S2E13 - Ducks, Desolate Roads, and Daily Drivers

In S2E13, we bring on Niko, aka Bean, and get into life after the military, work travel, living out in Georgia, raising ducks, and trying to balance a normal life with expensive car habits. We bounce through gas prices, EV frustration, Supras, GTR dreams, daily drivers, home projects, and the usual random turns into property, animals, retirement plans, and figuring out how much we really want to keep working. It’s another laid-back guest episode that feels like old friends catching up and talking shit about life, cars, and everything in between. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

What's going on, everybody? I'm Ian.

SPEAKER_02 0:02

This is Robbie, and we're two assholes in a mic.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

What up? Alright, so today we got uh Nico. Nico, say hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Hello. I I think I go by bean uh in the circle. Okay, so bean bean it is, bean it is. What's going on, Ben? So what you been up to? Uh working, living in Georgia, raising ducks. Ducks? Yeah, normal stuff. Raising ducks. Yeah, we got ducks. I heard uh Sweeney had chickens, we got ducks.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

How many ducks you got? I heard ducks are fucking nasty, dude.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Oh, dude, they're dirty motherfuckers. We got three. Damn out of the pond right now.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

You eat the eggs and shit then?

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Yeah, we eat the eggs. We got like three a day.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

That's awesome. I had to do that.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

He looked over when you said. Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

No, you go.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Well, he looked over as soon as he said they're in the I thought he was gonna say they're in the room right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Yeah, they got a little uh duck run.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

That's cool as hell, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah. Just got back from uh middle of nowhere, North Dakota, Wednesday. And let me tell you, what a fucking desolate place that's it that is. Hour and a half of nothingness to get to where I was going. That's gross.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

So it's like frozen uh version of Nevada or whatever, because I drove through Nevada just a couple days ago from Vegas to Reno on my way to Oregon, and that shit was fucking desolate, dude. Just nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yeah, it's uh it was farmland, 90 mile an hour speed limit for an hour and a half to get yeah, to get to where we're gonna nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

I mean, not nice, but nice that it was at least 90 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

That was the only saving grace. Uh food was decent, but uh yeah, kind of a middle of nowhere place.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

Yeah. That's where I feel like we're at now, and I'm at my brother's in Oregon, in Bandon, Oregon, and it feels kind of like the closest Walmart is 25 miles away. I'm all like, bro, how the hell am I supposed to go look for Lego deals and stuff while I'm here? Like I can't go look I can't go 25 miles to fucking look for a Lego deal. Gas is fucking six dollars a gallon here.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

No, that's gross.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Yeah, so I I'm not driving unless I have to.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Gas is going down out here.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

Aaron said it just went up again in Texas.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Oh yeah, it went down about 10p 10p in the last two days. So what's that like nine dollars a gallon for you guys? Right now it's just under $10 a gallon.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Right. Cost just spent $43 to fill up when I was in Texas. I got I was in Nevada somewhere, and it cost me $103 to fucking fill up. I was like, ugh. You know, there's not much gas in this. There's not like a huge tank in this fucking Ranger, dude. It's fucking it's like a 18-gallon tank, maybe. It's not big.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Lord fucking Ranger. Nah, we're not that bad yet. We're at like uh four something for premium, so we gotta go.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

That's still those are rookie numbers.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

That's still rough. Those are rookie numbers, yeah. Pump them numbers up. I think they suspended the uh they suspended our gas tax to give us some kind of relief, but it still fucking hurts.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

I still think that gas tax is fucking stupid.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Yeah, California's gas tax has like multiplied like 26 times since we left California.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

That's why they're at like almost $7 a gallon. It was like six, it was like $672 in California. I didn't buy it in California though. I I managed to cut, you know, from Nevada, cut, cut off the northeast corner and got into Oregon where it was a little bit cheaper again before I had to get gas.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

They uh, you know how they were pushing for all those fucking EVs out in California. Black people are like, oh yeah, we don't have to pay all this all this high price for gas, and we don't have to pay all these fucking taxes for these gas tax, and then all of a sudden the government has started charging them like mileage on their EVs tax on their mileage. It's like that's fucking stupid. Where are they doing that at?

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Like, how are they tracking that and stuff?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Do it I think I think when you re-register or or um, I guess renew your title, renew your tags, yeah. Then you have to you have to clock your uh your mileage.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Dang, there's a tax on it.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Man, I I did that Tesla thing for a little bit. It lasted about, I don't know, eight months. Cost just as much as gas. I was coming back from a trip, had to wait outside of a target for 45 minutes because everybody like ditched their car to charge, went shopping, went right to the Mercedes dealership, and I was like, Yep, take this shit, I'm done.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Nice, nice. Take it the fuck out of this thing. Yeah, yeah. I like the way they look at first, and the idea of them at first was cool and stuff, but man, I I just like the way that my gas engine sounds. You know, I test drove a couple of electric vehicles when I was um when I was um uh car salesman. I didn't test drive them, but I drove them around a bit and stuff, and I just was all like, I miss the sound. Like it's just like that's it. That's all you get. Yeah. This is fucking bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

But fucking range anxiety is with the EVs. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

I was getting it in Nevada because same thing, dude. There's just nothing. I was like, man, I got I got a hundred miles left. Am I gonna make it to the next gas station? You know, and then there's no signs that tells you when's the next services and stuff. That's one thing that was nice about California. At least they let you know when the next services is with a sign and shit. I'm all like, hey, thank you, California. That's where some of y'all's fucking tax dollars go, too, is signs letting people know what the fuck's going on.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Yeah, I would never get an EV.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

I mean, I wouldn't say never for me, but I just wait till it's a much better, like it's just not where it needs to be yet, you know, to be mainstream, I feel like yet. The technology is just not there yet.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

They have uh they're for I mean they're essentially forcing people to buy EVs out here because every year you have to pay a road tax or a vehicle tax for very much like renewing your tags. And uh for diesel and gasoline vehicles, they're increasing uh the cost of those uh uh those fees by like 150%. So like um my coworker had to pay 900 pounds uh for to renew his vehicle when last year it was only like 200 pounds. So it's like they're increasing it by a stupid amount of money. So they're essentially uh forcing people to buy EVs so they don't have to pay every year for uh you know higher uh vehicle tax.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

That was like Japan, right? What did we have? The um the Yulian stock guy the JCI, right? They'd force you into just getting a new vehicle every couple years. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

But they did that for good. Did what do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 7:17

No, I'm saying they did it for good. So they made sure that cars were were road legal. I mean, if they had the smallest amount of rust or they were too low, or the headlights were messed up, then they they deemed it unroadworthy, so they would take it off the road. And then that just made sure that there were a lot of nicer cars on the road, everything was taken care of, they weren't you know it I I think it was a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Those are private cars too, they end up for sale and come to the foreign markets, you know, like us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

The ones that can't pass JCI.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

That that's what killed my RX 7 was I was never gonna pass JCI. Four inch exhaust, no mufflers, no nothing, just fucking flamethrower out the back. Yeah, they're like, we can't pass this thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Every time it's like fucking fire.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Yeah, I got lucky with my GC8 where um I had adjustable coilovers on it, so that was the only thing that would cause me to fail my JCI. So I would just take the wheels off, raise the fucking the suspension a little bit, put it back on, and take a look at JCI'd. I miss that fucking WX.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Yeah. I miss I just missed that body style.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Yeah, GC8.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Yeah, you can't get that here. You can't get that GC8 body style here unless you're fucking paying out the ass for them now. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

That's all that shit now. Supra's out of control, RX7's out of control, like all those good years are just fucking pricey. Yeah, how's your car doing? Did you get it all together? Yeah, it's been at the shop for I don't know, a couple months. I dumped like 15k into it on supporting mods, you know, all that shit. I got another probably 20 for the engine, 10 for the uh transmission. I'm gonna change out the subframe, upgrade the brakes, so it's it's my money pit.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Yeah, all right. Yeah, I know how that goes.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Hey, I just picked up the Mustang, right? Was driving it yesterday, fucking fuel pumped shot itself. Yeah, three miles from my brother's house. But luckily, I just replaced the tires and greased all the fucking wheel bearings and shit on my trailer, that car trailer that I had. So fucking went and snatched it back up. Some dudes fucking pulled off the side of the road, helped us fucking push it up into the fucking trailer, fucking brought it back, just replaced the fuel pump, just got it running again about an hour ago.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

Nice. Do you actually have to drop the tank for that one or no?

SPEAKER_02 9:41

No, it's actually uh mounted to the block. It's right right in the front. I didn't even have to jack it up. I just had to squeeze my fat ass under there and fucking nice get in there and pull it out. It's just two bolts, two lines. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

Yeah, the green before you had to like tune the whole car and just for the different fuel lines. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Oh, so it's actually fuel injected now. Oh, nice. Yeah, my dad swapped it over to fuel inject, so it actually has two fuel pumps. It's got the mechanical fuel pump that supplies fuel to the high pressure fuel pump that increases to from you know four psi to 60 to supply the fuel injection system. So it's an Edelbrox kit that threw on the 302. So it's got some power. I'm afraid to put it down, so I you know it's got low gears. I want to say it's like 252 gears, so it's not like I'm gonna end up like the Mach 1 in a ditch, but you know, it's got some power.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Nice. Now that Supra's uh I gotta get it uh tuned. Whoever had it before me had it on E85 only. Uh and there's like one station that does E85 running just uh I'm like fuck, I don't want to drive around with a 10-gallon tank, emergency tank.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Yeah, I know there's a couple buddies I know that have the like a whole flex fuel kit that's like it switches between E85 and and pump. Yeah, that's what I'm getting. Yeah, flip a switch and it's fucking auto adjuster ECU for the E85, and off you go.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

I haven't uh I haven't pulled the trigger on the golf yet for that. Uh I just don't know if I will since it's a daily. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

I'm do the I did the meth injection kit on my GTI.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Methane methamphetamine injection?

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Meth yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Oh my god. That sounds illegal, sir. That sounds illegal.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Meth head GTI.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

Methad GTI.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Yeah. Um, but I went and got that uh HPA intake manifold, and I guess an option from uh from their factory was to get the bungs drilled on the bottom runners. Yeah, and so when I got that in, I just bought the it was through Snow Performance, just bought her kit. It was like a bolt on and go. So it was easy, easy to route the lines up to the to the runners on the intake manifold, and then the tank sat in the back of the car next to my uh compressor or my uh air tank for my air suspension. Oh you went all out, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

It was I'll I'll send you some pictures later. Nice. Mine's the uh airport car daily driver, so I'm trying not to uh not to push it too much.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

What is it? Like an R or just GTI?

SPEAKER_00 12:18

It's an R.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

Nice dude.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

It's uh the last uh it's a 24R, it's the last year of the stick shift.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

So I had to I had to source it through some questionable means, but I uh got my hands on it.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah, I missed that fucked car.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Yeah, you shouldn't have sold it. Same with the Supra.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

I mean I I didn't really have any options.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Just sucks. Sometimes circumstances just suck and you gotta get rid of shit. It's like my 97. I regret selling my 97 Cobra, you know, that I had. Yeah. But the dude I sold it to has treated it fucking phenomenally, redone everything. It looks it's looks almost brand fucking new, you know. Yeah, so I'm glad I sold it to the dude that I sold it to because it's it's still being taken care of and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Yeah, that's like the biggest heartbreak, right? You put all that time, money into that car, and then whoever buys it after you just treats it like shit, beats the hell out of it, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Yeah, yeah, he's definitely taking it to another level, you know. I because I was that person beating the shit out of it. I didn't put time and money into it, you know what I'm saying? I was the guy that beat the shit out of it and stuff. I bought it for 10 and sold it to him for five because of the shape that it was in, you know. And uh he ended up taking it and just, you know, running with it. And now it's awesome. I would have eventually taken care of it, but I was in my fucking 20s, dude. Like brand new, not not brand new, but you know, brand new to me. Fucking 97 Cobra, dude. I'd fucking I fucking tore the fucking shit out of that car, dude. I beat the shit out of that car. But if I'm sure if I still had it today, like it would be taken care of now. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 14:09

I don't man, I didn't fucking beat the shit out of the Supra. I mean, I gave it some pulls on the highway quite a few times, but I never did any like fucking older takeoffs. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

I'm a little bit more mature than I was in my twenties.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

Yeah, and because I I did all the maintenance on it, so if I fucked it up, I knew that I'd have to fix it. Uh but dude, I love that. I mean, I I loved the car. I'm glad it got sold to the dude who enjoys it. He's you know, he wasn't as knowledgeable um with Supras. Um and uh I guess his son had can kind of convinced him to buy it just because of the name, right? But yeah, yeah, but that's a legend. Yeah, but he he's he's taking care of it. He you know, he posts pictures of it all the time, and he's always at shows. I think he's out in Virginia, but he meets up with maybe five, seven or eight other super dudes out there. So at least at least he's taking care of it.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

There's uh there's a few groups in uh Atlanta. The the shop that I took uh mine to, they specialize in supras, and when I dropped off the car, the dude's like, hey, let me show you mine. 1500 horsepower, like anthracite, rare as hell, you know, pride and joy. So I was like, good for you, dude. And he had like four or five others just sitting there getting work done.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Damn 1500, just fucking melting the tires off at will.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Oh yeah. 1500? Oh yeah, there's no there's no track at all.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

That's where you stick it in fifth and then just fucking let off the clutch and just you just coast them down, you know, so you don't burn the tires.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

I'm waiting to get the fucking grab a GTR.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

I was gonna say, when are you gonna grab uh a GTR? You're in the prime country.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Yeah, I'm I'm waiting to get into the house. Um, so hopefully, you know, hopefully we can get into I mean I've been saying this shit for fucking ever. That's why Robbie's laughing because this whole fucking story is just bullshit.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

That's a year long.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

It has been more than a year. It's been a year and a half. Well, listen, we know more time. December of 24.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so fucking ridiculous, dude.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

The whole journey has been a fucking clown show. I'll tell you offline because it's too that's too long to fucking to tell.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

Take up time, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

We can we can we can talk about some cooler shit like cars.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

So anyway, time back into that. As soon as uh yeah, as soon as we get into the house, I'm I'm plan on getting getting a GTR.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

We're still working on ours. We we moved in like last year, man. Five acres, just doing our own thing, got a little farm and shit. Nice, middle of nowhere, small town, more donkeys than people, kind of place. Oh yeah, so it's perfect.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Yeah, I want I want I want goats. You got goats?

SPEAKER_00 16:54

No, the wife was trying to con me into goats. I'm like, who the fuck's taking care of and feeding all those damn animals?

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Goats are easy to take care of. You get little Nigerian pygmy goats, they're gonna take care of themselves, get like three of them so they stay out of trouble and they'll eat all your weeds and they keep the fucking grass nice and uh fertilized and down, and yeah. You got five acres, dude.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah, we talked about it. Uh it's it's the the travel bills, right? Like we're traveling a lot, we're going to Germany next month. I'm always gone and shit. So it's like, who the hell's gonna come and watch these things? I'm already flying my mom down here to watch the dogs because it's cheaper for the airfare than the rover to come and like dog sit.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

That's shitty.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Damn. I didn't realize you were traveling and working working so much then, huh?

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Holy shit, yeah. I got uh I got a bunch of facilities that I oversee. So I am like all over the place.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Oh see, I'm at home all the time, so I'm all like I got nothing but fucking time, you know. So I assume everybody's got time.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

And that's retired, I guess. No, just like uh Sweenus mentioned on his call, right? I fucked up, got a got a high manager position, and I'm everywhere. I just wanted to shit ass it after the military. That's me, dude.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

I'm still winning. Not winning over anybody. I mean, I'm just winning in my own personal goals, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

I like that shit-assing it. That's why I'm gonna start calling it. I'm but I'm fucking just shit assing it.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

That I picked that shit up from Park. You remember Parkinson from Natalie? Yeah, he was just calling me a shit ass, and then I just kind of picked it up. Yeah, not work appropriate. But uh, yeah, definitely what I was trying to do and did not work.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice, yeah, because that's why I could do this. Take I took two weeks off of working at the restaurant and fucking just decided to jump, go drive to Oregon, pick up a fucking Mustang and go back home. Well, I've been hanging out here at my brother's house for a few days and leaving Monday, but you know, I wouldn't be able to do that if I was, you know, if I wasn't shit-assing it.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

I I can barely take a half day off for a sick day, too much shit going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

That's crazy. It's just must be in my blood, because my dad, he he did a janitor job for a little bit, and then he just fucking straight was like, I'm I'm done. But but he retired at 30, so you know, it was a little bit easier for him to just say fuck it, you know. And then me and my brother are doing the same thing, you know, but yeah, it's just weird. All three of us fucking not doing shit. And I have done not done shit now for well since I quit in 20. So it's been like three years, and all I've been doing is working at the restaurant when I want.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

That's the way to do it, man.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Yeah. Yeah, because yeah, so a little bit after I retired, I did six months at the car dealership every, you know, Monday through fucking Saturday or whatever, fucking bullshit, working for fucking pennies because you have to work on commission, you know, and that I'm not a good car salesman, dude, because they're like, man, you gotta get them for this and get them for that and get them for this. And I'm all like, that sounds not nice, and I'm not gonna do that. You know what I mean? So I wouldn't make all the extra money that everybody else did because they're like sounds like something a dickhead would do. Yeah, exactly. Like, I'm trying to get this family into a car for fucking as little as possible. You know, if I make a hundred bucks on it, that's fine, you know, no big deal, you know. But there these guys were all used to making fucking 10 grand on a fucking car and shit. You know, I'm all like, y'all fucking stingy. So I I only did that for six months. I did for the six months that I committed to, you know, getting paid extra money. You know, I saw I got paid a little bit more than a normal car salesman would have because I did it through Indeed and I got a guaranteed six months or whatever, you know, extra pay. So I did literally to the day. I did it the six months to the day. I quit on April Fools.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Like, I didn't even say nothing, I just didn't show up. I didn't say nothing to nobody because that's what it was. Like, you don't put in your two weeks notice or nothing in the car car dealership world. They're like, if you quit, you're gone. We'll just escort you off the fucking place. No two weeks notice, so I just didn't show the fuck up. But yeah, that was in 23, and I've been shit ass shit ass in it since April Fool's 23. Sorry, I just took that off onto a long tangent. My bad, guys. My bad.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

You're good. I think if I was already in a house when I retired, then I'd be more flexible with my job. Not that my job now is hard or easy, and it it honestly pays well for the work that I'm doing. Then I don't know if it's because I'm just used to fucking this high ops tempo and just going and getting shit done, and then now I'm at this job now, and it doesn't seem that hard.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

So don't let them know that they'll start paying you less.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

No.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

No, you isn't that No they won't. No. Oh, it's too easy for you.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Okay. Well, how about this? Yeah. How about I don't need to work here?

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Yeah, exactly. Bye. You're welcome. You're welcome for my service.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Yeah, I yeah, it's it's awesome to be able to say that.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

I don't like I don't need I don't need to work here. Unfortunately, not uh not an option for me. I got like I'm planning out 10 more years, guys, and then I'm like bailing out, retiring to a beach somewhere in the middle of fucking nowhere.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Yeah, that's why I'm still working. I figure I'm gonna work for 10 more years, pay off the house, you know. Like we haven't paid the house off, so like I can the reason why I'm still working three days is because the bar backing thing, I make more money. So I'm like, I can cut back on my days and then bar back more and then make about the same amount of money, you know. So that's what I'm gonna do for I don't know. Who knows? You know, I might actually end up like one of you guys and decide to not shit ass anymore and start working.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Don't do it.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

But 10 years once I I know, I know, right? The money to me is not worth it. That's why I haven't done it yet. Like, I could have already had a job working for Lockheed there at um in DFW, you know, four words. You know, but I'm all like, yeah, money would be fucking nice, but not driving to fucking work every day, not having a fucking boss, meetings, you know, shit to do, blah blah blah. I just sit around and smoke and hang out with my dogs most of the day, and then I go and fucking work for a couple of hours and I come home and smoke and hang out with the dogs all day in Oklahoma.

unknown 23:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah, that's what uh I minus minus the smoking portion because work kind of frowns on that. I do work remote, which is great, right? I got like a like a 30-second commute to work every day. Uh wife works from home, so we're just kind of here all all the time. But that's dope. That's dope eating all day.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Yeah, I mean that portion sucks. And then the travel, I don't know. And if you like the traveling, the traveling would be cool and stuff, you know. I that's one thing I miss about the military is traveling, you know. So I wouldn't that would be something if like if I could find a job where I'm working from home, but then I get to travel kind of like you do, I probably would do it. I would I would probably do something like that. That sounds something that intriguing.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Well, the work point the work gets me the points, which pays for the vacations every year, pretty much, right? With all that. So that's how I that's how we do it.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Yeah, and that's awesome, you know. And you really don't need to vacation more than once or twice a year, like personally, like I don't need to. And then sometimes once twice a year seems like a lot, but I think you just used to doing it in the military because you gotta use your lose your damn time and stuff. So you know, you get stuck in that mentality, I guess, or I have. So I don't know. I like going on once or twice a year.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Uh I started getting the habit of just taking like a day here, a day there, maybe maybe do a like a long weekend, and instead of doing like longer trips, just do small days here and there. Just seems to seem to work easier for me. Yeah, you guys are active.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Yeah, I I wouldn't say active.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Uh Ian and Ian and Kirsty, they are always out going out and doing things, you know. That that's what I mean by active. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, they'll take the day off and go go do some things and stuff, you know. Whereas I take the day off and I sit at home. That's what I meant by active. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

I take a I take a week off and I get drunk and I play video games and I watch some of the best fucking 80s movies, and that's how I use one week, one week of vacation a year.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Nice, nice. Hey, that's that's your thing. That's your thing. Uh I just sit around and do nothing, nothing. I try to play video games lately, but lately, like, I just can't stay focused to play even. Yeah. I tried playing Lego Batman the other day, and I was all like, I got an hour into it, and I was like, uh. Is that the new one or the old one? There's an old one, Lego Batman 3 on PlayStation 4, and after it started all week. It's good. It's it's a fantastic game, you know, and I just like I've played it before, I've played through it before, and I want to play through it again, you know, like, and I just was like, I still have it saved, you know, so I can go back to it. But I did I just need to go to Oklahoma, smoke a fucking shit ton, and then go and sit down, and then I can probably focus on it, you know, because then my brain's not all fucking all over the fucking place, you know. But because I want to fucking play the game again, you know.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Yeah, that's the way to do it, man.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Yeah. Because I used to be like that. That's all I did was play fucking video games. Go home, what are you doing? Playing video games. Well d isn't that boring? Oh, dude, this is the best thing ever. I miss that shit.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Oh, it's the time, guys. Uh stay put, bean. Thanks for uh thanks for listening in. Take care, stay safe.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Be safe, make good choices. Thanks. Bye.