Living life with millions of dollars!

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Where are they? [00:00:04] Speaker B: They're probably upstairs. [00:00:08] Speaker A: They never answer the door. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Oh, wait, it's Monday night. They're on the second floor. Hey, guys, welcome back. Second floor session coming back to you again. Got a couple topics today that you guys are really going to enjoy. I believe. First off, snow. We had some snow this go around. We had a couple. Couple, three or four days of good snow. [00:00:44] Speaker A: How much did you get? [00:00:45] Speaker B: We get. I got like 8 to 10 inches. [00:00:48] Speaker A: How far away do we live from each other? [00:00:49] Speaker B: About mileage or minutes? [00:00:54] Speaker A: Kilometers. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Kilometers. We're about 30 kilometers from each other. About 15 miles. [00:01:00] Speaker A: 15 miles? [00:01:00] Speaker B: Probably. [00:01:01] Speaker A: I had like six inches at the house. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah. That's pathetic. We want. I'll carry this. I got it. So I got 10 inches. [00:01:11] Speaker A: That's big. That's a lot. [00:01:14] Speaker B: So anyways, we were expected to get. We were supposed to get like three. Well, one to three. You've seen so many different predictions of watch. Some of them are saying like 12 to 16. And then some of them are. You know, our actual news station was saying anywhere from 3 to 6 inches. And then we wind up getting on this. [00:01:39] Speaker A: The second one we got. You're talking about where we got all the snow. I thought the first one had a bunch of big high predictions earlier in the week. [00:01:46] Speaker B: Oh, that is true. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We were supposed to get. Yeah, that's. That was then. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So the second one they were only calling like 1 to 3. [00:01:52] Speaker B: That's right. [00:01:53] Speaker A: First your area wasn't really calling for anything. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we were back then they said. Then the second one, then they said that South Monroe was. [00:02:00] Speaker A: Yeah, they moved it all down. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Winter storm warning. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Anyways, that I was thinking today. I don't play the lottery, but I'll seem. The other day where somebody. The largest lottery that was hit was like1.6 billion. Just blows my mind. I just can't imagine. What would you do? I mean, what would you do with that kind of money? Your payout's gonna be 5 or 600 million. It's just. It was. It's crazy. I would be absolutely. First off. [00:02:36] Speaker A: What would you do? What would you do? I know what I do with it because I've got financial struggles right now. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Okay. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Well, of course. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Of course. I would probably. You know, as I think I would still work. I know everybody's like, there's no way if you got that much money. I believe I would still probably. [00:02:54] Speaker A: I would do something, but it'd be what I want to do. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, but. But I would still be like I'm still probably going to work. I'm still probably going to do. You're probably in my business. I'm still going to be around, you know, I'm not going to be gone and you never see me again. But I think if I, if I would, I would probably, I believe I would travel a lot, but I would still like, I would still be in the day to day pretty much my, like this probably. You're, you're a camper or a, you know, you're a camper. [00:03:31] Speaker A: I wouldn't be in that camper. [00:03:32] Speaker B: No. Hell, I know that. But I would have me a nice, something like an RV and I would. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Go all over the United States. [00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I definitely travel and I'd like, I'd even like just leave and go to Alaska dry. I mean it would be so cool. I would almost. And I like, I really like the. Have you ever seen anybody do stealth camping in like, have you ever watched people stealth camp? No, you hadn't ever seen that. Anyways, when you check stealth camp. Stealth camp. So it's like if you've got a, if you've got a sprinter or you've got a, a van or something, you actually, you actually like park somewhere that you technically stay all night, you know where you don't go to like a campground. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Campground or supposed to be there or. [00:04:27] Speaker B: You park on the side of the road or, or whatever and you actually, you kind of, you're in disguise. I always thought that would be the coolest thing to do if, if I, if I had the ability to do that. If I didn't have to work, if I didn't have to do any of that stuff. You know what I mean? [00:04:43] Speaker A: Just what's the purpose of that? [00:04:45] Speaker B: Well, go travel the world. But it's a low cost. Like you get a van. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Like pull in a rest area and stay there. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But now if I hit the lotto, I'd have me a big motor coach, diesel pusher and we'd be traveling. [00:05:00] Speaker A: I got news for you, you don't have to do that. Let me tell you what you can do. Oh, you can just stop at national parks and stay there for like 20 bucks. It's super inexpensive. So yeah, I mean if you want to save 20 every stop, you could definitely, you know, just pull into Walmart or whatever. But yeah, you don't have to go stay 100,000, something dollars a night at a stupid campground. [00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah, but yeah, but I think, I think if I did, I've thought about, I've Often thought, like, man, I don't play the lottery, so I'm. So it's not going to happen. But if I was to ever get that sum of money, man, it would probably be. I probably wouldn't change me as a person, I don't think. I don't know. I mean, you know, but I don't. I don't think it would. [00:05:44] Speaker A: It wouldn't change me as a person, but it would certainly change the things I do. Of course. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Absolutely. But I think. I think that. I mean, everybody. Everybody would say. They're gonna say, like, he's full of crap. But, I mean, of course I'd pay all my debt. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Probably get me a little bit bigger house. Nothing. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Would you move? [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd move. [00:06:09] Speaker A: No, I mean, move from here. [00:06:12] Speaker B: No, absolutely not. I'd stay in East Tennessee. [00:06:14] Speaker A: There's no better place. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm not going anywhere. [00:06:17] Speaker A: I would go ahead and build my house that I'm working on now. I'm gonna tell you what I'd do. I'd build my house. I'd get that done squared away and have all that the way I want it. Right. And I would kind of take a step back and see where I'm at now. I'd say, what do I want to do? I definitely am on that travel boat. Because one thing I would do is I'd go to France and I would. I would go do that Band of Brothers tour. That's what I want to do. But it's like. Yeah, I don't know. It's not that bad. It's like three or four thousand dollars to go do it, you know? Plus your plane tickets, though. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Band of Brothers. Tell them. Tell them what that is. Exactly. [00:06:56] Speaker A: HBO original series Band of Brothers, about the Screaming Eagles during World War II. It's an airborne division that stormed the beaches of Normandy. Actually, paratroopers. They dropped in and they were all alone and got linked back up to their groups, and they fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the foxholes in Bastogne, Germany. They were the first ones to. I think they liberated the very first concentration camp. And then they also stormed the Eagle's Nest at the end in the Swiss Alps, Hitler's Eagle's Nest. But you go to all those places, and that's. That's what I wanted. I would definitely do that because that's on my bucket list of what I want to do. I'd probably play a whole lot more golf. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:47] Speaker A: Because I love it. And I don't go enough now. So I would definitely do that. That would. That would be on there. And. And I don't know what I'd do as far as I feel like the house I'm building is what I want. So I think I'd be kind of content with that. I would probably try to buy more real estate, honestly, is what I would do. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if you've got. If you've got a half a. You know, you got 500, half a billion dollars, I mean, there ain't much you're going to have to do. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah, but I would. But I would try to. I mean, I would 100% reinvest that, whether it be, you know, try to make money from a stock market point of view or investments, CDs. But I would. I would do. I think I would do commercial real estate. I think I'd start buying commercial real estate. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So you could. [00:08:37] Speaker A: Because that pays back big. [00:08:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Commercial. [00:08:40] Speaker A: I think that's. I think that's what I would do with it in. In the moment. Somebody held a gun in my head right now. What are you gonna do with it? That's what I'd tell you. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:47] Speaker A: So. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I think as much as both of us have worked, I think we'd probably go on a. [00:08:53] Speaker A: A little vacation. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I believe we would. We work all the time. So. But my thought is. Is like, going and traveling, taking the family and just leaving for like a two, three months and just hiatus, not see me, then come, you know, be back in the picture. I'll be back in the swing of things. But, you know, of course it would be different. I would pay somebody to. To do what I do, you know, and. But I think, like, would you buy. Would you buy, like, vehicles and stuff? Would it be something. Are you content with what you have now? I mean, would it be. I mean, if they were, I'd definitely. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Buy my wife a new vehicle. I mean, she has a newer vehicle anyway, but we'd probably go ahead. Like, I've. I've always. I've always settled rather than getting what I'd prefer to have. Because. Because I'm thinking logically here, you know, we need something bigger, third row. But I don't want to buy something like a Tahoe or something with a V8 in it. You know, I'd probably go out and just buy. Buy what I wanted there for her. Right. You know, because money's no issue now. And I think. I mean, I'm fine with what I got for now. I mean, I may go buy a new vehicle one day, but I mean I'm, I'm pretty good. I know you would. You've got older vehicles. [00:10:12] Speaker B: Yeah, everything. I've got everything. [00:10:15] Speaker A: There's something to be said whenever you hold on to your vehicles as long as me and you have. And when you get like my, my 2017 dually that I got, it's like a spaceship compared to what I was used to. It's like a luxury. Oh yeah. Such a luxury to have, you know, and it's. Heck, it's, it's almost 10 years old. Yeah. You know, so well, especially when you. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Get those amenities in a vehicle is like. Yeah, it's, it's next. It's nice heated air conditioned seats, heated steering wheel, auto start, all the good stuff. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Yeah. But so, yeah, I probably, I probably would buy. I wouldn't right off the bat though. I mean, if I, if I was to hook my camper to a vehicle and take off all across the United States with no time limit and want to see everything. Yeah, I'm probably gonna buy a new vehicle to do that. [00:11:02] Speaker B: I honestly would probably. It sounds really like bougie, but I believe I would, I would, I would hire somebody to drive for me. Yeah, that's bougie. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's bougie. [00:11:16] Speaker B: I'd hire somebody to drive for me. [00:11:18] Speaker A: Heck, you hit the lottery. I'll drive for you. I'll drive for you. [00:11:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. Because I don't mind driving, but I mind driving. Like, I don't like I can drive. I drove 10, I drove for 10 years. I drove almost 100 miles a day back and forth to work. [00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it's too much. [00:11:37] Speaker B: And you know, that there, you know, I'm sure people's out there, does more, a lot more than that, you know, per day. But I'm like, I can jump on, I can jump on 40 and cruise it, you know, and be fine for eight, 10 hours. But I don't. If I've got any sort of somebody I could pay. Oh man, you, you guarantee I'd be back there snoozing on a bed, you. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Wouldn'T want me to drive for you? You can ask Megan. [00:12:10] Speaker B: We'll, I don't care. [00:12:11] Speaker A: We'll get ready to go on vacation. Like we're going to go to the beach, you know, and you're always pumped to go, you know, and then it sucks to come home. You know what I mean? You look sort of look forward to the drive going and you dread the drive. Coming home, you know, is the way it is. So here I am, get up at 4 o' clock and leave and go, you know, rare and ready, Here we go. You know, I'm Chattanooga. You guys are out. I can't make it Chattanooga. I can't go no further. Yeah, so you don't want to. You know, after I snooze a little bit, maybe get energy drinking, man, I'm back at it. But, oh, but then again, you know, I've. I've went on them trips and drive all the way both ways, you know, not had a problem. But, man, sometimes. Sometimes I may have to go back here and use that bed and you may have to come up here and drive. You probably don't want me as a driver. Oh, gosh, I'd hire two drivers just so I don't happen. [00:13:01] Speaker B: I. Yeah, I would definitely. I would get. I'd get a car or something, you know, get my wife another vehicle and my cell phone. I mean, I've got a. The newest thing I've got is a 2002. Yeah. So now my wife's got a nice car. She's got a 22 model, but. But, yeah, me, that's the. That is the newest car I have ever had, other than my Porsche I had. That Porsche was the newest thing I'd ever had. [00:13:26] Speaker A: Well, me too. Mine's 2000. [00:13:28] Speaker B: It was a 2000. That was a 2010 Porsche I had. [00:13:32] Speaker A: So nice for a 2010. [00:13:34] Speaker B: It was. It was super clean. Yeah. [00:13:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:38] Speaker B: But I would have to have. I would imagine I would have to buy some sort of fast car. I mean, that's for me. I know you're. You're different than I am, but. [00:13:48] Speaker A: No, I may, I may. [00:13:50] Speaker B: I'll have to have. [00:13:51] Speaker A: I'd definitely have me a nice side. Besides what I'd have. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah. See, it doesn't interest me. Yeah, I don't. You know, but I'd probably have some. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Kind of muscle car too, though. Some kind of nice fast car. I mean, but like I said that that's the whole. I'd step back and kind of see where. You know what. [00:14:05] Speaker B: When I had that car. When I had that car. Sounds kind of bad, but I felt like. Not that I was invincible, but if you've ever had a fast vehicle, you've had a fast truck. Your truck was quick, but it wasn't like. It wasn't this kind of quick, but it was still a fast car. I mean, a fast truck. But when you drive around, you get this in your head. Like, you know, 80% of these, they. 80, 85 to 90%. There's nothing on the road Right now can touch me. I mean, my car can almost. It almost creeps on 200, you know, it'll do. 196 is what it's. You know, it's what it clocks at. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Tell the camera what that was. [00:14:43] Speaker B: That was a Porsche Panamera Turbo 550 horse, which doesn't sound like a lot, but Porsche does it different. 550, you're like, oh, that's not a whole lot, but 550 on a Porsche or a AMG or anything. Just they, they can put. No, they can put. Make 600 horse outrun a something that may have 7, 800 horse, you know, but that car, when I drove it, I felt like, you know, ain't much out here can outrun out or outrun me. [00:15:16] Speaker A: You know what I'd have on my mind? [00:15:17] Speaker B: I would go around. Listen, I would go around. I would go around. I used to call it fishing. And I'd go out and try to. I'd go out and set it post up at, you know, a gas station. I mean, I'm 30 something years old. I only be doing this crap, you know, But I'd go post up at a gas station and I just sit there and wait. If it's a motorcycle or if it was a, you know, a, A rocket, you know, some or a, or a. [00:15:44] Speaker A: Souped up little pull out. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. [00:15:51] Speaker A: No, I wouldn't. Yeah, you're different than me. I wouldn't do that. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Well, it's just the way it was. But. So I would call that fishing. I'd leave like, I'd leave like on a. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Would they bite every time? [00:16:04] Speaker B: Well, it depends on. You got to pick the right car. I mean, you can't just roll up on a something, but you. Something that's all slammed down or looks fast or whatever, they're ready to rip. They're ready. They're waiting too. They want to go fishing too. Yeah, okay, but, but when you get in that, when you get in that, when you get into that stuff, then you find out, like, you start meeting people that have just as fast or faster cars. You're. You find out really quick. You're like, boy, I ain't the alpha no more. This is. I'm the, I'm the little guy, you know, where these cars were going. You know, I were running. I was running everything around the town, beating everything you come across. And then you go to these drag tracks and stuff and then you're like, boy, I'm slow. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:53] Speaker B: You know, you get a really, you know CTSV with, with 950 horses rolls up beside you at the drag strip. You're like, oh, I got, I got all wheel drive, you know, and he don't. He's rear wheel drive and. But he's got big slicks on the back of it and you know, you. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Don'T need all wheel drive. [00:17:09] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:17:10] Speaker A: He's hooking up. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean it was like one of those things. It was like, okay, I'm gonna get him. I think I can do it. You know, you gotta think. [00:17:18] Speaker A: You remember when we went to 411, right, and we was running our trucks? [00:17:22] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Speaking of drag racing. So when's the last time you was up at NHRA at Bristol? Surely to goodness I've told you, it was me. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Did. It was me and you. Was it me, you and David went. Did you go? Did we all go together? [00:17:42] Speaker A: Did we stop at Shawnee's and eat on the way? No, it was Ward does with me. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Who that. [00:17:46] Speaker A: No, I think I've been up there with you before. [00:17:50] Speaker B: I was with Dave. How did we get tickets? [00:17:53] Speaker A: It would have been me probably. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Did you give us tickets? [00:17:55] Speaker A: I probably would have gotten from Fisher. [00:17:57] Speaker B: I think you gave us tickets. Dave is the funniest thing to go to the track strip with. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Oh, I've been to the drag strip. Have I ever told you this is where I was going with this? Have I ever told you the story about just me and him going, yes. Coming home? Oh my gosh. Yeah. Oh, so bad. So me, me and my uncle, we. And he's how old, Dave? 60 something? [00:18:22] Speaker B: 60. [00:18:22] Speaker A: We. We go to the drag strip now. How far are we from Bristol? [00:18:25] Speaker B: Three and a half. Two and a half. Three hours? Three. [00:18:27] Speaker A: Three hours. We got a three hour drive one way to Bristol, Tennessee. So we're. We go on a Friday. I like going on Friday because they start at like 9 o' clock in the morning they start running and you see your street mods and pro mods and time trials and then your nitro Harleys if they're there. Funny cars, rail cars, you know, you see them. Yeah, you see everybody all the way from me and you going up there and signing up all the way up to the top Fuel dragsters. You know, the forces are up there running and everybody else, so Schumacher, whatever. And so we go one time and it's just me and him and. And we got up super early that morning because we're trying to be there by nine or 10, you know, so we drive up there we eat breakfast, we go up there and we've been baking in the sun all day. It's hot and we're baking in the sun all day. You get to walk up and down through all the pits and watch them rebuild all the engines. But that's what I like about it. You're not fitting, you know, just these little small limited number of people of racers cars into three or four hours in the afternoon, you know, for the Saturday, Sunday events or whatever. Saturday's a little bit longer than Sunday, Sunday's finals, but Friday is the practice runs and everything, so. And they're getting up there ripping. I mean, you know, so you get to see a whole lot more. That's why I like to go on Fridays. But so we go up on Friday and we're there early and we, we bake in the sun all day long. We're sunburned. Olive had to eat all day's a turkey leg, you know, big old turkey leg. A big old turkey leg. I don't know, probably some Dr. Peppers and some waters and stuff like that. And. And we're up there and you want to wait until dark or at least it's dark enough so you can see the flames from the top fuels when they go. So we're there till you know, it's getting dark at 9:30. So maybe by like 9:20 or something, it's dark enough to see that stuff. Or from 9 to 9:30. And after we see so much of that, we're like, let's get out of here. We've got a three hour drive home. We're exhausted, you know, so we leave. And my uncle used to, he used to drive a carrier route for like Walmart. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Photos. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah, photos and drugs for pharma pharmaceuticals. So he would do photos and drugs and transfer them to different Walmarts and stuff like that. So he was always up in Bristol, Elizabethton or whatever. So we're waiting in line to get out and the line to go back towards the interstate to go home is like forever and a day long. This lane that goes somewhere else is not, you know, he's like, go that way, go that way, get in that line. Getting that. I'm like, well that's the way the house. Oh, don't worry about that. You ain't gotta go that way. I'll take you this way, I'll take you this way. You know, I know all these roads. I know all these roads. I drove up here for years. I drove up here for years. Okay, so we go driving that way and I drive so far. And we're going down all these different roads, and this is going to take us back to whatever you want to get on. You get on right here, get on right here, you know? And here we go. So we're driving and it's like an hour later, we realize we're not going towards the house like he is. He has screwed this up royally. And we drive like an hour out of the way. Okay, so now we're an hour away from Bristol, away from the house, to get back to where we started. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:21:49] Speaker A: So. And by then, you know, it's like 10:30, and so we're have to turn around, go back, and I'm like, I'm starving. You know, we haven't ate, really ate since breakfast that morning, you know, And I'm like, we're. We're about to lose all hope and chances of eating anything. We're out in the middle of nowhere. I'm like. And we see this Mexican restaurant. It's in this old, like. It's like built into an old Walmart, so. And you know how Walmarts are the bathrooms in the back or whatever. They're on this corner and they have like this, you know, so. So many square foot is restaurant. And then you have a hall that goes to the back of the store, to the bathroom. And I just. I remember that hall being so dang long, you know, and so we eat because Mexican restaurants are open up late, you know, so we stop and eat and we get back on the road again. And then I drive an hour again, you know, and finally I'm back to Bristol. And he would tell you I almost killed him getting. Getting back on and going underneath the. The exit I was on to get back on whatever interstate that is. Because I'd pass the car and he's like, well, you gotta exit right here. You gotta exit right here. Well, I wasn't missing another exit. I done went the wrong way so many times. So I was in the old. My papa's olden palace, and I floored that thing and had to get all over the brakes. And it was just a, you know, a backwards turn. And he's hollering. Scared him. So we get back on the interstate and I make it into Knoxville. I mean, I'm. I'm past Sevierville, I'm coming into Knoxville. I'm on the. I'm on that end, the Sevierville in Knoxville. And I told him, I said, I can't make it. I'm. I'm falling asleep, you know, I can't hold my head up. He said, oh, no problem, no problem, no problem. Pull in. Pull into a gas station. So I did. I pulled in. And I remember. The last thing I remember is him pulling across traffic and we're getting kind of over on the shoulder or we're in the turn lane to get on the on ramp. I remembered that, and that's all I can remember. The next thing I remember is I'm sitting there asleep in the car. I'm like this over at the window in the passenger side seat, and I'm sleeping, and I hear go by. And it woke me up. And I look up, and it's a transfer truck just hauling balls past us. And I was like, I'm looking. I'm like, it's a transfer truck. And I turn, I look at him, and he's like, yes, two hands on wheel head in his lap. And I don't remember if I looked at the speedometer, see how fast he's going. But that transfer truck almost sucked the headlights out of that Impala. So we wasn't going very fast. And we were. We were. We were in the fast lane. He was in the fast lane, going out. So. Because that truck was right here by me. Whoa. You know, And I looked up and I looked over, and I hit him. Wow. I said, dave, wake up. And he said, we'll pull over here in a minute, change uniforms. I said, no, you're pulling over right now, dude. You're asleep. Pull over. And we. We pulled over on the side of the interstate and swapped drivers. And I guess he just went right out. I don't remember that. The rest of that night's almost a blur because we stopped at Lenore City and swapped drivers again. And then at Loudon, and then at the end of our road that we both live on. And I'm pretty sure I don't know where we were at in the switching drivers, but I'm pretty sure I had to get out at his house and get in the driver's seat to go to my house, which was. I could almost throw a rock. [00:25:22] Speaker B: You know, when we went up there the last time me and Dave went. Well, the only time I went with Dave, I. I think we got the tickets from you. Now that you say that. [00:25:32] Speaker A: I'm sure you did. I'm sure I was probably with you. [00:25:35] Speaker B: You may have been. I don't remember. But anyways, I do remember Dave because he. He. You know, when Dave goes to the drag strip, like, I'm. I'm over there. Like, I'M holding my ears, you know, I'm doing all the stuff, you know, but he ain't doing this, you know, he's up there at the fence with. [00:25:53] Speaker A: A Top Fuel, you know, you gotta hold your ears of Top Fuel. The rest of them, I don't care. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Well, I'm just saying, none of them, I mean, and he. [00:26:02] Speaker A: He ain't. [00:26:03] Speaker B: He ain't about now just sitting there, ears bleeding. Anyways, we, you know, like you said, everybody's there and he's got. He's got. He's got a red shirt on. I can't remember. Make America. Make America great. Make. I'm sorry. Make. Make racing great again is what it was. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Ah. Like a Make America. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:24] Speaker A: Okay. Make racing great again. Okay. [00:26:25] Speaker B: And he takes. And he's got. Somehow, I don't know where he wound up. He got a marker from somebody and he kept it. He kept the marker. He was. Somebody was signing autographs or something. He asked to use their pen, their. Their marker, and he just kept their marker. The last time we went through, and I remember there's this girl, she was a pretty. I don't know, may have been. Is it Danica? Is it Danica or something like that? [00:26:54] Speaker A: Danica Patrick is a race car. Like a race car. [00:26:56] Speaker B: She's nascar. She's nascar, but I think she's in drag racing too. Maybe it wasn't. I don't. [00:27:03] Speaker A: You've got all the, like, Ashley Force, all the force. Daughters. [00:27:07] Speaker B: It was a pretty drag anyway. [00:27:08] Speaker A: Whatever. [00:27:09] Speaker B: Maybe she drag racing. [00:27:10] Speaker A: I don't keep up with it. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Well, there's a line, just. Of course, young old guys, you know, they're all wanting their pictures. And Dave's like, let's go get our picture with her. And I was like, dave, that line's going to take. That line's going to be 30, 30, 40 minutes. You know, we got. The races are fixing to start, you know, like right now. They're starting. We ain't gonna wait. He goes straight to the front of the line. I kid you not, and I'm not lying. I'm not exaggerating. I thought he was gonna get in a fight. He goes right up to the front of the line. There's not a bear. There's not like a rope roping anybody off. They're just. You can tell there's a. There is a line right there. He goes right up, gets right up in there, I mean, and just nudges his way in there. Say nothing to nobody. Gets in line, like, and there's like two People and Dave now. And I looked at him, and he's like. He gives me this big grin, like, you know, just like he just won a prize, you know, she gets up there, and he takes his mat. Matt, take our picture. You know, And I'm looking like the guy a jerk, too, because there's 40 people sitting there waiting to get it. [00:28:12] Speaker A: And I'm like, oh, gosh. [00:28:14] Speaker B: I pulled my phone out, and I'm like, okay. And I told Dave, I said, you can't do that again, man. We're going to get in a fight or get thrown out of this place. Oh, I do it all the time. Don't worry about it. Next one we went to, same thing, but it wouldn't have near as many people. Went straight to the front of the line. [00:28:31] Speaker A: Wow. [00:28:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Just nudged his way right in there, and he has a little marker. You sign my shirt. [00:28:36] Speaker A: That's a. That's a Jimmy mentality. That's what that is. I'll tell you. I'll tell you a story about something like that. We were. We were out in Las Vegas, and we went to the Golden Knots hockey game out there. And if nobody's ever been to the Golden Knots hockey game, Go. Because it's awesome. If you're ever out in Vegas and they're playing go, it is great. They interact with the fans the entire time. It's. It's awesome. Even if you're not a hockey fan, because I'm not really a hockey fan. [00:29:01] Speaker B: So I went and watched hockey one time. It's pretty cool. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Yeah. You'd really like that. There's a big difference between, like, I Spares and NHL. There really is. Sure. But anyway, so we're. We're there, and it's me and Joe, and Brody's there and another guy from work. So we're there. Joe goes, let's go get something to eat. That's all right. I'll go with you. I'm hungry. I'll go with you. All right, so we turn around and we get ready to go up the steps. And it's concessions over here, where we. We just went down and found our seats. We. So we know what's there. Concessions, food, whatever it is. And people right. Waiting in line over here. VIP only. It says. Joe goes, let's go over there. I might. Where? Over there. Where? Right there. Where it says vip. I'm like, it says you have to have tickets to get in here. It says it right there. Well, let's just go see. We might be able to just get in There I might be just fine. I'm like, no, you're not. It's not. I'll go with you. So I walked over there, you know, the guy's like, you got your tickets? I was like, no, we don't. We don't have tickets. We're just going to get something to eat, you know. He's like, no, you got to have tickets to get in here. You're not going here. So we turn around. I go, what made you think that was going to work? He's like, you know how many places I've been in where I'm not supposed to be with dad? I'm like, well, you're not him. You know, it didn't work. That's their mentality. It's the same thing. They. They just think. [00:30:30] Speaker B: They just think they can do it. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you just. [00:30:32] Speaker B: Just walk in, hide. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Like he said, you don't know until you try. That's what he said. I'm like, well, you're right. But I really knew that wasn't going to work. You know, guy standing there, he said one time they were at a UT football game, and they required. Usually they didn't require, like, kids to have tickets if they were so young. And he had his little girl with him, and Jimmy was with him, too. And they got ready to go in, and it said there now requiring, you know, all kids have to have tickets. Jimmy just handed that ticket to Joe. He said, y' all just go in. Y' all just go in. It's okay. He said, so I'm standing in line and I'm watching him, and he just turns his back to everybody and keeps backing up, backing up, goes around the people and the. The metal detectors and everything. He's standing there waiting on us when we go through. My God, I don't even know how it works. But, yeah, go in it backwards. [00:31:23] Speaker B: Walk in backwards, too. [00:31:25] Speaker A: Something like that. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Almost like you're walking out, but you're walking. [00:31:29] Speaker A: Have you. Have you seen all those videos where they say you can get in anywhere with carrying a ladder? You seen those? [00:31:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen them. [00:31:36] Speaker A: And it works, too. I told the guys at work about it the other day. I was telling them, you know, listen, I'm. You know, if you look. He. They said that. They said the owner had come out and. And had seen him standing there. He said we were all standing together, and we look over and there he is standing there. I was like, what'd he say? Oh, he had us to go do this and go do that, and you know, I'm like, yeah, it's because you're standing. I'm not doing that. You're selling him your time. And your time's worth something to him. If you're there working, you need to make it, you know, anyway, you need to be doing something. So I said, that's going to happen every time. I said, you've got. That's why I tell you guys is look busy. Just look busy. That's all you got to do. Grab a ladder and just stand out there with a ladder. And they're like, what are you talking about? I was like, like, okay, if I walk out there and I need some kind of like a tire repair done, and I look and everybody out there is just sitting around and you're carrying a ladder across the shop. Like, you could be going nowhere. You're just carrying a ladder. I'm gonna go, I ain't asking him nothing, you know, And I'm gonna go somewhere else. I said, have you not seen those videos where people do that? So I showed it to them. I'm like, look at these people. They're walking in movie theaters and everywhere just carrying ladders, and nobody says a word to them. Well, one of them comes up front, he's like, hey, can you give me change for this? I look up and the other one's carrying a ladder through the front office. I said, this is a decoy. Yeah, it's like that theory. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Well, it's. We. He. He goes, dave. Going back to Dave real quick. When we were out, we were. We went to London. [00:33:08] Speaker A: You and Dave? [00:33:08] Speaker B: Me and Dave, we went to London. Kentucky, Kentucky. London, Kentucky. Going to another drag race. We're gonna go watch the gassers. Have you ever been to that? Gassers are awesome, old school cars. No, you know, the front end's jacked up on them, you know, but they're all, you know, they launch it, like 12,000 RPMs, you know, on those old, old cars. But anyways, we're coming back home and it's kind of the same. It was okay. [00:33:38] Speaker A: I think he asked me to go with you guys on that trip, probably. Yeah. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he did. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, on the way back home, he's like, I drove all the way up. And he's like, I'll drive back if you need me to. I was like, I'm good. You know, we waited till we wanted to see the end of the race, but it got a little rain delay and this and that, and he's over there talking I mean, he just. I mean, we're sitting there having a full blown conversation and this is when he was having. This is when he used to wear his CPAP machine. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:34:10] Speaker B: But now he's got regulated and I think he's doing a lot better from what I understand. [00:34:13] Speaker A: You should have seen him before he had the sleep machine. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That's the story that I told Pre. This is pre. He was just sitting there talking sleep machine. [00:34:24] Speaker B: He was just sitting there talking to me and we were having a conversation about drag racing or something. And I was just driving along and everything just got quiet. And I look over, I look over and no joke, he's got his head just as, I mean, looks so peaceful. He had his head on the seatbelt and he's just over just as five seconds later. I mean, literally from like full conversation to 15 seconds later, he is over there sawing logs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:34:56] Speaker A: That's the way he used to be. He. We watch a lot of, lot of sports together. I don't know if you know that. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:35:02] Speaker A: We watch all the football. [00:35:03] Speaker B: He always wants me to come to your house and watch basketball with you. [00:35:06] Speaker A: You should. We watch football and basketball. But he'll be sitting there. He. Not anymore. Now he's much like you say, regulated. He gets more sleep now than he ever did, I guess, or fit or rests, let's say. But that's, that's the way it always be. [00:35:19] Speaker B: He, he. [00:35:21] Speaker A: I sit in a recliner like this and he's on a loveseat, the arms right here, you know, and he puts him feet out like that right there. And he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll sit there and watch it and he'll, you know, he's like making a noise like that right there. And I'll be like, oh, you know, he'll. He sits there and he watch it. You know, he's back up again. Oh yeah, he's just back up again and going. But now that don't really happen anymore. It used to happen all the time. [00:35:50] Speaker B: That's hilarious. [00:35:51] Speaker A: It used to. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I was, I don't remember. I remember. Do you remember when I used to do the passion play in the Smokies? Did you ever remember that? [00:36:01] Speaker A: Mm. Because I bought the lawnmower from the guy that played Jesus, remember? [00:36:05] Speaker B: Yeah, but this was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was. But this was when we were in. This would have been when we were in high school. This would have been like 16. Yes. [00:36:13] Speaker A: It. [00:36:14] Speaker B: You bought the, the. The ex mark from Jesus and. But that was like probably six to eight years later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:36:24] Speaker A: Before. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Before then. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Yeah. But I mean I knew. [00:36:26] Speaker B: So this was, this was in my Dodge Omni. The, the red. Little red Dodge Omni. So this was when we were in what? 18, I guess I was 18. Did I have it in school? It doesn't matter. [00:36:37] Speaker A: I think you had that white truck. [00:36:39] Speaker B: But anyways. And it was in Smoky Mountains. So we're talking. That was in Townsend. So we're talking an hour and fifteen to. Hour and thirty from my house somewhere in there. Townsend. That's literally at Wares Valley. Turn off. You would turn right at church. That sits up on the hill in Townsend right before Wares Valley, right there. And so I leave there. I mean passion play, it was over and probably 9:30, 10 o' clock time you got everything done. You're looking at 10:30 leaving the place. And we played music there too. So we had to make sure all of our music gear was ready, packed up. So I get in this, this Dodge Harmony and I can just. And I don't know how I did it. No joke. To this day I have no idea. Just by the grace of the good Lord that I made it home. It didn't kill anybody. I woke up. The last thing I remember is coming. I. I was coming through 321 in Marvel. So I was on 321 in Marvel heading to Lenoir City and then I take Tellico Parkway back home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I remember I was in my driveway. I was parked with my shoes off and my seat leaned back. And that was the last thing I remember. [00:37:58] Speaker A: Was telgo or was 321. [00:38:02] Speaker B: 321 in Maryville. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:04] Speaker B: And I wake up at like my mom comes out there at like 1:30 on the side of the car. Freaked me out. I wake up, she's like, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, I think you know. And I immediately get out of the car and I'm going to look and like see if I've got. Because all I remember I literally all I remembered was when I was in Maryville and I'm at home in my driveway. [00:38:30] Speaker A: Wow. [00:38:31] Speaker B: And she's like, she's like, well you've been sitting out here for like 45 minutes. And I was like, I don't know. I didn't tell her. And I was like, oh, I'm coming, I'm coming. I had no idea how I made it home. I have no idea. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Do you have any more of those stories, cuz you got. I got two. [00:38:46] Speaker B: I've got, I've got. Well, yeah, the other ones, when I. Do you remember Wrecking my S10? I didn't wreck it bad. [00:38:54] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. [00:38:55] Speaker B: Right. We. This is when I was doing. Just started Matlocks probably, I don't know, six, eight months into it. And I was staying at the Coopers a bunch. And I left there when Pop Pop's my uncle. I told him, I said, wake me up when you leave. Wake me up when you leave on Sunday evening. Wake me up when you leave. Well, he left to go work at alcoa at like 4:30. Wake me up. Okay, he woke me up. I get up, I'm gonna drive home. Drive home, go back home, take a shower. [00:39:32] Speaker A: Not far. That's not that far. [00:39:34] Speaker B: 15. Yeah, 15 minutes at most. And yeah, it's about 15 from there. [00:39:40] Speaker A: I'm always thinking about my drive with. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Yeah, anyway, so 15 minutes. And anyways we get down right at Teleco Parkway in 72, right there. And the guardrail, I don't. I guess it's the same guardrail it is today. I don't, I don't know if they've extended it or not, but from some point right past the Tellico Parkway, I fall asleep and I wake up to a little bit of, you know, scraping and I, you know, freak out, flip, you know, and immediately I'm wide awake now, you know, and I know I've hit something, but I'm back in the road. By the time I'm up and I'm like halfway, I thought I may have hit somebody. So I stop and look and I've hit the guardrail, I've slid into the guardrail. I fell asleep and so I went home. And I mean it literally just rolled. It just kind of rolled in front of my wheel, up underneath it. So literally I went home, pulled it back out, took it to McCown's, he fixed it, was all good to go. And no, I take it back. I may take it to Jane, but it didn't matter. I went back and looked at it, where I hit it. I was within 2 foot of the end of it, of the end of it. Dead at 55, 60 miles an hour. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Yep. [00:40:55] Speaker B: I was at like 2 foot at the end of it. I went back and I was like, oh my gosh. Yeah. And I was. And, and back then I was running at both ends. I was, you know, I was just dog tired, you know, but that was that those Two incidents absolutely freaked me. [00:41:12] Speaker A: I had the same thing happen to me. So in that Impala when my papa left me, when he died, I. So Megan's dad used to take, I think it was like some blood pressure medicine, but it made him like itch once he took it or something. So he would take it like right before bed and he usually went to sleep like after the 11 o' clock news went off or something like that. So I, I needed to be gone every night by 11 so I didn't wake him up going out and getting in my truck and leaving and you know, and I, I'd work all day, come home, take a shower, drive to Madisonville and I'd take it's 30, 30 minutes over there and then drive back home, you know, that night. And there was one night I left and I'd be so, so stinking tired. Because we work back then, we worked so hard in those shops, we gave it all we had. So we were tired when we got off at 6 o', clock, but yet we were going to stay tired. [00:42:05] Speaker B: And we're still so young too. That was, I mean we were still. Didn't go to bed till 12, one o' clock sometimes and then get up and be at work. [00:42:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So I left her house one night and I was in that Impala and I'm driving and I'm on not 72, I'm on oak Grove, Oak Grove, headed home. And as you get back into Loudon, there's, there's a guardrail on the right, but there's like, I don't know, this much gravel between the guardrail and the road. And I woke up when my tires hit that gravel, you know, and I woke up and jerked back over and I was just like that. It was 10 more foot back and it had been the front of the guardrail. Of course I didn't hit nothing, you know, and that, you know, I woke up that time and drove home. Oh yeah, yeah, I was fine. Went and went to bed, went to sleep. Another time is I was in my F250 and I was headed home and it was, I don't know what time it was, but it was late and I'm headed home and up there, coming up to where my house is up that hill, I fell asleep collie on. [00:43:13] Speaker B: It right there in front of your house? [00:43:14] Speaker A: Well, my papa lived there and I'm up the hill at my mom's, my mom and dad's, but I fell asleep right there and I woke up just right before I hit that went through his fence. [00:43:27] Speaker B: So you're at the top of the hill? [00:43:30] Speaker A: Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. I'd passed the stop sign. I got that close to the house, you know, I was probably just so relieved, like I'm almost home, you know. And then I just went to sleep. And when I woke up, I woke. I woke up and there's that, there's my, my fence today. You know, I jerked that truck and, you know, missed the fence and went on up to the house. And when I got up to the house, oh my God, I'm just so sleepy. I just can't. And I pull up. I don't remember the time lapse it was, but I woke up so long afterwards. Truck running in neutral, my foot on the brake still just to sleep in my truck. Yeah, I don't know if I slept there for like 30 minutes or five minutes. Yeah, I don't know how long it was, but I woke up, you know, in my straight shift with it in neutral and holding the brake and my foot on the brake. Asleep. Yeah. I mean, heck, I could have just had that foot slip off a brake. You know, I'm laid back and I go, here I go down the driveway. You know, it could have easily happened. So. Yeah, same. Something real similar to yours there with. [00:44:32] Speaker B: A guardrail that was. [00:44:34] Speaker A: But that's the only times other than that I've had somebody with me who could maintain. And it wasn't Dave. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. I don't know, it's crazy because I'm older now, you think it would be worse, you know, falling asleep at the wheel and stuff, but. Yeah, I mean, I'm actually a lot better than I was then. I don't know if it was because we were running so hard and trying to do so much all the time. [00:44:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:59] Speaker B: I mean, we'd lay down there at my house and fix cars till 2 o' clock in the morning, get up and go to work, you know. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's different now just because you have more responsibility. Nine times out of ten, if you're driving now and it's late, you probably got everybody in the car with you too. [00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Yeah. [00:45:14] Speaker A: So you have more. More to be responsible for. So it's probably got something to do with that. [00:45:19] Speaker B: I'd say. Yeah, it's. I don't know. [00:45:23] Speaker A: I tell you, Dave didn't care who's in that car with him. He was out. That's an eerie feeling, man. A transfer truck waking you up, ripping by you. Oh, yeah, it was just. It was just a blur. [00:45:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Transfer truck was Dave's over in park in the fast lane. Pretty much head in his lap, man. I mean. I mean, he's sitting there, both hands on the wheel, just head down like he is, like, below his arms, like, he was done for. Done for. But he never. He never come out that lane. He was straight. So we're lucky to be alive. Basically. [00:45:58] Speaker B: Both of us are little instances there. [00:46:03] Speaker A: So we were lucky to be alive. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Lucky to be alive. [00:46:06] Speaker A: It's a million wonders. We're doing this podcast right now. [00:46:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. But, well, thank you guys for tuning back in with us. Like, share, subscribe, and catch us next Monday. Be doing it again for you. Have a good one, guys. [00:46:24] Speaker A: Tell some people about the second floor. Thanks.