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[00:00:03] Speaker A: Where are they?
[00:00:04] Speaker B: They're probably upstairs.
They never answer the door. Oh, wait, it's Monday night. They're on the second floor.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Hey, guys, welcome back to the show.
Thanks for joining us. Like, share, subscribe, whatever it is you
[00:00:29] Speaker B: do, it really helps us. Yeah, really helps us.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: It makes a. Makes a big difference as we're getting this thing going and taking off. How's your day?
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Pretty good.
It was a Monday. It was definitely a Monday.
It was one of them days.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: I didn't have a Monday. What kind of. Kind of things made you want.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Anything we touched went wrong today.
Anything you could think of? We blew hydraulic lines, we blew coolant lines. We've blown everything today.
So it's been a pretty rough day, but it's all right.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the end of the day and it's.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: We're over. It's over with this time of day. There's a new start tomorrow.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Our day's all right. We didn't have any kind of catastrophes or anything major going.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: So that's. That's good.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: So it worked out pretty good. So what about, what about your hobbies? What do you do?
And you're. Of course, you know, everybody knows.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: We're.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: We're friends. It have been a long time, but why don't you tell the viewers and listeners some things you like to do?
[00:01:29] Speaker B: Well, let's see the toy stuff and
[00:01:34] Speaker A: all that stuff y' all do. Make sure. Oh, the toy.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Toy run. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: That's big. That's a big deal.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: We.
I guess my biggest thing is, is first. And, you know, I do like getting out and hanging out with family, going to mountains. I like that a lot.
But a lot of times on Sundays, my family rest and I like getting on the motorcycle and going riding.
And I've got a group of guys I ride with. Awesome group of guys, and they usually pick a run every week or, you know, go somewhere and whether it be to waterfall, to wherever, you know, but we ride and we do that all year long and then we have a toy run that we do.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Has anybody ever had any wrecks on their motorcycle trips?
[00:02:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: We've had it. We've. Yeah. Well, I mean, we used to ride. Like when we first started doing all that, like, we were.
We were pushing at times, we was pushing like 20, 25 bikes on the weekends. And it was crazy because we had some of us that was just chill, laid back, just wanted to ride motorcycles and we had some other guys that wanted to burn the world down.
So but now, now it's, it's, it's, it's four or five of us and it's a lot, whole lot
[00:03:00] Speaker A: calmer.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Calmer. Yeah.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Take your time. More. Yeah.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: But we, we raise money all year long, personally. We raise money all year long for the toy run that we do in Loudoun county.
And we put that on this year. We done. We was able to help 750 kids this year.
And it's just us that put it on, which we are backed by like friends of the community of Loudoun.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: That's amazing. When you told me that, that it's gotten that big and helped that many people.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been in. This is our fourth season. I've been a part of it for four seasons. So all four years I've been a part of it.
But collectively throughout the year, we'll throw in some money in the pot and then at the end of the year we go out and buy toys for the kids and we kind of have a little competition between the fire department, police department and then friends of the community and us. And we all try to drive as much toys as we can, but we don't do just that. Like we did two families this year too, for helping two families. We spent more than we've ever spent on them. We put it back into the community, into Loudon. We put in right in $13,000. That's what we've done this year for
[00:04:17] Speaker A: them now, isn't there? I thought somebody told me that you guys were getting a vehicle.
Y' all had sold or gave vehicles to needed families.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: So the guy that, the guy that puts everything on Steven, he does. He actually done his own vehicle this year. He raffled his own vehicle off.
Yeah.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: How much money did that thing raise for people?
Hopefully it was at least worth the cost of the vehicle.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: It was the cost of the vehicle somewhere around in there. It done good.
But he even had it. He even had it to where if we sold 250 tickets, he was giving his, his personal Mercedes away. He was going to give it to a family in need.
So he was actually going to give two vehicles if we sold, which we were. I think we sold 180 ish. 160. 180 tickets. We've done pretty good.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: See, that's a good thing you do. I mean, that's, that's a good thing. So I don't know that have anything that compares to that.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: I now I can't take a. I mean, I do. We do a lot of work and stuff. But he does. Stephen puts it. Puts it out there. He's. He does. He's the backbone of it. So, yeah, we're just the.
We're just the helpers or the little helpers. So.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: So you're obviously a lot of your time spent doing that, you know, throughout the year and.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: And sometimes I get a little guilty thinking, well, I'm leaving my family, you know, at home on Sundays. But I mean, what they do when we get back in from church is they go.
They go to sleep. They sleep for an hour or two. Everybody crashes on Sundays. I don't want to. I want to go. I want to go ride. So.
But.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Well, okay, what. So what else?
Like, I like to hunt and fish and golf.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: I've never in my life. I've fished, but I've never hunt. I've never went out and tried to kill anything. I've never done anything like that.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Ever hit something with your car and kill it?
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Not killed it. I have hit a deer with my car and it didn't kill it, though.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: No rabbits, squirrels, nothing.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: I mean, I may have hit. I'm sure back. I don't. I don't recall.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: I mean, cold blooded killer. Yeah, well, I mean, we.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: But I mean, you that's.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: I mean, you were my oldest boy. Loves it. He's ate up with it. He watches YouTube videos constantly. I mean, if and if he gets a chance to go outside, he's going to.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: He.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: We were putting in waterline yesterday. He was squirrel hunting the whole time, pretty much.
So he made sure to bring a gun with him, you know, so he. When I told him, he was relieved of his duties of helping me. He could go on squirrel hunt. Yeah, he could see if he could narrow down the population there for us. But I love to hunt and fish.
Basically anything outside like that we like to do.
We got Avery dirt bike this year for Christmas. So he's.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: How's that going?
[00:07:18] Speaker A: It's going pretty well. I mean, he's. Yeah, he's wrecked it a few times, but that's what they're gonna do.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they're gonna do that.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: We got. We got Reese four wheeler and he wrecked it the first time he got on it. Rolled it over on top of him, you know, when he was a little boy, so.
But yeah, so he got anything that puts them outside is what we want, you know, keep him off tablets and games as much as possible, you know. I mean, I feel like they should get some. Some of that time too, but.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, well, we did.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: Anything.
Yeah, anything that Pushes them outside.
Your. Your tablet. Time for coop came a little bit different, though. You had to find something to pass the time when you're.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: But we.
We fish. We like to go down to the river and fish and we fish the lake. Louden, too.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Polecat?
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Well, yeah, yeah, we fish there, but we've had a bunch of. A bunch of good trips doing that. Reese killed his first deer this year, so we, you know, he's just now kind of getting started with that. He's. He's dying to get down there to our. To our farm and to live, get a house built and all that. So he can. He thinks he can just grab a rifle and go hunting how he wants to, is what he thinks.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: But now, do you like in field dress them and all that at your house, or you take them butcher shop and let them do them or.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Well, so you. You've got to, You've got to, You've got to gut them. I mean, you gotta do.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. But do you. I mean, do you.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: No, we don't quarter them or do our own process.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Only reason I say that as I just got off the phone with my UPS guy and he was going to take off today, but it didn't work out. You know, they, you know, there. And he said that they just.
They. One of his buddies called him, asked him if he wanted an extra deer, wanted another deer. He was like, well, yeah, sure, you know, and he was assuming he was going to be off today, but he said that his buddy, he's like, oh, I ain't going to be able to. You have to figure something out for me. I ain't going to be able to get it today, he said. So he goes, he said his wife sends him a picture and the dude had already hung it in the tree for him, and his wife had already went out there and gutted it.
Got everything. Only thing he's got to do is get the ribs out of it.
She said, it's all ready to go. They didn't put it in the freezer.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah, so.
Well, no, we don't. So we don't do all that. That's why I say I've got a process.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: I mean, he literally lives off.
Right off of the Foothills Parkway, you know, pretty close. And so that thing's just hanging out in this front yard.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, you can do that when it gets cold enough, you know, that's. I mean, that's all you do is they hang in a cooler, you know, and let it.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Well, see, my problem, my wife, even if I Did like to hunt. I'd have to give somebody deer. She won't eat deer meat.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: Well, that's the way my wife was.
We're trying to change that a little bit and incorporate it more into our food. Normal stuff. So we got, like, you know, breakfast sausage made out of some of it. Some of it just ground up normal. We got some summer sausage, some snack sticks made, like.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: She tried. I don't know that she's really tried deer meat, but she tried.
She tried some bear meat some of my family brought to one of our Christmas dinners.
And I thought she was going to lose her mind when she tried the. I think it was in Chile or something. She just. The thought of it, she was just beside herself. That's why I don't trust your family and go to the. I don't want to eat that stuff, you know?
[00:10:32] Speaker A: So she's nearly a vegetarian or could be.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Well, yeah. I mean, she like. I'm like, you could definitely taste the wild in it. But, I mean, it wasn't terrible.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: I was like.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: It was still good. It was a little extra greasy, though.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: I was gonna say. I was gonna say I've had bear before, too, but everybody. Everybody says it's greasy. I don't. I don't.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: It was definitely greasy. It was definitely.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: I don't remember if I think that or not, because it's been a long time since I've had bear.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: But. Yeah, so she's like. She's anything that. That you could possibly go out and catch and hunt and.
Yeah, or fish. Even fish. She don't even like fish. Her papaw. Her papaw was like the.
He was the town's fisherman. I mean, he would literally go, where was that at? Oklahoma.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: I know what. I thought you was gonna say something around the coast or something. Coming in. Fishing boat.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: No, Oklahoma. Out there in Oklahoma. They're big fishermen out there. Her family's big fishermen. But her papaw, he used to be.
He'd go back, take 20, 30 fish back to town. Every day. It was every day he'd take fish. He'd done it every single day until got sick. And, you know, he's still.
He's getting better, but I don't know if it'll ever happen again.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: What kind of fish?
[00:11:47] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: I have no idea. We used to have a whole bunch of it. My wife made it up for me. It was in the freezer for the longest time.
They shipped it to us, and I ate all of it. So she. She don't like cooking and she don't like nothing about it.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: So we had to.
Reese and a bunch of his buddies up there camping this year up at Indian Boundary. We had to cook fish up there. They asked that morning, if we go catch fish, you know, can we. Will you cook it for us and help us, you know, fillet it and everything and cook it? Yeah. So we had yellow perch and bluegill, and I can't remember what else they had. Seems like something else they had in there in a. In a bucket, carrying around, full of water, lugging it around all day long. So we. We cooked it over a fire up there this year.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Good.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
Other day, I like some fresh fish. Me and Reese went squirrel hunting the other day, and squirrels drove me crazy this year. Hunting.
So anyway, we've decided to do population control on them this year after deer season, which is where we're at now. And they drove me crazy. So me and Reese went hunting the other day, and Avery asked me, daddy, did you take that squirrel? The processor?
I was like, no, don't do that.
So you just do that or something.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: You need to try some squirrel meat.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: Oh, I've had squirrel.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: I have never had it.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: I bet people make, like, squirrel dumplings and things like that. I won't do it that way. I mean, I may one day, but we're just now starting to get on the whole squirrel train thing and try to make use of the meat when we kill them, you know, so. But. Yeah, well, Reese's. Reese is big on. Eric sent me a.
Boom. Sent me a picture where his. He went out to his papa's and for Thanksgiving, like, it was like after Thanksgiving, though. But it was when they could do a meal together or whatever. And that's what he had was like a whole tray, like a big round tray piled up. You know, you'd have a ham sitting there, and he had squirrel all over. And then something else. I can't remember. Maybe dove or something. I can't remember.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: What is that be interesting.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Well, that's the way his fat Paul grew up. Like, trapping his way made money and, you know, hunting and whatnot, so.
But that's the way they grow up, so.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Grew up.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: So it was second nature to them. Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: That's what you're supposed to have.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. That's what we're supposed to be living
[00:14:10] Speaker B: off of, you know, thought of thought of it. I mean, I'd probably like to do it. I mean, I think I'd like to do it.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: You'd be quiet long enough.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: That's True. That would be hard for me to do. I do remember the one time I. This ain't no lie. This is the one time I believe I have ever truly been on like a fishing boat to go fishing. Was with my uncle when I was like 8 years old. I've never been on another fishing boat. Like to actually go fishing. And that was the one thing he said.
We ain't gonna catch nothing if y' all can't be quiet.
All wein's done is talk since we walked out the front door of the house.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: I don't, I don't care about the whole talking thing. I will tell raise to hush a little bit, you know, like quit talking so loud, you're scaring fish off or whatever. But it's really dropping stuff. That's a way bad thing with kids. They'll get in there and just drop stuff. It beads and bangs on the bottom of the boat. Drives me crazy. We got, we got.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: So now did you, when you had your boat, did you have a good like finder and stuff?
[00:15:04] Speaker A: I've got a boat.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: You still got one?
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got a fish finder on it. Ain't a good one though.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Okay, well, have you seen some? I mean, I guess you have then.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an inexpensive one, but.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Oh yeah, some of them. You can tell what they are sitting down in there.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah. No, we don't do that. We just go to our normal holes.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: And the UPS guy I was just talking about a minute ago, he had a boat like that and you could, you could literally.
He could tell you what fish he's fixing to catch down there. He could watch his lure.
He could pull it. I mean, that was. That's unreal. It's almost, it's almost ain't even right.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Yeah, now he's got a. He. He's got two screens on it. No, his is. He's got a high dollar boat. Oh boy. Right here is cheap.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: There's no bass tracker though.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Yeah, but them, them systems, I mean, yeah, they're nice, but no, Lord, no. We don't use. You know what I use mine for?
Literally just a depth. It's a depth. I use it just for death.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: Same thing on my boat. I've got one. I have no idea even remotely how to run the thing. I can just tell you how deep the water is where we're at.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: We like to shallow fish, but we bass fish. And it's fun. I mean, you know, because it. There's no. You're not waiting. It's not boring, you know. So Reese like. Well, you know, it's just cast and reel and casting, reeling. So. And we like to go in, you know, you bass fishing cobes and around the edges, you know. So we, we'll use. We'll use that dead finder literally just
[00:16:24] Speaker B: to see how far you can go up in something.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Basically just be careful, make sure you don't damage anything or whatever. But.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: Well, my.
I've got one of those, you know, it's probably that big, you know, probably something like that. And it's old too. It's an old like Garmin something or another.
And I took a video of it one day and I thought I'm gonna ask Ole.
One of my customers, Ricky. He's a professional fisherman.
Professional. Like that's all he does.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: Like he's sponsored.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: He is sponsored.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
Fishes all these tournaments.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Yep. And like he used to be construction and, and I never. I mean in two or three years he's, that's all he does. He comes in every great once in a while and, and works a day or two and then goes back out for another six months and fishes.
But I asked y' all took a video of that and he's like.
I was like, tell me what I'm looking at. He said I have no idea what you're looking at on that thing. That's what he told me. But I mean he's. He's got the. He's got three. He's got two right in front of him, you know where the steering wheel. Yeah. And he's got one out. Out where you sit out front. Yeah. And he's like. I was like, I didn't know. I mean, no, none of this stuff. And I was like those are nice. How much is those? He said that's about $10,000 in electronics.
$10,000. I mean they are. They look like
[00:17:46] Speaker A: 20.
[00:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah. They look like 20 inch TVs.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: And I was like oh my gosh. And he's telling me about his batteries in it. His battery. He's got some lipo something, another lithium, yada yada. And he said those is like four grand for his batteries.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: I was like, I don't even, I don't even want to go roll king by battery. It's still too expensive for me.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: That's, it's a. It's. I could be expensive.
I mean ridiculously expensive because it's bass boat. I have no idea how much that thing cost.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Probably a hundred thousand dollar boat.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it's high. You can Buy them four. But what I'm going to do is once we. Once we get settled in and get comfortable with cost of living and everything, after building this house, I'm going to buy me a new bass tracker.
I'm gonna buy me a brand new one. This aluminum job.
That's what I'm gonna do.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: That's what his was. I bought the UPS guys aluminum.
It was a V bottom. It was really. It was. Had a lot of room. And it wasn't like your normal bass boat. Like that professional fisherman. That was one thing he said from the factory. He said he could barely get that thing to where the water wasn't coming in the back of it. It sets low in the ground or sits so low in the water.
And then he went with those lipos and it brought it up like, oh. Cause less lithium batteries.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: Now how fast does that thing go? Did he talk about that?
[00:19:01] Speaker B: He said it's like 80, 80, 90 mile an hour for what it would run. He said, I'm pretty sure. He said, I'm sure on flat water. He said I could probably get a hundred out of it. But he don't. Only time he could. He said that he. It even goes fast because it's got like a.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Should be. When you take off.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: 300 Merc.
[00:19:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that's stupid.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: 300 Merc on the back of it. But that's why. That's why he said that it. It still has a hard time even. Even with those batteries in it. It's just.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Inches out of the water.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: And. But he said his is getting to your spot. He said when everybody takes. I had no idea.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: They blast off. That's what they call it. Blast off. So they all take off at the same time.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: You got to beat everybody there. Wherever you want to go. I just try to go to the places that nobody thinks of. Yeah. But I don't fish tournaments either.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Well, I thought it was pretty. I had no idea that it was that. That big. And I mean one of the dudes here locally that. That. That Ricky fish with, that guy fished with. He won a truck and he won a truck. He won a boat. He won like a whole rig from a fishing tournament right here in Madisonville.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Really?
Yep. Chickamauga's big to fish on. Everybody likes it.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: That's where he goes.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: Everybody likes fishing the bass.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: And my.
My wife's uncle from Oklahoma. That's where he fishes. And yeah, he comes up here and fishes Chickamauga.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: Really?
Me and. Me and my buddy Ward, we've always talked about going over there. We've never went. Gonna load up our boat and go. I got a new boat. I probably will one day, but. Probably go over and knock a hole in the hole.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: Well, around this area, they said. They said around. Around. Around this area right here, they said. Our. Our. Probably shouldn't even say this, but they said, don't eat the fish.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: In our water. Just go as far as you can go up upstream, up here or somewhere. You don't eat nothing around here.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah, there's signs that say that.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he. He recommends not any. I mean, there's a lot of people still around here that'll. They don't even think a thought about it.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Most time, though, it's catfish. That's why people are just catching and eating. I mean, they're not. I mean, unless you catch crappie or something like that. Right. You know, that's good eating fish. But ain't nobody eating bass, I'll tell you that. Well, I mean, I'd like to. Some of them probably are.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: But I go out on a boat like that where you. I can't think nothing worse is going out there and throwing. Because I've tried it on my boat, you know, and throw it out there four or five times. 10, 20 times. You can't even get a nibble off of anything.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: It's all about your tackle and what you're fishing with. That's probably the waters, the time of the year, the temperature, probably a lot of it. The depth. It's all they've.
By no means do I know what I'm talking about, but I know all that stuff matters, so. And we catch fish. I mean, Reese catches fish, I catch fish.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: I couldn't tell you the last time I caught a fish. I think the only time I caught a fish was over in my cousin's pond.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: You need to go fishing with me one day. But I ain't had that boat out but like once or twice since Avery was born the last four years. Yeah, I need batteries for it, and I probably need to put some tires on the boat, but I know a
[00:21:56] Speaker B: guy whenever you need batteries.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I know a bunch of them, too. That's the problem. Everybody's trying to sell batteries, so.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Okay, well.
Oh, well, I was gonna. Yeah. While we're talking about hobbies, would you ever. Would you ever entertain getting a motorcycle?
[00:22:18] Speaker A: No.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: No.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Okay, well, let me rephrase that.
Yes, I would.
Yes, I would, but no, I won't.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: I would entertain the idea, but I'll never get one. Okay.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: I Was just curious.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: No, I mean, maybe one day if the kids are grown and Megan wanted to ride around with me or something, but. No, I wouldn't. I would love to have one. I'd love to do it, but it's just too big of a.
That idiot went out there and got killed by another car. Now look at his wife and kids. You know, Megan's big on. On. No, it's too dangerous, you know, whatever, so. And it ain't. And you ain't got to worry about you. It's everybody else around you. Absolutely, you know?
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Absolutely. That's right.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: All the fools that don't pay no attention. So that's what you got to worry about.
And you get all these videos online and stuff where people are out doing crazy stuff on bikes, and it makes these young boys and girls that decide to get them get out and do crazy stuff.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: You got to have respect for them. I mean, you do have to have that.
Even when you're out there trying to behave and do obey the law and everything, you do have to have respect. I mean, they will put you down.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: It'll come out from under you.
Yeah, I know. I know it will. I've rode motorcycles before, but I grew up riding four wheelers.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: I rode one straight in your garage. You remember that?
[00:23:37] Speaker A: No.
[00:23:38] Speaker B: You don't remember that?
[00:23:39] Speaker A: No. My mom's and dad.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: You remember it, don't you? Surely.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: I just.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Your brother that had that.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: That dirt bike.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: No, the.
It was a Gixxer, like 600 with no brakes.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: He had so many bikes, man.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: With no brakes.
He told me, go out and ride it. And I rode it all over creation. Come back in your driveway and goosed it first gear. Not thinking that. I rode it all over the country.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: With no brakes.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: With no brakes. And when I come back up your driveway, your mom had just bought the 500.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Okay, that's a long time ago. That was 05.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: And I went flying up through the driveway and not thinking no brakes. And I went straight in the.
Straight in the garage door between her 500 up underneath the pool table. I mean, the ping pong table set
[00:24:27] Speaker A: right in the middle and what, just laid it over.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Oh, awful. I'd say I went in that garage probably at least 20 miles an hour.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: I'm surprised you didn't.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Your dad come out and absolutely cussed us, hollered at us, told. I mean, it was a. It was bad.
And the bike was laying up underneath the table.
You don't remember this?
[00:24:48] Speaker A: I don't. I do not remember that.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Oh, my Gosh, yeah. The bike was laying up. The motorcycle was underneath the table. It bent the ping pong leg, both the center and the side leg bent, all that.
And then they was trying to. I think Dustin was there maybe or Brody or somebody. But they was trying to get the bike off of me. And it was laying over on my leg. Felt like he was about to crush my leg. Are you sure? I was there. You were there.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: I don't remember it at all.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Your dad come out, absolutely gave us down the road, I'm sure. And I was scared to death. That hit her car. That's the only thing I thought the whole time. They just bought this brand new car. And I've run this motorcycle all the way down the side of it. And I never did. I never did hit it.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Well, we always had a deep freezer in there. I'm surprised you didn't hit it or hit. There's an old shopping cart that's always in there with stuff thrown in it. I'm surprised you didn't blast through that stuff.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: I remember that. I was so embarrassed too.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: Golly. One time, one time. I was young, I might have been Reese's agent, you know, or something like that. And my dad had this old mini bike. It was orange. I remember.
I can tell you exactly what it looked like.
And I got on that thing and we had one of those.
You throw a baseball at it and throws it back to you, you know, nets, things like that. I ran plumb just straight through that thing.
Wrecked it all up and wadded the bike up.
You know, my. It was my dad. And I got on it for the very first time. And there you go. That's how I ended up. So that kind of stuff happens. And we had.
We had so many wrecks on bikes at time. Well, you wasn't around or not bikes, but four wheelers. Four wheelers.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: I do miss that because you guys were hot and heavy.
I just got in way before I was okay.
But I was hot and heavy into.
Four wheel motorcycles. You guys were in four wheelers about when we were 16.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: I remember. I remember when you. When we were. We were over at the vocational building at high school. You gotta. You remember this?
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember you.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: You come in that morning. It was first thing in the morning.
Here comes Matt into the end of the vocational building.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: Into the mechanic shop. Yeah.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: Pants torn and ripped and bleeding and everything. You'd wrecked your motorcycle because the kickstand came down on the way to school.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: 1984 V65 Magna.
[00:27:21] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Well, somebody I can Tell you, I don't remember who it was. I think I do remember. Yeah, I know who. Exactly who it was. They were aggravating me at the gas pump, and I was pumping gas, and I remember him just raising me, carrying on.
And I took off really fast. And, well, the first curve, you turn to the right, everything fine, everything was great. And then when I started dip back in the left, I heard a scrape. And I looked down and I'm trying. I know my kickstand's down now, and I'm trying with everything in me. Well, I hit it again. It will not. It just keeps going over, over, over. And I got slowed down just enough to where it rolled me in the ditch. And I had my big old backpack on from school, and it just rolled me over top of that motorcycle just as pretty. The only thing I got was a scuff on my knee. And that was it now, but. But when I go to pull it up out of the ditch, which you're running on adrenaline, two cars passed me, didn't stop to ask me if I was okay or nothing. Somebody's right behind me, you know, didn't even ask me if I was okay.
I stand the bike back up, somehow get it out of the ditch. Have no idea how it come out of the ditch.
But I rode to school with the clutch right here and the gas was right here. But it drove amazing the whole. Because I even thought to myself, man, this thing is driving phenomenal to be looking like this. I drove like this the whole way, clutch over here and right here.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: And I remember, where was that at?
[00:28:50] Speaker B: Right past grocery store.
Right past the grocery store. As soon as you leave the grocery store. Simpsons Simpson.
Going back to the mill.
Take that first right. And when it came back to the left, that's where it happened, right there. I rode that dude all the way from there. And I remember it spewing coolant on me, and it was hitting my leg and it was going right to my ankle every single time. So I was riding with my foot sticking out like that.
And by the time. By the time we got out of school, they had the handlebar straightened.
Fritz had to had the radiator neck brazed back and bent back out.
And I rode the thing back home and rode it like that for another, like two or three years.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: He brazed that thing for me.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: He braised the neck of the radiator?
[00:29:38] Speaker A: Yep. Helps to know people, don't it? Yep. And that's people that taught us.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: It was.
I was thinking he actually come in and bought A mower from me. Housley. Oh, Housley. Not free. It's Housley.
And I told him, I was like, man, I really appreciate everything you taught me. I said, cuz I don't know if I'd be here right now if I, you know, didn't have any. If I'd had any interest in doing automotive, you know.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Do you know, I never took his class.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: Really?
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Never had auto mechanics. Really?
[00:30:10] Speaker B: Oh, I loved Howsley. Well, you golfed with him though.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a golf coach.
Oh, yeah, I knew him. I mean, but I was just in Fritz's. I only had Ambridge one year, which usually it was kind of because you couldn't just load your school schedule up with vocational classes so you. You had to miss somebody kind of, you know, so.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: But yeah, good times.
That was.
But you guys were hot and heavy on four wheelers though.
When we, we bought those, I said, I guess it was.
Had to be 2009, 2010, where you had the Yamaha 450 and I had the 450. The 4 450.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: I had a YFZ 450. Yep. So when I had that. What'd you have?
[00:31:06] Speaker B: I had the 450.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Oh, that's when we.
That's when we rode to Notching Hill and got in trouble and all that stuff.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Trouble? Ain't no trouble.
I mean, I'm not being with you. Anxiety. I never went to Knoxville and got in trouble.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: No, but we all rode from your house. Maybe we didn't. I thought somebody told us to get out of there or something because we were trespassing or something like that.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: Maybe they did. Did you go with us that time we drove all the way to the dam.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: We all slept in your bed.
No, not the dam.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: No, that was when we went to. We were going to. We went to Windrock that time. We were all piled up in the bed.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: No, we didn't. We all got up the next morning and went and met Gene and rode down to Notching Hill. Rode on the roads all the way there and back. All the way from your house? Yeah. Yeah. We had Brody with us and somebody else might have been Dustin. Yeah, I believe it wasn't Dustin bought. Dustin had that KFX or not? Yeah. KFX450, wasn't it? Yeah. Kawasaki. Yeah.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: Brody had that 700, so he went
[00:32:05] Speaker A: and bought that 700R. We're back in my woods.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: Dustin did too. They both bought them right down here.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Brand new.
But you know, back here behind my mom and Dad's in those woods. We had trails, you know, little racetrack and everything set up. And one day I flew. I flew by brody on that YFZ and he had that 700R, brand new one. Brand new. I mean, brand new. And I said, see, if you. I bet you can't pass me with that thing, you know, I'll just take off. Well, he's. We're. We're running around through there. Running around through there. And I don't know how many laps it took, if it took one or two, five, whatever it was. But we come. We come back down out of the woods onto the old main road bed right there. And the way it went is it came back, it spit you back off of there. But you had to take just a slight curve, just ever so slightly, and then it kicked back the other way like that. Well, right there was a rock about that big around that set right there on the edge of that thing.
And I went around through there. And maybe Brody was in front of me by then. I don't remember.
I guess he had to be because I was behind him, watching him. And we were going. We'd go around through there and you just fish till all around through there and then back the other way, then take off back down to the round track down there. He came around through there, Brand new four wheeler, turned like that right there. And that left rear wheel hit that rock. And when it did, he took off that way. He flew through the air, you know, he just. He just flew like that. And that four wheeler just went down through there. I said I was sick. I was sick. And he was. He was mad. He said his mom was gonna be mad, you know, all that. Oh, my gosh. And then Dustin about broke his ankle over there. Went off the peg on that jump.
But yeah, we. We grew up riding.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: We used to race. Used to race him out there in front of Brody's house down the road. You remember that?
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Yeah, Ryan. Ryan got there and race that red
[00:33:47] Speaker B: one and Brody and dust.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: It was an articat. Yeah. That they had. They had a green one and a red one.
Him, Michael, Both had one. Yep. But yeah, we. We. I mean, we.
I'm wanting a four wheeler, but golly, right now we're trying to save everything up for that house, so.
But what back. Back to today, though.
Anything crazy going to work today? Yeah, yeah, like we're doing.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: We're doing a bunch of work back outside and we're fixing to go out front and do some work out front. Out in the front part in the front lawn area out front.
We get back out here on the asphalt, we get that machine. We've done been doing some work with it.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: What was it?
[00:34:33] Speaker B: It blows. A hydro line.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: What is it?
[00:34:35] Speaker B: Front loader. It's just a mini skid.
Skid loader.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: For the bucket. It blew a line? No, for that hydraulic.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: The main pump that's under the belly of the mower or under the mower. Under the loader. Under the loader.
We get back through there and all four of them are leaking.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All four of them.
One of them blew. But they are all rough looking. Hoses look like at any given time. You know how hydraulic hoses only lay on top of each other for 10 years and they got spots in them. I was like, dude, we're this far.
We tore it all apart. We've got it sitting in a thousand pieces back around. I was like, there's no way we're putting this back together without a bunch of old hoses. We're gonna put all four hoses. So I built all four hoses for it and I was working on a stub nose truck trying to get it ready to go.
Heater core's leaking.
Heater core just decided it's gonna leak today.
Now Dash got come out of it.
[00:35:38] Speaker A: Isuzu. Mm. Yeah.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: So Dash gotta come out of that.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: So. Yeah, it kind of sounds like it might have been a Monday.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: It is a Monday for sure.
So I'm glad it's over with. We'll start over tomorrow.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: It's amazing how like literally this morning I was mentally thinking, okay, I need to do this, this, this and this. Get these, these four things knocked out. We'll be rocking. I ain't do nothing of those four things today.
Absolutely nothing. We worked on that. We worked on that loader for four hours trying to put fish them through.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: And those are big ones too, ain't they?
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Yeah, they're five, eight. Five three quarters or five eight, something like that.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: So they don't bend at all?
[00:36:23] Speaker B: No, they don't have no flex. I mean, you're only going. You're only going three and a half foot.
So at three and a half foot on a two wire hose, it's just barely moving.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:36] Speaker A: That sucks. Well, maybe you can get those other things down the rest of this week. I hope.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: I hope so.
I hope so.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: Well,
[00:36:47] Speaker B: is there
[00:36:50] Speaker A: anything else you want to cover today?
[00:36:52] Speaker B: I think it's pretty good.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: All right, well, thanks for joining us again, guys.
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[00:37:04] Speaker B: Y' all have a good one. We'll see you next time.
