¶ Wearing the Same Clothes Every Day
We are rolling right to remain offended again . So we back with the original gangsters , the OGs . Just us four , no special guests , Everybody sitting in their assigned seats again . No surprise guests coming in . I see the doors open . We got an extra mic right here . We ain't getting no surprises in .
Man , as much as people like to bitch about assigned seats , we sure as hell do it to ourselves all the time . We do it right here , man , it's a high school I've had in my assigned seat and still get to work . People want to sit in the same spot . They want to sit in the same spot , the conference table for every meeting .
I'm like , come on , man , and I'm the way I go , pop in and just sit in somebody's seat . That . I know they sit all the time and you can watch everybody get like what the fuck are we doing , yeah , like what's Scott doing .
Why is Scott's wrecking this whole show ? Eric was a fireman .
If they're barking . It's barking as fuck . You are not gonna work out .
Yeah , it was nice and you did a good job this week , but I'm sorry you just can't stay . No , I got you sitting . Yeah , you parking in my spot . You got to go . I can't concentrate the whole day because I'm worried about where to fuck my truck's at .
One spot over .
It's like when you walk out of the gym , though right , you can't find your truck .
That's exactly correct . Okay , go home . Now I'm stuck at work . I don't even know what to do . If you're always parking in the same spot , you always know where you at .
That's right .
Very true very true .
That's why I put all my stuff down like that too . Yeah , I don't have to worry about my keys . Where's my keys ?
Well , we've had conversations about that with the military coming out , the military , and you can't figure out what to wear . That's right , like there's all kinds of levels of anxiety , of weird things that people don't even pay attention to Like what you going to put on every day . Oh , because you just put a uniform on and moved on with your life .
Yep . So have you ever seen interviews like Dr Dre and those guys talking about how , why they wear the same clothes every day ? To get rid of that level of having to worry about that , steve Jobs did it .
There's a whole list of them . Yes , Steve Jobs always wore the black turtleneck .
And look at Dr Dre . He wears black pretty much every day . He may have some other things , but he has like an outfit pretty much that he wears , and I'm sure it's expensive as fuck outfit . But , it's like a black t-shirt and some jeans and some shoes and it's what he wears . And he had interviews like , yeah , talk to Steve Jobs .
And that's why I'm taking that level out . I don't have to worry about what I'm wearing tomorrow . Now I have all this other time to think about . I have this time to think about other shit and we don't think that we think about it that much .
But think about a couple of times where you sit in there like man , should I wear that shirt or should I wear this shirt ? If they were all fucking black , it wouldn't matter , right ? That's right .
So the shirt I got on . I wear these to work . I got five of them in different colors . They're all the exact same and I just grab one and go . I don't care what color it is , because I'm gonna wear all five of them in the week .
So it was a matter of somewhere blue on Tuesday or not .
Yeah right , they all go with the same pair of jeans . Yeah , they all go with everything , so just grab the same shirt and roll up . Yeah , I have six of this shirt . That's exactly what you're talking about .
Just grab one and go . So , the rest of this shit don't matter . I'll find a shirt I like and then buy like six of them in gray Gray . So I mean , we got a friend Matt , right . He wears black , black T-shirts and jeans all the time .
That's his uniform , but it's not like Eric's .
It's as long as the T-shirt's black , he doesn't really care what it says , what the material's made of , true true , but Eric wants the same shirt , different color .
I just want the same shirt because I like this shirt and then I want the same shirt and the same color .
Yeah , it fits in his comfortable . I like the different color . You grow the same color every day .
I'd rather wear gray every day .
Same color .
Sometimes I have to get different color shirts because I have so many pairs of gray shorts .
Right , right , because when you walk in an office and you wear a gray shirt , the same gray shirt three days in a row . They're like hey hey guys . As long as you don't stink you good , bro , as long as you don't stink you good . I got a door Like stay out of my office if I stink Like .
We're talking about a .
We all know he stinks anyway .
He doesn't wear a deodorant .
So it doesn't matter what he wears , he stinks . He ain't got no deodorant . He wears the same shirt every day . Just close that dude's office , we good .
It all depends where I go . If these are people I knew from my drinking days , then I have to worry , because then they're like kind of bender you want to be wearing the same clothes for three days .
No , I just simplified that Two packs of cigarettes and you don't notice that you smell .
Oh , man , the days of like when I stopped smoking cigarettes and then started , like noticing that smell . Oh my God .
Yeah , I can't believe . I walked around smelling like that all
¶ Parking Etiquette and Driving Abilities
the time .
Ever man , you were talking about the parking stuff too , and it was reminding me of all those people that like to park in both spots . Oh , like the new car people .
Oh dude , I saw a Cadillac today , yesterday Brand new Cadillac taking up two spots at Home Depot and I'm like in premium spots too .
Like not that he didn't park off a little bit and take it Like if you're going to park on the outside of the parking lot yeah , take up two spots , make sure you know get on the periphery , then do whatever you want , get on the get way out there . You can park sideways .
I don't give a shit , but if you're going to park in front of the door and take up two spots , you almost asking me to park up against you . Yeah , where ?
you can't even Behind you somewhere , just somewhere close , just somewhere super close .
I didn't have enough room for me to fit my truck without crushing something .
So I don't know if you know this , but about 15 years maybe 15 years ago , 20 years ago , I don't know 15 years ago , I got a really nice truck . I was super excited about it . It was either Denali or I don't know , something like that Somewhere around 2008 , 2009 .
I got a really nice truck and your father-in-law , chuck , told me because I was parking somewhere's one day and he said hey , I mean , if you can't afford to fix it , you shouldn't drive it . Never , ever , forgot that since in all so many years , because I still think about that he was absolutely right .
I mean , you're driving this Denali and you don't seem like you can afford it because you just park it way out there and you walk in all this way . So what's the point in even having it ?
And I'm like not a bad idea , but .
I've never forgotten that . He's told me that .
That's how I feel about people driving in dualies and stuff too that can't drive a dueling , like when they it's too big of a truck for them , like they just have no clue how to do it .
You should have an extra license , like you should have a license . They should have marks on license for a lot of things Like I feel like I should be able to drive faster than most people because I'm better at it .
So I feel like there should be an asterisk on my license .
That's like , yeah , we'll give him an extra 10 .
It should be when you pull on my driver's , my plate . Yeah , it should show . Oh yeah , he's an 80 .
Yeah , let that do go , he's gonna be fine . He give him a 20% leeway .
So you got like , instead of having a speed limit sign , you got a speed limit sign with like green zone , yellow zone , red zone .
And you're like you better have that tag on your license plate and you can go that fast . Yeah , I'm happy , All right it's like the speed suggestion , right .
Yeah .
And then , depending on your score and your license , you can go this percent up or you are your force to go this percent down .
All right , I can deal with that . That's what it's supposed to be anyway . Any kind of speed limits a taxation without representation . It is 100% .
It is . They didn't ask me how fast I want to drive on this route . No , you remember when ambassador was getting built up ?
That was really the whole thing . They forgot the extension .
Oh yeah , when we went down there to get that wood , to get the wood out of the fire .
That's what I'm talking about .
But whenever they were building that out , they had no speed limit on that road .
They didn't put speed limit signs up for like a couple months .
Yeah , it was a couple months and they just let everybody drive , and I guess they were trying to see how fast everybody was going to go . I don't know , I mean there is Eric .
a long time ago had asked me because there was some road by his house and was like but there ain't no speed limit signs , I can go as fast as I want . And he's like can you figure out if I can ? Yeah , I can , so I found out what the default is if there's no sign .
One day .
I was driving out to I-10 and I called Scott . I'm like , hey , how much trouble can I get into for passing this ambulance ? And he's like , well , I mean the lights on . I'm like yeah , he said well speeding . I'm like OK , and .
I just rolled out .
Because the ambulance is doing like 80 on the interstate and I'm rolling up to it and it's got his lights on and everything , and so I'm thinking , oh crap , I can't pass this dude up , I'm doing 90 .
Yeah , they're not up as a company . They're not allowed to drive as fast as they possibly would , so I called him and I'm like , hey , what's the law ?
Like , is it where I'm going to get in trouble ? He's like not anymore than if it wasn't there , Right . After that never paid attention .
There's rules about moving over when they're pulled over on the side of the road , but yeah , when they're rolling .
I actually told him .
I said get behind them . He said I want to go faster than them . I see it , but everybody's going to get out of their way .
Yeah , so they're going to get out of your way too . They move and you just stay close enough and they can't feel in behind the ambulance . They have to feel them behind you .
I'm like that's my people in the ambulance . Yeah , we just need to be good . Don't worry about me . I got the little red tag on my license plate . I can go 10 over Just posting on social media . Bro , we'll get the law exchange . That's how it works .
I've always thought about that though , why , and like you see all the drivers Okay . So we already agreed , 50% sucks . If you're in the top 50% of something , you okay . Like , if you had 50% , your average , right , right . And then so you're in the bottom 49% , you're below average , so it means you're shit .
So you got I don't know 300 and some odd million people in this country , so let's pretend like a hundred million of them drive . So that means they got 50 million people on the road that are shit , absolute dog shit , less than middle .
And they should never be able to drive over 70 . Right .
And should never be in the left lane . They should not have the same bruises .
Like if they're ever in the left lane , we should better take a picture of their license plate and send it .
and be like they shouldn't tell on them .
Like , just like if somebody was throwing a cigarette . But you can call you can . You can report them for littering .
Yeah .
Same thing . Anybody throws out trash , you can put them . I want to report people in the left lane that shouldn't be in the left lane . They should have a , they should have a blue tag on it or something like that they should have a list of people that aren't allowed on the interstate period . Oh , I'm good with that too , because there are some of them .
I don't care what they're in there , and I mean I'm in tiered drivers and then I think you're going to the I feel like we're in the top 10% of Wow , I should , I should .
Where's the criteria ? What is the ?
what get ?
you in the top 10% like .
I don't know . I'm going to drive fast and extra test and extra test .
Like I'm down , and then if you get in a wreck , well , like if you could , if you reckon that test , you don't get to retake the test for like 10 years .
But like if you could do the pit maneuver , while you in the drivers like you do the pit maneuver and shit , you get like top 5% . I don't know if we could do fun shit .
All right , I'm down , I'm down , or we could just make three lanes like Europe , and just if anyone's in the left lane not going fast , they move . That's your bad .
They get , they get out . I don't know 18 will is a everyone from .
if the 18 will isn't a left lane , they lose a license in Europe . What Really ? Yeah 18 rulers are not allowed to get in the left lane at all . They got , they have the other two lanes on the right side . There's always three lanes on their interstates .
Can they drive in the left lane in England ? Well , yeah , okay .
This was Italy and France . Somebody in Italy told us that , oh yeah , they're not allowed to drive on the inside , you just tucked up in that , in that .
So you stay in that lane and roll in this kilometer , so I saw 140 .
So I was just rolling , whatever have them as fast as I was .
You know that fancy as truck I got that we always talk about .
Mm , hmm .
Can read spin limousines .
Yeah , that's cool .
It reads spin limousines and it will adjust the cruise control to something around that speed limit . So it doesn't go exactly the speed limit because I know Eric likes to think I always go exactly speed limit . But you can tell it , I want to go the speed limit , I want to go five miles under , but it'll actually let you speed .
You can tell the truck , I want to go this many miles over the speed limit . Nice , how much over the speed limit do you think this truck will ? Let me go Five , five .
Ten , twenty , t , twenty .
Nice . It lets you go 20 miles over the speed limit .
I can tell Eric is truck .
I can tell this truck every time you see a speed limit , go 20 miles over it and it will automatically .
So you're rolling 40 or a 20 .
We're getting fucked up . There's about to be some laws coming out now that don't let them fucking programmers do that shit . That's kind of wild . You can't do that I try to . That is wild .
I put it at like five or six because I figured it's within . So the old rule my dad told me growing up was stay within 10% . That was his thing . So if you go on , if you're on 70 , go , don't go over 77 . Well , didn't even if you're rolling through a 25 , don't go over 30 . Yeah , now , that's pretty good rule .
Yeah , yeah . Didn't they make a thing , something like a six miles an hour ? If it's less than six miles an hour , the city that gives you the ticket doesn't get any money and it goes to the state .
It's 10 miles an hour because in this stupid state we had towns that created those speed traps . They were so bad , they were so notorious for it that the state finally got tired of it and told certain towns on state highways , if you take , if you write a ticket for anything under 10 miles an hour , that amount of money goes to the state .
You don't get to get a little percentage of it , Get a small percentage of the under 10 miles per hour . So I got pulled over in a little small town north of Alexandria and the guy was like look , we're nice . We let you go 10 miles per hour over . I was like that's because you don't get any money .
And he just kind of looked at me and I was like I know the laws , I know the rules . Man , I'm like it was at the newspaper . Bro , I'm 40 years old and that's some kind of special thing , because five years ago you sure as hell would have been giving me that ticket at five miles per hour . I'd try to be 400 bucks .
I still . I'm still going away by the 20 . I was too when I first started doing it , as much as they got in the settings .
I get in the settings area of the vehicle , yeah , and I play with everything . I've gone and told salesmen more stuff about the car they're trying to sell me . I love all the tech but , yeah , I got in there and I'm like kept pressing the button . I'm like get the fuck out of here , this isn't safe .
I cannot believe that that regulate that . There's much regulation , as there is around automobiles . You would think that there would be something that would not let them do that .
Right it's going to be , and you also top out we didn't fuck it up .
But maybe I don't know , none of our listeners , but it don't matter . Yeah , somebody's changing that shit . It will happen .
I don't think John Bell listens to us yeah .
But he might get a holla at him , but he might America .
Yeah , america , that's right .
Because something's going to happen , right , something's going to happen and somebody's going to say I got speeding ticket , this truck shouldn't even let me go that fast , right .
But I mean , you could buy a car that's 200 miles an hour and in Texas the biggest we live is like 80 .
Yeah , Right , yeah , I think ours is 75 .
They have an 85 .
85 . 85 .
Right .
Oh , yeah , west 85 .
That's probably the biggest in the
¶ Comparing Train Speeds
country .
There's some I think there's some places in Montana actually have no speed limit at all . Yeah , Because you can drive for like an hour and never see anybody .
Yeah , that would be nice , so I watch Yellowstone .
I feel like that's the whole truck from .
Yellowstone . The movie show Sure yeah Set in Montana and every time you see people driving , there's nobody around them and they're going real fast .
That's true , that's true , I did drive north through Montana going into Canada one time , and I remember not seeing a whole lot of cars on the road , not that you mentioned that .
But is it fun to go really fast if there's nobody around and you're just going straight .
I'll take this one . Yes , yes , it is . I do not drive for other people , so I only drive for me .
Oh , I just didn't know if it was fun going that fast .
It is , there's nothing to do , and if I get somewhere that's too early , then I could turn around and just do it again .
I like the other cars . The funnest time I think ever was going in Austria and I'm driving in a little Volkswagen rental and a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce pull up . Yeah , lamborghini , rolls Royce , pull up , pass me up . I'm like fuck it , I'm following them , so I'm just rolling .
I don't even know how fast I'm doing because it's in kilometers and I'm not even trying to figure it out it was a high number .
It was a high number . It was like 160 .
Man , it could have easily been just 30 miles per hour .
We could say 30 miles per hour , but it looked fast .
For the listeners . It felt pretty fast , but we rolled for like two hours and there were not a whole lot of cars , dude , and it was just us and it was you a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce .
So , a Volkswagen , a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce yeah we were rolling and we go into a tunnel that was like a three quarter mile mile long tunnel and Lamborghini engine and a tunnel dude . It was badass , nice , and it was all the way through the tunnel . It was pretty legit .
It was bad One of my friends had a Ferrari one morning and I was on my way to New Orleans . I was going to New Orleans for breakfast , right Nice . So I left Abbeyville to go to New Orleans for breakfast it really stupid early in the morning . Well , he had this Ferrari but only for the weekend and behind his house was an alleyway .
So I was like I met him at his house at five in the morning to pick up this Ferrari .
You lived in one of those fancy neighborhoods .
A fancy neighborhood , like when you say an alleyway . It's like the nice fancy neighborhoods where all the car park and where all the garage is on the back . Yeah , like that , yeah that , oh yeah . So then I go pick up this Ferrari man we back out . It's up to me is five , 15 in the morning , we backing out and this thing is loud .
And all you hear is it just bouncing off of all of these houses in this whole thing ?
It was probably rattling garage doors .
Three streets over . They can Everybody heard , everybody , all of them .
You said there weren't a lot of cars on that road when you were in Austria .
This particular stretch of highway , like going through the mountains , it was four lanes Right and it would just be some random car here , random car there , I pass up . We passed up a couple cars , but it was there , wasn't a whole . I lived there .
I lived in France for a summer , for about three months .
Yeah .
And I drove a road in the car once that whole summer because they're their train systems , so good so that's what do you like ? You don't see a lot of people , maybe on the highway , because what's the point ? Yeah , you can hop on a train . I was looking up today , once again kilometers per hour .
I was trying to figure that shit out but a buddy showed me a picture of this old train , like back in white picture of a train with a jet engine strapped to the roof of it in America .
He said strapped , yeah , strapped .
Strapped .
I mean maybe they bolted it . They bolted it , I thought it would just look whoop . It looked like two . I just thought it was good .
Maybe three , I put it on , put it on boys , it's like in white picture time and it talked about how it had gone 186 miles an hour and that is still the US record for training .
So I was looking it up . I was like man , I remember those trains and you're going pretty fast .
I went and looked it up they all averaged 186 . Wow .
That's their design .
That's the speed they go at , that's the electric .
Yeah , they're all electric . The record for the I think it's out of France the train , they got it up to 357 . Oh my God .
Yeah , I mean that's the record .
They don't run it that fast ? And the United .
States record was from the 60s 186 . From the 60s , yeah , but I think that's the one that changed 1964 .
They got a new one they built in Florida . Right now it goes from Orlando to Miami .
But I've been hearing that from California for over a day . Yeah , but no , that one is actually there .
No , it's there , I've seen it . It's not in production yet they just still do it .
once a testing you can , for real , get from every major city in Europe via rail .
Yeah , you don't have to drive .
No , not at all you don't , I didn't , I didn't drive . For the only reason I rode in a car that whole summer is because we missed the train .
Damn it , because it was going too fast . Huh , no , because it's not a real train schedule or me .
Yeah , we took a couple of trains . The car rental part was going to small towns and just kind of bouncing around little places .
Yeah , and you could work like airports , like you get there and there's a car rental place and you could just go to the little town , yep .
I think a car rental place at the train station .
Yeah , the train stations are like what you would think of an airport , like you go to Atlanta , houston , the big airports , so like the one in Switzerland , you pull in and it was huge , huge as train station . France was a big one in Paris .
Paris has a bunch , a big one .
A bunch of big ones , yeah , like a bunch of big airports all over the place , but with trains .
It's so much better traveling , though , because it's not like the plane , like the trains show up more often and they're really on a real schedule , like if you miss a train , too bad , but there's another one coming , yeah , and I loved it , absolutely loved it , because you could roll up to a train station and you get these passes that'll last you for the whole
year , yep , and it basically is unlimited amount of riding . Oh , but you still have to get a ticket because they have to make sure there's enough room on the train .
You can roll up .
You can roll up within an hour of when you want to leave and they don't know that you plan on going somewhere . Oh , you should Get . You find the next most of closest available time and just get on the train and roll .
So , like an unlike missing your plane , you just catch the next one that's right behind it .
Yep , somewhat right behind it . I mean it's not like yeah .
It might be an hour , but it won't be yeah , within an hour or so .
It won't be tomorrow or four hours later . Five hours later no , it's pretty good and it's much nicer traveling .
I mean there's no turbulence . No , it's pretty cool . You're sitting in chairs with little tables hanging out like you can eat and drink . They got a bar car restaurant .
That sounds way better than playing .
Yeah , we got our shit all backwards . We've always been backwards .
Well , we got trains here , people just don't take them because they're too slow or they see it , that's right .
I mean our US records from the sixties . Yeah , what's the average .
The average train speed in the US was six hundred , and fifty no average 150 .
150 average in the US . Yeah , no , that's us , no , no , that's , that's Europe .
The average in Europe was higher . Yeah , whenever I looked at it today .
Yeah , I don't know what America's I thought it was 150 .
The average speed of a train in the US is 150 .
I thought that's what it said .
What I mean ?
shit then we should go on it . I guess Amtrak would be the only yeah , but our train stations are terrible .
Terrible , that's right .
It can't be 150 because I raced in things down highway now I know that's what I'm saying .
I ain't never seen a train go fast to my core .
I'm like oh , they have so much regulation , they have to slow down in all the towns . These trains in Europe are passing up the towns . They don't go through the towns . And we had our train tracks going through the towns . People built their town around it . It's a hundred years .
Here's one train through town .
The trains are in the middle of nowhere like our interstate .
It's like our interstate but , instead they built trains . We built interstate . Yeah , of course , yeah .
But it says most Amtrak train . Amtrak trains travel between 110 and 145 . Oh damn , in the US .
They must just pick up the speed when they get out of town . They must yeah .
But we have .
We have more mileage . We have much more spread out than all of Europe . We're way more spread out than Europe .
The entire continent of Europe , which you still understand how it's its own continent .
Yeah , Going from Paris to Rome would have to be the equivalent of what I don't know Houston to yeah .
We could at least build some regional stuff . But that part of our problem is because we built the interstate system . That's probably where the train should have been , Maybe run them down the median or something .
So you're saying there's Dwight D Eisenhower's fault , yeah Well yeah , but the interstate system was built for the military , that's the awesome stocking forward .
at the time it was a military .
It's they were trying to figure out the best and easiest way to move military assets around the country including landing planes . That's why you have such long stretches of straightaways on interstate . On interstates , yeah , it's to act as runways in case they need to . If they need to , yeah .
And if they got a role with some military stuff because it's limited access and egress . Then they can actually block off stuff and keep people up .
It's easy , got you and roll .
So on , and the forth stock was just extra .
Yeah , they got a sign . That's why I got a sign . That's what . That's a sign .
They just need to figure out how to make some faster military vehicles , because those things do not go fast , do ?
they .
No , they do not be like , yeah , it's quicker to put them on an 18 roller and they put them on trains or yeah , sometimes they just make the they have a
dream of driving all across the country to me yeah , we have to we have to load them on a train .
Yeah , Because I'm driving to a train station .
I'm road by a car Boy . I was driving on these .
Like 50 Humvees and all those vehicles long and they're going like what 50 , 55 .
So 55 whenever there's a stick on the dashboard on the inside that says you can't go above 55 . Reference this rig . Yeah , like school bus .
But it don't make it like you . It don't matter what the stickers , as you can't make it . So , that middle muscle right in the top of your thigh , the middle one right there , man , I get back from like Fort Polk to Lafayette .
That middle muscle was burnt because the whole time I'm trying to put the pedal through the floor like we're trying to go , I might have hit 58 . I might have like there's a couple of spots on I down here with the tailwind . Absolutely . When you coming down these overpasses on I 49 , you're like , get it , get it , get it , and after that , nothing .
And the dude sitting next to you is like 12 feet to the right , yeah , and there's no air conditioning , there's no radio , there's no , not a nothing .
The engine's quite them .
Oh yeah , and I was like this it's terrible , terrible .
We've had this conversation before . You just picked the wrong branch , bro .
Oh , I learned that now we go fast , we went super fast , we can go speed up
¶ Choosing Military Branches
sound . So whenever I was in my 20s , I didn't realize that the people you picked on there was because there was a reason . Like we picked on the Air Force , right , there was a reason . Because y'all didn't do shit . Well , in like luxury accommodations , we sleeping on a fucking dirt Well , I mean they're just that's the smarter decision .
But nobody told me that shit . I'm like in fact , you want to know what they told me whenever I showed up and they're like what you want to be and I'm like I don't know what's with the army gun . They're like infantry , bro , you would be dope at infantry . And I'm like hell , yeah , that sounds dope , I'm in . I didn't know what infantry was .
I didn't even know .
It sounded cool . You like guns ? Yeah , you like guns .
Yeah , you would be infantry , oh yeah .
You like sleeping under the stars ?
Yeah , you like camping .
Yeah , they didn't tell me it would be in Fort Polk .
Yeah , you like going camping ? Yeah , bro , I like going camping . All right , you like hunting ? Oh yeah , I like hunting . Yeah , oh yeah , infantry , huh , you're bad .
Yeah , I figured it out at some point . Oh yeah , definitely too late .
Yeah , way too late After you told the Air Force guys about five times oh , y'all get deployed . You're sleeping five store hotels and then even don't know on you that we were sleeping in hotels and you were sleeping in a tent .
Dude , when I was in Iraq we had this giant place . It was called Camp Victory , camp Liberty , I don't know . They changed the name while we were there to be PC , but it was where Sonam's house was , his biggest house , the middle one . So the way Baghdad worked is , the richer you are , the closer to the center of the city you are .
So then after that it circled out and you know . So you got like a barrister's lawyers and then you got pharmacists and it kind of circled out to where you have peasants way out . Okay , so we stand on this thing . It's . It's got Saddam's house and we're all surrounded . He's got this giant as pool , all this fun stuff .
Anyway , we don't get to go much because I'm always I mean , I was doing 12 on , 12 off , and you do that for I don't remember four days in a row , and then you would swap . So I'd have one day that had 24 hours off to go to the pool .
Right yeah .
Anyway . So we go to the pool and meet all these different people . They had people from Australia , they had people from there , for there was all these people and they was living their life , having a good time . See the pool all the time and we chill Once . I think I've been to the pool like three times the whole year I was there .
They was living their life over there .
I'm like what the fuck did I go wrong ? But I remember because that dude was like you , like guns .
Where did I go wrong ? Oh , we didn't have the internet . We didn't have the internet .
We didn't have the internet in 2001 .
He said you're going to get to do some cool shit . I didn't Google what infantry was .
How'd you pick the air force ? Obviously , it wasn't the cool guns .
No , I'm trying to think I knew I didn't want to go to college . I was like I'm done with school . So , like I was already , I did all my pre enlistment whatever like the end of my junior year . So I'm between my junior year and senior year high school . I was , that was done . I already had the decision made I was going .
But I'm trying to think of how I picked the air force , because I'm pretty certain it was just because I was like I'm pretty sure that more me dudes get shot at all the time and I kind of like planes . So I'll just go there .
Is this because of ?
top gun ? Probably , yeah , well , maybe , though , but I mean I'm 80s , yeah , but I watched a shit out of that . I can , like I can quote it .
Yeah , okay .
¶ Joining the Army, Choosing a Job
So while you were saying that , I thought about something . When I joined the army , it was an event like two , a two weeks span . It was like a buddy was like hey , I got a great idea and I'm like what you got . And then in two weeks later I was there .
So that whole year you talking about , no , just joined up , but that whole year I didn't have any of that . So literally when I showed up there was like here , infantry you .
I picked . I picked the air force , so that was guaranteed . My job wasn't , but going to the Air Force was something . They just took my ass Vap scores or whatever and they were like , oh , you'd be good mechanic , you'd be good electrical , which one you want ? I was like I don't know , I don't know Mechanica . Yes , I get the work was a plane .