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On the eve of Lovers' Day, we take the time to slow down and celebrate L-O-V-E love.
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What does it take to have a healthy, honest relationship?
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And to all the single Pringles out there, this episode is also for you.
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It's time to put down the boom boom apps as we reveal the super secret hiding spot for all singles to find a meaningful connection.
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But before all the sappy stuff, I'm going to start with some personal, unhappy stuff.
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But I have no fear.
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At least it'll be funny.
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Well, for you Not so much for me.
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I don't find it funny at all.
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Let me tell you something.
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Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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If you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be and that's what it takes.
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I'll take on what it takes To move fast.
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What it did, what it hot.
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Good Lord Almighty, am I so excited To be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true, mm do you do?
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Baby boo, I truly hope that the sun is shining on you.
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I truly hope that you were counting blessings and you were feeling all kinds of special.
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If you're listening to this episode of the podcast on the day that it drops a truly fabulous, winning Wednesday then you are receiving this good gospel on the eve of Valentine's Day, the Lover's Day.
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Well, I do believe at some point in time, maybe Hallmark and Walmart and Target and any other store took advantage of all of us with this pre-prescribed holiday, and it's another good opportunity to dig into your wallets and your pocketbooks, your purses, whatever.
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People don't even do that anymore.
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Everybody just be tapping and paying.
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You know what I mean.
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Here's my plastic.
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Here's my watch, bloop.
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Here's my.
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Even do that anymore.
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Everybody just be tapping and paying.
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You know what I mean.
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Here's my plastic.
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Here's my watch, bloop.
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Here's my phone, bloop.
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Just pay, pay, pay, what up?
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That was weird and uncomfortable.
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Did I make you uncomfortable?
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I apologize, we're not off to a good start.
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I'm already making you uncomfortable, but the point I'm trying to make here is some of these holidays have been depressed upon us.
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They've been forced on us and they, unless you want to provoke a fight, encourage you to spend money to shower the ones you love with love or make you feel anxious and depressed that you're single and alone.
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So I'm not real confident in the benefits when it comes to being forced to do something and being forced to realize you're isolated and you're single.
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You're out there on an island, you're never going to make it, you're Wilson, lost at sea.
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But if you push all those things aside, it is confessional, a good opportunity to stop and slow down and celebrate the ones you love, if you don't get lost in the big box store scenario that comes with love.
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On Lover's Day said Valentine's Day, the pre-prescribed you got to buy this.
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I forgot what the average spend is these days for Valentine's Day, but, pre-prescribed you got to buy this.
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I forgot what the average spend is these days for Valentine's Day, but I'm pretty confident.
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It's over a hundred dollars.
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With the cost of everything else, with the cost of eggs and gas and all those crazy things going on in the world, most people don't have an extra a hundred 200 bucks to drop on Valentine's Day.
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So it's going to pressure you into feeling bad, or you're going to dig into the savings and you're going to make something happen, those things there.
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If we get on the other side of that, we just push that part of the onion aside.
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It's a great opportunity to slow down and tell the ones you love that you love them, to appreciate them, to count your blessings, to be thankful and to show them just how thankful you are.
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That should be the true meaning of Valentine's Day.
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And if you're in a real, honest, healthy relationship, then that is the true meaning of Valentine's Day.
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Okay.
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And if you're single and you're depressed, guess what?
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The day after Valentine's Day you're going to score some super sweet deals on depression chocolate.
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Okay, hey, I love a good deal on some peanut butter and chocolate If I can get me some of those Valentine's peanut butter and chocolate.
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Reese's hearts on discount.
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Boy do I love me a bargain.
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There's a benefit right there, y'all.
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There's a benefit.
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I love it.
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But let's put all that stuff aside.
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That's what's to come later on in today's episode of the podcast, because later on I am going to be joined by my lovely, beautiful, blushing bride, the one by my side.
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My beautiful wife will be joining me later on in today's show, but she doesn't know that right now.
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So currently I'm recording this on my own and I'm just putting the pressure on right now that she's going to be joining us.
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She doesn't know it yet, okay, but on the eve of Valentine's Day day, she wouldn't want to let me and all you down and not show up.
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So we're gonna sprinkle a little pressure on her plate and I'm gonna beg for forgiveness if I have to, because it's easier than asking for permission.
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So I'm gonna put it out there right now.
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We we're going to etch it in stone that my wife will be joining me in the second portion of the show, because a lover's episode without the one that I love just don't make no sense.
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It's not sense-a-cool America.
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But before we get into all the mushy, ushy, gushy good stuff, I have a full frontal confessional with you.
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That has got me pretty dang near pissed off.
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Okay, little Bucky, I was just channeling my inner southern grandpa right there with that.
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I don't know what happened, but I'm going to grab my Cabela's catalog, I'm going to place my left hand on the catalog and I'm going to direct these beady little eyes to the sky as I raise my right hand and I repeat before you the truth, a full frontal confessional, the truth from this guy.
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I'm pretty embarrassed.
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I'm pretty embarrassed.
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I'm pretty ticked off.
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I don't find it amusing One bit, but I'm pretty confident y'all are going to find this shit funny.
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Here's a little screenshot into the life and times of moi.
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Here's a little preview, a little peeling of the onion, if you will, as to my life and my luck and how they both often suck.
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God.
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Here's the deal, as previously recorded multiple times.
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Here we are in the middle of Snowmageddon.
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Okay, every 24 to 48 hours we're going to get dumped on with that white gold.
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Okay, I used to call it white gold back in the day when I was selling snowmobiles, because that's how you sold snowmobiles.
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Is it needed to be snowing?
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And for the people out there that you know are having plow contracts and they're, you know, getting all that overtime and all those extra side gigs and jobs?
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Or to my brother from another mother out there, mr DCF Darren Clark Finnegan, who's a proud owner of Lost Valley Brewing Company that just happens to be located on a freaking ski mountain when the snow falls, that's white gold.
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Snow falls, that's white gold.
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But to those of us trying to work from home and raise a newborn and avoid spending four and five hours a day on the tractor, it's no longer white gold, it's the white curse.
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Right now, I mean, I don't hate it, I'm a Mainer, it is what it is, but it takes a lot of time, and you heard me rant and rave about this already.
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I don't need to.
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I don't need to keep going down this path here.
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I'm just trying to tell you.
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It's contained here, all right.
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So here's the thing Saturday I have to go out and get some sawdust for the horse.
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The wife made this connection with a fella a couple of towns away that owns a woodworking shop and he's trading us some sawdust just for getting it out of his way.
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So we have this schedule now of showing up to get sawdust.
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This was our first time going.
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We didn't know how large the bins were going to be, so we had to bring the old farm truck.
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The four of us loaded up an old red, the old farm truck, and we're heading out to get sawdust on a Saturday and we're going to get ourselves some coffee and I'm going to go to work and the three of them are going to go on their merry way doing whatever it is they wish to do today.
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Now, on the way to said woodworking shop, some lady in front of me decides to throw the brakes on long before throwing said blinker on.
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Okay, I ram-jam-cram the brakes to the floor here and as I do, I realize we ain't stopping.
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No, we are not stopping, we're slowing.
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We're gradually slowing.
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We are decreasing speeds, but not at a rapid rate.
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Okay, we are not stopping fast enough.
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I cut the wheel to yard it to go out around said left-hand lady here.
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Thankfully she turned as I'm going around, tragedy avoided.
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But I quickly realized we don't have any brakes.
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No brakes, bobby, we ain't got no brakes, which it's happened many times before.
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Right, this is an old girl of a truck.
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Okay, actually, last time we lost brakes, the wife had a camper attached to it.
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Thankfully we were close to home.
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So we are proceeding to, uh, this wood shop here and I'm leaving a mile in between me and the next vehicle and hoping nobody just tries to come out in front of me.
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And it's one of those things where I'm just pushing it all the way to the floor and we are slowly grabbing some brakes.
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So maybe the front brakes were slowly catching on a little bit.
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And I make the announcement listen, hold on, because if something happens in an emergency I'm probably going to have to throw this sumbitch in park and we're probably going to lose the rear end out of this old girl.
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But we get to the sawmill, get the wood sawdust, whatever, load it all up.
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We're heading home.
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We're kind of trying to bebop our way around traffic to get home without breaks.
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We get home.
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I parked the truck and I say, screw it, I'm not even going to look at it.
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I don't have the patience nor the time.
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I got all these projects to do, work stacking up.
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I got to get to the office.
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They head off to get coffee.
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We had to take that off the script because I just got no damn breaks right.
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So here we go, blew the brakes out of the truck again, park it, leave it, set it and forget it.
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Okay, Next day, super Bowl Sunday we're getting pounded with snow, starts snowing overnight.
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You wake up on Sunday morning to, I'm going to say, 10, 12 inches of snow.
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We've got a nice dumping of the white gold.
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Okay, well, got to get out there with the tractor and start making some things happen.
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So I'm cranking down the driveway.
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Everything is going nice and smooth.
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Get things cranked out.
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I'm feeling real good about how well things are going.
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I only have right in front of the garage and the house to do and I like to do a couple of passes up our little farm road on the way to the horse barn.
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This makes it easier to get hay in and out and grain in and out, whatever.
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So while I'm doing that I'm kind of pushing some snow banks back and I'm backing up and I fall off of the road.
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So the road kind of dips off, but the snow banks and everything are so high you really can't tell where you are.
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So as I'm backing up, I just slowly slip off the road and typically I can get out of this scenario.
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So I'm taking the bucket and I'm trying to work myself out.
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I can't seem to do it.
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I'm using the backhoe in the back to try to prop myself up and it seems like I'm kind of at an angle here or I'm just going to end up rolling this son of a bitch.
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So before I make it worse and I get my wife to come out yelling at me that I made it worse and I should have stopped way sooner.
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I decide, hey, let's stop way sooner.
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So I jump off the tractor, message the wife hey, can you come out and give me a hand and pull me out?
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Now here's the situation at hand.
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I've only made one pass down this road 12 inches of snow Vehicles currently on the premises.
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Road, 12 inches of snow Vehicles currently on the premises.
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School bus ain't even going to fit, don't even think about it.
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Dodge Challenger in the garage Don't even think about it.
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Wifey's Kia Sorento.
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I do not want to be responsible for ripping the back of my wife's car off of my tractor.
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Not going to happen.
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My dad's old pickup truck long bed, v6, two wheel drive.
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I'm thinking I don't want to have two vehicles stuck in the same spot.
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Not going to happen.
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We'll have to take all red.
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I know she ain't got brakes.
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Here's a scenario I can't pull from the side because I'm going to end up rolling the tractor, so I have to get out in front of it and back up to it.
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Now I do have a big snow pile there, so, as the truck will be pulling the tractor out if it doesn't stop, if it can't stop, you can just bounce into the snow bank and it will stop and I can stop the tractor, unhook it and call it good.
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Everything about that makes sense.
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What I didn't plan for was backing up to the tractor.
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Oh Lord, have mercy.
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Lord, lord, lord, have mercy.
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I get in the truck, I start backing up and I don't want to get too close to the tractor.
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Before I start applying brakes, I'm switching over to the brake.
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I'm not stopping, I'm sliding and I'm throwing my feet around.
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Like am I on the freaking brake right now?
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I've got sweatpants on.
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I've got a bib on like the full onesie jumpsuit.
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Basically, here that that freaking, I don't know Carhartt jumpers big snow boots on.
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I'm looking around trying to make sure I'm not on the gas.
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I'm fucking flipping all around, sorry, lord.
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Boots on.
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I'm looking around trying to make sure I'm not on the gas.
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I'm fucking flipping all around.
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Sorry, lord, I apologize, I swore right back there, but I'm getting heated already.
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Hope you can feel it coming through the speakers At this point.
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I didn't realize nor account for the fact that my tractor slid off the road, fell kind of down in a hole.
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What does that tell you?
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My tractor slid off the road, fell kind of down in a hole.
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What does that tell you?
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My tractor slid off the road.
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That should tell you my truck, without brakes, is likely to slip off the road.
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What I probably should have done is lifted the bucket on the tractor up enough that, if the truck kept going, it would have just run into the freaking bucket and stopped.
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But no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I left that down, creating a freaking ramp slash catapult for the pickup truck.
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All right, as I'm sliding downhill into the tractor, foot crammed on the brakes, trying to look back, noticing that, hey, you are just going to smash right into your tractor and then you were probably going to monster truck, grave digger, big foot your ass all the way up over the top of this tractor and destroy it.
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That's what's going to happen.
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Old Red, rolling on some 32s, is going to crush your brand new tractor.
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So what do I do?
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Instead of throwing it in park because I was fearful of the fact that it might just stop on top of the tractor, I slam it down into gear and I hit the throttle.
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I drop it in gear, cram, jam the gears so that I can stop it from sliding in reverse and launch that sucker out before I run over the tractor.
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What I didn't see at this moment in time was that the bumper of my truck had actually gone up over the bucket and hooked onto the tractor.
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So when it did, my tailgate and bumper hooked onto the bucket, damn near, ripped my tailgate off but in the meantime blew the bucket shock off of the left side, so the actual like bucket cylinder.
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It literally ripped the welds right off the cylinder.
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So my lines don't look broken, but it took the threads on the little metal like nipple that's welded onto my cylinder and snapped it right off.
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At this time I can't even see the tractor.
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I just fire the truck forward, slam it into the snow bank, drop it in park and jump out to hear my wife running up the frigging driveway yelling at me, screaming at the top of her lungs what?
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the fuck are you doing?
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And at that moment I realized, huh, that reminds me a lot of my dad, for two reasons.
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Number one, when I was a kid and I did dumb shit scratch that Up until two years ago.
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Doing dumb shit up until scratch that.
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A year ago, when I lost my dad, if I did something dumb, my dad would have yelled at me what the fuck are you doing?
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Also, if I found my dad doing something dumb, like being stuck off the side of the freaking lawn which one of the last times I actually yelled at my dad, he buried the plow truck off the side of the road I hooked on with my truck and towed him halfway across the yard after yelling what the fuck are you doing?
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Because he smashed into my truck with his plow truck.
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Well, yeah.
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So the first thing I realized is wow, this reminds me of my dad, both him yelling at me or me yelling at him.
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And then I quickly realized huh, that was never really helpful.
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Yeah, still isn't.
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I go back to the tractor.
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I'm looking, I can see the bumper of the truck is just ripped right to shreds.
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And I look at the tractor and it is just shooting hydraulic fluid all over the place.
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After some quick appraisals.
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Here it appears to be.
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It is just the bucket cylinder that I've destroyed.
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Lines look good, no real crazy cosmetic damage, some scratches and areas that I probably would have scratched in due time anyway.
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So my cousin came over, we took the actual hydraulic cylinder off and then I spent all Sunday trying to track down an aftermarket option.
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But the bummer in all of this is that my tractor is so new and it's one of the newer uh like sub compact tractors.
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It's not really big.
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So there's really no aftermarket companies making these uh replacement parts for these.
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So I found an aftermarket company that would make one literally twice the size of what I actually need and they would make it for 180 bucks and they're in New Jersey.
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I'd have it in a couple of days.
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But the bummer is they don't make anything my size.
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So on Monday morning I called the manufacturer.
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I called the shop where I bought the tractor.
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They looked into it and they want $470.
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$470 for this hydraulic cylinder that I literally just broke the damn nipple off of, when I can find a upgraded, much bigger, much better, stronger version for $180, that right there chaps my ass.
