The OuterBelt's Podcast
The OuterBelt's Podcast
Navigating Medical Card Changes in Trucking's Digital Age
Weathering change is what trucking is all about, and The Outer Belt's season finale brings this theme front and center. The hosts gather to share critical information about the newly implemented DOT medical card process, which has gone completely digital – with unexpected consequences. As one host recounts his firsthand experience with the system, he reveals the troubling reality: even when medical examiners submit information within 24 hours, the national registry can take 7-10 business days to update. This creates a dangerous limbo where drivers who wait until the last minute could find themselves suddenly non-compliant.
Against the backdrop of a scorching Ohio summer, the conversation weaves through personal experiences with cooling systems, strange weather patterns around Columbus that seem to split severe storms, and the challenges of finding comfort in spaces not built for extreme temperatures. These everyday struggles of trucking life provide a window into the resilience required to navigate this career.
The episode takes a poignant turn as the team pays tribute to Frederick Smith, the recently deceased founder of FedEx, whose vision fundamentally transformed global logistics. They trace Smith's remarkable journey from decorated Vietnam veteran to logistics pioneer, sharing stories of his early gambles to keep the company afloat and his lasting legacy through the Purple Promise – making every experience outstanding. For the hosts, whose business owes its existence to the FedEx ecosystem Smith created, his passing represents more than industry news; it's deeply personal.
As Season 3 concludes, the hosts reveal plans to return in late August or early September with fresh content and possible set changes. Their genuine camaraderie shines through as they describe recording sessions as therapeutic gatherings they initially resist but ultimately treasure – much like the trucking life itself, with its challenges and rewards.
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A priest, a monk and a rabbit walk into a bar. Yes, Watcher says to the priest what would you like, Father? And the priest says I'm celebrating, I just did my last mass. I'm retiring, I'll have a glass of champagne. Who? The monk says I'll have a glass of sake. My responsibilities in the monastery are over. I'm retiring, I'll have a glass of sake. My responsibilities in the monastery are over. I'm retiring, I'll have a glass of sake. The rabbit says I think I'm a typo.
Speaker 4:Hey everybody, Welcome to the Outer Belt. I'm Patrick and you know my friends Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 3:Buttermilk, buttermilk, zucchini bread.
Speaker 2:And Jerry.
Speaker 4:Oh, what a wonderful day we have. I just want to welcome everybody, our special guest, mr Chappelle. Thank you so much for taking your time, coming all the way over from Yellow Springs and hanging out with us.
Speaker 1:Somebody's got to bring the comedy, apparently.
Speaker 4:Well, apparently we've been trying to get you here.
Speaker 1:For how long now it's been a while.
Speaker 4:We've been writing letters.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think it was the carrier pigeon right, it was the carrier pigeon that got it for me. I don't accept physical mail.
Speaker 4:Of course not.
Speaker 1:Why would you? Because people like to send stuff to me. That's not appropriate. I have to protect my family.
Speaker 4:No, I get that. I certainly understand.
Speaker 1:You build this hedge and this wall around your house, yeah, so why let things in you?
Speaker 4:shouldn't? You shouldn't Just the homing pigeon, don't?
Speaker 1:do it Just the homing pigeon.
Speaker 4:Well, they fly over the hedge yeah, just the homing pigeon.
Speaker 1:Well, they fly over the hedge.
Speaker 4:And I like to call them the homie pigeon. Okay, well, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm just curious. I was actually here the last episode. Did anybody pick up on my intro, the last episode, the reference on that.
Speaker 4:Apparently I missed it no, we certainly got it, so he was moving along there was the last video. I'm just kidding you know, in two weeks ago came out about this time right oh my goodness, we should start doing these live, shouldn't we should? Do you mention how much easier that would make Jerry's life?
Speaker 3:Oh, so much easier. I do think our viewers would like a live, maybe quarterly.
Speaker 4:We haven't done a live for a while. We haven't done a live for a while. It's only been five years.
Speaker 3:You've not even been on a live, but it's been a while. I think, a live quarterly would be a good thing.
Speaker 4:Okay, the Melissa happy hour. Everybody in favor. Say aye, aye, everybody post. All right Well the Sheshire happy hour coming to you soon, quarterly. So this is the end of July. So this comes out like the first week of July, right? Yes, july 4th, 5th, july 5th, I think.
Speaker 2:This drops, I think so Listen, I don't know dates.
Speaker 4:It's actually January. We just banked all these it's cold outside.
Speaker 1:Let's hope it's really warm outside when this releases, because we're going to say it's warm, I tell you what I am so tired of the cold.
Speaker 4:I hope it's scalding hot. I hope it's like scalding hot. I hope.
Speaker 1:it's the hottest day of the year, of the year up to date Me too, I'll take it.
Speaker 2:I will take it.
Speaker 4:Absolutely Well, real quick. We do want to say a real quick in case you missed it. Happy birthday Eric. Yay, happy birthday Eric. That happened between this episode and the last episode. So how does it feel to be another year older? The same.
Speaker 3:Right, it happens.
Speaker 4:Well, at least you're not gray At least your head's not graying your beard is, I think I've got two new gray strands. It's very Dr Kevorkian. That's definitely not right, dr Strange. Thank you, it's very, dr Strange. I like it. I tell you what's.
Speaker 3:Asymmetrical. I hear you're catching up with Jerry and Vincent on age he is but the thing is, they keep going further. I know he's actually surpassed me.
Speaker 4:They refuse to stop.
Speaker 1:We determined earlier this week on his birthday. Maybe that he's surpassed me in age.
Speaker 4:But that's only emotionally. Well, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1:I haven't been 12 in way too long. That's where I am emotionally today. That's what I'm saying Are you. Yeah, about 13. And physically.
Speaker 4:You're like what, 62?
Speaker 1:Something like that.
Speaker 4:I have a scale in my bedroom not bedroom in my bathroom and it's one of those fancy scales that you step on. It's got the four metal things where it shoots electricity through your body. Oh, your body fat scale.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:Oh, I hate it, it's the devil. And it tells me I'm metabolic age and it's quite a bit older than I am, and I'm like hmm, okay, well, but you know what I figured out? I figured out that it's manufactured by a Chinese company, really, and so I believe it is Chinese hackers that have hacked my scale, and only my scale, and they're trying to make me think I'm older than I really am.
Speaker 1:You know, I bet that that is a very, very plausible theory.
Speaker 3:What if you only put one foot on there? Then will you be half the age.
Speaker 4:No, because it doesn't work Well. Two things One, first thing A, for those keeping track at home or on the road. I don't have balance on one foot for very long, oh sorry don't do that. So I'd have to touch the wall, and as soon as you touch the wall, you've shorted out the microsystem. The second thing is it shoots electricity up one foot through your body, around your head, down each arm and back up into the shoulder blades and then down into the other foot.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of electricity. It's a lot of electricity. It's a little bit.
Speaker 4:Have you seen Batman? I believe it's Forever where, not Forever Batman with?
Speaker 2:the Joker.
Speaker 4:The Joker, which one's with Joker?
Speaker 3:He's Ledger, or with Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 4:Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 3:That's the original. Do you remember the original? That's just Batman. That's just.
Speaker 1:Batman. No, that was Michael Keaton. That was Michael Keaton. How dare you, George? The one where the great late prince did the soundtrack? Yes, that would be the one.
Speaker 4:So there's a scene in that movie where the Joker shakes Bob's hand and, as we can all recall, bob has a slight. He has one of those little funny like zoo, you got me things, and then we see him in just a skeleton. It's like that.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it tingles, but you get used to it. I mean, we do the lithium ion batteries and it says not to because it's too much of a power. But do you know how aggravating it is to step on a scale and see air bat? It is aggravating. Oh, it's terrible.
Speaker 3:It means you didn't turn into Batman that day. It does, it does.
Speaker 4:Keeping it on brand. I like it, I like it. Jerry, how's your day been?
Speaker 2:Good, good.
Speaker 3:Are you staying cool?
Speaker 2:It's been hot, it's been miserable. You haven't moved in your room, your office. Yeah.
Speaker 3:You're in the basement, the dungeon.
Speaker 2:I mean it's not hot down there, but it's been on the warmer side, yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean, if y'all haven't picked up by now, jerry basically lives in Penguin's cave from Batman. That would be the next Batman.
Speaker 2:I literally think my AC is cut off twice the entire day and that was like for maybe five minutes.
Speaker 3:Is it your power source or actually your house, like your electricity source, because I heard some you had a rolling brow.
Speaker 4:now you didn't realize.
Speaker 1:I think what he means is his thermostat got to the point where it needed to cut off because it was cool enough.
Speaker 3:I believe that's what he means. I misunderstood. I thought you meant like didn't work.
Speaker 1:A common misconception is that Jerry doesn't have. Bruce.
Speaker 4:Wayne money. Isn't he a Batman theme show? He would be right. I've heard that's not true. Okay, he's not liquid. He's not liquid. Is he gold? No, he does the Scrooge McDuff dive occasionally.
Speaker 3:That was such a good cartoon.
Speaker 4:Do you know, as a kid I used to think all the time I've said this before on the show how cool it would be to dive into all that gold bullion.
Speaker 1:As an adult you realize that would hurt so bad you would not penetrate the gold at all. It would hurt a lot.
Speaker 4:You'd have to get that gold to a very high temperature to do it, and then it would hurt for another reason.
Speaker 1:No, it wouldn't hurt very long at that point.
Speaker 4:No, well, a couple seconds the nerve endings burn you're done, especially head first right Yep.
Speaker 3:And you'd be gold-plated. Oh hey, now.
Speaker 4:Gold-plated. Just like in Goldfinger. Yeah, hello, that's a good movie, all right. So so, jerry, you were saying, mr McDuff, you were saying that you keep a gold bullion reserve in your basement next to where you work.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think of something there is nothing like dead air.
Speaker 4:It is so great. I love it.
Speaker 3:What's Don doing upstairs? Because now he's in your office, which, if people listened to last season, your old office upstairs, is hotter than Hades times 25,000.
Speaker 4:Well, I tell you this much from what I understand, the air just doesn't flow up there. From what I understand, don and Eric are having a thin-off contest.
Speaker 3:Oh, so Don's sweating it out upstairs.
Speaker 2:He doesn't mind the heat as much as me, really, yeah, he says it's okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I got mad at him yesterday because so the AC is set on 74.
Speaker 3:Oof Mine's at 68. Keep going.
Speaker 2:So my AC is on 74 and, I remind you, it still does not shut off. So it finally did shut off and I was like holy crap, and this was yesterday. And then I walk upstairs and I'm like, oh, it's all the way up to 76 and then I hear it kick back on and I'm like what's going on? And then I talked to don and he's like, well, I got a little chilly so I cut it up one degree. And I'm like you do realize if I turn it up that one degree, that's just it shoots up. Now it takes forever to get back down. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So for those of you who don't know, we are under a heat advisory this entire week in Ohio. We are, temperatures are astronomical.
Speaker 1:Until Wednesday at 6 pm. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Whatever that means. Like does 6 pm, what happens? The thermostat gods go down.
Speaker 1:It's gone down to canada starts canada starts sitting, so there that's when the penguin shows up I see.
Speaker 3:So I had had mine at 70, but it was holding steady at 72 and it just ran all day, all day at 72. So first thing in the morning at six o'clock, I've been putting it at 68, which is what I like it. At night, and then it will hold more at 70. It reached 68 at one point this morning, early granted. This morning it was still 85 degrees. At 7 in the morning, yeah, um, but it it's all, it, all she can take to just keep it under 72, even when I move it to 68 so not for nothing, but you, you know Heather and I at the yard, we don't have the problems you guys have.
Speaker 4:No, no, we don't.
Speaker 1:We don't have a thermostat outside.
Speaker 4:Are you saying?
Speaker 1:It's just 99 degrees, are you?
Speaker 4:saying in the giant we rent like a I think it's a 15 by 50, something like that unit. So in there the air conditioner doesn't break.
Speaker 1:The air conditioner in there doesn't work because it doesn't exist in there.
Speaker 3:But that means it can't break.
Speaker 1:I didn't say it was broken.
Speaker 4:Yeah but, if you lived in Louisiana, you'd have Drew Brees. The other problem is when you walk into our storage facility that has all the things you would imagine that a truck company would need you open up the back door and it's just like a mountain, like mount mattress of mattresses. And blankets. The mountains of mattresses are just ridiculous. It's ridiculous. We do order a lot because it's a lot cheaper to buy in bulk.
Speaker 4:And as you all know, we have a very close affiliation with OTR Mattresses ridiculous. So we do order a lot because it's a lot cheaper to buy in bulk and and, as y'all know, uh, we have a very close affiliation with otr mattresses and so we stock a lot of their mattresses for them as well. Um and so between those two it's there's like what?
Speaker 1:probably 30 to 40 mattresses back there at any given time yeah, and so it just you can't walk from the back door into the to the front door because the matches to cover that entire back space. If this was a place where people lived a habitatable environment.
Speaker 4:Habitual no.
Speaker 1:No, a place that was habitable.
Speaker 4:There, you go.
Speaker 1:It would be a safety violation because you couldn't get out that back door. Yes, yes, yes, it's a convenience store for us. You'd have to do some climbing. Right.
Speaker 4:And possibly falling back down.
Speaker 1:Exactly Climb again. No, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 4:If I'm in there and I get trapped in, I'm pushing that over. Oh, I get it. I'd push it over too if I got trapped in there. I mean, that is one nice thing about having a little mask, is you can just Eric you're screwed, but the rest of us we're going to dive over them? Well, it doesn't seem.
Speaker 1:You're like, oh, soft, cuddly mattresses, and you think about the fact that, like yeah, soft, cuddly mattresses, enough of them is 1,500, 2,000 pounds.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in the fall and spring you can get away. If it's a warmer day, to open up the doors, because usually there's a breeze.
Speaker 1:Well, but the breeze doesn't blow the direction of the storage unit it blows perpendicular to it or parallel to it, whichever word that needs to be. That's what I thought yeah.
Speaker 4:Perpendicular would be going through parallel. But, you know what's crazy.
Speaker 1:You know that I fly a lot and doing all these lessons and all this stuff that I do. I went to have a conversation with you about that.
Speaker 4:So, flying out the airport that I do a lot of times, the majority of times the wind is east-west, okay, or some variant, maybe a little off but pretty close to east-west. But at our storage facility that we use our lot, I should say, boy, it's north-south, it is north-south religiously. I don't understand the weather phenomenon in Columbus Ohio specifically.
Speaker 1:There's a little bit of a hill in Upper Arlington that splits the wind. It's about 50 feet above sea level and it splits the wind. It's enough.
Speaker 4:It's enough, it's crazy. No, that splits the wind. It's enough. It's enough, it's crazy. No, that's further south.
Speaker 1:That's why, when you get down into Grove City and you don't have any rain along 270, but you turn south on 71 and it's thundering, that's because of the landfill. It changes the whole weather pattern.
Speaker 4:Last week we talked about how, just a little bit north of Arlington, we got that torrential downpour. I guess it's a great scale and you had nothing at the yard.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, there is something weird, phenomenon-wise, or rather where I live and where y'all live, because we so not Jerry, but the rest of us live in the same tornado zone or whatever. So if my alarm goes off. There's this and we've had so many times where that's happened and it goes north or south and it just thank God and I'm knocking'm knocking on wood. It just it doesn't come our way and it's so strange how there is there, there is something and you say 50 foot in arlington.
Speaker 1:That's kind of a joke but it honestly could be something that's that simple like it is crazy and and if you're watching the radar, it's coming right at us. Right at us I mean like a speed train at the time when the the weather said it's going to be there. You look at the radar again and it's split.
Speaker 4:It's split or around us or a lot of times too, we'll get a band, a nasty red band, that's gone off from kansas all the way up through india. It's just gotten worse and worse and worse and it's just nightmare. And then it gets to columbus and it just kind of evaporates. Yeah, nightmare. Then it gets to Columbus and it just evaporates. You see it go into Cleveland, like it happened a couple weeks ago when Cleveland did a tornado up there For us. We got a drizzle a couple minutes.
Speaker 4:No thunder, no lightning. Insane how that happens here I don't understand the phenomenon. I have a prediction I wish you would Tomorrow, wednesday. Can't say the date. I have a prediction I wish you would Tomorrow, yes, wednesday, wednesday, can't say the date. Noonish, I think one, but go on, noonish, I say one.
Speaker 1:Okay, you say one Tornado alarm's going to go off.
Speaker 4:Oh, Thank goodness we didn't shake on that right, Right.
Speaker 1:Be prepared Tomorrow noon-ish. All right.
Speaker 4:Noon-ish Top of the hour.
Speaker 1:Top of the hour.
Speaker 4:I'm going to say it's going to stay on for about 90 seconds. Yeah, somewhere in there. Yeah, okay, somewhere in there. I could see that. And I'm going to say it's the entire county of Franklin.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go even further and say it's Delaware County too.
Speaker 4:Possibly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll see. We'll see if I'm the new Nostradamus or not. You might be, because next week I might introduce myself as Nostradamus.
Speaker 4:I'll tell you what's really fun. We were actually sitting at lunch with our realtor and we were just chatting about stuff and talking about the. So can I give the secret away?
Speaker 2:Yeah, please give the secret away.
Speaker 4:Okay, so at noon on every Wednesday the tornado alarms go off as a test.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:And so we were sitting there talking with our realtor at lunch having a good time, and we really like our realtor a lot. She was like gosh. If we ever had a tornado at noon on Wednesday, how screwed we'd be. Because we all just assume like I mean, no matter where you're at in the city, you just like ooh on a Wednesday and you're like it's noon.
Speaker 1:Actually, during the spring there was a day where we had really bad weather and Franklin. County put out an alert saying During the spring there was a day where we had really bad weather and Franklin County put out an alert saying no tests this afternoon at noon Because of the weather and the possibility of tornadoes.
Speaker 3:There will be no tests today, but if you're not on socials or you don't follow whatever or you don't check their website every morning.
Speaker 4:Or if you're in Japan, wherever you might be, if you're in Japan exactly, if you're not part of that.
Speaker 3:We here in Columbus, I think, actively try to share in our group chat with those of us that live in or near Columbus what the weather, especially on days like that, and I think that day it was shared in our group. But yeah, it just they, which makes sense that I'm not going to do the test, because it could be the real thing. Right, don't want to skew people, we want to save lives.
Speaker 4:I didn't know they would do that.
Speaker 3:That's interesting.
Speaker 1:Cool, now you can tell your realtor that piece of information.
Speaker 4:I will, so she's not perplexed.
Speaker 1:I'm calling her now. Yeah, we'll take a break and go ahead.
Speaker 4:All right In Yep, oh cool.
Speaker 3:I feel like that goes in the bingo machine and you just circle it around and whatever spits out that's going to be the.
Speaker 4:We haven't mentioned that one in weeks. That's only the way that works with money.
Speaker 3:But I feel like that spits out in the ball and it's like we're not getting actually paid. Otr mattresses will be the sponsor today.
Speaker 4:Alright OTA mattresses will be the sponsor today, alright, so anyways, as you were saying bingo, sadly this one laid on a free space sorry, that's what I picture when we decide who the.
Speaker 3:I miss zest. That's all I gotta say the non-sponsor we know you miss zest today, that's for sure.
Speaker 4:I got a bar upstairs anyways, all right, so Can you loan it to this one please?
Speaker 3:What is wonderful about OTR mattresses? That's right. What is?
Speaker 4:Well, they're locally based, first and foremost.
Speaker 2:Custom mattresses for your custom sleeper trucks.
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 2:If you would like to check them out.
Speaker 4:Boy, not a lot of copy on this one. Otr kind of was like just mention us Visit OTR Mattress.
Speaker 2:OTR Services has like a whole spiel but the mattress side is like OTR Mattress dot com.
Speaker 3:Otr Mattress dot com, or give us a call at 380-222-6634 they've got a lot of great reviews about the OTR mattresses on the website are they spring mattresses?
Speaker 2:they are not. They are memory foam really are they? Well they're not spring, they're not spring, they're not spring, they're not spring. You don't want to be bouncing down the road.
Speaker 4:To be clear they're not sprung.
Speaker 1:They're not sprung. No, what they are is we.
Speaker 4:They're not known to forget, yeah, and there's no anacondas.
Speaker 1:We collect leaves from our yard in the fall, because we have that great big oak tree and we stuff them inside of mattress covers. And there you are, otr mattress.
Speaker 4:Well, the nice thing about it is when you lay down, you just really want that crinkle.
Speaker 1:You do want that crinkle and that one little piece of the leaf that sticks through you. Lay back and hear the crinkle get that poke in you. Yeah. It's just like being outside, absolutely.
Speaker 4:It reminds me of camping, and the nice thing about it is that it is serene.
Speaker 1:It is serene, it's very serene, it's like you know, jumping into the pile of gold bullion. Yes, who among us hasn't wanted to jump into a big old pile of leaves? Who hasn't Reach out to OCR Mattress?
Speaker 3:I got to tell you.
Speaker 1:And you can buy yourself a big old pile of leaves in a mattress cover.
Speaker 4:I have jumped into a big pile of leaves. Oh really, You'll never have.
Speaker 3:We can make that happen this fall. That makes me kind of sad.
Speaker 1:That's dirty. No, thank you.
Speaker 4:Dirty is fine. It's all the bugs that you don't know about.
Speaker 3:It's the 7,000 air bites you get You're doing a fresh pile, not a Is that your air mattress isn't going to go flat in the middle of the night by going camping?
Speaker 4:That is true, so your foam mattress is going to be nice and squishy that is true. So it is a multi-layered mattress and there's a couple different varieties, so it depends on what you get, but the main idea behind it is it is a dense core right.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it is.
Speaker 4:It's a dense core of a thick supportive foam and then on top of that you have memory foam, but you also get serene. So if y'all remember back in the day memory foam and you may have bought one off Amazon before where you're like, oh, memory foam is going to be great, and you wake up in the middle of the night and you throw those covers off because it's like 1,200 degrees. So memory foam is a really cool thing and it really was designed by NASA. That is not a joke. It's what they use in the space station. It's what they used to use on all of the space shuttle missions and everything.
Speaker 4:It is a really cool tool that we got from NASA back in the 60s and 70s. It was revolutionary for its time, but we've come a long way since then. So the foam we use is Serene, and Serene is a really cool foam and it actually absorbs. It doesn't absorb the heat, it takes the heat and it whisks it away. So you get the memory foam benefits, but you don't get all that heat buildup that you do in a traditional memory foam mattress or one that you can find online for much cheaper.
Speaker 4:And then the other thing we do is we built it here in America. We have a really, really nice cover that goes on it. We have some really cool stuff that, like, if you've ever been in one of our custom trucks or if you've seen a picture, you've probably thought to yourself like how in the world do you make your bed, because those back corners are tight and difficult to get to. So what did OTR Mattress do? They put custom handles in those corners so you can pick that mattress up, you can slap that sheet on and then you can literally just let it go and let it thump down and it's fine, and then just grab the next one and do the same thing. It's really really cool, makes making the bed easy, makes changing those sheets easy and it's just a really cool thing and, again, proudly crafted here in America. We are an Ohio based company, but it's actually made in Michigan and they're just extremely comfortable. They come compressed in a box so that when you are loading it into the truck you're getting your old mattress out.
Speaker 4:And if you've bought one before and you're like, oh my God, the thought of taking the mattress out and putting it back in is overwhelming, don't worry about it. Getting your old mattress out sucks.
Speaker 2:There's no easy way to put it.
Speaker 4:But get it out and then ours comes in and you take the box, you bring it in, you drop it on your bedpan, you cut the plastic piece off. Carefully, carefully, don't cut your mattress. You pull that plastic off, give it we generally say somewhere around 8-12 hours to fully inflate, because it is compressed down and then you're going to sleep on it. If you can give it 24 hours, it's even better yeah.
Speaker 4:But it's not required. We're going to sleep. Well, that's a good question. Yeah, that's why I say 24 is best. So if you're like, hey, I'm going to go home time maybe getting it and then using it during home time or whatever that way, getting it and then, uh, using it during home time, that, whatever. That way, you give it the full 24, but if you don't, and you only have eight to ten hours, perfectly fine, but I think about a boom.
Speaker 4:You have a very comfortable mattress and the reviews are insane, like yeah, we just keep getting reviews over and over again and in one thing, we get a lot and jerry. Uh, you could tell me the god's honest truth. You and I've had this conversation correct. How can we get this price point lower? How can we make this mattress cheaper? How can we make it more accessible and easier to get? And we keep banging our head against a wall because, honestly, the materials and the quality we use, along with making it here in America, there's just no give. The profit margin on our mattresses are very, very low.
Speaker 4:I'd love to take a chance to go through and explain how mattresses work and what they really cost your local Cetra store or your local Sealy or your Posturepedic or any of those kind of stores. The mattress you're buying is 20% of the cost of what you build, of what you buy. So you buy a $500 mattress. It costs that company $75, $80 to make Like that's how much the markup is. And for us, our markup is sitting in that like 10% to 15% range. It is ultra small. We don't make hardly anything off these. We only do it because we are former truckers. Eric and I started this company back in 2017, 18. And, being former truckers, we knew that we needed a more comfortable situation for our people and that's how we came up with this company, and so we do it to help people out. And also we have to make a little bit of money because we are a for-profit company. But it is not what your local match store is making. We are genuinely putting out a really good product. I tell you what?
Speaker 1:OTR mattresses sure got their money's worth on this ad. It's been a 10-minute ad.
Speaker 4:Well, Jerry's going to cut it down to three seconds.
Speaker 2:So don't take our word for it. Check out our Facebook page Over the Road Mattress OTR Search either one of those. It should come up on Facebook. Check out the reviews. Check out the website at otrmattresscom. Give us a call at 380-222-6634 or shoot me an email at jerry at otrmattresscom tell them the outer belt sent you.
Speaker 4:Maybe we'll throw in a $50 gift card. I doubt it. Or discount rather I doubt it or discount.
Speaker 1:Rather, I doubt it. If you ask me, I'm saying no.
Speaker 4:Well, that's because you help sometimes put them in the truck, exactly.
Speaker 1:They're great mattresses. Melissa and I had one Great mattresses.
Speaker 4:They are great mattresses. I actually bought a whatever size mattress. I have in my house version of that.
Speaker 1:We did too. We did, did too.
Speaker 4:And that's what I sleep on.
Speaker 1:The other thing we did in our house too. We got the OTR mattress and we threw an APU out the back window.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Discomfortable that humming all the time. The vibration.
Speaker 4:I bought one of those massive industrial air conditioners. If you ever go to a 7-Eleven or a Circa K and the AC's out and they have that ridiculously huge thing that like vents out the front door or whatever. I bought one of those that way I could like really have the experience.
Speaker 2:But I didn't think about an APU yeah, an APU on the back.
Speaker 4:We don't have gas here, so it's a little challenging. It's really hard to get the reefer Once a week or so. Well, I never had a reefer.
Speaker 3:That's not true.
Speaker 4:You guys didn't have reefers, that's not true, we did have reefer, and Aaron and I did run reefer for several years, but we mostly did dry freight and so that didn't get burned into us as much as most of the FedEx people Like Jerry. Jerry doesn't have a reefer, but you have an air conditioner unit there to make some noise, right? Yeah, it's so funny how calming that is when you're just so used to it.
Speaker 2:It really is Jerry.
Speaker 4:A couple weeks ago by that I mean like a month and a half ago we had a conversation on the Outer Belt about the DOT medical card changes that are happening and what you need to know, and we all praised it. Says it's a great thing, it's gonna be wonderful for trucking, can't wait till it happens. And um, it has now happened and uh, you told me you had some uh thoughts about it that you'd like to share yeah, so, um, it went into effect june 2025, and I was lucky enough to redo my medical certificate.
Speaker 2:On that day, nice and I went to an urgent care facility. They were not aware that it was starting that day. They actually thought it was starting a week later and went through the whole process, did my physical Everything was great and went to the local BMV to update it. After standing in line for two and a half hours, they tell me sorry, we can no longer update this in person.
Speaker 4:Did they tell you?
Speaker 3:that at the check-in? No Well, that would have been nice.
Speaker 4:Now when you say standing in line.
Speaker 2:Well, I checked in and then I sat in my car with the AC running because it was hotter than blazes.
Speaker 4:So you used up $60 worth of gasoline.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, it was worth it.
Speaker 4:So I did mine two weeks prior, so I did not hit this deadline that you did and I went and sat on a very nice metal chair, folding metal chair, for about an hour and a half, but you did two and a half hours and then what happened?
Speaker 2:So they can no longer update it in person, and I know. One thing that I wanted to clarify is we mentioned on our previous episode that if you have your paper version of your medical card that is actually no longer valid, they are not to give you a paper version the medical examiner, so everything has to be done digitally now. So whenever you do your physical, the medical examiner has 24 hours to submit your information to the National Registry and then that is then sent to the carriers and updated with the state. Nothing can be done paper-wise anymore.
Speaker 1:Well, you did, save yourself the five bucks and having to do it in person in.
Speaker 4:Ohio.
Speaker 1:Well, that's interesting that it's all done that way it feels. It seems like those directions weren't very public because when we talked about it a couple weeks ago we didn't know that at that time we we talked about waiting to see how it went.
Speaker 1:I had no idea, because we actually can talked about doing that warning and turning it in yourself as a backup yes you know, uh, and and now, knowing that you can't do that, the kids all through the carrier and all digitally, that that's a little frightening I asked the guy at the bmv.
Speaker 2:I was like there's nothing you can do and he said actually, the way the law is wrote, he is by law unable to accept it from me. It has to be done by the medical examiner digitally so, and when I'm out on the road I don't have a paper thing that I give them either, right?
Speaker 2:No, according to what I was informed, if you are stopped for a DOT inspection or anything of that nature, it has to be in the registry. It has to be on their computer system. You cannot say, hey, I have a paper copy showing that I've done it. They cannot accept it legally.
Speaker 1:Wow, I guess that's for fraud. I mean you can gimme up a fake one and show it. I had a DOT inspection Memorial Day weekend roadside and the officer asked me about my logs and if I knew how to submit them. And I was like it's been a while, let me read the direction here and get it taken care of. And he went and did my inspection and never came back and asked for my log. But because of the work that I do, I'm in different trucks. I'm in multiple trucks a day sometime and he asked a question and I forget what the question was but I said yeah, I mean you know I'm in multiple trucks a day. He goes. Yeah, I saw that, like I. Maybe he used the DOT number and my name for my driver's license to be able to pull up my logs from Panther because it was in a Panther truck. But he was able to see my logs without me showing him physically my ELD. So I'm guessing it's just for fraudulent things that they're all digital, no more paper.
Speaker 4:I could see that. I could see that. I could see that. So I moved a truck from Memphis to Columbus several months ago. Actually, if you watch this show frequently, you'll remember we talked about it. I got stopped by the DOT on that one as well, random Roadside, which, of course, immediately as soon as those lights come off, you're like what's my speed, what's the speed limit? And there's never a speed limit sign and you're like oh my gosh, did I just roll into?
Speaker 2:a 45 and didn't realize it.
Speaker 4:But no, none of that, it was all fine. They just randomly chose me and pulled me over and, um, the guy asked me for my logs but I was running under. So if your eld breaks down, you have seven days or something like that to get it back. This was a new truck to us and the ELD didn't work, so we had that provision we could work under. He wasn't familiar with that, which is frustrating. You would think a cop would know.
Speaker 4:There was three different cops and I think one of them might have been training.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:And the one that told me we're not familiar, that has come across the system is the guy I think was training Okay, so maybe he was. But the other cop did come over eventually and say like oh no, he's gone, he's fine, Like we don't have to worry about that. Sure, what we're seeing so far with this paper stuff that he's willing to show us is good. So I was good and I was able to get on home.
Speaker 1:Just to clarify real quick. You have seven days where you can log on paper, correct, you still have to log for that seven days. Absolutely, you have to paper log if your ELD is not working properly. Exactly.
Speaker 4:So that was what I'm going to call the training cop or the trainee. He that was what I'm going to call the training cop or the trainee. He was confused about like I was not able to send my paper logs over via the computer that you're supposed to, and the other cop was the one that realized oh no, I see what's happening and, yes, we can take this.
Speaker 4:So I'm sure it's going to be, the same thing with some of these medical situations, but it is really cool how they can see in the back end. It is cool. Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 3:I'd like to see just in 30 days how it all shakes out Like we need to keep this on our reminder list to see Absolutely Our show notes for each show.
Speaker 4:Yeah, just maybe dig a little deeper, see how things are shaking out. Maybe check in August and see how it's going. Yeah, because I can see. I'm very curious. A so right now, jerry, based on what you told me earlier and I don't want to give away anything, so if I'm out of line, just let me know. But as of right now, the state of Ohio does not have you updated in the system, correct, but your medical examiner did get the information from their headquarters or corporate office and has submitted everything, right.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:So my understanding was you have 24 hours to submit it and you'll be good to go. However, you told me that's not accurate.
Speaker 2:Correct. So whenever the medical examiner submits it, if it matches up with your name, date of birth and your license number in the state, if for some reason there's an error or something like that, the medical examiner can then match everything up there at the time that they're submitting this. As long as they get all of that correct, then it should submit, but it could still take seven to 10 business days to update in the national registry.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So then, if you have any issues, you're to go back to your medical examiner and make sure it was all submitted correctly. If all of that is good, your only recourse is to submit an email to the registry.
Speaker 4:And however long it takes them to see, that is however long it takes.
Speaker 3:So are you non-DOT compliant if that's not all updated? Correct so you have to sit at home and be out of service.
Speaker 2:I say yes because I say that based off of information that I got from a motor carrier today.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:That if it's not updated whenever my current one expires, then I'm technically non-compliant so I think the big takeaway from this is, if you get a one year or a 24 month, uh, dot, um, I keep saying inspection, that's not right.
Speaker 4:Physical physical Then you need to treat that, at least for now, as an 11-month and a 23-month physical, because if you so I'm just tracking this. So like, okay, I know for me personally, patrick, and with my name first and last, with my date of birth, there is another person identical to me in this country. I've had an issue before. I remember one time when I bought my house in Columbus. Actually it came up. Actually it came up. They were like do you owe? Like it was some obscure thing like J&R Audio in New York City $60,000?
Speaker 3:And I'm like no, I'm like, no, I do not.
Speaker 4:And they're like okay, we didn't think it was you because your social security didn't match. And I'm like, well then, why did you even call me? But my name and date of birth does match another identical to me, and that person has terrible credit. And it's caused me a couple issues, not many, but a couple.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I would totally agree. If you have a 12-month or a 24-month, it then becomes 11 or 23-month. Make sure you do this way ahead of time, because it's something that I'm running into now, where I just did mine, it finally got submitted, but I'm just in limbo waiting for everything to get updated that's super frustrating.
Speaker 3:I appreciate you sharing with us as well on that hopefully in six to nine months they have all the kinks worked out, but 69 months that's a long time.
Speaker 4:Six to nine months. They have all the kinks worked out. 69 months. That's a long time.
Speaker 3:Six to nine months, they have it all worked out. Three to six would be preferred, right, but let's be real.
Speaker 4:What about today? What about today?
Speaker 2:Today is the next 24, 36 hours.
Speaker 3:I know, but it's a new change with multiple entities.
Speaker 4:Yes, and you know what, In the reality of things, next week, everyone that does these or not everyone, but the majority of them will have been presented with these issues. They'll have had to deal with their corporates. They will hopefully have the logins and be experts at it. Yeah, you will have some that are. They don't do DATs very often and they may be a little clueless, but the people that turn them out all the time. Hopefully next week they'll be as usual.
Speaker 3:It's like implementing in the new software program. I think about when we switched to our new phone system. It was a struggle Ooh it was. And now we're all proficient at it and it's working well.
Speaker 4:So yeah, girl, I remember signing up for that and the the now we're all on it the anger. I got about that and then now everyone's like don't you dare call me on my cell phone? This is how we contact each other now, and it is a miracle worker, but boy, was it tough.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I can imagine the same thing, because you're dealing with essentially three entities right, the registry, the state times 50. Yeah, and then all of the medical examiners. Yes so really three entities times multiple entities across those boards. So I imagine it's going to be a struggle.
Speaker 4:All having to work together.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And do things in order. Yeah Well, so tonight it was going to be a little bit of a celebration, a little bit of happiness. I mean, obviously, this news with Jerry and what's happening with the medical card situation being the first week it's out A little bit of a bummer news, but we were really planning on kind of a celebration.
Speaker 1:It's going to be our last episode Ever Not ever, ever we're going to put all the gear on reverb and sell it off. This will be it.
Speaker 4:This will be it for July For this season For this season For this season. So we are rolling into season.
Speaker 2:We are wrapping up season three.
Speaker 4:And we are going into.
Speaker 2:Season four.
Speaker 4:So we are prepared to kind of have a party and hang out and just be excited for what's going on. But bummer news took an even sharper toll on us than we were expecting. So the time you're hearing this, this news will be a couple weeks old, but for us it's very, very, very fresh. The chairman and founder of FedEx, federal Express, fred Smith. He passed away a few days ago. A couple days ago at 80 years old in Memphis, tennessee, and we wanted to acknowledge that and bring it to you. Highfield Trucking, which owns this podcast and you'll see us on. We owe our entire existence to FedEx and getting us started.
Speaker 4:So at the end of the day, it was Eric and I deciding several years ago over a decade now to partner with and contract with FedEx and become a part of the FedEx CustomEx Corporation and was guiding the ship, and he was this rock we all looked to. He had this belief in the purple promise which is to make every experience specifically FedEx experience, his experience, specifically FedEx experience. But if you're a contractor or just if you absorb it in your daily life, it's inexperience outstanding. That was what he imposed to his people and I think that's why you have FedEx, the huge, admired company it is today. It's directly from his leadership. He did step down in 2022 from being CEO, ceo, and so now it's what? Three years, not not that long ago, really right? Um, he's been chairman of the board for uh, that amount of time since, and he did just pass away at 80 years old of natural causes.
Speaker 4:Um, I do want to highlight a few things about him real quick. He was born in 1944. He went to Yale College for business and economics and then, in 1966, he became a Marine, and I found this, and I'm going to look it up real quick because I want to get it right. So he served two duties of war in the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged in 1969 with the rank of captain. He received a silver star, a bronze star and two purple hearts.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 4:So I know, when we hear about him, we think about his career, his company, his gigantic success with that.
Speaker 3:But he was somebody else too.
Speaker 4:He was a hero prior to any of that, and his parents were smart business people and so he started FedEx with a $4 million inheritance from his family. And so he started FedEx with a $4 million inheritance from his family, was able to go out and raise like $91 million in capital from a bunch of venture capital sources Of course, this was back in the 70s, so a very different world than we live in now and he built a fleet of 14 airplanes these are tiny little airplanes Falcon 20s they're just little bitty jets, little airplanes. Uh, falcon 20s they're just little bitty jets. And, uh, he went in and um, built this package, uh process, and I thought it was interesting. So we all know the federal express name, right, like fred smith, who is this huge, uh like driving force that that built this company and grew it, and he's an amazing man, but he didn't man, but he didn't name the company after himself. It's always Federal Express, like how did they get that right? Like it's a good name, yeah, great name.
Speaker 4:Federal Express is a great name. How did he get it? They were actually in their early years. They were chasing a contract with the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 4:Oh and that's how they came up with that name Nice and that's how they came up with that name. They didn't get that contract, but still the name stuck and it is quite amazing. And of course there are a few stories, like when he was first starting the company and in the first few years they were having some financial issues and he took $5,000, which is the last bit of money the company had went to Vegas and went and played I don't remember what game it was.
Speaker 1:I think it was Blackjack.
Speaker 2:I think it was Blackjack, yeah.
Speaker 4:And in that game he won $27,000. And the company's fuel bill, literally their jet fuel bill, was $24,000. And he was able to cover the fuel bill off that right Now. That only happened once, sure, but it's just like the amount of. I believe in this company to the extreme that I will do something crazy to ensure its success, to the point that it is today which is massive, like when I want to send a package overnight. If I send it UPS, if I send it USPS, if I send it FedEx, how do I say it? I'm going to FedEx this to you.
Speaker 4:Like it is ubiquitous, just like we would say Google. I'm going to Google something. You may use Bing, you may use some other search engine, but we're going to Google it. We're going to FedEx a package overnight to you, sure.
Speaker 1:But how often do you go to ship something overnight and think about USPS or UPS?
Speaker 4:to ship something overnight and think about USPS or UPS. The only time I do is when another company has a contract with them and they send me a label Right Otherwise if we're sending something, I'm going to FedEx.
Speaker 1:If it's going overnight, it's going FedEx. Yep, yeah, you know they're trusted. They're trusted, they're reliable their tracking system works.
Speaker 4:They develop the idea of the tracking system. I mean just everything you've seen come across over the years. And even like the FedEx Custom Critical, Some people out there saying like well, he didn't develop FedEx Custom Critical, he bought that from Roberts Express or whatever. It's the idea that he had the forethought to buy this from Roberts Express.
Speaker 1:And fit it into the logistics network and just an overarching system so that every piece of the logistics network was covered. Covered, absolutely so you didn't have to go somewhere else. If I need to ship something and it meets this criteria, I don't have to go somewhere else for that piece of business. I can go to FedEx for that. It's a one-stop shop For everything. One-stop shop?
Speaker 4:Absolutely no doubt Absolutely, and so it was rough. So when I first woke up a couple days ago and I saw this, what I do every morning is, before I get out of bed literally get out of bed I grab my phone and I just look through a the immediate text message and phone calls and see what business, sure emergency I have to handle uh but outside of that, it is, uh, go to facebook and I do a quick scroll, and when I say a quick scroll I mean literally 10 minutes and I'm out.
Speaker 4:Um, and I saw one person say something about rip frederick smith RIP, frederick Smith, you were great, or whatever. And I'm like no, there's no way. And so I looked up and I started researching a little bit and I'm like, oh, oh, and literally like it felt like the weight of an elephant, not an elephant, maybe like a small zebra, like sitting on my shoulders, and I'm like, or something chest. I'm like, oh, this sucks, like it really. It was like oh, this is like. I'm trying to think of a way to phrase it.
Speaker 3:Bummer deal, big bummer deal.
Speaker 4:Big bummer deal and it really hurt. Yeah, it's like. This is someone who I can like. A lot of people's companies they can set back and say like, okay, here's where we get started, here's where things helped out for us. Whatever, I can literally trace my company back to right his company, yeah, and if it wasn't for him literally him building this network that we're a part of uh, we wouldn't be here, this podcast wouldn't exist. There's so many ramifications of it and it was a very rough.
Speaker 3:It was a rough morning and seeing all that happen over the years, I checked out some quotes from him Because he seems like a pretty smart, wisdom filled man. One of the quotes I found which kind of holds true to ifield, in my opinion, is fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something I thought that was pretty cool sounds like he was that kind of man that lived by that absolutely, I think so, I absolutely think so.
Speaker 4:he I mean, even when you see the different opcos, like he, is a logistics company. Their whole thing is moving freight If it's parcel, if it's less than truckload, if it's truckload, if it's intermodal. They are a freight moving company and they buy Kinkos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And create FedEx Office freight moving company and they buy kinkos, yeah, and create fedex office and it's like so now you're old enough to know kinko, so I used to use this so I did. I used kinkos too. Kinkos, they were great. I used to use too. So kinkos especially was actually a baton rouge based company.
Speaker 3:So uh, oh, I didn't know that absolutely very familiar with.
Speaker 2:I'm very familiar with it that's.
Speaker 4:It was a home home built, uh, really big company where I lived and seeing uh him go. No, there's an opportunity here. Not only do we get in this very cool printing business and blow that up uh, but there's also this ability to get people to put more freight in our network.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And like I use a FedEx office Like Highfield, if you get something from us that's FedExed, we went to a FedEx office and sent it off. We didn't go to a FedEx. Nine times out of ten we didn't go to a FedEx ship store. That like thinking outside the box, because you would look at it and go like why is FedEx buying a printer? Because you would look at it and go like why is FedEx buying?
Speaker 1:a printer.
Speaker 4:It doesn't make any sense and seeing his vision to what it is now, it's like I can't imagine FedEx without the FedEx office. Ups turns right around. They make the UPS store like trendsetting, and so, yeah, it's just, he was a great leader, a really great person. He believed in this thing, this shrinking of the world, when no one else did, and he successfully pulled it off to the point where we now have three or four competitors doing it and they're still the best, the elite of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no one else is doing it as well as're still the best. The elite of it. Yeah, no one else is doing it as well as FedEx is.
Speaker 4:Absolutely not, and boy it just. It was a sucker punch to see that Sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And we wish Richard, his son, who used to up until like a year ago he was actually very involved with Tax Custom Critical, which the division were part of we wish him, and all his family and everything you know, just warm feelings and love that you know, frederick died a very loved and beloved person and we all have really great things to say about him and his family and just wish them comfort as they go through this process Right, we've all lost loved ones at this point and parents and Just wish them some peace as they go through this and just know that his memory, his legacy, is going to continue through the FedEx brand.
Speaker 4:The FedEx brand through the contractors like us that support that and keep it going and really focusing on that purple promise to make things, every experience, outstanding. And from Highfield, I can tell you personal thank you, like I wouldn't be here without you. So we appreciate that and yeah, so kind of a little bit of bummer news Again. By the time you're hearing this it'll be a couple weeks old, but yeah, it's just been a rough few days for us for that.
Speaker 1:So we hate to end the show on a bad note, but it's about that time where we have to end the show. But we just had a bad note. Yes, we just had a bad note.
Speaker 4:We hate to end the show on a bad note. On a sad note, Can we end on a positive?
Speaker 1:We can't end on a positive. We're going to end on a positive, with Jerry telling us how he can reach out to us and tell us how much you love our show.
Speaker 2:If you have any comments or suggestions for the show, make sure you reach out to us at theoutermeltpodcast at gmailcom. If suggestions for the show, make sure you reach out to us at the outer belt podcast at gmailcom if you have any comments, leave them down below on youtube or your favorite podcast streaming app that you're leaving or listening to this on leaving us on listening to this on.
Speaker 2:if you are interested in high field trucking or anything that we do over here, or like to have more information about high field trucking, check us out at highfieldtruckingcom. You can also chat with us live on our website over there, with recruiting Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. You can reach out to us at 833-HIGHFIELD, h-y-f-i-e-l-d or 833-493-4353. Option one for recruiting.
Speaker 4:Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm Eastern Time. Absolutely, and as I alluded to earlier, this will be the end of Season 3.
Speaker 3:And Zucchini Bread is going to lead us into what to look forward to next season. A lot of fun stuff. When does it come? When can they start resuming or looking for?
Speaker 4:us Around the end of August. End of August, maybe beginning of September, maybe beginning of September.
Speaker 2:September's the best month ever, but in the meantime, Labor Day hit off, so what I hear is late fall, early fall.
Speaker 4:No, early fall, early fall.
Speaker 3:I call that late summer early fall, Because fall doesn't happen until September 21st.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I have a question. According to the, Econauts.
Speaker 1:The 25th of September.
Speaker 2:Yes, but in the meantime, go back and watch all the previous episodes and catch up on seasons one and two, if you haven't.
Speaker 4:And if you're driving, listen too, because you can catch us on your favorite podcasting platform. We're on YouTube podcast, we're on Apple podcast.
Speaker 3:We're on Spotify, wherever you find your podcast.
Speaker 4:Absolutely, they listen the first time because they're driving, but now they'll have time and they can go back and watch Crazy.
Speaker 2:Faces.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't recommend that but if there are things that you want us to talk about, let us know. We've got plenty of time to work on some planning and episodes and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4:If you'd like to see a new set design? Let us know Buttermilk is dying to redo the set. She is dying, she's like it's a little old. It's been two seasons now we've had this.
Speaker 3:It's comfortable though.
Speaker 4:It is so comfortable.
Speaker 3:It.
Speaker 4:It's comfortable, though it is so comfortable it's better than the table we started off with yes, it is, and we got new couches and new chairs, the table felt more like Crossfire than anything else. But it was different too. I was trying to build a thing and it didn't happen. I get it.
Speaker 1:We're working on it. It's a work in progress, a constant work in progress.
Speaker 4:I was thinking next year, Vince and I Lazy Boys.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4:Come on right there Sit around the table on the floor. I was thinking of fire pit and cigars. Gonna do some kumbaya around the table. You have to look at us like Bill Maher. Put the candle in the middle.
Speaker 3:Camera from on top. Put the candle in the middle, It'll be our bonfire. Air quotes.
Speaker 4:Well, listen, we are so glad you've hung out with us so long. We could not have gotten here without y'all. We appreciate so much y'all supporting us, watching us, supporting our sponsors. Those of you with OTR mattresses drop a comment down below or, better yet, go to the OTR Mattress Facebook, leave us a review there. Or, if you just have like, I love the mattress, send us an email letting us know that so that we can throw it up on the website and other people can see it as well. Um, it has been so much fun. I'm looking forward to a little bit of a break.
Speaker 3:We're gonna be crazy, though we're gonna come back crazy oh my gosh, we have because this is like therapy. I know people don't understand it, but it is like midweek therapy and it's gonna be great I know we're trying to wrap up, yes, but it's so funny that you know we work.
Speaker 1:We record this show in the evening. We've worked all day and for me personally, I get off work and I get home and I don't want to come do this, I agree, and I sit down here and I put the headset on and it just starts and I'm having a great time. It is like therapy literally. It's not like therapy. It is like therapy literally. It's not like therapy.
Speaker 4:Well, it is like therapy, but it's also like going to the gym. If you've been to the gym before, you are putting your gym clothes on, you're grabbing your gym bag the whole time, you are cussing and so mad You're like I do not want to do this and midway through working out you're like this is kind of nice.
Speaker 3:I like this.
Speaker 1:This is great. It's kind of how this is. It is not like the gym. No, it does not happen.
Speaker 4:The fact that whole gym thing is BS, Well, okay maybe that's what I've experienced, but the fact that we all really like each other and the reality is in case you haven't picked it up we all hang out behind the scenes. We love hanging out with each other. It is actually going to be quite a busy break for us. A little.
Speaker 3:R&R.
Speaker 4:I'll give you a little something to look forward to. In August, we are going to Ireland, we're going to Paris, paris.
Speaker 2:I get to show that off.
Speaker 4:We're going to London. We're going to a little bit of a rum festival. We will have some exciting stuff to share with you all in August as well, we are going to Some new bottles. Maybe Perhaps we'll see. It's a long way from here to London it is. It's not London Ohio.
Speaker 1:No, although we were there last weekend, melissa and I. Yeah, you were.
Speaker 4:That's where I'll go while you guys are there.
Speaker 1:I'm in London too, you can also go to Versailles, Ohio, if you want to. That's right Listen while you're Lebanon Ohio.
Speaker 4:Oh, maybe not. It's the wrong time of the year. Until then, yes, until then I think you should all stay safe, make good decisions. We love you. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Don't leave money on the table.
Speaker 2:And keep those walls of Tarnum. Bye, see you next season august, september.
Speaker 3:Thank you.