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Welcome to Botches Off-Road. Join us as we talk about everything from gear reviews to

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trail stories, tent camping to rock landing, and all things to do with the outdoors. Ho

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ho. This is our Christmas special. We're going to be doing a year wrap up as we can do our

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best of doing this. So let's see how this goes. From memory. So I'm sure we don't remember

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half of what we've done. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to think right now what I did when

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I started it, but I guess I can, I could start off because I kind of know this is really

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actually my first year with Jasper doing camping and kind of my first full year of, uh, you

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know, off-roading over landing trail, you know, whatever you'd call this. So I think

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we started out in January, February, March, April-ish. I think the end of April, just

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as snow left, um, Jasper was only, I want to say about five months old or so. Uh, and

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we were kind of just itchy wanting to do something and get out. And we went out and just did

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a test camp in New Eagle County and took him out there and you, that five months old, we

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were kind of like, we don't even know what we need right now. We just know he needs to

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be warm and we know he needs milk. Um, and I didn't really have a whole lot stocked for

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truck camping with a kid. Like I didn't really know what I needed. So it was kind of like

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a spring shakedown. So we did that. Um, kind of learned what we needed, learned we needed

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some more organization because everything was just thrown in the back. Um, went back

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down a couple of weeks later, did it again. Where were you guys doing this at? Uh, we

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did that. I want to say it's mystery Creek. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. But that was the first

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one. Then we did a state campground the second time. Um, and then it's kind of when we started

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trying to get into some of these events, once it got into like actual summer, we started,

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uh, we started getting in kind of like a figuring out what was working. So we started doing

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some events. Um, I only know we did a drive with botches. Um, we did a drive with, um,

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Zach, he hosted a drive up there by Gaylord. Um, I did a drive with, um, Austin, which

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was a fun one. We did that. And I think we did some power lines and stuff. And then we

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did the Toyota takeover, um, which kind of transitioned to going to the Toyota takeover.

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And then we met Ed, uh, with, uh, the botches crew one day. And so after, you know, meeting

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Ed and kind of hung out with him at Toyota takeover, we, uh, went with him and went camping.

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And that was our first, uh, like kid camp failure was that night. Like I ate something

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bad earlier that night and my stomach was killing me. So I was out running back and

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forth into the woods to go, you know, take a dump. And that's when I decided we needed

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a toilet. But also, uh, that was our first time that we, like I said, we had our kid,

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our kid fail. Um, we, uh, Jasper started teething and we started to realize that we did not

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have any kind of Tylenol or anything to help ease his pain. And he was crying good into

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like 11, 12 at night. And we decided to pack up and leave and throw, just throw everything

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in the truck at that point and leave and at like 11 30 at night, which sucked. Uh, and

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then drive the two and a half, three hours home so that we could get Jasper some Tylenol

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and stuff and, and make him feel better. And so that was our first fail. I would say as

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far as like camping went, we don't, we don't usually have anything like that happen. Even

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with Jasper, he's usually pretty, you know, we get in a pretty good groove now, but it

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was just not being prepared. You know, we, we were so prepared in some ways and not prepared

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in others. And, um, I think that was this whole summer was, uh, was just shaking down

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to know what I really needed and not needed. So, yeah, we did that. Um, God, we did the

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labor day. We did, um, we did a, I don't even know, man, there's a lot. We did a, almost

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every weekend we went out, we did. Okay. We did the one up in, um, ever we did ever with

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the botches crew. Oh, for the, um, uh, we were doing the pre run to see if we, where

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we want to go for a third and we can. Yeah. Um, was that what it was for the one where

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it rained out? Yeah. A little earlier. Yeah. Cause the one where I was super sick. Yeah.

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Yeah. I actually, that was the one time that I think, um, I was still a little bit newer

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to wheeling and that stuff was a little, I wouldn't say trickier than what I've done,

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but it was just a different, a different terrain than what I was used to. And I probably would

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have done a lot more of it alone because I was really starting to dig the rain and stuff.

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And I was like, dude, this is fucking sweet. But, um, if, if I really would have loved

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to stay, that would have been really cool though. But it was, that was a lot of fun.

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That was like, if you guys have ever seen like Jurassic park where it's in the middle

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of that downpour and he's running out of that explore, trying to throw that fucking winch

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on the tree minus the winching. It was, or yeah, you're right. Jeep. I thought it was,

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I couldn't remember if it was that early Explorer, but I think that was the first movie. It was

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the Jeep. It was a Wrangler. I think it was the only Jeep throughout the whole movie.

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The rest was explorers. You're right. Well, except for with the T-Rex chase. Yeah. Nope.

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You're right. But you know, that, that, that guy, it was that rain was just that bad out

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there and it was, it was just like a whole other world water coming down, all the runoff.

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It was, it was really cool. And, uh, I'd like to hit that ever motor, that my whole motor

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area I'd like to do a camp over there and just do that whole area. The two things I

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remember the most from that trip were one, I was super sick and felt like I was going

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to pass out. And two, I broke, sorry, I broke Mark's bumper. Yeah. I think my, my, my, my

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most memorables on that one, there are three things. One, that was the first time I've

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done a rocky incline with larger rocks. There was that we had an, a hill that we did probably,

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you know, I'd say you get camera, can't see it or, or, you know, you guys listen, can't

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see, but like rocks like this about, you know, almost about a foot wide, you know, rocks,

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just the bigger ones in the ground. Um, and then the, the hill that we went up when we

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were pretty much Bushwack in, Oh, the Alex, Alex brought us up into like a, I dunno, how

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many, how many degrees even that hill was, it was pretty damn steep. And then we stopped

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in a line and had to back around in the woods and shimmy around just to get out of it. Cause

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it was a dead end. And I scraped all the pain off of my passenger side. Yeah. Yeah. I got

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some scratches. Um, so that was a lot of fun ever was really cool. And I would actually

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would really, really like to go back up to there. That was my first and only time being

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there. I think. Yeah. We'll definitely do that again. Cause that's one of my favorite

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places to wheel. I'll say, um, I know, of course, like I said, I can't remember everything,

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but I know we did the botches run later. Um, I did the cryptid hunt, uh, the botches one

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was really fun. Uh, we redid Yuma Hills. That was the yearly trip that we did Yuma Hills.

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I kind of redid that there was a lot of area that we had already hit. Then we kind of went

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on some of the newer trails and we found some really fun trails that weren't marked. Um,

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that was a lot of fun. And then Alex did his attempt at like baby skitter attempt. I completed

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it. I attempted. Yeah. If we get some good footage of that though. So that was, that

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was cool. Um, I think I get some good drive bys, uh, um, Mark and his Tacoma. So, and

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we didn't have for me trying to think of failures this year because that pretty much is for

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the trips other than labor day. And I would say my favorite trip of the year, we have

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to do that too, but, uh, favorite trip of the year was labor day. I'm not gonna lie.

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And it wasn't, it wasn't necessarily the trails because the trails kind of sucked. It was

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the camp. Sorry, sorry, Derek, but it was, I mean, they were like, it was bumping like

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a motherfucker. Uh, the trails in the, this deep, deep sand getting into that was really

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cool because that deep, that sand was just like a foot deep. Everybody was just fucking

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wrong getting through there. So that was really cool going through all that dune sand just

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to get up to it. And it made you feel like it was a harder destination that normal vehicles

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couldn't get there. Uh, no, they could, but it made you kind of feel like that. Right.

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And then, and then it was just the area, dude, you're right on a lake shore, not giving super,

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you know, not going to super into detail where we were, but you're on it because I don't

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want, well, one, I don't want people to go there. Yeah. But you just described like

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90% of Michigan. And if you say the lake that you were on, there's like 700 campsites along

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that lake. That's what I'm saying. It's perfect. Nobody will be able to narrow it down. Well,

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I'll narrow it down a little bit. It was Lake Superior. I'll narrow it down a little bit.

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It's a big lake. That's really deep. It was like superior. It was the Northern shore of

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Lake Superior somewhere around that area. And it was, I mean, absolutely beautiful.

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We all pulled out and we were all legally camping as we were designated for any lawyers

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or DNR listening because we know DNR is listening, but, uh, it was, it was really cool. We got

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some really good photos. Um, my favorite part of that was we had, there was like a little

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lazy river and we had our chairs popped up there and Jav was Jasper's first time comfortably

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playing in like a water. There's only like three inches, four inches deep. So he could

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just sit in there and just have a ball. And that was, that was a lot of fun. So we did

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a few other trips later. Like we went up to Lee Lenna. We did a couple in Fife Lake area.

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Uh, where's Lee Lenna? That's up north of Travers, that same kind of peninsula area.

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Gotcha. Um, just, it's pretty much where you get to Travers and you have that peninsula

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where Leland is Fishtown area and you just go as high as you can. There's actually, if

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you guys want cool camp destinations, um, there's not really much off road stuff there

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or, uh, you'd, you know, stay for us to camp, but Leland all state campground is probably

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one of the coolest state campgrounds that I have seen that's in that area with some

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really beautiful, like cedar trees and stuff in their campground. Like it's just gorgeous

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area. So yeah, no, no real failures. I think my biggest failure this year vehicle wise

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and I'll say mod wise too, because this would, I guess I would kind of fall into would be

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my air compressor. That was my biggest thorn in my ass. This year was my air compressor.

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I went through my, my one that I thought that was going to work great for us, uh, burned

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out, but that was because I had it under the hood and I figured it would be waterproofed

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being an off road compressor. It just was not. So that was an all top compressor. That

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was kind of a pricey lose on my end. Um, and then I got some cheap Harbor freight compressors

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with advice of the guys from mitten state, but for some reason, every single one of my

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Harbor freight compressors burnt out on the first fucking air up. So it was kind of a

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waste again. So I went through three Harbor freight compressors in three weeks, every

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weekend that I went out, it burned out on the first day or up every weekend. So after

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the third one, I went back, they went to try to give me a fourth one. I'm like, no, I just

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want my fucking money back. And then I put that into a Thor's lightning and that system

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has been great. Never had an issue since, um, uh, failures. We, I did, we never let

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any failures happen. Alex helped me with the belts and my pulleys. I guess he helped me.

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He helped me find some cheap ones. I did those while you guys were working on the black truck.

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And other than that, yeah, no, I had, everything was good this year with me. I never had any

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breaks or anything. So, yay. Add the clapping and cheering that Alex is great for, but yay.

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No breaks, no failures. Next year might be different, but no, we were good. You know,

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minor stuff like our electrical breaking or like the Anderson connector frying or something.

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Now, awesome stuff that I fixed at camp with spares and had, had no issue ever since. So,

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but uh, yeah, no failures. And, uh, I think it was a really good year. I gained a lot

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of experience with off-roading in general with different terrains and different, um,

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climates. Uh, I learned how to be a little bit more thoughtful on how I steer, uh, with

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trying to overcome obstacles. I tackled an obstacle that I had hit earlier that year

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with a lot less difficulty than I did later. So it was, um, that same hill that we hit

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that you were like, this isn't bad at all. Now, given, given the hill wasn't itself,

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wasn't as bad, but we also went down like for our yearly trip, me and Alex did some

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trails while we were scouting and waiting for Mark and then we redid them when Mark

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came and I could notice a difference already on how much more experience I had, not on

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that trail, but just handling certain off-camber situations on how to best, you know, avoid

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going too crazy and too tippy, whatever. So it was a really good year for me for that.

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Um, really, really, really good camping year for us. Um, we're super stoked. We're saving

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up and building up our fucking repertoire for next year. It's going to be bigger, bad

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or better. And, uh, yeah. So I, other than that, yeah. So I guess my question for Alex

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would be how many breaks did you have this year? Total? All any break counts. What's,

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what did I start with Mark? Hmm. Yeah. What happened in January? I broke the frame in

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March. Oh fuck. Yeah. Drummond. Do you guys went to Drummond, right? Yeah. Yeah. And

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that's when you broke it. No, it was definitely March. I just looked it up on my phone. Oh

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no, no, no, no. No, it was May March is when we went to Everett. Yeah. March was when I

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got my truck. So I was about to say it's so March. My first break was in March. So frame.

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That's such a big break to Jesus. Uh, I mean, it was all behind the rear axle. It didn't

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actually support anything but the cab, you know? Yeah. Um, so I broke the frame in March

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and completely rebuilt that March, completely made May, broken May. Um, and that took me

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well into June, uh, cause I only have like 14 hours a week. I can work on it. At least

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something that big. Um, so yeah, I did. I got that done in about June. Um, then we didn't

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take mine to Drummond. No second time. Yep. That was a great trip though. Oh, that was

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great. Uh, you keep the break tally. Well, like recap, we go over the year. Good. So

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we're at one. Yep. Uh, we went with MST, the big MST trip. Yeah. But who did you go with?

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Like did you, you didn't go with your truck. You said, Oh, I went with Mark. We roll or

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drove the taco. Yeah. We go to taco. Our group was with Ed, Eric, and, um, I can't

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think it was Ivan. Ivan. Ivan's great. Yeah. Ivan's great. Yeah. Great to camp with. I

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forget who is, uh, who's Eric? Have I met? I don't think so. I don't think you have.

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It's a white, a white surgeon Tacoma. Yep. Man, I don't think so. And he, the only trip

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I've ever seen him go on was the MST trip, the MST Drummond trip. Oh yeah. I haven't

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seen him since. Yeah. He said, nah. But he, uh, he was actually the group leader too.

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Yep. Huh. Okay. Yeah. You'll, uh, if you ever hear jokes in like an MST chat or something

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where they're like Alex's group's always the party or something, it's cause we were up

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till three in the morning being loud as fuck. We were, especially the first night. Well,

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we, uh, technically second night, if you want to count when we actually got there. Cause

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while we, uh, the officers here now, so we were off in our own little space away from

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everyone. So we were just being fucking rowdy, dude. It was so fun though. Even away from

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our actual area where we're low camped because it was back in the woods a little bit. Yeah.

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But I will admit we were rowdy. Uh, politics get us rowdy. How's that? You mix politics,

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beer and a campfire man. We'll get rowdy. Yep. And here I am just like our botches

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yearly. I'm like, all right guys, bedtime. Everybody's like, Oh, I guess we should be

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quiet. See after that, trying to think of what my first trip after fixing the frame

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was. Well, was it ever about say you're also not counting, um, other stuff you did at the

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beginning of the year. What did I do at the beginning of the year? Roxanne Valley. You

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know, I did get Brock the Valley. Did you just, did you go off roading after new year?

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Or was that before new years when you guys went in that giant group? Cause I wasn't part

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of that. I think that was before new years. Okay. That's why I thought, but I was trying

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to remember. All right. So I'm going through frame repair pictures. Uh, oh yeah. And so

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then right after I got done fixing the frame, we realized that my rear axle was leaking

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really bad out of one of the sides. So the weekend after we were done with the frame,

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we tore apart my rear axle and replaced the, um, uh, wheel bearing and axle seals. And

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then at the same time we cut my diff cover off and welded a new one on. Cause it was

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rotted out. If I thought you were leaking a while before I was, but not from that spot.

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Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I'm into June. Okay. So in June is when we put the rear bumper

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on and then was the barn fire, man, that was the same day we put, I put the rear bumper

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on and the barn fire happened in the same day. Yeah, that was fun. Um, so then our first,

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our first trip quote unquote after the frame repair was when we went to, uh, pine road

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and we were just pulling each other out back to back to back. Oh yeah. I forgot about that

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one. Like like my prairie. Oh, okay. Yeah. Pine street. Yeah. They got some very gnarly

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mud holes. Yeah. If you hit that in the spring, yeah. Spring like early spring where the water

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runoff starts to get real high in there. Oh yeah, dude. You'll sink your shit so easy.

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Um, then we did the first trip we did with Gavin, which was when I had that, what was

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supposed to be a camp out at my house before Toyota takeover. Oh yeah. So yeah, it was

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the bot, the first botches trip for me. Yeah. So botches botches first trip. Um, and then

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what we did was, uh, what was it? White cloud skitter Hill. Yep. Uh, and we ended up at

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the top of skitter Hill. But by the time we, um, yeah, by the time that we pulled Alex

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out of the first hole and, and then we got him, uh, and then we took the trails and then

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took the long way, which was a lot of fun by the way, the night ride was one of my first

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night rides. And then, what did you say? Oh no, I was just, and then you had tried to

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attempt skitter Hill and I overheated my transmission and you overheated your transmission. That

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would be number three. Oh, he didn't break. Nah, it stopped. I did break my mirror. That's

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number four because I would count a overheated transmission. Absolutely. Because you were

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having issues going forward. That sounds like a break. So, so we stopped up at the top of

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the Hill, the little pull off over there. And by that time it was like, it was like

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one o'clock, one 30 and Derek had been up there for a while already. And we were all

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just like, uh, half of us were like, dude, we're just tired. We want to go to bed. So,

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so we ended up just a half of us ended up breaking up camp and just sleeping there.

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The other, what was it you say? I was going to say, it helps that you guys actually had

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your camping gear anyways. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And that was, that was one good thing about

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having it all in your vehicle all the time. But, and then was that the same, was this

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the trip that connected to Toyota takeover? Yeah. And I, yeah, take over. Yep. So the

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next, it was the next day we all left and then trail road up, well, not trail road,

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but convoyed to Toyota takeover. And that was pretty much when that was the day I met

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Ed and the day that I followed Ed, like a lost puppy, because like legitimately I'm

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not even going to lie. Cause like, I had never been to dunes either. So, oh, I have never

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been there. That was my first day too. So deep dunes like that, everyone's like, go

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down to like 10 PSI. I'm like, I've never gone down that low. Like, and then, and then

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as soon as we got up into the dunes, it was like deep ass sand and everybody, there was

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like five cars already stuck. And I'm like, Oh, this is going to be bad. So then the trip

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after that, the weekend after that, we did the, we started the New Igo County mapping

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project. Yeah. It's very much so still ongoing. And that is also the weekend I decided to

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redo my sticker bomb, which still looks the same, pretty much the same as when I did it.

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So that's really nice to know. Yeah. And then the weekend side, not a break. Yeah. I just

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saying on the upside, that's not a break. So, so then the weekend, the weekend after

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that we went up to ever and did the little scouting trip where I was so sick. I couldn't

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even remember most of it. Yeah. I do have some cool videos from that though. And pictures,

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you know what? We forgot something before we were talking about that. We forgot somebody's

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whole fucking bottom part of their, their Jeep, that trim guy yanked out when we were

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going down that one trail. I mean, he just stuck it back on the skirting. Now he threw

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it in the back. It's so good on. Yeah. So then that was funny. But you know, no, no,

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no, I'm not letting you move past this. And there's a reason because technically you caused

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a break on Mark's truck. Yeah. So that's number five because you slam that tail, the tailgate.

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Oh yeah. Not the tailgate, the swing out. Yeah. So that's gotta count. Right, Mark.

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I'll let you, I'll let you decide since it was your truck. Does that count as a trail

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break? I wouldn't. I think it was having issues before that and it just was a final straw.

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It was that day of it. Wow. What grace. Okay. We'll let it go. So then it comes third gen

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weekend. I didn't even get to wheel on third gen weekend. I was like five miles from the

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trail head and my upper control arm where the upper ball joint connects broken half

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and I had to limp it to the trail head and then I limped it to the campsite with a hose

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clamp holding my upper control or my upper ball joint on. Wow. Yeah. It was definitely

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not a great time. In retrospect, so much fun. Oh yeah. In retrospect, that is what led me

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to rebuilding the front end on the forerunner and it fixed all of my lift issues because

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my old lift springs were shot. It fixed my control arm issues because I brand new control

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arms. It fixed. There's no way it's going to break knock on desk and make sure everyone

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hears this. I did brand new knuckles out of a Tundra and I gusseted them. So there's no

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way that that's no way that's going to break again. And then we, man, we did a lot then

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brand new CV axles, brand new inner and outer tie rods. It's like a whole new front end.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. You guys spent a really good amount of time putting that new front end

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in a new brake line or was that the black truck? New brake lines all around both sides.

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I went to, I took the rubber brake lines out and did stainless steel brake lines because

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I was thought my rubber ones were collapsing. Jokes on me. It was actually just my ABS pump

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acting up. But that was, that's not a break. That's just, I don't have, I don't have ABS

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sensors. So my ABS pump couldn't bleed properly. So I just ripped, I just ripped that motherfucker

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out. Yeah. I don't think, I don't think any of that really, you know, once you did do

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that first break, I don't think any of that counts because that's all repairs while, you

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know, nothing was caused on trail or nothing. It was all repairs done to it. So, so then

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my next, my next trip was I went out with, uh, an XJ that I met on the New ego County

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trail riders group and we were just doing some light wheeling and we had not gusted

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it. My passenger side yet. Everything we had done rebuild wise was only the driver's side

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at this point. Yep. And we were going to do the passenger side the next weekend. And while

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I was out with the XJ, I bet my lower control arm and was forced to do it, which I mean,

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whatever everything was there to do it. So it wasn't the end of the world. Um, yeah,

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that was, that was a crazy break. It made no sense on how that broke. Wow. Um, then

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I had a bunch of issues with stocking and getting parts to get, you know, finish up

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the front end rebuild. So I didn't wheel again until

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yearly September. Yep. Yeah. September the yearly. Yep. Yeah. And if I recall, you only

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had wait, was the, uh, was the last rigs and coffee after or before, before, because you

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had your shocks blow out. I had my good shocks when we were onto the early trip. Okay. So

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you did have the one shocks blow out on you. So that would count. I counted that in the

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front end rebuild cause I put brand new, uh, three inch lift shocks and they lasted me

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all of 30 miles. And then I ripped them off, sent them back and got better shocks. And

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you're counting that as a, that's not even a break. Hey, well, so it kind of is because

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they broke on the way to rigs and coffee and you could definitely tell. Yeah. And you were

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very disappointed as we were all, we were, you just got it running back again. And then

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already it was, you're like, man, this thing is driving like absolute dog shit. So which,

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Hey man, it's good next year, way less breaks. And then I had no breaks on urgent weekend.

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I just took my sway bar off. I just took my sway bar off because I wanted more flex, but

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what was the hands for? What did I miss? I'm just thinking, I'm like, I don't know, man.

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If you take, you cut it off, took them off. You just kind of cut them. I mean, I did cut

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them off, but it wasn't cause they were broken. We had no, we had no breaks for you on that

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weekend. No, I didn't break anything. Surgeon weekend. You're right. Oh yeah. Well, you're

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right. We, we had something else, but we'll leave that. Yeah. Um, and then our, my next

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trip shit was that Missouri was the next one. Uh, yeah. Oh yeah. The next one was the drive

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to Missouri where I had my opinion seal started leaking on the way back and we replaced that

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in a parking lot. So count that as a break. Yeah. Um, but yeah, other than that, I mean,

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Missouri was fun. Uh, that, that is my favorite trip we did this year. It wasn't really a

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wheeling trip, but it was a wheeling centered trip. If that makes sense. No, no, no. Yeah.

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But it was definitely my favorite trip we did because as much as I love the people here

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in Michigan, it was nice to get out and meet other people from somewhere else that does

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the same kind of stuff we do. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I was really, I was dead sick and I really

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wish I would have been able to attend, but it was pretty cool. And I mean, Benji's pretty

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cool. So yeah, yeah. Yeah. That would have been really cool to go to. So what was your

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next one you had while we had this last, we did a wheeling weekend this what weekend ago?

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That would have been the most recent one. Then the last one that you had probably the

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last one you've done, right? Yeah. And that get, that's the next one too, uh, was our

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winter wheeling when I did skitter the second time and made it halfway up and could have

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made it out, but I backed out because I'd already broken off my brand, not brand new,

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but brand new to me, passenger side mirror. And I had, I really didn't want to drag the

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passenger side of my car all the way up the hill. And that's what was going to happen

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if I kept going. Oh yeah. Not worth it, man. I mean, the mirror, it was a casualty award,

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but like to scrape the whole side of your truck up at the same time, like it's not,

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it's not a dedicated off road or either. So it's like, it would, uh, I, I don't mean to,

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I don't mean to say like it would affected your looks and you know, I know how that sounds,

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but at the same time it's your daily. So, you know, I don't want it to look like straight

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outside. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's not a buggy. It's your daily and you want it to

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look decent. It's like, yeah, that would have fucked up your whole side. Could you have

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done it? Yeah. Yeah. It probably would have, it probably would have fucked up my, um, windshield

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a pillar because it would have got a snorkel and it probably would have ripped the snorkel

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off and it, it just wasn't worth it. No, I mean, based off of the crawler was, it was

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literally just on its right wheels. The left wheels are up in the air the entire time.

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Oh, I didn't put that trip in there. No, you didn't. I was going to say something about

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that. Dang it. Okay. And somewhere in there we took our friends. September 1st, we took

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our friends crawler out and I did skitter in that and completed it. Yep. And then promptly

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tore the crawler apart. Yeah. But that pretty much chalks up the year for you. It doesn't

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look good. Yeah. How many breaks was that? Eight. Eight. Oh my God. Honestly, honestly

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for a full year though, I don't know. I, I, for, for the year of your vehicle and for

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it being, for what you did, I don't think it's all that bad. Eight breaks. I was mean

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to it. Yeah. You were beating the shit out of it this year. So yeah, I mean, it's more

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than obviously anybody would like, but it's not unwanted. You know, you, you had an old

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vehicle that needed repairs anyway and you beat, you treated it like a fucking Jeep that

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you didn't give a shit about. And it's kind of what happened, you know? Yeah. So yeah,

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I mean, not a bad year. Uh, what about you, Mark? You did a lot of the same ones I think

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Alex did, right? You haven't done any, uh, wheeling trips separate of Alex, have you?

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Um, I have one, at least one separate excursion that was by myself. Yeah. It was very prompt

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to, Oh, I'm going to go trailing in the middle of the night all by myself. Yeah. Didn't even

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tell me. Oh, it was on the way back. It was on the way back from Alex's heading home.

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Yeah. He's been like, Hey man, do you want to do some wheeling? And I'd been like, fuck

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yeah. Sorry. You guys did that to me like four times this year. I guess I see like pictures

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of you guys got like, like, Oh, we went wheeling. I'm like, Oh, what am I fucking chopped liver?

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Oh yeah. Sorry. We forgot you. I'm like, yeah, no shit. Well, to be fair, that was before

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you were a botches member. No, it wasn't. Oh, okay. Okay. Yes. No, that was, that was

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definitely full on at that point. I get it. Like I w I'm not there all the time. So it's

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like, hold up. I forgot a very important wheeling trip I did this weekend. Oh, I went to rescue

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a boat rescue. Yeah. I mean the plan was so out in Houlton, Michigan, there's a boat that

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someone dumped on the side of a trail and we got our friend's trailer. It's only a 14

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footer, but from the pictures we saw, the boat didn't look very big. So we go out to

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this trail and the plan was, you know, take the four runner down, get her hook up to the

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boat with the tow strap, tug it across the snow because you know, snow and boats, they're

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like sleds kind of, and then tug it back to where the truck was parked to pull it up on

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the trailer. Um, when we got there, our friend John was turning the trailer around and a

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lady pulled up and she's like, you know, she's really nice and she's like, good luck getting

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the boat. And we're like, Oh, thank you. We just want to, you know, clean up the trail,

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get the trash out of here. And then she drove on up to our house and we left John's truck

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parked on the side of the road. We took the four runner back and this boat was fricking

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huge. It's like 25 foot long and like 14 foot wide, like way bigger than the picture made

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it look. So we didn't get the boat. We came back to the truck. I think we bullshitted

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for like 10 minutes before we left and then got in the trucks, went to the gas station.

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We were filling up and this there's the state boy, you know, and his little blue Explorer

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just driving around the parking lot. And finally he pulls up to me and he goes, are you in

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that white truck together? And I'm like, uh, yes, sir. And he's like, were you looking

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for a boat? And we're like, uh, yes, sir. And, uh, he's like, all right, let me get

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out of the car. I got to show you something. I'm like, all right. And, uh, so he gets

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out and he's like, so I got a call about some guys trespassing on someone's driveway who

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are out looking for a boat in the woods and the people are really sketched out. So they

368
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got their pistol out and they're arming themselves to protect themselves. And I'm like, we were

369
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never in there. We turned around in their driveway and he's like, that makes sense.

370
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And I was like, we're on a public trail. And I showed him the trail number. I showed him

371
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the coordinates for the boat. I told him that the boat had no numbers, so he couldn't call

372
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:16,240
it in to see if it was stolen, went through all that. And he's like, let me just, one

373
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:21,440
second. I want you to read this call because it makes no sense at all. And the call literally

374
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:27,140
said guys out in the woods looking for a boat. They think they're trying or the caller thinks

375
00:40:27,140 --> 00:40:31,440
they're trying to steal a boat. So the caller has armed themselves with a pistol and is

376
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:39,720
sitting in her house. I, and I'm like, w you never would have thought that this lady was

377
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:47,640
going to call. She was cordial and nice and super polite. Yep. So it's always those chicks

378
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:54,120
fucking care. Yeah. The cop was like, I don't know if these people just think that that

379
00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:00,600
whole road is a driveway or what, but you were definitely on a marked trail. Jesus.

380
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:06,480
Yeah. That was definitely a, a year ender to remember.

381
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Are we going to be able to get out? Cops called. Oh damn. Are we going to be able to do one

382
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:22,180
right before January 1st? Or you don't think, uh, what do you think? Last one. You free

383
00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:29,780
on Saturday? I don't work Saturday. I think it should be free Saturday. Cause we're going

384
00:41:29,780 --> 00:41:36,560
January 1st, but we could definitely hit up Saturday and go do something. Yeah. Uh, what

385
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:45,160
day is January 1st? Uh, next Wednesday. I got that off. Oh, you can come up to Everett

386
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:57,480
and do the poker run. Oh fuck. I, I don't want to play poker. Dude, you're just wheeling

387
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:03,920
and then when you get to the spot, yeah. Okay. When you get to the spot, if you get the best

388
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:12,080
hand, you get prizes. Yeah. Okay. That sounds fun. Maybe I will. I'll try. I'll try to because

389
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,360
uh, that sounds like, that sounds like fun, but uh, I have to make sure that I have gas

390
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:22,400
in my budget for that. It's literally our cryptid hunt, but poker. Oh, see only gets

391
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,720
paid Friday. That could be your Christmas present to me because she hasn't gotten me

392
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:30,320
a Christmas present. Her broke ass. She's like me and Alex already talked about what

393
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:40,720
her Christmas present was, but because, because at the end of the day, she's too fucking broke

394
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:45,480
to get me anything. So maybe, maybe I'll have her give me like a couple of tanks of gas

395
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:52,560
for her. I mean, Hey dude, we don't have to be PG. You can share. I think head was her

396
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:57,960
Christmas present because she's too fucking broke to get me anything else. She just didn't

397
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,680
want to be put on the naughty list because Papa Santa here had already gotten her a fucking

398
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:08,400
bunch of presents. So, so no, that's all right. I, I, it just, it, all her money's going towards

399
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,240
bills. All my money's going towards literally just catching up the household. So yeah, it's

400
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:18,640
all good. The, uh, the, yeah, man, maybe we do the poker run because that would be a really,

401
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:24,680
really good year ender. Yeah. Well, your starter, your starter. And that would be a really good,

402
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:31,960
uh, really, really good episode. Yeah. For Wednesday night or next Monday. No, we'd be

403
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:36,800
back to recording on. Oh no. Yeah. We'd be back to recording on Wednesdays by that time.

404
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:44,000
Yeah. Well we'll see. Start season two. Yeah. Starting season two. Man, that's crazy. You

405
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,600
know, we did, when did we actually start botches? We started, and I mean, not the group, but

406
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:57,320
the podcast. July October, I think. Yeah. I think it was October 1st. Yeah. October

407
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:07,080
1st. You're right. Because I did. Wow. Yeah, dude. Like we have, I mean, no one listens

408
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:13,440
to us still, but you know, as a, as a group, we have grown a lot just from taking the time

409
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:19,880
to do this. October 14th was the very first. Oh no, that's the bonus episode. October 2nd

410
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:28,800
was the very first episode. Yeah. You know, I think, you know what? It's been, it's been

411
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:34,840
really good. I think we did a lot this year and I don't mean to say it to be hard to top

412
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:43,060
because it's, it won't be for our experiences, but we had a really good guest list this year.

413
00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:51,280
We did a good one. Oh yeah. Yup. I mean, Benji being, I mean, amazing. We had the, the, yep,

414
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:57,960
Cindy Pope. We had the, well, shooting with cars. Yup. Shooting with cars, which is, I

415
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:07,240
mean, these are great people. We had Michigan's, overland influencer. Yup. Lexus overland influencer.

416
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:18,480
We had Eric, a disciple, Yota disciple. Yup. We should get gladiator Joseph on at some

417
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:26,080
point, talk about, talk about his rig and why he chose what he chose. Cause there he

418
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:32,880
has specific reasons. Right here. I have the contact card for who would be our biggest

419
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:41,720
interview yet. So I gotta, I gotta call him and get a time set up for that. I have to

420
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:47,600
bug one of our guys that I have talked to before, which would have been, I think maybe

421
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:57,880
our, it would be our biggest interview yet. If I get him, Tyler, with independence overland,

422
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:03,000
as far as YouTubers go, he, I mean, shooting with cars and him, he's, I think he's a little,

423
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,200
he's got more than shooting with cars, but overall, I think shooting cars has more videos.

424
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:14,760
So well, yeah, he releases every single day. Yeah. Yeah. So, so what's, what's that one?

425
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:23,160
Independence over? Oh yeah. Yeah. I believe so with Tyler. Oh, he's way below shooting

426
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:31,560
cars. Oh yeah. Like it's funny because it's funny because when you look at his cinematography

427
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:42,320
and his production quality, he should be up a lot higher than he is. Yeah. He's like 143,000

428
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:51,440
subscribers lower than Zach. Oh, okay. Well, not as much as I would think, but yeah, that

429
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:58,640
poor baby in the background. Yeah. No kidding. Not my baby. So kind of back on topic. We

430
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:03,200
have not talked about my breaks yet. Yeah. Well, and you know, I almost forgot you had

431
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:09,640
any because that's a coma. It's just so, so reliable. Well, I think the first one, and

432
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:18,360
it was a friend's, a friend's get together. It was an unexpected wheeling the day of doing

433
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:26,400
that. I blew out my rear brake solenoid. So that was actually the first ever repair was

434
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:35,360
a brake solenoid. Oh yeah. That one was replacing brake drum pads and everything. That was the

435
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:44,600
first one. I think I was good for a bit. I want to say either, but your brakes still

436
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:50,680
sucked. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. That was a very temporary fix to get going that night

437
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:57,920
for a wheeling trip. So it was a very quick temporary fix and be mean to just fix it and

438
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:04,800
totally forgot about it. But Alex reminded me like, Oh yeah, I really should work on

439
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:10,040
those rears again. Actually worked them all the way around, not just replace one drum

440
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:16,440
with new shoes on both sides of one new solenoid. Yeah. When I hit the brakes and it just kept

441
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:24,240
going. Yeah. I think my rack and penny either got screwed when I went on my solo trip because

442
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:30,360
I got stuck in my solo trip. Right. I was stuck for like good 15 minutes. It took a

443
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:36,600
little water in the cab for how long I was there. And I think me just inching my way

444
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:42,960
out, turning the wheel back and forth might've started it. And maybe or maybe not drum and

445
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:49,120
aisle in the second time I had a really finished the rack opinion, but I didn't know it was

446
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:56,000
the rack opinion going bad. Cause it was around, I think after that is when I discovered my

447
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,240
power steering fluid was just going somewhere, but was not coming out. I was like, where

448
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:05,920
the frick did it go? Speaking of which you never brought that up to me until we were

449
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:12,200
on the yearly trip. No, I thought I told you about it. I had no idea your power steering

450
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:20,360
was just magically disappearing. But yeah, no, that was going on for a good couple of

451
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:26,680
months. I was just thinking it was a leak in my, um, like somewhere else and not actually

452
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:33,400
with it because I had a mysterious leak, but I pretty sure it was the rack opinion leaking.

453
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:39,840
I was thinking it was either from the, um, I think it was from the power steering pump

454
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,200
itself. It was leaking. I just couldn't figure out where at cause it's just getting flung

455
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:55,040
all over the place, but those coming out of the axles. But, and then I had breaks go out

456
00:49:55,040 --> 00:50:02,200
again and are one of our ever outings. Actually the first ever outing with Gavin. Yeah. Yeah.

457
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:08,520
I think the water really, uh, to help lube up your situation a little bit, you know,

458
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,920
is you, we were going through some pretty deep puddles and I think just having the breaks

459
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:18,800
wet didn't help. No, really. But all I remember from that trip was climbing that big hill.

460
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:23,920
Oh yeah. I know we had some deeper puddles because there was already some rain and then

461
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:29,760
it started raining again. So some of those puddles got, I would say six to eight inches,

462
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:34,960
but nothing too crazy, but enough to wet the brakes good. Yep. Um, enough to, enough to

463
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:40,560
make some steam come out of your, you know, from your exhaust. Yeah. Yeah. And then those

464
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:48,000
brake pads were worn, worn, worn. They were pretty much gone. They were pretty much pancakes.

465
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:54,880
So I ended up temporarily just putting new pads on cause I did not have the budget for

466
00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:00,440
new brakes all around and I had to replace calipers eventually too. So I drove around

467
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:08,840
with really worn out rotors and new pads. And then that same day we, my tailgate gave

468
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:15,200
it or my swing gate latch gave out. That's what you get for Amazon bumper, but it wasn't

469
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:21,640
my purchase. So I can't complain too much about that. Right. I guess you could count

470
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:26,320
the whole bumper as over the year was just breaking because we had to fix it so many

471
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:34,200
times we welded it. Don't just don't buy Amazon bumpers. Like that's just what it comes down

472
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:40,320
to. Yeah, no, definitely. If it wasn't, if it didn't have a swing out carrier, I would

473
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,840
probably have dropped that bumper or it would have been fine because it was just normal

474
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:49,880
bumper at that point. Right. But for what it is, I can't complain too much about it.

475
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,840
I'm sorry on it. I'll write it until it actually really has a major malfunction where it's

476
00:51:54,840 --> 00:52:05,200
broke broke and I can't fix it anymore. But for right now that'll work for me. Our yearly

477
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:11,880
trip is when we actually discovered what was wrong with my rack opinion. But that boot

478
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:18,800
was blown up like a balloon. But before we even, we were thinking that what we had to

479
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:25,400
fix and then we discovered my CV axle on the other side, not the one that was blown up

480
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:32,840
like a balloon was ripped. So I ended up replacing CV axle on that trip. I think it's so good.

481
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:38,680
So technically it's not broken. It's just the boot got torn, but it's still considered

482
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:44,920
a break. I mean, once we reboot it, I think it'll be okay, but it's still a worn out CV

483
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:51,000
axle. Yeah. And the way it was ripped looks from it getting overextended, which I don't

484
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:56,440
understand because that first day. Oh yes. We did. We did do some off-camber stuff that

485
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:03,040
first day. Yeah, sure did. So that's probably when you ripped it. Could have been, could

486
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:07,640
have been one of that, like that we had like an eight or nine inch log that we went over.

487
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:20,080
That could have been it right there. Yup. I don't anymore. I guess you want to count

488
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:27,400
it when we replaced my rack opinion, the hose line deteriorated. Yeah, we just replaced

489
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:32,560
the rack opinion and like not even six days later, the hose was rotted out and falling

490
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:42,560
apart. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to think of anything else. I don't think you had much more. Oh,

491
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:48,400
there was one more. Technically it wasn't a break. It was more of a dent. We went over

492
00:53:48,400 --> 00:54:00,200
to our local friend, off-road group. Hazard off-road is it right? Hazard road hazard garage

493
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:06,480
or something. Yeah. What do they call themselves on Instagram? Radical road hazards. That's

494
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:17,120
right. That was back in July, July or June. I think it was July because we're or no. Yeah.

495
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:22,520
Yeah. July. You literally just got done with your forerunner. Yep. Yeah. We went over there

496
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:28,320
to test this little park and I was following Alex and shouldn't have got a little too tight

497
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:36,280
of a spot and I crumpled my driver's side fender. We've brought you over there now too,

498
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:41,360
right? Gavin, you've seen that little tiny park? Yeah. He went over there. The one that

499
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:46,880
our buddy Mike Wilson's building. Oh yeah. Well, he's got me over there and that was

500
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:53,120
my first turtle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The perfect amount of logs. The turtle. Yeah.

501
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:59,040
Kiss me off, man. He's like, all right, are you ready to start the little off-road park?

502
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:05,240
I'm like, yeah. They go over the bump. Okay. Alex goes over it easy enough. I'm like, okay,

503
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:11,680
me too. I've done logs before. I get over it and it's the exact perfect length to turtle

504
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:18,240
me right behind my wheel, right in front of the other one. And I'm like, oh my God. And

505
00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:23,960
these are a bunch of Jeep guys too. So I'm like, this is fucking embarrassing. So Alex

506
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:28,000
had to come back and pull me out. As soon as he pulled me up and I got in traction,

507
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:36,120
I was good. But it was like, God damn it. I was just like, man, I want to go home. But

508
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:43,360
thankfully, thankfully we did the rest of it. And yeah, it was pretty cool. Dad and you,

509
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:48,400
you heard it that night. You fucked that up that night. No, it was the other night. No,

510
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,720
it was the other one. Yeah. This was before he actually started caving out that dirt hill

511
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:57,760
and stuff. Yeah. I almost went up that and I'm glad that I, cause I backed up right as

512
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:03,000
Alex was like, Hey, yeah, don't go up that. I was like, yeah, it looks a little soft.

513
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,800
I was kind of getting there like there's another spot, but I didn't see it. I must say, I don't

514
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,720
think he had logs at first. I knew when he went out there, Alex, he had a couple of logs,

515
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:17,160
not like he does now. Yeah. I'd say not like it is now though. And then he had the little

516
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:22,600
rock garden. Yep. Which I need to go see what they've added. Cause they came and got a whole

517
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:29,000
load, couple of loads of cement from the farm. Yep. So there's some new stuff out there that

518
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:40,000
I haven't even been on. Yeah. It's, it's really cool. Uh, listeners go check out radical road

519
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:46,080
hazards. They're building a really cool Cummins right now. Um, they've got a old CJ seven

520
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:54,440
and a LS swapped, uh, TJ. Yep. Yeah. And then I have to agree with you, Alex. I think our

521
00:56:54,440 --> 00:57:00,480
Minnesota trip was my favorite trip for the year. Yeah. It just, it was such a fun trip,

522
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:08,040
dude. It was. I would say also, I guess to add onto my, you guys were talking about favorite

523
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:14,800
trip. I had a Lila on trip. It wasn't nothing special. See, and I had just a weekend off

524
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:19,000
together and we decided to go up to Lila and, uh, we stayed at the state campground. The

525
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:26,080
one day we stayed in five flake area, the next scouting for cryptid, but that trip that

526
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,840
was pretty much towards the end of the year, we had everything worked out. All the kinks

527
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:37,760
were flattened. Everything went smooth and you get a lot of, you get a lot of times where

528
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,560
something kind of goes wrong here. It kind of goes wrong there. You don't get a lot of

529
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:47,040
camp trips that just everything goes right. And it's just smooth sailing. And that was

530
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:51,880
just like a really cool one to just go up there. We were playing out, you know, we went

531
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:57,600
rockhounding looking for rocks. The kid was out on the beach, you know, it's just, everything

532
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:03,280
went good. You were the rockhound. Yeah. Oh, I should, I should have taken a picture. I

533
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:07,600
found a really cool rock at work the other day and I didn't take a picture of it and

534
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:14,040
I should have. Yeah. No, we, I mean, we started when Sienna's first time camping, we went

535
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:21,240
up to, I'm trying to remember, two hearted area and she found a bunch of rocks up there

536
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:26,080
and she wasn't really a rockhound before. And we're not really rock hounds, hounds,

537
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:31,280
but we, we just saw rocks that we liked and we took them. And ever since then we're like,

538
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:37,880
oh, we love to go other places and maybe find some agates or, you know, some jaspers and

539
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:45,320
stuff, something like that. So, yeah, it was pretty cool. So, so I think that, that'd be

540
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:51,080
my other favorite one, but yeah, I think that kind of, I kind of wraps up the year, doesn't

541
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,920
it? I mean, we have, we had me, we had you, we had Mark. Yeah. Mark only had a few breaks.

542
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:03,480
You had eight. I had, I don't know. I want to say that I could probably factor in something

543
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:08,400
in there, but not really anything that stopped me from going in there. Do you have an Anderson

544
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:14,680
connector on you? Yeah, but that didn't really stop anything. I know. I guess, but yes, I,

545
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:19,720
I did have an Anderson connector short, but the reason that that shorted was because when

546
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:25,200
Alex and I first started figuring out how to use these things and he was helping me do

547
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:30,880
that, we didn't push the pins in all the way. So it was our king. So after we learned that

548
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:35,000
we just pushed the pins in all the way on the second one and everything's been fine

549
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:40,920
since. So, and now they are the safest way to connect a battery to a power device. I

550
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:48,160
will say this. I am going to run another, probably a smaller cable with Anderson's to

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the back seat area where I store my compressor because now having to take my compressor out,

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but having a hose long enough to go all the way around the truck is kind of like, eh,

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like it's nice to have that there when I need to take my compressor out to help air other

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people up that don't have decent compressors. Just make them come to you. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty

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much. Yeah. I think that wraps up for a year, guys. I mean, pretty good year, huh? Yeah.

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Yeah. It was a good year. We want to thank you guys for listening into the botches off

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road podcast on our first season, our first year, and we hope to see you on our next one.

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There's only one more episode left this season. Yeah. I know. Let's get in there. I'm going

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to release this one a little bit early, but yeah. Yeah. That'll be nice. All right. We'll

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see you guys later. Later.