April 14, 2025 • 19 mins
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In Episode 15 of RideShare RoadTalk we inexplicably connect with a kidney delivery man for an absolutely fascinating and humorous conversation about all things organ delivery, Texas BBQ and SEC Football. Let's Drive!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers while engaging inpersonal and topical
discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFauntus, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
Buckle up, let's drive.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh man, just dropped off.
This is my first time out hereand just had to drop off a
package to the hospital here,but didn't realize that it was,
I guess, a military base.
So my first driver just kind ofjust dropped me off and left me
, and so then I was like allright, let me call me another
(00:55):
one to come get me and pick meup.
That's like Walter.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Reed right.
Yeah, yeah, walter Reed, youcan't just walk into a military
base with a package.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, what kind of package did you I had?
Yeah, yeah, I had.
No, I mean, I knew it wasWalter Reed, but not thinking
the concept of, oh, you knowwhat, it's military, so um, so
yeah, so just had to call thelady up to tell her to come meet
me outside to pick up, uh, tocome pick up the package, but uh
, but yeah, I mean I'm, I'm justout here, man, I'm actually
(01:24):
from Texas, originally fromGeorgia actually, but I'm from
Texas doing this, and so yeah,and you came from Texas just to
drop this package off.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, dare, I ask.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh man, it was a kidney.
What, yeah, yep, a Lone Starkidney.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yep, a Lone Star, a Lone Star kidney, yeah,
yeah, I don't get stumped veryoften doing this but when kidney
.
You just came from Texas on aplane, like without a team of
doctors, just with a Bass ProShops hat on in a cooler In.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
well, yep, boxed up, safely boxed up.
Cool on dry ice?
Yeah, I don't even know whereto start with that.
Yeah, I mean, let me Well, yeah, boxed up, safely boxed up cool
on dry ice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I don't even know where to start with that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, I mean, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
How do you get into doing?
I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Dude, I honestly don't even know how I got here.
I mean I was, I mean I got afull-time job, so I do this.
You know, on the and um waslooking to pick up some extra
income, so I used to do like um,uh, like deliveries, like gop I
(02:32):
don't know if y'all have gopuffout here, but it's like a door,
it's like doordash okay um, butuh, so it was gopuff, but I was
doing that, uh, but it was likemultiple deliveries, multiple
deliveries, right, and wastalking to somebody and telling
them what I was doing.
And they put me on this and Iwas like, oh man, you know, you
(02:52):
can make one or two deliveriesand I mean it'll clear me for
the, you know for the week, forlike the extra money that I'm
trying to make and like this oneright here, I mean this one's
490.
And I get on a plane, thecompany covers the plane ride,
they cover the parking, theycover my food and yeah, yeah, I
(03:18):
don't even know how I got here.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't think we have enough time to really drill
into this properly, because Ihave a lot of questions yeah,
yeah um number one.
Like you're, you're effectivelysaving someone's life correct.
Yes, and take it a step further.
The person that drove you rideshare to get to walter reed.
Yeah, help save someone's life.
(03:41):
Someone's life, exactly, yeahthat wow's life, exactly, yeah,
wow, yeah, I mean, that's amovie script, right there it is.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So let me tell you, this is my first time actually
making a delivery like this,because normally I'm driving,
normally I'm taking it, so thisis my first time actually being
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
The first time ever being on aplane.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
With a delivery.
Oh, okay, yeah, with a delivery.
So I don't know what to expect.
But let me tell you, the peoplelike TSA getting on the plane,
everybody's like thank you,thank you.
You know you're doing anawesome job.
And I was like floored, like ohman, you know they were.
(04:23):
Let me take your package.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know I'm gonna put it in the closet up front
here you're like two heads likethat, yeah, and no one touching
this, yeah you know because,because I've gotten instructions
like look, keep your eyes on it, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
blah, blah, blah and um.
But when I get on the plane,apparently, uh, one of the
flight attendants.
He goes hey what, you got therea heart.
And I thought he was kiddingand I said no, it's a kidney.
And he goes.
I knew it was something likethat.
And he goes you're doing a goodjob, man, you know, and he's
like you're a courier.
And I was like, yeah, and hewas like you're doing a good job
(04:59):
.
So of course I'm moving theoverhead bins aren't flat.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Hold on a second, I gotta stop you.
Yeah, back.
They ain't putting you inbusiness class flying with a
kidney.
Now that kidney needs its ownseat.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now, that's the one thing that I do got to talk
about, you know, because I'm abig boy and, uh, you know, I was
sitting next to to to dad andson and I'm on the window and
I'm and I'm crunched up and I'mlike, nah, yeah're going to have
to talk about this.
So, yeah, that's going to be atopic of conversation when I get
back.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean you're saving lives.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean come on.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I mean, larry, first of all, there is a special place
in heaven for people like you,and that's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'll take it.
I'm a journalist by trade.
I did that for 20 years and,wow, great story.
Yeah, what's about your day?
And all of a sudden you get toyour delivery and be like here
you go and the doctors are likenah, dude, this is like a ham
sandwich in the school.
We're like where's the kidney?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, so this is the thing, right, I don't let it out
of my sight.
When I get to the gate, tsa thecompany's already made the
phone call to let tsa know I'mcoming.
So they are aware that I'mcoming and they're like okay,
because I tell them look, I needyou, it can't go through x-ray,
(06:33):
it has to go on the outside,you know.
So they take it, they wipe itdown, check it, and I'm, my eye
is on it the whole time, right,while I'm there, and uh.
And then when I get to the,when I actually get to the gate,
I let the gate agent know too.
Hey, look, this is who I am.
I'm with this company, I gotthis you know package and I just
(06:55):
need to make sure that it issafe.
So when I get onto the airplane, the flight attendant goes let
me take it, and I'm gonna to putit in the front closet.
You know where their stuff isat, so it's secure, and so they
get it, they take it and theysecure it and and so, and I mean
, and they're checking on mewhile I'm there.
We're like you good, you needanything, and I'm like no, but I
(07:19):
didn't realize that I was goingto get special treatment.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You know, you know in the movie script part of this
story you and I go back to thehospital when there's a good
outcome and you meet the guy andthey, hey, this is the driver
that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Exactly, exactly right.
We all, we're all part of thisbig plan right To make
somebody's life better, and so,yeah, it's.
It's pretty cool, though.
It is pretty cool to know thatwhat you're doing, it's it's.
It's it's to help somebody.
(07:55):
Like you say, you're saving alife, it's a team.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, the drivers, you know, yeah, the
delivery guy, surgeons find, youknow.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, forget that, it's all about the drivers and
the delivery guys.
That's it, Because, guess what,we make the major moves, If we
don't get it to them, they can'tdo the surgery.
You know, I'm just as andthat's how you have to look at
it I'm just as important.
I'm just as important to get itto where it needs to get, to
safe you know that it's notdamaged.
(08:25):
Because sometimes, man, I'vehad deliveries while I've had to
take deliveries down to Houstonand it's for kids, and you know
, and those are the, you knowthe touching times, and it's
like, man, you know what do Igot to do to get this here on
time.
I got to make sure that I'm notdistracted.
I got to make sure, you know,to get it where it needs to get
(08:46):
to, you know, so that so thesekids can can, can live, so that
they can have a better life.
Cause you don't know, you don'tknow how you are affecting
somebody's life and, uh, that isa very interesting um
perspective.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
For sure, yeah, that most people kind of coast
through life and oh okay, yeah,but it really is, it's an
exercise in perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is man, let me tell you, I, um, I, I, I, my
wife and I, we, we live by.
There's a purpose for us, right, that's like a creed that we,
you know, like a family creed ofours, that we have a purpose
and, um, and this is like partof my this is, this is part of
my purpose.
(09:28):
You know, it's not the totalthing, but it's just part of it.
And it's like I do differentthings in just in life in
general.
Um, and I'm like this righthere is just another part of my
purpose.
You know, know, I go to mydaughter's school where she
graduated from, and I talk tothe kids there, you know, at
least once a month.
You know, and that's part of mypurpose, that I'm here to
(09:53):
affect change, I'm here to be animpact, I'm here to make a
difference in somebody's life,and this is just another.
You know, it's like another ifyou want to say another nacho in
your hat, you know, but it's apurpose thing, you know.
So it's purposeful living.
So, yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And that's not a commercial spot, that's like
real life it is.
You know, when you go throughyour day and you do a job well
done, end of the day there's acertain amount of of
satisfaction, especially ifyou're a creative or you're
building something, whatever.
But when you do something likethat and when I drop you off at
the airport and your, your asshits that seat and you relax,
you'll be like, yeah, there'sgot to be a really nice
(10:34):
reflective quality about thatjob done, yeah and you're
heading home to see your peopleand all that good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for youman, yeah, man, good for you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Man, yeah, man, yeah it is.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Where's?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
home for you, home for me, texas.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Okay, hold on.
Yeah, dfw, I have not spent toomuch time there.
My son was a long snapper andhe got recruited at Maryland and
a couple other schools, butalong the way he was in Fort
Worth for a camp Okay, and Icouldn't go but my wife and my
(11:09):
boys went and they said they hada great time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm about 15 minutes from Fort
Worth.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like in the old stockyards and all that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, the stockyard, that's it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm kind of like a pseudo history buff.
So you go back in time 150years.
Yeah, that whole era reallyfascinates me.
What was it?
Hell's Half Acre and all that,whatever that's called.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean, we've been out there now,
for this year makes 14 years.
Yeah, this year makes 14 yearsand, man, I hadn't regretted any
minute of it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Man, don't get me started on barbecue, like I can
smoke a little bit right.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like that's what I did during COVID.
Okay okay, some people didforeign languages and all that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean, I drilled into it man Science, the alchemy
.
Yeah, air temperature internalexternal fuel source.
Where was she?
I forgot the name of the place,but she tore into these beef
ribs.
Man she said she hadn'tanything like that in her life.
(12:15):
Yeah, I mean just what's goingon?
You go to Austin, there's theSalt Lick and Franklin's and all
that stuff.
But it's all these justoff-the-beaten-path dudes who
are just slinging it.
Right that didn't get fortunateenough to expand or have a
(12:35):
proper brick and mortar, exactlyand it's, it's just as good, if
not better, yeah yeah, I mean,that's like the one.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean we don't even go to like big spots down there,
my daughter and I, on saturdays.
This guy sets up every satSaturday about two miles from
the house food trailer and we'rethere every Saturday getting
the burnt ends, you know,getting brisket biscuits, you
know, just, you know, and it'sjust like, yeah, you know you
(13:04):
find those small mom and pops orwhatever those families that
just know how to do it.
Yeah and yeah.
And, like you say, some of themare better man, because I think
those big chains they getcomfortable in their name.
Yeah, and then, you know theyslack off.
But yeah, that's one thing aboutout there, though it's all
(13:24):
about the beef it's all aboutbeef in Texas, oh yeah.
Yeah, and smokehouses.
You know, like where I'm from,when we think about barbecue,
we're thinking about pork, we'rethinking about pork ribs, we're
thinking about a sauce.
You know, out there it'ssmokehouse, it's, you know, beef
(13:44):
ribs, it's brisket.
You know they have sauce, butI'm not really a big sauce guy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's all about the rough man.
Yeah, you can exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If you can season it right, I don't need nothing yeah
.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
There was.
It was like a documentaryseries on TV years ago and there
was two, two places.
One was in South Carolina,rodney Scott, who focuses on
whole hog barbecue.
I mean, just crazy.
And the other one was this oldlady named Tootsie Snow Barbecue
Somewhere I can't rememberwhere it was in Texas, it wasn't
(14:18):
too far from Austin.
This lady was like 80 years old, jowls coming off the back of
her arms and shoveling in thehot coal and her sweat is what
makes it taste good.
That's right, literally, and Idon't know if this lady is still
with us or not.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The stuff that this lady was pulling out of these
smokers man and the line ofpeople and it was all about her.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The son runs it or whatever it was, and she was 80.
You know the whole backstory ofher life.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But all that goes into the love and the cooking
right.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's it, man.
That's it, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's just likethe one that we go to.
It's called Green's Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, and it was a family deal, the dad started
it and he ended up passing andthe sons got the recipes and
they just, you know, they keptit and they just ran with it and
I mean, that's it.
You know, every Saturday we'rethere, you know, we you have to
get there like an hour early,you know, because the line is
(15:21):
already forming and they're justwaiting, and I mean, and
they're, and you're there tillthey run out, right yeah, it's
like we're there till they runout, and so you try to get that
early enough so that you canmake sure you get a piece of it.
And sometimes you get it andsometimes you miss out because
people are I mean, you get you,he gets the same people.
(15:42):
And then when you spread it outand you tell people about it,
then the line just continues togrow.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, that's it, and that's what it's it, man, you
know they're there for that.
All right now I'm hungry, thatapple ain't going to cut it,
apple ain't going to cut it, man.
Yeah, no, not at all man.
So, you're in Fort Worth.
So college football who's yourteam?
(16:07):
Are you going to be an A&M guy?
So that's the thing, right?
I know I've been in Texas for,you know, 14 years and I root
for Texas because I live there,but I'm still a homer.
You know I'm a UGA guy.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yeah, we got to talk.
Yeah, I'm a UGA guy, my kidsare Tennessee.
We got to talk.
Ok, OK I already got a roombooked for that game in.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
September in Knoxville, yeah, and the SEC man
, it's just, the SEC is just, itis a league above all the rest
of them.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't want to hear about Ohio State and the Big Ten
.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I just don't care.
I don't care, yeah Day in dayout.
Sec football Just stop.
Yep, yep, it's men amongst boys.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, my son's a sophomore at UT and he loves it,
man.
Yeah, it's a great time and youknow we've been down a couple
times.
But you know, with supply anddemand and all these you know
alumni networks, it gets soexpensive to get in there.
You know the game tickets areone thing but I have points
through Hilton and I was luckyenough to get a room for two
(17:16):
nights for the Georgia game andalso for the Oklahoma game.
Good deal, good deal, and it'sright in the little Market
Square area, which is reallycool.
It's like you know bars andrestaurants and less kids and
more adults having fun yeah.
Yeah, face value out of pocket.
These motherfuckers wantfifteen hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ain't it crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Two night minimum.
Yeah, it's crazy and I runeverything through, like you
know.
A Hilton honors card.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Points.
I mean, I mean everything mybusiness expense home, all that
stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And so you know, it was only like 50,000 points,
which is really not a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And I was like okay, you know, here we come, rocky
Top, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, man, it is crazy the money that they bring
in, though, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, athens is a fun town too, man.
Yeah, that's a fun town too.
My son hasn't gotten there yet.
He went to Gainesville to seethe Gators game last year.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Okay, all right, I love that campus yeah.
Had a good time, that's theother thing, man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Most of the college towns in the SEC are pretty cool
, oh yeah, you keep Tuscaloosa.
That's some bullshit.
Yeah, but Athens, knoxville.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oxford is a cool town .
Yeah, that's cool man.
Well, I'm sure you're happy toget back home, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Please tear up some barbecue for me.
I will.
Doctor's orders.
I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh, man, and look, I'm on a limitation too, so I'm
on a limit yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I get it in every now andagain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Ilike to eat, but I don't want to
see you again, if you know whatI mean.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh, I definitely know , what you mean.
That's right.
All right, man, let's kill thisnow and we'll get you on your
way.
Okay, cool deal.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Appreciate it, bro.
Good talking to you, yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
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Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers while engaging inpersonal and topical
discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFauntus, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
Buckle up, let's drive.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh man, just dropped off.
This is my first time out hereand just had to drop off a
package to the hospital here,but didn't realize that it was,
I guess, a military base.
So my first driver just kind ofjust dropped me off and left me
, and so then I was like allright, let me call me another
(00:55):
one to come get me and pick meup.
That's like Walter.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Reed right.
Yeah, yeah, walter Reed, youcan't just walk into a military
base with a package.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, what kind of package did you I had?
Yeah, yeah, I had.
No, I mean, I knew it wasWalter Reed, but not thinking
the concept of, oh, you knowwhat, it's military, so um, so
yeah, so just had to call thelady up to tell her to come meet
me outside to pick up, uh, tocome pick up the package, but uh
, but yeah, I mean I'm, I'm justout here, man, I'm actually
(01:24):
from Texas, originally fromGeorgia actually, but I'm from
Texas doing this, and so yeah,and you came from Texas just to
drop this package off.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, dare, I ask.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh man, it was a kidney.
What, yeah, yep, a Lone Starkidney.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yep, a Lone Star, a Lone Star kidney, yeah,
yeah, I don't get stumped veryoften doing this but when kidney
.
You just came from Texas on aplane, like without a team of
doctors, just with a Bass ProShops hat on in a cooler In.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
well, yep, boxed up, safely boxed up.
Cool on dry ice?
Yeah, I don't even know whereto start with that.
Yeah, I mean, let me Well, yeah, boxed up, safely boxed up cool
on dry ice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I don't even know where to start with that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, I mean, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
How do you get into doing?
I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Dude, I honestly don't even know how I got here.
I mean I was, I mean I got afull-time job, so I do this.
You know, on the and um waslooking to pick up some extra
income, so I used to do like um,uh, like deliveries, like gop I
(02:32):
don't know if y'all have gopuffout here, but it's like a door,
it's like doordash okay um, butuh, so it was gopuff, but I was
doing that, uh, but it was likemultiple deliveries, multiple
deliveries, right, and wastalking to somebody and telling
them what I was doing.
And they put me on this and Iwas like, oh man, you know, you
(02:52):
can make one or two deliveriesand I mean it'll clear me for
the, you know for the week, forlike the extra money that I'm
trying to make and like this oneright here, I mean this one's
490.
And I get on a plane, thecompany covers the plane ride,
they cover the parking, theycover my food and yeah, yeah, I
(03:18):
don't even know how I got here.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't think we have enough time to really drill
into this properly, because Ihave a lot of questions yeah,
yeah um number one.
Like you're, you're effectivelysaving someone's life correct.
Yes, and take it a step further.
The person that drove you rideshare to get to walter reed.
Yeah, help save someone's life.
(03:41):
Someone's life, exactly, yeahthat wow's life, exactly, yeah,
wow, yeah, I mean, that's amovie script, right there it is.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So let me tell you, this is my first time actually
making a delivery like this,because normally I'm driving,
normally I'm taking it, so thisis my first time actually being
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
The first time ever being on aplane.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
With a delivery.
Oh, okay, yeah, with a delivery.
So I don't know what to expect.
But let me tell you, the peoplelike TSA getting on the plane,
everybody's like thank you,thank you.
You know you're doing anawesome job.
And I was like floored, like ohman, you know they were.
(04:23):
Let me take your package.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know I'm gonna put it in the closet up front
here you're like two heads likethat, yeah, and no one touching
this, yeah you know because,because I've gotten instructions
like look, keep your eyes on it, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
blah, blah, blah and um.
But when I get on the plane,apparently, uh, one of the
flight attendants.
He goes hey what, you got therea heart.
And I thought he was kiddingand I said no, it's a kidney.
And he goes.
I knew it was something likethat.
And he goes you're doing a goodjob, man, you know, and he's
like you're a courier.
And I was like, yeah, and hewas like you're doing a good job
(04:59):
.
So of course I'm moving theoverhead bins aren't flat.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Hold on a second, I gotta stop you.
Yeah, back.
They ain't putting you inbusiness class flying with a
kidney.
Now that kidney needs its ownseat.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now, that's the one thing that I do got to talk
about, you know, because I'm abig boy and, uh, you know, I was
sitting next to to to dad andson and I'm on the window and
I'm and I'm crunched up and I'mlike, nah, yeah're going to have
to talk about this.
So, yeah, that's going to be atopic of conversation when I get
back.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean you're saving lives.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean come on.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I mean, larry, first of all, there is a special place
in heaven for people like you,and that's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'll take it.
I'm a journalist by trade.
I did that for 20 years and,wow, great story.
Yeah, what's about your day?
And all of a sudden you get toyour delivery and be like here
you go and the doctors are likenah, dude, this is like a ham
sandwich in the school.
We're like where's the kidney?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, so this is the thing, right, I don't let it out
of my sight.
When I get to the gate, tsa thecompany's already made the
phone call to let tsa know I'mcoming.
So they are aware that I'mcoming and they're like okay,
because I tell them look, I needyou, it can't go through x-ray,
(06:33):
it has to go on the outside,you know.
So they take it, they wipe itdown, check it, and I'm, my eye
is on it the whole time, right,while I'm there, and uh.
And then when I get to the,when I actually get to the gate,
I let the gate agent know too.
Hey, look, this is who I am.
I'm with this company, I gotthis you know package and I just
(06:55):
need to make sure that it issafe.
So when I get onto the airplane, the flight attendant goes let
me take it, and I'm gonna to putit in the front closet.
You know where their stuff isat, so it's secure, and so they
get it, they take it and theysecure it and and so, and I mean
, and they're checking on mewhile I'm there.
We're like you good, you needanything, and I'm like no, but I
(07:19):
didn't realize that I was goingto get special treatment.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You know, you know in the movie script part of this
story you and I go back to thehospital when there's a good
outcome and you meet the guy andthey, hey, this is the driver
that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Exactly, exactly right.
We all, we're all part of thisbig plan right To make
somebody's life better, and so,yeah, it's.
It's pretty cool, though.
It is pretty cool to know thatwhat you're doing, it's it's.
It's it's to help somebody.
(07:55):
Like you say, you're saving alife, it's a team.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, the drivers, you know, yeah, the
delivery guy, surgeons find, youknow.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, forget that, it's all about the drivers and
the delivery guys.
That's it, Because, guess what,we make the major moves, If we
don't get it to them, they can'tdo the surgery.
You know, I'm just as andthat's how you have to look at
it I'm just as important.
I'm just as important to get itto where it needs to get, to
safe you know that it's notdamaged.
(08:25):
Because sometimes, man, I'vehad deliveries while I've had to
take deliveries down to Houstonand it's for kids, and you know
, and those are the, you knowthe touching times, and it's
like, man, you know what do Igot to do to get this here on
time.
I got to make sure that I'm notdistracted.
I got to make sure, you know,to get it where it needs to get
(08:46):
to, you know, so that so thesekids can can, can live, so that
they can have a better life.
Cause you don't know, you don'tknow how you are affecting
somebody's life and, uh, that isa very interesting um
perspective.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
For sure, yeah, that most people kind of coast
through life and oh okay, yeah,but it really is, it's an
exercise in perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is man, let me tell you, I, um, I, I, I, my
wife and I, we, we live by.
There's a purpose for us, right, that's like a creed that we,
you know, like a family creed ofours, that we have a purpose
and, um, and this is like partof my this is, this is part of
my purpose.
(09:28):
You know, it's not the totalthing, but it's just part of it.
And it's like I do differentthings in just in life in
general.
Um, and I'm like this righthere is just another part of my
purpose.
You know, know, I go to mydaughter's school where she
graduated from, and I talk tothe kids there, you know, at
least once a month.
You know, and that's part of mypurpose, that I'm here to
(09:53):
affect change, I'm here to be animpact, I'm here to make a
difference in somebody's life,and this is just another.
You know, it's like another ifyou want to say another nacho in
your hat, you know, but it's apurpose thing, you know.
So it's purposeful living.
So, yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And that's not a commercial spot, that's like
real life it is.
You know, when you go throughyour day and you do a job well
done, end of the day there's acertain amount of of
satisfaction, especially ifyou're a creative or you're
building something, whatever.
But when you do something likethat and when I drop you off at
the airport and your, your asshits that seat and you relax,
you'll be like, yeah, there'sgot to be a really nice
(10:34):
reflective quality about thatjob done, yeah and you're
heading home to see your peopleand all that good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for youman, yeah, man, good for you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Man, yeah, man, yeah it is.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Where's?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
home for you, home for me, texas.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Okay, hold on.
Yeah, dfw, I have not spent toomuch time there.
My son was a long snapper andhe got recruited at Maryland and
a couple other schools, butalong the way he was in Fort
Worth for a camp Okay, and Icouldn't go but my wife and my
(11:09):
boys went and they said they hada great time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm about 15 minutes from Fort
Worth.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like in the old stockyards and all that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, the stockyard, that's it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm kind of like a pseudo history buff.
So you go back in time 150years.
Yeah, that whole era reallyfascinates me.
What was it?
Hell's Half Acre and all that,whatever that's called.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean, we've been out there now,
for this year makes 14 years.
Yeah, this year makes 14 yearsand, man, I hadn't regretted any
minute of it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Man, don't get me started on barbecue, like I can
smoke a little bit right.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like that's what I did during COVID.
Okay okay, some people didforeign languages and all that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean, I drilled into it man Science, the alchemy
.
Yeah, air temperature internalexternal fuel source.
Where was she?
I forgot the name of the place,but she tore into these beef
ribs.
Man she said she hadn'tanything like that in her life.
(12:15):
Yeah, I mean just what's goingon?
You go to Austin, there's theSalt Lick and Franklin's and all
that stuff.
But it's all these justoff-the-beaten-path dudes who
are just slinging it.
Right that didn't get fortunateenough to expand or have a
(12:35):
proper brick and mortar, exactlyand it's, it's just as good, if
not better, yeah yeah, I mean,that's like the one.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean we don't even go to like big spots down there,
my daughter and I, on saturdays.
This guy sets up every satSaturday about two miles from
the house food trailer and we'rethere every Saturday getting
the burnt ends, you know,getting brisket biscuits, you
know, just, you know, and it'sjust like, yeah, you know you
(13:04):
find those small mom and pops orwhatever those families that
just know how to do it.
Yeah and yeah.
And, like you say, some of themare better man, because I think
those big chains they getcomfortable in their name.
Yeah, and then, you know theyslack off.
But yeah, that's one thing aboutout there, though it's all
(13:24):
about the beef it's all aboutbeef in Texas, oh yeah.
Yeah, and smokehouses.
You know, like where I'm from,when we think about barbecue,
we're thinking about pork, we'rethinking about pork ribs, we're
thinking about a sauce.
You know, out there it'ssmokehouse, it's, you know, beef
(13:44):
ribs, it's brisket.
You know they have sauce, butI'm not really a big sauce guy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's all about the rough man.
Yeah, you can exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If you can season it right, I don't need nothing yeah
.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
There was.
It was like a documentaryseries on TV years ago and there
was two, two places.
One was in South Carolina,rodney Scott, who focuses on
whole hog barbecue.
I mean, just crazy.
And the other one was this oldlady named Tootsie Snow Barbecue
Somewhere I can't rememberwhere it was in Texas, it wasn't
(14:18):
too far from Austin.
This lady was like 80 years old, jowls coming off the back of
her arms and shoveling in thehot coal and her sweat is what
makes it taste good.
That's right, literally, and Idon't know if this lady is still
with us or not.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The stuff that this lady was pulling out of these
smokers man and the line ofpeople and it was all about her.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The son runs it or whatever it was, and she was 80.
You know the whole backstory ofher life.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But all that goes into the love and the cooking
right.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's it, man.
That's it, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's just likethe one that we go to.
It's called Green's Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, and it was a family deal, the dad started
it and he ended up passing andthe sons got the recipes and
they just, you know, they keptit and they just ran with it and
I mean, that's it.
You know, every Saturday we'rethere, you know, we you have to
get there like an hour early,you know, because the line is
(15:21):
already forming and they're justwaiting, and I mean, and
they're, and you're there tillthey run out, right yeah, it's
like we're there till they runout, and so you try to get that
early enough so that you canmake sure you get a piece of it.
And sometimes you get it andsometimes you miss out because
people are I mean, you get you,he gets the same people.
(15:42):
And then when you spread it outand you tell people about it,
then the line just continues togrow.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, that's it, and that's what it's it, man, you
know they're there for that.
All right now I'm hungry, thatapple ain't going to cut it,
apple ain't going to cut it, man.
Yeah, no, not at all man.
So, you're in Fort Worth.
So college football who's yourteam?
(16:07):
Are you going to be an A&M guy?
So that's the thing, right?
I know I've been in Texas for,you know, 14 years and I root
for Texas because I live there,but I'm still a homer.
You know I'm a UGA guy.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yeah, we got to talk.
Yeah, I'm a UGA guy, my kidsare Tennessee.
We got to talk.
Ok, OK I already got a roombooked for that game in.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
September in Knoxville, yeah, and the SEC man
, it's just, the SEC is just, itis a league above all the rest
of them.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't want to hear about Ohio State and the Big Ten
.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I just don't care.
I don't care, yeah Day in dayout.
Sec football Just stop.
Yep, yep, it's men amongst boys.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, my son's a sophomore at UT and he loves it,
man.
Yeah, it's a great time and youknow we've been down a couple
times.
But you know, with supply anddemand and all these you know
alumni networks, it gets soexpensive to get in there.
You know the game tickets areone thing but I have points
through Hilton and I was luckyenough to get a room for two
(17:16):
nights for the Georgia game andalso for the Oklahoma game.
Good deal, good deal, and it'sright in the little Market
Square area, which is reallycool.
It's like you know bars andrestaurants and less kids and
more adults having fun yeah.
Yeah, face value out of pocket.
These motherfuckers wantfifteen hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ain't it crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Two night minimum.
Yeah, it's crazy and I runeverything through, like you
know.
A Hilton honors card.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Points.
I mean, I mean everything mybusiness expense home, all that
stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And so you know, it was only like 50,000 points,
which is really not a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And I was like okay, you know, here we come, rocky
Top, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, man, it is crazy the money that they bring
in, though, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, athens is a fun town too, man.
Yeah, that's a fun town too.
My son hasn't gotten there yet.
He went to Gainesville to seethe Gators game last year.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Okay, all right, I love that campus yeah.
Had a good time, that's theother thing, man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Most of the college towns in the SEC are pretty cool
, oh yeah, you keep Tuscaloosa.
That's some bullshit.
Yeah, but Athens, knoxville.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oxford is a cool town .
Yeah, that's cool man.
Well, I'm sure you're happy toget back home, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Please tear up some barbecue for me.
I will.
Doctor's orders.
I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh, man, and look, I'm on a limitation too, so I'm
on a limit yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I get it in every now andagain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Ilike to eat, but I don't want to
see you again, if you know whatI mean.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh, I definitely know , what you mean.
That's right.
All right, man, let's kill thisnow and we'll get you on your
way.
Okay, cool deal.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Appreciate it, bro.
Good talking to you, yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
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