WHO ARE THEY…. Dustin West

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Where are they? [00:00:04] Speaker B: They're probably upstairs. [00:00:08] Speaker C: They never answer the door. [00:00:09] Speaker B: Oh, wait, it's Monday night. They're on the second floor. [00:00:24] Speaker C: What's up, guys? We're back again on the second floor. Thanks for tuning back in with us. Got a special guest today, Dustin. Good friend, long friend, long time friend. We're gonna get to know who this guy is. So let's just get into it. [00:00:41] Speaker A: So what we'll do today is same as we're going to do this this whole second season and, and may continue, but we're gonna be bringing guests on and letting them tell who they are. So we're going to get to know Dustin. Both of us have known him a very long time. We're all great friends. One of the, probably the best people I know. So, Dustin, what we need out of you is tell everybody, listening, watching who you are. By the time this episode's done, they're gonna know. [00:01:21] Speaker C: Yeah, you're gonna know from where it started, where it began. [00:01:24] Speaker A: So start, start with school and work your way through everything and we'll ask you some questions. [00:01:31] Speaker B: All right. My full government name is Dustin Colt West. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Colt Colt. [00:01:36] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:01:37] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Been born and raised in Loudoun County, Tennessee. As a kid attended Loudon Elementary, Fort Loudoun, then attended high school at Loudoun. [00:01:54] Speaker C: Man, I could have swore that you. You've been Loudon your whole life. [00:01:57] Speaker B: Yes. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Really? [00:01:58] Speaker A: Wow. [00:01:58] Speaker C: I thought he was somewhere. [00:02:00] Speaker A: I could have swore I wouldn't meet Dustin until our freshman year. [00:02:04] Speaker C: I met him in middle school. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you came from sticky. We met in sixth grade. [00:02:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember middle school, man. He was like the, he was the dude. He was the football dude. I remember that. [00:02:14] Speaker A: He's a football dude for sure. [00:02:16] Speaker C: Absolutely. He was. [00:02:17] Speaker B: You can say that. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, right. [00:02:20] Speaker A: Well, somebody who get joins a high school football team and plays varsity. Freshman, I think you're the football. I think you're a football dude. [00:02:28] Speaker B: I didn't play a whole lot of varsity freshman. [00:02:31] Speaker A: Did you play a snap varsity freshman? [00:02:33] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:33] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:02:35] Speaker C: Back to the middle school. I just remember all the people that were the Tyler Campbell's, the Gregory Vaught, the, you know, I can't remember Bill Lee, all these guys. I remember these guys knowing exactly who this guy was when I was like. But now did you, did you go all the way through middle school, you football? Yeah. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Well, what it was is I started I think my cricket year football at Loudon, then ended up playing at Sweetwater until eighth grade. [00:03:13] Speaker C: Now did you go to Sweetwater School though? [00:03:15] Speaker B: I did not. Okay. [00:03:16] Speaker C: Because I did not. [00:03:16] Speaker A: I did not play a Little League football with you. [00:03:19] Speaker C: So that's why I remember all these guys. They know who Dustin west is. Like, dude, this must be somebody. And then I picked up football in 8th grade. Had no idea how to play football. Didn't know what a linebacker was. Didn't know what quarterback was. I know nothing. But Jesse Booth wanted me to play. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Football. [00:03:39] Speaker C: I was like, yeah, sure. And I remember Arch could not get me to come off the line. I couldn't get aggressive. I just didn't know what I was doing. Put me at lineman. I didn't know what a lineman was. [00:03:48] Speaker B: That's when your tooth went through your lip. [00:03:50] Speaker C: Yeah, that's exactly when that happened. [00:03:52] Speaker A: It was at Tyler Barr. [00:03:55] Speaker C: Yeah, we was doing drills on the pads there. We was doing drills and I pushed him. Come up out of the hole and pushed him back, pushing him back and blew the whistle on me. Stopped and he kept pushing me and I tripped over the pad. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Boom. [00:04:07] Speaker C: Chin strap, tooth come out. I'm sticking my tongue through my chin. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Pretty wild. [00:04:11] Speaker C: I had to go to the hospital and get glued up. [00:04:13] Speaker A: So, big football guy in high school. Got any good football stories from on the team or any of them guys or big fights that broke out? Anything good happen? I know there was some. I just don't know if you remember. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah, my freshman year, we had traveled to Gibbs High School to play them. I think we had only won one game up till then. And, you know, I was just a freshman, you know, smaller than, you know, the rest of the seniors. Juniors, I want to say we were. Something happened on kickoff with Charlie Hampton. And then all of a sudden I look up and both benches just cleared out. Cleared. [00:05:04] Speaker C: I do remember that. [00:05:05] Speaker A: You run out there. [00:05:07] Speaker B: I can't remember that part. I don't know if I did or not. I might have been scared to death. [00:05:11] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:05:14] Speaker B: But we ended up winning that game. And then the next was the Battle of the Bridge. [00:05:20] Speaker A: How'd you win that game? All the dang. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Oh, cause special. [00:05:23] Speaker A: It was special teams at kickoff. So the special teams got throughout the game. [00:05:26] Speaker B: I can't remember what happened between the Gibbs player came down and done something but Charlie or something. But the next week we had. It was Battle of the Bridge and we played Lenore City and there was like 20 something of our players got, you know, Ejected. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah, ejected. Couldn't play in next week. [00:05:45] Speaker C: I remember that. Yep. [00:05:47] Speaker B: So, yeah, that was freshman year. Then sophomore year, we turned the program around and went 11 and 2. Just had to Beat Alcoa and couldn't do it. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, for. For folks that don't know, that's like not quite David versus Goliath, but it. That's a. They're. They're recruiting players, basically. [00:06:15] Speaker C: They recruit players. [00:06:16] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah. They had a lot of D1 players. Let's see, my junior year there was a big fight. [00:06:26] Speaker A: I know where bunch of people got ejected one year. It wasn't freshmen. I think it would have been junior. [00:06:32] Speaker B: That was freshman year. I don't remember any other one. [00:06:34] Speaker A: There was one whenever I had. I had Fiesel's class for American hit. You know what? That may have been freshman year or not American, but world history. Yeah, I believe it was. I remember Josh Brown was telling me about it. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that was freshman year. That was the only, you know, big fight that broke out that people got ejected. [00:06:56] Speaker C: I remember. I remember when we used to go work out. Did you ever work out with us any. I wasn't even on the football team and I would go. [00:07:03] Speaker A: I would go in the weight room now. [00:07:05] Speaker C: Harry would let me go to the weight room and stuff and work out. Me and Billy, we'd get up, we'd go out there. Me and him go out and work out every morning. [00:07:15] Speaker A: And you when you was feeding calves too, probably. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Yeah, we had a bunch of calves. But I remember what was it was. It was you in the. Dude is stout too, by the way. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Used to be. [00:07:29] Speaker C: No, I'd say not anymore. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Yeah, right. [00:07:32] Speaker C: But anyways, what was it? Well, I think that's all of us. We're pushing 40 years old, but like in high school, what was it was you in the 3, 400 club benching 400. [00:07:45] Speaker B: I think I topped out at 300. I can't remember if it was 315. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Probably was 315. [00:07:51] Speaker B: That's 325. [00:07:53] Speaker C: I was over struggling to do. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Dude weighed like 170 pounds, though. It wasn't like he's going twice his body weight. [00:08:01] Speaker C: Yeah, it was over twice. I was over struggling to get 200 up. Dustin's putting up 315 four times. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we used to have lithathons, you know, for football and stuff. And I had won two or three years. First or second place. [00:08:19] Speaker A: I remember. So, yeah, he's. He's st. [00:08:22] Speaker C: He's stout. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Absolutely. He's still stout. [00:08:25] Speaker C: Hey, I remember. I don't know if you would remember this. I. I remember I was thinking about our podcast this morning and I was in high school. Do you remember those? Those. The outside. It was like in breezeway. No, no, no no no. Yeah, not the breezeway but the, the buildings, the extra buildings they had outside the high school that maybe geometry was in. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. Mr. Carpenter's glasses in the house in there. [00:08:47] Speaker C: I remember one day Dustin, I don't know if you would remember this or not. Robert Fickey. Robert Fickey. I don't know what he said to you or said something and he takes off running from that building and you know you've got the, you had the, you got the high school on the left and you've got that where they kept all the mowers and stuff and that little building outside and Jens was going right through there and Robert said something to Dustin. He's carrying that big old red book bag. I remember it's just plain as day Robert. [00:09:16] Speaker B: I still have that book bag. [00:09:20] Speaker C: And Dustin's carrying that book bag and Robert Vicky says something to him. I don't know if he wanted to race or what it was. And Dustin's carrying his book bag and Robert takes off and gets a jump on him and Dustin chases him down and beats him and Dustin's holding his book bag like this and running the whole way and I remember Robert it just blowing Robert's mind. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Ah yeah. I don't remember that. [00:09:42] Speaker C: Oh I do. I remember I'm like oh my gosh, Dustin just smoked him. [00:09:46] Speaker A: This is. [00:09:46] Speaker C: Dude that's on a basketball court. Dustin's carrying his book bag like this on one just holding it up. Not even on his shoulder. He's holding it up and running full force and caught Robert Vicky running down. [00:09:57] Speaker B: But [00:09:59] Speaker A: so football obviously you played football your whole life. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Yep. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah so that was. [00:10:07] Speaker B: I wish I would have played something else. Baseball or something but you know football was year round in high school. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah I can, I remember with this guy worked with me and him had a job mowing yards for a guy. And Dustin would go to 2A days and he would, he come, he'd go to 2A days in the morning come mow me until it was time to go back to 2A days in the afternoon. So that tells you his work ethic. [00:10:39] Speaker B: So a lot of weight that year that walk behind lawnmower. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah he wouldn't buy a sulkies would he? [00:10:47] Speaker C: We couldn't ride on it. [00:10:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And then when we did get, when he finally did buy that rider then somebody started helping us. They wrote it. Yeah but yeah we were, we were walking a lot that summer. So you get through high school, don't go to college? [00:11:06] Speaker B: No I kind of Wish I would have at least tried college, like vocational or. [00:11:12] Speaker A: You're talking about, like, you want a desk job. [00:11:15] Speaker B: No, I don't want no desk. Desk job? Yeah, something like that. Know, tech or something. [00:11:20] Speaker A: Something to put you above somebody else or something. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. [00:11:25] Speaker A: All right. So you get through that. What about growing up, growing up outside of school? [00:11:35] Speaker B: Well, at home we had always had chickens fighting roosters at one point, you know, hogs, cattle. At one point, horses. [00:11:48] Speaker C: My goodness, I didn't realize that you got a bunch. Is that where you currently. Where you. Where you was raised at? [00:11:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Okay. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we had. Well, back then all that was cleared out, you know, was fields and stuff. It's not. It's all grown up now. [00:12:05] Speaker C: I think you're MySpace picture you. Wasn't you on a horse or something? On a MySpace picture, Charlie. [00:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why I did my senior project. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:13] Speaker B: How to train a horse. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:14] Speaker B: I remember I brought it to school and everything. [00:12:17] Speaker C: I didn't know that. [00:12:21] Speaker B: I had to show him. [00:12:22] Speaker C: I didn't know that. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah, he was. [00:12:24] Speaker A: Yeah, Charlie was. Charlie was Nathan's horse. It was. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't know that. [00:12:28] Speaker A: He cheated his way through high school like I did. You got that senior project, which. The senior project at our school meant everything. It meant. That meant if you didn't. [00:12:36] Speaker C: How in the world is that even a thing? Thing? [00:12:38] Speaker A: I don't, I don't know. But if you didn't pass your senior project, which our senior project was, you had to write a paper on it. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Seven pair or seven page papers. [00:12:47] Speaker A: I don't, I don't know why I'm. Page paper A. You had to, you had to give, like credit to what you found and all of your information. You had to have a paper on that. You had to do a 15 minute presentation in front of judges and they had to approve it. I mean, that, that was based on everything. [00:13:08] Speaker B: What? So many hours of community service. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah. You had to. If you didn't do that, you had to retake senior year. If you. [00:13:16] Speaker B: If you didn't pass, you didn't walk at graduation. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah. So it meant everything. [00:13:20] Speaker C: I look back on it, you know, everything that we've all done and how. I think we've all been pretty successful with everything that we've done. I look back on it, I'm like, okay, I graduated high school. What in the heck did my senior project have to do with anything? I brought a freaking wooden cabinet to high school. I was laughing at him for a horse. And I'm thinking, well, I Brought a dang kitchen cabinet to my high school. So what am I even sitting here laughing at him for? [00:13:46] Speaker A: Well, but see, that was at least something you could talk about and knew about. I know. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Everybody was doing it. [00:13:51] Speaker C: I know. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:52] Speaker C: Yeah, you were doing it. But Dustin wasn't out breaking horses. [00:13:55] Speaker B: No. [00:13:56] Speaker A: He just had to come up with something. Like I did. I did rebuild. [00:14:00] Speaker C: Okay, I see where you're going. I see where you're going with this. Now I got you. [00:14:03] Speaker A: I did rebuilding an engine. [00:14:05] Speaker C: So both of you, neither one of you had anything to do with what you was actually interested in. [00:14:10] Speaker B: Only thing I learned how to do was how to saddle it and get on it and be able to, you know, show them I can ride. Yeah, he was a stud horse. He was stubborn. But I was like, please don't act up. Please don't act up. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Take no credit. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Put me through that barn over the. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Throw him. Throw him off of it. And it may sound like engine building should be what I would have went with. Makes sense because of my line of work. But then I knew nothing. And my uncle Dave owned a machine shop, so it was real easy for me to just go down, take pictures of different things he's doing in there and just. Just flub my way through it and make up stuff and, you know, talk about it or whatever. [00:14:55] Speaker B: And. [00:14:55] Speaker A: And yeah, so I got through it that way, too. So I didn't know. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Did you do an engine rebuild? Like, did you bring one to school or something? [00:15:03] Speaker A: No, I had pictures and stuff on a, you know, on a presentation. Just went down there, took that picture. [00:15:09] Speaker C: That's what I did. [00:15:10] Speaker A: I literally. I literally just took a bunch of pictures, put them on this poster, and had to do a presentation on it. But no, I didn't bring. I didn't bring a vehicle with an engine in it and say I did that. I didn't do that. I just talked about. About the process. Now. Now what really probably got me through it is my. My. Dave was doing my uncle's. [00:15:29] Speaker C: My. [00:15:29] Speaker A: My dad's motor at the time. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:15:32] Speaker A: So I did have, like. [00:15:34] Speaker C: It was kind of yours. Kind of not yours. [00:15:36] Speaker A: I had before and after pictures, truck motor out of it. Pictures there, motor in it, you know, so something like that. I can't remember exactly, but was that. [00:15:45] Speaker B: That S10. [00:15:46] Speaker A: I skimped through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:15:49] Speaker C: One of our teachers watching. Damn, guys. [00:15:54] Speaker A: So you grew up, you had a bunch of stuff, but you. You've hunted your whole life, haven't you? [00:16:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:03] Speaker C: That's one thing I wished I Had done. Yeah. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah. My dad made sure that I went with him at a young age. Start hunting. Then he would take us on draw youth draw hunts every year up until then football, you know, in high school started getting. Yeah in, in the way of that and there for a while I think I quit hunting period. For what? Because you'd come down there and hunt and I wouldn't even go. I. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Well, so I never hunted. I'd never hunted before in my life. So I mean other than like squirrel hunting or something, you know, I never went deer hunting and I had a deer gun already. I just didn't use it, you know. [00:16:46] Speaker C: And. [00:16:48] Speaker A: But yeah, I started coming down there and hunting at your place. Having all the places in the world behind me to hunt if I wanted to right now. I'd go down Dustin's house. I didn't know nothing about it, you know. And, but, but yeah, you're the only reason that I hunt today. Or else, you know, I started hanging out with guys that hunted and, and all of a sudden I wanted to hunt. So that's the only reason I got into it. [00:17:10] Speaker C: Wonder why that never happened for me. I ain't never hunt the first thing in my life. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Too busy working. [00:17:15] Speaker C: Everybody knows that. Yeah, that's true. That's true. [00:17:18] Speaker A: We're gonna get. Go hunting. Morning. I'm gonna go work. [00:17:19] Speaker C: I gotta go. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Virgil's lucky 90 year old B.A. [00:17:23] Speaker B: remember that time? Was it me, you and Brody all went up there and hunted and started spitting snow. It. [00:17:31] Speaker A: It was that day. But so that, but that was. That was like probably when you wanted to start back. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been. Yeah, it was a while after that. [00:17:38] Speaker A: So over at Dustin's house where he currently resides but where he grew up, there's a. There's a ridge. They call it a ridge and it's a friggin. It's a man killer ridge. It's steep and it's big, but there's not a ton of property there. But the deer will cross that ridge and come over in there. And we were. We. We decided to go hunting and me and Nathan had been hunting. You know, I started hunting with Nathan Dozen's little brother and, but we started. Me and Nathan had been hunting for a while so we were conditioned for that ridge. We didn't have no four wheeler. Me and Nathan get, you know, get up, I go spend the night with him or something and. Or drive over there that morning and it be, I don't know, 4 o' clock in the morning or something. 4:30. And we get up. And we. One day him and Brody decided they were going to go hunting, you know, Dustin, I know that ridge. I've been up that ridge a million times, you know. And he had, he had, but he ain't been up in a long time. And me and Nathan, we're up, we're like, let's go. They're in bed. [00:18:41] Speaker C: Like Justin's, like, it's 5:00'. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Clock. Like that's okay, you know, but. Or 5:30, whatever time it was. We were getting a head start, you know, get up there, get set in the stands and just wait on the daylight, you know. And I remember Nathan always took the first stand. It was always the best one. Like wanted, I guess more deer move through there or something. And I took a stand over here so I can look off to my left like this and see down that ridge, like the trail. You guys should come up off in a. Like a good ways away though. Dustin, Brody down there getting ready still. Me and Nathan left him because we know how, how hard it is to get up that ridge. We've been going up and down it. Well, we get up there and it's dark and we sit and we wait. We wait and we wait on daylight and all that. Finally, finally, you can see them coming. And here they come up that ridge. Walking, walking. Both of them stopping, walking, stopping, laid down. Finally, finally, finally laid down. Brody got all the way up to the top. He threw. And Brody goes up. Me and him are the only two stands. Me and Nathan are. So Brody goes over. Brody goes over in front of me and goes down this way on the fence row and sits on the ground. And I remember seeing Brody and Dustin down here throwing up. [00:20:02] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Did you throw? No, I didn't throw it. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Brody did. Brody threw up. I remember him talking about it. But yeah, they're laying down. Coming up that ridge. Me and Nathan have been. We were conditioned for it. We knew about it. Oh, we got plenty head start so we could stop and take our time, you know? Yeah. We wasn't going to get up there and just hump it up that ridge as you get up there before daylight. That's what they had to do. [00:20:24] Speaker C: That's hilarious. [00:20:25] Speaker B: I still do it till this day. I climb up there, I got. I lay down. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Do you? [00:20:31] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Really? Yeah, that's how steep it is. It's a steep ridge, so. But yeah, that's kind of when I started hunting, [00:20:40] Speaker C: so. [00:20:42] Speaker A: So you went through that or you hunted your whole life? Y' all fish and stuff? [00:20:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Your dad had a boat, didn't he? [00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah, we would go down, you know, by Staley's and whatnot and drift. He always had a boat. And we would drift down the river with the current or whatever. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah, we used to. [00:20:59] Speaker B: We did a lot of catfish. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's all I did. [00:21:04] Speaker B: We did that. Didn't really do any, like, bass or nothing like that. Mostly catfish. [00:21:09] Speaker C: We used to a bunch of fishing out there at Polecat. Me, you. Yeah, Cameron and Cameron. [00:21:17] Speaker A: I didn't go. [00:21:18] Speaker C: Cameron Sampson, Billy. [00:21:20] Speaker B: We'd be out there 304 in the morning. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Yeah, it'd be. Yeah. Dang about that polecat fishing. Catfish. Chicken liver. Yeah, throwing that chicken liver out. [00:21:31] Speaker A: You throw. [00:21:31] Speaker C: You throw some chicken liver out there, bait them that stuff, let it sit there for about 10, 15 minutes. You just take that rod and throw it over and you just. It didn't matter. As soon as it hit the bottom, here they come. You can just snag one immediately. [00:21:43] Speaker A: So you. So you get through high school. Let's pick up after high school. He's kind of like, I am still working for the same place, doing the same thing. How's that been for you? [00:22:00] Speaker B: See, we started, what, 2008? Yeah, yeah, I think I started in July of 2008. Worked as a tire tech at Lenore City for I think it was five years and decided to go somewhere else for a little bit. And then I came back and ended up in of front Farragut. Stayed there for, I think, five years. [00:22:30] Speaker C: I think I was. Was at that time. Was I kind of pushing you to come back? [00:22:36] Speaker B: Well, Jimmy had called me early one morning before I had to go in to work at the co op and wanted me to meet with him. So he came down to the hardies and we met probably two or three times before we could come work something out. Yeah. And then what Farragut for five years worked with, you know, you. [00:23:03] Speaker C: We've all worked together. All of us have worked together at one point. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Boomhauer. John Dupree. J.D. [00:23:14] Speaker A: viewers have heard about J.D. yes, they have. Oh, they. They know about all, but. Well, they just know some stories, I guess. We haven't told everything there is to tell about that. [00:23:25] Speaker B: I got some voicemails. Let them listen to. [00:23:29] Speaker C: Golly. Oh, wow. [00:23:31] Speaker A: We'll do that after the show. [00:23:34] Speaker C: Wow. [00:23:34] Speaker A: We'll do that after the show. [00:23:36] Speaker C: J.D. man. [00:23:37] Speaker B: See, I worked there, then left again for, I think a year. Came to work with Matt and his cousins for a little while. Went back and been back now back at Lenore City now for probably at [00:23:55] Speaker C: least six, seven years. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:57] Speaker C: Six, seven years. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Mechanical. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I do mechanical work. Alignments or whatever is needed. [00:24:09] Speaker C: You know, I was thinking about that this morning, you know, and everybody's probably got their own. Their view on this. But. But Dave, your uncle, he does not like the idea of guys being able to see what each other's doing, you know, how we used to. And I was thinking this morning, now, this is when you've got a good. [00:24:30] Speaker A: We post it. We posted now. [00:24:33] Speaker C: Okay, so everybody knows. [00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:35] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Well, I think they don't know money, but they know. They know. [00:24:38] Speaker C: They know that. They know that this technician done sales. Oh, okay. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:43] Speaker C: Well, I'm talking about what we used to do. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Well, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about per mechanic. Yeah. [00:24:48] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Yeah. What they build out. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah. They put it on the board. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:52] Speaker A: Okay. [00:24:52] Speaker C: So you got like a. So they do it like a leaderboard sort of thing. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:54] Speaker C: Okay. I think that's great. [00:24:57] Speaker A: It is, but. [00:24:58] Speaker C: But, But Dave's totally against it, but whatever. That's fine. But where I was getting with that was when you have a really good group, I guess when you don't. When you haven't worked at. Like we did and worked off, basically worked off commission, where you didn't make anything an hour. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:25:13] Speaker C: But you've got a good group of guys and they're, you know, we can all get along. We go out to eat on the weekends together all, you know, we rode five deep in a Toyota Prius. [00:25:24] Speaker A: We grew up with each other and we. [00:25:25] Speaker C: So. But the good competition, and it was always. I felt like it was an awesome competition. It was always a good way. All of us made money. We've all made good money, and it just helped us to stay focused and strive together. And yeah, if I, you know, we can pull a little bit out of this or pull, you know, I can, you know, I need a little bit more to beat Dustin or I need a little bit more to beat Bo or, you know, whatever. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Brody, would he not keep a notebook and. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. For. [00:25:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we do that. And by lunch. [00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. I think at one point in time he'd take us out to lunch. [00:26:02] Speaker C: I must have missed the other shop. Really? Yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker B: I think I still have the notebook. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Golly, you keep everything. Oh, okay. [00:26:14] Speaker B: So. Yeah, I think I still have it. [00:26:17] Speaker A: Probably came out of JD's junk. He didn't throw that, in a way. [00:26:20] Speaker B: No, it came out hours. [00:26:23] Speaker A: So you're missing an important part of your Life now. Well, I guess we can move on to it. Maybe you just ain't brought it up yet, but kids and baseball. [00:26:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I thought you just getting that. Just work what I've done for work. Yeah. I have two boys, Ariat and Rhettley. They're 11 and 12 [00:26:49] Speaker C: now. What was that? [00:26:50] Speaker A: They were. [00:26:50] Speaker C: What would they call that? [00:26:51] Speaker A: Irish. [00:26:52] Speaker C: Irish twins. That's what it was. [00:26:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember when all that went down. [00:26:56] Speaker B: They're tow two totally different kids. [00:26:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember that. I didn't even know what Irish twins was. [00:27:02] Speaker A: First and second. First and second kids are very different. [00:27:06] Speaker B: So yeah, let's see, I've been married. Divorced. [00:27:14] Speaker A: Divorced. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Let's see, I have. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Might as well be married now. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Her name's Brittany Brock. We've been together almost seven years. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Gosh, I cannot believe it's that long. Golly bum. [00:27:31] Speaker C: That is amazing. [00:27:31] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:27:32] Speaker C: Yeah, that is crazy. [00:27:34] Speaker A: That's been that long. That is insane. And Eric Rich, 11 and 12. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Well, I take that back. It's 2019. [00:27:46] Speaker A: That's almost seven years. [00:27:48] Speaker B: Eight years. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was seven years, but it's 2026. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, seven years. [00:27:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:58] Speaker A: That's crazy. I cannot believe it's been that long. That is insane. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I get haggled all the time about popping. Not putting a ring. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Pop. [00:28:07] Speaker C: Popping that question. Huh? That's a. [00:28:09] Speaker A: That's just. That goes right hand in hand with you. Same way it was originally. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you can say that. She has a. She has a daughter named Maddie. She plays volleyball and softball at Sweetwater High School. [00:28:29] Speaker A: So you're involved with that a lot too, right? [00:28:31] Speaker B: Well, it's kind of hard with the schedule, with the boys, you know. Right now with baseball, I have not been able to make softball game. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Same goes for her. Is she driving? No, you said freshman. [00:28:43] Speaker B: She. She'll be driving May 18 once she gets her license. [00:28:48] Speaker A: I see Bringing to ball games a lot. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Yeah, well, what happened was I think three or four girls ended up quitting the high school softball team. So they asked Maddie to join. So she joined halfway through the season [00:29:04] Speaker A: just to make it like dude. But she knew how to play and played before. [00:29:08] Speaker B: She's played her whole life up until going into high school. [00:29:12] Speaker C: She. So now your boys, they're big into baseball Just like boy Bo's boys, right? [00:29:20] Speaker B: Baseball, basketball, football. [00:29:22] Speaker A: They play a little bit of every spot you're going. [00:29:24] Speaker C: So you're going non stop then? [00:29:26] Speaker B: Yes. It's always. You got to be somewhere. [00:29:28] Speaker C: I always think I hear People talking about baseball. But then when you throw baseball, you throw basketball, you throw football, you throw all that in the misc. [00:29:35] Speaker A: I mean, you're. [00:29:35] Speaker C: You're. It's 12. It's 12. It's twelve months. Oh, yeah. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Now you're. Now y' all ain't on air. They're not on a travel ball team anymore, are they? [00:29:43] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Are they? [00:29:44] Speaker C: Even if they're 11 and 12, I don't know how any of this works. Are they on the same team? [00:29:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:29:48] Speaker C: Okay, well, that makes it better. You ain't got different ball games. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:52] Speaker B: I made Rhettley move up where we wouldn't have to travel different places now, [00:29:58] Speaker A: but like this year, like, if there's a cutoff, like, it don't go to another year. This year, Eric's going to age out. Right. [00:30:04] Speaker B: In baseball. [00:30:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And really be able to play again. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Okay. What are they going to do there? They gonna both join a travel ball team? [00:30:12] Speaker B: No, no. Rle will probably play another year, Rick. [00:30:15] Speaker A: Oh. Well, Eric can go to middle school, right? [00:30:19] Speaker B: But he says he don't know if he wants to play or not, so. Yeah, same with football. Middle school football. You don't know if he wants to play or not. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Now, your son, is he. Is he the fastest kid on the football team, too? [00:30:35] Speaker B: Yes, most of the time he's probably the fastest kid on the field. Wow. [00:30:38] Speaker C: I did not know that. On a football field. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And he plays run back. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:43] Speaker A: What's Ratley play? [00:30:45] Speaker B: A little bit of everything. Whatever he's feeling that season, so they'll just let him. But he's played linebacker, fullback, safety most of the time. [00:31:01] Speaker C: Okay. [00:31:02] Speaker A: But they want to put the ball. [00:31:04] Speaker C: What did old dad play when he was. What did you play most? [00:31:08] Speaker B: I was pulling guard. [00:31:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:31:09] Speaker B: Defensive end. [00:31:10] Speaker C: Okay. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Okay. 57. [00:31:12] Speaker B: 3. [00:31:13] Speaker A: 53. Yeah. [00:31:16] Speaker C: Couldn't remember what you. What exactly. I know you was. I knew he was on the line. [00:31:19] Speaker B: Well, I think I was 53 when I was in my sophomore junior year. I remember freshman. I think freshman year I was some crazy number. [00:31:30] Speaker A: I might not have met you until sophomore year. You think? Is it fresh? I cannot remember. Now I remember. I remember it plain as day. We were in the lunchroom, and you were sitting over. You sat over in one of those boots against the wall over by, like, where you could. Where they had the gazebo where you could go up and buy the burgers. [00:31:51] Speaker B: In between both. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you sat in between. Down that hall right there with the haglers in that booth. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that like it was. I can just see you sitting there now. [00:32:03] Speaker C: You know what's funny? I don't even remember that early on. I remember Dustin and I mean I knew of him, but I mean, I don't know if I sat with somebody else or what. I don't remember sitting with y' all at all. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Oh, you were out of our league. Was I? [00:32:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I bet I was. [00:32:17] Speaker A: You're probably working in the middle of school. He's probably working. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:23] Speaker C: Can't go to math class. I gotta go make some sandwiches. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Junior year, you was leaving to go to work. [00:32:27] Speaker C: Yeah, Junior. Yeah, I done had all my. Pretty much all my stuff, credits and everything ready to go co op and on. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Junior year, go work for Virgil. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Virgil? Yeah. Would I been Virgil then, Junior? Because I was actually a cabinet place. I was a cabinetry is what it was. Yeah. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Ben, you were late. [00:32:47] Speaker C: Late junior and then all of senior. Absolutely. [00:32:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:51] Speaker C: Because I was almost time we graduated. I was almost 19 because I started so dang late. Everybody else around me, 17, you know, just turning 18. I'm fixing to hit 19. I'm still in high school. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I started, I was young. [00:33:04] Speaker C: I started. Yeah, I started in kindergarten. When's your birthday? 6. October. [00:33:09] Speaker A: October. When and how old are you right now? [00:33:11] Speaker C: 30. I'll be. Well, you'll be 36. I'll be 37. [00:33:14] Speaker A: You'll be 37. I'm not even 36 yet. Yeah, you turned 37 and I'm still 35. No, no, no, no, no, NO. I'll turn 30. I'll turn 36amonth before you turn 37. [00:33:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So you're almost a full two years older than me. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Holy cow. [00:33:30] Speaker C: Yeah, I've went to. [00:33:32] Speaker A: I was in coun for that. [00:33:34] Speaker C: I went into. Well, I always felt, always everybody asked me like, how old are you when you was in school and stuff? And I'd be, I'd always be a year or two older than everybody. Cuz like if you come in, if you come in at 4 years old in kindergarten. I'm starting when I'm 6 years old in kindergarten. [00:33:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:48] Speaker C: You know, and I thought. And everybody's like, did you fail? I'm like, no, I didn't fail. I never failed a grade. [00:33:54] Speaker A: You're like Avery in 6U now, right? Four years old, playing 6U. He got drilled in the chest. Some big six year old up there swung about and it, I mean it went off the ground. But he's, you know, down ball in front of him, you know, squared up on It. But it just, you know, hits him right there. I mean, he grabbed it and ran. He actually. No, I don't. I don't know what he did at that time. He ran a kid down at second tag or tagged the base. Got him out here, like, right after that or something. But, yeah, he got drilled in the chest. Man, he was fine, though. He just. He just kept going. Gabe went up there and talked to him. [00:34:29] Speaker B: It's. It's funny watching them at that age. [00:34:31] Speaker A: Oh, it's terrible. It's not funny. He had the best at that same game, man. I don't know. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Everybody. [00:34:41] Speaker A: It's like everybody was just hitting the ball to him. He had. I know he got hit in the chest with that one and knocked it down. And I think he just held a kid at first. Maybe the kid made it. He might have threw it. Had a little boy on first that has played wonderful all year long, but here at the last few games, he. He ain't getting on the base. He's staying off the base. So Avery even threw his ball to him a couple times. He hadn't threw the ball all year. All of a sudden, one game, he starts now he's a defensive guru all of a sudden. And then we went and played in a tournament this week. God awful. He was terrible. He would not stand still. He wouldn't look at the batter. He was spinning around and, you know, just. He's four. Yeah, he's four. [00:35:28] Speaker C: Yeah. You're acting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:35:29] Speaker A: But all of us, over, four of us just hollering at him. Roll the ball, you know, whatever. Know like a bunch of lunatics. No, I'm in the dugout. I'm coaching with them. Yeah. Helping. So. [00:35:45] Speaker B: Heck, mine just played in the dirt at that age. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Well, hopefully he comes around. No, he don't. He don't just play in the dirty. He does play in the dirt. Tries to, but that drives me up the wall. Playing in the dirt, that. Turn your hat around. All them kids want to, you know, it's like, turn that head around the way it's supposed to be. Dude, you're on a baseball field. [00:36:04] Speaker B: He's just four, Bo. [00:36:06] Speaker A: He is. He is. [00:36:09] Speaker C: So. So let's. I. I just want to. I want to hear a few. I want the viewers to hear a few of our stories when we work together. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Well, we've got. We just got to pick them out. I mean, what comes to your mind? You got anything that pops in your mind? [00:36:24] Speaker C: Because we. We. We work together. I remember. Let's see. I probably work with both of y' all for what, four to five years probably before I left and went somewhere else. And we all were mechanics. Every one of us was mechanic and own cars. [00:36:39] Speaker A: I don't know if it was that long with me, but maybe. [00:36:42] Speaker C: No, I'd say it was close to. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Did Dustin leave before you quit? No. Lord no. [00:36:47] Speaker C: Dustin was. [00:36:47] Speaker A: No. Huh? Yeah. You were gone long before that. [00:36:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I was left in. I left in late. Late. I left in. No, I left in early. Early 2017. I took like a four month break before I started the store. So. Yeah, I didn't do nothing for four months. Well, I'd say that I worked on my store, but I didn't. Didn't have a job for like four months. It's the only time in my life that I have never had a job is when I left the shop. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Yeah, but you were really, you were working though. Really? [00:37:16] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, but I didn't have. I wasn't getting no money. [00:37:19] Speaker A: Yeah, you wasn't. Wasn't getting paid, but. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Well, I've got. I've got one. But you didn't work with us. [00:37:28] Speaker C: No, that's fine. I want to hear it. [00:37:34] Speaker A: What was I there? [00:37:36] Speaker B: Lenore City. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:37:37] Speaker B: You know, when we first, you know, Bradley Paul. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:37:41] Speaker B: And in between working on stuff, we would rap. [00:37:45] Speaker C: Bradley Paul is. Is a giant six foot eight. Six? Yeah, six. He's a monster. He makes. He makes. Makes us look small. [00:37:54] Speaker A: Weighs over 300. He's. Yeah. Oh yeah. Real small. [00:37:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Makes us look real small. [00:37:59] Speaker B: In Lenore City. There's a stairwell in the back that goes up to like a loft at. On the top. And we would get up there and it'd take what, four of us to pin him down. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Well, there was a door. It was a. There was a big door where that used to be a dealership and they have a parts window with a counter there. So like the parts would be back in there. And you would go up as a technician and say to the parts people, I need this or whatever. And you know, they would get their parts through there. But there was a door here, remember? And Bradley would. He'd wait for one of us. That's where we kept our inventory and tires and tubes and lawnmower tires and stuff like that. And he'd go. If he seen one of us go through that door, you didn't go by yourself. You didn't see go by yourself. Because if he seen one of us go through that door, he'd look around, sneak over and shut that door and lock it and all of a sudden you'd hear, you know, somebody upstairs. He'd have him down and pinned somewhere and he would. We had to crawl through that service window to go in there and rescue our co workers. He'd be up there, he'd have you. Dang arm bars. And I mean, have you. I mean, he just had to get his hand on you and you were done. You were. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Lay on top of you and then spin around you. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Yeah. He'd lay flat on you and then you'd run up and he. He'd turn this way. If he could grab your leg. You're down there with him, you know, he'd have two or three of us [00:39:26] Speaker C: down on the ground. [00:39:27] Speaker A: So one of us was able to get a hold of it. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Made so much noise up there. [00:39:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I know it was above the office. I don't know how we got by with it. I still don't know. [00:39:35] Speaker C: They probably just thought she was up there getting tires or something. [00:39:38] Speaker A: Probably. But God, we were hollering, fighting. I mean, it was. It was wild. And when we escape and we'd leave him up on the ground and they'd all of us be scurrying like rats. He'd be up there. Yeah. This is a guy who carried two sets of tires, four on each arm. Walk into the shop. He's a monster. [00:39:58] Speaker C: Yeah, was a. He's a biggin. [00:40:00] Speaker B: So. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Yeah, we used to do that stuff. We'd soak each other down there too. So this is something another store didn't have you wouldn't know about. We had water hoses on reels. [00:40:09] Speaker C: I do remember. [00:40:10] Speaker A: I remember that we had water hoses on reels. And that was like having a. A fully automatic all the time. 27 super so Super soakers. And we would soak each other. We would soak each other. We have this old, old black guy named Otis who would come in the afternoons and drive cars around and stuff and just fool around. He worked for a different company that Jimmy owned, but he, he would come do that. Heck, we'd have him soaked. He couldn't drive a car. They paid vehicles out and we'd go up front and have to ask them. We'd go up front, have to ask people up front to pull them around for us. Cause you've done soaked. Because we were soaking wet. Even, even the guy was there to drive him around was soaking wet. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Yeah. He'd be like, you fathead. [00:40:49] Speaker C: Water, baby. [00:40:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what he says, fat head. [00:40:54] Speaker C: Water. [00:40:55] Speaker A: That's what he says. All, all the time. Well, he was a trip. [00:40:59] Speaker C: Yeah, Otis was a trip. [00:41:00] Speaker A: Oh, we were constantly man into. Into something down there. Remember snowball fights galore down there? [00:41:07] Speaker C: Remember that? [00:41:08] Speaker A: Because we'd be the only ones to show up on snow days. And no. And people didn't get out, drive their vehicles. We didn't have nothing to do snow. I remember when Bradley worked down there. Did you ever meet Wes Craig? Yes. Okay. One time. I don't know what Bradley did to Wes. I cannot remember what it was. I just cannot remember it had something to do with snow or like down his pants or down his shirt, did something with snow. And we had moved all those tire changers over behind that brick wall, that block wall that was there so you couldn't see. Wes went outside and filled a Food City bag up with snow and climbed over the top of that wall, dumped it on Bradley as he was working on a tire or something. Remember that? [00:41:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Dumped it all over the top of him. Just covered him with it. One time, I'll tell you how big that son again is. One time I had a. I had a three. Three box Craftsman box. That was my very first toolbox. And he took. There was an old pontoon boat out in the parking lot, out in the gravel parking lot down there, like the corner edge of the property. And you know how big the property is, so furthest as you can possibly get away. Right. He had, he had I come to work one day, my box is gone. [00:42:25] Speaker B: He would. He would hide boxes all the time. [00:42:27] Speaker A: We were so mischievous. He took. He took the top part of my toolbox, the top part, and climbed all the way to the top of the tire racks and put it up there. He took the bottom of it and carried it up in steps and put it up there behind as far as he could in the corner, away from the where, covered it up with tubes and stuff. Where I couldn't find it. I found the middle part in that pontoon boat. It was on the other side of the property. I like to never found all that stuff. But yeah, I guess one day maybe when I was at lunch, I come back, my boss just gone. And I find all three pieces in different places. We'd rastle them. Used tires, we. We'd change tires all day long. We'd have a pile of tires. Boy, we'd get over and wrestle. [00:43:12] Speaker C: Gosh, see, for me, I was up. I worked for two years in tires before they stuck me in oil and. And service. And so for me, this is just me. I was thinking about this morning. There were certain points in my life. I was like, if this is it, I'm done. Like, I. I just. I'd rather just kill my dang self. I don't want nothing to do with [00:43:33] Speaker A: this anymore because it was just miserable. [00:43:36] Speaker C: The environment was just. First off was terrible. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:39] Speaker C: You know, but now it did get better. Absolutely. When you guys came around and started working up up in Knoxville with me. Yeah. [00:43:47] Speaker A: But you were making more money then. Imagine just being a wild and free tire. I seen him. [00:43:56] Speaker C: That's why I wanted. That's why when I come down and put my application in in 2008, that's where I wanted to be. But it didn't happen. [00:44:03] Speaker B: Oh, your. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Your whole outlook on all of it. I literally think today, as I'm doing my job currently, and I really go, oh, it'd be nice just to be a target guy. That's all I had to worry about. [00:44:17] Speaker C: If you could make. If you could make the money. Absolutely, man. [00:44:19] Speaker A: Those were the best times. [00:44:21] Speaker C: And you've got a good crew to work with. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Oh, we had such. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Dude. [00:44:24] Speaker C: My guys was. My guys was off doing stuff they don't need to be doing and. And you can't find them. Half time carpools in are gone. [00:44:32] Speaker B: You know, that's the way it is now. We're out. [00:44:36] Speaker C: Yeah. We were just driving. [00:44:38] Speaker A: We cut our teeth changing tires, man. We smoked cigarettes for the first time. We did. For the first time. We. We. I mean, first time you ever, you know, I guess operate. Probably for me, operating an air gun even was the first time. You know, just. I mean, everything. And we had. I mean, smokes. [00:44:59] Speaker C: I remember both smoking cigarettes. [00:45:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that happened before. We, we. We would go. We'd go on lunch. Well, no, back then, we couldn't go together. We wasn't allowed. We only got 30 minute breaks. Make a minimum wage, take a 30 minute break. Go down and spend all your. What you made that morning on some need for lunch. [00:45:21] Speaker B: $7 a night. [00:45:23] Speaker A: Good lord. Yeah, it was. But, man, that was. I tell you, I reminisce about those times. I think about them all the time. I know you. I would if I was down there at Lauren City looking at everything. Oh, man, I think about it all the time. [00:45:37] Speaker B: That's. That's what I tell them at work. I said, because they're all the time. Gotta have three or four on one vehicle. You know, I'm like, yeah, you know, we helped each other. [00:45:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:45:51] Speaker B: So would do. You know, it was, what, four of us? [00:45:54] Speaker A: We. Yeah, we may have four vehicles in there. Ain't nobody helping anybody. And we may have to change a little, put a set of tires on it and do an alignment and we do every bit of ourselves. [00:46:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:03] Speaker B: You know, now, man, help, help, help. [00:46:06] Speaker A: Yeah, they cry and wine. It's unreal. They wouldn't even. Which I know all we do is sound like our daddies and our papas, [00:46:14] Speaker C: you know, I know back about you [00:46:16] Speaker A: never make it back to my day, you know, that's how we are. I thought the other day, you know, you talk about getting older and you have signs yourself and make you go, probably, I am getting older, you know, and the other day I looked at a tree in the yard and I went, you know, Kevin had told me, cut that side. That one's just going to kill it because it's going to overtake it. We get all the sunlight. Well, I didn't cut it. I just left it alone. Sure enough, it's just hanging there, just dead. Just, you know, it didn't make it. But that other one is just tall. And I thought, well, you can really tell how old you are when you talk about how. How tall trees are now, how small they used to be. Beat how big you are now. That really shows your age. [00:46:54] Speaker C: You know, when I do. When I. I think about that, when I. Somebody comes in for a credit app. Do a credit app. Some young guy comes in, 20 years old, you know, I was. I don't know. When were you born? It's like, you know, he tells me, it's like I was born in 2006. I'm like, he's born in. Is that that. Can you even buy a mower if he's born in 2006? I'm like, God, that's 20 years ago. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:17] Speaker C: I was fixing graduate. I was. I was. I was fixing graduate high school. [00:47:21] Speaker A: Yeah. That's crazy. You know, I'm like, gosh, look at this. I hire these guys at work and, you know, they may be fresh out of high school. Eighteen, you know, I'm like, what year were you born? You know? And he's like, 2000 something. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, you're like a. I'm like, how old are you? Like six, you know? [00:47:42] Speaker C: Really? [00:47:42] Speaker A: He's 18 years old, you know, But I think in my mind. [00:47:44] Speaker C: I know, I know. It doesn't feel like we're that old. [00:47:46] Speaker A: No way. Yeah. [00:47:47] Speaker B: It's just hard to believe it's 20. [00:47:49] Speaker C: 26. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Have y' all ever went to a high school reunion? No. One of ours. Me neither. [00:47:55] Speaker C: Coop was Diagnosed when? Like a week or two after they had. When he was diagnosed, like two weeks after they had a high school reunion. I can't wait to the next one. What is it, 20? [00:48:07] Speaker A: Oh, I ain't going. [00:48:08] Speaker C: Oh, we have to go. [00:48:09] Speaker A: God, no, we don't. Yes. Why not? I doubt I'm going to. [00:48:14] Speaker C: Well, I'm not. We should get me. [00:48:17] Speaker B: I was trying to think of the 10 year I was gonna go, and something happened. I can't remember what it was because [00:48:26] Speaker A: they had it over there at the barn. Yeah, yeah, I remember that, but I don't. I didn't go. I didn't go. And the people I talked to that went said it sucked, so. [00:48:35] Speaker C: I know, but that's why we need to go. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Well, I mean, maybe some of them, like. I don't know. [00:48:39] Speaker C: That's why we need to go. [00:48:42] Speaker A: So we can suck with everybody else. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Debbie Downer. [00:48:47] Speaker A: No, Joe, we could go. [00:48:49] Speaker C: Why wouldn't we? Why. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Why would we not? I just got better stuff to do. [00:48:54] Speaker C: Sit at home. [00:48:55] Speaker A: No, ain't what I'm doing. [00:48:57] Speaker C: I guarantee you tonight, I guarantee you the night that they probably have that high school get together, you. You would probably more than likely be done. You probably won't be doing anything. [00:49:07] Speaker A: It rained us out of baseball last night, and I went home for the first time. I can't tell you the last time I just went home and I had to stop and get something before I got there, but, I mean, I still didn't go straight home. [00:49:19] Speaker C: I'd love to go see all the guys if. You know, if they showed up. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The ones that ain't in prison. [00:49:28] Speaker C: God, somewhere I'm envisioning this. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Me hating on our class. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:34] Speaker C: He acts like we're a bunch of dogs. [00:49:35] Speaker A: I don't think there's a bunch of them. I'm just saying. But some of them probably are. [00:49:40] Speaker C: They might be, but they might be there. [00:49:42] Speaker A: We've had a lot die out of that class. I know. [00:49:44] Speaker C: I know. There's a few. I just thought, like, all of us. Me, you, Bill, Dustin. [00:49:49] Speaker A: That be. It'd be fun. If all y' all were going, I'd go. Okay. [00:49:54] Speaker C: It is out there now. [00:49:56] Speaker A: Yeah. All right. If all y' all are going, I'd go if I can. As long as I can find child care. That's the only thing that would stop me. You going bring kids, and then we'll talk afterwards and we'll see what you got to say about it. [00:50:07] Speaker C: That might be our last one. At least we can go to one [00:50:11] Speaker A: hopefully it ain't our last one. Hopefully there's a lot of them. Maybe we just don't go to them. [00:50:14] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Lord mercy. I hope I at least live to see another one. [00:50:18] Speaker C: I'm talking about we may not just get. Not that we die, just that we never go to another one. [00:50:23] Speaker A: Years from now, it'll be 20 years. I know, 20 years. I remember when I was 20 years old, you know, and thinking, [00:50:35] Speaker C: I'll be [00:50:35] Speaker A: able to buy beer next year. Now 20 years has passed. [00:50:42] Speaker C: Have you. That's another thing. It'll make you feel old. When I was working at the grocery store and it used to say we id. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And it has a date and it's got your date. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Have you seen the dates? Nowadays it just blows my mind. [00:50:53] Speaker A: I'm like, well, now it's longer than it used to be too. [00:50:56] Speaker C: Yeah, I know, but it's still. It's still 18, so it's crazy. No, it's 21 for cigarettes. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:04] Speaker C: My boy. I'm missing out. [00:51:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:06] Speaker C: Wow. [00:51:07] Speaker A: 21 for cigarettes. Yeah. [00:51:08] Speaker C: Did not know that. [00:51:09] Speaker B: Ain't bought you back in a while. [00:51:12] Speaker A: No. You bought no black and browns. [00:51:16] Speaker C: Speaking speak the one of the. Really? I wish maybe. Maybe I can get. Find the clip, kind of throw it in. I don't know if I will or not. Me and Dustin probably very. It was probably one of my last years there at the shop riding on that Toyota Camry hood. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Yeah. When it snows. [00:51:36] Speaker C: It snowed. [00:51:37] Speaker A: You've got the clip. It's just a matter of getting it in. Yeah. [00:51:40] Speaker C: I gotta find it if I've still got it. [00:51:42] Speaker B: I think you sent it to me. [00:51:43] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I sent it to you, but I don't know if you still have it. But I know we was in that thing and man, we had an absolute blast. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Yeah, Brody. [00:51:52] Speaker C: Brody was pulling us in his Blazer. We'd go and we had. At the shop we worked at, we had around the back of the building where we could. I mean, that thing would sling you like a slingshot. You could get out there. Me and Dustin was out there in the snow on a hood. I mean, was ripping it out there. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Tied a. Tied a rope. [00:52:10] Speaker C: Tied a rope. [00:52:10] Speaker A: Tied a rope to a hood of a Toyota flipped upside down and sat on it. [00:52:14] Speaker C: Sat down on it, put some tires underneath us and it put. Went to town. [00:52:17] Speaker A: When I say it snows. You don't do nothing at a tire shop. You. Or you really don't. No, no, you don't do nothing. [00:52:23] Speaker B: You got to find something. [00:52:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it Just. It just kills it. It kills it. But yeah, we've. We had a ton of stuff. We. [00:52:28] Speaker C: We used to wrestle up there, all three of us or four of us. [00:52:32] Speaker A: Well, see, that's what it was like being down there if you been in little city. But yeah, we. [00:52:36] Speaker C: I run away from you, I ain't going fightings. He's too big. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Well, up there at Fairy is mostly him and Brody, two big old tush hogs. [00:52:47] Speaker A: He'd want to run his mouth and here we go. That's the way it always was. We'll have him on here soon. [00:52:54] Speaker B: He would grab your head. [00:52:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but he'd grab my freaking head. That's exactly what he'd do. Well, is there anything else you want to say about Dustin? [00:53:06] Speaker B: Oh, [00:53:09] Speaker C: what do you currently like doing? I don't even know what you do anymore. Like in the evenings when you get home, or like in the weekends. Other than the kids doing their activities, are there anything that you like, go out, like. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Like going out? [00:53:21] Speaker C: I remember you used to have a motorcycle. You ain't got one of them no more, but. [00:53:24] Speaker A: No, he likes to kill himself on that. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Not my Harley. I had. [00:53:29] Speaker A: Okay, well, I'm thinking about something. [00:53:31] Speaker B: That one I bought from your buddy at the co op. Yeah, yeah. Trying to wave at somebody you went over. Yeah, you know, because that's the first time I ever rode one. [00:53:42] Speaker A: You said you sold it when you about got hit by a train. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Yeah, at my old house. Yeah. [00:53:47] Speaker C: A train? [00:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah, right over my train. [00:53:50] Speaker A: I had a full face helmet on. Well, he lived over railroad tracks on the Prospect. I go across the every night. Why you do? But you go across crossings. Well, I know wasn't a crossing. No, I mean, it was, but it wasn't like a full fledged crossing. [00:54:09] Speaker B: I would come down the driveway and I'd look, you know, both ways. When I was way up here. Yeah. [00:54:14] Speaker A: By the time I got down there, [00:54:19] Speaker B: here I am. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Did you lay it down? [00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it scared me so bad. [00:54:26] Speaker A: He sold it. [00:54:27] Speaker B: I did. [00:54:30] Speaker A: Oh, can you imagine reading about that in a damn paper? Can you imagine? Man gets killed on motorcycle, [00:54:39] Speaker C: runs into a train. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Don't hit. [00:54:45] Speaker C: He runs into the train. [00:54:46] Speaker A: It'll push a car like miles down the tracks. Ain't no telling. He probably wouldn't even know anything happened. [00:54:52] Speaker C: Oh, gosh. [00:54:53] Speaker A: He took that train. He took that bike all the way to Bristol with him. Oh, my Lord. [00:54:58] Speaker C: So what do you do? What do you do when you. When you're in your downtime? Do you. Do you. What do you do? [00:55:02] Speaker B: Well, if I'm not doing something with sports. We like to camp. [00:55:09] Speaker C: Okay. [00:55:11] Speaker B: We go every year up to Adventure Bound. [00:55:16] Speaker A: You know where that got that big water slime? Yeah, I've been there. I've camped there. [00:55:21] Speaker B: We go there on Labor Day weekend every year. And we usually camp down at Watts Bar, you know, Foci Pass, then Riley Creek there in Kingston. [00:55:35] Speaker C: Okay, so you're a big camper then. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Try to. And then we try to take the camper if we make it to state in baseball, we'll stay in it if we have to travel very far. [00:55:45] Speaker C: That's nice. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Save your own cost with a hotel. You know, deer. Other than deer hunting. And I've got a smoker now. I like to smoke meat. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Oh, you're smoking some meat. [00:56:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:02] Speaker A: I feel like that's what everybody does when they get in their 30s. They do. Seriously, everybody does that. You wouldn't believe those 20 group meetings I have. We have to introduce ourselves, you know, who we are. And we'll have a big. Just a horseshoe table of people. You know, There may be 25 people from different companies in that room. Or 20 or whatever. It's supposed to be 20. Sometimes we'll get more than that. [00:56:22] Speaker C: But everybody's, everybody's. [00:56:24] Speaker A: Everybody's got a. I like to do this or that or whatever else. And I like to smoke meat. That's what they do. They all. They all like or a lot of them do. I mean, you know, that's how Brody went through that phase, you know, he still. I mean, he still. Probably still does, I guess. [00:56:38] Speaker C: Brody used to cut all the time. [00:56:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:40] Speaker C: Go to Brody's house. What are you doing, bro? [00:56:42] Speaker B: Cooking hamburgers. [00:56:43] Speaker C: Yeah, hamburger everything. Hamburger everything. I just. All I can remember Brody with hamburgers. Oh, no, he putting his little salt. Remember he had his little magic sauce he put on it? Oh, yeah. [00:56:52] Speaker A: He made his own sauce. He used to be big into it so much he had his own dry rub. He handed out his wedding. Remember that? Yeah, he sure did. Handed out the. It was good. I loved it. Brody cooks good. He makes the best chicken, man. I ain't never met anybody, but he'll put a. [00:57:09] Speaker C: He doesn't. He doesn't. He done something at your birthday party. Not your birthday party, but one of your kids birthday party. [00:57:13] Speaker A: He could probably. He probably baked chicken. Yeah, it was good. [00:57:17] Speaker C: He had burnt ends and everything. [00:57:18] Speaker A: Oh, man, he. He will put a. He'll put a bunch of big chicken breasts on a grill. And me, I can't do it. I don't know why. [00:57:27] Speaker C: I'M getting. [00:57:27] Speaker A: I'm better now than I ever was with it. But that guy right there, you. You cut a chicken open that I've had. You're. You're cutting it a little bit. You're having to put some effort behind it. And it's done, and I know it's done. You know, Bodie, he'll just. You could cut that thing in half and squeeze it and just run juices out and it cooked perfect, like, every time. He's good at that, I'll tell you. And he's good at other stuff. I went over and visited him at the campground. You know, he sold his house now, but this is back last year when he was trying to sell it. He was staying at a campground. And I went over there, and it was just him by itself. And then me and Megan went over and sat with him till up in the night sometime. And he was smoking. He had a pellet smoker smoking two pork loins. You know, he. You know, cut them all up. So I sit there and eat pork loin. [00:58:16] Speaker B: That's what I have as a pellet smoker. Yeah, I love it. [00:58:20] Speaker C: I didn't know. So do you do any cooking at home? I've never known you to even think about cooking. [00:58:25] Speaker B: Yes, I have to do the cooking. [00:58:27] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:58:27] Speaker C: Okay. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Brittany tries, but I'm just gonna say she tries. [00:58:36] Speaker C: Okay, I didn't know that. [00:58:36] Speaker A: That's pretty good all the way through. She ain't making sides or nothing. You ain't like handling. [00:58:40] Speaker B: She'll help me sometimes with sides. [00:58:42] Speaker C: She'll warm her beans up out of can. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. [00:58:46] Speaker B: But, yeah, I do most of the cooking, which. I enjoy it. [00:58:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I do, too. [00:58:51] Speaker C: I cooked five pounds of meat last night for meal prepping. [00:58:55] Speaker A: Eric, listen. That's crazy, but listen to this. Eric McKinley, old Boomhauer. He told me they ate two dozen eggs. He's got four kids and his wife ate two. [00:59:09] Speaker C: No, I fixed. I fixed 12 eggs last night for myself. [00:59:12] Speaker A: Oh, you mean milk meal prepping. [00:59:15] Speaker C: But, yeah, I mean, that ain't the same. But, no, I'm. [00:59:17] Speaker B: Now for, like, breakfast one morning, I think. [00:59:19] Speaker C: So I've done. [00:59:21] Speaker A: Now. [00:59:21] Speaker C: We have done. We've done. [00:59:23] Speaker A: Yeah. I think he said Dottie ate six by herself. [00:59:27] Speaker C: Golly. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Something like that. [00:59:29] Speaker C: They do 12 in the morning sometimes because I got, you know, I got three and me and my wife. So, yeah, I do 12. I mean, I do eight dozen, but I ain't never heard of nobody eating 24. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Oh, boy. He told me. He did. He swears No, I don't. [00:59:43] Speaker C: I believe him. I believe him. [00:59:46] Speaker B: Well, Davey eating it all? Probably. [00:59:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Well, is that smoking meat now? Baseball, working, camping. [01:00:01] Speaker C: Are you still working on the side on stuff? Do you do stuff? [01:00:04] Speaker B: Yeah, here and there. [01:00:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Last time I went up to the shop and seen you, I go up the shop at least once a year and see both these guys now I get to see him all the time now. But Dustin's usually a once or twice kind of year kind of guy. Call him all the time time. But anyway, you had a motor. Oh, K series motor. You had tore parties fixing something. [01:00:28] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah. I had bought that car. I bought a CRV from a customer for $300. [01:00:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. [01:00:34] Speaker B: And I was putting that motor in it. [01:00:36] Speaker A: Did you just. [01:00:37] Speaker C: How did that go? [01:00:37] Speaker B: It went good. [01:00:38] Speaker C: Did it okay, still run it? [01:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Britney drives the wheels off of it, keeps mileage off the. [01:00:44] Speaker C: I was gonna say that. Oh yeah. Oh, speaking of Yukons, you remember that one Yukon you bought? You remember it? [01:00:51] Speaker B: The white one, the black one, the [01:00:54] Speaker A: one that dropped the drop lifter. [01:00:55] Speaker C: Oh yeah, I remember. I still tell customers this day, you know, they come in here, got a little, little shimmy five cylinder number five, number seven, something misfire and they got a little shimmy in it. Like got a little, little, little wrap, tappity tap in it. I'm like, ah, you better be finding somewhere for this thing to go. I think it's just a. [01:01:13] Speaker A: Cool, I can sell you cool. [01:01:14] Speaker C: But let me tell you about my buddy Dustin. That's what I tell him. Yeah, I give Dustin store. I don't tell, you know, I don't say it's Dustin. I say I had a guy I worked with and yeah, by the end of the day we had motor sitting at motor stand by the end of the day and the cam pulled out of it. [01:01:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:30] Speaker A: Oh, that's what's wrong. [01:01:32] Speaker B: The cam lobe was gone. [01:01:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I tell people about that too. You know when you run into that problem. [01:01:39] Speaker C: That's. I remember. You just bought. You hadn't had it long, had you? [01:01:43] Speaker B: No, that's after. I think I just put that transmission in it. [01:01:46] Speaker C: Was it okay? Yeah. Cuz you had metal shavings or something. I do remember that or something. [01:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:51] Speaker B: Then drove it a little while in that V4 mode, man. [01:01:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it'll get them, it'll get them. Five threes. Yeah. [01:02:01] Speaker A: Cylinder deactivation. You know what that is? Yeah, that'll do it. All right. Well, I believe that's a wrap. [01:02:08] Speaker C: Oh, that was good. I like it. [01:02:09] Speaker A: I like it. [01:02:10] Speaker C: I like it. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:11] Speaker B: I appreciate y' all having me on. [01:02:12] Speaker C: Sure. [01:02:13] Speaker A: Yeah, man. [01:02:13] Speaker C: I learned a little bit more about Dustin West. [01:02:16] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna have a bunch of. Bunch of different people on. So make sure you're tuning in next Monday. Let's see who we'll have. And we may not have somebody every week, but anyway, check back in with us next Monday. Thanks for joining us on Second Floor sessions. [01:02:31] Speaker C: See you guys next time. [01:02:32] Speaker B: See you guys.