Sep 17, 2026 · 20 min · 8 segments
A special announcement about a second show this week. Yippee! A bit of GLP1 talk and some work fun. Then I talk about the iconic DeLorean car and its founder John DeLorean. Sources…
Alright, now let's get into some work stuff.
This last week was interesting.
It's time again for a little gas station anatomy.
Everyone calls them gas pumps, but the proper term would be gas dispensers.
Because they don't do the pumping.
They're like the faucet in your house.
You turn on the faucet and the water flows out because it's been pressurized by a local water pump.
The same thing happens at a gas station.
Next to each underground tank, there is a turbine.
This turbine pressurizes the system by pulling fuel out of the underground tanks and sending that to all the dispensers at the station.
Well, this week, the turbine attached to the premium tank went out.
so we could not dispense premium for half the day.
The technicians that came to find out what was wrong said that another crew would have to come out with a new turbine and also a forklift to lift the old one out and drop the new one in.
And the entire day, I was dealing with questions.
No premium? Really? Yeah, no premium.
At all of them? Yes, at all of them.
That's how this works.
Sorry, please.
Either get regular or one of the other grades, or you'll have to go to another station.
I'm sorry.
And for those that think gas stations are rolling in money, trust me, these places are expensive to maintain.
Each nozzle costs like $500 each.
The card readers alone are close to $2,000.
And I'm afraid to ask how many thousands of dollars this repair will cost the station.
And it's all just so cars can come in and fuel up for nearly $6 a gallon right now.
Alright, now let's get into some work stuff.
This last week was interesting.
It's time again for a little gas station anatomy.
Everyone calls them gas pumps, but the proper term would be gas dispensers.
Because they don't do the pumping.
They're like the faucet in your house.
You turn on the faucet and the water flows out because it's been pressurized by a local water pump.
The same thing happens at a gas station.
Next to each underground tank, there is a turbine.
This turbine pressurizes the system by pulling fuel out of the underground tanks and sending that to all the dispensers at the station.
Well, this week, the turbine attached to the premium tank went out.
so we could not dispense premium for half the day.
The technicians that came to find out what was wrong said that another crew would have to come out with a new turbine and also a forklift to lift the old one out and drop the new one in.
And the entire day, I was dealing with questions.
No premium? Really? Yeah, no premium.
At all of them? Yes, at all of them.
That's how this works.
Sorry, please.
Either get regular or one of the other grades, or you'll have to go to another station.
I'm sorry.
And for those that think gas stations are rolling in money, trust me, these places are expensive to maintain.
Each nozzle costs like $500 each.
The card readers alone are close to $2,000.
And I'm afraid to ask how many thousands of dollars this repair will cost the station.
And it's all just so cars can come in and fuel up for nearly $6 a gallon right now.
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