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Episode 11: The Donkey Dudes · Random Ass Dudes Podcast

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Welcome to Rad Cast, the Random Ass Dudes podcast where
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here chaos is guaranteed. Another just one-on-one.
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I know this is like, it's so fun but yeah, it's so frustrating.
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Oh, with all the technology stuff.
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Yeah, like trying to figure out the phone stuff and all the
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mics. And I mean, we, we're literally
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going into this like 0 experience into any of this.
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Well, and then, you know, spending time with the ranch
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dogs guys and seeing their setup and stuff like that made me feel
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very. I know I'm like.
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Inferior, right? Yeah, I didn't like, you know,
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because they're they're just doing like a YouTube.
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Yeah, the channel. Channel and it's like I didn't
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expect that you. Know oh the production of it
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yeah oh I know but. Then like talking to David is
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like, dude, all just all their backgrounds in it, you know?
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They had to have three separate cameras that are all the exact
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same camera, all the same production.
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And I was looking at their Instagram and they were taking
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pictures and they did it all over that ranch too.
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Oh, they did so. They had to like pick it up, set
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it up, you know, other places and stuff like that.
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Well, I wonder what time they got started, because what we got
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there at like 7:45 and they were, I mean, they were damn
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near finished up. He said they got there at like
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5. Yeah, but to get things rolling.
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Yeah. So hopefully because what we've
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been having issues with and maybe there's somebody that's
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going to listen and that could give us some pointers is getting
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the the pod tracker to the phone.
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Yeah, right. Well, we're definitely not
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technology people. No, no, no, we're just, we're
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just Googling and ChatGPT in and right, you know, trying to
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figure all that out. So.
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Rednecks figuring out technology.
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Yeah, yeah, the best we can. Yeah, with what?
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With with what little budget we have.
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Well, that's true too, right? Yep.
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But I am very grateful for like trucker jobs.
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Oh yeah, they've helped out a lot.
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Oh yeah, yeah, Big Kai. Shout out Big Kai.
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Absolutely. That was that was that was a
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cool podcast. I feel like the whole lineman 1.
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Yeah. No, there's been a lot of people
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that have asked more like more about it.
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And I think somebody else was in a different trade and they were
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saying that it kind of, it felt similar to the experience that
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they have as far as like how there's different levels of the
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trade. Yeah.
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You know, you have your, you know, those that are part of the
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union, those that aren't part of the union, those that are green
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and start up. Oh dude, when I posted that
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video of Brandon, Oh yeah, union and non union, that started a
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whole nother argument, man, right.
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You know, and like just within that episode after, after the
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fact, we were talking me and Brandon and there's so much to
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cover in that trade, you know what I'm saying?
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It's just we like barely, we barely even scratch the surface
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of it. But I think that's with like
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anything, right? Oh yeah, for sure.
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So but Colton McMurray was fun. That was a really fun podcast.
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It was fun that one. That one was fun for me.
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And the fact that like try to help him promote, Yeah, making
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post, making post, you know, he would like text me.
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He's like, hey man, can you make a snippet of this video with,
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you know, with this on there? I'm like, heck yeah, dude, you
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know? So I'd get the little clip and
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then throw the little words on there and I'll send it.
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To the one that you did was it's at like 47,000 views or
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something like that. Oh, yeah, with him getting on
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and like with his, with him explaining it or he's been
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having a rope in his hand his whole life, right?
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Yeah, yeah. Well, then did you see?
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Well, yeah, you saw it because you reposted it.
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The girls in the Razor last night listening to the song.
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Yeah. So we were ripping through the
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neighborhood with all the lights on and stuff like that.
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They were screaming at the top of their lungs.
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Yeah, that was cool. That was fun.
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He commented on on it this morning.
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After we recorded with the ranch dogs, we went to first wash to
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go eat breakfast and then after after some lady, she saw Sam's
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shirt and was trying to recommend Sam to our podcast.
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And I, I mean, that was, I didn't even, I honestly, I, I
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couldn't even imagine thinking that we've reached this amount
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of people in this amount of time.
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And not in, not just in our neighborhood.
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No, no, this was like way far away, right?
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And it's like, dude. Yeah, we're in North Phoenix.
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Yeah, I mean, I felt a little cool.
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I'm not going to. Oh no.
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I mean, like I said, I I took Sam and the kids to a
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Diamondbacks game and I'm walking in and the security
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guard starts. Oh my God.
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Oh my God. I was like, what?
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Like I thought I was in trouble. You know what he's like.
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I listen to you guys and I was like, what?
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Right. He's like, yeah, I listened to
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your podcast. My brother recommended.
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I was like, no. Yeah, right.
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I know that. That's cool too, man.
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Yeah, jeez, man. And like if you look at so I
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know like probably a lot of people probably wondering right
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here, I'll just should I just give them our analytics?
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Yeah, OK. So so far, like on Spotify.
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So there's a Spotify creators app that we use to upload our
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all of our podcasts and videos. By the way, Shane, Natalie and
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Sam handle all of that. Yeah.
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Yeah, which is fine. I like it.
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Yeah. So we have 1100 plays total or
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1152. We have 341 consumption hours
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and we are at 67 total followers, OK.
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So if more people can follow us on Spotify, that would be great.
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And YouTube and YouTube, we have streams and downloads.
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We have 820 streams and downloads so far.
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Our top 10 episodes are probably all ten of them right now, but
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the top one right now is is Joey and then.
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Joey's still in the. Future and then Colton's coming
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up. Real fast.
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And then I think our launch one was third.
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No. No was third.
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Now the the lineman 1. Oh cool, that one jumped up
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then. Yeah, and then rad cast and then
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Marcus's with the Independence Day Thorman wives take over
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donkey do that's tree and then the keep this rule.
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Sorry ladies, you're not viral yet.
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Yeah, not yet. You'll you'll, you'll you'll,
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you'll have your turn. I I promise dude, I thought the
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Keep us Rolling was gonna take. Off.
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I thought so too. I thought, like, that was gonna
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like, grab people's attention. But I, I also, it's yes and no
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because it doesn't, it doesn't affect everyone the way that it
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affects us, right? Like that's more important to
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you and me and our and our small community than it is to others.
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Every. Yeah.
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And I and I just don't know that that necessarily interest
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everybody. Yeah, the way that it does US.
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Keep talking. I'm gonna go turn that fan down,
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OK? So yeah, I just to me, it seems,
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yeah. I totally agree man.
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Man that that fan freaking started blowing like crazy.
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Yeah. As far as as far as that piece
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of it, I just don't know that it reaches the kind of the size
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audience that would create a lot of yeah, listeners.
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Yeah. You know, I mean, I, I hate to
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say it, but kind of the culture out here is stay off of social
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media, you know, spend your time.
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That's true. So, you know, I think your
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viewer, your viewer opportunities is smaller.
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Yeah, the audience isn't there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, and then like, you know, we're on Spotify and YouTube and
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how many of those people are are on there?
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You know what I'm saying, right? Right.
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But oh, Speaking of the BNSF railroad, So I'm on their e-mail
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chain, right? And the e-mail that they sent
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was I just, I just, I just couldn't believe it.
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Like, hold on here, this is what they said.
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OK, So they sent this e-mail. Train chain says Logistics Park
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Phoenix newsletter Tracking for success.
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Fewer trains for Northwest Maricopa BNSF is building the
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3.2 billion logistics Park Phoenix to help meet Arizona's
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growing need to move goods. And to do it in a way that
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brings real benefits to the communities we serve.
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We've been planning this project for more than 20 years, always
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with both the economy and our neighbors in mind, and it's just
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starts talking about how the communities Sun, Sun City West
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Sun City, Grand Surprise, El Mirage, Youngtown, Peoria and
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more. This means fewer trains by 20.
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Didn't they already say it was going to go up by 30%?
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I don't know, 'cause it, like if I read the stats right, it said
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that 9.6 trains go through here a day.
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Yeah, and it's supposed to go up to like 14.8, right?
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So essentially we're going to we're going to grow by half.
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Well, they're saying that it's going to stop because if you
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look at the city that says Sun City West, stop.
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From going all the way in. Yeah, Sun City West Sun City,
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Grand Surprise, El Mirage, Youngtown and Peoria.
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It doesn't say anything about Whitman, right?
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Gotcha. So we're going to get more,
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they're going to get less. Yes, trains, Trains.
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OK, it says. By nearly by 2028, nearly half
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the trains that would have traveled through these areas
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will will reach their final destination at the depot.
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The depot, which translates to shorter waits at rail crossings,
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better access to local hospitals, lower emissions from
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what's already the most eco friendly way to move freight
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over land. And I did.
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I read that and I was like, dude, you guys are so full of
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shit. Yeah, right.
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Because OK, cool, you take the trains away, but now you're
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adding way more trucks that are going in there.
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And it's one lane in and one lane out.
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Yeah, Yeah. So it's going to devastate Lake
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Pleasant. There's no way.
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No way. No way that they can put 10,000
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trucks down that road a day and not just completely block up the
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entrance and exit to Lake Pleasant.
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Yeah, there's. No way.
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And then like the entrances and exits to the three O 3 over
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there on 70. Four and the which is already
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going to be a problem because of the TSMC, yeah, they had to
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build specific exits for this semiconductor plant, you know,
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like they're all those same trucks are going to go on the
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same route. Yeah.
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Yeah, but I mean, yeah, they're going to take away trains, OK,
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You're going to wait less at train stops, but it's going to
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add 10 times more traffic because where?
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Where where the? Road traffic, yeah.
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Yeah, those, those trucks are going to go, those trucks need
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to go to Phoenix. So they're going to bypass Sun
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City West, they're going to bypass Sun City, they're going
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to bypass El Mirage, they're going to bypass Peoria and
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surprise, you know what I'm saying?
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So, so, so you're taking the trains off the tracks, right?
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But essentially, you're going to run that cargo on the road.
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Right, right, right. Yeah, well, in like the Amazon
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depots are all over the place, right.
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So it's not like every one of those trucks is going to go all
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the way to I17 because you have them out here in surprise.
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Yeah, they're down in Buckeye. So those trucks are going to get
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diverted all over the place. Yeah.
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Yeah. I, I, I don't, I just don't see
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how it's going to improve anything.
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I I think it's going to make traffic just a disaster out
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here. Way, way worse.
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I mean, it used to be that the drive to Vegas was bad because
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you had to go through Wickenburg, right?
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Yeah. Well, then they put in the
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roundabout and it's and it's helped as far as traffic goes,
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but it's basically killed the town of Wickenburg from a, you
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know, a monetary standpoint because there nobody's stopping
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in there to get fuel and snacks and stuff before going to.
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Vegas. Because the roundabouts there,
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they could bypass all that now. And I don't know, like somebody
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asked me the other day, they were like, well, it doesn't, you
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know, aren't there restaurants and different things out there
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that are going to benefit from having more people out there?
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And I'm like, not really, but it means that there will be.
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Yeah, well, I, I, I also think that Wickenburg probably doesn't
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want all that. The pass through oh, I think
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he's. Great.
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You know what I'm saying? Like, like they don't want all
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the traffic growth. No, I agree.
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You know, because I think like I've seen on some forums or
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Facebook groups that you know, they, you know, all the lands,
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that's all the land that's being bought up out there, you know,
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they're not liking that so. Oh, I'm sure.
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Yeah. Well, cuz it pushes in on that
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dude ranch. It's up there too.
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I can't, I can't remember. The flying E The flying E, Yeah.
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Cuz that'll all push into that. Yeah.
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Then you got the small airport that's up there.
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There's a lot. I mean, you know, you think
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about it like it is a seasonal town anyway.
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Yeah, right. It's it's blooming when the
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ropers are here, and then it's quiet when it's not when it's in
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the heat of the summer. So, yeah, I, I don't think that
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the roundabout was bad by diverting the traffic from
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downtown Wickenburg. But you got to think like, I
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guarantee the revenue and stuff like that for the gas stations
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and all that is significantly less, you know what I mean?
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So the restaurants probably aren't nearly as busy as they
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once were. People coming in and out of
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town. Yeah.
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So the world we live in, folks, it's changing every day.
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It is, man. It is which I mean, I'm not
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opposed to change, right? I mean, like, look at like look
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at media nowadays. Well, you know, like I don't get
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my news from news stations. No, you know I don't like.
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I don't watch the news no because it only reports the
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negative shit. Well, that and I don't believe
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it, dude, seriously. I mean, they're all bought and
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paid for by corporations, you know, they all have their own
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agendas politically and stuff like that.
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So that's why I don't and, and like a, a huge part of that was
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COVID man. Like yes, just seeing the I mean
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what, how far are we out of COVID already?
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Well, that shit's coming back around again.
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No, it's not. No, I I'm saying all like the
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propaganda. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like the actual like people are
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testing positive for that shit again, Yeah.
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No, we've been through it. I had it what, like 5-6 weeks
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ago? My boss had it, my dad's got it
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right now. Yeah, it seems to be if you jump
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on an airplane, you're getting COVID.
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Yeah, or you're getting sick. You're getting sick somehow.
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I mean, I and I fly all the time, so I I, I joke around that
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I'm immune to it. Yeah, but I think for the first
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time, because I never got it when it was like running rampant
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and everybody was getting sick. Yeah, I never got it, but
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something and I I can only assume I didn't test positive or
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and I didn't test, but I can tell you I've never been knocked
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on my ass for three straight days.
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But 4th of July weekend bro. You know what it is, dude?
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You want to hear my conspiracy? Let's hear your conspiracy.
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This is what's going on. OK, so RFKI think he did
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something where he didn't make the COVID vaccine mandatory or
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something, right? So the pharmaceuticals are
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telling the media to start ramping up the COVID, right?
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There's more COVID right and all that.
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I mean, it probably goes deep and into what I'm saying and I
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can't prove anything. So it's all allegedly.
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But yeah, I think, I think like the pharmaceutical companies
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like, hey, hey, start ramping up the COVID stuff because this is
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what happened. So now we need to get it back in
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the in the shelves, right? Because once the government says
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we don't need it, then people in their minds like, screw it, I
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don't need no COVID vaccine no more, you know, So then that'll
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drop their sales. And then yeah, you know what I
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mean, dude? Everything's ran with money,
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dude. Well, like I only got the first
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vaccine and I only got it because we had to get it to be
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able to travel for work like and I and I was just so tired of
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being home. Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm in
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sales, right? So I'm used to being out and
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with people and stuff like that. So when that hit, The funny
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thing is, is Sam and I got very, very good at ping pong during
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COVID. Oh, bro.
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Yeah. Like our, our COVID experience.
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And it's, you know, I hate to talk COVID stuff, but like, our
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experience wasn't bad per SE. Like our community actually got
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really close. Our neighbors were great.
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Like we used to joke around. We're like, hey, driveway beers
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on Friday, right? And every Friday we're all
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hanging out outside having driveway beers.
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But yeah, we so we had a pool table in the house that I don't
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think we played pool but maybe three times ever in the 2 1/2
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years we lived there. But I got a ping pong Topper and
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dude, we had some epic games. Like we'd be one of us would be
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getting pissed off at work or whatever and we're like ping
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pong. Yep, let's go play ping pong and
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TV. It was, it was funny.
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That's awesome. But yeah, it was, it was a lot
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of fun. The best thing I liked about
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COVID was like, you know, 'cause we have to be on the road, yeah,
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we have to go out. And dude, nobody was on the.
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Road, yeah, no traffic. Man, it was so great.
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I mean, I was in Indiana. I never, I never got the
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vaccine. They didn't force.
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They were trying to but like our like our union was pretty strong
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and the fact like no, don't, don't get it.
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Like you don't have to get it. You know what I'm saying?
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And. We weren't forced to, but it was
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one of those things like in order for us to be able to
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travel, yeah, they were like, you got to get it.
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And it was more of a like, you know, safety thing for us,
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which, you know, the company I work for does a great job on
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making sure that the employees are taking care of.
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So it was one of those things where I didn't mind doing it for
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that. But outside of that, I like
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what's there like 6 or 7 different variants of, you know,
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the shot. Yeah, I'm.
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I'm not doing all that shit. Yeah, the one thing that annoyed
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me was a whole like the whole curve thing, you know, the whole
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like shut down for for two weeks to.
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To hit the curve. Or something, but went longer,
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dude. And man, like I felt bad for
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Natalie because she had four kids at the house and school,
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right? And I mean, obviously the
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school, like they didn't have schools didn't have any way to
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prepare for this. Yeah.
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So they just sent her a bunch of homework, you know, and like had
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her make sure that they were on online, on Zoom calls and stuff.
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And man, she was trying to do all that and it was just, it was
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just really hard for her. Well, and I felt bad for, you
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know, my daughter. Her freshman year was a COVID
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year. Of high school, yeah.
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So she was all excited to go to high school, right?
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And then it's like, Nope, you're staying home for a year, you
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know? And then my son, who's always
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been a straight A student. Were they playing sports?
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No, no, they didn't get to play sports their.
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Freshman year, yeah. No, I'm sorry.
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They did. Yeah.
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They ended up playing, but it, it affected them.
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They both struggled, you know, and they've both been great
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students, and they figured it out.
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But like, my son came to me damn near in tears one day.
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And he's like, Dad, I can't do this.
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And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, my grades are
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suffering because I just can't stay focused sitting in front of
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a laptop at home. Yeah.
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Like, I need the engagement with my teacher and with the
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classmates some, you know, a kid that's gone from being straight
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A's his whole life, struggling academically because he's, he's
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bored. You know, I mean, shout out to
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those parents and kids that have figured out the homeschooling
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thing because I just, I don't, I mean, I'd have been awful.
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Yeah, you. Didn't make me go to class.
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Well, the way that I've because my brother homeschooled their
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kids and they it's like there's their education part of it or
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like their schooling part of it is way shorter.
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You know what I'm saying? And like, I think that they do
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it in a way of like. Like, how fast can the kid
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advance, right? Yeah.
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It's not like you need to be here at this time, right?
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You need to be at, you know, be reading at this level On this
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date by the end of this year. It's like, OK, let's just get
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them there. I think one of the really cool
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things that they're doing, though, is that they're teaching
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them like real world, like traits.
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Yeah, You know what I mean? So like, you know, their son is
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out welding and learning to Weld and stuff like that at a very
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young age, and then their daughter is, you know, actively
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out with large animals and learning that stuff.
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So I think that stuff's pretty cool.
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You know, you, you think about you, you could just sit home in
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front of a laptop or a book and get educated that way.
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Or you can be educated on stuff that you're actually going to.
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Use what's real stuff. Once you're in the real world,
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right, Like I, I think that's actually, I mean, I'd probably
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get shot by a teacher, but that's I to me, that's more
21:03
important than anything you're going to learn in in a in a
21:05
book. Oh yeah, sorry, Natalie, I know
21:08
you're all about them books and Sam, but.
21:11
No, those books are to get away. Yeah.
21:13
That's true to to disappear into their own world.
21:15
Yeah, that's funny. Yeah.
21:18
So yeah, man, I. Don't know what you know What?
21:23
What about you, Nate? What?
21:25
What? What inspires you?
21:27
Like, how are you so freaking busy?
21:29
Why are you so busy? I, I don't know, like I don't, I
21:37
don't know how to answer that. I think it started at such a
21:40
young age. I mean, I've been working since
21:42
I, I could like at 15, you know, my first job at Peter Piper
21:45
Pizza was to earn, you know, enough money to buy a car.
21:48
And yeah, at that point, you know, I had school full time.
21:51
I was working plus playing football and I just, I, I think
21:56
it's just the way that I was raised, like my grandfather
21:59
worked his ass off, my parents worked their ass off and my
22:03
parents split up at a very young age.
22:04
I mean, I was a man of the house at 9.
22:06
Yeah, you know what I mean? So it was one of those things
22:08
where just it's never been I I don't, I just don't know how to
22:12
turn it off. And the reality is is, you know,
22:16
you know, my kids grow up and go off to college and instead of me
22:20
taking a break and like being like, OK, cool.
22:22
I got him to the, I got him to college.
22:24
Like we've got the ranch life now I can settle down.
22:26
What do I do? I, you know, I take on a
22:29
partnership with Stephen Justice and the flooring and we're doing
22:33
the podcast and we're breaking horses and there's, you know,
22:36
and I'm travelling for work and I don't know, I, I like helping
22:45
people, I think is the big thing.
22:47
And, and I just like whatever I can do to help people get to
22:51
where they want to go. I think is is what drives me to
22:54
to be so busy. But what about for yourself
22:57
though? Like, I mean, yeah, that's great
23:00
that you want to see other people go, but what about you?
23:04
So. So I spent 20 years in the car
23:06
business checking, chasing title and chasing money and the funny.
23:10
And that's why I like now that I'm in the role that I'm in and
23:13
I do a lot of speaking and I do a lot of leadership coaching and
23:15
stuff like that. I tell people all the time, like
23:17
success is measured very differently by every individual.
23:20
You know what I mean? I used to measure myself against
23:22
owners and CEOs. What is your?
23:25
What is your title in your job right now?
23:27
So I'm a regional sales director.
23:28
OK. So I manage a significant volume
23:33
of sales on the West Coast. But I mean, I started as an
23:35
outside sales Rep after spending 20 years in the car business,
23:38
you know, and then was very successful doing that and then
23:42
became a sales manager. And then I was the national
23:45
sales trainer at our organization and then moved into
23:48
this role. But you know, I've been blessed,
23:53
man. They've poured so much into me.
23:55
And then from a development perspective, I mean, I went to a
23:58
leadership camp that I didn't know that I needed and it came
24:01
home and that, I mean, I will tell you that that that single
24:04
handedly changed my relationship with my wife and my kids and how
24:07
I, I see things because it was Nate's world forever.
24:12
Yeah. Like it was all about me.
24:14
Yeah. And then I came home and, you
24:18
know, I remember pulling over, remember pulling over to the
24:22
side of the road. It was just Sam and I, and I
24:26
stopped the truck, and she's like, what's up?
24:28
And I said I just need to tell you something.
24:30
Said I'm sorry. And she's like, what do you mean
24:33
you're sorry? I said I hear you, but I don't
24:36
listen to you. And.
24:40
And, like, saying it out loud brought tears to my eyes.
24:43
And I was like, and it's not like I don't dismiss you on
24:46
purpose. Yeah, but I've just been the man
24:49
of the house for so long and not needed anybody and, and just
24:52
felt like I, you know, I just had to figure it out myself that
24:55
I didn't know that I was shutting you out and I was
24:57
dismissing your opinions. And we both got super emotional,
25:03
and she thanked me and. And.
25:04
And really, it's been a true partnership ever since then.
25:07
You know, same with my kids. Like, Tyler and I went through a
25:12
period where we just did not see eye to eye.
25:14
And it wasn't like we fought or anything like that.
25:16
But he and I are very, very different people.
25:18
Yeah. What he loves is different than
25:21
me. Like, when he got into music, I
25:23
was like, dude, let's go get you a guitar.
25:24
And the kid sat down and learned how to play the guitar.
25:26
Yeah. That's cool.
25:28
Yeah. You know, what I do admire about
25:30
you is like the last few like months that we've been together,
25:34
you know, like you've like, like, like you allow yourself to
25:39
like, open up, right? So like when we invited you to
25:44
church, you know what I'm saying?
25:45
And you guys were going to church and everything and, and
25:50
like you, you allowed your heart to open up to Jesus, you know,
25:55
and then you got baptized, right?
25:57
Thank you, by the way, for doing that for me.
25:58
Yeah. And what's so like what's like,
26:05
what's like really nice to see is that the Nate before your
26:12
conviction with Jesus, right. Like I could tell like you had
26:16
this like stone cold like guard on you.
26:21
And then after like within like the last few days, dude.
26:25
And it's like real touching to see this, right?
26:30
Is that I could tell that you're like you're, you are way softer,
26:36
Yeah, than what you used to be. You know what I'm saying?
26:39
Yeah. And, and it's, dude, like, like
26:44
the power of like Jesus and my God, dude, it's so it's like if
26:48
you allow them to come into your life and come into your heart
26:52
and just like change you and like, it's, it's huge, dude, you
26:56
know what I'm saying? So yeah.
26:58
And that's something that I admire.
26:59
I appreciate that. And you and you and Natalie have
27:02
been a massive part in that. You know what I mean?
27:04
Like I, I, I give you guys all the credit for, you know, I was
27:11
anti not, I wasn't Antichrist or anti, you know, any of that,
27:16
right? I just was anti church and, and,
27:18
and not for a good reason, but it was because I wasn't willing
27:22
to invest the time and the effort to understand it.
27:24
So I was just like, no, I'm not doing it.
27:28
And I, I put up a wall to it and you guys invited us every
27:32
weekend, but it was never like, Hey, you need to go, right?
27:34
It was just like, Hey, listen, the doors always open.
27:38
Me and my dad started to have our struggles and and I started
27:42
going in October last year and it really, really helped me.
27:45
Yeah. You know, I again, I, I could
27:49
not thank you enough for baptizing me.
27:51
That was there was a special moment.
27:53
That's something that will connect you and I for the for
27:55
the rest of my lives. You know, in I was just able to
27:59
baptize Sam this weekend and that was, you know, that was a
28:02
very special moment for her and I, but it's, it's funny that you
28:06
say that I've softened up because it, it takes a conscious
28:09
effort for me to do that. And I thought about that last
28:11
night before we came over to Drake's party.
28:14
I've been working my ass off all day long and I just knew that I
28:17
was like, dude, I'm, am I really in that kind of mood to like go
28:19
entertain a bunch of people, right?
28:22
And I just, and I, but I was like, you know what, like the
28:26
normal Nate would go and sit in a corner and be an ass and just
28:29
like, I'm going to be disconnected.
28:32
And then last night I was like, no, dude, I'm going to go.
28:35
And you know, I'm just going to hang out with everybody.
28:36
And, you know, just. And I and I have to do a better
28:40
job. And this is something that I'm
28:41
actively working on. You know, I hate to say it, but
28:44
my love language is picking on people, you know, And sometimes
28:49
it's not received well. Yeah.
28:51
And I, and I really don't mean it maliciously.
28:53
I really don't. Yeah.
28:54
I think it like there's just, it's banter to me.
28:57
I pick on Sam, I pick on you guys.
28:59
Like that locker room? Yeah, I think that's probably
29:02
what it is. I've been an athlete my whole
29:04
life and it's just like the camaraderie stuff.
29:06
I'm just picking on people. But that's, that's my love
29:10
language. And a lot of times it's taken
29:12
out of context or it's, you know, it's taken the wrong way.
29:14
And I, and I apologize to anybody that I've ever offended
29:16
or, or has taken it the wrong way, but I also know that my
29:20
delivery has a tendency to be very hard.
29:23
Yeah. And I have to learn to soften
29:24
that. Yeah.
29:25
But I'm, I'm actively working on it.
29:27
What's you know? What's good is you're you're
29:29
aware of that. Dude, I am now you know.
29:31
What I'm saying, And that takes time, that takes prayer.
29:35
You know what I mean? Like, I mean, shoot, I go
29:38
through the same thing, you know, of like trying to be aware
29:42
of what's going on around you. And I think you what I've
29:45
appreciate learned to appreciate a lot about you too is, you
29:48
know, just a couple weeks ago you talked to Sam and I and you
29:52
said that you struggle with staying the course, right?
29:57
I think that just just saying that out loud right is this is
30:02
staying the. Course yeah, like lately I've
30:04
been having this pull towards God dude and it's been I've like
30:11
I've never felt the way I felt like it's like this pull is just
30:17
so strong dude and I and I do get like I always get it
30:21
emotional when I talk about it, but but.
30:25
That's OK, but it's great though, right?
30:27
Like it's, it's so, it's so refreshing, you know, because
30:32
it's like, I know I have God and Jesus to rely on, you know, and,
30:40
and I feel like I'm being tested, right?
30:42
Like, like God and God just like, come on, dude.
30:45
You know, like this is this is where you need to be.
30:48
Yeah. You know, And there's like so
30:51
many times that I know that God's real because of the things
30:54
that have that like he has put in front of me.
30:58
Right. So, so a few weeks ago, I was
31:01
talking to Natalie. I was listening to the Dale
31:05
Brisby podcast, right? And it was with his pastor.
31:09
And, you know, they were talking and then that and then that
31:11
young intern comes on and he starts talking like he, he just
31:16
got married, you know, And then they were married for a few
31:19
years. And then at the beginning of
31:22
this year, his wife died. Oh, jeez.
31:25
You know, And so he's been struggling with that.
31:29
And he was just talking to Dale Brisby's pastor about like, you
31:33
know, like what? Like he doesn't want his
31:35
identity to be like. The loss of his wife.
31:42
Yeah, you know, or, you know, like he, he wants his identity
31:46
to be through Christ, you know what I'm saying?
31:48
And that hit me, dude, it hit me like a ton of bricks, man.
31:51
I'm like, holy shit. Like, well, what about me, you
31:55
know. And so I had this like long
31:58
conversation with like Natalie about it, you know what I mean?
32:01
And then so, you know, she said, well, you just need to open up
32:04
your Bible and just start reading.
32:06
I was like alright, cool. I start on like Matthew, right?
32:09
And it was so crazy cuz I forgot and I'm not again.
32:16
I'm not good at remembering this stuff.
32:18
We know. Yeah, but I know how it makes me
32:21
feel and I like, yeah, I know what I'm thinking or.
32:24
Whatever, it's your process, but I think that's what I was trying
32:27
to tell you the other day is you process it the way that you
32:30
process it and you don't owe anybody an explanation for that.
32:32
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And but like reading Matthew,
32:39
like he was talking about like walking with Christ, right, like
32:44
being righteous and, you know, bringing others to Christ and
32:48
everything. And then that was like Saturday
32:51
morning and then we went to church Saturday night and then
32:53
that was the same message, you know, and like God just sitting
32:57
there. It's.
32:58
Weird how that works. Yeah.
32:59
And then like, you know, so I'm like battling that, right?
33:02
Like, dude, I'm, I'm not perfect, you know, I am, I'm
33:08
still working on like not being complacent, you know, and I'm
33:11
still working at being disciplined in my faith and
33:15
being a husband and a good father, right?
33:18
And then like a week or a few weeks later, my apprentice ends
33:23
up having like a blood checkup and he's like, yeah, meet me
33:27
down at Costco. Or I was like here, we'll just
33:30
meet at Costco and I'll pick you up and whatever, blah, blah,
33:32
blah. Fast forward to the end of the
33:34
day, I see my wife's cousin. His name is Troy, right?
33:39
And he's out there and he and you know, just at first I wasn't
33:43
going to say anything to him, right?
33:45
I wasn't, I was going to be like, Oh, there's Troy and just
33:47
drive off. I was like, ah, you know, like,
33:49
you know, me and him hung out a couple times before I was like,
33:52
I'm going to say something. So I shout out, hey, what's up
33:55
Troy, how you doing? You know, and like he like looks
33:57
at me and go, oh, hey, so he's like talking to these two guys
34:00
that he's that I guess every Tuesday at Costco on the 17 and
34:06
the 101. Oh yeah.
34:08
Yeah, they have, like, a Bible study, you know what I mean?
34:12
At like 1:00 or something. And so, you know, like, I start
34:19
talking to him, you know, and we're just kind of, you know,
34:23
bullshitting around, just talking to, you know, he's
34:25
talking about his family, I'm talking about mine, like what
34:28
we're doing. And then he's starts telling me
34:31
about what he's doing with these guys, you know?
34:32
And I'm like, oh, that's cool. And like his whole message was
34:36
like to bring like his whole thing is to bring people to
34:40
Christ, right? Like he wants to be a Fisher of
34:42
men. You know what I'm saying?
34:43
And, and so like listening to him talk, he like answered so
34:50
much questions that I had about like myself, right?
34:53
Like, like, I do want to be like, I want my identity to be
34:59
through Christ. You know, I want people to look
35:01
at me and be like, wow, like he's he's, he's, he's a man of
35:05
God, like, right. You know, like, what is he
35:08
doing, you know, to be like that?
35:11
Or even just this podcast, dude, you know, like, yeah, I want to
35:16
have a podcast to sit down and hang out and get to know people.
35:20
But also too is like I, I can't like I do want to spread the
35:24
word of God. It's important.
35:26
It is, you know, and, and it's not like I'm going to be here
35:29
like preaching like, right, you know, like that's I, I don't
35:32
think I could do that, but. We're not going to sit here and
35:33
read Scripture, right, But we'll talk like we're talking.
35:36
Yeah. Yeah.
35:36
You know, is it how it's I? Mean sometimes.
35:38
Sometimes I make some. Scripture.
35:40
Maybe. But I mean, we talked about it
35:43
with Colton. Yeah, we talked about it with
35:44
Marcus. Like, there's been a lot of
35:46
conversation in regards to this. And I think it's cool that you
35:48
and I talk about like our faith and our experience, you know,
35:52
because it, it, it really is, you know, you talk about being a
35:54
Fisher, right? Like that's, that's important.
35:57
You're already doing that. Yeah.
36:00
And I appreciate you saying that, but sometimes I don't see
36:02
it like that, right? Because like because.
36:04
You're not looking for that. Well, you know, you will always
36:07
be your biggest critic. Yeah, right.
36:08
And and I hate to say it like you should, you should always be
36:12
your biggest critic. And you hope that you never hit
36:14
the finish line, right? Because then what's what's next,
36:17
right? But, I mean, there's no chance
36:20
in hell did I get baptized or Sam gets baptized.
36:23
Had we not? That's true.
36:25
Had you and Natalie not brought us to it, Yeah.
36:27
There's just no way. I would not have engaged it on
36:30
my own. I wouldn't have.
36:32
Yeah. And again, you didn't.
36:33
And this is what I told you that day is like.
36:36
It's not about you going out and pushing anybody to do anything.
36:40
Do what you do, Shane. And.
36:42
And you naturally will. Will that will happen.
36:45
Yeah. Because it's.
36:46
It's already happening. Yeah.
36:48
And give yourself credit for that.
36:49
Like it. It's a fact.
36:52
You've already done it with two people that had never stepped.
36:56
Yeah. You know, I shouldn't say never
36:57
step foot in a church, but having gone since we were little
37:00
kids, for sure. Yeah.
37:01
And it wasn't anything. I mean, my son now, he's not
37:04
baptized yet, but he posts every day.
37:07
Oh, yeah, I see. Every day he posts.
37:08
Scripture. Awesome, I like that.
37:09
Right. And it's and he's, you know,
37:11
he's all in on his faith and he's very, it's very big to
37:14
them. Kayla and Landon, they go every
37:16
weekend, right? So it's you've touched more
37:19
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But no, it's you know what about you?
39:31
I mean, we talked about how busy I am.
39:32
You're not it's not that you're not busy, for Christ's sake.
39:35
I mean, you're yeah, we're lineman raising 4 kids, right?
39:39
Yeah. So you got the horse and you've
39:42
had a lot going on lately. Well, you had your boy had you
39:48
had to put down. And Oh yeah, I mean, there's
39:50
dude, that was crazy. Dude, yeah.
39:52
We had to put down our our first horse.
39:55
Yeah, you know what I mean? He ended up colicking and
39:57
turning his stomach and everything that that was hard,
40:00
you know, like, 'cause I was the only one here doing it, you
40:02
know? Yeah.
40:03
So, well, when you called, I was like, 'cause the last time,
40:07
right, you called when it was Oakley and you're like, dude, I
40:09
think she's colicking. Get the trailer over here.
40:11
Let's load her up. By the time I get here, she's
40:13
like. Good.
40:14
Nope, I don't want she ends up. Trailer.
40:15
Right outside, I'm going to shit right outside the trailer and
40:18
that's the sign. And then when you called, when I
40:20
heard about Dusty, I was like, are we sure this?
40:23
Is different though. Yeah.
40:24
And then they were like, no, like he's not OK.
40:28
And it was like we had Dusty at our house for what, 2-3 months?
40:33
So we. Got weeks?
40:34
What's it 2 or? Three weeks.
40:35
Yeah, Yeah. It was there a while, but he, we
40:38
got attached to him too. Yeah.
40:39
I mean, we started calling him Crusty, Dusty 'cause he'd be all
40:42
around and get all nasty. But he.
40:44
But yeah, it was, it was sad. I mean.
40:46
Yeah, that that was hard, dude. And then like losing our dog.
40:49
Yeah. And I'm like.
40:49
That was a lot. But then like 2 but two weeks
40:51
man, I was like, it's a lot. Golly, dude, I did not think
40:56
that. Like I it's like crazy when you
41:01
look at what other people go through, you know, like
41:04
sometimes, So for example, right, Like I have never been so
41:09
close to a dog than I have ever been like solely, right.
41:13
Solely is like my first like dog that I've been emotionally
41:17
taught, like connected with, right.
41:20
So like when you and Sam talk about your guys's dogs, right,
41:23
like IA part of me is just like, well, that's kind of weird.
41:28
Like I don't, I don't understand it right, But it's until you
41:32
actually go through it, then you truly understand it right.
41:34
So like me going through the whole solely thing, like, dude,
41:38
I get it, dude, yeah, I totally get it, man.
41:42
You know, And like another thing that really hits me too is like
41:45
coaching, right? Like growing up playing sports,
41:50
you know, like, some, like some coaches would cry at the end of
41:53
the season, right? Because, you know, they're so
41:56
emotionally invested in these kids and like, into like,
42:00
growing them into, like, winning, right?
42:02
Like, you go through a lot. Yeah.
42:04
And like, as you know, as like a young kid, I'm just like, why
42:07
you? What?
42:08
Why are you so invested? Yeah, it's just a game, dude,
42:11
you know? To your coach.
42:12
Exactly. So when I coached Hayden's team
42:15
in soccer, like we ended up, I turned that team around, dude,
42:19
you know, just just trying to be attentive, you know, and like, I
42:24
was putting my everything into it, right?
42:27
Yeah. And then at the end of the
42:29
season, we ended up going to like, the championship.
42:32
We we lost, but I got the end right.
42:36
Like, the game's over and we're like, we're in a huddle, right?
42:39
And I'm just like thinking like, OK, I was going to say thank you
42:42
for the season. And I start talking to you and I
42:44
start choking up. Yeah.
42:45
And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I get it.
42:48
Yeah, I get it now, you know? And like, that's like, I don't
42:52
know, man. Just it's like, it's like cool
42:54
to kind of realize that stuff. But you don't understand.
42:58
And and it's deeper than that, Shane, like it's deep in.
43:01
So I I coached competitively for several years, right?
43:05
And I think I told you that like we started the clothing brand
43:07
based on my leadership style, based on Kayla developing this
43:11
thing. And you never think that the
43:14
kids are listening. Yeah, right.
43:16
You just assume that you're the coach.
43:18
They're not really listening until moments down the road
43:22
happen. Right.
43:23
Like the keep moving stuff. Yeah.
43:25
That was kind of my slogan whenever we would end up
43:27
practice. I'm like, be better tomorrow
43:29
than you were today. And remember to always keep
43:31
moving. It doesn't matter whether you
43:32
have to go forward, backward, left or right.
43:35
Just don't stay stationary. Yeah, right.
43:37
Continue to develop. And like when they when those
43:43
kids told me that, like, you know, that they didn't will
43:45
never forget the idea of like, keep moving.
43:49
I was just like, holy shit, you guys listen.
43:52
Yeah, right. Yeah.
43:54
But it's also knowing in being an athlete yourself and growing
43:57
up playing sports just like I did.
43:59
The hard part, I'll tell you, is the reality that you can only
44:02
take the kids so far. Oh, for sure.
44:04
And then you have to hand them off to somebody that's a much
44:06
better coach. That was a very hard pill to
44:08
swallow. Oh, I bet man.
44:10
It was because you put a lot of like emotion and time.
44:13
A. Lot.
44:14
And it's like, you're kids, right?
44:15
Yes, like who's going to love my kids as much as I do?
44:19
Who's going to care about their success as much as exactly.
44:21
Yeah. Yeah.
44:23
And we were blessed enough to be around some really, really good
44:25
coaches. So.
44:28
But and that goes for Tyler, too.
44:29
I mean, like when he started pole vaulting in track.
44:33
I Dude, I don't know shit about pole right?
44:35
I'm like, this is going to be a struggle for me because I can't
44:38
help. This kid pole vault where you
44:39
throw the spear. No, that's Javelin, but he's the
44:42
one where you pole vault and go up and.
44:43
Over the pole. That's right.
44:44
That's right. OK, so and then, you know,
44:46
what's funny is like, I didn't even think about it, but like,
44:48
his grandfather on his mom's side pole vaulted in college.
44:51
Yeah, his uncle on that side pole vaulted in college.
44:54
His aunt pole vaulted through high school.
44:56
So like all the signs were there.
44:59
I just, I didn't pick any of it up.
45:00
I was like, no, he's my son, he's going to play baseball and
45:03
we're going to go do this thing, you know?
45:07
But yeah, I mean, and I'm having, to me, it's, it's kind
45:11
of cool because now I have like a second to, for me, a second
45:15
set of kids and your kids. And I get and I get to kind of
45:18
be part of that. Like I trained Zeke for
45:20
baseball. And, you know, when you're not
45:22
around and Drake needs to go to Buck and practice, I'm like, you
45:25
know, I'm I'm the guy, right, Going to Hayden's volleyball.
45:29
And like when Peyton plays soccer, you know, Peyton came to
45:32
me the other day and was like, Nate, I want to play softball.
45:34
Yeah. Can you help me?
45:35
Yeah. And I was like, sure.
45:37
Like, let's do it. And then Kayla finds out last
45:39
night and she's like, oh, no, Dad's not coaching you.
45:41
I'm going to do it. Right.
45:42
So that's awesome. But it's cool.
45:45
And, you know, it's funny. Everybody's like, oh, your
45:47
nieces and nephews are so cute. I'm like, actually, they're my
45:49
little cousins. They came from me.
45:50
They came from. Me so we you know we're very
45:55
grateful for that I mean the the the running joke is that if you
45:58
guys ever left the state with Sam and I are following and then
46:01
if Sam and I ever left the state you guys are following but.
46:04
Now, yeah, we we got pretty close, man.
46:06
I like it. We'll have a compound somewhere
46:08
on 100 acres, so. So I got a buddy and I know we
46:15
talked about this before we did. We did try to record a podcast
46:19
before, but we had so many difficulties, man.
46:23
So Steven Evans, he's a buddy of mine that I, that I went to
46:29
school with. Yeah.
46:32
So Steven Evans, he, he went to Peoria, played football.
46:36
Great, great guy. And I think he, he's, he's also
46:43
like a man of God too. And he messes me out of nowhere.
46:47
And it's just like, hey, man, love the podcast.
46:50
I was like, thank you. I was like, what can we do
46:51
better, right? And he said like, nothing
46:54
really. But just his question is what's
46:58
the purpose? What's the what's the purpose?
47:04
And then he would like to see like common questions for each
47:07
guest, right? OK.
47:08
But like, what do you think the purpose is?
47:13
It was honestly like when we started this, this, it kind of
47:16
started as a joke. Yeah, right.
47:17
Like, you know, you and I are sitting around bullshitting all
47:20
the time, and we're every Thursday we're at Dylan's, and
47:23
you and I are just laughing and carrying on.
47:24
And I think people just kind of naturally kind of gravitate to
47:28
that. And then you were like, let's do
47:31
a podcast. And I was like, all right, yeah,
47:33
Not like I don't have anything else going on, but yeah, let's
47:34
go ahead and do a podcast. But my thought was this just to
47:38
create a platform where the average Joe.
47:40
Right. Yeah.
47:41
Or the average woman could come on and it doesn't have to.
47:44
You don't, you don't need to be Instagram famous.
47:46
You don't need to be, you know, a movie star.
47:48
You don't need to be an actor. The fact that we had Colton on
47:51
here wasn't because he's a famous musician yet, right?
47:56
It was just, it just worked out that he he's recording at the
48:00
time that we had him on, but really it's just giving people a
48:03
platform to tell their story. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
48:06
Give the middle Class A voice. Right.
48:08
Yeah. I mean, I mean, there's so many
48:10
unique people out there that it's like, dude, I want to hear
48:13
it, Yeah. You want to hear about people
48:15
that are like you? Yeah, You know what I mean?
48:18
I don't. I don't need to hear about
48:19
somebody that I don't have any interest in becoming.
48:21
Yeah. Or that I can look up to, you
48:24
know what I mean? Like I, I want to hear from
48:26
people that are just like me that have walked in my steps
48:30
that I can learn something from. Yeah.
48:31
Maybe they've done it better. Exactly right.
48:33
Or shit, maybe maybe I've done it better.
48:36
And somebody that's listening wants to know, like, how do you,
48:39
how do I get to wherever you're at?
48:40
Yeah, Right. Yeah.
48:41
If that's the case, I mean, shit, hit us up.
48:43
We'd love to. I mean, yeah.
48:45
I'm all about mentoring people and I and being mentored.
48:47
To be honest with you, I think I have two mentors right now, so.
48:51
Yeah, it's, yeah. I just, I don't know, sometimes
48:56
I like look at people and I just think like man, like where were
48:58
they in high school? I don't, I don't know.
49:00
I always like revert to high school, right?
49:02
Like, like who? Was that was your favorite type?
49:04
Pretty much, but I mean, I think there's a lot of growth in high
49:07
school, right? And then right after you really
49:10
find out who you are and like what you're made of.
49:15
But yeah, man, I, I, I love, I just, I just, I just love
49:21
talking to people. I sometimes I, I make Natalie
49:24
mad because we'll be out, you know, and I'll, you know, start
49:27
a conversation and I'll keep the conversation going.
49:29
And she's sitting there like give me like a little tap, like
49:32
come on, wrap it up, wrap it up. You know, it's like.
49:35
Well, it's about to get worse, Natalie.
49:37
I'm just saying if we're starting to get recognized in
49:39
public because we already recognized in public, but not
49:42
because of this, it's because of, you know, just the people
49:47
that we work with or the coaching stuff like that.
49:49
I mean, I still to this day can be in a grocery store and you
49:51
hear, hey. Coach.
49:53
And I turn around and it's a kid that I coach.
49:55
I don't really hear it as much just because really, the zone is
49:57
so big now, man, there's so many people here.
50:00
It drives Sam crazy. We're in Hawaii and I ran into
50:05
people that I knew. Oh, really?
50:07
Yeah, just out of the blue. That's funny.
50:09
But it doesn't matter where we go, it's in it IA lot of it's
50:12
the industry that I'm in. Yeah, you know what I mean?
50:14
When I was in the car business, I had so many customers and then
50:17
same with now. Yeah.
50:19
But it's just like if Natalie struggles with it now, the more
50:24
people that recognize you, the worse it's gonna get.
50:26
I know, but I don't think we're gonna get that big yet.
50:33
No, I'm excited for like this, like the whole Western part of
50:37
it now, like going into the rodeos and talking to people or
50:42
just trying to create content, you know?
50:44
Yeah. You know, like, I'm really
50:46
excited for that, dude. Yeah.
50:48
The culture is cool, right? And, and I think this gives us
50:51
an opportunity to kind of get even more into it.
50:54
Yeah, yeah. Just simply because now we have
50:56
others that are opening up telling us why they're part of
50:58
the community. Yeah.
51:00
And what it is that they do. You know, Tree was talking about
51:02
his, Marcus was talking about his.
51:04
We had Colton, you know, we got Trev coming.
51:06
And then, you know, Sam's doing gymkhanas now.
51:11
And there's other interest in, you know, other events and stuff
51:14
like that. So just a the more ingrained we
51:17
get into the culture, the better that we can understand.
51:19
It oh for sure and just try to bring it to the other people,
51:22
right? I mean dude, I had no idea what
51:24
Wickenburg was right. I was on a hurricane when was it
51:29
like 2 years ago. And you know, I, the lineman
51:33
culture is kind of cool, right? Because like once you meet good
51:37
lineman, like you're like, you're like buddies forever,
51:40
dude. Like I got a buddy, his name is
51:42
Daniel Meacham, right? The only time we spent together
51:46
was onboarding at one of the companies, right?
51:49
And we ended up just like talking.
51:51
We exchanged numbers because we were trying to chase storms, you
51:54
know? And from there, it's just like,
51:57
dude, like if there's a hurricane tomorrow and he's
52:00
driving from Illinois to Florida and I say, hey, can you pick me
52:04
up? Here he goes.
52:05
Yes. Yeah.
52:06
Right on it. You know what I mean?
52:07
Yeah. And it's it's like that's like
52:09
that brotherhood that, you know, we were trying to talk about.
52:12
Yeah. I forgot what I was going with
52:16
that. Surprise, surprise.
52:20
Help me. Going to Illinois, he'll pick
52:22
you up anytime. Yeah, I know.
52:24
But what was brotherhood? The.
52:27
You were talking about the like the building relationships in
52:31
line school and stuff like that. I don't know.
52:33
I got to end it now. No, I I forgot where we were
52:37
talking about before that. It was it was going to wrap up
52:42
into whatever we're talking about, whatever, whoever, what
52:45
who's ever watching, you'll understand.
52:48
This is the norm. This is how conversations go.
52:51
It's like talking to Drake sometimes.
52:52
Oh yeah, yeah. I don't like sauce.
52:56
I wonder how Mustard's made. Squirrel.
53:00
I know he's like the biggest squirrel watcher.
53:02
Ever. He's so funny.
53:03
Oh goodness. Listening to him and Kayla talk
53:05
in the back seat the other night was just hilarious.
53:07
Yeah, cuz Kayla's like, is there any more to that?
53:14
No. No, that's it.
53:16
That's all I wanted to say. Yep.
53:18
And I hate like. His memory lost because he rides
53:20
bulls. Oh gosh.
53:24
At nine years old, he's got memory loss from writing goals.
53:26
Yeah. I dude, when we say an old soul
53:28
man, that dude is an old soul Fisher.
53:32
Yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah, he, he, he
53:35
definitely should have been raised in the the Old West.
53:39
Oh yeah, cuz he's he's yeah. Oh, that's where I was going.
53:43
Oh. Wickenburg.
53:44
Yeah, so so the whole Wickenburg thing.
53:46
See. I lose it too, yeah.
53:48
So, so I met these lineman, right?
53:52
And they're like, where are you from?
53:53
You know, we started talking like, I'm from Arizona.
53:55
He's like, oh, what part? I was like, Whitman, He goes,
53:57
how far is that from Wickenburg? I'm like like 20 minutes away.
54:01
He goes, dude, do you have any idea where you live?
54:04
I was like, yeah, Whitman, Arizona, he goes, no, do you
54:08
know what Wickenburg is? I was like, no, I don't like.
54:11
That's like the capital of roping.
54:14
Team roping. Yeah, of like team roping and
54:16
I'm like, what? What do you mean?
54:19
Yeah, You know, he like, showed me all these videos and like,
54:22
showed me all this stuff about it.
54:23
I'm like, holy shit, dude. Yeah, I had no idea.
54:26
Yeah, you know, I had no idea. Yeah, there's more more money
54:33
and horses and trailers between Whitman, Morristown and
54:37
Wickenburg from like October to February than anywhere else in
54:43
the world, probably, Yeah. And that's just here too, right?
54:46
Because you got like Cave Creek, Queen Creek, you got New River.
54:51
You know, there's, I mean, when I'm, when I'm out, when I'm out
54:54
working, you know, like we'll go to like these big properties and
54:58
you'll see like camper hookups. Yeah.
55:00
For everybody to come and stay, you know?
55:02
Yeah, it's crazy, man. Yeah, it's wild.
55:05
So we're we're basically like a ghost town during the summer.
55:08
There's not a lot of people here.
55:09
And then the moment it cools down, it's and they were open
55:12
all day every day. There's events Monday through
55:14
Sunday in the evenings. Yeah, it's it's cool to watch.
55:19
I mean, it's I watching them is a lot of fun.
55:22
I wish I was that talented. I know, right?
55:24
So I know. And like, that's like the part
55:25
of this is like, dude, sometimes I want to go ask these people,
55:28
like questions. Like, what do you do, you know?
55:31
How do you afford to be here for four or five months?
55:33
Exactly like where are you coming from?
55:35
A lot from my understanding, like we talk, there's a a group
55:38
of ropers that are right around the corner from us and and that
55:41
property is only lived in for the four months that they're
55:44
here. That's it.
55:46
It's empty. And there's they house probably
55:48
20 horses when they're here, there's like 5 or 6, you know,
55:52
sleep in trailers that are there.
55:54
And they also own the property across the street.
55:57
And when we talk to them, they're out of Washington and
56:00
they're all farmers. Damn.
56:02
So they get it to the point where they sell their crop and
56:04
then they come out here for four months and then they go back and
56:06
then they work the fields again. That's cool.
56:08
So this is like their leisurely time.
56:09
Yeah, this is. They're probably busting ass all
56:11
summer long. Yeah, they kill themselves for
56:13
eight months out of the year so that they can spend their four
56:15
months here and and they want to get out of the cold, right.
56:18
But they and they come here and most of them rope in, you know,
56:22
in Vegas for the NFR. So that's what's wild to me.
56:26
Like I have AI have a coworker there.
56:28
Her husband's a pro Roper. And when she found out where we
56:31
lived, she's like, oh, you are in the Mecca.
56:33
Yeah. And I was like, what do you mean
56:34
we're in the Mecca? Like, I'm, I'm.
56:36
I'm in Whitman. Yeah.
56:38
And she's like, Oh no, we're, we're literally in your backyard
56:40
every year for like the last 10 years.
56:42
Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah.
56:44
Well, I mean, a lot of these houses out here too, they're
56:46
like vacant. Oh yeah.
56:48
And then come roping season, yeah, they're not right, you
56:52
know? Yeah, so crazy, crazy.
56:56
Before we start to wrap up, we are going to start selling some
57:00
merch. Yeah.
57:01
So we're going to start with the black shirts that you see behind
57:03
me. Yep.
57:04
We'll go ahead and post that on social media, Right?
57:07
We're going to put it out there. Yeah.
57:10
And then what we will do is if you're interested in them, you
57:13
can direct message the social media.
57:16
Yeah, either Instagram or. Instagram or TikTok and then we
57:21
will send you a Zell or a. Venmo.
57:25
Venmo link so that you can pay. There'll be 25 bucks apiece.
57:28
We're going to start with just the black ones, see how many
57:30
people are interested. The goal is so today is
57:35
September 1st. The goal would be to put the
57:37
order in on September 15th. Have the money in by September.
57:41
We got to have the money and the sizes in before September 5th,
57:45
so I would say by by September 15th and then I'll do the order
57:49
the 16th or 17th. So how how does that work?
57:52
Will they? How does like the shipping work?
57:56
Will. They if they're if they're
57:57
local, then we'll just ship it out.
57:59
OK, so we're gonna sell them for 25 bucks a piece.
58:02
If they're out of state, we'll figure it out.
58:07
So I would say let's just stick to 25 bucks a shirt that we
58:09
don't have to deal with all the craziness having the clothing
58:12
brand before a lot of the shipping is not crazy expensive
58:15
and and we'll be fine, but we'll do 25 bucks AT shirt, OK.
58:19
I also want to bring up there's somebody in in Australia that
58:22
listened to our podcast. Really.
58:24
Yes, that one's going to be more expensive to ship up a shirt.
58:27
That's OK. However, whoever you are, hit us
58:30
up man. Yeah, that's dope.
58:32
Because we could maybe bring bring an Australian on here
58:35
mate. Yeah, we can, because we can.
58:37
We can bring them in on the. On the on the little Bluetooth
58:40
and stuff so. Yeah, that'd be awesome.
58:42
Well, Shane, it's always a pleasure.
58:44
Always. OK, we keep doing this.
58:46
Let's do it. And again, we say this all the
58:49
time. If there's things that you guys
58:50
want to hear or if there's people that you want us to bring
58:53
on, yeah, hit us up, let us know, and we'd love to do it.
58:56
Yep, peace. Bye.
59:01
You friends, everyone's going to be friends and plus you better
59:04
ride like you ride.