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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Life Lessons from a 40 Year Old T-Shirt

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Time to start tackling buffaloes!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This 40-year-old t-shirt holes in all is my most prized possession.

0:05.6

When I was in high school my friends and I would go to thrift stores and we'd always try to find the funniest goofiest

0:12.0

T-shirts and we try to outdo each other. And we did this for three, four years, we'd go all over

0:18.8

the Northeast looking for these t-shirts and little did I know, the best t-shirt I ever found was hiding right at my house

0:26.5

See one day I was in my parents room and I don't know why I was doing this because it certainly wasn't loud

0:31.2

But I went in my dad's drawer and at the

0:33.6

bottom of his drawer I saw a t-shirt that I never seen him wear before and it just said I

0:37.4

tackled the Buffalo and his company, C&T Associates. I remember thinking

0:41.3

oh that's kind of cool I have no idea what that means taking it

0:44.5

again no no not sure I did that taking it and just starting to wear it one day I

0:49.7

came home from school and I was wearing it and I remember he came up to he's like, so do you have any idea what that means?

0:55.3

I said, no. And he said, that t-shirt is at least 20 years old.

1:01.6

And it came about because when I started working for the company, C&T Associates, which his dad had started, my grandfather and my great-grandfather had started, my dad said, you know, there was a guy there named Bobby Sands and the company

1:19.0

specialized in waste water treatment plants,

1:23.3

building and renovating wastewater treatment plants.

1:26.7

So if you're not sure wastewater treatment plants are,

1:28.9

there where everything goes when you flush your toilet. And so this company that my grandfather and great

1:36.2

grandfather started specialized in that and this guy named Bobby Sands came back one day

1:41.7

and he walked into the office and he just started screaming to everyone there.

1:46.0

I tackled the buffalo. None of them had any idea what he was talking about.

1:50.0

It's like, Bobby, Bobby, what are you talking about? And he said, I had to go into chest-high sewage treatment plant water

2:00.4

and fix a problem today.

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