143: The Cable Man

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

In episode 143: The Cable Man; Brian and Shipper are joined by Shipper's neighbor, Matt, a Union Lineman. Matt got his start with PPL, a local electric company, and after work became tight, he took his talents to the union. He is now a foreman and typically doesn't have to get up in the bucket anymore, yet has experienced some truly unbelievable events through his time out in the field. Matt has traveled all over the United States, for his job, as well as traveling to Puerto Rico to help restore electricity after a hurricane. He explains what it's like going to a new place after a natural disaster, and the difficulty of the job through the chaos. This was an interesting conversation that took us on a wild journey, ultimately full of laughs along the way. We hope you enjoy this one, and thanks for joining us for the ride!

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0:00.0	Merkel Media's
0:02.0	He put it in park through the driver's door, ran out the side of the car, across the front of it and and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
0:21.6	The only people who really pulled over were truckers.
0:24.6	He said, we're going to hodge, and he didn't slow down.
0:27.6	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
0:35.6	I noticed his plane was really low.
0:39.3	He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.
0:43.3	You know, 30 seconds more he could have hit us.
0:46.3	And I went around that truck and a guy,
0:50.3	stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood
0:52.3	and it shot through my window,
0:54.6	just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.
0:59.3	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
1:07.6	You said 10 seconds.
1:09.3	Well, now you just blew it.
1:10.7	Keep going. Start. Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I'm Brian Merkel. And I'm Brian Shipper. If you have a crazy and wild story you would like to share with us from the road, or if you'd like to come on the show and just have a conversation with it about things you do, things you've seen, where you go, what you do. Give us a call. Give us a contact, don't give us a call. You can call us, but that's the voicemail. And Shrip will tell you about that in about a minute. Get a hold of us on HLLL Podcast at ProtonMail.com. That's HLLPodcast at ProtonMail.com. Or go to HammerlaneLegons.com, go to the contact section, click on that.
1:41.4	You can get a hold of us that way. Do it one way or the other. Just get a hold of us. We don't care. Either way it works for us. Just get a hold of us. Shipper, inform them about the voicemail line that we already spoke about. The voicemail line, 515-585MERK, that's 515-585. 6375.
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