July 9, 2024 • 25 mins
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of the towing life podcast? Brace yourself for a hilarious rollercoaster as we share outtakes and candid moments from the Towing Life podcast. From numb elbows to awkward seating positions, hear all about the physical quirks of the job and the eccentric vehicle designs that influence our driving habits. Laugh along with personal career stories, including an honest but unsuccessful attempt at car sales, and enjoy a humorous recount of a newbie mishandling a roadside assistance call. The episode promises a raw and unfiltered peek into the lighter side of the towing industry.
Get ready for some workplace banter that keeps spirits high, with anecdotes about COVID-19, quirky family traits, and bizarre customer complaints, like scratched driveways and damaged oil pans. Discover why self-improvement through reading is more rewarding than scrolling through TikTok, inspired by Michael Porter’s insightful book. Plus, we navigate the geographical quirks of U.S. states versus Canadian provinces, and share a laugh over a peacock pecking at a window and the ensuing chaos. This episode is packed with entertaining stories and reflections that will leave you with a smile.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Towing Life podcast, where the ditches
are deep, the trucks are loaded, but the drivers are not.
I am your host, tomanji, and,as though this isn't a usual
podcast, unfortunately bothPlaying Guy and myself couldn't
meet up to record a podcasttogether, so I have thrown
together some clips over thelast.
Oh, I think one of the clips wegot in here is from episode 57,
(00:24):
129, 140, 106, 141, 107.
We got a bunch of stuff thathas never been in a podcast
before.
Most of it's from intros, justas we're starting to warm up,
before we start recording.
All about just random stufffrom books and how our podcast
(00:47):
is raw and uncut, and some funnystories and how COVID wasn't
real.
Yeah, just a bunch of randomjunk, really, that I've saved
over the course of theseepisodes and I put them together
.
Unfortunately, it's probablygoing to be about 30 minutes,
fortunately.
Unfortunately, it depends onhow you enjoy it.
I'm not sure If you don't waittill the next one.
(01:10):
Hopefully you'll enjoy that onebetter, but hopefully this ties
you over until then.
So hope you enjoy thecollection, the assortment of
junk I've been able to providefor you today, so don't hold too
much judgment.
This is never stuff that wasgoing to make it to an actual
podcast, but here we are in alittle pickle, so I guess this
(01:34):
is what you get, so enjoy.
Hey everyone.
I'm Brad from Calgary.
This is Sean from Cambridge,ontario.
I'm Terry from Cornwall,ontario.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey, this is Larry from Pit Metals, british
Columbia, and you're listeningto the Towing Mike Podcast you
(02:17):
ever get.
So I get these like you knowwhere your elbow sits on, like
the armrest or like the window,and it goes numb.
No, I get like a little, alittle like a little bump, oh,
like a like a little.
I don't.
I don't know what it is, I'mnot, I'm not a doctor, I'm
barely a toe operator.
It almost feels like cystic.
Oh, if that makes sense.
It feels like a little littlehard cyst bump that hurts and
(02:40):
like.
So when you put pressure on ityou can like move how your arm
is sitting on it.
Now, I've been like prone tocysts and stuff in the past and
like I know my my right elbow Ireally got to watch because ever
since I had that terrible,terrible golfing accident, um,
my elbow has still been prettytender Like the bone, like the
tip of the elbow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But yeah, I get like these like little.
I don't know it's not really apimple, yeah, but yeah, I get
like these like little.
I don't know it's not really apimple.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I don't want to call it a pimple, but it's like a
cyst or a little like bump,little calloused, maybe that's
something's going on underneath,I don't know right on my elbows
I know like I would hold thesteering wheel in a weird way
with my wrist and then my wristwould get really cramp up, or I
always have a tendency ofsitting sideways in the seat
Ever since I drove that old, uhGMC of the company we used to
(03:30):
work at.
That steering wheel of theoffset steering no um, the 2015
and the 2015 GMCs and Chevys,the steering wheel isn't
centered to the seat, it's offcentered.
It's off centered like an inchand a half to the right because,
if you remember, there was acard holder slot on the left
(03:51):
hand side anyways.
So the steering wheel is closerto your right armrest.
Well now, I've gotten used tothat in every vehicle I've
drived ever since.
So I sit kind of sideways in myseat to get my arm up a little
closer, so I don't have to reachover as far, which means I put
a lot more weight on my elbowbecause I'm kind of shifted in
my seat, which then will make mywhole arm go numb and then I'll
(04:14):
have to like stop and like sitto the left.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I feel like these are 100% like symptoms of getting
old.
Like I got an elbow, I got abum elbow every once in a while.
You got to like move, so you'relike, so you're sitting.
Funny, you sit on your wallet,though.
Is that part of the problem?
Never, yeah, if you sit on awallet like game over, like
(04:39):
don't sit on wallets.
I did that for like the firsttwo or three years that I
actually started carrying awallet around with me in high
school, and I stoppedimmediately after that oh, yeah,
yeah, no, I I mean my walletdoesn't fold very well and it's
not because of the money that'sinside of it, so I definitely
have to like I all my work pantsare cargo pants and that's for
(05:03):
great reason, because I justkeep it, keep it in my side
pocket.
These, actually these new cargopants we have, are awesome
because they have a a big pocketand then they have a little
pocket in front and the littlepocket works perfect for my case
, for my wireless earbuds Likeit just fits so snug in there,
(05:26):
it won't fall out when you're inthe ditch.
It's beautiful.
If my life was as easy to useas this product was, we would
not be having to record firstthing on a saturday morning your
wife would be happier she'shaving dreams of a simpler time
right now, Back before I was atow truck operator.
(05:48):
Actually, she doesn't rememberthose days.
I do, and God were theyglorious.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Glorious, eh, do you believe?
I sold cars.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I was a car salesman.
Yeah not a very good one.
I was was a car salesman.
Yeah, not a very good one.
I was a terrible car salesman,too honest and blunt yeah,
pretty much well, I worked in atoyota dealership and we had
this like chevy cobalt and thislady comes in I'd like to buy
that car.
No, you don't, it's a piece ofshit.
Oh, so do you want to sell me anew car?
No, not really.
I just wanted to tell you thisone was a piece of shit.
(06:24):
Oh, so, do you want to sell mea new car?
No, not really.
Just wanted to tell you thisone was a piece of shit.
Cool about your day.
Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If you go over to the Chevy dealer across the street,
they'll try to sell you thispiece of shit.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Don't do it, but I'm not that kind of liar.
I had my owner come to me andgo.
You know your way with withpeople.
I'm like, yeah, it's not greatsometimes and he goes no, but I
see you trying and and wordingthings in a different way to to
(07:02):
change and I'm like, okay, I dotry and he goes and you still
come across as a dickhead andI'm like it's just me, like I
try.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm like our new operator was picking up someone
on the side of the highway andput the medical concern member
safety code in the call.
Oh, and he still knew.
So he didn't know exactly whatthat was, so he asked so is
there anything wrong with youthat I need to know about,
(07:35):
because I'm kind of cold yeah.
There's a code in the callsaying that there's a safety
concern for some medical issues.
And he was like no, I've been amember for 15 years.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I've never been asked that is there something wrong
with you that I need to be awareof?
So I think I hold on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think that should be a standard question we get to
ask all of our customers so heended up called back on his
roadside and saying that myoperator called him a and he
scratched the driveway.
No, I'll cut that right out.
And uh, scratched the drivewayat the drop off and ripped his
(08:15):
bumper and took out his oil panwell.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So the only valid point he had is that your driver
asked him what was wrong withhim.
I'm telling you I would likethat to be a standard question
on that we are you know what Imean Like does the vehicle run?
No, okay.
Are you mentally stable, pardon?
Yeah, I will, in turn, answerthe same questions to the
(08:42):
customer back if they want toask me to make it even, the
answer is always going to be no,yeah, are you mentally stable?
Not today, maybe tomorrow.
You want to call back then?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
if not, any tow truck driver you get is not going to
be mentally stable rough day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, take a load off .
We're here for therapy.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, Therapy.
Everyone in my household hasCOVID but it doesn't exist
anymore.
Yeah Well, mom and mygirlfriend both tested positive
for COVID, so did you not getthe memo?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
COVID doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'd like to believe that because, other than being
extremely tired, I'm not sick,and I sleep next to someone who
has it, so you know if COVID wasreal, I would have gotten it in
Baltimore.
Well, it's got like a week longincubation period, doesn't it?
Isn't that what?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
they said so I might have COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You might have COVID.
Okay, that's fair.
I have COVID because thegirlfriend works in a germ
factory.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yep, my wife used to do that before she came over to
the dark side, mm-hmm.
So I understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah Well, beards don't run in my family,
unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What does Racism and political conservatorship Sure?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Bowel cancer too.
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Some would say, and very thin skin.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm not sure what the medical term for it is, but
some, some would say all cancermight be the less insulting of
those three things somethingalong those lines at least jesus
christ.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh, if we can't have fun once a week doing this and
pick on each other, what wouldbe the fun?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
um any order.
You want to do this clusterfuckin.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
No, but your Facebook post about the pictures has to
come before yeah, question fromthe interwebs.
Yeah, well, here, what I'll dois I'll actually move it under
here.
I'll move it under here, justthat way.
It's a lead into it.
Don't have to bold it.
(11:19):
I don't know why I did that.
Oh, actually, italic it makessense I feel like a lot of that
is going to take over most ofthe episode, because anytime we
get into damage claims andanytime we get into that kind of
stuff, it it we ask morequestions than we actually give
answers for, um, which seems toperpetuate the uh, I got a book.
(11:46):
It's a great book.
What's the book say?
Open the door to the truth.
It's a a dude.
Um, is it a?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
conspiracy theory book?
No, no, how jet fuel doesn'tburn hot enough to bring
buildings down.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, no, it is nothing of the sort.
It was from a guy who actuallyhad a seminar at the Baltimore
Tow Show.
What was his name?
Again?
Michael Porter.
Hmm, a very good speaker, andit's a very interesting book.
It's kind of just about uh,making yourself better put it
(12:24):
that way not a better person,because if that was the case I
wouldn't read it because itdoesn't apply to me.
I'm already a good person, um,but how to?
It's kind of like it's one ofthose corny you would almost say
.
Like I would say corny, likenot self help books, but like
unlocking understand yourselfbetter, like unlocking your more
(12:45):
self-aware no, not even that,just unlocking your potential
kind of things, um, which Iwould normally deem and laugh at
.
But uh, I made it about a thirdof the way through the book and
we were I'd actually like tohave him.
I met him at baltimore andtalked to him about a third of
the way through the book and wewere I'd actually like to have
him.
I met him at Baltimore andtalked to him about having him
on the show he's been on with,uh, with our buddies, uh, jeff
and Brad.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So I figured I would read up on the book.
I got about a third of the waythrough.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They also have therapy for that kind of shit
too, right.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, it's not about trying to be a better person.
I'm already a good person.
Uh-huh, I am caring,understanding, empathetic,
barely.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Those are all far stretches.
There's your exercise for theday.
What's that they're reachinglike?
Stretching the truth, jumpingto conclusions?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh no, I'm all of those things, but the one thing
I realized is that most people,in any industry, do not become
better or do not grow bywatching TikTok and YouTube.
They do it by reading andactually taking time out of
their day to focus on somethingspecifically.
So it's something I've beentrying to do through reading a
(14:04):
book.
The only other book that I haveread has been the Art of Not
Giving a Fuck, and did you makeit all the way through that book
?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yes, Obviously.
You gave enough of a fuck toread the book yep and anne
frank's diary.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I really like that book in school yeah, I really
enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And um, what's his name's book?
We had him on the show, or you?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
we didn't actually have him on oh hookers and blows
, save christmas I did read thatwhole book yeah, you did read
that whole book, but that'spretty much a picture book.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No, um, I own the book too.
You own the book.
You had them on the plane.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Guys show aiden aiden cole's um life in the fast lane
yeah, that book, you read thatone too I did read that book.
You're right.
I don't know where my copy ofthat book went.
I need a bookshelf for all mytwo books, it's gonna be a very
small shelf.
Hookers and blow takes up mostof the shelf it would be like no
(15:02):
, no, it would be like four footlong, of all the toe canada
magazines that I have followedby hookers and blow save
christmas.
Um, opening the door to thetruth and uh, yeah, the life and
the fast lane.
That's like my three books, yougot me beat.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I've got a day in the life on just a few acres farm.
Oh, is that about how to startyour cult?
Well, it actually kind of sortof is.
It's got a lot of philosophy init and good ways of living your
life and how to like run asmall farm yeah, and how to like
convince people that you'relike the lord and um, that you
should like breed with theirwives.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Like, is that part of it or?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
anywho, welcome to the towing life podcast, where
the ditches are deep, the trucksare loaded, but the trucks are
loaded, but the drivers are not.
You got the button, buddy.
I got the button.
It's the button.
I'll let you have the privilegeof clicking the record button.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The clicking honors.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The clicking honors of episode 141.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Take 72.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Imagine if we actually did multiple takes.
I don't even know if we everdid rerecord a podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, no, it is as raw and and it is what it is.
You get what you get.
What we say cannot come back.
The only thing that we can dois cut things out if they don't
work.
The only thing that we can dois cut things out if they don't
work, but to say we have goneand went, oh well, that didn't
work.
Or oh, this, let's re-recordNope Negative.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I think we re-recorded a section here or
there, probably because of mybad internet, maybe.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But even that I don't think.
So yeah, it's we're, we're one,take specialists yeah, because
it's never as good, the secondtime I recently had that where
we uh, we changed our voicemailsat work and one of the words
that my general manager was verywanted in, for whatever reason,
is alternatively.
(17:19):
Now, alternatively is not ahard word to say, but you do
need to focus when you say itand the problem is when it's
halfway through your recording.
You're, you have to you knowit's think about as you're
saying it and then make sureyou're prepped in your head for
your next lines.
(17:39):
And uh, I one taped it.
I'm not going to lie, I did itin one take and I sat there and
I listened to him rerecord andrerecord and rerecord.
I'll take the but the, but the,uh, no, okay, it's seven at
seven to rerecord.
(17:59):
Seven, I'll turn.
I'm a turn them at seven torerecord.
I'll tell me that seven torerecord and I'm like what made
you want to have that word?
He's like what's another wordfor it?
I'm like, I don't know, I don'thave the patience, but watch
this.
Alternatively, if you'd like tobe forwarded to my cell phone
um yeah, it was pretty funny uh,yeah, no simple words for me,
(18:19):
my friend this is toman g leavemessage.
Yeah, you're like bobby from uh.
Is it water boy?
Yeah, I'd be water boy.
You're like bobby from boy.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Why use many word when few word do trick?
Mama said that's an officereference, if you didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Nope, mama says that.
So man G better hurry up andget this recording done so she
can watch her soaps.
Okay, mommy, sorry I was fixingsomething, something trying to
keep it out of camera range.
I did a poor job of that.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It just looked like you were holding a bar of soap
after you said you wanted towatch your soaps.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Can't drop the soap if I bring it with me everywhere
.
My god, it's nice that youfinally have like connectivity.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Illinois.
Illinois Fire station in DarrenIllinois.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Illinois.
Wait, you call it IllinoisIllinois isn't that what it's
called Illinois?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Illinois then why is there a fucking S in it?
It's silent.
Well, you put an S in there tomake it plural.
So wouldn't it be Illinois?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, you don't put an S to make everything plural.
Words end in S's that aren'tplural.
Now I got to think of a wordthat ends in S that isn't plural
.
I didn't think this one through.
That is fair, god.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's what they say is when you argue with an idiot,
they'll just break you down andbring you down to your level,
and then they'll beat you withexperience.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All of the news.
News isn't plural.
Physics isn't plural.
You had to google it.
I am googling it.
I am absolutely.
Um, I had to Google that one.
Yeah, like some of thereferences it gives maybe I'm
just reading this too quick Likegas, dress right, class fuss,
all that stuff ends in S andisn't plural.
(20:49):
Illinois is one of those.
It's not Illinois, illinois,yes, just Illinois, just
Illinois.
Illinois, yes, just Illinois.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Just Illinois Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Man, is there any other states you can't pronounce
?
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't know Memphis.
No, I got that one yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Memphis isn't a state .
First of all, memphis isn't astate.
Yeah, what state is Memphis in?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Pretty sure it's in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Nashville is not a state state.
There you go memphis, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, that's correct.
Yeah, geography isn't my strongsuit.
Okay, especially in the countrythat I don't live in memphis is
in nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
No, it's in tennessee and I I don't even know if
those two are close to eachother well, they're in the same
state, so they're close enough.
Okay, Ottawa and Thunder Bayare in the same state and
they're not very close.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, Canada's bigger than America, is it yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Like square footage.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We're the second largest country in the world.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, well, it's not much bigger.
Beaten only by Russia.
Okay, Well, it's not muchbigger.
Beaten only by Russia.
Okay, but it's not much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, but we also have a lot fewer.
States are a lot smaller onaverage than provinces.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Like we're 3.8 million square miles.
There's 3.7, almost 3.8.
Like we're like 55,000 squaremiles bigger than the US, but we
have nine provinces andterritories.7 almost 3.8.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
like we're like 55 000 square miles bigger than the
us, but we have nine provincesand territories, I think nine,
twelve, I don't know and theyhave like 50 in the continental
united states or 49.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What?
Okay?
What do you think thecontinental united states means
compared to just saying theunited states?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I want to hear this well, it means the actual
landmass, because they gotalaska, which is part of the
united states, but it's notconnected directly.
Okay, and like hawaii, it's anisland.
It's not connected directly.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, got you.
There's 49 states, includingAlaska, excluding Hawaii,
located in the continent ofNorth America in the District of
Columbia.
I think Alaska still countsbecause it's still land attached
.
It's just not land attached tothe US.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But Hawaii, yes, would be another one that would
not be attached.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I've got a peacock that's in my windowsill pecking
at the glass and it's gettingthe dog going on like grumbling,
she's like staring at thewindow.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Does the dog not like the peacocks?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
She just doesn't know what's making the noise which
makes her very upset.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, there's something making tapping on the
window upset.
Yeah, there's something makingtapping on the window Seriously,
I brought my dog to your placeone time and my dog definitely
wanted to chase the peacocks.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yes, the peacocks are colorful and they look tasty.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah well, my dog just has a pure focus on animal
squirrels, chipmunks.
Surprisingly, it doesn't careabout birds like small birds,
like crows, and it won't bugthem, even geese.
It hasn't really messed withgeese.
See, geese are the things thatthey should be messing with.
Kill those cobras.
(24:11):
I'd be afraid if my dog startedmessing with cobra chickens.
My dog is tough, but geese aretough.
Geese scare me.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, they got the honk, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Canadian cobra chickens.
Thank you, bye.
Welcome to the Towing Life podcast, where the ditches
are deep, the trucks are loaded, but the drivers are not.
I am your host, tomanji, and,as though this isn't a usual
podcast, unfortunately bothPlaying Guy and myself couldn't
meet up to record a podcasttogether, so I have thrown
together some clips over thelast.
Oh, I think one of the clips wegot in here is from episode 57,
(00:24):
129, 140, 106, 141, 107.
We got a bunch of stuff thathas never been in a podcast
before.
Most of it's from intros, justas we're starting to warm up,
before we start recording.
All about just random stufffrom books and how our podcast
(00:47):
is raw and uncut, and some funnystories and how COVID wasn't
real.
Yeah, just a bunch of randomjunk, really, that I've saved
over the course of theseepisodes and I put them together
.
Unfortunately, it's probablygoing to be about 30 minutes,
fortunately.
Unfortunately, it depends onhow you enjoy it.
I'm not sure If you don't waittill the next one.
(01:10):
Hopefully you'll enjoy that onebetter, but hopefully this ties
you over until then.
So hope you enjoy thecollection, the assortment of
junk I've been able to providefor you today, so don't hold too
much judgment.
This is never stuff that wasgoing to make it to an actual
podcast, but here we are in alittle pickle, so I guess this
(01:34):
is what you get, so enjoy.
Hey everyone.
I'm Brad from Calgary.
This is Sean from Cambridge,ontario.
I'm Terry from Cornwall,ontario.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey, this is Larry from Pit Metals, british
Columbia, and you're listeningto the Towing Mike Podcast you
(02:17):
ever get.
So I get these like you knowwhere your elbow sits on, like
the armrest or like the window,and it goes numb.
No, I get like a little, alittle like a little bump, oh,
like a like a little.
I don't.
I don't know what it is, I'mnot, I'm not a doctor, I'm
barely a toe operator.
It almost feels like cystic.
Oh, if that makes sense.
It feels like a little littlehard cyst bump that hurts and
(02:40):
like.
So when you put pressure on ityou can like move how your arm
is sitting on it.
Now, I've been like prone tocysts and stuff in the past and
like I know my my right elbow Ireally got to watch because ever
since I had that terrible,terrible golfing accident, um,
my elbow has still been prettytender Like the bone, like the
tip of the elbow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But yeah, I get like these like little.
I don't know it's not really apimple, yeah, but yeah, I get
like these like little.
I don't know it's not really apimple.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I don't want to call it a pimple, but it's like a
cyst or a little like bump,little calloused, maybe that's
something's going on underneath,I don't know right on my elbows
I know like I would hold thesteering wheel in a weird way
with my wrist and then my wristwould get really cramp up, or I
always have a tendency ofsitting sideways in the seat
Ever since I drove that old, uhGMC of the company we used to
(03:30):
work at.
That steering wheel of theoffset steering no um, the 2015
and the 2015 GMCs and Chevys,the steering wheel isn't
centered to the seat, it's offcentered.
It's off centered like an inchand a half to the right because,
if you remember, there was acard holder slot on the left
(03:51):
hand side anyways.
So the steering wheel is closerto your right armrest.
Well now, I've gotten used tothat in every vehicle I've
drived ever since.
So I sit kind of sideways in myseat to get my arm up a little
closer, so I don't have to reachover as far, which means I put
a lot more weight on my elbowbecause I'm kind of shifted in
my seat, which then will make mywhole arm go numb and then I'll
(04:14):
have to like stop and like sitto the left.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I feel like these are 100% like symptoms of getting
old.
Like I got an elbow, I got abum elbow every once in a while.
You got to like move, so you'relike, so you're sitting.
Funny, you sit on your wallet,though.
Is that part of the problem?
Never, yeah, if you sit on awallet like game over, like
(04:39):
don't sit on wallets.
I did that for like the firsttwo or three years that I
actually started carrying awallet around with me in high
school, and I stoppedimmediately after that oh, yeah,
yeah, no, I I mean my walletdoesn't fold very well and it's
not because of the money that'sinside of it, so I definitely
have to like I all my work pantsare cargo pants and that's for
(05:03):
great reason, because I justkeep it, keep it in my side
pocket.
These, actually these new cargopants we have, are awesome
because they have a a big pocketand then they have a little
pocket in front and the littlepocket works perfect for my case
, for my wireless earbuds Likeit just fits so snug in there,
(05:26):
it won't fall out when you're inthe ditch.
It's beautiful.
If my life was as easy to useas this product was, we would
not be having to record firstthing on a saturday morning your
wife would be happier she'shaving dreams of a simpler time
right now, Back before I was atow truck operator.
(05:48):
Actually, she doesn't rememberthose days.
I do, and God were theyglorious.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Glorious, eh, do you believe?
I sold cars.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I was a car salesman.
Yeah not a very good one.
I was was a car salesman.
Yeah, not a very good one.
I was a terrible car salesman,too honest and blunt yeah,
pretty much well, I worked in atoyota dealership and we had
this like chevy cobalt and thislady comes in I'd like to buy
that car.
No, you don't, it's a piece ofshit.
Oh, so do you want to sell me anew car?
No, not really.
I just wanted to tell you thisone was a piece of shit.
(06:24):
Oh, so, do you want to sell mea new car?
No, not really.
Just wanted to tell you thisone was a piece of shit.
Cool about your day.
Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If you go over to the Chevy dealer across the street,
they'll try to sell you thispiece of shit.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Don't do it, but I'm not that kind of liar.
I had my owner come to me andgo.
You know your way with withpeople.
I'm like, yeah, it's not greatsometimes and he goes no, but I
see you trying and and wordingthings in a different way to to
(07:02):
change and I'm like, okay, I dotry and he goes and you still
come across as a dickhead andI'm like it's just me, like I
try.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm like our new operator was picking up someone
on the side of the highway andput the medical concern member
safety code in the call.
Oh, and he still knew.
So he didn't know exactly whatthat was, so he asked so is
there anything wrong with youthat I need to know about,
(07:35):
because I'm kind of cold yeah.
There's a code in the callsaying that there's a safety
concern for some medical issues.
And he was like no, I've been amember for 15 years.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I've never been asked that is there something wrong
with you that I need to be awareof?
So I think I hold on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think that should be a standard question we get to
ask all of our customers so heended up called back on his
roadside and saying that myoperator called him a and he
scratched the driveway.
No, I'll cut that right out.
And uh, scratched the drivewayat the drop off and ripped his
(08:15):
bumper and took out his oil panwell.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So the only valid point he had is that your driver
asked him what was wrong withhim.
I'm telling you I would likethat to be a standard question
on that we are you know what Imean Like does the vehicle run?
No, okay.
Are you mentally stable, pardon?
Yeah, I will, in turn, answerthe same questions to the
(08:42):
customer back if they want toask me to make it even, the
answer is always going to be no,yeah, are you mentally stable?
Not today, maybe tomorrow.
You want to call back then?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
if not, any tow truck driver you get is not going to
be mentally stable rough day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, take a load off .
We're here for therapy.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, Therapy.
Everyone in my household hasCOVID but it doesn't exist
anymore.
Yeah Well, mom and mygirlfriend both tested positive
for COVID, so did you not getthe memo?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
COVID doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'd like to believe that because, other than being
extremely tired, I'm not sick,and I sleep next to someone who
has it, so you know if COVID wasreal, I would have gotten it in
Baltimore.
Well, it's got like a week longincubation period, doesn't it?
Isn't that what?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
they said so I might have COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You might have COVID.
Okay, that's fair.
I have COVID because thegirlfriend works in a germ
factory.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yep, my wife used to do that before she came over to
the dark side, mm-hmm.
So I understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah Well, beards don't run in my family,
unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What does Racism and political conservatorship Sure?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Bowel cancer too.
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Some would say, and very thin skin.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm not sure what the medical term for it is, but
some, some would say all cancermight be the less insulting of
those three things somethingalong those lines at least jesus
christ.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh, if we can't have fun once a week doing this and
pick on each other, what wouldbe the fun?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
um any order.
You want to do this clusterfuckin.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
No, but your Facebook post about the pictures has to
come before yeah, question fromthe interwebs.
Yeah, well, here, what I'll dois I'll actually move it under
here.
I'll move it under here, justthat way.
It's a lead into it.
Don't have to bold it.
(11:19):
I don't know why I did that.
Oh, actually, italic it makessense I feel like a lot of that
is going to take over most ofthe episode, because anytime we
get into damage claims andanytime we get into that kind of
stuff, it it we ask morequestions than we actually give
answers for, um, which seems toperpetuate the uh, I got a book.
(11:46):
It's a great book.
What's the book say?
Open the door to the truth.
It's a a dude.
Um, is it a?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
conspiracy theory book?
No, no, how jet fuel doesn'tburn hot enough to bring
buildings down.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, no, it is nothing of the sort.
It was from a guy who actuallyhad a seminar at the Baltimore
Tow Show.
What was his name?
Again?
Michael Porter.
Hmm, a very good speaker, andit's a very interesting book.
It's kind of just about uh,making yourself better put it
(12:24):
that way not a better person,because if that was the case I
wouldn't read it because itdoesn't apply to me.
I'm already a good person, um,but how to?
It's kind of like it's one ofthose corny you would almost say
.
Like I would say corny, likenot self help books, but like
unlocking understand yourselfbetter, like unlocking your more
(12:45):
self-aware no, not even that,just unlocking your potential
kind of things, um, which Iwould normally deem and laugh at
.
But uh, I made it about a thirdof the way through the book and
we were I'd actually like tohave him.
I met him at baltimore andtalked to him about a third of
the way through the book and wewere I'd actually like to have
him.
I met him at Baltimore andtalked to him about having him
on the show he's been on with,uh, with our buddies, uh, jeff
and Brad.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So I figured I would read up on the book.
I got about a third of the waythrough.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They also have therapy for that kind of shit
too, right.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, it's not about trying to be a better person.
I'm already a good person.
Uh-huh, I am caring,understanding, empathetic,
barely.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Those are all far stretches.
There's your exercise for theday.
What's that they're reachinglike?
Stretching the truth, jumpingto conclusions?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh no, I'm all of those things, but the one thing
I realized is that most people,in any industry, do not become
better or do not grow bywatching TikTok and YouTube.
They do it by reading andactually taking time out of
their day to focus on somethingspecifically.
So it's something I've beentrying to do through reading a
(14:04):
book.
The only other book that I haveread has been the Art of Not
Giving a Fuck, and did you makeit all the way through that book
?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yes, Obviously.
You gave enough of a fuck toread the book yep and anne
frank's diary.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I really like that book in school yeah, I really
enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And um, what's his name's book?
We had him on the show, or you?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
we didn't actually have him on oh hookers and blows
, save christmas I did read thatwhole book yeah, you did read
that whole book, but that'spretty much a picture book.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No, um, I own the book too.
You own the book.
You had them on the plane.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Guys show aiden aiden cole's um life in the fast lane
yeah, that book, you read thatone too I did read that book.
You're right.
I don't know where my copy ofthat book went.
I need a bookshelf for all mytwo books, it's gonna be a very
small shelf.
Hookers and blow takes up mostof the shelf it would be like no
(15:02):
, no, it would be like four footlong, of all the toe canada
magazines that I have followedby hookers and blow save
christmas.
Um, opening the door to thetruth and uh, yeah, the life and
the fast lane.
That's like my three books, yougot me beat.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I've got a day in the life on just a few acres farm.
Oh, is that about how to startyour cult?
Well, it actually kind of sortof is.
It's got a lot of philosophy init and good ways of living your
life and how to like run asmall farm yeah, and how to like
convince people that you'relike the lord and um, that you
should like breed with theirwives.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Like, is that part of it or?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
anywho, welcome to the towing life podcast, where
the ditches are deep, the trucksare loaded, but the trucks are
loaded, but the drivers are not.
You got the button, buddy.
I got the button.
It's the button.
I'll let you have the privilegeof clicking the record button.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The clicking honors.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The clicking honors of episode 141.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Take 72.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Imagine if we actually did multiple takes.
I don't even know if we everdid rerecord a podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, no, it is as raw and and it is what it is.
You get what you get.
What we say cannot come back.
The only thing that we can dois cut things out if they don't
work.
The only thing that we can dois cut things out if they don't
work, but to say we have goneand went, oh well, that didn't
work.
Or oh, this, let's re-recordNope Negative.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I think we re-recorded a section here or
there, probably because of mybad internet, maybe.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But even that I don't think.
So yeah, it's we're, we're one,take specialists yeah, because
it's never as good, the secondtime I recently had that where
we uh, we changed our voicemailsat work and one of the words
that my general manager was verywanted in, for whatever reason,
is alternatively.
(17:19):
Now, alternatively is not ahard word to say, but you do
need to focus when you say itand the problem is when it's
halfway through your recording.
You're, you have to you knowit's think about as you're
saying it and then make sureyou're prepped in your head for
your next lines.
(17:39):
And uh, I one taped it.
I'm not going to lie, I did itin one take and I sat there and
I listened to him rerecord andrerecord and rerecord.
I'll take the but the, but the,uh, no, okay, it's seven at
seven to rerecord.
(17:59):
Seven, I'll turn.
I'm a turn them at seven torerecord.
I'll tell me that seven torerecord and I'm like what made
you want to have that word?
He's like what's another wordfor it?
I'm like, I don't know, I don'thave the patience, but watch
this.
Alternatively, if you'd like tobe forwarded to my cell phone
um yeah, it was pretty funny uh,yeah, no simple words for me,
(18:19):
my friend this is toman g leavemessage.
Yeah, you're like bobby from uh.
Is it water boy?
Yeah, I'd be water boy.
You're like bobby from boy.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Why use many word when few word do trick?
Mama said that's an officereference, if you didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Nope, mama says that.
So man G better hurry up andget this recording done so she
can watch her soaps.
Okay, mommy, sorry I was fixingsomething, something trying to
keep it out of camera range.
I did a poor job of that.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It just looked like you were holding a bar of soap
after you said you wanted towatch your soaps.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Can't drop the soap if I bring it with me everywhere
.
My god, it's nice that youfinally have like connectivity.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Illinois.
Illinois Fire station in DarrenIllinois.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Illinois.
Wait, you call it IllinoisIllinois isn't that what it's
called Illinois?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Illinois then why is there a fucking S in it?
It's silent.
Well, you put an S in there tomake it plural.
So wouldn't it be Illinois?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, you don't put an S to make everything plural.
Words end in S's that aren'tplural.
Now I got to think of a wordthat ends in S that isn't plural
.
I didn't think this one through.
That is fair, god.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's what they say is when you argue with an idiot,
they'll just break you down andbring you down to your level,
and then they'll beat you withexperience.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All of the news.
News isn't plural.
Physics isn't plural.
You had to google it.
I am googling it.
I am absolutely.
Um, I had to Google that one.
Yeah, like some of thereferences it gives maybe I'm
just reading this too quick Likegas, dress right, class fuss,
all that stuff ends in S andisn't plural.
(20:49):
Illinois is one of those.
It's not Illinois, illinois,yes, just Illinois, just
Illinois.
Illinois, yes, just Illinois.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Just Illinois Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Man, is there any other states you can't pronounce
?
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't know Memphis.
No, I got that one yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Memphis isn't a state .
First of all, memphis isn't astate.
Yeah, what state is Memphis in?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Pretty sure it's in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Nashville is not a state state.
There you go memphis, tennessee.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, that's correct.
Yeah, geography isn't my strongsuit.
Okay, especially in the countrythat I don't live in memphis is
in nashville.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
No, it's in tennessee and I I don't even know if
those two are close to eachother well, they're in the same
state, so they're close enough.
Okay, Ottawa and Thunder Bayare in the same state and
they're not very close.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, Canada's bigger than America, is it yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Like square footage.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We're the second largest country in the world.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, well, it's not much bigger.
Beaten only by Russia.
Okay, Well, it's not muchbigger.
Beaten only by Russia.
Okay, but it's not much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, but we also have a lot fewer.
States are a lot smaller onaverage than provinces.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Like we're 3.8 million square miles.
There's 3.7, almost 3.8.
Like we're like 55,000 squaremiles bigger than the US, but we
have nine provinces andterritories.7 almost 3.8.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
like we're like 55 000 square miles bigger than the
us, but we have nine provincesand territories, I think nine,
twelve, I don't know and theyhave like 50 in the continental
united states or 49.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What?
Okay?
What do you think thecontinental united states means
compared to just saying theunited states?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I want to hear this well, it means the actual
landmass, because they gotalaska, which is part of the
united states, but it's notconnected directly.
Okay, and like hawaii, it's anisland.
It's not connected directly.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, got you.
There's 49 states, includingAlaska, excluding Hawaii,
located in the continent ofNorth America in the District of
Columbia.
I think Alaska still countsbecause it's still land attached
.
It's just not land attached tothe US.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But Hawaii, yes, would be another one that would
not be attached.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I've got a peacock that's in my windowsill pecking
at the glass and it's gettingthe dog going on like grumbling,
she's like staring at thewindow.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Does the dog not like the peacocks?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
She just doesn't know what's making the noise which
makes her very upset.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, there's something making tapping on the
window upset.
Yeah, there's something makingtapping on the window Seriously,
I brought my dog to your placeone time and my dog definitely
wanted to chase the peacocks.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yes, the peacocks are colorful and they look tasty.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah well, my dog just has a pure focus on animal
squirrels, chipmunks.
Surprisingly, it doesn't careabout birds like small birds,
like crows, and it won't bugthem, even geese.
It hasn't really messed withgeese.
See, geese are the things thatthey should be messing with.
Kill those cobras.
(24:11):
I'd be afraid if my dog startedmessing with cobra chickens.
My dog is tough, but geese aretough.
Geese scare me.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, they got the honk, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Canadian cobra chickens.
Thank you, bye.
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