In this episode of Two Grumpy Vets, we dive into a lively discussion about the challenges and changes in our lives, from career shifts to health concerns. Bryan, Rich, and the Dude share their thoughts on the importance of intentional living and weekly conversations as a means to support each other and become better men. The conversation takes a humorous turn as they discuss the pros and cons of returning to the oil field, the complexities of health insurance, and the controversial topic of statins. The hosts also touch on dietary beliefs, the impact of carbohydrates, and the surprising allergies some people face.
The episode takes a deeper dive into societal issues, including the impact of tariffs, the role of taxes, and the economic policies that affect everyday life. The hosts express their frustrations with government decisions and the public's reaction to them, highlighting the importance of understanding the broader implications of political actions. They also explore the cultural differences in media consumption, the quirks of international travel, and the unexpected challenges of owning pets in certain cities. With a mix of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful commentary, this episode offers a candid look at the world through the eyes of three grumpy vets.
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[00:00:07]
Bryan Goodwin:
H ey, man. Hello, and welcome to two grumpy events. And, dude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living, having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan Rich and the dude. There he is. What's up, Bryan? Not a much, sir. How you holding up?
[00:00:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, not too bad today. It's cold. So Yeah? So I'm I'm I'm loving the warmer weather. I bet you are. How about you? What's that with you?
[00:00:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I'm let me get this sent over to Ron real quick. Let him know that we're open. No. I mean, not much. Really. I'm just just trying to get everything all kinda prepped and ready, so, for the change over to Gore.
[00:01:22] Rich Chelson:
Did you get it?
[00:01:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I hadn't yet, but I'm pretty confident.
[00:01:30] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:01:36] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[00:01:37] Rich Chelson:
What's the wife think about it?
[00:01:40] Bryan Goodwin:
She's one she's the one pushing him for it. I mean Oh. Last, yeah, I mean, last last weekend was kind of a rough weekend.
[00:01:53] Rich Chelson:
So
[00:01:54] Bryan Goodwin:
do that. Oh, yep. I mean, it was just me coming to the realization that I was gonna have to actually go, and I was still resisting the need to change. And Jana was pushing hard, and so there was there was there were words and emotions and and and and fit and and and stuff like that being being bandied about. And so, yeah, we Right. So so Sunday came along, and I was like, alright. Fine. Let's just sit down. I'll at least fill out the application. Maybe that'll appease her for a bit.
[00:02:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Got it. I know it sucks, man. Well You know?
[00:02:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Don't wanna go back in the oil field, but at the same time, it will provide a lot of points that I have not been able to, to reach in my in my career. Yep.
[00:03:10] Rich Chelson:
Okay. That was, like, vague or or or at least I'm asleep or something. What do you mean? What what points in your career?
[00:03:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it's just in in the means of of acquiring, acquiring funds. One, be making double, if not three times, the amount that I'm making right now. Right. So I'll be able to actually save some freaking money for a change.
[00:03:40] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:03:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Then, insurance. Oh, well, that's that's a big thing. Yeah. And, I mean, being in being in fifties and stuff and and and Janet and we neither one of us have had been to a doctor in shit. Probably almost twenty years now. At least fifteen.
[00:04:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. It might be wise to go get a checkup.
[00:04:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I just know that if my doctor tries to recommend statin, I'm saying, fuck no.
[00:04:18] Rich Chelson:
I don't blame you, dude. I mean, not not everyone has the problems that I had, you know, or have still currently, but, you know, I I you know, because some people do fine on statins. But Yeah. No. Uh-uh. Yeah. I I do not. And Nope.
[00:04:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, even if the doc does tell me, hey. You probably need to go on there. I'm gonna be telling them, like, no. No. We're not, we're not doing Band Aids. Right. If there's something that needs to be fixed, tell me how I fix it, then I'll fix it.
[00:04:54] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:04:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And know that I, do not partake partake in the, in the thought that you need to decrease meat. I think meat is not the is and and fat is not the the culprit to high cholesterol and and heart disease. I think it's actually, carbohydrates. So
[00:05:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, you know, that's the thing these docs say, oh, you need to stop red meat and all like this. No. We were made to eat meat.
[00:05:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[00:05:27] Rich Chelson:
Now now throughout history, yes, back back in the olden days and stuff, they ate a lot of plants, you know, like olive trees. You know? I I mean but Oh, yeah. Now there's still a lot of vegetables we need. We're all in divorce. Oh, yeah. But but they still you know? I mean, we still need meat.
[00:05:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[00:05:47] Rich Chelson:
And and now, because, I know someone. I've known her for a long time. And she, she went and got tested. She is allergic to red meat.
[00:06:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, she got bit by that tick.
[00:06:04] Rich Chelson:
I don't think so. I I I don't know exactly. This this was years ago when she told me when we were talking about it. But, yeah, she doesn't. She's vegan and everything like this, and I shit the woman's sick 99% of the time. No.
[00:06:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[00:06:24] Rich Chelson:
But, I mean, I mean, she still works and everything like that, but still it's like, good god. You know? You're you're that sick and eating vegan. What's up?
[00:06:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. Can't eat red meat. Well, I mean, go to chicken and pork and fish.
[00:06:44] Rich Chelson:
No. She says nope. She, well, pork is red meat still.
[00:06:50] Bryan Goodwin:
So is chicken. Well I've heard the I've heard the advertisement. It's just the other white meat.
[00:06:57] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. But yeah. No. No. I just I just, yeah, I I was I was I was kinda shocked to hear that that that she got tested and had this, and she's allergic to red meat. I mean, I don't know how that happens, but, apparently, it does.
[00:07:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I think it's, the lone star tick. Again, the same tick that'll give you Rocky Mountain spotted fever also is a culprit for, for inviting you and giving you, I forget what the actual disease is called, but it's, gives you basically, it's a an allergic reaction to, to red meat.
[00:07:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I don't know. I don't know I don't know if she ever got bit by a tick or what exactly caused it, but yeah. Because I guess I guess she had been sick front, you know, after eating meat in the past. And, Yeah. They, I guess, tested her, and they said, yeah. No. Sorry.
[00:08:08] Bryan Goodwin:
No love.
[00:08:09] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:08:10] Bryan Goodwin:
No steaks for you no more.
[00:08:14] Rich Chelson:
So it's like, okay. Whatever it is. That's different. That's weird.
[00:08:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly.
[00:08:21] Rich Chelson:
This is weird in my book, but okay. I'm like, I ain't judging you, Wendy. You know? Yeah. It was just something I had never heard of before.
[00:08:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:08:36] Rich Chelson:
So
[00:08:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And I've I've heard I've heard of people being allergic to red meat. No. I can say it. I think that would be probably one of the, one of the worst, allergies to ever have.
[00:08:57] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. Because, yeah, I would just have to die, man. Yep. Because I would eat red meat. I am a carnivore.
[00:09:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely. I'll
[00:09:13] Rich Chelson:
no. I'm not I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna say it. That could be construed in so many unhealthy ways. I'm not gonna say it. I caught myself. I almost didn't, but I caught myself. Dude, what's up?
[00:09:31] Duuude-Ron :
What's up?
[00:09:32] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. You tell me, dude.
[00:09:36] Duuude-Ron :
Let's see. Blood pressure, cholesterol, tariffs.
[00:09:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Carrots? Your carrots are up?
[00:09:46] Duuude-Ron :
Car You're carrots? Tariffs.
[00:09:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, tear oh, oh, oh, okay. The tariffs are up.
[00:09:57] Duuude-Ron :
Other than that, you know,
[00:09:59] Bryan Goodwin:
same,
[00:10:00] Duuude-Ron :
wonderful week as I always do. You know? No. Unfortunately, nothing has changed thus far that has been, you know, like a major life turning event. So, yeah, got to drive got to drive to Aveline today. That was fun. However however, they are finally finally starting to get their act together on my expectations of, how I transfer or, what I transfer, transport, and how I transport it. So labels are getting better.
[00:10:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:10:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know, packaging is get you know, it's getting better, getting secured. You know? Now sometimes I have to say something like today, there was three pallets that the cylinders were not secured. You could hear them rattling around. So they got them fixed before I said anything. I was like, good. So and, you know, then the production manager, which is, you know, the boss over the pump room and, and the loaders. He told me today was twenty six pallets. I'm like, how many small cylinders are within this 26 pallets? He's like, I don't have any small cylinders. Well, I ain't taking 26 pallets because Uh-huh.
Now now it comes to a weight issue. Right. You know, an overall weight issue. So, you know, once I got there, you know, I did have to pull a couple of pallets off the load because, you know, it would have possibly wait, and I really don't wanna do that. Right. So yeah. So yeah. But Abilene is getting better. So I was I was happy today that, you know, I was out of there in and out in an hour and a half. So so that's pretty good.
[00:12:40] Rich Chelson:
Not bad. Now question question, dude.
[00:12:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:12:46] Rich Chelson:
What is it about tariffs that is causing you consternation?
[00:12:52] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's a you know, it's not causing me personally because the question that was presented is what's up, and that's the tariffs. Now, you know, there was now it's all over the freaking media about, you know, there's a list of how much tariffs we're charging this country versus how much that country is charging on us. Now I don't know if there's an it say what goods are tariffed and what goods are not. You know, I know that vehicles are tariffed, you know, exporting. Yeah. But there there was one country that has nine we we have a what was it? 37% tariff on that country.
That country has a 97% tariff on The United States.
[00:14:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:14:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Okay. Let's just yeah. It would and, again, speaking to all the leaders in all the countries, you know, what we're charging is tariffs and what they're charging is tariffs. You know, there's a lot of countries that charge us more, but that's gonna, again, come around to, you know, higher prices. Now will that balance out, you know, within the next six, nine months? You know, I can't tell you that. But they said that Dow was down again today because of all of the tariffs that are being implemented.
[00:14:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So Oh, yeah. But but they also why are the tariff or why are the, the the the markets down? Because people have these emotions that, oh my god. This is supposed to be horrible. This is supposed to be bad. And, no. Kinda like what we found out, yesterday. Before we had, income tax, laws, the government brought in brought in money through tariffs. So Yeah. Trump's not doing anything. Yeah. Absolute anything bad. As a matter of fact, he's leveling things out. And, yeah, people are wigging out, and all of a sudden, they their free ride is done.
[00:15:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But Oh, yeah. You see it Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, see, the thing is
[00:15:44] Rich Chelson:
the thing is, see, this is what this is what's been irking me about everybody flipping out over to fucking terrorists. Okay? Many countries have double, quadruple, triple, whatever the amount that it costs them to to, bring it into our our our country on tariffs. And, oh my god. And god forbid if we raise our tariffs to not even match their, tariffs, you know, for for us to ship our stuff over to them. God forbid if we match them. You know? It's like everyone flips out because, oh my god, we're not gonna be able to get the new iPhone from fucking China.
[00:16:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and don't get me wrong. I don't have I myself, I don't have a problem with the tariffs. Right. And and I understand, and I think it's pretty good of what Trump is actually trying to do is he's gonna you know, he wants to raise the tariffs and get these countries into a negotiation of, okay, these are our current tariffs. This is what we are fixing to tariff you on. What are you gonna do about it with the tariffs that you're charging? Are you gonna bring them down, or are we gonna come up and match yours?
[00:17:23] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:17:25] Duuude-Ron :
I
[00:17:26] Rich Chelson:
agree with that.
[00:17:31] Duuude-Ron :
You know, in all these countries that, you know, we have been the world police for and the world's bank, you know, with NATO and all this other stuff. It's like, okay. Yeah. It is finally about time that they, the other countries, start paying their fair share.
[00:18:02] Rich Chelson:
I get go. There's in words again. Everyone wants to fucking use those words on on on the American people. Oh, pay your fair share in taxes. Well, you know what? Charge the rest of the fucking world and let them pay their fair share.
[00:18:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know that the that the actual, income tax is a voluntary tax?
[00:18:23] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I know.
[00:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But god forbid if they'll do that voluntarily, though. Right. Exactly. But god forbid if if people stop voluntarily paying stop paying their taxes, you know, then what would that do?
[00:18:44] Rich Chelson:
They would just just figure out a way to make make the money the other way. I mean, they would you see, they you see, people are are so fucking gullible. They'll just roll over and, okay. We gotta do it. We have to save our country. No. Your fucking country. No. You know, taxes and in fact, we didn't have income tax in this country. We didn't have any fucking taxes in this country until the thirties.
[00:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:19:14] Rich Chelson:
And then all of a sudden, now we got 2,500 fucking taxes just on your paycheck.
[00:19:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. And then 2,500 more when you go to try and spend your money.
[00:19:30] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[00:19:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like, okay. It says at least 66% of this group smokes.
[00:19:43] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:19:44] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. How much does it take how much does it cost to produce a pack of 20 cigarettes roughly?
[00:19:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, fuck. I don't know, dude.
[00:19:59] Duuude-Ron :
It takes I've these days with the cost of everything, it's probably about dollar 50 to a dollar 75, possibly, per pack to manufacture. It's probably less than that. Well, let's just say a dollar. Alright? So it takes a dollar to produce a pack of cigarettes. Then if they sell that to make a 50% profit, there's 50¢ right there. So there's a dollar 50 that they're charging, you know, the American people. Right? Right now, the average for a pack of cigarettes in this area is, like, $7.50. So $7.50 minus a dollar 50 that it cost to produce and them making a 50% profit on them, you're paying $6 worth of taxes on that one pack of cigarette.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. I know. And I and I understand that okay. Emphysema, cancer, the all this other stuff, you know, for the people that don't have health care or people on, say, Medicaid and Medicare, you know, and what the hospital bills are. That's why they're taxing cigarettes so bad because of the health care cost.
[00:21:40] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I understand that. Hold hold it. Who's paying for the health care? We are.
[00:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You're right. So
[00:21:50] Rich Chelson:
so so why is the government taxing our cigarettes for health care when we're paying the fucking health care?
[00:21:58] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? Why don't you why don't you go ask Obama that? Why don't you go ask
[00:22:05] Rich Chelson:
No. I'd smack him outside his head.
[00:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'd yeah. I I would stupid move. Yeah. So that what the But the thing is we let Obama do it.
[00:22:19] Rich Chelson:
We let Obama do it.
[00:22:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, unfortunately, I didn't let him unfortunately, I didn't let him do shit because I didn't vote for him.
[00:22:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, no. I didn't vote for him either.
[00:22:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But and now and now the fucking net health care system that he fucking created just put everything in a fucking shambles. Not that it wasn't already in a shambles. Now the health care fucking skyrocketed. You know, premiums and all that other stuff, and and I still don't understand why the hospital is gonna charge you $15 for a fucking Band Aid when I can go buy a whole damn pack over here at fucking, Walgreens for $3.
[00:23:15] Rich Chelson:
Because they can. We let them. That's why.
[00:23:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. You achieved it. Goodness I've never asked. No. Go ahead. Go ahead.
[00:23:31] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say it's the first time I've been that wound up in a while, in a long while.
[00:23:39] Bryan Goodwin:
What do you mean am I doing this time?
[00:23:41] Rich Chelson:
No. For dang, Brad. Do you feel left out? I do almost.
[00:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
Almost as if you're almost as if we were talking about Jeeps.
[00:23:53] Rich Chelson:
No. It just it just freaking irks me that that all these people are whining and crying, thinking they're gonna have to pay higher fucking what the fuck y'all think you've been paying for during the last administration? Y'all didn't bitch about those high ass prices, and yet you couldn't feed your fucking babies. Now Trump gets back in, prices are starting to come back down, and he's levying tariffs to to combat the tariffs that we pay to bring the goods in. Okay? And people are just fucking going, oh my god. No. I need to pay $20 a fucking carton of eggs.
Y'all need to get a checkup from the fucking neck up, people.
[00:24:40] Duuude-Ron :
Man, I ain't heard that one in a quite quite a while. I haven't heard that one.
[00:24:47] Rich Chelson:
I I'm serious, man. It just the shit just it just irks the fuck out of me. How Yeah. The the stupidity. The fucking stupidity. It's like, oh my god, people. You you yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Alright. Damn. I peaked early tonight. It's still young, though. I mean, it is it is it is it is possible to get me wound back up again, but god dang. That's the shit that just irks me. That's why that's why I can't fucking listen to the news because it's stupid shit. No one is is is having a conversation. They're just sitting here spouting bullshit, lies, and and all this and thinking this is gonna be bad. This is gonna be bad.
You know, look at look at your previous, you know, five, six years compared to today. Guess what? Prices are down.
[00:26:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:26:09] Rich Chelson:
I mean, yeah, prices are still somewhat high in this. I'd you know? But, I mean, it's a lot cheaper than what it was. Let's put it this way. I got more food for a hundred and 60 fucking dollars this month than I had in the previous six months. So I know food prices are coming down.
[00:26:29] Duuude-Ron :
Dang where I like them, but they're coming down. Well yeah. And, you know, and it is gonna take time. You everybody says, you know, well, Trump, ran on the promises of lowering, you know, the food bill and so on like that. It's like and, you know, I've heard some Democrats say, you know what? Well, he hasn't done anything yet. Well, it's only been a hundred fucking days.
[00:26:58] Rich Chelson:
Right. Rome
[00:26:59] Duuude-Ron :
was not created in a day. This gaggle fuck is not gonna get fixed in a day.
[00:27:09] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well and and that's like that's like look at Biden. Look at Biden's first hundred days. What the fuck did he do?
[00:27:17] Duuude-Ron :
Shut in the fucking basement.
[00:27:19] Rich Chelson:
No. He shot the price of fucking oil up or gas up fucking, what, a buck and a half a gallon overnight
[00:27:28] Bryan Goodwin:
for one. Yeah. Because because we got all the way up to up to, over $5 a gallon in diesel.
[00:27:35] Rich Chelson:
Right? And that was that was in his first hundred days. And and people are wanting to bitch about Trump. Grow the fuck up, people.
[00:27:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, nice. Damn. It it's easy to bitch about that. Can't preach about but can't bitch about who about our guy because, you know, that would be, that would be be wrong. You know?
[00:27:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. I mean, I can, but, I mean Oh. Honestly honestly, he's he's he's actually trying to do things. I mean, you know, forgive the man that that he, you know, wasn't done thirty seconds after he took the oath. You know?
[00:28:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:28:16] Rich Chelson:
And I had to kiss his wife and shake at least one or two hands. I mean, come on. I you say that. Yeah. It just oh my god. That's why that's why I just stated myself a lot of times because people just piss me the fuck off. They really do. Like, I can't afford it. I can't afford it. Well, guess what? Fucking look at what you're spending your money on.
[00:28:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:28:50] Rich Chelson:
You know? Start there. You you might have a couple hundred more bucks. But
[00:28:59] Duuude-Ron :
Well and the reason why gas shot up is because fucking Biden shut down the fucking oil production in The United States.
[00:29:09] Rich Chelson:
That's exactly right. Everything down. Yeah. Yeah. And he would he was buying oil from Saudi Arabia when we had enough oil. He was selling our oil overseas. He was exporting it and importing Saudi Arabian oil. That's why gas and diesel shot the fuck up.
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Well and the first time Trump was in office, there was fucking how many oil tankers? They couldn't they couldn't give the shit away. Right. They were you know, countries were paying other countries to take their oil.
[00:29:50] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:29:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think Saudi Arabia, when Trump was first in office, had to pay, what what, $50.50 something a barrel just to get rid of it in The United States.
[00:30:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It was yeah. I mean, we I mean but oh, no. People people don't remember that shit. You know? I mean I mean, when Trump left office the first time, gas was a dollar 86 a gallon where I lived, and that was in Northern Missouri. It hasn't been there since.
[00:30:32] Duuude-Ron :
Nope.
[00:30:37] Rich Chelson:
So, I mean, gas here say, I got gas the other day. I think it was, $2.48 or $2.58. I mean, that's not high. I've seen it down as low as $2.35. But, you know, it's it's, you know, it's well, last year, when I, got down here, it was, anywhere from $2.60 to $2.89. So within a year, it's come down $30.40 cents. So I call that a win. At least I do. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:22] Duuude-Ron :
I I get it. Most definitely.
[00:31:29] Rich Chelson:
But, yeah, people just yeah. And I I don't see I don't see how freaking Democrats getting out. Bitch about paying less money. But, I mean, again,
[00:31:45] Bryan Goodwin:
stupid is as stupid does. Well, I mean, come on. Obama's, you know, everybody was saying, I can't afford, I can't afford my health care. Can't afford my health care. So Obama said, here, hold my beer. Now you get now you can't afford your health care.
[00:32:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Right. I say, here. Yeah. Hold my beard. You really can't afford it now. So it's funny. It's just oh my gosh. I don't know. I I get let's talk about something else. I'll get I'll get I'll get one out. I'll I'll I'll Shift in
[00:32:27] Bryan Goodwin:
shift into third gear on aggravation.
[00:32:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Alright. So let's shift into this. So you know that Porsche is making SUVs. Right? The Cayenne. You know what I saw today as an SUV, a manufacturer? I was damn near fucking shocked.
[00:32:47] Bryan Goodwin:
I've seen a Ferrari SUV. I've seen yeah. There's a Lamborghini SUV too.
[00:32:55] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't seen that one. I saw a Mazda
[00:32:58] Bryan Goodwin:
They looked saw a Maserati. Yeah. The Maserati, and they all look the fucking same.
[00:33:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. The Maserati looked like the fucking the BMWs
[00:33:09] Bryan Goodwin:
do. Yeah.
[00:33:11] Duuude-Ron :
Now I don't know what the fucking price tag is on that thing.
[00:33:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Actually, surprisingly low. I've seen more Maseratis the past two, three years. I think they finally have dropped down to being about $80,000.
[00:33:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But what is the maintenance for those damn things? $80,000
[00:33:29] Bryan Goodwin:
again. I mean, it was, when I I worked over at, at Service King, which is a collision repair center, And the owner of that, of that, that collision repair center, he had several branches. See if I can remember what his name is. The first name was Eddie. I can't remember what his last name was now. But, yeah, they ended up selling selling the, business over to, Berkshire Hathaway, and now you find them over here up here in, in Oklahoma City. They're they're kinda all over the place. But, he bought, a, a Jaguar. Got a brand new Jaguar.
And,
[00:34:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, they're making SUV in four doors too.
[00:34:30] Bryan Goodwin:
And he was he was shocked, and he was actually talking, to people. He was like he was like, if he had known this, he wouldn't have gotten it because, hell, he had a problem with one of the light bulbs. He went to go change out the light. The light bulb for the damn, for the damn Jaguar was something like a $75 light bulb.
[00:34:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, get out of here. Really?
[00:34:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And it's kinda it's in I'll see if I can find it again, but there is a guy who was showing that on Lamborghini, there's a little clearance lamp that's on the side of the, right I think it's, like, right in front of the door. Yeah. Just one of those little safety amber lights that that appear. Little triangle shaped, safety lamp. And he what he does is he gets a piece of, electrical tape, puts it on top of it, and rubs his thumb on there a whole bunch. And he goes, you see that little oval right there? That's a Ford symbol. Ford makes these. Now if you go and and he shows that he pulls up the parts manual, if you wanna buy one of these, it is 7 or not 700. It's like a hundred and $72.
A hundred and 70 something. That's a hundred you know, multiple it's a it's more just a couple pennies for a little plastic, clearance lamp. But if you go to, O'Reilly's and you pull up this part, it's the exact same part, and it is for $4.25. Right. Yeah. Same part.
[00:36:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I remember seeing something like that. Yeah.
[00:36:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's why that's why all the parts, you know, if, you know, if you do you know, if you look a little bit, you can actually find the parts cheaper.
[00:36:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[00:36:20] Rich Chelson:
You know? But oh, no. People, you know, think that, oh, no. This is Jaguar only or Maserati or what you know, whatever. And it's like, yeah. No. It's not. Here here's proof, and it's an exact fit.
[00:36:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[00:36:37] Rich Chelson:
But oh god. No. No. Because they didn't spend $5,000 for that part. It's not authentic.
[00:36:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Not at all.
[00:36:47] Duuude-Ron :
But, you know, how authentic is it from what car are we talking about again?
[00:36:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, the car that had the little the little deal, it was a Lamborghini.
[00:36:59] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Lamborghini. And it was and it's manufactured by Ford. Right? Or it The light was. Yeah. A Ford light fits in it. Yep. Okay. So God forbid is it on that Lamborghini, if you were to replace that light for $4.50 versus a hundred and $74.50, who the fuck is going to know when you go to
[00:37:31] Bryan Goodwin:
trade that vehicle in? Who the fuck is gonna know? No one. Because what will end up happening is the body the, the the body repair shop that has to that's going through or or the the mechanic or whoever it is that has to replace that deal, he's gonna go grab one of those $4.25 pieces, put it in, and then go ahead and turn around and charge them the, you know, the hundred and 75, hundred and 80 dollars, whatever it is. Right? Yep. And that's good for them because if you're dumb enough to think that you're getting a value for just because it's got a whole bunch of zeros behind it, you got another thing coming.
[00:38:14] Rich Chelson:
Yep. No. That's true. And, Ryan, you're right. I mean I mean, both y'all are right. You know? Who's gonna notice and pay attention when he goes sell that vehicle? No, motherfucker. It's just it's just some people are that that, it's the word I'm looking for, vain.
[00:38:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I gotcha.
[00:38:35] Rich Chelson:
You know? And it's like, oh my god. I gotta have it. I was like, no one's gonna ask you. Oh, wait. What'd you pay for that light cover? They don't give two fucks. Most of them don't even see it. You know? Does it light? Yep. Alright then. It works.
[00:38:55] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and I understand the aspect of the vanity. You know? Me? I really don't have any vanity. You know? Yes. I like my Jeep. Yes. I like what the way that I have built my Jeep. Now does somebody will somebody else like the way I built my Jeep? Yes and no. You know, if you don't like my Jeep, I don't give a fuck. If you do like my Jeep, hey. Thank you for the, you know, your, what's the word I'm looking for, your compliments. Right. But vanity, I don't have any high end named clothes. My shit comes from fucking Walmart, and it wears just as fucking good as Gucci and, you know, those the high end dollar shit.
[00:40:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:40:03] Duuude-Ron :
I pay maybe a few bucks for a t shirt where somebody else is paying $40 for a T shirt. Knock yourself out. Now are the thread counts a little bit better on the other, T shirt? I'm sure they are. But if you rip it, what's the fucking difference? Exactly. If my if my thread count is 300 and your thread count is 900 you know what? If it rips, both of them got a hole. Doesn't really fucking make a difference. Right.
[00:40:47] Rich Chelson:
Except except except my 300 count cost $5, and your 900 count cost 50. So how good of a deal was that 900? I mean, I'm not I'm not saying a 900 count thread anything is bad. You know? But still, dude, like you said, a hole's a hole no matter what. And it didn't sound right either.
[00:41:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, for the sake of this particular conversation, a hole's a hole. I I will agree with you with that statement wholeheartedly. Right. Now other now other holes that we can go into that, but, you know, say potholes. Yeah. I tell you what. As soon as we get all these tariffs and so on like that, I tell you what, United States really needs to fucking work on their damn infrastructure. Roads, especially the fucking roads. God dang.
[00:42:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes. Yes.
[00:42:03] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yes. The thing now, that that all boils down to the state.
[00:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know it does. And, you know, they've been working on one place, and Bryan will know exactly what I'm talking about. Thirty five? No. On 36 from, fucking what the hell's the name? The town that you turn and go to Pottsville.
[00:42:32] Bryan Goodwin:
You talking about Hillsborough? Or
[00:42:35] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. I'm talking on on Highway 36.
[00:42:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, well, I gotta pull off 36 because numbers don't mean shit to me when it comes to directions.
[00:42:46] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. When you're going to your mom's place and you have to turn right to go to Pottsville off of the highway, what's that town that's just south of it?
[00:42:56] Bryan Goodwin:
South Of Pottsville?
[00:42:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That the main highway goes through. Damn it.
[00:43:03] Bryan Goodwin:
From Hamilton?
[00:43:05] Duuude-Ron :
Hamilton. Thank you very much. Oh, okay. Okay. Look at that fucking 12 mile stretch North Of Hamilton that they've been working on now for, what, two, three fucking years?
[00:43:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:43:23] Duuude-Ron :
And it's still not fucking done.
[00:43:29] Bryan Goodwin:
No.
[00:43:31] Duuude-Ron :
Because now they've laid one layer of asphalt for that 12 miles.
[00:43:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[00:43:39] Duuude-Ron :
And now they're laying another layer of asphalt, which is great, which is fine. Now they have three layers of asphalt, or they will have three layers of asphalt. And that's great. And what do you wanna bet just like I 35 from fucking, say, from Temple to Waco. There's so many fucking potholes in that new interstate. You know, it it's fucking ridiculous. Oh, yeah. And how long is it gonna take before all this this asphalt that they're laying right down right now on 36? How long is it gonna stay start for it to freaking start breaking up and start making potholes?
I give it a year at most. Oh, yeah. Because there's a there's a place from Italy to Ennis. They just laid they're, like, about four or five miles of asphalt, and they already have places where it is crumbling. And this has been within three, four months. I'm like, goddamn. Yep. Right.
[00:45:06] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know those projects are sold to the lowest bidder. Right?
[00:45:10] Duuude-Ron :
I I get it. I understand that. Just like the freaking m 16 and the goddamn army or for all the military for that matter. Blackhawk helicopters. Yes. They're all fucking produced by the lowest bidder. Now, okay, say, Blackhawk helicopters, how many companies actually are able to fucking produce it, whether it's the lowest price or not? Not very many. Like, one. So but, you know, I understand the lowest bidder, but, you know, this is, like, way to fuck out of control to the aspect of when are they actually gonna start doing fucking quality damn work.
Would love to see that one day.
[00:46:05] Rich Chelson:
Good. Have quality work. Yeah. Good luck with that, dude.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
I know. I know. I know. Good luck.
[00:46:14] Rich Chelson:
Used to be quality work. But I know. But morals and values and and and all like that, pride and everything is, nonexistent.
[00:46:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well and it's
[00:46:31] Bryan Goodwin:
the bureaucracy
[00:46:33] Duuude-Ron :
of what is funneled up underneath the fucking table of bribes and who gets this amount of money and who gets that amount of money for all this goddamn yeah. Now I'm fucking wound up. Thank you very much.
[00:46:53] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, gentleman. Oh, happy to help.
[00:46:57] Bryan Goodwin:
We had to be of service.
[00:47:06] Rich Chelson:
See. So, Bryan You know, it Go ahead. Next step. Yeah. Your next step to get wound up. Me to get wound up.
[00:47:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:47:16] Rich Chelson:
I mean, we'll just we'll just make it a round robin tonight. I was like, oh, yeah. Just
[00:47:20] Bryan Goodwin:
you know what burns my butt? A flame about this high.
[00:47:27] Rich Chelson:
Well, it it it would I I think it would burn about just about anybody's butt. I mean, if it don't, you know, you could let us know, but, yeah, I really don't. I don't send no. Don't send pictures. Because I know someone would probably be like, I'll show them. I'll send pictures. No. That's okay. We're good. Nah. That's not good. But so, yeah, it just yeah. People are just I swear they're they're just oh my god. I was thinking of something earlier, and I can't remember what it was. The only the, only thing I remember about it was fidget spinners for kids, but there was something there was something ahead of that. And it just it it it just kinda escapes me right at the moment.
[00:48:26] Duuude-Ron :
And you said this was a song?
[00:48:29] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. Something I was thinking about. Oh, okay. It's something. So I was I was off in my own little world.
[00:48:39] Duuude-Ron :
As always.
[00:48:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, I mean, I thought I was doing good and you know, and for a for a for a for a whatever it is I was thinking. And, it it was all I know is is whatever it was I was thinking about is basic, you know, it's it's for adults, but, basically, it it equates to fidget spinners for kids. And yeah. I'm sorry, guys. But but, I I mean, I just I just had to say that because it was just it was just fucking killing me. My brain was going speak. I don't fucking speak. There's something you gotta say.
[00:49:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Say it now.
[00:49:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, give it up, man. Give it up, and I'll say it. You know? But I don't know. Maybe maybe I'll think about it. Knowing my luck, I'll probably think about it after the podcast.
[00:49:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. So so but now let's see. I don't know. Let's see here. What else do we have? I know everyone is for whatever reason, at least all the, oh, I found yeah. Yeah. Here we go. It not necessarily gets my gets my blood pressure up or anything, but I found or, actually, I have rediscovered a an app that allows me to do the proper type of trolling that I like to do.
[00:50:27] Rich Chelson:
You found an app that Yeah. Can you troll?
[00:50:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[00:50:33] Rich Chelson:
Trolling for what, dare I ask?
[00:50:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Trolling with my comments type of trolling.
[00:50:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You like to go in and and hit and then and then and then sit back and watch people melt, which, I mean, that, yeah, is is kinda funny. Yeah. Well, there's there's a,
[00:51:00] Bryan Goodwin:
there it's an old app, actually. It's been around for a while, but they've changed it up so much. And, sadly, I don't really get to do much as much trolling. You know? I I just get to say my piece, and and I guess people just aren't don't people aren't using it enough nowadays if they don't really comment to it. But Flipbook,
[00:51:21] Rich Chelson:
I've I wanna say I have vaguely
[00:51:25] Bryan Goodwin:
heard that. Yeah. Yeah. You you sit there and you can it's, just kind of a magazine style of different topics that you like. And, they've got comments in there now. And so I hit comment, and I'll just let, you know, whatever the topic is. Of course, I've one of them is masculinity, and, and masculinity apparently also equates to toxic masculinity. So I get to go in there and go rant and rave, rant and rave, rave three or four or five times and okay. Alright. I'll get out of my system for the time being and go wander off and do some other stuff. But, you know what? I was telling you that, what feminine, feminism is about.
Yeah. Okay. It's not it's not equal access for women. It's equal access for ugly women?
[00:52:20] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[00:52:22] Bryan Goodwin:
They just did a study that proved my point.
[00:52:26] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:52:27] Bryan Goodwin:
See if I can find it again. See, and it should be down here at the bottom. Wow. I've got a lot of tabs open. It's almost like I'm a see, there's oh, there it is. Basically, they did a study. Oh, I don't get no. Thanks. I don't wanna take a survey. Yeah. He's on them sites to do that. It's called using deep learning to predict ideology from facial photographs, expressions, beauty, and extra facial information. And I'll just read the abstract real quick just because it's it's short. And, the it's a long ass fucking, well, it's a it's a paper. So it it's long and all sorts of stuff. So deep learning techniques can be, can use, public data such as facial photographs predict sensitive info personal information, but little is known about what information contributes to be to the predictive success of these techniques.
This lack of knowledge limits both the public's ability to predict, protect against revealing unintended information as well as scientific utility of deep learning results. We combine, convolutional, neural networks, heat maps, facial expression coding, and classification of identifiable features such as masculinity and attractiveness in our study of political ideology in March and '20 '3 Danes. Predictive accuracy of the neural network was 61% in the in each gender. The model predicted, ideology correctly with aspects of both facial expressions, happiness and neutrality, morphology, specifically attractiveness in females. Heat maps highlight, the effectiveness of areas both on and off the face, pointing to methodological refinements, and the need for the future research better understanding significance of certain facial areas.
So you wanna guess what they found out?
[00:54:29] Rich Chelson:
What did they find out? Liberal women are uglier. Okay.
[00:54:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Most conservative most of the time when they look at women's faces, the prettier the face or the prettier the person looks, the more conservative they are.
[00:54:54] Rich Chelson:
Now okay.
[00:54:56] Bryan Goodwin:
That's that's the that's the the summation of the, of a goddamn I don't even know how many words this thing's got. I know that I have to scroll down for, like, seven days.
[00:55:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. No. That's fine. That's fine. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I mean, how many people did they study?
[00:55:19] Bryan Goodwin:
What was that? 3,300? Set up there at the top. Hold on. Let me just go back up. Okay. Okay. So 3,323 Danes.
[00:55:29] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So so so not even well, I I mean, I don't know. But That's a good size. That's a good size. Well, yeah, it is. It is. Okay. But but, you know, that's the thing. It doesn't accurately represent because there's a lot of girls that aren't good looking but are stone cold Republicans, stone cold conservatives. Yeah. But, again,
[00:55:57] Bryan Goodwin:
the majority, again, the majority of when it went through and there was other aspects to to it that they would go through and use to to to do its predictable, predictability because they'd go through and show a face, and a more masculine face of a man would be considered more, be more, more conservative, while a more feminine face would be considered more liberal. But with women, again, attractiveness, however the the, deep seek or deep search, algorithm worked, It, it would sit there and look at a woman. And on its, you know, let's say it's on a scale of one to 10, it would sit there and pull up a two and go, well, that's a liberal. And they and come to find out, they have the information that person they it was active it was able to fairly accurately predict.
I wasn't saying that all of them were, but that is that barely accurately able to predict a feminist or liberal over a conservative, which kind of just did it. Well, I think it was Roald Dahl that used to say, ugly thoughts, show on your face.
[00:57:23] Rich Chelson:
Well, that, yes. I won't I won't argue with that because, yeah, yeah, if you're always thinking, ugly thoughts or or have a negative attitude all the time, yes, it will show on your face. And and if you change your mindset and start thinking more positively and stuff like this, your face actually reflects that. So yeah. No. I I can agree with that.
[00:57:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Let's see. Okay. And what some of this?
[00:58:05] Rich Chelson:
So, I mean, I I I mean, I don't I I don't know if I ever, if I can subscribe to that whole thing there. Yeah. You know?
[00:58:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:58:27] Rich Chelson:
Parts of it maybe, but just because, you know, you know, just because that that you know? And and you say the thing is say the say the whole thing with beauty is and it's it's true. It's always been true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
[00:58:47] Bryan Goodwin:
So so Okay. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a a way of of expressing that truth. Somebody I may, you know, I may see somebody go, holy smokes. There's there's a hottie, and you go, oh, yeah. She's cute.
[00:59:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Exactly. But
[00:59:06] Bryan Goodwin:
as a whole, that's one of the things that, especially, like, feminists really struggled with. That's what they fought for was to stop guys classifying women as beautiful, pretty, and and homely. Because you gotta have if you you're doing everybody a very huge disservice if you all classify them as just one person. The beautiful are gonna be beautiful no matter what. Alright? Sorry. But, you know, Elle McPherson was a freaking smoking hottie back in the eighties. Now today, I don't know. I haven't seen a picture over in a while, but I would figure she's still pretty good looking.
[01:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I was a smoking hottie hottie in the eighties as well. Well, look at me now. Because you kept getting yourself caught on fire.
[01:00:15] Rich Chelson:
Now hold it. Hold it. Okay. You see, that's the thing. Okay. This is something I don't get. Okay? You know, it seems like everyone talks about fucking women. What about men?
[01:00:26] Bryan Goodwin:
We're not saying thin, damn it. No. No. Listen. We are. We're we're butt we're a bunch of toads just sitting around going, hey. Hey. Yeah. We're we're we're a bunch I know. Bunch of we're a bunch of trolls just sitting around. We're cavemen.
[01:00:42] Rich Chelson:
No. We're not. We're not. You see, the the fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Listen. Listen. The same way the same way we fucking say about feminism and ugly women and all like that, women sit around and and look at two guys and say that one's a hottie and that one's not. Well, that's up to them. It's the same fucking thing. So There's another there's a Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Why are they doing fucking
[01:01:09] Bryan Goodwin:
studies on just women? Why not the other way around? There there was there that study was on both men and women.
[01:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Conversely, who really gives a damn?
[01:01:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Thank you. Because it proves me right.
[01:01:26] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. You're shallow as fuck sometimes too. Yeah. I am. I'm always shallow.
[01:01:32] Bryan Goodwin:
I have my opinions, and I like them, and I will make sure that they are enforced. But, anyhow, the other thing that I still love you, though. Well, I love you too, my man. But, something else that I just came across, actually, today, I was watching some videos and just got into a fucking rabbit hole while I was sitting waiting to get unloaded. Birth control. Women's birth control.
[01:01:56] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:01:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Holy shit. The damage that shit does.
[01:02:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's
[01:02:04] Bryan Goodwin:
which one? The pill or what? Or the Yeah. Yeah. The hormonal birth controls. The one's based on hormones. It throws women's, hormonal profile completely out of whack because, basically, what it does is it tricks the body into thinking that it's pregnant. That's how a, birth control pill actually works on a very basic level. It jacks up the, the progesterone and lowers the and and so that, the body goes, oh, hey. Congrats. Bosl top. We're pregnant. And so you're in what happens is, so you're you have this, the women have this this, this reaction to being to being pregnant. So you do that for three days. And then what you're actually taking on the on the the fourth week, not third, days, but the the you got three weeks of of progesterone pills that you take.
Mhmm. And then the fourth week, you know, those those green pills or or, red pills. Anyhow, what those are, those are just sugar pills. And the reason why women actually have, what they think of as a period on that week is actually nothing more than the women's body coming down off of the, coming down off of the off the hormones that are in the pill in the birth control pill. But it changes how women look at men. Women who are on birth control actually choose more feminine looking men than women who are not on the pill. Women who have never been on the pill will actually choose men who have higher testosterone in their body Okay. Than women who are on the pill. They will look for guys who are a lot more effeminate looking in their face. They have lower testosterone.
And so that it, and also, which is oddly enough, maybe it's what it's supposed to be doing and no one really fully realizes it. But when, women who are on on the pill, they actually have a lower libido than a woman who actually has the proper levels of of estrogen and testosterone in their in their system.
[01:04:42] Rich Chelson:
So that's why I've been single this long. Cool. Yeah.
[01:04:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. So, man, you you gotta get off that birth control pill now. Get off of it. Don't But but I might start crying at at at least low in my head. Something else that they were talking about. That that women on the pill are actually more emotionally unstable.
[01:05:07] Rich Chelson:
Really?
[01:05:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They're the ones who turn around and start boohooing and bawling, getting angry and stomping around. The pill increases the chances of suicide and suicidal ideation. Oh, wow. The the the, yeah, the hormone the pill is no anal. It no work. I don't know. I just yeah. And they've got you know, what is that? From the nineteen sixties, so '60, '70, '80, that's, 2,000. There's forty years.
[01:05:42] Rich Chelson:
It's sixty five years. Years now.
[01:05:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Sixty five years from Yeah. So they got sixty four five years' worth of data to go off of.
[01:05:53] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Yeah. No. I no. I had heard I had heard birth control and and especially when they went to the kind that's injectable in in the arm or whatnot.
[01:06:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The hormones are horrible.
[01:06:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I had heard I had heard there was there was some rough side effects and everything to them. So
[01:06:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And the brain fog that everyone talks about or all the women talk about is is one of the big problems. And so yeah. Right.
[01:06:26] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. So I I don't know. I just you know? But this is what this is what everybody is raised to believe. You know?
[01:06:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And that actual this the the the claims that have come out or that everybody uses on, on the, on why the pill is so good for you, like, using it for to control your for girls to control the period, for girls to to clean up their skin, is, again, same reason as to why women who are pregnant have better looking skin. Okay. And so they're just tricking them tricking teenage girls into thing and to and they're tricking their bodies into thinking that they're pregnant, and their hormones are all over the damn place as it is. They need to be broke out and and have, you know, all the all that acne.
[01:07:34] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:07:35] Bryan Goodwin:
But, but, yeah, they there's it's, it's it's it's no. It it's no good. It's
[01:07:46] Rich Chelson:
No. You're right. It no. It it it ain't no good. You know?
[01:07:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So, yeah, that was that was a kind of a wild, eye opener for me.
[01:08:04] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, I mean, they're still gonna do, you know, birth control pills.
[01:08:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. So
[01:08:26] Rich Chelson:
It's like that's not ever gonna change.
[01:08:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope.
[01:08:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I had a contest last weekend.
[01:08:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah? And how'd that go?
[01:08:40] Rich Chelson:
That one. It it went it went it went pretty well. It was I I had a lot of fun with it, really. I, I, I, I, beat my previous contest. Last weekend was a free for all. It was awesome. It was awesome because you could contact anybody anywhere. Didn't matter if they were in The States or or or around the world or whatnot. It was it was freaking awesome. And but, I had a hard time while the screen and the freaking monitor and stuff got to me. So I can only operate about three hours at a time, and then I had to stop for a couple hours because because my brain was just foggy as shit Oh, hell.
And everything. I mean, it was I was dizzier in hell and everything, but still, I mean, I made a 93 contacts, which is most I ever made, and 67,000 points. Woo hoo. Wow.
[01:09:45] Duuude-Ron :
How many contacts?
[01:09:47] Rich Chelson:
93.
[01:09:49] Duuude-Ron :
Hundred and 90 three. Damn.
[01:09:52] Rich Chelson:
And and, you see, the thing is, okay, in a contest, if if you've never done a contest, it's hard. You're you're not gonna go out and get a lot of contacts right off the bat because you gotta learn how things roll and stuff like that and get used to everything. And and and it takes a couple years. And I up until this point, I hadn't really done a whole lot of contests. You know, I had done a few, but, you know, but it seems like now, it's it's a lot easier for me to to, make contacts all over the place. So so, yeah, during a contest, that's why that's why I'm getting better scores. And I probably could have made more, but like I said, my screen was just just fucking making me dizzy as hell.
[01:10:55] Duuude-Ron :
Well, damn it. You should have fucking drank about four more pots of coffee then. You idiot. Right. You know, be like these other guys that, you know, come in first in this contest that are up for and constantly making contacts for forty eight straight hours. You know? What day you know, you're a slacker.
[01:11:17] Rich Chelson:
I know. I know. I I I was I know I was slacking, but, you know, I I'm I'm pacing myself.
[01:11:24] Duuude-Ron :
I'm pacing myself. Oh, pacing yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, pacing yourself. Right. Alright.
[01:11:34] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. No. It it it it was it was a lot of fun because, oh god. I'd say I talked to 43 different countries. And and it was crazy because my fucking radio wasn't working right for for a minute. It it just for some reason, it it was just it was harder in hell to make make any contact or tune anything in. So I did a right during the contest, I did a factory reset of my radio, reset the parameters like I had it before, and now it's working again.
[01:12:12] Duuude-Ron :
See here and, again, it it also comes back to the computers. You touched the wrong fucking button. I probably remember. And you don't remember what button you pushed and when you pushed it and just
[01:12:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. And see that?
[01:12:33] Duuude-Ron :
You you too and your fucking buttons.
[01:12:36] Rich Chelson:
Well, you see, that's why that's why, actually, I'm wanting I'm I'm, wanting an old school radio because it's it it does have buttons, but it has knobs. And and it doesn't have a fucking screen then. And I I don't have to push one button 10 times just to get to one setting and then back two more times to get to another setting and then adjust it and, like, do it all within five seconds.
[01:13:11] Duuude-Ron :
You're you're you're absolutely correct. That's just like the military radios. You you remember the p r 77, pricks 77. Right? Yep. Yep. Knobs. You had to dial in the knobs. Yep. Were you still in when the Singars came out? Just barely, but yeah. Okay. So those were no knobs, all buttons. Yep. But, you know, it it but it it brought the secure piece from the k y 57 that used to attach to the p r 70 to the prick 77. So you had the radio. You had the secure device. They put it all into one, and there was no knobs. No. I take it back. There was two knobs, but all the rest of it was fucking push button.
[01:14:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:14:03] Duuude-Ron :
And you pushed the wrong button button fucking button, and you ain't talking.
[01:14:09] Rich Chelson:
That's right. And that's what you did. That's exactly right.
[01:14:13] Duuude-Ron :
See. And you need to go back to a radio that has those, the tubes? No. The vacuum tube.
[01:14:25] Rich Chelson:
No. No. The vacuum tubes. Yeah. No. That and and in fact, I can still buy a ham radio that is a a a tube. I mean, they're they're freaking being sold still today. Oh, yeah. The old tube type radios. Yep. Take it takes fifteen minutes before you guys start working with it because it has the tubes have to warm up. Yep. Yep. And then Oh, 15 years old then. Then you have to tune the plate in the grid. Well, no. You're right. They do work, but good god. It takes, yeah, like Bryan said, fifteen, twenty minutes to warm the fuckers up. Then you have to tune tune the plate, dip the grid, and get those just right in sync just to be able to make one contact.
Yeah.
[01:15:13] Duuude-Ron :
But once you get it in sync once you get it in sync, you're good to go.
[01:15:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You start singing really well. And and and girls love love you.
[01:15:23] Rich Chelson:
Until you change bands, and then you do all over again. Change bands, then, yeah, everything's gonna go to pot.
[01:15:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You go from in sync to Backstreet Boys, and, yeah, it's just getting you
[01:15:36] Rich Chelson:
Right?
[01:15:38] Duuude-Ron :
What? I don't
[01:15:41] Rich Chelson:
know. You know nothing about the in sync or Backstreet Boys, do you, dude?
[01:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I do. You know why I know about that? Girl. All the back? Yeah. Well, that's true too. And when those were big, guess where I worked at other than the military? Guess where I worked at? Where'd you work at? The skating rink.
[01:16:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[01:16:11] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I got to listen to the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Fucking I couldn't even tell you all the groups that and I'd you know, there's a lot of those songs that I really do like. Oh, yeah. Right. Then there's a lot of those songs, that I don't like. Care less for. Yeah. Right. Well Yo. You know? Scrub.
[01:16:42] Bryan Goodwin:
That was a good song. I gave you No. I gave you that one for sure. What song? Scrub. Scrub. By, TLC.
[01:16:50] Duuude-Ron :
TLC. Okay. Don't think I Yeah. I like some of TLC's music, not very much. But scrubs, I liked. I could, you know, skate relatively quickly to scrubs. You know? Yeah. Other than that, I really couldn't tell you. I'd have to go back and look at all that stuff and, hell, I'd probably have to ask my daughter, you know, what the hell all the groups were when she was because she was six six and seven. Yeah. Right in that age where, we started going to the skating rink. And, you know, I started out, you know, paying to go to the skating rink for me and her, and then, I became a floor guard, so I got to have the, referee shirt, you know, with the stripes and the whistle and tell everybody to slow down and be my natural asshole self. You know? So we were just Hey. There. Element.
That's right. And, you know, I didn't get paid for it, but I got me and my daughter got in for free to skate. Okay. To me, that was worth it. I get to go skating. I get to blow a whistle every once in a while. I get to kick people off the floor every once in a while. We're good.
[01:18:22] Rich Chelson:
Look at you making a little eight year old kid cry trying to get up on on his girl. You know? You roll up on your skates, blow your whistle, and throw him off the floor, make him cry. Dang, dude.
[01:18:37] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. That's right. I made a few of them cry.
[01:18:42] Rich Chelson:
Dude's like, I own that shit.
[01:18:44] Duuude-Ron :
Damn right. Yeah. And then I started working there for pay, and that wasn't nearly as much fun. But, you know,
[01:18:55] Rich Chelson:
that was the Why? Because you couldn't blow your whistle no more?
[01:19:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, then I was working behind the the skate counter, handing out the skates and doing the maintenance on the skates and, you know, didn't get a skate as much. So, you know, it didn't become fun anymore. Now I got to do my fair share of skating. Don't get me wrong. Right.
[01:19:23] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say, you could skate after everyone left.
[01:19:31] Duuude-Ron :
Or before everybody got there. That too? Yep.
[01:19:34] Rich Chelson:
Drink the music up as loud as you want. You know, play some MC Hammer or something.
[01:19:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. The City DJ. Let's see. Yeah. I had some good shuffle skating songs.
[01:19:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I don't know what shuffle skating is. So
[01:20:02] Duuude-Ron :
I'll send you a, I'll send you a video Okay. Of what shuffle skating is. Okay.
[01:20:14] Rich Chelson:
So Probably something I couldn't do, but we're good.
[01:20:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. I wouldn't be able to do it.
[01:20:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, let me ask you this. If you got on skates, would you even be able to stand up anymore?
[01:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Probably not.
[01:20:27] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say, I probably have to agree with Bryan on that. Probably not.
[01:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:20:33] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, I could probably stand up as long as I'm on carpet. Or or I'm holding on to the wall maybe. No. No. I still bust my ass on my you're holding on to the wall. It had to be on something like carpet or glass.
[01:20:46] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I might I might I might push off, but, yeah, moving my legs back and forth, yeah, that's probably not gonna work too well. It's not gonna work. Just saying. Probably not.
[01:20:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. Well, yeah, I can still skate pretty good. You know? But, of course, I've been doing it all my life. I started when I was four, and I'm 57 now.
[01:21:16] Rich Chelson:
So you know how to skate?
[01:21:19] Duuude-Ron :
I know how to skate. I know how to skate pretty good.
[01:21:24] Rich Chelson:
Right. Now
[01:21:27] Duuude-Ron :
make I tell you what. When I first got here, they had a skating rink out in Coppers Cove, and now it's a Caliber collision. That's why I still have my inline speed skating blades. And what the hell was I let's see. Eighteen, '20 '8, '30 '8. I was about 35, 30 six. No. Yeah. 34, 30 five. And, you know, the out in Coppers Cove, they would do a speed skating. You know? The girls and the boys, then the adults, and so on and so forth. There was this kid probably had been no more than 12 with his speed skating blades. He would smoke my ass.
Really? When it came to when it came to speed skating. Oh, yeah. This motherfucker was very, very quick. And, I mean, he could be in, like, oh, the world, games for speed skating. Okay. That's how quick that's how quick that little dude was. You know, I don't know whether the floor? No. I wasn't working at that skating rink. That was one I was just, you know, paying to go and go skate. That's after I got here. So but, no, they didn't they didn't need any help because I asked them a few times. So, yeah, just paid to go skating. And, yeah, that little kid was in five laps, he would lap me at least once and probably be about three quarters from lapping me again in five laps.
[01:23:34] Rich Chelson:
Dang.
[01:23:35] Duuude-Ron :
That's how fucking fast that kid was. He was yeah. I still think that they need to put the fucking speed skating with the blades in the Summer Olympics. The short track, anyway. Like, they have for the speed skating short track for the ice skating, Blades in the Winter Olympics. I think they need to add the roller skating to the Summer Olympics. Maybe they will one day. Maybe they will one day.
[01:24:16] Rich Chelson:
I thought they did.
[01:24:18] Duuude-Ron :
But No. They have they have not put in the, roller blades speed skates into the Olympics yet. Now they have a, a world's a world, competition with it, but it's not in the Olympics.
[01:24:43] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I didn't know.
[01:24:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This kid would fucking it would definitely well, then that's been fucking twenty, yeah, twenty years ago.
[01:25:01] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, he'd be in his thirties. So who knows? He he might be a gimp.
[01:25:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Or or I only raised him a couple of times, and he smoked my ass every single time. But in turn, there was some kids his age that I could smoke. But, hey, we regress. Now I get out there, and I don't I don't smoke anybody anymore. After about five laps of shuffle skating, I gotta go take a seat, rest for any few minutes, and then get back all over the floor.
[01:25:46] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I don't I don't I don't smoke no one anymore. They just taste nasty.
[01:25:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:25:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I I saw what you did there. What's that? I said, I I hear what you did there.
[01:26:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. It was weak.
[01:26:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'll probably about this time tomorrow, I'll probably get it. But right now, I'm just or in about fifteen minutes, I'll even forget what the fuck we were talking about. So, you know, that's more that's more of a probable aspect than the the other one was.
[01:26:29] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:26:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you just
[01:26:32] Bryan Goodwin:
never know. That's gonna be awesome. What hear him hear Ron going
[01:26:41] Rich Chelson:
And just start laughing. Is it finally hits you? Yeah. It hits him. Yeah. I don't know what's up with oh oh, I, I'm I got approved for my passport.
[01:27:00] Bryan Goodwin:
And Oh, did you? Yes. I did. He he's leaving the country, goddamn it.
[01:27:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, not right now, but, you know No. Not come next winter. Probably so. But, well, I don't know. It depends on how much money I have. But, anyway, yeah, it didn't see. I think they got it on March 14, and it was, being shipped. It's supposed to be here by Saturday, and I don't know why it's taken so long because, believe it or not, apparently, the place where they process, passports at is in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
[01:27:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, heck.
[01:27:45] Rich Chelson:
Okay? And then and and I'd got an email, you know, saying a passport had been shipped. Right? And when I got it, it said it was in Little Rock. Oh, now it's moving through Mobile, and it's supposed to be here tomorrow. Okay. But, they had they had sent me an email saying, oh, it'll be there on Saturday the fifth, and this here was the second. And I'm thinking, Little Rock is only eight hours from literally eight hours from me, eight and a half hour stops. It's like, how how is it gonna take three days to go from Little Rock to, you know, me? And I'm just like, man, this is crazy. But, yeah, I just looked, and it said it's, it was at it was in Mobile, Alabama at the post Office distribution center this evening about an hour ago. So it'll leave there and get over to my post office in the morning, and then they'll bring it over to me.
[01:28:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, hot diggity dog. Right. And you said they're good now you good, Jace? Yeah. You said they're good now for how long? Did you say it was ten years? Yeah. Ten years. Okay.
[01:29:07] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. It's good for ten years. So
[01:29:11] Duuude-Ron :
Well, mine expired the day I retired out of the military.
[01:29:15] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, you I mean I mean Oh, yeah. It's just I can't. Questions. They take your picture, and you pay them a couple hundred bucks.
[01:29:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No shit.
[01:29:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. Seriously. Yeah. I'll yeah. Altogether, it was for the passport book, the card, and my picture being took, it was 210. So I can't go nowhere with it for a while. I gotta save that money back up.
[01:29:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, just think of how excited you are going to be when you get your first country stamped in your passport.
[01:29:58] Rich Chelson:
No. Actually, yeah, I will. I will. I will get excited. So I'm I'm a have to think of a good country to go to. And then because because when I get that stamp, I'm a take a picture of it with my phone, and I'm a send it to y'all.
[01:30:14] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, the country stamp?
[01:30:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:30:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Turks And Take Tayco whatever it is.
[01:30:21] Rich Chelson:
Turks and Caicos. You're free to go. Actually, right now and and I don't get this. Yeah. I don't I don't know. Maybe y'all can explain this to me. But right now, it seems like just about anywhere outside of The United States has not an outright travel ban ban, but a a a cautionary thing for just about every freaking country it it in the world. It's like it's like if you go anywhere, everyone's like, oh, you better check it, you know, because there's well, here. They just they just, yeah. The state department warns US travelers about visiting The Bahamas. And there's been ones about, Turks and Caicos.
There's been ones about, Spain, Europe, England. You know, it's it's it's like every other it's like all these countries are like, oh, no. You need to, you know, worry about traveling. It's like, what the hell are you trying to do? You know? And they're saying the same thing. It's about is warning travelers about violent crime and other potential risk in a popular destination. You know? Well
[01:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I just I get it, but, you know, it doesn't matter where shit. No. Okay. I don't have to go outside the country. I can go to A Hundred And 20 Seventh Street in Chicago. Yeah. And I'm fucked.
[01:32:16] Rich Chelson:
You can go to Cicero Avenue and get fucked in Chicago. But, yeah, you're right. You know? Yeah. It's it's yeah. I don't get it. You know? And I had been I mean, I'm not I'm not planning to go anywhere right now, but I'm just saying it just seems like all of a sudden, just out of the blue, you know, all of the state department says you need to, you know, worry about this country, worry about that country. What? They don't have crime any other time? No. That was a poet and didn't know it. I just Yeah. They only
[01:32:54] Duuude-Ron :
have they only have crime on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays.
[01:32:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, yeah, I don't know. It's just it's just weird. Something I, you know, something I had noticed because well, the first one I saw was the Turks And Caicos. And I'm like, what the hell? That's a popular freaking place to go chill out. You know? I thought it was laid back and everything. I mean, I knew they had crime, but damn. But oh, no. It seems like everything now is like, oh, violent crime. Violent crime. Violent crime.
[01:33:27] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. Well, yeah, it against tourists. Yes. Absolutely. Because a tourist knows very little about the laws of the country that they're visiting and or where to go get help.
[01:33:42] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:33:44] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So, you know, it's just too bad that, you know, I can't go over to England or go over to Spain or, you know, Germany and have my concealed carry license and carry my nine mil.
[01:34:04] Bryan Goodwin:
You'd never know that. Great. It would be great.
[01:34:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But it ain't gonna happen.
[01:34:11] Rich Chelson:
And you see something else I learned. You know how we dial 911 to get emergency services? Mhmm. In England, it is 111.
[01:34:28] Duuude-Ron :
Oh. Yeah. I'll just how everybody how everybody has their system set up. So what's 811 in The United States?
[01:34:38] Rich Chelson:
Dude, you I used to be 811, and you're asking me? I was 811.
[01:34:47] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. And now what's the suicide? That's 811 now, isn't it? No. It's 988. 9 8 8? Okay. 988.
[01:34:57] Rich Chelson:
Yes. And press 1 to speak with a veteran.
[01:35:03] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:35:04] Rich Chelson:
But yes. But no. That yeah. 811, I mean yeah. That was Yeah. It's utilities. Yeah. I know. That was me. You know? Yeah. That was you. When the people called 811, then I'd get the ticket because someone wanted to dig a dig a flower up beside their front steps and put a flower back in that same spot. They called 811. And I'm like, honey, you ain't got nothing here. But but the law says, well, no. You are right. You are right, the law said. Now now did they get charged for that? Or No. No. No. Okay. No. You don't get charged for 811 or, you know, whatever.
[01:35:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:35:52] Rich Chelson:
No. That the, the utility companies pay for that service. Oh,
[01:35:58] Duuude-Ron :
okay.
[01:36:00] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So, no, you don't get charged directly, but yeah. Look. Yeah. Look. Yeah. Look at your utility bill.
[01:36:07] Duuude-Ron :
It's figured in there somehow. You know? Oh, yeah. It comes around to bite you in the ass. And even if I don't use it, I still pay for it. Yeah. Right. Lucky
[01:36:17] Rich Chelson:
lucky you. You don't you don't use it, but you still get charged for it. Right. Right. And that I mean, that's fine because, you you know, you see, that's the thing. I've been there when someone has hit a utility, whether it be electric, gas, phone, fiber, whatever. And I'm gonna tell you what, man. That's
[01:36:38] Bryan Goodwin:
That's expensive.
[01:36:40] Rich Chelson:
It's expensive, and it's actually a really big fucking deal, whatever it is. You know? I mean, it's I mean, it can actually do damage. Oh, yeah. It can kill you too. Well, yeah, there's there is that chance.
[01:36:56] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I've seen saw a picture on I saw a picture on Facebook. Oh, it was probably about a 16 ish drill head. And they brought it up and was just had all kinds of fucking shiny cables, blue, orange, red, green. Shit load, though.
[01:37:21] Rich Chelson:
I ran through a phone line. Probably a probably a 300 pair or a 900 pair.
[01:37:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It it was a hell of a lot of cables. And you know what? Yeah. Because of that, they fucked a lot of people.
[01:37:37] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And and and you see the thing is, though. Okay. Okay. Let's say let's say someone hit a phone line in your town or okay. Now that phone line they hit might not affect anybody in your town. It might affect someone a couple states away. Because I remember when, I was on vacation, and, there was another guy, covering my area. And he had this one ticket, and I had been locating for this ticket for a couple months. And the only thing I had through there was a fiber, a Mediacom fiber. Okay? Okay. This guy had gotten a ticket to repaint it.
He he rolled up. He's like, oh, there's nothing here. And, come to find out, the water company smoked that fiber. And it was a small fiber. It was like a 12 count fiber. It wasn't that big. They felt the power outage in Saint Louis, Missouri.
[01:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
Wow.
[01:38:55] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. So so don't think that your town is is is it only affects your town because no. I mean, most of the time, yes. But you don't know where these lines and where the effect's gonna end up. But, yeah, I found out because because when I got back, I, I heard about this damage, and I come on freaking clued because my area had no damages when when, you know, I was in it. And I go on vacation, and this guy just, you know, blows off that. And and I told this guy, I said, call me. Just because I'm gonna be out of town, I'm gonna have my phone near me. Just call me, and I'll fucking tell you where everything's at because I knew where it was at. And he didn't Yeah. And didn't paint it, and the water company smacked it.
And, yeah, it it knocked shit out in Saint Louis, and that was up in Iowa. Needless to say, Mediacom was not happy. They were not happy that service got dropped. So so, yeah, it is very important to call 811, and it's equally as important for the locators to actually go out and paint the lines if there's lines underground.
[01:40:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, shit. What was it? About two years ago. I don't know who it was, if it was a phone company or what. They hit a gas line.
[01:40:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[01:40:47] Duuude-Ron :
And they had to shut the plant down because of the act the act because of being an oxygen enriched environment. Yeah. You know? If that gas would have caught fire, you know, we only carry, like, about if that if our bulk tank is full, it's probably about 10,000 liters. No. More than that. More than that. And we got a pretty big oxygen tank at our location. Right. Basically, you if you see the tanker trucks going down the road, if our if the tank was completely empty, it would take two of those trucks to fill up our bulk tank.
[01:41:45] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. So,
[01:41:49] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, just think of a gas fire, you know, going over to that great big oxygen bulk tank. Oh, yeah. You talked about a huge explosion.
[01:42:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Would've leveled a quarter mile, probably.
[01:42:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just there's a good chance. It will level a lot of shit.
[01:42:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. Because, I remember I remember when I was locating, I was I was I was covering this guy's area, and a contractor smoked a 10 inch gas main. High pressure.
[01:42:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, there's fun.
[01:42:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Needless to say, yeah, they they shut the street down. The fucking fire department was there. Ambulances were there. No one got hurt. It was just in case. And you you couldn't have a cell phone within a within a hundred feet of that gas line? Oh, no. Yep. I mean, it was it was nasty, man. It was nasty. And you see, the thing is, I mean, that that was bad enough to 10 inch gas main, but there was another eight inch gas main right next to it. It didn't get hit, but still. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So if something would've went wrong there, that really would've fucked shit up hard. Yeah. I mean, that whole street, they because, there's the fairgrounds on one side, which they were empty.
And then, there was houses on the other side. They freaking evacuated all the houses. There was a business. They had they had shut that business down. Oh, yeah. It was it was it was a big o deal.
[01:43:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I K. I believe it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was
[01:43:43] Rich Chelson:
yeah. It's no. I I had seen some stuff, you know, and everything when I located. And that's why that's why, you know, I will call 811. I don't I don't have a problem with that. Yeah. I mean I mean, my yard, I know where all the utilities are because I only have one, and that's a gas line that that crosses the street, you know, where because this house used to be gas. Everything else is up in the air. And Yeah. There's a phone line there's a phone line and a gas main and a ground on the other side of the street. Other than that, that's it. Yeah. So in my yard, I can dig anywhere I want.
So because I know I know where everything's at.
[01:44:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, so do I.
[01:44:36] Rich Chelson:
That was actually the first thing I did just just out of, I don't know, I guess, habit. Curiosity? Yeah. Well, see, thing is, you know, I moved in. I was sitting on the front porch. I'm looking around, and I found where the phone line runs, the gas main ran. I know where the water main runs. I know where the sewer runs, and electric is on the air is on the pole. I'm like, okay. I can dig. I'm safe. I still might call 811 because it is the law, and there might be there, there might be a fiber line or something running through my yard that I don't know about because there's nothing really says they have to mark where anything is.
You know, on on the outside, there's no law. They just do it out of courtesy and to help the locators and to help the the, the utility workers have an idea where things are at in the yard or, you know, running along the street or whatnot. They don't have to put anything if they don't want.
[01:46:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:46:02] Rich Chelson:
So, you know you know, if I ever do dig, I might I might, call 811 just to be safe.
[01:46:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just because. No. I got you.
[01:46:18] Rich Chelson:
Because that would really suck. I would have a really bad day if I tried to dig, and I smoked smoked a fiber line for $75,000. I would never be allowed to leave my house
[01:46:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope.
[01:46:37] Rich Chelson:
For about thirty years trying to pay that bitch off. What's that, dude?
[01:46:50] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:46:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I don't well, you well, you was gonna say something, and and your phone cut out on you.
[01:46:59] Duuude-Ron :
I have no fucking idea.
[01:47:01] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Alright.
[01:47:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just meow.
[01:47:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I do.
[01:47:09] Duuude-Ron :
The cheese done slid off my cracker.
[01:47:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Yeah. My god. That almost that almost sounded like a new window of some sort.
[01:47:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. That was that's awesome. I had never heard that before.
[01:47:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Did you You have never heard the phrase that
[01:47:35] Duuude-Ron :
Never. Your cheese slid off the cracker?
[01:47:38] Rich Chelson:
No.
[01:47:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god.
[01:47:44] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit. I gotta remember that one. In fact, I gotta
[01:47:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're definitely gonna have to remember that one because that is a fucking oldie but goodie.
[01:47:54] Rich Chelson:
No. Oh my god. I yeah. I had never oh, shit.
[01:48:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it definitely does prove one thing. You've been living up underneath a rock for quite some time.
[01:48:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, shit. Yeah. I don't know about y'all, but I got a feeling that's that's the title.
[01:48:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Slippery cheese?
[01:48:27] Duuude-Ron :
Cheese slid off my cracker. Yeah. Yeah. You could you could definitely and just think of what the fucking, what the art is gonna look like. Damn.
[01:48:41] Rich Chelson:
Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a have to know on that one. But Yeah. Most definitely. Awesome, man. I had never I had never heard that. Oh, shit fire. Wow. That's crazy. So, Bryan
[01:49:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. That's me.
[01:49:07] Rich Chelson:
Do you have any, sayings that I probably have never heard?
[01:49:15] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But whenever I was talking to Bob Gardner, I I got him got him to laugh laugh pretty good bit because we were talking about something that just suck that was just the whole experience was was horrible. I just made that the comment of man, and it just sucked donkey dicks. And he thought that was just the funniest damn thing he'd heard in the wild.
[01:49:36] Rich Chelson:
Really? Yeah. How'd that go, by the way? Oh, well well. Well, well, well,
[01:49:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, I ended up talking for about an hour and a half. So Well, that's cool. Yeah. I mean So Not cool. To find out, sadly, though, his his last, his last three that he's doing is gonna be on the '20 or not twenty seventh, in July. And so I'm like going, damn it, man. I've gotta figure out how to come up with about five grand for you, $5 for Ron, five grand for Jana, five grand for, a friend of hers. Everybody I wanted to go try try out his stuff. I yeah. Like, damn it. Actually, for you too, it'll be I still got a chance. I he did say he was willing to come, come out for, for and do, do retreats for, for for special occasions. So
[01:50:33] Rich Chelson:
At what? $5 a pop?
[01:50:36] Bryan Goodwin:
It might be but it would have to be able to pay up decently. I mean, make it worth its while.
[01:50:42] Rich Chelson:
So Hundred bucks.
[01:50:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Hundred bucks. Hundred bucks. So
[01:50:50] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. Hundred bucks. Remember? I'm cheap.
[01:50:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's why I was said I was trying to find a figure out a way of coming up with $5 for you and Ron and Jana and Sherry and and we all y'all Yeah. I know. Right. Yeah. All you Yeah. All you folks were running around saying you're in pain of some sorts or another, and we can get you fixed.
[01:51:13] Rich Chelson:
See. You know, if if even if I could get a slight reduction of my pain level, that would be nice. I'd be I'd be happy with a slight reduction.
[01:51:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I think he could do it. I think he could help you, change how you see and experience your pain and change be be able to change the state of how you view view and experience the pain
[01:51:46] Rich Chelson:
for sure. I mean, I got days where I can manage my pain. I mean, I'm I'm not, you know, I'm not, you know, crying in my milk or anything Right. On Sundays. But yeah. Yeah. Other days, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't matter what I do. It's like, yeah, my body is just hating on me. And it's like, okay. Well, I know what good day this is gonna be.
[01:52:14] Duuude-Ron :
Because you kinda old.
[01:52:17] Rich Chelson:
You older than me, dude.
[01:52:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But, see, I'm damn good looking.
[01:52:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay. I'll I'll let you have your nightmare, man.
[01:52:32] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's gotta be somebody's nightmare.
[01:52:38] Rich Chelson:
Oh, dude. But
[01:52:41] Duuude-Ron :
Just like living the dream. It ain't my fucking dream.
[01:52:45] Bryan Goodwin:
But you're living it.
[01:52:47] Duuude-Ron :
But I'm living it. Living a dream, living a nightmare. Well, you know, get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up, rinse and repeat Yep. All because the mill bill man cometh. Just shooting. It's all good. Yeah. I know. I would love to fucking shoot them, you know, motherfuckers. But, you know, Jeep parts are expensive as well.
[01:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, yes. This is true.
[01:53:24] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Just think. If you took that Jeep if you took your Jeep say, Rich, if you move to, say, Thailand Right. Imagine what the cost of the Jeep parts would be then.
[01:53:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But see, cost of living so cheap that he'd be able to afford it. Right.
[01:53:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that's true too. I mean I remember I remember I had to do some work on the, Eagle Vision that I had when I was over in Germany. Fucking the cart the cost of parts was more than double of what they were in The United States.
[01:54:09] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Because they put the parts on the boat, dude.
[01:54:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[01:54:14] Rich Chelson:
And and Germany, they they ain't got cars like we got. So
[01:54:23] Duuude-Ron :
No. Well, shit. I don't fucking remember what all they had as far as vehicles. I didn't get out a whole hell of a lot.
[01:54:39] Rich Chelson:
Well, why not, dude? He was living over there.
[01:54:43] Duuude-Ron :
I know. That's when Heidi got injured.
[01:54:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[01:54:49] Duuude-Ron :
So that's what cut my stay shit. I was only over there for a three year tour. I was only over there for four fourteen months. Okay. Because we came because we came back on a compassionate reassignment for medical reasons.
[01:55:07] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:55:09] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, unfortunately, I didn't get to see as much of the country as I wanted to.
[01:55:15] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know, you can go back. Get your passport, dude.
[01:55:20] Duuude-Ron :
You're right. I can go back. Get your passport.
[01:55:23] Rich Chelson:
You can go back.
[01:55:25] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Yep. You're right.
[01:55:27] Rich Chelson:
You know? You can go yeah. Lot of different places.
[01:55:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. If I went back to Germany, I'd do one of those river cruises.
[01:55:40] Rich Chelson:
River cruises.
[01:55:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Viking. Yeah. Viking has, like Yeah. Yeah. I've been seeing big cruise ship. Yeah. They have a a lot of smaller ones that they take up the rivers.
[01:55:53] Rich Chelson:
No. They I've been seeing commercials. They, they, Viking has the long ship. You know? They I mean and it's built for the river, but it's, like, I don't know, thousand feet long. I mean, I don't think it's that long, but it's long. And I'm like, oh, I I would love to ride one of those.
[01:56:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
[01:56:16] Bryan Goodwin:
That one. Real cool about those boats is that, whenever they would be a lot of times, they would take those boats upriver and stuff. And when they ran out of river, you know what they did? What? They picked it up and walked with it until they found another river to put it into. That's exactly what they did.
[01:56:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you mean the old Vikings?
[01:56:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. The old Vikings. The ones with bad backs. Right.
[01:56:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shoot. Yeah. That that I never knew. But, yeah, no. Viking Cruises has I I had seen I had seen some of the commercials. They had had Yeah. They have these these long boats. There looks like a long houseboat, and they take, like, five, six, seven, eight, ten, twelve day trips up a river. Yep. Yep. You know? And it's like, oh, that would be so cool.
[01:57:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. That would be that would be fun.
[01:57:26] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I would I would I would like to do a cruise, I think, but I don't know. You see? Because because I want to go to Belize. Okay? And just for fun, I looked up price of a plane ticket from here in Mississippi to Belize. Right? The cheapest one I could find was, like, $548.
[01:57:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That's not bad.
[01:57:57] Rich Chelson:
Not bad. It's a thousand miles from here. Well, I don't know. I I mean, I would have to look, but, yeah, it's like a 1,500
[01:58:04] Bryan Goodwin:
miles. Yeah. Fly from Dallas to, or fly from Amarillo to Dallas is is, like, $250.
[01:58:13] Rich Chelson:
So Oh, dang. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I was thinking, okay. Well, I wanna take well, you know, I wanna take the most most direct route, and I don't like flying anyway because I don't wanna go through one of them naked scanners. You know? That's just no. I'm sorry. I don't want
[01:58:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, come on. I know you're bashful and stuff, but, you know, you'd have women fawning all over you after they saw that saw that hog leg between your legs.
[01:58:46] Rich Chelson:
All this sexiness?
[01:58:47] Bryan Goodwin:
All that sexiness.
[01:58:48] Rich Chelson:
But but but you see, I was I, I looked in into cruise, you know, and, everything, and shoot. They were, like, $1,200. And I'm like and that was, like, from leaving where was that leaving from? Mobile or or, or in New Orleans? I think it was New Orleans going down to, one other port then to Belize then back to New Orleans. So it it it was a short run, and it was, like, $1,200. And and god forbid, I changed the amount of people in the room from two to one. Oh, fuck no. That was just you know? When it was, you know, thinking, you know, two people per room, yeah, I could get it for, like, $6.40.
I'm just like, good god, people. I just wanna ride a boat from here to Belize, hang out for a week or so, and then ride a boat back. That's it. I don't need much. Why do people wanna charge me an asshole to money?
[02:00:03] Duuude-Ron :
Because I can.
[02:00:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, true.
[02:00:08] Duuude-Ron :
Just just like the fucking income tax, because they can. Just like all the other shit, because they can. Because we we, the people, don't really fucking yeah. There you go. Yeah. You're right. But We, the people, don't have as much to say about it.
[02:00:29] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, I, yeah, I kinda I kinda looked into it, and I'm like, man, that's just rude. It's it's gonna take me a while to save that money up. I mean, I can get it. You know? I can do it eventually, but, you know, it's just like I can't just go down to the pier and hop a boat and go, which would be really freaking cool if I could.
[02:00:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:00:54] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that would be like the freaking bomb. I asked someone. Hey. Hey. What'd you charge me to to, run me to, please? 400? Sold. You know? Because, I mean, shit. If they're going that way anyway, why not? But I don't know. We'll see. See, these these things roll around in my head all the time like this. And this is, like, rude. This is wrong, man.
[02:01:46] Duuude-Ron :
And they're bouncing off all those marbles. Right? Yep.
[02:01:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. They all yeah.
[02:01:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Just wanna make sure.
[02:01:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, all all one marble, I think. I I I think I have one marble left. I I I'm not a % sure, though. And don't sell yourselves don't sell yourself short. You only have two. You sure?
[02:02:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, I don't have that.
[02:02:13] Duuude-Ron :
No. I couldn't stay that for sure either.
[02:02:16] Rich Chelson:
It's been ground down a little bit. Oh, so
[02:02:21] Duuude-Ron :
One and a couple broken ones? I don't know.
[02:02:26] Bryan Goodwin:
So Yeah. It's it's 09:00, Ron. What's your tip of the day?
[02:02:32] Duuude-Ron :
Holy
[02:02:34] Rich Chelson:
shit. Yeah. Well a tip? Okay.
[02:02:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I mean, yeah. You can drill holes and shit if you wanna
[02:02:40] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that's cool too. Disgusting personally, but Okay. Here's the tip of the day. Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you. What do you what do you think?
[02:02:57] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't think that's a yeah. Okay.
[02:03:00] Rich Chelson:
I like that
[02:03:03] Bryan Goodwin:
one. So I do. I've got a tip for you, though, that I came across.
[02:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
A Q tip?
[02:03:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's it's an interesting one.
[02:03:13] Duuude-Ron :
It's a website
[02:03:15] Bryan Goodwin:
called TV.garden.
[02:03:20] Rich Chelson:
It's called what? TV.garden.
[02:03:25] Bryan Goodwin:
TV? Like, television. TV.
[02:03:30] Rich Chelson:
Tango Victor. Okay. Thank you. I can understand that. I know that I'm weird. Garden.Dotgarden.
[02:03:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:03:40] Rich Chelson:
That sounds scary.
[02:03:44] Bryan Goodwin:
It is. And I I think it's actually pirate television. So how long this actually lasts, I don't know. But you can go and look up and watch television from anywhere.
[02:04:06] Rich Chelson:
I'm seeing this. Yeah. I wrote yeah. I mean I mean, you know, when you said it and I I I'm sitting here thinking, is this a porn site? Because, I mean, that would actually be I'm I'm actually kinda shocked that someone hasn't thought of that yet. But oh, okay. Yeah. Because, like, if you click on Australia, they got different Australian TV stations.
[02:04:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Okay. And they've got a whole bunch of different, different ones, you know, different categories and stuff. So, you know, I got BBC, and there's a bunch of bunch of of odd, like, Arabic ones that are just kinda kinda throw me. So but, like, she got Afghan Noble TV and Afghan move Nobled movies, which I don't know what the hell they actually are other than Afghan movies. Afghan movies. So it's kind of the just a really weird, bizarre out of you know?
[02:05:11] Rich Chelson:
What? Something like Bollywood?
[02:05:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, except it's Afghani wood. So
[02:05:17] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know, you you know, it's funny. We're talking about Blaze. Blaze has, actually, it looks like about seven or eight, maybe nine channels. Yeah. They have, well, they have lifetime, MTV history, bravo, b e t, x n. So, apparently, they have TV like we do.
[02:05:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Let's see what the Democratic Republic Of Congo has. Meta, Metanonia TV. What do we got here?
[02:05:53] Rich Chelson:
Looks like it's in French.
[02:05:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I haven't heard anybody say anything yet.
[02:06:01] Rich Chelson:
Looks like a movie on. Yeah. I got a movie.
[02:06:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Can't understand them. I can't understand the word he's saying. They need to be speaking English. Why are they gonna speak other come on, man. American. Give us their give us English. Oh, I wonder what Madagascar's got. I wonder if they got a bunch of no channels available in Madagascar. Well, that's just rude. Oh, for looking. France, I bet you got a bunch of naked women around in this one.
[02:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Probably.
[02:06:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Fashion TV, Spain. Kate Moscio's timeless hair. Interested. Oh, okay. Anyhow. Back off. Back off. Hey. I don't wanna hear a ding. Oh, Russia. Someone I bet you they have a show of the most craziest, craziest car crashes.
[02:06:55] Rich Chelson:
Craziest Russian?
[02:06:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, hell. Crazy Russian? If there's anything I like to watch about Russia, it's the damn car crashes. Mhmm. Because, I mean, those people can all freaking drive to save their damn life. And most times, I'm wondering how they keep I think they're just so drunk that they that they're limp whenever they've crashed, so they that's how they survive.
[02:07:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well yeah. Because I've I've watched, YouTube videos Oh, yeah. Of of car crashes and and, like, over in Russia and shit like that. And it's like Mhmm. Those guys make
[02:07:31] Bryan Goodwin:
every American drive like a saint, man. Oh, hell yeah. Of course, it's so funny because I think it's the same guy because he's he's it sounds the same, and he always says the same thing. But it's gotta be driving along and then kind of a slow speed crunch into another car. It sounds like you know, like, that means anything to me. I don't know what the fuck he just says, but it still it's like, you just hear the, well, son of a bitch. I get a fourth time today.
[02:08:03] Rich Chelson:
Right. But yeah. No. That's yeah. Watching watching the Russian drivers and stuff like that, it it's just like, oh my god. It's like, damn.
[02:08:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I'm not I'm not dry and and I'd be afraid to ride in a car with the Oh, I wouldn't be able to go to Russia just for the sheer fact that they can't drive.
[02:08:27] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I'd take a train probably and still be scared.
[02:08:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, hell yeah. Thinking somebody's gonna come along and run into the car. So Right. The car is like, no. Okay.
[02:08:41] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. No. It Tv.garden.
[02:08:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Just kind of a cool cool site that, that popped on my radar.
[02:08:57] Rich Chelson:
Where did you hear about this?
[02:08:59] Bryan Goodwin:
NOAA Agenda Show.
[02:09:00] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:09:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Because apparently, over when you get over on Canada, there was let's see. I think it's Afghan Noble TV. I don't know what they were what they were seeing on there at that time, but they were, like, going, holy crow. That's a that's a that that channel got hacked. And I'm, like, gonna look around on it. And, of course, I'm listening to it. You know, I think it was, like, two, three days after because it was the third I think it was a Thursday show Right. That, that that they talked about it, and it was, and I listened I I watched the or listened to the shows on on
[02:09:52] Rich Chelson:
Monday and Tuesday. Okay. And so
[02:09:55] Bryan Goodwin:
it was, so by the time they got around to, I got around to watching, I guess they probably just got it all fixed. But
[02:10:05] Rich Chelson:
or or well, yeah. Yeah. If they got hacked, but that's the thing. You know? Shows in, in, other countries are not censored for the most part. Nope.
[02:10:20] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. They are.
[02:10:22] Bryan Goodwin:
So And like France yeah. Like I said, there's plenty of times you'll turn over to Fran turn over to the France channel, and there's movies. It's like, hey.
[02:10:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[02:10:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Women walking around with their doctors hanging out for just, you know,
[02:10:35] Rich Chelson:
for the sake of having boobies hanging out. I watched a French movie, I don't know, couple years ago. I wasn't expecting it. Oh, yeah. It wasn't just boobies. It was full. I mean, girls It was everything. Yeah. Yeah. They and they're just walking around. I'm like, okay. Alright. I wasn't expecting that. But Oh, I mean, when you go to the French Riviera, you can sit there and
[02:10:58] Bryan Goodwin:
every everybody's everybody's knocking. So
[02:11:02] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, that's I mean, you see, that's the thing, though. You know? Other parts of the world, they don't they don't have the hang ups like we have.
[02:11:14] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But at the same time, I mean, I really don't you know, looking at boobs is okay. But, you know, if my wife's walking right next to me, it makes it really tough just to look at the boobs. So, you know, I don't want them I don't wanna see them unless it's at very specific times.
[02:11:31] Rich Chelson:
Dude, sunglasses. Sunglasses
[02:11:34] Bryan Goodwin:
are your friend. Sunglasses? I can't do that.
[02:11:37] Rich Chelson:
Yes. You can. You get the flip up kind. The flip up kind. Just don't make any facial expressions. Okay. Or say, honey, look at that. Look at that.
[02:11:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Just walk along. What?
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
Nothing nothing nothing nothing. That was internal dialogue, external dialogue. You see, there's a trick. You have to wear sunglasses, and you can't make any type of expression at all. You you you love with your eyes. Don't ask me how I know that. I mean, that's that's that's old advice. That's sage advice. But no. That's I I don't know. I might I might I might have to look at that just just to see what different shows are on. You know?
[02:12:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:52] Rich Chelson:
Because I I mean I mean, some, I would probably laugh at, yeah, just because some of the shows are so so antiquated.
[02:13:05] Duuude-Ron :
Antiquated. Let's see. It's 09:12, nine thirteen PM. That's a pretty big word for this time of night.
[02:13:17] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Yeah, I didn't even think about it till you started saying something. It just rolled off my tongue.
[02:13:28] Duuude-Ron :
I don't even know what the hell you're referencing it about. I I already forgot.
[02:13:34] Rich Chelson:
TV shows in other countries.
[02:13:36] Duuude-Ron :
Ah, okay. Yep. Yep. Gotcha.
[02:13:39] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean I mean and and, like, and, like, a like, if you watch Korean movies, I mean, they've gotten better. But the old Korean movies, the old Japanese movies
[02:13:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, k dramas are pretty cool to watch. Yeah. Some of them are. Some of them. Yeah. Well, yeah.
[02:13:55] Rich Chelson:
You know? But but, yeah, but but, you know, years ago, it was oh my god. The the acting, the, the cinematography, and and and everything about him was, like, you know, back in the stone ages. And it it was just they were funny, honestly, if you ask me. Right. I'm I'm like I'm like, oh my god. How how can you know? But but these people are used to it. You know? This is what they have to watch and and everything. And I'm just like, wow. Okay. We've we actually do a whole lot better. You know? I mean, I would think I would think the rest of the world has has come up a little bit. I don't know because I don't watch much worldly TV. If if I had one of them 500 foot satellites, you know, on the C band, you know, I could maybe get the stations for free.
Yeah.
[02:14:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Remember them old satellites that Oh, yeah. The the big old monster dishes?
[02:15:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That fucking took up your backyard.
[02:15:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. But there may change you gotta do you have to change satellites when you change channels? You'd see the screen go out of out of out of frequency, and it would come in. And there would be the porno channel, and then it'd fade back out in the air coming up.
[02:15:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And and this was all in in yeah, this was all in other countries and shit that Oh, yeah. This it was all analog too. There was there was no well, it was digital. Now it was analog. Yeah. It's analog. Yeah. It was all analog. Because, the, the, Fidelity was not Not there. Not there at all. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Four eighty p, maybe. You know? Fact, I don't honestly, can you still find an old
[02:16:03] Bryan Goodwin:
old satellite dish outside? Those old big satellite dishes? Probably not.
[02:16:08] Rich Chelson:
I mean, last time last time I heard of someone trying to get rid of one was oh, fuck. It was probably fifteen, twenty years ago. It was a whole setup too. Satellite dish, the wires, the controller box, everything. And I think I think he was trying to give it away. I don't know if he ever did, but I think he was trying to give it away. So but, yeah, that was, yeah, that was, like, freaking a long time ago. I haven't heard of them since.
[02:16:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I've seen one. I mean, I've seen some broken down ones still sitting in some old, backyard. But yeah.
[02:16:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yep. Yeah. You don't see the big ones anymore. Yeah. They still use, like, the 18 inch dish, like, dish network, and what's the other one?
[02:17:10] Rich Chelson:
Oh, hell. DIRECTV.
[02:17:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. DIRECTV. Yo. That's all they make now, but those freaking huge dishes, I you know, my routes take me by it. I think there's, like, three houses that I go by that still have the big dishes, but they're probably only there because they can't get rid of them. Right. Yeah. And they're pretty fucking heavy too. I'm sure.
[02:17:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I would think so because those are actually metal. It's it's not it's not that flimsy shit.
[02:17:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:17:55] Rich Chelson:
You know?
[02:17:57] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. Well, shit. I still got a fucking I got two dishes on my fucking roof.
[02:18:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[02:18:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do.
[02:18:07] Rich Chelson:
Well, do you know, DIRECTV now? Their their service, you can stream through the Internet. You don't even need this. So so Yep. So so, basically, you can pay DIRECTV a hundred and $50 a month to watch the same shit, and and you you could actually get one or two streaming services and get the same shit. Pretty much. Mean? Yep. Pretty much. And and the thing is is, DISH Network still in play? Because I haven't seen no commercials for DISH Network. I've only seen them for DIRECTV.
[02:18:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I don't even know if DISH Network is in play anymore. Couldn't answer that one.
[02:19:06] Rich Chelson:
Sure. Yeah. Because you would think what?
[02:19:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, go ahead go ahead with your deal. I'll jump in with this here in a sec.
[02:19:17] Rich Chelson:
I was just I was just gonna say that that, you know, if you saw it. And the thing is, I don't see many commercials for DIRECTV. I have seen a couple within the last year. But, normally, if you saw with DIRECTV, you'd see with DISH Network. And I I got a feeling DISH DISH Network is no longer. Someone probably, bought them up and just shut them down.
[02:19:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Right here.
[02:19:46] Rich Chelson:
So
[02:19:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Helps you spell it correctly. What you trying to spell, dude? DISH Network. Yeah. No. DISH.com is still there. Really? Yep.
[02:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Alright.
[02:20:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, yeah, the thing I was wowing about is over on, over on the Daily Mail, there is a Colorado city that is set to seize residents' pets, pet cats and dogs.
[02:20:22] Rich Chelson:
What is a that liberal state trying to do in what town?
[02:20:28] Bryan Goodwin:
See here. I'm looking at North, Colorado City is plan plans to seize residents, pets, pet cats and dogs as a bid to limit the number of animals allowed in households. On August 1, pet owners in Northglenn is the name of the town, which is about forty minutes outside of Denver, will not be allowed to have more than four cats and dogs or combination of the two totaling more, no more than four. Wow. So we would end up having something confiscated from our house because we got three cats, two dogs.
[02:21:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:21:04] Bryan Goodwin:
The new pet ordinance was recently approved by the city council at the request of the residents. And after extensive research and discussion, the city said, which is basically, one of the, one of I'm sure one of the, city council members was like, I don't like how many cats my neighbor neighbor Susie has, and so we're gonna fix that.
[02:21:29] Rich Chelson:
But but hold it. What okay. What's the big deal if they're inside? Because, basically, everyone keeps the their pets inside now. So, I mean, I mean, how are they gonna enforce this? Are they gonna come to your house, come into your domicile?
[02:21:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's what confiscate means.
[02:21:48] Rich Chelson:
No. You see, that's that is that is against the constitution. That's against the law. That's that's against everything.
[02:22:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's what that's how you wanna look at it. They look at it as no. We wanna make sure. This is what their their the new pet ordinance was recently approved by the city council at the request of the residents. And after extensive research and discussion, the city said the restriction was introduced after concerned residents, Otherwise, nosy fucking neighbors complained above excess noise and waste caused by a number of pets in some neighborhoods. So it's, you know, sister Susie, or Susie has had six has three dogs, and she's got four cats.
And it's just the dogs poo everywhere outside, and it's terrible. So, yeah, sister Susie, you know, and and, her her sister, Bertha, better than you, has decided that she needs to make sure that everybody is in within her amount of it should be okay. So excessive noise, to me, dogs barking. Well, build a bridge, dogs bark. So any resident who currently owns, more pets than allowed can apply for a previously owned pet exemption before the ordinance comes into effect. So you probably have to pay about $300 per animal that you're going over the amount. So I'm sure there it's a money making scheme right there. Any rest of us who currently own more than pets, or see, if the applications are filled out before that date, Northland citizens will be allowed to keep their existing, quote, unquote, existing pets.
Residents have, to specify their pet's name, age, sex, breed, date they were bought, brought to the home in the application. So, yeah, you know, old Benny from you know, you got him ten years ago, so make sure you get all that information. Remember that all that information correctly. If locals do not disclose this information and have more than the allowed number of pets in their home, the city will take enforcement action, which includes a potential court order requiring the pet to be removed.
[02:24:07] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[02:24:08] Bryan Goodwin:
This kicks in August 1.
[02:24:11] Rich Chelson:
So everyone, Northglenn, Colorado, don't go there for nothing. There ain't nothing really for Northglenn anyway. I've not have been to Northglenn. So I have. I I I mean I I mean, as soon as you said Northglenn, I knew I knew it was it was right around the Denver Metro Area. And, yeah, I've been up through there. And it just you see, that's why that's why, you know, when you say something about Colorado doing that, you know, it's like it's it's like what liberal town now? Because, I mean, I had read articles in the newspapers up there years ago that that they were giving fines to people and arresting people for catching the rainwater
[02:25:00] Bryan Goodwin:
to water their gardens with. Oh, there's a lot of people that do
[02:25:05] Duuude-Ron :
that. That's and that is total bullshit.
[02:25:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, it is. It is. Because well, one, in this, I know because I read the article. Colorado thinks the air above the state of Colorado is owned by the state of Colorado.
[02:25:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:25:24] Rich Chelson:
And I'm like, yeah. And yeah. I screwed up years and years ago and lived there for three years, but I got the fuck out. I've drove through, but I won't stay just because that's bullshit.
[02:25:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And I'm if I ever go to Colorado, it would just be to visit.
[02:25:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. They've got they've got more stupid laws than than anything.
[02:25:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. So but, I mean, that Colorado is the place where, I don't I can't remember what her actual name is, but, she goes by the moniker or screen name of Wicked Witch of the West. And back in February, she ended up moving from California to Colorado. And while she was there, she found a house that, that her and her husband liked. And it had a creek running through it and all that, and she thought it was just the best darn thing. And so she got it, and it was in wintertime, so she didn't realize what what was actually going on or what the what the habits of the folks were. But when the sea had gone through and it started setting up her, her her, her her lawn furniture out there by the, by the the creek that ran through her property and all that. And then when it got warm and people started showing up, people were coming into her yard.
Oh, yeah. I remember seeing that. Out and and or not camping out, but kids were playing and splashing in the water, going across the creek, walking around to picking up her stuff. Some pea folks would go across the creek and go and sit on her lawn furniture. Oh, wow. And Yeah. I remember that. She started throw kind of, you know, going, hey. This is private property, folks, and they really started to throw a fit. Now a lot of pit folks understood, but there was a group of folks who were very incensed about the fact that they couldn't walk on that little patch property.
Now the there's a park that's right next to it to her property. And all that area, they could actually go over and they could get do there, but they're used to this little patch that they used to call the beach. Yeah. And the and she noticed after the after everything happened, she realized why the the land was and the grass was so beat away from that area. That's because there were so many people that would come and hang out in that area. Okay. And, the city the actual city was trying to sue her into making, into making her, give up the property, and she was, like, going she was fighting back. She was going fighting tooth and nail. And and, I mean, she it was a good two, three years, and, you know, you had the the again, the the sister Bertha better than yous. They start up a little Facebook group and wanting to try to come up with ways on how they could get her to, you know, make her, leave the area or give up her property or whatever.
And it was just this big ordeal big thing, and then again, it was Colorado that, that was, that was doing this. And, yeah, yeah, Colorado. God. They're just just a big pain in the freaking ass. Pretty area, but damn, there's a lot of stupid stupid liberals in that area.
[02:29:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. No. There is. And and that's the thing. Colorado thinks that that if if they wanna go somewhere and they don't care where it is, they're allowed to go. You know? And and the thing is the the city governments, county governments roll over and, you know, let them do it. And it's just it's wrong. You know? Because, I mean, even though even though that woman was from California, that didn't mean nothing. It's the fact that that was her property. Yep. And she had every right to say no.
[02:29:48] Bryan Goodwin:
And then But they were not accepting the fact that they she was they were being told no. You can't walk here. And, I mean, they were trying to say she was she was threatening the kids that would walk on her property, and she would try roping it off. And people come along and cut the rope and and everything else. And, I mean, it was just this insane crazy just I would've I mean, people would have been afraid if I was there because I would eventually have just started doing potshots with with soft air pistol.
[02:30:20] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, no. You shit, dude. You'd have been thrown in fucking jail in the Supermax. That's just outside of Denver.
[02:30:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, well, that's it. I would I I would be camouflaged, and I'd be moving around. I I wouldn't let them see you.
[02:30:37] Rich Chelson:
No. I hey. You can hire security and and charge a mission and charge it, like, you know, $50 a head. And you know?
[02:30:49] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you you could also have, you know, a shitload of trip wires attached to
[02:30:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:30:57] Duuude-Ron :
The The the the shotgun shells. Blanks. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
[02:31:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. You you would get sued for so many therapist bills. It'd be unreal, man. I know. It'd be awesome, wouldn't it? Oh, it would. I mean, yeah. I'm not saying it wouldn't. But or or you could get those high pitched whistles that are rigged on a tripwire. I Oh my god. Oh, yeah. You would have yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'd be in court for years. And some stupid ass judge would stand on the side with the people. It's like, you have to let them on your property. No. I don't. They ain't paying for my house.
[02:31:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's what they were trying to say. It's like, well, we had agreement beforehand. It's like, well, no. It wasn't disclosed to me. So she actually even also turned around and sued the previous owners for lack of disclosure.
[02:31:51] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:31:52] Bryan Goodwin:
So, I mean, yeah, she's you don't fuck with her with, with that lady. I forget what her name is. But
[02:31:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. I I had never I had never heard I had never heard about that. But I believe it just because it's Colorado. And trust me, I've heard of enough stupid shit that they've done just causing people to bend to their will. Yeah. And it's like, no. And that's why that that's why I was like, no. I'll never live there. And if you live there, you're stupid. I mean, yes. It's beautiful. I agree with you. It's a gorgeous state. Oh my god. It's beautiful. But
[02:32:42] Bryan Goodwin:
mhmm.
[02:32:46] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, that just
[02:32:54] Bryan Goodwin:
But, yeah, I mean, it's and that's just it. I mean, a lot of people I don't know why people have decided, oh, I'm not going to accept private property anymore. Of course, at the same time, I think it would, if anybody I come across anybody who wants to throw a fit about private property. Okay. Fine. I'm gonna just come over to your house, and I'm just gonna come in, and I'm gonna do what I want inside your house whenever I want because, you know, no such thing as private property. Right?
[02:33:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:33:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, if it doesn't benefit them, they don't wanna they don't wanna, don't wanna care about it. You know?
[02:33:37] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. No. No. And you see, that's the thing. It's it's you know, it's like, you know you know, people like that, you know, charge them. Yeah. You know, if they walk in your house, it's $500. And then, oh, I well, I ain't got $500. Okay. Where do you live? What's your name? What's your address? All that. Put a lien against their property. Yep. So they can never sell it until they pay you and then add interest. You know? I mean, I you see, that's the thing, though. Most people won't fight. They'll just they'll just roll over. No. Fuck it. We'll move. Why?
You wanted to live there, so live there. You know? Yeah. You have to fight, but I'm so tired. No. Well, then shut up about it. Yeah. It just it it it just I don't get it. You know what I mean?
[02:34:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. I don't get it either.
[02:34:44] Rich Chelson:
Because yeah. Let let someone come on my property and say, hey. I'm a live in your backyard. I said, the fuck if you are.
[02:34:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you can try, but get ready. I noticed somebody's in my backyard. It's not supposed to be there. They're gonna have a something's gonna be aerated.
[02:35:02] Rich Chelson:
Right. I'd be like, well, here. Hold on. Let me let me let you talk to my buddy, twenty gauge. And if you two can come to an agreement, I'll be okay with it.
[02:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Let me let you have a conversation with with two guys, Smith and Wesson. Right.
[02:35:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Mister Moth and Berg.
[02:35:30] Rich Chelson:
Now you see, though you see, that's why you know, I I mean yeah. I know I know. There's there's actually a lot of places because, like, up in Seattle and Portland and all that, they've got those problems up there too. Oh, yeah. But, but, like like, down here, oh, no. Everybody, pretty much I mean, I'm not saying we're totally innocent, but everybody pretty much respects everybody else's stuff. You know? Somewhat I mean, yeah, they don't I mean, my lawnmower sits outside. I got shit sitting outside. No one takes a shit. You know? Right. You know, no one comes up on my porch and steals my cigarettes.
You know? In fact in fact, people walk by and believe me, there's there's freaking homeless people walking up from the beach, walking up my street, you know, in the middle of the night. They just walk. They don't they don't try anything. So, you know, down here, I don't know. I just I just I just kinda noticed that people just kinda leave you alone
[02:36:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:36:48] Rich Chelson:
Which is good. I like it. You know? Makes it kinda nice. But, yeah, that's why I I won't I won't live in Colorado
[02:37:01] Duuude-Ron :
ever again. Why not?
[02:37:05] Rich Chelson:
Like I said, it's oh, man. It's beautiful up there.
[02:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah.
[02:37:12] Rich Chelson:
You know, especially in the fall, just starting winter when the snow was getting on top of the mountains. Oh my god. It was gorgeous. But yeah. No. Trying to tell me that, you know, I can't freaking collect rainwater or, you know, I can't fart outside or well, like, say, was it is it Golden or Boulder? One of them towns up there for a while, they passed a law to where you you could not smoke within the city limits.
[02:37:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. I mean, I would I'm serious.
[02:37:56] Rich Chelson:
Inside, outside, it didn't matter. You could not smoke outside in the city limits of I wanna say it was Golden. Golden, Colorado. But that was a long time ago, and it's probably still enforced. I wouldn't doubt it. And I'm like, yeah. Never gonna go there. You know?
[02:38:23] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And if they got the law enforcement to be able to enforce all that, yeah, more power to you.
[02:38:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, they don't. But but you see, that's the thing. That's where they don't need a large law enforcement. They just need, the homeowners or the people that live in town to rat you out. See, that's the thing. You know? People think, oh, we need we need law enforcement. You know? We need 5,000 police officers. No. You don't. You just do like, well, like Hitler did in World War two. You get the German people or you get people to rat out who is hiding the the Jews. Yeah. You know, basically make it if you don't tell us someone's doing wrong, you're getting punished, you know, besides them.
[02:39:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. They had family members. Yeah. Ratten out family members.
[02:39:35] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Right? Oh, yeah. And and you see, that's the thing. Some of these states, you know, or these towns, these large towns well, I mean, hell, for years, it was, what, the mid nineties, I wanna say, when I was driving, or the big slogan was see something, say something. The federal government wanted you to rat on people doing things wrong, and it didn't matter what it was. Now, yes, violent crimes say something about it. Okay? I'm I'm not saying, you know, to keep your mouth shut on that, but, you know Yeah. You know, someone's smoking a doobie, just fucking let them go.
[02:40:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Knock knock yourself out.
[02:40:22] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:40:23] Duuude-Ron :
Smoke too if you want.
[02:40:25] Rich Chelson:
Right? No. No. They was they they was wanting they was wanting us to tell on our fellow citizens.
[02:40:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:40:42] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. Yeah. It just I don't know, man. There's a lot of shit that's happened and still happening, apparently, because Colorado wants to make sure where what? North Glen. Only four animals. I'd be like, no. I'd have told that woman to go get fucked.
[02:41:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:41:07] Rich Chelson:
Seriously. And, I mean, you see and and and you see, that's where that's where the, the, the city government just rolls over. You know what I mean? They just freaking roll over. Well, it's brought to our attention. We need to do some no. You don't. You don't have to do it. I can promise you. I don't know. I just it just pisses me off that people are are shit. I don't I don't think New York's that bad. I mean, they're bad, but I don't think they're that bad. I could be wrong, though.
[02:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
I wouldn't have. Well, I couldn't I couldn't tell you. Never been to New York.
[02:42:12] Rich Chelson:
You ought to go just once, man. It's it's a culture shock. I'm gonna tell you that right now. It's a culture shock, but it is actually kinda cool.
[02:42:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to go to the tourist spots, you know, Times Square and you know?
[02:42:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. Go to South Manhattan, dude. Get off the beaten path. Go to South Manhattan, man, about 03:00 in the morning.
[02:42:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Don't There you go.
[02:42:50] Rich Chelson:
You don't know what you're gonna see, but by golly, you're gonna get an. I still remember that. That was oh, fuck. What was that? 34 years ago? South Manhattan. We had to go down. Well, I wanna say it was a female, but I wasn't a % sure. All I know is we had gone past Times Square going down, and we had to go down to where, and make a right hand turn and then come back up so, so we could get to where we were unloading. And as we were turning, I was driving team, and I was driving with this guy. And I'm I'm barely awake looking at all this, and there was a bunch of people on the sidewalk just standing there. And all of a sudden, I heard, hey.
And I just happened to look over, and whatever this was flipped their coat open until the biggest pair of titties I had seen in my youth, okay, was just bouncing out there. And I'm trying to register what I'm seeing. The guy driving was like, Tads. Look. Tads. I'm like, just fucking drive, dude. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. I mean, he was flipping out. Right? He was like, oh my god. You know? Like, it's like he like he almost wanted to stop the truck and go run and play with them titties. Oh, yeah. I'm just like, no. Just drive. Well, we get up the road to to where we're unloading, get backed in, which the trailer was backed in. The truck was at a 90 degree angle.
And Oh, that's always fun. Oh, yeah. Ain't it? And, we were blocking the whole fucking street. And, Damn. Oh oh, yeah. Cops was driving on the sidewalk. A city bus drove on the sidewalk around us. No one said nothing. They just acted like it's another day. And there was this big old box over because we was right under this bridge, and I I forget which bridge it was. It wasn't a. No. I think it was a GW Bridge. Either way, we was right under a bridge, and there was this big old box and a recliner sitting right next to it. And I'm like, what the fuck is that?
And and and and a daylight rolled around, and I'm still I'm still trying to grasp what what this big old cardboard box and this recliner have in common. Well, once daylight hit, I saw a black man, an old black man come crawling out of that box and sit in that recliner. I just sit in there enjoying the morning in the recliner. And then, excuse me, I saw this hot little black girl come out, look around, and I'm just like, oh, wow. Okay. And then she walks off up the street, comes back. And then it wasn't ten, twenty minutes later, I see another black man coming, and he goes into the box.
And then a little while later, he comes out.
[02:46:39] Bryan Goodwin:
How big is this box? It was a pretty good sized box there. Apparently so. I mean, gee whiz. It's either got Harry Potter, statement on it or or something. I mean, how many people keep popping in and out of this damn thing? I'm
[02:46:54] Rich Chelson:
dude. Okay. Look. I'd I did not go up to the box and and inspect the inside, so I I I don't know, I mean, but it it it was actually a a pretty big box. Like what? Like a refrigerator box? Maybe a maybe a couple of those. Either way, I don't know exactly. All all I know is I is is after the first guy come out, I I saw I saw a couple more go in and come out, and and I was just like now mind you, I'm 21 years old. I had been in the military. I'd seen some stuff there, but I'm still naive as fuck. Okay? So I'm still not grasping what's going on here.
Well, this girl is standing across the street from our truck, okay, leaning up against this this garage door and just standing there, and the guy that drove us in gets out and goes talk to her. I'm like, Larry, what the fuck are you doing, man? He's like, oh, I'm I'm a go talk to her. Dude, whatever. I'm staying here. I'm staying in a truck. And because because this here is my first time in New York City. And, he comes back. He says, dude, $25. You got $25? I said, no. I said, for what? He's like, you can get sucked and fucked for $25, man.
Oh, hell no. I I said, dude, dude, did you see that mother? He says, yeah. But, hey. I'm telling you $25. I said, get after it, Ted, man. And I don't he didn't leave, so he didn't he did not partake. But I will say that girl was really pretty, but, yeah, this this there's an old guy, and I don't know if it was her daddy, her granddaddy, who it was, but he was sitting in a recliner all all morning. And she was having men come and visit. And, yeah, I was never so glad to be done unloading in New York City because I told Larry, I said, let's get the fuck out of here.
I was like, nope. Ain't doing it. But yeah. And and then and then we had to drive back up through Times Square, which was cool as shit.
[02:49:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now they have the, what the hell is it, the fucking city tax now that you get taxed like, the taxi drivers, if they're in Manhattan, they're getting to a daily tax, just to drive in the city.
[02:49:48] Rich Chelson:
Really?
[02:49:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[02:49:50] Rich Chelson:
Good god.
[02:49:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's called a what the hell is that tax called? Traffic congestion tax, I believe. Yeah. If you're coming into the city, you're gonna get charged to, drive in the city.
[02:50:13] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[02:50:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:50:15] Rich Chelson:
That's I I mean I mean I mean, the taxis need to be in there.
[02:50:21] Duuude-Ron :
I mean Yep. But all the delivery trucks that come in there getting charged fucking tax for dry for driving in the fucking city.
[02:50:31] Rich Chelson:
They pay a hundred bucks to cross the fucking GW bridges of this.
[02:50:37] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And guess what? As soon as they cross it, they get taxed to fucking come into the city.
[02:50:44] Rich Chelson:
Holy crap.
[02:50:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:50:47] Rich Chelson:
That's insane, man.
[02:50:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. I'll give you that.
[02:50:52] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that's just yeah. See? I mean, well, if I go to New York City, I ain't driving. I ain't taking a bus either.
[02:51:04] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah.
[02:51:06] Rich Chelson:
I don't know how I'm gonna get back to New York City, but if I ever go back, it's not gonna be under my own power because I'm not gonna get taxed for driving in the city.
[02:51:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:51:19] Rich Chelson:
But, I mean, seriously, New York City, you ought to go there just to see it just at least once. I mean, I've been in New York City so many times. It's unreal. But it is it is actually a cool place. You in amongst millions of people, and they don't give $2 who you are. They don't even see you. Literally, they don't even see you.
[02:51:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:51:50] Rich Chelson:
No. It's it's it's actually pretty cool. But so, yeah, you need to go to, New York City and, you know, go out to Colorado and visit. Don't stay too long. Freaking liberal side will wear off on you.
[02:52:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. What is it? Oh, yeah. They in the, in the song, that, that it's called, everybody's free to to wear sunscreen. The, Baz Luhrmann is the, the guy reciting this, this I I wouldn't call it a poem. It's just kind of a kind of a list of things to do, after you've after you graduated from high school. And, one of them is or two of them are, live in, New York City once, but leave before makes you hard. Live in Southern or Northern California once, but leave before makes you soft. So so yeah. Yeah. New York City will part it will harden you up in no time flat.
[02:53:15] Rich Chelson:
Well, okay. When he says quick go. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But but when he says Northern California, where is he? You know? What's he calling California. Like, well, that's why I'm asking. What's he calling Northern California? Because Northern California, okay, above San Francisco is pretty much the country. Right. I mean I mean, there's still California, but it's it's it's a laid back because I've I've been up through Napa Valley and all all there and everything, and it's and it's really, really laid back. It's not it's not anything like San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Stockton.
[02:54:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. You know, anything like that. That's where the whole the whole thing comes from. It's just it's really laid back. I mean, come on. Northern California has got a got a town called Weed.
[02:54:15] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I see. I didn't know that. I didn't know that, but now it's good.
[02:54:20] Bryan Goodwin:
It's it's rare. Yeah. But, I mean, it's just the you know, up in the what is the Golden Triangle or the or the Emerald Triangle is what they call it, I think, in that area where they do a lot of the a lot of the weed growing.
[02:54:36] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I'm not sure. Could be. But So Yeah. No. Yeah. Northern California is is honestly, I enjoyed really enjoyed Northern California and Southern Oregon. Southern Oregon is is about as country as you can get.
[02:54:51] Bryan Goodwin:
I believe that.
[02:54:53] Rich Chelson:
They still weird, though.
[02:54:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They're way weird.
[02:54:57] Rich Chelson:
You know, I mean, I'm I mean, it's not as bad as Portland or or Seattle. My god. But, I mean, I mean, I mean, once you get out of Portland, once you get out of Seattle, the rest of the state's not too bad.
[02:55:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I
[02:55:16] Rich Chelson:
I don't know if I'd live there the rest of my life. But Unless you're stationed up in Fort Lewis.
[02:55:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well There was there was four places that I never wanted to be stationed at while I was in the military. And three of them, I never did. No. Four of them, I never did out of five. Four Lewis, never wanted to be stationed there because I just that's cold, rainy weather all the fucking time. No. Thank you. Right. That's okay. Fort Drum, too fucking cold. Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri because there ain't fucking shit there.
[02:56:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, now it's Central Missouri, dude. There ain't nothing. Yeah. I know.
[02:56:10] Duuude-Ron :
Not at all. Yeah. Never got stationed in Alaska. Thank goodness. Too fucking cold. Now I've been up there for Northern Warfare Training School. That was kinda cool. Got to learn got to learn how to snow ski up there, but, yeah, we hit ground. It was negative one forty three. A little fucking cold. Just a little. Right? Now it was a dry cold. Thank goodness. But cold nevertheless.
[02:56:46] Rich Chelson:
Cold is cold. I don't care if it's wet or dry.
[02:56:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No shit. And then Fort Hood, I never wanted to get a station too, but that was my last duty station. So and then my dumbass fucking bought a house and stayed here like a dumbass. And one day, I'll get back to the East Coast, Someplace in North Carolina, South Carolina. Well, there you go, man. Ready? You Hell, maybe. Yeah. There you go. Alright. Fuck. I'm gonna need shit. I need fucking more than one U Haul.
[02:57:35] Rich Chelson:
You need a garage sale.
[02:57:40] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I could do that, but I think the next owners of the house wanna have the garage. So I said, I couldn't sell the garage. So I have to have well, I couldn't even have a yard sale because, you know, I home the new homeowners wouldn't like this yard to be sold either. So, you know, I guess I'm kind of in a rock and a hard place. Yeah. But, yeah, you're right. There's a lot of shit I gotta get rid of. Sell the house lock, stock, and barrel and say, here you go. Merry Christmas. Oh, my god.
[02:58:16] Rich Chelson:
Why not, man?
[02:58:21] Duuude-Ron :
I don't think anybody wanna fucking walk into my garage. Jesus. That's just a nightmare.
[02:58:28] Rich Chelson:
You never know. I mean I mean I mean, someone go through there, and they might have a fleet of Jeeps or know people with Jeeps and be like, hey. Come get these parts, man. They're free.
[02:58:41] Duuude-Ron :
God. Let's see. I got a front drive an extra front drive shaft. I used to have a rear drive shaft, but I gave that to somebody else that needed one. Fucking the carpets for two Jeeps. I got all kinds of fucking shit in my goddamn garage when it comes to Jeeps. I got an extra muffler. You need a muffler, Rick? No. Rick? I'm I'm good. I'm good. Okay. Alright.
[02:59:11] Rich Chelson:
I'm I'm I'm thank you for thinking of me, but, yeah, I'm good for now.
[02:59:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I got an extra muffler. I don't know why the fuck I grabbed that, but I still got it in the garage. Yeah. I'm just pathetic. Now yeah. I'm a hoarder. Yeah. And pro and good percentage of the stuff in the garage is, Chelsea's and the grandkids.
[02:59:44] Rich Chelson:
So Tell them you got them out. If you don't come get it, it's gone. Or or sell it back to them when you have a garage sale.
[03:00:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[03:00:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know it's a dick move, but it's something I do. Hey. I told you you couldn't get it. Now you're gonna pay me for it if you want it that bad. Recoup some of that money, man.
[03:00:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. Oh, I gotcha. I understand.
[03:00:27] Rich Chelson:
I mean, it might might only be $2, but $2 is $2, dude. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Shit. For you, it's that's a pack and a cigarettes plus.
[03:00:40] Duuude-Ron :
That's right.
[03:00:42] Rich Chelson:
See? So $2, man. $2.
[03:00:45] Duuude-Ron :
Pack a cigarette and some change.
[03:00:48] Rich Chelson:
By god.
[03:00:50] Duuude-Ron :
For you, that's a quarter of a pack, third of a pack.
[03:00:56] Rich Chelson:
No. Mine no. Mine's, $2. Little more than a half pack because mine's only $3.50 a pack.
[03:01:08] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[03:01:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[03:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
Now do you have any now I know in Oklahoma, they have the the stores that are owned by the Native Americans. Yeah. You got the Indian smoke shops. Yeah.
[03:01:24] Rich Chelson:
They still ain't cheap, dude.
[03:01:26] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I mean, there's they've got cartons of cigarettes that are over a hundred bucks.
[03:01:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. It's yeah. The, yeah, Oklahoma has gone stupid on cigarettes. And even Okay. And, even on the reservations, no. It's not cheap anymore in Oklahoma
[03:01:44] Duuude-Ron :
at all. Oh, okay. Well, when I was there, it was I could get a carton of Marlboros for, like, $20.22 dollars a carton, but that was in the, the latter nineties. Yeah. Yeah. Again and, yeah, over in when I was over in Germany, they had the, the British p x, and you can buy a card carton of Marlboros for $10 because you weren't paying any tax.
[03:02:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, like, Bryan said, yeah, Marlboros are between 80 and a hundred because I remember even even the cigarettes I buy, the 24 sevens Uh-huh. Carton of those, I had to buy some, not last time I was in Oklahoma, time before that. I had I had to buy a cart, and I think I spent, like, right at $60.60 bucks. And I was like, oh my god. So, yeah, you can't live in Oklahoma and smoke cheap anymore. Nope. Oh,
[03:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
okay.
[03:03:10] Rich Chelson:
So yeah.
[03:03:13] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[03:03:14] Duuude-Ron :
well and where I was coming to on that question, does Mississippi have anything like that?
[03:03:21] Rich Chelson:
Well, my cigarettes normally, mine run 35 a carton. There's another brand that sold by Circle K, and, they're $40 a cart. And that's the cheapest I have found.
[03:03:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[03:03:43] Rich Chelson:
So so about $40. And this is for the cheap, cheap cigarettes. It's not the cheap ones like you smoke, but, you know, I'm not sure what those run. I I think those run, like, $2.50 a pack.
[03:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
The stuff that I smoke? Yeah. Okay. So yeah. No. No. Which is basically swisher sweets.
[03:04:08] Rich Chelson:
With a filter.
[03:04:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. It's it's cigar tobacco versus cigarette tobacco.
[03:04:16] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I know. I I used to smoke them a lot because they were cheap. Yeah. Yep.
[03:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
But Guess what? They're the cheapest shit out there.
[03:04:25] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. No. I know. I I I used to roll my own cigarettes with cigar tobacco. I could get a pound for, you know, like, $11.
[03:04:36] Duuude-Ron :
So Oh, there you go.
[03:04:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. I've been down that road many times. Yeah. I'll go back. And and I ain't got a problem going back if I have to. But if I ain't got to, uh-huh. Sorry, house. I ain't doing it.
[03:04:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because the bad thing about it is you have to pick out all the seeds and the stems and, you know, that kind of shit.
[03:05:02] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. You have to work at it a little bit. Enrolling 20 cigarettes is a pain in the ass.
[03:05:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[03:05:14] Rich Chelson:
So but if I have to, I'll do it again.
[03:05:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[03:05:22] Rich Chelson:
In fact, I ought to buy some and just keep it because it keeps forever. Even after you open it, it keeps for freaking ever.
[03:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But,
[03:05:40] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I could get probably four or five cartons out of a pound if I roll them light.
[03:05:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, then when I used to smoke Marlboros, I'd pack the hell out of them. I mean, you know, get all the air out. Shit. I probably I get packed from a quarter of the top of the paper would be empty. Yep.
[03:06:16] Rich Chelson:
But you have to suck four times as hard. I don't suck that well, dude. That's not what I'm built for. I puff.
[03:06:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't suck. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Puff. Puff. Pass.
[03:06:41] Rich Chelson:
So Bryan.
[03:06:44] Bryan Goodwin:
It is after 10:00. So, yeah, it's time for us to start getting this big big old bird, landed. So, anyhow, to the folks who are listening to the show right now, I wanna say thank you so very much for taking the time out of your day, night, evening, or where where it is you're traveling right now, to, to hear what in the world three three goofy guys have got to got to say about whatever it is comes to their mind. Yeah. Sometimes we get ourselves all wound up. We get twisted around the axle. We we make comments that we make, and then other times, we sit there and we just make, make up stupid shit. We just have a good old time and and laugh about it. But however it is you wanna wanna look at it, I wanna say thank you very much for listening because we are just three good friends. We have a great time talking. We have been, getting together and talking for quite a few years. And, we said, heck, let's turn this into a podcast because, well, why not? It's something else we can do. And, and so we we've done that.
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And so if, you have any idea of something that you'd like for us to talk about, you can always, shoot a, a email over to me. That's CircleCast. That's c I r c l e c a s t, just like how Goofy Cast is fishing line. [email protected], or you could shoot an email over to Rich. That's r Chelsea, c h e l s o n, r Chelsea at Gmail dot com. Also, if you wanna reach out and see what type of, of super secret, jobs the dude's up to because I still have a friend who thinks you're, you're somehow tied up with with CIA. You're a spook of some sorts there there, Ron. Don't know why, but he still thinks you're you're a spook.
And, and so if you wanna get ahold of him, then just shoot either me or or Rich a an email. We'll get it over to him, and he'll he'll reply on the show next time. So, guys, with that, again, thank you again for everything you're doing. If you, are interested in a modern podcast app, which is a, offers a lot more value and features to a that our podcast actually displays than many other people, are able to witness and and experience because most people are listening on Spotify. Spotify, okay, they they provide a means of being able to listen to a podcast, but you're there to your show is there basically just to be have something so they could put advertising against.
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[03:13:24] Duuude-Ron :
Oh,
[03:13:25] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Not too much. Just, thank you for listening, and, glad you're still coming back. And, yeah, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your loved ones, because we'd like to get you know, everyone here is because like I said like like Bryan said, we we talk about anything and everything, and we give you our points of view and what we think. And we're not saying we're a % right, but you know what? We don't care. We just like to have fun and just it it it gives us a release, you know, from from everything that's pent up and all like this. And so so for us to sit and bitch about something or or get wound up like, we did earlier this evening, that's that's what we like to do. You know? So it it just it just helps us. But no. Thank you again for listening, and, come back next week because we'll be here next week. And like Bryan said, if you get the True Fans podcast, you can catch us live because, we do stream this live every week. And, if you get the True Fans app, it'll send you a notification and say we're live so you can listen to us. And send us an email.
Send it to either Bryan at [email protected] or me at [email protected]. Because when we're doing this, we have our emails open. And so, yeah, we'll read the email right on the air, and tell us what you like, don't like, what you wanna hear, what you don't wanna hear. Not saying we're gonna listen, but you never know. We just might. So other than that, that's that's about all I got. Thank you again for listening, and, you know, make sure you keep coming back and tell your friends because we got, like, what, three more episodes or, yeah, three more after this one, and we'll be doing, our fifty second episode, which is a year.
So so yeah. And, actually, next week is or the week after next is actually a year since we started, but we took a couple breaks for the holidays. So but, yeah, our fifty second show will be, just a couple weeks away. So, yeah, tell your friends and share it out. We'd love we'd love for y'all to come listen to us. So with that, dude, what you got, man?
[03:15:54] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I think you and Bryan pretty well covered everything. You know? Again, thanks for everybody that has, tuned in and listened to us and enjoyed our conversation. And, you know, just like to hear what we have to say whether you like, agree, disagree, or otherwise. You know, again, glad you join in each week to, listen to us ramble.
[03:16:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely. So alright. Well, guys, I wanna say thanks again for for y'all coming on and sitting around and talking and having a good old time, and, we will see y'all next week. So till then, bye.
[03:16:42] Rich Chelson:
Make sure your cheese don't slide off your cracker. Exactly.
[03:16:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. That's right. It was a crime.
[03:16:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And peace out.
[03:16:52] Bryan Goodwin:
See you guys.
[03:16:53] Rich Chelson:
See you guys later. Bye.
[03:16:56] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Bye.
H ey, man. Hello, and welcome to two grumpy events. And, dude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living, having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan Rich and the dude. There he is. What's up, Bryan? Not a much, sir. How you holding up?
[00:00:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, not too bad today. It's cold. So Yeah? So I'm I'm I'm loving the warmer weather. I bet you are. How about you? What's that with you?
[00:00:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I'm let me get this sent over to Ron real quick. Let him know that we're open. No. I mean, not much. Really. I'm just just trying to get everything all kinda prepped and ready, so, for the change over to Gore.
[00:01:22] Rich Chelson:
Did you get it?
[00:01:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I hadn't yet, but I'm pretty confident.
[00:01:30] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:01:36] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[00:01:37] Rich Chelson:
What's the wife think about it?
[00:01:40] Bryan Goodwin:
She's one she's the one pushing him for it. I mean Oh. Last, yeah, I mean, last last weekend was kind of a rough weekend.
[00:01:53] Rich Chelson:
So
[00:01:54] Bryan Goodwin:
do that. Oh, yep. I mean, it was just me coming to the realization that I was gonna have to actually go, and I was still resisting the need to change. And Jana was pushing hard, and so there was there was there were words and emotions and and and and fit and and and stuff like that being being bandied about. And so, yeah, we Right. So so Sunday came along, and I was like, alright. Fine. Let's just sit down. I'll at least fill out the application. Maybe that'll appease her for a bit.
[00:02:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Got it. I know it sucks, man. Well You know?
[00:02:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Don't wanna go back in the oil field, but at the same time, it will provide a lot of points that I have not been able to, to reach in my in my career. Yep.
[00:03:10] Rich Chelson:
Okay. That was, like, vague or or or at least I'm asleep or something. What do you mean? What what points in your career?
[00:03:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, it's just in in the means of of acquiring, acquiring funds. One, be making double, if not three times, the amount that I'm making right now. Right. So I'll be able to actually save some freaking money for a change.
[00:03:40] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:03:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Then, insurance. Oh, well, that's that's a big thing. Yeah. And, I mean, being in being in fifties and stuff and and and Janet and we neither one of us have had been to a doctor in shit. Probably almost twenty years now. At least fifteen.
[00:04:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. It might be wise to go get a checkup.
[00:04:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I just know that if my doctor tries to recommend statin, I'm saying, fuck no.
[00:04:18] Rich Chelson:
I don't blame you, dude. I mean, not not everyone has the problems that I had, you know, or have still currently, but, you know, I I you know, because some people do fine on statins. But Yeah. No. Uh-uh. Yeah. I I do not. And Nope.
[00:04:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, even if the doc does tell me, hey. You probably need to go on there. I'm gonna be telling them, like, no. No. We're not, we're not doing Band Aids. Right. If there's something that needs to be fixed, tell me how I fix it, then I'll fix it.
[00:04:54] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:04:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And know that I, do not partake partake in the, in the thought that you need to decrease meat. I think meat is not the is and and fat is not the the culprit to high cholesterol and and heart disease. I think it's actually, carbohydrates. So
[00:05:18] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean, you know, that's the thing these docs say, oh, you need to stop red meat and all like this. No. We were made to eat meat.
[00:05:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[00:05:27] Rich Chelson:
Now now throughout history, yes, back back in the olden days and stuff, they ate a lot of plants, you know, like olive trees. You know? I I mean but Oh, yeah. Now there's still a lot of vegetables we need. We're all in divorce. Oh, yeah. But but they still you know? I mean, we still need meat.
[00:05:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[00:05:47] Rich Chelson:
And and now, because, I know someone. I've known her for a long time. And she, she went and got tested. She is allergic to red meat.
[00:06:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, she got bit by that tick.
[00:06:04] Rich Chelson:
I don't think so. I I I don't know exactly. This this was years ago when she told me when we were talking about it. But, yeah, she doesn't. She's vegan and everything like this, and I shit the woman's sick 99% of the time. No.
[00:06:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[00:06:24] Rich Chelson:
But, I mean, I mean, she still works and everything like that, but still it's like, good god. You know? You're you're that sick and eating vegan. What's up?
[00:06:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly. Can't eat red meat. Well, I mean, go to chicken and pork and fish.
[00:06:44] Rich Chelson:
No. She says nope. She, well, pork is red meat still.
[00:06:50] Bryan Goodwin:
So is chicken. Well I've heard the I've heard the advertisement. It's just the other white meat.
[00:06:57] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. But yeah. No. No. I just I just, yeah, I I was I was I was kinda shocked to hear that that that she got tested and had this, and she's allergic to red meat. I mean, I don't know how that happens, but, apparently, it does.
[00:07:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I think it's, the lone star tick. Again, the same tick that'll give you Rocky Mountain spotted fever also is a culprit for, for inviting you and giving you, I forget what the actual disease is called, but it's, gives you basically, it's a an allergic reaction to, to red meat.
[00:07:42] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I don't know. I don't know I don't know if she ever got bit by a tick or what exactly caused it, but yeah. Because I guess I guess she had been sick front, you know, after eating meat in the past. And, Yeah. They, I guess, tested her, and they said, yeah. No. Sorry.
[00:08:08] Bryan Goodwin:
No love.
[00:08:09] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:08:10] Bryan Goodwin:
No steaks for you no more.
[00:08:14] Rich Chelson:
So it's like, okay. Whatever it is. That's different. That's weird.
[00:08:20] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly.
[00:08:21] Rich Chelson:
This is weird in my book, but okay. I'm like, I ain't judging you, Wendy. You know? Yeah. It was just something I had never heard of before.
[00:08:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:08:36] Rich Chelson:
So
[00:08:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And I've I've heard I've heard of people being allergic to red meat. No. I can say it. I think that would be probably one of the, one of the worst, allergies to ever have.
[00:08:57] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. Because, yeah, I would just have to die, man. Yep. Because I would eat red meat. I am a carnivore.
[00:09:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely. I'll
[00:09:13] Rich Chelson:
no. I'm not I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna say it. That could be construed in so many unhealthy ways. I'm not gonna say it. I caught myself. I almost didn't, but I caught myself. Dude, what's up?
[00:09:31] Duuude-Ron :
What's up?
[00:09:32] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. You tell me, dude.
[00:09:36] Duuude-Ron :
Let's see. Blood pressure, cholesterol, tariffs.
[00:09:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Carrots? Your carrots are up?
[00:09:46] Duuude-Ron :
Car You're carrots? Tariffs.
[00:09:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, tear oh, oh, oh, okay. The tariffs are up.
[00:09:57] Duuude-Ron :
Other than that, you know,
[00:09:59] Bryan Goodwin:
same,
[00:10:00] Duuude-Ron :
wonderful week as I always do. You know? No. Unfortunately, nothing has changed thus far that has been, you know, like a major life turning event. So, yeah, got to drive got to drive to Aveline today. That was fun. However however, they are finally finally starting to get their act together on my expectations of, how I transfer or, what I transfer, transport, and how I transport it. So labels are getting better.
[00:10:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:10:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know, packaging is get you know, it's getting better, getting secured. You know? Now sometimes I have to say something like today, there was three pallets that the cylinders were not secured. You could hear them rattling around. So they got them fixed before I said anything. I was like, good. So and, you know, then the production manager, which is, you know, the boss over the pump room and, and the loaders. He told me today was twenty six pallets. I'm like, how many small cylinders are within this 26 pallets? He's like, I don't have any small cylinders. Well, I ain't taking 26 pallets because Uh-huh.
Now now it comes to a weight issue. Right. You know, an overall weight issue. So, you know, once I got there, you know, I did have to pull a couple of pallets off the load because, you know, it would have possibly wait, and I really don't wanna do that. Right. So yeah. So yeah. But Abilene is getting better. So I was I was happy today that, you know, I was out of there in and out in an hour and a half. So so that's pretty good.
[00:12:40] Rich Chelson:
Not bad. Now question question, dude.
[00:12:45] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:12:46] Rich Chelson:
What is it about tariffs that is causing you consternation?
[00:12:52] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's a you know, it's not causing me personally because the question that was presented is what's up, and that's the tariffs. Now, you know, there was now it's all over the freaking media about, you know, there's a list of how much tariffs we're charging this country versus how much that country is charging on us. Now I don't know if there's an it say what goods are tariffed and what goods are not. You know, I know that vehicles are tariffed, you know, exporting. Yeah. But there there was one country that has nine we we have a what was it? 37% tariff on that country.
That country has a 97% tariff on The United States.
[00:14:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:14:07] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Okay. Let's just yeah. It would and, again, speaking to all the leaders in all the countries, you know, what we're charging is tariffs and what they're charging is tariffs. You know, there's a lot of countries that charge us more, but that's gonna, again, come around to, you know, higher prices. Now will that balance out, you know, within the next six, nine months? You know, I can't tell you that. But they said that Dow was down again today because of all of the tariffs that are being implemented.
[00:14:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So Oh, yeah. But but they also why are the tariff or why are the, the the the markets down? Because people have these emotions that, oh my god. This is supposed to be horrible. This is supposed to be bad. And, no. Kinda like what we found out, yesterday. Before we had, income tax, laws, the government brought in brought in money through tariffs. So Yeah. Trump's not doing anything. Yeah. Absolute anything bad. As a matter of fact, he's leveling things out. And, yeah, people are wigging out, and all of a sudden, they their free ride is done.
[00:15:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right? But Oh, yeah. You see it Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, see, the thing is
[00:15:44] Rich Chelson:
the thing is, see, this is what this is what's been irking me about everybody flipping out over to fucking terrorists. Okay? Many countries have double, quadruple, triple, whatever the amount that it costs them to to, bring it into our our our country on tariffs. And, oh my god. And god forbid if we raise our tariffs to not even match their, tariffs, you know, for for us to ship our stuff over to them. God forbid if we match them. You know? It's like everyone flips out because, oh my god, we're not gonna be able to get the new iPhone from fucking China.
[00:16:36] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and don't get me wrong. I don't have I myself, I don't have a problem with the tariffs. Right. And and I understand, and I think it's pretty good of what Trump is actually trying to do is he's gonna you know, he wants to raise the tariffs and get these countries into a negotiation of, okay, these are our current tariffs. This is what we are fixing to tariff you on. What are you gonna do about it with the tariffs that you're charging? Are you gonna bring them down, or are we gonna come up and match yours?
[00:17:23] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:17:25] Duuude-Ron :
I
[00:17:26] Rich Chelson:
agree with that.
[00:17:31] Duuude-Ron :
You know, in all these countries that, you know, we have been the world police for and the world's bank, you know, with NATO and all this other stuff. It's like, okay. Yeah. It is finally about time that they, the other countries, start paying their fair share.
[00:18:02] Rich Chelson:
I get go. There's in words again. Everyone wants to fucking use those words on on on the American people. Oh, pay your fair share in taxes. Well, you know what? Charge the rest of the fucking world and let them pay their fair share.
[00:18:17] Duuude-Ron :
You know that the that the actual, income tax is a voluntary tax?
[00:18:23] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I know.
[00:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But god forbid if they'll do that voluntarily, though. Right. Exactly. But god forbid if if people stop voluntarily paying stop paying their taxes, you know, then what would that do?
[00:18:44] Rich Chelson:
They would just just figure out a way to make make the money the other way. I mean, they would you see, they you see, people are are so fucking gullible. They'll just roll over and, okay. We gotta do it. We have to save our country. No. Your fucking country. No. You know, taxes and in fact, we didn't have income tax in this country. We didn't have any fucking taxes in this country until the thirties.
[00:19:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[00:19:14] Rich Chelson:
And then all of a sudden, now we got 2,500 fucking taxes just on your paycheck.
[00:19:21] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. And then 2,500 more when you go to try and spend your money.
[00:19:30] Rich Chelson:
Exactly.
[00:19:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it's like, okay. It says at least 66% of this group smokes.
[00:19:43] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:19:44] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. How much does it take how much does it cost to produce a pack of 20 cigarettes roughly?
[00:19:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, fuck. I don't know, dude.
[00:19:59] Duuude-Ron :
It takes I've these days with the cost of everything, it's probably about dollar 50 to a dollar 75, possibly, per pack to manufacture. It's probably less than that. Well, let's just say a dollar. Alright? So it takes a dollar to produce a pack of cigarettes. Then if they sell that to make a 50% profit, there's 50¢ right there. So there's a dollar 50 that they're charging, you know, the American people. Right? Right now, the average for a pack of cigarettes in this area is, like, $7.50. So $7.50 minus a dollar 50 that it cost to produce and them making a 50% profit on them, you're paying $6 worth of taxes on that one pack of cigarette.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. I know. And I and I understand that okay. Emphysema, cancer, the all this other stuff, you know, for the people that don't have health care or people on, say, Medicaid and Medicare, you know, and what the hospital bills are. That's why they're taxing cigarettes so bad because of the health care cost.
[00:21:40] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I understand that. Hold hold it. Who's paying for the health care? We are.
[00:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. You're right. So
[00:21:50] Rich Chelson:
so so why is the government taxing our cigarettes for health care when we're paying the fucking health care?
[00:21:58] Duuude-Ron :
You know what? Why don't you why don't you go ask Obama that? Why don't you go ask
[00:22:05] Rich Chelson:
No. I'd smack him outside his head.
[00:22:08] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'd yeah. I I would stupid move. Yeah. So that what the But the thing is we let Obama do it.
[00:22:19] Rich Chelson:
We let Obama do it.
[00:22:22] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, unfortunately, I didn't let him unfortunately, I didn't let him do shit because I didn't vote for him.
[00:22:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, no. I didn't vote for him either.
[00:22:33] Duuude-Ron :
You know? But and now and now the fucking net health care system that he fucking created just put everything in a fucking shambles. Not that it wasn't already in a shambles. Now the health care fucking skyrocketed. You know, premiums and all that other stuff, and and I still don't understand why the hospital is gonna charge you $15 for a fucking Band Aid when I can go buy a whole damn pack over here at fucking, Walgreens for $3.
[00:23:15] Rich Chelson:
Because they can. We let them. That's why.
[00:23:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I know. You achieved it. Goodness I've never asked. No. Go ahead. Go ahead.
[00:23:31] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say it's the first time I've been that wound up in a while, in a long while.
[00:23:39] Bryan Goodwin:
What do you mean am I doing this time?
[00:23:41] Rich Chelson:
No. For dang, Brad. Do you feel left out? I do almost.
[00:23:47] Duuude-Ron :
Almost as if you're almost as if we were talking about Jeeps.
[00:23:53] Rich Chelson:
No. It just it just freaking irks me that that all these people are whining and crying, thinking they're gonna have to pay higher fucking what the fuck y'all think you've been paying for during the last administration? Y'all didn't bitch about those high ass prices, and yet you couldn't feed your fucking babies. Now Trump gets back in, prices are starting to come back down, and he's levying tariffs to to combat the tariffs that we pay to bring the goods in. Okay? And people are just fucking going, oh my god. No. I need to pay $20 a fucking carton of eggs.
Y'all need to get a checkup from the fucking neck up, people.
[00:24:40] Duuude-Ron :
Man, I ain't heard that one in a quite quite a while. I haven't heard that one.
[00:24:47] Rich Chelson:
I I'm serious, man. It just the shit just it just irks the fuck out of me. How Yeah. The the stupidity. The fucking stupidity. It's like, oh my god, people. You you yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Alright. Damn. I peaked early tonight. It's still young, though. I mean, it is it is it is it is possible to get me wound back up again, but god dang. That's the shit that just irks me. That's why that's why I can't fucking listen to the news because it's stupid shit. No one is is is having a conversation. They're just sitting here spouting bullshit, lies, and and all this and thinking this is gonna be bad. This is gonna be bad.
You know, look at look at your previous, you know, five, six years compared to today. Guess what? Prices are down.
[00:26:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[00:26:09] Rich Chelson:
I mean, yeah, prices are still somewhat high in this. I'd you know? But, I mean, it's a lot cheaper than what it was. Let's put it this way. I got more food for a hundred and 60 fucking dollars this month than I had in the previous six months. So I know food prices are coming down.
[00:26:29] Duuude-Ron :
Dang where I like them, but they're coming down. Well yeah. And, you know, and it is gonna take time. You everybody says, you know, well, Trump, ran on the promises of lowering, you know, the food bill and so on like that. It's like and, you know, I've heard some Democrats say, you know what? Well, he hasn't done anything yet. Well, it's only been a hundred fucking days.
[00:26:58] Rich Chelson:
Right. Rome
[00:26:59] Duuude-Ron :
was not created in a day. This gaggle fuck is not gonna get fixed in a day.
[00:27:09] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well and and that's like that's like look at Biden. Look at Biden's first hundred days. What the fuck did he do?
[00:27:17] Duuude-Ron :
Shut in the fucking basement.
[00:27:19] Rich Chelson:
No. He shot the price of fucking oil up or gas up fucking, what, a buck and a half a gallon overnight
[00:27:28] Bryan Goodwin:
for one. Yeah. Because because we got all the way up to up to, over $5 a gallon in diesel.
[00:27:35] Rich Chelson:
Right? And that was that was in his first hundred days. And and people are wanting to bitch about Trump. Grow the fuck up, people.
[00:27:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, nice. Damn. It it's easy to bitch about that. Can't preach about but can't bitch about who about our guy because, you know, that would be, that would be be wrong. You know?
[00:27:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. I mean, I can, but, I mean Oh. Honestly honestly, he's he's he's actually trying to do things. I mean, you know, forgive the man that that he, you know, wasn't done thirty seconds after he took the oath. You know?
[00:28:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:28:16] Rich Chelson:
And I had to kiss his wife and shake at least one or two hands. I mean, come on. I you say that. Yeah. It just oh my god. That's why that's why I just stated myself a lot of times because people just piss me the fuck off. They really do. Like, I can't afford it. I can't afford it. Well, guess what? Fucking look at what you're spending your money on.
[00:28:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:28:50] Rich Chelson:
You know? Start there. You you might have a couple hundred more bucks. But
[00:28:59] Duuude-Ron :
Well and the reason why gas shot up is because fucking Biden shut down the fucking oil production in The United States.
[00:29:09] Rich Chelson:
That's exactly right. Everything down. Yeah. Yeah. And he would he was buying oil from Saudi Arabia when we had enough oil. He was selling our oil overseas. He was exporting it and importing Saudi Arabian oil. That's why gas and diesel shot the fuck up.
[00:29:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Well and the first time Trump was in office, there was fucking how many oil tankers? They couldn't they couldn't give the shit away. Right. They were you know, countries were paying other countries to take their oil.
[00:29:50] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:29:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I think Saudi Arabia, when Trump was first in office, had to pay, what what, $50.50 something a barrel just to get rid of it in The United States.
[00:30:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It was yeah. I mean, we I mean but oh, no. People people don't remember that shit. You know? I mean I mean, when Trump left office the first time, gas was a dollar 86 a gallon where I lived, and that was in Northern Missouri. It hasn't been there since.
[00:30:32] Duuude-Ron :
Nope.
[00:30:37] Rich Chelson:
So, I mean, gas here say, I got gas the other day. I think it was, $2.48 or $2.58. I mean, that's not high. I've seen it down as low as $2.35. But, you know, it's it's, you know, it's well, last year, when I, got down here, it was, anywhere from $2.60 to $2.89. So within a year, it's come down $30.40 cents. So I call that a win. At least I do. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:22] Duuude-Ron :
I I get it. Most definitely.
[00:31:29] Rich Chelson:
But, yeah, people just yeah. And I I don't see I don't see how freaking Democrats getting out. Bitch about paying less money. But, I mean, again,
[00:31:45] Bryan Goodwin:
stupid is as stupid does. Well, I mean, come on. Obama's, you know, everybody was saying, I can't afford, I can't afford my health care. Can't afford my health care. So Obama said, here, hold my beer. Now you get now you can't afford your health care.
[00:32:01] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Right. I say, here. Yeah. Hold my beard. You really can't afford it now. So it's funny. It's just oh my gosh. I don't know. I I get let's talk about something else. I'll get I'll get I'll get one out. I'll I'll I'll Shift in
[00:32:27] Bryan Goodwin:
shift into third gear on aggravation.
[00:32:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Alright. So let's shift into this. So you know that Porsche is making SUVs. Right? The Cayenne. You know what I saw today as an SUV, a manufacturer? I was damn near fucking shocked.
[00:32:47] Bryan Goodwin:
I've seen a Ferrari SUV. I've seen yeah. There's a Lamborghini SUV too.
[00:32:55] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't seen that one. I saw a Mazda
[00:32:58] Bryan Goodwin:
They looked saw a Maserati. Yeah. The Maserati, and they all look the fucking same.
[00:33:04] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. The Maserati looked like the fucking the BMWs
[00:33:09] Bryan Goodwin:
do. Yeah.
[00:33:11] Duuude-Ron :
Now I don't know what the fucking price tag is on that thing.
[00:33:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Actually, surprisingly low. I've seen more Maseratis the past two, three years. I think they finally have dropped down to being about $80,000.
[00:33:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But what is the maintenance for those damn things? $80,000
[00:33:29] Bryan Goodwin:
again. I mean, it was, when I I worked over at, at Service King, which is a collision repair center, And the owner of that, of that, that collision repair center, he had several branches. See if I can remember what his name is. The first name was Eddie. I can't remember what his last name was now. But, yeah, they ended up selling selling the, business over to, Berkshire Hathaway, and now you find them over here up here in, in Oklahoma City. They're they're kinda all over the place. But, he bought, a, a Jaguar. Got a brand new Jaguar.
And,
[00:34:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, they're making SUV in four doors too.
[00:34:30] Bryan Goodwin:
And he was he was shocked, and he was actually talking, to people. He was like he was like, if he had known this, he wouldn't have gotten it because, hell, he had a problem with one of the light bulbs. He went to go change out the light. The light bulb for the damn, for the damn Jaguar was something like a $75 light bulb.
[00:34:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, get out of here. Really?
[00:34:55] Bryan Goodwin:
And it's kinda it's in I'll see if I can find it again, but there is a guy who was showing that on Lamborghini, there's a little clearance lamp that's on the side of the, right I think it's, like, right in front of the door. Yeah. Just one of those little safety amber lights that that appear. Little triangle shaped, safety lamp. And he what he does is he gets a piece of, electrical tape, puts it on top of it, and rubs his thumb on there a whole bunch. And he goes, you see that little oval right there? That's a Ford symbol. Ford makes these. Now if you go and and he shows that he pulls up the parts manual, if you wanna buy one of these, it is 7 or not 700. It's like a hundred and $72.
A hundred and 70 something. That's a hundred you know, multiple it's a it's more just a couple pennies for a little plastic, clearance lamp. But if you go to, O'Reilly's and you pull up this part, it's the exact same part, and it is for $4.25. Right. Yeah. Same part.
[00:36:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I remember seeing something like that. Yeah.
[00:36:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's why that's why all the parts, you know, if, you know, if you do you know, if you look a little bit, you can actually find the parts cheaper.
[00:36:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[00:36:20] Rich Chelson:
You know? But oh, no. People, you know, think that, oh, no. This is Jaguar only or Maserati or what you know, whatever. And it's like, yeah. No. It's not. Here here's proof, and it's an exact fit.
[00:36:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[00:36:37] Rich Chelson:
But oh god. No. No. Because they didn't spend $5,000 for that part. It's not authentic.
[00:36:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Not at all.
[00:36:47] Duuude-Ron :
But, you know, how authentic is it from what car are we talking about again?
[00:36:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, the car that had the little the little deal, it was a Lamborghini.
[00:36:59] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Lamborghini. And it was and it's manufactured by Ford. Right? Or it The light was. Yeah. A Ford light fits in it. Yep. Okay. So God forbid is it on that Lamborghini, if you were to replace that light for $4.50 versus a hundred and $74.50, who the fuck is going to know when you go to
[00:37:31] Bryan Goodwin:
trade that vehicle in? Who the fuck is gonna know? No one. Because what will end up happening is the body the, the the body repair shop that has to that's going through or or the the mechanic or whoever it is that has to replace that deal, he's gonna go grab one of those $4.25 pieces, put it in, and then go ahead and turn around and charge them the, you know, the hundred and 75, hundred and 80 dollars, whatever it is. Right? Yep. And that's good for them because if you're dumb enough to think that you're getting a value for just because it's got a whole bunch of zeros behind it, you got another thing coming.
[00:38:14] Rich Chelson:
Yep. No. That's true. And, Ryan, you're right. I mean I mean, both y'all are right. You know? Who's gonna notice and pay attention when he goes sell that vehicle? No, motherfucker. It's just it's just some people are that that, it's the word I'm looking for, vain.
[00:38:33] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I gotcha.
[00:38:35] Rich Chelson:
You know? And it's like, oh my god. I gotta have it. I was like, no one's gonna ask you. Oh, wait. What'd you pay for that light cover? They don't give two fucks. Most of them don't even see it. You know? Does it light? Yep. Alright then. It works.
[00:38:55] Duuude-Ron :
You know, and I understand the aspect of the vanity. You know? Me? I really don't have any vanity. You know? Yes. I like my Jeep. Yes. I like what the way that I have built my Jeep. Now does somebody will somebody else like the way I built my Jeep? Yes and no. You know, if you don't like my Jeep, I don't give a fuck. If you do like my Jeep, hey. Thank you for the, you know, your, what's the word I'm looking for, your compliments. Right. But vanity, I don't have any high end named clothes. My shit comes from fucking Walmart, and it wears just as fucking good as Gucci and, you know, those the high end dollar shit.
[00:40:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[00:40:03] Duuude-Ron :
I pay maybe a few bucks for a t shirt where somebody else is paying $40 for a T shirt. Knock yourself out. Now are the thread counts a little bit better on the other, T shirt? I'm sure they are. But if you rip it, what's the fucking difference? Exactly. If my if my thread count is 300 and your thread count is 900 you know what? If it rips, both of them got a hole. Doesn't really fucking make a difference. Right.
[00:40:47] Rich Chelson:
Except except except my 300 count cost $5, and your 900 count cost 50. So how good of a deal was that 900? I mean, I'm not I'm not saying a 900 count thread anything is bad. You know? But still, dude, like you said, a hole's a hole no matter what. And it didn't sound right either.
[00:41:17] Duuude-Ron :
Well, for the sake of this particular conversation, a hole's a hole. I I will agree with you with that statement wholeheartedly. Right. Now other now other holes that we can go into that, but, you know, say potholes. Yeah. I tell you what. As soon as we get all these tariffs and so on like that, I tell you what, United States really needs to fucking work on their damn infrastructure. Roads, especially the fucking roads. God dang.
[00:42:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes. Yes.
[00:42:03] Rich Chelson:
Yes. Yes. The thing now, that that all boils down to the state.
[00:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know it does. And, you know, they've been working on one place, and Bryan will know exactly what I'm talking about. Thirty five? No. On 36 from, fucking what the hell's the name? The town that you turn and go to Pottsville.
[00:42:32] Bryan Goodwin:
You talking about Hillsborough? Or
[00:42:35] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. No. No. I'm talking on on Highway 36.
[00:42:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, well, I gotta pull off 36 because numbers don't mean shit to me when it comes to directions.
[00:42:46] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. When you're going to your mom's place and you have to turn right to go to Pottsville off of the highway, what's that town that's just south of it?
[00:42:56] Bryan Goodwin:
South Of Pottsville?
[00:42:59] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That the main highway goes through. Damn it.
[00:43:03] Bryan Goodwin:
From Hamilton?
[00:43:05] Duuude-Ron :
Hamilton. Thank you very much. Oh, okay. Okay. Look at that fucking 12 mile stretch North Of Hamilton that they've been working on now for, what, two, three fucking years?
[00:43:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:43:23] Duuude-Ron :
And it's still not fucking done.
[00:43:29] Bryan Goodwin:
No.
[00:43:31] Duuude-Ron :
Because now they've laid one layer of asphalt for that 12 miles.
[00:43:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[00:43:39] Duuude-Ron :
And now they're laying another layer of asphalt, which is great, which is fine. Now they have three layers of asphalt, or they will have three layers of asphalt. And that's great. And what do you wanna bet just like I 35 from fucking, say, from Temple to Waco. There's so many fucking potholes in that new interstate. You know, it it's fucking ridiculous. Oh, yeah. And how long is it gonna take before all this this asphalt that they're laying right down right now on 36? How long is it gonna stay start for it to freaking start breaking up and start making potholes?
I give it a year at most. Oh, yeah. Because there's a there's a place from Italy to Ennis. They just laid they're, like, about four or five miles of asphalt, and they already have places where it is crumbling. And this has been within three, four months. I'm like, goddamn. Yep. Right.
[00:45:06] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know those projects are sold to the lowest bidder. Right?
[00:45:10] Duuude-Ron :
I I get it. I understand that. Just like the freaking m 16 and the goddamn army or for all the military for that matter. Blackhawk helicopters. Yes. They're all fucking produced by the lowest bidder. Now, okay, say, Blackhawk helicopters, how many companies actually are able to fucking produce it, whether it's the lowest price or not? Not very many. Like, one. So but, you know, I understand the lowest bidder, but, you know, this is, like, way to fuck out of control to the aspect of when are they actually gonna start doing fucking quality damn work.
Would love to see that one day.
[00:46:05] Rich Chelson:
Good. Have quality work. Yeah. Good luck with that, dude.
[00:46:10] Duuude-Ron :
I know. I know. I know. Good luck.
[00:46:14] Rich Chelson:
Used to be quality work. But I know. But morals and values and and and all like that, pride and everything is, nonexistent.
[00:46:28] Duuude-Ron :
Well and it's
[00:46:31] Bryan Goodwin:
the bureaucracy
[00:46:33] Duuude-Ron :
of what is funneled up underneath the fucking table of bribes and who gets this amount of money and who gets that amount of money for all this goddamn yeah. Now I'm fucking wound up. Thank you very much.
[00:46:53] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, gentleman. Oh, happy to help.
[00:46:57] Bryan Goodwin:
We had to be of service.
[00:47:06] Rich Chelson:
See. So, Bryan You know, it Go ahead. Next step. Yeah. Your next step to get wound up. Me to get wound up.
[00:47:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:47:16] Rich Chelson:
I mean, we'll just we'll just make it a round robin tonight. I was like, oh, yeah. Just
[00:47:20] Bryan Goodwin:
you know what burns my butt? A flame about this high.
[00:47:27] Rich Chelson:
Well, it it it would I I think it would burn about just about anybody's butt. I mean, if it don't, you know, you could let us know, but, yeah, I really don't. I don't send no. Don't send pictures. Because I know someone would probably be like, I'll show them. I'll send pictures. No. That's okay. We're good. Nah. That's not good. But so, yeah, it just yeah. People are just I swear they're they're just oh my god. I was thinking of something earlier, and I can't remember what it was. The only the, only thing I remember about it was fidget spinners for kids, but there was something there was something ahead of that. And it just it it it just kinda escapes me right at the moment.
[00:48:26] Duuude-Ron :
And you said this was a song?
[00:48:29] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. Something I was thinking about. Oh, okay. It's something. So I was I was off in my own little world.
[00:48:39] Duuude-Ron :
As always.
[00:48:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, I mean, I thought I was doing good and you know, and for a for a for a for a whatever it is I was thinking. And, it it was all I know is is whatever it was I was thinking about is basic, you know, it's it's for adults, but, basically, it it equates to fidget spinners for kids. And yeah. I'm sorry, guys. But but, I I mean, I just I just had to say that because it was just it was just fucking killing me. My brain was going speak. I don't fucking speak. There's something you gotta say.
[00:49:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Say it now.
[00:49:30] Rich Chelson:
Well, give it up, man. Give it up, and I'll say it. You know? But I don't know. Maybe maybe I'll think about it. Knowing my luck, I'll probably think about it after the podcast.
[00:49:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. So so but now let's see. I don't know. Let's see here. What else do we have? I know everyone is for whatever reason, at least all the, oh, I found yeah. Yeah. Here we go. It not necessarily gets my gets my blood pressure up or anything, but I found or, actually, I have rediscovered a an app that allows me to do the proper type of trolling that I like to do.
[00:50:27] Rich Chelson:
You found an app that Yeah. Can you troll?
[00:50:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Pretty much. Yeah.
[00:50:33] Rich Chelson:
Trolling for what, dare I ask?
[00:50:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Trolling with my comments type of trolling.
[00:50:42] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You like to go in and and hit and then and then and then sit back and watch people melt, which, I mean, that, yeah, is is kinda funny. Yeah. Well, there's there's a,
[00:51:00] Bryan Goodwin:
there it's an old app, actually. It's been around for a while, but they've changed it up so much. And, sadly, I don't really get to do much as much trolling. You know? I I just get to say my piece, and and I guess people just aren't don't people aren't using it enough nowadays if they don't really comment to it. But Flipbook,
[00:51:21] Rich Chelson:
I've I wanna say I have vaguely
[00:51:25] Bryan Goodwin:
heard that. Yeah. Yeah. You you sit there and you can it's, just kind of a magazine style of different topics that you like. And, they've got comments in there now. And so I hit comment, and I'll just let, you know, whatever the topic is. Of course, I've one of them is masculinity, and, and masculinity apparently also equates to toxic masculinity. So I get to go in there and go rant and rave, rant and rave, rave three or four or five times and okay. Alright. I'll get out of my system for the time being and go wander off and do some other stuff. But, you know what? I was telling you that, what feminine, feminism is about.
Yeah. Okay. It's not it's not equal access for women. It's equal access for ugly women?
[00:52:20] Rich Chelson:
Yes.
[00:52:22] Bryan Goodwin:
They just did a study that proved my point.
[00:52:26] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:52:27] Bryan Goodwin:
See if I can find it again. See, and it should be down here at the bottom. Wow. I've got a lot of tabs open. It's almost like I'm a see, there's oh, there it is. Basically, they did a study. Oh, I don't get no. Thanks. I don't wanna take a survey. Yeah. He's on them sites to do that. It's called using deep learning to predict ideology from facial photographs, expressions, beauty, and extra facial information. And I'll just read the abstract real quick just because it's it's short. And, the it's a long ass fucking, well, it's a it's a paper. So it it's long and all sorts of stuff. So deep learning techniques can be, can use, public data such as facial photographs predict sensitive info personal information, but little is known about what information contributes to be to the predictive success of these techniques.
This lack of knowledge limits both the public's ability to predict, protect against revealing unintended information as well as scientific utility of deep learning results. We combine, convolutional, neural networks, heat maps, facial expression coding, and classification of identifiable features such as masculinity and attractiveness in our study of political ideology in March and '20 '3 Danes. Predictive accuracy of the neural network was 61% in the in each gender. The model predicted, ideology correctly with aspects of both facial expressions, happiness and neutrality, morphology, specifically attractiveness in females. Heat maps highlight, the effectiveness of areas both on and off the face, pointing to methodological refinements, and the need for the future research better understanding significance of certain facial areas.
So you wanna guess what they found out?
[00:54:29] Rich Chelson:
What did they find out? Liberal women are uglier. Okay.
[00:54:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Most conservative most of the time when they look at women's faces, the prettier the face or the prettier the person looks, the more conservative they are.
[00:54:54] Rich Chelson:
Now okay.
[00:54:56] Bryan Goodwin:
That's that's the that's the the summation of the, of a goddamn I don't even know how many words this thing's got. I know that I have to scroll down for, like, seven days.
[00:55:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. No. That's fine. That's fine. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I mean, how many people did they study?
[00:55:19] Bryan Goodwin:
What was that? 3,300? Set up there at the top. Hold on. Let me just go back up. Okay. Okay. So 3,323 Danes.
[00:55:29] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So so so not even well, I I mean, I don't know. But That's a good size. That's a good size. Well, yeah, it is. It is. Okay. But but, you know, that's the thing. It doesn't accurately represent because there's a lot of girls that aren't good looking but are stone cold Republicans, stone cold conservatives. Yeah. But, again,
[00:55:57] Bryan Goodwin:
the majority, again, the majority of when it went through and there was other aspects to to it that they would go through and use to to to do its predictable, predictability because they'd go through and show a face, and a more masculine face of a man would be considered more, be more, more conservative, while a more feminine face would be considered more liberal. But with women, again, attractiveness, however the the, deep seek or deep search, algorithm worked, It, it would sit there and look at a woman. And on its, you know, let's say it's on a scale of one to 10, it would sit there and pull up a two and go, well, that's a liberal. And they and come to find out, they have the information that person they it was active it was able to fairly accurately predict.
I wasn't saying that all of them were, but that is that barely accurately able to predict a feminist or liberal over a conservative, which kind of just did it. Well, I think it was Roald Dahl that used to say, ugly thoughts, show on your face.
[00:57:23] Rich Chelson:
Well, that, yes. I won't I won't argue with that because, yeah, yeah, if you're always thinking, ugly thoughts or or have a negative attitude all the time, yes, it will show on your face. And and if you change your mindset and start thinking more positively and stuff like this, your face actually reflects that. So yeah. No. I I can agree with that.
[00:57:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Let's see. Okay. And what some of this?
[00:58:05] Rich Chelson:
So, I mean, I I I mean, I don't I I don't know if I ever, if I can subscribe to that whole thing there. Yeah. You know?
[00:58:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:58:27] Rich Chelson:
Parts of it maybe, but just because, you know, you know, just because that that you know? And and you say the thing is say the say the whole thing with beauty is and it's it's true. It's always been true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
[00:58:47] Bryan Goodwin:
So so Okay. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a a way of of expressing that truth. Somebody I may, you know, I may see somebody go, holy smokes. There's there's a hottie, and you go, oh, yeah. She's cute.
[00:59:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Exactly. But
[00:59:06] Bryan Goodwin:
as a whole, that's one of the things that, especially, like, feminists really struggled with. That's what they fought for was to stop guys classifying women as beautiful, pretty, and and homely. Because you gotta have if you you're doing everybody a very huge disservice if you all classify them as just one person. The beautiful are gonna be beautiful no matter what. Alright? Sorry. But, you know, Elle McPherson was a freaking smoking hottie back in the eighties. Now today, I don't know. I haven't seen a picture over in a while, but I would figure she's still pretty good looking.
[01:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Well, I was a smoking hottie hottie in the eighties as well. Well, look at me now. Because you kept getting yourself caught on fire.
[01:00:15] Rich Chelson:
Now hold it. Hold it. Okay. You see, that's the thing. Okay. This is something I don't get. Okay? You know, it seems like everyone talks about fucking women. What about men?
[01:00:26] Bryan Goodwin:
We're not saying thin, damn it. No. No. Listen. We are. We're we're butt we're a bunch of toads just sitting around going, hey. Hey. Yeah. We're we're we're a bunch I know. Bunch of we're a bunch of trolls just sitting around. We're cavemen.
[01:00:42] Rich Chelson:
No. We're not. We're not. You see, the the fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Listen. Listen. The same way the same way we fucking say about feminism and ugly women and all like that, women sit around and and look at two guys and say that one's a hottie and that one's not. Well, that's up to them. It's the same fucking thing. So There's another there's a Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Why are they doing fucking
[01:01:09] Bryan Goodwin:
studies on just women? Why not the other way around? There there was there that study was on both men and women.
[01:01:18] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Conversely, who really gives a damn?
[01:01:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Thank you. Because it proves me right.
[01:01:26] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. You're shallow as fuck sometimes too. Yeah. I am. I'm always shallow.
[01:01:32] Bryan Goodwin:
I have my opinions, and I like them, and I will make sure that they are enforced. But, anyhow, the other thing that I still love you, though. Well, I love you too, my man. But, something else that I just came across, actually, today, I was watching some videos and just got into a fucking rabbit hole while I was sitting waiting to get unloaded. Birth control. Women's birth control.
[01:01:56] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:01:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Holy shit. The damage that shit does.
[01:02:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It's
[01:02:04] Bryan Goodwin:
which one? The pill or what? Or the Yeah. Yeah. The hormonal birth controls. The one's based on hormones. It throws women's, hormonal profile completely out of whack because, basically, what it does is it tricks the body into thinking that it's pregnant. That's how a, birth control pill actually works on a very basic level. It jacks up the, the progesterone and lowers the and and so that, the body goes, oh, hey. Congrats. Bosl top. We're pregnant. And so you're in what happens is, so you're you have this, the women have this this, this reaction to being to being pregnant. So you do that for three days. And then what you're actually taking on the on the the fourth week, not third, days, but the the you got three weeks of of progesterone pills that you take.
Mhmm. And then the fourth week, you know, those those green pills or or, red pills. Anyhow, what those are, those are just sugar pills. And the reason why women actually have, what they think of as a period on that week is actually nothing more than the women's body coming down off of the, coming down off of the off the hormones that are in the pill in the birth control pill. But it changes how women look at men. Women who are on birth control actually choose more feminine looking men than women who are not on the pill. Women who have never been on the pill will actually choose men who have higher testosterone in their body Okay. Than women who are on the pill. They will look for guys who are a lot more effeminate looking in their face. They have lower testosterone.
And so that it, and also, which is oddly enough, maybe it's what it's supposed to be doing and no one really fully realizes it. But when, women who are on on the pill, they actually have a lower libido than a woman who actually has the proper levels of of estrogen and testosterone in their in their system.
[01:04:42] Rich Chelson:
So that's why I've been single this long. Cool. Yeah.
[01:04:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. So, man, you you gotta get off that birth control pill now. Get off of it. Don't But but I might start crying at at at least low in my head. Something else that they were talking about. That that women on the pill are actually more emotionally unstable.
[01:05:07] Rich Chelson:
Really?
[01:05:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They're the ones who turn around and start boohooing and bawling, getting angry and stomping around. The pill increases the chances of suicide and suicidal ideation. Oh, wow. The the the, yeah, the hormone the pill is no anal. It no work. I don't know. I just yeah. And they've got you know, what is that? From the nineteen sixties, so '60, '70, '80, that's, 2,000. There's forty years.
[01:05:42] Rich Chelson:
It's sixty five years. Years now.
[01:05:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Sixty five years from Yeah. So they got sixty four five years' worth of data to go off of.
[01:05:53] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Yeah. No. I no. I had heard I had heard birth control and and especially when they went to the kind that's injectable in in the arm or whatnot.
[01:06:04] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. The hormones are horrible.
[01:06:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I had heard I had heard there was there was some rough side effects and everything to them. So
[01:06:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And the brain fog that everyone talks about or all the women talk about is is one of the big problems. And so yeah. Right.
[01:06:26] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. So I I don't know. I just you know? But this is what this is what everybody is raised to believe. You know?
[01:06:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And that actual this the the the claims that have come out or that everybody uses on, on the, on why the pill is so good for you, like, using it for to control your for girls to control the period, for girls to to clean up their skin, is, again, same reason as to why women who are pregnant have better looking skin. Okay. And so they're just tricking them tricking teenage girls into thing and to and they're tricking their bodies into thinking that they're pregnant, and their hormones are all over the damn place as it is. They need to be broke out and and have, you know, all the all that acne.
[01:07:34] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:07:35] Bryan Goodwin:
But, but, yeah, they there's it's, it's it's it's no. It it's no good. It's
[01:07:46] Rich Chelson:
No. You're right. It no. It it it ain't no good. You know?
[01:07:57] Bryan Goodwin:
So, yeah, that was that was a kind of a wild, eye opener for me.
[01:08:04] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, I mean, they're still gonna do, you know, birth control pills.
[01:08:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. So
[01:08:26] Rich Chelson:
It's like that's not ever gonna change.
[01:08:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope.
[01:08:34] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I had a contest last weekend.
[01:08:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah? And how'd that go?
[01:08:40] Rich Chelson:
That one. It it went it went it went pretty well. It was I I had a lot of fun with it, really. I, I, I, I, beat my previous contest. Last weekend was a free for all. It was awesome. It was awesome because you could contact anybody anywhere. Didn't matter if they were in The States or or or around the world or whatnot. It was it was freaking awesome. And but, I had a hard time while the screen and the freaking monitor and stuff got to me. So I can only operate about three hours at a time, and then I had to stop for a couple hours because because my brain was just foggy as shit Oh, hell.
And everything. I mean, it was I was dizzier in hell and everything, but still, I mean, I made a 93 contacts, which is most I ever made, and 67,000 points. Woo hoo. Wow.
[01:09:45] Duuude-Ron :
How many contacts?
[01:09:47] Rich Chelson:
93.
[01:09:49] Duuude-Ron :
Hundred and 90 three. Damn.
[01:09:52] Rich Chelson:
And and, you see, the thing is, okay, in a contest, if if you've never done a contest, it's hard. You're you're not gonna go out and get a lot of contacts right off the bat because you gotta learn how things roll and stuff like that and get used to everything. And and and it takes a couple years. And I up until this point, I hadn't really done a whole lot of contests. You know, I had done a few, but, you know, but it seems like now, it's it's a lot easier for me to to, make contacts all over the place. So so, yeah, during a contest, that's why that's why I'm getting better scores. And I probably could have made more, but like I said, my screen was just just fucking making me dizzy as hell.
[01:10:55] Duuude-Ron :
Well, damn it. You should have fucking drank about four more pots of coffee then. You idiot. Right. You know, be like these other guys that, you know, come in first in this contest that are up for and constantly making contacts for forty eight straight hours. You know? What day you know, you're a slacker.
[01:11:17] Rich Chelson:
I know. I know. I I I was I know I was slacking, but, you know, I I'm I'm pacing myself.
[01:11:24] Duuude-Ron :
I'm pacing myself. Oh, pacing yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, pacing yourself. Right. Alright.
[01:11:34] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. No. It it it it was it was a lot of fun because, oh god. I'd say I talked to 43 different countries. And and it was crazy because my fucking radio wasn't working right for for a minute. It it just for some reason, it it was just it was harder in hell to make make any contact or tune anything in. So I did a right during the contest, I did a factory reset of my radio, reset the parameters like I had it before, and now it's working again.
[01:12:12] Duuude-Ron :
See here and, again, it it also comes back to the computers. You touched the wrong fucking button. I probably remember. And you don't remember what button you pushed and when you pushed it and just
[01:12:31] Rich Chelson:
Right. And see that?
[01:12:33] Duuude-Ron :
You you too and your fucking buttons.
[01:12:36] Rich Chelson:
Well, you see, that's why that's why, actually, I'm wanting I'm I'm, wanting an old school radio because it's it it does have buttons, but it has knobs. And and it doesn't have a fucking screen then. And I I don't have to push one button 10 times just to get to one setting and then back two more times to get to another setting and then adjust it and, like, do it all within five seconds.
[01:13:11] Duuude-Ron :
You're you're you're absolutely correct. That's just like the military radios. You you remember the p r 77, pricks 77. Right? Yep. Yep. Knobs. You had to dial in the knobs. Yep. Were you still in when the Singars came out? Just barely, but yeah. Okay. So those were no knobs, all buttons. Yep. But, you know, it it but it it brought the secure piece from the k y 57 that used to attach to the p r 70 to the prick 77. So you had the radio. You had the secure device. They put it all into one, and there was no knobs. No. I take it back. There was two knobs, but all the rest of it was fucking push button.
[01:14:02] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:14:03] Duuude-Ron :
And you pushed the wrong button button fucking button, and you ain't talking.
[01:14:09] Rich Chelson:
That's right. And that's what you did. That's exactly right.
[01:14:13] Duuude-Ron :
See. And you need to go back to a radio that has those, the tubes? No. The vacuum tube.
[01:14:25] Rich Chelson:
No. No. The vacuum tubes. Yeah. No. That and and in fact, I can still buy a ham radio that is a a a tube. I mean, they're they're freaking being sold still today. Oh, yeah. The old tube type radios. Yep. Take it takes fifteen minutes before you guys start working with it because it has the tubes have to warm up. Yep. Yep. And then Oh, 15 years old then. Then you have to tune the plate in the grid. Well, no. You're right. They do work, but good god. It takes, yeah, like Bryan said, fifteen, twenty minutes to warm the fuckers up. Then you have to tune tune the plate, dip the grid, and get those just right in sync just to be able to make one contact.
Yeah.
[01:15:13] Duuude-Ron :
But once you get it in sync once you get it in sync, you're good to go.
[01:15:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You start singing really well. And and and girls love love you.
[01:15:23] Rich Chelson:
Until you change bands, and then you do all over again. Change bands, then, yeah, everything's gonna go to pot.
[01:15:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You go from in sync to Backstreet Boys, and, yeah, it's just getting you
[01:15:36] Rich Chelson:
Right?
[01:15:38] Duuude-Ron :
What? I don't
[01:15:41] Rich Chelson:
know. You know nothing about the in sync or Backstreet Boys, do you, dude?
[01:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. I do. You know why I know about that? Girl. All the back? Yeah. Well, that's true too. And when those were big, guess where I worked at other than the military? Guess where I worked at? Where'd you work at? The skating rink.
[01:16:09] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[01:16:11] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I got to listen to the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Fucking I couldn't even tell you all the groups that and I'd you know, there's a lot of those songs that I really do like. Oh, yeah. Right. Then there's a lot of those songs, that I don't like. Care less for. Yeah. Right. Well Yo. You know? Scrub.
[01:16:42] Bryan Goodwin:
That was a good song. I gave you No. I gave you that one for sure. What song? Scrub. Scrub. By, TLC.
[01:16:50] Duuude-Ron :
TLC. Okay. Don't think I Yeah. I like some of TLC's music, not very much. But scrubs, I liked. I could, you know, skate relatively quickly to scrubs. You know? Yeah. Other than that, I really couldn't tell you. I'd have to go back and look at all that stuff and, hell, I'd probably have to ask my daughter, you know, what the hell all the groups were when she was because she was six six and seven. Yeah. Right in that age where, we started going to the skating rink. And, you know, I started out, you know, paying to go to the skating rink for me and her, and then, I became a floor guard, so I got to have the, referee shirt, you know, with the stripes and the whistle and tell everybody to slow down and be my natural asshole self. You know? So we were just Hey. There. Element.
That's right. And, you know, I didn't get paid for it, but I got me and my daughter got in for free to skate. Okay. To me, that was worth it. I get to go skating. I get to blow a whistle every once in a while. I get to kick people off the floor every once in a while. We're good.
[01:18:22] Rich Chelson:
Look at you making a little eight year old kid cry trying to get up on on his girl. You know? You roll up on your skates, blow your whistle, and throw him off the floor, make him cry. Dang, dude.
[01:18:37] Duuude-Ron :
That's right. That's right. I made a few of them cry.
[01:18:42] Rich Chelson:
Dude's like, I own that shit.
[01:18:44] Duuude-Ron :
Damn right. Yeah. And then I started working there for pay, and that wasn't nearly as much fun. But, you know,
[01:18:55] Rich Chelson:
that was the Why? Because you couldn't blow your whistle no more?
[01:19:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, then I was working behind the the skate counter, handing out the skates and doing the maintenance on the skates and, you know, didn't get a skate as much. So, you know, it didn't become fun anymore. Now I got to do my fair share of skating. Don't get me wrong. Right.
[01:19:23] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say, you could skate after everyone left.
[01:19:31] Duuude-Ron :
Or before everybody got there. That too? Yep.
[01:19:34] Rich Chelson:
Drink the music up as loud as you want. You know, play some MC Hammer or something.
[01:19:41] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. The City DJ. Let's see. Yeah. I had some good shuffle skating songs.
[01:19:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I don't know what shuffle skating is. So
[01:20:02] Duuude-Ron :
I'll send you a, I'll send you a video Okay. Of what shuffle skating is. Okay.
[01:20:14] Rich Chelson:
So Probably something I couldn't do, but we're good.
[01:20:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. I wouldn't be able to do it.
[01:20:21] Duuude-Ron :
Well, let me ask you this. If you got on skates, would you even be able to stand up anymore?
[01:20:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Probably not.
[01:20:27] Rich Chelson:
I was gonna say, I probably have to agree with Bryan on that. Probably not.
[01:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:20:33] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, I could probably stand up as long as I'm on carpet. Or or I'm holding on to the wall maybe. No. No. I still bust my ass on my you're holding on to the wall. It had to be on something like carpet or glass.
[01:20:46] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I might I might I might push off, but, yeah, moving my legs back and forth, yeah, that's probably not gonna work too well. It's not gonna work. Just saying. Probably not.
[01:20:59] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay. Well, yeah, I can still skate pretty good. You know? But, of course, I've been doing it all my life. I started when I was four, and I'm 57 now.
[01:21:16] Rich Chelson:
So you know how to skate?
[01:21:19] Duuude-Ron :
I know how to skate. I know how to skate pretty good.
[01:21:24] Rich Chelson:
Right. Now
[01:21:27] Duuude-Ron :
make I tell you what. When I first got here, they had a skating rink out in Coppers Cove, and now it's a Caliber collision. That's why I still have my inline speed skating blades. And what the hell was I let's see. Eighteen, '20 '8, '30 '8. I was about 35, 30 six. No. Yeah. 34, 30 five. And, you know, the out in Coppers Cove, they would do a speed skating. You know? The girls and the boys, then the adults, and so on and so forth. There was this kid probably had been no more than 12 with his speed skating blades. He would smoke my ass.
Really? When it came to when it came to speed skating. Oh, yeah. This motherfucker was very, very quick. And, I mean, he could be in, like, oh, the world, games for speed skating. Okay. That's how quick that's how quick that little dude was. You know, I don't know whether the floor? No. I wasn't working at that skating rink. That was one I was just, you know, paying to go and go skate. That's after I got here. So but, no, they didn't they didn't need any help because I asked them a few times. So, yeah, just paid to go skating. And, yeah, that little kid was in five laps, he would lap me at least once and probably be about three quarters from lapping me again in five laps.
[01:23:34] Rich Chelson:
Dang.
[01:23:35] Duuude-Ron :
That's how fucking fast that kid was. He was yeah. I still think that they need to put the fucking speed skating with the blades in the Summer Olympics. The short track, anyway. Like, they have for the speed skating short track for the ice skating, Blades in the Winter Olympics. I think they need to add the roller skating to the Summer Olympics. Maybe they will one day. Maybe they will one day.
[01:24:16] Rich Chelson:
I thought they did.
[01:24:18] Duuude-Ron :
But No. They have they have not put in the, roller blades speed skates into the Olympics yet. Now they have a, a world's a world, competition with it, but it's not in the Olympics.
[01:24:43] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I didn't know.
[01:24:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. This kid would fucking it would definitely well, then that's been fucking twenty, yeah, twenty years ago.
[01:25:01] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, he'd be in his thirties. So who knows? He he might be a gimp.
[01:25:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Or or I only raised him a couple of times, and he smoked my ass every single time. But in turn, there was some kids his age that I could smoke. But, hey, we regress. Now I get out there, and I don't I don't smoke anybody anymore. After about five laps of shuffle skating, I gotta go take a seat, rest for any few minutes, and then get back all over the floor.
[01:25:46] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I don't I don't I don't smoke no one anymore. They just taste nasty.
[01:25:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:25:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I I saw what you did there. What's that? I said, I I hear what you did there.
[01:26:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. It was weak.
[01:26:08] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'll probably about this time tomorrow, I'll probably get it. But right now, I'm just or in about fifteen minutes, I'll even forget what the fuck we were talking about. So, you know, that's more that's more of a probable aspect than the the other one was.
[01:26:29] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:26:30] Duuude-Ron :
Right. But but you just
[01:26:32] Bryan Goodwin:
never know. That's gonna be awesome. What hear him hear Ron going
[01:26:41] Rich Chelson:
And just start laughing. Is it finally hits you? Yeah. It hits him. Yeah. I don't know what's up with oh oh, I, I'm I got approved for my passport.
[01:27:00] Bryan Goodwin:
And Oh, did you? Yes. I did. He he's leaving the country, goddamn it.
[01:27:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, not right now, but, you know No. Not come next winter. Probably so. But, well, I don't know. It depends on how much money I have. But, anyway, yeah, it didn't see. I think they got it on March 14, and it was, being shipped. It's supposed to be here by Saturday, and I don't know why it's taken so long because, believe it or not, apparently, the place where they process, passports at is in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
[01:27:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, heck.
[01:27:45] Rich Chelson:
Okay? And then and and I'd got an email, you know, saying a passport had been shipped. Right? And when I got it, it said it was in Little Rock. Oh, now it's moving through Mobile, and it's supposed to be here tomorrow. Okay. But, they had they had sent me an email saying, oh, it'll be there on Saturday the fifth, and this here was the second. And I'm thinking, Little Rock is only eight hours from literally eight hours from me, eight and a half hour stops. It's like, how how is it gonna take three days to go from Little Rock to, you know, me? And I'm just like, man, this is crazy. But, yeah, I just looked, and it said it's, it was at it was in Mobile, Alabama at the post Office distribution center this evening about an hour ago. So it'll leave there and get over to my post office in the morning, and then they'll bring it over to me.
[01:28:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, hot diggity dog. Right. And you said they're good now you good, Jace? Yeah. You said they're good now for how long? Did you say it was ten years? Yeah. Ten years. Okay.
[01:29:07] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Yeah. It's good for ten years. So
[01:29:11] Duuude-Ron :
Well, mine expired the day I retired out of the military.
[01:29:15] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, you I mean I mean Oh, yeah. It's just I can't. Questions. They take your picture, and you pay them a couple hundred bucks.
[01:29:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No shit.
[01:29:28] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. Seriously. Yeah. I'll yeah. Altogether, it was for the passport book, the card, and my picture being took, it was 210. So I can't go nowhere with it for a while. I gotta save that money back up.
[01:29:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, just think of how excited you are going to be when you get your first country stamped in your passport.
[01:29:58] Rich Chelson:
No. Actually, yeah, I will. I will. I will get excited. So I'm I'm a have to think of a good country to go to. And then because because when I get that stamp, I'm a take a picture of it with my phone, and I'm a send it to y'all.
[01:30:14] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, the country stamp?
[01:30:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[01:30:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Turks And Take Tayco whatever it is.
[01:30:21] Rich Chelson:
Turks and Caicos. You're free to go. Actually, right now and and I don't get this. Yeah. I don't I don't know. Maybe y'all can explain this to me. But right now, it seems like just about anywhere outside of The United States has not an outright travel ban ban, but a a a cautionary thing for just about every freaking country it it in the world. It's like it's like if you go anywhere, everyone's like, oh, you better check it, you know, because there's well, here. They just they just, yeah. The state department warns US travelers about visiting The Bahamas. And there's been ones about, Turks and Caicos.
There's been ones about, Spain, Europe, England. You know, it's it's it's like every other it's like all these countries are like, oh, no. You need to, you know, worry about traveling. It's like, what the hell are you trying to do? You know? And they're saying the same thing. It's about is warning travelers about violent crime and other potential risk in a popular destination. You know? Well
[01:31:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I just I get it, but, you know, it doesn't matter where shit. No. Okay. I don't have to go outside the country. I can go to A Hundred And 20 Seventh Street in Chicago. Yeah. And I'm fucked.
[01:32:16] Rich Chelson:
You can go to Cicero Avenue and get fucked in Chicago. But, yeah, you're right. You know? Yeah. It's it's yeah. I don't get it. You know? And I had been I mean, I'm not I'm not planning to go anywhere right now, but I'm just saying it just seems like all of a sudden, just out of the blue, you know, all of the state department says you need to, you know, worry about this country, worry about that country. What? They don't have crime any other time? No. That was a poet and didn't know it. I just Yeah. They only
[01:32:54] Duuude-Ron :
have they only have crime on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays.
[01:32:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. But, yeah, I don't know. It's just it's just weird. Something I, you know, something I had noticed because well, the first one I saw was the Turks And Caicos. And I'm like, what the hell? That's a popular freaking place to go chill out. You know? I thought it was laid back and everything. I mean, I knew they had crime, but damn. But oh, no. It seems like everything now is like, oh, violent crime. Violent crime. Violent crime.
[01:33:27] Duuude-Ron :
Fuck. Well, yeah, it against tourists. Yes. Absolutely. Because a tourist knows very little about the laws of the country that they're visiting and or where to go get help.
[01:33:42] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[01:33:44] Duuude-Ron :
You know? So, you know, it's just too bad that, you know, I can't go over to England or go over to Spain or, you know, Germany and have my concealed carry license and carry my nine mil.
[01:34:04] Bryan Goodwin:
You'd never know that. Great. It would be great.
[01:34:09] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But it ain't gonna happen.
[01:34:11] Rich Chelson:
And you see something else I learned. You know how we dial 911 to get emergency services? Mhmm. In England, it is 111.
[01:34:28] Duuude-Ron :
Oh. Yeah. I'll just how everybody how everybody has their system set up. So what's 811 in The United States?
[01:34:38] Rich Chelson:
Dude, you I used to be 811, and you're asking me? I was 811.
[01:34:47] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. And now what's the suicide? That's 811 now, isn't it? No. It's 988. 9 8 8? Okay. 988.
[01:34:57] Rich Chelson:
Yes. And press 1 to speak with a veteran.
[01:35:03] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:35:04] Rich Chelson:
But yes. But no. That yeah. 811, I mean yeah. That was Yeah. It's utilities. Yeah. I know. That was me. You know? Yeah. That was you. When the people called 811, then I'd get the ticket because someone wanted to dig a dig a flower up beside their front steps and put a flower back in that same spot. They called 811. And I'm like, honey, you ain't got nothing here. But but the law says, well, no. You are right. You are right, the law said. Now now did they get charged for that? Or No. No. No. Okay. No. You don't get charged for 811 or, you know, whatever.
[01:35:51] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:35:52] Rich Chelson:
No. That the, the utility companies pay for that service. Oh,
[01:35:58] Duuude-Ron :
okay.
[01:36:00] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So, no, you don't get charged directly, but yeah. Look. Yeah. Look. Yeah. Look at your utility bill.
[01:36:07] Duuude-Ron :
It's figured in there somehow. You know? Oh, yeah. It comes around to bite you in the ass. And even if I don't use it, I still pay for it. Yeah. Right. Lucky
[01:36:17] Rich Chelson:
lucky you. You don't you don't use it, but you still get charged for it. Right. Right. And that I mean, that's fine because, you you know, you see, that's the thing. I've been there when someone has hit a utility, whether it be electric, gas, phone, fiber, whatever. And I'm gonna tell you what, man. That's
[01:36:38] Bryan Goodwin:
That's expensive.
[01:36:40] Rich Chelson:
It's expensive, and it's actually a really big fucking deal, whatever it is. You know? I mean, it's I mean, it can actually do damage. Oh, yeah. It can kill you too. Well, yeah, there's there is that chance.
[01:36:56] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I've seen saw a picture on I saw a picture on Facebook. Oh, it was probably about a 16 ish drill head. And they brought it up and was just had all kinds of fucking shiny cables, blue, orange, red, green. Shit load, though.
[01:37:21] Rich Chelson:
I ran through a phone line. Probably a probably a 300 pair or a 900 pair.
[01:37:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It it was a hell of a lot of cables. And you know what? Yeah. Because of that, they fucked a lot of people.
[01:37:37] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And and and you see the thing is, though. Okay. Okay. Let's say let's say someone hit a phone line in your town or okay. Now that phone line they hit might not affect anybody in your town. It might affect someone a couple states away. Because I remember when, I was on vacation, and, there was another guy, covering my area. And he had this one ticket, and I had been locating for this ticket for a couple months. And the only thing I had through there was a fiber, a Mediacom fiber. Okay? Okay. This guy had gotten a ticket to repaint it.
He he rolled up. He's like, oh, there's nothing here. And, come to find out, the water company smoked that fiber. And it was a small fiber. It was like a 12 count fiber. It wasn't that big. They felt the power outage in Saint Louis, Missouri.
[01:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
Wow.
[01:38:55] Rich Chelson:
Exactly. So so don't think that your town is is is it only affects your town because no. I mean, most of the time, yes. But you don't know where these lines and where the effect's gonna end up. But, yeah, I found out because because when I got back, I, I heard about this damage, and I come on freaking clued because my area had no damages when when, you know, I was in it. And I go on vacation, and this guy just, you know, blows off that. And and I told this guy, I said, call me. Just because I'm gonna be out of town, I'm gonna have my phone near me. Just call me, and I'll fucking tell you where everything's at because I knew where it was at. And he didn't Yeah. And didn't paint it, and the water company smacked it.
And, yeah, it it knocked shit out in Saint Louis, and that was up in Iowa. Needless to say, Mediacom was not happy. They were not happy that service got dropped. So so, yeah, it is very important to call 811, and it's equally as important for the locators to actually go out and paint the lines if there's lines underground.
[01:40:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, shit. What was it? About two years ago. I don't know who it was, if it was a phone company or what. They hit a gas line.
[01:40:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm.
[01:40:47] Duuude-Ron :
And they had to shut the plant down because of the act the act because of being an oxygen enriched environment. Yeah. You know? If that gas would have caught fire, you know, we only carry, like, about if that if our bulk tank is full, it's probably about 10,000 liters. No. More than that. More than that. And we got a pretty big oxygen tank at our location. Right. Basically, you if you see the tanker trucks going down the road, if our if the tank was completely empty, it would take two of those trucks to fill up our bulk tank.
[01:41:45] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Okay. So,
[01:41:49] Duuude-Ron :
yeah, just think of a gas fire, you know, going over to that great big oxygen bulk tank. Oh, yeah. You talked about a huge explosion.
[01:42:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Would've leveled a quarter mile, probably.
[01:42:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just there's a good chance. It will level a lot of shit.
[01:42:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. Because, I remember I remember when I was locating, I was I was I was covering this guy's area, and a contractor smoked a 10 inch gas main. High pressure.
[01:42:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, there's fun.
[01:42:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Needless to say, yeah, they they shut the street down. The fucking fire department was there. Ambulances were there. No one got hurt. It was just in case. And you you couldn't have a cell phone within a within a hundred feet of that gas line? Oh, no. Yep. I mean, it was it was nasty, man. It was nasty. And you see, the thing is, I mean, that that was bad enough to 10 inch gas main, but there was another eight inch gas main right next to it. It didn't get hit, but still. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So if something would've went wrong there, that really would've fucked shit up hard. Yeah. I mean, that whole street, they because, there's the fairgrounds on one side, which they were empty.
And then, there was houses on the other side. They freaking evacuated all the houses. There was a business. They had they had shut that business down. Oh, yeah. It was it was it was a big o deal.
[01:43:38] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I K. I believe it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was
[01:43:43] Rich Chelson:
yeah. It's no. I I had seen some stuff, you know, and everything when I located. And that's why that's why, you know, I will call 811. I don't I don't have a problem with that. Yeah. I mean I mean, my yard, I know where all the utilities are because I only have one, and that's a gas line that that crosses the street, you know, where because this house used to be gas. Everything else is up in the air. And Yeah. There's a phone line there's a phone line and a gas main and a ground on the other side of the street. Other than that, that's it. Yeah. So in my yard, I can dig anywhere I want.
So because I know I know where everything's at.
[01:44:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, so do I.
[01:44:36] Rich Chelson:
That was actually the first thing I did just just out of, I don't know, I guess, habit. Curiosity? Yeah. Well, see, thing is, you know, I moved in. I was sitting on the front porch. I'm looking around, and I found where the phone line runs, the gas main ran. I know where the water main runs. I know where the sewer runs, and electric is on the air is on the pole. I'm like, okay. I can dig. I'm safe. I still might call 811 because it is the law, and there might be there, there might be a fiber line or something running through my yard that I don't know about because there's nothing really says they have to mark where anything is.
You know, on on the outside, there's no law. They just do it out of courtesy and to help the locators and to help the the, the utility workers have an idea where things are at in the yard or, you know, running along the street or whatnot. They don't have to put anything if they don't want.
[01:46:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[01:46:02] Rich Chelson:
So, you know you know, if I ever do dig, I might I might, call 811 just to be safe.
[01:46:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just because. No. I got you.
[01:46:18] Rich Chelson:
Because that would really suck. I would have a really bad day if I tried to dig, and I smoked smoked a fiber line for $75,000. I would never be allowed to leave my house
[01:46:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope.
[01:46:37] Rich Chelson:
For about thirty years trying to pay that bitch off. What's that, dude?
[01:46:50] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:46:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I don't well, you well, you was gonna say something, and and your phone cut out on you.
[01:46:59] Duuude-Ron :
I have no fucking idea.
[01:47:01] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Alright.
[01:47:03] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Just meow.
[01:47:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I do.
[01:47:09] Duuude-Ron :
The cheese done slid off my cracker.
[01:47:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright. Yeah. My god. That almost that almost sounded like a new window of some sort.
[01:47:25] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. That was that's awesome. I had never heard that before.
[01:47:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Did you You have never heard the phrase that
[01:47:35] Duuude-Ron :
Never. Your cheese slid off the cracker?
[01:47:38] Rich Chelson:
No.
[01:47:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh my god.
[01:47:44] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit. I gotta remember that one. In fact, I gotta
[01:47:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You're definitely gonna have to remember that one because that is a fucking oldie but goodie.
[01:47:54] Rich Chelson:
No. Oh my god. I yeah. I had never oh, shit.
[01:48:00] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it definitely does prove one thing. You've been living up underneath a rock for quite some time.
[01:48:10] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, shit. Yeah. I don't know about y'all, but I got a feeling that's that's the title.
[01:48:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Slippery cheese?
[01:48:27] Duuude-Ron :
Cheese slid off my cracker. Yeah. Yeah. You could you could definitely and just think of what the fucking, what the art is gonna look like. Damn.
[01:48:41] Rich Chelson:
Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a have to know on that one. But Yeah. Most definitely. Awesome, man. I had never I had never heard that. Oh, shit fire. Wow. That's crazy. So, Bryan
[01:49:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. That's me.
[01:49:07] Rich Chelson:
Do you have any, sayings that I probably have never heard?
[01:49:15] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But whenever I was talking to Bob Gardner, I I got him got him to laugh laugh pretty good bit because we were talking about something that just suck that was just the whole experience was was horrible. I just made that the comment of man, and it just sucked donkey dicks. And he thought that was just the funniest damn thing he'd heard in the wild.
[01:49:36] Rich Chelson:
Really? Yeah. How'd that go, by the way? Oh, well well. Well, well, well,
[01:49:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, I ended up talking for about an hour and a half. So Well, that's cool. Yeah. I mean So Not cool. To find out, sadly, though, his his last, his last three that he's doing is gonna be on the '20 or not twenty seventh, in July. And so I'm like going, damn it, man. I've gotta figure out how to come up with about five grand for you, $5 for Ron, five grand for Jana, five grand for, a friend of hers. Everybody I wanted to go try try out his stuff. I yeah. Like, damn it. Actually, for you too, it'll be I still got a chance. I he did say he was willing to come, come out for, for and do, do retreats for, for for special occasions. So
[01:50:33] Rich Chelson:
At what? $5 a pop?
[01:50:36] Bryan Goodwin:
It might be but it would have to be able to pay up decently. I mean, make it worth its while.
[01:50:42] Rich Chelson:
So Hundred bucks.
[01:50:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Hundred bucks. Hundred bucks. So
[01:50:50] Duuude-Ron :
There you go. Hundred bucks. Remember? I'm cheap.
[01:50:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's why I was said I was trying to find a figure out a way of coming up with $5 for you and Ron and Jana and Sherry and and we all y'all Yeah. I know. Right. Yeah. All you Yeah. All you folks were running around saying you're in pain of some sorts or another, and we can get you fixed.
[01:51:13] Rich Chelson:
See. You know, if if even if I could get a slight reduction of my pain level, that would be nice. I'd be I'd be happy with a slight reduction.
[01:51:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I think he could do it. I think he could help you, change how you see and experience your pain and change be be able to change the state of how you view view and experience the pain
[01:51:46] Rich Chelson:
for sure. I mean, I got days where I can manage my pain. I mean, I'm I'm not, you know, I'm not, you know, crying in my milk or anything Right. On Sundays. But yeah. Yeah. Other days, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't matter what I do. It's like, yeah, my body is just hating on me. And it's like, okay. Well, I know what good day this is gonna be.
[01:52:14] Duuude-Ron :
Because you kinda old.
[01:52:17] Rich Chelson:
You older than me, dude.
[01:52:21] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But, see, I'm damn good looking.
[01:52:25] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay. I'll I'll let you have your nightmare, man.
[01:52:32] Duuude-Ron :
Well, it's gotta be somebody's nightmare.
[01:52:38] Rich Chelson:
Oh, dude. But
[01:52:41] Duuude-Ron :
Just like living the dream. It ain't my fucking dream.
[01:52:45] Bryan Goodwin:
But you're living it.
[01:52:47] Duuude-Ron :
But I'm living it. Living a dream, living a nightmare. Well, you know, get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up, rinse and repeat Yep. All because the mill bill man cometh. Just shooting. It's all good. Yeah. I know. I would love to fucking shoot them, you know, motherfuckers. But, you know, Jeep parts are expensive as well.
[01:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Well, yes. This is true.
[01:53:24] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. Just think. If you took that Jeep if you took your Jeep say, Rich, if you move to, say, Thailand Right. Imagine what the cost of the Jeep parts would be then.
[01:53:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But see, cost of living so cheap that he'd be able to afford it. Right.
[01:53:44] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that's true too. I mean I remember I remember I had to do some work on the, Eagle Vision that I had when I was over in Germany. Fucking the cart the cost of parts was more than double of what they were in The United States.
[01:54:09] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. Because they put the parts on the boat, dude.
[01:54:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[01:54:14] Rich Chelson:
And and Germany, they they ain't got cars like we got. So
[01:54:23] Duuude-Ron :
No. Well, shit. I don't fucking remember what all they had as far as vehicles. I didn't get out a whole hell of a lot.
[01:54:39] Rich Chelson:
Well, why not, dude? He was living over there.
[01:54:43] Duuude-Ron :
I know. That's when Heidi got injured.
[01:54:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[01:54:49] Duuude-Ron :
So that's what cut my stay shit. I was only over there for a three year tour. I was only over there for four fourteen months. Okay. Because we came because we came back on a compassionate reassignment for medical reasons.
[01:55:07] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[01:55:09] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, unfortunately, I didn't get to see as much of the country as I wanted to.
[01:55:15] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know, you can go back. Get your passport, dude.
[01:55:20] Duuude-Ron :
You're right. I can go back. Get your passport.
[01:55:23] Rich Chelson:
You can go back.
[01:55:25] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. Yep. You're right.
[01:55:27] Rich Chelson:
You know? You can go yeah. Lot of different places.
[01:55:32] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. If I went back to Germany, I'd do one of those river cruises.
[01:55:40] Rich Chelson:
River cruises.
[01:55:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Viking. Yeah. Viking has, like Yeah. Yeah. I've been seeing big cruise ship. Yeah. They have a a lot of smaller ones that they take up the rivers.
[01:55:53] Rich Chelson:
No. They I've been seeing commercials. They, they, Viking has the long ship. You know? They I mean and it's built for the river, but it's, like, I don't know, thousand feet long. I mean, I don't think it's that long, but it's long. And I'm like, oh, I I would love to ride one of those.
[01:56:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
[01:56:16] Bryan Goodwin:
That one. Real cool about those boats is that, whenever they would be a lot of times, they would take those boats upriver and stuff. And when they ran out of river, you know what they did? What? They picked it up and walked with it until they found another river to put it into. That's exactly what they did.
[01:56:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, you mean the old Vikings?
[01:56:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. The old Vikings. The ones with bad backs. Right.
[01:56:52] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shoot. Yeah. That that I never knew. But, yeah, no. Viking Cruises has I I had seen I had seen some of the commercials. They had had Yeah. They have these these long boats. There looks like a long houseboat, and they take, like, five, six, seven, eight, ten, twelve day trips up a river. Yep. Yep. You know? And it's like, oh, that would be so cool.
[01:57:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. That would be that would be fun.
[01:57:26] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I would I would I would like to do a cruise, I think, but I don't know. You see? Because because I want to go to Belize. Okay? And just for fun, I looked up price of a plane ticket from here in Mississippi to Belize. Right? The cheapest one I could find was, like, $548.
[01:57:54] Bryan Goodwin:
That's not bad.
[01:57:57] Rich Chelson:
Not bad. It's a thousand miles from here. Well, I don't know. I I mean, I would have to look, but, yeah, it's like a 1,500
[01:58:04] Bryan Goodwin:
miles. Yeah. Fly from Dallas to, or fly from Amarillo to Dallas is is, like, $250.
[01:58:13] Rich Chelson:
So Oh, dang. But but you see, that's the thing. You know? I was thinking, okay. Well, I wanna take well, you know, I wanna take the most most direct route, and I don't like flying anyway because I don't wanna go through one of them naked scanners. You know? That's just no. I'm sorry. I don't want
[01:58:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, come on. I know you're bashful and stuff, but, you know, you'd have women fawning all over you after they saw that saw that hog leg between your legs.
[01:58:46] Rich Chelson:
All this sexiness?
[01:58:47] Bryan Goodwin:
All that sexiness.
[01:58:48] Rich Chelson:
But but but you see, I was I, I looked in into cruise, you know, and, everything, and shoot. They were, like, $1,200. And I'm like and that was, like, from leaving where was that leaving from? Mobile or or, or in New Orleans? I think it was New Orleans going down to, one other port then to Belize then back to New Orleans. So it it it was a short run, and it was, like, $1,200. And and god forbid, I changed the amount of people in the room from two to one. Oh, fuck no. That was just you know? When it was, you know, thinking, you know, two people per room, yeah, I could get it for, like, $6.40.
I'm just like, good god, people. I just wanna ride a boat from here to Belize, hang out for a week or so, and then ride a boat back. That's it. I don't need much. Why do people wanna charge me an asshole to money?
[02:00:03] Duuude-Ron :
Because I can.
[02:00:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, true.
[02:00:08] Duuude-Ron :
Just just like the fucking income tax, because they can. Just like all the other shit, because they can. Because we we, the people, don't really fucking yeah. There you go. Yeah. You're right. But We, the people, don't have as much to say about it.
[02:00:29] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, I, yeah, I kinda I kinda looked into it, and I'm like, man, that's just rude. It's it's gonna take me a while to save that money up. I mean, I can get it. You know? I can do it eventually, but, you know, it's just like I can't just go down to the pier and hop a boat and go, which would be really freaking cool if I could.
[02:00:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:00:54] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that would be like the freaking bomb. I asked someone. Hey. Hey. What'd you charge me to to, run me to, please? 400? Sold. You know? Because, I mean, shit. If they're going that way anyway, why not? But I don't know. We'll see. See, these these things roll around in my head all the time like this. And this is, like, rude. This is wrong, man.
[02:01:46] Duuude-Ron :
And they're bouncing off all those marbles. Right? Yep.
[02:01:50] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. They all yeah.
[02:01:53] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Just wanna make sure.
[02:01:56] Rich Chelson:
Well, all all one marble, I think. I I I think I have one marble left. I I I'm not a % sure, though. And don't sell yourselves don't sell yourself short. You only have two. You sure?
[02:02:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, I don't have that.
[02:02:13] Duuude-Ron :
No. I couldn't stay that for sure either.
[02:02:16] Rich Chelson:
It's been ground down a little bit. Oh, so
[02:02:21] Duuude-Ron :
One and a couple broken ones? I don't know.
[02:02:26] Bryan Goodwin:
So Yeah. It's it's 09:00, Ron. What's your tip of the day?
[02:02:32] Duuude-Ron :
Holy
[02:02:34] Rich Chelson:
shit. Yeah. Well a tip? Okay.
[02:02:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I mean, yeah. You can drill holes and shit if you wanna
[02:02:40] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, that's cool too. Disgusting personally, but Okay. Here's the tip of the day. Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you. What do you what do you think?
[02:02:57] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't think that's a yeah. Okay.
[02:03:00] Rich Chelson:
I like that
[02:03:03] Bryan Goodwin:
one. So I do. I've got a tip for you, though, that I came across.
[02:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
A Q tip?
[02:03:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. It's it's an interesting one.
[02:03:13] Duuude-Ron :
It's a website
[02:03:15] Bryan Goodwin:
called TV.garden.
[02:03:20] Rich Chelson:
It's called what? TV.garden.
[02:03:25] Bryan Goodwin:
TV? Like, television. TV.
[02:03:30] Rich Chelson:
Tango Victor. Okay. Thank you. I can understand that. I know that I'm weird. Garden.Dotgarden.
[02:03:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:03:40] Rich Chelson:
That sounds scary.
[02:03:44] Bryan Goodwin:
It is. And I I think it's actually pirate television. So how long this actually lasts, I don't know. But you can go and look up and watch television from anywhere.
[02:04:06] Rich Chelson:
I'm seeing this. Yeah. I wrote yeah. I mean I mean, you know, when you said it and I I I'm sitting here thinking, is this a porn site? Because, I mean, that would actually be I'm I'm actually kinda shocked that someone hasn't thought of that yet. But oh, okay. Yeah. Because, like, if you click on Australia, they got different Australian TV stations.
[02:04:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Okay. And they've got a whole bunch of different, different ones, you know, different categories and stuff. So, you know, I got BBC, and there's a bunch of bunch of of odd, like, Arabic ones that are just kinda kinda throw me. So but, like, she got Afghan Noble TV and Afghan move Nobled movies, which I don't know what the hell they actually are other than Afghan movies. Afghan movies. So it's kind of the just a really weird, bizarre out of you know?
[02:05:11] Rich Chelson:
What? Something like Bollywood?
[02:05:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, except it's Afghani wood. So
[02:05:17] Rich Chelson:
Well, you know, you you know, it's funny. We're talking about Blaze. Blaze has, actually, it looks like about seven or eight, maybe nine channels. Yeah. They have, well, they have lifetime, MTV history, bravo, b e t, x n. So, apparently, they have TV like we do.
[02:05:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Let's see what the Democratic Republic Of Congo has. Meta, Metanonia TV. What do we got here?
[02:05:53] Rich Chelson:
Looks like it's in French.
[02:05:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I haven't heard anybody say anything yet.
[02:06:01] Rich Chelson:
Looks like a movie on. Yeah. I got a movie.
[02:06:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Can't understand them. I can't understand the word he's saying. They need to be speaking English. Why are they gonna speak other come on, man. American. Give us their give us English. Oh, I wonder what Madagascar's got. I wonder if they got a bunch of no channels available in Madagascar. Well, that's just rude. Oh, for looking. France, I bet you got a bunch of naked women around in this one.
[02:06:33] Rich Chelson:
Probably.
[02:06:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Fashion TV, Spain. Kate Moscio's timeless hair. Interested. Oh, okay. Anyhow. Back off. Back off. Hey. I don't wanna hear a ding. Oh, Russia. Someone I bet you they have a show of the most craziest, craziest car crashes.
[02:06:55] Rich Chelson:
Craziest Russian?
[02:06:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, hell. Crazy Russian? If there's anything I like to watch about Russia, it's the damn car crashes. Mhmm. Because, I mean, those people can all freaking drive to save their damn life. And most times, I'm wondering how they keep I think they're just so drunk that they that they're limp whenever they've crashed, so they that's how they survive.
[02:07:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well yeah. Because I've I've watched, YouTube videos Oh, yeah. Of of car crashes and and, like, over in Russia and shit like that. And it's like Mhmm. Those guys make
[02:07:31] Bryan Goodwin:
every American drive like a saint, man. Oh, hell yeah. Of course, it's so funny because I think it's the same guy because he's he's it sounds the same, and he always says the same thing. But it's gotta be driving along and then kind of a slow speed crunch into another car. It sounds like you know, like, that means anything to me. I don't know what the fuck he just says, but it still it's like, you just hear the, well, son of a bitch. I get a fourth time today.
[02:08:03] Rich Chelson:
Right. But yeah. No. That's yeah. Watching watching the Russian drivers and stuff like that, it it's just like, oh my god. It's like, damn.
[02:08:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I'm not I'm not dry and and I'd be afraid to ride in a car with the Oh, I wouldn't be able to go to Russia just for the sheer fact that they can't drive.
[02:08:27] Rich Chelson:
I mean, I'd take a train probably and still be scared.
[02:08:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, hell yeah. Thinking somebody's gonna come along and run into the car. So Right. The car is like, no. Okay.
[02:08:41] Rich Chelson:
But yeah. No. It Tv.garden.
[02:08:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Just kind of a cool cool site that, that popped on my radar.
[02:08:57] Rich Chelson:
Where did you hear about this?
[02:08:59] Bryan Goodwin:
NOAA Agenda Show.
[02:09:00] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[02:09:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Because apparently, over when you get over on Canada, there was let's see. I think it's Afghan Noble TV. I don't know what they were what they were seeing on there at that time, but they were, like, going, holy crow. That's a that's a that that channel got hacked. And I'm, like, gonna look around on it. And, of course, I'm listening to it. You know, I think it was, like, two, three days after because it was the third I think it was a Thursday show Right. That, that that they talked about it, and it was, and I listened I I watched the or listened to the shows on on
[02:09:52] Rich Chelson:
Monday and Tuesday. Okay. And so
[02:09:55] Bryan Goodwin:
it was, so by the time they got around to, I got around to watching, I guess they probably just got it all fixed. But
[02:10:05] Rich Chelson:
or or well, yeah. Yeah. If they got hacked, but that's the thing. You know? Shows in, in, other countries are not censored for the most part. Nope.
[02:10:20] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. They are.
[02:10:22] Bryan Goodwin:
So And like France yeah. Like I said, there's plenty of times you'll turn over to Fran turn over to the France channel, and there's movies. It's like, hey.
[02:10:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[02:10:32] Bryan Goodwin:
Women walking around with their doctors hanging out for just, you know,
[02:10:35] Rich Chelson:
for the sake of having boobies hanging out. I watched a French movie, I don't know, couple years ago. I wasn't expecting it. Oh, yeah. It wasn't just boobies. It was full. I mean, girls It was everything. Yeah. Yeah. They and they're just walking around. I'm like, okay. Alright. I wasn't expecting that. But Oh, I mean, when you go to the French Riviera, you can sit there and
[02:10:58] Bryan Goodwin:
every everybody's everybody's knocking. So
[02:11:02] Rich Chelson:
Right. Well, that's I mean, you see, that's the thing, though. You know? Other parts of the world, they don't they don't have the hang ups like we have.
[02:11:14] Bryan Goodwin:
No. But at the same time, I mean, I really don't you know, looking at boobs is okay. But, you know, if my wife's walking right next to me, it makes it really tough just to look at the boobs. So, you know, I don't want them I don't wanna see them unless it's at very specific times.
[02:11:31] Rich Chelson:
Dude, sunglasses. Sunglasses
[02:11:34] Bryan Goodwin:
are your friend. Sunglasses? I can't do that.
[02:11:37] Rich Chelson:
Yes. You can. You get the flip up kind. The flip up kind. Just don't make any facial expressions. Okay. Or say, honey, look at that. Look at that.
[02:11:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Just walk along. What?
[02:11:54] Rich Chelson:
Nothing nothing nothing nothing. That was internal dialogue, external dialogue. You see, there's a trick. You have to wear sunglasses, and you can't make any type of expression at all. You you you love with your eyes. Don't ask me how I know that. I mean, that's that's that's old advice. That's sage advice. But no. That's I I don't know. I might I might I might have to look at that just just to see what different shows are on. You know?
[02:12:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:52] Rich Chelson:
Because I I mean I mean, some, I would probably laugh at, yeah, just because some of the shows are so so antiquated.
[02:13:05] Duuude-Ron :
Antiquated. Let's see. It's 09:12, nine thirteen PM. That's a pretty big word for this time of night.
[02:13:17] Rich Chelson:
Right. Right. Yeah, I didn't even think about it till you started saying something. It just rolled off my tongue.
[02:13:28] Duuude-Ron :
I don't even know what the hell you're referencing it about. I I already forgot.
[02:13:34] Rich Chelson:
TV shows in other countries.
[02:13:36] Duuude-Ron :
Ah, okay. Yep. Yep. Gotcha.
[02:13:39] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I mean I mean and and, like, and, like, a like, if you watch Korean movies, I mean, they've gotten better. But the old Korean movies, the old Japanese movies
[02:13:49] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, k dramas are pretty cool to watch. Yeah. Some of them are. Some of them. Yeah. Well, yeah.
[02:13:55] Rich Chelson:
You know? But but, yeah, but but, you know, years ago, it was oh my god. The the acting, the, the cinematography, and and and everything about him was, like, you know, back in the stone ages. And it it was just they were funny, honestly, if you ask me. Right. I'm I'm like I'm like, oh my god. How how can you know? But but these people are used to it. You know? This is what they have to watch and and everything. And I'm just like, wow. Okay. We've we actually do a whole lot better. You know? I mean, I would think I would think the rest of the world has has come up a little bit. I don't know because I don't watch much worldly TV. If if I had one of them 500 foot satellites, you know, on the C band, you know, I could maybe get the stations for free.
Yeah.
[02:14:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Remember them old satellites that Oh, yeah. The the big old monster dishes?
[02:15:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That fucking took up your backyard.
[02:15:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. But there may change you gotta do you have to change satellites when you change channels? You'd see the screen go out of out of out of frequency, and it would come in. And there would be the porno channel, and then it'd fade back out in the air coming up.
[02:15:23] Rich Chelson:
Yep. And and this was all in in yeah, this was all in other countries and shit that Oh, yeah. This it was all analog too. There was there was no well, it was digital. Now it was analog. Yeah. It's analog. Yeah. It was all analog. Because, the, the, Fidelity was not Not there. Not there at all. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Four eighty p, maybe. You know? Fact, I don't honestly, can you still find an old
[02:16:03] Bryan Goodwin:
old satellite dish outside? Those old big satellite dishes? Probably not.
[02:16:08] Rich Chelson:
I mean, last time last time I heard of someone trying to get rid of one was oh, fuck. It was probably fifteen, twenty years ago. It was a whole setup too. Satellite dish, the wires, the controller box, everything. And I think I think he was trying to give it away. I don't know if he ever did, but I think he was trying to give it away. So but, yeah, that was, yeah, that was, like, freaking a long time ago. I haven't heard of them since.
[02:16:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I've seen one. I mean, I've seen some broken down ones still sitting in some old, backyard. But yeah.
[02:16:57] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yep. Yeah. You don't see the big ones anymore. Yeah. They still use, like, the 18 inch dish, like, dish network, and what's the other one?
[02:17:10] Rich Chelson:
Oh, hell. DIRECTV.
[02:17:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. DIRECTV. Yo. That's all they make now, but those freaking huge dishes, I you know, my routes take me by it. I think there's, like, three houses that I go by that still have the big dishes, but they're probably only there because they can't get rid of them. Right. Yeah. And they're pretty fucking heavy too. I'm sure.
[02:17:45] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. I would think so because those are actually metal. It's it's not it's not that flimsy shit.
[02:17:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:17:55] Rich Chelson:
You know?
[02:17:57] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. Well, shit. I still got a fucking I got two dishes on my fucking roof.
[02:18:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[02:18:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do.
[02:18:07] Rich Chelson:
Well, do you know, DIRECTV now? Their their service, you can stream through the Internet. You don't even need this. So so Yep. So so, basically, you can pay DIRECTV a hundred and $50 a month to watch the same shit, and and you you could actually get one or two streaming services and get the same shit. Pretty much. Mean? Yep. Pretty much. And and the thing is is, DISH Network still in play? Because I haven't seen no commercials for DISH Network. I've only seen them for DIRECTV.
[02:18:57] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I don't even know if DISH Network is in play anymore. Couldn't answer that one.
[02:19:06] Rich Chelson:
Sure. Yeah. Because you would think what?
[02:19:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, go ahead go ahead with your deal. I'll jump in with this here in a sec.
[02:19:17] Rich Chelson:
I was just I was just gonna say that that, you know, if you saw it. And the thing is, I don't see many commercials for DIRECTV. I have seen a couple within the last year. But, normally, if you saw with DIRECTV, you'd see with DISH Network. And I I got a feeling DISH DISH Network is no longer. Someone probably, bought them up and just shut them down.
[02:19:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Right here.
[02:19:46] Rich Chelson:
So
[02:19:50] Bryan Goodwin:
Helps you spell it correctly. What you trying to spell, dude? DISH Network. Yeah. No. DISH.com is still there. Really? Yep.
[02:20:02] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Alright.
[02:20:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, yeah, the thing I was wowing about is over on, over on the Daily Mail, there is a Colorado city that is set to seize residents' pets, pet cats and dogs.
[02:20:22] Rich Chelson:
What is a that liberal state trying to do in what town?
[02:20:28] Bryan Goodwin:
See here. I'm looking at North, Colorado City is plan plans to seize residents, pets, pet cats and dogs as a bid to limit the number of animals allowed in households. On August 1, pet owners in Northglenn is the name of the town, which is about forty minutes outside of Denver, will not be allowed to have more than four cats and dogs or combination of the two totaling more, no more than four. Wow. So we would end up having something confiscated from our house because we got three cats, two dogs.
[02:21:03] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:21:04] Bryan Goodwin:
The new pet ordinance was recently approved by the city council at the request of the residents. And after extensive research and discussion, the city said, which is basically, one of the, one of I'm sure one of the, city council members was like, I don't like how many cats my neighbor neighbor Susie has, and so we're gonna fix that.
[02:21:29] Rich Chelson:
But but hold it. What okay. What's the big deal if they're inside? Because, basically, everyone keeps the their pets inside now. So, I mean, I mean, how are they gonna enforce this? Are they gonna come to your house, come into your domicile?
[02:21:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, that's what confiscate means.
[02:21:48] Rich Chelson:
No. You see, that's that is that is against the constitution. That's against the law. That's that's against everything.
[02:22:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's what that's how you wanna look at it. They look at it as no. We wanna make sure. This is what their their the new pet ordinance was recently approved by the city council at the request of the residents. And after extensive research and discussion, the city said the restriction was introduced after concerned residents, Otherwise, nosy fucking neighbors complained above excess noise and waste caused by a number of pets in some neighborhoods. So it's, you know, sister Susie, or Susie has had six has three dogs, and she's got four cats.
And it's just the dogs poo everywhere outside, and it's terrible. So, yeah, sister Susie, you know, and and, her her sister, Bertha, better than you, has decided that she needs to make sure that everybody is in within her amount of it should be okay. So excessive noise, to me, dogs barking. Well, build a bridge, dogs bark. So any resident who currently owns, more pets than allowed can apply for a previously owned pet exemption before the ordinance comes into effect. So you probably have to pay about $300 per animal that you're going over the amount. So I'm sure there it's a money making scheme right there. Any rest of us who currently own more than pets, or see, if the applications are filled out before that date, Northland citizens will be allowed to keep their existing, quote, unquote, existing pets.
Residents have, to specify their pet's name, age, sex, breed, date they were bought, brought to the home in the application. So, yeah, you know, old Benny from you know, you got him ten years ago, so make sure you get all that information. Remember that all that information correctly. If locals do not disclose this information and have more than the allowed number of pets in their home, the city will take enforcement action, which includes a potential court order requiring the pet to be removed.
[02:24:07] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god.
[02:24:08] Bryan Goodwin:
This kicks in August 1.
[02:24:11] Rich Chelson:
So everyone, Northglenn, Colorado, don't go there for nothing. There ain't nothing really for Northglenn anyway. I've not have been to Northglenn. So I have. I I I mean I I mean, as soon as you said Northglenn, I knew I knew it was it was right around the Denver Metro Area. And, yeah, I've been up through there. And it just you see, that's why that's why, you know, when you say something about Colorado doing that, you know, it's like it's it's like what liberal town now? Because, I mean, I had read articles in the newspapers up there years ago that that they were giving fines to people and arresting people for catching the rainwater
[02:25:00] Bryan Goodwin:
to water their gardens with. Oh, there's a lot of people that do
[02:25:05] Duuude-Ron :
that. That's and that is total bullshit.
[02:25:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh, it is. It is. Because well, one, in this, I know because I read the article. Colorado thinks the air above the state of Colorado is owned by the state of Colorado.
[02:25:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:25:24] Rich Chelson:
And I'm like, yeah. And yeah. I screwed up years and years ago and lived there for three years, but I got the fuck out. I've drove through, but I won't stay just because that's bullshit.
[02:25:44] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And I'm if I ever go to Colorado, it would just be to visit.
[02:25:49] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. They've got they've got more stupid laws than than anything.
[02:25:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. So but, I mean, that Colorado is the place where, I don't I can't remember what her actual name is, but, she goes by the moniker or screen name of Wicked Witch of the West. And back in February, she ended up moving from California to Colorado. And while she was there, she found a house that, that her and her husband liked. And it had a creek running through it and all that, and she thought it was just the best darn thing. And so she got it, and it was in wintertime, so she didn't realize what what was actually going on or what the what the habits of the folks were. But when the sea had gone through and it started setting up her, her her, her her lawn furniture out there by the, by the the creek that ran through her property and all that. And then when it got warm and people started showing up, people were coming into her yard.
Oh, yeah. I remember seeing that. Out and and or not camping out, but kids were playing and splashing in the water, going across the creek, walking around to picking up her stuff. Some pea folks would go across the creek and go and sit on her lawn furniture. Oh, wow. And Yeah. I remember that. She started throw kind of, you know, going, hey. This is private property, folks, and they really started to throw a fit. Now a lot of pit folks understood, but there was a group of folks who were very incensed about the fact that they couldn't walk on that little patch property.
Now the there's a park that's right next to it to her property. And all that area, they could actually go over and they could get do there, but they're used to this little patch that they used to call the beach. Yeah. And the and she noticed after the after everything happened, she realized why the the land was and the grass was so beat away from that area. That's because there were so many people that would come and hang out in that area. Okay. And, the city the actual city was trying to sue her into making, into making her, give up the property, and she was, like, going she was fighting back. She was going fighting tooth and nail. And and, I mean, she it was a good two, three years, and, you know, you had the the again, the the sister Bertha better than yous. They start up a little Facebook group and wanting to try to come up with ways on how they could get her to, you know, make her, leave the area or give up her property or whatever.
And it was just this big ordeal big thing, and then again, it was Colorado that, that was, that was doing this. And, yeah, yeah, Colorado. God. They're just just a big pain in the freaking ass. Pretty area, but damn, there's a lot of stupid stupid liberals in that area.
[02:29:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. No. There is. And and that's the thing. Colorado thinks that that if if they wanna go somewhere and they don't care where it is, they're allowed to go. You know? And and the thing is the the city governments, county governments roll over and, you know, let them do it. And it's just it's wrong. You know? Because, I mean, even though even though that woman was from California, that didn't mean nothing. It's the fact that that was her property. Yep. And she had every right to say no.
[02:29:48] Bryan Goodwin:
And then But they were not accepting the fact that they she was they were being told no. You can't walk here. And, I mean, they were trying to say she was she was threatening the kids that would walk on her property, and she would try roping it off. And people come along and cut the rope and and everything else. And, I mean, it was just this insane crazy just I would've I mean, people would have been afraid if I was there because I would eventually have just started doing potshots with with soft air pistol.
[02:30:20] Rich Chelson:
Right. Oh, no. You shit, dude. You'd have been thrown in fucking jail in the Supermax. That's just outside of Denver.
[02:30:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, well, that's it. I would I I would be camouflaged, and I'd be moving around. I I wouldn't let them see you.
[02:30:37] Rich Chelson:
No. I hey. You can hire security and and charge a mission and charge it, like, you know, $50 a head. And you know?
[02:30:49] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you you could also have, you know, a shitload of trip wires attached to
[02:30:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:30:57] Duuude-Ron :
The The the the shotgun shells. Blanks. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
[02:31:02] Rich Chelson:
Oh my god. You you would get sued for so many therapist bills. It'd be unreal, man. I know. It'd be awesome, wouldn't it? Oh, it would. I mean, yeah. I'm not saying it wouldn't. But or or you could get those high pitched whistles that are rigged on a tripwire. I Oh my god. Oh, yeah. You would have yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'd be in court for years. And some stupid ass judge would stand on the side with the people. It's like, you have to let them on your property. No. I don't. They ain't paying for my house.
[02:31:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's what they were trying to say. It's like, well, we had agreement beforehand. It's like, well, no. It wasn't disclosed to me. So she actually even also turned around and sued the previous owners for lack of disclosure.
[02:31:51] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:31:52] Bryan Goodwin:
So, I mean, yeah, she's you don't fuck with her with, with that lady. I forget what her name is. But
[02:31:59] Rich Chelson:
Right. Yeah. No. I I had never I had never heard I had never heard about that. But I believe it just because it's Colorado. And trust me, I've heard of enough stupid shit that they've done just causing people to bend to their will. Yeah. And it's like, no. And that's why that that's why I was like, no. I'll never live there. And if you live there, you're stupid. I mean, yes. It's beautiful. I agree with you. It's a gorgeous state. Oh my god. It's beautiful. But
[02:32:42] Bryan Goodwin:
mhmm.
[02:32:46] Rich Chelson:
So, yeah, that just
[02:32:54] Bryan Goodwin:
But, yeah, I mean, it's and that's just it. I mean, a lot of people I don't know why people have decided, oh, I'm not going to accept private property anymore. Of course, at the same time, I think it would, if anybody I come across anybody who wants to throw a fit about private property. Okay. Fine. I'm gonna just come over to your house, and I'm just gonna come in, and I'm gonna do what I want inside your house whenever I want because, you know, no such thing as private property. Right?
[02:33:24] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:33:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I mean, if it doesn't benefit them, they don't wanna they don't wanna, don't wanna care about it. You know?
[02:33:37] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. No. No. And you see, that's the thing. It's it's you know, it's like, you know you know, people like that, you know, charge them. Yeah. You know, if they walk in your house, it's $500. And then, oh, I well, I ain't got $500. Okay. Where do you live? What's your name? What's your address? All that. Put a lien against their property. Yep. So they can never sell it until they pay you and then add interest. You know? I mean, I you see, that's the thing, though. Most people won't fight. They'll just they'll just roll over. No. Fuck it. We'll move. Why?
You wanted to live there, so live there. You know? Yeah. You have to fight, but I'm so tired. No. Well, then shut up about it. Yeah. It just it it it just I don't get it. You know what I mean?
[02:34:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. I don't get it either.
[02:34:44] Rich Chelson:
Because yeah. Let let someone come on my property and say, hey. I'm a live in your backyard. I said, the fuck if you are.
[02:34:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you can try, but get ready. I noticed somebody's in my backyard. It's not supposed to be there. They're gonna have a something's gonna be aerated.
[02:35:02] Rich Chelson:
Right. I'd be like, well, here. Hold on. Let me let me let you talk to my buddy, twenty gauge. And if you two can come to an agreement, I'll be okay with it.
[02:35:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Let me let you have a conversation with with two guys, Smith and Wesson. Right.
[02:35:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Mister Moth and Berg.
[02:35:30] Rich Chelson:
Now you see, though you see, that's why you know, I I mean yeah. I know I know. There's there's actually a lot of places because, like, up in Seattle and Portland and all that, they've got those problems up there too. Oh, yeah. But, but, like like, down here, oh, no. Everybody, pretty much I mean, I'm not saying we're totally innocent, but everybody pretty much respects everybody else's stuff. You know? Somewhat I mean, yeah, they don't I mean, my lawnmower sits outside. I got shit sitting outside. No one takes a shit. You know? Right. You know, no one comes up on my porch and steals my cigarettes.
You know? In fact in fact, people walk by and believe me, there's there's freaking homeless people walking up from the beach, walking up my street, you know, in the middle of the night. They just walk. They don't they don't try anything. So, you know, down here, I don't know. I just I just I just kinda noticed that people just kinda leave you alone
[02:36:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:36:48] Rich Chelson:
Which is good. I like it. You know? Makes it kinda nice. But, yeah, that's why I I won't I won't live in Colorado
[02:37:01] Duuude-Ron :
ever again. Why not?
[02:37:05] Rich Chelson:
Like I said, it's oh, man. It's beautiful up there.
[02:37:10] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah.
[02:37:12] Rich Chelson:
You know, especially in the fall, just starting winter when the snow was getting on top of the mountains. Oh my god. It was gorgeous. But yeah. No. Trying to tell me that, you know, I can't freaking collect rainwater or, you know, I can't fart outside or well, like, say, was it is it Golden or Boulder? One of them towns up there for a while, they passed a law to where you you could not smoke within the city limits.
[02:37:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. I mean, I would I'm serious.
[02:37:56] Rich Chelson:
Inside, outside, it didn't matter. You could not smoke outside in the city limits of I wanna say it was Golden. Golden, Colorado. But that was a long time ago, and it's probably still enforced. I wouldn't doubt it. And I'm like, yeah. Never gonna go there. You know?
[02:38:23] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And if they got the law enforcement to be able to enforce all that, yeah, more power to you.
[02:38:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, they don't. But but you see, that's the thing. That's where they don't need a large law enforcement. They just need, the homeowners or the people that live in town to rat you out. See, that's the thing. You know? People think, oh, we need we need law enforcement. You know? We need 5,000 police officers. No. You don't. You just do like, well, like Hitler did in World War two. You get the German people or you get people to rat out who is hiding the the Jews. Yeah. You know, basically make it if you don't tell us someone's doing wrong, you're getting punished, you know, besides them.
[02:39:26] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. They had family members. Yeah. Ratten out family members.
[02:39:35] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Right? Oh, yeah. And and you see, that's the thing. Some of these states, you know, or these towns, these large towns well, I mean, hell, for years, it was, what, the mid nineties, I wanna say, when I was driving, or the big slogan was see something, say something. The federal government wanted you to rat on people doing things wrong, and it didn't matter what it was. Now, yes, violent crimes say something about it. Okay? I'm I'm not saying, you know, to keep your mouth shut on that, but, you know Yeah. You know, someone's smoking a doobie, just fucking let them go.
[02:40:19] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Knock knock yourself out.
[02:40:22] Rich Chelson:
Right.
[02:40:23] Duuude-Ron :
Smoke too if you want.
[02:40:25] Rich Chelson:
Right? No. No. They was they they was wanting they was wanting us to tell on our fellow citizens.
[02:40:39] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:40:42] Rich Chelson:
So yeah. Yeah. It just I don't know, man. There's a lot of shit that's happened and still happening, apparently, because Colorado wants to make sure where what? North Glen. Only four animals. I'd be like, no. I'd have told that woman to go get fucked.
[02:41:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:41:07] Rich Chelson:
Seriously. And, I mean, you see and and and you see, that's where that's where the, the, the city government just rolls over. You know what I mean? They just freaking roll over. Well, it's brought to our attention. We need to do some no. You don't. You don't have to do it. I can promise you. I don't know. I just it just pisses me off that people are are shit. I don't I don't think New York's that bad. I mean, they're bad, but I don't think they're that bad. I could be wrong, though.
[02:42:07] Duuude-Ron :
I wouldn't have. Well, I couldn't I couldn't tell you. Never been to New York.
[02:42:12] Rich Chelson:
You ought to go just once, man. It's it's a culture shock. I'm gonna tell you that right now. It's a culture shock, but it is actually kinda cool.
[02:42:30] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to go to the tourist spots, you know, Times Square and you know?
[02:42:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. Go to South Manhattan, dude. Get off the beaten path. Go to South Manhattan, man, about 03:00 in the morning.
[02:42:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Don't There you go.
[02:42:50] Rich Chelson:
You don't know what you're gonna see, but by golly, you're gonna get an. I still remember that. That was oh, fuck. What was that? 34 years ago? South Manhattan. We had to go down. Well, I wanna say it was a female, but I wasn't a % sure. All I know is we had gone past Times Square going down, and we had to go down to where, and make a right hand turn and then come back up so, so we could get to where we were unloading. And as we were turning, I was driving team, and I was driving with this guy. And I'm I'm barely awake looking at all this, and there was a bunch of people on the sidewalk just standing there. And all of a sudden, I heard, hey.
And I just happened to look over, and whatever this was flipped their coat open until the biggest pair of titties I had seen in my youth, okay, was just bouncing out there. And I'm trying to register what I'm seeing. The guy driving was like, Tads. Look. Tads. I'm like, just fucking drive, dude. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. I mean, he was flipping out. Right? He was like, oh my god. You know? Like, it's like he like he almost wanted to stop the truck and go run and play with them titties. Oh, yeah. I'm just like, no. Just drive. Well, we get up the road to to where we're unloading, get backed in, which the trailer was backed in. The truck was at a 90 degree angle.
And Oh, that's always fun. Oh, yeah. Ain't it? And, we were blocking the whole fucking street. And, Damn. Oh oh, yeah. Cops was driving on the sidewalk. A city bus drove on the sidewalk around us. No one said nothing. They just acted like it's another day. And there was this big old box over because we was right under this bridge, and I I forget which bridge it was. It wasn't a. No. I think it was a GW Bridge. Either way, we was right under a bridge, and there was this big old box and a recliner sitting right next to it. And I'm like, what the fuck is that?
And and and and a daylight rolled around, and I'm still I'm still trying to grasp what what this big old cardboard box and this recliner have in common. Well, once daylight hit, I saw a black man, an old black man come crawling out of that box and sit in that recliner. I just sit in there enjoying the morning in the recliner. And then, excuse me, I saw this hot little black girl come out, look around, and I'm just like, oh, wow. Okay. And then she walks off up the street, comes back. And then it wasn't ten, twenty minutes later, I see another black man coming, and he goes into the box.
And then a little while later, he comes out.
[02:46:39] Bryan Goodwin:
How big is this box? It was a pretty good sized box there. Apparently so. I mean, gee whiz. It's either got Harry Potter, statement on it or or something. I mean, how many people keep popping in and out of this damn thing? I'm
[02:46:54] Rich Chelson:
dude. Okay. Look. I'd I did not go up to the box and and inspect the inside, so I I I don't know, I mean, but it it it was actually a a pretty big box. Like what? Like a refrigerator box? Maybe a maybe a couple of those. Either way, I don't know exactly. All all I know is I is is after the first guy come out, I I saw I saw a couple more go in and come out, and and I was just like now mind you, I'm 21 years old. I had been in the military. I'd seen some stuff there, but I'm still naive as fuck. Okay? So I'm still not grasping what's going on here.
Well, this girl is standing across the street from our truck, okay, leaning up against this this garage door and just standing there, and the guy that drove us in gets out and goes talk to her. I'm like, Larry, what the fuck are you doing, man? He's like, oh, I'm I'm a go talk to her. Dude, whatever. I'm staying here. I'm staying in a truck. And because because this here is my first time in New York City. And, he comes back. He says, dude, $25. You got $25? I said, no. I said, for what? He's like, you can get sucked and fucked for $25, man.
Oh, hell no. I I said, dude, dude, did you see that mother? He says, yeah. But, hey. I'm telling you $25. I said, get after it, Ted, man. And I don't he didn't leave, so he didn't he did not partake. But I will say that girl was really pretty, but, yeah, this this there's an old guy, and I don't know if it was her daddy, her granddaddy, who it was, but he was sitting in a recliner all all morning. And she was having men come and visit. And, yeah, I was never so glad to be done unloading in New York City because I told Larry, I said, let's get the fuck out of here.
I was like, nope. Ain't doing it. But yeah. And and then and then we had to drive back up through Times Square, which was cool as shit.
[02:49:29] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now they have the, what the hell is it, the fucking city tax now that you get taxed like, the taxi drivers, if they're in Manhattan, they're getting to a daily tax, just to drive in the city.
[02:49:48] Rich Chelson:
Really?
[02:49:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[02:49:50] Rich Chelson:
Good god.
[02:49:52] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It's called a what the hell is that tax called? Traffic congestion tax, I believe. Yeah. If you're coming into the city, you're gonna get charged to, drive in the city.
[02:50:13] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[02:50:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:50:15] Rich Chelson:
That's I I mean I mean I mean, the taxis need to be in there.
[02:50:21] Duuude-Ron :
I mean Yep. But all the delivery trucks that come in there getting charged fucking tax for dry for driving in the fucking city.
[02:50:31] Rich Chelson:
They pay a hundred bucks to cross the fucking GW bridges of this.
[02:50:37] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And guess what? As soon as they cross it, they get taxed to fucking come into the city.
[02:50:44] Rich Chelson:
Holy crap.
[02:50:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:50:47] Rich Chelson:
That's insane, man.
[02:50:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. I'll give you that.
[02:50:52] Rich Chelson:
I mean, that's just yeah. See? I mean, well, if I go to New York City, I ain't driving. I ain't taking a bus either.
[02:51:04] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Yeah.
[02:51:06] Rich Chelson:
I don't know how I'm gonna get back to New York City, but if I ever go back, it's not gonna be under my own power because I'm not gonna get taxed for driving in the city.
[02:51:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[02:51:19] Rich Chelson:
But, I mean, seriously, New York City, you ought to go there just to see it just at least once. I mean, I've been in New York City so many times. It's unreal. But it is it is actually a cool place. You in amongst millions of people, and they don't give $2 who you are. They don't even see you. Literally, they don't even see you.
[02:51:49] Duuude-Ron :
Yep.
[02:51:50] Rich Chelson:
No. It's it's it's actually pretty cool. But so, yeah, you need to go to, New York City and, you know, go out to Colorado and visit. Don't stay too long. Freaking liberal side will wear off on you.
[02:52:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. What is it? Oh, yeah. They in the, in the song, that, that it's called, everybody's free to to wear sunscreen. The, Baz Luhrmann is the, the guy reciting this, this I I wouldn't call it a poem. It's just kind of a kind of a list of things to do, after you've after you graduated from high school. And, one of them is or two of them are, live in, New York City once, but leave before makes you hard. Live in Southern or Northern California once, but leave before makes you soft. So so yeah. Yeah. New York City will part it will harden you up in no time flat.
[02:53:15] Rich Chelson:
Well, okay. When he says quick go. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But but when he says Northern California, where is he? You know? What's he calling California. Like, well, that's why I'm asking. What's he calling Northern California? Because Northern California, okay, above San Francisco is pretty much the country. Right. I mean I mean, there's still California, but it's it's it's a laid back because I've I've been up through Napa Valley and all all there and everything, and it's and it's really, really laid back. It's not it's not anything like San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Stockton.
[02:54:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. You know, anything like that. That's where the whole the whole thing comes from. It's just it's really laid back. I mean, come on. Northern California has got a got a town called Weed.
[02:54:15] Rich Chelson:
Okay. I see. I didn't know that. I didn't know that, but now it's good.
[02:54:20] Bryan Goodwin:
It's it's rare. Yeah. But, I mean, it's just the you know, up in the what is the Golden Triangle or the or the Emerald Triangle is what they call it, I think, in that area where they do a lot of the a lot of the weed growing.
[02:54:36] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I'm not sure. Could be. But So Yeah. No. Yeah. Northern California is is honestly, I enjoyed really enjoyed Northern California and Southern Oregon. Southern Oregon is is about as country as you can get.
[02:54:51] Bryan Goodwin:
I believe that.
[02:54:53] Rich Chelson:
They still weird, though.
[02:54:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They're way weird.
[02:54:57] Rich Chelson:
You know, I mean, I'm I mean, it's not as bad as Portland or or Seattle. My god. But, I mean, I mean, I mean, once you get out of Portland, once you get out of Seattle, the rest of the state's not too bad.
[02:55:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I
[02:55:16] Rich Chelson:
I don't know if I'd live there the rest of my life. But Unless you're stationed up in Fort Lewis.
[02:55:22] Duuude-Ron :
Well There was there was four places that I never wanted to be stationed at while I was in the military. And three of them, I never did. No. Four of them, I never did out of five. Four Lewis, never wanted to be stationed there because I just that's cold, rainy weather all the fucking time. No. Thank you. Right. That's okay. Fort Drum, too fucking cold. Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri because there ain't fucking shit there.
[02:56:05] Rich Chelson:
Well, now it's Central Missouri, dude. There ain't nothing. Yeah. I know.
[02:56:10] Duuude-Ron :
Not at all. Yeah. Never got stationed in Alaska. Thank goodness. Too fucking cold. Now I've been up there for Northern Warfare Training School. That was kinda cool. Got to learn got to learn how to snow ski up there, but, yeah, we hit ground. It was negative one forty three. A little fucking cold. Just a little. Right? Now it was a dry cold. Thank goodness. But cold nevertheless.
[02:56:46] Rich Chelson:
Cold is cold. I don't care if it's wet or dry.
[02:56:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No shit. And then Fort Hood, I never wanted to get a station too, but that was my last duty station. So and then my dumbass fucking bought a house and stayed here like a dumbass. And one day, I'll get back to the East Coast, Someplace in North Carolina, South Carolina. Well, there you go, man. Ready? You Hell, maybe. Yeah. There you go. Alright. Fuck. I'm gonna need shit. I need fucking more than one U Haul.
[02:57:35] Rich Chelson:
You need a garage sale.
[02:57:40] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I could do that, but I think the next owners of the house wanna have the garage. So I said, I couldn't sell the garage. So I have to have well, I couldn't even have a yard sale because, you know, I home the new homeowners wouldn't like this yard to be sold either. So, you know, I guess I'm kind of in a rock and a hard place. Yeah. But, yeah, you're right. There's a lot of shit I gotta get rid of. Sell the house lock, stock, and barrel and say, here you go. Merry Christmas. Oh, my god.
[02:58:16] Rich Chelson:
Why not, man?
[02:58:21] Duuude-Ron :
I don't think anybody wanna fucking walk into my garage. Jesus. That's just a nightmare.
[02:58:28] Rich Chelson:
You never know. I mean I mean I mean, someone go through there, and they might have a fleet of Jeeps or know people with Jeeps and be like, hey. Come get these parts, man. They're free.
[02:58:41] Duuude-Ron :
God. Let's see. I got a front drive an extra front drive shaft. I used to have a rear drive shaft, but I gave that to somebody else that needed one. Fucking the carpets for two Jeeps. I got all kinds of fucking shit in my goddamn garage when it comes to Jeeps. I got an extra muffler. You need a muffler, Rick? No. Rick? I'm I'm good. I'm good. Okay. Alright.
[02:59:11] Rich Chelson:
I'm I'm I'm thank you for thinking of me, but, yeah, I'm good for now.
[02:59:17] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I got an extra muffler. I don't know why the fuck I grabbed that, but I still got it in the garage. Yeah. I'm just pathetic. Now yeah. I'm a hoarder. Yeah. And pro and good percentage of the stuff in the garage is, Chelsea's and the grandkids.
[02:59:44] Rich Chelson:
So Tell them you got them out. If you don't come get it, it's gone. Or or sell it back to them when you have a garage sale.
[03:00:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[03:00:04] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know it's a dick move, but it's something I do. Hey. I told you you couldn't get it. Now you're gonna pay me for it if you want it that bad. Recoup some of that money, man.
[03:00:20] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I know. Oh, I gotcha. I understand.
[03:00:27] Rich Chelson:
I mean, it might might only be $2, but $2 is $2, dude. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Shit. For you, it's that's a pack and a cigarettes plus.
[03:00:40] Duuude-Ron :
That's right.
[03:00:42] Rich Chelson:
See? So $2, man. $2.
[03:00:45] Duuude-Ron :
Pack a cigarette and some change.
[03:00:48] Rich Chelson:
By god.
[03:00:50] Duuude-Ron :
For you, that's a quarter of a pack, third of a pack.
[03:00:56] Rich Chelson:
No. Mine no. Mine's, $2. Little more than a half pack because mine's only $3.50 a pack.
[03:01:08] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[03:01:10] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[03:01:11] Duuude-Ron :
Now do you have any now I know in Oklahoma, they have the the stores that are owned by the Native Americans. Yeah. You got the Indian smoke shops. Yeah.
[03:01:24] Rich Chelson:
They still ain't cheap, dude.
[03:01:26] Bryan Goodwin:
No. I mean, there's they've got cartons of cigarettes that are over a hundred bucks.
[03:01:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. It's yeah. The, yeah, Oklahoma has gone stupid on cigarettes. And even Okay. And, even on the reservations, no. It's not cheap anymore in Oklahoma
[03:01:44] Duuude-Ron :
at all. Oh, okay. Well, when I was there, it was I could get a carton of Marlboros for, like, $20.22 dollars a carton, but that was in the, the latter nineties. Yeah. Yeah. Again and, yeah, over in when I was over in Germany, they had the, the British p x, and you can buy a card carton of Marlboros for $10 because you weren't paying any tax.
[03:02:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, like, Bryan said, yeah, Marlboros are between 80 and a hundred because I remember even even the cigarettes I buy, the 24 sevens Uh-huh. Carton of those, I had to buy some, not last time I was in Oklahoma, time before that. I had I had to buy a cart, and I think I spent, like, right at $60.60 bucks. And I was like, oh my god. So, yeah, you can't live in Oklahoma and smoke cheap anymore. Nope. Oh,
[03:03:09] Duuude-Ron :
okay.
[03:03:10] Rich Chelson:
So yeah.
[03:03:13] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[03:03:14] Duuude-Ron :
well and where I was coming to on that question, does Mississippi have anything like that?
[03:03:21] Rich Chelson:
Well, my cigarettes normally, mine run 35 a carton. There's another brand that sold by Circle K, and, they're $40 a cart. And that's the cheapest I have found.
[03:03:42] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[03:03:43] Rich Chelson:
So so about $40. And this is for the cheap, cheap cigarettes. It's not the cheap ones like you smoke, but, you know, I'm not sure what those run. I I think those run, like, $2.50 a pack.
[03:03:59] Duuude-Ron :
The stuff that I smoke? Yeah. Okay. So yeah. No. No. Which is basically swisher sweets.
[03:04:08] Rich Chelson:
With a filter.
[03:04:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. It's it's cigar tobacco versus cigarette tobacco.
[03:04:16] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I know. I I used to smoke them a lot because they were cheap. Yeah. Yep.
[03:04:21] Duuude-Ron :
But Guess what? They're the cheapest shit out there.
[03:04:25] Rich Chelson:
Mhmm. No. I know. I I I used to roll my own cigarettes with cigar tobacco. I could get a pound for, you know, like, $11.
[03:04:36] Duuude-Ron :
So Oh, there you go.
[03:04:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. I've been down that road many times. Yeah. I'll go back. And and I ain't got a problem going back if I have to. But if I ain't got to, uh-huh. Sorry, house. I ain't doing it.
[03:04:55] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because the bad thing about it is you have to pick out all the seeds and the stems and, you know, that kind of shit.
[03:05:02] Rich Chelson:
Well, yeah. You have to work at it a little bit. Enrolling 20 cigarettes is a pain in the ass.
[03:05:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[03:05:14] Rich Chelson:
So but if I have to, I'll do it again.
[03:05:20] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah.
[03:05:22] Rich Chelson:
In fact, I ought to buy some and just keep it because it keeps forever. Even after you open it, it keeps for freaking ever.
[03:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But,
[03:05:40] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I could get probably four or five cartons out of a pound if I roll them light.
[03:05:53] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, then when I used to smoke Marlboros, I'd pack the hell out of them. I mean, you know, get all the air out. Shit. I probably I get packed from a quarter of the top of the paper would be empty. Yep.
[03:06:16] Rich Chelson:
But you have to suck four times as hard. I don't suck that well, dude. That's not what I'm built for. I puff.
[03:06:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't suck. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Puff. Puff. Pass.
[03:06:41] Rich Chelson:
So Bryan.
[03:06:44] Bryan Goodwin:
It is after 10:00. So, yeah, it's time for us to start getting this big big old bird, landed. So, anyhow, to the folks who are listening to the show right now, I wanna say thank you so very much for taking the time out of your day, night, evening, or where where it is you're traveling right now, to, to hear what in the world three three goofy guys have got to got to say about whatever it is comes to their mind. Yeah. Sometimes we get ourselves all wound up. We get twisted around the axle. We we make comments that we make, and then other times, we sit there and we just make, make up stupid shit. We just have a good old time and and laugh about it. But however it is you wanna wanna look at it, I wanna say thank you very much for listening because we are just three good friends. We have a great time talking. We have been, getting together and talking for quite a few years. And, we said, heck, let's turn this into a podcast because, well, why not? It's something else we can do. And, and so we we've done that.
Our show is a a value for value show and love the fact that we are able to run it as a value for value show. We don't have to worry so much about, hey. Are we going to be able to get sponsors? Or what if what if we say something the sponsors don't like? We don't have to worry about it. Our sponsors are y'all. You're the sponsor. If you wanna wanna provide a, a a value to us, we're glad to glad to take it. That value could be seen in in the means of time, talent, or treasure. Those are the three types of values that you can contribute to the show. You can give your time so you can clear out, fill out, chapter information and set up the chapter and chapter art for us, for each episode of the show. If you're good at graphic arts or you're you're good at something in particular and you have a good strong talent for something, you can also help us out with by doing that. Maybe you wanna be able to create, chapter art or or, episodic art, more than welcome to do so. You can do that and be able to, send it over to us, and we would gladly accept it and have it applied to the different, different chapters and and for the, the cover of each episode.
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And so if, you have any idea of something that you'd like for us to talk about, you can always, shoot a, a email over to me. That's CircleCast. That's c I r c l e c a s t, just like how Goofy Cast is fishing line. [email protected], or you could shoot an email over to Rich. That's r Chelsea, c h e l s o n, r Chelsea at Gmail dot com. Also, if you wanna reach out and see what type of, of super secret, jobs the dude's up to because I still have a friend who thinks you're, you're somehow tied up with with CIA. You're a spook of some sorts there there, Ron. Don't know why, but he still thinks you're you're a spook.
And, and so if you wanna get ahold of him, then just shoot either me or or Rich a an email. We'll get it over to him, and he'll he'll reply on the show next time. So, guys, with that, again, thank you again for everything you're doing. If you, are interested in a modern podcast app, which is a, offers a lot more value and features to a that our podcast actually displays than many other people, are able to witness and and experience because most people are listening on Spotify. Spotify, okay, they they provide a means of being able to listen to a podcast, but you're there to your show is there basically just to be have something so they could put advertising against.
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[03:13:24] Duuude-Ron :
Oh,
[03:13:25] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Not too much. Just, thank you for listening, and, glad you're still coming back. And, yeah, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your loved ones, because we'd like to get you know, everyone here is because like I said like like Bryan said, we we talk about anything and everything, and we give you our points of view and what we think. And we're not saying we're a % right, but you know what? We don't care. We just like to have fun and just it it it gives us a release, you know, from from everything that's pent up and all like this. And so so for us to sit and bitch about something or or get wound up like, we did earlier this evening, that's that's what we like to do. You know? So it it just it just helps us. But no. Thank you again for listening, and, come back next week because we'll be here next week. And like Bryan said, if you get the True Fans podcast, you can catch us live because, we do stream this live every week. And, if you get the True Fans app, it'll send you a notification and say we're live so you can listen to us. And send us an email.
Send it to either Bryan at [email protected] or me at [email protected]. Because when we're doing this, we have our emails open. And so, yeah, we'll read the email right on the air, and tell us what you like, don't like, what you wanna hear, what you don't wanna hear. Not saying we're gonna listen, but you never know. We just might. So other than that, that's that's about all I got. Thank you again for listening, and, you know, make sure you keep coming back and tell your friends because we got, like, what, three more episodes or, yeah, three more after this one, and we'll be doing, our fifty second episode, which is a year.
So so yeah. And, actually, next week is or the week after next is actually a year since we started, but we took a couple breaks for the holidays. So but, yeah, our fifty second show will be, just a couple weeks away. So, yeah, tell your friends and share it out. We'd love we'd love for y'all to come listen to us. So with that, dude, what you got, man?
[03:15:54] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I think you and Bryan pretty well covered everything. You know? Again, thanks for everybody that has, tuned in and listened to us and enjoyed our conversation. And, you know, just like to hear what we have to say whether you like, agree, disagree, or otherwise. You know, again, glad you join in each week to, listen to us ramble.
[03:16:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely. So alright. Well, guys, I wanna say thanks again for for y'all coming on and sitting around and talking and having a good old time, and, we will see y'all next week. So till then, bye.
[03:16:42] Rich Chelson:
Make sure your cheese don't slide off your cracker. Exactly.
[03:16:45] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. That's right. It was a crime.
[03:16:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. And peace out.
[03:16:52] Bryan Goodwin:
See you guys.
[03:16:53] Rich Chelson:
See you guys later. Bye.
[03:16:56] Duuude-Ron :
Alright. Bye.
Introduction and Hosts' Greetings
Career Changes and Personal Reflections
Health Discussions and Dietary Beliefs
Tariffs and Economic Concerns
Political Rants and Economic Policies
Luxury Cars and Maintenance Costs
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Social Media and Trolling
Studies on Beauty and Political Ideology
Birth Control and Its Effects
Ham Radio Contest Experiences
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Travel Experiences and City Life
Pet Ownership Laws in Colorado
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