WEBVTT 00:00:15.559 --> 00:00:18.120 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.460 about everything from trail reviews to tech. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.480 Dang, guys, I screwed up that intro. I thought 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:27.239 I could do it pro bono. You know what? That's 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:31.039 the intro they're getting. So, Mark, Gavin, how 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.259 you doing? Doing good. Oh, we're doing. Surviving 00:00:34.259 --> 00:00:38.859 the heat. It's hot, man. It is fucking hot. I've 00:00:38.859 --> 00:00:41.060 been drinking water nonstop, and that's all I've 00:00:41.060 --> 00:00:45.119 been drinking. Yeah, we, you know, my birds are 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.420 sick. We had a little incident yesterday when 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:50.500 it was 90 degrees out where I noticed that only 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:54.820 half of the water was working. Oh. Turns out 00:00:54.820 --> 00:00:57.240 the medication we were using filled the lines 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.079 with a yellow foam and plugged them up so they 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.759 couldn't have a lot of water anymore. Oh, that's 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:08.019 bad. Took a long. What's up? You using Corrid? 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.390 Corrid what? Isn't that what the medication is? 00:01:13.209 --> 00:01:15.890 This one's like Penn Chlor, I think. Penn Chlor 00:01:15.890 --> 00:01:21.129 64. Yeah, no, it went through the medicator, 00:01:21.209 --> 00:01:23.310 and it's like a chocolate milk when it's mixed 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:27.069 up. And just as it goes through the line, it 00:01:27.069 --> 00:01:30.310 was all building up in the site tubes and making 00:01:30.310 --> 00:01:34.189 it so the water wouldn't flow anymore. Yeah, 00:01:34.209 --> 00:01:37.010 it took... First, I couldn't figure out what 00:01:37.010 --> 00:01:39.010 was wrong, so it took me probably 30 minutes 00:01:39.010 --> 00:01:41.439 to figure that out. And then after that, it was 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.859 probably 30 minutes of flushing lines and cleaning 00:01:43.859 --> 00:01:48.739 fittings. But the medication is over, and the 00:01:48.739 --> 00:01:51.019 birds aren't dead yet, and now they leave next 00:01:51.019 --> 00:02:00.680 Wednesday at 2 a .m. Nice. Yep. So, yeah. Let's 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:03.640 see. Gavin did stuff this weekend, so we'll let 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:08.560 him go first. Actually, screw that. Go to Gavin's 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:15.669 podcast. Oh. Yeah, I gave a more in -depth rundown 00:02:15.669 --> 00:02:20.250 on the happenings of what happened this weekend. 00:02:20.449 --> 00:02:23.310 But, yeah, we left... Have we even announced 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:25.770 HOA on here at all? Does anyone even know it 00:02:25.770 --> 00:02:27.870 exists? I don't think so. I don't think we have 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:31.849 announced it here yet. So, Gavin, I'll let you 00:02:31.849 --> 00:02:34.270 give the quick pitch on your podcast, and then 00:02:34.270 --> 00:02:39.169 we'll go from there. Oh, yeah, I just... We kind 00:02:39.169 --> 00:02:41.699 of... Wanting to start a little something different. 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:45.780 Kind of the same thing, but it's more about my 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:50.060 personal Overland experience. Doing it with the 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:53.800 kids. More pointed towards the gear reviews and 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.960 stuff like that. It is called Huckleberry's Outdoor 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:04.199 Adventures or HOA. I give more in -depth updates 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.219 on some of the stuff that I've been doing. or 00:03:08.219 --> 00:03:11.560 more in -depth updates on some of the gear that 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:13.819 I'm using. So if you're interested, go check 00:03:13.819 --> 00:03:20.060 it out. Yeah. Now I'm done putting you off. You 00:03:20.060 --> 00:03:23.259 can give your wrap now. Oh, you're good. Yeah, 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:29.180 so we left Wednesday night and got there probably 00:03:29.180 --> 00:03:34.099 8 or so, 7 or 8, and found out that the place 00:03:34.099 --> 00:03:36.189 that we were going to... camp with everybody 00:03:36.189 --> 00:03:38.590 if everybody actually came was going to be way 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:41.530 too small so we ended up going back to the spot 00:03:41.530 --> 00:03:45.530 that we camped last year for kids camp fall and 00:03:45.530 --> 00:03:51.430 that was fun um we got there that night it rained 00:03:51.430 --> 00:03:55.110 that night until 10 or so in the morning and 00:03:55.110 --> 00:04:00.110 so that was fun and then we had a guest uh come 00:04:00.110 --> 00:04:02.849 and camp and we had another uh another guy coming 00:04:02.849 --> 00:04:07.879 to camp and Then that was a whole interesting 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:13.699 thing that happened there. But once everybody 00:04:13.699 --> 00:04:20.060 got to camp, I think Friday, I think it was Friday 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:25.319 into Saturday morning, we had a massive storm 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.360 hit, and that was pretty crazy. It was flooding. 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:33.620 The whole area flooded. The underside of my tent 00:04:33.620 --> 00:04:35.839 was like a waterbed. You could just push down 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.879 and see the water. Thankfully, the bottom of 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:44.259 my tent's made out of tarp material. Yeah, it 00:04:44.259 --> 00:04:47.519 should have a bathtub under there. Yeah. So nothing 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:51.459 got in, but there were certain parts where I 00:04:51.459 --> 00:04:54.000 didn't have the rain fly tightened down all the 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.279 way, or I didn't have it. If you see how mine 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:59.480 is, it'll fully enclose. I had it rolled back 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.250 to get in and out. And the rain started hitting 00:05:02.250 --> 00:05:06.110 the tent side where the door is. It started kind 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:08.069 of coming in through there. So we dried that 00:05:08.069 --> 00:05:12.810 off and fastened up the hatches and waited it 00:05:12.810 --> 00:05:15.870 out. That was a good 45 minutes to an hour that 00:05:15.870 --> 00:05:18.629 that happened. We even had hail the size of a 00:05:18.629 --> 00:05:22.110 penny start hitting our tent. The winds got really 00:05:22.110 --> 00:05:27.209 crazy. It was pretty cool, man. Then, you know, 00:05:27.269 --> 00:05:29.490 after that, we went straight to town because 00:05:29.490 --> 00:05:31.250 we were tired of being cooped up. We got some 00:05:31.250 --> 00:05:34.329 donuts from the bakery. We went and traveled 00:05:34.329 --> 00:05:37.709 around for a couple hours, came back, and then 00:05:37.709 --> 00:05:43.490 the heat started. And it was like 96, 97, the 00:05:43.490 --> 00:05:46.149 whole rest of the day. Everything's dried out. 00:05:46.189 --> 00:05:48.610 You couldn't even tell it rained. And we were 00:05:48.610 --> 00:05:52.680 dying. And then, of course, I was going to be, 00:05:52.740 --> 00:05:54.560 I was planning on going on a nice little trail 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.040 ride because I was like, it's going to be hot. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.279 I might as well be in AC the rest of the day. 00:05:58.339 --> 00:05:59.899 So we were going to go trail ride, and that's 00:05:59.899 --> 00:06:02.800 when my power steering, I noticed it was being 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.279 kind of funky, but as I was driving by after 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.579 I just aired down, Joe, one of the guys there, 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:11.300 was like, yeah, man, that's kind of loud. So 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:15.620 we opened the hood, and lo and behold, I'm slinging 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:19.199 power steering fluid. Joe ended up having some 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.319 power steering fluid. We filled it up, burped 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.319 it. Did you put power steering fluid in it or 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:31.939 ATF? Power steering, I think. I know you're supposed 00:06:31.939 --> 00:06:38.060 to do one or the other, but nobody had ATF. Now 00:06:38.060 --> 00:06:41.839 that you mixed it, we really should do more than 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:43.600 just the power steering pump or you're going 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.459 to have issues quick. Is it supposed to be ATF 00:06:47.459 --> 00:06:50.259 on that? It's supposed to be ATF. All right. 00:06:50.459 --> 00:06:52.319 I'll double check because he said he thought 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.720 that too, but I didn't look at the bottle when 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.699 he put it in. But, yes, I got new lines coming 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:07.079 in for it, power steering pump itself, and, yeah, 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:10.420 it was fun. Yeah, we burped it out, tried to 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:12.399 get rid of some of it so that I could at least 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.920 get home. But the power steering pump, I'm assuming 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.699 the pulley itself was getting fucked up because 00:07:21.699 --> 00:07:26.740 my belt was starting to get eaten. Yeah. So you 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:29.319 could see that that was kind of starting to get 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.000 chopped up. So I was like, yeah, I'm not going 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.000 to do that trail ride then. I'll just wait it 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.019 out and then drive home Sunday and pray that 00:07:36.019 --> 00:07:38.660 I make it. If not, I have an extra belt to try 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:43.100 to get there. You? So. You only have one belt, 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.779 don't you? Yeah, just a serpentine. Oh, that 00:07:46.779 --> 00:07:51.120 sucks. That is one thing I do appreciate about 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.779 the third gens or the 3 -4 in general, because 00:07:53.779 --> 00:07:56.899 each accessory has its own belt. So if I have 00:07:56.899 --> 00:08:00.540 one fail, I don't lose everything else. Right, 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.699 right. And, yeah, I was kind of like, damn, that 00:08:04.699 --> 00:08:07.500 kind of sucks. I was thinking the same thing, 00:08:07.579 --> 00:08:09.600 but I was like, yeah, whatever, you know. And 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.420 I can't be super mad either. Yeah, I'm kind of 00:08:13.420 --> 00:08:17.060 tired. But I can't be super mad. That's the first 00:08:17.060 --> 00:08:19.699 thing that's really happened in the three years 00:08:19.699 --> 00:08:23.560 or so that I've had it. Yeah. And so I went into 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.939 Rock Auto, bought one. It's supposed to be here 00:08:25.939 --> 00:08:29.600 Thursday or Friday, and hopefully I can get that 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.899 on pretty quick. And I guess, I don't know, what 00:08:33.899 --> 00:08:35.299 do you think? Are you going to have to flush 00:08:35.299 --> 00:08:39.350 it out or what? well you got lines so that's 00:08:39.350 --> 00:08:42.730 good uh the problem is you got a rack and pinion 00:08:42.730 --> 00:08:48.809 down there yeah so really without replacing the 00:08:48.809 --> 00:08:50.570 rack and pinion all you can really do is put 00:08:50.570 --> 00:08:52.690 it back together fill it with atf that you got 00:08:52.690 --> 00:08:56.009 and call it a day the right thing to do would 00:08:56.009 --> 00:08:58.970 be replace the rack and pinion and the lines 00:08:58.970 --> 00:09:04.529 and the pump yeah and probably won't happen i've 00:09:04.529 --> 00:09:10.340 yeah I've done a few of them. It happens. Mine 00:09:10.340 --> 00:09:12.480 leaks right now. I just keep putting ATF in it 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:19.919 to keep it going. Yeah. I know usually people 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:24.080 say to only run OEM. Fuck them. I've got a Detroit 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.279 axle under there right now. Detroit axle seems 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:35.950 to be pretty good about their warranty. Do you 00:09:35.950 --> 00:09:37.330 remember, Dad, did you have a Detroit Axle in 00:09:37.330 --> 00:09:40.009 your mind or no? I think yours is a Detroit Axle, 00:09:40.049 --> 00:09:42.529 too. That's what I thought. I know I got Detroit 00:09:42.529 --> 00:09:45.690 Axle lower control arms, but I thought I did 00:09:45.690 --> 00:09:49.769 the Rack Opinion, too. Yeah, your Rack Opinion's 00:09:49.769 --> 00:09:56.570 $250, Gavin. Yeah. That's about right. It ain't 00:09:56.570 --> 00:10:02.470 cheap. No. Yeah. But all right, Mark, I guess 00:10:02.470 --> 00:10:04.250 we can get into ours because we were together 00:10:04.250 --> 00:10:11.220 again. go figure so mark came over on friday 00:10:11.220 --> 00:10:14.899 yep what were we working on friday when my boss 00:10:14.899 --> 00:10:17.820 showed up we were working on cleaning up the 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:21.139 shed oh that's right yeah so we were just kind 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:24.039 of doing busy work because it wasn't quite hot 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.200 yet but it wasn't cool so we didn't want to get 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:29.100 into anything major And then my boss showed up 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:32.279 and ate out like an hour of my time ate out. 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:38.080 My boss did not eat me out. I promised. Um, so 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:41.559 he ate up like an hour of my time. Didn't even 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.379 get anything done. It was just, it was boring, 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:50.080 but whatever. Um, then Friday night, I did not 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.519 want to camp in my front yard again. I was done 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.240 with it. So I brought the lawnmower up and there's 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.009 like a, Next to my yard is a small section of 00:11:00.009 --> 00:11:04.370 woods with a drainage ditch in it. And I was 00:11:04.370 --> 00:11:05.889 just like, you know what? Screw it. And I made 00:11:05.889 --> 00:11:09.330 us a really nice campsite that's tucked back 00:11:09.330 --> 00:11:13.929 in the woods there. Yep. We grabbed the weed 00:11:13.929 --> 00:11:16.409 whacker. We weed whacked down to where the drainage 00:11:16.409 --> 00:11:19.309 ditch or the... It's almost a creek. There's 00:11:19.309 --> 00:11:21.309 water there, but it's just a drainage creek. 00:11:21.830 --> 00:11:24.009 Yep. I mean, there's fish and frogs that live 00:11:24.009 --> 00:11:28.600 in it, but... So we whacked down to that. We've 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:32.600 got to get some railroad ties and kind of build 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.460 a little bit of a retaining wall and do some 00:11:34.460 --> 00:11:36.899 backfill to level it out. Because sleeping on 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:41.460 a slant sucked. It's not even like a super noticeable 00:11:41.460 --> 00:11:43.779 slant. It's just enough that it's like, well, 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.159 fuck. I'm just glad I didn't have a panic attack 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.259 when the last time I slept on a slant didn't 00:11:49.259 --> 00:11:56.139 work out. But it's pretty nice back there. We're 00:11:56.139 --> 00:11:59.139 tucked away, so sitting back there, you can forget 00:11:59.139 --> 00:12:04.100 you're at my house. Oh, 100%. Oh, was Friday 00:12:04.100 --> 00:12:08.299 night the meth head fight? Yes. Oh, my God. Guys, 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:10.500 we had meth heads fighting in front of my house. 00:12:10.620 --> 00:12:13.340 I live in the middle of nowhere. There's no reason 00:12:13.340 --> 00:12:15.159 that meth heads should be fighting in front of 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.860 my house. But I was getting my tent set up, and 00:12:19.860 --> 00:12:23.540 I heard a woman screaming bloody murder. And 00:12:23.540 --> 00:12:25.600 so I hopped in Mark's truck because it was the 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.960 closest one and headed over there. And her boyfriend 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.779 or husband or something was trying to, like, 00:12:30.779 --> 00:12:33.200 talk her down. And they were still screaming 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.940 at each other. So I checked on him. I was like, 00:12:37.059 --> 00:12:39.000 hey, you guys broke down. What's going on? He's 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.299 like, man, I really fucked up this time. And 00:12:43.299 --> 00:12:45.320 they're, like, both clearly methed out. Like, 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.519 it was bad. He's like, I fucked up this time. 00:12:48.620 --> 00:12:51.330 And then. So I turned around and came back to 00:12:51.330 --> 00:12:52.830 the farm, and we were just sitting there listening 00:12:52.830 --> 00:12:56.289 to her then go on and on. And he just screams, 00:12:56.490 --> 00:12:59.889 the cops are coming. I ain't calling the cops, 00:12:59.950 --> 00:13:02.029 but I bet the turkey farm is because you're being 00:13:02.029 --> 00:13:07.929 ridiculous. And as he said that, I was dialing 00:13:07.929 --> 00:13:10.490 911. I was like, fuck, am I that predictable? 00:13:12.129 --> 00:13:14.789 I just, I didn't know what he was going to do. 00:13:15.009 --> 00:13:16.909 I didn't know what she was going to do, you know? 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:20.500 yeah it was it was really bad and then he hopped 00:13:20.500 --> 00:13:22.759 in his truck and drove away and then what like 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.159 two minutes later we had a trooper go by yeah 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.879 like it was quick but yeah so methods apparently 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.720 they are moving out of the city and fighting 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:39.519 in front of my house now so that's fun um yeah 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.600 so we got our campsite all set up uh what did 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.740 we do sad oh saturday we did something pretty 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:51.679 fun we started painting our pack outs. Oh yeah. 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:55.000 And we also ran the last load of scrap. Yeah. 00:13:55.059 --> 00:13:57.220 And we ran scrap in, but that's who wants to 00:13:57.220 --> 00:14:00.159 hear about running scrap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:04.179 when it's not the last load and I have more that 00:14:04.179 --> 00:14:07.419 I'm putting on the trailer tomorrow or Friday. 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:12.039 Oh yeah. So we have another load that'll go on 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:16.600 Saturday. Gotcha. Yeah. And this one's going 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.179 to be a pain in the ass to unload because it's 00:14:19.179 --> 00:14:26.580 that loose wall metal stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah, 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:32.340 so we got more scrap to run. But, yeah, so we 00:14:32.340 --> 00:14:35.240 painted our pack out, so now they're tan and 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.419 black with a little tiny bit of red. Hopefully 00:14:38.419 --> 00:14:40.580 that makes them a little less likely to get stolen, 00:14:40.700 --> 00:14:43.899 and it makes them look so much better. Oh, yeah. 00:14:44.509 --> 00:14:47.429 I was getting red fatigue from how many red packouts 00:14:47.429 --> 00:14:56.190 we had. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad that the red accent 00:14:56.190 --> 00:14:58.950 and the handle and the latches actually make 00:14:58.950 --> 00:15:03.990 it pop. Yeah. So, yeah, packout painting was 00:15:03.990 --> 00:15:08.110 fun. It took a long time. We did, what, five 00:15:08.110 --> 00:15:14.250 or six boxes? We did three of the... Ammo can 00:15:14.250 --> 00:15:16.269 ones, as I call them. Four? Four of the ammo 00:15:16.269 --> 00:15:22.049 cans. Oh, yeah, four. I forgot mine. We did one 00:15:22.049 --> 00:15:27.590 of the traditional half boxes. My cooler. And 00:15:27.590 --> 00:15:30.669 your cooler. I don't think we did any other ones. 00:15:31.710 --> 00:15:34.970 Yeah, so we did, that's six. But that took us 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:40.230 the better part of like six hours. Yeah. Yeah, 00:15:40.269 --> 00:15:44.590 packouts are fun to disassemble. But they look 00:15:44.590 --> 00:15:48.330 good. Yep. From 50 feet away. That's all that 00:15:48.330 --> 00:15:55.110 matters. Yeah, no kidding. See, and then Sunday 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:59.309 was Rigs and Coffee. Does this even count as 00:15:59.309 --> 00:16:04.169 a Rigs and Coffee event? I don't know. It was 00:16:04.169 --> 00:16:07.929 definitely the smallest I've ever seen. I think 00:16:07.929 --> 00:16:11.960 we had a total of six trucks. Yeah. I was going 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.639 to say, there was a massive amount of people 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.740 there at the camp, so I doubted there was going 00:16:16.740 --> 00:16:18.120 to be many of them. Well, I think it was because 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.320 of the heat, too. Most of it was heat, yeah. 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:22.899 Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Because Becker actually 00:16:22.899 --> 00:16:25.980 switched the time frame up, which threw me off, 00:16:26.139 --> 00:16:27.159 because I just thought it was going to be at 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:31.860 noon, but it started at 11. We had a Nissan Titan, 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:38.460 a Silverado. We had one of the newer Tacomas 00:16:38.460 --> 00:16:43.019 there. A couple of Jeeps. A couple of Jeeps. 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:51.159 And then us. Another 3rd Gen. Yep. Oh, yeah, 00:16:51.220 --> 00:16:53.539 I forgot about that one. And then we had a 4th 00:16:53.539 --> 00:16:58.120 Gen? Oh, yeah, that one 4th Gen showed up. Yep. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.919 Yeah, it was small, man. There were not a lot 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.059 of trucks there. And then Lexus Derek eventually 00:17:06.059 --> 00:17:09.940 showed up to tail in. Mostly just sat there and 00:17:09.940 --> 00:17:11.900 talked to Becker. That was about it. Yeah. And 00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:15.000 Brian. And got my tent. It's on my tent zone. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.240 That's cool. Yeah. Oh, you count Brian's rig 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:23.220 if you want to count that. Yeah. Even though 00:17:23.220 --> 00:17:25.400 it was already parked there. I know. It was just 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:31.079 there. Yeah. So, like, smallest rigs and coffee 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:35.500 ever. Yeah. But, yeah. So, that was our weekend. 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:38.500 We'll... drifted over what's everyone doing this 00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:45.059 coming weekend oh um if i get my power steering 00:17:45.059 --> 00:17:50.880 figured out before late late friday then i might 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:54.839 go camping um i also wanted to add too i got 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.420 a yeti cooler i found it on the side of the road 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:00.519 while we were sick uh on the trails it was uh 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.519 it was like the not the cloth but the soft like 00:18:05.150 --> 00:18:08.109 fabric style with the zipper weird like one of 00:18:08.109 --> 00:18:11.549 the backpack ones no yeah more like the side 00:18:11.549 --> 00:18:14.509 yeah that's like a 24 you could fit like a you 00:18:14.509 --> 00:18:16.730 could fit probably a dirty 30 in there that's 00:18:16.730 --> 00:18:20.970 pretty cool yeah yeah i had a bunch of like sharkuchi 00:18:20.970 --> 00:18:25.750 board stuff in it does it stink it didn't smell 00:18:25.750 --> 00:18:29.769 great um but i clorox wiped the shit out of it 00:18:29.769 --> 00:18:32.710 and then today i actually took my steam cleaner 00:18:32.710 --> 00:18:35.410 and steam cleaned the fuck out of it and then 00:18:35.410 --> 00:18:37.690 wiped it back down and it doesn't smell bad anymore 00:18:37.690 --> 00:18:41.369 i cannot get the smell of rotting jerky out of 00:18:41.369 --> 00:18:45.529 my cooler you should uh i'll let you borrow my 00:18:45.529 --> 00:18:48.670 steam cleaner that that is super hot and it works 00:18:48.670 --> 00:18:51.569 pretty well for that i might try the clorox whites 00:18:51.569 --> 00:18:55.170 first i've done baking soda and when it was disassembled 00:18:55.170 --> 00:18:59.549 i scrubbed it down really good but yeah i also 00:18:59.549 --> 00:19:02.799 kind of noticed It's kind of warping, so I don't 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:05.859 know what that's about. I was going to say do 00:19:05.859 --> 00:19:07.839 it on a really hot day when it's really warm. 00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:13.619 Open up the pores of the plastic. Yeah. I'll 00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:15.720 send you guys a picture later, but it was pretty 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.940 exciting, man. You know what? If you're driving 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:21.500 down the side of the road and you can't latch 00:19:21.500 --> 00:19:24.069 your stuff right. secure it right, and then it 00:19:24.069 --> 00:19:26.089 ends up in the side of a ditch, and I just so 00:19:26.089 --> 00:19:28.430 happen to see it. I'm two hours from home. I 00:19:28.430 --> 00:19:31.529 ain't making a Facebook post. Finders keepers, 00:19:31.549 --> 00:19:36.710 man. Pack it in, pack it out. Yeah. I mean, you 00:19:36.710 --> 00:19:40.029 lose a rooftop tent, freebie at that point. On 00:19:40.029 --> 00:19:42.130 the side, yeah, on the highway, and someone else 00:19:42.130 --> 00:19:46.150 finds it, then that's on you. God, and I've seen 00:19:46.150 --> 00:19:50.009 so many of them this year. Yeah, I've seen like 00:19:50.009 --> 00:19:52.349 two or, yeah, about two or three of them. Not 00:19:52.349 --> 00:19:55.430 like in person, just people posting them on Facebook. 00:19:55.430 --> 00:19:57.789 Yeah, right. They're all over. Shit. Shit, if 00:19:57.789 --> 00:20:05.049 I saw it in person, I'd be running. So, yeah. 00:20:05.170 --> 00:20:09.230 And I think, not too sure what we're doing Friday 00:20:09.230 --> 00:20:11.589 and Saturday. Are we going to camp out this weekend? 00:20:11.670 --> 00:20:14.369 I'm totally down if you are. Yeah, we can camp 00:20:14.369 --> 00:20:17.890 out this weekend. Fuck yeah. So, I guess we're 00:20:17.890 --> 00:20:21.849 doing a camping weekend in the... The campsite, 00:20:21.849 --> 00:20:29.650 not anywhere cool. And then we might work on 00:20:29.650 --> 00:20:31.230 my truck a little bit. I got a couple things 00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:34.829 I want to get done. I'll leave that open -ended 00:20:34.829 --> 00:20:37.250 because who knows if we'll actually get it done. 00:20:37.789 --> 00:20:42.450 Yeah. And then Sunday, I think me and Mark are 00:20:42.450 --> 00:20:48.710 going to Detroit to look at a slate pickup truck. 00:20:49.589 --> 00:20:55.420 Yep. Um, yeah. Uh, have I announced on the podcast 00:20:55.420 --> 00:20:58.339 that I reserved a slate? I know it kind of happened 00:20:58.339 --> 00:21:01.619 recently, so it wouldn't have. Yeah. So I reserved 00:21:01.619 --> 00:21:06.420 a new truck. Yeah. I reserved a new truck. Uh, 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:09.599 it's not going to be shipped until like November 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:14.680 of 2026. So we, we got a little while, but yeah. 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.240 If you get a chance, look up the slate EV pickup. 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.519 It's. I'm not the biggest EV fan. There's things 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:25.519 I like, right? Like the lack of having to do 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:28.059 maintenance so I can reserve that money to go 00:21:28.059 --> 00:21:38.740 to my forerunner. And I like the size and the 00:21:38.740 --> 00:21:43.720 price and the fact that it's just a truck. There's 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:45.880 no bells and whistles. It's got crank windows. 00:21:46.099 --> 00:21:51.319 It has no radio. yeah um it's literally just 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.599 a truck uh so i it'll be good because i look 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:00.240 at it as like a blank slate if you will um where 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.660 i can just kind of add features as i want them 00:22:02.660 --> 00:22:05.259 like i'll probably end up putting some kind of 00:22:05.259 --> 00:22:07.579 radio system in it whether it just be a bluetooth 00:22:07.579 --> 00:22:11.579 speaker or not we'll see uh but for the most 00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:15.599 part i just want to keep it cheap um right now 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:19.230 with tax incentives The final price of the one 00:22:19.230 --> 00:22:22.230 I reserved comes out to, like, $19 ,000, which, 00:22:22.369 --> 00:22:25.849 what new car can you buy today for $19 ,000? 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:28.650 Like, it just doesn't exist. Yeah, no, I can't 00:22:28.650 --> 00:22:32.150 think of a single one. And that's with the 250 00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:39.049 -mile range battery. Yep. So, and, you know, 00:22:39.069 --> 00:22:42.410 our family, I live where I work. My wife doesn't 00:22:42.410 --> 00:22:46.000 work. On average, I think we put 100 miles on 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:51.460 our car total a week, maybe. So we're in that 00:22:51.460 --> 00:22:54.779 unique situation where an EV vehicle makes sense. 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:58.880 Yeah. I mean, you may have discussed this before. 00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:03.000 EVs should be marketed more towards, hey, you 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.140 live in town, you work in town, you might as 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:09.420 well just have one. And, I mean, I don't live 00:23:09.420 --> 00:23:12.539 in town, but... No, but you're not that far from 00:23:12.539 --> 00:23:15.460 town. And I work from home, so it's not like 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:18.119 I'm driving, you know, 30 minutes every day to 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:21.099 get to work. I just need something that if I 00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:22.799 need to go to the hardware store, I can just 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.019 hop in it and go and plug it in at work and make 00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:33.599 them pay for it. So, yeah, it'll be cool. With 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.759 it not coming out until next November, though, 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.220 I do think that I'm going to buy something else 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:42.910 that's a little cheaper. just to kind of hold 00:23:42.910 --> 00:23:48.329 us over with a second vehicle. Yeah. I said a 00:23:48.329 --> 00:23:50.569 little cheaper, and then I'm looking at Teslas, 00:23:50.609 --> 00:23:53.970 which doesn't sound cheaper, but the ones I'm 00:23:53.970 --> 00:23:56.789 looking at are like $12 ,000 after tax incentives. 00:23:57.690 --> 00:24:02.569 Hmm. So I'm looking at older ones, guys. They 00:24:02.569 --> 00:24:08.109 don't need great battery life, okay? But, yeah, 00:24:08.230 --> 00:24:11.430 so I guess that's a wrap on wrap. Do we have 00:24:11.430 --> 00:24:13.750 any other news? I mean, we should tell everyone 00:24:13.750 --> 00:24:15.950 to listen to the next episode because it's important. 00:24:17.150 --> 00:24:23.309 Mm -hmm. Do that. Yeah. Other than that, I don't 00:24:23.309 --> 00:24:25.529 think we have any housekeeping to really put 00:24:25.529 --> 00:24:29.990 down. No. I'm going to plug our merch store. 00:24:30.109 --> 00:24:32.109 Everyone, go to the merch store and buy some 00:24:32.109 --> 00:24:38.440 merch. Oh, hey, I had... Wreck -It Rob reached 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:40.740 out to me on Facebook, and I've been so busy 00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:43.819 I just realized I never responded to him. Oh. 00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:56.059 You see my beautiful Yeti mark? Yeah, I saw it. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:01.819 You sent it to the group chat? To, yeah, the 00:25:01.819 --> 00:25:05.519 off -road podcast, yeah. That apparently I can't 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:11.410 find. That's weird. Really? I haven't seen it. 00:25:13.390 --> 00:25:16.789 It must be in one of my tabs. I see you sent 00:25:16.789 --> 00:25:20.509 it twice. Ah, there we go. Damn, dude, that's 00:25:20.509 --> 00:25:22.950 good. That's a good deal for finding that for 00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:26.410 free. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I just cleaned 00:25:26.410 --> 00:25:28.609 it up, and then I just wiped it down with some 00:25:28.609 --> 00:25:31.289 detailer stuff I had around because it was kind 00:25:31.289 --> 00:25:34.960 of faded. Like, you could throw a couple, like 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:37.700 a 12 -pack in there and some ice and just set 00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:39.759 it behind your seat in your kid's lap, and boom, 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:42.019 you got easy access to drink. Actually, yeah, 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:43.119 I was going to say, that's actually what I'm 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:45.279 going to do is put it there, the gap between 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:49.859 the back seat and the front seat. And it actually 00:25:49.859 --> 00:25:53.099 came with a Yeti ice pack, the solid ice packs. 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:56.579 Yeah, those gel packs, that's the way to go, 00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:59.140 man. They don't sweat as much. They hold the 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:02.670 cold longer. And I don't mind sweat as long as 00:26:02.670 --> 00:26:04.710 it's on drinks and not everything else. Right, 00:26:04.710 --> 00:26:07.410 right. Yeah. You can use it as a quick way to 00:26:07.410 --> 00:26:10.069 get to drinks without needing to stop and open 00:26:10.069 --> 00:26:12.170 your fridge all the way in the back. Which, yeah, 00:26:12.230 --> 00:26:15.829 I do too. Usually I'll pack like three monsters 00:26:15.829 --> 00:26:18.450 in the cubby and then go through those during 00:26:18.450 --> 00:26:20.769 a road trip or something. So it'll be nice to 00:26:20.769 --> 00:26:23.130 have all the drinks there. And it'll take some 00:26:23.130 --> 00:26:26.289 room out of the fridge, put some of the drinks 00:26:26.289 --> 00:26:28.769 there. I could take them out of the box or something. 00:26:29.190 --> 00:26:33.859 Yep. All right, well, I think that's a wrap on 00:26:33.859 --> 00:26:38.099 rap. You guys ready to move on and record our 00:26:38.099 --> 00:26:42.339 all -important next episode? Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:44.420 Catch you guys later. Later.