$50 for Rejection, Dad Jokes and a Booger Sammich

Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to 2 Grumpy events. And, indeed, this is a show that each week allows for 3 friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Brian, Rich, and the dude. And, how's mister Rich today?

I realized before I woke the fuck up this morning that my ass wasn't doing nothing. I didn't even get that fucking shit. Doctor. You didn't get up, you know, you're like already wiped out. I was like, fuck this. Doctor. Dude, I'm telling you. Yeah. You're right. I mean, I barely opened my eyes and I even, even before I even went, went to sat up in my bed, I was like, oh, hell no. God dang. Uh-uh. So yeah. Yeah. Other than that, you know, I'm good. I I didn't I didn't do a damn thing today.

Well, yeah, I did. I I well, it's just You didn't do much of a damn thing. Pretty much. Pretty much. I I did have I did have fried egg sandwiches this morning for breakfast. Hey. Hey. There's nothing wrong with good fried egg sandwich. Right. Right. And it's it'd been a while since I had fried egg sandwiches. So Oh, yeah. I was like, okay. I'm I'm good. But yeah. And,

you know, well, like, like, I was talking last night about, you know, the antenna and maybe going to Home Depot and all like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I knew I knew that wasn't gonna happen. And then then I got to doing some research and, yeah, totally gave up on that whole idea because I know digging a hole and mounting a 4 by 4 post with concrete was probably gonna kick my ass for about 2 weeks. So I'm like, yeah. I'm not doing that much. So I so why do you need a 4 foot by 4 foot hole?

Well, no. I I was that just didn't sound right. It just did, but That's like it sound. Yeah. It's our dude. You're joking? A 4 by you you you understood that as a 4 by 4 foot hole? Brian? Yeah. Wow. Okay. No. It's a 4 by 4 piece of wood. Yeah. And then Post. Like a fence fence post.

And then drill the hole. There we go. Alright. Now that we're all on the same sheet of music, maybe that So he was talking about con and concrete, and I was like, oh, what do you need a 4 foot by 4 foot hole? I mean, goddamn, man. Well, now hold on. Actually, actually, if if you put up a tower, I mean, I'm talking, like a TV tower or something like that or, you know, like the tires you see out in the

out in the fields that are guide off and, you know, they they hold cell phone antennas and shit like that. Yeah. Yeah. Those those holes are probably 10 foot by 10 foot in the bottom. Oh, yeah. That I understand. Well, the thing is, though, with the tower even like here, if if I was to run a tower that was 50 foot, I would have to make a, minimum 3 foot by 3 foot by 5 foot. If not the end, probably even go 6 feet deep for for the mast or for the tower.

But what I what I was gonna do, I was gonna take the 44 foot by not 4 foot. She got me off now, Brian. The, the, Just a 4 by 4 piece of wood. Yeah. Mhmm. I was There we go. 8 foot long. I was gonna dig a hole 18 inches, put the post in there, and then fill it with concrete. Right? Okay. Yeah. So, like, you were making a normal, like, putting a putting a piece of wood in the for a fence. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Basically. And then I was gonna attach that mast, to that piece of 4 by 4.

Okay. The the, bottom part of the mast and then run it up and then, use guys and, see a guy at off, you know, the further up I went. And so I got to thinking about it, and I'm like, I really don't wanna dig that fucking hole. Even though even though in my yard, it probably would be really freaking easy because I've got a lot of sand in my yard. Right. Okay. And, I mean, it wouldn't be too hard, but after I woke up this morning like I did, I'm like, yeah. Yeah. That ain't happening. I'm like,

that's probably not good. So so I was sitting here thinking about it and I I was going back and forth between everything and then something popped into my head. And and I had looked at other options and, that that had gone fleeting through my mind. And I was like, oh, shit. There's eBay. Let me look on eBay. And I looked on eBay. Oh, damn. I found I found something really, really good that makes life a whole lot easier, and I can still achieve what I want. Hey. Yeah. Well, now

since you were Navy, Brian, I don't I don't know if you've seen them and you might have. I know I know dude's seen them and messed with them. I know I've messed with them and seen them. But, the, military has either fiberglass or aluminum, posts, 4 foot posts. Right? K. And and so they're they're 4 foot each. And, you put them together, and you can, shit, hold up camo netting. You could make an antenna mast out of them. There's there's just they're just versatile.

You can use them Okay. For a lot of stuff. And, I I had looked these up, you know, I don't know. I guess, last year or something when I was at Missouri and I, you know, and I was like, no. That's too expensive. I ain't doing that. Goddamn. No. I ain't doing that. Well, I got to looking at them and I'm like, you know, I think I wanna do that. Well, yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. But trying to find it for the right price because most of the ones I was seeing were, like, $25 a pole.

And I'm like, for a used military poll. No. Ain't happening. Well, I found this other guy on eBay that, he sells brand new ones Correct. For $10 a pole. I was like, sign me the hell up. And the other reason why I was looking for a lower price is because shipping on these things is a motherfucker. Oh, yeah. The there's a dude in New Orleans that sells on eBay. He's the one that sells them for $25 a pole. Right? K. You can order you know, he sells them in lots of 10.

So you can buy 10 4 foot poles for $250 plus an extra 75 for shipping. And 75 for shipping. Yes. And I did. In fact in fact, this guy on eBay that I found, it was 120 or 119 for 12 poles. And and the, the shipping I was able to get the shipping down to 68. So, yeah, it's it's yeah. And, see, that's the thing. You know? If if, if the guy in New Orleans wasn't so expensive, I'd have bought them from him and said, yo, dude. I'll be there tomorrow and pick them up. You know? Right.

I mean, shit. I mean, literally, I'm like an hour and a half, 2 hours away from the islands. So, yeah, I I mean, I can say I won't spend $73, you know, to ship them. So but but also on this guy that that I ordered these from, this dude had something. I and I didn't know the military had this, but it's a it's a plate with a, like, 2 foot long spike on the bottom of it. Okay? And you shove that in the ground, and it has a little thing that sticks up where the mask can go into, and it tilts.

Oh, okay. So so I can put all this together on the ground, run run my guy wires. You know? Right. Because, my guys, I've got them spaced at 36 feet from the center. So when I get up to 40, I'll be up to about 42 foot. My, they'll be angling out to 36 feet, so they'll put the right amount of pressure on the on the mast. Right. But, I'm sitting here thinking, I could put all this together on the ground

and then walk it up myself. The only thing is is I gotta figure out how to keep it tight or kinda tight, which I've I think I've got that figured out. I mean, that's that's neither and and this guy also had a, topper thing you can put on on the top mast. And it comes with a pulley, so I can hook up my antenna before I can basically hook everything up pretty much before I ever get the antenna or the mast fully up. Oh, well, that's good. Yeah. I was like Hey. You do

realize What? You do realize that's an o e 254 antenna, type thing. Right? I know the poles that you're using. Those are the poles used for spreaders for the netting. If you got if and I know Rich was out in the field many times, but those are the poles that they use for the spreaders with the nets. Right? Mhmm. Are are those the poles you're getting? Well, the well, you see, see, when I was in a 120 for a suit on the battalion, we also used them for,

antennas. Oh, okay. We we used the aluminum ones for the 0 e 254. And because that had the attachments for the, rigging system at halfway and at the top Yeah. And then you put your guide wires. But that that tilting thing that you said for the base Mhmm. That that's the base for 08254 antenna. Okay. Well, I saw that and I said, yeah. I need I need one of those. So Now you said your ground was sand. Now is it when it goes down, is it hard packed sand or is it still kinda loose?

No. No. I can I can shove a tent stake in by hand all the way down? So I can So your So your ground's pretty loose? Yeah. I mean I mean, once I get further down, it tightens up and it doesn't let stuff move. But but, yeah, for like 10 steaks, I I can normally push them in by hand or by my foot. I don't need a hammer. Yeah. You probably here's my suggestion for your stakes for your guide guide rope Mhmm. Is they have, fiberglass stakes that have a corkscrew style at the bottom

so you can screw it into the ground. And, I mean, the ones that I have, they're like, well, they're probably at least 9 inches long. But the fact that it corkscrews down in, that's where it's getting its grip at. Yeah. That's yeah. I've got I've got a set of, 18 inch with the corkscrew coming. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I had yeah. No. Say on this you say the thing is this this fiberglass mask is not gonna weigh much. No. It doesn't.

But but I'm still not gonna trust it to, you know, a little 8, 9 inch tent stake. You know? Because my Right. On on the guy wires for my top guy ring, I'm looking at 5056, 57 feet of cordage. You know? So so I'm I'm a need to cinch it up a little bit. So so, that's why I went with the longer, and and a corkscrew.

So Yeah. So what do you gotta now I your best bet, if you can find them, would be 08254 guide ropes because they come with the clips, they come with the cinching, apparatus for the rope. Well, they're, I'm I'm gonna use 550 cord because, it doesn't stretch that much. Believe it or not, it doesn't. And when it gets wet, it gets tighter. But I also got some, rope centers that are,

what are they called? They're called it's shark teeth that that when you run it through and run it back through, it it it just it digs into the line. Yeah. Oh, I know what you're talking about. So so yeah. That's yeah. No. I did I did my measurements on my on my guy wires, and and, I'm a guy in it in 4 places. It's probably Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What are you using as, points at the poles? This guy also sells, steel, guy rings for these poles.

Okay. Yeah. Same thing that would come with an 08254. Yep. Yeah. So Yep. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna tie to those and, just run the 3 stakes and and attach everything to the, you know, the 3 4 lines, the different heights, all to one stake. Well, you said you're gonna do 3 lines? Well, the 3 tie down system, not the 4. I would high I would highly suggest that you do a a 4 tie down.

That's just Ron's opinion. So when you're raising it up, you have the 2 on the side that's gonna keep your antenna from going side to side. And then when you get it up, that 4th one is going to be what stops it when it gets to your straight point up in the air. Oh, if I set the 4 well, if I set it 4, they'll be, 90 degrees from each other. Yes. If I run this, so maybe maybe I'm not understanding what you're meaning by Yeah. Well, instead of having 3, you have 4 at 90.

That so when you when you do raise it, yeah, you're gonna have 4 points, but you're gonna have more stability. Well, see, that's the thing. I I mean, with the 3, I was, you know, run one straight out, you know, and then run the other 2 120 degrees. And I'm I'm gonna have all the lines hooked up because because the top, guy ring, like I said, is, about 55 feet long is the wire, and and the bottom one is, 37 feet out. So or 37 feet long, give or take. So so when I get those bottom ones up

and and I've got my ladder. I was gonna raise it up a little bit and then kinda cinch my bottom ones up, keep them tight as I walk it up. And then when I stand it up, those 3 will hold that whole thing, you know, as long as the wind's not blowing while I get the others tightened up. Because that's that's normally what I do on my, 10 meter mast because I've got one that stays up. It's tied, you know, it's guide down, and it's it's only guide in one place. So in there Okay. Well

well, 6 of this, half a dozen of another. Yeah. You could do 3 points at a 120 degrees, you know. Yeah. That's On sea seeing that's a you know, that's the thing, you know, for, like, you know, later on, you know, I can always change it too. Yeah. You know, I I I can always add a 4th because it's not hard to pull one, steak up and then move it over to where I need to and then, add another stake. So

Yeah. You'll just have to bring it all the way back down to add your guide wires or your guide ropes. Yeah. Yeah. But but, see, with that tiltable base, it'll be a lot easier to do. Well, yeah. So Yeah. You won't have any slip from the bottom. Yeah. And that's yeah. Yeah. There's The the hardest the hardest thing is going to be having enough energy to raise it up. Right. I don't know. I don't know how much your your, component for the antenna and your, you know, you, and your actual antenna

hoist. Weigh nothing. It don't weigh nothing. Heavy that is? Oh, okay. Yeah. No. It So now you remember an o e 254 had 3 going down and 3 going up. Right. Okay. What does what configuration is yours? Mine's a wire antenna. Oh, so it's just one one antenna that goes up that you're putting it that attaches to your antenna itself. Yeah. This yeah. This is just, what I'm gonna do with this pulley is run a, about a 100 foot long rope

and run it down. I'm gonna tie the rope to one part of the antenna and actually leave it on the ground while I'm raising this mast up and then get it all tightened up, then I'm gonna use a pulley and pull the antenna or yeah. Pull the wire up and then stretch it out to make it look like a triangle. Okay. Yeah. Make sure you, make sure you, use a drip a drip loop For when you do, like, For shits and giggles? A drip? I don't know.

Yeah. So you're not so you don't have, what like, again, with the 08254 when we put those up And with the, antenna head, you had to put a drip what's called a drip loop, just a small loop so that you are not putting the weight of the cable at the connector of the antenna. Oh, no. Make a small loop to take that tension off of, you know, that connector. Yeah. No. No. See, that's the thing. I won't have any. No. Up top, there is no there's there's no

coax attachment up top. It it'll be on the on the corner, on the right corner near the ground. So so it won't it won't, up top, it won't affect anything. Okay. But just as a suggestion, look at the weight of that cable and how good that antenna base is. And just that that drip loop, all it does is take the weight of the main cable off the connector.

Even though on a 08254, yes, it's a a coax connect point, but I don't know how much that cable weighs and if that would do any damage or even over time, you know, start to, put stress on that antenna head. Oh, no. No. Yeah. Okay. Okay. The head of my antenna will be down towards the ground and over to the right about 40 feet away from the mast. You understand what I mean? Okay. So here's gonna be another real stupid question. Why not put your antenna on the top of the mast?

Well, I am. The, point up top of the triangle Uh-huh. Is just a piece of wire. I'm feeding it from the bottom right corner of the triangle. You understand what I mean? Not a fucking clue. Okay, dude. Think of a really big fucking triangle. I'm talking huge. Okay? Yeah. Like a pyramid. Got it. Thank you. Or Christmas tree. Gotcha. Okay. The bottom right. That's where I'm feeding it at. That's where that's where the coax and and and all of the matching unit and everything will be

at is at the bottom right. It won't be near the mast. Bottom right of what? Okay. You're looking at the Christmas tree. Right? Yes. Okay. The bottom right. As you're looking at the Christmas tree, you know, the tip top that has the angel or the star on it? Yes. There's your that's your antenna. Yes. Well well So you're so you're gonna bring your coax down one of your, guide ropes? No. No. Okay. I'm yeah. Now I'm really fucking confused.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're making this entirely too damn difficult. No, dude. No. Jeez. Wow. No. No. It's simple. It's Yeah. Then I'm fucking lost like a motherfucker. I can I can pitch in only 254? Okay. Clear as day. Okay. Hang on here. Let me, shit. I got Draw me a stick figure picture and post it. I'm working on it. Okay. I am working on it. You are making shit entirely too damn difficult. Yeah. I mean Or your ex or your explanation is entirely too damn difficult.

Now your now your objective may be perfect. Right. You know? But the way you are explaining it, I am so fucking lost. I'm you know, you got me in the middle of motherfucking desert. Oh, wait. Hang on. Does does, we don't have the whiteboard anymore, do we? Right. Yeah. We do. I need to activate it for you? No. For a while. Zoom was starting screen sharing. Oh, you had it. Pinch out for a bigger view. Okay. Hang on. Okay. There's a little pen.

Going down. Okay. And this is great, great stuff for the for the podcast, guys. So, yeah, we've got a pole. It's got a really long pole with a line going straight out to the right. Where the fuck is it at? It's in the backyard. Oh my god. No. The drawing. I'm not seeing anything. It's on it's in Zoom. I'm not being facetious this time. It's it's just so it's nothing that I can see? You it should be able to see on Zoom. You should. Because I'm on my I'm on my phone. Okay. So yeah.

Where where is it located? Tap on the screen. I got the all the fucking icons down at the bottom. Let's see. Participants, chat, reactions, share, record, AI. K. And what does it say? For. Okay. Right. Above above all that, what is it showing? Not a damn thing. You're not having a picture of you, me, me talking? Yeah. And a black and a black. Okay. Slide slide push tap in or not tap, but put your thumb in the middle of that screen and slide it to the right side of the screen. Oh, okay.

There we go. Now I know where you're at. Okay. And so far, Rich has made What? A Lost spot. So we've got a long pole. We got a, we got a line going out to the right. We have a triangle. It looks like a bell with a stick of dynamite setting off to the side. No. Well, no. No. No. The bay

That's not dynamite sticking off to the side. Okay. No. Dude But that looks like a fuse. It's running out, underneath and off to the right. Well, you know, I guess someone might think that. Yes. But it's not. It's it it is a, good. Because I'd hate to see that, the, you know, the ATF come come by and pick you up for, for an antenna. That would suck. Okay. So that drawing right there Uh-huh. Is what what is your objective? Okay. So you got the pole. Right? That's the blue. Am I correct?

Yes. You're correct. That's 40 somewhat feet up into the air. That's correct. Okay. What is that thing going to the right? That is that'll be a cap that goes on top of the pole and comes out, and there's a pulley on the end of it out there so it keeps the antenna away from the mast. Okay? Okay. Okay. And then what I'm gonna do is run a pulley rope, but I'm gonna bring the apex of the triangle here.

That's the top. Okay. Bring it to you know, bring it all the way up, And then I'm gonna stake off the left corner and stake off the right corner. And this red box over here on the right corner, that's my ballon with my coax coming from my house. And I'm gonna feed the antenna from there. This is called a delta loop. And with it Okay. So okay. So you don't have the only thing you're putting up there is a wire? Yes. Okay. And now What not what type oh, I'm fucking yeah. I'm I'm

so far past confused right now. What is that? I don't know. Okay. You're just gonna ask what type? What type of what? Okay. What you don't have an antenna head. Correct? That's the red box over here in the lower right hand corner. That's on the ground. Well, it'll be off the ground, but, yes, it's but yes. As opposed to the Apex, yeah. It's basically on the ground. Okay. So what wire what type of wire is it that you're putting up through that pulley? Regular 14 gauge stranded wire.

Oh, same size same size you'd use to wire lights with or speakers with or anything in your car with. So that's gonna be that wire is gonna be your actual antenna. Yes, sir. Yep. Okay. Okay. I got a little bit better understanding. Now now let me ask you this. Okay. That 40 that pole that is going up in the air. Mhmm. Right? How how high are you making that that mast? It'll be, when when all the pieces are put together, it'll be about 45 feet high.

Okay. So how are you going to secure that from falling? I will show you. Okay. Wait. Yeah. Hang on. Alright. I'm gonna put Sky Rings. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I got you. Uh-huh. Yeah. They're just like an 0 8254 antenna guide rings. Yep. Go or guidelines going down. Okay. I understand that. So how many guidelines are you going to have? Well, 3 or 4? Well, 17 and 3 quarters, probably. No. Say 3, 3 on each ring, but I've got 4 rings. So I've got 12 lines total. Oh, okay.

So Oh. So yeah. And and plus plus with this base like this that that has a tilt over Yeah. That goes in the Yeah. Yeah. That goes into the ground and then has the, plate that you can stake down as well. Yeah. And then Yeah. Then has a tilt. So yeah. I I mean, I'm I'm a have a guide, you know, you know, 12 times. So I got a feeling Right. Yes. Yes. Got a feeling I ought to be pretty good. Yeah. Well, with those light poles and having 4 tie down rings, yeah, it'll be pretty secure.

Now what I was thinking, you remember what a complete o e 254 antenna looked like. Right? Yes. Okay. Your red box, it's close to the ground. Uh-huh. That right there, I thought was gonna be on the top of your mast, of your poles. Right. And then the cable, like an 0 e 254, coming down and being attached to the pole. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. But you're okay. And and see and see, Ron, if if, I was gonna put this red box up top there, you're right. Uh-huh. I

yeah. I would make a loop or something to, so as not to stretch the coax tight. That's what I was saying. That's the drip loop. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'd have done that because I can feed it. I can feed it from the top here. Yeah. I can feed it right dead center if I want or I can feed it anywhere, actually. But I chose to feed it here because in this configuration, it acts more like a vertical antenna, which, say a vertical antenna, it transmits.

It normally transmits out like this and then shoots out. And, I mean, it it does real good. But and and this will do kind of like this except, though, in a whole lot bigger. Nope. Alright. Right. So it's still gonna be an omnidirectional instead of a directional antenna with your 2, with your 2 wire lines. Right. Right. No. Now if I would have fed it up top here Mhmm. Then I would have had a, a directional, broadside.

So in other words, if I hung it and faced the triangle east and west, I would I would, transmit east and west. I would be broadside to the side of the antenna. Oh, okay. That's why that's why I chose to feed it down in the corner here is to go more vertical. I'll still get some broad side off of it, but it'll be mostly vertical. Okay. So Now I now I am less confused. Well, that's good. I am glad. Yep. Nothing worse than having a confused dude. That's right.

So are you going to attach your wire as your antenna at your base point for your guide ropes. Okay. Say that again. Okay. So you have that triangle. Right? Mhmm. Okay. Down at the the bottom of the or the bottom of the one, are you going to attach that at the point of where one of your guide ropes is coming down? Oh, 1. No. Actually, this will be this will be sit us, sitting with its own own, steak, and this will be sitting with its own steak.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Now I'm I'm gonna stretch this separate of the guy wires. Oh, okay. So and see the thing is with this here, how far is that box off gonna be off the ground? Probably 2 to 4 feet. I would still create a drip loop just in case. And why I say that is, 1, even though it's 2 to 4 feet off the ground, you're 1 still taking the stress off of the connector point for the cable and your antenna box. Right. And number 2, you're also creating a

slack point. So if you go out into your yard and you'd say you trip over or catch your foot on your coax, it's not gonna pull out of the box. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I see that. I see that. Yeah. I'll look at it once I get get to that point. Yeah. I might I might do some I mean, I've I'm fixing to feed it with a 100 foot of coax, and I got a feeling I'm gonna have quite a bit left over.

So, yeah, making it loose to where it's not even putting any strain on on the on the connection point. I'll just yeah. I'll look at it when I, get, stretch it out because, yeah, that's the thing. Because, I mean, you know, I want this thing to hold up in the wind and shit like that, you know, like hurricane season next year. Yeah. That's why that's why I'm I'm running as, many guy wires as I am. Hopefully hopefully, it'll hold up to at least 60 or 80 mile an hour winds, I'm hoping.

But, see, another reason why I'm doing this is because on, like like, this side and this side and the other side and then the top, I can run other antennas off off off the same mast and just run them out different ways. Like like, I can run an inverted v over here or a fan dipole, and then, you know So are you gonna put all your, say, your pulleys and all your other stuff up at the top before you erect it, or you're just gonna take it down if you want to adjust whatever you're doing?

I'll just probably take it down. Oh, okay. It's because right now, my goal because I've been talking about it, you know, and and you you asked me about it last night, and but I've been wanting to get this antenna up for a while now. And so I wanna get this thing up, and and I'm I wanna play with it. I wanna see because everything I've read and all like that is supposed to be really good. You know? This is supposed to be a really good antenna.

And so I'm wanting to, figure out, is it a really good antenna? So that's why I'm just I'm just putting up the delta loop for now. And then if I get another wild ass idea, I've got everything here. I just have to attach, you know, another wire and another piece of coag.

You know, what will be the funniest damn thing once you tell me that this has happened, I will laugh my ass off that while you were mowing your yard, you went underneath your guide wire with the lawnmower and choked yourself because you didn't see the guide wire. I am waiting for that I am waiting for that day that you tell me that that I went Yeah. And hung myself with the fucking guide wire when I was mowing my grass. Yeah. I'm I'm a fucking laugh at you so hard. I know.

But but, hopefully, because I was doing it with with my other mess, my, my 10 meter mess that I got up at my at my weather station. I I have up just across from from that one. I got smart I I use my weed eater. I've got a little battery powered weed eater. I actually kinda like that fucker. And Right. I go Yeah. Okay. And and you see, I've got I've got these, these, other 2, you know, guide themselves.

So instead of taking everything down, moving everything, and putting everything back up, I go through and weed eat all that first. So this way, when I use the mower, I don't have to go anywhere near there because I'm afraid I would clothesline myself. Yeah. You're gonna you regardless, you will clothesline yourself. I guarantee it. I I might. As as god makes little green apple, I guarantee you're gonna clothesline yourself without a doubt.

Oh, yeah. You might wanna get you might wanna get some, like, they have the real it's about an inch wide, and it's they're plastic or yeah. Just real thin plastic, guide tape. Yeah. Like like a trail tape? Like a trail tape. Yeah. I would attach, like, 3 of those onto each one of your lines to give you a visual point so you don't hang yourself. Well, you know, that honestly, I was thinking about that today, and and I do have trail tape. So so,

I probably will do that. Yes. Just because of that right there. Because I know me trying to walk out in the backyard, and I'm not paying attention. And my brain is scrolling off onto something, and I just walk right into a damn skywire. You're gonna you're gonna fucking do it regardless. I I can already see it. You're walking around your yard. It's like, yeah. I'm gonna get this over here done. And all of a sudden, you're choking yourself because,

yeah, you just had no clue as to where the guide wire was. Yep. Trust me. You know how many times I have taken myself out with a guide rope from an o e 254 antenna? Quite a few times. Quite a few times. Yes. Then you know what? No. We didn't have any, you know, focal points like the the trail tape. Yeah. But you fucking knew it was there. Yeah. And you still close lined yourself Mhmm. Like an idiot. Thank goodness we did not have cell phones back then.

Oh my god. Right? Right? Because they did pictures. There is no Yeah. It didn't happen. Yeah. Yeah. No. No pictures. No proof. That's right. That's right. But yeah. No. That's that's what I'm trying to accomplish right there. So Okay. Well, that makes it a little bit you're gonna have so many freaking points on the ground, you know, especially if you make that broad broad angle one on the left as well as the one you're creating on the right. Mhmm.

Yeah. You're gonna have so many points on the ground. It's not even gonna be funny, is it? No. Okay. Actually, it's gonna be hilarious. Why is that? Just watching you try to dodge everything. Yeah. Because you gotta remember your neighbors aren't gonna see the guide wires that you're dodging. So you're looking like a tweaked out tweaked out dude at a backyard, switching, ducking, juking, and everything else. They're gonna call it a po po because they think I'm I'm I'm I'm cracked out.

All jacked up on Mountain Dewey, man. Yeah. So so instead of having 4 guide, guide rope points, yeah, you if you do 3, you're gonna it's 1 25% less chance that you're gonna clothesline yourself. Yeah. Right. With having 3 instead of 4. Yep. Uh-huh. But see, the thing is, though, altogether, I'm gonna have 12 12 chances to clothesline myself. It, it's gonna happen. I I could yeah. Mhmm.

I can picture it now. And I hope I'm down there when it happens because, by god, I'm not just gonna get pictures. I'm going to get video. Right. And I'm not gonna tell you that the line is there. When you're fixing to walk into it, I'm not gonna tell you, hey. You got a line. You I'm gonna get out the phone and start a video. Yeah. You just So as you're as you got walking up, you're gonna go. Yeah. That's what you're gonna do. Yeah. Do a TikTok video that that whack fuck. No kidding.

I didn't get a whack buck. Fuck. But yeah, no, that's, yeah. This is this is my goal. And then I should be good within to I mean, I mean, I still want a hex beam, but that's gonna be a couple years down the line because I've gotta buy a tower for it, I think. I I don't know. I'm not I'm not even think this this is my this is my project right now. Alright. So Alright. So you purchased the poles. Did you purchase the base yet?

Yeah. Yeah. The poles, the base, the guy rings, the top piece with the pulley is all is all from the same company. Okay. So yes. And I already I already have the antenna made, the 550 cord, the stakes that I'm using for the guidelines, and one of oh, my my, my roadblocks or the guidelines are coming from Amazon. Okay. So you're are you going to just put the o e or the the 550 cord through the holes in the, in the guide rings? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Can I give you another suggestion?

Use carabiner? Yes. That way you don't, get you minimize the rubbing of the o e or the, I fucking completely lost my Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Minimize the scraping of of the line. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you meant. Okay. And, yes, I haven't thought about that. Yes. I might I might decide to do it. Not a 100% sure on that yet. I'm waiting until I get parts here, and then I'll finalize everything. But so that'll be probably a last minute change. But, yeah, I've got the carabiners here already. So

hang on. Okay. Yeah. I got, like, hell, I got, like, I don't know, 15 or so, I think. Oh, okay. So So, yeah, we'll see what happens on that. Because Yeah. I mean yeah. Because the poles are so light, I doubt that you're gonna have very much sway in them. You know, if you had if you had the antenna head at the very top, yeah, I would worry about, you know, the swaying aspect in the session of man.

Well, see, that's why that's why I, decided to go with the, the, 4 guys or the 4, guide plates because that'll that'll cinch that those poles down forever. And you see the, wire antenna, I mean, it won't be taut taut. It'll be loose. It it'll flex. You know, it'll move with the wind, and that's fine. Because, stranded wire actually is stronger and is best to use as a ham radio antenna than solid core. Okay. Because it can flex more in the wind and not break. Okay. So I got you. Yep. I got you.

So, yeah, basically, as long as I got those poles tied down, you know, I should be pretty good. The antenna, it can it can flap in the wind. You know? I'll just I'll just look at you know, make sure all this is staked down. I mean, if it breaks, it won't matter. I can fix it, but I don't want it to break. Yeah. I I understand that. But, yeah, that's that's the method to my madness, gentlemen. And it's fucking madness. But, see, it was you you see, that's the thing. I I I mean, maybe

maybe I was explaining it wrong. I don't know. But but in in my mind, it was clear. You know what I mean? Yeah. You're right. You're right. It was clear as mud. Right. Well, by god, if it's clear as mud, I'm good. I I can proceed. If it's not clear as mud, fuck it. I'm lost. L l m f. Right? Right. Right. Yeah. For those for those listening out in the audience world, l l m f is lost like a motherfucker. Right? That's how I normally spend my life. Yeah.

Yeah. That's why that's why if I and a lot of times, I do use those words. It's clear as mud. If you hear me say it's clear as mud, just leave me alone. I'm good. I've got it. But yeah. No. Hey Hey, Brian. You still looking at the whiteboard? Let me bring it back up. Okay. Because I'll show you kinda real quick. I'm gonna cheat. And because it's been so long since I've messed up these. Okay. Basically, this is an o e 254. A giant, blunt. Gotcha. Gotcha. It's a joint. Joint. Yeah. Got it. What?

That is what he's trying, he's trying to joint right now. Is he still on the same fucking whiteboard? Yeah. Okay. Move the cursor. I don't even know where to fucking I'm moving it. I'm drawing, dude. You can't see the new edition? No. I can't. Hold on. Let me Hang on. Set the phone further away from your face. It is away from my mistake. There it goes. Okay. Okay. Now that, you know, I've changed I've changed the, I've switched back and forth for the windows. Wow.

So yeah. Okay. So the Alright. Hang on here. Okay. So just draw a real simple antenna head in 3. Yeah. See, there's the math. There's a guide ring. This ain't fancy. But bay No. And you're way far to the left. Oh, yeah. On my screen anyway. Yeah. The blue the blue is centered in my screen anyway. Yeah. Well, what he was drawing is off to the left of the, Yeah. Yeah. So Yeah. Okay. Just continue on then. I'll just use the blue. There you go. Put a put a OE 254

antenna head up on that. There you go. I mean Yeah. This is yes. It's known as an o e 254, but this is basically a Discona antenna, which is good for 2 meters, 70 centimeters. You know. Alright. Military frequencies, hand frequencies, it'll work. But it it it so it has guide rings, and it's and it's well, see here's the feed point connection, and then it runs up to the top. Freaking connects up there, but it's got, like, 3 points going up, 3 points going down. Yeah. Yeah. Three antenna.

Yeah. And it's it's a simple it's a simple disk on antenna, which is, used for, you can transmit, I think, up to 50 watts on it safely. And then you ring your coax out to wherever. But, yeah, basically, it's a spider head. Looks like a spider with legs. Oh, okay. Yeah. In a nutshell. In a nutshell. Yeah. It's a conical, 3 going up and 3 going down, Brian. Spread at 120 degree 120 degree points. Mhmm. Gotcha.

But, yeah, that's this is, this is what a lot of column strokes in the military uses besides the long whips that they always have bent over. Right. Yeah. That's that's another one they they use. And then, some people even use, a just a long wire, a long piece of wire, a 135 feet long. About like that, and it has a freaking control box or a baton on one end. And then they run the coax to it, and they can hang that in the tree.

You can do all all sorts of things with it, and you can get on HF and everything. So Well. But, yeah, this this, this, o e 254, this this is the main one for, most of your, combo trucks, combo vans. Gotcha. Okay. So yeah. See, I didn't know if you'd ever seen one. Nope. Yeah. I didn't think so because navy's got a totally different antenna setup. Yeah. We've got we've got a whole heap and lots of different antennas. Yeah. Yeah. The army, they're they're simple. They're very simple.

It's like, make it stupid proof. Yeah. The guess point. Keep it simple, stupid. Right? But so, yeah, that's, this is actually cool because Zoom Zoom was talking about, taking away the whiteboard for a while. Really? Yeah. I thought, like like, what, a year, year and a half ago, they was they was talking about changing up the whiteboard and all like this. And for this first time, I've I've ever used a whiteboard on Zoom. It's like, shit. This is cool. You see? You can even, do text too.

Yeah. Say, I didn't know that. See, this is cool. You move anywhere. Well, guys, if y'all wanna see see Rich playing on on on something like a like a little kid, you'll have to go to the, go to the, to the video that'll be over on the YouTube channel. Right? Hey, I mean it, dude, small things. That didn't sound right. Yeah, we know. Yes. We know. Small things, small things entertain small minds. Right? Yeah. Is that basically what you're trying to say? A month. Yeah. Right? Well, yeah.

And I learned and I I I can tell you what I what I learned this week. What did you learn this week? I I learned how to say son of a bitch in Italian. How do you say son of a bitch in Italian? It it is. Field that put on. The what? Feel, which is boy, son, boy, day, the, the of, and then put on, which doesn't actually mean bitch. They use it as the word bitch, but it's, it actually just means whore. Oh, okay. Well You son of a whore. Oh, okay. So so, so say it again. Fiatiputana.

It's horror is putana, which sounds an awful lot like, pun, pondejo. Right. Because Spanish and Italian are both Latin based languages. Right. Right. So they have a lot of words that sound the same and are used the same. You have, yes is c. They say no. There is, dato. While Italian is is basically a gato also, but it it's, gato, or if it's plural, it's got t. What what about Vato? I haven't come across a Vato yet. So Vato is I didn't know. What? In Vato. So, say Sorry. I spelt all I know.

Oh, well, no problem. Your name in in Spanish is, while Italian is, is, Kiamo, Norcia. Oh, shit. What is it? Kiyami. Shit. I can't I forgot what how you how you say, what's your name. Comid Comidakiami. Thank you that's what it is. It's C h a m I. C h a m I. C h a m I. C h a m I. Is I don't know his name, but it's instead of Ciamo, it's Ciami. Okay. So just

lot of little things like that. Dog is, one dog is is, while multiple dogs is, with, with an I on the end instead of an e. So their plural is is with an I. Okay. So and I'm slowly I'm slowly learning. I've only been doing it for been learning now, hitting it every almost every day for the past let me see here. What am I what am I up to? 214 days. So I I I should be learning something eventually. Well, I'm Or retain or retaining something. Well, I'm retaining a bit.

It's just all it's but it's like a shot glass. You can only put so much in there and the stuff starts dribbling out around the side. So Well, you need a highball. Exactly. I haven't figured out how to install one of those yet. Well, I looked up what means in in, in Spanish slang. Okay. And, actually, it's it's a casual way to refer to a man or a boy. Yeah. And And, it can be used as a term of endearment or to say, hey, Vato. What's up? You know? So Right. You know?

Come on, Strauss. You know? But Mhmm. I just I just figured I'd look up because I didn't know what Vato meant. I didn't But you hear it a lot but you hear it in a lot of movies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What you don't what you don't hear, though, is essay. Say, I haven't heard I haven't heard the term essay used. Oh, god. Now what? 30 years? 30 plus years? What's this? Hey. You do know what you call a midget Mexican. Right? Right. Paragraph.

You know why, don't you? No. Too short too short to be an essay. Okay. Wow. I I saw those eyes roll from here, Ron. Man, that was a hell of a roll. That's a dead joke if I ever heard one. No. SA is is I think it's time for bed. Yeah. It's still early, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, hang on. Hang on. I before I scroll off. Essay is a term that means dude, buddy, comrade, or pal in Spanish. So so that's what that's what essay means in Spanish. But okay. Yeah. I I I love my Breezy. I love her to death. Right?

But that girl and I I don't know if it's her mama doing it, if it's her nana doing it, or if it's just her. But if Breezy texts me in the evening time, like, you know, let's say now it's it's 8 o'clock CST. Right? Right. Yeah. She will text me, are you up? I'm sitting here thinking the other night, Breezy texted me and, it was it was like 5 after 7 and she's like, are you up? And I'm sitting here thinking, what time do you think I go to bed, honey?

I'm like, yes. I'm, You're you're old enough to go to bed with chickens. It's like, oh my god. You know? Yeah. I mean, I mean, I know I'm older, but you're making me feel really old by asking. I I just had to laugh because I'm like, it's 7 o'clock and and, yeah. My, great niece is asking, are you up? It's like, yes, honey. I'm up. And so After 10 o'clock, that's when you'll start hearing me grumble a bit. Yeah. Normally, she's passed out by then. I know. Yeah.

Yeah. She freaking dyed her hair red, blue, and purple. Well, yeah. They gotta do that. Yeah. My my daughter ran around with pink. My son had red and blue for a little while in in his younger years. And then school started up, and they had to they ran around with a little bit of extra blonde hair because they had to had to remove all the coloring to be able to be allowed in school. Right. Well well, Breezy sent me a picture of of the day before when

when she bleached her hair, and I didn't like that. I'd I didn't like it. And and, you know, Breezy was like, well, I really like, you know, my blonde hair. And I told her I said, I was like, no. I've never been a never been a fan of the frosted look at all. Yeah. And this I mean, it I mean, it wasn't blonde blonde. It was it was more of a yellow, a pale pink. And, it it

it just didn't look right. And, honestly, the red and the blue and the purple actually kinda, worked out, you know, the way the way Breezy did it kinda worked out. So it was it it actually looked pretty cool. And Sounds good. What's funny? Take a wild guess who would dye her hair. Really? What? Your sister went off and dyed her hair. No, no, no, no, no breezes hair. Thank you. Oh, who died breeze? Oh, okay. I thought you were just me and who I was like, dude, you dead. Holy crow.

No. It's funny, but but, Brian. Oh. I had a great year. Hey. I don't know why Brian has this knack because when a Brit wants her hair dyed, Brian does it, and he's actually really freaking good at it. So so yeah. So, yeah, it was Brian that, dyed Breezy's hair. Well Mhmm. Got a got a secret hairstylist in the family. Right. Right. I'm not letting him dye my hair. Sorry. Just dang. I know he would do a good job, but yeah. No. I just can't.

Oh, they would crap if I dyed my hair like pink or neon yellow or orange. Yes. I just said something wrong, man. I don't care who your ass is wrong. Dude, you need a wig. You know, I have thought about dyeing my beard green for Saint Patrick's Day. But knowing my luck, it won't wash out. Oh, it'll wash out. Eventually. But now I was gonna say about 4 or 5 weeks later. And if it doesn't, well, you could always shave it off. And then we would laugh.

I mean or no. No. We wouldn't laugh. No. No. We wouldn't laugh much, or at all. We we wouldn't laugh at all. No. No. No. You wouldn't you wouldn't laugh with me. You would laugh at me. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. I I I yeah. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Kiss my ass. How about that? Yeah. Kiss my ass. Greatest. Okay.

Dude, I would be I I would I would have to triple check to make sure it was you if if if you didn't have that beard. The way yeah. Everybody be walking up to you, put your hand their hand over your mouth to hold, to hide your chin, to look at your the top half of your face and go, okay. Yeah. That's that's a run. That's And take their hand away, and it's like, where'd he go? Where'd he go? Dude, go. Yeah. I can't I can't remember how long I've actually been, throwing this out now.

I don't know. Could you guys remember what I looked like? When the first time we ever met at where the hell was the first meeting at? Birds. Yeah. That was in our where was that at? Arkansas? That was our in Arkansas. Okay. Yeah. I can't remember if I had a goatee then or what. I think you did. Yeah. I don't fucking remember. I think you did, but I'm not a 100% sure. I'm not a 100% sure of that. Is that was what? 6 years ago? Oh, no. No. Because it was, no. It's only, like, 4.

Because it was after it was the it was in 2021. Was it in 21? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Because we had one one at birds, and we've had 3 in Oklahoma. Okay. Because the first the first time, what's his name donated his Harley Davidson for the drawing. Bob. Yeah. And then the second year was the crotch rocket motorcycle. And then last year was, or this past what was it? June, July, whatever, was back to basics. Right. Okay. Yeah. I yeah. I couldn't I couldn't remember. Just could not remember.

Well, I just I I have to use 20, the the the rock march as as my, as my base. So I'll remember all that because that was in 2 2, 22, 22. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's right. That's right. So, yeah, it was 21. Yep. Okay. Yep. And I've had I've had the beer, my beard since, 2019. Okay. So it's about time for me to freak out the dog because I've we've had her, what, 3 she's, what, 3 years now? Because you had her at for us. Yeah. Because we I took her for to the, to the first Moyers

in 22. So, yeah. Yeah. Was that was that the year that she rode in the Jeep? Yep. Okay. Yep. And then left left her, left her at the house for, for the second one and then wasn't able to make this one. So Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. The one that she rode in the jeep, and it took a whole other year for the all the hair to finally leave. So Well, it's about time to do it again then. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Definitely need to get her back there again. Take her over to the, over to the river again and watch her,

experience being, being able to swim. That was still just the funniest thing. She come tromped through there like, oh, yeah. This is cool. Oh, this feels really nice. And all of a sudden, she was like, oh, hey. I can't can't touch the floor, bro, and bottom anymore, man. This is not cool. So she was like, alright. Turn around. Let's go home. Which which, which, river did you go in?

The one at Moyers. The one that runs behind the, the one that, that wants your name got the, went off and flooded her her Jeep in. Yeah. Okay. The one that burned to the ground. Yeah. And then turned around and burned to the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure your electronics are thoroughly protected before you go running through the water. Well, first of all, first of all, I would never do that crap that they did. You know, those 2 yeah.

And take a send it, run, and hit the water, and just let the let it go up over into the cab because you don't have your top on. Yeah. No. I I may be stupid, but I I may be yeah. Stupid, but I'm not dumb. That was just fucking dumb. Well, you know, that that was her Jeep. And She had fun while it lasted. Well and and and her Jeep, the reason why it, burnt because she had to replace the engine and had a mobile mechanic do it. Apparently, he didn't get something hooked up right is what I hear.

Yeah. That's that's correct. Yeah. That's correct. I don't know what it was that didn't get hooked up right, But I remember the video of the, Jeep going up in flames. Right. Right. But you would you would have thought that well, let's see. We're doing electrical. Let's have a fire extinguisher close by. Oh, yeah. You would think. But no. You know? I don't know. I all I do know is yeah. I I I kinda wish I still had my TJ because, I could get the inside of that bitch wet and everything still work.

Because, Yeah. What was it? Yeah. Because you didn't have you didn't have the electronics that these fucking Jeeps have today. Right. Right. You had a crank down window. You know, probably a real simple stereo system. Nothing on the steering wheel. Oh, no. Nothing on the steering wheel. No. Last time I I was at I was at K River, it just popped up and rained. And, I mean, it poured. Oh god. It poured.

Poured like cats and dogs. It took 3 days for my dash to dry out. And the whole time when I'd started, it would it would beep and yell and scream at me and buzz and all like that because the dash got wet because I got caught in a rainstorm. I was like That was the JK or the TJ? No. That was the JK. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's what I'm saying. Yeah. The JK, yeah, has all the fucking electronic components and that crap and but the TJ, no. Crank down windows.

Nothing on the steering wheel. Yeah. You're right. I had a TJ. I completely understand that. I wish my JK was the same damn way. You can take that shit off the fucking steering wheel. I'll I'll take the crank down windows because eventually, the fucking, electric motor or those the, sprockets, they're plastic, are gonna fucking break. And then the window's gonna come down, and you ain't gonna be able to get it up.

Well, the thing is, though, it isn't it's it's not hard to take that inner door panel off and change that stuff. It's just a pain in the it's it's a bitch, but it's not hard. Yeah. Have have you ever had to take a door panel off on the JK? Yes. Yeah? Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's not, dude, it's not hard. No. No. And that fucking putting a new mirror on the door when mine got debris shot up on from another vehicle when I was on the interstate.

Yeah. Fucking trying to rewire and put the fucking wires into the right holes to get to the connections. Yeah. No. That was a fucking pain in the ass. Wasn't it plug and play? It was plug and play, but getting the plug to the play port, that was a whole different ball of fucking worms. That right. Okay. I mean yeah. That's where that's where you just, yeah, take a knife and make the hole bigger and shove it through. Oh, yeah. Just that that wasn't gonna happen.

You know, if all else fails, break out the sawzall, dude. Sawzall make anything fit. Yeah. So will a big fucking hammer, but I'm not gonna do that. I got enough yeah. I got enough dents and dings in it now. Well, I could tell you. I could tell you all the dents and dings came from. Right. They're just beauty scars. That's right. Exactly. It it shows it shows love, dude. It shows love. No. It shows that I was a fucking idiot and ran into a damn tree.

Well, that's yeah. I've done that a couple times. Yeah. I mean, we all. Yep. I mean, wasn't what I I wasn't trying to run into the tree. The tree just jumped out in front of me. Right. Yeah. Uh-huh. That's what I was talking about. I was thinking to it. Yeah. It just unrooted itself, pulled up its skirting, and shimmied over a couple of feet and sat back down. Yep. Uh-huh. It sure did. Yeah. Hey. Hey. Hey. On my story, I'm sticking to it, dude. Yeah. The same thing with

yeah. And the same thing that you did at the first time you went to more Moyers with TJ and got in the fucking mud hole. Yep. Yeah. That was fucking hilarious. Oh, I know that was. Yeah. Because we both had to get pulled out. Right? Because By a fucking 4 by our fucking 4 runner. 4 by 4. Whatever the heck you call it. Fucking yeah. It was it wasn't even that. It wasn't even a side well, it's one that they used at the park to collect the trash. Yeah. Yeah. That's

that's what pulled us out. Yeah. Because, Yeah. Because, dude, when when a dude saw me stuck, he went over on the bypass side, which is supposed to be easier to get through. Yeah. About that, it didn't work. Well and because it had rained so much, it was just so slick that I was on the bypass and that angle that the bypass was, you know, I stopped. It was still sliding to the right. Right. Yep. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yep. Gotta look. Clay mud, Oh, yes. Always. Love clay mud.

Oh, I I I love it. I love it. Oh, slick, licorice as not. Right. Right. You see, that's why that's why I I normally run, maybe not real aggressive, but somewhat somewhat aggressive tires on my Jeep just because I've got that, a a little extra traction for going through mud. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Because that because you see and see, that's the thing. I can even go on rocks with them. Rocks will eat the treads up quicker, but, you know, I can go mud or rock. Well, yeah. Same here.

But as soon as you're you know, even though and my tires are the same as yours as far as the tread pattern, you get them you get them clogged. You get you get the treads clogged, and you're just yeah. It's like fucking trying to wheel in slicks. No. Mine's not now. No, dude. Mine are mud tires. Mine. Mine's been themselves clean. Oh, okay. Yeah. No. When You're gonna have to take a picture of your new tires then. Okay. Are they the ones are they the ones that you had the last time at Moyers?

Yeah. No. No. Okay. Yeah. No? Oh, wait. Yeah. Yeah. In July when you come down? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those yeah. Those yeah. Those are new ones. I got those, January or February. Okay. February, I think. Yeah. Those yeah. Those are the, yeah. I got lugs. Not not real big lugs, but I got lugs. And, yeah, they they do real good in, mud and dirt. Oh, okay. So, yeah, I couldn't stand those, those highway treads that I had on it when I first got it. Mhmm. Just I couldn't do it.

Yeah. You know, the, you know, they're they're fine for rock, but I know me. I like to play in mud. Mud is like mud is like, I don't know, my my, can't even think of the word I wanna use. Your go to? That'll work. Yeah. Weakness? Weakness? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I like that word. Weakness. Mud is my weakness. I find mud and Kryptonite, if you wanna sound a little more powerful. So but, yeah. No. That's

yeah. As I mean, you know, like like, when I went out to Arizona and wheeled out there, I mean, I did have fun. I man, I enjoyed it. The bad thing is is I finished off the tires on my TJ that I had. The lugs that I had on on them out there? Yeah. I fucking ate them up in a matter of about 5 days, 6 days. Oh, wow. What what do you mean? And what are you talking about with lugs? You've got Just the really knobby tires. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I

yeah. Wheeling on the rocks out there in in the desert. Yeah. I just Yeah. And then, the tires that I got on the TJ after that, they were rock tires. Which Oh, okay. They did fine on you know, out there in Arizona. Yeah. They didn't do that good on snow, though. That was a challenge. Yeah. So but, you know, it's all good. Well, even for a Jeep, ICE is the, true equalizer. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter if you're in a Jeep or a fucking Tesla or a fucking Prius.

Prius or a smart car or a freaking dually. Yeah. You you slide all the same. Don't matter. Yeah. And, yeah, nothing helps there. But No. That's why I live down here. Yeah. I yeah. Because I don't know. I'm done with that. I am done with that. Oh, guess what? Went to Bozos last week. Right? Okay. Last week. Yeah. Last week. Oh my god. Went in. They was having a sale. 8 inch. 8 inch shrimp po' boys. 2 99. There you go. I bought 2 of them. There you go.

I mean, I mean, seriously, man. I mean, an 8 inch shrimp po boy fully dressed. Oh my God. For $3 signed me to hell up. I was gay. I was game on, man. Yeah. I mean, I mean, a 12 inch is only $11, You know? And a 6 inch, I think it's 7 or 8. You know? But but an 8 inch for for 3? Yeah. I'm good. That was a hell of a sale. Right. Yep. That was pretty good. Luckily, you, you know, stumbled upon that.

It well, you know, I, I hadn't had I hadn't been to Bozos in a while, and I I was I was out and about running around, you know, getting a couple things and everything. It's like, you know what? I want Bozos today. And, normally, Bozo's is so freaking popular. If you don't they start making sandwiches at 10:30. Okay? Alright. If you don't if you don't get there by 10:45,

you might as well give it the hell up. You ain't gonna I mean, it is that fucking busy from about 10:45, 11 o'clock till about 3. Okay. So how many how many different styles of, you know, meats can you have with them? Oh, with the Is it it's like any any sub shop? Yeah. Well, yeah. And it's well, hang on a second. Y'all talk. I'll be right back. Nope. You gotta go to the bathroom. Alright. So we alright. Well, now we can start talking all the great secrets about

about Rich. He won't know till he listens to the show while he's doing the editing. So Yeah. So So but, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what happened over at work this week? Oh, just pretty much the same old, same old. It was, well, let's see. I was at one location for 3 hour because I had to unload, reload, also write up my inventory for my truck at one location because god only knows where anybody was at. And then the next day, I brought 19 pallets. You know how many pallets they had of cylinders

coming back? I brought them 19. Right? Oh, wow. They had they had 7. I'm like, okay. I hope you have some empty pallets because, Exactly. Yeah. We, we need pallets in our location as well. You know? And I understand we just went here yesterday, and I get that. I I completely understand. But the,

the branch manager says, well, we got a lot of pallets we gotta unload and get them sorted and, you know, so on like that. I'm like, okay. So you just sitting at the counter is going to get that accomplished. Gotcha. Yeah. Well, so it took me time to find empty pallets, to get the straps, and get them secured and all that. And it's like, okay. This is this is gonna be fun. It was. Right. You know, and then I get back today and we're offloading the vehicle and we hear this bam.

I'm like, what the fuck was that? And I'm looking up at the top of the truck to see, you know, any cylinders or something like that and hissing. No. You know what? My the sidewall of my tire blew about a freaking 3 inch gash. Oh, hell. You had a you had a standstill blowout. Yeah. Aren't those scary just to think that you might have been standing right next to that. And if you were standing there when that puppy went loose, what happened? What happened to your leg?

Well, thank goodness only air came out or blew the blew the hole in the sidewall, I was about 5 feet from it when it blew. Right. I was like, what the fuck? And see with our trailers, and there after it blew, it was still full of air, and it wasn't hissing, but it was gonna continue to fill with air because that's the way our trailer is built with air lines. Work. Yeah. The the the airlines that keep every all the tires, you know, at a constant, pressure.

So and when it blew, it was like there's no more air hissing out, but the tire's still full. That's what I couldn't figure out. But yeah, it freaking blew the sidewall. That was a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. Then you get the get the fun of standing around and waiting for the, for the tire man to show show up and, get to get that all swapped out.

And thank goodness that I was already back to my plant when it blew out that, you know, after I got unloading it, I went and parked the truck, you know, called the, what do we use now? Premier Fleet Services. Oh, okay. And, you know, and our location is a fenced in facility because of and it's always been a gated gated location because of just the nature of what we do. But now Right. Compressed gas cylinders fall underneath Homeland Security. Oh, do they really? That's fun. Yeah. Yeah.

So the security and all that aspect. So there was a night shift. So if I wasn't there, they would have been let able to let the tire tire guy come in, get it repaired, and then he would've just taken off. We've had that happen before. But we have somebody at the facility that can let them in. Team 4. But it just so so but it just so have I mean, when I called them,

they said, yeah. Their estimated time is 90 minutes to a 120 minutes. I'm like, yeah, that's, you know, the textbook answer when they don't have a Really? Yeah. We'll we'll be we'll be there roughly 2 hours. And, you know, of course, that's the answer they always give. Yep. But they actually got there a little bit earlier, so I was still there and they will let them in. Alright, gentlemen. I'm back. Alright. You feel better? Holy crap. Alright. Brian Quags.

That's alright. Rich is back. Yeah. No. And and say I I didn't I didn't have to go to the bathroom until you said something, dude. But, anyway, I was reason I said hold on is, I was I got I got a menu from Bozos. Oh. And dude was asking about, the different po'boys. Right. Well, okay. They have a shrimp po'boy, which is one I normally get. They have a shrimp overload po'boy, which is a pound and a half of shrimp. Oh, boy. Yeah. It's a po'boy.

They have a They hell, that ain't no fucking a pound and a half of shrimp, that ain't no fucking po'boy. You gotta be a rich po'boy to fucking get a po'boy sandwich. No. It's not bad. It's it's like only 1795, dude. Holy. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. Wait. We're not done. They have a shrimp and oyster. Oh, boy. And that one just slides down your throat. Well I bet it does. And they also have just a plain oyster, oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Thank you.

Now there is a booger sandwich. They have a, roast beef po'boy, which I haven't tried that yet. They have a soft shell crab po'boy. Mhmm. That sounds good. Crab meat po'boy, a catfish po'boy, flounder po'boy, ham and cheese po'boy, hamburger po'boy, Philly cheesesteak, and sausage. Snausages. Yeah. So and that's just the po'boys. They've got, different stuff, like, on a large bun, then they have full blown dinner, and then salad, sides, and gumbo. And this is over in the deli section.

And a freaking gallon of gumbo is $65. Golly. I can't afford that. No. I mean, that's that's like yeah. That's that's just a little too much right there. That's a whole lotta. It's a whole lotta gumbo. Yeah. It is. It'd be good, though. I mean Oh, you wouldn't hear me complain about it. I'll I'll definitely be eat gumbo for a couple, for a couple weeks. Right. So, yeah, just on the po'boys, like I said, I I mean, this place here, 10:45, 11 o'clock.

If you're not in before then, you might as well give it up until after 3 because people just I mean and that's the thing. They've got an actual full blown restaurant on the side of Bozos, which is called Bozos 2, and that place stays full. I mean, this this place here is, I mean, known throughout the Gulf Coast down here. Someone mentions, Bozos? Yeah. Everybody just about knows this place. Sweet. But, yeah, I couldn't pass up. Say an 8 inch po'boy for 2.99. $3. Yeah.

That's that's a good that's a nice little pit deal right there. I would agree. Yeah. I asked I asked the, checkout girl. I I said I said, how can y'all do this? And she looked at me and she says, I told the owner he he just might as well give him away. You know, he's losing money. And I'm like, no. I I would need to pay something for him, you know, just because, I mean, it you know, they're good, you know, and shit like this. And, say, I guess, the owner told her, he's like,

I do enough business. I'd I do enough volume business. I can do this every once in a while. I'm like, that's pretty fucking cool. Absolutely. So, yeah, the, the, owner, I mean, he does so well. He's like, fuck it. We'll throw a shrimp po boys for $3. Yeah. When they're regularly, you know, $17. No. But but no. No. They're Oh. See us, regular shrimp po'boy. A 6 inch is 795. A 12 inch is 1095. The, shrimp overload with the pound and a half shrimp, that's $18. So For for what size sandwich?

That's a 12 inch. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But Yeah. I can only, you know and at those prices, you know, what is the profit margin on a usual basis? You know? It costs them x amount to make them, and then they sell them for x amount. I'm sure he's probably selling them for double of what his supplies cost him easily. I don't think so. No. Because he does a volume business, dude, every day. Well, yeah. Yeah. I'm saying that. 7 days a week. He I mean, he I mean, he's like Walmart, man.

Yeah. I mean, dude does a volume business, and and he's not looking to get rich. I mean, the dude's rich naturally just because, you know, he's got quality food. I mean, honestly, his prices are actually cheaper than most of the restaurants down here on the gulf. Oh, really? Yo. Hell yeah. Buy at least buy at least a couple bucks. Well, okay. So you go to a restaurant and you get the large fountain drink. How much does it usually cost? Down here? Roughly. Down here, most drinks are, $3 minimal.

Okay. Do you know how much it cost to Yeah. You know how much it cost to produce that? Yeah. About 75¢, man. Yeah. Less than that. All I know, dude. It's I know it's a fucking racket. That's like Yeah. That's like charging will be. That's like charging $3 for a fucking cup of coffee when it costs less than 20¢ between the water, the filter, and the coffee, and the electricity. Yeah. Oh, no. No. I get it.

But that's the thing. Bozo's here? I I mean, well, these guys have been here for I'm not sure how long. They've been there ever since you were there. Oh, they've been here during that. I know, but that you know they've been there at least as long as you've been there. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. That's oh, yeah. You can also go in and, they sell rue and and, different stuff. Shrimp bowls. All kinds of stuff, man. Nice. There you go. All kinds of stuff. They I mean

yeah. They get and fresh raw seafood, they, they'll, they've been in business since 1957. Oh. So they've been here for a minute. Yeah. But, yeah, Bozos is is is is a good place, and it's like a freaking quarter mile away from my house. And I don't even get there that often because they're busy. So but, yeah, last time I was in there, I I freaking stole a menu. So so I can I can call it? And m e there you go. And m e m, men, y o u u, menu. That's right.

I can't remember which, Looney Tunes character said that. M e n n y o u u. Man, you. Oh, I'm trying to think. I don't remember. It's been so damn long ago. I I can't remember either. But yeah. No. You can get, like, shit. Ram, sausage, and corn, pound of each. Fucking steamed for you already and and everything like that for, like, $10 a pound. Crab legs, they're, like, 10, $12 a pound. Some of your crabs, though, are market price.

Whatever you want. Because you are so close to the close to the coast. Well because you could just go down and buy from a boat if you wanted to. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No. I can. I can. There's there's no boy down in Ocean Springs that does it, and there's, those are boys that do it in Bayou La Batre. Uh-huh. You know, I can go right there on the boat and get fresh shrimp for $3 a pound. Wow. You know, and you talk and you talk about this, restaurant. What was the name again? Bozos? Bozos.

Like the clown. Yeah. We had a place back up in Lincoln, Nebraska where I was originally born at, and it was called Chartreuse Caboose. Chartreuse Caboose. Chartreuse Caboose. And it was downtown, and all they did was Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. That was it. Now with that Philly cheese or with with the meat, you could pick your cheese. You could pick, you know, condiments, mushrooms, blase, blase, blase. But all it was was a Philly cheesesteak restaurant. Yeah. That place was always packed.

Just because of, you know, the amount that they put in the bun And at the price that it was, the you know, I went there all the time. Right. Yeah. Because they had the best Philly cheesesteak sandwiches for that price, any place. And, unfortunately, the major in Lincoln being what? They're they're over half a1000000 in in Lincoln. But the downtown area just basically completely died when they started putting in all the, you know, big malls and and, oh, what the hell they call it?

Where you have a whole bunch of outlet stores. What the hell do they call that? Oh, the oh, you're talking about the outlet mall? Yeah. Like an outlet mall, and that killed downtown in Lincoln bad. And, unfortunately, Chartreuse, y'all went out of business. Yeah. Yeah. I believe it. Honest. Yep. That's what happens when, you know, towns start getting, you know, these these malls and big names and, you know, all this all all this new trendy stuff.

The, like like the place she was talking about goes out of business because, one, everyone is going to the new trendy thing, and everyone forgets about how good the food is over here. You know? And that's Yeah. There was just there was just no foot traffic going downtown in Lincoln. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And see, that's the thing. That's that's what that's what just about 90% of all these towns in in the country.

You know, the, downtown areas have suffered greatly because no one goes down there anymore because the towns have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger and have put all the fancy new shit on the outside of town. Yeah. So unless the town does does seem to bring does things to bring people back downtown, which most of towns don't. Yeah. They just, you know, follow the leader.

This is why downtowns die. And and, honestly, I hate that because downtowns, especially in a small town area, normally have a lot of charm. A lot. Yeah. They do. Yeah. They do. They but the thing is, you know, 10, 20 years of no traffic, they lose their charm. You know? Yeah. It's sad. It's sad to see Main Street America die, which is what we've been seeing the past, well, 30 years, actually. Yeah. Yeah. You know? So, yeah, it's it's, you know, I I don't know. It's a shame. It it, it really is.

Yeah. Because I left Lincoln in 86 when I when I went into the military. And when I was in high school, there was a lot of shit downtown. You you could go and rent outdoor roller skates and roller skate the downtown area. I mean, the city of Lincoln is fucking well, it's it's pretty big. It's not a Dallas or a Houston, but it's, you know, probably 12 blocks law wide by, you know, 20 blocks long. Well, that's at least 20, 30000 people, dude. What's that? Lincoln. No. They're over 500,000.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. That's the capital capital city of Nebraska. Yeah. They're over 500,000. Yeah. They're over 500,000. But you're right. They're just like every town, you know, that builds their outskirts and then, you know, and within that area, they're building the latest and greatest outlet mall or, you know, movie style theater or, you know, this or that, but it's nothing is going into the downtown area. Right. Yeah. Actually, it says in 2023, there was 294,000 people, which is a lot.

Too many. I couldn't stay there. That would scare me. Yeah. I would be scared. I would, man. I mean, I know. That's that's just that's just way too way too many people. You know? It was in in it was incorporated April 1, 18 69. What's that? Lincoln? Yep. Lincoln. Okay. Well, I didn't even know that. They have a I don't know if you ever seen the, that capitol building in Lincoln because probably 40 I think it's at least 42 state capitals.

It kind of follow the architectural of, the federal capitol building where Lincoln is called the prick of the prairie. Look it up, Brian. It it is the tallest building. If I'm not mistaken, it is the tallest building in the state. I can't believe it. And, yes, Brian, look it up. I'm serious. You it it looks like a big dick. Yeah. It does. It it is. It's no bullshit. Just a big old tall Packer. Packer.

Yep. Yep. And when I was in high school, I walked through that building every single day, twice a day, either coming from or going to the bus stop from high school. Really? Yep. Okay. Because the grounds of that is, 4 blocks. What were you trying to do? Exercise? No. That's why we walked through the capitol building instead of around it because it was 2 blocks wide by 2 blocks long is what the grounds or what the capital sits on.

Okay. So we would walk through to save save energy, conserve energy. There you go. You were young. You had energy to burn. You coulda ran around that thing 6 times and not even be tired. Yeah. But I was fucking lazy. We we all did it. You know, walking to the bus or, you know, or walking to school. So but, yeah, if you ever look at that, I went through that Yep. The window in Springfield. Twice a day, every day for 3 years. Well, until we got a car.

I should say driver's license. So, no, it was just the first, you know, sophomore year and half a junior year. But check this out. It says Lincoln is the 73rd largest city in the United States. What is? Lincoln. The town of Lincoln is the 70 the 3rd large? 70 third. 70 third largest city in the United States. Oh, okay. Okay. I I I heard you wrong initially. I'm Yeah. And what's the I'm sure since you're looking it up, what is the actual census of the last population?

294,757 as of 2023. Okay. So I was way to fuck off. Well, I mean I mean, at one time, I would say yes. Yes. Nebraska probably was closer to 500,000, but, you know I mean, it's still big for its size, but I don't see I don't see Lincoln, Nebraska as the mecca of, of, Commerce. No. Because the only thing we have in Nebraska is corn corn, and then we have a little bit more corn and soybeans. Flat. And it is flat as a fucking sheet of paper.

In fact in fact, believe it or not, Kansas has more fucking hills than Nebraska does. And that's not Yeah. Until you get yeah. Until you get into the up into the Panhandle, and then you're starting to hit the, or the foot what the hell is it? The, Black Hills. No. Of Colorado. The Foothills. Yeah. Going into Colorado. They start in the panhandle of Nebraska. Yeah. But well,

yeah. You're going south. But going north, you will run into the Black Hills, and you got, going into Colorado, you've got the foothills of, the Rocky Mountains. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I used to live in Grand Island, Nebraska. You lived in Grand Island? Yeah. Really? Yes. Yes. I did. Okay. Do you know that that go ahead. I was gonna say I drove for, a few trucking companies out of Nebraska. Oh, yeah. I know You ever I know the state of Nebraska well. Okay. Do you ever drive for yellow freight?

Hell, no. Okay. You know they went you know they went bankrupt. Yeah. Yep. So you know that now you remember Lincoln used to have the state fair? Yeah. Grand Island now has the state fair. Get out of here. Yep. Yep. How the how the hell they rate? Well okay. Okay. Grand Island is is about the center of the state along 80. I know that. That that is exactly why they moved the state fair from Lincoln to Grand Island because a lot of, you know, the rodeos and so on like that and those kids.

If they're out in the Panhandle up in, what is it, Scotts, Scottsbluff? Yeah. Scottsbluff. Yeah. They would have to go a whole freaking drive the whole state of Nebraska to get to the state fair. Mhmm. You know, if they're showing animals or if they were doing the rodeo or whatever for the, FFA and all that. Yeah. No. So in what was it? It's probably been 20 roughly 20 years now that, they moved the state fair to Grand Island because it was a more centralized city.

Oh, that well, and, honestly, I mean, yeah, I didn't like Grand Island when I was there any either because there was because there's nothing to do. They have no oh, seriously. I believe it. I believe it. They have actually, in and around Grand Island, any, body of water that you find, any fishable body of water you find is man made. The ponds, the lakes, stuff like that. Yeah. The, the North Platte River, which is not even a river anymore. It just it's a creek,

basically, is what it is. You can't hardly fish yet. So so, yeah, there there is nothing to do in Grand Island. Well, I mean, when you talk about, like, like, man made, lakes and stuff, I mean, Texas and Oklahoma are basically in the same, the the same boat. Texas has actually only one natural lake. Which lake is that? What's Ames? Lake Ames? Something Ames. Let me look it up here. Well, see, if you if you're gonna make the statement, you should have the answer at hand.

Jim and Natalie. Oh, I gotta look it up. Well Thanks a lot. Yeah. The Platte River used to because my grandpa had a, cabin on the Platte River in between Lincoln Lincoln and Omaha. And we go there every year for the 4th July. Some years, it would be freaking well, he his cabin flooded one time because, the Platte River was up so high.

But then a couple years then a couple years later and, I mean, it was at that point where my grandpa's cabin was at, it was half mile wide to the other side of the bank. Right. And 1 year, we can walk the sand dune freaking all the way across, and the river was maybe at that point in time, like, for not even 30 feet wide, maybe 20 feet wide, but and the depth, maybe up to your waist.

Yeah. No. I know. And that's the that's the thing. When I lived in Nebraska, and that was in, middle nineties, yeah, you could walk across the Platte River and just walk any place you picked. Yep. Yep. Seriously, it was it was it was empty. And it Yep. So those damn pioneers didn't know what the hell they were doing. Well, no. They stopped in Nebraska, man.

Shit. You know what they were doing. Oh, this is I I just know on on Oregon Trail, when you got up to the Platte River, you know, that was the the first big river. You usually lost half your your wagon party. Well Yeah. Well, yeah. You know why? You know why? 1800. You know why that happened?

Because they couldn't cross the river. They didn't know that you couldn't walk across. They thought they were they were trying to they were trying to float across dirt. They figured couldn't figure it out. No. They they didn't use the fucking interstate bridge. Oh, well, there you go. That makes sense. Go over it. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. I forgot about that damn interstate bridge. I mean, come on, man. Jee whiz. So but yeah. Nope. I was wrong. It's the only natural lake in Texas is Cato Lake

or Caddo Lake. And, yeah. And it's actually, apparently, it was created from a, located on the Texas, Louisiana border. Cato Lake was formed by a log jam of fallen trees that created a natural dam on the Red River. That dam caused the water to back up into the Red River's tributaries, forming Cato Lake. However, some say the Cato lake is more of a swamp and is slowly turning into a lake due to manmade dams.

So little bit of an argument, but about it, but at the same time, that's, that's the only actual natural lake in in Texas. And say that's weird because you'd think, what the river is running through Texas, they would have more, natural lakes. Nope. No. All the all the lakes are all the all the other lakes are reservoir lakes. Okay. Apparently, there's a movie made about made about Catawh Lake. Uh-huh. Yeah. And Oklahoma only has 2 natural lakes, and that's Lake Oxbow and Playa Lakes.

Okay. So I did not know that. And I still can't afford a fishing boat, so I'm not gonna visit either one of them for that matter. And it's a little hard to wheel through a lake with a Jeep. No. You just gotta get big enough tires on there. Yeah. You gotta get flotation tires, dude. I was gonna say you get, I've seen those people with the with the, on their tricycles that they've gone off and aired up the tires really big, and they just up there just paddle across the lake. Yeah. I've seen that.

Yeah. No. No. Thank you. No? I can't fucking fucking barely afford the ones that are on there now. Hell, those are over $300 each. That's a little high. Yeah. When you buy 5 of them. Yeah. That's expensive. It is expensive. But you've only got 4, 4 wheels on your tire on on your Jeep. So what do you need the 5th one for? Spare, Jeep. Well, you better have the fucking spare. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you get a tire that gets tired of work being a being a tire. And so it, it it it runs off on you.

Yeah. Well, especially if you're rock crawling and you get a rock on the sidewall of the tire and blow all of it. It makes makes for a very bad day. Makes for yeah. Makes for a very long day. Yes. It does. And you have to match. Okay. You have to match. Yeah. That's true. You cannot cannot have a a a a Cooper and a Michelin. I don't even know if it's a Michelin. No. I I do, what do I do?

I don't even fucking remember what I have on the Jeep, but when I had my wheeling tires, yeah, I had 3 different brands of tires. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. But right down the road. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, driving down to the park and back. Yeah. Well, yeah. But I'm talking everyday driving, dude. Oh, yeah. No. Uh-uh. No. They got changed out when I got back. And but I'm not doing that shit no more. So got rid of them.

Yeah. I ain't changed out fucking 4 tires the night before, go wheeling, and then the Sunday after, change all the fucking tires out again. Now that that shit got old. Right. And so am I. Old. You're not old, dude. You just think you're old. You're just well seasoned. There you go. Yeah. Little soft. Yeah. Well, the the joints are a fucking breakfast cereal. Dude, w d 40. It'll fix it. I know. Yeah. But see, it's it's rice krispies in the morning. Snap, crackle, and fuck you.

Fuck you. That's what my advice is. Now you know what? What's w d 40? I mean, what does w d 40 stand for? Water displacement formula 40. There you go. Okay. Mhmm. We got a smart guy in the crowd. It's one of the few things I'm smart about. Let me rephrase that statement. Just kidding. I've got a a you've got a you've got a, a purveyor of useless knowledge in in the crowd. Okay. You wore, you wore dog tags when you were in the

in the navy. Right? Yep. Okay. Besides the fact for that chain holding your dog tags, what's the other main purpose for those 2 chains? Well, I've heard what you've talked about on the chains is 1 is, for the days. Yeah. You've you've mentioned those. The day days and the months. Or Yep. So yeah. Yeah. Days weeks. Days weeks weeks. Yeah. Yep. I was gonna say If be if being a POW. Yep.

Yep. And Yeah. Your wife. But it it's it's a long it's gonna be a long day, being held if you if you end up becoming a POW on, yeah, on on the ocean because it usually means you're you're a POW of Davy Jones. So well, I'm not really a POW of Davy Jones. You're either yeah. You're either alive or dead. Well, that's what he means by Davy Jones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah.

Yeah. Davy Jones. So what does the what does the notch in the dog tags do? That's for you to slam into your mouth. Yep. Well, not yours. You're dead. Well, not yours. Yeah. You're dead dead, but that would be shoved into your mouth and. Yeah. And your jaw gets kicked close or you break the jaw and it, locks the dog tags in for, just, For identification. Identity. There you go. That's what I was looking for. Yep. So they know who you are, man.

So they know whose mama they have to send you back to. Yep. Hey. Y'all wanna buy a shrimp and boat? Well, we got a name of Jada. We can. I got that Jada's. It's, it's, 31 foot ready to go. $28,500. Alright. Who who's gonna be who's gonna be lieutenant Dan? You gotta get your magic legs. Well But who's gonna but who's gonna be Forrest? That's the question. That is the question. I can't run that far or that fast or anything like that, but I I I can I can be I can be somewhat stupid?

I can take things very literally. Yeah. No. I because you told me, toadrelts. Yeah. Run, Forrest. Run, please. That's That's that's one dumb son of a bitch. When he when he starts playing college ball. Yeah. So $28,000. How many fucking holes has gotten the fucking goddamn hole? It's float ready, dude. Wow. It's a 31 foot skiff ready to go, decked over 12 by 16 frames, holds 35 to 40 boxes. Yeah. It's yeah. It's yeah. It's freaking outfitted.

I was gonna say there's a, there's a guy, that I see on YouTube from time to time, and he is actually, refurbishing a a boat, but I think he's wanting to do crabs with it. Right. Oh, yeah. And see, see that thing down here? I mean, look on Facebook marketplace. You can find boats, shrimp and boats. Hell, I found 80 foot, shrimp and trawler for, like, 40,000, and that was decked out. In fact, there's a, I was looking at this one the other day. I ain't got the money. It's 19.

But, it's a 196240 foot trawler, say a say a say a Penobscot Trawler. And it was built in Maine, and, the last 3 owners lived aboard in it. And, yeah, they just want 19,000 for it, and it's been mostly redone. Oh, yeah. A bunch of I was gonna say how much you you paid 19,000, but how much you're gonna have to put into it? Nah. No. This one here, this one, looks like it's it's mostly ready to go. Turnkey? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's that's that's gonna be my next hot rod. I ain't building another one of those motherfuckers. Well, buy a boat, dude. No. I will. I mean, come on, man. Come down to the gulf, buy a boat, and let's go hit the islands, man. There's, like, 4 or 5 islands not not very far offshore that I hear a lot of people go to during the summertime, especially. That are habitable? No. You can't live in New Haven because they're a part of the national, seashore.

Oh, okay. You can go you can go drive your boat out there and park your boat, go hang out on the beach. Yeah. Uh-huh. I gotcha. But, yeah, there's yeah. There's freaking boats out here all day long. I just look at them every once in a while and dream. Yeah. Well, if I win the lottery, I'll buy you a fucking shrimp and boat and you can have 12 jennies. That would be awesome. But you know what? Some lucky fucking bastard outside of the state of Texas won it last Friday, and it was $540,000,000.

So the lump sum payout, roughly half. So $270,000,000? That's enough to live on. Yep. So you're gonna pay probably about 70,000, $70,000,000 in taxes. Yeah. I think I could probably live on $200,000,000 for at least a couple of years. Oh, hang on. Hang on. Check this out. I found out in the Mississippi. In fact, Mississippi, just within the last, like, 5, 6 years, just got the lottery. Okay. State of

had had lottery. I didn't know that. And Mississippi, on your winnings, they only charge 3% sales tax. You mean, inheritance tax? No. On lottery winnings. 3%. Lottery winnings is income. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Only 3%. 3%. Yes. I look And they wonder why there's such a, such a poor state. Yeah. But okay. 3%, but the federal's gonna take a lot more than that. Oh, no. The federal still take their, you know, their full 30. You know? 37% is

what federal takes. Yes. I know it was yeah. I know it was over 30, but well, that's that's what that's what I when when I was looking up what what Mississippi took as far as state taxes Uh-huh. It said 3%. But in that same article, it said that the feds take 37%. Oh, okay. Okay. So I wouldn't have 2 170,000,000 at the end. I would have what? A 100 and a 180, 190,000,000 at the end? Yeah. I think I could still fucking live a couple years on that. Oh, okay. Easily. Yeah. Easily.

And check this out. I just looked it up. Mississippi does not have an inheritance tax nor a gift tax. So yeah. But there's still a well, for a gift tax, there's still a federal regulation on it. So there's a federal regulation on inheritance too. Yeah. Uh-huh. But I I think that's the same thing, isn't it? No. No. No. There's you can give So, like, if I win the lottery, I can give you up to 15 I think it's $15,000 lump sum,

and you do not have to report it on your income tax. Oh, hang on. But there is but there is a cap. Yeah. Hang on here. The, it And it may have went up. I don't know. How much can you inherit without paying federal tax? In 2024, the first $13,610,000 of an estate is exempt from taxes. Okay. So how much is the max gift that you can give or receive without paying taxes on it? Does it say? Let me let let me Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That was that was on a inheritance. How much can you give? 18,000

annually. 18. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You can give up to 18,000 per year without having to report it to the IRS. And And that's receiving. That's receiving. Right? No. You can give someone up to 18,000 per year. Right. Where they where they do not have to pay any taxes on it. No. It just says, it just the way it reads in 2024, you're allowed to give someone up to 18,000 per year without having to report it.

Now Yeah. Yeah. And that without having to report it, that's the receiver does not have to report it. Now I would report it. I don't have to say who I gave it to. I can just give an amount and that would reduce my tax liability. Well, this says, how much can you gift without federal tax? $18,000 per person. Okay. So you can give 20 motherfuckers $18,000 each, and you don't have to report it. Now And neither do they. Hang on. Let me see. So okay. Let's say it was $18,000.

So if I won the lottery and I give you $18,000, you would just have to come up with about $1500, and you could buy yourself a shrimp and boat. Yeah. Pretty much. Or find a cheaper one. Yeah. Okay. Okay. This is from H&R Block. It says, generally, the answer to do I have to pay taxes on a gift is this. The person receiving a gift

typically does not have to pay a gift tax. The giver, however, will will generally file a gift tax return when a gift exceeds the annual gift tax exclusion amount which is $18,000 in 2024. So yeah. No. A receiver doesn't have to. But if if if if your bank sees a $18,000 deposit, you're gonna have to tell the IRS about it because the bank will automatically tell the, the IRS. Yeah. Not if I give it to you well? No. Not necessarily.

If you go Well, they may made it they may tell the IRS, but up to $18,000, IRS can't do anything. Right. But but you see, this is the Yeah. There yeah. All banks all banks have to have anything $10,000 and over, all banks have to report to the IRS. Right. Yeah. Uh-huh. So because, like, like, when I got my back pay, you know, on on on my VA disability. Right. It was it was well more than than $10,000. The IRS got told about it, you know. IRS Uh-huh.

You know? Because it's nontaxable. They're like, yeah. We, you know, we don't give a shit. But by law, banks have to disclose that information. Right. Yeah. So Well, see, we wouldn't have to worry about it because I just bring you $18,000 in cash. That'd work too. You turn around, take that same cash, and, you know, give it to the boat owner. I'd go buy a shrimp and boat. And go buy a shrimp and shrimp and boat. I'd buy my. I would too. I'd buy a shrimp and boat, man.

Thing is I I don't know where I would dock it. I would have to research. I've I've looked at what it costs for dock slips, and they're they're different, you know, different prices. I mean, not bad, really. Or well well, it all depends on the size of the boat too. That's a big thing, the size of the of the boat. But, I mean, still, it's it's it's it's actually or your most normal, like, I I guess up to, like, 30 foot boats, 25 footers.

25 to 30 foot. You could probably get away with a a dock fee of $150 a month. Plus Yeah. No. I don't I don't think so. Plus fuel, plus this, plus that, plus insurance. No. No. No. No, dude. The, the 150 is just for the just to park the boat in the dock. Yeah. That's not adding fuel or anything else. That's on you. Yeah. You know? But, I mean, you know, it you know, you know, it depends on the size of the boat.

You know, if the boat holds 200 gallons, you fill it up once, and you're good for a while. Yeah. Possibly. Yeah. Well And see, I would I would forego the slip fee of a $150 and I just do like the black pearl and, you know, anchor it out a little bit and use the ding Dun dun dun dun dun dun. Start walking around like And use the dinghy to come aboard or come up on land. Right. That would save you some money. Yeah. It would save you some money. Do you know where the black pearl was built at?

No clue. Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Oh, yeah? Yes. It was. Look it up. Disney, there's a shipbuilder in, Bayou La Batre, and Disney went to them. And they used, 80 or 90 foot oil tanker as the base for the Black Pearl. Oh, okay. I looked it up one time because I I was like because I I had read somewhere where a ship was made, and I'm like, oh, that's cool. And then I just started thinking of other ships, and I was like, where was this one made? Where was this one made? Where was this one made? I'm

weird like that. But yeah. Yeah. The Black Pearl was, was, Yeah. Made in Bayou La Batre. I bet you probably all the ships from that move we were made there. I don't know. You know, because you had the Black Pearl. You had the oh, damn, the not ghost ship, but the, the pirate ship that, yeah, had all the aquatic creatures on it. Talking about, the Flying Dutchman? The Flying Dutchman. Yeah. I bet you that was probably

also made there. I'm sure they I'm sure for that movie, they had all those ships built. You know, the ones that were seen close-up, you know, probably all built there. Right. But I have never researched it, so I have no freaking clue. And probably won't research it because I'll be going to bed. And then I will have forgotten by the time I wake up in the morning, what the hell we even talked about. Hell, I don't even remember what the hell we talked about at the beginning of this show.

Why? Because I'm just dumb. I remember when I listened to it this weekend. Well, then you'll get to hear what me and Brian talked about you while you were gone. Right. Right. Yep. So Actually, the, flying dutchman prop used in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Dead Man's Chest and at World's End, was actually Uh-huh. Was actually located at Kay Lagoon on Disney's private island, Castaway Cay.

It was a prop, and they just, I guess, with camera angles and stuff like that, it looks like a full size boat. But, yeah, it was just docked in, on their island, on Disney's island, and, it was used to, film the scenes. Oh, and I'm I'm over at, 1st class sailing dot com. I came across yes. The Black Pearl was a real ship.

The Black Pearl ship in real life is actually called Sunset. And if you're wondering what type of ship the Black Pearl is, in the, real life, she's a 109 foot propeller driven boat that has, had once serviced oil derricks in the Gulf of Mexico. However, from the outside, she looked very much looked like a tall ship straight out of the 18th century during production of, of the, curse of the black pearl. The set was, built onto the barn, onto a barge while convincing, a convincing set was built,

and looked great on film. The size of the deck was limited to the dimensions of the barge, making filming a challenge. But, for second film, Dead Man's Chest, a new approach was taken. The producers wanted a seaworthy vessel this time. So the black pearl was a real ship, but only the first, pry, Pirates of the Caribbean, but only in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It's believed that the sunset also known as, the real black pearl ship is now docked in Hawaii. Oh, wow.

Well, alrighty then. I'll agree to disagree to agree to what you just said. See. And, the HMS Interceptor is a, a 112 foot, brig. Lady Washington is actually a replica of the original 18th century ship by the same name. Built in Washington State USA

in in 1989, she would be used for various media from film to television. Her first known appearance was the USS Enterprise in the movie star, Star Trek generations being used in the film in TV for many years. She wound she would end up playing the role of the HMS Interceptor in Curse of the Black Pearl. HMS Bounty is also known as the Edinburgh Trader, and HMS Bounty was built in 1960 by Smith and Roland, in Luneburg, Nova Scotia for the film Mutiny on the Bounty.

And she portrayed the notorious ship, the British Royal Navy ship of the same name since it was, built specifically for filming. It was constructed with unusually large rooms, and she was used in the second film of dead man's chest as the Edinburgh trader, a merchant ship destroyed by the Kraken. So yeah. Yeah. I was looking something up the other day, about ships. Right? Our ships are, you know, navy ships. Yeah. And I can't remember the exact names.

I I I would I would have to look it back up again and find it again, but it was funny. Some of the, ships names, the the older ships came from, came from the confederate navy ships from back during the civil war. Oh, yeah. I'm sure. I believe that. I because I I say whatever I was reading or watching or where or whatever, I was seeing the names. I'm like, what? I'm like and then and then it said that that it was, I'm like, that's a navy ship thing.

And, yeah, sure enough, it was. I was like, oh my god. That's freaking crazy. But I can't I can't remember the names. There was 2 or 3 that I recognized. And I wanna say the Sumter was 1. Because, if if I remember right, this ship here was, was one that that my grandfather was on when, he was, in the navy. Yeah. The yeah. This is yeah. This is one of them. The, USS Sumter was actually the former CSS General Sumter. So it so it was it was a Confederate States Navy vessel in the Civil War.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's that would make sense because there is a Fort Sumter. Right? Yep. And I was gonna say that myself. So yeah. No. It was just cool because I I was just like you know, I didn't realize that, you know, some of the names of these ships, they had they had just carried them over, you know. Oh, yeah. I was like, it was just yeah. Say I'm I'm, you know, I'm a I'm a geek like that. I'm weird. Nothing wrong with it? Oh, no. I mean, I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with it.

That's just me. That's just who I am. I'm a geek. You're not part of the geek squad, Hud. Right? Oh, fuck that. I don't know. I I mean, yeah, the Geek Squad, they just glorified fucking call center. That's all they are. Not even a not even a call center. They're just they're just overly glorified just repair to repair techs. So

If that Well, they and it didn't say anything they actually succeeded in repairing. They just, you know Well, no. That's true. Because, yeah, if you call them, first thing they'll ask, did you reset your computer? Okay. Well, try that and then call us back. Yeah. Or or, you know, did you try this, which is something like stupid fucking simple? I mean, yes. I get it. A lot of the people that call you

don't know this, but They they they have a hard time realizing that there are 2 buttons on the mouse. What do you mean right click? Right. Right. You see the 2 buttons on that on that mouse you're using? Yeah. Okay. You got one on the left. Correct? Yeah. That's the one you use to click on everything. Yeah. Try the wrong on the right. Oh, I didn't know you could just click on with the right one.

And sad to say Yes. Yes. You can. Yeah. Sad to say that that is actually true. You know? Oh, no. I did tech support for several years, for, for home dial up Internet. And, yeah, that was, yeah. No. Uh-uh. Actually, I even did it, did, calls an actual call center. Stream International is the name of the the company, and we did, did tech support for back when, Roadrunner, cable Internet was just coming out. Okay. And so What does the so what does that button do on the right? Just an alternative,

just all, alternative commands. So you right click on it's like if you take your mouse and you take it down to the, down to the the start bar, which is that bar down at the bottom of your windows, you right click on it, it'll give you options, give you different options. One of them being you can pull up the task manager instead of trying to teach teach somebody to do a control alt delete because that really fucks them up because they think they press control, then they press,

alt, and then they press delete, and it's like, no. No. Push and hold the control down. Okay. Now while that's pressed down, hold alt. Okay. Alright. Now while those are still pressed down, press delete. All at the same time? Yeah. Yeah. All at the same time. Well, I got you. I can't reach that far. Do you have another hand? No. You got 2 hands. Right? Yeah. Okay. Use your other hand. Okay. Hold up. Clog clog clog. Click clog clog.

Nothing's hap oh, oh, wait a minute. Something is doing something now. Yeah. Yeah. Or like if you're on a webpage and you right click, you can copy and paste. And you'll, John Pizzarelli: That's where you get copy your paste. You can you right click on, what used to be whenever you had the, my computer on the, on the homepage or the home screen, you can actually right click on it and go into, go into compute your the properties and

and mess with the mess with the settings. It was just a quicker way of getting to it instead of going all the way down to start, going to control panel, go on looking around in control panel to find, my computer or whatever it's called. I've not I've swapped over to to Mac these days, so I can't even tell you all the steps anymore. That but but that's the thing. You can't find the my computer

icon to to even look at that. Nowadays, no. No. So the Windows like, oh, we we don't want you to do that. We don't want you figuring out how to do that. You don't worry about it. You don't need to go over. You don't need to go to my computer. It's like, well, except for you do. Hey, Brian. Yeah. It's it's, you you hit the main screen and hit settings. Everything's right there. You're you're on my computer? Yeah. It's in setting. Yeah. Well

And it's very easy to find. Well, it was easier to find when it was on your desktop. Yeah. Well, things have I don't know. Honestly, if you ask me, this is easier for me. Or, actually, you can just, in the search bar on your taskbar? Oh, yeah. You can also just type in what you're looking for. Yeah. So, you know, like programs. You know, you can find your program manager that way. Yeah.

Yeah. Windows. Yeah. Windows does that. Which throws a lot of the new kids off because they're looking for apps. It's like, it's the same thing, dude. Great. Oh, no, man. It's not an app. Not an app, man. Yeah. It's an app. It's an app. That's what we used to call it. App is short for application. Otherwise known as an EXE file. Or you really wanna throw somebody a look for a look for the, batch file. The what file? The batch file. Oh, that'll fuck them up. Yeah.

What's a batch file? You look around for the one that says dot bat. Oh, oh, okay. And and for Ron? No. It's just a, it's just a way of being able to run a batch of commands all at the same time. Yeah. But, dude, yeah, that's something you would never do even if you knew computers. Right. Because that stuff, that's that is, like, yeah, way into programming shit and,

you know, other shit, which 99% of the people don't do. Yeah. Well, I I used the batch file. I would put the batch file in the startup folder just so that whenever I started my computer up, it would be you know, it would open up, say, Chrome, the, on a particular page, a it would open up about 4 different, 4 different programs that I actually used on a regular basis. Yeah. Well, you can do that in, startup now.

Well, I know, but it was easier just to write out a batch file and then just drop it in there. Oh, yeah. Back in the day, dude. I'm talking today. Years ago. I'm talking today. Well, nowaday, I just turn my computer on and turn the turn the Mac on and it goes bong, bong, bong, bong, and yeah. On, I do the same thing with my windows. Just turn it on and the shit I want comes up. As soon as I click it, it comes up to the page I want. I ain't gotta write no badge file. Well, goodie for you.

You're you're so special. There's a reason why he didn't have paste in his house. Actually, I do. I had to use it the other day, though. Oh, what? Resist the temptation. What? Like, crayons and have lunch? No. No. No. My I've got a dresser. I've I've had this dresser now, god, since, I think, 2014, 2015. And I got it for a buck. Okay? I mean, it's old as hell. And it's the drawers are are dovetailed. It's it's and it's real wood. That's why I've kept it.

And my middle drawer, I mean, it's so old. The the the face of it was starting to dry out and curl, and it the, dove the, dovetail joints were were coming apart. Yeah. So so I got some, clamps, some long clamps and used some Elmer's glue all because that's wood glue. That's glue for everything. And I Yeah. I actually, put a whole bunch of glue on there and then used 4 clamps and clamped it and let it sit for about 6 hours and dry. And my drawer does not wanna separate from the rest of

the drawer. The drawer face does not wanna separate. It is glued. So because I love this dresser. It's small. And and if I have an ass load of clothes, they all won't fit. But I still love this dresser because of the dovetail joints and Yeah. And the way it's made. So I fixed it with Elmer's glue because I refuse to go out and buy fake wood. I only have one thing made of fake wood in my house and that's my pantry. That's the only thing. Everything else is real fucking wood. Well,

I can't I can't stand fake wood, man. Can't. You just can't stand the fake wood. Oh, I can't. I know. One is high priced, expensive, and it don't last for shit. Don't last for shit. You're right about that. So I refuse to have it at my house. Well, I'll Ivy then. Damn it. Man, priorities, dude. I got I'm I mean, dude, I've got a set tee that's that's older, I would say, as old as all 3 of us put together probably.

I'm not I'm not exactly for sure the age of it, but I can get I can guarantee you it's at least the late 1800, maybe early 1900. And I've got a little show. Well, a stand. I've got a stand that, that sits behind and is set to you in the corner. It's a corner stand. And Uh-huh. That thing is is, I would say, about the same age. Wow. Yeah. I, yeah, I found a set t for $75. Wow. Yeah. I was I was shocked.

Yeah. Well, there should be some type of, manufacturing mark on the bottom that might give you the age, you know, the exact age Yep. Of manufacturing. Well, if it if it was made in a factory. That's the thing. I don't I don't know if it was made in a factory. Oh, yeah. If it was just made out of pot potting's wheel. Yeah. I mean I mean, it's it's, yeah. The I I mean, this thing here is and the, thread oh, man. The the, stitching on the couch part

is just awesome. The fabric is, it's it's cool as shit. Y'all need to come down to my house and see this shit. It's cool. I agree. I'll be getting down there I'll be getting down there eventually. I'm just saying. I still got I still got the dates. Oh, I still have I still have that stuff. I'm still I'm still looking for a bookcase. I have found a couple. I guarantee you I ain't gonna pay what they were asking for, though. These these were bookcases built in the 1800.

Yeah. The cheapest one I saw was, like, 27100. Yeah. I wouldn't buy it. I wouldn't buy one either. They did that price. No. I was like, yeah. No. I ain't about to do that. They were gorgeous. I mean, they were gorgeous. Do not get me wrong. They were freaking gorgeous. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, not for $27100. Yeah. Yeah. When it cost maybe at that time, what, a couple of dollars to produce it? Right. Yeah. Yep. Yep. But see, that's the thing, though. You have to kinda look at, you know, it

yeah. It didn't cost much materials wise, but the craftsmanship that went in it. You know what I mean? Oh, that yeah. That's the whole thing, the craftsmanship. There is no craftsmanship anymore whatsoever when it comes to furniture. No. Unless unless you find a very, very specific person that, you know, custom makes furniture. Right. Yep. Other than that, you ain't ever gonna see it again. That is true. Yep. But, yeah, that's why that's why I don't do fake wood because I want you know?

I appreciate good quality furniture. Yeah. You know? And that's just that's just how that works. Yeah. Well, Brian, it looks like I guess about that time. Is it getting alrighty? We had we've had that much fun? Yes. We have. Dang. I didn't even get to my question yet. Oh, well, get to the fucking question. Then we can then we can fucking get to your question. Damn it.

Jesus. I I was gonna find out if, if you get $50 every time you got rejected for anything, a favor, asking someone out, you know, asking for a raise, asking somebody else for $50, you know, for anything, what would you do to make money? You know, what? You didn't understand that? Yeah. I'm I'm I'm with dude on this one, Brian. I yeah. Okay. Okay. Say, I I walked up to you and said, hey, man. Will you give me your pay give me your Jeep?

Hell no. Hey. There you go. I just made $50. There we go. Alright. I've just made $50. Oh, I see what you're saying. So every time you got rejected, you got $50. So what would you do to make money? Well, what what would you go and start asking people to get rejected for? That's a good question. Well, would I go around asking people to get rejected for? Yeah. Man, that's a deep fucking question. Wow.

Well, it doesn't have to be deep. I mean, heck, you could ask everybody all brought anybody that goes up on the Empire State Building, would they be willing to jump off the, jump off the Empire State Building? They said no. Then, hey. Congratulations. I just got 50 extra dollars every time somebody said no. Well, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I completely understand that, but, you know All you have to do is just find something that a person would initially know that they would not Okay.

Wanna do. So, you know, say, would you walk around with a couple of a couple of cracked eggs in your shorts? No. Okay. Well, there you go. You know? You can give up with all sorts of of stuff. Well, yeah. Here's mine. Let me borrow your car. And that is that borrow or have? Because you asked to borrow, someone's probably gonna go, okay. Yeah. Sure. Here you go. Okay. Then I wouldn't get the $50 from that particular person. Right. But I would get it from 9 Someone who actually said no.

Well, yeah. And, well, yeah. And most people, they ain't gonna fucking loan you out a car. Yeah. Go up and go up to the I got a Go ahead. I would ask perfectly good strangers because I know that there's people that I know that I if I ask them to borrow their car, they would say, sure. Mhmm. Put gas in it. Yeah. You can also go to, go to, like, go eat at at Wendy's, then go up there and go ask them if you you have a hamburger refill. Hamburger refill? Yeah. Can I get a refill on my hamburger?

Yeah. Or better yet, can I get my, hamburger flame broiled at McDonald's? Or at Wendy's because they just use a griddle at Wendy's. Yeah. So does McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Burger King's the only one that has a grill. No? Carl I think Carl's Jr. Has has a, flaming, a flamer also. I have never been to a Carl's Jr. What? What? No. I've never been to a Carl Carl's junior. Yeah. Hey. Hey. I swear this poor man has lived such a no wonder you had such a hard life, man.

Dude, you ever been to a Hardee's? It's better. Yeah. Yeah. Carl's Jr. Is even better. It's owned by the, it was created by the same family, but Oh, okay. Because that's where Carl's Jr. Come from is because Carl Hardee's Jr. Created it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Hey, may I would, I would freak. I would freaking, I, and, and, you know, honestly, if, if this here was a fact, I'd be a rich motherfucker already because I used to do this, but I never got paid for it.

I would go I would go into a restaurant and the lady asked, the waitress come up and ask, what you drinking? I said, a 5th bourbon. There you go. Dude, I would be a rich motherfucker quick because just about every restaurant, regular restaurant, I'm not saying the ones that served alcohol. I'm because I did that one time. My lady was like, yeah. What kind do you want? Yeah. I was like, honey, I'm driving. But but but a regular, like, truck stop, go in and ask for for a shot of whiskey.

Yeah. You'll be told no every time. You could make a lot of dag on money. Yeah? See? Hey. And how how did the term shot of liquor come around to be? Oh, hell. I don't know. In the mid 1800, somebody come up to a bar and asked for a shot of, you know, or glass of whiskey, but they didn't have any money. It was kind of a tradition to give the bartender a bullet.

Okay. So, in trade for that little amount of alcohol, which, you know, commonly become the saying, a shot of, you know, shot of bourbon, shot of whatever. Right. That's how that saying came about from what I've seen on a show that I watch on the Discovery Channel. No. I didn't believe that. Yep. Yeah. No. I would yeah. Yeah. I would definitely, Yeah. I would I would go into, like, a Waffle House. You have to be careful there. Someone might pull out a 5th of whiskey.

You have to watch out in a Waffle House, man. They're great, though, man. Food is god. Food is good. But Yeah. I would I would definitely, Yeah. Yeah. Ask a waitress for a, shot of whiskey. There you go. Or or Yep. Or and and I've done this before too. Well, I used to back in the day. I used to ask ask waitresses if I followed them home, would they keep me? Yeah. I would make a lot of money. I'd be a rich man. Yep. That that I will definitely agree to.

Or better yet, here you go. Go into any any burger restaurant and say, I'll gladly pay you Friday for a hamburger today. He would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Yeah. Tuesday, not Friday. Or I knew it, Jay. About that. Yep. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. You see? You make a lot of money that way. Yep. You'd be a rich man, dude. You wouldn't know what to do with all that cash. But okay. Hang on. Hang on. Let me ask you this, Brian. K. Who's paying you the $50?

I don't care. That's not part of the question. I wasn't the one who was asking. Well, yeah. I wanna know where to hey. Inquiring minds. I wanna know where the money's coming from. Well, it would just be a poo, and there's a $50 bill in your hand. Okay. Alright. I'm good with that. I'll take a poof for $50. That did not sound There you go. Yeah. Yeah. That did not sound good. No. Nope. Aw. Considering what a poof there is in, in in in Australia. What is it? A gay dude. Bro, I did not know that.

Okay. I'm gonna rethink though that word. Oh, so okay. This is what you're gonna do. Right? Puff puff ass. Not poof poof ass. Yeah. No. No. Puff puff ass. Yeah. No. No. No. Thank you. I'm good. I'm right there. Yeah. That was where'd you find that question, or did you just come up? No. I've got actually, I've got an app called, Wholesome, and it's it's a it's got just a shit ton of questions in them. Oh, okay. That is a cool question, though. I like that one. So

That one. Figured we'd use the fun one instead and and not so much on the romantic one. So Yeah. That's good. So Oh, not again. Not this time of night. Yeah. Yeah. What? 5 minutes after 10? No. Thank you. We don't need to no. My brain ain't even working anymore. No mice. No mice. No mice. No mice. Yeah. No brain. So bam. Alright.

Since we are at, at past the 10 o'clock mark, we'll go ahead and bring this baby on in home, and, say thank you very much to everybody who's taking the time to listen to to share this, this episode out. And because, man we're, we are doing this because we wanna show men what it's like to, to have a, a, just have a, an intentional time of sitting down and talking with other men. Are you talking about anything important?

No. We're talking about, you know, what would just what would it take to to if, or what type of questions would you ask if you, if you were able to get $50 for for being rejected? I mean, it's it's just senseless stuff, senseless questions. And that's what, what guys often like to do is we like to sit around and just, we'll just talk about anything that comes to mind at the moment. And that is, sometimes we can have conversations that last for like we do tonight where it's a little over 3 hours.

There's other times that, yeah, we may talk and it may only be an hour, 2 and a half hours, or maybe only 2 hours. And it is because we are living our life intentionally with with each other. We are reaching, reaching out, touching base with each other, going, hey, how you holding up today? Because guys,

we do. We we have to have more guys being friends with other guys because we're, we've got a, we've got a, in an instance of too many guys who are just not living up to what their potential is because they don't have the men around to help lift them up. So that's, that's the original idea of what this podcast was about. And then on top of that, it's like, hey. You know what? It's just kinda fun to be able to sit around and and

and talk with, with some very good friends that I have. And so, yeah, we're we're here when we talk about dumb, stupid stuff and other times we talk about serious stuff and it's just, it's, it's fun and, and exciting. And so we do it and we do it, every week. And we do this in a value for value model, which means that instead of throwing mattress commercials at you or, or other types of, of ads that have no relevance in your life at all.

I mean, this is, it wouldn't do us any good to have a show about, had, have a show going. And then in the middle of it, all of a sudden have a, commercial for Tampax tampons. It just doesn't do it. It doesn't serve a purpose. Do we have women listening? There's a good chance we do, but at the same time, it's not relevant to the topics that we're talking about, even though we may make crack a joke about it from time to time.

So we don't have to worry about, you know, the brand safety stuffs, and, and all the other, idiocy that are going on with, with that whole line of thinking where all of a sudden we can't, You you go watch anything on on YouTube and people are talking about corn and and self deleting and and other stupid means of trying to get around, to saying what an actual word is. Now, because if you're, actually, I've got a, a, a couple friends. Rich,

is part of the a the same, same group. We all 3 of us actually met because of a, of a of the, operation tiers of the 22, which is a charity group helping veterans to to, to raise awareness about the about veterans killing themselves and and committing suicide, which is the word that YouTube wants us to to avoid saying, but that's what it is. You have to shine a light

on on what's happening for people to be able to be aware aware of it. And if you're walking around trying this trying to raise awareness about something, saying, well, self deletion is is kind of a dumb way of of of saying it. But yet that's how so many people on YouTube and, other podcasts who are wanting to try to actually advertise

will do because they wanna make sure that they're brand safe. And no, you're you're when you advertise, you're actually being, you're actually doing self censorship. You're you're censoring what you really can say and what you really would be able to say. And in in turn, you're not really being the true authentic person that you could be. So we, we are being who we are. We're talking like we normally talk. We share our lives

in ways that, you know what, it's gonna offend somebody. And we've gotta be okay with, with taking offense to stuff. Tiptoeing around everybody is what's turned the us into the pan in panty wasted pansies that we are today. And we've got to stop that. We've got to start being okay with being who we are and letting the people who are offended, just be offended. And that may seem mean it may seem cruel,

but that's life. Life is not going to go have a tiger run up to a, to a gazelle and go, Hey, do you mind if it's okay if I eat you today? No, it's going to do stuff that is that's hard and it's gonna be mean, and it's not gonna be very gentle about it. And, yes, we are better than than a tiger, but at the same time, trying to accommodate everybody's feelings is impossible. You can please some of the people, some of the time and all the people, none of the time.

And so we're, we can't be standing around trying to make sure everybody is accounted for and that we have, that we have affirmed everybody's feelings and we have made sure everybody feels the right thing because it's, it's not worth it. Somebody's going to not or is gonna feel left out simply because they wanna be an asshole. And so guys, with that, I'm gonna we we decided to not do advertising.

And we have decided that, yeah, we're just going to do a value for value. If you found any value in what we've done, if you found anything that's caused you to laugh, cry, think, groan, moan, whatever, then provide what you can to us. We have a on most, most podcast and modern podcasting apps out there, like, fountain and Podverse and and podcast guru. There is a way of being able to support the show.

And you click on one of those, click on that link and it'll take you over to, PayPal. You can actually, donate some money if you found if, if you have money to be able to donate. If you don't, then that's cool. We also have, time and talent that you can also provide, donate over to us. And you can help help us by doing, doing chapter art or making, or actually even setting up the chapters.

And these are ways that you can actually spend the time. Say you see something that you you think we need to have, you can reach out to me. My, my email address is circlecast@gmail.com, or you can reach out to to Rich. And that's rchelson, c h e l s o n, at g mail dot com. And let us know, hey. This is my idea of what I wanna do. Sweet. Go ahead. Do it. Get it done. Let's see how it works. Turns out. Let's let's go with this and run.

And so we can, we love to be able to, to point to your, your, your successes that, that you've done to help us become successful. And so there's a lot of different ways that you can help us out just by doing just because we have decided to go to the value for value model instead of doing the, hey,

go buy this mattress model. Because I don't know of anybody who really wants to go off and spend $1,000 on a mattress that gets way too hot and will eventually break down and will not be worth a damn in in about 3 years because, nah, there I've not known many mattresses that are very that especially

mattresses memory foam mattresses. They they the memory foam gives out for after a while. And I I don't think I would have much, much good to say about, about a memory foam mattress that, that developed Alzheimer's. So that's just me though. But anyhow, so Rich, what do you got to say? Oh, not too much. I'm just glad we still got people listening and downloading our our episode. I looked. I think we're up to, like, 1534 downloads.

So I I'm, like, I'm, like, really stoked, and I'm glad I'm glad someone's listening to us because, yeah, like you said, Brian, sometimes we well, most of the time, we just talk out our ass, but, you know, there's times when we do get serious and talk about serious things. And, you know, like you said, that's just that's the way, you know, men need to talk and, you know, you know, you need to find a group. You know, at least one person that that helps you become better.

You know? And that that you can sit there and talk about things and say things how you feel, you know, and not not worry about, you know, which bathroom that you need to use. You know? Just, you know, use the right one for the parts you have, basically. So no. But, you know, that's that's the main thing. We do this to bring enjoyment, you know, make you laugh, cry, groan, squeal, whatever. And, you know, as, Brian said,

reach out to us. You can email Brian at circle cast@gmail.com or me, rich@rchelson@gmail.com. And if anybody wants to speak with a dude, then just email either me or Brian, and we will make sure the dude gets the email. And I know he would love to,

read the email from you. So you know? And and, yeah, if you can help out with with some time or talent or treasure, that would that would be great too because, you know, we like to give when we listen to other people's podcasts, you know, and we ask, you know, if you want, do that. But, you know, if you're good with, chapter art, cover art, you know, editing, stuff like that, reach out to us because, believe me, we could we could definitely use, some ideas because we're just 3 vets who are us.

I don't I don't know if I can say any more to that. So, anyway, dude, what you got, man? And dude fell asleep. Dude, where are you at? Where is he? I don't know. He's he's still on the screen. I was gonna say, it looks like he's still on the screen. Yo, dude. He's not muted. No. He's not muted. Dude. Hello? I'm whispering in your ear, dude. Sweet nothings. Sweet nothings. Sweet nothings. It's, it's, little rain patter Pitter patter, dude. It's raining. No. No. Really?

Oh, but you did fall asleep on us? Yep. Sure did. Yep. I I was just wondering, you you was awful quiet there, man. No. Just listen to you. Just listen to you. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, dude, yeah. Your turn. What do you got to say? As usual, thank you everybody for, listening to us ramble on about this, that, and very little of anything, if nothing at all. So, hope you enjoyed, again, our conversation tonight. It's always wonderful having a

wonderful audience that likes to listen to us. Just hang out. And like, Brian said, just a bunch of guys standing around or sitting around and just sometimes have a very serious conversation. Other times, it's like, yeah. This was this conversation conversation met our meant to about nothing at all. So, again, it's always great to talk to, the 2 grumpy vets. And with me being the dude, it's always wonderful to be able to talk to them on a weekly basis. So what you got, Brian? Well, alright then.

Guys, I would like to say, thanks again. Y'all take care. Any, any requests, comments, thoughts, ideas, again, send them over to, CircaCastgmail or rchelson@gmail, And, we will see y'all next week. Till then. Bye. Peace. See y'all later. Peace out. Later, guys. Later.