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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was reading a story and it reminded me of
a real life event Macaulay Culkin. Did you see where
he's engaged? That alone makes you just go, oh my gosh.
You know, Kevin's getting married, but he didn't know how
to do laundry. His his fiance is that he'd never
done laundry in his life. You know, he always had
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somebody doing it for him.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know that doesn't surse me one bit.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And I knew a guy and I repeat stories all time,
so that's you know, you may I may have told
this one. I don't know. Uh, this guy knew he
built race cars out in Odessa, and this really really
rich guy came to him and said, I want you
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to build me a race car, and he said we
kind of became friends. But this guy was his parents
his parents were on the Forbes list.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh, this is the ideal scenario.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Check.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He was so rich and he and then he was
like fourth or fifth generation of oil and gas, you know,
out of Midlands. And so they went hunting up in
New Mexico and he said, we became friends. And he said, uh,
we wanted to go hunting. And we went a hunt
on a hunt up in New Mexico, out in the country,
and he said, we ran out of food and we
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went down to this grocery store. And the guy had
never been in a grocery store and didn't know how
it worked.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, I can see how that might be a shocking scenario.
You're just walking like wait, wait, wait, so I can
just choose any of this.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
That's exactly what he said. He's like talking to somebody
from Mars, he said. The guy. They're walking in the aisle.
He goes, he goes, get this buggy and you put
the groceries in. He goes, Man, this is really convenient,
isn't it. I mean, this is this is really helpful.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That's right there in the name.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You just pick what you want, put it in there,
and you go up there. And he goes, Now we
go up here and we pay for it. He goes, yeah,
he didn't. He didn't. He had never been in the
grocery store. And this was like a man in his thirties.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, and this is where I always go back to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I wouldn't mind having a little bit more money, but
I can't imagine being raised with that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Kind of money. I mean, you had experience.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, he had a huge mansion. You know, he grew
up in a huge mansion with servants and cooks and stuff,
and so, you know, like right out of TV. He
didn't never he'd never done anything. He's richie rich, you know,
speaking to mcaulay culkins. So that was that was ironic.
He was like that, but it was it was so bizarre.
And so he said, well, what what what kind of
race car do you want? And he had seen a
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picture of this Thunderbird race car that Ford raced and
the guy named Bob Glidden raced this car. Ford owned
the car. Uh you know, I mean it was professional operation.
And he said, well, this is what I want right here,
And he goes, you think this guy would sell us
this car? And he goes, well, no, man, that guy's
that guy. As as a matter of fact, he's aid Indianapolis Racing.
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That is a drag car where he's racing this weekend.
And he goes, well, let's go, and so he goes, no, okay,
let's go. You know, he's got I ain't gonna turn
down a trip. So that they go and get on
a helicopter. A helicopter lands near wherever they were, and
that flew them over to where his jet was and
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they got on the jet and flew to Indianapolis. He
said like, I'm standing in Odessa. And then three hours later,
I'm in Indianapolis, you know, a guy picking us up
at the at the private airport, and he goes, then
we drive over to the dragstrip and we're walking through
there and this guy's with me, and they come up.
Sure enough, here's that car in the picture, and they're
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working on it in the pits. You know. It was
Bob Glydden and his wife and son. They're both his
pit crew, you know, and he says, well, this is
what I want. He goes, hey, buddy, do you want
to sell this car to Bob Glenn and Glynn just
kind of glances up at him like yeah, and then
Glynn actually said in According to my buddy, Glinton went, son,
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not only you can afford this car, And he thought
to himself, you know you could, he really could. This
guy could buy this car. And he said, well, this
car blows forward. They don't. I don't think they want
to sell it. It's their factory race car. He goes, well,
I sure I could buy it, you know, and and
and he said. So the guy stood up kind of
as a courtesy, got to talk to him, thinking he
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was crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Anyway, they got back on the jet and went home
and he built him one that his that his kid.
He wanted it for his son, all right. So his
son drove it to Midland I don't remember his Midland
Lee or Midland High, whichever the rich one was. He
drove that car, that dragcar, just like the drag car
over to the high school. And he would go into
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high school and a guard would stand in the parking
lot and guard this car the whole time this kid
was in school. I'm not making up a word of this.
This is totally true story. It was like one hundred
thousand dollars. And this was forty something years ago, so
that was like one hundred thousand dollars car out in
the parking lot with a security guard just sitting there
in a chair by watching this, watching this race car.
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So nobody messed with it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's what every sixteen year old needs, is a car
requires a personal security guard as it sits in the
student parking lot.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I mean, I can't even fathom that kind of money.
I don't. I don't. You know, there was some rags
richest stories out there. I had another buddy of mine
that drove an ice cream truck. Okay, he was an
ice cream truck guy, you know, and uh, I mean
he would make it. Okay, he wasn't getting rich. Uh,
but his brother did the old uh he did the
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uh basically, I think it's kind of like Wasney academic.
He uh he you know, he walked into an all
company deal over there and he said, I know his brother,
now I did this. He said, I noticed that you're
building these rigs and then you got these guys trying
to paint them and they're not they're really not doing
that good a job. And he said, I have a
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painting company, and I'll paint these rigs for you. And
this is during the oil boom in the late seventies
and he said, I'll come in, I'll paint these rigs,
and you don't got to have your guys. They can
be welders, fabricators, but my guys are nothing but paint.
And they said, yeah, that would be a lot better.
And so they sign a deal and this he went
from driving an ice cream truck to joining his brother.
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Had three hundred employees after like six months, and he
moved over to the richest part Odessa. Had the nicest
house you ever saw in your life. And he's still alive.
I talked to him as on Facebook about six months ago.
He's in his eighties now, but he was you know,
it was just amazing that he went from that to
ha it and he had a nice race car too,
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you know, but a nice house. But he literally went
from driving ice cream truck to be in a multi
millionaire because of his brother.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You know, yeah, at least that one though, at least
he was you know, he found a niche market, you know,
was able. You know, there's some at least uh, you know,
some at least work that went into getting I mean,
the I still can't get over if you had given
me one hundred thousand dollars drag car to drive to
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school the high school. I wouldn't have graduated because I
wouldn't have survived.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'd have been dead in the week. Yeah, I mean,
it's there's a reason guys like me and Puoma didn't
never get money because absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
My only other oil field story like that during that boom,
and I know a lot of them, there was a
bunch of them, but one and I'll never forget was
a guy went to high school with his dad had
a drilling company. And I was bounced around roughnecking between
rigs and stuff. And then, uh, his dad, my buddy
called me and he said, Hey, we're gonna do it.
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We're gonna build a rig out here in the yard.
I want you to come in and work with me
and help me get this rig built. And so I
just went and worked in this in this construction yard
and building this oil rig with this guy. And uh.
And it was during this boom, like I said, and
his dad came by and I knew mister Vault pretty good,
and uh, and mister Vault said, well, he had a
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partner and they had decided to buy a Leer jet
and he said, now this guy had never been anywhere,
you know, and uh, he liked a drink, I remember,
and they like to go to Vegas. But he said
we he said that he talked him into buying a
Leer Jet, and he goes. I went out there to
the airport to get on my leer Jet. And you
know what, Maama, you had. I had to crawl. I didn't.
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You couldn't stand up on it. You had to crawl
in it. And to get in it. It was one
of those little bitty Leer jets.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, I've never been in one in my life, so
I don't know anything about him. But he said you
couldn't stand and walk. And he said that durned thing
was like three million dollars and you couldn't stand up
in it. And I ain't never getting in it again,
you know. Just I mean, it's like, think of something
to spend your money on.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Man, you know the problem the problems that rich people
seem to find when they I only spent I bought
the cheap Lyer Jet that was only three million dollars.
I should have splurred and got the five million dollars.
One h Just so I don't have an early onset
back pain. I'm just imagining what you know again, like, uh,
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you know, being the bigger guy six foot four that
I am, I I think I would need a lot
of money to live a comfortable life.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
U that travel like that?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It sounds like I would need the seven eight nine
million dollar jet to be able to stand up straight.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm I'm kind of broke. You know. I put a
daughter through you know, regular college and in law school.
So Baylor broke me. Baylor Law my clean my deal out.
But here's the thing. My one junk car broke down
yesterday and I had to call my record buddy to
come get me. Oh no, and so but here's what's
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funny about it. My cars are so junkie that I
paid both this record bill and the last record bill.
He said, we'll just put it on the next one
last time, and so I was able to pay two
at once. Now that's when you're broke. That's when you're broke,
as you got credit with the record company. OK. That
just just tells you where I'm at with my junk you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Know, Yeah that I do the the idea that you
were on a first name basis, Like it's like, you know,
like you walk into your favorite at bar and your
bartender already knows your order.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's you with with the record guy.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Like he already knows okay, yeah, no, no, he told
me that that fuel pump was going out.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Uh be ready, Rick's towing and dripping. He goes, hey, mamma,
how are you? Where are you? Bell Springs go get
me Okay, be there in a minute. And so you know,
and he goes, Now, I go I'll just pay that
last one with this one too. He goes, yeah, okay,
that's cool. He'd already forgot about it. You know, I
could have. That's how many times they've had the tow
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moo junk car, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So just imagining if you were someone, if you were
like a if you were one of these true Instagram
influencers for iHeart, and we're just posting your location everywhere
and just the record service justling you, popping around, dripping,
just following you, waiting for it to break down.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That'd be my That's probably my fourth time in a year,
so I'm about one a quarter I break down, and
you know it's you just you drive old cars and
you just have to. That's just part of it. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It sounds like your It sounds like your wrecking service
guy is about to buy his own Leader Jet.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
As much he's done well, he does very well. In fact,
one night I got I broke down and they sent
the repo guy of his that works for him, and uh,
this pickup pulls up like a regular pickup truck. And
then I go, where's the record And he goes, oh,
this is the repo truck. And I go oh, And
all of a sudden, out from under this pickup truck
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comes this record rig and it picks up my truck
and and we get in and I ride back it.
But it was like a regular pickup truck. And he
drives around at night and they think it's just a truck.
And then he sees what he's got to get and
he backs up. That thing comes out and lifts it up.
It's all secret, you know, it's all.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's an undercover cop.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
It's really hating to watch the drug deal go down.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I said, does anybody ever attack you? And he said no,
I'm usually pretty stealth. He said, I get in and
get it and I'm gone, you know, And he said
I'm not gonna But he had a pistol. He said,
I don't get a lot of I'm not gonna put
up with a lot of bull you.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Know, cancers.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's one of those jobs where I would hope it
pays really well, because.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think it does.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
At some point you're going to face some confrontation in
that too.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I mean you'd have to, wouldn't you. At some point
somebody be upset that they that you're taking their car. Well, anyway,
don't you folks worry whom? And I will never have
that kind will never leave you with that kind of money.
You can almost about not going to ever be a problem.
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