Laboring on Labor Day w/Kyle Matovcik

0:00Okay, we're laboring on Labor Day with Mr. Kyle Motovik, who is making a comeback just for me on Labor Day. What's going on, dude? Not really, dude. Just for you, like you said, laboring away on Labor Day, I really do podcasts anymore. And it's mostly because of being a dad now, but I felt like we should do one and I don't ask to go on people's podcasts, but you and I had did a podcast, geez, it had to be almost two years ago where we were talking through some of this stuff. And I think you had something lined up to talk about and we ended up talking about parenthood the entire time. And I think like we got off afterwards, you're like, I had something completely else different lined up, but I just decided let's go with this. I figured this might be a funny contrast, but to answer your question a little bit more direct, I'm doing very, very well.

1:00And I'll have to send you a picture of the project I've been working on at home. I just not finished, but we got pretty far on the retaining line to rebuild. And my art is a complete and total mess, but the wall itself looks absolutely fantastic. And it looks professional for being done by a bunch of dumb stupid pollocks. Well, that's all right. It's some man, I love jobs like that. I love doing stuff like that, especially when you got family coming in and helping you. You're just like spending time together and you're hanging out. And you know, I mean, but today I went out and I was out in the garage today cleaning up the garage some. And you know, it just, it is what it is, man. You just got to, you got to do these things sometimes. Yeah, well, my brother's getting married this week and he did not do a lot of, he was not very organized. Oh, geez. My daughter's bouncing in the corner of the room, but he didn't do a lot of communication

2:03or preparation and getting everything situated. So he had, I was like, you know what, I can kind of squeak this out to get this week off. I'm just taking this whole week off. And originally, I'm like, you know, why don't we, my wife go to Florida? That'd be awesome. And then I started thinking about it a little bit more. I'm like, you know, that's going to be a pain in the ass. We're going to Florida in November. So I look at that retaining wall and there's more and more blocks that fell off. Like, why don't we just, this is going to be a good week for it. The weather is perfect. It's like 80 degrees and not humid. So like, yeah, I'm sweating a little bit, but it's still nice. You're not dying. And yeah, my older brother came over yesterday and we did a lot of work. My stepdad came over yesterday and today. And then tomorrow, my brother's coming back over and we're probably going to finish everything out. My, my mother-in-laws now husband just helped me literally a few minutes ago, dump a whole bunch of gravel in.

3:03It was kind of funny because I was literally just sitting downstairs. I completely forgot we were even going to do this. And you sent me a text and like literally we finished up like five minutes before we're supposed to do this. It all worked out really, really well. But yeah, like you said, it's really cool to kind of get family together and just work on these kind of projects. And I don't know about you. This might be a thing for like all guys. But whatever you finish a house project, it's like, like you might be frustrated in the moment. It might be something else you want to do. But when it's all said done, you're like, I'm really happy I did that. Yeah, you step back and admire your work. You're like, oh, you can see the, you see the frit, like it's like I like making like, I've always liked building like coups, like chicken coups and duck coups for whenever, you know. And now that I've had some chicken coups established, I ended up tearing down the duck coup I had because the ducks I had went and committed suicide and played with coyotes and got themselves killed. So I ended up tearing it down. But I just, I just love that, that process of like going through and constructing it

4:07and trying to make it like the is accessible for yourself as possible. Plus it looks like making something that looks kind of cool. And you know that you're like, oh, yeah, I'm happy with the way this looks. And so one of the things I haven't had to do in the last few years is build anything like that. And it's like, man, I kind of want to do something like that. So earlier this year, I tore down my high tunnel because some of the wood was riding out. So that means next year I get to build a new high tunnel. So that's going to be awesome. Nice. Yeah. You would think I think most guys who aren't mechanics like me, they probably look at like a project on their car and they feel that way when they're done with it. All right. I know I don't touch my car because I am so scared. I'll break something. Like, listen, you think I'm any different? I look at stuff on cars all the time. I'm like, I'll fucking break that fuck hurry. I'm gonna start turning anything on it. But you know, most of the time it turns out pretty good. What the?

5:08Oh, we got a cruise recently. So one of my dad's customers, and I love this whole story through and through. And especially like afterwards too, this customer of my dad's name's Paul. He was the first customer to come into my dad's shop back in 2002 or 2003 with a car that my dad and my grandfather had built him back in the 80s. So it was like an old cutlass or something like that. They put a 350 in and it was the first car to come into Motovic Auto since it's been open. And he had a Chevy cruise with a manual transmission that blew an oil cooler and my dad bought it off in 500 bucks. And my dad texted me, he's like, Hey, this car just came into my lap. I'll buy it. Don't worry about it. But you buy all the parts for it. You do the labor and it's all yours. And so like it was a whole, I'm pretty sure this probably meant the world to my dad. But me, my older brother and even my younger brother made an appearance and we were all kind of working on our cars. So my brother was like doing brake stuff on his Impala.

6:10And then I'm taking this turbo off this cruise and it was, it was a motherfucker. I'm not gonna lie. But we got the turbo off, got the oil cooler off, put everything back together and got it running. And I've been driving the car ever since my wife and I took it to DC, which is about four hours away from here. And like that kind of day was really cool. So we literally spent like $1,000 on 122,000 mile Chevy cruise with the manual transmission, gets 40 miles of a gallon. I've been driving it almost every day ever since we fixed it up and like the car is in a macular condition. So the other part that's cool about this is that that same guy Paul had came into my work to buy a truck. And I was able to kind of, you know, get him hooked up with the salesman and all that stuff. I love this kind of like family lineage stuff because I've had a lot of these opportunities. And I don't know how often other people get to have this kind of stuff. But like I've met guys, already is the one dude's name. I remember the first time I met him, he was in my dad's shop and he said, well, I watched

7:12your grandfather grow up, I watched your dad grow up and now I'm watching you grow up. And he's like, I always said, there had to be another. So just kind of seeing that stuff and saying like Paul, the guy that we got the cruise off of same deal. I mean, he knew my grandfather. I don't know if he knew my great grandfather, but I know he knows, you know, obviously knew my dad, his dad, and now he knows me. And we were able to, you know, he came to my dealership and then bought a truck off, you know, my dealer because he was looking for a newer truck. So it's just kind of like the generations of the Tovix and then kind of getting to continue to service our vehicles on down the line, man. That shit just, it makes my world. And then I know we went to my favorite restaurant, like for breakfast ever, master, it's a little restaurant in Trenum and they've been open since 1928. And I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a stretch to say five generations of the Tovix have eaten there. So because my daughter's eating there, my grandfather used to take me and my older brother there all the time.

8:13My dad, obviously, you know, his dad took him there all the time. And it probably wouldn't be a stretch to say my great grandfather took my grandfather there all the time. So just like I said, going down the line of all the generations of family, they've got to do the same thing, sitting the same seats. Shit's really cool, man. It is really fucking cool. Yeah, it's really cool to see like areas like that that kind of like hold on to those roots. One of the coolest things was when we went to, when I went to Namibia a few years back, was that 2024 in November, 2024, late October to November, I was there for the election. And I'm with my father-in-law and he's from Namibia. He was like, that's where he was born, that's where he was raised. And so Namibia used to be part of South Africa. And then during the Angolan War, when he was off at war in Angola, they split. They had this like political revolution in Namibia and they split into two kinds.

9:15So now you have South Africa in Namibia. And so when he comes back from Angola, he was serving in the South African military because it was all South Africa. But now he's a citizen of Namibia. So now he's got like dual citizenship without ever asking for it. And so one of the places, one of the places we went to there was a town called Ocho. There's a bakery there in Ocho where they have these really nice, it's not really a bakery, it's more like a cafe, but they call it the Bakery. And so it's been there since like he was young. And his brother and his brother met his wife there on the steps of that place back like 60 years ago. You know, it's like, I like that. Like really cool shit like that. You know, and yeah, they've like done renovations and but they still have the pictures of how it looked and it's still in the same spot.

10:17They've just kind of renovated it and made it more modern. But yeah, it's pretty cool shit. I love that. And that restaurant I was telling you about this goes back to kind of your point as well. Massards, they have all the pictures of the guy who owns a restaurant at Kirk. I'm pretty sure they have pictures of like his dad and even his dad before, you know, his grandfather before him, they have all these black and white pictures all along the wall. They have a giant mirror on the wall that says, you know, master, it's established like 19, 28, 19, 23 or something like that. And like the restaurant, it still looks old and there and they still only take cash. They don't do cards. They still don't take cash in 2026. They used to be open on Saturdays, but then 2020 came around and then they stopped, you know, working on Saturdays. So usually it's like, okay, well, if I'm off, then we'll all go and you know, it's kind of sucks because we in order for like me, my wife and Riley to all go together, we normally have to leave the house at like 530 in the morning. And I'm sure you could have tested this getting women up and leaving before 6 o'clock for me and you.

11:23That's, you know, that's any day that ends and why we're like, you know, we already had our coffee. We're already ready to go. But for them, it's like, all right, well, this is like putting a man on because they got to get ready to get out of the air done or you know, for us, we have to have the backpack and everything. But, um, you know, I know it just makes my dad's entire day to go hang out with his granddaughter at the restaurant. And, um, you know, over the last year and a half, well, about year because she's 13 months as of two days ago. I, we went into the pregnancy and I wasn't sure how my dad was going to react to it. And you have grandkids, right? Yeah, I want. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I thought you did, but what's a 100% sure? Um, my dad had told me from a fairly early age that like for 33 years, this is exactly what for 33 years, I will have got to do nothing that I want to do, which I was probably 15 at the time and fucked up thing to tell a 15 year old, but it was honest.

12:25You know, I mean, like this was his perspective from having kids and he would never tell you regretted having any of his kids. He would be at first. He loves all of us. And obviously we love him. He would do anything for us and we would do anything for him. But that kind of honesty with your kids, I think is, it's tough love, but it also kind of reminds you like if you're going to do this, then just know you are going to sacrifice some of the things that you want. And any parent will tell you that, yes, there are plenty of times where you would not want to deal with this screaming kid right now. You would rather, um, you know, play Xbox, you'd rather go take a, you do want to do anything but that. But once a kid calmed down and you just see their smile for point two of a second, you're like, I would do that a thousand times over again, rather than whatever I wanted to do in that moment. You know what I mean? Like you'd make that sacrifice a hundred times out of a hundred. But, um, you know, my dad telling me that kind of always put me in the perspective like when I do have kids that that is going to be something I'm going to have to contend with. And I have contended with it to a very, very large degree.

13:26You know, my entire lifestyle changed and I wouldn't change it for anything. I used to go to the gym after work now. I work out in the mornings as soon as I wake up. I don't really podcast anymore. Like this is probably the first one I've done a few, probably like a month or two. But, um, you know, I'm okay with it. And it's kind of nice because, you know, before when I was trying to juggle dad, multiple podcast band, it was like I was always tired. I always run my ass off. I always had to keep up with the latest thing and it just, it wasn't working. And about. Let's see, probably about seven months went by and there were so many times where I had to tell people I loved, no, I can't do this right now because I have to go do something like this. And not that I'm complaining about this right now because obviously I really want to do this. I specifically wanted to talk to you. But, you know, it was a sacrifice that, yeah, I was completely willing to make. And it took me a while to come to that conclusion, but I'm glad I came to that conclusion because, um, you know, you only do get one chance to have small kids.

14:28And I every last little thing like it's, we'd hand my daughter a book with dinosaurs on it because, you know, my wife and I love dinosaurs and sharks. Like you could see all the dinosaur stuff behind me. Um, she had a, we would hand her a dinosaur book or she would grab the dinosaur book. And her original noise was, if she, if you ask what sound the dinosaur would make, she would just go, now. This little, I have this little Leviathan, uh, Reaper Leviathan plus, it's from a game of Subnautica. It's funny. She started growling at that. And I'm like, oh, that's interesting. She's got a dinosaur book, right? Grab's dinosaur book and now she goes, don't get really say that many words. Like she'll say mom, dad, um, stink, I stink, dad stinks. Um, she has a little bit of vocabulary, but not like she can't really say sentences yet. But if you roar at her, she's roaring back. She'll smile, she'll laugh, she'll do all this stuff.

15:29She's very verbal. Like she does a lot of babbling at 13 months old, but really she's been babbling probably since like, I'm say like four or five months old. So, um, yeah, I wouldn't trade anything I do now for anything else because it is truly amazing to just see her become her own person and watch her become more autonomous. And like even climbing up the steps, it was funny. About a month ago, maybe two months ago, she couldn't really comp the steps like, we would basically stand behind her and then, you know, in case we put our hand on her ass just to make sure she wasn't going to fall back. Now it's like, okay, like after like she's going up the steps one way or another. Just to kind of see those things, it's really fucking good. And they, and they, they make such quick advancements like in the beginning, like the first couple of years, it's like leaps. They're making these leaps and you're like, whoa, wouldn't you learn how to do that? But I do remember like my oldest son when he was young. Before he was talking really well, but he knew a few words.

16:30He's kind of like basically the same stage at Riley's end. And one of the first things we taught him was we would ask him, we'd be like, what does Mama say? And he'd go, no, no, no, no, no. You know, he would close his eyes, he'd squint his eyes really tight, put his head down and shake it really hard as he said. It was so funny, man. It was one of the funniest things. And so yeah, that's like such a fun stage to like, because you're watching them learn, you're watching them develop. They're like almost becoming human before your eyes. Yeah, that, that absolutely is true. And Riley kind of does do the no thing too. Like if you tell her no, or like, if you tell her no firmly, then she'll kind of look. So like she's had a problem, I shouldn't say a problem, but like she's biting occasionally. And Sarah will like push her back and be like, not like, you know, shove her, but push her back so that we she can't bite her again and be like, Riley, no, we don't bite. We kiss.

17:31And you know, so she'll like start kissing her after that. Just kind of playing around and getting her to laugh or giggle. But what she's doing now and I've noticed this is that as soon as she bites her and Sarah tells her no, the first thing she does is it looks at me. She looks at dad because she wants to see what dad's going to do. I look at her and I tell Riley, no, dead serious face. And she stares at me because I think she's waiting to see if I'm going to, if I'm going to break. She's waiting to see if I'm going to smile from going to laugh because I think she's trying to decide like she's trying to figure it out. Like if this is something I should be doing when she bites, you know, it's typically because she's hungry or I think she wants to play. She also has her teeth coming in like she has a lot of teeth. So I think she's just trying to figure out the world. So when she bites, this is part of that whole not like play necessarily. But like I said, she's trying to map herself to the world and figure out what's permissible and what's not. She doesn't quite understand fully yes or no.

18:32But I think the tone, it's kind of like a dog like a dog understands a tone. You could joke with a dog in a serious tone. And the dog thinks you're like trying to kill it or trying to punish it. But if you, you know, say something ridiculous or sound, I got a dog. I got I have a hundred pound pit bull. If I stub my toe and say shit loud enough, he runs and hides in the closet. It's like, dude, yeah, but you have never been in trouble in your life. What is wrong with you? Yeah, well, it's funny because Lily is the same way. If Sarah so much is puffs because I don't really get mad. But if Sarah's getting fucked off at something, if she's size the wrong way, Lily, tail tucked gone. Yeah. She's gone. So I Riley's trying to like figure things out now. And she's doing really, really well. But the biting is probably the biggest pain in the ass right now. But we're, you know, we're gonna work through it. And I think she'll tell Sarah to rub some cayenne on her forearm. And the next time she tries to bite her, it'll be the last.

19:34She did have some spicy stuff earlier. And she, she wasn't a fan of it too much. We went to Longhorn a little bit before we got home. Because we went to my brother's wedding recital or rehearsal, whatever. And so we went there afterwards and then they have like this shrimp. They make with all these peppers and it's really good. But Sarah gives all like the peppers to me because she doesn't like spicy stuff. Well, Riley, I think she got a pepper, or a shrimp with a decent bit of pepper on it. Yeah, she wasn't a fan. She's getting dad's complexion, but she's not getting, but I think she's getting mom's taste buds. So like right now I'm pretty tan like the light and everything you can't really tell. But like I'm really, really dark for my normal complexion. Because I've been outside so much fixing this fucking retaining wall. And Riley already, we went to the beach back in May. And she already has like a whole tan on herself. And I'm like, oh, well, this kind of works out well because we go to the beach in November. It's already be able to be tanned up.

20:34So yeah, she won't get burned. Yeah, you don't have to worry about her getting burned as easily. I remember one time there was a place I love to go in Katie called Texas Borders Bar and Grill. If anybody's in that region area and they know that place, they know what I'm talking about. But they're excellent gumbo. And so the lady that owns the place, Kelly, she's, she's moved the restaurant a couple of times just due to leasing issues or like, you know, whatever. Because of where crowds are going and she's getting more business in another location, whatever. But she's, she's from New Orleans. And so this is her great grandma's recipe, the gumbo recipes or great grandma's recipe. It's excellent. Like some of the best gumbo you'll ever get at a restaurant. And we were there. So I was 19 when my oldest son was born. And I must have been 20 at this time.

21:36It was before I went to the military. But we had gone there once and we had brought him. And we're, we're sitting there at the, at the table, we're eating and I got a gumbo, I got gumbo and half a muffle a lot of. That's like my favorite thing to get there. And their onion rings are amazing too. But anyway, so I'm eating that gumbo and my son keeps going bite, bite, bite. And I'm like, I'm like, son, it's hot. It's spicy. You're not going to like it. It's spicy. And he kept going and going and going. And so finally, I'm like, my wife at the time, she's like, just give him a bite. And I was like, all right, fine. So I give him a bite. And he freaking, it was like a cartoon. His eyes like bugged out of his head. And he turns like beat red. And he's kind of like, what the hell's that? You know, because it's like, he was eating like, you know, he was eating like jar food at the time. He was like mainly cereal and like pineapples.

22:39Like that was his old carrots. And that was his old like diet. His palate was not prepared at all. Right. Yeah. Like we give him mashed potatoes if we had like mashed potatoes. But typically we didn't give him other stuff at that time because he was still pretty young. And he's just like, what? He's like, what the hell just happened? Like the food bit me back, you know, kind of like, what the hell? And so I give him a cracker. I'm like, eat the cracker. So he's like eating the cracker to like calm down, you know, calm down the spice level and blah, blah, blah. And then he, then not two seconds later, he looks at me bite, bite, bite. All right, dude, I gave him another bite. I was like, if you wanted, I'll give it to you now that you know what it is. And like he's had a, you know, my kids all had that taste for spice like I did. You know, even if it would light him up, they'd be like, all right, I want some more. That's good stuff. I kicked my ass a little bit, but I'm coming back for more.

23:40Yeah, that's awesome. My daughter really likes cottage cheese, which was kind of surprising. Like we've given her Greek yogurt before as well. I thought, okay, well yeah, yogurt probably tastes better than cottage cheese. But nope, she likes the cottage cheese way better. She still, I like cottage cheese more than yogurt too. Okay, I figured just for like a baby like the Greek yogurt might be a little bit sweeter, a little bit less like tart. But no, she, she, she loves her cottage cheese. Maybe the texture, she might like that texture of that cottage cheese, where it's a little bit of something to like of substance. Yeah, yeah, you know, that's probably true. She really likes vegetables too, like mushroom I surprise. She loves broccoli. She likes sweet potato, she likes regular potato. One else green beans, she loves green beans, she loves corn. In fact, she was like a little bit pissed today at the restaurant because I didn't leave enough corn for her off my off my street corn. So after I was like, oh, don't, there were just like a couple little kernels at

24:41a very, very bottom of it. And my wife was like, I did give to me. I got to give this to her because like she kept looking over at it trying to get it. So yeah, she, her, her diet, we've even given her like ice cream and some sweets and stuff like that over here and there. And I was concerned that it was going to like fuck up her palette and like she wasn't going to want any vegetables or fruits or anything like that. Nope, still loves vegetables and even like water. So chug, chug water. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, the first thing I'll typically do is just make sure she wants, or she gets water and nine times out of 10, she'll just chug some water and then usually go back to sleep. Sometimes she'll want to bottle. But overall like for the best part, she's not that picky even eater. I made her French toast ones and I didn't even use sweetener. I just used the egg a little bit of vanilla and I think I was it. Oh yeah, and a little bit of cinnamon and I'm like, oh, this is my daughter. She doesn't like French toast. That's like my go-to breakfast every morning.

25:41She's low to egg white eggs, some like fluffy bread. That's my go-to almost every single day. She didn't eat it. I'm like, that's it. That's not my kid. I want a DNA test today. But no, no, no. She, for the most part, yeah, her pal, it's really, really pretty easy to accommodate. And when I want to say she was probably two months old, Sarah has the video of it. And we went to a seafood boil place and God, it was so funny. She was just while Sarah was sitting there eating, Riley's just sent her car seat just. Watch it all the seafood and I was like, all right, well, yeah, she's definitely Sarah's horrors. And like, I love myself some seafood bowls too, but I get as hard as a zelgo most of the time. Yeah, pretty much every single time. It's hard as I'll go because I think they still manage you get like the flavor with the spice. I don't want hot for the sake of hot. I want like tastefully spicy, like if it burns my tongue off, but it tastes good.

26:43Cool. But if it burns my tongue off and there's no like flavor to it, then like I don't want that. Right, right, right. You got to get some of that, um, poorie's hot sauce, the, uh, the Creole maple. It's so good. It's so good with chicken because it's got like that little like maple sweetness, but it's still kind of, it's still pretty spicy too. It's really nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's like for me, like for fried chicken, it's like the best thing. In the world, like to eat on fried with fried chicken. Yeah. Yeah. There's a, uh, what that was. I got this kind of honey, uh, not the jalapeno honey. What the fuck was it? Hobbit. It might have been a habanero, but I feel like it's still not it. It's some kind of spicy honey, but I would make some fried chicken with that. And that was always fantastic. Another one that's really good is, uh, look at all my blanket on the name right now. Tabasco. Tabasco makes smoked chipotle sauce.

27:43And that is probably my favorite. It has a great amount of like a good kick to it. Not enough that you'll even like really be burning afterwards, but it's still a kick. And it gives a nice smoky flavor too. That is probably some of my favorite shit too. Yeah. And like there's like, there's hot sauces for different things, right? So like if you go to like poor yeas hot, uh, hot sauce company, there's like four different hot sauces. Like the Creole maple is like perfect for like fried chicken. But like the knockout sauce, it's like one or two drops in a pot of beans. And it seasons that whole pot. Like I've gone through, I've gone through all my Creole maple, all my Louisiana hot sauce, all of the other styles of hot sauce. But I still have some of his knockout sauce because that you loot you so little in everything. You just put like a couple of drops in there and it'll season the whole thing. You know, and I love hot sauces like that.

28:45Is it just like that potent or is it like really? It's super hot. It's super hot. It's very good, but it's very hot. Like if you put it, if you just put like a drop on your tongue, your eyes are going to be watering. You're going to be lit up. Like you know, you know, my favorite thing is like when Beatrix cook something, she goes, oh, I want something spicy tonight. I'm like, okay, cool. And she'll make something and it'll be spicy to the point where like my scalp starts tingling. And I love it. I'm like, oh, yeah. That's nice. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, you know what? It really has been a little bit since we went to a seafood bowl. It's just those aren't exactly the cheapest thing in the world. But that's normally like that's Sarah's shit right there is that you know, for like her birthday and stuff like that, we'll typically go to a seafood bowl. I think the last one we might win to one might have been it honestly might have been hey. It might have been when we were down North Carolina, which we literally went to like a doc where they,

29:49I think they capture some of the crabs stuff right there. Fuck, when we were down there, I'll tell you what was awesome. Right at the beach, we saw dolphins off in the distance diving and like seeing dolphins in the wild do that is just the coolest shit. Can you hear her? I heard something. No, she's just bouncing over there in the corner. You want to make it a period? What's up, girl? She's listening to us. We were alone. Yeah. I showed, I showed Beatrix that video you sent me and she was like, oh my god, she's going to fall down the stairs. I'm like Kyle's videoing. I'm sure he's standing right there. I'm like, oh wait, I can't wait. I can't wait. I'll just say the video. Sarah has one of the funniest videos ever. And this is before she could really crawl. She's sitting there bouncing and just going crazy. And then like she wasn't ready to sit up yet. So she literally bounced and then had her hands super close to herself and just face plants.

30:54And like it starts and stops at the perfect time. It was so fucking funny. And what was, oh, I was very surprised to find out. And I think it's probably because she was just always around. Like when I was practicing or like in the car or something like that would come up on the radio. She will relax only to my band. There's no other music that really calms you down unless like Sarah puts like some of the like the kids stuff on like Danny Goe or Miss Rachel or something like that on for her. Um, if you play any a common crown song, she immediately chills out. It blows my fucking mind. I have no idea why, but yeah, literally like if you put on a common crown, instant calm. Not a road. Yeah. And even when she was in the womb, if we started playing some of my music, no matter what it was, if it was like the just the drum and scratch track, it was the full song, you name it.

31:55She would start kicking. And then Sarah, I go into your, Sarah go into your shows while she was pregnant. I think she went the one Sarah. How many shows did you go to when you were pregnant? Two or three. Oh, okay. I didn't know if maybe like that was something that like she, she was able to like carry over from the womb like because it made mother happy to hear daddy play music. Like, I don't know. It could be something like that. Yeah. Well, I think I sent you the pictures of us when we were, we played at the Edgewood winery, which they winery like 15 minutes away from where I live. Beautiful place. And it was the first show that Rody was ever to go to where I played. So, oh yeah, those pictures were so cute. Oh my god. The picture of you. Oh my god. You are both like yelling.

32:56That is probably one of my favorite pictures. That's absolutely that. That has picture there. That's awesome. Yeah. So, um, I was like, this is going to go one of two ways. Either we're going to start playing and immediately she's going to scream. She's going to hate it. She's going to want to like immediately go home. Or she's going to start laughing. She don't love it. So, we start the set with our one song, light me up. I think I sent you that one and I love that song. So, we go into it, you know, normally we'll like hit an open note and I'll kind of do like a little solo or something like that. And then Matt will start to start song. So, we start up and Sarah is like immediately. As soon as you guys started playing, she starts smiling and laughing. And when she told me that, I'm like, oh, thank god. I'd look over there every two seconds and there she is. Flapping her arms. Smiling laughing. Sarah'd set her down on the ground and she's like jumping. There we go. She likes music. So, I'm like, all right, well, we can pretty much take her.

33:57If there's a concert, that's all ages. Just going to go with us. We're going to go see, um, we're going to go see lake view in 11 days from now. So, they're a, a country duo. But they're like, they have like a lot of metal parts in their song too. Mm-hmm. In their songs, I should say, I absolutely love these guys. I don't know if you'd like them because they're a little bit more like modern country, but they use like a lot of detune guitars. Very, very interesting band. I'll check them out. We're going to go. I mean, I don't mind. I don't mind country. It's just like most, a lot of like what country became over like at the end of the 90s into the 2000s was more like pop rock. And I was just like, whatever, man. If I want to listen to pop rock, I'll go listen to a journey like, why am I listening to this for? Yeah. They're kind of like pop country, but with metal. It's, it's unique. Like I said, I don't know if you're going to like it, but I think it's worth at least checking out. Some of their more mellow songs I really like too. The last band, the last band I found interesting that was country.

35:01And this was years ago, like, I don't, it's not that I keep, I don't keep up with country. So I don't even know who's doing doing anything. But the last band I ran into that was a popular band that I was like, these guys are like super talented and really good was that brown band. I actually really enjoyed it. I saw them at the rodeo. They were really good. I was like, wow, these guys are really good. Like really talented musicians. You should, you probably heard of them Cody Jinx. He grew up in love's metal. Like he literally put up a status on Facebook. In this game, I'm trying to, I'm trying to like think where I know the name from, but I do know the name. He, he put up a status talking about how much you love corrosion conformity. You might have heard some of the songs loud, thunder heavy rain, long line between joy and pain. You've probably heard. I might have heard it. I don't know. Well, he did, uh,

36:02he did the live version of, it's a long way to the top. If you want to rock and roll and he had Zach Wilde come out and play with him, which I thought was really cool. And then he has another song called Brother, where Mark Morton actually played guitar on the track. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's, he's super into metal. So, um, and also like his music's really good too. It doesn't have any of the pop elements, um, at least not that I've really heard. And I haven't listened to like recent stuff. Um, the last album I really listened to by him, I want to say it was like 2012. And that was, uh, that almost called, I'm not the devil you think I am. I think that's what it was called. But it's definitely a little bit more like classic country. So I like that a little bit more. Most of like the newer pop country, especially like this country rap. I always joke. So for YouTube everywhere else, I, I'm completely joking when I say this part. But I always joke about, uh, country rappers getting executed because I'm like this, this, this music is like crime against humanity.

37:04It's like, it's like I said, the Chinese were right to kill the Wiggers. Yeah, you know what? I could tolerate a little bit of like one biscuit. It's not stuff I'm going to go out of my way to listen to. Kin Rocky need to pick a lane. Yeah. Kin Rocky, I think you're a little over the line. Like we've been dragging him out. We're conservative for like the conservative head and music. It's like, can we please just stop? Can we retire, Kid Rock already? Like you've already been. He's like the, uh, he's like the 21st century Ted Nugent. You got to let him. You got to let him. Yeah, but like, yeah, but like Ted Nugent at least was talented. Right. Like, Kid Rock. Let's face it, there's, there's no real talent there. Like the dude can kind of sing Ted Nugent could play guitar. He's not the best performer out there. Ted Nugent was, Ted Nugent was fine. He was wild. This is what it was. But that's what I mean. Like there's a reason why they call him sweaty Teddy.

38:05Is that because he was awesome. Right. So like Kid Rock, I'm sorry. He's a mazerati. It's a mazerati. Yeah. Like you can't stand next to Ted if you're Kid Rock. Like, why don't we try hand out? Like I understand Ted Nugent's like, fuck, is any like 70 years old? Ted Nugent's old. Yeah, he's he's up there. Yeah. He still looks fucking good. His dad was like a colonel or something like a general or a colonel in the military. Holy fuck. Yeah. Ted Nugent is almost 80. I know why he's that old. Damn. Yeah, this fucking 77 years old. Yeah, but he still looks. Yeah, he's he's not he's never been much of a drinker. I think he messed around with some pills at one point in his life, but he just kind of gave that up and he's been pretty pretty much sober his entire life. So he's like, he's like the he's like the anti-key throats. Okay, well, okay. So then the other one that I always ask about Sammy Heyghar,

39:07he might be like the same age maybe a little bit. Oh no. Okay, he's older than Ted Nugent. Oh, he's a can- Sammy Heyghar. I thought he was 70 years old. I knew he was around the same age. I thought he might have been younger, but no, he is October 13th, 1947. That fucking dude's still kicking the red rocker. Yeah, the red rocker fucking apparently tequila is what keeps you alive. Is the have you tried his tequila? The kabel water. It's very good. Yeah, it's very so you know what? I think I was talking to my dad because he wants to do like a whole family trip to Mexico. So we'll probably do it eventually, but I think I priced out a resort for like eight people. This was a few years ago. His resort, I want to say for like eight people, it was like 10 or 11 grand, which I know sounds like a lot, but you got to think for like eight people at Sammy Heyghar's resort for a week, 10 or 11 grand really not that bad. That's not terrible.

40:08And you know you'll be sad. No, that's not. And there will be plenty to drink. My point exactly. So I don't know if we would actually do that, but yeah, my dad would like to do that. You're talking eight people, 10, like let's say 11 grand. That's like what, 1200 bucks per person for a week. That's not bad, dude. That's not bad. No, because if I go, if I go, okay, so we'll go to Cape Town. Next March, we're going to Cape Town. Like we're staying in kind of like mid-tier. We're not staying in the upper class like hotels, but we're not staying in the lower lower class. We're staying in like the mid-tier. You're looking at like, I don't know, like $250 for a week. And this is a third world country, like not a resort, no security, like none of these things included.

41:09So if you're going to a resort, you know you're going to be saved. The cartels are not going to be jacking with you over there, where there's money flowing, you know, like you, you got all these amenities like handed to you. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's going to be pretty, that'd be a lot of fun. I've always wanted to go, I've always wanted to go to Mexico, go to Cabo San Lucas in October, because Sammy Hagarth's birthday is in October. And they celebrate his birthday for the entire month. They do have a month long celebration of Sammy Hagarth's birthday in Cabo San Lucas. And I've always wanted to go like for that, just for that purpose. But, you know, I'd probably, I think we're going to write that one down to him. I'd probably end up joining the cartels. I think we're going to write that one down. I can tell my dad, all right. Right now, Sarah and I are kind of in baby season. So it's a little hard for us to get up. Hey, dad is, he's 50-70, just turned 57 back on July 28th.

42:13A couple more years, he's probably going to retire. So it's probably about, I got it, dad. Whenever you retire, why don't we October? Let's see, if he's 57 now, I'm guessing I'll retire. 62. So that would be five years. 20-20-SE. Yeah, so 20-31-20-32. Yeah, the world is in 2030. So you never actually get to see it. All right, well, maybe we'll call it like, yeah. We'll call it 20-29. Yeah, 20-29. Let's just go down there in October. The world's going to end. So, you know, all this shit that we have, it doesn't matter anyways. We'll just have a good time. World War III will be in full effect. You'll have to write a mural down there in Mexico. Yeah, dude. I'm all right with it. I'm pretty good at tapping ass. I don't know if I'm that good, but I'll figure it out.

43:14Okay, this is stupid. Paul, I can figure out how to do retaining walls, work with electric vehicles. Like Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood and two meals for Sister Sarah. Got your sick shoot, right? Yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah. Well, we got guns, so we'll be all right. That's another thing, medical bills. I've been talking to people about this. I forget how we got started on this earlier this week, me, my co-workers. I was like, yeah, they ever want to come to claim the medical bills. Because I think we owe five grain or something like that. I'm stocking to pay them. Nobody else does. So why should I? I think that's all we owe for Riley's birth. You guys are going to come and try and take my daughter. That will be fatal. There's no offense or asses about that. That will be fatal. Because believe me, we have guns, we have ammo. And if you want to take my daughter, that will be from my cold dead hands. You walk over. You know, you got the little glass area where the babies are all day and they're freaking cradles.

44:15And you're looking through there. Dr. walks up and was like, one of those years and he's like, yeah, doc, but I'm curious. What's the return policy? Yeah, you know, when she was born, I got to say probably one of the most difficult times was the first couple of days where we're in the hospital. And man, we hadn't slept in like over a day. And we're trying to figure it out because Riley is not even a day old at this point. I remember I'm like trying to balance my hand without like setting the weight of it on her face and keep the banking in her mouth. She doesn't take a banky anymore, which I'm actually pretty happy about that. And because like, if I put the banking in her mouth long enough, she would start to fall asleep. So then I'd wait, she'd fall asleep and I'm like, all right, I can lay down now. And then I'd lay down and I'd almost be asleep and I'd hear the banking fall out of her mouth and she'd start crying. I'm like, oh, you motherfucker. Just kill me now. So we had the nurses come and take her for like two hours.

45:15So we both probably got like an hour and a half of sleep. And I'm brought it back. And then I, well, that's wrong control. But for the most part, yeah, like it has been too too bad. What was it? Saturday night. God, I worked all day at my real job and then I came home. Actually, I didn't even go home. I immediately went to my dad's shop to grab the truck. Went to Lowe's, loaded up the truck with the last bit of block that I needed. Jrowback home, carried block all the way around. From the front of my garage to behind my garage, set it down, came in. Riley is fucking being a terror. She spent the day with my mom and not that like my mom did anything wrong. It's just she doesn't really spend a lot of time away from me or Sarah. So she was already fucking in a mood. Sarah didn't sleep all night before. So she's in a mood. And I'm exhausted because I worked my ass off all day. It's like seven o'clock. And after working hard at my real job, I come home after move block.

46:18It's seven o'clock at night and I'm moving all this block and then I finally get to sit down. So she ended up getting up and I got up with her and I got her back to sleep and we slept on the couch and it was all right. And then, well, it's really enough woke up the next day and it was time to start tearing down the retaining wall. And here we are a couple days later. And I'm pretty happy with the job that that we've done. Yeah, let's see. I got this whole week off. So I'm happy. Dude, life is good. Life is good. What kind of what kind of material you're using? So we got retaining wall block itself. And I think it's if I remember the dimensions correctly, 18 inches long, nine inches tall and six inches wide, if I remember correctly. And then I got 16 tons of gravel to backfill it. The wall that was there before was made up of terracotta with a little bit of mortar and there were center blocks just sitting on top of it. There's no gravel behind any of this wall.

47:18So we ended up taking all the center blocks down, dug a shitload of dirt out. And then we ended up using, we had a gas powered compactor, at least by stepdad does. And we couldn't get it to work. So we ended up hand compacting it all down, which was a motherfucker. That was a lot of work today. But we got it. So we laid down the base and then we started stacking up the block. So like the retaining wall block, it looks kind of like a hexagon. But there's two holes in the middle and then there's a little lip on the shorter side in the back. And that's what you use to kind of taper them back. So that way the wall has a little bit of force going backwards. We left part of the old retaining wall in there because it's still working. It's bucking out a little bit, but I don't think it's going to go anywhere. But we're going to put like the, I'll send you a picture of it later. But I have the wall up right now. And I have them stacked four high kind of like staggered. And we're backfilling with gravel now.

48:20I did probably, I would say probably 10 wheelbarrow's a gravel today. And we're going to finish it up tomorrow, hopefully. And then I got caps. I don't have the rebar and concrete yet. But I'm just going to set the caps on top of it. And then eventually I'll get the rebar and the concrete, obviously jam the rebar down in, pour the concrete in. And ideally we would have had rebar in the bottom and tied the rebar in and go up. But I think it's going to be fine if we just put rebar down in and concrete. Because like there were already just a few cylinder blocks that were falling down off the wall from the dirt, you know, collecting water and eventually pushing it over. Yeah. If that held for decades, let's say, then I don't see why a wall backfilled with gravel with rebar and concrete that's going to be stuck all together. I don't see that ever coming down. You have a, when, do you have a five pound sledge?

49:24I do not know. Get you a five pound sledge. You should have no issues driving that rebar. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. Like I said, I don't have the rebar yet. But what when I do do all that, I'm just going to get a good sledge. And typically, typically any lumber place that you buy rebar from, you can typically get them to cut it for you into the links you need it. So if you need like 18 inch or two foot links, they'll cut it for you. So you don't have to take the 20 foot sticks with you. You can take it into cut links already. You don't have to worry about it. And they'll cut it kind of like at a little beveled angle. So it's already sharpened one in. So when you drive it down, you shouldn't have any issues. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. That actually helps a lot. Because the wall originally was three feet tall. I couldn't, I'd have to measure it now to see. We have, um, I stacked the blocks four high. I might do five. I saw a decent bit of block. Right. But, um, yeah, that's what we got to finish up doing. I don't know if I'm going to be able to, I might be able to rebar down every single hole. But what kind of to see out goes,

50:25I'm pretty happy with how everything looks so far. I actually looks like people who knew what they were doing. Do it now. So this is my first shot at the table. Well, the day is socks about doing that type of work is you're on your hands and knees all day and your back is just freaking killing you. You know what? I'm two days in and my stepdad, he's 60. So I really can't like get mad at him for being wore out. He does this kind of stuff for a living. So, um, you know, we were sitting there using the level, moving a little bit of stone. And we got like bigger chunks of gravel. And I kind of wish we got smaller. And that's what he brought up. He's like, yeah, we had small gravel like leveling. Everything out wouldn't have been a problem. But we got it all level the whole way across. That would have just been like a dream. But I kind of thought my brother would occasionally do work like this too because he works for a company called Aratek where they like test windows and stuff like that. I thought for sure I was going to be the first one to like tap and be done walking. But I kind of feel like Jake Paul fighting all these old fighters.

51:26And I'm just like, let's go. Give me the block. I'm carrying two blocks at a time. I'm setting them down. And I'm the second day and I'm like, man, I'm still ready to fucking go. My hands and stuff like there. My forearms and hear a little sore. My grip definitely isn't as there as it was. Like I could feel my forearms a little tense right here. Right. Man, I'm still like, let's go. But yeah, my brother's coming over tomorrow. I texted a little bit ago. I'm like, do you got one final hurrah on you? And he was like, I got some run to do today. But I could be over later. I'm like, no, just come over tomorrow and we'll finish up. He's like, oh, yeah, no, we can do that. Like, okay, perfect. And I said all like, all lead up to this. Like I want to be done by Tuesday. Looking like we're going to be done tomorrow. I don't know for sure. But I feel pretty good about it. There's just a shitload of gravel to move. Which is going to be a bitch. But I think once we do that, it's not a problem. Game changer. And this is very, very important for people out there listening. Get if you're doing anything like this and you have to move

52:27shit far, get a two-wheeled wheelbarrow. Do not get a one. Get to because like in order to go from the front of my garage, where all the gravel is to behind the garage, it's on a hill behind the garage. Had it been one wheel, I would have broke my fucking ankle. I would have broke my ankle, took a mean spill. Yeah, two-wheeled wheelbarrow. Whole fucking different animal. The thing is so easy. And when you can carry a lot more weight in it too. That's what I have is I have a two-wheeled wheelbarrow. And yeah, I can carry a ton more weight in a two-wheeled wheelbarrow than I can in a one-wheeled wheelbarrow. Because you don't have to worry about it like shifting. Because it's even in the front. It's balanced already in the front. So all you have to do is make sure that you can push it. As long as you can push it, you're good. You can get that rear end up and push it. And so I might be doing like, if I'm typically when I use it,

53:28it's the whole bags of like soil and stuff around to the back. And so like I can carry like, let's say like six bags of six 50 pound bags of soil in a two-wheeled wheelbarrow. Whereas in a one-wheeled wheelbarrow, I'll be doing maybe three or four. And so I can cut my work time down a lot. Yeah, and it honestly doesn't feel like you're pulling that much. Like I would say it's probably good few hundred pounds of gravel when we load it up because we feel, I would say probably you do like 12 or so shovels full of that gravel and then we'll take it around and dump it out. Yeah, it cuts down our work time so much. Because like you said, you have that added stability. It is, I never realized how nice it was because I was like, no, yeah, we'll just get a regular one. And like my stepdad has like all this stuff already. Because like I said, he's a union electrician. So he already does this kind of stuff. Right. And thank God for his fucking help. I was just going to do it like one way. And now that like we're in as far as we are.

54:29And it looks as good as he does. I'm like, okay, I'm actually glad he was here to help. Because I would have just like thrown the shit together. But like, all right, you know, it'll be fine. The way that we're doing it now, I'm like, oh, you know, this, this will be fine. It'll be more than fine the way that it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we do. We labor on labor day. Being a dad, man, that's that's part of it. You own a house. You have kids. You're like, all right. Now I got to start doing shit. I don't want to do it. Yeah. Well, you know, a friend of mine quoted me $1,700 to do this wall years ago. And like now, I'm probably all that in and just material. Never mind the labor. In that material alone. And like, I'm looking back at it. I'm like, I should have just fucking paid him. I should have just had them do it. They charge it. I would charge that much for a reason.

55:30It's like I had a lot of. I got a, I called a buddy of mine. So I used to work with a guy who was a, he cut trees for a living for like 30 years. And so he knows a lot of the tree cutters around here and around this area. And I had this tree that it was a beautiful oak tree right above my house. It was still alive, but it was growing and it was curved up over the house. And Yeah. Rita when Rita came through, she had put so much wind hit hit on that tree. It had just bent that tree over. Plus trees will, will take the path of least resistance toward the sun. So whichever angle the sun's hitting them, they'll kind of start growing in that direction to get to the sun. So you'll see two trees next to each other. And one of them is growing straight up and down. And the other one's kind of growing at an angle. And the reason that one's growing at an angle is trying to get that sunlight.

56:33So this one, Rita had been it. And then when Rita bent it, it just kept growing in that direction because the sun was over there anyway. So it was like, okay, now I can kind of go that direction. So it was, it was directly over the side of my house. And the insurance company had gotten in touch with me and said, look man, you need to cut, you need to cut all this stuff hanging over the house. And I'd already talked to my buddy about cutting this tree down. And I'd gotten a quote from somebody that wasn't this guy. And they had quoted me at 3,500 to come cut this tree down just because of where it was. And how much of a pain in the ass it was going to be to get this tree down. They were like, yeah, we'll do it for 3,500. And I got these, he got his guys to come out here and do it for 18. So, so sometimes like you pay that money because it is because I sat out here and watched that dude's take that tree down and I was like, Jesus, I'm glad I didn't decide to do that on my own.

57:36Because I would have never, I would have never had that like I would have lost my garage if I would have done it. Yeah. Said they're like right in the middle of the tree. All right. This one or something. No, no, no. Next thing you know, there's a big ol' hole in your roof and you're like, well, it's down, but so is my roof. Yeah. Yeah. So, so yeah. You know that about trucking, too. It's like, oh yeah, well, there's a reason why you make what you do. And same deal with me as a mechanic, you know, we always joke that like you can't afford bad work. If you think you can get it done somewhere else cheaper, especially when it comes like electrical stuff, like drivability, electrical vehicles, so like check engine lights and stuff like that or wiring issues. That's kind of like what makes me tick. I love doing that kind of stuff. But like you're going to have to pay me a little bit to figure out what's going on. And I don't fuck people. Like I really proud myself on trying to be as reasonable as possible.

58:37And I'm sure my advisors would vouch for me, too. Because they'll be like, oh man, you know, this guy doesn't want to pay die-egg or like, you know, hey, I got you a little bit of time here. Do you mind taking off a little bit of time here? And like, within reason, I'm usually like, all right, yeah, man, we can work something out. But it's kind of funny because like, my shop, if you just come through the door, our typical labor rate for just like normal work. So like, let's see, you have a check engine light and it costs three hours to fix. That rate's about $185 an hour, which is insane. Like that is very, very expensive. It's more expensive than pretty much any other dealership around. But when we go to our supermarket warranty companies, they charge them like, fucking, two, 50 an hour. So what they'll typically do is they'll ratchet up the time that we get. And they'll also like, keep up their dollars per hour as well. Because that helps like the advice with their bonus. So I'll typically be like, hey, if you can get me this much time, cool. If it helps you in any which way, just as long as I get the time that I'm asking for, which typically is like one point to like, if a job through like general motors,

59:41like through warranty time, if it came in and let's say it was like two hours, right? Well, we do like times and a half that. So let's say to change wheel bearing or something like that, it's two hours, three hours plus an hour die. So like four hours for that job total, not to be good to the advisor, okay? You just give me four hours for this. I'm good. Anything else after that. If you want to get me time, cool. If not, if you want to keep your dollars per hour, whatever, I'm good with it. Just make sure I get my base time. Anything else for for me is a bonus. But normally we're pretty good about meat in the middle. I've seen other guys that will fight and fucking tooth and claw torture the advisors for every last little penny. I'm like, man, I've made it. They've made it so impossible to work on your own vehicles too. Like the way that they've put together these vehicles nowadays, not only with the computer systems, but like we were talking the other day and it's like, I don't even have a dipstick for my transmission under my hood. Like I was talking to a buddy of mine and he was like, oh yeah.

1:00:41So what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to take off your passenger side tire and get under there. And there's like a was he was like a 13. He's like a 13. 22nd freaking bolt that you got. He's like, I'm like, where the hell am I getting a 13. 22nd freaking socket from? Like what are you talking about? He's like, yeah, you got to do all this shit to get under there. You might as well just go down to the freaking transmission shop, but they're not going to be open until Tuesday because it's Labor Day weekend. And I was like, well, that's freaking great. You know, like, so I went through it. I went and diagnosed everything. I could diagnose on the truck to make sure it wasn't like battery or alternator or anything like that. Prior to having to take off Tuesday and go Tuesday to get it checked. Look at that. But it's just like, all right, well, I'm just going to have to go to the transmission shop on Tuesday and see what they say because everything else looks fine. You know. Yeah. Yeah. Transmission stuff really sucks.

1:01:41Well, and it's transmission. Why is it that it seems like maybe I'm just like wrong about this, but it seems to me like anything to do with the transmission is much more expensive than anything to do with any other component of the freaking vehicle. So that's typically because if you're doing anything with the transmission, the transmission has to come out. There's no way fans are asked is about it. It's coming out. So and typically most transmissions, you're looking at minimum about six or seven hours from the fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, vast majority of them. So you're looking at about a whole days worth of labor and just getting it out. And well, it typically, it's like, they'll give you about six or seven hours to tear it apart and put it back in. But like you're going into all this little stuff. So the only company that does automatic transmission is different than every other company as far as I know is Honda. Your truck might have a CVT, which stands for constant variable transmission,

1:02:44which basically means like it's like a snowmobile. They have two different cones. And as you go faster, the one cone's taper gets smaller and smaller and the other gets bigger and bigger. So that way you get your different gear ratio. Now, I don't know if your Nissan's that way. It probably is because Nissan really likes your CVTs, which are junk. But most other vehicles have like clutches and planetary gears and different like held and driven components. So typically you'll have like a set of clutches, which are like they have almost a cardboard material are all around them. And then there's like metal in the center of them. And those will either get held or they get driven because you have your input shaft, which is driven by the engine and the torque converter. And then that goes through all your different gears and then you have your tail shaft, which goes to your drive shaft and you're a differential and all that stuff. But like there is your main line pressure, which is the pressure from the transmission pump, which is driven by the torque converter. And then that gives you your different fluid pressures that go to the valve body. And then typically whatever like at a throttle pressure, which used to be generated by

1:03:47governor up on top of the engine. But now it's pretty much all done electronically. Whenever those pressures demand it basically that valve body, which is what kind of chain or directs all the fluid where it needs to go, whenever it's time to shift, that valve body is going to do something. A cell phone always going to trigger and then that's going to allow fluid to go somewhere else. And then you know, the transmission basically is just going to grab something else to give you a different gear ratio. So it's very, very complex when you look inside of it and take it all apart because there's all these bands, clutches, gears, you know, planetary gears, housings, pumps, all this crazy shit inside of transmission. Whereas an engine typically, it's like, well, most of it's like dual overhead cam. Now there's still a few push rod inch like most V8s are push rod engines, although like some of the foreign companies typically have dual overhead cam for everything. With an engine, it's like, okay, we have a sprocket timing gears, usually actuators that go in the end of the cam shaft for variable valve timing. You have

1:04:50anywhere from either one all the way up to four cam shafts and then you have your pistons, your crank shaft and then the rest is just kind of like, you know, cylinder heads, valves, all that stuff. Pretty much everybody can tear apart an engine and put it back together, mechanically, but a transmission that's like a whole different ball game and a whole different specialty. And typically most guys will specialize in transmissions like pretty much every shop I've worked for except for one, you typically had made one, maybe two transmission guys via two jobs ago, Pat O'Brien, Chevrolet, which it's no longer called that. They had a couple of different guys that did transmissions, but the shop I work out now, we only have one training guy. So I'm pretty much our EV guy. So I do all the electric vehicles, but the one dude Brian does all the transmissions and most of the diesels. I know that was a lot. No, but I give what you're saying is, I mean, it's the work that goes into it. It's like a lot. And I agree because I have no desire and I've never had any desire to

1:05:53do anything to a transmission. I think one time my buddy talked me into helping him change transmission fluid in his freaking pickup like years ago. And I was like, dude, I don't want anything to do with this ever again. I was going into a thing and it was like changing oil. And I was like, what the hell are we doing? Yeah, I'm hoping it's not anything serious. So I'm thinking it's maybe like some sort of sensor that is working between the transmission and the engine because it seems to me what's going on. So when I was coming home on Friday, I was driving, everything was going good. And then I would get like all the lights on my dash would light up. It wasn't one particular light. It was like every light lit

1:06:58up. And then they went they went out immediately. And then my RPMs flew up to like 6000 in my speedometer dropped down to like 20 miles an hour. And I'd hit the throttle and it would just it would just push my RPMs up. And then I'd just kind of like tap on the brake and it would like reengage. And I'd hit the gas and I'd be going. Then I got down the road. I got into Beaumont and stopped at a gas station because I was like, well, could this be like my alternators going out, maybe my serpentine belt broke, you know, something like that, you know, it could have happened. So I popped the hood. I stopped the truck. I popped the hood. I look under the hood. Everything's good. This is one I realized I didn't have a transmission fluid reservoir. I was like, wait a minute. What the hell's going on here? I don't have a reservoir for transmission fluid. And I was like, okay, well, this is kind of crazy. So I dropped the hood back down. I get into truck. I started up.

1:08:02And I drove it the last 30 minutes home had no issues whatsoever driving the last 30 minutes home. Last two days, I've gone, you know, like four or five miles down the road. I'm staying close to home though because I was like, I mean, I don't know what the hell's wrong with it. And I can't find anybody around me that's open this weekend. So I'm waiting till tomorrow till somebody's open. So, but yeah, I haven't noticed any issues. There's been nothing happening. It's shifting fine. Everything's okay. So I'm just one, I'm just thinking maybe we're coming to the point where one of these sensors are starting to go out. And it's just going to be an electrical problem that, you know, change out one of these freaking fuses or sensors and everything will be pretty much back to normal. If that it sounds more like an electrical issue, especially if all the lights came on, typically the check engine light will typically set for transmission because the

1:09:03the second digit my airbag light. Yeah, that definitely sounds logical than anything. The airbag system's pretty simple in most vehicles. So if that light came on, that sounds more electrical than anything. It could be like a bad ground or something like that because, yeah, if you don't have a good ground than that, that's a good idea. Well, and some of my dad, my dad and my buddy both told me that if you have a bad battery that it can cause problems like this, even with the transmission. So I got the battery checked. The battery is still good. Everything's good. But I have had an issue with my battery. And I'm wondering if this isn't the problem. But I mean, I don't know how many way of finding out if this is actually the problem is the Nissan's, their positive ground wire has like five different components that come off of it that hook to different things. And I don't know what these things are. And but so my battery connection has been has made it has had

1:10:08a tendency to come loose. And I'll tighten it back down. But then it's just bending the the metal, the aluminum, right, it's just bending. And it's still not grabbing and it still kind of shifts back and forth. So I have to get up under the hood and I have to turn the battery cable to get to get it to connect with the terminal good. And then a top post battery or as a side post top post. That to it, it might be a fucking battery cable. That to me would honestly make sense. If all the lights come on at once, battery cable sounds pretty plausible to me. Honestly. See, I was I was wondering that and I'm wondering if I shouldn't just bring it to the dealership and go down to Nissan and Beaumont on Tuesday. Instead of going to the transmission guy and having the dealership look at it, but the dealerships are always so expensive. But I could I do I know I need to get this wire

1:11:09changed at some point. And maybe it's just beneficial to me to go ahead and get him to do it. But the last time I talk to him about getting this this deposit of replaced on this for the for the battery, they told me it was going to be like almost $400 just for the wire. That sounds about right. I hate to say that. But yeah, that does sound about that. That's freaking insane, dude. 400 bucks for change in a positive cable. Really. No, but it's there were my no, it's not for changing it is for getting the part. If it's that expensive and you're saying it goes a couple different things. Yeah, there's like a there's like a there's like a fuse center. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That has a whole fuse block on top. Yeah. It's got like five four three or four different wires that come out of it. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, that does make sense actually. Yeah. You're charging that much. You're probably getting that whole junction block.

1:12:10Yeah. That those cables. Does your vehicle have power steering fluter? No. Yes. It does have power steering. Okay. Today, basically on like GM. On GMs because all GMs now have electric power steering. They have that fuse block that's on top of the battery. And those typically they have like, so you have the obviously like the terminal itself that goes to the top terminal of the battery. And then one cable is going to go to the starter. One cable is going to go to the power steering motor because that draws a lot of amperage. And then it'll typically go to like a few other things that may take a lot of amperage because you want to have like those high amperage cables attached to that fuse block because you can't put that through like a smaller fuse block because you can find the whole goddamn thing. Whereas like if you have it up there, it's not that big of a deal. Funny story. I remember I had a XT5 that the engine blew up on. This is so funny. We just kind of checked all the boxes.

1:13:11This thing. At first came in. They said they were driving it and it just shut off and didn't start back up again. And I looked at it and it was like a 250 amp fuse. It blew. Like, okay, well, fuck it. Let's put a fuse in it. See what happens with the fuse in it. It pops. Like, okay, well, fuck it. Let's put a starter in it. Let's see what happens. Put the starter in it. Put a new fuse in it and it not happens. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on with this thing? So then it finally occurs to me, which this should occur to anybody. If you're a vehicle that just stops and you put a starter fuse in it and the fuse blows that nine times out of 10 means shit's broke. Like, severely, you are fucked broke. So then I finally decide, well, why don't I try to turn over this crank and see if the engines maybe locked up. There should have been like the first check, but of course, I'm a dumbass. So this is last check. And of course, like the XT5's this specific motor, they never have issues with them. This was years and years ago, though. So I start turn it and then it stops. And I'm like, well, that's weird. And I heard like a little bit of noise, but not

1:14:13enough to really like warn a surprise that I turn it back and it stops again. I'm like, well, that's fucking weird. Brian, come here. All right. So I'm like, it stops right here. What the fuck? And he was like, I'll push to that fucker and it breaks loose. And start turning every like, all right, well, let's try and start it. We started that fucker. It made a halacious noise for all about five seconds and then shut off. It's not my, all right. Let's see. We started again. Halacious noise and dies again, like two seconds later. I'm like, well, that fuckers fucked. So we ended up having to put a motor in it. And I remember I was going to put the catalytic converter back on it. And I turn it over and fucking piece of like the valve falls out. I'm like, only need one of those now, too. And I look at the intake on the engine and there's metal everywhere. I'm like, wow, this fucker really blew. It only had like five or 600 miles on it. Yeah, the fucking engine. Wow. I'd never seen one in this in this specific vehicle that did that. So if people are looking for

1:15:14a car like the 2017 to about 2023 XT5, Acadia and Blazer, the three six there and all of those are very, very good engines. You'll put a thermostat in them. They'll be good after that. Yeah. Really a little bit of oil sometimes, but you don't want to pay to have that reseal done. That's a real pain in the ass. Yeah, I noticed with with mine. I mean, my truck has been good to us. I mean, it's a 2016. I got the, oh, what do you call that sensor that's on the that that connects to the air intake. Oh, the mass airflow sensor. Yes. Yeah, I had to change it out. Probably three years ago. I had to change it. And other than brake pads, I think I've had the brake pads

1:16:17on it changed once. And I've gone this, I'm on the second battery. I get this battery in 2024. So I think that's pretty much all I've ever had to do to this. I haven't even changed the spark plugs in this truck since I got it in 2016. It has 157,000 miles on it. Like it's a good engine. It's a good truck. Yeah. Is that a four-solder or six-seater? Four. Okay. Yeah, my understanding is actually the four-solder Nissan's. I'm not a Nissan guy at all. Like I don't like Nissan's, but the four-solder Nissan's for my understanding are pretty good. My uncle had gotten one. I think in 1993, I think he had a 93 Nissan back when they saw the single cabs. And it was a manual transmission. And he put three hundred thousand miles on that truck. Never had any major issues with it.

1:17:19And so I had gotten one in 1998 and bought a brand new. And it was a great truck. I loved it. And it just happened to be when I joined the military, I let my dad use it because he had my dad had a Ford Ranger at the time. And it died on him for, and so he needed another vehicle. And I was like, well, I'm gone. I'm not using my truck. So you can use my truck, like whatever. And somebody hydroplaying jumped the curb and landed in the cabin, my truck and totalled it out while I was in, while I was in basic, yeah, real shit, real shit show. So, so I let my dad take that insurance money and get himself another truck. Yeah, there you go. I didn't have the right thing. Well, I didn't. I mean, I was, I was getting a bonus. I ended up buying a car cash money. And then I decided to let a stripper drive the car. Well, when we were both drunk and she hit a curb and broke

1:18:20the A arm. Well, I think, uh, Sarah and Riley are getting ready to get a little situated here. I hate to cut it short. No, we're good, brother. Yeah, we've been going for a minute. So it's great talking to you. Yeah. What else you got going on? You're just chilling at home being a dad, huh? Pretty much. I haven't written on substacking a little bit. I was going pretty good there for a little bit, but I've just kind of lost some motivation to do that. There are a couple albums I'd like to talk about, but find the time to do it is pretty difficult for me. So if people like me to do shit like this, I'll go on to anyone's show, you know, time allowing. But I really want to talk to you because I feel like we haven't done one of these in a long time. Yeah, it's been a minute of the contrast. I just kind of, I figured the kind of step back and I was just kind of like, well, like let him do his shit. Man, he's got got got responsibilities. You got to take care of your shit. I don't I don't have kids at the house anymore. I don't have to worry about it. So

1:19:23yeah, well, I still like to kind of keep in touch with all the good people that I keep in touch with and I do via Twitter, but I don't get to do these nearly as much and not that I want to go back to the same capacity that I was, but I you know, every once in a while, if someone's like, hey, you want to talk? I'm always down to talk and definitely you tell me absolutely anytime, anything for you. Sir, I did tell me earlier that you wanted me to tell you high. So probably when we wrap up, I'll see if she can bring the the little girl on herself in to say hi real quick. Yeah, yeah, let me stop the recording. It's still going to be live streaming, but I will, I delete the live stream.