18 Wheel Talk Podcast Show
by Patrick Heller / Janet McCue
A podcast for Truckers, about Truckers, by Truckers. "Coaching generations of Drivers while guiding them on their path to success. Fueling them with knowledge and passion for Trucking, Navigating the Industry one mile at a time." Come on in grab yourself a seat and hold on tight to your drink 'cause the revolution is gonna be one heck of a wild ride!
Episodes
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18WT #088 - Aerodynamics In Big Rigs And Trailers!
Send a text Episode #088: Well folks it is Halloween and here they go again! The only holiday probably more suited for these two than this one must be April Fool’s Day. For the two of them to just have one of those “normal conversations” that you hear people talk about, is highly unlikely to ever...
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18WT #087 - The Oddest Things!
Send a text Episode #087: While there was obviously research done for this episode it really does seem to be Story time end to end. The funniest part seems to be that Patrick wanted to do a giveaway. Because in about the first ten minutes Janet dropped the F-bomb. And that is just not her under...
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18WT #086 - Put Your Foot Down With Clutches, Automatic Or Manual?
Send a text Episode #086: Where do you put your foot down with clutches? Manual or Automatic? Preferences drivers? So, with their normal elegance and grace, our rabble rousers began today’s show with something that only they understood. So, they had to explain what the term "Chicken-Pants" means...
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18WT #085 - 18 Wheel Talk Rewind: Episode 28 From July Of 2021
Send a text Episode #085: In this 18 Wheel Talk rewind we take a look back at episode 28 about families and the ever changing roles "post pandemic" from July of 2021. We sure did have fun making this episode and we sure hope you enjoy the laughter too. Amidst the usual shenanigans, our hosts talk...
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18WT #084 - 18 Wheel Talk Rewind: Episode 53 From March Of 2022
Send a text Episode #084: We chose this episode to listen to and enjoy once again in appreciation of our local horse racing track here in Phoenix being sold to a new owner who is keeping it open as a Horse Racing Track. Turf Paradise has been in the Valley of the Sun since January 7, 1956. The...
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18WT #083 - 18 Wheel Talk Rewind: Episode 37 From December 2021
Send a text Episode #083: In this 18 Wheel Talk Rewind we take a look back at episode 37 from December of 2021. Our hosts talk about all the different ways out there to save money from web browser extensions to apps on mobile phones. Enjoy! To start out our hosts begin with a bit of a bang as...
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18WT #082 - Tips And Hacks To Stay Healthy On The Road!
Send a text Episode #082: In our latest episode Janet tries fooling Patrick by entering their 4th Anniversary Giveaway Bash. Yes the Big Bash Giveaway under her alias. However, here’s a shocker! He knows her alias a.k.a. Pryncess Bytchy, since he did giver the name he should know it. Then as they...
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18WT #081 - 18 Wheel Talk Rewind: Episode 10 From September 2020
Send a text Episode #081: In this 18 Wheel Talk Rewind we take a look back at Episode 10 from September of 2020 which is one of our most popular episodes. Amid Covid-19 and the drastic changes through out the world, sports in America was trying to figure out a way back. And on with the SHOW! The...
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18WT #080 - Trucker's Toolbox: Top 7 Tips and Tricks for Truck Maintenance!
Send a text Episode #080: If you listen really closely to our laughing loco duo, as they start the podcast you will hear whispering. It is probably Janet doing her own little countdown, no doubt Patrick instigated her to do something right before he hit record on the system. When they get a…
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18WT #079 - Top 10 Life Hacks Every Truck Driver Must Know!
Send a text Episode #079: Informative, Brilliant Tips brought to you by your Favorite Podcasting Duo! Patrick and Janet start off for whatever reason talking in funny voices about Taco’s and Tequila. Maybe it is because they are taking their 4 Year Anniversary of the Podcast to Heart. They do…
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18WT #078 - Are You In The Know Zone?
Send a text Episode #078: Have you ever considered that the 18 Wheel Talk Podcast Show hosts are like the Instigator and the Gremlin? If our expectations of this charismatic duo are anything, it would be starting a show with laughter. Not that they would be starting with football players, Mother...
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18WT #077 - Pulling In For The Night, What's Your Favorite Place To Set Your Brakes!
Send a text Episode #077: Today’s show started out with a big bang or at least a big, big belch if Patrick is to be believed! Janet argues the point and says that it was not as big as he claims. They barely managed to get past that point before they begin talking about their great big surprise.…
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18WT #076 - Truckers Lifestyle And The Gadgets That Transform It!
Send a text Episode #076: So, at the beginning of today’s show, Janet was all excited to be talking about gadgets and how people always seem to go back to calling her the gadget lady. She does seem to love them. Add that to the obvious love of cooking she has, and today’s episode has her like a…
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18WT #075 - Best Of 18 Wheel Talk From August 2021
Send a text Episode #075: We revisit a pervious episode from August 2021. Enjoy! Patrick interrupts to tell her that she looks fuzzy, so we time out for laughter and camera cleaning. So anyway, she says…she likes to cook and do Sunday dinners. You know when the kitchen door closes, and the pugs…
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18WT #074 - Meet Steve Strong VP Of Administration At Southwest Truck Driver Training School!
Send a text Episode #074: In this episode our duo gets down to business right off the bat! What is happening to our jokesters? They have once again shown that in addition to handing out laughter and information they can really do a great interview. They are talking with Steve Strong, the V.P. of...
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18WT #073 - 18 Wheels Of Perfection - What's Your Choice!
Send a text Episode #073: Our two troublemakers begin the show by playing freeze-face and laughing. What a shock. Patrick never seems to tell Janet when the show is starting. Today they are talking about 18 wheels of perfection and what is your choice driver? They know all of the nicknames and of...
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18WT #072 - Meet Hope Zvara From Mother Trucker Yoga!
Send a text Episode #072: In this episode, our familiar joking duo actually settles down a bit with the teasing! They truly “adulted” as they call it. Their reasoning was simple, they had an incredible guest on the show. Her name is Hope Zvara, she is the CEO and Guru of Mother Trucker Yoga. Her...
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18WT #071 - Best Of 18 Wheel Talk From July 2020
Send a text Episode #071: We revisit a pervious episode from July 2020. Enjoy! Patrick & Janet begin by talking about Corona cooties day 198 and the Gov… Is Corona cooties a govt experiment gone wrong? Let’s talk about it here on episode 9. A quick look at some graphics and a take 2! Air base,...
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18WT #070 - To CB Or Not To CB That Is The Question?
Send a text Episode #070: In today's episode our duo begin with a little joke for a friend. It will probably make a few people scratch their heads and then laugh. There is some definite wordplay today. But what they venture off to is how the movies play a role in life. Even something as ordinary…
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18WT #069 - Lemon Pepper Wings, CHROME, and Waterboarding!
Send a text Episode #069: Patrick starts the show by pushing Janets’ buttons to make her laugh. And they go into how she gets happy feet when she saves money. From there Patrick welcomes the new listeners and they tell you about today’s episode. Yes, it really is an odd name, right up until you...
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18WT #068 - Old School Maintenance for LIGHTS on Your BIG RIG!
Send a text Episode #068: Once the silliness subsides between our cohosts because Janet stumbles on her words. Somehow, she turns truck electrical into "truckaluckal" and you know Patrick enjoys when she stumbles on her words. They are talking about electrical and how it pertains to the lights on...
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18WT #067 - Hazmat - Endorsements, Rules, Regs And More!
Send a text Episode #067: After several obvious restarts our comedic duo finally get started talking about HazMat materials and how each of them has hauled them. But in different ways! Patrick hauled medical waste and Janet hauled both 6-oil and gas. So, their first hurdle is getting past…
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18WT #066 - Know Your Load - The Manifest, The Securing, The Weighing and More!
Send a text Episode #066: Once the dynamic duo is done making fun of each other and laughing at life in general, they actually get down to business. And by business, they are talking about knowing your load. But good Lord it does take a little chitty chat to get them Rollin and on the subject of...
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18WT #065 - Revamped, Ready To Roll And Here For The Long Haul!
Send a text Episode #065: Amid the laughter and humor, that has not changed since they were last heard from before the Holidays. Our hosts discuss where they have been and why they have been gone for so very long. Right when Thanksgiving hit, they were preparing for the Holiday break, cooking,...
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18WT #064: Holiday Trends, Ways To Save Money, Family Traditions And More!
Send a text 18WT 064: In this episode we talk about Holiday trends, Saving money, family traditions and more. This Holiday everyone is all about staying home and enjoying that family meal. More than just the family time it is also a very big saver on the budget. So, as we have talked with family...
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18WT #063: Cracking The Code To The Truck Driver Shortage!
Send a text 18WT 063: So many people see trucking as a great opportunity. So they go and get trained either paying themselves for a trucking school, or going through a company and having them pay. Then they get their money back through a 2 year contract typically. Then a few months after training...
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18WT #062: What Zombies Can Teach You About Sleep Deprivation!
Send a text 18WT #062: In this episode of the 18 Wheel Talk Podcast Show, we take a look at how Zombies love sleep just as much as the next human. And what zombies can teach you about sleep deprivation. Zombies are well known for their craving for human brains, but what else can zombies teach us...
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18WT #061: Natural Food Hacks That Give You Energy!
Send a text 18WT #061: In this episode, Patrick and Janet talk about how easy it is to get into a slump after a meal. You know that carb-coma that so many people fall into after eating. They go over foods they love for flavor and versatility. Only to discover that they are also great choices to...
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18WT #060: 1 Easy Step To Healthy Eating!
Send a text 18WT #060: On this episode Janet and I talk about the excuses people make about why they have problems with healthy eating. We also talk about the one step you can do to get started today. Here are the links to our other episodes we talked about in this episode. The first one is…
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18WT #059: Little Known Facts About Happiness - And Why They Matter!
Send a text 18WT 059: In this episode Janet and I talk about Happiness and Health and how they relate to each other. We go over all the little things in life that help you with both. Simple things like socializing, taking care of yourself and more. We go into depth about how endorphins help both...
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18WT #058: Packing For The Road - The Travelers' Guide eBook!
Send a text 18WT 058: How you doing Janet and I talk about what to pack for the road, whether you're going away for the day, you're doing an overnighter going away for a week, or maybe you're planning a a month long road trip. We, we created a Traveler's guide eBook for you, and we wanted to...
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18WT #057: Robo Pug - Product Review Of The Roborock E5 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner!
Send a text 18 WT 057: Robo Pug (Roborock E5 vacuum) All right. I think, uh, I think it's working. Yeah. Look at that. The robot is about to start. Yes. Yeah. We gotta, we are reviewing The roborock E five, robotic vacuum cleaner. And right now it is starting its process here from its home dock....
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18WT #056: Fifteen (15) Things You Can Do To Save On Fuel While Driving!
Send a text 18WT 056: Hey, it's Patrick with the 18 wheel talk podcast show on this episode, Janet and I go over a list of roughly about 15 things that will save you on fuel while driving. So, we compiled a list of different ways that you could save on fuel. I know fuel prices are coming down…
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18WT #055: Overnight Parking!
Send a text 18WT 055: Hey, welcome to the 18 wheel talk podcast show on this episode, Janet and I went over different places to park overnight. So this way, if you're traveling around, if you're in a big rig, you're in an RV you're towing a camper and it's, you know, you just gotta kind of get a...
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18WT #054: Where Have You Been!?
Send a text 18WT 054: Thank you for joining us at the 18 wheel talk podcast show. We're a podcast For Truckers, About Truckers, By Truckers. Coaching Generations of Drivers while guiding them on their path of success. In this week's episode, we're gonna talk about where we've been for the last…
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18WT #053: Horse Racing, Doping, and Death, How Did He Die?
Send a text 18WT 053: HORSE RACING - Medina Spirit Stripped of 2021 Kentucky Derby Win. Medina Spirit is no longer the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby. The colt, who died unexpectedly in December, was officially disqualified by Kentucky racing officials on Monday for failing a drug test after...
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18WT #052: The Slap Heard Around The World from our LIVE Stream 3-28-2022
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18WT #051: Slang In America from our LIVE Stream 3-21-2022
Send a text 18WT 051: On this episode we talk about Spring, after all it was the first day of Spring. We also talked about Slang in America. You know those words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular...
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18WT #050: Food For Thought from our LIVE stream 3-14-2022
Send a text 18WT 050: On this episode we decided to revisit our food for thought topic from the week before when we had a ghost in the machine. Janet asked what is your favorite food to eat both at home or at a restaurant. We also talked about some facts that Janet found online. These facts were...
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18WT #049: Heart Health Month...(Year)!
Send a text 18WT 049: On this episode we discussed Heart Health Month and over 20 different ways to a healthier heart. We feel that heart health month should be something everyone should think about all year long. Below are 20 plus different ways to get started to a healthier heart. Stop smoking…
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18WT #048: The Ghost In The Machine from our LIVE Stream 3-7-2022
Send a text 18WT 048: On this episode we talked about the ghost in the machine in that we were having serious lag problems with our LIVE stream. We briefly talked about food and whether you prefer ordering out or eating in at home. We asked our chat room what their favorite food was to eat. We…
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18WT #047: Game Night, War Games and our New Facebook Page from our LIVE Stream 2-28-2022
Send a text 18WT 047: On this episode we talked about our upcoming game night Sunday night @4pm Arizona Time on March 13, 2022. Yes this is the day the Nation sets the clocks ahead for the Springtime. We are going to play the game Cards Against Humanity (a party game for horrible people). We…
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18WT #046: The NFL, Hoops, Daytona and More! from our LIVE Stream 2-21-2022
Send a text 18WT 046: On this episode we talked about the NFL, Hoops, Daytona and More. NFL - Antonio Brown vs the Tampa Bay Bucs … 2 months since the Jets game where Brown took his shirt off while leaving the field and the receiver still seems as mad as ever about being dumped. Brown took to...
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18WT #045: Valentine's Day from our LIVE Stream 2-14-2022
Send a text 18WT 045: Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine Originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine… The Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be…
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18WT #044: Stupid Knowledge Part 2 from our LIVE Stream 2-7-2022
Send a text 18WT 044: More Stupid Knowledge Facts The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (So, basically, Monty Python and Quentin Tarantino got it right.) In the time it took for you to read this sentence, around 50,000 cells in your body…
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18WT #043: Stupid Knowledge from our LIVE Stream 1-31-2022
Send a text 18WT 043: On this episode we talked about stupid knowledge, you know that knowledge that just sits in your brain and you don't know how it got there. Here is just a sample of the stupid knowledge facts we talked about on the show. The average person walks past 36 murderers in their...
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18WT #042: Children and Obesity - Childhood Obesity is on the Rise in the U.S. and the World!
Send a text 18WT 042: CHILDREN AND OBESITY - CHILDHOOD OBESITY IS ON THE RISE IN THE U.S. & THE WORLD The scales don’t lie: Many American kids spent the last year of remote learning being more sedentary and eating their feelings The hardest hit, has been children ages 5 to 11, who gained an…
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18WT #041: The Playoffs, Strikes, Retirements and More from our LIVE Stream 1-24-2022
Send a text 18WT 041: THE PLAYOFFS, STRIKES, RETIREMENTS AND MORE LETS TALK FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS Bengals 19-16 over Titans. Joe Burrow got beat up in the game -- sacked an NFL-record-tying nine times -- he still threw for 348 yards to propel the Bengals to one of their biggest wins in franchise...
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18WT #040: Identity Theft from our LIVE Stream 1-17-2022
Send a text 18WT 040: On this episode we talked about Identity Theft, ways to prevent it and what to do if you are subject to it. Oh yeah and we had Margaritas too. This was also our first time LIVE on 4 different social media platforms. IDENTITY THEFT AND HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF Key takeaways...
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18WT #039: CoVid, Space Travel, The Weather and More from our YouTube LIVE Stream 12-14-2021
Send a text 18WT 039: Live Podcast Stream from Tuesday 12/14/2021 @ 2pm Arizona Time Zone. On this live show we talked about CoVid, Space Travel, The Weather and More. Full podcast show notes available here: www.18wheeltalk.com/e39 Southwest Truck Driver Training SHIFT YOUR CAREER INTO HIGH GEAR...
About this show
A podcast for Truckers, about Truckers, by Truckers. "Coaching generations of Drivers while guiding them on their path to success. Fueling them with knowledge and passion for Trucking, Navigating the Industry one mile at a time." Come on in grab yourself a seat and hold on tight to your drink 'cause the revolution is gonna be one heck of a wild ride!
Hosted by
Patrick Heller / Janet McCue