Well, already again, welcome back to the active self-protection podcast.

I am yet again your host, Mike Wilhelm, and I remain your favorite former Fed.

Say it with me.

Favorite former Fed with me today's a new friend of my.

His name is Dan. Dan is from Southern New Hampshire. I think we had a Mainer recently. So we're getting, we're trying to get all 50 states. I need to put a map behind me and like put little pins. Little pins. Yeah, we've had guests from. I'll have an idea. He is a traveling mechanic. I'll let him explain that to you here in a moment.

And he is in what he assures me is a solid relationship with his girlfriend. So ladies, back off. Dan has spoken for it. Dan, how are he, sir? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing well. So fun fact, my oldest living brother, named after my dad, Edward Williver, Jr., was a mechanic for years, an auto mechanic.

So I know a little bit about what that life is like, maybe not a traveling one.

But I know, for example, I see you're wearing a Mac Tools T-shirt.

I understand the struggle of having to buy that one tool that you'll use one time on an 87 Volvo wagon and never be able to use it again because it's that specific.

Is that the case?

Are the tools still your arch enemy in this business?

Not so much.

So I did, I bounced around from shop to shop for a little bit.

And then I finally landed at a place where I was doing like a lifted trucks, muscle cars, a little bit of light general repair, stuff like that. And had a falling out there and decided that maybe something more, you know, heavy duty related would be the best case. So I went and

worked at a at a DPW barn. That didn't work out now for two years now. I'm working on golf cars.

And that's actually been really fun. So golf, golf cart, like golf carts, like you would

see on a golf course. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so you go, so you go from like place to place that has those and you square their carts away for them? Uh, not even, uh, storm away. So I'll fill up to a course that got 90 cars and they'll say, oh yeah, those six six over there they don't run they got flat tires

you know fix them up do that and then uh i get sent into uh the city a lot and so when i go there

it's a lot of like utility cars um we call them like carry halls because work for club car but uh, uh, so those are, when we go there, it's a lot of like front end damage and kind of weird problems with that. But I do a lot of stuff in the city, uh, city. We call it like commercial retail. So I do a lot of like commercial retail stuff. Um, but they got me doing a few stops that are, uh, that are golf courses. Well, I like the traveling aspect of it because you're not always going to the same place every day, which for me was one of the reasons I got into law enforcement because I didn't want to be going to the same. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you like doing, but going to the same office every day, day and day out, sitting in the same place, looking at the same people all the time, didn't appeal to these. So I'd imagine that's a nice aspect of that as you're not always going to the same office every day, day and day out, sitting in the same place, looking at the same people all the time, didn't appeal to me.

So I'd imagine that's a nice aspect of that is you're not always going to the same spot every day, right? Yeah, no, not really. You know, sometimes we've got to follow up and we've got to go back there the next day or the day after. But, you know, on all of our contract, it stops. It'll be like, I think the shortest amount of time we do is like a one week interval.

And so I could go up to... all of our contract it stops. It'll be like a, I think the shortest amount of time we do is like a one week interval.

And so I could go up to, you know, Newport Country Club one week and then two weeks later, I'll do it again.

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