May 26, 2025 • 27 mins
Mike Billado is a skilled race car driver from Grand Isle, Vermont, known for his competitive edge in regional stock car racing. In 2019, he won the final 75-lap race of the Myers Container Triple Crown Series in the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers division at Thunder Road Speedbowl, showcasing his talent by outlasting rookie Stephen Martin. Beyond the racetrack, Billado works as an employee for
Myers Waste Removal, balancing his professional career with his passion for racing. His dedication to both his job and motorsport highlights his work ethic and commitment to excelling in high-pressure environments.
Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience. Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, we highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
Myers Waste Removal, balancing his professional career with his passion for racing. His dedication to both his job and motorsport highlights his work ethic and commitment to excelling in high-pressure environments.
Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience. Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, we highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast.
I am Aaron Colefield Barker, joined by my lovely co
host Joe Sanagra, who is the operations manager over at Myers.
Joe so excited for this week's show. In a little bit,
we'll be joined by Mike Billado, who is a race
car driver. Dow'm not thunder Road driving the Myers car.
(00:37):
But before we get to him, as I always ask,
how was your week? Anything exciting going on?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh? Yeah, it was a good week.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And it got me thinking with our guest this week
driving a race car. You know, I'm I'm a super
competitive guy by nature, but I don't have any wonderful
talents like driving a race car.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Or diving off the high dives.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And I got thinking about this Olympic sprinter who was
at her daughter's field.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Days and they had a parent contest for all the parents.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Which in itself is pretty wild to think about at
a kid's field day, to have these activities and have
parents competing against each old which would be very cool.
And it got me thinking about, you know, and we
can ask Mike when he comes in as a professional driver,
how competitive he is when he's not on the track,
but it got me to think erin how would you
(01:30):
interact with that, both as at a field day, but
more importantly, like, you know, you take your kids to
the community pool in Essex or something like that, and
I know how I would be watching these people if
I could dive, you know, watching these people dive because
they do at you know, Memorial if you're there saying
hold on, let me show you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So it's actually an interesting question because I feel like
the older I get the heart it is to act
like I can still like do it right. Like so
I dove in college, which is where this is coming
from from, Joe, and I like you, I am very competitive.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I think my parents used to sign us.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Up for every single sport growing up instead of having babysitters,
which is what made.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The whole Darrin Aaron segment.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We did here locally in Burlington so so much fun
because I'm like okay at a lot of things, but
was pretty good at diving in gymnastics. But it's not
like soccer where it's like, oh yeah, I like muscle
memory can like kick the ball around like diving. It's like,
I mean for starters, I've had two children, so I'm
not in this same shape I was at, you know,
(02:38):
nineteen twenty years old. But I mean I usually will
and like I have gotten up and will like you know,
do what feels very basic to me. But it still
is kind of impressive to others. But sometimes I don't know,
it depends on the crowd. And I'm sure when Jack
gets older, my three year old, he'll be like mom stop.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But I know if I had that talent, whatever that
might be, I would think I can still do because
of course, you know, I'm in my forties and I
think i'm twenty, So I think I would go up
there and be like, oh, watch this.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And then end up like really hurting myself.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, I think that's like the fear, like if I'm like, oh, yeah,
here I go, I'm gonna go and do like a
one and a half real quick, but then I like
come out at the wrong time just because it's like
Ben's along and I like my muffle memory forgot when
to do it, and then I just like belly flop
and then you're just like so embarrassed. So I feel
like that would like deter me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But that's like the lead in so okay, so you
go and die and the worst thing would be is
that you hurt yourself or you make a fool yourself,
which is it's fine. But like, well, last Mike, but
you know a professional driver, I could see because I
get fired up on the road.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I could see my really, let me show you the.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Guy likes he's like, he's like at a red light
with someone and the guy next one is like a
raving his engine and it's like, dude, do you know
who you're next to?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, take that scene from Days the Thunder, you know
where Tom Cruise is racing against us Mal Kilmore in
the in the wheelchairs in the hospital. Tell me you've
never seen Days of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, well, well that's a whole another episode that we
can do of stuff to get it went way off
the deep end, like you know, Days of Tunder, great
racing movie.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I don't know. I'll have to watch. I'll have
to watch. Well, let's let's ask Mike.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I wonder it's going to be awkward for you, Joe
if Mike hasn't seen it either.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But we are joined by Mike bill Do who works
for Myers drives the Meyers car is a race car driver,
which is like super cool, Mike, have you seen this movie?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Joe just talking.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
About many many times my wife has too much.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Okay, yeah, they always say it's where Tom Cruise phone
with Nicole Kidman. Yeah yeah, Nicole Kidman now married Keith Urban,
but you know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
She used to Yeah, well that was Nicole Kidman before
Katie Holmes.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, this is ender came out like like
eighty you're you're born eighty four, eighty five, eighty six
in that ballpark around eighty Well.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I bet you my dad.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
My dad used to raise snowmobiles, fun fact, so I
bet you he's like a power sports guy.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
So I bet you if I asked him.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
About it, he'll probably be like, we used to watch
it all the time.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Though, let's get into it with you with what we
were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If you are at the red lights and someone's like,
you know, edging up next to you thinking they're going
to beat you off the lines, does that just like
gut instinct kick in.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
All the time you went up at my age.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Now, at this point in time in life, my wife says,
I'm too instigated. I'm doing stuff like that and now
at my age, I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No, you're allowed.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You're allowed speaking of them a here. Let's say at
your age. I'm sure there's a lot of young bucks
down at thunder Road.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
But you have been racing.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Give me, give me your kind of history on the
racing you've been How long have you been racing. I
know it's been the Myers car for a while. Now,
kind of tell me how that all works.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Yeah, back in two thousand and eight, I was shown
an interest. I'd helped out on other cars with other people,
just helping out here and they're nothing big, but I
always wanted to do something because I've always been an
avid fan of watching the racing. So at some point
in time I came into little extra money and stuff
and I said, well, I guess I'm want to start racing.
(06:19):
I don't know if that was my best choice in
life at that point, but it is what it is now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mike, You've had some success over the years, So talk
about some of those successes you've had on the track
and where you see things going here in the future.
You know, the season is underway, so talk a little
bit about that for us.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Yeah, I mean We're a small team. It's just my
brother and I. It's a very competitive division at thunder Road.
It's called the Tiger Sportsman Series and it's a lot
of family and friends that compete in that class. And
you know, there's a lot of knowledgeable people down in
the Bury area that have been doing it all their life.
So with my brother and I just doing what we're doing,
we're there to have fun, be competitive. But there's a
(07:02):
lot of a lot of big teams down there to
compete with on a weekly basis, so it's kind of tough.
But we enjoy going down there.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
We enjoy the people down there, just the excitement of
being at thunder Road. It's got quite the history to it.
So yeah, it's something that we can do with our
families and uh, you know, and enjoy the time together.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I was gonna say, so for you know, your your
team to be really you and your brother.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
How I mean, how awesome is that?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Are you guys close in each barney Just obviously I'd
imagine you're pretty close with especially once race season rolls
around every year.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah, my brother is like a year younger than I am.
On the of three, I have a sister as well
and so, yeah, so he has an interest in the
side of setting up the car, the technical sides and
and all that stuff, and I'm the one that gets
to drive that and fund it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
So but then if things go wrong, you would to
blame him.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Oh that's that's a whole nother discussion on another week.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Because it depends on our night. It's all depends on
whose fault it is. So it's very quiet ride home
some nights.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So you talk about, you know, the funding of the team,
and of course you're doing it because of your passion
for the sport, but you know, Myers and the Redkin
family had sponsored your car for a number of years.
I talk a little bit about how that sponsorship works
and how important that is for your success to have
(08:34):
a to have a sponsor, and to have a sponsor
that you're not out there looking for a name sponsor
every year.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Yeah, Myers has been certainly, Jeff and his family have
been very supportive of this.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I just when I got into it.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
I'd been into it for years because I owned my
own business, and then Jeff had purchased my business and
I had said something to him, Hey, you.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Want to hop out on a race car?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
And thirteen years ago he said yes, and he's committed
every year and then some. And it's great to have
that because you can put that that money to get
use to where you can get the right equipment. You
can get the best equipment so you can be competitive
in this field. Like I said to me, you can't
be offered very much in this division because it's so competitive.
(09:19):
And it just gets more competitive as the years grow
because the younger generation comes in and us older guys
are phasing out. So it's a little tough to keep
up those guys. But it's a it's a passion and
we enjoy my time with my brother to do it.
There's days that we do have great days and we
have great success too, so but it's hard on a
(09:39):
weekly basis, but it does come.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
That's the gratification of it all.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The season I think just kind of recently began for
folks who have heard of thunder Road.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Don't really know what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You know, Thursday night is the big night, But what
would someone who wants to come out to the racetrack
need to know about Thursday nights at them?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The Road.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Just the spectacle of it all usually on the bigger weekends,
like the beginning of the season, they have a big
car show, they bring out the past champion, they do
like a kind of an intro where they have bagpipes
come in at the beginning of the season. We got
rained out that weekend, but I'm sure they'll make it up.
But it's the whole spectacle of it and the history
(10:21):
of it. Like I said, the reason they race on
Thursday nights is because back in the day, the granted
quarry guys always get paid on Thursday night, so that
was the best night to have races because they had money.
So that's where that came from. Just to give you
a little bit of history on that end. But I
think it's just the popularity's grown because it's actually a
(10:42):
real fun environment to be around.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, we were talking before we came on about you
know the competition of you know, Darren diving and everything
doesn't thun the road. Bring in a NASCAR driver once
a year to race against guys on the track.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Excuse me sorry, Usually when they have a race at
New Hampshire, we'll get a driver come up. In the past,
Kyle Bush has come up, Tony Stewart spent here. I mean,
there's been a couple of the NASCAR guys that come
up and then they realize how tough of this place
is too, So they come into equipment to set up
(11:19):
for them, and they definitely find out how how tough
with the track it is.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now, did they take it? Did they take it easy
on you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Or do they or are you guys take going after
I'd be curious that if I'm on the track next
to Tony Stewart and here's my chance, you know, or
you know, whichever one, here's my chance to maybe rub
them a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know what is it? It's not it's not racing
if it's not rubbing. Is that the line?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well yeah, but that's a different division.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's not time to lay.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
The division that they'll they'll come in and drive is
the Late Model Sportsman division, which is a higher tier
than mine. So I'm in the lower class, so they
don't race them those cars, but they run in the
Late Model Sportsman competition. So those guys thoroughly enjoy seeing
that the NASCAR stars come in because, like I said,
they want to go there. They want to race these
guys just as hard as they can and show them
(12:10):
what talent they do have here to race against that
type of uh driver.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Speaking of drivers you raised against, doesn't Governor Scott raced
out there sometimes or he hasn't been I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, he has had a limited schedule, but he has appeared.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
He runs into late model division as well. I don't
know what his schedule will be like this year.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
As far as that, but I'm sure he'll make appearances
at some of the bigger races or maybe a couple
of Thursday nights.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
We never know.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
A lot of politicians are these like stuffy guys. But no,
Governor Scott, he you know, was the racer and became
the governor and knew the responsibilities that came with it,
but still gets to go out there and do his
passion here here and here and again too. And I'm
trying to think. My husband works for the state. I
forget if he gets paid on Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So Mike Myers sponsors the Triple Crown race.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That you're involved in, and they're tackle from people who
might not understand how the Triple Crown works and why
the drivers always are striving to run well and win
that series.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Yeah, on a weekly division race, we race forty laps
and that's just what we run on a weekly Thursday
night our regular schedules. But the Meyers Triple Crown Series
is a special race that that the three races are
seventy five lappers, so they're longer distance, more money, and
more prestige to have the trophy at the end. Out
(13:46):
of the three races, they accumulate the point separately and
that also counts as a weekly race, but those three
will be done points wise separately, so there'll be a
separate round for the title at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So how long does forty laps take you? I mean,
I'm thinking forty laps with that, like all depends on
out or three hours.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
If it's a green flag and no cautions and no
accidents and stuff like that, we can generally get it
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Minutes if it's a green to green. So if it's
a wreckfast then it takes a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And what's your tap speed? What are you what are
you hitting on?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
A dap usually a good times than the thirteen nines
around the track. That's what we strive so one mile
per hour, I would ask to make sixty to seventy, right, yeah, yeah,
it was like thirteen nine.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Are we what.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Do that?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
On the five corners?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I mean that's just a highway, that's fifty five.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I have a hard time with that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, how many people we are usually app under it?
And I guess maybe that's something I maybe should have
pulled a photo up. But I've actually I've always talked
about wanting.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
To go, and I need to just I need to go.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Maybe too, maybe we can round up a crew and go,
especially on one of the Meyers Triple Crown nights. But
how many, like how many people are out there on
a Thursday night that's decent weather, Let's.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Give it that.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I think on a weekly division, where it's just a
weekly division, I think they get somewhere it's around five thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
But on the bigger races, like when we do get
a NASCAR driver, they've had up to ten thousand.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Oh well, but they've also introduced flow racing into the racetrack.
They do televise it are weekly events and you can
buy subscription to it. And I'm hearing numbers up and
they've told us anywhere from twenty five to thirty thousand
people that can watch it throughout whoever's subscribed to Flow Racing.
(15:54):
They do a ton of racing throughout the United States
and so you can suit drive to each track on
their nightly events.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
So I've guessed that's been really popular lately.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Talk a little bit about you know, Uh, one of
the things we're happy about is that you are also
a driver, not a race car driver, but also a
roll off driver for for the company. And you know,
maybe talk a little bit about you know, you've been
driving professionally both from a trash truck and a race
car for most of your adult life. So talk a
(16:29):
little bit about what it means to drive a roll
off truck and the challenges and the things that go
involved in in your aspect of your your career here
with with the Redcan Family.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Driving wise, always trying to be alert because it's not
your driving. You're always worried about the other guys, kind
of like racing. So just focus on your skills. And uh,
I've always been proud of driving for myself and the past,
and and here is you know, I'm just being aware
of your situations all the time and just you know,
(17:07):
putting yourself in good situations.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I mean, how fast have we gotten that truck up
to the Meyers truck?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I can't disclose that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Do you guys have your names on the side, because
I feel like I feel like you should, like you
should have a special sticker that's like caution, like race
card drivers, like, don't mess with me.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
No identifying mark.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
I put my I put my race card sticker in
the back of my pickup truck and I'll do something
silly on the road.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And my wife's like, you know, your name's on the
back of the truck, right about that? Boos books.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, so Aaron always loves the stories about in the
trash business.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know that funky thing I talked about in the
past about you know, the person drawing order, engagement ring
and stuff like that put you on the spot a
little bit. But do you have any great trash stories,
either Myers or old Greg's trucking days?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh, let me say.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
I I know that we had to dump a truck
one time for someone that was looking for some money.
They had had an envelope with some money, and I
think we and then we had to dump it at
a facility. I can't remember which facility.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
We had to dump it.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I'm I'm pretty sure it was maybe myers, but they
spent some time looking for it. They did eventually find it.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
But it was a sizable money I mean, yeah, the
ring got found.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The ring got found as well, so like in goodness
that you know, that'd be a lot of work and
to have not the happy ending that is desired to
get there.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, So we mentioned.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Darren Aaron's earlier.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I just want to let you know, Mike, if you
ever need an extra crew member.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I did do a Darren Aaron with Governor Scott and
a j Almondinger one time where we were changing tires.
So I did it faster than Governor Scott did. I
did like elbow him out of the way. But I
mean I've got skills.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You're you're aggressive, that's we need that.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yes, very very competitive over here.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
My brother would love to help because he's like, you
need to find me another crew member because you know,
I'm kind of the driver and kind of walk away
and let him do his thing. So he's like, I
could use an extra crew member. I'm like, I'll work
on that for you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
You know, anybody that wants to do it for free. Brother,
because you're welcome to bring him along.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
That's what my brother says all the time. I'll get
after about something goes well, you know you don't pay
me a whole lot, so.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, I mentioned how my dad used to raise snowmobiles
and it was the same exact dynamic, right, him and
his uncle or him and his brother Jay.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They're two years apart. J Boy is the mechanic and my.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Dad was the racer.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
And so that's why I was like, so whose fault
is it when things go wrong? Because that used to
be the most common thing is it was like J
Boy didn't do the right thing, or it was always.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
For the driver.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It was always the mechanics fault.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
My obviously you talked about how you know you're not
doing this for you know, when you win aways, you're
not winning hundreds of thousands of dollars, And my guess
is it's a losing propocision financially for you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
So you do for your love of the sport. What
do you see as the future? Are you going to
drive to?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know, Tom Cruise says he's going to do a
stunts till he's one hundred, So are you are you
going to drive till you're one hundred two.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
My body says no, but the financial resources I have
with Meyers says yes. Like I said, very competitive, and uh,
I've got a younger daughter. Her boyfriend raises his division
as well, and he is very competitive, him and I.
If we go bowling, we're competitive against each other to
(20:47):
beat each other's score, if we do something around each other.
And he's a very tough. He's actually very good. He
actually won the Meyers Triple Crown last year.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So he's very competitive.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Doesn't he know, oh that he's going to have to
ask for your hand in marriage sometimes, so he needs
to let you win if he wants you to say yes.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Family's family. But once you get his helmet armed, he
turns into a different element.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
So I give him grief. Sometimes I'm like, well you
could have and he just looks at me and giggles.
So he is very competitive. So but I haven't no
other way, So.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I like it.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Joe, any other questions you have for Mike, No, I
just think you know this whole concept of how this
podcast started around Myers container and you know the Redcan
family giving back.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know a lot of people see our red trucks
and they see Mike.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And people like Mike out on the road and they think,
at the end of the day, we're just picking up
the trash, and we are. But you know, Jeff and
Ken and Ryan have made it a passion to get
back to the community. And one of it is, you know,
Ramon is such a special place because people like Mike
are giving the rest of us entertainment. You know, Mike's
not making living off a driving car. He loves to
(22:08):
do it and it's a passion and so many people,
you know, tens of thousands of people are enjoying funder
Road every year in large part because the sponsors like
Myers and others that are giving back. So you know,
it's a nice to see Mike doing that, and it's
also nice from Myers that they will continue to support people,
(22:30):
be it from you know, we've talked to Ron mc
donald past and charities like that, but also the non
charities sponsorship things like you know, Friender Road. It plays
such a huge part and Jeff has always talked so
much about why that's so important from a community aspect.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Yeah, it's definitely something I appreciate very much. And you know,
is that the support he's given me throughout the years.
I'm really impressed that he's done because, like.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I said, he don't really have to, but he appreciates, uh,
what we do for him, and in return, he appreciates
what he does for the community as well, because everybody
sees everything on the road and that's all and with
racing and stuff, just to identify with people and in
the business, it's it's it's definitely a good.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Thing to have.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, Mike, thank you for taking the time today to
join us here on the podcast and tell us a
little bit more about driving the Meyers car and thunder
Road and how it all works.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Oh great, great, I appreciate you let me in, aren't it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Of course, thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Okay, thanks Je.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What a cool fact though, to learn why it was
a Thursday night thing. I what's your what's your paycheck?
Guilty pleasure? This was pre kids, but there was a
time when my husband would be like where are you
and I was like, oh, like TJ Max and.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He's like, oh, yeah, it's payday.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
So that was like my like go to places Tgmax
or home Goods on payday.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
What's your page?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well, pre kids, of course pay day would come and
that would be our one going out week event for
my wife and I, you know, be it the movies
or whatever it is. Now, then it was for my wife,
you know, TJ Maxx home Goods. Now it's Amazon, you know,
for her, that's you know, early in the morning, late
at night. So it's that, you know, we don't get
(24:27):
alerts that packages are being delivered. We get alerts that
we don't have a package, and they wanted to lie.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I always say that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Sometimes I'm like, man, I feel like I've ordered a
lot of things lately. I need to wait till all
of them get delivered before I order something else.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It's just amazing. I mean, it could be a whole
other episode.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But where we are in reality and life, you know,
when you know you would order in the past, you
would get the one thing whatever. Now it seems like,
you know, I'm coming home and we're getting toothpaste delivered,
and we're getting you know, everything is getting delivered.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
It's just amazing, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
And I love to support local.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's sometimes though, I will like just I'll be like, man,
I drove by the store, you know, six times today
and forgot I needed paper plates, so you know what,
it's eleven thirty.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
At night, but I'm just gonna order them real quick
and they'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And like now I don't have to go get them,
and a lot easier when the kids are little to
order than.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Floating them all up and going out.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Hey, but then watch this circle back to the trash.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
All those Amazon boxes need to get recycled.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Absolutely and that's why thankfully we're out there every day
picking up recycling.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I like it. I like it all right, anything else
before we let everybody go for this week?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
No, absolutely nothing at all. I think it's a it's enjoying.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As we're growing and we're building this, more people are
talking about it, which is which is great. You know,
it's important that we're people want to get it every week.
You know, they can like and subscribe to the to
the weekly podcast they get there learn about it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But it's it's fun and it's nice to learn.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know, we're learning about these things and you know,
all my twenty plus years here in vermon I didn't
know some of these sunder road facs, so it's nice.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, and also though, can we just mention real quick
how there have been promos running that your people have
been seeing you on TV.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
How's how's it felt? I feel like a little localist LB.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well, yes, you know, and it's unfortunately, fortunately last week
I had a couple times I was on other networks
about other issues going on in Vermont and uh, people
neighbors stopping me and they give me that kind of
weird look. And I got some you on TV and
I'm like, for a much thing, you know, and uh,
you know, so yes and year old had at the
(26:39):
old hand at this land you know on TV all
the time. But still, you know, it's a little weird
when people come up to me and tell me they
see me on TV.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I like it well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
As Joe mentioned, make sure that you like and subscribe
so every time a new podcast gets uploaded, you have
it right there at your fingertips. To learn a little
bit more, not only about Myers Base and Recycle, but
all some of the great organizations and communities that we
have in our area.
Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast.
I am Aaron Colefield Barker, joined by my lovely co
host Joe Sanagra, who is the operations manager over at Myers.
Joe so excited for this week's show. In a little bit,
we'll be joined by Mike Billado, who is a race
car driver. Dow'm not thunder Road driving the Myers car.
(00:37):
But before we get to him, as I always ask,
how was your week? Anything exciting going on?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh? Yeah, it was a good week.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And it got me thinking with our guest this week
driving a race car. You know, I'm I'm a super
competitive guy by nature, but I don't have any wonderful
talents like driving a race car.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Or diving off the high dives.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And I got thinking about this Olympic sprinter who was
at her daughter's field.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Days and they had a parent contest for all the parents.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Which in itself is pretty wild to think about at
a kid's field day, to have these activities and have
parents competing against each old which would be very cool.
And it got me thinking about, you know, and we
can ask Mike when he comes in as a professional driver,
how competitive he is when he's not on the track,
but it got me to think erin how would you
(01:30):
interact with that, both as at a field day, but
more importantly, like, you know, you take your kids to
the community pool in Essex or something like that, and
I know how I would be watching these people if
I could dive, you know, watching these people dive because
they do at you know, Memorial if you're there saying
hold on, let me show you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So it's actually an interesting question because I feel like
the older I get the heart it is to act
like I can still like do it right. Like so
I dove in college, which is where this is coming
from from, Joe, and I like you, I am very competitive.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I think my parents used to sign us.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Up for every single sport growing up instead of having babysitters,
which is what made.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The whole Darrin Aaron segment.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We did here locally in Burlington so so much fun
because I'm like okay at a lot of things, but
was pretty good at diving in gymnastics. But it's not
like soccer where it's like, oh yeah, I like muscle
memory can like kick the ball around like diving. It's like,
I mean for starters, I've had two children, so I'm
not in this same shape I was at, you know,
(02:38):
nineteen twenty years old. But I mean I usually will
and like I have gotten up and will like you know,
do what feels very basic to me. But it still
is kind of impressive to others. But sometimes I don't know,
it depends on the crowd. And I'm sure when Jack
gets older, my three year old, he'll be like mom stop.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But I know if I had that talent, whatever that
might be, I would think I can still do because
of course, you know, I'm in my forties and I
think i'm twenty, So I think I would go up
there and be like, oh, watch this.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And then end up like really hurting myself.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, I think that's like the fear, like if I'm like, oh, yeah,
here I go, I'm gonna go and do like a
one and a half real quick, but then I like
come out at the wrong time just because it's like
Ben's along and I like my muffle memory forgot when
to do it, and then I just like belly flop
and then you're just like so embarrassed. So I feel
like that would like deter me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But that's like the lead in so okay, so you
go and die and the worst thing would be is
that you hurt yourself or you make a fool yourself,
which is it's fine. But like, well, last Mike, but
you know a professional driver, I could see because I
get fired up on the road.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I could see my really, let me show you the.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Guy likes he's like, he's like at a red light
with someone and the guy next one is like a
raving his engine and it's like, dude, do you know
who you're next to?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, take that scene from Days the Thunder, you know
where Tom Cruise is racing against us Mal Kilmore in
the in the wheelchairs in the hospital. Tell me you've
never seen Days of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, well, well that's a whole another episode that we
can do of stuff to get it went way off
the deep end, like you know, Days of Tunder, great
racing movie.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I don't know. I'll have to watch. I'll have
to watch. Well, let's let's ask Mike.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I wonder it's going to be awkward for you, Joe
if Mike hasn't seen it either.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But we are joined by Mike bill Do who works
for Myers drives the Meyers car is a race car driver,
which is like super cool, Mike, have you seen this movie?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Joe just talking.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
About many many times my wife has too much.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Okay, yeah, they always say it's where Tom Cruise phone
with Nicole Kidman. Yeah yeah, Nicole Kidman now married Keith Urban,
but you know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
She used to Yeah, well that was Nicole Kidman before
Katie Holmes.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, this is ender came out like like
eighty you're you're born eighty four, eighty five, eighty six
in that ballpark around eighty Well.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I bet you my dad.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
My dad used to raise snowmobiles, fun fact, so I
bet you he's like a power sports guy.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
So I bet you if I asked him.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
About it, he'll probably be like, we used to watch
it all the time.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Though, let's get into it with you with what we
were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If you are at the red lights and someone's like,
you know, edging up next to you thinking they're going
to beat you off the lines, does that just like
gut instinct kick in.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
All the time you went up at my age.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Now, at this point in time in life, my wife says,
I'm too instigated. I'm doing stuff like that and now
at my age, I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No, you're allowed.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You're allowed speaking of them a here. Let's say at
your age. I'm sure there's a lot of young bucks
down at thunder Road.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
But you have been racing.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Give me, give me your kind of history on the
racing you've been How long have you been racing. I
know it's been the Myers car for a while. Now,
kind of tell me how that all works.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Yeah, back in two thousand and eight, I was shown
an interest. I'd helped out on other cars with other people,
just helping out here and they're nothing big, but I
always wanted to do something because I've always been an
avid fan of watching the racing. So at some point
in time I came into little extra money and stuff
and I said, well, I guess I'm want to start racing.
(06:19):
I don't know if that was my best choice in
life at that point, but it is what it is now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mike, You've had some success over the years, So talk
about some of those successes you've had on the track
and where you see things going here in the future.
You know, the season is underway, so talk a little
bit about that for us.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Yeah, I mean We're a small team. It's just my
brother and I. It's a very competitive division at thunder Road.
It's called the Tiger Sportsman Series and it's a lot
of family and friends that compete in that class. And
you know, there's a lot of knowledgeable people down in
the Bury area that have been doing it all their life.
So with my brother and I just doing what we're doing,
we're there to have fun, be competitive. But there's a
(07:02):
lot of a lot of big teams down there to
compete with on a weekly basis, so it's kind of tough.
But we enjoy going down there.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
We enjoy the people down there, just the excitement of
being at thunder Road. It's got quite the history to it.
So yeah, it's something that we can do with our
families and uh, you know, and enjoy the time together.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I was gonna say, so for you know, your your
team to be really you and your brother.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
How I mean, how awesome is that?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Are you guys close in each barney Just obviously I'd
imagine you're pretty close with especially once race season rolls
around every year.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah, my brother is like a year younger than I am.
On the of three, I have a sister as well
and so, yeah, so he has an interest in the
side of setting up the car, the technical sides and
and all that stuff, and I'm the one that gets
to drive that and fund it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
So but then if things go wrong, you would to
blame him.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Oh that's that's a whole nother discussion on another week.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Because it depends on our night. It's all depends on
whose fault it is. So it's very quiet ride home
some nights.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So you talk about, you know, the funding of the team,
and of course you're doing it because of your passion
for the sport, but you know, Myers and the Redkin
family had sponsored your car for a number of years.
I talk a little bit about how that sponsorship works
and how important that is for your success to have
(08:34):
a to have a sponsor, and to have a sponsor
that you're not out there looking for a name sponsor
every year.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Yeah, Myers has been certainly, Jeff and his family have
been very supportive of this.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I just when I got into it.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
I'd been into it for years because I owned my
own business, and then Jeff had purchased my business and
I had said something to him, Hey, you.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Want to hop out on a race car?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
And thirteen years ago he said yes, and he's committed
every year and then some. And it's great to have
that because you can put that that money to get
use to where you can get the right equipment. You
can get the best equipment so you can be competitive
in this field. Like I said to me, you can't
be offered very much in this division because it's so competitive.
(09:19):
And it just gets more competitive as the years grow
because the younger generation comes in and us older guys
are phasing out. So it's a little tough to keep
up those guys. But it's a it's a passion and
we enjoy my time with my brother to do it.
There's days that we do have great days and we
have great success too, so but it's hard on a
(09:39):
weekly basis, but it does come.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
That's the gratification of it all.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The season I think just kind of recently began for
folks who have heard of thunder Road.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Don't really know what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You know, Thursday night is the big night, But what
would someone who wants to come out to the racetrack
need to know about Thursday nights at them?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The Road.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Just the spectacle of it all usually on the bigger weekends,
like the beginning of the season, they have a big
car show, they bring out the past champion, they do
like a kind of an intro where they have bagpipes
come in at the beginning of the season. We got
rained out that weekend, but I'm sure they'll make it up.
But it's the whole spectacle of it and the history
(10:21):
of it. Like I said, the reason they race on
Thursday nights is because back in the day, the granted
quarry guys always get paid on Thursday night, so that
was the best night to have races because they had money.
So that's where that came from. Just to give you
a little bit of history on that end. But I
think it's just the popularity's grown because it's actually a
(10:42):
real fun environment to be around.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, we were talking before we came on about you
know the competition of you know, Darren diving and everything
doesn't thun the road. Bring in a NASCAR driver once
a year to race against guys on the track.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Excuse me sorry, Usually when they have a race at
New Hampshire, we'll get a driver come up. In the past,
Kyle Bush has come up, Tony Stewart spent here. I mean,
there's been a couple of the NASCAR guys that come
up and then they realize how tough of this place
is too, So they come into equipment to set up
(11:19):
for them, and they definitely find out how how tough
with the track it is.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now, did they take it? Did they take it easy
on you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Or do they or are you guys take going after
I'd be curious that if I'm on the track next
to Tony Stewart and here's my chance, you know, or
you know, whichever one, here's my chance to maybe rub
them a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know what is it? It's not it's not racing
if it's not rubbing. Is that the line?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well yeah, but that's a different division.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's not time to lay.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
The division that they'll they'll come in and drive is
the Late Model Sportsman division, which is a higher tier
than mine. So I'm in the lower class, so they
don't race them those cars, but they run in the
Late Model Sportsman competition. So those guys thoroughly enjoy seeing
that the NASCAR stars come in because, like I said,
they want to go there. They want to race these
guys just as hard as they can and show them
(12:10):
what talent they do have here to race against that
type of uh driver.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Speaking of drivers you raised against, doesn't Governor Scott raced
out there sometimes or he hasn't been I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, he has had a limited schedule, but he has appeared.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
He runs into late model division as well. I don't
know what his schedule will be like this year.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
As far as that, but I'm sure he'll make appearances
at some of the bigger races or maybe a couple
of Thursday nights.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
We never know.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
A lot of politicians are these like stuffy guys. But no,
Governor Scott, he you know, was the racer and became
the governor and knew the responsibilities that came with it,
but still gets to go out there and do his
passion here here and here and again too. And I'm
trying to think. My husband works for the state. I
forget if he gets paid on Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So Mike Myers sponsors the Triple Crown race.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That you're involved in, and they're tackle from people who
might not understand how the Triple Crown works and why
the drivers always are striving to run well and win
that series.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Yeah, on a weekly division race, we race forty laps
and that's just what we run on a weekly Thursday
night our regular schedules. But the Meyers Triple Crown Series
is a special race that that the three races are
seventy five lappers, so they're longer distance, more money, and
more prestige to have the trophy at the end. Out
(13:46):
of the three races, they accumulate the point separately and
that also counts as a weekly race, but those three
will be done points wise separately, so there'll be a
separate round for the title at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So how long does forty laps take you? I mean,
I'm thinking forty laps with that, like all depends on
out or three hours.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
If it's a green flag and no cautions and no
accidents and stuff like that, we can generally get it
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Minutes if it's a green to green. So if it's
a wreckfast then it takes a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And what's your tap speed? What are you what are
you hitting on?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
A dap usually a good times than the thirteen nines
around the track. That's what we strive so one mile
per hour, I would ask to make sixty to seventy, right, yeah, yeah,
it was like thirteen nine.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Are we what.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Do that?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
On the five corners?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I mean that's just a highway, that's fifty five.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I have a hard time with that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, how many people we are usually app under it?
And I guess maybe that's something I maybe should have
pulled a photo up. But I've actually I've always talked
about wanting.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
To go, and I need to just I need to go.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Maybe too, maybe we can round up a crew and go,
especially on one of the Meyers Triple Crown nights. But
how many, like how many people are out there on
a Thursday night that's decent weather, Let's.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Give it that.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I think on a weekly division, where it's just a
weekly division, I think they get somewhere it's around five thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
But on the bigger races, like when we do get
a NASCAR driver, they've had up to ten thousand.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Oh well, but they've also introduced flow racing into the racetrack.
They do televise it are weekly events and you can
buy subscription to it. And I'm hearing numbers up and
they've told us anywhere from twenty five to thirty thousand
people that can watch it throughout whoever's subscribed to Flow Racing.
(15:54):
They do a ton of racing throughout the United States
and so you can suit drive to each track on
their nightly events.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
So I've guessed that's been really popular lately.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Talk a little bit about you know, Uh, one of
the things we're happy about is that you are also
a driver, not a race car driver, but also a
roll off driver for for the company. And you know,
maybe talk a little bit about you know, you've been
driving professionally both from a trash truck and a race
car for most of your adult life. So talk a
(16:29):
little bit about what it means to drive a roll
off truck and the challenges and the things that go
involved in in your aspect of your your career here
with with the Redcan Family.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Driving wise, always trying to be alert because it's not
your driving. You're always worried about the other guys, kind
of like racing. So just focus on your skills. And uh,
I've always been proud of driving for myself and the past,
and and here is you know, I'm just being aware
of your situations all the time and just you know,
(17:07):
putting yourself in good situations.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I mean, how fast have we gotten that truck up
to the Meyers truck?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I can't disclose that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Do you guys have your names on the side, because
I feel like I feel like you should, like you
should have a special sticker that's like caution, like race
card drivers, like, don't mess with me.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
No identifying mark.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
I put my I put my race card sticker in
the back of my pickup truck and I'll do something
silly on the road.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And my wife's like, you know, your name's on the
back of the truck, right about that? Boos books.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, so Aaron always loves the stories about in the
trash business.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know that funky thing I talked about in the
past about you know, the person drawing order, engagement ring
and stuff like that put you on the spot a
little bit. But do you have any great trash stories,
either Myers or old Greg's trucking days?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh, let me say.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
I I know that we had to dump a truck
one time for someone that was looking for some money.
They had had an envelope with some money, and I
think we and then we had to dump it at
a facility. I can't remember which facility.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
We had to dump it.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I'm I'm pretty sure it was maybe myers, but they
spent some time looking for it. They did eventually find it.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
But it was a sizable money I mean, yeah, the
ring got found.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The ring got found as well, so like in goodness
that you know, that'd be a lot of work and
to have not the happy ending that is desired to
get there.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, So we mentioned.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Darren Aaron's earlier.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I just want to let you know, Mike, if you
ever need an extra crew member.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I did do a Darren Aaron with Governor Scott and
a j Almondinger one time where we were changing tires.
So I did it faster than Governor Scott did. I
did like elbow him out of the way. But I
mean I've got skills.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You're you're aggressive, that's we need that.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yes, very very competitive over here.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
My brother would love to help because he's like, you
need to find me another crew member because you know,
I'm kind of the driver and kind of walk away
and let him do his thing. So he's like, I
could use an extra crew member. I'm like, I'll work
on that for you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
You know, anybody that wants to do it for free. Brother,
because you're welcome to bring him along.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
That's what my brother says all the time. I'll get
after about something goes well, you know you don't pay
me a whole lot, so.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, I mentioned how my dad used to raise snowmobiles
and it was the same exact dynamic, right, him and
his uncle or him and his brother Jay.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They're two years apart. J Boy is the mechanic and my.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Dad was the racer.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
And so that's why I was like, so whose fault
is it when things go wrong? Because that used to
be the most common thing is it was like J
Boy didn't do the right thing, or it was always.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
For the driver.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It was always the mechanics fault.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
My obviously you talked about how you know you're not
doing this for you know, when you win aways, you're
not winning hundreds of thousands of dollars, And my guess
is it's a losing propocision financially for you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
So you do for your love of the sport. What
do you see as the future? Are you going to
drive to?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know, Tom Cruise says he's going to do a
stunts till he's one hundred, So are you are you
going to drive till you're one hundred two.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
My body says no, but the financial resources I have
with Meyers says yes. Like I said, very competitive, and uh,
I've got a younger daughter. Her boyfriend raises his division
as well, and he is very competitive, him and I.
If we go bowling, we're competitive against each other to
(20:47):
beat each other's score, if we do something around each other.
And he's a very tough. He's actually very good. He
actually won the Meyers Triple Crown last year.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So he's very competitive.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Doesn't he know, oh that he's going to have to
ask for your hand in marriage sometimes, so he needs
to let you win if he wants you to say yes.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Family's family. But once you get his helmet armed, he
turns into a different element.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
So I give him grief. Sometimes I'm like, well you
could have and he just looks at me and giggles.
So he is very competitive. So but I haven't no
other way, So.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I like it.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Joe, any other questions you have for Mike, No, I
just think you know this whole concept of how this
podcast started around Myers container and you know the Redcan
family giving back.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know a lot of people see our red trucks
and they see Mike.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And people like Mike out on the road and they think,
at the end of the day, we're just picking up
the trash, and we are. But you know, Jeff and
Ken and Ryan have made it a passion to get
back to the community. And one of it is, you know,
Ramon is such a special place because people like Mike
are giving the rest of us entertainment. You know, Mike's
not making living off a driving car. He loves to
(22:08):
do it and it's a passion and so many people,
you know, tens of thousands of people are enjoying funder
Road every year in large part because the sponsors like
Myers and others that are giving back. So you know,
it's a nice to see Mike doing that, and it's
also nice from Myers that they will continue to support people,
(22:30):
be it from you know, we've talked to Ron mc
donald past and charities like that, but also the non
charities sponsorship things like you know, Friender Road. It plays
such a huge part and Jeff has always talked so
much about why that's so important from a community aspect.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Yeah, it's definitely something I appreciate very much. And you know,
is that the support he's given me throughout the years.
I'm really impressed that he's done because, like.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I said, he don't really have to, but he appreciates, uh,
what we do for him, and in return, he appreciates
what he does for the community as well, because everybody
sees everything on the road and that's all and with
racing and stuff, just to identify with people and in
the business, it's it's it's definitely a good.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Thing to have.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, Mike, thank you for taking the time today to
join us here on the podcast and tell us a
little bit more about driving the Meyers car and thunder
Road and how it all works.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Oh great, great, I appreciate you let me in, aren't it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Of course, thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Okay, thanks Je.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What a cool fact though, to learn why it was
a Thursday night thing. I what's your what's your paycheck?
Guilty pleasure? This was pre kids, but there was a
time when my husband would be like where are you
and I was like, oh, like TJ Max and.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He's like, oh, yeah, it's payday.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
So that was like my like go to places Tgmax
or home Goods on payday.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
What's your page?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well, pre kids, of course pay day would come and
that would be our one going out week event for
my wife and I, you know, be it the movies
or whatever it is. Now, then it was for my wife,
you know, TJ Maxx home Goods. Now it's Amazon, you know,
for her, that's you know, early in the morning, late
at night. So it's that, you know, we don't get
(24:27):
alerts that packages are being delivered. We get alerts that
we don't have a package, and they wanted to lie.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I always say that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Sometimes I'm like, man, I feel like I've ordered a
lot of things lately. I need to wait till all
of them get delivered before I order something else.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It's just amazing. I mean, it could be a whole
other episode.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But where we are in reality and life, you know,
when you know you would order in the past, you
would get the one thing whatever. Now it seems like,
you know, I'm coming home and we're getting toothpaste delivered,
and we're getting you know, everything is getting delivered.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
It's just amazing, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
And I love to support local.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's sometimes though, I will like just I'll be like, man,
I drove by the store, you know, six times today
and forgot I needed paper plates, so you know what,
it's eleven thirty.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
At night, but I'm just gonna order them real quick
and they'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And like now I don't have to go get them,
and a lot easier when the kids are little to
order than.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Floating them all up and going out.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Hey, but then watch this circle back to the trash.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
All those Amazon boxes need to get recycled.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Absolutely and that's why thankfully we're out there every day
picking up recycling.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I like it. I like it all right, anything else
before we let everybody go for this week?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
No, absolutely nothing at all. I think it's a it's enjoying.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As we're growing and we're building this, more people are
talking about it, which is which is great. You know,
it's important that we're people want to get it every week.
You know, they can like and subscribe to the to
the weekly podcast they get there learn about it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But it's it's fun and it's nice to learn.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know, we're learning about these things and you know,
all my twenty plus years here in vermon I didn't
know some of these sunder road facs, so it's nice.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, and also though, can we just mention real quick
how there have been promos running that your people have
been seeing you on TV.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
How's how's it felt? I feel like a little localist LB.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well, yes, you know, and it's unfortunately, fortunately last week
I had a couple times I was on other networks
about other issues going on in Vermont and uh, people
neighbors stopping me and they give me that kind of
weird look. And I got some you on TV and
I'm like, for a much thing, you know, and uh,
you know, so yes and year old had at the
(26:39):
old hand at this land you know on TV all
the time. But still, you know, it's a little weird
when people come up to me and tell me they
see me on TV.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I like it well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
As Joe mentioned, make sure that you like and subscribe
so every time a new podcast gets uploaded, you have
it right there at your fingertips. To learn a little
bit more, not only about Myers Base and Recycle, but
all some of the great organizations and communities that we
have in our area.
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