 I just want to quickly show you who I'm with right now. You guys recognize me? Look who I'm with right now. Look who I'm with. Look who I'm with. Look who I'm with. Check it out. Good morning everybody. Getting all of my stuff together here in the hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky. Today's the day we're going to Matt's. We'll be at the house products booth for most of the day and also walking around finding some of you guys and finding some of my friends to say hi to you. We're only here for today. Before morning I fly back home. There's going to be a lot of fun. Today's shout out goes to our good friends at house. If you want to learn more about the great people that I'm going to be spending time with here at Matt's, go to their website down below at houseproducts. You can find it in the description of my video. I think I'm ready to go. I didn't make my bed. Shame. Shame. Shame. Good. We're ready to go. I'm bringing my Sony a7c to the show today. Very excited. This is an amazing camera. It's a little bit bulky so I don't use it on every day. But it's going to be fun today. Morning Louisville. Even clean my shoes for this. All right. Big day. First thing this morning. I'm meeting the guys from house downstairs for breakfast. Got to start the day off right. It's going to be a long day but it's going to go by very quick. Good morning. How you brought the great breakfast? Yeah. Oh, we brought the good one. No messing around today. Coffee? Absolutely. This is Rich from house. Hey. He's the guy who brought me down here. Yes. Glad to have you. We're here to have a nice little breakfast before we head down to the show. This is all right. Yeah. This thing's huge. This is our ride to the show. Look at this. Touch screen in the back. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. It's not letting me do it. I think it's locked. Just arrived to our house booth here and here's our house team. You guys want to meet Mr. House himself. How's it going? It's going. Yeah. You want to be here? You're excited to be in America. Always a great show. It would have been wonderful to have you all weekend. That would have been, yeah. You could have manned this with me. So we forgot the keys. They have to go back. Oh, no. So it's going to be a little tight. Okay. We'll stock all that. Your video will be much better later to that. Oh, yeah. With people milling about too. You don't want to look busy. Okay. So Rich here was just telling me this is where my video, The Hall of Fame is going to be playing all day. If you guys were at the show and you swung by, you probably saw it here. This case is going to be all filled up. And my face is going to be playing on these screens. So I'm only here for today. Tomorrow is my son's birthday. So I'm going to be running back for his birthday, but this booth will still be running throughout the whole weekend. You'll be able to see the video they put together for me right here. So we just finished an interview with Red Eye Radio. It might be live by the time you guys see this already. Trucking is the best source of information. Thank you. All right. Nice meeting you. Nice meeting you. Good bye. So this is the entry hall where everybody is scrambling to get in. Organized chaos. I think it's these lines are in the health of the door at times. Yikes. There's a lot of people. This is the Thursday. So I'm guessing the Friday and the Saturday would be even more intense. Probably tomorrow would be one of the busy days. Next is Todd Dills from Overton. You have a back story with them, right? They were the first to cover you, right? Yeah. So we're out here checking out the women in trucking trailer. Here it's something to see. We got our own tour guide. Only justice. Hopefully he's at his booth. The guitar. So that's got to be him. Just getting ready to start. He didn't know I was coming. Owner of Bullsnot. He hasn't seen me here yet. Finally get to meet you in person. This is the face behind Bullsnot. We got to see it from the master himself. Let's see this. We just got off to Sirius XM radio. I got these trucks all day and how clean they are, especially this guy right here. Which I had a little bit more time to walk around and explore, but we had a tight schedule on the exit. I need to start looking into what kind of APU I should get to. Any of you have any recommendations? Let me know down below in the comment section. What would be the best APU? Looking into one maybe later this year or early next year. 2025. I need one of those too. One could spend lots and lots of money here. Check this out. Backstage. Where all the extra food carts are. So Rob, did the first day go as well as you had hoped? I don't know. I was pretty busy there. Definitely if you haven't been by yet, people should. You'll be here another two days yet. Yeah. It's a lot of work setting that all up though. It's a lot of work taking it down, but it's worth it. You get to see a lot of really good people that come by these days. I mean, you've got to see it. It's just massive. Massive. And it's not just one building. Yeah, you can't see it all in three days. I love the show. This is definitely the central for all truckers, I think. Trucker central. Yeah, there's something trucking here. Whatever you're looking for. Very impressed. And I want to give a big thank you for that. Did it go as good for you? That's the real question. It went even better. Awesome. You guys have been so nice to me, and I just want to say a special thank you to the HALS family for having me out here. And you guys have treated me so well and had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun too. It's been an honor. Honored someone. Glad to have you part of the Hall of Fame. Yeah, go check it out. See where it goes. So it's howesproducts.com slash H-O-F. You got it. Go and check it out. You can see me and all the other people that are in the Hall of Fame as well. It's good stuff. Now we're going to go get something to eat. Do we know where we parked? Well, they're away in front of us already. Do we know where we parked? What did I tell you about me? Very much like me. Oh, me too. Although I found that booth. That's true. Yeah, we got to say hi to our friends there at Van Brown. I've been wanting to meet him in person for years already. So that was cool. See, that's what these events are all about. It brings everybody in the industry all together under one roof. Yeah, a lot of players. Or several roofs. Several roofs. Yes. And an entire stadium. Yeah. Forget that. A stadium. Tony Justice is going to be playing in. Yeah, Tony Justice is going to be playing in the stadium tomorrow. I won't see it. But maybe someone will broadcast it or something. I'll be able to watch it online. Let's see. I can feel it to you. Here's the beast. This thing is huge. This is your starter truck right here. OK. See ya. I think you're in the front. We should be able to adjust it. Thank you, Lauren. So there. Oh, that's OK. We definitely have to mess with the ambient lighting. Oh, I had to get the things. He's got it all set. Yeah. No, it's all yours. Check this out. Got some goodies from Van at Bullsnot. I was so happy and excited that I got to see him yet. And Tony Justice too. Oh, I had a great day. So since I'm only here for the one day, like I've been saying, everything has just been crammed together into today. So there's so many more things I wanted to do. So many more people I wanted to say hi to. And I wanted to go explore a little bit. But, you know, there's always next year. Maybe next year we can come out and... Excuse me. Maybe next year we can come out and spend the entire weekend, you know? Maybe I can bring Theo with in Britain. Maybe we can make it a family trip. We're in Louisville, Kentucky here. We have friends in Tennessee. Maybe we can go visit them right away too. And then if we're going to Tennessee, I mean, Disney World and Florida's just a hop, skip and a jump down the road. You may as well just go down there. You've got the whole family with you. You know what? The thing is, in order for us to travel as a family, we need a bigger vehicle, right? We have our terrain right now, which is a good vehicle. It's a good family vehicle. Love it. It's been totally reliable for us. We love it. But just with one kid and his stroller, we can't even take it to go grocery shopping because there's no room for groceries. And I know what you're thinking, right? First world problems. First world problems. I know. But you put a stroller in the back. You put his car seat on the back seat. Now you only have one seat in the back. You can pick up a few groceries. But if we do a big grocery shop or a Costco run, there's not enough space in there for our kid, his stroller and all of his stuff, his diaper bag, everything that comes along with having a baby. And soon to be a toddler. Tomorrow he's going to be a toddler. It's his birthday. I've been telling everybody. I've been telling everybody who will listen about him. I'm so excited. But anyway, rabbit trail there. Talk to me about my kid and I'll talk your ear off. But so we need a bit of a bigger vehicle to go on a road trip like that to be comfortable. So my wife and I, we've been not in the market yet. We're not thinking about buying vehicles now yet. But when we do, we've sort of put our sniffers out there and started kind of looking around, not serious. Half serious. Okay. We want to get a Yukon, a GMC Yukon XL. That's the vehicle we've decided it's the one we want. Now we have to figure out, okay, what year are we going to get? What year can we afford? What works for us? It would be nice to have a new one because then you got warranty. I'm not going to replace my pickup truck anytime soon because I want to make sure that my family has a safe vehicle first. So the way I'm tying this all into mats next year and our friends in Tennessee, our friends in Virginia, our friends down in Disney World, I'd like to go see Troy and Angie, my friends out in Washington State yet. Though that'd be a bit of a big loop to go to that coast. We'd have to make a separate trip for that. We would need a big enough vehicle that we can have us in there, our son, our kids, our dogs because they have to come with us, all of our luggage, and still be comfortable. The GMC Yukon XL, I may just be dreaming. But hey, we're allowed to dream. We'll see what comes of it. But anyway, we came by the hotel here just to get freshened up. We have supper, fancy dinner coming up here with the house people. Can't say enough good things about them. They treated me so well while I've been here. Don't forget to go check out their site down below. Every one of my videos, there's a site down there that specifically tracks from my channel. Then they can track the traffic from my YouTube channel here to their website. You can click the link down below. If you go that route to get there, and check out the Hall of Fame. We made it into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge honor. We're at the River House restaurant on the river. Literally, just across the river from Ohio. We have this private table here in our own little room. It's almost like having our own personal little restaurant. The house spoiled me quite a bit. I'm sitting at the head of the table here too for some reason. Everybody's been having a good time. And we're all just finishing up here right now. And we just had the greatest steak I have ever tasted in my life. 16 ounces. What was it called again? It was a rib eye. A rib eye. A smoked rib eye. They smoked it for 16 hours. 13 hours. I highly recommend the River House, right? I would highly recommend this if you're ever in... I want to say Louisville, but I keep getting made fun of. I think the locals say Louisville. Louisville. Louisville. Louisville. I was going to say, you always got to say it like you're about 24 beers deep. Louisville. But yeah, thanks very much for everything you've done for me. I want to say thank you to the house team. This is everybody who treated me so well that made me feel so special. And you went above and beyond. Thank you so much. Oh, I absolutely enjoyed it. The best steak I've ever had in my life. I'm very close, if not the best. Okay, I'll leave room for some other steaks I've had in the past. I've had some good steaks, but. Three drinks at almost. Yeah, exactly, it looks like everybody up a bit. But yeah, been having a lot of fun.