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Hammer Lane Legends

BACK IT UP | 56: Old School Ways

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 56: Old School Ways, Tony and Brian talk with Barry, a retired trucker, who is also the father of previous guest Ryan from Episode 34: Driving Lessons from PA Drivers. Barry began his trucking career at the age of 16 in the late 1950s, and is still driving to this day. Since he has been driving for over 60 years, he has no shortage of stories to share with us, from his time in service overseas to his experience driving for mushroom farms. If you enjoy hearing the stories about the "good old days" and laughing along with the guys, you are in the right place! Buckle up and prepare for a journey uphill, both ways, with no GPS!

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0:00.0

BATHUSHUS

0:02.0

BUSHUS

0:07.0

THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE THEIRS WHERE? Hey, everybody, and welcome to Back It Up Fridays. This is Jack Merkel, and I am your host for this quick introduction here.

0:36.9

I just wanted to introduce the episode

0:38.6

for this week, which we are revisiting episode 56 old school ways where Tony and Brian talked with

0:45.9

Barry. Barry is a retired trucker and had been driving for over 60 years. He had tons of experiences

0:53.8

and just some really good nostalgia-based stories.

0:57.4

He had honestly been in so many different situations, service overseas. He had been driving

1:03.3

for mushroom farms since the 1950s. So just imagine the amount of experience and depth of

1:09.6

knowledge that he had and just the good old day sort of mentality.

1:13.8

So if you guys are ready for that, sit back, relax, and enjoy the episode.

1:24.9

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

1:30.3

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

1:33.3

The only people really pulled over were truckers.

1:36.3

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

1:39.3

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just

1:45.7

got out of the way.

1:48.7

I noticed his plane was really low.

1:51.4

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

1:55.4

You know, 30 seconds north could have hit us.

1:59.9

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

2:04.3

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

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