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Hammer Lane Legends

75: Straight From the Pitt: Brian Shipper

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 75: Straight From the Pitt, Brian and Tony are joined in the studio by Brian's friend - Brian! - from work. It's a break room episode where anything and everything goes! The guys talk about buying a Chick-Fil-A restaurant, Brian's tow truck driving days, and how he came to drive line haul at Pitt Ohio. So buckle and enjoy the conversation between these fellow Pitt drivers!

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0:00.0

He put it in park through over the driver's door,

0:10.9

ran out the side of the car,

0:12.5

crossed the front of it,

0:13.5

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

0:16.1

The only people really pulled over were truckers.

0:19.3

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

0:22.4

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

0:26.5

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

0:31.3

I noticed his plane was really low.

0:34.0

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.

0:40.3

You know, 30 seconds north, he could have hit us. 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.

0:59.6

I'm going to hear how it all goes down.

1:02.4

Welcome to the show.

1:03.4

By you're listening to Hammer Lane Legends.

1:05.8

You're the host, Tony Merkel.

1:08.0

Oh, yeah.

1:08.4

You forgot to say that part.

1:09.6

See, I'm thrown off because Brian's here. Brian's here and I'm thrown off. Yeah? Welcome to this, everybody. Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. Hi, I'm Tony Merkel. I've been podcasting for five years. And it shows. Thanks for being here, though. If you have a crazy wild experience, you want to share with us on the road,

1:29.0

go ahead and shoot us an email.

1:31.2

Our email address is Hammer Lane Legends at...

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