Tango tango papa 214
01/07/4224.
Have we seen the actual reality of a
month to crime
or merely an illusion, the product of a
tortured brain.
Good. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, Tom
Wei here with you coming to you from
retirement.
So I'm at home.
I
retired on
July the
eighth.
And so what's today today is the 20
second.
So
Let's see.
09/18/1920
21 22. So it's been about a week.
Or 2 weeks rather, 2 weeks, 14 days.
So,
what ended up happening,
I had a load that
because at first, there were, you know, when
I first was talking to the asset manager,
he said, well, you can... Or or in
the other people they said you could take
the truck to just the nearest
terminal company terminal. And so they've a kind
of a small company terminal that doesn't have
a shop, but it does have off an
office and office employees and trailer parking and
truck parking, what have you. Over in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
That's about a hundred and 20 miles from
where I live
and in
Arkansas.
So that was originally, that's what, you know,
we kinda talked about. But then, when it
came down to it,
I ended up with a load that delivered
to
saint Joseph Missouri.
And
so
the Kansas City
Missouri
terminal,
is about,
let's say roughly 45
to 50 miles away from
where I
unloaded at in Saint. Joseph. It was actually...
It turned out to be a drop in
hook.
And so on... Then that was on the
Believe that you they... That was on the
eighth. That was on July the eighth. That
was on Monday, July the eighth.
And so after, you know, I I
actually delivered
did the drop in hooks
on the seventh and late in you know,
kind of later in the evening.
So I went ahead and drove down to
the Kansas city terminal and I spent the
night there.
And then I went in
the next morning after the office opened, and
retired. Well, actually before that, at what what
I did, I
ended up getting an Uber
calling in over to come and pick me
up,
that turned out to be a little harder
than you know, because I needed to get
the rental car.
So,
you know, that night, I reserved the rental
car,
which ended up was a mitsubishi out outlined,
which was okay so kind of a mid
I guess it's considered a mid midsize Suv.
It has a Cv t, which
sort of mimics an automatic transmission, but it
still seem like the things slipping,
you know, the way the engine rev. But
anyway,
that
in order to go pick that up. I
I, you know, I
use the app on my phone for Uber
and
So the first 1 was, you know, they
were close by, and they were supposed to
just be there right away. Well, of course,
when you
if you've ever gotten an uber with the
app on your phone,
you can actually see, you know once someone's
accepted it. That you can actually see where
the the person is at. That's gonna to
pick you up.
Well, I waited, and I waited, and I
waited, and it was like 30 minutes. And
it was that it showed the thing like,
2 and a half miles away.
And so what it was, it was...
The Uber was parked at
there's a truck stop,
flying Jay truck stop that's
just a couple of miles or a little
over from the
Kansas City,
Missouri company terminal. It's a couple miles south
along the interstate 04:35.
And for whatever reason after the person accepted
the my ride, they just sat there, and
they continue to sit there. And so
I canceled that 1, and I ordered another
1, and the the, the next 1 showed
right up.
And the guy took me to the
rental place where I rented the car at...
I think it turned... It was from, believe
it was Avi.
I rented the car from.
And so I was able to pick the
car up, and then I brought the
brought it back to the terminal, and I
loaded all of my stuff into the, you
know, from the the truck into the car,
and then I went in the office and
told him I was retiring and
blah blah blah.
So
what ended up happening? I... You know, I
had to sign a a heavy sign a
a resignation letter and you put down your...
The reason you're resigning, of course in my
aces because I was retiring.
And so that's... And then the next step
after that, I
turned the,
truck into their shop. They have a shop
there at Kansas City. And kind of
smaller shop. They're, you know, they've got bigger
ones in other places, but that was sort
of a smaller 1.
And so
It's not the smallest, but it's... Might say
it's sort of mid sized
shop. But anyway, I turned the truck into
the shop and
you know, you know, gave him the keys,
and then I was
off on my way. So it It ended
up being about noon by the time I
get out of there.
Noon or there's maybe 12:30.
And so I
made it home
I guess it was around 5,
something whenever I made at home, and I
was able to unload the car.
I unloaded all the stuff out of the
Suv, and then,
I had a
a friend that that was nice enough to
offer to come and because he lives near
the airport.
There's x a
It's called X in a national airport
for Northwest Arkansas,
and he actually lives just a few miles
from it. And so he offered to
come pick me up at the airport because
that's where all the car. You know, the
you know, if you rent a car, you
know, from point a to point b and,
like a 1 way rental, they all... Typically
they all go to airports.
It's not always true, but that's it's true
in the vast vast number of cases.
You know, you rent the car... That sort
of rental comes from an airport and that
goes to an airport. But it's not always
true. For example, you know, I picked up
where I picked it up It was in
the North Kansas city and was riding in
town.
So
North Kansas City, Missouri. So anyway, yeah, he
came and
picked me up
at the
airport after I got the... I got the
car turned in what's that turned out to
be a very easy process.
And
so I was able to just,
pull into the parking lot basically and the
guy came and took the keys and
young, I you know, I'd already had all
my stuff out of it, and so that
was that. And turned it in.
I think they may given me a receipt
or something. But anyway,
then
my friend,
we stop on the way he... Because he
brought me all the way out back to
my back out to my house.
And so... But in the meantime, we stopped
an a and then he brought me on
out here and then then he went on
home. So that was very nice of him
to offer give me a ride because otherwise,
I would have probably what I would had
to do was wait until so, you know,
the next morning, the Tuesday morning, and then
take the car out there early because they,
you know,
had the you know, they had it on
the paper that it... You know, you rent
it for 24 hours and they wanna there
by,
the time you rent it. I rented it.
I guess it was around 9AM or something
something like that at 9 09:30AM
whenever I got thing rented.
After I got there with the Uber ride,
and so and I had to wait in
line too,
once I got to the rental agency.
But
so I would have had to turn the
car in
by 9 or 09:30 whatever the time was.
The next Tuesday morning and it so I
would have had to gotten up early and,
you know, driven to the airport and
and then gotten an uber ride home. So
having him, we just come and pick me
up. I was able to
turn the car in the same day that
I rented. You know, just that evening. They're
they're there, I think and at that rental...
The rental
place, they'll they'll receive. I think it was
like 10 or 11:00 at night,
so that worked out flying.
So anyway, since I've been home, I've you
know, kind of started putting things away. And,
of course, then the last Saturday, of course,
the
Donald Trump
assassination attempt took place,
and I have been kind of,
obsessively watching all sorts of videos,
talking about that.
You know, and there's more and more information
that's
being revealed.
Now, by the way, I'm actually sitting
outside right now on my back deck.
So
it's kinda hard for me to tell you
may or may not hear
some insects in the background.
But
you know, And then at some point, the
the the air conditioner compressor is gonna... You
know, for the central air is gonna kick
on. And so you'll you'll probably hear that.
But like I say, you may or may
not be able to hear the
insects. I... I'll be able to tell
you know, once I'm able to listen back
to to the recording, then I can tell
what was... You know, what actually ended up
being in it. But
anyone is listened to me is used to
trucks the idling and the motor starting and
stopping and the air brakes and
all kinds of different noise So I've
never been 1 to obsessively worry about noises
and fan, you know, people worry about fan,
little fans going, and they turn their air
conditioning off, and
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And that's... I don't know.
I think that's a little
over the top, but maybe some people ob
obsessed over such things.
So anyway I've been
watching quite a few videos about
the Trump assassination attempt, and
it's it pretty clear that,
you know to me that either the secret
service was just
absolutely
completely app or I think
there's probably you on, You can call me
a conspiracy theorist if you want to. But
I think there's probably
you a, somebody
somewhere. It's not all of them. There's... It
all it takes is 1 or 2 people
in the wrong place. You know, let's say
they've they've got control over certain aspects.
Takes 1 or 2 people to be in
the wrong place, and they can they can
really screw something up.
Or make something possible.
And
but in this case, it didn't work. And
so I think Donald Trump is
can, you know, basically
thank God,
god spared him.
And I, you, I really do believe that.
And you could say, oh, it's just a...
It was just a weird coincidence that eternity
had right at the right time, and there
was this
Also, this breeze came along just the right
time
that happened simultaneously,
that that you know, could, you know, could
end that pro possibly ended up, sort of
pushing the
trajectory of the ballistic
off just a little bit.
Just enough where it ended up,
you know,
in combination with him turning his head, it
just made it so that it graves is
here.
But
know, that he was just, like, a millimeter
away from,
being, you know, having his head blown off...
It's pretty incredible.
So
anyhow, I've been watching a lot of that,
and there's more and more information that's coming
out. And there's some... There's there's some, a
lot of speculation
But and the reason there's so much speculation
is because the government,
the agencies involved are just completely stonewall everything
they seem. You know, I've watched a good
chunk of
congressional testimony of that Kim, what's her name
Kim Chat, chat, whatever.
Think is Kim Chat, the director of the
secret service agency,
and she just Stonewall and spent hours stonewall
all the questions and they they could barely
get any information out of her at all.
She just kept saying, well, you'll have to
refer to the Fbi but I don't wanna
taint the Fbi investigation. I wanna make sure
absolutely sure
that I give you just facts. And, you
know, so she was
she's probably gone. You know, she she might
as well, she's saying she's not gonna resign,
but believe me, she's gonna resign.
Or she's gonna be fired.
I was watching Bill O'reilly.
You know, he used to be on Fox,
and now he's got his thing on Youtube.
And maybe some other platforms, but
you know,
you know, like him or hate, you know,
he can be a bit of abrasive at
times and
a little bit bit brag,
but
he's pretty accurate with what he says. And
1 of the things that he said
was it, you know, pull the political stuff
really easy to figure out.
If you, you know, you can take like
the head of a corporation or the head
of a
country, for example, you know, people that are
in political power.
Once they lose power,
they get kicked out very quickly.
And it's pretty clear that,
this Kim chat, channel chat, whatever her name
is.
You know, has really... She just... You know,
if she's lost control of the agency. Whatever
control she had over it
as director of the secret service,
she's lost. And so somebody her head... Her
her job is gonna roll. You know, somebody's...
They're gonna
find it
useful. Someone's gonna find it useful to just
get rid of her
you know, and then they'll probably blame her
for the shortcomings.
You know, when it... You know, and it
may not be here entirely her fault. You
know, although she... Like she says like, the
buck stops with me,
but then she doesn't wanna really take responsibility
for it.
You know, what... That hearing today 1 of
the congressman
that was participating in the hearing By the
way, it was a, you know, you know,
the the Democrats and the Republicans both were
really just
running this woman over the rails.
They were asking
even
K Cortez
was
Alexandria K Cortez act asking some pretty good
questions. I was impressed.
She was asking some pretty pertinent questions
But anyway, this 1 1 congressman,
the older man... What, you know, an older
man was saying that at 1... You know,
he before he became congressman at 1 time,
he was in charge of a large,
like a
segment of At and T
for some portion of the country for with
At and T. And so and when he
was responsible,
you know,
for different At and t, you know,
At and T operations in his sector, and
he said I have a real had a
really good working knowledge of it.
And if something went wrong, I could
absolutely just explain it to to, you know,
I couldn't stonewall wall to the the people
that were over me.
I was able to just immediately. I had
a good good working knowledge of what was
going on. I could just
you know,
I I knew what was happening if something
went wrong, etcetera.
And, you know, and that didn't phase this
woman at all. She just... She continued to
stonewall.
And
so see what happens. But
you know, and back in the day, you
know, whenever the Kennedy
assassination happened or, you know, previously, there was
no Internet,
Nowadays
everybody, you go to an event like that
or are you watch an event like that
on Tv,
you know, any kind of a the end
of the video. And you see the... Everybody's
got their cell phone in a vertical
position. They've got the cell phone and they've
got it just they're holding it out, like
it's
you know, some sort of a candle or
something.
Holding it out in front of them, all
of them, you know, just like, you know,
Kinda like zombies.
But in
in any case, so there's all kinds of
recordings.
So they can say 1 thing, You know,
at first, she said, well,
we didn't have anybody on that other roof.
It was... Their slope involved and
that turned... That was... She was just throwing
something against the wall see if it was
stick. At first, she said, well, the
the plea... The local police were in charge
of that little segment. That that particular building.
You know, anybody with, you know, even a
novice going in there,
you would you would look at that and
you'd say I want
someone on this building and this these... And
then they... The 2 that they had the
actual their snipers on.
You know, the government version or the government
snipers.
Those 2 buildings yeah, you'd have somebody on
there.
They were sort of behind the
Trump, you know, the behind the podium,
orientation, but then you'd have someone on that
third building. Well they get... Oh, the the
local police were responsible for that.
You know, and that's... This doesn't make any
sense. You know, he has a clear line
sight and then this stupid
20 year old that those seemed to be
totally apt was able to just roll up
and, you know, Fly drone a couple of,
at least once.
Maybe you're in the morning, and then, you
know, kinda look at it, and then he
was out walking around and
had he got, you know, like a range
finder. You like if people have, you know,
when they're paying golf or whatever or shooting.
At his range finder and he was just
out walking around, and then the people saw
him on the if after Trump had already
come out.
And was starting in speech.
There there were people, you know, and I'm
sure you seen the video. You pointing.
He's on the roof. He's got a gun.
He's on the roof. He's got a gun
and you get on just let it go.
And then you had the shots that came
out and you know, and all of the
shots happened.
They didn't do it just to... You know,
the the the secrets or whoever the sniper
was, could've have been, you know,
as soon as they saw that the the
guy was on the roof of the gun,
they should nailed him.
They should have eliminated the threat.
They keep saying.
At that point, They waited until, you know,
there were 3 shots, and then there were
several, you know, several more
And then finally, I think
you know, several seconds go by and then
they zap.
You know, And there's a single
shot from the the government snipers that take
him out.
But why did they allow all those shots
to take place.
That's insane.
Someone, you know, of that corey comp
died
He was murdered.
You know, if you go to a political
rally, do you expect to to be shot?
Killed.
You know, 2 other people were, you know,
actually injured
pretty severely, they're gonna recover,
but
you know, you go to AAA rally like
that. You you... You know, I've went to
an early Trump rally back in 20 16.
When Trump was first running for president, I
went where a had 1 out at the
x n airport.
There's a, like a Tyson foods hanger, big,
you know, so that it was an indoor
rally.
I got up there. I don't remember what
time the rally was supposed to be. I
think it was supposed to be sometime in
the afternoon, And I got there
at some point, I thought I was gonna
there early. I got there in the morning
and there was already quite a long line,
and I ended up being probably about
because the way they, you know, standing room
only, and they just started lining this
lining people up in the front.
Where the the front of the thing was,
and then the the front of it was
open.
They had the they had the doors you
know, the thing was all opened up. To
the, you know, and you could see that...
You know, and once the Trump plane came
in and he came down. And
so I was probably about
maybe 30 feet from him.
You know, But I had... I ended up
standing there for
several hours and, you know, that they've I
managed,
but the whole thing filled up, and there's
no telling in how many thousands of were
there. And then, of course, that it filled
completely filled the... The... This large aircraft hanger
completely up
And then there were people outside that were,
you know, listening to the...
That loud
outside.
And then, of course, it was a massive
traffic jam
leaving it afterwards.
But
you know, even then they, you know, they
you walk through magnet,
and then they
they sort of look you over.
You know, it wasn't... It this the security
wasn't severe in order to get in there,
but they made sure you didn't have a
gun or anything.
So,
you know, and I... And in that situation,
I felt perfectly safe.
And you'd think, you know, you go to
something like that. You're gonna be safe.
So
We'll see what happens. I think a lot
of things are in the process of
being exposed
and
you know, it's
where we live in very, very interesting times.
That's for sure.
So so far so good with me being,
retired. I've been
like I said, I've been kind of watching
you know, you know, I've been kind of
intrigued with the the with this
Trump
assassination attempt, and, you know, and
But in the meantime, I've been trying to,
you know, 1 of the things I really
have neglected over the years is kinda cleaning
in the house. I like things kinda neat
really if I'm sort left to my own
devices.
All tend to have things really clean and
neat.
And
you know, with me, you know, when I
was working, me only being home 5 days
out of the month,
that was kinda hard. And I... It was
easy for me to
sort of feel
overwhelmed,
you know, how how can I keep this
clean or clean it up once done, and
it tends to, you know, dust to accumulates
etcetera, etcetera?
So
I've kinda of been
spending some time every day
cleaning, you know, cleaning this room, cleaning that
room. And
now, day before was it, yeah know, it
Saturday so that was stable for yesterday. My
youngest brother,
I gave him my motorcycle.
Told him he could have it, you know,
he to come get it. You know, And
so he finally, you know, this has been
months ago. I told him to come get
it.
Well, he finally came and got it Saturday.
And so I'm rid of it. It's out.
I had it in the shed, and it's
out of this... You know, it's taking up
lots of room.
So now I've got a whole lot more
room in the shed. So I bought another
went
lowe's
yesterday. I went to 1 of the lowe's
stores, and I bought a
fair out, you know, it's like a 4
foot
or maybe a little bit wider self, 5
5 shelves,
6 feet high,
you know,
probably about a foot and a half deep.
So it's a pretty good sized shelf and
that'll allow me to
kind of organize,
you know, there's some of the stuff, some
stuff that I had in the house.
That really can go in the shed
that... That's easy it's easier and better if
I just keep it in the shed, and
you know, so that's
kind of all that problem. And then if
I
needed it, if I fill, you know, fill
new shelf up, I've still got room for
more
more shelves.
So
But right now, I'm not bored at all.
Like I say, I've been
not really working on it solid, but
spending time every day trying to, you know,
clean this up and clean that up and
reorganize this and reorganize that.
And, you know, my intention is to kinda
work my way through the entire house.
So... And, you know, and
it
know, and if you were to come and
see my house, it's, you know, you... It
doesn't look dirty to start with.
But you know, like I say, I tend...
If I'm left to my own devices, I,
probably tend to want things to be as
clean as possible and neat.
So
you know, But then again, I can be...
You know, I can be a little sloppy
as well, like when I was in the
truck. Of course, the problem living in a
truck.
You know, there's you could... I had to
carry all this stuff with me so I
could be gone for weeks at a time.
And that made it difficult to to kinda
stay organized or keep things clean. And so
it it tended to be kinda messy, but
you know, my own vehicles are
really clean and, you, and no mess at
all, and that's
really what I want the house to be.
So I'll get there. I'm working on it.
So
anyway, I've got
3
I think 3 or 4 messages
1 of them is real short, But the...
So real 3 messages 3 longer messages from
Joel.
So here is Joel. Hey tom, Joel locked
on here.
And in the car get ready to
go to the local metro park being
kind of a short.
Kind of
I don't know if I wanna call it
a recovery hike, but a hike.
Trail I'm probably gonna go on is what
I've been doing
pretty regularly
did it week before vacation quite a bit.
And it's about 1.9
miles, couple hills on it. It doesn't drastic.
It's the great daily worked out,
not something
I'm doing in preparation for the hike I'm
doing the... Which is the Mammoth March in
Southeast Ohio.
Which is a 20 mile hike
around
Bur oak, State park, the lake in the
park,
so it'll be going all around that lake.
But that's kind of what I've been doing
for exercise. Now that the weather is nice
all the time. Even though it's a little
high. I don't care.
It's not raining.
That's a good thing. So
I'll be walking around the that. Right now,
running track of my workout with which is
I have the pixel watch at the...
Which that uses a fit that currently. And
I currently do pay for the
premium plan. I may
stop that
once to get my new device.
I just ordered a garmin
7...
Phoenix
it's spelled F fe IX7X,
which is a
watch its more towards
maturing and hiking and
biking and stuff like that,
outdoor activities.
Pricing thing is I think the daily,
like, just do normal daily use like me,
you know, work out.
For half hour an hour,
a day,
where around a house, tracking your sleep.
The battery
is
gonna be around I think they said
30 to... 15 to 30 days. It's gonna
depend on all your other things that you
we can do with it. But the nice
thing is it... It's not
where less It's not apple Apple watch.
It's.
And garmin has been doing Gps since since
the very beginning
of
consumer level of Gps.
So, it will track your hike
that's the all sorts of cool things
with the biggest reason I got it is
that not only, Oh, when I have the
solar version or ordered
that has a ring around the display
that is a solar panel.
And as you're hiking, it will absorb solar
solar energy and
contribute to
keeping your watch
going.
So
I think when you're under a full track,
like it will be for the hike and
will will be for most of my practice
hikes,
from when I get it until the hike,
which is August third.
I'll have it with the full multi band
Gps.
So it should have very accurate
cracks of my hike.
It also does work with, I believe it
also works with all trails, which is an
app I do subscribe
to for hiking
for fighting trails and you could rate trails
and review trails and stuff.
Very, very useful.
Why am I getting at with all this?
Well he said you might think about, like,
maybe doing a part time out because he
can't do anything.
Why don't you
try AII
think you said 1 of your earlier shows
that you enjoy walking.
Aren't tried doing hiking, and maybe even looking
at maybe possibly hiking
1 the big 3
trails,
they have a the triple crown,
which is consists of the appalachian trail,
the continental
divide trail and the Pacific
crest trail.
It's something to think about anyway. I know
that my my
retirement goal
would be to go hike the appalachian trail.
That's usually about a 6 month commitment depending
on how fast you decide you wanna go.
I see 6 months because it'd be an
awful shame to go walking out in that
beautiful wilderness
and
not
take pictures, not enjoy yourself
and enjoy what god's created.
So that's kinda why I like hiking. So
You anyway,
congratulations on your retirement from SIIII
do realize why why you wanna do that
and I certain to get to be that
age too, but I've got about 12 to
15 more years yet
before I'm ready to retire. And hopefully, by
time ago The stock market's too well. My
4 okay. 04:01 k is doing much better.
So
take care, my friend.
Talk you later.
Thank you, Joel.
So,
now, my ga... You talked about a garmin
watch. I have
you know, this is the Samsung
Galaxy watch
5
pro, whatever.
And
I don't know. I think it... It's capable
of tracking.
You know, like a walk or whatever.
Now the phone, I don't know if that's
really necessary because it does tracks apps and
the phone tracks,
you know, even without the watch, the phone
is tracking
you know, you know, it's using the Gps
location. So it's that part kinda being tracked
anyway. So
I don't know. At 1 point, I... You
know, you know, with this mower that I
have the writing mower from John Deere, they've
got this app that
you can open up the app and and
you know, and then it it tracks
it it tracks as you sort of go
back and forth on the mower,
you know? And
The problem with that app, the with the
John deere app is that it really...
It sucks battery like mad or at least
it did.
And this has been... It's been... You know,
I don't know a couple years since I
even, you know, I only used it right
after I first got this this particular mower.
It's probably more than a couple of years.
Probably at least 3 years.
Ago whenever I got this mower,
so
you know, and it sucked battery like mad.
So I... You know, And and it was
useless because we I still have to mow.
You know, who cares if it's you know,
if I can open up the thing, and
I can see that. Whoa, I went back
and forth and back and forth and back
and forth for
2 or 3 or 4 hours.
Whoop d do.
So
Now as far as me hiking
ain't gonna happen.
Not, you know, and it's not because I
have anything against hiking,
The problem is
I don't have any interest in it.
The most interest I have is
you know, kind of walking in the park.
And I'm not...
Actually, I I'd probably,
you know, try to do that every day,
but
I haven't doing it every day. It... Now
I finally did cool off. We did went
the first
week or so that I... After I retired,
it was
that it was just hot and humid. It
was really hot. It was oppressive.
So
now this this week has been different.
You it's
been quite a bit cooler. Right now, it's,
at least according to my watch. It says
it's 69 degrees.
So
wherever they're getting the data from. But and
and it's probably right.
This has been... You know, it's been getting
down in the sixties. And I think today,
it he bet it was cloudy and and,
we did get a little rain here and
there.
And I think that the temperature
made it into this maybe 75, 76 degrees,
and that was the high.
Which that's quite
unusual for
July, you know, because usually
July and then August typically is the hottest
month and then at least around here.
And then it it cools off. Usually, it
cools off right after labor day.
You know, usually,
labor labor day happens like septic what that
septum 6, then it's, like the next day,
that somebody flipped the switch, and all of
a sudden it's cooler. It's cooler.
I think the jet stream changes but
in any case right now, it's
it's been cool the past few days, so
I should get out and walk again.
But,
yeah, I that... Yeah. I just don't have
any interest in hiking, and I and I
know that I
you know, the the thing is if If
I don't have any interest in something, I
can't I can't force myself to do it.
You know, it's like people. You know, they
they make their new like New year's resolution.
They're gonna go to the gym 3 times
a week.
And maybe, you know, that... And then they
go to the gym,
typically what ends up with most people. Though
maybe go to make the trip to the
gym for about 3 times, and then they've
got
You know, this other rebellious part of them
is making all kinds of excuses why they
can't go.
So that's typically what happens.
You know, you gotta really be
interested in something and and what I found
is that I really cannot control what I'm
interested in.
You know, I can I can kind of
train myself? If I'm if I'm interested if
I'm really interested in something, I can kinda
rest retrain myself
to a certain extent, but
not really,
but I can't on the the flip side
of that,
I can't suddenly decide. Well, I'm gonna be
interested in such and such and and try
to force myself to do. I can't do
it.
It doesn't work.
So...
But like I said, I don't have anything
against hiking, and I know people really enjoy
doing it.
It's not me. So
not not gonna happen.
But I will get out and walk. I
do
do enjoy walking, but
I'm not... You know, it's just gonna be
1 of those things that I just sort
of throw in
here and there, you know, as As I
as I sort develop a a routine of
what I'm gonna be doing.
So right now, I'm
kind of
settling into into cleaning the house. And I'm
not really not really bored. Yet. So I
haven't... That was my big fear
is that once I retired, I was gonna
end up being
not having not having anything to do or
not having any purpose. And
so far that hasn't happened.
So, you know, once I really get the
house clean and organized,
might be a different story, but at the
at the present moment,
you know, I'm I'm really
really am enjoying
you know, not having to
go back out in the truck, you know,
because it...
Typically, I was home for about 5 days,
and then I'd be gone for 3 and
3, 3 and a half weeks,
and I did that for years and years
and years.
So anyway, I've got
more from Joel. So once again here is
Joel. Tom. It's Joel Block here.
And
hopefully like you said
at home,
getting some well need and rest from more
and so hard on the road over the
years,
and
just wanted to
share some of the thoughts I'm thinking,
you know, I I will say, you know,
Evs,
electric,
you they're not gonna... I mean, a lot
of folks will say that they're
the, you know,
the savior of the environment, which they really
aren't
for multiple our reasons, but the I'm thing
I'm thinking about here is it's not
any
specific... Well, it's 1 specific vehicle, and that's
the cyber company.
It has a polarizing design. You. I know
you... I know you said... Look, you think
it looks like somebody put it together with
pilot or something like that. You know, like,
when you're a kid,
you. And and that's you. Like, I can
see that, you know, not everyone's supposed to
like every vehicle.
Okay, But
and the looks... You know, thing you'll don't
wanna get because of how it looks
I get it. No. That's fine.
Yeah,
and it's a and it's a fair thing.
But the 1 thing that really bothers means
is when people
will base it on bell at assumptions about
the vehicle like, there's a recent article from
the drive
where I guess,
somebody got lace
when shutting a door on
cyber truck. And people are like, hey, it's
a design flaw. It's a design for...
Well, hear me out. I mean,
19 70 something.
I was getting in the back of,
my uncle
great question should say,
had a ford maverick.
And guess where Joel had his fingers where
they don't belong with somebody is closing the
door.
So my finger got slammed in the door,
and I got a cut.
That's a a particular issue that's not
specific to cyber?
You know, are there things design wise that
can be do to make it less likely
to happen sure, but it's just as easy
to happen is just to be careful what
you're doing.
Yeah. Same with the with the frank
I think they someone said they sliced off
they did test and they sliced
carrots and
and
hot dogs
in the in the front, I'm like, yeah.
But if you're mo
and you have your fingers where they don't
belong. Of course, they're gonna
gonna cut them.
Yeah,
So those are things bothers me That plus
people who have a misconception
of
what
it can and can't do. You know, for
example,
you know, the they'll use their their opinion
on design and say it's a piece of
crap.
When, you know, hey,
I've had plenty of cars that I
owned over the years that Thought where I
lead because that's what I bought because that's
what I can afford. I've created. That's not
happening here on the cyber truck, You know,
But
But they'll use looks as a way to
say, well, it's it's a trash vehicle. It
and the simple fact is is it's not
a trash vehicle. It's just a vehicle that's
not suited to you.
For example,
as I get older 1 of the things
I'm considering doing is I'd like to get,
like a camper, like in our... You,
ideally, I'd love 1 it's really nice Rv
with the engine, you know, that can tow
a vehicle behind,
you know, but that's not
necessarily realistic because, you know, some of those
big Rv will cost
million dollar So it's like that, You know,
I'm not gonna buy a vehicle to cost
that much. So what I'm thinking about is
more like
a trailer, not necessarily a fifth wheel, but
something like that. It's big enough just big
enough to have
a very basic
environment inside air conditioning.
I even be happy with pop up. My
wife not so much. So with something like
that. I mean, I'd even go as small
as a these cured up trailers I have,
because, honestly,
if I'm towing something behind me. I am
not gonna go to a place it doesn't
have a shower and the bathroom from.
Okay?
And I... And it's not gonna hurt me
1 Iota I order
to grab a bag of clothes.
And
my
toiletries and stuff to take with me. Go
take Sharon share house. It dressed in Share
house.
And then go back to the campsite side.
That's not hurting. I also don't need to
have a a kitchen inside these things.
But those are just stupid little things, but
ideally though is I want tote behind a
vehicle.
Okay? My my current vehicle, which is a,
20 22
chevrolet to traverse reverse
front wheel drive version.
A tours Rs trim level if that matters.
But that can only tow about 1500 pounds,
so that's not gonna be sufficient.
Okay. I'm looking at 1 product gonna be
between the 3002
4000,
maybe from this much as 5000
towing.
Needed. So
I would look at, like, either, like, a
a Colorado,
Chevrolet Colorado or a
Silverado or even for whatever,
a pickup truck, you know, Cyber truck could
do that. But but
only if you're staying like limited range from
your home.
Every
electric
truck, be it
before lightning,
the cyber truck.
Maybe be the r. I'm not sure the
arabian might might be okay.
I have to look and see,
I haven't looked too much on the rem.
But most every E truck I've looked at,
their, capacity goods way down.
When you're towing something,
capacity. I mean,
how far you can drive? Your your the
distance range you you wanna drive.
Alright. So that's 1 thing that that's a
negative on the cyber truck for me. Another
thing it's a negative on the cyber truck
in or any E for that matter is
there's no no E
that will let me
drive from
Grove city, Ohio, suburb both Columbus down to
Knoxville Tennessee
in 1 charge.
I can get to the Knoxville in right
around 6 hours,
maybe a little bit longer if I have
to take a extended break, which hardly happens.
And know I stopped usually stopped long enough
to pee, and that's about it. But if
I had to meet E,
I would have to stop somewhere between
Grove City and
Knoxville in order to get at least a
15 to 20 minute charge,
so that I can make it all the
way. And that also doesn't
doesn't really help with the rest of the
distance with the rest of the trip because
because when I look at,
where super supercharger are and specifically for Tesla,
in the Knoxville area, there's is exactly 1
and then it's on the subsided of town
from where my dad lives.
1 thing it is helping things is the
proliferation of E Americas
charge stations,
in in other charge stations plus,
the
connector that the Tesla uses is now considered
to be the North American standard for charging.
So
the charge infrastructure... You're really starting to get
built out a lot more than we probably
think
and a lot more than I really know.
The only reason I'm saying is is because
I have watched some videos of people who
have these cars, like specifically technology
connections. He has a
being ion.
Alright.
But
even with see at that
infrastructure. I look at trips that I've taken
in the past, like, I've gone from
from Row City to
North Carolina
going through West Virginia
and places like at some of these places
also,
where
that, you know, a few years ago, they
had that snowstorm,
where gas vehicles were probably fine.
But because, you know, the e
electric,
for the heat pump has to be on
the whole time, you're stuck in traffic,
that the range went down pre.
So now I think there are ways that
they can fix that part of it,
for example...
But not easily, I should say.
But 1 example, would be you have a
a dedicated battery towards
making it go
in a dedicated battery for powering the
accessories. And don't mean like, like,
just a... The they all have 12 volt
batteries too.
But
they would need something
substantial.
I e, no car could carry both the
batteries that you need to run things like
the heat
or in the stay warm,
and
the 1 to make it go. You can't
really do it separate.
The way the way things are designed because
because the weight
considerations. They're gonna be very heavy.
So
I do you think that eventually Evs will
be the future then maybe be the future
in trucks, cars, everything.
But I know that that, you know, the
way I look at it is I don't
look at them as a fixed for global
warming because it's not gonna do that.
At least not until you get far more
clean or
power, more solar. So we're can can work
in a lot of areas, not so much
in Ohio, but, you know,
that will help.
I think, like, if something like cool, like,
a fusion
becomes the thing.
Then we're talking.
Alright. I know E sales aren't doing great.
But I do know that that
as time goes on, the technology is gonna
get better, and I think eventually, I'll will
probably have 1 in my lifetime.
So, but for now, I'll stick with Gas
far. And and that's the other thing that
a lot of the top park companies you
seem to seem to forget here is
I cannot afford to buy a car,
any... Like, E that that we use only
when I'm in grove city, you know, like
to drive the church, drive the grocery store
stuff like that.
And 1 that I would use on long
trips because that's the way It has to
be right now. I'd have to have a
gas car for a long trip and E
for a
you know, run around town, neil.
I can't do that. You know, unless unless
that car is very small, like like a
smart car or something like that.
Then
I could probably get away with that, you
know, cost wise, but,
I don't really wanna have a smile you
know.
But, you know,
it's interesting technology. And I and I think
that
it's getting an unfair ramp because there some
people that are like, oh, I like the
big engines and the noise they make and
stuff like that. I'm like, well, I get
that, but that's gonna be the pass so
you need to get over it.
Take care, Bud. Enjoy your rig case. Thank
you again, Joel.
So the cyber truck,
you know, of course, you know, any vehicle
you can you know, slam your hand and
you're now your fingers in the door. What...
I think every kid has done that. Because
I remember doing it. I've seen, you know,
like my younger brothers do it. I've seen
cousins do it.
You know? And then
so it happens.
Not so much
you know, with
like a trunk or whatever. But, of course,
there aren't that many cars that would automatically
open and close a trunk.
Or in the case of the cyber truck,
it's the trunk.
I think that's kinda gimmicky.
Another thing I think is gimmicky is you
know, you have the the vehicles with the
the running boards and you open the door
and the thing comes out.
It's motorized and it comes out and he
closed the door, and it just goes back
in. I think that's a total gimmick. I
know some people like that.
But
I think that's just that's a complete gimmick
and then and it's... You know, and of
course, whatever it is. The motors are gonna
die at some point. It's either gonna be
stuck out or stuck in.
So...
But, you know, they the gimmicky stuff, you
know, power windows, obviously, that that's in that's
standard now in pretty much every vehicle.
And it has been for some time. You
know, there's no no crank roll up windows
anymore. That's that's a completely think with past.
And I don't think anybody's
really complained about that.
I'm sure there there probably are a few
people that have, but because They say, well,
the more stuff you have more, you know,
Gizmos you have, the more likely it is
to
get the things gonna fail. Something's gonna fail
and that to a certain extent that is
true.
But in any case, I think the problem
with the cyber truck,
you know, apart from the styling, and, of
course, you'd you say that sort of polarizing
either like it or you don't.
The... It's not really practical as a truck
because you can't really lift things over the
side very easily,
you know, over the side of the bed
because the
you know, that wedge shape.
So it's... And then if you...
You know, an
you have the thing. You know, you have
the built in ton out cover closed, then
it blocks the
rearview mirror or or the whatever rear mirror
that they have.
It blocks that and then people were also
complaining about the mirrors something that are on
the doors that they're just not the way
they're shaped. They're just not practical.
Too small.
And then,
of course, then you had the center screen,
which...
You know, I don't think it's such a
great idea to have people fit with a
sort of, like an ipad device sits in
the middle of the dash and you've got...
There's no speed and you've gotta look to
the center for
everything.
I think this super
aesthetic is
really is is form is function over or
form over function rather
and taken to an extreme. And
maybe that appeals to some people,
I think it's kind of stupid
myself.
But anyway,
the,
I think where the cyber truck kinda, you
know, apart from the styling, which again, that's...
That really is subjective.
Where a sorta of goes off the rails,
people you know, have sliced themselves on sharp
edges.
And and most... You know, most vehicles are
designed with
they're not designed with sharp edges. You can
just accidentally kinda cut yourself on.
And,
you know, there's
bunch of people that have... You know what
we the people that I've watched on Youtube
that have had them or still have them.
Have ended up cutting themselves. You know, you
know, rubbing their arm, you know, kinda inadvertently
bumping their arm against the corner or whatever,
and they they got themselves.
So that's...
I don't know. I remember, you know, way
back
reading you know, back when it... You had
the car magazines and this goes way back
into the seventies. I would read the car
magazine... You know, where they
review the car... They do the car reviews,
and it was, you know, back in the
days of magazines.
And I can remember, you know, someone was
reviewing a
It was like a kit car.
You know? And it might... Yeah. I don't
know. They may have been the the it
may have been talking about the Del lori
But
or it was either the Del lori or
a kit car. And they were saying that
the problem with the kit car
is that, you know, they don't
really think of all the things that
a regular car manufacturer,
you know, it kind of bought automatically builds
into vehicles.
And a good example of that, and the
the example they gave in that magazine article
was drip molding.
You know, at, normally, let's say you open
your trunk up, there's drip... They've... It's designed
in such a way that if it's... If
the car is wet,
that the water's is not gonna drip down
into the trunk.
You know, Now that... You know, or or
you open the car to and it and
the water's not gonna drip on you because
there's a... There's typically some sort of a
drip molding and that's that's part of the
design.
And I don't know that
you know,
the cyber truck has taken that, but that's
just an example. I don't know if cyber
truck has drip molding or not,
but it does have its,
you know, it's... It does seem like it's
an incomplete vehicle.
You know, especially with people, you know, just
inadvertently cutting themselves on
the aluminum
that, you know, that are just
in many cases that are just kinda nice
sharp. So...
But, you know, someone wants to spend that
much money on a vehicle
you got the money. Have it, you know,
it's your... You work for the money? Have
added.
Now as far storm capacity, they really any
vehicle.
You know, if you...
Like, my pickup right now, it gets... It's
if I drive it out on the highway,
it'll do
about, let's say, around 20 and a half
miles you know, maybe 21 miles per gallon.
If it's just out on the highway and
it's just a long trip, and I'm not
stopping and starting
much.
You know, it it's it's... It can easily
get well over 20 miles to the gallon,
maybe 21
just depends you know, the longer the the
drive is, the the more likely it is
to go on up there.
My... You know, with the mileage.
And the more stops that I make, of
course, it's gonna drop down. And if I'm
just driving the around town, it's gonna end
up being, probably about 17 and a half.
Okay?
So that's the mileage. Now if I were
to
attach a... Let's say,
an 18 foot travel trailer,
on the back of it and start towing
that... That's gonna go down... That's gonna go
down.
Now, as far as how much it could
go down you know, my dad's... I can
give my dad's pick, for example. It's a...
He's got a... The parents have was 20
16 f 01:50.
With the, you know, with the eco boost
engine.
And, of course, it's got plenty of power,
but
And I'm not sure what the normal mileage
is. I I can't really... I don't don't
know that. I think it does fairly well.
If you just driving around on the pickup
itself.
But I do know that if, you know,
when he's pulling a trailer, it can drop
down to 8 9 miles per gallon, And
so probably the same thing would happen with
my pickup where I to attach
a good sized travel trailer to the back
of it.
But the difference is that
you know, I've got the, you know, the
large gas tank and so, you know, it's
it's not not gonna
force me to stop every 100 miles, you
know, to,
you know, to to fill it back up.
So,
you know, I'm unlike... In, you know, whether
it's the Ford lightning or the cyber truck
or even the r,
if they attach a trailer to it,
or you or this electric Chevrolet hammer,
would kind of a ridiculous vehicle.
You attach a trailer to it and you
really you really make it work. It it's
gonna you're gonna lose about half the range,
and you're gonna be lucky if they go
about a hundred miles.
So that's 1 problem.
So you could just kinda tow something around
town and probably get away with it. But,
as far as trying to go you know,
very far away, it's just not not practical.
Now, another thing with any vehicle, whether it's
an electric vehicle or just a conventional, you
know, just regular vehicle,
you have
you know, towing capacity, and that's actually listed
on the vehicle.
So if the vehicle at, you know, is
is set up so that it can tow,
it you look... You open up the driver's
door and there's... If you
look down there to your right,
along the door sill, there's on every vehicle,
there's a
sticker.
That's required by law, and it'll tell you
what the the weighted the gross weighted vehicle
is,
you know, like,
you know,
you know, like with passengers and all of
the the stuff, it tells you the maximum
weight.
So
you know, and it'll tell you that like,
you know, if it can tow, it'll tell
you the towing capacity. So if you have...
Let's see it
Let's say you have a pickup and it
says that you can tow 14000
pounds.
Okay? That's fine and Dandy.
But then the problem is you then you've
also got ton weight, so you don't want
you gotta take that into account. Cause a
pickup, you know, maybe it it, you know,
it'll say payload capacity 1400 pounds. So that's
what they're talking about what you can load
into the
the weight you can actually load onto to
the pickup itself. That's that's apart from towing
capacity,
So you gotta be careful with that
because it's easy to end up, it let's
say you've you get a large travel trailer
and you attach it to a pickup.
You know, and it...
You you kinda bump end up bumping up
against the towing capacity,
you know, because the weight
the weight of the vehicle plus the trailer.
Then you've got to take into account, you
know, let's say you're taking your... You you
know, wife and the kids and the fact
the kid, you know, and the family along,
and then plus you load a bunch of
stuff and travel trailer as well as load
a bunch of stuff in the back of
the pickup, and then,
lot of people end up being
overweight.
They're towing more overweight and their vehicle designed
for, and that that actually can end up
being
dangerous
because in the vehicle doesn't
may not handle properly. So those are... And
then you wanna make sure your tires are...
Especially, you know, your tires are
inflated properly and then, especially the trailer tires
if you buy, like, a
a typical travel trailer,
they
a lot of times they end up with
just really crappy tires and so the best
thing to do is just to immediately replace
those tires with
much better tires because they they really put
terrible tire... They put the cheapest possible tires
on lot travel trailers.
I'm not... No now I don't know what
they do with motor homes. They may do
something similar. I'm not sure about that.
But certainly with travel trailers, the the
trailers... The tires that they send with them
are typically kinda crappy.
Not always, but in many cases.
You know, so then you know, you... With
the electric vehicle, you gotta worry about the,
you know, the range capacity.
And another problem is the resale value
right now, the resale value of electric vehicles
is just really
dropping like a stone.
And then the problem, you know, is the
batteries and if you ever get to the
point where you,
you know, the the battery, you know, for
a typical
electric vehicle can, you know, low like a
porsche, you know, I watch this video porsche
I can.
You know, that can end up being, you
know, 45000
dollars to replace the battery. Well, it's that's
more than the vehicle's worth. So it's didn't
kinda turns into a disposable vehicle.
You know? It's kinda like a, you know
a disposable
bit glider or whatever.
Or big fan. He's quit working throw it
away and get a new 1.
So
I think that
there are
uses for electric vehicles.
And I think that, you know, the market,
but I think overall, the market has to
decide, it can't be done by government fiat.
They can't just say we're gonna do this
all by 20 30 and whether you like
it or not, there you go.
It won't work. It can't work. It there
isn't enough,
you know, our grid is is nowhere near
being able to support all these chargers that
they keep talking about.
You know? So even if you put in
all the chargers, the grid can't support it.
Is is, you know, because they wanna replace
everything.
So that's a pipe green. That's not gonna
happen.
You know? But so let's say the... You
know, there's a market for electric vehicles there
obviously is.
And so, you know, maybe it's 10 percent
of the market. It might be 15 percent
of the market, whatever it is. Let... You
know, let's let the market itself decide.
You know? Because it... There's obviously, you know,
the the idea that it's saving the environment.
It's not. It's a
dirty, filthy process,
digging all the the minerals out to build
those batteries.
And the batteries themselves you don't, have toxic
materials and then you gotta... They keep talking
all the battery. Can be recycled, will or
not be,
You know, they're not being recycled.
It's kinda like they trick everybody into thinking
well plastic can be plastic bottles. If plastic.
It can be recycled.
Well, how come it's not. It's very hard
to the very little
stuff is being actually recycled.
So...
But
in any case, that brings up another point
what we...
You know, yeah, I don't know if you
watched
Trump's
Trump gave a fantastic speech
yesterday. I think it was yesterday, and,
Michigan at a Michigan rally. I think it
was yesterday. I believe it was.
Yeah.
And it's just fantastic. It's on that if
on Youtube, rs,
but you can find that.
But his his speech was just fantastic, and
it was...
You can say what, you know, and I'm
sure some people gonna say, oh, he was
lying. He said this inning but the thing
was it was super optimistic. It was optimistic
speech.
And what his plan to fix the economy
really revolves around as cheap energy, Make make
energy
as cheap as possible. And that's
really what the energy drives the economy.
So, you know, on
expensive
energy
ruins the economy. Me.
You need cheap inter... You need to make
energy as cheap as you possibly can, and
then you have a... You... That's the way
to a good economy.
So
you know, that... That's the path forward or
or, you know, the may... That's what the
major, at least
cheap energy and then plus you, you know,
a lot of common sense,
things that are implemented
you, to make that work.
But cheap entered... You we really need cheap
energy in order to to make everything work
properly.
So
anyway, I think I'm gonna
probably
cut this off right here and see if
I can get this put together and
uploaded
So it's about us 10:52PM.
So it's
I've... Lately, I've been instant, you know,
I tend to be a night owl sometimes
I... Yeah, I don't know. I stayed up
to, like, 2, you know, maybe 02:00 in
the morning.
Think I got to bed last night at
01:00
and
you know, like, this morning, I think I
got up, but
got up at 8. Think it was 8
little after 8 when I got up.
So,
you know,
not... You know, so I'm not standing bed
after today,
and it may work itself around that I
go to bed earlier and get up earlier,
some... You know, there there are times that
that happens as well. But
at least right now,
I don't have the thing where I have
to flip my hours around.
That's... Those days are
over
at this point. So
like I say, I'm not
not board yet.
And you know.
So we'll see what happens over time, see
if I do become bored at some point.
And if I do, you know, I've I've
got
somebody at Sc has already
you know, been sending me text messages.
Let let's see. I'll just read the text
messages.
Trying to get me to come back already.
Let's see here.
Where's that at.
There it is.
Okay. It says Thomas.
This is Eric Cutter.
Thanks for your time with S.
Fyi. If you're you're welcome back
anytime.
Just give us a call. Take care, Re
so I sent a text back. At enjoyed
my 19 years with the company
exclamation point.
And then he sent another text message back.
Thomas.
Anything we can do to retain your services
question work? What are areas s can improve?
Always
for input on continual improvement. Thanks, Eric.
So... And I didn't answer that 1 and
And I've... You know, as far as what
can they improve,
the weak point, and I've told them,
several people this at the company, the weak
point with the Creek Carrier
corporation is the the maintenance department.
They do really good maintenance. They they typically
do very good work,
You know, they're... They make mistakes sometimes, but
they typically do very good work.
But they tend to be kinda slow.
And, you know, that's,
you know, that's that's gonna been a a
bit of a sticking point.
Is it, you know, people do complain about
it being their maintenance department being slow. So
I
I'm am I'm not gonna send him more
text back I... But I've like I say,
I've
I've told several people that, and I think
that they kinda know it.
You know, but that's that's just the
the system. And I guess in their defense,
of, you know, that they run overall, they
run the company very well.
So... But I'm, you know, I I don't
know. I think I'm done.
Done being gone
weeks at a time.
You on
Excuse me. At this point, I don't have
to do it.
I'm 69 years old.
It doesn't make any sense for me to
continue doing it.
And
You know, So there's, you know, if I
had to, I could, but I don't have
to, and I don't really feel motivated to
do it, what's that's
another big,
you know, a real key aspect to this
is that I don't... You know, I don't
really feel motivated to do it anymore. So
therefore,
not gonna do it. Now,
so...
But, you know, I think that's that. So
anyhow, hope everyone is
having a great week so far, and I
will catch you
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