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Tango tango papa 2140,

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07/06/2024.

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Have we seen the actual reality of a

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monster to crime,

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or merely an illusion, the product of a

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tortured brain.

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Good. Good morning. Good afternoon.

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Good evening Tom Miles here with you coming

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to you this evening from Shy.

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Wyoming.

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So it's been... I just looked to spend

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oh, well,

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more than a month, probably like more like

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a month and a half since the

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last

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podcast.

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kind of running up or

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right up at the

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edge of retiring at this point.

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I'm about... At midnight, I have to wait

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till midnight Mountain time

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to,

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or after to deliver the low that I'm

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currently sitting on. I've been

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here in Cheyenne

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since,

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I guess I got here not too long

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after after 12 noon.

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And so I came to this truck stop

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and I've kind of been hanging out here,

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the rest of the day.

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Right now, it is what time is it?

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So I I still have to wait

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a little over 3 hours

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before I can

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drop and hook this load, and then the

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next load picks up

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it actually... It's got a loading date on

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the eighth, which that is,

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Monday to day, Saturday.

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So it's got a loading date on the

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eighth in Lexington,

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Nebraska, and then that load delivers

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same day on the,

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you know, like, in the morning, like 11:30

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in the morning central time.

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Yes Saint. Joseph,

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Missouri.

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And then

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after that,

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I have the option of,

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since it know, I've got the option probably

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of dropping the truck off, they have a

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terminal in Kansas city that actually has a

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shop.

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And so I could drop the truck off

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there,

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then

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get a rental car,

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you know,

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load all my stuff up, you, clean the

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truck out, load all my stuff up and

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then

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drive home.

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Unload all the stuff and then take the

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rental car to the

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airport because that's where the all the

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Those sorts of rental agencies are at.

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mostly in airports,

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especially 1 way rentals. If you're gonna rent...

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are some rental,

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agencies that are located it in town, but

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those aren't... You have to return the car

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or the vehicle, you have to return the

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vehicle where you, you know, same place you

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picked it up, and you can rent it.

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People will rent vehicles like that for a

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few days or whatever.

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But in the case, if you want to

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rent, you know, for 1 place and then

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turn it into another place, then those are

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typically nowadays at airports. So

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drop... You know, take the thing to the

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airport and then

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probably get an Uber ride home, but I

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know of course, I'd have to go home

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first with

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rental vehicle and unloaded and then,

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probably take it back the next day. So

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let's say, I get home late in the

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evening on the

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eighth

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I'd have to unload and then

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you know, either late in the evening or

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early in the morning.

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Unload all of my stuff out of the

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vehicle and then take the vehicle the airport,

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you know, because it's gonna be a... In

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that case, it'd would be a 24 hour

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rental.

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Now another option that we had talked about

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would be me taking the truck home,

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depending on where I unloaded at.

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Let's say I he delivered to like Clark,

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La arkansas, some like that.

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unload the, you know, unload all of my

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stuff out of it and then take it

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terminal in Tulsa, and then I could either

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rent a car

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backed, you know, for tulsa to the airport

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and then overhaul.

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Or I got to looking and I found...

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I figured out that I can get just

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in a long Uber ride. It's about a

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hundred and 20

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miles or whatever,

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Tulsa to home,

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so it would be just a longer Uber

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ride and that would cost about the same

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branding a v coal.

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You know, with much less hassle.

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that's... That would be an option. But since

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I'm gonna be unloading at Saint. Joseph, and

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I was supposed to be out, you know,

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this was also to be done by the

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eighth,

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July the eighth,

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since...

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Kansas city and they have a terminal In

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Kansas city,

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and it's not that much farther from Kansas

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city home. It's about 200 and let's say

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02:40 miles, something like that.

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So that that will work.

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So that's probably what I'm mean

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is probably probably what's gonna end up happening

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probably what I'll end up doing.

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it's

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kind of looming,

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you know, thing... You know, it's like I've

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told people everything

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has a beginning,

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and the middle, and it has an end,

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you know, do you want the in? You

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know, basically,

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you know, how do you want something to

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end? Do you want to just deliberately ended

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it do you want it to

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kind of end accidentally? And, Do you want

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your

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You want your life to be a comedy,

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There's 2 choices. You either have a comedy

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or a tragedy.

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you know, an sure... Yeah. I I don't

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know. I guess, to some extent it's your

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choice or you, you know, you have a

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you have

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some element of control over that, whether it's

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you, life ends and a comedy or a

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tragedy.

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And I think a a acc a comedy

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is preferable than to a tragedy. I would

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say.

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But in any case, you know, I'll end

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it, and it'll kinda be on my terms,

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it won't be that I, you know, that

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I'm in at some point, I'd...

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Obviously, if I continue to do this, I'd

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become incapable

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doing the job adequately.

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And, although I'm probably nowhere

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near that at this point

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because know, we have drivers that are

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older than I am that continue to do

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it. But

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at the same time,

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You know, I, you know,

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Why should I push my lock?

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As I probably mentioned this before, I figured

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out that I'm spending 1 quarter

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of my take home pay.

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On restaurants eating in restaurants twice a day

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is taking roughly a quarter

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of my take home So for every

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every, let's say, every fourth paycheck is just

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going for restaurant meals, which is kind of

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ridiculous.

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Especially with the the hours that, you know,

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I'm flipping my hours around a lot of

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depending on the load in order to make

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something work.

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and I am exposing myself to

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more danger sometimes than I would like.

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Now, that doesn't happen all the time, but

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I can give you an example, a few...

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I don't know it's been over a week

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ago. I was out in

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Southern Oregon.

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highway that goes across Southern Oregon Us 20.

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It's just a 2 Lane road, and... But

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it's got a fair amount of

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traffic on it, and a lot of these

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people are in a big hurry. And, on

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that. So part of it is, you know,

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kind of wide open and more flat, and

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so people can... You know, the people can

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go ahead and pass. And they do have

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some passing lanes here and there.

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then there are other places where it's hill

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and C, and

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yeah, you know truck that's loaded, you're gonna

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go be 1, You know, you can slow

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I was in 1 of these areas and

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this all of a sudden, there was this

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other truck that I guess he got frustrated

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because I was going to slow as a

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big truck.

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Going too slower than he wanted. So all

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of a sudden here he is pat passing

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me.

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But it's in an area where all of

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a sudden, there's the pops up over the

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hill, there's this oncoming, it's a pickup pulling

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a trailer,

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and they're

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debt... I mean, they're close to head on

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question. You know? So this guy I, you

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know, when I saw what was happening, this

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guy was passing me.

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I immediately put on brakes pretty hard because

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I... You know, I didn't... Because it... You

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didn't know if there was gonna be an

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honor, you know,

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head on collision or what was gonna happen.

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So been in any in in any case,

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this guy in the in this truck.

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He see... You know, he realizes there's... He's

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about to be involved in,

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an eminent

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head on collision. And so he jerks

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back into the right lane right in front

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of me and just barely misses the front

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of my chuck,

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had I not

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had the impressions

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to

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severely break

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my own speed,

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he would have hit the front of my

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truck and there would have been a major

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accident with multiple vehicles involved.

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there's really no point in me kind of

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continuing to expose myself to this sort of

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danger.

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You know, I and that doesn't happen all

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the time, but it does happen.

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You know where people... When it's not early

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just peep, you know, because people love to

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blame people in cars or whatever, but there's

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a lot of trucks that just really stupid

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things. Like that.

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You know, and So if, you know, and

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if people drive that way, they may get

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away with it for a while.

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You know, you may think you're getting away

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with things for a while. But sooner or

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later,

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that sort of be... You know, if you

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don't learn lessons, that sort of behavior is

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gonna get you into trouble.

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You know, You may end up, you, might

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end up taking out other people in the

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process.

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So, you know, an incident like that just

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serves to reinforce

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idea that, hey,

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probably be a good idea just you know,

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back back away from this.

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So

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I will probably end up with some sort

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of a

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job. As, you know, it's probably...

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Let's say it's some sort of a part

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time job. I just don't know yet.

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There are

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I do have some a couple of options

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that I directly know about, and

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so we'll see

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See what happens.

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But I... You know, I I needs to

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do be doing something.

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You know, the idea that I'm just gonna

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sit at home and kinda t my thumbs

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and watch Netflix or or or Youtube or

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whatever.

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That's a very bad idea.

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A little bit of its fine,

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full as a full time endeavor,

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not so much.

328
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So...

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But, you know, I am gonna miss, you

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know, kinda miss this job. Despite the fact,

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you know, I enjoyed I've enjoyed it most

332
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of the time, but it... You don't, in

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the

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recently, it's got to where the enjoyment factor

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become less and less.

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But at the same time, I'm probably gonna

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end up

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over time. I'm gonna end up.

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As we all tend to do, we sort

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of ideal the past, we sort of forget

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the

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negative things

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that happened.

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We are are negative elements, let's say.

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And remember, you know, kind of ideal

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versions of

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positive

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feelings.

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And we all we all tend to do

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this.

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In and it's and so that I very

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much expect that to happen where, you know,

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I'm gonna look back nostalgic, and I'm gonna,

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oh, I miss these people. I missed this.

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I missed that.

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But

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at the same time,

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you know, like I say, I think it

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is time to bring it close.

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In honor and and basically kind of open.

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I can look at it to some extent

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opening a new chapter. I'm not sure what

363
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that chapter is just yet.

364
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But,

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opening some sort of new chapter and doing

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something else.

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And it... You know, if it's could be

368
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driving a truck it, but it if it

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is, it's only gonna be part time, and

370
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I'm not...

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Yeah. They about the maximum I'm gonna be

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willing to spend overnight. It's gonna be 1

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night a week, and that's it.

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And no more than

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probably no more than a couple of days

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a week.

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And that's it.

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And if it can't fit into that, then

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it's gonna be some something else.

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Even if it's just, you know, another possibility

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would just be

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playing around with the,

383
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you know, giving uber rides.

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I think that would be that would be

385
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something too worthwhile to kind of experiment with.

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So So...

387
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But anyway,

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I've got a message front... The V message

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Joel sent me not long after I

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published the,

391
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previous

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short podcast where I kind of, you know,

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announced that I was gonna be retiring

394
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by July the eighth,

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And so I'm gonna go ahead and play

396
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that. So here is Joel.

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Hey, Tom. It's Joel black here.

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Just listen to last show. Following he had

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1 and I just... Appreciative,

400
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and I

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congratulations on your retirement. I just had someone

402
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who tired

403
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at work

404
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Friday here was, her last day.

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Oh,

406
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and

407
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the I 53, so I'm at least

408
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12 years from retirement.

409
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So I've got

410
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some that I... Some money it took from

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my job

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and I'm getting some from a my current

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job,

414
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2 04:01 k.

415
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But

416
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Ultimately, I don't... I really don't have enough

417
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to retire give at 65, I think, maybe

418
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we'll see. Maybe I'm wrong.

419
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Maybe you we'll get a year

420
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with great stock aren't bit.

421
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But

422
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he.

423
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I don't know if you've been paying attention.

424
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No.

425
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On

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social networks there like Facebook,

427
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in the last

428
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couple years,

429
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I say it taken the lease that long.

430
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I've lost a

431
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close to 93 pounds. Now, I haven't been

432
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done the

433
00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:48,000
fully gotten rid of the carbs, but I'm

434
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managing when it how many

435
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of everything I.

436
00:18:52,414 --> 00:18:53,375
So for example,

437
00:18:53,934 --> 00:18:55,775
I wanna have chips. I only measure out

438
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when I'm gonna eat

439
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That's it.

440
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It's all I do.

441
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And

442
00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,025
sat last sunday, I I did a 9

443
00:19:05,025 --> 00:19:05,844
mile hike

444
00:19:06,951 --> 00:19:08,168
which is half of

445
00:19:08,625 --> 00:19:11,037
almost half of what I need to do

446
00:19:11,573 --> 00:19:13,246
for the event that I'm training for an

447
00:19:13,246 --> 00:19:15,579
office which I'm doing a, a 20 mile

448
00:19:15,579 --> 00:19:18,720
hike around the Berg, State Park here in

449
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Ohio at Southeast Ohio that is Gloucester,

450
00:19:23,114 --> 00:19:23,912
to be exact.

451
00:19:25,269 --> 00:19:25,588
And.

452
00:19:28,142 --> 00:19:29,738
I got 4 other guys who are gonna

453
00:19:29,738 --> 00:19:31,390
be doing or 3 other guys are doing

454
00:19:31,509 --> 00:19:33,666
doing it with me. So I'm really excited

455
00:19:33,666 --> 00:19:35,344
about that. That's coming up in August.

456
00:19:37,022 --> 00:19:37,522
So

457
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But

458
00:19:40,312 --> 00:19:42,070
I hear you. I hear you.

459
00:19:43,587 --> 00:19:45,919
Yeah. I I don't wanna, you know, and

460
00:19:45,919 --> 00:19:47,751
when I retire, I got plenty of things

461
00:19:47,751 --> 00:19:49,503
to do. So I'll have things to do.

462
00:19:51,495 --> 00:19:52,770
Take care. Thank you, Joe.

463
00:19:54,304 --> 00:19:54,804
So,

464
00:19:55,585 --> 00:19:56,484
yeah, it's

465
00:19:57,345 --> 00:19:58,384
kind of amazing.

466
00:20:01,424 --> 00:20:04,146
You know, knew, you know, someday this day

467
00:20:04,146 --> 00:20:04,782
would come.

468
00:20:09,076 --> 00:20:09,576
But,

469
00:20:10,030 --> 00:20:12,671
you know, And and even though sometimes it

470
00:20:12,671 --> 00:20:14,504
seems like things are far off.

471
00:20:16,416 --> 00:20:18,010
And now, if you're really, you're really in

472
00:20:18,010 --> 00:20:19,778
the grand scheme of things they're are not.

473
00:20:20,257 --> 00:20:21,613
They're not that far off.

474
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You know? Because,

475
00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:26,398
you know, and you look back and you...

476
00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:28,552
You know, you may... Remember when you're a

477
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teenager

478
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and you remember, you know, remember when you're

479
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in her twenties.

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Then then your thirties, and then in your

481
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forties and all of a and, you know,

482
00:20:37,985 --> 00:20:41,029
you think well, I'm not in my twenties

483
00:20:41,166 --> 00:20:41,404
anymore,

484
00:20:42,438 --> 00:20:43,313
You know? And in,

485
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fifties and

486
00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:50,175
and I Now sixties and almost, you know,

487
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pushing 70, which is kind of hard to

488
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believe.

489
00:20:56,078 --> 00:20:57,448
69 right now.

490
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So the next one's gonna be 70.

491
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So,

492
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you know, it

493
00:21:05,961 --> 00:21:08,210
time does it kinda has a way of

494
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kinda of creeping forward.

495
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So

496
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I don't know.

497
00:21:18,450 --> 00:21:21,410
Like I say, I I could continue doing

498
00:21:21,410 --> 00:21:21,730
this.

499
00:21:22,929 --> 00:21:25,810
There's really no reason that I couldn't, but

500
00:21:26,287 --> 00:21:27,560
at the same time,

501
00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,079
certainly elements that I'm just done with and

502
00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:33,900
and particularly,

503
00:21:34,679 --> 00:21:36,920
you know, driving in the... I don't like

504
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,059
driving in the northeast

505
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part of the country.

506
00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:42,855
You know, like, you know, pencil places like

507
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Pennsylvania,

508
00:21:46,055 --> 00:21:48,709
upstate New York. That really doesn't is that

509
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much of a bother, but then you get

510
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into places like

511
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Connecticut,

512
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you know, Connecticut

513
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and up in that air it is more

514
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of a problem because there aren't as many

515
00:22:00,229 --> 00:22:02,463
truck stops, and you... It's just not as

516
00:22:04,618 --> 00:22:07,339
don't particularly like that well. But

517
00:22:08,449 --> 00:22:10,931
the worst part is the, you know, the

518
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northwest and then particularly the northwest

519
00:22:14,809 --> 00:22:16,957
in the weather, the northwest and the summer's

520
00:22:16,957 --> 00:22:17,934
is not bad

521
00:22:18,627 --> 00:22:20,298
or the western part of the countries and

522
00:22:20,298 --> 00:22:22,304
the summer's not bad, but then you get

523
00:22:22,304 --> 00:22:22,963
into the

524
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end of the winter and then the potential,

525
00:22:26,527 --> 00:22:28,280
you know, for snow and then you got

526
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,566
tired truck tire chains you know, and that's

527
00:22:31,566 --> 00:22:32,364
that's the worst.

528
00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:36,605
See absolute worst.

529
00:22:39,313 --> 00:22:41,224
You know? So I I don't know. I'm

530
00:22:41,224 --> 00:22:41,542
just

531
00:22:42,259 --> 00:22:42,657
not...

532
00:22:44,011 --> 00:22:47,059
Don't after face said anymore, not going to.

533
00:22:51,609 --> 00:22:54,254
And so halfway through the year is is

534
00:22:54,254 --> 00:22:55,524
good jump off point.

535
00:23:02,431 --> 00:23:02,644
So

536
00:23:06,509 --> 00:23:08,501
like I say, we'll see what happens. I,

537
00:23:09,298 --> 00:23:11,066
you know, like I say, I'm gonna end

538
00:23:11,066 --> 00:23:13,059
up with some sort of part time job

539
00:23:13,059 --> 00:23:15,073
or, you know, I'm sure that it's not

540
00:23:17,921 --> 00:23:19,921
probing not gonna be full time. If it

541
00:23:19,921 --> 00:23:22,698
is, it's gonna be something, you know, not

542
00:23:22,698 --> 00:23:25,238
very, you know, it's not gonna be driving

543
00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:26,446
a for sure.

544
00:23:32,816 --> 00:23:34,663
But if it is driving a try then

545
00:23:34,663 --> 00:23:36,413
it's gonna... Like I say, it's something gonna

546
00:23:36,413 --> 00:23:38,878
be 1 night a week and maybe, you

547
00:23:38,878 --> 00:23:39,038
know,

548
00:23:39,753 --> 00:23:42,159
like rip out so more in a trip

549
00:23:42,159 --> 00:23:43,757
back, and that's it for the week.

550
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:47,672
Maybe taking 2 days and then the rest

551
00:23:47,672 --> 00:23:48,392
of the week off.

552
00:23:58,308 --> 00:24:00,875
You know. So and I like I say,

553
00:24:01,114 --> 00:24:02,546
there's... I've got options.

554
00:24:04,296 --> 00:24:06,206
There are other options, and so we'll just

555
00:24:06,206 --> 00:24:07,001
see how it goes.

556
00:24:14,896 --> 00:24:16,886
If there's, you know, there really is no

557
00:24:16,886 --> 00:24:18,915
point in me continuing to

558
00:24:20,885 --> 00:24:22,102
kind of expose

559
00:24:22,479 --> 00:24:24,550
myself to the level of danger that I've

560
00:24:24,550 --> 00:24:25,921
been exposing myself.

561
00:24:31,903 --> 00:24:32,403
So

562
00:24:35,025 --> 00:24:36,771
You know, and it's a good idea. You

563
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know, it's to have some sort of a

564
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challenge and sort of, you know, kind of

565
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way george Peterson talks, you know, if you've

566
00:24:44,096 --> 00:24:46,008
ever listened to any of The Jordan Peterson.

567
00:24:46,725 --> 00:24:48,318
You know, He says, you know, it's kinda

568
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take up your car awesome,

569
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start appeal with it, and, meaning, you know,

570
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you find something useful to do. It's... That's...

571
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And, you know, and if it's not... If

572
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it's something useful, that you're doing,

573
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meaning kinda useful for other people.

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Then,

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you know, it's a struggle.

576
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You know, and I think struggles are good.

577
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But

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at this point,

579
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this particular struggle

580
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kinda

581
00:25:21,747 --> 00:25:24,057
it just isn't worth it anymore.

582
00:25:26,048 --> 00:25:28,836
For me, this, you know, the the equation,

583
00:25:30,270 --> 00:25:33,248
high it doesn't is kinda stop making sense

584
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to suck to whatever degree.

585
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So...

586
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But in any case,

587
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we'll see what happens. It's

588
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like I say, it's coming right down to

589
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the wire this point.

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And,

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Monday,

592
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you know today was Saturday,

593
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and then we have Sundays tomorrow, and then

594
00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:07,764
we have Monday and Monday

595
00:26:09,024 --> 00:26:09,924
is probably

596
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the last

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day.

598
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And that will that.

599
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So

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anyhow, I think I'm gonna go ahead and

601
00:26:22,916 --> 00:26:24,005
cut this off

602
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hopefully, I...

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Once I,

604
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you know, am back home and kind of

605
00:26:32,387 --> 00:26:33,518
retire and what have you.

606
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I will

607
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I won't wake wait a month and a

608
00:26:38,068 --> 00:26:39,845
half before the next podcast.

609
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Probably will

610
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be able to kinda hope, you know, possibly.

611
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I'm not gonna make any promises, but possibly

612
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do somewhat more frequently than I have been.

613
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So we'll see what happens, but I'll I'll

614
00:26:57,209 --> 00:26:59,123
kinda let you know. I'll I'll try to

615
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put up a some of a podcast, even

616
00:27:01,693 --> 00:27:02,992
if it's a short podcast,

617
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sort of letting, you know what happened how

618
00:27:05,768 --> 00:27:07,446
it went, etcetera, etcetera.

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So sooner rather than later.

620
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So in any case, hope everyone is having

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a great weekend so far,

622
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and I will catch you later. Remember, Trucker

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