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You just put duct tape. But anyways, guys, on
today's episode, we have a wonderful guest, a
good old friend of mine. He and I used to work
in the old... Another Home Depot survivor. Yeah,
the Orange Box. We don't use the word Home Depot.
That's a naughty word in this podcast. I don't
like it. We don't get sponsored by them. But
anyways, yeah, the Orange Box. Good friend of
mine. He's trying to get a club together, dude.
Yes. Trying to get a club together for the RGV.
A very specific kind of club. Yeah. Boyfriend
club. No, I'm joking. No. He's actually trying
to get a John Deere club running here in the
RGV. So we're about to introduce him. Ladies
and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce Mr. Alex
Sauceda to the podcast, aka buddy, aka she thinks
my tractor's sexy. Homeboy. What's going on,
Alex? Good. Good to see you. Good to meet your
buddy here. It's an honor to be here. I apologize
for you meeting him for the first time. He's
a bad impression the first time. So let's take
a journey back, Alex. Tell us a little bit about
yourself, where you grew up, and how we get into
the concept of trying to start a John Deere club,
man. I was born here in McCamlin, Texas. At the
age of three years old, my parents moved up to
the state of Michigan. My dad worked for GM,
the car company, for 40 years. He was a foreman.
He had about 80 to 100 people underneath him.
There you go. And as I was going to high school,
I started doing construction. I started working
for a brick mason and later on after a year with
him I took off with the Italian guy to learn
how to do ceramic tile and I've been doing it
ever since. That's awesome, man. Nice. And I
know, like I said before, we do know each other
for working at Home Depot back in the day. I'm
sorry, the dirty word. The orange box. We owe
them three grand already just for saying the
damn name. Anyways, we're not wearing orange,
are we? But I met Alex when working there, when
I started working there, big time construction
guy, man. He knows it all from tile to carpentry
and all that good stuff. The last impression
was when I had to give him a ride home because
his vehicle wasn't working or something was wrong
with the vehicle. And I drove him home and then
he goes, dude, you gotta come check this out.
I'm like, all right. And he showed me a John
Deere. I think it was a John Deere you had at
the back of the house at the time? Yes. It's
still there. It's still there. It hasn't moved.
Eventually I'm going to get to it. Right. And
then I know you took me inside your house and
you started showing me a little bit of your little
collection you had, you know, slowly what you
were building up. So now with the years gone
through, you've decided to go ahead and start
your own club of John Deere. What made you want
to go into that? It's because up there in Michigan,
it's a big... Deal over there that they have
tractor poles. They have John Deere. Well, it's
not just John Deere They have every color that
you can think of but it's it's a big Event that
they have on a Friday Saturday and Sunday. Oh,
there's a lot of people that go to that and I
think it would be kind of cool to bring that
down here and Maybe eventually Branch off to
heaven like tractor pulls, you know what I mean?
And I mean, all the young kids, all the, well,
10 -year -olds, 12 -years -olds, even the teenagers,
they kind of get into that. That is something
kind of cool to see, you know? Its competition
is what it is. I think it's a real good deal
that it happens. I mean, people are into that.
For those of you who don't know what tractor
pulls are, they're essentially a mix between
like a livestock show and a monster truck. You
just have a tractor. It can be like a regular
tractor, but it's more often than not a souped
up tractor. And you just put them head to head
in a pulling competition. That what you said
is more modified, but sometimes they also have
stock. tractors where they get built. They take
them back to the barn, they soup them up a little
bit. They're trying to get... more power, more
horsepower out of that John Deere, so and that's
where they entered those things. What you got
in there? I got a Hemi. What the fuck? A Hemi?
Oh man, I finished my fuel in 20 minutes. I got
an LSX motor in there. I got a Corvette motor
in there. That's pretty much what it is. Well,
one time when I was up north, I remember somebody
had put They took the old John Deere block, I
don't know. I know that those things sell out
too. So it's a nice little mix of both of them.
You got tractors bowing out to the death. Well,
you know, if we can get this John Deere club
started and let's get with the program, there's
a chance that we could go to the livestock show
and have our own section. Just John Deere, you
know what I mean? Yeah, and I mean, I think there's
potentially room there I mean they have everything
else going on from Tejano music to crafts To
they also have their own club too. But yeah,
you know specifically John Deere would be kind
of cool to have and I mean Listen for sure. I
will let you know. I like all the tractors. I
like farm all I like Alice Chandler. Yeah, I
like case but My favorite would probably be John
Deere. The history of the John Deere tractor,
it's like no other. It's a cool piece of machinery.
Just to think guys, back in the day when they
were using horses and plows back in the day,
they discovered a tractor. Somebody made a tractor
and look what we have now. It's a big deal. I'd
rather be on a tractor than a horse, I think,
trying to get that horse to plow the field. Yeah,
I've never heard of a tractor having a bad day.
No, not at all. Yeah, no kidding. No, I agree
with you what you said earlier. John Deere definitely
has that, like... Cut an edge. Well, I don't
know if it's a cutting edge. I was referring
more to the distinction of being one of the older
John Deere. It's more well known. Everybody knows
big green tractor is a John Deere. You can spot
it a mile away. Yes, you can. And the old tractors
back in the time when John Deere started, they
had a certain motor sound. It was... It almost
sounds like a Harley -Davidson to a sense. But
the John Deere, it's almost the same thing. It's
kind of a putt, putt, putt. Sounds like it's
going to stall out, but it doesn't. It keeps
going. It keeps going. I mean, that's the beauty
of those old machines, you know. Guys and just
in case you guys are watching the the camera
just went on anybody reassembled it is when you're
trying to run on a hotspot broke So I had to
fix it up a little bit, but we're good. We're
good We're still going here and you're talking
to Alex here, but so as far as I know you still
have you still working on that John Deere in
the backyard No, no actually As soon as I get
ready to put a garage Well, not totally a garage
but a slab of cement and then somewhat fix up
the walls Just to block the wind when you get
ready to paint a tractor if you want it as still
as you can So there's nothing moving especially
when you're getting that paint on there right
right now I what right now what I have that that's
a good running tractors So a 1959 430 And it's
it's called a 430 high boy. It's not like a standard
It sets up a little bit taller and then the other
track that I got they didn't make that many of
them They only made like four thousand and six
hundred. It's a spin -off of the 430 which is
a 435. It's the same rear end but The back part
is over 430 the only thing is a lot of guys a
lot of John Deere fanatics out there they would
probably say that it's not really a truly a John
Deere because back in that time John Deere got
with General Motors to put a 435 it's it's got
a diesel two -cylinder motor in it so it's made
by General Motors so it's a little different
it's a little different but But it runs, you
know, it's a good running tractor without a pony
motor. Oh, man Yeah, this thing it goes. It's
a diesel so they're a little bit more They're
a little bit more stronger. They're a little
bit more powerful, I'd say. If you guys are tuning
in, we're talking about a John Deere club that
my buddy here, Alex, is trying to put together
here in the RGB. You guys are interested. Look
them up. You're on Facebook, right? I am on Facebook.
On Facebook on Alex Salceda. Yeah. Hit them up,
man, if you want, so you can try to figure out
where the meet and greets are going to be, where
you guys can sign up, and all that good stuff.
Well, let me share this with you, Mark. We have
a meeting. It's gonna happen March the 22nd off
where road where the Convention Center is in
West Side Park or some people probably know it
as Ramiro Guerra Park and We're trying to get
as many people I Would love to have people that
have old tractors that are John Deere to come
out and participate. I think pretty cool Something
different for the valley North what they would
do is If there was a parade going on, well, guess
what? It was no big thing to have 20 old John
Deere tractors Going with the parade and I mean
that would be kind of cool We could go anywhere
with us. I mean you could go from Brownsville.
You could go to the island You can go to Roma
to Rio Grande It doesn't matter where right right
mission when they had their orange. I guess the
citrus fest the citrus fest. Yeah, so I mean
That's something that I think the valley needs
is something like a club like that. I miss stuff
up north, but I'd like to see that happen down
here if we could get, well, you know, just, I
know it's gonna start off small, and I understand
that, but down the road, I mean, I would love,
there's a lot of things I have on my mind that
I would love to see these old tractors do, I
mean. What pulls your attention to, I mean, as
far as, because I know you're like really dedicated
to John Deere. It's part of your life. I mean,
what connects you to that? It's like your partner
said it's... Oh, now we're partners. You're making
dinner here. Everybody knows what a John Deere
tractor is. You can spot it a mile away. But
back in the day, it had a unique sound, you know?
They were known for that sound. It's a dying
thing. Back in the day, when my dad actually
went to school at Mack High, and I used to ask
him, when I started getting to the John Deere
stuff, I said, Dad, what happened to the old
John Deere tractors from McAllen? Because it
was all orange grove. Everything was all citrus.
I mean, the citrus is still here, but not as
strong as it used to be in the 50s, probably
the 40s, probably the 60s and early 70s. But
it's changed because now everything's growing.
McAllen's growing. And we're losing farmland.
And not only that, it's... we're losing our citrus
trees as well. It's a shame. The whole valley
is a citrus belt. It's a beautiful thing. Not
everybody has this. I think being born down here,
it was an honor to come out of the city of McAllen.
Well, it was an honor to grow up in Flint, Michigan,
where I grew up at. I enjoyed up north. It's
cool. Winners are winners. You'll never get away
from them because it goes from November. It goes
year round. It goes for about six months. November,
December, January, February, March. Really? That's
interesting because summers last. It's a long
time. It's a long time. Yeah. I say if you want
to go see the Four Seasons come to the Valley,
you get them early in the morning all the way
to the night, bro. Jesus. So. Being that, I mean,
you're talking about the John Deere itself, but
it really connects you more to your dad, as far
as - No, I just - Is it something like an aspect
of it? I guess I look at it like, up north they
have tractors, I just can't imagine, I mean,
I see some here in the valley, I've seen a few,
but not like up north. Right. But I mean, it's,
I don't know, I like the green and yellow, and
I like the company name, you know? Right. They
- They're still number one to me. They're out
there. There's a lot of tractors still out there.
In fact, I brought this one. Yeah, we're looking
at that right now. This is actually a 3020. It's
just the one that I have as a collection. Back
when my oldest son was born, I had a buddy of
mine that told me you should get a tractor collection
going for your son. Guess what? I bought him
a few and I thought, Man, I like them for me.
So guess what? Here's one of mine, you know?
And look, I mean, this is mine now. Right? Well,
watch this. I mean, who would have known? Look,
the tires turn when you turn the steering wheel.
It was made well. It's made in the USA. That's
the best thing, you know? America. Yeah, but
I have a lot of other toys that I have. Started
collecting gender stuff back in 1988 a little
bit at the end of 88. Yeah, but I Keep collecting
them certain ones Well, not all of them because
a lot of them are made in China and it's not
because I have anything against it But I just
think sometimes that the hurdle company should
have kept them here in the USA 2003 is when they
moved the whole company out there to China and
Also, they moved it to Mexico to get them made
there And it's cool, but nothing beats the only
United States. It's always a... USA brand. Yes,
yes. You know that it's always made well. Harley.
Harley. I'm sorry, yeah. I'm sorry, Harvey, but
yes. Yes, we'll never drive a Harley again. Not
that I had one, but I'll never drive one. I think
Harley's okay with you never driving it. That's
fine. I'll take an Indian over a Harley any day.
But you know, I'll say this, this much. What
kid doesn't want to get on a tractor? You know
what I mean? That's true. No, you're right. You're
right. And up north, I'm going to tell you something
else. During the fall, they have hay wagon rides.
What's pulling that hay wagon? An old John Deere.
An old John Deere. Or it could be an old farm
hog, but it could be any tractor. But that's
what you see up north. And then the other thing
is, it's like I said, what kid won't ride an
old tractor? I mean, once you get on it, it's
like you're... It's like, it's cool, you know?
But the other thing is, when you go look for
old Christmas, or when you go to buy a Christmas
tree up there, sometimes they give you a ride
in the wagon. I mean, it's in the cold, it is.
So you get bundled up, you get on, they have
what he called straw laying around. You can basically
sit on there and then, yeah, hay bale, and then
you can get and... sit down enjoy the ride once
you get back in to pay for your christmas tree
that's when they they give you a hot chocolate
just to enjoy it so yeah thank you for spending
200 dollars the water costed a bunch right where'd
you get the water from It's snowing? It's snowing?
What do you think you came from, you idiot? Make
sense, make sense. Why is mine yellow? Never
mind, just drink it, it's lemonade. Out of your
collection, Alex, the last time I saw your collection,
yeah, quite a bit. I don't know, from the time
that I went... The real tractors are the toys.
Right. Both. Well, actually, I'm talking about
the toys. I'm talking about the toys itself,
the models you have. Yeah, I mean... What would
you say is like one of your most prized possessions?
Oh man, you know... You can't see your children.
No. Through all my kids. Let me tell you guys,
back in the day when I was growing up in Michigan,
I remember Tonka was also a big name. Right.
Well, my parents... bought me I'm gonna say it
was probably 1973 something like that I have
a blue dump truck that's made by the Tonka company
and you could find them on the internet you know
you could Google it they'll show you what it's
about and you know it's got a little side thing
The back box lifts up because the hydraulic is
lifting it up, you know, right but uh with the
john deer man, I would They had a 75 20 john
deer toy Probably back in the day. It it could
have ran 20 bucks now You'll be lucky to pay
about 350 dollars. Yeah. Wow. I have listen I
have about five of them and I He's donating one
to the podcast. Yeah! Well, let me share this
with you. Let me share this with you. I tried
to hunt him down at a good price. So I know,
I know what's, it's like one of these things.
I'm going to say, eh, it's a little too steep
right now. I think probably the lowest I would
go is about 200, 200 and a half. But I have paid
$150 for one, you know, for a few of them. That's
how I look for them. But those, I started restoring
one, but I've actually needed work on the rim.
But the paint job, I've already repainted one.
And when I get it together, I'll bring it so
I could show you guys. But it's a big toy. It's
a big toy. I mean, we'd love for you to send
us a picture and we'll post it on our web page.
Yeah, I can do that. It's going to take a little
bit. Right now, I've had to, what I did is I
painted the rims, the back rims, because they're
metal. And then I also clear coat it like a car,
you know So what I'm gonna do is actually sand
it down and see if I can get a chemical to To
get it back down and give because when I sprayed
the over spray it bubbled up I'm kind of a perfectionist
when I do stuff, so I like the ceramic tile when
I lay tile. I can't help it, it's just in my
jeans. I've seen the stuff he's done, man. As
far as construction work, it's freaking amazing,
man. He's done projects where he goes, I'm working
with him in the orange box, and he would tell
me, check this out, check this out, what's up?
And he starts showing me, I'm like, oh, that's
part of a park? Yeah, check it out, check it
out. We did this, we did this, and we did. Oh,
cool, man. Who helped you? Nobody. I'm like,
what do you mean nobody? Nah, did it by myself.
You did that whole section, the whole section,
did the cuts, did this, did that, and like, sweet
Jesus. Wow. It's just, you know, it's just something
fun to do, and I mean, I don't know, I just,
in a sense, I guess it's a passion that you have
inside when you do it. And it's the same kind
of passion I have for the John Deere. I like
it, it's... My kid my oldest son likes it too
as well. Okay, I think I'm a little bit more
into it because you know, I didn't grow I mean
I grew up Not really having these but now that
I Started collecting them. Yeah, my parents didn't
buy me. But how much do you have? How many do
you have? There's guys out there that probably
have a close to three four maybe a thousand but
their whole room is like shelves Right. I probably
have about a hundred, yeah, you know. Modest.
Modest connection. But, you know, it's like I
said, I try to buy a maid in the USA if I can
do it, if I can. Right. You know, and I mean,
it's a cool toy. I really like it, you know.
You know, I can't help but think to myself that
maybe your son would be a little bit more into
it if you gave him some of that. You know, I'm
glad you said that, but I will share this with
you. My grandson's got some. It's because I give
it to him. And your son goes, mine. This is mine
now? You know, what happened was I remember I
left some John Deere stuff with my mom when I
moved down here, and I thought, yeah, I'll just
leave it here. Well, eventually they confiscated
them. So who knows what they have and that's
okay. I'm good with it It's my son. So hopefully
he makes the right choices But some of these
toys back in the day they would I'll give an
example And it's like I'm gonna share with you.
I do have an international toy It was off of
a certain It was off of a certain run and it
was there was like six of these toys made but
the first one it was called the five millionth
tractor and it's a real tractor if you look it
up on google but when that started that toy was
like 45 to 50 bucks i mean some dealerships probably
sold it about 55 dollars well then made it to
the urdle museum and it skyrocketed like a hundred
and a half to two hundred dollars because it
went in the museum as in other words as as a
monument you know what i mean so i mean All they
can do is go up more in value as time goes. That's
all. But I do have a few John Deere tractors
that are like that. I have a 3010 back in 1994
when I bought it. And it's at a toy show that
I went to. And that, I think that's going for
a few hundred bucks anyways, you know. But it's
like I said, it's the rare T. There's not too
many especially that come in a box. The box also
makes the value of the tractor as well. But if
I didn't have the box, I'll take the tractor
as well. You know what I mean? It's good to have.
They go for that price because people are demanding
it too. There's a demand for that. Yeah, I mean
the other thing I do is I restore old pedal tractors
I have yes, I have pedal tractors that I've restored
I wish I could have brought one in here, but
I really don't have anything done But yes, I've
brought them I took it an old Picture once yeah
from the 1970s it was the first one that has
a yellow band in front of the the hood I restored
one of those for a friend of mine. I restored
two like that. Oh, they come out of Mackinac.
Man, I tell you what, it's beautiful. And it
just comes from back from the old junk yard and
you bring it back, it looks like it's brand new,
right? Rolling out the showroom. So it's kind
of cool. It's kind of cool to do that, to look
back at that and say, man, I can't believe that
I did that. Next thing you know, it's like, wow.
But I mean, that's it. There again, I'm very
passionate and doing that because I enjoy it.
I enjoy it so I've watched videos on YouTube
of people bringing these these old tractors back
to life and I Know it's I know it's you know
can seem like that But it seems like you know
with very little effort especially the diesel
motors you just put a little bit of work into
them You get them back up and running again real
good. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Now the other thing
is once There's a lot of ideas that I would love
to say but this I'll tell you one of the ideas
that I would like to do is if we can get this
John Deere club started I Would love to have
maybe once a year. I'll restore a pedal tractor
and basically In other words for the club, you
see what I mean? Right to let the club make money.
So in other words A club, you're always gonna
have people serving food. Well, it costs money.
All that costs money. Drinks, well, Cokes, Pepsi's,
water. If you decide to do hamburgers, well,
it's like I said, all costs money, but what I'd
like to do is eventually get a pedal tractor
and restore it and then, you know. raffle it
off. There you go. Just to help the club out,
but that would be something that would be kind
of cool to do, you know. Well, have you tried
reaching out to any of the John Deere, the John
Deere company, or like the John Deere store here
in Westlaco? I did, the one at Mission, but so
far, I mean, they never got back with me, but
it's okay. This beating that we got going on
the 22nd, I hope to get... I mean, I would love
to tell you that I'd like to get four maybe five
tractors out there I'm gonna I am gonna take
two out there my 430 and the 435 John Deere I
have another guy that's gonna bring one or maybe
two and if we can get People to go out there
and let this thing grow then I'm gonna say yes,
you know We have something to work with, you
know. That's what I'm trying to do. I don't want
to do it in the beat of the summer because it's
way too hot here. It's way too hot. I think I
would like our meetings to be like in October.
Somewhere in October, it could be between the
1st and the 20th or so. During the harvest season.
Not a bad time. Then it's like the livestock
show they got it going on this month as well
So in other words guess what if we could have
it I kind of figured maybe the 22nd might not
be a bad day so but hopefully people will come
out and maybe we can get some people to join
the club and even if they don't have a John Deere
well, I mean it'd be cool to have club members
and Well, they bought a tractor why not, you
know, yeah You can I mean you can never tell
anybody. Hey, you can't buy one I mean I bought
a few so yeah, the possibilities are endless
If you get like a like, you know a store to sponsor
it or something like a tractor supply something
like that I'm sure like bring vendors out there,
you know, actually sell the actual vehicle not
sell the actual vehicle, but something to do
with to do with the actual John Deere itself,
you know, go out there and try to sell the product
off of their store, even if it's a family -owned
business, just to go out there and do it also,
you know, take advantage of that, you know, that'd
be something pretty cool. Also, like, you know,
anybody that has, like, operates the, you know,
the cord maze, you know, they could have the
Hayrides, you know, have a classic John Deere
pole, you know, pull the wagon, you know, something
like that, yeah. There's a lot of things you
guys could do with having a John Deere club or
so, and it's like I said, I hope our... I just
hope it goes good. I'm hoping the best. You should
try reaching out to the John Deere clubs. The
northern part, northern part of Texas. The sad
thing about it, Texas is so big, it's a long
drive. Right. Well, they don't have to show up.
They wouldn't be cool if they brought a few down
here from up north. You know, San Antonio's not
too far, Corpus is not really that far, but...
Who knows how many people in that area would
have an old John Deere they would bring down
to show, you know? You never know. I mean, some
do do that though. Some people, I've seen them
when I was in Michigan. I've seen tractors from
Ohio and Indiana and Wisconsin and they show
up. Plus, we're ignoring a pretty big market
of John Deere, and that's Mexico too. John Deere
is very popular in Mexico. Anything reaching
out to any clubs that might exist in Mexico would
probably help out too. We're just trying to spread
the word on this. They only made 4 ,600 of that
tractor and they didn't run it for a full year.
They ran it for like six months, I'm thinking.
So the thing is John Deere took that tractor
besides Moline and they moved it to Monterrey,
Mexico to get made there. So would it be cool
to find an old tractor that's on there that says
John Deere, Mexico? Oh, I'd love to have one.
Yeah, our one that says Moline in Mexico But
Yeah, guys, I mean I'm just I'm trying to start
this and hopefully people respond I mean It'd
be great to have this thing grow and I mean there's
a lot of things like I said that I would love
to see happen here I don't really want to touch
on this, but I will mention maybe a museum Pretty
cool, you know, I mean the only museum that I
know is up north in Illinois and I mean here
It would be cool to have a museum John Deere
why? Because you have a lot of winter Texas that
come down to they would come to see this You
know, it's something for them to say wow look
at that, you know, but the other thing People
from Mexico la gente de Mexico wanna you got
and I mean it would be cool You know, I mean,
there's a lot of people that work agriculture
over there. I mean, yeah. And then our people
that are in the state of Texas, I mean, they
could come from Laredo, they could come from
Corpus, they could come from... San Antonio,
you know? I mean, it could be Dallas as well,
you know? Yeah, that's true. The point is that
there are a lot of John Deere fans everywhere,
especially in Texas. I'm sure that they wouldn't
mind coming together if they found out that there
was a show of some kind. I mean, I see something
like that. If we as a people here in the Valley
could ever put a museum up, it would run itself.
Listen, it would create jobs. Sure. And I mean,
that would be the awesome thing, you know? Yeah,
that's true. Yeah. Maybe they may let me work
there and maybe pass some water on. I don't know.
As I get older, I'm going to retire. Well, before
we go into that bashing walk, we got to give
a shout out to our... Come back here with Alex
Alex just real quick question. Do you have a
Facebook dedicated to the gender club but Think
what I'd like to do is see how many people react
to this and if so, then maybe we will do that
You know, I think I think it's a good idea. I
think you know bringing that up. I think it's
a real good idea Yeah, you know just just to
get the ball rolling Yeah, but just just to see
what's gonna happen the 22nd. It's like I said,
hopefully there'll be people to come out and
enjoy and I Would love to tell you I'd like to
have 10 characters, but we're starting so, you
know, we got to start somewhere Just feel that
it ain't gonna go and that's why I'm taking the
time and the effort to go out and do this now
what I've been doing I know I didn't share with
Mark or you but to San Benito and started putting
up, now it's kind of hard because not everybody
allows you to put a poster on it. It's really
hard. Listen, I tried going into like a Denner
General and I thought well there's a lot of people
that come through here. There's been a few, AutoZones,
O 'Reilly's has been pretty cool, some McCoys.
and I mean just go go to any freaking you light
post it just good old you know staple boom boom
there you go but and then run like the wind yeah
well it's been kind of hard it really is cuz
just print free on there yeah as long as they
say free it's for me But I went to San Benito
and I went mission and I've tried to get as much
as I can out there. And I've had a few call and
there's, you know, I've had a few people such
as how thank you Mark and thank you buddy for.
It sponsored on Facebook to get the get it out
and actually thank you guys for having me here
because it's an honor to be here I mean No, but
so you're putting those flyers out. So I mean,
it's hard. It's hard There's some people kind
of look at you and say no we don't do that and
It's something simple. It's something actually
innocent that we just it's a tractor club. Where
are you gonna go wrong with it? You know, yeah,
but I've been out to a few feed stores and I
had one guy from North McKellips said leave it
there and I had somebody else's mission on What
was it, Conway? Yeah, leave it there, you know,
and we'll see what happens. And all I can do
is see what happens. I've had a few respond,
and then there's some barbecue places, you put
them up there, maybe a few days later they'd
probably rip it down, but it's okay. I think
sometimes Facebook is actually good, and the
internet's awesome, so it's endless. Was your
boyfriend calling? Maybe. My girl business. What's
up, buddy? What are you going to say? It's my
brother. He wants to know where I am. Is today
your birthday, buddy? Yes, it is. Oh, my gosh.
Today is this ugly thing's birthday. Yes. It
is? You're lying. It's your brother's birthday.
No, it's my brother's. No, it's your birthday?
Oh, really? Are you kidding me? Are you serious?
Swear on your right leg. You can look. I would
never swear on my right leg, man. My right leg
is pressing too hard. Or happy birthday to you,
buddy. Why say something? I just said something,
dude. Jesus Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, this
is not only the John Deere episode. It's Chu's
birthday episode. Jesus Christ. Say something,
dude. I was kind of hoping to avoid this. No,
no, no, no. It's happening now. Alex, take off
your shirt. We're going hard. It's on now. Help
me with this. Show him your side job. Well, I
can tell you now he's got the right hat on. Alright.
You can leave your boots on. Happy birthday buddy.
How old? I don't know what I'm talking about.
Come on. I'm 46. Oh my God! I'm so young 41 You
can watch. No, happy birthday. Happy birthday.
First of all. Alex, I wanna take away your swa
here, but I'm gonna say happy birthday to my
buddy here. Thank you for being on the podcast
with us and with me each time you come on, man.
I appreciate everything you do every time you
come in here, man. And the judgmental things
you say to me, I love it too, because it corrects
me around my way, even though I hate your guts,
but I love you, buddy. You love it when it hurts.
Yes, it does. I love pain. You love the pain.
Be quiet Alex, don't say damn words. It's between
you two. Well, happy birthday, buddy. I'll make
sure to make a big old Like a screenshot that
perfect Yeah, man, but I know pretty flyers out
there it's tough man, you know in going to different
locations You don't want somebody to yell at
you to say hey, what are you doing? You can't
put those on here, you know You know you have
to be apologetic and say hey You don't mind if
I it's because we're trying to start a John Deere
Club, right? They're all for it, but it's it
has a challenge it really does I didn't have
a chance to go to Rio Grande or to Penitas and
to La Jolla and maybe to Roma because I would
love to go all the way from Roma all the way
to Brownsville. I got close to Brownsville. I
got to San Benito. There's a few areas that I
didn't put the fires at but For the first time,
I guess, let's just see what happens. And it's
like I said, the second time around is going
to be in October. So can I just go ahead and
send you a lot of mileage, dude, and just tell
you, put it on TikTok. Yeah, that's the best
way. Just put it on TikTok. That's probably going
to be something that I'm going to need help with
because. I'm not a TikToker. No, no, no. Just
get any eight -year -old walking by. There you
go. I mean, he's going to teach me something.
Exactly. Tell your grandson, he'll do it for
you. There you go. Yeah, yeah, you know. But
there again, you know, guys, going into an old
hardware store, I mean, I put it in McCoy's.
I had a phone call from a guy. Yeah, my buddy
seen the, what do you call it, sign. All of a
sudden, he called me up and he goes, hey, you
know, they're trying to try to, they want to
start a John Deere club. What do you think? He
sent him a picture of the flyer, I'd imagine.
And next thing you know, I get a phone call and
met a guy that has, you know, that he has, I
think, what, 36 years working for John Deere.
And his wife had 40 years. The sad thing is his
wife passed away a few weeks ago. So it's a shame.
But it was nice to hear from him, and I told
him, hey, hopefully we'll meet. The meeting's
going to be the 22nd. And that's like I said,
there's going to be all kinds of people, all
interested kind of people that are going to show
up, hopefully. Let's see what happens. That's
all I can say. Yeah, man. All power to you, man.
Hopefully it works out. Yeah, I hope it does
work. Something that, like I said, when you have
it all set up, set and done. I think you sent
me a flyer, right, also? I did, I did. I'll make
sure. I wasn't sure if I should put that. Did
you crumble that up and throw it away? No, I
didn't. Oh, I'm sorry. I got more. You see what
you did? You see what you did? And then more
recyclable stuff I got put away. No, you know,
we'll help you push forward on something like
that, man. It's something different as far as
for the better. Not only that, more family oriented.
I think for me, you know, it's something that
growing up, you know, I understand what you're
saying about, you know, checking those stuff
out when you're a kid. I'll share with you guys
this, you know, I didn't want to have something
for the first time event. And all of a sudden
not really have anything to hand out. Right.
You know what I mean. Right. So, right now, I
went ahead and bought a popcorn machine. There
you go. For sure. There's going to be popcorn.
I bought a commercial popcorn machine and probably
come tomorrow or maybe Monday. I'll probably
go pick up the popcorn. Now before the event,
probably a Thursday or Friday, I'm going to set
it up at my house and pop popcorn one batch to
see how it goes. I'm sure it will go good because
that's everybody you want. You want to party.
You get Milo's kettle corn. It's a block party.
You want you want you want people they're going
to go by and check out these tractors. down the
road here's what I'd like to do let me get back
to what I was telling you guys so there again
I talked to a guy from HVB and another person
a few people that want to help out I kind of
figured maybe we could have hot dogs you know
writing extravagant but it won't take long to
do Basically have water coax or whatever, you
know, right? So it's mainly for kids. I mean
don't get me wrong Good else can eat popcorn
and eat a hot dog. Why not? Enjoy the day so
That's kind of where I'm at with this but down
the road It's like you guys would probably agree
that hey, wouldn't it be cool to have somebody
that does barbecue? You know have another words
have a company out there and let them go ahead
and there's There's the catering right there.
Right, right. If he can figure out a price, maybe
sloppy joes, you know. There you go. You know,
something simple, but something that, hey, people
are going to say, hey, that's a good little meal,
you know. Or you can also get local vendors to
do that. Yeah, I mean, this whole thing, guys,
it can also create jobs because these guys, you
know, there's a lot of wagons out here that are
food trucks that would show up to that. If we
can get something like that, that would be awesome
to do. I think the best way to go about starting
something like the John Deere Club, get yourself
informed with like, for instance, next year for
Fresco. Fresco will actually, well this year,
I believe it starts in September or August? September.
September. You know, the little spots they give
you are not that expensive. Right, right, right.
Bring out some of your stuff to to model everything
right and then you know have a sign -up sheet
Hey look if you want to sign up so and so let's
have you get some little caps I can show you
where you get real good deals in the caps sure
and you know eventually people are gonna say
hey man I'm part of this club That's another
thing I didn't touch on but it's a good idea
mark that I would love to do too as you know
as well as You know, but here we go again, you
know, it has to start off with something and
I gotta see how many people are gonna react to
that. If I take $800 to $1 ,000 and invest it,
guess what, I'm stuck with the merchandise and
this and that, you know what I mean? So one of
the things, this is what I thought of, well,
I went ahead and bought the popcorn machine,
but I thought, well. If somebody needed a popcorn
machine, for example, if you have a party or
so and you want a popcorn machine I'm coming
out to pop popcorn for you. How's that? Machines
there. All we got to do is just go buy the popcorn.
Right, right, right, right So I mean it'll be
used it may not be used quite a bit But hey,
you could have a you know a few events and then
we have popcorn. Like I said, I mean something
like those those those outdoor events that they
have, you know. So they have here, here in Wessico
they do quite a bit. They do one at the eatery,
they do here, one actually right here out those
windows through the Texas Boulevard. They have
Fresco, the Onion Fest, stuff like that. And
the spots that they offer during Fresco are really
not, you wouldn't be... I'm not gonna say you'd
be wasting money. It's not a really waste of
money only reason why is because it's giving
you exposure You know something that I always
thought maybe we can try doing it one year, but
you know the thing is that you know You're gonna
be out there. You're in the heat. You got a little
canopy little table So you know slowly but surely
yeah, and that's kind of one of the reasons why
I figure maybe the month of March like we're
right right now or maybe October to have another
want to try this again and this time now that
you guys said tick -tock well yeah tick -tock
it but I'll still get out and meet people and
you know that's what I've been doing actually
is meeting people that I've already probably
passed out 40 flyers. Let me give you an idea
Alex just do you have a tripod something like
like what I have right there where the cameras
are at? No. Okay what you want to do Big shout
out to Five Below, by the way. Five Below, get
yourself one of these. If you ever have a cell
phone, get yourself a TikTok account. You go
outside and work on your tractor, click live.
And just let it go. You don't have to look at
the questions or answer, just start working on
it on camera. I guarantee you, people are gonna
start watching and they're gonna start looking
slowly. They're gonna pass, what are you doing
John? Oh shit, he's working on John Deere. Once
in a while, try to count, hey guys, I'm working
on this John Deere. See what's wrong with it,
blah, blah, blah. And as soon as you release
that content, it's gonna grow. People are gonna
start talking about it. And then when you go
live, people are gonna jump on it ASAP. And you
know, you start. rolling that big ball of twine
until it gets so huge. That would be something
cool to do at a meeting or at a tractor pull.
But yeah, I think that'd be really cool. I mean,
like I said, you could do it in your own backyard.
That's the way it works. I've done TikToks where
I'm setting up. This I'm by myself or you can't
make it I'm doing it on my own I'll turn on put
on tick tock and I'm like setting up this or
like that and I'll look at you guys are just
sitting at the podcast You know, we'll have any
questions. Let me know and I'm saying up and
people start asking what kind of podcast is all
these kind of podcast It is and all that good
stuff That's why Chu brought up the great answer
for you is doing through TikTok. You can only
do so much face to face though. just here in
invalia it's going to reach outside texas out
of the u .s out worldwide that's awesome you'd
be surprised at who's a fan of tiktok now like
like my provider you know she she's older than
me she's all over tiktok yeah man she will not
leave me the fuck alone with tiktok here i am
watching tv Like I said, I admire you for doing
all the footwork and everything and wanting to
hand out flyers and stuff. But I mean, if you
really want to start something rolling, get the
ball rolling. You need to get as many eyeballs
on it as once. You're doing what we call back
then the hustle. That's the hustle. I was doing
the hustle. I'm not talking about the dance,
I'm talking about the actual hustle. Now if you
do the actual dance on the top. Look at that,
I forgot it. I forgot the moves. You wanna join
the club? But yeah, it's like most of some of
the artists that we have on our show, they do
that. They used to go out, sell the CDs in person.
Hey, this is my music. Now everything's done
by TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. You had a cuter
CD now, like what is this? Is it downloadable?
No, but you know, that's something you might...
want to step into and it's it's trust me it'll
it's gonna brighten your horizon so much you're
like holy shit yeah i go i can really put myself
out there the only reason why we say tiktok is
the the not to take away from any other uh platforms
but the copyright laws as far as like you showing
a John Deere out there, they won't be as rough
as like if you tried doing it on Instagram, on
Facebook, you know. You have people that work
on cars on Facebook, they work on motorcycles
on Instagram, but they shadow out what kind of
vehicle it is. on Instagram. Really? Yeah. Interesting.
Yeah. I don't know who the hell that is. You're
an idiot. Fuck. I know who you're talking about.
Justin Timberlake. Oh, really? Yeah. There we
go. But stuff like that, I mean, that would be
a great addition to pushing out. your club out
there and that'd be awesome. When you have club
meetings, just turn on your TikTok and let it
run while you're having a meeting. So that'd
be the best way to go. Like I said, you really
want to get the club rolling, then that's the
best way to get as many eyes. That's probably
what we're going to have to do. We never become
a podcast. We become information. We're information
here. Are we wonderful or what? Are we your best
friends? Do we just become best friends? We're
best friends. We're boyfriend. What? No, no.
Anyways, but first of all, I want to say. Thank
you for coming on the show, man. We appreciate
you coming out, taking the time to come and talk
on the mic with us, be on camera. I know you're
used to that. Why don't you give us your Facebook?
I think you're right. I probably should make
a joke. The problem is I have a photo on there
and it's showing me laying like brick. If you
look under there, it's probably going to say,
here. Give me a second. Hold on. We have internet.
Hang on, Alex. Hang on by the thread, Alex. Hang
on by the thread. You got 30 seconds, Alex. Well,
I don't know. Is that camera there? Your camera's
right there. There you are, right there. OK.
Anyways, it's good to see Alex. If you school
on it, it's gonna say went to carmen high school
from flint michigan lives in mckellen from front
michigan That's that's kind of how to find me,
but okay If you do decide to start a facebook
or tiktok, let us know we'll we'll broadcast
it out on our socials We'll put it on on tiktok
and all that good stuff. You do start tiktok.
Let me know Yeah, so I can I can link it i'll
share it and link it off to other people so you
can check it out alex man, it's Been a blast
the passing. Yes. I know I know we work together
At the orange box for a couple of years together
and that was a long time ago. I don't want to
tell you how many years I was here I got a different
job. I'll say like this I work for the City of
McAllen, and I'll leave it at that. There you
go. Big shout out to the City of McAllen out
there. Hiring great workers out there, especially
this guy right on his top notch, man. You want
things done right. Are you going to take his
offer and go work for the City of McAllen? No,
I am actually happy where I'm at. I already told
you this. I refuse to talk about that. You could
get away with so much money. You could get away
with murder. No, I cannot, maybe. Maybe. Bloody,
bloody murder. Bloody, dirty murder. But anyways,
no, seriously, in all thoughts, man, thank you
so much for coming out. We appreciate you together.
Thank you guys for having me. Thank you for...
trying to get and help me get this this thing
started because i didn't call my buddy mark and
i asked him i said man i said here's what i got
mark and he says well let me see what i can do
he's made a few little commercials i think was
cool some of the guys at work i showed he goes
man who did that he goes now mark did my buddy
from from the hd so yeah but uh cool i mean uh
Man, I can't tell you how much I thank you guys.
I really do. I hope it grows. That's all I can
do, Mark. You know how I am. I'm pretty passionate
about the things I do. That's probably why I'm
so crazy when I lay tile. I'm very passionate.
I want it done a certain way, and when I focus
it, that's it. That's exactly who I am. And it's
kind of the same thing here. I want to focus
on this. Hopefully people that you know have
a good heart. It's like you said family oriented,
right? Hopefully they'll join this hopefully
they'll join this because You know, it's if I
want it to be a family thing You know, I don't
I don't mean to say in a rude way But not something
where people are just gonna go out drink beer
drink beer We don't really need that right, you
know, right I just want it to be a family thing,
you know, and hopefully that this will take off
and grow. It will. It will. Just give it time.
Like I said, baby steps. And we will try our
best to push it along the way. Thank you, buddy.
I know you're doing your best for me. So man,
I appreciate it. Like I said, once again, thank
you so much. Thank you, buddy. Any last words
you want to say to the public out there? Support
us. I mean, I'll be honest with you. It's something
that I didn't think that I was going to do. I
really didn't. And I thought, well... I'm getting
a little older and I thought you know if I don't
do this I'll never know if it's gonna take off
or not My thing is I would love for something
like this to take off and let the public see
what we're all about Having a John Deere club
and let's see what happens. Let's see what happens
Like I said, man, thank you so much and hope
nothing but blessings come your way and this
thing takes off We'll see you. We'll see you
next time. Thank you. All right guys we Episode
was this stuff 235 I think yeah sure Hopefully
things go great for Alex man pushing this club
man. Hope it goes a long way Next week. Ladies
and gentlemen is gonna be another good one. This
will be the last episode. Well, actually no Next
week, we are interviewing, once again, but this
time, Chu's gonna be there, hopefully, Mr. Pete
Capella, voice actor of Silver Shining from the
Sonic series. It's going to be on the two new
podcast next week. So schedule up here and he
may change his mind at the last minute. Sorry
guys, super busy. Sorry. No, great guy, man.
Met him personally, man, at a convention. And
the guy, the guy's awesome, man. Great interview
we had with him last time. I can't wait to interview
him this time around because he's got a lot more
things going on in his, in his area. You don't
think you spoke to Carlos Farrell? Let's not
talk about cars right now. I'm still kind of
sick because But uh Other than that, uh the following
week after that guys there will be no podcast
live podcast elite but on monday You are going
to see a short film clip only 30 minutes long
of the family who? Going on vacation I'm gonna
try to do as much as I can and do a small clip
for you guys on Howard Little Vacation. It will
be up in San Antonio. Oh, San Antonio. San Antonio,
it's gonna be an interesting one. So lock in
those dates and then on the month of May. We
got Rashlyn coming back to the podcast. It's
going to be good guys. She's going to take another
beating again. We'll talk about that later. Ladies
and gentlemen, thank you once again for joining
us. We'll see you Tuesday 7 30 p .m. Once again
here on Facebook live. Hopefully the new studio.
Maybe not sure, but I know for April. It better
be good. I'm tired of waiting for this thing.
It will be a brand new studio. It's going to
be great. It's going to be wonderful. It's huge.
So huge. Huge. Huge. Remarkable. So, Chu, any
last words, everybody? She thinks my tractor's
sexy. Oh, God, I better shut this off quick before
he goes in. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
signing us off, too. I've been dreaming. All
right, we will see you next week, Tuesday, September
3, on Peek -A -Bow. Peace out. Until next time.
Bye, everybody.