Episode 183 - Behind the Mic: How to be successful here at JFW

Music. What's up, JFW family? Welcome back to the Channel 23 podcast.

The purpose of this podcast is to reach out and touch the fleet, to engage and inform everyone with all things JFW. Good morning, men. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, JFW family. If you don't recognize their voices, we got Jim White, Brother Dave White, and Super Dave Weldon in Channel 23 studio. Boom. It's just a mic drop right there. The podcast is over. Thanks for listening. Say the creed and get on it. All right. Let's go ahead and knock this pledge out.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Father God, we thank you for the opportunity to go out and do some trucking today. We pray for the safety of our fleet, all of their families, and all the other families and individuals we come across in the road today.

We pray for patience in making good, safe decisions. We pray to be accident-free and that we all make it back to the comfort of our homes this evening. We pray for healing and 100% recovery for all of our family members that are ill. No matter what, we trust you, God, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. As a reminder, everything you hear on today's podcast is just the men in this room's expressed opinion. Our sponsors don't pay us to say these things. Episode 182 had 295 downloads.

We are at 95.1 thousand total downloads and we have 756 followers. That's awesome. So did you guys hear about the guy? He won the lotto. So he goes home and tells his wife, hey, babe, what if I won the lotto? What would you do? She was like, I would take half the money and leave.

He's like, cool, I won 40. Here's 20. Get out. Oh, man. It's time for the dad joke challenge. Yeah. Did you guys hear about the lady that ran an ad in the paper for a husband? She was just, she was desperate. She goes, I, I need a husband that doesn't beat me. Can't chase after me when I go out with my friends and needs to be good in bed. So she runs the ad in the paper and next day the doorbell rings. She goes to the front door, answers the door. Here's a guy in a wheelchair, no arms, no legs.

She's like, I'm sorry, can I help you? And he's like, I'm here to answer your ad for a husband. You ran the ad, right? He goes, got no arms. I can't beat you. I got no legs. I can't chase you when you go out with your friends. And she starts to cry and she goes, yeah, but I wanted somebody good in bed. He goes, I rang the doorbell, didn't I? That's good. Nice. Nice. I don't know if that was dad joke appropriate, but ran across that one. He's on this podcast, right?

I've been feeling rough and tough and rowdy lately. And I thought, gosh, I should look up some Chuck Norris jokes just to see how tough I am. Turns out I'm not nearly as tough as Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris doesn't flush the toilet. He scares the shit out of it. When Chuck Norris was born, he drove his mom home from the hospital. When Chuck Norris slices onions, the onions cry. Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.

When the boogeyman goes to sleep at night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris uses ribbed condoms inside out. So he gets the pleasure. Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris doesn't actually write books. The words assemble themselves out of fear. And last but not least, least, death once had a near Chuck Norris experience. That's great. That's how tough Chuck Norris is. The only thing about that, Dave, is how many of our young listeners.

I was going to lead with that, Jim. For those of you who have never heard of Chuck Norris, look him up. Yeah, look him up. I did that. Sam knows him. It was a bit of a test, but it might not be fair with me at home. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, yeah. Yep. The Ram charger that was buried in the dirt. Yeah, right. Yeah. So I've got a few inappropriate jokes, but you'll be the judge of that, I guess. Awesome.

Do you know you know when you're getting old, when everything either dries up or leaks? Ah. And what is the difference between men and a government bond? The bonds mature.

A three-year-old boy is in the bath and he was examining his testicles and he asked mommy are these my brains and mom said no not yet son i like that one that's awesome all right new employees we got javier solis cisco chacon juan torres they're new drivers in the fleet welcome men Welcome, everybody And then we got Miguel Medina joined us in the shop He's part of the second shift The night crew Awesome welcome Miguel, celebrations anniversaries big one here casey guthrie hit five years on

monday happy anniversary casey happy anniversary it's been a real pleasure that was pretty close to his birthday because what now yeah saturday yeah when i when i wrote the outline i thought i made a mistake i'm like wait a second he just had this last week yeah you know and then uh even bigger rick showtime gray 16 years today ah happy anniversary way to go rick good job buddy i I think he enjoyed his first year here.

That might be pushing it. If you talk to him, he's a little grumpy once in a while. I had to laugh. That's when he was happy. Did you see the rock trailer chat yesterday? Uh-uh. The pictures that were in it? Uh-uh. Everybody's sending pictures of their clean trailers, you know, like they do. Rick sends a picture. He's at the pool of his Coors Light in a koozie can. In Arizona? With a koozie, yeah. That's awesome. Yep.

Good deal. shout outs this is huge fabio has officially joined the navy and he leaves for boot camp on july 1st wow good for you fabio yeah way to go fabio quite the accomplishment yes he just achieved his citizenship about six months ago yeah roughly david yes yeah fabio yeah yeah Yep, and he turns right around and joins the Naval Reserves. Nah, he's been a citizen longer than that, I thought. Wasn't that Georgie?

Oh, Georgie did, yeah. About six months ago? Yeah, Fabio is, I mean, I might be wrong by a few months, but. It doesn't seem like it's been that long, Chad. Anyway, either way, he is an American and he is in the Navy. Yes. And he looks really happy about it. Oh, funny. I'm like, Fabio, why didn't he look so mad in this picture? And he said, it's a sailor looking. There you go. Well, thank you for your service, Father. Absolutely. He's an angry sailor.

We'll lose the Navy jokes for later, Fabio. Yeah. You'll have to listen. Keep listening. Yep. Shout out to BD and the crew for building and pulling the Republican float for the Commerce City Memorial Day Parade.

I don't know all about the shout out for it. No? But it looked good, Dave. It was good to represent. it. It did turn out great. We had a lot of great volunteers from the Adams County Republican branch. And I want to give a shout out on that to everybody in the wash bay because I challenged the wash bays to a duel to have them each pick a truck and clean it. And it was a hard choice. Both trucks looked great.

They did a great job. and then also want to give a shout out to my wife she's just quite the coordinator in every the supplies we needed and getting everything wrapped up and purchased in here and helping take a whole group of people when they show up because it's pretty hard to coordinate that because nobody knows what to do and where to start and so you kind of put a little section up and go this is what we need here's the supplies you put it up you know what I mean type scenario

And she's just amazing at that. And then also a shout out to Sam because the week before we had to build the frame and get the frame already. So then we could get it all set up for us to decorate on last Saturday. So yeah, a lot of little moving parts there, but everybody that helped out did, did a really good job. It was pretty impressive. Shout out worthy for sure. Now I looked at some of those pictures and one of

those pictures, everything looks good. And there's a kid sitting on the back of the float and he looks upset. He did not look happy. I saw him in the photo and I'm like, that's a great photo. Except for that kid that looks very pissed off sitting back there. I don't even know who that was, Jim. Was he a Democrat? Why was he so sad and angry? You know, this is the wrong flow.

Ironically, right, we stage, there's these staging areas and every, Commerce City really does a great job at setting this up because it's the largest Memorial Day parade in the state, Right. And so they literally put signs out in on these streets that are adjacent to where you're going to turn out on 64th. And so the neighborhoods, they pretty well know they're going to be blocked in.

People are going to stage in front of their houses and stand on their lawn and be on their sidewalk and finish decorating or doing whatever they need to do, cleaning their cars, all of this stuff. And when we were standing there, we had everything done. Gabe Evans showed up. We got his signs hung up there. And I just walked up to the truck and I had the door open and I was grabbing some window cleaner because I just wanted to clean a few spots off the bumper.

And Adams County Commissioner Steve Odoricio came walking by.

And he sees me and he's like oh dave how are you and he shook my hand and i i didn't know it but he was walking with the colorado attorney general who's a democrat phil weiser that's running he's going to run he's running for governor he's announced he's running for governor and i i didn't know it was him steve didn't introduce it didn't introduce me and it was a pretty brief because they're the adams county democrats right and they're he's standing there talking to

the adams county republican guy pulling the float and but he knows where i stand we we have a mutual friendship jim and i have had breakfast with steve before and he listens on on our behalf i'll give him that but it uh you know it's i could just picture them walking away and steve gives him a little nudge like that guy's gonna be a thorn in your side right jim it's so hard to not look at him and go, what are you guys thinking?

You know, I mean, it's just so difficult to be, to be politically correct and, and handle yourself in a way that, that, you know, is the right way to do things and take the high road. It's, that's effort. You know what I mean? It takes a lot. Now was Gabe Evans there? I saw him. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Congressman Evans was there. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Excuse me, Congressman. Everybody likes to throw that out, Jim. I, I know I called him Gabe when he

walked up, Gabe, how you doing? And everybody else was like, hello, Congressman. I'm like, oh, I call him Gabe. Apparently he's Congressman Evans. Huh. Also want to give a shout out on the setup for the parade, Anne. She did an amazing job designing and having made the banners for the float. She did a baseball design is what they call it on Republicans for Faith, Family, and Freedom, which I just love how that, it just, the banners just looked amazing, right?

I mean, I even looked at them, I was so busy placing them or mounting them on the trailer. It wasn't until I stood back and looked at them across the street that they're in the middle of a big star. And it just, ah, we just have such great people here. It's just so wonderful. And you did an amazing job on it. Scooby, you let me borrow your generator so we could run the little air blower for the blow up Uncle Sam on the back of the trailer.

Couldn't have done it without you. So, yeah, thank you guys. Everybody that helped on it. Everybody that let me use their trucks and the wash bay again. And so thank you everyone that helped on the parade. It was greatly appreciated. Shout out to Stingray. He messaged Linda the other day and he's still fighting a good fight. He gave her all the details, but, you know, definitely keep Stingray in your thoughts and prayers.

And hopefully we see him around here soon. Yeah. You know, not to get into details because I know Mike doesn't, Wanted a bunch of people feeling sorry for him, but I understood the surgery went really well and he didn't have to have some things done that he thought he would have. Yeah. It sounded really positive, which is awesome. Way to go, Mike. Glad things are turning out a little better than what you thought. Yep. Good stuff. He's literally fighting the battle of his life. Yep.

So hang in there, Mike. You're doing a good job, buddy. Impressive. Yes. Yeah. And then somebody else, just a shout out, because I know dad listens all the time. Mine and Dave's dad's back in the hospital. Nothing serious, but getting some good treatment. He's had edema of the legs, and everybody just got together and goes, you're not going home until we fix it.

You know, just working on it. So I think he's feeling better. Last night we went and visited him, and he's doing good, huh, Dave? Yeah. I really thought he was. Yeah. Where's he at? St. Anthony's North. Okay. Yeah. Sweet. JR's, he's out on vacation, but he gave me a shout-out before he left. He wants to give a shout out to Derek Jellum. He and his wife just found out they are expecting baby number four in November.

Congratulations, Derek. Yeah. It was awesome. I think we're going to give Derek a call here in a little bit. Dustin Currier, we're not. No, I just, I always laugh because I always heard the saying one is one and two is 10. So I got you. Apparently four is not a big deal.

One exhausted me. Right. I wanted to give a shout out to Dustin Currier. He's just usually in high spirits and has pretty good energy. When you see him leaving in the morning, he's pretty pleasant. He is. Yep. Just all around good guy. Yeah. When he comes back in the afternoon, he's still pretty pleasant. Yes. That's when I see him. I don't see you. Oh, gotcha. And sometimes that's tough in the afternoon to come back. Yep. Depending on your day.

J.R. was also wanting to give a shout out to Xavier Parrish. He didn't know I was behind him coming back to the yard at the end of the day on 56th. He had more than sufficient room to turn on to Newport. There was a vehicle on Newport. I actually gave him room by moving to the right, but Xavier instead stopped and waited. Did not attempt a jug handle turn, but rather a perfectly executed button hook turn. Good job, Xavier. Yeah. I got cut off this morning by a jug handler just on 56 here.

I made the left. Oh, what is that? Holly where 7-Eleven is. Made the left to come to the yard and there was a truck in front of me and I was about to pass them and came out. Right out in your lane and got the old jug handle. Got the old jug handle going. I'm like, man, who's helping you be better? Right, Jim? Don't you think that a lot anymore? No. I just really do. That is just really sunk in the last several months for sure.

Just how much we offer, how much we give, how much, you know, it's still up to you to take it. It's still up to you to harness that energy or take that power or take that knowledge or, you know, take whatever we're given. You know, if you don't take any of it and do anything with it, you're no better than you were when you got here. Right. You know, but man, there's a lot here to absorb and learn and become better. I learn every day.

Absolutely. Jim, these next two, we could call them yours. Yeah, my center man. Actually, I just copied and pasted, I think, Jim. That's what I do. Potter sent this one in. He said, good morning, sir. This morning at Coors, I had to reactivate my badge because it had been a few months since I've gone. And the security lady mentioned that she sees our trucks on 285 all the time.

And she said, it seems that we are, are the only trucking company that drivers correctly up there, that drive correctly up there. Sorry about that. You guys, she lives in Bailey. Just figured I would mention that it was nice to hear something positive, especially from a local up there. Have a fabulous day. And I don't know if anybody's went in after their badges and stuff, but she's, she's all business, I guess, or she's, she's French. She's friendly, but... She's like a fruit tree, Jim. Yeah.

And I think she bears lemons. She's a little sour, so, you know, but polite. What's so funny is I've been in there twice, and I've had good experience with her both times. Well, that's what... Jam, there wasn't... It's not a bad experience. It's just like blunt, I guess. Cause Erica. Military like. Yeah. Erica went with me and Dave and Erica was standing right beside me and she goes, do I need to put my phone number?

I said, yeah, you can put your phone number right there. And she interrupts and goes, you can't put your phone number on there. And Erica was like, I meant mine. Not, not like she was going to put mine on there, you know? And then, and then what was the other comment about Linda, Dave, like Linda would fill something out and put her name. Yeah. Linda always puts her name there. I'm like, oh, okay. That's funny. Sorry, but, but not, yeah, she not, she gets it done.

Linda told me that she blames Linda, her, for sending everybody over, like, during lunch hour and stuff. Linda's always sending people over here at this time, you know? You know, what's funny is, I mean, she knows we're a trucking company. What time is lunch? You know what I mean? Like usually it's a hundred trucks at the clock in the morning, right? When I'm driving, I'm eating out of that lunchbox all day long, man. My lunch is all day long. I wouldn't ever go over there at lunchtime.

So I guess that's. And it's not like you don't get your badge, you don't get good service, you don't get taken care of, you know, right? So, yeah. But for her to say that, I think that's kind of Potter's point was that it was nice to hear that from her and her to take the time. And, you know, especially living up in Bailey. I mean, that's a, that's back to that, you You know, one lane, all that truck traffic, all that kind of stuff, mountain town, you know, all that.

Construction about to start. Yeah, all that stuff. So, yeah. Yeah, thanks. And then George, I don't know if a lot of people know, but George's last day was Friday and he's moving on to be successful and try some other different stuff. He wanted to, I think, run some more equipment and have a few more opportunities than just driving. But anyway, George did it right. He gave his notice and then wrote us all a nice letter. dear JFW family.

Good day to all the JFW family. I just want to say thank you so much for all that I got to learn here. I want to say thank you to all my new family that I got in JFW. Brother Jim and Dave, you are truly great people. Thank you for all the safety crew. You guys are there for everyone. Dispatch, I want to thank you guys and Linda for keeping everyone going every day. Couldn't ask for a better team.

Thanks again for the HR team. We all appreciate what you ladies have done and will still do for everyone in the company. Thank you, Miss Anne, for pushing me forward in my creative ways. Last but not least, but not the least in the team, the Wash Bay. He wants to thank the Wash Bay. He thanks the mechanics for keeping all the trucks clean, obviously, and running. I will always remember you all. I'm grateful for all. Thank you, George Potgeiter.

So thank you, George. Hold on a second, Mom. George just wrote a letter. Hold on. Yeah, so thanks, George. Appreciate that, buddy. And we wish you the best. Yep. George is a genuine person. He is. Yeah, really. Really. Absolutely. Yep. Absolutely. David wants to give a shout out. He had an issue with the truck. He called in on the radio. Valentino overheard the conversation and offered to bring him some coolant, but 0031 Marcus was closer and stopped and gave him coolant and got him back going.

So. That's awesome. Just nice when you see everybody willing and trying to help. So shout out to Valentino and Marcus. Yeah. Back to that importance of the company radio. I noticed, I know we touched that upon that last week, but there, there's an example. Look at, look how quickly and smoothly that situation went and unfolded. So good. Good job. Good stuff. Yep.

Any other shout outs, Guy? I just want to mention quick, it would be Dave kind of tooting his own horn or his family's horn, but yesterday or the day before, I think actually, but Sam got a call from the coach at Purdue and a lot of the, I guess the universities or colleges got together after the court ruling that being dismissed from the team was unfair. And the ruling left it up for the, for the universities, whatever colleges to, to make their own judgments.

So anyway, the, the head coach at Purdue called Sam and he's back on the team. Wow. So, yeah, right. Right. And I, I, I believe there's a lot of other students, but you know, knowing Sam personally and stuff, I think the, I, I went and picked Dave up and I, and I hadn't seen him before in the morning, but I know Sam was headed to the pool this morning. And so he's going to be a little out of shape to go back because he's, he's taken the last, I don't know what, Dave, six weeks off,

eight weeks, kind of, he's been doing some stuff, but not swimming. Right. And, and, yeah, it's not been a pool workout six days a week. Right. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. So he's got, he's got some hurdles, you know, just to get back into shape. Sure. Yeah. So to Sam and all the other athletes that, you know, got their positions back, I think that's a great step forward. I think that was honorable for the, for the colleges and universities that did that. So congratulations, Sam.

That's awesome. That's awesome. Congratulations to Sam. And what a little bit of a rollercoaster ride for sure. You know, and the fact that the cool thing is. Knowing that you're wanted by the team, like the people that got the calls, there's no doubt in their mind that they're boilermakers. You know what I mean? Oh, totally. You know, I mentioned to Jim, it was the coolest thing, Jim, because the parents of the kids that were, you know, cut, right?

They wrote a letter to the school asking, hey, this isn't right. We think you need to step up and do something. and they asked for all the parents of the families that were cut to sign the paper. The cool part was all the parents of the family's kids who weren't cut signed also. I thought that was cooler than shit. That's good teamwork there.

Yeah, because I don't know if we've mentioned it. I know we've talked about Sam and the stuff, but that was 15,000 student athletes that got cut across the nation.

And I mean, that just crushing some dreams, you know, and, and, and I believe, you know, even, you know, talking to Sam, they left a lot of the scholarships or all the scholarships somewhat intact, but you didn't, I mean, you go there to get an education, but you go there to be a, an athlete, you know, that's what you've done your whole life. And maybe some of the goals were professional, you know, basketball player,

football, you know, stuff like that. And what a, what a crusher to have that go on. And, and again, affected by the, the few that maybe were, was trying to do something good, but turned out just handled so wrongly. Yeah. A lot of those athletes chose that particular school because of the athletic program and, and a hundred percent, you know, the opportunity that provided

that student. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, it was, it's, that tells you the level that Purdue is at, you know, and why they're a school that's in the big 10 network and, and all of that. It's, it's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be fun to watch to see how all the young men perform and, and come back. And it was kind of funny because Sam did say when the coach asked, well, what have you been doing?

And Sam's like, I've, I've been doing some things, staying busy. And he's like.

Well, when, when he. you be back here where are you and he's like i'm here in colorado sam was kind of vague about it a little bit like you know i'm taking care of some things taking care of some business and he's like i won't be back for two weeks i'll be there june 8th the coach was like all right i expect to see you at practice sam's like oh i'll be at practice tomorrow morning just here you know and he, immediately reached out to the club coach that he swam with and

eric coach eric was like yeah come on we're here please join us very cool yeah awesome any other shout outs guys men yeah i think i i got mine i didn't see any more on my notes all right very cool in this week's episode of drivers doing it right that's driving dumping pulling on the scale and no phone use we got heavy on the no phone use heavy on the no phone use did we mention no phone use a few times.

A few times we got jimmy villagrana and double o juana juan and jwayne the sandman sand good job man nice great yeah congratulations yeah congratulations to us as well yeah yeah and it's not i get some closing arguments but it's just not i don't know it's not it's so difficult, but yet it's not, you know, we talked about, here's the bar, you know, here's the requirements. Can we, can we not do that? It's easy for some people. Yeah. So congrats guys. We appreciate you doing it right.

And as a reminder, they're not the only ones doing it right. There's other people doing it right too. If your name has not been called yet, we apologize. Just know that you're doing it right. That should be satisfaction enough. Yeah. We wouldn't be as successful as we are if there wasn't a lot of people doing it. Exactly. Absolutely. Moving on to discussion. This is not in your notes. I added it just before the podcast.

If you're a smoker and you are driving somebody else's truck, please clean up after yourself. Driver shouldn't get into his truck that he drives every day till all your ash is all over the truck. So not a good look. It's very inconsiderate and yeah, clean up after yourselves. It's not just what smoking is with drinks and food and you know we always say leave it better than you found it but at least leave it the way you found it I mean.

Leave it better than you found it. Yeah. Yeah. Leave it better than you found it. I ran across that, that old story about that guy at the airport. Cleaning the sink. Yeah. And he's in the wash, you know, in the, in the men's room and there's a guy kind of cleaning the sink and the guy has a conversation with him and goes, Hey, how long have you worked here? And the guy's like, I don't work here, but he said, I really believe in leaving

it better than I found it. And that's just a men's public bathroom. Right. You know, and he was just wiping up some water and it takes you back to the same thing. You're going to leave it better than what you found it. Yeah. So I try that at the gym. Sometimes you get on a piece of equipment and it's just like, who was over here? How does this get like, you know, is it just my OCD kicking in or let's get this straightened out. You know what I mean?

OCD is a terrible thing. I'm getting worse and worse and worse as I get older. Cause I'm like, I don't know if my filter is going away with it in combination or I'm like, oh my gosh, this is terrible.

Uh kendrick wanted to remind the drivers or ask the drivers i mean this is funny it's not but it is please do not back into the concrete blocks behind your parking spots shouldn't be backing up into anything just because it's at the yard and it's with your your trailer i mean those those blocks aren't for you to hit that's that's that's like an accident basically yeah that's not that's not where you stop at right yeah and then scooby wanted to make a mention also

about concrete blocks but the concrete block going to the red lot has a lot of tire rubs on it from people rubbing up against it going in and out of the red lot it's been pushed up against a box man out there so just for you know just for you know just so you know when you leave the red lot you should be leaving the south exit south yes yeah yeah yeah yep and then coming through the alley through the gate if you try to leave through the north side of the red lot you got to make that sharp

turn around that block that scooby's talking about same with going in are there exceptions there's a couple exceptions right and and it can be done jam that's. The reason we put the calm street block there because we kept hitting the trailer. Right. You know, and that's the reason we said you need to go out to the south because we can't have our neighbor's trailer being hit.

Yeah. If you're in 00, what is that, 58, that first spot, you know, obviously you're not going to whip a U-turn right there. You got to make a left. You might be able to make a U-turn somewhere if all the trucks are gone, but if you're going out the north way, just really be careful. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a job site. Yep. All right. Something I was thinking about yesterday is how to become a successful driver here at JFW. And here's 10 things I feel that will make you successful here.

I'm going to jump in as you go through these. I would love nothing more than for you to jump in on this. It is definitely a discussion. Number one, attendance. You got to be here. Does that take a skill? It takes no skill. If you notice, I kind of put the ones with no skill first. I did. Okay. Yeah. Well, number three is a skill, but anyway. Attendance, you have to be here. The less you're here, the less money you make. And you may have heard us talk about this, but it has a snowball effect,

either positive or negative, right? When you're here every day, your daily gross income grows, which helps your safety bonus grow. Your holiday pay grows, your PTO days grow, right? But when you're not, it shrinks because your daily average goes down. Along with that is tardiness. And tardiness- Does that take a skill? Nope. Just takes an alarm clock and the desire to get to work on time. Tardiness is sad to me because we give you an hour after the start time to get out of the yard.

So we got a 5 a.m. start typically at 5.59, even at six o'clock, if you're out of the yard, you are not considered tardy. You're considered here and on time. But at 6.01, the same thing that happens with a number one in attendance happens with number two, tardiness, right? You get disqualified from your percentage bump. You've probably missed a load for the day, right? It's going to make your daily average go down. And that's not a good thing.

Yep. No skill. Takes no skill to show up and show up on time. I'm going to skip number three for now. We'll go to number four, attitude. You got to have a good attitude. If you're here with a bad attitude, I don't know. You may be successful here financially. You could go out and haul loads and make money, but you're not going to be a successful driver in the sense of having a job that you enjoy to come to every day.

So depending on how you measure your success, your attitude is going to play a big role on whether or not you are successful. I went down your list, Jim, and again, looking for today's final thoughts, but I ran across that, and we've all talked about it. If you've chosen to be in a bad mood, because you've made that choice to have that mood, to carry that mood, why not just choose to have a better attitude?

I mean, you got two choices, which, which, you know, and the, and the one seems really difficult, right? But it, but it is so difficult. It's unordinary. So usually when you have a good attitude, you pretty well stick out, you know, and that, that's, that's sad. Yeah. My buddy, Kentucky Tim from New York. We'll see what state he's in next. So he is the night shift site supervisor for a Walmart remodel. The dairy site supervisor, he is on a completely different page,

like showing up late or not taking care of things. And this is a second daytime guy.

Like this position is an issue. wow wow well he the daytime guy had five days off and comes back yesterday three hours late wow three hours late and you know my buddy had shot me a text in the morning like this effing guy like he's gonna be three hours late and if you know my buddy tim like he you know he's got a fuse you know what i mean like rightfully so and then man by the time that this guy showed up, he had already, well, it had a little bit to do with a daily verse.

Maybe I'll read that at the end, but he changed his attitude about it. He knew he wasn't going to get anywhere, you know, blowing a guy out when he, when he got there and screaming and yelling at him and wasn't going to solve anything. You know, the guy was late regardless, the way Timmy reacted to it, you know, is a testament to his testimony, to his character. Attitude's important, you know? Yeah, and to choose that again,

Jan. Yeah. I mean, like you're saying with Timmy, just to choose that. Yes.

I think he chose it at two hours and 45 minutes. Number, we'll call this, well, just the next one. Yeah. Engagement with all of our programs. Okay, that also doesn't take a skill, but we have all these things for you to participate in that will make you more successful here at JFW. From our safety program, you know, the driver efficiency, Samsara scores, to the 401k, you know, to any program that we're providing for you is to make you more successful. Number six, the driver, the desire for more.

That kind of wraps into number five a little bit, but man, if you're just satisfied with what you got every day, right and it's not a do more try harder thing you know it's good to be content and know that you're where you're supposed to be at but if you don't want more you're not going to get more you know there's guys out there that they have the desire for more you know and they're going out and getting it every day right you know

if you don't have a desire for more and you're good showing up at 601 you're good getting disqualified from your percentage bump you know you're not concerned about your efficiency or safety score. I mean, you are basically writing your check. Yeah. Two people called out sick yesterday and I was standing there and Tracy was so cool. He was like, hey, I want to make this clear. You're going to lose your holiday pay by calling out today. And both of the people were like, yeah, that's fine.

I didn't understand that. right i mean that's two days pay you know what i mean you're missing your free holiday pay and obviously the day you miss and your percentage bump right and you're disqualified from earning your pto right right so yeah that's uh you know that that could rack up to six seven hundred bucks pretty quick for one call out yeah right easy yeah for for just showing up sure just instead of you know maybe you do feel badly but you could

just tough it out you know the day is going to be over before you know it it always is i mean how many times when you feel crappy you come in a couple hours later you feel okay you feel better i mean yeah because you're busy yeah you're doing something. Now, if you're sick and you got a fever and you're throwing up, we don't want you here. Yeah, we don't want you here. I'm a seven. Consistency, right? You can do all those things, but you got to do them all the time.

I've said it before. The hardest part of doing good is doing it every day. You got to be consistent. If you just do it some of the time, you know, if you do a great job here Monday through Thursday, and then you're late on Friday and you have an accident, then you're not being consistent. Efficiency. You got to be able to work smart. You got to, and sometimes it takes a little while to learn how to be efficient doing this job. You learn little tricks of the trade at the three month mark.

You may realize, wow, if I do something this way, it's going to save me time. I might get an extra load. Six months later, you may find a new thing that makes you more efficient. So, and then watch the senior guys, the guys that are out there doing it, that, you know, are making some money and being successful. Watch how they do it. I want to emphasize there's, we're always metamorphosing too. You know what I mean? Sure.

We don't just always go this route. There could be another route in a week or. Sure. There's always something better, a better way to do something or an easier way or, yeah. I mean, we could add flexibility to that. Yeah. You know, or being able to pivot. Right. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. So don't get locked in. This next one is from Linda. I asked Linda, I said, Linda, I knew two things that you think make people successful,

and she started rattling off like a hundred things. I'm like, all right, settle down, Linda. Paying attention to detail, not making these mistakes that's going to cost you time and money and or JFW time and money, right? Paying attention to your XBU or your Toro. Where am I going? Where am I picking up from? The material itself. The material itself. What bin I'm dumping it into,

right? And we get a little complacent sometimes where we just go on autopilot, like, I'm going to pick it up here and I'm going to dump it there and wrong plant, wrong plant, wrong material. Yeah. And I got to stress too, this isn't just new people, this is veterans as well that fall into that box. Because, you know, you just, you do it, you get complacent. You do it every day and you just can't double check everything. Yep. Right?

You check your mirrors twice, check your dispatch twice. Absolutely. Absolutely. Number 10, don't be prideful and learn from everyone and ask questions, right? If you let your pride get in your way where you'd rather just do it on your own and learn the hard way, you're not going to be as successful as you ask your teammates and learn from everybody. You know, a senior guy can learn something from the guy that just showed up here.

Right. You know, sometimes having that outside perspective or the, what do we call it, the 13th man, you know, That gives you, it's like, wow, we haven't been doing well for 10 years. Yeah. And it doesn't mean he didn't come from another good company or something like that, whether maybe it was a food industry or refrigerated or whatever. And they were doing something that totally makes sense. Yeah. And you see that and you're like, wow, that works.

Just because they're new here doesn't mean they're new in life. Yeah. Yeah. Good point, Jim. Yeah. Pride is a funny word too, because isn't that one of the seven deadly sins? I think so. So you can be prideful or have too much pride and it can kill you because it puts you in a bad position because you won't ask or your pride will get you in trouble. But then on the other side of that word, you could take your pride seriously by saying, hey, I'm going to ask Jim.

You're sitting, you're looking at me because I know you have the right answer and I'm going to ask so I have the right answer too. And that will increase my pride because I know I'm doing my job better. Well, he also has a final answer. Well, if I could be looking at you and ask you the same question, but he's sitting across the table for me. But so my point is pride can also help you achieve greatness. Absolutely. I love that. And then rolling back to number three, safety. You got to be safe.

If you're not safe, that could cost you and us money very fast. I've been thinking about it, Jim, because, you know, we pushed it because, like, does that take a skill or does that not take a skill? I guess I want to emphasize we're professional drivers. Right. I don't know so much that being safe is a skill as it should almost be a reaction. You know, I mean, like that last accident we had where we didn't let a car emerge on the highway.

Is is that a skill when it should automatically it should be a body reaction you know what i mean it's like if you drop a pin and off your table you grab for it you reach for it right unconscious competence yes yes it yeah so i struggle with that being a skill is it an acquired skill absolutely i mean we can obviously debate it right for an hour for sure but i guess i think a lot of those things should be a reaction for the amount of time that the

amount of miles our drivers have behind the wheel the safety should just be second nature it should just be a reaction i don't even know that that there's a thought process a lot of time in a lot of movements of course there's situations don't get me wrong like it's not like an aimless a mindless job by any means i'm not saying that but the majority of the driving is just like oh this car needs on i'm gonna slow up Right. Right? Or things like that. Traffic's slowing quite a ways ahead of me.

I better slow down. Right.

You know, whatever the case may be. Absolutely. Anyway. I like it. Anything else to add to any of that, guys, before we move on to our call? No, I'm good, Jim. Good list, though. Yeah, those are 10 things, but like you just mentioned, there's probably 100 things that you can do. Yeah. To hone your game and to get better every day. So true.

All right, we're going to try to call Derek Jellum. So Derek's a little bit of a new guy around here, but he's been doing a good job, and he seems like he gets it, and he's enjoyable, and let's see if he answers. Yo. What's up, Derek? You on the mic. What's your beef? Derek, have you been listening to the podcast? Lately, yeah. Okay. So you know we've been doing a driver questionnaire. Oh, are we live? We are recorded. You're live, you're live, but this is being recorded.

So I was mentioning you're kind of new around here, but you got a good attitude and you seem to get it. So we figured we'd give you a call and see how you fare through these questions. Okay. Fire away. Number one, how long have you been driving? Driving since December, three years yet. Three years. Where are you at? I think we lost you a little bit. That'll suck. Coming down from Fair Play. Okay. Oh, might have a bad spot once in a while.

You actually caught me just at the right time because I got back to the city area. Okay, cool. Yeah. What's your favorite thing about driving, Derek? Being in a nice big truck. I don't know if I talked to you about my previous job, but it was a big truck, but it wasn't well-maintained or taken care of, so it was more of a chore to drive it. Gotcha. So being in one of these big, shiny red trucks is a treat to me. They're taken care of. They're smooth. They're nice. They're powerful. Yeah.

But the best part about driving is being able to do these mountain runs. I love this. Nice. And what do you like to do in your free time, Derek? I like to take the kids out on the boat and go fishing. We like to do a lot of camping and random road trips or just take the youngest one out down to the park or drive them around the neighborhood on the dirt bike. Anything they want to do, we enjoy doing. Nice. Now, do you do fishing or do you do catching? Whether I'm catching a buzz or a fish. Right?

And we did give you a shout out earlier because it sounds like you got number four on the way. Absolutely. Yep. Little baby girl. How many boys and how many girls do you currently have? So we've got our oldest daughter who is 16, and then we have a 12-year-old boy who will be 13 in November. And those two came as a package deal with my lady, so they're bonus kids. And then we've got a three-year-old. He'll be four in December, and then we'll have this next one in November.

Awesome. Good stuff. So even split. Okay. Now I changed. Good deal. I changed this last question because the last question is usually what's on your bucket list, but I want to know what's the number one thing on your unbucket list. What would, what's something that you wouldn't do again? What's something that I wouldn't do again? Yeah. You wouldn't do it over again. I don't know. That's a hard one. I don't really have any regrets.

Okay. Well, then what's the number one thing on your bucket list then? I would love to travel to my native roots land of Norway and go spend some time on a cruise ship around Norway. I thought you were a Viking. You got that Viking vibe going. Yeah, it's over 60% Scandinavian, but it's 100% Northwestern European. Oh, that's awesome. Very cool. This question's not on here, but I did ask it the prior two times. What's your least favorite smell? My least favorite smell? Yep. Pickles. Ooh.

0041, gotcha. Not that pickle, although sometimes he did smell funny.

Good deal Derek I appreciate you being a good sport thanks for answering the phone and have a good safe day out there thanks Derek thanks Derek yep brother goes here hey so I just wanted to kind of give him a thank you from the other morning it doesn't happen often that I don't do a decent enough post trip at the end of the day he had come in when I was getting a tire fixed he didn't hound my ass too much about it but took it as a good training deal and a fist bump and on the way.

So I just want to, you know, say thanks for not pounding me too hard on it. It must not have felt good that morning. It was, uh, well, we got her fixed and we got everything taken care of. So awesome. Good deal, man. Thanks, Derek. Thanks, Derek. Have a good day, Derek. Bye. See, I knew he'd be good. Yeah. He opened strong, didn't he? Yeah. You're on the mic. What do you got? Like this, you are on the mic. All right. Let's get into what's next.

Brother Dave, you sent this over. This is kind of what was on Monday. Right. Better late than never. Sometimes we're behind on our what's next, and it's what happened. I, I think though, Dave, me and you talked about it and you, and you're, you're coming up on that Memorial Day weekend and we mentioned it right. And you're getting the float ready and you're doing that stuff.

But for me this weekend, when you're in that moment and you, you know, you run across, you know, some stories on the TV, you run across stories on, on TikTok. If you're looking, you hear about that, the parade and you, you know, you, you realize that you're more in the moment, you know, so I, yeah, not to, not to interrupt you. But I think it means more to me after than everybody going, Oh, it's the Memorial day weekend. Well, I wasn't in it yet. I think like for me, I'm not making an excuse.

I was so caught up in the moment of preparing for the parade that I wasn't able to like sit and focus on the day of the remembrance of, you know, the people that died for our freedoms in our country. And yeah, it was, it's, I guess that's a good way to look at it, Jim, that there's been so many stories now, right? You, you watch it unfold throughout the day and then it's, it's more at heart rather than bringing it up ahead of time, you know, like we try and do so.

Yeah, obviously, we spoke more about Memorial Day to everyone that their checks wouldn't come out until Tuesday than we did, unfortunately, about the fact of the lives that, you know, the people that died for our freedoms that, you know, all gave some and some gave all. You know, and Scooby mentioned and Big John was in, you said, Jim, I missed him. And they both went to Fort Logan over the weekend, which is the national cemetery here in town for all the veterans.

And they just raved about what an amazing sight it was, you know, with all the flags in the ground at every grave. And that's just, that's incredible. So Jim and I talked about it over the weekend, and then I just happened to run across this article on LinkedIn. And it's just, we wanted to mention some names of some people that, you know, military veterans that have died giving their freedom to us. And one of the things they brought up was there were seven U.S.

Marines killed last week in a training crash. You know, and that sucks. They weren't even fighting for our country. They were there to fight for our country, but it was a training mishap. And the official release of the names was made by MARSOC, which I don't know what that is. That stands for something, military something, right? Marine Special Operations Command. So these guys, these guys were like- They're not your average- No, they were special operations. Gotcha.

And I believe I just started to watch the Blue Angels. I think they're stationed at MARSOC. Aren't they coming out? Because they mentioned that, I thought. I don't know. I watched it too. Or is that the crash? MARSOC made the final judgment on the crashes they've had. I know they're at Miramar for training. The Blue Angels train at Miramar. Wherever. Because they're in Las Vegas. Huh. I'll make a comment about the Blue

Angels after this because I don't want to digress too much. Yeah, take away from this.

Yeah, get off in the, yeah, you guys are totally... Anyway, it just says the official release was made by MARSOC this afternoon, meaning last week, and we just want to take a few minutes and read these names in remembrance of everyone that's. Died for the, the freedom that we have in this country. And it's just amazing. It's, we can't thank you enough and we can't thank the, I didn't know this until this year, any family that has lost a military member, they're considered a

golden family. And I didn't know that. So I, I was like, wow, that's pretty special. Man, looking at the pictures, a lot of these, like a few of these people were like kids. Wow. Yeah. They baby faced. Yeah. Yeah. So among the fallen includes Staff Sergeant Seif, recipient of the Silver Star Medal just last week for his actions in Afghanistan that saved life of a fellow Marine.

We remember Captain Stanford Henry Shaw III of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Master Sergeant Thomas Sanders of Camp Lejeune. Staff Sergeant Liam Flynn of Queens, New York, Staff Sergeant Trevor P. Blaylock of Lake Onion, Michigan, Staff Sergeant Kerry Michael Kemp of Port Washington, Wisconsin, Staff Sergeant Andrew Seif of Holland, Michigan, Staff Sergeant Marcus Bowell of Warren, Michigan Rest easy, brothers And thank you for your service It's tough Right?

That's rough Yeah, they laid down their lives They're the sum that gave all For what we get to do here Absolutely Thanks for throwing that in there, BD Yeah, of course Good call That Blue Angels show, I watched it Did you? Yeah Yeah.

The first time I went to put it on, I started playing it, and then I saw who produced it, and I stopped watching it. And then the next day, I was like, no, I want to watch it. Who produced it, Jeff? Iraq and Michelle Obama. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. That's what I thought, but it's a very well put together show. I learned a lot. Man, those blue angels, you know, they're the top, they're already the top combat fighters we got in jets, right? Right.

But they say display, what do they call it? Display fly? Yeah. It's a completely different game and it's the hardest flying they'll ever do. and it's 45 minutes of chaos inside those planes. Wow. Yeah. Organized chaos. Yeah. Controlled chaos. 18 inches apart from each other. If this person's not in the right position, pushing up on the plane above them, they'll all crash. Wow. If one guy crashes in certain maneuvers, they're all following his lead.

Some guys feel like this the whole time. They're just watching the other plane. They don't know what's ahead of them. They're just trusting the other.

It's wow it's a great show it is i watched i believe it was the first episode and you're talking about a jam because they're they're getting down to where they get tested and the general or the commander of the base approves whether they'll fly or not certifies be certified and the three new members join for this year and the one in the one maneuver after they finish the one maneuver, he's way behind.

I mean, they've got, they put photographs up and the other three jets are up here and he's like way back here and they're, and they're working him over like what happened and I've made this and he looks at everybody and he goes, you know, he said, I'm still that far behind and I pulled six or seven G's to make that, to catch up, to pull that maneuver and he still was behind. Is this on Netflix?

Yeah. I think I've seen it. If there's the other one that the, uh, what's the blue angels, but the other, the other one, cause J.R., we watched that last year. It was the blue angels, was it? No, blue angels. And there's another. Red devils. Fighting group. Like blue angels or air force. And J.R. is talking about the Navy. Yes, it was the Navy. What's the Navy that do the same thing? I mean, I watched it last year. I'll look it up right now. Yeah. Display fighters. I think you're right, Jim.

Because that, I mean, yeah. We watched. Clearly this is new. This is, yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because a couple of the new members, I mean, they're top combat fighters. They've seen combat. Because the one we watched last year, every one of those people are new every year, right? Well, that's the same with the- No, no. Or does one come in and one go out? The Blue Angels are the Navy. Hmm. Oh, interesting. It was another, because I started watching the one with JR

last year, and it's not the same. Well, was that not like basically Top Gun? Hmm. No, no. I wonder, I've always wondered what the distinction is. And I'm sure anybody, JR being in the Navy or was in the Navy could tell me, but between an air force fighter pilot and a naval aviator, they have different roles. Obviously, maybe the Navy guys are taken off from carriers and that. And I just, I'm a, I've always been really curious about what their particular missions were.

I bet, you know, I bet JR is going to listen. We'll get it. We'll get a call. After we send this out. He should have been our call today. Oh, I thought about that. And then I was like, oh, they probably don't want to bother him. I'll bother him. I almost called him once trying to get Kendrick set up. He said he was going to have his phone on, but his connect off. Cause it just blows it up all day. That's funny. I'm trying to find it. I'm in my Netflix right now, but anyway, it's probably time.

Well, it sounds like a good series. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah. It starts off, Erica said she started watching it, and the first part of it is quite a speech. Yeah. You know, introducing what their goals are and how they fly. Yeah. I liked it. I mean, spoiler alert, but I liked it. This one guy was on track to be an astronaut, and that was his childhood dream. Yeah. And he got a call to lead the Blue Angels, and he's like...

No, absolutely not. I'm going to be an astronaut. Wow. He ends up doing it. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. And then one of the pilots that got killed in 2018 was their last pilot killed. His first word, they interviewed his parents and they joked with each other because his first word was airplane. It wasn't mom and it wasn't dad. Wow. And his mom said, you know, when we heard that there was a crash because they're in Las Vegas there, they just never thought I was a blue angel, wasn't their son.

And she said, I pictured my son tripping on the curb, hitting his head and dying, but never in a plane. Wow. He was that dedicated to the plane. Yeah. So yeah, like you said, Jam, I'm one or two episodes in. It's a good. Huh. Yeah. I'll have to look that up. It sounds great. Yeah. Sounds great.

It's Air Force Elite Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds. Yes, yes. Oh my goodness. So it's not the Blue Angels. It's the Thunderbirds that we're talking about. Oh, it is the Thunder. So it was the Blue Angels. Last year we watched the Blue Angels. Okay. This is the Thunderbirds. Yeah, because that was like, because they call them the Thunder chickens. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they tease them about being the Thunder chickens. I don't want to be a Thunder chicken. Yeah.

There we go. Claire, we got that worked out. Wow. We're, I'm glad it's just our opinion. Right? Yeah, we can't even figure it out. Uncheck facts. Yeah, don't. Whenever you guys listen to this, don't make too much fun of this. Maybe you should write that time down. We should just don't make that part of a chance. That might not be a bad idea. I do want to throw out there, I turned on Fox News this weekend, which those of you who can yay about Fox or nay about it, I don't care.

But anyway, they had on the, they were giving a Memorial Day speech to all the Gold Star families there at Fort, not Island, sorry, Fort Logan. What's, where's the missing soldier's tomb? D.C.? Yeah, but what's the name of the...

The monument no the cemetery fort yeah oh my gosh we're doing the tomb of the missing soldier yeah anyway they're they're in washington and president trump is there vice president vance and pete hedgeseth gets up because he's the head of the military to give his speech and vance was up speaking prior to him. And oh my gosh, the military men and women love that guy. I mean, he is a badass and they, they cheered and harassed him.

And he got up there and he laid out a speech that was, it was bone chilling. It was a great, great speech. He was, he was wonderful. And I guess I haven't fact checked it, but supposedly the volunteer, the people that have volunteered to be in our military or have joined the military just since the fact Trump took over is just off the charts. The people joining the military. Don't know if that's a fact. That's just what I've heard, right?

So I need to fact check that. I would hope that's a true rumor. So anyway. If I help you out with a clue, country singer, ponytail, really deep voice. Oh, I know. He sings about it. Trace Atkins. Yeah, I know. So it doesn't help you with it? The name is just escaping me. Boy, I thought that would give you, You'd pop into it. I can picture him. I can tell you his name. I can tell you the singer. I know he sings about it, the whole nine yards. What is it?

Arlington. Arlington, of course. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Arlington, Virginia. Yep. Yeah. Gosh. What a, I mean, if you've ever been to those places, what an amazing. Yeah. Cause was that a, was that another Netflix or a show? Cause I watched the, the, about the officers that patrol that or march the, that, that's quite a. The changing of the guard. Yeah, that's quite a, I don't even know how to describe it. Right? You just have to go see it. A religion. Yes. You know? Yeah.

Also coming up in what's next, JFW has four tickets for this weekend at the Adams County Fairground for the Supercross Motorcycle Racing, if anyone is interested. Yeah, Jim, just because I got the flyer because I was in it, and I just don't want to mislead anybody because I have the flyers. So if you want the tickets, like Jim just said, there's four of them. Supercross at Adams County. I assume that's the Adams County Fairground,

just so everybody knows. So it's all day amateur racing, pro racing, starting at 5 PM rain or shine. You guys, I don't know what all the tickets cover. Cause they do say pit pass. I assume they get you in the pits. So it's a pretty good ticket there, but all day, all day racing for the amateur. So I think that's the little guys and everything like that looks, looks really exciting. And, and we were able to sponsor this year and they gave us some tickets. Love to have somebody use them.

So how, how do we make a fair? For the people that receive those. And they're just first come, first serve. I think first come, first serve. You're listening to, I mean, here's the, if you're listening to the podcast early and you snag them. Can they call or they need to be here? They sound great. I might just take them now. Yeah. I was actually. If somebody listens or calls, Jam.

Okay. First person to call. Yeah. First person that calls, there's, and I guess you could either take four of them or two of them. Who they call. Don't call me. No, I'm just kidding. You could call me. How about dispatch? How about let's make it dispatch and then they can grab them? Yep. I like it. Sounds good. Also, if you are the recipient of those tickets, you need to work night course Thursday and Saturday. Wow. Just kidding. Touche. Just kidding.

But we still are looking for night course for this Thursday and Saturday. So please let Linda know if you're able to do that. Have no questions from the audience. Safety topic of the week.

We're going to dive into the Smith System. One of the keys is to keep your eyes moving. I think that's key number three. Yep, key number three. What does it mean to keep your eyes moving? Number one, you need to have consistent eye movement, which prevents tunnel vision and helps maintain alertness by stimulating brain activity and warding off fatigue. Number two, quick glances every two seconds are recommended, ensuring you're always aware of your surroundings.

Number three, regularly checking your mirrors every five to eight seconds is crucial for staying aware of what's happening behind you and on your sides. That sounds like a long time, doesn't it? Every five to eight seconds. For a mirror scan? Yeah, I just, I don't know, I feel like more head movement, but I understand, you know, there's so much, I feel like 30 years ago, that was possible.

Now, you know, at first I'm saying, oh, that seems like a long time to wait, but pretty much now I'm, I'm just so focused on what's ahead. I mean, it depends on what's ahead when I get the opportunity to look in the mirrors almost. Well, that's the thing. So if you're doing quick glances every two seconds, that's not talking about using your mirrors. Yeah. And then you're using your mirrors every five to eight seconds. Your eyes are moving consistently. Yeah, I guess. You know? Yeah.

Sorry, go ahead. It doesn't mean you need to look in oily mirrors either every five to eight seconds. Right. Let's say mirror a check. Absolutely, yeah. So you're quick glancing, checking your mirror, you know? Yeah, and what lane you're in. I mean, you're in the slow lane, obviously. You're not paying attention to that passenger mirror as much as you are the driver's mirror. I think I look more than I realize.

Yeah. You know? Yeah, with dad being in the hospital at St. Anthony's in the emergency room, and then I noticed it was in his room, but I just glanced up to see what time it was, and the little hand, or it's still the little hand, big hand, little hand, the second hand, it wasn't moving. And I was like, oh, the clocks broke. and then it jumped five seconds and stopped and, And then it's set there and it goes, it goes five set, you, 1,001, 1,002.

I've never seen a clock like that. No, me neither. And then it goes to, it goes to the next, right? So it's every five seconds. Every five seconds. And then it moves. The clock in his room is the exact same way, Dave. Really? Yeah. I thought maybe it was the emergency room, but because you're just like, oh, it's broke. And I'm like, oh, wow. That's different. So there has to be a medical relationship to that since they're in the room.

Yeah. Something jam, you know, one like doing a blood pressure or something. Yeah. So, I mean, when you're, when you're talking about, that's what reminds me of talking about the five or eight. Cause I was, I was, you know, 1,001, 1,002, 1,003, 1,004, 1,005 and boom, it would move. It was a pretty, it was a pretty good count, you know, of five seconds. And that's, that does seem a long time, Dave, to move back and forth with your head. Right. Right.

Interesting. I'm living my life five seconds in a time. I think they just got a good deal on some secondhand. They're not secondhand, they're five seconds. Boom. You know, if you put a fresh battery in, it would work every second. Yeah, right? Absolutely, Jim. Yeah. Oh, that's funny. Number four, before entering an intersection, look left, look right, and then left again to be aware of traffic approaching from the left. Yeah, I have that. Why is that?

Think it, I don't know. I think to me, Dave, and I know you're asking a serious or. I hope he's being sarcastic over there. Cause I was. Cause, cause I struggle with the, the, the newer pickups or my pickup and I, maybe they're not there. I think they're bigger, but the pillar posts in the, in my GMC, they just seem huge. And you can, you can look, but I always like to look back when I start that turn. I mean, last night we had the same thing, Dave.

Those two cars were coming at us, that truck. And they weren't doing 35. No, you know, and because it's a glance back at what you have to do. And I don't know if that's the answer you were looking for, Dave, but it's a, you can stop an accident by happening by looking back. Yeah. That's what I've always, and if you've missed something. Sure. You know. I just bring up, you look left because that's the first lane of traffic you're pulling in.

Yeah. And then you look right to be sure it's clear and then you look left again you know i mean i think generally when it's a busy intersection you look left and right a hundred times yeah yeah you leave here at night depending on what time you're left right left right yeah yeah it's not just i wish i could pull down there and look once each direction and go but it doesn't work that way so i just a lot of people don't know that you look

left you look left it's you see a car coming you're okay with it you look right nobody's coming you look left again that car's hauling ass seriously dave was i'm sure dave was like what the hell am i doing i was a little i had a moment there like we're going yeah we need to go yeah, you know but that i mean there was a van truck out in the fast lane and he was he was hauling.

Yeah and i mean i don't know how many times it happens but that, diesel pickup is cold and it didn't go right you know i i pushed it once that thing went to the floor and i'm like you gotta get that turbo spinning don't you need to go there's a lot of shit gonna hit us real fast we need to get the hell out of out of all the new stuff that turbo lag just sucks oh it's terrible isn't it yeah i always tell you.

About the famous intersection by my house federal and 36 there i was gonna make the left this morning so you wait and then you get a green arrow and usually at you know 4 30 4 40 whatever it is there's not really a lot of traffic coming up but this car was hauling the mail and it's like i started going and i was on the inside so me and the outside car start going and you know it's a race you know and then i you know i slow up

and then they slow up and the car seems like it's stopping them we start going and then it's i'm like holy crap man that person probably wasn't really paying attention right And then this intersection of Holley and 56 making that left, just from the two videos we have of big trucks blowing that intersection, I'm super careful over there. You should always look before you start through any intersection.

Any intersection, yeah. Yep. Yep. And then the last one, avoid focusing on any single object for too long and steer clear of distractions like, you guessed it, phones or other devices. Yeah. I do want to bring up, because I think something good to add in there, and Sam's brought it to my attention, and I think it's a great practice to start, is going to school there. Obviously, he's training, and the trainer wants to know, what's he thinking?

Well, the only way he can know what he's thinking is to list everything he sees, you know, and he's, as he's driving along, I'm just making it up in the right lane. And he's like, I'm approaching intersection of, and he says the street name and I've passed a yield sign and there's a car on my left that is a hot chick. I mean, there's a car on my left approaching and, you know, whatever the case may be, but that talking out loud, that really does make you aware because, you know, we.

We harp on this all the time when we have a driver that doesn't know where those 45 mile an hour zones start on I-70 when they're going up Floyd Hill. And you're like, how can you miss that, that, giant flashing yellow 45 mile an hour sign. How do you miss it? You know, if you were talking out loud, hopefully you'd be scanning and see that. Right. And I, I think sometimes that's where we get distracted. That's distracted driving as well. Right.

Yeah. You're driving along and I can't wait to have a burrito later. Right. I wonder what's for dinner. Yeah. The wife called. I can't believe Dave White yelled at me when I was leaving the yard this morning. Can't believe he told me to slow down. Those are the things that are going through our minds Oh, let me start this song over again Oh, I missed it, let me start it over again Man, I really want to hear the lyrics to the song Start it over again What?

The speed limit's 45? I was going 65, That's a good tip though, for sure It is, yeah, something new to try Yeah, I understood I remember when Dad first was teaching me to drive, Dave Dave, when we got on 270 down here, I remember him asking me, you know, is there a car behind me? You know, is there a car in front of me? You know, how many cars are behind me? What color is it?

Exactly, Dave. And that's what he said. Then he got to the colors and he was like, you know, what, what are we, that's what you have to know. Cause is it the same car? Yeah. I've done that too, Jim. And I'm like, I don't know what the fuck color it is, but yeah, you gotta pay attention. You just don't normally that much. Nope. Sure. I don't mind reading it, but I've been doing a lot of talking. If we haven't volunteered to read Mondo's tips and tricks, that's fine. Otherwise I'll go for it.

You're up, Jim. Thanks for volunteering.

As George Pacater would say, I was freewheeling and forced. All right. Tips and tricks number six, marking your checkpoints. Good morning, JFW family, and welcome back to another week of Tips and Tricks. Please remember that the purpose, oh yeah, there's a purpose, the purpose of these tips and tricks are just to help us to be a better and safer driver on the road. Let's be professionals, which was the name of last week's Tips and Tricks. I am a professional. A professional, yeah.

So when I was in active duty in the Army and we would be doing land navigation courses, one thing I would do when looking at my map is mark some checkpoints. Therefore, I know that I'm in the right direction and where I need to be. The same thing applies with us driving. When we're driving to pits or plants, we should always use checkpoints. Now, I'm not talking about being in the right directions because everyone should know how to get where they're going.

I'm talking about being in your lane, knowing when to position yourself to back up into a bin or taking a turn correctly so that you don't make a three-point turn. A lot of us do have our own checkpoints, but if you're one of the drivers that don't have any, I highly recommend that you do. Reasons are because you want to make sure you're at least at the lane you want to be when making a turn.

How many times do you see drivers, four wheelers and truck drivers, merge last second to take an exit or turn on the street? This happens a lot and it's embarrassing when it's you behind the wheel. When I'm driving and I'm about two miles away from my exit, that's one of my checkpoints. I stay on my exit lane even if as a car going 10 below the speed limit. I'll stay behind that car.

Also, when I'm hitting the sign for the I-25 ramp from I-70, that's my checkpoint to tell myself to stay on the right lane because my exit is coming up in two miles and I'm not going to merge last second and risk hitting a car. Plan 2 bins are tight and you really don't have a lot of room.

Again, find your checkpoint so that you know when to start turning your wheels and position yourself so that when you back up you're backing up on your first try in my opinion i feel it's important to have checkpoints because if you're one of those drivers that just want to merge last second you're putting yourself at a high risk of a possible accident i feel like this tips and tricks is not for all drivers. At the end, we all just got to be safe and not in a rush.

Thank you, man. I feel like this Tips and Tricks is for all drivers. I agree. These are extra tools for us to be better drivers. And if anyone else has great ideas on how to be better, please share them with us because I can always be better than I am now. And I hope everyone feels the same way. Please let me know on Connect Team what you think about this week's Tips and Tricks. Thank you all again for listening. and let's do things at JFWA.

Until next week, Armando the Sergeant Del Valle, 0073, together we can be better. Love it. Yeah, awesome. He's been doing a good job on his. Yeah, thanks Armando. Yeah, I like the one about merging over, you know, getting in your right lane for your exit. That's when I find it really exacerbating is when I get over and I still drive right past the exit. Yeah, because I'm talking to Holly or bullshitting with Dave or whatever.

Thinking about Tabaluto or whatever the day knows that you're on the way home. Man, I even got over and I still drove past the exit. When I was driving a mixer for AI out of the Bannock plant, a lot of times we would come home on I-25 south. And even from all the way up by I-70, I knew if I counted four lanes, I would be in the right lane. I wouldn't have to change any lanes until it was time to get off on Santa Fe.

Yep. I knew I could stay in that lane and I would just count boom, boom, boom, boom. I didn't need to be anywhere else in the turtle, you know what I mean? Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Equally, too, backing into a bin like at plant two or, you know, union is also tight. You know, you're right there in the area where the loader is trying to feed the plant and you got to get back in. Yeah. Choose your position the same way every time. Pick your point that you're going to pull up to.

Pick the point where you turn your steering wheel to crank your trailer around and just have those checkpoints set. So you do it efficiently the first time and you get back in one time. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy the conversation of the checkpoints. That's a different view of that. But the, you know, not but the, but I was thinking of the bends and the backup is, you know, I still so much strongly believe in your pull-up, your setup to back up is the key to backing.

Oh, yeah. Every single time. And you still, that's, I consider that's a checkpoint now when you pull up. Yeah. You know, either point your trailer at it, make sure you're straight, whatever you have to do, that's your checkpoint of being straight before you start to back up.

It's kind of funny. Or being lined up. Yeah, it's kind of funny with this military background, I envisioned like two military police officers in a Jeep next to a shack and the arm down for their checkpoint you know checkpoint charlie you know better get my identification out yeah alpha bravo charlie delta oh my gosh yeah good stuff yeah i was watching a guy pulling yesterday at the end of the day and he made a u-turn to park you know facing west.

Yeah and he was like three truck lengths over and the way he turned i knew he couldn't see the spot And I was like, oh, he's going to have to snake his way all the way back. And sure enough. And it's like, you could have just angled a little bit where you actually saw, you actually had kind of a straight shot at a angle for most of the way, you know, but the setup was. Or it's the U-turn the other direction.

Like you're explaining, like he U-turned, I'm going to say to your right side, he could have came in and U-turned to your left side and lined up on the spot down there. Or if he had a landmark or what did he call him? Yeah, a checkpoint. A checkpoint. A checkpoint. Yeah. He could have been like, well, I know I need to be on the right side of the deaf shed. Yes. Yes. There's my checkpoint. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was a good, good way to look at it. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Armando. Super Dave.

What do you think? You want to hit us with that high road hauling? I'll read it. All right. Hit you, smack it. It might, it might punch me in the mouth. We'll see. Yeah. See if it's that kind of high road hauling. Okay. Ut est rerum ominum magister usus. Hold on a second. Can you say right in English, please? Yes. Experience is the teacher of all things. Hey. Or, more easily said, experience is the best teacher.

That was spoken by Julius Caesar, spoken over 2,000 years ago, and it still rings true today. We can read all—and that was Latin, by the way, because the Romans spoke Latin. But anyway, I guess I do too. We can read all the books or listen to all the speeches and podcasts. Yes, we can, but until we experience a hardship, we won't fully understand until we experience it for ourselves to hammer it home.

A person who has experienced poverty or financial struggle may develop a strong work ethic and learn to be resourceful, leading to greater success and financial stability in the future. Or someone who has battled addiction and overcome it may develop a deep sense of empathy and a desire to help others who are struggling with similar issues. A person who has faced discrimination and bigotry may develop a strong sense of social justice and a commitment to fighting for equal rights.

Someone who has experienced a major setback or failure in their career may use that experience as a learning opportunity, gaining new skills and knowledge that allow them to thrive in their field. Person who has faced serious illness or injury may develop a greater appreciation for life and renewed commitment to self-care and wellness for all. It's important to acknowledge that not all hard times are beneficial, and there are limits to how much suffering people should be expected to endure.

However, when a person suffers a setback and comes out of it mentally and or physically, they're smarter, stronger, and able to cope with future adversity. They will have a healthier attitude and be able to persevere from a stronger position. Something like, I've been there, done that, and I'm not going to make that mistake again. Many people automatically blame others for their pain or troubles, but the minute they blame someone else for their own troubles is when they relinquish control.

You have to take responsibility of what you're feeling and why. Other people or external situations might cause your strife, but only you choose your path away from it. When someone is in a state of suffering, there is often little we can do to get them out. That decision, again, has to be made on their own. Every one of our trials is custom-made, just for us, specifically designed by God.

If they're ours and intended for no one else, I'm sorry, they're ours and intended for no one else, The main purpose of these customized trials is to help us grow as family members, as members of society, and as human beings. The best way to prepare for the adversity that will inevitably come is to decide right now that quitting isn't an option. If you're a praying person, it's never good to pray away your trials. Instead, pray for the endurance to overcome them.

And the quote this week is a very awesome one. And actually, life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. And that's spoken by Soren Kiergaard, a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and he lived from 1813 to 1855.

Wow. Not very old. No, he died at 42 years old. Yeah. Wow. I would have died 11 years ago. That's crazy. But pretty deep thoughts right there. Honestly, think about it and let me know what you think. I love it. Yep. How should people contact you to let you know what they think? Email? Absolutely. Okay. Sweet. Thought of thoughts, Sever? I was just, yeah, it, I mean, it's not my final thought, but I was just thinking about it.

Super Dave, I ran across to Jocko Clip Jam and, and he, he had an employee that would come to him with a problem and Jocko would go, good, you know, and have you seen that one? And, and, uh, the employee just kept coming to him, you know, and Jocko would go good, you know, and, and the employee came to him one time and he goes, Hey, I got this, this, and this, but I know what you're going to say. And Jocko goes, what am I going to say? He goes, you're going to go good.

And, and the guy was just like, and, and we did this, we did this and we did, you know, this is the bad, but this is the good that came out of it. And that's what, you know, Jocko's point was that, you know, good, there's, there's a problem. What are we going to do to fix it? How do we fix it? And how do we overcome it? You know, cause there's, there's going to be some kind of good in it. And I, and I think of that, Dave, your, your adversity, that's the, what, what's your teacher going to be?

You know, good. I got, I got something to work on. And I, you know, me and Dave joke between us. I know you guys have heard us say, I told you last week, Dave, when you, when you, you were kind of down about, you know, the people quitting and different things like that, you know, and, and, and I was like, well, good. We got, we have something to work on. I'm glad we have something to work on. You didn't say that, yeah. We have a goal. And, yeah, so that's what that reminded me of.

Dave is good. We got some adversity. What are we going to do about it? How are we going to get back up if we've been knocked down? How are we going to be adverse? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I think the... You know, I guess I'll lead into my final thoughts here. I watched a couple clips and it reminded me of what I've seen through the years, you know, on sports teams and in my own experience, stuff like that, you know, and here also, you know, through the years.

But losers assemble in little groups and complain about other little groups complaining about their coaches and their teammates. Teammates, but winners assemble as a team. You know, and you think, it just made me think about that. You know, we're trying so hard to assemble as a team and become a force of, you know, your list, Jim, safety, attendance, you know, punctuality, all those things. That's what we're trying to do is assemble this team and not sit over in the corner and complain about it.

And we've ran into instances where, you know, our attendance is too hard, or, you know, you expect me to be on time, or, you know, I have to do this, or, you know, your PTO is this and everything like that. But it's set up to be a winner. You know, it's set up to win when you accomplish these steps. And I, and I just, I want to mention that, that I'm, I keep running into that. And, and the, the complainers usually find other guys not playing and they come together and are miserable as a group.

Over time, the winners will lose respect for the complainers on the team because they aren't on board with the mission. They've got their own agenda, which is more important to them. You know, and the agenda is winning. It's not sitting there complaining. And I, and I, I don't know. I thought that was an important cause I've heard a lot of, a lot of complainers and, and I guess the complaining is what really boils down for, for me for the last week is not owning it.

It's your fault. Somebody else's fault. while I was just doing this, it's never that I screwed up, you know? And I had an instant this last week, I set a golf course.

Tee time up for me and my friends and I just did it online and I got my reminder Friday morning about my tee time and I usually don't look at it because I know what I set the tee time right I know when the tee time is and I looked at the reminder and it was for one player not not not a foursome that's pretty selfish right yeah maybe it's just gonna be me and I was like man so I called, it happened to be Buffalo Run here in Commerce City, called Buffalo Run and

I said, hey, you guys, I screwed up. All my fault. I said, but I've only said it for one player. You know, I got to call my buddies here and cancel or whatever. Can you fit us in? But I said, it's, my thing is it's my fault, right? I screwed it up. They're all, let me, let me check with the pro, you know, and anyway, they came back on the phone and goes, no, we're going to sneak in. We're going to sneak in this group. Can you be here a little bit early?

So I, you know, call, you know, three of the guys, you know, Tim and Will and his son and stuff. I'm like, Hey, can you guys be here a little bit early? I screwed up the whole bit. Anyway, story is they fit us in. I show up at the pro shop. I'm like, Hey, I'm the guy that can't read. They're like, I got your back. You know, we got you here. We fit you in and, and worked out just fine. But you know, I, you know, my personal opinion, but I swear I got tea times because Because I owned it. Right.

Exactly. The whole thing could have unfolded because you could have gone in there and said, hey, I set this up for a foursome. Right. How many people do that, Super Dave? How many? I could have blamed the app. I could have blamed. Like you said, they screwed. I set this up, you know, blah, blah, blah. But the only way there's only one player marked is me. You know, I miss marking the four people. And I just, in my heart, I believe because I owned it, they fit me in.

I'd agree with that. You know, and, and I, I guess I'm, that's what I, I'm so humble and appreciate. Yeah. I went back in and absolutely appreciated them, Dave, you know, and go back in and, you know, and, you know, joke with the guy. I'm the guy that can't read. I didn't read, you know, that's, that's the bottom line. And yeah, I just, I guess I'm, I'm really bothered lately by I, I, I not owning it. You know, it's somebody else's fault. You know, and it's own it, you know, own it.

You'll get so much farther, you know, and everybody screws up. That's the thing. I'd like, I'd like to meet that perfect person because it's, it's far from me and me. Don't look what we're here. Yeah. At some point in time. Right. Yeah. They've, they've screwed up. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the ones that think they are perfect. Yeah. Yeah. That was earlier when we were, when we were talking about the pride.

I, I, I have that where you're, I think you have to be self-confidence, but when you have this arrogance about your pride, I just, I just don't like you, you know, and, and, and, but there, but there's, there's that pride where you, where you also make yourself feel better by making fun of other people.

Arrogance. I do that. Right. You know, well, there's a, there's a, there's a fine line jam where I guess you joke about people and, you know, even then I, I, you know, try not to joke about people, but when you, at other people's expense. Right. You know, and you're just like, ah, that's just, that's not funny, you know? Right. Yeah. I, I, again, maybe that's a, that's an age thing. You know, I love, I love a confidence in a, in a young person or an athlete,

but not at the expense of, of other people. There's a difference between competence and cocky and joking and taking things too far. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Very, very much. Do you ever catch yourself complaining though? Oh yeah. And you know, you're, you're saying something to somebody and bless her heart. Usually it's my wife, Jackie, cause you know, she's my wife. Right. And then, then I'll stop and think in my head, I'm just freaking complaining here.

I need to stop. Yeah. I don't like complaining. It doesn't help. It doesn't solve anything. It doesn't fix the problem. Yeah. And mine lately, I, and I just got to go back to age because I hate to say that I'm, I'm old or I'm getting old or I hate that, that excuse, Dave. But more lately, it's been sometimes my mood because my, my knee hurts or my back hurts and my wrist hurts and that shit never used to hurt. You know what I mean? And I'm like, you know. It's either drying up or leaking, Jim.

Amen, Dave. Amen. And, and it's, it puts me in a mood, you know what I mean? And the mood is my choice. You know, the, the, the aches aren't going to go away, you know, take an aspirin or rub some whatever cream on it and see if it'll go away and just do your thing. Right. Or maybe it'll stop leaking if you rub something. You should learn the things that aren't hurting. It could be a shorter list, right?

Hopefully it is. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah. Yeah, that's a. The good news is feeling that pain makes you know you're alive today. Absolutely. Yes, sir. That's right. You know, that lady that you ran into, Dave, I remember you telling that story, you know, on the, maybe I was with you because I think about it, but the lady, you know, riding the bus to the, to the airport, Dave, and she had some scars and she looked at you and she goes, I, you know, I think you said that's a good scar.

And she goes, that just means I've been living, you know, and that's, that's the truth. Yeah. So, yeah. It's like the skin cancer I've had taken off of my face. It's just patina. It's all in the attitude, right? Super Dave. Otherwise you're just complaining.

You know, you said it. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's, I think that's important And at no matter what age, you know, you are, I think that's the, that's the growth. Yeah. It does come with a little bit of wisdom, which only comes with age though, you know? Yeah. You can't convince a 15 year old that, you know, that they're still learning.

And is it, is it, well, I guess you get, you got, you got to come back to age, but like you started your, your high road hauling off, Dave, you can't really gain any experiences until you have some age. That's right. So maybe, maybe it's just nothing. Maybe it's the experience that stack up no matter what age you are, you know? Cause I, I know, I know young, some young people that have lived some life, you know, and they're true. They're wise beyond their years.

They've gotten cancer or lost a parent or both parents or something. Yeah. Done some, done some growing more than the rest of us had to. Right. Right. You know, yeah. That's, that's so true. Yeah. So true. Yeah. Yes. I mean, it. My closing thoughts have just kind of metamorphosed into what we're talking about because Jim picked me up this morning and I, I told him I'm so out of routine.

I have this first world problem that the hinge broke, not broke, but long story short, I can't use my shower in, in, I have a master shower in our master bedroom. Right. I guess you're not supposed to say that anymore. Sorry. Primary. Primary. Yeah. Primary bedroom, primary bathroom. So anyway, like it all just kind of fell apart at once. And like, I have the glass door clamped on there so it doesn't fall off. And like, I didn't get any of my shit out of the shower.

So like I shave in the shower, I have a mirror in there, I have my shave, my, my razor, my shave, you know what I mean? And I'm like, I'm displaced in, in using our other shower. And I came out and I told Jim, I got like major first world problem this morning, you know, like I had to shave and I had to shave in the sink. Like I'm in a hotel and like I told him, these are just like first world problems. Right.

When I, and I'm complaining, like you're talking about super Dave when, you know, I joked with him. It was, it was meant as a joke, right. I wasn't truly complaining about it, but it's a blessed day. I have two bathrooms. Right. You know what I mean? A lot of people don't. You have water. You have a laser. Yeah. I mean, I'm able to. I have to go shave the creek behind my house. I'm glad it's uphill from where we go to the bathroom though. I wouldn't get any clean water.

I have to call Chuck Norris. Yeah. Yeah. Just, just kind of funny. You know what I mean? You talk about that and you, we live a blessed life. I think, I think a lot of people do and they don't realize it. You know what I, and I was joking. I truly didn't get in the pickup and tell Jim, my day's ruined. I had to shave in my sink. You know what I mean? Millions of people do. A lot of people. So all you listeners, he's lying. He got that drunk pissed off, Liar That's funny,

How's society problems? I hope your day's getting better. That's great. All you're doing is complaining. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. You just definitely fortunate, right? Fortunate. Fortunate. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. In a big way. Yep. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah, we were talking about being perfect earlier. I got to throw it out there. There's no people that are perfect, but my new puppy is. Except for his poop. Oh, he's perfect, man. Yeah, Allie, Tyler, and Danielle's dog, God, it's an Aussie doodle.

God, I hope I said it right. Tyler will be listening and said, that's not what my dog is. But anyway, so he gets really curly and fluffy. And we were all joking that he's looking kind of fat. And they got him, you know, try to do good food. They exercise, go on walks. Anyway, Allie cut him, trimmed him last night, groomed him last night. He is the skinniest, baldest dog looking.

I was like, dude, you don't even look right. And he was like, he was like, he must've lost like, he was joyous last night having his hair, hair trimmed. It was so funny. They know. Oh, they do. They know. Yeah. He was, you know, and then I'm sure he was in the kennel cause Allie can't have him out during the day, but he was excited to be home running around. He's a happy dog. Yeah. Happy dog. Yeah. Pug would always know when she got a haircut, man. She was the happiest dog. Huh. Yeah.

Good stuff. What you got, Jam? What are you saving over there, buddy? Life is good. Well, a couple of things are going on over here. One, I got to find a parody for you of Jocko Willings. Good. It is so funny. And then I found that the daily verse that changed Timmy's day the other day. So I'll go ahead and read it to you guys. Starts off with the scripture. In the same way, let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Then he goes on to say, Have you ever felt exhausted trying to shine for God? Here's a secret. Jesus doesn't say, create your light. He says, you are the light, already lit, no assembly required. We turn our faith into performance reviews, don't we? Louder prayers, bigger service projects, more visible good deeds. But Jesus offers something simpler. Just lift the basket that's hiding his light within you. The most powerful moments rarely feel spiritual.

It's pausing to really see the stressed cashier. Choosing grace when cut off in traffic. Radiating peace when plans crumble. This isn't performance. It's overflow from a heart already connected to the source. Notice Jesus doesn't wait for perfect lamps. He puts crack ones on the stand too. Your imperfections don't disqualify you. They're where light leaks through most beautifully.

Today, stop trying to glow harder. just lift a basket, let his light flow through your ordinary moments until someone asks, What makes you different? Then point them to the one who lit your flame. And then the quote of the day, don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you others can see him. Wow, I like that. That's a deep jam because there's some guidance in there. Did you say stress cashier? Yeah. Is that the one? The most powerful moments rarely feel spiritual.

It's like pausing to really see the stress cashier choosing grace when caught off in traffic those little moments you gotcha yeah yeah because that's when the light shines it's when it's the best yeah it's not it's not when you have an audience and you're putting on this big performance yeah you know yeah you know it's not for your glory it's for his glory for sure exactly exactly good good stuff that was a deep one lots of good points oh yeah all right everybody don't forget

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