Bleeding, Spending Money and getting ready for a huge project

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:05]Started the day really early today. Had to come give blood. You have to be fasting. I don't know why they call it fasting because it seems so slow. You're not allowed to eat.

[00:00:16]Starving. Wake up in the morning. I'm hungry.

[00:00:19]But they got to do blood work on me.

[00:00:22]And uh check your levels.

[00:00:30]I got to do blood work all the time. Not all the time, but you know, I take all this diabetic medication and um they take your blood, they test it.

[00:00:46]Uh, and then I don't know, you know, I I've been taking all these different drugs for more than 26 27 years since like 99 or 2000 somewhere in there. I think 99 is when they told me.

[00:01:04]And um, and you know, I was diabetic before that, I'm sure. I just didn't know. And it was completely uncontrolled.

[00:01:13]You know, how I found out was uh was my ex-wife put, you know, we had gotten married in 1999 and uh now and because I was a spouse, I got added to her insurance.

[00:01:29]And they said, "Well, you know, you got to come in for your first checkup." And and I was such an idiot. Like we stopped at McDonald's on the way and I had gotten like I remember this because you know I'd got like a Mc Griddle and like a a big orange juice, you know, like a big gulpsiz orange juice, you know, you know. And I go in there and they're like, "Oh, you're not supposed to eat, but whatever. We'll take your blood."

[00:01:53]And they came back and they go, "Uh, Mr. Mosley, your blood is sugar is 360 or something." You know, I was like, "Okay." And they're like, "It's not supposed to. It's supposed to be like a hundred. You're uh you're diabetic.

[00:02:08]And um I remember uh my ex Allison at the time, she she she started crying. She goes, "Oh." She was like, "Rob, you're this is bad."

[00:02:21]And I'm like, I didn't understand the situation. I was like, "What what is I don't know what this means, you know?"

[00:02:28]and they're like, "Yeah, you can't uh you know, what are you eating?" And at the time, uh one of my side hustles was I had invested in a whole bunch of um vending machines.

[00:02:43]I had, I don't know, 20 Coke machines or something like that and bunch of candy machines and stuff. And I would go up to Sam's and buy boxes of candy and drinks and I would go service all the machines.

[00:02:56]I think I only had I sold most of them, but I had like I don't know five or six of them on a little route, you know, and it it wasn't worth it cuz you know you're selling a Coke for 50 cents which cost you 25 cents at the time and so you're and then you're splitting that with the with who where you're at.

[00:03:15]So, uh with the location so what are you making 10 15 cents a soda? What the what was not worth the amount of work of cuz the soda's heavy and um but I had this uh full these candy machines in office buildings and I would go in there and so I would have in my station wagon cases of Reese's and Honey Buns and I used to put Sunny Delight in there and I just when you have cases of candy.

[00:03:51]You just grab one, you know. And this is before I was knew I was diabetic. So I'm eating Reese's and Snickers and honey buns and all this stuff like all the time. I was fat. I was like 260 280 lbs.

[00:04:07]I don't know. And um I was just eating.

[00:04:11]I just ate whatever I wanted with reckless abandon. had no, you know, cares in the world.

[00:04:21]And they're sitting there telling me now, they go, "Look, you can have half an apple. Uh, you can have, you know, no more cereal, no more this, no more that.

[00:04:30]You know, you're going to have to prick yourself before you eat. Record your sugar, all this stuff." And I had a breakdown. Like, I was like, I started crying, you know? And I was only like what 24 or something like that.

[00:04:46]And um I'm like I can't eat an apple. I you have half an apple. Half an apple.

[00:04:54]And so um I remember like like thinking like imagine being told like you just can't eat anymore.

[00:05:05]and they put me on the metformin first and then uh they realized that wasn't doing much at first and I so I've been taking metformin for what over 25 26 years not to mention um all the other stuff they got me on.

[00:05:28]So, I don't know. It's uh it, you know, I I I've been living. I'm sure I'd be dead otherwise. So, I'm not complaining.

[00:05:41]I mean, if if if we were in another time 40, 50 years ago without this medication, be I'd be dead, you know? I mean, if you if I wasn't on the world's strictest diet. And I know that if I was on like a raw vegan diet or some kind of [ __ ] eating nuts and berries and whatever, I wouldn't need medicine and I'd be I could control my sugar. There's ways to control the sugar, but it's like there's only a couple of true pleasures in life. No matter how much money you have, no matter uh what it is, there's like food and sex and a few things, you know, a cool breeze on a hot day.

[00:06:25]And I know there's people out there, they're like, "Oh, well, you know, I've lived this long and I didn't eat meat or uh I did this. I'm vegan or I, you know," and I'm like, you know, I guess, you know, you can train yourself to deprive yourself of the things you love.

[00:06:40]Like Eric yesterday, we went to lunch yesterday and Eric was talking with the with this other guy that we're talking to and he was talking about how for 30 40 years he didn't eat red meat. You know, he just stopped doing it. He goes, "I'm going to stop eating junk food."

[00:06:54]And he goes, "Well, to pro he his theory was like, okay, to stop myself from eating hamburgers and things, I'll just won't eat any red meat."

[00:07:02]But I corrupted him.

[00:07:06]I I He He was like, "You know what? I think I'm going to try red meat again, you know, cuz well, he's no longer touring. He doesn't have to fit into the uh spandex. He's a drummer for Kiss, you know, if you didn't know that. And and so he doesn't have to fit into those outfits, you know. He can relax a little. I mean, he's almost 70 years old. Dude is 68 years old. And he's like, "So, he started eating steak again, and now he's like, "Man, I'm craving it now." And I go, "That's that's the thing about it. You start craving that protein, man. You start craving it." He goes, "Stakes's good."

[00:07:38]So, you can call it an addiction if you like, but um I can't imagine not being able to eat meat, red meat. And I was talking to this guy the other day. He's like, "Oh, you know, we're vegans." And like, "Dude, that Whopper." He goes, "Yeah, but they make an Impossible Whopper." I go, "Man, that's I haven't had one, but I you know, maybe I'll try one, but I I can't imagine it's good." Now, meat is not my problem.

[00:08:05]Eating red meat is not If I was full paleo and all I ate was meat, that'd probably be no problem. My problem is the bread and the potatoes and really the seed oils. The biggest problem that we have as a society is the seed oils.

[00:08:18]If we were just eating regular food cooked in lard, like you used to go get a hamburger that was just made out of meat and some regular bread and some regular cheese and some potatoes cut up cooked in lard that we had a much better society. But now everything is so processed and the carbs and the and the and the oils, that's our problem.

[00:08:39]And um that's what's coursing through my veins right now.

[00:08:44]lot of French fries and a lot of oil, a lot of fried food. And so, um, I'm trying to look at ways to clean myself up, but food is good. It's like it's what you look forward to in the morning. I look forward to my breakfast. I look forward to going to lunch. You know, yesterday me and when we went to lunch, well, you saw what I had. I had a bowl of chili and I had a BLT. Oh, it was good. Oh, so these uh challenges of getting older, but not just getting older. If I if if I have younger viewers out there, like if I had made a little bit better choices back when I was 25 and better habits and things, I'd be in much better shape today.

[00:09:41]Basically, I've never worked out in my whole whole life like exercise. Doesn't mean I wasn't active. I was doing things, but I've never like purposefully worked out. I've never been a member of a gym. I don't work out. I don't pump iron. I don't jog. I don't go on a bike.

[00:09:57]Zero. My whole life. Zero.

[00:10:01]Um, and I really don't watch what I eat that much except for Well, I do. That's not true. But just saying, I totally take advantage of the technology that we have. The GLP1s, the Ompic is a lifecher.

[00:10:22]I mean, o, what would I do without the Ompic? I'd be a fat [ __ ] and I'd probably be dead, you know? And um I think about Adam, you know, Adam is a guy who was eating a lot of French fries and drinking that coffee with the sugars in it and you know, obviously he had blockages and you get a little blockage in there and you get a little calcification in there and then you die in your sleep.

[00:10:51]And I've got a whole bunch of friends that this happened to. They just have a heart attack, you know, just have a heart attack.

[00:10:59]Widow maker. Bang. And you're done. And that's it.

[00:11:06]And um that's what happened to my buddy Vinnie. It's what happened to Adam. It's what happened to so many people. And um you know, and it happens to young people in their 40s.

[00:11:22]And I used to think 40 was old until you get to be 50 and you think, man, I wish I was 40 again. Geez. I meet somebody 40. I go, "Wow, you're young. Cuz I mean, look at Eric. He's 68. He's dude's going to be 70 soon. And he's really way better shape than me. That's sad. All right, I'm going to go home and get breakfast now that I've given my blood.

[00:11:47]All right, projects in the jungle today.

[00:11:50]This gate was removed. I hated this gate. It was always hitting me in the face and flipping around. I don't need a gate here. This whole property is gated.

[00:11:58]Had these two extra steps I bought. But I don't know why I had two extra steps for some reason.

[00:12:03]We're going to put them over there in front of that other door.

[00:12:07]Uh, got throw that thing in the trash.

[00:12:11]Anyway, there's that. I think I've accepted the sad reality that I'm going to need some professional help with this fence it project. We started looking at the situation and what's going to have to happen is I'm going to I'm going to have to spend probably 10 grand at least. I'm going to have to hire a fencing company, concrete footing company. They're going to have to come build a footing box that's going to go all the way around this and fill it with concrete. Then we're going to put poles in. And then we're going to buy 8x8 fencing panels. And this whole thing, there's just going to have to be a footing built, you know, one or two feet, whatever is recommended, maybe a foot if I could get away with it, where they're going have to build a form, fill it with concrete, and then have the steel poles. We're probably going to have to hack these things off or take them out because this is falling down. This is not going to work.

[00:12:58]This shit's 50 years old and this ain't going to fly. We're probably going to have to take an excavator, dig this out, dig a footing, and put it in. Oh, look at there. I have an excavator. That'll come in handy. So, yeah, I'm going to have to dig this out. We're going to have to build a box that goes all the way around. And we're we're going to put 8 by8 either steel or wood panels or vinyl.

[00:13:19]Vinyl will be fine. I don't care. I just need to put a little barrier between me and the apartments just so I feel like I have products.

[00:13:27]Nah, we don't got to do that. We put uh some concrete here now that this is filled in. So, made a ramp because it always had to drive over this lip. It was pretty significant cuz if you see over here, we ran out of concrete. We got to But see this huge dip? And that existed because there had to be a channel for the sliding door to go.

[00:13:46]Here's the door. One of the doors, which I thought about repurposing this and making it into some kind of a awning or something, but we'd have to have a crane. It's a pretty heavy thing, but uh driving over this was always a pain in the ass. And I was explaining to Fidel that like this where the pit is, I hit this all the time with certain little cars. You could see where it scraped.

[00:14:12]And I said, I thought about building some kind of a lift just one inch. I thought I said maybe we should just build a box all the way around this and fill it with one inch of concrete with a ramp because I need to have this guide for the tires to make sure I don't fall in the hole.

[00:14:26]But it's just this much too high. If it was a half an inch lower, I probably wouldn't scrape it, you know, cuz I'm just barely scraping it on certain cars, you know. You could see like, you know, see how that's hanging down and you know, certain cars, they just like the plastic lips, whatever, hit this damn thing.

[00:14:47]And um I don't know, like I I had made I don't know if you can see over there, I had made these ramps out of those pieces of wood. But what we figured out is they would slide. They have to be bolted into the concrete. So the cheapest thing to do would be to just bolt those into the concrete, leave them here, and then that would work. That's kind of ghetto. I was like, you know what? If we made a box, comes out like a foot and a half or something all the way. It comes all the way to here and then has a ramp and it's like 1 inch thick of concrete and then we'll paint it like yellow and that will still leave a nice guide rail for the tires cuz as long as you don't turn hard, you're not going to fall in the pit. It's just probably not going to happen. Um, hasn't happened yet. not something but um and I'd love to be able to find some sort of like I thought about building some sort of um railing like I thought there I thought about constructing a railing that would fold down so like it would be on the inside and then it would stand up. You know what I'm saying? I'd have to draw it for you, but >> you I had some ideas for to make. But the bottom line is just don't fall in the hole. You know, just the world is a dangerous place. Don't fall in the hole.

[00:16:06]I don't know of a better way to say it than that. Don't fall in the hole.

[00:16:10]People love it when I talk about how much things cost. So, let's put things in perspective. What does it cost to run my shop and to run this house and to do these projects like I'm doing? So myself and then often hippie and these two guys. So these two guys have been basically working here for months now with these two guys and the guys at my shop. I have two people that make 25 an hour and then I have three people four people if you count hippie which is he's not around. Three people that make 20 an hour, right?

[00:16:48]So it's 50 60 70 80 90 $110 per hour per day.

[00:16:58]So that's rough roughly $800 to $900 a day, something like that.

[00:17:07]Which means wow. So that's roughly something like four to 5,000 per week, right?

[00:17:16]And um yeah, so that's as much as what? 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. So anywhere from like 16 to 20,000 a month average that I spend on labor, not counting materials.

[00:17:42]So, how do I fund all of that? I don't know, you know, uh I try to work the math out.

[00:17:51]Like, I just sold that car for 145 or whatever it was, 145, and then I spent however much on it. And then, well, like, okay, I'm doing this gig at uh a corporate gig with the Delorean. It's a $20,000 rental.

[00:18:08]2500 a day, eight days, 20 grand. So I get these high paying gigs, right?

[00:18:15]Sometimes.

[00:18:16]And that'll cover, you know, a month, a couple of months, and then I'll sell a car. I'll make a profit on the car. Like for instance, the white Ferrari replica. Bought the car for like 12 or I had probably 15 in it and I sold the car for 30.

[00:18:37]um double my money on that car.

[00:18:41]So that's how I make money. And then uh YouTube and Patreon pays me I don't know probably about three grand a month that doesn't even cover one week of labor and then um other side hustles that I have eBay things like that.

[00:19:01]So now this is not a normal thing. I'm normally not doing this much house work, but basically in the last so many months, I've spent I don't know 50 grand or so.

[00:19:15]So, home improvement is an expensive expensive thing. Paint, rocks, you know, labor.

[00:19:24]And a lot of this I could be doing myself. I should be doing myself.

[00:19:29]But you just can't do certain things all by yourself. It just takes, especially when you're older, you got a broken wrist, you got I'm not as strong as I used to be. You know, there's no possible way. Like right now, we're putting these 24x 24 concrete pavers.

[00:19:42]Drop like I can't lift one of those.

[00:19:44]Forget it. Forget it.

[00:19:49]So, the majority of this stuff is like just extremely labor intensive and you have to have help. Just you have to.

[00:19:57]So, if you don't have sons or brothers or whatever, you've got to find some dudes to help.

[00:20:05]Well, other news, um, like a year ago, these people came out and interviewed me about the Delorean and about all these different things, and I they told me it was for like a Netflix special or something. Talked to these people for hours. And then I found out it was going to be on the Jeff Dunham's Cars That Drove Us, which I think is on Discovery Go or whatever channel it is. And then they did the Delorean episode and then I wasn't on it and I'm like what? It doesn't make any sense. Why am I not on this? And then the Trans Am episode comes out and apparently I'm on that for like two seconds.

[00:20:45]They interviewed me for hours. Wasted my time.

[00:20:50]I you know I do these things all the time and I don't know what it was I said or didn't say or whatever. They ended up not using me on the Delorean thing which doesn't make any sense and then they put me in this scene talking about the screaming chicken and people have been texting me about go oh I saw you on the Jeff Dunham show and then apparently there's some Panta documentary that somebody saw me on.

[00:21:13]Now, I remember like freaking a long time ago there was the original VH1 documentary and I was in that. So, I don't know if it's a new one or if they just saw the old one. But anyway, yeah, if you watch the Jeff D, but I'm on there for two seconds. It's not worth here. Here's the whole scene. It's like, let me see. It's >> the screaming chicken. It was a >> That's it. I watched this whole thing. I go and then why did they put me in there? Why bother?

[00:21:46]They put me in there for three seconds.

[00:21:49]I mean, I don't know if they're going to use me for any other episodes or whatever, but the time machine one would have been the one because I was in there for that, you know, that one. And it's just just doesn't make any sense.

[00:22:00]Well, I haven't really started on the Harley yet because I've been waiting on parts. I've just got one delivered. This is my uh fuel pump. So, this fuel pump and new filler neck, which I didn't realize that came with it because I need that. The mine's all rusty. I guess they knew that if you're going to if you need this, you probably need that. So, it's all one big piece. Um, fuel pump, fuel sender, and uh that's I just got that. Also got my battery yesterday because this battery is toast. It's a 2020 battery.

[00:22:35]It's six years old and it's been dead.

[00:22:36]So, I was trying to run the tender on it, but it's not coming back. I need to just toss it. Um, still waiting on the stator and the regulator. I thought maybe the regulator was out. The regulator is uh right here. Regulator sits down there in that little cubby hole down there.

[00:22:58]But everybody told me, they go, "Look, if your regulator went out, it's probably because your stator went out.

[00:23:03]Just change them both. More than likely, it's your stator, not the regulator. I went ahead and ordered both. Screw it.

[00:23:09]The bike's 25 years old. It's not going to hurt it to replace it. Wasn't a lot of money. This whole primary k has to come off, which means that foot peg has to come off, which means that shifter has to come off, which means that foot peg has to come off. And this thing needs to be propped up and put in the air. And uh I need to get a uh lift. I'm going to start pulling. This is This is the part that's going to suck. I uh I got to take the trunk off.

[00:23:35]The worst part I think I think the hardest part is probably going to be this rear fender because all this has to come apart. I got to take this rear hitch off which is for my little trailer.

[00:23:45]And uh I'm going to have to disassemble all these lights. You know, the trunk has to come off. These bags come off actually pretty easily.

[00:23:53]These crash bars are going to have to come off. These side covers are going to have to come off. The tank obviously has to come off. All this has to come apart, which isn't going to be too difficult to do. But I'm going to have to get some chemical cleaner because I got to empty this out. And then I need to uh they make some gas tank cleaner that I need to clean this thing out. But I need to clean it out and not put it back together because I need to get this off, the front fender off, the fairing, the front lower got to come off these shields here.

[00:24:24]And I wanted to dechrome everything potentially and powder coat it black.

[00:24:29]Even though I could buy most of these things in black, I just figured it would be better. I'll tell you why. Like for instance, I can buy a set of like these top rails and everything, but I don't know for sure that they're going to fit in the exact same place with the same holes 100%. I don't know cuz I could buy these top rail kit for like I don't know couple hundred bucks. But I'm like, you know what? Just take all this stuff. And I'm trying to decide if I want to just leave it chrome or leave it black. I'd like it to be black. But like, where do you begin and where do you end? You know, because are you am I going to do the crash bars? You know, the pipes and things aren't going to be changed.

[00:25:10]Um, I just realized this is a Scream and Eagle edition.

[00:25:17]I wasn't even paying attention to that.

[00:25:20]But yeah, that was when I did the big kit. So, I'm not going to go crazy on accessories, accessories, and whatnot. I might just leave all the chrome. I do like this little trim.

[00:25:32]This little skirt, I just need to clean it up. I always thought that was cool, but I'm going to have to bring it take it off cuz all this pin striping has to be removed. This all has to be sanded off cuz that's painted on and then cleared over. It's a chunk of paint missing. I'm probably going to have to get another one of these. It's all scratched up.

[00:25:49]Um, and I was thinking about changing out all of these bulbs for LEDs because all the new bikes now have LEDs. Takes a load off of the power also. So, but I do like having the passing lamps, but they make an LED for these and they're all black. And even though I bought LED conversions for these lights, those are 10 years ago LED conversions. The ones they make now are probably better and less dotty.

[00:26:18]But I got to change the stereo and speaker. Actually, I didn't buy speakers. And maybe the speakers are fine, but I probably should change them.

[00:26:26]I don't know because also I have this amplification kit, this amplifier, and I've had to change it once or twice.

[00:26:34]It's gone out on me a few times.

[00:26:37]So, uh cuz I it it overheats and whatnot, and I know you can't get it anymore.

[00:26:44]So, I don't know if I'm going to keep that, but it does make it significantly louder. So, if it's still working.

[00:26:50]Um, and I was thinking about having the seats reapholstered.

[00:26:57]I I got to find an upholstery shop first of all, or maybe I could just, you know, I can I'm sure I could buy a a saddle seat pretty easily. I don't know if I can get this though, though. Maybe I'll just leave it black. I was considering doing it in saddle tan, which always looks good with red. I mean, if you look at Lamborghini or Ferrari or whatever, they'll do red, but that's saddle tan.

[00:27:19]It also is cooler. But remember, let's say I take this bike, it's black, and I go stop somewhere and I get off it for a little bit and I come back, that seat's going to be 10,000 degrees because it's black.

[00:27:33]And you don't want to do white because it's going to get all marred up. But if you could do the saddle tan color, that goes well with the red and it won't burn your ass so much. So, you know, I'm just getting ready. The other thing I need to do is um really smart thing to do when you have a project like this is organization. You want to go buy a couple of boxes of uh Ziploc baggies, the freezer bags that you can write on.

[00:28:01]And you want to get the little small sandwich bags, the little or the smallest ones you can because every single time I take apart a thing, I'm going to put those bolts in that baggie and then write on it what it is.

[00:28:13]See what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Because if you just take all these nuts and bolts off and put them in a pile, you will not figure out where they go later.

[00:28:23]So, there's little tricks you can do, you know, like I'll take this piece of trim off and put tape on it, hat over the screws, put them back on, stuff like that.

[00:28:33]And oh, I just remembered I got to get the interior of this fairing off. That's going to suck.

[00:28:39]I got to get this interior fairing off because it has to be painted and I'm changing all the gauges.

[00:28:47]That's going to suck. That's going to suck a lot. Trying to remember why I was even changing the gauges. I think the gauges were faded, but I bought a whole set of these Dakota digital gauges down here.

[00:29:01]And um you know, some of this stuff I got a Jensen Bluetooth stereo with a Sirius XM built into it.

[00:29:11]And um but you know, I kind of don't need it because I also got to figure out what I'm going to do about my phone.

[00:29:18]See, back in the day, your phone was in your pocket.

[00:29:23]But now, I'm going to get a phone mount for this. Then I'm going to I need to find a Here's one of the things I learned about the phone with the iPhone.

[00:29:33]Um, when you mount your iPhone to a motorcycle, the vibration can cause the camera stabilization function to go bad.

[00:29:46]So, I got to figure out what I'm going to do with the phone. They make isol rubber isolated mounts and things like that. I was also thinking about raising the handlebars.

[00:30:00]I know I need new mounts for them because they're soft.

[00:30:04]I don't want like ape hangers, but I thought about raising them a couple inches, but I don't know if I could do that without extending the harnesses.

[00:30:12]Just a just an inch or so, you know? I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. But I'm excited. Oh, I want to ride this thing so bad, but my wrist isn't ready by the And also, it's going to be hard for me to wrench doing that, you know. Uh I may employ the help of some people.

[00:30:34]Anyway, I'm kind of excited about this.

[00:30:36]I'm excited to have a project. This is going to be I don't know, fun is the word, but I really want my bike back. I It's I'm really thinking about it, you know.

[00:30:49]It's going to be great.

[00:30:52]Oh, I'm so excited right now. I'm going to go take a poop.