We been busy

The Fellas have been busy and haven't been in the same location since the last episode.  So it's a What's Burning Catch Up.   

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

A little quiet. Is that better?

SPEAKER_03 0:01

No. Do it the other way. Yes. All the way to your consoles.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

No, thank you. No, bueno. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 0:11

Enough of that.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Shall we?

SPEAKER_00 0:13

We shall.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Uh we shall. Kick tires like the tires.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Welcome to Heat Tree to Garage. Your friends come together to share their love of life, creativity, and everything in between. It only took me s 100 and some quit playing with the chords.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

I lost my mic. I think the thing is, Chris, as long as you don't think about it. Oh, yeah, right. It's perfectly fine. Like, as long as I think if we wouldn't have thought about it 150 episodes ago, we probably could have got it. Oh, probably. I am a lawyer. I think we are so focused on trying to get it right for our awesome listeners that we now love very much. Now we just Larry and Tyser it.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

Just gonna send it. Send it. So we are three Musketeers. The fourth fella will join us at some point. He's like the busiest of the fellas.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

He is. His kids are busy.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

He yes, he is the busiest with children. Yes. I have uh you're virtually childless, but you're good. So far, uh, since Friday night, I've uh I've put almost no, I have. I've put 500 miles on the flex since Friday evening. So seeing some windshield time, huh? And uh the nice thing is I get I got a really good data point for what kind of fuel mileage I can pull if I keep it right at 60. And I tell you what, every motherfucker out on the road, even though the goddamn speed limit signs, most of them are saying 60 now, these cocksuckers are still driving 55 fucking miles an hour. They've got most of them changed. I haven't seen two changed. Uh if you get north of Manchester, they're almost all changed. Really? Yeah. It's just a 60 mile, it's just a 60 sticker over 55. Someone yeah, like Alamake County, they're all fucking 60.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

So their workers are harder workers than the than the people that are mad around here.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

They just got goings to it. Well, they ain't got shit to do up there. Yeah. Well, like it's like the parry goes. Like the whole population of fucking Alamake County is like the eastern half of Manchester.

unknown 2:53

Right.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

Sounds like a nice place to live. Maybe I should move. Who I was just like talking shit to so to one of our listeners.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Yeah, so that works for the me, me, me, me mom uh forgot that uh she's 70 and not 18.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

And they pulled the boat up to the sandbar, and everybody was jumping off, and mom said, I can too. And she jumped off, her feet got stuck in the out. I'm I imagine that she jumped off into the wet sand and her feet sunk and got stuck, and uh she uh lost her balance, and with her feet stuck, she couldn't step to catch her balance, and she fell backwards into the boat and has some very minor compression fractures on her T3, T4, and a pretty good one on T12. Yuch. So she has been flat on her fucking back on some really good painkillers since Friday night in the hospital. So you get home? Huh? Did she get home? No, they won't let her leave until she can go to the bathroom because she lives alone. Yeah. So they won't let her leave until she can get out of bed and go to the bathroom by herself. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Just go stand with her.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Well, which what's Josh doing? Which kind of made me go, uh no, uh, Julie goes, Hey, Kathy, why don't you just come stay with us?

SPEAKER_03 4:28

Really? Yeah, you have so many stairs.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Yeah, but if she's if we set the parlor room up as a bedroom, then the bathroom is directly across the hall. The kitchen's right there. The only thing that would suck is when she needs a shower, she's got to step into a claw foot tub on the second floor. Yeah, or you put her up second floor and then you just leave her up there. You can come down when you can do it yourself. Uh I mean, Chappie tell me to leave her up there. Uh, she said she goes, Well, I'll think about it. Obviously, I want to stay in my own house if I can. I'm like, I don't blame you there, mom. Right. So mom might be living with us for a couple weeks until she can. I uh be the best of your life. I sent all the x-rays and like the doctor's the doctor that read her CAT scan and everything. I sent all that to Knowles, our chiropractor. And I said, What do you what do you think of this? He goes, Ah shit. Once that bone quits hurting, she'll be fine, she'll never notice anything. He goes, You'd be absolutely shocked at how many people are running around with compression fractures in their back. Anybody that has done anything in their life, like been outside doing shit, they all have compression fractures. Every fucking one of them. Yeah, if you do manual labor and you tell me you don't have compression fractures, I'm gonna call you a liar. And well, I'm gonna tell you I don't because I just don't know if I have them or not. So you don't know. I don't know what I don't know. So yeah, so she's she's in a uh I've never seen my mom in this much pain before. Were you with them on the boat? No, so we couldn't we couldn't go up Friday because we had Asher and we were waiting for Miranda to come. So we were going up Saturday morning, okay. And um and uh so where were they boating?

SPEAKER_03 6:28

Mississippi?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Yeah, yep. Dunberry so mom's boyfriend's got a cabin on the Mississippi up in Lansing. Nice, and it's a nice area. So it the thing that sucks is mom was really looking forward to this weekend because it was like the first time that we were all gonna get a chance to meet all of Nick's family, and uh you know, and Nick's he's a great guy. Um he uh, you know, he's like, hey, still, you know, hope you guys can come up and da-da-da. But it just didn't feel right going to the river and spending a weekend out there while mom's laying in a hospital bed, and you could have FaceTimed her.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

So got a little tab at the moment.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

So Josh was there for five hours yesterday, and mom was awake for 15 minutes of it. So she wouldn't have known you were on the boat having fun. So, well, that's that's one of the arguments that mom made. I don't even know if you're here half the time. Because I told her, like, yeah, Josh was here for like five hours. Because so I got there about 3:30, so I was there for about an hour and a half, and I never saw her awake, yeah. Um, um, but yeah, so I feel bad for mom that way. That you know, a couple different ways. One is she was really looking forward to this weekend, and because you know, I think, what is it August or September is when I mean they've been kind of seeing each other for almost a year. End of the summer, I think it'll be almost it'll be a year, so you know.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

You haven't met him yet. Huh? You haven't met him yet? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Yeah, he was at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and so you had you had the chance to give him your blessing.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Yeah, yeah. And he's or beat his ass, like one of the two. Or beat his ass. He got that chance.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Uh, and I did find out apparently he was mom's boss at one point in time. Oh, that seems like it's a little bit of competition. He was the uh he was the uh city manager for West Union. I'm like, whoa, mom, was there a little uh work recreation? Like quit. No I was still married to your that was when your father was still alive and his wife was still or however she worded it. Yeah, because they're both married, they were they were both still married, widow and widower, right? Yep. So his his his wife, his wife died of cancer, and dad died of complications with pneumonia. Actually, pretty close to the same time. So they'd known each other already, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:09

And well, and then just having that, I guess, common bond of losing the losing your life partner.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

So and and he's he's a super nice dude, at least from you know, other than he drinks Bud Light, I really don't have a lot of complaints about the guy. Yeah, it was like mom was like, Oh, get ready to catch a bunch of shit for drinking Corus Light. You know, they're gonna be drinking Bud Light. I'm like, Well, I can throw all the fucking rainbow tranny jokes around all day long. Bush light or Bud Light? Bud Light. Oh, yeah. Hmm. All the Bud because they all drink Bud Light. I'm like, I mean, I can I can throw out all the freaking tranny rainbow jokes all day long. Yeah, that's fine. I just heard a good one yesterday. I'm a big boy, mom. I can take care of myself. What was it? I'm like, if it gets too bad, I'll just start throwing fists instead of insults. Or I'll call my fellows.

unknown 10:01

What?

SPEAKER_01 10:02

Throw up the the the F signal.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

Dang it. I had a really good I I was like, I gotta tell Gyar this joke. He'll he'll want to use it.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Maybe it'll come to you.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

It went right along with the Bud Light one? No, it was a it was a like you know, gender juice joke. Uh it was on the the uh I was enjoying just being at home on the couch with the wife on a hot on the holiday, no rush. Gotta be somewhere, do anything. Sus and the two dogs. And uh I was flipping through, like, what's on? Tried watching some of the 250 specials, but they were all dumb. I mean, I totally lost interest when I think it was Boys to Men was trying to hip hop Country Homes Take Country Road Take Me Home. I was like Boys Men was never a hip-hop band, though. They were always like more of a RB RB. I don't know if it was Boys Men, one of them one of them groups of RB, hip-hop, whatever. Hip hop anonymous. I didn't I didn't know any of their music. And then they're trying to take one of my favorite songs, and I mean that's one of everybody's favorites.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Well, yeah, I've never met anybody that doesn't like country roads, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:24

So, anyway, I'm like, okay, how about this?

SPEAKER_00 11:27

I mean, really, you think about like that's pretty rare. That seems like something I would hate since everybody else likes it, but I do like this on but but you still like it.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Yeah, I do like that one slip flipping through, and I was like, what's on YouTube? And Jeff Dunham had a new special celebrating America's uh sister sequentennial or whatever they call it.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

The 250 by sesquicentennial.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

There's that one too. There's like three or four names for it.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Because the sesquicentennial was 150, I think, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Yes, kind of prove it by me.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

I don't remember. Anyways, I don't know. I wasn't alive for that one. The 50?

SPEAKER_03 12:06

The the 200?

SPEAKER_01 12:07

150. Maybe it was I was 100. That's what it was. I was 150th was the sesquicentennial.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

Yes, I can't say those words, they're too big. But anyways, uh, so Jeff was you know, he it was from Houston, so he could pretty much say whatever he wanted. And he was uh peanut was going that he wanted to to uh deliver jokes in the multiple because America's such a melting pot of immigrants with all the different uh accents. He made fun of everybody all the way across. I like watching this. I'll have to watch that one. I'll have to find it and watch it. It's on YouTube, it's great. I think I I'd watch it again. But, anyways, so there's one. I was like, I need to remember that joke until tomorrow night. Here I am, I can't remember it. I am celebrating our motherland's 250th with this 250 years of independence. Yellowstone handpicked collection, hand selected by state of Iowa. This is a single barrel Yellowstone it's out of barrel 15 of 250 aged for seven years. Barreled in 101 of 18. It was barreled in the best month of the year. February? No, legends are born in October.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Uh uh convicts were born in October.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Yeah, convict that was born in October.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Uh no, that was always what Harn said uh about being left-handed. Oh, he goes, he's like, well, destined for greatness. Every left-hander is either about destined for greatness or jail. And I ain't never been to jail, so I'm still on the greatness track.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

50% alcohol by volume, 100 proof, and it's pretty damn good. And I will say thank you to Mr. Featherston. This is one of them he brought us. Mr. I'm not gonna get deep into jeeps again.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Jeep family.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

I called it. Um uh he went from stock to 35s, now he's looking at 37s, the wife's got a Jeep, and the daughter's got a Jeep.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

All in three months. Jeep life. Yeah, when I met him, he was driving a Hyundai. I believe Hyundai was a Hyundai.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

To be fair, when I met him, he was driving a Jeep. A beautiful last of the real Jeeps, an LJ, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

An LJ. The long Jeep.

SPEAKER_03 14:49

I was like, Yeah, I always said it's like wheeling in a Jeep commercial when you're with him. And that Jeep, I don't know about the new one because I don't think he'll take it off road.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I don't know. We'll see. I uh I celebrated the 4th of July by putting new headlights in the flex. God, you know how to party.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

You're almost as party hardy as me.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

I uh and and I I kicked it old school. I did it in the driveway with a fucking light clamp to the hood. And hey, sometimes so I thought I was gonna have to drive up to the school though and put it on the lift because I dropped an extension and a ratchet down into never, never never land. Yes, uh, and my magnet fishing skills are still on point. I found that fucker from all the way up here, all the way down there, and I fished that fucking magnet down, and then I had to go blind fishing for the extension. I couldn't even I couldn't see it. I'm like, yeah, you know what? I bet you that cocksucker is sitting in the fan shroud. So I fed that fucker down in there, and sure enough, I found that pulled it back up, and there it was sitting in the bottom of the fan shroud. What did I not impress with the with the LED? Like the they're not as good as the uh my forerunner. My forerunner when you when you kick the brights on in the forerunner, that's like driving during the day.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

Your parent thing's made for a Toyota versus a Ford.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

I mean, uh well, I think they need to be re aimed that could help because when I was coming into town, uh I could see light 30 feet up in the trees. Yeah, so that might help. I think I just need to pull them down a little bit or just put the put the drop springs in the back, and that'd make it worse. Never mind.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

I was gonna wait. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

No, you gotta put lift kit in the back to get your lights to come down. Lift kit in the front would do the same thing as lowering the back.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Yep. It'd go the right.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

I mean, if you want to Carolina squat it, I mean it's your vehicle, but Caleb's truck still's got a little squat to it, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Oh, he knows. It's on purpose. I saw him coming out of sunset today when we were coming back in from Wacon, and I'm like, hey, it's still got some squat to her.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

At least it's got mud tires on it now instead of rubber bands. Right. And he can turn. No, still can't turn very good. Oh, then he's like, you can turn better. I technically it's less bad. It's less bad than it was. On the 24s, it took to back out of our driveway onto the road. It was like back up, pull forward, back up seven times to get that thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

That would get old in a hurry.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

I drove it to Walmart one day. I had to try to park it in the parking lot. You just parked crooked. Finally, I did. I went, This is bullshit. Just take up spots. I turned turned real hard once it's like my truck.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

When Courtney took Dumpy to Walmart the other night, I uh I took up four spots. Four spots. He just pulled right up.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

You're not used to driving them that big. Oh, he did it on purpose.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

I did it on purpose. I drove icky to Walmart the other day and I parked it right next to the Well, I just got done doing a full detail on the damn thing. I didn't want it. It looks beautiful, but I didn't want anybody getting their fucking booger hooks on it.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

It looks awesome. I drove icky to Walmart and parked right next to the cart rack the other day. Kelly's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I can park this wherever I want to. Right? What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 18:09

I always park next to the cart rack because then nobody can then you can only get door dinged on one side.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

I always park near next to the rack because it's easier to put the buggy away. And I don't care, it's a freaking Cherokee. Um Cherokee.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Yeah, after I got done uh when I was detailing Dumpy, I'm like, after I got done power washing, I'm like, whoo. I wonder if Jim was attached to the patina on this. No, he wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

If the only thing he would be upset is if you would have done something to the decals on the doors, he's very proud of those.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

I was super fucking careful around those when I was buffing the doors out, and like I couldn't get there. You notice it on white more rocks and there was a lot of there was a lot of them that I had to leave on the door unless I wanted to fucking start buffing by hand. And fuck that. It was fucking hot. I didn't know you buffed it, I thought you just washed it. No, I freaking washed it, fucking clay barred it, rinsed it, buffed it, I don't want to rinsed it, but use it now, waxed it, cold rinsed it after that, and then when now when you got all you gotta do to dry it off now is get the leaf blower out. You ain't even gotta put a freaking towel on it.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

You need to bark, you need to borrow my truck for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Well, I figure I mean, like this is this is like the fifth summer I've used dumpy for uh Shinglin and put some new wipers on it for him because those were dog shit. They they were they were like hanging off. Yeah, like there was like two inches of rubber on each one holding them on, and so put some new wipers, got it detailed, kind of tidied the inside. It looked it looked like a million bucks when I was out there yesterday to was it no fra what did and then the the the and I was careful around uh all of the the the um the black paint. Oh the the over splatter? Yeah you didn't remove it, did you? Nope. Okay, nope, I made sure and left all that there. I was careful around that. That was custom applied, so you believe that.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

That was uh you know story behind that, right? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

So this is I was careful around that, around all the decals.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

So the listeners don't know Dumpy is uh I think this is technically Dumpy 3.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

That's what it says on the uh fender. Dumpy three.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

So dad bought a dump truck, like a it was a Ford two-wheel drive, 86. It was sketchy, sketchy. That was Dumpy. And Dad has a thing, all his vehicles have names. That's where I get it from. But then Dumpy 2 was my favorite Dumpy. Well, this one's kind of close. This one probably is I like this one a little better. The AC works in this one. Yeah, the AC works in this one. Dumpy two was like a s an 85 Chevy one-ton snowplow truck.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I mean, it was the heavy way better than Dumpy One.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

It had brakes that actually worked most of the time.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Um, and then he came across what used to be jungie Ford, which is not even a four-dealer now, they got taxed, but for shady things at the bottom. Anyways, not jungie, but it was hey, I bought a different dumpy. I said, Oh yeah, what'd you get? It's an 08, Chevy, two-wheel drive, three-quarter time. I said, Okay, cool. But it doesn't dump. I said, then how's it a dumpy? That's for you to do. That's for you to figure out. So he says, tell me what I need order. So I gave him part number. Numbers and he's like, we really need a seven ton hoist under this.

SPEAKER_04 22:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

We can't. He goes, it's a three-quarter ton. I said, go look in the mirror and talk to yourself. I know how you load things. I know how I load things.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Well, and then we need the seven-ton under obviously. You're never gonna put if you put fucking 14,000 pounds in the back of that thing, like you're gonna break something. But like we've tried just if just the way you had to load shit, like everything, all all the weight was in the front, right? And you have a two-ton freaking lift, it's not gonna lift it. And I and I got out to the when I was dumping the shingles, the guy's like, he saw me back in. He's like, Oh, this thing's got a dump on it, doesn't it? I'm like, Oh yeah, it's got hydraulics. Oh, yeah, it's gonna lift that. I'm like, fucking better. Like, because there's probably only two thousand pounds on it.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Did even grunt.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Uh when it so the first time I had two thousand pounds on it. The second time, what did I tell you? Four almost 4,800 pounds on it. Yeah, 4,800 pounds, and it just kind of looked at it, it yawned first and said, Okay. Right. Uh, and it went.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

I know it's had more more probably at least that much, if not more, field rock in it. With a student driver driving it. I was 12,000 pounds when I went across the scale out at the we never scaled when we were running rock back and forth, but it was when dad had his rotator cuff surgery, and White had just gotten his learner's permit. So White drove, grandpa rode along. I drove the at that time we had the big Ford five-ton truck or two and a half ton truck, and uh my no-good brother used my truck with a dump trailer, and we were making loads from strawberry north of strawberry down to the lake because they were doing all the rock. But so, anyways, dad buys this truck. I put a hoist under he finds a contract or a landscaper bed, I guess, because it's got the fold down sides, which is super awesome when you want to load from the side.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Yeah, fold down. We need to put ratchet strap hooks on the sides, though.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Yeah, it does need some sort of strap. Uh, have you looked under the bed lately? It's gonna need some work soon.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Uh, it's gonna need the sides rebuilt. Yeah, they're before too long.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

I need to make I still haven't got a hitch on it. He really wants a hitch so he could pull a trailer with it. I think if he could pull a trailer with it, he'd probably get rid of his crew cap truck. Because he never uses that one. Other than to push snow now, because I put a plow on it. But anyways, we get all I get it all done. And if it's an if it's equipment, a dump trailer, a uh car trailer, whatever, needs painted. Dad buys a gallon of black equipment animal, a couple throwaway paint brushes. And he said, Wyatt, you want to make some money? Paint paint dumpy, I'll pay you to paint dumpy. Okay. Well, why I didn't realize how long it takes to brush paint a dump truck. The bed of the dump truck, not the whole truck, just the bed. And the headache rack is separate from the dump bed, the way I built it, so that that way the back of the truck's always protected. The one thing I did not take into account was Wyatt being in a hurry to paint it. And so as he went across the mesh and the back headache rack, it kind of splattered everywhere, kind of flicked it all over the window and the back window, the back of the cabin lost got black speck all over it. But now come now, you know. At first, dad was a little why you couldn't take a little better time. Come on, you know, still paid him. I gave white a hard time for it, but now it's part of uh the memories.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Yeah, just it just reminds you of it.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Matter of fact, that was one of the top things I said when mom and dad, you know, unfortunately, you know, you get to that point, they're like, hey, planning for the future, and that I said they're talking about different things. I said, uh Dumpy don't go anywhere. Dumpy's mine. Well, that goes without saying, because I I think we use it more than he does, and he just loves it having it so we can use it, but he does love it when you take off. We took the was it bench or buckets in it before?

SPEAKER_01 26:13

It wasn't buckets, or it would have still had that. I think it was like a 60-drive drive-driven. It was like a bench, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

It was like a 60-40 bench or whatever. And he shows up one day and he says, Hey, I love dumpy in your driveway. Or he calls me and he says, Hey, I love dumpy driveway. I said, I see that. What's wrong? Nothing, it works great. There's some there's some seats laying in the back for it. I go out and look, they're like Monte Carlo SS bucket seats. I'm like, you want these in Dumpy? Yeah. Okay. It was no, it was a how are those that are because it's still got the factory original center council and I just took the the factory dump truck seats out or the it was buckets, I think.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

It was like a 60-20 or 40-2060 or 40-2040 or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

40-2040. Yeah, because it's got the foot around the seat. The seats were tore up and they weren't comfortable.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

Well, it was a delivery truck for H uh HVAC company. Anyways, so we uh it's it's a Chevy SS dump truck. And we all love to use it.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

He should get some SS stickers through the side of it. He's talked about it, but that's where and then the other thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

So he had the local graphics shop make him some door stickers, like they're not as like old school, like, but they're in they weren't painted on, but it was in the theme of it was in the in the theme or the the tradition of an old and it's I don't even remember what old delivery truck.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Yeah, it's got the it's got like an old guy's face on it, and it's it's it's like your your dad's caricature face, it's got the handlebar mustache, the elbow you have I think it says Willie and Sons fabricating. I I almost peeled the S off Sons and just left it Willie and Son.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

I hadn't thought about that. That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

No, you did though one time because you covered one of them up. I did. I did with white duct tape.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

We did I took took white duct tape and covered it up one time. Just Willie and Sun.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

I thought about peeling the S off. I'm like, no, it's not my truck. I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Uh and then it says uh you might get mom an idea now though fabricating well uh metal, metal, wood, and stories since 1956.

SPEAKER_03 28:18

My dad was born, so that's that's like Tyler can have the 50 now. I want the dumpy that dumpy's way got way more cinema valued to me. But anyways, um Court's got some big burning we'll have to get to in a minute. He's gotta be feeling accomplished for this week. So I will hurry through my dun burning, so um oh, I should here's a good point.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

So uh yeah, so I did a thing while I was driving with George Jones down a moist dirt road while he was eating moist Betty Crocker cake. What were you driving? I wasn't driving anything. I have acquired uh lodging for said camping trip.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

Oh, what'd you get?

SPEAKER_01 29:05

So I got the jealous. Oh, you're jealous? I found a good deal on Facebook Marketplace.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Did he get that tent cut?

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

No, I got the Haven Safari hammock.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Nice!

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Yeah, that's fucking sweet. And he paid half what we paid.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Oh what's I I'm not up on my haven?

SPEAKER_01 29:27

I sent him a message. I'm like, hey, would you take? And he goes, No. Like, all right, that's cool, dude. Uh and he mentioned that when I, you know, when I came up like, hey, dude, I got a buddy, and the line he always says is you have not for you ask not. I knew the price you were asking was a hell of a deal, but I thought if I can get it for an extra 30 or 40 bucks fucking cheaper, I'd be stupid not to ask. The worst that happens is you say no. Yep. And then I still come and get it anyway. Right. See, I could local uh Dubuque. Oh no. So I picked it up. So I I I went to Dubuque and then up to walk on to see mine. Uh what's by the way?

SPEAKER_03 30:08

Rs and the Safari.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Uh sticker material.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

Safari's thicker? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Same size, same everything, but the safari's more heavy dude. I bought new straps for mine.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Oh, you did buy new ones? Okay. The straps we came with sucked. I bought new scrapes.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Yeah, send him the link.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

He'll want those straps.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

I I've already got them in a cart.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Okay. Just buy the the ones from Amazon. Yep. They're way nicer. I did it right away because he said to. Well, I mean, they had them on Haven for like 10 bucks. There's exactly the same as what you're getting you had before. Orange ones. Yep. They're the same as what you're gonna do. You want the ones? Mine aren't orange. Well, yours aren't orange? Mine are all black. Make sure they're make sure they're long enough. Haven ones are short.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

The ones he got are way more adjustable. Mine would have wrapped around your oak trees.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Because mine would not. I couldn't even touch the ends together. So right now it's held up. If you drive by my house, I slept in it last night. Did you? Julie came out and she's like, Did you sleep in this thing all night? I'm like, Yes, I did. How'd you like it? Uh until I didn't sleep real good until about 3 30 in the morning. And but from 3 30 to 9 30, it kind of started warming up. Man, I freaking snored like a motherfucker in that thing, though. Like that little dingleberry in the back of your throat, that motherfucker was all swollen up half the day. But so yeah, so I got so right now I've got a 16-foot ratchet strap around your tree, and then the strap connected to that, and the other one to the post on the trip.

SPEAKER_03 31:41

So you'll have to be a peasant like me and use trees on the trip, unlike people that have the bajillion dollar stand.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

We'll see if it's I don't I don't think it'd be super hard to make something off a hitch. We were talking about that earlier today, actually. So Jeremy's idea, and I like Haven's got uh a pretty good hit, like their man on XL but $650. Yeah, you could make it for fucking $50 in fucking material.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

We have access to lots of fabrication tools. I haven't seen his stand in person, but once I do, I think we could make it.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

I like Jeremy's idea. So Jeremy and I were talking about it, my brother in law talked about yesterday. Along the trailer, if you put inside the the stake pockets, the stake pockets and then put a receiver hitch on that and then build your own, you can get like three guys on both sides, like the whole crew could camp on the side of the trailer.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

I I like the idea. My idea is come off the stake pockets, you know, at an angle, but the hammock you hang over top the trailer, so in the morning when you get out, you step down the trailer bed and not the wet grass.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Yeah, that's kind of what I was saying. You're thinking hanging off the sides. That's what he was talking about. You could do it across, also. Like when I was doing the mock-up on my trailer that day, I was thinking across, but it's I have some ideas of how you can make it work on across.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

But one of the reasons I was looking at the that those hydraulic trailers was I was totally taking the hydraulic deck off, but leaving the hydraulic arms.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Actually, really, so all you'd need as long as you had just a post coming up and then just use two ratchet straps to tension it back, you wouldn't even have to fucking lean. No, no, it's just gotta have something to anchor to, right? And then just ratchet straps just to keep it from I slept like a baby in West Vinian mind. I looked at it. I know that if you're sleeping on just the air mattress, sometimes that motherfucker will wrinkle just right, that cocksucker will bite you right in the Julian.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

I gotta get I should get home. He's that foam mattress, he puts a foam pad in his on top of there.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Um actually I might have two. Let me check. Okay, that was um the uh this one, it's in my cart. I just haven't ordered it yet.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

What's that? It's like a send me that link four-inch memory foam that fits in the hammock. Oh send me that link has.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

I'm uh yeah, send me two. How much is it? 70 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

That's what I haven't. That's why I haven't bought. I slept good enough in mine without it.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

It's like so we'll get we're gonna talk Patreon.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

We're gonna talk more about the trip. I'm gonna and I think I'm gonna get because I like to just have light. I think I'm gonna get that light that runs along the top. Yeah, that runs along with the um and I blew it up with my own lungs. Didn't take too long.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Like I've got a three battery-powered blower upper, and I've got a plug-in blower upper.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

I've got a V I was looking at like like they've got it, they've got a battery-powered one that's like the light and a blower. That's a minus 30 bucks. Did you get the one from Haven or no? I bought it on Amazon. I buy everything on Amazon. Here's the thing it's like 30 bucks.

SPEAKER_03 34:43

It's got his truck, my truck, and the scout, and eventually Mocha will all have airports on it for a blow gun.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

I just sent to the fellas' chat so that way perfect.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

So I did a thing yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

But were you driving down a moist dirt road with George Jones? No, George wasn't with me. I wasn't. Oh. But you'd been a lot cooler if you were.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

What was it? It was Wednesday, I think it was. I'm like, you know what? I'm tired of looking at that golf cart sitting in the driveway. I don't have time to get to it. Not gonna have time for a while because there's more important things to do. I listed it. I listed it for the amount I paid for it. 700 bucks. At last count, before I hit delete messages, I was at 93 separate people messaging me. They all had a message at least once.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

I thought you said it was 90 some.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

I paid 90 93 when I was done.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

I paid 25 bucks for that blower upper thing or bobber.

SPEAKER_03 35:53

And now that would be handy like if we did the uh the twat trip I was talking about earlier. But so I you know, and and it was everything from the $100 to uh I got one message, hey, would you sell just the coolers?

SPEAKER_01 36:11

And I said there's holes in the bottom.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

They were both I said, they're bolted to the wood. The response, get wait for this guy. Here's the response. I don't think I told either of you this. The response back to hey, they were bolted through the wood. I know I did it.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

I know I did it.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

It was the guy I bought that I bought it from.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

I know I never met him.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

I sent dad in the trailer after it, but uh I said, he goes, I drove all over Iowa trying to get three matching coolers. I kind of wish I would have kept those. No, dad offered to pay him a little less for him to keep the coolers, and he said no. He was you should have taken it when you had a chance, buddy. So I told him, I'm like, man, I get it. I said, I got somebody interested in it. If it doesn't sell this weekend, I'll get a hold of you. We'll we'll make a deal on the coolers. Perfect, he says. Another message was Did you buy that from Matt? Yeah, cool. That's all it was. So by Thursday night, there was a gentleman that said, I want it. I I don't get off work in time. Can I come up a Saturday and get look at it? I'm like, Yep. Then Thursday night, he's like, hey, I got off work earlier. I can be there by 9 30. It's storming, it's dark. I'm like, nah, Saturday work fine. Andrew's like, just have him come up. I'm like, I'm not gonna deal with it in the dark.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

In the rain.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

In the rain, everything else. I'm not gonna deal with it tomorrow. We've got stuff going on tomorrow, on Friday. We'll do it. No. No, it was Friday morning. I said No Saturday morning.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

Yesterday morning.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

No. When did I go help art with or with the car? Oh, yesterday, maybe? I think that was yesterday. So Friday morning. Anyways. Yeah. So I said, no, you know. Friday. I've lost track of days. Anyways. So they they come up and or he starts. He goes, I can come tonight. I said, I'm like, dude, sorry. And he's like, can you put it pending? Or you know.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

I'm like, you really wanted that thing.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

I'm like, no, I'm not gonna do that. And I and when he was hit, when he came up, I told him, I said, look, I could I would I trusted that you were coming.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

I held it for you. I didn't need to mark anything.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

I I told you I'd wait for you. I said, and I hate it when people you work out of time to look something, add something, and then they're like, oh, sorry, I sold it. Somebody called with more money. Which I had that. I had a local guy. You got Venmo? Yeah. What is it? I'll Venmo you $7.50 right now. I'll pick it up at a later date. I'm like, no. I said, I got a guy coming Saturday morning. If he doesn't buy it, I'll let you know. I think it's somebody, it's it's somebody that knows Brad or Brad knows or something. But at any rate, I told I'm a I'm a guy of my word. I'm gonna I said Saturday morning. So Saturday morning I'm out here tinkering around, working on the scout, trying to get things done, and I hear uh trailer rattling, and this newer Cummins pulls up, parks on the gravel. I'm like, that must be the guy. In come these two guys, probably late 20s, early 30s. And they are I had it set, I had backed it into the garage and fired it up, made sure it would start for them. And they walk in the door and they just instantly smile. They are like two kids on Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 40:12

Those ones, yeah. Uh are they 20 foot each or 20 foot total? 22 feet total. Total, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

44 plus two. Yep, that's what I've got. Yep. So that's what I got. I ordered the same ones.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

But uh Pro Ventures. I think so. I don't remember. There's a ton of different brands.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

They're all made in Tyrone. It says 22 feet total. Yeah, that's let me.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

Cheat fuckers. Let me try to find mine.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

Okay, anyway, so anyways, so they look at it and I fire it up for them, and they're looking on there like, well, can we test drive it? I'm like, hit the throttle. Because I had the back end jacked up, so couldn't take off out the door like you know I tried to do on us guy here. And uh they're like, how fast to go? I'm like, I don't know, I haven't had it above idle because I haven't had anybody brave enough to sit in the back and run the throttle at wide open. And they're like, Oh, well, can we test right? I said if you guys are brave enough, go for it. Fired up, and I showed them how you know you hit the throttle, it'll go, but then it sticks. And they're like, okay. So they take they I'm like, well, get on. I'll let the jack down. You guys they take off, they head out, and I'm like, oh, they're just gonna go. The one in front's pointing, we're going to the right. And they take off, and by the time I got a video, I think I sent the video to you guys. By the time they were in front of the house, they were wide open and they were going. And I'm like, and I didn't come back. I didn't come back. I'm like, oh crap, did they ditch it? By the time I hear it coming, I'm like, okay, they're coming back. I call Andy, I was like, hey, look out the front door. He said, You're gonna see something hilarious. And I'm I am just laughing so hard because these guys are so having so much fun. They they don't even pull it back in the driveway, they they point it right up to the trailer. One's giving me a th a thumbs up, the other one's giving me the like thank you with his hands together. Like, this thing's perfect. So I got there and they're like, Well, all that's left is to pay you. I said, Hold on. I said, There's one more thing that's got to go with this. I came and I grabbed the SS hubcabs. Yeah, I took them out and I said, you know what? I said, and I told them, you know, podcasts and dad showed up with them. They're like, I said, I don't know what you're gonna put up because they're trying ATV wheels and stuff. I said, but these should go with it. Oh, those are cool, you know. And they the one cooler that's not strapped down, they were throwing it in the back of the truck. And and they already, I wish I could remember, they had some really cool, like um America 4th of July theme names for it that they were gonna call out because he the ones like we worked together, dirt excavation, and he goes, We spent all day just bullshitting back and forth on the radio, and he goes, We spent three hours just talking about this thing and what we're gonna do, and have they already had plans to make a steel roof, you know, like a 10, use some barn tan roof, and and they're from Sigurney. And I'm like, Do you guys drive Sigurd? Can you drive them golf courts in town? Well, they're about to let us okay. And they open up the back door to grab straps, and there was enough bushlight 30 racks in the backseat to fill the coolers, probably because Dollar Freshers had 30 racks for 11 bucks as well. They were they had come up to Cedar Rapids because one the one guy's girlfriend lives in Cedar Rapids. They came up Thursday night to watch the fire or Friday night to watch the fireworks and your house in Cedar Rapids, and then came on up Saturday to to get the and and super communicate everything, and and he's like, you know, I really they take me to three or four times just for holding it.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

That doesn't happen.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

They're like, we saw it Wednesday, and that's gotta be in our lives. We gotta have it. And they were gonna be headed home, unload it, and they already had plans that one was driving, one was running the throttle, the coolers were getting filled. And they were hitting town for the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

I wonder if they're in jail still.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

I don't know, but they uh and they're like, they they tell them they'll start listening to the podcast. I told them about the podcast. I don't have to listen. I hope they do. And uh, but I was like, this is where this thing needs to go. These are these are young versions of us that are gonna just go have fun with it.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

We should have to fucking do something with it. Right. Not 12,000 other projects they need to do and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 44:30

Not lives and families and everything else. Well, I mean, I'm sure they got families, but anyway, so so the the golf cart is gone. She got I broke even. Can't be better than losing money. That's right. And I haven't spent it yet.

unknown 44:47

Can't be.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

Although there's there were some really good sales on like uh a couple of the fab shop sites, but I was like, nope, I'm gonna wait. But uh Tetanus is almost back together.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

Closer.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

Uh tried bending the rods in it by accident. Oops. So I I think we're brought up to date that it smoked a lot, right? Yeah, we kind of knew that. Well, but then when Julian and and Zach and Hathaway and Ricky and everybody was here, were hanging out that night in the shop. Julian and Ricky got to looking at they're like, looks like there's oil in the intake. And we pulled the throttle body off, and there was oil in the intake. So I had taken that all apart, and then was like, oh well, as long as I'm here, let's straighten up the wiring. Got that all back together, fired it back up yesterday. It smoked, or maybe that was Thursday or Friday. But it smoked less, like a lot less, back to like it did before I did anything to it. Yep. So I'm like, okay, maybe that's all it was. I'm like, I'm gonna send it at this point. And if it blows up, you can send it to the case. If it blows up, we got four seats. We got four seats in the rental, and Ricky's got an open seat too. So we should be good. So we'll be fine. Um, and I'm sorry, Ricky. I'm like, you suppose I should run like any kind of engine cleaner through it or something. Maybe that'd help clean up that residual oil. He's like, yeah, run some. He goes, we uh when I worked at the GM, he goes, we would just nurse like C foam in through the brake booster hose. He goes, just do that, and that'll that'll clean up. I'm like, all right. Well, I went to uh our local Napa on Thursday afternoon when I got back to town because I had to go to my eye appointment. And I was talking to Lee, the uh proprietor of said Napa. And he's he's like, ah, he goes, see if one will do good. He goes, get that royal purple stuff. He goes, that's that's even better stuff. He goes, I use that all the time for doing that kind of thing. He goes, It works great. Okay, and I had owed him for some high pressure clamps, so paid my bill. And yesterday I finally got a chance to set it up nice long 3-8 hose, had the can of engine cleaner, and uh and Ricky's like, just he goes, just take the hose, just let it sip a little, then you know, all right. Well, I had a pair of hose clamp pliers, you dunked her too deep, huh? No, no, I did not dunk it too deep. What happened was as I went to let the clamp off so that I could start applying fluid. I fumbled because I'm a klutz, and that hose went and the and I went, shit, and I knocked the can off, but she took about a quarter of a can gulp. And it was white gulp, white smoke everywhere. I ran into the the post of the two post trying to get out the door because I was coughing and gagging. You could not see in the I'm dying, I'm dying. I had and I had already turned the fan to blow out the door, so I was you know, because I thought it's gonna smoke. I know it's gonna smoke. And and it sounded like an old 6'5 shabby diesel, and I'm like, oh no. I get outside and get about two milliseconds of fresh air, and I'm like, I gotta go back in there and and shut it off, either shut it off or or give it some throttle, let it burn through one or the other. I don't know which. Well, when I knocked the bottle away, that 3-8 hose came out. So she had a really good vacuum leak that brought it, I think probably helped save it. So I got back in, and then you know, I could kind of make things out in the fog, and I just kind of brought the idol up because the knock had gone away, and it smoothed out. I let it run for about another 45 minutes to an hour, never got above 180.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

Everything was didn't smoke like a freight, like a like a freight train.

SPEAKER_03 49:02

They cleared out the smoke. There's just a little bit of you, really look right at the tailpipe.

SPEAKER_01 49:07

There's so much fucking oil in that exhaust. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

And that's what I figured. So I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

So you put a new PCV valve in it then?

SPEAKER_03 49:14

There is no PCV in that.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Oh, it was a CCV.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

I'll get I'll get to that. I learned a lot. So I'm like, if I bring it up nice and smooth on to rev it up, she's great. If you stab the throttle, it would get a knock. I'm like, oh. Alright, so I videoed it. I sent it to the council, Ricky and Dave. Dave has tried to call me twice. I haven't called him back yet. I haven't had time. Ricky texts back. I think you're fine. That sounds like spark knock. It'll come out of that. Okay. Ricky's worked on more Alice's than I have. You worked at a dealership. I'm gonna go with we're gonna send it. And uh today I was I got out here this afternoon and Corey came over. I'm like, you know, there's eight new NGKs sitting on the toolbox right there. I'm never gonna be able to get to it easier than right now to put them in. Might as well put them in. And so I put them in, and I haven't shown them to Geyer. I'm gonna show him the picture of them. I'm glad I did. Because I went, ooh. So as you look at these, your right hand side is the passenger side, eight is close to closest to you, one is furthest away. Look at those beautiful things. They're oily, they're black as Toby's ass.

SPEAKER_01 50:40

Yeah, they still got a nice. I mean, they're probably oil fouled. You can two of them you can see have been burning oil for quite a while. Right. All the white shit on them. So yesterday, after I I've run them through the bead blaster and put them in as a they're in the garbage can as a worst case scenario backup.

SPEAKER_03 51:01

For what in for what NGKs costs? They're they're in the garbage can. But after I shut it off, I'm like, okay, let everything cool down. Might as well lift it up. Drain the oil. Drain the oil out. And Dan's like, ah, she fixed a power washer. So I spent all day yesterday afternoon when it was hotter and hell out power washing, which actually was kind of nice. I power washed the shop floor, the hole in her side of the scout, the dog kennels, the 50. I think that's everything. So everything's nice and clean. Got her today, put new plugs in it. Court and I built a very nice compressor bracket for the ARB twin compressor. All the wiring took back up. We figured out what switch did what, moved a few switches around so everything is in a logical position on the switch panel.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

My OCD was not liking headlights, rock lights, tail lights. Can we move these?

SPEAKER_03 52:03

We arranged them in a more OCD make sense.

SPEAKER_00 52:10

So now it's much, I'm much happier.

SPEAKER_03 52:12

This is the first time that a week out, the skelet's gonna be ready.

SPEAKER_00 52:17

Don't fucking say that. It's too early. I'm not cutting anything apart. I have to I have to bolt the the winch on the front. Next Wednesday, be like, or about Wednesday, be like, hey, what do you guys think about putting the full link on this? Nope.

SPEAKER_03 52:31

Not happening. It is not happening this time around. Because if that was happening, it'd be cut apart right now. And I said, nope. I'm not even putting, I have like six other lights to put on it. I had that all those lights to make the light bar on top. Not doing it. Just it's as good as it's better than it was to go to West Virginia. I'm not even gonna straighten that. I'm not even gonna replace that uh lower control arm that's bent. We're gonna send it with it because I want aluminum ones in the back. Just hit it the other way.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Oh, we could loosen it, roll it, roll it, bounce it down.

SPEAKER_03 53:02

Yeah, yeah, good idea.

SPEAKER_01 53:03

Just take the bolts out, roll it upside down.

SPEAKER_03 53:05

Yeah, take bolts out, just loosen the jam nuts.

SPEAKER_00 53:07

But then it'll change. Then it'll get longer or shorter. As long as it's the other side to match.

SPEAKER_03 53:13

Yeah, true. Or we just fucking leave it and then I I wish we can bend it more. I wish I could have taken advantage of Julene's big America sale, but maybe, maybe she'll extend it. I don't know. I'll give her a call tomorrow and be like, hey. How about us poor guys from Iowa? But um so that but I got to thinking, and I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this out quick and then we need to jump to course burning. Um after stopping tunneling that you know the Napa's old slogan, Napa know-how. I'm gonna see if Lee will uh give us once uh for each episode a interesting um piece of knowledge about car, automobiles, parts.

SPEAKER_00 54:09

Just I think Lee come up with the happy the Napa know-how corner.

SPEAKER_03 54:14

Yeah, like he is getting we need a he is he is he has lit heat a garage gets a discount. The fellas get a discount there. He's supporting everything he can in the community. He's taken Napa to me, I think he's taking it up a notch. Oh, for sure he has. I mean, to see two there's we've got two really good parts for his and to there's several parts for town, but I think I only go to two of them because of what I see. Mikey's doing a hell of a job at CarQuest on one end of town, Lee's doing a hell of a job at Napa on the other end of town. They're two young guys. How often do you see a guy under in their what mid-30s?

SPEAKER_01 54:56

They're both supporting local.

SPEAKER_03 54:57

They support they support Whites Warriors, all that.

SPEAKER_01 55:00

Uh Mikey's 35.

SPEAKER_03 55:02

Yeah, and Lee's probably about the same age, maybe a little older, but um, you know, I maybe kind of kind of fun to see what Lee throws. He oysts me off the walls um stuff. I did get from Ricky. It was funny. I I no more than walked out of Napa, got in the car, returned home and my phone dings. Ricky's like, hey, did you see this? The parent company or O'Reilly's offered the parent company of Napa a lot of money to buy them.

SPEAKER_02 55:44

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 55:45

So I sent the screenshot to Lee. I'm like, hey, did you see this? He's like, yeah. He goes, I don't look good in green. I don't look good in green. So that's that's pretty interesting, though. That I mean, O'Reilly's is well, Car or Advanced Auto bought CarQuest, and then they bought almost bought out all of UConn's supplies.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

Quite a few years.

SPEAKER_03 56:10

Yeah, three or four years, but still I'm saying it's not longer than that. Has it been longer than that?

SPEAKER_00 56:15

Yeah, CarQuest has been a sub of because I know they were part of how long's Mikey owned CarQuest? It was before Mikey owned it.

SPEAKER_03 56:23

I know, that's why I'm trying to. I think it was a year or two before Mikey bought CarQuest. Shit, I thought that was high school. I think it hasn't been that hasn't been that long?

SPEAKER_01 56:32

No, no, it hasn't been that long. I think Mikey's owned it for no more than two years.

SPEAKER_03 56:41

So maybe four or five that I it's not been that long ago that Advanced bought CarQuest. Ellie said it was public. There could have been talks before that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

I thought it was long ago. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_03 56:53

So yeah. Tetanus is almost ready. Uh I got I want to get the toolbox for the truck with done before we go. Uh probably tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 57:04

Rental Jeep needs to get some stuff done.

SPEAKER_03 57:05

I'm gonna try to drive the rental Jeep home tomorrow night. And then I gotta drive customers in, I've tried to drive the rental Jeep back, and then we'll get work on that. So a lot of that's just small. So, like, fix it. A lot of it's like Geyer's wheelhouse. It's like rewire the fans, put the AC compressor in, charge the AC because I know Geyers gonna want AC.

SPEAKER_01 57:27

Uh how long ago do you did you think that uh I'm probably way off. How far off am I? It's definitely the plus years. Really? Uh Advanced Auto Parts announced its edition of General Parts International, the parent company of the CarQuest brand on October 16th, 2013. Holy cow! For 2.04 billion dollars.

SPEAKER_00 57:56

I thought I thought it was quite a while ago. Wasn't back to high school, but it was, you know, not far off.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

Yeah, that's a 13 years ago this October. Yeah, that was quite a while ago. Um that's according to Chad GPT.

SPEAKER_03 58:12

So O'Reilly Automotive, this is the one that just popped up that Ricky sent me. O'Reilly Automotive submitted an all-cash bid to acquire the automotive parts business businesses of Genuine Parts Company, for owner of Napa Auto Parts Network. The offer values the automotive division at 10 billion or more.

SPEAKER_01 58:36

And O'Reilly's offered them cash. So is Napa a private company then? I don't know how that works. I would imagine that there's franchises in there, but I think I think they are, but they're bigger than so. Then would all the Napas become O'Reilly's then? I don't know. That's if they change make them change.

SPEAKER_03 58:55

Sometimes they do that. All the all the car quests didn't become advanced.

SPEAKER_01 58:59

If they're private, that's if they're privately owned.

SPEAKER_03 59:01

You know, like even the ones that are even the ones that were franchised, they didn't switch them unless they wanted to. That was my understanding. Cause Scott stayed.

SPEAKER_01 59:11

That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_03 59:12

Like that was there's some advantages to be under being under the the the franchise, like you know, when they want to do the because like technically, I technically a car quest has to honor the advanced price, but I don't know, there's some weird thing in there.

SPEAKER_01 59:32

You can you can like get on advanced auto, buy all the shit, and do pick up at CarQuest. Yes. Um, because like Mikey does all their their oil change, their fucking oil change deals with fucking bonds. Like the last three or four oil changes I've done, it's whatever oil you want in whatever quantity, and whatever oil filter you want for 30 bucks. Wow, I think they put a cap on how much like eight quarts or something, but like I get six quarts of zero W40 mobile one and their top tier oil filter for 30 fucking dollars.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:10

Not bad. I see your charger for a second.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:13

No, no, like you just want to look at it. Well, I have plugged my phone and it's just gonna die. You just want to be like, you just want to see you have it over there, like it's I still want it dead.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:23

You can even charge your watch if you needed to. Where are your puffer? Where are your puffer? The charger downstairs didn't charge my spare puffer, so we're down to one.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

Oh no, oh no, so we've uh flogged the dog long enough, the Molly, whatever you want to call it. Quirt, what have you been up to?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:41

Nothing.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

We've made them lit, we've made them listen for an hour to tell them, you know, probably the best best burning update we've had in a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:49

So earlier this week, I got a message from Chris said, Hey, look at these seats. That's a sweet deal. Oh, I forgot about those, yeah. So Chris on the old marketplace found a set of Corbo suspension seats, adjusted like adjustable, like leaning seat tracks, seat recliners, recliners, corbo recliners suspension seats for a JK. I looked up the pair of them. The pair $100.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

They go for 1200 new tracks.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:21

So they were purchased. Chris. So Chris grabbed them on the way home for. Now you've got seats. Yeah, we got front seats at least for El Moco. Um that will work with that will work with your harnesses and everything. Daddy Dave gave you. Daddy Dave gave you. So we got all that stuff ready to go. I think last episode we talked that I set a goal for myself. By the end of last week, my goal was to have all of the bottoms and sides for windows built. And we we need their button. Wah wah wah built and installed. Um, I worked all week every night. I made myself at least make one window, and I just kept working away on them every night. And yesterday I finished installing the last one. So all the main floor windows, done. Except for I beams, right? I mean, the my goal. So Kelly said she goes, they're not done. I'm like, well, my goal was to have the bottom and the sides done. I made a check mark, and it's a big fucking check mark. I count that. My goal is accomplished. The windows are done for that goal. That's part one of the window trim. This week's goal. It's like you got part one and part two. So this week's goal is to build I-beams for the windows and the remaining upstairs doors that I haven't built. I'm trying to get all the upstairs I-beams. It's a lot of them. I don't know if I'll get them all built, but I want to try to get as many of those built. So do you have uh the living room I-beams are done, right? Living room's done. And above the patio door. Nope, that one's not done.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:59

So it's just the windows and doors in the living room.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:02

All the doors upstairs, like into the rooms are done.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:06

On both sides.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:07

On both sides. So you just got the two windows in your office. Two windows in my office. The four windows in your bedroom. Four windows in the bedroom. So that's six above the kitchen window. Seven, above the door, laundry windows eight, laundry rooms nine, and then the closet door, like the closet and the hallway door, the pantry door on both sides, the 10, 11, 12. And the patio door. 13. So there's 13 of them upstairs.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:37

I think you're a motherfucker. Like I'm gonna need someone to help one night. One of the nights, I can come out and help you out. We'd all come out. I'm gonna need help one night.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:47

I was gonna make them all the same.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:49

Maybe you can just bring Pepsi's out. They're all a little bit different. I would say what I would say, as long as they're all within, like, oh, that's a 28-inch window. I would find a magical number that fits all of them and cut every fucking one of them the same. Well, the two bedrooms are. The only person that'll know are your asshole friends. Right. That'll know that they're oh, that one's an eighth of an inch shorter than the other one.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:14

I don't know what we did when we put the three windows, like the extension jams into three windows and above the bed. One of them we fucked up on. Oh, really? Really? I mean, no one's gonna be able to see it with their eye, but it's a quarter of an inch wider than the rest of them. Is it the middle one at least? No. Fuck. I know. But I don't think you'll be able to tear the wall out and start over. You're not no the window's the same. The windows are all fine, but we put the jams in with the shims and everything. We must have got too many shims on one of them compared to the other ones. I don't know. What were we drinking when we were doing those baby fart?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:56

Is that does a queer does a queer nail blow tires?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:02

Does a frog with a heart on a duck with a heart on drag weeds? Come on, we can keep going here.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:07

Yes, we were drinking. So wait, so the So I made all three of them. I measured one window.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:13

The box we made is too big on one of them. So I measured what the window that's the closest when you walk in the bedroom. I measured that one. I made three windows. I went to install two of them, and it's like, what the fuck? I'm like, oh, we're not longer, not shorter. So it's the but I already had to you have to build it. And so I'd cut I thought we built them away and started over.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:44

I thought we built all the extension jams and then installed them. We did. So like we built the box and no, we'd build we put them all in separate.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:54

We started to build the boxes and the first two didn't fucking fit, and we're like because we screwed them the wrong direction. It's like fuck it. We're going in individual pieces. So on one side, that one window, we we must put too many shims in because that window is narrower than the other two.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:16

Well, well, not a lot. It's a quarter. You were you were fucked, you hired the cheapest fucking help you can find. I'm aware. I don't know. Those beers were expensive. I don't have a lot of beers.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:28

Mexicans might have worked cheaper.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

But um anyway, they you can't tell from visually looking at them. By the time you put hang curtains on either side, you know, whether they're open or closed, you'll never see.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

She's doing like inside. Uh so when I ordered the inside shades, I'm gonna have to make sure to measure that one. Hey, to make sure they all work.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:48

You're gonna have all that new bedroom furniture, nobody's gonna notice the window being off.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:51

By the time you get the window, no one I don't think anybody's got an eagle eye enough to tell that window's that much better. By the time you get the whips and chains hanging up there, like I really don't think anybody has an eye that's calibrated enough to tell the minimal difference. He's not here, but I bet. I don't know. You there's nowhere in that room you can stand and look at them straight on.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:09

You can't reference it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:10

You you know what I mean? You can't stand, even if you stand in the in the doorway to the bathroom, you can see them all, but I don't think you could I looked. I stood there for probably an hour trying to find if I could tell the difference. How wide are they? Because I was almost ready to cut cut the jam out and redo it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:28

How how wide are those windows? Are they 24s? Something like that. Because they're like 24-inch square windows, right? They're oblong, they're only like oh yeah, they're they're yeah. Um, yeah, you'll never see a fucking quarter inch over two fucking feet. Right. Yeah, I couldn't tell a difference. I'm like when you can't look at the the one next to it straight on, right? You'll never notice the difference.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:53

You can't get close enough to look at them straight on. So they're all they're all good. But anyway, those are done. So then I'm gonna start working on the I-beams.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:00

I need help one night running the what my father-in-law would say, good enough. Oh yeah, I'm I'm happy with them.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:07

Everything looks like it's just basically, but don't pee in his yard.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:12

I keep forgetting to bring that up to him. I was gonna ask him like Rick, so you didn't like the guys pissing in your backyard. I never peed in his backyard. Chris and Brad did. They were well. I said I didn't know. And then I started thinking I'm like, right where you guys were pissing. That's like he if he's sitting in his recliner, he's looking at you pissing in your back.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:34

I was like standing in the fucking.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:37

You were just about fucking Charlie Brown right into the tree.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:41

Homer Simpson.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:42

Yes, Homer Simpson. Thank you. All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:45

Final words uh set yourself a goal, a small goal, an achievable goal, and work towards it. Because you'll feel a lot better when you check it off. Yes, you eat an elephant one bite at a time. And yeah, so that's the biggest one. I've I've been putting this job off for three years because it's like it felt like too much, and I got it done in like a week. Isn't that the weird part? The it wasn't even a week. Like, seriously a couple nights, I only made one window a couple of nights. So I just was not in the fucking mood. But I'm like, I told myself at least one window. Right. I have the AC on the garage, it's not so bad. Caleb walked into the garage, he goes, Holy shit, your electric bill's gonna suck. I'm like, why? He goes, It's colder in here than it is in my house. I'm like, I don't like be I don't like sweating when I can't wait to have AC in here.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:33

That's the biggest thing that's held me back from doing stuff. So it's like that what you were talking about, what I tell my students all the time, and some advice that I could take myself a lot of times as well. Okay, is you are spending more time avoiding what you need to do than it would have actually taken to just do the job. Like, I I I can't think of a specific example right now, but like trying to take something off of a car and they don't want to fucking take the front bumper off to get there so they'll fuck around for fucking for fucking 45 minutes. I'm like, guys, it'll seriously take you fucking five minutes to pull the front bumper off this once you decide I have to pull the front bumper. Right, right. I had the front bumper off my car with fucking Amish tools in 20 minutes the other day. I spent the front bumper.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:24

I spent more time setting. You used a wall, huh? You used a wall uh the wall, he's um he's hand tools. I used I used hand tools, I but like an uh like a real ratchet. We have a collar, but yeah, setting up the saws and everything in the router to do all that stuff took the most time. And once I got that set up, like every piece was easy. You know what I mean? Said everything set up ready.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:53

If we want to do that, then I need to do this.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:55

Yeah, because I'm gonna hold it up here. Let's end this and go over to Patreon.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:58

All right. Caller, are you there?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:00

Yes, sir. What's happening, Captain?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:03

Well, if it's not Ricky of Rico's garage or Rico of Rico's garage.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:08

Either way, it's fine. So nobody watches that show anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:12

We're we're we're gonna slum it with just holding the the speaker to the to the microphone here.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:19

You are live, live in person on HTG.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:25

Uh, is it an invoice? We're not on the Patreon yet. We're getting ready to go over there, so let just hang out a minute. All right, okay. I I have some final words in the uh Spirit of America.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:41

Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:44

Uh this is actually a t-shirt my mom bought for me that I have cherished for many years. Don't wear it much anymore, but I was going through the Is it threadbare? You've worn it so much. Uh no, that's why I don't wear it too much. But it is starting to get a little tattered. But on the back, it says the strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government by Thomas Jefferson. And uh these times are I'm thinking so some of these elections you've seen makes you wonder. We were talking about the what's that our word, Court?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:32

What you want? There's a million.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:33

The one we were talking with Adam earlier. Retard. No, the good one.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:37

Rest rest prosperity prosity. Yeah. When you can your permit or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:43

Your permit supposed possibly could become good everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:46

I thought they had a national one now. Not yet. Not yet. Oh, they don't. It's not yet. So um, but no, I saw a guy, it was they were talking about, you know, like Second Amendment rights, and like, you know, everybody was like, you know, why you always need all those guns? Why you need so many guns? You're never gonna use all of them. And then it was like this theoretical, like, you know, everybody came to take the guns. Was that no?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:11

It was the revolution, the civil war, the modern civil war by AI?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:15

No, well, I don't think so. Okay, maybe, maybe this is part, but the guy was like, Well, you know, uh, you know, it turns out all those people that said that I wouldn't need those guns, they were right. I only needed one to take care of all of them. Yep, that was the one that was that the one that was the one.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:35

You know who sent that to me? My mom.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:39

Fucking mom's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:42

So I'm gonna wrap it up with one more. This is my favorite one. I share it every year at Fourth Joy. You're celebrating today because regular citizens had military grade weapons.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:54

And because they were pissed off about the increase of 3% on their fucking tea. And we're sitting here looking at a fucking 25% increase on our tax, and we're all sitting there going and flawed cameras and and they're buying fireworks, they're paying taxes on fireworks to celebrate not paying taxes. These motherfuckers burnt fucking boats out in the fucking water for over a three percent freaking tea tax. I think and here we are taking it in the ass going.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:22

I think I've seen it said best. Our forefathers would be shooting by now. Oh, they would have been shooting a long fucking time ago. With that, happy Fourth of July.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:31

A day late.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:32

One day late. Two days late, technically.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:34

Well, depending on when you listen to this, they won't hear it until Monday.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:38

Unless I stay safe, unless I do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:40

Drive fast, take changes.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:41

We've got Ricky on the phone. We're gonna talk about some special stuff coming up on the Patreon. So what is it, Court?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:48

Uh, if you want to join the Patreon, it's less than your daily vice. Yes. I don't have any daily vices. I have weekly vices.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:57

Yeah, I have hourly vices.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:00

With that, take care. We love you all. See you next week.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:04

Later, goodbye.