Episode 200
EP200, Not Our Best Effort
When we started this podcast back in 2021, we had no idea we'd reach 200 episodes with 133 amazing guests who shared their stories and expertise.
The impact this show has had not just for us but for the guests who've connected with each other and the listeners we'll never hear from goes beyond anything we imagined.
We talk about moments that stand out from previous episodes, the guests who made lasting impressions, and how relationships keep forming long after recordings wrap.
The conversation shifts to practical risks businesses face right now. We are finding out about vehicle cameras are getting hacked and locking entire fleets until ransom gets paid.
The conversation shifts to practical risks businesses face right now. Vehicle cameras are getting hacked and locking entire fleets until ransom gets paid. Massive CDL fraud was reported in Illinois and is going to have a huge effect on trucking capacity and supply chains.
We cover what's working in hiring when you batch resumes and use screening questions to filter candidates before phone interviews.
And make sure to listen to the end to hear what we're planning for the next phase of the show.
Highlights:
- How 200 episodes with 133 guests creates a resource library where listeners can find solutions and experts for nearly any business challenge plus asking the professionals you're already paying means there's no reason to say "I didn't know".
- Why setting clear expectations about remote work and meeting participation matters more than rigid policies.
- The hiring process that works batch resumes, send screening questions, and only spend time on interviews with people who respond.
- How podcast connections keep creating opportunities months and years after episodes air.
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Transcript
Welcome back everyone to this episode of Blue Collar BS. How you doing today, Brad? Doing well, doing well. You know, I think this is first time we've ever opened up the show laughing. Just you know, just hit record.
Brad Herda (:I am fantastic sir, how are you?
haha
Brad Herda (:just hit the button and go right to see what happens.
So folks, the reason this is so humorous is this is a milestone day today. This is episode 200 of the Blue Collar BS podcast. And so pre show, we're talking about what should we do? What's going on? And we've kicked this back and forth, you know, cause 200 is a big deal for the podcast world. So we're like, what do we got? We'll figure it out. So the episode of this title that we have right now, before we start, might change later, was episode 200.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:not our best effort. And that's why we're laughing because to be honest, we don't know where this is going to go or what we're going to talk about. full transparency to our audience and thank you to our tens of listeners and our when I looked at our episodes before our hundred and thirty three guests or so have been on the show.
Doyle (:You
Doyle (:Mm-hmm, which is fantastic.
Brad Herda (:133 fucking people said they'd want to talk to us. I don't know how we I don't know how that happens.
Doyle (:Yeah.
Doyle (:I... You know, you know a lot of people that said yes.
Brad Herda (:So you're admitting you didn't bring a lot of guests forward.
Doyle (:Hey, I never said I did. I never said I did. Never said I didn't either.
Brad Herda (:That is true. That is true. So when we launched this journey of just hit record back in, what was it? March of 22 now, is that correct?
Doyle (:I don't know. I thought it was earlier. I don't remember. Honestly, it's been that long ago. I really don't remember.
Brad Herda (:Oh, you're right. Twenty twenty one. Holy shit. March of twenty twenty one. March of twenty twenty one when this launched. I mean, would you ever imagined one hundred and thirty three people to. Awards sitting number two on Feet Spot for podcasts, blue collar podcasts to follow accolades from our guests, the.
Doyle (:Exactly, I was like, eeeh!
Yeah, I think we're five years.
Doyle (:and
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:commerce we've created with our guests back and forth. Who knows what the impact has been with others that just listen and actually do something with the things we talk about and take action as to what their business have done or not done that we have no idea about. Would you have ever imagined that in 2021?
Doyle (:Right?
Doyle (:No, no, I mean, and I, kind of I'm also in like 97 countries. Like. Really?
I just kind of kind of floors me with. Where where we have where we started where we're at and where we're headed. I'm like. What I've ever thought about that. No, definitely wasn't in the mind. The mindset for that.
Brad Herda (:Right. It's yeah, when we look at yes, our show is 77 % US. Our friends in Germany have overtaken have overtaken the Canadians a into into our number two listing spot your regime over in India from your former coworkers. They're sitting in four and then for some reason we got a United Kingdom following going on here.
Doyle (:Yeah!
Yeah, they have, which is fantastic.
Doyle (:Yeah?
Doyle (:which is fantastic.
Brad Herda (:followed by Singapore, Brazil, and our dear friends down under in Australia.
Doyle (:We did.
I know look at that. I mean I definitely would never have thought that. To.
Brad Herda (:That's our top eight countries out of the 99.
Doyle (:Mm hmm. Yeah, I misspoke. We're at 99. So.
All right, let's go.
Brad Herda (:So you are so it's April, right? Where it's April, whatever the what's today's date that we're launching this on. So it's April 10th, right? So right before tax day. So we kind of talked, we kind of talked a couple weeks ago about the shoebox accounting system that you have, and it appears to have run its course with with catching up to you as preparing as you have entered this show with complete brain drain of trying to get everything done in time so your accountant can do the things along the way.
Doyle (:Yeah.
Doyle (:Thank
Doyle (:That part was... I mean, the brain drain is really just, hey, I got to find everything and multi-factor authentication, pull it all down.
throw it over here and this is all stuff. You know.
Brad Herda (:Fraud is rampant. I will say that. I was at a networking event this past week and the insurance agent, commercial insurance agents that's in there was talking about cyber insurance to their clients. Their clients are like, we don't need that. It's no big deal. They lost $297,000 in three days as they were pulling money out of the bank with no authorization, no nothing and just
Doyle (:True.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:wiring $97, $98,000 a day or $97, $99,000 a day or something like that for three days in a row. Fortunately, she is a very smart and intelligent person that added this other rider on their insurance. So some of it might be recoverable, but for the most part, they're out 300K.
Doyle (:Wow.
Doyle (:Hmm, dang! Wow.
Brad Herda (:all because they didn't want to pay the premium for their cyber insurance.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm If you would have just paid your premium you'd be alright. I you your premium is a fraction of that cost. I you it's a fraction of that cost!
Brad Herda (:Less than 300,000. I guarantee you it's less than I guarantee you $300,000 of premiums would get you probably a bunch of years of cyber insurance problems.
Doyle (:Mm hmm. Maybe maybe more than a bunch.
Brad Herda (:So folks, as you're going through this end of the year tax, looking at all your stuff, looking at your expenses, your P &Ls, all those things, this is the ideal time to start evaluating and looking at your insurance and look at your coverages and looking through your financials, because it should be done now and we shouldn't be extending for July, October deadlines.
Yes, it's getting warm. Yes, it's getting busy. But your insurance and your risk profiles are far more important than all the other things.
Doyle (:Absolutely.
Brad Herda (:So what would you tell the, you know, the chuck in the truck or the, you know, two or three, two or three van operator GC, small 10 to 15 employee manufacturer, whatever that is, what would you tell them to look at from a risk profile perspective? Where are some blind spots that you see your clients or other industries?
Doyle (:I mean, honestly, outside outside of your financial blind spots like from a banking, things like that. The biggest one I see honestly is your tech. Getting you know from your computer, anything that that has an operating system on it. That will lock you. Right?
Brad Herda (:How slow.
Splint, Splain some more.
Doyle (:Explain some more. So I know for a fact somebody has gotten their cameras hacked on their vehicles.
Brad Herda (:Interesting.
Doyle (:You get your cameras hacked and depending on how your cameras are integrated into your main CPU on your vehicle, they can lock out your vehicle from your camera.
Brad Herda (:Why would you do this to your daughter?
Doyle (:You know, sometimes. Sometimes. Not to me, you know, I have seen a company where that has happened, and they've had to pay the ransom to get it unlocked to go to their job sites.
Brad Herda (:See, when you say I know this, something tells me that you're...
Doyle (:Mm hmm. All because somebody had an open. They there the camera company didn't have everything locked down. Somebody got in, got into the vehicle, put it on lockdown. Sounds weird, but it can happen.
So from your IT, like the easiest one, the other one that I hear about all the time is people calling from the bank. The biggest one that we see around here a lot is people calling from the bank, having everything in detail already on you where they had a security, they hacked into, let's just say somebody hacked into a Visa.
Brad Herda (:Yes, and I rock.
Doyle (:They have all of your account information. They have your account numbers. They know who all your contacts are on there. And so they're getting really good at getting you to either send screenshots over, get access to login to your accounts, and then start withdrawing money. And you don't realize it until a couple of days later. Then what you have to do, this is the fun part.
Then what you have to do is you have to wipe everything clean. Your phone has to be wiped clean. You have to take it and get it cleaned by either some third party provider like a Geek Squad or something like that. You have to get your computer cleaned and they have to write a, for the insurance, you have to write.
And it's not just for the insurance, it's also for the bank. They actually have to write a receipt that it was cleaned by a certified person that verified that your phone and your computer are clean before they will give you access back to the bank on mobile devices.
Brad Herda (:Wow.
Doyle (:So.
Brad Herda (:So going back to the cameras just for a moment because I wouldn't write this. This wouldn't be episode 200 to explain and go forward. But Michael, uh, draw a char. I can't remember the guy that I can't pronounce his last name. Charles Drell chart. He's in Illinois. So Michael episode one 37, if you're here in the upper Midwest, uh, Michael is your guy. We, got a guy guy to take care of your camera and
Doyle (:Come on, Brad.
Doyle (:Yep.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:tracking needs for your trailers, vehicles, equipment, et cetera. And he runs a closed loop system. does those things, but you don't have to go to spend all the money on a big Verizon contract that you'll never get out of. And they'll blame everything else on you instead of no customer service, et cetera. So episode 137 show notes, contact Michael to help those camera problems go away. So.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:I guess that's the beauty of what I see from the show right now is we have this whole plethora of resources in in our log and in our index of episodes that people if you're not either using our show or other shows like ours to find the resources that you get to listen to and understand to go support you in those instances or folks like ourselves even reach out that's on you as the business owner.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:That's on you. There should be no, well, I didn't know. I didn't know anybody knew that. Well, then you're not asking your team. You're not asking the right people. You're not asking the people you're already paying to do the work, right? You're paying your CPA firm. You're paying your insurance agents. You're paying your lawyers. You're paying all those folks.
Doyle (:Yeah.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:ask him the frickin questions.
Doyle (:Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. So Brad, what are, what are some things that you're seeing or hearing from a risk perspective?
Brad Herda (:So I've got a few trucking clients and so there's massive fraud in the freight industry, right? We're going. Yeah, really.
Doyle (:What? Fraud, that's like the new word for 2026, I think.
Brad Herda (:Yeah, it's like it's replacing pivot from 2020. So it's
Doyle (:Pivot!
Brad Herda (:Buzzword bingo. But there's a lot of okay, you to call it scam dumb fuckery? What do want to call it? did. You know, carriers that have fictitious D O T's Illinois. They just did their sweep of Illinois through all the CDL licensing and one out of every five CDLs that were issued were false.
Doyle (:Yeah, that's right.
Doyle (:It doesn't matter, but.
Doyle (:Wow. What do you mean by false? Help me understand that.
Brad Herda (:They were not qualified individuals to be licensed to have CDL. either they have the right, they either didn't have the right I-9 requirements, they didn't have the English requirements, they didn't have the, they didn't meet the requirements in order to receive their CDL license.
Doyle (:Doyle (13:52.014)
Hmm.
Brad Herda (:Or they were fake names. So they were getting multiple licenses, right? To hide and skirt and do all the other things. Cause maybe, maybe they had bad, bad, had a couple accidents and now they've changed, changed their name and now go get another license, all those things. So, um, we are going to have a very interesting 2026 and 27 as, uh, they're trying to clean up the trucking transportation industry. Um,
Doyle (:yeah, have multiple books? mean, come on.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:Which means that there will be delays in supply chain. will be delays in products. will be transportation costs are going to go up because the, the right. And, it's going to cover the costs to allow those transporters to actually make money and be employed and be profitable. And it's it'll carry down to the consumer again. And it'll be very much like somewhat of 2020 ish.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Weird.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:where you couldn't get things in and couldn't get things out because there weren't people weren't moving. Now you just you're losing 20 to 25 percent of your carrier base.
and it's going to take time to adjust. And the large OEMs, manufacturers, know, food and beverage producers, you know, the Procter and Gamble's of the world, et cetera, there's truckload after truckload. They've been beating people down and driving them out of business to where they're by right where those guys have to take action to not do things according to the law in order to keep the money flowing in.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Right.
Brad Herda (:And the only one benefiting is Procter and Gamble. So I don't want to use their name specifically, obviously, that will redact that. So please, Carrie, as you go through this, take that out. We don't want any liable activity or anything like that. But at the end of the day, the large OEMs, manufacturer distributors are the ones that are benefiting from that lower cost. Because it didn't change the retail price per se.
Doyle (:So.
Doyle (:Right. Yep.
Mm-hmm. Right.
So talked a little bit about risk. Let's kind of flip that up.
Brad Herda (:Well, love that game, by the way.
Doyle (:I am a fan of risk. I am a fan of the little dice game with the little things.
Brad Herda (:the little things.
Doyle (:little things I don't remember what they're called the little things the little things right just little things so yeah tic tac baby so talking about risk and tic tac what other things are you let's let's just talk some things that we're seeing right now as we're approaching you know tech state what are some some
Brad Herda (:Have fun with that, TikTok.
Doyle (:some kind of fun things that you're seeing from businesses.
Brad Herda (:I am seeing hiring. most of my most, half of my client base is hiring right now. and we've had successful hires, good candidates, from that hiring practice. I will just say here's to share with those that are trying to hire and do the things. we get a good job description. We do some job benchmarking to identify the personality, behavioral person.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:behavioral types that are there so we can find the right fit. Understand the requirements from a technical perspective and maybe skills. Put the ad out. Get the automated messages set up to, we'll talk to you in two to three weeks. We'll let you know what's going on. Batch those resumes. Do it through the platform versus doing it through your own email address. Find the ones that you like.
Doyle (:Yep.
Brad Herda (:send off some questions to them to respond to. So if I've got 50 resumes that come in, not just say 20 of them are reasonable, we'll say thank you to the first 30. The next 20 we'll send out. Here's the three questions that we want everybody to kind of go through and answer. And we're going to give you two days to respond type scenario of those 20. Five might respond to those answers, which is ridiculous in my mind. You're looking for a job, but you're not willing to do the work.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Yep.
Doyle (:And it's real simple work. just ask, you just have to answer three questions.
Brad Herda (:Correct. So it's self-selection process. Then out of those, we go through a phone interview to figure out all the fun things and then off to the client they go for in-person, et cetera. And that's been a very successful model versus a resume file. I threw a resume file. Just I'm going to recommend do it in batches folks. Otherwise you're going to drive yourself bat shit crazy unless you find, unless you get one that's really hot, really good, really whatever.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Right.
Brad Herda (:Follow that one through but in general I would ask you to batch that up and I'm not a big batch person But this I would batch because otherwise you'll just spend your entire life responding But the hiring process been really good really successful yes, there's a little bit of a softening of the market per se But on the manufacturing sector it's It's still
Doyle (:Right.
Brad Herda (:can't find good people. Well, you can't find good people because you're not setting up the jobs for success.
Doyle (:Correct. You're not setting up expectations internally first for success.
Brad Herda (:And you're putting your leaders in bad spots and then they're getting burnt out and they're all pissed off because the HR person's not doing their job and they're not listening and all the noise that goes along with
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Absolutely. Well, that's positive. like that. I like hearing that. Yeah, so in that in that sense, office or remote or a blend of both?
Brad Herda (:So yeah, so we got a bunch of hiring going on.
Brad Herda (:Everything is in person. Everything is in person with as we set the expectations with the clients like, hey, these folks are in person. You're going to start that way, but that doesn't mean you need to be so rigid that you don't move to something later on after they've done the thing, proven the thing out, gotten the systems in place, understand what's going on to where maybe it's a one day, right? Or, hey, this person's a really good fit. They're doing their job and now
Doyle (:Alright!
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:summer's here and we only have daycare three out of four four days a week and somebody's got to be home on Friday cool sure but you got to earn that right to do that
Doyle (:Right.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm. Right. Okay.
Brad Herda (:And when you earn that right, then you have that flexibility to do so. When we treat people like humans, not just set the expectation that it's going to be a three, you know, Monday, Monday, remote Monday, Monday, remote Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in Friday remote.
Doyle (:Right. So rigid that.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:However, I am seeing a lot of engineering organizations that are kind of going engineering IT that are trying to go that path of three days in two days remote type scenario just to kind of get that hybrid. But they struggle because they don't have their. They've not been able to prioritize their processes and sequences to define when things are emergency and when things are. we should everybody here in the office to take care of this. Well, that's not what you've asked everybody to do.
Doyle (:you
Doyle (:Exactly. There's no decision matrix. No decision matrix, no decision hierarchy, no, none of that. No expectations.
Brad Herda (:but we got it.
Brad Herda (:Right, we gotta get everybody in here on Monday, because we gotta discuss this all. What's wrong with Tuesday when everybody is going to be here? Well, we gotta get it done. The customers, are you sure? Did you set the expectation with the customer to say this is what our communicate? This is what's going to take us to get this done? Why?
Doyle (:Do you?
Doyle (:Mm hmm. Well, even so, why? Why does everybody need to be in the office for this? So they can see you pounding your fist on the table, shaking your rattle like I don't understand why.
Brad Herda (:Well, and set ground rules for what your remote meetings are like, right? I had clients where we would have meetings on a regular basis, get everybody on their teams or Zoom or whatever. And 85 % of the cameras, 90 % of the cameras are off. I'm like, no. If we're having a meeting, we're having a meeting. You're gonna turn your fucking camera.
Doyle (:Yeah, great.
Doyle (:This isn't a podcast meeting. Not our best effort. That's good stuff.
Brad Herda (:Not our best effort.
Brad Herda (:So out of the two previous 199 episodes, are there any moments that stand out in your brain, small but active brain as you go through here today, sitting around going, yeah, that guy, that lady, that thing, that whatever, that conversation, because you're not going to remember the names of the people or the dates or anything like that. But is there anything that's, is there anything that
Doyle (:god.
Doyle (:I'm not gonna remember
Brad Herda (:But are there any moments, right? Are there any things, are there any pre-show conversations that stand out to you or connections?
Doyle (:Wow, you put me right on the spot and I am not. You did is you wanted to be the a hole in the room you wanted to put you definitely put the eye right in your team. Man. Yeah, I don't.
Brad Herda (:I did, because I wanted to be an asshole right now, so.
Correct.
Correct.
Doyle (:That's the hard one. I don't remember.
Brad Herda (:Not even, not, not, no regrets, not even a letter. I mean, come on.
Doyle (:I-I-You're ha-
Brad Herda (:No conversation stands out. No opportunity.
Doyle (:I you're asking point blank somebody that has an excellent short term memory. It's about the it's about the length of a frickin match. Like it's gone. I do I'm looking I'm looking and I'm trying to read that. Like what did we talk about? Like I remember laughing about coming up with some of the names for the show.
Brad Herda (:Right. This is the reason why I asked you to pull the shit up on your screen ahead of time.
Brad Herda (:Perfect! Go with that! Go with that then! This isn't that hard!
Doyle (:Like I'm just looking at like who's sucking now with DT like that was hilarious when we came up with it. mean, DT show was pretty was pretty legit. So it was.
Brad Herda (:Right. What else would you do for a guy that does, you know, grease traps for a living, starting out of the back of a truck to make money crossing borders, to move grease out the West coast.
Doyle (:Grease traps. Right. I mean that.
Doyle (:Right. mean, those are those are always good.
Doyle (:I
Brad Herda (:You are, you are the best color man in baseball, Steve. For those that watch major league, you'll understand that reference.
Doyle (:I yeah. You will totally understand.
Brad Herda (:as baseball has sprung, have past opening day here on this day, so that's good.
Doyle (:Yeah. opening day. What's that? baseball. What's that?
Brad Herda (:It's this thing that they do in baseball.
Brad Herda (:It's a game they play with a stick and a ball.
Doyle (:all right. All right. So what sticks out in your mind, Because clearly, clearly my mind is full of empty space.
Brad Herda (:Well, we're aware of that.
It's just the thing like James Hatfield from Live Switch that still stands out as one of the most like such a cool product, such a cool opportunity and just a cool dude, right? Part of the original Hatfields and McCoys. Precious Williams has been able to go to a couple of conferences and have her as keynote for things. She was fantastic. She keeps out there killing it.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm. Precious. That was awesome.
Brad Herda (:There's just been so many things over the last year. Frank Manning, know, from the shipyard, former Wisconsin guy that happens to be out on the West Coast now building ships. He got his promotion shortly after our show or right around our show. Correlation or causation, I'm not sure, but...
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:bright.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:There's just a ton, a ton of people that come through with all their different pieces, all their different opportunities that I think we continue to give our audience a variety. And it's not just the same message over and over and over and over again through all the things. And, you know, if I were to try to use AI, if I were to put all those transcripts into something and just say, Hey, what's been the common theme, it be interesting see what it would come up with.
Doyle (:Right.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:and how it would say here are all these hundred and thirty three people plus our own pontifications of stupidity, etc. What are the top three themes that have that have come out of it? I was talking about you, not me, just so you know.
Doyle (:Mmm.
Doyle (:No. Glad we clarified. Glad we clarified there. But did we?
Brad Herda (:I mean, I got comments back on the OnlyFans for engineers, right?
Doyle (:I got that one. I got it. got phone calls on that one. People Yeah, people laughing like, dude, that was fire. That was that was good.
Brad Herda (:Really?
Brad Herda (:but it's just going through that and having fun and still that we're able to get people to come through, you know, this week or the week that we're recording here in the February, you know, with NUSH and the Scissorhood of Trades and just the impact that they're having is in their own community and what's happening.
Doyle (:Right.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:you know, it's just been it's just been interesting to connect all these people and put everything together and Bryce. So here's something you don't know about this yet, but it came up. It came up from Joe K from Chasing Checks Sucks, episode 190. He and I had a conversation post episode. He called me looking for some conversation on the product and stuff that they're doing.
Doyle (:Right.
Doyle (:Perfect.
Doyle (:Yeah, chasing checks does suck. Yep.
Brad Herda (:And then he talked about a, if you were to do a blue collar BS trade show type scenario.
So I'm like, huh. So then this past week with Bryce Harmon show him and Jessica Hallahan, former guest in episode 189, they got together somehow because they were playing off of our social media stuff. They got together, started saying, hey, this was a really cool conversation. I said,
Doyle (:Okay.
Doyle (:Yep.
Doyle (:Yep.
Brad Herda (:What if the blue collar BS had in real life events somewhere? And they're like, sign me up. And if there's golf 100 %
Doyle (:Ooh.
Doyle (:well, I would be the guy with the launcher, not golf clubs.
Brad Herda (:That's fine. That's fine. You can go on the brewery tour. We can maybe have multiple events going on.
Doyle (:We might have a couple things. You know what? Stay tuned. Let's do it. Yes and. We just went to improv. Yes and.
Brad Herda (:We might be able to... So...
Brad Herda (:All right, so blue collar BS in real life.
Doyle (:where why wouldn't it be in real life?
Brad Herda (:It's usually just audio and fake. It's not like in person, face to face, know, handshakes, babies, know, different things, right? Whatever.
Doyle (:Audio Infra.
FTF. FTF. Alright, let's go. Yes, and F face to face. FTF. Yeah, face to face. Let's go.
Brad Herda (:What's FTF? What's FTF? that's a new one.
wasn't sure if that had some other meaning. don't get to, I don't, I don't get the urban dictionary much, so I don't know. Should we get your daughter? Let's find us, her in, get Kaylee in here see what she knows.
Doyle (:I've you know, it probably does. It probably does, but.
Doyle (:I mean
Brad Herda (:Actually, it's not your oldest daughter that's going to be the one that knows it's going to be your youngest daughter.
Doyle (:Yeah, it's gonna be the quiet one that knows. It's gonna be the quiet one.
Brad Herda (:Alright, so here are episode 200 and we're going to go with an in real in real life blue collar BS opportunity here sometime. Ideally, it'd be great to get it here yet in 2025, not 2025, in 2026 wrong year. Um? Some place here in the Midwest.
Doyle (:To what? Yeah, let's go.
Doyle (:Yep.
Brad Herda (:either Detroit or Milwaukee.
Doyle (:or in between.
Brad Herda (:we could go to the new home of the Chicago Bears in Hammond, Indiana. The home of the Hammond Bears.
Doyle (:Yeah, Indiana bears. The Hammond bears, the Indiana bears. That sounds like a great beer. Hammond beer. It's like ham beer.
Brad Herda (:No, there isn't. It's hams. It already exists. There's a... same thing.
Doyle (:Same thing. Same thing. So I'm probably going to taste the same.
Brad Herda (:But I think we could do some stuff. So yes. So Joe has some ideas for us. He's willing to support us. I'm building that out, which is where it came from. just need to find a couple venues, a couple places to hold things.
Doyle (:All right.
Doyle (:So let's stay tuned, let's figure this out.
Brad Herda (:So hey listeners, if you have any ideas or any thoughts or what you'd want to see, put it in the comments. Let us know. We're... Jesus Christ. Again, episode 200, not our best effort.
Doyle (:Yeah?
Doyle (:Drop it like it's hot, let's go.
Doyle (:You
Let's go. All right, sir.
Brad Herda (:All right, well, here's episode 200. We're done with 200 this April 10th, 2026, a major milestone. We've had some great guests, some great things. We even got more exciting guests coming out through 2026. If you look ahead into July, end of July of Jamar, that show was phenomenal. That's going to be a long episode because we just went a while, but we got things we can do here.
Doyle (:Yep.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Doyle (:Mm-hmm.
Brad Herda (:in 2026.
BlueCow RBS in real life. We got to figure it out.
Doyle (:There we go. All right, let's go.
Brad Herda (:Alrighty, Have a great rest of your day and enjoy your weekend. All right. Thanks.
Doyle (:Yeah, you as well.
