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Welcome to Botches Off-Road.

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Join us as we talk about everything from gear reviews to trail stories, tank camping to

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rock landing, and all things to do with the outdoors.

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Today we've got Jacob Biddle.

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Jacob, what's your YouTube channel name?

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YouTube channel is Eagles Pursuit.

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Wrong one with everything else.

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What is?

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Yeah, Eagles Pursuit.

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So, Jacob Biddle from Eagles Pursuit.

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He's going to be talking to us about his tundra that I always want to call Tacoma even though

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it's not.

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Yes.

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And all the goodies he's got on there.

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He's got that thing pretty well decked out.

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So, should be a pretty fun episode.

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And I am sorry for everyone because I am very sick and I sound absolutely terrible.

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Absolutely.

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All right, Jacob, do you want to introduce yourself a little bit?

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So my name's Jacob.

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I'm with Eagles Pursuit.

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And I've probably been on social media for about, I don't know, I think I'm going on

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three years now in this space, whatever you want to call it, overland camping, whatever

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you want to call it.

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And yeah, that's, I'm 22, 23 next month.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I didn't realize you were so young.

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I'm young.

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I live a pretty boring life.

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Yeah.

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I don't, I watch your YouTube videos, so I know that's not quite true.

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Behind the scenes, I work, sleep and eat or eat, sleep, work, one of those.

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Somewhere in there, you got a poop.

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Yeah.

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Kind of the same.

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Yeah, dude.

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I really think I'm going to have to get with you on making something for a chainsaw holder.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's pretty slick.

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Yeah, I got Benji up on that.

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Yeah, I just watched that.

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That's where I saw your vehicle at.

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Was it the Colorado?

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Was that the Colorado trip?

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Well, my truck wasn't in that trip, but I was with them.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I thought I saw you on here, but I realized that I was scrolling through my Insta feed

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and saw your videos because I follow you.

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So that's how I saw it.

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Oh, man.

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Okay, yeah, I'm starting to see things now.

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I haven't watched your newest video.

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Would you break?

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Oh, gosh.

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So I didn't film it, but last weekend, my opinion bearing in the front diff ceased.

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Oh, I was in 4 high, probably going about 10 miles an hour on a four-service road.

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And the truck just came to a complete stop on its own.

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And yeah, couldn't go anywhere in 4WD, but I was still able to disengage the transfer

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case and the front diff and be able to drive.

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So as of yesterday, my truck is on jack stands.

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Man.

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Alex been there all year.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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I only had eight breaks this year.

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You're doing better than me.

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I've had knock on wood zero, but I haven't been really trying to kill it either.

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We were going out every weekend doing trails and doing whatever we can find.

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Honestly, we haven't really back out any trails.

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We just didn't hit the mud brutes.

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And my FJ has done pretty good so far.

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I haven't had many issues with it yet except for shit that I caused myself.

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A lot of my issues is just front end crap.

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It's either that lower ball joint and it's not the ball joint that breaks.

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It's the nut falling off.

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Oh, is this the lower?

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Is this on familiar mark?

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Yeah.

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So for yours are bolts that kept your ball joint for falling out.

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Yeah.

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I've had bolts stripping out on the spindle.

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I've had spindles break.

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I've had tie rods bend.

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I was saying we've got the same front end.

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So I feel your struggles there, dude.

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So while I've, I'm sorry.

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Go ahead, man.

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I actually just, I just did wheel bearings on my front end like two months ago and my

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driver side already went out.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, I had mine regeared about the same amount of time and the opinion bearings just not

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going out.

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But the mechanic, I call him a mechanic.

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The guy that did it said he would fix it for me for if I just brought him the diffs.

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So that's what's going on.

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Let's go.

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So I think it's more of a, he can get to it quicker if I just bring him the diff instead

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of the truck.

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Yeah.

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So I've been, I haven't seen a lot about how you, how you kind of camp and what the setup

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is like.

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Can you explain a little bit about how you, how you kind of camp and how you do the overlanding

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scene, what your setup kind of looks like?

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So I'm more of a weekender.

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I try to get out every weekend.

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And let's see, I've got, I'm just have to look at a picture of my truck just cause

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there's so much on it.

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Yeah, I get it.

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Camping wise, I try to keep a lot of it simple and quick and easy to set up.

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So I've got the rooftop tent, the wedge style.

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I've got a freestanding awning on it.

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What brand tent do you have?

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So I've got the CVT Mount Hood, which is the, and I've got the largest one in that model.

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Oh yeah.

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That's the big boy.

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And I've had it for, it'll be three years in January.

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I like it.

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I've threatened to sell it just to change things up, but I can't get rid of it.

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Like no other tent has stood out to me.

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So.

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Yeah.

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Don't, your dog sleeps up there with you guys too, right?

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Or do you make her sleep in the truck?

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So she used to.

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And now that I've got an air mattress up there, I don't really like for her to be up there.

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It's also pain to get a 95 pound dog up there.

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So she sleeps in the truck or if I'm comfortable with the area I'm in, she'll stay leashed

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up outside the truck.

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That's always good.

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How, how is that tent with you, your wife and the dog in there?

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Oh, it's plenty of room.

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I typically tell people it can sleep three comfortably, right?

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Three average sized people comfortably.

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Oh, just laughing.

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So that's a two person for me.

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That's for sure.

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So one, one and a half or one and a half or apparently.

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Yeah, that's why I'm looking at the, the Alto elite by four by four Colorado.

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Okay.

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It's just been really, really digging what they got out and from what I've seen about

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it, just as large as this is.

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I mean, I'm not going to do crazy amounts of off camber stuff to where that 270 pounds

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is going to be the maker to break it.

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I mean, it might be soon someday, but for now, for the next few years, I think.

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You know what?

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We don't got to worry about you.

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I've hit, I've hit just about everything you hit, except the ones that I know will just

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do damage for no reason, you know?

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And then you hit them and they do damage for no reason.

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And then I go, yeah, yeah.

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Good decision.

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Skitter Hill.

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Skitter Hill.

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Okay.

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Two weeks ago.

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You lost, you lost Benji's mirror.

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Already?

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Yeah.

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What?

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Same one last time he hit it with at the same spot.

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Going faster than you should on washboards, rip upper control on bushings.

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All right.

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All right.

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I got you.

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Benji that he did.

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Benji was like, what the hell?

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I told him, I don't know why you didn't have that thing signed, man.

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I even took the time to fold it in this time, hoping it wouldn't break off.

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No, dude.

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When you're damn near sideways going up the hill, don't really matter.

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Well, the area where it was just a jet out.

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So this is the most unusual jet out and he just can't avoid it because out of the red

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sewer.

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So another six months with no mirror now.

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It's just at this point, you don't want to be better just throwing like a rear facing

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camera or something like a little button camera over there having to play on his wolf box.

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Huh.

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All right.

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It's a really good idea.

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That's an excellent idea.

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He says, maybe I need to get a new wolf box that allows that because that's a good idea.

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No, I'm getting a wolf box here soon.

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It's added to my list of things I don't really need, but would be really nice now that I

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have so much stuff in the rear of the FJ.

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I can't really see out of the back anyway.

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I just kind of guess.

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That's one of my biggest pet peeves is if I can't see out the rear of the truck or the

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side windows, I don't like it.

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When we're fully packed up, I can't see out the rear window, but I say when I'm empty,

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the rear window is not big on the FJ anyway.

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So I could see a little bit out of it, but if I'm backing up, I'm like, well, I'm going

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to either going to hit the tree or my tires going to hit it.

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My bumper is going to hit it.

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So either way, I'll be all right.

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Yeah.

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So I don't really stress too much about it, but I'm trying to get like Tyler.

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I talked to him a little bit about that and he's got the setup on that FJ.

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He just, I guess I'm going to have to make mine a little different because I have a kid

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with me.

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It's going to have to be, going to have to be adjusted a little bit, but that's it, man.

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You built pretty much everything on there because you're a metal fab.

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Did you build your swing out too?

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I built part of it.

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Part of it.

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So the kit, it was a kit from Coastal Off-Road, the main body of it.

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And then that was probably like my first welding solo welding project I did.

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And then this past year I decided I want the Jerry Canthalter portion.

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So I fabbed that up.

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Yeah.

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Man, you got some real good pictures on your Instagram.

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If anybody's, anybody's listening, go look at the Instagram at the same time.

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It's kind of cool.

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I'm looking at, I'm looking at right now.

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He's got the ribs on the, on the, with the manifold up here under the hood.

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Oh yeah.

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Benji looks like, looks like ribs.

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Oh, was that, was it?

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Yeah.

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I thought, man, that'd be, that's something.

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Did you ever try that or was?

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I did.

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They were good.

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Really?

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They were so, they got warm, but they never got like hot.

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Yeah.

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So we tasted it by and then we put them in the oven and finished them all.

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Yeah.

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Thank God actually, cause I saw it when I saw them, cause I think I've seen the video

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of that.

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They were like lighter.

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I was like, yeah, I don't know, man.

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I don't know about those.

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No, that was, that's cool dude.

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How's your, so you, how's your cooking setup look like?

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Is it, you just kind of run the Coleman stove deal or you black stone it?

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She strapped it to the manifold.

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We just, I know.

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The exhaust actually, you know.

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I don't know if I posted any pictures of it, of a recent cooking setup, but I've got, I

260
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don't know if you've heard of mountain house or as I think it's mountain, mountain hatch.

261
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The dehydrated deals?

262
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No.

263
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One of the tailgate cover deals.

264
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Oh yeah.

265
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Okay.

266
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I know what you're talking about.

267
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So instead of that, I've got a piece of stainless that I cook off of on my tailgate.

268
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And then I use a GSI stove now.

269
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Okay.

270
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You keep it pretty small then.

271
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Yeah.

272
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I don't do anything extreme.

273
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Anything I can cook in a skillet pretty much on that stove.

274
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So you do that little GSI and then like the, a little butane canisters, right?

275
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Yeah.

276
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I've got a five pound propane tank on the side of the truck that I'll run it to.

277
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I'm thinking you're talking about like the, the hiking GSI, the little GSI.

278
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No, no, no, no.

279
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It's a, the pinnacle two or something like the pinnacle pro.

280
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I don't remember any of it.

281
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It looks like a laptop on the spool.

282
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Oh yeah.

283
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Yeah.

284
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I came from the Coleman stove, but I got this one for a good deal.

285
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So I just went ahead and got it as quieter, especially for filming.

286
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Right.

287
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Do you, I mean, what's pros and cons for you other than that?

288
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I mean, does it cook better?

289
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A little bit more even?

290
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If it's windy, it's a pain.

291
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Okay.

292
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Like this last trip I went on, it took forever to cook bacon.

293
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Oh yeah.

294
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Just cause we were, I mean, we were camping on a lake and the wind coming off the lake

295
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was just like I was putting pans right next to it just to keep it, keep it shielded.

296
00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:46,960
Oh, so it's kind of the same, kind of the same folding style.

297
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Yeah.

298
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Okay.

299
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Yeah.

300
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It's just more exposed.

301
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Yeah.

302
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The burners are more exposed.

303
00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:55,960
Yeah.

304
00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,080
Yeah, that's pretty nice.

305
00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,040
The, what's your, what's your favorite meal?

306
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What do you, what's your like go to when you're out alone as a like hot dogs?

307
00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:05,760
No.

308
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Typically tacos.

309
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Yeah.

310
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They're easy to make and then next would be steaks.

311
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Yep.

312
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And I don't get fancy either.

313
00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,800
It's like sometimes when I do steaks, it's just a steak, no size.

314
00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,800
Oh yeah.

315
00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:20,800
Yeah.

316
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Yeah.

317
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I think I cook for my wife, which my wife likes to, she likes more of the foodie aspect

318
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of it too.

319
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So she likes to have good decent food.

320
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So other than the single dollar or a single digit steak set up by from Meyer, which when

321
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we're out camping is good enough, man, just tear it apart.

322
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Other than that, like I'll cook up some potatoes and stuff or I'll make some jambalaya.

323
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I think, I think that's my, my wife's favorite is like jambalaya, spicy jambalaya and like

324
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a cold night.

325
00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:53,760
Yeah.

326
00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,760
That's pretty good, man.

327
00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,640
So I see that in all your Instagram posts, you say for communication, you've got Garmin

328
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tag there.

329
00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,360
What do you got that's Garmin?

330
00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,680
I've got the Garmin in each mini.

331
00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:06,680
So it's just a side.

332
00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:07,680
Oh yeah.

333
00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:08,680
Yep.

334
00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:09,680
That's on my list.

335
00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:15,040
If any of you like that.

336
00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,400
It's good for what it is.

337
00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:23,160
Oh, it's a month, but I mean, it has helped me in several situations.

338
00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:31,160
Like when I broke down, I was able to reach out to a guy who brought me a spindle.

339
00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,160
Just stop just using that.

340
00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:38,120
I mean, that is, that's a saver right there.

341
00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,120
No calling anything.

342
00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,040
You just send a text and it takes forever to send a text and receive them.

343
00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:49,320
But other than that, no, I'm hoping I can get rid of it soon with the new what Apple's

344
00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,520
coming out with.

345
00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,520
Not just Apple.

346
00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,040
Now T-Mobile users are going to be able to beam from Starlink.

347
00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,040
Oh yeah.

348
00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,360
I haven't heard of that.

349
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,280
So if you've got T-Mobile, they're doing betas right now and you'll be able to get

350
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cell phone service from Starlink anywhere in the world.

351
00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,600
That might be an interesting switch.

352
00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,680
I'd be interested in that.

353
00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:18,800
I think I've run AT&T and I've thought about doing like the Starlink, what, touring or whatever,

354
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,200
Overland, Offroad.

355
00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,880
And then running that.

356
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,560
But yeah, the subscription is like $60, $80 a month, something like that for the smallest

357
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,560
amount.

358
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And that's like 120 or something like that for unlimited.

359
00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,920
So it's definitely, it's definitely an investment.

360
00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:46,360
And I don't think I'm going to go too crazy into it until I'm traveling more because I

361
00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,120
don't, we're not made of money here.

362
00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:53,160
Yeah, that's my biggest issue now is I can't get out of Arkansas.

363
00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:54,160
Oh yeah.

364
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,160
Yeah.

365
00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,880
I think, yeah, I think it's just the job for me.

366
00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:05,680
Like I just started a new job and it's like, man, be whatever I'm going to be able to get

367
00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,040
out, it's going to be every other weekend.

368
00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,800
Alex is even more stressed as far as schedule goes.

369
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,840
It's not really good for him either.

370
00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,320
Yeah, that whole farming thing, man, I never get a day off.

371
00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,040
So yeah, I mean, it does, it's kind of sucks for that.

372
00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:32,280
Yeah, I'm working two fab shops and they always guilt trip me in staying and doing everybody

373
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,280
else's job.

374
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,280
It seems like.

375
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,280
Yeah.

376
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,280
Yeah.

377
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,920
Then the views out there though are gorgeous at Colorado, Arkansas.

378
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,720
Michigan is really cool.

379
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,320
I mean, I'd like to views in Michigan, but I think through until you get to the UP, you

380
00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,000
don't see anything really different like for the upper peninsula.

381
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,000
Yeah.

382
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,840
A lot of the lower, a lot of the lower peninsula is the same.

383
00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,960
You get to the upper peninsula.

384
00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,320
You start seeing some rock cliff faces and stuff and it's a little better.

385
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,160
Are you dissing on our just straight pine forest?

386
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:11,480
That's all we have is pine woods and sand and clay and more pine trees.

387
00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,800
For someone who's lived in it their whole life.

388
00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:14,960
Yeah, pretty much.

389
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,960
Like I said, I don't, I'm not used to seeing rocks like that.

390
00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:25,200
I sounded real dumb when I went our Labor Day trip last year because we're seeing cliff

391
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,200
faces.

392
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:27,200
I'm like, look, cliff face.

393
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:28,520
I look at two rocks.

394
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,600
Like I was, I was like, man, look at all these cool rocks.

395
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,920
That one's like the size of my truck and that means nothing compared to like other states.

396
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,680
But to me, it's like cool seeing granite out the side of the fucking hill, man.

397
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,720
I just can't wait to get out of the state.

398
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:47,720
Yeah.

399
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,840
I think I got the plan, man.

400
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,600
I talked to Sienna.

401
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560
We're just going to rent a house in Marquette.

402
00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:58,560
We're going to work there.

403
00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,920
Save a couple, a couple of thousand dollars and then we're just going to move west.

404
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:09,600
Then we'll pit stop in Wisconsin or Minnesota or however far we could get to our next rental.

405
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,320
And we'll, we'll sit that for a little couple of years or maybe a year, however long it takes.

406
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:18,640
And then we're going to go west and we'll stop where we find the most beautiful spot

407
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,040
to actually set routes.

408
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,360
And that's the plan.

409
00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:24,760
It's not going to go very well.

410
00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,360
It's not going to be a good plan because I told her, I'm like, dude, I want to travel

411
00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:31,960
and he's, my son's one.

412
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,960
Like I'm ready to go.

413
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,400
And she's like, uh, I kind of want to house some point.

414
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,400
And I'm like, yeah.

415
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,920
It's like, but then we have to pay $1,800 a month for the house.

416
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,040
I said, then we can't travel.

417
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,200
So I was like, pick one, pick one or the other because we don't make it enough money to do

418
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,960
both.

419
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,760
So your, uh, your roof rack there, you built the swings on that, right?

420
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,560
To make them swing up the goal wing on the better.

421
00:20:58,560 --> 00:20:59,560
Yeah.

422
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,560
Yeah.

423
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:01,560
Yeah.

424
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,480
So one side of it's got access gates because I was trying to copy, not copy.

425
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,360
I should careful with my word choices.

426
00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:10,360
Extrusion.

427
00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:11,360
Inspired.

428
00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:12,360
Inspired.

429
00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:13,360
Yes.

430
00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:14,360
Inspired.

431
00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:15,360
Inspired.

432
00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:20,920
Which actually, you know, I've had that going for a couple of months now.

433
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,720
And my support bracket finally broke.

434
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:28,400
So in my last video, you see me welding it back together.

435
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:34,240
Well, what, uh, what lights are you running in the front?

436
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,440
You have like three, are they floods?

437
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,360
So I run everything.

438
00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,960
Oh, by a sense.

439
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:43,960
Yes.

440
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:44,960
Okay.

441
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,960
Yeah.

442
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,960
Ooh.

443
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,520
It's fancy.

444
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:56,400
So my, when I was building this truck, my, my, uh, thought process was build it before

445
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,400
I get married.

446
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,400
Yeah.

447
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,680
And before I move out of my parents house.

448
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,640
So that's, that's kind of how it came together.

449
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,480
Well, honestly, that's the best way though.

450
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,080
I mean, you just got married recently, didn't you?

451
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,080
It's past April.

452
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,080
Yeah.

453
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:13,080
That's what I thought.

454
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,080
Yeah.

455
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,080
It's the start of the end, man.

456
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,480
It's just downhill.

457
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,000
This truck's got some stories.

458
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,080
I don't know if you all knew that started as two wheeled down.

459
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,080
I didn't know it.

460
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,080
I did not.

461
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,080
I didn't.

462
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,080
Yeah.

463
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080
I wish, I don't know.

464
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,080
I think it's on my Instagram.

465
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560
There's a before picture of what it used to look like factory.

466
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:47,280
Uh, it's just a silver SR five, two wheeled down V six truck.

467
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:53,720
And then I hydro locked it, use insurance money to put a V eight in it.

468
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,320
And then this past January put full load in it.

469
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,800
And then last month, a manual transfer case in it.

470
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,800
Yeah.

471
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,160
That, that transfer case came out of the same truck.

472
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,800
My mirror came off of.

473
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,800
Oh yeah.

474
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:08,800
Yeah.

475
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:13,000
When the truck stopped, I almost thought it was the transfer case.

476
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,920
I don't think so.

477
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,640
The front diff, I've got it out and I can't even spin the thing right now.

478
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,640
Jesus.

479
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:21,640
Yeah.

480
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:27,200
You, uh, have you looked at doing a twin stick on the transfer case?

481
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,700
I've not.

482
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:33,200
I've got a buddy, he probably known Chris Carroll, fast check over man.

483
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,040
He's got it in his truck.

484
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:41,960
And uh, yeah, he's been trying to get me to do, I just don't see the benefit really.

485
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,040
I don't have more ability to too low.

486
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,840
More sticks to play with man.

487
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,240
You got to like the sticks.

488
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,640
Not all of us are, not all of us are going after shafts like you.

489
00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,680
It could be even better if you had a manual because then you got three wiggas sticks man.

490
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,160
I don't know.

491
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,560
I enjoy my automatic.

492
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:10,400
I don't know that I would have enough attention span for a manual while you overlanding it.

493
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,640
You completely forget about it.

494
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,920
I got one hand on my video camera.

495
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,160
The other hand's talking to you.

496
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,880
The other hand's steering and I'm out of hands.

497
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:21,880
Yeah.

498
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:27,360
There's a guy whose name Dalton, who's been going with me recently in the teal xj.

499
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:28,360
Oh yeah.

500
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,360
Yeah.

501
00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:30,360
He's a manual.

502
00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:32,360
It's a manual as well.

503
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,360
And he hates it.

504
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,360
Yeah.

505
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,560
And of course he's new to all this too.

506
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,360
So he's still learning, but right now he's just like, man, I really wish I had an automatic.

507
00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,080
He's just stalling out going on these.

508
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,080
No.

509
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,080
Yeah.

510
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,720
He just got to learn how to do it.

511
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:55,520
I drove a manual TJ rock climbing for a long time and then I had a manual J4000 that I

512
00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:01,400
overland with and I would rather have the manual.

513
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,440
I think you're one of the very few that are like that anymore.

514
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,840
I think a lot of the people nowadays are just like, yeah, no.

515
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:10,840
Yeah.

516
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,080
That's because everyone else is wrong.

517
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,120
A lot of this computerized crap now.

518
00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:16,120
Yeah.

519
00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,120
I'm not like switches to crawl mode.

520
00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,120
Well, that's the fun in that.

521
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,120
Yeah.

522
00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,120
And then they can't even go.

523
00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:23,120
They don't even do anything.

524
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,120
Yeah.

525
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:25,120
Allen.

526
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,120
Yeah.

527
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,120
Allen's truck.

528
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,120
Trailhawk.

529
00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:34,520
I think anything pre driving modes like that is the way to go.

530
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:35,520
Yeah.

531
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,680
I haven't really had any luck with any of the times that I've tried to use any of them.

532
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:40,680
Yeah.

533
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,400
Well, I do like it.

534
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,400
I mean, Toyota's A-track has always been really popular though.

535
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,400
Yeah.

536
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,400
I wouldn't know anything about it.

537
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,400
Yeah.

538
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,400
I've never really done with it.

539
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,400
Yeah.

540
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,280
I think I've only had to actually engage once so far.

541
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,200
That was the hill climb up and ever.

542
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,440
Can yours even engage with the knock sensor?

543
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,440
I don't think it can.

544
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,440
Probably not anymore.

545
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,120
I know it used to like it.

546
00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:11,040
That whole code disappeared for a while when we first started, but now it's just barely

547
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,480
there so I don't think it even engages anymore.

548
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,480
Yeah, Jacob.

549
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,760
We got to come up here, man.

550
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:16,960
We were doing a poker run.

551
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,480
That'd be perfect for you.

552
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,480
Yeah.

553
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,480
Yeah.

554
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,680
It's like a, it's a wheeling event.

555
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:28,480
You start out at one end and you hit the coordinates that are marked on that certain trail.

556
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,520
So they, they throw coordinates out.

557
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,400
It's a timed event and you have to drive to those coordinates.

558
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,400
You get out.

559
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,880
You grab one of the cards from the deck and you go to your next point and you got to do,

560
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:44,800
I think it's five of them timed and whoever's got the best hand at the end, you know, they

561
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,600
win a bunch of prizes and stuff.

562
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,000
So yeah, it's pretty cool, man.

563
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,480
We're going to go as a group and hopefully each one of us get a better, get a better,

564
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,480
better chance of winning.

565
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,640
I think my wife is a playing navigator, dude.

566
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,480
I had her all set up.

567
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,400
I pass on X, but I pads got on X.

568
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,240
It's all downloaded.

569
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,760
She's going to have that on there.

570
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,160
What's the trail difficulty like?

571
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,160
Oh, zero.

572
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,360
For you, green as green can be.

573
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,360
Yeah.

574
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:22,360
Yeah.

575
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:25,880
I mean, Michigan trails, you know, are easy.

576
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:32,600
I mean, the spot we're going, there's some stuff that I put more in like a more, more

577
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,240
moderate level.

578
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,240
Yeah.

579
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,280
There's some stuff that would probably be harder for you just based on size.

580
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,280
Yeah.

581
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,280
But there's not.

582
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,840
The more tampering area.

583
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:43,840
Yeah.

584
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,840
Yeah.

585
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,880
But there's really not like, yeah, no, it's all easy stuff.

586
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:49,880
Yeah.

587
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:50,880
It's just Michigan in general.

588
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,880
They might get stuck in a mud hole.

589
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:53,880
Yeah.

590
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:54,880
Yeah.

591
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,640
In Michigan, that's your, that's where you start getting hard is where you get into a

592
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,120
model on the trail.

593
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:00,120
Yeah.

594
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:06,560
Otherwise, as far as obstacles go, it lets you go up to like drumming where you have

595
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,440
like rock shelves and stuff like that.

596
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,960
It doesn't get any more.

597
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:11,960
No.

598
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,600
Drumming is like a green trail anywhere else.

599
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,600
Yeah.

600
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,600
I'm talking.

601
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,400
I ain't got to worry about mud holes here really.

602
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,240
I mean, if there is one, I haven't, I haven't been stuck in one.

603
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,920
I'll say that.

604
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,440
But they're mostly rock bottom.

605
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,040
Where I hang up is like this past weekend, of course, not having full wheel drive.

606
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:38,600
It was a really muddy slick uphill battle that I could not do.

607
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,760
And then back and down, I almost ran into my buddy.

608
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,880
That was pretty nerve wracking when the truck starts going sideways.

609
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,880
Yeah.

610
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,200
And you're on your brakes and the truck's not stopping.

611
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,120
And what do you do?

612
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Yeah.

613
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,400
I think our MST group, they went, I think it was 10 cup and that.

614
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,520
There, if she was ice.

615
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,520
Yeah.

616
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,080
It had just snowed and everyone with mud trains was just sliding down the hills.

617
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,080
Yeah.

618
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,080
Well, that's the difference in Michigan.

619
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,000
It is a little different because of that.

620
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,680
Like if you go wheeling in the winter, the green trails, some of the moderate trails

621
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,920
that are maybe I would say moderate in the summer or a little harder in the winter.

622
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,440
So that is the fun part.

623
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,520
You know, you have the seasonal aspect of it.

624
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,520
You hit the same trail.

625
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,920
It's a whole different trail, different times of the year.

626
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,400
So spring where it's all wet and sloppy.

627
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,280
It's fucking it's way different than late summer versus winter.

628
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,360
Late summer is probably the easiest because it's real dry.

629
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,600
So that's when you that's when I hit everything.

630
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,560
That way I could say I did it.

631
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,560
Yeah.

632
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,560
Right now.

633
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,560
I don't know why reason for us.

634
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:56,080
Yeah, I don't know why you guys were struggling, man.

635
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,080
Hitted my almost stock FJ.

636
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,800
You talking about.

637
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,280
So what's your what's your favorite mod you've done to the tundra?

638
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,240
Shoot.

639
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Probably for the full wheel drive for sure.

640
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,080
If you call out a mod.

641
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,080
Yeah.

642
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,080
Two will drive.

643
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,080
Right.

644
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,160
Just getting caught up with everyone else.

645
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,760
And then I have really enjoyed the 529 gears.

646
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:23,760
Yeah.

647
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:24,760
Makes sense.

648
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,760
I've got my power back.

649
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:27,760
I feel right.

650
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,400
Especially on 35s, which I'm debating going back down a size.

651
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,600
Yeah.

652
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,280
Back down to 33s.

653
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,280
Maybe in between.

654
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,280
I don't know.

655
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,760
I'm also thinking pizza cutter tires.

656
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,080
Pizza cutter tires.

657
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,840
They are the way.

658
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:50,120
When I go because I plan on going 37s and when I go 37s, I'm going to do as skinny as

659
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,120
I can.

660
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,120
Yeah.

661
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,720
My right now my issue I've got is one, two issues.

662
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,600
I'm rubbing on the frame at full launch.

663
00:30:58,600 --> 00:30:59,600
Yeah.

664
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,520
I'm fine everywhere else.

665
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,880
And when I flex a certain way on a trail, I'll rub the fender, but it's nothing that

666
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,200
I'm worried about.

667
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,200
Right.

668
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,840
And then the other one is I'm just so paranoid about my front end suspension and the strain

669
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,840
that's on that.

670
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:14,840
I'm just, yeah.

671
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,440
Kind of wonder about that.

672
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,040
Did you guss at your knuckles at all?

673
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,040
One of them is.

674
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:29,240
The other spindle, the other spindle that has a gusset is the one where the bolts stripped

675
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,240
out.

676
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,520
That's funny you say that.

677
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,480
Alex, what's the pros and gods of only doing one?

678
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,320
Then you break the other one like immediately.

679
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,320
Yeah.

680
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:46,400
I've actually thought about ordering it right now, ordering the gussets for them.

681
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,400
I mean, I could make it on lazy.

682
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,400
And they're cheap.

683
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:51,400
And yeah.

684
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,400
And just.

685
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,640
Our gussets are on the 50 bucks apart.

686
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:55,640
Yeah.

687
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:56,640
Yeah.

688
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:57,640
Yeah.

689
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,640
Yeah.

690
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,480
I think Alex fixed his one was like, oh yeah, so, so great.

691
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,440
And then immediately when we went out.

692
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,440
Yeah.

693
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,000
I was like, we'll do this side this weekend and that side next weekend.

694
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,240
And then I broke the other side in between.

695
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,240
Yeah.

696
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,240
Sucked.

697
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,240
Yeah.

698
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,840
Benji was with me on one of those spindle failures.

699
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,440
That was horrible.

700
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:27,680
So there's, I'll see if I can find the link, but there's someone working on a way to fix

701
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:33,000
our lower ball joints so we don't have to worry about them bolts ripping out.

702
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,360
I've seen something from somebody.

703
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,360
Oh.

704
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,720
I can visualize it, but I can't figure out the name.

705
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,360
That's what I'm doing right now.

706
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,360
Oh man.

707
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,360
We asked.

708
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,360
I know they were really expensive.

709
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,480
Oh, shit.

710
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,760
I didn't see a price.

711
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,200
That might be true.

712
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,840
What I saw was $1,700 for a set.

713
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,840
Oh my God.

714
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:02,840
Yeah.

715
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,840
Sounds fun.

716
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:11,320
Yeah, I just, oh, total chaos is making them.

717
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,320
Yes.

718
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,320
Yes.

719
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,320
Total chaos does a lot of fast.

720
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,840
It looks like, you see more.

721
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:18,840
$1,000.

722
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,840
Ouch.

723
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:20,840
Yeah.

724
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:21,840
Yeah.

725
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840
It's high up there.

726
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:24,840
We're shipping too.

727
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,840
Is that with or with?

728
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,360
I'm not sure.

729
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,360
I'm not sure.

730
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,360
Wow.

731
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,360
Oh, hey, what are you?

732
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,880
Oh, sorry.

733
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,880
What are you running for?

734
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:38,880
Coms.

735
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:39,880
You're running Midland.

736
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:40,880
Yes.

737
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:50,640
So I run the Midland 40 watt and then I just got the new GXT 67, I think that was an impulsive

738
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,640
buy.

739
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,080
But now those are the two radios I use.

740
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,080
Holy crap.

741
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,800
Not even an NXT.

742
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,640
You've got the screen and everything.

743
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,640
It's fancy, man, fancy.

744
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,720
And then with the ball bar and Jenna.

745
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,720
Yeah.

746
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,040
That's what I was kind of looking at that made me think about that, which then brings me

747
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,640
into what winch are you running right now?

748
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:20,360
I run the Badlands Apex, 12,000 pound.

749
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,000
That's a favorite.

750
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,000
No complaints.

751
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000
I mean, I've used it submerged.

752
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,640
I got video proof somewhere on the channel.

753
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,160
I mean, it hasn't failed me yet.

754
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,160
Knock on wood.

755
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,160
Yeah, man.

756
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,160
The bumper is I'll knock on wood for you.

757
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,160
Yeah.

758
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,160
Yeah.

759
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,160
Is that you?

760
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,160
Did you do that?

761
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,160
Was that like a bumper or what?

762
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:51,520
It is a backwards adventure mods front bumper off of a third gen Tacoma.

763
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,600
And I welded the hoops on Benton welded the hoops on it.

764
00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:02,720
And then I had to come up with a custom winch tray for it to mount to and also shaved off

765
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:08,520
about how long it was, like three or four, maybe five inches off my frame off the front

766
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,960
end of the frame, just so I could get it tucked up closer to the truck.

767
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:13,960
Yep.

768
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,960
But I really love how it because nobody else has it.

769
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,960
No, that looks great.

770
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,640
I'm sitting and looking at the before and after, but before you did the hoops on it and even

771
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:30,600
the hoops, like bring it out to a whole different level.

772
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,600
That's crazy.

773
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,600
Yeah.

774
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,600
And then I see you pretty cool.

775
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,600
In the kitchen.

776
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,160
You'll it was pretty cool pulling up to Benji shop and seeing your truck with the tent up

777
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,160
and everything.

778
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,440
Oh, yeah, that was fun.

779
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:43,440
We were so asleep.

780
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,440
Yeah, you were.

781
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:45,440
You were.

782
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,440
Like, what's all that noise out there?

783
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,200
Oh, it's just a little third gen.

784
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Very shitty third gen.

785
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,600
Very loud.

786
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,000
Yeah, Chris.

787
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,840
That's why something made it, man.

788
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:03,840
I'm not.

789
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:10,360
Well, I'm looking at it from the fact that every time I've been out with it, something

790
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,360
happens.

791
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,760
But I know it's not mean to it.

792
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,720
Yeah, but it's not that mean.

793
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:22,760
My problem with modern my truck is I wanted to work like factory to.

794
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:28,040
Yeah, I want to be able to cruise on the interstate at whatever speed I want, which I've been

795
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:32,760
able to do my happy spots about 85 miles an hour.

796
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,600
965 same.

797
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,600
I can't do it.

798
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,240
Couldn't do 65.

799
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:44,360
Yeah, I have got to say I have got to get up and go.

800
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,760
I don't have any get up and go.

801
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,920
I get started like a freight train.

802
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,280
But when I do go like I get up there.

803
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,280
8595.

804
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,000
Yeah, I mean, I drive a third gen.

805
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:01,160
So we have no get up and go from the gig from, you know, to come with or to start with.

806
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:06,840
And then my I've got bigger tires than stock and stock gearing and 430s just don't really

807
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,880
do it a whole lot of justice.

808
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,280
No, well, I can't in 39.

809
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,120
Oh my God, that.

810
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,120
Yeah.

811
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,120
Yeah.

812
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,160
I want from 39 to 529.

813
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,160
That's a big jump.

814
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,160
It's a big jump.

815
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,680
I don't want to go home, they say, I guess.

816
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,000
Yeah.

817
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,120
What are you using for a fridge?

818
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,160
You said you run a Dometic still.

819
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,960
I still run a Dometic.

820
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,080
I've got a set power in the garage, but it's so big.

821
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,080
Yeah.

822
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:45,640
But, you know, my Dometic I've had for I've had it for three years.

823
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,120
It's about five years old and I run it full time in the truck.

824
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,120
Oh yeah.

825
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,120
I got one of those.

826
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,200
I can't even think about it right now.

827
00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,200
Eagle flow.

828
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,800
And that's been pretty good.

829
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,240
No real complaints of it.

830
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:13,280
I guess I at first I expected it to last a lot longer, but I guess in a 90 degree weather

831
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,800
and then being inside of the car on top of that, it's going to drain the drain the fridge

832
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,320
pretty quick, the battery in it.

833
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,320
Yeah.

834
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,520
Well, that's what I've got the solar set up for.

835
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:25,520
Right.

836
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,520
Right.

837
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:27,520
I am looking to do that.

838
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:35,560
I have a company, I think it's called Lensen that has a solar setup that goes on the hood.

839
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,120
And since that's unutilized space, that'll probably be what I use it for.

840
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,080
So your solar panel, is that a Harbor Freight one or did you buy it?

841
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,760
No, that is a Renegi 100 watt mounted on the roof.

842
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,760
Top 10.

843
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,360
I run all Renegi except for the battery.

844
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:59,040
So the Renegi charger and panel monitors all that.

845
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:04,320
The battery is just a cheap lithium battery off Amazon or not Amazon eBay.

846
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:11,360
I've got a Renegi sticker and holes from a Renegi charger if that counts.

847
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,360
It works great.

848
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:19,160
I just installed the same exact thing in the XJ that my buddy drives.

849
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,720
So a little extra easy setup.

850
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,240
Is the 100 watt do everything you need it to right now?

851
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:31,960
Does it keep the fridge charger or would you think maybe going up soon?

852
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,160
I think for what it is, it's great.

853
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,760
I mean, I haven't thought about upgrading anything.

854
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,600
I might really need to because while I'm driving to the make it's charged.

855
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Sure, sure.

856
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:49,240
Like right now with the truck sitting, it's probably charging the truck battery at this

857
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:50,240
point.

858
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,240
Yeah.

859
00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:52,240
Yeah.

860
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:58,080
So you got to remember is that a 100 watt there is more like a 40 watt here.

861
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,080
Right.

862
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,080
Right.

863
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,080
Yeah, we don't ever see sun.

864
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,080
So yeah.

865
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,440
So I was thinking maybe like 150 watt or something.

866
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,560
But I think the Lenson is a hundred and a hundred or 150 watt.

867
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,680
But honestly, it'd be better than nothing just to have something like that.

868
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:14,680
Yeah.

869
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:15,680
To help keep things charged.

870
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:21,240
You know, it's nice to use like this past weekend with my alternator going out.

871
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:25,280
I don't know if I mentioned that earlier, but no, no.

872
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:26,280
Yeah.

873
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:32,880
Freaking I was on the trail and so I run the switch pros to in the truck that's powering

874
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:33,880
all my lights.

875
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:40,160
There's a safety thing built into it to where when the battery that the lights are wired

876
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,400
to reaches a certain voltage, it shuts off.

877
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:50,960
So I had just finished a low water bridge crossing and battery light came on.

878
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:57,040
I didn't notice the battery light came on, but in my in my camera, right, I saw it come

879
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,480
on after that and then all of my light shut off.

880
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,880
I'm like, Oh no, what happened?

881
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,880
Yeah.

882
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,600
I made it to camp on eight volts.

883
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,600
Wow.

884
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:12,880
And then had to jump my truck off of my accessory battery because I've got the I've got a relay

885
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:13,880
installed.

886
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:21,720
So I'm able to join the two and I can jump it about two to three times before I can't

887
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:30,240
but when it to an O'Reilly's near the closest town to us, swap the alternator in a parking

888
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,680
lot and the pitch pouring rain.

889
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:38,680
The first time I did my alternator, it was in a hospital parking lot in the middle of

890
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:45,840
the winter and I had once the lower that lower bolt that was seized would not come out and

891
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,880
I spent probably three hours trying to get that out.

892
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:55,240
But the tools I had in the truck at the time, I think we got lucky on the alternator or

893
00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:00,520
the store having one because I opted for the bigger alternator.

894
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,560
Put that 110 amps, I think.

895
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,400
Is that like an 07 Tacoma one or something like that or an 08 Tacoma Tundra?

896
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,400
I have no idea.

897
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,920
Because I had a bigger one too.

898
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,160
They had one in stock and it was the one that I was able to warrant your return.

899
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,960
So I got really lucky.

900
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,960
Perfect.

901
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:22,960
Yeah.

902
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,360
I did it and I was like, sweet, everything's cool.

903
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:34,320
It only took me like eight hours combined between running and finding an alternator.

904
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,480
And then we went to go get pizza afterwards because I'm like, I'm not cooking anything.

905
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,440
In the five minutes it took for me to get to the hospital parking lot to the pizza

906
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,680
place, my alternator fried again.

907
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:45,680
Oh my God.

908
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,760
It was a re-man.

909
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:54,160
And so I parked that, I parked it and we threw a brand new battery in it because I had bought

910
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,760
one thing and that was the issue anyway.

911
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:05,560
And I kind of limped it to the store, to my wife's auto zone store that she manages.

912
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:11,480
And we got a, I think it was an 07 or 08 Tacoma alternator because they put out more amperage

913
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,680
than my FJ ones do.

914
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:21,080
And we swapped that out the next day and it's been fine since, but man, I'm going to be

915
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:26,480
going to like rock auto or something and just buying cheap, cheap alternators to just throw

916
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,840
in the truck because I'm done with that.

917
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:29,840
Yeah.

918
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:30,840
I like the warranty return.

919
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,160
Of course, that's where all these gets you on the price, I think.

920
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,160
Right.

921
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:36,160
Yeah.

922
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,160
Yeah, that is cool.

923
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,600
The alternator I got for free in a way.

924
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:40,600
Yeah.

925
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:46,040
I'm going to put Alex with the YAR alternator at St. John's.

926
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,120
I should have replaced that.

927
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:54,720
Middle of winter, we were on our way home and all of a sudden my handheld or my GMRS radio

928
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,280
kept shutting off and I was getting really mad and then all of a sudden the truck just

929
00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,280
died.

930
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:00,280
Nope.

931
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:07,040
So we were like, we were what, like two hours from home or something like that.

932
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,640
And then we were an hour from the nearest alternator.

933
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,800
So we had to abandon the truck on the side of the road, drive all the way to Lansing

934
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,480
to get an alternator and then drive back and put it in.

935
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,640
And like, I think it was like three or four degrees out.

936
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:24,640
Yeah.

937
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:25,640
Oh, it's crazy.

938
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,600
And then we had to get another part because my brother decided to overtark something.

939
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:30,600
Yeah.

940
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,440
That is a common thing.

941
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:39,360
The alternator mounting bracket snapped and they don't sell those.

942
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,480
They're not the bracket, but the little screw adjuster thing.

943
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,480
Yep.

944
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,840
They don't sell those.

945
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:49,380
So we found one, or I was just looking at parts that might work and I found a Camry

946
00:44:49,380 --> 00:44:55,640
one that was similar and the guy, it was almost hard to get them to sell it to us because

947
00:44:55,640 --> 00:45:00,680
it wasn't, we weren't buying it for a Camry.

948
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,680
But it worked.

949
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:02,680
It worked great.

950
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:03,680
Yeah.

951
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:11,080
I think I had the same thing happen where my bolt bent the adjuster on my Subaru Baja.

952
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:16,880
And Subaru is that that 06 I had just about every other Subaru is the same thing on the

953
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,120
inside under the hood.

954
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:23,640
So I went to the junkyard and robbed like two of them, grabbed a bunch of other engine

955
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:30,160
parts that, you know, I knew that I would need eventually stole some wood grain trim

956
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,960
from an LB in addition.

957
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,840
They got back and had a brand new Subaru on the inside, dude.

958
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,840
That was rocking.

959
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:38,840
Yeah.

960
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,040
I think here in the next few weeks, I'm going to rip my alternator out and replace it with

961
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:46,120
a Cadillac alternator.

962
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:52,880
Just I, when I'm rough, so we use my winch on Saturday to pull an XTERRA out of a mud

963
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:59,480
hole and with my lights on, when I turn the alternator on, my LEDs would shut off.

964
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,680
So I'm pretty sure that I'm going to need to do some work with that.

965
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:09,360
Are you sure your alternator is just not going out?

966
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,080
It better not be.

967
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,080
It's like brand new.

968
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:17,360
Well, you did sink it in the hole earlier this year and that that mud puddle.

969
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:25,120
So I'm thinking we all know how Toyota's do in muddy water with alternators.

970
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,720
Basically, if you get stuck in a muddy hole with an alternator as low as ours, you're

971
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:31,960
going to change it that year.

972
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,960
Well, my phone's low this year.

973
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:34,960
If you don't change it early next year.

974
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,960
At least as low as Joe's.

975
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,960
That's not on the bottom.

976
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,440
But yeah, I don't know.

977
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,440
It might be.

978
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,800
I mean, it charges at like 13.1 volts.

979
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,600
So I guess that's kind of low.

980
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:49,800
Yeah, that's low.

981
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,360
What is that?

982
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,240
Like 14.2, I think.

983
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:54,240
Yeah.

984
00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:58,720
The alternator on the 3.4 only charges at like 13.4.

985
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,720
So the man's 14.4.

986
00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:03,720
14 something.

987
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:08,840
Honestly, that little voltmeter that I got for like eight bucks off Amazon, those two

988
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,600
wires, dude, that was awesome.

989
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:11,960
I'm so glad I bought that.

990
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,120
That was so cheap, but it's I don't have any other way to really check it.

991
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,880
You know, I can I can look at the dash, but it doesn't tell me nothing really.

992
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,480
Your tundra started with a 3.4 then.

993
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,080
Yeah, yeah.

994
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:33,480
I knowing how how it feels in a forerunner, I couldn't imagine it in a tundra, dude.

995
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,600
Yeah, I don't know.

996
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,880
So we at least I just got it.

997
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:45,800
I don't remember the power it has or didn't have.

998
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,960
Although I am driving my dad's Tacoma, which has the same motor in it.

999
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,960
So it's first gen.

1000
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:52,960
But it's so tiny.

1001
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,120
Yeah, 2004.

1002
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:56,120
It's so tiny.

1003
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,960
It feels like you're you're able to get up and go in it though.

1004
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:01,960
Yeah.

1005
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:08,300
The I always joke because I came from a power stroke, OBS power stroke.

1006
00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:11,760
So I went from not being able to even get close to touching the other side of the car

1007
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:20,320
to being able to grab the other side other handle without bending over.

1008
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,680
It's quite a bit smaller.

1009
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:23,680
Yeah.

1010
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,800
The size of my truck compared to the newer Tacomas now it's like what?

1011
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,160
So I definitely get why people call it a Tacoma.

1012
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:32,160
Oh, yeah.

1013
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,760
Yeah, even the auto shop calls it a Tacoma.

1014
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,320
And it just actually does.

1015
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:39,320
Yeah.

1016
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,320
Yeah.

1017
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:46,520
Last year we first started that mistake or we mistaken our buddies tundra for a Tacoma

1018
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,120
the first time we saw it.

1019
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,480
Which one?

1020
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,800
The Jambers.

1021
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,680
Yeah, I thought it was too.

1022
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:58,320
I was like, damn that Tacoma sounds like he's got a VA and like I feel Derek looked at

1023
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,800
me like I was a dumb ass.

1024
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,400
He's like, tundra and I'm like, sure.

1025
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:08,520
I took all the badging off too.

1026
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:09,520
Yeah.

1027
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:14,760
With Joe's I looked at Mark and like since when did they did the Tacomas suicide doors?

1028
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:15,760
Yeah.

1029
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,320
It's a tundra.

1030
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,760
I hate that feature.

1031
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:22,760
Oh, yeah.

1032
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,360
On the FJ sucks.

1033
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,120
Sucks so bad.

1034
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,840
Good luck if you want to put anything in your vehicle.

1035
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:36,080
Well not only that it's when you're on the trail the cab's flexing a lot and it's squeaking

1036
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:37,280
right there at that joint.

1037
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:38,280
Oh, you get that.

1038
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,960
I haven't really gotten that much but maybe that's because I'm not as long but.

1039
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:49,680
I must say I think the newer Tacomas and for our FJs probably for how bulky the doors are

1040
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:50,960
compared to the old doors.

1041
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,960
It probably doesn't creak as bad.

1042
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:53,960
Oh my God.

1043
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:54,960
I hate that.

1044
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,200
I wanted a four door FJ.

1045
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,240
What if you just weld the rear suicide shut?

1046
00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:02,240
Me?

1047
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,240
No.

1048
00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:05,640
I need access to that space.

1049
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:10,840
But I mean that wouldn't that fix the flexing because does it mount kind of like a GM door

1050
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,840
where there's no pillar in the middle?

1051
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:13,840
Yeah.

1052
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:14,840
Yeah, okay.

1053
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,040
That's how mine is too.

1054
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:22,720
The, yo and I've done a couple of times is I'll swing open the suicide door and I'll

1055
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:28,080
choke my wife out because I forget sometimes that because the seat belt is actually mounted

1056
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,240
to the suicide door.

1057
00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:35,680
So I'll open the passenger door and then open the suicide door and she's like, oh, oh,

1058
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:36,680
oh.

1059
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,400
Like as I'm trying to get like the saw out of the back seat or something and she's like,

1060
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,400
God damn it, like, what's all right?

1061
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,400
Yeah.

1062
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,880
They get that separated on the thunder.

1063
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:47,880
Yeah.

1064
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,400
It's probably as it should be.

1065
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,400
Yeah, that was a major design flaw.

1066
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:54,400
Yeah.

1067
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:55,400
I mean, yeah.

1068
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:56,400
I don't know.

1069
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,880
I always had extended cabs without access to the back.

1070
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,400
So to me, I would probably just weld the door shut to fix the flex.

1071
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,400
Yeah.

1072
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,840
I mean, the biggest part of the room back there, it's, oh, there's more room than most

1073
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:09,840
people think.

1074
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:10,840
Yeah.

1075
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:11,840
Like that.

1076
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,360
I'd say it'd be a waste to do that.

1077
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,720
I'm assuming you'd be able to use the seats, right?

1078
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:17,720
Yes.

1079
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:19,920
So I've got to have that on Instagram or not.

1080
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:28,280
But yeah, I've got a custom overhead shelf in the back seat and then a platform, which

1081
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:32,160
is where my power lives and my fridge and where my dog lays.

1082
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,080
Where my dog lays?

1083
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,880
Your dog is so cute, man.

1084
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,720
I can't wait till my son gets boost for seat age so I can kick him out and delete my

1085
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:40,720
seat.

1086
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:42,800
Oh, yeah.

1087
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:47,200
We almost need to come down just so I can see your dog again.

1088
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:54,240
So I think I, she's, I thought she was in here for a second, but she usually lays right

1089
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,880
there on the couch.

1090
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:57,880
Both of mine abandoned me.

1091
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,120
I don't know where they went.

1092
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,200
I thought Wrangler was on the seat behind me, but I guess not.

1093
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,200
Yeah.

1094
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,520
She's a, she's quite the friendly little dog though.

1095
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,240
She always wants attention.

1096
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:17,080
So I guess, I guess a question I got too, by the way, is because you're a little bit

1097
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,560
more well traveled than I am.

1098
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,080
What's your favorite destination you've traveled to yet?

1099
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,160
Favorite area?

1100
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:31,600
Just throughout my years of life or in the space?

1101
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,880
You know, I would say both.

1102
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:39,480
I mean, in this space is one thing, but I guess if we're talking about just, I mean,

1103
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,480
beauty as far as the country goes.

1104
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:42,480
Yeah.

1105
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,080
I mean, I, so I haven't been a whole lot of places.

1106
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,000
I mean, I probably just offer one hand.

1107
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:54,320
I've been to Yellowstone, the T-tons, and there's a Boy Scout Ranch in New Mexico called

1108
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,880
Fillmont where I did a 14 day hiking trek.

1109
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,600
That was nice.

1110
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:05,560
And then Colorado, it's pretty much mountain wise is where I've been.

1111
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:06,560
Right.

1112
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,600
Favorite out of those?

1113
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:09,600
Favorite?

1114
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:10,600
Oh man.

1115
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:16,080
I don't know, the T-tons almost beats where I went in Colorado.

1116
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:17,080
Yeah.

1117
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,080
Really?

1118
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:19,080
Yeah.

1119
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,080
I'd see you.

1120
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,080
We're talking on number two.

1121
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,080
Where'd you go in Colorado?

1122
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,080
Oh gosh.

1123
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:30,360
Leadville, South of Leadville, and their near independence pass.

1124
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,360
Oh, okay.

1125
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:32,360
Okay.

1126
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,360
Yeah.

1127
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,960
We were going to go to the San Juan's, but we were like, there might be a lot of people

1128
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,000
at that time of year that we went.

1129
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,400
Yeah.

1130
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:48,280
So Tyler took us on a guided tour pretty much.

1131
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,280
We started in, hold on.

1132
00:53:50,280 --> 00:54:01,320
I mean, I went to San Juan's, but I did that in winter time for snowboarding.

1133
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:02,320
So.

1134
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,320
Oh man.

1135
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:10,200
Man, I'm watching you stuck in the middle of a river right now climbing up through.

1136
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,000
That was my tour over that time.

1137
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,000
Oh man.

1138
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,120
We don't get any of that because the DNR is like, oh, water crossings hurts the trout.

1139
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,120
Yeah.

1140
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:22,120
Oh really?

1141
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,120
Yeah, I'm trying to swim around it.

1142
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,120
Yeah.

1143
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,520
It'll just, it'll interfere with the salmon runs.

1144
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:35,520
Well, on the upside, at least you could throw the winch line across far enough that you

1145
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,280
didn't have to swim.

1146
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,240
So the other guy I was with in that video, he's also two-wheel drive at that time.

1147
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:42,240
No.

1148
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:43,240
Oh man.

1149
00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:44,240
Well, at least you were with a buddy.

1150
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,240
I mean, combined that's four-wheel drive.

1151
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:53,560
Yeah, I wouldn't have crossed it if he wasn't with me, but he was like, man, I'm going to

1152
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:54,560
do it.

1153
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:55,560
I think I can make it.

1154
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,760
And of course, I had never done that creek crossing before.

1155
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,520
I had never seen that river before.

1156
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:06,160
And we didn't know where the actual path was.

1157
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:11,840
And when it was completely dry this past summer, I could see the bowlers that I was

1158
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:12,840
hung up on.

1159
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:13,840
Oh yeah.

1160
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:14,840
Okay.

1161
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:21,920
I don't know if you were hung up, but I figured you weren't, your vehicle wasn't off, but

1162
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:23,760
I had water inside the cab.

1163
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:24,760
Oh, I'm sure.

1164
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:25,760
Yeah.

1165
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:26,760
Yeah.

1166
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,560
I haven't hit deep water like that yet.

1167
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,040
I've hit mud about that deep.

1168
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,200
There's another video on the channel.

1169
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,560
It's called DJI Drone Film, first time in four-wheel drive.

1170
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:38,560
Yeah.

1171
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:39,560
It shows.

1172
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:40,560
Hold on.

1173
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:41,560
I'm going to it.

1174
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,560
I can tell you a minute mark.

1175
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:56,400
So I know how to access my YouTube channel.

1176
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,480
I just posted the first YouTube video that I posted in probably 10 years.

1177
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:04,400
And wow, is it different?

1178
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:05,400
Uploading.

1179
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:06,400
Yeah.

1180
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:11,640
So it's called first trip in four-wheel drive a DJI Drone Film.

1181
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,640
And.

1182
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,640
Oh, yeah.

1183
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,280
Let's see.

1184
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,880
1.05.

1185
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:31,560
As far as shooting, how do you like the DJI drones in general for just videos?

1186
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,760
I mean, I don't have any complaints at all I've ever used.

1187
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,720
No, I don't have high end ones.

1188
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:38,720
Like I'm running.

1189
00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:39,720
Yeah.

1190
00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:42,080
I'm running a Navic Air 2.

1191
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:43,080
Oh, yeah.

1192
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:44,080
Yeah.

1193
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,080
Nothing special.

1194
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,080
Yeah, I know.

1195
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:47,080
Those are nice.

1196
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:51,560
And I recently just bought the Action 5 Pro.

1197
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:52,560
Okay.

1198
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,360
So the last video I just posted was all filmed with that.

1199
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:59,000
But I primarily shoot on a Sony a7 III.

1200
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,200
I'm starting to see.

1201
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,720
I'm starting to get into the Sonys a little bit because I was a Nica.

1202
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:07,720
Don't.

1203
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:10,600
No, because the audio jack will fail.

1204
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,440
Oh, and they won't recall it.

1205
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,720
Yeah, I've got a hundred dollars to fix it.

1206
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,640
Oh, oh, I'm.

1207
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,440
That's why I use DJI.

1208
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,040
Shit, dude.

1209
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,560
Yeah, that's that's confidently water above your hood.

1210
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:32,200
Not not from just driving just depth wise above your hood.

1211
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:33,200
That's nuts.

1212
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,320
We don't get nothing like that.

1213
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,160
Stay to the right.

1214
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,320
It's not so bad.

1215
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,600
We definitely have water that goes over your hood here.

1216
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:43,600
Well, we do.

1217
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,080
We just we wouldn't make it.

1218
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:46,880
It's all silt.

1219
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,960
It's all it's all like four eight foot muck just bottom.

1220
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,760
Yeah, I would trees and stuff in there.

1221
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:55,760
So let's pass weekend.

1222
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,840
I went to that same area where that water was deep and it was deeper.

1223
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,080
I did not cross it.

1224
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,480
Yeah, I would not doubt that.

1225
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:04,480
That's crazy.

1226
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:10,880
I think the deepest I've I've done as an actual water crossing like river crossing is probably

1227
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,160
like 10 inches, 12 inches.

1228
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,520
Oh, yeah, there's I forgot.

1229
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,040
I forgot you haven't been up to Connors Hole.

1230
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,360
Yeah, I don't know who that is.

1231
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,120
Yeah, up and dry.

1232
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,640
I've never seen this.

1233
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:31,080
Yeah, it's you go to my Instagram, Gavin.

1234
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,560
There's a video clip.

1235
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:38,280
Me crossing the water and you see Alex playing in the water.

1236
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,760
Yeah, with my just had my hand out the window playing with the water.

1237
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:47,120
What's what's trying to remember your name?

1238
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,160
Silver Silver.

1239
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:50,160
Yeah.

1240
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:54,120
I'm following so many overlanders now.

1241
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,120
It's crazy.

1242
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,800
It was back in June.

1243
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:04,840
Man, I that swing out was so nice though.

1244
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,800
The fact that you bought it with the swing out.

1245
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:08,800
Sweet.

1246
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,040
Yeah, you're.

1247
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:17,800
I really liked the DJI drones and what they can do, but I'm kind of nervous with Congress

1248
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,760
talking about banning Chinese drones.

1249
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,640
I got a story about that.

1250
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:27,400
They kind of gone into effect already with it because anybody that's buying the newest

1251
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,200
drones cannot get into the country right now.

1252
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:32,200
Right.

1253
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:37,720
So, like, Caleb Baker, Baker overland, he bought a new one and it's been rejected three

1254
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,600
times by customs.

1255
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,600
Yep.

1256
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:48,480
And they're talking about there's a possibility that within the next six months, all DJI

1257
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,680
drones will not be able to fly.

1258
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,480
Yeah, which I've got backups.

1259
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,720
What do you mean?

1260
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,720
As far as backups go, I'm sure you're probably going to get into that, but that's been a

1261
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,960
big topic.

1262
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:03,960
Parts back up.

1263
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:11,040
He means I do have older DJI drones that don't have any of the geo fencing and all that

1264
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:15,240
software and so they can't do anything, but they use GoPro's.

1265
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,520
So I'd be able to mount one of these to it.

1266
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:24,160
And then I also have an auto electric star drone, which almost looks like the Phantom

1267
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:29,480
Force from DJI and they have zero geo fencing and all that.

1268
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:31,840
How did you like the Autels?

1269
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:36,160
Because I had a chance to get one of those, but I had never heard of them prior, so it's

1270
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,520
kind of...

1271
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,200
The only complaint I have with it is the controller.

1272
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:48,840
It's kind of finicky where you plug your phone into it, which I just planned on getting

1273
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,280
on eBay and getting a replacement when the time comes.

1274
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,960
And then their new Evo series, I'd say new.

1275
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,680
I haven't really heard anything new from them recently.

1276
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,480
It's what I primarily flew for a production company that I worked for.

1277
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,120
And it was pretty nice.

1278
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:15,280
It flew differently, but if I had to pick DJI, it would be the way to go.

1279
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:16,280
Right.

1280
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,280
Yeah.

1281
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:18,480
Interested how that's going to turn out.

1282
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,080
There's a lot of DJI users in general.

1283
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:25,160
I think I'm going to build one is where I'm at.

1284
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,200
I want to build my own FPV.

1285
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:28,200
Yeah.

1286
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:32,040
That's where I'm at.

1287
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:37,000
I thought about doing the DJI FPV for a while just because of the price point of it was

1288
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:42,400
even cheaper, but if they're going to ban them, it's going to be pointless.

1289
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,400
Yeah.

1290
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:44,760
So I think I'm going to...

1291
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:50,120
I'll probably buy a frame and then start piecing one together slowly.

1292
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,520
I don't know how I'm going to record on it yet.

1293
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:58,800
It might just be GoPro or something, but that's where I'm at with it.

1294
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,640
I don't want something that someone else can control because they might just shut it off

1295
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,840
on me for no reason.

1296
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:05,840
Yeah.

1297
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,560
Yeah, that's valid.

1298
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:12,160
I mean, at the end of the day, investing that type of money into something just for it to

1299
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:20,480
be outlawed or however you would want to put it in the next year or six months is silly

1300
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,200
at that point.

1301
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:27,000
I mean, that's why we record on a weird service you've never heard of is because I don't want

1302
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:28,560
to get shut down on us.

1303
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:29,560
Yeah.

1304
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:30,560
Yeah, for sure.

1305
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:31,560
I never heard of it either.

1306
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:32,560
So...

1307
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,640
I mean, it's hosted out of my basement.

1308
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:35,640
So...

1309
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:36,640
Yeah.

1310
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:37,640
It's interesting.

1311
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:38,640
All right, dude.

1312
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:45,320
That's about an hour, so I really appreciate you coming on.

1313
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:46,320
Yeah.

1314
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:47,920
It's been a pretty good chat.

1315
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:48,920
Mm-hmm.

1316
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:49,920
That's right.

1317
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,680
Yeah, it was good to learn all about this.

1318
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,760
Like I said, I've seen some stuff from the start, but I never really got into detail

1319
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:58,760
with it.

1320
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:03,400
So it's a very cool build, man, going from two to four and changing out your gears.

1321
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:04,400
Yeah.

1322
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:09,680
It's been a cool story so far, looking forward to seeing what you got coming up soon.

1323
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:14,600
Yeah, I've got a build video in the works that'll go in detail about everything.

1324
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:15,600
Beautiful.

1325
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:16,600
Oh, perfect.

1326
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:17,600
All right, man.

1327
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:18,880
Well, I appreciate you.

1328
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:19,880
Thanks for coming.

1329
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:20,880
Thank you.

1330
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,880
We'll talk to you guys later.

1331
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:40,640
That's cool.