New Year, New Rules: Truckers And THC

The headlines say cannabis is getting reclassified, but what does that actually mean when you hold a CDL and your job depends on clean screens? We dig into the federal move toward Schedule III, cut through the myths, and explain why FMCSA testing panels can still flag marijuana even if the law shifts. You’ll hear what carriers are likely to keep doing, where the gray areas live, and how trace THC from “THC-free” CBD can still cause a positive.

We also talk about the real-world tension drivers face: caring for anxious pets with CBD on long hauls, navigating product labels that don’t match reality, and staying compliant without guesswork. Then we zoom out to the bigger picture—how rescheduling could unlock medical research for epilepsy and seizure disorders, create clearer dosing standards, and eventually enable smarter impairment testing. It’s not advocacy; it’s clarity, safety, and a practical roadmap for anyone in a safety-sensitive role.

Between policy deep dives, we share our top moments from 2025—London’s rum festival, Bastille Day and jaw-dropping drone shows, nature escapes, and a hard-earned pilot’s license—before setting sights on 2026 plans: better yard workflows, driver lounge upgrades, theme park stops, and a steadier freight outlook. The theme tying it all together is simple: be curious, stay cautious, and make choices that protect your license and your future.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And New Year Hello
• 0:30 Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Explained
• 3:45 What FMCSA Testing Still Requires
• 7:30 CBD, THC Trace Risks, And Driver Safety
• 12:40 Pet Anxiety, CBD Products, And Truck Policy
• 18:50 Broader Debate: Medical Benefits And Research Access
• 22:20 Generational Shifts And School Stories
• 25:50 Calendar Flubs And Year-In-Review Setup
• 30:00 Top Three Moments Of 2025: Travel Highlights
• 38:00 More Favorites: Milestones, Festivals, And Flights
• 44:00 Drone Shows, Nature Trips, And Big Memories
• 49:20 Looking Ahead: 2026 Trips And Market Hopes
• 54:00 Yard Talk: Mud, Boots, And Truck Inspections

Transcript

Cold Open And New Year Hello

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Nobody plays Monopoly. Everybody buys the collector's, you know, fancy ones and all that stuff, and then and then they just go on a shelf and no one. Have you ever have you ever played a collector's version of Monopoly?

SPEAKER_06 0:13

No. Now that you mention it.

unknown 0:15

No.

SPEAKER_06 0:17

I would play your Golden Girls. Monopoly.

SPEAKER_03 0:30

Hey, welcome back to the Outer Belt. Happy 2026, everyone. As always, I'm Patrick, and I'm here with my friends.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Chili.

SPEAKER_06 0:38

Buttermilk.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

Eric. Zucchini bread. And Jerry. Oh man. What an exciting time to be alive. We've got a new year. Freight's picking up. We just had the strongest uh in uh ages. Winter. Yeah, and uh weeds getting legal or something. I don't know. What's that? What is coming in? What is going on with that?

SPEAKER_06 1:02

Well, at least a while.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

No, this is uh like a federal thing. It's what Jerry, you know weed. What is the um weed? What's happening? I'm so confused. Monsanto thanks you.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Um I have not heard anything federally. I know they're trying to pass it federally, but I haven't heard anything official. Is that the deal? So what you mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:24

So what's what's happened is that uh marijuana has been a Schedule I drug for a long time. Yes. Schedule one drugs are the bad stuff. Marijuana, PCP, opiates, cocaine. Okay. Okay, those are all really bad illegal drugs. Yes. So what the um Yeah, it's an is that an opiate? It's not an opiate. Is that what am I too far away?

SPEAKER_05 1:51

You are a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

I'm sorry, I'm too far away.

SPEAKER_05 1:53

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Um, so uh President Trump has asked that it be rescheduled to Schedule Three. And that's like tobacco? No, it's other other um drugs that are considered not as harmful, but it also opens it up to more medical research. Ah, okay. Now, there's some controversy over this as far as truck drivers are concerned. Yeah. Right. The people some people are saying that as a schedule three, the FC FMCSA requires all Schedule I drugs to be tested for. Okay. But people are saying that now it's that marijuana be a Schedule III drug, that FMCSA can no longer test for it. However, others are saying no oh nay nay, that's not true because the FMCSA guidelines specifically call out marijuana as being tested for. Okay. So people are saying, well, if the carriers are testing for Schedule 1, they're not going to test for marijuana. Others are saying nope, the FMCSA rules call out for it, but they can still test for marijuana.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

So it'd be all schedule one, comma, marijuana, when they issue a drug order, drug drug screening order?

SPEAKER_00 3:07

It'll be what the FMCSA requires. I don't know how it's gonna be a drug order. It'll be what the FMCSA requires.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

It's kind of like kind of like they test for alcohol or they can't test for alcohol. But that's not a schedule either.

What FMCSA Testing Still Requires

SPEAKER_00 3:20

It's not, but it's a test that they do. Pre-employment, they test for alcohol. Yeah. Now a random may not test for alcohol. You might get a random that's a drug test, a drug screen and alcohol, or you might get a random that's just a drug screen. Which I've actually had had both happen to me before. That's what's what's going on. Um bottom line, don't smoke weed and drive a commercial vehicle. Or a car. Or a car or a car. Don't don't yeah, there are there are no tests out there that can test to see if you were under the influence of marijuana right now, or if you smoked two weeks ago. Marijuana can't stay in your system for up to 30 days. So don't think you can go home on the weekend and get high and come back out a few days later and be okay because that it'll still tell you'll still test positive for it.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Well, I think the reason that I'm hoping they can either come up with better testing or um make this to where it's not something FMCSA tests for, is I know there's a lot of people that take C B D products. Yes. They're not getting high. They are perfectly safe to drive uh a vehicle, but there are trace amounts of THC, which can cause someone that takes C B D frequently to test positive. And um I you know, I hate that. That's it. We've actually seen it with some friends, some drivers, and things like that over the years where it's like, oh, I I know why you did this. And it's a shame because the the products are labeled as like no THC, but really they are. It's like non-alcoholic beers. If you look at the labels, a lot of them have like 0.04% or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yeah. We do that with uh Annie. We give Annie C B D because she's old, and sometimes when it's thunderstorms, she just just freaks out. So when we started doing that, we were very careful how we handled it. So we couldn't we wouldn't get it on us and have an issue. Absolutely, yeah. It actually helps her a lot.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Yeah, and THC does go through the skin, right? It breaks the uh guard barrier, whatever that is, and yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

So I do that with Don a lot, you know, whenever he freaks out with thunderstorms and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 5:33

I bought a new product uh that the vet recommended. And um Oh yeah. Oh so I've had some others that we've used and they work great, but I wanted to try this one, the vet, and I cracked that bottle open and it it just reeked in a good way, I guess, of that marijuana smell. And I'm like, oh, Annie's not gonna how really Annie's gonna eat this? Like it's it's an eyedropper. I mean, obviously you have to kind of corral her and hold her and open her mouth, and it's a force-fed kind of deal. But when it's really, you know, an hour's worth of thunderstorms, I'll give it to her. Or if we're going to the vet, or if she's getting groomed this week, uh, you know, I give it to her. That stuff stinks to eye, Heaven, and she it's it's the worst thing I've ever put in her mouth. She gags and hacks and coughs and carries on for a good 10 or 15 minutes after I've given it to her. Now, mind you, it chills her out in about 15 minutes. Yeah. It's very fast acting, but I it it's not it's not, I don't think, as pure or as good as what I had been buying before. So I'm and it was a little more on the expensive side, what the vet recommended, but um you gonna switch back? No, no. If I see a thunderstorm's rolling through and it's gonna be a 30-minute, we'll ride it out with her.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

Yeah. She's not gonna be able to do that. But we get those, but we get those.

SPEAKER_06 7:00

But we get them, you know. I could give her a dose in the morning because we're having a big one, but you're gonna have four more before the end of the night's over, you know. So it's like, well, what do you do? Do you do you just try to soothe her and pet her and or play with her to try to keep her distracted, or do you choose to dose her? And it just it doesn't drug her.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

It's not like she's she's not stoned, she's not eating brownies, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:23

You know, and chips. She's she's just it just takes the edge off.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

Gotcha.

CBD, THC Trace Risks, And Driver Safety

SPEAKER_06 7:27

So we're not walking in, there's no great drink, and she's not running into walls. She's not panting and she's not shaking, which is what uh the thunderstorms or the vet or well, you know, you bring rumours does.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

You bring up an interesting point. Like, you can't have C BD if you have a dog on the truck and you want to give your dog C BD, because I know a lot of people do it when they are like, hey, we're going on vacation, we're driving to the beach, we're gonna give the dog a little C BD oil. And this is for pets, this is not human.

SPEAKER_06 7:56

No, this is pet stuff.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

And uh and so they'll do that and chill the dog out, they'll get to the beach, they'll be fine or whatever. Well, if you're driving a truck, you can't have that in your truck. So being able to have that get changed, or if it even if it goes to a schedule three and now we can have parameters around it or something, right? Like that certainly does um I think it'd be a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 8:18

On the truck we used uh tryptophan turkey.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_06 8:24

Uh it took a while to use, it wasn't it was a treat, and you have to chew it and wait, and by then you were through the thunderstorm, and it was like, well, this was kind of a waste of time. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:37

That's a that's a math problem, right? If you're driving on I-40 and a thunderstorm is moving towards you at 30 miles an hour and you're approaching it at 65, how long will it take the dog to get comfortable going through it? Right, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:53

And it was usually the water coming up under the truck, the heavier rains. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Or then's marijuana.

SPEAKER_06 9:03

Okay. Well, I'm curious as to where it goes from here.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

I know there's a lot of people against it, and and I'm sure we have a lot of people that watch it this uh show that are also against it. Um, and you know, it's America, we're allowed to not agree on everything. I do want to see it reclassified. I know people with epilepsy have some huge uh benefits. Uh, and seizures in general have huge benefits uh from marijuana, and it's been very tricky. I used to work with a guy uh down in Louisiana when I was working in in New Orleans, and he had to move him and his whole family to another state because his daughter has seizures and uh epilepsy, and they went, tried the marijuana dosing for a week on vacation, not a single seizure the whole time. And he's like done, it's done. Like I there's no there's no debate, but the house looked for sell and left because it's like I want this, and it's not it was not at that time legal in Louisiana. Sure. So how what other benefits are we missing out on?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Sure, and rescheduling allows makes it easier to test. Thank you. That's what I wanted to hear. It makes it easier for them to be able to use it for testing medically versus a schedule one. Yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_06 10:17

Exciting times.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Yeah, it's crazy. I just think about all the you know, my parents and all the hippie vibes and stuff they have, and to think about like from there to here. How far we've come. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:27

Oh, and it was such a taboo. Wait. I mean, even when I was in high school, it was taboo.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 10:34

Well, that's only only the kids out by the big tree were doing that, along with cigarettes.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

By the big tree. No, no, no. The big tree was too public. It was behind by the dumpsters. But it was cool because you were there with a couple teachers. I went to a very liberal high school, so it's not a good thing. My favorite story from high school. Uh math teacher um was caught doing uh heroin, which I think we'd all agree is not a good one. No. Uh during school hours, uh, in the boys' bathroom, or men's bathroom, I should say, not the boys', was sent to rehab and was able to come back to work next year. I don't know any other school that would do that.

SPEAKER_06 11:12

Right.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

That's usually like a deal breaker. On property, caught using you're done. Done.

SPEAKER_06 11:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

Yep. Nope. That's the kind of school I went to. Very hippie-dippy.

SPEAKER_04 11:22

And uh well, they wanted you guys to see that you could recover if you have a problem, get help, and you can come back.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Yes. Uh what uh recovery, right? Yeah, that's fun times. Fun times. So with 2026 now here. Yes. How many times have y'all misspelled 2026?

SPEAKER_04 11:40

As 2025? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

Yeah. No. I haven't.

SPEAKER_06 11:44

I haven't. I was working on a project today and it had a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Oh yeah. And uh I think because it's so fresh. Next week it'll be all over.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Oh, next week you'll be it'll be January 13th, 2025.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

A couple a couple of years ago, I worked on my birthday, and when I was writing the date, like in an initial inspection or something, I wrote my birthday in the year of my birth, 1971. And Melissa and Mel caught it and they both just laughed. I mean, because I I did it a few different places. They they just couldn't stop laughing.

SPEAKER_06 12:20

That is funny.

Pet Anxiety, CBD Products, And Truck Policy

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Yeah. We uh I do remember that. We so like obviously right now with doing all the banking stuff and everything, I'm looking online and in one of the accounts I go and and check out, you put in by the date, and I've done multiple times where it's kicked back to me and been like, um, your current year must your your previous year our date must be before your current date or something. Yeah, yeah. Because I've flip-flopped or I've like said, oh no, I want uh December 10th, 2026, and it's like that's not possible. You can't give you that yet.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Yeah, otherwise we give you lottery numbers for that day, too. Right?

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Yeah, I was doing fuel reports and stuff too, and it was like, how can there be zero fuel report? Like, we know our trucks have gotten fuel, and it's like, oh, but I did December 26 instead of December 2025.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

So easy to make that mistake. Yeah, it's so much fun. Very easy.

SPEAKER_06 13:17

I can't believe I'm already making arrangements for Christmas. The third week of January.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:24

And I'm like, but that's just next week.

SPEAKER_03 13:27

You know what's really crazy?

SPEAKER_06 13:28

Like the fifth the teens are just next week.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

Yeah, I know. I tell you what's really crazy. January 2025 was a month ago. It feels like it. It feels like it, right? It does feel like it. I feel like 2025 went by like super fast.

SPEAKER_06 13:45

Jerry you're thinking he's like, I can see him recapping his 25.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

No, yeah, I totally agree. I think I was just sitting here thinking like it feels like it just flew.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Yeah. Flew by.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

It was plenty of entertainment throughout the year.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

I have some epic memories. Uh oh, that'd be a fun thing to talk about since we're doing it. Uh what what what from 2025 like really sticks out and you miss? Are you excited about? Are you I just had a thought.

SPEAKER_06 14:18

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

These rarely happen one second. Our friends David and Ramona that gave us the jerky and the uh cons and the almonds. I saw them today. Oh? And it completely slipped my mind to thank them in person for those items.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

I was like, I knew their faces, and I was like, I should have asked you who they were.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

It was like one of the bothers laughter. Yeah. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah, we do thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so sorry for for not thanking you in person, but we really appreciated them.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

I apologize. I was uh actually at the yard today took about what uh 130 or so. Yeah. Uh had I been there, I would have I would have actually thought to thank you.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

He says Yeah, he says, exactly. Well, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

So here's to here's to getting free stuff from them. Yeah, that's it, we sing.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

Well, it was about a year ago that this would be my first time. So it's about a year and we're gonna be able to do that. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

I remember I remember talking to you about coming on down here, and I was like, uh I was like, uh we don't celebrate staff for the anniversary, sorry.

SPEAKER_06 15:34

Uh but uh even though they're on the calendar. I know, whatever. They are, they are. Mel's is like tomorrow.

unknown 15:42

Really?

SPEAKER_06 15:43

Everybody's is on the calendar. Somebody took the time to put them on there. When's the one I didn't see mine on the calendar?

SPEAKER_03 15:48

I have no idea. Fact checker. Are fact checkers here? Fact checker, can you please double check this?

SPEAKER_06 15:54

This is go to the calendar for tomorrow or the next day. And Mel Lee's is on there.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Okay. I I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

But um not on my calendar.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

It's probably on a special top anniversary.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

It's on Melissa's Melissa's personal calendar.

SPEAKER_04 16:10

She's I must not be privy to that calendar.

SPEAKER_03 16:15

I must not either either. Well, we're all, you know.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

I do not have a recruiting does have a birthday anniversary calendar that not everybody's on.

SPEAKER_06 16:26

Well it's on the 10th, January 10th, Saturday. Nope. Mel Lee Work anniversary.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

I have nothing. Nope. Too bad it's on a Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 16:34

And it gives the date that she started. Or the year. What year? 2020.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Ooh, that was a year. That was a long year. Yes. That one did not go by fast. That one was uh uh uh memorable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

Yeah Wow, that was a lot of uh that's when I met you guys for the first time. It's in 2020.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Was it out in uh Mexico? October, yeah. Yep, I remember that. I do remember that. No, we uh well uh happy anniversary, I guess. I don't know. We don't do that. I can't tell you that. No, I take it. I rescind my happy anniversary because I'm gonna get I'm gonna get emails tomorrow. Jerry's gonna be like you never recognized my anniversary.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

February 1st. I didn't get a bonus or anything from being here for a year, so there you go.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

I got a jacket.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

See?

SPEAKER_06 17:23

You did John Don and Jerry.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

You got a Carhartt shirt, but you gotta buy it and send it to the embroiderer. Uh we're such a good uh responsible staff member. What's my anniversary date?

SPEAKER_07 17:36

I was gonna say, when is your Eric's anniversary date?

SPEAKER_06 17:39

It just came and went, I think.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

I know, I know exactly what mine is. Uh I'm curious about that. And then does it start like when we went on payroll, or does it start when we started the company?

SPEAKER_04 17:49

I don't know. What I mean, is that like when you first start dating, or then when like you have your your engagement, and then your and then your first breakup, and then you're reuniting.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

And then that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Oh, that's well, hmm. Interesting. Melissa and I celebrate two anniversaries. Oh. We celebrate uh for work anniversaries. Oh with Highfield, we celebrate when we started as contractors. Yes. And then when we started on staff. Which is funny. Which is funny because it's the same day, just exactly three years apart. Oh, nice. Yeah. Easy to remember. We do things on July 1st. We do.

SPEAKER_06 18:30

You know, we should get married on July 1st.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

We should.

SPEAKER_06 18:33

That would be fun. Then you can keep it all anniversary day.

Broader Debate: Medical Benefits And Research Access

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Yeah, when did y'all when did y'all meet? March. Well, I'm gonna screw that up. Anyway, it's a good one. No, actually, actually, no, it's not true. We met in January. The first time. Yeah. Fascinating. Did y'all go to a chicken uh restaurant? But we went on our first breakfast eating in March. We went on our first date in March. Our first meet and greet. No, our first meet and greet was in February.

SPEAKER_06 19:01

Who was the date?

SPEAKER_00 19:02

First meet and greet. I just think it like in March it was a date. I didn't know you were.

SPEAKER_07 19:07

We did breakfast and chocolates before dinner.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

Right?

unknown 19:09

Right.

SPEAKER_04 19:11

I've been doing this all wrong.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

I know, right? It makes me think of uh it makes me think of like uh when they have two dogs that are, you know, like are we gonna adopt this dog? We'll bring your dog in and we'll see and they'll have a meet and greet and see how it works.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

And apparently she liked you enough to what happens there though, that meet and greet turns into a date immediately when the dogs start to to to to um breed. To what? To breed. Yes. On that first meet and greet. It's a date.

SPEAKER_06 19:36

How many years will we be in March?

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Eight.

SPEAKER_06 19:39

I was trying to figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

I know. I know you don't know. I know.

SPEAKER_06 19:43

I was counting. We've been here three years, we're on the truck for three years, and a year, ah, I have to do all the adding. Or I have to wait for a good Facebook memory to come along. And I'm like, thank you, Facebook memory.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

You don't remember the year?

SPEAKER_06 19:59

Wow. What was that momentous for 2018? Because we came on the road on 2019.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Well, because I moved to Oregon in 2018.

SPEAKER_06 20:08

See, he remembers it more than I do.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Those uh Facebook memories, don't they get you sometimes? Sometimes. Sometimes and sometimes they get you.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

That's why I stare off Facebook so they don't get me.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Oh, every now and then I'll pull it up and it's like, oh my gosh, there's me, Eric, Jerry, and Don. And I flip right through.

SPEAKER_06 20:25

Six years ago today, somebody was chaining on Bail Pass.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Oh. Was it today? Six years ago? Jeez. It was not me, just in case y'all were curious.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

First and last time. I have thrown many, many, many bags of chains into trucks. I know you have. Yeah. I have. I have. Never opened it. As have I. Yes. Yeah. That should be a good workout. We should start a um like a workout with bags of chains. I'm afraid I'm too old for that.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Because I shouldn't be shoveling snow, apparently, at my age. No, no. That's what all the articles are saying.

SPEAKER_04 21:03

Because the cold contracts your arteries and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 21:06

Jerry, are you at that age yet? You're not there yet. He's not there yet.

SPEAKER_03 21:10

I hope not. Jerry's scared to talk. Jerry's like what is this rapid fire going on right now?

SPEAKER_06 21:19

We're gonna move now.

SPEAKER_03 21:21

Where to?

SPEAKER_06 21:22

Ooh. Uh I got applications the other day for uh the 55 and older park.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:32

Yeah, just that accepts pets and spouses younger than 55. And they have a pool. See, I did all my research.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

What city?

SPEAKER_06 21:41

Uh there, you know, down there. Miami. No, too far south.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

No, it's not. She's like, she's like, she's like Fort Lauderdale. Thank you. Not Miami. I'm thinking like Margaritaville or something. Oh we got and you got friends there already? We got friends there. I'm just kidding. His name's Jimmy, right? Jimmy Buffet? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

Are you over 55? You're not over 55. We're asking, we're asking our fact checkers.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_06 22:11

And then you guys can join us in the park.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Hey, you're trend setting.

SPEAKER_06 22:15

Maybe we should just start our own and build our own.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

I'm not going to a park.

Generational Shifts And School Stories

SPEAKER_06 22:18

I won't have to mow the lawn.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

I mean, we can go to a facility. You won't have to mow the lawn. You like me?

SPEAKER_06 22:26

I've already been thinking about trimming the tree in the backyard, but I haven't found a good day to do it.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

All I can think about is y'all probably get it at Bob's Burgers. That's all I can think about. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 22:37

Moss Burgers.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Bob's Burgers.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Television show.

SPEAKER_06 22:41

Oh. Are they 55 and older?

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Her uh mother and father go to a 55 community, and they can't understand why they're almost being asked to leave. And throughout the episode, you find out because they're all swingers. Oh. And they never could participate, but by the end of the episode, they participate. Oh, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

The the highest uh STI in the world is in the villages in Florida. Yeah, I believe it. Which is a 55 community like that. But it makes sense though. We have. They have a Costco too. Didn't the toll way pass by that?

SPEAKER_02 23:23

It does, right through it.

SPEAKER_06 23:24

We could have our own Costco if we lived in 55 and older.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

At the villages where they have the highest rating of STI in still.

SPEAKER_03 23:33

It makes sense that you think about I S T cheap Living, Costco.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

That's fine.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

I mean, there's a shot.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

There's a shot for that. Oh my goodness. Well, you probably smoke weed, and you're rid of the pain.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

That's true. Oh, bless us, bless us. We've lost the entire viewership. No one's gonna be following after this. We're gonna get letters from uh I was gonna say separatists. That's not the right word.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Even David and Ramona have tuned out at this point.

SPEAKER_06 24:05

Do you know we can get discounts at at restaurants and such now?

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 24:10

You know what? We were shopping at Home Depot. We we should have asked Home Depot for your 55 or older discount. You know what? You're not doing this 55 and over thing very good.

SPEAKER_07 24:21

You're right.

SPEAKER_04 24:22

It's a good IHOP. You get a 55 menu. At Denny's get a free cup of coffee. Applebee's has a 55 and older.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

There's no Denny's around Ohio, is there? No.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

I remember my stepdad got old enough. It was literally every time we went out to eat. That was the first thing I'd have to do. He flesh it out 55. Do you offer over 55 discount? And I used to get so embarrassed, but it was like that was his thing. Like he was proud to get that.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

Was it even if it was like 1% or 2%? I'm like Melissa did a circus asked Siri one day um what what restaurants offered a 55 an over discount. And she gave a list, and then there was a reference to a website that specialized in senior discounts. Like it did that.

SPEAKER_06 25:07

I just don't see it as a senior, which cracks me up. Okay. Timeouts. Wait, wait, wait, let me let me let me let me rephrase this. When I was young, the word senior meant a certain visual age.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 25:22

And today, for some reason, the word senior does not equate to 55 in what Vince looks like. I think or what I picture I might look like in five years.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

I'm only 45, so I'm not sure where the 55 thing is.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

So my thing is like the golden girls were in their 50s, right?

SPEAKER_06 25:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

That was our mid-50s.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Late 50s.

Calendar Flubs And Year-In-Review Setup

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Yeah, okay. So like if we dropped you buttermilk in with that crowd, you would clearly not fit in. But if we dropped Vince in, I'm right there. He's right there. They'd be like, oh yeah, I see it. Gray hair, slightly balding. You have to let your hair grow a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 25:58

No. What? No, it's already too long.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

It is too long. I'm growing a mohawk.

SPEAKER_06 26:05

I think it's a reverse mohawk, if that's what you're trying to take.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Is it a fock or uh?

SPEAKER_06 26:11

It's a whites. I think it's a horseshoe bowl thing. Horseshoe a horseshoe toilet bowl.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

Oh well, that's all we have. So thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in. Oh, best parts of 2025. Let's get to it real quick. Best parts. Everybody, just what your favorite thing of 2025 was. Mine, hands down, no questions asked.

SPEAKER_06 26:37

Go for it. You had a whole year. There was a lot of year in that year.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

It may have gone by fast, but there was a lot of year in that year. There was like 366 days.

SPEAKER_06 26:45

We did a lot of fun stuff.

SPEAKER_03 26:46

We did. I like your idea, buttermilk. We're going to do the top three things of the year, 2025. Just knock them out real quick. Yeah. So top three. I'm going to go with number three. My number three is going to be. Do you have a number three planned? I do. Okay, what's your number three?

SPEAKER_06 27:09

My number three is London and the Rum Festival.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

Oh, oh. Oh, yeah. That, okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:18

My number two?

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Nope, nope, just three. Oh, number three? Just three. Okay, number three. Who's got number three ready?

SPEAKER_06 27:22

Mine's London Rum Festival.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

I don't have mine in order.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Oh, you better hurry up and order them quickly. You gotta put them up.

SPEAKER_06 27:28

Come on, put them in the six. Tell them to chat GPT.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

I only have one so far.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

Tell me to chat GPT. You need a six disc. Is it does it have an London and a rum festival? It does. Number three for me. Bastial day in Paris. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:45

Oh man, you just took really that's number three.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

That was the see. I'm gonna put all that whole trip into one. Oh, that you meant the I thought you literally meant that day.

SPEAKER_06 27:57

Bastial day. Bastial day was pretty amazing. No, the whole day.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

And I'll go with that. I'll go with that. That was my third whole vacation.

SPEAKER_06 28:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

I mean, there's too many highlights from that trip. There were that were when Eric ran and left us. Yeah. That was that was a good reason. For good reason. Yeah. I grabbed that one extra show. That one extra show. Getting that coffee cup. Yeah, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_06 28:21

That's my number three.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Okay. The post office? I'll share your number three then. Can I share your three?

SPEAKER_06 28:26

Your post office?

SPEAKER_03 28:27

The post office. The supplies post office.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

Trip trip. Anyone else have someone? What's your number three? What's your number three? My number three would be uh yeah, going to Kings Island with Halloween. Really, it's that low.

unknown 28:41

Hey!

SPEAKER_06 28:42

It's the top three.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

My number three is coming here to work with you guys. Eric, what's yours?

SPEAKER_06 28:50

Number three.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

I have one and two. I don't know if I have a three yet. Well, you're the last one, so what's your three? Oh, what's your three?

SPEAKER_06 28:58

You only had a one.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

I only have a one.

SPEAKER_06 29:01

Which is London.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 29:02

So go the other way.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

I think I think maybe number three was going to Oregon for uh your 50th birthday. I mean, your special birthday.

SPEAKER_06 29:10

My 50th, that's my number one. That was really good. So that's my number one. Turning 50. Making my tutu, all the gold and glitter, the location, location, location. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

Location. Going up to the crater lake. So that's my number. Going up to Crater Lake, which hasn't had snow yet this season. And being there, and being there in the middle of a blizzard. Yeah. Yeah. Picking the one, the worst day apparently of the entire year to be there. Yeah, that didn't make my number top three. The drive up there was beautiful. Tell white out.

SPEAKER_06 29:44

You? We're at number two. Vince skipped. So I had to skip. Make that my one. So I had to come back to the two.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

Number two would probably be my camping weekend. You had a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_06 29:55

S'mors.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 29:57

Oh, you did fancy.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 30:00

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 30:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 30:01

Jerry, you have a number two?

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Spending the week with uh my best friend down in Savannah.

SPEAKER_06 30:09

Nice. That's a good memory.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

That's a great memory.

SPEAKER_06 30:12

You had shenanigans.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

And we all have the memory with you because you posted so much on Facebook. That was nice.

SPEAKER_06 30:16

I know. That was nice. What's yours? Number two.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Surprise medical delivery in Key West.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

That was in 25.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

That was not in 25, but I'll take it.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

I'll take it!

SPEAKER_03 30:28

I'll take it.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

I'll take it. It didn't feel like that long ago.

SPEAKER_06 30:32

Was it longer than 2025?

SPEAKER_00 30:33

It was, because yeah, it was longer than 2025. It was 2024. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 30:39

I think it was just before Heather came on board.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

It was. Yeah. That was 1930. Yeah, it used to be extra credit. Extra credit. Come with a new number two. Well, I tell you, uh, I'm gonna wax poetically about my number two.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

All right, wax poetically.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

I haven't picked one yet.

SPEAKER_06 30:55

Um you're thinking of all your memories.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Boy, it's a lot of year. When you really get into it, even though it's a lot of year. You know, I mean, like, do we talk about Bourbon Festival with Kelly and Jimmy?

SPEAKER_06 31:05

Nope. That didn't make it because it was good, but it wasn't part of my top three.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

Well, he said, Do we talk about it?

SPEAKER_06 31:12

Maybe it was his top three. Oh, yeah, could have been.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

Yeah. I mean, do we talk about uh having a blast with uh zucchini bread really last month at my house? Yeah, freaking black got snowed in. She was here for three days, yeah. Uh completely snowed in, like just we had a that was a good time. Yeah. That was a good time.

unknown 31:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Well, it was for some of us.

SPEAKER_03 31:35

Did we talk about do we talk about air cover?

SPEAKER_00 31:37

I mean, we weren't here. Yeah. But that was a good time. Yeah. Well, you know.

SPEAKER_04 31:42

But I wasn't there.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

When the cat's away. Well, you know, I mean I know.

SPEAKER_04 31:48

I understand.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

That was a good time. A good time too. It was a good time when um what do they call it? They don't call it the World's Fair anymore. Expo. Expo. That was a good time. That was another one. It was a great time, yeah. Oh, because we were gone? Yeah. Exactly. Because I I could get my work done without Eric constantly on the phone bothering me.

SPEAKER_03 32:12

He does that. I know there's been so many, I don't even know what to think. Uh going, I mean, uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

The um Most of mine are extended events. They're not just something happened that day.

SPEAKER_06 32:28

Sure. Like London. Well, the whole of the whole London encompassing overseas trip for us with my my number three.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Not not to say that it couldn't have been a close number one, but turning 50, the 2-2, last of the I I think a memory for me, maybe not the best memory of the year, was spending the night in Detroit airport. Oh yes.

SPEAKER_06 32:52

All alone.

SPEAKER_00 32:53

Oh yes. No, I was I have there with thousands of people. Who also were strained. Who also were straining the night in the airport.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we're talking like crappy moments, no, we're doing good.

SPEAKER_06 33:04

We're doing good moments.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

I'm thinking of like we did the Sesame Challenge with Eric. Yeah. And he had to he was force-fed. Um delicious hummus. Delicious hummus.

SPEAKER_04 33:15

You enjoyed it while you could. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

And then once he went anaphylactic, they had to stab him. And that was it sucked to see because you're like, you don't want to see someone have to do that. Right. Right. But the other thing is when I've had to epi him the one other time, perfect epi. It was beautiful. The doctors are so impressed. They were like, we've never seen someone epi as good as you. And I'm like, well, it's what I do. And uh professional and this guy, and this guy is a nurse, professional nurse. Not a not he's not a teaching hospital. This guy, like, he's a nurse. Nurses is stabs. Nurses is his stabs him, and there's blood everywhere. And it's like I could have done myself. Right.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

Nurse practitioner.

SPEAKER_03 33:57

So that uh that's a that's 2025 was just a good year.

SPEAKER_06 34:02

Uh minus three months for me.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Yeah, the last three months were pretty bad. Yeah. Except for last month, right, a little trip.

SPEAKER_06 34:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

But yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:14

Oh, and the birthday.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

And the birthday. They filmed the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_06 34:17

So three months worth of hit and miss kind of crap. Yeah, I get that. You know, I mean, if we're gonna throw in a bad one, you know, breast cancer will do that to you.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

It will.

SPEAKER_06 34:26

So it will. But here we are.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

You know what else will do it?

SPEAKER_06 34:29

2026.

SPEAKER_03 34:30

Two weeks off.

SPEAKER_06 34:33

You had two weeks off?

SPEAKER_03 34:34

No, Jerry did.

SPEAKER_06 34:36

Jerry had two weeks off?

SPEAKER_03 34:37

Yep. In April.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

I did not have off. Uh-uh. Pump the brakes. I was on jury duty people. I was doing my civic duty.

SPEAKER_06 34:48

There you go. You had a good time doing that, though.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

I did enjoy it. Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_06 34:53

But that probably wouldn't make a top three?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

No, I mean it was interesting, but. Top five? No.

SPEAKER_06 35:00

No.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

I live a boring life, people.

SPEAKER_06 35:02

That could have been exciting, though. It was okay, but you got to tour the jail, you got to eat the food.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

It was not good. It falls into the bad memories.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

That's that's that's that was uh Superman. Yeah. Superman's gotta be your number one.

unknown 35:19

Superman.

SPEAKER_06 35:20

Is that number one?

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Oh my god. I was thinking my mom seeing her, but definitely in the back. Superman just bump mom.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

Superman just bumped mom right off that pedestal.

unknown 35:32

Shh.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

It's okay because Superman's gonna fly down and rescue her, but he's gonna have his moment on the pedestal for a second.

unknown 35:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:39

Yeah. Oh, they can be tied.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

I don't believe in ties. Um you've seen me in a button up. Never a tie. Yeah, never a tie here either. No more. No moss. How about growing them? I think my number two is gonna be going to Japan.

SPEAKER_06 35:55

Yeah, that seems about right.

SPEAKER_03 35:58

That was a month-long trip in Japan. It was pretty epic. Went to World's Fair. We did like one or two episodes on it here, so y'all heard already heard all about it. But that uh that was a great trip. I know the first part of Japan was very disappointing. We did have we had some some some some roughness there. But I mean I do love a really long flight, and that was a really long flight over there. And just the culture was unique. Uh I really enjoyed a lot of that trip. There were some bad moments in it, um, but the majority of it was great. And so that's it is my number two.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Is that the second drone show we've seen live? Third. One was in Cincinnati. Yes, one was in Japan. One was in Dubai.

SPEAKER_06 36:48

Oh, then you've seen a four.

SPEAKER_03 36:50

And we've seen yeah, we saw the one up in Cleveland.

SPEAKER_06 36:53

Cleveland and France.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

Cleveland. Cincinnati. Didn't they go? Cincinnati. Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_06 36:58

Cleveland. Cleveland. Uh with Panther. Cleveland.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

A drone show? No, we didn't run at Cleveland with y'all. Y'all replaced us one time. No, we went to the baseball game. In Cleveland. Not with us.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

And they had a drone show. They had a drone show? I don't recall the drone show in Cleveland. I remember fireworks.

SPEAKER_06 37:13

And drones.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

At the baseball game? Yes. In Cleveland.

SPEAKER_06 37:17

You have it on Record. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

I do?

unknown 37:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:22

We'll have to revisit it when we're done.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

I'm going to need you to uh pull up that episode.

SPEAKER_06 37:25

We'll need you to fact check that on our phones after the episode, Mr. Fact Checker. Dawn's in the house.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

So I guess we've seen several uh uh fireworks uh drug shows now.

SPEAKER_06 37:36

Yes, definitely the one with still day was good.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

And they are getting bigger and more impressive every time. You have no idea.

SPEAKER_06 37:44

Except for the one off the Eiffel Tower, we weren't sitting at the correct location.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

So you couldn't quite see the one in Dubai was crazy because it was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that. I was like, are they real like really?

SPEAKER_05 37:58

Yeah.

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SPEAKER_03 37:59

And then I was like, these people and uh have way too much money. And um and I didn't realize it was the start of like an industry. I thought it was like a one-off random thing.

SPEAKER_06 38:11

Oh, that they just have too much money and they're gonna do drones.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:14

I get it. I see somebody's fact checking. Uh which you you said you're number two already?

SPEAKER_03 38:20

He said you're number one. What's your number two?

SPEAKER_06 38:24

Gotta find something in between. What's your number one over there?

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:32

You had a good time. You got to ring the two eight.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

Yeah, explore everything. Yeah, get to ring the rocks. Got to check out just nature. I just enjoy being out in nature.

unknown 38:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

Montana's beautiful. Montana's beautiful. Big sky country. The other half.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

You know.

SPEAKER_06 38:56

What's your number? Well, you're number one Superman. Did you have a number one?

SPEAKER_00 39:01

My number one, I think, was uh London. I can see that. It's a good time.

SPEAKER_06 39:07

You really enjoyed the rum fest.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

I enjoyed the rum fest.

SPEAKER_06 39:09

Did you have a number three then?

SPEAKER_00 39:10

Maybe number three would be um the uh rum tasting here locally at uh AD West.

SPEAKER_06 39:18

Wow, that's uh yeah, something simple simple. Wasn't really simple, but it was.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Okay. Like it wasn't it was I mean it kind of tied into Rumfest. Yeah, you know?

SPEAKER_06 39:31

That was that was a good time. Something local and good.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

Cool. Uh my my number one is local.

SPEAKER_06 39:37

What is yours?

SPEAKER_03 39:38

I got my pilot's license.

SPEAKER_06 39:40

Nice. Wow. That's definitely a highlight.

SPEAKER_03 39:44

Yeah, getting that check ride done and having that little piece of plastic from the FAA uh just meant a lot.

SPEAKER_06 39:52

Yeah. Cool hard work.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:54

Pays off.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

And you get to see really how anybody can do it. And it's scary. Really? No, I'm kidding. Uh it's it was it was brutal. Oh man, there were so many times I didn't think it was gonna happen. It finally got it finally happened.

SPEAKER_06 40:08

He did a lot of studying too.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

Ugh. He's still doing a lot of studying. Yeah. Yeah. I had a friend of mine when I got the pilot's license, he said, Congratulations, you now have a uh license to continue learning for the rest of your life. And I I see he wasn't kidding. It's just constant re-education.

SPEAKER_06 40:26

But anyways, if you want to be safe in the sky.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

Yes. Which I would recommend you do, because not being safe in the sky is uh dangerous.

SPEAKER_04 40:35

There's no plane stops in in the sky. You can't like something goes wrong, you can't just pull over on a cloud and look out and see what's going on. You know?

SPEAKER_02 40:45

Yeah. No rest areas.

SPEAKER_04 40:47

No rest areas. So wind you up there, you gotta figure it out or come back down.

SPEAKER_07 40:56

It's so illegal. It's so illegal.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Hope for the best.

SPEAKER_06 41:00

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_03 41:02

Oh well, uh what a great 2025.

SPEAKER_06 41:05

Yes, great memories.

SPEAKER_03 41:06

And I've got some great things lined up for 2026. I know with all of you, we got some things coming up for 2026 that'll be pretty epic. Got some pretty exciting stuff. Uh at the end of the year, we were just talking about looking for flights and when we're gonna start doing that. Um we got some more King's Island, Cedar Point, Carolina. Carowins. Carowins. Yeah. Carowins. Okay. Uh in Carolinas?

SPEAKER_06 41:33

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

It's in literally in Carolinas.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

It's in both area, yeah. Yeah, we spent the night there, a couple nights there. At the theme park?

SPEAKER_06 41:40

In their parking lot?

SPEAKER_00 41:41

In the parking lot of the Bass Row Shop. Oh. Cool.

SPEAKER_06 41:45

Boy, we had barely we were newbies.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Oh, we were brand new.

SPEAKER_06 41:48

We were green. It was probably under 30 days.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

Oh, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_06 41:53

It was that that long ago that we stayed the night there.

unknown 41:55

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 41:56

Right next to our mentors.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

So, like you're coming up on your anniversary of it. Exactly. Uh no, we uh yeah, I we got uh I know we'll be jumping across the seas with y'all. Uh and I know we'll be jumping across the seas with y'all. Different C's, though.

SPEAKER_06 42:15

Vitamin C.

SPEAKER_03 42:17

Yep. I'm looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_06 42:21

It's gonna be a good year.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

Is it?

SPEAKER_06 42:24

I have to think so. It's gotta be better than that. It's gotta be better. The last three months of 2025 for me.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

We have some predictions about when the market's gonna go back up. We do know if we're saying anything. I don't think we should.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

Oh. So circumstantial.

SPEAKER_06 42:37

I think we should do the roulette wheel and put everything on red.

SPEAKER_03 42:41

I think price is right. We get the big wheel in here. Yeah. And we'll just see if we can find sound like I was joking.

SPEAKER_06 42:48

See if we can find uh I think you should have January through December on that and just wheeler on around.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

And then we just and then we just sky jump to that.

SPEAKER_06 42:55

We could do the some do you have the game of life? It's got numbers one through twelve. Yeah, the brrrr. It's got numbers one through twelve. That could be your months. We could just spin the game of life, and whatever number comes up, that's the month when everything's gonna change.

SPEAKER_03 43:10

That's a good idea, but I prefer a little more accuracy, something in a Ouija board. Excellent point.

SPEAKER_06 43:17

Well, just in case you're wondering, Target has your Ouija board and your life game on sale. Um buy one, get one 50% off. Well, so you can get both of them. Can I get magic? Your prediction could be predicted.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Can I get my magic eight ball? Because I think if if it's a trifecta, right, if all three line up, that means it's gonna happen, right?

SPEAKER_04 43:37

I've got a magic eight ball. I can bring that over so you don't have to buy one.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

Oh, do you like the real good ones or the the new ones?

SPEAKER_04 43:43

Like the original?

SPEAKER_03 43:44

Oh, the new ones are terrible. Have you seen them lately?

SPEAKER_06 43:47

Well, they they like hit on the same thing almost every time.

Drone Shows, Nature Trips, And Big Memories

SPEAKER_03 43:49

And they're like plastic with a big seam, and they're like, it's just it's not like the old ones. The old ones you could badger someone to death with it. These new ones break if you drop on the floor and they make a mess.

SPEAKER_04 44:01

I don't know that I'd want to hit anybody with it. That could cause bad karma.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

Probably magic keyboard. Then you're like, Will I go to jail? You shake it up and look.

SPEAKER_06 44:16

Right? Most likely. Most likely. Oh, that's unfortunate. I'll have to fact check too. Well, I hope everybody's 2026 is off to a good start.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 44:34

Profitable, adventuresome, sightseeing.

SPEAKER_03 44:40

Yep. I'm I'm hoping for exactly what you just said. Profitable, prosperous, healthy.

SPEAKER_06 44:49

Spring around the corner quicker than we think.

SPEAKER_03 44:51

Spring around the corner a little quicker than we think, but the rest of the year can go a little slower. I don't want I don't want 2020 slow.

SPEAKER_00 44:57

Well, it's gonna be 61 degrees here on Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 45:00

Yeah, but then it's gonna plummet.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

Well, also if you can just stay there for a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 45:04

It's not going to.

unknown 45:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:05

Unless the groundhog does or doesn't see. I don't really think whatever the groundhog does or doesn't do, I'd like it if he just says warm weather.

SPEAKER_03 45:15

I don't think he talks.

SPEAKER_06 45:17

Well, you know.

SPEAKER_03 45:19

Well, AI. That's true. Hey, chat GPT, what would the uh groundhog what does the groundhog say? Wait, isn't that a song? What does the song? When does time change?

SPEAKER_06 45:29

What does uh say, yeah. Anybody know when time changes?

SPEAKER_00 45:34

March something or other.

SPEAKER_06 45:38

It's not. Remember, next week is the teens already of January. I know. March 8th.

SPEAKER_03 45:43

I know.

SPEAKER_06 45:44

Oh, that'll oh it'll be here before y'all know it.

SPEAKER_03 45:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:47

There's no reason to rush it.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

There's not. There's not. And then Eric and I have another long trip planned for this year. We'll be we'll talk about it a little later.

SPEAKER_06 45:57

I'm ready to rush it.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

I like to move it, move it.

SPEAKER_06 46:01

I need more daylight in my day. I do too. Well, then we need to rush up to March 8th.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

And then we can slow time change doesn't make more time more light in your day.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

It puts it where you need it.

SPEAKER_06 46:13

Oh, I like that. Puts it where you need it. I need it in the evening.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 46:20

I need it in the evening.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

Although I I'm not gonna lie, the first time it like when time change happened this past time, and we sat down and we had dinner, and then we go and we sit down on the couch and turn the TV on, and it's like alright, because I got kind of used to like we only have an hour and a half, two hours maybe to watch something, and it was like, oh, we have like five hours we could watch stuff. It's like a whole day got shifted up so far. But uh yeah, I I could I could definitely the sun going down at like what is it right now, five? Five fifteen? Five thirty.

SPEAKER_06 46:51

It looked like today I was doing a video for the grandson, and I was like, it's dark outside and it's four o'clock.

SPEAKER_03 46:58

It was dark outside today at noon.

SPEAKER_06 47:00

I know, it just was awful. I'm like I'm ready for sun to be at least seven p.m. I'll take eight, nine, but seven's a good I'll be happy with seven.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

This whole weather is so strange. I was out flying uh the other day. By the other day, of course, I mean like a month ago. And it was one of those days where it was like nine degrees outside. Remember that?

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

And uh sunshine is beautiful. Today it's like in the 50s and windy as all get out and nasty and rainy and misty. It's like I need I need the sun and the temperature to get on the same page.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:41

You know?

SPEAKER_00 47:41

That's one of the frustrating things about our new facility is that yard is gravel and mud. And when it rains or snows this time of year, it ain't going dry. No.

SPEAKER_03 47:54

It's gonna be just gravel and mud for we probably need to get some more rock in around that area. Like right up next to the building. Yeah. Let's talk to our landlord about that. So I gotta do something new today that I don't normally do, you know, work. And uh so now I went down the yard today and helped out, and the first thing he does is like, hey, take this keys and go start an initial inspection on this truck. And I'm like, all right, cool, I'll go. I get over there. There is a nine-foot long, two and a half foot wide, four-inch deep puddle of water.

SPEAKER_07 48:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:28

Right at the place that I've got to walk back and forth 47 times.

SPEAKER_04 48:32

That's how you kept going back and forth.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Like well, and he did he did give me the heads up. He was like, hey, I know you're halfway here, but be sure to throw on your boots and not tennis shoes.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

Well, you didn't respond to my message letting you know I could I could use your assistance. I didn't know if you left or not. That's true. So I figured I'd throw off the warning, hey, make sure you wear your boots.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Yeah, no, I guess. Did you? I did. I got to test out my brand new Red Wing boots.

SPEAKER_06 48:56

They work well. They work great. In a mud puddle?

SPEAKER_03 48:58

In a mud puddle, they work great. I you know, so I don't understand this. Red Wing, we all agree, premium boot, right? A horrible insole. I mean the insole of like, you know, like that really thin piece of foam that they'll like wrap up a plate in?

SPEAKER_05 49:13

Yes.

Looking Ahead: 2026 Trips And Market Hopes

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Yeah. That. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, this is not gonna do, but the rest of the shoe fits great. So I put my bought my normal insoles and I've replaced them. I put my foot back in there. That's one of the ones uh where it like has a zipper on the side of the boot. Yeah. It's still laces, but you can tie it once and then use that. I zipped that thing up. I did not take into account how much thicker the uh insole was, and immediately my immediately my foot was like, nah! I was like, oh no, this will not do. So I unzipped it, untied it, loosened everything up, and then re-redid it. Uh but I wore those today, got them dirty finally for the first time, and uh great, not a single drop of water. My feet stayed dry. Nice. Um with the insoles, they're very comfortable. So good. I'm uh I'm glad you're gonna do it. So you work today. So I worked today, climbed in trucks, did all that stuff. If there's two trucks that if you get and they miss something on the initial, your phone? It wasn't one of the ones I did.

SPEAKER_06 50:10

Well, I know it's always true.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

That's what I tell teams all the time. If you know we do our best to try and find all the issues in these trucks, and if you get in the truck and find a problem, it's usually Heather's fault.

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 50:20

I agree. Yeah. Well, she's in the truck after the initial. Well, she's the new girl. Of course. So it's always a new person's fault. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 50:28

I have found issues, though.

SPEAKER_00 50:30

Well, have you fixed them?

SPEAKER_04 50:32

Well, they're not always something I am able to fix, as I've not been trained to uh pretty sure I've brought them to people's attention.

SPEAKER_00 50:41

I haven't been trained.

SPEAKER_04 50:43

I have not been trained in mechanical uh repair.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

Have you asked for that training?

SPEAKER_04 50:50

Well, I'll talk with Jared tomorrow. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

Oh, my little my little trick, my little my little trick didn't work today. I was like, hey Vince, uh, have you made the because uh we have a um uh uh uh software that we use for all of our inspections, right? Because when it's multi-point wearing line, it's it's what eight categories, and each category has 300.

SPEAKER_06 51:11

360 points. There's a lot of inspection. It's a lot inspection.

SPEAKER_03 51:14

It's a lot of inspection. Yeah, and uh I was like, hey, have y'all made a new card for this truck? He's like, no. I was like, oh, I've never done it. Can you mind throwing it up there? And he's like, Oh, you want me to show you how to do it? And I was like, dang it.

SPEAKER_00 51:29

How easy it is. It's like, oh, oh, it takes 12 seconds, I have no clue.

SPEAKER_03 51:34

I thought it was uh complicated. You gotta open up Excel, import it into Smartsheet, then you gotta downgrade it to the trip.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Way back when it's been added to it. It does need to be adjusted.

SPEAKER_06 51:47

Oh, I'm sure. Is the review mirror still on there? Yep. I love it. I put missing every time. Do you really? Yep.

SPEAKER_03 51:55

Uh the one of the trucks I did today had uh a category for box. I failed everything on it.

SPEAKER_06 52:02

Had a category for box? Yeah, like you know for the box.

SPEAKER_03 52:05

Yeah, and I had to fail everything in it.

SPEAKER_00 52:08

It was frustrating that it all failed. How was the rest of the tractor?

SPEAKER_03 52:12

Oh, it was good. It was beautiful. Nice show. Actually, I'll say I'll say this. The two trucks I did work on um were brought back in really clean, really nice condition. They really were. So it was actually quite fun. When it when you're not digging through a pile of junk to find stuff, it's a lot more enjoyable to do an inspection. So yeah, it was kind of cool. And then cra climbing on the tractor on the catwalk, because we had to change a couple things. Panthers changed some of their um equipment requirements for tractors. So we had to go through and make those changes and everything. It's like, yeah, it was kind of fun. Fun. I just don't I don't get to do it very often anymore. I'm always either in class or uh here doing office work or traveling.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

Or traveling. Or traveling.

SPEAKER_06 52:57

Well, I don't always appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 52:59

But both of those trucks did come back very clean. Um usually when you finish with going through the the sleeper, you found some trash. Because the cabinets are high. Like I'll usually climb up on the on the bench to look into this on the high cabinets. Even me, I'm 6'1, you know, just to s to find and even people and so people that are moving out, they they miss things. Yeah. Uh usually there's some trash, and we usually put the trash on the passenger side floor if it's not a whole lot. Otherwise, we gotta have a bag and and fill it up. Um neither one of these trucks had any trash. They were both cleaned out and also cleaned, physically wiped down in really good shape. So very easy. No, we'll still we'll still go through and make sure. Of course. We have to sanitize, we hit every little corner, all that good stuff.

SPEAKER_04 53:45

But we still say thank you.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

We do say thank you. We really do. It's much easier to detail a clean truck than it is to have to clean a truck and then detail it. Yeah, yeah. So that was kind of fun. Got to draw a couple trucks around the yard.

Yard Talk: Mud, Boots, And Truck Inspections

SPEAKER_06 53:57

Nice. The landlord company in your driver's lounge.

SPEAKER_00 54:02

Oh we did have a team, Ramona and David.

SPEAKER_06 54:05

And and what do they think about it?

SPEAKER_00 54:07

Uh they they said they like it. They like the idea that you know of having somewhere. Did they like the TV placement? The TV placement was it was a little too high for them. Okay. Um I did talk to a guy today about him and um his his teammate coming down and working on getting that TV installed, getting the driver's lounge arranged, because it's it's it's been sitting there for a few weeks now. Uh and I talked to a guy today about getting that thing installed.

SPEAKER_03 54:33

So is it a person I know?

SPEAKER_00 54:35

Yes. Out of a place you're thinking of? Out of a place you're thinking of. I don't know the place you're thinking of, but you do know the person very well. Like very well. Yeah. Oh, yeah, very well. Okay. Yeah. I mean, at least you think you know them very well. Maybe you don't know him as well as you see.

SPEAKER_04 54:50

I think he volunteered. So you think they were serious?

SPEAKER_00 54:53

Well, I mean, no. No, because but I think that they'll get taken care of. Yeah, they will be.

SPEAKER_06 54:59

Jerry, you have Wi-Fi down there?

SPEAKER_00 55:00

Oh yeah. Yeah, we got Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_06 55:02

Oh, that's right. I asked you for the code.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

And once that TV's up, I'll have TV.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Yeah. And then nothing will get done. Nothing will get done.

SPEAKER_06 55:10

You need a water bottle.

SPEAKER_00 55:12

We do need a water bottle. I'll get that taken care of. I'll get that taken care of soon.

SPEAKER_04 55:15

Oh, I thought you meant like speed.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

I was just thinking about it. Get back to work.

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Um I knew what you meant by the water bottle thing, but I was just when you said it like that, I was thinking like a little like uh half-liter bottle of water with the hose coming down and screwed into it, and it's just sitting right there underneath it. Yeah. Uh anyways. All right. Well, we have uh dragged this on long enough. Yeah. I know it's been happy 2026. Yes, it's been a fun time getting together. All of us haven't really seen each other in a while. So it has been a while. Yeah. We hope to be back reporting the news and what's going on soon. And uh until next time, what are we forgetting, Jerry?

SPEAKER_01 55:56

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SPEAKER_06 56:41

Absolutely. Facebook, Instagram. I I reply to those as quick as they come in. Uh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm out there.

SPEAKER_03 56:50

Are we on the are we are we on blue sky yet?

SPEAKER_06 56:53

What's blue sky?

SPEAKER_03 56:54

I don't know. I just hear people talk about it. No. Not really. No.

SPEAKER_06 56:58

We're good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:59

Facebook.

SPEAKER_06 56:59

My space? No.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

MySpace. We're on Friendster. MySpace? I was on my Friendster account today and I saw what we're on Friendster. I fill trucking.

SPEAKER_03 57:09

What about LinkedIn? Do we respond to LinkedIn?

SPEAKER_06 57:11

I do if somebody says something.

SPEAKER_03 57:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 57:13

Threads. I'm not sure how it works, but I've got an account open.

SPEAKER_03 57:16

I think threads is just Instagram. They just it's like a spin-off of Instagram.

SPEAKER_06 57:22

It's identical.

SPEAKER_01 57:23

Conda. I saw that I do have an account on there. I basically read and just scroll through. I don't ever post anything much.

SPEAKER_06 57:31

I don't understand. I only have one for Ifield. I don't have one for most Cheshire.

SPEAKER_03 57:35

So I just know that what I post on my Instagram goes onto my Facebook and goes onto my threads. And I'm like, what's the point of having three? I don't get it.

SPEAKER_06 57:43

Yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

It's too much. It's gotten ridiculous.

SPEAKER_06 57:47

The sponsored ads are on threads, but nobody's commented. Like I guess if somebody comments on threads, then I'll know. But I don't know. We're approved for three.

SPEAKER_03 57:58

You can find us highfield truck ends. Soon to be on yarn and rope. So uh and if you need if you need to, we're on uh words with friends. Uh you can find us on there as well. That's funny. Oh no, it's just insane. Uh we thank you so much for hanging out with us through all this time. Thank you for uh hanging out with us tonight uh or today, whenever you're listening to this uh show. And um until we meet again, y'all stay safe, make good decisions. Don't leave money on the table and keep those wells attorney.

SPEAKER_07 58:33

Bye.