1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air, and now a 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: totally random weekend review from the past. Take a guess 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: when this was I've Got a Big Ballsta, so one 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: of them was known as Big Balls. The beauty of 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: this is that then you had all of these liberal 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: news agencies having to save the name on air on 8 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: evening news broadcast. In order for people to be as 9 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: upset as they're supposed to be about these kids who 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: were do gooders saving the federal government and saving the republic, 11 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: they had to say the name A licensed Houston Obama 12 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: is wanted after an investigators say she cut off a 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: man private part before cremating him. 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 2: She cut off his private part put it in his mouth. 15 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: Records show mortuary staff had just learned the victim was 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 2: a registered sex offender. 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: Ethics is everything in this line of work. 18 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 2: Jason Altieri runs Southeast Texas crematory. 19 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: He says families should feel comfortable to ask questions that 20 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: y'all aren't one of those places, you know, I mean, 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: cut his winner off and stuff in his mouth. The 22 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: Baytown managed charged with murder months after his fiance's mysterious death, 23 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: but perhaps most disturbing of all what police say he 24 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 1: allegedly searched for on the Internet before the murder. 25 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 3: One of his Google searches quote, can I kill an 26 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:36,639 Speaker 3: illegal human? 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: He googled if it was legal to kill an illegal 28 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: People's lack of basic knowledge astounds me. A plumbing problem 29 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: at forty thousand feet, the toilets were clogged, enforcing the 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: flight crew to turn around back to Chicago. 31 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 4: Twelve eleven of the lavatories got plugged. Only one lavoratory 32 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 4: if the business glass was usable on the flight. 33 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: One toilet for three hundred passengers. I'd read lot of water, 34 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: and I peel a lot. I got to tell you, 35 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: and you got to go, and there is somebody in 36 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: the toilet, and you wondered, what are you doing in there? 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: How long do you need some of You remember our 38 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: December tradition that we pull a week in review as 39 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: prepared by the Binus executive producer in all the land 40 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: Chatta Coni Nakanies, and we play them and you guess 41 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: what week during the year that would have been. And 42 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: that week right there was March fourteenth, So the week 43 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: preceding in March fourteenth, because We played them, of course 44 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: on Friday, so keep that in mind as you listened 45 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: to them as we roll along. Speaking of rolling along 46 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: truck drivers, we'll start with Alan. We have a few. 47 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get them all on Alan. Go ahead, sir, Yeah. 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 2: Michael, I'll tell you what one thing. Let's get there 49 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: for you. Listen, yall show. Because I laughed my ales 50 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: off while fiving. I was talking about truck and I 51 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,119 Speaker 2: thank god, I've got two million mile awards from two 52 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: different companies, and one for the flat man with gund 53 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: hold on, I ain't you poor a fat man? Other 54 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 2: I mean when Grondac was a tiger wagon and so 55 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 2: I said, hollow chemicals off. But I will hal all 56 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: kind of chemicals over there. Smant continued educase experience, and 57 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: my daughter wrote on her truckle mat till she was 58 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: seventeen years old. She could drive a truck in eighth grade. 59 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: She made a olimphony Alaska Highway all over the country, 60 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 2: and now she's in the military. She's going on ten 61 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: years now and she's a nurse in the military. But 62 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 2: she got an education from grad SIS and it was 63 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: I was out of trucks when I was a teenager. 64 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: They didn't even have a damn b cow hauling and 65 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: dung and milk holling, and uh. I went back in 66 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: the hall caws again. Bro, my kids, I was young 67 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: because I just wanted you to to get the experience 68 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: of cow hauling. 69 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: I don't want you the guy that we can give 70 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: you the address and the coordinates and you can get 71 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: us there. 72 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you know what. I remember one time 73 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 2: you was. I don't got that GPS, but I remember 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 2: you asked us on that Lansing. When I got to 75 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: drinking later, man, I was talking around. I was, I 76 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 2: was in my mind. I was in ann Arbor, Michigan. 77 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: I forgot where you. 78 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: I was thinking, thinking somewhere. I want you to get 79 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: me from your I don't those. 80 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: Things from my mother that day they got throwed out 81 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: with my compass. 82 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: I want you to get from your house. 83 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: Accomplish with my mom. Got um aware of my directions 84 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 2: everywhere I'm going. 85 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: I want you to get me from from your house 86 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: to Raleigh, North Carolina, and not use I ten. 87 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: Oh god, okay, all right up here, two of I 88 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 2: still get on air safe out of ten. Don't try 89 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: to stay up by ten East side anyway, Oh go 90 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: fifty nine up here costs and sitting round up to 91 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: h I twenty. I'll go eye twenty. I guess clear 92 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 2: across the I eighty five right I eight five, as Carla, 93 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 2: I will say that's about all. If received fourteen, i'd 94 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 2: be about fifteen hundred dollars. 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, and now I thought you were wrong on twenty 96 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: hitting eighty five, but damned if you aren't right. Yeah, 97 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the bath and I got I got 98 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: a little confused, and I thought, huh, all right, Uh 99 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: can you get me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Augusta, Maine. 100 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be going eighty five right on up 101 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: to uh uh up there to uh right south of 102 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 2: Russhe Regunion. You're going ninety five and you're going tinty 103 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 2: five all with. I've been up in the Main, but 104 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: I can't remember were august of Main is? I bet 105 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: up their title or two. But the old handing back 106 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 2: the state of Man is the way life shouldn't be. 107 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 4: But well correctly if. 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: I'm but I'm looking at US interstates now, not just highways, 109 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: but interstates, and it shows only one interstate going through Maine. 110 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: That would be ninety five. 111 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah right, how about that. That's very interesting. Alan. You 112 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: have a gift, my friend, a gift that you have 113 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: earned with many, many years of driving. I always enjoy 114 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: when you call it. Don't be a stranger, will you're up? 115 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: That's there, go ahead? 116 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 5: That I mean is very this will turn I go 117 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 5: over trucking the twenty one years, and let me tell 118 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 5: you it's not an easy thing to do. 119 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, have you seen Landmink? Excuse have you seen Landman? No, sir, 120 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: it's a TV program, paramount does it. It's a Taylor 121 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: Sheridan if you've ever did you ever see Yellowstone? And no, 122 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: I don't. 123 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 5: I don't get to watch TV or nothing like that 124 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 5: very much. I'm in this truck and moving. 125 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: Okay, Well he uh they're out in the Midland area, 126 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: and they're and then they're out west Texas. I forget 127 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: exactly where they are, uh, somewhere near Lovebock. But anyway, 128 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of truck driving references in for 129 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: the oil field services. I'm just curious if if they 130 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: had if they had done their research and were as 131 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: accurate as could be expected for the field. With years 132 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: of experience, you still do. 133 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 5: I wouldn't know about that part of Texas. I'm working 134 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 5: an eagle for the chair down in the car and city. 135 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 1: Uh huh. And how long have you been driving the truck? 136 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 5: Twenty one years? 137 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: Does that pay well? 138 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 5: It didn't it first, but it does now it pays 139 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 5: the bills. 140 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: Good for you. Thanks for the call on on. We 141 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: got Mike, Jason and Mike. We'll take those three and 142 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: then I shut it down. Coming up, you've got corn. 143 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: Pope was a bad dude the Michael Berry Show. Jay 144 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: writes Zora, this is Jay Bird from Mason, Texas. I've 145 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: been in the agricultural trucking business for forty five years 146 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: and over five million miles. I haul mostly cattle and hay. 147 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: I always enjoy listening to your program, mostly on seven 148 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: ninety kf yoh out of Lovebuck and on the app 149 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: on my phone. I also use podcasts when I miss 150 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: an episode. Thanks for the positive remarks on truckers, Keep 151 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: up the good job. Speaking of KFY in Lovebock seven 152 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: ninety k or, our friend Dan Endam is that the helm. 153 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: These are good times for Red Raider Nation and everybody. 154 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: I don't care what your alma mater is everybody should 155 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: be proud of the guns up nation. This is a great, 156 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: great time for that institution. When any of our institutions win, 157 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: we all win. It's good for our state. Red Raiders 158 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: are at the are from top to bottom throughout the 159 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: institutions and organizations and hierarchy of the military, educational institutions, 160 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: the government, industry, finance, medicine, you name it. There are very, 161 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: very exciting things happening in Lubwock, Texas these days. Veterinary school, 162 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: medical school, new building, new stadium or new stadium number 163 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: four in the playoff seeds. Heck, they went to the 164 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: national championship in women's softball last year, paid a girl 165 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: a million dollars to come and pitch for them. And 166 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: if she hadn't been so worn out by the championship, 167 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: that had won that too. Big old black girl, heavy set, 168 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: I mean, built like a built like a middle linebacker. Man, 169 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: oh man, can this girl throw the ball? It was 170 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: a treat to watch. I have a friend named Joel Bartsch, 171 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: and Joel started at the Houston Museum of Natural Science 172 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: when he was nineteen years old as a security guard. 173 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: Big old boy, big white fellow, big corn fed white fellow. 174 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: He was a security guard at the Houston Museum of 175 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: Natural Science and he was going to school on the side, 176 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: ended up getting his degree, end up going on to 177 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: become an expert in gyms gymologist. Worked his way up, 178 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: worked his way up, until eventually the opportunity came for 179 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: him to be the director of the third most visited 180 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 1: museum in the entire country. I like Joel. He's a 181 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: good man and I could have considered him a friend. 182 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: I met him when I was on Houston City Council. 183 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: I made it my business to go out and learn 184 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: about anything that the city was involved with, because at 185 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: some point i'd have a vote related to it. And 186 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,599 Speaker 1: he was happy, finally somebody is paying attention to this amazing, 187 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: amazing institution. Treasure Jim, if you will ramon right here 188 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: in our midst next to the next to the zoo. 189 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: And over the years we've got to be pretty good friends. 190 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: He works in the museum district, lives in the Woodlands, 191 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: so he listens to the show. Well, he got mad 192 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: one day because I was making softball jokes. He's here, 193 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: been to a softball and you're watch college softball. You 194 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: obviously don't have a daughter. So I've told the story 195 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: about several years later, been open concept. Living in my 196 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: work area, and I'm working on a Saturday, and my 197 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: wife was cleaning and I don't know why she had 198 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: it on, but she had ESPN's College Softball, women's softball on, 199 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: and I would glance up and watch a play here 200 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: and there, and damned if I didn't get interested in it. 201 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: And I will tell you with no shame to this day, 202 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: if there is a women's college softball game on and 203 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything else, I will sit down and 204 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: watch it. And I don't like to watch women play sports. 205 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: I think the WNBA is a joke, but boy, can 206 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: they play softball, and the way they play it with 207 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: that running drag bunt, that is not an easy thing 208 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: to do. I'm told there's all sorts of codes as 209 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: to whether the girl wears her hair through the cap. 210 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: You know what that means, and where she has it 211 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: over here, and you know which team they play for 212 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: or whatever. I so I just kind of pretend to 213 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: make up my own rules, and I'll tell my wife, Hey, 214 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: you know that one she's wearing a wrist bracelet on 215 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: her left wrist. Yeah, you know, what that means. That's 216 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: mixed up up. Yeah, a little fun with it. But anyway, 217 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: I had to call Joeld Bars and tell him I 218 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: was wrong. Women's college softball is legit, It's first rate. 219 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say to our KFYO listeners 220 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: in Lubbock from eight thirty to eleven am weekday mornings, 221 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: it's an honor to be with you in congratulations to 222 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: Red Raider Nation. I'm proud for your success and delighted 223 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: for your success. Mike, what you got, sir? 224 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 2: Hello? 225 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: Yep, what you want to know? 226 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 2: What you want to know today? Mike? 227 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: How long you been driving? 228 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 6: Forty one years? 229 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 1: Right on forty one? 230 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 6: Forty one years. I got to kick out of that 231 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 6: other studtle that was on here before me. 232 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: Alan, Yeah. 233 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 5: Yeah. 234 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: Every time he's on, I forget how much we like him. 235 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: He's a who's man? Who do you drive for me? 236 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 6: I'm self employed. Uh back at the back in oh Ford, 237 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 6: Oh five, I was running for a company, but I 238 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 6: don't want to pitch in their name. But when you 239 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 6: mentioned land Man, when that anker truck come over that 240 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 6: farm market hill and hit that plane, it made me 241 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 6: think I did some stuff similar to that, but I 242 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 6: want none loading drugs and out of a plane. I 243 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 6: was off loading some fuel and a pasture off of 244 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 6: seventy seven in the real Grand Valley. There was no 245 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 6: boy up north. He had some airplane gas he needed 246 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 6: to get rid of him. I said, okay. He didn't 247 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 6: have no funds to pay me, and I said, I 248 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 6: ain't worried about no money, man, just to I'll come 249 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 6: here Saturday morning and get your fuel. I had a 250 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 6: guy up in the south that he was hurting fuel 251 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 6: costs a lot of them crop dusters down there. So 252 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 6: I came up there, up on the north side of Conroe. 253 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 6: I emptied out that tank five thousand and get onto 254 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 6: ham Gas. I took it down to the real Grand 255 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 6: Violence for the little airplane boy. Didn't charge him a thing, man, 256 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 6: I offloaded it, you know, pass it on, good will 257 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 6: be forward. I've been blessed ever since forty one years 258 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 6: in this inducto. No incidents, no wrecks. I mean, I 259 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 6: can tell you some stories that would make your coats curl. 260 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: Mikey, Well, that's the sign of a life well lived, 261 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: my man. My mong likes to crop dust yellows frozen, 262 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: putting on the stag, the Michael Very Joe yellow brand 263 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: pudding pops. 264 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 6: Maybe the goodness of real jello pudding, Kevin, I rolled 265 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 6: the Michael Very ahead. 266 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: My man? Oh did I heard a bottle break? Kevin? Yes, sir, 267 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: you're up. 268 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 2: Hi. 269 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 4: I'm a truck driver out of Katie. 270 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: What do you drive? 271 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 3: Uh? 272 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 4: Drive a ken worst? 273 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: Do you own it or does the company own it? 274 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 4: I own it? Truck and trailer? 275 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: So are you like a private or hire or how 276 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: does that work? 277 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 4: So there's a couple of different ways on our operators 278 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 4: goes somewhere fully independent in some contract to a larger carrier. 279 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 4: I contract to a larger carrier. 280 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: And do you contract per job or how does that work? 281 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 7: Yeah? 282 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 4: So we have our own the carrier has our own 283 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 4: load board, and that load board all the agents or 284 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 4: brokers will post the loads and you call and bid 285 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 4: on them. Okay and uh yeah, So I got a 286 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 4: handful of agents that I kind of work with. 287 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: When you did, what do you know? Like what details 288 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: are on the board that you're bidding with? 289 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 4: So let'll tell you the rate per mile, be all 290 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 4: in rate, where it's loading, where it's delivering, how much 291 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 4: fuel search arge are going to give you for fuel 292 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,719 Speaker 4: stuff like that. Then you can call and sometimes they'll 293 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 4: drop the price while you're trying to raise the price. 294 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 4: And it just depends where the market's at at the time. 295 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: And what would cause them to drop the price. 296 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 4: More trucks in the area than loads, we'll drop the price. 297 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: So they know they're going to get up, they know 298 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: they're going to get that job. 299 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 2: Correct. 300 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 4: Yes, well, you got to consider those things when you're 301 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,239 Speaker 4: going to another town. What the market of that town is. 302 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: What is not the best deal you've ever seen? But 303 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: what is a set of numbers on the board that 304 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: you would all you'd say, when it hits that, I 305 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: will always bid what is that per mile? 306 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 4: So everyone's got their bottom dollar for me? If you 307 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 4: know your numbers, which an owner operator should, but most don't, 308 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 4: I would say most don't. I've got a minimum. I 309 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 4: don't do anything less than two seventy a mile. Now, 310 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 4: if I'm under three dollars, I'm pretty upset about it. Yeah, 311 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 4: but I'm still making profit now. 312 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: Dumb question, But I don't know some I don't mind 313 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: asking dumb questions. You don't get paid for if you 314 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: if you make a haul to Dallas and you don't 315 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: have a load coming back like a deadhead, do you 316 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: just you don't get paid for that, right? 317 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 5: Correct? 318 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 4: Yesterday I deadheaded from middle of Odessa to uh Weatherford, 319 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 4: Texas empty. It's roughly three hundred miles for a good 320 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 4: load that I loaded this morning going to Peko's, Texas. 321 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 4: So I still profit. But you still consider those dead 322 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 4: head miles your fuel. In your time, have. 323 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: You worked out down to some degree of specificity what 324 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: it costs you to operate, not your labor, but what 325 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: it costs you to operate that truck all in, you know, 326 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: the wear and tear on the truck, the fuel and 327 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: everything else per mile. 328 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 2: Per mile. 329 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 4: Yes, that's my minimum of two seventy. That includes my 330 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 4: profit that I take home, taxes, maintenance. 331 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: Everything, right. But I'm wondering what your actual hard cost 332 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: would be if you put leaving your labor out leaving 333 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: but just building in the cost of your truck to 334 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,959 Speaker 1: wear and tear, you know, tires every so often fuel. 335 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that's a dollar fifty, If it's a 336 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: dollar you know what that number would be. 337 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 4: I wonder what it would be too. 338 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: Well, the reason I asked is there has to come 339 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: a point where let's say your let's say your hard 340 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: cost leaving aside your labor is a dollar thirty five 341 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: a mile, and you want to get to seventy a mile. 342 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: So if you if you drive to Dallas at two 343 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: seventy and then come back, it would strikeen me you 344 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: didn't make any money because you dead had that And 345 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: can't you know you're putting wear and tear and fuel 346 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: and all that on your vehicle and not getting paid 347 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: for it? 348 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: Correct? 349 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: Now do you use that is my minimum? 350 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 7: Right? 351 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 2: No? I got it? 352 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: I got it. 353 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 7: I tried. 354 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, when you do you try? How often are 355 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: you able to avoid a dead head and get a job? 356 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 1: You know, from here to bake Us or here to 357 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: uh Weatherford and then you can pick something up on 358 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: the way back. 359 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 4: Well, I do more deadhead than the average truck driver 360 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 4: because of the type of trailer that I'm pulling. So 361 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 4: I pull a step jack trailer, so it's a little 362 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 4: bit more specialized. So we got to go further, but 363 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 4: the rates are usually higher. So two seventy is my minimum, 364 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 4: but I try and stay around four dollars a mile. 365 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: And how did you get into that business? 366 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: Uh? 367 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 4: I was tired of what I was doing. And I 368 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 4: asked my dad, how can I make more money than 369 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 4: he's a truck driver, and say, you can try driving 370 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 4: a truck. So I tried it and I'm still doing it. 371 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: Hum, what's what's the hardest thing on your body to 372 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: be in a truck driver? You're back. 373 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 4: On your body? Uh man, I'd say maybe your heart, 374 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 4: because the pressure is a big problem for truck drivers. 375 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just think. You know, just driving to 376 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: Dallason back now, I guess if I did it, i'd 377 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: get used to it, but just to wear and tear 378 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: of that of doing that, I didn't. I didn't enjoy it. 379 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: I I used to love a road trip. My wife 380 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: would laugh. I could drive to DC. We drive to 381 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: Colorado every year, and I'd do my show from out there, 382 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: and I enjoyed the drive. I knew where I was 383 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: gonna stop. We were gonna bed down in dal Hart, 384 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 1: I was gonna I was gonna stop, whether I went 385 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: through Fort Worth or went through Amarillo. I'd have my 386 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: little hot spots I'd stop, and I wouldn't enjoy that, 387 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: you know, go through Kenyon and all that. But I've 388 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: gotten to where now it just I don't enjoy it 389 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: like I used to it. I don't know if that's 390 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,199 Speaker 1: getting old. I don't know what that is. Mike. What 391 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: do you drive? 392 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 2: Oh? I drive for in the playoffs group out of 393 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: Low Leda, Texas. 394 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: And what kind of truckle? 395 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: We? 396 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 5: Uh? 397 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 7: I drive a freightliner? 398 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: And do you own that? 399 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 7: No, sir, I'm a company driver. 400 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: And then so you're not looking at a board and 401 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: bidding the project. You're just going where they tell you 402 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: to go. Yes, sir, Yes, sir. 403 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 7: And uh. 404 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: You know, I want to thank you first of all, 405 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: because you get it. 406 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,120 Speaker 5: People out here don't get what it's like to drive 407 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 5: a truck, but you get it. 408 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: I will, I will tell you the honest truth. I 409 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: really don't. I don't know how you do it. I 410 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: really don't. I look at, you know, just driving my 411 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: little tahoe uh to Dallas and and staying in your 412 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: lane and you know, people slowing down and speeding up, 413 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: and you know, you're constantly avoiding the idiots and all that. 414 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: I can't imagine being in that big thing, especially you know, 415 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: there's always so much construction going on and y'all don't 416 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: have a lot of clearance over on the side. I know, 417 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: you take it for granted, and people always, you know, 418 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: when you tell them something they do is heroic or 419 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: amazing or whatever, they well, that's just what I do. 420 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: But for the rest of us, it's pretty darn and 421 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: pressive to Michael Bairey show Simple Man in law school 422 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: because the first moment it really hit me that I 423 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: grew up quite differently than other people. I had classmates 424 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: from the Northeast who were in Austin at ut law 425 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: school with me, and they just didn't have the same 426 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: frame of reference. I mean, Trucker movies and trucker lifestyle 427 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: in our household was big, especially my grandfather Papa. Papa 428 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:15,479 Speaker 1: and Nanny would sit. He had a scanner right behind 429 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: his recliner, an old green mellowmine recliner, and he had 430 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: duck taped it where it had split open, and he 431 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: would sit there and he could turn it up or 432 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,479 Speaker 1: down over his shoulder and it sat right behind him 433 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: because he was hard at hearing. And he drove a 434 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: tow truck for eighteen wheelers, which is pretty cool, and 435 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: so you know, if an eighteen wheeler needs to be towed, 436 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: there's something going on. And he drove for a towing company. 437 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 1: Record company called h and E Hughy and Elbert I 438 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: think was Huy and Elroy, Hugh and Elbert, I think 439 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: h and E. And that gave him an excuse to 440 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: listen to the scanner. So the crackle of a scanner 441 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: is mother's milk to me. I love the sound of 442 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: a scanner. I love the sound of a Cebee radio. 443 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: Uncle Jerry's got the biggest CBE radio wattage hurts, mega hurts, 444 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: whatever the term is. He's got a big antenna that 445 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: goes that has to he has to keep it in 446 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: the bed of his truck because if it's up, you 447 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: can't get any of these buildings. But if we know 448 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: we're going somewhere, he'll along drive from he drives me 449 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: to my speeches and things. He'll he'll plunk that thing down. 450 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: We'll turn it on and listen to, uh the Sebee radio, 451 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: boy Lessie. But you also had you had the great 452 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: genre of trucker music, uh Dave Dudley Red Sovine. I 453 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: mean you had great trucker music, and then you had 454 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: the trucker movies. Uh Convoy Uh obviously smoke in the bandit. 455 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: I mean it was so over the top that you 456 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: you had in convoy. You you you had replaced the 457 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: military with truck drivers. The truck drivers were the outlaws. 458 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: They were the bad boys. They were making things happen. 459 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: You had BJ and the Bear. Oh man, what a 460 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: what a high time. I wonder how many people drive 461 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: trucks today on the back ends of their career drive 462 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: trucks today because of the glamour associated with being a 463 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: truck driver in the mid to late seventies, because that 464 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: was about the coolest thing you could imagine. It was 465 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: so cool. Joe, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What's 466 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: your story? Warriors? There are, Sir Marris. 467 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 7: I retired from law Enforce about nine years ago and 468 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 7: went to work for a company that does heavy dirt work. 469 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,719 Speaker 7: So we haul have a lott Boy heavy haul machine 470 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 7: where we call those are excavators and trucks. 471 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 1: You're talking about like butter gig. Okay, you're talking. 472 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 7: About booty juice now and anything up to tell foot white. 473 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 7: So I mean weird to guys. You see the tractors 474 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 7: hanging off the trailer with the orange flags lapping over, 475 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 7: so oh yeah, fact, that's that's so it's it's just 476 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 7: a lot of fun. 477 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: What did you do with more? 478 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 7: I think it's more nerve wracking because it's so wide. 479 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 7: But you know, I was. I did the last eleven 480 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 7: years of the deputy constable, serving civil papers for which 481 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 7: precinct Precinct three in Baytown. I started with Baytown PD 482 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 7: as a patrol officer back in the late eighties, US 483 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 7: there and took a break and I went back to 484 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 7: work for the county twenty one years and seven months 485 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 7: in LA enforcement and I still get hassled. I have 486 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 7: a retired foot post sticker on my truck and I 487 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 7: still get hassled by dot tops because we always said, 488 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 7: if you're too mean to work with IRS, you could 489 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 7: always get dot cop. 490 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, And when they pull up, you're like, look, fella, 491 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: I can read you the code. I know it, I 492 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: got it. Memorize no. 493 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 7: No, some of them don't care. 494 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 2: But we run really legally. 495 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 7: It's a company runs brand new trucks and everything's legal, 496 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 7: and so when you have something shiny and chrombed out, 497 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 7: they don't get messed with as much by the truck 498 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 7: police because it's they know you spend the money to 499 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 7: keep it right. 500 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 5: That's legal. 501 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 2: No oil leagues. 502 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 7: The good breaks are. 503 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 2: Good that kind of stuff. 504 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: What made you want to do that? 505 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 7: I had grown up around My dad had a sand 506 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 7: pit with dump trucks, and I grew up driving dump trucks. 507 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: Oh how cool was that? 508 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 7: Yeah, we went to our own sand ped some kid. 509 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: We talked the trucks out in the sandlight and you 510 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: were driving. 511 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 7: Oh yeah. My friends were making fifty dollars a week 512 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 7: working for Church of Chicken. I was making two hundred 513 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 7: and fifty a week. And this is six fifteen years old. 514 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: Wow, So I say, that's where do you live? 515 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 7: Uh, couldn't cross me in Dayton. I talked to you 516 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 7: before you let me come to a couple of your events. 517 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 7: I'm the guy at the same name as the Houston Zuvet. 518 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: Oh Joe Flanagan, Yeah, don't say the lest Oh sorry, 519 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. 520 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 2: Body. 521 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, you've even taken to uh. When you'll send an 522 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: email once a year or so, you'll say not the 523 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: vet in the in pro when I get I got 524 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: the tickets, when I get something locked in, I tend 525 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: to I tend to stick with it. 526 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 7: You get you've been good to me. I appreciate it. 527 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: Well, my pleasure. Do you make more as a truck 528 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: driver than you did as long time. 529 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I probably topped out of it's sixty 530 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 7: two with law enforcement and we're a little over six 531 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 7: figures doing this. Oh wow you married, Yeah, thirty four 532 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 7: years into a life sentence. 533 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: Wow, that's saying something for law enforcement. 534 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, saying something for our patients. 535 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, are you long haul or these local? 536 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 2: Well? 537 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 7: About sixteen seventy percent of our stuff's regional. But we've 538 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 7: got some jobs in West Texas and down in Laredo 539 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 7: and up around out of Gettings a little bit Austin. 540 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 7: We've been working building some power plants, some coal fire 541 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 7: power plants, I guess for the becoming need from AI. 542 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 7: We're on our fourth power plant job doing the dirt work. 543 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 7: We were the first ones there. We scratched the grass 544 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 7: off the site and start digging. 545 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: How about that? 546 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 7: And we hauled equipment back and forth. 547 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: Cella named text rights dad Gum. If I didn't tune 548 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: in too late for once, I would have called in. 549 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: My issue is blood pressure slash heart disease at fifty one. 550 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: For a lot of drivers, obesity and diabetes are rampant. 551 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: Quality food options are lacking. Mom and pop restaurants. Heck, 552 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: sit down service as a whole is disappearing at many 553 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: truck stops, or should I say travel centers, as they've 554 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: adopted that term and an effort to be welcoming to 555 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: all travelers. I could go on and on, but I 556 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: figured i'd just chime in, keep on, truck Do you 557 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: have your hotspots where you stop and eat? 558 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that the truck stops like the Loves, 559 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,239 Speaker 3: and they've really come a long way as far as 560 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 3: cleaning up and getting to be pretty decent, you know, 561 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 3: not crime ridden or pretty clean, and the food's not 562 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 3: too bad. 563 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 7: So I mean, if I had my brothers, I would 564 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,719 Speaker 7: go to Cracker Barrel or whatever. But uh, those places 565 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 7: have gotten They've come a long way from what you've 566 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 7: seen in the you know that eighties, seventies and eighties. 567 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 2: As far as you know, a. 568 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 7: Lot of lizards and greasy and nasty. They come a 569 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 7: long way. 570 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: I lived right near the Loves in Orange off sixty two, 571 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: and we used to ride up there and our big 572 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: deal was for lament Our basketball games. We didn't have 573 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: pro teams, and we had the Beaumont Golden Gators double 574 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: A San Diego Padres team, and we'd watch the Lamar 575 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: Cardinals basketball like it was a pro team. And my mom, my, brother, 576 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: and I would drive up to Loves and we'd get 577 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: sliced bologna and have baloney sandwiches. And that was our treat, 578 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: baloney sandwiches and cheetos and we're watching our basketball game 579 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: and that was our treat. 580 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: Brother. 581 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Be saved out there.