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Hammer Lane Legends

169: Stir Crazy!

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode the guys chat with a long time listener, and returning guest, Flatbed Mike; AKA: Mr. "Toot Toot"! Mike originally was a voicemail line call-in guest several times before joining us on episode 94: Around The World and Back, to share how he got into trucking. At that time Mike was just beginning his journey into the wild world of trucking. Now, a few years later, he still enjoys hitting the road to travel across the country, albeit at the expense of his sanity at times! This was a laugh-out-loud episode, as they tend to be with Mike, full of crazy stories, and even crazier comments. We couldn't have enjoyed our time more! So sit back, relax and enjoy the show! TOOT TOOT!

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Produced by: Jack Merkel
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He put it in park through the driver's door

0:16.0

ran out the side of the car,

0:18.0

crossed the front of it, and jumped right up the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:21.6

The only people who 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 can 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 north could have hit us.

0:46.3

And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood

0:52.3

and it shot through my window,

0:54.7

just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.

0:59.5

That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.

1:08.1

Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Brian Merkel.

1:10.5

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 just have a conversation you'd like to have with us sharing your experiences from the road, go ahead and contact us at HLLPodcast at Protonmail.com. That's HLLL Podcast at Protonmail.com. Or go to the HammerlaneLegents.com page. Hit the contact section. You can get a hold of us that way. Either way it works for us. Just get a hold of us. While you're there on the web page doing the whole contacting us, you can take a look at the gear section, see what we got there. There's still no, no baseball caps, but that's eventually coming, you know, one of these days, centuries, decades, whatever.

1:46.3

It's eventually we're going to have hats, right? Right, Chip? Eventually, it's a plan.

1:51.2

Like everything else, it's a plan. So anyway, there's that. Ship, tell him about the voicemail line.

1:56.9

I'll leave a voicemail at the 515-585. M-E-R-K, 515-585-6375.

2:04.7

Short story is something you've seen crazy, wacky, insane on the road or in your everyday life.

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