April Fool's Special: Prank Stories from Bulk Drivers

speaker-0 (00:02.978) Something you should know early on about this podcast. Sometimes we talk shop. Sometimes we learn something. Sometimes we have a just a feeling that we're a little bit smarter than when we walked in that morning. This is not one of those episodes because today of course is April Fool's Day, happy April Fool's Day to everyone. I don't know why I felt like it warranted a bottle rocket, but it did. So instead of breaking down pneumatics, we're talking through the finer points of life on road today, we decided to do something much more dangerous. We're going to put 3 truck drivers on the phone to talk about pranks. And let me tell you right now, the second you ask a grown man, tell that one story from back in the day, you're no longer hosting a podcast, you're now supervising a crime documentary with laughter in it. We've got stories from high school, stories from the job, stories that probably should have stayed off the record but didn't. Plus, we'll play a little would you rather a little what if, and just enough chaos to make it feel like a proper April fool's day episode will come along with it. So, if you came here for serious trucking insight I'm sorry, but its not going to happen today. I will tell you, you can back at the roster, there's a lot of really good serious trucking insight there. But today's April Fool's Day, and so we're having some fun. Let's get on with it. speaker-Intro (01:29.528) You're listening to Always Pneumatic, Never Static, the totally pressurized podcast brought to you by Bulk Transit, where we keep the lines clear, the tanks empty, and the conversation anything but dry. Whether you're running powder, pellets, or anything in between, pull up a seat, crack the windows, and let's hit it. speaker-0 (01:50.264) Bulk and Spur, how's it going out there? Welcome into Always Pneumatic Never Static, the 100 % custom podcast. Built for you, featuring you I am your host Marcus and this is episode 8 of our fun little new podcast that growing every single day. You know, I get to see the numbers on the backend here, and I love seeing so many drivers click on this thing. You guys are doing awesome. And it, we never have a shortage of people to talk to. We keep recording these awesome episodes with awesome people. And today is no different. Now the one thing that does make today a little bit, um, I don't know whether you want to call it zany or goofy is its April fools day, Happy April fools day. I hope that noboday has pulled a crazy prank on you at this point in time. I hope that you didn't get a text from your wife. Hey, we're expecting those ones are the worst. I hope that, you know, whatever prank does on you today, hope that it's one where everybody gets to laugh those are the best pranks, as you'll hear in the interview segment that we've got coming up with three drivers from bulk, it's not always every prank where everybody end up being happy at the end and laughing. But you hope that if you are going to pull a prank that it's not going to hurt anybody or nobody's going to get in trouble for it, right? That's something that we should always pay special mind to. So keep that stuff in mind as we take you through some of our favorite pranks here in the interview segments coming up just around the corner. Before I get there, obviously, you guys know this by now being episode eight. We've got to take care of some homework and the website is your only piece of homework. podcast.bulktransit.com Once again, podcast.bulktransit.com is your one stop shop for everything always pneumatic, never static. We'll have every single episode up there, we'll have the information about what each episode is focused on, who is joining us, what their position with the company is and all the things that we're talking about. It really is a great thing to have. A lot of people don't have websites for their podcasts. They say, well, you can just go to Spotify. You can go to Apple. Yeah, those are great places to go and everybody's got them on their phone, but if you just bookmark this one website, you're to be able to go to what is functioning as podcast platform, but only for your podcast, you want to listen to the one that talks about bulk and spur every Wednesday at 5 a.m. local time. So what I'll say here is go over there, put the bookmark in, trust me, you'll feel better after you do it. Everything will work out. We'll all be sunshine and butterflies here on April Fool's Day, if you can just go there. And don't forget, we also host our quizzes there. Each episode comes with a little quiz. And as you heard last week, those of you that filled out the quiz, came with our launch episodes and that first chunk of episodes that we did got entered in a raffle draw for an awesome, cooling vest and the summer months are right around the corner. This vest that we gave away to Bobby was, it's awesome, man. It'll keep you at 59 degrees. It has 12 cooling packs. We gave away actually two of those things Bobby and Bobby both won one and we're going to have another raffle up, sometime in the fall. So don't know exactly when yet, but there will be another one. So if you have the website bookmarked, you can just go on and take the quizzes, test your metal a little bit, see how you stack up against the other people taking the quizzes, maybe share your results with me so we can go over them on the air and we can have a little chat. I'm just kidding. I'm not going to make you feel like you're back in junior high, getting a paper graded in front of the class, but the quizzes are cool and they're up there on the website along with everything else that you could need. So interact with us. The website that is so important, that's the way that you can email. There is a link up there. You just click it, you type your email, you hit send. It's that simple. It comes directly to me. and since my email account is also linked on my phone. An email from you hits me right in the pocket, which is always what I tell people to do. If you want to talk to me, hit me in the pocket. You can send me an email. If you've been on this show before you have my phone number. You can share that phone number with any driver you want that works for bulk or spur. Anybody within your terminal, spread it like wildfire. I will tell you this, since it is my personal phone number and we can't guarantee that only bulk employees will listen to this show. You're probably not going to hear me give the phone number out on the show. I've fought with it for years. I am also a person who has had my phone number given out on a live radio broadcast before. And I'll be honest with you, it wasn't the best three weeks of my life. So I'm just, I'm going to keep it in my pocket for now but there's so many people that have my phone number, Brad, Brian, Andrea all have it. Rachel's got it. Sean's got it. All the terminal managers I've been in email meetings with, they all have it. So if you guys are looking to get in touch with me, because you want to be on this podcast, it's very simple. You can go to the website, podcast.bulktransit.com and send me an email there, or you can get in touch with your terminal manager or any other people who have already been on the show and they will happily help you with your digits so you can hit me in the pocket, as I said. All right. I'm so excited about this. Look, pranks in broadcasting are kind of comes with the territory if you've done Radio, if you've done TV, if you been even a you know, public address announcer There's a lot of pranking that goes on in the industry I have been a part of for almost my whole professional career. So The stories that I have are plentiful. Okay, and I don't see any reason to spoil them here. I'm gonna tell plenty of them going forward, but just know that if you've got a good prank story, I need to hear it, because I'm sort of obsessed. So send me an email because if there's some good ones that come through, I would be happy to share them going forward just so that we can keep the April Fool magic in our pocket for a little bit longer. But that's enough of the homework. That's enough of me babbling. Let's get Kevin, Dave and Mark in here and have a little bit of fun. speaker-0 (08:17.592) Welcome back into Always New, never static, super excited for this part of the show because look with our April Fool's Day episode we always get to be fun and have a little bit of goofy time here on the show but what fun is that if we can't add drivers to the mix so let's get three of them in here right now joining me first I've got Mark Burleson on the line. Mark thanks for coming back to the show man happy to have you speaker-3 (08:42.626) Welcome to have me back. speaker-0 (08:44.206) Next up I've got Kevin Kruchkow on the show. Kevin, thanks for coming back man. We must have made a good impression on you and Mark. speaker-4 (08:52.224) Yan, usually people stop talking to me after the first time but hey that's on you man speaker-0 (08:56.982) Hey, I got broad shoulders man I can take the blame. Also joining us today for his first appearance on the show we've got Dave Hardin on the line. Dave, welcome to the show man, thanks for joining us today. speaker-6 (09:08.972) Thanks for having me, man, I appreciate it. speaker-0 (09:10.742) No problem. Now, have you been listening to the other episodes that we've had of Always Pneumatic, Never Static so far? speaker-6 (09:17.518) Uh yeah, I checked it out, learned a lot, you know, like the history of Pneumatics and stuff like that because this is a new gig for me, May 1st I'll be here a year. speaker-0 (09:29.166) Awesome. Well, early congratulations for you on this year under your belt at bulk. I'm glad that you're learning something. I will say as a quick caveat I don;t know how much you'll learn about trucking on this episode, but you might come away with a way to make or lose a friend because we're going to be talking about pranks here on the show and the reason that we've got you three guys on here is because what I'll do is I just, throw my line into the water is the way that I like to say it. I'll send an email to some terminal managers and some ops managers and that type of level of management and say, do you have any guys that like to prank, like to goof around, maybe would go well on an April Fool's Day episode? And your guys' names came back to me before I even finished clicking send. So I have to assume that there's some people that work with you that think your kind of some pranksters. Mark, I'm just going to go off the top here and start with you. Are you a big practical joker? You a prankster? You like to mess with people a little bit? speaker-3 (10:33.718) Little bit here and there. Try to. speaker-0 (10:36.972) And does that come from childhood, did you have lots of siblings, did you have a big friend group that got into that type of stuff when you were younger? Is that where it comes from? speaker-3 (10:51.406) Kinda neither. I have one sister, we really didn't get along so that's pretty much where it kind of came from, you know, like putting firecrackers in her Barbies and watching them blow up and stuff, you know, that's almost like the black sheep of the family, that's where the pranks came from. speaker-0 (11:07.758) That one yeah, well that prank is a little less prank a little more just torture of having a brother I think because if any of use grew up with a sister and didn't decapitate a barbie at some point in time, I don't think you were playing hard enough. That's just all there is to it, but maybe that's just me Okay, so how about you Kevin? Did you grow up with with fam lots of siblings or anything like that where I guess I should start first and say you're a prankster obviously people people recommended you for this show. So where did it start with you? speaker-4 (11:41.974) I was the youngest of six but we're pretty spread out my oldest sister was 18 when I was born so I just thought little brother, you know just being a pain but a little bit of a funny story there you know you reference like Marv from Home Alone a lot yep and it's funny because I'm named after Kevin from Home Alone, my brother got to name me and he was a big fan of that show at the time. speaker-0 (12:07.434) That's awesome. I didn't know that. Great movie, man. Great movie to be named after. I mean, there's a lot worse, speaker-4 (12:15.502) but I got beat up a lot from all my older brothers and sisters until I realized, hey, if I'm funny, they don't hit me as much. it kind of worked out. speaker-0 (12:26.958) You know, I got a little bit of that in me too. If I can just make them laugh. And I only had one big sister and she wasn't too hard on me, but she was less hard on me if I her giggling a little bit. So it's good, good stuff there, Kevin. And it's a smart thing to learn as a young kid. The sooner you learn that being funny disarms people, the better off it's going to be. So how about you, Dave? Oh yeah. Did you get your start pranking at a young age? speaker-6 (12:53.206) Yeah, I'm kind of well, I guess I'm the exception to the rule. I'm an only child spoiled rotten brat. So later in life, my mom said I should have been a comedian because my life is one big joke. But, you know, I mean, God bless her. She meant well. speaker-0 (13:09.526) She meant well, maybe not when she said that exact thing, but for the most part, she meant well, right? speaker-6 (13:15.031) Yeah, yeah, yeah. speaker-0 (13:17.236) Okay, alright, you know, only child, did you end up with a big friend group or anything like that that you got into some antics with or were you just kind of had as the golden boy growing up? speaker-6 (13:29.622) I was kind of a class clown and on and so forth in school and stuff, showing up in other classes, and they're like, who are you? And I go, I'm the new guy. Just little things like that. Anything for a laugh. speaker-0 (13:43.756) Yeah, for sure. You know, we at my high school, there had been a senior prank that was, I wouldn't call it too crazy. I don't think that anybody got hurt or anything, but if I'm not mistaken, there was some, grew up in a very rural community and there was some livestock released within the halls of the high school, probably four or five years before I became a senior. And so what had happened was, is there was a big moratorium on pranks. There was like, Hey seniors, you stand to not be able to walk with your class and graudate if we catch you doing a prank. We can actually keep you from graduating and of course, being the person that I am, couldn't live with that. And so the prank that we devised, We had this old tuba in the band room and I was just gonna go try to play it for the 8 a.m. Algebra 3 class. I just wanted to show up outside their window, blow one long note and then run away and put the tuba away and go to class. It turned out that my band teacher were actually in that math class when I played the tuba as they drew the blinds at 8am that morning. And yeah, came very close to not getting walk with my graduating class because of a dumb prank like playing a tuba outside of a math class. It really, it's kind of one of those things where I feel like the hindsight with pranks is always 20-20. Like you're, the forsight are never there. But the hindsight always kind of brings you back down to reality, fellas. Would you agree? Lay on me, that's why we're here. speaker-6 (15:22.358) You said livestock I thought of Chris Farley and cow tipping I couldn't help it. speaker-0 So what did my high school senior prank drum up in your mind? speaker-4 (15:36.942) It wasn't like a high school thing. I was in high school, it wasn't really much of a prank. You just talked about like the hindsight thing, you know, like being my buddy where I walked around and the middle of the night. Cause that's just what we did for fun. Cause we knew we weren't supposed to be outside late at night and there's nothing else to do. So we're like, oh well, we'll go walk around. And I thought it'd be funny to hide in the ditch and jump out of a car and be like, I'm a deer, you know, I did. And I almost got my head taken off by a car. speaker-1 (16:03.597) Yep. yep. speaker-4 (16:05.696) Like I'm basically looking back on it, I'm like, well, I was really stupid. Who thought that was a good idea, but somebody was like, was wondering why you wanted to try that. I was like, why did you stop me? He's like, I thought it might be funny. speaker-0 (16:17.742) Yeah, I thought I thought seeing you bounce off the the grill of that silverado might be entertaining for me and I'm out here too. So That's yeah Hindsights 2020 man for sure How about the rest of you? Any pranks you want to bring to the table? I mean, there- I know that as we see- speaker-3 (16:37.614) I got one without. I was in high school. I was in the senior at the time. I was a freshman, but I partake today. It was actually more of a enjoyment prank for me. We all decided to go fishing because like my sister was like two grades above me. I don't if she was a freshman or a sophomore. I don't know she was a sophomore. She was a freshman. And so her freshman prank was let's go get some dead fish. Well, let's go catch fish. So I had all my fishing gear. Me and like a big group of like 20 people were out in Milan catching catfish, bass, whatever. So we decided, it kind of killed a lot of fish doing this. But we decided to the fish up and throw it in all the male urinals and the toilets and the females bedrooms and all the bathrooms at night. speaker-0 (17:29.426) Oh my god, dude. speaker-0 (17:34.998) Yeah, so I know that there's a second half of this story, so go ahead and continue. speaker-3 (17:40.078) oh no! The thing I had was just be quiet or we knew it. I think they trying to get us with vandalism and stuff like that. You know, we all didn't agree. know, no one stepped up. speaker-0 (17:53.698) Yeah, right. speaker-0 (18:02.482) They still know you. They still know you. I'm sure they're probably still trying to get that smell out of the bathroom, man. Fish is a bad one. Yeah, fish is a bad one. Now, I wasn't involved in this prank, but I knew some kids in my high school that went and bought just, know how sometimes at the seafood aisle at your grocery store, they'll just have a whole wrapped fish. Like it's not scaled, it's just a fish and it's just wrapped in plastic. Well, some of my high school classmates took one of those and put it in the dashboard of a car of another student during the summer and I don't know I think they probably drove that car off a cliff I don't know if there's any coming back from it after that man so you could have done some real some real nasal damage with that prank especially if it's sitting there for any amount of time how long was it before they were able to get it cleaned out speaker-3 (18:59.532) Dude, I just quick. It didn't last long, it was quick. It was like that day. We like put it in and like after school, I think it was like the next morning it went around. It didnt stay long. I think workers were there like teachers would go to the bathroom and seen it and were like we gotta check all the bathrooms. speaker-0 Yeah, well, I mean, word got around, you probably were a little bit famous there in your high school if they ever if your name ever got attached to it, of course, I know in high school, you know. speaker-3 (19:34.722) We kept everyone's names quiet speaker-0 (19:46.444) Good good. This was an oceans 11 type prank like if we go down we all go down together that type of thing right? I love it man Dave Dave what do you got for me man? speaker-6 (20:01.043) Yah, well I have a lot of experience in high school I mean seven years of high school, I'm no dummy. But um, and the freshman girls, they love me, but that's a whole other story. speaker-0 (20:09.804) Yeah, is that the whole thing from Dazed and Confused? I keep getting older and they stay the same age. speaker-6 (20:16.118) Yeah, I think they stole that line for me. But anyway, you know, other than, you know, maybe expelling gas into the PA system, I was pretty innocent in high school. speaker-0 (20:29.774) That's a good one though, if you can get away with- Did you pull it off? speaker-6 (20:36.43) Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not gonna say any names to protect the innocent, but yeah. Yeah, later in life, I hope this is kind of boarder one, I guess. So I worked when I was in the car business and we had a new finance manager that said that she could get anybody financed and just that the other. So I gave her a name and I said her first name is Myra and her last name is Maine. And I gave her the number to where she works at, which was a funeral home, so she called up and askedfor my remains. speaker-0 (21:14.968) oh my God! Man, how did that call go over? I'm sure you were sitting just around a corner somewhere. speaker-6 (21:21.422) What's your say on how relationships started off a little rough? You know? speaker-0 (21:25.646) And look, I got a little bit of experience at car dealerships. One thing I know is that these days, especially every single call is recorded. So you might've just been able to get your hands on that for playback later. speaker-6 (21:45.573) You know what, it was many moons ago but yah. It'd sure be fun to revisit. Also we still are friends to this day. That finance manager. And we're both out of the car business. speaker-0 (21:51.724) Well, you know, Dave, when I was calling up to schedule this with you is one thing that you and I kind of talked about a little bit is that car dealerships are ripe for this kind of pranking. You know, it was, it always happened to me when I was selling cars last, there was always somebody had decided that day, hey, I'm gonna go get a burrito or I'm gonna go get pizza or something. And everybody throws a little bit of cash in the pot. That one person or two people brings back food for all the salesmen that are on that day. And I'll tell you, the amount of times that a burrito would come back loaded with the most agressive hot hot sauce, and it would just be a, it was like a pick-em. You never knew whose burrito it was going to be, but somebody might get it and got they did, man. Those tough on me. you know, I, I get it. Cause the thing is, is like, if you're going to play a prank like that, you have to be willing to get that prank played on you. Right? That's kind of the way it goes at the car dealership. speaker-6 (22:49.154) Yeah. We, there used to be an ink pad at the desk where we would work deals and stuff and they would take, they would page, like all the sales calls came into one phone. So everybody would brace for that phone to grab that customer. Well, they would ink the phone. So you'd have red ink on your ear and your, in your mouth. And you'd fall for it every time because you, you know, you want to talk to a customer. speaker-0 (23:17.248) Right, that's the environment, right? They make those customers so hard to come by that you're gonna run to that phone every time regardless. It can be covered in a lot worse than red ink and you probably still pick it up, right? Did getting stamped like that ever cost you a sale? speaker-6 (23:33.92) No, actually, you'd go back to work numbers and they'd what happened to you? yeah, yeah. You you make a joke out of it because that's what it was. It was a lot of hours like this job is. speaker-0 (23:46.414) Well, you know, there's one that we did to a guy and this was back in high school too. This was late high school for me. Growing up in such a rural town, everybody's vehicles were unlocked when I went to high school. And I don't think that that's probably the same today. I would imagine that if I go back to my high school right now in the middle of a day on a Tuesday and start checking door handles, all those door handles are going to be locked. That was not the way it was. I went to high school from 99 to 2003 or excuse me 2000 2003 and One girl that they went to school with us had an old Toyota Tacoma That had what they called a clutch start cancel in it you guys have you guys ever heard of that? speaker-3 (24:31.785) Yep. speaker-0 (24:33.622) Yeah, it was amazing it was a button that you would press and then you pump the gas and push the clutch in and the damn thing would fire up without a key. It was unbelievable. It was kind of hidden underneath the dash. But you know what we call that button? We call it the grand theft auto button because we stole that truck every time we got a chance and we never did anything to it. We liked the person that owned it. We would just drive it across town and park it in a funny spot or we would take all the stuff out of it and put that in the locker. And when she would go to get in it, none of her stuff would be there. Another thing that we did with an unlocked vehicle, I used to have this old Geo Metro. I don't know if you guys remember Geo Metros. They kind of looked like a little roller skate. I had gotten a new car, not a new car, but a new to me car in high school. And we sold the Geo Metro to one of the offensive linemen from the football team. And he loved that little red Metro. Of course, he looked it looked like a clown car. He looked like Mr. Incredible in the thing because he was so big and it was so small. But one day we were up in shop class and he had this guy had pissed somebody in the shop class off. And they were just in their overalls walking towards the parking lot and as naturally curious person, I wanted to see where this was going and where it went was not only had Jimmy left the the the Geo Metro, unlocked but he had left the keys in it. And so we went ahead with some very savvy shop guys and we popped all four of the wheels and tires off and we put it up on blocks and we locked the wheels and tires in the Geo Metro. and uh, you know, the best part about that day was being in the field house, wondering where Jimmy was and seeing this giant offensive tackle running to the field house because his car didn't have any wheels on it. It felt like that one was a really good one. Like we really got him there. Because we made it we made a big dude have to run to get someplace on time So I love the I love the rural gags of the stuff that you can get away with in a smaller town that's why I bring those up but You know I had something similar to that in college we had one dollar bill that i don't it was a party night, a oone point in time and there was a guy that i lived in the house with that came downstairs and looked at another guy and said I bet you a dollar this dollar to go and take all of the remnice of the alcohol bottles on the top of the fridge and mix that into one shot and take that shot. And I mean there is probably like 10 different kinds of liquor or mixers or whatever there was up there, you know whatever you find on top of an old 1980s fridge at a college party house and he drank that and he got really sick and it was really bad for him and I felt, it was funny it was hilarious. And so we decided that that dollar was going to be our dollar, we put a sticker on it we wrote all over it, we wrote rules on it, the rule were if you got, if somebody bet you the dollar, you did not take part in that bet. You were ban from owning the dollar for a weeks time and I'll tell you right now I did some things that I would never talk about into a microphone for that dollar. And it was a dollar that you couldn't spend fellas. It was all about pride. I mean, I just, I forgot about that dollar and I'm betting you right now of the 4 of us that lived in that house that if I called each one of them up one of them is going to know where that dollar is, it's going to start the whole thing over again. It's like that movie you're it, you ever seen that? You ever seen that movie you're it where its a bunch of 40 year old guys that have a game of tag, goes like around the world, its that type of thing. I feel like it put a mark on us, some way shape or form. Uh not the same shape or mark that what Kevin was talking about would put on you but a mark all the same right? I'm trying to scoot these in fellas and get the joke and get out before anybody notices but again idk if this whole part is going to make the air but lets, before I move on to the next thing I got, because I got some fun stuff for you guys and I wanna, some guys that I wanna play here but I wanna make sure we didnt leave any pranks on the board before we move forward. Dave, did you have anymroe that have come up in your mind since we have started talking about the uh, the objects as we have termed them. speaker-6 Yah, yah but they are way past PG-13, so we'll just skip that. I'll tell you if I ever make it to work, i'm buying you a beer. speaker-0 That's what I like to hear, that's what I like to hear, man. I could tell you some stories, most of the stuff that i've been telling you about is stuff that we only did in high school and in college a little bit. I got 10 years on radio and my radio show was called The Donkey Show. It was literally, it was right there in the title, you're not going to hear normal stuff on this show. And uh, we would do all sorts of stuff. We were dyabolical. You guys know what the cinnamon challenge is? Where you just try to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon? So that obviously is like you are eating dirt. Cinnamon is by nature hydrophobic, so you can't wash it away, but the first thing everybody does when they take the cinnamon challenge is they grab a waterbottle or whatever is close to them and we had a listener gift us a half gallon of, it was a $7 half gallon of what was called tequilla flavored liquor, it couldn't be called tequilla, because it wasn't. It was clear as water. And so we would have people come into the studio, take the cinnamon challenge, and we would put a Dasani bottle right there next to where they were doing the cinnamon challenge that was filled with that tequila-flavored liquor, so you know you're choking and you're coughing, and the first drink you get is the worst tequila-flavored liquor you've ever had. That, that type of stuff was every day on the radio station so thats why I get so excited about this stuff because I like to hear about it from other people's perspectives. Uh, because its not always me that was apart of it or that had to go through it. Um, but I digress a little bit here, I want to make sure that Kevin and Mark don't have anything left that is of the PG-13 nature. We might be able to get away with. Mark did we leave any on the table before we move on? speaker-3 Oh, no, I'm, everything is PG over here. For me, we used to have a tree fort, you know when you were a kid. 10 or 11 or 12 years old, you build a tree fort and we build a tree fort, we'd climb it and my cousin Brandon, and my sister had a weird prank, I knew about it, so I avoid it, so they would put feces on the steps going up, sometimes it might have been a dog, so when you would go to grab the ladder, you would get a handful, you know it could be dog or it could be human, you know pick one. Use your imagination. speaker-0 Oh my god, that's terrible. speaker-3 You know, sometimes the pain of that was pretty hilarious. Someone got peed on here and there. speaker-0 Alright, I think it's, you know, for just the sake of trying to get some of this to air, I appreciate you sharing that with us Mark. But, I think we'll go ahead and put the brakes on that one. speaker-4 We found the line, Mark just jumped right over that line. speaker-0 Well, at least his language was clean. Out of everything else. Kevin did the worst thing and said Holy Crap during that story, which is way outta bounds, way out of bounds. I'm just kidding with you. speaker-3 You wanted to know more of a PG prank speaker-0 Hang on you said that last one was a PG prank, why don't you give me G, Sesame Street, ok. speaker-3 Alright, so we were, me and my buddies were hungry but, we uh, I don't know for some reason, decided to pull a little prank on my uncle, we were Making a cake we're staying over at his house and He had corn mix, Kool-aid He had a strawberry cake mix and we decided to mix all that in together instead of using water or milk we use Gatorade for liquids. And we made that. Well, he's a drinker. So late night, know, he's not there. So he's like, hey, you need to eat some cake, man. put, frosting on it. He ate like half of that the whole time. He's like, this stuff is so good. And the next morning, he took a little bite out of it. He's like, what the is this? speaker-0 (39:00.546) That sounds like such a sugar bomb. You go with the, you got corn and then you've got the cake mix and then you've got Gatorade and Kool-Aid. I'm surprised he didn't wake up in a diabetic coma, Mark. speaker-3 (39:13.026) That's more of a PG stuff. speaker-0 (39:15.63) I would say that one's right down the middle of Sesame Street, and I appreciate you for bringing us back from the brink there That's a good one. That's a good one All right fellas. I've got some some fun stuff here. You guys know how the game would you rather goes, right? Basically, I'm gonna give you a scenario and you got to choose Would you rather do one thing or the other and the fun part about this game? You got a pick you got to you got to go with one lesser of two evils here I've got some that are kind of like life in the cab type thing and let's start with this one because I know you guys love your phones you're talking to me on them right now would you rather lose your phone for a week out on the road or Have a coffee maker that you can't use for a week out on the road, Mark we'll start with you. speaker-3 Can we say both. speaker-0 No, you gotta pick one speaker-3 I'd go with my phone. speaker-1 (40:14.06) You'd rather lose your phone for a week? speaker-4 (40:16.332) How can I talk to you, Mark speaker-0 (40:24.27) you got a bromance going on with Kevin here, how is he gonna keep up with ya? speaker-3 (40:34.048) message in a bottle speaker-4 who's been carving in the urinals. Leave notes to each other at the Loves truck stop. speaker-0 (40:38.926) You're leaving notes and fish bones in the urinals, right? Just for old times sake. speaker-3 (40:46.57) I think we should go to old school and two cups of the string. speaker-0 (40:51.512) That, there you go. There you go. You're have to have a lot of string, you'll make it work. That surprises me though, Mark. I will say that right off the bat. I'm surprised that first person we went to chose phone. Dave, I'm curious. Would you rather lose your phone for a week or lose your coffee maker? speaker-6 (41:10.446) It's funny you say that, okay, because I have a Keurig in the truck here. Okay, it's right next to me because I don't have a passenger seat. And I'm a big Pike's Place guy for Starbucks, so I get the cake up. But when I go to Starbucks, it tastes much better freshly brewed. So I went out and got the grounds and my wife got the kcup that you just poured a coffee in and then it'll brew. It doesn't fit. speaker-0 Oh, bummer. speaker-6 (41:53.451) So I'm currently without my coffee maker, so I spent $4.70 today on a pikes road side oasis. Me with out my phone, I'm kinda a social media, well I was going to use one word but I wont use that. But uh, I'm all over social media. So I'm a Facebook guy so. yah. speaker-0 (42:10.126) Currently what you're experiencing is the one that you would choose. I like it. Alright, Kevin. For you, lose your phone for a week or your coffee maker? speaker-4 (42:19.352) Pretty easy, I'm not a coffee guy. Everybody else in my family does coffee, and I'm just weird. speaker-0 (42:24.6) There you go. So you would, you don't care about the coffee, just don't take my phone. speaker-4 (42:30.19) I mean, I don't want to be a slave to my phone either. So it's like you can take or leave it, you know, either one. But I do use my phone for work. When I go up to Canada, I got to call a phone number and I don't know how to message or pigeon the guys up in the silo. So you're to have to take my coffee maker, man. speaker-0 (42:45.666) Yeah, well what you do is you actually bring a couple of really nice bottles of maple syrup up there to the border and you talk real sweet to them, lots of pleases and thank yous and maybe say a boot once. They'll let you over, man. No questions asked. Just a game. Just a game you're playing. Yeah, keep saying I'm sorry. I'm sorry. speaker-4 (43:04.814) They actually say sorry, and then obnoxiously, like, they do it, they say it a lot. Too much? That is like, man, that was a stereotype. speaker-4 (43:09.876) Yeah. speaker-0 (43:15.512) But what I'm hearing here is, you know, it's only the phone. guess, Kevin, you could take or leave the phone because you don't want to be a slave to it, but you do need it. That was kind of the idea behind the question is I know that you guys aren't talking or texting or on social media most of the time while you're doing your job. You might be talking on the phone on your headset, but you got to have that phone for a lot of things you guys do in the daily job. And hey, you can get coffee anywhere right? Even if it does tastes like they brewed it in an old sock. speaker-0 (43:44.716) Okay, I got another one for you since we're talking a little bit of refreshments here. These ones are kind of truck stop, I guess, oriented. Would you rather, Kevin, I'll go to you first, eat only roller grill food from the truck stop for a week or only vending machine food from the truck stop for a week? And you got to do one of them the whole week. Switching back and forth here. speaker-4 (44:14.176) I love my roller foods there, but I did lose a gallbladder due to eating way too much greasy food. So it's already gone, I can't blow it up, so let's go with the rollers, dude. speaker-0 (44:20.983) Okay. Alright! Yeah, a little bit of Mad Max feel there. Let's go for it. I like that. Okay Dave how about well, speaker-4 (44:31.746) What the is that gonna happen? speaker-0 yeah, cuz you don't have two gallbladders, right? So that's already off the table. I like the logic there Kevin I really do Dave roller-grill food only or vending machine food only for a week speaker-6 (44:47.18) You know, I'm originally from Chicago, so mustard on my hot dog. Love them. And Flying J has these really hot tamales they put on the roller, and I really enjoy those. So I'm going to go roller. Vending machines, there's always a bad selection for me anyway. speaker-0 (45:04.972) Yeah, you just something about food being tucked behind glass like that. You never know how long it's been there. And but I got to ask you with the roller grill, you know, I talked to another driver here recently. It was concerned about how long, you know, said tube meat had been on the roller grill. And I said that, you know, I always thought that it was like a tree. Every wrinkle that that thing develops, it's been on there for about seven days. Is that. If you eat a lot of roller food, is that true? Can you guys help me out? speaker-6 (45:35.822) If the hot dog has blisters, pass! speaker-0 (45:40.032) Okay, that's a good thing to look for. Mark, Kevin, you got any insight on that, on how to age roller meat? speaker-4 It builds character. speaker-0 (45:51.692) Yeah, sometimes you have to wait till the food digests to really guess what the age of it was too, right? speaker-6 (45:57.902) Yeah. speaker-4 (45:59.17) As long as its not growing hair. speaker-0 (46:00.248) Good. There you go. All right, Mark, same question to you, man. Roller grill food for a week or vending machine food for a week? speaker-3 (46:09.433) Oh man, I'm gonna be the opposite, I'm gonna be the vending machine. Ok I just got, theres so many going to the bathroom, and you walk out of the bathroom, and you see a guy in there who was doing a number two, and he is going straight to that roller thing without washing his hands, i'm good, i'll stick with my wrapped up you know peanuts and trail mix. I was going to say there is a place I drive to in Detroit its a country market, they have a vending machine out front that has bratwurst does that count. speaker-0 (46:45.676) Sure, it's a vending machine. speaker-3 (46:48.204) There you go. speaker-0 (46:50.286) How many preservatives do you suppose they have to put in that bratwurst to keep it in a vending machine? speaker-3 (46:57.43) A lot. speaker-4 (46:59.769) At least one. speaker-0 (47:00.329) Yeah, at least one, right speaker-0 (47:02.804) All right, guys. How about some, how about some road ones for you? these ones actually are called chaos ones. So, would you rather every weigh station be open forever or every scale closed, but every dot officer extremely bored? So I'll put that in real quick for you and Mark, we're to start with you on this one. Every single way station you drive by is open in perpetuity forever, or every one of them is closed, but every DOT officer has got a problem and they're out there looking for you to solve it. What are you rather, which one of these would you rather go with? speaker-3 (47:48.356) every scale open. speaker-0 (47:50.061) Why's that? speaker-3 because I'm outlaw speaker-0 (47:57.247) Okay, I said- speaker-3 scales open, you find a way around. speaker-0 (48:12.288) Right, right, and a bored DOT officer can cause some hiccups in your day. Kevin, on to you here. Every way station is open forever, or every one of them's closed, but they've all got an itchy trigger finger DOT officer waiting. speaker-4 (48:26.675) And I mean, the obvious answer is going to be the scales, but at the same time, like what kind of shenanigans could go down with the DOT officers? speaker-0 (48:35.094) I mean, think the sky's the limit speaker-3 (48:36.768) It's funny what happens to other people. speaker-0 (48:41.454) All right, so there's an entertainment factor in there for hearing stories later on down the road of these Bored DOT officers is what you're saying speaker-3 (48:51.308) Everyone's gotta take one for the team for a funny story I've been doing it my whole life. Because I was homeschooled, I didn't have fun stories to share with people so I had to go make some. speaker-0 (49:02.008) I getcha, I getcha. Okay. Dave, how about you, man? Same question. speaker-6 (49:10.168) I'll take the open scales. I will cause you know, with the DOT I don't have prepaid legal so. speaker-0 (49:17.89) Gotcha, gotcha. That's a big caveat right there and one you got to look out for. Okay, good job. All right, so we're moving on from what if, or excuse me, we're moving on to what if this is a fun little game that I made up. And I'll tell you guys how I made it up. It's a dumb story, but I have to tell it. Last Thursday night, or I guess it was morning at about 3 a.m., I came flying out of bed and the first thought that went into my head the day of the week had a smell. I don't why I don't know what's going on as I sleep in my brain, but thats the type of stuff that I deal with on the daily. So I decided to turn a negative into a positive and make it into a game. So fellas, we're going to slant this a little bit for trucking. speaker-0 (50:04.182) What if... the freeways had a small. How do you think Dave, we'll start with you. speaker-0 (50:12.933) I80 would smell speaker-6 (50:15.662) Only because I live right off of I-80. I know it's probably like marijuana. It's the number one drug traffic highway in, you know. speaker-0 (50:34.766) I'm buying that. I like that as a good correct answer. I don't know. I don't have a lot of experience, but I'd say the guy that lives right off of it can probably smell it. So. speaker-6 (50:46.102) Well, yeah. Hey, I'm old enough now to say that I spent three decades in the 80s and I'm retired and I hated drugs. What's the say? like to say that they smelled weird. speaker-4 (50:59.01) Hahaha! speaker-0 (51:01.342) Ok, Mark, we're headed to you now. If Freeways had a smell, how would I-80 smell in your eyes? speaker-3 I would say like oil speaker-0 oh, thats a pretty good one. That make sense. speaker-3 (51:13.87) because all the swift drivers always flipped upside down, oil was all in the ditch. speaker-0 (51:21.44) Man, they can't catch a break those guys. just you know, I've done enough I'm I'm probably close to 300 podcast episodes for truck drivers at this point Maybe even more than that and I will tell you right now those poor guys cannot catch a break from any of you guys It's just non stop. speaker-3 (51:36.398) Last winter, three Swift drivers in the ditch, two miles apart. speaker-0 (51:43.048) Wow. speaker-6 (51:45.806) SWIFT stand for? speaker-0 (51:48.334) I think there's a few different acronyms that people have put together. Yeah, I was gonna say, the ones that are running through my head, I don't know if we should say them right now. So I appreciate you keeping that under wraps there. But that's a fun game that we can play at another time, Dave, that you just reminded me of, is we can make up some acronyms for some various companies. They don't all have to be trucking companies. You know, we wanna keep it friendly out here on the highways. But Kevin. I'm coming to you for this one. How does I80 smell. speaker-3 (52:21.198) Like teen spirit. It's like freedom because it goes all the way across the country and every time I'm on I-80 I'm usually out there paying loads. speaker-0 (52:34.718) That's a really good one to put on I like that and who knows how freedom smells I don't know how it smells, but I do know how it sounds I happen to have a sound bite of freedom right here It's pretty cool speaker-3 (52:49.454) Smells like a two-stroke dirt bike, That's what it smells like. speaker-0 (52:51.352) Yep. There you go. Smells like a bottle rocket, maybe? speaker-3 (52:57.101) Mmm, there we go. speaker-0 (52:58.104) Pop, yep, gotta wait for it. speaker-6 (53:00.879) guys had much better answers than I did. The only thing my answer is going to give me is probably a drug test. speaker-0 (53:08.888) Yeah, but you already passed because you said you hated him, sir. speaker-0 (53:12.014) You're good to go, speaker-6 (53:13.642) I'm retired, so... speaker-0 (53:15.15) You're good to go. Okay. Uh, one last one for you guys. Uh, just for funsies here before I let you get back to it. What if all CB or excuse me, what if all GPS voices were done by celebrities? What celebrity would you want talking you through your route on rush hour in Chicago? speaker-4 Snoop dog. speaker-0 Snoopdog. That's a good one. I like that. Keep you a little bit calm. speaker-3 (53:40.718) I had this idea for a long time that I want Snoop Dogg as my GPS voice guide. He'd be like, man, take it right over there. speaker-3 (53:52.536) So many good quotes. speaker-0 (53:53.484) You know, I actually, for Christmas, I was gifted from my sister a cookbook that Snoop Dogg wrote with Martha Stewart. It's called From Crook to Cook. And it was one of the most entertaining reads, just reading through him describing why he wants you to make hot dogs on a grill or whatever it is. Because all of the recipes are like, there's some of them that are really nice, but there's some of them that are like, Snoop had his hand in this one for sure, because there's Kraft macaroni and cheese in the recipe, you know? So I love that. I think that's an awesome choice. think Snoop Dogg is very entertaining and I imagine if you had one that was was was rated for mature and he could say the things that he wanted to say there'd be a non-stop laugh listening to Snoop Dogg direct you around Chicago. How about you Dave? Who's your celebrity narrating your GPS? speaker-6 (54:43.214) I gotta tell ya, that's my hometown, the home of low taxes and honest politicians. yeah, don't everybody laugh at once. Samuel L. Jackson. speaker-0 (54:55.886) Samuel L Jackson as long as he can swear I'm taking it Yeah, you gotta it's guy can't be PG-13 with those two guys. You gotta have that real crisp, you know Samuel L Jackson's got one word that he is really really well known for in fact, I've seen it on t-shirts It's on his wallet in pulp fiction. It's it's a word. We're not gonna say right now, but I would love to hear that Yeah, right. I would love to hear him speaker-0 (55:26.444) get these snakes off my plane, and take a right! speaker-0 (55:28.406) And like something like that. Mix in with a bunch of profanity. I don't know. speaker-6 (55:35.992) 3D print it speaker-4 (55:39.914) I don't know what you're talking about. speaker-0 (55:45.674) Alright Mark, your turn for that one. What celebrity would you have narrating your GPS on a rush hour crawl through Chicago? speaker-3 (55:54.798) This is gonna be a hard one to pick, but both names are gonna be starting with Ryan. Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling? probably... Reynolds. speaker-0 (56:04.792) We're getting back to the whole bromance thing here a little bit I see. Yes. Nothing wrong with a man crush man. Nothing wrong with a good man crush. speaker-3 (56:13.698) The woman said if you ever gave me a little flip card, know, it would be with one of them. speaker-0 (56:21.28) Okay, I like it. speaker-3 (56:22.766) There's a lot of fuel right there! speaker-0 (56:25.248) Now here's my question, would you have them? Cause I can see like, if you give me Ryan Gosling, I want Ryan Gosling from the big short where he's the confident banker that nobody believes. I think he did great in that role. I want Ryan Reynolds. I think is Deadpool. Don't you? Yeah. Yeah. Talk to me like that. Break the fourth wall and insult me. I like it. I'm all about it guys. Well, fellas, this has been awesome today. A fun little April Fool's Day segment where we just kind of got to be goofy. And I really appreciate you all joining me today. As you guys know, well, Dave, this will be new for you since this is your first time, every single segment here, we like to do what we call final thoughts. We want to make sure we didn't leave anything on the table. We didn't keep any stories out or if there's any shout outs or anything like that, that you want to make anything you want to say to the company. The floor is yours here to say whatever you want. And Dave, I'll give you some time to think about yours. We'll go to Kevin here first. For final thoughts, Kevin, thanks for joining us today, man. What do you got for me? speaker-4 (57:28.16) One more thought to that last GPS one. The kid from Malcolm in the middle in the wheelchair. Never hear the next turn cause he's so slow at talking. anyways shout out some stuff. I'm gonna shout out Rob from, hey what was that Fairbanks? Fairbanks Terminal? Remember that was? I know he was on the last episode I listened to but I thought he was a dirt biker. I just wanna say man, com up to red bud and let's rip. I suck but it'll be fun. speaker-0 (57:57.886) Hey, there you go, man. Hey, that's one of the things that we get to do on this podcast. It's a lot of fun is connect people that work for the same company in completely different parts of the United States. And you guys might actually meet up sometime and get to go go get dirty a little bit on your dirt bike. So glad to do it, man. speaker-4 (58:14.382) What's the for the terminal? Bulk Transit Motocross Day. Come on. speaker-0 (58:19.128) There you go, there you go. Kevin, thank you so much for the time today, We're going to you next, Dave. Final thoughts for you real quick before we let you go. speaker-6 (58:30.19) I got two shout outs. got one to my terminal manager. I'm not a brown-noser, but I will say that he is a handsome devil and he keeps me running. And then that's Charlie. And then to the guy who actually turned me on to this job, Vern, I think he's been with the company like five, six years. He's out of Sydney, and we go way back through music at Jack Russell's Great White Show. speaker-0 (58:57.132) Very cool. Are you a musician yourself, Dave? speaker-6 (59:00.406) I am not, but I ran social media for Jack Russell's version of Great White. speaker-0 (59:06.4) Okay, very cool. That's awesome, man. Well, maybe we'll have to get you back on here sometime soon. Tell some stories of being the social media manager for a band because I know that that probably came with its fair share of stories. speaker-6 (59:19.53) It sure did, and God rest God rest him because he passed away in 24. speaker-0 (59:23.828) sorry to hear that, man. Well, well, thank you for sharing that stuff with us, Dave, and you are welcome back here anytime. Just like Kevin and Mark are. We appreciate the time today, sir. Mark, for you, final thoughts before we let you go, my friend. speaker-3 (01:00:02.35) Oh man final thoughts, no more stories for me I can keep them PG. Uh, I'll give a shout out to the woman and the kid, but mainly of course, James our uh, dispatcher at Dundee. I've been giving him a little crap with him today, know, the past couple days. You know, you got me in the spirit when you told me, like, hey, we're doing some April Fool pranks and stuff. So I've been kind of on him all day about texting him, like, you know, all like recent events that kind of happened and telling him, pictures of like, you know, oh, I'm stuck in a ditch. And he's like, what? And I'm like, no, never mind, man, I'm good. Not me. It's a photo from a month. speaker-0 (01:00:37.902) Alright man, well that's awesome. Well shout out to James, he's putting up with you and he's doing a good job Mark. So we appreciate him and everybody that works at Bulk. You gotta remind you guys too, you're all welcome on this show. That's one of the reasons we have the drivers shout out their dispatchers or shout out terminal managers. We're happy to have you on, happy to talk about whatever. Dave, Mark, Kevin, you guys did awesome today. Happy April Fool's Day to you. I hope you come out of it unscathed. Knowing you guys though, there's a target on all three of your backs, so look over your shoulder for the rest of the day, okay? All right, fellas. Be safe out there. Thanks, fellas. speaker-3 (01:01:19.918) Bye speaker-0 (01:01:28.206) Big thanks to Dave, Mark and Kevin there. You know, there is one thing that happens in broadcasting. You know, I talked a little bit about the industry experience in it. There's one way that I know that we had a really good segment and thing that's happened to me since the very first time I was ever on a radio microphone. I have these, I like to call them the hot dogs on the back of my neck. You know, it's just, if you tip your head back a little bit, sometimes there's a little bit of extra back there. Those hurt right now because I've been laughing so hard for the last... that interview went over 50 minutes. That's another way you know it's a good one. The time just flies by. I looked up and saw that we were at 48 minutes and realized I've only got, you know, basically an hour give or take to work with here. I had to move the guys along a little bit but don't worry, we'll get them back on again. We've got so many great episodes planned for you guys and some of them are gonna be fun, and a little bit of reverent like this one. Others will take a really, really focused look. Some aspect of the job that you all do for Bulk and Spur. In fact, I was just looking at my upcoming episodes spool here and I've got a lot. How would you guys like a staff spotlight on Sean Stevans director of operations? Maybe get him in here. Sean was so awesome to us when we first got there out in Ohio, we were meeting everybody. Of course, the entire staff was amazing, but I really took to Sean and he's been helpful with everything we've done on the podcast. And I think, I think we're starting to get little bit and he's going to become a podcast fan here before too long. Love to do a staff spotlight with Sean. Get to know him a little bit better. How about just life bulk transit? Let's talk a little bit about it. What's it like on the yard? What's it like in the break room? What kind of stuff you got in the van? Mental Health awareness. always is very important, something that we can definitely talk about on this show. A round table with the guy from the shop, you know, when Brad brought in the guys from the shop when we were out in Columbus, it was so cool to meet everybody. Then it was like at first they were a little nervous, but then the laughs started and they started jabbing each other. And it felt like shopping class in high school again. We're all eating Barbecue, enjoying ach other's time and telling stories, which is what it's all about. So that's something that we can do coming up. We can talk about our equipment spotlight, daily safety routines. There's so much on the board. The one thing I'm bringing this up there's a reason I promise always a rhyme or a reason to Nice joke. But no, the reason I bring it up is because we can make anything an episode. I I spoke to Dave shortly after we recorded you just heard. And that's exactly what I told him. said,hey man, you're the one that sees it. You're out there in the weeds. If there's something that you think that other drivers might benefit from us making an episode out of, send it to me. Send me all your ideas and suggestions. I've already taken some ideas and suggestions from guys and made them into episodes and we're only eight episodes in. So send me anything you want to talk about, if you just say hey I wan to be on the show but I don't have a topic. That fine too. You and I can have a converstation and find out somethings that you're interested in, things that kind of spark a fire. We'll get you in for an episode. We get in that realm of conversation. It's really easy. I try to make it as simple on you guys as I can. And I think if you reach out to guys like Dave, Mark and Kevin that we just had on the show, they'll let you know. It's an easy process. It's a fun process. I want to involve as many of you from Bulk and Spur as possible that want to be involved. There's never any pressure from my end of things. Having done this for as long as I understand that a cold call with a dude you've never talked to asking you to come podcast is a not par for the course. In phone calls your expecting to recieve. So look, I understand and there's going to be some people who just don't want to do it. And that's fine too. For those people, we do it into it. They don't always have to take part, but if you want to you're more than welcome. And we had a lot of fun today with Dave, Mark and Kevin. Can't thank those guys enough for the time that they spent here. I'm going to tell you just head on over to the website, enjoy yourself over there. podcast.bulktransit.com. There's lots going on. That's where you can get in touch with me as well. If you do have an idea for an episode or you just want to come on the show, love to have you completely out of time though, because, we, just had too much fun talking about pranks today. And, so I got to get up out of here. That's all. I can say stay safe. Please stay safe out there. We'll see you next Wednesday for another episode of Always Pneumatic, Never Static. Same place, same time. Be safe. We'll talk to then. speaker-0 (01:06:19.566) And that's all she blows for today's episode of Always Pneumatic, Never Static, your number one and probably only pneumatic trucking podcast brought to you by Bulk Transit. Thanks for rolling with us today. Till next time, stay safe, keep those lines clear and keep it pumping.