Hard Parking with Jhae Pfenning Apr 10, 2026

Two Nobodies with Wes Tankersley | One Drink Wednesday Crossover (Ep 320)

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Ready for this, Mr. West Tankersley?

Let's do it.

This is Hart Barkin, brought to you by Wright, Hunter and Wright Toyota

out of Scottsdale, Arizona.

I'm your host, Jay Finning, joining me in a few moments.

He is the co-host of To Nobody To Know Nothing.

He is the host of Shapings Here Says Treasure Valley.

And most importantly, for this call, he is my co-host for One Drink Wednesday.

He is West Tankersley West.

Welcome back to the podcast, man.

What's happening, dude?

I feel like I was telling you earlier, like I feel like I'm out of place.

So I'm going to drink some of this maple bourbon because I feel like when we're

doing One Drink Wednesday, we have to pour something.

And I know you got like a full glass of vodka, so have fun with that.

No, just for the record.

Let the record show that I'm drinking ice water.

Or water, there's no ice in it.

Yeah.

I can't believe you're drinking it with no ice.

What the hell?

Because unlike you, Wes, I'm not an alcoholic.

Cheers, Jay.

Yeah.

Cheers.

So yeah, I begged you to come back onto the show.

I know that usually when you're on here, it's a huge ratings plunge, but I figure

at this point I can't get any worse than I've been doing lately.

And so, I mean, you look like a million bucks.

You look famous.

And so maybe that'll help boost the algorithm.

But you know, we talk about One Drink Wednesday all the time, or I talk about it.

You hear it on the closing of every episode and I figured, hell, why not get you on here

and let's talk about the shit we talk about and let's talk about what you have

going on in your To Nobody To Know Nothing, which it's not new.

You guys have been doing it now for a while, but I've told you on a few occasions,

I think it's a really excellent thing to listen to when I'm driving around.

So tell us about To Nobody To Know Nothing.

Well, the sad thing is, I think you prefer that over just my regular podcast,

which is, you know, that kind of makes me want to cry.

But Robert Watson was a guy that I interviewed and I met on TikTok at one point.

And he is, he's a baby boomer, right?

And I'm Gen X and it's cool because we get to talk about all this different stuff.

We started out like going through his book.

He has a book called R's Victorious and we went through chapter by chapter

because shaping success is really about like motivation, right?

So all these chapters that he had were all these lessons that he learned in life

and all the things that he was doing.

And it was just one of those things where we started going through that

and then naturally just progressed into other things.

So we talk a lot about, it's not a political podcast,

but we do talk a lot about what's going on.

Like this morning we were talking about the Strait of Hormuz and those types of things

because he was former military intelligence.

So he was an analyst and what he does is he, he still does it,

even though he doesn't work for anyone, but he'll go through and he'll analyze the situation

and then he would give the, hey, President Trump, this is what you got to do.

Hey, President Biden, this is what you got to do.

Or this is what I would see could happen from these two different scenarios.

Now you pick and choose what you're going to want to do.

And so someone called us at one point, we were talking about something

and I can't remember what it was, it wasn't even very political,

but they said, oh, look, it's two nobodies who know nothing.

And not that degrees make you a man or make you smart,

but you're saying that with like people who had, there's five degrees right here.

And we're just, we are nobody, but we look at things factually,

kind of like you and I have these conversations all the time,

but like what's really going on.

And we think with the facts, not our feelings,

which is a real hard thing to do these days.

Hey everyone, I hope you're enjoying this conversation I'm having with West Tankersley.

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What do you mean by that, Wes?

Oh, you know what I mean.

I mean, it's crazy.

It's like people do not like,

you know, you look at the political things that are going on right now, right?

Orange man bad.

So if orange man says something,

everyone else is going to do the, not everyone,

but you know, like 50% of the population is like,

nope, not going to do it.

And you watch like the, you watch the right,

and they just do the opposite.

Whether it's right or wrong, they do the opposite, you know.

The left, you mean?

The left, I'm sorry.

Yeah, yeah, it's whatever he says is wrong,

and we're not going to do it.

So if he said don't, he says that breathing air is good,

they're going to stop breathing, you know?

I mean, it's kind of that.

It's not that bad, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, there's a lot of memes out there,

and I think they all started in 2020, right?

When it comes to injecting yourself with bleach.

And then there's a segment of the population who,

well, you got the crazies, right?

So that's the danger, I guess,

is if you say something like that,

there's going to be a subset of idiots out there

who actually do it because they don't understand.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't say it,

but there's also people who are going to say,

oh my God, I can't believe this person said that.

You know, what kind of a leader, blah, blah, blah.

And so, no, I get it.

It's, and I wouldn't say it's left or right.

It's just when people are so convicted

in their feelings about something,

then they're void of hearing any discussions

or conversations with any factual or new information, right?

There's cars, it's a weird car reference, right?

But there's cars I just haven't liked.

And once you learn a little bit more about the car

and what makes it special, that's new information.

And then you could say, okay, well, you know,

it's a cool car.

It's not for me, but I can definitely see

why people have the appeal for that car.

But there's other people who say,

I don't give a fuck what you say about that car.

It's a piece of shit.

And I'm never going to look at it, you know?

And it's like, dude, I've just given you

some very objective information,

some tracking factual information about this.

And you can still feel the way you feel,

just know that that's how you feel.

That's not how it is.

And so, you know, I think you're 100% on point with that.

Yeah, it's crazy.

Like here in Boise, you know,

just kind of an idea of what's going on around here.

It's like, last year they passed a bill

where they banned anything but the American flag

or the state flag being up on,

or the city flag or whatever, being up on a flagpole.

So like, if it wasn't tied to anything, then...

Hold on.

So it's a government, though, right?

It's like, it's got to be on like a municipality,

like the courthouse versus...

Yes.

Jay Tuck's Chevrolet.

Yeah, well, and what happened was it came down

to the fact that the mayor of Boise,

like they would have pride flags everywhere, right?

And so, the mayor of Boise decided

that when they passed this ban, there was a loophole.

So she made the city flag the pride flag,

and then she put it up.

And then now the pride flag, the Boise flag is the pride flag,

which is crazy to me because like,

if you think about it, you're representing

a very small part of the population of Boise, right?

But this is what she did to prove a point that she could do it.

And then this year, they're like,

oh, well, now we're going to pass the bill

a little bit differently, so you have to take it down.

So they take it down the other day,

and there's this big old story that just because

we're taking this down doesn't mean that we don't

invite everyone to come to our city.

And it was like, okay, no one was saying

that you weren't inviting everyone to the city.

Right, no one ever said that to begin with.

You put the target on your back by being like,

hey, guys.

Yep, exactly.

And I don't have anything wrong with the pride flag,

but I don't think that it should be on a freaking city flag

poll. This is the representation of the city when

you don't represent everyone in the city with that.

The United States flag represents our country,

and it's become something that is so polarized, right?

It's like, you're a racist if you like the American flag.

And I've got the American flag tattooed on my chest and my arm,

so I guess I'm racist.

It explains a lot, you're a racist son of a bitch.

Yeah, my best friend.

So what is it, Wes?

Are you racist or are you gay?

I'm also a bigot.

I don't know if you know that.

And we all get called like, that's the problem, right?

So now I don't agree with you.

Now I'm a racist.

Now I'm a bigot.

Now I'm a Nazi.

Now I'm this.

Now I'm that.

And it's like, that's not it.

We're just people.

And it's insane to me that Adam Crowell

talks about it all the time, right?

I'm not saying that racism would go away

if we stopped talking about it,

but if we sit there and we point out

that every single thing that we do is a racist,

what are people going to start thinking?

Like, we're just a terrible country.

We're terrible people.

We can't say anything because we're all racist.

We're all bigots.

We're all Nazis, you know.

How the hell does the mayor get away

with changing the flag?

Well, that doesn't even make any sense to me, right?

Because was it just for a month?

But you said they just changed the flag.

I get the city council, like people voted on it.

Was it like Prop 436 and everyone voted yes?

It was weird.

There was like, there was a city council,

and I don't live in Boise,

but I know about it because, you know,

this is happening and like my wife and I,

we were married in June, which is Pride Month, right?

And so every once in a while,

we'll go have a staycation downtown Boise

and like we're rolling around

and like there are Pride flags everywhere,

like on every corner.

And it's like this whole big deal

that they want to have this whole month with it.

And I think what happened was so many people were like, why?

Why don't we have a straight flag?

Why don't we have this?

You know, like once you start doing that,

it becomes, why do we have this for just this one group,

but we don't have that?

And they can't even, I mean,

BASC is a big thing here too.

Like there's a lot of BASC people here.

And so they can't really hang up a BASC flag anymore either.

So it wasn't just the Pride flag,

but that's what they're honing in on.

They just don't want you putting

something other than the state flag

or the American flag on a flagpole, you know?

So the BASC thing is, I'm curious with that

because it was a couple blocks, right?

You have like the BASC district.

BASC quarter, yeah, is what they call it.

BASC quarter.

So why can't the, can the BASC quarter

have the BASC flags up?

I mean, it's like going to Chinatown

and seeing the China stuff.

And it's like going to the, I don't know,

the gay parts of every major U.S. city.

And there's usually one or two blocks

that are dedicated to Pride and like 24-7.

And that's fine because you know where you're at, right?

You know, that's the district.

And that's always a victorious destination

for whatever reason, right?

Yeah.

I mean, you know, when we went to Puerto Vallarta,

we were in basically the gay district the whole time

and these flags are everywhere, the trans flags,

and then the regular flag.

And there's like, I don't know, 12 different flags.

I had no idea.

But I, I don't think they have any business being on

like federal or state or municipality,

just like you're not going to hang the,

your favorite schools flag anywhere up on the school, right?

The school, the school flag should be the state flag,

the American flag and the school flag, right?

Yeah.

But yeah.

And I think that that's...

I have pride flags everywhere.

It's just, I'm not, I'm not for it.

And that doesn't make me homophobic by any means.

No, the big thing is though is they were,

they banned it from being on the municipalities.

Like you said, you can still have it on your house.

You can do whatever you want.

It just...

Okay, yeah.

That's the problem.

It's like you're sitting there saying that we're not inclusive, right?

And that's not the case.

The case is, is why are we putting this flag up

for a small percentage of the whole city,

you know, the whole state or whatever.

And they did it out of spite

because they told them they couldn't do it.

You know, that was, that was the problem.

And so it was just weird.

Like there was this funny last year,

or last week when it passed, I just saw that.

I'm just like, you got to be kidding.

But it's those types of things that, you know, drive me insane.

As a PE teacher, I have a friend, Matt Todd,

who's been on my podcast a couple of times.

It's because you're a bigot, Wes.

Yeah, right.

Because I'm a bigot.

You're a gay, you're a gay, bigot Nazi.

I'm a homophobe.

Yeah.

But it was funny because they were talking.

Drop the foe, Wes.

Drop the foe.

You're just a, oh wait, Matt Todd.

Anyway, Matt Todd, I really enjoy Matt

because he's talking to all these people

in our state at the local level.

And he was talking to someone

who is representative for the state.

And she was talking about PE and how he said,

he asked her a question like, what is the problem?

How do you feel about women having transgender males

coming into a women's space?

And are you concerned that something could happen to you?

And she's like, why are, because I'm concerned for my kids

and this and that.

And she's like, well, why are you concerned for me?

I need to be concerned for myself.

And if I don't have a problem with it,

you shouldn't have a problem with it.

And he's like, well, you have guys walking in

all out into a girl's locker room.

If that happened with my daughter, I would be pissed.

You know, like how is this okay?

And she says, well, what we need to do

is we just need to do away with PE.

Why do we even need PE?

Why do you need to dress down?

And I was just like, you got to be kidding me.

Yeah, yeah.

This is not the answer.

And then he asked her, it was funny

because he asked her if she had played any sports

in high school.

And she's like, or if she lettered in anything.

And she's like, no, I didn't play any sports,

but I did get a letter in debate.

So you have no clue what it's like to play a sport.

You have no clue what it's like to,

you probably took those two PE classes that were required by

so that you could get your diploma.

But you saw no value in it.

And you've never really looked at the value

of physical education.

And, you know, I have a, that's hard for me

because I love to eat.

Yeah, and I can't.

I think that you don't have to be able to letter anything.

I think it's just, I think it's kind of common sense, right?

I mean, you just have to be a parent.

You just have to be a normal person.

Because I can guarantee you there's a ton of liberal women

who do not want some dude going in,

or some dude who identifies as a woman

going into the restroom with them

or their daughters at any given time,

nor do they want them playing sports with their girls.

So for someone to not understand how that's a problem,

there's a lot of, even beyond the sexual predativeness of it,

because believe me, you, we know there's a lot of sexual,

it is a fucking, it is a disease in the world right now.

It's probably always been a disease in the world.

I don't know why it's got to be so hard.

I mean, I think it's pretty simple.

I mean, all we have to do is just put a picture

of what you got on the wall, and this is where you go.

I mean, it's pretty simple.

Junk, no junk.

Junk to the right, no junk to the left.

Junk to the right, trunk to the left, like what, you know.

Dong over here, no dong over there.

I mean, it's not that hard.

It's like, who cares now?

Dong with the wind.

Yeah, right.

That's the next movie that's coming out.

Yeah, I don't know how it's controversial, you know,

and I just, it blows my mind.

I just, maybe it just goes back to the beginning,

but to nobody's or no nothing.

So Robert Watson, he brings these conversations,

and these are the type of stuff you guys talk about.

He pretty much puts in a little more better,

better information than I do during this call, of course.

But I just find it fascinating because you both

share these great stories.

Yeah, he does the research.

Like, I mean, it's honest, literally, like what Robert

and I do is Monday morning at five o'clock,

my time, six o'clock is time, I turn the damn thing on,

and we just, hey, what's going on, Robert?

And then we talk about some study that he read

or something that I had going on or something that was,

and we just have a conversation about it.

It's like, this is how these two nobodies feel about something

because, I mean, it's interesting because, you know,

we're, like I said, we're 20 years apart.

And so he's grown up in a different scenario than I have,

and been through different things.

But we've also had some pretty cool things in common as well.

So it's a fun conversation.

I think one of the things that makes it so good

is that he's so careful too, right?

That he's, because he's still a professional

and you're obviously careful and a professional as well.

But I just find it hard for someone to watch that

and be upset about stuff you guys are talking about.

And the only thing I could come away with

each time I listen is if people are listening to that

and they feel strongly against whatever it is

you guys are talking about,

because you're right, it's not always politics,

then it's emotional.

And, you know, it's the cliche facts over feelings, right?

And I feel like for someone to, as I say, I feel, I feel facts over feelings.

For someone listening to that and come away with any level of anger

or any level of anger and say,

hey, you guys are too nobody's know nothing.

And I think even one time, Brian and I were talking about something on my podcast

and that was kind of one of the comments as well.

Like, you know, stick to cars and you guys don't,

you don't know shit about anything that you're talking about.

And I'm like, well, yeah, we have opinions

and our opinions are pretty valid,

whether you agree or disagree with them.

I just think that there's just so many people out there.

You know, I read a comment to you earlier on my freaking reaction,

my movie reaction channel from a thing I said about Magneto and X Professor X.

And this dude became so unhinged about something that I'd said on the short,

which is designed to obviously, you know,

smoke people like him out of their caves or their mother's basement

and get them to, to interact.

And that's basically what I said.

I was like, yeah, good job.

But I say this to smoke you out of your basement, you fucking retard.

You know, and I usually use that kind of a language,

but the way that guy was coming at me like,

what kind of a nerd idiot fool are you?

Like, you know, if you don't like what people are saying,

I gave my opinion on Professor X and, you know, and Magneto,

and it wasn't even controversial.

That's the thing though.

It's like your response to that, like I was,

when you said that, I just laughed out loud.

You couldn't hear me laughing, but I was laughing pretty good about it

because that's what those clips are for, right?

And it's funny.

I just let Opus, I know you, we both use Opus.

I just let Opus do it, you know,

like I let it do whatever it wants to do.

And then I, and then Nikki posted for me.

And this guy went off on me about something

that I said about Charlie Kirk and Renee Good,

like they're comparing the two, but then it's,

the comparison is when it's convenient,

but when it's not, it's not.

It's like everyone's saying good riddance to Charlie Kirk,

but those same people who said good riddance to Charlie Kirk

are saying, oh my gosh, how dare you, this poor lady,

this mother of two that, that was a lesbian, that was this,

that was that, blah, blah, blah,

just murdered in cold blood or whatever,

but good riddance to Charlie Kirk.

And I said, they're not the same thing.

They don't even say she was a lesbian,

they just say she was a mother.

Right, they don't tell you that stuff.

And like you said, like when we were looking at it before,

and this is the thing with you,

like you out of everyone that I know,

dissect things to the ninth degree,

like you are going through it over and over again,

before you even talk about it,

you've thought about nine different sides

of every single angle and we're talking about it.

And I'm like, well, what about this?

And then you're like, well, what about that?

And then people think that you're just talking,

you know, like, oh, you're just saying what you're saying.

But I had a guy who basically told me

that I was going to lose my job.

And then he went through all of it, the racist, the bigot,

the Nazi, Charlie Kirk was a racist, bigot, Nazi.

I am a racist, bigot, Nazi.

I'm going to lose my job.

Good luck finding one.

This and that and blah, blah, blah.

It was funny because I just,

I just chuckled every time I saw his response.

And then I would go through and I'd respond to him back

with something else until he finally stopped.

And that was what I was waiting for.

I'm like, I'm not stopping until you stop.

And I'm just going to, whatever, dude, you know,

they all go to name calling, whatever they believe.

I think to be fair, and you'll agree with this,

it's also the same people who say that Charlie Kirk

was a martyr and he was murdered doing what he believed in.

Or the same people, a lot of the same people

who say Renee good deserve what she got.

Yeah, I don't, it's neither one of us are those people.

We see the positive and the, I wouldn't say negative,

but the tragedy in every one of these situations.

But the difference is we're able to see both sides

and not to overuse the whole both sides this and both sides that

because you know, I want to throw a chair through the wall

every time I hear someone say both sides this and both sides that.

But I would say not both sides of the people,

both sides of the action.

Yeah, you know, and then when I say that,

do I think that good deserve what she got?

No, do I understand why it happened?

Given the situation, yeah, I could understand

how somebody would think that maybe their life was in danger.

Regardless if they got hit months prior,

I can see how an officer would think that

when the wheel is spinning, you know,

and then it ends up the car lunges forward.

I mean, it was a poor decision in my opinion on her part,

and it was a poor decision for the officer to have pulled the trigger.

But I understand why he pulled the trigger.

I don't understand why she drove forward, you know what I mean?

So it's like both of those things are shitty.

And just like Alex Pretty, like, yeah, he shouldn't have been there.

And he was, I wouldn't say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He wanted to be there.

He put himself in a situation.

And I think what happened to him was very unfortunate,

but I understand how it happened.

Not that he deserved it.

But when a gunshot goes off and everybody's panicking,

and you think that he's the one who pulled the trigger,

because why else would anybody else standing around have pulled the trigger?

And so you guys unloading on him, it's a tragedy.

You know, he should probably be alive today,

but I'm not justifying and you're not justifying.

We're saying this is why this happened,

and we understood why it happened, and it's fucked up.

But I'm not going to go outside and start picketing

or screaming to the top of my lungs,

because I can see how both situations degraded to where they are.

Yeah, and I just, I think the thing that you and I have talked about quite a bit

is the fact that these things could have been avoided, right?

I don't necessarily know how Charlie could have avoided it other than haven't,

like, well, he could have avoided it by not being there, right?

Like, he could have not done it.

He could have-

To debate behind a plexiglass wall like a president, that's it.

Right.

But then why go to a college campus and do it?

Yeah, exactly.

And good, you know, the thing to me was, listen, an officer,

and this is how I feel about, if an officer pulls me over,

I'm coming at that officer with respect, whether I was right or wrong.

But I'm to the point where it's like, I get pulled over,

I put my hands on the wheel, if he told me to stop, I'm going to stop.

And she could have been alive today if she would have just got out of the car when he asked.

And that's the problem is like, Kirk didn't have that option.

He was just sitting there and someone shot him.

She had the option to live, he did not.

And I just, I don't know, I can't see how common sense doesn't come into play there.

It just doesn't make any sense to me, but this is where we are.

Well, you know, you think about life, right?

And it's like, when you're punishing your kids, or when you're growing up and something happens

in school, it's like, okay, well, how do we get here?

Like, what was the root cause?

You know, what could have prevented this?

And you know, I work in the hospital system.

I've worked in the hospital system since 2008 in an IT capacity.

But I was also an imaging manager, second shift for four years.

And we would fill out incident reports all the time.

And it's called RCA report, root cause analysis.

And so what happens is you have to identify, and we would do what's called patient rounding to

and floor rounding, we'd go around, you ask the nurses and the patients and all this kind of stuff.

But what you do is you identify multiple times before the incident happened, flags.

Okay, this was an opportunity.

This was our first opportunity to escalate.

This is the next thing that happened that should have been stopped,

but it wouldn't stop the first time.

What was the stop the second time?

So you get to the third flight.

Next thing you know, there's four or five checkpoints of failure along the way to let

up to the ultimate event, right?

And so that's kind of how my brain processes this stuff too.

It's like, okay, how did we get here?

How did we get to the point where these anti-ice protesters were out there?

You know, what got them to that point?

Because at that time it wasn't Renee Good and Alex Pretty because, you know,

before them, before Renee, nothing, right?

But once that happened, how did we get to the point of her unfortunately getting

blasted on and losing her life and what could have been prevented?

That's what root cause analysis, the whole purpose of root cause analysis is how could

we have prevented this?

And it's not a preventative major, a preventative step.

It's something like, how can we make sure it's reactive, not proactive?

I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

Some people just don't have the ability to analyze and break down.

And those are some of the same people who just lose their shit,

regardless of what happens and who it happens to.

Yeah, I mean, and it's again, it's like we've been talking about this.

People will sit there and they'll rip you for saying facts over feelings.

But the fact of the matter is, is like, look at what you should do.

Look at what, you know, we talked about, I've talked about gun safety on my podcast before.

And we were talking about how when you get pulled over, like I took a concealed weapons

class to get my concealed weapons license.

And when I'm sitting in there, the guy, the guy who is teaching this class is a sheriff, right?

And so he's telling me, and he's a sheriff, how he would prefer to be notified that you have a gun.

And his thoughts are, okay, I pull you over.

The first thing that you need to do is you need to put your hands on the steering wheel,

roll down the window and wait for me to come talk to you.

When I get there, and I ask for your license and registration, you say,

hey, is it okay if I get it?

It's in the glove box or it's in my pocket, I'm reaching for it.

Then hand him both your concealed weapons permit and your driver's license at the same time

so that he knows that you could be carrying so that he's not freaking out thinking that you

got a gun.

And then he may ask you, hey, do you have a gun?

Yes, I do.

It's under the seat.

I'm not going to get it.

I just want you to know that you have it.

I, you know, the fact that matters is those guys are on high alert because they don't know

what's going to happen, right?

They don't know who they're pulling over.

They could be pulling over someone who's high on meth and going crazy

and not even know it.

And the guy pulls over and then the first thing he does is reach for his gun and pop you, you know.

And to me, it's like, oh, well, we shouldn't, one of the comments that I got on is, oh,

we shouldn't have to do that.

You shouldn't have to just say shit.

You don't have to tell them nothing.

And it's like, I don't have to tell them nothing.

You're right.

But I would way rather do it knowing that I'm going to be more protected if I tell him

what's going on so that he is feeling safe and he knows how to react if I do something.

I think a lot of it depends on where you're at too, right?

Because I think about all the times in my life I've been pulled over, which isn't a lot,

but I do remember pretty much every time and usually there's two officers.

There's one that comes up to the driver's side and there's always a trailer that kind of comes up

with a passenger side.

And the trailer that comes with the passenger side is, for lack of a better term, the spotter,

right?

They want to see what the driver's doing.

It's funny.

I got pulled over once.

I think it was in 1999 or 2000.

And my passenger stuck his arms out the window and the police officer walked up.

He's like, dude, what are you doing?

Because he was always told that when you get pulled over, stick your hands out so they

can see your hands so that you know you're not threatened.

So it's kind of funny because it's almost exactly opposite of what the sheriff was saying

to you guys.

You know, keep your cool, right?

But I mean, in any event, neither one of these two incidents that we talked about would

really bear that situation.

For one person, they were just already fed up and it was too late.

And the other person is just a weird fucking sequence of events.

Let's talk about one drink Wednesday.

Yeah.

This is the thing that everyone's like, hey, I watch your podcast.

I watch you in Westwood.

That podcast is like, no, we don't watch us do anything because we don't have a lot of people

on there. We have some very faithful, fun people that we both love and are happy that

they're on there with us.

But it's not a podcast.

It's Instagram live, right?

Until we get that, until we get that Instagram to a thousand followers that usually go live

first and then I join you from that page.

Right.

Because that's the only way to do it.

You know, and we got, like you said, we got some crazy people like when I pulled up this

Vermont maple bourbon, you know, Anna sent this bottle to me.

So regulars like we have the regulars.

We've always talked about it.

We've been doing this for four or five years now.

And it's like, we got the regulars at the bar, right?

And we have some people who've been there from the very beginning that are still there

every day, you know, Steven and Turkey have been there since the beginning.

And those are people that will come on and they'll hop on and they'll listen to us talk

about what we're doing.

But it's, for me, it's, I enjoy doing it.

You and I just came up with this idea at one point, hey, let's just do a live.

We need to do something together.

And we've had, I think we need to, you know, personally, like I feel like we're going to

have to figure out a way to get guests back on because I think that that was one of the

things that we did a lot more in the past.

But we've had people on like Mitchell Bailey from Smile Spirits and trust me,

Vodka, and then we had Andy Koenig on from Koenig Distillery.

And we had a couple Whistle Pig.

I can't remember her name, Whistle Pig.

Yeah, we have the girl on from Whistle Pig.

I think what I think that's the challenge is we're not, we're not hosting it from the page yet.

Right.

And what we will, we'll get back to that soon.

Yeah.

And we have to, what we have to do is like, if you're watching the podcast right now,

if you're listening to this, whatever you're doing, just make sure you go follow

at WonderingWednesday on Instagram.

And then show up, come hang out, come have a good time because we do some pretty cool things.

You know, the first 20 minutes are me and Jay Bullshit about what's going on in our life,

but it's pretty entertaining.

And then we go into Rotten Tomatoes and we, and we play a movie game,

like guess the score of the movie game and we give away stuff.

I would say, hold on, I would say we're bullshitting about what's going on in our lives, but

even in that 20 minutes, we're talking about stuff that's going on, period,

so that the people who are watching often join in on the conversation.

You know, and it's my initiative to try if I can remember to start each episode with today as national.

And usually there's like six of them and I choose, I try to choose the best one.

Some of them are pretty stupid, right?

Yeah, so I forgot to talk about it just now.

Again, you're like, yeah, see, yeah, like today's national cupcake day.

Wes, what's your favorite cupcake?

And then everybody tells us what their favorite cupcake is.

Right.

But we get in a lot of really fun conversations and then even with our,

our regulars, and then they start their little side conversations in the chat,

which was always fun.

Or you'll be talking to one, I'll be talking to the other one,

and we're supposed to be talking to each other.

That's always fun.

Yeah.

And then Jay calls me out on a lot of shit.

Hey, you should have pinned that comment, you jackass.

Yeah, you had to pin the comments, man.

The comments are gold.

Someone says something slick and sometimes we just miss them.

Yeah.

I mean, it's very interactive and it's very fun to do.

And like you said, it's not a podcast.

Everyone thinks it's a damn podcast, but it's a live that we do.

And you can't listen to it anywhere because like in my mind,

and this has changed over time, right?

Like we're all talking about a podcast.

It's just an audio thing, but it's, I mean, you're shifting to video.

I've always done video with mine, but I've also always done audio.

And I've always pushed the audio more than I pushed the video.

And it's just, you know, it's a fun time.

Video is good because we can see how we actually really feel about it

by looking at your face and seeing the inflection in your voice and that type of thing.

Yeah.

You know, and I think the biggest thing is people are like,

well, I don't drink or that's like, you know, half the people who join us

aren't actually drinking anything other than maybe water or iced tea.

Some people are actually joining us from work for five or 10 minutes while they're on break.

And then there's always maybe half of them that are drinking something along with us.

And we ask them, what are you drinking?

And then, you know, we haven't done a show until in a while,

but we invite people to show us, go live with us and show us what they got going on,

what they're working on, you know, their liquor collection, their gun collection,

you know, whatever they're welding, you know, like Emilio.

And then, yeah, they jump on and show us and they jump off.

And so, you know, I wanted to get you on here to kind of talk about

One Drink Wednesday and two Nobody's Who Know Nothing.

Yeah.

I mean, and there's, and it's funny because I think that a lot of people just need to know

who we are and know that we're just two regular dudes.

That's really what it is.

And we're having a good time.

It's a virtual bar.

Jay lives in Arizona.

I live in Idaho.

And it's like one of those ways that, you know,

this is the first year I feel like I haven't been down there to do one in the studio.

And I got to do it here because that's been kind of what it was the last couple of years.

It's like, I'm down there.

Let's go sit down and do a podcast.

And it's been a trying year, but it's getting better.

And we're on the up and up and hope to be on the other end of that shit here soon.

All right, Wes, let me let you bounce, get on with the rest of this.

And I will see you on One Drink Wednesday.

And I will talk to you like I normally talk to you on our little, is it signal we use?

Or telegram?

Telegram, telegram.

Telegram, every once in a while, I'll pull it over to Instagram or pull it over to just

regular voice chat and what I'm doing.

When you're sending me a reel or something.

All right, well, cheers, buddy.

Yep, all gone.

We'll see you.

Peace.

Later.

I want to thank West Tanger sleep for jumping on the show kind of at the last minute.

I just kind of thought it was time to have him back on the podcast.

And hopefully you guys can join us on One Drink Wednesday on Instagram.

That is at seven o'clock Pacific time.

And we usually grab a drink and talk about current events and chop it up with some of

our good friends and do a bunch of movie trivia and have a lot of fun with it.

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Jamie's success, Treasure Valley.

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Bo Jung, Alice Camino, Drew Bunkley, Andre Mullins for all being my Patreon financial

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About this episode

Wes Tankersley joins Jay Finning for a One Drink Wednesday crossover, mixing casual bar-chat with sharp commentary on how people react to politics and culture. They discuss “facts over feelings,” why polarization makes listeners reject new information, and a Boise flagpole controversy tied to Pride/BASC symbolism. The conversation also touches transgender participation in PE, gun-safety expectations during traffic stops, and how tragedies can be understood through root-cause thinking without excusing harm. They wrap by promoting the interactive Instagram live format and movie trivia.

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Original notes

Jhae Pfenning welcomes back Wes Tankersley to the Hard Parking studio for Episode 320 – a true "Two Nobodies" crossover hang. Wes, co-host of Two Nobodies Who Know Nothing, host of Shaping Success (and Shaping Success Treasure Valley), and your regular partner on One Drink Wednesday IG Lives, joins for relaxed conversation, drinks flowing (maple bourbon for Wes, vodka for Jhae), podcast life stories, and whatever comes up between two friends.

This laid-back episode captures the spirit of Hard Parking: real talk, zero pressure, and good company. Whether you're catching up on the shows or just here for the vibes, it's classic conversational podcasting at its finest.

Support the show and join the crew on Patreon or YouTube memberships!

Timestamps

0:00 – Intro & "Ready for this, Mr. Wes Tankersley"
0:18 – Brought to you by Right Honda & Right Toyota (Scottsdale, AZ)
0:35 – Welcome back Wes + One Drink Wednesday vibes
3:20 – Maple bourbon pour & studio energy
7:10 – Podcast intros: Two Nobodies Who Know Nothing, Shaping Success, Shipping Sources, Treasure Valley
15:00 – Main conversation & random topics
25:00 – Patreon supporters shoutout (Mark Stoneman, Kathryn Cox, Eddie Ramos, and the crew)
32:00 – How to support the show (Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, memberships)
35:00 – Questions, comments, concerns + next week tease
37:xx – Outro

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