July 12, 2025 • 63 mins
Weathering change is what trucking is all about, and The Outer Belt's season finale brings this theme front and center. The hosts gather to share critical information about the newly implemented DOT medical card process, which has gone completely digital – with unexpected consequences. As one host recounts his firsthand experience with the system, he reveals the troubling reality: even when medical examiners submit information within 24 hours, the national registry can take 7-10 business days to update. This creates a dangerous limbo where drivers who wait until the last minute could find themselves suddenly non-compliant.
Against the backdrop of a scorching Ohio summer, the conversation weaves through personal experiences with cooling systems, strange weather patterns around Columbus that seem to split severe storms, and the challenges of finding comfort in spaces not built for extreme temperatures. These everyday struggles of trucking life provide a window into the resilience required to navigate this career.
The episode takes a poignant turn as the team pays tribute to Frederick Smith, the recently deceased founder of FedEx, whose vision fundamentally transformed global logistics. They trace Smith's remarkable journey from decorated Vietnam veteran to logistics pioneer, sharing stories of his early gambles to keep the company afloat and his lasting legacy through the Purple Promise – making every experience outstanding. For the hosts, whose business owes its existence to the FedEx ecosystem Smith created, his passing represents more than industry news; it's deeply personal.
As Season 3 concludes, the hosts reveal plans to return in late August or early September with fresh content and possible set changes. Their genuine camaraderie shines through as they describe recording sessions as therapeutic gatherings they initially resist but ultimately treasure – much like the trucking life itself, with its challenges and rewards.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A priest, a monk and a rabbit walk into a bar.
Yes, Watcher says to the priestwhat would you like, Father?
And the priest says I'mcelebrating, I just did my last
mass.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof champagne.
Who?
The monk says I'll have a glassof sake.
(00:22):
My responsibilities in themonastery are over.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof sake.
My responsibilities in themonastery are over.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof sake.
The rabbit says I think I'm atypo.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Hey everybody, Welcome to the Outer Belt.
I'm Patrick and you know myfriends Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Buttermilk, buttermilk, zucchini bread.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And Jerry.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh, what a wonderful day we have.
I just want to welcomeeverybody, our special guest, mr
Chappelle.
Thank you so much for takingyour time, coming all the way
over from Yellow Springs andhanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Somebody's got to bring the comedy, apparently.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, apparently we've been trying to get you
here.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
For how long now it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We've been writing letters.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah.
I think it was the carrierpigeon right, it was the carrier
pigeon that got it for me.
I don't accept physical mail.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why would you?
Because people like to sendstuff to me.
That's not appropriate.
I have to protect my family.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, I get that.
I certainly understand.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You build this hedge and this wall around your house,
yeah, so why let things in you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
shouldn't?
You shouldn't Just the homingpigeon, don't?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
do it Just the homing pigeon.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, they fly over the hedge yeah, just the homing
pigeon.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, they fly over the hedge.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And I like to call them the homie pigeon.
Okay, well, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm just curious.
I was actually here the lastepisode.
Did anybody pick up on my intro, the last episode, the
reference on that.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Apparently I missed it no, we certainly got it, so
he was moving along there wasthe last video.
I'm just kidding you know, intwo weeks ago came out about
this time right oh my goodness,we should start doing these live
, shouldn't we should?
Do you mention how much easierthat would make Jerry's life?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh, so much easier.
I do think our viewers wouldlike a live, maybe quarterly.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
We haven't done a live for a while.
We haven't done a live for awhile.
It's only been five years.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You've not even been on a live, but it's been a while
.
I think, a live quarterly wouldbe a good thing.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Okay, the Melissa happy hour.
Everybody in favor.
Say aye, aye, everybody post.
All right Well the Sheshirehappy hour coming to you soon,
quarterly.
So this is the end of July.
So this comes out like thefirst week of July, right?
Yes, july 4th, 5th, july 5th, Ithink.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This drops, I think so Listen, I don't know dates.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
It's actually January .
We just banked all these it'scold outside.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Let's hope it's really warm outside when this
releases, because we're going tosay it's warm, I tell you what
I am so tired of the cold.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I hope it's scalding hot.
I hope it's like scalding hot.
I hope.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
it's the hottest day of the year, of the year up to
date Me too, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I will take it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Absolutely Well, real quick.
We do want to say a real quickin case you missed it.
Happy birthday Eric.
Yay, happy birthday Eric.
That happened between thisepisode and the last episode.
So how does it feel to beanother year older?
The same.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Right, it happens.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, at least you're not gray At least your head's
not graying your beard is, Ithink I've got two new gray
strands.
It's very Dr Kevorkian.
That's definitely not right, drStrange.
Thank you, it's very, drStrange.
I like it.
I tell you what's.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Asymmetrical.
I hear you're catching up withJerry and Vincent on age he is
but the thing is, they keepgoing further.
I know he's actually surpassedme.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They refuse to stop.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We determined earlier this week on his birthday.
Maybe that he's surpassed me inage.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But that's only emotionally.
Well, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I haven't been 12 in way too long.
That's where I am emotionallytoday.
That's what I'm saying Are you.
Yeah, about 13.
And physically.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You're like what, 62?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I have a scale in my bedroom not bedroom in my
bathroom and it's one of thosefancy scales that you step on.
It's got the four metal thingswhere it shoots electricity
through your body.
Oh, your body fat scale.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Oh, I hate it, it's the devil.
And it tells me I'm metabolicage and it's quite a bit older
than I am, and I'm like hmm,okay, well, but you know what I
figured out?
I figured out that it'smanufactured by a Chinese
company, really, and so Ibelieve it is Chinese hackers
(05:19):
that have hacked my scale, andonly my scale, and they're
trying to make me think I'molder than I really am.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know, I bet that that is a very, very plausible
theory.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What if you only put one foot on there?
Then will you be half the age.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, because it doesn't work Well.
Two things One, first thing A,for those keeping track at home
or on the road.
I don't have balance on onefoot for very long, oh sorry
don't do that.
So I'd have to touch the wall,and as soon as you touch the
wall, you've shorted out themicrosystem.
(05:53):
The second thing is it shootselectricity up one foot through
your body, around your head,down each arm and back up into
the shoulder blades and thendown into the other foot.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That's a lot of electricity.
It's a lot of electricity.
It's a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Have you seen Batman?
I believe it's Forever where,not Forever Batman with?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
the Joker.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The Joker, which one's with Joker?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's Ledger, or with Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That's the original.
Do you remember the original?
That's just Batman.
That's just.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Batman.
No, that was Michael Keaton.
That was Michael Keaton.
How dare you, George?
The one where the great lateprince did the soundtrack?
Yes, that would be the one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So there's a scene in that movie where the Joker
shakes Bob's hand and, as we canall recall, bob has a slight.
He has one of those littlefunny like zoo, you got me
things, and then we see him injust a skeleton.
It's like that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, it tingles, but you get used to it.
I mean, we do the lithium ionbatteries and it says not to
because it's too much of a power.
But do you know how aggravatingit is to step on a scale and
see air bat?
It is aggravating.
Oh, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It means you didn't turn into Batman that day.
It does, it does.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Keeping it on brand.
I like it, I like it.
Jerry, how's your day been?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Good, good.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Are you staying cool?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's been hot, it's been miserable.
You haven't moved in your room,your office.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You're in the basement, the dungeon.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean it's not hot down there, but it's been on the
warmer side, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean, if y'all haven't picked up by now, jerry
basically lives in Penguin'scave from Batman.
That would be the next Batman.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I literally think my AC is cut off twice the entire
day and that was like for maybefive minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is it your power source or actually your house,
like your electricity source,because I heard some you had a
rolling brow.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
now you didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think what he means is his thermostat got to the
point where it needed to cut offbecause it was cool enough.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I believe that's what he means.
I misunderstood.
I thought you meant like didn'twork.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
A common misconception is that Jerry
doesn't have.
Bruce.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Wayne money.
Isn't he a Batman theme show?
He would be right.
I've heard that's not true.
Okay, he's not liquid.
He's not liquid.
Is he gold?
No, he does the Scrooge McDuffdive occasionally.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That was such a good cartoon.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Do you know, as a kid I used to think all the time
I've said this before on theshow how cool it would be to
dive into all that gold bullion.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
As an adult you realize that would hurt so bad
you would not penetrate the goldat all.
It would hurt a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You'd have to get that gold to a very high
temperature to do it, and thenit would hurt for another reason
.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No, it wouldn't hurt very long at that point.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
No, well, a couple seconds the nerve endings burn
you're done, especially headfirst right Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And you'd be gold-plated.
Oh hey, now.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Gold-plated.
Just like in Goldfinger.
Yeah, hello, that's a goodmovie, all right.
So so, jerry, you were saying,mr McDuff, you were saying that
you keep a gold bullion reservein your basement next to where
you work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm trying to think of something there is nothing
like dead air.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It is so great.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What's Don doing upstairs?
Because now he's in your office, which, if people listened to
last season, your old officeupstairs, is hotter than Hades
times 25,000.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, I tell you this much from what I understand,
the air just doesn't flow upthere.
From what I understand, don andEric are having a thin-off
contest.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Oh, so Don's sweating it out upstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He doesn't mind the heat as much as me, really, yeah
, he says it's okay.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I got mad at him yesterday because so the AC is
set on 74.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oof Mine's at 68.
Keep going.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So my AC is on 74 and , I remind you, it still does
not shut off.
So it finally did shut off andI was like holy crap, and this
was yesterday.
And then I walk upstairs andI'm like, oh, it's all the way
up to 76 and then I hear it kickback on and I'm like what's
going on?
And then I talked to don andhe's like, well, I got a little
(10:34):
chilly so I cut it up one degree.
And I'm like you do realize ifI turn it up that one degree,
that's just it shoots up.
Now it takes forever to getback down.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So for those of you who don't know, we are under a
heat advisory this entire weekin Ohio.
We are, temperatures areastronomical.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Until Wednesday at 6 pm.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Whatever that means.
Like does 6 pm, what happens?
The thermostat gods go down.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's gone down to canada starts canada starts
sitting, so there that's whenthe penguin shows up I see.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
So I had had mine at 70, but it was holding steady at
72 and it just ran all day, allday at 72.
So first thing in the morningat six o'clock, I've been
putting it at 68, which is whatI like it.
At night, and then it will holdmore at 70.
It reached 68 at one point thismorning, early granted.
(11:31):
This morning it was still 85degrees.
At 7 in the morning, yeah, um,but it it's all, it, all she can
take to just keep it under 72,even when I move it to 68 so not
for nothing, but you, you knowHeather and I at the yard, we
don't have the problems you guyshave.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
No, no, we don't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We don't have a thermostat outside.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Are you saying?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's just 99 degrees, are you?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
saying in the giant we rent like a I think it's a 15
by 50, something like that unit.
So in there the air conditionerdoesn't break.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The air conditioner in there doesn't work because it
doesn't exist in there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But that means it can't break.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I didn't say it was broken.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah but, if you lived in Louisiana, you'd have
Drew Brees.
The other problem is when youwalk into our storage facility
that has all the things youwould imagine that a truck
company would need you open upthe back door and it's just like
a mountain, like mount mattressof mattresses.
And blankets.
(12:35):
The mountains of mattresses arejust ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
We do order a lot because it'sa lot cheaper to buy in bulk.
And as you all know, we have avery close affiliation with OTR
Mattresses ridiculous.
So we do order a lot becauseit's a lot cheaper to buy in
bulk and and, as y'all know, uh,we have a very close
affiliation with otr mattressesand so we stock a lot of their
mattresses for them as well.
Um and so between those twoit's there's like what?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
probably 30 to 40 mattresses back there at any
given time yeah, and so it justyou can't walk from the back
door into the to the front doorbecause the matches to cover
that entire back space.
If this was a place wherepeople lived a habitatable
(13:18):
environment.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Habitual no.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No, a place that was habitable.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It would be a safety violation because you couldn't
get out that back door.
Yes, yes, yes, it's aconvenience store for us.
You'd have to do some climbing.
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And possibly falling back down.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Exactly Climb again.
No, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
If I'm in there and I get trapped in, I'm pushing
that over.
Oh, I get it.
I'd push it over too if I gottrapped in there.
I mean, that is one nice thingabout having a little mask, is
you can just Eric you're screwed, but the rest of us we're going
to dive over them?
Well, it doesn't seem.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're like, oh, soft , cuddly mattresses, and you
think about the fact that, likeyeah, soft, cuddly mattresses,
enough of them is 1,500, 2,000pounds.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, in the fall and spring you can get away.
If it's a warmer day, to openup the doors, because usually
there's a breeze.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, but the breeze doesn't blow the direction of
the storage unit it blowsperpendicular to it or parallel
to it, whichever word that needsto be.
That's what I thought yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Perpendicular would be going through parallel.
But, you know what's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You know that I fly a lot and doing all these lessons
and all this stuff that I do.
I went to have a conversationwith you about that.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So, flying out the airport that I do a lot of times
, the majority of times the windis east-west, okay, or some
variant, maybe a little off butpretty close to east-west.
But at our storage facilitythat we use our lot, I should
say, boy, it's north-south, itis north-south religiously.
(14:48):
I don't understand the weatherphenomenon in Columbus Ohio
specifically.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
There's a little bit of a hill in Upper Arlington
that splits the wind.
It's about 50 feet above sealevel and it splits the wind.
It's enough.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's enough, it's crazy.
No, that splits the wind.
It's enough.
It's enough, it's crazy.
No, that's further south.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's why, when you get down into Grove City and you
don't have any rain along 270,but you turn south on 71 and
it's thundering, that's becauseof the landfill.
It changes the whole weatherpattern.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Last week we talked about how, just a little bit
north of Arlington, we got thattorrential downpour.
I guess it's a great scale andyou had nothing at the yard.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So, yeah, there is something weird, phenomenon-wise
, or rather where I live andwhere y'all live, because we so
not Jerry, but the rest of uslive in the same tornado zone or
whatever.
So if my alarm goes off.
There's this and we've had somany times where that's happened
(15:59):
and it goes north or south andit just thank God and I'm
knocking'm knocking on wood.
It just it doesn't come our wayand it's so strange how there
is there, there is something andyou say 50 foot in arlington.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's kind of a joke but it honestly could be
something that's that simplelike it is crazy and and if
you're watching the radar, it'scoming right at us.
Right at us I mean like a speedtrain at the time when the the
weather said it's going to bethere.
You look at the radar again andit's split.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
It's split or around us or a lot of times too, we'll
get a band, a nasty red band,that's gone off from kansas all
the way up through india.
It's just gotten worse andworse and worse and it's just
nightmare.
And then it gets to columbusand it just kind of evaporates.
Yeah, nightmare.
Then it gets to Columbus and itjust evaporates.
You see it go into Cleveland,like it happened a couple weeks
ago when Cleveland did a tornadoup there For us.
(16:52):
We got a drizzle a coupleminutes.
No thunder, no lightning.
Insane how that happens here Idon't understand the phenomenon.
I have a prediction I wish youwould Tomorrow, wednesday.
Can't say the date.
I have a prediction I wish youwould Tomorrow, yes, wednesday,
wednesday, can't say the date.
Noonish, I think one, but go on, noonish, I say one.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, you say one Tornado alarm's going to go off.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Oh, Thank goodness we didn't shake on that right,
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Be prepared Tomorrow noon-ish.
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Noon-ish Top of the hour.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Top of the hour.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm going to say it's going to stay on for about 90
seconds.
Yeah, somewhere in there.
Yeah, okay, somewhere in there.
I could see that.
And I'm going to say it's theentire county of Franklin.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm going to go even further and say it's Delaware
County too.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We'll see.
We'll see if I'm the newNostradamus or not.
You might be, because next weekI might introduce myself as
Nostradamus.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I'll tell you what's really fun.
We were actually sitting atlunch with our realtor and we
were just chatting about stuffand talking about the.
So can I give the secret away?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, please give the secret away.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Okay, so at noon on every Wednesday the tornado
alarms go off as a test.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And so we were sitting there talking with our
realtor at lunch having a goodtime, and we really like our
realtor a lot.
She was like gosh.
If we ever had a tornado atnoon on Wednesday, how screwed
we'd be.
Because we all just assume likeI mean, no matter where you're
at in the city, you just likeooh on a Wednesday and you're
(18:37):
like it's noon.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Actually, during the spring there was a day where we
had really bad weather andFranklin.
County put out an alert sayingDuring the spring there was a
day where we had really badweather and Franklin County put
out an alert saying no teststhis afternoon at noon Because
of the weather and thepossibility of tornadoes.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
There will be no tests today, but if you're not
on socials or you don't followwhatever or you don't check
their website every morning.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Or if you're in Japan , wherever you might be, if
you're in Japan exactly, ifyou're not part of that.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We here in Columbus, I think, actively try to share
in our group chat with those ofus that live in or near Columbus
what the weather, especially ondays like that, and I think
that day it was shared in ourgroup.
But yeah, it just they, whichmakes sense that I'm not going
to do the test, because it couldbe the real thing.
(19:24):
Right, don't want to skewpeople, we want to save lives.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I didn't know they would do that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Cool, now you can tell your realtor that piece of
information.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I will, so she's not perplexed.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm calling her now.
Yeah, we'll take a break and goahead.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right In Yep, oh cool.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I feel like that goes in the bingo machine and you
just circle it around andwhatever spits out that's going
to be the.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
We haven't mentioned that one in weeks.
That's only the way that workswith money.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But I feel like that spits out in the ball and it's
like we're not getting actuallypaid.
Otr mattresses will be thesponsor today.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Alright OTA mattresses will be the sponsor
today, alright, so anyways, asyou were saying bingo, sadly
this one laid on a free spacesorry, that's what I picture
when we decide who the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I miss zest.
That's all I gotta say thenon-sponsor we know you miss
zest today, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I got a bar upstairs anyways, all right, so Can you
loan it to this one please?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What is wonderful about OTR mattresses?
That's right.
What is?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well, they're locally based, first and foremost.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Custom mattresses for your custom sleeper trucks.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you would like to check them out.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Boy, not a lot of copy on this one.
Otr kind of was like justmention us Visit OTR Mattress.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
OTR Services has like a whole spiel but the mattress
side is like OTR Mattress dotcom.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Otr Mattress dot com, or give us a call at
380-222-6634 they've got a lotof great reviews about the OTR
mattresses on the website arethey spring mattresses?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
they are not.
They are memory foam really arethey?
Well they're not spring,they're not spring, they're not
spring, they're not spring.
You don't want to be bouncingdown the road.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
To be clear they're not sprung.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
They're not sprung.
No, what they are is we.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
They're not known to forget, yeah, and there's no
anacondas.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We collect leaves from our yard in the fall,
because we have that great bigoak tree and we stuff them
inside of mattress covers.
And there you are, otr mattress.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, the nice thing about it is when you lay down,
you just really want thatcrinkle.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You do want that crinkle and that one little
piece of the leaf that sticksthrough you.
Lay back and hear the crinkleget that poke in you.
Yeah.
It's just like being outside,absolutely.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It reminds me of camping, and the nice thing
about it is that it is serene.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It is serene, it's very serene, it's like you know,
jumping into the pile of goldbullion.
Yes, who among us hasn't wantedto jump into a big old pile of
leaves?
Who hasn't Reach out to OCRMattress?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And you can buy yourself a big old pile of
leaves in a mattress cover.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I have jumped into a big pile of leaves.
Oh really, You'll never have.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
We can make that happen this fall.
That makes me kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's dirty.
No, thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Dirty is fine.
It's all the bugs that youdon't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's the 7,000 air bites you get You're doing a
fresh pile, not a Is that yourair mattress isn't going to go
flat in the middle of the nightby going camping?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That is true, so your foam mattress is going to be
nice and squishy that is true.
So it is a multi-layeredmattress and there's a couple
different varieties, so itdepends on what you get, but the
main idea behind it is it is adense core right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's a dense core of a thick supportive foam and then
on top of that you have memoryfoam, but you also get serene.
So if y'all remember back inthe day memory foam and you may
have bought one off Amazonbefore where you're like, oh,
memory foam is going to be great, and you wake up in the middle
of the night and you throw thosecovers off because it's like
(23:29):
1,200 degrees.
So memory foam is a really coolthing and it really was
designed by NASA.
That is not a joke.
It's what they use in the spacestation.
It's what they used to use onall of the space shuttle
missions and everything.
It is a really cool tool that wegot from NASA back in the 60s
and 70s.
It was revolutionary for itstime, but we've come a long way
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since then.
So the foam we use is Serene,and Serene is a really cool foam
and it actually absorbs.
It doesn't absorb the heat, ittakes the heat and it whisks it
away.
So you get the memory foambenefits, but you don't get all
that heat buildup that you do ina traditional memory foam
mattress or one that you canfind online for much cheaper.
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And then the other thing we dois we built it here in America.
We have a really, really nicecover that goes on it.
We have some really cool stuffthat, like, if you've ever been
in one of our custom trucks orif you've seen a picture, you've
probably thought to yourselflike how in the world do you
make your bed, because thoseback corners are tight and
difficult to get to.
So what did OTR Mattress do?
(24:32):
They put custom handles inthose corners so you can pick
that mattress up, you can slapthat sheet on and then you can
literally just let it go and letit thump down and it's fine,
and then just grab the next oneand do the same thing.
It's really really cool, makesmaking the bed easy, makes
changing those sheets easy andit's just a really cool thing
(24:53):
and, again, proudly crafted herein America.
We are an Ohio based company,but it's actually made in
Michigan and they're justextremely comfortable.
They come compressed in a boxso that when you are loading it
into the truck you're gettingyour old mattress out.
And if you've bought one beforeand you're like, oh my God, the
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thought of taking the mattressout and putting it back in is
overwhelming, don't worry aboutit.
Getting your old mattress outsucks.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
There's no easy way to put it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
But get it out and then ours comes in and you take
the box, you bring it in, youdrop it on your bedpan, you cut
the plastic piece off.
Carefully, carefully, don't cutyour mattress.
You pull that plastic off, giveit we generally say somewhere
around 8-12 hours to fullyinflate, because it is
(25:44):
compressed down and then you'regoing to sleep on it.
If you can give it 24 hours,it's even better yeah.
But it's not required.
We're going to sleep.
Well, that's a good question.
Yeah, that's why I say 24 isbest.
So if you're like, hey, I'mgoing to go home time maybe
getting it and then using itduring home time or whatever
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that way, getting it and then,uh, using it during home time,
that, whatever.
That way, you give it the full24, but if you don't, and you
only have eight to ten hours,perfectly fine, but I think
about a boom.
You have a very comfortablemattress and the reviews are
insane, like yeah, we just keepgetting reviews over and over
again and in one thing, we get alot and jerry.
Uh, you could tell me the god'shonest truth.
You and I've had thisconversation correct.
How can we get this price pointlower?
(26:25):
How can we make this mattresscheaper?
How can we make it moreaccessible and easier to get?
And we keep banging our headagainst a wall because, honestly
, the materials and the qualitywe use, along with making it
here in America, there's just nogive.
The profit margin on ourmattresses are very, very low.
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I'd love to take a chance to gothrough and explain how
mattresses work and what theyreally cost your local Cetra
store or your local Sealy oryour Posturepedic or any of
those kind of stores.
The mattress you're buying is20% of the cost of what you
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build, of what you buy.
So you buy a $500 mattress.
It costs that company $75, $80to make Like that's how much the
markup is.
And for us, our markup issitting in that like 10% to 15%
range.
It is ultra small.
We don't make hardly anythingoff these.
We only do it because we areformer truckers.
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Eric and I started this companyback in 2017, 18.
And, being former truckers, weknew that we needed a more
comfortable situation for ourpeople and that's how we came up
with this company, and so we doit to help people out.
And also we have to make alittle bit of money because we
are a for-profit company.
But it is not what your localmatch store is making.
(27:58):
We are genuinely putting out areally good product.
I tell you what?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
OTR mattresses sure got their money's worth on this
ad.
It's been a 10-minute ad.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well, Jerry's going to cut it down to three seconds.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So don't take our word for it.
Check out our Facebook pageOver the Road Mattress OTR
Search either one of those.
It should come up on Facebook.
Check out the reviews.
Check out the website atotrmattresscom.
Give us a call at 380-222-6634or shoot me an email at jerry at
otrmattresscom tell them theouter belt sent you.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Maybe we'll throw in a $50 gift card.
I doubt it.
Or discount rather I doubt itor discount.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Rather, I doubt it.
If you ask me, I'm saying no.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, that's because you help sometimes put them in
the truck, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
They're great mattresses.
Melissa and I had one Greatmattresses.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
They are great mattresses.
I actually bought a whateversize mattress.
I have in my house version ofthat.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We did too.
We did, did too.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And that's what I sleep on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
The other thing we did in our house too.
We got the OTR mattress and wethrew an APU out the back window
.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Discomfortable that humming all the time.
The vibration.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I bought one of those massive industrial air
conditioners.
If you ever go to a 7-Eleven ora Circa K and the AC's out and
they have that ridiculously hugething that like vents out the
front door or whatever.
I bought one of those that wayI could like really have the
experience.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But I didn't think about an APU yeah, an APU on the
back.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We don't have gas here, so it's a little
challenging.
It's really hard to get thereefer Once a week or so.
Well, I never had a reefer.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You guys didn't have reefers, that's not true, we did
have reefer, and Aaron and Idid run reefer for several years
, but we mostly did dry freightand so that didn't get burned
into us as much as most of theFedEx people Like Jerry.
Jerry doesn't have a reefer,but you have an air conditioner
unit there to make some noise,right?
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Yeah, it's so funny how calmingthat is when you're just so
used to it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It really is Jerry.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
A couple weeks ago by that I mean like a month and a
half ago we had a conversationon the Outer Belt about the DOT
medical card changes that arehappening and what you need to
know, and we all praised it.
Says it's a great thing, it'sgonna be wonderful for trucking,
can't wait till it happens.
And um, it has now happened anduh, you told me you had some uh
(30:34):
thoughts about it that you'dlike to share yeah, so, um, it
went into effect june 2025, andI was lucky enough to redo my
medical certificate.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On that day, nice and I went to an urgent care
facility.
They were not aware that it wasstarting that day.
They actually thought it wasstarting a week later and went
through the whole process, didmy physical Everything was great
and went to the local BMV toupdate it.
After standing in line for twoand a half hours, they tell me
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sorry, we can no longer updatethis in person.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Did they tell you?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
that at the check-in?
No Well, that would have beennice.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now when you say standing in line.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, I checked in and then I sat in my car with
the AC running because it washotter than blazes.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So you used up $60 worth of gasoline.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Absolutely, it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
So I did mine two weeks prior, so I did not hit
this deadline that you did and Iwent and sat on a very nice
metal chair, folding metal chair, for about an hour and a half,
but you did two and a half hoursand then what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So they can no longer update it in person, and I know
.
One thing that I wanted toclarify is we mentioned on our
previous episode that if youhave your paper version of your
medical card that is actually nolonger valid, they are not to
give you a paper version themedical examiner, so everything
has to be done digitally now.
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So whenever you do yourphysical, the medical examiner
has 24 hours to submit yourinformation to the National
Registry and then that is thensent to the carriers and updated
with the state.
Nothing can be done paper-wiseanymore.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well, you did, save yourself the five bucks and
having to do it in person in.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Ohio.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, that's interesting that it's all done
that way it feels.
It seems like those directionsweren't very public because when
we talked about it a coupleweeks ago we didn't know that at
that time we we talked aboutwaiting to see how it went.
I had no idea, because weactually can talked about doing
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that warning and turning it inyourself as a backup yes you
know, uh, and and now, knowingthat you can't do that, the kids
all through the carrier and alldigitally, that that's a little
frightening I asked the guy atthe bmv.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I was like there's nothing you can do and he said
actually, the way the law iswrote, he is by law unable to
accept it from me.
It has to be done by themedical examiner digitally so,
and when I'm out on the road Idon't have a paper thing that I
give them either, right?
No, according to what I wasinformed, if you are stopped for
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a DOT inspection or anything ofthat nature, it has to be in
the registry.
It has to be on their computersystem.
You cannot say, hey, I have apaper copy showing that I've
done it.
They cannot accept it legally.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Wow, I guess that's for fraud.
I mean you can gimme up a fakeone and show it.
I had a DOT inspection MemorialDay weekend roadside and the
officer asked me about my logsand if I knew how to submit them
.
And I was like it's been awhile, let me read the direction
(33:58):
here and get it taken care of.
And he went and did myinspection and never came back
and asked for my log.
But because of the work that Ido, I'm in different trucks.
I'm in multiple trucks a daysometime and he asked a question
and I forget what the questionwas but I said yeah, I mean you
know I'm in multiple trucks aday.
He goes.
Yeah, I saw that, like I.
(34:19):
Maybe he used the DOT numberand my name for my driver's
license to be able to pull up mylogs from Panther because it
was in a Panther truck.
But he was able to see my logswithout me showing him
physically my ELD.
So I'm guessing it's just forfraudulent things that they're
all digital, no more paper.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I could see that.
I could see that.
I could see that.
So I moved a truck from Memphisto Columbus several months ago.
Actually, if you watch thisshow frequently, you'll remember
we talked about it.
I got stopped by the DOT onthat one as well, random
Roadside, which, of course,immediately as soon as those
(35:00):
lights come off, you're likewhat's my speed, what's the
speed limit?
And there's never a speed limitsign and you're like oh my gosh
, did I just roll into?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
a 45 and didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
But no, none of that, it was all fine.
They just randomly chose me andpulled me over and, um, the guy
asked me for my logs but I wasrunning under.
So if your eld breaks down, youhave seven days or something
like that to get it back.
This was a new truck to us andthe ELD didn't work, so we had
that provision we could workunder.
(35:29):
He wasn't familiar with that,which is frustrating.
You would think a cop wouldknow.
There was three different copsand I think one of them might
have been training.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
And the one that told me we're not familiar, that has
come across the system is theguy I think was training Okay,
so maybe he was.
But the other cop did come overeventually and say like oh no,
he's gone, he's fine, Like wedon't have to worry about that.
Sure, what we're seeing so farwith this paper stuff that he's
willing to show us is good.
So I was good and I was able toget on home.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Just to clarify real quick.
You have seven days where youcan log on paper, correct, you
still have to log for that sevendays.
Absolutely, you have to paperlog if your ELD is not working
properly.
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
So that was what I'm going to call the training cop
or the trainee.
He that was what I'm going tocall the training cop or the
trainee.
He was confused about like Iwas not able to send my paper
logs over via the computer thatyou're supposed to, and the
other cop was the one thatrealized oh no, I see what's
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happening and, yes, we can takethis.
So I'm sure it's going to be,the same thing with some of
these medical situations, but itis really cool how they can see
in the back end.
It is cool.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I'd like to see just in 30 days how it all shakes out
Like we need to keep this onour reminder list to see
Absolutely Our show notes foreach show.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, just maybe dig a little deeper, see how things
are shaking out.
Maybe check in August and seehow it's going.
Yeah, because I can see.
I'm very curious.
A so right now, jerry, based onwhat you told me earlier and I
don't want to give away anything, so if I'm out of line, just
let me know.
But as of right now, the stateof Ohio does not have you
updated in the system, correct,but your medical examiner did
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get the information from theirheadquarters or corporate office
and has submitted everything,right.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
So my understanding was you have 24 hours to submit
it and you'll be good to go.
However, you told me that's notaccurate.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Correct.
So whenever the medicalexaminer submits it, if it
matches up with your name, dateof birth and your license number
in the state, if for somereason there's an error or
something like that, the medicalexaminer can then match
everything up there at the timethat they're submitting this.
As long as they get all of thatcorrect, then it should submit,
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but it could still take sevento 10 business days to update in
the national registry.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So then, if you have any issues, you're to go back to
your medical examiner and makesure it was all submitted
correctly.
If all of that is good, youronly recourse is to submit an
email to the registry.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
And however long it takes them to see, that is
however long it takes.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
So are you non-DOT compliant if that's not all
updated?
Correct so you have to sit athome and be out of service.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I say yes because I say that based off of
information that I got from amotor carrier today.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
That if it's not updated whenever my current one
expires, then I'm technicallynon-compliant so I think the big
takeaway from this is, if youget a one year or a 24 month, uh
, dot, um, I keep sayinginspection, that's not right.
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Physical physical Then you needto treat that, at least for now,
as an 11-month and a 23-monthphysical, because if you so I'm
just tracking this.
So like, okay, I know for mepersonally, patrick, and with my
name first and last, with mydate of birth, there is another
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person identical to me in thiscountry.
I've had an issue before.
I remember one time when Ibought my house in Columbus.
Actually it came up.
Actually it came up.
They were like do you owe?
Like it was some obscure thinglike J&R Audio in New York City
(39:49):
$60,000?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And I'm like no, I'm like, no, I do not.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And they're like okay , we didn't think it was you
because your social securitydidn't match.
And I'm like, well then, whydid you even call me?
But my name and date of birthdoes match another identical to
me, and that person has terriblecredit.
And it's caused me a coupleissues, not many, but a couple.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
So, yeah, I would totally agree.
If you have a 12-month or a24-month, it then becomes 11 or
23-month.
Make sure you do this way aheadof time, because it's something
that I'm running into now,where I just did mine, it
finally got submitted, but I'mjust in limbo waiting for
everything to get updated that'ssuper frustrating.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I appreciate you sharing with us as well on that
hopefully in six to nine monthsthey have all the kinks worked
out, but 69 months that's a longtime.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Six to nine months.
They have all the kinks workedout.
69 months.
That's a long time.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Six to nine months, they have it all worked out.
Three to six would be preferred, right, but let's be real.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
What about today?
What about today?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Today is the next 24, 36 hours.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I know, but it's a new change with multiple
entities.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Yes, and you know what, In the reality of things,
next week, everyone that doesthese or not everyone, but the
majority of them will have beenpresented with these issues.
They'll have had to deal withtheir corporates.
They will hopefully have thelogins and be experts at it.
Yeah, you will have some thatare.
They don't do DATs very oftenand they may be a little
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clueless, but the people thatturn them out all the time.
Hopefully next week they'll beas usual.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
It's like implementing in the new software
program.
I think about when we switchedto our new phone system.
It was a struggle Ooh it was.
And now we're all proficient atit and it's working well.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
So yeah, girl, I remember signing up for that and
the the now we're all on it theanger.
I got about that and then noweveryone's like don't you dare
call me on my cell phone?
This is how we contact eachother now, and it is a miracle
(41:59):
worker, but boy, was it tough.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So, yeah, I can imagine the same thing, because
you're dealing with essentiallythree entities right, the
registry, the state times 50.
Yeah, and then all of themedical examiners.
Yes so really three entitiestimes multiple entities across
those boards.
So I imagine it's going to be astruggle.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
All having to work together.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
And do things in order.
Yeah Well, so tonight it wasgoing to be a little bit of a
celebration, a little bit ofhappiness.
I mean, obviously, this newswith Jerry and what's happening
with the medical card situationbeing the first week it's out A
little bit of a bummer news, butwe were really planning on kind
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of a celebration.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It's going to be our last episode Ever Not ever, ever
we're going to put all the gearon reverb and sell it off.
This will be it.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
This will be it for July For this season For this
season For this season.
So we are rolling into season.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
We are wrapping up season three.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
And we are going into .
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Season four.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
So we are prepared to kind of have a party and hang
out and just be excited forwhat's going on.
But bummer news took an evensharper toll on us than we were
expecting.
So the time you're hearing this, this news will be a couple
weeks old, but for us it's very,very, very fresh.
The chairman and founder ofFedEx, federal Express, fred
(43:40):
Smith.
He passed away a few days ago.
A couple days ago at 80 yearsold in Memphis, tennessee, and
we wanted to acknowledge thatand bring it to you.
(44:01):
Highfield Trucking, which ownsthis podcast and you'll see us
on.
We owe our entire existence toFedEx and getting us started.
So at the end of the day, it wasEric and I deciding several
years ago over a decade now topartner with and contract with
(44:27):
FedEx and become a part of theFedEx CustomEx Corporation and
was guiding the ship, and he wasthis rock we all looked to.
(44:51):
He had this belief in thepurple promise which is to make
every experience specificallyFedEx experience, his experience
, specifically FedEx experience.
But if you're a contractor orjust if you absorb it in your
daily life, it's inexperienceoutstanding.
That was what he imposed to hispeople and I think that's why
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you have FedEx, the huge,admired company it is today.
It's directly from hisleadership.
He did step down in 2022 frombeing CEO, ceo, and so now it's
what?
Three years, not not that longago, really right?
Um, he's been chairman of theboard for uh, that amount of
time since, and he did just passaway at 80 years old of natural
(45:34):
causes.
Um, I do want to highlight a fewthings about him real quick.
He was born in 1944.
He went to Yale College forbusiness and economics and then,
in 1966, he became a Marine,and I found this, and I'm going
(45:59):
to look it up real quick becauseI want to get it right.
So he served two duties of warin the Vietnam War.
He was honorably discharged in1969 with the rank of captain.
He received a silver star, abronze star and two purple
hearts.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
So I know, when we hear about him, we think about
his career, his company, hisgigantic success with that.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But he was somebody else too.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
He was a hero prior to any of that, and his parents
were smart business people andso he started FedEx with a $4
million inheritance from hisfamily.
And so he started FedEx with a$4 million inheritance from his
family, was able to go out andraise like $91 million in
(46:45):
capital from a bunch of venturecapital sources Of course, this
was back in the 70s, so a verydifferent world than we live in
now and he built a fleet of 14airplanes these are tiny little
airplanes Falcon 20s they'rejust little bitty jets, little
airplanes.
Uh, falcon 20s they're justlittle bitty jets.
(47:06):
And, uh, he went in and um,built this package, uh process,
and I thought it was interesting.
So we all know the federalexpress name, right, like fred
smith, who is this huge, uh likedriving force that that built
this company and grew it, andhe's an amazing man, but he
didn't man, but he didn't namethe company after himself.
It's always Federal Express,like how did they get that right
?
Like it's a good name, yeah,great name.
(47:28):
Federal Express is a great name.
How did he get it?
They were actually in theirearly years.
They were chasing a contractwith the Federal Reserve.
Oh and that's how they came upwith that name Nice and that's
how they came up with that name.
They didn't get that contract,but still the name stuck and it
is quite amazing.
And of course there are a fewstories, like when he was first
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starting the company and in thefirst few years they were having
some financial issues and hetook $5,000, which is the last
bit of money the company hadwent to Vegas and went and
played I don't remember whatgame it was.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I think it was Blackjack.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
I think it was Blackjack, yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
And in that game he won $27,000.
And the company's fuel bill,literally their jet fuel bill,
was $24,000.
And he was able to cover thefuel bill off that right Now.
That only happened once, sure,but it's just like the amount of
(48:32):
.
I believe in this company tothe extreme that I will do
something crazy to ensure itssuccess, to the point that it is
today which is massive, likewhen I want to send a package
overnight.
If I send it UPS, if I send itUSPS, if I send it FedEx, how do
I say it?
I'm going to FedEx this to you.
(48:52):
Like it is ubiquitous, just likewe would say Google.
I'm going to Google something.
You may use Bing, you may usesome other search engine, but
we're going to Google it.
We're going to FedEx a packageovernight to you, sure.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
But how often do you go to ship something overnight
and think about USPS or UPS?
Speaker 4 (49:10):
to ship something overnight and think about USPS
or UPS.
The only time I do is whenanother company has a contract
with them and they send me alabel Right Otherwise if we're
sending something, I'm going toFedEx.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
If it's going overnight, it's going FedEx.
Yep, yeah, you know they'retrusted.
They're trusted, they'rereliable their tracking system
works.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
They develop the idea of the tracking system.
I mean just everything you'veseen come across over the years.
And even like the FedEx CustomCritical, Some people out there
saying like well, he didn'tdevelop FedEx Custom Critical,
he bought that from RobertsExpress or whatever.
It's the idea that he had theforethought to buy this from
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Roberts Express.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
And fit it into the logistics network and just an
overarching system so that everypiece of the logistics network
was covered.
Covered, absolutely so youdidn't have to go somewhere else
.
If I need to ship something andit meets this criteria, I don't
have to go somewhere else forthat piece of business.
(50:08):
I can go to FedEx for that.
It's a one-stop shop Foreverything.
One-stop shop?
Speaker 4 (50:12):
Absolutely no doubt Absolutely, and so it was rough.
So when I first woke up acouple days ago and I saw this,
what I do every morning is,before I get out of bed
literally get out of bed I grabmy phone and I just look through
a the immediate text messageand phone calls and see what
(50:32):
business, sure emergency I haveto handle uh but outside of that
, it is, uh, go to facebook andI do a quick scroll, and when I
say a quick scroll I meanliterally 10 minutes and I'm out
.
Um, and I saw one person saysomething about rip frederick
smith RIP, frederick Smith, youwere great, or whatever.
And I'm like no, there's no way.
And so I looked up and Istarted researching a little bit
(50:57):
and I'm like, oh, oh, andliterally like it felt like the
weight of an elephant, not anelephant, maybe like a small
zebra, like sitting on myshoulders, and I'm like, or
something chest.
I'm like, oh, this sucks, likeit really.
It was like oh, this is like.
(51:19):
I'm trying to think of a way tophrase it.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
Bummer deal, big bummer deal.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
Big bummer deal and it really hurt.
Yeah, it's like.
This is someone who I can like.
A lot of people's companiesthey can set back and say like,
okay, here's where we getstarted, here's where things
helped out for us.
Whatever, I can literally tracemy company back to right his
company, yeah, and if it wasn'tfor him literally him building
(51:46):
this network that we're a partof uh, we wouldn't be here, this
podcast wouldn't exist.
There's so many ramificationsof it and it was a very rough.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
It was a rough morning and seeing all that
happen over the years, I checkedout some quotes from him
Because he seems like a prettysmart, wisdom filled man.
One of the quotes I found whichkind of holds true to ifield,
in my opinion, is fear offailure must never be a reason
(52:19):
not to try something I thoughtthat was pretty cool sounds like
he was that kind of man thatlived by that absolutely, I
think so, I absolutely think so.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
he I mean, even when you see the different opcos,
like he, is a logistics company.
Their whole thing is movingfreight If it's parcel, if it's
less than truckload, if it'struckload, if it's intermodal.
They are a freight movingcompany and they buy Kinkos.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:50):
And create FedEx Office freight moving company
and they buy kinkos, yeah, andcreate fedex office and it's
like so now you're old enough toknow kinko, so I used to use
this so I did.
I used kinkos too.
Kinkos, they were great.
I used to use too.
So kinkos especially wasactually a baton rouge based
company.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
So uh, oh, I didn't know that absolutely very
familiar with.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm very familiar with it that's.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
It was a home home built, uh, really big company
where I lived and seeing uh himgo.
No, there's an opportunity here.
Not only do we get in this verycool printing business and blow
that up uh, but there's alsothis ability to get people to
put more freight in our network.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:32):
And like I use a FedEx office Like Highfield, if
you get something from us that'sFedExed, we went to a FedEx
office and sent it off.
We didn't go to a FedEx.
Nine times out of ten we didn'tgo to a FedEx ship store.
That like thinking outside thebox, because you would look at
it and go like why is FedExbuying a printer?
Because you would look at itand go like why is FedEx buying?
Speaker 1 (53:49):
a printer.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
It doesn't make any sense and seeing his vision to
what it is now, it's like Ican't imagine FedEx without the
FedEx office.
Ups turns right around.
They make the UPS store liketrendsetting, and so, yeah, it's
just, he was a great leader, areally great person.
(54:13):
He believed in this thing, thisshrinking of the world, when no
one else did, and hesuccessfully pulled it off to
the point where we now havethree or four competitors doing
it and they're still the best,the elite of it.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah, no one else is doing it as well as're still the
best.
The elite of it.
Yeah, no one else is doing itas well as FedEx is.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Absolutely not, and boy it just.
It was a sucker punch to seethat Sure.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
And we wish Richard, his son, who used to up until
like a year ago he was actuallyvery involved with Tax Custom
Critical, which the divisionwere part of we wish him, and
all his family and everythingyou know, just warm feelings and
love that you know, frederickdied a very loved and beloved
(55:04):
person and we all have reallygreat things to say about him
and his family and just wishthem comfort as they go through
this process Right, we've alllost loved ones at this point
and parents and Just wish themsome peace as they go through
this and just know that hismemory, his legacy, is going to
(55:24):
continue through the FedEx brand.
The FedEx brand through thecontractors like us that support
that and keep it going andreally focusing on that purple
promise to make things, everyexperience, outstanding.
And from Highfield, I can tellyou personal thank you, like I
wouldn't be here without you.
So we appreciate that and yeah,so kind of a little bit of
(55:51):
bummer news Again.
By the time you're hearing thisit'll be a couple weeks old,
but yeah, it's just been a roughfew days for us for that.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
So we hate to end the show on a bad note, but it's
about that time where we have toend the show.
But we just had a bad note.
Yes, we just had a bad note.
Speaker 4 (56:12):
We hate to end the show on a bad note.
On a sad note, Can we end on apositive?
Speaker 1 (56:15):
We can't end on a positive.
We're going to end on apositive, with Jerry telling us
how he can reach out to us andtell us how much you love our
show.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
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gmailcom.
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(56:47):
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You can also chat with us liveon our website over there, with
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You can reach out to us at833-HIGHFIELD, h-y-f-i-e-l-d or
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Speaker 4 (57:13):
Monday through Friday , 8 am to 5 pm Eastern Time.
Absolutely, and as I alluded toearlier, this will be the end
of Season 3.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
And Zucchini Bread is going to lead us into what to
look forward to next season.
A lot of fun stuff.
When does it come?
When can they start resuming orlooking for?
Speaker 4 (57:31):
us Around the end of August.
End of August, maybe beginningof September, maybe beginning of
September.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
September's the best month ever, but in the meantime,
Labor Day hit off, so what Ihear is late fall, early fall.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
No, early fall, early fall.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
I call that late summer early fall, Because fall
doesn't happen until September21st.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yeah, I have a question.
According to the, Econauts.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
The 25th of September .
Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yes, but in the meantime, go back and watch all
the previous episodes and catchup on seasons one and two, if
you haven't.
Speaker 4 (58:06):
And if you're driving , listen too, because you can
catch us on your favoritepodcasting platform.
We're on YouTube podcast, we'reon Apple podcast.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
We're on Spotify, wherever you find your podcast.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Absolutely, they listen the first time because
they're driving, but now they'llhave time and they can go back
and watch Crazy.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Faces.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Yeah, I don't recommend that but if there are
things that you want us to talkabout, let us know.
We've got plenty of time towork on some planning and
episodes and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
If you'd like to see a new set design?
Let us know Buttermilk is dyingto redo the set.
She is dying, she's like it's alittle old.
It's been two seasons now we'vehad this.
Speaker 3 (58:47):
It's comfortable though.
Speaker 4 (58:48):
It is so comfortable.
Speaker 3 (58:49):
It.
Speaker 4 (58:49):
It's comfortable, though it is so comfortable it's
better than the table westarted off with yes, it is, and
we got new couches and newchairs, the table felt more like
Crossfire than anything else.
But it was different too.
I was trying to build a thingand it didn't happen.
I get it.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
We're working on it.
It's a work in progress, aconstant work in progress.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
I was thinking next year, Vince and I Lazy Boys.
Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (59:09):
Come on right there Sit around the table on the
floor.
I was thinking of fire pit andcigars.
Gonna do some kumbaya aroundthe table.
You have to look at us likeBill Maher.
Put the candle in the middle.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
Camera from on top.
Put the candle in the middle,It'll be our bonfire.
Air quotes.
Speaker 4 (59:27):
Well, listen, we are so glad you've hung out with us
so long.
We could not have gotten herewithout y'all.
We appreciate so much y'allsupporting us, watching us,
supporting our sponsors.
Those of you with OTRmattresses drop a comment down
below or, better yet, go to theOTR Mattress Facebook, leave us
a review there.
Or, if you just have like, Ilove the mattress, send us an
(59:52):
email letting us know that sothat we can throw it up on the
website and other people can seeit as well.
Um, it has been so much fun.
I'm looking forward to a littlebit of a break.
Speaker 3 (59:59):
We're gonna be crazy, though we're gonna come back
crazy oh my gosh, we havebecause this is like therapy.
I know people don't understandit, but it is like midweek
therapy and it's gonna be greatI know we're trying to wrap up,
yes, but it's so funny that youknow we work.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
We record this show in the evening.
We've worked all day and for mepersonally, I get off work and
I get home and I don't want tocome do this, I agree, and I sit
down here and I put the headseton and it just starts and I'm
having a great time.
It is like therapy literally.
It's not like therapy.
It is like therapy literally.
It's not like therapy.
Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Well, it is like therapy, but it's also like
going to the gym.
If you've been to the gymbefore, you are putting your gym
clothes on, you're grabbingyour gym bag the whole time, you
are cussing and so mad You'relike I do not want to do this
and midway through working outyou're like this is kind of nice
.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
This is great.
It's kind of how this is.
It is not like the gym.
No, it does not happen.
Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
The fact that whole gym thing is BS, Well, okay
maybe that's what I'veexperienced, but the fact that
we all really like each otherand the reality is in case you
haven't picked it up we all hangout behind the scenes.
We love hanging out with eachother.
It is actually going to bequite a busy break for us.
(01:01:17):
A little.
Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
R&R.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
I'll give you a little something to look forward
to.
In August, we are going toIreland, we're going to Paris,
paris.
Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I get to show that off.
Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
We're going to London .
We're going to a little bit ofa rum festival.
We will have some excitingstuff to share with you all in
August as well, we are going toSome new bottles.
Maybe Perhaps we'll see.
It's a long way from here toLondon it is.
It's not London Ohio.
Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
No, although we were there last weekend, melissa and
I.
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
That's where I'll go while you guys are there.
Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
I'm in London too, you can also go to Versailles,
Ohio, if you want to.
That's right Listen whileyou're Lebanon Ohio.
Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Oh, maybe not.
It's the wrong time of the year.
Until then, yes, until then Ithink you should all stay safe,
make good decisions.
We love you.
Thank you so much for hangingout with us.
Don't leave money on the table.
Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
And keep those walls of Tarnum.
Bye, see you next season august, september.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Thank you.
A priest, a monk and a rabbit walk into a bar.
Yes, Watcher says to the priestwhat would you like, Father?
And the priest says I'mcelebrating, I just did my last
mass.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof champagne.
Who?
The monk says I'll have a glassof sake.
(00:22):
My responsibilities in themonastery are over.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof sake.
My responsibilities in themonastery are over.
I'm retiring, I'll have a glassof sake.
The rabbit says I think I'm atypo.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Hey everybody, Welcome to the Outer Belt.
I'm Patrick and you know myfriends Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Buttermilk, buttermilk, zucchini bread.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And Jerry.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh, what a wonderful day we have.
I just want to welcomeeverybody, our special guest, mr
Chappelle.
Thank you so much for takingyour time, coming all the way
over from Yellow Springs andhanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Somebody's got to bring the comedy, apparently.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, apparently we've been trying to get you
here.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
For how long now it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We've been writing letters.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah.
I think it was the carrierpigeon right, it was the carrier
pigeon that got it for me.
I don't accept physical mail.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why would you?
Because people like to sendstuff to me.
That's not appropriate.
I have to protect my family.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, I get that.
I certainly understand.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You build this hedge and this wall around your house,
yeah, so why let things in you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
shouldn't?
You shouldn't Just the homingpigeon, don't?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
do it Just the homing pigeon.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, they fly over the hedge yeah, just the homing
pigeon.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, they fly over the hedge.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And I like to call them the homie pigeon.
Okay, well, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm just curious.
I was actually here the lastepisode.
Did anybody pick up on my intro, the last episode, the
reference on that.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Apparently I missed it no, we certainly got it, so
he was moving along there wasthe last video.
I'm just kidding you know, intwo weeks ago came out about
this time right oh my goodness,we should start doing these live
, shouldn't we should?
Do you mention how much easierthat would make Jerry's life?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh, so much easier.
I do think our viewers wouldlike a live, maybe quarterly.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
We haven't done a live for a while.
We haven't done a live for awhile.
It's only been five years.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You've not even been on a live, but it's been a while
.
I think, a live quarterly wouldbe a good thing.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Okay, the Melissa happy hour.
Everybody in favor.
Say aye, aye, everybody post.
All right Well the Sheshirehappy hour coming to you soon,
quarterly.
So this is the end of July.
So this comes out like thefirst week of July, right?
Yes, july 4th, 5th, july 5th, Ithink.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This drops, I think so Listen, I don't know dates.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
It's actually January .
We just banked all these it'scold outside.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Let's hope it's really warm outside when this
releases, because we're going tosay it's warm, I tell you what
I am so tired of the cold.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I hope it's scalding hot.
I hope it's like scalding hot.
I hope.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
it's the hottest day of the year, of the year up to
date Me too, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I will take it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Absolutely Well, real quick.
We do want to say a real quickin case you missed it.
Happy birthday Eric.
Yay, happy birthday Eric.
That happened between thisepisode and the last episode.
So how does it feel to beanother year older?
The same.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Right, it happens.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, at least you're not gray At least your head's
not graying your beard is, Ithink I've got two new gray
strands.
It's very Dr Kevorkian.
That's definitely not right, drStrange.
Thank you, it's very, drStrange.
I like it.
I tell you what's.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Asymmetrical.
I hear you're catching up withJerry and Vincent on age he is
but the thing is, they keepgoing further.
I know he's actually surpassedme.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They refuse to stop.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We determined earlier this week on his birthday.
Maybe that he's surpassed me inage.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But that's only emotionally.
Well, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I haven't been 12 in way too long.
That's where I am emotionallytoday.
That's what I'm saying Are you.
Yeah, about 13.
And physically.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You're like what, 62?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I have a scale in my bedroom not bedroom in my
bathroom and it's one of thosefancy scales that you step on.
It's got the four metal thingswhere it shoots electricity
through your body.
Oh, your body fat scale.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Oh, I hate it, it's the devil.
And it tells me I'm metabolicage and it's quite a bit older
than I am, and I'm like hmm,okay, well, but you know what I
figured out?
I figured out that it'smanufactured by a Chinese
company, really, and so Ibelieve it is Chinese hackers
(05:19):
that have hacked my scale, andonly my scale, and they're
trying to make me think I'molder than I really am.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know, I bet that that is a very, very plausible
theory.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What if you only put one foot on there?
Then will you be half the age.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, because it doesn't work Well.
Two things One, first thing A,for those keeping track at home
or on the road.
I don't have balance on onefoot for very long, oh sorry
don't do that.
So I'd have to touch the wall,and as soon as you touch the
wall, you've shorted out themicrosystem.
(05:53):
The second thing is it shootselectricity up one foot through
your body, around your head,down each arm and back up into
the shoulder blades and thendown into the other foot.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That's a lot of electricity.
It's a lot of electricity.
It's a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Have you seen Batman?
I believe it's Forever where,not Forever Batman with?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
the Joker.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The Joker, which one's with Joker?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He's Ledger, or with Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That's the original.
Do you remember the original?
That's just Batman.
That's just.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Batman.
No, that was Michael Keaton.
That was Michael Keaton.
How dare you, George?
The one where the great lateprince did the soundtrack?
Yes, that would be the one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So there's a scene in that movie where the Joker
shakes Bob's hand and, as we canall recall, bob has a slight.
He has one of those littlefunny like zoo, you got me
things, and then we see him injust a skeleton.
It's like that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, it tingles, but you get used to it.
I mean, we do the lithium ionbatteries and it says not to
because it's too much of a power.
But do you know how aggravatingit is to step on a scale and
see air bat?
It is aggravating.
Oh, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It means you didn't turn into Batman that day.
It does, it does.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Keeping it on brand.
I like it, I like it.
Jerry, how's your day been?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Good, good.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Are you staying cool?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's been hot, it's been miserable.
You haven't moved in your room,your office.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You're in the basement, the dungeon.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean it's not hot down there, but it's been on the
warmer side, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean, if y'all haven't picked up by now, jerry
basically lives in Penguin'scave from Batman.
That would be the next Batman.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I literally think my AC is cut off twice the entire
day and that was like for maybefive minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is it your power source or actually your house,
like your electricity source,because I heard some you had a
rolling brow.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
now you didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think what he means is his thermostat got to the
point where it needed to cut offbecause it was cool enough.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I believe that's what he means.
I misunderstood.
I thought you meant like didn'twork.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
A common misconception is that Jerry
doesn't have.
Bruce.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Wayne money.
Isn't he a Batman theme show?
He would be right.
I've heard that's not true.
Okay, he's not liquid.
He's not liquid.
Is he gold?
No, he does the Scrooge McDuffdive occasionally.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That was such a good cartoon.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Do you know, as a kid I used to think all the time
I've said this before on theshow how cool it would be to
dive into all that gold bullion.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
As an adult you realize that would hurt so bad
you would not penetrate the goldat all.
It would hurt a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You'd have to get that gold to a very high
temperature to do it, and thenit would hurt for another reason
.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No, it wouldn't hurt very long at that point.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
No, well, a couple seconds the nerve endings burn
you're done, especially headfirst right Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And you'd be gold-plated.
Oh hey, now.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Gold-plated.
Just like in Goldfinger.
Yeah, hello, that's a goodmovie, all right.
So so, jerry, you were saying,mr McDuff, you were saying that
you keep a gold bullion reservein your basement next to where
you work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm trying to think of something there is nothing
like dead air.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It is so great.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What's Don doing upstairs?
Because now he's in your office, which, if people listened to
last season, your old officeupstairs, is hotter than Hades
times 25,000.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, I tell you this much from what I understand,
the air just doesn't flow upthere.
From what I understand, don andEric are having a thin-off
contest.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Oh, so Don's sweating it out upstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He doesn't mind the heat as much as me, really, yeah
, he says it's okay.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I got mad at him yesterday because so the AC is
set on 74.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oof Mine's at 68.
Keep going.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So my AC is on 74 and , I remind you, it still does
not shut off.
So it finally did shut off andI was like holy crap, and this
was yesterday.
And then I walk upstairs andI'm like, oh, it's all the way
up to 76 and then I hear it kickback on and I'm like what's
going on?
And then I talked to don andhe's like, well, I got a little
(10:34):
chilly so I cut it up one degree.
And I'm like you do realize ifI turn it up that one degree,
that's just it shoots up.
Now it takes forever to getback down.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So for those of you who don't know, we are under a
heat advisory this entire weekin Ohio.
We are, temperatures areastronomical.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Until Wednesday at 6 pm.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Whatever that means.
Like does 6 pm, what happens?
The thermostat gods go down.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's gone down to canada starts canada starts
sitting, so there that's whenthe penguin shows up I see.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
So I had had mine at 70, but it was holding steady at
72 and it just ran all day, allday at 72.
So first thing in the morningat six o'clock, I've been
putting it at 68, which is whatI like it.
At night, and then it will holdmore at 70.
It reached 68 at one point thismorning, early granted.
(11:31):
This morning it was still 85degrees.
At 7 in the morning, yeah, um,but it it's all, it, all she can
take to just keep it under 72,even when I move it to 68 so not
for nothing, but you, you knowHeather and I at the yard, we
don't have the problems you guyshave.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
No, no, we don't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We don't have a thermostat outside.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Are you saying?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's just 99 degrees, are you?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
saying in the giant we rent like a I think it's a 15
by 50, something like that unit.
So in there the air conditionerdoesn't break.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The air conditioner in there doesn't work because it
doesn't exist in there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But that means it can't break.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I didn't say it was broken.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah but, if you lived in Louisiana, you'd have
Drew Brees.
The other problem is when youwalk into our storage facility
that has all the things youwould imagine that a truck
company would need you open upthe back door and it's just like
a mountain, like mount mattressof mattresses.
And blankets.
(12:35):
The mountains of mattresses arejust ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
We do order a lot because it'sa lot cheaper to buy in bulk.
And as you all know, we have avery close affiliation with OTR
Mattresses ridiculous.
So we do order a lot becauseit's a lot cheaper to buy in
bulk and and, as y'all know, uh,we have a very close
affiliation with otr mattressesand so we stock a lot of their
mattresses for them as well.
Um and so between those twoit's there's like what?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
probably 30 to 40 mattresses back there at any
given time yeah, and so it justyou can't walk from the back
door into the to the front doorbecause the matches to cover
that entire back space.
If this was a place wherepeople lived a habitatable
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environment.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Habitual no.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No, a place that was habitable.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It would be a safety violation because you couldn't
get out that back door.
Yes, yes, yes, it's aconvenience store for us.
You'd have to do some climbing.
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And possibly falling back down.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Exactly Climb again.
No, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
If I'm in there and I get trapped in, I'm pushing
that over.
Oh, I get it.
I'd push it over too if I gottrapped in there.
I mean, that is one nice thingabout having a little mask, is
you can just Eric you're screwed, but the rest of us we're going
to dive over them?
Well, it doesn't seem.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're like, oh, soft , cuddly mattresses, and you
think about the fact that, likeyeah, soft, cuddly mattresses,
enough of them is 1,500, 2,000pounds.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, in the fall and spring you can get away.
If it's a warmer day, to openup the doors, because usually
there's a breeze.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, but the breeze doesn't blow the direction of
the storage unit it blowsperpendicular to it or parallel
to it, whichever word that needsto be.
That's what I thought yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Perpendicular would be going through parallel.
But, you know what's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You know that I fly a lot and doing all these lessons
and all this stuff that I do.
I went to have a conversationwith you about that.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So, flying out the airport that I do a lot of times
, the majority of times the windis east-west, okay, or some
variant, maybe a little off butpretty close to east-west.
But at our storage facilitythat we use our lot, I should
say, boy, it's north-south, itis north-south religiously.
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I don't understand the weatherphenomenon in Columbus Ohio
specifically.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
There's a little bit of a hill in Upper Arlington
that splits the wind.
It's about 50 feet above sealevel and it splits the wind.
It's enough.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's enough, it's crazy.
No, that splits the wind.
It's enough.
It's enough, it's crazy.
No, that's further south.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's why, when you get down into Grove City and you
don't have any rain along 270,but you turn south on 71 and
it's thundering, that's becauseof the landfill.
It changes the whole weatherpattern.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Last week we talked about how, just a little bit
north of Arlington, we got thattorrential downpour.
I guess it's a great scale andyou had nothing at the yard.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So, yeah, there is something weird, phenomenon-wise
, or rather where I live andwhere y'all live, because we so
not Jerry, but the rest of uslive in the same tornado zone or
whatever.
So if my alarm goes off.
There's this and we've had somany times where that's happened
(15:59):
and it goes north or south andit just thank God and I'm
knocking'm knocking on wood.
It just it doesn't come our wayand it's so strange how there
is there, there is something andyou say 50 foot in arlington.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's kind of a joke but it honestly could be
something that's that simplelike it is crazy and and if
you're watching the radar, it'scoming right at us.
Right at us I mean like a speedtrain at the time when the the
weather said it's going to bethere.
You look at the radar again andit's split.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
It's split or around us or a lot of times too, we'll
get a band, a nasty red band,that's gone off from kansas all
the way up through india.
It's just gotten worse andworse and worse and it's just
nightmare.
And then it gets to columbusand it just kind of evaporates.
Yeah, nightmare.
Then it gets to Columbus and itjust evaporates.
You see it go into Cleveland,like it happened a couple weeks
ago when Cleveland did a tornadoup there For us.
(16:52):
We got a drizzle a coupleminutes.
No thunder, no lightning.
Insane how that happens here Idon't understand the phenomenon.
I have a prediction I wish youwould Tomorrow, wednesday.
Can't say the date.
I have a prediction I wish youwould Tomorrow, yes, wednesday,
wednesday, can't say the date.
Noonish, I think one, but go on, noonish, I say one.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, you say one Tornado alarm's going to go off.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Oh, Thank goodness we didn't shake on that right,
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Be prepared Tomorrow noon-ish.
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Noon-ish Top of the hour.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Top of the hour.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm going to say it's going to stay on for about 90
seconds.
Yeah, somewhere in there.
Yeah, okay, somewhere in there.
I could see that.
And I'm going to say it's theentire county of Franklin.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm going to go even further and say it's Delaware
County too.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We'll see.
We'll see if I'm the newNostradamus or not.
You might be, because next weekI might introduce myself as
Nostradamus.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I'll tell you what's really fun.
We were actually sitting atlunch with our realtor and we
were just chatting about stuffand talking about the.
So can I give the secret away?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, please give the secret away.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Okay, so at noon on every Wednesday the tornado
alarms go off as a test.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And so we were sitting there talking with our
realtor at lunch having a goodtime, and we really like our
realtor a lot.
She was like gosh.
If we ever had a tornado atnoon on Wednesday, how screwed
we'd be.
Because we all just assume likeI mean, no matter where you're
at in the city, you just likeooh on a Wednesday and you're
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like it's noon.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Actually, during the spring there was a day where we
had really bad weather andFranklin.
County put out an alert sayingDuring the spring there was a
day where we had really badweather and Franklin County put
out an alert saying no teststhis afternoon at noon Because
of the weather and thepossibility of tornadoes.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
There will be no tests today, but if you're not
on socials or you don't followwhatever or you don't check
their website every morning.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Or if you're in Japan , wherever you might be, if
you're in Japan exactly, ifyou're not part of that.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We here in Columbus, I think, actively try to share
in our group chat with those ofus that live in or near Columbus
what the weather, especially ondays like that, and I think
that day it was shared in ourgroup.
But yeah, it just they, whichmakes sense that I'm not going
to do the test, because it couldbe the real thing.
(19:24):
Right, don't want to skewpeople, we want to save lives.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I didn't know they would do that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Cool, now you can tell your realtor that piece of
information.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I will, so she's not perplexed.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm calling her now.
Yeah, we'll take a break and goahead.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right In Yep, oh cool.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I feel like that goes in the bingo machine and you
just circle it around andwhatever spits out that's going
to be the.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
We haven't mentioned that one in weeks.
That's only the way that workswith money.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But I feel like that spits out in the ball and it's
like we're not getting actuallypaid.
Otr mattresses will be thesponsor today.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Alright OTA mattresses will be the sponsor
today, alright, so anyways, asyou were saying bingo, sadly
this one laid on a free spacesorry, that's what I picture
when we decide who the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I miss zest.
That's all I gotta say thenon-sponsor we know you miss
zest today, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I got a bar upstairs anyways, all right, so Can you
loan it to this one please?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What is wonderful about OTR mattresses?
That's right.
What is?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well, they're locally based, first and foremost.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Custom mattresses for your custom sleeper trucks.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you would like to check them out.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Boy, not a lot of copy on this one.
Otr kind of was like justmention us Visit OTR Mattress.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
OTR Services has like a whole spiel but the mattress
side is like OTR Mattress dotcom.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Otr Mattress dot com, or give us a call at
380-222-6634 they've got a lotof great reviews about the OTR
mattresses on the website arethey spring mattresses?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
they are not.
They are memory foam really arethey?
Well they're not spring,they're not spring, they're not
spring, they're not spring.
You don't want to be bouncingdown the road.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
To be clear they're not sprung.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
They're not sprung.
No, what they are is we.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
They're not known to forget, yeah, and there's no
anacondas.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We collect leaves from our yard in the fall,
because we have that great bigoak tree and we stuff them
inside of mattress covers.
And there you are, otr mattress.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, the nice thing about it is when you lay down,
you just really want thatcrinkle.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You do want that crinkle and that one little
piece of the leaf that sticksthrough you.
Lay back and hear the crinkleget that poke in you.
Yeah.
It's just like being outside,absolutely.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It reminds me of camping, and the nice thing
about it is that it is serene.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It is serene, it's very serene, it's like you know,
jumping into the pile of goldbullion.
Yes, who among us hasn't wantedto jump into a big old pile of
leaves?
Who hasn't Reach out to OCRMattress?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And you can buy yourself a big old pile of
leaves in a mattress cover.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I have jumped into a big pile of leaves.
Oh really, You'll never have.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
We can make that happen this fall.
That makes me kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's dirty.
No, thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Dirty is fine.
It's all the bugs that youdon't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's the 7,000 air bites you get You're doing a
fresh pile, not a Is that yourair mattress isn't going to go
flat in the middle of the nightby going camping?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That is true, so your foam mattress is going to be
nice and squishy that is true.
So it is a multi-layeredmattress and there's a couple
different varieties, so itdepends on what you get, but the
main idea behind it is it is adense core right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's a dense core of a thick supportive foam and then
on top of that you have memoryfoam, but you also get serene.
So if y'all remember back inthe day memory foam and you may
have bought one off Amazonbefore where you're like, oh,
memory foam is going to be great, and you wake up in the middle
of the night and you throw thosecovers off because it's like
(23:29):
1,200 degrees.
So memory foam is a really coolthing and it really was
designed by NASA.
That is not a joke.
It's what they use in the spacestation.
It's what they used to use onall of the space shuttle
missions and everything.
It is a really cool tool that wegot from NASA back in the 60s
and 70s.
It was revolutionary for itstime, but we've come a long way
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since then.
So the foam we use is Serene,and Serene is a really cool foam
and it actually absorbs.
It doesn't absorb the heat, ittakes the heat and it whisks it
away.
So you get the memory foambenefits, but you don't get all
that heat buildup that you do ina traditional memory foam
mattress or one that you canfind online for much cheaper.
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And then the other thing we dois we built it here in America.
We have a really, really nicecover that goes on it.
We have some really cool stuffthat, like, if you've ever been
in one of our custom trucks orif you've seen a picture, you've
probably thought to yourselflike how in the world do you
make your bed, because thoseback corners are tight and
difficult to get to.
So what did OTR Mattress do?
(24:32):
They put custom handles inthose corners so you can pick
that mattress up, you can slapthat sheet on and then you can
literally just let it go and letit thump down and it's fine,
and then just grab the next oneand do the same thing.
It's really really cool, makesmaking the bed easy, makes
changing those sheets easy andit's just a really cool thing
(24:53):
and, again, proudly crafted herein America.
We are an Ohio based company,but it's actually made in
Michigan and they're justextremely comfortable.
They come compressed in a boxso that when you are loading it
into the truck you're gettingyour old mattress out.
And if you've bought one beforeand you're like, oh my God, the
(25:14):
thought of taking the mattressout and putting it back in is
overwhelming, don't worry aboutit.
Getting your old mattress outsucks.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
There's no easy way to put it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
But get it out and then ours comes in and you take
the box, you bring it in, youdrop it on your bedpan, you cut
the plastic piece off.
Carefully, carefully, don't cutyour mattress.
You pull that plastic off, giveit we generally say somewhere
around 8-12 hours to fullyinflate, because it is
(25:44):
compressed down and then you'regoing to sleep on it.
If you can give it 24 hours,it's even better yeah.
But it's not required.
We're going to sleep.
Well, that's a good question.
Yeah, that's why I say 24 isbest.
So if you're like, hey, I'mgoing to go home time maybe
getting it and then using itduring home time or whatever
(26:05):
that way, getting it and then,uh, using it during home time,
that, whatever.
That way, you give it the full24, but if you don't, and you
only have eight to ten hours,perfectly fine, but I think
about a boom.
You have a very comfortablemattress and the reviews are
insane, like yeah, we just keepgetting reviews over and over
again and in one thing, we get alot and jerry.
Uh, you could tell me the god'shonest truth.
You and I've had thisconversation correct.
How can we get this price pointlower?
(26:25):
How can we make this mattresscheaper?
How can we make it moreaccessible and easier to get?
And we keep banging our headagainst a wall because, honestly
, the materials and the qualitywe use, along with making it
here in America, there's just nogive.
The profit margin on ourmattresses are very, very low.
(26:50):
I'd love to take a chance to gothrough and explain how
mattresses work and what theyreally cost your local Cetra
store or your local Sealy oryour Posturepedic or any of
those kind of stores.
The mattress you're buying is20% of the cost of what you
(27:12):
build, of what you buy.
So you buy a $500 mattress.
It costs that company $75, $80to make Like that's how much the
markup is.
And for us, our markup issitting in that like 10% to 15%
range.
It is ultra small.
We don't make hardly anythingoff these.
We only do it because we areformer truckers.
(27:35):
Eric and I started this companyback in 2017, 18.
And, being former truckers, weknew that we needed a more
comfortable situation for ourpeople and that's how we came up
with this company, and so we doit to help people out.
And also we have to make alittle bit of money because we
are a for-profit company.
But it is not what your localmatch store is making.
(27:58):
We are genuinely putting out areally good product.
I tell you what?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
OTR mattresses sure got their money's worth on this
ad.
It's been a 10-minute ad.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well, Jerry's going to cut it down to three seconds.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So don't take our word for it.
Check out our Facebook pageOver the Road Mattress OTR
Search either one of those.
It should come up on Facebook.
Check out the reviews.
Check out the website atotrmattresscom.
Give us a call at 380-222-6634or shoot me an email at jerry at
otrmattresscom tell them theouter belt sent you.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Maybe we'll throw in a $50 gift card.
I doubt it.
Or discount rather I doubt itor discount.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Rather, I doubt it.
If you ask me, I'm saying no.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, that's because you help sometimes put them in
the truck, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
They're great mattresses.
Melissa and I had one Greatmattresses.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
They are great mattresses.
I actually bought a whateversize mattress.
I have in my house version ofthat.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We did too.
We did, did too.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And that's what I sleep on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
The other thing we did in our house too.
We got the OTR mattress and wethrew an APU out the back window
.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Discomfortable that humming all the time.
The vibration.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I bought one of those massive industrial air
conditioners.
If you ever go to a 7-Eleven ora Circa K and the AC's out and
they have that ridiculously hugething that like vents out the
front door or whatever.
I bought one of those that wayI could like really have the
experience.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But I didn't think about an APU yeah, an APU on the
back.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We don't have gas here, so it's a little
challenging.
It's really hard to get thereefer Once a week or so.
Well, I never had a reefer.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You guys didn't have reefers, that's not true, we did
have reefer, and Aaron and Idid run reefer for several years
, but we mostly did dry freightand so that didn't get burned
into us as much as most of theFedEx people Like Jerry.
Jerry doesn't have a reefer,but you have an air conditioner
unit there to make some noise,right?
(30:01):
Yeah, it's so funny how calmingthat is when you're just so
used to it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It really is Jerry.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
A couple weeks ago by that I mean like a month and a
half ago we had a conversationon the Outer Belt about the DOT
medical card changes that arehappening and what you need to
know, and we all praised it.
Says it's a great thing, it'sgonna be wonderful for trucking,
can't wait till it happens.
And um, it has now happened anduh, you told me you had some uh
(30:34):
thoughts about it that you'dlike to share yeah, so, um, it
went into effect june 2025, andI was lucky enough to redo my
medical certificate.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On that day, nice and I went to an urgent care
facility.
They were not aware that it wasstarting that day.
They actually thought it wasstarting a week later and went
through the whole process, didmy physical Everything was great
and went to the local BMV toupdate it.
After standing in line for twoand a half hours, they tell me
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sorry, we can no longer updatethis in person.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Did they tell you?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
that at the check-in?
No Well, that would have beennice.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now when you say standing in line.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, I checked in and then I sat in my car with
the AC running because it washotter than blazes.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So you used up $60 worth of gasoline.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Absolutely, it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
So I did mine two weeks prior, so I did not hit
this deadline that you did and Iwent and sat on a very nice
metal chair, folding metal chair, for about an hour and a half,
but you did two and a half hoursand then what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So they can no longer update it in person, and I know
.
One thing that I wanted toclarify is we mentioned on our
previous episode that if youhave your paper version of your
medical card that is actually nolonger valid, they are not to
give you a paper version themedical examiner, so everything
has to be done digitally now.
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So whenever you do yourphysical, the medical examiner
has 24 hours to submit yourinformation to the National
Registry and then that is thensent to the carriers and updated
with the state.
Nothing can be done paper-wiseanymore.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well, you did, save yourself the five bucks and
having to do it in person in.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Ohio.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, that's interesting that it's all done
that way it feels.
It seems like those directionsweren't very public because when
we talked about it a coupleweeks ago we didn't know that at
that time we we talked aboutwaiting to see how it went.
I had no idea, because weactually can talked about doing
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that warning and turning it inyourself as a backup yes you
know, uh, and and now, knowingthat you can't do that, the kids
all through the carrier and alldigitally, that that's a little
frightening I asked the guy atthe bmv.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I was like there's nothing you can do and he said
actually, the way the law iswrote, he is by law unable to
accept it from me.
It has to be done by themedical examiner digitally so,
and when I'm out on the road Idon't have a paper thing that I
give them either, right?
No, according to what I wasinformed, if you are stopped for
(33:24):
a DOT inspection or anything ofthat nature, it has to be in
the registry.
It has to be on their computersystem.
You cannot say, hey, I have apaper copy showing that I've
done it.
They cannot accept it legally.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Wow, I guess that's for fraud.
I mean you can gimme up a fakeone and show it.
I had a DOT inspection MemorialDay weekend roadside and the
officer asked me about my logsand if I knew how to submit them
.
And I was like it's been awhile, let me read the direction
(33:58):
here and get it taken care of.
And he went and did myinspection and never came back
and asked for my log.
But because of the work that Ido, I'm in different trucks.
I'm in multiple trucks a daysometime and he asked a question
and I forget what the questionwas but I said yeah, I mean you
know I'm in multiple trucks aday.
He goes.
Yeah, I saw that, like I.
(34:19):
Maybe he used the DOT numberand my name for my driver's
license to be able to pull up mylogs from Panther because it
was in a Panther truck.
But he was able to see my logswithout me showing him
physically my ELD.
So I'm guessing it's just forfraudulent things that they're
all digital, no more paper.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I could see that.
I could see that.
I could see that.
So I moved a truck from Memphisto Columbus several months ago.
Actually, if you watch thisshow frequently, you'll remember
we talked about it.
I got stopped by the DOT onthat one as well, random
Roadside, which, of course,immediately as soon as those
(35:00):
lights come off, you're likewhat's my speed, what's the
speed limit?
And there's never a speed limitsign and you're like oh my gosh
, did I just roll into?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
a 45 and didn't realize it.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
But no, none of that, it was all fine.
They just randomly chose me andpulled me over and, um, the guy
asked me for my logs but I wasrunning under.
So if your eld breaks down, youhave seven days or something
like that to get it back.
This was a new truck to us andthe ELD didn't work, so we had
that provision we could workunder.
(35:29):
He wasn't familiar with that,which is frustrating.
You would think a cop wouldknow.
There was three different copsand I think one of them might
have been training.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
And the one that told me we're not familiar, that has
come across the system is theguy I think was training Okay,
so maybe he was.
But the other cop did come overeventually and say like oh no,
he's gone, he's fine, Like wedon't have to worry about that.
Sure, what we're seeing so farwith this paper stuff that he's
willing to show us is good.
So I was good and I was able toget on home.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Just to clarify real quick.
You have seven days where youcan log on paper, correct, you
still have to log for that sevendays.
Absolutely, you have to paperlog if your ELD is not working
properly.
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
So that was what I'm going to call the training cop
or the trainee.
He that was what I'm going tocall the training cop or the
trainee.
He was confused about like Iwas not able to send my paper
logs over via the computer thatyou're supposed to, and the
other cop was the one thatrealized oh no, I see what's
(36:37):
happening and, yes, we can takethis.
So I'm sure it's going to be,the same thing with some of
these medical situations, but itis really cool how they can see
in the back end.
It is cool.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I'd like to see just in 30 days how it all shakes out
Like we need to keep this onour reminder list to see
Absolutely Our show notes foreach show.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, just maybe dig a little deeper, see how things
are shaking out.
Maybe check in August and seehow it's going.
Yeah, because I can see.
I'm very curious.
A so right now, jerry, based onwhat you told me earlier and I
don't want to give away anything, so if I'm out of line, just
let me know.
But as of right now, the stateof Ohio does not have you
updated in the system, correct,but your medical examiner did
(37:22):
get the information from theirheadquarters or corporate office
and has submitted everything,right.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
So my understanding was you have 24 hours to submit
it and you'll be good to go.
However, you told me that's notaccurate.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Correct.
So whenever the medicalexaminer submits it, if it
matches up with your name, dateof birth and your license number
in the state, if for somereason there's an error or
something like that, the medicalexaminer can then match
everything up there at the timethat they're submitting this.
As long as they get all of thatcorrect, then it should submit,
(38:00):
but it could still take sevento 10 business days to update in
the national registry.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So then, if you have any issues, you're to go back to
your medical examiner and makesure it was all submitted
correctly.
If all of that is good, youronly recourse is to submit an
email to the registry.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
And however long it takes them to see, that is
however long it takes.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
So are you non-DOT compliant if that's not all
updated?
Correct so you have to sit athome and be out of service.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I say yes because I say that based off of
information that I got from amotor carrier today.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
That if it's not updated whenever my current one
expires, then I'm technicallynon-compliant so I think the big
takeaway from this is, if youget a one year or a 24 month, uh
, dot, um, I keep sayinginspection, that's not right.
(38:59):
Physical physical Then you needto treat that, at least for now,
as an 11-month and a 23-monthphysical, because if you so I'm
just tracking this.
So like, okay, I know for mepersonally, patrick, and with my
name first and last, with mydate of birth, there is another
(39:24):
person identical to me in thiscountry.
I've had an issue before.
I remember one time when Ibought my house in Columbus.
Actually it came up.
Actually it came up.
They were like do you owe?
Like it was some obscure thinglike J&R Audio in New York City
(39:49):
$60,000?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And I'm like no, I'm like, no, I do not.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And they're like okay , we didn't think it was you
because your social securitydidn't match.
And I'm like, well then, whydid you even call me?
But my name and date of birthdoes match another identical to
me, and that person has terriblecredit.
And it's caused me a coupleissues, not many, but a couple.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
So, yeah, I would totally agree.
If you have a 12-month or a24-month, it then becomes 11 or
23-month.
Make sure you do this way aheadof time, because it's something
that I'm running into now,where I just did mine, it
finally got submitted, but I'mjust in limbo waiting for
everything to get updated that'ssuper frustrating.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I appreciate you sharing with us as well on that
hopefully in six to nine monthsthey have all the kinks worked
out, but 69 months that's a longtime.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Six to nine months.
They have all the kinks workedout.
69 months.
That's a long time.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Six to nine months, they have it all worked out.
Three to six would be preferred, right, but let's be real.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
What about today?
What about today?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Today is the next 24, 36 hours.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I know, but it's a new change with multiple
entities.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Yes, and you know what, In the reality of things,
next week, everyone that doesthese or not everyone, but the
majority of them will have beenpresented with these issues.
They'll have had to deal withtheir corporates.
They will hopefully have thelogins and be experts at it.
Yeah, you will have some thatare.
They don't do DATs very oftenand they may be a little
(41:21):
clueless, but the people thatturn them out all the time.
Hopefully next week they'll beas usual.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
It's like implementing in the new software
program.
I think about when we switchedto our new phone system.
It was a struggle Ooh it was.
And now we're all proficient atit and it's working well.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
So yeah, girl, I remember signing up for that and
the the now we're all on it theanger.
I got about that and then noweveryone's like don't you dare
call me on my cell phone?
This is how we contact eachother now, and it is a miracle
(41:59):
worker, but boy, was it tough.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So, yeah, I can imagine the same thing, because
you're dealing with essentiallythree entities right, the
registry, the state times 50.
Yeah, and then all of themedical examiners.
Yes so really three entitiestimes multiple entities across
those boards.
So I imagine it's going to be astruggle.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
All having to work together.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
And do things in order.
Yeah Well, so tonight it wasgoing to be a little bit of a
celebration, a little bit ofhappiness.
I mean, obviously, this newswith Jerry and what's happening
with the medical card situationbeing the first week it's out A
little bit of a bummer news, butwe were really planning on kind
(42:45):
of a celebration.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It's going to be our last episode Ever Not ever, ever
we're going to put all the gearon reverb and sell it off.
This will be it.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
This will be it for July For this season For this
season For this season.
So we are rolling into season.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
We are wrapping up season three.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
And we are going into .
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Season four.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
So we are prepared to kind of have a party and hang
out and just be excited forwhat's going on.
But bummer news took an evensharper toll on us than we were
expecting.
So the time you're hearing this, this news will be a couple
weeks old, but for us it's very,very, very fresh.
The chairman and founder ofFedEx, federal Express, fred
(43:40):
Smith.
He passed away a few days ago.
A couple days ago at 80 yearsold in Memphis, tennessee, and
we wanted to acknowledge thatand bring it to you.
(44:01):
Highfield Trucking, which ownsthis podcast and you'll see us
on.
We owe our entire existence toFedEx and getting us started.
So at the end of the day, it wasEric and I deciding several
years ago over a decade now topartner with and contract with
(44:27):
FedEx and become a part of theFedEx CustomEx Corporation and
was guiding the ship, and he wasthis rock we all looked to.
(44:51):
He had this belief in thepurple promise which is to make
every experience specificallyFedEx experience, his experience
, specifically FedEx experience.
But if you're a contractor orjust if you absorb it in your
daily life, it's inexperienceoutstanding.
That was what he imposed to hispeople and I think that's why
(45:13):
you have FedEx, the huge,admired company it is today.
It's directly from hisleadership.
He did step down in 2022 frombeing CEO, ceo, and so now it's
what?
Three years, not not that longago, really right?
Um, he's been chairman of theboard for uh, that amount of
time since, and he did just passaway at 80 years old of natural
(45:34):
causes.
Um, I do want to highlight a fewthings about him real quick.
He was born in 1944.
He went to Yale College forbusiness and economics and then,
in 1966, he became a Marine,and I found this, and I'm going
(45:59):
to look it up real quick becauseI want to get it right.
So he served two duties of warin the Vietnam War.
He was honorably discharged in1969 with the rank of captain.
He received a silver star, abronze star and two purple
hearts.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
So I know, when we hear about him, we think about
his career, his company, hisgigantic success with that.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But he was somebody else too.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
He was a hero prior to any of that, and his parents
were smart business people andso he started FedEx with a $4
million inheritance from hisfamily.
And so he started FedEx with a$4 million inheritance from his
family, was able to go out andraise like $91 million in
(46:45):
capital from a bunch of venturecapital sources Of course, this
was back in the 70s, so a verydifferent world than we live in
now and he built a fleet of 14airplanes these are tiny little
airplanes Falcon 20s they'rejust little bitty jets, little
airplanes.
Uh, falcon 20s they're justlittle bitty jets.
(47:06):
And, uh, he went in and um,built this package, uh process,
and I thought it was interesting.
So we all know the federalexpress name, right, like fred
smith, who is this huge, uh likedriving force that that built
this company and grew it, andhe's an amazing man, but he
didn't man, but he didn't namethe company after himself.
It's always Federal Express,like how did they get that right
?
Like it's a good name, yeah,great name.
(47:28):
Federal Express is a great name.
How did he get it?
They were actually in theirearly years.
They were chasing a contractwith the Federal Reserve.
Oh and that's how they came upwith that name Nice and that's
how they came up with that name.
They didn't get that contract,but still the name stuck and it
is quite amazing.
And of course there are a fewstories, like when he was first
(47:52):
starting the company and in thefirst few years they were having
some financial issues and hetook $5,000, which is the last
bit of money the company hadwent to Vegas and went and
played I don't remember whatgame it was.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I think it was Blackjack.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
I think it was Blackjack, yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
And in that game he won $27,000.
And the company's fuel bill,literally their jet fuel bill,
was $24,000.
And he was able to cover thefuel bill off that right Now.
That only happened once, sure,but it's just like the amount of
(48:32):
.
I believe in this company tothe extreme that I will do
something crazy to ensure itssuccess, to the point that it is
today which is massive, likewhen I want to send a package
overnight.
If I send it UPS, if I send itUSPS, if I send it FedEx, how do
I say it?
I'm going to FedEx this to you.
(48:52):
Like it is ubiquitous, just likewe would say Google.
I'm going to Google something.
You may use Bing, you may usesome other search engine, but
we're going to Google it.
We're going to FedEx a packageovernight to you, sure.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
But how often do you go to ship something overnight
and think about USPS or UPS?
Speaker 4 (49:10):
to ship something overnight and think about USPS
or UPS.
The only time I do is whenanother company has a contract
with them and they send me alabel Right Otherwise if we're
sending something, I'm going toFedEx.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
If it's going overnight, it's going FedEx.
Yep, yeah, you know they'retrusted.
They're trusted, they'rereliable their tracking system
works.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
They develop the idea of the tracking system.
I mean just everything you'veseen come across over the years.
And even like the FedEx CustomCritical, Some people out there
saying like well, he didn'tdevelop FedEx Custom Critical,
he bought that from RobertsExpress or whatever.
It's the idea that he had theforethought to buy this from
(49:46):
Roberts Express.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
And fit it into the logistics network and just an
overarching system so that everypiece of the logistics network
was covered.
Covered, absolutely so youdidn't have to go somewhere else
.
If I need to ship something andit meets this criteria, I don't
have to go somewhere else forthat piece of business.
(50:08):
I can go to FedEx for that.
It's a one-stop shop Foreverything.
One-stop shop?
Speaker 4 (50:12):
Absolutely no doubt Absolutely, and so it was rough.
So when I first woke up acouple days ago and I saw this,
what I do every morning is,before I get out of bed
literally get out of bed I grabmy phone and I just look through
a the immediate text messageand phone calls and see what
(50:32):
business, sure emergency I haveto handle uh but outside of that
, it is, uh, go to facebook andI do a quick scroll, and when I
say a quick scroll I meanliterally 10 minutes and I'm out
.
Um, and I saw one person saysomething about rip frederick
smith RIP, frederick Smith, youwere great, or whatever.
And I'm like no, there's no way.
And so I looked up and Istarted researching a little bit
(50:57):
and I'm like, oh, oh, andliterally like it felt like the
weight of an elephant, not anelephant, maybe like a small
zebra, like sitting on myshoulders, and I'm like, or
something chest.
I'm like, oh, this sucks, likeit really.
It was like oh, this is like.
(51:19):
I'm trying to think of a way tophrase it.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
Bummer deal, big bummer deal.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
Big bummer deal and it really hurt.
Yeah, it's like.
This is someone who I can like.
A lot of people's companiesthey can set back and say like,
okay, here's where we getstarted, here's where things
helped out for us.
Whatever, I can literally tracemy company back to right his
company, yeah, and if it wasn'tfor him literally him building
(51:46):
this network that we're a partof uh, we wouldn't be here, this
podcast wouldn't exist.
There's so many ramificationsof it and it was a very rough.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
It was a rough morning and seeing all that
happen over the years, I checkedout some quotes from him
Because he seems like a prettysmart, wisdom filled man.
One of the quotes I found whichkind of holds true to ifield,
in my opinion, is fear offailure must never be a reason
(52:19):
not to try something I thoughtthat was pretty cool sounds like
he was that kind of man thatlived by that absolutely, I
think so, I absolutely think so.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
he I mean, even when you see the different opcos,
like he, is a logistics company.
Their whole thing is movingfreight If it's parcel, if it's
less than truckload, if it'struckload, if it's intermodal.
They are a freight movingcompany and they buy Kinkos.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:50):
And create FedEx Office freight moving company
and they buy kinkos, yeah, andcreate fedex office and it's
like so now you're old enough toknow kinko, so I used to use
this so I did.
I used kinkos too.
Kinkos, they were great.
I used to use too.
So kinkos especially wasactually a baton rouge based
company.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
So uh, oh, I didn't know that absolutely very
familiar with.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm very familiar with it that's.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
It was a home home built, uh, really big company
where I lived and seeing uh himgo.
No, there's an opportunity here.
Not only do we get in this verycool printing business and blow
that up uh, but there's alsothis ability to get people to
put more freight in our network.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:32):
And like I use a FedEx office Like Highfield, if
you get something from us that'sFedExed, we went to a FedEx
office and sent it off.
We didn't go to a FedEx.
Nine times out of ten we didn'tgo to a FedEx ship store.
That like thinking outside thebox, because you would look at
it and go like why is FedExbuying a printer?
Because you would look at itand go like why is FedEx buying?
Speaker 1 (53:49):
a printer.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
It doesn't make any sense and seeing his vision to
what it is now, it's like Ican't imagine FedEx without the
FedEx office.
Ups turns right around.
They make the UPS store liketrendsetting, and so, yeah, it's
just, he was a great leader, areally great person.
(54:13):
He believed in this thing, thisshrinking of the world, when no
one else did, and hesuccessfully pulled it off to
the point where we now havethree or four competitors doing
it and they're still the best,the elite of it.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah, no one else is doing it as well as're still the
best.
The elite of it.
Yeah, no one else is doing itas well as FedEx is.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Absolutely not, and boy it just.
It was a sucker punch to seethat Sure.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
And we wish Richard, his son, who used to up until
like a year ago he was actuallyvery involved with Tax Custom
Critical, which the divisionwere part of we wish him, and
all his family and everythingyou know, just warm feelings and
love that you know, frederickdied a very loved and beloved
(55:04):
person and we all have reallygreat things to say about him
and his family and just wishthem comfort as they go through
this process Right, we've alllost loved ones at this point
and parents and Just wish themsome peace as they go through
this and just know that hismemory, his legacy, is going to
(55:24):
continue through the FedEx brand.
The FedEx brand through thecontractors like us that support
that and keep it going andreally focusing on that purple
promise to make things, everyexperience, outstanding.
And from Highfield, I can tellyou personal thank you, like I
wouldn't be here without you.
So we appreciate that and yeah,so kind of a little bit of
(55:51):
bummer news Again.
By the time you're hearing thisit'll be a couple weeks old,
but yeah, it's just been a roughfew days for us for that.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
So we hate to end the show on a bad note, but it's
about that time where we have toend the show.
But we just had a bad note.
Yes, we just had a bad note.
Speaker 4 (56:12):
We hate to end the show on a bad note.
On a sad note, Can we end on apositive?
Speaker 1 (56:15):
We can't end on a positive.
We're going to end on apositive, with Jerry telling us
how he can reach out to us andtell us how much you love our
show.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
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(56:47):
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You can also chat with us liveon our website over there, with
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You can reach out to us at833-HIGHFIELD, h-y-f-i-e-l-d or
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Speaker 4 (57:13):
Monday through Friday , 8 am to 5 pm Eastern Time.
Absolutely, and as I alluded toearlier, this will be the end
of Season 3.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
And Zucchini Bread is going to lead us into what to
look forward to next season.
A lot of fun stuff.
When does it come?
When can they start resuming orlooking for?
Speaker 4 (57:31):
us Around the end of August.
End of August, maybe beginningof September, maybe beginning of
September.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
September's the best month ever, but in the meantime,
Labor Day hit off, so what Ihear is late fall, early fall.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
No, early fall, early fall.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
I call that late summer early fall, Because fall
doesn't happen until September21st.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yeah, I have a question.
According to the, Econauts.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
The 25th of September .
Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yes, but in the meantime, go back and watch all
the previous episodes and catchup on seasons one and two, if
you haven't.
Speaker 4 (58:06):
And if you're driving , listen too, because you can
catch us on your favoritepodcasting platform.
We're on YouTube podcast, we'reon Apple podcast.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
We're on Spotify, wherever you find your podcast.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Absolutely, they listen the first time because
they're driving, but now they'llhave time and they can go back
and watch Crazy.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Faces.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Yeah, I don't recommend that but if there are
things that you want us to talkabout, let us know.
We've got plenty of time towork on some planning and
episodes and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
If you'd like to see a new set design?
Let us know Buttermilk is dyingto redo the set.
She is dying, she's like it's alittle old.
It's been two seasons now we'vehad this.
Speaker 3 (58:47):
It's comfortable though.
Speaker 4 (58:48):
It is so comfortable.
Speaker 3 (58:49):
It.
Speaker 4 (58:49):
It's comfortable, though it is so comfortable it's
better than the table westarted off with yes, it is, and
we got new couches and newchairs, the table felt more like
Crossfire than anything else.
But it was different too.
I was trying to build a thingand it didn't happen.
I get it.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
We're working on it.
It's a work in progress, aconstant work in progress.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
I was thinking next year, Vince and I Lazy Boys.
Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (59:09):
Come on right there Sit around the table on the
floor.
I was thinking of fire pit andcigars.
Gonna do some kumbaya aroundthe table.
You have to look at us likeBill Maher.
Put the candle in the middle.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
Camera from on top.
Put the candle in the middle,It'll be our bonfire.
Air quotes.
Speaker 4 (59:27):
Well, listen, we are so glad you've hung out with us
so long.
We could not have gotten herewithout y'all.
We appreciate so much y'allsupporting us, watching us,
supporting our sponsors.
Those of you with OTRmattresses drop a comment down
below or, better yet, go to theOTR Mattress Facebook, leave us
a review there.
Or, if you just have like, Ilove the mattress, send us an
(59:52):
email letting us know that sothat we can throw it up on the
website and other people can seeit as well.
Um, it has been so much fun.
I'm looking forward to a littlebit of a break.
Speaker 3 (59:59):
We're gonna be crazy, though we're gonna come back
crazy oh my gosh, we havebecause this is like therapy.
I know people don't understandit, but it is like midweek
therapy and it's gonna be greatI know we're trying to wrap up,
yes, but it's so funny that youknow we work.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
We record this show in the evening.
We've worked all day and for mepersonally, I get off work and
I get home and I don't want tocome do this, I agree, and I sit
down here and I put the headseton and it just starts and I'm
having a great time.
It is like therapy literally.
It's not like therapy.
It is like therapy literally.
It's not like therapy.
Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Well, it is like therapy, but it's also like
going to the gym.
If you've been to the gymbefore, you are putting your gym
clothes on, you're grabbingyour gym bag the whole time, you
are cussing and so mad You'relike I do not want to do this
and midway through working outyou're like this is kind of nice
.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
This is great.
It's kind of how this is.
It is not like the gym.
No, it does not happen.
Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
The fact that whole gym thing is BS, Well, okay
maybe that's what I'veexperienced, but the fact that
we all really like each otherand the reality is in case you
haven't picked it up we all hangout behind the scenes.
We love hanging out with eachother.
It is actually going to bequite a busy break for us.
(01:01:17):
A little.
Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
R&R.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
I'll give you a little something to look forward
to.
In August, we are going toIreland, we're going to Paris,
paris.
Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I get to show that off.
Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
We're going to London .
We're going to a little bit ofa rum festival.
We will have some excitingstuff to share with you all in
August as well, we are going toSome new bottles.
Maybe Perhaps we'll see.
It's a long way from here toLondon it is.
It's not London Ohio.
Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
No, although we were there last weekend, melissa and
I.
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
That's where I'll go while you guys are there.
Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
I'm in London too, you can also go to Versailles,
Ohio, if you want to.
That's right Listen whileyou're Lebanon Ohio.
Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Oh, maybe not.
It's the wrong time of the year.
Until then, yes, until then Ithink you should all stay safe,
make good decisions.
We love you.
Thank you so much for hangingout with us.
Don't leave money on the table.
Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
And keep those walls of Tarnum.
Bye, see you next season august, september.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Thank you.
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