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Hammer Lane Legends

40: Forklift Follies

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 40: Forklift Follies. Tony and Brian are joined by Joe, a forklift operator. Joe is a man of many hats, and shares of his experiences from his different occupations throughout the years. From dabbling in dispatch to forklift operator Joe has seen it all! Best of all, Joe talks with us about getting his CDL and what he aspires to do with it. If you're interested in wild stories, this one is for you. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride, as Joe sheers the roof off of this one.

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0:00.0

He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,

0:12.3

across the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:16.0

The only people really pulled over were truckers.

0:19.0

He said, we're going hot and he didn't slow down.

0:21.6

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

0:25.6

but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

0:30.6

I noticed his plane was really low.

0:33.6

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around. You know, 30 seconds more he could have hit us.

0:40.3

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

0:47.3

and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.

0:53.3

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

1:02.3

Welcome to the show, everybody.

1:03.3

You're listening to Hammer Laying Legends.

1:04.9

I am your host, Tony Merkel.

1:06.1

And I'm Jack Merkel.

1:07.5

And that's not my dad.

1:08.8

What's up, dude?

1:09.6

Hey!

1:10.5

Yeah, so my dad actually had to call out today because he is sick.

1:14.8

I was sick earlier in this week, and I actually had to take a COVID test. It came back negative. Thank God. Actually, I don't know if I should thank God about that because, you know what? if I would have been out with COVID,

1:07.9

it's two weeks being out with COVID,

1:09.4

and I would have got paid from work to be out.

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