9-14-23 The Long and The Longer on ROCK 108

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The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall.

It's my favorite day of the week throwback Thursday on the Rock 108 morning show for Thursday, September 14th.

So much so that friend of mine from Dallas showing on up.

So have my friend Keith join me on the air here in just a few, maybe even pick out today's throwback Thursday track for this hour, starting things off with saliva.

Click, click, boom to get to the wall.

See there on Rock 108 sitting here and got a friend who joined me here from my previous position back in the trucking industry.

Keith.

Hello.

Welcome to the show.

Howdy, sir.

How are you?

How in the world did you get a radio voice without, uh, I don't know, not being in radio?

Is it just something that you were born with?

I was born this way.

I just, you know, I, um, I think I just came out of the womb and I was like, you come on right here.

You're putting me on here.

No, no, I wouldn't do that.

You're a good friend.

I wouldn't do that to you.

That's kind of heavy on the show.

So you're living in Dallas now and not far away from where Pantera started.

Have you been to Deep Ellum yet?

All the time.

Okay.

So

what's

deep?

Tell those who have not been, what is Deep Ellum and why is it so important music business?

So Deep Ellum is, is, it is the base of the arts district.

It is the base of like every dive bar, every music venue that everybody gets their start at, right?

I mean, Dallas is this metropolis of

Every band that should have ever happened and still might not and every DJ that should have ever happened still might not That's me, but you can fall into some of the like the best shows around right?

Yeah So I don't know if you can make it there.

I think you can make it big

So you move down there.

What about a year ago or so?

Yeah, yeah there

abouts We win the area much in Dallas and such or often

No, I mean only only travel for work, you know, I

got some family and, uh, and Texarkana, but we don't talk about.

Okay.

Yeah.

What, why is that?

Uh, Texarkana.

It's like the armpit of Texas.

Oh, okay.

I didn't see some of these.

Sorry,

anybody out there.

So some of these, uh, Texas references.

Look, I grew up in, in roughly in the Eric kindergarten, first grade.

So I sometimes will still have that Southern draw, but then spent some time in Minnesota.

So still drag my own.

So it's sometimes it's like y'all in.

Oh,

I'm

terrible at drawing.

I want to have you pick out a track for throwback Thursday.

And do you have anything in mind right now that you that you might have ready

to

go?

So I've been really digging on Iron Maiden lately.

I mean, you're never going to find another band, right?

That takes historical events and, you know, mythological fiction, right?

And then turns it into music, right?

Bruce Dickinson is the king of do everything if I can.

But but.

on the mythological side of things, the flight of Icarus.

Yes.

That is, I mean, top end scream vocals, low end vocals.

And if you can't picture the flight of Icarus when you're listening to that song, something's wrong.

That's awesome.

Way to sell it.

We'll do that here in about 10 minutes right now.

Start setting, breaking Benjamin, waiting on the sky to change more with Keith and Mena.

The legendary Corey Taylor.

That's beyond rock 108.

I don't know.

Just.

The voice I wanted

to

use.

That's fantastic.

It's good to see you, Keith.

I've been doing good.

I've been doing good.

Thanks so much.

Keith is in here, a friend from Dallas, and worked together when we were at the trucking company.

So what's got you up in Iowa right now other than seeing the rest of us and hanging out on the radio for a little bit?

So it's a trips up

to see family, work trip on top of that.

Oh, so you get paid for it, too.

I do get paid for it, too.

Well, that's

legendary.

Very legendary.

OK,

sounds good.

opportunity to drive, right?

It's the only time you get to get out and actually see the people that you work with and for every day out on the road.

So it's cool.

It's very cool.

What do you think is some of the biggest changes here in the last four to five years in the trucking business?

What do you think?

I probably make a lot of people angry, but I think switching over to automatic trucks has been fantastic for the industry.

And I grew up grinding gears.

with the best of them.

Yeah, you're

a CDL holder yourself.

So you can say this.

Right, my dad drove for 28 years.

However, you've now taken, I don't care how good you shift, the best you're gonna get is eight miles to the gallon on Freightliner, Columbia, Coronado, or even worse on a Peterbilt, right?

But now you're an automatic truck.

If you're doing it right, you're getting 11 to 12 miles per gallon.

That's savings in your pocket, right?

And

this is you saying this.

This isn't you talking to,

right?

This isn't me reading a company brochure, right?

This is, no, I've done this, right?

Like I've seen the difference.

So I think personally, and anybody who drives truck and is driving an automatic right now, especially an owner operator, their wallet is much happier, right?

Yeah, especially during that fuel hike.

If you were smart enough to have an automatic while diesel went through the roof.

Oh, it's still up there.

It's still up there.

Yeah.

But you weren't hurting as bad as everybody else.

What about electronic logging?

That's one of the things that the old, uh, the old cowboys was like,

forget this, right?

They had three different ones and then they keep the pretty one for the officers

and

the other ones out the window.

That's how I learned, you know, to play with fire.

My daddy gave me, you know, a cigarette lighter and the logs that we weren't supposed to show anybody, right?

Yeah.

Uh, you know, go back there and burn those on a catwalk.

Um,

But electronic logging, right?

That's rough.

It manages your day.

And a lot of people don't like that.

They don't like the regulations behind that.

But ultimately, there's no reason you should be gunning and running for over 11 hours of driving.

I don't like to do it in my own car, right?

Because it's not good for the body, right?

You throw off your circadian rhythm.

You get terrible sleep.

And you end up getting these sleep deaths, right?

So then you get that.

You know, oh, I just ate lunch.

Now I've got theitis and now I'm tired.

But that happens multiple times throughout the day.

Had a chili dog

at that last truck stop and really,

really,

really hot.

Turn out to really get me.

Put a little sour cream will make things better.

But no, I appreciate that, as you were saying there.

It's that whole thing of making sure this works for anybody.

Right.

The whole circadian rhythm, making sure that you got that rest.

I mean, for a guy that wakes up as early as I do, right?

It's like going to bed

and can't, can't go to concerts all the time.

And it's like, it's a school night.

Right.

You know, there's, there's, yeah, you have to do, you have to manage your sleep because you don't want to have a crappy day the next day.

And it makes the rest of the public happy when, you know, a truck's not running into someone.

I think that's the goal.

Yeah.

Make the roadway safer.

I would hope so.

Yeah.

It

doesn't hurt at all.

827 and your song that you picked for throwback Thursday, you mentioned Iron Maiden will have it next.

So Keith, I know you got to head off to the fine world of trucking here shortly, but I appreciate you giving a little knowledge of this morning.

And on top of that, some education, Icarus.

If people don't know who Icarus was is this song is going to tell it to him, isn't

it?

That's it.

Yeah.

It tells the whole story because that's what Iron Maiden does.

Ever seen him live?

No,

I, I know.

Yeah.

They're on my bucket list too.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Let me know next time they're down in Dallas and I'll make a, make a trip down to see you

probably next week.

They'll

just be down at reunion arena, making things happen.

It's

not called that anymore.

Is it?

No.

Yeah.

Probably.

Yeah.

See, I'm, I'm out of date.

Iron Maiden, Flight of Icarus, throwback Thursday, rock 108.