BACK IT UP | 22: Body On the Road

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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On Episode 22: Body On the Road, we have a two-part interview! First Hal joins us to share his harrowing stories as a driver for Coca-Cola. Following his interview, we are joined by Bunni, who was recently featured in an article from ‘The Lily’ describing her life as a long-haul driver. Having driven and delivered in 47 different states, Bunni talks about the complexity of living in a truck and all the challenges she faces on a daily basis!

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0:08.0	. The He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,
0:47.6	across the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
0:51.4	The only people really pulled over were truckers.
1:00.0	He said, we're going to Hodge, and he didn't slow down. He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
1:06.0	I noticed his plane was really low. He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.
1:12.6	You know, 30 seconds north, he could have hit us.
1:15.6	I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood
1:22.6	and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.
1:29.1	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
1:37.6	Welcome to the show, everybody. You're listening to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Tony Merkel
1:40.9	and my dad who's in these interviews. His name is Brian Merkel, but he's not here right now because we forgot to record the intro and outro for this episode.
1:48.9	So I could take shots at him since he's not here to defend himself, but I won't do that because I love the guy.
1:55.0	So let's get down to the business.
1:56.6	If you have a crazy and wild experience you want to share with us from the road, go ahead and shoot us an email.
2:01.4	Our email address is HammerlaneLegens at gmail.com. That's HammerlaneLegens at gmail.com. Or go to the website, hammerlainledgons.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. Now we have a cool new feature to offer listeners of Hammer Lane
2:19.2	Legends. That is, we're doing a voicemail service now. So if you have a story that you want to share
2:25.7	with this or a thought you want to share with us, but it's not really showworthy and you don't
2:29.8	want to schedule a time to talk to us because it's only going to be like five, ten minutes.
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