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Is this thing on? Oh, look at that, it's on.

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Hey, it's Alex. Sorry we are coming at you guys

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late with this episode. We had to postpone recording

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to Thursday, which then left me Friday to edit,

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but I ended up being busy Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

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and Monday, and then I worked today until almost

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8. So I'm way behind on recording this. But this

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episode is technically dated for last Thursday.

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Yeah, and we'll talk about it later in the episode,

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but up until after Leatherwood, we're going to

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cut down to just doing one episode a week. So

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you're getting one one -hour episode that has

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weekend recaps, or wraps, I'm sorry, I forgot

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we actually named it, that has wraps in it, and

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it's got a little bit of other content. So it's

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a good one. It was fun to record. I mean, it's

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always fun when I get to sit and talk to my buds.

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I hope you guys enjoy it, and we will catch you

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guys on hopefully Thursday, possibly Tuesday.

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We'll see what happens. All right. Out. Welcome

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to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk about

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everything from gear reviews to trail stories,

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tent camping to rock landing, and all things

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to do with the outdoors. We're going to kind

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of change things up a little bit. Just until

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probably after Leatherwood, then we'll get back

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to our normal schedule. But we're going to go

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down to one hour -long episode a week. So we'll

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do our wrap and topic all in one episode for

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a couple of weeks. Just... Lots of work getting

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ready for Leatherwood and making sure everything

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gets done. And we just kind of need that little

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bit of break there. Gavin and Mark are here.

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Gavin, what are you drinking today? Oh, I'm so

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glad you asked. I've saved it. I've saved it

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just for this occasion. We've been talking about

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me trying the Brapple, the Bush Apple. So? I'm

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going to give this a try. First time I've ever

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had bush apple. Hold up. I also have a bush apple.

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I got an apple drink, ironically, but it's not

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bush apple. Got a star -cut ciders. Well, yeah.

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I can't say that. I love it. It's drinkable.

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It is drinkable. Like I was telling you, dude,

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they're not as good as everyone makes them out

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to be. They're really not. I think it's just

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one of those TikTok fads. I mean, it's not bad.

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I taste the apple. Of course you do. It's like

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all of it is apple. It's like they took a red

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cider and a bush light. And mixed it 75 % reds

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and 25 % bush light. I don't have sensitive taste

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buds because I wouldn't say that I taste it that

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much. I mean, I taste it. It's there, but it's

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just the beer aftertaste, man. It's not my thing.

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I don't have the beer aftertaste. I like the

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reds cider. Like, I'll drink those all the time,

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but I just. It's the beer taste. I just don't

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like it. But you know what? I'll give this a

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solid out of 10. Like Budweiser. Four. Like Budweiser

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being a one. Actually, I think Corona to me tastes

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the worst. Corona is only good in very specific

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situations. And that's like... Like on your deathbed

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and you need something to drink to survive. When

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I'm at the beach and I have a lime, Corona is

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good. To me, adding the lime does nothing. Of

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course, you know how they put one lime wedge

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in there? No, my Corona has like seven. I was

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going to say, adding a lime to a Corona is like

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drinking any kind of seltzer water. It's like,

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oh, look. They'd spit fruit at it, and that's

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about all you taste of it. If I've also got a

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margarita, I like to put Corona in margarita.

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I could see that. I could see that. Corona has

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its place. It's just not a great beer. Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, I'd give this probably a five.

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It's in the middle. It's not bad. It's not great.

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I'll take a Blue Moon definitely over this. I

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like Blue Moon. As far as beer goes, I like Blue

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Moon. Blue Moon's really good. I can definitely

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taste the orange. I'll take that over this. I

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like Blue Moon with an orange peel. Oh, yeah,

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yeah. I'll take just about any other hard cider

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over all that, though. I'm just much more into

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that. IPAs and stuff like that, I just can't

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get them. They taste... The hoppiness, maybe

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it's, I guess... That's what it is? I can't say

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much because I love IPAs, especially if they're

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hazy, which a hazy IPA is going to have more

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of that hoppy flavor, and oh, that's my thing,

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dude. I think the hoppy is what gets me out of

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it. I don't like the hoppy. I'm very much like

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a fruity drink guy. No shame to me. I'll drink

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a sangria, a margarita. I will say this. I like

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Moscow mules. And what is that? Bloody Mary's.

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I'll drink Bloody Mary's, spicy Bloody Mary's.

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I like Bloody Mary's. Beer or like Coke, Jacket

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Coke. I'll drink that. Like I don't drink straight

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whiskey anymore. That was like in my early late

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teens, late teens. There's some bourbons that

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are really good just straight. But it's a sipping

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situation. You're not chugging that shit. No,

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you're not chugging it. And it's got to be ice

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cold, too. Like, for me, I can't drink any bourbon

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or whiskey that isn't ice cold straight. Ugh,

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no. Most alcohol has to be cold. I think the

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only one I could probably drink warmer is a Bloody

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Mary. Yeah. Or a pickle shot. I don't know if

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you've ever had one of those. With tequila? Yeah,

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it's like pickle juice and tequila. I was about

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to say, I can do a tequila warm. I still feel

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cold, though. When I lived in Arizona, we used

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to put tequila in the pickle juice so the girls

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would take their tequila and then do a chaser

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of pickle juice. Well, they were just doubling

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up on tequila because the pickle juice was...

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I like jello shots. We'd be going shot for shot,

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and none of the girls could keep up, and it's

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because they were chasing it with that alcoholic

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pickle juice. I've had jello shot twice, and

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it was the 5th of July, and I was snorkeling

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in the river a few years ago, and I shit you

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not, literally just floating down the river was

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capped jello shots, and I just picked them out

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of the water because I'm like, well, someone's

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littering. And I was like, well, it's a jello

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shot. So I fucking took the jello shot. There

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was a red one and an orange one. I was like,

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damn, these are great. And then probably 20 minutes

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later, there was like a bush light that floated

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down unopened. And I drank that. And then, I

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mean, the river keeps them cold. They do. So,

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I mean, Mark, are you at home? Yes, I'm at home.

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What the heck? oh it's thursday weekend holiday

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oh my god it's thursday i'm like it's holiday

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i'm like mark is never home on a thursday or

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on a wednesday but we're recording on thursday

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no we didn't do wednesday because all of us were

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not feeling well i think gavin all of you i said

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gavin was roaring and ready to go but i had like

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yeah it was i had a migraine the kid was being

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fucking obnoxious i had a headache yesterday

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Yesterday was like my perfect storm. They had

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a birthday party to go to or a graduation. Nobody

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was home, so it was nice and quiet. I got some

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stuff done on the truck, so I was like, I had

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a good day. I was ready to go, and damn. But

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that's okay. It's still a good day. You got some

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stuff done on the truck. I guess we can start

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getting into rap. Honestly, rap can take the

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whole hour because we had a... It's worth just

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bullshit. We haven't had a good bullshit episode

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in so long. Oh, 100%. Yeah. I'll start, I guess.

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My weekend wasn't super productive until Sunday,

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but Friday my son got his surgery, tubes put

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in his ears. So that was fun watching him all

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drugged up before the surgery, after the surgery.

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He was cranky as hell. And then Saturday he puked

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pretty much all morning from the after effects

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of the anesthesia. Yeah. Sienna left late Friday

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and went to a bachelorette party in Chicago.

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So it was just me and the boy. So I decided we

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were going to go out and do some trails and then

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go to the park. And so we did that. Sienna got

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home late Saturday night. And Sunday. I decided,

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well, she had something to do real quick. I think

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it was a graduation party. I was like, ah, I'm

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going to stay home. I got some stuff to do. So

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I've had a pile of pod lights that have been

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sitting forever, and I decided, well, you know

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what, I'm going to put a couple of them on. So

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I put two of my yellows facing forward, and they

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kind of swivel around on the princie rack for

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area lighting too. Did that. That was really

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nice and fun. Yeah, we had a good time. Pretty

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easy. She helped me. Well, yeah, and then. Oh,

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you're not even to that one yet. No, no. And

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then what day was that? Wednesday. Yeah, it was

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yesterday. Then, you know, yesterday I had the

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day off, and it was pretty quiet and rainy, and

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I wanted to fix. My heat shield was hanging on

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to my exhaust, and that was rattling all over

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the place every time I did anything with the

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truck on. So I wanted to rip that out. Alex had

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a dry bay for a little while, so I went over

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there and went to go fix the heat shield, but

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it was only hanging on by one bolt and just barely,

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so I just ended up ripping it out. That took

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two minutes, if that. Yeah, Gavin's like, I need

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some bolts and some washers. And I'm like, or

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you just rip it out. You're like, oh, it came

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out. Yeah. It was like a loose tooth, man. It

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was like I gave it one tug, and the whole thing

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just popped off. I'm like, all right, well, that

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made it real easy. Bye -bye. Yep. So I ripped

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that out, threw it away, and then me and Alex

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kind of talked about the lights I wanted to do.

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I had a light bar that I wanted to put on, and

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we went to test it, and as soon as we went to

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test it, hook it up to a battery. It fried my

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fucking light bar. Like, completely fried it.

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We were like, oh, maybe it was the battery, so

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we tried it on the tractor battery. Then we tried

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it on my truck battery and nothing. Yeah. So

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I fried it, like, right there off of one of those

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Bauer batteries, and I was like, damn, that sucks.

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Not a big deal. I got it for free with the winch

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mount, so. So I have really bad news. I just

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spilled Brapple all over my fucking desk. Oh,

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no. Alex. right on my volume control for my speakers

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oh no perfect oh man give another excuse why

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not to work half the time yeah at least it's

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not on my keyboard this time because i spilled

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some on my keyboard and broke a bunch of switches

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and had to move them around yeah which key do

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i not use at all again yeah yeah See, at least

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it's a, at least it's a met keyboard with hot

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swap. So I could just pull out the switches that

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were broken and move them. Right. So like my

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entire F row is sticky now because there's beer

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stuck in those switches. Well, that's all right.

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But, oh yeah. And yeah. So after we fried the

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light bar, toss that in the trash, like I said,

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not a big deal. You know, I wanted it to work.

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It didn't. it was free so we didn't really lose

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much we just said uh we decided to work on those

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i had two more pods for the back for area lighting

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and chase light so alex uh helped me with that

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um and as i was running the wire up and he was

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trying to uh um oh no yeah i tried to hit the

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wiring we tried testing and it didn't work we

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didn't know why so we're trying to figure that

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out and um Alex gets up there. I said, well,

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maybe my splice didn't make it deep enough into

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the other ground wire. So he goes to cut the

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ground wire. I make the comment, I really don't

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like this wire they use. It's got a weird plastic

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core. And I'm like, what? That's weird. I said,

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it's not my antenna wire, right? And he just

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freezes. And I'm like, I do have an antenna wire

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running down there for my WeBoost. $600. We boost.

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And, uh, and he just freezes and he's staring

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at me. He goes, I cut the one that you said to

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cut. And I'm like, Oh God, what have we done?

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Like I got the one that you had crimped. Yeah.

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Yeah. So we're sitting here freaking out and

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I'm like, yeah, I can't be, it can't be this.

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This one's the bigger one. And we're like, which

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fucking wire is this? And he goes, did you ever

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take that other antenna off? And I'm like, yeah,

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I ripped off the one, but the cable, Oh. So I

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ripped off the one antenna that came with the

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Midland originally, the little tiny one. Yeah,

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the little alien antenna, as I called it. The

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dinky. The dinky boy. I ripped the end off of

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it, the magnetic end. Yeah. But the wire was

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still taped into all the rest. So I didn't pull

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it out. I was like, I'll do it later. Well, that

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ended up being the wire we cut. Oh, good. To

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try to splice in. And we thought it was the ground

00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.840
for a second. That was on me. But he cut it,

00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.659
and he was just like, that's weird, but whatever.

00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.399
So we ended up cutting an antenna wire. It just

00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.340
wasn't my WeBoost antenna wire thing. Yeah, thank

00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:54.799
God. God. That would have been just a monumental

00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:59.460
screw -up. Yeah, the little Ricci of this antenna,

00:15:59.539 --> 00:16:01.100
whatever you want to call the brand, is $99.

00:16:01.460 --> 00:16:02.940
It wouldn't be a big issue. It would just be

00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:06.600
inconvenience, but the WeBoost is, oh, no. Yeah,

00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:10.830
that's big. I mean. I mean, granted, I could

00:16:10.830 --> 00:16:13.529
probably buy a new line and it'd be fine, but

00:16:13.529 --> 00:16:17.389
still, it would be very, very inconvenient. But,

00:16:17.789 --> 00:16:21.950
no, we got lucky. So then we snipped that. We

00:16:21.950 --> 00:16:27.169
actually grounded to the right wire, and we tested

00:16:27.169 --> 00:16:29.350
them out. They worked. They were nice and bright.

00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:32.490
We tilted them out of the way a little bit so

00:16:32.490 --> 00:16:37.059
they weren't blinding whoever was chasing. Yeah,

00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.960
that was pretty much it. It looks pretty clean

00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.940
back there. I don't love your roof rack doesn't

00:16:42.940 --> 00:16:45.860
have like a rear bar that hides anything back

00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:48.679
there. It just shows the top of the truck. Yeah,

00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:51.000
yeah. That looks a little unfinished. I wish

00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.620
they had done something to finish that up. But

00:16:53.620 --> 00:16:56.120
other than that, man, like your wiring's clean.

00:16:56.419 --> 00:17:00.340
Everything just looks clean. Yeah. So that was

00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:03.309
good. And then. I don't know if anybody's been

00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:05.509
keeping up with this. I guess this is my last

00:17:05.509 --> 00:17:07.769
part of rap since it happened today slash yesterday.

00:17:09.009 --> 00:17:13.470
Freedom Outfitters or Freedom Retrofits, they're

00:17:13.470 --> 00:17:15.750
actually going out of business. Last day of business

00:17:15.750 --> 00:17:17.890
is Friday. They've been pretty well known for

00:17:17.890 --> 00:17:22.430
making those custom projector, buy LED headlights

00:17:22.430 --> 00:17:28.250
for lots of money. They made a post about that,

00:17:28.309 --> 00:17:29.910
and then they mentioned that they had a couple

00:17:29.910 --> 00:17:32.470
of... headlights they were trying to get rid

00:17:32.470 --> 00:17:37.569
of i sent them an email and uh they had some

00:17:37.569 --> 00:17:43.829
nice expensive toyota fj headlights um that are

00:17:43.829 --> 00:17:47.210
typically like 750 and then when you add the

00:17:47.210 --> 00:17:49.930
bi -leds they're probably i think they're more

00:17:49.930 --> 00:17:54.589
and um so i sent them an email and they said

00:17:54.589 --> 00:17:57.109
yeah we have some that have like a scratch on

00:17:57.109 --> 00:18:01.349
the lens um Yeah, we'll sell them to you for

00:18:01.349 --> 00:18:04.809
$200. And I'm like, oh, fuck, yeah, yeah. I mean,

00:18:04.829 --> 00:18:06.549
I was looking for headlights anyway. I was like,

00:18:06.549 --> 00:18:08.910
sold. They're like, but we have to have your

00:18:08.910 --> 00:18:12.509
payment by Friday. Or, you know, before Friday,

00:18:12.549 --> 00:18:15.109
Thursday. And I said, well, I don't get paid

00:18:15.109 --> 00:18:17.210
until Friday, so that sucks, you know. They're

00:18:17.210 --> 00:18:20.869
like, well, we'll work with you. So they actually,

00:18:21.069 --> 00:18:24.890
I gave them my information. They already created

00:18:24.890 --> 00:18:27.170
a label and shipped the headlights out for me.

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And I haven't even paid them yet. So good on

00:18:29.970 --> 00:18:32.490
them. That's pretty damn cool of them. Of course,

00:18:32.509 --> 00:18:33.789
I'm going to do the right thing and pay them

00:18:33.789 --> 00:18:37.349
for seeing tomorrow. But it was really cool.

00:18:38.109 --> 00:18:42.390
And I cannot wait to get them. It's the blinker

00:18:42.390 --> 00:18:44.690
and the headlight, and they come with the bulbs.

00:18:44.710 --> 00:18:48.970
So it should be the whole setup. So for that

00:18:48.970 --> 00:18:51.509
price, it was a steal of a deal. I couldn't pass

00:18:51.509 --> 00:18:55.130
up. And super excited. Those have been on my...

00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.319
my wish list for a long time. You know, they're

00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.619
not exactly what I was looking for, but for the

00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:03.140
price, I cannot complain at all. No, you can't

00:19:03.140 --> 00:19:05.740
complain. No, those, those lights are cheaper

00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:10.019
for those. Um, then you can get cheap Chinese,

00:19:10.140 --> 00:19:13.779
uh, headlights off of Amazon. Yeah. And these

00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:16.539
guys are out of Wisconsin and they make all these.

00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:21.720
So yeah, super excited. And that wraps up my

00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.200
wrap. What about you guys? Who's going next?

00:19:24.970 --> 00:19:27.150
Well, me and Alex are all lumped together this

00:19:27.150 --> 00:19:32.890
weekend, so. Oh, man. Yeah. This weekend, we

00:19:32.890 --> 00:19:36.990
did a camping work weekend. I would say the worst

00:19:36.990 --> 00:19:40.089
one we've had yet. And I would say camping very

00:19:40.089 --> 00:19:45.069
loosely. So we were helping Duncan lift his truck.

00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:47.029
The goal is to get the whole truck lifted this

00:19:47.029 --> 00:19:51.700
weekend. And instead, we got the front done after

00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:54.660
staying up two nights in a row all the way through.

00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:59.720
What? I think I slept for an hour Saturday night,

00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:04.700
something like that. Yeah. But very, very little

00:20:04.700 --> 00:20:09.539
sleep. It was terrible. So the goal was he bought

00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:12.640
that crawler to get parts off of, but he didn't

00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.380
want to use the long travel because he was kind

00:20:14.380 --> 00:20:16.200
of sketched out by the work the guy had done.

00:20:18.429 --> 00:20:21.309
We took his truck apart. We tried to put the

00:20:21.309 --> 00:20:24.190
shocks and springs from the crawler on his truck

00:20:24.190 --> 00:20:28.690
without long travel, and it just bound up. It

00:20:28.690 --> 00:20:30.509
lifted his truck, what would you say, like five

00:20:30.509 --> 00:20:34.009
or six inches? Five or six inches, and then it

00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:36.730
was like fully turned out. There was no compression

00:20:36.730 --> 00:20:41.569
to the spring. It could have gone more. Yeah,

00:20:41.589 --> 00:20:44.250
it was turned all the way down, and it was probably

00:20:44.250 --> 00:20:47.779
five or six inches, and this thing. had no flex

00:20:47.779 --> 00:20:52.319
whatsoever the um everything was bound up you

00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.380
couldn't turn anything like it was bad so we

00:20:56.380 --> 00:20:59.359
pivoted earlier in the day because i told him

00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:00.980
i wasn't sure those were going to work but i

00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:04.380
found some icon front shocks for a third gen

00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:09.539
for 800 bucks on marketplace and we pivoted and

00:21:09.539 --> 00:21:11.920
he ran down there in my truck and grabbed it

00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:18.009
um which Not a lot of other people drive my truck,

00:21:18.109 --> 00:21:20.210
and I think of my truck as like a piece of shit

00:21:20.210 --> 00:21:23.769
that I have to deal with. And the whole way down,

00:21:23.829 --> 00:21:25.789
Duncan was texting me telling me how much he

00:21:25.789 --> 00:21:27.750
loved driving my truck. So that made me feel

00:21:27.750 --> 00:21:30.970
a lot better about it. And then the guy that

00:21:30.970 --> 00:21:33.789
he bought them from also had a third gen, and

00:21:33.789 --> 00:21:39.529
he was like fangirling over my truck. So, yeah.

00:21:39.990 --> 00:21:41.950
Maybe my truck's not as much of a piece of shit

00:21:41.950 --> 00:21:46.720
as I think it is. Yeah, he went and got those,

00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:49.099
and once we had those shocks, it was nothing.

00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:53.440
But we spent a good five or six hours getting

00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.720
the factory shocks off this truck because all

00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.680
the bolts were rotted out to, like, pinpricks,

00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:04.339
and we couldn't grab the back one worth of shit.

00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:07.579
What we ended up doing was taking a Dremel and

00:22:07.579 --> 00:22:10.799
just slowly sanding the top of the head of this

00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.859
bolt off until it broke. Yeah. Terrible experience.

00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:18.980
I'm pretty sure everything was still stock parts,

00:22:19.099 --> 00:22:22.440
which actually was a little surprising. And I

00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:25.180
tried cutting it with a grinder at some point

00:22:25.180 --> 00:22:26.960
and accidentally sliced through his AC line.

00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.880
So now he doesn't have AC. Oh, dude, I feel so

00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:34.839
bad about that. Yeah. But it's off. It's done.

00:22:35.309 --> 00:22:37.369
The front is lifted. The back is still stock,

00:22:37.509 --> 00:22:39.009
so he's driving around looking like a douche

00:22:39.009 --> 00:22:44.609
always. Carolina squatted. Yeah. But this weekend,

00:22:44.710 --> 00:22:46.710
we'll get the back done. The back should go way

00:22:46.710 --> 00:22:50.190
faster. Oh, 100 % way faster. There's not as

00:22:50.190 --> 00:22:53.170
much to go wrong. We're replacing all control

00:22:53.170 --> 00:22:55.950
arms. We're replacing shocks. I mean, everything's

00:22:55.950 --> 00:22:58.230
getting... We're swapping the axles, so we'll

00:22:58.230 --> 00:23:00.809
just drop the axle out and roll the new one under.

00:23:01.289 --> 00:23:04.009
He also needs to change his diff, front diff.

00:23:05.539 --> 00:23:09.779
So that has to be done. But it doesn't matter.

00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:14.319
The truck is looking much better, and it's getting

00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:17.880
somewhere. After like 72 hours of straight work,

00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:25.140
it was terrible. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, I didn't

00:23:25.140 --> 00:23:27.079
even work on my own truck at all when I was up

00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.180
that late. Like, what the hell, guys? Yeah. Yeah,

00:23:30.180 --> 00:23:32.799
usually it's the other way around. Usually it's

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.009
everybody working on your truck. Did you see

00:23:36.009 --> 00:23:39.130
that meme that I sent to the meme group chat?

00:23:40.650 --> 00:23:44.730
No, not yet. Oh, the labor, free labor? Oh, yeah,

00:23:44.769 --> 00:23:47.849
I did actually. Telling your friend about a mod

00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:49.470
that you want to do to your truck and slowly

00:23:49.470 --> 00:23:52.450
transitioning to Wii for six hours of free labor.

00:23:53.029 --> 00:23:59.740
Yeah. And then I'm like. Oh. He's coughing. I'll

00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:01.619
give him a second. Cough, cough, he says. Sorry,

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:05.039
I had to die. And then I was like, now the pro

00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:08.440
tip is to start saying we and then slowly just

00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:10.799
start using his bay so that you're stuck using

00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:14.579
his space too. Yeah. I've seen another one where

00:24:14.579 --> 00:24:16.700
it's like, yeah, I provided beer and food and

00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:19.480
got free labor out of it. Yeah, that's pretty

00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:25.109
typical. So you got that done. Anything else

00:24:25.109 --> 00:24:28.069
exciting for you, Alex? I mean, I know you've

00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:30.309
had something coming up here that you're super

00:24:30.309 --> 00:24:33.609
excited about. Oh, yeah, my swag came. No big

00:24:33.609 --> 00:24:37.109
deal. I haven't been freaking out about it all

00:24:37.109 --> 00:24:40.049
day or anything. Totally fangirling all Wednesday.

00:24:40.170 --> 00:24:43.049
Dude, the thing is so fucking cool. He's been

00:24:43.049 --> 00:24:47.009
fangirling for a while. Yeah. I mean, it took

00:24:47.009 --> 00:24:50.130
it three weeks to get here. I made two payments

00:24:50.130 --> 00:24:53.309
on the damn thing, and I just got it. Yeah, that's

00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:58.829
rough. But, I mean, that's what I get for having

00:24:58.829 --> 00:25:01.529
something shipped from Australia, I guess. True.

00:25:02.009 --> 00:25:06.049
It is heavy, which I knew it was going to be

00:25:06.049 --> 00:25:10.490
heavy. Kind of the downside to having basically

00:25:10.490 --> 00:25:12.710
a rooftop tent that you take off your roof at

00:25:12.710 --> 00:25:16.410
the campsite. It's going to be heavy. 100 % heavy.

00:25:17.970 --> 00:25:24.910
It's big. Folded up, it's big. The fact that

00:25:24.910 --> 00:25:26.630
I can just take it off the roof of my truck,

00:25:26.710 --> 00:25:29.170
roll it out, slap in three poles, and boom, my

00:25:29.170 --> 00:25:33.849
entire campsite is set up. Yep. I mean, no moving

00:25:33.849 --> 00:25:36.589
bedding, nothing. Just... It's all in there.

00:25:36.849 --> 00:25:40.609
Poles, it's done. Are you just using sleeping

00:25:40.609 --> 00:25:43.430
bags? Like, what are you using for your pad?

00:25:43.529 --> 00:25:45.069
Do you have an inflatable mattress that you have

00:25:45.069 --> 00:25:46.650
rolled up there, too, or what? No, it's just

00:25:46.650 --> 00:25:48.250
the... Oh, no, it comes with a mattress. It's

00:25:48.250 --> 00:25:50.910
got a 70 -mil mattress in there. Oh, I didn't

00:25:50.910 --> 00:25:52.849
know that. Yeah, that's why it's... I forgot

00:25:52.849 --> 00:25:54.680
about that. That's why it's so big is because

00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.980
it's got a 70 mil mattress. Big and price -wise,

00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:01.759
too. Yep. So it's got a 70 mil high -density

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:05.759
foam mattress, and then I've got two queen -size

00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:08.099
sheets on it. I can't do fitted sheets because

00:26:08.099 --> 00:26:11.660
the mattress is, like, this weird not -perfectly

00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:15.259
-square shape. Yeah. So I've just got, you know,

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:17.279
a bottom sheet tucked underneath real well. I

00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:19.660
might slap some duct tape on the bottom to hold

00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:22.809
that sheet in place. I haven't decided yet. And

00:26:22.809 --> 00:26:25.009
then I've got another sheet just on top, like

00:26:25.009 --> 00:26:29.390
a top sheet. And then I bought two green wool

00:26:29.390 --> 00:26:33.009
blankets like what we used in the Army. And then

00:26:33.009 --> 00:26:38.470
I got some pillows in there. It's very comfy

00:26:38.470 --> 00:26:43.049
in there. It's exciting. What's cool is because

00:26:43.049 --> 00:26:45.809
it's that thick canvas, when you have that thing

00:26:45.809 --> 00:26:48.190
outside and you close it up, I mean, it's darker

00:26:48.190 --> 00:26:53.319
than most blackout tents. Oh, right, right. Like,

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:57.720
it is very dark. But if I open it up all the

00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:01.039
way, so it's got two windows on the roof. They

00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:04.200
call them stargaze windows. Those have bug netting.

00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:06.420
And then it's got the two big door panels with

00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:09.460
bug netting. And then it's also got two windows

00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:11.880
on either side. So when I open this thing up,

00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.299
I mean, it's basically just a bug net. Like,

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:16.460
it's got so much airflow, it's not even funny.

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:20.920
Right, yeah. But then... On the flip side, you

00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:22.859
can close it all up. Like, we had it out today,

00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:24.880
and, I mean, it's pretty windy. It's kind of

00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:29.099
chilly, not too bad. Pretty windy. So we had

00:27:29.099 --> 00:27:31.680
it out today. Me, Caitlin, and Jackson got in

00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:33.880
it. There's so much room with the three of us

00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:35.920
in there. Like, we could all sleep in there comfortably

00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:39.720
pretty easily. And we zipped up all the doors

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.900
and everything, and within, like, three minutes,

00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.460
I'm like, all right, we got to get out of here.

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:47.220
It's hot in here. Yeah. Like it? Yeah, that's

00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:50.480
kind of. typical that darker fabric in the sun

00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:53.599
it just retains heat really well too because

00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.579
it's that thick canvas yeah no i i mean it was

00:27:57.579 --> 00:28:00.220
pricey i paid almost 600 bucks for it which i

00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:02.900
could have got like a shitty wedge style tan

00:28:02.900 --> 00:28:08.259
off timu for that but yeah the the fact that

00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:10.640
i can take this off the roof and set it up and

00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.519
have like a base camp style that's what makes

00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:16.460
it worth it to me Because I don't like the idea

00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:18.640
of wheeling with my house on top of my truck.

00:28:19.380 --> 00:28:21.839
You know, I've always thought about how easy

00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:25.779
it is to take on and take off rooftop tents,

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.779
like certain, like, wedge styles. Oh, they're

00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:31.440
not easy. Well, like, they're, like, weight -wise.

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.640
Oh, yeah. I'm just saying, like, if you really

00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:39.480
wanted to, you could figure out a way. Just,

00:28:39.619 --> 00:28:42.619
like, undo the bolt. Like, not bolts, but, like,

00:28:42.619 --> 00:28:45.619
if you could, like, figure out latches. You know,

00:28:45.619 --> 00:28:49.480
park under a tree, fucking have it hanging out

00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.680
of the tree there, just drop it right on the

00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:54.660
ground. At that point, why wouldn't you just

00:28:54.660 --> 00:28:57.779
buy a swag? Yeah. Because they're completely

00:28:57.779 --> 00:29:02.660
hard -cased and it has all the nice, fun properties

00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:05.339
of a rooftop tent. I don't know. I'm just thinking

00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:07.640
about it. If you're taking it off. The swag has

00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.220
90 % of the properties of a rooftop tent. Yeah,

00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:17.549
it's just not mounted. Comes with a mattress.

00:29:18.130 --> 00:29:20.930
Yep, mattress included. I was just thinking out

00:29:20.930 --> 00:29:23.470
loud. I wasn't like telling you it was a better

00:29:23.470 --> 00:29:26.769
idea. I'm just discussing through it. All your

00:29:26.769 --> 00:29:29.109
bedding goes in it, which is the big thing for

00:29:29.109 --> 00:29:30.950
me with a rooftop tent is the fact that all your

00:29:30.950 --> 00:29:36.230
bedding can just be in it. So at the end of the

00:29:36.230 --> 00:29:39.849
day, I think the swag is that in between, between

00:29:39.849 --> 00:29:45.039
a standard tent and a rooftop tent. Yep. Yeah,

00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.599
I'm just thinking, like, it'd be really nice

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:51.079
to have a way, like, if there was, like, on the

00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:53.480
top of your wedge, if you had, like, let's say

00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:55.400
roof rack brackets on the top of your wedge,

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:58.299
if you could just hook it up, like, with an eyelet.

00:29:58.339 --> 00:30:01.940
Or just put it on a trailer. Well, yeah, a trailer

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:03.920
would be fucking great, but I'm thinking of,

00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:07.819
like, your case. Yeah. But I don't know. I was

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:11.140
just thinking about it. It'd be cool to be able

00:30:11.140 --> 00:30:13.130
to find a way, because, I mean... Them on the

00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:16.450
ground is just like a rooftop tent on the ground

00:30:16.450 --> 00:30:19.349
would be pretty cool too, but I know it defeats

00:30:19.349 --> 00:30:22.049
the whole purpose. You should probably get the

00:30:22.049 --> 00:30:24.569
one that's hitch -mounted then. Oh, yeah. Did

00:30:24.569 --> 00:30:27.690
you see that tent I sent a while ago? Uh -uh.

00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:31.390
It was like it folded up to the back of the truck

00:30:31.390 --> 00:30:33.910
and was mounted to the hitch, and you fold it

00:30:33.910 --> 00:30:37.150
down, swing it over, and then it's like a rooftop

00:30:37.150 --> 00:30:41.859
tent on the ground. Bananas. That's interesting.

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:45.200
I saw so many chances for stuff to get broken,

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:47.859
dude. Like, it was terrible. Yeah, the more moving

00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:51.380
parts, the worse. Yeah. Speaking of rooftop tents,

00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:54.000
do you guys see a post on overlanding for the

00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:56.640
poors today? Is it another one that blew off

00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.940
someone's truck? Yeah. The finder's keepers on

00:30:59.940 --> 00:31:02.319
the highway? Yeah, finder's keepers. Oh, man.

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:05.220
There was that one. There was, like, three or

00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:07.019
four. Like, they're just blowing off people's

00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:09.420
trucks left, right, and center right now. I know,

00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:11.299
they're not doing it on my highways, that's for

00:31:11.299 --> 00:31:15.359
sure. I've probably seen four or five tents get

00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.460
blown off people's trucks on Facebook lately.

00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:20.099
Yeah, it's probably a cheap mounting solution,

00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:21.920
and they didn't want to spend the money for a

00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.000
good solution. Yeah, that's the thing, is when

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:25.839
you go cheap on that, it's what you get, man.

00:31:26.700 --> 00:31:28.640
You spend that much money, and then you just,

00:31:28.660 --> 00:31:33.759
like, throw a bracket on there. I think I'm good

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:36.640
with just ratchet strapping my swag to my roof.

00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:43.599
Yeah. Yep. I do need to, having done this, I

00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:46.059
see the need for like a Princey style rack now.

00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:51.599
So me and Duncan have plans and we got a guy

00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:54.299
who's going to see about printing some. I'm going

00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:56.240
to see if my cousin will print some because I

00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:57.880
can probably get them cheaper through him just

00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:02.980
because we trade labor all the time. Yeah. So.

00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.240
That would be very, very cool. I need skid plates.

00:32:08.569 --> 00:32:10.730
I could probably talk to him. You just got to

00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:14.170
find me a file for it. Yeah, they're all over

00:32:14.170 --> 00:32:19.210
Etsy. Is it Etsy? Yeah. But I, yeah, definitely

00:32:19.210 --> 00:32:22.430
a real roof rack needs to happen because tying

00:32:22.430 --> 00:32:25.430
down my swag on my current roof rack is not pleasant.

00:32:26.410 --> 00:32:31.529
No. Trying to think, do you have any like eyelets

00:32:31.529 --> 00:32:36.190
or anything to tie from? Not really. Like kind

00:32:36.190 --> 00:32:39.200
of. Not good ones. I have to wrap it around the

00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:41.700
roof rack bar and then send it across and wrap

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:43.299
it around the other side and then pull it tight.

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.599
Oh. Yeah, they make eyelets that go right into

00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:51.539
the channels for the print to, but I was like,

00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.299
I don't need those. I really don't. I'll need

00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:56.819
them just because of the swag, but anything else

00:32:56.819 --> 00:33:00.220
I put up there, I won't need them. They do have

00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:03.500
removable awning brackets too, which I will buy

00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:07.460
if I do end up getting like a 270 batwing. I've

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:09.940
been thinking a lot about awnings. I would be

00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:12.160
interested in doing, like, what's the one that's

00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:13.900
just on the side of your truck? Is that a 180?

00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:20.940
No. It just covers one side? What's the one that

00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:23.160
just covers one side? Well, maybe it is 180 then,

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:25.339
I guess, considered. But, I mean, it's kind of

00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:28.640
a pooper, so it's not like an awning. See, I

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.099
want a full -size one that goes all the way the

00:33:31.099 --> 00:33:32.980
length of my truck and then swings out front

00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:36.220
and back. So I'd be interested in doing one of

00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:38.380
those, but it has to be on folding brackets that'll

00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:41.660
fold up on top of the roof rack. Oh, yeah, yeah,

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:44.019
yeah. I don't want anything hanging off the truck.

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.700
I think a regular 270 is what you're looking

00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:49.059
for, because they make 270s and then the 270

00:33:49.059 --> 00:33:52.920
XL that wraps around to the back. And I think

00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:57.640
that's what you're referencing. Okay, I'm going

00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:00.359
to start with a 180 and see what that looks like.

00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.759
No, a 180 is just... 180 is exactly what I'm

00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.339
talking about. It comes off the side of the truck,

00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.039
and then it's got a triangle on front and back.

00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.940
Oh, the really small octagon ones or hexagon

00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:17.360
ones? Because I can't have it wrap around my

00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:19.780
truck because I've got my freaking - Wrap around?

00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:26.260
I've got my - I know what you're talking about

00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:29.239
now. Yeah. Yeah, I was spacing out on that. I

00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.840
saw a link. Mark, did you get your laptop charging?

00:34:32.670 --> 00:34:37.389
Yes, it did. Okay, good. The outlet that I plugged

00:34:37.389 --> 00:34:39.590
into is a very loose outlet, so it doesn't stay

00:34:39.590 --> 00:34:44.849
plugged in. Oh, yeah. I'd be interested in a

00:34:44.849 --> 00:34:48.070
180 that I could then fold up onto my roof rack

00:34:48.070 --> 00:34:49.929
so that it's not hanging off the side of my truck.

00:34:50.750 --> 00:34:52.769
Oh, yeah, that is the one I'm thinking of. Yeah.

00:34:52.909 --> 00:34:56.269
They have one for $200. I think it's $200. Yeah,

00:34:56.289 --> 00:34:59.469
they're not expensive. There's one on Facebook

00:34:59.469 --> 00:35:03.670
Marketplace right now for... On sale. So I'd

00:35:03.670 --> 00:35:05.269
be interested in something like that just for

00:35:05.269 --> 00:35:08.210
shade. I'm not worried about rain or anything.

00:35:08.409 --> 00:35:10.889
Just being able to pop it out for shade would

00:35:10.889 --> 00:35:15.210
be nice. Once rain starts, then I want an extra

00:35:15.210 --> 00:35:17.150
awning. I don't want one attached to my truck.

00:35:17.989 --> 00:35:24.269
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Oh, I was just going

00:35:24.269 --> 00:35:27.670
to say, they have one in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:35:28.590 --> 00:35:32.530
It's the Overland Vehicle Systems one. For $500.

00:35:32.769 --> 00:35:35.170
It's the one that does wraparound, though. I

00:35:35.170 --> 00:35:39.530
want it. I can't do a wraparound because I've

00:35:39.530 --> 00:35:46.429
got a hatch. That same one you tagged me in,

00:35:46.530 --> 00:35:59.230
they have for $480 in Glencoe, Illinois. At that

00:35:59.230 --> 00:36:01.269
point, you might as well just pay the full price.

00:36:01.510 --> 00:36:03.650
As soon as you started saying Glenn, I thought

00:36:03.650 --> 00:36:05.030
you were going to say Glendale, and I'm like,

00:36:05.090 --> 00:36:06.929
dude, I'm not driving to Arizona for this shit.

00:36:07.849 --> 00:36:12.769
No, no. No, I've been looking for these awnings,

00:36:12.869 --> 00:36:17.269
but trying to find crazy deals on them. I'm not

00:36:17.269 --> 00:36:20.869
going to spend any $100 on an awning right now.

00:36:20.909 --> 00:36:23.429
I could definitely use that on more important

00:36:23.429 --> 00:36:27.170
things. But if I find one for $200, like I did

00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:28.969
with those headlights, like, yeah, I'll jump

00:36:28.969 --> 00:36:32.969
on it. Yeah, I just, to me, awnings are very

00:36:32.969 --> 00:36:35.929
much so not an important thing, but I wouldn't

00:36:35.929 --> 00:36:38.769
mind trying one. That's kind of where I'm at

00:36:38.769 --> 00:36:40.030
with it. Yeah, to me, they're like, it's like

00:36:40.030 --> 00:36:44.210
creature comfort. And this sounds stupid, so

00:36:44.210 --> 00:36:46.869
everybody can laugh. It's fine. But, like, when

00:36:46.869 --> 00:36:50.039
we go to Riggs and Coffee. the worst thing about

00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.420
rigs and coffee is there's no shade it's just

00:36:52.420 --> 00:36:55.780
parking lot 100 that's like the that's why i

00:36:55.780 --> 00:36:58.820
want one specifically as rigs and coffee yep

00:36:58.820 --> 00:37:01.519
because i would i would hang out a lot more and

00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.599
i would enjoy hanging out a lot more um you know

00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:06.880
with all our friends and stuff talking and chatting

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.659
if we weren't subjected to a 90 degree weather

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:12.760
under direct sun even good so i just sent one

00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.159
that's just straight out it doesn't have any

00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.840
triangles even that i'd be okay with that's what

00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:21.380
i thought you were talking about when you said

00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:23.559
180 like just the one side is what i was thinking

00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:27.500
like i i'd be okay with that like i said it's

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:29.420
not for water or anything it's literally just

00:37:29.420 --> 00:37:31.380
so that i can get some shade at like rigs and

00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:35.460
coffee yeah yeah i'd definitely be down for that

00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:39.940
i just i don't set up for shade wise that setup

00:37:39.940 --> 00:37:43.239
is much better than having to lug off the one

00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.760
off the top of your roof because like i i liked

00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:50.820
having that I had that 10 by 10 all last year.

00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:56.619
And it was nice when we absolutely needed it,

00:37:56.699 --> 00:38:00.639
but it was a fucking pain to unstrap off of my

00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:03.699
roof, to pull off of the top of my roof, and

00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:05.800
then to set up by myself. It was just, I mean,

00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:09.119
like I can. Yeah. But when you stretch those

00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:11.619
out, especially those cheaper ones, they feel

00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:13.139
like they're going to break every time you try

00:38:13.139 --> 00:38:17.000
to pull them out in any kind of dirt. Mark's

00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.000
12x12 pop -up one is pretty sick. Yeah. Even

00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.800
if it tried to run away. I was about to say,

00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:29.480
we had quite an experience with that. Yeah. The

00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:32.579
wind tried to pick it up and take it away from

00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:36.199
us. We left it unsupervised and decided to try

00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:40.559
to run away. I've got some better tent stakes

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:43.440
on the way for it, so that should help. Yeah.

00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.679
Are you guys using, like, the auger style, or

00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:48.900
were they just regular tent stakes? Just regular

00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:51.599
tent stakes. Oh, God, yeah, you're asking for

00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.159
it. In Michigan, you almost have to have those

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:58.039
sand stakes. I bought a bunch of aluminum sand

00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.840
stakes just because of our Lake Superior trip

00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:04.260
when we went and camped on the beach, and we

00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:07.679
had wind gusts and, like, constant wind of 50

00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:11.400
and 65 mile an hour on that beach. I'd say most

00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:15.000
of Michigan, you need, like, the... like, almost

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:18.480
a bolt that you just use an impact to drive in.

00:39:18.980 --> 00:39:21.519
Yeah. Because most of Michigan is either thick

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.019
clay or rocks. Like, you've got the beaches,

00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:27.579
but most of it's rock or thick clay. I guess

00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:31.340
when you get into, like, northern Michigan, like,

00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:34.039
not the UP, but, like, there's a lot more sand.

00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:37.260
Like, Fife Lake area where I was camping, there's

00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:39.619
a lot more, like, beach sand, but a lot of the

00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:40.440
times where... That's more of a beach, though.

00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:44.000
That's what, well... It's not on the beach, though.

00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:48.840
Like, Gaylord's area is 50 -50, like, loose sand

00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:52.559
or thick clay. Pigeon River area is all thick

00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.639
clay. Yeah. But we have, I bought off of Amazon

00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:02.219
12 aluminum, they're like 12 -inch aluminum stakes,

00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:06.760
and they were great for sand. And that's what

00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.460
I ended up buying after that trip on Superior,

00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:13.030
because... I was borrowing sand stakes from Derek,

00:40:13.369 --> 00:40:19.309
from I think a couple from Nolan, a couple from

00:40:19.309 --> 00:40:21.130
our other buddy that was sitting next to us.

00:40:21.269 --> 00:40:25.570
And then I had the tent strapped to my truck

00:40:25.570 --> 00:40:28.409
through the eyelets on it because the wind was

00:40:28.409 --> 00:40:33.010
so bad. It was crazy. It was just sandblasting

00:40:33.010 --> 00:40:38.590
us the last day. We had dunes forming on the

00:40:38.590 --> 00:40:46.340
side of our tent. Yeah, I... Really, our light

00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:49.599
fighters, they only kind of need staked down.

00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:55.320
The cot kind of holds them down. Yep. But...

00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.400
Yeah, and you do have that wind pass through

00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.659
on the bottom, which kind of helps, too. Oh,

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:02.619
yeah, it does help. When I had it, and when you

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:04.400
have it just on the ground, you just need the

00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.639
four corner stakes, and because they're so dome

00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.900
-shaped and so low to the ground, it just kind

00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:15.260
of glances the wind over it. Yep. But... Yeah,

00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.460
when I was... When we were in there, we were

00:41:17.460 --> 00:41:20.320
using that big, like, six -person blue dome tent,

00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:24.460
like we used on the botches yearly. Yep. And

00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:27.699
as nice as that is, it was still only, like,

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.599
$150. So still pretty cheap, and it started folding

00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.349
pretty quick under those wind gusts. So... I'll

00:41:36.349 --> 00:41:39.530
be interested to see how the swag does in the

00:41:39.530 --> 00:41:41.570
wind. I've watched one guy. He was in a full

00:41:41.570 --> 00:41:44.170
-on thunderstorm with, like, 100 -mile -an -hour

00:41:44.170 --> 00:41:48.590
gusts in a swag, and he stayed dry for the most

00:41:48.590 --> 00:41:50.369
part, but he had the zipper in the wrong spot,

00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:53.369
so it started to drip from his zipper. Oh, no.

00:41:53.690 --> 00:41:56.190
Like, you could see the walls shake, but it was

00:41:56.190 --> 00:42:00.250
just staying solid, so. Yeah. Yeah. From the

00:42:00.250 --> 00:42:02.090
looks of things, it's going to be pretty solid.

00:42:03.150 --> 00:42:05.150
I was about to say, our light fire held up for

00:42:05.150 --> 00:42:08.030
the first night we went, and it was windy. Yeah,

00:42:08.050 --> 00:42:14.170
we were having gusts up to like 50, 55. No, 50

00:42:14.170 --> 00:42:16.389
sustaining, gusts up to 70. That's what it was.

00:42:18.510 --> 00:42:21.050
Yeah, those were crazy. Those last couple weeks

00:42:21.050 --> 00:42:23.530
of Michigan have been pretty crazy. Oh, it has.

00:42:24.050 --> 00:42:28.030
Wind, storms, just been wreaking havoc. More

00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:31.289
tornadoes in like forever. Yeah, 10 tornadoes

00:42:31.289 --> 00:42:36.860
in one night. Yeah, me and Alex did some storm

00:42:36.860 --> 00:42:39.519
watching here a couple weeks ago, and we were

00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:41.119
out in the middle of this field, and then on

00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:43.679
my drive home, porta -potties in the middle of

00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.199
the road, trees in the middle of the road. It

00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:50.360
was cool. I went and showed my boss. He's like,

00:42:50.420 --> 00:42:52.059
why were you driving in a storm? And I'm like,

00:42:52.179 --> 00:42:57.690
listen, I don't get drama. And weather drama

00:42:57.690 --> 00:43:00.710
is my kind of drama. I had all sorts of drama.

00:43:00.769 --> 00:43:03.849
I had fans getting blown to pieces on barns,

00:43:03.849 --> 00:43:11.130
and my power was going out. Like, dude. Usually

00:43:11.130 --> 00:43:12.789
we're the first to lose power on the internet.

00:43:12.849 --> 00:43:15.369
We never lost power or internet. Oh, we lose

00:43:15.369 --> 00:43:18.670
power all the time. Usually, the farm doesn't

00:43:18.670 --> 00:43:20.769
usually lose power. It's usually just our house.

00:43:20.909 --> 00:43:23.349
Like, it's so weird. And the farm didn't lose

00:43:23.349 --> 00:43:25.690
all power. It lost one face, which was enough

00:43:25.690 --> 00:43:30.730
to cause major issues. Jeez. Yeah, we're in the

00:43:30.730 --> 00:43:33.070
middle of the storm, and he goes, oh, shit, we

00:43:33.070 --> 00:43:36.010
just lost power. yeah he's like all right i gotta

00:43:36.010 --> 00:43:38.329
go turn this generator on and then he's gone

00:43:38.329 --> 00:43:40.050
for five minutes getting the generator running

00:43:40.050 --> 00:43:42.309
and i'm like i'm just sitting through the storm

00:43:42.309 --> 00:43:44.550
my fucking truck shaking back and forth like

00:43:44.550 --> 00:43:47.829
like damn it was like going on like those speed

00:43:47.829 --> 00:43:51.670
wobbles on a in like a dirt trail our trucks

00:43:51.670 --> 00:43:55.269
were shaking bad dude it was i thought for a

00:43:55.269 --> 00:43:57.269
second i was about to take flight like it was

00:43:57.269 --> 00:44:00.449
really going yeah we were we were halfway joking

00:44:00.449 --> 00:44:03.739
that we were gonna like winch to each other just

00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:07.800
uh and but i was kind of serious at the one point

00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:09.579
because i was like dude i might have to go home

00:44:09.579 --> 00:44:12.639
if it's gonna be like this down there our whole

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:14.739
house is covered in trees around there i was

00:44:14.739 --> 00:44:17.440
like i told them i might have to go home i told

00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.679
them don't be a bitch wait it out i did i waited

00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:23.559
it out because i then i started thinking about

00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:24.860
i'm like there's no way i could drive through

00:44:24.860 --> 00:44:27.960
this there's no way like i would not be i could

00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:30.559
i could but it'd be really slow Yeah, you wouldn't

00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:33.000
be able to see. And then even then, what are

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:34.599
you going to do at home? A tree falls on your

00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:35.900
house. What are you going to do about it until

00:44:35.900 --> 00:44:38.420
the storm's over anyway? Well, I didn't know

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:41.920
Sienna had left yet. I was making sure. But I

00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.780
texted her during our little shaky storm syndrome,

00:44:44.820 --> 00:44:49.039
and she was like, yeah, we went to Grandma's

00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:51.139
because Grandma's got a house made from cinder

00:44:51.139 --> 00:44:54.849
block, basically. And then that door in our kitchen

00:44:54.849 --> 00:44:57.489
just wouldn't stay shut. So I come up to the

00:44:57.489 --> 00:44:59.449
house to help Caitlin shut that, and she's, like,

00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:02.849
holding it shut in her pajamas, like, just praying

00:45:02.849 --> 00:45:05.510
that the door stays shut. And I'm, like, watching

00:45:05.510 --> 00:45:09.690
her be blown across the kitchen. It was nuts,

00:45:09.829 --> 00:45:13.010
man. We should have got out, see if we could

00:45:13.010 --> 00:45:15.530
have leaned into it a little bit. It was just

00:45:15.530 --> 00:45:19.150
so rainy, though. Well, and when it got really

00:45:19.150 --> 00:45:23.199
bad, I was watching debris from the field. I

00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:26.239
had my window down as it got really bad, and

00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:29.159
I was getting sand and fucking leaves and shit

00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:30.960
flying into my window, hitting me in the face.

00:45:31.019 --> 00:45:33.380
I'm like, all right, we're going to comms because

00:45:33.380 --> 00:45:36.980
this is getting shitty. Yeah, it was quite the

00:45:36.980 --> 00:45:41.219
storm, man. It was fun. Really, we always say

00:45:41.219 --> 00:45:43.260
storm chase, and we go drive somewhere, right?

00:45:43.539 --> 00:45:45.840
Really, my field's like the best spot to watch

00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.309
a storm. Yeah. If we would have been, oh, man,

00:45:50.429 --> 00:45:53.869
if we would have been 45 minutes earlier the

00:45:53.869 --> 00:45:55.710
one time by my house, we could have actually

00:45:55.710 --> 00:45:59.389
seen the tornado hit and touched down. We were

00:45:59.389 --> 00:46:01.630
so close. That would have been sick. Because

00:46:01.630 --> 00:46:03.449
it had touched down and went through our field

00:46:03.449 --> 00:46:05.670
probably 45 minutes before we decided to leave

00:46:05.670 --> 00:46:08.090
and go looking. Yeah, it would have been sick.

00:46:08.369 --> 00:46:13.349
It was a bummer. Now nothing's happening. Now

00:46:13.349 --> 00:46:16.349
we had, like, a couple days of, like, 90 -degree

00:46:16.349 --> 00:46:19.420
weather. And then now we're back to like 45,

00:46:19.699 --> 00:46:23.679
50 degree weather. What the fuck? Yeah, yesterday

00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:27.260
was cold, man. Yeah. Cold and rainy. Today was

00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:30.880
cold. I mean, today warmed up, but it was still

00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.119
cold this morning. Oh, yeah, this morning was

00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:37.840
cold. I'd say today was chilly. I can't say it

00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:41.940
was cold, per se. Yeah, that's fair. Like, when

00:46:41.940 --> 00:46:46.190
I was wearing my hoodie, I was too warm. But

00:46:46.190 --> 00:46:48.510
if I took it off, I was too cold. And then if

00:46:48.510 --> 00:46:52.369
I wore it and worked, I was really hot. But if

00:46:52.369 --> 00:46:54.750
I took it off and worked, I was just barely comfortable.

00:46:56.289 --> 00:46:59.670
Yeah. No, that's fair. That's how Michigan is

00:46:59.670 --> 00:47:03.670
in general. You have to be ready for everything.

00:47:03.789 --> 00:47:06.510
I have a rain jacket. I have a sweatshirt. I

00:47:06.510 --> 00:47:09.449
have an umbrella. All in my truck just folded

00:47:09.449 --> 00:47:12.170
up because you never know. You never know what

00:47:12.170 --> 00:47:16.440
it's going to be. Yeah. Michigan's got to be

00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.500
one of the most unpredictable states as far as

00:47:18.500 --> 00:47:21.440
that goes, like just the cold to hot weather.

00:47:22.420 --> 00:47:27.480
It's like, hey, here you go. Here's 30s and 40s

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.099
at night. Okay, here you go. It's 90s during

00:47:30.099 --> 00:47:34.239
the day back to 30s and 40s at night. Like crazy.

00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:36.599
You wake up, there's frost on the ground, and

00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.800
then all of a sudden it's like 75, 80. You're

00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:42.460
like, what the fuck? It makes farming turkeys

00:47:42.460 --> 00:47:46.369
hell. Yeah, I'm sure the cold. That's like why

00:47:46.369 --> 00:47:48.710
the cherries, the cherry business seems to be

00:47:48.710 --> 00:47:51.590
doing like worse up in Travers because they keep

00:47:51.590 --> 00:47:55.289
getting frost later in the springs. And it keeps

00:47:55.289 --> 00:47:59.630
fucking the crops. And it's hard to, it's hard

00:47:59.630 --> 00:48:01.570
to predict what's going to happen. So it's hard

00:48:01.570 --> 00:48:05.309
to set levels where they need to be. Right. So

00:48:05.309 --> 00:48:09.230
it just, yeah. Hey, you don't want to cook the

00:48:09.230 --> 00:48:11.309
turkeys, but you don't want them to freeze either.

00:48:11.630 --> 00:48:13.590
Yeah, they don't really like it when it gets

00:48:13.590 --> 00:48:17.630
below, like, 50 degrees. No. They just lay down

00:48:17.630 --> 00:48:23.349
and then quit eating and drinking. Yeah, they

00:48:23.349 --> 00:48:27.929
go into, like, conservation mode. Yeah. Turkeys

00:48:27.929 --> 00:48:31.809
are dumb. And then if it gets below, like, I'd

00:48:31.809 --> 00:48:35.530
say 45, they just start piling on top of each

00:48:35.530 --> 00:48:38.940
other to stay warm and crushing each other. Yeah,

00:48:39.019 --> 00:48:42.880
I have bad experiences with that working at farm

00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:46.000
and home. Or they get scared. Oh, when they get

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.159
scared, they do that shit too. Turkeys are so

00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:53.320
dumb. Yeah, chickens, like, they get wet. They

00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:56.480
start piling on top of each other. Yeah, it gets

00:48:56.480 --> 00:49:01.980
nasty quick. Oh, you know what? I'm going to

00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:03.440
change the subject real quick, and I'm going

00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:06.590
to touch on this for... 30 seconds do it i have

00:49:06.590 --> 00:49:08.190
a new favorite i have a new favorite upgrade

00:49:08.190 --> 00:49:11.969
um at least until the next couple days until

00:49:11.969 --> 00:49:14.389
maybe my headlights get in but new favorite upgrade

00:49:14.389 --> 00:49:17.570
is the wolf box man that thing is fucking sick

00:49:17.570 --> 00:49:21.170
yeah um i wish i could run one screw all of you

00:49:21.170 --> 00:49:27.989
yeah dude it's uh it's been so nice um i used

00:49:27.989 --> 00:49:31.539
to have to like not i don't know like only use

00:49:31.539 --> 00:49:33.440
my side mirrors because my back mirror was so

00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:36.420
full with like the gear now i don't even have

00:49:36.420 --> 00:49:39.320
to worry about it i can record shit that's happening

00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:42.900
while i'm driving and it takes just enough video

00:49:42.900 --> 00:49:44.699
you don't have to do that phone mirror thing

00:49:44.699 --> 00:49:49.340
anymore no no yeah it's good video um so i mean

00:49:50.139 --> 00:49:52.079
And, you know, it tracked that whole night that

00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.300
we were out storm chasing, and I could just look

00:49:54.300 --> 00:49:57.380
at them in one -minute increments and front and

00:49:57.380 --> 00:50:01.199
back give me video on both. You can upgrade it

00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.500
where it's three minutes for record times. Yeah,

00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:08.099
I thought about doing that, but it was better,

00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:10.860
like, easier for me to save the ones because

00:50:10.860 --> 00:50:13.260
usually the stuff that I want to record is only,

00:50:13.340 --> 00:50:16.519
like, 10 seconds out of that one minute. I think

00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:19.340
I had yours set to three minutes, right, Mark?

00:50:20.139 --> 00:50:24.420
That was one when I first got it. Yeah. But,

00:50:24.539 --> 00:50:27.940
yeah, that thing is great. Like, it's my favorite

00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:30.840
upgrade right now. It saves me so much time.

00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:33.300
The only thing I don't like about it is that

00:50:33.300 --> 00:50:38.239
the rear camera, it just makes things look so

00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:40.760
much closer than they really are. Yeah. Like,

00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:43.659
I went backed up to the fence at work today,

00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.340
and I had, like... three and a half feet before

00:50:46.340 --> 00:50:48.300
i got even close to the fence so i'm like oops

00:50:48.300 --> 00:50:53.179
yeah it takes i mean it takes some getting used

00:50:53.179 --> 00:50:55.559
to because your point of view like right now

00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:58.699
if you're to look through a normal mirror your

00:50:58.699 --> 00:51:01.800
point of view is where you are in the truck right

00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:03.980
but by using that camera you're moving it back

00:51:03.980 --> 00:51:07.840
almost five feet yep so now you've got to adjust

00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:11.579
for that five feet And then, of course, I don't

00:51:11.579 --> 00:51:13.739
have it on the farthest point out from my truck

00:51:13.739 --> 00:51:17.199
either. So I do have to make sure I give it like

00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:19.940
a foot and a half too. So there have been times

00:51:19.940 --> 00:51:21.860
where I back up and I'm like, I hit the fence

00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:24.900
with my rear tire. I'm like, oops, or my spare

00:51:24.900 --> 00:51:28.239
tire. But overall, though, it's great. I have

00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:33.179
zero complaints with the Wolf Box so far. I think

00:51:33.179 --> 00:51:35.260
it's pretty stellar. I guess the only thing that

00:51:35.260 --> 00:51:39.920
I wish it did. was hooked up via Bluetooth instead

00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:43.820
of Wi -Fi. Auto dim the brightness when it becomes

00:51:43.820 --> 00:51:47.960
nighttime. That would be stellar. Yeah, that's

00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.320
actually not a bad idea. But Bluetooth would

00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:53.980
be my biggest thing. If it would just hook up

00:51:53.980 --> 00:51:56.579
via Bluetooth and I didn't have to hook it up

00:51:56.579 --> 00:51:59.059
to Wi -Fi. I never even did that. I just popped

00:51:59.059 --> 00:52:00.900
the SD card out and went and put it in my computer.

00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.590
It's so fast doing it that way. Well, I mean,

00:52:04.610 --> 00:52:08.130
all I have to do is I get home, I sit in the

00:52:08.130 --> 00:52:12.269
truck, and I just hook onto the Wi -Fi, do it.

00:52:12.349 --> 00:52:18.170
So, I mean, it's not hard. It's just my car play

00:52:18.170 --> 00:52:21.309
is like Wi -Fi versus 2, so I have to unhook

00:52:21.309 --> 00:52:24.570
off of my car play and then hook onto that. So

00:52:24.570 --> 00:52:27.769
that's like the only downside, but really isn't

00:52:27.769 --> 00:52:31.369
much of one. So Kaylin ruined my day today, guys.

00:52:32.849 --> 00:52:36.980
Yeah. I thought that we were leaving for Leatherwood

00:52:36.980 --> 00:52:42.480
like this coming Thursday. No. No, we still have

00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.480
another week. I know. She's like, yeah, it's

00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:49.039
a week and six days. And I'm like, no, it's like

00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:51.340
six days. And she's like, no, a week and six

00:52:51.340 --> 00:52:55.800
days. And I'm like, fuck. Yeah, because you guys

00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:57.800
aren't leaving until after Spring Shakedown.

00:52:58.579 --> 00:53:02.639
And Spring Shakedown is the weekend after this

00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:06.860
one. 30, 31, and 01. Are you going to go to that?

00:53:07.099 --> 00:53:11.019
No. Oh, okay. To say it's only like an hour away.

00:53:11.820 --> 00:53:15.300
It's hard for me to get that much time out of

00:53:15.300 --> 00:53:18.599
work. Yeah, yeah, I get you. I'm going to go

00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:21.199
to that. I'm really excited for it. Especially

00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.599
since I don't have a farmhand. Meeting up with

00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:27.780
all the buddies that I haven't seen all winter,

00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:31.059
basically. I wouldn't mind just taking a week

00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:33.690
into myself. Because I think we're going to get

00:53:33.690 --> 00:53:35.570
at least a weekend to ourselves before Leatherwood

00:53:35.570 --> 00:53:40.650
if things go smoothly this weekend. Yep. So.

00:53:41.030 --> 00:53:43.030
Yeah. Oh, you're not even going to come see me

00:53:43.030 --> 00:53:46.909
that weekend? I might stop by, but I don't want

00:53:46.909 --> 00:53:50.469
to. I don't feel like working on a vehicle if

00:53:50.469 --> 00:53:53.789
we don't need to for a weekend. Well, I was going

00:53:53.789 --> 00:53:55.449
to say, Duncan, you guys are going to finish

00:53:55.449 --> 00:53:57.409
that this weekend, right? Should, yeah. That's

00:53:57.409 --> 00:54:00.989
the plan. Yeah. Like I said, nothing goes wrong.

00:54:01.449 --> 00:54:04.489
We will have to work on your truck that weekend

00:54:04.489 --> 00:54:08.530
because I'm ordering my tire carrier this weekend.

00:54:09.369 --> 00:54:13.710
Yeah. It's not going to take us like three days.

00:54:14.389 --> 00:54:19.230
No. That weekend, I'm thinking like button up

00:54:19.230 --> 00:54:21.550
the final touches. I'm not doing major work that

00:54:21.550 --> 00:54:24.309
weekend. No. I was going to say take a trail,

00:54:24.530 --> 00:54:26.449
make sure everything doesn't rattle, make sure

00:54:26.449 --> 00:54:30.480
everything's set. And he goes, eh. We'll take

00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.019
that weekend to get the trailer packed and ready

00:54:33.019 --> 00:54:37.420
to go. Speaking of the trailer, we're bringing

00:54:37.420 --> 00:54:41.320
that to Riggs and Coffey, right? I mean, we could.

00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.500
I'm going to miss out on that, too. As long as

00:54:45.500 --> 00:54:47.480
we remember to grab my light fighter, because

00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:55.340
Brian's going to use it. Okay. So we just got

00:54:55.340 --> 00:54:58.639
to remember to grab that. If you see Derek and

00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.980
he has a tent, can you take it back for me? Derek

00:55:02.980 --> 00:55:10.099
has your tent? No. Well, so I was offered a tent

00:55:10.099 --> 00:55:13.659
like last year, and I was like, yeah, sure. He

00:55:13.659 --> 00:55:16.360
was pretty much just giving it to me. Not Derek,

00:55:16.460 --> 00:55:23.280
but Sequoia. Joe? Joe? Joe, yeah, Joe. He had

00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:28.449
an extra one, and I was like, yeah, sure. But

00:55:28.449 --> 00:55:30.869
we haven't seen each other pretty much since

00:55:30.869 --> 00:55:36.070
then. I haven't seen Joe in a while. Since his

00:55:36.070 --> 00:55:40.630
birthday. I have no idea if he's still getting

00:55:40.630 --> 00:55:44.570
it to me, but just in case if Derek has it, because

00:55:44.570 --> 00:55:47.230
he might have passed it to Derek. If he so happens

00:55:47.230 --> 00:55:50.130
to have it and he mentions it, just one of you

00:55:50.130 --> 00:55:52.670
guys grab it for me. Which one is it? It's a

00:55:52.670 --> 00:55:56.340
bigger one. I don't remember. I know it's a bigger

00:55:56.340 --> 00:55:59.400
one. I don't think Joe's been to Riggs and Coffee

00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:06.820
yet. I don't think so. But, man, I'm bummed I'm

00:56:06.820 --> 00:56:09.659
missing this one out. Oh, yeah, because you've

00:56:09.659 --> 00:56:12.940
got to wait. Yeah, I was trying to figure out

00:56:12.940 --> 00:56:16.780
a way to get Sunday off, but it's not going to

00:56:16.780 --> 00:56:21.300
happen. But we do close early on Memorial Day,

00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:24.960
so Monday. So that's nice. That's a 10 to 4 day.

00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.639
So nice, easy half day, basically. Yeah, we got

00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:33.219
to. I don't think that the rear end of Duncan's

00:56:33.219 --> 00:56:35.179
truck will take us that long. So we should be

00:56:35.179 --> 00:56:37.579
able to knock that out in like a day. And then

00:56:37.579 --> 00:56:40.199
after that, you just got to do that front diff,

00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:47.099
which shouldn't be too hard. Just undo what we

00:56:47.099 --> 00:56:49.940
did last weekend and then pull it apart. Go from

00:56:49.940 --> 00:56:53.300
there. Oh, we got to take apart the whole front

00:56:53.300 --> 00:56:56.179
end? No, we just have to take the upper ball

00:56:56.179 --> 00:56:58.420
joint off. Remember how I dropped him down to

00:56:58.420 --> 00:57:02.739
get the CV axle out? Yeah. We have to do that

00:57:02.739 --> 00:57:06.679
because we have to pull the CV axles. Yeah. Okay.

00:57:06.739 --> 00:57:11.500
That's it. Okay, not as bad, but still a little

00:57:11.500 --> 00:57:20.820
annoying. It is. Yeah. Rear axle is 529s, so

00:57:20.820 --> 00:57:23.340
he's got to swap the front axle so they match.

00:57:24.739 --> 00:57:30.880
Yeah. Okay, I see where you're getting at. Sounds

00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:37.420
like fun. No. I might stop over. No, I won't.

00:57:37.420 --> 00:57:39.400
I was going to say, I need to change my diff

00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:44.070
fluid out, but. Oh, hey, we need to do that too.

00:57:44.829 --> 00:57:47.230
Yeah, but I was like, we probably should do ours

00:57:47.230 --> 00:57:51.670
too. Probably should do our transfer cases. What

00:57:51.670 --> 00:57:53.449
are you doing Wednesday? Wednesday? I'm overdue.

00:57:54.550 --> 00:57:57.289
I don't know. This next week. See you the other

00:57:57.289 --> 00:57:59.869
day off I have. This next week I'm going to be

00:57:59.869 --> 00:58:02.010
pretty freaking busy just getting ready to leave.

00:58:03.130 --> 00:58:06.539
Yeah. Well, and that's what, so Wednesday. I'm

00:58:06.539 --> 00:58:08.320
going to have all our stuff packed and ready

00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:10.079
because Thursday night after I get home from

00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:12.519
work, I'm fucking leaving. I'm done. I need to

00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:16.880
get out and camp. I'm over it. I think the Thursday

00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:18.860
of Leatherwood, I want to try and leave at like

00:58:18.860 --> 00:58:21.800
1 .30, 2 o 'clock in the morning. That way we

00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:24.139
miss as much traffic as possible on the way down.

00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:27.260
Oh, dude, it's so much better when you leave

00:58:27.260 --> 00:58:29.980
early in the morning like that. Is Duncan down

00:58:29.980 --> 00:58:34.900
for that? I'll call him when we get done recording.

00:58:35.260 --> 00:58:37.480
Okay. I tried calling them earlier. It just works

00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:42.179
so much better. What else? What else do we have?

00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:44.019
We have Leatherwood coming up. We have the Spring

00:58:44.019 --> 00:58:47.840
Shakedown. I'm going to that. We don't have anything

00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.460
else for a while. Yeah. I mean, we got July.

00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.239
We're doing our buddy's bachelor party. Oh, true.

00:58:56.519 --> 00:59:01.099
In Drummond Island. Yeah. I think in June I have.

00:59:02.409 --> 00:59:04.489
I think they have, like, a trip that I'm going

00:59:04.489 --> 00:59:09.230
to go on in June. Yeah, we're pretty much taking,

00:59:09.389 --> 00:59:11.550
I mean, not that we're taking a break from MST,

00:59:11.710 --> 00:59:14.329
but we're not doing as many MST trips because

00:59:14.329 --> 00:59:17.750
we're getting ready for Moab next year. Yeah,

00:59:17.849 --> 00:59:21.909
we got to save up money to upgrade to 35, so.

00:59:22.710 --> 00:59:25.210
We got to do the, and then save up money for

00:59:25.210 --> 00:59:34.139
the trip. That too. Yeah, Spring Kids Camping,

00:59:34.139 --> 00:59:38.260
the next. So, I heard it, yeah, Spring Shakedown

00:59:38.260 --> 00:59:43.800
and then Spring Kids Camping, June 20th, so I'll

00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:47.320
be going to that too. When's, isn't there a Fall

00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:53.780
Kids Camping? Yeah, that's late. Let's see. I

00:59:53.780 --> 00:59:55.420
have it pulled up. I'm going to try to do the

00:59:55.420 --> 00:59:57.280
Labor Day in Paradise, too, because I really

00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:01.400
liked that last year. Fall Kids Camping is September

01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:04.420
12th. I'm trying to decide if I want to do Labor

01:00:04.420 --> 01:00:08.119
Day weekend or not. That was beautiful. That

01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:11.320
was gorgeous. If it's anything like that again,

01:00:11.579 --> 01:00:14.800
hands down, I'm doing it again. I'll probably

01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.940
have four days that weekend. I just don't know

01:00:16.940 --> 01:00:20.920
if I'll... Money -wise, it's wise to do it because

01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:23.199
I'm trying to save up for stuff. And we're going

01:00:23.199 --> 01:00:27.599
to do botches yearly in September. Yeah, we got

01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:30.300
that too. That'll just be a four -day. Where

01:00:30.300 --> 01:00:31.739
are we going? A Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:37.800
I hate to say we're going to the same place,

01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:40.139
but I wouldn't mind going back to Cadillac area.

01:00:40.659 --> 01:00:43.380
I wouldn't mind it either. Cadillac area is great.

01:00:45.130 --> 01:00:48.730
After spending a lot of the fall in the Cadillac

01:00:48.730 --> 01:00:52.449
area, there are so many other really cool camping

01:00:52.449 --> 01:00:55.150
spots that we could go to. There was a little

01:00:55.150 --> 01:00:58.489
water crossing. It's nothing crazy, but it was

01:00:58.489 --> 01:01:01.750
fun. I mean, there's so much there. There's so

01:01:01.750 --> 01:01:04.210
many trails. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too.

01:01:04.329 --> 01:01:08.909
We could spend all fucking day on them. I like

01:01:08.909 --> 01:01:13.420
doing that all day. I'm thinking we do that and

01:01:13.420 --> 01:01:18.960
just do Cadillac area for that trip. Yeah. Even

01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:23.360
if we made that like our kind of standard botches

01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:27.460
yearly trip location is Cadillac. I wouldn't

01:01:27.460 --> 01:01:31.000
mind that. If I could find, if that place at

01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:34.199
Fife Lake is open where I used to camp at, I'll

01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:36.539
see if we could do that because it's easy to

01:01:36.539 --> 01:01:40.940
get to, but it's far enough out of the way. It

01:01:40.940 --> 01:01:43.239
is beautiful. It's right on the river. I know

01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:50.699
2026, our botch is yearly is Moab. Yeah. Because

01:01:50.699 --> 01:01:55.300
that'll eat up funds pretty fucking fast. Yeah.

01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:00.199
And then 2028, our botch is yearly is Rubicon.

01:02:01.500 --> 01:02:06.760
Mm -hmm. I wish you guys luck. You're not even

01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:09.619
going to do Rubicon with us? I can't do either.

01:02:10.170 --> 01:02:13.250
I know you have some weird hatred for deserts,

01:02:13.250 --> 01:02:15.710
but why wouldn't you want to do Rubicon? I think

01:02:15.710 --> 01:02:18.869
Moab's just not my, it's just not going to be

01:02:18.869 --> 01:02:21.929
my cup of tea. I don't see why it wouldn't be.

01:02:22.730 --> 01:02:27.130
All overland. You're telling me for Rubicon we

01:02:27.130 --> 01:02:29.949
need to build my truck out, so does Gavin need

01:02:29.949 --> 01:02:32.590
to build out for Rubicon? I mean, yeah, he should.

01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:36.960
Well, if we do Moab, I'm assuming you're going

01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:39.059
to want me to build out for that too. No, you

01:02:39.059 --> 01:02:42.039
don't have to. You don't have to do Moab. You

01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:43.940
can just do the Overland thing instead of the

01:02:43.940 --> 01:02:46.800
Wheeling thing. It's all one thing. We'll choose

01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:51.739
to do the obstacles. Yeah. I don't know. We'll

01:02:51.739 --> 01:02:54.840
see. If my job situation changes, that might

01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:57.719
change. I think the biggest obstacle for me is

01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:04.039
money. Yeah, same. 2027 is going to be like the

01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:06.800
year where shit starts picking up. You know,

01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:11.159
I'll be down a car payment. Sienna's going to

01:03:11.159 --> 01:03:16.500
pick up a 4Runner. So we're going to, she's going

01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:20.199
to get rid of that lease on the Honda. She's

01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:23.000
going to pick up a 4Runner. We'll be down to

01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:24.940
one payment, so we'll be back to kind of where

01:03:24.940 --> 01:03:29.199
we were budget -wise before she got her car wreck.

01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.980
And that was when we could take bigger vacations.

01:03:33.460 --> 01:03:35.820
We could save up thousands of dollars. Right

01:03:35.820 --> 01:03:39.440
now, we can't do that. Not with a kid, not with

01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:41.500
daycare, not with our car payments and what we're

01:03:41.500 --> 01:03:44.579
currently making. It's just not. We would definitely

01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:47.820
be doing, Moab would cost us each like a grand.

01:03:48.980 --> 01:03:51.619
Yeah. We'd be doing it as cheap as possible.

01:03:53.619 --> 01:03:57.199
For God, a grand. That's so cheap. Meal prep.

01:03:58.030 --> 01:04:00.829
Yeah, because all our food would be already set.

01:04:01.269 --> 01:04:03.769
We wouldn't be buying anything. It would just

01:04:03.769 --> 01:04:11.409
be cost of gas. Yep. God, when we did the UP,

01:04:11.550 --> 01:04:16.809
it was like a ton of money in just gas. I think

01:04:16.809 --> 01:04:21.150
it was like $500 in just gas around there, driving

01:04:21.150 --> 01:04:23.309
everywhere. How many miles is it from here to

01:04:23.309 --> 01:04:28.989
Moab? Because we can kind of do the math here

01:04:28.989 --> 01:04:32.070
a little bit. All right, so it's 1 ,500 miles.

01:04:36.690 --> 01:04:44.969
I get about 18 to the gallon. So that would be...

01:04:44.969 --> 01:04:49.590
I did that math wrong. I'm not good at math,

01:04:49.710 --> 01:05:00.769
guys. That's 83. Tanks of gas. Okay, trip distance,

01:05:01.030 --> 01:05:05.849
1 ,500 miles. I found a calculator. 1 ,500 divided

01:05:05.849 --> 01:05:11.570
by 18 is 83. That's 83 full tanks. Yep, 83 gallons

01:05:11.570 --> 01:05:16.309
of gas. It's 83 gallons of gas, not 83 tanks.

01:05:17.349 --> 01:05:19.030
Oh, you're right, you're right. Sorry, sorry,

01:05:19.110 --> 01:05:23.670
sorry. 83 tanks would be crazy. Fuel down will

01:05:23.670 --> 01:05:28.750
be like $333. If fuel is $4 all the way down,

01:05:28.809 --> 01:05:32.309
which it won't be, that's like a worst -case

01:05:32.309 --> 01:05:35.369
scenario where it's $4 a gallon from here to

01:05:35.369 --> 01:05:44.409
there. It's $333. So then that'd be that coming

01:05:44.409 --> 01:05:49.860
back. So that's roughly $600 in fuel. And then

01:05:49.860 --> 01:05:52.119
the other 400 would just be whatever we do while

01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:54.599
we're there. But like I said, we'd have everything.

01:05:54.780 --> 01:05:57.039
We were going to bring all the food. Maybe we'd

01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:02.940
have to get water, obviously. Yeah. I mean, it's

01:06:02.940 --> 01:06:06.099
not as bad as I thought, but I wouldn't feel

01:06:06.099 --> 01:06:09.900
comfortable doing that without like three grand

01:06:09.900 --> 01:06:13.760
for like anything that could go wrong. Yeah.

01:06:13.940 --> 01:06:19.929
Like I just comfortably for that far away. that's

01:06:19.929 --> 01:06:23.250
where we're going as a group for a reason because

01:06:23.250 --> 01:06:26.550
then we can understand each other. I understand

01:06:26.550 --> 01:06:29.769
your ball joint fails. We can all pitch in to

01:06:29.769 --> 01:06:33.170
help you fix it. Yeah. And I get that. And that

01:06:33.170 --> 01:06:36.170
is the only way that I would do that. Like I

01:06:36.170 --> 01:06:39.289
would not go alone with what I make right now.

01:06:39.289 --> 01:06:42.889
Yeah. No, but like, I mean, I would really like

01:06:42.889 --> 01:06:50.130
to go and do like Montana area. Yeah. Um, like

01:06:50.130 --> 01:06:55.170
I I'd like to do like, um, parts of Canada, but

01:06:55.170 --> 01:06:58.610
that's, um, Washington, Oregon, Idaho. I mean,

01:06:58.630 --> 01:07:00.530
that was kind of the reason we started botches

01:07:00.530 --> 01:07:03.469
in the first place was being able to do bigger

01:07:03.469 --> 01:07:06.349
trips like that without having to foot the entire

01:07:06.349 --> 01:07:11.130
bill. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's, it's great.

01:07:11.289 --> 01:07:15.130
Um, and I also would like to do, I'd like us

01:07:15.130 --> 01:07:18.500
to plan out Hocking Hills. I don't know if you

01:07:18.500 --> 01:07:20.219
guys have looked that up a little bit. Hocking

01:07:20.219 --> 01:07:22.380
Hills isn't all that far away. It's in Ohio.

01:07:23.699 --> 01:07:27.579
And there are some fucking gorgeous views, water

01:07:27.579 --> 01:07:32.599
crossings. It looks like some decent wheeling,

01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:37.460
really, too. I feel like we could do that for

01:07:37.460 --> 01:07:44.039
pretty cheap as far as things go. It looks pretty

01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:50.019
fun. I'd be down. It's gorgeous. It's only six

01:07:50.019 --> 01:07:52.960
hours to get there, 400 miles. Man, there's some

01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:56.260
really cool off -roading out there, too, like

01:07:56.260 --> 01:08:01.219
actual hill climbs. Yeah, yeah. They have actual

01:08:01.219 --> 01:08:04.900
deep water crossings, waterfalls along trails.

01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:07.960
These trucks that I'm looking at doing hard stuff

01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:14.800
are definitely RC trucks. All right, I got to

01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:19.989
look. Yeah, I was watching a couple guys overlanding

01:08:19.989 --> 01:08:21.970
and doing the Hocking Hills area, and it's just

01:08:21.970 --> 01:08:25.729
like, holy fuck, that's gorgeous. Yeah, it looks

01:08:25.729 --> 01:08:30.829
cool. I'd be down to try that. And that's not

01:08:30.829 --> 01:08:34.989
crazy expensive. The views are fucking gorgeous.

01:08:36.350 --> 01:08:40.420
I mean, it's no top of the world, but... No,

01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:44.199
I really like the waterfall cliffs area like

01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:47.140
that, the dark green forest, the waterfalls,

01:08:47.140 --> 01:08:51.100
the rocky cliffs. I'm really hoping that when

01:08:51.100 --> 01:08:53.720
we go to Moab next year, I'm not as scared as

01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:56.020
I was last time I was there. Like, I would not

01:08:56.020 --> 01:08:59.619
go out on the cliff, but I want to this time.

01:09:00.579 --> 01:09:04.479
But, dude, it's scary. Like, I don't even know

01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:18.640
how tall that point is. It's a 7 ,000 -foot drop.

01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:27.359
Oh, 3 ,000 -foot drop. Like, that shit's scary,

01:09:27.500 --> 01:09:33.239
dude. Mm -hmm. But God, it just... I wonder if

01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:36.979
there's already a... Sorry, I was just checking

01:09:36.979 --> 01:09:39.159
to see if there's an overland, like an actual

01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:42.220
trail for Hocking Hills. Oh, on like Onyx or

01:09:42.220 --> 01:09:43.939
something? Like to go through all of it. Yeah,

01:09:43.979 --> 01:09:48.539
well, that or just... But I'll have to look at

01:09:48.539 --> 01:09:51.579
it. It'll be something I could look at tonight.

01:09:51.779 --> 01:09:55.819
But we're at that one hour mark, boys. We are.

01:09:55.960 --> 01:09:57.840
I was going to say, it's about time to call it.

01:09:58.779 --> 01:10:01.060
Well, it looks like I got some research to do.

01:10:01.140 --> 01:10:03.180
I'll do some research in the Hocking Hills because,

01:10:03.260 --> 01:10:06.640
like I said, that could be a weekend. I'd say

01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:09.880
a four -day. Four -day would be nice. Four -day

01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:12.300
trip. It's not super far. It's not super expensive.

01:10:13.149 --> 01:10:16.970
And listeners, don't forget that the next two

01:10:16.970 --> 01:10:21.470
weeks will just be one episode. Yeah. Sorry.

01:10:22.170 --> 01:10:25.789
When we get back from Leatherwood, that might

01:10:25.789 --> 01:10:28.270
be three weeks. We'll have plenty. Yeah, I was

01:10:28.270 --> 01:10:31.069
going to say, we'll have plenty to update you

01:10:31.069 --> 01:10:33.609
on on that because we'll have Spring Shakedown

01:10:33.609 --> 01:10:37.750
done too. Well, Spring Shakedown will get done

01:10:37.750 --> 01:10:41.069
before we go to Leatherwood. That's true. That's

01:10:41.069 --> 01:10:43.670
true. Ooh, that week we're going to want to record

01:10:43.670 --> 01:10:47.270
on a Tuesday. Yeah, I'll say it. Unless we record

01:10:47.270 --> 01:10:49.789
on a Tuesday or we just skip it. No, we're not

01:10:49.789 --> 01:10:52.470
skipping it. We ain't missing a week. Okay, okay.

01:10:53.170 --> 01:10:57.529
No week missing. We've already slimmed it down

01:10:57.529 --> 01:11:00.170
enough. If we miss a week, then that means that

01:11:00.170 --> 01:11:03.310
we're slipping in general and we may as well

01:11:03.310 --> 01:11:05.949
quit doing it. So no missing a week. All right.

01:11:05.949 --> 01:11:08.779
No missing a week. All right. Unless someone's

01:11:08.779 --> 01:11:11.279
dead, we're not missing a week. And if someone

01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:13.600
is dead, there's at least going to be an announcement

01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:17.079
that they're dead. True. No, we'll do a whole

01:11:17.079 --> 01:11:20.500
episode on it. We'll make it work. And then get

01:11:20.500 --> 01:11:24.859
off the vehicle. We'll have sound bites of them,

01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:27.520
and we'll chop it up so it sounds like they're

01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.420
talking to you. If I die, you guys have to keep

01:11:32.420 --> 01:11:35.420
my vehicle. There's no selling it. You have to

01:11:35.420 --> 01:11:37.939
keep it. Build it and travel it. I would totally

01:11:37.939 --> 01:11:40.039
park it by my shed and let it rot. I mean, I

01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:43.479
would totally build it. I would be so mad. I

01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:46.479
would haunt you from a grave. I would want Barry

01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:49.520
to see everything he deserves to see. And I'd

01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:52.819
have your ashes in the center console just going

01:11:52.819 --> 01:11:56.579
everywhere with me. Right before the frame rusts

01:11:56.579 --> 01:12:03.119
out in 2038, whatever that ends up being. Right

01:12:03.119 --> 01:12:05.180
then, that's when you're allowed to put my ashes

01:12:05.180 --> 01:12:08.960
in the fucking engine and run it until she blows.

01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:11.100
Dude, I would swap the frame. Just send that

01:12:11.100 --> 01:12:14.619
shit. He thinks that I can't keep a vehicle past

01:12:14.619 --> 01:12:19.640
2038. I don't think you'll keep this 4Runner

01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:25.500
past 20... 2027. You think I'll get rid of my

01:12:25.500 --> 01:12:30.420
4Runner by 2027? Yeah. You've gotten pretty close

01:12:30.420 --> 01:12:33.000
already. You've gotten pretty close a couple

01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:35.720
times. Even though I'm buying another one that's

01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:38.460
supercharged and five -speed and doing a bunch

01:12:38.460 --> 01:12:41.899
of work to it. Well, okay, that counts, though,

01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:45.380
if you switch off to a different one. It's going

01:12:45.380 --> 01:12:47.979
to be the same truck. I'm just swapping engine

01:12:47.979 --> 01:12:52.819
and trans. As long as the VIN matches. I mean,

01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:55.300
that will probably be that way for a long time.

01:12:56.690 --> 01:13:00.750
No lie. Hey, if you keep it, perfect. Even if

01:13:00.750 --> 01:13:04.609
I swap the VIN plate. The time that I've known

01:13:04.609 --> 01:13:07.189
you, I feel like you've almost sold that a couple

01:13:07.189 --> 01:13:10.869
times. Almost. Not quite. It's been talked about,

01:13:10.949 --> 01:13:13.909
though. So I can honestly say this is the only

01:13:13.909 --> 01:13:16.090
vehicle I've had for more than a year that I

01:13:16.090 --> 01:13:18.789
didn't honestly think about selling. I've joked

01:13:18.789 --> 01:13:21.149
about it or been pissed at it, but I've never

01:13:21.149 --> 01:13:23.970
even put it in effort to look at selling it.

01:13:25.899 --> 01:13:29.039
At this point, I'm far past selling mine. It's

01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:32.460
mine now. I'm what? Three years into it? I've

01:13:32.460 --> 01:13:35.159
made it my own. Have I had my truck three years

01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:39.659
or two years? Two years. Two years? Two and a

01:13:39.659 --> 01:13:43.140
half. I think I'm at two years. No, three. Two.

01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:50.279
Two? Two. Oh. You just started two. Well, not

01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:52.180
just started. You started three. You started

01:13:52.180 --> 01:13:56.770
three. I think it's been three. No, it's 11 -2.

01:13:57.250 --> 01:14:00.569
Well, listen, dude. You got the truck in 2023.

01:14:01.329 --> 01:14:07.930
I thought I got it in 2022. No. Oh. Well. Because

01:14:07.930 --> 01:14:10.010
2023 is when we actually started off -roading,

01:14:10.090 --> 01:14:12.550
and that's when I got the itch, and then we formed

01:14:12.550 --> 01:14:15.630
our group in 2023. Oh, yeah, good point. The

01:14:15.630 --> 01:14:18.750
group was formed in 23, so I would have bought

01:14:18.750 --> 01:14:20.949
it April of 23. Damn, I thought I had it three

01:14:20.949 --> 01:14:26.170
years. That being said, I have. Actually, driving

01:14:26.170 --> 01:14:28.930
-wise, I've owned the 4Runner longer than any

01:14:28.930 --> 01:14:32.050
other vehicle in my life. Now, the 442, I have

01:14:32.050 --> 01:14:34.850
owned longer, but I haven't driven it in two

01:14:34.850 --> 01:14:39.449
years. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my Subie is still the

01:14:39.449 --> 01:14:42.409
biggest. I've had that for like five years, and

01:14:42.409 --> 01:14:44.130
that thing was great. It still ran when I sold

01:14:44.130 --> 01:14:46.289
it. I was just not going to put the money into

01:14:46.289 --> 01:14:49.609
fixing the frame. It just wasn't worth it. Yeah,

01:14:49.649 --> 01:14:52.510
I don't see the 4Runner going anywhere anytime

01:14:52.510 --> 01:14:55.460
soon, and if it does, It's going to be replaced

01:14:55.460 --> 01:14:57.239
by another third gen because I don't want to

01:14:57.239 --> 01:15:01.840
have to rebuy all my shit. That's fair. That's

01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:04.159
fair. All right. Well, you heard him here first.

01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:08.140
Keep him to his word. Yeah. We'll see you guys

01:15:08.140 --> 01:15:11.060
on the next one. Yep. Catch you later. Later.

01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.239
I hope you didn't think you were getting out

01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:16.979
of here without listening to some value for value

01:15:16.979 --> 01:15:22.060
music. We got Rising Free by Joe Martin. Man

01:15:22.060 --> 01:15:26.170
likes quirks guitar. and richard uh it's a great

01:15:26.170 --> 01:15:30.050
song great piece a little heavy on the bitcoin

01:15:30.050 --> 01:15:33.210
but you know value for value music it's gonna

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be there but it's catchy it's fun listen so hope

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you all enjoy it i try to wake up try to unplug

01:15:42.689 --> 01:15:50.079
but i gotta choose a pill I can't stop, I won't

01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:54.140
stop Meditate till I hear a pin drop Build something

01:15:54.140 --> 01:16:00.760
to last forever A wise man once told me It's

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impossible for anyone to own me With my amp of

01:16:03.979 --> 01:16:09.979
Satoshis And now I'm rising free Yo, P2P, V for

01:16:09.979 --> 01:16:13.340
V I'll start making sense out my Satoshis Slave

01:16:13.340 --> 01:16:15.439
to the system and then I'll break free When my

01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:19.100
fear of money becomes BTC My money's orange now,

01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:21.760
used to be green And Twitter is my ex now, got

01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:24.539
a new team Purple is my new who, pleb chain is

01:16:24.539 --> 01:16:28.239
my new crew Gamma Intel for my boy QW That's

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my freedom chant, no I don't trust banks Anytime

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I walk in feels like quicksand Yeah I got a better

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plan, uncuff my hands Got 24 words and my piece

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of land And my piece of mind and my piece of

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freedom Piece of time and the peace of Eden No

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I'm not dreaming, wide awake I've got a piece

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of freedom that they can't take Now I'm rising

01:17:06.319 --> 01:17:10.560
free Life is coming at me If I blink it's gonna

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pass me Make the most of every day The future

01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:23.399
moves faster than the past So hear me when I

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say, yeah I can't stop, I won't stop Meditate

01:17:29.579 --> 01:17:33.000
till I hear it end drop Build something to last

01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:38.920
forever A wise man once told me It's impossible

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for anyone to own me With my ever -lasting douchey

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Rise and shine plebs, this is our time Rise free

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from the bonds and the shackles that they made

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for us Rise free from the path that they forged

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and paved for us Rise free from the deep depths

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and the pit that they set for us Rise free every

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day until we are breathless I'm rising free with

01:18:33.460 --> 01:18:37.119
these 24 little words I'm rising free from slavery,

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no longer I serve the system created Free to

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the day they carry me on my shield