 It's Wednesday when you're seeing this. That means that tomorrow on Thursday is the first day of Truck World in Toronto, Ontario. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't been watching all of my videos lately. I forgive you. Truck World is on from tomorrow, Thursday to Saturday, April 21st, 23rd at the International Centre in Toronto, Ontario. When you're watching this, I'm already there. We're setting up. We're getting ready for tomorrow. I'd really love it if you're in the area. If you could come out and hang out for a little while and check out the show. It's going to be huge. I'm going to be at booth 20 along with Keystone Western. If you want to come by there, say hello to us. That'd be great. If you can't find me there, I'm going to be walking the floor, checking out all the other exhibitors and stuff, everything that's going on there. You can find out more about the show at www.truckworld.ca And on that website, you can register for admission. Now, when you go there, there's going to be a little slot up there for a promo code. Use my promo code, T-W-J-O-S-H. And that'll get you free admission. It'll get you in the door for free. And all you got to do is come show up and hang out either Thursday, Friday or Saturday. So the next couple of videos throughout the week will be from the floor of Truck World. I'm really looking forward to it. I don't know if you can tell, but I've been really excited about this is a really big event. They invited me to come there. So that special on its own, I'm really excited about that. I'm also going along with Keystone Western. So it's like a big company trip and be really cool if you could come out too. And it's free if you're in the area or anywhere within driving distance. I hope to see you there. To be honest, this is my first Truck World experience. The last Truck World was in 2018. And I've looked it up on YouTube, on Google, and it looked like a lot of fun. They had to shut it down for a few years because of COVID and stuff, but they're back. And I'm not too sure what to expect, but judging by all the videos and stuff from 2018, there's going to be a lot to see and do there. So I'm hoping I can get around, throw it three days that I'm there. It might take the full three days just to get around and see everything and meet everybody. And I do our best. So if you are at the show, make sure you come say hello to me. If you do see me walking around there and we'll see what happens, right? We'll see what happens. Anyways, on with the vlog. We had a little bit of snow in today's vlog. And when I'm filming this, it's not much better. This is like mid-April. Let's just, let's get on with it. Brush hours, spring-made flowers. Oh, nonsense. Look at this. Just look at it. Would you just look at it? Look at this. Mid-April. No, this isn't exactly normal for Manitoba, but it's not unheard of either. This happened before. Last time we had a big blizzard like this in April, it led to the flood of the century in 97. I remember those days. I remember helping sandbag. I was a younger kid then. I think I was nine years old, born in 88, so that makes sense. And a lot of southern Manitoba flooded from the Red River. And since so much of this snow fell in North Dakota, which is upstream from the Red River, even though on the map it looks like it would go downstream, right? No, it's actually the water in the Red River from North Dakota flows into Winnipeg and into Manitoba. So all of that snow, once it melts down there, is coming up here to Manitoba. And it makes its way up to Winnipeg and then up to the Hudson's Bay up north in the ocean. Let's hope and pray that our floodwaters, that not everything gets too crazy, and not a hand with floods here. I mean, the good thing is that we've already had the majority of our snow from the winter melt away already and go into the river and head up north. So we don't have the entire winter snow melting all at once. So that's a good thing. I mean, I think we should be okay, but I'm not a scientist. Well, we got the truck all warmed up, got ready for the day, and the weather out here is nuts. Nuts. I mean, you're not going to believe me if I show you the way it is here in town. I'm in Ildeshan here right now, which is just down the road from our yard. I just got a call from my dispatch saying, you know what? We're shutting down for the most part. There'll be a few people in the office to answer calls and stuff, but the perimeter around Winnipeg is closed apparently. Everything west of Winnipeg, all the roads are closed. The southeast where I'm from, the roads are still open, but it looks like they'll be getting closed around noon today, maybe sooner. That's eight o'clock right now and around eleven o'clock. There's supposed to be another, like, huge blizzard rolling in, like, about worse than this. So they figure, you know what? Better safe than sorry. May as well head back home. And tomorrow it may be the same thing, because this storm is supposed to last until tomorrow as well. I'll call in first thing tomorrow before I leave, and if I do go in, it sounds like it'll be a bit of a short day. So, back home we go. Maybe I'll do some work in the shop, see what happens. Snow. I'm filming this on April 14th, if you're trying to allow. Even as a man of Tobin, I'm looking around like, alright, okay, come on. Come on, right? Usually even we have, like, green grass beginning to grow at this time of year. Huge sometimes usually, but not this. But I'm not complaining, I mean, it is what it is. I live where I live. This region is prone to this kind of weather. And I'll take this weather any day over hurricanes, over massive tornadoes in the south of us in the U.S. Midwest. We get some tornadoes around here, but not like they do down there. They get a lot. We're at the northern edge, the northern tip of tornado alley. So we do get some. We get no hurricanes, we get no earthquakes, we get no tsunamis. We don't really have any poisonous animals here. That'll kill you, not that many. I mean, the winter pretty much kills off anything that's poisonous. So you can go walking through the woods and not worry about getting, like, bit by a snake, a poisonous snake or something. I walk through the bush all the time. The worst thing that's going to happen is you're going to get a poison ivy or a bunch of wood ticks, which could be bad because they carry Lyme disease. And that could be really bad too. So there are threats here too. I mean, we got bears, but they're scared of you. You see a black bear, we got black bears, we don't got grizzlies. You see a black bear in the woods. I mean, they'll see and hear you and smell you before you see them unless you sneak up on them. As long as they don't got cubs with them, they'll go bolting away. They want nothing to do with you, they want nothing to do with you. But if they have cubs, all right, all you got to do, you see them, you see the cubs, walk away from the cubs. Slowly, just turn around and be like, nope, not my monkey, not my circus, okay? Those are not mine, walk away from the cubs. Don't go up and pet them. It's very tempting, they're very cute and fluffy. You want to go there and pick them up. Because the cubs, they don't know any better. They'll come right up to you and be like, oh, friends! They're not your friends. It's their friend, all right? Mama bears around the corner somewhere and when she sees you near her cubs, she'll rip you to shreds. That's the only thing you got to worry about, watch your cubs. And they're usually around early, like late spring, early summer, and then they growl throughout the summer and then they hibernate for winter. What else we got to worry? We got wolves. But again, as long as you're not by yourself and in the woods, just be aware of your surroundings, that they're not stalking you or anything, they're coyotes, they're too small to do anything to you. They might attack your dog though, so watch out for your dogs. We got some cougars, like cats, the cat kind. Not that other kind. I mean, I'm sure we got those around here too somewhere, I don't know. I mean the cat cougars. Not too many. But we do have probably about a hundred or so in the region. It's a big region and they do get sighted. Now, they're going to see you. You'll never see them. If you see them, it's already too late. They've been stalking you and they're hungry. But that's very, very, very rare. I don't even think there's a recorded instance in Manitoba history of a cougar attack on a human. We're just told to be careful. I don't think it's ever happened in history. You guys can Google that and correct me if I'm wrong in the comments section. Other than that, Manitoba, we're in the middle of the continent, so you know, we don't really have the risk of invading armies rolling across the border in their tanks, like in other regions of the world where people just invade their neighbors for no reason. The U.S. is our best friends. They're our family. We're the same people. We just have slightly different social views in politics. But nothing that would cause us. We are the two closest nations and we have the longest undefended border in the world. An hour and a little bit south of here, about 70 miles south of here. There's a U.S. border. It's just a field. There's not even a line. I think that they cleared one at one point. You could just walk across. I mean, they'll know. If you walk into the U.S., they got drones and satellites and stuff watching. They'll know and they'll come get you. So don't try it. It's very illegal. They'll come this way but usually they're going the other way for some reason. So don't do that. We don't have to worry about the U.S. invading us. So here in Manitoba, the center of the continent, in order for an invading army to get here, they would have to go through the U.S. Good luck with that. They have to come up through the north, past Alaska, which is the U.S. Good luck with that. They could come through the Hudson's Bay, but Greenland is right there and the U.S. has military bases up in Greenland. Good luck with that. They could come down through our north that's undeveloped. There's no roads and just forests. As far as the eye can see, good luck getting your tanks through the forest with no roads. You could come from the east in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia, but then you go through the... There's a little bottleneck in Nova Scotia right going into New Brunswick. You can't get through it. All we got to do is blockade that and you're not getting in there. You could come down the St. Lawrence, but again, you're coming right past the U.S., they're good luck getting past them. You could come from the west, then all we got to do is blow out the bridges and you're not going to get through the mountains with your tanks from the west coast to get to Manitoba, so you can't get to us from the north because Russia's our northern border, our northern neighbor. They're on the other side over there. We literally have a border bordering with Russia. They're our neighbors. We don't get along so well, but they can't come over the north because Russia's in Alaska, Greenland, and our landscape. They cannot invade. It's impossible. Can't come from the west. There's the mountains. We'll just blow up our bridges. You can't get through. You can't come from the east because there's one bridge connecting eastern Canada and western Canada. We just blow up the one bridge. You can't get your tanks here unless you're going to drive them through the river. How are you going to get to us? Winnipeg is practically uninvatable unless you come by air. Winnipeg, remember, is an air force city. If you come over and you're going to fly in to the heart of air force country in Canada, and not to mention, a few hours that way, a few hours south, there's the Minot Air Force Base in the U.S. So you've got the U.S. Air Force right there. You've got the Canadian Air Force right here. You fly in to the center of the continent. You are not going to get very far. What I'm trying to say is Manitoba is a good place to be. I'll deal with the blizzards because it's a good place to be. Not a lot of bad things can happen to you other than getting snow done and freezing to death. Stay warm and you're good. Back at the shop here and you'd be surprised how much work it is to keep this floor clean in the wintertime. But that's okay. I've got this floor squeegee here. Unfortunately, these shops were not built with drains in the floor. I don't know why, but they don't have any drains. And that's fine. I just got to squeegee it out of here. It's not really a problem except in wintertime when we have snow like this and I have, you know, my vehicle parked in here with snow on it and it melts onto here. I had it parked on this side so I moved it to that side and I got to push all the water out the door. But that's okay. I don't want to keep it clean, right? I don't want to have a dirty shop. It's not the cleanest shop. Like, don't get me wrong. When I say I like clean vehicles, I like clean shops, I like everything to be clean. I'm not a germaphobe. I'm not... It doesn't have to be absolutely perfect. Like this floor here? That's okay. I don't want it to be filthy. It's a shop. It's a space that's going to get dirty. It's a dirty space. When I have friends stop by here when the wife comes by to check on me or whatever else or when the door's open and people are looking in, I don't want them to look in and be like, whoa, man, how does he work in that filth, right? So I do my best to keep it as clean as possible. I like having a clean floor just so that if I have to get underneath the vehicles, then I don't have to get myself all filthy dirty. And once again, it's something I enjoy doing. It's therapeutic to me. You've got to keep up with it because if you don't keep up with it, it gets out of hand. And then you've got a big problem. So I like fixing problems when they're small before they turn into big problems, you know? Clean it up when it's when it'll only take, you know, 10, 15 minutes instead of waiting until, you know, you've got to spend a whole day. That'll make it. It's not so bad when there's no snow outside because there's not a lot of water in here. Watch it buddy, you're on the ice there. People, you know? The snow melts and they have dry roads for a week and they all forget how to drive on the ice. Sold? What's sold? Building sold? Or those condos. Someone bought an apartment. I don't understand condos, but I guess I could see the benefit of not having yard work and stuff, but still you can't choose who your neighbors are then. What if you have a noisy neighbor? Now you bought it. Now it's yours. That's your hole in the sky. You know, that's your little box in the sky. That's your hole in the wall. But houses are pretty expensive in some areas of the city. Pardon me, some areas of the country. Manitoba is not so bad, but man, some other areas of the country, just ridiculous. You know the average house across Canada costs almost $900,000. Which is probably about $700,000 American. I'm just guessing somewhere in there. That's the average house in the entire country. Look at that house right there. That house is beautiful. The average house in Manitoba is definitely nowhere near that. But you know, it's pretty high still. Probably like $400,000 or so. But the majority of people they live in Toronto and Vancouver. And to get a house there I don't know what they're doing out there. But you know, people are moving in in droves from pretty much every corner of the globe. And they all go to Toronto and Vancouver, right? And they're not building the houses to support that many people. So all these people move in and they don't got enough houses. So the price of houses skyrockets. And then there's another problem where they let foreigners, Chinese people do this quite a bit. Wealthy Chinese, they come in and buy properties and use it as investment. If you live in the house, they just buy it and it sits there empty. They wait five years the market goes up and then they sell it and buy a different house. They don't actually live in these houses, right? It's a big problem in Vancouver. You guys like my new shirt from Tony Justice? From Justice Music. Trucker Josh. Let's go back there. It's actually from Bullsnot and Tony Justice. Fits perfect. It just looks good. It smells a little bit of milk on it before I know you can see it. Because you're Josh. I know. Who knows? Who knows? And coffee. You got coffee on yourself earlier. Man, I'm a mess. You're dressing up but you can't take them out. You can't even keep them all. So what's up now? It's trigger shop time. What's that mean? I'm letting these ones warm up. They're in the fridge. Explain to the good people what a trigger shop is. I don't really know. I think it just... It triggers you to be ready for surgery on Saturday. Yeah, 36 hours from now I think things release and make it easier for them to get the eggs out. I don't exactly know the science. I just do what they say and write down on my sheets to read. If you're just tuning in, I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. If you're just tuning in and are new here, Britt, my wife and I were in the middle of an IVF procedure or journey and she's been taking needles in her stomach every day for a week now and on Saturday she goes in for surgery for egg retrieval. They have at least 11 eggs that they're going to take out of her and then this is actually my 9th or 10th day on needles. Okay, so it's more than a week. Most important part is Saturday is my big day before her surgery. A contribution. Thinking about dressing up, getting the bow tie, maybe a top hat and a cane walking in there. You okay? It's not been a good day for my body. At the beginning it barely affected her at all and we're right at the end of it right now. A body, female body would naturally produce about one egg every cycle, right? She has at least 11 in there right now. At least maybe they saw 14 at one point. We're not too sure if there's still 14 but there's at least 11. The number changes every ultrasound so sometimes they're hiding. So this is the last needle she has to take before there's three needles. There's three of them? For crying out loud? Never has, does it? And then she might need to take needles once she's pregnant too just to keep the pregnancy healthy. We don't know yet but we'll find out. We'll see. We'll see. This calls for a near beer. I love the taste of beer but I've made a commitment to not drink any alcohol throughout this whole process until she's done breastfeeding. If I can. I'm not sure if I can last that one. I'm pretty sure I can. You can. But at least until she gets pregnant, right? Gotta make sure my swimmers are as healthy as possible. That was the main goal. She's pregnant. She can't drink. So it's not really fair if I do I figure I'd wait until she can have a drink too and we can have a drink together to celebrate. Not like it's that big of a deal but I think it's been 10 months now since I've had any alcohol. And we've been trying to have to get pregnant since 2017 or 2016 somewhere in there for a while. August 2017 a month, two weeks to a month before we got married I think it was the end of August 2017. I don't know the exact day that I went off the pill but I'm trying ever since. So here we are. This is the sort of the climax of the of everything we can do other than try again. Try try and try again. Yeah. Until my body says no. Oh, Instagram. She's gonna Instagram this gangster. I gotta do this right when he gets his fingers out of the shot. Very important. Everybody photo bomb. Alright, so this is, do you have to, is a powder in there? What's some big ones this time? Yeah. Bigger than the last ones. So, we got HCG shot here. We'll start with that one and then these ones are tryptoly tryptoly cryptonite. I don't know. Fancy medical names. You know how to do these cause I don't. Yeah, it's same as the menopur. Just bigger. You have three needles. Oh, these are already you just inject them like that. So, you don't need to do anything with those. You just need to make sounds. Yeah, this one doesn't go into me. This is a mixing needle. Just for the record. Can you imagine having to stick that into you? It's just a longer one just to fit into the vial. The one that she uses isn't actually that one. That would suck. Like this isn't 1960s so. And that's just water, right? Saline solution, yeah. Saline solution. Is that fancy doctor talk for water? It's salt water. Oh, it's ocean. Sodium chloride, I'm pretty sure. So, they just went to the ocean and filled her up. I guess so, yeah. Put a fancy sticker on it and boom. Worth 250 bucks. Yeah, alright. Oh, no. Bacteriostatic water for injection. Bacteriostatic, so they put static in it? Not for use in newborns, I don't know. I have no idea what's going on. Usually it's, I guess this one's just different. I have one drop. We're racing against the clock here. They want it right in me at 9.30, but I guess I should have gotten started a little earlier. It's okay, it's just a couple minutes. That clock's, I'm sure it's fast. Okay, mixed her up. So now she takes the big horse needle off of there. And she puts on the human one. For people. That won't hurt so much. That's a little more doable. Alright. Prepare to be triggered. Please ignore the largeness of my stomach. It has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger with every shot and it hurts. A lot of swelling. It's probably been the most uncomfortable part of this. I can handle the nausea, the mild mood swings even the pain from the needles, the bruising and the fatigue but it hits the, the bloating hurts the most. No one in here is going to judge you. I mean, I was chubby to begin with. I realized this. I really like food. Okay, turn away if you don't like needles. I'm triggered. You were waiting that whole time to say that line, weren't you? Two more premixed injections. One there, one there and that's it. The bloating is getting harder and harder to pinch the skin. Oh, that's a lot of, a lot of liquid. Oh wow, that doesn't feel good. Not even a little bit. There's one. One last one ladies and gentlemen. One last one. That bruise you see there is still from her very first one like 10 days ago. The first one bruised and the rest of them hardly did anything except sort of swell up the whole area. And get itchy. Gotta find an open spot. It's not easy. I have a little torso and they're all full of like 30, 35, 40 needle injections. I don't even know anymore. I don't, to be honest. Man, your poor stomach. It's just, what is going on? Prime that one and then she'll be ready. Last one. Okay. There's enough spots left. Okay. Let's go with this. I also had to take needles this morning too. Almost there. Wait for it. 941. Could have done better. I was a little bit anxious. All right. There we go. Full of holes and basically a pin cushion at this point. Oh, actually it's peeling up but I was like black and blue all over my arm from all the blood tests. It's a little bit short. So tomorrow, no needles, right? Tomorrow's my one day off. No needles tomorrow. Day after tomorrow is the retrieval surgery and my big day. And I finally get some good drugs. Yeah. I got a, you know, I got a stretch. Warm up first thing in the morning. I'm sure I'm ready to go. Limber up. Limber up, you know. Jazz hands. Jazz hands. Yeah. It's been a long time coming. Just waiting. I'm ready. Woo! We were joking around yesterday. It was on the vlog, right? I think so. We were really tired yesterday. Really tired. Can get me a bow tie, dress up a little bit. Like a big goofy one. A top hat and a cane. So that's it. One more day. Feeling good? Feeling all right? No? Not at all. My stomach is itchy and swollen. I'm very nauseous and tired. But honestly, it wasn't as bad as I built it up in my head for this part of the experience to be. So, all in all, I'm whiny today, but I can't complain too much. And she's actually met some new friends through this whole process that are going through the same thing as her. So it's awesome that one of them is an old friend of elementary school. Turns out her and her husband have been trying two weeks longer than us. And they're two weeks ahead of us in the process. Very coincidental. But yeah, we're old friends from elementary school and we reconnected on Instagram and it's really nice to have someone who gets it. And yeah, I made a friend in the waiting room at the clinic. I was tired of all the silence. Because as hard or as much as I want to be a part of everything and I'm here for everything, there's just some things that I'll never quite be able to relate to as much as I want to or try to. Well, if you want, I got some extra needles we can jab you in the stomach a few times. I still don't have ovaries, so that's true. You won't feel the big grapefruits growing inside of me right now. No, that is something that is unique to you and the ladies. They're mine, you can't have them. Well, no, I got my own, I'm fine. You got your own ovaries? No, well, they're moveries. They're moveries. Like the other day when we went shopping for Lufas and he's like, no, that's too feminine. I want a Mufa. And Lufa. So we call them Mufas now. Yeah, mine are a little different. For some reason, God decided to put them on the outside. Always getting in the way. Seems inconvenient. It is. It's very, especially like, you know, getting in and out of the dark when you sit on them. That's not a pain. Literally. I'm very large-chested and I'm very short, so I'm at everyone's elbow level. So you can imagine how often I have bruising. It's very annoying, like out in public. You know, back in the day when there were large crowds and when I used to go to concerts and the mosh pits and stuff, just get elbowed all the time. Oh, that would hurt. What can you do? I've lived. Anyways, I guess we'll continue this chat tomorrow then. And thanks for watching all the way to the end. What should be the secret word that they have to put in the comment section today? Um, cotton-headed ninny muggins. And if you know where it's from, comment the movie as well. Okay, you heard it here. Cotton-headed ninny muggins. Okay, go and type that in the comment section right now, just so we know you watched all the way to the end through all of that cringy conversation. I can't wait to see the way some people are going to spell this. Have a good one.