Truck Stop CD - SNL
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2022
- A truck driver (Aidy Bryant) shows off a collection of hits by her favorite truck-driving singer, Johnny Goblin (Jake Gyllenhaal).
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#SNL #Jake Gyllenhaal #CamilaCabello #SNL47 - Komedie
It's incredible just how many songs Jake managed to get in one episode.
What else would you expect from Mr. Music? czcams.com/video/ddNNN80A_7Y/video.html
I know its almost like it was written for him, by someone else.
@@buckiesmalls sassy. Miss that magazine.
@@soundpilatesandyoga8531 Okay. Still was not funny.
ikr? So many sketches he is singing,
i'm laughing a stupid amount at 'truck you you truckin' truck'.
😊I say truckin' it up sure beats the hell out of unemployment!😊
Ghost trucker did it for me
CDs are for real amazing for road trippers. The constant struggle to stream music in bad service areas or find radio stations in the middle of nowhere makes a several-hours-long trip draaaagggg
Yep! Also good for those who live in rural/semi-rural areas with spotty cell service.
I can borrow a CD from a friend, or buy it, rip it into MP3 on my PC, then load it onto my phone and I always have my collection of many thousands of MP3's for road trips, cell service holes, or if my streaming stations are not playing anything good.
Another good one is a Bluetooth to FM adapter for cig lighter/power port in your vehicle.
You connect your phone to the adapter via BT, and it then broadcasts the signal on a FM station of your choice. You tune your car radio into said FM station and then play your phone music (be it MP3's or streaming) through your car speakers, for those with good sound systems.
The adapter I have lets you play your music through BT, or a 3.5mm jack, or even through a USB port. It has controls to play/pause and skip forward and back so you can play/pause/skip songs without touching your phone. It even has a mic and phone controls to also serve as a car speakerphone, and 2 USB charging ports for charging. It's fantastic! I paid all of $10 for it.
We can't all have the latest and greatest toys, so it's good to know ways to adapt!
Jake’s face at realizing he picked up El Chapo is hilarious.😂
I also love Kyle and Ego sneaking past Aidy at the end, like “Hurry before she tells us more about these CDs.”😆
who is el chapo i don't get the joke
@@peacockfeathers7409 He’s a drug lord who if I’m not mistaken has broken out of prison a few times.
As a truck driver and raised in a trucking family, this is absolutely hilarious.
😂 cause its true 😂😂😂😂😂
It's a nice liberal dig against the freedom convoy.
Yes same here
As a cashier at a gas station I also think this is hilarious.
As a stranger on the internet I also think it's hilarious! Lol 😂
This was the perfect type of sketch to end the episode. They don't do a lot of these sketches anymore singing and with the album commercial - usually Will Forte was a master of these. It's a credit to Jake he handles the role nearly as well. Cecily, Andrew and Melissa are great too. Glad to see Melissa finally get to have fun..
Melissa? There was no Melissa in this sketch. Perhaps you're confusing Melissa McCarthy with Aidy Bryant?
@@eponymousIme while I am also surprised Aidy wasn't mentioned, saying there is no Melissa in this sketch is incorrect.
@@eponymousIme it’s Melissa Villasenor she’s talking about. Melissa played El Chapo in this.
This was a great sketch and all of them did a great job. I agree, Will Forte had an energy that is difficult to match and his voice added added the silliness. This type of sketch can be so funny.
I think Melissa V. has had the chance to do some fun things but she deserves more opportunities. She's hilarious and she has a great singing voice. Aidy and Cecily have been a joy to watch on this show for many seasons. I enjoy most of their sketches. Cecily has great characters and Aidy makes this face that can take me from bored to not bored almost immediately. The newbies are funny, too... although Andrew didn't get much out of this sketch specifically.
Jake G's slightly demented look like he's took too many No Doze w/a Red Bull chaser was perfection👌
I'm not a trucker, but I'd definitely buy that CD!
Someone likes golden showers.
@@TheeSocialPariah
Oooh,
So.Edgy.
🙄
@@SUPERSPAZD did you not watch the video
Put Johnny Cash's "Everybody Loves a Nut!" on it, and I'll take one.
I'm a trucker, and peeing in a bottle is definitely part of the job. You can pull over in the middle of nowhere to pee, but you risk a ticket if a cop sees you. The first truck I had was a used international, and the smell when I got it was awful. It took 3 days of me cleaning it before I could live in it.
I can relate
Well, listen here, I'm a trucker man,
And part of my job is pissing in a can,
Cause sometimes there's just no way to stop
Without risking a ticket from a cop.
My first truck was a used international,
And the smell inside was really sensational,
And it took me the whole three days
Of cleaning before that smell's gone away.
And now you know why, for a trucker man,
Part of his job is pissing in a can.
@@Chentzilla that was great!
It funny, I started reading the first post as though it was a song 😂
In KY you're looking at a lot more that a ticket. You can end up on a list. A list that doesn't let you live near schools. TBH, I don't know how often this is enforced or leads to a conviction, but according to a person who does psy counseling in the KY prison system, it happened at least once. Drunk guy caught peeing in an alley near UK. I don't know the details of the case, but I suspect it was one of those righteous refusals to take a plea bargain, rolled the dice and now jail. now he's on a list. principles.
I've streight up taken a shit on the shoulder many times in these big sleeper trucks. Just change out the bag liner and tie it to the back catwalk to hit the trash later. I've always had to use those curtains
I want a full version of Ghost Trucker!
yes!! :)
The hot Cheetos line caught me so off guard💀💀💀
i think they may have a viral hit with this. dont be surprised....
Buy the CD!
I want el chapo!
Jake Gyllenhaal is always really solid even when it's absurd
I mean, he starred in Donie Darko
And bubble boy
As a trucker I can't stop laughing.
Glad you like it I was not sure how Truck Drivers would react EVERYTHING we use daily is delivered by a Truck Driver thank you very much for all the hard work you do. I am a Cattle Rancher I raise it and you guys haul it!!
Me too. Piss bottles and OTR life, go together like PB&J
well thats sad..
me niether
Are we not gonna acknowledge how Andrew seemed like he could've been a real country singer there for a second? Hard to judge with such a short amount of time but it seemed pretty promising.
Same with Cecily’s raspy croonin’
His voice is kind of weak, but he got the ornamentation of country singing down perfectly like the gasp and the overtone hiccup.
I love that Oasis, R.E.M, and The Beastie Boys we’re on the CD stand at the truck stop. 🤣
Also David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, for some reason
@@lencagle3704 Yeah that caught my eye too! The First Day is one of my favorite albums, huge props to the production designer who put it there haha!
I'd like to think the cast each got to choose a CD, and I would be best friends with whoever put up Hello Nasty...
And Tricky?
Aidy was hilarious, Truck You, You trucking Truck. The Jake Cecily really delivered the singing. His name’s El Chapo😂
Hilarious you say.. Really? "truck You, You trucking Truck" amazingly funny for 5 year olds.
@@buckiesmalls I’m 62 and found it to be pretty fu.**ing funny
Cecily always delivers
I'm a truck driver and I gotta admit this made me giggle.
teddy bear song...kid on the truck radio looking for a ride.... great song..
Can you confirm or deny wether or not pee flies back and hits you in the face if you pee out the window of a truck?
For science purposes obviously.
@@cdid8 😂
Much respect bro. You keep America running.
@@K.b.173-dog Thanks man!
This was nice to see after last Sunday night's "Last Week Tonight" episode where John talked about trucking and the crap they put up with.
Thank you to all the truckers all across the country, from long haulers to local, we would be nowhere without you!!
Nice to see? So after a report of what it's like to actually live like that and go through all that, it was nice to see a sketch make fun of and belittle an incredibly important industry?
@@jmreeves89 I think truckers will actually find this sketch funny. It’s just a light-hearted parody…
This trucker says you're welcome. And this skit was pretty funny.
Me too…. Watched John Oliver episode and honestly I am not surprised at the peeing …. People pee in bottles on long road trips …. But I was surprised as how little they get paid and the no pay for lag time is just awful…..
@@jmreeves89 You are OUTRAGED, I say!!
Ghost trucker is a banger
👻👻🎵🎼🎶
Lmao!!!! 🤣🤣
The screams at the end were perfect
And “The Hitchhiker” is a certified bop
Reminds me of Greatest Hits from Who's Line Is It Anyway. Definitely one of my favorite skits on that show!
Exactly. "Songs of the Trucker"
That's what I was thinking too!
*Whose
Who's = who is
Oh yesss where are Brad and Wayne!?
My dad is a truck driver and this sketch was hilarious in a very unexpected way. 10/10 sketch.
As a truck driver I would like to thank you guys for doing this, it was hilarious. I've done that Exact same thing I reached for my Arizona green tea and I realize that half of it Was not green tea And don't get me started about the time I was in Ontario Canada in a Blinding snowstorm , I agreed to stay at the facility which they had to lock me in and my guts started to Bubble, Let's just say it's nice to have extra extra trash bags and toilet paper🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's why you should always keep a bucket for just such an emergency.
Best I can do
_🎵Ghost Trucker!🎵_
_🎵Ghost Trucker!!🎵_
_🎵Ghost Trucker!!!🎵_
Aidy and Aidy's wolf shirt were both perfect.
You got to love Jake Gyllenhaal, he's really going for it
yeah he's doing really good lol
Going for what ?
Wtf are you talking about...
@@sticksnstonespatriot1728 no i think this person is talking about how his acting is really good
@@sticksnstonespatriot1728 i understand completely but first of all u didn't even correct the person. you just started getting mad without explaining. second of all, its not ur place to correct them anyway. sorry if i sound rude but i just feel like u could've kept those feelings to urself
Wasn't aware that Jake Gyllenhaal is the perfect casting for the Lemmy biopic
Melissa as El Chapo is hilarious
I laugh every time Aidy does that emphatic "YES!" in a sketch - reminds me of "Farrow and Ball!"
I still go back and watch that every few months. Epic.
Also in "New Paint" - Becks: "Are you drunk?" "YESS!!"
@@ivanabratos2893 Me and my cousins still quote that sketch to each other anytime we go out, one of the very best
@@matthewrobinson6872 Ha,ha, brilliant quote:-DI have yet to 'quote' her pronunciation of color and squalor!
@@ivanabratos2893 Yup - That's the sketch I was referring to lol (Farrow and Ball). One of the best!
I'm laying in my truck parked at the Loves in Columbia TN. Just woke up, another trucker friend sent me this. Clicked the link and almost peed myself laughing when they started singing about pissing in bottles. Got up and pissed in a bottle as I wasn't going to be able to get dressed and make it to the bathroom after that...
melissa's literally the best singer on the entire cast and she goes out of her way not to sing
whenever she does, she only sings in a silly voice
Cecily, by far. Far and away!
@@ronswansonsdog2833 and this ignorance is the result of what i wrote
I really don't think Melissa's deliberately trying not to showcase herself on the show; those decisions are not hers.
@@360.Tapestry i have heard her do such a spot on impression of dolly parton that my wife swore she was lip syncing. But point me towards some of her singing and I'll check it out
Also cecily is a pretty good singer as well, so melissa not showing her chops might make people think of cecily as the best
@@dcrenshaw42 she has a youtube channel at melissa villasenor. cecily has a good voice for a tv variety show, but melissa wouldn't be out of place if you heard her on the radio or on a movie soundtrack
truthfully, remember back in middle school being on a bus trips. pass a truck and we would all do the signal for the truckers to blow their horns. and it was always great when they did.
Melissa as El Chapo. LOL!!! One line and she kills it.
And not for the record, but I'd help El Chapo. You know how much street cred that'd earn you??? A lot!
"Help El Chaaaapo!!!"
Popular opinion: Melissa is underutilized
Unpopular opinion: Chapo is my second favorite in Florence ADX Supermax behind Ted Kaczynski
Your street cred would last about an hour and a half, then you'd be whacked for being a witness.
ill make a shirt that reads, in spanish "I helped el chapo" for when i travel in mexico. sure that will work.
you'd get to tell that story over and over and over again... to the fed
@@vdavis4785 well, I think if it was just me and a hitchhiking El Chapo and I helped him, he'd be thankful. Possibly even give ME an El Chapo "certified bump" like Truckin' Trucker got above.
andrew's singing voice is surprisinglt good!
That El Chapo part will be stuck in my head all day lol
Beastie Boys, Tricky, REM - that's one hip truck stop.
And David Sylvian!!!
I’m sure they just collected CDs from the SNL staff lol
Love's actually has a huge variety of CDs. No joke.
Joan Armatrading. David Sylvian & Robert Fripp's The First Day!
Actually stop at a Loves when you can. It's like a compressed Walmart. In one stop I've: taken a shower, eaten at McDonald's, bought some ratchet straps and, got a new set of blue tooth earbuds ... then spend $675 on fuel.
Aidy, you're a genius when you use that voice. Whether the writing is good or not.
True because this sketch fell flat.
Glad she has fans because all performers need them and to each his or her own but..not a fan of Aidy. I was at first but now that I see (in my opinion) she has basically one character in every sketch (wide eyed delivery Midwestern accented whatever); I don't find her nearly as talented as other cast members.
That’s the voice from the meat sketch. Remember the bit where she and Kate played the farmers on weekend update? That’s one of my favorites.
@@johndow7689 did we really need to know that?
@@AkinolaEmmanuel In all honesty, none of us need anything in these comments sections.
You had me at "My other car is a gun."
Being a truck driver. I find this highly hilarious 😂.
Being an over the road technician this hits home 😅
Thankyou for your service.
Over the road driver here. This is too accurate. LOL
This is pretty much spot on has a trucker myself!!😆
Same. Lol 😆 can't believe they showed a Loves at the beginning
Lmao that looks just like the truck stops I’ve been to when I would go with my dad.
Cheers to all truck drivers 🚛
lol 2:19 the Pink Hostess Snowballs are the most accurate truck stop items they could have used
Cecile’s delivery is always on point.
Hell Yeah!!
I love her on SNL, but I feel bad for her. The window is closing quickly. She's too old for best friend roles, doesn't have that leading lady quality, and none of her recurring characters are made to be spun off. She is like Victoria Jackson that way, or Jon Lovitz--talented comic, great sketch performer, but there isn't anyplace to go from here that has the same level of exposure/reach. :(
Been trucking 27 years. This is actually, fairly accurate. I laughed my butt off!
Love that they ended with Ghost Trucker. It's catchy and cute lol
Cecily’s hair!
Whoever picked the CD rack must really love music from 1997 and 1998.
Don't forget the books on tape and weird DVDs as well
That's mainly in all truck stops.
this whole episode of snl is honestly giving me so much respect for jake gyllenhall. So much better of an actor than I realized!
Jake is an amazing actor, I can name 3 movies of his you should see, "October Sky", "Nightcrawler" and "Prisoners". Watch just these 3 and you'll be hooked on how great he is. He has so many other great movies.
@@banzanbuddhist1451 omg ive heard of prisoners! ill watch that tonight!
He's the boy, timeless beauty man
agree!
How is nobody talking about how good Andrew Dismukes is at singing omg I didn’t know he had that ability
"Who still buys cds?"
Me, who collects cds and cassettes.
I have never bought a physical copy of music. I’m 23
I feel like these songs should have been about toddlers, spaceships, model T cars, and jars of beer
Then they should have had it on the Will Forte episode, whether it was actually on the episode or cut for time and uploaded on CZcams or Hulu the day after the episode aired.
Your feelings don't seem to know much about truckers then.
Teenaged girls, hunting knives, gloves of all types, and serial killing would've all been acceptable responses.
Your list gives more 'priest' vibes than 'trucker' vibes. :)
@@ingridfong-daley5899 It's a reference to another set of mock-country-music SNL sketches.
@@nyxshadowhawk Ha--no kidding? No wonder if felt so randomly specific to me--makes total sense now, thanks :)
I always love when cecily sings
As someone who just drove 2500 miles across the country, I can say that Love’s are the best and fanciest truck stops. You basically look for them. 🤣 And they have every damn thing imaginable. Including crazy fancy toilets and dog parks. Plus all the random stuff in the store.
Don't forget about the showers. They're clean and a good wake me up lol
Facts!
say cuh u ever fidin to see a buccees
I'd totally buy that CD. Truck yeah!
I'm a trucker and I approve of this message!!
Thank you for all the hard work you do!! 🏆
Thank you all
thats a 10-4!
I have nothing against it. I just think the writers could have done their research on today's type truckers. There are plenty of funny ass quirks and stupid shit they do.
Same!
The harmonies on El Chapo we're unironically beautiful
Used to work at a Love's truck stop a long time ago and there was this one guy that came in to fuel up on my shift about twice a week. One day he asks me to recommend a good rock cd that we sold because he knew almost nothing about rock, so I recommended Van Halen's Diver Down. I figured it was a good enough mix of heavy stuff and not-so-heavy stuff that it could please anyone. He came back a week later, told me he hated it and gave me the CD. I still have it.
For all you people that don't know...yes, loves is a real chain of truck stops.
Only people who drive across the country can appreciate the reference…
After reading a Reddit thread that they are awesome, clean places for anyone, I'm bummed I never stopped in one. I love truck stops. They are always so much fun and folks are super nice.
Love's Travel Stops are much more than truck stops. Clean bathrooms, and lots of food options for the whole family
I appreciate truck drivers, without them we starve, give out of fuel and cannot get normal everyday goods we need to live. They are like the blood cells of our societies. 😊
I appreciate that I’m a rookie driver bit believe truckers move America and are the true Santa claus
Thanks man
I am a trucker and absolutely LOVES this skit!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for your work, and good to know that you personally have the maturity and character to be able to laugh at yourself. To be able to see the funny in some of the things we all do.
John Oliver did a 30min segment on how poorly truckers are treated. Being forced to drive even in poor health without time to even pee is a real thing
Yep - it became an Amazon on wheels with all of the disadvantages (for many) of independent contractor status.
Just pee in those huge Pilot/Subway cups.
@@blast4me754 No. No. You learn which containers have the best lids. Gold Peak Tea bottles are almost crash-worthy and have wider opening. Gatorade medium have best combo of seal integrity, capacity, and a nice wide opening that makes it an easy target while driving safely. Those mega-cups with flex flimsy are terrible. Sudden braking. dang. pick it up too fast while half asleep...oops.
Beastie Boys "Hello Nasty"
I love that album.
HOW is Dismukes ALWAYS adorable?! I'm crushing so hard!
Are you 15?
@@valerie2827 Andrew Dismukes is 26 years old. No reason to think OP is 15. But if they are who cares.
As a longtime Midwesterner, I’m deeply offended! And laughing my a$$ off! Can’t tell you how many times I find urine bottles on the side of the highway!
FYI, this is four times Cecily got to sing this week!
This is one of the best episodes I’ve ever seen. He really commits to all the sketches and the writing is absurd.
Aaaaand now I have ghost trucker in my head.
I was one of those kids that wanted the truckers to blow their horns. And most of the time they did add a smile.
It makes my day when I can do it for them.
Melissa as El Chapo just made my day
It’s fantastic that the cd rack seems to be almost entirely truck-themed collection albums with just one copy of the Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty
I'm El Chapo and this is a certified bop.
A little disappointed that the only use of Melissa Villaseñor in a musical sketch was as a mostly silent Mexican man.
@@christophermanley3602 ESPECIALLY since she does that INCREDIBLE Dolly Parton impression!
The writers definitely watched John Oliver last week
There should be a sequel to this episode consisting of an inner city 7/11 gas station CD collection of Rideshare Driver songs, also heavy on pee reservoir references.
A possible third sequel could be a collaboration between Jake Gyllenhaal and the Rideshare Driver.
That's actually a pretty good CD selection. Tricky, Beastie Boys and that Robert Fripp & Davil Sylvian album is one of my favourites.
Right? I'm like, oh wait, there's HELLO NASTY....
The First Day is a masterpiece, I was so happy to see that there lol
I live in Oklahoma and there is a Love’s station right when the highway turns onto I-40.
Meeee too!
Down here in Ada, I was just thinking about that very store .
@@momotaro37lol I’m in Seminole. Pretty sure we’re thinking of the same place
So many certified trucker bangers
As a trucker I approve of the accuracy of this skit most especially don't go forgetting.
Melissa cracking up when Aidy sneaks in front of the truck 💓
I’m a truck driver and owner/operator. Thank you for this. 🙂
Thanks for what you do.
Aidy eerily resembles Large Marge in this skit
😳😱🤣
This feels like a Will Forte sketch in the best possible way!!!
The singers have very nice voice and sung those songs very professionally.
It's either the weed or the comedy is just on point tonight! I'm giggling over here
It's the weed.
Its definitely the weed.
I stopped by LOVE's truck stop and they were all sold out of "Truck You, You Truckin Truck". I was disappointed.
Haha, that looks like my buddy Benny Zapata, he moved from LA to Tucson, bought a big house with a pool, and became a trucker for his family business. Man, that house he bought is five times bigger than what he could of got for the money in LA. And all his neighbors are truckers, Sheriff’s Deputies or college professors, how cool is that? And safe. Shoot, maybe we’ll go follow him there when I retire.
A trucker myself, I'm currently parked at a Loves right now. 🤣🤣 good to see us drivers getting some cred. (Sort of...)
People need to appreciate truckers for sure.
Thanks for your work. It's good to be able to laugh at ourselves every now and then, it keeps you grounded.
Jake has a good voice ngl
Writing was spot-on this episode, and Jake Gyllenhaal was a fantastic host ! LOL
"Truck You! You Trucking Truck!" . . . that was just priceless.
Aidy wearing the 3 wolf moon shirt is a great touch to this sketch
you can see andrew see himself on screen and quickly react to how ridiculous he looks at 1:43 xD
I love this so much
Looks like he and Cecily shared a moment there... super cute
Jake deserves a VMA award! Also a Grammy award for best performance! This is comedy GOLD!!
Breaker 19 anyone with their ears on! SNL Truckers round up! Lol 😂
I always like it when they show you the full set. Makes it even funnier.
I didn’t doubt him for a minute. Jake Slade every one of the roles he was in for this episode. Guests like him really make me appreciate SNL all the more these days
Did you mean “slayed”? lol
To those non Americans watching:
"My other car is a gun" isn't a joke. We ACTUALLY have people with bumper stickers like this.
Yes we are a primitive group.
Hahaha....yup thank God not only the police and government have them...or we would all really be slaves to whatever idiots happen to control congress! Look at Canada! Treats truckers like, well, the hired help. When here we remind them that THEY are hired by US.
This is hilarious! Love me some Bill Fries / CW McCall.
I grew up farming in Fairbury, Illinois and was over the moon when we bought an old Kenworth. Wrote what's below for my dad.
Dad would usually take just one of us to Gibson City. Central Soya was there, for our beans (or “soy”, if you will, and you shouldn’t), and a Cargill elevator, for our corn. I always liked hauling corn more, because after we would dump our corn we would go into the office, and in the office was Lyle the Crocodile. Lyle wore a Pioneer hat and a creased smile, and he always had blow pops. The Archer Oil man would bring us Sixlets, which were passable, but a Blow Pop was fine. Lyle embraced the Crocodile moniker, which made him a hero in my book. I’m sure my dad and him signed some papers or did some business, but it was all child’s play compared to my six-year old self receiving that Blow Pop.
Afterwards, I’d climb back into the cabover Kenworth and we’d deadhead home, “a long arduous, tempestuous journey”, as dad would say. I’d lay down in the sleeper, where there was a TV ledge in the corner. It was empty, but I would imagine the luxury. A TV? We didn’t have one at home, much less in a vehicle? Man. I knew that ledge was a relic of an earlier period in the truck’s life. I’d heard the legends. I was there when we bought it, eating clam chowder at a diner while, again, the adults ostensibly talked business.
-------------------------------------------------
Dad and Uncle Dick bought the semi from family. Dad’s first cousins Jan and Allan were Nussbaums and as such sold a whole lot of trucks, mostly Kenworths. Being family, there were good times relived, backs slapped, and a general air of benevolence cultivated for a while before anything resembling a deal was discussed. I didn’t mind. I’d discovered clam chowder. There is nothing like a five-year old discovering an iconic seafood dish at a diner in landlocked Normal, Illinois. All creamy and chewy and weird, with actual oyster crackers instead of crunched-up saltines like we’d have at home. What were oyster crackers, anyway? Was that part of the oceanic mystique? Crackers made from oysters to go in your chowder made from clams? I was hooked. It’s still my favorite. Meanwhile, the deal was going well. I eventually sensed it was over and that now relieved, unneeded niceties were being exchanged. I decided to end the awkwardness for the adults. I wiped my mouth, pushed back my chair, looked the men in the eyes, and said: “Let’s blow this popsicle stand.”
The deal was done.
We bobtailed back to the farm, and somewhere along the way I learned a couple things. First, our silver-and-blue monster had a former life hauling logs over the Rocky Mountains. Or salsa to Tulsa or something. Whatever it was, CW McCall would have been proud. Second, it had 400 horses, which were now put out to pasture with our easy 45-minute grain hauls across flat-as-a-pancake Central Illinois. That term was used at some point: “400 horses”. I logically understood horsepower to mean 400 tiny Cummins Clydesdales on a treadmill in the engine. The image is indelible even in my adult mind, so that whenever someone mentions horsepower, I have to manually correct the image of those tiny horses on a treadmill. We hauled grain for about three years in that semi, before we got out of farming. It was long enough for me to become a lifelong Kenworth fan, I’ll tell you that much. Don’t even come at me espousing any virtues of a Peterbilt, or an Intertrashional. I’ll jake brake forever in a Kenworth in my dreams.
aidy's classic "EEyyeesssss" is a pure treasure lol
Jake managed to get a lot of songs in one episode
I didn't realize truck stops had that eclectic and cool of a CD collection. They had me at Hello Nasty. 😊💙🖤✨
I bought two trucker cassette tapes at a car wash in the 80s still have 'em "Teddy Bear"
Great - now I'm singing 'Ghost Trucker' all day
Aidy's hair/ outfit is spot on.
The songs and delivery was so funny! But Aidy was bloody hilarious! 😂😂
Melissa as El Chapo omg 😂😂😂😂 laughed so hard
So true!!😂 Truck stops really look like that!