Left lane drivers and shitty politicians.
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Hello folks, welcome back to the Straight Forward Farming Podcast. I'm your host Tony Reid alongside Nick McCormick as always. Look at us just banging these podcasts out. We're back. One after another, man. We are on top of it. Absolutely. Yes, sir. So what's new in your world?

Nothing too exciting. Took a little quick family vacation down to Florida, as did you. Yep. We weren't super far apart. Now, shoot, what were we? 30, probably not even 30 minutes? No, I think it was about an hour. Well, with traffic and whatever, probably about an hour. But yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Didn't see her talking to each other the whole time? No. Hell of a deal. Well, no reason to visit then, Tony. We're only two miles apart here. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yes, sir. I tell you, you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to get me to move to Florida. You really wouldn't. No, I do love it down there. I do love it. It's nice. Just the drive back and forth, which is not a bad drive other than...

Nashville can be Nashville, and I love Nashville as a town. I do. But all those interstates coming together, depending on when you hit it, you can be there for a while. Yep. And then the left-hand Larry's, I'm about to the point to buy a single-stack Mack with a window in the back and a push bar on the front and shove those bitches to the median. Yeah. It should be legal to pit maneuver them assholes. Just shove them in. I cannot for the life of me understand...

They got to quit paving one lane or the other. I don't care which one. Yeah, pick one. Put rumble strips in the left-hand lane the whole way through so people are naturally inclined to get out of there. I don't grasp it. I don't either. If you're driving slower than the flow of traffic or driving under the speed limit, what are you doing in the left-hand lane? Yep, I agree. I realize as soon as you get over to the right hand, somebody comes up and you're pinned in behind a truck, whatever, and then that guy's trying to pass somebody at 64 and three-quarter and he's running 64 and I get all that.

Get the hell out the way. Yep. I cannot take the left-hand Larry shit. Yep. I'll have to make a TikTok on this. You can ask my boy, hand him the Bible, wife, they was all in the vehicle.

So, when we were coming home, we got north of Nashville, and apparently there was an overturned semi. We knew it was some sort of wreck. It said it on Google Maps, you know, a wreck. But it reported like five hours ago. And I told the wife, I'm like, well, that's got to be a semi or something. And so, sure enough, we get four or five miles from, you know, traffic starts slowing way down. Pretty soon, we get to basically a stop. I mean, you're just crawling, you know. And it took us like 45 minutes to go four or five miles. Yeah. And so...

Right before you get to the crash site, within a quarter mile of it, they had cones in the right-hand lane and then a truck sitting there with an arrow to tell everybody to get in the left lane.

Couldn't pull it off. Yeah, we were just too long. We'd been in the left lane since it started, just inching along. And I didn't know anybody was around anywhere. All at once, all I hear is this thump, thump, thump. I'm like, what the hell? And, I mean, this car squeezes in. I mean, he wasn't three inches from the front of the wife's van. Mowed down a whole row of cones and completely cuts in front of us. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. So...

We get through the construction, or the accident site. As soon as we come out, I just nail it and get around this guy. I mean, I'm hanging out the window flipping this guy off. I'm like, you cocksucker, you know. And so...

We get up the road another half a mile, and then he comes up to try to pass us again. I'm like, nah, fuck this guy. So I just mash it, you know, and keep him pinned in, you know, between the cars in front of us. We finally get all dicked around. I'm in the left lane then. He's right on my ass, so he goes to the right lane. So I just jerk it into the right. I shove the guy clear off the fucking interstate, clear out of the rumble strips into the fucking grass, and he still goes around in some passages. I'm like, you asshole, you know. There was no sense in what he did whatsoever. I mean, no. I just saw it yesterday.

We went to get some more school stuff, so on and so forth. So we're on the interstate, and there's a little bit of a rough patch. So the semi was in the left-hand lane for no real reason other than he was avoiding the pothole because he probably drives that pretty regular and knows they're there. Okay, so we're past that, and he's still in the left-hand lane. So this car that I'd been jacking with for a little while,

In the left-hand lane, it has to pass said semi in the right-hand lane. As soon as it gets past the semi, for no real reason, it gets back in the left-hand lane. I'm like, you're in the wrong lane. There's no reason for you to be in the left-hand lane. I realize you have a Land Rover, but you're in the wrong lane. It just drives me up the wall. It literally just tears me up. Like, I want to pass a couple of laws.

One, if your fleet semi won't run the posted speed limit, you can't run the interstate. You're done. I'm not saying you've got to run 70, but if that piece of shit won't run 70, you can't be on the interstate. You're done. And back in my, when we went, tractor pulling a lot, I never speed in a semi. I don't do it. It's not my thing. Especially in Illinois, it's 70. That's plenty fast enough for me in a semi. I'm good. But you could spend all day long passing goddamn minivans, no offense, because they're in a single one of them, as far as I've seen, that can run the speed limit.

I'm not asking you to speed. I'm just asking you to run the speed limit. So then next thing you know, you're in the left-hand lane passing this damn minivan that's running 64 for no real reason. Yep. And now you're blocking up traffic, so on and so forth. Just drives me up the wall. Yeah. I don't understand it. And we've all seen it a hundred times, the two trucks that are both running 67. Yep. Nine miles. Here's my other bitch. Just because you want a camper doesn't mean you should buy a camper. If you've got a freaking Ford freaking Ranger or some goddang...

Ford Explorer or whatever, you shouldn't be pulling a camper. Agreed. Every one of those assets, they're just weaving back and forth, about to skate off the road at any given moment, which I understand why they're not driving any faster than they are because they can't. Stay off the interstate. Save your money. Buy a bigger vehicle. Agreed. You clearly can't pull a camper with your shitbox Toyota Tundra or whatever piece of shit you're trying to pull it with. Until you can afford a three-quarter ton to one ton pickup truck, don't hook onto a camper. Agreed.

Get your happy ass at work, save up the money, and buy a vehicle that will actually pull the damn camper. Yep. That's what gets me, too. Like, my father-in-law is an over-the-road truck driver. And, like, he says, you know, one day your truck will run 67, the next day it might run 71, the next day it may run 62. I mean, just, it's all over the map. You know, they just change that shit from the office based on fuel economy. And I'm with you. If you're not going to, the speed limit on the interstate, the maximum should be 70 and the minimum should be 70. Yeah.

If you can't do it, if you want to run faster than that, that's fine. But if you can't do the minimum, if you can't run the posted speed limit, you can't run the interstate. Agreed. Oh, you got no offense, but you got these educated idiots that have never driven a semi in their life. And your father-in-law and I talked about this one time. They wanted him to break going down hills. They weren't allowed to run at that time past 65. Let's say it was me, even though the speed limit was seven and they wanted to break going down hills to stay under 65.

But I'm not going to break the speed limit, and then I've got that much more energy to get up the hill. Nope. Break going down saves fuel. That does not save fuel. I don't know what college they sent these people to, but it was not one of any value. They should give their degree back and pay the money back, and I should not have to pay for their college because they clearly didn't learn shit. Agreed.

The faster you go down that one, the easier it is to get up the next one. And they're not even going to be speeding when they get to the bottom. But they want them to brake all the way down and stay below 65. Is this whole speed deal, is this more of an insurance game? I think it's all bullshit mileage. Any good businessman is going to tell you that time is money. So let's just figure out over the course of the year. I don't know how many thousands of miles my father-in-law drives a year, but he runs to North Dakota at least once a week.

So just figure all these miles, well, how much quicker would he have got the job done if he could have run that extra 5, 6, 7, 10 mile an hour? I think it's your classic deal of you've got people making rules and people making policy that have never dead the job. I'll take it a step further. If you're a cop giving DOT tickets but you can't drive a semi, you can't write a ticket for that. I agree. If you can't do that job, I don't tell people how to fly airplanes. You know why? Because I don't know shit about flying airplanes.

So I don't make rules for that. They want to fly over my property? I don't stand outside with flags in my arms, waving them down, being like, hey, land here. I think maybe you were going too fast over my property. You need to slow down next time you're going over it. I don't. But maybe I should. Cops, people making policy for truck drivers, same way. You know it's not being mean, but you know it's some guy on an office, because I know for a fact that with your father-in-law, the conversation I had with him, it was some guy on an office that...

She knew what a semi was because she worked for a trucking company and that's as far as it went. She had never sat in a seat, never pushed the air brakes in, never drove up a single mile. Not a mile, let alone thousands of miles. But she was convinced that they needed a brake going downhill so that was going to save fuel.

Now, as a matter of fact, honey, it won't. Yeah. Yeah, so let's burn the brakes off this thing once a week and then just see how that works. So all the fuel we save, we're going to put back into brakes. It's just mind-boggling how we let people with no real skill sets run the world. I mean, for our entire life, the speed limit in Illinois on the interstate was 65 for cars, 55 for semis. Talk about a shit show. That was a nightmare. With two...

sections of vehicles going to different speed limits. And finally, nightmare as dumb and communist as Illinois is. They figured out and said, fucking everybody just go 70. Yeah. And then when we did that, Illinois or Indiana said, no, we're going to back ourselves. We're going to split it. You guys, we had it the way you want it, but since you guys passed it, we're going to, we're going to flip it the other way. Absolutely mind boggling. Yeah. Yeah. I just do not get it. If you can't do the job, you should not be able to make rules for people that can do the job. Agreed. It just boggles my feeble little brain.

Which doesn't take a lot, but there's some simple things there, and it just blows me away. It's no different than when I made that TikTok about going to South Dakota there a week or two ago, and I'm not knocking law enforcement. Somebody's going to take this the wrong way. Some of my very best friends are police officers. I got pulled over for a 67 and a 65 on a six-lane interstate, and that's fine because I was clearly speeding. You got me at two mile an hour over. I was speeding. I'm not saying I wasn't.

But don't be bitching about getting hit along the interstate and getting mowed down and traffic safety. Yeah. Because the entire city of Sioux Falls was good to go. Nobody beating their wife. Nobody doing cocaine. Nobody doing nothing. The whole city was good to go. That was the biggest problem we had that day. Yep. Absolutely. Two mile an hour over. Yeah.

that's my meanwhile i could have followed that cop who's probably running 80 for the last 10 miles playing on his computer on his computer and jacking around doing whatever yeah yep i'm not knocking law enforcement i'm truly not i've got a lot of good friends i love law enforcement at some level but let's use our head but yeah let's let's yeah i can think of well i'll just be quiet because it'll come back to bite me in the ass but absolutely it just

It just floors me on where we're at on some of these rules. But you look at it on the big picture, I'm like, we're literally, our choices now, and we always say we don't want to go down the political path, but we always do. But our choice now is a guy who has run multiple businesses very successfully versus essentially a low-rate call girl who's never run a business of any fashion who a month ago

Was essentially completely useless to the world. Yeah. Now the media is trying to prop it up as the greatest candidate ever. You wouldn't hire her. I mean, you would hire her above her boss. Yeah, because once again, a leech who's never done anything on his own ever. No. Politician his whole life. And as old as dirt and can barely function. And I say barely in the loosest terms.

And now you're going to put his underling in there who has never ran anything, done anything, made anything, produced anything ever to run the world's largest economy. Sounds like a great plan. Do you know why you've never heard shit out of Kamala Harris over the last three years? Because she's fucking dumb. Yeah, exactly. Just shut up. Just be quiet. Same thing they did to Biden when he was vice president. Hey, try not to talk. Exactly. You're not really smart enough to talk. We hired you to...

to appease a demographic, but we really don't want any of your ideas because they're really not that good. Yeah. Yeah. But now, now she's, I assume mother Teresa's pretty much moving out of the way. She's pretty much better. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Yeah. We're in a sad way. I tell you, I just, it just seems like they're the common sense. Put politics aside. If you had the choice between those two candidates to run your company and

Hey, you're going in. You've got prostate cancer, whatever. You've got to pick somebody to run your company while you're going to be in the hospital for four years. Who are you picking, him or her? Yeah. It ain't her. No. Hell no. And that's what kills me. And I haven't heard it so much now because I've just swore off politics totally. But I heard this clear back when Trump was elected the first time and even Obama, you know, all through there, you know, when you get somebody that's kind of an outsider, you know,

That's one of the first excuses people from both sides of the aisle use. Well, you've got to have somebody with some experience. Okay, so what has all this experience gained you? We're $35 trillion in fucking debt. It's just an absolute shit show in Washington, D.C. So we need somebody that's a part of that. Let's go to Obama's experience, right? Yeah, exactly. So when he was an Illinois senator, he was barely there. And then he became a U.S. senator and voted present when he was there.

And then he had all this experience. Yeah. My dog can do that. Exactly. Like, and probably do a better job of it. Like, he'll piss on a few bills that probably need pissed on. Yep. He's a pretty smart dog. That's why I still think that was a setup too, though. Oh, absolutely. You know, let's just vote present. That way we can't, come campaign time, we can't say you went either way. Yeah. It's just. Yeah, you were just in the middle. Yep. In that happy spot in the middle. Yep. Yeah. It's a joke. Absolutely. Well, I did see one the other day, and this is a little bit.

Mind-boggling. And I'm going to mess the numbers up here, so don't hold me to them. But it was like the first time in 40-some years there won't be a Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Biden on the ballot. Well, that'd probably be right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because I'd go clear back to 92 when Senior got... Yeah. Well, before... I mean, he was vice president under Reagan, so I'd go clear back to 80. Yeah. So, yeah. It had been quite some time. The numbers are off. I don't remember the exact... But it's been a long time. And I'm trying to think...

And I could be wrong. Well, no, I think George Bush ran in a primary against Reagan but never officially got to nominate you on the ballot, I think. I don't know. H.W. is the reason that Reagan wasn't on it instead of Gerald Ford, was he not?

Could be right. I'm pretty sure he was the guy that squashed that. Yep. Think how much better the world is now if Reagan runs in 76, when he's a little bit sharper, a little bit younger, et cetera, and we don't have all the stupidity that Jimmy Carter brought to the world. Yeah.

Well, so what's the, speaking of Jimmy Carter, the motherfucker has been on hospice, hospice since February. My dad made it a day and a half. Yeah. Jimmy Carter's been on it for the better part of my life. Yeah. Anybody else around here that I know say they've got cancer, whatever, you know, a little bit, go out, they called hospice in. It's like, well, you know, this ain't gonna be long. And you know, a maximum, maximum two weeks. Yeah. Maximum. Must be some good ass hospice where he's at. I'd say so. Yeah. What a fucking failure. Yeah. Yeah. No doubt.

How about old Mother Deer laying off all these workers? That's got people in a tizzy. That does have them in a tizzy, and I got to say that I kind of saw that coming. Yeah. You know, I mean, as soon as they signed that union contract, they started moving shit south. Yep. And they're going to continue to do that. Yep. And it's amazing, though, how much they control the market. Let's just take combines, for example, which, you know, the combine market is clearly, clearly falling out of bed right now. I don't know if any of the listeners are following that, but, I mean, we're talking...

200 000 off asking a little discount but how much of that shit is deer involved in even at the dealer level you know they prop that shit up to keep used you know that's always their big selling point you know that well you're john deere stuff it'll hold its value better than yeah you know i mean they were buying 9500 combines and they did that with 50 or 60 series as well yeah yeah that whole deal is a shit show well i

They control a bunch of that because they can. And, you know, when's enough enough? You know, I talked earlier, not on the podcast, but just me and you BS and like Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Case IH, Deere, whatever, you know, boost however many billion per quarter profit. Okay. But they got to lay these guys off.

I mean, maybe they do, maybe they don't. You know, like, it seems like $2 billion would go a long way. To me, it does. It seems like it would. I totally, a thousand percent, believe in capitalism. I truly do. I think it will always sort itself out. But the problem is now is we have crony capitalism. Absolutely. We're picking winners and losers. To me, in capitalism, it's a fair opportunity. It may not be a fair playing field because maybe you inherited a bunch of money or whatever, but we have the same opportunity to...

Go do whatever. We don't have that now. You've got government picking winners and losers, and it's a shit show. You know, and we go back to what we talked in the last podcast about history and how we don't learn it too much these days. It always repeats itself. I see deer going eerily down a similar path to international harvest at some level on, well, I mean, we got in this fight with the union and...

And we're going to do this and we're going to do that. And then we're going to move stuff, you know, whatever. Back when the International did it, they didn't have the opportunity to move it south. That wasn't a thing then. But those guys, those union guys, they would. And I'm not 100% anti-union, but in a lot of ways I am. Sorry.

oh, my gosh, we're going to fight for this. We're going to fight for this. Oh, we don't have a job at all? Yeah. We were still on the right. We didn't want $35 an hour. $37 was our number. Now we don't have a job at all. Yeah. Where did that get you? Were you better off at $35 with a job with full benefits and good pay? Because the problem with the union is, in my opinion, from what I see of it on my side of the fence, the union's agreement with...

with companies and the world is, okay, we're going to provide this superior workforce, right? Highly trained, fully functional, doing a great job, and you're going to pay us extra and you're going to provide us great benefits. Sounds great, right? But then the union kind of became a

a protection place right yeah sure this guy's an alcoholic and he's a dipshit and he does a half-assed job but you can't fire him because we got we got a guy for that and he was gonna he's gonna fight you on that we got a union steward and he's gonna go to the go to the nth degree to keep that guy this other guy's job there's a shit bag he should have been fired two years ago yeah we had you and i had a friend clear back when we were 16 years old working at a company that was

He was in the union, and I'm not going to say he was a big union guy, but he was in the union, and he was out of sick and vacation days, and he said, I'm calling in tomorrow because I'm going duck hunting or whatever the hell it was. Swore to high hell he was, and he did, and they fired him, and it was within two weeks, union had his job back. Absolutely. And that's where it falters. If they live up to their end of the bargain, those companies would pay them extra for that. From what little bit I have gathered from people that I know in the ag world,

When all that went down with Deere and this, that, and the other, they had management doing this, that, and the other. Management went in and finished up these planters, those combines, so on and so forth. Because they always end up with a unit here or there that got something wrong with it, right? We've got to bring them back in later and solve this problem. To my understanding, from what little bit I know, and I don't have all the facts, I don't have the dragnet, just the facts, ma'am. Turns out management was better than that than the union guys that had been doing it for 25 years.

Maybe they're not that good at their job. Yeah. You know? I get it when unions first started years and years and years ago. Oh, absolutely. It had a purpose. Absolutely. Look at it now, though. I mean, back then, you know, there was workers that were truly mistreated. But now we've got OSHA, EPA. I mean, you've got layers and layers and layers. All this bullshit. And these guys are, not all of them are doing that great a job. And they're getting by with a whole bunch of bullshit. I mean, take it locally here. We used to have a bull on ox plant in Mattoon, Illinois, which is 20 miles from us.

Talk to anybody that used to work there. What do they tell you? Well, the farmers that worked there, the damn that worked there for free. Why would they work there for free? Well, they stole enough cylinders and hydraulic hose, throwing it over the fence that they come up pretty good. If they didn't get a paycheck at all, every piece of equipment they had had new hose on it and new cylinders and this, that, and the other. Okay, well, I mean, that's bad enough, but that couldn't have been that much. You end up at a stopping point. Well, yeah, I mean, there's that, and there's the fact that

You know, where the contract was written, we had to produce so many units. So if we had, you know, had to make 50 units a month and we had 10 that were messed up, they had rented a warehouse on the other side of town so those had technically shipped to

They'd move them over there, broken, and then they would bring them back after the first of the month and then try to get them fixed so they could actually ship them to use them. We can only do that so many months until everything's stacked up, packed up. Agreed. Screwed up, and then it was like, well, to hell with it. Just close it. Tell a story about your dad. Years ago at Yellow Freight, went out of business a year ago. Absolutely. Worked at Yellow Freight. This is in the 80s, or early, or 70s. Yeah, late 70s, early 80s. Had a depot in Effingham, Illinois.

Eventually, they get a new CEO. It's like, you know, if our trucks can't make it from Indianapolis to St. Louis, we're probably doing something wrong. We probably don't need one in the middle. Now, the short-sighted part about that was stuff was so much cheaper in Effingham than it was in St. Louis or Indy. They'd probably been better off to close one of those. Right. But remember, like you said, how your dad would go in and... Yeah, like, so on holiday or any day, you can only work on three trucks a day, I think, as a mechanic. Three trucks a day. So if you change three light bulbs on the first three trucks, you were done for the day.

You couldn't go home, but you couldn't work on anything. Dad's like, that's the best sleep I ever got. Because they were, you know, like, I physically couldn't work on anything else. Like, and you could, they had all kinds of stupid rules. So, like, mechanics couldn't drive trucks into the shop. They had guys for that. Had to be a driver. But they would drive them off in the pit. They'd get nervous going across the pit, and they'd just drive them off in the pit. Well, now you're waiting for a wrecker. So he's like...

You might get to your shift. You just clock in. You grab your first wrench waiting for this guy to pull his truck in. He drives off in the pit. You spend your entire shift waiting for this truck to get out of the pit because somebody drove it off in there. You couldn't put oil in a truck. They had an oiler for that. Well, that guy goes to take a smoke break while he's putting oil in his truck. Next thing you know, oil's running out of the top of an 855 Cummins onto the floor. But you can't turn it off because that's not your job. Yeah.

So that guy comes back in, realizes it's a hell of an oil mess. It's not his job to clean it up. He has to call a cleanup guy. So you're standing there the whole time as a, at that time, probably a $20 an hour mechanic. Let's just call it $20. Yes. Standing there literally, thumb in your bag, watching the oil run out of the top of the motor, but you can't shut it off. And you can't get a hold of the guy because there's no cell phones. This guy's outside. And you can't clean it up because the floor drag guy hadn't shown up yet with all his cleanup stuff.

You spent your whole time standing there just literally watching bad shit happen. Couldn't do anything about it. They'd fire a guy. They wouldn't even fire the guy. The guy would get pissed off. He'd have his truck in wherever. Take a pocket knife, brand new truck, and just cut the interior out of it. Dad told me, he's like, I used to get so mad at those guys. That truck had 10,000 miles on it.

You're going to spend your next two weeks putting new interior in this truck because this guy got mad and just took a pocket knife, just cut the seats, cut the dash, just destroyed it because he was mad that day. Had a shitty day. Wanted to be home with his wife. Somebody dispatched him and said just call it off or whatever. He drove it part way, said to hell with it. Somebody picked him up. He just left it. So you got to send a guy to go get it. It's trash. You got to bring it back, fix it. Just stupid shit like that. And if you think Yellow Freight was eating that, you're sadly mistaken. I mean. Well, they tried. They tried. Yeah. Didn't work out. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, I see what, like you said, it's like, I loved holidays. Nobody wanted to work them. Right. You paid double, triple time, change a couple light bulbs, call it a day. Yep. That's all you had to do, you know? And then they closed the plant down for obvious reasons. Yep. But...

But that's nationwide. Like, that's the local – that's one group of stories were heard from one guy. Well, I mean, I've heard those same stories because there were several guys around here that, I mean, a lot of my dad's friends. Yeah, my dad actually worked there. To this day, yeah. I mean, there's a ton of people around here that worked on it, and they all tell you the same stories. Like, that's just one small pocket of U.S.,

That was happening everywhere. Yeah. It's no wonder those companies lost money. I'm probably more against the public sector unions. Like if Yellow Freight, UPS, whoever, you guys want to have a union, fine, that's a privately, I mean, I guess it could be publicly traded. But you know what I'm saying? That's not taxpayer funded. But like the firefighters union, do you know any private firefighting companies? Because I don't. No. So you've already got a monopoly. You've got the market cornered. So why do you need a union? Yeah. I don't understand that. I'm with you.

Doesn't make sense. Nope. And that shit is all geared or not all, I'm probably speaking way out of turn, but you know, we seen all that shit happen out in New York city, you know, after nine 11 that you

Your pension was based on your last three years or whatever. So guys that just beat their time in and not do shit in the last three years, they'd live at the firehouse. Yeah. So their pension was jacked way up for the rest of their life. And I just think that's bullshit. Well, we've seen with the teachers union too. Oh yeah. You pre-announce your retirement two or three years in advance so you don't get cut on the next. Well, so-and-so is on her way out anyway. We're not going to cut their position. Yep. Even though revenues are down, whatever, blah, blah, blah.

And it ramps up, and then they get a nice little pension out of the deal for essentially nothing. My thing is on a bunch of that stuff, in the real private sector, that $80,000 job's a $35,000. For sure. And my thing is, too, the guys that are just big, diehard union, okay, when your house needs a roof, are you getting union labor to do that? That's the guy that wants to pay somebody cash on the side. Yeah. Yeah. They return the favor. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah.

Funny how that works. Yep. So, anyway, now that we've pissed all the union guys off. I don't mean to go down that path. I'm not trying to say that they're all bad, but they're not living up to their end of the bargain as a whole. Right. They're not providing the superior workforce that they need.

Got established just to provide. Like you and I are no bullshit. Like if we know this guy's lazy and he is not doing his job and he gets fired, we're like good riddance. Yeah. Where them guys are like, oh, you can't fire him. That's fucking bullshit. Yeah, exactly. Fuck you. He was doing nothing. He was doing nothing. Yeah. You know, it's a shame that that's how the world is these days. And that's the reason a bunch of shit gets moved somewhere else. Yeah. Because they're not as hard to replace as they claim to be. Yep.

I'm just more put out that there is no patriotism, no sense of community. And I don't mean to sound like a socialist. I'm not. But it's a me world. I'm only worried about me. If I've got to run over you and your family to make $5 and screw you, then I will. And I'm not wired that way. No, I'm not either.

you know, you see it all the time. It was salt in the Olympics, you know, like they just ended here yesterday or day before, whatever it was. You see it in some of that, like just, it's just sad, you know, like,

I still love this country. We've got our flaws. We're still the greatest country in the world. If you don't think that, piss off. I'll make that argument all day long. I can point out all the bad stuff about the U.S. We're still better than anybody else. And let's put it this way. If we could cut Washington, D.C. off and the idiots that run the show, it's definitely the greatest. Absolutely. But that's our biggest fault is them idiots. Yes. Because we've got to a generation of politicians...

That have never been in the private sector. They're not statesmen anymore. They're not doing it for the greater good. They're doing it because that is their career goal is to be a lifelong politician, which you should not be able to do. No. You shouldn't be able to do that. Nope. Like, if I'm going to rewire your house, you want your house rewired. I'm not going to do it. Let's say you want your house rewired. Would you hire a lifelong guy that has done driveways? No. No. But let's say this driveway guy...

happens to own an electrician company. You think you're going to get the best electrician work out there? You're going to have a lifelong electrician do it. Right. Probably the guy that has done some electrical work. Yeah. Probably better than the driveway guy, right? Yep. Probably better than a plumber, so on and so forth. But in a political world, we've got these people that have done nothing more than find the best way to squeeze money out of people. Every politician goes in as upper middle class to lower uber wealthy and comes out

Just rock star wealthy. Yeah. With $180,000 a year job. Nancy Pelosi, best investor in the history of the world. Way better than Warren Buffett, this, that, and the other. By far. By far. Just kicking ass. That's not possible. No. Other than you're taking shit on the side. Yep. You know? Agreed. It's just, it's so frustrating that...

You know, you and I bitch about it and we talk a big game that, my God, I'd kick him in the ass, give him the chance, blah, blah, blah, whatever. We're not doing anything about it, neither is the rest of the American public. We're more likely to do something. We're insulated enough in our small little world that we just let it slide because we're mediocrely happy in our tiny little world of small town USA. But it's such bullshit like it is.

You see the saying all the time, like, you know, it's a picture of George Washington. He's like, me and my buddies have been stacking bodies by now. I ain't wrong. Like, a little bit of T-tax, piss off, we'll start our own country. Agreed. Meanwhile, we're 10,000 times past that. We're like, well, you know, we'll go ahead and put up with it for a little bit while longer. You know, we're going to vote for DT, and he's going to.

He's going to make America great again. He's going to make it better, but he ain't going to solve it. The roots are way too deep. The only way to solve it is to get way, way. Sometimes things have to get real bad before they get better. I've always looked at it like an alcoholic. Most alcoholics, you can tell them, hey, man, you need to quit drinking. No, I'm fine. You need to quit drinking. No, I'm fine.

They'll wreck their truck three times. No, I'm fine. I got it under control. But until they finally hit rock bottom to where the family, the wife, the kids, everybody says, we're out. I'm done. I'm not dealing with this anymore. And they basically almost killed themselves in the final car wreck.

they might hit rock bottom and say, well, I'm going to change. Yeah. Until we reach that, it's, you see it all the time on social media. Oh, civil war's coming. Revolution's coming. No, it ain't. You can't get two people in this country to agree on what color the sky is. No. Let alone to, hey, let's try to make a big difference. It ain't going to happen. It is not going to happen in a million years. Look what COVID did. Yeah.

Oh, I can't cut your hair. Don't take my license. They just told you that you're going to die in three days if you don't get the vaccine. You're worried about your haircut license, which you shouldn't even have to have a license to do anyway. That's the ironic part that I've seen through the whole thing. Everybody else is like, well, they don't want to lose their license. I'm like, you mean to tell me that we even have to have a license to cut hair? Yeah.

Yeah. And my wife, well, we argued about this or not argue, but during COVID, I'm like, why is nobody cutting hair? Well, they're afraid you're going to lose your license. I said, well, tell me how many people, you know, that are doing hard time in Folsom. Yeah. Due to not having a haircut. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, we got Jeffrey Dahmer and we got this guy that cut Harry illegally. Yeah. Same cell. Yep. Oh, you're a badass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't make sense to me. Like. Yep. Wouldn't you just love to roll into some super max prison? Big old tough guy here. Yeah. What'd you do? I murdered six people and kids and everything else. What'd you do? Cut hair without a license. Yeah. You want to take it outside? Yeah.

You and me, outside, right now. I mean, come on. This is so stupid. Why we are regularly... It's no different than fishing. I have a fishing license. Oh, that money goes towards conservation. You tell me the last time they spent any money on any conservation within 25 miles of my house. We have a federal lake here. That money don't go anywhere but into somebody's pocket. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Where we're at in Florida, there's a 2.5% tax for arts and entertainment.

I don't know who they were arting and entertaining, but it sure as hell wasn't me. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't happening. Yeah. It boggles your mind on that. Until this country realizes it is us, the working man. I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, part of the letter people, LGB. I don't care about any of that. Until you realize it is us against them, it's never going to change. Never. No. Nope. Absolutely not.

And at some point in time, you realize that one guy with a whip cannot control 400,000 people without one. And I guess you just keep taking the whippings. And I'm just as guilty as anybody else. Oh, I am too. But have you ever noticed when you watch these war movies, and maybe it didn't happen this way, maybe it did.

But like towards the end of World War II, you'd see one U.S. soldier walking down the road with a rifle and 3,000 Germans all marching. It's like, well, why don't you guys just take this guy? But they didn't. But they didn't. And that's where we are. We're marching down the road. Because the Germans knew it was better. We're going to ship them back over here and start them up farming. Exactly. Better over here than it was. We'll go ahead and be your prisoner. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. It is frustrating. And here's the other thing I see on a somewhat related but unrelated note, and you and I have talked about this. You know, we go to pick our kids up from school, and high schoolers today just look like little pencil weight, little pipsqueaks. I just saw it on vacation. Like, I pointed out to my kids, and I hate to be mean like this. Don't take this the wrong way. Somebody's going to, but I don't really care. Hello, sir. What would you like to drink today?

And I'm not saying they were part of the latter people. I'm just saying that the average male these days is just a little white and a little further. They're just not fucking men. Like, they're not going to storm the beaches of Normandy. I point that out to my kids. I'm like, there was a group of young adults. I won't call them men. A group of young people with penises together. I'm like, they're in three of those guys together.

They could pick up a suitcase weight together as a group and throw it in the back of my truck. Yep. They ain't storming the beaches as shit. They couldn't storm the beach of Florida and get me a cold margarita. Nope. If it was frozen in the machine, sitting over there, and somebody needed to pull the handle. Like, all the bartenders were my age. Like, they literally, there's just an age gap there. Those guys can't do shit. Like, they could maybe set up an umbrella. Agreed. Maybe. And I'm not picking on the people of Florida or anything. It's the same way around here.

For the most part. But I'm like, I just don't understand how we got to the point of there's just a bunch of panty waste. Like, if you go back. It's just mind-boggling. From our little school here that don't even register on the map, if you go to 1985, open the yearbook to the senior year, the guys in there got mustaches, big old chops, beards. Like, we have feminized the world so bad now. I pointed this out to my wife. We went to Nashville a year ago, two years ago, whatever it was.

She wanted to go to this fancy-ass mall, whatever. Okay, I'll take you. And it was nothing but these young gentlemen pushing strollers while their wives made all the decisions for them. And they pushed the stroller. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pushing a stroller. I push my kids in a stroller, too. But I'm like, these guys couldn't make a decision if you gave them an hour and a half to decide what they wanted at the McDonald's drive-thru. Like, they had to ask their wife. They literally lacked the ability. Because their father failed them in turning them into a man.

They were wearing nut-hugging shorts, and they're not Larry Bird. Larry Bird could wear those because he was a badass. These guys were in a mall in freaking downtown Nashville. They were all wearing slip-on shoes because somebody just couldn't tie their own without their wife telling them how to do it.

It just baffles me. I'm not saying I'm Chuck Norris or some Billy badass. I'm not saying you got to be this just jackass asshole. No. But I'm like, at some point in time, you got to be able to just grab yourself by the boots and be like, you know what? Piss off. I ain't going to do what you tell me to do because that ain't right. I'm going to make my own decision and do this. And we got a whole bunch of people in this country, particularly males,

But they can't make that decision because they don't want to make their girlfriend mad. They don't want to make their wife mad. I'm not saying that my life goal tomorrow is to make my wife mad. I do have plenty of shit that my wife asked me to do. But my wife's also from the old school, and she knows there are certain things. There ain't no reason to ask me that because it ain't going to happen. My wife will tell you right now, and don't misunderstand me. I'm not no rocket scientist. I'm not no jack-of-all-trades by any means, but...

She'll tell me, she's like, you don't hire anybody to do anything, do you? Like, it don't matter if it's fixing something in the house, running water lines. You know, sure. When it comes to stuff that's above my pay grade, building the shop, I didn't build that myself. I don't tackle shit like that. But as far as pretty much anything else, I'm going to do it myself.

That's just the way it is. And you talk to some of these other women like her age and like their husbands can't do shit. No. Oh, we got to air the tire up? Well, shit, we got to hire somebody for that. It's like, how do you survive? Yeah. I don't understand it. To me, look at the risk that puts on your family. I mean... My thing is like, take a little pride in yourself. One of the best things I ever saw, and I'm not saying Jesse James...

The motorcycle builder is my role model because he's got his own problems. But I do think he is really good with his hands, this, that, and the other. And I remember distinctly one of his episodes back when those shows were, like, super popular. And I did learn a ton of shit from, you know, when American Chopper and some of that stuff, like, originally came out. Like, back when they were actually... Before it was the Tuttle Gang fighting and throwing chairs. Before it was completely made for TV, back when they were doing stuff with their hands. Jesse James D'Ulisley is like...

Don't anybody can remember the checkbook can hire somebody to do that. Like grab a book, watch them, watch a show, call somebody, go meet them, whatever, have them teach you, figure it out. Like learn how to do that yourself. He built the one bike out of, I think it was when he built the bike out of copper or whatever. And he learned how to pound that out, whatever, whatever it was. It doesn't matter now. I'm like, you know, that's a very valid point. Like there's some things like, yeah, I could hire somebody. It might even be easier.

And I'm a firm believer is there's people get paid to do certain things that they're good at. So I hire them to do the things that they're good at. And people hire me to do things that I'm good at. Agreed. But there's a, there's a middle game in there somewhere that you got to play a little bit. Otherwise you never gain any more skills. I can't carpenter for shit. Same here. I know that about myself. Nails ain't my thing. Wood ain't my thing. You want to weld it together? Yeah. I'm all about that. I'll weld your house together. I ain't going to nail one together for you.

But I can do enough shit with wood. I can staple a fence to a post because the good gods at Milwaukee gave me a utility stapler. Well, they didn't give it to me. They charged me handsomely for it, but that's the only reason I agreed to that project because that stapler's badass. But some of that shit, like, take a little pride in yourself. Like, learn how to do some of that shit. Like, back to our kids in the generation of Cantlett, they're the first ones to tell you, well, I can't do this, can't do that. If I told my dad from the time I was 15

five till a year ago that i couldn't do somewhat of a menial task got a tony llama right to the rectum absolutely no questions asked no well son do you think maybe we ought to go to a library and check out a book you watch a youtube video on it no it just been a straight kick to the ass here just two weeks ago working on this tractor your son has been helping me on it trying to get ready to go for bowling green this weekend coming up and i want to get done before i went to florida

So I'm working late at night. A mutual friend of ours has come over, and he's helping me. So we're taking a break. We're getting towards the end of it. We see light at the end of the tunnel. And I flat told him, I said, you know what, Brock? He's like, what's that? I'm like, you know how much easier life would be if our dads had raised pussies and quitters? Yeah. I'm like, I just told my customer, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and go to Florida, and I'll try to get done when we get back. But if I don't, I don't. No. No.

I freaking went to the shop every god dang day early and stayed late till it was done. Yep. Now it might shit to bed this weekend. It might not, but it ain't going to be for a lack of effort or ain't going to be the fact that I quit because I physically could not leave until it was done because that's just how I was raised. My dad didn't raise pussies and quitters. Agreed. Just wasn't, just wasn't what he was about.

So, and I inherited that and that, and I can't think of a better trait for him to push forward on me than that. Cause you see these kids now, like they ain't storming the beaches in Normandy. They're not doing any of that shit. Like I never stormed the beaches of Normandy, but my grandparents generation did.

And they came out okay, and they didn't have PTSD. They said, you know, if they did, they drank their way through it. Exactly. You know, that's how that generation pushed through. They still managed to build America. They built all the bridges, all these structures, high rises, all this shit, start clearing land, farming, so on and so forth. They didn't sit around and whine ass around about it. Yep. They didn't form a goddamn union and piss and moan and wait for these benefits and

Got to get out of government. No, I got to get a subsidy here. They're the said, no, they just put on their work boots. They went to work. They didn't have cushy insoles and they didn't have the right t-shirt for it. And I said, and they just did the goddamn work. Yep. And nothing pisses me off anymore. More than the fact that sometimes people, there's 10,000 ways to get out of work. It's more work than just doing the damn work. Yeah. Just do the work. Bill Belichick. Just do the work. Yep.

You're not wrong. I won a lot of Super Bowls just doing the work. You're not wrong. Because everybody else, we can't practice today and we got something going on. Bullshit. Just do the work. It's not that hard. Yeah. You're exactly right. To this day, nobody in life has ever asked me to do a task that I couldn't pull off if I really, really, really wanted to get it done. Now, you might have to call somebody to help you. You might have to enlist some friends. But you can get the damn work done. Yep.

You might not have the money to finance the project, but the actual work can get done. I still say, if you want to know what the problem is, my dad and your dad, we've had this conversation a hundred times. They raised us a lot, a lot. Very similar. That was just the way it was. And what their key was is they were motivators. Yes. And they might have motivated with their fist, their foot, the belt, the yardstick, whatever. Yeah.

But they were motivators. And if you don't believe me, take the military. How can you convince a whole group of these guys to run into live fire and take that hill over there? Because they motivate the dog shit out of you. Do they not? That's the only way they do it. They don't grab you by the collar and drag you through. They don't shove you through. They scream and yell in your face. They motivate you to run into live fire in front of this fucking machine gun and take this hill. Absolutely.

And that's just the way it is. Absolutely. I kind of parent the same way a little bit. But I get results. You go ask my wife right now. She can tell the kids, hey, go outside and do this, this, and this. There's going to be pushback. There's going to be whining. There's going to be an hour. And nothing's going to get done. I can walk up there and say, kids, go do this, this, and this. And within 10 minutes, it's done. And it pisses her off to no end because I'm a motivator. She motivates by reasoning. I motivate by an iron fist. That's just the way it is.

But I get results. Nobody won a war by reasoning out this, that, and the other and talking nice. You know, guys, let's sit around this fire for a minute. Make a s'more and let's talk about this hill that we're going to take tomorrow. No, that's not the way Patton got it done. Nope. That's not the way Dick Marcinko got it done. That's not the way that Norman Schwarzkopf got it done. No. He got it done by pure brute force. You've got two choices. Do what needs to be done or...

Or I'm kicking you in the ass. Exactly. Turns out, I had this conversation with my daughter years ago. Her and my wife had got into it about something. And it was a bigger deal to my wife than it was to me. But we're a unit. I back my wife 100%. It was a big deal to her, so it's a big deal to me. And her and my daughter were battling out on this deal. I said, get in the truck. We're going to go for a drive. Because I had something to go do anyway. So we debated it for 20 miles. I finally told her, I'm like, look, here's the deal.

You can either give in to my way and be nice and apologize to your mom when we get home, or I say, I'm going to pull this truck over. I can stick my foot in your ass and get it done. I'm like, now, do you think when I was growing up that my dad took me for a 20-mile drive to debate this? Or do you think before we even got anywhere near the truck that he booted me in the ass, kicked me over the truck, met me on the other side, kicked me again, made me wax the truck, filled up a fuel, changed the oil, and then kicked me again to make sure I did a good job? Probably did the latter. I'm like, yeah.

So I can either have my truck waxed, full of fuel, ready to go, or we can keep driving. But eventually, we're going to get to, my truck's going to be waxed, full of fuel, and I'm going to kick you in the ass. Or you can just apologize to your mom. You've got two choices here. One's real easy for you. The other one's real easy for me. I can solve this in 30 seconds, or we can keep driving. Yep.

But eventually, the ass-kicking's getting further from home, and I'm going to kick you all the way home. Agreed. And I'm not advocating child abuse. Don't get all wound up, people. But I'm just saying, at some point in time, spare the rod, spoil the job. Agreed. And my kids aren't perfect. They screw up plenty. Mine do, too. And I did, too. And my dad, I'm sure, didn't think I was listening to any. But the last several years he was alive, I pulled all of his old sayings out. Because that's how I dealt with it at some level. Right.

He would be, you know, I mean, it's something about something. I would tell him, I would tell him he needed, you know, go here, there, wherever, wherever.

well can you mac quest that for me i'm like goddamn kids don't know how to get anywhere because you're always asleep while driving around don't know where we're going and he would laugh and we giggle together hey can you still print those i'm like mac quest quit like 10 years ago but i'll i'll try to find something similar to that agree i'll get you where you're going you know whatever yeah but uh he actually embraced the digital age more than most people his age yeah but uh

Yeah, there's some genius in that. Like I say, it comes back to the military. They just kick ass and go on. Agreed. If you don't believe me, read Rogue Warrior by Dick Marchenko, one of the most badass guys the U.S. military has ever seen. Yep. Founded SEAL Team 6, and read that book and see how he trained those guys. Now, I'm not saying we all got to be trained to take a hill. Sure. At some level, we're taking hills. They can be anthills. They can be mountains. Mountains.

Are you convinced guys that are putting strollers around the mall and they're asking their wife, my hokas are just a little bit dirty. Is there any way that you would allow me to buy a new pair? No, you don't have to ask for that shit. You know, you're supposedly the breadwinner of this deal. Like maybe just grab yourself by the panties, make a decision for yourself. Go fill the minivan up with gas by yourself without having your wife's for her fucking debit card and just get it done.

It's just ridiculous anymore. Yeah, we're in a sad state of affairs, I tell you. Ain't it funny? I see all these pictures and shit on Facebook now of, like, these baseball, Major League Baseball players from, like, the 80s. Yeah. Look like real fucking men, you know. They're like, yeah, this guy's 25 years old. He looks like he's 45. Nolan Ryan, bleeding out of the nose, still throwing strikes. Yeah.

It kind of comes down to the Jason Aldean, I think, has a song that says, let your boys be country. Yeah. Something along those lines. He ain't wrong. No, he's not. Let them do some of that. Let them be men. It's okay. Yeah. Yeah. He's not wrong. Sometimes people need punched in the face. Yep.

I need it from time to time. I've got it from time to time. That's okay. That's kind of the problem nowadays, too. You know, everybody's a big bad keyboard warrior. Yeah, everybody's a badass on the internet. You know, back in the day, you just got the fuck knocked out of you. And that was as far as it went. Now everybody's a big tough guy until you get in person, then they don't want to say nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So, I guess my moral of the story is, let your boys be a little bit country. I agree. Let your kids...

Let your kids experience a little bit of pain here and there. Let them endure that a little bit. Let them work some of that out. And don't be scared to let them deflay a little bit. Yeah. And I'm still under the impression, and I don't do this to my kids. The wife probably does a little bit, but I don't helicopter my kids. You can't shelter your kids. You can't. Bad stuff happens.

You know, we've been through this community, but it don't matter. That's no way to live. If you're going to shelter your kid and be up their ass and won't let them do nothing, I wouldn't want to live that way. I mean... Let them live life a little bit. And, you know, sometimes bullying ain't all that bad. I agree. Bullying solves some issues here and there. Let them get their ass kicked once in a while. Let them kick a little ass once in a while if need be. Like...

You know, I've had this conversation over the years, different situations going on at school or whatever, so on and so forth. Everybody's a badass until you get punched in the face. Agreed. Sometimes you can just solve it that quick. Yep.

A bloody nose solves a lot of things. It does. It does. Nowadays, these poor kids with cameras up their ass everywhere they go. Everywhere they go. I feel bad for them. I do, too. Like, when we were kids, somebody was being a real jackass. Somebody punched him, kicked him, shoved him down, whatever.

They didn't do that anymore. And back then, nobody saw nothing. Didn't see shit. Now, oh, we got to run to the cameras, see what happened. Of course, you don't get no audio with the cameras, so you don't get the fact that this kid was jawing you the whole fucking time. Exactly. You go back to the old sports days, Larry Bird was a trash-talking sumbitch. He could back it up.

You know, nowadays, well, you know, this guy did this, that, and the other. Okay, well, what did you say to him before that? Well, maybe you deserved it. Agreed. Yep. I watched a thing here. I think that's when he was on vacation in Florida. I come across it one night. I think. No, this was when I was in South Dakota. But I think it was on HBO. It was Pete Rose. I can't think. It was a big documentary. It's on HBO Max. Okay. And it's Pete Rose.

I'm going to say the legend, but that's not right. But it's Pete Rose something something. It was a two-hour documentary with Pete Rose. It was actually really good. Show them back then. That's how they rolled back then. Absolutely. Fists flying. But then the next game, everybody was buddies or whatever. Nobody took it personally. My favorite sports clip ever is when that guy charges the mound. Nolan Ryan grabs him and just headlocks him and just beats the shit out of him. Yeah.

And went back right to throwing strikes. Yep. Have you seen that documentary? Go around and find out. It's called like Facing Nolan or something. I have seen it and that's great.

And he talked about the money that they made back then. It was nothing. No, like literally he pitched all of them games and like worked a side job. It was nothing. Never blew his arm out. He's doing 100 mile an hour all the time. In fact, on that documentary, had I not known it was about Nolan Ryan, I wouldn't have recognized him. I mean, it doesn't look anything like he did back then. Just doing a little ranching in Texas. Yep.

Yeah, that's crazy to think, you know, that he was never able to get on a good team, you know, to actually win a World Series or something cool, you know. Yeah, never won a Cy Young. Yeah, unbelievable. A man he could fucking throw. Yeah. My favorite one of those is, like, something along the lines of they're going to mess up the numbers. But, like, after doing this, Nolan Ryan can only throw 5,000 more pitches, blah, blah, blah, strike out X number of batters. Careful, young pitchers, you'll hurt your arm.

He trained his arm throwing newspapers. Yeah, no pitch counts or nothing. Just let her fly. Just throwing smoke. All them guys. Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling. Was that Randy Johnson that smoked a bird that time? Randy Johnson did smoke a bird. Of course, he's a big son of a bitch. He is a big son of a bitch. He's like, what, 6'7"?

He's pretty tall and he's blanky and yeah, he could throw a smoke. I actually seen a picture of him next to Nolan Ryan on Facebook here a week ago, like back when they were both still playing. I mean, yeah, he just towered over Nolan Ryan. He could throw. Yes, he could. Yum.

Yeah. Instead didn't raise no candy ass. Ain't it funny, though, how when we were kids, you had like a pitcher in baseball like Fernando Valenzuela. I mean, the guy must have weighed 250, 300 pounds. I mean, just a great big old brother. What are you trying to say, Tony? But that's what a pitcher looked like back then, where now it's this tall, slender guy, you know, that's all muscular. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah, sports have definitely changed. Yeah, that's for sure. And I don't know if it's for the better or the worse. And I don't follow sports. I truly don't. I mean, when I was a kid, I did somewhat. Because, like, it was a big deal when you got three channels and the World Series was on. You watched it, you know. Yeah. But, I don't know. Things have definitely changed. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The moral of the story is...

Let your boys be country. I totally agree. There's nothing wrong with it. Let them get dirty. Let them make some bad decisions. Let them bust their knuckles. Some of those decisions aren't that bad. Sometimes people need kicked in the ass, Tony. No, I totally agree. I need it probably at least once a week. My brother used to tell me years ago, I'm going to beat your ass once a day for the shit that dad doesn't find out about that you do.

I'm going to take that on. His role was to beat my ass once a day to make sure. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black because I know your brother. Who is kicking his ass for the shit that you're not going to know that he's got? He was getting by with it, but he did kick my ass quite a bit until I outgrew him. Thank God. It's just survival. Yep. But some of that, like, back to our points earlier on, these skinny-ass bitches that can't really do anything, part of the reason people grew to how they were

was work. You look at those old guys' hands. Even a small guy, they just had massive hands. Just thick fingers because they'd done work. Yep. Just rough. I mean, it felt like sandpaper. Yes. And that's because they did work. Like, now you've got these guys that the next thing you know, they're 85 years old and they're just these thick fingers and they've got these little pencil-deck hands and they can't do anything with them. Because you never did anything with them back when you could have done anything with them. And I'm not saying this is wrong at all. I'm not saying

But, like, it seems like anywhere you go to get a vehicle worked on now, the mechanic's wearing rubber gloves. I cannot fathom your dad wearing rubber gloves to work on a motor. I just, you know. I'm not saying it's wrong. Never saw it happen. He did die of cancer. But I don't think rubber gloves are going to save him from that. No, I don't think so.

I didn't phase him. Wasn't about to do it. I can do Jack and shit with gloves on. You put gloves on me. You might as well just put me in, put baby in a corner and tie me up. Cause I can't do shit. Same here. I cannot do anything. My thing with gloves is most of the time, by the time the guy that's supposed to be helping you gets his gloves on, I've got the shit done. I can't do it in gloves. Not going to attempt to do it in gloves. I don't get cold. I don't get, I do get hot, but I don't get cold.

To hell with it. I'll get it done. I'll put gloves on afterwards as we're walking back to the shop. Like, I ain't doing it in gloves. And it's funny. I've seen actually some old-timers that are actually long dead and gone now. I mean, they put gloves on for everything. Yeah, they did. I can't do that. Gloves ain't my thing. And those nitrile gloves, one, they don't fit me in any way, shape, or form. Completely grenades. Can't pull it off with this equipment. Can't put them on. I've got them tore. I've got a hole in them before I even get them on. So what's the point of the glove?

They don't make those for me. One of my number one bitches is a snap-on guy. He was always trying to sell me gloves. I'm like, all right, cool. Let me try these on. Well, here you go. Those aren't man's gloves. You're looking like OJ Simpson. You can only get it to half. I'm going halfway. I'm like, who are you selling these gloves to? He's like, well, I sell a bunch of them. I'm like, to who? Yeah. You're not selling them to men or like you swing them by the grade school and sell them to the girls cheerleading squad because these are not for men.

And the part that I don't understand with the whole gloves, the mechanics gloves and all this bullshit. And I'm, I will never claim to be a mechanic of any sorts, especially nothing like you. But half the time, if I'm, if I'm Claire cocked around in somewhere, putting a bowl in a weird spot, I'm doing most of that by feel the feel of your fingertips. Yeah. Not doing that with gloves. How the hell can you do that with gloves on? That's why mechanics are great lovers, Tony. They can get their hands in places that most people can't. There you go.

There you go. Just saying. Is your wife going to concur with that? Well, we will not ask her that question. We're going to stay far away from that. Yes, sir. Yeah. I don't know. It's just funny how times change, though. I don't get it. But the only thing I've ever wore gloves to do is baling hay. Yeah. Which was about a necessity. But outside of that. Outside of that, I'm good. I just can't do it. Snowmobile.

Which I haven't done in years because it doesn't really snow here. Thanks a lot, Adler. Yeah, climate change. Yeah, but yeah, I don't wear gloves much. Not my thing. No, that's about the only time I do is if it's freezing cold out. You know, me and the boys deer hunting or something. If it's really cold, then I will. Yeah, if you're not working. Yeah, just... But I don't care if it's 35 below, though, and I'm outside and I have to do something, I'll take the gloves off. I'll wear them up to the job, take them off, do the job, put them back on. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Yep. And that, and they don't make gloves like they used to either. Every glove I get within three seconds has got a hole in it. Yeah. For no reason whatsoever. So I don't know. Yeah. Yep. Frustrating. It is.

Well, we've kind of been around the world on this one, too. A little bit. Started out. Hope you guys enjoy this deal. We're doing what we can. Hope to see some people bowling green. Tony will not be in bowling green, so don't ask me. I'm getting a t-shirt made that says, Tony's not here. Have a shitty day. Yep. I fully intended to go, but I just cannot get away. I've been from South Dakota to Florida in the last two weeks. Got to go to Iowa next week. Totally get it. But I will be there. Look me up.

I will not have gloves on more than likely. Yep. Sounds like things go right. You could be going down the track. I will probably go down the track at some point, whether it's on a Kubota or a pulling tractor, but I'll be going down the track one way or the other. There you go. But we'll have a good time regardless. Yep. It was a good time last year. If you've never been to Bowling Green. Look me up. I will drink a beer with you. You need to go. I'll try. Yep. So anyway, thanks for tuning in. We will see you next time. Later.