Driver Recruiting Happy Hour Podcast

Darin:
Cheers everybody. And welcome to the Driver Recruiting Happy Hour. I am your host, Darin Williams, President of CDLjobs.com with me as always is the President of Ten4 Recruiting, and the man who claims to invent, who have invented the internet, Matt Beach Beach!

Beach:
What's up bud?

Darin:
Beach, tell us how you did it.

Beach:
Well,

Darin:
The people wanna know.

Beach:
I don't know. I mean, it was just one of those things. I was just out in the garage, tinkering around with some things, you know, some electrical stuff. I got shocked. And

Darin:
As a youth in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, <laugh>

Beach:
Down in tall, all, all created down in tall Pine's trailer park in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. I mean, some of the most best inventions are created in the trailer park. I guarantee you guarantee

Darin:
None of em have to do with tornado prevention.

Beach:
That is true. That that is the one thing that we cannot figure out yet. So yeah, but still

Darin:
You'd think they would invent a basement.

Beach:
You would think so. You would think so. It's funny. There's a a local radio station here in Chattanooga and talk radio 102.3 And I call in on the radio, but my I've got like different aliases. So I do different.

Darin:
Yeah. We've talked about one, who's the one with the smokers cough?

Beach:
Have we talked about this?

Beach:
Yeah. Yeah. There's the, but Soddy boy is one of the voices that I do. I don't know if I've told you that. And so they call in they'll know, I'll go, Hey, this is Soddy boy. And immediately they, they, and I've I think Soddy boys had seven, seven girlfriend girlfriends, but it's the same girlfriend. And he's been married four times to her. And so he is divorced her multiple times and he ends up bringing her back at his girlfriend. And he's from Tall Pines trailer park,

Darin:
People follow along with this. It seems like it's kind of a sideline to the Joe Dirt story.

Beach:
Oh, the recordings are amazing. And so I've got 'em somewhere hidden. I we've got to play em one time. I've got 'em on a MP five or whatever you call it. They're they're they're out there. I've done old lady, voice, Ruby Evans.

Darin:
Ruby. You did Ruby on here.

Beach:
Yeah.

Darin:
Lady has a smokers cough.

Beach:
Oh Darin Williams, you're such a handsome boy. Mighty fine boy. Anyway that's how it goes.

Darin:
That's really hard to listen to even harder to listen to while looking at you do it. We need to move away from that. Holy moly. Hey, speaking of tornadoes, we've got somebody from Tulsa with us today. <Laugh> Tornado capital of the world and the youngest guest we've ever had. She brought to our attention,

Kennedy Ruley:
Big deal.

Darin:
The Digital Marketing Manager of Melton Truck Lines, Kennedy Ruley.

Kennedy Ruley:
Hello.

Darin:
Kennedy.

Kennedy Ruley:
Thank you for having me. I'm doing good. There's a tornado outside right now. You know, it's just another day in Oklahoma.

Darin:
You live in Oklahoma. You're gonna have that.

Kennedy Ruley:
That is funny that you brought up radio personalities cuz here in Tulsa, there used to be someone called Roy D. Mercer. Have you ever heard of him?

Beach:
Oh yes.

Darin:
I Love Roy

Kennedy Ruley:
Hilarious.

Beach:
I mean that was the, that was the start of the, the prank calling phase.

Kennedy Ruley:
He was your inspiration

Beach:
Roy D. Ah Mercer <laugh> oh yeah,

Darin:
He was,

Beach:
He was a, how big of a boy are you?

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh>

Darin:
Hi. How big a boy are you? He was a radio guy in Tulsa.

Kennedy Ruley:
He was, I think he was based out of Tulsa if I remember right. But

Darin:
I didn't know that. Now he would've been on the radio before you were born.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yes. This was learned from prior generations. My father,

Darin:
I say, cuz I think, I think I was in college the first time I ever heard him. Yeah. Which was again before you were born?

Beach:
Yes

Kennedy Ruley:
They were all they're all on YouTube though. They have survived.

Beach:
Oh yeah.

Kennedy Ruley:
They've transcended generations. There's one about

Darin:
I don't think I know what Roy D. Mercer looks like.

Kennedy Ruley:
To be honest, no.

Beach:
No, I I've never seen him. I don't think I've ever seen him face to face either. This could be, I could be Roy D. Mercer. Who knows?

Kennedy Ruley:
For all, you know. He passed away though, so unless you're back.

Darin:
Oh did he really?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah, he did.

New Speaker:
Oh, that's too bad.

Beach:
Someone found him

Darin:
Cheers to Roy D. Mercer.

Beach:
He found a bigger boy.

Darin:
He found that big old boy. So Kennedy, tell us what's happening in your world.

Kennedy Ruley:
Personally?

Darin:
Sure. We don't care about your job.

Kennedy Ruley:
Ok, I figured this was not gonna go in the direction of my job and that's fine. I am planning a wedding in November.

Darin:
Yours or a friends?

New Speaker:
My own. Yes.

Beach:
Congratulations.

Kennedy Ruley:
Thank you.

Darin:
Congratulations.

Beach:
Now was there ever a talk of, okay, we're gonna do a wedding or did you just go, look. How much is this thing gonna cost us?

Kennedy Ruley:
So yeah, if it weren't

Beach:
Can we just go to Vegas? Give me the give was a wedding cost. 20 grand, 30 grand. What?

Kennedy Ruley:
Not my wedding. No, but people it's very easy to get up to that amount. That's the deal. There was a slight minute where I was like, you know what? Let's just elope, let's call it good.

Beach:
I've told my daughter that I've already, I told her the other day, I said, here's 10. I'll give you 10 grand right now. We'll sign a contract that you will not have a wedding. You're gonna elope.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's just gonna be yeah.

Beach:
Like, Nope.

Darin:
My father-in-law, rest his soul told my wife when she graduated college, he would either pay for a wedding or buy her a car. So then I got stuck paying for the wedding, which I wanted to go to Vegas and get married by Elvis. Ubut I got outvoted one to one

Beach:
<Laugh>

Darin:
We're still married. So I think you should go to Vegas and get married by Elvis. Elvis is popular again because of a movie.

Beach:
Hey fun fact. I am an ordained minister.

Kennedy Ruley:
Really? We're still looking for one, but you'd have to come to Tulsa

Darin:
We could Live podcast it.

Kennedy Ruley:
The Happy Hour Podcast, Wedding edition

Beach:
Can you yes.

Darin:
With Reverend Beach.

Beach:
We're gonna go from two views to at least 10

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh> too at least 10.

Darin:
I don't. What church are you ordained by Matthew?

Beach:
The, whatever, the online version. <Laugh>

Darin:
Does it have to do with the sun or moon or wind?

Kennedy Ruley:
The internet that he invented

Beach:
No. Yeah, no, it's just, can you, can you stand up in front of people and say this? Yeah. And I've got my I've got my license to marry people.

Kennedy Ruley:
Why did you get it?

Darin:
I've got, I've got a friend.

Beach:
My Law intention went to the program.

Darin:
I've got a friend who did that, a guy I graduated high school with. And he did it for a nephew of his, I think he was gonna do it. And I think he's done 30 weddings since. He's just very good at it. He's fun. People wanting to get up there and do it at their wedding. It's

Beach:
I love it.

Darin:
So if you're asking Kennedy, yes, I will get ordained and I can probably be there in November, but gimme a little lead time.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay.

Darin:
And we'll negotiate contracts and prices.

Kennedy Ruley:
When Matt said that, I was like, dang it. You know, if one person was gonna be ordained on here, I would've hoped it was Darin.

Darin:
We could both do it. And we could,

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh yeah,

Darin:
And we could put it on the podcast.

Beach:
<Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
I'll just get a big sign of your logo at my wedding and it'll be like.

Darin:
Sponsored by...

Beach:
The happy hour.

New Speaker:
What's your last name gonna be? You gonna change your last name?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yes.

Darin:
What's the breaking news? I like my last name. It's sad. You know? New last name will be Alvarez. So.

Beach:
Alvarez.

Darin:
Kennedy Alvarez.

Kennedy Ruley:
I know it doesn't really roll off the tongue as much as I love it.

Darin:
I think it absolutely does.

Beach:
Yeah it does.

Kennedy Ruley:
I don't know? I'm just used to my name

Darin:
Now batting for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Kennedy Alvarez

Beach:
Rez, Rez, Rez

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh>.

Beach:
I like it.

Darin:
I like it.

Kennedy Ruley:
It'll come more natural.

Beach:
Now. Are you moving your last name to your middle name?

Kennedy Ruley:
No, I already have a middle name, but do you have the option? Like

Beach:
You can.

Darin:
You can hyphenate it

Kennedy Ruley:
Hyphenating is like it screams high maintenance, you know?

Darin:
Well, I wasn't gonna say that, but <laugh> you did. So

Kennedy Ruley:
I try to keep a low profile and I feel like a hyphenated,

Darin:
No offense to any hyphenated names who are listening.

Beach:
Exactly

Darin:
Exactly.

Kennedy Ruley:
They are ike really

Darin:
I immediately rolled through my brain,

Beach:
That would be a funny,

Darin:
Who's been on the podcast that has a hyphenated name that we need to apologize to.

Beach:
We still

Darin:
You know, who we've had on the podcast and who Kennedy confided in me in a bar in Nashville that she could do a great impression of, is Marilyn Surber.

Beach:
Oh please. I gotta hear this.

Kennedy Ruley:
I said I was gonna start off the podcast, like in my car, in the driveway and just like shake the camera around and be like, I don't know where I am today. <Laugh> but I'm in my car and I'm here.

Beach:
Isn't that the truth?

Darin:
That is Marilyn

Beach:
I think I saw, but where she's actually in San Francisco with her S SJ, right?

Kennedy Ruley:
Mm-Hmm <affirmative> yeah,

Kennedy Ruley:
She does like that city sitter thing. Like she just goes all over the place.

Beach:
It's unreal.

Kennedy Ruley:
That Lady

Darin:
What does she do with SJ all day?

Kennedy Ruley:
She does the city sitter thing, you know, like they're these qualified babysitters that come and babysit your kid. You can screen them and like have meetings with them beforehand. And so they come out and babysit your kid all day.

Beach:
Yeah. And that kid's a pistol. Ain't nobody going to steal that kid. Ain't nobody.

Darin:
You mean like take 'em around like show 'em sites, like do things in town

Kennedy Ruley:
I don't know.

Darin:
Or just hang out in the hotel, swimming pool.

Kennedy Ruley:
I, I would assume both whatever SJ wants to do.

Beach:
I would, if I had, I would just leave em at the hotel, lay down some newspapers, some candy. Here's a here's some water.

Kennedy Ruley:
Give em an iPad. Here you go.

Beach:
You know, I'll see, it's got about six hours of battery allow for be back.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah, she does it all.

Beach:
Yeah.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's wild.

Beach:
Now, is that your, like, can you sound like Marilyn or just, just the whole

Kennedy Ruley:
No, I'm not even gonna try. I'm not gonna make that much of a fool of myself today.

Beach:
<Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
I love Marilyn. I'm just giving her a hard time

Beach:
She, she is best. She does a lot for this industry.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. Busy, busy lady.

Darin:
Tell us about what's happening in your professional life.

Kennedy Ruley:
Things are going really well. Like I've been in my role about a year now. As the manager.

Darin:
What did you do before that?

Kennedy Ruley:
So I started out as an intern at Melton when I was still in college. And then I moved into a, like a social media coordinator type role. And then I moved into safety and did like all of our online safety training and like our company app and stuff like that for a couple years. And then a year ago I was brought back over to this side as the marketing manager.

Beach:
So now I have a question about your, so y'all social media, I remember I visited about a long time ago and at the, I think you guys, if I y'all were on the leading edge, y'all were the ones leading the pack for Facebook and bringing it and creating your own driver groups. They had their own private, I think there was a the, the Wives of drivers or something like that. And they were sharing recipes, but they had their own page. It was all specifically for Melton employees and their family. Are y'all still doing that?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yes. So we've grown that we started off, we had individual fleet pages, which was kind of cool cuz the drivers could like, you know, discuss amongst their own fleet, but then we just combined it all into one. But we have

Darin:
Was that a Frank baby?

Kennedy Ruley:
It was not, I think it was a Marilyn baby, to be honest.

Beach:
Yeah. I think

Darin:
This is just the Marilyn Surber hour. All of a sudden, yes.

Kennedy Ruley:
We're still raising a lot of Marilyn babies over here. <Laugh>

Darin:
<Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
Two adults.

Darin:
So you could say you are the city sitter.

Kennedy Ruley:
A little bit. Yeah. You know, just raising these babies over here. But yeah, it's it, we, I think we have close to 70% of our fleet on this page if I were to think of the member count and our fleet count. So yeah. They share recipes, like ask about securement. Like if they run into a big issue at a customer you know, there's like all sorts of things on there. It's pretty cool.

Darin:
What a great retention tool. Right? I mean

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. And it's a good feedback tool too, cuz sometimes people are more willing to just put the feedback out on a Facebook post rather than individually to somebody

Darin:
When they think you're not looking at it.

Kennedy Ruley:
Right, right. Yeah. There's office staff on there, you know, we're here to help, but sometimes

Beach:
Who moderates that do you have to have a full time? Someone that's like, okay, your job is doing nothing but monitoring this Social media.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. Well that's the thing is like we do have a social media coordinator and she tries to monitor as much as she can, but she doesn't know hours of service, you know, the intricacies of that and things of that nature. Like you have to have somebody from every department on there at least. But our operations group does a lot of monitoring on there too. So it's kind of a team effort. I'd say,

Beach:
Do you think so if you have like a large carrier or midsize carrier and they're not doing this, then they're like, man, I, I wanna follow that lead or we don't have a strong social media presence and we're really present. And we're really jumping into this thing called Facebook now. And I mean, what, what are, what would you suggest? I mean, do they, you have, I mean, to me it would be, y'all need to have someone that's a hundred percent.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah.

Beach:
Been focused on that because if not, it is just like anything and it just, eh, it just goes off to the wayside and it's not, I mean, would you agree with that?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. You can't halfway do it. It's a fulltime job and a half I'd say sometimes like you just content creation is a full-time job and let alone, you know, social media moderating and things. So you kind of have to prioritize, but if you really wanna get into it and be serious about it. Yeah. And I'd start, you have to meet 'em where they're at. If the driver's on Facebook, have a Facebook group, we're trying to get into TikTok as much as we can. Now. Facebook's just kind of a raised baby at this point. You know,

Beach:
<Laugh>, it's not a lot. I'm I've got a great TikTok page.

Kennedy Ruley:
I I've seen a few of yours on LinkedIn. I can't say I just follow you personally.

Beach:
Yeah, I wouldn't

Kennedy Ruley:
But, ok good. That might be

Beach:
I wouldn't. But there's a there's a lot. Yeah, there. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm okay with it. I did the whole get on the skateboard and ride around. They want a skateboard. Someone was like, are you really, I didn't know. You could skateboard. I'm like, I can't <laugh> I literally had my wife driving the pickup truck with the tailgate down and me balancing myself in the back to try to make it look like I was on a skateboard.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh my God. Yes. I'd like to see the souped out version of that.

Beach:
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Darin:
We need the third party of somebody filming,

Beach:
But instead of drinking, like cranberry juice, I was eating a meatball and I was trying to help promote a local restaurant here in Chatanooga.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh okay. So if I got,

Darin:
Did they know you were doing this?

Beach:
Oh no. They didn't know until I sent it,

Darin:
It was unwanted and unasked for help.

Kennedy Ruley:
They probably saw it, thought, dang it.

Darin:
What's the name of this now defunct restaurant?

Beach:
Talk talk amongst yourselves while I try to find this

Darin:
While you try to find what? Your meatball eating TikTok?

Kennedy Ruley:
I'm kinda stuck on this.

Beach:
Does that look like I'm on a skateboard?

Kennedy Ruley:
Actually, that's kind of impressive. Yeah.

Beach:
And I, and I, and I turned the camera to make it look like I'm swerving around <laugh>

Darin:
That's pretty good.

Beach:
<Laugh>

Darin:
I I, I, I can't unsee that now.

Kennedy Ruley:
Is this just a normal Tuesday evening that you just decided to go out to move?

Darin:
You took the words right out of my mouth Kennedy.

Beach:
Exactly.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay.

Beach:
Exactly. I've got another one coming up. I'm gonna dedicate it to you Kennedy. I'll.

Kennedy Ruley:
Uh okay.

Beach:
It'll go on LinkedIn. And so for that, you'll it might include Vienna sausages. You ever like beer?

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay.

Beach:
Okay. Do you ever eat

Darin:
Like she Has a choice?

Beach:
Have you ever had potted meat? Have you ever had Spam or any of those three: Vienna sausages, potted meat or spam? Have you?

Kennedy Ruley:
I think it was probably on like one of those you have to try this when I was a kid type of thing, but no, no

Beach:
You're missing out.

Darin:
Spam is making a comeback.

Beach:
It's huge.

Kennedy Ruley:
Really?

Beach:
Huge

Darin:
It's kinda a hipster kinda thing now. Yeah.

Kennedy Ruley:
Interesting.

Beach:
Slice of slice of Spam, put in the pan fried up slice two slices of tomato on toast with mustard. Phenomenal calling it.

Kennedy Ruley:
So we do have, speaking of tornadoes, my fiance's dad keeps like a full stock of like Spam, Sam's club sized packs in his cellar, just in case, you know, if you get stuck down there, then you, you have Sam like Spam and crackers for, you know, weeks, weeks work.

Beach:
Hey, let me tell you something. If I had that basement, I wouldn't even wait for a tornado. I would be in the basement, living in the basement, nothing but Spam and saltines.

Kennedy Ruley:
Spam and saltines. That's all you need in life.

Darin:
Come out once every six months to sun yourself.

Kennedy Ruley:
<laugh>

Darin:
Does everybody in Oklahoma have a full cellar like that?

Kennedy Ruley:
No

Darin:
Well, I mean in Iowa we just have basements because it's

Kennedy Ruley:
No, we do not. No, but we have a cellar. Our house was built in like the forties. And so our cellar is like walk in big cement cellar walk. I'll get down

Darin:
With the outside door?

Kennedy Ruley:
It's a big, like a flat door that comes up from the ground.

Darin:
Did you see the movie Twister?

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh yeah. Yeah.

Darin:
I assume that's required viewing and.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's yeah

New Speaker:
In any elementary school and any Oklahoma

Kennedy Ruley:
It's as soon as you're in school. Yes.

Beach:
Now, from what I hear from, I mean, similar to us for like snowstorms or bad storm coming or whatever, you know, bad weather, you gotta go to the store, milk, bread, you know, beer, whatever. But is it normal for when an, when a tornado comes through everyone just in the neighborhood just gets out their lounge chairs, sit up and starts drinking beer and just kind of talk about it like, oh,

Kennedy Ruley:
Pretty much. It's more like, and I assume it would be this way everywhere. But our meteorologist is like a celebrity, like in Trav we trust is the thing, his name's Travis <laugh>. And like you tune in and that's your entertainment for the entire night. Like storm chasers, you know them like you have your favorite.

Beach:
Wow.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's pure entertainment,

Darin:
Tornadoes hit a little different in Oklahoma. I mean they,

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah.

Darin:
There's like nothing to stop em from Arizona.

Kennedy Ruley:
No,

Darin:
There's no trees between Phoenix and Oklahoma City. I know I drove it last year.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. It's if you hit it in the Eastern part of the state, there's a little bit more trees, but yeah, western part of the state, there's nothing. That's it

Beach:
I've seen two, my entire life. Two

Kennedy Ruley:
I've only seen one.

Beach:
Yeah.

Kennedy Ruley:
Honestly,

Darin:
Really?

Beach:
And it's scary. Very scary.

Darin:
Are you a transplant from somewhere else or did you, were you born and reared in Oklahoma?

Kennedy Ruley:
I was born and raised here, like a Marilyn baby

Darin:
And you've only seen one tornado?

Kennedy Ruley:
Only seen one.

Darin:
Well you're only 26 years old.

Beach:
That's true.

Kennedy Ruley:
That's it. Yeah. Hold on just a second.

Darin:
By the time you're my age, you'll have seen two. If the ma if my math is right,

Beach:
Yeah.

Darin:
Two, two

Beach:
<Laugh>.

Darin:
I hope you don't see them.

Beach:
I was in a tree stand hunting when I saw my first one and I was like, I'm I can't go nowhere. I mean, it just immediately just, just didn't, you know, I knew it was dark and it was, you know, I was like, eh, I'll wait out there was no waiting it out. I mean, I saw it touch down just over the side of the hill. I mean, it just got crazy. And I thought, well, this is it. I'm gonna die in a tree stand in a tornado, but it never came that way. And then it went off thank God in a different direction. It was unreal.

Darin:
I think I've only ever seen two, but we went through an experience a couple years ago called a derecho, which I had never heard of until two years ago. And it was the scariest thing I've ever been in, in my life. I've never tornadoes don't make me nervous, storms A derecho it was sustained winds of like 150 miles an hour for 45 minutes. It was horrifying. It just wouldn't stop. Did terrible damage. Yeah. Just crazy. Never heard of them before.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. They're honestly terrifying. Sorry. I've got a cough. I, I coughed until about 3:00 AM last night, so I knew it was coming.

Beach:
Oh, hate you. You're sick.

Darin:
Well, yeah. That's your fault for staying out till two.

Kennedy Ruley:
I'll be fine. That's what I get for partying. Right?

Darin:
That's it.

Kennedy Ruley:
I really don't. To be honest, I did wanna share something on here. So Matt like gives out his little face sticker things. And so.

Darin:
We try to discourage that. Don't encourage him.

Kennedy Ruley:
I know, but I'm gonna encourage it from you, Darin. I mocked up like a little thing for you to consider, but I only had your

Darin:
Wait a minute. You what?

Kennedy Ruley:
I mocked up like a little thing. Oh, I can't host

Darin:
Of, of this gourd?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. I can't share my screen. Dang it.

Darin:
There's no little version of this melon. I have got a big gourd.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah, you do. After editing it, I was like, wow. Maybe not. You like had the little face ready to go. So <laugh>

Beach:
It like it's as if the baby from Teletubbies grew up

Darin:
<Laugh> oh, my God that's.

Beach:
And now he's old.

Kennedy Ruley:
This is his like LinkedIn profile. So I've gotta get some,

Beach:
I thought, I thought he had an earring almost.

Darin:
I, we need to bury that and never,

Beach:
No, no no no

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh, it's it's here to stay

Beach:
Can you, can I get a copy of that for,

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh, for sure.

Darin:
Yeah. We'll we'll edit that out.

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh>.

New Speaker:
On the bright side, having Beach called me the Teletubbie baby, all grown up, Beach, the Mr. Mcgoo comment. He makes every time I don't,

Beach:
I was wondering,

Darin:
It's become tradition that I get kicked off of this podcast sometime during it for about four minutes. And

Beach:
How many

Darin:
Beach and the guests talk about my glasses being Mr. Mcgoo and yeah. Do you know who Mr. Mcgoo is Kennedy?

Kennedy Ruley:
Not really. No. I've heard of the name. It's but it's like the Roy D. Mercer thing. I've never seen him. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> you know, or seen him, you know,

Beach:
How many times do you think he has lost his glasses Kennedy?

Kennedy Ruley:
I assume you have like 20 pair around the house.

Darin:
<Laugh> I do there's.

Kennedy Ruley:
I mean, you know,

Darin:
Within reach

Kennedy Ruley:
You're about, you know, that demographic

Darin:
I've got 'em all over the place. And usually right here, always that's I get a lot of crap for it, but I always know they're there.

Kennedy Ruley:
They're always there. You remind me of like a snow white dwarf. One of them, you kind of look like one of them <laugh>

Darin:
This. Well, this has been a fun... Boy look at the time...

Kennedy Ruley:
I'm just saying.

Darin:
A Snow White dwarf I'm five, ten- ish.

Kennedy Ruley:
I'm not saying like height wise. I'm just saying your face, like,

Beach:
Which, but which one? I mean, if he had to, like, what would his, you know, Sneezy Grumpy, but what would he be?

Kennedy Ruley:
I feel like.

Beach:
Sarcastic?

Kennedy Ruley:
Grumpy, like kinda matches the, the role

Darin:
Grumpy?

Kennedy Ruley:
I don't know. You're a really nice guy. I'm just saying like Grumpy might match it a little bit.

Darin:
I, nobody said Dopey? I thought Dopey would be the first thing.

Beach:
Oh no, you need a new one there. There's gotta be a, like, you're a, you're a new uh, one.

Kennedy Ruley:
What is it, the ninth dwarf?

Beach:
Yeah,

Kennedy Ruley:
Like the 12th man?

Beach:
This is sarcastic.

Darin:
Are we allowed to say dwarf?

Kennedy Ruley:
I think that's the proper term.

Beach:
Yeah. I mean, they use it. They use it on the ride there at Disneyland.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. You just can't say the M word. That's a No no.

Darin:
Gotcha. Yeah, that would not be, be horrible. Name for a dwarf too. Well, so we've gotta come up with I I'm the eighth dwarf Magoo Magoo. Magooey

Kennedy Ruley:
Magooey.

Darin:
I don't even know the seven door names. Dopey, Sneezy, Happy

Beach:
I got, I got a few names I could put out there. <Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
I could just Photoshop the sticker onto one of the dwarfs bodies,

Beach:
Please.

Kennedy Ruley:
And there we go.

Beach:
Please do.

Kennedy Ruley:
There's your sticker?

Darin:
Who, who do I call?

Beach:
And also, Put it in the sun for the Teletubbie. You gotta do that.

Beach:
Creepy ittle baby. I mean,

Darin:
Oh, this has been my least favorite podcast so far. Who do I call at Melton to wonder about how much extra free time you have and what else you could be doing?

Beach:
<Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
I'm building vendor relationships right now. This is totally work related, right?

Darin:
Is that what this is?

Beach:
Exactly.

Kennedy Ruley:
That's what I told my boss this morning, like I have an important vendor call at noon.

Darin:
He's gonna be horribly disappointed if, when he watches this

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh> yeah, they won't know <laugh>.

Darin:
Yeah. Nobody watches this. You're safe.

Kennedy Ruley:
I'm gonna share it all over the place.

Darin:
Well, your name will be attached to it. So there's a

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah, unfortunately, but you can hyphenate it if you want.

Darin:
That's right. We can

Kennedy Ruley:
Prematurely.

Beach:
It's true.

Darin:
Yeah. I don't wanna do that. I'm not gonna, I want to stay on your good side so that picture never gets out, I guess.

Beach:
Oh no, it's getting out.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh, it's it's saved already.

Beach:
It's out, it's done.

Kennedy Ruley:
I started thinking

Darin:
I've lost 20 pounds ince that picture is taken, could we, at least

Kennedy Ruley:
You do look like younger or maybe, I don't know.

Darin:
It's yeah.

Beach:
It's the, it's the new, it's the new filter you're using on Zoom

Darin:
There's no filter. I told Beach I found

Beach:
You turned it on. Yes you did.

Darin:
I did not because it gave me lipstick. It did make me thinner, but it gave me lipstick <laugh> and I only wear that on weekends.

Kennedy Ruley:
This is a pre-filled filter,

Darin:
This is me. So we're gonna do this. I need a better picture. Maybe we could. No, that's a Beach thing. I'm not stepping into that. I don't, we don't need that. We don't need two face stickers out in the world, all over the place

Kennedy Ruley:
I think it's genius. He's gotta have a little competition.

Darin:
You know what? It is genius. It's surprising that Beach came up with it. The funny thing is, is he puts at places where people don't ask him to put it.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh, I've received like five. And I'm just, I finally told him at this last conference, like I got it.

Beach:
You got it.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's on my desk. You're there.

Darin:
I know what you look, stop sending these to me.

Kennedy Ruley:
I think its brilliant.

Beach:
I tell you what. You know what's funny is using the Snapchat filter on you. This has been great.

Kennedy Ruley:
On Darin?

New Speaker:
On me?

Beach:
Yes. I'm totally creating doing Snapchat filters.

Darin:
Why are we doing this? This is, this is why I didn't want to have video.

Beach:
You're I mean, you should see what I'm. I mean, these are wonderful.

Darin:
This is exactly why I didn't wanna have video.

Beach:
<Laugh> I'm using the baby face filter. Oh my gosh.

Darin:
You got a filter that can add hair?

Kennedy Ruley:
Please show.

Beach:
No, no, No. This is so scary. Hold on just a second. Now look at this.

Darin:
How did you get a picture?

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh my God.

Darin:
That that's nightmare fuel right there.

Beach:
Gosh, this is so great. I'm just having so much fun over here. What were y'all talking? What were y'all saying? What was that?

Kennedy Ruley:
Nothing actually, we're just complimenting you

Beach:
<Laugh>.

Darin:
No, I, I, I absolutely was not complimenting.

Beach:
Yeah, absolutely not. No, not at all. Not at all.

Kennedy Ruley:
I wanted to ask

Darin:
What is on your horizon, Kennedy Ruley-Alvarez, obviously, other than the big deal in November, November, right?

Kennedy Ruley:
Yes. November.

Beach:
November what?

Beach:
November? What?

Kennedy Ruley:
Fourth.

Beach:
I was married November. Oh God. I hope she don't watch this

Darin:
Boy, you should think of that quicker.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh goodness.

Beach:
10Th. 10th, 11th.

Darin:
That should have rolled off your tongue a lot quicker than that.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. I saw you walking down that path and I was like, oh no.

Darin:
Yeah.

Beach:
20 years this year.

Kennedy Ruley:
Wow. Congratulations.

Beach:
Darin, how long have you been married?

Darin:
We got married in 94, so I flunked a lot of math classes. So whatever that is

Kennedy Ruley:
28.

Darin:
28 Years. Last month May, May 7th. We went to the Kentucky Derby for our wedding anniversary.

Kennedy Ruley:
That's fun.

Darin:
Yeah. I bet on every horse that, that rotten stinking horse that won, passed on the way home.

Kennedy Ruley:
Well, at least you got to go.

Beach:
What's the honeymoon, where are you going, Kennedy?

Kennedy Ruley:
That's what I was gonna ask. So we're trying to plan something like truly tropical, you know, like Aruba, Barbados,

Beach:
Jamaica,

Kennedy Ruley:
Something.

Darin:
Have you ever been to Isla Mujeres?

Kennedy Ruley:
No, I've never been out of the country.

Darin:
Oh, well then just go to Dallas.

Kennedy Ruley:
So

Beach:
<Laugh> Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. They've got little beach here at Chester Frost park. <Laugh>

Kennedy Ruley:
No, but really I've, I've never been to like a true beach experience. I've been to Corpus Christi, Texas. And that is like brown water. It's not, it's nothing.

Darin:
What do you calling the beach experience? Boy saying the, the beach experience on this podcast.

Beach:
I know's its not,

Darin:
We have got to come up with a different way to word that.

Beach:
I would do now I would suggest doing like a Sandals resort, all in anything. That's an all inclusive.

Darin:
Okay. Cause yeah, because you're young do yeah. Do an all inclusive for, for the first time.

Beach:
First time it is phenomenal.

Kennedy Ruley:
Ok.

Beach:
St. Lucia. Absolutely gorgeous. Okay. I've been to the Virgin islands, an absolute phenomenal experience, but now you'd have to have your passport, your passport.

Kennedy Ruley:
Did you know the us government takes your actual birth certificate and puts it in the mail while you get your passport?

Darin:
I did not. They didn't, I don't think they did that.

Kennedy Ruley:
It's terrifying. It's terrifying. I almost had a fight.

Darin:
They don't take a copy?

Kennedy Ruley:
No, I almost had a fight with the post office lady. I was like, are you serious? So we're risking it for the tropical vacation.

Beach:
Yeah, yeah. A a yeah, Aruba. I would say I know St Lucia's absolutely gorgeous. The Virgin islands are breathtaking, but also it's one of those. If you do a singles resort, you, when you get off that reservation, you are off the reservation.

Kennedy Ruley:
Like it's scary type of thing.

Beach:
It can be it very well can be. We were coming in on, we went to Negril and driving there, you're seeing signs that says only three people killed this week on the road, because they drive like maniacs.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh my goodness.

Beach:
So it was a 30 minute drive from the airport and we get to Negril at one point, the, the cab driver stops and this is like 11 o'clock at night. Completely. Just, just, you know, we have no idea where we're at. Right? And we stop in this little area of town, I have no idea where we're at. And they, you know, it was just like an outdoor party people just, and they're just looking their music. I mean, it was crazy. He pulls up and gets outta the car and leaves and we're sitting, there's another couple that was in the cab with us. And I look and I find a spork and I'm like, this is all I got. If something get us, it just, all I have. And he comes back and he got a big thing. He got a pack of cigarettes and some sugar cane, and he needed the sugar cane to chew on so he can stay awake.

Beach:
I'm like, great. So then we get there. Right? We get there. And the, the woman that was the, the other couple, she had broken her leg the day before her wedding. And so yes, bless her heart. And she hadn't cried yet. She hadn't had a meltdown yet. Well, we get to this place and the guy comes out and his eyes are both of his eyes are red. What does that tell you? And he's smiling. He's like, come on <laugh>. And he was like, I take you a luggage. And my wife's like, absolutely not. I can handle my own luggage. He's like, no, I take your luggage. It's fine. She's like, no, no, I can carry my own luggage. And I'm like, baby, give her, give him the luggage. She goes, I am not giving him my luggage. He has double pink eye. Oh my God, God,

Kennedy Ruley:
Double pink eye.

Beach:
I'm like, you got be kidding me. And so I finally told her, I had to explain to her what that was happening. Oh. And then that was, oh, when you know, I'm like, look, honey, everybody. So then we go up to the, we get to the room and ours <laugh> ours is like that.

Darin:
What point do you kill a man with a spork?

Beach:
Yeah, exactly. I ain't got to that yet, yeah, no, thank God we didn't have to. So we get there and ours is like on the one level, our room. Right. And all this, the guy goes, he looks at the woman, that's got the broken leg and her husband, he goes, okay, we don't have elevators. Yours is upstairs. <laugh> oh, you know? And she just lost it. <laugh> we ended up, we ended up switching our rooms. We're like, look, you have ours. We'll take yours. But,uit was phenomenal. It was great. All inclusive is the way to go.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay. Are you limited? Like on food?

Beach:
Oh no. I put it.

Kennedy Ruley:
Beverage choices.

Beach:
I put it to the test. It was like two o'clock in the morning called 'em like, I'd like to have a steak also want this. They're like, we'll be right up.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay. Okay.

Darin:
I think the one that we went to had seven different restaurants on the property.

Beach:
It's nothing. It's crazy. You don't want to get off the resort?

Darin:
I, yeah. I mean, you're at the pool there just constantly. It's it's pretty great. And then when you get tired of that, when you get older, then you go to Isla Mujeres then you just kinda rough it and hang out at the beach all day and buy your own beer.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay. So that's the only thing I've heard of. Like all inclusive. You're just really limited on what you can get, but maybe I'm wrong.

Beach:
No, I, I don't know about that. I'm I'm like a, I'm like an all you can eat buffet,

Kennedy Ruley:
Ok

Beach:
You know? That's, that's what I want. I'm I'm thinking my mind, I'm putting a hurtin on it. You guys are losing money on me, but they never do, but still

Darin:
See, I don't think the one that we went to had a buffet. I think it just had restaurants. You just made a reservation at the restaurant on the property and.

Beach:
Mm-hmm <affirmative>.

Darin:
Um I dunno. It's been so long ago. I don't remember, but that was good. But anyway, Hey, we gotta let Kennedy Alvarez get back to work.

Kennedy Ruley:
Can I show one more thing?

Darin:
We want to be the first one to introduce her

Beach:
Share away. What you got?

Kennedy Ruley:
I gotta show you my dog.

Darin:
Your dog?

Kennedy Ruley:
This is like my obsession. Yeah. He's a little six month old corgi. Hold on. He's sleeping. So here is

Beach:
<Laugh>.

Darin:
And what is that beautiful guy's name?

Kennedy Ruley:
His name is Dutton.

Beach:
Where'd you get that? Where'd you

Darin:
Tell us about that.

Beach:
Where? Yeah. How'd you get the name?

Kennedy Ruley:
Have you seen Yellowstone?

Darin:
No.

Kennedy Ruley:
The show?

Beach:
I've seen one.

Kennedy Ruley:
You guys don't watch Yellowstone.

Beach:
I've seen it once, one.

Darin:
You wanna know what's worse? The kid, there's a kid in the movie from my hometown.

Kennedy Ruley:
Really?

Darin:
In the TV show. Yeah. I don't know what one he is. He's a younger guy.

Kennedy Ruley:
Why don't you watch it? It is great.

Darin:
During during the, the when we all had COVID there, I got sucked into watching all these shows with my wife.

Kennedy Ruley:
Mm-hmm <affirmative>.

Darin:
And now I don't want to commit to have to watch a show every night or every day of the week.

Kennedy Ruley:
That's fair.

Darin:
I just, I just wanna watch a baseball game and leave me alone.

Kennedy Ruley:
That's fair. Well, I'd encourage you to at least watch some of it, but that's where his name came from.

Beach:
He's an angry dwarf right now. Ain't he?

Kennedy Ruley:
He's he's sleepy.

Darin:
I am gr no, we're talking about me being a dwarf.

Kennedy Ruley:
Oh oh well, he's a dwarf too.

Darin:
I really am Grumpy. Is Angry one? Angry a dwarf?

Kennedy Ruley:
I don't think so. I think grumpy would be that category.

Beach:
I think it'd be no, it needs to be like a, I could care less name, like, yeah. What, what, what who's this one? This is, I could care less. Oh, okay. How you doing? That should be yours.

Darin:
Don't give a bleep dwarf.

Kennedy Ruley:
2022 version

Darin:
<Laugh>

Beach:
And yell out. Hey, I don't give a.

Darin:
All right. We gotta go before we get kicked off.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay.

Darin:
Kennedy. Thank you very much for taking the time with us today. We do appreciate it.

Kennedy Ruley:
Thanks for having me. It was a lot of fun.

Darin:
Best of luck with the wedding. I don't know if we'll see each other before November. It's I mean, it's not, that's pretty close.

Kennedy Ruley:
It is. It's what? Five months out. Yeah.

Darin:
Five months. Holy cow. Look at all the stuff you have to do.

Beach:
If your family knows how to party, I'm assuming every family, a lot of family members do, but if you don't and you need someone to kind of help that along, please send me an invite.

Kennedy Ruley:
Okay.

Darin:
Know how to party?

Kennedy Ruley:
You could be ministering.

Darin:
55 gallon drums full of Spam. What do you mean? Not know how to party ?

Kennedy Ruley:
<Laugh>.

Darin:
You got this thing locked down.

Kennedy Ruley:
They're they're Cuban. So on the other side. So yeah, they, they know how to party.

Beach:
They know now. Nice

Darin:
And cigars, cigars and Spam.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. What, what more do you need at a wedding? Really?

Beach:
Is he in trucking?

Kennedy Ruley:
My fiance?

Beach:
Mm-Hmm <affirmative>.

Kennedy Ruley:
No, he's in piping equipment, I guess is the best way to say it. Pipe, fusion equipment.

Darin:
Do you really know this guy?

Kennedy Ruley:
I do. But it's hard to describe what he does for a living.

Darin:
Is this an online thing that's going on? Where you gonna be coming in from overseas? You're gonna meet on November 3rd.

Kennedy Ruley:
We live together.

Darin:
All right. You just don't know what he does when he leaves the house every day.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. He makes an income. That's fine. Yeah.

Darin:
He pays rent.

Kennedy Ruley:
Yeah. Yeah.

Darin:
Kennedy, thank you very much. The best of luck to you. We enjoyed it very much. To everybody else, be safe and keep on trucking.

Beach:
Thanks, Kennedy.

Kennedy Ruley:
Thank you.

Beach:
Yep.