WEBVTT 00:00:10.979 --> 00:00:13.699 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk 00:00:13.699 --> 00:00:16.059 about everything from gear reviews to trail stories, 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.000 tank camping to rock landing, and all things 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.660 to do with the outdoors. I think we're going 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:27.219 to change that for season three. Two, three, 00:00:28.300 --> 00:00:34.259 four. Yeah, I think as long as it is, it's just 00:00:34.259 --> 00:00:36.920 better. Like if you're coming in on season two 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:38.420 and you want to hear the full thing, just go 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:42.929 back to season one. Or season three, I guess 00:00:42.929 --> 00:00:45.950 Yeah, I've said it through one and two it's time 00:00:45.950 --> 00:00:49.929 to just cut her down cut her down I'm with that. 00:00:49.929 --> 00:00:54.649 So this is a wrap. This should be a wrap. It's 00:00:54.649 --> 00:00:57.070 just to me and Gavin rap. There's no mark here. 00:00:57.789 --> 00:01:05.010 Yeah He's off at a work Christmas party boring 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:09.409 hopefully getting hammered. Yeah. Yeah that That 00:01:09.409 --> 00:01:12.510 would be interesting to see. Well, I don't know 00:01:12.510 --> 00:01:14.689 if he's at the work Christmas party right now, 00:01:14.709 --> 00:01:18.150 or if he's at the work pre -Christmas party that 00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:21.670 his boss was hosting. What do you got to drink 00:01:21.670 --> 00:01:30.269 today? I got a Dr. Pecker. I got a Sprite Cherry 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:35.849 Lime. That scared me. I thought I was about to 00:01:35.849 --> 00:01:38.439 blow up because it opened. Also, Remember how 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.400 I was just telling you I got this free chair, 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.560 and this is my first time sitting at my desk 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.560 with it? Yeah. I hate it. I'm gonna get my own 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.159 chair back. Nice. It's constantly trying to push 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.140 me away. Like, I'm just rolling away from you 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:56.200 this whole time. That's a good rollies. Those 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.739 are the ones that you have to throw clothes behind 00:01:58.739 --> 00:02:03.180 them so you don't roll anywhere. It's the same 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:06.560 rollies, because I took the... I buy special 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.060 rollies and then put them on my chairs. Oh, my 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:13.199 Lord. Because if I damage my floors, I have to 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:14.860 pay to get them resurfaced, and I don't want 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:19.120 to do that. The plastic rollers won't do it. 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:25.020 No, I use they're like roller skate wheels. Got 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:28.919 to be custom. They also roll nicely in carpet. 00:02:29.180 --> 00:02:32.360 But anyways, so I put those on it, but this chair 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.110 is too light, so it just doesn't. it just wants 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:40.009 to roll all the time i really like mine i bought 00:02:40.009 --> 00:02:42.969 it for like what is it like 15 bucks from a guy 00:02:42.969 --> 00:02:46.509 down the road Clorox wiped the shit out of it 00:02:46.509 --> 00:02:48.370 because it's leather but it's in good condition 00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:52.150 it's really comfy it's the comfiest office chair 00:02:52.150 --> 00:02:55.729 i've ever had so my uh my old one was way more 00:02:55.729 --> 00:03:00.110 comfy than this one but it had a rip in one of 00:03:00.110 --> 00:03:03.080 the arms For me playing with it while I play 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:07.979 games. Yep But I'll probably go back to that 00:03:07.979 --> 00:03:10.699 one. That's better than this one. Yeah. All right, 00:03:10.699 --> 00:03:15.199 so We did actually do something we went out and 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.439 We went wheeling for a little bit a couple hours. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.300 He did that was like not just that last Saturday 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:24.199 This has been a week. This has been a week, dude. 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.360 Yeah, so I think that was the earliest thing 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.840 that we did though. So we went out and went out 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.680 probably, you know, five, 10 minutes away. We 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:36.139 had some local trails that we know pretty much 00:03:36.139 --> 00:03:39.199 like the back of our hand right now. And I've 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.400 only been, I've only been wheeling them since 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.800 I was 10 years old. Right. So then I've been 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.879 wheeling them for probably six years or more. 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:52.360 Yeah. So yeah. So yeah, we knew them very well 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.719 and we just wanted to get out and do something, 00:03:54.819 --> 00:03:57.780 go out and drive together. So we went out, did 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:02.219 that and Played in some powder. If you guys follow 00:04:02.219 --> 00:04:05.159 us on Instagram, you saw the reels. We did a 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:07.360 bunch of reels from it. We got some video of 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.879 us driving through the powder. It was a fucking 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:14.199 blast. It was really fun. There's only like two 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.480 -ish feet of snow, but it was still worth it. 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:20.660 Yeah, it was a blast. So we were driving through 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:25.759 that. I think we only out there for like four 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:30.569 hours, if that. It was a lot of fun though. I 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:32.209 accidentally muted myself. Yeah, we were out 00:04:32.209 --> 00:04:34.269 there for about four hours. Oh, and then we had 00:04:34.269 --> 00:04:36.750 to stop at my house to get some snacks for Jax. 00:04:37.709 --> 00:04:41.389 Yeah. And then Alex's four -wheel drive kept 00:04:41.389 --> 00:04:44.389 coming in and out, so he was having issues with 00:04:44.389 --> 00:04:47.069 that. It wasn't coming in and out. It just wasn't 00:04:47.069 --> 00:04:49.709 going in. Right. But then it eventually did, 00:04:49.910 --> 00:04:53.490 and you had it. Yep. But when we stopped at my 00:04:53.490 --> 00:04:55.649 house, I took him through the field to get to 00:04:55.649 --> 00:04:57.829 our driveway, and all of a sudden his four -wheel 00:04:57.829 --> 00:05:00.959 drive stopped working right there. I love that. 00:05:01.180 --> 00:05:04.079 No, I turned it on to go through there. I didn't 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.980 have it on before that. No, like, when you went 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:09.759 into it, you said it wasn't working again. Like, 00:05:09.779 --> 00:05:12.240 when we stopped. Oh, yeah. It had never started 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:13.920 working. Oh, well, that was, yeah, that was what 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.819 I was getting at. But so we went and did that, 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.839 and then we went and did, you know, the whole 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.500 prairie thing. We stopped for about five, 10 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:25.639 minutes and had a coffee break where I had him 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.040 try that Barebox Brews coffee who reached out 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:33.899 to us and... That was fun. I give them like, 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:38.420 on a scale of one to ten, I give them like a 00:05:38.420 --> 00:05:42.839 four and a half for flavor and an eight for convenience. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.879 He's like a really big coffee snob, so that's 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:52.720 really good. And I'm not sponsored by them or 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.339 anything, they just sent it to me to try, but 00:05:55.339 --> 00:05:59.360 I give them like an eight for flavor. because 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.259 I actually liked the taste of this coffee. Like 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:05.759 I don't typically like black coffee all that 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:09.779 much, but I actually didn't mind this. Um, and 00:06:09.779 --> 00:06:13.000 then for convenience, it's very convenient. You 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:14.860 can't really get more convenient than that other 00:06:14.860 --> 00:06:17.379 than instant coffee. And it just kind of tastes 00:06:17.379 --> 00:06:20.579 like ass. So it was better than instant coffee, 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.300 which I give a one for flavor. Yeah. Yeah. So 00:06:24.300 --> 00:06:27.240 it was, it was good. Like I said, we, and I think 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.100 the other part of it was too, is like, you're 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:32.639 supposed to wait a while. And we only waited 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:34.720 like five minutes before he took his first drink. 00:06:35.019 --> 00:06:36.819 So, but he did try it later and he said it got 00:06:36.819 --> 00:06:41.620 better, stronger. So, um, yeah, I went. The problem 00:06:41.620 --> 00:06:44.300 was it's like they use the wrong roast for what 00:06:44.300 --> 00:06:48.079 they wanted. So by the time that it was strong 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:52.579 enough to be good, it almost tasted burnt, which 00:06:52.579 --> 00:06:54.660 didn't make sense because obviously we're not. 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:59.759 on a heat source in this situation, but I like, 00:07:00.139 --> 00:07:02.240 I like the idea and they can only go up from 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.560 where they're at. Yeah. I mean, and to the burnt 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:08.420 taste, I don't have refined taste buds like Mr. 00:07:08.540 --> 00:07:11.180 Alex over here. So I definitely did not taste 00:07:11.180 --> 00:07:15.160 any of the burnt, but I can't taste like I can't 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.160 taste notes and like whiskey, like, Oh, do you 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:25.170 taint like taint a taste of hibiscus. And there's 00:07:25.170 --> 00:07:29.069 like a little bit of woody lemon. And I'm like, 00:07:29.069 --> 00:07:33.449 what? I taste whiskey. I can only do that with 00:07:33.449 --> 00:07:35.870 coffee. But that's because I drink quite a bit 00:07:35.870 --> 00:07:38.129 of coffee. Yeah. And maybe that's because I don't 00:07:38.129 --> 00:07:39.709 drink quite a bit of whiskey. And that's why 00:07:39.709 --> 00:07:43.189 I can't. That kind of gets us on to our next 00:07:43.189 --> 00:07:45.970 thing. I spent all week in the hospital. That 00:07:45.970 --> 00:07:49.170 was fun. I mean, not for me. I was fine. Maybe 00:07:49.170 --> 00:07:52.550 that was the third. Maybe that was the happens 00:07:52.550 --> 00:07:57.100 in threes third. So, we've had a hell of a week. 00:07:57.100 --> 00:07:59.120 That would have been the third. That's what I'm 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.860 saying, though. That was the one, two, three. 00:08:02.019 --> 00:08:05.660 So, we've had a hell of a week. So, Alex spent 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:09.199 the weekend, you said, or the week in the hospital. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.259 Yep. Monday through Wednesday. Kalen had some 00:08:12.259 --> 00:08:15.319 issues, and she needed emergency -ish surgery. 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.620 The largest kidney stone any of the nurses we 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:23.180 talked to had ever seen. Yeah. But they wouldn't 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:25.620 let us keep it. Those freaking... I wanted to 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:27.360 put it in my rock collection. Yeah, that would 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.800 have been hilarious. Going to, like, Michigan 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:31.420 rock college and be like, I found this on the 00:08:31.420 --> 00:08:36.019 beach. Do you know what this is? The doctor's 00:08:36.019 --> 00:08:38.860 like, no, we got to cut it up and send it in 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:40.980 for testing. And I was like, oh, come on, man. 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:43.679 Just cut it, just shave a bit off. Let me keep 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.740 the rest. I want to put it in my polisher. Yeah, 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:49.899 so they... They did end up having to, they actually 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:52.360 went in with the laser, busted it up and then 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.440 went in with these teeny tiny little prongs that 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.139 are microscopic and then pulled each individual 00:08:57.139 --> 00:08:59.879 component out. Yeah. Wow. It was pretty cool. 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:01.620 Yeah. I wish I could have watched the surgery, 00:09:02.179 --> 00:09:06.360 but you know, I know I'm like that too, but yeah, 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.580 what a pain. And then, so he had that happen. 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.379 And then what was it? Probably a day later, my 00:09:13.379 --> 00:09:17.679 cat and the family cat passed away. And that 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.360 was our wobbly cat, the one that had wobbly cat 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.259 syndrome. And she was a good cat, but she had 00:09:24.259 --> 00:09:26.159 been struggling these past couple months. We'd 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:30.559 been fighting with her UTI. And then... Yeah, 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.139 wobbly cats get UTIs really easy. Yeah. And she 00:09:34.139 --> 00:09:37.740 was already like six years old, so she was like... 00:09:37.740 --> 00:09:42.159 She's not old old, but... She is for a wobbly 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.759 cat. For a wobbly cat, she was, yeah. I mean... 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:48.320 And it was just getting, she was just, she stopped 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.700 eating. She was having issues and we got to the 00:09:51.700 --> 00:09:53.700 point to where like we couldn't even feed her. 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:56.759 So it sucked, but it was kind of one of those 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:58.259 things where we knew it was just kind of time 00:09:58.259 --> 00:10:00.940 for her to go. And if it didn't happen within 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.480 that day, we were going to take her. Yeah. You 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.200 know, to have it happen anyway. So losing a pet 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.139 is hard, man. Yeah. And unfortunately for me 00:10:11.139 --> 00:10:13.440 and Sienna, like we knew it was coming. So it 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:17.259 was a lot easier. They did not have the same 00:10:17.259 --> 00:10:20.639 for Rebecca and Ed. We're really sorry to hear 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.299 and sorry to report that they lost their camp 00:10:23.299 --> 00:10:28.759 dog Zeke. And that is really unfortunate. I might 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.740 cry. He was like nine years old, border collie. 00:10:33.580 --> 00:10:36.279 And ever since I started camping with Ed and 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:40.259 Rebecca, they had Zeke. Zeke has been my best 00:10:40.259 --> 00:10:42.960 friend for a long time. Yeah, he was a great 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:47.179 dog. And to tell you how good of a dog he was, 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.000 he pissed on my tent once and I didn't care. 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:53.519 Because he's such a good dog. Did he really? 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.240 Yeah. Yeah. Right on the outside rain fly in 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.960 my tent. Like right near the door opening. And 00:10:59.960 --> 00:11:01.759 I didn't even care. I was just like, it's just 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.899 Zeke, dude. Dude, that's like, taking Wrangler 00:11:04.899 --> 00:11:07.379 places, that's my biggest fear. Is that he's 00:11:07.379 --> 00:11:09.740 just going to piss on someone's tent. Yeah, that 00:11:09.740 --> 00:11:13.379 is. But otherwise, Zeke, he was an explorer. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:16.340 He was really, he was like super well -mannered 00:11:16.340 --> 00:11:20.340 for a camp dog, uh, kinda. Like in other ways, 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.620 like he would run around a lot. He was always 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:25.639 like, yeah, he was always trying to get into 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:29.620 stuff, but he also was like really good at riding 00:11:29.620 --> 00:11:31.919 in the car. He was really good at sitting in 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.559 the car and like sleeping. Always, always smiling. 00:11:36.139 --> 00:11:38.000 Happiest dog in the world. Oh, he's having fun. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.100 And, and rightfully so. He was always having 00:11:40.100 --> 00:11:42.559 a blast. I think he, the last time he went camping 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:46.240 with him. In the UP, he came back on the beach, 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.580 random, and just had a skull on his mouth. Like, 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:52.759 no one knew where he got it. It was like a raccoon 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:55.179 or something. Just came out of nowhere with it. 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.399 So that was very sad. They, they did lose Zeke 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.080 and it was really sudden. So heartfelt prayers 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.279 out to, uh, Ed and Rebecca, but you know, they. 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.799 Yeah. He'd been, he'd been sick for like three 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.980 or four days leading up to it. And he was on 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:14.480 his way to get surgery when he died. Yeah. So 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.679 yeah, it sucks. Sucks a bunch. Thankfully, they 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.580 still have, you know, their other camp buddy 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:29.899 and Leo or Lilo. Yeah, no. Yeah. I was more talking 00:12:29.899 --> 00:12:33.019 about Kai, but yes, those ones, those ones don't 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:35.820 make great camp buddies from what I hear. So 00:12:35.820 --> 00:12:38.960 no, many offices are terrible camp buddies. But 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.220 it was just so funny because I thought his name 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:45.779 was Leo. Gavin thought his name was Lilo. So, 00:12:45.820 --> 00:12:49.039 I finally asked Ed, and Ed's like, well, I guess 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.399 his name is Leo, but his old owners called him 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.019 Lilo. And that's all I've ever heard Rebecca 00:12:55.019 --> 00:12:58.679 call him is Lilo. So, like, when he kept saying 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:00.580 Leo, I'm like, no, that's not it. He's like, 00:13:00.659 --> 00:13:03.460 yeah, it is. I'm pretty sure. I'm like, no, no, 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.759 it's not. I'm telling you. I know. To make it 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:13.240 worse, Ed is... He's from Mexico and has kind 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.639 of a Mexican accent. So even when he says Lilo, 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:19.919 it sounds kind of like Leo Yeah, cuz cuz Leo 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:23.720 is my dad's my father -in -law's name So when 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.220 he kept saying Leo, I'm like, no, it's not Leo 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:28.639 I would remember that if the dog was named Leo 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.659 cuz I'd be like that's my dad's name like I'm 00:13:31.659 --> 00:13:34.419 like so like we went back and forth and Finally 00:13:34.419 --> 00:13:37.600 Mark shut us up and we stopped it and then we 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.100 found the truth. So But now it's still hilarious, 00:13:41.100 --> 00:13:44.639 dude. Oh my god Yeah, no, I didn't what else 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:48.200 cuz when I first when I first met Leo Lila, whatever 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.519 they hadn't had him very long So I'm pretty sure 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.179 they're still called him Leo at that time Maybe 00:13:53.179 --> 00:13:55.240 that's why because I was okay. I went camping 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.460 with him a little more recently I think because 00:13:58.460 --> 00:14:03.039 I had been out with them more I think at that 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.740 point because you were always you were working 00:14:04.740 --> 00:14:06.559 on your truck pretty much a lot of the summer 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.379 for those bigger trips I've been out with them 00:14:09.379 --> 00:14:12.159 like eight or nine times. Because they were, 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.539 we camped with them a lot when we first started 00:14:14.539 --> 00:14:19.000 doing MST stuff before you got into MST. I think 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.120 we did six trips with them then. Yeah, I was 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.559 talking about like this last summer though. Yeah, 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:28.059 no, I'm saying like, just overall, we've been 00:14:28.059 --> 00:14:31.200 with them a lot and always called him Leo. I 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.240 was so confused when you said Lilo. I'm pretty 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.080 sure you just heard him wrong. Well, he was probably 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.179 already drunk when he was yelling it. So I mean 00:14:41.179 --> 00:14:43.639 he was usually pretty drunk. Yeah, it's pretty 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.360 accurate Yeah, and Ed was just being nice to 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.539 Alex. Anyway, it was definitely no No, I the 00:14:49.539 --> 00:14:51.740 way I asked him like hey, what's your other dog's 00:14:51.740 --> 00:14:54.919 name and then he responded with that. Mm -hmm 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.019 I didn't yeah, it was prompted in a text message 00:14:58.019 --> 00:15:02.539 before but he really had it's a conspiracy Nobody 00:15:02.539 --> 00:15:07.169 believe it. Yeah, so Will say driving the forerunner 00:15:07.169 --> 00:15:09.250 to Grand Rapids all week because I was driving 00:15:09.250 --> 00:15:12.669 back and forth so I could work too That thing 00:15:12.669 --> 00:15:16.690 is great on the road and terrible. I mean absolutely 00:15:16.690 --> 00:15:19.769 terrible in parking garages, dude Yeah, yeah, 00:15:20.009 --> 00:15:23.230 I had like one one inch but before the height 00:15:23.230 --> 00:15:27.149 marker. Yep Yeah, that's a that's even like a 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:30.769 three inch lift with our SUVs. Our SUVs are a 00:15:30.769 --> 00:15:33.330 little taller but It's like with all the shit 00:15:33.330 --> 00:15:36.610 on top of our SUVs, it's like, I can't even, 00:15:36.730 --> 00:15:39.549 like I took Sienna to the mall to get books and 00:15:39.549 --> 00:15:41.509 I had to drop her off in the front of the mall 00:15:41.509 --> 00:15:45.450 and drive around because I couldn't even fit 00:15:45.450 --> 00:15:47.330 in the parking garage and all the other parking 00:15:47.330 --> 00:15:50.250 spots outside were full around Barnes and Noble. 00:15:51.090 --> 00:15:53.690 So I couldn't, I just had to like, and I was 00:15:53.690 --> 00:15:54.769 fine with that because I didn't want to go in 00:15:54.769 --> 00:16:00.070 the bookstore anyway. It's also interesting cuz 00:16:00.070 --> 00:16:02.409 like your truck has a really tall body right 00:16:02.409 --> 00:16:06.269 and mine has a really short body So I never thought 00:16:06.269 --> 00:16:08.450 that that forerunner would be that you know that 00:16:08.450 --> 00:16:11.210 height. Yeah, I have a tall body in a short lift 00:16:11.210 --> 00:16:14.470 It's it's like a I have a tall torso short legs 00:16:14.470 --> 00:16:17.570 and you have long legs and a short torso Just 00:16:17.570 --> 00:16:19.830 basically have us. I don't even have that much 00:16:19.830 --> 00:16:22.769 lift. I have like two and a half inches I don't 00:16:22.769 --> 00:16:26.649 know. I feel like that helps give you more, because 00:16:26.649 --> 00:16:31.509 you're still taller than someone typically. I 00:16:31.509 --> 00:16:34.070 don't know. I don't know if it's the long travel 00:16:34.070 --> 00:16:37.309 that makes it appear to have more. I know travel 00:16:37.309 --> 00:16:40.850 is more down, but still. It's probably because 00:16:40.850 --> 00:16:43.990 I cut my fenders. Yeah, it just makes you look 00:16:43.990 --> 00:16:50.750 taller, though. Yeah. And then I forgot. On our 00:16:50.750 --> 00:16:55.179 way back, When we parked for the coffee, I looked 00:16:55.179 --> 00:16:59.700 up, saw my wee boost. The old, good old wee boost. 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.379 I had finally hit a tree branch. I think it was 00:17:02.379 --> 00:17:04.440 down pine because I remember hitting a tree branch 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:06.720 down pine and it was like, oh, that was loud. 00:17:07.619 --> 00:17:12.099 But finally, after a year, year and a half or 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:15.299 so of pretty much leaving it in the same point, 00:17:16.339 --> 00:17:18.680 and you could adjust it. I was just lazy and 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:23.390 didn't want to. It finally got to a point to 00:17:23.390 --> 00:17:25.390 where it hit a tree branch. And I think it was 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:28.250 because it was, what was it, like eight degrees? 00:17:28.869 --> 00:17:31.990 10 degrees? Not even. Three or four. Yeah. Especially 00:17:31.990 --> 00:17:34.250 with wind chill. I think that plastic just got 00:17:34.250 --> 00:17:36.650 so cold. And then when it smacked that tree branch 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:40.789 going like 10, 15 mile an hour or whatever, that 00:17:40.789 --> 00:17:43.210 was just spelled the end for the wee boost. It 00:17:43.210 --> 00:17:45.730 still works. But the plastic housing around it 00:17:45.730 --> 00:17:49.650 was bad. I just planned to duct tape it, honestly. 00:17:50.339 --> 00:17:52.579 and call it a day, like get some black gorilla 00:17:52.579 --> 00:17:56.220 tape and just run it around there a bunch. But 00:17:56.220 --> 00:18:00.220 I made a post about it and was talking to WeBoost 00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:02.700 and they, you know, I was just kind of basically, 00:18:02.700 --> 00:18:04.940 I was, you know, chatting it up saying like, 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:09.000 hey man, WeBoost made a great product. Like it 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:13.079 withstood some bullshit from me and it turned 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:17.259 out really well. So I am, and WeBoost then reached 00:18:17.259 --> 00:18:19.849 out to me and was like, hey, you know, we want 00:18:19.849 --> 00:18:22.509 to replace this for you. I was like, sweet, you 00:18:22.509 --> 00:18:26.190 know? So I'll give it to them on that, because 00:18:26.190 --> 00:18:29.130 WeBoost definitely didn't have to. That was my 00:18:29.130 --> 00:18:33.829 user error. And it was. Like, everybody knows 00:18:33.829 --> 00:18:36.730 that on my antenna, I don't ever put it down, 00:18:36.890 --> 00:18:39.289 even when people tell me to. It's always sticking 00:18:39.289 --> 00:18:42.170 straight up in the air. And it's even got, like, 00:18:42.210 --> 00:18:45.069 a little bit of a bend now, because it's hit 00:18:45.069 --> 00:18:49.240 so many things. And honestly, Half of me wanted 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.099 to see how tough it was and I and I got to a 00:18:52.099 --> 00:18:54.920 point to where I was just so confident with it 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.400 being like Just tougher than shit that I was 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.519 just like whatever. I'm just gonna go through 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.339 it It'll be fine. So I learned its limits and 00:19:04.339 --> 00:19:07.119 in the future I'll probably put it down another 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.160 peg because it is adjustable The only reason 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:13.940 I haven't lately is because the adjuster on it 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:16.630 has been frozen And I haven't been able to break 00:19:16.630 --> 00:19:20.730 it free enough to do that. So now you're going 00:19:20.730 --> 00:19:24.670 to have to. Yeah, I already tried earlier. It 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:27.769 wasn't it wasn't moving. I got the thing to pull 00:19:27.769 --> 00:19:31.109 out and I just couldn't get like the teeth to 00:19:31.109 --> 00:19:34.309 pull to separate so that it would go down. So 00:19:34.309 --> 00:19:36.670 I'll figure it out once they send me a new one. 00:19:37.150 --> 00:19:39.930 So but that was really nice. We boost. And I 00:19:39.930 --> 00:19:42.029 just want to give a little shout out to we boost 00:19:42.029 --> 00:19:43.769 for doing that, because they did not have to. 00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:47.069 And this isn't the first time that I've had customer 00:19:47.069 --> 00:19:50.809 experience with WeBoost and they've done really 00:19:50.809 --> 00:19:55.089 well. I had my main, what would you call that? 00:19:55.529 --> 00:20:02.089 Motherboard? The box? Control box? Yeah, the 00:20:02.089 --> 00:20:06.710 main control box on it had burnt out for one 00:20:06.710 --> 00:20:12.710 reason or another. Yeah. And I contacted them 00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:16.210 and Gavin cuts Gavin cuts two wires accidentally 00:20:16.210 --> 00:20:20.009 shorts it out No, it's one reason or another 00:20:20.009 --> 00:20:22.230 Well, I was trying to say that because I was 00:20:22.230 --> 00:20:26.289 gonna tell share this with them And I didn't 00:20:26.289 --> 00:20:30.130 really want them to know but now I'm not so I'm 00:20:30.130 --> 00:20:32.369 not gonna let them know this but no, so I was 00:20:32.369 --> 00:20:35.269 I was trying to hardwire the wee boost in and 00:20:35.269 --> 00:20:37.309 I thought it was just the positive and the negative 00:20:37.309 --> 00:20:40.900 but when I cut it it was like It had like a fiber 00:20:40.900 --> 00:20:42.900 coating with it. And it was not the antenna. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.460 It was not the antenna. It had a bunch of like 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:51.819 all these, it was like the outside of it was 00:20:51.819 --> 00:20:55.299 a bunch of like uncoated wire. And then it had 00:20:55.299 --> 00:20:58.160 like a coating. Then the inside had little wires 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:03.319 in it. And I was like, nope, not fixing that. 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:06.859 I tried to even separate the two, the one from 00:21:06.859 --> 00:21:09.410 the inside, from the outside. And I tried hooking 00:21:09.410 --> 00:21:12.130 it up to see if it would turn on. And that's 00:21:12.130 --> 00:21:15.950 when it fried it. So yeah, I mean, I reached 00:21:15.950 --> 00:21:19.109 out to them. And I explained to them that I fried 00:21:19.109 --> 00:21:24.450 it. And maybe I wasn't 100 % forthcoming on how 00:21:24.450 --> 00:21:28.730 I did it. But I told them that I did. And they 00:21:28.730 --> 00:21:32.529 were like, yeah, sure. Send us the old box, and 00:21:32.529 --> 00:21:36.750 we'll send you a new one. So either way, however 00:21:36.750 --> 00:21:41.359 it happened, They took care of me. And honestly, 00:21:42.019 --> 00:21:47.299 for a company that was, I guess, $550 product. 00:21:48.099 --> 00:21:51.140 So at this point, they've replaced my whole product. 00:21:52.140 --> 00:21:55.460 And it's all been user error. They haven't done 00:21:55.460 --> 00:21:58.660 anything. Their product has been rock solid. 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:02.200 It's been me neglecting it that has caused these 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.240 issues. At least you're honest about it. Yeah. 00:22:06.889 --> 00:22:09.569 It was my fault for trying to cut it and splice 00:22:09.569 --> 00:22:11.369 it. I didn't look to see what the power cord, 00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:14.349 what could have been made out of. That was on 00:22:14.349 --> 00:22:17.170 me. And then I toasted it. I even took it apart 00:22:17.170 --> 00:22:20.490 and saw that all these little connections on 00:22:20.490 --> 00:22:22.490 the little motherboard on it were all melted 00:22:22.490 --> 00:22:26.809 and burnt. And then, yeah, the antenna, 100 % 00:22:26.809 --> 00:22:30.809 me. And the funny thing is, it still works. So 00:22:30.809 --> 00:22:32.410 even if I did want to just keep running it, I 00:22:32.410 --> 00:22:35.359 could. So shout out to them. They're pretty cool. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:39.460 Maybe I'll say something later when on my own 00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:41.359 podcast or something, just snip them in on it 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.140 just to give them a shout out. That way there's 00:22:44.140 --> 00:22:46.299 nothing incriminating that makes me look bad. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.420 Statue of limitations has passed on that one. 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:51.799 I don't know. I'm pretty sure that's like seven 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.920 years. Not in this case. In this case, it's like 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:59.059 a month. We'll see. Maybe I'll clue them in a 00:22:59.059 --> 00:23:04.680 little later. I also got my nephew's new 23 -0 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:08.599 swag today. Oh, by the way, listeners, it's a 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:10.460 Friday that we're recording this on. The whole 00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:12.519 hospital thing really pushed back our recording 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:16.900 schedule. Yeah, we even missed out on interviewing 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:19.380 a special guest, which we won't say who, because 00:23:19.380 --> 00:23:21.880 you'll hear about it later. We are going to interview 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:28.180 them soon. Probably season two stuff. Yeah. want 00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:32.980 to get someone else into oh oh and I wanted to 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:36.839 add this to sorry about that that Alex gifted 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.460 me Merry Christmas to me a diesel heater because 00:23:40.460 --> 00:23:42.799 I'm always talking about it and he finally just 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:44.279 got tired of me talking about it and ordered 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:47.960 me one so that's really what it was yeah I could 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:52.420 tell but so I got one now I brought my battery 00:23:52.420 --> 00:23:55.000 pack in I just need to go take it to get some 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.319 diesel and I'm going to try it out with the battery 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:00.720 pack and see if I can get it to run off of that. 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:05.640 And then, if I can, I'm going to let it run for 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:09.420 as long as I can and test it out and see how 00:24:09.420 --> 00:24:11.259 long it takes for it to use up everything on 00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:14.779 the battery pack. That should be my first test 00:24:14.779 --> 00:24:18.180 with it to decide what I need to get next as 00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:21.559 far as a battery. Oh, I also haven't talked about 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:24.359 my alternator endeavor. Man, so much stuff happens. 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:28.670 So much stuff. So then on our way back from the 00:24:28.670 --> 00:24:30.670 hospital after her surgery, so it's Wednesday 00:24:30.670 --> 00:24:33.890 at like Midnight one o 'clock. I don't even remember 00:24:33.890 --> 00:24:37.390 I went to the gas station pulled in went and 00:24:37.390 --> 00:24:40.210 got some stuff Came out started the truck up 00:24:40.210 --> 00:24:45.329 and it was just squealing dude So shut it off 00:24:45.329 --> 00:24:47.710 Went to start again wouldn't start so I put the 00:24:47.710 --> 00:24:50.230 jump back on it jumped it drove it home with 00:24:50.230 --> 00:24:57.049 it squealing Excuse me pop the hood And my alternator 00:24:57.049 --> 00:25:01.170 was not turning at all. So the next day I went 00:25:01.170 --> 00:25:04.789 and bought a Electric ratchet because I'm sick 00:25:04.789 --> 00:25:07.190 and tired of having to turn wrenches and I don't 00:25:07.190 --> 00:25:10.630 have to anymore So I bought that and then took 00:25:10.630 --> 00:25:13.630 it all apart and when I grabbed that that pulley 00:25:13.630 --> 00:25:15.730 on that alternator I couldn't get it to turn 00:25:15.730 --> 00:25:18.289 at all by hand. It was completely rock -solid. 00:25:18.390 --> 00:25:23.690 I've never seen one fail that spectacularly But 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:26.099 It's also a two -year -old alternator that's 00:25:26.099 --> 00:25:28.799 been underwater three or four times and has had 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:38.319 a bad bearing for six months or so. And that 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:40.400 is not the first alternator in the botch group 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.019 this week to go out. No, that was the first one 00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:45.819 to go out. Right, but it was not the only one. 00:25:46.740 --> 00:25:50.359 The other one also ended up not being bad. It 00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:54.640 was user error. Yeah. He ended up just changing 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:57.299 the bolt or the nut on his bolt and then it was 00:25:57.299 --> 00:26:02.259 fine Hmm. Yeah, so a mark hat was having some 00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:05.319 issues as well. So Yeah, I'm keeping an eye on 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:08.160 my my alternator because things have been happening 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.279 in threes. I'm a believer in the threes That's 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.839 why I was smart about Marks tensioner went out 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:17.240 and to get to his tensioner. He had to take his 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:21.039 AC off and his alternator In the process of putting 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.700 the alternator back on, he hooked up the positive 00:26:24.700 --> 00:26:28.539 cable to the wrong bolt. Oh, I didn't know that. 00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:31.539 And that's why it wasn't charging. So he hooked 00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:34.500 it up properly, and then it worked. That would 00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:39.420 make sense then. Yep. Yeah, so fun stuff there. 00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:41.380 We had all sorts of stuff happen. Oh, and my 00:26:41.380 --> 00:26:45.430 buddy got stuck in the driveway. So I had to 00:26:45.430 --> 00:26:48.269 go pull him out. He's off a 96 and he's got a 00:26:48.269 --> 00:26:50.930 half mile long driveway. It's like an easement. 00:26:52.049 --> 00:26:54.990 And his car got stuck while his ex's car got 00:26:54.990 --> 00:26:58.930 stuck. And this is his ex -wife coming to see 00:26:58.930 --> 00:27:02.809 the kids. So he asked me to come by because he's 00:27:02.809 --> 00:27:05.349 got a Buick Lesaber and that couldn't do it. 00:27:05.809 --> 00:27:10.789 And his ram charger was down. So I went over 00:27:10.789 --> 00:27:14.160 there. And I got the kinetic strap out and he's 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:15.640 like, are you sure that's going to do it? And 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.440 I'm like, yeah. It was kind of small. I'm like, 00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:20.519 this, this is not small for a kinetic strap. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.319 This is good. Like, you know, way more than 40 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:26.079 ,000 pounds, buddy. Yeah. You're supposed to, 00:27:26.099 --> 00:27:27.480 with kinetic straps, you're supposed to kind 00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:29.900 of match them to the size of vehicle that you're 00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:33.200 pulling out. Right. So you were probably way 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.440 over what you needed for that car, which was 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:38.410 probably banking a hell inside that car. Yeah, 00:27:38.490 --> 00:27:43.049 it was for him. It was funny. So I guess that 00:27:43.049 --> 00:27:46.150 comes in later. So I was like, yes, this will 00:27:46.150 --> 00:27:48.529 be plenty fine. I said, this is rated for like 00:27:48.529 --> 00:27:51.750 40 ,000 pounds. And then I showed him. He goes, 00:27:51.829 --> 00:27:55.730 well, do you have like a steel, what do they 00:27:55.730 --> 00:27:58.769 call those, like the clevis? I can't remember 00:27:58.769 --> 00:28:00.470 what they're called right now. D -ring? Yeah, 00:28:00.690 --> 00:28:03.150 whatever. Yeah, D -ring. There's another name 00:28:03.150 --> 00:28:06.329 for them. Oh, shackle, like hard shackle. And 00:28:06.329 --> 00:28:08.210 I was like, no, I mean, I do. I said, but I got 00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:09.910 a soft shackle here, and these are easier to 00:28:09.910 --> 00:28:15.049 put on. So we put it on his toe point and started 00:28:15.049 --> 00:28:18.470 towing the car. And I was going slow. I was like, 00:28:18.470 --> 00:28:21.869 I was going slow. And he goes, yeah, thanks, 00:28:22.009 --> 00:28:25.650 man. Yeah, I cool, went about my way. And then 00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:28.630 he messaged me later and was trying to joke around 00:28:28.630 --> 00:28:30.190 about it. But he was like, dude, you were fucking 00:28:30.190 --> 00:28:33.730 yanking me all over the fucking, all over the. 00:28:34.639 --> 00:28:36.900 the driveway and this and that he's like dude 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:39.559 I was I was swinging left to right on either 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:43.099 side and it didn't move you at all and I just 00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:45.680 I was like I just felt like a kite and I'm like 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.460 I didn't feel shit I was like he's like you didn't 00:28:48.460 --> 00:28:51.279 honk you didn't tell me to slow down like I was 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:52.880 like I didn't hear nothing from you and he goes 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:54.880 I was just happy you're pulling me out because 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:58.400 damn dude like that was crazy then I look back 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.079 at my footage I'm like thing you weren't like 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:01.900 I don't know what you're talking about like because 00:29:01.900 --> 00:29:04.390 I have the wolf box I'm sure it felt like it 00:29:04.390 --> 00:29:08.109 in the cab though. Yeah. Yeah. So I was like, 00:29:08.269 --> 00:29:10.470 that probably should have been a winch situation. 00:29:11.210 --> 00:29:13.210 No, cause I had to pull them a whole half mile. 00:29:14.069 --> 00:29:16.990 Oh Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. He couldn't like, once 00:29:16.990 --> 00:29:19.009 he got out of that, he still needed it the rest 00:29:19.009 --> 00:29:20.910 of the way. So I had to pull them. I could have 00:29:20.910 --> 00:29:22.829 used my three inch strap, but I honestly thought 00:29:22.829 --> 00:29:27.309 that would be more aggressive with no give. So 00:29:27.309 --> 00:29:30.289 I just went with that. It was the easiest thing. 00:29:30.410 --> 00:29:34.609 I like, I had it right on my top box. So. No 00:29:34.609 --> 00:29:37.609 But yeah, he got to learn about a bit about kinetic 00:29:37.609 --> 00:29:40.829 ropes because he's never seen one before and 00:29:40.829 --> 00:29:45.509 That was fun and then my same was a saved no 00:29:45.509 --> 00:29:48.109 next day propane trunk got stuck in our driveway 00:29:48.109 --> 00:29:52.569 and I offered to pull him out. He said no for 00:29:52.569 --> 00:29:56.710 liability issues, so instead I went and blocked 00:29:56.710 --> 00:29:59.109 the road for him so his other guy could at least 00:29:59.109 --> 00:30:01.170 pull him out not worried about getting hit so 00:30:02.100 --> 00:30:04.460 Yeah, lots of stuff happened this week, dude 00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:08.559 Now and we had like three days of like 40 to 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.400 50 degree weather So all like two feet of snow 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:16.819 has been melting. It's been I just Shit, dude 00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:20.240 Nasty then as I say then it got cold again. So 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.099 all that slush frozen to ice Yeah, my the end 00:30:24.099 --> 00:30:26.279 of my driveway is dangerous. I slid into the 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.319 ditch this morning. I mean, this is not the first 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:31.950 time either I just put it in a four wheel and 00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:35.609 back the dude. My driveway sucks. It's like it's 00:30:35.609 --> 00:30:38.250 pretty narrow and on either side is just a deep 00:30:38.250 --> 00:30:41.049 ditch. Yours is better than mine, though. So 00:30:41.049 --> 00:30:43.690 mine is really, really hard trying to get out 00:30:43.690 --> 00:30:48.690 in the morning on a shitty snow day. So it is 00:30:48.690 --> 00:30:52.910 it is bad, though. So in our driveway, we don't 00:30:52.910 --> 00:30:56.859 plow it. So like. all that crispy like mushed 00:30:56.859 --> 00:30:59.839 ice is now like Sienna's car was trying to drive 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:01.380 through it. And it's just so you could feel like 00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:04.400 going in a rut, out a rut and breaking ice through 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.900 the whole thing. And I'm like, oh, but it's OK. 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.039 We all have all wheel drive cars, except for 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:13.500 her dad, because his rental while his car is 00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:15.380 getting fixed for the I don't know how many a 00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:18.940 time he's got a two wheel drive Malibu. We'll 00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:22.099 just say don't buy GM cars. Yeah. Yeah, stay 00:31:22.099 --> 00:31:23.700 away from these fucking Buick. What are they, 00:31:23.819 --> 00:31:26.339 Encore's? Oh, and it's not just the Encore. Mini 00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:31.359 SUVs. Those specific engines have a recall on 00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:34.779 them. I think it's the same one. Isn't the Encore 00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:38.019 the same as an Equinox? Yeah, I think so. Engine 00:31:38.019 --> 00:31:40.059 -wise, I think they're the same engine. Dude, 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.119 they've all got the same engine, including the 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.099 Traverse, and they're all the same. That's the 00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:48.160 second engine he's gone through in less than 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.470 a month. It took him a month to fix the one engine. 00:31:51.470 --> 00:31:53.369 He had it for two and a half weeks, and the engine 00:31:53.369 --> 00:31:57.150 went out again. So yeah, we stay away from Buicks 00:31:57.150 --> 00:32:00.650 now. It does look like the Encore is part of 00:32:00.650 --> 00:32:04.509 the Equinox family. Yeah. Just a garbage vehicle, 00:32:04.690 --> 00:32:07.609 dude. He doesn't even have 160 ,000 miles on 00:32:07.609 --> 00:32:11.589 it yet. He still owes like nine grand. That's 00:32:11.589 --> 00:32:14.630 just how modern GM is. Anything after like 2006 00:32:14.630 --> 00:32:19.680 is like that with GM. Yeah. And my buddies. transmission 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:25.019 went out on his um what's the terrain version 00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:29.420 the chevy terrain the traverse yeah yeah his 00:32:29.420 --> 00:32:31.440 transmission went out on the fucking traverse 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.500 and he's like well i mean it lasted like a hundred 00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:37.839 thousand miles so and i'm like dude that's garbage 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:41.859 i said you should never have to even think about 00:32:41.859 --> 00:32:46.400 your transmission going out until like like two 00:32:46.930 --> 00:32:50.829 50, 300 ,000 miles. Like typically the transmissions 00:32:50.829 --> 00:32:54.309 last way longer than an engine does. I was like, 00:32:54.529 --> 00:32:56.910 he's like, well, yeah. I'm like, no, there's 00:32:56.910 --> 00:33:00.670 no yes or kind ofs about it. Like your transmission 00:33:00.670 --> 00:33:03.789 - GM makes a shitty vehicle. What sucks is people 00:33:03.789 --> 00:33:06.390 expect that now. Like him expecting that and 00:33:06.390 --> 00:33:09.549 going, well, it lasted 100 ,000 miles. That's 00:33:09.549 --> 00:33:13.170 nothing. Yeah. That is nothing, dude. Then you 00:33:13.170 --> 00:33:16.019 see these like - Toyota's, some of the Hondas 00:33:16.019 --> 00:33:18.140 even, like they're getting up into like 300, 00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:21.599 four or five, 600 mile, like thousand mile range. 00:33:22.420 --> 00:33:25.200 Eight, 900 ,000 mile range. Yeah. I mean, that's 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.400 the Honda thing. Toyota's are about... Sorry. 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:32.960 Yeah. I mean, there's plenty of Toyotas getting 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.759 up into like million mile and Hondas are getting 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.420 up there too. Like a lot of, a lot of reliable 00:33:38.420 --> 00:33:41.279 Hondas. I think, honestly, I think there's a 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:43.680 lot more reliable engines than there are bodies. 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:47.640 in the Rust Belt. For sure. Yeah, like my Subaru 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:50.759 engine was at 275 ,000 miles and it was still 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.319 running, but my whole subframe rotted out in 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:59.039 half. So. I blew the power stroke up at at least 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:04.140 480 ,000 miles and the body was rotted the fuck 00:34:04.140 --> 00:34:06.079 out at that point. I had to use two by fours 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:09.300 to level it. Yeah, it's the body thing in the 00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:11.730 Rust Belt. That's horrible. And maybe we'll do 00:34:11.730 --> 00:34:13.929 a small section in one of our upcoming episodes 00:34:13.929 --> 00:34:17.230 on how we do rust prevention. That might be a 00:34:17.230 --> 00:34:19.869 good one. Because we're at the end of our wrap. 00:34:20.829 --> 00:34:26.889 We should. But he just keeps patching it. Once 00:34:26.889 --> 00:34:32.409 it starts, it's over. Yeah, ask his frame. All 00:34:32.409 --> 00:34:34.690 right. Well, we'll see you guys in a little bit. 00:34:34.690 --> 00:34:35.630 Yeah, bye. Poor guy.