he   just   the story, all of a sudden, we're getting getting a whole change up of of of genre. So he was kinda he was kind of experimenting. I get of course, after, you know, twenty years of writing horror, it's like, oh, let's do something a little different. You know? Let's write true crime. Well, sorry, but   I'm not a true crime person.  

But, you know, it at the same time, he was   he wrote, he wrote some a lot of a lot of really good books. And   at the same time, he also started writing a lot of really crappy books.   And so   and, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of them there that some people I mean, like, mister Mercedes is a book that he wrote, and that one became a television series for a little while.   But, you know, it was always fun to I always back in the in the, when I first started reading them, you know, it was fun to see   the stories happening around Derry or around   around Castle Rock.  

And because Castle Rock, you'd have, like, Alan Pagborn and all the other   characters, and these people would always keep you know, the the normal characters would keep   popping up and and be mentioned and cross referenced and stuff. And so it was always cool to go, oh my gosh. Oh, there's there's Alan Pagborn. He just walked across the street or something.  

[02:23:25] Unknown:

And so  

[02:23:27] Rich Chelson:

Castle Rock was a pretty good show. Yeah. Castle Rock itself as a television show was is a good show. I I agree.   I've got I didn't get to watch all of it, but the ones I did Yeah. It was the one I like.  

[02:23:39] Unknown:

The one the Castle Rock that I'm talking about is the   the puppets.  

[02:23:45] Rich Chelson:

Oh, okay. This one,   I guess not, because now the one I'm talking about is is,   basically, it takes place in   in Castle Rock, but it's kind of it's more of a just a   just a delving into the Stephen King universe.   So, you know, there's people or little Easter eggs and things that were always kind of popping up in in the Castle Rock series.  

[02:24:09] Unknown:

So   you know what? I'd have to believe you because   90%   of all those books that you   just   talked about.  

[02:24:20] Rich Chelson:

Uh-huh.  

[02:24:21] Unknown:

Never even heard of. Oh.   And and the ones that I have,   I've only watched the movie.   Because, well,   I don't like to read, so I'm not going to.   Yeah.   Yeah.  

[02:24:37] Rich Chelson:

Well, you ought to try try the audiobooks.  

[02:24:41] Unknown:

I could.  

[02:24:43] Rich Chelson:

I mean, that's honestly, that's how I do about   90% of all my reading these days is   just finished up.  

[02:24:52] Unknown:

Letting somebody else read it to you. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. It's  

[02:24:56] Rich Chelson:

it's I mean, it's it's how I've listened I I listened to   Thomas Harris's been listening to Thomas Harris's, Hannibal series   because I'd I'd   had read   Hannibal and Hannibal rising, but I'd Uh-huh.   And I'd never seen   a red silence of the lambs or red tiger or red dragon.   Yeah.   And I was just like, I've seen the movies,   but wanted to see how they fare against the actual book. And, I mean, they've   Red Dragon they tried it the first time they did Red Dragon, it was actually   a movie called Manhunter,   and   no.   It was a terrible terrible show.   And then they   if I had if I had to guess, somewhere in the, like, the   late two   thousands or right around the beginning of 02/2015,   between 02/2010, 02/2015, somewhere in that area. They did the Red Dragon, and it actually had Ralphines   in it, the guy who plays   Voldemort in Harry Potter.  

He would he   in in there and also has Anthony Hopkins as the as Hannibal Lecter.   And and so, yeah, he's   that one was actually pretty good, and that one sticks to the   story fairly, you know, fairly respectfully.   Then, again, you have   the, yeah, the the   the Silence of Lambs, which they do a really good job of.   And and then   Hannibal,   like I said, I'd read it, but I wanted to just go ahead and reread it.   And a lot of stuff that I had missed on it, but yep, good. And going back kinda going back into   to some of Clive Barker's books. I don't know if you ever read any of his books.   Nope. They're they're, they're a bit twisted. So   they're good, but they're twisted.  

But,   but, anyhow, that's those are   there's there's a lot of fun things you can you can come across   when you're when you do audiobooks.   So   kind of the summation of what I'm getting at on that. So   so   try it. Read some books or listen to books. Have the books read to you.  

[02:27:20] Unknown:

I'll think about it.  

[02:27:25] Rich Chelson:

Well, it's about that time. I was gonna say it is now 10:00   o in the evening, yo,   and it is time for me to be hitting the hay. I know you need to be hitting the hay, and   Rich   probably will just on on the nature of of and principle of it all, probably hit the hay too. So  

[02:27:44] Duuude-Ron :

Yeah. I'm not far from it.  

[02:27:46] Rich Chelson:

Bad time to go bad. Alright. So   so anyhow,   alright, folks. I appreciate y'all taking the time out of your busy day to sit and listen and hear what three friends have to say about what's happening in our world.   And today, there's really not a whole heap and lot I mean, there's a lot of news going on, but, you know, as today, we've just kinda   we're bebopping along, and, I mean, we threw our 2¢ in about, about   government shutdown and and military actually be in the military again. But other than that, not a whole lot   really happening   with   in in the news department. No. There's nothing that really just gets our our juices flowing because, you know, we didn't I didn't wasn't able to get rich riled up in any way.  

So that was that was a that was a little chat to chalk that one up as a loss for this week.   But, but anyhow, so, yeah, we had a it's this is a show that is different than many, many other shows,   And that is   because   unlike   all the other or not all, but majority of the other shows on   on on the potosphere,   we don't do commercials. We don't do ads for   for mattresses or toothbrushes or razors or or even pharmaceuticals   or anything like that. We   are strictly a value for value. We throw we throw what we have, what our entertainment value, what we think is valuable at you, and you get to   see it, listen to it, and decide, hey. This is really valuable, or, hey. This isn't valuable at all.  

And, and it's all up to you. If you find value, great. You know? Send some value back, and that value can be in any form you choose.   You can send a reply to a to a question. We have a question or if we just completely slaughtered some type of fact, which I know I do more times than I I don't care to count.   But   if, if I   said something that was in incorrect,   call me out on it. I would love to have a a dialogue come along.   And and   we talk about,   what I got wrong or what I got right or what what nuance of the, of the of the what we said could be,   could be corrected. You can send an email to me by going to, by student an email at circlecast, that's [email protected],   or you can shoot an email over to, Rich. That's rasinrich,chelson,chelson,@gmail.com.  

And   if you wanna get a hold of of the dude, well, then go ahead and send an email to either me or or Rich because   Ron's email is is a is a mystery to all but Google.   And so we have to just kinda rely on type start typing r o oh, there it is. There he is. And and accept that that, the string of letters and numbers that he has is is the is the right one, and   so   but   it is   one of the fun ways that we can have a   an interaction   is by is through email. We read you emails where you can, and   love to hear what you what you have to say and what you have to think what you have to think. If you wanna help us in other ways, there's all kinds of ways that you can help us. If, you know, if you see something that we are falling down on,   then that can be a way that you help us. You can help us by picking up the Slack where we're we're bumbling at. And it's like, well, you don't have a, don't have a Facebook group. Okay. Well,   we'll get a Facebook group set, and we'll we'll make you as the as the moderator, and you can go through and, and   and help help us moderate.  

And   you can, you can do that as if if that's how you wanna do, or maybe you're good at coding and you wanna help us have a better website.   Would love to be able to do that too. Love to be able to,   allow you to any way of being able to return the favor of the work that we've done. Now is it much work? I I don't know. That's what your that's your choice. Do you think we've done a lot of work, not done a lot of work, you know, that you do you do you boo?   Because we're a value for value. So we've got three different ways that you can provide value to us. You can do your time, talent, or treasure. So the time is providing your, you know,   providing some time to set up, like, chapters   for us. You're a you can go through there. We'd love to have you set up chapters, give them to us. We'll get them implemented into the into the cloud, and that way everybody can see what chapters are available to because we got chapter art and all that fun stuff.  

If you are talented and you wanna be like I said, like, you're good at coding or maybe you're good at graphic arts and you wanna help create some chapter art or create   episodic art, love to have you do that too. So many different things that you're you're able to do in your time and talent. And then there's treasure, which if you wanna be able to help us with with paying the bills on the hosting fees and things like that, You can do so also by on any podcasting two point o standard,   app, like like Podcast Guru   or   or True Fans or anything like that, you can actually click a support this show.  

Hit that button. That'll take us over take you over to the PayPal account and be able to   donate or or support us in   any denomination   you wanna help us out with. It's what you what you think is, is the right amount is the right amount.   So   with that, guys, I wanna say thank you again for, for listening. And, Rich, what do you have to say?  

[02:33:42] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, not too much. Just   still, I'm still blown away that people still come back and listen to us   and everything. So I wanna thank everybody for listening.   And,   obviously,   they're telling some people or someone   or multiple people. Who knows?   Hey. I don't care. Just just come back and tell us. You know?   Send us an email.   Send me an email at [email protected]   or send one to [email protected].   And, yeah, like like Brian said, you know, if you wanna send one to the dude, just send it to me or Brian because, yeah, it would confuse everybody.   It would probably   even confuse a genius,   and I've never claimed to be a genius. So,   anyway,   other than that, not much really just tell your friends, tell your family, share this out.  

Hell,   Share it with someone you don't like. Piss them off really well. You know? If you need help making making someone upset,   you know, let them listen to our show. We'll be glad to help you out. You know?   We   we would, you know, love to do that for you. So   that's about all I got. Just keep coming back. Keep listening, and and keep telling everybody what you got  

[02:35:06] Rich Chelson:

and, who we are and how we do it. So good. You did you did see the, I'm gonna jump in here real quick. You did see that on September, we actually had a big old spike of, of listens. Right?  

[02:35:19] Duuude-Ron :

Yes. I did. Okay. Yeah. I was, like, saw that in '20. I was like, hey.   In fact   is that on Pod Stats? Yeah.   Okay. Because, yeah, Pod Home is that's that's our biggest month ever   in in in   in the history of our show.  

[02:35:37] Rich Chelson:

Yeah. Apparently. Yep. Still got quite a few people in the last twenty four hours. Two people have downloaded Ron's crack. So  

[02:35:46] Duuude-Ron :

That is awesome. I love that.   So yeah. No. Pod stats pod stats, I hadn't looked   at. But   so tell us what you got since you got people downloading your crack.  

[02:36:00] Unknown:

Downloading my crack,   You know, and I've actually got to play in my crack.  

[02:36:09] Duuude-Ron :

Oh, dude. That's so wrong.   So wrong.  

[02:36:13] Unknown:

Well, you see you've seen the pictures.   And for those of you that don't   know, that didn't get to see the pictures, Ron's Crack   is a great big washout   at one of the Wheeling parks   that I go to that basically,   yeah, can vary half my Jeep.   And   the one time that,   oh, I decided to put a little bit more   skinny pedal, gas pedal into it,   And about put the Jeep on its side, it cost me $1,212,100   dollars just in parts to fix the Jeep.   So, hence,   somebody else out there   named it for me, and it was Ron's Crack.   Yep.   Mhmm. And with that said, everybody, just as soon as you say that, that's to what they always come to,   the perception   of,   yeah, bronze crack.  

So,   yeah, we've had a lot of fun with that over the years.   But,   again, yes, thank thank everybody for listening to us and coming back and   listening to us week after week and,   just sharing we just share our ideas with each other and our,   you know, life experiences and   all the other realms of everything else that we get into topics and just happen to wanna talk about it. So, yep, we will see you all back here next week. Same bat station,   same bat time.  

[02:37:57] Rich Chelson:

Absolutely. So alright. Well,   again, to all the listeners out there, thank you all again for coming in and listening. Ron,   Rich,   Thank you guys for, coming on, and we will talk to y'all   next week.   So till then. Bye.  

[02:38:14] Duuude-Ron :

Later.   Peace out.  

[02:38:17] Rich Chelson:

Alright, guys. Get to the end. See you later.  

[02:38:19] Unknown:

You too. Have a good week.  

[02:38:21] Rich Chelson:

Absolutely.   Bye. Bye.