Interesting & Odd Sightings, Heart to Heart Talk Answering Your Questions and Trucking Flashback

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[00:00:01]JWW on the move.

[00:00:28]Oh.

[00:00:30]Oh, good grief.

[00:00:34]You're You're already in the car. You're already You got in here before me. How did you do that?

[00:00:43]You got a key TO MY CAR.

[00:00:49]WELL, I GUESS YOU'RE READY TO go then.

[00:00:52]So, let's be on our way. Got some things I want to show you this morning. And I have some things I want to talk with you about.

[00:00:59]Today is Friday, April 17. It's the year of our Lord 2026.

[00:01:07]Jim Williams here. JWWW on the move here in the beautiful paradise of Central Florida. Let's hit the road. We had a freeze back a few months ago. Kind of did in some of the foliage here in St. Cloud.

[00:01:25]Poor palm trees.

[00:01:46]I'm not sure, but I think this guy is a fisherman.

[00:01:56]I'm trying to use my Columbomol like skills as a detective to look for clues.

[00:02:03]I think I found it.

[00:02:06]I think it's the big math boss.

[00:02:11]I think it's the big mouth.

[00:02:16]I think it's the big mouth bass gave it away.

[00:02:21]And I do there there there aren't many big mouth bass mailboxes on the St. Cloud postal route. I don't think this is the only one.

[00:02:37]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:40]Had to get a picture of this.

[00:02:43]Coming soon.

[00:02:45]Homes starting at $1 million on 10th Street across the street from these homes.

[00:03:06]$1 million across the street from these homes.

[00:03:13]I'm here at busy US 192, the corner of Commerce Center Drive.

[00:03:20]They're erecting a new building. This is going to be the Bojangles Bojangles restaurant.

[00:03:30]When we first moved here in 1991, this was a Ponderosa Steakhouse.

[00:03:38]We ate here the first week we lived here.

[00:03:43]It lasted maybe a couple of three years and then the company began to decline and they closed the Ponderosa and then ultimately demolished the building and it sat here probably from the mid 1990s vacant until just a few months ago when they started this construction.

[00:04:06]New restaurant coming to St. Cloud.

[00:04:08]Bojangles.

[00:04:13]There's a dog taking his master out for a walk.

[00:04:27]Sand Hill Crane.

[00:04:39]We have arrived at OP Johnson Park.

[00:04:45]I chose this park because it's quieter here. Not as much traffic as down at the lakefront. Plus, I've got some shaded pavilions over here that I'm going to sit at.

[00:04:58]The park is closed sunset to sunrise.

[00:05:04]OP. Johnson was one of the early developers and founders of St. Cloud.

[00:05:11]Back in the day, 1909, when St. Cloud became a city, a soldier city, it was a Union Army Veterans Retirement Community. That's what it was founded as.

[00:05:28]This city park is named for Mr. Johnson because of his contributions to the uh city's development during his founding era.

[00:05:49]Adam and I came down here several times to shoot hoops on that very basketball court there.

[00:06:00]It's time to say hey to some people.

[00:06:03]Hey, I've asked you to tell me where you're from and uh to uh so I can give you a shout out.

[00:06:15]I want to say hello to Peter Burrow, Ontario, Canada. Peter Burrow writes and says, "We have the world's highest hydraulic lift lock."

[00:06:29]Now, that's a hydraulic lift is where they use a hydraulic lift to lift the ship instead of water.

[00:06:37]Well, I trust you, Peter Burl. But the sh but the ship lift people over at the three gorgeous dam on the Yanzi River in China may have to challenge that.

[00:06:52]Someone says, "Can you please tell me where I can purchase the little booklet you gave away at the celebration for life, how to be free from the fear of death?" Yes, I can. Go to livingwaters.com.

[00:07:06]One word, livingwaters.com.

[00:07:09]Click store and when the store comes up, click tracks and then fill in the search with the title of the booklet, how to be free from the fear of death. They cost 50 cents each. I recommend you buy a couple of dozen, make it worth your while. Give them away to your friends. Someone wrote and said, "Just wondering what happened to Mini Marge."

[00:07:34]Mini Marge is in safe and loving hands.

[00:07:39]Someone wrote, "The painting that was on the stage at Adam's Celebration of Life, did that make it home with you?" And the answer is yes. The painting made it home with us. We had it shipped because we didn't want to try to carry it on the plane. Thank you, Justin Scard, my dear friend. Thank you, Justin Scard, for arranging that shipment. It has arrived.

[00:08:01]Thank you. You remember the video I did where I was uh promoting the uh the barbecue place here in St. Cloud that I had lunch with one day with a friend. I was just trying to describe the menu and I misspoke and said that they have barbecue vegetables. And of course, as soon as I said that, I just thought it was hilarious and I laughed. I didn't take it out. I just left it and went ahead and tried to explain the rest of the menu. All right. Okay.

[00:08:32]Pauline writes, "I got to read you this.

[00:08:35]When I first read this, I laughed myself silly." Listen to this.

[00:08:42]I will try that barbecue place next time I'm in that area. I got happy when I heard that they have barbecue vegetables. I hope they have barbecue peas.

[00:08:54]They are so hard to find anymore. Nobody makes barbecue peas. People keep telling me that they're too timeconsuming to make and the grill marks won't stay on them. You don't believe me? Just ask the employees the next time you go into a barbecue pl. Ask them if they have barbecue peas with the grill marks. They can put grill marks on anything. I don't see why anyone has any problem putting them on peas.

[00:09:26]I love it. Thank you for sending that.

[00:09:28]That was that was great. Very great.

[00:09:32]Someone who knows about the Tampa Bay Rays writes, "Chandler Simpson is faster than anyone else in the major league, it seems." And I have to agree, he's very fast and he's getting a he's had now a reputation for as long as I've known him on the team as one of the fastest guys in in baseball.

[00:09:51]He is very fast. I love to watch him play. He puts the ball in play, gets on base, steals bases. I enjoy that part of the game. I I enjoy Chandler Simpson.

[00:10:02]Some people are still having trouble finding the arrow in the FedEx logo. A bunch of you have had your eyes opened and you've told me so, but some of you are still struggling with that. If you're having trouble finding the arrow in the FedEx logo, pay attention.

[00:10:24]There it is. the arrow in the FedEx logo. I circled it with a green marker.

[00:10:31]I hope you see it now. There you go.

[00:10:34]Once you see it, you're always going to see it. And you're going to start seeing FedEx trucks everywhere.

[00:10:41]Someone wrote, "Do you watch college football and what team do you support?"

[00:10:47]And uh I do watch college football occasionally. When I was uh younger, I was an ardent fan of Alabama, the University of Alabama, the Crimson Tide.

[00:10:59]That was back in the days of Bear Bryant. Of course, Bear Bryant ultimately retired very shortly thereafter he passed away.

[00:11:09]Uh obviously the coaching uh changed. I started losing interest in Alabama, but I've always said that Alabama was my team. However, I got I got a real problem with college football today because they're starting to pay a lot of college football players as if they were professionals.

[00:11:31]When I watched the college football championship, two great teams, I went online and found out that the quarterbacks were was the quarterbacks were being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, these are college kids.

[00:11:48]See, high school and college football used to be just about the sport.

[00:11:54]And now people are trying to start making money with it. That's just my opinion. It's it's one of the things that I'm I'm just, you know, I'm losing interest in college football. And while I'm on this subject, let me make a comment about basketball, professional basketball. You see, basketball when it started and when I played basketball in high school, it was a non-cont sport.

[00:12:19]If you touched another player, especially one with the ball, that was a foul.

[00:12:27]I don't even know if referees even know what a foul is anymore, but that's just me. That's just me. I'm an old guy. I remember the way the things used to be.

[00:12:40]Hello, Jim from Westerville, Ohio.

[00:12:44]Jim writes and says, "It's okay if you didn't give a shout out to my city."

[00:12:51]So, I'm shouting out to you, brother.

[00:12:53]Hello and welcome, Jim from Westerville, Ohio. Someone writes from Waxhaw, North Carolina. Now, that is an interesting sounding name. Waxhaw, North Carolina.

[00:13:05]And then we have someone from Seafford Rise, South Australia.

[00:13:11]And then we have Julia and Bill from McMinnville.

[00:13:15]Am I saying that right? McMinnville, Oregon. McMinnville, Oregon.

[00:13:21]Sean from Wet, Michigan. Now, that name caught my attention and I wondered how many other towns are called Wonet because when I lived in Oklahoma, there was a Wet Oklahoma. So, I checked it out. Seven. There are seven states that have a city by the name of Wionet.

[00:13:46]California, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, and as I already said, Oklahoma. Well, welcome Wet all of you. Any anybody else from WET? One of those other states. One of those other states. A city in one of those other states. Let me know. From Oxford, Alabama. I used to live in Aniston. Chris, welcome. Thank you for watching.

[00:14:11]Someone wrote and asked, "Please tell us about your truck driving career. How long did you do it? How long were you a pastor? Did you do both at the same time?"

[00:14:23]Well, those are interesting questions.

[00:14:25]Let me try to give it to you in a thumbnail real quick. I drove a truck from 2001 to 2003.

[00:14:33]Did I say free? 2003.

[00:14:37]2001 to 2003. I drove for Swift Transportation out of uh Phoenix, Arizona.

[00:14:46]Then I left truck driving until 2010 where I when I went back to driving a truck again.

[00:14:57]Uh 2010 to 2013. Now that was an interesting that was an interesting event because I had to go back to truck driving school because anytime you're off the road over three years, you got to start over. So I had to go back to truck driving school. My first company when I got out of truck driving school was with Stevens Transportation out of Dallas, Texas on Military Parkway. And I drove for them for a year and then I uh went to work in I changed and went to work with Martin Transport. Martin Transport is headquartered in Mondovi, Wisconsin. Any of you now are in those areas? Dallas, Texas, Mondovi, Wisconsin, then you know those places.

[00:15:40]And like I said, I drove for them for three years. Came off the road completely in 2013. December 2013 to be specific.

[00:15:52]That sounded like a crow squawking.

[00:15:56]You hear that?

[00:16:00]Hitchcock would be proud. Oh, and I almost forgot.

[00:16:05]Did you do both at the same time? No, I did not. I stopped preaching in 1999 and then as I said started driving a truck in 2001. So I did not drive a truck at the same time I was preaching.

[00:16:21]Hey buoyed.

[00:16:23]Hey buoyed.

[00:16:25]You looking for some breakfast? You're looking for some breakfast, huh? Looking for a w? Are you trying to find a worm?

[00:16:33]I don't think you're going to find a worm on the asphalt over there.

[00:16:40]Yeah. What else you got to say? Huh? You going to talk to me? Are you going to talk to me, boy?

[00:16:51]I guess not.

[00:16:54]Oh, he did say something. What? I didn't understand you.

[00:17:01]Well, peep to you, too. Peep.

[00:17:05]That's another thing about this park.

[00:17:07]Much quieter park. I can hear birds chirping and peeping and talking and singing and whatever.

[00:17:16]All right, let's get some more people here. Loots, Florida. Interesting name.

[00:17:21]Someone writes from Hillsdale, Michigan.

[00:17:24]Now, I'm familiar with Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Uh, one of the very few, if not the only college that will not accept any government money in any form. Interesting. Uh, Hillsdale College. Check it out. Winnam Maka, Nevada. Hello, Winaka. That's a that's an interesting name.

[00:17:46]Phoenix, Arizona. Mark and Carrie. Hello again. Thank you for watching. Aberdine Shire, Scotland.

[00:17:54]Aberdine Shire, Scotland. Remember I'm from Aberdine, Mississippi. I like that.

[00:17:59]Aberdine portion of the Aberdine Shire, Scotland. Brentwood, California. Hello, Brentwood. San M San Manuel, Arizona. San Manuel, Arizona.

[00:18:14]Lafayette, Virginia. Lafayette, Virginia. I wanted to know how many towns, how many states rather, had a town named Lafayette. And I found out there are between 15 and 20.

[00:18:27]And it all depends on how it's spelled.

[00:18:30]There's a lot of Lafayette.

[00:18:33]But you know, the town with the most states is Greenville.

[00:18:39]Casey is writing in from Tampa, Florida.

[00:18:42]Surely from normal, Illinois. Normal Illinois. I used to live in Leroy just outside of Bloomington. Bloomington.

[00:18:52]Normal. kind of like CMI St. Cloud, you know what I mean?

[00:18:57]Rob writes from Poke City, right here in Florida. Hey, Rob.

[00:19:04]Nigel from Manchester, England. Hello, Nigel from Manchester, England. Two of my favorite words, Nigel and Manchester.

[00:19:14]Here's another town. Very interesting name. Cars, Alberta, Canada. Hello, Carstairs.

[00:19:23]interesting word. Periodically, people will write me and tell me that they too have lost a child.

[00:19:30]Some of them have lost a child and then like within a matter of just a few months or a few years lost several other family members. My heart goes out to all of you who have suffered just like June and I are suffering the loss of a child.

[00:19:44]I'm specifically looking now at Jeff Bay, South Africa.

[00:19:49]Welcome and thank you for watching. I am so sorry for your loss.

[00:19:53]Mr. Williams, I hope this is not too personal a question, but I always wondered, did Adam ever see any doctors?

[00:20:04]Did he know what condition his health was in? And sadly, the answer to that is no, he did not.

[00:20:11]He did not.

[00:20:13]Um, but in retrospect and when I consider some of the problems I have, I'm sure he must have realized something was wrong.

[00:20:25]But I don't know that as far as far as his mom and I knew, he never went to a doctor. But he was planning to. Oh, he was planning to, but he never did.

[00:20:35]Someone wrote and said, "Hello, Papa Woo. Was Adam the Woo left or right-handed?"

[00:20:42]That was Tina from York County, Maine.

[00:20:46]Right-handed.

[00:20:49]Write that down now in case you you might forget it.

[00:20:53]Adam was right-handed.

[00:20:56]Watching from Barnagat, New Jersey. Did I pronounce that right? Barnagat, New Jersey.

[00:21:03]Welcome Reedfield, Maine.

[00:21:11]been watching your channel for just over a decade.

[00:21:15]Shortly after I started watching Adam's videos. Well, thank you for watching.

[00:21:20]Reedfield, Maine.

[00:21:23]I'm grateful. And then I have someone in Mexico City always writes me and says, "Hi, Padre."

[00:21:31]Woo buen that's my Spanish for the day.

[00:21:42]I would like you to tell me where you're watching from, the name of the town and the state.

[00:21:50]And if it's outside the United States, put your country name.

[00:21:56]When you tell me the country, name the town. So, I'll hone it down. I'm just This is just a way for us to relate to one another.

[00:22:06]Um, and I'd like you to leave your first name.

[00:22:12]Then I'll drop your name and the town you're from in videos like this as often as I can.

[00:22:19]No, I don't want your address. I don't want your phone number. I don't want your bank account number. Your first name will be sufficient.

[00:22:27]That was a pleasant, quiet spot.

[00:22:31]This may become my new favorite place.

[00:22:38]Maybe it's a lot quieter than down at the lakefront when you got all the cars running all over the place.

[00:22:49]I have another flashback memory from my truck driving days.

[00:22:54]Again, some of you have been involved in trucking and some of you have some connections with trucking. Others of you, it's you're not, you know, that's just not in your not in your background.

[00:23:04]I hope the veterans of truck driving and the noviceses will be interested in this uh memory.

[00:23:12]Hey everybody, Jim Williams here. I've stopped here at this truck stop and I want to show you about what's involved with sliding the tandemss on the trailer. Okay, we have to get out of the truck to go do that.

[00:23:25]>> Why would you need to slide the tandemss?

[00:23:28]The answer is usually because you're overweight on either your drive tires or your trailer tandemss. Now, the word tandem simply means that two things are arranged, one right after the other.

[00:23:42]Um, some two two people riding a bicycle built for two are said to be riding in tandem because one is in front of the other. So, you have trailer tandemss and you have drive tandemss. Trailer tires and drive tires.

[00:23:57]The drive tires do not move. They do not slide. Only the mechanism on the trailer allows the tandemss to slide back and forth on the trailer. So, that's how you adjust the weight. You may need more weight on the trailer or less weight on the trailer.

[00:24:14]And uh one other reason I guess is because sometimes the customer wants you to slide your trailer tandemss all the way to the end of the trailer so that it makes loading the trailer a little bit easier for the uh people that work on the loading dock. So let's take a look at how that works basically and you'll see firsthand how to slide the trailer tandemss. Here we go.

[00:24:39]Okay, we are here now at the trailer tandemss. I want to show you if you can see it that there is a railing here attached to the trailer that the mechanism of the trailer tandemss is also attached to, but it is designed to slide up and down that rail. There's a railing on this side of the trailer and a matching railing on the other side of the trailer.

[00:25:08]Do you see this pin? Do you see this pin sticking out of this hole?

[00:25:13]That is what holds the trailer tandemss in place on that rail, and that's what allows the tandemss to slide. I'm going to show you in a moment how we will release that pin. Now, there are four pins, two on this side, two on the other side, and that's what holds the tandemss in place. There used to be a mechanism on the uh trailer that was a lever you pulled up and in some cases there was a lever you pulled out.

[00:25:45]That's the way the trailers were designed when I first drove back in 2001.

[00:25:52]Now the trailer tandemss, the pins of the trailer tandemss are automated using the air system of the trailer. Let me show you what that's like. Here's the new mechanism, the one that uses the air in the trailer. You simply pull this pin.

[00:26:14]Pull this button rather and the pins slide out of the hole.

[00:26:21]You probably heard that as I pulled that button there. Let's go take a look.

[00:26:32]Yeah. Yeah. See the pin has backed out of that hole. Now we're ready to slide the tandemss.

[00:26:40]We're in the cab of the truck now. And as I said, in order for the pins to be released, the red button, which is the trailer supply for the air, has to be pulled out.

[00:26:56]That way when I pull that button on the trailer, the pins then uh remove themselves from the holes in that railing.

[00:27:07]Then we crank the truck up, put it in reverse, release the air in our tractor, leaving the red button out for our brakes on our trailer.

[00:27:27]me back up.

[00:27:36]And there you go. Now, to make sure that we got it where we want it, we push the button in, which fills the system, the air system in the trailer with air, causing the pins to pop back out again.

[00:27:52]Then we pull it back out to lock the trailer tires.

[00:27:56]Now we're make sure we got it in the hole.

[00:28:06]And you can feel it tugging. Ho ho.

[00:28:09]Tugging against the trailer brakes. We got it in the hole. We are good.

[00:28:37]Well, that's going to do it for this video. Thank you for joining me. I hope that you had a fun time.

[00:28:45]Thank you for loving me. I'm loving you back. Thank you for loving our family.

[00:28:51]Thank you for praying for our family.

[00:28:53]I'm so grateful for your kindness.

[00:28:58]Well, if the Lord wills, I'll see you in the next video.

[00:29:06]Goodbye.

[00:29:11]Wow.

[00:29:12]>> Great.