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Today is a little 30 minute episode, we're going to talk about upcoming weekend plans.
Little bit of Botch's housekeeping I guess.
That'll be near the end.
So yeah, we'll get right into it.
Mark, what do you plan on doing this weekend?
Well, we're doing beer night Friday, right, with the MST group?
That's the plan.
We're going to do that Friday night and then Saturday one of our buddies, Shane, he's
part of a Botch's now, he decided for an event for us and it's going to be a range day and
I can bring out my grandpa's old single barrel shotgun.
Yeah, which will be fun.
I'm getting out my new muzzleloader that I haven't even put around through yet.
So that'll be a good time.
Got the old hear he, hear he on that bitch.
I mean, it is from 1891.
All right, remind me not to be anywhere near that bitch when you shoot it.
I'm sitting there, I was seeing a video the other day, some guys like, yeah, you want
fucking scary home defense.
Intruder breaks in and you just sees a cannon at the top of the stairs and you're wearing
your fucking underwear.
That's how I'm going, what?
You're packed in with fucking silverware and hear he, hear he, just fucking blast the whole
front door.
Yeah, that's a really old Facebook meme.
I love it.
It's the best thing ever.
Yeah.
It's the perfect, the ATF comes knocking on your door.
It's perfect.
So you guys are going to beer night, I didn't know that.
I think we talked about it in the group chat.
I don't know about that.
The only reason we did it last weekend was Mark's truck.
Yes, my truck.
I think I went the week before.
Yeah, you went the week before.
That was fun.
I mean, I got back at like 12, 31 o'clock and I was like, yeah, I was fucking tired.
When they used to do it on Thursdays, I went one time and I didn't get home till like two
in the morning and then I had to get up at four in the morning and go to work.
Yeah.
No thanks.
I'm going to say I'm glad they moved it to Friday because I always worked out of town.
So I was like, I really want to go to one of them.
Yeah, it was fun.
I helped Derek figure out his front fog lights and Derek actually won a set of Nacho lights
off of like an Instagram giveaway.
I remember him saying something about it.
Fucking super, super high quality lights, man.
Those things are sick.
They also weigh just about as much as a newborn baby.
A newborn?
Yeah, it is about the same weight as a newborn star.
I mean, they're about, I want to say they're like seven pounds, something like that.
They feel heavy.
The same weight as jelly bean.
Yeah, yeah, it sounds about right.
Yeah.
Well, they're like.
That's why she doesn't dent the hood of the car she jumps on.
I have no idea who Jelly Bean even is.
Oh dude, it's this fucking girl on Instagram and Facebook who is like super popular on
reels.
She's really tiny.
And she's really tiny and jumps on the hood of cars all the time, like really expensive
cars like Roll Royces and stuff.
Oh, I know who you're talking about now.
Yeah.
Well, she's an OnlyFans model.
So she's a porn star.
And so the lights weigh about the same as she does.
Yeah, I know who you're talking about now.
I, you know, she got new headlights here pretty recently.
Yeah.
And not a fan.
I went to, you know, at least this is marked NSFW or explicit so we can talk about this.
All right, let's get into it.
I went to Aromi, which is a great place to find OnlyFans leaks and the new headlights
are pretty fricking terrible.
Yeah.
Yeah, the headlights aren't good.
Her tiny headlights were way more attractive.
Yeah, it's sad man.
It's sad when people do mods on their, on the bodies of their vehicles that...
Their original mode of transportation.
And the headlights that were originally there were perfectly fine.
And you know what?
Some people like the old style in Candescence.
You didn't need new big fucking projector bulbs that, you know, it just doesn't look
like they're supposed to be there.
You know, I like both personally, but like there comes a point when it just doesn't look
good anymore.
Like when you're putting a five inch round headlight on a BMW Z3, it just doesn't work.
Right.
Yeah.
Like a BMW Z3 should always have smaller headlights.
Always.
Doesn't make sense.
Like I guess Miata's get away with big headlights, but the Z3 would look terrible with big headlights.
That does only get away with headlights is because they're more of like a, it's more
of a, it's a hideaway headlight type thing.
It's like, yeah, it's like putting a sweatshirt on, you know what I mean?
Like you can't tell until they pulled the sweatshirt up and then it's like, oh, look,
they pop up.
Like the pop up and down headlights.
Yeah.
A lot of times they're saggy headlights.
That's why the Miata gets away with it.
Cause it's able to hide them by sagging them down.
Love this analogy.
On that note, it works on all levels.
And on that note, we'll move on from the, I have no input.
I have no input on any of this.
Poor Mark.
I have rest of the crowd.
Why?
He's kissing his cross over there.
You see, dear listeners, some other off road podcast, Total Off-Road, would put this all
behind a Patreon and make you pay to get this content.
We just offer it up to you for free.
Because it's not worth all that much.
No, it's not.
It's bad.
It's bad content.
We're bad at content.
Yeah.
This is bad content.
Thought right up on the, on the side, I guess.
I don't know.
We were trying to talk about plans for the weekends and got all the way to Jelly Bean.
So we went from off road to guns to people.
Headlights.
We were talking about headlights.
Sorry, we were talking about headlights.
I forgot.
Come on, Mark.
So I, well, for my weekend plans, I don't think Friday is in the books for me unless
I make a weird decision.
But I, Saturday, I think I'm going to try to do the trail ride on West Michigan off
roads page.
It's only like 35 minutes out where the starting point is.
So might try to do that.
That kind of all depends on if Sienna's working and I have the kid.
I can take the kid trail riding, but if he does get fussy, it's really hard to watch
him, you know, while I'm trying to watch what I'm doing too at the same time.
So that all depends on Sienna's schedule.
If not, I think I'm going to talk to Casey about that winch and try to run over and grab
that Saturday at some point.
Nothing happened either way, even if I do go on the trail ride, depending on when it
ends.
We'll see.
If you go see Casey, give him a hug and tell him it's from Alex.
I will.
I won't tell him it's from Alex.
I'll just give him a hug.
But and then, yeah, Sunday is, I don't have anything planned for Sunday.
I think it's going to be the relaxed day for us.
We're going to get some laundry done, man.
We had our pipes freeze last night.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Well, I got home and I'm not going to talk about how our water pump is jerry-rigged or
anything, but long story short, it somehow got unplugged and the warming light that we've
had on it all winter somehow burnt out all within the same.
It could have burnt out earlier in the year, who knows, but it was doing just fine until
yesterday when we tried to turn the water on.
So you have an outdoor pump house then?
It's under the house.
So that was fun.
I'll see if I have it down at the farm still, but I have a blanket that you, it's like a
heated pipe blanket that you lay over your pumps at the top.
So if it happens, you can just plug it in and it thaws everything.
You can set it to its lowest setting and it does a good job without having to worry about
a light bulb.
It does a good job keeping it warm.
Yeah.
I think I'm going to end up buying some of the pipe tape and then just wrapping it around
the housings and stuff of the pump and the pipe around it.
And we'll just have that kind of on standby just in case, because we didn't have this
issue last year, but it got to negative five yesterday when I got up and that's without
wind Jill.
So you got pretty cold.
Yeah.
We, we struggle with the pump out in our horse barn freezing all the time.
So we've tried quilted blankets, the quilted ones that are supposed to keep it warm.
They were all right.
They're not great.
Yeah.
Charmin.
Yeah.
Basically.
And then we have this heated one that like wraps around the pipe and that does a rock
solid job.
Yeah.
It'll actually melt the dirt around the pipe when it's frozen.
Yeah.
No, that's a, it's an idea.
I'll, I'll keep that in mind.
I think it was like 30 bucks on Amazon.
Yeah.
We'll take, we had one of my cheap Amazon $20 heaters and we just put it under there.
It's pretty well enclosed.
He's got like hard insulation around it with some blankets and turps even around that to
help keep it insulated.
So it was just kind of a, a weird event.
It's plugged in through a wind, my back window that goes into the house.
Yeah.
It's not hardwired in.
So the dog or something happened to where they had unplugged it.
They stepped on the cord or something and unplugged it.
It's been fine for two years and just happened to be last night when it was the coldest day
it's been this year yet.
So yeah, it was fun.
We got that thought out at about 5 AM this morning and to our knowledge, there's nothing
leaking but nobody really crawled under there to check either.
So I, I definitely let one of my barns get below 32 and blew a boatload of water lines
for turkeys.
So I get it.
I know how it works.
Yeah.
I've seen a lot of, I did like $2,000 worth of damage to my sprinkler system.
It's no big deal.
Yeah.
It happens.
I've seen, there's been a lot of people at Gilroy's really coming in for water repair
stuff lately, looking for PVC stuff, PEX stuff.
And a lot of people leave it because we don't have the product yet because so many people
are buying the same shit, you know, half inch connections.
People come and I had a guy come in the other day who wanted faucet connections and I told
him what he's going to need.
No, no, no, no.
I know what I'm looking for.
I'm like, yeah, all right.
You know what?
Do your thing.
I don't know anything.
So I went to the wrong part, came back the next day and I helped him find the other part
and he's like, yeah, yeah, this is exactly what I needed.
And in my head I'm like, dude, that's the fucking part I told you to get the first time.
But I just let it go.
Then we had another guy come in and he's one of those guys where like you just look at
him and know that he doesn't know what he's doing.
You can just tell.
Yeah.
He had like that side, he had that like those cross body bags.
He was in a black puffy jacket with Nikes on and a younger guy helping his older mother
out and they had an outside faucet freeze up and it broke off just inside the hole going
into the house.
Oh God.
And he's like, I need a half inch like plug to go on this.
And I said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can find you a half inch PVC plug.
Or I said, you mean cap though, right?
And he goes, no, no, I need it to be like a plug to go inside of the half inch PVC pipe.
And I'm like, huh?
So he's like, yeah, I want a rubber plug.
And I'm like, oh my God.
I was like, explain to me how you think this that works.
Like, you know, I reworded that, but he's like, yeah, I just need a like a rubber plug
that's got like the adjustable, like a boat plug.
He's like, I'm just going to put it inside that piece of pipe, tighten it up, and then
we're going to turn the water back on and we'll just deal with it in the spring.
And I said, no, I said, I'm sorry.
I was like, that's not going to happen.
That's not possible.
I said, one, we don't carry boat plugs that are under a half inch technically because
your inner diameter is going to be smaller.
I was like, two, that's just how it works.
I said, you know, I, you know, free advice here.
I said, you're better off cutting that PVC pipe flush and then gluing a cap on it and
then coming back to it in the spring.
And he goes, yeah, but it's, you know, inside the house.
And I said, so how do you think you're going to get that plug in?
Well, it's going to be a tight fit.
I'm like, oh God.
So you know what would actually work really well in that situation?
I've done it before.
So shark bike makes a really good exterior faucet that is freeze proof and you literally
just push it on and screw it down.
Yeah.
I, uh, his main issue is that the break is, you know, you have your half inch hole going
into the side of the house, right?
The break is inside of the house.
Right.
That's why the shark bite one works so well.
You just drill out the hole a little bigger and then click.
Yeah.
And he was trying to do all this without drilling out that half inch hole.
You know, he was going to, he was going to try to push the plug in to a broken PVC pipe.
It was broken.
And I mean like, it was like a two inch like break.
Uh, you know, it wasn't like an even break or anything.
And I was like, you're going to have to cut that flush before you even get anything on
it.
Or even if you wanted to do like, and you found some kind of plug to go in there like
that, I said, you'd still have to cut a flush to get it in there.
I looked at the woman and he walked away cause he didn't really like that.
I was telling him what to do.
And I said, if you'd like my advice, I'd say, I said, go, you know, if you have a basement,
go into the house, see if you could find that PVC pipe.
I said, and hopefully there's a shutoff for it up the pipe a little bit, turn the shutoff
off, turn your main back on and at least you have water and then you can adjust it at the
house.
You know, in the spring I said, you know, at least you'll still have water because they
turned their main water off to the whole house because of that.
So she's like, okay, yeah, I'll look.
I was like, and then also my advice is yeah, flush cut it and either glue a cap on it for
the spring or just redo it and insulate it with a pool noodle or some pipe tape to make
sure you keep it nice and warm.
And remember to shut your exterior faucet off in the winter.
Yeah.
So that was, that was fun.
And that's just part of the, all of this cold that we get in Michigan.
This kind of happens every year.
You have people coming in and this is how we start the botches off road hardware podcast.
We just, we just go around and talk about the hardware store stories.
We could start a hardware call in show where people call in, tell us their hardware problems
and we give them our advice.
Yeah.
Did you know that we don't have any, uh, what is it?
Is it class?
Uh, class, class 10.
What is that?
I can't remember this, the strength of the bolt.
Um, oh yeah.
Yeah, you don't have any grade 10.9s anymore.
I don't have any grade 10, uh, metric, uh, bolts.
Yeah, I know.
So that sucks.
Um, which we have because when it was true value, they did have grade 10 metric bolts,
different, a whole different, um, hardware, uh, hardware, uh, bolt company.
And that we're going through now and it just wasn't one of them that they had offered.
Although I will say they have a lot more specialty bolts.
They have like automotive bolts, body bolts, all sorts of different stuff.
The rubber washers that you have now aren't as good, but it doesn't, it's a give and take
kind of thing.
Cause I have a lot more other stuff that the old company didn't have.
Oh yeah.
But crazy.
There's some stuff that is kind of lacking now.
And they like individually packaged so much stuff compared to the other company.
Yeah.
So with the bins, it was kind of nice with, um, and I just kind of found this out today.
So we got a bunch of boxes in from them of like screws and bolts and stuff.
And I'm like, man, no fucking room on the shelves for these.
I didn't realize that they have drawers for books, like wood screws and stuff like that.
And you have to take them out of the boxes to fill the drawers.
And then you have to put the boxes in the drawers.
I'm like, I didn't even know that.
So that was kind of a learning experience today.
Cause I had all a bunch of overstock stuff and I was filling up drawers today, all sorts
of cool stuff though.
But any who, that's a, it's just,
it's just one of the many things that happens in the, in the cold weather, like flat tires
and diesel fuel freezing.
Oh yeah.
Wheelbarrow is folding in half.
And I had one customer that came in the other day.
Guy, a guy wanted a wheelbarrow told me he didn't have it out in the front of the store.
So I looked forward on my inventory, said we did.
We walked back out and lo and behold, there's the fucking wheelbarrow.
There's three of them.
That dude's an idiot.
Yeah.
He had a Turkey farm and he said, yellow scares the turkeys.
I have to have something that isn't yellow.
All right.
I believe him.
Cause like I have a Turkey farm and the turkeys are scared of yellow.
I don't know what it was.
It was, it was really funny cause I got it.
He got all checked out and then he's, I'm like, where are you going to put this?
And he's like, on my truck.
And he goes and throws the wheelbarrow on top of his fricking SUV.
Yeah.
On top of his forerunner.
I heard it started a new trend.
The rooftop wheelbarrow.
Did you get a new mod?
Yeah, I did.
You know, I saw this guy driving down the road with a wheelbarrow on top of his forerunner
and I'm like, you know what?
Rooftop wheelbarrow.
It just makes sense.
If you roll the truck, you can just push it on the wheelbarrow.
And then on top of that, when you get to the campsite, you just pull the wheelbarrow down
and then you can go get firewood.
It also doubles as a waterproof, secure storage option for your duffel bags.
Yeah.
Just rooftop wheelbarrow, man.
I think it's a very underrated mod and everyone should do it.
It's way better than a 10.
Yeah.
I mean, if you have those, like, uh, the ski, uh, shells that you put your extra cargo in,
it's literally that.
It's the same thing.
Yeah.
Cheap, about the same price.
And with more utility because you can roll your car on it.
Like it's easy transport.
And you can even use the wheelbarrow as a seat next to the campfire.
Everybody knows that wheelbarrows make great seats.
Yeah.
You could even throw a pillow in it to make it more comfortable.
Absolutely.
Dude, rooftop wheelbarrow.
It's the newest thing.
Everyone should be doing it.
I'm telling you.
This is so stupid.
And now the question is who follows me on Instagram to have seen my rooftop wheelbarrow?
Yeah.
We'll have to add some clip art here too for the new one.
Yeah.
It'll be the chapter art for sure.
Yeah.
Well, so, well, anyway, let's, let's get off the whole folding wheelbarrow and hardware
store.
Let's talk about how it's-
No, let's get back to the folding wheelbarrow.
Has anyone have a, I mean, it wasn't a light wheelbarrow.
It's a heavy duty wheelbarrow and it just folded in half.
Like I was pushing turkeys in a wheelbarrow and it was just like and folded in half.
I think the wheelbarrow we load our P stone and I don't know, our P stone barrows about
fall apart all the time we would use it.
Like it's just the wheelbarrow had one job and that's to carry heavy material as I push
it and it couldn't even do that.
There's this crazy chick I follow on TikTok and she's building her own underground tunnel
under her house.
You know, Colin Furze did this first and there's so many people copying him now.
She's been, she's been doing this for years and she is some kind of structural engineer
or something and she's building it up to code, doing everything by herself and she's like
putting rebar in the ceiling and concrete and reinforcing it all.
This is doing everything by herself, welding, grinding, all of it.
Look up Colin Furze's video.
He has, so he did I think two bunkers now and a tunnel that connects his bunkers to
his house.
Like the dude's been doing this for like 10 to 15 years.
Now it's connected to an underground garage.
Yeah, yeah.
Like it's, it's insane.
Yeah.
So she's, she's been doing that and she's got a mine cart and everything that goes up
into her house and like, and then she takes all that rubble and stuff out and the city
ended up finding out because she's so popular.
So she had to get everything, everything, you know, like coded and stuff and it's actually
structurally like up to code.
So she's waiting on all that paperwork to get back because she had, I forgot who she
had to get there.
Someone to take a look at everything, an inspector.
And he's like, he's like, yeah, actually it's built better than up to code.
Like it's thicker reinforcements.
They're all in the right spots.
It was really cool.
And so she was waiting on all that paperwork and she didn't know what to do.
So she's like, I think I want to build a castle.
Oh my God.
She's got all that rubble.
So while she's got, it's, it's just like, it's just dirt though, like dirt and rock.
So she's driving and she's like, I don't know where I'll find all these blocks for this.
And she finds this construction site with a bunch of fucking like big ass boulders in
it.
She stops and asks them if what they're doing with them.
And they're like, nothing.
They're just sitting here.
I was like, well, would I be able to like take some?
They're like, yeah, we don't give a shit.
Take them.
So she came out with a hammer and a chisel and tried to start making her own castle blocks.
And these blocks are like three foot by two foot, like big fucking blocks.
She realized quickly that that wasn't working well.
So she, uh, she's got an electric, uh, like dump cart, like electric wheelbarrow basically.
And she wheeled out a generator and started looking up how to break blocks and what's
the best way to like get nice, even square blocks.
And she's got like 155,000 tons worth of blocks now sitting on the side of her house.
It's fucking crazy, dude.
She's so smart.
And, and like, I look at the, the hard labor she does and I'm like, why?
So, uh, if you ever get a chance to look up Colin first video, he does, he builds a, uh,
hydraulic jackhammer that he uses because he lives in the UK.
So it's all rock underground.
Yeah.
He's breaking it up with this electric jackhammer or this hydraulic jackhammer thing.
And he's just picking it out bucket by bucket.
It's a ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's, uh, just fun.
It's fun to watch.
Shit.
God, we almost took up our 30 minutes already, man.
I was just going to say, well, on that note, I guess it's time to call it.
We had such a fun, uh, such a fun episode this time.
We talked about everything, just about everything except overlanding, but yeah.
I mean, we talked about cornstarch and guns and cornstarch.
Yeah.
Sorry.
It almost sounded like you said cornstarch and I'm like, Hey, yeah, I said corn stars,
but cornstarch works.
And now we're, now we're the YouTubers.
Wait, we have a little bit of time left.
Can we talk about Cletus and his NASCAR adventure and how I think that it's a ridiculous step
for Cletus to have taken.
But I think for NASCAR, it's a genius marketing plan.
Oh yeah.
Because if, if you look at, um, uh, Adam LZ, he joined the formula drift a while back and
look at the boom in popularity that formula drift got when Adam joined, I'm hoping that
that works out for NASCAR the same way.
Oh yeah.
I mean, they've been struggling.
I think they've been struggling with the younger generations, right?
But engage with NASCAR.
And series of, I did a race in the old Coliseum, like in the cars.
That was the most boring race.
Um, but I mean, that's why NASCAR doesn't do themselves any favors.
Like they have a racer who does something new.
He rides a wall halfway around the track.
What do they do?
They get some trouble for it.
They ban the move.
Like every time someone does something cool and new, they make it illegal.
Yeah.
So how can they expect for the sport to continue if they just make it harder and harder?
You know, um, we should totally start a, uh, a racing podcast where we just talked about
races cause I can do this all day long.
But you know, formula one, they had, uh, what was it called?
Uh, form, uh, formula one drive to survive or whatever it was.
And that gave us more of a background, if you will, on the racers.
And it gave the story to each racer.
Whereas not with NASCAR, I can't even tell you who races NASCAR anymore.
The last, like the last good NASCAR personality was what Dale Aaron Hart, Tony Stewart, Jeff
Gordon, like, but modern racers, I can't even, Oh, Oh, there's that one guy who supposedly
had a noose on his garage door.
I was like, Oh, I don't remember his name, but I know who you're talking about.
Oh, and then, uh, we, we got, uh, let's go Brandon.
Like just NASCAR, they need to do something to reach out and make things more interesting
again because it's not fun anymore.
I think they're changing the, uh, the wheel style to more of a, uh, a one bolt.
Yeah, I saw that.
That's about three stages to a race now.
Yep.
I can't go past a certain speed limit if I understood correctly.
Like I would be more interested in NASCAR if we could go back to like the seventies
and eighties.
Actually, if they would do a NASCAR classics and race cars the way they did in like the
thirties, Oh my God, dude, I would, I'd watch that every week.
Yeah.
I think they need speed.
I don't think speed limits should be a thing.
It's literally called a race.
Right, right.
Why are you having speed limits?
If you can do a fucking loop going 280 mile an hour, then you should be able to do it.
We should totally start a race podcast like once a month though.
Like I'm so down for that.
Like it won't be, it won't be botches.
It'll be, I mean, it might be botches, but it'll be botches race week or something.
Yeah.
We can add that to our, uh, our storefront.
Oh yeah.
We have a storefront guys.
We have three whole products.
If we have, if you hate holding beer because your hands always cold, we have a Coozie.
And if you like drinking beer out of a glass, we have those too.
We do have more products.
If you like stickers, we have stickers.
Yeah.
We, we have like three items right now.
Our old store had a lot more, but we're, uh, we're working on a transition here.
Yeah.
So we have an internal store with products that are ready to be beta tested.
So we just have to buy them and make sure that they're actually good quality before
we decide to, you know, sell them to people.
Right.
But buying them takes money and we're broke.
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money.
Yeah.
So, but on that note, um, maybe check out the store, but you don't have to throw it
in the show notes.
Check out our YouTube, but you don't have to, um, check out our Facebook and Instagrams.
Yeah.
Yep.
You should, you should, you do.
You should have to.
All of this is always in the show notes.
So you can just go down and click it too.
Yep.
And you can see more progress updates on some of this stuff like, uh, the wheelbarrow truck
or the weekend project, the weekend projects.
We'll do some more weekend project updates because I don't feel like we do a lot of that
on social medias.
Yeah.
I'm really bad at social media guys.
I, I'm really, really, I carry a flip phone for God's sake.
Right.
So on that note, we will, uh, we'll see you later.
See you next time.
Later.