59: The Brown Van Man

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 112 minutes

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In Episode 59: The Brown Van Man, Tony and Brian have a lively chat with John, a long time driver for UPS. John's life as a driver all started as a joke and what John believed would only be a year of driving. That one year turned into a career spanning 33 years and counting! With over three decades of experience, John has no shortage fascinating and wild stories as a driver, both behind the wheel and while dropping off packages. From being hit at 100mph to being so close to black bears that he could pet them (but at first not realizing they were bears!), the conversation is an enjoyable look back at John's long life as a driver. So buckle up and listen in as John delivers a whopper of a show.

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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.
0:15.5	The only people really pulled over were truckers.
0:18.2	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.
1:02.5	Welcome to the show, everybody. You're listening to Hammer Lane Legends. I'm your host,
1:05.8	Tony Merkel. And I'm his dad, Brian Merkel. We're really glad that you're here.
1:09.1	If you have some crazy and wild experiences, you want to share with us from the road, go ahead and shoot us an email. Our email address is HLLL Podcast at ProtonMail.com. That's HLLL Podcast at ProtonMail.com. Or you can go to our website, hammer lane ledges.com, hit the contact section, and you can reach us that way as well. Either way it works for us, just get a hold of us.
1:30.2	And if you want to stay prepared, what can they do, Dad?
1:33.0	They can check out, prepare with hLL.com.
1:38.0	Get themselves some preparedness food and stuff.
1:45.9	It's like your mind goes blank for a second there.
1:47.9	It's been a couple weeks since we've been here.
1:49.7	It has been.
1:51.8	Stuff.
1:52.6	What is the prepared stuff?
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