WEBVTT 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.339 Welcome to botches off road. Join us as we talk 00:00:19.339 --> 00:00:21.739 about everything from gear reviews to trail stories, 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:24.739 tent camping to rock landing and all things to 00:00:24.739 --> 00:00:27.920 do with the outdoors. And I think I think this 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.339 is the last time you will ever hear that intro. 00:00:30.460 --> 00:00:32.659 And it'll be the last time to hear my phone ring 00:00:32.659 --> 00:00:40.840 today. I think I just put it in mute. So I said 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.409 last time we'll hear it ring today. We keep saying 00:00:45.409 --> 00:00:47.670 that's the last time but we might as well stop 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:51.890 and use the a different intro by next year, right? 00:00:52.570 --> 00:00:54.490 Well, no, I said that we're gonna rewrite it 00:00:54.490 --> 00:00:56.310 I didn't say it was gonna be the last time last 00:00:56.310 --> 00:01:00.329 time this yeah last time This is the last time 00:01:00.329 --> 00:01:03.250 because this is the last episode of season 2 00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:08.650 and the last episode of 2025 Congratulations 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:13.579 folks. You made it. Yes. This is episode Okay, 00:01:13.579 --> 00:01:20.459 this is episode 99 Numerically, it's episode 00:01:20.459 --> 00:01:26.200 102 get that figured out. Yeah It's okay. We 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.200 don't know either We do listen. I did a lot of 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.180 math Yeah, call me a random times of the night. 00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:38.780 Hey Hey, I gotta make sure I don't figure this 00:01:38.780 --> 00:01:43.250 up. Yeah, we got to figure it out So yeah Uh, 00:01:43.349 --> 00:01:47.849 it's been a ride. Uh, today's gonna be a nice, 00:01:48.890 --> 00:01:52.129 longer wrap while Mark tells us everything he's 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:54.250 done and me and Gavin catch you up on the end 00:01:54.250 --> 00:01:57.950 of our season. Right? I guess it is. End of season 00:01:57.950 --> 00:02:02.370 two. Um, and next week, you are gonna hear us 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:04.709 talk about our favorite parts of season two. 00:02:05.150 --> 00:02:10.129 So, yeah, it'll be great. On that note, Mark, 00:02:10.169 --> 00:02:15.319 what the hell have you been doing? Well, me and 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.000 Alex both had a rough last week or two weeks 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:24.020 now, is it? Not three weeks. I don't know. It's 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:29.599 been a rough winter. Yeah. So we don't check 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:33.620 my dates here. Don't worry about dates. Just 00:02:33.620 --> 00:02:36.039 try and keep them in order. I'm trying to remember 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:39.580 how many weeks ago it was now. I say two weeks 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:44.460 ago. Yeah. yeah I think about like two weeks 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:47.099 ago now it would probably be three by the time 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:51.000 this get posted but anyways I went into work 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:56.159 Tuesday morning about probably like two miles 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:59.120 out of work like got off the highway turned on 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:03.680 the main drag heading towards our workplace also 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.580 my steering got really tough all of a sudden 00:03:06.580 --> 00:03:11.710 like oh shit I think my belt went out So I went 00:03:11.710 --> 00:03:14.349 the truck over try not overheating get up over 00:03:14.349 --> 00:03:18.750 the hill felt sliding back down it And I parked 00:03:18.750 --> 00:03:21.330 it and my belt was completely shredded and wrapped 00:03:21.330 --> 00:03:28.129 around the fan Jesus yeah, so like well Oh also 00:03:28.129 --> 00:03:30.889 to help that morning. I heard something chirping. 00:03:30.889 --> 00:03:34.150 I'm like, ah, I guess it'd be a Weakened fix. 00:03:34.150 --> 00:03:36.569 No, it was not a weakened fix. It ended up being 00:03:36.569 --> 00:03:42.919 the weak fix Yikes so Went to work, came back, 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.819 tore down and figure out what was wrong, realized 00:03:45.819 --> 00:03:49.659 the tensioner idler wheelie was seized on the 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:52.620 tensioner arm. So I'm like, huh. It's literally 00:03:52.620 --> 00:03:54.860 the same wheel as all the other idler pulleys, 00:03:54.860 --> 00:03:57.159 so I should in theory be able to break it off 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.900 and replace it. I went to go do that and it spun 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:04.520 out about halfway and stopped. So me and my brother 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.360 were fighting with it for a little bit, trying 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.979 to get it to break loose again. And all of a 00:04:08.979 --> 00:04:14.360 sudden, snap! So it went from an $80 part change 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:22.899 went to $150 I think it was Out to almost three 00:04:22.899 --> 00:04:27.199 days after our work getting a tear down to get 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:31.439 to us The first night we got the battery out 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.800 of out of the way and then the alternator and 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.319 then We were gearing to start with the AC compressor, 00:04:38.339 --> 00:04:42.160 but my brother's Moaning about the cold and hungry 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.079 and tired. So all right. I guess we'll call it 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.300 a night You know, I want to get a little further 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:52.000 torn down than that So dad picked us up and took 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:01.040 us home Um Wednesday came back worked Oh Also, 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.160 we picked up the parts Tuesday night should say 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.379 we picked up the new tension arm since we needed 00:05:06.379 --> 00:05:11.589 it Got that Came back Wednesday morning, did 00:05:11.589 --> 00:05:15.209 the work, came back, and then we proceeded to 00:05:15.209 --> 00:05:18.550 tear down a little more. Got two of the top bolts 00:05:18.550 --> 00:05:21.129 for the AC compressor out, and then the one was 00:05:21.129 --> 00:05:24.970 seized and didn't want to move. And we ended 00:05:24.970 --> 00:05:27.329 up rounding the head off a little bit, so we 00:05:27.329 --> 00:05:29.009 were like, all right, we gotta get some specialty 00:05:29.009 --> 00:05:33.790 tools. We call it a night. And then Thursday, 00:05:35.509 --> 00:05:39.389 we got tools that we needed. Went to work came 00:05:39.389 --> 00:05:43.730 back Push or told it into the shop because it 00:05:43.730 --> 00:05:45.589 was gonna be rainy that night because it was 00:05:45.589 --> 00:05:50.050 our giant rainstorm that we had Yep, so we got 00:05:50.050 --> 00:05:54.170 in the shop worked on it got it torn out. I ended 00:05:54.170 --> 00:05:59.870 up breaking one of the bolts off luckily Titchener 00:06:01.009 --> 00:06:03.430 Hold the stud that was broken off. So it was 00:06:03.430 --> 00:06:05.589 just a matter of replacing it. So I know only 00:06:05.589 --> 00:06:09.709 with three bolts on my AC condenser Which is 00:06:09.709 --> 00:06:12.410 working fine. No issues that doesn't wobble nice 00:06:12.410 --> 00:06:14.870 and firm. So we all right Don't need three bolts 00:06:14.870 --> 00:06:17.589 apparently or four bark. Yeah Gavin did that 00:06:17.589 --> 00:06:20.589 sound like denial to you? Yeah, that sounds like 00:06:20.589 --> 00:06:23.129 the soon as we hit one of these water holes here 00:06:23.129 --> 00:06:28.189 this weekend for this week Hey, hey, hey, don't 00:06:28.189 --> 00:06:34.889 let me bring you down boy So got That put in 00:06:34.889 --> 00:06:38.829 place And then we got the alternator in place 00:06:38.829 --> 00:06:41.250 got the battery all that hooked back up batteries 00:06:41.250 --> 00:06:43.670 been sitting in the truck for like three ish 00:06:43.670 --> 00:06:50.329 days And then we went to go get food this is 00:06:50.329 --> 00:06:53.649 like Almost 11 o 'clock when we finally got out 00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:56.449 of the shop and was gearing to eat our dinner 00:06:56.449 --> 00:07:01.050 and we started on our way back home and I had 00:07:01.050 --> 00:07:03.310 to pull off this is about like probably four 00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:06.589 -ish maybe five -ish miles away from the shop 00:07:06.589 --> 00:07:09.209 pulled into rest stop and realized my battery 00:07:09.209 --> 00:07:14.550 was dropping voltage so we sat charged it for 00:07:14.550 --> 00:07:16.790 a little bit hoped it was good enough it was 00:07:16.790 --> 00:07:20.230 not good enough we ended up almost another four 00:07:20.230 --> 00:07:24.069 miles of 44th street had to pull off charge it 00:07:24.069 --> 00:07:29.279 again Course around 196. So like there's you 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.819 know, there's long stretches where you don't 00:07:30.819 --> 00:07:34.560 have you know pull -offs so we ended up Going 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.879 cross 44th Street to 131 Pulled off into the 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.319 gas station before we hit 131 because it was 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:48.899 four miles again charged it we got I Think we 00:07:48.899 --> 00:07:51.319 got down to wealthy Street when we had to pull 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.579 off again Charged it back up for a little bit 00:07:56.140 --> 00:08:02.720 Got up to The ballpark almost didn't make it 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.560 to the ballpark. I was a stretch I ended up literally 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:08.620 almost draining it dry that time You tell it 00:08:08.620 --> 00:08:11.199 was bad when I had like no headlights and when 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:17.480 I turn my turn signal on it was like yeah Something's 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:22.480 wrong got a charge That was a little bit longer 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.639 because of how far I drained it got up to Belmont 00:08:25.870 --> 00:08:29.370 it was safe it was almost it would have probably 00:08:29.370 --> 00:08:31.329 lasted till rockford but i didn't want to chance 00:08:31.329 --> 00:08:36.490 it got charged limped up to rockford got charged 00:08:36.490 --> 00:08:40.230 again got off at the sparta greenville exit charged 00:08:40.230 --> 00:08:43.590 it one more time took the back roads to cedar 00:08:43.590 --> 00:08:45.649 that way if i had to pull off i didn't really 00:08:45.649 --> 00:08:52.250 have to struggle on the highway got to literally 00:08:52.250 --> 00:08:56.669 the i think the ghost gas station there on Cedar, 00:08:56.830 --> 00:08:58.490 charged it one last time and drove it through 00:08:58.490 --> 00:09:02.429 town. By the time we finally got back, it was 00:09:02.429 --> 00:09:06.370 like three o 'clock in the morning. I was glad 00:09:06.370 --> 00:09:08.289 that work caught off that day because of the 00:09:08.289 --> 00:09:10.590 weather and all that, so I ended up being able 00:09:10.590 --> 00:09:12.190 to sleep in a little bit because I was like, 00:09:12.210 --> 00:09:14.149 ah, it's going to be a pain to wake up an hour 00:09:14.149 --> 00:09:19.190 and go back to work. Took the alt there, took 00:09:19.190 --> 00:09:22.230 the battery out, got it tested, and nothing was 00:09:22.230 --> 00:09:24.789 wrong with either one of them. The only theory 00:09:24.789 --> 00:09:27.330 I had is that the battery wasn't getting charged 00:09:27.330 --> 00:09:29.929 enough and because it didn't reach where it needed 00:09:29.929 --> 00:09:33.309 to be It was not keeping up with the alternator 00:09:33.309 --> 00:09:35.289 couldn't keep up with the charge while driving 00:09:35.289 --> 00:09:38.090 Which the alternator should be able to run the 00:09:38.090 --> 00:09:41.990 truck regardless of battery state I know you 00:09:41.990 --> 00:09:43.870 could have a failed battery and if your alternator 00:09:43.870 --> 00:09:46.690 is running you're good to go The only other thing 00:09:46.690 --> 00:09:48.750 I could think of was the wire that connects to 00:09:48.750 --> 00:09:54.190 it the bolt and nut Yeah, the terminal on the 00:09:54.190 --> 00:09:57.970 nut was very rusty. So I ended up replacing the 00:09:57.970 --> 00:09:59.750 nut with a wing nut because I couldn't find the 00:09:59.750 --> 00:10:04.929 right size nut. You know, literally, I tried 00:10:04.929 --> 00:10:07.090 a 60 millimeter nut on the alternator, didn't 00:10:07.090 --> 00:10:11.649 work, but a 60 millimeter wing nut worked. Different 00:10:11.649 --> 00:10:14.769 thread type. This should be the same thread type. 00:10:15.789 --> 00:10:18.929 Yeah. Well, botch is engineering, I tell you. 00:10:19.049 --> 00:10:24.700 Yeah, so. Got a Titan tried it After it was charged 00:10:24.700 --> 00:10:27.100 and everything and it ran has been running fine 00:10:27.100 --> 00:10:29.519 since so I don't know what the frick was up with 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.600 the jump starts Well mark, you know what that 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.899 story just told me. Hmm. It's time to open my 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:44.139 beer I made me want to drink And I don't drink 00:10:44.139 --> 00:10:51.340 what a ride dude, that's crazy. Yep. Oh That 00:10:51.340 --> 00:10:54.879 was so you you just it was the wire was hooked 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.059 up weird on the alternator. I don't know I haven't 00:10:58.059 --> 00:11:02.899 fully decided what was wrong with that But it's 00:11:02.899 --> 00:11:06.799 good to go so we're good to go yeah, I Know is 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.820 that from I could tell it's the original alternator 00:11:08.820 --> 00:11:12.220 has been on the truck since it was made So is 00:11:12.220 --> 00:11:16.000 mine until I went out with the botches crew and 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.019 sunk that shit What are you talking about? I 00:11:20.019 --> 00:11:22.740 mean we never even get our trucks wet. Yeah, 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:24.580 I'm just messing with you It was actually Pied 00:11:24.580 --> 00:11:29.200 Street that took it We don't even we don't even 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.759 do mud dude, what are you talking about? Dude 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:37.480 two days. It's gonna be so bad I'm honestly I 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.820 I'm not even gonna lie to you guys. I'm not looking 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:43.980 forward to sinking my truck I'm not so don't 00:11:43.980 --> 00:11:46.879 sink it. Yeah, but I how am I gonna get like 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:51.820 video of me doing it again, though? Everett's 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:54.820 been pretty dry this season, like all the way 00:11:54.820 --> 00:11:57.679 around. I know it's just melted and stuff. And 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.259 rained for like three days straight. It's going 00:12:00.259 --> 00:12:04.600 to be wet, Mark. It's going to be sucky. I'm 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:09.159 hoping it's just frozen. That's my dream. My 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.059 dream is that it all decided to freeze. It'll 00:12:12.059 --> 00:12:15.220 get frozen all right. It'll freeze three inch 00:12:15.220 --> 00:12:17.700 chunks of ice and then the first truck that breaks 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:21.389 through it. Is gonna fuck all that up. We'll 00:12:21.389 --> 00:12:23.909 just make sure that that's Mark. He's got a nice 00:12:23.909 --> 00:12:28.389 solid steel bumper. I say we get the busted to 00:12:28.389 --> 00:12:33.990 build crew lead. He might make it worse though. 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:38.710 Yeah, dude. It's gonna be fun doing our B team 00:12:38.710 --> 00:12:42.590 for that event. Poker run. Poker run. Yep. Yeah. 00:12:42.889 --> 00:12:44.690 Yeah, I think I'm going to go somewhere in the 00:12:44.690 --> 00:12:47.769 middle or second. That way by the time I go through 00:12:47.769 --> 00:12:50.669 it, it's not completely fucked. That's just, 00:12:50.669 --> 00:12:53.370 that's mine. That's my idea. I'm not as well 00:12:53.370 --> 00:12:57.809 set up as Mark and, and Alex, and definitely 00:12:57.809 --> 00:13:01.330 not as good as well set up as the busted to built 00:13:01.330 --> 00:13:04.830 suburban, but you see the bus Tahoe Tahoe. Yeah. 00:13:04.830 --> 00:13:07.470 The busted to built Tahoe is only good set up 00:13:07.470 --> 00:13:10.909 because it's so fricking tall that it's the truck 00:13:10.909 --> 00:13:13.710 itself doesn't get in the water. Yeah, we have 00:13:13.710 --> 00:13:16.409 some Instagram reels. That thing is massive. 00:13:16.590 --> 00:13:18.909 I remember when we were sitting there taking 00:13:18.909 --> 00:13:20.950 our break and that thing pulled up. He wasn't 00:13:20.950 --> 00:13:22.830 even a part of the group at that time, was he? 00:13:22.990 --> 00:13:26.450 Mm -mm. Yeah, he ended up joining later. But 00:13:26.450 --> 00:13:29.850 he pulled up and we were like, holy shit. And 00:13:29.850 --> 00:13:34.070 we sat there and talked to him. And then the 00:13:34.070 --> 00:13:36.450 hill that we were doing that we did backwards, 00:13:37.110 --> 00:13:40.110 he like... just crawled up it like barely anything, 00:13:40.269 --> 00:13:42.590 no issues. And we were like, yep, that's about 00:13:42.590 --> 00:13:45.470 what we would expect of a monster like this compared 00:13:45.470 --> 00:13:47.309 to our trucks. He was the biggest truck there. 00:13:47.529 --> 00:13:49.830 I guess other than the, the only other thing 00:13:49.830 --> 00:13:52.190 that might've been able to, yeah, the, the Ram, 00:13:52.429 --> 00:13:55.809 but not in, not in clearance though. So what, 00:13:56.129 --> 00:13:59.909 uh, what time, I know kind of off topic, what 00:13:59.909 --> 00:14:02.850 time do we want to meet at my house on Thursday? 00:14:02.850 --> 00:14:05.509 When does the event start again? Was it like 00:14:05.509 --> 00:14:09.230 11 or something? Didn't it start at like... I'm 00:14:09.230 --> 00:14:11.549 going, I'm going, I'm going. I just need to make 00:14:11.549 --> 00:14:13.490 sure I give my brother the right time, because 00:14:13.490 --> 00:14:15.950 he's gonna come with us for the first time ever. 00:14:16.289 --> 00:14:18.909 Yeah, it starts at 11, so we probably want to 00:14:18.909 --> 00:14:22.649 get there at 10 .30. Yeah, so leave here about 00:14:22.649 --> 00:14:29.370 9 .30. Nine? Nine, sure. Well, gas. Yep, nine. 00:14:30.210 --> 00:14:36.289 Any other issues? Get there, air down. I gotta, 00:14:36.690 --> 00:14:39.070 gosh dude, I'm not ready. I gotta download the, 00:14:39.129 --> 00:14:42.909 I gotta re -download the maps and I gotta get 00:14:42.909 --> 00:14:45.769 some stuff set up in the truck. I gotta figure 00:14:45.769 --> 00:14:49.730 out where I put my tablet. You don't forget, 00:14:49.730 --> 00:14:52.649 don't forget Nav this time, man. I gotta figure 00:14:52.649 --> 00:14:56.070 out where I put my tablet. Everybody's got comms, 00:14:56.129 --> 00:14:59.409 right? We all should be good on that. Yeah. Yeah, 00:14:59.409 --> 00:15:03.809 I'm gonna put... Do we have an extra antenna 00:15:03.809 --> 00:15:10.370 somewhere? Like a magnet antenna To see if my 00:15:10.370 --> 00:15:13.610 brother does I had one I don't know where it 00:15:13.610 --> 00:15:17.490 went Might have thrown it away. I think we threw 00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:20.429 years away. Yeah, cuz I don't know why you have 00:15:20.429 --> 00:15:22.309 it up there I was like, yeah, I don't know either. 00:15:22.909 --> 00:15:27.669 I've got that radio the extra MXC 275 I could 00:15:27.669 --> 00:15:31.049 throw in Devin's truck for the trip Well, I had 00:15:31.049 --> 00:15:34.110 a hand the handheld but I don't think it's programmed 00:15:34.110 --> 00:15:37.460 for Jasper got to it. I don't know how he did 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:41.019 it, but he got it off of the typical like program. 00:15:41.259 --> 00:15:44.320 It doesn't like weird. Yeah. You can't like hear 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.519 and see the people talking and stuff anymore. 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.240 He can't reply. So I don't know what he did. 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.899 It's just sitting around now. I don't even, I 00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:57.659 think we left it outside one night too. So it 00:15:57.659 --> 00:16:00.759 still works. It just, the charging port was all 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:02.820 filled with mud and shit. And I was like, eh, 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:06.820 haven't touched a sense. Yeah, I got a Other 00:16:06.820 --> 00:16:10.460 than that. I think we'll all have radios Yeah, 00:16:10.460 --> 00:16:13.340 my little brother's gonna bring his manual four 00:16:13.340 --> 00:16:16.200 -cylinder Tacoma out wheeling for the first time 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:20.639 Yeah Almost literally his first time wheeling. 00:16:20.779 --> 00:16:26.000 Yeah well it would give a good chance to air 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.960 down and Hopefully everything goes good. I I 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:36.340 did prep my winch line so We're good there. Yeah. 00:16:36.860 --> 00:16:39.559 I pulled mine out and I put it back in because 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.879 I, what did I use it for recently? Cause I had 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:49.899 to use it again. Did we talk about that? Yeah. 00:16:49.899 --> 00:16:52.460 We have a whole episode on the recovery. Yeah, 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:55.019 we did. I forgot. Cause we came right back and 00:16:55.019 --> 00:16:58.100 talked about it. But I used it since then, but 00:16:58.100 --> 00:17:01.850 I don't remember what I was doing. Oh, I pulled 00:17:01.850 --> 00:17:05.230 a auger out of one of the feed lines. Oh, yep. 00:17:07.049 --> 00:17:09.930 Probably should do mine tomorrow night. Yeah, 00:17:09.970 --> 00:17:13.529 tomorrow night. We're meeting up. Yeah. Tomorrow's 00:17:13.529 --> 00:17:16.750 Wednesday? Yeah. Yep. Yeah, it's coming quick. 00:17:17.210 --> 00:17:20.730 We also gotta put my skit play back on. Yeah, 00:17:20.769 --> 00:17:25.109 I'm not doing that. You're gonna get all that 00:17:25.109 --> 00:17:27.890 water and stuff stuck back in there again, and 00:17:27.890 --> 00:17:29.410 you're gonna have to take it right back off. 00:17:29.769 --> 00:17:31.930 It's a lot of work. It's really water. This is 00:17:31.930 --> 00:17:35.650 mostly dirt. Yeah, this is like two inches of 00:17:35.650 --> 00:17:41.309 mud. We're not going to have mud. Yeah, no, it's 00:17:41.309 --> 00:17:45.329 going to be a good time, man. I don't think I 00:17:45.329 --> 00:17:47.849 have anything I'm worried about now. And Mark, 00:17:48.690 --> 00:17:51.589 we turned on that one spring's preload. Yeah. 00:17:51.750 --> 00:17:54.170 And the front end of my truck is a hole. It's 00:17:54.170 --> 00:17:59.799 so soft now. It sits level. Maybe I just had 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:03.759 that one side turned up too high. Probably. I 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.460 got some stuff to worry about, but I'm just gonna 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:08.440 try not to think about it. Yeah, don't think 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.299 about it. It's something to come from. So we 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:15.559 have... There's Mark's rap. My rap's pretty small, 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.579 so then I'll be trying to get ready, but I've 00:18:18.579 --> 00:18:21.720 had some issues that I've talked about here already 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.980 as far as, like, some weird sound that we can't 00:18:24.980 --> 00:18:29.619 quite place. And I had the plan to take it to 00:18:29.619 --> 00:18:34.759 the old botches bay and try and figure that out. 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.559 But then I just threw out a message to my uncle 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.799 who's got a heated bay. And he was like, yeah, 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.579 just so happened to have space tonight. So I 00:18:44.579 --> 00:18:48.819 brought it over there. And plan on taking the 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:51.539 rear wheel off and disassembling the emergency 00:18:51.539 --> 00:18:55.430 brake. That way you could stop rubbing, because 00:18:55.430 --> 00:18:58.869 I'm pretty sure it was seizing. Didn't even get 00:18:58.869 --> 00:19:02.829 to that. I started the front brakes. Pads are 00:19:02.829 --> 00:19:06.410 pretty easy on those 07 FJs. You just take the 00:19:06.410 --> 00:19:09.009 wheel off, take the pins out, and the little 00:19:09.009 --> 00:19:11.009 cotter keys or whatever that are in the pins, 00:19:11.670 --> 00:19:16.849 and slide the pads out. As long as you don't 00:19:16.849 --> 00:19:20.049 have worn rotors, that's fine. If your rotors 00:19:20.049 --> 00:19:21.829 are worn, you've got to take the whole caliper 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:28.529 off. Yeah, which I didn't. But left side, super 00:19:28.529 --> 00:19:30.490 easy. I was like, god, I love this. This is why 00:19:30.490 --> 00:19:33.890 I love these things. Get to the other side. The 00:19:33.890 --> 00:19:38.269 other side is super hard. I am having terrible 00:19:38.269 --> 00:19:40.750 trouble trying to get it open enough. I can't 00:19:40.750 --> 00:19:46.269 get anything in there to compress the cylinders. 00:19:47.869 --> 00:19:50.049 So I'm having a hard time with that. I start 00:19:50.049 --> 00:19:53.089 trying to like jam a screwdriver in Somewhere 00:19:53.089 --> 00:19:56.250 just to pry it open a little bit not work and 00:19:56.250 --> 00:19:59.490 end up breaking like two screwdriver heads and 00:19:59.490 --> 00:20:02.950 Finally I just start hammering into the pad itself 00:20:02.950 --> 00:20:09.089 and Yeah, it was that bad and It wouldn't have 00:20:09.089 --> 00:20:11.690 gone anywhere like so I finally hammered into 00:20:11.690 --> 00:20:15.630 the pad itself. This is the old pad and it made 00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:19.430 enough space for me to be able to pry the cylinders 00:20:19.430 --> 00:20:23.710 in a little and I did that and pulled them out 00:20:23.710 --> 00:20:26.750 after a little bit of struggling and figured 00:20:26.750 --> 00:20:30.809 out my issue is the cylinders were pretty seized 00:20:30.809 --> 00:20:36.329 and that was the issue. My inside cylinders were 00:20:36.329 --> 00:20:39.069 seized almost completely. I think I moved them 00:20:39.069 --> 00:20:43.089 a little bit. That tells me that you have cal 00:20:43.089 --> 00:20:48.730 or a rotor wear Yeah, probably on the rear end 00:20:48.730 --> 00:20:50.690 for sure are on the inside part of the rotary 00:20:50.690 --> 00:20:57.509 yeah And then my outside was fine That compressed 00:20:57.509 --> 00:21:01.990 and everything so took the pads out try to throw 00:21:01.990 --> 00:21:04.009 new one in couldn't even get the new pad in on 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:09.140 the inside and It was a it was like 750 when 00:21:09.140 --> 00:21:12.220 we found this out. So I was like, screw it. I'm 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:15.480 going to throw the old, an old pad back on there 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.920 with the thickest one I could fit in. And we 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.660 did that. Put that back on and like, screw it. 00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:25.440 I will buy a new caliper. It's like 70 bucks. 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:27.940 I'll buy a new caliper. You're going to need 00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:32.539 new rotors too or a new rotor. Yeah. Yeah. I 00:21:32.539 --> 00:21:34.960 need new everything if I can afford it, but I 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.579 can't right now. So. funny because I just got 00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:40.220 a birthday present which would seem otherwise 00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:44.299 but this is a special money that she's been scrolling 00:21:44.299 --> 00:21:46.940 away that she didn't tell me about so that was 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:49.839 very nice of her anyway got to the back of the 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.680 truck and I wanted to check my diff fluid because 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:58.039 I heard a sound and I don't think it was the 00:21:58.039 --> 00:22:00.920 diff but I heard a random sound that night of 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.960 the recovery that kind of like scared me into 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:06.839 wanting to double check to change the diff. It 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:09.960 was just like a click, and I had never heard 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:14.359 it before, and after pulling a car with the help 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:17.039 of two other winches, but pulling a car back 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:22.460 onto the road in four low, I just didn't like 00:22:22.460 --> 00:22:26.059 that sound. I don't know what it was, but I asked 00:22:26.059 --> 00:22:30.019 Alex, he heard it, and I was like, oh, OK. So 00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:33.269 it could have been just the like, Something engaging 00:22:33.269 --> 00:22:35.410 when I was trying to get it back out. I don't 00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:40.269 know so anyway, I went to go check the diff and 00:22:40.269 --> 00:22:44.029 Thankfully everything opened up fine. I started 00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:47.170 uh Open the top part of the diff out just do 00:22:47.170 --> 00:22:49.670 you know the fill area? stuck my pinky in there 00:22:49.670 --> 00:22:53.329 and I come out kind of gray like blackish silver 00:22:53.329 --> 00:22:59.109 ish and then my heart sank and Yeah, kind of 00:22:59.109 --> 00:23:01.910 just went a little downhill from there. I tried 00:23:01.910 --> 00:23:03.549 it again. I'm like, I just probably got some 00:23:03.549 --> 00:23:07.750 stuff on there. Nope, same thing. And I stuck 00:23:07.750 --> 00:23:09.950 my phone camera up there to kind of look around 00:23:09.950 --> 00:23:13.769 and like, yep, this is looking kind of gray silverish. 00:23:15.410 --> 00:23:17.509 So then I went and got my borescope out of the 00:23:17.509 --> 00:23:20.390 back of the truck, threw it in there. Yep, not 00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:25.529 looking good at all. My uncle ended up having 00:23:25.529 --> 00:23:29.309 a bunch of spare fluid. not quite the weight 00:23:29.309 --> 00:23:34.490 I needed but good enough and We drained it all 00:23:34.490 --> 00:23:38.950 out and It was bad. I wasn't it wasn't the worst 00:23:38.950 --> 00:23:43.549 it could be it wasn't white milk it wasn't completely 00:23:43.549 --> 00:23:46.990 silver with chunks, but there's definitely some 00:23:46.990 --> 00:23:52.410 shavings in there and So I'm now on the hunt 00:23:52.410 --> 00:23:57.700 for a rear end for that or an axle because you 00:23:57.700 --> 00:24:00.079 can't just pop that diff open there's no diff 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.160 plate on the back of those so yeah you gotta 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:09.539 pull the third member yeah so i found a couple 00:24:09.539 --> 00:24:13.799 axles around 800 bucks so i might just do that 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:19.180 and replace the whole axle um i will we'll see 00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:23.599 it would probably be i've seen like a gx there's 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:29.920 like a GX axle that's geared 373, which I hear 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:33.220 is better, but I also hear that those tend to 00:24:33.220 --> 00:24:38.220 grenade, so. Plus if you change your rear axle's 00:24:38.220 --> 00:24:39.980 gearing, you have to change your front axle's 00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:43.140 gearing to match. Yeah, and that's kind of why 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:46.640 I just want to go and get a whole axle off of 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.819 an FJ. I asked one guy and he said it was like 00:24:49.819 --> 00:24:55.160 850 to pull the... Axle off of his FJ the one 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:58.200 he has for parts, so that's probably the cheapest 00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:04.220 route I'd love to get a regear But for the price 00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:09.579 I probably won't be able to afford it so This 00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:12.380 will be a for now thing and if I ever move up 00:25:12.380 --> 00:25:16.839 to like 35s or 40s or something like that or 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:22.980 more like 40s 37s to 40s I will regear What's 00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:28.940 up, bud Yeah, and my son's joining me here Hi 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:34.059 in the background. Yeah Hi, yeah, we're recording. 00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:39.119 Can you say hi? Okay, mama's gonna take you now. 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:47.740 Say bye. Bye. I Know we'll see you later. Sorry 00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:53.039 about that. Yeah, but uh But yeah, so I don't 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:57.700 know the lifespan I have on that axle. I'm hoping 00:25:57.700 --> 00:26:02.180 it doesn't grenade in the next couple days, weeks, 00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:05.660 months. Well, just like mine and Mark's, you've 00:26:05.660 --> 00:26:10.539 got anywhere between 1 and 350 ,000 miles. Yeah. 00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:15.099 Well, I don't love that. I really don't. I really 00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:18.730 don't. Well, what I'm getting at is... it's always 00:26:18.730 --> 00:26:21.130 a gamble, man. You could have glitter in a diff 00:26:21.130 --> 00:26:23.890 forever and never have a problem. You could have 00:26:23.890 --> 00:26:26.410 a diff that's never had glitter grenade itself. 00:26:27.250 --> 00:26:31.529 Yeah, and I have been really negligent on checking 00:26:31.529 --> 00:26:33.789 my diff fluid and stuff, and I'm gonna be better 00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:37.569 at it, but in the two years that I had that, 00:26:38.390 --> 00:26:42.349 now it's like three, three and a half, but since 00:26:42.349 --> 00:26:44.369 I've bought it, I've never checked the diff fluid. 00:26:44.730 --> 00:26:47.859 To be fair, I didn't really... Haven't put a 00:26:47.859 --> 00:26:51.119 crap ton of miles on it either like comparatively. 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:54.319 I bought it like 110 ,000 miles. There's a hundred 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:59.220 and like 57 now so Yeah, I mean, I don't think 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:01.480 I've put a ton of miles on it to need to check 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:05.019 it but once I started doing stuff with Water 00:27:05.019 --> 00:27:07.259 and it started submerging the truck. It probably 00:27:07.259 --> 00:27:09.940 would have started being a good idea and I have 00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:14.480 not so Put a breather extension on that yet or 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.859 no for your not on the rear The front has the 00:27:17.859 --> 00:27:21.220 higher breather extensions, but I saw where the 00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:23.779 breather was located on the back, and I'm like, 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:27.519 yeah, we got to fix that, so. Well, onto a more 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.259 fun topic. How was everybody's Christmas since 00:27:30.259 --> 00:27:32.779 we haven't even talked about Christmas because 00:27:32.779 --> 00:27:38.700 we've been so busy. Oh, yeah. Not to down everybody, 00:27:38.779 --> 00:27:42.079 but let's bring it back up a little bit. My Christmas 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:46.190 is good. We did a couple different things. I 00:27:46.190 --> 00:27:48.349 think I ended up getting, I didn't really get 00:27:48.349 --> 00:27:52.650 much for the truck. I got more for recording 00:27:52.650 --> 00:27:56.869 and like more content. So I got some little mics, 00:27:57.130 --> 00:28:00.789 some lavalier mics and we plan to, I plan to 00:28:00.789 --> 00:28:04.769 take those to some of our like botches, cords 00:28:04.769 --> 00:28:09.390 of calf and do some on the road kind of podcast 00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:15.220 things. So we could do that, do some... Might 00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:17.900 try to use them during poker run. There's gonna 00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:22.119 be a lot going on And I have something else. 00:28:22.220 --> 00:28:25.200 I just got for my birthday. So I just There's 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:26.859 gonna be a whole lot going on and I don't know 00:28:26.859 --> 00:28:29.299 if I'm gonna have the time or attention span 00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:32.920 to break everything out like I should but But 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.740 yeah, we're gonna try we're gonna start doing 00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:38.119 some of those we might do some on the road interviews 00:28:40.369 --> 00:28:42.410 Bring out the mics interview one of the guys 00:28:42.410 --> 00:28:45.430 were hanging out with at the time See if they 00:28:45.430 --> 00:28:48.009 want to talk a little bit and yeah, I got two 00:28:48.009 --> 00:28:51.269 of them. So it'll go one for the host and one 00:28:51.269 --> 00:28:54.950 for the Wonder for the guest and it would be 00:28:54.950 --> 00:28:58.410 cool. It would be cool to get some outdoor Just 00:28:58.410 --> 00:29:01.630 some campfire ones, you know around campfire 00:29:01.630 --> 00:29:05.049 round tables or something to be cool. So that 00:29:05.049 --> 00:29:09.410 I Got more camping gear than I did truck here 00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:12.400 Actually, I don't think I got any truck here. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:19.420 Yeah, I I got a Down quilt for the swag which 00:29:19.420 --> 00:29:22.880 I'm really excited about I'm just sick and I 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:25.079 always just use blankets I get from Walmart because 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:27.779 I add blankets whenever I need them and Walmart's 00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:32.039 usually the place that has them But that's kind 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.079 of a problem come wintertime because then your 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:36.960 moisture makes the cheap cotton blankets freeze 00:29:38.810 --> 00:29:42.390 And then I also got some heated camp chairs, 00:29:42.609 --> 00:29:45.650 which I'm freaking stoked about because I've 00:29:45.650 --> 00:29:48.710 been I finally have enough room having added 00:29:48.710 --> 00:29:52.789 the roof that I can carry real camp chairs. So 00:29:52.789 --> 00:29:56.230 I got the like fancy ones that are comfy. Oh, 00:29:56.349 --> 00:30:00.930 I'm pretty excited for those. And then. Other 00:30:00.930 --> 00:30:03.069 than that, I got like heated pants, but that's 00:30:03.069 --> 00:30:06.029 more a work thing. Oh, yeah, I guess I should 00:30:06.029 --> 00:30:09.099 add, I did actually get some truck stuff. forgot 00:30:09.099 --> 00:30:11.319 all about it seeing would probably kill me if 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.539 I didn't mention it but I got a new driver side 00:30:14.539 --> 00:30:18.220 mirror for side mirror I think it's been shattered 00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:20.859 for a while and she found one on Amazon and it 00:30:20.859 --> 00:30:26.579 pops right in so got one of those I got a hardwire 00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:31.900 kit well hey welcome back son man yeah I got 00:30:31.900 --> 00:30:39.180 a hardwire kit for the He's getting pulled out 00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:44.720 again. Rat featuring Jasper. Yeah. And then, 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.660 yeah, I got a hardware kit for the Wolf Box, 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.140 which I spent the other day wiring that in. And 00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:54.279 I just wired that up to my voltage meter, same 00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:58.599 one I use there, on my switch panel. So that 00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:00.539 any time I turn on my... Because I always run 00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:02.559 my voltage meter any time I start the truck. 00:31:02.730 --> 00:31:05.670 just so I could keep an eye on that. So I felt 00:31:05.670 --> 00:31:07.970 like that was a good place to run the Wolfbox 00:31:07.970 --> 00:31:11.450 as well, instead of piggybacking it into a fuse, 00:31:12.329 --> 00:31:14.829 which, honestly, I just didn't feel like doing. 00:31:17.430 --> 00:31:21.109 Because then I'd have to take the switch panel 00:31:21.109 --> 00:31:23.670 and pull that off. And I have all the wiring 00:31:23.670 --> 00:31:28.029 real organized, but it's really hard to take 00:31:28.029 --> 00:31:33.769 it all off. Right. Got it. Yeah, organized. Organized 00:31:33.769 --> 00:31:37.490 rest. Yeah, it's organized for me. So yeah, I 00:31:37.490 --> 00:31:41.890 got that. And I will be getting a hardware kit 00:31:41.890 --> 00:31:48.170 for the WeBoost. WeBoost. Yep. So that's still 00:31:48.170 --> 00:31:51.109 coming. But I will be getting that. I might try 00:31:51.109 --> 00:31:54.289 and tie it into the same thing, honestly, because 00:31:54.289 --> 00:31:56.869 it really, as long as I'll check, I'm going to 00:31:56.869 --> 00:32:00.059 check the combined watt on that. and make sure 00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:03.180 that I can without blowing a fuse. But honestly, 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:06.259 it's good to have the Wii Boost running at any 00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:08.640 time any of the other ones are. So it's kind 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.059 of one of those things that you just, you turn 00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:15.400 the truck on and you want it to go. So it makes 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:20.880 sense for me. See, I got that. She ordered me 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:25.099 some new LED interior lights. because mine have 00:32:25.099 --> 00:32:28.339 been spazzing out. Alex saw that the other day. 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.460 They were flashing like a rave the one time. 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:31.759 He's like, what's going on with your fucking 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:33.880 lights? Like, yeah. Yeah, that shit was irritating. 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:38.000 Not gonna lie. Yeah. So I got some Ambers, and 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.660 I'm gonna try this out because I had bright LEDs 00:32:42.660 --> 00:32:45.440 and that was cool, but I'm hoping for Amber to 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.049 help with bugs. Mm -hmm. And I want to see if 00:32:49.049 --> 00:32:52.650 that helps with attracting bugs inside the vehicle. 00:32:53.809 --> 00:32:57.529 Not attracting. Yes, not attracting. And it's 00:32:57.529 --> 00:32:59.289 a warmer light, so it should be a little better 00:32:59.289 --> 00:33:01.809 on the eyes, but still being able to light things 00:33:01.809 --> 00:33:05.210 up. Remember like 10 years ago, everyone wanted 00:33:05.210 --> 00:33:07.230 the brightest lights possible. They wanted them 00:33:07.230 --> 00:33:10.769 to be as white as possible. And now we're all 00:33:10.769 --> 00:33:13.829 going back to Ambers and warm lighting. Yeah, 00:33:13.890 --> 00:33:16.109 well there's also like this and and I'm just 00:33:16.109 --> 00:33:17.730 saying it's a conspiracy because I haven't looked 00:33:17.730 --> 00:33:21.170 super far into it But like the LEDs and super 00:33:21.170 --> 00:33:24.390 white light are like killing us Yeah, they have 00:33:24.390 --> 00:33:27.250 a really bad adverse effect to us So a lot of 00:33:27.250 --> 00:33:29.029 people are going back to warm lighting and then 00:33:29.029 --> 00:33:33.890 all of their woes are stopping So yeah, but so 00:33:33.890 --> 00:33:37.470 I just want to get some warmer warmer light there 00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:42.420 is a Cool factor. I can't lie that I feel like 00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:47.299 ambers look better anyway, so I would love to 00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:50.539 run like red light Just because of how good it 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:53.539 is for your eyes, but I think that's too dark 00:33:53.539 --> 00:33:57.299 And I would like to see a little bit so yeah 00:33:57.299 --> 00:34:00.220 Because I dark depending what you're looking 00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:03.960 at yeah, yeah, I mine was just a cheap Amazon 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.599 one I watched guy do YouTube video on it, and 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.400 it looked really bright looked really Decent 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:12.460 so and it comes in a pack so there's like a button 00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:14.559 of them in there the other problem with the red 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:19.559 lighting is even though It might be just not 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:21.679 just as bright, but it might be bright enough. 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.820 It's harder for your brain to process it Yeah, 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.659 which is funny because it's harder for your brain 00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:29.280 to process, but it's better for your eyes way 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.300 better for your eyes. Yeah, so Yeah, so I got 00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:36.679 that and oh and I'll include this for Christmas 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.239 because my birthday is coming up here in a couple 00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:43.960 days and so I figure and I'm getting it early 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:46.619 and we're using in a poker run but wife got me 00:34:46.619 --> 00:34:50.380 a new action camera a little DJI action so I 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:54.440 could pair this action camera up wires wirelessly 00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:58.820 or through the they have like an adapter mic 00:34:58.820 --> 00:35:02.500 so I can actually set do video podcast we could 00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:06.480 do some video ones with the mics attached and 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.539 then publish those. So if you guys are ever interested 00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:14.559 in a campfire chat with video, or a walk -around, 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:17.659 something like that, we could do some actual 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:21.199 rig walk -arounds and stuff. Yeah, there's a 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:23.460 lot of possibilities here. It could be shot in 00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:28.119 vertical and horizontal. Sick. Yeah. It'll be 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:31.039 good for all the Instagram content, too. So, 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.900 yeah, pretty excited. All right, Mr. Mark, what 00:35:33.900 --> 00:35:39.659 was your Christmas all? Not a lot. I got some 00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:42.260 ratcheting wrenches which was purchased, or my 00:35:42.260 --> 00:35:45.659 dad got me, like, the day of fixing one of the 00:35:45.659 --> 00:35:48.900 parts off the truck. Yeah. I mean, that's a sick 00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:51.980 gift. I'm not going to lie. Yep. So that's the 00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:55.179 start of my tool building out for this next year. 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:59.300 And those? I can't remember what brand are those? 00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:03.739 I don't remember. It's from Tractor Supply. I 00:36:03.739 --> 00:36:07.500 have them. Oh, they're gear wrench. Gear wrench, 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.239 yep. Yeah, gear wrench or traveler. It's a good 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.980 fuckin' tool. Gear wrenches are actually pretty 00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:15.739 good tools. Gear wrench is actually one of my 00:36:15.739 --> 00:36:18.780 favorite tool wrenches. Yeah, they're pretty 00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:22.539 good actually. Our friends over at Snail Trail 00:36:22.539 --> 00:36:27.380 talk up gear wrench pretty heavily, so. And then 00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:31.800 my little brother got me a membership for REI. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.239 Hell yeah. Oh yeah, that does... That is pretty 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:37.900 nice, actually. You get some pretty good deals 00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:43.139 and you rack up some good points. I think we 00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:48.699 spent an undisclosed amount there. And when we 00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:50.679 finally got our points redeemed, we were able 00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:55.639 to buy like eight MREs, which they're about 10 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:00.000 bucks a pop. So you can do the math on that. 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:03.440 And then anything over eight is buy one, get 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:07.079 one. 50 % off or something like that. Hell yeah. 00:37:07.780 --> 00:37:09.800 So yeah, we ended up getting like 10 of them 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:15.500 and with the points and then we also got a jacket. 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:19.039 So we walked out of there with like 10 of the 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.900 freeze -dried meals and a small down jacket for 00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:26.239 the kid, spent 30 bucks. Hell yeah. I mean, obviously 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:29.320 you spent a lot more to get there before, but 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.219 you know, it's like Wesco rewards, you know. 00:37:32.250 --> 00:37:35.170 You know, you gotta spend some to get some. Listen, 00:37:35.849 --> 00:37:37.849 I've been playing the Wesco game hard the last 00:37:37.849 --> 00:37:42.190 few weeks. I know. I just paid for my first tank 00:37:42.190 --> 00:37:48.210 of gas in like four weeks today. And I only did 00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:50.150 that. I wouldn't have had to pay for a tank of 00:37:50.150 --> 00:37:54.389 gas, but I sold my farm hand all of the gas. 00:37:54.590 --> 00:37:57.170 OK, so Wesco has a system. This is our local 00:37:57.170 --> 00:37:59.489 gas station, by the way. It's really good. Yeah. 00:37:59.630 --> 00:38:02.460 So. you get points and you get more points based 00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:05.059 on what you buy in the store. And then you can 00:38:05.059 --> 00:38:08.699 get so much off 20 gallons of gas. They cap it 00:38:08.699 --> 00:38:12.320 at 20. So I've been getting enough points to 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.599 get free gas from Westco. And then I just fill 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:18.920 an extra five gallon can because my car can only 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.219 hold 15 gallons. And then I just sold my farm 00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:25.440 hand my extra four cans, which would be or my 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.380 extra three cans, which would be one tank of 00:38:27.380 --> 00:38:30.809 gas. I sold it to him for like, I don't know, 00:38:30.849 --> 00:38:33.630 I think it settled on like $2 .50 a gallon or 00:38:33.630 --> 00:38:39.010 something like that. So, yeah, it's really good, 00:38:39.190 --> 00:38:42.949 man. This feels really illegal. I feel super 00:38:42.949 --> 00:38:46.349 wrong hearing it. I've been adding it up. I've 00:38:46.349 --> 00:38:48.449 been pricing this out. So right now they have 00:38:48.449 --> 00:38:54.469 a deal where you buy two Fantas and you get one 00:38:54.469 --> 00:38:59.619 Fanta free plus 25 cents off per gallon. Now, 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:03.179 when you factor that out over 20 gallons, you're 00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:07.619 getting the Fanta for free. Completely. I mean, 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.880 you are getting one for free already. If you 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:16.420 didn't buy the Fanta, you'd also get it. It's 00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:20.460 very cool. I love it. It's too much for me to 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:23.380 even try to fuck around with. The thing is, I'm 00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:26.739 going to buy pop anyway. So why not get free 00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:30.239 gas for buying pop? Sure. I mean sure. I got 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.239 to drink Fanta. Oh Mellow Yellow is the other 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:36.239 one. I gotta drink Fanta and Mellow Yellow, but 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:37.920 So he - So the Brankas are trying to get it off 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:41.980 the shelves. Yeah, Barks is in it too, but I 00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:47.599 can't drink Barks. Why? It's not A &W. Oh, I 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:51.480 think Barks is better. Oh, Barks tastes like 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:57.300 rotten walnut shells to me. Huh Yeah, all right 00:39:57.300 --> 00:40:00.519 guys Send us a voicemail. Tell us your favorite 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.260 root beer My vote is barks Alex you're at A &W 00:40:05.260 --> 00:40:08.079 What do you got mark barks using my gold too, 00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:11.260 but A &W is a good site for me. Yeah, it's not 00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:14.280 it's not bad definitely not bad, but I Don't 00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:18.039 know. I like barks. I don't know I think it's 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:20.599 more mellow on the carbonation compared to A 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:25.309 &W and mugs Yeah. Oh, mugs. That's a good one, 00:40:25.309 --> 00:40:27.510 actually. I like mugs, too. I would actually 00:40:27.510 --> 00:40:29.989 put mugs as my second. You reminded me. There's 00:40:29.989 --> 00:40:33.170 also a tractor supply sells it. I think it's 00:40:33.170 --> 00:40:36.230 called frost top or frost seeds. They're like 00:40:36.230 --> 00:40:40.309 they used to have like a big it was a big bottle 00:40:40.309 --> 00:40:43.650 like for like a dollar. So I used to buy those 00:40:43.650 --> 00:40:46.789 all the time. And those are really good, dude. 00:40:47.130 --> 00:40:52.260 I like mine would be. A &W, Mugs, and then Fago 00:40:52.260 --> 00:40:57.019 root beer. Oh. Damn, I didn't think Fago would 00:40:57.019 --> 00:41:00.880 be anywhere in this list. Bro. Bro, Fago's my 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:04.539 fucking favorite. I like Fago for sure. Anybody 00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:08.539 who's not from Michigan, Fago is like was like 00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:12.599 originally made in Michigan, right? And it's 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:16.679 almost exclusive to the Michigan Midwest area. 00:41:17.019 --> 00:41:19.920 Some people get it out now. It's not exclusive. 00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:23.760 It used to be sold a lot more in other parts 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.539 of the country. But they have some of the best 00:41:28.539 --> 00:41:33.059 sodas. Bro, Red Pop. Red Pop. Red Pop all the 00:41:33.059 --> 00:41:36.000 way. It's probably the worst soda for you with 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.920 as much of the Red 40 in there. But, God. I used 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:44.119 to have... The only downside of Faygo is that 00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.159 it gets flatter the quicker than the rest of 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:49.659 the pops. Yeah. I used to have people send me 00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:52.079 Red Pop and Rock N' Rye when I was overseas. 00:41:53.260 --> 00:41:56.760 Yeah, I never loved Rock N' Rye, but, like, I 00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:59.739 did pop. Even the Cream Soda was pretty good. 00:41:59.820 --> 00:42:01.880 Their Cream Soda was pretty good. Rock and Rye 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:04.599 is weird because I never loved Rock and Rye until 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:08.039 I was on the plane to Korea and one of the pop 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:11.139 options happened to be Rock and Rye and I tried 00:42:11.139 --> 00:42:14.559 it in the air and it changed everything. Now 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:18.219 it's one of my favorites. Must have been the 00:42:18.219 --> 00:42:21.420 plane. Dude, the only thing better than Rock 00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:25.980 and Rye a mile up is Coke. Coke, when you're 00:42:25.980 --> 00:42:31.289 flying, tastes amazing. Yeah, I bet. Fun facts. 00:42:31.449 --> 00:42:34.250 When you're flying, everything tastes different 00:42:34.250 --> 00:42:40.150 because of the altitude. Yeah. So literally, 00:42:40.309 --> 00:42:42.809 when you're in the air, everything tastes slightly 00:42:42.809 --> 00:42:47.250 different and Coke is so much better. Slightly 00:42:47.250 --> 00:42:52.190 off topic. Speaking of altitude, I want to really 00:42:52.190 --> 00:42:57.849 do Imogene Pass someday. It's super high up. 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.960 I'd love to go out and do it. It's gorgeous. 00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:02.519 It's one of those things where like you look 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:06.579 on TV and you're like, this can't, no, this couldn't 00:43:06.579 --> 00:43:09.559 be real. But like just the scenes being able 00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.480 to see as far as you could see, just mountains. 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.340 And you have a cliff right on the outside edge 00:43:16.340 --> 00:43:20.119 of your tires that just drops to death. It looks 00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:24.139 beautiful. What is it? Is it a big bear that 00:43:24.139 --> 00:43:27.440 has that like super? Yeah. I want to do the Black 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:33.159 Bear Pass. Yeah. It's beautiful. I'm honestly 00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:36.599 super scared of heights, so I don't know how 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:40.019 bad I would be. I know when we did the railroad 00:43:40.019 --> 00:43:44.300 bridge and the Western UP trip, I was actually 00:43:44.300 --> 00:43:48.119 pretty... I was shaking a bit. And I usually 00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:52.300 don't, but Mackinac Bridge doesn't bother me. 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.550 But that one... Just it looked like it was an 00:43:55.550 --> 00:43:59.550 old rickety bridge. And you only had a couple 00:43:59.550 --> 00:44:01.710 feet on either side. And then you could look 00:44:01.710 --> 00:44:05.289 down like 300 some feet to a waterfall and the 00:44:05.289 --> 00:44:09.570 river. I was like, oh, yeah, it kind of I can 00:44:09.570 --> 00:44:12.170 feel my stomach at the bottom. And I was like, 00:44:12.170 --> 00:44:14.070 yeah, I'm good. They asked me if I wanted to 00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:16.809 go back over it. I wish I would have. But I said 00:44:16.809 --> 00:44:19.389 no. I was like, I'm good. Just sit right here 00:44:19.389 --> 00:44:22.449 in the truck and let my gentleman go down. Oh, 00:44:22.449 --> 00:44:25.639 he's back. Okay, my back? Completely off topic 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:27.880 from that. I have an update from our recovery 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:33.039 episode. Yep. Okay, so Shannon, who was the tow 00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:37.719 truck driver, he owns that company. Oh, sweet. 00:44:38.059 --> 00:44:43.440 Yes. My dad's best friend, Tim, actually worked 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:48.000 for Shannon for a long time. That's almost better. 00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:52.519 I think if I... I would recommend them. Probably 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:55.960 over anyone else just based off of his attitude 00:44:55.960 --> 00:44:58.400 and character so then being the owner of that 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.119 company Yep, since we didn't share the company 00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:05.440 name northern towing Phenomenal northern best 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.179 company in the area. Yeah, I haven't met a lot 00:45:09.179 --> 00:45:11.519 of people especially tow drivers that were that 00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:14.340 nice And it was really nice of him to do what 00:45:14.340 --> 00:45:18.460 he did To to give that person a recovery for 00:45:18.460 --> 00:45:22.840 free And that was not an easy one either. Like, 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:24.300 I don't know how he would have got it out of 00:45:24.300 --> 00:45:28.500 there without damage, without us. I'm sure he 00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:32.380 would have found a way, but still, it was rough. 00:45:32.940 --> 00:45:34.699 He would have had to drag it across that tree. 00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:36.659 I mean, that's just the way it happened. Yeah, 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.579 I couldn't imagine he, like, could you daisy 00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:43.980 chain the two together? Do the flatbed across 00:45:43.980 --> 00:45:48.300 the road and then just pull it up straight? Maybe. 00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:51.170 I don't, I think his truck was too long. Yeah, 00:45:51.230 --> 00:45:54.730 cuz I need to reposition her. Yeah. I mean it 00:45:54.730 --> 00:45:57.789 was a hard one for a long truck like that Yep, 00:45:58.010 --> 00:46:04.210 that was oh Yeah, it's a doozy But I have an 00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:07.769 update too they uh on the on the the customer 00:46:07.769 --> 00:46:10.050 side of it the daughter came and thanked think 00:46:10.050 --> 00:46:13.530 both of us She kept asking me what I wanted for 00:46:13.530 --> 00:46:15.769 for money and compensation and stuff and I said 00:46:15.769 --> 00:46:18.289 no nothing I said, you know, it'd be one thing 00:46:18.289 --> 00:46:21.300 if it was like If you had a ton of money and 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:23.679 you were just offering it and it's that thing, 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.219 but like someone making a post and saying, Hey, 00:46:26.219 --> 00:46:28.699 you know, I couldn't afford a tow truck. Like, 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:30.659 no, we're not right before Christmas. We're not 00:46:30.659 --> 00:46:32.360 going to go steal your money. What the hell? 00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:34.739 Like, you know, we were more than happy to go 00:46:34.739 --> 00:46:36.260 out there, but yeah. I mean, if you're on the 00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:39.019 side of the road and you're like, Hey dude, you 00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:42.619 know, thanks for pulling out my BMW. Here's 10 00:46:42.619 --> 00:46:45.260 bucks. I'm like, yeah, okay. I'll take 10 bucks. 00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:48.650 Sure. Usually I'll do it for free though. If 00:46:48.650 --> 00:46:51.489 you make me a sob story, I'll do it for free 00:46:51.489 --> 00:46:55.309 every time. Gavin is a softy. He'll fucking game. 00:46:55.309 --> 00:46:59.949 I am. Yeah, I game 100%. Do we want to call this 00:46:59.949 --> 00:47:02.969 episode here, get on over and talk about our 00:47:02.969 --> 00:47:07.530 favorite parts of season two? Yeah, sure. Yep. 00:47:08.550 --> 00:47:11.429 Awesome. Catch you guys later. Alright. Later.