WEBVTT 00:00:21.449 --> 00:00:24.210 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:26.390 about everything from gear reviews to trail stories, 00:00:26.609 --> 00:00:29.070 tent camping to rock landing, and all things 00:00:29.070 --> 00:00:33.649 to do with the outdoors. Well, it's a weekend 00:00:33.649 --> 00:00:36.789 recap, weekend update, whatever order you want 00:00:36.789 --> 00:00:40.289 to put that. Yep. We should start this with the 00:00:40.289 --> 00:00:42.329 important thing. What are you drinking today? 00:00:43.289 --> 00:00:47.969 I got a Blue Moon. Man, you're getting fancy. 00:00:48.049 --> 00:00:52.329 You even got that nice... botches uh koozie on 00:00:52.329 --> 00:00:55.570 there that you can only get at the botches store 00:00:55.570 --> 00:01:00.350 that is in the show notes i'm uh rocking a age 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:06.430 -old favorite the el chavo yeah i'll give him 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:09.769 a little crack too yeah i can't really crack 00:01:09.769 --> 00:01:13.670 into that bottle yeah listen to that crispy goodness 00:01:15.469 --> 00:01:19.230 Yeah, so this was a pretty exciting weekend we 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:23.109 just had. Yeah. Finally got some testing for 00:01:23.109 --> 00:01:25.150 Leatherwood and with all that we've done to our 00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:31.750 rigs. I have most of my skid plates on. Still 00:01:31.750 --> 00:01:35.390 need some bolts for parts of it. I need to see. 00:01:35.870 --> 00:01:37.890 Actually, we're on the podcast, and I'm going 00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:41.030 to look for it live. I am missing a bushing for 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:45.040 one of my Icon shocks, and I tried to. I tried 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.260 to make it work by using another bushing from 00:01:48.260 --> 00:01:52.819 another shock, but it's not working. Oh. So I'm 00:01:52.819 --> 00:01:55.060 going to go on Icon and see if they sell just 00:01:55.060 --> 00:02:00.120 the bushing. I would assume so. I'll do this 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.739 later. I'll do this later. But I pulled it up. 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.560 I'll pull it up so I can at least find it later. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.400 But, yeah, so, I mean, I doubt it's a big deal. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:10.800 The bushing works. Everything's fine. It just. 00:02:11.849 --> 00:02:14.810 it could be better by you know having the right 00:02:14.810 --> 00:02:20.909 parts yeah no my rear end worked good um look 00:02:20.909 --> 00:02:24.849 real good from it was it was so noisy dude like 00:02:24.849 --> 00:02:27.449 so we get out on the trail at rocks and valleys 00:02:27.449 --> 00:02:29.509 oh yeah we went to rocks and valleys off -road 00:02:29.509 --> 00:02:32.610 if you uh off -road park if you listen to last 00:02:32.610 --> 00:02:36.289 week's weekend update yeah but so we get out 00:02:36.289 --> 00:02:39.620 on the trail and all i hear is creek Crunch, 00:02:39.620 --> 00:02:41.840 crunch, creak, creak, crunch. And I'm like, what 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.479 the hell? What is broken? And I'm listening. 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.539 I've got my head hanging out the window. And 00:02:48.539 --> 00:02:50.520 it dawns on me it's coming from behind me. And 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.819 I'm like, shoot, man, we just did all that work. 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:57.099 And then I remembered that uniballs like to make 00:02:57.099 --> 00:03:00.879 noise and pop. And every single junction on my 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.560 rear control arms are now uniballs. Yeah. So. 00:03:06.349 --> 00:03:08.729 I'm going to chalk this up to just uniballs are 00:03:08.729 --> 00:03:12.330 noisy because everything moved properly. Yep. 00:03:14.430 --> 00:03:16.870 I'll say it. It looked like it was working like 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:20.210 it was supposed to the entire time. It felt great. 00:03:22.110 --> 00:03:27.110 Those unknown shocks that I think might be Toyotex, 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:31.710 I might replace those. I just haven't decided 00:03:31.710 --> 00:03:34.370 what to replace them with yet. It's not going 00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:37.639 to be... Yeah, springs, I'm sorry. It's not going 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:41.000 to be OMEs, just because I don't like the OMEs 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.240 as much, I don't think. Yeah. I don't know. We 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.960 could throw the OMEs on and see what they look 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:48.639 like. Mm -hmm. That sounds like a lot of work. 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:56.159 Yeah. Like, two hours. Yeah. And 50 beers. Yeah, 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.180 sounds about right. We probably should do it 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:04.180 before I return the OMEs, though, huh? Yeah. 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:09.159 yeah yeah be a good idea anyways but yeah so 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.319 forerunners your ends working really well uh 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.759 it was really convenient having my cooler i think 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.860 this isn't the first trip we've done with the 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:23.100 cooler but because we we took the cooler down 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:27.139 to missouri with us yeah but i think this is 00:04:27.139 --> 00:04:29.100 the first time other than that we've used the 00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:31.360 cooler other than like shopping because i use 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.800 it every week for shopping yeah Yeah, I think 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.079 this is the actual first time I'm actually off 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.160 -roading with it in there. Yeah, it was pretty 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.180 great. No, no, you didn't have your rig for that 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.339 one. I was going to say New Year's, but I forgot 00:04:44.339 --> 00:04:48.060 you did not have your rig for that one. No, I 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:55.680 had the black truck. The poor black truck. Yeah, 00:04:55.779 --> 00:05:00.560 so the cooler was pretty great. I did not have 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.480 the packout drawers before, and those were not 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.579 as noisy as I thought they'd be off -road. So 00:05:08.579 --> 00:05:15.300 that makes me pretty happy. Yep. What testing 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:18.199 did you have to do this weekend? I had to test 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.019 my front end, and I discovered something that 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:23.920 I need to upgrade as well beyond what I upgraded. 00:05:25.259 --> 00:05:28.180 So anyone listening, if you got your, I think, 00:05:28.180 --> 00:05:31.980 is it force alignment cam bolts it is? I'm trying 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:34.540 to remember the name of those. Yeah, alignment 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:37.040 cam bolt eliminator kit or something like that. 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:42.699 They're pretty much hexagons. You buy them, and 00:05:42.699 --> 00:05:45.560 you actually off -road them hard like what we 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.620 do, you're going to want to get reinforcement 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:52.339 tabs. I about sheared them off. I bent them. 00:05:53.819 --> 00:05:58.759 That's it. Was because I fat foot my foot off 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.759 the brake pedal onto the gas going downhill. 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.759 Don't listen to him. He makes it sound like it 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.079 was nothing. He jumped that truck. I did not 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.879 jump the truck. He jumped it. I watched. All 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.079 you heard was a loud banging. You assumed I jumped 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:22.079 it. I don't think I can jump it. No, no, I watched. 00:06:22.339 --> 00:06:25.740 You jumped that truck. You went, whoo, and then 00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:31.600 bam. That's impressive for how up and down we 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.800 were on the Python trail to do that. Okay, so 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.720 he didn't actually jump it. It just, it was, 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.920 I saw part of it out of my rear view window, 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:44.279 or mirror, and I thought for sure Mark was going 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.129 to die. We'll just leave it at that. This man 00:06:47.129 --> 00:06:49.509 needs to learn that his feet are too big to go 00:06:49.509 --> 00:06:56.730 from the brake to the gas. Yeah. So, luckily, 00:06:56.889 --> 00:07:01.209 we didn't realize it was wrong until we got going 00:07:01.209 --> 00:07:04.170 away from Rocks and Valleys. We pulled into the 00:07:04.170 --> 00:07:06.129 gas station. My brother needed to use the bathroom. 00:07:06.750 --> 00:07:11.720 And we went to pull out. I was like, shh. Shit, 00:07:11.939 --> 00:07:14.879 why am I rubbing? I should not be rubbing. We 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:19.060 fixed the rubbing. And we looked and realized 00:07:19.060 --> 00:07:21.759 my cam bolts were not in place at all because 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.459 the tabs bent over. I can't. So I'm not sure 00:07:26.459 --> 00:07:28.519 if this happened at Rocks and Valleys, because 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.660 if you look at that tire, dude, you wore that 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:33.819 way too much for the, like, 20 miles that we 00:07:33.819 --> 00:07:35.600 drove. You also got to remember, that's a tire 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.399 that had the bad wheel bearing that's been in 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.399 an accident. That tire's been through hell and 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:44.079 back. Multiple times since I forgot them. Why 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:49.720 are we so hard on our tires? But yeah, you're 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.240 right. You're right. You're right. But yeah. 00:07:54.600 --> 00:08:00.240 No, it was a really fun trip. I think... I'm 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.259 not a huge park fan. I don't know. Parks are 00:08:03.259 --> 00:08:06.399 fun. I just can't say that parks are like my 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.139 first choice on... somewhere i would go yeah 00:08:10.139 --> 00:08:14.579 but rocks and valleys is one that i've always 00:08:14.579 --> 00:08:18.920 just kind of enjoyed i thoroughly enjoyed it 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.259 i love that joe and derek do this for their birthday 00:08:24.259 --> 00:08:31.180 every year oh yeah it's the best yeah they yeah 00:08:31.180 --> 00:08:35.139 and they go in there with mst's fun oh yeah I 00:08:35.139 --> 00:08:37.659 think those two trails we took was good enough 00:08:37.659 --> 00:08:40.840 for us for that day because those are some black 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:44.919 diamond trails, though, right? Yeah, I would 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:46.879 have been fine with keep going. I just wanted 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:48.899 to take a break. But then you're like, man, I'm 00:08:48.899 --> 00:08:52.200 so beat up. And honestly, I'm glad that you just 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.559 had a feeling you should stop because who knows 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:57.539 what would have happened had you kept wheeling 00:08:57.539 --> 00:09:03.110 on those cam bolts being screwed up. Yeah. It 00:09:03.110 --> 00:09:04.629 would probably have been way worse than what 00:09:04.629 --> 00:09:12.769 it ended up being. I can't believe how much they 00:09:12.769 --> 00:09:14.509 bent it, though. I know. I'm glad I was able 00:09:14.509 --> 00:09:16.850 to bend it back in place with a tiny pry bar 00:09:16.850 --> 00:09:19.710 and a hammer. I'm glad we were able to also, 00:09:19.889 --> 00:09:21.730 because I was really concerned that it was going 00:09:21.730 --> 00:09:23.850 to have to get told out for how bad that was. 00:09:25.230 --> 00:09:27.350 And the whole time that we were bending those 00:09:27.350 --> 00:09:29.350 back to where they had to go, I was scared to 00:09:29.350 --> 00:09:31.470 death that they were going to snap off. I know. 00:09:32.659 --> 00:09:34.559 Oh, you weren't getting towed out. You would 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:39.659 have driven at home either way. I just feel like 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:42.200 we really fucked something over if I drove how 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.059 it was. We would have got them as close as they 00:09:46.059 --> 00:09:47.899 could have gone and tightened the piss out of 00:09:47.899 --> 00:09:53.240 them with the impact. Yeah. I just... I wasn't... 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.360 Yeah. I didn't want to have to drive... We were 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:56.879 like an hour and a half from home. I didn't want 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.859 to drive the hour and a half back to my... to 00:09:59.859 --> 00:10:02.960 get my dad's truck and unload that stupid van 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.019 my sister still has on the trailer. Yeah. Just 00:10:06.019 --> 00:10:08.360 for us to drive an hour and a half back to get 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:10.899 your truck, then an hour and a half drive back. 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:16.019 Yep. I just need to hurry up and get a tow rig. 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:22.620 Yep. Definitely need to get that somewhat soonish 00:10:22.620 --> 00:10:25.679 if possible. Especially if we're on a wheel like 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:29.059 we do. Sounds like it's going to be like July, 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:35.679 August, maybe September. That sucks. But maybe 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.519 when we do the botches yearly trip, maybe I'll 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.159 be wheeling my tow rig instead of the 4Runner. 00:10:43.059 --> 00:10:48.340 Yeah. Because wheeling your tow rig is definitely 00:10:48.340 --> 00:10:52.320 what you should be doing. You definitely should 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.240 always wheel the tow rig and leave the wheeling 00:10:55.240 --> 00:11:05.259 rig at home. Yes. well in that case what are 00:11:05.259 --> 00:11:10.340 your upcoming weekend plans oh for me i'll be 00:11:10.340 --> 00:11:14.340 wrapping up my comms or my nav system all those 00:11:14.340 --> 00:11:19.259 came in finally all my mounts sally i don't think 00:11:19.259 --> 00:11:21.399 we're gonna be fixing or putting the reinforcement 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:25.980 tabs on yet i haven't seen it shipped yet That 00:11:25.980 --> 00:11:28.879 sucks. That does suck. Did you drive it down 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.340 to work this week? No, I did not. But I do have 00:11:32.340 --> 00:11:38.120 to next week. It should be fine. We got it bent 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.299 back into shape. Yeah, as long as I don't go 00:11:40.299 --> 00:11:46.340 off -roading with it. Yeah. And I think we're 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:48.519 decking the trailer this weekend, because that 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.559 needs to happen. Yeah, that's the tentative plan 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.360 for that. We should make that tentative plan 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:59.159 a permanent plan. Yeah, I know. Because we really 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.740 need to get that done. I know. We really do. 00:12:01.899 --> 00:12:04.639 Once we get that decked, we can start getting 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.740 mounts on it, and we can start getting packouts 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:14.580 on it. Mm -hmm. Yeah. I'm kind of thinking I'm 00:12:14.580 --> 00:12:17.879 going to move pretty much everything from the 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.919 back of my Forerunner into the... off -road trailer 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.360 everything except for probably my cooler but 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.620 like my drawers will all go on the trailer yeah 00:12:27.620 --> 00:12:31.019 all that stuff yeah at least for this trip yeah 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:36.740 yeah probably should do the same thing with the 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:39.899 kitchen too yeah i'm thinking the kitchen should 00:12:39.899 --> 00:12:42.299 go on the trailer just kind of cut down on weight 00:12:42.299 --> 00:12:44.320 that we have on the trucks because if we don't 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.480 need to have weight on the trucks we should just 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:52.080 not have it yep i agree with that Yeah. And it'd 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.879 be nice to do it before we leave. That way everything's 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.039 just packed and ready. That way we don't have 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.179 to undo everything when we get to Leatherwood. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:05.500 Yeah. See, what else? Oh, we're camping this 00:13:05.500 --> 00:13:08.759 weekend. Yep. Kind of. Kind of. We're testing 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:13.100 our new gear. Yeah, so Friday night we'll be 00:13:13.100 --> 00:13:15.320 sleeping in my yard around the fire pit with 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.840 our... new individual tents and cots. Did you 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:21.919 get your cot and pieces figured out? They sent 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:24.100 them. I finally got ahold of them. They're sending 00:13:24.100 --> 00:13:28.240 them out, but it won't be in for this week. Damn. 00:13:28.379 --> 00:13:32.179 Yeah. You know, when we threw that cot that your 00:13:32.179 --> 00:13:34.580 brother broke away, we probably should have saved 00:13:34.580 --> 00:13:37.120 the end pieces. I didn't even think about that. 00:13:37.259 --> 00:13:40.860 I didn't think it would work. I bet they probably 00:13:40.860 --> 00:13:42.700 would have, but we threw it away now and the 00:13:42.700 --> 00:13:45.419 trash came and got it. Yeah. I didn't even think 00:13:45.419 --> 00:13:51.279 about that. Maybe we could borrow my dad's cot 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.220 and just use the end pieces with your cot. Yeah. 00:14:00.580 --> 00:14:04.019 Oh. Yeah. So, you know how I went up to the surplus 00:14:04.019 --> 00:14:08.639 store Sunday? Was it total waste of time? I don't, 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.379 because I said, Mark, if you're going up to the 00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:14.700 surplus store, let me know. I want to go. Sorry. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.360 That Sunday was a weird day to wake up and we 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.279 were doing cabinets and stuff. I wasn't sure 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:23.299 how late we were going to be done with getting 00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:29.000 cabinets for that. Went up there, didn't have 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.519 them, but they had new canvas, so I bought a 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:36.539 new canvas. New canvas? Oh, for your cot? Oh, 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.139 sick. How much was that? Like 20 -something. 00:14:41.179 --> 00:14:46.159 Oh, that's not bad at all. No. Yeah. Too bad 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.740 they didn't have your end pieces. Did they have 00:14:47.740 --> 00:14:50.460 full cots? Oh, yeah, they did. They had... How 00:14:50.460 --> 00:14:53.019 much were those? Two of them were like $79 .99, 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:56.240 which is about roughly what I paid for mine, 00:14:56.299 --> 00:14:59.240 the account shipping. And then there was one 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:00.980 that they had for $100 something because it was 00:15:00.980 --> 00:15:04.200 a little better condition. It almost would have 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.580 been worth grabbing one of those. I know. Then 00:15:07.580 --> 00:15:12.539 we'd have spare parts galore. Yeah. Might still 00:15:12.539 --> 00:15:18.649 do it, though. Yeah, honestly. It's not a bad 00:15:18.649 --> 00:15:22.970 price at all. No. Where's that surplus store 00:15:22.970 --> 00:15:27.730 at? It's up by Claire, Michigan. So that's right 00:15:27.730 --> 00:15:33.149 up the highway from Roxham Valleys. Way out of 00:15:33.149 --> 00:15:35.769 the way for you guys coming home. I was going 00:15:35.769 --> 00:15:37.450 to say, grab one on your way home. Oh, yeah. 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:40.809 That's like four hours out of your way. That's 00:15:40.809 --> 00:15:45.960 way out of the way. It's past home. Now, I thought 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.559 about biting the bullet, but at the same time, 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:50.700 I was like, eh, let's see what they say before 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:53.000 I bite the bullet and buying another full cot. 00:15:54.139 --> 00:15:56.399 But we could have had three of them. I know. 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.460 I know. I couldn't convince Alan to get it. Well, 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.220 either way, Friday night will be fun. Yep. I 00:16:06.220 --> 00:16:10.960 think this El Chavo might be bad. Yeah? Yeah. 00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:16.029 I'm gonna... maybe I'm not drinking a full El 00:16:16.029 --> 00:16:18.009 Chavo tonight. I might not get drunk tonight. 00:16:18.250 --> 00:16:24.750 That one tastes not great. Yeah, no, I think 00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:27.309 Friday will be fun. Yeah, I'm hoping that you 00:16:27.309 --> 00:16:30.070 guys get out early enough that we can actually 00:16:30.070 --> 00:16:32.309 maybe even run down to Home Depot and grab what 00:16:32.309 --> 00:16:38.129 we need. Yeah. I'm thinking about, did you ever 00:16:38.129 --> 00:16:43.279 test if your stuff fits in that packout? Yes, 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:50.679 I threw my new pad in there and then the tent 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:54.220 and they fit in there. So my pillow and my sleep 00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:58.360 system should fit in there pretty well too. So 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:00.659 I think I'm going to grab one of those. I can't 00:17:00.659 --> 00:17:04.220 find your pillow. So I found two sleeping bags. 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:07.140 Neither one had a pillow attached. I say they 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:10.640 should have been attached to the bag. Yeah, neither 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.740 one has a pillow attached, so I don't know which 00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:16.319 one's yours and which one's mine. Okay. It's 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.440 weird. I mean, that doesn't really matter, but 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.039 I kind of like to have that pillow. It's in, 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.079 like, a blue bag. Yeah, I'm sure if it's around, 00:17:26.180 --> 00:17:29.000 we'll find it. Yeah. But the podcast listeners 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.759 don't care about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.980 yeah. Yeah, no, Friday night should be fun. I'm 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:37.200 hoping we can at least go get the stuff to deck 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.710 the trailer. I want to get that small pack out 00:17:39.710 --> 00:17:43.789 to put my sleep stuff in. Because that'd be nice, 00:17:43.869 --> 00:17:48.410 man. Build out an individual camping setup. So 00:17:48.410 --> 00:17:51.250 if I'm going with my wife, I pack all the crap 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:53.809 I need for her to be with me. But if it's just 00:17:53.809 --> 00:17:56.170 me, I just grab the pack out and toss it in the 00:17:56.170 --> 00:17:59.910 truck. Yep. Because usually if it's just me, 00:17:59.950 --> 00:18:01.569 it's like a last minute thing that I'm going. 00:18:01.950 --> 00:18:12.259 Yeah. Let's see. Do we have any housekeeping 00:18:12.259 --> 00:18:16.140 to take care of this week? So third gen weekend 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:20.799 is April 25th through the 27th. If you live in 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.140 Michigan or surrounding States, I think we're 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:27.759 meeting in ever at, I don't know if you remember 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.140 what time I said, probably five or four, maybe 00:18:31.140 --> 00:18:40.259 four or five. I'll look real quick. Yeah, so 00:18:40.259 --> 00:18:43.900 if you're living in the Michigan or surrounding 00:18:43.900 --> 00:18:47.740 areas and drive a third -gen 4Runner, we're meeting 00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:50.799 in Everett, Michigan at Wesco at 4 p .m., and 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.660 then we'll be heading out to the campsite. Saturday, 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.619 we'll just be wheeling. We'll explore Everett, 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:59.839 see what it's got to offer. Everett's got some 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.240 really, I'm not going to say challenging trails. 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.660 All the trails are... just entertaining and then 00:19:07.660 --> 00:19:10.480 there's one that's somewhat challenging yep but 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:16.240 it's it's nothing insane um a stock forerunner 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.819 can do 90 of what's in ever so i mean even if 00:19:19.819 --> 00:19:22.900 you're even if you're on a stock build our friend 00:19:22.900 --> 00:19:26.799 uh duncan one of the other botches he did pretty 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.339 much everything in a stock forerunner that's 00:19:29.339 --> 00:19:34.140 open open open yeah um You got Gavin and his 00:19:34.140 --> 00:19:36.700 FJ with the most challenging obstacle there. 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:40.740 Yeah. Yeah, the most challenging obstacle there, 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:43.460 Gavin accomplished it in his FJ, and he's super 00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:47.519 proud of it. But, yeah, we'll be doing that Saturday. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.480 I plan on doing kind of like a potluck dinner 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:54.019 Saturday night. So if you're going to come, bring 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:57.880 something to pass, and then we will be convoying 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:00.420 from Everett down to Riggs and Coffee on Sunday. 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:03.980 Yep. Our local Rigs and Coffee is one of two 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:07.720 Rigs and Coffee locations in Michigan. And it's 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.359 pretty baller. Yep. It's a pretty fun time. So 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:16.519 that will be, again, April 25th through the 27th. 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:25.599 Do we have any other things coming up? I can't 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:31.539 think of anything. Definitely check out our store. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.839 I've been adding stuff pretty regularly there. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:42.539 The patches don't come with Velcro, but you can 00:20:42.539 --> 00:20:44.819 just stick them to sticky Velcro and they won't 00:20:44.819 --> 00:20:48.740 come off because the glue adheres to it. The 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:54.359 stickers are top tier and phenomenal. The can 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:57.720 -shaped glass is probably my favorite drinking 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.329 glass I've ever had. Mostly because it has the 00:21:02.329 --> 00:21:04.210 Botches logo on it. Yeah, mostly because of the 00:21:04.210 --> 00:21:10.269 Botches logo. And I do plan on getting some t 00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:12.950 -shirts and hoodies in there here soon. It's 00:21:12.950 --> 00:21:14.789 getting to be that camping season where people 00:21:14.789 --> 00:21:16.990 are going to want that kind of gear anyway. Yep. 00:21:17.390 --> 00:21:23.450 And so I should have that stuff up soon. And 00:21:23.450 --> 00:21:25.970 yeah, check out the store. There's cool stuff 00:21:25.970 --> 00:21:29.769 there. And lots and lots of stuff to come. Yeah. 00:21:31.170 --> 00:21:34.750 Now, we should talk about our Botches yearly 00:21:34.750 --> 00:21:41.269 t -shirt. Yes. So, starting this year, as a group, 00:21:41.289 --> 00:21:44.730 we've decided to do a goofy t -shirt for Botches 00:21:44.730 --> 00:21:48.130 members. This year's, which I'll have, Mark will 00:21:48.130 --> 00:21:51.000 put this as chapter art, don't worry. Yep. This 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:54.680 year's t -shirt is a very ugly Hawaiian t -shirt 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:58.359 with cartoon versions of our trucks all over 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:03.039 it. Yep. And then the left sleeve is a sticker 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.799 bomb to match my driver's side fender. It doesn't 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:09.759 match my driver's side fender, but the idea is 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:14.660 the same. It's just a sticker bomb. Yep. But 00:22:14.660 --> 00:22:19.859 they're super goofy. It was very fun wearing 00:22:19.859 --> 00:22:26.119 those on Saturday. It was. And next year's t 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.299 -shirt, I can't. I think what I'm going to do 00:22:29.299 --> 00:22:34.079 is I'll add the Hawaiian shirt to the store next 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:38.720 year. Yeah. So that way, if listeners want one 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:42.039 of our ugly t -shirts, they can buy it, the previous 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:46.000 year's t -shirt. Yep. But our idea for next year's 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.660 t -shirt, I got to mess around with that because 00:22:47.660 --> 00:22:49.799 that's going to be freaking sick. It will be. 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:53.720 I can't wait for next year's. The botches are 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:57.599 going classy next year. Yes. Not trashy. We don't 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:01.880 believe in trashy here. Ignore our Hawaiian shirts. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.019 Those are kind of trashy, but we love it. No, 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:13.589 we're going full on class. Yep. All right, well, 00:23:13.730 --> 00:23:16.609 I think that about wraps up our weekend updates 00:23:16.609 --> 00:23:21.869 and other fun stuff. So stay tuned, guys. We 00:23:21.869 --> 00:23:25.349 got lots of stuff coming up. I'm sorry Gavin's 00:23:25.349 --> 00:23:28.049 not here today. He just told us last minute he's 00:23:28.049 --> 00:23:32.650 feeling, in his words, sick as fuck. So I'm assuming, 00:23:32.710 --> 00:23:36.569 knowing Gavin, he woke up late, he stubbed his 00:23:36.569 --> 00:23:39.230 toe, and just said, you know what? Fuck those 00:23:39.230 --> 00:23:46.519 guys. We love you, Gavin. So. All right. Well, 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:48.099 catch you later. Later.