Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk
about everything from gear reviews to trail stories,
tent camping to rock landing, and all things
to do with the outdoors. Alright, as Gavin's
over there making himself look like an absolute
criminal, he's turning his beard up into a handlebar.
Or his mustache, I mean. That was a mustache.
He's like one of those old -fashioned, like...
Italian criminals, black and white stripes and
everything. Yeah, yeah. So, I guess we'll get
started today with a couple of little things.
Number one, what are you guys drinking? Mark,
what you got? We got a donut beer, probably maybe
the last one. It was the last one from our cords
and calf. And Gavin is still sipping on water.
What an absolute loser. Yeah. I've got... How
dare I? Sustenance of life and all. Some nice,
homemade apple pie moonshine. That shit's good.
That shit looks rancid. No, it's not. It's real
good. Okay, because from over here they look
like nasty, moldy apples. So you just put apples
and some apple cider into a jar and just let
it sit for a few weeks? No. We don't know. Who
did you get it from? My farmhand. His wife made
it. What's his name? What's his first and last
name? Chris. Chris? I was just seeing if you'd
snitch him out. You're a good man. This is 200
proof. Actually, it's like 210 somewhere in there,
but it's pretty fucking good shit, dude. It doesn't
even taste like it. You can't fucking taste it.
No. 200 proof seems a little high. Yeah, it's
pretty fucking high, man. Because I feel like
when they do moonshiners, like 100 proof is high,
like burns your face off. So 200 seems like that's
just vapor. That's crazy. To be fair, it's just
a bunch of mixed alcohol. It is just a bunch
of mixed alcohol. This one's not still made.
Oh, okay. Alright. They mix it all together,
they run it through a proofer, and then that's
what it is. Interesting. It's pretty fucking
good, man. Alright, so. Housekeeping. Our next
Chords and Calf. Well, Coors and Calf October.
The only day that really works for it is October
18th. Okay. The 25th is the day before the...
Rigs? Rigs and Coffee. I don't want to step on
his toes, so... Nope. That would leave us, like,
next weekend or the 18th. And the 18th is the
only one I could be ready for. Yep. And then
we got... The Gilmore the next weekend? Fuck,
what day is the Gilmore on? I don't know. I can
tell you that I can't make it on the 18th. To
be honest, I think the 18th is the Gilmore. We
have a wedding. God damn it. I don't have to
be there. No, you don't. I can do the 11th. The
18th is, I think... We have to do it on the 11th.
Yeah. 11th? 25th? 25th is the day before rigs
and coffee. So it really has to be the 11th.
Yeah. 4th? Yeah. This weekend! This weekend!
It's not going to get released by then! The episode
will come out... After rigs and coffee. So, yeah.
So, it looks like none of you guys made it, assholes.
With this coming, because this episode will come
out like the 6th. God damn it. I don't know why
my wife is listening in, but she just reminded
me that that's her birthday. So, no, the 11th
doesn't work. Fuck, dude. It has to be the 25th,
the day before rigs and coffee. There's no other
day that works. I'll just have to miss it. It's
not a big deal. No, because the 18th doesn't
work. That's the Overland Mall Crawl at the Gilmore
Museum. Yeah, then we're not making it. So...
Can we do it on a Sunday? Nope. Saturdays only.
Okay. What about a Friday? Uh, no. I like your
ambition because a nighttime Corsicaf would be
kind of sick. Okay, except for that. Do an overnighter.
I can't because of the farm. What if you do it
after checks? Oh, what? I go to the overnighter
and then leave at 2 in the morning? That sounds
awful. Yeah. You just have to do it on... Oh,
you said you can't do it on the 18th because
of the Gilmore. Yeah. Unless we make the Gilmore
Overland Fall Crawl our rigs and coffee. Our
cords and calf. Yeah. I mean... Seems kind of
stupid, but... Because you've got to have people
pay to get into it. I know. Let's do the 25th.
So, cords and calf will be on Saturday the 25th.
And I'll give you the three words, and then put
everything in the show notes. The three words
are peculiarly basics earliest. Can you say that
again? I didn't hear that first. Peculiarly basics
earliest. And I will put that in the show notes
along with the actual coordinates in the show
notes. But I will not rattle off the show notes.
Yes, peculiarly basics earliest. All right. And
the 25th, nobody's birthday, right? We're all
good? Yeah, we're all good. No. All right. Mine's
the 28th, so we're good. Yeah. All right, cool.
We'll make it happen, I think. So now, all right,
what's the other housekeeping we got going on
here? My face is burning. Yeah, wow. You flushed
already? Wow. Like, my face is on fire. We might
have a good Alex here in a little bit. Yeah.
As opposed to not good Alex before. I didn't
think I drank that much. I haven't. I just had,
like, three sips. Yeah, so Coors and Calf. I
mean, it'll be fun. This one, hopefully, doesn't
stir up drama. Drama's dumb. Yeah. We're not
doing it on any front at all. Unless we want
to talk about waffles versus pancakes. Waffles
all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man.
I'll take a crepe, which is a pancake. I like
pancakes and I like waffles. They each have their
place. But waffles are only good if they have
chicken with them. Peanut butter. And chicken.
I mean, I do love chicken and waffles. That's
a really good combo. But I grew up doing peanut
butter and waffles and then folding them like
a tortilla. I always slather mine in Nutella
and then put syrup on. Bro. God, you like sugar.
Oh, it's delicious. I can only have one. Are
you guys like a heavy syrup or are you guys like
a light syrup? Depends if it's real syrup or
fake syrup. I must say it depends. Yeah. I only
buy real syrup anymore, but it's still a very
light drizzle. Where do you get your syrup from?
My real syrup? Yeah. Well, it says 100 % maple
syrup, but I get it from Meyer. Yeah, it's not
real syrup. It says it's 100 % real syrup. It
doesn't have high -fructose corn syrup in it.
My cousins have a sugar shack, so we get our
syrup from them, and then when that runs out,
we go to the fake 100 % real syrup from Meyer.
I think that's propaganda because you have other
syrup in your family. He's stirring propaganda.
He said, don't believe big syrup. Yeah, don't
believe big syrup. Don't believe them. Don't
believe them. It's lies. I don't know. I will
say this. Look, I'll take a crepe over any of
that. I love a really thin pancake style crepe
with some fruit jam, something like that on there.
Nutella and bananas. A crepe with Nutella and
bananas. Oh, my God, dude. When I lived in Korea,
man, we had this little restaurant. It wasn't
a restaurant. It was like a stand right off post,
and they would make you Nutella banana crepes
for like $1 .50. Oh, my God. Cheap. Oh, dude,
I went to Opa. You know where that's at? Yeah,
Opa's like my favorite restaurant. Yeah, it's
ours, too. They have Korean corn dogs. We tried
them. Dude, it's like having an elephant ear
with mozzarella cheese inside. It's fucking amazing.
Their kimchi is like the second best kimchi I've
had in Grand Rapids. The first was at this itty
bitty little like two, they had like two booths,
Korean place, that went out of business a couple
years ago. They didn't survive COVID is what
happened, but man, that place, their kimchi was
by far the best I've had in Michigan. Oh, yeah.
So last time I went, we had that. I had spicy
bulgogi and I did not like bulgogi. If you get
non -spicy bulgogi, it's really good. Spicy bulgogi
is not good. It wasn't the spice as much as it
was like the ketchup sauce. Like it literally
tasted like ketchup. So bulgogi doesn't have
ketchup sauce on it. That's spicy bulgogi. That's
what I'm saying, though, is like the spicy bulgogi.
Yeah. But it was also like pig fat almost. It
was really not great. Yeah. So I will try it
again at some point. Real bulgogi. You eat it.
You take a little bit in your chopstick of bulgogi,
a little bit of rice, a little bit of kimchi,
and then eat that all at once. Yeah. Oh, speaking
of Asian cuisine. The Thai place here in our
home city of Nuevo, they just got approved for
selling food and their food license or whatever.
So they will be opening up. And if you haven't
seen them, you guys should really check them
out. Because their food looks absolutely delicious.
Man, for whatever reason, that reminded me of
the... Chinese place in Big Rapids that I got
shut down. I wonder if I can still find those
Facebook reviews. And we are also having a boycott
march down in downtown Nuevo for Nuevo Brewing
Company. That's a whole drama. There's so much
drama in this world right now. Dude. Why? I mean,
if you really want to go into it, but one of
the co -owners pretty much said that he was...
I meant, why are they doing a boycott march?
Just don't go there. Oh, they're not, but it's
also a vigil for Charlie Kirk. But yeah, the
co -owner said some stuff against it, and a bunch
of people boycotted and complained that he supposedly
got let go. and they still are going to do a
boycott march and peaceful protest and vigil.
Honestly, the world's getting crazy. The world's
getting crazy. But that's all the politics we
need to talk about. Yeah, that's all I was doing
right there was wrapping it up by saying that.
The world is a crazy place. So, man. uh i am
looking to buy my first ar that's one thing yeah
that's got nothing to do with politics as much
as it is as i number one i want an ar number
two i i want an ar number three uh kind of want
an ar so yeah i mean and like i told you building
one is by far your best way because you're gonna
get for just a little bit more than a pre -built
one you're going to get a better gun yeah and
that's what i'm looking to do and to be honest
i'd rather build it it's a little daunting but
that's because i don't know i like when i say
i know nothing about ars i know i know there's
a trigger i know there's a charge handle i know
there's a lower and upper a barrel guard i don't
know much more other than that I know the look
on your face when I said something about a gas
tube was pretty funny. Yeah, dude, I did not
know what a gas tube was. I thought he was referring
to like a chamber in the upper for the gas to
come out. So, yeah, it was surprising to me when
I looked up a gas tube and it looks like brake
line. I wonder if you could use brake line as
a gas tube. Like, obviously, you'd have to O
-ring it. Whereas a gas tube doesn't usually
need O -ringed, but like, hmm. In a survival
situation. Now I kind of want to do some experimenting.
Right. So Alex has been helping me build that.
I'm going to start doing what I do when I hyper
-focus on something, which is just research and
watch and learn all I can about it. So I have
a really good idea of... uh all the working parts
how to assemble how to disassemble and then i
will probably once i purchase everything um much
like when i purchase anything else i will work
it until i know everything by hand in memory
first before i even shoot it so dude how cool
would it be if we did a video this would have
to go on peer tube not youtube i think but if
we did a video of us building your ar oh god
that'd be so fucking cool We could definitely
release it on YouTube. We won't get monetized,
but we would never look to get monetized for
that anyways. We're not monetized either way.
Yeah, I was going to say. What are we joking?
We could throw it on my channel. I don't know.
Just Botches? Yeah, Botches has a channel. Duh.
Yeah, it's where I posted my walk around and
where every podcast episode goes. Yeah, I forgot
as soon as I said that, though. But yeah, we
could post it on there. I'd love to do that.
We could do the video of us doing that. I'll
probably come over there, and we could set up
some tables, get some beers. I'll clean my desk
so it doesn't look like a pile of trash, and
then we can do it in here. You know, if you guys
bought an AR as well... We could do a build party
and build it all at the same time, and that would
be even cooler. I'll just take my AR apart and
rebuild it. It probably needs cleaned anyway.
Well, you could buy, I don't know, you could
buy an upgraded barrel or a new trigger. I'm
thinking about doing a drop -in trigger group.
I want a two -stage trigger pretty bad, so that
might be a thing. Me too. I guess I'll do some
looking. I was going to hold off on it, but...
It's a lot of money. The thing is... It is. Well,
and if you're buying one anyway, Gavin, that's
a reason for you to buy the pack of three lowers.
But we have to go through an FFL. Either way,
we... Oh, we're going to 3D print them. Shh.
We were going to hand carve them out of wood.
Can you hand carve those out of wood? They're
not handling any combustion, right? technically
no you wouldn't be able to because the the bcg
would get hung up as it slides but i mean a what's
the difference between a 3d printed one made
out of plastic versus a wood one with maybe a
little bit of plastic on top of it you'd have
to do a plastic uh bcg slide that gets hammered
into it i mean maybe a lower i was just I'm just
spitballed. How homemade can people get? I mean,
I know. Let's say they ban them tomorrow. Can
we carve one out of a piece of wood? I'd love
to see that. I'm sure someone would have something.
If they ban them tomorrow, I do have a thumb
drive in an airtight box buried under a tree
at my dad's that has all the files we need. Yay.
You know, okay. The world's not crazy out there.
Let's talk about burying guns. Right. I've been
thinking, I've been thinking about this, how
to do it and have them stay good. Right. So if
you got like a six inch PVC, you cut it a little
bit longer than the length of your barrel. Right.
Then you put the bottom cap on and you seal it
up with some PVC glue. And then you put all the
gun pieces, gun disassembled down inside this.
piece of PVC and then pour a bunch of gun oil
on it, whatever kind, and then seal the other
end, I think you could bury that capsule without
worrying about the gun rotting out. Yeah. PVC
is really good for that, obviously. Everyone
knows that. I, oddly enough, have thought of
this before and landed on the PVC route through
Reddit, but moisture wick bags. They're not forever,
but the amount of moisture inside of it short
term, I think would be fine. But if you're filling
it with oil, you don't need them. Yeah. I mean,
that's how we just don't. That's how you ship.
That's how you ship guns is in a bag full of
oil. Yeah, I remember mine coming out fucking.
And then it takes like 20 minutes to clean that
gun off before it's ready to fire. I mean, for
me, the only time that I would bury my gun...
I can't think of one. I would seal it up in a
box and throw it in a hollow tree or something
before I bury it. Just to make it easier. Because
at that same time, you still have to go and unbury
it. You still have to know exactly where it's
at in the dirt. You just bury it under a tree.
What if you just camouflage? Put it in a PVC
pipe. Pull it up into a tree. Camouflage cache.
I just think it's more likely to get found than
if you buried it. Right, but if it's on your
property, like... Yeah, then it only gets found
if the guy ATF is at your house coming to take
your guns and they're like, let us check everything.
Well, too bad, buddy. I lost it in a boating
accident along with my full stock of batteries.
Yeah, it sucks that you have to go through an
FFL for a lower. You used to be able to buy ones
that just needed milled out, and then it took,
like, no time at all. Yeah, that is odd. I'll
look at M82 Armory, though, and see if they have
some lowers. I guess just to see what the price
of their lowers would be, but that is a pain.
Guys, it's gotten worse. I can't close my finger
at all anymore. You allergic? No. Oh, I got stung
by a bee today on my finger and have, like, lost
all use of my finger. Well, I don't know if he
could say all loss. Like, he could still point
really good. Yeah, yeah. He makes a good C. And,
like, I can move the base of it. I just can't
bend it. I mean, you have four other fingers.
You'll be all right. Yeah. Is that your right
hand or left hand? Left hand. Alright, see? Your
trigger finger's good. The thing is, every time
I get stung by a bee, I don't even notice it.
This is the first time that it's actually a problem.
Damn. Well... I don't know. So... I think I just
want to... more guns i'm really so i really want
to get into um i don't know if i want to say
competition but i've always wanted to get into
drills and and just doing that like every weekend
every other weekend just shooting drills shooting
long range being competent and confident with
what i have it's just expensive And expensive
not in even the sense of the gun itself, but
it's expensive in rounds. Like, just the cost
of rounds and to do this every weekend, to stay
confident. That's why I don't shoot. Like, I
shoot a couple times, maybe once a month. Yeah.
Just because it's so freaking expensive. Yeah,
I'm down quite a bit now. I used to shoot quite
a bit, and especially I'd shoot my .22 more than
anything, really, because it was the cheapest,
and I had like 500 rounds of it, but now I'm
down to a couple hundred, and it's nice. Usually,
I've always been blessed with really good hand
-eye coordination, so I can usually get back
to whatever muscle memory I had before. That
only means so much when you don't have them.
muscle endurance i guess but but now that you
just now that we're we should get out of guns
now and talk about actual off -road stuff i have
two good off -road topics to talk about one okay
i mean i'll announce it i'm not gonna say what
else happening but the holy grail project has
started so That's going on. For the Holy Grail,
I've got two options because I'm going to do
a SAS swap. I don't want to deal with IFS problems
on this truck. So I'm looking at possibly doing
Dana 44s. And I actually found a set of Dana
44s out of a Grand Wagoneer. And for any listeners
that know anything about doing a SAS. Why shouldn't
I do Dana 44s over like a Dana 60? Obviously,
the Dana 60 is stronger, but I also don't want
to lose a shit ton of ground clearance. Yeah.
You know, Dana 44s are good up to like 37 inch
tires. I've seen people run 40s on them. So really,
what is the inherent drawback to running a Dana
44? Yeah. Very curious about that, too. Yeah,
that's going on. We're going to sass Mark's truck
too because IFS sucks. Yep. Yep. After seeing
him troubleshoot for the last year now almost.
Yeah, but I got it figured out. I think we're
better off not doing it. I know. But I think
we're better off getting away from the IFS route.
Yeah, I full -heartedly agree. Gavin is going
to stay IFS forever. oh i think he's muted gavin
is muted he's sad that we're not talking about
guns anymore no no sorry uh but yeah no i'm uh
uh yeah for the foreseeable future i have other
stuff to spend my money on and i'm not doing
anything where solid x is gonna benefit me so
much that it's worth it so and it's so expensive
like the kit that i'm looking at for the front
from uh four -wheel underground is like 7500
fuck dude but that that's almost on par with
any good ifs long travel route we gotta do so
i mean at that point you're like which one do
i do yeah i mean my long travel didn't cost that
much it was free no yeah and to be fair that
7500 includes coilovers uh radflow coilovers
so they're good coilovers But the top of the
line for our IFS route is our RCLT, whoever it
is. Yeah. Which everyone runs. Well, the RCLT
is sick. It doesn't work with third -gen 4Runners.
Yeah. But it's also, like, almost $10 ,000. Yeah,
so, I mean, it's going to be sick either way.
I'm really looking forward to, well, one, having
better articulation. to having uh lockout hubs
because we all know how much i hate not being
able to shut off my front wheels um yeah yeah
so we're gonna do a solid axle swap the next
thing is i need to upgrade my mule i have decided
even though it is a company vehicle that it's
a good idea to buy uh i'm going to build the
back window i'm going to put something over it
maybe steel if i can find a sheet of steel cheap
enough and then i want to build a box that i
can put a diesel heater in yeah because the mule's
diesel so then i just run a little fuel tank
or fuel line up to the diesel heater and boom
now my little mule is heated yeah so i think
i'm gonna do that um and then next i still need
tires that set of 35s the guy's a fucking douche
canoe and That's not gonna happen. Nope. He's
only a douche canoe because he sold them and
won't mark them sold. So they keep popping up
in my... Or at least get rid of the listing.
That's what I'm saying. And he even said in the
listing at one point he deleted... Yeah, he edited
the listing. That's the part that's got me really
confused. Because it used to say if it says it's
available, it's available. But... It says it's
available and it's not available. So... Weird.
Yeah. People suck. Marketplace sucks. Alright,
so that's my two off -roady things. What do you
got going on, Mark? Um... Trying to get it. I'm
trying to save up so I can do it, but the FJ
manual transfer case will appear hopefully the
next month or so. Yeah, we need to do that for
sure. Yeah. I think I'm trying to decide if I
want to tear down and take care of a couple engine
things that I've been meaning to do for the last
year now. You should wait until the Black Trek's
ready for that. Yeah, I know. Stupid knock sensors
is annoying. And then... Gotta look at that second
air intake bypass thing again. It's throwing
colds again. God damn it, dude. That thing's
a pain in the ass. Yep. So I'm thinking I'm better
off buying a new one and see if that fixes it.
A new truck? No, not a new truck. From what I
understood, a lot of people have lemon kits.
And so I might have ended up with a lemon kit
put into that truck. Gotcha. I'm usually buying
a different one that actually fixes the problem,
so hopefully that's the case. And Gavin, do you
have anything off -roady? God, how rude. Of course.
I mean, this is an off -road podcast, right?
Did you look at your truck this week? Yeah. I've
been in it, been outside of it. I did some rewiring.
wired some rock lights on my truck i put my solar
panel on my truck you got your rock lights wired
yeah they were there the other day when i came
by oh i didn't even see him he didn't quite get
all the way to the back of his vehicle yeah so
the rock lights that i won the cables didn't
go all the way to the back because i still had
to do like a small extension cable so they were
it was like a harness and then they had extension
but they only had two extensions and i won this
from a company i won't even name them because
probably not worth it but they were about they're
worth about 76 bucks from their website but uh
rgb so when i went to see if i could splice them
i had like five or six wires inside of it and
i'm like i'm not doing all that not for a free
kit Not for something I'm only putting on just
to put on. And they only had. Oh, you only had
what? Was there only four rock lights? Six. And
they only gave you two extensions. Yeah. That's
pretty trash. Not going to lie. Yeah. I mean,
if I would have. So there's a control box and
some other wiring. And I think, honestly, if
I would have wired that stuff a little lower.
in my engine bay i probably would have made it
um but i just i couldn't find any mounting points
i was getting close to steering linkage and like
exhaust and i did not want to like get too close
to that so um and i was being lazy like i really
i hate to say it but like i really didn't want
to put them on but i got them for free i was
like fuck it while i'm here let's just do it
and it Kind of was a pain in the ass, really.
The lights themselves came with these cheap bolts
and nuts, and I would have to have holes to put
them through. Like, I don't have any fucking
holes to mount these through throughout the body
of the truck that are pre -drilled, so I put
self -tappers. That's what I did. And the self
-tappers couldn't set all the way because the
horrors were bold for those... bolts i for the
bolts i went and got smaller self tappers so
they would fit yeah well i think the issue was
is my bits couldn't fit inside of the the hole
like the the surrounding of it yeah um so i just
got them as tight as i could which they're tight
wait and if they're just not as tight if they're
rgb you couldn't put them through your switch
panel could you i can yeah so um it does have
a switch to turn them on and off but that switch
is uh manual so i actually just kind of tucked
that into the pillar and then ran it off your
switch panel so it's always on and then when
i turn my switch panel on it's always on and
then there's a remote that you can change it
from outside of the truck whatever color whatever
blah blah so they're bright they look decent
i wired the So out of the six, I did my front
engine, or front engine, my front wheel wells,
and then I did right under our doors, like where
we open them, so we had some lighting when we
did that. Yeah. And then I have them in the front
of my grill area, I guess, just for some backlight,
just because it was a place to put them. Are
you trying to... Oh. Here's an alarm. Man, that
is loud. This is loud. Here we go. So you know
how you always call during the podcast, Dan?
Hey, it's podcast night. Bye. Bye. You're on
the podcast, if you want to say. Oh, he's gone.
Hey, man, he had a good announcer voice. Hey,
it's podcast time. Bye. That's funny. But yeah,
so I ran the rock lights just up to my grill
area. So they do backlighting. That's what they
are. They're ambiance. So, I mean, they went
fine. They work. They're bright -ish. I mean,
I can see them in the daylight. But I also wired
in my solar panel. I thought you already did
that. I haven't. I don't think I said that on
the podcast, though. Yeah, no. That wasn't on
the podcast yet. Yeah, so I wired in the solar
panel. Probably, what was it, last week, I think?
because it was before rigs the week before like
wednesday before rigs yep um did the whole decal
it was my first time putting on a decal and it
was easier and harder than i thought at the same
time like i didn't know i just have to unroll
it throw some soapy water under it and then squeegee
it all off that was easier than i thought but
at the same time it kept sliding around every
time i was pushing water out of it it was pissing
me off so harder than i thought in that sense
so yeah so first time for everything and maybe
i should have read some instructions but i watched
a couple youtube videos oh my god professional
so hey it turned out all right mark saw it i
saw it so oh yeah yeah so yeah i did that squeegeed
it all off um waited the two to four to 24 whatever
it said hours for it to cure um it said 24 to
48 but i couldn't wait wanted to do So I did
the two to four, and it was hot out. It adhered.
It was fine. It was dry. And put the solar panel
on that after I 3M sticky taped the whole bottom
of the solar panel. Put that bitch on there.
Super easy wiring, just two connections, and
then you just wire that to your battery. It was
super easy. I mounted the solar controller on
top of my switch panel controller. A switch panel
box, which is also on top of my battery. So I
have a mountain of things on top of my fuse top
on my battery. But that was... I was being lazy.
I'll move it someday. So... I got that. It's
all hooked up. It's working. It was charging
in a good 65 watts when I wasn't at full charge.
So I would say that that's working pretty well
for a 100 -watt solar panel. If you don't know,
they only kind of charge to 80 % of capacity
usually anyway. And then Michigan is Michigan,
and we have no sun. Yeah. So 65 watts for me.
I don't know about that one. yeah it's been sunny
last couple days it has but like the thing is
solar panels here in general work less than a
solar panel in say arizona yeah right just the
uv yeah exposure yeah um so yeah no i'm it's
working good i have it on a bluetooth app so
i could check what it's drawing what my battery
is at what the temperature of my battery is at
everything like that so um it's pretty cool And
then I did some wire management because that
was seriously needed. Got my little mini zip
ties out, started kind of, I don't know, like
consolidating. And then while I was working all
that wiring, I took my battery out, cut a piece
of wood to make a spacer to raise my battery
up a little bit. And put the wood underneath
the battery. Because I have a red top, and the
red top was about two and a half inches shorter
than my old battery. Same or better cranking,
but just shorter. So my mount bracket for the
battery, the hold down bracket, couldn't tighten
on it. So that loose negative issue I was having
when I was wheeling and my truck just not starting.
Um, that was because my battery was bouncing
around and it loosened the negative terminal
off. Um, so I put that underneath the battery,
bolted that down with some self tappers and,
uh, you know, put that back on, mounted it, tested
everything out. Everything worked good. We went
to go to rigs and coffee Sunday and I couldn't
shift out of park. Oh my God. What the fuck?
so i'm trying to figure out can't figure out
why it won't let me shift out of park i thought
you know what maybe while i was messing and checking
fuses um i put one back in the wrong spot sure
as shit i had one uh it was like a it was my
park uh auxiliary or something like that yep
fuse is in the one spot lower than it was supposed
to be i moved it boom i could shift It's crazy.
I had a similar problem when I hit that deer
last year, where as soon as I hit the deer, I
couldn't even... I could get it to shift out
of park, but I had to hit the park release, and
I couldn't figure out why. Turned out that it
had... When I hit the deer, it had jostled the
fuse out of position. No other damage on the
truck. The fuse just rose out of its slot. Yeah.
Yeah, well, it happened to me because I was at
daycare and my mirror lights were flickering
and then just turned off. So I tried to fix the
mirror light. I popped the reflective part of
the mirror off, reconnected and kind of messed
with the prongs of the light. And I guess I blown
a fuse and I did that. And normally I wouldn't
care, but that fuse also powers my dash lights.
So I couldn't see a damn thing. So I went to
go fix that, and that's how I figured that out.
So, yeah. Other than that, no real news. I have
Bison sending me some new gear soon. That's going
to be cool. They're sending me the propane tank
mount and a couple other goodies. So I will let
you guys know how that goes. But not having my
propane tank in the truck. It'll be nice. Yeah.
It'll save me some space so that I could put
my firebox that I just got. I just picked up
a firebox and a propane tank. Propane tank went
to Alex. And the firebox I tested out, really
good. Carries some really good heat, honestly.
I was surprised. I wish that the propane tank
was the blue one just because they look cool.
They do. Yeah, they do. um when i looked it up
to see the price of it because i was gonna put
it on marketplace if nobody said they wanted
it uh for you know 100 bucks or so and saw that
they were like pretty expensive yeah but the
blue ones are cool so That's why it doesn't matter.
I got it for free. Basically, that was the reason
that I was never a huge fan because it's like
one hundred and thirty dollars for a fucking
five pound propane tank. Like, it's insane. Yeah.
Yeah. And then for the like the shield thing
that goes over it, the cover of the bag or whatever.
Yeah, that's another price, too. So I found a
fire can for sale on Facebook for one hundred
and twenty bucks. I asked them if they'd take
one hundred. They said, sure. So I picked that
up for $100 and gave Alex half of that kit, and
I kept the fire can. Gave. Tested it out on my...
Gave Alex. I paid for it. Well, I didn't want
to say that you paid a certain amount, so that's
just what I said. But then, yeah, I tested it
out before I did that just to make sure there
was gas and everything in the tank, everything
was working properly. Did it on my dining room
table. That was smart. Yeah, I paid the price
that those tanks should be. Yeah, I mean, $50.
That's what they should be. So all in all, in
the firebox, which is usually a good $200 -some
dollars for the firebox and then $100 -some dollars
for the tank, I paid, after guy math, $50. Yeah,
you did good. Yeah, so. It was pretty good. Alex
has something for cheaper than it would usually
be if he bought it. I have something for cheaper
than it usually would be if I bought it. Yeah.
If you hadn't gotten that, I never would have
bought that. I would have just went and bought
a five pound one from somewhere or probably a
10 pound, honestly. And I would have just ran
that. 10 pounds aren't that much. Yeah. 10 pounds
are that much more expensive than five, surprisingly,
but kind of crazy. I wonder how much I can get
a 10 pound one for off marketplace. sorry if
anybody hears my kid knocking around apparently
he's a heathen he broke our gate that separates
the kitchen to like get over here and i've been
too lazy to put it back up because it's kind
of a pain yeah so you see this is what i would
have done two 30 pound propane tanks in saginaw
for 28 certified yeah i mean that's good yeah
i don't know 30 pounds yeah interesting i just
have a hard time paying the ridiculous prices
some of these companies ask for ignix like i
like ignic products don't get me wrong it's just
they're not worth it's literally just a bit of
steel with a valve on it yeah but yeah i have
no problem with it i paid it um because i was
storing it in the vehicle and i wanted the nice
little case um to help keep some of the crap
uh because i really don't love propane smell
yeah um so i want to kind of keep that sealed
in and seem to do well enough and keep it clean
keep it without getting wet um and i could store
it outside without really worrying about it and
i'm gonna try that when i do get that propane
tank mount i'm gonna try and do it with the case
and if i can't so be it but Getting that, the
whole reason I wanted the five pounder was because
I needed something bigger than a one. And I really
didn't, I didn't have a ton of space inside the
truck to put like a 30. So it was kind of a good
happy medium. It fit perfectly with everything
else that I have in there, but getting rid of
that is going to give me more space to put a
fire can or the perfect place for that area.
Honestly, right now it'd be a diesel heater for
this coming up, which. I do plan to get two coming
up here. I really need to get on that because
once it starts getting colder, man, it's really
going to limit our season. I kind of feel like
we're pretty much done now. Yeah, I mean, I want
to get out. The last couple. We've still got.
Oh, hey, we're supposed to talk about this on
here. So, yeah, we're we still got Benji's Friendsgiving
coming up on 21, 22 of November. Yeah. which
Benji was nice enough to give tickets to me,
Mark, Alan, and Kaylin. So we have to blast him
with reels and all the fun stuff. Oh, so even
if I was able to go, I'd still have to buy my
own ticket. They're a whopping $50 hairs. For
right now. For right now. Yeah. They go up, I
think, the 1st of November. Ah. Yeah, because
I was thinking of driving down there, actually,
but just because I tend to be free right now,
we'll see. There's so much happens between then.
My son's birthday is a couple days before, so
we're going to be spending money on his second
birthday. If you are able to go, I'll split the
cost of a ticket with you. Oh, dude, ticket won't
be that bad. I just didn't. realize that there
were tickets tickets so completely fine not a
big deal um it we'll see it's my issue i think
honestly the biggest issue is because it's a
couple days before jasper's birthday or a couple
days after i'm sorry yeah this is on the 18th
it's on the 22nd i'm already gonna be spending
money on his birthday and then that doesn't leave
a whole lot left for traveling to other states
right yeah but it's as much as i would because
it would be a great opportunity not only for
me and botches but myself as well to get out
and meet some of these people i'd love to see
like if caleb baker's there i'm like a big fan
of him i'd love to talk to him um yeah of course
any of the other guys but caleb baker's a pretty
cool guy uh he just what was it he just posted
he just posted something cool the other day yeah
he just dropped a new youtube video that looks
sick Oh, I haven't watched his YouTube videos.
Oh, his YouTube videos are great. Oh, yeah, it
was. It was a link to his YouTube video that
I saw. Yeah. Just the thing was cool. Yeah, no,
Caleb's a cool guy, man. Probably one of my favorite
connections we've made was Caleb Baker, because
not only is he really cool in what he does and
what he's built, he's a really down -to -earth
and just nice guy. yeah yeah and that's hard
to it's not hard to find in the overlanding community
as much i think like when you actually start
talking to these people in person but it's hard
to find in the world you know yep uh so it's
good to have good to have down down to earth
people in your circle and caleb is an incredible
filmmaker like oh my god dude oh yeah i yeah
his his filming is like i aspire to that someday
i think that caleb has probably the best filmmaking
ability uh on any of the like overland youtube
space um if him and sean from story till now
got together and sean did the narration and story
part and caleb did the filmmaking oh my god dude
that would be i think they have gotten together
not positive but i think they have i just don't
think they did it like that because like sean
and yeah i mean don't as far as single people
goes like because i don't think he has a team
he does it by himself but as far as solo crew
filmmaker goes he's he's definitely one of the
best even with a crew who does better i can't
even think of one who uses a crew right now uh
i mean i know exo does it they're pretty high
quality i don't even count exo they're like a
whole different thing but their stuff is i don't
know i mean their stuff is pretty good it is
very high quality i mean when i throw that up
on my computer screen and play it at the highest
quality it's fucking gorgeous to watch i hey
i'm a i i like xl i like everyone i don't have
any i like watching those low budget um guys
like there's a I don't think it's... It's not
Independence Overland, because that's the other
guy that we... Tyler. No. But there's a... Outbound
Intent, I believe it is. I found him a while
back. He actually had a Subaru Baja that he built
out for overlanding. And when I had a Subaru
Baja, I was like, dude, that's super cool. That's
what I want to do. And then I find out a couple
videos later that he has a fucking FJ2, so...
One of the very few people that had that odd
combination of a Subaru Baja and an FJ, and he
was doing Overland content for his age, his profession,
his video making. He's got really, really, really
good narrating skills. He's got really good video
and film skills. And he's got nowhere near the
follower base yet, but he really deserves it.
Really, really cool. I think he's based out of
Maine, that area. I'm not positive, but it's
cool. Also, I will come out and say I've never
watched an X Overland travel video. I've only
watched X Overland build videos. You should.
Open your mind, buddy. I don't know, man. They
are cool. I'll occasionally turn on like a, like
story till now or something, but generally if
I'm watching off road content, it's built videos.
Yeah. Cause call me a soft rotor, whatever you
want to call me, but I prefer the building part.
Like the wheeling part is fun. Don't get me wrong,
but building is what I really enjoy. There's
another guy I really, really love and I will
always put him. up there one of the most creative
and funny dudes on youtube c90 adventures he
is hilarious he's the guy who did uh i believe
the c90 from all the way through south america
um i think he did it up uh through north america
and then he did a thousand miles in a mini jeep
oh yeah he's upgraded upgraded and built out
throughout his trip so he started out with the
you know the original what 1500 mini jeep from
like a tractor supply or whatever and then as
he drove it um things would obviously break um
and he eventually he's got it now basically the
body on top of a quad He's got a radio remote
controlled so that when he gets into super deep
snow on mountain passes, he can walk behind his
mini jeep and radio control it with a controller.
And the guy's hilarious, too. Like, he's always
doing something funny. He's talking to locals.
He's always got people, you know, helping stuff
out. I think a shifter broke one time, and he
drove it in, like, second all the way into a
town. and found a random mechanic to weld his
shifter back on like he struggles a ton and part
of that struggle is some of the entertainment
man it's he went through a mud pit somewhere
in like idaho or something like that just trying
to get through the trail and he doesn't have
like mud flaps or whatever on the side he does
because his quad tires are wider than the wheel
wells on the jeep So this dude, by the time he
got out of that, you're watching him. He's covered
in fucking mud and he's living like this, too.
I mean, it's it's quality, cool stuff. He actually
met, I think, the CEO of Firebox, the little
the little built fireboxes that you can put together
that are panels. He just so happened to meet
that guy and he hooked him up with a firebox
because he was making coffee. Aeropress hooked
him up like just super cool guy. He's another
one of those that would be like just sitting
down and talking with him for a while. It would
be a crazy conversation, the stuff that he's
been through. I think he did like a trip across
Europe with five random guys that he like put
an ad out on like Craigslist kind of thing, whatever
was older than Craigslist. He did like five random
guys. They all met up. He charged them like a
certain amount of pounds to do the tour. And
then guys that have never driven a Honda C90,
and they just fucking drove across Europe. It's
just crazy. He's got it all well documented.
It's really cool to watch. Since we're just talking
about cool YouTube channels at this point, you
should look up Destination Adventure. I've been
following this guy since, I don't know, 2015.
He had like 400 subscribers or something when
I started. And he's up to like... Uh, he's up
to like 350 ,000 subscribers, but his stuff is
so fun, dude. Like it's not, it's not really
off -roading or yeah, it's not really off -roading
a little bit of overlanding, I guess. Um, when
I started following him, he was driving an RV
across the country and stopping at like, uh,
just abandoned places and exploring them. And
now I think he's got a Cummins, I believe he's
got some Dodge with a truck bed camper on it.
yeah it looks like he's got a 12 valve cummins
yeah um yeah that's that's pretty sick dude this
is another one of those guys who it's just all
of his content is just entertaining and fun to
watch and he does like uh he does everything
from like homesteading to um obviously the travel
stuff like it's just it's really cool yeah he's
got a real lot of cool stuff got some good views
too i'll have to check them out yeah i really
uh really enjoy this kind of stuff too i like
the big stuff i like the it's like watching a
movie versus watching a you know a vlog yeah
like i like watching movies sometimes i want
to sit down i want to be immersed i want to see
like xo you know quality type stuff but sometimes
i want to see little vlogs from creators that
aren't as well known it just really depends I
really enjoy the scenery, I think, and the adventure.
I wish that I could have the ability to do a
daily vlog. Fuck, what is that guy's name? He
did daily vlogs for a long time. He was the biggest
guy on YouTube for a long time, too. Give me
a second. I'm sure I follow him. His last name
is Nystat. I know that. His brother's name is
Van. man why can't i think of this dude's name
casey casey nice that i'd love to do like daily
vlogs the way that he did but i one don't have
the ability to be interesting enough and two
i well don't have the ability to be interesting
enough right oh this guy yeah yeah i didn't honestly
i didn't even realize it but yeah He retired
from, well, not retired, but, like, he quit doing
daily vlogs a while ago. So, yeah. But when he
was doing daily vlogs, dude, he was huge on YouTube.
Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are making it,
making it on the YouTube thing. Makes it very
competitive. There's a lot of people making it
on, it's funny enough, TikTok and stuff, too.
Like, they're making good livings. um i'm just
posting doing lives being gifted obviously there's
a certain group that does better than the others
like pretty pretty women that are provocative
that's what gets the people going ai models do
the best yeah but um but i mean even even smaller
creators there's like um asian influencers i've
seen one that they're on the great wall of china
and And every gift is a certain amount of feet
or yards that they have to run. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. I've seen those. It's so funny, dude. They
just get back from, like, 500 yards, and someone
just fucking drops something else, and they got
to run again. It's like, dude, it keeps you in
pace. There's bigger guys that are working out,
and every gift is a rep or something like that.
I mean, people make money on it. It's cool stuff.
You guys have been here for a journey. I went
from my finger barely not moving to not moving
to moving again. See? All better. All it took
was some moonshine. Oh, it still hurts like hell.
I'm out of moonshine. Yeah, but I'm all out of
moonshine. We're almost out of time. Yeah. On
that note, we will catch you guys later. See
you later. Later.