 Wow, I went live like 10 seconds ago. There's already somebody here. How's it going? We're just gonna wait for a few more people to get here. I did not announce this live stream, so uh, surprise! Here we are. We're gonna do these a little more often, I think. Seeing myself on the screen here, I'm realizing I'm gonna have to do some trimming too. Okay, I want to go over some of the comments on my last video. I'd rather respond to them live here than through the chats. I think that'd be kind of cool. So we'll see how many people come and join us here yet. I did not announce that I was going live, but I think I'm going to be going live every evening for the rest of the year. As much as I can, I shouldn't say every evening, but I'd like to go over these comments with you guys and get some feedback, do some questions and answers. I'm wondering where my chat is, uh, live chat. There they are. There's your comments. Okay, for some reason your comments weren't showing up at first. How's it going, guys? Oh boys, a whole bunch of you here. Hello? We got BC, we got New Zealand in there. Got a whole bunch from Ontario. Hey guys, California. Wow, I'm always surprised at how you guys are so spread out around the world. From Winnipeg. Local. Nice. How's it going? How's it going, Matt, little trucker? Cool. Well, hey guys. So your comments are coming in pretty quick there. I see all of them. That's cool. So I haven't gone live in a long time and I realize I didn't even warn you, but you're here anyways, so I guess you guys are the hardcore followers. Welcome here. I think I'm going to try to do this, uh, in the evenings. From now on, just do a little bit of feedback with you guys and some questions and answers and go over the comments from yesterday's video. Uh, so yesterday's video, I'm about to release another one in a few hours. Uh, but the one that was released yesterday is called Light Issues. I have that issue with my, uh, LED strip underneath my driver's side light. Right now, they're all working again. Every time I get out of the truck, it changes. Sometimes they're not working. Sometimes they are working. We'll see. Hey, thanks there, Joe. He says we both started driving in the same year. No way. Watched a lot of your very first fits when I started flat bedding. Idaho. Wow, welcome. Thank you. So I actually, uh, I started driving over the road here in 2011. I started driving truck in, uh, in 2006. So it's been 17 years already that I've been driving truck. Isn't that crazy? Wow. You think about it? Jeez. All these little gray hairs poking through are starting to make sense. I'm surprised I don't have more already. It's all the crazy drivers we have out here. Nuts. Hey guys, I'm seeing your comments there. That's awesome. Yes. Oh, yeah. That's one other thing I was gonna talk to you guys about. Yeah, we did, we bought a new house for those of you who didn't see our last couple of videos. Uh, we're very, very happy. Once we move in, I'll be able to show it to you. And it takes a little while for the moving process for everything to happen. But a few weeks, and we'll be living in there, it is the house that we want to stay in. And I've seen your comments saying, never say never and never say forever. But, uh, we want to do everything we can in our power to make this our forever home. That we never have to move again. This is exactly the home we were looking for. And, uh, it came on the market. Well, from the time it came on the market, it was on the market 11 days when I saw it. And then we went to go look at it. And within two weeks, we had bought that house and sold our house. Everything happened within two weeks. So it was very quick. It wasn't exactly planned. We were gonna do this next year, like I keep saying. But everything just fell into place. And, uh, I had some people come through to help us to make sure that this, this happened for us this year. And we're very, very thankful for that. This last weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving. So, uh, the biggest thing I was thankful for this year is obviously my family, my son, and our new home. And for the family that came to help us make sure that everything worked out and that we could get into it this year instead of next year, which is amazing. We didn't want to lose this one and have someone else buy it. So we got it. It's a really good deal. We're really, really good deal. We're happy with the deal we got. We got a really good price for our house. We actually got, like, well above asking price on our house. We had 14 showings and six offers. In two days. So within 24 hours it was sold for well above asking. And we got ours for, uh, a really good price. A really good price as well. I won't go into all those details. Those are kind of private, but, uh, I'll just tell you, we, uh, we came out ahead on this whole transaction. We did, I'm really happy with that. It turned out. So once we move in, I'll be able to give you the tour of the house. It's got a nice big backyard. It's got, like, a swing set for the kids. It's got a little play house. It's got a big tree in the back. My dad and my father-in-law, they've already been collaborating together. They're going to build Theo a tree house. Uh, it's fenced in. The dogs are going to love it. There's so much more space for them. We've got a basement now. I've never owned a house with a basement. I lived in one. Like, obviously, my parents have a basement. But since I've moved out, I've never had a basement. And I'm very excited about that. I don't want to talk too much about it now because I got to leave something for when we actually do the, a couple of weeks. Let's wait for a couple of weeks. I'm just very excited. Yeah, I did put all that work into the nursery, right? Yeah, I'll do it again. I'll do it again. We'll make it even better. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, we painted the whole inside of the house so the house looks good. Not the whole. We painted the bedrooms. We redid the bathroom in our house that we sold. So there's a new tub in there and surround. We put a new 60 gallon hot water tank in. We'll put a new washer and dryer in. We put an HVAC dehumidifier system in the crawl space of this house. We put a brand new expensive air conditioner in this house. Painted the outside of the house. We put in a new window in this house. So, uh, we did quite a bit to this little house and everything we invested into it, we got back in more. So it all turned out good. It's, uh, whatever we did, it must have worked because it sold fast. Yeah, germizing model trains. I like those. Yeah. So, uh, well, we'll talk more about that in the future as that gets closer. It's, it's, uh, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves now. A couple of weeks, a couple of weeks to go yet. Matt at or you love this channel, but never get a comment. I see your comment. I don't respond to a lot. I'll admit that. I'm sorry. I'll admit, I don't respond to a lot. I read them and, uh, I really should. I got them right in front of me right here. Like, uh, where's my, my comments from the last video? I was just reading them right now. I said, you know what? I don't want to talk to these people. They're good people. And I talked to you like this instead of just responding to all the comments here. One of the comments here is from Haytham, Haytham, Tabbit, 4155. It's a Hay Trucker Josh. Would you mind making a video on what it's like being an owner operator? Whoa, whoa, Scott Young. Congratulations on the new home. Come a long way from the mini home back in the day. Next is a new pickup, eh? Thanks, Scott. Thank you. Uh, yeah. Well, the new pickup is next on the list. We have a list of priorities of things that we need to do for the family. And once you have a kid and a wife at home and a family, those priorities definitely do change from before I got married. Definitely change. A pickup was probably at the top of the list before, but now I got a few other things to take care of first. The biggest one was the house. We got that one. Nailed it. They got that one. So, uh, we'll get in there. We've got a couple of debts to pay off once, uh, once we're in there. So, the next year, we'll be, uh, just settling all of those, getting that back out of the way so that we're debt-free again, aside from a little mortgage. Uh, get that all out of the way. Once that's all out of the way, uh, like, I mean, we, we gotta refurnish the house a little bit. We've got a bigger house now. So, we're going from, like, 800 square feet to about 1100 square feet plus a basement. So, 2200 square feet all together of living space because the basement's finished. I don't want to tell you too much. You gotta wait to see it. But, uh, we have to furnish it. So, we gotta get a furniture for that, too. So, once all of that is in, we're settled in. We got the house furnished. Uh, we got everything we need for baby. And we got the whole backyard done. I gotta do a little bit of work on the fence because the fence doesn't meet the ground all the way around. And I gotta make sure the little logs can't get under the fence. Gotta fix that up. Yeah, you know, priorities like that. But after all that's taken care of, and then we'll probably have a next baby on the way by then. So, that will obviously be at the top. Hopefully, we can get to the point where a pickup truck is in there. But before I get a new pickup truck, we need a new family vehicle. So, that would be the SUV. We really want the Yukon, or GMC Yukon XL. Uh, I'd love to have a Denali, but, uh, that's a lot of extra money just for the fancy little chrome pieces everywhere in the fancy luxury interior. So, uh, Yukon XL, it'll probably be a few years old. Probably not brand new. See where we're at. But, uh, we're not... That's not in the sights yet. That that's in our minds for the future. It's on the list near the top now. But, uh, once everything's ready for that, yeah, we'll get a GMC Yukon XL. Once we secure the family vehicle, take care of the family first, then maybe we can get to the point where I can start looking for a new pickup. And I'd get a... If I bought a pickup right now, it'd be a GMC Sierra. I like the designs of the Sierra better than the, uh, Silverados. But we'll see what they have available at that time. That'll probably be in, what, another five years or so. So we'll see what they look like then. But... Edgar, I'm your idol. Well, thank you. Thank you. Don't put me on too much of a pedestal, though. Okay, I'm just a regular guy. I appreciate that, and I will try to live up to, uh, to be a person that you can look up to. I hope that I can continue to be that for you. But, uh, don't put me on too big of a pedestal. I'm, I'm not perfect or anything, but thank you. I appreciate that. Let's read some of your comments here. You still talk to John from your old house? Haven't talked to him in a long time, actually. Actually, you know, he called me the other day, and I was busy loading, and I hadn't called him back yet. I should probably call him back. But, uh, I haven't talked to him too much. No, I don't know what he's up to. Happy late Thanksgiving. Thanks, Jackson. Josh, cut your hair. It's out of control. I know, right? I know. That's on the plan for later today. I'm waiting for a pick-up appointment, and then once I pick up a load, then I can head on down the road, I can grab a shower, and then give myself a haircut, because look at this. This is crazy. I'm gonna put it in a ponytail soon. Look at that. Are you, uh, have you ever tried putting a camera on the back of your cab when delivering? I have done that on past trucks before. I just haven't done it on this truck yet. I do like what you're saying. I like that view. That's good. Psalms of the sun. Psalms of the sun. It's a semi-broke down on the highway. Thanks for keeping me company. Ah, I'm sorry. Oh, those days suck. I hope it's nothing too bad. Are you waiting for a tow or just parts or just maybe a tire? I'm sorry to hear that. I've been there. I've been there. Those are bad days. We'll have flying vehicles by then, Jack says. You know, they used to say that we'd have flying vehicles by the year 2000. That was 23 years ago. Now they're trying to get rid of vehicles. They want us driving like electric go-karts or something. That's a whole topic for a different time. I'm not against electric vehicles really. I just, I don't think that they're practical. But who knows what the future brings? Maybe they'll improve it. Maybe they'll improve it. Let's read another comment from yesterday's video from The Annoying Banana 8730. He commented 19 hours ago. So I'm sorry it's taken me 19 hours to get back to you. But you know you said you will never buy another house. Well, never say never because you might move again. You never know. Yeah, there's been a couple of you that have been leaving that comment. I've said that this is my forever house more than once before. But I didn't have a family then and I didn't have a kid then. It's different now when I have a wife and a kid at home. I want my son to have a home, a childhood home that he can grow up in and that he can come back to later with his kids and have all of those memories all in one house. So I want to do everything I can to make sure that we keep this house and that we don't move again because I want him to have that that childhood home. Sorry if my hand's a little shaky here. I'm trying to keep it as steady as possible. I don't only have anywhere to put you guys down. Can I put you here? Oh, that might work. Oh, see? Oh, there you go. Nice. Does that work? It's not covering the mic or anything, right? I should put you on my arm rest. There you go. Now I'm not shaking. That'll be better. Guess who's this? I get this comment quite often. Have you heard from John or Jade, from the Jade and John show? They're split and they're both remarried already. They've been split for a long time and they're both remarried already, but they're not on YouTube anymore. So they're doing their... They're doing... Oh, you fell. They're doing their own things already. It's not really up to me to explain any more than that. I don't think... They're kind of private people. So if they want to share more, they will. But yeah, I do still talk to them. I still talk to them. Good day, Josh. Steve says... Okay, you know what? This is not going to work. Yeah, I'm just going to keep falling here. What's this? What's this? Well, my phone's giving me notifications. Constant notifications all the time. What's going on? You think I'm a YouTuber or something? Just constant. Netflix. Ah, it's another scam. I've been getting at least one scam text every single day. Every day without fail. This one's when your Netflix subscription failed. What does it say here? It's a text message. It says Netflix. Your monthly subscription renewal has failed. To renew, click on this sketchy link. Don't click on it. Don't click on it. And you on this road for five kilometers. Carnivore here is a Canadian government. Crazy, crazy, Josh. Yeah, they're crazy. They're crazy. I'll leave that up to some other channels to discuss that. Yeah, there's lots of scammers out there. So I always block the numbers and they always text me. Every single day I get some kind of scam. I fell for that once. All right, then remember that when my channel got all messed up? I fell for that once. It wasn't that kind of a scam, but it was a different one. It was... Someone was trying to convince me that they could advertise on my channel if I clicked the sketchy link and I clicked the sketchy link and messed up everything. It was a really bad time. So now I don't take any promotions from anyone. I get emails every day of, Hey, you want to collaborate? Hey, can we advertise on your channel? Hey, we want to do this. Hey, we want to do that. No, I don't do anything. It's all no across the board. I don't... My channel is not a commercial. It's not an advertising billboard. I don't want it to be filled with ads all the time. I'll do a few here and there, but they've got to reach out to me personally. Like I'm working together with Bolsnot, obviously. I know the owner. He's reached out to me personally and we've developed a friendship and with the Canadian side of things as well here. The guy who runs the Canadian side, I know him well. Like we have each other's phone numbers. I can talk to them whenever I want to. For sure, I'll help them out. They've got really great products. They've helped me. I try to help them in return. Same thing with Howes. I talk to them in their senior leadership or their leadership all the time. We have each other's phone numbers. I can talk to them and I know that I'm talking to a real person. But there's so many of these people they want to advertise their products on my channel. I have no idea who they are. No idea. They just send me an email and then I usually just delete it. And then they'll send me another one and I'll delete it. They'll send me another one and I'll delete it. I'll get the message. I don't know who you are. I'm not clicking your link. I'm not clicking your link. So, I mean it would be nice to have sponsors every day. Wouldn't that be cool to be saying, hey, this video is brought to you by today's sponsor and then give you like a 30-minute. That'd be kind of cool. A little bit of extra cash on the side to pay for the house maybe. But some channels, they overdo it too and they do too many ads. And I didn't want to do that. We already have the Google ads that are on here and I know you guys are putting up with them and no one ever really complains about that. And I appreciate that too because that does give me a little bit of extra help with a little bit of kickback for putting all these videos together all the time, right? So, that's enough already. Adding more ads and promotions into the videos I find would just be annoying all the time. So, I pick and choose and I would only advertise products that actually work for me and that actually relate to what I'm doing. Like, I have Nike that's reached out to me more than once or Nike. I don't know if it's really Nike or not. They want me to advertise shoes like Air Jordans on my channel. What do Air Jordans have to do with my channel? Like, zero. Absolutely zero. So, why would I advertise to you guys? Really, you guys are going to click on Trucker Josh vlogs and you're going to get a promotion from me. Today's sponsor is Nike Air Jordans and that's not going to make sense. It'd be different if it was like a work boot maybe, like a work boot Kodiak work boots or something. Maybe that would make sense, but... Steve says, Likes are free. Smash the like button. Yeah, I like that. Thanks, Steve. Smash that like button. Matt, you heard Karen in the background there, right? I'm not moving. I've been sitting here for like an hour and every like 10 minutes she yaps at me. Karen left ahead. I'm not even moving. Let's go into the next comment from yesterday's video. 19 hours ago, Richard Thomas 1743 left me a comment and says, Hey Josh, Britt and Theo. Congratulations to you and Britt on the purchase of your new home. Yay. I'm very excited for you and I'm looking forward to it. Thank you. You guys have been very encouraging and very nice in the comment section. I always appreciate that. I've got a really good group of viewers and I would never call you fans. Just so you know, you're not fans of Trucker Josh. You're, it bugs me sometimes when other YouTubers talk about, Yeah, all my fans are commenting. I mean, I'm just a normal guy. I don't want to be put on a pedestal or anything. You're my viewers. You come here, you watch my videos, my viewers, my watchers, viewers, my friends, my extended internet family. Tommy, colleague 1991, 20 hours ago said, I always drive safe, but thank you for caring and am now a retired truck driver and loving it. Don't get me wrong though, I'll always miss trucking. Yeah, once you get it in your blood, it's hard to get it out, right? My dad too. I mean, he's thinking about retirement already. I don't know what his exact plans are or if there is an exact plan, but I can see it. It would be hard for him to hang up the keys and I think it would be just as hard for me one day as well. GRT says in this video, what is happening with Diesel? He wants to be in the truck. Diesel has gotten old. He's 12 years old now. He's having a little bit of hip issues. Not too serious or anything, nothing to worry about yet, but he's getting a little bit sore in the hips. He can't jump up into the truck anymore. I have those steps for him, but he's also in his old age has developed some anxieties and this truck is a little bit noisier than my other truck. It's very tight in here as well. I don't have a lot of space in here, so it's very cramped for the both of us. I can tell that when we stay on the road for too long, he wants to go home and relax, stretch out, and run around in the yard with his brothers. He's retired. I miss him, but I get to see him when I go home and I get to see him on video calls every day, but he's just a little bit too old for the truck and I think in his golden years and his last few years of life, I think he should be with his family at home. He's paid his dues. He was with me on the road full-time for nine years, almost 10, so letting him enjoy his senior years at home where it's a little bit easier and he doesn't have to constantly get in and out of a small truck and squish in here with me and he can stretch out and have a little bit more fun. Chase his brother around. He still beats up Chevy all the time, so he's still doing good. Get a cat! I'm sorry, I'm not a cat person, and also Britt is very allergic to cats. I'm also allergic to cats, not as much as her, but Entheo is also allergic to cats we have found out, so we can't have cats in our house, or in any words around us, unfortunately. But I'm not a cat person. Even if I wasn't allergic, I'm not really a cat person. I don't hate them. They're cats. I might get a small dog again one day. Right now, we have senior dogs at home. We don't need to add any more dogs to our family right now. We got enough. But, you know, as time goes on, one day, once the ones we have are gone and we've moved on, I don't like thinking about that, but I would consider getting a small dog then for the house. I mean, we'll always have a dog. We'll always have a family dog. We'll probably always have two. We'll see what happens in the future though. We'll never be dogless. I'll tell you that. Josh, your humor is what makes this channel. Thank you. Oh yeah, I'm just being me. What's this? No reading through your comments. Much love from India. Thanks, John. Stay safe. Zeke and Strake. I like that username. Travis Russell, I like when you go on to a rant. I have to hold myself back because there's so much to rant about. I could rant all day every day. There's so much to complain about, but I already get reminded when I complain a little too much. There's always those comments that come in and let me know, Josh, you're always complaining. And I gotta be like, oh, you're right. You're right. It's just there's so much stuff that drives me nuts. So many pet peeves. I think it's because I take driving very seriously. I believe driving is an art form and it's a skill that you have to learn. Maybe it comes naturally to some people, but it's a skill and it's an art form. And when it's done wrong, it bothers me. There's a way to merge into traffic. There's a way to merge out of traffic. And when that's done wrong, it bothers me. Now you're coming down this massive off-ramp, right? Big long, like half mile off-ramp in North Dakota. There's huge off-ramps. Like plenty of time to get up to highway speed, right? And then you get these people. They come down the off-ramp, merge into traffic at 40 miles an hour. You couldn't get up to highway speed. You see? It's very easy for me to slip into a ramp, so. That's just one, just one thing. Just at least try to hit highway speed before you cut in front of me on the highway. Who voted for... Who voted for Trudeau? Wasn't me. I'm not responsible for that guy. Got here late. Are you still going to be in Steinbeck? Yes. Yes, that is my hometown. That is where I belong. That is where my roots go down very deep. Yeah, you did get me started there. Go to California. They put stoplights on top of the ramps. Minnesota does that too. Minneapolis has stoplights, but there's supposed to be so that not everybody's trying to merge into rush hour traffic at the same time. You go one at a time. It's easier to zip or merge that way, like into traffic. But nobody listens to those lights, especially when you're in a truck, because you pull up to the light right and there's two lanes. And when it turns green, one car is supposed to go. But they think that when a truck pulls up because you're slow, when your light turns green, like three cars just go blast through the red to try to get in front of you by the time you even try to get moving. And then everybody's on this avenue. They tried. Minneapolis, I think, kind of missed the mark on the way they built their freeways through their cities. Their on-ramps and off-ramps are very inconvenient and a little bit dangerous. Like, if you've been here before, or if you've driven around there before, like when you're coming down the 694, going around the west, no, east, okay. When you're coming from the west, you're going east, around the north side of Minneapolis, St. Paul, on the 694. You go around on the east side and then you meet the 94, right. And you guys all know this intersection there. I show it all the time. It doesn't make sense. And it gets kind of clustered there. You're in a big kerfluffle, or other words, that'll get flagged on YouTube here. You got an exit, right? But the exit lane is also the merge lane. So you got traffic coming onto the highway who don't know the rules that they have to merge. Pardon me, that they have to yield. When you're merging into traffic, you have to yield. Traffic merging out of traffic has right of way. It doesn't always work that way, because it's so busy. So you're both trying to use the exact same lane to merge in and merge out. And then it's like a loop. It could have been built a little bit better, in my opinion. But who am I? I'm just a truck driver. I'm not an engineer. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. But yeah. Some places there's just so much traffic. It doesn't matter how you build it. It's always going to be messed up. I delivered out to Maine and New York and stuff there last month. And oh, the traffic you guys deal with there in New England. Why do you all live in the same little part of it? Did you know? There's a lot of empty land out west. You can spread out. Because you don't all have to live in the same spot. Spread out a little bit. So many people there. Yeah, Chicago too, that's another one. Chicago you can avoid though. You can go around Chicago. I always go down, what is that? 39 through Joliet by Rochelle. And I come down the 80 and then I just skirt through the southern part of Chicago there on the I-80. But yeah. Anyways, I've been chatting here for a half hour. That's the time that I had allotted for this live stream. I just wanted to hang out with you guys for a little bit. And I want to do this a little bit more often. I didn't warn you guys that I'm going to be doing a live stream today. This is just random. How about we do this again tomorrow? I'm going to have to look at my schedule tomorrow. What I have planned. I'm probably going to be delivering tomorrow in the morning. We'll probably do this in the evening sometime. What is it now? It's two o'clock in the afternoon. You guys are probably at work. You guys should be working. You're watching Trucker Josh. Maybe I'll post something. Just turn your notifications on on the channel if you want to hang out again tomorrow. I'll give you guys like an hour heads up or something or a couple hours heads up. And I'll see what time I'm available. Because I'm going to be unloading tomorrow morning. I've got to figure out if I've got to reload and when I'm going to be reloading. I don't want to promise that I'm going to be online at this time. And then, oh, I'm getting loaded. I can't be online. And then all you guys are disappointed in me. So we'll talk about it more tomorrow. But thanks for hanging out with me today, guys. I really appreciate that. And it's time for me to get back on the road. All right, we'll see you soon.