before we even start this video I had to tell you it's an April Fool's joke I'm still working I'm right now I'm on actually I'm on call I'm on call today um I I'm still working full-time we've put out over 50 episodes since this episode was aired and people still ask me if I'm retired I I don't I don't know we've put out 50 more episodes like it's I'm not retired hey folks Sheriff Lam here today is Friday and you recognize this guy Friday's with Frank so uh Frank you hit your 20 years you're now eligible for retirement which is sad for us I'm eligible for retirement that is a absolute statement of fact um I am eligible for retirement um I'm in our deferred retirement system right now but I am not retired but words mean things and I didn't lie anywhere in this I am eligible for retirement um I could leave any day I want uh the Sheriff's Office treats me so good I I don't intend to leave uh today or tomorrow but you know if someone someone throws me a big enough carrot I might take a bite out of it what are some of your plans so you know panal county is big for skydiving but uh it's a little too high for me so I'm thinking I might take up some base jumping um I man doing some fishing this photo right here was drawn by sock puppet master uh she's amazing she's from the East Coast another East coaster um so Sam reached out to her as part of this April Fool's joke and said hey we we want you to do some animation for us um so this this is from her um if you don't follow her stuff you really need to uh she's great super pro law enforcement um she actually did a drawing for me um it's framed I actually have it hanging up in my room um it is it is one of the things that makes me smile every time I see it so if you're not watching sock puppet master make sure you tune in to her fish going to go back East fish with Dad a little bit so uh yeah man I I got some plans that's some plans are you going to be able to make the ends meet find ially or do you got to have to walk dogs or something um walking dogs is definitely a possibility for me just something to kind of bridge my time I heard it makes good money yeah yeah I'll make some money on it so this is the 50th episode you've given it a good run brother it's a good run You' given it a good run appreciate it man appreciate you and uh don't worry folks we're not going to leave you hanging we got a we got a replacement in place we got something in mind for [Music] you yeah schmidlin who's now Sergeant schmidlin um that he's sitting at his desk typing with his motorcycle helmet on um so Chuck and I have been partners for over 20 years we both started um at an agency and then have left and come back together at the panal count Sheriff's Office um he's been a motor instructor for well over a decade uh he's incredible on a bike um so the idea of him sitting at his desk while typing and wearing a motorcycle helmet was all Sam's idea so that was Sam's setup of hey this is this is what we want you to do and Chuck was awesome as he has a great sense of humor and he played right along with it hey Chuck what's up Frank you're going to need these yeah now I got to ask you a question yeah how much marijuana have you smoked today I have a little bit a little bit like how long like 2 minutes ago just a few minutes ago okay you got any insurance on the truck oh yes cuz I'm getting a huge contact high right now like I'm debating going and buying a bag of Cheetos he likes Cheetos Chuck walks up and he's like well this guy's DUI so uh we processed the DUI uh Sam was like well it kind of slows the process of getting video down but you know sometimes you have to deal with it I got bad news for you here under rest for UI okay and you got to come with me for a little bit but who can we come to come get your truck do him in front because I'm going to let him use his phone you know what we'll do that right in front our plan is to process you MH release you and then subsequent to that you'll have some paperwork that the county attorney will send you in a couple months but as of today you will be home but he was super cool and when people are really cool with us it allows us to be really cool with them so um per Chuck's request I handcuffed him in the front um but it allows him to to use his cell phone and what that did was it it allowed him to find someone to come and take pick up his truck so we didn't have to tow it and then also for him to get a sober ride after we were done processing him within probably from this minute right now in less than 2 hours hi citizen hey any idea why I might be stopping you today we stopped this guy the second time too so here's here's the F the very first thing as you drove past me on the Traffic Way what were you doing uh took a picture holding your phone you hold you're manipulating your wireless communication device as you driving down the roadway hey Frank I have a question yes do Teslas have seat belts uh I they should have seat bels but you're not wearing yours we're going golfing right here I got my clubs in the back that's fine I like to golf I don't golf very often or well or well but I sure do look good a pair of knickers come to give you a take for being on your phone the family the stick figure on the back of uh Chuck's Explorer um what's really funny about that is for those of us that that knew that whole big family were all of the members of the Traffic Unit from the lieutenant all the way down to the the two newest rookies we put as the names of the animals the cat and the dog um so each one of those was a member of um from the lieutenant sergeant and then all of the different members of the Traffic Unit um all with different Vari ations of our name um so instead of me being frank I think I was Francis um and so on and so forth through each of the members of the Traffic Unit so it was our little internal joke of having a stick figure family in there that's why it's so big is it's the whole Traffic Unit cuz you're not allowed to be touching your phone and for not wearing the seat belt because I'm concerned for your safety you're doing about 15 Mi over the speed limit your windows are a little dark tinted you don't have any mud flaps on your truck all right so he's got a he's got a warning about a year ago okay I would write this dude a ticket because that's what I do but if you want to give him a you want to give him a warning and give him a warning like we're on the mountain or right he's in the valley wrong whatever man figure it out okay I'll go and explain it to him I've decided I'm going to give you a warning right but I need you to understand you're in a condo and of wrongness in a valley right now and I need you to make sure and get this done so you can get on a mountain top and not be as wrong as in you're in the Valley of the condo thing okay [Music] well how did it go look Sheriff I can't retire if you've reached this part in the video you've watched it all the way to the end you have done more than overwhelmingly half of the internet so for now weeks months and year after uh people are still asking me about if I retired because all they did was watch the first 10 seconds of the video and didn't watch it to the end where I said hey Sheriff I can't retire because people are impatient on the internet and have a very short attention span they didn't reach the end uh so almost every week I hear someone tell me that I'm retired and that they hope I'm doing well in retirement and I'm like I'm I'm working 70 hours a week like I am still full-time good good listen folks tomorrow is April 1st don't believe anything you see on the internet especially not tomorrow cuz tomorrow's April Fool's Day and this was our April fools Frank's not going anywhere hope you enjoyed this episode the 50th episode of Fridays with Frank this video was made to be a joke like Chuck sitting at his desk wearing a helmet Chuck coming out with a 100 pens on him like it was overtly comical Chuck standing at a car talking about which was real by the way um talking about the condo in the valley of wrongness and like all of that like this was made to be a joke just like and we still have people asking about the Airborne unit that was also an April Fool's joke um panal K sheriff's office has a great sense of humor like if you if you haven't figured that out yet you tune in because that they do all sorts of great stuff um but we can't do April Fool's jokes anymore because people take them seriously so they were calling saying that they wanted to be an Airborne unit and they were wondering why I was retiring and all of these things like you have to watch our videos from beginning to end um because you never know what's going to be at the end of them and sometimes around April Fool's Day you got to think hey man maybe we're pulling one on you hey it doesn't look like you have a motorcycle endorsement cuz it says endorsements none okay you have to do this right now it's kind it's literally my job to do this right now it is the only thing I do this video comes out a week after the April Fool's video aired um I don't understand how people weren't like wait I thought you retired and then said oh must have been April Fool's joke and then now there's 50 more episodes but like I we literally put out a video the very next week to solidify the fact that I didn't retire and people haven't caught on in well over a year I literally went back to my house so that I could get some food yeah no food's important man it's the guy in the passenger seat never misses a meal I'm not throwing shade at Sam um lunch is a huge part of our day um we'll start videoing in the morning we'll video for a couple hours and within a very short amount of time we're talking about where we're going to go to lunch so it's a it's a big deal it's kind of an Ode to Sam of like hey man you're you're the guy that picks great food places so we we need to start a like a video series about best places to eat in panal County cuz we'd kill it in the internal database that we keep um this guy has been stopped in January and was involved in a collision in February and now he passed me at the first time he passed me I don't know how fast he was going but it was fast and I locked him in on radar at 65 and a 45 and he doesn't have a motorcycle endorsement on his motorcycle that doesn't have a speedometer on him so you have been very popular here with the panau county sheriff's office in the last couple months yeah so can't catch a break from you guys well we are not in the business of giving breaks we are in the business of enforcing the law to which you seem to keep breaking we keep catching I didn't think going from only 2 miles was going to be this big of a deal that's not a big deal it's just a traffic stop and a citation that's super easy but you saw but you saw my record like this is going to put you got stopped in January you got stopped in February um yeah so you're like three out of four months now you've had contact with the pan County Sheriff's Office so you know I I understand it I understand your frustration I'm not saying that that you're not um you have the full capability to give me a warning and let me giving warnings is not what the panal cany Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit does all of this stuff is all in the Civil realm nothing about this is Criminal um this is simp and if you went to driving school for your first one this will not put you over your points or at least it shouldn't points are reckless driving back in November that's that's what it oh I didn't know that your windshield looks like the street map to a busy City yeah that's terrible yeah all right well I'm Deputy slope I work for the panak Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit reason I stopped you is you a criminal amount of speed coming up here it's 25 postage 25 mph in this Zone you were at 46 coming at me there let me give you a warning for your windshield even though it is an insult to Arizona law right we're going to call and make a get that thing fixed so um I'm also since you've never been stopped in panau County before I'm not going to write you a criminal ticket for your criminal speed okay I didn't realize I was going that fast yeah so we're going to keep this right in the Civil range okay so it's just a regular speeding ticket what's the speed limit here on that's right you know what your top speed was when you passed me 61 locked in on radar that I did not see that is 100% and you're driving a lifted truck with no mud flaps which are required by Arizona state law speeding no mud flaps you're you're like a violation schmorgus board here you've never been stopped down here in panau County so I'm going to give you the courtesy of only having a civil site so can I see the radar you may not because it is mounted in my car and I have lots of guns and ammo in there lots and lots of guns and ammo as we should because we're here in America and that's that's the way that that is so um but no I take a picture of it I attach it to the citation is your driver's license please um I I'm a permit dad's teaching daughter had to drive well through a school zone isn't the time or the place to teach your kid how to drive like go to private property go to a mall right like adult drives there with a good license gets on private property you could switch seats you're on private property there's no requirement to have a driver's license and then you could practice pulling into stalls and making lefts and rights and doing all the things you need to do to learn how to drive in the safety of a parking lot that's empty not through a school zone in Santan Valley let me see your permit please I old um 16 16 okay so you don't have any sort of permit no okay so why are you driving cuzon hi I feel like I'm good thank you all right any idea why I might be stopping you perhaps the school well she's D more than double the speed limit in a school zone and she doesn't have a license if you are teaching a kid how to drive on the roadway let's say that you have acquired a permit so that person is legally allowed to operate the motor vehicle on the roadway um as the drive as the The Observer of the driver sitting in the passenger seat every once in a while glance over at the speedometer and say say hey this speed limit is 15 mph 34 1 mph away from Criminal speed is probably not a good idea you should probably press on the break did you know that she didn't have a permit I know you know that she doesn't yes and you were letting her drive anyway that's why I'm here that's why I'm here oh okay so your citations are going to be for being in a school zone going faster than 15 mph and not having a driver's license you're also getting some citations today so your citation is for permitting an unauthorized Miner to drive it's a misdem doesn't have a permit you can't just go driving around especially at nearly at more than double the speed limit in a school zone so she is not allowed to drive because she does it poorly